skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. But the desktop computer market isn't really growing, and it is actually beginning to shrink. Post PC doesn't mean we all stop using PCs, it just means that the PC market has peaked and we can't expect much growth there.
I have a surface pro and am pretty happy with it. I compared to a lot of rival tablets and products and it was basically the only one with the combination of features I want: supports extra screen, keyboard, runs Windows / Office apps so I don't need separate device for work, 1080p, touch screen (stylus a bonus). Battery life isn't a major issue for me as I'm plugged in most of the time and it lasts more than double my previous laptop unplugged. It's price competitive with laptops of a similar specification but more flexible.

Surface RT I don't consider competitive. But the Pro is the reference device for Windows 8 and nobody was doing it as well when I looked. They should have a market position there at least.

I think Windows 8 is a bit misguided in design - it's a step backwards not being able to resize apps on a laptop resolution screen, but using it as traditional windows works fine.
Very nice. When I typed the url of my own website, which is responsive, it didn't get the responsive version. If it did, it would be perfect.
> But does he ship?

Why does that matter?
I think even Thurrott don't recommend the Surface RT:
http://winsupersite.com/windows-rt/surface-rt-350-time-buy
I know just where to put all those extra Surfaces nobody wants:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial
> Microsoft isn't cool, and that's okay

Isn't that pretty much the attitude that RIM had as well? This is not a successful strategy when you have to compete with a new class of devices.
Goes without saying that the system is broken. But I'd imagine it's easier/cheaper to just hand over the data than challenge the request and get lawyers involved…
Yea, that much is clear. And the AnandTech article (which probably should be the one on the HN front page if it hasn't popped up there since I last looked) is clearer about some of the things they ran to establish that 480 MHz is the norm. I still wasn't sure from that article, though, whether the games and such were run with the device connected to power, whether there are other user-tunable power saving settings that could affect it, etc.

My only point is that I personally feel that more investigation is needed in that direction before I'll feel very negatively about the story. If it's a rarely used but possible mode, it seems like it's on the same level as disabling power saving mode when running a recognized benchmark. I kinda expect benchmarks to represent the peak attainable performance, even if it's not the typical performance.
The entire Windows 8 roll-out was a palpably desperate effort to leverage Microsoft's existing desktop monopoly to gain a hold on what was/is seen as "the future of computing" tablets and phones.

Microsoft did very badly. But this kind of thing is hard to do and is not a one product or an incremental-product-improvements affair.

When Microsoft was fighting for it desktop monopoly, it did a good job of leveraging it's strengths to produce products that were "bad" by many measures but which satisfied a lot of user requirements and offered the end user good value. Surface is a logical product in this long lineage (and in answer to the parent's question, you can't create a Frankenstein product like Surface with focus group because Surface had to be a "quantum leap", an ad-hoc product of bucket chemistry). The problem is that apparently either the tablet market is not fluid enough that a product can win by just being a bucket of feature or Google already muscled into the feature-side and Microsoft isn't getting that part.

And equally, until now, Microsoft didn't actually sh-t all over their basic UI. But the approach of removing the start button subtracted more existing users than "Metro" could hope to gain.

You could frame this affair by saying that not only did MS' greed not abate over the years, it grew large enough to strangle the beast. Couldn't have happened to nicer people.
Simply the first link on Google to the text of the article.
The thing is I don't see the Surface Pro as a tablet so much as an ultra-book that can be a tablet. I want it as a highly portable laptop that I can use as a tablet on the way home.

For me Surface Pro with 6+ hours of battery life (which Haswell should give it) would be perfect.
They are not shying away. I listen to Google earnings reports, and they are as gung ho about Android as ever. I did not reply to the grand parent, because I did not want to go off on a tangent.
Microsoft has always relied on "you have no choice" as its major marketing tool. (X-Box is the big exception.) This is the price of relying on it in a world where it turns out people do have a choice.

