skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can do all that in the browser or via remote desktop to a server or desktop. Eclipse Orion works in the browser (as do several other IDEs such as cloud9). Office works in the browser (but I prefer Google Docs).

For simple image editing, I just use pixlr.com. If I really needed advanced features from photoshop (or gimp), I can A) remote connect to a desktop or B) boot to ubuntu from a flash drive.

If you need Visual Studio and don't have access to a desktop computer you can remote connect to, then yes, don't buy a chromebook.

Or of course if you are developing native iphone/ipad apps (i.e., not phonegap, etc.) and don't have access to a mac computer, then yes, of course, get a macbook instead of a chromebook.
"Management is a skill not a career path"

So much to say about this.
I think you mean this one, right?

http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/preorder-crazyflie-nano-qua...
Insulting the Reddit community on HN? We can finally do it without being downvoted? That's somewhat pleasing.
People are (correctly) pointing out that the consumer/pro value proposition is not really there.

I suspect this is a pure enterprise play for Google. Institutional customers who value the management features of the ChromeBook platform but want to give their employees something nicer than a $300 netbook with a laptop screen.
They have a blog called "Operation Developer Love" and a 90 day breaking changes policy - but it hasn't been followed in this case.
US Army says soldiers charging their phones via USB cables is a security risk.
But the cost is not the syscalls . . . it's all those threads getting stopped, swapping memory in and out of the cache, etc. The syscall cost is minor by comparison.

At any rate, you've definitely overstated the case against mutexes in this post. At most, the advice should have been "avoid designs that will suffer from a lot of contention" like locking with lots of shared mutable state. It really has nothing to do with threads-vs-processes as you've made it out to do.
I love my highly portable Chromebook for ssh'ing into a dev machine and doing real work via vim and whatnot. But I don't see myself paying $1,299 for what essentially is a thin client.
Yeah, lets just go back to the days of hitting the streets with those paper petitions, and gathering signatures at bus stops and Phish concerts! Why get the internet involved in politics at all?
Mama said I could find a nice girl at church, so I tried a bigger stretch of holy ground.
Wisdom transcends time, space and culture.
Pleasing? So you prefer for the HN community to be outwardly elitist and can look down at other online communities?

Or are you just saying being able to voice ones opinion without a torrent of downvotes is a step in the right direction?
Show HN: Real-time Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock
An IPv6 tunnel as a free VPN alternative to unblock YouTube in your country
That's a nice $11,489 lens. :)

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/732109-USA/Canon_4412B...
Thanks a lot for the info, everyone. I can't replicate this even with all the same addons installed, but I'm working on it...
Different sources of electricity have different environmental impact, but at least you can have a good idea of where your utility gets power from. At the same time, you don't know if your gas came from tar sands or easy to get (but dwindling) shallow Californian oil.

There is an electric equivalent mpg called mpg-e:
http://www.edmunds.com/fuel-economy/decoding-electric-car-mp...
If you like manual, then the manual TDI will be very fun to drive. I can't be bothered with manual transmission, though. I have paddle shifters for the DSG but I never use them.
Even if the travel writer had done something horrible this is going to give United a big black mark.
I guess he'll record his future interactions with cabin steward/stewardess'.
This sounds like a (perhaps apocryphal) story I've heard of Feynman when he was a "fresh" engineer in Los Alamos. There was an engineering defect in <some thing> and after a quick look at the engineering diagrams he had a solution. I think this was from "The Pleasure of finding things out" but I couldn't find the story in my copy.

The reason I think it may be apocryphal is that is bears a striking resemblance of the "knowing where to drill the hole" story told elsewhere in this thread.
If you want to be really sure? Wipe and reinstall.

If you want to be reasonably sure, run an actual AV, like Avira or Nod32, preferably from a boot disk if possible, since running AV against a system in which malware is already running and potentially set up to evade detection doesn't guarantee anything.

