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Firstly, the car companies have been shipping for the last few years many of the key systems of an autonomous car. Even some of the cheapest cars can self park and auto brake in the event of an impending collision. Adding more sensors and better control systems builds on this.

Secondly, nobody knows who is leading the industry. But we know it's not Google since all of the car manufacturers have their own programs in fairly advanced stages. And due to the consolidated nature of the industry key technologies are shared within the groups. So if Google has no one interested in their technologies and they don't make cars then how will they ever lead anything ?
When newspapers are running headlines about how some stock is going to double in value, it's time to get as far away as possible.

Besides, if you're in technology, you shouldn't be investing in tech companies. Since most of us are technologists, if we're ever out of a job for the long term, it'll probably because of a downturn in the technology industry. If our savings are in tech companies, our savings will be down too.
Relevant xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/605/
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I expect this to increase.easier than OSX because OSX machines are inherently expensive.

Also I know many persons that don't used Linux only because there was no steam for it.
Even better, I dare say that Steam's Linux market share has experienced infinite growth since February (where it was 0% exactly). Amazing, really.
I agree

Having used most linux distros and Mac OS X (and Windows, but I can't stand it anymore now), unfortunately Linux is very behind in user experience (not just interface, but the whole experience)

Granted, some of this are hardware/drivers issues (like getting suspend/sleep correctly, good wifi drivers, etc)

Maybe Chromebook can make this better.

- Google hand picked the hardware and can provide the best (sw) configuration for it

- Google makes the browser the center of the experience, so as long as the browser works ok, there's very little beyond that (a basic window manager, network manager, basic linux system, etc)

And yes, you're right, it's more close to an "iPad with a keyboard"
The Atlantic ran "The Myth of the Student Loan Crisis" recently:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/03/myth-stu...
As recently as mid-October, the stock was billed to be getting close to $1000.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/10/16/analysis-apple-sto...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gurufocus/2012/10/05/apple-stock...
their main problem is being late to the party imo. Windows 8, Phone 8 and the Surface Pro are pretty excellent. We are seeing the first generation of proper laptop/tablet hybrids that could really change the way we see computing. Those products might not come from MS directly, eg. Thinkpad Helix, but they enabled it and i think its awesome to be able to choose from hundreds of different devices.
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That would be great, but I can’t imagine living without all the pirated books. You can replace entertainment, but how can you replace everything else?
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I was working as a Junior developer for my first company and already had 2 years of experience in freelance work aned as a hobbyist really. I was paid £4,800/a or, £400 per month (which after national insurance etc was a paltry £370.)

After I left that job (mostly due to the money, I'm not a greedy person, but my quality of life was ridiculously low) I came to my current job, where in I earn in the region of £22k.

While it may only be $30,000 or so in the US, outside of London in the UK, this is actually a pretty standard wage for developers.
We already have automatic ground turrets that use heat signatures and computer vision

http://singularityhub.com/2010/07/25/armed-robots-deployed-b...

But at the end of the day, everything loses against a single nuclear bomb.
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I agree with you. This story has all the signs of a fake story. The author is an attention seeking moron. By the way what is a salesman doing on hackernews?
Google was always a search and ad company, and this refocusing lets the company go back to its roots while other companies build on Google's progress. Microsoft thrashed about and did a lot of damage when it was where Google is now. I prefer this approach.
Spot on!

I observe this thing in my university too. All the top students who have caliber to do something won't touch it because it involves too much bureaucracy and as a result, everything is done by, well, incompetent people who spread corruption!

I guess it only grows when we go up in the chain.
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it still has just a webbrowser as the os, less battery life and is more expensive. Those things add alot to the user experience. Its a very nice device but its not better than an MBA or other good Ultrabooks.
I'm in Tokyo, and streamed an episode of PBS' FrontLine from pbs.org only last week/the week before last.
If "short anything newspapers are touting to double" were a viable strategy, it would quickly cease to be a viable strategy.
I'm actually really frustrated by Steam's linux port. If you're not running Ubuntu it's freakishly inconvenient to get running.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not complaining that Steam doesn't have a gentoo package that is maintained by them. I'm pissed off that they call apt-get directly from the application, don't make it easy to discover steam's requirements to run, have a confusing maze of launch scripts, and a bunch of other major no-no's.

