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You can upgrade the NGFF drive in many other chromebooks. I suspect you should be able to do the same for the new pixel. For example, see bubble 4 in the image at the bottom of this page: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo... I upgraded my ngff to 128GB on my acer c720P chromebook.
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I don't care much for the Wilhelm Scream. It's a joke of the sound engineers and I grant them their fun. A lot more annoying is this ubiquitous "Blarrrrrrrrgh"-Sound. And of course that every trailer uses music from Two Steps From Hell.
I wish they'd talked more about the novel five-mirror design. The YouTube video mentions it very, very briefly.
In ten years, a huge amount of legal work will be done with software. A gigantic codified legal system is a job almost tailor made for machine learning.
In what way do they differ?

If I want to eat meat (I do, it's delicious), what is the ethical difference between killing it myself (gun, bow, spear, knife) and paying someone else to do the killing in a slaughterhouse? I feel like there is no difference, though I'm not sure how I can argue for it.

If I were not killing the animal in order to eat the meat, how is paying someone for the opportunity to kill their elk/cow/bird/fish ethically distinct from being an employee at a slaughterhouse, or a fisherman? If the farmer is going to harvest the meat for eating, does it matter who kills it? It seems to me that there isn't much difference, and that they are ethically similar.
"The "evidence" provided was pretty weak, IMO. I think the last option, a basic living allowance, is something we, as a country, are going to have to come to terms with"

The issue with this is that once you start giving a basic living allowance, more and more people will continue to rely on it over time and the system will eventually collapse.

"I prefer a minimum living stipend for a few reasons: It doesn't treat the poor like they are too stupid or too criminal to manage their own lives and their own money."

It's not their money, it's money given to them by the tax payers..and I don't agree with you reasoning. If you are getting free money from the government, it means you can't manage your own life. I don't really see how this will change the view on the disadvantaged.

"It allows people the ability to move to more fulfilling (and more lucrative) employment by providing time for training."

I don't think this would increase anyone's time for training. I know lots of people that are unemployed (and get unemployment). You would think with all of that extra free time, they could finish more projects, learn new skills, or even get training. Unless they are forced, most just think of it as free money and don't appreciate it as much as they would if they earned it themselves. It's the same reason most people can't run a business and why most lottery winners end up losing it all within 5 years.

"It protects kids without trying to transition parenting responsibility to the state. In general, it keeps the state out of people's lives, increasing their dignity."

It doesn't really keep the state out of your life. It will create entire generations dependent on it. In fact, they will be directly controlling your life since many will start relying on that money to live.

"Yes, there will still be homeless people. There will be people who squander the money. But there will be many who take advantage of it and build a better life for themselves and all of their posterity. And I prefer to bet on the general desire of people to better themselves."

My issue still is that these costs will only increase over time. The middle class worker will see tax increases and there will be no incentive to get a minimum wage job, because you can just get it from the government. This will also have the added side effect of inflation.

The single worst thing you can do for someone disadvantaged is to give them a reason to stay exactly where they are in life (and no incentive to succeed at something more). A basic income does exactly this.
Would you rather not have any help? No one is forcing these individuals to take the assitance we are discussing here. If they want to continue to live 11 to a house or mom and 2 kids in a garage, we aren't discussing making it illegal.
Note how BART has been expanding down the East Bay over time while Caltrain has made zero progress.

The problem is that a lot of rich people live right along the Caltrain line and have been opposing its expansion for decades.

<sarcasm>But it's the unions' fault.</sarcasm>

Try not swallowing so much propaganda next time.
The processor on this is significantly faster even though both are an "i5".
Hmm...

"In 2013, French lens manufacturer Essilor purchased a majority stake in EyeBuyDirect": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeBuyDirect

"France’s Essilor International and Italy’s Luxottica Group, the two largest optical companies in the world, have ended merger talks that took place in secret over the past 18 months." http://www.insightnews.com.au/_blog/NEWS_NOW!/post/essilor-a...

Okay, competition's alive for now. How long will that last?
I guarantee that commercial sport hunting of farm-raised game animals in the US almost always results in near-complete processing for food, hides, etc.

In cases of elk, deer, bison, pheasant: the entire animal is used.

There's just no scenario where someone raising these animals is going to let them go to waste. Meat is expensive, hides are expensive. At the very least, you'll feed the remains of the animal to your dogs or other carnivores.
But socioeconomic status might not be the confounding variable. It could be something more like "civilization" or "the amount of pro-health resources in the community". Fluoride and child doctors are both things that contribute to health, and different communities make different decisions about how much importance they want to place on childhood health.

I also suspect that fluoridation does not track with socioeconomic status. I mean, look at how Portland Oregon's got rid of fluoridation.

