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From my experience with an Acer R11 chromebook, there are no pre-installed android apps. You have to explicitly install them from the play store.

Given that a chromebook has pretty good integration with GSuite apps via the web, I am guessing most folks will not need the android versions.
2016: the best year yet for funding robotics startups
I think you're mischaracterizing the relationship between science and philosophy. The philosophy of science is philosophy, and science is more like the applied philosophy of empiricism. God, so far, is not a subject for empirical debate.

I am also not sure that your dismissal of the argument as "run-of-the-mill anti-theist cosmology". This seems like a discussion of cosmology from an empirical perspective, and I can't see how theism is particularly useful there. If you'll pardon me for a blunt characterization, you seem to have an axe to grind about theism. I'm not sure that is either warranted or particularly topical. Parfit may be "dead wrong" but suggesting that this has anything to do with your personal religious beliefs rather detracts from your argument, in my opinion.
"Escapist" might be a good name for the emerging nihilist-libertarian ideology behind Bitcoin.

Escapists aren't Republicans or Democrats. They don't have any strong opinions on whether the bus should turn right or left. They would just like it to stop so they can get off...
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Netflix DVD delivery service (again)
Cracking WPA/WPA2 Encryption
Quoting from http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-january-4-2017-...

Bitcoin's gains have been buoyed by renewed interest from China, where money is rushing out of the country as its currency, the yuan, continues to weaken...

According to a recent Business Insider Intelligence briefing, citing data from Cryptocompare: "In the first 24 hours of the new year, over 5 million bitcoins were bought in Chinese yuan, equating to $3.8 billion. In contrast, just 53,000 bitcoins were bought in US dollars."
Probably common knowledge but a PSA just in case:

Keeping batteries fully charged all the time makes a HUGE difference in their lifespan and ability to hold a charge. If you regularly let a battery run down under 25% you're directly contributing to the "won't hold a charge" problem.
Detox: It's All a Con
I haven't tried it, but I think Google's Allo lets you do similar things using a text chat interface?
I'd also add that it is great for technical people as a second device.

Typing this on a chromebook
> Discourage dark patterns?

This in of itself may be enough to encourage him (it would be me, if I were interested in his line of work particularly). In essence, dark patterns drive short term profits at the expense of long-term value creation.
I posted this Ask HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249166
> do not allow you to use removable storage for that purpose

You are complaining about Samsung's hardware being inexcusable, yet you consider an unnecessary software restriction to be acceptable? I was not aware that Amazon Instant Video, Netflix and Spotify had such restrictions but I do consider that restriction to be inexcusable and would use other software instead.
Are they still generating $70k/yr? How many properties are we talking?

I personally prefer investing in the stock market vs. property, because 1) property taxes, 2) tenants, 3) things break, etc etc. But others won't share that opinion. If you like property, you can also invest through REITs, which are publicly traded real estate funds that pay dividends.

One reason why I would not sell these houses is potentially taxes. Are you liable to pay capital gains tax on these? Or was the counter on those gains wiped when you inherited them? With interest rates being low, asset prices tend to increase fast(er). So if possible I might consider selling them. Depends on the property, city, location, etc.

$1.5m is still low enough that you can achieve above average returns by investing well in smaller deals and/or individual stocks, i.e. 10-30% a year. If I were you, I'd throw in the towel at your job and start learning how to invest your capital properly. And once your money is working for you, you can explore other entrepreneurial projects.

Invest in what you know, i.e. public technology companies, or buy a small tech company with some equity down + an SBA loan, etc etc. Put some of it in an S&P fund after a market decline. But take your time, don't rush it. A little capital can go a long way.

You're free, congratulations. Most people don't ever get there. Just keep reinvesting your profits, it snowballs faster than you realise if you don't blow it all on useless stuff.
Earth's Oceans Are Steadily Warming
> Removable storage is pointless since they would likely not to support a filesystem which can be easily mounted on any computer (windows/linux/osx) and support files of 4GB or greater in size.

http://www.howtogeek.com/262630/how-to-work-with-external-dr...

