skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a shame they used a national statistic for income mobility of bottom 20%. While still not perfect, the area has the highest in the nation among large populations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/business/in-climbing-incom...
Locally Developing Micro-Services with Docker Compose
What always surprises me is that in the US "liberal" means left leaning and pro government intervention. Which is basically the opposite of liberalism.
You can pretty easily extend this with `mtl` in Haskell

genericInjected :: MonadReader Handle m => m ()

If you use lenses you can express an even nicer pattern

genericInjected :: HasHandle Database m => m ()

Perhaps the king here is ML's functors

module ( Dbh : DatabaseHandle ) = struct
...
end

In all cases this isn't much more than "dependency passing", but there is clearly more "injectability" and encapsulation available. Ultimately it all comes down to the kind of typed interface you want to expose.
> The whole point of a chromebook is that the storage is in the cloud.

The whole point of a Chromebook is that the Chrome browser is the app platform. But among the many big pushes of Chrome to enable browser to be a compelling app platform (and one that eventually moved into web standards) is enabling local storage for browser applications so that they don't need to rely on remote storage for everything.

So it makes sense that it would have less storage than a laptop with a traditional OS, but more storage than you would expect from a "the storage is in the cloud" model.
There are tactile buttons in development for screens, if you haven't seen it yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lVpNiRpcSs
Whatever country you're from is trying to do what the US is doing, they just aren't as good at it, so they likely are resorting to using hard techniques. Think lead pipes.
good book, but somewhat confused why it would be particularly relevant now?!
Some glasses are expensive because it's what people are willing to pay.

I get high quality glasses with contemporary styled frames at WalMart for next to nothing. Not only that but the WalMart optometrist is more competent and does a better job getting my prescription right than the private optometrist I used to see.

It's not as if WalMart is some exclusive club only available to the elite.

Anyone who wishes to do so may shop there and purchase their glasses.

They also have a very nice warranty. One pair got run over by a lawnmower, which was entirely my fault. Free replacement.

It is a choice to pay $400 or more for the same glasses you can get for $60. And as long as people are willing to pay $400, why not charge them that. Good for the price gougers. They only exist because people prefer to go to price gougers, since there is definitely not a quality improvement. Customers are simply paying more because that's what they want to do.
People would rent subterranean apartments in Silicon Valley.
I really liked the design.
Curiosity: you populated with jobs to start your product, and now, is there jobs being posted by companies?
Fair point. When I say 90 days, I think if things are bad, it's typically easy to spot where the degenerate behaviors are starting, and correcting them. In 90 days, the leading indicators need to start looking good. It takes time for that to flow through the system.
Google is doing, what a $300 Billion enterprise can do., than a billion people need. Most enterprises of their scale are focused on the later.

I meant, Glass and Chromebook are 'awesome'., but did or does it make sense, theverge repeatedly said, it does not make sense to buy it.

I like the notion of 'web' based OS, but I guess, for time being, that's for our tablets or phones only, a Laptop is multi-purpose machine and will remain so for perhaps ever, I meant its ridiculous to have one laptop for 'web' and other for 'work'., when most of them can do both at once.
Surely a majority of people buying this won't be running the actual Chromebook system on it? What application can you even run on that system that would use 8GiB of RAM and an i5? And last I checked, you couldn't even run Skype on it, so I mean I just come up pretty much empty for the set of people willing to run Chromebook the OS and buy a 1k machine to do it.

Since Chromebook is Linux under the hood, they'll presumably have the driver situation down. So this makes for a very nice Linux system.
I had the idea to do the same thing for drugs and medicine you are taking.

Obviously this is a big task, perhaps v2, but have you thought about monitoring every toy, so that I could look up a toy before I buy it?
Nitpick: should read "POSIX-compliant shell", there isn't a "stock POSIX shell"
The machine looks good,no question. But 16GB ? 32GB ? 64GB SSDs? frankly, it's a no Go for the price ($999). For half the price one can get a better computer. I don't buy the "but you're supposed to be always connected and store files in the cloud" bullshit. I bought a $500 laptop with better specs ,that runs linux without driver and issues and yes, I can surf the web with it.

I'm no fan of Apple but even the latest 13' macbook air at $999 makes way more sense that this product. And yes,it has a browser and Yes you can run Linux on it.
This is a 'feature' of Zorium: https://github.com/Zorium/zorium/issues/21

Should be fixed soon
I respectfully disagree. Any significant org is going to have have some process that sounded good at the time, but is now ridiculous.

If you're not finding and correcting those things in 90 days as an executive, you're warming a chair.
She was homeless before she got the garage.

I think they placed her there in the beginning so that your average white middle-class CNN viewer could relate a bit more to the stories of the homeless to come.
That's somewhat subjective.

