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It was before I became a Canadian citizen, but yeah, it would have been on the Visa Waiver Program. So technically they think I overstayed my visa waiver.
The problem is the GUI. X with multiple widget toolkits laid over it and a desktop environment laid over that is a lot of moving parts that can go wrong.

Android and ChromeOS and TiVo and your embedded-Linux toaster don't have this problem. They don't need to run legacy X applications and have monolithic GUI's built from the ground up.
As the Windows Phone get the top selling smart phone in Amazon, I do not trust any list from Amazon anymore. I think they make these lists for some reasons.
The Titanic took two hours and forty minutes to sink. Long enough for someone to make a motion picture about it.

Microsoft is a lot larger than is readily apparent. That's because in the enterprise they're about as entrenched as can be.

Take away excel and the impact would be about as bad as taking away google would be (or maybe even worse).

MS will be around in some form or another for a long time. The question is more whether or not they'll be able to leverage the remains of the old into something new. My guess is not as long as Ballmer is still around.
I entered quite a few times under visa so far and my experience has been more than fine (in fact, it's even been pleasant). Hopefully, it'll never get to what you've had.

It happened a couple of times that the officer wasn't sure if I was doing what I said I was, for whatever reason, and they generally just asked a follow up question like "do you have an access card for this company and can I see it?" which resolved the matter every time. Didn't realize it was so close to "wait in the horror room for hours".
It depends on the ad. Search-based ads are probably welcome.

Display ads, less so. It's an arms race between advertisers and readers. Advertisers want a slice of a fixed supply of reader attention; readers presumably want to read/watch whatever they came to the site for. It's a zero sum game, so anything the advertiser gains is lost from the reader.

So readers develop countermeasures (ignoring ads in certain positions) and advertisers counter-countermeasures (sound, movement, popovers) and so on it goes in a continuous spiral.

The operator of Free can make the case that he is taking payment from users to enter the contest on their side. That it saves him a bunch of bandwidth is gravy.
I have the first CR-48 Chromebook that Google sent out a few years ago. The first iterations of Chrome OS were a disaster. It was basically a full-screen version of Chrome browser behind a login window. Ugh.

However, for kicks and grins I pulled out the CR-48 a little while ago and was pleasantly surprised that I was able to update to the latest version and - gasp - it was actually quite usable!

I have been using it on and off ever since (it sits in our conference room as a general note-taking and projector device) and I must say - there's absolutely something to this thing. The battery life is great (like 9 hours), screen is OK, keyboard is nice. Trackpad is still miserable.

For the most part my non-professional-work-life lives in a Chrome window anyway (gmail, google docs). If it had a decent text editor (I guess there's a SSH app you can get) I could see it working pretty well as a web development machine.

But for the proverbial "Aunt Tillie", this would be not a terrible device if the iPad was a little too simple. Auto-updates, Chrome syncing, Google docs? Pretty compelling.
I would expect RES (Reddit enhancement suite) to support these features already. (I don't personally use it, but others can probably vouch).
This. I have more than one friend who says that what they have works, plus they want to play games.

EDIT: I have trouble explaining to them that the "slight upgrade" is probably an unbelievable improvement in many aspects. (But a significant downgrade in many others.)
"The ban caused Armstrong and others to leave Ericsson.[6] The implementation was open sourced at the end of the year (1998).[3] The ban at Ericsson was eventually lifted, and Armstrong was re-hired by Ericsson in 2004.[6]"

It is really hard to imagine that you made that excerpt in good faith. Read the very next sentence in the article.
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So, the dumbification of the computer. That's fine, I guess. I'll be the old foagie at the age of 25 who actually owns a real computer that can do more than one thing at one time.

Funny that people applaud these "simple" interfaces but whine and moan about gnome-shell embracing a simple, full-screen app, full-screen launcher model...
Yep these are separate plugin versions.

the kettle i just bought on the weekend draws 2300W
If you feel like levelling the playing field a bit with respect to your accidents of birth then I'm quite sure that those countries would be happy to strike you from their registers if you asked nicely.

On the other hand, since you were given this for free and it wasn't your fault you might as well enjoy the privilege. Personally I think all immigration controls should be abolished. The world will be hell for about a decade, after that we'll all be much better off. Good luck finding a politician that will sign off on that.

Borders are bad.
On that note I suggest that the UI should have the following three "states":

1/ New article, never read:

22 comments

I know that they are all unread, don't need to tell me.

2/ Visited article

25 comments (3 unread)

This is nicer IMHO than having another | separator.
The 3 unread could be bold as it is now.

