skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes to the 1st question - http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-esds-book-effect...
It all happens inside the DOM, whit all interaction the browser provides.
Take a look at this one:
http://www.varierfurniture.com/Collections/Work/Variable-bal...
I'd be curious to hear who you think the target audience/demographic is for your landing page.

In particular, I find that the page is succinct at describing "what" AppScale is but not "why" I should click either Join or Download within the first 45 seconds
I have:
- http://techinorg.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-is-going-on-with-...

edit: Here are just the queries:

"sublime text 2" "focus group"

cisco "anyclient" - this one gets silently rewritten to cisco anyconnect

shopify "deduplicate" - with verbatim activated -
I think Apple should take every competitor seriously and I am sure they do.

My point is that Google has a history of being unable to ship anything properly. And until we see them do so and with a sizable profit margin then they shouldn't be considered in the same league as Apple. And the important skill is not making the laptop it's in the supply chain management.
Yeah, heh.

I totally Amazon Subscribe-and-Save all my toilet paper now (but I don't always like to admit it)
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I am not really happy that Google is cloning all successful approaches from various companies with slight modifications to suit their own purposes. First Facebook, now Apple. Where is that amazing, creative, innovative company I once admired? It's like Microsoft all over again.
I don’t think my N9 is less fun to tinker with just because it is mostly a ‘media consumption device’ and given appropriate support (i.e. SDK and all such things), it’s not even harder to tinker with it than with the OS on my laptop. I would still prefer a truly open system where I don’t have to circumvent silly kernel modules (aegis, I am looking at you) every other day, though.
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Interaction is possible using the mouse:

- left-button and mouse move = rotation

- mouse wheel = zoom in/out
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Well you are not taking into consideration google glass and self driving cars.
They seem to have done a pretty good job at their equivalent of Siri, though. The synthesized voice sounds much better, from what I've heard.
No, what I meant is that white people selling ethnic food are actually in disadvantage. Curries are Indian, yakitories are Japanese, croissants are French. If they say satays are Indonesian, then, an Asian looking chef automatically scores extra points for being of a related origin.
Don't forget that they acquired YouTube, Maps, Picasa, Android and Chrome is a wrapper around WebKit.
You just said "nobody will or should take them seriously" and now you're saying Apple should take them seriously. Google shipped tons of products properly, if you're talking about nexus devices, they don't even advertise those much, they're more of a testbed for what's coming.
90 percent is crap???
Enough already with this attitude towards humanitarian studies. Engineering, computer science, medicine and law are all valuable studies but diminishing other fields doesn't make us seem smarter.

One of the most creative and successful entrepreneurs I have met had studied Italian art history.
Curious to hear whether these weird Linux-asymmetries apply to Blu-Ray or online digital media (e.g. Hulu/Netflix) too.

I would be willing to accept the fact that DVDs were invented so long ago that some of their restrictions are a little archaic.
You do realise that Google didn't invent self driving cars and that they aren't even leading the industry.

Mercedes Benz demoed the technology nearly 20 years ago and will be shipping cars along with Audi, Volvo etc en masse over the coming years. In fact every single notable car manufacturer has had their own program in place for decades.
Sure, the innovation in those items are pretty much non-existent (except for search which improves often with very interesting new features), and i think thats perfectly fine. I'd much rather have them focus on "futuristic" things such as Glass and Cars than have them trying to become the leaders in cloud providing, storage etc.
If someone gets it about right already, why would I want to change it up? Change for changes sake is generally bad. If someone has a good idea for a feature or interface, then hell yeah I would hope others would emulate and refine it.
Do you think you are clinically depressed? If so, you should talk to a psychiatrist.

If you simply feel unmotivated, the keefe's suggestions are probably good. You might also want to consider whether programming is really what you want to do. You might be very good at it, but not enjoy it. If so, are there other things you could do and enjoy more?
No. Apple should take every competitor seriously no matter how insignificant. The rest of us however shouldn't.

And we are talking about hardware here. They have consistent failures in shipping hardware.
The more thoughtful Apple acolytes are becoming readable lately. This is a good trend.
Businesses are just groups of private citizens.
Hm, lot of users are in the ocean (after I rotated the globe?)
http://www.chromeexperiments.com/globe
Geez, what a fanboy!
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Gmail will be 10 years old on April 1st, 2014.
you are advocating the destruction of historic content, not unlike suggesting that a library should just burn its oldest books. there were tons of fantastic websites on Geocities.
Not sure what you mean by "wealth per person", but pretty much everything is significantly better than it was in 1970.

The average North American is significantly wealthier today than they were in 1970. Compare an average car from 1970 and an average car today. Today's econo-boxes are Space Shuttles compared the caveman-cars of 1970 (Ford Pinto?). Both cost approx the same in inflation-adjusted work-hours.

