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HP is also releasing a slightly higher class 14" with Haswell. I think you probably want something in the $500-$800 range though, and yes that's currently underserved. Chromebooks were originally designed to be cheap and disposable but there now seems to be more of a demand for better quality machines and no one's yet stepped up to fill that void.
This is an apples to oranges comparison. The article centers on (the author's idea of) the messaging that greater American society would like to impart on the archetypal Stanford student, who is upper-class, American, young, inexperienced, entitled, sheltered, and likely the recipient of perks that helped their admission. A message from greater German society to any specific German student archetype would obviously differ.

Even the comparison with MIT is arguably invalid, as elite tech university admissions are more objective and less discretionary, making the archetypal student less likely both to have an entitled mentality and to have received perks that helped their admission. Perhaps the author wouldn't have objected to the word "deserve" at an MIT convocation, nor at one in Germany.
It is hyperbole verging upon silliness to conflate evaluating a person's actions in order to form an opinion of him, and actually making decisions for that person. It is likewise to conflate "defending freedom", whatever you might mean by that uselessly nebulous phrase, with boycotting an extremely valuable conference, because it is keynoted by someone who may perhaps once have invented a programming language of some slight interest, but who, much more importantly, once donated a trivial sum of money in support of a campaign for a plebiscite whose result was promptly vacated by the Supreme Court.

No doubt, for someone to whom this would actually matter, boycotting the conference would seem a principled act providing a lovely warm glow of righteousness. I submit that there are many ways of obtaining said lovely warm glow, most of which do not entail denying oneself the opportunity to study with many high luminaries of one's chosen field. For example, one might donate $1000, or perhaps some greater sum, to some organization advancing the cause of gay marriage, and thus feel free to attend the conference without fear of moral taint.
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I think the point is that people without 'life responsibility' find it easier to have a 'stable' life. E.g. When you don't have a wife and kids to care for and spend time with the balancing act you have to maintain to have a stable life is much easier.
I clicked through all the way, the last step being pretty much: "get a server now".

I was met with this:

Got it. What happens next?
We currently develop and test the Minerva Fabric with a very limited set of friends & specialists.

Once we feel confident in the current iteration, we'll make new servers available on a rolling basis. Rest assured that you'll be among the first who can reclaim their privacy.

MVP and all, I get that. But why are you submitting it to HN when there's nothing there?

It's not done. This is just an email form to collect interest. This dilutes the value of "Show HN" posts.
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Remember:

1. Use a different password for every account

2. Always use a gigantic, mixed case alphanumeric password with special characters for maximum entropy

3. Never, ever write any of these passwords down! ;)
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Children share the same genes and epigenetics as ther ancestors. Likely it's the source of their consciousness. So really, parents and children can be considered the same organism, only running with different inputs. Why shouldn't the same organism, who has worked hard, benefit from the fruits of their labor?

Luck is also involved, but luck, which is random, is distributed randomly and is thus fair to all people in aggregate, even while it is unavoidably unfair up close.

So, where's the unfairness? There is an inherent unfairness that comes with wealth and privilege in that it throws up barriers to newcomers. An equally qualified newcomer may be excluded from the spoils; for that reason, society is never a place where each person has an opportunity to rise to the limits of their ability.

What's interesting here is that the unfairness is not only cross generational, but can occur within the same generation. Serial entrepreneurship is unfair; it makes it harder for newcomers. Wrath accumulation unfair. Having a large social network is unfair.

Therefore, anyone interested in fairness should also levy a progressive tax on wealth accumulation. At the top end, it should be a lot more than 35%.
If your Yubikey dies, your 1Password vault is toast. This is a bad idea and doesn't really add much to your level of security.

Just use a long and random 1Password, and store it in the OSX Keychain (1Password supports this). Then back up your user keychain with the rest of your files and don't forget your login password. Alternately, Mavericks (which comes out in a week) will sync your Keychain items to iCloud for you.

This is all moot though because 1Password is a pain in the dick to use on iOS, and Apple's using their lack of plugin support for MobileSafari to hinder competition. In Mavericks' Safari, you can now save passwords for forms that specifically attempt to disable password storage, and sync those encrypted passwords to iCloud. This wouldn't matter much... but that sync now works with iOS7's MobileSafari, where 1Password can't load a browser extension to compete.

TL;DR: Cool story, but 1Password unfortunately becomes OS-bundled obsolete in a week.
On a larger scale, this sounds like the premise behind Asimov's Foundation books. In essence, a visionary mathematician predicts a 30,000 year dark age descending on the Galactic Empire. In response, he creates the Foundation, a remote galactic repository of human knowledge to assist in the reboot.
Your second link is pretty amusing. His sense of humor never really seems to come across on video, but I was actually laughing at a few of those.
You're right. We changed the button-wording to make it more obvious there's more information hidden behind it instead of only a signup link. (Waiting for the cache to invalidate/expire)
> a lot of the factors that make HN a good place for technical discussions make it a horrible place for softer discussions like those about sexism.

