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Does anyone know if this can be used for development and graphics editing? Or if it will run Windows Desktop apps?

I could almost see something like this replacing my everyday work computer.
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The quality of a 3D printed gun would be abysmal using current technology, and a 3D printed gun would likely be single-use, therefore really only useful for terrorists.

But it's not hard for the terrorist to make a single-use gun now. You could probably make a pretty lethal and reliable single-use gun from $20 dollars in parts from your local hardware store.
Judging by current trends, the number of versions of Windows available for purchase is tripling every week! By Christmas we'll have 59,049 versions of Windows to choose from!
I for one really like the idea in terms of hardware, but my bad experiences with the RC of Windows 8 convinced me to not bother.
Using either the Bluetooth wireless keyboard or the keyboard dock on the iPad makes it into quite a capable notebook alternative.

It's also what you're used to. Some people can T9 pretty darned fast because of experience.
Microsoft Surface pricing revealed, starting at $499 without keyboard cover
The Tier 1 was a different, independent visa - I think varjag is referring to the UK work permit system which works as described (except for the time length, which used to be 5 years but is now only 2 years) and has been that way for many years.

The Tier 1 doesn't actually exist anymore, basically the only way you can work in the UK without EU citizenship or an ancestry visa is via a sponsored visa.

In fact the rules just changed recently for the worse - if you are working in the UK under a sponsored visa, the time no longer counts towards settlement. Under the old work permit system, you were still tied to a company but at least after 5 years you could apply for indefinite leave to remain (which is exactly what i did a few months ago).

I don't know why anyone in their right mind would work in the UK with (a) the inability to easily change employers and (b) the inability to settle after X number of years. Obviously not a problem for EU citizens or ancestry visa holders, but for the rest of us...
I haven't been able to find any credible information about resolutions but the rumors seem to point toward less than retina.

But the flip side of that is most of the Windows 8 interface is rectangles with large type. You don't need very high resolution devices to make that style of interface look crisp and sharp.
I'm pretty sure every minute spent listening to someone who calls themselves "FreeBSD Girl" is a wasted minute. Also listening to anyone who hasn't studied the issue for years is a wasted minute. You're actually wasting two minutes for every minute.
"the world"? nope - already dominated by iPad

Seriously, the tablet market is still wide open. having an iPad3, iOS is only good for a small portion of things I would like a Tablet can do
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Correct, it's $529: http://store.apple.com/us/buy/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad/ipa...
Which browser? You should ideally use chrome or firefox, or activate WebGL from developer mode in safari.
When I click on that link.. it goes back to the main homepage, not the article. What gives?
Which isn't really stealing because you aren't physically taking anything from the original owner, oh... wait...
As a former H1-B (coming from France, and now living in Japan) who used to work in a Hedge Fund in NYC, I would say that there are three factors at play:

• an H1-B holder doesn't have much leverage for negotiation if she really wants to stay in the US, as resigning (or be let go) foolishly means going back home,

• US salaries in IT jobs are much much higher than salaries for equivalent positions in Europe, so even if you are making less than Americans you are usually happy,

• more personal and somewhat related to the first point: foreigners (at least the non native english speaker ones) tend to stick with other foreigners. Not by choice, it tends to happen very naturally from what I observed, and in my opinion has a lot to do with speaking abilities. If you don't know American workers, you don't know their salaries, so it's somewhat harder to know your actual market value. And by the time you expand your network to American people you are well under way to get your Green Card...
Let's see if it's actually the same Office. The versions of Office that I got to play with on WinMobile * and WinPhone7 were not on par with Word on windows, or even OpenOffice of the time.

(For all I know, it might still be the best available word processor for tablets; I have never used Apple's "Pages"; but previous versions were ... lacking)
> now I want to watch the original trilogy.....

The original original trilogy or that "Special Edition" crap?

Edit: Despite the down-votes, I stand by both my opinion __and__ phrasing. The 1997 Special Edition, 2004 DVD, and 2011 Blu-ray releases were done poorly (a.k.a., half-assed). They suffer from numerous issues that suggest an inexperienced team was used for the "restoration". See: http://savestarwars.com/specialeditionfail.html
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And here I was about to add it to my site... thanks for saving me the trouble, and thanks for the submission! :)
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What about the UEFI secure boot is messing up the PC ecosystem? You're referring to the widely-spread but extremely false rumor that secure boot is turned on, can't be turned off, and Microsoft has to approve any other OS you want to install?