Remember how awful Vista was? How did needing to confirm your WiFi password ever get through any kind of review process?
Been fasting everyday for 20-24 hours since June 1. Once you get used to it theres nothing to it. I like that I can feast everyday and on top of that its much easier to eat healthy and make a good decision about the foods for your feast. The benefits to my focus while fasting is significant. There are streaks almost daily where I feel like I am on adderall just pumped with adrenaline. Also, you get a muscle pump during a fast. I don't know, not for everyone, but it works for me.
OK, got it, thanks for pointing this out.
A delay in releasing code would be valuable then. Those too impatient to wait can start hacking on something new now and give lots of thought to this frontier and those that want to explore casually can do so a few months later when the source is released. Releasing nothing is a non-solution. Why make everyone else stumble where you have? That's just inconsiderate.

Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea.
The analogy makes sense if you look at AOL's news sites as cheap content farms.
And it uses "phases" to know when something is public and should no longer be rewritten.
I do not think you sufficiently understand Bitcoin or double spend attacks work.

You should read this section of the Bitcoin FAQ:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Do_you_have_to_wait_until_my_...
Windows 8 is a bit weird in the split between metro and desktop, and I feel these need to merge in the future. I hardly use metro apps because they don't work nicely with other apps, e.g. can't shift from one screen to another, resizing is difficult.

Surface RT I can't really see a market for. But Surface Pro is perfectly OK, competitive with laptops, some advantages (touch screen and stylus are nice), good screen with support for second screen, easy switch between laptop and tablet mode, some disadvantages but nothing too bad - keyboard just OK, battery just OK, only one USB port on the machine, etc. All in all next version will be nicer I'm sure, but I have one and I'm pretty happy with it and am not too worried about getting the next iteration - it works fine for me as is.
I have an Intel (not sure which model, X-25M? Does that exist?) I got in 2009, it started failing last year (SMART warned me). I emailed Intel about it and they asked me to send them SMART results, I did, they told me to mail them the drive, I backed everything up just fine and sent it in, and a (hellish, HDD-slow) week later I got a brand new one.

Restored the data, it's still going like a champ.
How the Supreme Court could force the NSA to abide by the Bill of Rights
Or maybe it is because it has a better security model, less buggy software, prevents unsigned installs by default, and runs applications in a sandbox? See also malware on iOS vs Android.

By the way, OSX is hitting 15% market share in the US.
You probably wouldn't want to, even if you needed the extra performance. You'd get complaints from users about battery life, device heat, and similar things that people running benchmarks often don't check for.
I agree with what you said, but don't you feel that ubuntu is stepping in and providing the experience you want? One device that runs everything? I'd like to see a mobile device which can attach to an external CPU when I'm at my desktop, but aside from that, most arm chips are powerful enough for phone or tablet use.
I legitimately thought this was satire at first.
In this case, you're talking about the enforcement of keeping publicly funded research out of the public's hands. Was any of this necessary?
> Been fasting everyday

> I can feast everyday

Pardon me for asking, but which one are you doing exactly?
Can a receipient of a FISA court order even get their own lawyers involved?

Given the kind of hair splitting, finely honed definitions and word games going on in Congressional testimony, I wouldn't put it past FISA judges/spokesmodels/whatever to claim that nobody ever challenged an order when there's actually no procedure to perform such a challenge, and no attempts to challenge have even been recognized.
AlleyWatch spammers: http://imgur.com/JgscSsw
Hey, I wanted to apologize for my personal attack earlier. I've been having a bad day and took some of that frustration out on you.

But as for your question, I'm speaking less about legal precedent (of course there's a difference between military and civilian court) and more about perception to would-be whistleblowers and government officials that this is what happens now to people that leak secrets, especially for such a publicized case.
I see where you are coming from, but I think you're getting mired in some of the details of the talk that perhaps rub you the wrong way and are therefore missing the larger point. Brett in all his talks is saying the same thing: take an honest look at what we call programming and tell me that we've reached the pinnacle of where we can go with it.

