skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume parent meant something like GObject, where you get opaque reference counted structs. (Generally something like gobject-introspection is used to generically bind it to other languages, not auto-generated wrappers.)
Luckily they have gone back to physical buttons on the x250 and the new X1 Carbon.
Pakistani rights activist Sabeen Mahmud shot dead
The nuances of running Linux on any ThinkPad are documented in minute detail at http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki.

For the most part I have simply booted Ubuntu install images and had no problems at all. On some models I reprogram the fan controllers because I don't like the fan noise and the defaults are too conservative on thermal margins anyway.
Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate the detail you've given. I'll take some time to more carefully test the copy with people not already familiar with the product.
This image is very good but we recommend the one based on the Omnibus Packages https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master/docker

I plan to make these official on Dockerhub over the weekend. But if there are vulunteers that want to keep them up to date that would be perfect.
Until the power stops.
Maybe it's just observer bias, but it seems to me that the kids I used to hang out with when I'd go to hardcore shows in DC in the 80s and early 90s were some of the most creative and smartest kids I met. A lot of them went into software development (CS, CE, EE degrees) or some sort of visual arts career. There's something motivational about the music.

I still listen to old bad brains, cro-mags, youth of today, warzone, etc when I need to bang out some code (not really for when I have to design something, though). Overall, it's a really positive scene. I feel that a lot of people don't really get that, though.
Is Git a Block Chain?
What makes Coreboot (presumably) nonfree?
It's sad no manufacturer steps in and fills in the relatively big niche ThinkPads used to occupy:

* Utilitarian but beautiful designs: http://www.geocities.jp/kenjin_keyboard/butterfly_p07.jpg

* Great input devices (mouse and keyboard)

* High density square screens

* Upgradeable Linux/BSD friendly hardware

With the advent of great, cheap ARM processors and Coreboot getting ported to ARM, the barries of entry should be a bit lower. Frankly, while Apple tends to produce great hardware, they are far too optimised for consumers vs developers. E.g., brittle aluminium + glass vs Thinkpad's magnesium + carbon fiber.
Google’s sorry that a crudely offensive image of an Apple logo turned up in Maps
Supreme Court hears argument in raisin takings case
I killed a Thinkpad by dripping some water on it, just a couple drops of condensation from the outside of a glass of water. F1 key stopped working, the trackpoint mouse buttons started clicking constantly so I had to rip them off. The A key needs to be hit hard to work. The wifi constantly drops now. The only thing that happened was dripping some water on it.

Granted, it still works, just not well. However I have a pre-iPad Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t that has seen pretty constant use as my daily driver Xubuntu laptop for almost five years now. I've probably put thousands of running hours on it and it still works like a (slow and ancient netbook) dream.

They're tough, but certainly not completely indestructible. I thought they were until the water incident.
Microsoft stepped up and contributed to Node/libuv to get those projects working well under Windows -- given the new leadership, I'd venture it would be in Rust's interests to reach out and see how willing they are to help. Maybe the result would be surprising :)
The M4800 is kinda tough to run Linux on, but I still recommend it. I have not yet run it without the Nvidia kernel driver, but that may have to do with my choice of graphics card. I would tell you which one this is, but it's so new it's not in my 'lspci' results.

$ lspci|grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0ff6 (rev a1)
That was a looong time ago, like T40p long time ago. Then they went through a period of offering AFFS displays that were kinda weird -- good measurable specs but made my eyes hurt for some reason. Then a period of claiming that nobody was willing to make IPS panels at an economical price which Apple proceeded to prove to be a lie.
I agree that they accumulate, but not necessarily that they don't break. I've recently recycled a 600e (working), a T30 (working), and a T61 (motherboard dead). There was a massive build quality difference between the (brilliantly solid) 600e and the T61. I'm hanging on to an x61s for the time being, since it still works and it's quite small.

I still love the design ascetic of these laptops and I wouldn't be surprised to find myself buying one in the future.
Convert MP4 to Blu-ray
Would you want to say which band you played in?
> Human nature seems to also have an "interest in food"

Indeed. And sex. And status in herd hierarchies.