The ubuntu desktop is an easy access market, with some big upsides from Steam's perspective. But there's a long history out there of vendors successfully handling a broadly usable linux port without pulling this kind of nonsense (attempting to maintain dependencies system-wide without even asking if it's okay!), and a great number of linux users are happy to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and rebuild libpng or whatever for any special application requirements if they're not running your 'officially supported' distribution.

That having been said, I'm playing Cave Story right now on linux.
Someone isn't practiced enough at weaselwords yet. Had they said 'mirrors in its entirety what you see on your device', they would have been accurate while misleading, while now they're just wrong.
I wonder if someone will have courage to kill a terrorist in US soil, just to show US they can do like US do to another countries.
This is so true and I am glad that I am not the only one who thinks that way. In addition to that one could argue that investing in stocks (whatever the industry may be you are investing in) is a bad thing if you are not an insider. My brother who is a hacker and economist at the same time showed me studies that determined/proofed that the stock market is very irrational (I mean we all knew that but those studies showed this with scientific methods). I will ask him about those studies again - may be interesting to others as well.
The way I look at it the problem is a bit more subtle than that. In the interest of full disclosure, I'm not a US-citizen either.

Recent technology is making several business models (of which the RIAA is a great example) obsolete. These businesses are powerful enough not to die the way the typewriter or the analog photo film did. These laws (like the DMCA) are a cry for help, a last resort from a dying industry. This is why their side of the argument has always appealed to emotions and not reason. ("How would the world be without movies?" - a complete straw man).

I don't believe it's a conspiracy to make the rich even richer, it has more to do with the difficulty of renewing oneself when technology makes you obsolete. The problem is that a few (or more) innocent casualties are going to get hurt as the Hollywood Titanic (yay, a metaphor!) goes down, but ultimately this whole "technological protection measures" shenanigan is going to disappear. Hollywood is doomed and it knows it.

That being said, I think the US is ahead of other countries when it comes to finding a solution to this problem. The effects of the SOPA/PIPA protests had on Congress is the obvious example, but more broadly, the constant ongoing debate looks promising. This debate is always avoided or dismissed as nonesense in France (where I currently live) and it cannot possibly be held in the Middle East (where I'm from).

I just wished the judiciary system wasn't so harsh on the scapegoats of this whole mess. Because let's face it, the victims (again, obvious one is Schwartz, but there are many others) are scapegoats and everybody knows it.
Thanks for creating the post. Even though I agree it is the same job market, still some companies offer positions directly targeted at new grads. It seems to me that larger companies tend to open more specific positions, e.g. new grad/junior, than smaller companies/startups. I think these jobs are underrepresented in the who's hiring thread as much as larger companies are underrepresented (ok it's more of a startup community here so it might be obvious), therefore testing whether there is a more specific new grad demand here on HN seems reasonable to me.

Actually, I'm also a new grad and looking for opportunities, so I'm excited to see what shows up here.

Edit: csdreamer, you could also try https://trypitchbox.com/
Hi,

Here's more information about the rights of US citizens: http://www.aclu.org/drug-law-reform-immigrants-rights-racial...

(I know the ACLU can be biased in their views on constitutional questions, but think the answer truthful.)

In general, you don't have to answer questions about your immigration status, though, as the link notes, different "rules apply at international borders and airports, and for individuals on certain nonimmigrant visas, including tourists and business travelers."
Here it renders perfectly on Fedora in Firefox, Chrome and Safari on Mac OS X, Firefox and IE9 on Windows Vista.

It would be nice if the people who encounter these text-rendering problems mention what setup they use.
It would be really cool to see an integration of this with the Leap Motion controller (http://leapmotion.com/). I can't imagine writing code exclusively with Tiled Text gestures, but the idea of moving around, navigating, and manipulating text with gestures when it make sense, then typing when that's the most effective - and going fluidly between the two - that sounds really incredible.
Re #1 - NFC doesn't have enough bandwidth for large file transfers, that's why a secondary mechanism like Bluetooth is used.

Sony came out with TransferJet for NFC-like fast transfers but so far it hasn't gotten traction.
It wasn't 0%, there are plenty of wine users.
I agree with the vast majority of what you said, but Siri upending search seems incredibly pre-emptive.

