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Now they run Android apps as well.

Also, the web changed; there are webapps that require gigabytes of memory out there, such as Gmail.

All respect to Google, I use a Chromebook for offline writing and general browsing and it's wonderful, but I agree that I'm not seeing the use-case for this one yet.

Maybe they'll port Android Studio to it? That might be pretty nice.
Out of curiosity: why do you keep such documents in repositories instead of simply in a filesystem (on an encrypted volume, backed up and possibly synced across devices)? Tax spreadsheets usually don't change, so there's no need for version history (if anything, new rows for new years are added, but without changing past data).

I ask this because I'm trying to figure out a solution for myself for keeping sensitive personal information and I never thought about storing such documents in a repository. Maybe I am missing something and your use case will open my eyes. Thanks!
I was really looking forward to this phone. Lack of headphone jack = instant dealbreaker.
The main difference between games then and now, I feel, is that they didn't have the crutch of excellent graphics to fall back on to wow people, they had to make their games fun and worry about the nonsensical story lines later. Gameplay distilled down into its most pure form.

A lot of these games are extremely difficult and require twitch reflexes, which is something a game burdened with pushing a lot of pixels has trouble replicating.

I have a Retropie loaded with tons of games all the way up into the 90's and my 3-year-old son mostly plays the older stuff - it seems to resonate with him more than the newer games.
A huge assumption, yes, but the article backs it up with its source article which maintains that Oracle is failing to hit earnings targets due to the influence of Open Source competition [0]

For me, I would feasibly agree that their comments are good positioning, however the vehement attack on Open Source, in particular, sounds more like the canary in the coal mine.

[0] http://www.techrepublic.com/article/oracles-rising-open-sour...
There is a lot of comments in here confused with chromeOS and all the justification for an expensive machine that doesnt really run that much software.

I agree with most of the sentiment and I think they should just keep the nice UI but switch to a debian distro so that devs and some creatives could use all the linux software if they know how to install it. I would use the crap out of a google UI debian distro.
Talk about ignorance of history.

Apple in 2001 was posting losses and were an acquisition target. By 2007 they were just stabilising the company on the back of iPod but posting relatively small profits. It was the iPhone that propelled the company into being a huge, successful company we have today.

So why are they suing now ? Because they can afford to. They simply aren't the tiny, vulnerable company they were back in 2007 which Qualcomm could have crushed. And the world has changed such that phones are far more than just phones.
Nowadays browsers use relatively a lot of resources. I don't know how ChromeOS handles tabs, but I imagine running everything in a browser takes a toll on performance.

I remember the agony I experienced when I needed to use Word365 online for a project. The javascript implementation was so slow and resource heavy that I was almost going to go crazy. Google Docs on the other hand worked fine most of the time. But none of them could replace a native MS Office or Libreoffice. Maybe with webassembly things are going to get different, but adding abstraction layers come at a cost.

Also these machines need to run videos and process pictures and maybe movies. With those requirements performance doesn't hurt.
There was no such study. Galileo showed this was false with the following famous thought experiment:

Suppose it were true. Join a heavy rock and a light rock by a cord and drop them from a tower. If the light rock falls slower, eventually the cord will be pulled taut and retard the fall of the heavier, so this system falls more slowly than the heavy rock alone. But the system is heavier than the heavy rock alone, so it should fall faster, a contradiction.
SAILFISH X: Sailfish OS software package for Sony Xperia X
Hmm, indeed it does, but I could have swore that the first time I read the comment it didn't. I guess I forgot how to read earlier :-)
People forget that 30% was lower than most comparable outlets prior to Apple's App Store. Competitors immediately slashed their own rates to 30% to match.
outlook.com is excellent. I used the free version for years, now I have bought premium.
You're paranoid because if google wants a million faces, they can get then any number of less conspiracy laden ways.
Yes, my issues have been power supplies, wiring, old Molex connectors, burnt header pins, and worn out controllers and switches. The computer parts have stayed original and functioning, even the RAM so far.
Have you had issues with preparing meals just from instructions, like the description on completing the step was not enough? For example for me, I never cooked a pumpkin, so I had a wrong assumption on how I would make the pumpkin filling, but seeing a video helped realize what they meant.