Think about the TV that your average family was watching in 1970, and the average TV today. 60" 3D flat panel TVs for <$1000 in 2013 compared to ~$2200 (inflation adjusted) in 1970 for a 16" Motorola color TV.
Google is definitely getting better. Their search infrastructure gives them a huge advantage over Apple. I have used Google Now on my friend's Android and it is much better than Siri.

I remember someone linking to a video of Google Now (maybe it was Gruber)and commenting, "How fast should Siri be? - This fast!"

Google can put a voice over their search interface and boom, they have a Siri alternative that works on any platform(though for web only, but it can integrate with Chrome and Android very easily). Just imagine asking your Chromebook to create a new appointment, that would be a nice feature. Or just asking Chrome to do it.

The only problem with Google is that they do not have any customer care! When things go fine, everything is well and good. But one day when your GMail account suddenly stops working and gets blocked, you have no human to talk to!
With opera moving towards chromium, it appears chromium is moving towards opera too. But this only leads to fuel the whole Google privacy snafu.
Regardless of that (which I haven't experienced, at the very least because I only got a Pi when they started selling the Rev 2), any platform has its issues at first. The important part is that they recognize them and fix them. People can choose not to buy if the outstanding issues are important to them, but they seem to have chosen to buy en-masse instead...

Unless you are referring to those issues being, in part, from the non-open nature of some parts of the Pi. If that's so, I only have to point to every other platform where there's a ROM with non-open firmware. Being that on the Pi all firmware is loaded on startup, and on other platforms the firmware is there and all that the OS can do is work around it's bugs...
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Thanks. Just completed peepcode's Clojure screencast based on https://github.com/technomancy/mire

This should be a nice follow-up.
Seriously ? Let's hope they can swim :)

It happened to me one or two times that I thought the same because the dark color of the sea looks somehow more solid than the continents.

If it's really a rendering bug could you share a screenshot ?
These issues absolutely apply to Bluray, and to basically any other format with copyright restrictions. It is not an issue of DVD being invented long ago; the DMCA is what is obsolete here.
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And that is real advantage with Google. Priority Inbox(and every other feature) is a quite powerful tool and lets you use it the way you want it.

Try that with iCloud mail or any other Apple service. They look good, work well but may feel restrictive after some time!
"Except a rip off"? I expect you certainly didn't major in English lit :)
Chrome is not just a wrapper. WebKit requires you to implement networking, graphics rendering, font rendering etc.
There are huge differences between the different WebKit based browsers
Same here. Tried reporting it a number of times in different ways but nothing ever happens. Have posted a few examples as response to moultanos answer further down in this thread.
The reason for this problem is so transparent it's laughable: easy access to borrowed money naturally creates inflation in the target market until heavy borrowing becomes the norm. It happens again and again throughout history.

The only way to be truly on the risk-free side of this one though is to own a school.

As a principle, I would downsize or mortgage my house before I'd send my children into the world as debt slaves. For their part, there are plenty of state-funded schools where tuition is 10K/yr or less.

The whole thing is backwards: these lenders and schools are businesses and should be marketing and selling you their product, not forcing you to "apply."

If foreigners have the means to pay non-resident costs to attend our public schools, then I see no problem at all selling them an education. Giving them grants in lieu of citizens is just bad practice. Lending them money is bad risk management.
How do we know who is leading the industry if the industry doesn't really exist right now?
those that want power aren't fit to wield it, those fit to wield it don't want it.
Hey, you're right. As it says at this URL,

resource:///defaults/profile/chrome/userContent-example.css

the file goes in <profile directory>/chrome/userContent.css. On a conventionally installed Firefox on OS X, the profile directory is:

~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<random characters>.default/

You may have to create your own "chrome" subfolder in there. (I did.) Some poking around reveals that the essays on Paul Graham's website achieve their indentation by sticking all the text in a <td width=455>. 455 pixels, then. So I tried this CSS file, having spent all of three or so minutes looking at a CSS reference:

~ $ cat heh.css
p {max-width:455px}

And installed that as <profile-dir>/chrome/userContent.css. ... This seems to have far-reaching implications. It does make all the paragraphs on this website, except for the first one, fit in what is presumably a 455px box. This also goes for Hacker News comments, and it also constricts the paragraphs on a website that pretty certainly has its own CSS. I suspect the only thing that would override this is a CSS that specifically changed the max-width property of <p> objects. (I expect a CSS expert would have been able to predict all of the above, except possibly the fact that it seems common for the first paragraph to not be in a <p> tag.) Oh, and I had to restart Firefox for the effects to be visible; and, editing that CSS file, it seems I'll have to restart Firefox again to see changes.