3/ Visited and all read:

25 comments (0 unread)

But this time 0 unread does not need to be bold.
Nice idea. I don't think you mentioned how you'd get data OUT of the device anywhere.
Funny to see something even more locked down than Windows being cheered by the Linux crowd. There are no native apps,you need a Google account to access it(don't know what happens if your Google account happens to get disabled for whatever reason). Google neither releases the source for it's online offerings, not is it very useful even if they do.

The kicker is that the 100GB free storage on Google's cloud is only free for 2 years, after which you have to pay for it.

How is any of this better for consumer freedom than just Windows 7? The answer is not "because it has a developer switch on the back to install Ubuntu"; you can do that on a Windows PC as well. And an overwhelming percentage of normal consumers buying it won't be installing Ubuntu on it. In fact, I suspect that this kind of device that is absolutely at the mercy of a corporation is much closer to RMS dystopian vision than any Windows PC.

Would it make any difference to the user or even developers if it ran GoOS as the kernel instead of Linux? This is pretty much like a Tivo or a router.
I've let hundreds of unused names expire wholesale in the past year, but still have some people here may be interested in.

INEEDADESIGNER.COM

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30minutegigs.com

60minutegigs.com

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nowtolaunch.co

BESTFREESHIPPING.COM

EVIL-ROBOT.COM

FLASHTHECAMERA.COM

YOURHOMEBANKER.COM

and MIXTAPEDOWNLOAD.COM is for sale with or without the accompanying site.

Some or all of these may or may not be listed for sale as premium, I'm open to reasonable offers.
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"it runs Linux".....a specialized version of Gentoo to be exact.
> It does not necessarily, or even probably, signal a sea change in the way people think about OSes.

I think this is a true statement and I agree completely, but only because Joe Averageuser doesn't think about OS's _at all_.

I think this very much does signal a sea change in the way people use their computers.

There will always be folks like you and me who want to get down to the nuts and bolts of things and start tweaking, but most people just want to check their email/facebook and work on that spreadsheet/document for the boss.

For years we have all been talking about what moving 'to the cloud' would mean for computing as a whole and now it's happening. Your data goes with you wherever you go and your computer is a super cheap and nigh-disposable way to access it.

The writing is definitely on the wall. In fact, at this point, it's been there long enough that it's starting to fade a little.
Action begets reaction.

When someone is a jerk to you you tend to react to that. This may be irrational but that's the way most people work and it is perfectly natural.
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pixooka.com
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I don't think content providers are interested in providing services for users who won't pay.
"Do you spend 90% of your time working on the Web? Using software-as-a-service or Web apps most of the time?"

No and No. I guess chromebooks aren't for me.
But do you think people would actually choose Adblocking if virtually every website on the Internet would not be free anymore? I think even those who use Adblock today think that they can afford to do it, because it's not that many of them who do it, so they get the benefit of having free content, while not seeing any ads.
Naturally, Go users do not believe that complete web frameworks or RDBMS support is a desirable feature.
My understanding is somewhat limited, as that is a second-hand anecdote.

They probably don't turn the smelters off completely, instead simply scaling production down to a minimum. This seems like the most reasonable action in any case, as they would want to continue smelting as soon as the spot-price dropped.

For me the most interesting part of this was the fact that energy brokers existed (not that surprising) and that the free market allowed for instruments like this to be developed.

There are quite a few levels of distribution as well, and each of those implement different market instruments to optimise for reduced risk and costs.

A hard problem that is starting to emerge is actually based on both how distributors amortise risk, and the emergence of smart meters.

Smart meters should be able to help regulate the entire market, because they give us better control over the load profile. The thing is, a typical consumer buys their energy from a retailer, who themselves will have agreements with wholesalers, who in turn work with energy providers and the NEM. Who should have control over the smart meter, its data and operation? Who should benefit from the cost savings and reduced risks?

At the moment the cost savings seem to be shared fairly equally, but ownership of data and control varies based on legislation (state to state in Australia). There is definitely a lot of room for innovation in this space; I'm looking forward to seeing how things progress as more and more of these devices are deployed.
Because ICS uses racial profiling as one of their main tools.
> the back button is a "interesting" technical challenge.

Especially when some A/B testing seem to show that it is a bad UX idea (for shopping goods).

Side thoughts: I wonder if they did A/B test "My apps" page on Google play (https://play.google.com/apps), it manages to have all the wrongs of infinite scrolling (no fixed ground, no sane back button) while not being infinite scrolling.
>If "it's hard to use" because people are used to Windows, I throw my hands up, there's no way to reply to that.

That's basically the answer. That and it's hard to use because most of the software in a windows power users toolkit is windows only. So using Linux for them is like using windows and wishing for bash.
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I feel the same way re:subsidizing, and honestly if a website's ads are so bad that I would consider using an ad blocker, I would rather just avoid the site altogether.
Agreed, I did say "as it stands today." Sites would adapt to the new reality and those who didn't would get buried.

