skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before I graduated I worked in the electronics dept of a supermarket chain and we had Samsung series 3 chromebooks -flying- off the shelf at £229, and for good reason. Their target market is non-tech-savvy teenagers and university students who only ever use/need to use SaaS (but don't know it). They want something stylish but functional. If somebody in that market asks you to demonstrate it, they will buy it over 90% of the time in my experience (granted, not a particularly scientific trial, but there you have it.)

Why? Three main reasons.

(i) Price - the next cheapest laptop will tend to start at 279, 299, and it will have some crappy Celeron chip in it. You can start looking at paying 120 more for something with even slightly comparable speed. Then MS office costs at least 79 quid, and that's only for a year's subscription. 120 quid if you want a permanent activation. Then you will probably be pushed to sell them Norton AV for 25 quid also (due to my strong moral principles(!) I never actually pushed this sale - the store I worked at were probably quite happy to see the back of me)

(ii) Ease of use - Google docs + Drive offline is an excellent product, you can do just about anything that the casual education or light productivity user will really easy. No confusing ribbon interface or being overloaded with options.

(iii) Quality - supported by a known brand (Samsung), with fast flash memory, a fast ARM processor and a nice anti-glare IPS display. You will get none of those things in any of the Windows models we sold (all under £500, granted)

The author of the article, Gabe Knuth, is a full-time tech pro with 12 years experience in application virtualisation on MS and Citrix platforms, according to his profile on the site. So he will find absolutely nothing for him on a Chromebook unless he is a heavy tablet user who desperately misses the keyboard. He is -obviously- not in the target market. But not being able to even -imagine- the target market is just silliness, because the Chromebook is a good product.
That is not the nature of humans. That's the nature of some humans to rule and enslave others. Some people just want to be left alone - I would argue that most people want that. Then a group of thugs comes over, sets us fighting against each other, calls it a democracy and feeds off our labour. I wasn't asked to sign any kind of contract with any government, I was never asked if I want to pay taxes to finance things I actually despise. If you believe our society ought to be humane - help the poor, provide for elderly etc. - then convince me to give you money voluntarily and convince me you can do a good job of helping the poor (and keep convincing me all the while I'm paying you). Governments pretend you have a vote that makes a difference, then they just rob you indefinitely.
I've been saying the same thing every time I encounter one of these articles (maybe I'll blog about it and just link people to it):

The best way to do encrypted WebRTC transfers is to have the whole app in a single page, using as little code as possible (so it is easily auditable). NoScript/etc won't do much when you have to trust the author and can't audit it. People should be able to download the page from the GitHub repo (or wherever) and store it wherever they want. The page will generate a random URL that also contains a secret key (e.g. http://www.myservice.com/somerandomid/#98h9g78g2188t7231gy34...), which you can share with the receipient.

Since the URL fragment is never transmitted to the server, it is private. The WebRTC service can encrypt the content appropriately and send it to the recipient, where it will be decrypted. Voila, encrypted p2p file transfers without having to download anything.
Did not program much until my uni. Somehow turned out to be a decent dev. Do despise those who are trying to fit people into arbitrary narrow buckets.
There is nothing wrong with allowing it to become visible before announcing it to the world. Or perhaps a private beta for a few weeks may give the opportunity to fix some things before being crushed by a thousand visitors all at once.

All of which is to say, you can make it visible now, to a small population, in preparation for more to come.
You can use sass by defining another css compile in the build config (however I never tested with sass).

The templating engine is the templating engine from underscore.js.

Thank you
Kindles are in another league: extra long battery, lightweight, practical for reading.
Well, they are mentioned in the first sentence, and repeatedly returned to throughout. Any of the other restaurants are done in group references, without being singled out. My suspicion was up as the entire first person framing of the article began, pulling the reader into this fantasy reality where fast food meals are paid for by strangers. Perhaps its the lack of any point to the article. Sure, I can accept human interest articles, but that one smells to fishy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4#Address_representations
The ocean is broken.
I like the way someone put it: "Is it easy to achieve success with an app(website, game, whatever)? Yes! Is it probable? No!"
Really? Just straight to "micro-tyrannies"? I'm just going to throw this out that this is an unscientific claim, and it's a matter of opinion.

