skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is another big plus for the Chromebook. They steal it and you're out $249, though in dev mode you're unsecured.

But...

My Samsung charger is a brick. Not sure about Asus.
Battery life on ARM is 4-5 hrs, Intel better at 5-7hrs, but still no match against the tablets.

For portability, you may be better off with a smaller tablet: Nexus 7 or iPad mini plus keyboard.

I would give the edge to Android for easy access to the filesystem unless you jailbreak iOS.

My Nexus 7 also runs vim with plugins: https://github.com/momodalo/vimtouch_fullruntime, Firefox and BitTorrent Sync same as the chromebook.

Running vim on a Nexus 7 is a dream; the only hassle is pairing the bluetooth keyboard (another thing to carry with AAA batteries) and a OTG cable dongle if you transfer files to usb flash.

It sends/receives files with NFC, bluetooth, BTSync and USB flash drives via Nexus Media Importer http://nexususb.blogspot.com/2012/08/welcome.html

My iPad can't do that.

It all depends what you want to do with the device.

One thing i like about tablets though is they are quick data capture devices: secondary camera, Swype like virtual keyboard faster that typing and paint/sketching.

Imagine trying to swivel a Chromebook's stanky front facing VGA cam to take a picture if your camera lost power.

If you're travelling that may be a consideration.
http://macaw.co/ Oblivious or on purpose?
While I agree that it makes things easier, it's not required for efficient vim use. Case in point, it's a relatively new addition to Vim.
If only there was a way to check and see if these links were generated by a widget and not actually part of the article's HTML.

Oh wait... there is!

Viewing the source from the "6 of the Most Enjoyable Theme Parks in the Nation" [1] article referenced in the parent article shows that the phrase "guaranteed best price on airfare" indeed is a straight link to Expedia.

[1] - http://www.cheaptravelblog.net/6-of-the-most-enjoyable-theme...

[2] - http://i.imgur.com/gGoo9jL.png
> If BTC starts collapsing, perhaps all that infrastructure will go on to do great things for society, but how does that help Bitcoin?

If the infrastructure goes on to do great things for society then it has (and has always had) intrinsic value and thus the price of BTC rebounds (or more likely never collapses in the first place).
I agree with your assessment -- utility with respect to time is the first explanation I thought of as well. People (and firms) have a limited ability to anticipate or defer purchases. (I can't wait 50 years to buy a lifetime supply of food to feed myself!)

You also mention that this limited ability to defer purchases in the face of deflation is what makes short bouts of deflation not catastrophic -- it is somewhat difficult to get the deflationary spiral going if you can't actually wait to purchase things.

Given all this, the interesting question to me is, how much deflation does it take to actually cause a deflationary spiral? The answer is likely complicated, given that it depends on the specific utility functions for each consumer of all the goods and services that they consume.

Empirically, we seem to be able to cope with a decent amount of deflation, at least when it is limited to certain goods, like video game consoles, computing power, other manufactured goods, etc. (In some cases, even over very long timespans.)
a process algebra supporting compositionality, interleaving, and non-determinisim like Hoare's CSP handles the sort of proof required to ensure your concurrency model (if not your actual code) is correct. Oxford University (under Bill Roscoe) has produced tools like FDR2 (FDR3 coming out shortly) which provide tooling to help coders verify their concurrency models via trace/failures refinements.
Don't say that.

It scares me.
Totally same use case: instant web applicance in living room, shared accounts, and when a guest comes over - here you go buddy- surf away
Starting An Open Access Journal: A Step By Step Guide
Interesting. She is obviously not 22 now. Why take so long to start this company?
Fedora, mostly. Sometimes CentOS.
If you want something with more features but still just as simple, check out: http://flightphp.com/

I'm using it to make a JSON backend API and it works great.
An email works too :)
+1 few of my friends and family need anything more than an iPad (or one of the new high end android tablets).
Medium is elitist. No way I am spending any more time writing on there.
>It bricked my Macbook Pro

No, it didn't and this invalidates all of your self bragging.

