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What if Mircorsoft had called Windows 8 as some Neo OS v1 (or beta)? What if they had said that this OS is:

1. Optimized for low power chips and is very power efficient
2. Cloud centric and integrates all the modern breed of sensors like accelerometer, GPS, proximity, ...
3. Supports touch and pen inputs as natively as Windows supports keyboard and mice.
4. Super fast
5. Runs your legacy Windows applications
6. Supports most of the devices like cameras, scanners, printers meant to work with Windows
7. Runs in several form factors
8. Gives a familiar .NET and HTML environments to develop applications

I think, calling it Windows has set an expectation for start button and desktop as the landing screen and led to this widespread disappointment. Microsoft failed to get users to approach it with a desire to explore. By making their new OS the mainstream OS shipped with every PC sold (with or without necessary hardware support), they neither chose the initial seed users right nor gave the OS a good chance with right devices.
See the thing is, intuitive is an odd concept. We've learned how Windows works over the years, so now it seems "intuitive", but from observing people learning PC's for the first time, this sort of stuff is just as hard for them on 7, 8, or XP!

Now: that's the cause of the problems with Windows 8. We've all had to go back to square-one. Windows 8: the great equaliser ;)

There's a few things I don't like in it, just like every OS. But, it's not bad, I think. Good luck!
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New England missionaries, I've been told, were the ones who set up the first English language schools in Hawaii.
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"If I'm eating out of a truck, it's because I want to pay less than sitting at a restaurant." I'm eating out of a truck because I want the food they provide. If a food truck provides better food than a restaurant, I don't mind paying more.
>and doubt that there is anything good that can come from it.

For a couple where neither person is crazy, plenty of good comes from it in the form of sexual intimacy.

The fact is that if you're in a long term relationship with someone, trust them, and get close to them, you're going to share details of your life with them that could be used against you. Nobody is so clean that they are immune to this - the only limiting factors are the intelligence of the scorned lover, and the degree of their psychosis.
I'm ok with regulation pertaining to food standards and service.

I'm equally ok with Apple's App Store curation.

But it's a tricky line to get right. When visiting countries with street food cultures, you can generally do ok by following the local crowd. But that's because the local establishment isn't going to screw the pooch and poison the regular clientele if they can help it.

We live in a society attempting to outsource trust, whether by government regulation, flimsy technological crowdsourced reputation or other equally ephemeral measures of quality.
Win 8.1 is supposed to ship with IE 11.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#Internet_Expl...
You might be thinking of 'The Outer Limits' episode 'The Light Brigade'[1] va juvpu jr yrnea nobhg gur vzcbegnapr bs vapyhqvat orggre snvyfnsrf va bhe cynarg-ohfgref. [rotted for spoilers]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_Brigade_%28The_Outer...
I wonder if you're confusing refund for chargeback. Chargebacks are often used by people who a) use the product for a while, b) decide they want their money back, c) know the vendor won't return their money as there's no real reason to so d) call up their credit card company instead, dispute the charge, get their money back and see the vendor lose that sale + get hit with a $25 chargeback fee.
Magit is fantastic. If you don't use emacs but instead use Vim, you should check out fugitive (https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive)
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I thought this conversation was great until the downvote happened. So far, the opinions that have been expressed here are pretty good, it got even better when someone that had actually been abused started to share their experiences. Using the combined intelligence of the posters plus the unique perspective and experience of the poster that was abused, I'm sure an intelligent conclusion could have been reached.

The downvote clearly shows that someone here is lacking maturity. Downvoting because you don't like what was said is mindless censorship.

Also, I like your point about emotional investment. I am way too emotionally invested when it comes to drink driving. I lost both parents to a drunk driver and I would happily see hanged any drink driver. This is an emotional response rather than a logical one and this is why people with too much emotional investment shouldn't make the rules. Their input is definitely needed though.
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My point is that even in a perfect business environment, most food trucks would fail.
"This may amount to evisceration, but it's nothing compared to a judge getting angry at drug dealers turning that kind of a profit."

It may be if they end up on the wrong side of a RICO prosecution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RICO : "Under RICO, a person who is a member of an enterprise that has committed any two of 35 crimes—27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes—within a 10-year period can be charged with racketeering. Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and sentenced to 20 years in prison per racketeering count. In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of 'racketeering activity.' RICO also permits a private individual harmed by the actions of such an enterprise to file a civil suit; if successful, the individual can collect treble damages (damages in triple the amount of actual/compensatory damages)."