I think it's sensationalist gun-jumping, and does not take into consideration the actual economics at play (at least in the U.S.). Nor does it take us hackers as a serious economic force into consideration.

1. The Urban Archipelago: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=19813

Nor does it take into consideration that the political compass is vastly more complicated than is popularized in the mainstream political theatre.

2. http://www.la-articles.org.uk/pc.htm

I don't have anything constructive to respond with in terms of "where women would fit in" given than your claim amounts to a biased post-apocalyptic scenario to begin with. (Also unscientific.)

Your abstractions I do not think are doing the work you want them to. The U.S. isn't some "macro-government" that can be thrown into the pot of all other "macro-governments." It's the U.S., and it's considerably unprecedented.
You can do all of those things while also owning stuff. Owning stuff just makes it easier to relax. Instead of planning to relax... you just walk into a room with distractions available.

Having distractions readily available is benefitial to your mental health. Sometimes you have to not over-analyze your every action. Have an office which is empty, that's what I have, for when you need complete concentration. Stop making early-20s dreams your entire existence.
Fun fact: most of the commands in Sublime's vintage mode are direct API calls. Sublime's text-manipulation engine is more powerful than what is exposed to the user via the usual Ctrl+Alt+Shift+key combos and its WIMP UI and activating vintage mode is the only way to use all of that power.
Think the parent of your comment was making that point.

Also good to note that the E-ink screen is a million times better for your eyes though!
I have reddit blocked on my computers because for a very long period I wasted so much time there, but I bet I already know what story you're linking to. "Today you, tomorrow me". It spawned a subreddit by the same name.

I avoid reddit because it's a time black hole (100x worse than HN for me), but I really wish I could still benefit from the few things like this that get posted 1 out of 1,000,000+ comments.
Would you be interested in a monthly hookah club?
> I have this strange impression that Mozilla is more akin to spent ressources dismissing the format rather than implementing it or finding an alternative.

Mozilla is acting responsibly here. It's not just effort to add the format to their browser. The format will spread to entire ecosystem, requiring websites to support it (e.g. can you upload photo or avatar in WebP?), image viewers, image editors, rich text editors, etc. When Facebook implemented Chrome-only WebP users complained, because they couldn't use images anywhere else.

Also take into account that bandwidth doubles about every 5 years[1], so if WebP is giving 20% gain, it only advances the web by 1 year. What WebP makes possible today will be possible anyway next year, and we won't have to spend years re-building interoperability that JPEG has built over 20 years.

[1] http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/
SO I guess Google employees love buying it on Amazon that 3 of the 5 Best-selling computers are Chromebooks.
My mom (a teacher) LOVES her Chromebook. It's easy to use, difficult to "break", and great for the times when she needs to type a lot.
No check constraints. Spotty transaction isolation. Silent data corruption if you happen to make certain kinds of updates while using statement-based replication. No on-line schema updates (is that still true?). Complete inability to execute joins of any size in reasonable time due to the lack of merge or hash join strategies. Corresponding inability to handle subqueries of any complexity. Readers block writers (at table level with MyISAM - and still at row level with InnoDB?).

As well as things like that which are actually ridiculous, there is also the substantial gap in features as compared to real databases. Things like recursive queries, user-defined types, partial indices, etc, are commonplace in the more sophisticated databases. You probably won't need them for a simple web application (or even a complex one!), but they can be very useful when trying to do more complex things, or manage a complex system efficiently.
Even the Kindle Fires have a use. Pretty much if you have very young kids, it is tough to beat a tablet. Our two year old has surprised us by knowing how to interact with the thing. The four year old flat out knows how to get it to the basic painting and similar games.
We live in a bubble. Among my friends Mac has 90% computer marketshare and the iPhone has probably 75%. But we know empirically that outside of the high-tech fat-wallet echo chamber these numbers are completely different.