>it's not every day you meet a female with the tech skills to get Arch Linux to take on a Macbook Air

Weirdest brag I've ever seen. Arch on a MBA isn't even that hard to do assuming you can follow ten commands in a row from the Arch Wiki, as that's all it takes for a standard install.
Who's an early adopter? Before December, every single day in bitcoin's history was a good day to invest and be an early adopter. But nobody knew at the time. They could have lost everything. Nobody knows when the final peak will be and if today is part of the early or late adopters stage.
Another point - Even late adopters can obtain millions of dollars worth of bitcoins just buy buying them with millions of dollars. In other words, people who are enormously rich with real money (by whatever unfair ways) can be enormously rich with bitcoins too. All we have is those same rich people plus a few new ones (early adopters). Someone who inherited a fortune can buy bitcoins and be another "unfairly" rich person. What difference does it make if they got their money from bitcoin luck, inheritance luck, or anything else?
Comparing getting high in your free time to drinking half a bottle is so disingenuous, it's actually embarrassing to watch you do this.

That, and you know what, going around calling everyone "kids" because you can't formulate an argument makes you look bad, not the "kids" you're looking down on.

You're so clearly unwilling to even listen on this issue, it was apparent from the get-go.

I'd hate to ever get caught eating a piece of chocolate in front of you. You'd probably slap it out of my hands, call me a fatty and tell me there are healthier ways to make myself happy.
Once again, the easiest way for me to explain my thoughts about this is to refer back to Lucky Green. It's linked from the Reuters thread on HN.
> Did we not learn that table designs are bad because they heavily couple the design of your page to the meaning of the document?

Yes.

But lots of people aren't creating documents. They're writing applications.
Hacking Cassandra
Because I wasn't at liberty to.
I had a near perfect undergrad GPA and did well ... but so did many friends with B averages. It makes getting into grad school easy. But grad school probably hurt my career than helping it. Google supposedly cares about GPA but I've never managed to get an offer from them. So GPA isn't everything.
It hit me tonight that I had read something very similar recently... It was this guy talking about taking a cruise to get work done! There are several west-coast cruises, to Alaska, Hawaii, Baja, Central America, even Chile.

http://tynan.com/cruisework

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416
Google really needs to send 2 of these things to every paying Google Apps customer with 50+ users.

They should also fix the VPN and support and, yes, add support for PPTP connections.
Have you ever read the research available on the different reactions people tend to have when a woman asks for higher pay/displays entitlement to better conditions in general, vs when a man does?
I do a fair amount of writing on my iPad (using leanpub and an iPad editor that works with dropbox files).
The answer is the following:

Yes, such that you should probably try hard enough that it doesn't accidentally hurt your chances in the future, but not as much that it should despair you from always improving yourself.
I've had the exact opposite experience. I develop on a MacBook Pro Retina, but I know little about the whole Apple ecosystem (ex Windows power user/dell tech). I purchased an Ipad mini for my mother and found it incredibly unintuitive and difficult to use. For one, she is unable to click 70% of the time even after using the device for several months. I thought it was user error, but even I have a hard time with it. From what I've seen observing her and attempting to use the device myself, the main issues I see are:

* All of the actionable UI items are too small

- Simple things like giving focus to the App store "search bar" are difficult for me, very difficult for her

- Clearing App store search bar by clicking the X is very difficult for me, impossible for her

- Install button takes 1-3 attempts for me, maybe 10 for her

* Use of icons instead of simple text

- I purchased the new iPad Air for her, hoping the larger size would make it easier to use. Embarrassingly, I could not even figure out how to install an app. I was searching for the "Install" button for ~30 seconds and even clicked the wrong icon once.

* E-Mail application randomly closes emails

- Once again I thought this was user error. She attempted to open several emails, and each time they would close immediately and return to the inbox. It turned out to be some bug in the mail application. Restarting the device didn't fix it.

