skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, I should be using these. How's the learning curve? Should I find a tutorial? Which should I choose, and why?
I'm not sure if this article has any merit without actual survey data. Most of us at HN live in this bubble of web-apps, stay-connected, iPhone/iPad/Android world while there are probably many (literally) Mom&Pop shops that still rely on old technology because "it works" (and switching won't increase my revenue [developer tools are the exception]).
As did the Air.
That's just the edge case argument again, though. Obviously the iPad isn't a success mostly because it works great with your Siberian Dvorak BT keyboard.

Look, I'm not cheerleading Microsoft here: I'm a Linux desktop developer. If anything, I'm saying these things with a tinge of resignation (not about Microsoft specifically, but the way the market works - though I prefer to accept it as reality, and see it as a challenge).

Now, one thing that might be true: A sanctioned solution leaves less room for accessory makers, so that Siberian Dvorak keyboard may be more likely to be available for the iPad than the Surface, leaving the iPad as the obvious choice for Siberian Dvorak users.
Wow, that's a nice touch
In April 2012, 20% of U.S. smartphone users scanned a QR code
They turned .NET into damn near everything, and jam Windows in where it doesn't make sense (e.g. a tablet where apps run full-screen).
I do most of my work in the terminal and the browser. If I could somehow use a remote terminal with the convenience of being able to open files with image viewers/etc on my local machine, I have no need for a local disk.
I wonder how large the market is for buyers with this sentiment. I believe that part of the appeal of the iPad (and iOS) is that it's not Windows on a tablet, but instead, a more intuitive computing experience.

One of the executives in my company was using Citrix on his iPad. He kept expecting the Citrix app to be, well, more app like. Instead he was stuck using a Windows application published by our Citrix farm on a touch interface. It wasn't a good experience, and now we're investigating converting a lot of our in house applications to iOS etc.

Now the Windows administrators? They're all over this type of thing, though they would never give up their workstations.
It's an intriguing assertion, but there are too many variables. Which would really look better for rendering video or text at sub-optimal resolutions? 1920x1080 video or desktop stretched on the RD? Surface RT? It seems to me the safer bet would be that it depends on the task and the context. I'd bet money someone will do an appropriate comprehensive usability study within a year.
I hope this fad of moving everything into the web browser ends soon.
Congrats Kirsty. Very cool news. :-)
That really only makes sense if they happen to be waiting on you; which isn't usually the case in most knowledge work.
I would be interested to hear your take on Quill Corp. v North Dakota then... unless I am mistaken, even other states, such as Connectibut, agree with the main thrust of my post ... http://www.ct.gov/drs/cwp/view.asp?a=1514&q=268516 - that they are not allowed to tax items delivered by common carrier, coming from another state.

What you may be talking about is the use (I call it property tax) tax that some states wish to levy on property that comes into the state and remains in the state. I agree, there would be no difference between items regardless of their origin in such a case.
That's not the cover, it's the metal enclosure of the tablet, and has something to do with how they mold the magnesium.

But yeah, a bold move to use Vapor in a product name.
Samsung 900x is pretty sexy.
I loved the "people hate"..."stairway solves" structure. Great way of putting across the problem and the solution clearly and succinctly. Just my two cents.
I had the same happen to me, in the sense that I built a company around passion for the software project vs. the business. It really helped me see what motivations to give more and less weight to. I'd bet your next passion project is a big success.

Here's mine: http://redtagcrazy.com/blog/2011/03/28/rise-and-fall/
What is your reasoning? I personally think it's silly that we still carry around all our files on a disk drive in our hands. If we lose that, we lose everything. If I don't have my laptop with me, I can't do my work.
Sometimes you want to do things just for the sake of doing it without thinking about its use/utility. There is nothing wrong with that. Not everything you do needs to have a purpose but that may/may not lead to great things with purpose later. Richard Feynman was famous for working on the physics of wobbling discs that led him to a nobel prize later.
Thanks. The voice was familiar, but I couldn't identify it.
"They can be refuted with sufficient evidence."

Except for that they can't, because everyone who believes in science just says that the reason they believe that science will be able to explain everything is that it has explained everything so far. This is just begging the question, and it's clear that no matter how much evidence there is that there are some things that science can't explain these will just be written off by those who have 'faith' in science. You can go over to r/science or r/atheism and find literally thousands of examples of this.

>What reasons? Be precise enough and you get a Nobel Prize and eternal adulation.

The obvious one would be that there is absolutely nothing to suggest that consciousness is material in nature. But again, the true believers refute this by listing all the other things that we didn't understand until science came up with some explanation, and saying that therefor science will most likely also be able to explain consciousness one day.
what about ssh with X11 forwarding?
> In Unix-land, this data type and boatload of library functions is the operating system.

