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While the front-end to Optimus may be less than optimal, it's quite well done internally.

I came across it when I hooked an external GPU to my laptop. This is possible via ExpressCard with a passive (mechanical) adapter, and it even hot-plugs in Windows and installs the correct driver out of the box. It does require a reboot the first time, but other than that it's smooth.

What Optimus does is texture compression before textures are sent over the single PCI express 2.0 lane to the GPU. It can also enable my external GPU to render back into the internal notebook display.

I'm baffled by how easy this is to set up and how flawlessly it works, and honestly I am surprised that none of the commercial solutions has ever succeeded. ExpressCard even supports a USB 2.0 port, so I can plug my keyboard and mouse to the adapter, which then effectively works as a docking station (except for power).
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Having a system then sends out config files sounds like part of the body that send out hormones,etc. Both can go wrong.
For Linux, did you try the Bumblebee project? I had some success with it. Once bumblebee is setup, if you want to use the Nvidia GPU for some program, you just launch it as follows: "optirun /path/to/your/program".
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The bad part about eBooks is that they always pile up. They are probably the most non-read books in existence. Or why should I bother reading 16 eBooks on the same topic, when reading a single good one would be the sane solution (the one I'd choose for paper books)?
It looks like Google fails to correctly decipher Intel Isis (probably because it is still new). If you were searching Intel Isis, OP probably meant Intel Iris[0]. Intel Iris and Intel Iris Pro were introduced with Haswell processors.

> Intel Iris Graphics and Intel Iris Pro Graphics are new brands for Intel's high-end integrated graphics introduced with some variants of its Haswell processors. They utilize the same basic blocks as the HD series, but have a higher maximum frequency, and additional eDRAM cache for the "Pro" series.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HD_and_Iris_Graphics
I have an ASUS Zenbook Prime UX32VD-R4002V with NVidia GT620m and Optimus works flawlessly, both in Windows 7 and Linux Mint. Most games and demanding software switch to NVidia, HD4000 is used only for bare desktop and browsing. There are other issues with this ultrabook but Optimus is not one of them. Both DirectX and OpenGL work on both chips, output via HDMI works from both of them and I can even use CUDA in After Effects CS6 by adding 620m to the list of supported cards. The OP's experience is probably constrained to his particular model.
Hm, you can mix GPL code with your previously BSD-licensed project, and release the result under the GPL. However, I'll grant that that's strictly an exception there as I worded things. The only thing that could be done with the hypothetically-still-bsd combined work that couldn't be done with the perfectly allowed GPL combined work is to add more restrictions, though, so I think my general point still stands.

That said, not all restrictions are equally problematic - an obvious brokenness would be wanting to mix original-BSD-license code and GPL code; both licenses purportedly free (says even the FSF), but the 4 clause BSD code adds a restriction regarding advertising materials mentioning UC Berkeley.
After using Clojure for a while, i've found that some of the ideas from OO still apply to larger systems. It just happens that most programs, because of the functional programming style, dynamic typing, and Clojure's abstractions, end up too small / simple to warrant introducing them into the codebase.
It's not just about selling. I was a journalist for many years, and the worst kinds of visualizations and charts were just data dumps. The best kind had a point of view, or tried to make sense of the data and tell a story with it.

Now, if you distorted or hid conflicting data in the process of doing this, that's obviously bad; but data presented with a point of view can be good, because humans innately respond to stories. It's up to the reader/viewer/listener to think critically about the story.
I'd suggest going back to the original youtube[1] and course materials[2]. Coursera version is nothing but a hand-wavy watered down "feel good" version of the original class. I also really like the Caltech's take "Learning from data"[3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxYlbK2c7E

[2] http://cs229.stanford.edu/

[3] http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html
For reference, a college-level CS databases course I took had us hack on the Postgres query planner to improve a very specific case such as this.

It's large and slightly complicated, but damn it's clean and understandable. Or at least it was back in 2005...
Doing a little searching, it seems it might be tied to the hardware as well, not just the OSX version (not sure if that's a real hardware limitation or a driver issue though). The dual-GPU MacBook Pros from mid-2010 onwards have "automatic graphics switching" that does it on the fly: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4110

You're right that the 2008/09 models required logging out/in to switch manually; I hadn't realized that: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3207
Indeed, I checked before posting my previous comment to verify that autocomplete for "Nudel" was still broken but it's fixed now, at least on the English version. If you go to google.com/?hl=de to force the German version then it's still broken.

