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The Pixel is probably a little bit like an overpowered Nexus line:

1) Set a high standard for build quality and all for all the other Chromebooks.

2) Create a consumer perception that Chromebooks can be high quality devices of substantial value

3) Create a powerful playground for testing with heavy Chrome apps & getting native Android apps to work on ChromeOS and other such features that will come to the cheaper Chromebooks a year later.

All leading to the $300 Chromebooks feeling like high-quality bargains with ever increasing functionality.

Beyond that, the device seems ridiculous unless you put a different OS on, you're either better off with a cheaper Chromebook, or an equally pricy Windows Laptop (e.g. Dell XPS 2015) or Macbook. So I really think the Pixel is more of a strategic asset (see above) than something meant to be a popular revenue generating consumer device in and of itself.
I don't have any substantive other than to say, great job! This looks really cool. I want to check it out!

Any chance you'll bring it to Chrome?
I don't think it's too far off the mark. What do you think the distribution looks like?

Or one could replace the mathematical term average with the word ordinary. Is it possible for 60% of developers to be ordinary?
> The oil industry for example is making a mess of the environment, but many people rich.

They also make our mega-sprawl suburbs possible. It's a cop-out to pretend like oil companies aren't getting rich giving people what they want.
Thinking about the problems you will have with something you buy is naive? Considering a wide variety of parts on a laptop are proprietary I think serviceability and turn around time are big considerations.
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I can't help but wonder why Closure doesn't support tail recursion.

Yes, I know that the JVM is not supportive in this area, but it is the compiler's job to make the programmer's life easier, right? And not having tail recursion seems overly restrictive, and (imho) could only lead to clumsy code.

Furthermore, it limits the ease of switching between other functional languages and Clojure. Also it complicates rewriting code from other languages to Clojure.
Assuming by "the real review" you mean "the mostly cut'n'pasted rant against the first Pixel, published by Sam Biddle on Gizmodo 2 years ago".

http://gizmodo.com/5986031/every-reason-not-to-buy-the-googl...
It's a PR nightmare because money-grubbing journalists realize the amount of money they make is a linear function of the amount of "controversy" they can produce. Take Ferguson, for example. I would fund anyone with a good product because I don't care for grade-school gossip about what type of inflammatory posts someone might write on obscure forums in his free time - which, by the way, is why contemporary racism in the West is petty. As much as the media's incessant race-baiting would like to convince you otherwise, the only legitimate expressions of racism seem to be on obscure online forums. If we could reset the clock 50 years racism wouldn't be petty, but racism as a concept has been so diluted by the media that it is hard to take seriously any more. Calling someone a racist is just a way to make money now, and the public, especially the younger generation, is so forcefully anti-racist that is hard to care if one or two people are racist, even harder to see how it undermines one of their technological accomplishments.

This is my real account. I joined a week ago. People seem to dislike everything I say.
I worked at a place like that a bit over 10 years ago. I finally came to my senses, and quit. (should have found another job first, but I was just too drained, and needed to do some professional skill set retraining anyway)

Most places aren't like that, though. More like 40 +/- a few hours.

Not that I would complain if the US went to a 35 hour a week European style regime.
It's interesting how the loss of elderly wisdom in our society has came back in the tech arena. People who have legitimately been around the block know things. Strategy being one of the most important.
Really like the new Pixel and see great potential in it.

My only wish is that the display was slightly wider. Not necessarily 16:9. 3:2 is too much squarish for me :P I do understand vertical scrolling and all but it's just my personal preference, I guess. And also, 128 GB storage would perfect :)
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To give this the context that the moderators removed when they changed the title, Graal is a new dynamic compiler (JIT compiler) for the JVM from Oracle Labs. It's used, in amongst other projects, as the compiler that backs the high performance implementation of Ruby and C extensions, JRuby+Truffle.

http://www.chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/
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I'm a huge Splinter Cell fan, and I remember loving Chaos Theory. I am sorry for the shit he had to go through. I feel like this as well actually. It takes longer to calculate simple math and I'm having issues remembering stuff.

This image did not help at all:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CAqwcQdUkAAsz_G.jpg
A quick Google search ("trunk-first vs branch-first svn") suggests that you're not using common terminology.

It's not a terminology question, it's a concept question. A good candidate should be able to recognize abstract concepts regardless of the words used to describe them. Even in an interview setting.
Agreed, and that article doesn't even mention this relatively recent finding, which I think offers even stronger evidence of the importance of sleep:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-perchance-reveals-brai...
Well, it does look trollish to complain about the lack of debate without actually debating a point. Do you have an on-topic opinion to share?
Come on, you can do better than that. :)
That's how reviews usually work. They evaluate a product to see if it does what it's supposed to do. They don't tear it apart and attempt to to repurpose it for some other use entirely.
Official Docker support in ChromeOS would be awesome. Most applications also work in dockerized Ubuntu.
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DuckDuckStart – DuckDuckGo and StartPage combined
I was just building it for fun, I didn't work on this project. That does looks like a quick solution for where they are at right now though.
> Consider a career in HR if you like being so ridiculously petty.

