skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, if you live in a first-tier city, this makes the au pair program that much of a better deal (see my other comment on au pairs), as you get a first-tier salary, and their pay is federal minimum wage. It's too bad for the au pairs, but that is how the program works, and they are getting free room and board, plus some cash, in a first-tier city.
I truly prefer to use git-subtree with pathogen.

1. add a repo:

$ git remote add remote-vim-surround https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround.git

2. git-subtree:

$ git subtree add --prefix=vim/bundle/vim-surround remote-vim-surround master

3. occasional updates:

$ git subtree pull --prefix=vim/bundle/vim-surround remote-vim-surround master

The advantage of this method is that I can keep my config directory in git, pull it onto a new machine, and not have to update any submodules. It's just all there.
Here's what excites me about Angry Birds in the Chrome app store. None of this exists yet, but it could:

- If I install it on one computer, it installs on all my computers
- Purchase the Screaming Eagle in-app, using Google Checkout
- If I beat Level X on one computer, I can resume on level X+1 on another computer (using the same infrastructure as Chrome bookmark sync).

Currently, your game progress is in LocalStorage, but it would be great to have the game database sync'd to my other browsers. Yes, you could "sign-in" to Angry Birds to sync your data, and that option would still exist, but for people who installed through the App Store (where you have to be auth'd to Google anyways) it would be one less step.
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> Are you committing crimes?

No, but neither was this guy: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/26/mistaken-fbi-porn-...
How are ideologically-pure statements -- extracted from a fantasyland where abstruse notions matter and all lines are perfectly straight -- considered a positive contribution? Particularly when they are made in willful defiance of all facts.
The mortgage crisis says hi. The problem with free-market ideologies isn't that the market won't adjust to consumer need, it's that it causes considerable pain in doing so and will only provide a counterbalance if there's a monetary incentive.

Free market capitalism is, at it's core, evolution. It leads to amazing responsiveness, complexity, and, arguably, beauty. It also has made 99.99% of all species that have ever existed extinct. There are homeostatic forces that keep the aggregate more or less balanced, but evolution isn't good for the species involved, it simply is true.

There's no mechanism in non-random selection with random mutation to prevent Asian Carp from taking over the Great Lakes, Pine Beetles from destroying forests in BC, invasive kelp in the Mediterranean, etc. Similarly, the free market has no mechanism to prevent credit fraud, market collapse, rampant speculation, or any of the other mechanisms of economic calamity we've seen. Your "coercive" government regulation plays the same role that we play in attempting to prevent environmental disasters through the spread of invasive species. Would a global ecosystem entirely managed by direct human intervention be desirable? No. Would be be well-advised to ignore threats to ecosystems and "let nature take its course"? Of course not.

Free market supremacists seem to fail to see the forest for the trees when arguing against regulations. The Free Market isn't an end unto itself, it's an effective means to the ultimate end, which is the improvement of the human condition. It isn't the only means, and it isn't the most effective means in all cases. The role of effective, well-considered government regulation is to harness the benefits of the free market while mitigating its risks. This can only be described as a Good Thing.

Rather than rail against all regulation, we should be trying to ensure that the regulations that are created are wise and impartial. Our energies would be much better spent ensuring that legislative bodies are free from undue influence than by trying to remove their power to regulate in the first case.
For apples to apples you need to compare the fully loaded costs. One less IT guy on staff because of the ease of management pays for a lot of extra laptops. Elementary education doesn't seem to be the target though, so you may not see all the cost savings (simply keeping email and calendars up for a large organization can be time consuming).
Nope this is not the same , gosh do i need to rename my product ?? It is DeviceDoctor by ZubhaLabs
I'm confused by what your point is because I'm not sure if you understand mine. My point was that most people don't use their existing computers for creative purposes, so introducing a computer with limited creative potential won't change much.
When people talk about Apple's 30% cut, and when competitors try to undercut Apple, I always wonder whether 30% is justified. It seems like a lot, but think about what Apple is bringing to the table: not just the infrastructure and staff behind the App Store and the App review process, but the mountains of money they've spent marketing and developing the iPhone and iPad. How do you account for that? There wouldn't be an App Store without those products, and there wouldn't be those products without Apple.

And on a more practical note, at the end of the day, percents can be what they may, but what I care about is the total money I get for my app. Dollars pay bills and buy food, not percents =D.
This describes the state of GC like it was 10 years ago (and in a few places incorrectly), at least in Hotspot. Shameless promotion: try out the new G1 (-XX:+UseG1GC), better to use the latest EA JDK7 build.
Excellent points. We will definitely consider these features going forward. Thanks!
>the induction of worker piping which was regularly observed about 25 to 40 min after the onset of the mobile phone communication.

prolonged talkers drive crazy even bees
It was barely mentioned in the keynote, but they discussed changing the trackpad from the CR-48, and to me that was practically the biggest announcement of the speech. The CR-48 trackpad is crap. Other than that I would agree with you, it has a very nice feel to it.
Perhaps mirah?

http://www.mirah.org/
That one doesn't require Chrome, but it does require Flash!

