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A business platform that lacks the only features that differentiate Windows on the tablet from android and iOS isn't minimally viable.
nope, i am going to buy a copy before the price goes up and i thought others here might too. I assume MS would keep the price low for Win 8, but apparently not.
Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: custom background workers
Original author of that quiz here.

As dhconnelly pointed out, Java and C definitely do have their own isolated scope for 'if' blocks. More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(computer_science)#Scope_...
Yes, the font file for italic fonts are currently missing (See https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/issues/1)

I could not figure out which file is missing, yet. but as soon as I find it, I will include it and fix this.
> When storing time, store Unix time. It's a single number.

This won't work for any system that allows users to schedule events in the future. Let's say that you agree for a meeting in Moscow 1 dec 2013 3pm. The actual (astronomical) time of meeting might change significantly if they change daylight saving rules. So you need to store something like "2013-12-01 15:00 Moscow", there's no way around it.
>RT is a long term strategy. It's not a tablet OS. It's the phone too, just not yet, fully.It's not targeted at consumers. It's targeted at enterprise.

If that is the argument then MS will fail. This isn't 20 years ago where corporate could dictate what tech you used.

As it is, half of these arguments in this article are flawed. The Surface isn't as good as what was offered by OEMs or Apple. .

How does the Surface weigh more than an iPad 3 when the iPad 3 had a high-res display and was already considered to heavy? Why does the Surface have a kickstand that is useless on your lap when typing? This is what hardware design is about.

Other Win RT tablets cost more because of the lack of cash that MS has where they can pay for pre-production costs and, at the same time, they don't have to pay licensing fees for the OS

It should be irrelevant to MS if MS is competing with other OEMs. Their goal was to increase revenue.

I'm sure MS will get better at hardware and software but they should learn patience first instead of being so quick in attempting to jump both Apple and Google in product development.
It would probably be useful just to say something like "script output" - I expected the right pane to display the compiled result from the left pane, but instead saw error messages.

And yeah, expected error messages like the no-/bin should probably be filtered out. But man, great idea!
"What's more, it's a poor fit with traditional Windows network environments. Office 2013 RT doesn't include Outlook, and Windows RT's built-in Mail and Calendar apps are lousy substitutes. Neither can Windows RT join an Active Directory domain, so forget about Group Policy and other tools used by Windows IT managers."

The missing features listed above all sound like MVP features if Windows RT was targeted at a B2B audience.

Their Surface marketing also seems focused on a B2C audience, not a B2B one.

Giving employees free devices doesn't indicate anything either way.

Nothing in this thread convinces me Windows RT is a B2B-focused device.
I'll check out the password thing, and the profile visibility dropdown error - I got it. I'll fix it.
Thank You :)
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Actually, you don't have to check the final "Submit a report" box to send the message, so I don't think you are actually even submitting one.
Oh okay, I see what I got wrong, thanks.
that would be miles ahead of what the current top players do. the statistical aid that players get simply recounts what has happened in the past "your opponent has raised X% of the time, called Y%, etc." the human doesnt prune the tree of poor decisions and then have the computer simply tell it what to do, the player needs to make all strategy decisions.
Further, that type of hybrid "cyborg" situation is decidedly not optimal, it is simply the best way to make use of limited computing ability. Instead of a computer brute forcing every possible situation, the human tells it what ones are bad and to avoid. With infinite computing power, no human intervention would ever be needed, nor would it help. Obviously we dont have that kind of power, but for chess I believe it is already at the point where humans cannot improve upon a bots strategy by advising it. For poker, the issue is that these games have not been studied anywhere near to the level that chess has, so it is very likely that even a top pro would not be able to pick the "best" starting points for the program to then solve [or what ones to ignore, except for the very obvious which wouldnt be helpful]. For nearly all 2-player fixed-limit games, a pure computer strategy would win. When you add more players, the hybrid solution is needed, however, it is still not the theoretical best.
That's a rather ambitious strategy I feel. If it is seen as DOA I don't see enterprises clambering to develop software for it.

Enterprise users seem happy enough with their Win7 laptops and the odd iPad. Once they start feeling the need to move forwards , I get the feeling that WinRT will be but a memory.
Testing now - what do you think? :)
Until your business grows and you're storing dates for shows in multiple timezones, or if you need to book shows and store dates in the future when DST may or may not be in the same state as when you store the date.
MEGA could be the only cloud storage I'd actually start trusting. I don't use Dropbox, I don't use Google Drive or anything else, because I'm not interested in other people being able to peep at my data.