And actually if you keep reading the summary, the bad news goes on.

Patience.

That said, in general I think you're right about the relative safety of white collar crime. But it is possible to overplay that hand, and that may have happened here.
The description of the status display is almost exactly what happens when you type ":Gstatus" while you are editing a file under a git repository in vim, if you have the fugitive plugin installed. If you use vim, you might be interested in this - there is some extra smoothness you get when you don't have to leave your editor.
After talking with a bunch of people at MicroConf last week, I noticed that a lot of consultants were having a hard time bridging the gap between selling their time and selling products.

Happy to answer any questions.
The change pulls chunked encoding parsing from the proxy to the core, but doesn't introduce new functionality.

Also, are you sure this change introduces the flaw? It looks like it could have been there before the refactor, as well.
Not that it matters at this point, but "closing loopholes" was not President Obama's tax position during the debt ceiling negotiations. He cleverly made a big deal about a penny-ante change to private jet depreciation, but the meat of his proposal was a combination of higher rates and lower deductions for high earners. Neither of which could be properly described as loophole-closing.
This is great stuff. The viewsets are about to save me lots of repeated code!
i too like the fact that the makers of sourcetree write about it.

I've been using tig since the very first version. I have tried to find something similar for mercurial without luck. it's probably one of the main reasons why i prefer git over mercurial (usability wise anyway)
At the top of the file, in "usual"? They're bitfields of allowable characters.
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Well yeah, what's intuitive is indeed subjective and depends entirely on what the user has already learned, which harks back to my first post - changing things so much is a very dangerous game for an incumbent whose market-share pretty much relies on them not upsetting their users.

Many of their users have taken many years to learn how to operate previous iterations of Windows satisfactorily, and switching stuff around frustrates them.

Myself I'll be sticking with Debian/XFCE because I like it and I don't feel like I'm constantly being told that I'm doing it wrong!
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There isn't enough manpower to fine everyone doing anything wrong every day. Parking fines are generally much higher than the parking cost because it's impractical to catch every illegally parked vehicle every time; the whole idea is to make the expected cost of parking illegally greater than the expected cost of parking legally, while limiting the cost of enforcement. Similarly, I am under no delusion that speeding is fine on days I don't get caught.
An example would show better what the author meant.
Author here...

The boilerplate comment is definitely valid, and is pretty much what this release was intended to address.

We've now introduced ViewSets (an extension of class based views that is similar to Rail's controllers) and Routers, which make it super quick and easy to get your API up and running.

The updated README should give you a good idea how simple the APIs can be now:

https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework

I get the impression that what TastyPie does really well is convention-over-configuration - making a bunch of really sensible design decisions on your behalf. What (I hope) REST framework does really well is staying close to Django's conventions, and being easy to customize all the way through, plus of course the browseable API. Either way, there's certainly plenty of folks happy with both frameworks.
In my one visit to NYC (from o/s) I loved getting food from the trucks.

They were cheap and tasty - we couldn't afford to go into restaurants or even diners.
Plausible deniability if your are so overt your caught bang to rights then any intel you have is tainted and the contra inteligence guys can feed you duff information via double agents which you pay for.

MI5's first motor car back in ww1 was funded by the German intelligence services when they captured a spy and feed bad information back and got the Germans to send their suborned spy money.

Think Captain Renault in Casablanca :-)
I think you either didn't read the article or you completely missed the point of it.
Django REST framework inherits its Views from Django's Class-Based Views. If your app is using CBVs elsewhere, it is one less interface to have to get familiar with. When I need to do something a little advanced the familiar methods get(), post(), dispatch(), get_queryset(), etc are present. Also, most Mixins for Django's CBVs work fine with Django REST framework's Views. Django REST framework separates its logic into two main classes Serializers and Views, compare to Django TastyPie which combines these concepts into a class called a Resource. A Resource also combines what is a ListAPIView and RetrieveAPIView in Django Rest framework, but having them seperate can let you do things like return different model fields for the ListAPIView verus the RetrieveAPIView. Django REST framework's standout feature is the browsable API, which lets explore the API from your browser.