That was my point. But it doesn't stop there. I'd also include symbolic abstraction, myth-making and narrative logic (as an efficient but flawed heuristic for passing on knowledge), persistent shared memory, embodied metaphors as per Lakoff - and so on.

It seems to me - and maybe to a lot of the Internet - that humans spend a lot of time and energy on these things.

Other species spend a lot of time on some of them, but not all of them.

There may be a reason for the difference.

So I have issues with the suggestion that they're always evidence of pathological socialisation - or that writing impenetrable books and laughing at and condescending to anyone who disagrees with their content is likely to make that socialisation any less pathological, where it does exist.
And the final element missing to instil real fear? True PvP, where anyone might decide to betray you and kill you while you're resting to recover hitpoints or manna or whatever.

It's only when loss is possible that you can truly gain. It's only when betrayal is possible that you can truly trust. It's only when your character can completely fail that you can truly enjoy success.

Each of those are opposite sides of the same coin. A game like Wow (which I found it very addictive, compulsive even, and did "enjoy" it to some extent) is ultimately totally empty, because there is no way to gain, to trust, to win.

Put that stuff back in, and you get a game like Eve.
"Many newer Dell laptops have good Linux support."

I've been buying higher-end Dells for a while. If you get something based on an Intel chipset, Linux support is generally quite solid, even if it isn't explicitly claimed. Based on my experience with my last three laptops and what I hear from everyone else, I often think there's really two Dells, the "cheap at all costs" consumer end and the business/"prosumer" end that makes, if not gear that gets as much love as old-school IBM, perfectly serviceable stuff. I'm typing this on an at-least-three-year-old Studio 17, and it barely even shows wear. Battery's croaking, of course, but that's hardly Dell's fault (and it's not like it instantly died or anything). Also the fact you can get full service manuals is really nice... even if you're comfortable with hardware, trying to blunder your way through dissassembling a modern laptop if you need to, say, clean out the fan, is no fun.
> Wired's writing is fine, it's Crystal that's creepy. An unknown proprietary algorithm tells us what to write to our friends?

To be fair, I think it's more aimed at more casual acquaintances whom you haven't gotten to know as well yet.

> EDIT: I should add, I don't see Crystal as bad. I see it as inevitable. People have been blindly sharing private data on the web for a decade because no one used it? People will start using it.

That's nothing - I've been intentionally, publicly, sharing how to effectively communicate with me for a decade - and information about how I communicate.

I can see the ick factor in giving e.g. your local neighborhood spambot this power - but I want to effectively communicate with people. I want to be effectively communicated to. Hell, I even want to be effectively advertizied to - it means they've picked up on how to avoid annoying me and serve my interests (e.g. I click a lot of webcomic ads.)

I have had so many conversations in so many chatrooms where conflicting or just plain ineffective communication styles lead to frustration on one end, or hurt feelings on another. I extol the virtues of reading various articles about effective communication - "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" [1] and "What have you tried?" [2]. I've even written a few myself to explain my at times abrasive communication style - extoling it's virtues, defending my choice, and just plain explaining my rationale.

[1] http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

[2] http://mattgemmell.com/what-have-you-tried/
Thanks for the feedback - I'm glad you see the value in it.

It'll be free for schools worldwide. If we get enough interest in a particular region we'll look for a local organisation to partner with, like RAC has here in Australia. (My co-founder and I are big believers in helping businesses find sustainable/effective ways to invest in education).
I think the X201 was the last one you could have ordered without a trackpad at all, and I believe it was also among the last ones you could order with the tricolor IBM logo instead of the lenovo brand. I have one here that hasn't booted in a while because I usually use my X220, but I think the X201s is a rather handsome machine.

For all other models you can disable the trackpad in the BIOS, rendering it harmless.
But if you block JavaScript, a site can't detect whether certain third-party elements are loaded. So using RequestPolicy to also block third-party elements would then increase your anonymity, because it would prevent things like web bugs from leaking your browsing patterns outside of the first-party site. Right?