On the other hand, she also has a Samsung Chromebook and has had absolutely zero issues with it. To be fair, it's a bit slow playing some facebook games and occasionally I wish I got her a normal windows laptop (for instance, the Optimum app is not supported, nor is the slingbox player).

Interestingly, I just gifted an iPad mini retina to my girlfriend earlier today and just went through the setup a few minutes ago. She attempted to install her first app which is marked "Free" and "iPhone only" (there is no iPad version). Upon clicking it, she had to log into her Apple ID (even though she just entered this information in the setup process). Next it said her ID was never used in the iTunes store (what's that?!?) and she had to register with her credit card (free app!?). After that dialog submit failed with two error messages (because I saw her click the Submit button twice), it returned back to the install screen. She clicked the Install button a second time, it forced her to enter her Apple ID and password AGAIN and then it started downloading. I thought iOS was supposed to be easy to use!? Even she kept commenting how difficult it is to use. She also has a Kindle Fire and never had any issues with it.
Awareness with a side order of boasting.
I remember reading a tell-all autobiography of a literature major who got sucked into management consulting. He basically summarised Porter thus: the economics department discovered all the ways that a monopolist can misbehave. The business school began teaching those misbehaviours as "strategy".
Congrats. What job would that be (if you don't mind me asking) ?
Could you explain to my why being “anti-GMO” necessarily implies being “anti-science”? What definitions of “GMO” and “science” are you using to make that proposition true?

I actually am anti-science, in the sense of “science-as-religion”. The comment I originally replied to is a good example of what I'm talking about: being anti-science is blasphemous, it's heretical. I'm against this kind of nonsense. Not that I think it necessarily is, but so what if being anti-GMOs is anti-science? What's the problem with that? We should be able to have a frank discussion about the merits of GMOs and indeed of science, but we can't, because science is a religion, and you get denounced as a heretic if you criticise its underlying assumptions.

My own position on genetic engineering is that I'm not inherently against it in an abstract way, but I'm against almost all of “actually existing” genetic engineering. Most of the debates about genetic engineering focus on whether or not genetically engineered crops are safe, or whether they provide better nutrition, but I think these are distractions from the real issue. The issue is about control: whether farmers save and choose their own seeds, or whether they must get them every year from a corporation.
two people can't name their thing after the same bird?
In Textbook Fight, Japan Leaders Seek to Recast History
> The dick move is to belabor the point and treat the programming woman as a performing dog instead of a person.

Sure, but that's basically saying that "being a dick is being a dick." You could also be a dick by treating a world-class athlete as a performing dog. You can be a dick about anything, regardless of how unoffensive that thing is on its own. But that's not what the original statement was talking about. It explicitly said that considering it noteworthy or surprising is inherently bad.
Nancies? You know that typically refers to gay men, right?

edit: gay or effeminate, as a slur.
arch，and rhel/centos for server
Debian Testing
Here's a reason to take the prediction / analysis seriously: The analyst makes these statements, the market joins in, and then management begins to follow along. Not a happy model, nor one that is always followed, but certainly a component of publicly traded companies.

It would be fun to have an review of how insightful a given analyst has been. It would also be good to have a proper 'full disclosure' policy.
Why do they require all the personal data for the account including place of residence?
Just launched our 1st iPhone Game - unfold stories with friends
As it should be. There was a story in HN a few weeks ago about why open source projects better not run on funding. Something with making it obligatory to work on the project and add features just to do something. And of course the people "donating" have some say in what's going on. I'm not saying backdoors per se, but should we want any sort of pressure this way?
Why one would need docs if there are plenty of 100-200$/hours oracle consultants :)
The Secret To a Happy Marriage
Matt Cutts has said Google is trying to break Blackhat SEO's spirits. That tactic appears to be working and this post is a result of that. The author is not trying to build their brand or position themselves. Rather they are sad and angry. To them the situation feels unfair and they want to make the big abusers feel the same pain they've experienced.
Please don't post links that require a login to read.
Pornhub: 2013 in Review
Ubuntu is (almost all parts anyway) free in exactly the way the Free Software Foundation defines the word. Ubuntu is created by a community and overseen by a corporation, but you can take the Ubuntu source and do what you want with it within the terms of Free Software. You cannot do this with OS X.
No, and this is what makes it non-news. Especially since it links to the hacked webpage. Neither really Hacker nor News...
QuickOffice reads .doc and .docx fine but borks on formatting and forget heavy editing. There are enough conversion and UX hassles that i'd say ChromeOS/Google Docs has a long haul to crack MS stack heavy enterprise. Funny thing is iOS and Android have better "apps" that handle MS formats.
> No one ever discusses the implications of a system which is constantly, needlessly, insanely doing nothing but MAKING COPIES OF DATA.

