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I don't like Mongo or MySQL. That doesn't mean other people don't have good reasons to use those platforms.
It looks better than the original Surface, and seems to address the main issues. The better battery will be a huge advantage. Not a fan of the thinner keyboard though, the travel isn't too great anyway with the S Pro 1. Also, who the fuck cares about back-lighting?
Completely agree. I don't know why people opt for CBV when you can refactor out the bits of function based views that are repeated, make them a function, and then use that function in your functional views. If you refactor enough, and name your functions well, you basically have a story for each view you can read from top to bottom that tells you exactly what it does.
> I didn't know github had self-hosted inline images.

https://github.com/blog/1347-issue-attachments

especially handy for user-interface-based issues-- screenshots, mock-ups, etc.
Dear God, this. I started looking at your makedocs.py over the weekend myself. I've never liked rst.
I mine about .0015 BTC a day, a figure that has been declining consistently and rapidly.
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I used to agree with you, however their strategy makes a lot of sense when you realize that the desktop is just going to disappear from Windows all together. I think that in the future it'll literally just be treated like any other app, and you'll be able to download 'nix desktop apps alongside the Windows desktop app. Honestly with what they're doing with Hyper-V, this is becoming more and more plausible.
nonsense, sexuality has it's outliers, but in the vast majority of the cases it's pretty simple stuff. We just like to all think that we're different.
I'm pretty sure all the best dj apps are available for windows pc...
Or better yet, they could stay the course and realize that architectures are going to have to be abstracted over in the decades to come.
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It's not perfect, but I've used sourcify [1] to get Proc#to_source. I would much rather see this built into ruby itself, since there are a bunch of tools I would build with it available, but this works fairly well in practice.

[1] https://github.com/ngty/sourcify
I like how you refer to things that you have never tried as "trivial". And the defense against those is easy. Don't reuse it after it was stolen then returned. That's a different threat.
It could be said a different way. Design changes, no matter how shitty, are always going to have someone love them....
It might sound kind of obscene here on HN, but I'm making about 3500 euros per month, semi-passive from adult related site/community. It's subscription based and the content is user submitted (that's why it's semi-passive). Some moderation is necessary, as well basic user support, but overall - not so much hustle.
Amazon's win is elasticity, moving your servers up and down often. It's not as big of a win if you have a known quantity of resource utilization over a long time period.

Actually, there is a win to be had there too. If you can spin down your instances with load in an intelligent way, you can save A LOT of money using a combination of reserved instances an on demand instances.

However, if you had a program that was smart enough about dealing with load and spinning up/down instances and managing cost relative to reserved instances, on demand instances, and spot instances, that could save a ton of money.

That kind of optimization is tricky so it's a lot easier to just switch providers like the OP.
low 4 figures from real estate
I'm a student also, but I've been using the iPad for this. I don't take any notes on the iPad itself because the courses I need to take notes on are mathematical, so I simply write on paper and then when I come back home I scan it and append the scans to an evergrowing PDF file that is synced to my iPad.

I'm looking for a replacement for my iPad 2, but I can't settle on anything because all the non-iPad tablets have a widescreen, which I believe is poor choice when it comes to reading PDF textbooks.

Right now I read my PDF textbooks in landscape mode, and I use GoodReader to crop the margins, and everything looks fabulous. I'm worried that if I move to a widescreen tablet, I will end up with less vertical space and wasted horizontal space ("black bars" due to incompatible aspect ratios of the page and the screen).

How's your experience when it comes to reading these kind of textbooks? Any chance you could provide screenshots of how these textbooks look like when you read them in landscape mode?
It seems the big winner is Apple and Google. They passively collect 30% on the apps we spend months making.
That's what scares me about ever going the VC route. It makes the company vulnerable to the vagaries of not just product and customers, but a third party with interests that don't necessarily align.

edit: To phrase it another way, I don't ever want to be in a position where making investors happy is more important than making customers happy.
likewise. :-(
Would it still be a compliment if it came from stderr?
No, it hasn't taken a performance hit.
Performance-wise the Pro is no different than the MBA or any other ultrabook, so it all comes down to the form factor. For portable (especially lap) use the combination of kickstand + type cover makes typing a bit more difficult than a normal laptop, but on a desk it works pretty well. There are two caveats though: the relatively small screen and fixed kickstand angles (now there are two different angles but obviously still not as flexible as a notebook).

It only makes sense if you expect to use the tablet/touch features a lot, in addition to the traditional desktop. I plan on getting one mainly for the digitizer to take notes, so having a full portable computer is a nice bonus and justifies the price since I currently don't have a notebook.
It's really disappointing that you're responding to what is the #1 comment. The NSA noise just overshadows much of the meaningful discussion on HN.
Yahoo! didn't switch their vision from a search engine. Yahoo! was a portal long before it was a search engine. In ye olden times, Yahoo! maintained a curated list of hierarchically organized links. That was their core product.

