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I've had a number of jobs over the years, both at public universities and private companies. Each time there was this nasty sounding piece of legal paper presented to me about patents and copyrights "You agree that every good idea you ever have is property of..." I've never signed one. Sometimes they'd counter with a much more reasonable agreement, and in a couple of cases they didn't seem to have any idea what to do so they just blew it off, after having a few attempts at pestering me to sign it. A couple times the HR people involved seemed quite annoyed that anyone would be different and told me that nobody else ever had any issue with their agreement and why won't I just sign it so we can move forward? If that's really true, then I wish more people would read things before they sign them.
You could put the original Chromebooks in Dev mode and have a terminal with a build environment, or just install your own Linux build on it. Or even Windows. Not the fastest machine in the world, but not the slowest either. I quite liked it. This feels wildly overpriced to me though.
Yes, although it's not easily replicable. I spent a couple of years working remotely as a web grunt. Some weeks were insanely busy, but in general it only took a few hours a day of my time. I was able to do a lot of work on my startup between assignments. The key is to find the right kind of company. You want to be positioned as the technical asset who solves problems, not the person who creates the product being sold. If you're the latter (like a web developer in a marketing agency), then there probably won't be much downtime.
"Microsoft foresees"

If Microsoft truly had foresight, they wouldn't be in the situation they are in.
This is why all social integrations should be as light touch as possible: keep the value somewhere you control it.
There's nothing unique about lift's template system though, you can get something like that in many languages, potentially while also using a good framework.
Instead you get to get to copy it over to your new machine, or forget and lose it. Convenience costs money.
How is this different than Twitter just choosing not to use their patents aggressively? Why all the complexity? And why do they assume that the employee hates patents?
I was reacting to "coders obviously can't use this machine" because coders, with SSH and a nice IDE that fits into the environment, obviously can use this machine. As others have observed, you're not buying this for the processor, you're buying it for the large, high-res touchscreen, aluminum body, built-in LTE, and light weight. If you want raw CPU and hard drive space, you'll get a Mac. I don't think screen-and-body is an invalid reason, either, to pay a premium. When you use a tool all day, the surface quality, the experiential quality, makes a difference. I've never really understood being cheap with something that you're going to look at and touch 6-10 hours a day for 3-4 years, on average.

That said, yes, brackets is immature, but fairly brightly points to a future where a browser OS like ChromeOS is more than sufficient for a really wide variety of use-cases.
How is "the car" Georgia's most common missed connection? Hitchhikers? I can't think of anything else.
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(balanced employee) You are 100% on the money. Customer support part of user experience is largely controlled by the marketplace. We would be happy to provide any guidance in this regard.
If you want a practical takeaway from this article, it's don't buy cheap health insurance. It just gives you a false sense of security, when in reality you're still uninsured against the biggest health expenses.

Any health insurance policy that includes uncapped coinsurance, lifetime benefit caps, or limits on per-day payout is going to leave you high and dry if you really need it.

A good policy that doesn't have these limitation is probably going to cost three times more, but it's going to be worth a thousand or ten thousand times more if you actually need it.

If you can only afford a crappy policy, consider whether you might be better off saving that money instead so you can at least cover your own minor medical expenses. The major ones are going to leave you screwed either way.
I've been offline for a few days. I don't do PF if only because it's common there that things are rarely really answered. If there's a problem with this simple thought experiment then a statement from it could be quoted and shown what's wrong with it. Instead you see only obfuscation and baseless allegations of wrongness. I see no solution there as I write this.

> The fact that the particles are getting closer with respect to distance relative to Frame X does not mean that they are getting closer together with respect to the coordinate r; in fact they are not.

This is false. Frame X is equivalent to an inertial frame says the principle of equivalence. Nothing about an inertial frame prevents one of the higher-velocity particles from passing by one of the lower-velocity (escaping) particles, like cars passing each other on the highway, which could happen in as little as a nanosecond as measured in X. In that case the r-coordinate of the higher velocity particle would not only have gotten closer to the r-coordinate of the escaping particle, it would have now the higher r-coordinate of the two particles, have passed outward through the horizon and be escaping itself.

> The particle inside the horizon has an r coordinate that decreases with time, while the one outside the horizon has an r coordinate that increases with time (here "time" is time with respect to Frame X).

R-coordinates aren't limited to discussion of black holes of course. Your head has an r-coordinate, as do your feet. Assuming your feet are lower initially, if the r-coordinate of your feet is decreasing while the r-coordinate of your head is increasing, you are stretching and your feet are not getting closer to your head in any inertial frame. Conversely if the r-coordinate of your feet is increasing faster than the r-coordinate of your head increases, your feet are getting closer to your head in every inertial frame that contains you. Eventually your feet will pass by and be higher than your head; you will have flipped upside down.

