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I think Microsoft could have saved themselves a lot of pain by some renaming and re-skinning.

- 'Windows 8' is Microsoft's next version of Windows! It uses the shiny new Metro UI. You install apps from the Windows App Store (or whatever they call it).

- 'Windows 8+' is a special version of Windows 8 that can run apps written for older versions of Windows.

Both versions of Windows 8 support Office!*

* For Windows 8 vanilla, re-skin the Office apps so they look slightly more like Metro, or at least so they don't look like Windows 7 desktop apps. Hide the fact that they're running in the desktop environment. Include Outlook.
They're the same headers the Twitter API uses: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting/1.1
Still, it goes to show that we've had "enough" computing power to do serious web apps for a long time now.

The next step is to make everything smaller, lighter, and more portable... More power is largely irrelevant for 98% of the world.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-pc-is-over.html
Rehumanized - A Handwritten Web?
When it is my time to die I intend to fully engage with the experience of dying, and not to numb the experience with knife wounds, drugs, and over-stimulating hospitals.

This strikes me as fairly useless talk. You'll find out how you'll handle the dying process whenever you're actually faced with it.
The above is not a "miracle" recovery. She was treated medically, and responded well. Don't confuse that with people who go into remission without treatment.

I agree with you that there is a point at which individuals and families have to consider the balance between invasive treatment with small chance of success against accepting death and having a better quality of life during those months. But for most people, as long as those chances are even in the single digits, they're going to try for the treatment.
Microsoft-bashing zingers from the article ...

"The problem with the PC isn’t that the market desperately wants a new version of Windows that looks different and has a higher version number. The real problem is that the well has run dry, and new versions of Windows won’t fix this. And really, if they’re too different, they’ll just accelerate the shift to Post PC devices."

"There is not going to be huge annual increases in PC shipments anymore. Everyone knows this. What they don’t always seem to see as clearly is that you can have a personal computer without having a box under your desk blowing hot air away from an Intel CPU."

"Windows Phone is not just unpopular, it’s so toxic it lethally crippled what was not too long ago the world’s leading smartphone manufacturer."

"Not to worry, the Windows Enthusiasts tell us. Microsoft doesn’t need a lack of competition, high ASPs, expanding revenues, nor even any support via Post-PC devices. The legacy pile of PCs out there will magically blow money in Microsoft’s direction once Windows 8 hits because that’s what happened in the past."

"There are tremendous problems facing the Surface. The first: it’s based on a lie. It’s called “Windows 8 RT,” but consumers associate “Windows” with two things: a familiar interface and the ability to run Windows apps. Surface RT supports neither."

"The non-RT, Intel x86 version of Surface not only isn’t available yet, but it’s going to be too thick, expensive and heavy to compete with iPad, just like any other Ultrabook or previous Windows Tablet."

"Saying that the Surface is a combination of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 hardware savvy and its Windows Phone software savvy is like one of those jokes about a train engineered by Italians, serving English food, managed by Portugal and financed by Greece."
I'm still waiting on my Raspberry Pi (if it ever gets here, I've been waiting 6 months) with the dreams of turning it into a small, Radio Shack-style Vim machine. Building a case with a keyboard, a small display screen, a command line, and a huge battery. When it's connected to the Internet, it would push the changes up, but when it's not it would cache it locally.

Sometimes I like to go camping while I work, for the peace of mind of sitting in nature away from everyone. Really lets me focus. My Thinkpad gets 10 hours of battery life, but that's not always enough. Charging it in my car isn't really congruent with getting away from it all.
How do you see them? I thought a hellbanned user couldn't be seen by anyone?
Aren't language design and runtime design different skills though? I think one of the reasons we've had an explosion in languages in the last few years is that it is very easy to take your ideas and staple it onto the JVM or transpile to JavaScript. I contribute to a to-JS language myself and I wouldn't know where to begin with writing a runtime/vm. And I have no interest in doing so.
I don't see much more confusion than was caused by Windows CE. Why do they insist on calling those "windows"? It's such a loathed brand.
Everyone here is saying "it's not hard", but it really depends on your circumstances. I am newly married and have a < 1-year-old baby on top of a 1.5+ hour commute each way to/from work. Working on personal projects would take away from time I have to spend with my family.

I bring my laptop with me in hopes of working on the bus during my commute, but the bus is often far too packed for me to even have the arm room to pull my laptop out of my bag. Because of this, I sometimes just jot notes in a notebook, but that doesn't get me very far when the majority of what I need to do is get down to actual implementation.