I imagine that is where the Chromebooks are going as well: outside of the bubble. We know people are buying them since they are always in the top-selling laptops category on Amazon.
I think that's swanson's point :)
Or he could just take out of his pocket that other really snappy Internet terminal, music and Netflix player, game machine.... His smart phone.
Well, it's fairly highly rated on Amazon and out of the top 5, 3 of the best sellers are Chromebooks http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Laptop-Comput....
Patents, and weak results of wavelets.
I live in the North - about 30 minutes from Manchester. I've never see a Byrons around here. Is there one in the Trafford Centre or the Arndale?
PagerDuty (YC S10) is seeking an exceptional Senior/Lead Rails Engineer
> edit the damn thing.

TokenAdult makes a useful post to this thread about some of the problems of editing Wikipedia.

People pushing a POV really want that pov to appear, but other people just don't have the persistence to keep slogging through it.
This is pretty typical arrogance you see from some tech people.

They can't comprehend that something they don't use can be useful to other people.

Is it quite possible that the author is not the target market for Chromebooks?
Why is font-size: 90%; still a thing?
What the Automation Anxiety of the 60s teach us about our future
>> The technical community has a higher than normal prevalence of mental illness.

> What makes you say this?

http://www.tablexi.com/blog/2013/04/developers-and-depressio...

>> We need to learn to put more stock in real, educated, professional advice on these topics than blog and forum-based accounts of self-prescribed solutions.

> Yes. See also any thread about food.

Food? Food sources? Cooking? Farming? What are you talking about?
Exactly. Find new parts of town, meet people, meditate or even have that beer in a bar!

I think there's a certain freedom from not having too much as well. I barely have anything, moving around plenty and it's already far too much.
A DCMA Takedown notice is the best legal way to take down the website. If you want to get shady too you could also use tactics like using automated black hat tools and generate lots of suspicious (to google)backlinks pointing to www.bestnewjerseyartsschool.com Far from helping them, it will tell google that they aren't worth ranking that high. Of course, it's a last resort. Copying content and duplicating it all over the web is a form of SEO attack. Now you just have to fight back.

Of course, it would still be worth it to get your own content rewritten at least once before you hit them back.

I know people won't agree with this radical solution but for those black hat guys the web is a war zone. Good luck.
True - though try typing an assignment, reading a PDF, or using BlackBoard on an iPhone :)
"The author of the article, Gabe Knuth, is a full-time tech pro with 12 years experience in application virtualisation on MS and Citrix platforms, according to his profile on the site. So he will find absolutely nothing for him on a Chromebook..."

Just the opposite! The application virtualization market includes thin clients and the chromebook can run an RDP for Chrome.
All true, but frankly I shudder every time I see someone with a Windows PC. They just struggle with it, it's painful.
A lot of people I know are buying Chromebooks, and are pretty happy with them. In the comments section of the article, several readers state that schools are buying these up by the boatload. Not every product on the market is aimed at the web professional, who is going to reach for an Apple by default.
You know, this is a great question. There are probably disjoint sources like the WayBackMachine that let us piece these things together, but I think a curated gallery as a sort of museum for young startup founders to see could be very useful.
Filesystems are not great as kv stores if your values are usually very small (under page size). Well, they might still be better than some systems...
Because it didn't start that way. Because _nearly_ every society shows signs of warfare, banding together, governance and structuring society in some sort of hierarchical way. Because even when there is absolutely no reason for someone to _not_ help someone they see in need, they sometimes don't.

