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Google does that Apple has done that too. Get a new Galaxy tab and watch in wonder how many applications get updated over next few hours or so. What use is the ability to update software OTA if the users are not delivered quick incremental updates?
Lack of secure boot also makes it impossible for remote third parties (e.g. netflix, content providers, or enterprise IT departments) to trust client software.

Even windows secure boot doesn't provide protection against a targeted attack, but conceivably a combination of EFI secure boot and a bug-free well implemented OS (heh) could provide enough protection for DRM on video content, basic enterprise computing (with non-hostile users), etc.

I still think none of this crap really belongs on the client; it is however an awesome fit on the server, which is an area people haven't really explored enough.
For our company it was the lack of the ability to selectively sync sub-folders. We would have to download 80 GB just to have a few photoshop files for a particular client synced between us while we worked on projects. Completely unusable.
The locking down is what allows people to protect the execution of their ideas. (For what it's worth, I actually would prefer secrets to the "openness" of the patent system.)

I'm not in favor of hardware lockdowns or DRM, but I don't like knee-jerk reactions to anything. There is a tension between a consumer's freedom to learn your secret recipe, and a creator's freedom to keep their recipe secret to financially enable them to produce in the first place; I don't think any answer to that tension is axiomatic or obvious.
Shopping at Prada is an interesting, carefully designed experience.

As an example, here's the google street view of their flagship store in NYC: http://goo.gl/maps/bHMZS There's no sign, and the window displays could be strange art installations just as easily as they could be retail displays: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alreadytaken/31015342/ The whole thing is reminiscent of bars that don't have signs, designed to make the consumer feel like they're "in the know" before they even enter the building.

Inside the store, the retail experience is similarly unusual: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12582419@N02/2679233658/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottnorsworthy/3031713197/ they have a massive space, but they display the goods more like a gallery displaying art than a retailer displaying pret-a-porter clothing.

I find top luxury brands particularly interesting because so much of the value they create is intangible, or arises from the handling of easy-to-miss details. There's a lot to learn from companies that charge multiples of typical solutions and earn devoted, passionate advocates in the process.
Very few loves writing documents on a tablet. Most love games, musics, books, videos. If MS focus on selling office on RT, it will be a disaster for the product, and for the company. For long documents it's going to be slow no matter how they optimize it -- we all know word is not that fast even in a desktop computer, and now they even have issues with a two-page document.
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Cryptome has been around forever. Some of their stuff is a bit "rantish" but overall I find them quite a reliable source.
Surely in a disciplined army only those instructed to do so or given a special permission are allowed to take photos, nevermind allowing free access to upload at will and without security oversight.

Do they allow soldiers to send up fireworks whenever they fancy too?

Surely enemey can use triangulation to track mobile phone signals; sniff images, calls and texts off the air and such?
And: No matter if an update was available on the first day. For a major release like that it shouldn't have come to this in the first place.

I'm somewhat confused by this statement. I've rarely heard it applied to other companies. Siri being in Beta at launch was largely forgiven on HN. Even a substantial portion of HN made excuses for the new Apple Maps (which if it wasn't listed as a beta, clearly was).

Google's second most popular product, GMail, came out of beta in just mid-2009.

Lets be real. The update was available on the FIRST day. The freakin' first day and you're complaining that it shouldn't have come to this?

On a site where the near pillar of virtually every company is to ship something that, for all intents and purposes, is barely usable on day one and iterate like crazy, it seems like an odd statement.

I have to admit that I'm probably an odd beast in that when I get a new device, I actually install the latest software. Whether its a BluRay player or a computer. I get that most mainstream users won't do that, and I get that it was likely a mainstream blog, but I'd expect better of HN readers.

In fact I'd argue if you buy a device and it does not update out the box that's probably NOT a good sign of active development on it.
The HN audience has a high overlap with Quibb. Although less technical and development focused, I discover a lot of good startup and industry-centric content through the site.
After a few years at Ohio State, I disagree with giving Comcast the benefit of the doubt and chalking this up to red tape.
In case you are not trolling, time to educate yourself with the difference between these two architectures: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/107133....

Surprise, if you copy an old mac app on your iPhone it won't run!
Good to know the problem is gone.

How does the animation feel like after an hour of use?
You seem to believe that ARM performs quite poorly compared to x86 (assuming similar clock speeds). Could you explain why?

It seems like if something could run on a ~166 MHz Pentium, it shouldn't be a surprise that a Tegra 3 (probably 1.5 Ghz or more) can run something similar. And older versions of Office ran on much less.