Such as being 5% female.
> I now understand that Steve was learning how to gain power by insinuating negative self-images onto others.

That is a very powerful statement.
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This is the most revealing part of the press release. The founders wanted to cash out. Let's not pretend this acquisition has everyone's best interests at heart. It only benefits GoDaddy and MT's founders, everyone else gets to witness the end of MT.
I live in Nashville and I have lived in Chattanooga and I definitely don't share your sentiment. Maybe it's not obvious to you, but there are some phenomenal happenings here.

"If you want to see a traditionally conservative, "sleeper tech city" look no further than Greenville, SC. Greenville has recently (in the last 7 years) entered a rapid development phase with numerous tech startups, co-work facilities, etc"

Nashville has checked all of those boxes.

Did I mentioned we have an incredibly active developer community here? Its not all big healthcare companies running Java & .Net, for instance, there is Emma (http://myemma.com/), Stratasan (http://www.stratasan.com/), The Skillery (http://www.theskillery.com/), Wannadao (https://www.wannadolocal.com/), inquicker (https://inquicker.com/), Moontoast (http://www.moontoast.com/), etc

We have events like coderfaire, hacknashville, hack-a-day, nashville code brigade, nashville user group leadership (group), etc

We also have very active user groups for functional programming, dynamic languages, ruby, php, python, javascript, flash, etc

We have tons of co-working locations, not going to name them all.

Not to mention that a ton of large SV types have remote workers here (I'm looking at you Github, SurveyMonkey, etc).

We have an incubator (http://jumpstartfoundry.com/).

What makes a city a "sleeper tech giant"?
First principles totally get worked out in software.

37Signals did quantitative research to find out that for them, a girl smiling on their homepage for Basecamp totally works. Then 5,000 startups followed suit and the whole world is full of smiling girls on home pages.

But the principles behind that decision drive conversion for basecamp, not the girl.

It's one of the things that is most concerning to me about the Lean Startup. The idea that you can follow a series of steps to manufacture revenue without really understanding what those steps mean is hypnotizing.
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From a startup perspective, he gave an example of looking for inefficiencies in the costs of materials, which totally applies outside of physics.

(and I agree, first principles are a pain in the ass)
Hm, interesting. I've always pictured my Lisp programs as trees. I think it's a more useful representation, but I see what you mean.

You're right that this is orthogonal to Rich Hickey's goal. That's because I think his goal is great for writing simple programs. His goal is to make more programs simple, which is great. My goal is to make it easier to write complex code. As Fred Brooks talks about in No Silver Bullet, there are some problems that are accidental and some that are essential. Hickey is trying to solve the accidental problemms, and I'm trying to make it easier to solve the essential problems. Some logic is just inherently complex -- I want to create tools to make it easier to reason about.

And Excel is not nearly programmable enough to be better than a textual interface to solve the same problems. It's benefit is that it can be used (relatively) easily by non-programmers.
If you could that would be greatly appreciated. This is the first time I've put something on Pypi so not completely familiar with it.
They're sticking with virb. Check out http://blog.virb.com/post/64122176288/big-news-from-virb
You're right. After I posted my response I was thinking of making that distinction and actually talk about the idea of first mover disadvantage (HBR covers it well : http://hbr.org/2001/10/first-mover-disadvantage/ar/1)
JavaScript needs 64-bit integers no matter what; the Node folks have been clamoring for it for a long time. We need to add them. Same with SIMD.

JavaScript is not some immutable thing. It needs enhancing, not replacing.
> the only real big change today is that we're getting cake and lunch on the house

When has life ever worked like that?
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Why is there a large Philips logo on the metal block on the splash page?
Great article. I don't mark out for message board karma, I mark out for results. Carry on, good sir.
Yeah, my post was sarcastic, but it may have been a bit too dry to appear as such. Over a succession of releases, their iPad app went from not-too-bad, to buggy, to forehead-slappingly awful in iOS 7, at which point I cancelled my subscription.
To give to a relative and NOT do tech support...
So not one individual in the entire Valley has a good idea for education? Not a single one?

Ugh, these gross generalizations get tiring..
A few comments about that...

To be a Tahoe-LAFS "target" you do need to be running their code on the server side ... and it's python.

We make a point to keep our environment as simple and sanitized as possible, which implies having no interpretors, so at this time you can't use rsync.net as a Tahoe-LAFS target.