Finally, to prevent future problems, turn off automatic plugin activation in your browser. In Chrome, go to chrome://settings/content and scroll down to Plugins, and select "click to play". This'll render you immune to drive-by Java and Flash exploits unless you explicitly activate the plugin instance that delivers the payload.
I didn't mean to imply that building a high traffic site in Rails is not a good idea, merely that low traffic is its sweet spot. If you have high traffic it might make financial sense to forgo some productivity and choose a framework that can run on lower amounts of hardware. This also depends on many other factors. For example if your content is low write high read, i.e. highly cacheable, that can make any difference pretty much disappear.
Take out the $600 million non-cash "goodwill" item they wrote down, and you've got $800 million per year operating expenses. That ups them to nearly 2 weeks.

But they have been trying to get profitable. So they have been cutting expenses and adding revenue. This deal would not be possible without that. Therefore they likely are not losing money as fast as in 2012. So a month or more of runway is perfectly believable.

Next, expenses and revenue tend to come in on different schedules. If that is cash right after you've paid employees, and you have revenue booked but not realized yet, you're in a much better position than if those two are reversed. That could easily add another month.

The result? I suspect CEO's claim of "several months" is possible, but likely optimistic. However I would be shocked if your "7 days" is in the right ballpark. But there is an easy way to check. If you're right, they should have run through this investment inside of 2 months, 3 months tops.
Or something Jacques disagrees with. It needn't be generally offensive or politically incorrect.
Yep. We'll add support for that soon. You can also code your own landing pages and just use our drip marketing / email campaigns. I'll have embedded forms all over my WordPress blog.
Pretty much. People too easily forget that the most basic human freedoms are not life and property. Those are creatures of law. The most basic human freedoms are the innate right of every animal to kill what it can and take what it wants.
The short interest is only indicative of how many investors think that there is a greater chance TSLA is overpriced vs. underpriced. The short sellers may very well believe in Elon but they may also think that they have a superior risk-reward by shorting the stock right now. The high short interest is also indicative of investors having access to more ambiguous data, which is the case for a unique company with negative cash-flow and large market potential.
First space tourist plans to make trip to Mars in 2018
Tiny chrome extension boilerplate
Might be handy.
TED talk that preceded this, featuring 3 quadcopters with a net and ball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4IJXAVXgIo
> So why wouldn't you spend the few hundred more and get a MacBook Pro that isn't a dumb terminal ?

Chrome (both the browser and ChromeOS) have always been about making it so that "browser" and "dumb terminal" aren't at all the same thing. Certainly, I think its reasonable to say that its still at the point where, for many power users, it isn't suitable as a replacement for a traditional desktop OS.

But then, this is clearly aimed at early adopters that are more heavily into web-based tools than is generally the case, and who value a low-configuration means of getting to those tools.
Seven Tips From Ernest Hemingway on How to Write Fiction
jemalloc is another strong option -

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2012/07/05/impact-of-mem...

http://www.quora.com/Is-tcmalloc-stable-enough-for-productio...
I've ranted on this topic before [1]. I still think it's a bit dishonest... academics shouldn't promote their work to general audiences without properly denoting caveats. In this case... they're using a ~$50k vicon motion capture system that returns millimeter-precision pose estimates at ~1kHz.

[1] http://www.hizook.com/blog/2012/07/02/being-honest-robot-vid...

Without the vicon and (probably) a central control PC, this feat would be SUPER difficult -- by ~1-2 orders of magnitude. The real problem is: when someone does solve that herculean problem, the general public won't care. They'll just say, "eh, we've seen that before."
Please take a look at clojure. There are a lot of videos on youtube... there is a specific clojure channel. I don't recall the specific name, and work blocks youtube unfortunately.

Clojure runs on the JVM and has great Java interop, so you get the fun of lisp, and the convenience of all the Java libs.
In my kickstart scripts, I explicitly do two things:

1. Create a 1 GB file of "nothing" (e.g. dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/meh.bin bs=1000 count=1000000) on each filesystem (exception: /boot, which is typically 256 or 512 MB).