Another autocomplete curiosity I found: "Mädchen", German for "girl", is blocked on the German version of Google while it autocompletes on the English version (not sure if this was just changed along with "Nudel" or not) even though the English equivalent is blocked on neither Google language version.
Thanks. I need to get on of them.
I thought the situation improved a bit with the appearance of ultrabooks; however I haven't had a chance to test one of them thoroughly.

Did they bring higher quality or they are just thinner with slightly better specs/battery?
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It baffles me for ages now, how do PC keep such high selling levels, when even now, if you buy a laptop, very likely you will have a crap which will require some technician attention before you will be able to use it properly. Not to speak about crappy apps that comes already installed.

Last time I experienced problems was with Samsung Chronos 7 laptop, that my girlfriend bought last Spring. Weird RAM usage issues, Windows issues, etc.

In the end, it really wasn't the experience that average laptop buyer is after and no doubt that some then looking into alternatives (tablets) eagerly.
My point is that you do use a relatively large amount of GPL code (the gcc codebase is huge) and there are doubtless more GPL programs you can perfectly well use during development and simply choose not to. "I can't use just about anything GPL in my job" is a mischaracterization. What you can't do is incorporate GPL code in non-GPL code you are distributing (which quite probably does include most of the work you do for your job, although not necessarily testing frameworks, &c).
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By residential ISPs, sure. Level 3 is not a residential last-mile provider. I'd be surprised if you could get any sort of service out of them for less than $1k/month.
I've travelled quite a bit because of my previous IT Consulting job and I basically "lived" in one place for 6 months at a time.

I've also spent time in Seattle and Denver so I'll explain those just so you can compare you vs. me.

1) Chicago - Born and raised here. It's what you expect from a Big midwestern city. We're nice, but will cut you off on the road without thinking twice. Summer is when we're the nicest and most outgoing, Winter is essentially a black hole where you keep in touch with your existing friends and stay in. But overall, I've met a lot of nice and supporting people in chicago.

2) New York / New Jersey - Lived here for a year. It's a different vibe all together. Of course there are a lot of nice people, but expectations for you to be on your own and figure it out on yourself is much bigger here.

3) Seattle - I forget which suburban city it was (maybe kirkland) where there are pedestrian crossing flags to cross 4 lane streets. If that doesn't tell you what kind of city seattle suburbs are, then I'm not sure what else I can tell you. Extremely nice people, can't merge on the highway for the live of them and the only place where everyone drives the speed limit normally. In the end, really nice people but Im not an outdoor person and the cloudiness was actually affecting me.

4) Denver - nice outdoor people. That's all I can really say. I enjoyed denver and the people were always nice to me.

5) SF - A hectic place where the cab drivers know more about technology startups than you do. A wide variety of people where people pay too much to live in a city. Overall, nice people though but esp in the tech community an expectation that you must be part of a growing tech company to be successful.

6) Austin - Man, I do love this place. I can't stand houston or Dallas. I would rather live in Alaska then live in houston or dallas (mainly because of city layout). But Austin is a very nice city with people who are willing to help you. They still have a little of a texas attitude that everything is bigger in texas but an extremely friendly city. If you can't find friendly people in austin you are doing something wrong. These texans are extremely nice and plus you have a lot of converts from other cities that came here for the tech.

7) Los Angeles - I haven't been there for too long, but if you are looking for friendly I'm going to say this isn't your place. The roads aren't friendly and it ruins the experience for me.

8) Manchester, UK - I spent 6 months here and people call it a "rough place", but I enjoyed every second of it. If you're american it makes everything that much easier. You stick out and people love talking to anyone with an american accent.
A nice advantage Apple has in this area is their retail stores. They can test (and already are testing) mobile payments in their own stores before rolling it out publicly. One problem they will face is that if it's tied to iPhone they are severely limiting the number of people who can use it and if merchants have to pay for any hardware for their stores they will go with the mobile payment provider with the largest market share.
With apologies to all the 20th Century man named Richard whose names were spoiled be teenagers of the recent generations, an we please put aside the locker room vocabulary?
> I buy 2 or 3 laptops a year; traditionally the case has
> been that most laptops were kind of bad but if you looked
> hard you could find something good. Now it has gotten to
> the point that the something good no longer seems to exist
> at all.

