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That's fine and dandy, but the license restrictions on the 'Home and Student' versions supplied with the Surface RTs mean you, legally, can't write/create anything for profit. And the Surface Pro doesn't come with Office, it comes with a 30day free trial of Office 365

>Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote (“Office apps”) are Windows apps included with Windows RT. Office apps are governed by some additional terms and are part of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 RT or Microsoft Office 2013 RT. Office apps are licensed to you for your personal, non-commercial use, and you may not use them for any non-profit, commercial, or other revenue generating activity.

Since we launched the Surface line of tablets last year, one of the themes we’ve consistently used to talk about them is that they are a terrific blend of productivity and entertainment in one lightweight, affordable package. In fact, we’re confident that they offer the best combination of those capabilities available on the market today.

At least someone is because last I checked, in the whole scheme of tablet sales, you basically sold zero Surfaces.

>The good news is that Microsoft understands how people work better than anyone else on the planet.

Yes, that's why you gave us the shitshow that is the ribbon interface, poorly scaled on a touchscreen

> 2. Faster and more precise input methods like keyboard/trackpad.

Only if you but the $120+ covers...which you could do with an iPad too.
Same question. I was using Raphael.js earlier and had to switch to svg.js for SVG specific features, and it's quite a nice library, though perhaps not as developed as Raphael in terms of documentation.

The only possible conflicting goal I can imagine is that one of svg.js' goals is to be as small as possible (e.g. generating an <ellipse> instead of a <circle> to increase code reuse between the circle and ellipse shapes[1]).

[1]: http://documentup.com/wout/svg.js#elements/circle
There are a number of reasons to over-use antibiotics:

1. Patients ask for them. For a long time, the thinking went 'What's the harm?' in giving Mr. Jones some penicillin for what's probably a viral infection.

2. There is the potential for lawsuits, and the desire to have 'done something' to cover your ass, but I think this is widely exaggerated as a threat.

3. It's hard to diagnose many conditions. Like juries think all crimes get the full CSI treatment, patients often think doctors can just pop down to the lab and find out what you have, like in House. The answer is that's often hard, expensive, and failure prone. So they give antibiotics, especially broad spectrum ones, because of the subset of things you might have, antibiotics can treat some of them.

4. This is really 3b, but it's also possible, when you have no clue what your patient has, to try different antibiotics to try to get a handle on things. This...ends up using a lot of antibiotics.

5. Doctors, at their core, want to treat their patients. To make them better. They're trained to deal at the individual level - antibiotic resistance is a population level concern.
> If you cut back on keeping them healthy, you're cutting the amount of food available for human consumption.

There are better ways of ensuring the supply of food than the abuse of antibiotics in livestock.
First, it is not secret courts who have produced any precedential rulings on the reach of NSL's (at least in the sense of binding any large group of people). It has been normal federal courts. Those that have ruled, have ruled the gag portion unconstitutional.

Here in fact, it says they verified he's the person through publicly available court documents, which must mean it's likely docketed in a normal federal court somewhere (the article pre-dates the FISC publishing their docket)

Second, there are two issues
I do not expect he necessarily received reasonably reliable legal advice. The people who participate in these cases are often not specialists, and often not highly knowledgable about the area (especially at this stage of the game, when things get to SCOTUS or something they generally are willing to engage more competent people). They are just passionate.

Past that, he was not quoted, he wrote the piece. You assume the piece is, for example, not using hyperbole. It does not say the government, or anyone else, has actually made these threats. It does not say what legal viewpoint they take that makes them believe this (and again, given the only gag orders to be challenged have all been struck down, it seems a bit out there ...). There are no details or anything else to support or verify the legal reasoning or implications for what he says.

This is an opinion piece, meant to support his case.
Reading it as an accurate view of the state of the law is, well, probably not a great idea (I certainly agree that reading it for the chilling effects part, fine. But to take everything he says as if his lawyer said that was the way it had to be, is a bit far)
No cake necessary, just buy their games. :-D
"The desktop" that is relevant for GNU/Linux distributions is a stagnant, shrinking market. You will see more Chromebooks than you will ever see Linux desktops. At first glance SteamOS does not even look like a GNU/Linux desktop. It's supposed to be a living room machine, complete with its own "SteamBox." Attributing anything important to SteamOS is akin to saying "Roku is Linux; this is really going to help us get some drivers."
This makes me wonder "What if two programs did this?" [1]

[1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/06/07/42629...
MuleSoft Open Sources RAML Tools for Designing RESTful APIs
There's also, of course, all the antibiotics that go into sewers.
> This seems like another area where libertarianism is crashing against the rocks of reality

Antibiotics use fits the "Tragedy of the Commons" scenario to a T.
How exactly does antibiotics fatten animals up for slaughter?
Virtual Touch-Feel
We are building technology to help designers source textiles online. Our digital architecture and features will include tools to create a "tactile" touch and feel "experience" (fabric draping, rendering online tools). Any suggestions on innovative tech that is out there already that supports this?
I believe that some good doc - diagrams to show how code is structured and how parts interact can mitigate this.
Not only the ctrl+command key but also the behavior for HOME/END/POS1 when selecting text etc. That makes it really hard for me to transition between Linux/Windows and OSX..if it werent for that i wouldnt really care which OS i use.