Whether or not you like this specific talk or the examples he has chosen, I think you would probably agree there is a lot of room for improvement. Brett is trying to stir the pot and get some people to break out and try radical ideas.

Many of the things he talks about in this presentation have been tried and "failed" but that doesn't mean you never look at them again. Technology and times change in ways that can breathe life into early ideas that didn't pan out initially. Many forget that dynamic typing and garbage collection were once cute ideas but failures in practice.

He doesn't mention things like testing, integration, building, and refactoring because they are all symptoms of the bigger problem that he's been railing against: namely that our programs are so complex we are unable to easily understand them to build decent, reliable software in an efficient way. So we have all these structures in place to help us get through the complexity and fragility of all this stuff we create. Instead we should be focusing on the madness that causes our software to balloon to millions of lines of incomprehensible code.
Macs are cool but when you want to get real work done you use Windows

Speaking as a Mac user (who considers what he does to be real work), I think it would be more cutting to play on the games aspect of Windows. That really is the One Thing™ Windows has over other OSs
Even worse - when Microsoft ran Xbox One demos using high end NVIDIA PC's...
They were caught posting fake negative user reviews on competing devices before. So they don't really have much in the way of integrity already...
As a merchant, I would certainly prefer to suffer the loss of a few small transactions than pay 2 to 3 percent of every transaction to a payment processor. I imagine losses due to double-spends would be comparable to those of accepting counterfeit currency--miniscule, due to the high-risk of perpertrating fraud for such a small reward.
I hope that this does not have a detrimental affect to the future development of Litecoin.

For most, Litecoin to Bitcoin is seen as what Silver is to Gold. Silver in this sense is credited with its ability to stabilize the price of gold. My opinion is that if there is to be a future for digital currencies there must be more then one option available. Currently Litecoin is the leading alt-coin based on Market cap (which is linked to its value)

Disclosure: Bullish on both BTC and LTC
Most protein bars have at least 20g of protein, while this has only 10g, so "the taste [being] better than most or all protein bars" isn't very impressive.
Also when microsot was fighting for desktop it made one wonderful thing: brought in the platform a shitload of developers ("... developers, developers!"). That was the main advantage and that is why they succeed (if we ignore the "forced monopoly" part).

But now with windows 8 and metro ui with winRT(/JS) it seems the problem is mainly that, simply, the are not developers who want to join the ship. I personally do not know any company or indipendent developer who is betting himself in it or even just exploring it. Anyone!
And, infact, if you look at the win8 market (that is also the RT market and only way to get apps for that os) is almost empty or, if you want to see it differently, full of crap-copy-useless-apps.

At least with windows phone 8 the situation is a bit different, but here who we have to thank? Microsoft or Nokia? I bet in the second one.
> Agree on the screen and Office though. Although office was updated a month or two after the release and fixed the performance issues in time.

What I find so odd about the RT was that the desktop only existed for two reasons: Office and settings. If it wasn't for Office they could have fixed the settings that were missing in the Metro interface and the thing wouldn't have felt slightly Jekyll & Hyde. Instead it looked more like the Office team didn't believe in the product (or wasn't given enough time) and it seemed half-assed.

I have a friend who has a 64gb RT and loves it, but he bought it for $50 after the original owner wanted to get rid of it. I doubt he would have paid the $450 for it though.
"Microsoft is hopeless at managing screen real estate" - not sure where this blanket statement is coming from, but the desktop option on Windows 8 works perfectly well for me on the Pro. Keyboard could be better, but works well enough (type keyboard at least, I didn't like the touch keyboard). Screen is high res and looks nice, stylus works well. For me it's been more happy than crappy overall.
Yeah, but they are so much easier/cheaper to write and produce. 2D is par for the course for casual. Action and adventure much less so.
If you sell me the exploit, and I use it to perform a crime, then I believe you may also be charged as an accessory. IANAL.
I don't own a Surface Pro but I was at one stage determined to buy one, until I tried several out in different stores. The keyboard covers are both _awful_. This isn't a generation too early, it's just horribly bad.