Nevertheless, reading the article, it does look like they have rat studies that show that fluoride in rats causes mental impariment.
>Filing a complaint to the FTC or BBB is no more difficult than filing a credit card dispute. In both cases you merely supply evidence of the fraud.

And then what? What happens to get my money back? What evidence do I have of fraud if its just a shipping dispute and their word against mine?

>What other reasons?

I gave you other reasons above and neither were illegal charges. Mistakes, and disruptions in the continuance of the company to name two.
Brilliant piece; thanks for posting it again so many years later. It's as relevant as ever.
One thing people keep overlooking is the amount of power you'd need to draw to communicate with something that is that far. Your phone's battery would be dead in a few hours.

The lead of the Loon project seemed pretty positive about it when I asked him, but I guess his aim is to provide LTE to areas without any coverage at all, instead of trying to use this as a substitute for proper infrastructure.
Brian from Backblaze here -> seriously, I just beat that team up today again, we'll get there.
Just to confirm, `kids'` is correct for plural posession.

If you want to be really pedantic and overanalyse it, there are three possible situations. `kids'` if you assume the parents have multiple kids, and `kid's` if they have one. However, if you assume that "your" refers to all the parents on the internet collectively, then `kids'` is correct again. Since `kids'` is correct in 2 out of 3 scenarios, that's what I would go for.
Not to mention that ADHD can't be diagnosed in the same manner as, say, a broken bone since it is (to make a simplification) a bunch of behaviors that suggest that maybe this individual's dopamine response is flatter than normal, sometimes aided in diagnosis with motor / memory tests.

I would guess that this would make it difficult to control for misdiagnosis, and I would also guess that there are a fair number of misdiagnosed kids with ADHD seeing as about 2/3 of them "grow out" of it last time I checked.

(Note: I have ADHD. It was obvious as a kid, but I wasn't diagnosed until I was 24 due to my parents religiosity. I know there are valid childhood diagnoses, and that we've made quite a lot of progress with understanding and being able to diagnose neuropsychiatric disorders. There also seem to be quite a few "social pressure" and "fad" diagnoses of ADHD in the USA -- if this study wants to be taken seriously, they might consider repeating it in other countries.)
So you're saying that science says we should treat all drugs as being safe unless proven to be harmful?
You're partway there. You've made the case that some financial support is wise. You haven't made the case that it needs to be in a location of your choice, rather than the minimum needed to keep you as healthy as possible.

If the climate in San Francisco helps a person stay healthy, there are likely dramatically cheaper places that would have the same beneficial effect.

Assuming, of course, the goal being to produce the required effect for a minimum of cost.
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I would. You're now in the 1st page result in google for: "fluoride really does cause hyperactivity in rats."
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> if you feel uncomfortable or threatened by people who expect you to treat others with respect

That's not the people I'm talking about. Social justice crowd is the exact oposite of treating others with respect. And by their actions they are exacerbating the very problems they claim to fight against.

> when you use terms like "invading"

That's what it feels like.

> prop yourself up as a paragon

Well, I played Paragon Shepard, for what it's worth.
Are there better ways to design the news for them? Have you seen something that would be well-designed for Betty?

This might not be in the right spirit but I think there is.. the radio. BBC Radio 4 thrives on this sort of audience who wants to be informed and entertained with the least complication possible.

Maybe as an extension of that answer, a voice controlled audio experience of sorts could work longer term. If Betty wants to know the latest news about Obama, say, she could just ask for that and get the latest audio report.
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Oh boy, this rings close to home.

I recently got my dad an Android One device. He lives in semi-urban India and has never had a smartphone before. I installed WhatsApp and Skype and watched him interact and find his way through.

Most of the functions/idioms we take for granted were totally unintuitive to him. Some of the examples:

* After opening a chat, how to type when there's no keyboard visible? There is no way to know that touching the text area brings up the keyboard.

* After typing and pressing enter, how to send the message? The traingular 'airplane' icon didn't make sense to him.

* How to access settings and hamburger menus?

I wish there comes a time where UX designers stop quarreling over flat vs skeuomorphic and focus on real usability.
It would be a statistical sin to determine that after seeing N papers with an error, that the N+1th would certainly have an error. Extrapolating the specific error without even seeing the paper is closer to rhetoric than science.
Building subsidized housing is only one way to subsidize housing expenses. There are vouchers, sliding scale housing, mixed income housing, set-asides, and more.
The new Macbook starts at $1299. I though this was an Air/Chromebook comparison?
No that's a great point. If enough folks making very high salaries move to SF (and the housing stock stays constant), then prices will rise.