Which can lead to problems as well. Basically when dealing with "local" time (DST), you need a reliable source of data and the question boils down to whether you want system administrators to keep OSes patched and up-to-date every time tzdata is updated, or whether that should be handled at the application layer.

Java chooses to bake in tzdata, and so do a number of other app-layer platforms. JS in the browser relies on the OS instead of bundling binary tzdata. Windows and a few commercial *nix platforms do not bundle tzdata either and maintain their own definitions. The crowd-sourced tzdata has demonstrated itself better than even what Microsoft ships in Windows. I don't know anyone who would claim a dataset other than tzdata is "better".

There might come a point in time where browsers have sufficiently advanced automatic patching invisible to the end user that they would be better off bundling tzdata internally rather than relying on the OS because they can guarantee their data is better in a higher percentage of cases. It all comes down to whose update system is more seamless and more likely to occur given all the external factors that come into play. (e.g., a user might have local machine privileges to apply browser updates, but not OS updates)
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Libel? Incitement? There's a line - not just of decency but also of the law.
Devil's advocate: Austin was under stage 2 water restrictions at the time of SXSW (and still is). It is illegal, and unethical, to use water for outdoor cleaning like this during a drought in a thirsty city like Austin (i.e. no power washing sidewalks, etc.). That's probably why the sidewalks were so dirty, providing a nice dirty canvas for their graffiti.

Certainly, this is better than stickers and chalk, but it's still not very environmentally friendly on a large scale, in a city like Austin, where everyone is watching their gardens and grass get crispy due to lack of water. Water matters in Texas.
Treatment = profit while cure stops all income.
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The imagery is amazingly negative and oppressive. Especially considering the market they are trying to sell into. The most positive aspect (?) to it is maybe the sense of dominating as opposed to being dominated.

Definitely doesn't make me want to buy one for a child or other family member.

Edit: I could see an image piece like this working as part of an XBox or game machine marketing. But seriously, the thing it makes me think of is a hypothetical Ridely Scott version of The Andromeda Strain.
It's true, anecdotes are not data and have no statistical weight whatsoever.

However, anecdotes can and do (and should) play a large role in influencing how we think. They can humanize a problem and create food for thought in a way that no amount of statistics ever could.

For example, it's one thing to cite statistics that children of gay parents do just as well as those of straight parents (I have no idea if it's true, but it's an interesting contemporary question). But that's not likely to change the mind of a homophobe on the issue of gay adoption. On the flip side, a lucid, heartfelt anecdote from a person who had gay parents might actually help someone to understand what it's like to grow up in that environment an therefore become sympathetic.

Of course, it has no bearing on the actual statistics at all, but sometimes statistics aren't the most important thing.
For crying out loud. Ofcourse styluses are the way to go if you want any degree of accuracy. The difference between yesterday and today is the difference between resistive and capacitive touch screens. In other words, the new type is far more sensitive and doesn't require having to tap a spot ten times to get it to register. Fingers are still good if you're doing things where accuracy is not important - e.g. tapping the screen to pause/play a video.
Desktop Windows does, but stock windows apps generally don't work well in tablet mode without adaptation. Metro (in the form of Windows Phone 7) is lagging. Windows 8 seems to be something like the two of them running on the same kernel, but unless there are apps on both "sides" that synergize well, the whole may be less than the sum of its parts.
No mention of battery life, which I thought was a glaring omission. Either they think that "tablet" implies great battery life so it doesn't need to be mentioned, which seems unlikely, or the battery life sucks and they don't see any point in calling attention to it.
Never happens -- I install and uninstall crud all the time; no problem with uninstallers crashing if their icon isn't found. The only downside is if you move the icon the uninstaller won't find it.

I put all my Start Menu items in the same folder that contains the Programs folder. My programs folder then just contains the crud I haven't decided to keep yet or haven't otherwise organized.

I have ClassicShell configured so the class start menu appears if I click but the Win 7 start menu comes up if I use the keyboard (for searching).
I've met him on a few occasions. He's smart and generally the IP lawyer I've recommended to friends and associates. Kind of hard to do that now, but there you have it.

[edit: fixed typo]
I'd bet the OP intended it for use by sole proprietors like himself, and that he never aimed to build a product for bookkeepers. There's plenty of a market for invoicing software that targets sole proprietors.

A product with as much depth would likely appeal to accountants or those that assist them directly.
Very true. My contention though, is that the bubble we live in is most likely indicative of the future of technology. Especially given the fact that we've been seeing this trend of web-only apps EXPLODING and growing rapidly for a long time now, it looks like its just a matter of time before the average consumer is forced into the same ecosystem.