Both exFAT and NTFS supports files bigger than 4GB.

> my downloaded spotify songs alone would fill A 32GB device.

You just invalided your argument, no single music gets to more than 4GB.

> 32GB eMMC is also very slow because of how the storage channel works, so sorry there is no excuse with having so little storage.

You keep giving examples with media. eMMC is fast enough for media playback. It is not ideal for, say, random file access, however it is getting better.

> Also SD cards are slow, die fairly quickly, can easily get lost, and buying 256GB of storage in microSDXC Class 10 cards from a reliable source (as in definitely not fake) costs about as much as the difference between an iPad/iPhone with a 32GB and 256GB here in the UK.

Good for you. Here in Brazil an iPhone 7 256GB is twice as expensive than the base 32GB model. FYI, this is a R$2000 difference, while a good, professional grade 256GB SD card is half of this price.

And btw, you're assuming that you need to buy one SD card to put everything on it. You could buy multiple smaller SD cards (say 32GB or 64GB cards), that are very fast and high quality and get much more storage than one unique 256GB SD card (that are expensive since they're pushing the quantity of flash that you can put in a small space like microSD). Smaller cards have much better price per GB.
Open Access Paper at [1]

[1] "Assessing recent warming using instrumentally homogeneous sea surface temperature records" [ http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/1/e1601207 ]
In the United States, it is illegal to portray the assassination of a president.

Handling topics of National Security, such as Pearl Harbor, must be screened and if needed edited by National Security personnel.

Close partnership and collective ownership of media production facilities has given us movies with fake narratives like the Jessica Lynch story, Zero Dark Thirty, etc.
I'm a C++ enthusiast interested in embedded programming but I have very little experience. What is the rationale for your company's avoidance of the STL, is it primarily binary size?
I agree, it really is a terrible experience. If I've received a notification from a service, I want near instantaneous response. The whole waiting-for-more-than-3-minutes to load business is disturbing to me.
> How has it helped? Does it just keep the code clean or has it found mistakes and stuff like that too?

Clippy hasn't found any bugs in our code that I'm aware of, but it has been invaluable even so.

Clippy is really good at preventing bit-rot. When refactoring, it typically points out constructs that are no longer needed after other changes.

It's great for teaching how to write Rust effectively and succinctly. I've certainly learned a lot from it. One example lint in this area is using `for item in list` vs `for item in list.into_iter()`.

OnePush sets `#![cfg_attr(not(test), warn(result_unwrap_used))]` to make sure no `unwrap()`s are used in production code; all errors must be handled! `result_unwrap_used` has easily been the most valuable lint for us.
The "culture" part might be good, but the end-result is Steam-- lousy software which has been lousy for decades at this point, and is unlikely to ever improve.
Here's a small user-experience report for a similar Atom-powered machine from Asus. I bought it because I am trialling a life built around a dumb-phone, a large tablet/laptop, and AWS based primary computing power for sci-kit, ML etc.

I have the Asus T100HA and intend to run Linux on it, replacing my previous Macbook. As a custom keyboard user, I don't mind the tabletable form-factor. Yet I understand why Apple has stayed away from this FF as there are too many unresolved issues (minor ones, for the most part).

The core hardware is not bad at all, for the CPU, RAM & screen. Opera works great, Chrome too. The keyboard has some flex, is a bit small (but serviceable), and the tablet's magnetic attachment to the keyboard is a bit jiggly (expected). Windows is still the biggest failing of this category - endless updates that brick your machine for hours at a time, powershell is an embarrassment etc.

The SD-card in theory lets you repurpose the computer from ereader to music/media machine to work/github etc. I particularly like detaching the keyboard when flight attendants say laptops must be put away, it's a party trick that makes for a great advertisement of this niche.

Even in 2017, the options for media are very limited on airplanes, and I've been travelling a lot, so I REALLY appreciate this feature.

I popped off the shell once, and the core computer is pleasingly compact and well laid out. Heat is not an issue with the Atom chips (it was with the Macs I've used post Intel).

