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Even though I use my chromebook every day, I think this is a very high price point for this device.

Seems like they release a new chrome os device every few months, I would much prefer updating my chromebook every year for 400$-500$ with faster lighter version, instead of investing 1300$.
Campari - absolutely. They are linked on a vine and as long as you don't detach the vine they will last a fair amount of time. They are fine straight from the store but they get better if given a couple days.
Yeah, they just admitted that they're still not profitable, but apparently this extra $110 million will somehow do what the previous $818 million did not do.
If LS customers dropped off like flies after this report, there are multiple tort claims besides libel that could come into play. Interference is apparently one of them.
This is basically a $1,300 web browser. I don't get it, beautiful touch display or not.
PrivCo looks even worse now with this additional update to CNN's story:

"I don't think the real story here is the details of the financing," Hamadeh [PrivCo CEO] said. "It's what's going to happen to the little guys, all of the merchants who are really the company's unsecured creditors, if LivingSocial goes bankrupt... You'll see that we were right in six or nine months."
> No, he says explicitly it does not get near 4x.

I chose a phrase as an example (hence the abbrev "eg"): You chose a different phrase.

If you want to instead parse the phrase you chose for half-truths, we can do that. It will not change the substance that there is all sorts of potential for half-truths.
The big problem for me would be chrome os, the hardware looks nice though.
Yeah, it's kind of unfortunate they stick an amazing screen into a laptop with only as much storage space as a Micro SD card. And then charge $1300 for it.
Parts of the PrivCo report might not be accurate, but I don't trust a word Tim O'Shaughnessy says. We were told long ago that we'd be profitable by now, and then there was a round of layoffs. Is he under any obligation to be truthful about any of this? It's an internal email within a private company. Take anything he says with a grain of salt.

He doesn't mention the allegation that LivingSocial owes more to merchants right now than they have on hand. As others here have mentioned, that's going to hurt the quality of deals they're able to put together at a time when they need to be building confidence with customers and merchants.

He also doesn't mention the threat of more closures and layoffs. From a business perspective, it makes no sense to pay high salaries to college educated 20-somethings to do customer support from expensive downtown DC loft office space, but he never mentioned that in any of the all-hands meetings when he said we would be profitable soon.

The constant theme in communication from management at LivingSocial is always "don't listen to what others are saying about us; they don't know the full picture." I wonder how much longer they can keep that up.

If they do go under, there will be a massive rush on all the talent that will suddenly become available. The brain drain is already beginning. A number of very talented engineers (not just Chad Fowler) have already left. They've been diplomatic about it, but the fact is that they saw better opportunities elsewhere. Anybody who says that the tenuousness of LivingSocial's continuing existence isn't at least a small factor has a bridge to sell you.

People won't jump ship all at once, but this is going to be a huge problem for recruitment. Salespeople and customer support staff are a dime a dozen. No news there. But anybody talented enough to be a developer at LivingSocial (and the talent is considerable) would have to be quite desperate to come on board at this time. HN readers know that the caliber of developer they need can choose where they work. Would you sign on in this environment?
I would, too.

I did enjoy reading this article, though. I'm a novice with Rails, and I have been learning Java for a Coursera course (Algorithms), and the handful of things the article went over seemed straightforward. It would be interesting from my perspective to see different frameworks interacting through a RESTful interface.
What's scary is that people don't go into a store and buy Android. They buy Droid or Evo or Galaxy or HTC One or Razor, etc.. What's to keep Galaxy from staying with Android then? If they lost 10% market for going their own way, but captured the full profit of replacing Google Play entirely with Samsung Apps store, it may still be a good business decision for them.

You can already see this happening a little because Samsung requires using their ad library, their in app purchase library, not mentioning Google Play at all in descriptions or for pro versions, etc. to publish on Samsung Apps. The store isn't as good as Google Play, but it sure is more profitable for Samsung than Google Play.
Things to come -

http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-polluti...
3 TB of Drive for free is incredible. Just 2 TB sets you back $99/month normally.

