skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously this times a lot.
At one unnamed ivy league university I went to, there were tons of chinese kids, not chinese americans.
They made no effort to integrate, because they seriously were only there to study engineering, go back to china, and make a ton of money.
For all of Apple's focus on "simplicity" and "elegance" in design and whatnot, the company sure makes you carry a shitload of ugly dongles and extra cables and adapters along with your iDevices.

Wouldn't they be more elegant if they would, you know...Just Work?!
Electroceuticals: The Future of Brain Zapping
I admit to not understanding the mindset. So I honestly want to understand it.

One family in the article has two parents both with full time jobs. And they're living in a homeless shelter. I understand that they can't afford $3,000 per month rent in the city. But how is it that they don't have enough money to relocate? Even a few miles away to something more affordable?

If the father works in construction, that's skill that is in high demand and easily transferable. You can walk into a construction office tomorrow and be swinging a hammer by Monday right?

There must be more going on. Some important piece of the puzzle is being withheld from their story.
It's completely simple to get a real terminal/SSH running with Crouton.[0]

ChromeOS supports every common media format you'll come across.[1]

[0]https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
[1]http://www.chromium.org/audio-video
http://www.dalailama.com/messages/statement-of-his-holiness-...
I write C/C++ code on the machine, so my storage needs are minimal. If I was to guess my total storage footprint on the device would be less than 1 Gig over the base ubuntu desktop install. The machine has 64 Gigs of storage, which is more than enough for my needs.
>*Yes, we know there are five senses, but we don’t
>recommend trying to taste or smell your Pixel.
You should ALWAYS smell your laptop.
The Surface Pro 3 smells WEIRD.
And not just any Linux notebook: assuming they don't change this from the last version, it'll be open down to the embedded-controller firmware. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMwOTY
Google is trying to push people to cloud storage, nothing new about that.
I would imagine that silicon valley could draw some positive insights from the public housing scheme in other countries such as Singapore. 80% of the Singaporean population live in public housing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore
New Anonymous-Sharing App Wants to Apply the Netflix Algorithm to Content
Lets not forget that these people would be middle class anywhere else.
Don't know about the OP, but we were bitten by this - badly - after our logic to throttle Glacier retrieval failed.

AWS has now added the ability to set a spending limit to avoid runaway retrievals. Nonetheless, from my point of view the ultra-complicated pricing scheme is nothing short of a disaster for Glacier as a product. I think it will continue to seriously impact its uptake, and Google is smart to exploit the opportunity to offer a simple, straightforward pricing scheme.
That's great, but even at 1GBit over Google Fiber that has still less bandwidth than an actual SSD. And of course the most important part of why you use an SSD in the first place is latency, where cloud storage is significantly slower than 1995 spinning platter hard disks.

So even if I accept that the storage is in the cloud, it doesn't make sense since the hardware is clearly not there, but the software isn't either. I can't tell VMWare to use Google Drive for storage. It's a propietary data-dump, not an actual drive.
because $1299 is a fortune
I use Secure Shell ChromeOS app to connect to a DigitalOcean machine for all my terminal stuff. Works surprisingly well. The default ChromeOS terminal is far too restricted for me, and Dev Mode has quite a few hurdles.

The Browser is just like regular Chrome, only with better integration with the hardware, meaning power usage is better. You can play or open all files I've tried, though I haven't tried mkv. The battery life is phenomenal - it's changed how I view what it means to be portable as much as the iPad did.

Unpleasant surprises? I have to restart my ASUS Chromebook every few days because the wifi starts to fail. Something about my usage pattern fills up the 2GB RAM and the first symptom is spotty wifi. And the CPU isn't strong enough to smoothly Chromecast a tab with acceptable quality video. This Pixel should overcome both of those.
It seems like the first models where initially intended to be more of a thin client type deal, but that doesn't seem to be the case with this model (given that it can go up to an i7 with 16gb of RAM). The disk space is disappointing mark on an otherwise excellent ultrabook report card.
The striking thing to me is that it seems it's rarely one major event that plunges someone into a bad situation like these (consider that none of these videos had one "this is what happened" sound bite). It seems like it's the snowball effect of bad decision after bad decision.
Their FAQ also links to a video demonstrating the parachute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y5AUHw8pRk

Project Loon also has a "blooper reel" showing a... somewhat different parachute test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW5PS7lRXwI
Factual correction is not the same as changing someone's mind. On a subject like what is an acceptable level of domestic espionage, the contention is about moral values and priorities within society. Disagreement about facts doesn't come into it.

