skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good lord... this is an article written by someone with an incredible bias. I mean he takes so many low-blows on the salespeople and belittles everyone and everything about the store. They are trained to sell things to an average consumer... not a tech-savvy blogger who knows his/her stuff. Most consumers don't even know what a sound card is or that a computer has ram. Marco needs to relax... not to mention that his mean-spirited article with identifiable employee faces could subject him to civil liability.
I could not agree more with the distinction the author draws between Apple's products and Microsoft. Sure, Apple's ecosystem is limited, but Microsoft's offering is very rough and will do many tasks poorly at the cost of doing just a few tasks well.
You should have seen the Santa Barbara Apple store in August on a Saturday evening. It was dead.
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In Java, you can run into situations where two classes share a method, but because they don't implement a common interface, for instance because they're part of two different libraries, you can't e.g. write a method that accepts instances of either. You can't straightforwardly take advantage of polymorphism.

In Go this is never an issue; you can declare an interface that captures the methods you're interested in, and the existing code automatically implements it. It's kind of like duck typing in python (e.g. this function will work on any object that has a method <x>), except it's statically typed.
It's alive. Alive! Adapteva reached their target; right now they are at $769,996 pledged with a $750,000 goal, which was cleared on october 27th between 2 and 3 am. Not sure what (US) timezone this refers to.

Source: http://canhekick.it/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomp...), 13.700 projects graphed). Great project, Daniel.

Did not delve into past performance of kickstarter projects, but comments from across the net seem to confirm rrreese's comment: "Backing is concentrated very heavily in the first three days and the last three. Projects that have reached 80% of their funding goal by the last three days are extremely likely to succeed."

Canhekickit states several todo's, of which aggregates and prediction would be especially useful.

Any comments on how the funding dynamic of future kickstarter/other crowdfunding projects would be affected if this data would be available?
This guy is biased. That's all.
or did he receive it today as a Microsoft employee?
Does anyone know if Amazon ec2 instances would actually be vulnerable to this attack? For instances with dedicated cpu being promised (i.e. everything except micro), it seems reasonable that they'd be running Xen with processor affinity turned on, thereby preventing any attack exploiting L1 cache.
I think you underestimate the importance of moving around. Private jets are really really tiny!
Cabin size is like a "stretch" prop plane more than a private airline
West Germany and East Germany, North Korea and South Korea, China and Taiwan

These nations exhibit a strong difference in adult height also. The reason is well known to be mass childhood malnutrition in command political-economies.

Ethical studies cannot reproduce the effect because malnourishing children is not ethical. Relationships between environment and heritable factors in human development are heavily dependent on context and cannot be objective by definition. When that context includes an overwhelming factor like childhood malnutrition or childhood lead exposure, the results will be extreme. The usual randomized controlled trials or twin studies or genetic marker studies cannot adequately deal with that kind of effect and are not really intended to.

Modern academic studies of IQ seem to refer to populations of well fed, healthy, well cared-for, children raised with free education according to a uniform curriculum in free liberal nations. That is very much a formula for shrinking environmental effects by shrinking environmental variance. It's the reverse of a twin study; you make the environment uniform so all the difference in outcome must be a result of heritable factors. Such studies often indicate that g is 60% heritable.

If you threw in some lead poisoning -- as was near universal in the 1950-1975 generation -- or childhood malnutrition -- very common before the twentieth century everywhere -- you would get a very different result. That's not a defect; it's built into the nature of these studies.
I was at Bellevue mall this evening, and the Microsoft store was packed solid with a long line outside. The nearby Apple store was empty.

Interestingly, all the laptops in the MS store had a touchscreen. The Apple laptops did not. I think MS has changed the game here, with my playing around with the MS store laptops I found the touchscreen interface to be a welcome addition (not a replacement, the touchpad mouse works the same as always).
Thank you.

I was an NMSQT semi-finalist, but not a finalist, so I'm fairly certain I don't qualify as an NMSQT Scholar however, by your definition, I probably aced it. The extent of my studying (for any standardized test) was taking an SAT book from the common library in the house and placing it on the shelf in my room.

I've never put much stock in it, but if what you're saying is true, it has ramifications for my worldview in general. I guess what I'm trying to say is thanks for giving me some perspective, I have some thinking to do.
> It's like they took C and went to the best disciples of C's creators

I'm confused, didn't they go to the _actual_ C creators? Or am I misunderstanding something?
Actually with all the USB support the Surface has, you probably can change the sound "card".

http://www.amazon.com/Syba-SD-CM-UAUD-Adapter-C-Media-Chipse...
FWIW, I frequently want to do things that are not possible/effective on GAE. And so I do it - several of my GAE apps communicate with services I set up in rackspace cloud (30-40 ms of latency away). It would probably be even lower running in Google's cloud service, but I haven't gotten an invite yet.

