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Same here. Been using Windows forever and Android for mobile. If Google releases their apps for Windows Phone I might give it a go.

I believe the idea of Continuum is targeted to light Office users, people who work on basic spreadsheets and word. It has a target market but I am not sure how big it is.
Wow. I've used a SP3 hard for about a year now. I charge nightly, throw it in my bag daily, and cart it from meeting to meeting all day long. It's been great. I find the touchpad is excellent, I've not had problems with overheating (I mostly use Chrome and Office applications), and I'm happy with the power cord. My only critique is that the keyboard is a little louder than I'd like, and for that reason I'm considering buying the SP4 keyboard.
There certainly is an advantage if you're worried about the stability of the financial system. Banks can fail, corporations can fail, if the US government fails to repay then things are probably so bad you're probably already dead...

If you're worried about getting repaid or you're desperate to get your cash out of whatever it's currently in and into something safe and liquid then short term treasuries are probably your answer. But like I said I don't know if that applies to auctions like this, auctions are not the same as the general market so it may just be a fluke.
I'd also wager Select-String is an order of magnitude slower than grep or ag.
I never had any problems on hosts with VT-x.
This is great! In my opinion, this should not only be a challenge for Flux frameworks, but generally replace todoMVC as the "go-to" example implementation.

This should reveal potential pain points a lot better.
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Cool, that was always my problem with VirtualBox, namely I could not minimize it the way I wanted.
Ahhh, the earth's tilt/orientation changes very slowly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_tilt Earth's obliquity oscillates between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees on a 41,000-year cycle. It is currently 23.44 degrees and decreasing.

Magnetic pole changes take 1,000 to 10,000 years to happen. So again, unlikely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal And also, what do magnets have to do with ice melting?

I'd recommend that you unfollow Spirit Science on facebook.
I’m on mobile. More so than usual?
Give me a break with your "elegance". No matter how you twist it, it's subjective unless you provide some actual metrics. Once you do that, you might notice it's not "elegance" any more, it's something else.
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Or that it's not encrypted. Probably, most of the time, it's simply a record pointing to a database. Useless to everyone except the creator who has context and access to the database.
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What metrics do you suggest?
Computability theory, automata, graph theory, these seem remarkably science-y to me. They also seem to be very distant from topics discussed in software engineering. But why shouldn't computer science be a science?
Realtor.com has access to the actual MLS, while Zillow does not.
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Anthropogenic global warming is a scientific theory with a preponderance of evidence. Like all scientific theories it is open to being revised if/when contrary data emerges. At the moment, the vast majority of data supports it as a theory.
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It wasn't money that ruined it, it was business people, marketing people and advertising people. As always, they're the ones that ruin everything.
Feature or bug?
It's YOUR challenge! :)
I'm pretty sure it's a Safari problem (El capitan update I suppose) but I was actually getting massive lag earlier on that iPad Pro page. Upvoted you though be have you're right and your analysis is spot on.
> But surely this treaty goes both ways?

No it doesn't de facto because the biggest (by user count) internet services are based and operated from USA, e.g. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Ebay, Youtube, Twitter, Uber etc. And it probably will not change in the future. So keeping current situation is good for USA and bad for everyone else.

It is better to have local services so the money and personal data don't go overseas and help local economy. The current situation is obviously wrong. There are customs duties that protect local companies and there is nothing to protect them in the internet. So we have USA taking over this new market. This should be changed.

China is an example of a country that has their own search engine, blogging platforms, video sharing sites and most of people prefer them over USA based websites.

> just completely sold out their citizen's privacy to a whole bunch foreign nations including a communist dictatorship.

No they did not because nobody uses services from those countries.
Take a look at "Building Microsoft Surface Pro 3." [1] Microsoft definitely has set the bar for this type of device. I personally have been waiting for such a device that all the other offerings were just not up to par as each seemed to have some quirk or problem. Bad hinge design, drivers not working, performance was subpar, battery life was lacking.

Other manufactures will have to take notice.

[1] https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3302
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My mobile kit is MBPr with iPad for 4G, a leuchtturm notebook and some pens and pencils. I will get an ipad pro when the day comes that Apple decides to stop supporting my ipad and it becomes painful. At least there's a real shell in there somewhere. Having just experienced the pain of buying a new windows server for my lab (I'm sorry, I need a license to access the server?!), I still have no love for MSFT.
An adage I've heard from sales & marketing: Consumer purchases are fundamentally aspirational.

So you advertise a dream, a goal, a desire.

You don't sell to them "a nice sweater". You sell to them all the things they could be if only they had this sweater.

Since nobody aspires to be old or plus sized, you don't see models selling how old you could be if only you had this sweater.
I'd buy an iPad Pro tomorrow...if only it ran Xcode. But I can't justify $1200 or more if I doesn't help me to get my work done. At that price, and admittedly for my purposes, the iPad Pro is just a very large and very expensive gadget.

