skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computer-on-cloud is pointless unless you've got the processing power on the cloud to get real work done. If Google were to throw their computing power behind an online photoshop clone, or video and audio editing software, then they'd have something.

If you really consider the actual market for computers, most users are going to laugh at Google's ridiculous price tag and buy a Windows machine for less than half the price.
Google Drive 1TB for 3 years = $1,800

Chromebook Pixel 1TB for 3 years = $1,300 + free laptop

Or put another way, commit to Google Drive for 3 years of 1TB, get 30% off and a free Chromebook Pixel.
The Internet Raises a Puppy
The reason for high medical prices is high medical costs, which includes the insurance premiums doctors pay to maintain coverage should they be sued. A "national health service" sidesteps this by making it hard to sue the provider, who ultimately is the state, which also runs the court system. To "safeguard" people (and provide a sense of cost containment), a national health service designs regulatory processes and guidelines to control and manage costs.

Might work in the short run in a small and homogenized enough population, where everybody basically only needs the same type of care; beware if you ever get a rare condition, since there is no incentive to specialize, and the regulations for "edge cases" are written as they are discovered.

The real solution to high medical prices is to lower costs, foremost of which would be insurance premiums doctors need to pay to cover their practices. This can be accomplished through tort reform. The best part of this is that if you don't like insurance companies taking money, this reduces that purely by market action.
On 2: Many of the providers we looked at did say it was cooling. They would give higher power to single racks, but then they would make us take up more floor space. So really floor space is often how the express their cooling capacity.

On 6: That is a very good point. We ended up going to the Google building which has a lot of transit options. Transit if definitely a factor
Chromebooks are definitely appliances.

I only found two current Dual Core 1.8GHz i5s: http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced/?s=t&FamilyText=3rd...

The SSD specs don't matter because you can't run anything that would stress it and officially it's not replaceable.

Likewise, RAM is officially not upgradeable/replaceable.
Follow up story about North Korean prison
You're making the assumption that everyone in the world is capable of or would even want to assemble a crude version of the same concept at home. Comparing the resourcefulness or ingenuity of an experienced hacker to that of the product's target market (artists, crafters and children) is asinine at best.

It is exactly this kind of overreaction that I was addressing in my original comment. You make these wild assumptions that it's only going to cost them pennies per unit to manufacture and that they're ripping people off. But that's far from reality.
Hacking Gmail’s Deep Links
If you're doing CPU/GPU intensive web development this would come in handy. WebGL is pretty much a no-go on the ARM based Chromebooks but would perform fine here.
One of the less controversial uses of OO dispatch is to replace switch statements or chained ifs with a polymorphic function. Try to do this more than a few times to the same codebase, and you'll either wind up having to merge classes into weird hierarchies or use hacks like "the visitor pattern" to proceed.

The other big use of multimethods is when you have static-type function overloading (as in Java/C++) and decide you need to move the overload selection into runtime via the dynamic type of the arguments. This isn't possible in the general case without doing all the dispatch work yourself, but it's a trivial with multimethods.
Perhaps a roommate that is in love with the other?
That's great but doesn't that mean there's no way of developing locally without installing Ubuntu on this thing?
Feature request: below a certain threshold, recolor each letter of comment in alternating circus colors.
Creative ways to meet interesting people
What about a camera? Or backup hard-drive? Heck, I rarely use online backup services for my photos since the files are so ridiculously large so I just end up using multiple HDDs.
phpChart (http://phpchart.net) is a commercial charting solution but based on jqplot, a FOSS.

FusionCharts (http://fusioncharts.com) is another successful commercial product for charts.
Sony event argues gaming needs more of everything
That is a depressing depressing map.
> 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.

For the same reason a good chunk of my neighbors upgraded to iPhone5 from iPhone 4S (even though some of them didn't have the iPhone4S for more than a few months, and probably had to pay full (non-subsidized) amount to make the upgrade). Notice Google's marketing and branding efforts for this Pixel being eerily similar to Apple's, the pitch that the device somehow transcends in value over all of your other silicon-based products. They're trying very hard to have their brand be in the same rank Apple is in. It's a thing you're going to use to keep your pace in the 'Keeping up with the Joneses' game, it's like a Gucci bag, it's an alternative to the Macbook for when you're in Starbucks. There's no good reason to buy a Benz over a Corolla, but a lot of people do. Worse, a lot of people who probably shouldn't do.
I a pretty sure the font size isn't hard coded in the kernel ;)
It's the "steal" option which is causing much consternation.
Step one of our interview process is a culture fit. For small businesses I think that it is paramount.
I would love to see how rarely doctors are sued for malpractice in Poland. Probably very little if at all.
An excellent question!