I think Siri opens a lot of doors, but 90% of the Siri use I've seen (which I admit is somewhat anecdotal, but still) is hands-free texting & easter eggs ("Siri, where can I hide a body?")

Once Apple opens up Siri's functionality a bit more and makes it actually actionable ("Siri, pre-order my usual Chipotle burrito, please.") then things are going to go crazy.
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No, he didn't use the Italian art history. I don't think there is any education for what he did. But I think that what made him good at what he did was the same curiosity and interest in aesthetics that made him study Italian art history in the first place.
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Winning takes boots on the ground.

But death comes from above.
that would be great ! do talk about which app server (tomcat, jetty, etc.)
Actual history is written by different people. They were in dire condition but still did not surrender when asked, Bushido and all.

I see, even Pearl Harbor wasn't really their aggression. Was the brutal torture of POW their fault or did we force them to do it?
"I would downsize or mortgage my house before I'd send my children into the world as debt slaves."

Absolutely. I wish there was a tactful way to tell my parents this but its largely useless after the fact.

My parents bought a huge McMansion "for the kids" with all the upper middle class trimmings and neglected to save a single dime for college. And so all four of their children will be paying off student loans for a decade or more.
Here's a tidbit that might entertain, then: in densely populated suburbs, you're less likely to find what you need at 3am than in small-town America (at least, in the rural South). That's because Walmart is typically open 24 hours, and Walmart in rural areas has essentially everything that's not very specialized.

Upon moving from such a place to the suburbs of DC, I was dismayed to find that finding a store open at 3am was actually more difficult than in the hinterlands.
So, much more similar to CloudFlare, then.
Why is this on HN? Sorry Feldo, though your attempt is valiant, this may not be the right place to advertise. Hit the streets of SF. Use more social channels online like FB, etc.. Try to get local press to pick you up.
The day to day of the stock market is irrational, but long term investing isn't. If you're putting money in the stock market and not looking out 5+ years, you are simply gambling.
One stone, two birds! If I remember (reading) correctly the Russians were ready to invade them.

But the Japanese had the chance to surrender and they didn't. Lots of second guessing now, maybe they gambled on getting better terms...
High-paying is relative to the local standard of living. Dropping a bunch of dollar-denominated debt means you can live like a king in Costa Rica or inland China or wherever.
He was arrested while using a fake ID to evade the police from his first capture and that ID had a fake first name and birthplace, so perhaps that is the reason. (I never met him -- he died before I was born)

Passports were not required back when he left the US, so I doubt he had proof handy and even if he did it was probably a fine line. Showing proof he was American could have made him a target instead of helping.
I can't stand this jibberish. There's only two things I've ever gotten from an artist that I actually appreciate.

1. a UI

2. a 3D movie

Most 3D artists I know are 100% self taught.
Haha "Women's Rights"

Glad to know the STEM jerk is going strong here also.
Apple needs Yahoo and Yahoo needs Apple.

Yahoo's culture conditioned by a strong personality cult is on par with Apple's own culture. They bring all the web expertise that can compliment Apple.

That's an easy US$25B to spend.
Actually I seriously doubt air power will continue to win - Raytheon have now demonstrated a lorry sized 25KW laser, and chemical lasers can deliver 100kw (from a site the size of a car park so less useful)

Anyway, line of sight medium range lasers are really here, and long distance (hundreds of KM) feasible.

Stick one of these every 100km round your borders and try flying an aircraft overhead.

Air power may soon be just another casualty of the march of progress - and the billions it costs to run an aircraft carrier may seem a little expensive.
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Treat Gruber like Apple PR and it makes sense. He's seeding the conversation so an upcoming Apple announcement makes sense. Maybe another sub par app release which will be wildly outmatched by the competition, like maps.
Google Apps is a blip: the vast majority of consumers have no idea what it is, what it does, or why it matters. Google Drive has its flaws, but it's infinitely better than iCloud. GMail and Search, Google's largest and oldest offerings, dominate their verticals.

I'm pretty much an Apple hardware devotee (iPhone, iPad, MBA) but their services are terrible. iCloud is Kafkaesque; iTunes Match is essentially a scam.