Have you looked at MacBooks? There is a significant difference between a $300-$500 box of crap and a $1,000 MacBook. It seems like they would address most of your concerns - great trackpad, screen, no crapware (you bring your own Windows if that's your thing), map your own function keys, reasonable quality keyboard (at least a constant layout), and extremely solid build quality.
Why do they need or would they want their on currency? I could see other companies maybe going down that road but with Apple the goal seems to be to make products as simple to understand as possible. Using USD (or local currency) and charging through a credit card stored in their systems is easy for everyone to understand.
I know a guy like that. He's not a Texan, I don't think that part matters. He's a retired Chicago cop. I interact with him in the context of volunteer work for a few organizations locally. I have no idea how he does it, but he'll walk up, start chatting, have a question or two, maybe relate a musing he was having, and go on to talk to someone else. Every damn time I find myself doing his bidding and about an hour realizing that fact. I have no idea how he does it, other than he's a wizard. He never says "do this", or "i think you should ...". I've seen it work on many other people as well.

One day I'll unlock that superpower.
My hard-won lesson is to thoroughly review any newly bought laptop performance during the return period and take it back at any hint of trouble, particularly anything that may require a driver update.
Wear shoes and clothes you can move in. It really is one of the coolest indoor spaces I've ever seen.
ahh, I just read this after I wrote my post. What you said above would bother the hell out of me too! Try Austin. It's a much different place. Wait for the football season to start and go to a UT football game.
As mentioned in the article, this course was a suggested course for Googlers.
I've never had a problem with switchable graphics on OS X.
Probably it is the Anglo-American tradition of placing universities in smaller towns. The students of Columbia or NYU vanish in the metropolis. But towns like State College (Penn State), Boulder (the University of Colorado), etc. are dominated by the universities, which are cities to themselves.
Laptops are not designed for gaming nor performance.

I wish some manufacturer would make a very thick, powerful laptop, as thick as those first mac laptops, without battery, but a good CPU and GPU, and a fan big enough to properly cool all that. If the laptop is thick it will be much easy to cool it.

The current iMacs for example are quite thick, and such a machine would be transportable enough as a laptop as a 17 or 15 inch screen.

You would not need a battery anyway, there are plugs everywhere, even in trains. If you plan to work on a laptop, it's for at least an hour, if you have an hour I think you will find time to find a plug easily. If you really need mobility a smartphone or tablet will be more useful than a laptop.
If you're willing to spend at least $1500, you can find some ultrabooks with decent build quality from Lenovo/Asus/Samsung/Sony. None of them get every detail right; keyboard layout is always a challenge, and I had to remap home/end/pageup/pagedown to make this one usable for programming. Vendor-specific apps for the trackpad and power management suck and they'll be installed on even the most expensive systems.

One problem seems to be that we're such a tiny addressable market at this point that the best PCs never make it into stores. You won't find any Haswell i7's in ultrabooks at Best Buy / Staples / etc; just the lower-end i5 and HD5000 graphics clones each brand made. This one was only available from Amazon, which seems to pick up something like 30 units a month from ASUS. Samsung makes a very nice configuration of their Ativ Book 9 Plus that's both beautiful and powerful, but when I checked my local stores they only stocked cheaper models.
That's what I'm using currently, but I have no idea how much longer hnsearch will be around for.
Agreed, there are much more elaborate approaches than this one.
I've been using SoundCloud for several years. It's a great service and they have a decent business model. They're actually charging for useful things (stats, storage) meaning the don't need to shove ads down our throats. If they start going down the road of licensing content I'm not sure exactly how that will change the service. Will they start running ads? I hope not. If they start licensing large amounts of music they will just become another streaming service. At the minute they have a good thing going. They are a good place for artists to upload promos, demos, mixes etc. and I hope that doesn't change.
I am genuinely surprised that no good Windows laptop seems to exist. I've been using Apple for the last 4 years and I hoped that finally one of the Windows OEMs had managed to cobble together something that can get cloes to the Macbook Pro in build quality and interface. Apparently not?
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And double the price of every other PC laptop out there with the same specs. Hell no.
It's really difficult to read these types of stories and comments because it shows us that happy endings are not guaranteed for anyone by the universe.

We're just all flesh that's about to fail - sometime, eventually.