While I don't perceive Dotcom as a trustable character, his incentive to NOT store any encryption keys on the servers is much higher than any of his competitors.
Assuming a 40% tax rate (overestimating) and the expenses listed here, that leaves 2700/mo spare, still a good bit, but:

That 2k/mo child support payment is what's insanely high(that's rent for an entire family!). Most families don't have to deal with it, and, further, get by with significantly less money spent on their children, assuming they run the numbers and figure out an appropriate budget.
I think he is jealous of Marky..
Facebook is working on making that useless too by changing everyone's profiles to only list their @facebook.com address and redirecting all email from non-"friend"s to the bit bucket labeled "other" in Facebook's message center.

Source: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/facebook-changes-e-...
In my view, endorsement is key. Let's pretend we're listening in on that first phone call from Microsoft to MIT:

MS: "Hey, um, so we've learned that one of your students just published a way to jeopardize our entire project, one that we've spent multiple millions of dollars developing. He seems to have done it in your labs with your tools. What's your take?"

So MIT's response can go one of two ways:

1) "Yeah, how about that? Cool, huh? We didn't know about it but we fully back him and let's see what the internet does with this."

2) "Um, we had no idea he was doing this and didn't ask him to publish. He did this alone."

Do you see where each direction leads?
I had an unlicensed (but legitimately obtained) copy of Windows 7 on a VM. I upgraded with the $40 Windows 8 upgrade, and it activated without a hitch.
Have you actually used SpiderOak? While I have tried and tried, I find their interface (OSX and Win) to be utterly and irretrievably confusing.
But it's a private job board - so developers can't see any job offers until they are signed up :) Anyway - it's really a problem - until know - there is only one job offer - from the launch (around two weeks).
On servers you control, do what Google does: skew time on leap-second days, making each second slightly longer, so that the day is still the normal number of seconds. Filter inputs coming from outside so that your internal systems never see a 60th second in a minute.
How to find good (academic) problems
The interesting part is under the heading: "Hey, wait! How do we find good problems?" on the page
Well, copyright owners can still send DMCA takedown requests on links that include the decryption key. But Mega can't automatically take down copies of the data (since any copies will be encrypted by a different key), and more importantly they can't offer big copyright houses custom tools (like MegaUpload did, and Youtube does) that find and flag material for them automatically.
In the UK, the intention is to raise standards (italicised as this is a phrase used by politicians in different ways on different days and to different audiences). However, the 'normalisation' process is having exactly the opposite effect!

Our current government does like to show that the public sector has failed whenever they can. They have a small state/private enterprise agenda.
Worse: nginx/0.8.53
That would probably be the kiss of death to MS as we know it.

The big plus for using MS for business is that your users are probably reasonably familiar with it at home. And the reason they buy them at home is that they already use them at work.
What is this doing on Hacker News?
On pen and paper, the US allows for more freedoms than other European countries.

I was once arrested for "Disturbing Schools" after I was drawn out of my class for violating my school's dress code because I was cold and chose to wear a sweater that wasn't "school approved", as in it wasn't purchased from the school store an one of their approved retailers. The vice-principal tried sending me to detention for this "offense", but when I refused and returned to my class, I was arrested by the school's embedded police officer and taken to the county jail where I spent the day in lockup with myriad actual criminals (I was 17 at the time, thus qualified as an adult) until the judge released me on my own recognizance. I eventually got off with having to pay some ridiculous fine, perform community service, and undergo criminal counseling. Of course in the lovely state in which I reside, "criminal counseling" actually turned out to be a driver's education course.

It seems in this country, it doesn't matter if you violated the law. They will find one that vaguely fits the bill and contort your actions to have violated the law. Perhaps it is a "grass is always greener" mentality, but I have to hope that other modern nations are not as distorted.
I guess it depends. I usually have enough of my own pre-MVP projects that would love some attention and often some that are MVP's and would also require attention.

But building a MVP together before jumping into a full blown partnership is also rather important in terms of finding whether there's a general fit in working together, you're actually able to deliver on the non-technical aspects of the project and so on ... MVP's are also incredibly good at confirming assumptions about the market.
Of course, if you add a timezone, you are likely in trouble when daylight savings time comes/goes. That is, shows don't change times just because you effectively changed timezones.
A blog is nearly a read-only webapp, it's the easiest type of website to scale.

If you can't avoid 502s with trafic HN can make, you should'nt do benchmarks about hosting matter.
Are you sure? I don't think I'm the only one having reservations about signing up for a MEGA account. Since his last product didn't last, what tells me that the same fate is not going to hit his new project? I can't put needed files on a product that might go down with my files someday.

That said I support the guy and will use MEGA. But double back up of sensitive files with a dropbox/skydrive/google drive.
I'm a noob. How can two equal timestamps represent different times? Or do you just mean as presented in different timezones?
But Dropbox is a YC company. Why do you need the assurance of some fancy acronym like AES?
yeah that sucks. It may be a deal with the OEMs thats creates this weird situation.
I can't interpret this as anything other than nitpicky. Are you suggesting that every programmer should know about relativistic effects of time dilation in controlled scientific experiments?

