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Hi David,

I have one of these too! But which one, that is the rub. As far as I can tell there are now three versions of project Sputnik. I too am so happy to throw my € in Dell's direction. I have the second because I bought mine just before the recent Haswell refresh, gah :(

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Original version ...
November 2012
1: http://bartongeorge.net/2012/11/29/sputnik-has-landed-introd...

Brings 1080p (after much clamour and feedback) ...
February 2013
2: http://bartongeorge.net/2013/02/18/spuntik-2-is-here-xps-13-...

Brings Haswell ...
November 2013
http://bartongeorge.net/2013/11/15/introducing-sputnik-3-and...

Not sure which version the original poster is reviewing, I always meant to review mine and haven't done so yet. I upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04LTS to 13.10 and had to futz about a bit with backlight keys. Wifi drivers kept glitching out until recently. I had to add TRIM support myself (I had thought it was there, it wasn't!)

Might be an idea to set up a Sputnik User's site unless one exists :) as opposed to a Dell forum or employee's blog.

tip o' the hat ...
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Ha, thanks. We did put the signup form at the end so it didn't put too much pressure on the signup. We'd love to check out other examples of how to do that well if you have any?
It's the same way with other things, like the recent privacy revelations regarding the NSA. I'm pretty sure I remember seeing thriller films in the 80s or 90s where the completely over the top, unambiguously evil government plan was spying on citizen's telephone calls. A couple of decades later, that becomes reality, and a huge number of people have no problem with it.
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But that's entirely against the point of the article! If you're employing people, they're not getting a chance to improve - just scrape by.
And plenty of people that would otherwise be part of a family are whoring themselves out these days, probably to help with those loans and others.
I think the poor who felt trapped would be more likely to move than stay put. The incumbent landlords in poor neighborhoods would see a % of their renters move out, and a % of new renters move in, perhaps off the streets. We'd want to study the net effect of that.

Those who moved out would then be moving into areas with higher rents and mixing with those renters. So a dollar-for-dollar rent increase seems unlikely.

Some renters would find they now have enough income to buy a home and some would, vacating apartments for renters from poorer areaa.

Some home owners would find they have enough to afford a larger home and would move up.

But others would invest the new income, or pay for the kids college, or take more vacations, or buy new cars more often.

The economic impact is complex and unknown and needs to be studied. I happen to believe it is a worth an in-depth study and worth spending some of my paid-in taxes on.
I went to a school called Roxbury Latin in Boston. Admittedly there were only 39 in my graduating class, so it doesn't take that many copies to satisfy the student body!
Since "stress" is rather subjective, I don't know what study would ever prove it.
I coded a brute-force one before: https://github.com/darius/sketchbook/blob/master/regex/find_...

Though it cares about the size of the AST rather than the concrete syntax. I can't try running it now, I'm on an iPad.
Does the x240 have the same screen dimensions as the x230? If so I wonder if you can use it to upgrade the 230 panel.
One specific example of "torture works" would completely overturn everything that is known about the use of torture by the US. You are so very adamant that one would think you have that example ready to go. And yet you curiously stop before giving any examples, even though that invites thinking you might not be truthful. Strange.
When I specced out my Dell laptop a couple of years ago, I specifically went for a smaller model so I could get a keyboard without a numeric keypad. When on my lap, why would I want the keyboard shifted to the left?

If it's on a desk and not your lap, buy a keyboard.
I think you are the Googler who was harassed, based on your distorted justification for Digital Ocean's unethical behavior and the fact that you don't see it as unethical.

Here's a major reason why Digital Ocean was unethical: they took unilateral action based on a complaint from some googler transmitted to a highly placed Digital Ocean executive who the googler knew personally. If that's an acceptable resolution to someone being mean to someone on the internet, then is Digital Ocean going to provide the entire world with personal access to this executive, in case one of their customers is ever mean to anyone else? No. So it's a recovery only available to privileged technocrats.

This is by no means the only reason why Digital Ocean's action is unacceptable, but it deserves more consideration. Google itself is well known for being impossible to deal with unless you know someone on the inside. This googler should carefully consider whether he was really the wronged party here, or whether he is part of a larger problem.
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Sometimes, but I doubt it is the real problem, as far as modern society goes. Look at the London riots, where parents were forcing their children to turn themselves in afterwards. I would ask instead if society is right to bombard everyone with constant reminders that they are undesirable if they are not wealthy, famous or good looking. What internal world view does this create for those effectively trapped at the bottom? A sense of self-worth? Unlikey.
A smoothly implemented marketing roadmap.

