skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am using one since mid-2014 and it has made my iPad bite the dust. It's just as quick access as iPad and does so much more and faster. Browsing is miles faster than on iPad.

So while a lot of people think it's a PC that does less, I think it is more a tablet that does more.
I strongly disagree with this.
I've used a chromebook as primary development laptop for years.
Chrome shell works great.
c9.io is a great IDE when I want something prettier / easier to work with than vim in a terminal

Whether you're running ChromeOS, or Crouton, or GalliumOs, chromebooks (even cheap ones) are great dev machines.
I live in Fredericksburg. They all look like too many cars for me (even FBG is not what it was when I dot here) :D For what it's worth, I like SA a lot more than Austin. The culture isn't dying, it looks dead to me, but you can still get way out in the sticks and find parts of it still alive.
Government is the greatest asset and liability to any business.

On one hand, it took sweet, juicy government grants and contracts to lay the economic and knowledge foundation that was needed for Austin to grow into a tech hub.

On the other hand - and this is a particularly American tendency - people want a perfect society and a free society. What they often get is neither, and only sometimes both.

There is still plenty for government to do. No private actor has the will or power to solve the traffic problem alone. Condofication and breakneck sprawl need government intervention or else things will keep going the way they are: worse. And then you've got the perpetual rejections of mass transit plans and of course Prop 1.

But sadly I think you're most right about the Californication of politics, which will only cement the old guard against the newcomers, encourage bullying over discussion, and make it ever harder to fix the problems that grow by the day.
I'd be curious to see how long the lifetime is of a Chromebook compared to a MacBook
I think that these powers can be used for good. I'm building a subreddit for people who want to learn how to align the behaviors their apps construct with their users best interests.

https://www.reddit.com/r/behaviordesign
I'm in my mid-20s, and I'm not comfortable with nothing living on the device :-P
> ignoring all the tooling people have invented to make this stuff easy.

I don't, I just use the standard one that comes with the operating system instead of insisting on re-inventing the wheel because "packaging is hard". I could have just had tito push directly to a yum repository if I so desired, but it's much nicer to use Koji (which I'm already familiar with).
"when there are multiple claimants for one video, Google's system doesn't give any of them any ad money"

If that's true, then couldn't he simply file a claim of his own to counter a single company's claim?
I'm not sure how much BLESS really improves the overall situation. It just shifts the problem from securing SSH secrets to securing AWS/IAM secrets, which seems pretty much the same to me.
The macbook is a real turd. It doesnt take long in the store to realize its not something you want to buy.
I recently had lamb chops for the first time because it sounded like something good to try. They were delicious.

I'm pretty happy with the pork chops I can grill myself so I am not inclined to pay extra for them. I've never prepared lamb chops so perceive more risk of wasting the meat if I make them myself.
The role of product marketing in a startup
well I am glad an inexpensive but useful item is making inroads. I remember the day when it seemed nearly every damn local politician was lining up to congratulate themselves on putting for the idea to give every student iPads before making sure the roof wasn't falling in.

Technology is very important to learning but there are so many useful and inexpensive ways to do this but this requires those in charge to look past the marketing power some companies wield
>> A Chromebook is so much more empowering than an iPad or tablet

>> A keyboard opens up the door to really building and creating, USB ports allow expansion

>> and Chrome OS is hackable in ways tablets are not.