I'm pretty sure FF4 supports everything that's needed to run a game like this, out of the box.
webhooks / url postbacks within a week from today
It's not really a qualified SSH client, it is lacking a lot.
Awesomium: the First, Full-Featured, Windowless Web-Browser Framework
This sounds like a great idea for both schools and businesses, especially startups who think they can do all the work on the web.
Chomsky vs. Obama: “speaking truth to power” vs. speaking power to idiocy
I was pleasantly surprised that it worked in Opera.
Finally, Google Tasks API
It seems like end users will need to just purchase one: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-kind-of-computer-chro...
Although, what if I am a business of one, can I lease just one? Not sure yet.
The long road to bringing an idea to life. MySizeFinder case study
Another good reason for certain use cases is its support for resumable uploads:

http://code.google.com/apis/storage/docs/developer-guide.htm...

Afaik S3 can't do that.
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I don't think it require one less IT person? As I said the use of Faronics Deep Freeze restores the default configuration every reboot. So the support costs are next to nothing.

As far as Elementary Education vs. Higher Learning I would be surprised if this took hold in Universities. The only advantage I could see is cost for students and with studies showing 70% of College Freshman having Macs (http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/05/70-of-college-freshman-use-ma...) I don't see kids settling for a Chromebook.
1. I need way more than just a browser. Y’know, little things like a mail client, terminal, vim, ssh, Skype, Spotify, etc.

This doesnt need to replace your more robust system.

2. I have a Macbook Air.

See Above, but I dont have a macbook air. Many people dont. Many people can afford 20/month rather than the inflated price of the Air. (Dont argue with that, all Apple products are inflated in price - how else you think they are making so much damn money)

3. It doesn't cost me anything.

This doesnt work for everyone.

4. If I wanted a netbook, I’d buy a netbook. Why not just run Chrome inside Ubuntu? Chromebook’s expensive in comparison.

I have (5) desktops, (4) laptops, (1) netbook, (2) smartphones and I still want one of these.

5. So Google can’t spy on me. Perhaps I’m paranoid. but the Chromebook could hoard huge amounts of usage data. I’d rather not give them the opportunity.

I agree with this, yet they spy on you already -- I assume you use google? I assume you have a GMail account?

We need a solution to that problem, avoiding the chromebook won't mitigate their spying.

6. WiFi is everywhere I’d want to work. I don’t care for the built-in 3G data. If I’m on the move - that’s why my smartphone's [sic] for.

3G actually sucks - esp. compared to 4G. But wifi is not everywhere I go - its basically never available in transit.

7. It’s solving a problem that doesn’t exist. I’ve never heard anyone wish they only had a browser. Not even my Mum.

I have wanted a browser only device for years. The iPad did exactly what you say there is no problem/market for.

Hell - I would buy one of these for my grandma only for IM being always open on the countertop.

I think the writer of this article is too techie for his own good.

There are lots of reasons why HE shouldn't buy a chromebook - but there are far more reasons why others should, and will.
Nevada is much less hostile to corporate interests than California so the amount of legislation they can buy with via lobbying is only part of the issue. I only mention the budget and employment issues because I believe they are relevant to the use of autonomous vehicles in Las Vegas which I believe the parent poster was implying. That would be seen as killing jobs (even if not true) by the local population and could end up being very bad for the legislators that approved the legislation allowing autonomous vehicles. As far as Nevada's budget deficit goes, the issue could be resolved relatively simply however no one in the legislature is even willing to talk about the steps necessary to do so.
I don't, but if it ends up helping deliverability I'm definitely going to.
Wait, who's the incumbent and who's the startup? Amazon was founded four years before Google...
> If not, then gaining additional evidence doesn't make it more likely that they're going to break down your door.

Unless they tap your lines without a warrant to gain one. I thought we were passed the "if you're not a terrorist you have nothing to hide" mentality.
When working with regular expressions in Perl, the RegularExpressions::ProhibitCaptureWithoutTest perlcritic policy (default severity 3) helps avoid some common mistakes.

http://search.cpan.org/~elliotjs/Perl-Critic-1.115/lib/Perl/...
Disappointing, I'd have expected him to check every 64 or 128 days.
It's Time to Drop the "F" Bomb - or "Lies, Damn Lies, and NoSQL."
Sergey Brin Guesses That Only 20% Of Googlers Still Use Windows Machines
In Chrome it requires flash to play the sound (same as the plugin version). Everything else works fine without flash.
I don't believe they said that in the video and in fact Google told Danny Sullivan this...