Probably better instructions would of dealt with that, but I would think some recipes would assume a level of background knowledge.
Increased automation allows for more leisure time for those who own the robots.
I really suspect they partnered with Asus for this one, yeah.

Which should be a good thing. I love my C302CA.
It's using hardcore classic vim key bindings. Insert mode doesn't even start when pressing actual Ins. I understand some can have nostalgia for the times of archaic terminals, but I find it counter productive. Sorry, but I'm going to use Ins and regular arrow keys, not i and h,j,k,l.
The Hitler biography should be very interesting, but I've still need to read William Shirer's iconic Rise and Fall or the 3rd Reich. Will look into Ordinary Men as well now.
Didn't the latest MBP line have the best sales in MBP history? I get many people were upset by some of the changes (including myself) but that doesn't mean people are migrating in mass.

Also, a chromebook? No developers are migrating to a chromebook. This is targeting the normal user who wants a nice laptop to do normal web surfing and text work.
Just a follow up…I got tested for sleep apnea because I fit the profile (overweight, snorer) but they found no evidence that I stopped breathing at all overnight. The sinus thing didn't get diagnosed until one of my frontal sinuses closed off during descent into JFK. Can't begin to explain the pain other than feeling like your head is exploding.
"I think the problem is where accounts control a large part of someone's digital life.

so for example here, it appears that someone breached Youtube ToS and lost their whole Google account."

Exactly. I recall the incident[1] where some Google Pixel phone customers were reselling their phones and making a tiny profit. Google permanently deleted hundreds of accounts and never restored them, for violating a mobile phone TOS. Ban them from the Fi mobile service, sure, but don't delete their entire digital lives! That's like getting a life sentence for shoplifting in the physical world.

All your eggs in one basket is never a good strategy, and though I wasn't personally affected by it, the Pixel Phone fiasco opened my eyes to just how much Google and Facebook controlled my own digital persona. I now use neither of their services.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/17/google-su...
Is it not a problem that Singapore is right on the ocean? Does anyone know if there risk of flooding or anything?
Wow. I can't believe they got such a significant speed increase.
The paranoia in this thread is crazy. It's client side, people, and if google wanted to steal your precious fluids, they wouldn't need this to do it.
You nailed it! Everybody expects something from us - our partners, bosses, children... We also have needs and expectations - we need to exercise etc. How should we find time for all this working eight hours a day (realistically - at least 10 hours as most people are commuting. You wake up, go to work, get back, try to do your best at whatever you need to do... No wonder people sacrifice their sleep.
Good heavens, you've managed to imbue a classic editor flamewar comment with a surprising extra dose of incivility. This violates the guidelines, so please don't post like this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, there's Termux, but I don't think this is any good for developing on yet. Maybe once Android Studio is ported?
I've done a lot of development on my Chromebook and I absolutely loved it, but it was with a ssh connection to a machine in the cloud and a browser based editor. But yeah for that, you don't need insane specs like the Pixelbook.
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That was a question. It's neither provocative nor aggressive, unlike its parent.
> Singapore building an air conditioned dome over the whole city

By the time they build it, it won't just be for aircon, but also to purify the air coming in from outside. It'll also be nice to do without the rain. Singapore with a dome is probably what the first moon bases will look like.
Intel's Strategy to Fight Nvidia  Is Now Unclear
> If I'm on a low margin business, that's not the government's problem to pick winners and losers, right?

