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I can get the same functionality in terms of hardware at the more or less same cost, certainly not $1000 more as you claim. A 1.7gighz ARM or the other versions aren't more powerful than a 1.6gighz or higher Atom processor at the same price point.

And I can run a real operating system on that hardware with no problems. My laptop boots in less than 10 seconds and I trust Ubuntu just as much as a Chromebook for security. If you are worried about the security of local files you can encrypt your drive, very simply in the last few versions of Ubuntu but I don't bother, if needs be.

None of the points you make in favour of the Chromebook are exclusive to it, what's exclusive to it though is you can't get access to the vast flexibility of a local system and have to go through NX.

That's all fine for people who only do back-end stuff, or Google if they want their employees to "dog food" living in the cloud, but for someone who wants to be able to do normal everyday things like edit images, test locally or any of the many other advantages of a flexible system it doesn't really cut it. If there were locally running JavaScript equivalents for image editing and everything else we'd be a bit closer to feature parity but I still wouldn't see the major attraction.
It would be better if there is no background images. There could be a line go through the webpage. By line, I mean a theme which connect each parts together, to make it consistent. Do not just show your skills, but use your skills to do something cool and meaningful.
Until they look at bounce rate before viewing content vs. number of downloads of app. That should be a big indicator of whether this works or not.
Hope the party got better later--in this pic everyone seems awkwardly uncomfortable and sitting on their hands. Waiting for somebody to kick it off.

Drinks. The table needs to have some bottle service happening.
I agree that is annoying, but access to their wifi network is not an inalienable right, nor is it free for them to maintain. I don't see the problem with them trying to make money off of it via an app + ads... plus you always have the option of not using it?
I was working on an education idea a few years back in university, something very similar to YC's Lingt. After reading up on the market, I came to the conclusion that education was a sales-driven business, not a product-driven one - ie you can't beat Blackboard with a better product, because they have an army of salespeople and you don't. However, I do think you could "consumerise" edutech products where you sell directly to consumers, and where consumers are willing to pay a lot, like in language learning or professional qualifications. (Which suggests I should have stuck with the Lingt idea, but whatever).
Why would you assume it's supposed to persuade you of anything? Seems more observational to me.
That's certainly fair. I wasn't trying to come off as a hjkl evangelist, I just thought that the terms 'worthless' and 'useless' were way too strong to support.

I guess I misunderstood the point you guys were making, because I certainly agree that someone learning Vim should learn to be effective with other movement commands, and not concentrate on hjkl. The value of Vim is not just being able to move around text with a standard one character up/down/left/right movement, hands on home row or not.
No, that's true - natural doesn't mean healthy and without side effects. But it's at least relatively well understood. Perhaps not in exact chemical makeup but we've co-existed with most of what's in a supermarket long enough to know it's probably not going to cut our lifespans in half or anything.

Suddenly people are making extremely rapid changes to food and it's not unreasonable for people to be cautious about it.
Some stunning optical illusions
> Perhaps it is just my confusion... but given those free alternatives, how does Freicoin become anything more than a hot potato?

Nothing to be confused about - that's exactly what it is supposed to be: a high velocity ("hot potato") currency.

> Why would either the buyer or seller go through the extra hop (commissions) of Freicoin when Bitcoin (or whatever non-rotting FX is liquid) serves as both a store of value and a medium-of-exchange.

By your example you are a merchant and some customer just paid with freicoins. Now what do you do? Yes you could convert it into bitcons and take the instant 1% commission + spread loss. Or you can use parts of it to meet your current obligations and put the rest in freicoin investments. I fully expect services resembling money-market accounts to come into being fulfilling this niche.

> I challenge the claim that a medium-of-exchange is diametrically opposed to a store of wealth. You need wealth storage to maintain liquidity, do you not?

I'm not sure I understand your question here. Stored wealth is not on the market and therefore subtracts from liquidity.

This is not a new phenomenon, rather it is exactly the situation community currencies find themselves in.
65 responses and nobody is saying AirBnB. Me neither.
No, you are still wrong. I have written http parsers a few times in different languages and probably can do it in my sleep. It was never hard. If you work on web servers a lot you tend to remember all the quirks, but if you don't you can always look into nginx.
And you are probably thinking about different kinds of bugs when talking about stabilization. The reason it takes a long time for some implementations to stabilize is usually a poor language choice, not a variety of incorrect protocol implementations. Sure, there are some people who have no clue and try to make their own implementation without looking into nginx or apache, so your concerns are right, but they don't apply to everyone.
If I can find a way to add Creative Commons tags to each image, would that help?