2. Configure each filesystem to reserve 5% of space for the root user. This is typically the default, but I do it explicitly just to make sure.

When the first "low disk space" warning comes in, that 5% can be adjusted down to 1% to free up some space (on today's large filesystems, this 4% usually amounts to quite a bit of space). This buys you enough time (hopefully) to expand logical volumes, etc.

If you manage to about run out of space after freeing up that 4%, you have one more chance: delete that 1 GB file.
From the article he references:

"Are there that many luxury car buyers out there who are willing to live with the limitations of an electric car? It seems doubtful to me."

Limitations? What limitations? I've been driving mine for 2 months and it's been a freeing experience. It doesn't go as far? My old ICE didn't go as far on a tank and required 10x the cost to fill up. I no longer feel guilty about driving to the grocery store a few miles away because I know I'm running my car at it's least efficient state. I just took a trip this weekend to some relatives in another part of my state (GA) with no concerns about range or having to compromise to extend it. Google Maps in the car has already saved me many times from heading into bad traffic (I would never remember to check traffic on my phone beforehand).

Honestly, if I'm being limited in some way, I'm not seeing it.
This article speaks in broad generalities that seemed to be based on the authors particular interests.

There is no reason why multi-threaded software can't scale near linearly for the right problems.
Ubuntu Touch OS Developer Preview Released – Guide to Install on Nexus
I would think HN is the kind of place where that's exactly what people would want to do. I'm not convinced by this Chromebook either, but stock configurations / things I can change are definitely not the reason.
Feels right to me; I've bought a few Android devices and have only liked the Google ones. Non-Google Android phones often have what I would call malware installed by the manufacturer or the communications provider.

e.g. a flashlight app on Huawei G600 which has excessive permissions including reading contacts and starts on boot.
A visual nottheonion is a great idea. I suggest changing the name to something that's not going to violate their trademark.

Also, a quick way to avoid hot-linking the images is to use a service like Cloudinary, it will proxy them for you with little code change.

There's also http://www.ruddl.com/ as a Pinterest-Reddit mashup, but they only have a few subreddits.
How is it childish and reactionary? They're headlines you can imagine seeing on The Onion, but are legit; it's harmless and a touch amusing. It's just riffing off The Onion's style of presenting content.

I post on HN but don't have an account on Reddit, but I think pigeon-holing an entire community is more likely to be considered childish and reactionary. This isn't "our site vs your site" and some sort of tribal war. What about this site or its content has irritated you?

(Main parts of Reddit I do read are AskScience and AskHistorians and they are, for the most part, excellent. Anything but juvenile.)
Pretty bad.
Linux-related salaries rose 9%, compared to 5% for other tech salaries
Cohort Analysis Workshop at Google Ventures Startup Lab
It is easy. The US pays twice as much as comparable industrialized countries for the same outcomes. Doctors in the US make twice as much, overhead is twice as much, and we pay twice as much for prescription drugs.
Projects using quadrotors to do things like fly cooperatively and do acrobatics [1,2] will often use high speed motion capture systems with multiple fixed cameras. This decouples the problem of perceiving the environment from the problem of responding to the environment.

More broadly in robotics there are plenty of people working on ground-based robots that don't rely on multiple fixed high speed cameras - self-driving cars [3] would be one example. There are also people working on cooperative ground based robots that don't rely on multiple fixed high speed cameras - for example, the RoboCupSoccer Middle-Size League [4]. There are also people working on quadrotors that don't cooperate/do acrobatics and who don't rely on fixed vision systems - for example people working on autonomous quadrotor mapping [5] and using IMUs and on-robot vision [6].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuSqwb13iw0

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoiJeIb0wBA

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXSGTkI390w

[5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoMrPKCpWXw

[6] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKGZcTFambE
After reading this I am wondering if there have been any measurements taken of the time 'wasted' in the kernel. You make it sound like there's a lot less wasted than is claimed by the author.