TastyPie is more "complete" than Django REST framework. It has URL routing, which makes setting up an API namespace in your URLs super simple. It has queryset filtering from the URL (e.g. /articles/?author=1). Django REST framework relies on another third-party app to do this. It also has caching built-in. I find it's internal interface a little bit more confusing the Django REST framework's, but that could be that I am just more familiar with Django CBVs.
There's a bit of selection bias due to the fact that you are reading HN. I can promise you that the small percentage of people who work in the software field are a type of educational elite, and you are, generally, going to live in places and work in offices with other members of the globo-corporate elite. Also, just to be clear, MANY, MANY people who speak regional dialects at home or informally will shift into a northeastern, "business standard" dialect when in a work setting. I should know. I am one of them. My Appalachian accent does me few favors in business environments.
Leaner, Cleaner, Meaner PR
I think that the major issue with the desktop is that it really isnt a desktop in the old sense (where you can access "everything") and more like a desktop simulation for no-metro software
states including Maine, New Jersey, and Virginia have limited the use of ALPRs, and New Hampshire has banned them outright.

Good to know, and just another reason to live in NH :)
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Windows 8 completely broke the wifi management screen. It's nigh impossible to connect my Surface RT to anything other than a simple home router in my experience, and often times even that will fail.

Heaven forbid you try and connect it to a corporate wifi with certificates et. al. I've tried - it's not pretty and I was not able to get it working. You have to use a crazy number of backdoors to features that aren't exposed anywhere in the GUI.
I think you've got it backwards.

Apple "rushes" things, they push hard on an aggressive schedule. They make mistakes, but they correct them more quickly because they iterate faster. Remember Apple releases new versions of iOS annually and OS X is on an 18-24 month release cycle as well.

Microsoft tends to release a new version of Windows every three to five years, and omitting the duds that nobody wants (e.g. Vista, Windows ME) the cycle is even longer.

What Microsoft rushes is not their development cycle, but their design process. Where Apple would try 100 things and throw out 99 of them, Microsoft in comparison would try 10 and throw out 8. They are getting better, but this Windows 8 serves as an example of how they're prisoner to compromises.
Great post. I have notice a big difference in the attitude of prospective clients since I wrote a book (aimed at my peers). Casually mentioning that I wrote a book on the topic often results in - "what? wow!" type of reaction. Literally no-one else they have spoken would have even thought of writing a book, so it really lifts you up the perceived authority ladder.
Good article, which is more for the case when you know your customers and when your sales process already kinda works (although not optimally).

For most startups though, the problem is that they don't know their customers, have an imaginary idea of what customers might need and create a product based on guesses.

Customer development (or other methods such as compiling/filtering data from forums/blogs) helps with figuring those and create powerful value propositions.
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Well, this article is retarded, where shall I begin? Kodak killed by Internet companies, what a joke, Kodak died of its incompetence to transition from film to digital tech -- Nikon, Canon & co. are still doing pretty well selling expensive camera gear. If anything, lots of people are buying these cameras to shoot their Instagram photos -- or at least, buying expensive smartphones that contain optics from traditional camera companies (Carl Zeiss is around since 1846... I guess old dogs can learn new tricks when they are smart).

Translation software from Google/Bing "stealing" work from human translators?? That work was paid at some point, and if it was reused and repurposed, that's because it was made freely available by their copyright owners. For one thing, many of the training materials used by machine learning-based translation are official documents, e.g. from the United Nations and EU, because these are often long, complex, and their translation is both high-quality and focused on precision (which often doesn't happen with literature -- "traduttore, traditore").
Please, don't make me laugh with tablets being the PC future. We all know the future will be fragmented. There will be space for PC, space for tablets, space for smartphones and google-like glasses because all of this will be extremely cheap and there will be advantages to have them all instead of having just one.
Windows 8 passes 100 million license sales
Part of that video stressed the point that the fifth amendment's purpose is to protect the individual. Going "after" someone because they invoked that right is equivalent to opening an investigation because someone said something unpopular or controversial (first amendment). While by itself the fifth is a right of a person, taken into account the other legal maneuvers and stonewalling which the Prenda did, does imply foul play (putting it mildly).
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That's merely a side effect of the brick and mortar restaurants having more money therefore more political power than the food carts. If the food cart owners were millionaires and the brick and mortar restaurant operators were poor, I'm quite certain we'd be reading an article about how simple and clear the regulations are for food carts but its nearly impossible for poor illegal immigrants to open a brick and mortar restaurant without endless government pressure to close.

The free market may have made America great, but a pretty good summary of our current problems is we're now trying the reverse of both in as many business fields as possible. There are numerous eCommerce analogies, etc.
It convinced me to finally start seriously looking for alternatives.

So, maybe, just maybe, they convinced me to upgrade. In a way.
I guess its my provincialism showing. Midwest papers won't even accept advertising from folks they don't like.