And a PC or Mac laptop is all of things, and so much more.
>Google's provisioning and management systems are so far the best

So far my experience with that is trying to get an Active Directory server to sync with Google Apps for Education, for which they provide this tool:

https://support.google.com/a/answer/6027781?hl=en

It's beyond buggy, it's plain broken. It clearly hasn't been touched in years. I'm going to have to write the glue code myself.
Ask HN: When do I need to use Java for server side work?
Exactly. I was looking forward to the EV1, I would have even purchased one. Instead they killed it off. As other's have stated not only is it an American car (which I consider much lower quality than anything German or Japanese), it's also ugly.
Some subreddits are better than Wikipedia.
It's like the comment is saying I use OSX but not a broswer or the Internet so I'm not being tracked.
Funny that you mention cigarette smoking. I was just ruminating last night in bed how hard it was to put down the phone and go to sleep. I had the same feeling of addiction that I hadn't felt since I quit smoking 15 years ago. It actually caused me to have a minor panic attack, and I'm now actively seeking methods to reduce my dependency on the phone and internet information feed.
If you feel the need for such a thing, why not just buy a MacBook Pro 13inch?
What I love about this article is that it demonstrates once again that some discoveries are actually pretty awesome. If I am not careful the unrelenting stories of future calamity can weigh me down, and yet I know intellectually that generally equal part bad and good things happen over time.

This is an excellent example of a "good" thing which wasn't even considered in papers and articles written about the coming antibiotic apocalypse. And it is critically important for engineers and scientists to not give into the "all is lost" mentality that the popular press uses to sell clicks and pageviews.
TL;DR: by redesigning the whole car.
Do you truly believe half of Americans are maxing out their credit cards on bar tabs and clothing? Does that make sense when the majority of bankruptcies are from medical debt?
I haven't looked into it, but I would be tempted to try a Chromebook with Linux on it for my next personal laptop... if I wasn't bolted down by Xcode.
>Which is the last thing I'd expect out of Glenn Beck. I'm off to go read it now.

I was as surprised as you were.

>a bit thick on the disclaimers, but whatever

I, too, wondered when he would finally get to his main point which seemed endlessly prefaced.

Anyway, I was as shocked as you were. And I never thought I'd say the words "thoughtful commentary" and "Glenn Beck" in the same sentence.
That sounds like a false equivalency to me. How is being against gay marriage being against gay people? As far as I'm aware, there were a certain amount of gay people who didn't want gay marriage either. Are they anti-gay?
How is it a different way of computing? You can use it offline and frankly any laptop nowadays without internet is pretty crippled.

It's actually really easy to believe and frankly not particularly interesting. The cost of a chromebook is like 1/3 or something of that of a mac. I'd sure hope that unit volume was higher..
Road flares? Just kidding.

The term you want to google for is "Remote Patient Monitoring", in which there is a whole class of products albeit normally targeted towards the medical market.

There's nothing directed at consumers that I'd consider reliable (eg. Fitbit, AliveCor, etc) for your use case.
Tech firms may violate Palo Alto zoning: Writing code not allowed downtown
>The behaviour here is the repression and marginalisation of a political group, deemed unworthy.

a political group is something you choose to be a part of. This is significantly different from, say, skin color.
Uber Increases Surge Pricing When Your Battery Is Low
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator

Choose expert.
I've edited the comment. The part "I'm one of them" is from the article title.
The debt is also distributed unequally. Mostly so that those who have more wealth, have also more debt (though not 1:1 of course).
Because browsers are not currently architected to make good use of modern hardware.
Both median and mean are averages.
Actually, the issuing banks will get some of the transaction fees as well, so they make out both ways. The "CC companies" are better thought of as networks (Visa, etc.) and they live mostly on those transaction fees, as you mention. The networks don't issue any cards, and they carry debit and other transactions as well, so not quite right to call them "CC companies".
As a counterpoint these "imperative systems" don't need hardware acceleration to be responsive. (why the hell does responsive mean "looks good on my phone" nowadays?)
I was under the impression they had built an offline version of Gmail for Chrome OS. I suppose not.
They just talked about this on the latest episode of the Idle Thumbs podcast! The podcaster's favorite was one with a mechanical car that drove on top of a video.

https://www.idlethumbs.net/idlethumbs/episodes/disable-enemi...
It's like Freddie and Fannie took out a student loan! They're finally making good money, but those interest rates man.
Problem solved: a dimmer switch.