Even then, Apple put Pages on the iPad 3 years ago, so that should prove word processor like software could run acceptably on an ARM. The Surface is clearly much more powerful than an iPad 1.
A dev submitted code and broke our build once, when we looked at what he submitted there appear to random syntax errors in it. On his workstation the code was correct however.

We tracked it down to a switch that was corrupting packets enough that the TCP checksum wasn't sufficient protection, and the packets would simply pass their checksum despite having been altered.

The out come was that we always use compression, or encryption, as an added layer of protection.
Would you be willing to sling away an invite?
It is possible that you could generate a better 'pedia than Wikipedia simply by datamining the version history of a Wikipedia article and trying to resurrect, or piece together, a better version of the article from the previous versions.

It's not quite as stupid an idea as it sounds: many Wikipedia article histories are a series of small improvements punctuated by massive destructions (large deletions or misguided rewrites), and if the damage isn't caught immediately it doesn't get fixed at all.
It's ridiculous that a journalist writing technical blogs didn't even check that his Surface was fully patched. That's the first thing you should do with any system. I don't own a Surface so I don't know whether Microsoft told users to update their Surface shortly after starting it up, but they definitely should have so that these types of articles don't get published.
Correct. The architecture is different, and software written for x86 will not "just run" on ARM.

However, porting a userland application to a new architecture of roughly equal capability is not a major engineering accomplishment. There is significant work to be done in the compiler, in the OS kernel and libraries, and I don't mean to detract from that at all. Well-written application code (especially code for productivity apps that generally doesn't make heavy use of processor-specific features like vector ISAs) should require minimal change.

My point is simply that office should not tax the capabilities of the SoC at all, and that getting it to run isn't a major feat of engineering in itself; no limits are being pushed here. I'm not saying that Microsoft hasn't done a good job, or that Office sucks on the Surface. I'm just trying to have some perspective.
Brent, if only you'd have bothered to check and for and install updates before writing such a diatribe, your experience would have been different... hope you are enjoying your surface now. I know I am.
Everything in moderation! Check out http://thedigitaldetox.org. There are those of us who have been thinking about this problem for a while!
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"The idea of shipping a new platform, where Office is included and a core feature, with an unfinished copy of Office is crazy to me."

I've got a Surface box in front of me, and it definitely says "Includes Office Home and Student 2013 RT PREVIEW", with a footnote saying a final version of Office will be available to download in the future for free.

This was also pointed out to me in person by the assistant at the Microsoft Store when I bought it. On the one hand it would be quite nice to have a finished version of Office, but I certainly didn't feel misled when I bought it. Not that I disagree with you that Microsoft should have released a final version, but I guess the priority was to get something out ASAP.

To pose what will surely be a controversial question here: if Apple can get away with selling Siri as a core feature whilst it's in beta, why can't Microsoft do the same with Office?
If a text-focused theme doesn't do justified text align, it looks bad.
People used to build websites and tweak them for a particular browser. They'd use tags that only worked with one browser, or attributes that worked better with one browser than another.

They'd then stick a little graphic on the page saying "This site works best in [Browser name]"; often with a download link.

When Nux says "Seems like we're going back to "Built for Internet Explorer" days." I guess they're saying "It seems that we're going back to a time when people tweaked their websites to work with a particular browser, rather than concentrating on standards compliant code and cross browser compatibility".
I just bought a Surface from a Microsoft Store today, and the store assistant not only told me there were updates available but showed me how to update it. So they're definitely making a pro-active effort to encourage people to update where possible.
The name is horrible. Change it and it might see success.
I'm not sure what you saw, but your Google Drive folder is just a subfolder under your user folder, similar to how Dropbox is, I believe, in your My Docs folder. You can also right click on the icon in the systray and browse to the Google Drive folder. Are you not on Windows?
Thank you for that explanation. I believed you had said that studying what was different for centenarians - or similar biological anomalies - in a blue zone was quite possibly useless, but it seems that wasn't the case.
So there's plight. Is Altsie supposed to fix a perceived inbalance between Hollywood and low budget film makers then?

This just doesn't sound like a painful enough problem for consumers, and it doesn't sound like one many people share.
I agree. You can make unitaskers like sprite packer/unpackers image quick editors/resizers and the like but anything comprehensive is going to be hard.
First of all:

My comment does not necessarily reflect the opinion of all individuals that gather here on HN.

Therefore:

Yes, i was a critic of Siri when it first came out and also of Apple Maps.

Additionally:

You might, and things like this happen with written text, over emphasize my statement. It was by no means meant as harsh criticism, but you can't deny the fact that it shouldn't have happened and that was basically all i said.