It would be really funny if the appeals court reversed, IBM sued Oracle into oblivion (since SQL is the latter's flagship product), and then Microsoft and Google teamed up with the open-source community for copyright reform.
you right, sorry for pointless blaming, my bad, had to check it first.
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I don't know sendgrid service details but if they can track email clicks, then preserving utm variables might actually be good.

You get number of email clicks from separate metric, plus you get total reach from Google Analytics - so that you know total impact of your mailing (or any other channel you're tracking), including reshares.
Maybe The PS4 Isn’t So Bad After All
...or basically anything else that transmits the ideas of processes, or things that happen and programs/instructions - not static things like wells and castles and dumb actors (princesses), that make me think more of OOP, or the totally "incomputable" for me idea of "granting a wish".
This is What a Volcano Eruption Looks Like from Space
A nice update to a very old meme. I didn't realise that the original 'you have two cows' was from 1944 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_have_two_cows

And after the NZ reference, I'm wondering if the author of this one was an Aussie.
Open JDK Implementation was provided by Joshua Bloch (He was a Google employee until recently). And I would not call it a rip-off.
I'd like to see more examples of people using these tools to control acoustic-seeming sounds. The tech intrigues the geek part of me, but the sounds don't agree with me (I mostly have a piano/classical/jazz background).
Depends if you consider Jay Leno to be a form of malware that NBC can't remove.

(sorry)
Which lenses were used?

Why do the images get more "foggy" at the max zoom level?

Do you have any photos of the robots operating the cameras?
a) Read legal briefs

b) View financial reports

c) Read research papers

d) Write web based apps

e) Write apps so that more actitivities can be done with specs like this.
Symbols on Linux Part Three: Linux versus Windows
Do you really feel like your perspective on LivingSocial's core business is underrepresented, and that continually reminding us of how little regard you have for it is a contribution?

Because I actually do think that the untrustworthiness of this report, and, more importantly, the implications of that untrustworthiness is underrepresented and is worth talking about more. Whereas a chin-wagging circle of commentary about how unsustainable daily-deals sites are does not seem particularly valuable.

(This comment reads meaner than I intend it to be.)
Correct, but Ableton includes a bunch of instruments out of the box so when I said learning Ableton, I meant those as well.
Furthermore, all the VSTs are not that conceptually different. Like yeah Massive and Sylenth1 are different but they still have an oscillator, envelope, LFO, filter and effects. And if you understand how synthesis works and know one well picking up the other is not that hard compared with say if you know how to play piano and want to learn to play the guitar.

For me, not having frequencies overlap falls under mastering which I consider to be kind of separate but related issue. If you wanted to be in a traditional (as in, a band with 'real' instruments), you'd still have to learn that to make your music sound good in addition to learning the instrument. And I still think that learning Ableton (+VSTs) is easier than learning to play a 'real' instrument. Minus maybe the bass guitar :-). It's definitely more fun which is why I might think that it's easier. But it is true that in electronic music, mastering is probably more important.

For anyone who's interested in this I can recommend this free book http://noisesculpture.com/how-to-make-a-noise-a-comprehensiv... (they ask for your email).
I regularly use the SSH client. I wouldn't call it wonderful; it works, but that's about it. Highlight a wrapped line? GNOME Terminal will Do The Right Thing, Chrome's SSH client won't and gives you a newline. See a URL? GNOME Terminal will let you click to open; Chrome's SSH client won't.
That is some fantastic feedback. I got your email too. We will be fixing some of these issues.
TDD Is About Design, Not Testing (2011)
I'm hoping they are frugal and have parties with non-family members at their homes. Maybe a barbecue where neighbours invite their friends... and they invite friends of friends...
I didn't downvote you, but are you seriously suggesting that all you need for arbitrary development is a nice-looking, syntax-highlighting text editor? Leaving aside the fact that Brackets itself is relatively immature.

It may work if you use SSH, as others have mentioned, but that still restricts your use case and that's not what you implied at first.
I believe The biggest differentiator in Play 2 is the reactive programming. Even if you look outside the JVM, NodeJS is the only other web framework providing that level of non-blocking http.

Rapid iteration is probably obvious for PHP, Rails or Django, but on the JVM (or .net), it's pretty rare to see a framework that really supports it well.
This is a short overview of how we graphically designed Jog of War, a strategic running game (real life and all) that we've been building for the past few weeks. We got the idea at a hackathon, where we also won, and we received crazy good feedback at the event already, so we knew we were onto something. We're steadily showing more of the game as we go along, but if you'd like to know more, shoot me an email.
This feels as vacuous as when the linux crowd used to proclaim it. Hell, just within the webapp realm that Google is good at, they haven't exactly been stellar with long term support of some products. I mean, I never worried about maintenance or viruses in Google Buzz, either. Luckily, I also didn't worry about it sticking around. :)
You want to sell your company at the top! Because it's all downhill from there.
Dalla Cina con terrore. Un esempio per l’italia dell’occupazione
"And yet ChromeOS can't do any of these things...I really don't get this product."

