skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pricing largely depends on audience quality and product margin (and a million small things...), so there is no 'right amount' only what's right for your business.

To give you an idea of range, in my marketing life I have sold low margin products in low quality audiences paying as little as $0.01 CPC. But for some high margin products in targeted environments I have paid in excess of $100 per click.

It is worth understanding this environment if any peeps are building something that monitises from advertising.
No need to impose these ideas unilaterally. The ideal situation is to have hands-on, qualitative (for lack of a better word) tuition where there is no technological alternative.
why not? There a much better uses of class time -- students asking questions or more engaging interactive activities. Just doing practice problems in class, where the professor is there to help, is a better use of class time than lecture.
>It's just generally perceived to be an instant negative.

It's an aggregated consensus of short term future earnings best guesses. It is assumed that these expectations are "priced in" to the stocks's price. When a company releases earnings and "misses", there is an adjustment to the share price.
Hackers use the best tools available to them. It just so happens that a lot of tools are now hosted in the cloud instead of running on your desktop.

There's pros and cons to this approach. If you don't like it, don't use it. You're free to roll your own or use a gem like devise.
Well, actually, part of doing it IS documenting it so that others can enjoy Gentoo on their machine.

I normally do blog posts when I first get a machine, the unboxing and so forth, but documenting normally goes somewhere on the gentoo documentation site. Or possibly our new wiki.

And for the record when fun topics come up like ARM based hardware, or Linux stuff in general (I'm not much if a web guy, I prefer lower level work) I tend to visit the comments more than a couple times.
But the gym sucks, cycling worked for me because it was actually fun! I need to find something else like that before I go up a(nother) trouser size.
Using Sublime Text as your IDE
Before you rage against the machine, a simple question wasn't answered in the article.

Could Coursera just apply to offer their services in the state of Minnesota? I mean, unless it is a terribly difficult process, I don't see the big deal here.
I've never read the book the phrase comes from actually, so I can't speak to it directly. I'm only aware of the phrase "moving the cheese" because it has become a bit of a meme over the past few years in development/IT (this may be a regional thing).
So let me understand this. You have a great small business where your customers are really happy. They decide to give you a positive review on Yelp. Boom, you get calls from Yelp to pay for advertising. You refuse to do so and boom, all your positive reviews are removed. And they add/fake negative reviews OR leave the negative reviews on from customers ?

Wow, that is scary if true.
This a common myth. I'm going to assume that you don't tinker with your machines often. Whenever I do a fresh install of Windows, I go on a wild goose chase for drivers.

The current Linux kernel supports more devices than any single Windows release. Linux also supports more legacy devices than Windows Vista or Windows 7 and supports numerous architectures not supported at all by Windows.

In the case when there's no support for certain hardware, it's often the manufacturers who are at fault. They don't spend the resources to create the drivers or they make it difficult for the Linux community to make them.
That's what I said in comments on the page -- they could have gone for a mix of eBay and Humble Indie Bundle: offer what you want, and the best 100.000 get in.

Tweetbot is currently 2nd in the Top Paid and Top Grossing store charts, behind only OSX Mountain Lion. Those $1.4m will be in the bank in a few days. People didn't balk at the price one bit; I thought about it for a few minutes, and then went f#ck it, it's the only program good enough to make me tolerate Twitter, and devs gotta eat. I suspect for some power user, $50 or even $100 would have been fair game.
I think you are somewhat confused. (Edit: I had misunderstood the parent; see below.) The $250 model does not appear to be bundled with Verizon. In fact, I don’t think it has 3G capabilities, just Wi-Fi.

The higher-cost Chromebook 550 (Intel) does support 3G.

So your entire argument is based upon a misunderstanding, is it not?
My guess unfortunately would be "probably not" - e.g. I can't think of a generic way to implement

SELECT * from redis_db0 limit 5;

other than running the Redis command "KEYS *" - which does a linear scan of the entire Redis keyspace, locking Redis while it does so, and returning every single key in a potentially large streaming response - and truncating to the first 5. (That's fine if you have a few hundred keys, probably not if you have ten million.)

I'd love to be contradicted, though :)
Sometimes I think of, how in the world, somebody come up with the idea of harvesting bark of trees to cork them wine bottles.

I guess we are more or less poisoned day by day seeing yet another location-based-social-video-sharing-mobile-analytics -app.
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I’m concerned that there does not seem to be any sort of warranty.

My family tried one of the original Chromebooks, and it lasted merely a year before physically breaking from normal usage.
Open audio codec Opus gets real, gains VLC support
Oh, and if anyone is curious, it looks like in the ChromiumOS sources, the overlay for this is "overlay-daisy".