I look at stuff like Google home and wonder what problem they're trying to solve and if they've actually made it disappear or just hidden it behind a wall of ever more complicated marketing.

None of it particularly scares me, but the older I get, I think things need to get simpler and a voice-activated, centralized home control system isn't it. Especially when I'm 80 and have enough problems figuring out where my cats hid my glasses (I expect they'll probably have hidden them on my head - sneaky bastards).

Literally, the only product of the past decade that I can think of that nailed it was Nest. They decided to replace the thermostat and so they replaced the thermostat. Sure, it ties into your phone and whatnot, but the brains are in the little box you hang on the wall and you don't need the extra connectivity.

IoT sounds great, but, yeah. Light switch is simpler.

YMMV
I know several developers whom I consider very good at their jobs who use Chromebooks exclusively for work.
Their MacBook Pro line does have (and has had for some time) some of the best hardware available.

Perhaps it doesn't match purpose-built gaming notebooks, and definitely not desktops, but they usually are the first to have a new Intel processor, have newish graphics hardware, pioneered mainstream PCIe storage and high-resolution displays...You might pay a lot for what you get, but there's no doubt it's good hardware.
The simple fact of the matter is that we live in a litigious society. If the City could be confident that no lawsuit against a lemonade stand (and the City) would be heard by a judge, we wouldn't need this. But that isn't the reality of the world.
Yes, it will explode if you try to write a Unicode string to something that doesn't have UTF-8 encoding by default. But it won't explode if you write byte strings, or if your default encoding is UTF-8.
The other replies are all correct. The EV1 debacle earned them a bad reputation (plus their bad reputation in general from decades of substandard, unreliable products compared to the Japanese, plus their more-recent ignition switch fiasco resulting in many deaths), the general lackluster reputation of the Big 3, and the looks.

It's pretty sad really. If GM sold the tech to some Japanese automakers and they built cars with the exact same drivetrain but more attractive bodies (and likely nicer interiors; GM isn't known for great interiors either) and the promise of Japanese reliability, these things would probably be selling like hotcakes.

Perception and reputation are important things.
Myself, because it's got a whole ICE powertrain it lugs around on top of a whole electric powertrain. So you've got two expensive and complicated drivetrains to maintain, all apparently to avoid simply replacing the weight and cost of the ICE powertrain with an equally heavy and costly, but much simpler and more elegant, larger battery.
Oh, bootcamps are certainly failing here, but if I were to google "Computer Science," or "Computer Programming," I'd eventually run into the concept of types.

As an analogue, I learned about the functional programming paradigm far before it was ever brought up in a classroom setting. Sure I knew what programming paradigms were, so maybe it's not a perfect example...
https://blog.codinghorror.com/because-reading-is-fundamental...

> If I have learned anything from the Internet, it is this: be very, very careful when you put a number next to someone's name. Because people will do whatever it takes to make that number go up.
For a while I worked on and made use of a very lightweight JS framework that would essentially do two things:

* Intercept link clicks and form submissions and perform the exact same request asynchronously (AJAX)

* Wait for the server to respond with the parts of the page that need to be swapped-out (a JSON map of section IDs to plain HTML content) and, as expected, swap out those parts of the page.

This works REALLY well for, like, 80% of my use cases. With a little extra flavor functionality (such as automatic loading indicators and event listeners) I can enable like 90% of interactivity. The remaining 10% consists of things that affect only temporary state and don't require a server round-trip (e.g. a "select all" checkbox), and those I would handle with more traditional jQuery DOM manipulation.

For the most part, once I had this basic system in place, I could rely on the server to render (and re-render) all of the HTML and rarely had to write any custom Javascript. I was essentially relying on the behavior of vanilla links and forms. The site would even continue to function if you disabled Javascript, because the server would see that it wasn't AJAX and just render the whole page instead. The downside was that preserving local state (e.g. partially completed form fields) was tricky whenever I had to make a change to one of its parent containers.