I completely agree. If I pay $1300 for a laptop, I expect to be able to do some serious graphics work or video editing. Instead Chrome Pixel gives you powerful hardware coupled to an internet-connected OS with basic, limited apps like Google Docs. (As an example, Google Docs is so basic it can't even span table cells. Worperfect 5.0 could do this over 20 years ago. Pay $1300 for an OS so lacking in features or capable software? Is this progress?).
Realistically, the percentage of customers you lose by accepting Bitcoin is probably much higher than the cost of handling credit card fraud.
That's Play 2 you are talking about. Play 1 had instant refresh.

It is not necessarily the case that you would use Play 2 for new projects.
Google is a mighty monster that is eating the Internet. That concentration of power makes me a little nervous, and it might be best for everyone in the long run if they get taken down a peg or two.

But I suggest reading the judge's ruling [1], which is actually rather entertaining, to get a sense of the actual circumstances of this case before you try to swim against the tide without making any cogent arguments or citing any facts.

[1] http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraGoogle-1202.pdf
Not a full environment; just enough of one for average web development (meaning vim/emacs, git, ruby/nodejs/etc, NaCl compiler, and associated debuggers), a small enough set to be vetted by Google and run at low privilege while still letting an average developer get started out of the box w/o needing to figure out hosting or such right away.

Hell, just adding some project management to the inspector to act as a psuedo-IDE for Chrome apps would be a start. I've got personal attachment to *nix from using so much of it, some 12-year old that stumbled into the devtools has no such attachment.
Didn't know Spotify ran a p2p rig. Just wish they would give me some extra free minutes for having the damn thing up and running all the time back home...

Anyway, quite entertaining to monitor its port traffic on my Mac:

perl -e'while(1){%x=map{$_=>$x{$_}+1}grep/spotify/i,`lsof -i -P`;print for grep{$x{$_}<2}keys%x;sleep 1}'

It seems to target peers geographically, which makes sense.
1. The item on thingiverse isn't referred to as a 3D pen.

2. Extrusion is the mechanism through which most 3D printing works. In this case, the extruder is attached to your arm rather than to a machine.
There's a serious selection bias in this study; it also requires that the person thinks the object of their fascination is likely to check Craigslist. So,... yeah.
>Compared to redeploying an entire Tomcat/Jetty app, this is several orders of magnitude better.

It is? Are you building a war/ear and copying it to a server to deploy or something? I think every java IDE has support for locally building and deploying within the IDE, which is no slower than play's reloading.
>>Kind of how some expensive wine is sold.

I don't think computers are comparable to wine.
I think he's referring to physical form. PC laptops were roughly boxy things in 2 colors (tan and black) for a long time. After Apple released the solid color iBooks (after the 'purse' versions) you started to see smaller and whiter laptops. After Apple moved to aluminum and started making their laptops very thin, suddenly all sorts of PCs were aluminum and thin.

Apple doesn't own 'thin laptop', but tons of the thin laptop market just happens to be aluminum with a black keyboard with space between the keys.

I'm in the Mac world and haven't really looked for PCs, but it seems like every laptop I see either has a striking resemblance to a Mac or is a 'pimped out' Alienware desktop replacement type machine with interesting lines and multi-color LED lighting and such.
How to Really Read Your Audience’s Mind
How about drawing charts based on a datagrid that is populated from database like this?
http://phpgrid.com/example/phpgrid-phpchart-integration-with...
and if left to "we should all be treated fairly/you have to pay for MY health care" proponents would mean ... sorry, what was the question again?

Nope, didn't add to the argument at all...
You were kicked off for acting odd.

He oddly took a picture of his seat, as he'd oddly done numerous times before. He oddly got embarrassed by being singled out for oddly not knowing that an oddly common benign act is now regarded as odd. He oddly felt the need to clear the air. When punished for acting oddly human, he oddly pointed out that he oddly felt that he had been maligned.

Yes, travel blogger was acting quite odd.
If your business model is reliant on annoying the users of a proprietary 3rd party platform, you shouldn't be surprised when the rug gets yanked out from underneath you.
because all these dipwads who think you can just snorffle through a big list o words and apply it to a map are filling the world with their bullshit.
That's great for web developers, but what about those of us who are building desktop or embedded software?
I wouldn't call it brilliant. Its just a way to beat the OEMs when google realized the OEMs were killing android. Android is the OS of the Open Handset Alliance. The idea is everyone would run it, like windows, and just sell different hardware. I don't think anyone was really expecting the massive modifications the OEMs would do and the huge delay in updates. Not to mention handsets being abandoned 6 months after launch while Apple was maintaining updates for years with their phones. OEMs still live in the disposable flip-phone age. Google knows that mentality will never go away. The collusion between carrier and OEM is so rotten, google had to make its own brand to get away from it.