For example, note that the iPhone and Android ecosystems are very much prevalent amongst the average consumer, and they have already accepted the ecosystem that forces them to pay for digital content that they don't really own, or use Google and Facebook when the information they have at their disposal coupled with their privacy policies are making them increasingly scary.

It's strange, but I think the tech market is indifferent to violation of privacy or ownership rights. The success or failure is determined by functionality, UI etc. but not legal concerns. We have never before witnessed the creation of online ecosystems of this scope, so its understandable, but ultimately a mistake IMO.
Just random curiosity but what is stopping you from moving?
If they don't ship before the holiday season, they'll be setting themselves up for failure. Apple will be releasing a new iPad in February, so the consumer market will be toast for them. Tablet growth continues to explode, and by the end of 2013, it's conceivable that tablet sales will outpace traditional PCs:

http://www.asymco.com/2012/03/02/when-will-the-tablet-market...

In a BYOD world, can enterprise sales provide enough traction for Microsoft to overcome their lack of appeal in the consumer market?

EDIT-

It appears the low end model will be out in October in time for the holiday season, and the Pro version 90 days later.
Not to mention dealing with the numerous differences in when the Gregorian calendar was adopted, which is great fun if you need to deal with dates even back to the early 1900's across borders.

E.g. the "October revolution" falls in November - Russia didn't change until the Bolcheviks took power in 1917. And Greece didn't switch until 1923... China switched in 1912, but different factions in the civil war used different systems and it wasn't until 1929 they got a single (Gregorian) calendar again.. And there are many other countries that switched "recently".
I am getting the "Unexpected error occured." still.
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I'm wondering this as well. The only thing I can come up with is Google IO is next week. Maybe Microsoft got wind of something and wanted to get this out ahead as a spoiler.
My Apple fanboi buddies are telling me that the Surface is ugly. I don't really get that... seems like every tablet is just a border + glass at this point, and mostly indistinguishable from the others. If the delta is just the kickstand + keyboard, I'm a fan. Given that I own an iPhone, Kindle Fire, and X-Box I claim brand neutrality in the religious war. :)
Or possibly better:

private Date date;

public Date getDate() { return new Date(date.getTime()); }
Chrome actually does.
X forwarding is just too slow
I don't want to wait >300ms or so for my input to generate a response. HTML + JS serves the same purpose as X forwarding with your application hosted on a remote box displaying in your local browser with the exception of javascript allowing small amounts of local computation to be performed when it makes sense.
You might think cleaning of streets must be legal...but, in a Texas town experiencing a long hard drought, it probably isn't. Austin was under stage 2 water restrictions at that time, which prohibits washing of sidewalks and streets.
I don't think it was meant to be a competitor to the Air, although we'll have to wait on the pricing to see what Microsoft is actually trying to do here. But in all probability this is an iPad competitor, and iPads fall short in the exact same way in all those situations as well.

Also, planes generally have trays, and reclining in a couch puts your waist at about hands level, so both of those aren't really that gimped by this setup. Living in America I can't speak much for train travel but I would think they'd have some kind of tray, but I could be wrong.
I remember when this debate was raging a couple years ago.
Of course deploying as root is doing it wrong.

However, I still haven't found enough reason to switch from using SSH for deployment. It's almost always three lines. ssh; git pull; ./manage.py syncdb/migrate/collectstatic.

The only hindrance has been configuring the site to work on the server for the first time, i.e what the site at this link claims to solve.

I've spent several hours on fabric before but gave up when I realised I've spent more time on learning it than the time I spent deploying my code.

Can you tell me what I am missing out? I'm still relatively new to django deployment and I feel I'm missing something but I haven't found it yet.
I'm as big a fan of the Newton as anyone (I still have a Newton MP2000 in my nightstand -- I think it even has good batteries in it -- but there's a qualitative difference between something like this and the Newton (and arguing you could use the Newton with just your fingers is a stretch -- it required strong nails and considerable pressure).

I'm also a big fan of the iPad, but this definitely looks like something _worth criticizing_ (to paraphrase Alan Kay).

I think a big problem with this device as conceived is that most of the time I do not use my tablet neatly on a table, so the keyboard/cover is a cute gimmick, but only really of interest in limited cases (in much the same way as all the different keyboard options for the iPad, some quite clever, have proven a waste of time for me).
> 2012 is the year third party OEMs start to go extinct

That's very unlikely for Google and Motorola. Google needs the market fragmented so that Apple doesn't dominate it. In order to maximize it, they need OEMs making slightly incompatible devices so that de jure standards dominate over de facto ones.
Maybe they get a shit ton of impressions on YT, they get to be on the trending videos, first on YT search, etc.
X forwarding doesn't really address that problem, and anyway, it's slow and flaky enough over a gigabit LAN, let alone a typical internet connection.
When your users try to buy an item, the app has to contact the server anyways. Sending one more boolean from the client side and making the server to perform one extra comparison is not costly or hard to implement.
Perhaps there should be a competitive genre where the goal is not brevity or obfuscation, but being good.
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Microsoft does ship a huge number of XBox, I think around 60+ million last year, but it's not really a cutting edge device since the console market is relatively sluggish when it comes to change. The Kinect is much more interesting from a technical standpoint.

