skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the product page, it's the store. The product page is at http://www.google.com/chromebook/pixel/
#fanboy4life

Show me a good looking laptop and I'll show you a laptop that somebody will say looks like something Apple made first.

There are many ways this does not look like an Apple laptop. But you know what? It doesn't fucking matter. Buy it, don't buy it. Like it, don't like it. Whatever. Just - for the love of Ullr - please don't dirty this otherwise wonderful website with such fucking banal commentary. Say something meaningful, say something funny, but please don't say something that sounds like a failed (or ironic) attempt at trolling.
The whole ChromeOS project seems to have gotten underway because someone at Google observed how much of the computing time was spent inside the web browser.

the problem with ChromeOS, imo, is how limited it becomes once you pull out the net connection. Never mind the whole lockdown unless you flip that "developer" switch.
Hallelujah, we need more articles like this. I work in distributed systems, and people hate hate hate hearing the truth, let's summarize the article:

1. You cannot beat the speed of light.

2. Machines break. Even the most reliable ones.

3. Networks are unreliable. Even local area networks.

4. It is an exciting time for distributed systems: CRDTs, Hybrid Logical Clocks, Zookeeper, etc.

These are things I feel like I've been preaching a lot, but get upset responses "Well, certainly Globally Consistent systems work, most databases are!" Lies, as @rdtsc mentions:

"Keeping an always consistent state in a large distributed [system] you are fighting against the laws of physics."

Next up, that is why master-master replication is important, because at some point your primary will go down (or at least the network to it). I started an interesting thought experiment that turned into a full on open source project: What if we were to build a database in the worst possible environment (the browser, aka javascript and unreliability)? What algorithms would we need to use to make such a system still survive and work?

This is why I chose and worked on solutions involving Hybrid Logical Clocks and CRDTs, which are at the core of my http://github.com/amark/gun database. An AP system with eventual consistency and no notion of "now", as every replica runs in its own special-relativity "state machine" view of the world.

These are all interesting concepts, and the article was a good one. I recommend it.
Isn't the new Macbook or the MBP if you go with 16G of RAM pretty close in price?

If it's not specially to have chromeOS or linux and use the touchscreen, I have a hard time understanding the appeal of this machine.
I didn't reply very intelligently. How does 3d printing the frames lower the barrier to entry for competition?
The free services have no warranty on anything.
The services you pay for (eg: with money, not just data) have a warranty.

If they lose any data, they're liable for that as well. All the way up to taking them to court on it.
It is. (I'm the author.)
There's plenty of Avoton stuff on the market if that's what you want. I haven't seen motherboards running off POE, but you may be able to use an extractor and then step down to 12V.
What Donglegate did is reveal how many different takes there are on what constitutes public, and how unwilling people are to discuss it.
And here's the solution: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/

Accessibility is for everyone, not just people with "special needs".
Nothing can kill the Wall Street bonus
No kids these days are so much smarter, they just get this technology.
Toshiba R30-ASMBN22

I have mine configured with:

256GB SSD

2TB HDD

MATTE 1080p screen

16GB ram

802.11ac 2x2 wifi

has lenovo-like nub mouse

cost me less than 1500

runs windows 7, linux mint, and OSX

battery life browsing web at medium brightness over wifi is over 10 hours in windows, 8 in linux, 7 in OSX
I remember them. Around 4 or 5 in total, depending on how much I care about the account.
> Did you not notice that it has a built in SD card slot if you want more storage?

Wish Google would adopt that attitude for their Nexus line as well...
Adria just made a tweet, repeating their words; the real problem was the internet hordes on both sides of the debate that went at all parties involved's throats. That was the real escalation. The problem is the huge audience, where one tweet can reach millions of people, each with their own opinion and the ability to voice it instantly, within seconds. It's dangerous, really.
Texas has a lot of uninhabited land, as does the USA and Africa. Is that being accounted for?
Ok. I have to this to this. i'm sorry.