My point is that it might not be fair that low-income folks have to move when housing gets more expensive, but it doesn't stop with low-income. I'm sure plenty of middle-income folks have been forced out of the Bay area as well.
Give Betty one of those silly little touch pens for her browsing. My elderly father uses one of those and he swears by it.

It improves his precision not just by being familiar but also because it lets him be accurate and precise.
Stop trying to make yourself one dimensional. Existence precedes essence. You aren't a nerd, you're just a dude, that does nerdy things sometimes. The things you do aren't you, and you aren't them. If other people want to do the things you do it does not detract from your enjoyment of them one iota, unless you're so self absorbed you can't enjoy it without exclusivity.

grow the fuck up.
Don't read politics into a simple phrase. Cf. "digital native".
Most chromebooks these days are NGFF... And you can get a 256GB NGFF on amazon. It's a common upgrade for chromebook users. Especially those running a chroot with crouton.
The above linked article is a sensationalist hit piece that's riddled with factual inaccuracies -- about my family, about Amicus, and about me. It adds nothing of substance to the blog post I already wrote about the mistakes I made (http://sethbannon.com/mistakes-you-should-never-make). The reporter grossly sensationalized the story for clicks which, unfortunately, is all too common a practice in the journalism industry these days.
The really interesting thing is this largely a demographic with disposable income and without the belief that everything should be free. It seems like this would be a decent niche market to try and break into if you could provide enough content for a subscription.
You'd need a lot more than that for coverage. These balloons are not stationary. They are constantly traveling around the Earth. At the very least, need the balloons around the circumference of the earth. Also, I doubt that the coverage is a perfect square. I'd think the coverage footprint would be more circular, and so you'd need overlap in order to get coverage.
I don't think it exists.

Here's something that comes close: http://news.myway.com/index.html

This is less useful: http://www.newsisfree.com/pages/power/?cat=1
Ok, the one about falling out of fishing boats, and the marriage rate in Kentucky may be on to something...
Tried to publicly shame someone, and it backfired spectacularly.
The problem is they tend to be more isolated than other customers might be. It's hard to go viral with old people - I suppose you could try advertising on Fox News.
I also attended a community college prior to transferring to a 4 year university. I believe it's all in the effort you put in. Top Universities have name recognition on their side, so if you attend a top university you do not have to put as much effort into this process. IMO.

I had several professors at my community college who had contacts in our local industry and knew several peers who landed internships through those connections. However, they were all local tech firms or local agencies looking for technical interns.

A community college is still an accredited educational institution, so you'll meet the requirements. I also suggest attending Meetups, User Groups, and Hackathons.

There's an old saying, "It's not what you know, it's who you know." The more you are able to network and get your name out there the better off you'll be.
>You've said, ship 'em out! Retrain them! If they don't want to do those things, do nothing.

It seems you have misunderstood my point. I'm not saying to load them up and ship them out. I'm saying that if they want help, the best utilization of limited resources will be in helping them move somewhere more affordable. But they don't have to accept help; it isn't being forced on them.

I'm saying offer options, not enforce demands.
It's really quick to start using. It's like a mashup of Segment and Stripe, you just start pinging events and it starts getting you money.
I disagree. I use ORMs/Query Builders for two reasons (even if deeply familiar with SQL syntax and semantics).

1. Dynamic queries for reporting purposes. Is it possible to hand roll this with SQL string concat for every query? Yes. Some of us value time and correctness.

2. Type safety/Refactoring and change management. Sure even a Query Builder/ORM model doesn't know if it matches the production database at compile time. But when your database does change and you need to update the model to match it then it is a lot easier to do a refactoring on the record than to manually update every SQL query string where that table is involved and hope there isn't a missing test or invalid query out there which will now be broken.
I think with the rise of companies like Skyhook, it's often untrue that IP address "is a very rough and unreliable indicator of location". There are people very actively trying to correlate IP addresses with ESSIDs and GPS observations; inaccuracies in their databases will mostly come from ISPs reassigning the IP address, which may be a rather rare event on some large networks.

We could have an informal experiment with an "Ask HN": go to Google Maps in private browsing mode; can you see the building you're in or the street you're on within the mapped region?
It's right there in the Newsweek article, which links to a study at PubMed.
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Good point, housing is not atomic.
Like other chromebooks, I am sure you'll be able to upgrade the NGFF to 256GB. Plenty of NGFF drives are available on Amazon.
Likewise for engineering. I don't know anyone who paid for their doctorate. Instead, they got small stipends.
Whoops. I guess I'm uninformed on this one, but I thought the whole "Flouridation is bad" thing had some basis in truth? There have been a few other articles about it on HN.

