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I almost got a Chromebook a while back, but ended up getting an HP Stream instead. Still got the benefits of a Windows environment and flash storage (with an SD card slot) while only costing $200. And I've been surprised with how much it can handle. I've got Photoshop and Illustrator CS6 working on it, as well as Visual Studio Code. And I can install and run interpreters on the machine, which you can't do on Chromebook without turning it installing Linux. And the battery lasts several hours, easy.

So I can write, do graphic design, and program on it, the main three things I bought it for, where the latter two would have been much more difficult with a Chromebook.

This is just supposed to be a backup computer, one I take with me to coffeeshops and when I travel, but it's doing an awesome job at it that I use it a lot more often than I expected.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12670048
I agree with your comment, but I'd like to add that if you speedily/efficiently do the wrong thing, it's no good. The first step of optimization is correctness.
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While I'm sure it's not entirely Netflix's fault (media companies realizing their back catalog has a value), it seems to be a common evolution for movie services to move to providing their own content. Look at HBO. In the 1980s, it was all about showing movies (the name even meant "Home Box Office"). Now it is all about Game of Thrones and what not. With things like House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, etc., that's what Netflix is doing as well.
Chromebooks are cheap and simple little machines that you can safely give to children. With the available options on the market, parents are not going to buy an expensive Apple laptop for their middle or high school students. Instead, they want to give them something that can be replaced, if needed, by simply repurchasing.

In general, Apple's products are way too complex to give to a young student. Parents are "afraid" of their kids messing with the computer or bricking it, so they constrain their use and don't allow kids to experiment. Gone are the days where you can open a computer, play with the hardware, create a game, or write your own device drivers. Parents have to play the role of "IT Support" for their students/children, and if they don't know how to fix it, the computer is useless or constrained to just a few simple scripted uses.

The Chromebook fixes this by making computers disposable. The operating system, being limited in functionality to begin with, can't easily be broken. And Chromebooks are cheap enough that if they get dropped, hacked, bricked or otherwise rendered useless, you throw it away and get a new one. Chromebook reduces and removes the need for parents to mess with hardware or operating system configuration options. It also removes the concern over account sharing, itunes purchases, warez, etc.
It is that market of small utilities that puts money in the pockets of developers that care about the desktop experience, and that isn't exclusive of Apple systems.
I can say this for (nearly) any dynamic language like python or ruby. Your second statement is plain wrong however. Take clojure for example which compiles to java bytecode and javascript (cljs) seamlessly. You seem to be a victim of the Blub paradox.
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Everyone is now launching their own streaming service. Basically, the cable TV phenomena for entertainment has now moved on to the Internet.
It should be noted that IMDB is owned by Amazon, but setting that aside it most definitely is unfortunate to see that so many great films are locked up behind licensing barriers.

We may never see them get released into public domain.
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I find it strange that Spotify is able to list almost any band and music out there, and streaming video providers not. They are even forced to create their own content.

Seems that the music industry has a better separation between content creators and providers than the movie and series industry.
Nice, so now by using this I have an NSFW site logged in my workplace's DNS log. Be careful if your employer checks such things.
Sure they have. Torrents are popular and effective. They work great. The studios clearly prefer we use them; their repeated decisions leaving them as the sole functional choice show that.
Downloading a cup of tea from amazon.co.uk can't be harder than this.
I think 10gb is quite a lot of data for any database system, well at least it used to be!
That would mean cheaper gas for me! ;-)
I like your sentiment but merely disconnecting the antenna isn't good enough. That just results in bad reception which often results in power being boosted which can introduce a lot of unnecessary noise into the WiFi RF spectrum.

I don't see any way around implementing them as bog standard "RFKill" switches. A software switch is basically the only way to go because the WiFi chips are controlled in software.
> Rittman was trying to build the integration functionality himself

11 hours is nothing
HBO is a good example but I don't see blockbuster or Redbox creating content so I wouldn't say it's inevitable. Where are the movie companies hawking their back catalog if not Netflix?
Yes, but these are kids... A windows machine will be virus and trojan-ridden within hours in their hands, and maintaining a fleet of Windows machines up to date is notoriously hard.
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It's possibly also worth noting (although the article explicitly doesn't address it) that Chromebooks seem to be winning out over the idea of tablets in schools. Which, for the most part, is as it should be even given the availability of low cost mini tablets from at least Amazon. Chromebooks are a lot more versatile, in part as you observe because of the increasing ubiquity of online services.

Personally, over the past year or two I've found it increasingly easy to travel with just my Chromebook whereas I didn't and don't find travelling with just a tablet works very well.
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Actually Fortran works best if you combine Visual Studio with Intel Fortran compiler. You can freely call C from Fortran and viceversa, furthermore Intel's versions of BLAS and LAPACK are seriously faster than the reference BLAS and LAPACK you will build yourself on Windows.