EDIT: KevinEldon corrected me below, it is 1 TB for 3 years, my mistake. Normally that would be $49/month.
Google Glasses: Building a Higher Wall Between Us?
So, it is real!

It looks awesome, but at $1,299, I don't think it's priced well. That's $100 more than a 13" MacBook. I just don't see that much value in a Chromebook at this point in time.
This comment makes me really happy. This is exactly what we were shooting for. We wanted to create a compelling user experience for Craigslist users and make it a joy to use craigslist. Wanted the experience to be on par with some of the best consumer Mobile apps on the market. It was a lot of hardwork in going through multiple design iterations to finally arrive at this.
To each their own. However, it helps if you define which music you find annoying. There are 3 distinct styles of music being mixed in those videos. Araab's was one I enjoy. #2 was ok, #3 sounded bad and the guy looked like a 3 year old hitting blocks into a Fisher Price toy. Had no sense of the skill level executed by Araab and #2.
You can pinch to zoom in the browser as well.
Or Linux? or BeOS? or [insert operating system that can run more than a web browser]
The compliance process varies depending on how the business operates. There are more controls if you accept card numbers over the phone, for example. For most merchants, the process is straightforward. Our PCI Compliance page describes the process using Braintree.js.

https://www.braintreepayments.com/tour/pci-compliance
The whole thing seems like it's written for a middle school newspaper. Might as well be ranking superheroes.
"Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot."

-- Eric S. Raymond
An install of Windows 8 takes only 10.2GB. Add swap and hiberation files and maybe it will reach 15 to 20GB overall.
That shot is misleading because the air slopes down so much. the max thickness of each device is likely pretty similar, but the Air has a much slimmer average thickness.
It's like the shareholder lawsuit shakedown, only targeting private companies.
LinkedIn isn't constrained to the JVM, as they had some apps running on CRuby 1.8 and node.js, but they do heavily favor the JVM. JVM interop DOES help with much of their existing codebase which is Java heavy.
The battery life is crap. I honestly didn't think that $1300 was awful. Pricey, but not awfully pricey. And then I saw the battery life... only 5 hours =( If you want to delight the user with a mobile, battery life needs to be a priority. 5 hours is industry standard in crap laptops. Even the el' cheapo Chromebooks (my cr48) get better than 5 hours.
Who is target user of this laptop?
Question for people who own a chromebook already: Would you recommend your chromebook or chromebook-pixel to other developers?
Ahhhh, ok. That seems like shady accounting to me, then. Calling any money "revenue" before the merchants get their share.
It would be interesting to see how this compares to other merchants and/or other payment processors. Does anyone have another source?
I love the tap to record feature. I found it very intuitive.
Genuine question here: when are multimethods useful in practice?
The LS version is not much prettier.
My friend and I are hosting SXSW Food Crawl 2013 and attendance has gone way over expectation (2600+). Thus, we are scrapping our original plan and trying to think of ways to make this work.

I'm completely open to suggestions!
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So a little bit lighter and thinner than the Macbook Pro, with a slightly higher-resolution but smaller screen, but with a much slower CPU (1.8 GHz versus 2.5 GHz), and a much smaller SSD (32 GB versus 128 GB), for $200 less.

I'm not seeing the value proposition here. What can you even run on a Chromebook that would need a Core i5 CPU?