GAE is not "all or nothing". You can still run exotic services in other hosts. Or, for that matter, use GAE for specific services in your "other cloud" app. You get two bills. Not much of a downside.
Congratulations. I was a doubter in the first thread on Parallela, but I'm very impressed and happy that you guys achieved your goal.

I'd love to hear more about your plans to build a community around the boards now. I'm working on building a community around a yet unreleased but announced open source project myself (http://famo.us/) and I'm in the early stages of planning everything.

Check out The Art of Community by Jono Bacon, the guy who was responsible for the Ubuntu community. That book has a lot of good stuff.

http://www.artofcommunityonline.org
The man Peter Brand in Moneyball is based on.
It sounds like you just get a seat.

> BlackJet seeks to partner with charter jet services to help them fill space on flights

If they are doings set routes like it sounds, that makes sense. If you have the whole plane you should be able to go where you want. But then you have NetJets.
I am waiting to see the pricing on the Surface Pro. That is what I am interested in. I was very close to buying an ultrabook but am holding off to see how the SP is as a general computer as well as a tablet.
I just cancelled my pledge, feel free to get that (it's a $99 level pledge)
That's pretty debatable and I will actually walk out of a store if staff continue to bother me after I have already politely said I do not need help. I have found that this happens all the time in consumer electronic stores. They circle you like vultures and butt in and explain things even after you have said you don't need or want their assistance.

Thank goodness for Internet shopping. Whenever I can I buy online specifically so I don't have to put up with sales people like the ones described in this article.
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When Jon Stewart on the Daily Show mocks Chatroullete for being like Russian roulette but with penis instead of bullets, that means something. Their writers have a finger on the pulse of society.

I don't at all think it is doomed, though. It just means extra effort to emphasize how it isn't just people doing the equivalent of the old IRC "A/S/L???"
You are screwed if a client needs them and you have to upload them again somewhere else, which in many cases could take hours if not days.
> You say you are a victim of ageism, but I don't see much in this story to support that conclusion.

There's a lot of information in tones of voice.
If you're coming from Ruby, you'll feel right at home, perhaps less so if you're coming from JS. What I found surprising and fun about Go is just how similar it is to scripting languages in style, and how much baggage it drops from C (header files, explicit types, pointer arithmetic etc).

The lack of header files, clear and simple syntax, minimal language core, and predictable standard library all combine to make it feel very like a compiled Ruby, though obviously there are differences. The main differences coming from a dynamic background are the type system, interfaces, imports and packages (no circular imports), and the lack of dynamic loading - everything is loaded at compile time. Interfaces feel a little like duck typing with checks on whether a type really does quack like a duck at compile time!

If you mean writing a web app, it's not really as mature as other ecosystems in terms of support for this, but would be great for a smaller, minimal web-app, if you mean writing a web server from scratch, go is a great place to start, and even has a good example for you to look at in the built-in server:

http://golang.org/src/pkg/net/http/server.go
Not the same thing. Think public-vs-private portion of a class.
Marco was asking a Microsoft store employee if he applied to Apple store first. In what world...? It's hard to compete with that level of personal investment.
Wait, ban a site because it's consistently popular on HN? Clearly, many people here agree with him. (I don't, but that's OK)
Maybe Android, but I can't see how Chrome could be that. It's a browser that runs web applications. Every other OS has a browser and runs web applications.
It would be worth formalizing your bus plan. I specifically chose a mainstream backup service over Tarsnap because you're running a one man shop.
I did, I'm a bit of a gadget geek
I routinely suffer going into a store and not being to able to find staff because they are busy chatting on the phone, or just openly not giving a shit. As much as I hated 'overeager' when I lived in the US, they could at least help me get the information or the product I was looking for.
No lol, i work at MemSQL
What if my friend posts on FB?
Jaybird: Java and Firebird
It is strange the way negative comments float to the top of most HN stories, but I guess it sometimes makes for interesting debates.

Do they think the point of Haskell isn't to make programming easier?

This comment makes me genuinely curious, why do you feel Haskell has not taken off? Do you feel it is easier than Go to use or to pick up?
Which APIs specifically are you missing that aren't in the compat libraries? I agree that Google should be putting in more effort here and not leaving it up to a third party to come up with a backported action bar implementation but so far I've had pretty good luck with the compat libs.

I also agree that there are some rough edges in the fragments API but it's nothing like the mess that view controller containment is on iOS.
Maybe you're dreaming of http://sparkleshare.org/
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It is not apples and oranges. People making a utility-based purchasing decision can only compare the 1st generation Surface to the 4th generation iPad.

The amount of R&D has no relevance to a consumer. The relevant thing is how much value the device provides.

