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This could become an awesome secondary travel/camping phone. Sure when I'm home I generally remember to charge my phone every or every other night, but when out and about there are many times when charging is inconvenient of impossible.
That's pretty much the gist of it, yup.
i'm Chilean and this is a huge problem here in Chile. Allende's government is constantly remembered as "what is what could have happened if US had not intervened?"
Let's be clear on 1 thing. WinRT IS a (right now pretty bad and incomplete) alternative to Win32 (sure WinRT is implemented using Win32 but that is simply to reuse code). The WinRT implementation doesn't have anything to do with the scope.

The WinRT scope IS to replace in distant future Win32. Sure right now WinRT is basically targeted at tablets running full screen apps, but this might change in the future.

Also WinRT is sharing a symbiotic relationship with "old" Win32. Right now they do sit side by side. Heck explorer.exe is running both "WinRT" (is running in a windows with class ImmersiveBackgroundWindow) as well as the desktop.
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The Australian system is a bit like this.

The PBS (an independent government organization, which is walled off from political lobbying) will subsidize drugs, but only ones which are worth it (as decided by expert panels). They act as a monopoly buyer, forcing monopoly sellers (the drug companies) to offer a more reasonable deal. If the drug is too expensive, the PBS won't subsidize it, and the drug company can lower the price (to get PBS subsidies) or face drastically lower sales.
Just FYI, you can drag and drop files to the Kindle just like a thumb drive too. My biggest gripe is there's no way to manage and organize your content, everything just goes into one folder.
Are there any technical details available of how the system functioned? And has anything similar been attempted since?
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Pronounced in "regular Spanish" will sound like "huevos" (literally eggs, but, in slang, testicles)
This is what happens @ amazon
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4682392
And businesses only upgrade when they must.

Which must be a pretty slow cycle in this space. I recently shopped at a store that I hadn't been to in at least a decade. I was shocked to find they were still using the exact same orange screen terminals that they were using when I was a young child.

That doesn't necessarily invalidate the original claim though. All new POS terminal installations could be using iPads or similar tablet devices.
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It's especially interesting as my capacity to vote seemed to only kicked in today after a week of being green. The last week my votes seemed to go through but then the arrow reappeared on a later page load and the pages weren't in my saved stories. So it has to have made it to the front page without the help of the current commenting socks, but with votes from elsewhere (or even genuine users I suppose, but the socks put a big question mark over that).
> How will she ever find the means to get her books back? By suing a large corporation half-way round the earth?

IANAL. But for anyone in a similar situation, consumer protection law is usually better than you think. Don't assume you can't sue, or have to sue in another country, just because the contract says you do. Consumer protection laws can trump contracts!

In particular, for anyone in EU or EFTA at least (i.e. part of the Brussels regime for determining jurisdiction to sue, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_Regime ), who is acting as a consumer, you can sue in your own country: "A consumer may bring proceedings against the other party to a contract either in the courts... in which that party is domiciled or in the courts... in which he is himself domiciled."

If Amazon want to do business in a country, they have to abide by the consumer laws of that country.

I am not a lawyer. Get yourself a lawyer and know your rights!
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Splatsearch.com came alive before Backrub and was used quite a lot.
It went into neglect and wasn't ever built on because Google became the big player.
I recently bought the domain from the owner for the low $thousands because I loved it and it was one of the first search engines I used.
The plan is to build some kind of intelligent search engine but to fund it I have created a comparison site and coupon search engine.
It covers quite a few country's and 3 languages.

I would love a peer review from fellow HN`ers to know how well I am doing.
I read the Post PC comments as the author explaining both sides. It is advantageous for MS to downplay Post PC and call everything a PC. It's advantageous for Apple to do the opposite. They both know they are playing semantics.

But how can you deny that tablets (not just ipad) are replacing PC sales? Think of all the use cases that a tablet just makes more sense than a PC (e.g. as a mobile cash register or for casual media consumption)
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I'm proposing to my girlfriend this week. I will promote the post and report back my findings. It'll be interesting.

Oh, and if you look back at my comment history, you'll see what type of ring I bought.
I cannot stand authors that do this:
"OK, OK, the CMS is not dead, I’m just being provocative."
Instant trust lost.
I'm in the same boat. My plan is to continue using Amazon, but remove the DRM from everything I buy and keep a backup copy.
Ask HN: Why does mediocre design succeed (companies like Weebly)?
Weebly has over 12 million customers but their site templates are pretty bad. Are potential customers attracted to the service because of its ease of use or specific features? Is there a large population of people and businesses who are solely focused on having a website up and running no matter what it looks like?