-) why do updates not appear for some users (it was not just him)

-) when it's being marketed with running Office and then comes along in this condition, then it certainly isn't perfect

AND:

When also keeping in mind, that:

-) the Hardware seems to be astonishing

-) Design, Input methods, everything gets positive reviews

-) this a big milestone for Microsoft, showing off not only a Microsoft branded device (not just some device where their OS is running), but also a completely new direction in which they are heading

then this was not at all a perfect start, no matter how you put it.
Actually, your own link is contradicting what you're saying! Here's what it says:

"In most cases to be able to claim unfair dismissal you will have to have worked for your employer for one year if you started before 6 April 2012 or two years if you started on or after that date"

Note the bit at the end about the period changing to two years as of last April. This is a new change, if you're not actively involved in HR or hiring you may not be aware of it.
I would invite Mr. Kraus and all here on HN to look up Maggie Jackson's "Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age", a great read on this very issue. Se was talking about this years ago and has since built on her previous work.
Mostly here, my freelance work tends to come from me posting an informative comment on someone's Show HN page, telling them what is good, what is bad and what needs to change.

I often take an in depth look if there are bugs, going to my console, editing the javascript on their site and the css, to see if I can solve the bugs for them and then I email them to the poster or in the comments of the post, normally with an up vote to help them to notice quicker.

Occasionally the person will offer me work, or I will offer to do it for them, sometimes for free, sometimes for money, I'm normally not really bothered, I remember one guy bought me a pint from 2,500 miles away using an online ordering service, which was pretty cool.

I don't know about how professionals find it though, I prefer my day job to freelance work, I only take it on nights where I have nothing to do.
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Dhh is right--learn in anger by building something that you really want.
and the updated office runs on it beautifully. So what is your point again?
I imagine that if it's anything like any version of Windows to come out since XP, or possibly even earlier, that updates are one of the first things that are presented to you post-install.
The DRM for video content just doesn't make sense to me - who is it really for? Will it stop most people? Yes. Will it stop the 0.01% qualified individuals who then share it with everyone else? No!
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Unless I missed something, it seems Oracle's Java 7u9 JRE no longer enables checking of SSL Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs)[see: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/deployment/deployment-guide/jcp.html#security - search for CRL, notice the default]. Does this mean any ssl certificate that may have been compromised and placed into CRL is no longer validated?
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If you didn't pay money for it, it's not legal advice.
It isn't about explaining it better, it's about the fact people have a need to feel special and some people peg that specialness to having an article about Their Thing on Wikipedia. Patiently explaining to them that, without external verification, there's no way to prevent them from simply making shit up is not going to reduce their sense of indignation when their unverifiable stuff is deleted.
Hi,

Not sure this is something that can be hacked (yet) but travel has a few distinct steps: Discovery, Planning Booking. From your post it sounds like you are still in the discovery stage so you can use sites like TripAdvisor, Gogobot or Desti (there are a lot of others) to discover. Unfortunately I have found that a lot of these are complicators and not simplifiers. Once you know where you want to go and what you want to do you can use OTAs or companies like Hipmunk (flights) and AirBNB for accomodation booking. There are a few companies that offer complete trip booking including activities etc. but these are typically limited to specific locations. I know of a few around Europe. The other question is what type of trip this is? Sounds like you are looking for a vacation with multiple stops which makes the process more complicated but also fun. If you know your destination and type of trip I might be able to give better pointers. We are working on a much better solution at OlSet that will simplify the process but we will not be ready for prime-time until Q1 2013.
I gave it a shot, but I didn't like elisp enough to stick with it.
English is a versatile language, and words have many uses.

(http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/04/oil_dril...)

> So, there is some gain to producing a barrel of oil. It can be used to generate energy, which can be put to various productive purposes. There is value in that energy, which is why it is economically desirable for companies to go dig this stuff up out of the ground. But of course, there is a cost to producing a barrel of oil.

Here's someone talking about digging helium out of the ground.

(http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/podcast/interactive_period...)

> Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe, but here on earth, it's rather rare. Most people guess that we extract helium from the air, but actually we dig it out of the ground. Helium can be found in certain parts of the world, notably in Texas, as a minor component in some sources of natural gas.

And, with tar sands, we do dig the oil rather than drill it.
I feel disappointed when people use light shades of red or green to prove their points - it makes it difficult for color sensitive eyes to grasp the visuals.
Secure boot is a form of defense in depth that is really only needed if the kernel is compromised. So yes, the attacks that it prevents are hypothetical and may never exist. And yes, it may be too high a price to pay for the unknown level of protection that it provides.
To be honest, this update was a bit hard to find. You had to go to the desktop Windows Update to find this update.
Exactly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
He or she would probably enjoy applied mathematics. They could work at a public health establishment as a biostatistician, for example, preventing the spread of illness; or controlling quality in pharmaceutical manufacturing; or designing infrastructure like highways to avoid congestion... Mathematics has applications everywhere.