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Please follow the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Evolution of computer games (1958-2015) in 7mins
Will shutting down erase the vram completely? Also why does rebooting not erase the memory completely?
"If you smell dog poo everywhere you walk, check your shoes".
If you're serious about gaming you shouldn't be using any kind of trackpad. You'll always be at a severe disadvantage. There are many portable usb mouse options available.
How is arguing an empirical or theoretical point "off putting"? You say you don't know the paper well enough to criticize it, but I suggest you read the introduction. It is not technical at all and I'm not sure how you could come away from reading that fairly straightforward explanation of the paper's intention still thinking that it is "off putting".

The overall message of Piketty's book is that capital's share of income will rise due to the difference between capital returns and growth. It may be true that capital accumulation is and will continue to be driving inequality, and is certainly valuable to know if so, but you can't accept the assumptions on which that argument is based blindly.

This paper is not nitpicking a small point, but arguing against the main message of the book.
Are there any jobs where Prolog is required?
Or maybe something like functionaljobs.com, just declarative?

From my point of view (I worked a few years with the language while in academia), there are no real job offers where Prolog makes a difference.

So maybe erlang people prefer a Prolog background but that's it (w.r.t. a job market perspective)
That's almost 100% because they want a particular life style.

For example, my friend has a nearly perfect credit score, he lives with his parents still, works 30 hours a week (making about $35k a year), and his expenses are about $12k yearly. Clearly he has to work, but not all that crazy.

However, if he wanted to move out, get a car, etc. it would be pretty hard.

I should note, he's a millennial, didn't go to college, is 23, and has about 50k in savings because he's invested all of his money, lives at home, and works remotely. He plans to buy a house in his mid to late 20's (28 is his goal). This is common all over the world, and was common pretty much throughout all history except the 50's - 70's.
> I shouldn't need to mess around with the terminal on what is supposed to
> be a developer's notebook

Really? Shouldn't it be the other way around?

Still, I might feel your pain. If I have to mess around with crouton to install linux on one of these devices I would not call it a developer's notebook. Which is a pity, given the ThinkPad line is almost dead.
I'm not the guy you replied to, but come on. Install some big software like MATLAB or MS Office, oh no there goes several GB for each one. Set up a few VMs, oops there goes tens more GBs. Install some modern video games, multiple GB each one. And that's without even getting to the obvious culprits of pictures, music, and video.

64 GB would only work for a computer used almost exclusively for doing things on remote systems (browsing internet, working on remote servers, storing things on external HDs, etc).
Well, unless you're in a extremely third world shithole, or you're some sort of ridiculous statistical anomaly in the first world, the true secret to success is (and was) always determination, hard work, and patience. Unfortunately, it's not much of a secret, it requires a lot from the individual, it stinks of republican ideology, and therefore isn't a very sensational topic to write a tech-crunch hype (redundant) article about. Plus, on some level, it offends people's idea of fairness and causality because there is some in-determinism involved such that 80 units of hard work on say Mark Zuckerberg = billion dollar public corporation, while 8000 units of hard work on you = only a humble small business.
Vancouver's transportation is really good. Just the other day this article came out comparing all the cities in the west and Vancouver came out on top in terms of percentage of commuters who take transit. 20% vs SF's 15%. http://www.biv.com/article/2015/3/who-takes-transit-work-met...
Are you implying that there is no place for malicious jobs in society?
"People choose to work a lot because that enables them to have greater purchasing power."

Not salaried employees. No one chooses to work unpaid overtime which only decreases purchasing power or at best, keeps it the same while taking a toll on free time and health. People choose to work a lot because they're threatened by their employers with losing their jobs if they don't. That's the only sane reason that anyone would choose to work a lot while salaried. When making an hourly wage, at least the time is compensated, so perhaps people are increasing their purchasing power, but it's never by their own choice since in such situations overtime is always dictated by the employer, not the employee (thus it's not a choice).