It is an interesting historical narrative of what happened. Probably needs a second post of analysis, comparison/contrast, if I had to do it again I'd... but for what it is, its a good post.
...using tools from the late 70s/early 80s no doubt (vim, emacs, etc.)
Probably little. There's no ad revenue being lost, no business transactions that can't be completed, no life-saving information that can't be accessed. When you boil it down, it's a social/entertainment site, nothing anyone can't live without for a day or two.
Buggy Middleboxes broke. They're increasingly preventing deployment of new protocols and apps on the internet.
Google still has by far and away the best (read: most forgiving) geocoder. It'll understand "W4" as "West 4th Street" in New York and as Chiswick in London. Stuff like that is incredibly hard to get right as every country/city/street has so many permutations.

I've love to see an open-source alternative that rivals it, but haven't found one yet.
Maybe Doctor Who's explosive popularity in the States will have a moderating effect? I mean, my 11-year-old son is part of a generation whose favorite fictional character uses a screwdriver and has two hearts.
America's vices of choice are greed and violence.

England's are sex and drugs.
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Coincidentally, I wanted to launch this yesterday but HackerNews was down--

I built KillSwitch (http://Killswit.ch) with the busy agency in mind. Many digital agencies don't host the sites they advertise for and this can cause a problem when there is downtime. It's not uncommon for a client website to go down for hours in the middle of the night while traffic is being sent to the site. KillSwitch monitors the site every minute for connectivity and in the event of downtime notifies stakeholders. If the site is not returned to service after a user-adjustable threshold, the AdWords campaign is paused automatically. Upon restoration of connectivity, it's started again.

This is the most M of MVP's but I've really enjoyed building it. If you have any feedback, I'd be happy to hear it. Josh@Killswit.ch

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Bootstrap 3 Dashboard (Gumby on the homepage)
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Ubuntu 12.04
Local dev with Vagrant & Virtual box
Deployment with Capistrano
Stereotypes and prejudices.
> An interesting point in American fiction in particular, is that, generally it always has the lesson: "violence works" or "violence is the solution".

I think that taking that as a "lesson" is a mistake. Its true that American fiction is pretty prone to relying on physical violence as the central form of conflict, but I don't think that's so much a lesson as a lack of creativity.
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Everything was going fine until about the 5th slide or page. I got some pretty nasty thing happen:

http://i.imgur.com/7b7nhFB.png

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After all, Thatcher did so much good for the UK didn't she? I mean, destroying more or less all heavy industry, and building up an untenable financial sector backing for the economy was a great idea wasn't it? Oh, and of course, it definitely wasn't her actions which caused much of the north east to be thrust into poverty was it?

Margaret Thatcher is possibly the worst person you could ever quote on any issue like this.

I'm glad she's dead - hopefully her hateful policies will die with her soon.
> It is never moral and often unwise to support a system you would not support if you did not have a favorable position within it.

Is this an intentional reference to John Rawls' concept of the 'veil of ignorance' laid out in Theory of Justice? If not, you would definitely enjoy the ideas in the book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
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I've never really understood the attraction of focus follow mouse, and it's especially confusing to me when the preference comes from someone who professes to mostly navigate using the keyboard.
Could you clarify or specify what it is you say is a myth and why it's a myth? A brief of what Deirdre N. McCloskey says would be very helpful and much appreciated - thanks.

Edit: Reading the Amazon short description, "[...] The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes, and a whole lot more on ideas and what people believe. Or so says Deirdre N. McCloskey [...]"

That is relating to distribution of resources, albeit local resources.
I haven't used any retina screens, but I use scaling in XFCE for my 27" 2560x1440 monitor and for a 14" 1920x1080 laptop screen, and it works without any issues on both of those.

What are the native issues with retina (in Gnome 3, for example)? Are there GUI elements that don't scale along?
Season 2 of "24", which was full of torture scenes, aired a month after the famous "Torture Memos" were distributed, and long before the program was actually implemented. Of course it was written and filmed months before it aired. Your narrative is totally implausible.
More likely is that it's reflecting attitudes in society more condoning of torture than they have been in the past.

Also, it could be depicting instances of torture more explicitly, without necessarily condoning them. At least in the "24" case, the "good guy" isn't a boy scout but a morally-ambiguous, gritty, hardened "any means necessary" warrior. As such, it's perhaps more realistic to depict him doing "bad guy" stuff to get things done.
However a lawsuit against them would. And it is very logical to try and avoid having such a lawsuit as you'd have to spend quite a few bucks on a decent lawyer.
> There exist a big culture and history of land theft in the Americas by the white upper class from the 16th century until present time.

This sounds like something from a partisan left-wing political tract. Do you have any references?