I'm not convinced that the article has it exactly wrong. There are obvious problems, like all the extra moving parts your code has. But what about runtimes that multiplex their threads (or what have you) on to one host thread + scheduler per core? It seems to fit the description, and it has been taken up by Go and Rust and probably others (what is Erlang's multicore story these days?) It also avoids the obvious problem, since the extra moving parts are in the runtime, not your application (much like they were in the kernel, not your application in the standard multi-threaded case.)

I still don't know if it saves you much. IIUC, the choice to multiplex is motivated by other reasons.
Even hackers appreciate a product that's awesome out of the box.
You should look into finding a doctor who doesn't take insurance. There are a few here and there, normally family/primary care type docs. You pay them cash, and because they have zero overhead in their practice for insurance billing, they can charge you less AND spend more time with you.
I could see a version of this product being a hit with journalists:

* Get instant fact-checks during an interview.

* Record interviews and investigative video safely to the cloud so no one can steal your footage.

* Capture always-on footage that doesn't require camera set up time so you never miss a shot.

* Recall notes and questions to ask without breaking eye contact.

* Instantly pull up details on a politician and voting record by saying names and bill numbers or by having a junior reporter dig up background details remotely.

* Look for related news headlines in real-time so you do not miss important background and you do cover ignored aspects of the story.
I'm not ok with this. Watch the trademark. I'm not even talking about litigation -- just not ok with people willing to trade on another company's name.
Feeding people.
Totally with you up until the lost culture thing. More people know how to play the piano virtuostically than ever. Culture is expanding and being recorded permanently in the digital world. How are we losing it?

It reminds me of what the blue-man-group does. It's novel, a few people make a lot of money doing it, but it's not the next electric guitar by any stretch.

I think one of the core attributes of EDM is that it is performed by machines. The MPC-live thing seems like an effort to step backwards just to have something to do on stage. I'd rather listen to someone mix a 808/909/303 live. The subtle timing and tuning shifts they make are a thing of beauty (and laptops don't do this). But that's probably just my preference for techno over hip-hop/dubstep coming through.

Anyway, good article regardless.
Thanks for the feedback, and great tip on the images!
Not many people in the tech industry buy Macs because they are expensive, but I'd venture that (like many other trendy products) there are a good number of people who have bought it for the status/trendiness/cost/whatever. Not that it matters really, but it's an odd claim to make that all Mac purchasers were informed consumers. Most consumers are relatively uninformed, regardless of what they're buying, and loads of people buy things for no other reason than that they saw a commercial on TV and can afford it.
I couldn't agree more. I'm currently on an upgraded Thinkpad T61p with 1680x1050 and I'm reluctant to change it to a newer machine because of the 16:9 screens padded with tall plastic border that are available in most notebooks nowadays.

I really hope that hardware makers will finally realize that the primary reason for buying a notebook is not for watching movies on a 15" screen.
They usually won't let you on a plane if you're having a heart attack.
Patent Application of Google Glass (US20130044042; Filed Aug 18, 2011)
Presumably the drone is the "grenade" and so performs evasive tactics. Targetted EMP? Or simply has a "balloon" to make it physically unable to exit the window again (bonus that the balloon blocks out natural light inside and seals the explosion magnifying the effect inside, eg for flashbang).
That's a lot of words from both authors to say: nobody actually cares about "you". They only care about what they can get from you.

That can be horrifically depressing or pragmatic and inspiring: the emotional reaction is irrelevant, it is the truth.
It has been a major annoyance for years in Germany. I've recently started using an IPv6 tunnel with an endpoint in the UK to route around this problem: http://realpath.org/blog/2013/02/10/youtube-ipv6-tunnel/
Thomas Edison and His Papers
I too got out before earnings, and I'm not really sure where you get the idea that he doesn't know what he's doing.