BUT! We've always been very excited about Tahoe-LAFS and are well acquainted with Zooko and his team, etc., and so we are experimenting with a frozen[1] implementation of it that we can place into our environment as a binary executable[2].

The two solutions aren't really that related, as Tahoe-LAFS (sort of) implies that rsync.net would be just one of many (perhaps ten) remote containers out there, whereas this solution is targeted to just one remote host... but since you asked ...

[1] http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net/

[2] We already do this with rdiff-backup, which is how we are able to support that ...
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This looks way better than I had in mind. Thanks!
The average price for a Windows 8 laptop last Q4 was ~$430... so at $280 they're about $150 under that. I suspect that if you start getting close to that $430 mark you lose some of the willingness of consumers to try something other than Windows.
I believe so. If I understand Tahoe-LAFS, it can be used in a system where you don't trust the host of the data. The other benefit of using it is that it has data duplication incase one server fails.
There should have been some type of clause when you agreed to sign up with (mt) for a year. If not, you can make a pretty good argument for your money back.
How much does encryption defeat the rsync algorithm? I don't see anything in the article that addresses that.

That is, say you change one line in 1 MB text file. If you rsync plain text, it will transfer a handful of bytes. If you encrypt and then rsync encrypted text, then presumably a lot more bytes will be scrambled and you will have a bigger diff to transfer. I guess it depends on the block size.
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I could see missing the ethernet port on a MacBook Pro - it wouldn't be unusual to pull files from the LAN that are 100's of MB in size.

But you're not going to do that on a Chromeboook.
I've been using PasswordMaker (http://www.passwordmaker.org/) for years to generate most of my site-specific passwords when needed. PasswordMaker uses a master password together with a site's domain name to hash a site-specific password. It has Chrome and Firefox extensions for filling in the password fields with one button.

Unfortunately, by default it uses MD5 and 8-character passwords. I always set this to SHA256 and at least 12 characters when first installing the extension on some device/browser.

Most sites play well with this, but there are exceptions: having to change a password is a bit ugly when the passwords are generated from a given master password and the site's domain name.
A more common problem is when a site refuses to accept certain characters in the hashed password or when a site requires some number of digits and uppercase letters, for instance. I currently just store these exceptions with Keepass.

I see 1Password being mentioned a lot but I started using PasswordMaker and Keepass well before I'd first heard of 1Password so I don't know how it might compare.
The modern version of "sufficiently smart compiler" has become the "sufficiently smart JIT optimizer". Confidence remains as high as ever, but alas, it seems performance is doing the same thing, plateauing noticeably before reaching parity.

It's hard to get over the fact that a JIT simply faces an uphill battle against an engine that starts by restricting you to a subset of the language; basically, you can assume both engines are being written by equally smart people, so you kind of have to expect that the one that takes the restrictions is going to have a long-term persistent advantage in practice, no matter how theoretically the other team could catch up. OdinMonkey still has all the JIT opportunities, but it has other opportunities too.
First, let me start by saying I'm a day-to-day Ruby developer and I absolutely love the language. That said, there are things besides the speed that prevent the acceptance of Ruby among people:

* No static type checking, potentially resulting in more bugs
* Ease of monkey-patching, potentially resulting in insecurities
* Rampant use of hash-as-arguments, resulting in method definitions that don't actually define their arguments (though Ruby 2.0 fixes this with named parameters, it's still a common pattern)
* Heavy use of symbols, which some people see as the moral equivalent of magic strings

I personally think all of these arguments are bunk except for the over-use of hash-as-arguments even in Ruby 2.0. But some people give them credence.
See here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6554185
It's only OS-bundled if you live exclusively in Apple's ecosystem.
These phones represent a fraction of the overall android market, almost 1/3 of android phones are much cheaper devices still running 2.2/2.3, etc.

edit: Revised most to 1/3.
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I've been spending all my time writing the code. Concept art isn't worth the time investment for me right now. I could post screenshots, but I don't think it's quite ready for that.
Especially when you have to get one with a 13" screen. I can't imagine that for development.

You can pry my 18" linux rig from my cold, dead fingers.
Hm, I've been using KeyPass/Dropbox for quite a while now. Not sure what advantages this method has over mine? Yes, I have to remember my KeyPass master password... but then you'd have to be logged into one of my machines to get access to it anyway... or on my mobile, which everyone seems to be using for 2 factor anyways, so it's moot if my mobile is compromised.

Not sure what the advantage is.
> Why not fix the problem at the source instead of creating a subset? not meant to be written by hand? Chrome approach seems better.

