skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A browser is the correct application to read the news, but all the mentioned issues are related to the spammy nature of news websites. If I redesigned their web layout, Betty would have no problem reading the news, especially if her browser has a setting to increase the default font size.

However, news companies would lose money and go out of business since heavy advertising is their business, but should an entity relying on borderline spam have any necessary reason to stay around?
Yes, it goes to the main US site, and then you click on the Chromebook and it shows the same "not available in your country" message.
And that's including shipping and all the fancy oleophobic anti-reflective coating options.
Law has changed since the 80s and 90s.

The profession was much more of a bloodsport. Less cases settled, far less went to arbitration, and more money was spent when a case did go to trial.

Nowadays the culture has shifted almost completely to keeping costs down and settling things outside of court -- either settling outright or through a mediated arbitration (much less expensive).

It's no surprise to me that law school grads are out of work these days.
How well did non-ChromeOS linux work on the last Pixel?
Having played a multiplayer mobile game that uses a "everything syncs soon" protocol, and at the same time relies on the main mechanics of the game being timing the moves of characters against your opponents it often can lead to making the game highly unpredictable and jittery with "alternate timeline warps" when it resyncs, having nullified important moves.
I can see the Store page here in the UK. I'm guessing it's UK, US and some other places, but not the rest of the world?

I also assume it's not intentional: they just redirect the US store to local ones.
Same here, Spanish IP.
This URL works from Germany: http://www.google.com/chromebook/pixel/
> Engineering, mathematics and theory is the biggest part which you can't get at a 6 week school

Agreed. Sadly lots of people are getting sucked into the start up tech bubble. Sure you can get a really high paying tech job on limited knowledge as a web developer at some shitty start up, but it might be gone tomorrow and you'll find yourself SOL.

Having gone the no CS degree route myself I can say that I find myself in a constant loop where I have to prove my abilities even with the recommendation of former bosses and a nice resume.
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I am willing to wager that the average sales is not uniform over the day/week. Now we are getting towards a full day, but I would hardly count the hours from 0130 to 0500 as downtime for lost sales.
Please mail me at rdl at cloudflare.com to talk about TOTP/Authy/etc. I'd appreciate your specific concerns (and I have some questions).
I would wager that MIT has some of the best return on capital in the world. MIT is an amazing school, has an amazing reputation, and getting an engineering degree from MIT will likely be worth it. Like was already said, the network and life experience are really amazing. I could only imagine the kind of people one meets at MIT. Interesting and intelligent people with similar interests.

I went to a coding school (I also attended university) and I would say that when you are young, college is an amazing experience where you learn a lot about life.

I think someone will eventually crack the code by getting a school together for 2 years with >500 students and partner with a university so that students can get social activities in. This, in my opinion, would be the absolute best scenario.

A college experience, amazing education, and a long enough time horizon to learn and build interesting things.
Would be very interested to see how well Ubuntu runs on this. As a once die-hard Apple fan I'm so sick of the mess that is Mac OS X Yosemite that I'm willing to abandon Apple and try a Linux laptop, but only if:

1) The wifi and sound work out of the box

2) Battery life is better than 2hrs

3) Suspend/resume works
From the article:

Consumers do not get a break. At LensCrafters, the average cost for a pair of frames and lenses is about $300. You may think -- well, there's choice in the mall for other glasses. But Luxottica doesn't only own the top eyewear chain in the country, it owns another large chain: Pearle Vision, and Oliver Peoples, and several boutique chains. And it runs Target Optical and Sears Optical. And we're not done, Luxottica also owns Sunglass Hut - the largest sunglass chain in the world.

The cost of frames is not based on the cost of traditional manufacturing. Luxottica controls the market, like De Beers and the diamond market.
Can I put ubuntu or windows on this? Or even make it a hackintosh?
I suggest you read, for example, this article from TC:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/11/google-launches-cloud-stora...

This information should challenge your argument that Nearline is not groundbreaking, at least in the "cloud archival storage" space.
GNU/Linux is no better than other UNIX alternatives, it basically has the same bag of problems as during the UNIX wars.
Indeed. But it was a very nice machine. Hopefully this one won't overheat. Any idea if it's fanless? There's no specific info about the CPU, but it doesn't seem to be according to the clock frequency.
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> 8-16 GB RAM for what?

For a ton of Chrome tabs.

> only 32-64 GB SSD?

You're expected to store all data on Google servers.
Whatever it says it is, I'll always remap it to Control :)
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It's interesting that this is on "Google Store", not "Google Play Devices". This may explain why it isn't working yet in all countries -- and maybe also why it works in the UK, since London is home to the first physical Google Store.
If you have an interest in foxes I can recommend a couple of fox books you might like:

"The Sprite, The Story of Red Fox" . This was last published in 1926 but it is available used on Amazon. It's the true story of a pet fox.