And if all government propaganda agents did was correct peoples' factual errors, I would welcome them wholeheartedly.
I will look into the CDC studies and their possible shortcomings.
Consider that there are labor costs around operating services on AWS as well, and it's generally more expensive by the hour, and labor cost of managing your own servers is fairly low.

I have plenty of servers sitting in racks that haven't been touched in 5+ years; if you were to operate on a "buy and throw out in a year" practice, my typical labour costs would average a couple of hours per new server for setup. Or if you rent managed servers, you don't ever need to touch (or see) the hardware.

Conversely, you can get bandwidth at a tiny fraction of the cost of AWS bandwidth, so the moment you actually transfer data to/from your setup, AWS gets progressively more expensive.
I think the core of luxxotica isn't manufacturing.

It's being a 2 sided market,same like ebay - a meeting place between most brands and most consumers.And we know that those types of businesses are very tough to attack, and probably even more so offline.

In a way, similar to walmart, but luxury brands don't fight through lower prices, so it might enabled luxxotica to ask them not to sell lower at any other place. In a sense this luxxotica monopoly is great for luxury brands, so i could even imagine a scenario where luxxotica tells to each brand "we're building a monopoly on glasses in the u.s., and we want this place to be the ideal place to sell luxury goods ... , please help us" - why won't they help ?
In my opinion most programmers who use github should have at least two accounts, one carefully crafted to match some tradeoff between their current work environment and future work aspirations and heavily linked to their real name, and the other pseudonymous with no real name containing their real hobbies and code.

There is a substantial danger in being pigeonholed and eliminated because of some weekend hobby project three years ago "Oh we can't hire that guy, he does low level hardware driver work on microcontroller RFID devices and we need a DBA" Outside SV and NYC there is no shortage of coders and you'll get rejected for nothing.
$3000/mo for rent is pretty basic but safe housing for a family of 4 in most of the area; there are broad areas of the bay area map that you won't be able to find it that cheap at all. On the other hand it's possible to go lower by driving a bit more or compromising a bit.

Part of the trouble is that income taxes are not based on local economies, so they'd be taxed as if they were quite well off even though they're struggling.

A startup founder is not likely to have dependents so can divide by 4, and then not worry about things like how good the school district is. Although they may not be "rich" in the conventional sense, they likely have an education and connections that the guys who are stocking the grocery shelves can only dream of, and parents or someone else they can always fall back on if worst comes to worst.
I've had a Chromebook for over a year now and my best advice is to skip straight to installing a real Linux distribution (either using crouton or just natively). The reality of ChromeOS apps is much further off than the dream of some totally cloud connected digital worker. Throw Ubuntu on it, get Sublime Text, Atom, etc. and all your development tools, then go to town.
It does have two Type C connectors
Location: Boston, MA / Cambridge

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For people saying "Just move":

I lived on the West Coast (Washington State and two places in California) for about ten years as a military wife. I had to leave California during my divorce because I could no longer afford it. I returned to California three years ago as a homeless person. I returned for my health. My medical condition is hellaciously debilitating and expensive to treat. Being not so sick to begin with both raises my quality of life and lowers my cost of living.

I currently live in San Diego County. I have plans to move within the next few months to someplace cheaper, because (in a nutshell) I would like to get off the street and I can't afford housing in this county. But, I plan to remain in California -- because the climate here and the far lower than the national average levels of ragweed do good things for my serious health problems.