Google freaked out a bit and turned its vanity Nexus brand into a proper consumer brand. Remember, Nexus was the "developer's phone" originally. The situation with tablets was even worse. Outside of the Xoom and the Transformer, the tablet quality was terrible and just couldn't compete with ipad. Nexus branding is an admission that you can't rely on OEMs anymore. Google can't be Microsoft. It needs to be Apple. Hardware and vendor relationships can't just be passed off to a couple Korean and Japanese firms. You need to do this in-house if you want to compete.
Doesn't Microsoft and Apple have a cross-licensing agreement?
I'm running on an i7 with an SSD already. Our solution was to not use play (or scala for that matter).
Looks like a great device. Really looking forward to try this out.
(I wrote the post) I am not aware of any. That's actually one of the motivations to do this. Someone needs to start !
Yep, these are all great ideas. Building a platform for doing this is going to be tricky though. If anyone out there wants to help, please email me at sina.khanifar@gmail.com. I'm an amateur ruby/rails dev, and a pretty decent designer, but I definitely need help.
I don't think P2P applications have a significant security risk.

Specifically, I don't think the security industry at large considers P2P to be inherently risky. If you trust Spotify like you trust say, Google Chrome, or Microsoft Outlook, or any of the other apps you run on your machine, the fact that one or more of them uses P2P in no way further raises your risk profile.
Cool, we are using Highcharts for years at quintly. Great to see that they are making progress.
FYI, Matthew Flatt will be doing at keynote at Clojure/West on Racket in Portland, March 18-20th. http://clojurewest.org/schedule
Live performance is easily electronic music's biggest obstacle. A light show/projector is at the very least a needed default. Because a single man behind a controller/lappy is not that interesting.
As someone who lives in Indiana, this is probably it. Big gatherings usually end up with a few people that the host doesn't know (of course, that's true most places).
I think it's more than just a toy. It's awesome for an ME to prototype with a 3D printer, now imagine the ME simultaneously sketching and prototyping. As the 3Doodler becomes better, I could see it becoming a powerful prototyping tool.
Totally dig hosted IDEs. I think it's the way of the future. But why do you need a powerful computer to use them? How does it help? I'm genuinely asking.
I'm curious as to why you think these products won't succeed, and particularly what opportunity they're missing by focusing on these.
That seems like a reasonable use for a $250 computer, but using a $1300 computer with a 2560x1700 display as a dumb terminal is a bit of a waste.

Your average end-user is going to be pretty disappointed when they find out that all they can do with their expensive laptop is browse the internet.

It seems like the best use of this of this might be to run Linux, but if you accept a slightly lower resolution, you can get a pretty decent Thinkpad or Envy that has a lot more flexibility.
Hmm.. I'd never heard of the term bus factor. Amusing concept. How do you feel Lift compare with the likes of Play?

I can say that the few small things I pushed out with Lift greatly benefited from the fact that the views were strictly html. To the point that nobody else involved even had to learn scala. Even though they did make some changes to the scala code. Being able to let folks edit that to their hearts content was ridiculously nice. That is, the fact that I did not have to (a) educate everyone on the templating mechanisms or (b) split apart templates received from someone else was huge.

As for the database connectivity, I guess you didn't like the agnostic approach they took?
"Speed has been a core tenet of Chrome and Chromebooks since the beginning"

Too bad the OS is seemingly always tied to low end - dog slow hardware.
Why is this sad? Because Walmart is the most cited location?

Seems great to me. People are reaching out. Would be more depressing if they just decided to not do anything about it.

Plus this only has relevance to craigslist users. Seems like a fun conversation piece but certainly isn't the anything-est anything in America.
Clojure has some nice syntax and conventions for dealing with sequences, vectors, maps, and sets, such that it encourages working with those data structures until performance requires something more specialized. It also has some very well thought out mechanisms for concurrency.

I would think these things could be implemented in Racket. In fact, I would love to see a Racket implementation of Clojure (minus the JVM bits) that was nicely integrated into DrRacket.
>Can you prove your opinion is objectively correct, or is it just your opinion?

Doesn't that question seem rather non-productive? At least if you asked why he has that opinion you could engage in some sort of potentially constructive conversation on the topic.
Stanford University raises $1 billion in single year
Additionally, I think that going forward on-site interviews at Google will use Chromebooks to type code up, rather than white-boarding (which makes me sad, but I suspect will make all the people who hate white-boarding a lot happier).
I agree with you totally. Google glass, Chromebook, etc are all just vanity products... not even the vanity of the users, but of google.

The one exception I would have to your statement is that in my own experience, my friend gave me a good deal on a huge monitor, and I am able to fit a large number of terminals open at the same on it and it's working out very well for me.

At work I have two small monitors, but at home I have the one big one and I like it at home much better. YMMV.