"Red fox: The Catlike Canine"
Reading about the new macbook, and its pressure sensitive touch pad, and the pressure sensitive keyboard cover Microsoft sells for their Surface range, makes me wonder if something similar would be possible for screens.

Yep, it is something of a throwback to resistive screens. But with resistives at least there was a distinction between resting the finger on the screen, and interacting with a on-screen object.
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I live in Europe.
End.
I'm not a CEO but my current job has a lot of stress. I think a CEOs daily workload has even more so, I'd say the most important things are:

* Exercise: Helps you 'de-compress' yourself. This is vital for anyone expected to go the long run.

* Family time: Relationship are not static. They are dynamic. You need to put a lot of effort in to a relationship in various forms (patience, trust, physical work, romance, etc.). This takes time and having a healthy relationship in your personal life, helps a lot.

* Quality time: In the form of vacations, SPA, a walk with a friend, a nice dinner with a friendly interesting new couple (if you're married, etc.) or friend. Organise a nice family weekend so you can be all together.

* Self-improvement: The mind needs spiritual inputs, exactly like our body needs food (energy). I've seen people increasing their daily lives incredibly by becoming more patient, less aggressive (towards arguments) and more aggressive towards ending but habits, etc.

* Think: Thinking is an Art that very few people master. Thinking clearly takes time and effort. It takes concentration and amounts of un-interrupted time. Taking your time to think alone with no distractions about important decisions will help you avoid mistakes that will cost you money and energy.

All these are interconnected and people have talked about them in one way or another since (at least) ancient Greece (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle), probably even before.

Wish you all the best & stay strong :-)
I agree Warby Parker is not competing directly with Luxottica. But they're still taking advantage of the fact that those brands are charging very high prices and current retail channels are controlled by a single entity who restricts competition from third parties. And they are certainly competing with retail channels owned by Luxottica.
Makes one wonder if we were better of with teletext, where one had to explicitly type the number of the "page" one wanted.

And do memory fail me, or did the early web work in the same manner?
I hope so. If they haven't locked the bootloader down on this one I'll be buying one.
This procedure is called code review in software development. If done right, it can add great value to code especially, if the author has the last word and we coders develop the gentleness of the best fiction editors.
"Because Convention Man doesn't sound as cool." :-)
Eyeglasses are an example directly from this book, which at least one of the news organization has likely read.

This problem is across every industry, but because of the way branding, shell corporations etc work people do not notice.

Ask yourself whether shoes is truly different? How many places around the globe produce a _lot_ of shoes?

How about hard drives? Refrigerators?
can you install windows on it?
However she gets it, hopefully she takes it with a grain of salt.
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You can install linux on it. I own the previous version of the Pixel and I run ubuntu on it and its close to perfect.

Two things I would change are

1. Improve thermal cooling or move to a underpowered cpu. I have worked around it by rate limiting my CPU to not go over 800 MHz. With a few tweaks, it sips ~8.8W and gives me > 6 hrs of battery life.

2. Make the hinge a bit stiffer.

My only other complaint is that it refuses to install FreeBSD.
Can someone provide a real-life example of a data set that this warning applies to?
Most software is still very complicated for older people. I recently helped my 90+ grandfather download a Word document attached to an email, edit the document, print a copy, and reply with the edited version attached. You would not believe how much prerequisite knowledge this takes for someone computer-illiterate.

I think there is a big hole in the market for software that is designed to be as easy as possible at the expense of power/flexibility. The article talks about people 75+, but I think the cutoff where a majority of people have a hard time with computers is younger than that. I bet that someone who really tried hard to make an integrated suite of senior-friendly software would do well.
This is a good idea but some things don't make sense.

What do you mean I don't need an auxiliary cord or set up bluetooth? Then you say, "Essentially this is done by having the phone connected to the car"... What? That verbiage needs to be cleaned up and corrected.

I like the idea of having users able to downvote songs, but how about implementing instead a "pass" feature so not everybody feels left out and gets at least 30 seconds or so of their song before it skips out. The downvote feature however would work really well at parties.

Design is pretty bad after the header and there's no link to the app at all nor is there a 'coming soon'. Also I just discovered hidden buttons next to all of your names linking to your linkedin profiles -- I would have never seen that at first glance.

In any case, I really like the idea of everybody being a DJ in the car. Hope to try it out soon!
> There is a lot of it

Indeed, but most of it is very deep and won't be seeing any new islands soon.
Why does it have to affect only 89 year old people? This crap happens to me all the time and I'm 29. A page is loading slowly and I click what I think is the actual content, right as an add is being rendered.