We just have a sick culture of overtime and employers expecting free work. It's never necessary to do such free work (except to avoid getting fired) and certainly not necessary to do it to get things done. In plenty of contract jobs with no overtime, things get done at the same pace and quality of salaried (free work) jobs, only without the extra hours. Yet the myth still prevails, especially amongst startups. It's convenient for executives, owners, founders, and anyone at the top to get free work. After all, wages are the biggest expenditure in almost any business. What person with a stake in the company wouldn't want free labor, even if it's at the expense of their workers' health and livelihood, even if it ends up negatively impacting the business in the long run?
Well, either 1) things haven't changed much, or 2) history rhymes...
This is effectively the difference in market clearing functions between cash-only and government-underwritten credit-based markets. For a variety of historical reasons, governments around the world have enacted an infrastructure of government-backed credit and near-"exorbitant privilege"-level asset treatments (in many areas like regulatory, legislative, judicial, financial...the reach is quite broad) for residential real estate.

I have contrary views regarding this differential treatment, which I consider excessively improvident in our current era. But the views are strongly unpopular in the mainstream and the mainstream views are embedded into the very warp and weft of most people's conception of wealth and income, so I shy away from discussing my views in depth (and HN is not the forum to explore the attending issues).

However, in much of the discussion surrounding Piketty's recent work [1], there is increasing acknowledgement of the role the growth in housing asset pricing (interpreted as "wealth" in most venues) is playing in the increasing returns to capital-holders. Whether those returns are ever-increasing or only currently-increasing depends upon whether you think Piketty or Rognlie is more persuasive, respectively.

This somewhat parallels our industry's own discussions around the productive or dubious nature and wealth-building or wealth-destroying trend of so much enormous human talent and inventiveness devoted to what proponents call new forms of capital and economics, and detractors call frivolous ("cat memes"). This discussion is far from over. There's a deeper, more philosophically-oriented set of decisions that our polities around the globe will have to grapple with in the unfolding years ahead, regarding the nature of wealth, income, and money.

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/06/thomas-p...
$1299 for 64gb ssd ? I wish it had atleast 500gb ssd :(
Yeah there's a few tools out that I've been meaning to add, like:

http://demo.danielmclaren.com/2015/diacriticism/

http://tholman.com/unicoder.js/

http://animalswithinanimals.com/generator/
I frequent HN, often write controversial opinions and the downvotes are rare, usually I have someone spend the time and write a reply. The way adults should deal with the stuff. But we techies love to argue for the sake of arguing, so we are good at looking at it as a game.
> What do experienced entrepreneurs know?
>
> Their advice is initially ignored and they know that that's normal. Every first-time entrepreneur has wrong assumptions that they are advised against. But they just must test them out themselves.

Yeah, I think you've got the wrong root cause. When you are a corporate flunkie, you also make a lot of wrong assumptions, are advised against them, and do them anyway.
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The US _is_ doing better economically than it had been during the great recession and the lead up to it - but when one looks on a longer time horizon and when looks at more than proxy measures in the short term things do not look as well. This is not to say the US is going to go belly up. It is suffering waning economic dominance. The two are not mutually exclusive. Declining dominance means that it is losing its lead and will be overtaken. A sprinter can run faster than any other leg of a race and still be overtaken. That is what we are talking about here.

From all accounts the Renminbi is doing quite well and many allies despite pressure from the US are joining to AIIB, etc. Every criticism of the Renminbi you've put forward applies equally or greater to the dollar.

Europe is not a fair comparison. Nor is Russia (it waned into collapse the same time you start your 'comparisons'). Nor is Japan (can you fairly compare to a lost generation?). These are misleading 20th century comparisons.

Always be careful of charts and data that capture narrow slices and proxy measures - especially when they are not sourced and when the data isn't published alongside methodology. Proxy measures are extremely dangerous. Though it may explain why you feel confident using Japan as a reasonable example?

When we speak of declining dominance, it is in fact the US and its relationship to the stagnating EU, Commonwealth and Japan that informs this. The growth is not in the old world.

By all accounts, bankers, financiers, politicians, advisors - the next half century will be driven economically and politically by the Asia-Pacific. By the same accounts there are significant challenges to the world order set in WWII.

Thus the US's pivot to Asia, to the rise of China and of the Pacific.
Oh give me a break. This isn't star trek and you're not Picard.

Three simple words derail all idealism in your post:

Corruption. Power. Poverty.

You don't smash people's knees in because you've never had to so you can solicit a payment that you entered a contract and need to eat for the next couple of weeks and you approach the authorities and they've been paid off or don't give a shit.

Humans don't look after each other very well, even if you do.

I simply admit that smashing kneecaps is a valid recourse in a world with the above concerns.

You might want to live in Brazil or South Africa for a bit.
The tone in the article that your employer wants you exhausted is a bit weird. Sure, there are probably a few megalomaniacs that want unchallenged world domination, but most employers are simply ordinary people who want more money by you doing more work.