I already changed to the US keyboard layout which makes this alot better, the standard german Mac Layout is just total garbage.
Interesting that in a non-antibiotic environment, the antibiotic resistant bacteria are actually less fit because that resistance comes at a cost.
Do they actually work on really cool stuff though? As far as I can tell, they think up something that could possibly exist and patent it without actually making it, or if they do make it, they only do it halfway (aka not doing the actual difficult parts).
I used a bit of the RailsApp when I was learning Rails to build a subscription site. Luckily I met Pete and was able to use his book when I actually got to the subscription impl. I KNOW my app as a whole is shitty, so I just bought yours to see how I can unfuck ^^

Your books are always fun. Looking forward to it!
At today's Apple, both software and hardware are means to sell 3rd party software. They earn so much on their ecosystem that it's more profitable to give OS updates for free and provide more unified and less fragmented ecosystem to both users and 3rd party developers.

Lowering prices for next generations of their hardware is also a sign that they really want to put their foot in as many users' doors as possible. I think they rarely lowered hardware prices just couple years ago, before they had this massive revenue stream called App Store.
Apple: "Still Hungary but not foolish"
With all due respect, anecdotes vs opinion? A blurry distinction if ever there was one. Who gets to be the arbiter of that distinction, and placement in "the" hierarchy of HN comments? It's plain as day that girvo's comment as much as jeswin's included first hand accounts of real world events (Greg and his myopia regarding non-MS tech, and satisfied friends/family/grandfather/customers that demonstrate MS' market viability). jeswin's comment as much as girvo's included personal opinion.

There was a recent HN discussion about anti-MS bias on the site. I wonder if that may be relevant.
Show HN: Meals/Feels - Log your meals and feels to spot food allergies
...wuift is why we host our own mailservers :)!
So what happens if you reply to a mail like this? Does the quoted part contain all that linkedin fluff?
So are they aiming for the consumer market or the business one? There could be a (limited) use case for cheaper spare plastic parts, so long as you have a 3d scanner handy as well.
I say I'm bored all the time.

Just because I have something I could do (productive or not) doesn't mean I'm motivated to do it.

'I'm bored' doesn't mean you have nothing to do, it means you have nothing that is currently interesting to you. Telling me to something you deem productive is just going to make busy and bored, assuming I did it in the first place.
Thanks for the confidence. We think that decoding/encoding of audio on dedicated hardware works best for call quality and we are really focussed on doing that.
Why I’m Going Back To Capturing Credit Cards Upfront
It took me a moment to understand what you're saying, which (correct me if I'm wrong) is that they could just forward the credentials along to the imap server they're proxying for, and not store those credentials themselves.
Ask HN: Linkedin profile as a doc or pdf?
Recently, I came across a discussion with a recruiter wanting to have his job candidates linkedin profiles as document or pdf rather than sharing them as link. I know we could download our profile as pdf in linkedin, but for recruiters they usually screen hundreds of profiles a day.

Is this a nice thing to have this tool developed and have some business model around on this? Basically I want to validate this as idea if its feasible to invest sometime on development or not?
Or we have something like this already on the market? Provide your comment or suggestions and I am open to others related on this as well. Thanks in advance.
We all know that the "base config" just isn't going to have "enough" - everyone needs more hard drive space, almost everyone needs an external drive (burn music CDs, burn DVDs for video), half the people need firewire or HDMI converters, etc.

Mac Pro: $2999

Keyboard $49

Mouse $49

Superdrive $79

4K display (one 32" monitor) $500

Promise Pegasus 4TB $1099 [0]

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$4775

+$400ish in sales tax

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$5,175.00

Jeez. Yikes. Wow.

[0] (you are buying a Thunderbolt-based system so going with a Thunderbolt-based storage system makes sense)
So you give up your email credentials to LinkedIn and in exchange you get a little widget that tells you the name of the person who is emailing you, the company they work for, their position in the company, and some contact information? Isn't that's what the signature line is for? Seriously, don't people already setup their signature line to include all that information.

It's a cool hack, however.
This was our team's Rails Rumble 2013 entry.