I don't really have any fantastic advice other than saying it's a huge juggling act, and you need to find the right balance that works for both you and your family.
For the reverse of this see HN discussion Given a list of regexes, generate all possible strings that matches all of them - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2579783
Musk founded X.com which merged into PayPal very early.
If These 5 People Who Tried Windows 8 Are Normal, Microsoft Has A Big Problem
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here. The issue is that Microsoft is selling the same device with two different operating systems. And one of those operating systems is defined as "cannot run Windows desktop software", yet it is advertised as running MS Office, the epitome of Windows desktop software.

Consumers will not expect to run Windows software on ARM devices because they don't know what ARM devices are. What they will expect is that something that is called Windows and comes from Microsoft does indeed run Windows software.
Typical binary response. If you are a fan of Lady Gaga, getting notices from her is not spam. Granted, most people won't be fans of or want to hear from, say, Brillo Pads Inc., but the commenter pointed out his next use is for a band. I personally like hearing what musicians I follow are up to. More broadly, I think we are in a golden age for music, and social networks and crowdfunding platforms are making it possible.
The thing is, Microsoft is doing what they're good at. They're good at giving a consistent experience across whatever hardware, no matter what, and damn any technical debt or consequences they incur in doing so. I think someone posted a video of them actually running the upgrades from Windows 1.0 through to 7 on youtube somewhere.

Throwing touchscreen devices into the Windows wheelhouse and trying to write one OS that runs across them and desktop machines is actually very much a bet on MS's core competency.
Yeah, the severity rating seems rather oblivious to simple social engineering. Leave a USB stick on a desk with a sticky note attached to it saying "Urgent, please review", and guess what is going to happen to that USB stick.

Being able to compromise a system via a mundane and apparently benign action is never low-severity.
That may all be true, but it may also not be in the public interest to put off people who are smart enough to make a lot of money on their own and therefore independently wealthy enough not to be subject to unhealthy influences from entering public service.

Also, it would be blatantly illegal under our privacy laws to force that kind of disclosure for relations who aren't the ones making the choice but whose intimate financial details would suddenly become public, and rightly so IMHO.
Reduce from a zillion to one, first!

Then make time: go on a part-time job (some places offer 4 days weeks), either freelancing or as an employee.

Lastly, over time it will help to work on pet products rather than pet projects.
So, in your description, is Window RT = Windows 8? Or is Windows RT = Windows 8+?

I had no idea that if you just bought Windows 8 you couldn't run older software, but had to have RT.... or am I backwards?

EDIT: Googled. RT is the restricted version where you can only install apps from the new Windows Store.
Maybe Elon was a really keen photographer.
That's why I said 'responsive' e-ink.
> _Printing. Photo printing. Bloody photo printing. It's a fucking tangible product that people buy. Why isn't this an option already? They wouldn't even have to set up their own infrastructure, just create a network of regional partners and skim off their 15%._

Perfect! This has two advantages - money from printing business plus it will urge people to upload more photos.
It's barely similar, it's a fault-tolerant system for scaling computation. Storm provides real-time streaming computation. Your spouts provide infinite streams of tuples, small objects which store serialized other types that you then emit 0 or more tuples out of that tuple.

You could liken it to a streaming mapreduce that you can rearrange into directed graphs of data flows called a topology.

Re: Spark, it's a totally different paradigm that's like a map reduce which takes advantage of memory locality where Hadoop takes advantage of disk locality. Hive on Spark is a pretty beastly system.
Thanks a lot for the feedback and would love to hear more. Don't have your email, but please contact me at amix _at_ amix.dk Thanks!
No wife; no kids; no television; five hours of sleep per night. Easy.
The cost of MS software is a rounding error compared to the cost employees.
I had a Nook Glowlight for about 6 months and the main downside is that the light screen is incredibly fragile. I am careful with my gadgets and I've managed to break 3 of them just by accidentally knocking stuff onto them (like, slipping and fumbling the Nook onto my keys, etc). Granted, Barnes and Noble replaced all of them for free (even out of warranty) but it was enough that I went and bought a Kindle Paperwhite and (minus the software) it is a generally superior device. Additionally, the Kindlegen software combined with stripping the DRM off of my Nook purchases allows me to read perfect epub-to-mobi conversions of all of my books on the Kindle without too much trouble.
Where would you stay in Thailand?
>Assigning handlers to the commands defined in a VSCT file is possible through a global service that is available through the IMenuCommandService

Good high level overview, but the above quoted section is incorrect. IMenuCommandService is not a global service, in fact it is somewhat of a faux service as it is available only inside MPF derived types (WindowPane and Package) and each derived type gets its own, isolated instance. It is not how VS itself "does" commands, but rather bus convienence introduced by MPF. You can also assign handlers for commands defined by others (or the shell) in the same way, but package level handlers will only be invoked for the package that defined them.
Why does this submissiong have a "| kellabyte" tag? I thought that wasn't allowed here.
Will the Singularity turn us into gods or end the human race?
Show HN: Neatter App Built for Berlin Hackday
Not sure if sarcastic...
Mornings. The only way to have some uninterrupted free time for pet projects is to get up and go work at Starbucks for an hour before work. The bonus is, it's usually when I do my best stuff!
Sure. But healthcare is most likely driving their comp costs more than pocket wages. Healthcare is what's driving state/local government costs because of the high head count of middle class professions. Salaries might go up by 2-4% depending on the collective bargaining agreement with the union, healthcare will go up by 15%.

