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I bought the Dell XPS 13 (9650) about 8 months ago. It comes preloaded with Ubuntu so you don't have spend too much time debugging drivers. This was my main concern since I was going to be running Linux as my only OS. I've only had a few problems with wifi drivers and ethernet over USB C so far. Costco occasionally has the high end model (preloaded with windows of course) on sale for $400 less than the dell site which is a great deal.

Resources:

1. http://www.dell.com/ca/p/xps-13-9350-laptop/pd

2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(9350)

Thanks, I'll check it out. I didn't know they build a humanitarian organization around the open source project. I remember reading about the great work they did mapping Haiti after the earthquake to help first responds navigate the roads.

Cool idea. I always use HN as a starting point for tech purchase. For example, I'm looking for a NAS and the first thing I'm going to do is search HN to see what other people are using. I would totally use this if you expanded to other areas.

I'm guessing this is only in the U.S.?

I spent a few months evaluating a few of these chairs after I started feeling pressure points in my legs. My pain is gone, but no chair will ever replace stretching every hour or so. Here are my short reviews:

Herman Miller Embody: The chair I like the best and bought for around ~$850 here http://www.businessinteriors.ca/. More details about the deal here: http://forums.redflagdeals.com/herman-miller-embody-841-a-11.... Everything about the chair is adjustable, which I think is very important for many reasons. People tend to shift sitting positions after a while, one size never fits all and the chair must adjust to fit the table. The full mesh construction and deep recline are also important if you are sitting for long periods of time.

Herman Miller Aeron: Only tried this in the store for a few hours. Very comfortable. Same pros as the Embody except for the full back support and a few adjustable features like seat length, which was important for me because of my leg pain.

IKEA Markus: I've heard good things about this, but I had to return it after sitting on it for 2 weeks. My leg pains got worse and I suspect that is because the seat was too hard and long for me. The price was right, but the lack of adjustable features meant it was no good for me. Also, why make the back out of mesh, but not the seat? Our butts are where we feel most of the pressure.

Humanscale Freedom Chair: Only sat on it for a few minutes. I felt they might have compromised on comfort to build an easy to use chair. The lack of mesh also makes me sceptical that I could use it for long periods of time.

tl;dr: The most comfortable chairs that fixed my pressure points were fully adjustable, were completely constructed out of mesh and had a deep recline.

My school did this as well, but they claimed it was for maintenance reasons. Seemed like they were always tweaking it to withstand the load during course selection time. Maybe it's just easier to have regular down time than unpredictable down time.

Someone already ported Qt to android along with Qt Creator integration, all-in-one installer, and a Qt library packaging system for your apps. Appears to be in development still.

(edit) project page: http://sourceforge.net/p/necessitas/home/necessitas/

blog post: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/28/necessitas/

I agree 100%. Here are some other hardware related subreddits I follow.

ECE

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http://www.reddit.com/r/electronics

http://www.reddit.com/r/ECE

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics

http://www.reddit.com/r/DSP

http://www.reddit.com/r/ECEComponentExchange

RF

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http://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR

http://www.reddit.com/r/GNURadio

http://www.reddit.com/r/rfelectronics

Maker

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http://www.reddit.com/r/maker

Looking at the page source the only Javascript that is running is Google Analytics so we are probably safe. Your antivirus probably doesn't like http://1337day.com/.

This is what I had in mind. Thanks.

Off topic: I've been looking for some kind of app to keep track and share predictions like these? Would you use it if it did?

Did they install it after you installed your browser? If they did then that sucks. Otherwise it's not that bad. Probably a source of funding for the project.

My family just got an Apple TV and I'm very impressed at the fit and finish, but I was disappointed at the lack of features. I would love a more open device where I could install whatever I want. For example I would love to mirror my display, have better integration with Android and web browse directly on the box. Any recommendation for good media center software to install on the mintBox that can do this?

The Arduino sketch, schematics, Fritzing diagram, bill of materials and CAD diagrams can be found on the project page http://nabilt.github.com/diy_eshift/. If you like this project please vote on the Instructables page.

Interesting to watch him talk about SpaceX only days after their successful mission. In this clip (http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=382) he says based on historical data it is unlikely the mission will stay within the 15 billion dollar development cost and 2012 timeline. Not sure about the budget, but they made their deadline. Makes their recent success even more impressive.

I just added bootstrap-wysihtml5 to a project and I'm liking it. My only problem is it won't let me type comments in the HTML view and I can't figure out how to dynamically resize the text area. Redactor seems to let you do this. Looking forward to trying this out as well.