I have nothing at all against Weebly, I am sure they are a great company doing great things, I am just curious what makes companies like that successful.
Ah, I see, thanks. I didn't catch the pronunciation initially.
I have a physical library of about 5K books. Should he want to, my son will be able to read those books.

The DRM'd books are a different story. I still want my son to be able to read them, but I have no assurance that the ebooks will be available to him fifteen years from now.

So I yank the DRM from all of my Amazon purchases. These I put on backups. I do not share them.

I would like to see legislation about the ownership of digital content, requiring that purchased content be accessible /at all times/ -- held in escrow, if necessary. Clearly defining a purchase is probably part of this.
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Putio could be pronounced very similarly to "Puto", which is a swear word in Spanish. It can have different meanings depending where you are, but in Mexico it can be used directly as an insult.
right there, under the headline
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It looks good, but I cannot figure out how to buy one. Can someone point to where I can order one?
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It certainly does not have to be running on the server side. I'm guessing that it's just a matter of what environment the creator was comfortable with.
Color would be great, though I think monochrome syntax highlighting would be a fair compromise for a first generation device. Bold for keywords, italic for comments or maybe strings. Maybe a few extra monospace fonts if you need more than that. Where's the kickstarter for this I can throw money at?
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deduplication. Likely someone else had already downloaded that file so put.io just serves you the copy they already have.
But the "Europe project" originally was about free trade. It worked pretty well for the most part, too: we managed with multilateral free trade agreements for years without things like legislative policy and currency getting centralised as well, and there are still alternative platforms for cooperation like the EFTA and EEA, which for example include some Scandinavian nations that are not part of the EU.

Given the UK's disproportionate strength, I don't see why it couldn't move to a similar relationship to what those Scandinavian nations have with Europe, being outside of the main EU and the Eurozone but still sharing common ground elsewhere. So until someone wiser about economics tells me otherwise, I think I stand by my previous position: whatever the pros and cons of being in the EU more generally, financially it's almost certainly in the UK's interest to leave.
Isn't it strange that Chrome is lagging behind in SVG support?
Just read below that a comment said "X uses the Put.io API", in my (Spanish) head, it sounds like "X uses the F*ing API" ;-)
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Maybe, but maybe not. If done well it could be an excellent travel phone. Personally, I like the idea.

Battery life is very important for a lot of people, especially when travelling. It would fantastic for reading on. It might be very light. Attractive travel phone.

If you think about it a minute, a lot of apps might be just as good with a simple, e-ink friendly UIs: exercise apps, audio players, chess, stop watch, contacts, weather, expensify, sms, skype, whatsapp, calendar, newspapers, bus schedule.

In fact, most apps either present information that you read (like magazines or calendars) or the important part is not in the UI (like music players). Some stuff would suck or break, like web browsers, maps and video (obviously) but not as much as my initial guess was.

The biggest problem I see is that to be e-ink friendly the phone would need to have the UI & apps modified specifically for it, so without a big market it won't work.
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I go on cycle tours every now and then, camping some of the time. I'd love a backup phone for use during tours that could hold a usable charge for 4 or 5 days.

My father does motorcycle touring and would love the same.

I have an old Sony Ericsson M600i symbian phone ( http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_m600-1425.php ) I dig out for when I go travelling. The battery is still good for 10 days stand-by. It's such a pain to resync contacts, mail, etc... that all I really do is move the SIM over and use a travel email account.

If I could have the battery life of the old phone with the functionality of a new smart phone, then I'm very willing to sacrifice the screen quality to achieve it.
It's not a video consumption device, no.

Doesn't mean it can't be a great device for web surfing, listening to music and reading on, as well as a phone that lasts a week. If the colour aspect gets fixed I'd be tempted.
Most are setup to use a double irish scheme, and usually throw in the dutch sandwich: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_sandwich
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Their remote wipe will wait for your device to eventually come online and as soon as it finds your device it performs the remote wipe.

It only takes an accidental connection for it to happen.
Ask HN: How do you find time for pet projects?
I have a zillion pet projects I really would like to work on, but how can I find the time for it? I mean, I have a full time job, a wife that I need to keep entertained, and I need some time for sports/relaxing/whatever, no?

So really, how to make time for pet projects?