So, I think it's an incredibly shitty position to take to say "just move." What you are saying is: Only rich people can live where they choose and the rest of y'all -- fuck you.

I will suggest that is not good for the nation as a whole. Fucking over too many people is a good way to eventually get to a place where the nation just doesn't work at all. Not being rich should not be the same thing as being a prisoner of your problems, with no real options.
Whoaaaaa this seems waaaayy hackier than I expected. Will this void the warranty? I just ordered... I will be returning the thing if I can't get Debian installed and given a thorough trial run.

Edit: Nevermind it's really not that bad, just replacing the BIOS, that should be fine. I see little risk of "bricking" a machine here, I'm sure I can get Debian running with these instructions and return the product if it doesn't work well enough.
Boots in seconds. Unattended OS upgrades. Doesn't get viruses.

Nevermind, Macs have those features too.
Yup. I wonder how people would like it if I rewrote history to send people to bing or pornhub or something when they clicked back once and made them click back twice to get back to hn...
Well, nice that they put a viable amount of memory in this iteration. I can't see the specs or price of this machine in my country.

For anyone in the same situation, here's the price and specs left out of their landing page:

$999 model:

- 2.2GHz (2.7GHz Turbo) dual-core Intel Core i5-5200U

- 8GB RAM and 32GB storage

$1299 model:

- 2.6GHz (3.2GHz Turbo) dual-core Core i7-5600U

- 16GB RAM and 64GB storage
"How hard would it be to install Ubuntu" is the first thing I think whenever I see a Chromebook.

I never look into it further because I assume they've made it difficult.
I have a windows laptop that I use 2 or 3 times a week and sometimes I have 10 updates pending (2 of which fail repeatedly until I uninstall them and re-download them). This is a huge downside of continuous delivery to something that isn't cloud based.
You're thinking KRITA probably. Germany though I believe, because of the GMBH thing on its group. Krita really bogs on my system when using painting tools so ready for primetime, I think not. But hey I've been wrong before. The best photoshop / Illustrator replacements underway right now are coming from Serif Software under the name Affinity. Not opens source BUT definitely going to make a dent in Adobe's fat head.
Eh, I might agree with you, but this looks SO much like a fatter, cheaper macbook pro.
You just think poor people should have to move out of their homes because rich people decided they want to live there. Got it.

I'm not poor by any means, but if SF rents keep going up, I'm going to be leaving if I can't find affordable housing (even on a relatively high salary).
New Partnership Announced Between Yota Devices and Staytuned
IMO, Android 4 was the pinnacle of stability and usability in their lineage. I had a Moto X and 2012 Nexus 7. The upgrade to Android 5 on my Nexus was saddening; it was different for the sake of being different, and it fixed problems that didn't exist (and introduced many new ones).
What integrations are you working on? I could see this being very useful with an Asana integration.
An issue with the signature file in Panda Cloud Office Protection and Retail
Paw output files + Dropbox team folders = collaboration

Although, I would like to see the ability to share Paw data within a team. I use it daily, sharing Paw data with team members.
In git-encrypt: https://github.com/shadowhand/git-encrypt
"perception of choice" pretty much sums up the entirety of America.
Everyone uses traffic management. Its a fact of life. Unless you are paying for a dedicated line, or are peering, then you are going to be managed. Anyone that has a cheap line and says they are not managing it either has shit service, or the ISP is telling porkies.

P2P will always need to be throttled, and has been since pretty much the start of ADSL. If you want to be uploading gigs of data, at high speed then pay for the correct line. don't use consumer lines.

As I pointed out, if you want uncontended connections, peer at an exchange. They are cheap.

Yes BT has a monopoly, but unlike the US they are highly regulated. They can only charge a certain amount for each line(I think ~£4 a month). They cannot stop arbitrary data for business reasons, all resellers have the same SLA.

The BT network is in much better shape than the US, with a thriving reseller market. This means that ADSL is often thrown in for free with TV.

With mobile data, its only vodaphone that do that kind of thing, as they are very keen for you to burn through your data allowance and run up bills.

