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The conclusion, "People have a right to expect more from you" seems dead wrong to me, and I don't really see any answer to the question asked by the title.

If you are want some better answers, read instead this little gem ESR posted on Google+ a little while ago:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-yo...

Let's say that the person you love the most has just been shot. He or she is lying in the street, bleeding and screaming.

A guy rushes up and says, "Step aside." He looks over your loved one's bullet wound and pulls out a pocket knife -- he's going to operate right there in the street.

You ask, "Are you a doctor?"

The guy says, "No."

You say, "But you know what you're doing, right? You're an old Army medic, or ..."

At this point the guy becomes annoyed. He tells you that he is a nice guy, he is honest, he is always on time. He tells you that he is a great son to his mother and has a rich life full of fulfilling hobbies, and he boasts that he never uses foul language.

Confused, you say, "How does any of that fucking matter when my (wife/husband/best friend/parent) is lying here bleeding! I need somebody who knows how to operate on bullet wounds! Can you do that or not?!?"

Now the man becomes agitated -- why are you being shallow and selfish? Do you not care about any of his other good qualities? Didn't you just hear him say that he always remembers his girlfriend's birthday? In light of all of the good things he does, does it really matter if he knows how to perform surgery?

In that panicked moment, you will take your bloody hands and shake him by the shoulders, screaming, "Yes, I'm saying that none of that other shit matters, because in this specific situation, I just need somebody who can stop the bleeding, you crazy fucking asshole."

EDIT: I tried submitting it, but it's marked as "dead". I guess the website got on HN bad side. Too bad, it'd have made a great discussion.
Probably not that well at first, but if you throw the possibility of a laptop that competes with a Retina MBP into the mix, I'd imagine there would be some desire in the community to work on it at least.

(edit: competes in terms of screen resolution... 4GB RAM and an i5 is not as good as 8-16GB RAM and an i7 of course)
> There is also nothing stopping you from porting your favorite development tools to NaCl.

Writing the code is only half the story. You also need to test that code and that means running the code on a target machine similar to your customer.

So unless you customer is also using a Chromebook this is going to make the testing much harder.
Or what about just a private health care system that works? It needs to be supervised by the government and outside the influence of lobbyists and such.

There is something seriously wrong with the system here, and I think it's government's own fault for embracing this system despite it being completely flawed.
To first order, this is always true. It should also be noted that computation happens on a desktop computer.
I like the screen min/max shortcuts. I do question the need for device-specific queries, since it has been suggested that queries should be tailored to the content and not the device. Are there going to be queries for all the other possible mobile screen sizes? Of course not. That said, I do see a possible exception for hi-def screens.
Maybe it's designed for Google employees. If so, we may not know why they wanted that spec, and the price doesn't matter...
This is otherwise known as the greater fool theory. I'm not saying that to suggest you're a fool. But you are a gambler, hoping for someone even more emotionally invested than you are to buy your shares. At the end of the day confidence is not sustainable. The bubble showed us that quite clearly. At some point, Tesla has to make sense, and there has to be a clear path from now until then or someone will lose a lot of money along the way.
If by "they" you mean "some carriers". They are by no means required to do so, and there's no reason to believe that they will continue to do so.
I recall similar results on nearly all applications since my late MSc study: Mutexes are bad, pipes and sockets give better scaling.
Thread sync primitives just sometimes scale up to 8-12 cores, but indeed multiprocess applications usually get much faster.
In the age of GCed VMs one needs to also consider sync cost of GC.
You got it the other way, do you want to pay 100's of thousands of your own money to hospitals, if not then you should be thankful to #ObamaCare.
> Not stopped, but it would decrease fraud, as the fraction of payments made in bitcoins is guaranteed to be impossible to charge back.

I doubt it. Most fraudsters are trying to convert someone else's credit into cash by buying goods they can sell. If you have a bitcoin, you pretty much already have cash - just use one of the exchanges.
Something that popped into my head is a drone tossing a grenade through a window. The military would go nuts over this.
OP here. James Gosling is actually a hero to me. I hold him up there with Dennis Ritchie, Jim Gray, and Anders Hejlsberg. He had a bold, bodacious technical vision and he moved heaven and earth to make it happen. Great things have happened as a result. Billions of $ have been made. Many developers learned to program with a language better than C++ to learn on. Much of his original thinking has inspired others to do more great and bodacious things.

However, his creation also created a faulty mindset. He encouraged that mindset. I know he didn't actually coin the term, but I was around and I heard him speak. He toed the party line. Using his name is relevant to this discussion because, I believe, it highlights the problem: The "write once" approach is faulty because it started with an application of technology, not the customer.
The icon is distributed as part of the UEFI firmware (if the blog post is to be believed).
I was once brought in to interview as a technical lead by a turnaround artist (the company was in dire straits). During the course of the interview, they asked me about a problem they were banging their heads against for _months_ where tomcat taking a very long time to restart (on the order of 30-60m). I thought about it for a second, and once I overcame my surprise that they were using Tomcat, I asked if they had large session objects.