It is also possible to link gfortran compiled dll's with C and C++ in Visual Studio. A few years ago I even called a gfortran dll from C# using p-invoke with no particular problem.
Sure we do:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_of_U.S._Marines_urinatin...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrik...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

(not all are Iraq, but you get the picture)
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The key is Google Docs.

In my district, Google has really gone all-out to get Docs integrated into the teacher's repertoire and support it as much as possible. Every teacher, administrator, and student has a permanent account maintained by one IT person at HQ.

The collaboration is the primary driver. gDocs is way ahead of iWork and even my youngest kids are now comfortable working in Documents and Slides (1st graders making slide presentations! The mind boggles).

Being able to log in from anywhere (school and home) is the secondary driver and, again, this is a place where Apple is too little and too late.

The iPads in our elementary school are being used less and less. It's all on Chromebooks now and, yeah, they're cheap/disposable and all the other things people are saying in this thread.

But the software is the killer.
I think the bigger point is that smart devices should gracefully degrade to dumb devices.
Hi, I have been using sls since 0.5.6 and I love using it. It's a pleasure to work with, and the community on Gitter is generally eager to help.

That said,
1) What's the schedule on the documentation for best practices for SLS in production?

2) What's an example workflow ? (something involving multiple devs, testing, CI etc.)

3) And lastly, What's the timeline on adding support to Google Cloud Functions (in alpha) and Azure Functions?
Yes, that's correct, but taking luggage on the Tube during off hours is just regular painful.
...aaaand they've fixed it and pushed out a new release. Thanks very much!
I was in the same boat as you until I stumbled on a real, money-saving project. My PetSafe invisible fence wired transmitter blew out, and I wasn't keen on dropping over $100 on a new one. After dragging my feet for a few weeks and doing nothing about it, I realized that I could probably replicate whatever the transmitter was doing with my RPi. Sure enough, somebody online had hooked their transmitter up to an oscilloscope and figured out the correct signal pattern to send over the wire.
If I have time tonight, I'm going to finish the code and test it out.
When I'm done, I should have a new transmitter that I can control via my phone for significantly less money than the junk PetSafe sells.
When they think it makes business sense they will do it. It's certainly not a technical limitation.

Likewise, I doubt we'll be seeing Netflix's OC showing up on regular cable or broadcast networks anytime soon. Not that they couldn't get some licensing revenue from it, but it's just not their chosen model.
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How is this even newsworthy? Chromebooks on average sell for 1/5 the price of a Macbook, why are the two products even being compared?

One could equally argue, "More Honda civics were sold this quarter. Bad news for Lamborghini?"
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But then you wouldn't have to buy another one.
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Here in Canada almost all English language content is licensed to a single company, Bell. They systematically deny any access to Netflix and started their own service, Crave TV. They are the one responsible for the great Proxy/VPN banning this year.

They are taking advantage of a government granted monopoly they had in the 1900's and now control a disproportionate amount of the media in Canada.
I am mostly a BI guy
I know SQL and some of its variants (T-SQL, etc ...)
And I know several BI and Reporting tools
SSRS, SAP WEBI, SSAS, SSRS, PowerPivot and few other tools

I spent a lot of time on Perl, and I have a solid understanding of basic programming (functions, objects, loops, recursion, iterators etc ...)

In many project, we just need sometimes to create a small data entry program

I need either a language or a framework, that will allow me to easily create few entry screens

MS Lightswitch would have given me what I needed, except Microsoft seems to have abandoned it (At some point in time I learned enough C# to manage my way into lightswitch)

Anyway, I thinking Python's PySide might be a good option for me, since Python seem also big on Data Analysis (which is something I do a lot)
But I am also checking iDempiere and Netbeans, Eclipse as possible database GUI platforms
So it went from 49 from 31 in the US Netflix, but it's even less in the french Netflix.

(e.g.: not Zootopia and Sunset Boulevard for instance)
And of these 31 remaining almost half are missing in the Swedish Netflix:

5. Back to the Future
6. Gladiator
7. Sunset Boulevard
8. Cinema Paradiso
9. Django Unchained
12. Reservoir Dogs
13. Braveheart
17. Amadeus
21. Trainspotting
24. There Will Be Blood
25. Spotlight
26. The Princess Bride
27. Zootopia
29. Jaws
31. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

And yet Netflix want the same monthly cost for less of a service. Why?
I recently started using APEX. It doesn't rely on CloudFormation and has supports for hacking Golang support. Its worth a look if your getting more serious about Lambda development and interested in other options. http://apex.run/
It's newsworthy in the "Google is taking the education market away from Apple" sense.