I guess he would say he was...
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YEAH!
I wonder what would be the cost of producing/operating a balloon and changing it every 187 days (or probably more often, the probability of having them destroyed by some random objects would increase).

There would need to have a few towers on the ground too
Likely, but you have to flip it into "developer" mode first...
Hunting mutant animals bred for the purpose over generations sounds a lot like most commercial pheasant shooting.

http://www.heartofenglandfarms.com/gamestock/breeds/
Patrick Lor – Empowering Visual Storytellers
"Betty needs to purchase a subscription..."

Now Betty needs to "login" to her news site every time in order to disable the ads (not to mention pay, and renew service each term) I don't think that will improve the process, and it ad more steps with potentially confusing instruction to her process. Even if the site was able to store along term cookie for Betty, I doubt the sublt difference between versions would do much as there is typically a lot of other "junk" (around the article) that can distract the user.
Laptops are sold to be general purpose computing devices, not to "run Windows".

The reasoning you gave seems to be some sort of fully general counterargument to ever installing GNU/Linux, as there are hardly any devices that are "sold to run GNU/Linux".
It's a real computer, it's just that people haven't written a lot of software for it. What kind of software can't you write for Chrome OS?
Or use high bandwidth spot beams similar to satellites as backhaul for ground nodes.
It definitely is. http://americannutritionassociation.org/newsletter/usda-defi....
Announcing the Newest Podcast for PMs: “This Is Product Management”
Code for it is up on GitHub: https://github.com/Zolmeister/Zop

It started out as a js1k entry (https://github.com/Zolmeister/Zop/blob/35a428661320ba9ad8e5e...)
"For Backblaze Vaults, we threw out the Linux RAID software we had been using and wrote a Reed-Solomon implementation from scratch. It was exciting to be able to use our group theory and matrix algebra from college. We’ll be talking more about this in an upcoming blog post."

I hope I'm not the only one uncomfortable about this. I mean, I understand the need for greater flexibility and features that MDRaid doesn't provide, but this wording stinks of NIH and rebuilding the wheel from scratch "because it was fun", discarding the maturity and reliabilty of established software. And data storage is all about reliability.

I hope I'm just reading too much from this, and it isn't actually representative of Backblaze's engineering practices.
The Indian Startup Poaching Wars – Housing VS Sequoia Capital
I'm not sure what you're getting at -- I can see both this link and the OP from Mexico.
In fish shell the canonical example is this:

diff (sort a.txt|psub) (sort b.txt|psub)

The psub command performs the process substitution.
> The Silicon Valley idealists who want to "change the world with food delivery" is the new phenomenon

The Silicon Valley idealists who want to "change the world with food delivery" are (as a broad class, not every specific instance) largely PR faces created for marketing purposes by and for people who want to make lots of money, and know that having some kind of compelling mission (even if that "compelling mission" might change to something radically different later on) is important both for attracting customers and for attracting investors.
I really feel this is the correct answer.
Peter Lawrey Describes Petabyte JVMs
For the web: https://readability.com/
Thomas, I definitely defer to AGL when it comes to browser technology - and I've certainly read his "Not DANE" piece, but you'll note he did not entirely rule it out. He just said it may be "a long way out". Two comments:

> It can not be used this way.

Actually, it can be. There's a modified version of Firefox maintained by the team at the DNSSEC-Tools project called "Bloodhound" that does DNSSEC validation of every link and does DANE checks on TLS certs:

http://www.dnssec-tools.org/bloodhound/bloodhound.html

> If there are 4,392 trusted CAs today, DNSSEC will make it 4,393.

Hmmm... I guess I see that only if you were using modes 2 and 3 of DANE. If you are using 0 and 1 you are just using DANE as an additional check for the CA-issued CERT.

The value to me is that I am in control of the TLSA record in that I am publishing that in my own zone file on my own DNS servers. I can specify there precisely which TLS cert I want to use or which CA I want to be trusted for my domain.