PNaCl is also a subset that is not meant to be written by hand—of LLVM IR. The difference is that asm.js subsets a language that is universally supported by all Web browsers, has massive traction, and has a detailed specification.
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Dolphins? Now you're talking.
That's not quite true -- it is entirely possible to write a 64-bit integer class entirely in Javascript, and have a JIT / ASM.js compiler recognize that and swap out a native version (See ecmascript_simd [1] which I believe was written with this idea in mind)

[1] https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd
A well-engineered deployment framework and backup regime should let you move sites to new hosts with a minimum of headaches (if not a minimum of time). Heck, an enterprising engineer could probably whip up a third-party site mover that uses some combination of limited DB privs, temporary SSH keys, etc. to move entire domains around.

You're right that any "things are gonna stay awesome!" through an acquisition is pipe talk. It's just a lie in an attempt to minimize churn.
No, using a unique address for every payment is very important! While it may not affect you personally, reusing addresses is very bad for overall network privacy. It makes entity resolution much easier, and breaks the property of profile unlinkability.

You should be treating addresses more like single-use, disposable accounts than longstanding pseudonyms.
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> Then the question is do you have the courage to move forward and tackle it to change it and create customer value.

Thinking that what is missing in order to tackle a big problem is courage, is like thinking rockets can levitate if they just put their minds to it. In fact, resources are what is needed to tackle a big problem.
> That COBOL is predominantly used in Big Biz? I think you proved his point.

No, you don't understand what selection bias means.
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For disclosure - Jason and I were in the same YC batch and I've gone to him for advice a couple of times. The one thing I'll say about blogging this way, that perhaps a lot of folks don't appreciate, (particularly the incredibly candid way that Jason does it), is that it is really hard to be that honest. It's hard to be that honest with yourself (most people simply aren't, and I know personally that I spent a long time not being so, and in some cases I'm that way today) and its several orders of magnitude harder to be that honest with strangers, in a forum as public as this one.

Insofar as the HN community remains interested in discussing startup related topics, this personal candor/honesty about when things aren't going well is completely under-discussed; it happens all the time that things aren't going well (actually it's what mostly happens) but usually the only times you learn about it are in a post-mortem or a takedown piece. A founder whose currently building his company and willing to discuss these things is extremely rare and valuable to other founders and would-be founders (I on occasion give talks at my alma-mater and I try very hard to portray the unglamorous side of things. The audience always appreciates it).
It's all about shelf space. Walk down a grocery aisle and you see Oreos, Chips Ahoy, Wheat Thins, etc. If you are a new maker of sweet / salty snacks, what would you prefer: your product appear in equal placement with the others (i.e. on a shelf for all to see), or hidden in a cabinet with a generic "food" label on it?

An iPad (or iWhatever) owner's screen is the same as the aisle. Of course, they can put items into folders, but its their own choice, and even then the folders give a representation of what's inside. Plus, if they choose to folder-ize, having done so deliberately they'll more likely remember where to find their favorite periodicals (and that they're there in the first place).
Actually, I do have a prototype; I'm just not ready to release it yet. So, it's probably best to interpret this as a general discussion of the subject.
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I'm not sure how easy it would be to store git repos on Tahoe-LAFS, but there are two other options - 1) duplicity has native support for Tahoe-LAFS as a backend, or 2) use git-annex with a special remote [1].

[1] http://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/
Having handled one, it's a lot nicer than the netbooks are. The performance is pretty good, the form factor is much more comfortable in terms of screen size and keyboard size, and the build quality is pretty high. While I wouldn't use one myself (because I want Photoshop / Lightroom), it seems like a great device as school / homework laptop for a grade schooler, for example, or the grandparents use case.

Just want to check your email and browse some web pages with zero hassle? This is perfect for that.
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I agree. However, people who fail also have terrible insights; for some, that contributed to their failure. And there's no reason to believe the specific reasons for their failure will be applicable to you. In the NFL, teams which lose tend to keep losing even though they have plenty of opportunity to learn. Teams are salary capped, so there is no intrinsic advantage.

All successful companies are alike. Each failure fails in its own way.
To me, there are two interesting ends of the spectrum. The high end (eg new MBPr) and the low end.

Those are where the future comes from.
I'm not convinced thats a contradiction. Being single does allow for you to kind of.. put relationships on hold for awhile to push hard for your business. I'm not sure thats wise in general, but it seems advantageous in certain scenarios.
In my view this is almost entirely the issue. Yes there are always exceptional cases where a kid from a terrible background turns out to be a genius self-motivated learner, but for the most part, if a kid has both parents in and out of jail, bouncing from foster home to foster home, poor nutrition, always living in "survival" mode, he's not going to do well in school. All the curriculum theory and standardized testing in the world will never help that kid, and really neither will anything else. Irresponsible parenting is really the root of almost all the problems we have with education, and that problem is outside the scope of what educators can solve.
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