Now, this doesn't say we can't make it better, and that anarchists experiments aren't worth trying. But to assert that all hierarchical structuring of society is necessarily bad seems completely unfounded, and misses what good things hierarchical structure brings to human society.
I'm a student in the UK, a friend of mine told me that she switched to using a Chromebook recently and hardly ever uses her laptop anymore. Shes not a "computer person" by any means so they are obviously having an effect.

She also loves it.
In Urbit, 3098282570 is ~lanben-dibnup.

~tomsyt-balsen/try=> `@p`3.098.282.570

~lanben-dibnup
My startup for a time being was only using Google Checkout. Here lies the problem. Can't trust Google with building APIs when they reorganize.

This is surprising to me, but I wonder if Google Maps could close down....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Sakharov#Turn_to_activis...
I have a couple of friends who own them and are very happy. For older people who really just need an 'internet machine', they are ideal.

I am tempted to buy one for myself, I am tempted by a laptop which is cheap, light, and has amazing battery life. My standard laptop is the T420s, which is a great machine but is very heavy and only gets about 90 minutes battery life. I get tired of carrying it around.

On the other hand, I wouldn't want to type more than a sentence or so on a tablet or phone.
It would be naive to think that people can only make money from validated medicine. In fact, many people find it easier to pursue a profit motive with "alternative" medicine, because it has much less research and development overhead than medical practice that actually has to prove its safety and effectiveness.
It's not indeed (protomyth below) a matter of journalist or NYT deliberately giving column advertising to this company, but more the PR-fu of getting them to mention them anyway by feeding them the story in the right way, knowing that the journos will want to feel independent and objective. Clever PR people, upright journalists...

(I couldn't see a reply button on your comment just now, and now I see there is one. weird)
For me personally, the appeal of Chromebooks is that web apps are put on a level playing field as all other apps. This means that I have complete control over the apps I use. I can run all of them on my own server, I can outsource to a provider I pay money to (like email), or I can use a free-option with a catch. I have that choice. Which is something that's not true of other desktop operating systems.
The exploit may not have been patched in the mobile version of facebook or may still work using a hotmail alias (passport.net or w/e). These are just guesses. I dug into Facebook security a while back and they seemed to have very little protection in place on the mobile site.
Hah, technically speaking, they are ALL virtualization with a pure SaaS solution and the chrome RDP plugin. But what I mean is he will probably not use one for work! (It actually also has an SSH client so if you use vi or emacs, it's not even a bad shout for developers).
It took me awhile to understand what was so significant about the submission. In chrome when I roll over the link i just see 184.172.10.74.
indeed. journalists: even good ones, are under pressure for time and stories, and will often take excellent copy from a crafty PR verbatim. Such is capitalism.
I think it more interesting why some people want to believe such nonsense. The price of fish is all the evidence you need. Glass half empty does not begin to describe such a mind set.
This is why it's a good idea to use getaddrinfo and getnameinfo for IP address validation and normalization. While we're at it, use sockaddr's to represent addresses. in6_addr doesn't hold the IPv6 address scope/zone ID.
You've got to cope with the burden of success somehow, right? :)
There is. It's called a university press release.
Thanks. I'm helping my mom file it.

Turns out that they actually filed a DMCA request against my mom's site for the photos she took. That's some chutzpah.
Example: Einstein. This is an example of someone escaping hierarchical society to give us an unquestionable good. Giordano Bruno, Baruch Spinoza, Galileo, the nominalist Peter Abelard; goods that had to circumnavigate hierarchical society.

If I say "a handful of millenniums" I am pointing to the evidence of history. Splinter groups and revolutionaries both of thought and action resisting governments have given us the goods we receive. To say that hierarchical society is the backdrop behindwhich they do good works is begging the question.

Moreover, simply because hierarchical society has done good for us, on the average, does not meant it MUST continue to do so. As I stated earlier, Chomksy, etc. have argued for why anarchism MUST work, not that it works more often than non-anarchisms.
I love my chromebook. Sure, I can't do any serious development or anything on it unless I'm using something like PythonAnywhere, but if I want to hop around Google Analytics, Hacker News or Youtube, the chromebook is awesome.
Honestly, none of those things say "huge bank account".
There happens to be oil in that area.

