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Sure. Its actually going backwards. Back to a focus on the performer as a simple human who does feats, macho virtuosity and does crowd conscious manipulations.

What electronic music opened up is much larger. Music is internal, electric (like our central nervous systems) and cosmic. The focus is in the body and mind of the people experiencing it. Its in the speakers and on the dance floor. The composer disappears, the audience disappears, the technique disappears (and all that thinking about "is the performance technically accurate/innovative ?")

As soon as you put some clown on the stage all the beauty evaporates and people stand around yelling "woot" and generally not dancing. Or if they do it involves fist pumping and making rock faces.

As soon as you put a live musician in the track then you start thinking about technical execution and about what the musician is feeling and thinking. It limits it. I love live musicians (I majored in Saxophone, I have a piano in my room here), but I just want to point out that the revolution of electronic music is that we took music past the limits of performance.

Its pure sound, pure feeling.

Also you should realize that even jungle, juke, IDM, breakcore are often written with furious fingers and lots of live tweaking. And AraabMuzik is using the auto rolls all the time and he has breaks that set the pace. And he has the dynamics turned way down so its actually pretty hard to make a mistake. Turntablists like Q-bert are a thousands times more impressive. Listen to Sabar drumming and forget about the simple boom bap and cheap rolls that AraabMuzik is doing here. Jungle at its peak twisted the mind with intricate rhythms that really blew minds.

And people have been doing crazy live electronic performance for ooooh.... 60 years now. We used keyboards and drum pads and MPC/SP type machines.
$1300? How do you say WTF in Google-ese?
If you listen off of the mobile app, it's not p2p. I would recommend that if your phone is right next to your computer
It's much easier to develop on a Chromebook than you probably think. There are many editor choices, there is Web Inspector for debugging, there is an SSH client (in NaCl), there is developer mode, there is Crouton which gives you a Ubuntu chroot without losing the rest of ChromeOS[1]. I don't do NaCl, so I can't speak to how much pain that is, but for web development I find Cloud9, Web Inspector, Secure Shell to be more than adequate.

[1]https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
I would consider in this calculation that the chromebook comes with 1 terabyte free storage on the cloud for 3 years.
The two issues I have with this is:

- They don't effectively communicate this with users. They do let people know, but you have to dig to find it.

- There should be a paid tier where this can be opt out of.
Would Microsoft be a large corporation if copyright in the early 80s prevented Compaq from copying the "structure, sequence, and organization" of the IBM BIOS chip on the original IBM PC? They made the big money on DOS from selling to clone manufacturers -- IBM paid a flat rate on MS-DOS.
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To be fair, if a framework was totally uninterested in fast iteration or couldn't even remotely claim it, then they would simply say nothing rather than offering "slow iteration".
This thing again? Every patent expert I've talked to has told me this is just a bait to lure developers to Twitter: the language is so broad that Twitter's IPA is no different than others. If you look at GitHub you can see that the relevant commits and issues raised have been ignored or dismissed with "it's your opinion against mine". No wonder the repo has been silent for months.
I really like the idea but, at patent law teaches us, ideas are worth nothing without execution.
The more damning evidence is Chad Fowler's recent departure from LS to Wunderkinder.
My mom is in her 60's, speaks English poorly, and has great difficulty using computers. She absolutely loves her iPad and can do a lot with it. It was $500.
It is significantly larger than the 13" MBA, and only barely smaller than the 13" rMBP.
I am extremely excited about this simply because of the display. Finally there is a laptop with a display that competes with Retina macbooks.

If you don't like chrome OS then you can install ubuntu or whatever. The lack of local storage space would be a pain, though, I do admit.
That's not shady accounting, revenue is the income a company receives before handling any expenses, which in this case would include payment of merchants. This is why revenue is called the top-line - it represents the first number on any balance sheet before you subtract anything away.
Exactly. xj9's mocking of the OP is terribly unconstructive.
> Wasn't the point of "fully living in the cloud" that you wouldn't need a powerful client?

No, the point was that you could seamlessly move between different clients in the event of hardware failure, being away from your primary device unavoidably, etc.

> Wasn't "thin client" the dream?