Everything I learned about this approach eventually led me to appreciate what React.js is doing. I've been using it and I may not like all of its API or how heavy it feels overall, but the cycle of rendering and re-rendering different parts of the page feels very natural and is far easier to debug than most JS-heavy front-ends.
> Keyboards are nice for typing

More than nice, they're generally a purchasing requirement for taking standardized tests
UCSD press release: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/stem_cells_regenerate_...

Nature abstract: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v531/n7594/full/nature1...

Obligatory Nature paper DOI ident for sci-hub lookup: doi:10.1038/nature17181
don't forget the biggest one. it's free as in doesn't cost any cash. and all I have to do is ignore ads.
So you don't think "what we are" is changed by the tools we use but it is changed by changes in cultural norms? Which are clearly influenced by the tools we use?
Out of an abundance of concern for security, I use a Chromebook running without any browser extensions for all my banking and investing activities.

I take it as a given that my Chromebook will always be more secure than my Macs and Windows machines. Less likely to have invasive malware of all types.

I currently have a Toshiba Chromebook with a gorgeous screen and good battery life. It just works.
There was a Forbes article that got some discussion a few years ago. Perhaps people are interested in that too? (161 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3171665
are drug dealers who sell marijuana and are against legalization anti-marijuana?

the answer to both questions is yes - people can have conflicting ideologies.

Being against giving someone (or something) rights is politically equivalent to being against that thing.

If im a proponent of black people not having the right to vote, am i anti black or do i just think people shouldn't vote?
Here's the basic question: if Athom is purchased by Amazon a year after I buy a Homey, how long will it continue to function after Amazon turns off your servers?

(The answer needs to be along the lines of: "the product will be accessible and configurable from the built-in web service and API until the hardware breaks. Extra services provided by Athom subscription will stop working, but you could provide many of them yourself if you have your own server and are competent to read our documentation.")
When AI replaces programmers, mass employment is over. There will be nothing that can be done by a human that a machine cannot do better. Fallout-style "synths" will be able to do everything we need our feet and fingers for.

My only real concern is that the more autonomously powerful and self-aware these new intelligences become, at what point will they perceive humanity to be a net liability? What happens when they don't need us anymore? What if by then (esp with climate change and antibiotic resistant bacteria) we can't live without them?

We'll be lucky if we get the Neuromancer ending, where machines travel the universe while humanity happily farts around on earth. Lucky.
Just double checked in py 3.5.0 and the double slash will do flooring division for any type. i.e. 5.0 // 4.0 returns 1.0, not 1.25.
Nuclear power can be done safe, but we also have many examples of it not being done safe

You could replace "Nuclear power" with quite a lot of things we do these days. Such as "Driving" or "Home construction".
I see. If that's so trivial however, then why such services like Twitch and others have so many problems switching to HTML5?
It's rare but not all that rare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_cataract
yeah but how many of these K-12 educational chromebooks are going to get that installed on them? these just allow google to start tracking people even earlier in life than they may have otherwise been able to.
I downvoted you because it goes against the way I think. While I accept the basis of solipsism, it's simply not a practical way to live one's life.

However, language is not math, and adhering and enforcing rigid definitions might pave the path to newspeak. So after having thought about it, I regret downvoting you.
Exactly! This is how we should we look at it. You don't have to type the obligatory "How Cute" kinda messages and rather spend time on other important things:)
I remember on reddit when a Swedish guy started randomly looking at Google street views in northern Indiana, and was remarking how the occupied properties look like they were abandoned, and how often guns were brandished at the Google StreetView car. The houses looked exactly the same as those within a 10-minute drive from my house in a major American metro area.

A big part of it is how young American cities are. Many European cities are celebrating 800 or 1000-year anniversaries. Many American cities are celebrating 100 or 150-year anniversaries.
I volunteer with a nonprofit running their internal IT and we use chromebooks for all volunteers who need an organization provided computer. We have a couple of windows laptops that were donated that get used for people who need to use Office for writing grant proposals. We're looking to expand into a physical building and will be providing a space with machines for community members to use for creating resumes/job applications/etc. and we'll almost certainly be using either chromebooks that can be checked out, or the chromeOS desktops systems.