Exhaustion might be a very real effect, but I don't think it is usually a goal of an employer.
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I don't really understand how you're capable of looking past his incoherent rambling about the CIA actively persecuting him for his cooperation with IRAN to produce BigBang weapons and instead focusing solely on the n-word sprinkled throughout said ramblings.

Sure, out of context, Terry is completely racist. He's also helping Iran build weapons of mass destruction.
I've been away from SF for a couple years now but I have a hard time believing that the average programmer is being paid ~200k. The salaries the GP listed seem about 80% of SF salaries to me.
I wouldn't think so. Being actively involved in things in college seem to be one of the better indicators of success in those areas. I know many geeks who aren't especially successful in those areas and I don't think less of them because of it.
What happens to your knuckles when you crack them
As usual, Mr. Church chimes in with the most accurate and nuanced analysis of one small broken piece of Valley culture.
I think this other comment describes the reality more accurately: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9247352
Right or not this is definitely cause to go to a neurologist.
Ask HN: Good Tech Talks to watch?
Hey, can anyone suggest good tech talks from 2014/2015 to watch?
(Development, Programming, Networking, etc.)

To start things off I would like to suggest videos from FOSDEM 2015: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=FOSDEM+2015
> Marx's basic argument in Capital is that labor is what creates value in capital goods.

Capital is an economic work which is of minor relevance to his political ideologies. It tries to explain and provide theories that certainly would support some of his political views if true, but Capital is not a pre-requisite for the political ideology (in as much as there's a large number of other possible theories that could equally provide justifications for the political ideology).

> If there is no exploitation you don't have Marxism in the first place

That's simply not true at all. For the political ideology, the concept of exploitation is merely one of many arguments used to justify why the working class should consider it morally acceptable to overthrow the capitalist regime. It was realpolitik.

It's worth noting that Marx' philosophical works are far more "capitalist friendly" than most modern day socialists, for example. Marx may have talked about exploitation, but he also talked about these structures as equally binding the capitalist into a role he could not escape, and spoke with admiration about the development the growth of capitalism was creating. After all, according to Marx, the growth of capitalism is what will make socialism possible. But those bits don't get people out in the streets. Talk of exploitation does. And so Marx-the-politician was far more aggressive in terms of language than Marx-the-economist or Marx-the-philosopher.

The subjective view of the working classes on whether or not there is exploitation is the only thing that ultimately matters in the context of his political ideology, and even then only because it has historically been an effective recruitment factor.

Other than that, the presence or absence of exploitation is relatively irrelevant to Marxism. Marx ideas about the structural development of social and economic systems and inevitability of socialism, for example, does not rest on exploitation, but on whether or not capitalism eventually will develop to a state where it causes sufficient social upheaval to be a catalyst for new revolutionary movements amongst the working classes, and whether or not the structure of this will lead to a socialist system.
>"We have tested it. In Somalia and Yemen and Pakistan. Feudal Europe. States didn't always exist. They arose as defense mechanisms to the power of organized groups to terrorize the majority with violence."

Oh wow, I didn't know Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan were once, or currently are state-less societies? And yes, casual google searching yielded no fruitful results. Except for Somalia, which is a well-known failed-state that that's recently been in a brutal civil war. To compare it to the mild/incremental ideas that I propose/suggest is intellectually low-belt.

>"Private security can't replace the state. In South Africa, the rich can hire private security[..]"

I know it doesn't suit your preconceived notions about "private security" but security in South Africa is actually very affordable. Not that the poor get much "security" in civilized nations for free from the state, but that's a different discussion. You'd be surprised at how effective money is when a group of like-minded individuals spend it on their little neighborhood or slice of land.

>"In South Africa, the rich can hire private security because the state exists as a backstop to prevent security companies from turning on their clients. Without the state, any organization effective enough in the exercise of violence to provide real security has every incentive to simply enslave its clients."

Again, it's as if you're completely side-stepping what I'm saying/proposing with pre-made knee-jerk responses. Enslaving individuals would never be allowed to exist on a large scale in a digital/connected society. But besides that, I suggest slow, incremental shifts towards "more privatized" security that is not hindered by the state. That is the big problem when discussing these issues with "statists", you don't even make any room for the possibility of attempting these ideas, or trying milder alternatives. Alternatives that could signal individuals that 'hey, maybe we don't need the state'. Almost as if you fear competition.
I am. Before someone brings up the military - you can say that armed forces are built on malice, but the harm is at least directed towards other societies. Telemarketing is basically hurting members of your own.
I was 11 when this game came out. My brother bought it for us to play and I have to say, even as an 11 year old I could tell this game was unique - I have never seen such a well designed game since the release of Chaos Theory. Everything about this game was fantastic. I'd definitely buy a "anniversary edition" if they made one.