"Thin client" may have been someone's dream, but it certainly hasn't been Google's rich clould-based apps vision.
? Are you implying that the Pixel is a *book ripoff?
I love the comment translated as, "People around the world .. scratch turnip". Without any knowledge of Russian, I can only assume the word for turnip is used informally to mean head. Can anyone who knows Russian confirm/refute this?
wrong direction..$250 should be the target for mass uptake. This is $1050 in the wrong direction...it's almost like they don't want mass uptake of this concept quite yet
On the other hand, many are glad they don’t have to handle the performing tuning of NICs them self…
Is there any objective basis for saying that Clojure is "better" than Scala?
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I'm still waiting for Chrome to support high DPI displays on Windows. It looks terrible in Windows 8 with DPI scaling enabled.
That's the problem with speaking for the general population, you say "most people need more", someone else says "most people only need X" and the conversation goes no where.
Perhaps Spreedly Core might be interesting if you need to support multiple payment gateway options. core.spreedly.com - I work at Spreedly. BTW we're making some signficant changes to the site/pricing in about 10 days so if it's interesting to you at all email justin @ spreedly to talk further.
Yep, totally agree. There's this great 'OMG THE CLOUD' here on HN, but really as I'm sure you guys did, you have to sit back, actually do a cost-benefit analysis (even if it's two guys on a whiteboard and not a full report) and decide what is best for the way the company/product are structured.
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This is exactly what Castlight Health is doing. They are collecting cost and outcome data and partnering with employers to setup the most cost effective insurance they can.
None of which use the $1250+ machine to actually "run or test the code you write." If you are just using a browser for coding, why pay that much money for a machine to run a browser?
It's just part of being an open company, read more here: http://blog.gittip.com/post/26350459746/the-first-open-compa...

We crowdsource feedback for a lot of things we do @ Balanced. For example, we've openly discussed pricing (https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/48), etc.

Everything's on https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api. We're trying a different approach to payments, for once. Openness and transparency.
Not just what, but where are the power users? Both models of the Chromebook Pixel are still available with immediate shipping from the Play Store. Contrast to the Nexus 4 sales launch.
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I don't know anybody who only bought a Mac because it was expensive. They bought it because it was worth the expense.

Chrome OS is an unproven platform that doesn't have nearly the popular support of Apple's products, and it's coming from a company that's still fairly new at both software and hardware design. That's not to say this will be a bad product, but this is certainly a risky marketing strategy. I'd love it they pulled it off – I like the thought of a web-only notebook, even if I don't want one myself – so I'll be crossing my fingers and hoping they pull this off.
That's basically worthless in a country where people are paying $10 per GB for 4-5 megabit LTE service, or else hopping on Starbucks Wi-Fi access points to get 1-2 megabit service.

I can foresee scenarios where that would be useful: when we have unmetered 30-40 megabit wireless service everywhere. But very few people in the U.S. find themselves in that situation.
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Can you be specific on how this is incompatible with RESTful bullshit?
But if you want a good laptop in this price range to install Linux on, why get one of these? There are plenty of Windows OEMs who will sell you a better machine (modulo the screen), or you can cough up an extra $200 and buy a 13" rMBP, which has a comparable screen and is technically better in every other regard (modulo 4G, although what's the price for the LTE modem?)
"Knowing somebody" is something that scores some points in your hiring game, but it's not a deal breaker. In my case I had a few referrers that I only knew online -- some good contacts, but nobody that I had worked together or even met in person. Rest assured you're good enough in the resume and interviews, you should get an offer. Of course, strong referrals can make the threshold for "good enough" a little lower; even Google's extensive recruiting process has limitations. The point of referrals is not nepotism, it's just providing important information about the quality of any candidate.
Some years from now, people will refer to this (Chromebooks and everything related to Chrome OS) as Google's biggest strategic mistake.

Google's second biggest strategic mistake will be Glass.

I just hope Google would recover.
Am i the only one seeing this as a high-end computer with :

- Linux drivers working out of the box

- Amazing screens

- Very easy to transform into a full fledged Linux development machine

I hope it can fit the bill, certainly looks promising from that perspective ! Anybody has a link to full specs ?
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Trust me, I don't like GoDaddy either. But they're the most popular registrar, and I think it'd be foolish of me not include them. The market much, much larger than the subset of people like us.
Many of the deep fryers I've used years ago had magnetic power connectors. How is Apple's design different? Is it just because it is "on a laptop", and not "on a hot oil basket"?

Edit: I looked up the patent, and it appears they've patented various improvements to the connector, such as universal orientation (can plug it in either direction), and something to do with the polarity of the magnets.
I still can't get over the price tag for a Chromebook regardless of the specs.
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I was talking critically about patterns and joke about how a hard core pattern expert would write a hello world.

Search on the demigod (Google) found the answer! it seems like you can write articles just saying "open sesame".
http://vine.co/blog

My understanding was Vine is more Insta-video-gram, the limitation (though they will probably start adding filtering, and you can chop things up) of 6 seconds of a scene. Which is sort-of a real-time Gif (lifted that from the Wired article):
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/02/why-vines-going-to-gr...
No, most computers are sub-$1000, probably sub-$500 web browsers.
Chrome has a wonderful SSH client [0], and with a $5/mo Digital Ocean [1] (or other [2]) VPS for all your UNIX work, it's a perfectly capable dev machine.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...