I think we've exceeded the limits of HN discussion. If you want I'll email you; let me know.
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Uh oh, so now the question is who you are. I suggest you shoot me a message out of band (see profile).
Instead of complaining, one should try to see the business opportunities there.

Many talk about finance and Wall St and the quants. Healthcare is 20% of the GDP, and based on the most basic human need, the lowest of the Maslow pyramid.

(disclaimer- I work on hospital billing issues)
Paying an extra thousand dollars for a much improved experience of a device that you'll look at 5-10 hours a day for several years, doesn't seem to me to be out of line, even if it does act as a dumb terminal.
Personally, I wish you could get one without the touchscreen. I understand people like touchscreens on tablets but I don't see the need for it on a laptop.
I've got my web browser on a second portrait monitor as well, it's pretty common for people to overlook width < 1024px configurations when designing their websites.
Maybe you mean the iPod?
Gotta call bullshit on this one. I don't think other manufacturers have the skill to produce anything as good as android. It may have taken a lot longer but it would have made it to the same ubiquitous market position.
I spent some time with cloud9 convincing myself it was usable and bought a chromebook only to find that aswell as chromeos being a massive let down c9 ran like a dog on it. Main thing is it was ridiculously slow, the same actions taking noticably long on the chromebook compare to my laptop.
At this point, publicizing their hypocrisy (and semi-secret dealings) is a pretty good action, in itself.
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"So this is a warning - develop for the Facebook platform and run the risk of your business losing its whole value over-night."

This goes for using any platform. Look at the apps developed using the Twitter platform. This is one reason I've been trying to work on other ideas for a business, or to do my own crawling, for unscatter.com. Using API's from another company is always going to be a product risk.
But you very well might be replacing that hard drive after 3 years when it fails.
Proud to live in South Carolina.
Google, stop trying to make ChromeOS happen, it's not going to happen.
It's lowest price is $80 but doesn't include a developer license (another $360) and only can be used on a "simple webpage" not a web application. The last part is confusing. What exatcly does it mean by "simple webpage"? Does it mean a static web page? If I'm building a ecommerce website, I guess I can't use it?
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https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=atlanta+traffic...
Is that seriously it? Like people looking out the window? I spent 4 years in LA traffic and have never heard of that. It's definitely plausible though, now that I think of it.
Well said, that's my thought as well. If you look at the complaints in this thread (lack of VMs, lack of Photoshop equivalents, etc.) won't get created until there is compelling hardware capable of running them. We're already seeing an explosion of web apps to fill the need of regular Chromebook users (stuff like RDP clients are a hot item in the Web Store these days), but it will take something more capable before we get, for example, good WebGL games.
I agree with eloisant, if you get a decent machine with an SSD, Play is quite snappy. Recompilations are around 1 second on my MacBook Pro with retina display, which is a small price to pay for the type safety you get with Scala
It's on a Sunday, and central London is always genuinely quiet. If you want to find lots of people, look at more touristy places like the Southbank http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-33.2466...
Intel Core i5 and HD 4000 - I think this thing can be Hackintoshed!
It's been a while, but there was a lot of use of Groovy on Grails a few years ago for exactly this reason. I was a strong advocate of JRuby when we did run Ruby code, but it didn't get very far.
Love the VC one. Even better would be if they eventually discover it was really two dogs all along.
Human psychology, to my understanding, is flexible. If you have patent threat for 100 years, people adapt to it. You have to accept existence of patents because someone may buy one and shut you down. You also surrounded by massive propaganda that whatever government does is generally good (bad stuff is exceptional). As a result, if not you, but many people around you see patents as a morally correct tool that can be abused, but if not abused, it's all right. And even if you don't think it's such a great idea, you still have to play along because someone else will use patents against you. Is it surprising then, that in 2013 (223 years since the first patent issued in 1790) you have big budgets to file as many patents as they can? Is that a proof that you would have similar situation with no patent office?

I admit, it is useless to debate too much about what would happen if. It's more pragmatic to talk about how would you design non-violent scheme of negotiation where people are protected and insured against violence.

The gun issue is not offtopic. It is the primary reason why you have all of the drama around government. Because people are ultimately threatened with murder if they do not comply. If you have no possibility to hurt person for non-complience, then there is no drama. You both can perfectly avoid each other and use peaceful means to find justice as much as you want.

So my approach to any question about abuse of (or use of) state-provided violence is this:

1. Identify the violence.
2. Think how to avoid it completely.

Patent law is a system of brutal violence not based on any hard core moral proof. You require proofs from a mathematician, and still do not kill him if he's wrong. Why don't you require even stronger proof from anybody with a gun? It is not a solution to limit patents. And not even to call for their abolishment. You cannot come to mafia and ask them to stop doing what they are doing. The solution is to simply avoid patents as much as you can while finding other ways to protect yourself.