Or would CSS tricks allow a first-party site to conditionally load elements and reveal your RequestPolicy policy?

Sigh. :(
a mentor can help you cull your ideas and help you plan valid testing for them. for a twenty five year old i would suggest you find someone in their fourties
I like http://gogs.io/ better. Trivial to install and works great.
I recommend strongly against buying a Dell, specifically the M4800.

I ordered two for my business recently. I chose the Intel AC 7260 network adapter, which turns out to have all kinds of problems connecting reliably to 802.11n networks (the vast majority). On my laptop specifically, the motherboard and/or video card had major problems resulting in failure to shut down, an endless cycle of video adapter driver crashes and re-initializations resulting in system lockup, problems waking up from sleep, etc. I returned mine for a replacement, only to find the keyboard was absolutely horrendous--keys would double-press (bounce) almost every other key when typing fast and with moderate to heavy pressure. Upgrading the BIOS did not help as it apparently did with other Dell models.

Also, Dell refuses to refund my money on the now two defective laptops because I'm outside of the 30 day refund window. They wouldn't make an exception. I told them I was never purchasing a Dell again. I can (and did) buy a 2014 MacBook Pro with better specs for the same price and now I'm running Windows in Boot Camp (for .NET development) with flawless performance. Combined with a 3-year Apple Care agreement, I never have to worry about being nickeled-and-dimed over way-too-short refund periods.

In short, avoid Dell. They are shipping substandard hardware and are even getting things that should be commoditized to perfection (the keyboard) wrong.
Don't mean to criticise the open source projects but why hasn't Microsoft done a client that runs on multiple platforms itself, or at least supported for example a Python library?

python-onedrive hasn't been touched in a month and since it doesn't support the new REST API, it's crippled for most purposes due to the heavy rate limits on the old API.

onedrive-d looks good but it's dependent on GNOME, making it impractical for many use cases, particularly on headless devices like a Raspberry Pi.

Microsoft has the power to support this better, why has it chosen not to?
I'm not the OP but it doesn't sound like he's holding bitcoins for long periods of time so wash sale rules wouldn't apply.
CSS media queries give away your font list (and screen dimensions). Tor Browser modified some internal code in Firefox to protect against this.

Panopticlick is nice but it's not that advanced.

(Much) more info: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/
> Yes they do, per U.S. and European (at the very least; probably others are included) antitrust laws. Using one's market position to conspire to monopolize runs afoul of them.

I'm sorry, but I have to *sigh at that one. They don't have a monopoly on anything but THEIR OWN marketplace.

Anyway, have fun with your opinions man. I'm sure you're a bit hit at parties.
"The coreboot project distributes proprietary code/blobs on some computers; this can include things like CPU microcode updates, memory initialization code and so on. The project also actively recommends that the user install additional blobs in some cases (such as the video BIOS or Intel ME)." http://www.libreboot.org/docs/index.html
They also seem to have killed off the awesome Thinkpad X-tablets :(

I wish it was also a bit less plasticky; something like Macbook Air + Nub + Old Thinkpad keyboard + Black Rubberized body + WACOM would be a dream come true. Hardware upgradeability on top of that would be epic.
Maybe it's because I'm old and not used to that sort of moshing, but that just doesn't sound enjoyable. Back in the day (get off my lawn!), the pit was a strange mix between violence and friendliness. If someone fell, they'd immediately get picked up. If someone was getting pummeled, they'd get carried out of the pit. Stage dives were fun for the diver and crowd.

Sorry to sound like an old man, but I just don't understand this latest version of moshing. Maybe I need to go to one of these shows and get in the pit to see if I'm missing something (blow off some steam).
The Libreboot X60 and X200 are endorsed by the FSF through its RYF-program.
Cloudflare will respond to a ping, but a request will pass through. Clever folks will realize that finding which AWS region(s) host(s) the ELB is trivial with curl --trace-time and ping, since you can deduce the RTT from Cloudflare's proxy through to the ELB. You also know geographical Route 53 and other tricks aren't in use, because you automatically lose that information through Cloudflare.