Years ago, I'd run into a somewhat similar issue, as Tomcat serializes its internal session representation on shutdown, so that when it comes back up, state can be restored. If one has truly gigantic session objects (which is a no-no anyway), it takes forever to serialize them, and as muster them back into memory.

They tweaked the config, the problem went away, their "chief architect" was fired, and I got the gig. Turns out this problem had them weeks away from going out of business, they'd been working on solving it for months.

The gig turned out to be a major disaster anyway, their problems were far deeper than technology.
Aside: when did 20px become an acceptable font size for content text?
the concept comes from newspapers in low population areas. it wasn't really invented by the internet.

you should go read the wiki page for 'missed connections' though, it's somewhat enlightening.
In LivingSocial's Operating loss for 2012 was a 1 time write down of goodwill (about $600 million), which is a non cash expense, so should not be included in calculation of operating expenses.
For increasing frequency the problem is we used to be able to just bump the clock speeds when the circuits shrank, but we've gotten small enough that the transistors start to leak now, so we have to drive them with less voltage to prevent the chip from overheating, meaning the clock has to come back down </huge-oversimplification>.

There are some possible ways forward. If we're sticking with transistors we might be able to switch to a material with better electrical properties, but that needs lots of research before it'll be higher performance than silicon.

There are also funky non-transistor based ideas for doing computation, like using DNA or nano-scale clockwork or ballistic electrons. I have no idea how feasible that stuff is.

In the shorter term, computer engineers are finding ways to turn those extra transistors into better single threaded performance by better prefetching, branch prediction, and re-ordering your instructions so that more than one are executed at a time even though you never thought about parallelism when writing it. That's why a modern computer core is much faster than an old Pentium 4, even though the clock speeds might be the same.

The problem with that is that using more transistors tends to provider at most a O(sqrt(n)) speedup, whereas adding more cores potentially provides an O(n) speedup.
How could we compare then?
It's got integrated Intel graphics. That's something I pay attention to because the open source support is great. But I was led to believe that no serious gamer would touch them.

Note also that I could probably develop on it as I use Vim in a terminal, which I believe ChromeOS has.
Amidst all the discussion of limited time, ability, etc. you seem to have left off one of the big reasons, which is that people mostly don't want your pull requests with typo fixes or different opinions on project direction - and frequently do want to hate on you in such an extreme and tribalistic way that it becomes absolutely ridiculous to hear "don't be scared."
Yeah, kind of restricts to the lab, unfortunately, although a secondary camera drone meshed with the others might serve. Lighting would be a problem... though they could use IR beacons or something.
Deliveries, solicitors, repair people, friends of neighbors, passers-by out for a walk/jog/ride, etc.
This story is about 3 years late. Facebook long, long ago made notifications unreliable. They just took them from near-worthless to totally worthless for some apps.

Nobody who has any clue what they're doing is relying on those notifications getting through en masse now, at least not without a contract with Facebook.
I believe they have been talking about this for a while. It's absurd that they are used today. They could be ran on SVO or bio-diesel. However the USA isn't a fan of a diesel engine unless it's in a pickup.
I thought some browsers already do this? But it still won't make use of more than a very small number of cores, one (or a couple) for the tab you're interacting with, and a small part of another one for all the other tabs that are sitting there idle.
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If Sony took even the tiniest steps toward reasonable action to come in compliance I'd be 101% surprised if either the KDE e.V. or the artist tries to take any further legal action.

And given that the license in this case merely requires attribution it would seem it's very easy to come into compliance.

I don't know jriddell personally but I would be willing to bet his point is not the infringement, so much as the hypocrisy by the Big Giant Defender of IP, Sony.
Whatever Google's Goals might be, I won't buy it since you can run native apps. I need my IDE, my server setup and want to install and remove native apps as and when I want. That is why developers are not impressed with Chromebooks, agree?
Probably because there's limited wireless bandwidth. It'll work, but it doesn't scale - doubly so for colocation, where other customers might eat your bandwidth. The "short distances" would help, but there might not be enough throughput to make it worthwhile.
Yarg. I wish this better-represented the fact that reddit is a platform for communities (subreddits) but so it goes. Long before subreddits, here's what reddit looked like in the first months after Steve and I launched it: http://reddit.blogspot.com/2006/12/time-machine.html
Props to them for making the display vertically rather than horizontally oriented. I've been incredibly tired of the stupidly short 16:9 displays dominating the market. However, one has to wonder why such a good display is being wasted on a product like this. Great specs, great display, but horrible, crap operating system.

