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I don't think this product is targeted at anyone. Their commercial during the keynote showed a skateboarding teenager using the pen, a couple watching a movie on the couch with the laptop propped up on the coffee table, someone editing video, children playing with it... Google doesn't even know who to market this thing at.

This product does not convey thought or design. It screams "hey we built another expensive chromebook because I guess we have to."
I fell opposite: I appreciate simplicity of Smalltalk syntax, but I prefer environment bases of files
When I download some random unmaintained tarball from years back, I don't want to have to fight with the compiler. Just build dammit.
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Maybe. But do parents think they're protecting kids by driving them instead of letting them take the bus? They're going to get bullied mercilessly as soon as they get to school anyway.

School is simply a horrific hellhole for the bottom 20% of kids. People just like to feel like it's not. And unfortunately "bottom 20%" can happen to anyone -- it's not merit-based. More like affluence-based.
FYI people may have negative customer support experiences because they insist on the phone with the operator. If someone is not solving your problem, hang up and call again. Eventually you will reach someone who will help. Once I learned this it saved me countless hours, thousands of dollars possibly and a lot of unnecessary frustration.
This is something web developers probably never think about - but a lady who keeps her nails moderately long is going to obscure an extra square half inch or so of screen when she taps the phone!

Thinking about this also reminds me of the time I found a game controller I physically could not use, because the face buttons were nestled into a little recess. I could only press them about 10% of the way down before my thumbnail clicked against the housing.
Why we are not cross-platform developers
That's fairly contrived. Schools are already very segregated by affluence and buss routes need to handle every student outside of walking distance.

So, the net result is mostly just empty buses, and wasted gas.
you use your phone's speaker. this is shown in the demo.
AFAIK, the two things are orthogonal.

My understanding was he'd already kickstarted a normal recovery process https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery

And he wanted more details, so I assume he spoke to somebody up the escalation chain in our support org, who gave him more details.
Yes. The point of the post is that with global ACID, distributed ledgers among trusted parties are just regular applications. You can’t do this with eventually consistent databases. What I’m describing is a genuine solution our customers are choosing FaunaDB for. For their distributed ledger requirements, a blockchain is overkill.
Sounds like their marketing was just a bit tone deaf. If it is the modern equivalent of the home camcorder then really what's so incredibly scary? I wouldn't have my camcorder out on the counter while a couple friends and I were enjoying a beer, and neither would I have the "Clips" out for that situation.

Having my family all gathered in the same room ripping apart gifts on Christmas always had a camcorder, if we had Google Clips set up in the tree then we'd probably have more footage of my dad in those years than we do now because he was always behind the lens.

Google just needs someone to spin the market appeal better. Passive surveillance is definitely a sore spot. Ease free family memories are way more of a positive spin.
I don't think it's entirely fair to say that they had to drop down. I suppose that all comes down to what you mean by "acceptable". Personally, I think they chose terminal rendering as something to optimize and I think it's a great choice. You emphasized "terminal emulator" in your comment. I don't think they chose to optimize the terminal because it was new ground, but rather because it's a well understood problem space. The Electron waters are limited, yes. But I think it's nice to see developers pushing at those boundaries, no?
Two working parents means preschool until kindergarten, and preschool doesn't offer busses. If your district offers wraparound care for school-aged children, it's probably not served by busses. You can't have kids home alone any more because somebody might inform on you.
You are biased against social psych research, as I think we all should be, but I'm not sure singling it out is the best strategy. The issues of reproducibility and 'p-hacking' among others are a big problem in a variety of disciplines right now, and there is a good synopsis of just one aspect of the problem in hard sciences here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis. For a non-paywall link to the original research this is better: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086.short
The Unix-HATERS Handbook [pdf]
Sure.

Some web apps will even work, though Android apps are a fair bit more reliable. Otherwise it works as well as any browser under those conditions.
The problem lies with the definition of market rate. I cannot justify spending €300 more than a S8+. I've had many Nexus devices and always felt like I was getting a discount in exchange for being a beta tester. Then Google raised their pricing to match the iPhone's, yet I don't see much improvement in quality control (both hardware and software) or in operations (they're still incapable of a worldwide launch or proper stock management, despite volumes that are a fraction of their competitors').

I don't even understand how the Pixel 1 was fairly successful in the US (subsidized phones and project Fi maybe?)
I guess the hope is that even if it doesn't sound much better, this will open new doors, such as being able to iterate faster on new languages, new voices and new speaking styles (singing, whispering, etc).