How to do that practically (not by persuasion, but by building some sort of mechanism for people) - is another complex topic. I myself investigate how you can build an anonymous dispute resolution network on top of Bitcoin blockchain (to use it as a secure storage of agreements). Anonymity will provide safety from violence, while conforming to the network rules will allow to make deals with other people. This way you can grow a community of people who respect each other's choices without threatening each other using legal or illegal methods.
That is in fact what I meant. Pixel even has the little dent for the user to put the finger in when opening the laptop. I feel like even if I wanted to buy a non-Apple laptop, the fact that a lot of designs are so similar to Apple makes me feel as if I was buying Adidos shoes which cost roughly the same as real Adidas shoes (and I'm far from being an Apple fan boy). And again, I feel like there is still a lot that could be improved on said design.
Well, obviously, do accept Bitcoin in addition to credit cards, so no customers are lost, only gained.
I want to give you my applause instead of condolences. You can't lose something without taking risks, and taking risks is what makes life interesting and worthy of living.

I'm sorry you lost your wife - it's one of the hardest things we can go through, but like all bruises and cuts, it's not gonna be permanent. All the best wishes for you.
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Re: Templating

I can see how that's a factor for some, but since around here I'm also the guy who writes all the HTML it isn't really a factor one way or the other.

Re: Databases

Yea, ActiveRecord tends to spoil one. I don't like any of the Java ORMs nearly as much as AR, or SQLAlchemy for that matter.

Re: Play

I like Play a lot less than Lift. Lift I could see using for a personal project. Play I could not. It's just like Rails but crappyier and with all the java headaches and baggage.
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Well, I mean, given that most new product launches and most new business ventures fail, of course the naysayers will be right more often. That doesn't mean they actually have insight into why products fail.

So, that having been said and because this is the internet, I'll rush in with my probably foolish and ill-advised explanation for with this won't be a game changer: In this case, I think the price vs. capabilities will make people compare this unfavorably with other ultrabooks/macbook airs. For the price, there isn't much here that can't be copied, easily, and quickly – and if I really want the cloud connectivity, I can get that on my ultrabook.

What's the unique value proposition in this product? I just don't see it being compelling – except that it's not an Apple product (don't get me wrong, I'm typing this on a Macbook, but I recognize that some people don't like the fruit vendor).
Lived there for a decade, and recall a time that we literally turned off our cars and met random people in the jam. I think it was during the trend of people jumping off of overpasses. There's also the random attractive person that cuts you off, flips the bird, etc. you just can't get out of your mind.
Which 4K videos are those? In addition, you don't need 3.0 to get a decent enough bitrate to stream 4x1080p H.264 even today.
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There is a lot of Elon love on HN - but the analysis here is fundamentally correct - bet on winners. And Elon will either win big or blow up big. Its a pretty good bet IMO.

And I am amazed to see the "relentlessly resourceful" tag be dropped casually in here - even if the author is part of the SV-mafia its still amazing what impact one mans' essays are having.

So that makes two people to bet on ...
I agree but the only explanation I can think of is in preparation for Native Client. But why buy now when the price is high, right?
> It's for the impressively made aluminum chassis.

So it's reasonable to pay more to have your computer in a biscuit tin.
A lot of us who are developers tend to think of Android as a monolith. The developer's experience is to choose "Android" as a platform; then (at least in theory), our product should be able to run on a sufficiently recent Android phone from any manufacturer/carrier.

The fact that consumers don't even necessarily know that their phone runs Android, due to Google and others' branding decisions based on past damage to the brand from certain manufacturers, is not obvious -- or at least, it wasn't obvious to me before I read the article.

Consider a somewhat analogous market: the PC market. In my experience, even the most ignorant users tend to know if their computer's a Dell, Lenovo, or HP, but are also aware that they run Windows, since retailers, manufacturers and Microsoft all prominently feature the Windows brand. (And Mac and Linux users tend to be more conscious of their OS's than the unwashed masses of Windows users -- sometimes to the extent of openly bragging, recruiting, and fighting flamewars for their OS of choice.)

The fact that (the Android portion of) the cellphone market is different from the PC market is also not obvious, and potentially important. Especially from the standpoint of the typical HN'er: A technically literate person, interested in business concepts but not necessarily an expert at marketing, who is personally acutely aware of the OS used on the phone(s) and/or tablet(s) they own, and whose years of experience in the PC market prior to the mobile explosion may have strongly ingrained an instinctive belief that "consumers are always aware of their OS."
Coinbase does ACH for Bitcoin, they usually hold the funds for 6 days to prevent fraud.
The original source says this:

>In PC pro stores with a Google Zone, sales of Chromebooks represent over 10% of our notebook sales.