I got out because I was up 20% (my target when I initiated the position) and my trailing stop was hit around the time the NYT story came out. I had set the trailing stop prior to earnings because their earnings typically lead to sell-offs because they aren't profitable (yet) and they were going to come up short of their initial estimates for cars delivered 2012 (even though it was revised down, people would still hold it against them). It had had a nice run in the weeks prior, so a correction seemed reasonably plausible anyway. It's just how the market goes, and I figured (correctly) that even if my stop got hit, it meant I would have an opportunity later to get back in at a lower price.

I believe in Tesla, but I also realize that there are going to be dips along the way that I can capitalize on. I think they'll turn a profit this quarter, and if they keep on track, their earnings reports won't be as volatile (at least in the negative direction) and I won't sell beforehand.
Totally agreed - but as has been mentioned elsewhere here, the overwhelming majority of computer owners aren't techies/developers. I definitely wouldn't buy one of these, but if you're basically a web user and you don't want to shell out for the MBP, I could see this being an appealing option I guess.
Read about what happened to Kipling's son before you believe too much in it.
lol. I can only come up with gaming applications. flying robots that build stuff(jenga?), air battles.

I recently got a vacuum roomba and I am very entertained just on by watching it work. But I am a geek, probably not everybody is like that.
> Whatever Google's Goals might be, I won't buy it since you can run native apps.

I think you mean "can't" (though that's arguably inaccurate, given Native Client), unless you are saying that having Native Client is the reason you don't want it, which doesn't make a lot of sense.

> I need my IDE, my server setup and want to install and remove native apps as and when I want.

Okay.

> That is why developers are not impressed with Chromebooks, agree?

I would say that that's why people who are attached to traditional desktop environments aren't impressed with Chromebooks, but I don't think that has much to do with "developers". Some developers are interested in cloud IDEs and apps running on cloud-based servers, and I would suspect that they would be well-served by Chromebooks.
Looks like trademark infringement to me. Come up with your own identity.
My first thought was "I want to see these juggle three poles". Nothing wrong with robot circuses.
There's always support at 0.
Instead of setting a hard number (that requires adjustments) they should change it to responding to the top X petitions with the most signatures each month.
Yeah a little bigger would be better; it looks great at 24px. Afterall it's a page full of nothing but text, might as well make the text big. But I think they're still catering to folks with screens as small as 1280x1024.
I'm really impressed with the way Heroku has been communicating with their customers and the quick action they have been taking.

By "communicating with customers" and "quick action" You mean how they hid it for years?

I'm all for quick responses to sudden issues, but this is a bandaid for something they didn't address until getting called out publicly.
I'd just make the drones the bomb. Instead of the bomb deploy-er. These things will only get cheaper to produce anyway.
The one tort reform I want is:

* the ability to set up a private NHS-like system in the US.

Right now, if you do this, you will get sued into oblivion.

But I'd like to put $5,000 into a pool with a bunch of other families, and have a bunch of technocrats (that I choose through the market, not one big group where I can hope I can vote for) decide how to best spend that money. Cover some things, don't cover some other things. This will necessarily mean that someone doesn't get covered for something, not because the treatment doesn't work, but because the treatment is not worth the money.
Despite the vitriol for GoDaddy, I understand why you feel the need to include them. Don't let haters (no matter how justified their feelings) stop you from doing what you need to get a business off the ground.
Tesla's gross margins are currently 8% (whereas BMW is something like 19%) and they expect it to increase to 25% in one year alone. It's already up significantly from negative territory (I shudder to think what it was on the Roadster), but they still have to make the car another 18.5% cheaper. I wonder if they're aiming to squeeze that from the battery cost, in which case it's up to Panasonic, I suppose.
Gamewise Is the IMDb of Video Games [HuffPo]
> A chromebook has all the physical features of a high end professional laptop, but is 100% cloud based, and thus can be used as a real computer for real tasks.

Except it can't. There is a theoretical possible future in which everyone has 40 mbps unmetered LTE and powerful apps exist in web form, but if anything the trend has been the opposite in recent years (carriers eliminating unlimited data plans, apps moving back to native on tablets and phones).
Why are you just saying that. Presumably that's a book suggestion, why is it pertinent?