EDIT: A big example of that is the Japanese example at the bottom. English has had far more effort put into the old model, so it's already pretty good. But the difference between the old and new Japanese voice is really striking, and they were most likely able to make the new one much faster.
This Clip networks with your phone which presumably sends that to Google servers for AI purposes which also presumably means for data storage so that better models can be trained.

Listen, this statement clearly is made to address privacy concerns, and it does so in an irresponsibly misleading way.
How much of what you see in your browser do you retain?
The Japanese one is miles ahead of the previous one however.
That was done because it was the only method available or because they started out with high performance / low latency / ... goals. Here is the VS Code team saying DOM performance was useless. And at the end of the day we're talking about 80x20 characters, sometimes color.
It takes a lot more than just the latitude, but we can make a very accurate prediction. I once worked on internal modeling software for doing precisely that, and IIRC our target was being within ~1% over a 10-year period (there's a bit of year-to-year variation depending on weather). Those numbers generally aren't released publicly though (because everyone wants to talk about the much bigger nameplate number), and at least as of five years ago the freely available tools for doing similar calculations were much less accurate.
Say someone compromised a clip and a nearby cell phone.

Can we be sure that the compromised clip isn't uploading images to the phone? Not the little video clips supported by the standard device, images created by additional software.

Of course this is pedantic, but is also a useful way of analyzing what internet of shit products might end up doing (that is, reasoning about the capabilities in addition to the advertised features).
I can see video from my phone’s camera on my watch via Bluetooth.
If you can credibly explain why a really large number would have more to do with audio we might take you opinions about branding seriously...
> Removing the jack will allow them to make phones thinner - if not now, in future iterations.

People keep saying this but the circuitry and the depth was very small. There was even that guy from China who hacked a working 3.5mm jack into the iPhone 7 without changing its shape AT ALL yet Apple cited that they had to remove it to fit in more stuff.

If this isn't something that's useful to remove now, they should wait until it IS useful. It's all very frustrating. I now have my non-techie family asking me what to do with their phone that doesn't have a headphone jack or they're asking for support for their bluetooth headphones which MOST of them still completely SUCK (especially for the average user).

I mean I ultimately agree with you but I think we're still years away.
I don't know, every time I check different common implementations (Racket, Guile, Chicken, Chez, Kawa) - they all act very different. Very often even a very simple code snippet works fine in one implementation, but not in the other(s).

And while writing my own Scheme, I literally had to choose "Ok, I will implement this Racket-way; This I will implement Guile-way" etc.
For another approach to managing API keys, secrets, and config with end-to-end encryption, check out EnvKey: https://www.envkey.com

Since it keeps secrets completely outside of git, you don't have to give up the convenience of collaboration tools by client-side encrypting the whole repository, and integration/deployment is simpler than maintaining a separate encrypted secrets repo.

Here's our Show HN from last week for more detail and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15330757
The complexity in wireless such as Bluetooth is strictly because it's a digital, packed-switched network driven by a fairly complicated software stack.

Basically, chaos originates from the involvement of computer science.

Cordless home phones and "900 Mhz" wireless headphones to use around the house are dead friggin' simple and reliable.

(Not to mention insecure: another story).
Would someone in the world of science explain the role of posters and why that format is so popular? It's seems like there are so many other options - a video, a talk, a demonstration, an interactive computer screen, an interactive exhibit, a diorama, a play, etc ...
Can I get this on Mac OS as system voice?
Because memcpy(x, y, 0) for any x and y is a no-op. Why should we have a special undefined case for x==nullptr || x==nullptr? In general, we shouldn't introduce unnecessary boundary conditions to APIs.
Lots of devices already do this. My Echo occasionally misinterprets its wakeword and broadcasts up little 4-second clips of whatever is going on at the time it decides to do that. If you're worried about so-called "accidental" identification that allows them to activate listeners and receive the sound data from the room, that's already a pervasive threat.

Reminder that US intel exploited a bug (or a "bug") in Samsung Smart TVs that allowed them to surreptitiously activate the built-in microphones and stream the room's sound on-demand, obviously with no notification to the user. [0]

That gets me curious, did anyone try running that malware and see which servers it transmitted up to? Would be interesting to go through logs and see, retroactively, who this was used on in the wild. Would be even _more_ interesting if it proxied through a tunnel at a cooperative BigCo...

[0] https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_12353643.html
The button starts in the enabled position, so it's opt-out. You can't accidentally avoid answering the question.
Plus Nexus was available to buy. I've had several Nexus phones, but Google doesn't want to sell Pixel phones in my country.
The interesting thing about this process is timing. You shouldn't really contribute a code base to a foundation until it's mature enough.