Personally I wouldn't pay more than $300 a machine and consider $1299 to be pretty extortionate amounts of cash considering the rate of depreciation.

Hey everyone I just worked 2x the time to pay for something shiny with no productivity gain!

(I use a shitty old X201 with 4Gb RAM and an SSD from eBay connected to a monitor I skip dived because it was 5:4 ratio)
Here's a wikipedia article explaining it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_balloon_satellite
Pannini != Panini
I agree, it isn't a fortune, but it isn't cheap either. The people who complain about the price can't/don't want to spend the money to buy a high end device, but they want a high end device.

The people who wine about the costs of going high end (MacBook , Watch, whatever) aren't part of Apple's target demographic. Apple wants to (and always has) sell well made devices to people who don't want cheap, and aren't afraid to pay for it.
Well, it does come with Linux on it...
The new MacBook is retina, no?
$999 8 GB RAM, 32 GB SSD

$1,299 16 GB RAM, 64GB SSD
I think the last time that the Loon project item was posted here a lot of the same comments were made. I think it was verified that they are flying at the 60kft - 90kft range where the winds are typically mild and in the 20mph range. I think one problem I see with it is that ordinary smart phones won't work because they transmit at around 100mw and they won't reach that altitude, you will need an earth station that is capable of at least a couple of watts and presumably then it would act as perhaps a wifi hot spot to serve some remote area. I think in that scenario, then it makes sense as a way to serve remote sparse areas. You are simply not going to be able to get the capacity at that distance to serve downtown San Fran. Also, the issue of backhaul is a question mark in my mind. There is no Google fiber up there, so they will need probably some sort of Microwave link back to earth to connect to the internet. That can be problematic, those types of links are typically very directional so you might have to have steerable antenna's at least on the earth end, which is pretty expensive to do. So I am not sure how they plan on dealing with that part.
Social Media Inception: A Post Within a Post Within a Post
Too bad the OverWhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) did not make it.
This looks really good, but like so many sites I find on here, it makes no mention of country. So I assume you're just monitoring toys recalled in America?

i.e. It's probably not worth me in New Zealand signing up?
Pivotal Labs Competes to Hack for Good at PayPal Battlehack 2014
I hope I can use that port to charge my other laptop. The one that I can actually use with practical ports and can run real apps and not just websites.
You can divorce yourself from your belongings because it's easy for you to find work and quickly replace your belongings. If you know you'll have to sleep on concrete for the next 5 months because you won't be able to find work, you'll carry your mattress with you.
Your VP of Sales will know a helluva lot more than you do if they're remotely competent at their job though, which is not by any stretch of the imagination equivalent to being "world class". Any decent VP of Sales will also be highly adept at shifting blame if you make it clear the knife is hanging over their head from the start...

Even in sales, which has an unusually straightforward success metric, beyond a certain threshold of above-average competency the leadership is more about how well their approach gels with the most suitable approach for your service, and how flexible they are in their approaches than whether they're some mythical 10x unicorn. Someone who is "world class" at scaling inside sales teams is not going to be "world class" at figuring out how to get your small team of domain experts to network their way to niche domination... if anything applying lessons learned from their experience might make things worse. And I'm not sure what even makes a Head of HR "world class", but I'd certainly prefer a shared philosophy than a stellar set of resume accomplishments.

Anyone involved in a sufficiently large organization who thinks all their senior executives are "world class" or necessary to eliminate is clearly the weak link on the team, especially when it comes to judging others' abilities.
Maybe you sort of overlooked the detail that I was a military wife (stated early in my above comment). I have lived in Georgia, Texas, Kansas, Washinton state, California, and Germany. I have driven through most states in the continental U.S. I spent a month on the gulf coast in Port Aransas on my way back to California. I returned to California from Georgia on foot and accepting rides, which took roughly two months (actual travel time, not counting the month spent in Port Aransas).

I am nearly 50 years old and I have been around the block a few times with my health issues, as well as all over the country. I am a LOT healthier in California than anywhere else.

This is not some psychological issue and it is not some untested hypothesis. It is a pretty thoroughly tested understanding of what helps keep me healthy for less than the average $100,000 annually my medical condition typically costs.
Thank you. I searched to see if his article had been mentioned, and glad to find you did. The link he gives to Ted Neward's post is gone, but I found it in the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141205230114/http://blogs.tedn...