I do think though that people who adblock now do so cause it's relatively fringe and they feel like they are a drop in the bucket and not harmful to the site. If it was suddenly mainstream, I think a lot of folks would realize the old ads weren't so bad as the new paradigm and would opt for ads over paywalls.
The system itself is interesting, though. In the simple case, a dimension associated with a value is a product of nonzero integer powers of units of different kinds—in the type theory sense—which may be the empty set for dimensionless values.

Different units of the same kind could define implicit conversions—for example, metres and yards are both of kind “length”. Each kind would be associated with an underlying type or interface—for example, length only makes sense for scalar values, such as integers and floats.

F# units of measure are an implementation of this special case. You could generalise it, though, to associate arbitrary static metadata with a type. That seems potentially useful, and like something someone should do.
What about curiosity about an unsolved riddle/puzzle?
Go has optional stack allocation, which means the GC doesn't need to handle short lived objects.
Different people respond differently to the same situation. What's a walk in the park for one can be heart attack inducing stress for another.

The author considered it worth complaining about, I disagree but again, we're different people.

The fact that you think that it is unremarkable is remarkable, and is part of the reason why this nonsense continues.
>So using Linux for them is like using windows and wishing for bash.

A very eye-opening analogy and one that I can obviously more than sympathize with. (Although Git kindly installs Git Bash now which is appreciated.)
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I'm a Canadian citizen. I live in the States.

Without getting into too much detail, I pretty much go around feeling paranoid. When I think about it logically, I really have absolutely no reason to be this way.

I sometimes ask myself why I'm here and when the day I finally leave will come, if it ever comes.
Yes, I think Unity is slightly better, but another problem with most Linux distros is that when things break, it's way harder to fix that on Windows, and in my experience they seem to break all that time after even just a month of use.

Yea, I did make the point above that Windows is not easy to use either (heck imo it's worse that Linux now), but people are just used to it, so it's perceived to be easier to use. For your example on Mac though, you simply just drag and drop which is by far the simplest.
Understand that my native country, Trinidad, has laws still on the books that make my sexuality illegal. You have to be pretty shitty to be worse at respecting my dignity and principles than that, so the US has a low bar.

But yes, I could pick some other first-world country to move to. In fact, I lived in the UK for seven years: in that time, I made as much progress in my tech career as I did in my first six months in the US.

I think America really is a land of amazing opportunity, and I believe action to change the system from the inside says more than staying out does. And I believe that America is full of decent, compassionate people who genuinely believe that fairness and justice are bedrock principles of their nation, and would be horrified to learn that this is how their country treats some people -- and I'm right, because I can see them saying so elsewhere in this thread.

This is indeed my bed, but I think I can change the sheets :-)
How is the title misleading? It's #1 sold on Amazon, not #1 of all laptops sold.

> Amazon's top selling laptop doesn't run Windows or Mac OS, it runs Linux
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Critics of Google Antitrust Ruling Fault the Focus
Caffeine? Illicit drugs, maybe? The whole being tired is your body telling you to lighten up and catch up on sleep.
I hate video ads, and while the youtube skip after 5 seconds feature is nice, I hate wasting my time sitting through product placement before watching a video. I am fine with ads accenting a page and the content therein, but I am not fine with gating content behind ads.

It may not work for everyone, but I pay more attention to those side-ads too. Not flash ones, just still images or text, because my eyes sometimes wander. If I have an ad stuck in my face, I have a hostile reaction that makes me actively negative towards whatever the product is. When it accompanies content, I am more willing to meander towards it.

Reddit does a really good job with it. The side bar ads they have are not intrusive and don't block content, but I always end up seeing them when scrolling, and since they are non-intrusive they are about the only ads I do click.
Apple's Human Interface Guidelines continue to be a good resource:

Buttons & Labels: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/userex...

Alert Dialogs: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/userex...

edit: It's also cool to see how much has (and hasn't) changed over the years. Here's a 1995 version of the Macintosh HIG: http://dropbox.scripting.com/dave/misc/appleHumanInterfaceGu...
...that it isn't limited by how 'smart' we are. That's the cheap answer to your question of course. The more expensive answer relates to the role of creativity in scientific advance, and how creativity is limited by experience. When you look at the history of scientific advance, very rarely are discoveries made out-of-time. They occur when the conditions are right. They rarely occur sooner because they are meaningless without the context of the times in which they were developed. So, scientific advance is essentially limited by us humans and the rate that we progress as a race. In other words, the rate of scientific advance is just about optimal, or approaching a limit set by us. :-)
I recently installed lubuntu on mine and was pleasantly surprised with the performance, although its probably not what Google had in mind. At least I'm still running chromium.
Thanks, I'll add that in. Whenever a sale is completed it automatically syncs with the web app.