The more interesting one is the $1,449 model with LTE and 64GB, but I don't think it's particularly compelling. I have a Verizon 4G LTE hotspot and the highest plan is $90/month for 10 GB. I blow through that in 20 days or so even though I don't watch Netflix, use the office wi-fi whenever I can, etc. That's a lot of money to pay to use apps (GMail, Google Docs) that aren't even very good.
The Air tapers across the width of the body to make the edges significantly narrower than the laptop is at its thickest point. Try looking at them both fully edge-on so you can see the Air's full profile.
It was only the mobile API server. Shameless self promotion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4615429
What kind of apps can you run on this? Chrome OS wasn't a touch based OS as far as I recall... have they integrated touch into the OS now?
Yup. Realised that after I posted. A way to tell if it has a HW keyboard attached would be useful. Although the user could prefer either method, and what do you do if they detach the KB?!?
I'd be curious to know if you create music or are just a listener. It's easy for someone who doesn't actually write music to write off a lot of that as "boring exhibitionism". But if you watch those guys play or talk about music, a lot of times you genuinely get the feeling that that's just what they hear it in their head. It's just how music is supposed to be to them.

I'm a guitar player myself, and don't really care for Vai/Satriani type stuff; there's just something missing. I have been getting into some more recent progressive shred and am having a hard time finding anybody that seems to really be pushing the genre forward as much as Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes. Both are extremely talented and just seem to "get it". Another guy who is right up there is Paul Ortiz. He's got some pretty serious keyboard chops, too.
The Verge says the touchscreen isn't really smooth though.

>And then there's the touchscreen. Google repeatedly told us how smooth and fluid it is to swipe through webpages on the touchscreen on the Pixel, and how it would enable developers to target a broader ecosystem for their apps by allowing their tablet and smartphone creations to have the same experience on the web. If only it were true: the touchscreen response is far from fluid, if Google's on-stage demos and our own hands-on impressions are any indication.
"He also says that PrivCo spoke with a LivingSocial spokesman prior to publishing, and sent him a draft of the report with a request for any needed corrections. When nothing came back four hours later, PrivCo published."

With respect to the "4 hours later" I would like to know what the standard is in the news business before "going to press" with a story.

I'm not entirely certain that a news organization would wait more than 4 hours if they feel they are publishing information or trying to scoop someone. Each news organization is different of course and has different standards. I don't think this is as unusual as it sounds (I could be wrong of course).

I will ask a writer(customer we have) at the NY Times what the standard is for this (I'll be lucky if they reply to me within 4 hours of course).
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Awesome. I've been using (playing?) with this framework for a bit over a year now and absolutely love it, I'm glad it's catching on as much as it is. The fact that Heroku and the Cedar stack supported has probably helped user adoption a ton.

I'm actually using Play 2.0.x for my first independent venture, which I posted a Show HN about a few hours ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5258059

http://www.tryringo.com
Aside from the screen, I was thinking it's more of an Air competitor.
Unrelated: the kerning on the Heroku blog titles is horrible.
A retina Macbook Air would have higher virtual density and resolution. This is only 1280x850 vs 1440x900 if you assume a 2x scale factor the way retina does things. It is nice, but 32GB, thicker and only runs a browser limits it compared to everything else out there: macbooks, windows, linux... even tablets and phones have 64-128GB now for much less and can run Chrome.
> Also, I can't help but think that making a chromebook touch screen is a waste of money. Gorilla arm, anyone?

Having touchscreen available in additional to traditional keyboard and trackpad laptop interface doesn't raise the gorilla arm problem (since you can still interact the normal way, and aren't forced to use touch to do anything), but enables using touch for workflows where gorilla arm isn't likely to be a problem.
Direct link to specs: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pix... (scroll down and click "full specs")

I think it's interesting they chose a 3:2 aspect ratio. The price is a bit high for the specs you get, but I suppose a lot of that is the (multi-touch)screen.
I take responsibility for making my software behave the way users expect.

I would expect other developers to do the same.