[1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/

[2]: http://www.lowendbox.com/
Here's a case study showing over 500k connections to a Java instance in 2.5GB of memory using NIO. JRuby's implementation of Ruby's IO is implemented directly atop NIO. So yeah...that 15GB assertion is nonsense.

http://urbanairship.com/blog/2010/08/24/c500k-in-action-at-u...
Chromebook Pixel hands-on video and impressions
It's still not clear why a Chromebook is better than a tablet for this purpose, but even if it were, I'm not sure there's a compelling reason for someone like your mom to buy a $1300 Chromebook as opposed to a $200 Chromebook. The text may look better on the $1300 Chromebook, but most people who aren't technologically literate (and many people who are) would probably prefer to read off paper anyway.
Not "better" as a language - "better" at exhibiting functional paradigms more transparently. I've fixed the wording.
There are big EDM artists that have really been pushing the envelop on what you can do in live performance for a while now. Deadmau5 specifically has a real obsession about trying to do everything live and it's obvious that this requires a large amount of musical and technical knowledge and talent.

Here is a video with him talking about his live set set up from 2010 and is a really interesting watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTCqeWu094I

I remember hearing somewhere that he has switch over to a complete live show since then, but I can't find a link to confirm this right now. Needless to say what he does is way more then just play some tracks that he made. Which is one of the reason he despises the term "DJ" to describe what he does.

Edit: He is also incredibly obsessed with the lights at his live show and handles the lighting including the rig himself.
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Doctors are not the ones getting filthy rich of this. At least not most of them. The money is sucked out of the system somewhere else (making it unstable for everybody involved - even doctors).

But that's besides the point anyways - the fact that people make health decisions based on their economic situation is fundamentally wrong.

Also - I live in Germany and even if it's N=1, I have yet to see the doom and gloom that I always hear is supposed to be my reality.
Flagging isn't a "this person broke the rules" thing so much as a "this post is inappropriate or harmful to the site" thing.

"Meta" discussion tends to get flagged heavily, because a lot of people feel like, "I'm here for interesting discussion about hacking and entrepreneurship, not to watch Hacker News stare at its own navel." It's basically off-topic.

Posts about individual HN posters also seem to get a lot of flags, as many people find it kind of creepy and/or invasive.
That's not necessarily true. They might be pushing for a liquidation for a value higher than their investment, netting a gain at everyone else's expense.
Vimeo acquires GIF-making app Echograph to challenge Vine & Cinemagram
Well, or the doctor is interested and knowledgeable in MRI scans, which leads to both investment and more likely to use it as a tool.
I use the Secure Shell extension to ssh onto a dev environment and use vim from there.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...
Admittedly, higher effort and probably not for the non-tech but...android emulator + mobile app would probably work too. Granted I have other qualms with their mobile app.

For the premium users, I do wonder if any of the open source spotify clients would alleviate this?

http://despotify.sourceforge.net/
Doubtful -

1) They have to explain to the credit card chargeback authority what a bitcoin is and why the entry in the block chain means they actually sent the coins.

2) Nothing to stop the Bitcoin buyer from just saying "I didn't do it" (Which is 'friendly fraud' in the article).

From my experience, reversing a chargeback is only possible in a minimum of cases when sending physical items, and even harder for digital goods that you can't just send again (Bitcoins vs an Ebook).
That's what PrivCo would say to defend what's happened. Like you, they'd be careful to couch the defense in terms of ideas that are hard to falsify. Of course, they got to this point in the conversation by reporting a series of material falsehoods; their initial specificity is what scored them a seat at the table. But let's ignore that they have no credibility anymore and instead entertain our own biases about what's happened.

It is especially easy to pull this off when the topic is a company we don't like.
You can make some inferences from the available statistics. The Chromebook is priced like an Ultrabook. Nobody is making any money off Ultrabooks, except Apple. Why would anyone spend as much as an Ultrabook to get a machine that does even less than an Ultrabook? I don't think this is that subjective of an argument.
This probably assumes that all cards are under different names.
Sadly, with 32 GB, it would probably end as only development machine, while with even 120 GB it could work as reasonable "home machine" too.

But otherwise yes, it looks great.
Wait, this is saying that a genre that was created through instrumachines — people playing a bunch of old roland x0xes, then later the sp-12s/1200s, then later MPCs, live — will somehow be revolutionized by the newer forms of the same instrumachines?