If not, please take this as permission to copy those images and make your own non-sweary version.
I browse the visitor photos on tripadvisor and check out the neighborhood on google maps. it's the closest you can get to seeing each hotel without actually being there.
Not really no - quite a few people questioning the validity of it, or it's place on HN, but only one person against the swearing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2355427

On the contrary, most people really motherfucking joined in.
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This is some talented ad work. It was clearly cheap to make. They're going for viral. We're discussing it. The message isn't slimy. It's funny. It's more interesting than something like #tweetyermom. I say mission accomplished.

Also I still don't care much for twitter.
It is possible the posting could have been made with humorous intent.
I cannot speculate on the behaviour of Americans but as a Brit I can agree on your point that I am rather unfazed by swearing. In fact I worked in an environment in which my boss and MD both swore during general conversation and even more passionately during some interesting discussions. I was drawn to those people and that form of communication because it felt we were really free to say anything we wanted and that meant a lot less bullshit, we'd speak our minds and get straight to the point leading to more honest viewpoints coming across.

This has probably been posted before but Stephen Fry's opinion on swearing is pretty valid in my opinion.

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Swearing is a really important part of one's life. It would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing and without enjoying swearing... There used to be mad, silly, prissy people who used to say swearing was a sign of a poor vocabulary -such utter nonsense. The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies and the kind of person who says swearing is a sign of a poor vocabulary usually have a pretty poor vocabulary themselves... The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest or -is just a fucking lunatic... I haven't met anybody who's truly shocked at swearing, really, they're only shocked on behalf of other people. Well, you know, that's preposterous... or they say 'it's not necessary'. As if that should stop one doing it! It's not necessary to have coloured socks, it's not necessary for this cushion to be here, but is anyone going to write in and say 'I was shocked to see that cushion there, it really wasn't necessary'? No, things not being necessary is what makes life interesting -the little extras in life.

Stephen Fry on the joys of swearing. Stephen Fry: Guilty, BBC4, September 8th 2007

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I call my mom very often, but nevertheless, she gets two Mothers' Days every year by virtue of not currently living in the US but having kids who do: I call her on her Mother's Day and mine.

It seems the whole world but us celebrates Mother's day in March.

Fun fact: while most of the world celebrates Mother's Day, very few countries have Father's Day. At least we can do something right :)
Agreed. The author does not supply a valid argument other than "I don't like the criticism". And criticism != cynicism.

Also, it is everyone's right to determine their own future, especially when it comes to their privacy. And like it or not, Glass is the first obvious intrusion to privacy. It's the equivalent of running around with a Camcorder all the time. One that doesn't have a red light. This is not an attitude to attack, as he puts it, but everyone's right (free speech, btw) and duty to tell if some new invention makes them uncomfortable.

What I'd like to see attacked is the author's attitude who apparently doesn't think it's worth considering (and adressing) WHY other people aren't comfortable with Glass. and how it can be addressed. In order to really make the future better.
Don't laugh. I worked on a multi-million dollar project that was derailed for a couple of weeks by an analyst who insisted that doing a bubble sort on unsorted results from an Oracle query would be faster than using a SQL ORDER BY. This was based on a half-remembered class that used bubble sort. Pointing out that bubble sort is usually given as an example of an expensive sort had no effect. Ultimately Oracle won, of course -- it's orders of magnitude faster. But many hours were wasted and tempers flared.
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No, adding replace-for-fee would remove the false sense of security people have about accepting zero-conf transactions. Zero-conf transactions are not safe, and can be gamed on the current station. Dispelling beliefs to the contrary is in the long-term interest of bitcoin.
Plus I'm feeling pretty lucky today, so how could I lose?
As a current student, I see sleep deprivation in all of my peers. Staying up late is seen as a 'cool' thing for people my age and younger, and I hear stories of kids as young as middle school going to sleep well after midnight on weeknights.

Since college, I have gone to sleep earlier, just so I can stay functional for work and classes; I don't know how these other people do it.
To get an accurate number of the duration of a visit you'd have to make a ajax request every second or so, or somehow make a request whenever the user closes the tab. Also, you need to measure if the tab loses focus. To get even more accurate you could store the amount of scroll the user has done over the duration, to see if the visitor actually read to the bottom. These ways are seen as quite invasive just to get the duration of a visit. I know that e.g. woopra makes a request every 10 seconds with different metrics, so they would at least get better accuracy than google analytics.
To me it reads more like someone who's been reading Maddox.
Yes, relative to a mobile app it is so hard to use that I never actually use the main site on my phone. Pinching to zoom and read is so iPhone 2 era/Amish

My personal favorite is http://hackerwebapp.com/ which isnt on this list. It doesnt support commenting/voting but it is an absolute pleasure to read HN with on a mobile
> a) this comment is annoyingly simple minded and pretty plainly racist. ("Those people"? Really?)