The really annoying thing is that these days a late-model iPad probably has most of the horsepower needed to pull it off.
As an Android developer, I don't think I could seriously use Windows.
Anecdotally, out of my 10 colleagues working on our app, 8 use OsX, one Windows and one Debian.

- Drivers are a pain in the ass for Android devices on Windows. You always need to install one when you first connect a device.

- The linux like commands are awesome on OsX and not something I can give up easily.

- Some very important tools are OsX only : ColorSnapper2, Sketch, Zeplin (it does have a webapp though)
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Wow, so that's what's causing that. Even when I disable Adblock, while the page is loading for 20+ seconds on this high-end iMac the formatting is completely botched (in Chrome).
Page on a full sized browser on a 13" screen with ublock:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gmyi3jjwq25w0d1/surface_book.png?d...
I've had the pleasure of meeting Panos as a groomsman in my friend's wedding. He's a genuinely charismatic, fun and pleasurable person.
I used to think that was a great thing about comments. Now I quite like websites where they're switched off, because comment communities can be easily dominated by a small number of stupid or malicious people who drive out more thoughtful or nuanced commentary that doesn't suit their worldview.

So often you're not really seeing what the public thinks, you're seeing what particular interest groups think, and if comments are dominated by bitter fights between adherents of, say, different political parties then a lot of people will just check out because there's no point in trying to have a civil discussion in a roomful of screaming ideologues.
No, just publish a list and allow people to voluntarily ignore those files.
Do you have proof that this type of fraud is occurring? We hear this a lot in the United States about our welfare programs. They find one or two "welfare queens"[1] and claim that the whole system is fraudulent. It turns out that while there are some (sometimes spectacular) bad actors, the majority of recipients are not fraudsters.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Taylor
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_fraud
I actually agree with you wholeheartedly (digression: except maybe I will not go with Python as my goto language all the time, and I am pretty sure that's not the argument you wanted to make, but just for the record).

Not all code I write is even intended for production environments, that's where my previous comment was coming from.
It's much cheaper to make global superpowers economically dependent on each other, so that "nuking ourselves to extinction" event does not arise. With the added benefit of better economy. (Well, to be fair, trying to send a dozen people to Mars will also generate a lot of economic activity, so maybe it's a moot point.)

Also, even with the worst kind of nuclear war we can imagine, the number of people still clinging to the edge of survival on, say, New Zealand will easily surpass the biggest Martian colony we can optimistically imagine for the next 300 years.

So, if we're really that worried about our survival as a species, build a nuclear bunker in New Zealand. Actually, build one in every nation on earth. I'll bet it will be still cheaper than going to Mars.

Going to Mars is "cool", and I do want to see it in my lifetime, but treating it as some kind of insurance for mankind just doesn't make sense.
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OK - that's what I thought. I'm loathe to get rid of my own monitoring, simply because it makes it harder to set up DR with another cloud provider.
I don't think they're avoiding calling it a tablet, but highlighting the fact that it can be used like a clipboard - as in papers clipped to a board with the pen stuck on top.
QR codes can hold even more than that. V40 stores just over 3000 characters.

You could do some pretty amazing things in QR codes by base64 encoding compressed textual data.
For a direct comparison between Mechanical Engineering and Software Engineering as defined by NCEES, here are the specifications for the Software Engineering PE exam:

https://cdn.ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SWE-Apr-201...

And specifications for (a version) of the Mechanical Engineering PE exam:

https://cdn.ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/PE-Mec-Syst...
I think that's a quirk of how this type of auction pricing works more than anything. If everything in the area is going for 20% over asking, then posting a listing for what you actually think it's going to go for will make it look 20% more expensive than comparable properties, so you may get less offers. So there's this strange feedback loop that happens in local pricing, magnifying the list vs sold price disparity.
Try Cygwin! It’s a *nix environment for Windows. I plan to install it once I get my hands on this beauty. Package management still works for CLIs, I suppose.
Hooray, the polar bears are saved!
Realm (YC S11) Is Hiring Senior Cocoa Devs with C++ to Build a Mobile Database
I agree, it's rather appalling scholarship and it’s disappointing that this is being taken seriously here. A novice writes a paper with no citations, an amateur writes one with practically nothing but them. Any one of the academic articles he links to would shed more light on the topic, on its own, than this essay does in its entirety.