I do hope Chrome/Android/Linux become serviceable on this platform. Windows is certainly trying, but their baggage holds them back.
Congratulations to José and the Elixir team! It will be nice to finally settle the bare words debate and fix all the new warnings and deprecations. We compile with warnings as errors, so that should be a fun morning when we upgrade.
You don't even need an enterprise account for open source apps.

Assuming you build it yourself, sideloading of open source apps is free (no developer account required) for anyone running iOS 9 and Xcode 7 or later.
Yes, we had a recent explosion of marketing materials that went a little over the top. That's OK. It happens.

I don't think anyone really believes Rust solves every problem, so I think you're attacking a straw man. There are plenty of trade offs at play. But the problems we believe it does solve makes it exciting for a lot of us (and for perspective users).
Public repos are public. All relevant information is available without any action from the owner.
UBI can't be cost-effective as a living wage. Living wage UBI would cost more than the entire current US government budget.

Some UBI proposals aim to replace all of the current welfare systems with one UBI system that costs the same. (That wouldn't be what happens, but let's consider it for the sake of argument.) Those proposals have to limit UBI benefits to an amount that is below a living wage in order to stay within the budget of the current welfare system, assuming everyone receives the same amount of money (that's the definition of UBI, and any system that gives different amounts to different people is not universal or basic.)

Plus, the government's budget would have to shrink if tax receipts drop, which they would clearly do if lots of people chose to live off UBI instead of working. So even the non-living-wage UBI proposals are probably unrealistic.

UBI seems like a good idea at first, but it seems less attractive the more you look at it.
you're being down voted but you are correct, schools buy these by the hundreds. everything is stored in the cloud. these devices are aimed at a different market. chrome book and Google classroom and Google docs is what they are for. apps make them nicer, there are tons of educational apps (think dyslexia, autism, etc) that we need iPads for. Now we can ditch the iPads.
Facebook adds automatic subtitling for Page videos
To be honest I think thats not a nearly throughout economic analysis.

To begin with, as noted in the article by having to pay more people, it removed some from unemployment. That as noted in the article basically halved the cost of the extra cost.

But hold on. Someone removed from unemployment doesn't just sit and look pretty. Unemployment benefits are usually nothing to write home about compared to an actual wage and where previously one could just subsist they newly employed individual could now Consume much more strongly. Consume in this case means buying tomatoes, buying starbucks, buying cinemas tickets, buying dresses and whatever. All this stuff moves the economy.

The question is then, has the economic impact of all this economy moving been taken into account?
> In the United States, it is illegal to portray the assassination of a president

Full stop, no it isn't.

> Handling topics of National Security, such as Pearl Harbor, must be screened and if needed edited by National Security personnel.

Full stop, no it doesn't. Where the heck are you getting such misinformation? It is not just wrong, it is bordering on libel.

> Close partnership and collective ownership of media production facilities has given us movies with fake narratives like the Jessica Lynch story, Zero Dark Thirty, etc.

There is an audience for those films. There is also an audience for films that are anti-patriotic and can be considered downright subversive. The American film industry is huge, Chinese aren't aware of even 5% of its output.
1/3rd of the entire bitcoin supply changed hands in China in a 24 hour time period?

Come on that doesn't even make sense. Perhaps a notional value of 5 million bitcoin by volume were traded, but some phrases make more sense than others.
Tesla: Any Company Can Be Cash Flow Positive If It Stops Paying Its Bills
Nice to know, thanks!

Yeah, clippy isn't solely for finding bugs -- a lot of the lints are about better style and cleaning up code, which often become useful after refactorings.
>China’s main internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, did not respond to faxed questions.

You have to fax questions to the Chinese Internet regulator?
As a counter, stuff is posted to new every minute, but 90% of it doesn't reach the front page. In order to reach the front, you often have to do make up silly titles such as the ones you mentioned, which cause an emotional response (good or bad, as long as it gets clicks).