The real reason it's so important is that I would really like to start my own startup one day based on one of these projects...
We simply must stop signing all power over to corporations in exchange for use of their toys. Until people start voting with their wallet, these types of things will only become more common.
Real-time was my first thought as well. I'm assuming the RT derives from run-time instead.
for me this is a feature: not having to think about or doing the effort of putting the phone in the charger every single day? I'll sign for that. (it's also marginally cheaper since you don't waste elektricity if using the charger only once a week vs every day. And it makes it useful in countries not having power everywhere)
It looks it has a lot of margin for improvement: right now products are showing up in a rather cluttered and useless fashion. What technology are you using to crawl items? You should definitely focus on that for the tool to be of somewhat value to the average user.
Here's an example of vim running on an eink device (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdmX52SCpG0). A lightweight, long battery life eink-coder would be a fantastic thing to have when travelling.

Grayscale vim would be good enough for me: http://sstallion.blogspot.com/2010/10/newsprintvim-pleasant-...
No. Well dressed and much more groomed people has warned about obvious threat in similar areas, and has also been equally ignored.

Its the problem of the frog and the slowly heating pot. The changes a just slow enough that one can get used to the abuse. It will get worse. There is a ton of stuff companies could be doing to increase revenue by abusing their customers. When companies can view sold units as "theirs" to control, there is little limit.

Car manufacturers really are the next area where I expect to see some heavy changes really soon. Insurance companies really want data, and the manufactures can easy supply it like how fast someone drives, and where they go. In Sweden, this already almost happen in the form of an "voluntary" app. Driving in privacy mode will soon include a heavty cost depending on which insurance company you buy from. On the monopolistic side, there is nothing really stopping car manufacturers to put DRM into the gas tank, so to only "approved" gas sellers (those that pay the car manufacture) that has the right to sell gas. DRM is already in place for parts, so its not that a big step.
I think the author is mistaking Content Management Systems with something else. Content Management is about content management. I don't quite get his point.

I’m concerned that enabling a writer/journalist/marketing executive to control every aspect of their website
Well, IMO you can't refer to "controlling every aspect" by "content management". If you don't want people to modify the design, use a CMS.

The only part of the Google Ventures homepage that needs to be content managed is the Here’s what we’ve been up to section.
Exactly ! Content Management is for people to manage content.
> I was considering buying myself a Kindle for Christmas, but that's not going to happen now.

You can still treat yourself with one of the many currently sold ebook readers out there: http://www.the-ebook-reader.com/ebook-reader-comparison.html . There is a world out there of (electronic) books that is not controlled by Amazon.
Hiren's BootCD is exactly the kind of tool I've been looking for - but I can't find the download link on that page. Am I an idiot, or does he not host his own boot cd on his site?
Web surfing on an e-ink isn't fun. It's not an inherent problem (ie, you could have an optimized site that worked fine) but sites on the web now have scrolling and moving parts. On phone size screens you also have zooming. With e-ink you want to move cleanly between static screens.
Understood, but to fully _exploit_ the vulnerability one would need to actually execute more code than just triggering the vulnerability presumably.
While I was at university, every lecture hall data projector had a PC connected to it. Often people would bring their presentations from home on USB memory sticks.

Nowerdays there are viruses that spread by USB memory stick - and lie dormant on the computer infecting every USB memory stick that gets plugged in. Needless to say, lecture hall computers quickly became infected - even without any malicious intent on the part of the physically present user.
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Classic example of Betteridge's law of headlines[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_law_of_headlines
Hah, try working at an agency, Building that landing page and having all the parts editable by non-techy users is absolutely required & no real challenge, It just takes a "homepage content item" type system with specific fields for things like "hero image copy" or "content area 1 image/copy/icon"
I'd love a large responsive e-ink screen (with some basic colours) to use for coding. Imagine not having to stare at the glowing LCD for coding. I'd be so happy.
It's not that hard, it's just a matter of saving some time on weekends for instance.

If you don't have a lot of hours to put into them, just reduce the scope and do something you can complete in a few evenings / nights. Then if you're happy with it, you can iterate and get a real product out of it.

I elaborated more on the subject on my blog a few months back if you're interested: http://marcgg.com/2012/01/09/start-working-on-your-side-proj...
I haven't got any plans for it as a website, I use the domain for email. Putio is how my son used to pronounce computer when he was small. I asked what they were offering, it was a token amount and I preferred to keep it.
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Am I the only one thinking there is more to this story than what has been leaked so far ? I don't usually step up to the defense of corporate America but in my dealings with Amazon, I haven't encountered anything but stellar customer service.
I hope Amazon releases more about the specifics that led them to take such a draconian action. This is either a terrible mistake that'll come with profuse apology & additional scrutiny at their (maybe trigger happy) fraud processes....or a last ditch action to deal with a serious violation. Either way, this will need to be explained, for now conclusions are being drawn on the basis of nothing but speculation.
A PDF is a PDF, so yes for those. As for EPUB/MOBI, maybe if you're lucky to have a quality book release and a device with a screen large enough to display it properly.
We did the BizSpark program and loved it. In fact, our 3 year period is almost up. I don't get why people think you end up stuck with having to buy a bunch of licenses. Azure has basically changed all that now. Just like any other cloud platform, you pay for what you use. Except in this case you get IIS, SQL Server and many other enterprise level services.