I don't doubt that you have valuable experience and information to lend to the discussion, but your frame seems aggressively negative towards the OP with no discernible reason.
Do you mean your Win 7 was on a volume license?
Third point is worded really unclearly. GMT still = UTC (modulo seconds point that has been made elsewhere). BST = GMT + 1; British time is either GMT or BST depending on the time of year.

Advice to display an offset when displaying a time is wrong or at least incomplete; you should display a symbolic timezone (i.e. "London" or "Eastern US" etc.) as that's what's going to be meaningful to someone reading it.
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BS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall_Capital

They started with $100k pooled together from 3 guys' life savings. How much did they make?

Exactly.

The wikipedia article, short as it is, covers through 2010 when that $100k grew to "100 to 300 Million." Read the latest write-up of them in FT. It's a billion dollar venture now.
They're missing one very important part: dispatching on the return type. All my examples require that. That is, in Haskell, numeric literals are polymorphic on the type they are supposed to be: the type system can infer whether you need an Int, an Integer, a Double, a Word or even a Word18--which my last project did--just from using a literal number. In every other language I know, you would have to specify which one you wanted somehow, either by using a current syntax (like 0L or 0.1) or calling a function on the number. In Haskell, the type system can figure it out for you.
rails -g scaffold developer name:string desc:text

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So this says all files will be encrypted with RSA, doesn't that mean who ever wants to access them needs the key? Is this just not a successor to Megaupload then? How will sharing files publicly work? Or will it at all?
Actually I have read studies that indicate that depressed people have a better grasp of reality and that the state that we consider normal is the state of a slight delusion.
There's a bunch. Some are better than others.

Here's a list, taken from (http://www.kimpl.com/1297/secure-online-backup-file-sync-ser...) which also has some reviews.

(https://www.sugarsync.com/)

(https://www.dropbox.com/)

(https://www.wuala.com/)

(https://www.syncplicity.com/)

(https://mozy.com/)

As others say, there's a difference between syncing and hosting; between levels of security; between ease of use; etc.

And obviously Tarsnap is great, for people who know what they're doing.

(https://www.tarsnap.com/)
So true! Almost every week an entrepreneur contacts me and wants me to come his Next Big Idea and that on equity basis. I usually ask: If it's such an awesome idea then why doesn't he get funding and pay to developers. Usually they have no answer.
Yes the core is a tight crew http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/team-members/
and 2.5.x is a robust engine and there are customers that are happy with it

There also contribution for configuration scripts (you can spot in the video in the win32/posix folder) , documentation and drivers (python/jdbc/.net/node.js) are in other repositories and it's a lot easier to contribute and understand maybe because let's say python is easier to read than C++ and relational engines
Sad to hear that. I don't use Safari, but maybe it cannot compete with the JS engines of Firefox and Chrome's version of the Webkit engine.

This script reqiures a lot of computation in JS and communication between the website and the webworker (~300kb). Maybe Safari is unable to cope with this in a decent amount of time.
We expect too much of geeks
Be careful with those seemingly private 'share this report' links
Do a Google search for:

site:https://qualaroo.com/share/

and you'll see what I am about to get at. That's the tl;dr.

My bet is that most of the owners while aware that their share URLs were publicly accessible to those who have the link (> Qualaroo says explicitly that the URL is public <), they perhaps weren't intending for them to be easily accessible via Google.

As to whether this is a problem or not? It's a clear trade-off between convenience and privacy control and the answer may depend on the type of information being shared. While Qualaroo strips IP addresses and other identifying information, I do see some personally identifying information in those results (Qualaroo has no control over what its customers ask of their audience using Qualaroo, or over what responses are provided).

I believe vendors have a duty to their customers to provide them with control strong tools to protect their information.

As to how they ended up indexed by Google? Who knows - maybe they're getting better at indexing the Deep Web. Either way, the vendor should have robots.txt'd this from happening.

I hope this was at least mildly interesting to some and at best a warning to others!
It irritates me to see how people simply rip off Dustin Curtis' SVBTLE layout. This is disgusting.
The website's author even thanked HN specifically: http://alias.sh/thank-you-hacker-news-community
Ask HN: Is there a place where I can sell an MVP?
I built a minimum viable product for an idea earlier but moved on to another one.

But the MVP is fully functional and the idea is generic so it can click with someone else too.

I have following things to go with it:
- domain name
- brand logo
- themed already
- an year worth of hosting to go with it as well (obviously hosting is reusable but since its hosted already, you get a fully functional thing).
- technology stack is RoR, MySQL, JQuery, Bootstrap.