I think any group of people developing an open-source project wants it to develop quickly and with healthy governance. Joining any foundation, whether it's Apache or Eclipse or Linux, sends a signal that they're mature, thinking about governance and want to make sure the product develops in a way that agrees with the community.

But sometimes governance can get in the way of speed. What we found talking to Eclipse was that we could get the governance and keep the speed. Which means we'll be able to keep pushing DL4J forward without confusion.

Fwiw, here's the DL4J site: https://deeplearning4j.org/

Here are the repositories: https://github.com/deeplearning4j

And the Gitter community: https://gitter.im/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j
Function pointers are interesting in C only because they solve certain problems that you wouldn't have to care about if you used another language. They make the language more expressive, but with great power comes great danger. These days, unless we really have to (supporting legacy systems etc.) we shouldn't use C but rather one of these (still to few IMO) modern languages that give you even more power while being close in efficiency to C.
An Amazon comment from 1997 on this book says: "A programmer who doesn't like UNIX is like a bird that doesn't like to fly" :)
Then this just means that Pharo is one of the Smalltalks that does its own window management. I think Squeak might be the same. It is not a general characteristic of Smalltalks though, and certainly is not part of their essential nature. As I said, IBM Smalltalk used native widgets and windows, and had good interaction with the rest of the operating system.

I don't think you can draw a general conclusion about Smalltalk from a specific example, especially like this one.
Yeah, I tried the Ubuntu desktop experience for them as well.

Unfortunately, even though I wish it was the year of the Linux desktop it's still not quite there yet for the non-tech savvy.

New devices are a pain, websites that don't work for whatever reason are a pain (since Linux penetration is so small, a lot of people don't test it), and overall the UI is nice for power-users but still inscrutably complex and unintuitive for the non-initiated. It's possible your mother has a knack for the UI though =). Which desktop environment did you use?
Even for the devil?
If your kid does after school activities the bus system doesn't help much. Add that to zoning issues where taking the bus in the morning might mean an extra hour in commute time (in many states the way to get around No Child Left Behind averages was to stick the accelerated programs in the worst performing schools meaning busing children across town to prop up averages) and a lot of parents end up driving both ways.
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For a high end products, one of the things I will splurge on is warranty since I tend to keep bigger purchases on a much longer update cycle. Considering Google's reputation for poor customer service, I took at look through their "Preferred Care" addition to see what it actually does.[1] The terms seem pretty comparable but one thing stood out:

* We'll protect your laptop for two years ... through our service provider, Assurant.

Now this scares me as:

1. The number of complaints against Assurant that I've heard from Project Fi compatible phone owners is a big red flag. (I'm a Fi user so I frequent those circles.)

2. Separating repair and customer support is bound to lead to communication issues.

3. 3rd parties are not going to go above and beyond with making you feel like a valued customer. There is nothing in it for them after all.

For this reason alone, I would not buy a Pixelbook.

[1] https://store.google.com/magazine/preferred_care#4b4ba03b5f5...
Google Clip vs. GoPro Hero6?
>I really can't feel sorry for Apple.

And that's exactly where you're looking at this wrong. it's not just Apple that loses out because of this, it's consumer's at large.

Likewise, the same thing happens with apps, consumers must pay more money for apps which will have less revenue to invest in themselves.

That's the thing about unfair economic practices, it never just hurts the people directly involved, but also the massive amount of people indirectly involved.
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This is really weird. I am in a lot of ecom groups and it's ALL shopify... Nothing else
What’s the solution?

1. Spread all activity on multiple mail accounts?

2. Get a G-Suite account + own domain, so in a case of a lock out you just change the MX records?

Option 2 is expensive for a lifelong private account and 1 is cumbersome.

Any other ideas?
Yes, clearly Oracle should get all the contracts… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_Oregon#Website_failure
I have no issue with society picking up after people who truly have catastrophic illnesses (though that's really what health insurance SHOULD be, not the way it is currently.) My issue is with people expecting society to pay for health care that's not catastrophic nor "accidental." If I choose to have a child, I should expect to pay for it. My partner and I had to have IVF, and we paid for it.
I know others have downvoted you, but I want to thank you for pointing that out to me. I had absolutely no idea the word "wit" could be used in that way. Apparently it appears in some biblical passage(s), as well as in a Robert F. Young sci-fi short story. I only found it defined here: [1]

[1] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/wot
It look just like GoPro Hero5 which does not have a screen either and also communicate to a smartphone.
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If the phone is Google branded, it’s Google’s problem.