Referring to people as a group makes you racist now?
This is really cool, and the effort is definitely admirable, but I'd have a few questions:

1. A suitcase can't conduct an examination and render a diagnosis; someone has to be able to operate it effectively. Are those people -- doctors, nurses, or someone with similar training -- available in the places that could benefit the most from this?

2. From what's been posted around here, India has a very serious basic sanitation problem. If that's true, two things:

2a. How will a predominantly filthy (bacterially speaking) environment effect the accuracy and utility of this, particularly over long term use of a single unit?

2b. Can we expect this to actually do any good in a significant number of cases? I'd expect that a diagnosis like "yes, your malady is x, which is an infection from the water you drink" is going to do very little good for many people's situation.

I have no idea how the cost of this compares to salaries or publicly-available funds for the places this is intended for, but that seems to me like another potential issue.
There is a pretty strong causal link between being overweight and diabetes. There is a strong causal link between over-consumption and being overweight. Wheat just happens to be a common source of very simple carbohydrates (in the American diet).

So while the GP seems to have been made in jest, it's coming from a place of truth.
I've come about face on this approach; which is what I always used to do. Now I find a shortlist of independent hotels via booking.com or lastminute, and then contact them directly for deals.

Usually you can get a higher quality service for a better price than chains.

One tip, though, is to barter - especially if you're travelling midweek. I've got some excellent deals (including free evening meals, room upgrades etc.) by bartering at short notice for rooms that otherwise the hotel wouldn't fill.

The best deal I got was a full suite, several free drinks, and free breakfast at a 5* London hotel for the price of one of their basic rooms.

You just need the balls to negotiate :D

Never book online if you can avoid it!
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One of the best speeches ever written, Chayefsky deserved the Oscar he won for that alone.
(Depressing news: in spite of the "economic miracle" that college is supposed to work, but hasn't for a long time, the #1 predictor of whether someone will be wealthy is having wealthy parents.)

That might be "the #1 predictor," but out of how many predictors? What "percentage" is it, if that term is even meaningful here? How do we decide what counts as "wealthy?" Is it income or assets? If income, what happens to people making $300,000 a year but spending it all (I have met these people). What happens to the Millionaires Next Door (http://www.amazon.com/The-Millionaire-Next-Door-Surprising/d... ; it has done more to shape my thinking about wealth than any other book. One surprising fact: most millionaires don't have extraordinary incomes but do consistently live below their means and save their extra money)?

If having "wealthy" parents is the #1 predictor and accounts for, say, 20% of the likelihood of the next generation's wealth, and, say, education accounts for another 10%, what happens if 40% is noise / randomness? Then noise accounts for twice as much as wealth! Most of the actual peer-reviewed studies I've read about this topic come to the conclusions they do through some dubious data decisions.

I'm not trying to pick a pointless, semantic fight here, but I see a lot of statements that try to compress a complex set of issues and questions into a single metric. As usually happens with this sort of thing, there's also an element of anecdote here: I have seen kids from wealthy families piss it all away and kids from poor families do the opposite. My own grandparents had virtually nothing and didn't speak English.
Except they don't give a valid explanation for it.
I've lost both my parents. Everyone does. It's nothing that deserves any special sympathy or empathy. It's part of life. I miss my parents, but beyond the initial short-term sadness after their deaths I don't grieve their loss, since it is inevitable. Far worse it would be to lose a child.
Dead right. It's people with pitchforks outside the Bastille. It's starving people rioting to reclaim common land taken as 'enclosures' by the rich people.

I somehow think that saying something like "Relax. For fuck's sake." isn't going to help.
That’s humorous, but it’s not a modal message, so it doesn’t actually get in the way.
Street photography is diFficult because you have to capture a moment without interfering and you don't want to piss someone off for photographing them. Vivian seemed to have the knack for recognizing a great moment and something about her demeanor meant she was able to approach them very easily.
Not only that, but they have a significant markup on rooms. So if they can fill rooms otherwise empty they will be happy to cut the margins - because it is all extra money! Also, it means you'll probably come back next time.
I'm sure that lack of exercise is also playing a role in this though it was not mentioned. Many kids are quite comfortable sitting at home on the computer, playing online games and instant messaging instead of leaving the house.
Something almost identical to this was posted 2 or 3 days ago. I can't seem find to it now, but if I do I'll be sure to link it since maybe you and the other author would be interested in chatting.
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Reading through the comments I am glad I am not the only one who finds over the top profanity upsetting. Yes , the author is free to make his/her point any way they want to. and No, not everyone who thinks that this profanity is undue is a prude. and I dont think it is fair to make a culture or age characterization based on a user's response. Extreme or sometimes, any profanity changes the tone of the article. that alone is a good reason to avoid over the top proclamations. IMO the author comes across as loud and noisy , and not strong and forceful. Just like a stand up comedian, who says 'fuck' for every joke.