The observation that terrorism is somewhat socially driven is interesting but should be backed by a deeper frame of reference, and one that the authors of those papers surely understood: the larger goals of an organization like Al Qaeda don’t align at all with traditional political demands. The long term strategy involves attacking the US to draw them into open war with a muslim country, spreading the conflict to neighboring regions, mobilizing local resistance to the invaders (as in Afghanistan) and drawing the west into a war of attrition. In this sense they’ve been startlingly successful, and a focus on social capital and “branding”, as opposed to concrete demands of existing governments, is actually quite strategic. Whatever commonality this has with the IRA, the FARC, or even Hezbollah and Hamas is superficial at best.
It can still be expressed, of course. It's just that it wasn't particularly a reply to its parent and took the discussion on a generic tangent (U.S. = world police) that is also a classic flamewar topic. We don't kill such subthreads, but we do move them.

I can understand why you don't see it that way and wouldn't claim that our decisions are all obvious or all correct. They're imprecise judgment calls.
A lot of Amazon services seem to be "improved" by reducing prices (so, better hardware or technology underneath the hood).

But I entirely agree; it's a good time for Amazon to look at the suite of products and make them a tad more cohesive. It can be a bit disjointed at times, especially when trying to tie multiple services together.

I wonder if the drivers are:

* Culture of always having to be seen to innovate

* (Percieved) Competition to keep launching new features to stay ahead

With that said there have been improvements; for example EFS building on top of EBS.
I went from a Galaxy SIII to an Nokia Icon, now running WP 8.1.

IME, the OS and associated MS apps are fantastic, the phone is solid, and I have no complaints. If that's all you cared about I'd say switch today.

But there is definitely an app gap. I was never a huge app user, and most of what I used was there, but I'm pretty sure that's not true for most people. It's pretty hit or miss. You can find Facebook, Teamviewer, Netflix, and Plex, but if you want Snapshat, you're SOL. There aren't even any third party Snapchats around, because Snapchat demanded they be removed from the Windows Store.

There's no first-party Google apps, no doubt a big stumbling block for a lot of people.
I can see how you would naively assume that it's something to do with some CSS issue, but it's nothing to do with CSS. We're trying to use a brand new technology for the first time using libraries that have just been written, and newsflash not all browsers behave the same way.

The browser block is up while we figure out where the cracks are during _this prototype_.
Which is also why they have very spotty coverage; if they're not a licensed broker in your area, they have zero listings.
Wait, so the water purification project led to the discovery that neutrinos have mass?

EDIT: Oh okay, I get it now. The project wasn't about building water purification systems, they just needed really really pure water to run particle-related experiments. Got it!
Creating an electronic currency capable of "coloring" money by its origin is much more interesting than anything the bitcoin camp can ever promise.

Though, it does become a giant money laundering problem. When Russian oligarchs who obtained their money through destroying their own country and killing their own people invest in YC, then YC funds startups, then startups pay employees, how "dirty" is the money when it reaches the employee?
He describes elegance as: "the ability of a programmer to easily understand the program's flow and state coordination, being completely familiar with the tools used but completely unfamiliar with the codebase."

You're right that it is not something easily measurable.

The product of code golf is measurable. But, code golf is not usually what you want in production code. Performance is not about characters/lines of code and neither is clarity or maintainability, necessarily.

I don't think there is anything wrong with this sort of requirement. He stated there are no winners. Elegance could really be decided by the community.

Just try to write concise but clear code that would be easily understood by most who are well-experienced in the language/framework.
iPhone app that blocks ads in native apps
And why the people who can get to decide who can’t.
Ask HN: Real Estate Devs, how did you acquire MLS listings?
As those familiar with RE know, regional MLSes are the central hub for local property listings and the golden hoard of data protected by the dragon that is the local realty association.

Getting an API key (from what I can tell) requires getting licensed as a REALTOR, finding a licensed broker to hire you, etc, etc.

Are there any developers on HN who have built a RE app and would like to share their experiences? Did you pay for an API key, work out a deal with a broker, or what?

I'd be much obliged for any help or advice. Thanks HN!
If you're doing that, why not simply display the image and have the user pick the sum for you? Though, to be honest, that sounds like it'd defeat the purpose of this.
And it harvests data under the hood, too. The team (ex-McKinsey) also evidently plan to eventually introduce 'safe' data harvesting and 'safe' ads. Much like ABP.

Is anyone else getting the feeling that advertising is, more or less, the State of Nature; and that authors of ad blockers are basically. . . advertisers?
Yes, the todo mvc standard is not very helpful when evaluating any libraries that help manage async data.

I really like this and hope that there are many entries.
not only it is slow, the subpage is also completely messed on Chrome/OsX .
That's not something I would expect from a company with Microsoft resources.
so Tom Hanks returning a Student ID is a big event?
The main problem I see is that TodoMVC is immediately clear as an app and its requirements - this has a bunch of Star Wars-related stuff that distract from what the challenges and requirements of the app (both for a hypothetical user and for the implementors).

I like the idea of a fuller common-comparison app (and even some of the requirements of this app), but not sure this is the right framing.
It's really disappointing that they didn't even look at 500 startups, one of the few VC's who've done a genuinely good job at getting diversity of partners. http://500.co/team/
Does it matter though?