"Google says there’s a three year subscription required. Hardware will be upgraded at the end of the three years, if people want to continue on the plans.

If hardware breaks, it’ll get replaced under warranty. But if you decide you want a shiny new Chromebook with perhaps better screens, trackpads or whatever midway through the program, there seems to be no provision for that."

Source: http://searchengineland.com/google-chromebooks-out-june-15-3...
I don't feel like you've done any research on this.

There is also the possibility that you are faulting Google for not making creation applications, because you don't acknowledge other participants in the venue which work very well on Chromebooks.

Just off the top of my head: http://www.aviary.com/
Just consolidated my profiles / email adresses on Rapportive. Worked perfectly! Great work.
Why doesn't it just not play any sounds, then, instead of refusing to start the game? (FF4, no flash)
http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=php&l1=&tm=1
even if the probability is published?
"What do you mean when you say that the operating system is dynamically linked?"

By that I mean this: grab a debugger, attach to a random process you have running. Pause and look at the current stack: you'll notice that the code you're looking at resides in a so. And everything on the current call stack is all shared code, loads of it, sandwiched between the kernel at the bottom and a thin layer of hosting executable on top.

Here's another way to look at it:
http://paste.ofcode.org/diZdtuH8uPs2UBWHEvTYWh (try to ram all that code into gnome-panel itself and ship with next Ubuntu - see what users will tell you)

One more time: shared code is absolutely essential. Only "one-process-per-machine" datacenter approach can do without. That's why there is no Java on the desktop.
My problem with Mirah is that it combines Ruby semantics and design with basic type checking. Mashing two wildly different things together does not a good design make. (Usually.)

I want a well-designed statically-typed language, designed that way from the ground up, with a well-thought-out type system, and no insecurities about appealing to C/Java "braces or death!" types

So far my list includes: Eiffel, Haskell, and ML.

Note, I have nothing against dynamic languages - I'm a Rails programmer.
It's not like video editing apps are going to go away. If "limited" computers become the norm, they'll start to support video editing because users want that functionality.
Still, you're saying that when a user buys a computer, it is their responsibility to go searching on the web for a free, reputable and safe anti-virus company to download software from?

Yes it is.

Why?

Unfortunately due to antitrust concerns. I'm sure MS would love to bundle MS Security Essentials, but they fear doing so would likely end up in the courts.

Can't someone build a computer where you turn it on and it works safely the first time?

You can, although ironically its not in the best interest of most computer vendors. They get paid by McAfee or Norton to put a trial version on the boxes, which when expires usually results in a vulnerable box. Sure they could put a free version, but then they wouldn't get paid.

MS does directly sell computers, through their retail channel, with free antivirus pre-installed. AFAIK they're the only ones, but I wouldn't surprised if there is a small niche in the world of it.

Why should they care?

The reasons they should care are obvious. But they shouldn't have to care. I completely agree. It sucks. But I do think the visibility and sucktidiness of it is a lot lower than all of the other things that will suck when they unwittingly bring a ChromeBook home from the store.
I like email. But things I like can be even bigger distractions than things I dislike. Reading even the most interesting email is not the same as being productive (although it could possibly help productivity later -- maybe).
You're absolutely correct that GPU acceleration isn't working in Chrome. Interesting.
> "You don't think Google taking a lower cut on the Market wouldn't incentivize more of the successful iOS developers to take Android more seriously"

Not really. I think the teams that were going to branch out largely did and still do. And from the results we keep hearing, I don't think a smaller cut is going to change any minds of those who decided against it.

As to more good for-pay apps leading to more purchasing, I don't know that would necessarily follow. Particularly not after the Angry Birds experience seemed to suggest direct sales weren't even that great for a game at the level of a cultural phenomenon.
Any website could fail because of router misconfiguration, BGP errors (see Youtube), or DNS issues outside of your control.

The point is that it won't fail because of me. I don't have to optimize SQL queries or launch new instances or rewrite my backend in C. It just works, for 1 user or 1 billion.
http://www.thechromesource.com/google-io-chrome-keynote-live...
With dynamic duck typing you just have to hope the object actually quacks. With type classes, the compiler proves it quacks.
Oh, hmm, from your profile I understood that you were a (sole) founder, sorry about the confusion.
I don't think you ever saw ordinary people let loose with the power of "Print Shop" in the 1980s or Microsoft Word in the 1990s. People made greeting cards, family newsletters, notices, party decorations....

In the visual arts, a lot of the people who do amusing Photoshop work are not professionals. Also consider MySpace in the 2000s. You might argue that MySpace isn't a good illustration of the value of giving people creative freedom, but you can't deny that a lot of people were eager to take advantage of it.