So you would penalize companies that are offering a useful service and making less profits over those that are offering a useful service and making more profits. The former may be reducing cost greatly to the consumer but may not be able to stay in business due to this type of tax. Thus, it would artificially prop up the cost of goods to the consumer.
The real utility in this device is to flash with coreboot and install Linux, not to run client endpoints of Google's horrible services.
I bought a second-hand Pixel on Ebay. The seller sent it complete with boxes, manual, etc. After 6 months it received an OTA and now is a 600 dollars paperweight. They tell me that since the phone, which is not reported stolen, is assigned to another account they cannot do anything about it. I have contacted the seller but she won't respond. Be aware of this.
Can they? Bluetooth video isn't a thing (no really, it's not supported by the spec, I just looked). Whereas sending a boolean "my screen is blocked" is.

Edit: apparently it is a thing but not really, like very low bandwidth.
Its not "rent seeking" if you solve a problem that others have in a way that is repeatable and low margin for you. It does favor software solutions a LOT though.
Apple is the manufacturer that is honoring the manufacturer's warranty (and/or additional warranty options). Google is not the manufacturer of the Nexus 5X/6P, that's Huawei. So if you didn't buy from them, they send you to the manufacturer, like most retailers would after the initial return window, even if you did buy it from them.

I agree that it's bad for Google's image to operate that way, stick their name on a phone and then shrug their shoulders and tell you to talk to the real manufacturer. But that distinction is why Apple supports most iPhones no questions asked, and Google wants to know that you bought it from them. They're a glorified retailer licensing out their brand to Huawei.
Alright, let's ignore the analogy, then.

What is the correct functionality for Facebook given this user's settings?

I do not agree that it should stop sending notifications. Let's say I _want_ to keep getting notifications via email without having to open Facebook every so often. I would have my settings match theirs and I would be quite annoyed if it just stopped working because I didn't log in.
Is anyone else excited to see how this will run on Linux?
Ah yes, this is the encrypted email provider I saw on HN a while back (I mentioned in another comment of mine, but at the time forgot the name of ProtonMail).

When it's time for email renewal, 1 or 2 yrs down the line, I'll be looking at ProtonMail :)
I can recount for you the story that I've heard from those in my area who have kids:

First, the most dedicated full-time parents decided to pick their kids up and drop them off, so that they would have more time with their kids and the kids would spend less time in transit.

Then, some unruly kids caused some trouble on the buses (the district isn't going to station a warden on the bus, and the driver has a route to keep), so some more parents started driving their kids. Now it was super-involved parents and also parents of bullied kids.

A huge fraction of kids get bullied, so now we're looking at a bus filled with the lower half of the parental protectiveness bell curve. Obviously that's doing to distill the troublemakers, further lowering the level of protectiveness a parent would have to have before taking their kids off the buses.

This forms a vicious cycle. The good kids are no longer diluting (and providing social pressure to) the bad ones, and the buses gain a (deserved? I have no way of knowing) reputation for being where bad parents dump their kids to be tortured by other bad kids.

Now there's a social stigma. The set of parents that drive their kids now include the very-involved, the protective, and the responsive to social stigmas. So, finally, the children of the poor (whose parents don't have the means to fall in to one of the above groups) are stuck alone with the bad kids - and now we're at our present state, where cars line up around the street and everyone is spending an hour trying to pick their kids up from school.
Get used to it. No one cares about which i5 or i7 beyond a small niche (which is likely concentrated on HN). There are probably technical specs someone, or you can wait for a teardown, to get the hard core specifications but the target market for those is so tiny no one is catering to them anymore.
‘Conspired’ to have regulators go after a patent monopolist for not following the terms they agreed to?

That’s not a conspiracy.
I work in the same city and am in a similar situation, but there are non-drivers-license options[1] which you can use. I use my CareCard and US Passport Card until I'm able to get an enhanced ID/BCID.