If it was advertised as a Huawei 6p that would be different.
How likely is this message to be taken seriously?
How does this compare to git-gpg, mentioned below in this thread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15403360
Even more relevant:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bbutton/benjamin-button...

1) Meant to take video of your family

2) Identifies 'moments' and cuts them up for you so you don't have to do all the video editing yourself.
If you think fighting games don't involve skill try beating an experienced Street Fighter 2 player having never played the game. When you lose, and lament that you 'simply haven't memorized the combos' go home and look them up. After you've realized that there's only one or two major combos to learn for each character in that game, come back and I promise you'll still lose. There's much more to it than that.

Most importantly, arcade games by their nature are finite. The limits of whatever storage medium used as well as the inability to rewrite or update them easily means that they exist in a vacuum. Once you've 'explored' the levels or found the 'secrets' they cease to be new. There are no more secrets. The strategy to beat single-player games never changes.

However the person you're playing against in a fighting game is always going to be different. Even if they play the same character as another person they will play them differently. They will have different skill levels and unique weak points to attack. No round of a fighting game is ever exactly the same. This is why fighting games are beautiful. They turn a static game into something timeless. There are still weekly Street Fighter 2 tournaments all over the world. When was the last time you competed with tens of other friends in say, Qbert 25+ years later?
I guess experiences vary. Both times I broke my google phone they replaced it. We had some issue with setting up Project Fi, but again they ended up replacing it for free. I find that chatting works best with google support.
If that's the case, why there's such strong r&d effort on die minimization ?
You can change make them act like function keys by default, if you want. I don't think I'd want a laptop with two rows.
There is no privacy with those devices.
I really love the idea. I totally agree that sometimes you want a camera always filming everything to capture the instants, because when you take your phone out it's already too late and you can't really reenact it. That's a good thing.

What I, and I believe others didn't like, is the text and the message, which is not even hidden at this point: Google sees and knows everything about you, your family, your favorite moments. I didn't even see how that was useful for the user -- I certainly want to categorize my Moments so I can easily find them again, but I'm not sure I want Google to _know_ about it. And yet that's exactly what it says.
It turns out that waiting for actual facts and reports to create your informational video takes longer than having a "false flag" video pre-made and then playing ad-libs with any disasters that pop up so you can grab those sweet sweet payouts from advertising and push your stupid "health" pills on your website.

A few days is not enough time for due diligence, and any info should be considered with heavy skepticism right now.
fastmail.fm is what I went to, years ago, for e-mail redundancy.

Fortunately I have two major, long-standing e-mail addresses, so I put one of them on fastmail.
> Keybase team member here. Interesting fact: git doesn't check the validity of sha-1 hashes in your commit history.

Not sure I understand.

git clone blah

cd blah

git fsck

What am I missing?
Clickable:

https://bubble.is/
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Both.

I don't think anyone (reasonable) should be concerned and I think most people, developer or not, are not concerned.

This is just yet another example of this vocal minority on HN that regularly talks shit about every Google hardware product, where the argument against this specific product actually comes down to a larger argument against Google and how much access and gatekeeping they have with regards to your computer use.

What irritates me is that this is Google's core business and if you're not interested in Google products because of that, then who the hell cares what you have to say about this product? It's like if Google launched a volleyball net and the top comment was something like, "Well, I don't have a house or a backyard and so I won't buy this because I won't have space for it!"

Well then clearly you weren't going to buy this product in the first place, so what use is your opinion here? Why would Google make a laptop that has nothing to do with the rest of their business? Is the parent comment suggesting that Google should make a general purpose laptop that doesn't integrate with Google accounts?

On top of all of this, it's not like the laptop becomes a brick in the event that your account would get locked. You can still use it in incognito mode, albeit without Android apps and such.

Furthermore, doesn't this exact same argument apply to Windows 10 with a live.com account login, and Apple with iCloud account logins? Seems to me like the privacy zealots seem to come out stronger against Google.
> Though there is some bad news this year: the headphone jack is gone.

Expected, but it still stings. I guess I'll look elsewhere for my replacement for trusty Nexus 5X. Speaking of which, how's Pixel?
> for those of you who own a mobile device without a headphone jack, do you find it to be an encuberment?

Never notice it. I have 2 adapters, 1 in my car and 1 in my bag. I can't remember the last time I needed the one from my bag. The 1 in the car stays permanently attached to the car headphone jack.

Any portable headphones I use are bluetooth and were bluetooth before the iPhone removed the jack.

At home, I stream over BT/wifi to speakers/devices.

Sitting at my computer I stream music from my computer. If I were to stream to wired headphones from my phone all the time I would just buy another $7 adapter and leave it attached to the headphones.