More details on our blog: http://blog.kiskolabs.com/post/64607343183/meals-feels
I wish you all the best with your ambitious project ^w^

You should seriously consider employing techniques such as LLJS[1] to avoid thrashing the GC.

At the very least use typed arrays à la glMatrix[2] rather than a Vector prototype.

Typed arrays have the added benefit of interoperability with WebGL and Canvas2D via Function::apply.

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[1] http://mbebenita.github.io/LLJS

[2] http://glmatrix.net
The antibiotic overuse that caused this problem will not be solved with out action in 2 area. 1) Antibiotic overuse in poultry and livestock farming to compensate for overcrowded and stressful conditions and 2) Antibiotic overuse in the developing world.
nix hasn't really moved an inch on the desktop front anyway

What a ridiculous thing to say. Millions of people use *nix operating systems on their desktop computers every day. This number is significantly higher than a few years ago. When I hear someone complaining about state of GNU/Linux on desktops, they usually mean they can't play gamez. Sometimes they add something about lacking good video drivers (to play gamez).

And by your statement you reduce the whole range of possible computer uses to gaming. Maybe we shouldn't confuse "linux in entertainment" with "linux on desktops"? Former is only a subset of the latter.

Don't get me wrong, I like playing, and I adore Valve and their games. But for many GNU/Linux users giving up their freedoms may not be worth another brainless AAA title.
They could patent it and charge $5000 a course to people who are suffering from resistant bacteria. It's the American way.
Visas for Canadians, Americans?
My understanding is that they at least work on some token projects so they can say to legislators "look, see, we do!"
I guess thats the curse of programming. We all have a very clear understanding of how very very simple logic gates give rise to systems of infinite complexity.

It's a recurring pattern. SAT, the NP-complete problem, is at first glance a ridiculously simple task, yet solving it means being able to solve all other problems. When designing a language or a machine, it is very very simple to accidentally make it Turing compatible, the barrier is just so low, despite the reward being.. everything.
Ha, awesome! I moved here from Colorado last April, and I'm loving it so far. I highly recommend it. =) Get in touch if you want some pointers—I'm happy to help! (My email's in my profile.)
"Unfortunately, these ports combine the clarity and conciseness of C++ with the speed of JavaScript."

This is exactly how I felt using the Box2D port for our swarm project--itself a port of an ActionScript port of a C++ library.
Glad you like it! Straight bold/thin lines really aren't possible with the default calligraphy brush. There's a marker tool if you open the brushes menu which just does unshaped, straight lines. It's locked to the full version of the app however.

The inkpen brush is also 'untextured' (for lack of a better word) and has a shape profile opposite to the calligraphy brush (slower=wider).
Call my cynical, but I don't think they are going to allow the peons to move in on their action. If I'm wrong, fantastic!
Haven't looked too much at the API, but right off the bat I would suggest a more compelling suite of demos, with collision, stacking, etc...I may just be missing the links.

You're definitely targeting a gaping niche IMO though (same one I'm trying to fill through a side project). Using Box2D in JavaScript feels like programming in assembly sometimes.
"2x as many features". Mh. Ok. Examples?
And the third party that wrote the mail client you are using?

Not to say that this isn't a bad idea though. It would have been an easier sell if you could do the IMAP proxying on the local device somehow.
That's the problem indeed. With great intellect and ability comes great responsibility and these very smart guys (hence the lab) have only he intellects, not the depth of intelligence to realise that their own individual corner is not all that matters in the bigger game. They're the tagger that ruins Banksy's artworks, the despot who sends out the first nuke...
Why a monkey icon? Hard for me to not relate to MailChimp.
This is essentially a mitm attack. I am amazed that a company the size of LinkedIn would think that this is in any way appropriate. These are the tricks of spammers and cyber criminals. This is what LinkedIn has become.

Will customers be explicitly told that all of their emails will be going through and stored on LinkedIn servers? I doubt it. I do envision a dialog box along the lines of "Click Here to make your experience better". Sadly people will click without realizing the implications.
Yes, because after many years of using Plan 9 daily I see no similarity.
That would be the second party.
http://www.usv.com/jobs#location,berlin-de
Thanks for your useless karma whoring post that does nothing but distract from the content of the article with more "fallacious teleological language" of your own.
Misleading title. Nobody did the impossible on iOS, just did clever things within the available frameworks. Well done author, it works. But did you ask yourself "should I really do this?"

What I hope is going to prove truly impossible is doing anything like this without requiring the user to explicitly accept the configuration profile. Even so I expect they will trick many into allowing "enhancement" of their email.

LinkedIn has a history of abusing email. From the early days* where they would email all of the contacts on your machine if you didn't read carefully enough to today where you can click unsubscribe many, many times and still get "important updates". It's a wretched hive of scum and recruiters, and they will never get between me and my email.