I agree that the expectation and advantage is to have your tablet serve as your one and only computer. But this will never be actually true since most people will actually have to carry around a phone (or phablet). The portability and availability of a phone will beat out that of a tablet. Try jogging with a tablet. What a tablet currently buys you is a larger screen and a keyboard that you can type on for awhile.

A truer statement may be that this tablet's aim is to take on additional functionality found in desktops and laptops and not found in other tablets. In Microsoft's mind, that functionality is Office and access the file system.

You can plug in microSD and USD into an iPad. You need the accessories. Agree that they don't let you use external storage.

If you want open computing, you shouldn't be picking Microsoft, nor Apple, nor Google. Are you saying that you want to depend on an entity whose sole purpose is to make money to supply you with open source code in the long run? How about Oracle with Java? Or Compuserve with gif? Corporations don't even trust other corporations with key technologies without making them open source or FRAND. If you truly want open source, you should be branching Android and replacing or removing Google services with open source alternatives.
Odd, I played with the Surface yesterday and the device I used was much different than the one described here. I have an iPad (and love it in many ways), however found the Surface fairly refreshing in several ways. For one:

I find that I can't really hold the iPad with one hand, partially because the shape and weight distribution, partially because it feels so incredibly fragile. I found the Surface to be shaped comfortably, even for one hand, and thought it felt much more durable than the iPad (this article states it doesn't feel light like the iPhone 5, however even though it's comparable in weight to the iPad 3, my first thought was that it feels kind of like the lightness and increased sense of durability of the iPhone 5).

>> I couldn’t type on the Touch Cover significantly faster than with the on-screen keyboard.

Seriously? I type on the iPad a lot and resort to "pecking" most of the time, and I have fairly average sized hands. I instantly was able to use the touch cover like a normal keyboard. I made a few mistakes, but could easily see myself typing nearly as fast as a normal keyboard with a little practice. I have no such feeling with the iPad.

>> Apple’s products say, “You can’t do that because we think it would suck.” Microsoft’s products say, “We’ll let you try to do anything on anything if you really want to, even if it sucks.”

Wow, what a sad sounding world for people who like Apple products.

I'm not going to buy a Surface yet, but I'm seriously tempted.
I highly recommend AppCode from JetBrains. I only use XCode for IB and for project configuration now and I'm much happier.
Funny, because Paul Thurrott's http://winsupersite.com is completely banned from being on HN, most probably from overzealous MS haters flagging articles to death.
Scraping data via app permissions is prohibited by TOS but not policed.
On the subject of trolling, isn't the very store he went into some kind of meta-troll. Built to be encountered before the Apple store is reached, copying layout and staffing concepts, trying to divert people from buying iPads, coyly calling the competition (iPad) a tablet, rather than name it. I think that there is a reasonable augment to be made that Microsoft is trolling Apple. The smart cover keyboard though, that's a definite win however I look at it.
Wait, so Apple invented the idea of a store with flat tables and sales staff with blue shirts? First of all, practically every high end women's shoe or bag store had that "Art Gallery" presentation style: hardwood floors, uncluttered and spacious, simply flat tables or shelves with few products. Although the sales people are usually dressed very sharp.

But Apple did not invent this style of presenting consumer electronics. Sometimes I feel like Marco, MG, and Gruber were born 5 years ago. Am I the only one who bought nice, industrial designed stuff from stores like Bang and Olufsen? The Beocom 2 came out in 2002 and some of the Bang and Olufsen stores had flat tables like that. And if you visited some of the boutique stores in Italy or Japan even 10 years ago you would find some with this layout.

And didn't BestBuy invent the blue-shirt guy? I'm kind of bored of the continued notion that Apple was the first consumer electronics company to obsess over industrial design, build quality, or retail presentation.
Major tech organizations being friendly with each other? Unthinkable! We must put a stop to this madness before it spreads to to other tech companies and humanity in general!

But don't fear, we always have Apple v. Google, Microsoft v. Apple, Samsung v. Apple and a whole host of others to remind us of how we should behave.
I'm surprised you use the battery up fast. I find charging mine annoying too - mainly because I so rarely have to do it that I don't have a set pace to do it (damn, I have to unplug the phone, wonder there I put the other charger). I seems to last an age on one charge. Its used pretty much 100% for reading and browsing.
I don't mind posting here and saying how wrong I was. Because on the original post, I said for sure it wouldn't be funded.

To show that I have sufficiently eaten crow, I felt I should make this post and pledge $99 + $20 (for a case) to them. And so I have.