I'm fairly confident it's in us-east-1 based on a quick glance.
i played in "The Banner" and "Pellinore". neither is a staple of the New York Hardcore scene, but I'd like to think anyone involved in the NJ/NY scene from 2004-2012 is probably familiar. both are on Spotify, if you care to listen. :)

this is obviously kind of new school with respect to the documentary, but they feature some newer bands so I thought it was fair game. :)
Cured mine. I've told this before, but I take Magnesium (250mg) and Iodine (1-2mg) every day. This has "cured" my asthma. I put that in quotes because as someone pointed out there is no recognized cure, and I have not stopped, so I don't know if the condition would return. But it beats the heck out of inhaled steroids. Going on 1 year with no meds and no problems - PFT says lungs function above average. Of course YMMV, but why not try it?
The thinkpad line is modular and you can buy a keyboard and replace yourself. That's the trick of the long live of my thinkpads: spares.

I don't know if other notebooks has the ease of repair of a thinkpad. Maybe the Dells.
Author was talking about generating initial geometry, but I didn't see anything about 3D fractals on that page. 3D fractals are right down the hall,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsuYZg8k-Zc
There's nothing preventing them from also opening up direct traffic to those paying for 'close' access that does not flow through CloudFlare or setting up for-pay servers in in their same availability zone(s), maybe through a direct VPN for paying customers, bypassing as much of the public internet as possible.
This is a nice guide!

Used Thinkpads have been very, very good to me over the years. For most of the last decade I bought used Thinkpad T42's for $100-$200 (see the empirical depreciation curve here [1]), beat them up for a year or two, then swapped the hard drive into a fresh machine when I finally and inevitably killed the old one. No downtime, no waiting for repairs, no tears shed over the death of a fancy laptop.

If you're on a budget, or in situations where repair downtime is unacceptable (eg travelling and working internationally) it looks from this guide like a master + spare from the T4xx-T5xx series is your ticket.

[1] http://alangrow.com/projects/laptop-prices/#T42
Send me an email - nick@docker.com - I'll make sure you get connected to the right team.
And you decided to host this on GitHub?
Have you tried the Omnibus packages for GitLab by any chance? We launched a package server for them two days ago: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/22/gitlab-7-10-released/ Installation should take only two commands and two minutes.
System Crash for Starbucks Leads to Free Coffee for Some
10 years of bad luck doesn't sound so bad. Even in failure, you are blessed to work in one of the more fascinating industries to come along in 100 years.

No doubt, most successful people I know are lucky, but those are not the people I admire the most. I admire the unlucky who persevered and overcame. They have the battle scars and experience to know what doesn't work, when to ask for help, and when to muscle through tough situations. They didn't accidentally get born into wealthy family with a paid-for college degree, or join MENSA.

That all being said, don't spend your whole youth trying to grow up, it just sort of happens. Enjoy your youth and make sure you are constantly learning and meeting new people.
"In the paper, researchers led by Junjiu Huang, a gene-function researcher at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, tried to head off such concerns by using 'non-viable' embryos, which cannot result in a live birth, that were obtained from local fertility clinics."

where are the non-viable embryos coming from?
I love this story and I love the idea of it. This sounds like a fun way to feel like a big baller. But I'm dying to know how much he's making. How could you write an article about how to make money doing something, then not at least give us an idea of how much money you made!?
> Market-making also delivers real social utility. The deeper the liquidity provided by market makers, the more difficult it is to cause erratic spikes in price. Market makers also reduce the bid-ask spread, a concept most people aren’t even aware of: a testament to successful practitioners on Wall Street.

Until they don't. The moment people need liquidity the most is the moment the market makers have pulled all their orders and the market is in free-fall.
Thanks! Just send you an email.
X220 Tablet, if using Wacom is your thing.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9432504
Availability zones are randomized per accounts; my us-east-1a might be the same as your us-east-1b.