So having designed the device around a crappy keyboard cover, Microsoft painted itself into a corner. Is it a usable laptop replacement? No, it's not. So, how is it as a tablet? Well, no apps to speak of, heavy, and crappy battery life.

I agree about using a tablet as a remote access point for a desktop computer (or whatever). The iPad makes sense for that too (and third party tools make it quite functional in a pinch). A really well-thought-out implementation of this idea would be wonderful (and I hope Apple does this too).
I think it's because people didn't really need 10Gb until now. With widespread use of NAS and SSDs in homes and offices, hopefully these adapters will become cheaper.
I seem to remember reading that, among other things, Verizon ended up pulling the rug from under Microsoft so the Kin would require $60/mo plans instead of the $10/line/mo charge that would have been more common for a teen's phone.

The Kin's desktop software was widely praised by reviewers as a great way to organize things. But when the pricing put it in iPhone range instead of feature phone range, it had no chance.
With this particular piece of software, there is a mandatory workflow. It's just not software-enforced. You have to do this series of things in order. And there are landmines - you can but must not insert information into Field X.

Seems like the perfect situation for making a software workflow and simply not permitting information to be input into Field X. Etc. Anyway, in this case, I think the software could be improved (modulo my slow learning).

Now, in general, I think that software can help us make the bureaucracy / regulation more tolerable by helping to convert medical intent into both medical action and medicolegal documentation.

Anyway, your point is very well taken.
Stay classy Samsung
Douglas Crockford gives an incorrect definition of a monad and confuses them with functors. If you learned about monads from Crockford, you didn't learn about them.
This indicates not a problem with Samsung, but a problem with the benchmarks.

Want better devices? Build better benchmarks.
Ask HN: Website to see code previewed in real time upon execution
Trying to find a website where there were examples of code that you are able to preview as it was executed in real time.

It's a conglomerate of various web development projects, some canvas, some webGL, etc. Mainly web apps. You have the ability to play/pause code.
SmartOS also offers container based virtualization of SmartOS (zones), which can run inside normal virtualization. It also, just like Linux, can additionally run other OS's inside KVM (native port).

You are correct though that SmartOS does not offer container based virtualization of Linux.

So to answer my own question, I guess.. "yes"
That was Microsoft marketing talking, not me ;-) I use both types and they both have their strengths and weaknesses.
I'm not trying to defend the commercial, merely disagreeing that it's the worst ever.

I am not a big fan of TV but I have been a creative lead for a commercial series that won a Clio award, for what that's worth.

That's honestly really cool. I wouldn't have expected a lot of advertising people on HN.
The problem is that MS's profitability is based on products which, while still extremely useful and popular, are clearly obsolete in the long term, and they have shown no ability to move beyond them.

MS is in fine shape for a decade or two to come, if not more. But an MS that's still based on Office in 2030 will be irrelevant, no matter how profitable. And they can't milk that forever.
Ask HN: I work at the NYC DOE. How would you use technology in education? 
I work on the finance side of technology projects for NYC's K-12 education system. How would you leverage/implement/utilize technology to improve education in NYC?
Nintendo has always been an exception, every other console maker did it. Even Nintendo changed their tune for a while, taking a loss after the 3DS price cut.
I find it extremely shady to read that "glbenchmark 2.7" is unable to exceed 480mhz while "glbenchmark 2.5.1" goes into 532mhz even when idle.
If this were JStor's raison d'être, then the pay wall would be limited in time. Will the need to scan old articles exist in two years? In five? In ten, or twenty?

