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Microsoft isn't rolling out the Windows 8 product line Apple style...tech-journalists, you may quote me on that.

Why on Earth would they?

They have complex product lines tailored around a B2B strategy. Their customers need time to test the product. There was a "consumer preview" version for download. There was a "Release to Manufacturing" version for download. The nature of their business is to roll out products with no-surprises. Microsoft is releasing the product with fanfare, but minimizing drama.

The pile of FUD is built upon an edge cases.

People with a library of disks are the exception in the age of the internet. For those who haven't noticed, Macbooks don't come with a DVD drive anymore.

I suspect that few people will anticipate running existing Windows software on ARM devices. Most won't. For the same reasons people don't expect to run Photoshop on an iPad or AutoCad on a Windows Phone - most people don't run much on their devices other than what is pre-installed and what they download directly to it. I also suspect that Microsoft has mined it's huge trove of data, and concluded that this is the case.
If you use relative paths 3 will include old file. I'm not sure if that's a problem in PHP, but everything I used handled that fine.
> I very much doubt that this is so because of convenience: it is so because it gives more money to Microsoft.

Well, most people want Windows pre-installed. So, is it more/less/equally convenient for manufacturers to maintain a 2nd inventory for the small percentage of people who do not want Windows installed? And would the overall cost associated with this 2nd level of inventory divided by the total number of PC's sold without an OS be greater than or less than the amount you are paying for Windows when you buy a new PC?

I don't know the answer, but it's something to think about.
You could also use 10-fold cross validation[1] or similar where you rotate the training/validation sets.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-validation_%28statistics%...
I use a rooted PRS-T1, and I use dropsync to sync my ebooks. I did a couple of small hacks, such as removing some buttons that I didn't like and I added two fonts (Caecilia and Garamond). Works quite well with epubs, and it has some dictionaries included in the reading app (being a foreigner trying to learn Dutch, I use the Dutch-English dictionary a lot while reading).
Vodaphone's shenanigans so they only paid £1.2bn of the estimated £6bn total tax bill also sounds well dodgy.
Not to mention the comments sounding like typical "made-up questions": "How much money can an active user actually make" and "What analytics do u provide".

Also two of them use the "u" which is not common at HN otherwise.

These are 4 hours old: jalicesmith, tellitop, trikadam, ketprince, rowdyrathore

Conclusion: viraliti.com is posting fake comments, stay away.
I've been on the fence about Kindles for me and the kids. Think this has tipped the balance. I had heard rumors about how draconian Amazon was being, seems it was true.
I read it as "realtime".
eBooks at some point is great, but don't you think there is piracy of the eBook and if it's pretty popular it will be up on the internet within few weeks.

i think amazon should be like a library or youtube for ebooks. So the user can subscribe the books they want it should be something similar to safaribookonline.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20104755-264/amazon-e-book...

Amazon has limited the capability of eBooks, eBooks can be like iBook(iOS App) where the book has capability of videos and multimedia. What is the difference between the book and device if it was just the text with picture.
The main reason Stallman isn't mainstream is not his physical appearance, but his refusal to compromise with potential allies on even minor details. Not to mention a truckload of NIH on the part of the FSF, although you could argue this is another side of the same coin.
Traits evolve under pressure that is local to an environment and the interactions between species that inhabit it. If there were no predators of this fish that used echolocation or another method, then this trait is sufficient to survive and thrive. Evolution is haphazard and almost completely circumstantial, so the shortest answer is, because it didn't have to.
Funny you should bring this up. The place I work for, sells a POS like setup for fitness clubs, but with more features, than a traditional POS.

We've been talking a lot about replacing everything with iPads. The install price for the customers would be much much cheaper, and the experience for all involved would be better.

The only thing holding us back, is the lack of available man hours, to make the switch, but it will happen.
I don't know about the users but the site is genuine... it's a funded start-up
Reminds me of what happened when you dragged something to an open application in the taskbar in WinXP (and maybe later versions too).

You got a message saying, essentially, "the computer knows what you want to do but refuses to do it for you".

It's borderline insultingly user-hostile.
I'd liked this story more, a lot more, if they hadn't broken it into seven (7!) fucking pages.
I expected that binder to be an Amazon referral link, and then go on to tell us about all the people who bought it.
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> I bought a ThinkPad recently in Europe, and there was no way for me not to buy Windows.

You could have just as easily purchased something that wasn't a ThinkPad. That's akin to complaining that the iPhone comes with iOS on it, or that Mac's come pre-installed with Mountain Lion.