This "well you should have known about obscure UNIX command X" stuff is both why software still sucks, and why business people make mega bucks while technical people are capped at $120K salaries.
I was going to jump on this as soon as it was announced. Sadly, I don't think this is suitable for Android development given the specs. What are your thoughts? My GF is very tempted to take over my macbook pro...
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I wonder if they are doing this, at least in part, because they really want a Chromebook that is high-end to display in their physical stores? Maybe having a really nice, really expensive Chromebook will make the brand not seem cheap to casual store browsers.
>... Scala...definitely not for functional paradigms

I am sorry, what ?
The NYT would be confident in the sourcing of its information if it was rushing something to press. PrivCo's "source" (generously stipulating it exists) didn't even know who LS's investors were.
I used Play! for more than one and half a year and I must say I have mixed feelings about Play! now. Before 3 or 4 years ago, your chances with getting a web application easily in JVM languages was using J2EE ecosystem or Spring framework. But now there are plenty of alternatives. When Play! came out, it has done really a good job, it was working just fine, it was magical and it totally nailed it. But then frameworks evolved around languages like Groovy and Clojure and they nailed it as well. Best move Play! made so far was supporting Scala, because all existing Scala web frameworks were crap (yes I'm talking about Lift).

I used Play in a startup backend and I won't be able to say I was satisfied with it. Play v2 is especially slower on your local development box, compilation takes some time and I actually still like Play 1.2.x family more. Its memory consumption was horrible on production (I made really a lot jvm adjustments and could not get it properly).

Personally, I now like Python frameworks (e.g Flask) and they are much easier, but I am not sure if you should rely your whole service infrastructure or enterprise software on a dynamically typed language stack. There are companies out there achieved this but I think Java or Scala will be just fine for LinkedIn, and by the way why the hack they don't allow comments on their engineering blog?
Thanks for thoughtful feedback. On number 1, we went back and forth on that and now my memory is a little hazy on why we decided to stick with the way it is.
I meant financially. They look to be in a terrible position.
The offer is 1 TB free for 3 years.
Controllerism has been around for awhile. I discovered it via Moldover -

http://www.youtube.com/user/moldover

Before him, it was called "live pa"
Or never gets lower than 6x, as another example.
Actually no, my point is that we should not be looking at this as some future event.

Our coal problems are not on the horizon, they're substantial problems now. I don't care if there's additional room for growth in the coal power plant market in Africa, current coal consumption is more than sufficient to warrant action.
Because PrivCo published material falsehoods that are easy to refute alongside the (likely) falsehoods that are harder to refute.
What's in a Navy SEAL's survival kit?
Whoops, still a good deal though.
What happens if an employee becomes disgruntled and leaves the company? If they take their patents, wouldn't the company have to stop using the patents the employee owns?
I think it is purely amazing the specs for that price.

But I am really bothered by the fact that it is...

A Chromebook.

I hate "cloud" stuff, I like to have stuff where I know where they are, and who can see them.

Also I live in Brazil, where internet is patchy, at best.
And it is sad it does not support Ethernet... I like Ethernet! It is faster and more stable!

But impressive, very impressive, well done Google.

If anyone here has a idea if there are a way to use Chromebook as non-Chromebook (specially, non-cloud), tell me :)
It's a pity they didn't bother to run it through a spellchecker first.
I'm half joking, but have you seen their offices?
I'm not sure I could justify that much for an internet-only laptop. The hardware isn't half bad, to be honest, but the software offerings seem like something more suited for an internet tablet than a more-powerful laptop.
That's pretty sneaky to call it 3TB....
Yes, the OS itself is touch enabled. Buttons and such are better designed for tapping, tabs are draggable, the status bar at the bottom can be pulled up with a swipe, etc.
I think they need to watch Steve Martin's cautionary tale "The Jerk".
Amusingly, this happens a lot with SSL certs. BIOS battery will be dead, internet connection will be spotty or the time server host names will be old or whatever, system will run but not have the right time. IT gets called in because nothing HTTPS will work, particularly GMail. All the certs won't verify as being signed in the future and other rubbish.
Anyone know of similar programs at other top engineering schools (MIT, Stanford, Cal, Carnegie Mellon, many others)?
Love the fact that it neither has windows key nor mac key :)
No info on RAM?