Then there are the people who get into sound editing or musical arrangement. These days a kid might start with making a ringtone and then escalate. Personally, I'm the least "creative" and least musical person you'll ever meet, but even I spent a whole day trying to arrange a decent-sounding version of "Walk Like an Egyptian" using a digital music program on my Apple IIgs. Why "Walk Like an Egyptian?" I have no idea. When I was thirteen I recorded myself belching, reversed it, dropped the tone an octave or two, added an echo and made it the shutdown sound for Windows 3.1. I told my parents it was the sound of a WWII submarine preparing to submerge. (Eventually, I figured out that code was my preferred way of expressing myself. I had fun writing computer programs that made pretty mathematical patterns on the screen, among other things.)

Putting content creation tools in the hands of everyone is key because you never know who's going to use them. Some kid decides to make something cute or awesome or badass or smartass and the next thing you know s/he's hooked on sound editing or what-not. Unfortunately, the model of commercial software development is to give someone a free taste, then frustrate them with limitations, and then take their credit card and charge them for the pro version. Kids are easily frustrated, may not have access to a credit card, and even if they have a card, may not be able to spend $100 or more for professional-quality software.

However, I think the answer to that concern is that non-professional content creation needs will be served by free web apps.
Is that supposed to be a serious question? Of course Nevada has stoplights. There are nearly two million people in the Las Vegas area and around two hundred fifty thousand people in the Reno/Sparks area. Then there are LOTS of smaller towns with populations as low as twenty five up to fifty thousand. Sure there are huge amounts of unpopulated or sparsely populated areas but that's not much different than the central valley in California as an example.
Which, if true, only further demonstrates the nonsense that is modern accounting practice.
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The last two sentences seem to contradict each other: You don't want to jump through hoops but try to track down authors to send them money on a sidechannel?

In general I'm with you though (Germany, mostly on Linux as well) and I try to do something similar whenever possible.
It will. Just because most people don't cook, we start selling houses without kitchen, don't you think its a slippery and wrong slope?

Look at ipad running GarageBand, thats the stuff we want. People don't create only when when creating stuff sucks. Just like I only cook when all I have to do is "add hot water".

There is a quote that comes to mind: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein.
It's all the other nonsense that comes along with managing a typical PC that's the problem. System update every so often, upgrade the system every six months, driver problem with graphics, an endless stream of support requests. On the Windows side, its even worse. I shudder every time I see my Mom's Windows install after a gap of a few months - only half the screen is visible in Firefox because of all the malicious toolbars that got installed in the meantime. An iPad would actually be perfect, but its not as affordable(at least for some models). I'm getting the Acer model for my parents when this comes out.
You could apply this to tickets in general, not just airlines. GroupOn makes money selling bulk services at a discount. A group ticketing service would have a group discount when x people buy the tickets. If and only if the number of tickets are purchased then the discount would be applied.

For flights you would agree with the airline to buy 10,000 tickets on their carrier at a discount. Their risk is reduced and you have an incentive to switch people from other carriers to this carrier. This seems like a win win for the carrier.
No, S3 (essentially) can as well:

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/11/amazon-s3-multipart-uploa...
HN has always had its share of libertarian partisans, some who were reasonably cogent and some who drank the Randian kool-aid and did not notice when it dissolved their brain. The difference is that on HN you will see a lot more pushback from people who are not going to let the second class of ideologues get a free pass on their BS (e.g. the responses to various "just let the market sort it out" tropes being dragged out by the usual suspects.) On Reddit the moderates would be downvoted into oblivion and this discussion would have turned into a libertarian circle-jerk within fifteen minutes.
The Navy trying an MMO to come up with solutions to Piracy
True. But, iPad has the psychological advantage of an entirely different form factor. That makes it easier for people to understand that it's a different sort of device. Whereas people will be more apt to feel "robbed" if their laptop can't do the things that their friend's laptop can do. Not necessarily saying it's rational.
This is fairly amazing stuff.

I would be interested in any further breakdown of this folks here might do...
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At $20/month it's pretty much disposable. How much more "free" do you want?

In college I only bought ramen... on sale.

I had a schedule for when all the clubs at the school had free dinners.

I was mad when the taco stand increased their bean burrito price from 89 cents to 94 cents.

In college, I'd consider it a fair deal if you paid me to use the computer, and I'd put a Google sticker on the back of it.

Although it does seem like college kids are a lot richer nowadays.
So why don't you just install something like deepfreeze(or it's competitors) and be done with the support calls ?

Deepfreeze basically starts before the os and returns the computer to a frozen state you defined. it's used in libraries and internet cafes and schools , and seem to work pretty well.

This way you get: no support calls + better experience to family(apps, better privacy, known interface) + less risk and more control on the solutions you offer.
Oooh, it was going so well and then they snarkily implied that security is increased by regular password rotation. Sad.