I would argue that Yahoo! lost to Google because Yahoo!'s business was in approximating a solution to a problem that users had, and Google came along and figured out a way to much more directly address that problem. Curated lists were better than nothing, and for a long time, it was the best thing available. Google simply built a new type of thing that made the old way immediately obsolete.
In that case, you can use YAML comments rather than ansible names. It makes it much more clear that it's optional, and you get the actual code in the log rather than the name/comment.
Good luck! Homepage looks great.
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So I actually think Katz, which held that wiretaps were a 4th amendment violation, was wrongly decided, or at least makes no sense in the context of packet-switched VOIP. And I think that for the reason you point out: it's hard to reconcile Katz with third party doctrine, at least when AT&T has digital copies of your calls.

But ultimately this is the problem with inventing "privacy rights" out of thin air and duct-taping them to the 4th amendment, which has no such broad concept of "privacy." There's no broad principles to rely on, just case-specific hacks.
Well that assumes that the business owner wants to switch out of Braintree. But you are right that if Paypal closes the garden, you are stuck in that silo.

But on the other hand, it isn't so different than being walled into AWS for instance in terms of production impact time.
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I only have a Surface RT :( sad days. Can't say I have any complaints with reading Kindle books or PDFs.
This is great stuff. Is anyone taking videos of the talks as well?
The presence of ads does not have any penalty.

However, If you put too many adsense units at the top of your page, Google would penalize you for a bad user experience. Maybe you could test with different combinations and see whether rankings change.
That's why you have a well worn checklist you use to start a jetliner. It's complex, so they wrote it down and that's how you do it to make sure you don't miss a step.

Reminds me of when I was showing my mom how to use a new piece of software and she opened a notebook and wrote it down step by step. That's how she starts her airliners. Now if only documentation was not considered an afterthought these days.
> I hope this is compatible with my Surface Pro

Everything's compatible with the SP. Only the original Surface is missing the extra contacts on bottom for some of the new hardware.

Myself, I'll be picking up the Power Cover when that shows up (I'm expecting 2014), but not replacing the tablet. 8ish hours of battery life is plenty for me.

I'll save the big money for a real laptop when the rest of the PC makers finally put some Haswell-based stuff on store shelves this holiday season. That it's taken them over a year since the MBA is pathetic.

The only thing that keeps me from using SP2 as a desktop replacement is the GPU. I still like to do some casual gaming every once in a while, and Intel's integrated graphics are too far behind nVidia/ATI's discrete offerings in other ultrabooks.
Any idea which hasn't been proven to work already is practically worthless. You're better off looking at cases of existing successful passive income and emulating those.

Then, you can tweak it, one small change at a time.
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Does any one know the relative costs of hardware vs building and cooling? If I had a cool billion to spend, how much would I spend on building/cooling/power/generators vs servers and networking hardware?
I wish. There was a window of time when Matz said autoload would be deprecated. But he took that back after Yahuda (I think) addressed some threading issue. I agree with your assessment, but too many big names project use it --RubyGems, Psych, Rails, etc.

I wrote my one load system but have never been able to use it 100% with other projects b/c I could not override autoload require. Though I've begged for years Matz just keeps blowing it off.
If you, like me, are wondering what "Black Friday" is in the context of poker, it refers to United States v. Scheinberg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg

United States v. Scheinberg is a United States federal criminal case against the founders of the three largest online poker companies, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Cereus (Absolute Poker/Ultimatebet), and a handful of their associates, which alleges that the defendants violated the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) and engaged in bank fraud and money laundering in order to process transfers to and from their customers. (...) After the indictment was unsealed on April 15, 2011, a date quickly dubbed Black Friday by the online poker community, PokerStars and Full Tilt stopped offering real money play to their United States customers.
Fwiw the origin of the name seems to come from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice from which Fantasia got its inspiration
Among other things http://github.com/rubyworks.
I pretty much just gave up and bought the Feburary editions, I can't imagine Haswell will do much more than add to battery life.
I was really hoping they'd announce that they are releasing such a display, to go along with the new Surfaces. I'd have bought one, along with a Surface Pro 2 and a docking station.
Thanks for the ray of logic.

Personally, I find it more offensive when people get offended by non offensive things than by ignorant generalizations, like grouping all Asians into a race, by grouping all black people into a culture, by mixing up culture and race (this one is tricky however), etc..
It's especially prevalent in China. Their one child per family policy has created an entire generation of people with too much money, so extravagance and opulence are approaching and exceeding interesting levels of absurdity.
I make enough to buy a Frappuccino from day to day, mostly from a reaction gifs application on the App Store : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-reaction-when/id632831985...