I'm also still working on exporting sales data to excel.
>Yes, I think Unity is slightly better, but another problem with most Linux distros is that when things break, it's way harder to fix that on Windows, and in my experience they seem to break all that time after even just a month of use.

More hand-waving. Don't know what to tell you, I've been using Ubuntu for years and I've never had anything break, certainly not magically on it's own as you seem to be implying. This stinks of FUD.

>For your example on Mac though, you simplyt just drag and drop which is by far the simplest.

Oh come on. The newest version of OS X requires that you ignore a huge security prompt, manually disable GateKeeper!!!, download a DMG, double click the DMG, know that you need to drag that App.app to your /Applications/ folder and then run it... clicking through yet another a security prompt telling you that you downloaded it from the Internet.

The "app store" model that Ubuntu deployed years ago via USC is so popular that it's the model that iOS, Android, WP7, Windows 8, and now even OS X push as their primary app distribution and installation route...
WP isn't even in the top 20 of best selling phones on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Cell-Phones-Accessories-S...
Go doesn't rely on return codes. Go has multiple return, and has error objects.

Microsoft and Google eschew exceptions, because they cause huge invisible problems in large systems.
It's been often said that consumers aren't the real customers of Google... now competitors are urging the FTC to take that into account in their regulatory approach: "Instead of considering harm to people who come to Google to search for information, Google’s competitors and their supporters say that the government should have been looking at whether Google’s actions harmed its real customers — the companies that pay billions of dollars each year to advertise on Google’s site."

The logic is that competitors are forced to advertise on Google, driving up prices for everyone in that category: "Drawing fewer customers as a result of Google’s free links, those competitors are forced to advertise more to draw traffic. And advertisers who aren’t competitors have fewer places to go to reach consumers, meaning Google can use its market power to raise advertising prices."
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The same reason the "random checks" line at security isn't really random?
What makes having a TV in the power station a bad idea anyway? It's a very simple, very reliable solution.
> The answer is not "because it has a developer switch on the back to install Ubuntu"; you can do that on a Windows PC as well.

That's not necessarily true with UEFI secure boot.
I would not want to be a non-citizen in America. I love my country, but I agree with the general sentiment that we have things very wrong when it comes to treatment of non-citizens. I believe that much of it stems from fears about 9/11. The Bill of Rights does lots to protect US citizens from an agressive/repressive government. The spirit of the law is that there are basic human rights that the government can't remove without due process. Unfortunately those "human" rights in practice only barely apply to US citizens.
This has been bothering me for some time now, and this last case just pushed me over the edge.
"That stuff is poison and you really need to fix it if you can"

I was told once that it is a cancer and all you can do is cut it out. It was one of the better pieces of advice I've ever gotten from another founder.
Because it's THIN, CHEAP and has a developer switch on the back to install Ubuntu. The ones doing that are also likely to run a webserver on their Android smartphones to have access to more storage and services via something like EyeOs, so goodbye Google cloud.
This doesn't appear to be the case in question. Based on my reading of the article, it seems that the network link between Free and YouTube is becoming congested at peak times. Free doesn't want to pay to make it any larger, and neither does Google. Hence the escalation. It's not to do with network links between end customers and Free.
"it is quite cool among college goers to say "I am on linux man". [...] Gonna get harder for MS/Apple to make money off this turf it seems."

The same college goers tend to buy MacBooks, so I think Apple will be just fine.
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And space leakiness...
Here's why I hate infinite scroll:

- the little scroll bar changes sizes randomly and moves places in the browser. Users can't predict this or know where it is, so they have to keep hunting for it when stuff loads in the background.

- if I browse a lot of items, scroll down a ways and then decide to scroll back up, it is much harder to find items that otherwise I would remember as being on page 3.

- The scrolling gets jagged as my browser barfs trying to shove more things in the list. In other words, even if it's faster it FEELS slower and less responsive.
Ask HN: Best JS MV* Framework with easy client side persistence?
I'm working on an offline-first HTML5/JS app. I want a good framework that supports client side persistence as smoothly as possible.

The app will be wrapped with phonegap as well as a chrome packaged app, so I care about webkit first and foremost.

I've looked at angularjs and backbone as well as ExtJS (via Sencha touch).

Lightweight is good. Concise/simple syntax is good.

Right now I'm just using jQuery for DOM manipulation with brian.io/lawnchair/ for persistence. jQuery is made to work everywhere, and lawnchair is a great, since it uses whatever adaptor and DB is supported by the system running the app.
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