Because that's not true. Secure boot is turned on, but for Windows 8 certification, it must be able to be disabled by the user. Microsoft is mandating that PC builders give you the option to disable secure boot. So I don't see how this is changing really anything. Maybe you can explain.
The whole "Slack" book by Tom DeMarco is more or less about this. If you optimize the steady state, you cut the slack that is needed for the organization to adapt. Also, the throughput-latency tradeoff might bite you.
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It runs Windows RT, meaning that existing Windows apps won't run on it. You'll need to buy Metro apps from Windows app store, which are not plenty these days. Bottom line: no editing, no programming tools and only preview of Microsoft Office at this time.
For those of you who would prefer to just save your blog (or other static website) in Dropbox instead of uploading to S3, my startup just left beta today: http://www.site44.com

(Sorry for the shameless self-promotion; it's an exciting day for us!)
James prepared a popular abridged version of Principles which may be just as useful. (Disclaimer: I've only read the abridged version, so I don't know what's missing from the full two-volume version.) It's a very practical and introspective approach to psychology, somewhere between pop science and intellectual self-help. I think HNers would enjoy it.

Here it is on Amazon for $0.99: http://www.amazon.com/William-James-Psychology/dp/B000W2GH4E

Here's an online version: http://archive.org/details/psychologybriefe00willuoft
- What's good

While I don't know much about what you're talking about, I quickly understood what's the purpose of this website

- What should be your first priority

Your goal is to have the highest number of people signing-up. Focus on that. Reduce the clutter. Improve your signal to noise ratio. Have a look at some of Edward Tufte principles (in his own words "Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.")

- What's wrong but can be fixed

Well as almost everyone said, it's not a design up to our standards in 2012. But this should not be a problem. It seems that you're usign Drupal. I'm quite sure there's a Drupal Bootstrap module. Just moving your design to Bootstrap will be a huge improvement. You'll be free to fine-tune the design later.
I think you'd be surprised at how a color that is SO DIFFERENT could make the device seem unique and individual. Everyone has either a black or a brushed metal laptop. Something this bright could sell well because of its novelty.

There was a lot of buzz around the cyan version of the new Nokia Windows Phone 8.
It links back to your main homepage that has been filtered to the articles above a certain points threshold.
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So will this be able to run standard Window's programs or just tablet versions of software? If it could run Windows applications then this could be a great alternative to ultrabooks, with the added perk of the flexibility of a tablet.
It will not run Windows Desktop Apps.

What you are looking for is Surface Pro which will be available in a few months. Or you could buy any one of the Windows 8 (not Windows RT) convertible tablets/hybrids that will be available from the likes of Lenovo, HP, Acer, Asus, Samsung, etc after Windows 8 launches.
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How about I test it out on my iPhone (left it at home today) and post a recommendation to the group tomorrow?
This is what a bill for my blog with some hundreds or few thousands of hits looks like: http://pygm.us/s6mFV+OP. This is solely S3.

Aside from being unable to figure out a anti-hotlink bucket policy, S3 is great and basically free in most for most blogs.

The blog: http://pygm.us/q6Nv3lja.
Won't compete with iPad on quality.
Won't compete with Android on price.

Why should anyone buy this?
You have a good point, but I've been assuming that Microsoft would drop their refusal to allow mature content, at least for big-title games, if any of the game studios expressed serious interest in porting to Windows RT to begin with. We'll have to see. If I'm wrong, then I'm with you: Windows RT will never be the gamer's mobile platform. But I assume that they'll yield as soon as there's a real reason to do so.

Where it gets screwy in my mind is whether Windows RT still has a shot at being a major casual gaming platform, in the style of iOS. Android, iOS, webOS, and I believe PlayBook all use OpenGL ES. Windows RT (and Windows 8 Phone) only offer DirectX. It's not that it's even that difficult to target both; it's simply that no one has yet done so, because the only meaningful mobile platforms run OpenGL ES. This puts Windows RT and Windows 8 Phone into a very chicken-and-egg position for casual gaming, and I'm not clear that it can win that one.
It's going to take a while, but they are definitely going to keep moving in that direction. I think it's safe to expect future versions of Windows to continually de-emphasize and virtualize the desktop (much like what they did with DOS). Remember how they almost didn't release a version of Visual Studio Express 2012 that could target the desktop?
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Ask HN: Are microloans a scam?
I believe many at HN must be Kiva users and have lent many loans. I support the cause and good will behind it but there seem to be more here

Today I happened to glance over "Portfolio Yield" of field partners. It's as high as 54% for many.
Even then some of them are reporting negative profitability or maximum as little as 5%.

They are operating in third world countries and making millions from poor borrowers at exorbitant interest rates; even higher than credit cards. How's that possible and is this all operation some scam like aid to African countries?
How will a patent troll holding a patent on this help "infest" 3D printing? If anything it seems like it would inhibit it.
Same here. Besides, people are buying not tablets, they are buying ecosystems. Apple has the great one. Same with Amazon. Same with Google. What mobile ecosystem does Microsoft have? Very limited at this point. And virtually no apps for Windows RT.
I don't think anybody's expecting x86 tablets to be cheaper than Surface. But I agree that the situation has potential for lots of customer confusion.
> Yeah, there's no way they don't make an exception for legitimate mature rated games.