There is no sunset plan for the pay wall, so your premise is false.
It sounds like he's doing Intermittent Fasting (IF), where you only eat for specific periods each day-- the precise amounts vary, from 16 hours fasting / 8 hours eating (basically 2 big meals) to 20/4 "Warrior Diet" (1 huge meal).

http://www.leangains.com/ is one of the better-researched sites promoting it.
You build the sql query using chained functions, so it's safe:

objects = People.query.filter_by(name=name).all()

When I said 'build the sql query' I meant using SQLAlchemy core, which is also safe:

objects = select([People]).where(People.name == name)
California PUC Proposes Legalizing Ride-Sharing From Lyft, SideCar, Uber
I do not use a macbook but totally agree with you.
And in comparision with linux it would just change in "Linux is cool but when you want to play AAA games and use our proprietary office suite you use windows"
If the information was already public-facing, was it not already 'released'?
The XBox was subsidized by the profits from Windows & Office.

Surface is an attempt to stop the losses to other tablets and smartphones. If they don't fix the problem, they won't have years of extra profits to wait for the Surface to gain a footing and shore things up.
I kinda like what those numbers say, except that when the ipad was launched tablets were a new thing. People weren't sure what they would use them for, and were wary of making the purchase. Apple educated the market.
Office is incredible, incredible software. We're nowhere near replacing it with iWork/Google Docs/Open/Libre.
Hey, this is pretty awesome. I changed from Authy to Google for my 2 factor on, which made things more convenient. Passion for crypto and ability to measurably improve Coinbase.

It will be interesting to see if support for Litecoin takes hold at Coinbase.
The Future of Media
What have I said that suggests "MIT is not to blame for very much at all"? My comments have dealt with factual issues; I don't see where I advanced any opinions on MIT's deserved level of blame.

The MIT report lays out facts (and not conclusions or judgements) for the express purpose of informing the debate. Many here would probably be interested in its contents if they weren't so busy expressing opinions about it.

It's not clear to me what Ms. Stinebrickner-Kauffman meant by her comment, since prosecution was entirely at the discretion of the DA (as with all criminal charges) and MIT (like JSTOR) had no involvement in the criminal charges. The report explains as much in careful detail and my poor paraphrasing is no substitute.

(Judging by tweet timestamps, Ms. Stinebrickner-Kauffman's statement may have been made about 18 minutes after the release of the report (8:31am @TarenSK vs 8:13am @MIT), so it's possible that the statement was not based on the entirety of the report's content. That is not based on precise knowledge of the report's actual time of release.)

Here is a personal opinion: Hal Abelson, founding director of both the Free Software Foundation (with RMS, GJS, and others) and Creative Commons (with Lawrence Lessig and others) and lead author of the MIT report, produced a thoughtful and thorough document and it should not be ignored.
I have no idea why you're calling Chuck Moore a "binary programmer", by the definition given in today's talk.

Forth is anything but machine code. Forth and Lisp both share the rare ability to describe both the lowest and the highest layers of abstraction equally well.
> Microsoft should have released two separate OS's Surface for tablets and Windows 8 for the workstation market

This was the fatal mistake IMO, and I don't know why it doesn't get more discussion. I think Metro is a great tablet interface, and I can imagine that a Surface just running Metro with just the app store would sell pretty ok. Instead its confusingly positioned as some sort of tablet hybrid that still runs the old windows, but with a new start menu or something.

And on the flip side, you have PCs running Metro, which not only absolutely sucks to use with a mouse and keyboard, the new interface puts off corporations from upgrading because they are worried about training costs etc.

Its like thinking, 'So, Excel sells pretty well, and Word does too. Therefore we should develop a hybrid Word processor-spreadsheet application'.

Incidentally, I don't know that Ballmer is totally to blame here. I strongly suspect that Sinsofsky pushed very hard to make sure every new operating system initiative would come under his division. I think this is why Windows Phone is called Windows Phone too, even though it would probably by much much easier to market under its own brand.
Maybe it could be an option in the settings?

[checkbox] Enable "High performance option"? Caution: will drain battery life and may cause device to overheat!!