I have heard of couple of sites such as:
stylate.com and brandbucket.com
for selling domain name with brand logo.

I was wondering if there is a market place to sell MVPs (basically a domainname, brand logo, fully functional website, themed and hosting for an year)
[SPOILERS]

I got tripped up by question #5 of one of the expert quizzes [1] due to a difference between ActionScript 3 and JavaScript [2].

In AS3, `(a).b` is equivalent to JS's `(null, a).b`. That is, the `this` binding is lost in AS3 (but not JS). I thus thought the anser was "20, 10, 10, 10", and not "20, 20, 10, 10".

AS3 is not a superset of ES3 as most people believe.

[1] http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/ecmascript/the-quiz/

[2] I have been working on an AS3 compiler lately, which is why I mixed JS and AS3.
Ask HN: What's a great webapp for managing volunteer website translation?
I have a small static website that is in English, and I need to translate it into French.

I'd love something which would take my website, break it up into a list of strings that need to be translated, and let volunteers submit translations in bite-sized chunks. Does anything like that exist?

It would also be okay if I had to enter the strings to be translated manually. If not, anyone want to build it? (I don't, but you'd have at least one user :))
thanks for sharing! also heard some horror-stories from a friend who is a heavy advertiser on adwords (US though)!
Spotify uses 100% of your upload bandwidth, no exception.
It's really hard to tell what back doors proprietary operating system have created and you lose your rights to privacy as soon as you start using proprietary blob.
Does Google's crawler 'discover' and index URLs shared in Google Mail, Gtalk? Thinking around ways in which these obscured links find their way into Google.
Yes, then you're effectively running your own OSS project as well. If you want to be in that business, new rules apply. But just working privately on a forked repo? Legit will be fine.
WebKit is an implementation of standards, not a standard itself, and is primarily developed by Apple.
Is a fancy acronym like YC any better? I would trust the founders not to look at private data, but any company that has employees is vulnerable to one of them going rogue.
I'm a woman. I don't comment or post here, but I lurk.
:) why things has to be complicated. If `rails -g scaffold * ` solves a problem then what's wrong with it ?
You're not tempted by Tarsnap?

Wuala claim to be unable to access your files (https://www.wuala.com/en/learn/technology) (but who knows if they're lying?)
Fascinating story and agree.

Personal example: Friend worked for large financial services company in mid-2000s. Company branded themselves as #1, largest, highest volume, etc. They were soon buried in litigation. In particular, several state attorney generals used company as a career stepping-stone for a headline ("State AG Sues XYZ for Millions"), and later settle for something much smaller (i.e. rebated 4 customers). Company also seemed the first stop for negative media about the industry. For them, being branded #1 was expensive.
> At the end of 2013, they should be a even less relevant than today.

At the moment, Microsoft own slightly less than 100% of the enterprise desktop market. At the end of 2013 they will almost certainly own slightly less than 100% of the enterprise desktop market.

You live in a bubble.
"The idea being proposed is often very unrealistic"

For some reason developers/engineers tend to be pessimistic while leaders/idea people tend to be optimistic.

In order to produce really great products you probably need both sides -- so don't dismiss the "idea guy" without giving the proposed idea at least some thought. Perhaps the original idea is too broad but can be the basis for a useful product.
https://flippa.com
I hope you meant 4 or 8 bytes not bits....
Red October Attackers Shutting Down C&C Infrastructure
But 200 days means you're working 40 weeks of the year leaving 12 weeks for everything else. I know some contractors aren't always working but I work next to ten other python developers who are only on six month contracts. Notice periods are anywhere from a day in some places to a month in others. Same as employment really.

Also, which startups here in the UK give you 12 weeks off a year?
It's all in the article. You can either send the recipient the key in a side channel or include it with the link.
Exactly. In addition: If on court order someone wants to access my data in the cloud, even (or especially) a YC company will follow the order.

The only protection against that is that the cloud storage provider doesn't have the encryption keys.
A very good open source package for handling date-time is ICU (http://site.icu-project.org/) which handles a lot of globalization/internationalization issues.
According to the site "Wuala protects your privacy: In stark contrast to most other cloud storage services, all your files get encrypted on your computer, so that no one - including the employees at Wuala and LaCie - can access your private files. Your password never leaves your computer."
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Google Looking Into Hardware to Help Kill the Password
You could do that if there is a per-file key. But you'd need some client software to store and manage keys for individual files for easy exporting urls including these keys, and I read that MEGA is managed only via web (at least now).
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"Hurray, I'd love to hear more about every single software written in the past 70 years compiled to LLVM bytecode and then translated with Emscripten to JavaScript!"

I would hardly call this porting something.

EDIT: I just remembered I ported Microsoft Word to Linux by running it inside a Windows VM.