You also ignore the fact that it's probably more expensive to provide a laptop without Windows then with. Consider that with Windows is the norm, and because of that, it's easy to produce in greater numbers. Producing an exception, or a custom, will drive up the price.
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>I would favor universal system if I saw convincing evidence that people would not overclaim (ie seek treatment for minor ailments)

The saying "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" comes from medicine. Many problems are much easier to treat earlier on; by discouraging people from seeking treatment you end up spending more and getting worse results - as happens in the US.

>Anyway, if there is a special case, it certainly is the UK.

Hardly; look at Canada or Australia or France or Germany or Italy or.... The US is a clear outlier among countries with a similar GDP per capita; it's the only one without socialized healthcare, spends far more per capita on healthcare and has a noticeably worse life expectancy. I don't think this is coincidence.
Its quite clever how Apple used and popularized the term "post-pc" after a multi-year TV PR campaign (Mac vs PC commercials) drawing a distinct line between PCs (windows machines) and Macs.

While I take post-pc to mean Post-Desktop (and possibly laptop), Apple has cleverly separated its Mac personal computer line from "PC"s, allowing it to sound the death knell for Windows PCs, but not for its "delightful" Mac computer line up.
That certainly fits the bill for PhantomLobe. Her/his second comment wasn't flamebait or spam, more just an slang laden "me too" style comment. With no karma the account submerged and now PhantomLobe is commenting into the ether with no one listening. I just can't stand to see people was their time like that (unless they are trolls/spammers).
At my old job our webapp handled 6+ million requests per day, and during the 8hr peak period it handled just over 100 requests per second. When you're dealing with request rates like that, even really brief periods of inconsistency will cause problems for someone.

We handled deployments a different way though. Each release went into a different directory and was made available under a different url, and users got redirected to the newest release when they logged in. Once in a session they stayed with the same version until they logged out. This also allowed us to do limited deployments; we could choose which version each customer group was sent to.
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Handy bookmarklet to display JSON nicely in the browser
Is "week long battery life" really a killer feature? As long as a phone has enough battery to make it through the 16 hours per day most of us are awake, anything more is just gold plating.

Just how big is the "week long battery life" niche?
>"But it’s worse that that. iPad sales have hit conventional PCs so hard"

This is so over-blown. Apple has sold something like 80MM iPads since the device was released. On the other hand, there were 90 million PCs sold in the first quarter of 2012.

Tablets are great, but they aren't replacing PCs any time soon. For all we know, the market will be tablet-saturated after Christmas.

>"Microsoft can’t command those prices anymore because of competition. Apple now hands out OS X upgrades for $29, forcing Microsoft to sell its new Windows 8 Pro upgrades for just $40."

In 2001, Apple was selling OSX for $129. The low cost of operating system upgrades was something that happened gradually, over time.
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Are e-ink readers able to display graphs, tables, and code yet?
I don't understand how they made the service so blazing fast so much so that the moment I pasted a magnet link in, the next second I could direct download from it.
Yep, that's another good way.
A social media service which needs to promote itself with artificial conversation between sock puppet accounts on social media is not "genuine". Genuine means sincere and authentic, and this company appears to be neither. I try virtually every new advertising startup I come across on HN, but I won't be trusting my credit card to this one.
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I really don't agree with the severity rating. Instant admin-access by just plugging in a USB stick is exactly what malware like the ever-loved Stuxnet use(d) as a jump-start to get their other exploits and backdoors going.

It's like the various autorun exploits, but better because you don't need an additional privilege escalation vulnerability and you get to execute your attack even if autorun is turned off completely.
I am wondering the same thing.

Another thing to consider is the scenario that copyright holders start going after Put.io like they did for Megaupload. If they were to get their hands on the database, they will have a record of exactly what each user has downloaded/shared. I wonder what that would mean for the user in terms of legalities and may be even penalties?
The searching space is too large - there are too many combinations to search for. Genetic Programming makes it faster to get a good solution. The solution might not be the optimal one, but it's good enough :-)
Coldplay uses something similar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_...

Not phone based though, which is a good thing if my experience in using phones in high capacity crowds is typical.
Amusingly I am still green and agree with you that it is sketchy. A wave of new accounts for a company that specializes in inserting product placement into what people consider to be normal communication... And it's one thing to make an account to ask a question about a service - that's plausible - it's quite another to make an account to say "nice site!". Mods should investigate.
It could be useful in India or African countries with not much access to energy. But I doubt people from developed nations would want this. It most likely offers nowhere near the experience of an LCD device. Remember, besides the lack of color issue, e-ink devices work best when the on-screen image is static, and not changing often.
In the past I've used <base> tags to "version" a deploy. The index.html was in the root directory and all other assets (including API endpoints, as it was a single-page app) were in a timestamped subdirectory, with a <base> tag pointing to that subdirectory.