This is presumably done to stop everyone putting things into the same AZ by just choosing the first one in the list.

There is some more detail here: http://alestic.com/2009/07/ec2-availability-zones
The default Realtek wifi card in t440/t440s (maybe also some other models) does not yet have a stable Linux driver, wifi keeps dropping. (The most recent driver from github is a bit better, it only drops a couple of times per hour, the default driver in Ubuntu 14.10 drops in like 5-10 minutes.)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1239578

An Intel card is only about $20 off ebay, but you need to open the laptop in order to replace it.
FPGA for $60..??
Maybe they think 'tick the box' and 'enter character N from your password' are additional factors. :p
Thank you for sharing, I will definitely factor that in. It's harder to find a solid upgradeable workstation than I thought.
How to Design a Roller Coaster That'll Make You Beg For Mercy
That's the point of Chameleon[1]. I've got it installed, and the issue is a lot of websites assume "oh, they don't have $plugin (e.g., Flash) installed", and don't fallback to something reasonable. So there are edge cases where you'd have to disable it. Otherwise, it's pretty effective.

[1] https://github.com/ghostwords/chameleon
Jut curious: why python 2.7 over python 3.x?
You're 25, you're still young and have plenty of time to succeed. A lot of people try hard for years without doing so.

There is a huge difference between making a little money from a website and running a business.
It's maybe not your project, maybe the way you communicate on it or the way you plan to make money on it.

There are lots of ways to run a business and lots to fail one. Take your time and check point by point what went wrong with your project:

- Did your project fill someone's need?
- Did you have an exact idea of how you would earn money?
- Was your communication effective enough (did you reach your target)?

My thoughts is that you're still young, do not lose hope at 25, try to find what were your weakness. Keep it up :)
Re: baggage handlers being called throwers

> This is not a common term that is actually used,

At the time, it most certainly was. Specifically in Southern California @ John Wayne Airport and LAX. Today, it has been officially discouraged by the union due to potential and realized bad press.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baggage_handler
I made God's temple. God is willing to publicaly claim it. be patient. The niggers will not fight God.
This isn't official, not made by the people at GitLab.
If you want to do the same but with native installers, here is a good collection https://bitnami.com/stacks/infrastructure

(disclaimer, I am one of the cofounders :)
I have a X230 that had one of those Realtek cards. It would drop a lot and be rather funky since I run linux 99% of the time. Then it finally died in February so I spent $13[1] for a replacement non-realtek. It has worked absolutely great, even with a minimalist Arch setup.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008V7AAJU/ref=oh_aui_detai...
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9419931
A Conceptual Framework for System Fault Tolerance [pdf]
RFC 1607 – A View from the 21st Century
Exactly! And we're pretty pragmatic about it. The canonical place of GitLab is at GitLab.com but we also have a GitHub mirror. Bringing back the D in DVCS.
One Size Fits All: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone (2005) [pdf]
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9435421
This is one of the best configured and thought-out Docker containers I've ever used. Running this for our project's git repository for several months now, over several upgrades. Really well done.
Consensus seems like an essential property that distinguishes a blockchain from a Merkle tree, and git does not provide consensus.
You are living in this entitled fantasy world. How do you believe this doesn't effect film studios? Everyone who pirates a film is someone who could have been a paying customer. Instead they choose to break the law. An alternative option is to not watch the illegal films!

Either don't pirate, or pay for your media. People shouldn't steal.

Maybe they should be patient and wait until the films come into the public domain if they're too cheap to pay.
However, if you're going to be running Linux you might avoid the W500 (and T400?) with switchable graphics - the W500 uses the ATI Catalyst and apparently the switching under Linux doesn't work - even if you're running on the Intel graphics the ATI graphics processor is running at 100% with expected impacts on temperature (less effect on battery life, because it's going to go into thermal shutdown anyway).

Apparently with the x10 series they switched over to NVidia and I've been told those work better.