EDIT: Clever use of the ?foolhn tag. I was going to post the Kickstarter link to HN as penance for my doubting Thomas ways but I've never submitted anything, and when I tried, I got a dupe check, so I didn't bother.
I presume he did that so that if he got an affirmative answer he could've declared that Microsoft was hiring Apple Store rejects.
Well, you disagree with Microsoft. As an exec said here (sorry to link to BGR) http://bgr.com/2012/10/25/microsoft-executive-mundie-intervi...
MS lead the way with tablets and touch based systems. If they were first, the surface isn't version 1.
Very wise comment IMHO. More complex = more complex failure modes. The only way to improve is Less complex.
Well also probably local storage has a number of other advantages from the point of view of performance.
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Great, thanks! Can't wait for this book.
I think aws uses drbd (http://www.drbd.org/) for replicating the writes to the standby. Among the replication modes of drbd suggested here: http://www.drbd.org/users-guide-emb/s-replication-protocols.... I suspect they probably use B and landed in a state where packets got delivered but werent written on the standby.
I think it's about the long game.
Go is for now.
Haskell is for eventually. Mostly.
VALUE SELLING.
The Webapp Design Handbook?
That's quibbling. Irrespective of how you label the devices, a consumer making a decision compares the two devices at hand.
I had this experience of "revolution" before the iPad came out, when I bought my second-hand tc1100 stylus tablet PC. Pretty much, the use cases for the iPad are the same as the old tc1100. The only differences are much better battery life on the iPad and no need for a stylus and to pay attention to which GUI item has focus.

Tablets do change how you use computing, simply because they are more mobile than the PC. Instead of a stationary tool, you now have a portable version.
Why? If it is going to misbehave it doesn't care what settings you choose in Windows Update.
It captures his frustration: arguing with someone, knowing no amount of logic or evidence will change their position.

An atheist might say its like arguing with a christian.

A pc person might say its like arguing with an apple fanboy.

Batman arguing with joker?

This was not a great or balanced blog post by any means, but I didn't think this sentence was the worst part.
All good points. Clearly you have been reading him for longer than I. Perhaps his long term predictions are worse than I realised.
I do think this is both a strength and a weakness. Admin interfaces and plugins/apps are great to get you up and running fast (this is similar to the scaffolding point above), but they are also the part of any ecosystem which introduces subtle bugs and dependencies.

By the time you get to crud admin and plugins, you're at the point where the benefits of the framework start to come with significant additional costs (in maintenance, flexibility, comprehension etc). A pre-built app or plugin gets you up and running quickly but when you start to modify it you really need to understand the entire app/plugin before you can do so efficiently. Often people feel this is as significant a roadblock as simply writing it from scratch in the first place.

Any complex webapp is probably going to outgrow standard admin/scaffolding, and any complex usage is going to require modifications of things like plugins and gems, so while they're nice to have in an ecosystem I don't see them as essential. This is an area where django has more built-in that say rails though, and it'd be interesting to see a Golang framework trying to take the best ideas from all these other popular frameworks.
Haven't tried the Surface yet but something I haven't seen anyone mention is that when you are typing on the Touch Cover, your hands are not hiding the screen. That seems like a big plus to me.

Kickstarter idea: pitch a "Touch Cover" product for the iPad (could be done using the USB port I believe). PS: lawyer up!
My 13" Macbook Air and iPad (Gen 1, 2, and 3) haven't been more than 35' away from me in two+ years except when I'm (A) Showering, or (B) going to the washroom. (And actually, because my shower is within 35' of my bed and gym locker, we can even eliminate that exception)

So, you don't have to convince me of the utility of each, and where they are optimized. But, I would so love to just have one sub 16 ounce gadget to carry around with me, with some amazingly easy to manage keyboard/touchpad (with a bunch of USB3.x ports) when I need it. It would also make keeping my video/song files a lot easier to keep synced.

Switch to OS/X when I've got the keyboard attached, and switch back to IOS when I don't. Or something. I don't know. But I really only want to carry / charge a single device.
Sorry, but what's CLR?
>Do they think the point of Haskell isn't to make programming easier? That's what most of the research into the language is exactly about!

After a decade of trying to "get" Haskell, I have to say that they are doing an awful job at it.
Blog spam.

http://www.shapeways.com/model/699026/button-2-0.html
Good idea.

You could also add a bit to the script explicitly looking for zero byte files and alert yourself to their formation.
Biased? It's written by Marco Arment, well known author of Instapaper and now "The Magazine" - recent speaker at Cingleton. Of course he's biased. It's like complaining that Anne Coultier is being conservative.

But, I disagree with you on the writing - he clearly put a lot of work into that essay, and it's less egregious than what I would expect from the other pundits.
There have been a lot of accusations of that over the years, which was part of the reason why the analogies section was dropped. Here's an article from 2003 mentioning probably the most infamous SAT question in this regard ("runner : marathon :: regatta : oarsman" -- the issue of course being that wealthy students are more likely to know what a regatta is): http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jul/27/local/me-sat27