My choice is then cryptographically signed via DNSSEC and bound into the global chain of trust via DS records going back up to the root of DNS.
I think this article is fantastic in its framework, but it's ultimately aimed at the wrong people.

The writer is assuming a powerful left-brain empathy that is characteristic of hackers ("I'd lay better odds that he’s paying attention, watching your actions and reactions to build a mental model of how it’s safe to interact with you."), yet is lacking in the invaders. The invaders are running a much simpler hardwired social strategy that assumes everyone is like them (even in response, there are plenty of comments insisting that hackers still unconsciously judge people by race in spite of most of our judgments being formed before we ever see someone. it's simple projection), and are not setup to understand those who are different. They cannot change, and consequently we will lose the social game of chicken every time.

What I'd really like to see/find/create/sustain is a community of people that are able to resist being distracted by the narrow trap of the social hierarchy - VC money, PR articles from companies, status-quo politics, proprietary Appoogle product/tech announcements, mass media human interest stories, etc. More similar to the Internet I grew up with, where objective technical merit was the ideal to strive towards, and being told to RTFM resulted in someone learning how to self-learn and ask intelligent questions rather than getting attention from writing clickbait on how they were offended. Maybe this is impossible because we've gotten too big/connected, or I personally could just be pitifully stuck in the rut that is HN and myopic from falling out of more specific technical tribes.

Maybe this is impossible and any such community is ultimately doomed to entryism. But articles such as this that take a stab at reifying the qualities of true hackerdom are necessary for us to reflect and understand exactly what is being lost and perhaps come up with ways to defend it in the large, rather than it surviving solely in narrow highly-technical communities.

(PS - a point i wanted to make elsewhere in the thread about the general article, but I will do here instead because it applies to my comment as well:

It is easy to phrase this issue in in binary us-vs-them hacker or not-a-hacker terms but the reality is continuous. So while it is nice to think in simpler terms, the topic is actually graver because any of us can be corrupted by social influences as well. The lure of wider acceptance, attention, fame, and/or money can lead us down the path of behavior that we despise - outrage fanning, user-disempowering platforms, working on surveillance tech, etc. The status quo's siren's song is becoming quite apparent right now as the (de)centralization pendulum starts to swing back and the trajectories of companies further diverge from those of free people.)
It's also extremely expensive. I can put some effort for 5 USD per month for storage, but 40 USD upfront is prohibitive for me.
Strange, for some reason I couldn't reply to your comment for a while.

I have seen minds changed quite frequently on the internet, and I think the cynical attitude towards internet discussions isn't helpful. It largely depends on the forum and it's quality though. For example, HN is a great place for people to find factual correction from peers, and I see it daily here. On reddit, subs like /r/askhistorians or /r/engineering are also places where I see factual correction taken as it should be, that is to say as constructive criticism.

Now, regarding the "effectiveness" you refer to, I think you need to broaden your idea of the definition. If you are thinking that sock puppets are there to change minds, you are severely mistaken. I would venture to say that most sock puppet tactics are based on some variance of distraction or pushing of topic or conversational tone. It's a complex topic with a myriad of techniques that can be applied by corporate PR just as easily as a government. If you want to know more, try the following:

http://pastebin.com/irj4Fyd5
For obvious reasons, schools don't make a distinction between family can't afford it and family won't afford it.
I own both a macbook pro and a pixel. In person they are nothing alike at all. The feel of the two devices is very different. And to be honest in my subjective opinion I like some of the details on the Pixel better. (The charger has a small led band that goes from red to green as you charge your device, theres also a colored led strip that fades in / out when you turn the machine on / off. Lastly I have never been happy with the various iterations of magsafe, I always end up fraying the cable, the pixel charger connector is pretty good).
It's just a seamless metal rectangle, and much more squared-off and flat than Apple products. It's also a different color, has different speaker placement, different screen aspect ratio, different hinge...

I hope we don't get into a situation where every metal slab notebook is considered an Apple knockoff. I prefer that basic design and want more choices than just metal and Apple or curvy, wedgey, plasticy PCs.
I think there are many sectors where just one or two companies really dominate the industry.