For those who don't want to go to the above effort to see the results: http://imgur.com/F1MHng3 http://imgur.com/jYly4fX
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/24/3904134/google-redesign-ho...
I am not really happy that Microsoft always is the example of a boring company while they have clearly been more innovative and bold than Apple in recent years. They built alot of cool tech in their labs and also release products that arent another iteration of older products to play it safe, eg. Surface, Windows 8, Metro, Kinect
But they did good job with them. YouTube, Maps and Android are on top in terms of market share and Chrome is on its way.

However, I feel that there is a big problem with Google: Customer Care.
If design is so much easier, then why have all hardware manufacturers failed so miserably to match Apple over the past two decades?

Anything from phones, mp3 players, monitors, tablets, laptops etcetera, they all look cheap, plastic and designed without love and attention to detail. And yes, that includes Google's Nexus range, which aren't ugly but won't win any awards either. It should be possible, look at B&O or Loewe in TV and audio for instance, albeit that they sell at a premium way higher then Apple's. And by the look of it, it's not others they haven't been trying to imitate Apple (hence the lawsuits).

As far as I can tell, getting design right is very, very hard, and takes a broad commitment to excellence most companies are lacking.

And if one company has very conspicuously ignored design and the basic notion of delighting their users with products that aren't just functionally great but make people fall in love with them, it has been Google.

The design of the latest Chromebook is a huge leap, surpassing manufacturers that have attempted to match Apple for years, and comes completely out of left field from a company has so far shown little sign if even having any feeling for design.
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Great, would this be available on Desktop too?
Apple sell hardware and Google sell ads, everything else is just semantics. They may be competitive in certain areas but they are making money in completely divergent ways. Companies like Google and Amazon are able to use the Chinese electronics contractors to get products to market without the huge amounts on R&D that Apple had to invest. That is only a threat to Apple if they are unable to make innovative new hardware that can't be replicated quickly.
>actually better than an MBA

Okay, let's not get ahead of ourselves here. The Chromebook does have a nice screen, but...

- The Chromebook is almost half a pound heavier that the Air.

- It only has USB 2.0, not 3.0 like the Air.

- It has just a 32GB SSD, the Air has 128GB/256GB/512GB.

- It has just 5 hours of battery, compared to 7 hours with
the Air.

- It only has Bluetooth 3.0, not 4.0 like the Air.

- It still starts at $100 more expensive that the Air.
While this book sounds good, to me this looks a little like a shady attempt to make a quick buck off of Amazon referrals. Reassure me?
Sure but you can just defer to the OS for the bulk of those services e.g. CoreGraphics, DirectWrite etc.
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Google doesn't need to innovate, they can do a so-so clone, post it on top of search and 1 billion people will see it a month. And boy do they see it, over and over and over again. Now even Chrome has ads, in addition to the suite of Google services.
> Just imagine asking your Chromebook to create a new appointment, that would be a nice feature. Or just asking Chrome to do it.

> The only problem with Google is that they do not have any customer care!

> you have no human to talk to!

I think you just solved google's main problem at some point in the future.
I'm the happy owner of a galaxy nexus and nexus 4. Pretty awesome shipped hardware.
Credit to them for these products but they still lack something. I don't know what exactly but we are talking about a company that innovated and still wasn't able to move a lot of units around! Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 have been so so, Surface RT did not sell well compared to competition.
> without the huge amounts on R&D that Apple had to invest.

Which amounts are those?
It's a great documentary, certainly one I'd recommend to everyone here. If you haven't seen them already, I highly recommend Helvetica and Urbanized.
Works for me.

Probably you are using some Linux distribution with misconfigured freetype.
I think people musnderstand what it is that Apple does best. And what it is is deliver great products that focus on what the consumer needs.

Google has yet to deliver a compelling or wildly popular hardware product to the market. Google is getting really great at propaganda and hype though-- like that carefully set up PR event of brin on the subway with glass.

Glass and this computer are both misfires because glass is just a bluetooth headset with a camera-- it needs a network to work. It needs an iPhone or android device to teather too (and I still think its really going to have bad battery life.)

Same with this netbook-- it doesnt' have a real operating system, and it relies on being connected to the cloud all the time... which is impractical in a lot of ways.

The iPad is the competitor to this device, not the macbook. The macbook is a real computer you can use for development, the iPad you can use for content creation but not really hardcore software development.

The iPad is much cheaper, higher build quality, and doesn't need a network connection to really work.

Google's delivered a lot of products like the nexus, the nexus q that have had a lot of hype but haven't really been big successes.

Until they do make a big hardware success you can't really say they're learning to do what Apple does.

It's not like you just call up foxxconn and say "I want 100 million phones made."

Meanwhile, what google does best is selling customers to advertisers and search.