You can't really say "it's obvious that would've happened, because Chromebooks are so much cheaper!"

Chromebooks also have a ton of weaknesses compared to a "real computer," so I don't think this progression was obvious to most. It could've very well been Microsoft the one to take the market from Apple.
Honest question, is there still a reason to use Nginx over HAProxy?
Are you using a cloud based IDE? I was kicking around the idea of getting one. My main concern was not being able to develop locally on the machine.
Is it the various pay-per-view and on-demand services?
I had two orders and both were delivered on time.

Edit: I was part of the kickstarter batch.
What do you guys think about food based startups? It seems like there are lots of opportunities for disruption?
YES!

Light switch not online, still switches lights. Smoke detector not connected to wifi, still beep when detecting smoke.

The "smart" part is for convenience, not to create unnecessary dependencies. I'm a bit tired of seeing things that obviously only need access to local resources fail when the internet goes out.
Great job. How are you guys keeping up to date with AWS and all the new updates/features they launch every day?
It's not that strange. There is only one real avenue to make money off of music -- selling it, either digitally or physically -- besides a subscription service.

The movie industry can make money during different "windows". Theatrical releases, PPV from cable companies, iTunes, Amazon, etc., physical rentals, DVD and digital sells, subscription movie services (HBO, Showtime...) and regular cable TV.
1. For large corporations internal stack is Windows and CAL is mostly there
2. Existing developers on VB.Net/C# stack -- this is not real issue but still
3. Have couple of large SQL Server boxes cluster and vertically grow and keep adding databases as you like. Go for processor license.. Really scales well for in corporate conccurrent < 10k users scenarios
One has a much lower barrier to entry than the other.
Original source: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1636/
My kid's class has maybe 20 chromebooks and 5 ipads. It's about price.
Discussing serious concerns with a lawyer might be a useful strategy. The cost of doing so reasonably filters concerns on seriousness. Among serious concerns, proprietary commercial licensing, and dual licensing seem like a good candidates.

Another useful strategy in many other cases might be choosing a standard license because it allows energy to be devoted to the product which is often where value lies.

Good luck.
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Music is subject to compulsory licensing. Something that made sense when only big companies could record and distribute music (making cartel behavior easy), not so much now that anyone with an iPad and an internet connection can do so.
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Changed October 1, 2016. So yes very recent.
This 'fingerprint' changes as you login in and log out of various services, so it's not very reliable for uniquely identifying users. Regardless, it could still be used to profile you and then target content accordingly. For example, if you're logged into Hacker News, you're probably a programmer and you're probably more interested in an ad for web hosting than wedding dresses and visa versa for Pinterest.
If the only thing one has is a DB connection and tables, maybe some stored procedures, it's irrelevant. Move freely between databases most of the time with minimal efforts.

You care in the case when your predecessors fell for the lock-in tricks. Database doing job scheduling, actual code in the database (SSIS and the rest), and thing like that.
I have uBlock Origin in 3rd party deny mode and privacy badger and it still detects me as logged in to HN, Reddit, Slack and Stack Overflow.

EDIT: Following diegorbaquero's advice[0] solved it

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12692485
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LibreSSL got the OpenBSD treatment, so the base version is for OpenBSD only, and then there's a portable version for other OSs.

For OpenSSL, I wouldn't know, but fear the worst.
It never made sense to me why you'd want to have a built-in GPS these days when modular devices are available that are A. generally better-designed and B. replaceable. People buying used cars in the coming years will be stuck with these big-screened dinosaurs in their dash that are essentially wasted space.
"Eating less meat" needs to come from a higher level than the individual. You can't convince millions of people to change their diets based on morality and ethics.

Governments could start by removing subsidies for certain types of animal farming, which would cause consumers to realize the true cost of eating meat. A hamburger costs $1 in some areas. That's ridiculous.

As well, the tax system can be used to leverage behaviours. Maybe grocery stores hand out coupons if you don't purchase meat, which you can send in with your taxes for a rebate? Something like that.
> One thing which always bugs me about OSX vms is there is still no way of running OpenGL or Metal applications on them

This is more or less true for most virtualization solutions (with the exception of KVM on Linux where apparently you can use your video card from the VM). For example VirtualBox emulates OpenGL 2 and DirectX 9 for Windows guests. Vmware is a bit better and it can emulate OpenGL 3, didn't checked if this works with a macOS guest ...
Surely I'm not the only person who isn't interested in watching IMDB's favourite content.