PayPal seems like one, especially for international payments. iPhones and Androids. Windows. Cargill for food.

Granted, I am having trouble coming up with companies where "just one" company dominates the market, but overall this seems more common than one would like to think.

You are correct in that "it is difficult" would not be sufficient to explain why there are so few competitors. But I think I feel similarly about these other industries as well.
I meant the individual product pages in the Store. The "Visit the US site instead" link they provide works for the main page, but not the sub-pages for products. I don't know why I can't buy the devices and have them sent to a US address, anyway, for that matter.
My Great-Uncle (~89) has a Windows laptop. He virtually never uses it. One time I decided to start it up, and it literally had about ten updates that each required a restart. It was a disaster for me, and I do this for a living. I just can't imagine how they expect someone like him to use it.
"we don’t recommend trying to taste or smell your Pixel"
And yet, people do not go to college for an education, they go for a degree. Which is useless for determining education.
The Air is unaffected by the 'port war'.
My muscle memory is astonishingly strong (probably from two decades of classical piano training).

I use this to my advantage with passwords: When I need to generate a new one, I play a "song" into Notepad (or vim as the case may be). Not a known song, but a seemingly random string of glyphs that make sense in my head at the time.

Practicing typing that string forms a powerful association with that account/website and that "song," and my hands remember it for the rest of my life.

The one big drawback to this is that it's nearly impossible for me to enter passwords on my phone without having a keyboard handy and arduously trying to recreate the string. Also, changing a password (not that I usually need to) is a little difficult because I have to retrain myself.

The advantages are: They're not written down anywhere; I don't have to struggle to remember which permutation of some base string I used this time; they don't follow any sort of pattern.
I like the post but I think you're incorrect on cause. I don't think it's a matter of how large or small the provider is; I think it's a matter of empowering customer support reps (a rose by any other name: the people you talk to on behalf of providers.)

When the rep has the ability to make decisions and give these small deals I think they often will and your blog post is the reason why: it's not hard to see that the discount was relatively minor (I imagine you're not breaking the bank with your monthly GitHub bill) and by giving it to you their downside is the small temporary discount while the upside is a nice blog post praising them and lock-in loyalty for the rest of the life of your company.

Big company example would be Amazon. Every time I have an issue and email them I am amazed by how reasonable they are in the first email. No "here's a bad offer and I'll go talk to 'my boss' about a better one only once you yell at me", no "sorry you should have read the terms of service" but rather "here's the obviously reasonable solution, have a nice day sir"
I've had a _great_ experience using KeePassX on both Windows and Linux.

I use a sometimes-synced copy of the database on KeePassDroid on my Android phone. Actually, the user experience of KeePassDroid can only be described as vile, but that it works at all (allowing me to have all of my passwords securely available on my person) is awesome enough.
Out of curiosity what laptop do you use? What do you do on your laptop? How does the vendor that you bought the laptop from enable your intended use (out of the box)?
Well it does not have to be using all tiers, just that you have to make it deliberate. the details has to be worked out, and likely you can't make one size fit all given the wide range of age related issues.
For definitions of "working" which include "We have almost recovered to the number of CS degrees issued in 1985."
Thanks for the feedback! The page was custom built using bootstrap and we didn't really look at any templates. The page was meticulously designed and was supposed to have a blueprint-ish feel due to the fact that we are still in development.
Warning, this is a very dangerous practice. The whole point of the article states that machines do fail and that networks are unreliable. He had a specific section in their that even Spanner has a 7ms uncertainty on time.

Therefore: You CANNOT trust timestamps or your clock.
But again, that doesn't really matter to people who are using their laptops as a browser on steroids. Whether you're using a Macbook or a Chromebook, you're SOL in either case if you mostly do your work in a browser.
What if the balloon "pops"? Falling down might still be a risk if there is heavily populated area...
Agreed, Flipboard does make the reading experience nicer with less junk/UI.