As to the point in discussion: yes, it can be extremely annoying at times when companies prompt you to download their app. they have good reasons to do it too.

a) you spend good money to build an app, you want to drive users to the app instead of the site

b) many times , the app can be more functional than the site

c) one of the harder things for companies to do , is to retain user engagement. ex, if you have a firm that delivers stock quotes for users, you want to modify the users behavior to use your firm instead of a yahoo finance, or google. by making the user commit to download your app , in a way you get the users commitment to use your service.

d) you get a piece of users mental space , when you get their phone's screen space.

I personally think, having a small, disappearing toolbar to remind the user an app is available is the best way to go. Since every business with a website, also trying to get a mobile presence, a dual strategy of mobile web and app, seems to be the norm.

p.s I usually upvote the stories that I find interesting enough to comment. I choose not to do it this time.

edit:p.s
He probably abbreviates it most of the time, like John F. Kennedy.
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Everyone should try to have a good user experience, but it is not always the best business decision to dogmatically follow some usability guidelines.
"Think of it as node.js or rails hosting"... so is that what it actually is, or is that a metaphor. If the latter, then I think the idea is still to complicated because I don't understand it. Not that anything I don't understand is complicated, but you should be able to communicate what your service is/does without too much trouble and it doesn't seem that's the case here.
Past two years? Gnome has been messed up beyond belief for much longer than that. I used to strongly support Gnome, but these days I'm just happy Canonical largely do their own thing with Ubuntu (for now they happen to do stuff that gives me a better environment than Gnome, but I'm ready to jump if they start doing stupid stuff too).

Gnome is quickly making themselves obsolete.
A couple days ago that there was another page submitted to HN describing how gif animation worked. It then suggested this technique was possible.
Which is a weak signal at best when you define actions like "Cancel to continue" (http://idontwantyourfuckingapp.tumblr.com/post/50193815132/t...).
This gives me an idea. Wouldn't it be cool if had some sort of run-time environment/virtual machine that everyone could target for their applications, where it used some sort of markup for forms and layout and a built in language for automation. It could post back to your server to send and receive data. Everyone could use that instead of their own native app that has to be downloaded.

I'm sure there would be some challenges to this, but I imagine it could be done.
What is worse (if you can believe that is possible) are mobile apps (yes I downloaded your fucking app) that then nag you to download their iPad app while I'm on the fucking iPhone

See http://imgur.com/yRLTOsd and Go Pens :)
I swear too much, it's something I'm not proud of. Not least for the example I've set.
I really admire people who can respond to difficult situations in a dignified manner.
I never heard my mother curse and now I wince every time my children use one. I even hypocritically scold them for doing so. I get that from my father who ironically never uses bad language around his grandchildren.
For example, you might have a gunshot wound and are trying to make a tourniquet while you type. Did you ever consider that?
I'm using an i.MX6 development system that uses a similar processor (Quad CortexA9 w/GPU) and has a aluminum cap/heatsink on it:

http://imgur.com/1bJEqLU

The thermal cutout in the Anatop driver defaults to 100C, which seems to be driven by the ratings of the on-board voltage regulators. Perhaps the Tegra has the same requirements.
Genuinely curious, since I've used every nexus device to date: which ones disable tethering? I can't recall one that does.
I used one (running Fedora 17) for a couple of weeks as a light development machine, and wrote about it here:

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/some-thoughts-after-2-...

Note I was using it for disconnected development on the road, not as a fancy ssh client as in the article.

The upshot is that it's not too bad as a development machine. But you definitely want to root it and put something other than ChromeOS on it. Fedora, Ubuntu and other regular Linux distros are available.
Agreed! I HATE when I'm searching for something, find a link and when I click it I see these download our app pop-up's or dialogs and then they redirect to the home page and lose the context of what I was trying to see! How hard is it to forward the querystring!
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With Nitrous.io (previously action.io) https://www.nitrous.io/#aio any device with a large enough screen and a modern web browser makes an excellent dev machine. Been using it for the past several weeks. For web apps, it's the future. Basically no configuration and you get a linux environment that is similar to most production environments.
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