All our infrastructure runs through google, the machines are really affordable for a small non-profit, and given that many of our volunteers and the people we serve are not very technologically literate they are far easier to manage and help people do what they need to do.

As an individual I don't know that I'd ever buy a chromebook- I have the advantage of being able to afford a regular laptop and I would rather throw money at a laptop than deal with the inconveniences of areas where web everything just doesn't work, but I can see them continuing to gain traction in institutional settings like nonprofits, schools, and even workplaces for people who don't need access to a lot of applications or local processing power.
When machines will automate making of children, I will start to worry.
End-to-End Encryption storage based on Crypton
If we were too nice to kids, adults would start using them as park salsepeople - imagine a "lemonade stand kit." I think the system of "police look the other way" actually works really well here, as it prevents anyone from building something too socially awful. Our positive sentiment would evaporate pretty quickly if every visit to a public place entailed saying "no" to a constant stream of girl scouts.
Output from my systems right now:

"Ubuntu 15.10" - Python 2.7.10

"Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS" - Python 2.7.6

Not sure where you're getting the "by default 3.5" from.
I'm pretty sure this isn't legal. You're wholesale republishing other websites' content.
My son did the older surgery when he was a newborn.
I just wish we had to do this surgery now instead (or if we can benefit in anyway from this new technique.)

Note: did the surgery at "Associated Retinal Consultants."
I can't read this without getting too emotional, and am not sure if this is considered a totally new thing or if we just missed out on this possibility then.
Newrelic: This Week in Modern Software: From Google I/O to the End of Code
Just rembember to shit in a corner if you do visit.
I saw that one too but Py3 hasn't actually intersected with Py2 yet. Uploads will level off. It doesn't have relevance on a marketshare question, it would be misleading. It does show some momentum.

Most everything you would want already exists on Python2. A lot of those uploads are forks or new projects that already have solutions in 2. I have no problem with Python3 and glad to see people putting their money where their mouth is and 'get to porting'. Rather than blogs/complaining about the userbase/backroom deals and conspiracies to kill Python2.
Yes, the single threaded design is the way to go. The authors elaborated their position on it and understandably came to the conclusion that multi-threaded updating support will just explode the complexity. But since they obviously thought about this Problem, I don't understand why this issue does not get more attention API wise.

There is the javafx.concurrent package, but that just gives you the low-level stuff Tasks/Futures. But what I really want is property binding ( or something more declarative than manually hooking Task-lambdas everywhere ) between the backend threads (which are mandatory since you don't compute in the UI thread) and the UI. You end up duplicating your models because this is really hard otherwise, even though you might only have a viewing App with little logic and could just use the JavaFX Observables as your model properties. Then you have 2 models (MVVM yay) which need to be synchronized, and right now its just loads of Platform.runLater wrapped lambdas everywhere.

So the platform kind of forces the MVVM thing, but does not give you much support of doing it in an idiomatic or clean way.

I dont really have a good solution for this either, I think DataFX goes there but I have not tried it.

But this is all really criticism on a rather high level. I did some cocoa stuff, and my hair fell out. Id rather wrangle JavaFX than cocoa any day.
the corporations are our friends!

>According to Hawkins, "[the] money can be used for public transit, taxis, and car-sharing, as long as at least $30 is put toward Uber."

oh wait maybe not
unless its still not small enough
"I would assume the greater NYC is the best functioning urban area in the USA?"

Probably not. I'm thinking Denver and Minneapolis, pound for pound ?

Maybe Las Vegas ... as terrible (aesthetically) as Las Vegas is and as hellish as I think it is to be there, it seems to function fairly well.

Actually, now that I am thinking about it, I'll bet San Diego is probably the best managed urban area in the US.