That's a far cry from "10% of all UK laptops are Chromebooks".

First they're talking about sales, while your statement is talking about install base.

I suspect the "other" below is mostly Android, so it's not even a blip on the radar in Statcounter stats for UK.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-GB-monthly-201201-201301
And "at home" in Indiana?
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> Microsoft foresees

The funniest thing is in the title itself. Foreseeing is the exact thing they've always been bad at - I tend to thing they even have a "screen for foresight and reject if such ability is detected" policy on hiring interviews or a corporate culture that explicitly forbids "foresight" :)
People use price to compare wine because we have virtually nothing else to go on. With wine, many people are selecting from options they have no direct experience with (styles, yes, particular wine or year? not in many cases) – so price became a way to discriminate when all else was unavailable.
I got a cr-48 in november 2010. The new chromeOS remaps ctrl-o to "open window" even when in crosh, so you can't save files in nano or pico. I stopped using it altogether. It's gathering dust.
Does CL offer RSS feeds on their listing?
It's probably easy to say that if you're not one of those directly affected by this nightmarish system. Maybe you should read the article and see if you can sympathise with some of those who were. With a system so grossly broken and unfair, it seems to me there is plenty to complain about indeed.
Does CL offer RSS feeds on their listing? Have you considered that?
The point was that if Facebook are providing the APIs and encouraging developers to use them then it's a crappy thing to yank the rug away.

I don't think that it's a great idea to build a business model that relies on Facebook - but at some stages of developing an app it is very useful to use Facebook facilities to implement a social graph and notifications, so that you don't have to.
He is uncompromising when it comes to the quality of his live shows. It's clear he cares a lot about them and is trying to master what he does. And wether or not you like his style of music I think that people need to respect that.
Storing nuclear waste is a very technically solvable problem. Politically, it is difficult to solve because most people are terrified of it and have "not in my backyard" syndrome.

The dangerous radiation is simply not going to be around for 25,000 years. We need to be really really sure that the harmful stuff is safe for 100-200 years. That doesn't seem hard to me considering a couple million people a day are driving over bridges into NYC that are 100+ years old. Steel and concrete last a pretty long time. Water absorbs radiation pretty well. Combine it all with a hole deep into a dry dessert, and you are fine.
Here in Quebec, Canada, some grocery stores tax 5¢ for each plastic bag, though it's up to them. People here tend to bring reusable bags which are a lot more durable and contain more stuff.
So lets see - on Linux and Mac the script just works. It requires no installation. On Windows I have to jump through hoops.

> Exe4J / Install4J; works everywhere

So to run a jar that produces command line output and is consumed by the script and is one line to run on Linux/Mac (java -blah -blah -jar foo.jar blah blah) requires me to purchase a 3rd party wrapper/installer app. That there is a hoop to jump. Finding the java binary via the registry worked just fine, didn't require installation or wrapping or anything else.

> Don't. Use the registry on Windows, dotfiles on Linux (and plists on Mac? Or is that gone with OsX) ?

I used the Python configfile module which does ini style files. At the moment I save exactly one value. It is trivial and works really well. Doing more than that is more hoop jumping.

> Don't, use CHM on Windows (although I think this changed AGAIN recently).

So I need to convert perfectly good documentation that works in any browser on any platform into another format just because Windows strips the anchor when opening a URL? More hoops.

Incidentally I do actually generate CHM files for one of my open source projects. I had to give up because the help compiler refuses to install now (I believe the setup program is doing 32 bit arithmetic on free disk space and wrapping around to negative numbers).

> VMWare Workstation

I've yet to use any virtualization solution where guest disk access is at the same performance level as on the host. (I prefer virtualbox.)

> If you get into x-platform dev without thinking too hard about it

I never said I wasn't a x-platform dev. All my open source projects for well over a decade work on all 3 platforms. But that is because I'm diligent and don't want there to be any impediments to others being able to use the software. Windows is usually what causes the highest amount of work for least results, although there are exceptions (eg printing support has always been easiest to add support for on Windows).

But when we do our internal stuff there is no value to being cross platform to Windows. It wouldn't be a big deal if it didn't require so much additional effort. Consider something as trivial as deleting a file. If you just had it open (can't delete open files on Windows, more hoops) then closing it and deleting will often fail. You have to add delay/retry loops because tagalongs like virus scanners and backup agents opened the file after you closed it.

So as a result the only thing we have that runs on all platforms is one script because it is run by outsiders, and that required extra effort for Windows. It could require even more if I did everything "properly" although the people running the script wouldn't know any different which is why I didn't expend even more effort.
There's absolutely no reason for Chromebooks to use x86 chips.

What about people that prefer trading some battery life for some performance?