And 'host dissenting opinions' is funny. As long as they can make them appear silly or wrong, sure.
I agree. I'm sincerely impressed by the Soundslice application, it's really awesome how the videos move along with the tab to show how every chord is played, and the UI is fast, responsive and easy to use. That said, I'm also inclined to say this particular application simply falls beyond the threshold where UI performance becomes an issue.
Googling her name turns up a story in thestar.com.my stating that she's 28 and an MBA student.
Today I received an email to dispute my authority by sending in them a proof of my indentity, address and statement of my bank or credit card.

What I found rather obnoxious was that they had records of my credit cards which I had deleted from their system years ago. The email clearly listed all the last four digits of all credit cards I had ever had on them, even though I currently have no more than one linked to my account.

Top of that my account is linked to a profile of some Chinese personel, even though I'm Finnish, leaves me without words to say.
> It's hard to believe when you're the person that it's happening to, and it's hard to believe for people outside it, but that's why we should be careful not to pin blame onto the victim.

That's true, I'm not disputing that. But it's also hard for many people to believe that certain types of people exist who'll hide themselves, watch others, and run a smear campaign without ever showing themselves.
Use their official repository[1] for the latest stable releases

deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ precise nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ precise nginx

Those are updated very quickly. I haven't timed it but I'm yet to see an advisory before an update is available.

[1] http://wiki.nginx.org/Install#Official_Debian.2FUbuntu_packa...
You should look at the law and decide if you can operate within its confines. Counting on it not being enforced is not really a sound business strategy.
>You do know that there are several porn sites dedicated to ruining the lives of ex-girlfriends? When the victim is male, suddenly this justifies news articles and a heated discussion.

How can you possibly have missed all of the news articles and heated discussion about revenge porn sites? Both situations deserve attention.
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No argument from me there - that is definitely the number one problem. In the future, I'll be tackling some of those topics on how to know your customer, since it is so critically important to business success. It's harder to fix existing sites if they haven't done that legwork up front :)
Alternately: NYC doesn't really want to encourage a bunch of trucks to idle their 2MPG diesel engines all day while serving $10 waffles to ignorant tourists.

The idea of a "food truck" is based on trying to cheat the system. The system is: you have to buy or rent property in order to locate a business there. However, the system has a loophole: large swathes of the city are designated as roads, sidewalks, highways (which is a technical term for the road allowance). These areas of the city are completely free to use, for anyone, on the condition that it's a short-term, passing-through, sort of use.

So Mr. Brilliant says, "Hey! What if I just take over part of this free-to-use area without paying? I'll be able to charge as much as a property-leasing restaurant, but I'll get my land for free! I'll make a killing!"

Except the city has self-defense measures against people who try to do that. They're called tow trucks and bylaw inspectors. Because your business model is not actually innovative or new but has been around since the dawn of cities.

And so the white blood cells of the city harass the invading parasites that are trying to damage the city's ability to function, and life goes on, evermore and without end.
I recently built a HTML5 Photobooth using WebGL. It was a lot of fun.

Warning: uses webcam and destroys graphics cards (I'm not doing much memory management and creating shaders on the fly)...
http://davidwparker.com/graphics/miniphotobooth/
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Speaking of Taim, does anyone know how to replicate their harissa recipe? I've been buying it in the jars, but they don't even have an ingredient list on them. And none of the CPG harissas that I've tried have been nearly as good.
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Why bother reading novels or watch thriller movies when there are comments like this? :)
Sounds ripe for an app. Grab a list of regulations regarding street food vendors, pull city data from OpenStreetMaps or Google, figure out where the "green zones" are to park, and warn food vendors when they're not parked in a green zone. At the same time, get the maps into the hands of some city lobbyists so that it's clear just how much of a tightrope walk this kind of operation can be.
OP here. I try to establish "first contact" as soon as possible as it helps identify gaps in the product & helps answer the question "What should I work on today?" ..

What else works well for increasing early feedback?
I hope you know what Desktop Linux is. I don't care that you don't use a Desktop distro because I use Gentoo and XMonad and am generally quite comfortable with both.

As for complicated well, that depends - complicated for who? There are a lot of people who couldn't configure && make && make install if their lives depended on it. Even if their lives literally depended on it. That's not necessarily their fault, but there you are nonetheless.
One of the Republicans constitutencies is small business owners, and they generally like the internet sales tax proposals, since it makes them more competitive with online stores.
Google glass unreleased and already banned