By the way, all in-app purchases are free today and tomorrow...
$2500/mo from AdSense on http://coverphotofinder.com/

Zero-maintenance, which is nice.
Thanks for the reply.

We have a high-write application and while individual writes aren't really that slow we have A LOT of them (we receive our writes off the network from a 20+ hadoop-machine cluster so they can send quite a bit of junk our way).

What's wrong with the complexity of scaling Cluster? From what I've experienced it's been pretty easy to add machines, take individual data nodes offline while cluster is running, etc..
Very nice. Pretty much everything I read was a net positive for the product, the only quibble might be the price but of all the things you can change in the future that is easiest to change :-).

I was intrigued by the music keyboard, not because I think the Surface is the instrument of the future, but because I think there is a market for a device which can easily customize its input experience like that. I have thought for a while that future test equipment from Tektronix or Agilent might look like that but with a scope control panel and a dock for attaching probes.

Like the 2 position kickstand, the one we got at work to do testing on that was annoying. I bet Surface 3 touts an infinitely adjustable one :-).

I think the ARM/x86 messaging is pretty spot on as well, Microsoft is playing the "its just windows" card pretty hard and dropping the RT moniker was smart too. Most consumers could care less about instruction set architecture. And what happens when Apple makes an Air with the A7 ? Will Apple have the 2 x 2 matrix (iOS/MacOS)(ARM/x86)? and Microsoft the 1 x 2 matrix (Windows)(ARM/x86) ? I'd think the latter long term is easier to message and less confusing for customers. If they go all Ubuntu like and create a Win 8.1 phone experience then there product / os vector is 1x3 (Windows)(phone/tablet/laptop).

That said, for me it reinforces the notion that this is the year of the Linux desktop. I recently had the experience of using a USB serial cable that worked under Linux but not under Windows 7. That was one of the signs for me that perhaps Windows was ceding the development workstation business (or at least not paying attention to it). That should be good news for folks like System76.
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Proper way is to install a known version of nginx and use a known conf, not editing some file which might be different based on linux distro or package maintainer.
> I would be _very_ surprised if there were no backdoor

I'm not sure if you understand what FUD means. Your surprise or lack thereof does not count as evidence, and is irrelevant to whether something is FUD or not.

> MS Exec: "I'd be very surprised if Linux had a lower TCO than Windows Server."

Canonical example of FUD. EXACT same thing as you're saying, just in a different context.
> Wasn't there an overwhelming negative feedback for refinements?

IIRC, there were concerns about the performance impact and maybe some other issues of the semantics of refinements -- particularly from maintainers of other Ruby implementations -- which is why there were originally marked "experimental". I believe that those have been addressed with input from the other implementors in 2.1.0.
No offense, but I question whether you were working out properly previously.
I still use shell scripts because I don't have the time or energy to invest becoming a domain expert in installing packages.

When my shell scripts become untenable I happily hire someone who is an expert at installing packages on a cluster of machines.

It's a complex problem and CMs so far are complex enough that I'm put off by how dense the CM language is. Every time I come across chef my ears start leaking precious brain fluid. Recipes, cookbooks, knives, bags, dependencies, acronyms I haven't bothered googling for... there's enough there that someone can dedicate their time to mastering it and be paid a decent salary.

No thanks, I'm already spending enough time as it is being an expert in something else. I'll just stick with shell scripts because at least I can understand those without much effort. If they become a problem I'll hire someone to fix it. :)

update: That was a little rant-y... after reading this article I might try Ansible if I get the chance. The problem I have with CMs is that they tend to be very complex because they solve a complex problem. Shell scripts tend to be simple (but crude by virtue). I am curious whether there is a middle-ground.
> an OS without limits, built to be open from the ground up - with as open of a development process as possible.

I see the benefit of documenting each step. The result will be a pretty great tutorial, or at least a very interesting series of blog posts. But what is closed about the development of the current distros?

I hope that Ian is hoping to build a very different kind of distro, breaking the mold. NEXTSTEP was fundamentally a Unix, but everything about it was synthesized to create a totally new organism. Same with OS X. This kind of experimentation hasn't been attempted very much with Linux distros, which mostly amount to different installers and package managers. Etoile comes to mind, and apparently CoreOS is discarding much of the mold, but a completely new, holistically built system would be quite interesting to see. I suspect it hasn't been attempted much because the sheer amount of work is overwhelming. Writing a new shell is a lot of work. Writing a different init, shell, filesystem layout, and window manager, all unified around some new concepts, would be a lot of work. If that's what he's aiming to do, the result will be really interesting to use and learn from.
I am going to bet "no". Sure, you will be able to get a driver working, but there are no OneNotes for Linux and the rest of the OS generally has zero concessions to touch.