*spoke too soon! looks like they still do it: http://community.linkedin.com/questions/10106/i-want-linkedi...
If you're looking to learn what the algo rules are, you're probably not going to get a completely public response. And why should you expect one? The minute the "rules" are published, some clever so-and-so while change their behavior so that they do bad things without getting caught.

Maybe you could try sending pg an email?
Great point. I love that blog.
Is this a MITM attack wrapped as an App?
Ask HN: Next Steps for a Project
I recently created and launched http://bucketjobs.com/ a simple way to save jobs. I have been back and forth on if I should try to charge customers for this service and add additional features OR if I should keep it free and add affiliate links to other job related products (resume templates, salary negotiation books, etc.). I want to make SOMETHING with this, but not sure which direction and figured HN could help with some thoughts.

Thanks in advance!
Necessary reading material: "Solitude and Leadership" [0], an address by William Deresiewicz to the United States Military Academy that discusses the importance of forming your own ideas through careful reflection. As important to the task of creating something of quality on a computer as to becoming an upstanding military officer.

[0] http://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/
Clickable http://bucketjobs.com/
This app looks pretty neat.

I'm working on something similar for Android but focused on note taking and diagramming instead of drawing. I think of it as a kind of handwritten wiki. I allow placing of links in the document that jump to other parts of the document. It is still very much a work in progress and my lines don't look anywhere near as good as the ones in Sketchology.
And it's sometimes easier to invent a chronic condition for a drug, than vice versa.
I'm always confused by these articles. If the issue was really so serious, wouldn't governments be concerned by it at this point? What does it mean that they aren't, in fact, concerned? Does it mean that the amount of people currently affected by these bacteria is negligible? Something else? That there are opposite experts who say this is no a real problem? Lobbying?
A Grand Unified Theory of Exotic Superconductivity
No one will care (and that’s OK)
medicalcannab@urssmail.org and I'll happily fill you in.
Cool, I must have missed that. It would be nice, then, if you could also have a node be tagged with multiple roles (as well as add/remove them in a way that propagates).
> School is free until high school in France

Friendly fyi: "until" is generally exclusive in English. An similar word that is inclusive is "through". So "I'm on vacation until Monday" implies they will be in the office on Monday, but "I'm on vacation through Monday" implies they will be back Tuesday. I understood what you meant, but for a moment I thought you were saying that you had to pay for highschool in France.
(Might as well add one more interesting little copyright twist that might have some interesting consequences for free software, and that has been almost completely overlooked)

In the US, there is a very interesting thing in copyright called the termination right. It probably won't have much affect on software (it is mostly a music and book thing), but there is a remote chance it could be significant in some cases.

The termination right was meant to address the situation where you have a young artist who produces a great work when they are early enough in their career that they are unknown and have almost no bargaining power, and the artist ends up making very little money from the work--it is the music company or book publishers that signs them that ends up making a ton of money.

What the termination right does, basically, is 35 years after the artist signed away their copyrights to the music company or book publisher, the artist is given a window in which they can take back the copyright. They can then negotiate a new deal with the publishers, with much better terms now that they are an established artist instead of an unknown kid.

You might expect publishers would be smart, and include in their contracts with new young artists that the artist agrees not to invoke the termination right when it vests. Congress was smart enough to realize that publishers would do that, and so made it so that you cannot contract away your termination right.

As I said, this is generally irrelevant for software. First, termination rights do not apply to works for hire. Almost all closed source software is written as a work for hire, I suspect. So, as amusing as it would be for some retired COBOL programmer to reclaim copyright on some major bank's ancient but still in service mainframe software, it probably is not going to happen.

Second, not much software survives 35 years. Even if something does not officially get replaced or retired, over 35 years it will usually accumulate enough piecemeal rewrites that nothing is left of the original--not even as a derivative work.

Still, with open source, we now have a lot of code in wide use that was NOT work for hire. Could there be fragments of open source projects that actually make it through 35 years intact, and make the termination right actually relevant?
And one more: http://coursetalk.org/ (reviews and ratings for many lectures)
You really don't nowadays - the key things to battle are latency though, and that's often a metric of "How fast is your processing? How fast are your disks? How long are your cords?" The faster Xeons and the faster bus speeds will make big strides in that regard (thus keep your mic cable runs short and you'll be okay). However, the Mac Pro has been a studio staple since it's inception. I suppose we studio folks are surprised that we've basically been regarded as "not significant" by Apple. Unlike previous Mac Pros, this is not a machine built with "music studios" or musicians in mind. We aren't even considered. You'd be nuts to pay $3000 for a "base model" for a recording studio. You still have another $1000-$2000 that you'd need to spend for disk space, monitor, mouse, and keyboard. It's crazy.