I'd say Apple getting good at that reasonably fast. Apple's SIRI upended search and was a big jump forward. Apple's iAds has not been as successful, but this is probably due to mobile being a hostile environment for ads (google and facebook aren't having great success yet either.)
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licensed or not they have a News section, finance, weather, travel, sports, shopping, gossip, etc.
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It's also illegal to do so in Germany.
the pixel might be on par in terms of build quality but its still a much less usefull laptop due to chromeos, bad battery life and a higher price.
I've read it as well, it was at least as good as Effective Java.

One thing that's interesting about the book is that while he mentions things like "don't use feature X, works strangely in some browsers", he never explicitly states which browsers. He also doesn't make a lot of mention to frameworks etc, or the DOM. Just the common denominator javascript as it is implemented, and the language features. So don't expect it to teach you the latest tricks in your favorite MVC framework. It's written in a very timeless way on purpose, and he very deliberately avoids making reference to "current events" in javascript.
This is how the quality of education has declined in recent decades. As debt has exploded, the pressure on schools to ensure that all students get job-guaranteeing degrees has increased. The fact that so many CS majors cannot actually tell you what the P v. NP problem is about is symptomatic, just like the downsizing and closing of humanities departments.

The only real answer is to do what the Scandinavians do: pay for people to be educated.
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Adding touch events would be nice. Using Chrome beta for android and I can see the globe, but can't interact easily.
Let me answer you honestly.

Because of the comment which I read as "Germans are truly evil, it could never happen here!" (I'm originally from Europe)

Because we're always on our high horse about our supposed moral excellence, saviors of the world, yet most are oblivious about the horrors we've committed (and don't kid yourself... still commit).

Because in THIS time, where we have the internet and school curricula/writers of history books no longer have the power for mass indoctrination, we STILL stick to our myths, our heroes, our self-perceived excellence.
Funny to read someone defending Apple based on hardware specs when Apple lovers told us for years that Apple killed specs because no one care about them and that hardware should be judged on its beauty and slickness and the UX of its software which is where the Pixel does indeed shine. As for the 32 GB, the Pixel comes with 1TB of google drive and a "save to Google drive" option.
First nail in the coffin of Patent Trolling?
>Your reaction to this story will depend on whether you believe businessmen are mustache-twirlers who pollute rivers...or whether you believe that the kind of government that leaves potholes unfilled for years might jump into action to shift blame and point fingers rather than accept responsibility.

Experience has taught me to trust neither. The city's failure to fix a valve doesn't absolve a party's responsibility to not pollute. Was the valve clogged? Or was it spec'd too small to begin with? The town I live in has a plant (not a meat packer) that has the same problem, with the same result.

I'm loving the typical Texas politician response too. Noticed a business breaking the law? Make noticing things like that a crime!
But is Google actually that good at services besides a few great products?

I'm considering moving away from Google Apps, because besides GMail, most apps are a weak and seem to have become stagnant. Google Drive, which we had been waiting for for half a decade, is still buggy, clunky and unreliable. And don't get me started on the UI and the complete inconsistency between various apps.

Yes, Apple has been consistently shite when it comes to online services, and Microsoft entered the game way too late. But I don't think Google has such a major advantage in anything else but search.
This is subjective, but I think you're wrong.

Having debt isn't a bad ting, crippling debt is of course, but I graduated with over 40k in debt and it forced me learn things like prioritization and budgeting. It also gives you a sense of urgency about finishing school.

Most parents aren't saving enough for their own retirement as it is. They should NOT be going further into debt for their kid's college. The kids can get loans for school, the parents can't get loans for retirement.

Parents should save as much as they reasonably can to help kids through college, but the child needs to shoulder some of the burden as well.
And did she use her Italian Art History education to become a successful entrepreneur? Conversely, would she be more successful with a different degree?

Study what you like/want if you can afford to, but the reality is that you are more likely to be financially independent and successful with some majors and not others. No, humanities are not crap, but you have to use the right tool for the job. If you have a degree in English literature, yet have no aspirations of becoming a teacher, then you are holding the wrong tool. The grandparent post to me reads as "when choosing a career, some are more and some are less likely to help you get good financial health."
Who said that? I said my devices, not any device.
Cool, thanks! From the looks of it, I'm fairly alone in wanting to even try this.
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This is exactly how i marketed my first ONLINE STORE when i was 16 (that's 6 years ago now). I Made about 2000 Pounds doing that alone that summer.
Absolutely. I had the same thought when checking with my Nexus S. Not sure how easy/difficult it is to implement though as touch events are always a bit different than mouse controls.
The title is somewhat misleading - this change is using Google servers to proxy SPDY traffic to/from a client browser for speed. It's not using the proxy for "rendering" of actual pages, or parts thereof.