[1] http://www.icbc.com/driver-licensing/getting-licensed/Pages/...
And those landmines even blew up in Nvidia's face.
You're right. We'll fix that. Thanks!
You can easily set up email forwarding in Gmail to forward all messages to your new address. After that it's just a matter of switching everything over to email your new address directly.
My Apple Watch doesn't have a network connection because it communicates via Bluetooth and iPhone
If only their app did not have so many pages marked writable and executable...
I would answer in my own language, and let my interlocutor's device translate for me instead.
I wonder if Nexus 6 users would move to the Pixel XL2? I love that it has stereo front-facing speakers with the full 6 inch screen, but as Darth Shamu said: "I find your lack of a headphone jack disturbing"
Depends on who you are.... I know for us, physical datacenter security is tricky to ensure in a lot of countries, especially from government actors.
I take great care of my headphones, because they're such an important part of my life. I use them 90% of every day.

I have never had a pair of headphones last for more than 2 years. Almost every time it's because the cable gets worn out from rubbing against the inside of my pocket.
> Is the storage soldered even for the nvme option?

Leaving that out isn't "dumbing down of product specs".
Sleep on your back on the floor, beds are an new invention and a bad one can be painful. So before you go out and buy a new mattress experiment with your sleep. Hammocks are also said to be a good alternative.
Um, there's a config option for that. You can set it to be Ctrl instead. Like God intended.

Or you can turn it into escape, if you're that sort of person.

Or... I suppose you could make it lock...
Should we run it through a machine learning algorithm to see how the hell any of the "component" score adds up to a 96 overall score? And why only those components, but not others? I want my dog nose filter score in too.

Snake oil is what that number is.
Miss it every day. The whole concept is beyond absurd.
This is really friggin' cool! Best of luck to you guys, hope the work continues.
I miss the days of the "Don't be Evil" Google.
I don't have experience with React Native, but certainly React + TypeScript gives you autocomplete in VsCode.

Try cloning my repo here:

https://github.com/styfle/react-server-example-tsx
Maybe instead of complaining about how facebook and google have the made the area popular, you should take aim at the entrenched owners who refuse to allow higher density housing to actually relieve the pressure on the market.
It appears that this may no longer be an open question:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/physicists-confirm...

There was a Hacker News post about this a few days ago, likely from a different source, but I can't find it.
Having just gone down this road, here is the tech stack I used for putting together a scientific conference paper: emacs / org-mode / beamer / beamerposter.sty. I had to do a bit of reverse engineering from tex back to org-mode to determine the proper org-mode properties to have the beamer layout I wanted -- if that makes any sense. I also poked around in ox-beamer.el. In addition, I used Omnigraffle and the Gimp for graphics. I am happy with the end result, and the original org-mode file is clean and manageable. And, yes, less verbiage, the better for conference posters.
Hey, thank you so much for that! Haven't seen some of those papers. Looks promising. Cheers!
To your first point - The natural counterpoint is - there are billions of Google account there. Yet, the number of cases you hear about this is in the handful.

To your second point - scalping phones is most definitely against ToS. This is true for Google, Apple, Smsung anybody.

Here are our ToS - https://store.google.com/intl/en-US_us/about/device-terms.ht...

> You may only purchase Devices for your personal use. You may not commercially resell any Device, but you may give the Device as a gift. Recipients of gifts may need to open and maintain a Google Payments account in order to receive any support offered by Google. These Terms apply to any gift recipient.

This isn't unique to Google. I'd like to see you walk into an Apple store, and buy 10 iPhones. Or say, 100?

In fact - Apple even introduced controls to stop scalping of Genius Bar appointments:

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/09/12/apple-store-genius-b...

Or say you create 100 email accounts - john001@gmail.com, john002@gmail.com, john003@gmail.com etc. - and have them each buy a phone, and ship them to a single physical address.

You can see why this would come across as hijacking/botnet fraud, right? (That's separate to the ToS violations).

But from public statements - the scalping itself wasn't what got them, it was probably the bot-net like account creation, and indications of payment fraud.

Thirdly point - it doesn't sound remotely like legalese, and there's no indication lawyers were even involved. In fact, why would they be? I would have preferred him to post some more technical details, as that would have cleared things up, but he posted a nice message of his own volition, which I suppose is fine.