As of today, it is incredibly hard to evaluate frameworks because you generally only have the time to evaluate small examples, but those are usually easy to do anyways.

This thing here is as tricky as it gets for the scope. Even if the judging is subjective, it is highly revealing.
Consider changing the title to mention Surface Pro 4, Lumia 950, Surface Book, and Band 2.

The event was about more than the Surface Book.
Exactly. We're getting a tremendous ... benefit, of a sort, by being the least worst place to put your money.
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In my recent long home search period, I didn't trust Zillow's price estimates at all. But i used Zillow religiously because it's UI/UX is just so good, so much better than the competition, I could do a survey of what's out there easier and quicker, and find out more of what I wanted to know about interesting listings.

Zillow "zestimate" seems to be something they're known for, but I don't think it's actually their strength as a product.
So the entirety of climate science is a "trend". I guess we can just take the whole of astronomy as a trend that the Earth is round too.
That's a very interesting read. So that means that in my market (Houston, TX), Redfin actually has all the listings? I wasn't aware of that. har.com usually has 100% coverage and some nifty features, but the mobile app is pretty awful
Hosting data locally in EU doesn't solve privacy problem because the servers are still operated by USA companies that can (and obviously will) share the data with NSA. The solution is to create more local services so the data never leave the country. It is also better economy-wise so the money stay in the country too.
that page does not inspire confidence

screenshot: http://imgur.com/uBQfoaX
Comments like this don't exactly reflect well on you, either. Why not lead by example?
A good and well researched ruleset is 99% of the WAF solution.

Being able to create rules is interesting, but doesn't make it a WAF that can compete with ModSecurity, Sucuri, Barracuda and others.

These products have serious research and testing behind their WAF products to cover a large variety of attacks (SQLi, XSS, virtual patching, etc, etc).

But it is kind nice to be able to filter traffic based on the HTTP payloads, instead of just the IPs/tcp ports like before.
That is exactly how I think of Lua. Lua stole Tcl's thunder and added its own. Perhaps the only thing missing is a community wide standard macro system that works with Luajit, without that Tcl can still do an one up on Lua with its uplevel.
It works better if you do it the other way around ;)
There's a resource on the page (https://controls.account.microsoft-int.com/me?partner=surfac...) precluding other resources from loading. Just wait it out.
To me, there is an ethical "operating system" which is what you are describing, very low level principles that you apply.

But your ability to be ethical in a specific situation depends on your database of "ethical considerations" about possible decisions you might make that will have serious ethical ramifications and how those things are wired up. The purpose of a course is to build up that database.

You might have a deep and earnest desire to be kind to someone, but without a cultural framework for understanding their feelings, for example, you could be completely unable to do that.
I'm not sure sites can sue journalists for investigating them. Or rather, I don't think they will win. In the U.S., anyone can file a suit against anyone, merited or not, of course. Sometimes in cases like this defendents can get damages from plaintifs under anti-SLAPP laws. But it's still gonna be a long road to get there, if your opponent has the bucks for it and you don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
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Given that Flux was made to go hand-in-hand with React I think all those XHR requests are somewhat non-idiomatic. Wouldn't it be better to just have a WebSocket sending across a large list of the latest data, sending a new list any time there's an update?

edit: Maybe I am misunderstanding and the way data is received in this challenge is meant to demonstrate your point about "multiple async data sources."
developed or developing?

Developing is a risky bet. Commodities are down across the board and most of these developing nations depend on them for revenue.

Also the bonds either has to be in USD or you could get screwed due to the strength of the dollar.

FYI bank deposits are insured by the FDIC up to 250k.
I'm not popular nor affiliated with HN. I was actually linked to the article from PG's tweet https://twitter.com/paulg/status/651289253742161920.

The actual post's title was click-baity and the tweet title too long to submit to HN, so I truncated it.
We just upgraded to Office 2013 and the colors in Outlook are killing me. Microsoft basically gives you three themes which are basically some form of a light white/grey background.

I don't understand how this color scheme made it out of QA testing without someone complaining about it.
In general, if you're not using SNI, you're doing it wrong.

There are probably a dozen orgs who can legitimately claim to absolutely need to support pre-SNI clients, but those shouldn't be on AWS.
will I need a CAL to SSH in?
Credit union. Or, literally any bank that doesn't gamble with the money you give to it. This is much harder to find since the corporate lobbyists gutted Glass-Steagall, but they still exist.
Well, not really. Polar bears live in the Northern Hemisphere. (Here's a riddle: why won't a polar bear eat a penguin even if the bear is starving? Answer: they live in different hemispheres.)
Anybody know of any good sources of MLS data for programmatic consumption (even if not free)?