Who needs this kind of laptop to just browse the web? I would buy this in an instant if it had some custom Linux distribution on it.

I guess it's Retina or nothing, then, unfortunately.
Looking forward to when Amazon's warehouses are automated with quadrocopters.
You are right, the burden is on those taking investment to make sure it is good for them. On the other hand, there may be negative externalities to a mutually beneficial deal between an investor and a founder, for an early employee.
Hospital billing is an outrage, just like the article claims. This corresponds to what the NPR report on the topic concluded: chargemaster rates are absolute fiction, invented to offer insurance company negotiators good deals, and utterly unrelated to costs.

Unfortunately, they do relate to actual costs for those most unable to bear them -- primarily uninsured middle and lower middle class people who face these ludicrous bills at face value and too often have their financial lives severely encumbered by them. The article does a great job of illustrating this.
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because the machine will be used to power photo editing software, IDEs, and 3D games
Oh, and by the way, I am willing to bet I understand the JVM as well as most. I was responsible for the JVM<->COM interop in Microsoft's JVM.
Yes, that's Apple's big secret. Just price something high and it'll fly off the shelves!
> Not stopped, but it would decrease fraud

I can't see how.

As a non-fraudster, I would use any available payment method, including bitcoins.

As a fraudster, I would never use bitcoins.
The fb policy is that you aren't allowed to incentivize the sending of requests, but you can give a reward for someone accepting a request. A subtle distinction, but a distinction nonetheless.
It's sad that research like this is first thought to be most of value killing people.
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This is Reddit Material, sad to see it Making Page 1 on HN :(
They are going nuts over this. Just look at DARPA drone research, all the manufacturing contracts, the increased battlefield use, the call for more pilots to be trained...
I posted a missed connection once, and about 2 hours later got a reply from a person who was in the exact same circumstances (ie same time, same place, same details about furtive glances) - but she was looking at some other dude who was there and thought I was him. At the same time, I actually wasn't looking at her, but at another girl who was at the same event.

So it fizzled cause we weren't looking for, but looking "past" each other.

Moments of extreme awkwardness after flirting madly mutually verifying locational/timing/happenstance details followed by absolutely wrong physical descriptions of each other. Yah that conversation dried up fast.

I suppose it could have been a romantic start to some kinda relationship, but that ship sunk before it even had a chance.
Google's goal with the Chromebook Pixel - to make money.
It certainly can be harmful. Urban sprawl. Time wasted via excruciatingly long commutes has now become the status quo in many parts of the States (certainly is around the Bay Area where I reside).

Less harmful would be advancements in public rapid transit systems. Though there is the hyperloop which Elon hinted at in the past. Let's hope that works out :).
Funny how we first think about games and circuses, but really I think what we're responding to is that these quadrocopters are almost childlike. Building a machine that inspires you to remember how you, yourself, played as a child is incredible. I guess all I'm saying is that I see these things and they are lifelike in that their demonstrable skills, I know, can/will lead to so many other advanced actions. . . Just like a kid learning to hit a tee-ball.
Setting a thread (or process) to a higher real-time priority than everything else (i.e., with chrt) will accomplish the same thing he's describing with maxcpus (though I wasn't aware maxcpus worked the way he said, so I can't vouch for it myself).

It's also just better, because something lower priority can run whenever the thread with real-time priority suspends (e.g., waiting for disk or network I/O).

I don't know the process for making sure interrupts don't happen on a particular CPU in Linux, but if you do that, you can only be interrupted by SMIs (system management interrupts), which are done by the BIOS, not the OS. Some machines don't have SMIs, though. It's BIOS specific.

If you do have them, you can't necessarily tell by using the TSC (as the author wanted to do), because poorly-behaved BIOSs will attempt to hide that the SMI happened by fiddling with the TSC.
I was going to suggest /r/nottheonion but it seems OP is already using it. Not bad though, I kinda like it.

EDIT: oops, you're OP. Ever thought of suggesting this CSS to reddit?
Directly, yes. But there's a significant effect in overtreatment that is substantially higher. Hard to tell how much higher, because of course, all this overtreatment is justified somewhere. What we know is that we're paying about $10k/family/yr more than we should. The article treats this pretty well -- noting that malpractice isn't the only solution, but admonishing democrats for being too swayed by trial lawyers who want to keep feasting at the malpractice trough.
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> It's so heavily shorted that there's a possibility of a short squeeze

Not really sure what makes you think this. It's no where close to a short squeeze.

What makes you think this is the case?
Too bad you can never know what "one person" is.
It certainly would have been a more flexible experience! I have a friend who frequents a coffeeshop I hang out at who I have been teaching Python and misc. hacking to. I ended up giving him the chromebook, and he's set it up with ubuntu (both by dual booting and through booting of a thumb drive!). So I definitely appreciate and accept the flexibility of ubuntu on the chromebook.