HN also has a problem with brigading, which is why you see some utterly random articles make it to the top too. Sadly not much you can do about this, but you could try browsing /r/programming or elsewhere instead.
http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
Every browser supports asm.js, since it's just a subset of standard JS. Some browsers do optimize it, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asm.js#Implementations
Am I the only person who doesn't want a "convertible" with a touchscreen? If I want a tablet, I have a tablet. For laptop work, I have a laptop.

I had the 2015 Chromebook Pixel and loved it, but never used the touchscreen (and ended up selling it).
Unless you see the government as a company that has grown to a monopolistic size compared to the other ones. It's just an image to explain the rationale of those who don't trust it more than companies.
Sourcetree is a pretty crummy product regardless of how maintained it is. It reveals a culture that seems to hold basic usability testing & concepts almost in contempt.
Query "search engine set default". It figures that you mean business, drops the cool guy act, and is quick to point out ways to come home from IE.
I had one of the original beta Chromebooks and I loved it to death (literally) - so much so that I am occasionally tempted to get one on eBay even though it would run at a crawl now. Disappointing that it doesn't seem to deliver.
Got a "pager" message about problems requiring immediate attention. These days it's probably iMessage or Slack or WhatsApp, not the actual pager.
The biggest thing is are the Android apps actually usable...

I bought a Pixel C and it was a horrible experience using mostly all apps... most major apps only support landscape, there is no auto focus on text boxes, horrible graphics in full screen, etc... I returned it 1 hour after using it.

You can install Remix OS and their way of dealing with this is scaling down apps to mimic a phone interface. I'm not sure how Chrome OS will solve this problem.

There's virtually no Android apps made for these interfaces/sizes.
> Systemd is relatively nice now, but the disdain for it wasn't just 'hate train'.

No, it is mostly hate train. I only read one or two solid (technical) arguments against systemd. And no, no one of them is found in the regular systemd-hate sites.

> Also, the primary developers have a poor attitude.

I think the community have a worse attitude them the core developers, however this is mostly anectodal observation.

> eg: goodbye to all your old ways of looking at logs

systemd enable syslog.service

Here you go, all your old logs in the place you expect them.
Also Python, JS frameworks, CLR and JVM languages, C/C++, LLVM, notably obscure languages... It's like there's some kind of theme.
Surprisingly, different people have different needs.
You're right: they all search "Google" and click Google.

Source: my mom.
Names are cheap... cheaper than kids anyway!
No. I really like the Chrome Flip but would like it equally without the flip component. The convertible arrangement just always feels a bit awkward and ends up with me hitting keys I don't mean to. I'm not opposed to it--and tend to believe that tablet and laptop form factors will reconverge--but at the moment I tend to use tablets and laptops differently.
most phones can shoot 4k videos? excuse me, you mean most phones in silicon valley probably?
SF had these minus the pay. Still disgusting inside. Paper rammed all over. Maybe the price was part of why it worked
No source, then.

Okie dokie.
Of all the major players, Dropbox has the sanest cloud storage API. That says a lot.
Common in Mexico too. Guy standing outside with TP collects the money. Well worth it over Mexican free toilets.
No, you're not.

Having the ability to draw on on the screen for content creation purposes is nice, though. Microsoft's Surface products come to mind.
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> Did New Times put a front page picture with screaming headline about our demonstrations?

http://imgur.com/rd6WRMl Jan 19, 2003 front page picture with link to inside story

http://imgur.com/tyau0FK Jan 19, 2003 inside page

Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/19/us/threats-responses-rally...

Jan 20 Editorial supporting protests http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/20/opinion/a-stirring-in-the-...

Here's the NYT top story on Feb 16, 2003: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/world/threats-responses-pr...

Here's a low-res picture of the front page, with 3 pictures of the demonstrations: http://imgur.com/KN6YhEx
> the corrosive nature of rust

Fantastic!