Give me the 6 outta 10s, that's my bread and butter. I'd rather be surprised and discover a personal favourite or have something on the TV that I won't be expected to dissect with the nerds at work.
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I think Nginx wins in perf and static hosting still right? And HAProxy wins in failover options.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12692034 (1 hour ago, 22 comments)
Have you seen the UI on some of these built-ins? Awful.
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This is exactly right. I volunteer in an after-school dropin center in a public housing project. Our big drama crises these days come when our kiddos can't remember their Google for Education (Google Docs) passwords.

We had a little grant to buy three ipads. We repurposed it to buy six chromebooks, and things are going very well.

It's really sweet, actually, with the managed chromebooks. The kiddos know what they're getting and we don't have so much of the "hey, do your homework before you play games" hassles.
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The one time I don't check the comments before reading the story...
Could it be partly due to how movies and shows are distributed on cable?
If something has a connection to the Internet--even if only through a proxy--we must treat it and all devices on the same network as if they are connected to the Internet. Because they are!

If Internet connections worked like radio broadcasts (one-way) then we'd be fine but they are inherently two-way connections. That means that for every outbound request a hole is opened up for return traffic. Even if you think, "that doesn't count" one must still account for the fact that PCs get compromised via side channels all the time and are subsequently used as pivot points for further attacks on any attached networks.

We need to stop treating intranets like they're somehow "safe" or special places apart from the Internet. They're not.

Always treat every device on any network as if it is being placed directly on the Internet because most of the time it really is. NATs and proxies aren't security tools even if they pretend to be.
My school, a private semi-religious, school in Georgetwon taught presentations to 3rd graders, and I'm 31. While it seems crazy, it's not so much of a stretch to pull that back two years.
Nobody wants to share the pie.
Is this actually for developers? It says > requires Windows Server 2016 - how many devs run that locally? Or is this for running this image inside of a windows server 2016 vm?
And a Chromebook will be Google-ridden from hour zero. :)

Still, I suppose it's useful to get kids used to the idea of all their digital lives being owned by Google. Prepares them for their future adulthood.
My maps app on my phone gets much more frequent updates than the maps fucntion in my car. Saying that I do use my in car nav system, I just rely on googlemaps for traffic data and redirections,
>Gone are the days where you can open a computer, play with the hardware, create a game, or write your own device drivers.

Not really. Give them a $30 Raspberry Pi. (OK. Plus monitor and keyboard.) Even better give them a kit with a bunch of sensors.

And they can play with it to their heart's content while the Chromebook still is working for their schoolwork.
If there are heritable traits that lead to people having more kids in a developed world environment then at some point evolution will take over and we'll start to see exponential growth again.
Yes it is something that I certainly want soon, but there's no ETA at the moment. I haven't yet fully flushed out the strategy for sharding the key space.
I am as well - I would be interested in hearing a little more since I get headaches if I go without eating for an extended amount of time. I believe IF helps some people with weight loss as well.
I watch a movie maybe once a week, in my living room, but a lot go to theaters.

I listen to music constantly, at work, in my car. The music industry can't get away with just ignoring the demand for streaming because of the way music is consumed today.
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I wrote that module as well :)

The secondary index module will be more focused on automating more traditional indexing of numbers and simple string values. It has an SQL-ish language for WHERE expressions, and then the result of that is piped to any redis command you want it to.

If you're interested, here's a draft of the syntax (it's changed a bit since but you'll get the idea). https://gist.github.com/dvirsky/3ef73143a6d8212f2b50096a8eb6...
Interesting. Maybe dictionaries would fill that role? Julia has macros, so you can usually implement other languages' syntactic convenience.
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The original problem they are trying to solve is a big crowd of waiting people develops at the bottom of the escalator, and since London Underground passageways are quite narrow this blocks back until the platform gets overcrowded, which is unsafe.
Bit of a click-bait headline. Article lacks data. e.g. Apple #'s don't appear to include iPads sales which do compete with chromebooks. Apple is likely shipping fewer macs, but "destroy" feels like an expensive word choice.

Winning sentences:
>"Gartner, which does not count Chromebook sales with its PC numbers, recorded a more drastic 5.7% decline [in PC sales]...'While our PC shipment report does not include Chromebooks, our early indicator shows that Chromebooks exceeded PC shipment growth,' Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner said"

Is the analyst using a 5.7% decline for their "shipment growth" number? Also curious about use of "sales" vs "shipments"?

Marketing Watch now worse than Barron's for accuracy among Dow Jones publications.
The blocked string is "socialmedia-"; filename is fine, folder name is still triggering the script being blocked.
I must be crazy but when I opened this up on my phone, I thought " with a few more tweaks, this could be my go l-to mobile UI"
This ignores productivity gains and need.

In much of the west we have unemployed adults who are making no widgets, and robots are starting to make widgets too.

Your allegory works for full employment and constant productivity.
huh. I didn't think of that.. that's kinda harsh.