Any chance I can get a more elaborate correction?
An iOS app for generating planned trips for any location around the world?
I've recently started developing this app (www.voyagic.com) as a side project, but before taking it any further I just wanted to validate the idea itself. Basically it takes a single location (this is either randomised if the user wants to discover a new place, or a specific country/ city is entered) and plans out each day of a trip to that location - this is achieved by picking a hotel as a starting point and then, through certain parameters such as distance and popularity, selecting sights, cafes, restaurants and shops that can realistically be visited during the day. Each day has a different combination of places to visit, and minor factors such as parking or transport routes are also taken care of. It would be great to hear what you guys think :)
I built listen2edm.com last summer in about 4 days, though I never even did anything to really market or "release" it. It scraped new tracks from 15 different blogs to gather its content. If anyone finds this interesting, maybe I'll continue working on it.
Sweet!

My uncle is an astronomer for NOAO and worked at the Blanco Telescope in Chile for a while. The things he'd talk about absolutely blew my mind, even if they were quite often miles above my head (heeyo).

One of my favorite observations of his teams' was when they found galaxies stealing stars from one another.

http://www.noao.edu/news/2011/pr1102.php

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/07/110720-galax...

Fun anecdote - his twin brother is also an astronomer. They're quite funny in the same room together, as they're... slightly competitive with their theoretical understandings.
Well given that I got that from the Newsweek article we're discussing, and they provided their source, that's just silly on Google's part.
If you're not in the UK, BBC news has ads mid-article in a lot of their articles. I use the site several times a day and some of the ads are that awkward height where you have to scroll carefully past it to avoid clicking.
The problem with this is that the low-income housing portion will be artificially lower than market prices forcing the landlord to increase the rent on the other units to make up for it. Once again as the OP mentioned, the middle class gets squeezed out since supposedly market prices do not actually exist to be taken advantage of.
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When Intel went for the "bottom of the market" with Celeron I don't think they went far enough down and now ARM has become a serious threat.
Not homebrew?
I went to the site, looked at its many impressive pages, went to Youtube and left a joke, came back to site, came to HN comments and finally clocked it wasn't all a sophisticated joke.

Big shout out to all the other Alphasmart people here though!
Android apps will help fill some of the holes, but how likely is it that we'll ever get an Android port of the two apps I had mentioned previously, like Sublime and/or Eclipse? I suppose it's theoretically possible, but there are some programs that are, frankly, unlikely to ever leave the "desktop" OS's (i.e. Windows, OSX, Linux).

Of course, I'm happy for Google to prove me wrong. I would have firmly thrown Photoshop into that category until Adobe announced they were making a ChromeOS-compatible version of it. I happen to quite like my Pixel, so if the Chrome Apps can one day let me do everything I need to do without needing to go to a Linux chroot, I'd be thrilled. Until then, however, I need Sublime (Caret is pretty good, though), I need git, etc.
I wasn't asking for financial support from anyone. I was only arguing against what has been stated in this discussion on HN: "just move." I have my reasons why I chose to come back to California.

Not that it is actually any of your business, but I don't currently get any kind of government "assistance."

I'm somewhat baffled as to what you are arguing with me about.

FWIW: Before my life got derailed, I planned to be an urban planner and took college classes with an eye towards understanding how best to make policy that serves the human population in that regard, not targeted at "helping poor people" but also not skewing things in a fashion that causes them unnecessary hardship, which is basically what we currently do.
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Consider that one has to look up the Kleenex box to see what it means; it's worse than looking up "print" because there are no dictionaries for icons.
Gotta admit it'll be pretty cool when Apple updates the Studio Display to provide your MacBook with video, audio, power, and USB over one cable. A return to the dream that ADC promised.

With the amazing difference of being an industry standard, so I can get that experience with Dell products if I desire.
Well, four votes within 60 years isn't exactly "continually", but I'll cede that point. Lots of Portlanders believe that fluoride is just fine, thank you (though the most recent vote was 60%-40%, sadly.)
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A healthy dose of skepticism is the reason I DO read Hacker News. There's no limit to the studies trumpeted in the news with inaccurate titles/conclusions. HN calls them out. Notwithstanding posts from folks with fashionably cynical attitudes.
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How is this a startup solidarity? I'm pretty sure all those companies couldn't care less whether he is a startup or a plumber. They would react the same just on the basis that he has asked nicely and they were confident he can get through it. What other options did they have? Lose him as a customer?
Kyle Hyndman at http://www.mccrealaw.ca/ - they do NOT recommend the 'Startup Visa' program to clients; but would be happy to discuss other options.

and another Vancouver are firm: http://sulemanco.com/
For Newsweek, what comes out of it is clicks, obviously.
It's similar to SameGame, which traces back to a Japanese game from 1985. The only difference with Dots is that you have to trace a path through the connected blocks, so you can't disappear quite as many.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SameGame