For those not familiar with building chrome, it should be something like export BOARD=daisy before doing the setup/build steps.
You mean the guys who made billions off arch-competitor Google? Why would they care about them?
I am going to pay more attention to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout after this thread!
Paypal slips no class action clause into policy update
I've been using this grid technique for a little while. It's really great. I was disappointed that the original author wasn't credited though. Compare with: http://css-tricks.com/dont-overthink-it-grids/
I actually find it a vastly superior format. You can rewind the bits you don't understand clearly, or when your mind wandered off. In a live lecture, you do not have that luxury. In order to get maximum value out of a live lecture, you need to pay 100% attention to everything as it is said, and 100% understand each thing as it is spoken. Two rather unrealistic expectations, especially when lectures are usually cumulative, building one topic on top of the understanding of another.

Questions are also probably better handled with an online (or offline) forum and office hours. At any rate, I was never overly convinced about the 'interactive' benefits of the lecture hall.
I'm really liking live streaming, opens up rails to be a simple back end for simple games.
I think that vaguely competent would require analytical skills good enough to say, ok utf8="non ascii character", now if I change it to another nonascii character is that likely to change my request's execution path in the server...
Kudos to Sysoev and Nginx. Whenever I write C code I find myself looking at nginx for inspiration, always keeping the source code open to see if and how they solved similar problems. It is simply one of the best pieces of software I have read.
Support for devices is generally ok. Things will generally "work". However, configuring the devices can be an extreme pain. An example, which is trivial in OS X and Windows, is tablet drivers. In order to adjust sensitivity on my bamboo tablet in Ubuntu, I had to make adjustments via the command line after adding PPAs, installing packages, and fiddling around with values for over an hour. Don't get me wrong, I love the command line, but some things just shouldn't have to be done there.
Why do people always post on Hacker News whenever Github is offline?

It's not going to make Github go online any quicker. They have a Twitter account, you know.
Ignoring a potentially wanted return value with ";" is a hazard. I'd like to institute some set of "warn-unused-result" warnings in Rust to combat this.
So this is a nice long list of reasons to "go long GOOG"? Let's add up the billyuns they've made in:

Mobile operating system: we'll get back to you on that

Email business: brand investment!

Office applications: Literally hundreds of satisfied paying customers, a few even break into 3 digit employee counts. Coming to offline any decade now.

Web browsers: the tracking data is worth a hundred times what we paid for in commercials and r&d.
Is it really such a moat? Probably other people are trying to build autonomous cars but have the sense not to talk about it.
I implemented basically this in Rust, and it was overwhelmingly rejected by the community at the time. People seem to like the strict typechecking.
If how to sort a text list is on your list of problems, you don't have a problem. As long as the order is consistent, users (in general) will be happy with it.
Nice: Samsung Exynos 5 Dual Processor.

Another laptop (there are too few of them) with an ARM CPU. Too bad it will not be available in Croatia.
Um, thanks! Do we know each other outside of HN?

But I see your point. That does make sense.

In theory it could be abused -- as long as you could support yourself, and could pay off the host company in some way, you would be pseudo-immigrating to the US. That said, I kind of think that should be allowed anyway. I live in Canada, where we have free trade with the US, but not labor mobility, which to me seems nuts.
"A Chromebook for everyone" (who wants to be tethered to the Google ecosystem and the preying telcos).

A "laptop for everyone" is far easier. There are thousands and thousands for $100 or less on eBay that are far more powerful, easier to repair, have local storage and don't tie you to an ecosystem or a telco. Grab a Lenovo T61, chuck Mint on it and you've got something several orders of magnitude more useful. They even work in space:

http://www.wirefresh.com/images/space-station-10-years-think...

Sorry but I don't get it. It's a rather expensive (for the limitations) toaster.
Whenever I use Programmers, all my questions get closed there.
No one ..start of 2013 you will be able to get it with a mobile contract in the UK.. so not 8gbp and who knows why they banded about that figure then. Future looks bright, though.

FTA;

"The catch

You won’t be able to get the txtr beagle as a standalone product just yet. Instead the plan is to distribute it as an accessory on smartphone mobile phone contracts.

I can understand why txtr is taking this approach, after all it's reliant on a smartphone for transfers, but I'm still disappointed that txtr isn't brave enough to launch the product on its own.

Txtr hope to bring the product to the UK at the beginning of next year but were unable to comment on which mobile phone operators were in the pipeline to offer the device with their contracts."
Google filing error shocks investors, exposes process
My family owns a small forest of these trees so I have some verified information about the cork trees.

We harvest the cork out of the trees every ten years but it's absolutely false that the owners of these trees make lots of money like someone here has said in another comment. We just get enough to keep the forest clean of underbrushes. This is a real truth.

Moreover, because his area is very dry in summer we suffer fires that burn the forests every decade or two. Fortunately the burnt cork still works as an insulator, it's black on the outside and therefore can only be used as insulators in buildings. Amazingly, because cork it's such a great insulator burned cork trees survive the fires and develop very easily. You've mostly lost the cork production though...