Even worse is when an add overlays the entire page and I can't click around it. It's infuriating.
Yes, to ship working software you need nothing - high schoolers do it. But to MAINTAIN and ENGINEER an efficient, secure software system (especially for enterprise environments), you need CS fundamentals. These CAN be learned on the job over several years of work, but no 6 week school can teach you them overnight.
Google has absolutely no idea of how to run worldwide services w.r.t language/content. Their forcing of Chrome to change its UI language based on IP is one fantastic example of their absurdity. The idiocy of the store is another. Leading to security holes, too! Install app while in-region. App releases critical update. Click app to update, then find out "app does not exist". Bizarre.

Not to mention they often (2/12 months) decide my Denver IP is in Poland or France. Or that my Azure (West-US) machines are in Hungary.
> So the new MacBook isn't the only USB-powered notebook anymore

It never was. First USB-C powered though.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/08/hp_chromebook_11/
This is also the Android and Windows approach (Phone, Store and upcoming 10[0]).

[0] From the GDC presentations about Windows 10 features.
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My wife reboots it manually before watching anything, just in case.
It's also acting up in iOS on mobile safari. And, even more interestingly, if you long-tap a few of the images and save them to the photo stream, you'll see them change "live" in lots of applications like the photo browser, photo editors, pasting in an iMessage, etc.
I really wish this didn't look like a bad imitation of an Apple product. Surely it's possible to build a nice looking laptop that doesn't look so similar to a MacBook.

If you're going to do something different, just be different. I think these things are actually kind of sweet, but I can't stand the way they look.
Plot twist, even CR48s can run Arch and other light variants of Linux, with an i7 and 16GB of RAM, I have no doubt these will be capable as well.

Now, about that price point...
Interesting. However I'm not just looking for syncing stats and inventory. What I'm talking about is designing a new game mechanic around the realities of distributed gaming, then designing a more robust server around that. The server will be finalizing entity positions, damage, and collisions a half second behind "real-time," and the game mechanic will be designed around this in a way that preserves player autonomy and immediate response. (Basically, deemphasizing aiming while emphasizing tactical dodging where the player seeks to minimize received damage over time.)

great job stepping back from the buzzwords

Those pesky buzzwords. You were just caught out being misled by one. (sync -- which typically means what you thought it did, but also has a generalized meaning)
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And she was getting a bit frustrated and worried — that by clicking on something, she was going to install malware or not be able to return to her story.

This is how the news site makes their money and the reason why it's free to view the articles. Betty needs to purchase a subscription to view articles ad-free (if the sites she browses offer it)

Although, one potential option for someone like Betty is SmartNews https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.gocro.smart... That app offers a "SmartView" which scrapes the news sites they link to and provides text-only versions of the articles.
> For a ton of Chrome tabs.

Or one Facebook tab.
When is the last time you saw an argument on an internet message board change anyone's mind?

I am sure there are plenty of government and military bureaucrats who aren't bothered by futility of their efforts, but the leaks we've seen so far suggest that the NSA, at least, are competent at achieving their goals.
Ok, we took out "mutant".
That's a good idea but I think MagSafe is patent protected so it'd have to be 1st party.
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I've noticed with older folks that it becomes more difficult to apply granular amounts of pressure to objects (especially if you have a motor control disorder like Parkinson's). I don't believe pressure sensitive touch pads would help in this regard.
And has been for years on Chromebooks.
I've spent too much of my life on this problem :).

The short version is that you can expose the different read/write modes to the client, and let them decide on what works best for their use case.

For spanner, table 2 in the paper[1] highlights the different interaction modes (read/write transaction, read wait for pending transactions, read skip pending transactions, read at some past timestamp). Each operation gives you a "consistent" view of the data, where "consistent" means that you don't see partial transactions.

It turns out that, for most high-qps web applications, you want a recent consistent view of the data, but you don't care about pending transactions. That means you can read at "now", or at "now - 1 second" without any latency penalty.

Clients doing read/write will care about pending transactions, but you can be opportunistic if the transactions do not overlap. Settling transactions does require quorum synchronization, so you are limited to max(median+1(latency)) milliseconds. These databases are usually keyed by something that minimizes transaction overlap (e.g. you can shard a counter, that kind of thing).

Regional migration of quorums (e.g. counter for asia, counter for europe) can also be done. So, the counter for "asia" consists in a "segment" (not the actual terminology, but we'll go with it) where the quorum exists mostly distinct asia regions. Metadata for the segment (which everything reads at startup, and is kept up to date) will tell you what servers are responsible.