However they have ads within articles now, including some full page ads between article pages.
No joke. If I code for a living, usually I want to spend my free time doing something OTHER than coding. The projects I DO work on in my free time are for me - usually silly little things (maybe in a new lang that I'm playing with), and not indicative of standard of code quality I produce in the "real world."
Another big fan of Chris DeMayo here - extremely helpful NYC startup accountant, highly recommend him for all.
People were shocked , visibly, at my current job when I told them I didn't really do a lot of programming in my spare time. I made sure to not mention it anymore to someone I don't know / trust very well there, they looked like I had breached some kind of unwritten rule or requirement to work for that company - an unvoiced "You have no passion for your job and you do not belong here", of sorts.

That wouldn't be something they could fire me over though, what I do in my spare time is my business, and we have laws that protect that kinda thing.
I just noticed, the "Button Shapes" accessibility option helps a bit.
I suggest reading this article for some insight if you haven't built out a distributed system. Good hands on, practical information:
http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what...
My wife and I use this. I have an android phone and she has an iphone. We share records back and forth and she really likes the touch id quick login.
Show HN: Umedoc – Find, visit and keep the perfect doctor for you
Those were not sequels planned for this year.
> whistleblower Russ Tice said [...] that the NSA had a tap on Barack Obama as early as 2004.

Source: https://youtu.be/d6m1XbWOfVk?t=2m45s

They went after General Patreus, Justice Alito and Senator Barack Obama [3:25].
Weather balloons like this have existed for a long time and don't seem to be an issue. Would still be interested in knowing the failure mode, though.
> please don't dirty this otherwise wonderful website

Same goes for you.
that's transmission delays not relativistic effects. The idea of spanner is you have a timestamp of when it was decided to commit. The quorum knows they can't contact each other quickly but they trust each others timestamps and resolve conflicts based on the trusted commit times (which are accurate through hardware). Transmission delays don't undermine the fact there is a very real concept of ordered time in the physical world which is exploitable[1]. Spanner exploits it faster than transmission delays, but with a clock error of 10 ms or something. We have better clocks than that so its probably going to improve...

[1] sans relativity effects which are TINY, and not the limiting factor at the moment.
I think a good way to marketing typescript is provide tool converter c# to typescript. It would be fun is there is tool convert my mvvm portable library to typescript angular js. If microsoft provide this, i can porting my mobile app to mobile site easily. And then automaticly i will learn typescript
The degree is evidence of a graded evaluation, which is a proxy for education. Despite some propaganda to the contrary, it is not a zero-correlation proxy.

Also, I don't know about you, but I went to college for an education. Which I received.
Didn't read due to ridiculous web design. I don't think I should have to click between every sentence, nor should I be subjected to a non-standard user interface.
Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this
I was Fedora, Ubuntu, and Arch before making the jump to OS X. I agree with you that they've gone downhill, but because of your numbers 1 and especially 2-3 I've always been negative on a laptop that isn't made by Apple. I've just had so many terrible experiences with PC laptops in those areas. They all work, but they have never worked as well.
I use the Asus Chromebox (small "desktop" ChromeOS machine) as an OpenELEC media center. It runs absolutely flawlessly, mostly because it's just a basic Intel Pentium system. From what I've heard, the ARM Chromebooks like the Samsung ones can be a bit trickier, but it can be done.
Hey I'm the co-founder and CTO of a VC'd D&D startup (YC 2016) would you like to come to our meetup???
Wow, big moves from both sides !
True, but i was not thinking just about work. I keep seeing them pitched as simple devices for home "computing".
Looks like it starts at $999 for the 8GB RAM and 32GB SSD and $1299 for 16GB ram and 64GB SSD.
> Assess based on open-source contributions, which show craftsmanship, architecture, and love of coding

... and personal time allocation that reveals things you're not legally allowed to ask directly.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9185335.
Related: http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/04/dismal-guide-to-concurrency....