Basically, states and local governments aren't operating with a macro worldview of the whole economy, they're trying to balance their own budget. They're going to eat it on healthcare, pay as small a COL raise as they can get the public employee unions to accept (pretty small actually), and lay off employees on the stupid last-in-first-out basis that the unions insist on. Decision makers at the state level are just trying to get through the year.

The funny thing is that a liberal can look at those ballooning healthcare costs (biggest $ item in the deltas year-over-year) and see it as a private sector screwup, while a conservative can look at the total costs going up and see it as public bloat.
You have a phone which you can charge every "other" night and still be running? In my experience the Driod Razr Maxx is the only modern smartphone you can really do that with.
Show HN: my weekend project, Quotably
Yeah that's a good idea. The main problem with e-ink is the response time. The current screens are not responsive enough for typing.
€60 for shipping to US seems a little much for shipping 60 grams taking a week.

Sadly none of the distributors seem to have it yet. Seems like we'll have to wait a little while longer still.
The limited reviews are saying the new Kobo glo is very comparable to the new kindle paperwhite. But availability is limited so I am still waiting for more reviews.
I collaborated in this one, more information here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nicaragua-builds-innovat...
You prioritise! its as simple as that, like exercising or walking the dog... if its a priority you will do it.
The browser on my Kindle Touch has multi-touch zooming. Works great!
You can be quite sure that the contract is not phrased in such a way that Amazon is required to pay 20% VAT on the ebooks in question to the UK government.

Is it sleazy as all getout? Yup, absolutely: but it's not illegal. Companies pull this kind of bait and switch all the time when they think they can get away with it. Remember when Microsoft bought the original Internet Explorer codebase in return for the company in question receiving a cut of the profits and then gave it away for free? How they must have laughed about that one back at MS HQ...

In reality, the publishers handed Amazon a near monopoly on ebook sales by their own short-sightedness and now Amazon is turning the thumbscrews to see how much they're actually prepared to cough up. The games with VAT in the contract are just part and parcel of that.
I thought I'd share what the two of us built in 24 hours. Here are tools I used:
- Twitter Bootstrap
- Product page for iPhone template (https://creativemarket.com/AlesNesetril/904-Product-page-for...)
- Typekit to make the fonts stand out a little
- And the lovely Symbolset

These tools were invaluable to actually get it all out there in that short amount of time.
How to be Sociable When You Don’t Feel Like It
I'm a fan of foyles[1] and their selection and prices are quite good.

[1]http://www.foyles.co.uk/
I'd heard that "Windows NT" was one step on from VMS (as most of the original NT team had worked on VMS)
Is it possible to get any work done on Curacao given how hot and humid it is? And does air conditioning cancel this issue? Also what about the Internet :-)?
"| kellabyte" removed.
> Are you saying that carriers don't offer any 'SIM-only' packages? i.e. You can't ask for a contract without a free phone?

You can; but at AT&T and Verizon, it's not cheaper than if you do get a phone, so everyone gets a phone. And for quite a few people, T-Mobile and Sprint are unacceptable (coverage, technology).
Farmers as businessmen
Deploying Java Web Application on Jelastic
Are Minnesotans allowed to take classes from online providers?
"Windows RT will not run any desktop Windows applications beyond the applications that are bundled with the operating system. Bundled applications include virtually every single desktop application found in Windows 8—Paint, WordPad, etc.—except for Windows Media Player."

Ok, this I really, really, do not understand.

Playing media is a large use case of mobile devices. Why the heck would they sell a mobile device that cannot play movies?
Married, two children. I find myself wishing the days lasted 36 hours instead of 24. :P

I have a full time job as well and do not have the time for pet projects. After work I get home and have some family time until it's bed time. Then my wife watches some TV while I work for about 1 hour tops.

As you know, 1 hour is NOTHING when developing. I take at least 45 minutes to get into a groove and ultimately I do nothing of substance.

I envy single people in that regard, they can work until their eyes drop out of their head. Don't waste your time! You hear me single people! Don't waste your time!
> The guy is basically saying you get a Chrome browser for $249, as if that's a good thing.