From my times playing with tablets, Linux trails Windows 5-10 years.
That may be true but right now the user shouldn't have to care.
I never really bought in to the whole "Apple can't survive without Steve Jobs" thing. I think that they are perfectly capable of designing elegant, functional devices. Unfortunately, I don't think IOS 7 and the iPhone 5C are signs that the company is living up to its potential.

IOS now looks like it was slapped together in a hurry. I can't believe that this is the culmination of Jonny Ive's vision. He can do better. He has done better.
> No I am not.

Yes you are.

> I said "decent", this implies at least "usable".

Agreed.

> It'd be nice to get that done by the time it hits stable, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

pkgng has been usable for over a year. Read the page I linked too.
Minecraft with the ComputerCraft mod may get their interest. Programming little robots in LUA to help them build and dig.
Thanks for your response. I went and looked at the press release: is this what you refer to? [1]

a) and c) such informants were by definition in contact at some stage. It would be trivial to state which, if any, informants had gone to ground, or disappeared. Or even a number or percentage. I don't think that's unrealistic, and I don't think it would have put them in any more danger. It's quite within the power of the US administration to give more info than they have, particularly useful to them securing the most serious possible conviction for Manning.

b) Common sense would then indicate they would announce such to deter other informants.

I agree that it is not relevant, I think I saw the clip in some documentary [2] However he's denied it, and it was Leigh who provided the account.

So even with a shaky premise, that it was all Assange's fault, there seems to be a lack of evidence of anything resulting from it. That's what I'm bothered by. There's plenty of powerful organisations involved who could point to the bodies, and yet none have to my knowledge.

[1] http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/taliban-study-wi...

[2] http://www.dailytech.com/Wikileaks+Assange+on+US+Informants+...
Why, oh why is there no version with 3G/LTE? That is by far the biggest bummer, imho. For people that are on the road a lot that makes such a difference, and pretty much all other tablets offer that option, so it seems really lame to not have that. Also, if I spent $1800 for a Surface Pro in the best configuration, I really would expect it to have the same connectivity as a iPad mini... Other than that, this seems like the perfect device (the Pro version).
Please share anything you can about how things go in the future. I'd love to see how your dunning emails turn out. Can you also share some background? When did you start? How many people are on your team? What kind of initial investments did you do?

Really awesome to see people being so transparent about how they're doing.

By the way, if you ever want to write any blog posts and cross-post them to Lifestyle.io [0], we'd be happy to have them.

[0]: http://www.lifestyle.io
Not exactly sure what you mean, Windows apps work fine on the tablet. You either plug in the keyboard and a mouse, or you use an on-screen keyboard or the stylus. I looked at a lot of the hybrid machines before buying a Surface Pro and was pretty happy with the purchase.
Even if you do that, you still can't run your desktop apps on the ARM model. I really don't want to explain to luddite relatives why they can't run a game unless they buy the more expensive model.

Either ban desktop apps on both models, or neither.
Not necessarily. There's no need to break the encryption or have logs if the NSA can monitor all the traffic going in and out of the proxy server. They just have to correlate your incoming encrypted connection with the outgoing unencrypted data to remove the layer of anonymity. I'd frankly be a little surprised if they weren't doing this or something like it.

I would guess that using PIA makes you less secure against NSA snooping since it makes you more of a target and provides weak anonymity.
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IMO vagrant is worth the setup and the "overhead" even if you're developing with a Linux box.
Around $40-50 from admob and amazon affiliate links. It pays for my netflix. I originally set myself a goal "just to see" of buying myself one pint of ale from a pub over the course of a year for app sales/ads - not exactly ambitious but I thought i'd end up at best shifting a few cents a month.

I had already an app on android with ~3000 active installs for doing simple shopping look ups. I changed it to throw in some affiliate codes and fixed a crash and updated it approximately 18 months ago now and haven't made a single update.

It's next to nothing but it encouraged me to look more into at least trying things out for myself - I would never have thought (and still can't) it would be any more than a personal exercise. If I look at it as "free netflix for 2 years" then it's a real thing to me and "means something".
Thanks for sharing the past discussions. The more often we can talk about this, the better off the community can be.
some people do.. I can touch type, but sometimes when I need to press some key other than the alphabet I have to search for it.. back lit keyboards are very helpful when I'm trying to use my computer in the night without any lights.

but I do hope there is a hotkey(function key) to turn off the back light when I'm watching a movie or something.
The Steve Jobs that left Apple as the most valuable company in the world had matured quite a bit from the one that released those.
A little amusing that the only bits that work are the bits I've been regretting merging in :)