[1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
There are ads if you use it outside of the UK :)

I've used it as my main source of getting news from back home. Ignoring the quality of the editing (I spot a spelling or obvious grammar mistake almost daily), the app is decent.

It's straightforward. I can pick the categories I want. It just gives you the top X articles per category, nothing more. Doesn't link you elsewhere. One headline, one thumbnail image, sometimes 1 image embedded in the article. There's are very few buttons to be confused by. One of them is font size. I'd say it's pretty grandma-friendly!
It's kind of hard to say "independent" about any discrete population, because once you know you are sampling from a discrete population, you can look up the values of one variable given the other. So you'd only find that the variables are "independent" if you're looking at a cartesian product; in literally any other situation the variables are dependent.
Have they released data about heat for the new machine?
Each article is predictably laid out. There are no ads.

If you're in the UK, yes. Otherwise, there are ads.
Just as an update, this guy has been permanently suspended from the fraternity, which is basically the equivalent to an expulsion from a school. I'm also happy to report that this action was already being taken before I voiced my concern.
We'd better improve our interview techniques before the flood of lawyer-like engineers who are only in it for the money arrives. My recommendation- avoid brain-teasers that can be crammed for. Assess based on open-source contributions, which show craftsmanship, architecture, and love of coding.
Zenni will give you glasses that are functional, I suppose, but they do cut corners. I've tried a handful of the online glasses shops and have never been terribly happy. The frames are cheaply constructed and not terribly durable and the lenses seem to be of poorer quality. If I needed a spare pair to take on a canoeing trip I'd get them from Zenni or some other cheap place so I wouldn't have to worry about losing an expensive pair.

In terms of comfort and vision I'll pick the expensive glasses every time.
Yet many people use their MacBooks as a browser on steroids. Those people are the target audience of the Chromebook.
The Chromebook hardly stores any files locally, that's why the SSD is so small. But if you have a lot of tabs open, especially with developer tools, it's not impossible to use up 8GB of RAM.
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I agree that it's really senseless that you can't even look at the product pages if you're outside US. Adding ?gl=US to the end of the URLs works, though.
I completely agree.

I eliminated all basic issues in my coding skills a few years ago by doing a lot of online challenges.

Drawing an analogy to writers, online challenges (or preparing for them) is like getting really good at sentence formation, vocabulary, paragraph formation, etc. This allows you to then focus on larger things like writing a paper and even comprehending other people's papers with much ease.

Code is the language of software engineering and computer science. Online competitions help internalize that so that it becomes second nature.
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I like your style!
I think the problem with the whole event in the end was that people don't think too highly of other people's privacy anymore - posting someone's picture or even using someone's real name on the internet was unheard of and Not Done ten years ago, nowadays people just do it because IDK, they haven't gotten their required 100 tweets / day yet or something.
How about you don’t tell me what I’m going to say in response to you, and then you don’t argue with yourself?

What I’ll actually say is that you appear to have decided that she got what she deserved, and everything you’re arguing is post-facto reasoning to rationalize the decision you’ve already made.

I might as well have a discussion with a volleyball.
Most software is still very complicated for people old or young or in between.
Is that true? Did CF break Verizon or was it the other way around?
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Given a set of perfectly synchronized distributed clocks you may not even have to wait the 66ms. Incoming transactions (both local and remote) go into the write-ahead log, their ordering is given by the timestamps (which are consistent, because clocks are synchronized). Periodic heartbeats from other nodes give you a green light to commit or abort parts of the write-ahead log into permanent database. All nodes will make the same decisions wrt each transaction.

You will only have to wait for the commited/aborted response, which cannot be achieved faster than 2*66=132ms (and this system can come arbitrarily close to that, by increasing the heartbeat frequency).

There is no need to wait any time before running a subsequent transaction though. Confirmations will flow with a 132ms delay, but there is no limit on transactions concurrency.
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Now that's an advantage.

Screenshot https://i.imgur.com/hovKLm9.png
Hobbyist-grade volume printing does not have the resolution necessary to create an eyeglass lens.

But some old washing machine parts and an Arduino can grind out any lens shape you might need from a printed blank. Building a garage lens grinder using a volume printer wouldn't be any more complicated than replicating a RepRap.

You really could make a pair of glasses from one type of plastic. If you need the temple pieces to fold (if it even has temple pieces), the same hinge design used by whittlers to make pliers from a single piece of wood would suffice, and could probably be cut with a laser of the correct wavelength.
Faster dev cycles can be safe, even safer, as long as the changes are accordingly incremental. See the whole "continuous delivery" line of thought.
They still ignore any special characters: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%3C()%22&tbs=li:1
Thanks. We changed to that from https://store.google.com/product/chromebook_pixel_2015, which was 404ing.
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