I agree that Google is by no means a paragon of great services (I'd actually argue that Amazon is poised to be the service king, except AWS is such a narrow vertical) but they're leaps and bounds past Apple and Microsoft.
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>Apple killed specs because no one care about them and that hardware should be judged on its beauty and slickness and the UX

And you know why this works? Because Apple puts sufficiently high specs in their machines so the user doesn't have to think about it, because it doesn't stall or perform tasks slowly.

Besides, this is HN. It's an objective discussion, not a marketing one.

>beauty and slickness and the UX of its software which is where the Pixel does indeed shine

I can't speak for the Pixel here, but OSX is the best OS I've ever used so I would be surprised to see a browser-only OS match that.

As for hardware, the Air is by far the best-designed laptop I've ever seen. I know people are praising the Pixel in this regard but to me it just looks like another ThinkPad. And as far that grey bar jutting out? Come on.

>As for the 32 GB, the Pixel comes with 1TB of google drive

I knew this would be brought up but I didn't want to bash Drive in my last reply. But here we go...

Somebody shared a single .png imagine with me this morning on Drive. I went into the Drive folder they shared it in, it's empty. I reload the web interface, folder is still empty. I try to search for the file name, it's not there. I reload the page again, still can't see the file in the folder, type the file name in the search box, and it finally appears in the search bar and I can open it. When I'm done I go back out, and it still doesn't appear in the folder it's in. The only way I can access this file is now to memorize the file name and search every time.

Not somewhere I'm willing to put hundreds of GBs of data just yet.

And something that's not brought up enough: data privacy. Google employees can view hundreds of GBs of your personal files, photos, documents, etc. on Drive.

With an SSD you know exactly who can access your files, and you can still choose to back up to a cloud service that actually offers encryption if you so wish (which I do).

Drive will most likely never offer encryption because Google makes its money from knowing as much about you as possible.
It would be contributory infringement, at least, for the buyer in the country they "bought" the DVD in.

I wonder if there's a clause disallowing transport of the DVD to a non-Berne Convention country (or non-TRIPs or whatever).
Apple does offer about 10% off for bulk discounts (between 5 - 12% roughly). They may have not known, been signed up or just let students choose themselves.
Yet another great post from François Beaufort introducing an upcoming feature being developed in Chromium. I wonder - does François work for Google, or is he just a watcher on the repositories?
Serious lasers + warships will be the game changer. A Destroyer's engines for power and the sea as a heat sink. A bottomless magazine and total domination of the airspace out to the horizon. Suddenly you don't need a carrier to provide topcover for amphibious operations, for example. You can put dozens of destroyers to sea for the cost of one carrier.
I've been seeing expertsexchange again. That's how I discovered the google blacklist had disappeared.

There was as chrome extension, but google removed it. Then it was built into google, and they removed that too.
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Drone strikes against "terrorists" are almost exclusively over territory that is actively supportive of the "freedom fighter". This is why there were so many bombings of weddings (if target X's niece is getting married you know he will turn up. So watch the uploads on Facebook or observe from the next hill. Bomb the whole place when target arrives. This was such bad PR it got stopped pretty fast)

Anyway my point is assassination with drones is hard and always has collateral - but if the target is in an area that is not actively protecting him then the traditional methods of walking up and shooting him is much more viable. America has no such areas protecting terrorists (unless maybe some areas with the KKK but hardly. Oh and actual members of go ernment but that's playing with the definition of terrorist too much)

I suspect it happens more than we hear about (Litveneko and the polonium being the obvious case)
>I see, even Pearl Harbor wasn't really their aggression. Was the brutal torture of POW their fault or did we force them to do it?

Their brutal torture of POW and the unbelievable atrocities they did against the Chinese were THEIR (the Japanese's) fault. Their imperialistic ambitions and their treatment of Korea was also THEIR fault.

Why would you expect me to say otherwise?

I guess because then I would just be a pro-Japanese US-hater crazy guy to be easily dismissed.

Only I don't take sides, I just call it as it is (well, at least to my knowledge).

So, yes, the Japanese did awful things in the war. But dropping A-bombs on civilians was also awful, and it was not even justified because of any "he had to do it to end the war" situation.
I'm trying to learn more about this but am feeling overwhelmed. Is there a professional I could contact to help me? I went to the website suggested in the info sheet on PAYE to find out who "services" my student loans and it's a company I've never heard of.
Why do people choose to encode the filename instead of preserving it?