Of course, land was taken from the Native Americans and brought under the white man's legal system, at which point I no longer believe the claim. The US is basically a country of laws, not of men, or at least has been for most of its history.

I don't know what the threshhold is for "a big culture of" something, but I suspect the truth of it is that it clearly falls short of that.

This kind of claim is also reminiscent of the situation in Israel, which is also left-wing/anti-semitic minefield of misinformation.
The thing about basic income that doesn't make sense to me is how to set it. Basic income for someone living in rural South Dakota is going to be drastically different for someone living in San Francisco.
The abstract talks about ϵ-approximation for m edges in O(m^(1+o(1))ϵ^−2). If this algorithm is practical that would be quite a speed up!
Don't miss the fractal ants at the bottom! A wonderful visual analogy that shows Bret practices the ideas he's encountering in this research.

I started taking research notes this year in a similar way to the linked article: a document of quotes from books and blogs clipped with my comments. It is sort of magical the result, you reveal big ideas that talk to each other across the divisions of books. You can see it on this site, it really seems the ideas fit together into parts of a coherent overall image.

One difference in my method to Bret's is that I print my notes and put them in a binder. The physical result seems to make the ideas "more real" than when they are buried in text files.

Highly recommend this practice. Everyone has their own big ideas,perhaps only sub consciously voiced and this sort of activity helps bring them to life.

Thanks for the great link!
And in your world how do you prove you do not know something ? I guess ... more torture ?
You can't really compare viewership numbers between the X-Files era and the Finge era. The media landscape is totally different now. 3 million viewers isn't necessarily "awful" when you're competing against just about everything.
Author here! I listen to a lot of music on YouTube, and found the native YouTube playlists next to useless, so I wound up making this clean and collaborative playlist webapp to solve this problem, and of course to get my hands dirty with Meteor!
They are USB3 ports though, aren't they?

Dedicated ethernet would be nice. Thunderbolt would be nice. Firewire would be nice. A DVD/blu-ray drive would be nice. Ultrabooks seem not to have these things. Make no mistake, I would not have bought one if it had been USB2.

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Unix, DOS/Windows, etc.

Just because it was originally conceived and created then, doesn't mean there hasn't been a fair amount of evolution in those products since that time.
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One weakness of linking directly to posts on specialist mailing lists is they sometimes use specialist terminology. You'll note he doesn't define 'TLS' or 'CRIME' or 'AES' either :)
The real world isn't a perfect laboratory, so sometimes you must make do with data supplied by accidents and coincidences ;)

Having said that, yes, it's truly depressing that politics can't seem to wait for proper results. As one of the most influential papers in my field of study (STS) says, "the speed of political decision-making is faster than the speed of scientific consensus formation." Sometimes this is forgivable -- if global warming is real, we can't afford to wait for its ill effects to become obvious, can we? -- but in other times, big-P politics just gets in the way of a good research program. Throwing in a bunch of confounding factors halfway through an experiment and whatnot.
Thanks danso! I'm happy that you find it useful. I also hope to integrate conclusions from relevant discussion here back into the Wiki.
So what you are saying is?
What do you get if you mate the ultrasonic technology of a sonoluminescence setup, with the ideas behind a paul and/or penning trap (sorta kinda, also they're usually electromagnetically based)

I always wanted to build a penning trap and levitate a dust spec in a vacuum chamber and then using an interferometer and some DSP make a hell of a seismograph. I'd probably just end up electrocuted, dust spec penning traps run a couple hundred volts...
You don't need to jump down my throat with your obsession with data. You won't get data until someone decides it's worth trying, and the broken-ness of the welfare system is an pretty good basis to justify such an experiment. I'm sure if you dig up the data on welfare it can be used somehow to satisfy your statistical justification requirements, but keep in mind that public opinion is not as easily swayed by a good dataset as engineers are.
Its geocoder still doesn't handle leading zeroes to the best of my knowledge, which makes Southwest Portland a bit tough.

A description for the uninitiated: Portland has five quadrants in street names, NW/NE/N/SW/SE. SW has "negative block numbers" east of a certain line, which are represented by a significant leading zero in the building number.

To be fair, I don't think anyone handles this. Thankfully I'm not in SW pretty much ever.
Yup, I'd rather go without the num pad and avoid the minor space and weight increment. If needed, I can always attach a usb number pad.
> Sometimes the subject does have the sought-after information, and the interrogator knows the subject has it, and people will die if that information is not extracted.

And even then, it is not the most effective method of extracting it.