In case anyone was curious, here is the email they send you at the end of the program.

"Your graduation from the Microsoft BizSpark program is just one month away!

The great news is that you can complete the graduation process in just three simple steps:
Answer a few questions.
Give us a little feedback.
Get your licenses.
The entire process takes just minutes. Since there are both business and technical questions, however, we do recommend both the CTO and the CEO take the time to go through the process together.

If you complete the graduation process by your graduation date, you may keep and continue to use all the software you received as part of your BizSpark MSDN Subscription for development and testing purposes. If your startup has servers in production, you will have perpetual rights to your Windows and SQL Server software solution production licenses. And, we have removed the $100 exit fee for the BizSpark program."
Businesses might not be able to choose so much where their market is, but they surely have a choice in where they set up manufacturing, R&D, corporate HQ etc etc.

In which case surely the solution is to change the basis of taxation from profits to alternative sources such as sales or commercial property, which are inherently tied to the real location where things are happening, at least for bricks 'n' mortar businesses.

Taxing on-line transactions is trickier, but even in that case there are certain relatively broad international agreemeents covering things like VAT across Europe rather than in individual countries.

Most tax systems are inherently unfair with the middle-class and small business taking more than their fair share of the burden. The increasingly globalised and virtual nature of the economy only exacerbates this.

That is probably all true right now, but it doesn't mean we have to leave things that way. Speaking as someone who runs small businesses in the UK that pay their taxes at the normal rate, with those taxes ultimately reducing the money that reaches the owners, it really is galling to see reports of big international companies getting such favourable treatment.
As soon as you give people a reason, they will argue with the specifics. The only way to get people to accept "no" and go away is to refuse to provide any additional information that they could take issue with.
Where I'm at as a JS developer, I'm looking for three things when I start a new project:

1) A object oriented system with "compiler" - currently I use the Google Closure Compiler and JsDoc style data annotations. It's basically a robust linter. For real OO, I use Resig's class implementation, but I'm not aware of any tools that support it for linting or "compiling". TypeScript is a potential breath of fresh air.

2) Something to cut down the boilerplate required to bind JS objects to the DOM. I've read most of the angular docs, but haven't had the chance to do a project using it yet. It will be interesting to see how long before there is a TypeScript import file for angular. I'm not holding my breath because I foresee competing ecosystems emerging.

3) A browser homogenization library. This isn't a big deal, just use jQuery or limit support for legacy browsers and use jQlite.
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Why the surprise? It's a reasonable guess. Everyone wants to say something is unique about humans. As more of our features are being discovered in other animals, it's good to assert something that's hard to disprove.
>If Microsoft arbitrarily decides to double their license fee, manufacturers (until recently) really have no choice but to comply.

Is this because Microsoft is forcing them to buy a license, or because the market is demanding Windows? We can debate Microsoft's sketchy practices in the past (which they were then punished for), but the here-and-now question is why do OEMs provide Windows? And my answer is, because there's not much else they can do. OEMs offer Ubuntu, and it's a very low-volume seller. OEMs offer FreeDOS, and it's a very low volume seller. When someone buys a PC, they expect it to run right out of the box and with the OS the market is demanding.

I think my point still stands. It's not a tax any more than including (and charging for) a hard drive is a tax. It's just expected that a PC will come with it. It would be cheaper for the OEMs to produce all their PCs with Linux (to the tune of ~$35 per PC), but they don't because the price decrease will not offset the sales decrease. When I bought my truck, I wanted huge 38" MT tires instead of the 31" all season tires that came with it, but I had to buy those separately because the market demands road tires.
Considering this Chromebook only uses a dual core 1.7 Ghz Cortex A15 CPU, I found this very interesting:

"On the other hand, its score makes it only a little slower than IE 9 on Windows 7 SP1 on a Gateway DX4710. This PC is powered by a 2.5-GHz Intel Core 2 Quad processor and has 6GBs of RAM and an Intel GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) 3100. In short, the ARM Chromebook does a lot more with a lot less hardware than a stock Windows PC does."
Well there's a cynical view of how to deal with the general public.