I think essentially the argument is that "laptops are not any fun to play live with" and really, that was just a short phase of electronic music. We all did that for a few years, then found our controllers, monomes, modulars, mpcs, etc. much more fun, and have just returned to what was already there. A laptop can be an instrumachine for the right artist with the right controllers (e.g., Daedelus and his monome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCzHpQtNduE) attached to it, just as an MPC + SP1200 have been the right instrumachine for hiphop (KRS-One & BDP use one next to the turntables in every concert) for decades.
I've seen this argument a couple of times in this thread. I used to use Spotify and now I use Rdio and I do not see a difference in speed at all. What kind of speed are we talking about? How quickly a song starts playing? I've noticed no difference, and obviously the songs can't play faster.
The 3:2 aspect ratio is certainly interesting to Google but not to users. It is even less vertical space than with 16:9 or 16:10. So what good is that much horizontal space, apart for ads in a column left or right of the content.
It's too bad that you had to resort to scraping. It's a shame that Craigslist hasn't built their own API for those who pay for a license.

Are you doing the scraping server side or client side (inside the app)?
Wouldn't Microsoft have benefited from the decision given that they were using Java syntax, grammar, API, and library interfaces without properly implementing Java, and were even sued by Sun for that?

http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/sunwvmsft/Default.htm
We've recently shifted to developing directly on a development instance on EC2 and haven't looked back. The IDE we use supports editing over SSH, so we simply treat the machine as if it were on our laptop. The best part is access anywhere. Last week I set up a local-only development box and everything was going swimmingly -- until I needed to work from home. I realized just how amazing being able to work from anywhere truly was.

There needs to be a balance. If I can't use my IDE on a chromebook, that obviously won't work. But if I can have access to my tools locally that manage remote service and data -- I'm golden.
> It is a sad day in a civilized, modern society when fundamental decisions on healthcare are made purely on finances, not quality of life.

I don't understand how you were sold on the idea that you are in a civilised society when one of the fundamental aspects of living in one is that your neighbours will help you when you can't help yourself.
It's actually the tracking (letter-spacing: 1px), a slight difference. http://www.mmprint.com/blog/2011/typography-kerning-leading-...
ACH transfers are reversible and a few bitcoin exchanges have been bitten by them since most have/do take dwolla, which is a nice service for ACH transfers.

Bank wire transfers, though, are unable to be reversed. Its a pity that most US banks charge for them.
I need 1TB of fast storage, not on the other end of an internet connection, especially given that the cloud provider (or anyone that gains access to the cloud provider) can read my data.
> err on the side of caution

The risk avoided is ... that the FA feels annoyed while serving this guy who talked back?

It sounds like the captain also made no attempt to evaluate whether the passenger was actually crazy (making eye contact would be a start). Seems like captain is earning points w/ the FA - "you don't like the guy? I'll throw him off".
Seriously? You're given an entire library of music for free, all you have to do is put up with the occasional ad between songs.
Probably CEO's who send emails for a living.
But... I also highly doubt most cloud providers are bothering to tune NIC's. They are probably just throwing KVM/Xen up on some standard hardware (whatever is cheapest with highest memory density) and opening the machine up for access. There are going to be parts they tune as a default stack, but that far? I somehow doubt it.
> I really don't get this product.

Reminds me of what every techie said about the iPad too.
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IMHO, all it needs for a decent developer environment is semi-sanctioned shell access and a package manager. I've been using the age-old SSH+tmux combo fine, all that's really hurting me is latency. I'm kind of surprised Google hasn't taken up the task of building their own web-app IDE (but not that surprised, if what I keep hearing about Google not allowing code checked out on laptops is correct it's hard to improve much on SSH).

I want this machine to work, I just don't see how it can without being self-hosting.
Sites like these probably wouldn't exist without linking to GoDaddy.

Most visitors that use these site don't click through on the affiliate links. The few that do end up paying for the rest.

And those few that click? They use GoDaddy...

I disklike GoDaddy as much as the next guy, but if you're in the domain business you can't ignore them.

(source: I run a similar domain site)
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I bet serious developers will buy these things for linux development
Mostly it's rendering, I'm not at a machine at the moment but Ill screenshot why it looked off for me. I'd recommend working on your font choice as well, are you pulling them from somewhere?
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What do Chromebooks use their hard drive for, exactly?
See: Vine

Also: YouTube Capture
I had the same initial reaction, but the killer is the hard drive : 32 or 64 GB SSD... That's a bit short to do local development. Maybe you can change it though.
Is an Apple touchscreen laptop now looking more likely?
I could, but I've been playing with the same group of people (in a Pro Club) for the past 4 years, I'm in too deep. Plus, I just like the Playstation.
So you pay $1,300 to log into a $5/month remote box with 20GB of storage and 512MB of RAM?