see persistent data structure
I tried 'relativenumber' for a few days. I threw it away as too annoying. Considering the topic here I find it especially amusing that 'rnu' should come up—this is all about focus, and it was the distraction that it was that I hated about 'rnu'.

If you were looking at relative line numbers and typing 8j, you can just as well look at line numbers and type 372gg when you have 'nu' set.
Well when one thing has had a viral kickstarter campaign, been on every Tech blog, and its name known by just about every developer who cares about web design. Then to hear something else named the exact same name around the same time feels kinda weird.
I've never heard of either of them. It's not possible for two people to have the same name?
There's nothing wrong with noticing. However, pulling from some personal experiences: you should refrain from highlighting that you noticed by saying "oh, you're not a guy!" or "are you really x?" or "I was expecting a guy!"
The overall number of posts creates the basis for a ratio that demonstrates interests amongst divergent topics. In this case, yours have been placed under suspicion for defending a libertarian viewpoint and separately, one that maintains white privilege. I believe the frequent intersection between these views was the basis for his comment. I'm sure you disagree though.
What's the use in a static website or a read-only FS when you can overwrite what's in RAM, or just attack routing or DNS? Security is a little more complex.
Security problems like this are so common in 3rd party extensions / plugins / add-ons. While the most widely used open source ones tend to have less bugs many of the less popular ones are full of problems. Take a look at WordPress plugins to see what I mean.
Try tmux. You'll likely be happier with panes and without tabs. Plus you can focus on a single pane when you want some zen.
Ubuntu 13.10: Saucy Salamander -- but I'm eager for the LTS release of 14.04
+1 for flight. Simple, yet powerful.
I like the sound of computer fans.. the ones I have are a soft hum, which I find rather pleasant.
It's called PATH_INFO and is part of the CGI spec ("The PATH_INFO variable specifies a path to be interpreted by the CGI script"): http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3875#section-4.1.5
sanxiyn's comment seems to fully understand the context. Re-read his message in the context of my message.

> By definition, type checks are done at compile time.

That does not match my definition of type checks.

Ignoring things like Typed Racket or clojure.core.typed for a moment. Consider a cast in Java: This is a type safe operation which incurs a runtime type check.

Now maybe you're thinking of global type checking for correctness. In which case, I'd still disagree, since there is no rule that you can't have a resident analyzer and run type checks after compilation. Go read about Typed Racket, for example.
The HP Chromebook takes a microusb charger.
Nor does glass or plastic-coated aluminium. There are lots of shiny things that people don't want in their jewelry. If diamond were as common and cheap as glass, we'd probably see just as much diamond jewelry as glass. They're not massively "better" at being shiney. Even artificial gems are worth less in than natural ones even if they have fewer defects!
MRI Neural Brain Overlay on Brain Parts Diagram
As someone who has used Windows (though not solely Windows) for a long time I'd say the "half-life" (like the much joked about instability and constant crashes) is something that used to be true but hasn't been true for quite a long time now.

Despite the terrible reputation it has, Vista is where Microsoft really started turning it around in a big way when it comes to stability, security, etc. (XP/Windows 2000 was obviously good too for moving the consumer OS to the protected NT kernel, but things really picked up in the subsequent releases).