> Another inconvenient fact is sometimes it does work

Sometimes it might, but there is no set of observable circumstances from which it can be concluded that torture will be expected to work better than other methods, so it is never a reasonable choice even excluding any negative moral considerations (or negative impact of more indirect effects of adopting such methods as policy) applicable to the method.

> and is an alternative to actual harm.

"Enhanced interrogation" is a euphemism for methods that involve actual harm, not an alternative to them.
It's very upsetting that many people did not take APNG seriously. GIF is too outdated on this point.
"If you want to make basic income a political possibility, you need data"

I think you overestimate the importance of data to most people. It might swing some intellectuals, but generally people are very good at finding reasons to discount data they don't agree with.

Data would be nice so we can evaluate if a basic income is a good idea or not. But is largely irrelevant to actually making it a political possibility.
You can do the (utterly simple) math to correct the figure I gave for whatever you want. I think your demand for me to compute 10.4/(46.2-14) for you is merely a desperate attempt to maintain your old view in spite of the new facts you learned today.

Call me a troll all you want, but no matter how you demand the data to be sliced and diced, the poor choose to work far less than the non-poor. They work vastly less than the non-poor or the nation as a whole (labor force participation rate, including children, is roughly 65%).
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Not just economics but also philosophy and an awareness of our shady preconceptions. See my reply to notdrunkatall downthread.
djur - thanks :)

Yes, you nailed it. For MRI I had a bit of a different challenge. I already solved this problem a year and a half ago, and with the benefit of being able to use JRuby performance was a bit easier to reach (by dropping to "bare" Java amqp driver and Executors) - https://github.com/jondot/frenzy_bunnies
It's useful for more now than just pokemon chasing your mouse cursor, we swear!
One could correlate stress with things like depression, suicide, anxiety disorders, divorce, addiction, etc, but that would be a very difficult study to perform.
Number pads are such a colossal waste of real estate. Let alone on a 13 inch laptop, the keys would have to be so small.

With regards to wanting a 4:3 display over a 16:9/10; with 1920x1080 resolution do you really need the 4:3? Are you really going to make your terminal/editing window full screen height? I use my rMBP in 1920x1200 and my terminals rarely need to go full screen height in order to see all the lines of code I need to see.
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This is precisely why I haven't purchased several otherwise very nice looking Linux laptops.
One thing not mentioned in this article:

1. The greedy algorithm has an O(log(n)) approximation ratio, meaning it produces a regex guaranteed to use a number of terms within a multiplicative O(log(n)) factor of the optimal regex.

2. Unless P != NP, set cover cannot be approximated better than the greedy algorithm. In other words, the only general solutions you'll find (unless you're using some special insight about how regular expressions cover sets of strings) will be no better than a constant factor improvement in produced regex size than the greedy algorithm.

That being said, regexes (esp disjunctions of small regexes) are not arbitrary sets. So this problem is a subset of set cover, and certainly may have efficient exact solutions.
Maybe the fact that you did such things leads you to require to rationalize them. Just about everybody has reasons and is convinced they're correct, that is true even for Charles Manson.

A poem by Erich Fried comes to mind... "don't doubt those who say they're afraid, but be afraid of those who say they know no doubt" -- I guess doubly so if they put torture in quotes.
Many GUI elements do not scale. For example apps like Chrome and Skype render very small, almost unusable. I'm guessing these apps are not going through X to render. Others like Firefox render ok, but the icons are a bit on the small side. Even Gnome 3 itself doesn't do a great job, when you are in the Workspaces view the taskbar on the left is a bit small. The Settings/Sound menu in the top right doesn't correctly guess how much horizontal space it has and renders narrowly. Many Gnome apps, like the Settings app, renders a bit small.

I might try and install Mate and see if it is any better. I have no interest in using Unity or XFCE so I can't comment on those.
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Was that in an earlier version? I can't find that in the article now.
Are you saying American fiction overplays how effective violence is compared to other options?

Because it's clear (and you may be acknowledging) that violence is the best option in at least some circumstances. Otherwise, prisons, soldiers, and police officers wouldn't be necessary.
> There is a shadow of McCarthy's red scare in the suggestion that no NSA affiliated people be allowed to participate.

The analogy is so stretched as to be meaningless. At least as it refers to the McCarthy portion of the Red Scare, the objectionable portion were: targeting participation in purely domestic political groups, and falsely accusing people of affiliations they didn't have.

It wouldn't be at all objectionable to exclude from employment with the State Department or Army people who were actively openly affiliated with organizations directly sponsored by the Soviet Union. (Though acting in movies presents a different question.)

Likewise, it makes no sense for a standards group to be chaired by a person openly and actively affiliated with an organization which has as a goal subverting those very standards.
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