Seems like this thread has gone down a very old, well worn rabbit hole.
Heres a dirty little secret about "real nerds". As far as bullying and exclusion goes, they give as good as they get. I knew some so called nerds in high school who were picked on. I knew more who socially isolated themselves by being arrogant jerks to everyone else, especially those they considered to be of lower intelligence. I dont fit the real nerd stereotype. I played football and I don't like dnd. I resent the notion that I am some kind of brogrammer picking on the poor helpless nerds. Who is really picking on who here? If it truly is about the code, as the author states, then why should this bs about authentic nerd culture even matter?
I don't see the back story anywhere on the site, but I hope your child is okay!
Unless they manage to come up with a fine mesh grid that allow them to work with a arbitrary underlying UI, not interested.
I can't see how significantly better that screen is with all those fingerprints on it :o
That's awful for her and others in her situation, but I don't think it supports an argument that anyone should be able to afford to live in any region regardless of their income. And really, that's the only solution to problems like hers: building subsidized low-income housing in very expensive areas.

San Mateo is expensive. Very expensive. Outside of direct market distortions like subsidized low income housing, it will always be too expensive for many people to live there. As many challenges as she faces in moving, she'll face more trying to raise a child in a garage.
I don't know a single person in real life that has a chromebook. Who is buying these?
Google "arcology". It's a portmanteau of architecture and ecology. It's not a new idea, but there hasn't yet been the right combination of technology, money, and motivation.

Also see wikipedia "principality of sealand". Some british nut tested a lot of the legal precedents. Short version, it totally works, although there was that one time his nation was conquered by mercenaries hired by a german lawyer, and his son was taken hostage. So, self defense is a very real concern.
I upgraded my acer c720p chromebook to 120GB NGFF drive so I'd have more space for my debian chroot. The chromeos is nice. But I really depend on running linux (debian).
The fun begins when people start going out to places currently not well-served by the usual mapping services -- places they normally wouldn't think of going, without extraordinary precautions -- thinking "Hey great, looks like we have this stuff everywhere now. Ain't everything just swell, here in The Future?"

Until of course tricky weather or something else happens, and suddenly, they don't.

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/137646147/the-gps-a-fatally-mi...
React is badly designed
I'm not saying that you can't live where you choose. I'm saying that if someone wants government help, the government, having limited resources and many people to help, should be very practical in how it leverages its resources. For example, if it takes 100k (if not a bit more) a year to help a small family escape poverty here, but moving them and escaping poverty in another city would cost far less and leave money to help the next family, it is better to do the most good for the most people.
> Surely a majority of people buying this won't be running the actual Chromebook system on it?

"Chromebook" is the hardware device. ChromeOS is the operating system.

> What application can you even run on that system that would use 8GiB of RAM and an i5?

Is there an upper limit to the RAM or CPU a browser-based application can use?
In-Browser Memory Latency Benchmark (PNaCl/Asm.js)
A quick glance on their screen and facial expression, and you can tell if they're busy. If they're busy or if I'm not sure, I'll just ping them on chat. When they're ready, they look up, and we talk. Quite fast.
So, how come a lot of those projects creating those shifts are run by long-standing community participants? Are they traitors?
Thanks for your story. "Just move" is not a solution. If someone talked to twenty homeless individuals, and asked them in-depth why they don't "just move", that person would probably stop thinking it's going to solve homelessness.

I'm all for programs to actually help people move, and get them support in their new location and etc. But that's not what most people here are talking about.
Inside a chroot - yes. See https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
Because there's a scary proportion of people in here saying things like:
- "how about they just move?"
- "the guy is a construction worker? they're in demand, just go to a construction office and get a job"
- "I don't get it. One person on video lives in nice bedsit (garage) and talks about homeless."
I own a big wholesale telco that does tons of data center business and bandwidth. Of course, margins are super thin so we need great pricing. We are no Google, but we can achieve the same pricing, including the cost of bandwidth (that is 9-9s of durability and no spin-up time, which is where the 3-seconds come from)

Maybe I should start my own service to harness all this infrastructure with something like swift!
Rivets.js: Lightweight and powerful data binding and templating
I'm in no way limiting their choices. I am merely discussing the limits that should be put to best utilize limited government resources. If they do not like those limits, they do not have to accept the aid.
She didn't get the man fired, mainstream values got the man fired. In retaliation the hacker community did the same thing and got her fired. Sadly individuals will always get hurt when ideologies clashes.
I'm just hoping this one isn't a fire hazard.
This is my experience as well. If you look at just the "e-Discovery" product space, corporations are saving literally millions of dollars by implementing digital tools instead of retaining outside council to trawl through files looking for discoverable data. This alone is costing a lot of lawyers and paralegals their jobs.
This fails to load in Chrome due to an uncaught security error. It looks like it's trying to access window.localStorage in a weird way. Also, the clay.io link hijacks the back button, inserting their main site in the history. I think a better link would be the original, which does not have these problems and works in Chrome: http://zop.zolmeister.com/

Edit: It looks like the Chrome error has been fixed. Still, I'm not a fan of the history hijacking.
Does anyone know why this has not been done already? Having a ton of cell towers on the ground and trying to send signal through mountains and other various terrain does not work. So why not put one tower on the ground in a central area and have an array of balloons floating around?
I think that this device as a 256GB Ubunutu box would be very popular on the Google campus as well so there would seem to be some internal pressure for this configuration. (At least in 2013 when I was there, the Pixels were popular laptops as were small Goobuntu laptops.)