My current Windows desktop system is running Windows 8.1 after in-place upgrades from Win7->Win8->Win8.1 (in place Windows upgrades being another previous no-no that now pretty much Just Works) and it still feels as zippy as the day I first started using it, despite having a hard-drive full of large RAW photos, videos, music, etc, and many dozens of apps installed, uninstalled, reinstalled, etc over the years.

All that being said, I own two different Chromebooks and I use them as mobile development systems running crouton and I really like them a lot and wouldn't hesitate to recommend them to anyone who isn't pinned to Windows due to other app constraints like needing Photoshop, Lightroom, games, etc.
What Comp Sci Course should my 72 year old dad take
My dad taught me how to program when I was 8 ... I am now 40. He came from an era of punch cards and pre object oriented concepts. He is expressing interest in learning modern programming.

Any recommendations on what open comp sci courses he should take?

He has expressed some interest in machine learning but I feel he needs some modern fundamentals first.
Because it doesn't need it. Technically no website needs it. Only people who don't know how to type "https" need it.
Or maybe it's not nearly as big a deal as you think it is and OP just likes parrots.
Yeah, I was wrong in the severity of the statement. What I can say that it could offend, since it has (at least for me). As always, you may be sufficiently tactful in person to avoid the whole issue.
> but I will say from experience it is very easy to implement these approaches incorrectly, so unless an application requires the performance benefits provided, it is probably still a better bet to use standard locking mechanisms

I find the entire concept of implementing novel container data-structures specifically for your application kind of ridiculous. This sort of thing should be implemented exactly once--in the language runtime library.
I wonder if MS was to rewrite their binary file format reader/writer in MS Office (to for example be secure from the beginning) how long would it take for them to get it correct.
I agree with OP. While maybe "oblivious" is a bit condescending, I would be a little peeved if I was a founder of Macaw... the design tool that has been hugely popular here lately.
Ah, the classic appeal to "innate abilities" and "culture" to explain why an oppressed group is disadvantaged. I guess you're asking an epistemogical question of how we can ever really "know" if oppression (slavery, sexual violence, genocide, idk how much history you've read) would explain inequality upon those lines. I don't know the answer, but I'm probably gonna go with occams razer on this one.
What Streaming Music Can Be
Debian unstable
> the poor generally benefit a lot more from the rich investing in job creation than the rich buying nice little cabinets full of gold.

Sounds suspiciously like "trickle down economics". And that's not the appropriate comparison. The appropriate comparison is, do the poor benefit more from the rich "investing in job creation" or by themselves having easy access to a mechanism by which their wages and savings are not eroded (in a compounding fashion) by fiat?
It proves that there are cases where M:N scheduling is the right choice. But it does not prove if it is the right choice for language implementation X (where X in this case is Rust).
Ahh yes, the "if you can't turn it into Fort Knox, don't bother at all" guy.

Turning up at every security discussion since 1874.
I really want to be able to use Rust, but then I keep seeing changes that seem to go around and around in circles. I do appreciate that it's very very hard to get things right the first time around and I understand that some experimentation is necessary. But when it comes to Rust it seems like one approach is deemed the correct way, then it's built and used, and like most things it has flaws. Then the complete opposite approach is tried but it runs into a different set of flaws, usually the ones that caused the other approach to be chosen in the first place. The Rust home page describes it as a "practical language" but with all of these back and forth changes it is really really difficult to actually use it. I don't know if I can keep waiting for it. When I've got new code to write I'm just going to have to use a language that I know I can depend on for more than a month or two, like Go or Haskell or Ruby.

- Pacabel
Did you read the first link, "A Primer on Privilege?" It's actually quite good: http://brown-betty.livejournal.com/305643.html
Point taken.

The Indian market is saturated with matrimonial services and there are no serious players in the casual dating market. Having said that, for now, we're focussing on giving people what they want :)
No. HSTS prevents SSLStrip attacks when the intended destination is always meant to be in SSL.