Why should they? They don't have any reason to allow mature games, which certainly haven't been very common on consoles. It looks like PCs are headed in the same direction. Chances are these sorts of products will simply follow the path of least resistance and move to the web.

Edit: my bad, I'm not a big gamer, so I'm not familiar with the ratings terminology. When I said "mature" games, I was referring to games with adult content, not the games where you can shoot/kill people.
The information is perfect, not the person. It increases the expected value of an interaction, but doesn't guarantee it (free will and all that).
i think the 1% may not very accurate? my blog is also rated as being in the top 1% and it doesn't use cloudfront or s3 or anything cool like that. it's just static pages at webfaction (who are nice guys, but still, it's a shared host).

not trying to diss the post, which was very interesting, just suspect of the pingdom stats. unless using static pages alone is sufficient to get you into the fastest 1% these days? i guess it's possible. maybe they're hosted nearby... [update: the traceroutes differ in where they enter the usa]
I definitely think that the instinct in increased supply = lower prices is a good starting point.

But, there's some danger in overly simple economic thinking, especially when we talk about labour markets. For example, you would think that around a hub of science & engineering universities* there would be an oversupply of engineers. Someplace where there aren't many engineering schools would be the place with the highest salaries. That's clearly not the case.

Demand for some professions (like doctors) is fairly fixed. For other things it appears to spring up around supply.

*This assumes that the universities are not themselves a market reaction.
As I posted in the other story that got flagged off front page, the new TV ad is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mSckyoAMHg

The good thing about the keyboard covers is that Windows RT supports mouse input unlike the iPad and a track pad is included in the keyboard covers. This will help alleviate some of the gorilla arm issues if you're trying to get work done. Native remote desktop with RemoteFX[1] support is good when you have WiFi access, say at Starbucks.

The Surface RT does some things better than the iPad. For example, it has a MicroSD slot and a full USB port. The side-by-side multitasking view is pretty nice to put a chat or Twitter client while browsing/working etc. The built in snap out stand is also pretty cool.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RemoteFX

PS: Funny to see this story as well getting flagged down. Stay classy HN.
Still not implemented: Next page that doesn't expire.
Never mind iPad mini - I can hardly wait for the "new" iTunes! I'm sure it'll be terrible (like iPad's Music.app in iOS 5&6), but no matter how bad it is, it's gonna be 10 times better than the current piece of crap the iTunes is.
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It looks a lot like a cubic grid with perspective projection; http://degreesgame.com/display/ShowImage?imageUrl=/storage/I...
I'm holding out hope that Google is going to release an actual Metro-tailored UI for Chrome around the time of Windows 8 GA instead of the current thing which is basically just desktop Chrome locked on maximize.
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The Windows RT version of the Surface is a consumption device. I feel like the primary use cases are reading, movies, web, e-mail and so on. You'll have to wait for the x86 version of the Surface if you're looking to do graphics editing.
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If they're going to be cheaper, they are also going to be ridiculously slow compared to the iPad (and possibly the ARM Win8), or they are going to have ridiculously short battery life, or they are going to be subsidized by Microsoft (or all of the above ....)

Have you seen a netbook that can deliver 9 hours of real usage on Windows _and_ run at a reasonable speed (for $500, or even more)? I haven't. And the laptops that can are larger and much more expensive.
Somewhat related, I highly recommend the book Radioactive, which is a very artfully done biography of Marie Curie:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8968323-radioactive
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Note: I haven't kept up the specs etc.

That's the iPad 2. If it's comparable to the Surface, then your point is valid.

The cheapest iPad 3 with 3G costs $629.

And while YMMV, I don't require 3G on my tablet. I already have 3G on my phone, which is always in my pocket, and I can create a personal hotspot if reqd.
Apple sells a lot more WiFi iPads than it does 3G iPads. Best data I could find on a quick google is admittedly almsot a year old, but:

90% of the tablets use WiFi only (some have inactivated cellular chipset) meaning that only 10% of the tablets (as of Q4 2011) were cellular activated. Operators who start to bundle multiple devices by single data plans and data buckets are going to see a better yield in this category. We expect family data plans to be introduced in the US market soon.