And that sometime comes sooner for some of us than latter.
You might be right in terms of proportions, I don't know but there is plenty of copyrighted material on Soundcloud not belonging to the poster.
wouldn't mention a thing about race

SF Mission is/was an ethnic neighborhood that happen(ed) to be working class, more than than the other way around. There were many poor-er areas in sf, but you went to the mission for colour, sun, ethnic food, and the fact that nobody was snobby or annoying. It used to be a great place to throw house parties...as long as you weren't violent or setting shit on fire...nobody would ever blink/complain...etc.
This sounds (no pun intended) as a very reasonable valuation for SoundCloud. They are doing a great job and deserve every penny of those 60M.
I'm actually fairly happy that my 2-GPU 2009 MBP is primitive in this regard, in that it has no auto-switching at all. Switching GPUs is manual press of a radio button that then prompts a logout (there's also a 3rd party menubar utility that lets you do it without the logout).
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"this is the time I wish I could afford a MacBook".

If you work in any IT related job in the US you probably would end up on the plus if you just spent the time you just used to try to make the crap you bought to work properly working a few extra on your normal job and then bought a MacBook.

I can seriously not afford to not buy a MacBook.
You mean like this?
https://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_ROG_G750JH
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Well, "dependency injection" is a pompous term. This just relies on two simple clojure features: protocols and namespace introspection to easily configure a program. It's definitely not a framework, but I see how using the term DI can be a bit scary and off-putting.

I'd like to think it's common for programs to need extensions & plugins, without it deriving from "the point of of clojure".
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…if you ignore every "spec" other than CPU, RAM, storage and screen size.
I don't understand the grumpiness. Gee did not say anything privately that is now being revealed, betraying his trust that his confidant wouldn't tell. He publicly outed, on Twitter, someone whom he has disliked for years.

If this was two private citizens simply squabbling about movie reviews, who would care? But Henry Gee is an editor at Nature -- the Nature -- the shiniest journal of all in the science world. He's a man who influences science careers, championing the publishing of some things and not others. He's in a position to know the identities of people on both sides of the (somewhat anonymous) peer-review table.

If you're Henry Gee you can't just out pseudonymous scientists on Twitter without a reaction, just as if you're governor you can't just have a donor pay for your daughter's wedding. (Yeah I know it's a poor analogy. Pre-coffee.) There is the appearance of impropriety because you are in a position of power. No one would give two figs about Gee or this situation if he wasn't a Nature editor.
SoundCloud is great. You really get the feeling that you're being empowered as a content consumer and creator. This is because SoundCloud really doesn't give a shit about the making people listen to what the copyright monopoly wants people to listen to (ie J Bieber/M Cyrus). YouTube is the complete opposite. You log onto Youtube and it feels like MTV all over again.

SoundCloud will become HUGE for this ability to empower its users in a way that no other streaming platform has done before. But as VC money flows into SoundCloud it will become crappy like YouTube, Deezer, Skype, Tumblr, and most other start-ups that end-up loosing the original spirit of their founders.
It's doesn't seem like this is physical goods in physical stores, but physical goods in internet stores. So you could have a "Pay with iTunes Account" button at the end of the purchase process, along with the "Pay with Paypal" button.

I'm not entirely sure I see where the profit motivation for Apple is. They can't charge much more than the standard 2.X% that the other processors charge. And only a few tenths of a percent of that is profit. I guess they could force all iOS apps like the Amazon iOS app to use their payment system and charge a higher percentage, but that would cause a lot of ill will and would probably chase companies back to web apps.
Samsung Series 9. Not cheap though.
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I'm not entirely sure how your reply connects to my comment. Are you arguing that death isn't bad? If so, try pointing the argument at someone else:

"The universe existed for billions of years and did just fine without you. It will probably be good for eons after you're gone. And the funny thing is, I have never lost a minute of sleep over your non-existence for those initial billions of years."

It sounds both psychopathic and psychotic.
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I have the same notebook, and my only complaint is that quite often the notebook monitor doesn't switch on until I connect or disconnect an external HDMI monitor. A pity.
This only really matters in the context of such postings not being helpful to the artists.
To almost everyone who replied: Were your responses really in the spirit of HN? I don't believe anything I said deserved the condescending tone I received in response.
jblow seems to find that no OEM laptop is worth using, isn't twice the price kinda worth it for a laptop you can actually use?

If you're a cheap fuck, don't be surprised you can only find cheap shit.