We had a great fire at the beginning of the past summer that could be even smelt from Barcelona (180Km away from this forest). I have a couple of interesting pictures of the cork trees and how they develop.

This is a picture taken right after the great fire:
http://goo.gl/3oM8O

Three months later all trees are developing again, however cork needs to be peeled. We actually lost three years of bark growth because the last harvest was three years ago:
http://goo.gl/3ZBHl
Sorry, I was refering to the 3G model (329.99$), but I forgot to make it clear in my comment.

However, my perspective is that Chromebooks are meant to be used with a connection to the internet, which makes the 3G model sort of mandatory (for 3G/LTE access is more accessible - in my experience - in developing countries than full internet connections). It's in that perspective that I hold this argument.

For the case I'm basing this opinion on, a basic internet connection (DSL) in Vietnam costs much more money than a basic 3G/LTE internet connection. Also, a DSL connection will only be usable from home. I know this DSL/3G relation is also the case in other developing countries.
That doesn't seem to apply at all. Coursera programs aren't for training their own employees, nor the employees of other businesses.
I guess it might not be that clear then... Nevertheless, until they actually start charging something I, for one, could be persuaded that they constitute a 'good faith' non-profit.

Alternately, I can't imagine it'd be too difficult to spin off a second organization, funded by the for-profit parent that provides the non-profit programs. There are likely additional incentives for doing so.
The problem is not that there ar emassive ammounts of cork filling landfills. The problem is that there is a shortage of cork to put on the wine bottles.
Because nobody wants to give GoDaddy $70.
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That's terrific - thank you! I didn't realize the restrictions and dollars-and-cents of the other marketplaces, so that makes sense. And I also didn't realize this was born from CL.

(You should consider posting a version of the above somewhere on the 'About' page - it's heartfelt and reads really well.)
I can't totally disagree, but "enforcing a whitelist on the server" is not exactly a tall order. It's the default for many installs and IMHO is already a clear best practice for a production web server. Having your site available under hostnames you didn't intend to make public is generally not a good idea -- it runs the risk of Google picking the wrong one as canonical for one thing.
I'm making a couple of points in that comment:

1. Attacking your competition is definitely not classy.

2. The suddly introduced shortcomings of Ubuntu are being ignored and regularly hidden away under the wave of marketing from (1).
Well, there's the proof that Coursera and the rest are serious threats to the existing order.
That's a terrible idea. You want to cut educational standards to save money ?

You'll save money in the short-term but in the long term you'll destroy your economy as you won't have the highly educated workforce that will be required to be a competitive economy in the future.

We should focus on high quality education first, whether that uses technology or not.
Same. It's unfortunate that there's seemingly no way to obtain e-ink displays directly from the manufacturers.

I don't know how txtr is managing to obtain such a low price point, though. 4GB of flash, a CPU, RAM, the display, the case, manufacturing costs, a bluetooth radio, and two AAA batteries seems extremely difficult to obtain for < $13. This is not including the price of manufacturing and shipping.

EDIT: Ah, I see. They've got their own book store, so they're hoping to recoup costs on that.
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It's somehow fitting that the YouTube user who posted this also has a number of "OUR CATS..." videos.
Do you know the history of Apple, Sequoia, and the Silicon Valley? Does the name Don Valentine ring a bell?

http://www.sequoiacap.com/us/apple/info
No, ObjC is very close to standard C. The [ ] message syntax compiles to calls to the objc_msgSend function.
Ah, that does make a lot of sense, and jives with what I've gathered of developing markets, as well.

One imagines some sort of tethering to be feasible, if not universally applicable, for those who want a computer form factor and already have 3G Internet on their phone.
Strongly off-topic, but xenopatriotism is very widespread among Russians, especially emigrants. I wouldn't like for discussion to delve into that direction, but such opinion is often justified (obviously not now, though).
are you using GAE for java, python or go?
So first we have APIs for handling photo uploads, so we don't have to host the photos ourselves? And now we have APIs for handling users, so we don't have to host the users ourselves?

Whatever API storage service is coming out next?
I'm not sure if I agree with your finger pointing. Because it doesn't matter whose fault it is. Lack of graphics card drivers, printer drivers, etc were always the fault of the vendors, but users don't care about that. They just don't use Linux because "my printer won't work" or "it's a hassle to setup my printer".

But, again, all of this isn't much of an issue anymore.

(Also Google loves Linux and particularly Ubuntu. I'm not sure why they are dragging their feet on Google Drive but it's not because they don't care)
It is BSD licensed. If you are worried build from source. It is sufficiently widely used that someone would notice anything too malicious.
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I don't recall ever seeing respect as a pillar of free software. I always thought the first pillar was freedom. Canocial can be as rude as they want, but as long as they do not make it difficult for me to do what I want with their software, their software is free.
That's what makes it elegant: it lets you omit the return statement (safely) but otherwise looks exactly the same as C, even though it's semantically different.
/enqueue jokes about decentralized DVCS systems being hosted centrally...