My advice would be to stay in academia -- with a PhD and 4 years of experience they are overqualified -- but search out inter-disciplinary programs, especially in computing. Collaborating with computer scientists (or becoming one) is a sure bet.
DMCA is ineffective anyways in doing what it was designed to do. Don't know why they have kept it around. Just search for NFL on youtube and you'd know what I mean
Thanks for the reply; I was wondering what key that it shifted to, since everything sounded weird when I tried it. I just do this stuff by ear and guess the key, but I've never had any music theory training. How do you recognize the key once you have the chords?
it'd be interesting if there were any digital equivalent experience to this ... I'm not even sure what a website without a "sign" or "logo" would look like.
My team built something similar at a recent hackathon. It attempts to automatically do this to an arbitrary WAV file (break up into waveforms) and generate a new piece of music:
https://github.com/osnr/markov-music
I think the leap from "spamminess" to "evil" is helped by those other two things he pointed out.
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> Surface vs. iPad vs. Android vs. Kindle may superficially be consumer products but more crucially they are platforms for building the future for a mass audience

What I find crucial is that the way this competition plays out will determine who is permitted to create, and what. Open tools encourage clever human beings, while crippled appliances give consumers learned helplessness. This is far more important than how shiny or expensive our gadgets are.
There is a tension between a consumer's freedom to learn your secret recipe, and a creator's freedom to keep their recipe secret to financially enable them to produce in the first place; I don't think any answer to that tension is axiomatic or obvious.

I actually think it is. In the online world, lockdowns are driven more by "greed" than "need". For example, in the OP I am not sure why an owned piece of hardware should be allowed to be controlled by the product manufacturer. It has a price and it is sold to me; I am free to do anything what I want to with my iPhone.
That does lessen the absurdity of it a little, but isn't Word a Desktop application so he'd be in the Desktop where he would be prompted for updates?
Losing my files in Google Drive is what made me decide to get a paid Dropbox account.
The games are designed to both get people addicted, and to get your friends involved by manipulating social gift reciprocity obligations. I think we'd have settled for "awful" up until the clawbacks, now we know the leadership at Zynga is sociopathic at best. Maybe not evil, but totally unscrupulous, totally unsympathetic.
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Well, yea I have seen and read Cryptome earlier but it made me think about Wikileaks for Wikileaks. I'm sure a few governments would be interested to support the idea behind doors. :-)
Give us an actual example of b and c that are created without knowledge of a, and you may have case. But information theory says it is unlikely, if a is deeply original and not derivative of something like b and c to begin with.
Author here - I'd be keen to hear if anyone has had success with different productivity systems for breaking done the big goals into smaller items. I've had varying amounts of success with pomodoros and personal kanban - but always interested in trying out something new.
“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”

--Blaise Pascal (17th century)
Not entirely, partially. If you could come up with an actual example, you may have a point.
All i saw when I loaded the page was $69.99, which i quickly hit the back button and went to read the comments here.

Whose at fault .. their UI and messaging I say.
Thanks. Is there a fix?
The take home message:

> "...highly anomalous election results indicate a widespread, systematic exchange of votes favoring one candidate"

> "Mitt Romney, based on our analysis, should have (statistically) gotten third rank in Iowa’s election (as opposed to second); second rank in New Hampshire (as opposed to the first rank), and so on, resulting most likely to a brokered convention at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL."

Statistics is awesome, although I suspect that public/media knowledge will mean this is brushed aside.
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> I still think none of this crap really belongs on the client; it is however an awesome fit on the server, which is an area people haven't really explored enough.

Agreed. I remember reading an IBM research paper about combining TPM and virtualization on the server, and getting excited about the possibilities. I wonder what happened to that project.

EDIT: found it! http://domino.watson.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/papers/442...
Pop songs rarely modulate, and if they do, usually modulate by step, so just find the root note and you have the key. Gangnam Style doesn't have any modulations unless you count the major I as a modulation. It definitely jumps out to the ear as something unusual.

For classical music the working key is constantly changing and often two theorists would disagree on the "harmonic meaning" of a passage. One telltale sign of a key change is an x-V-I progression (in the new key) where x is any secondary chord that leads naturally into the V. Bonus points if the x or the V don't work in the old key; if you're in C major and you hear a D7, you know something's up.
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