Also VOIP over 3g is terrible (300ms round trip) by the way :)
I got my last two pairs of glasses at JINS in Japan. (Station mall at Nagareyama-Ootakanomori.)

8000 yen, ready in 30 minutes. (Bells and whistles will cost extra: like thinner lenses, etc. and some things have to be special ordered.) Stylish, durable, perfect.

I can get a free cleaning and new nose pads at any JINS outlet. Did that twice already with the current pair.
One of the most shocking things I saw in the Philippines was exactly this. A mother living and working in a city as a nanny/maid, while her husband and children lived "back home" fairly far away. She saw them only a couple of times per year. That's some sacrifice she's making to put food on her family's table!
I know this is a hijack that doesn't have anything to do with the article, but every time I see a Backblaze article I can't help but say it: Give us a Linux Client already!!!!
Why lack of empathy?

Most people here share the pain. I know guy with "good job" who lives in van. I personally would love to come to SV, but simply can not effort it with family.
This format is horrific - its like reading a power point presentation.
Simplify Flux with Immutable.js and Fynx
I wonder if the gameplay in Dots was already taken from something that was open source?

If not, I agree completely - the whole "make a square to remove all of a colour" mechanic is in there too..
Owner of a previous Pixel here. It runs Ubuntu just fine under Crouton. If you're trying to completely wipe out ChromeOS and boot directly into Ubuntu, I believe it's possible. Personally, however, I find ChromeOS to be decent, and I prefer simply popping open Crouton whenever I need a linux-only app. The fact that Crouton can now run in a single tab instead of having to do an environment switch makes it even more useful.
I have a great uncle who runs an elk farm. He's often said he wants to breed albino elk because hunters will pay a fortune to bag one, but he has yet to get even one. Fortunately, regular elk will do for most. Hunters pay to come onto his land and shoot elk. He leads them out in a pickup and, depending on how trustworthy the hunter is, has his sons split off the animal he wants shot (a hunter with poor aim might unwittingly take out a mating bull or pregnant cow, thereby multiplying the cost by a factor of two or much more). "Hunters" tend to get upset if they're suddenly on the hook for a much larger bill than initially agreed upon.

Some of the customers paying to shoot elk are just frustrated hunters. They've been out hunting and simply had no luck, but didn't want to go home empty handed. For them, my uncle's farm is the backup plan. Some customers like the taste of elk and want it out of season (wild elk can be legally hunted for only a few months per year). However, there are also those who just want to shoot a big game animal but entirely lack the expertise to hunt.

Meat and velvet (antlers) are still bigger sources of income, but hunters make an impressive contribution to my uncle's revenues. My uncle started his farm in the eighties when farming elk was virtually unheard of but, even today, when Elk farms are much more common and Elk meat is on a lot of restaurant menus, Elk are still viewed as wild animals. This is not entirely inaccurate. Even the "tame" elk on my uncle's farm are quite vicious to anything shorter than them. Short hunters are advised to stay in the truck at all times!

If you want to spot an elk farm, the give-away is the 8-foot (minimum) and sturdily built fence that surrounds them. Elk are excellent jumpers and bulls have the mass of a bovine cow. Imagine a cow that can clear a six foot fence, and you have an idea of what elk are like.
Eh … if you need a dongle maybe it’s just not, you know, for you? What a novel concept!

I practically never plug anything into my laptop except the charging cable. I suspect there are many people like me out there. This one is for use, not for you. Apple isn’t into being all things to all people, you know. Or at least their single products never are. Sometimes something is just not for you and that’s ok.
would be interesting to see how people's behaviour would change if they had fast internet no matter where they went
This is a great point. Rent control just shifts increasing costs to the newest arrivals. If you were lucky enough to arrive early, you get all the benefit (generally).
would work better with auto loading trigger content on scroll or something. anything is better than this though. i'd prefer a regular article with graphs actually.
Well snap. No Chromebook for me any time soon...
You could even triple it with the new 200GB SD cards, but the performance won't be that great. Not so bad for storing documents and large media, I suppose.