It seemed to work well, but there are issues with <base> tags you should read up on first.
Note: the code is really crude but it does work on Chrome and FF.
yeah… cool kids learn their french-mixed-up-with-latin and know that media is plural and use the correct "les media"

:)
Here's something I realised a little while ago:

The web is my content management system.

I post to Flickr, Dribbble, Blogger, Github, Google+, Twitter etc and that stuff is my content. I post it there so that other people will find it and interact with it.

After that realisation, I figured why fight it and decided that the strategy for my personal site was to collect all my content from those other places.
I have a kindle with a doukan installed.

The installation is quite trivial, and there is no more remote wipe. Also it supports pdf ebooks quite well (and djvu, not that well)
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I wonder why the GP has to be running at server side, rather than in JavaScript in the browser.
That would be cool! (although probably banned from games if it got too popular...) Or you could synchronize loads of phones so they take photos at the same time and reconstruct a Matrix style 360 photo-model of a point in the game :oP
Is there a DRM removal tool that works on Kindle books?

I have a lot of unread Kindle books (I buy a lot at once), and would now like enough of a backup in a form that I could use such that I can be sure I could at least read the books.
vaguely interesting, but why replace an already link-baited title with one even more misleading? what laws of physics are being broken here?
Agreed. When the first DVD burners came out HP had an exclusive period for sales of them. I really wanted one, so I ordered it online and got an email a few minutes later saying my order had been canceled. I called and ask why. The usual "we can't tell you, sorry" answer. I wouldn't let go. I asked for a manager and then spent a hour on the phone--I just wouldn't hang up--telling her I had made thousands of transactions online over the last 10 years with that credit card and this was the first problem. I hammered her for details and she never gave me one, but she did do something else: she decided to verify me via other means (I have no idea what those were) by asking me a series of questions. After which she took my order manually and I got the device I wanted.

Normally, I would have voted with my pocket book, but in this case they had the sole source of the item (for a time). I also wanted to cost them a huge amount of time for their error.
The headline should read: "Fish Use Laws of Physics, Become Mirrors."
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I like my Nook Touch, mainly because the built-in software is pretty good (much better than Kindle 3, though I haven't tried a Kindle Touch) and because it can read epubs. I never buy from any online store that sells DRM out of principle.

The downsides are that the physical buttons are terrible, and since I don't do any online shopping the "home" section of the device is pretty useless. There are also some persistent rough edges to the software in terms of pages read, home page, and some minor typography issues.

I thought about getting the Glowlight version but when I tried it in the store, the contrast was noticeably worse. I'm going to wait till I can see a Kindle Paperwhite or Kobo Glo in person before I decide to buy a new reader. (A built-in light is a big selling point for me, as I often read in bed.)

There's a Python script out there that will easily crack the B&N DRM should you choose to buy from their store after all.

Just keep the wifi off on any of those devices and copy ebooks over as if it were a USB drive and you've foiled their horrible DRM and remote-wipe schemes.
The GP mentioned diceware. You "only" have a dictionary of around 7000 words. A 5 word phrase is strong. A 6 word phrase is very strong.
so from advertiser POV effective CPC will be above 1$ ?

that's very expensive
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The Kobo is supposedly trivial to hack: http://ccoffing.net/tech/embedded/kobo/

"Of the three major e-readers out today, Kobo rocks the hardest. Kobo supports the ePub standard, has released code as required by the GPL, and has made the life of the hacker surprisingly easy (not locked down, preinstalled nc and vi, git repos, support forums, ...)."
"Steve Chen (another coder)"
The "abuse" was probably related to stripping DRM off the titles, and uploading them for anyone to download free-of-charge. Then that would make sense.
I'd imagine the remote delete is tied in with the DRM system, but don't quote me on that. Publishers would be pushing for remote delete of everything shady otherwise.
This was the headline in all aggregators (see url), I could update to my own take on it :P
I'm ok with the free account on put.io.

I use torrent only for foreign tv shows. They are not that big anymore. 1gig will be enough because I don't plan to store the stuff.
You can pick almost any well-known startup of the last 10 years and find a connection to one of PayPal's founders -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia#Membership
I feel like there's a pretty big jump between saying that a fish reflects light with a somewhat unexpected polarization and saying that the fish is invisible, or breaks the laws of physics. The fish is, in fact, quite visible and obeys the laws of physics just as much as any other animal.
You are one of sockpuppets by the way. Didn't you know?
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What really bothers me is that it seems to have worked in pushing the link to the front page of Hacker News.

After copious experiences with trigger happy algorithms flagging me as a false-positive spammer, I am surprised that something as blatantly conspicuous as this managed to get so far - regardless of who orchestrated it.
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Don't worry, I felt the same when I was starting to read papers as a graduate student but I came to realize that in cases like the one where you mentioned elliptic modular forms being introduced to vastly overcomplicate something, it was usually done to make something true in a far more general set of space.