Which we could have simply purchased at a tiny fraction of the cost of going to war for it.

I'm still waiting for all of that free oil we "won" to start making its way over here. It's almost as if the war wasn't fought for oil, but for oil companies. Gee.
both speak about it in what is best described as a "not negative" way

As opposed to Win8, which was quite sincerely negative, and costs you the consumer money.

The OS can die and disappear. And ChromeOS is a waypoint along that road, helping the desktop vanish out from under us. Most consumers are happy running web browsers 80% of the time and nothing else. The remaining 20% is stretching itself harder and harder to justify it's existence apart from the common platforms every-day.

iOS and Android are a little different a scenario, and I don't begrudge that. But the desktop platform's relevance has vanished. ChromeOS heralds that in.

The author clearly has not made any attempt to live with a Chromebook. Certainly not all apps are offline capable, but increasingly so they are, and particularly the vital ones that you'd need to do normal desktop type work.

Certainly some people DO need real applications and do need the OS they've always known so they can run the enterprise apps they need to run. But this is old guard, legacy stuff, and the new world is happy emerging without that baggage. Good riddance, I'm glad we get to dumb this guys old guard view at the door and start fresh without.
> I was always told anarchism implied violence and generally other bad things

Well, she was involved in a plot to assassinate Henry Clay Frick, the stated purpose being to "strike terror into the soul of his class" and "bring the teachings of Anarchism before the world"
I'll give you BlackBoard! It's been almost 7 years since I graduated, and had to look at that mess, but my guess, it hasn't changed a bit.
it's a good point that if I'm in line and have a cheap order and feel under pressure to pay it forward I might end up paying a few times my order. It pays to be mindful if you're hard up, and be able to say no!
Is this a hack/protest on HN's title changing policy?

If so, it's a clever one.
awk tip: in your averaging example, the "c++" and reference to c in the END block can be replaced by the built-in var NR (for number of records). awk's builtins are useful.
I'm a relatively new Strava user, and so far I have found it to be very helpful and motivational in my adventures into cycling. As an inexperienced rider, I'm usually a couple hundred spots down from the leaderboard, so seeing the fastest riders serves only to inspire me to push harder on my own rides. Without this motivation, I doubt that I would try as hard as I do on my recorded rides, so there is no question in my mind that Strava is at least partially a beneficial force.

However, there are certainly times on downhill segments where I have seen fastest time and shaken my head at the ridiculous speeds the riders had to go to win. I've marked my fair share of dangerous segments and I believe that is the users' responsibility to do so to prevent insane accidents like the ones listed in this article.

While I feel complete sympathy for the families of these victims, I don't believe that Strava is at all responsible for what they did. It was illegal, inconsiderate, and gives every other rider a bad name, and regardless of any leaderboards they may have been striving for they should have had more self restraint. Furthermore, I believe that cyclists like that would push themselves to speeds like that regardless of Strava, whether to beat their friends or just set personal records. Just like many other web apps, Strava provides a service that opens up data, and it is up to the user to use the data responsibly.
"JPEG-killers" we have are disappointingly unambitious. That's skating to where the puck was 20 years ago.

They're not aiming to be RAW killers and OpenEXR killers. They're not making anything new possible, they're just polishing the same old thing.

Photographers are increasingly avoiding JPEG because of limited dynamic range it has. WebP (due to its video heritage) has even lower dynamic range than JPEG and can't preserve full resolution of chroma channels.

JPEG-killers add simple alpha channel that 17-year-old PNG has, but nobody even thought about adding alpha with blending modes (e.g additive, to be able to create lights, or per-channel to be able to represent subpixel AA).

After all these years there still isn't a format that can save a Photoshop layer and represent non-trivially blended transparency correctly (closest you can get is images wrapped in SVG with filters, uhh).