I think it's a good thing, and I bought one. I was lucky enough to receive a CR-48 which completely changed my opinion on a chrome-only computer. I also own an older iPad and HP Touchpad (running ICS) yet both of them are sitting on my desk with drained batteries. For some reason I found myself reaching for the CR48 when on the couch or traveling. Yes, tablets were fun for gaming on planes but other than that I preferred the full browser experience w/ a keyboard. I use it for browsing, email, and basic dev work using ShiftEdit and occasionally Chrome Remote Desktop. I'm not saying it's superior - some people prefer different devices.
This is what I noticed as well, I read it a couple of times. The summary seemed to be "Microsoft, you are in a dying market, stay there and die, don't even try to get into adjacent growing markets where Apple is."

That Windows 8 doesn't look at all like Windows of old is a 'good' thing, that Microsoft is continuing to try to be a competitor in mobile is a good thing, and that they are taking a more leading role in defining hardware is a good thing too. One can argue that they haven't done as good a job as one might like, or that some of their efforts seem to address non-problems, but it seems silly to criticize the company for trying.
I know for me getting cable is around at least a $50 expense, maybe more. Which isn't a bank breaker but its big enough to be on the fence about it when you can watch most shows online for free. My setup currently is an Xbox hooked up for Netflix and Hulu with the occasional game and I got a bit faster Internet instead of cable and it works out well.
You appear to not understand the concepts you are attempting to participate in a discussion about.

To "trigger" the vulnerability is to deliver your exploit code. This USB stick can be inserted into any Windows 7 system and, voila you have your rootkit on that machine, without any user interaction required. No running of .exe files anywhere. You could put some pictures on the usb drive for the user to look at while his system is compromised. (Rootkitted is that a word? Backdoored is.)
How does that clear up anything? Wouldn't it make more sense to not use the Windows product name at all for the RT version? After all - where are the Windows? Even Apple, with their annoying iBranding, is more bold when it comes to introducing new products. Everything about Microsoft's branding schemes scream committee. "Microsoft(TM) Windows(TM) RT(TM) Surface(TM) tablet with all new Metro/strikethrough Modern/strikethrough new style/strikethrough Microsoft style UI.

Do they themselves even know what the design is called now? Even big open source projects are more consistant than this.
Is it wrong to point out that you would have had better options if manufacturers made this bundling optional? And that the range of options seem to decrease over time? (Eg. you can't buy Windows RT and install it on an iPad).
Fire PayPal
I've never understood why so many simple-living advocates (caveat: I consider myself one) feel such a need to convert others, but I've also never understood why people get so defensive in the face of such proselytizing. If this makes sense to you, consider doing it yourself. If it doesn't, ignore it. No one is forcing you to do anything, nor even to read this stuff.
Please reduce your commute time to < 30mins. Even if it costs you $1k/month more. I did this, and now I have more time and energy to do more of what I want to do.
A "zillion" is probably too many. Focus on one, ship that, then move on to the next one if anything. Focus is really important (especially since you want to start your own startup one day based on these projects).

Also, keep in mind that context switching is expensive -- switching from one project to another requires a change in your mindset and maybe even the technologies/syntax you're working with. It's very easy to burn out just switching between projects.

Here's a schedule that I follow:
- Wake up at 5:30am. Hit the gym, eat breakfast, go to work.
- Work from 10am - 6pm.
- Be back home by 7pm, eat dinner.
- Work on pet projects from 7:30 - 10:30pm. Go to sleep so I can wake up early again.

I've realized that consistency is really important. 3 hours may not seem a lot every day but if I do this everyday for 2-3 weeks, that adds up to a lot of time spent towards one project.
Disagree. To illustrate:

window.test = 2
var b = Object.call(window) //this is the same as `var b = window.Object()` and therefore the same as `var b = Object()`
assert(b.test == 2) //why should this be true?
That's what it looks like to me, but other people here seem to be pretty enthusiastic about it. If it's not just a seedbox, ca someone explain it to me?
Nobody else outside of HN [treats DRM'd e-book purchases as rentals].

Which is why the court hearing in cases like this should be short, and brutal to Amazon.

Of course, they know that by being based in a different jurisdiction from the person they're screwing, such a case is unlikely to materialise. This is a problem with legal systems generally: low-value cases are rarely worth pushing through if you're not a lawyer, because it takes so long to figure out how to do it without that legal education that you've lost more than you ever stood to recover anyway. This is why consumer protection organisations with the weight of national governments behind them are necessary, but the idea hasn't caught up with the Internet yet.
I.e. should have shipped the courier. Now that was a sexy god damn product.
Serious question, not trolling. Why did you make the choice to have a family, then?
Philosophies differ
Indeed, I've been completely happy with more-or-less the same processing power in the computers I've used as my main workstation for the past four years. Now that computers are "fast enough", the differentiating features are things like battery life, portability, and ergonomics.

This Chromebook would be very interesting if they had put a bit bigger battery into it. But even now it might be more suitable more my use cases than the MBA I'm typing this on.