For me in physics? That came about when I started reading papers where people were doing stuff with differential geometry on manifolds. I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out why people would talk about a wedge product when a cross product would have sufficed until about 6 months later when it clicked that doing something in a coordinate agnostic framework allows you to prove things for any coordinate system and create general formulas that just need a few things "plugged in."

I'm not going to pretend to know that that's why elliptical modular forms are being used in your context but everytime something has seemed needlessly overcomplicated, I've come to realize after some thinking that it's done with a view towards generality.
Excatly! And that works nicely in corporate environments too.
Exactly - naming a device and OS the same when the OS is open to multiple vendors would be a little monopolistic.
Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia, it's striking that YouTube and many other companies may have been eBay's greatest (unintended) contribution.
It's huge. If I were Samsung or Motorola I'd manufacture a phone that is a) beautiful b) incredibly thin, light-weight and simplistic c) has a week battery life d) is absolutely feature-reduced. It'd have no app ecosystem or anything alike. It's capabilities would be reduced to a) phone calls b) SMS c) email (no attachments; maybe even no HTML) d) Facebook messenger. It'd have no browser.

Design-wise I'd make it almost as thin as a credit card and a screen 2/3 the size of the iPhone 4. A black and white screen would actually be perfect, even if that'd be an artificial limitation.

I'd call it: THE PHONE. Nothing more.

I know many people that'd buy this device.

You could even do something like RIM and offer worldwide email/messaging service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPdXAyvWZdI
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It didn't last very long there. Once the sockpuppetry became evident, it was likely flagged by a few people, and is now nowhere to be found among the top 100 stories, whereas a highly voted front page story typically stays for 10+ hours. The user moderation system works.
That wasn't intended as an insult in the slightest, and I apologize if it came off as such. It was meant to be a light-hearted joke. I also don't recall any other threads where I may have given you that impression, but apologize (again) if I have.

To clarify, I'm a long-time redditor who was pretty impressed with how well you guys managed given the small team you had.
I have been thinking about a responsive e-ink for some time.

What I would love is a responsive e-ink screen to use for text editing, Imagine a large responsive e-ink screen that you can use for coding, reading, etc...

Although for coding it would also need some basic colours.
A dark archive is an archive that is not meant to be publicly accessible. As you said it is used to store information that must survive in case of disaster.

But what is a disaster for a library? Yesterday it was a fire, today is a publisher going bankrupt and dismissing its online (paywalled) archive. A dark archive pays the fee to access various online resources and store them indefinitely, but without letting anyone access that information (well, except the archive admins). The legality of this? Dubious. The usefulness of this? High.

As Portico.com puts it, «We chose to create a “dark” archive to focus our efforts on securing and preserving large volumes of content important to libraries and their users; however, it is not exclusively dark. Participating libraries experience the archive as a “light” or accessible archive in two ways: auditing the archive to ensure we are prepared to support eventual use and accessing of content that has been made available as the result of a “trigger event” or post-cancellation access claim. Unlike many ongoing preservation initiatives, Portico participants and their users experience direct customer support, should they ever need it.»

But the devil is in the details. Who pays the fee for these dark archives? Do we trust them? Who is auditing what is happening behind the doors of the dark archives? Luckily there are FLOSS systems like LOCKSS and CLOCKSS that allow you to create your own dark archive.

Few links:

* http://news.jstor.org/news/2004.12/repositories.html

* http://hul.harvard.edu/publications/ln1356/03.html

* http://www.clockss.org/clockss/FAQ

* http://www.clockss.org/clockss/How_CLOCKSS_Works

* http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/the-archive-cont...
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Most phones should run for a week with no issues if rarely used. This (I guess, the site not loading) promises a week of active usage. It is useless as "normal" smartphone though because e-ink has a lot of latency and a low refresh rate.

edit: peterwiese, you have been ghosted for 2 months or so :(
But don't you wish you had a tool to keep track of what you've posted where, streamline broadcast-posting, and manage conversations?

That's a market I'm surprised not to see twitter-client-makers invade - social management systems. They've been making ones for Twitter, why not also a Github client? And a Quora client? Have conversations with the same people across a variety of services and sites? Let a social management system coordinate the conversation.

Imagine conversation view looking like:

Back-and-forth emails on top, followed by
A few tweets with images linked, then a
Github pull request,
2 FB messages (with other FB friends too),
Another pull request,
A Facetime chat, and finally
Some closing emails.

It reminds me of Wave.
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And there are many many books which are a lot cheaper on Kindle. I buy my programming and technical books almost exclusively on Kindle,since the difference is usually half the price of paperbacks.
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