More seriously, I'm not sure who you mean by the paid rust advocates here. There are some core developers who work for Mozilla, but I can't imagine that a Rust-using company or individual would spend salary on an HN advocate rather than paying someone to work on the compiler or ecosystem.
Yes all valid concerns. You and I will get downvoted for even mentioning these companies in a pessimistic light but it doesn't make it less true.
Any sure-fire proof would make the U.S. look just as guilty as Russia. Even if the U.S. knows for sure, it will look a lot worse for them if they try to release the information. The chances that they know for sure and will release the proof are roughly 0.

The problem, though, is that they released such useless information. If we trust what has been released, the "Russian hackers" were very far from elite, and far below the level of many American teenagers (let alone professionals). I'm skeptical both about the accuracy of this report and the accuracy of the claim that it was Russia. Either all/most of what's been reported is false, or Russian hacking experts weren't involved. And if the information presented is incomplete, I don't see a reason to defend the U.S., because that would mean they're doing the exact same things in Russia.
Checkers has adjusted its Elo system over time. I believe that it now matches chess except with a floor of a 1000 rating. From http://icheckers.net/ratings/, the current ratings range goes from 1000 to 2297 among active players, and up to 2510 among inactive players.

Even if you use the larger range of inactive players, that's a range of 7.5 times the standard deviation. Which is considerably less than chess.
I got a convertible Yoga ThinkPad and I'm quite happy with it. If you're just reading stuff (e.g. I do this on the bus but same applies for flights etc) folding it over into a fat tablet works great. I also tent it up when I use an external keyboard which is another bonus... I don't touch the screen at all when I use in its laptop form or in "tent" mode but I do when I use it as a tablet...
I think it was the "hippie" epithet that upset people (using the name of a group of people as an insult, on top of the original insult, is not likely to go well here). People who advocate for shorter work weeks are genuinely concerned about the big picture, long-term effects of overwork. You might get more traction if you recognize that and explain that maybe they're missing some essential little picture, short-term details, rather than dismissing and insulting their views.
Maybe not, maybe just very misinformed. Probably just another overseas fuerdai trying to stick up for the motherland.
Eventually this sort of thing will be triggered with gestures. Big at first, but gradually smaller until one can input surreptitiously.
if i was google's lawyers i'd argue search isn't an industry. they make money via ads so its in the ad industry. itsmy chief problem with thiels 0 to 1.
I like how the contextual ads were all for the TV show "Man in the High Castle"...Likely because of the oft repeated word "Nazi" in the article.
There Are Bad Ideas and Then There Is This Bad Idea
How does OneSignal make money? Since the pricing is free, i'm not sure how it will sustain itself after the vc chest dries.
I don't like the 32gb storage option, and everybody that's doing it is being a jerk about it.

But with that being said, 32gb is fine for any use you will have with a tablet. If you have an iPad 32gb, your music, photos, contacts, everything is in the cloud. You jump on to wi-fi when you can, and in between hotspots you just use the space that's on your iPad. That's for normal, every day use. If you have to go on an extended trip or something, you have to reconsider.

Please keep in mind I think the 32gb sucks, I just think that most people can get buy with it and it's plenty excusable.
Fun fact, Feynman didn't work directly on the bomb. His role was managing high school students who performed computations, fixing adding machines, and did some safety work at the uranium isotope plant in Tennessee.

[1] https://robertlovespi.net/2014/09/07/how-richard-feynman-sav...
2016 best year ever for funding robotics startup companies
I had a co-worker a long time ago described this problem as being a bunch of lumberjacks chopping down trees, but who were never allowed to stop and sharpen their axe's (let alone procure the chainsaws and learn how to use those...).
FBI Website Hacked by CyberZeist with Zero-Day, Data Leaked
> Am I the only person who doesn't want a "convertible" with a touchscreen? If I want a tablet, I have a tablet. For laptop work, I have a laptop.

No, certainly lots of people share that preference. OTOH, lots of people prefer one multirole good-enough device to a variety of specialized devices.
Does anyone here think that Russia would not try to influence our elections if they had the chance?

I guess i'm confused as to why we should care if they did. Even if Trump didn't win through fair elections, he was still nominated by us. I think that's damning enough to say we deserve him.