Source: http://www.chetansharma.com/USmarketupdate2011.htm
The Surface is running Windows RT, so the tablet versions of software. The Surface Pro (which doesn't have pricing info yet) will be x86 and therefore run standard Windows programs.
Just loaded it on my office iPad, no jailbreak. I believe it loads a standard iOS configuration profile via a home screen link.
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Ahh I think I was actually thinking of the HN chrome extension Autobahn, which also has the tagline "save time on Hacker News."
That is the iPad 2 however. The New iPad with cellular starts at $629USD.
In what way are Windows 8 app certification requirements written in stone? If there are hundreds of millions to be made from changing some text, trust me, those rules will fall faster than Felix Baumgartner.
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The typography on this mobile version of their site is horrible. Try the print version, it's quite nice: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2012-10-16/silicon-beach...
therefore really only useful for terrorists

What? I'm finding it hard to believe that an odd-looking 3d-printed single-use gun would be useful to terrorists (or criminals in general, actually). What you need as a mugger, for example, is a recognizable threat. The gun doesn't necessarily need to work but it does need to look like a gun. Terrorists have it even worse, as they're generally looking to threaten a whole lobby full of people; what they're waving around had better look really automatic. And had probably better work. I can't imagine that a single-shot weapon that looked unrecognizable would suit their needs.

A single-shot gun might be useful to a murderer, but hardly an ideal choice (what if you miss)? And it might be useful in a self-defense scenario, but the same caveat applies.

In fact, they actually make single-shot guns. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derringer) And they aren't used by terrorists! They're used by pirates in movies. And in real life, generally, women carry them in purses.

Which, to come full circle, means I would support the availability of 3D-printed guns, since I perceive the most likely use would be in a self-defense scenario as a "well, it's better than nothing" option.
Ah, you and _delirium are right, sorry. That's what I get for posting late at night.
I'm using Firefox (latest) and at one point tried to enable WebGL. I'm not one to keep trying to fix something just to make a web page work, though.

Does WebGL even work in software rendering mode, or do you need to have hardware rendering enabled? I have no idea if it is or if my drivers support it (Windows) but I would hope we're not forcing everyone on the web to have direct rendering now.
If it was a little less, I'd probably buy this. I'm a huge fan of Windows 8 (don't get me wrong: it's going to be horrendous for regular users, but as a techie, I think it's a really nice UI). $500 though is just too much for something that is so easily dismissed. I'd pay that much for an iPad or a Macbook because I know they will be well built and work well. Surface has to prove itself to me and as of yet, it hasn't shown me why I should spend that much on it.
I talked to the author about this article, but I don't buy some of what was said. I wrote up a rebuttal (http://digitalbalance.tumblr.com/post/33276814981/windows-8-...) when the author originally posted it.

Basically, IMO, the article didn't really have hard facts and was mainly just pushing slippery slope arguments. Whilst there's potential for this to become a closed platform, there's no evidence that it will be. The DOS/Win 3.0 similarity doesn't work because Win 3.0 did not close off the platform at all. There's been no precedence set on the desktop to close the platform off completely and I doubt it'd do MS any favours to do such a thing, especially when gamers will soon have Steam on Linux (which is the one thing stopping some gamers from moving from Windows to Linux).
And to repost my reply... Thanks for the comment. We love posting things that we've learned that could help out our customers.

The thing I couldn't figure out with Youtube was how to stop the post-roll "ads" for "related videos" that took the user out of our context.

And, no, removing it from the public index didn't effect the post-roll recommendations.
I don't buy this, and to be honest it comes across as anti-Scottish.

Claiming to have lived and worked there doesn't lend this statement any extra authority.

To anyone who reads this from outside the UK - it's not the general English sentiment.
Nothing to do with credibility, certain positions are indexed by the Department of Labor which require a base salary and base experience. Highly likely that you did not meet the requirement as a fairly new employee or the base salary was too high for them to justify hiring you.
Here is a nice 4-year old still active discussion on pros and cons of different data analysis technologies: http://brenocon.com/blog/2009/02/comparison-of-data-analysis...
I don't really get what you are describing. But perhaps you could provide a matlab script to show?
It's obviously a populist move; making life complicated to skilled workers is perhaps the worst way to fight illegal migration. I've been to the UK last year for friends wedding; obtaining even a visitor visa was a humiliating process only a cavity search short from prison experience.

So many people in EU/EEC somehow hold this idea that getting residence in their country is as easy as simply applying for it: probably the outcome of public debate where some points of view are very selective and simplistic.
It appears they are using Vapor deposition of Magnesium to make the body. I hope it is just a texture on the outside. If anything could escalate the problem of a combusting battery, it would be a metal that ignites at 480°C and burns at up to 3000°C.

Edit: this reminds me of the NeXTCube.
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Nearby Pingdom? It's always possible that you're in the same data center. In theory, CloudFront pages are always hosted nearby.
Why Apple should price the iPad Mini at $199
It's hard to run a hardware business at less than 35% gross margins. There are a lot of extra costs besides the bill of materials and assembly.

37% for apple might only be 25% for any other competitor, because apples supply chain is so streamlined and locked down. So it's hard to compete with the base iPad on price.

At 50%, you are right, there could be room to undercut, but that's only the high-end iPad (eg 64gb) which isn't where the volume is.

iPhone margins are much better, and thus leave more room for others to undercut or offer feature parity.