Srsly tho, the relationship between Git and GitHub, might be somewhat analogous to that of BitTorrent and TPB
Funny that you should say all of this in a discussion about Google...
I've thought for a while that the Apple app store has become very problematic for independent software developers. Somehow the consumer expectation for the reasonable price of an app has been driven below $2 no matter how much utility it provides. I hear people regularly complaining when apps they will use for hundreds of hours cost more than $3. Or bitching because the developer of such an app did not reply to their email (when the time spent answering such an email might be $5 - $10 based on a reasonable wage for the developer). We have major hit games that would have cost $50 on a console or PC coming out for $3 - $5 on phones and tablets. The prices to me are just not sustainable. At the moment, the excitement and opportunity of working in the mobile software industry is still driving developers to be willing to ship things way under cost just to develop their skills, gain a foothold and to participate in something they enjoy. But this can't last forever, and I'm not sure how it is going to correct itself.
Coursera isn't a political blog, it's a commercial service (even if provided for no fee).
How do you deal with these "one year non compete agreements" or "every idea you think while working for us belongs to us" contracts that quite a lot of firms make you sign to work for them?

I kind of want a start a company with my own ideas, not one I gave to a company and have to steal back from them.
> I mean, unless it is a terribly difficult process, I don't see the big deal here.

It quickly becomes a big deal as soon as other jurisdictions start doing the same thing. If I was Coursera I would definitely not want to go down that path. It takes away the key benefit of being on the web, which is the elimination of geographic barriers. Better to just be transparent and let your users see the absurdity for themselves.

Keep in mind that there's absolutely zero evidence that this regulation has any benefit. Clearly many other states are not enforcing this kind of law, and yet they're not demonstrably any worse off. This looks to me like a classic licensing scam: it probably got passed with the support of incumbents who wanted a higher barrier to entry.
As a father myself raising little programmers, I can relate to your depth of feeling--well, about the kids anyway. If it's any help, on most days my little guys grab the nearest available electronic device with Web access to work on homework, to pretend to do homework, to work on their own websites, to check on their YouTube view count, to email their friends, chat online with grandpa (a former programmer), and so on. I only watched once, but that video didn't strike me as strangely inauthentic.

I'm just hoping that devices such as these can evolve to the point where ubiquitous, online touchscreen and laptop devices run HTML5-based apps that are effectively as good as any native app (for most types of apps) so that I don't have to teach these little ones a whole different programming stack for each device in the house.
What we're trying to do with our SimpleLicense is to not create one license that covers all usage scenarios, but cover most of them in one license... and then we will be adding others for things like resale & distribution. So yes, give us some time. :)
Presumably, OC has had experience living in Russia and doesn't trust anything coming out of it, however brilliant.
Since this article has no substance and just exists to feed the "Google stock is tanking" frenzy, I'm assuming all the upvotes are for the irate and entertaining comments?
well, relative prosperity.
Yeah, thanks for the inspiration to write the answer, I think I'll put this in a blog post on CM soon. We want to tell the story of CM AND CL, but are trying not to confuse our story by saying too much at once.
You do hear rumours of mafia types holding sites to ransom by DDOS... that was one of my thoughts
Picnics for toddlers
And yet google still make more money from iOS than android , Microsoft is taking even more money from google and apple are buckets of money from their mobile platform. I'd bet apple and their shareholders will take a "dead" platform over the "winning" google one.
Well put! Don't forget to mention that Yelp has never turned a profit.
If the Metro APIs include anything capable of running binary code, Chrome will probably be developed for it. Given Microsoft's recent history of being careful to display monopolistic behavior, I'm sure they'd allow Google to distribute Chrome through the Windows app marketplace.
The marketplace is open to the public for buyers, we're gating sellers right now just to have a bit more control during launch and make sure all bugs are flushed out on the payments side of things... and then yes, it will be totally open.
I'd rather have significant semi-colons than significant whitespace[1]. Don't mix presentation and semantics.

1: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SyntacticallySignificantWhitespaceCon...
Avoid the trainwreck that is Metro by hopping onboard the trainwreck that is Unity!

Sorry, that slogan is a bit much given how bad the recent Ubuntu releases have been.
A T61 is more like at least $200, at least here in Romania. Though, buying a second hand or refurbished computer might be a good option.
I call it recentralized.
I always thought they just wanted a big portfolio of patents in mobile to fight Apple. I agree, early on, that the early Google phones were a way to kind of kick their partners in the rear to step up their game. Now though they have. I doubt Google could surpass the Samsung phones. Perhaps they could equal them but why would you do it for just that reason given the channel conflict you're creating?