I think based on the dreck that the OEMs have been delivering for the last 8-10 years, it's not surprising that Microsoft felt it had to jump into the hardware business directly.
What does the presence of iTunes have to do with the ridiculous suggestion that you can only "screw around with iTunes" on an iPad? The logic of your and greedo's replies boggles.
But that's not an example of using QR codes for advertising. It's an actual, useful application of them, yes, but it is so precisely because they're not being used for marketing.
Jennicam was only in her bedroom, so I'm not sure whether it's really fair to call that lifecasting.
A company has customers. Part of the value was that he could try out new products/features on an existing customer base.

That part resonated with me and after parting with my company was something I definitely missed.
Really, you think that the video succeeds on that level?

I think there's about 10s worth of content there.
Microsoft's traditional core market has been the enterprise, to which Borg Marketing is perfectly suited.
That's amazing because of the 11 Fortune 100 companies I've personally done work with in the last few years (and 2 more in that size range that aren't publicly traded), I don't recall seeing a single iPad.

I mean, I didn't work with Apple or Google, so I can guess you'd see them there. Neither bank allowed them on-site, and none of the defense contractors would even entertain the idea. You can also probably rule out obvious ones like Microsoft and HP from being big users of iPads. I can't imagine that the cashiers at Walmart, Target or the Home Depot are spending lots of time swiping around and now I'm quickly running out of companies.

I even did a part-time contract job at a company with 123,000 employees last year and not only didn't see an iPad, but they were forbidden on the corporate network and in most of the corporate offices (as was anything with a camera frankly).

oh, and FYI, jrockway actually does work at #73 on the 2012 list.
Yes, Stylus is optional on my Galaxy Note. I thought I wouldn't use it, turns out I am constantly pulling it out. I think having the option to use a stylus is a fantastic idea.
>Running Linux? Avoid any ASUS routers unless you're flashing a new firmware.

Good to know, thanks, thought that was what the entire article was about - buy a commodity router (or hardware in general) and flash it with new and better firmware.
Your analogy doesn't work. The student locking their computer is a preventative measure, not a reactive. Williams couldn't have prevented others' attitudes towards her. She did nothing to invite the behavior. This is more akin to telling the student they should've had a better lock when they had already locked their computer, but had it stolen anyway.
Junk content. Don't bother reading it.
It's a narrow consolidation however, that's been ongoing for quite a while. Do you really miss Packard Bell, or any of the other interchangeable Windows OEMs? Sony, for all it's eclectic design decisions is the only memorable one out of the bunch and it typically delivers overpriced junk that has more lock in than anyone wants to remember.
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Your client hasn't designed their software properly.
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Yeah... No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
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Yep, Firefox 3.6.24. The most up to date one on the version of Linux that I'm using at work. I'm not sure why you/backbone need to rewrite the URL though - surely a vanilla page would work just as well?

I understand compliance, allergies etc. are a tricky issue. There a more narrow disclaimer and/or warning (eg. this recipe contains nuts/gluten/...) would be definitely appropriate, not to mention useful if it were on the actual recipe page.

But that's separate to the information that you're providing - I assume meal plans and exercises? In that case the disclaimers completely overstep the mark, and undermine any claims of competence. Would you trust an engineer who disclaimed all liability should their bridge fall down? Or a doctor who wanted you to waive the right to all negligence suits?
Actually, I was responding to the bit about it crashing when you move the mouse wrong.

Complaining about how long VS takes to start up is about as useful as complaining about how long it takes the computer to boot. Neither are part of my daily work flow. I don't shutdown the computer, and I don't generally close VS 2010.

Anyway, I was curious and I timed it. I clocked about 12 seconds to completely start VS2010 on a computer with a spinning disk. And just for you, I made a video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oNOmA2OozQ
> Edit: For Some reason I forgot about Xbox and Kinect. So yes, they do have extensive manufacturing experience, but boy was the Original Xbox a disaster with the RROD.

There's manufacturing consumer electronics and then there's manufacturing consumer electronics profitably.

This is where Apple shines and Microsoft shows that they need to learn a thing or two.

Not only is Apple building far more iPad/iPhone/iPod/Mac than Microsoft is building Xbox, its hardware divisions are profit machines whereas Microsoft makes comparatively little profit on its hardware.

Actually, The entertainment/devices division had a loss of $225 million last quarter.