The problem is that the Pixel as a Chromebook fits in really well with Google's larger business model.
I contracted for a company with the same idea (I built the matching engine from incoming alerts to products in the db). It went under, that was 3 years ago. They were not focused on toys, though. There is some traces of their android app here: http://www.amazon.com/Cyberellum-LLC-Recall-Alarm/dp/B007MCK...
While we're on the topic of Dots, my favorite way to learn a new programming language lately has been to implement a clever "solver" for this game in the language (to maximize score). I wrote one in Go a while ago, and Rust recently.

Also in my opinion this game is more fun when you're working with a finite number of moves rather than time.
Yep it is.
I'm skeptical that it's possible to assemble a working SQL query of much complexity unambiguously from an arbitrarily-ordered set of clauses. CTEs, subselects, and boolean conditions would require a nesting construct. Boolean conditions, order clauses, and some joins need to be assembled in a meaningful order. Eventually you're going to find a level of complexity in the query where it's necessary for a developer to read the documentation, either to figure out the API or to understand the method the library uses to stitch queries together.

There might be a sweet spot yet unreached in terms of allowing developers to work with SQL on top of as minimal a native binding as possible. I'm certainly not claiming that Sequel/SQLAlchemy/etc. is at or near that sweet spot. It might be necessary to use a language with language-level support (or macros) to really reach it.
isn't this relevant everyday?
I completely agree. This would be a killer alternative to an MBPr if an option to upgrade/purchase a 256GB SSD was available.

So close to perfect, yet so far.
To get a shell Ctrl+Alt+T.
It is only me, or Dell XPS 13 9343 is simply better?
Doesn't the new Macbook come in 2304 * 1440?
Same trouble. Android Chrome.
Even 4.1 was much better than 4.4 - all the migration from text and contoured buttons to symbols. an open eye for "turn off snooze" on the alarm is indicative of what I think is really poor design.
I hate rent control, but I think it's a symptom of incumbents' unwillingness to allow more development, on the grounds that it would lower the value of the property they own (or more realistically, slow that value's rate of increase). A fixed-rate mortgage is basically rent control for better-off people; typically the mortgage-holder pays off a small bit of principal each month and pays rent on the outstanding amount.

So if we want to outlaw rent control, we should outlaw fixed rate mortgages too, and eliminate the artificial cap on property taxes (something that corporations exploit by using shell companies to 'own' commercial real estate, and then transferring ownership or voting control of the shell company while shielding themselves from property tax on the current value of the real estate). But we both know that that's not likely to happen.
I think the maximum with lte-advanced and 5 carriers is around a million simultaneous connections.
Not to mention that a family's informal support network often works as a subsidy/social safety net, and when you move that definitely will not follow you. Probably the most common example is that many families in the US use family members to care for small children, because child care can easily cost ~30% of a family's income. Asking families to move to a lower COL area may well mean they have to pay more.
It's pretty safe to say this isn't a laptop intended for the Average Joe to purchase. They're not even aiming at that demographic, IMHO.

I do agree that making it more Linux-friendly or selling a pre-installed Linux version would be great.
It's one thing to hunt for food, another just for "sport."
As someone who works for a content producer, the only place to make money is in the gatekeeping to content.

Once again, with competition that sort of practice doesn't work. If a service is popular it will cost customers to ban it.

Nokia phones came with music for the best part of 3 years, it didn't stop the rise of spotify. (back when data cost £1 a megabyte)

Spotify is bundled with many contracts here in the UK, but people still use other services.

None of those VC ideas are businesses, it won't be net neutrality that stops them it'll be common sense. Who invests in clones of already loss making services?
Disregarding the question of the cost/possibility of moving, do we as a society want communities to be completely segregated based on income? Do we want poor kids to grow up without role models and good education opportunities? Do we want rich kids to grow up believing they somehow deserve all this, completely detached from the rest of society and the problems they face?

The forces of the market are not the forces of nature, and we make the rules (or, at least, shape them greatly).
@coderzach, I've read other articles on Google Loon and a number of the articles mention the balloons moving around the Earth. I have not ready anything about the balloons being geostationary. If you have, please share.
Better still...

Remember that idea you suggested last week in the pub of doing X Y and Z. Well, we started doing it on the side and it is increasing sales. Should we start doing it officially?
A lot of people apparently: http://www.zdnet.com/article/top-3-holiday-computers-on-amaz...

If I were to buy a second computer for travelling and lightweight stuff at home, and not developing, I guess a Chromebook would be a nice choice. But not at the price of a Macbook Air, though.