Any idea if it uses one of the many standard-ish SSD SATA or PCIe interfaces?
Complaining about Apple removing ports is foolhardy and pretty much always wrong.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/11/dropbox_sdk_flaw_lef...

1password is vulnerable to hackers because they rely on third party storage via dropbox. I wouldn't trust my sensitive info with them.
Pretty much this. Paid placements in the article are the only tolerable ads on mobile. I used to build news sites for a living, the whole ecosystem runs on the fact that there are users who will click anything. It's dirty, and I liken it to making money by selling free trials that people forget to cancel. Which is why I stopped doing it.
can you use VMWare on a chromebook?
Acetate (Polyvinyl acetate? What are you referring to?) is a thermoplastic.
I've had a customer complain that I was being too productive for their team of business/design folks to keep up. I literally got pulled aside and asked to slow down. I think it was making them look bad.
I literally just used them and bought 2 pairs of normal prescription glasses and 2 pairs of prescription sun-glasses for less than I paid for my last pair of prescription glasses.

I'm SUPER satisfied with them and have been telling everyone I know to use them.
We use RethinkDB in production and our main frustration lies around the lack of automatic failover. We're looking forward to 2.0, which is supposed to bring automatic failover (using Raft for consensus) to RethinkDB.
Yea, It can get you fired. I've seen it happen.
This article is too idealistic, and doesn't take into account businesses have business politics or peoples ego's.
But if you retrieve the same 1000 GB from Glacier in the same 3 days that Google takes you would pay a 98 dollar retrieval fee. And Amazon would charge 300 dollar less traffic cost ($ 0.09 vs $ 0.12 / GB for 1000 GB) so in the end Glacier is still 202 dollar cheaper AND allows you to retrieve the data much faster if you really have to at a certain price.

So Google looks cheaper/simpler, but the amazon model is actually quite good for disaster recovery where you may be in a situation where you "need it now at any cost"
The new home for the latest products made with Google
This is untrue. High-rise housing can be quite affordable, if built in sufficient density. Everything in the Bay Area is laughably low density compared to the east coast (let alone NYC or even Tokyo or Hong Kong)
= success

rsync.net is 20x more expensive than Google Nearline ($0.20/GB).

Why would anyone choose to use it for Arq when Arq supports both?
The value of your labor relative to housing is dropping every year too you know.

The notion of re-balancing forces is a nice simple story but the price of housing relative to income has risen nationwide for decades. There is a similar story for medical care and even food.

So yes it's fun to believe in the invisible hand and Adam Smith's 200 year old thesis. But the reality is that the value of all labor is simply being driven downward.
What am I supposed to look?

http://imgur.com/hzbZYSI
Add a system wide toggle to Force Touch(TM) all links/buttons to avoid the accidental taps.

Personally I think there should be some learning algorithm to seamlessly calibrate the threshold for Force Touch(TM) by evaluating when something has been misclicked - such as taping on a link and then back before the page is loaded - and increase the force threshold. I really hope Apple will implement this in Safari for their new Macbook.
This is Retina, Macbook Air is not.
My mother (67) told me yesterday that her iPad is the best and most favorite thing I've ever given her. She spends more time with it on the couch than on her actual PC.

When the iPad 2 came out I bought her a refurb original iPad, then eventually gave her the iPad 2 and then the original iPad Mini - but she prefers the iPad 2. A refurb iPad Air 2 arrived today as my latest gift for her; mostly because it's lighter.
Why is this any worse than our current meat industry? Seams overall less cruel, honestly. Or would you use the same rhetoric for all non-vegans?

We breed animals for a specific purpose and then we kill them. I'm not a fan of it, but I don't consider all participants in this system to be horrible people. I count myself among them--I eat eggs and dairy, which is easily at least as cruel as the steaks and hunting I avoid.
Wow, very uplifting. Thanks for this.
For something that is performed several times per day (plugging in/out) I appreciate the clear superiority of Lightning cables.
Another Review Finds Homeopathy Worthless