I was wondering if this could be worth installing Linux on it.
I think this is really trying to push the hardware to do something it isn't designed for. Why get this when you can get a Retina Macbook and install Windows on that for less. I believe they are available for around $1350 right now on sale. You'd get 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD and better performance/battery life. Plus you can then run Chrome on that :)
Loving the site/concept! Like the new pivot (hate the word too!) I think it's a subtle yet logical move based on what I've been seeing across markets.

Ordered the Sergio Bonatelli set! Excited and looking forward to rocking it at the Fashion + Tech Conference in SFO soon!
Ask HN: Best source of passive income while working on startup?
Does anyone have experience of working a job to free up your "sweat" to be allocated to your startup? Realistically something that takes 2-3 hour a day but generates 50-60% of typical working stiff salary (40-60k).
Jailbreaking is still not illegal. Only carrier-unlocking a device is illegal, which is unrelated to both jailbreaking and unlocking the boot loader. Here's a quick and dirty breakdown:

Jailbreaking -- Modifying the software/OS on your device to give you "root" or administrative access, which allows you to do things on the phone that are normally restricted. NOT illegal. Doing this generally involves getting a copy of the "su" (superuser) executable that's been compiled for the OS on the phone in question.

Unlocking the boot loader -- Android phones from the factory do not allow you to install alternate OSes on them until you do this. Doing this simply puts the phone into a state that is receptive to flashing new OSes, and is functionality that's built in to the phone. As far as I know there's no equivallent concept on the iOS side. NOT illegal. I think doing this just involves invoking some special commands via the official adb tools while the phone is connected via usb, and wipes all of the data from your phone when you do it.

Unlocking/Carrier unlocking -- Phones that you buy from carriers such as AT&T, Verizon, etc. are usually carrier-locked, meaning they'll only work with SIM cards that came from whatever carrier you bought them from. It means you can't (for example) sign up for a Verizon plan and get their subsidized price on a new phone, then cancel your plan immediately (paying whatever exorbitant early termination fees they charge which hopefully still nets you at less than the full cost of the phone you got), and bring the phone to T-Mobile for a cheaper pay-as-you-go plan. The only way to do that would be to carrier-unlock the phone. This IS illegal. I'm not really sure what this generally involves but I know for at least some phones it's just a matter of dialing up a special keycode on the phone.
Good luck changing that in the US. If you got waiters subject to the normal minimum wage then there might be potential. Hopefully you don't take your dislike of a system out on someone forced to work within it.
So this looks like it could be a very nice Linux laptop assuming all the drivers are open source (nothing bad stood out in a cursory glance of the specs, though I imagine the noise-canceling and touchscreen won't work on vanilla Linux). Only issue is how well your favorite Linux interface (Gnome, KDE, etc) will scale to such a high pixel density.
Typed out too soon. Meant it is a good reason but not the only language with that reason unless you wish to stick to the JVM.
I wrote a column for CNET 11 years ago titled: "Is it time for a GeekPAC?" Some of the ideas may still be useful:
http://news.cnet.com/2010-1023-971115.html

Nowadays you don't want a PAC. You'd probably want to set up multiple organizations including perhaps a 501(c)(4) and definitely a Super PAC expenditure-only committee, which is far more useful than a traditional PAC because it can conduct unlimited independent spending in favor of your preferred candidate (or against your non-preferred candidate).

Traditional PACs, by contrast, can only give $5,000 to a candidate -- they're more useful if you're a company trying to lobby a congresscritter. Their scheduler is going to check to make sure you've given before deciding whether to set up the meeting with the boss, etc. Not as useful if you're an advocacy group trying to influence elections.
By growing and getting into new markets you can stay ahead of the curve. But once you hit saturation, its going to catch up with you. On top of that there is fatigue for this model all together.
There is a certain cost to Google to provide that big a storage limit "for free", but storage isn't that expensive these days, and most people won't use it all. I would guess that there's room in the Pixel's hefty price tag for that net present value of that cost.