Edit: Redactor looks like it retains formatting for the HTML. That's enough to make me switch.

I don't have an iOS device so I can't try the app, but I love the idea, love the name, love the reviews and implementation looks good. This is a great first app. It is not overly complicated and solves a problem in an elegant way. Congrats!

> You're comparing two solutions that solve completely different problems

I don't think I am. I am not surprised that Comcast will do whatever it can to increase profits. My problem is with Comcast claiming high bandwidth users are a drain on their system, when there is no evidence to show this, so they can push an unfavourable pricing model on their customers. Again, congestion is a real problem, but charging by the bit does nothing to solve this. This "solution" means they probably won't increase their caps to be more competitive.

The problem is 250GB is already too low especially when there is no evidence that me downloading 1GB vs 100GB costs ISP the amount of money they are asking for. Congestion is definitely a problem, but charging per bit does nothing to solve that.

I live in Canada and I pay ~$60 for 28mbps and 120GB download cap, which I hit every month. So far I am the only person in the house using high bandwidth apps like Netflix. Usage based billing is not a long term fix for people like me. Instead of increasing the bandwidth caps to competitive rates which smaller ISPs and other countries provide Comcast has decided to charge per bit to future proof their business model dodging the real problem.

So if I understand correctly Twitter is not storing what pages a given user visits. Although, they could easily find out this information. If this is the case then this is the correct way to do this. The average user does not expect any of their browsing history to be given to a service just because they are logged in while browsing the web even if this is common practice.

I was excited by this chip because like others have mentioned it reduces the tolerances and therefore cost of PCBs, which is great for hobbyists. What are the specs for your BGA boards and how much do they cost for small runs?

The NeTV is a fascinating device. Until now it wasn't possible to manipulate video protected by HDCP unless you got an expensive license. Probably not doable for hobbyists and startups. Bunnie solved this by performing a man-in-the-middle attack to inject video in the stream. Since he is not decrypting anything he is not breaking the DMCA. Brilliant! The development platform is also really nice. They have a virtual machine with the toolchain setup so you can start developing immediately and push firmware to your device through the net.

Bunnie gives more details here: http://youtu.be/37SBMyGoCAU

Hopefully, he will have more success outside the consumer market.

All of these companies are great, but have any of these companies reached sustainability? Most seem like they are still in investment stage and are trying to grow the company. I guess Square is the only exception here because they have a secondary revenue which is transactional payments.

I'm interested to know what HN thinks this means for hardware startups. Is this a case of Chumby not executing well enough or is it too hard to build a hardware startup? I think it's the former, but many people out there including investors seem to think otherwise. Some even go as far to say it is not worth doing a hardware startup because software scales soo much easier.

Thanks. Didn't know about this one. I've been using Woorkmark's plugin (http://www.wookmark.com/jquery-plugin), but Masonry seems to have more features. Will be trying it out.

n=76 also seems low to me for this type of experiment. There was a great New Yorker article titled "THE TRUTH WEARS OFF", which if I remember correctly, discussed the difficulties of reproducing scientific experiments because we underestimate the occurrences of statistical anomalies. Good time to read that article again.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_...

I built http://www.likelist.ca over a weekend and a few days. (Free App Engine Account)

I built it to surface the likes, favorites, +1's, ... that tend to be hidden on most services. Basically about.me + Pinterest for your 'liked' content.

[edit]: If it is not clear enter your user name in the textbox

[edit]: source: https://github.com/nabilt/Like-List

A few notes why this project is interesting

* There are NO restrictions to manufacture and sell these boards for your own use or resale

* Open source and simple enough modify the hardware by most hardware hackers

* Affordable components even in small quantities

* Easy to hand assemble with a soldering iron or hot air gun

* Arduino shield compatible

* Runs Linux

It doesn't have the capabilities as the Beaglebone or Raspberry Pie, but that is not the point. It is for people that need an embedded Linux computer that they can modify and incorporate into their own project.

Links:

Yahoo groups: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/olinuxino/

Blog: http://olimex.wordpress.com/

Academic tickets sold out fast, but genreal tickets were available for about 20-30 minutes. Last year google had another round of tickets so be on the lookout.

Great hack. For the Canadian folks here is the open data initiative with similar APIs http://toronto.ca/open. Likes for Ottawa, Edmonton and Vancouver are on the right.

[Edit] Direct link for North America http://www.nextbus.com/predictor/agencySelector.jsp