It reads more like the message of somebody who's relieved, and glad he got an explanation of what actually happened behind the scenes.
> Did she buy it from google?

Why should that matter? My wife's iPhone was purchased from TMO. It had an issue so she took it into an Apple store and she came out with a new phone 10 minutes later.
It's basically an up-specced Asus C302CA, as far as I can tell.

Those also come in $500 versions, that's the one with the m3 CPU. I don't think you'd lose much; still has the Android apps and such.
Moto X Style got Nougat over a year from Nougats release, and it won't get Oreo at all.

After Lenovo took over Motorola updates went downhill.
It seems to make a big difference whether or not you buy it from Google. I've seen lots of complaints from Nexus 6P owners who didn't being shoved off to Huawei and their terrible support. But I bought mine from Google, who twice offered me RMAs after the warranty period was over with no resistance. Most recently they replaced it with a new Pixel XL, instead (due to stock issues, I assume).

That being said, Google needs to improve their out-of-warranty repair/replacement options. I couldn't do anything for my Chromebook Pixel once the warranty ran out, and I wouldn't count on them to randomly add a de facto additional year to the warranty like they did with the 6P, which was probably done because of its terrible, widespread battery issues.
> Many people find headphone cables a big pain in the ass.

But they don't also find having to charge headphones, and eventually to throw them out and purchase new ones, to be 'a big pain in the ass'?

> At least part of that is that wireless headphones tend to be expensive and many of them aren't the best at pairing and staying connected. Those things aren't inherent to wireless technology and will change over time.

I'm pretty sure that expense and complexity are inherent to wireless. No wireless connexion is going to be as cheap and reliable as an equivalent wired connexion, if only because the wireless connexion terminates in … a wire.
Realistically its those governments who offered them the deals that broke the law. I don't see why its the companies obligation to deny these tax deals and uphold the EU's wishes.
If you ever listen to people try to record sound that's clear and precise, they actually sound fairly robotic. See this Google 20% Project where they explore Google Assistant's voice creation: https://youtu.be/qnGNfz7JiZ8?t=5m23s

WaveNet is probably modeling the source data very well. It sounds like they just need more data with emotion and inflection, rather than having source data that is optimized for monotonicity and precision.
Percentages for something like this are borderline-meaningless.

Qualcomm spends an average of 1.325B per quarter, and peaked in 2014 with 1.429B.[0]

Apple spends an average of 1.959B per quarter, but that has been steadily rising to 2.937B last quarter.[1]

[0] https://ycharts.com/companies/QCOM/r_and_d_expense
[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/r_and_d_expense
Have gotten 6 for decades, but I used to swim/run/yoga. Now I don't do anything because there's no time and am still productive, but need lots of caffeine and morale boosters, like I traded a couple pairs loafer mesh shoes I didn't like for a high end pair of proper fitting ASIC running shoes at Nordstrom's today. In fact I lost a couple hours sleep just thinking about trading those shoes today...
I forwarded email in Gmail, and move over forwarded emails as I can. Note that it's not been an easy process, it's still a massive undertaking changing all those emails.

I did think about switching to my own domain for emails though. I have previously avoided it because it adds a new vector of attack - i.e. if an attacker gets my domain, they have my email. With that said however, I can still keep a handful of important sites hooked up to my real email. Eg, my bank can go directly to fastmail, but randomsite.com would send emails to me@mydomain.com.

That would give me freedom to move my email where ever I see fit, with minimal changes. It seems tempting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
I use Fastmail and absolutely love it. The interface is so much better than Gmail or anything else out there, and the additional services are awesome without being cumbersome. Their file storage isn't as easy to use as Google Drive, but it's fine for long-term storage of rarely accessed files, and you can even host simple web pages from your account.

The only downside I've found is you have to pay the full fee for each @fastmail.com account, though I get around that by hosting my other email addresses on my own VPS and using Fastmail as my IMAP client for them.