If you want to say it's "better," I'd ask "to what end?" I personally really like the security model of ChromeOS and having working 3G drivers was a huge benefit when I was experimenting with this setup. I love having a secure client I can trust to connect to sanctioned dev environments on. It's much harder for me to vet that my ubuntu rig hasn't been root-kitted vs. trusting the block-level cryptographic hashing on ChromeOS.

I think this is probably where most people would call me a tin-foil hat weirdo, and I wouldn't disagree. This might be just a fun exercise to think about right now. However, I think it's an increasingly important factor in considering personal computing setups and it definitely played into my choice of platform on the ChromeBook. Plus, it's also just plain cool to see how much mileage you can get out of just chrome + ssh!
play ~run solves that problem for me. As soon I refresh the page compilator is already done 90% of the times
Give it time:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1671680066/incredible-hl...

That's a student project that needed funding.

• 50lb payload

• Two 12.5HP engines

• Distributing information (their most lucrative reward was the $250 "get a copy of all the information and data" at 10 copies.)

Definitely deadly. I would not be near it in operation.
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The shorter carbon chain molecules tend to be hydrocarbons, but as they get longer and longer other elements tend to be incorporated.

Take a look at an example chemical structure for coal from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Struktura_chemiczna_w%C4%9...

Anyway you are going to need something to bind to the carbon. Pure carbon allotropes (graphite, diamond, buckyballs, etc.) are extremely energetically disfavored as compared to CO2 at normal pressures. You could use fluorine instead of oxygen, but tetrafluoromethane (CF4) has a greenhouse gas potential 6000 times that of CO2, and is fairly poisonous to boot.
Hi,

1) we used a canon 400mm f/2.8 L ii lens with a canon 2x teleconverter (mark 3)

2) the images get more "foggy" at the max zoom level because at the smaller magnification, I was able to apply some filters to the image (unsharp mask, mostly) to improve the local contrast. At the deepest zoom level, this is not possible, because the source files at this level were too large to open in Photoshop. I have applied some color corrections to the source images, and I am re-rendering these files, but I didn't make the deadline to put this live. It will go live in a few weeks probably.
Organizing an indie conferene for Windows Phone developers
360iDev puts on a number of other popular indie developer conferences but so far they've been solely focused on Mac and iOS development.

The company is now looking at running a Windows Phone conference but they need to determine if there's enough community interest to do so.

If you are a Windows Phone developer and/or designer and would be into attending a non-corporate conference like this, please go to http://360winphone.com and add your name to their mailing list.

I'm not at all affiliated with 360iDev. I just really want 360WinPhone to happen.
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You dont define this mindset clearly either in your article. Could you elaborate which mindset Gosling promoted that has set the world back.
Kiva Systems already makes a warehouse robot. I didn't know if Amazon used them or not, so I did some quick Googling and it turns out Amazon bought the company! http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/amazon-com-buys-kiva-...
Yeeaaah Colorado. I'm actually kinda confused about that. It's not like have have that many more gas stations than other people or anything, right?
I'm not certain, but I guess pthread mutexes probably use userspace mutexes under the covers.

Correct. man 7 pthreads states:

In NPTL, thread synchronization primitives (mutexes, thread joining, and so on) are implemented using the Linux futex(2) system call.

A futex is a mutex that only does a system call if there is contention; you can google it.
They found a proverbial "silver bullet" in performance land. This almost never happens, but props to them for finding it. Now time to try this out!
I'd like to throw the new Vizio laptops into the list you mentioned here. I think they're really fantastic and a brilliant idea.
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> companies build screens with more code friendly aspect ratios

Let's hope Lenovo takes a look at this. I'd love a Thinkpad with a high-res screen, 3:2 display, and of course, the venerable TrackPoint and keyboard. Touchscreen is a nice novelty feature but really isn't required.
If there is contention, I think you mean, right?
I knew a guy who met his wife at a stop light.
Massive advertising shift that Twitter is trying to capitalize on with its API
Note that Toyota also lost money for several years on the Prius as is GM on the Volt http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/10/us-generalmotors-a... - there is a learning curve to play in this space. Since everyone is keeping their technology private it won't be cheaper for later entrants.

There will be an experience curve for the manufacturing which will lead to it becoming increasingly productive and cheaper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects#The_ex...

As a comparison Boeing is reported to have an experienced a curve of 84% (costs decreasing 16% every time production units doubled) on the 777. Tesla doesn't have the legacy manufacturing infrastructure and can use far more automated methods, especially if they manufacture a large amount of the car themselves instead of outsourcing. It will be interesting to see what Tesla's numbers turn out to be.