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The UX of windows 8 is so incredibly poor (even after 8.1) that I question the methodology used to design it. Whatever test group or user studies are suggesting that MS is going in the right direction are deeply flawed.

It's just utterly confusing to figure out how to do nearly anything on the OS. There are all sorts of noisy visual cues that look like they communicate state or flow but don't, as well as many seemingly ill-conceived UX "modes" that bewilder me and that just doesn't happen for me with tech stuff.

Want to get to the control panel? There appear to be several different ones and you have to hover your mouse in just the right place on the screen in order to coax a bar to slide in and show you a few options. There are several such bars, each triggered by some kind of mouse hover.

Since I'm ranting, even the usability on the modern IE site is horrid.

It seems that the idea is to have one environment for tablets and for 'normal' users and another for "pro" users who care about advanced control panels. Even if you accept two entirely different UX metaphors coexisting as reasonable, it still boggles the mind how anyone could expect normal users to figure out those strange mouse hovers.

It's just such a bewilderingly odd user experience. 8.1 cleans up a few of the biggest warts but is still (IMHO) a UX disaster and I would actively discourage anyone from deciding to use it.

Maybe the best business decision for MS would be to just copy OSX as much as possible and then let the legal department deal with any infringement claims.
Tesla didn't do anything really. Christie has national ambitions and knows that keeping Tesla out of the NJ market and bending over to support the current NJ regime won't play well on the national stage.

His story was different when Tesla was first banned. But then he wasn't running for national office.
Here's the question - can I, as a PA resident, buy a Tesla directly in NJ now and simply transfer it to PA?
Not disagreeing with what you say, but browser fingerprinting is a great deal less accurate than cookie-based tracking, so the ad networks would certainly like to retain a cookie on the client machine, if they can.
http://codesigning.ksoftware.net/ from $73 to $95 per year
I'm not sure whats up with Intel wireless in the past couple of years but we (team of IT guys) constantly deal with issues with it on Windows (specifically HP notebooks). For a while our response was to look for driver updates. We finally discovered that rolling the driver back, usually to whatever came with Windows, was the real answer.
"The ban was created after Tesla started selling, and now it only lifted the ban for zero emission vehicles as far as I can tell (didn't read the whole bill). If Ford or GM wanted to sell direct, they couldn't."

Which is a damn shame. When shopping for a car every manufacturer currently has a 'build your own' tool online where you can build you car to spec and you get a rough estimate. However, in my experience, this estimate is never honored by dealers.

The last car I purchased had an item on the sticker price called 'Dealer improvements' that was $6000, and after talking to the dealer he would "cut me a break and not charge me anything" so I would be getting the car for $6000 less right off the bat. When I inquired as to what exactly did they improve he refused to answer in detail.

I'm sure my experiences are not unique. I would love to just press an Order button at the end of the vehicle builder and have it delivered to my door or somewhere close to my home.
Yes.

Whether it's a good idea? Who knows. Depends on how the ecosystem will develop. Currently it's impossible to judge its health and growth reliably because of the massive hype surrounding it.

But the question isn't really whether it's mature enough. The question is whether you can / want to support a meteor application for the lifetime of the application you're planning to develop. And if you don't, how easy it will to replace you.
> but Ubuntu is going to be wanting software updates just as Windows is

But Ubuntu comes with drivers for all the network devices it supports, and when it does updates, it does them all in one go with a single reboot required. You install, get online, update, and you're done. A base Windows install often will require external media to get online to get updates, and the process is a painstaking series of rebooting and re-launching/re-starting windows update.

> Installing Sublime text, npm (and npm packages) on Windows is just as easy as on Linux.

I think the point is that he tried doing it The Microsoft Way, and that it was full of barriers and frustration. Of course you can use other tools, but Microsoft tools on a Microsoft system ought to be easy, right?
Your explanation doesn't really make sense.

Consider: who would benefit most from the removal of these laws? The obvious answer is the General Motors Corporation. They could own their own dealerships, getting better control of customer experience and a bigger cut of the profits. It's not like they're short on capital such that they would be forced to franchise anyway. As the largest automaker in the world for most of the last century, they would get a significantly outsized benefit compared to any competitor.

Now for a rhetorical question. Who has more political power in the U.S: car dealerships in aggregate or General Motors? Answer: General Motors, of course!

Another rhetorical question: Does Tesla have more political power in New Jersey than GM as well, given that the exception was carved out specifically regarding the type of vehicle they produce?

edit: New Jersey is no stranger to economic protectionism. They actually prohibit self-service auto refueling as a jobs program, which would seem to be more threatened by Tesla than car dealerships. I'm not trying to argue that it doesn't exist, just that it doesn't explain what's going on here.
Aaron was clearly guilty of the crime he was charged with.

You can debate the morality of that crime being on the books, but it's clear that he did what he was charged with.
So what you're saying is, if my computer never had Windows installed on it, I'm not supposed to be able to install it ?

As a linux user, I expect the leading commercial products to be at least on par with what a relatively standard linux distribution gives you. But no, apparently a vanilla ISO of the OS is not enough, you need more.
Ask HN: Moving, but want to keep my job
I'm a software engineer and I recently started a new job in February, but I have to move to a new city in August. I love my new job - compared to my last one, things are much better here and I could see myself staying for the next 3+ years if I had it my way (or more, who knows).
Background: - 2 internships + 2 co-ops before graduation (~1.5 years of related experience) - Graduated magna cum laude with a bachelors in CS last year - Been working full-time since graduation (~8 months)

The company has a team that works offshore and we have some remote sales folks, but none of our engineers are "full remote". Working from the office isn't necessary and, even from the interview process, I know this company is flexible with where we work from.

So I'm reaching out to the community to see what you all think my chances of keeping my job are. I'll be moving ~10 hours drive away (1.5 hour flight), but my commute to the office would be ~1/month at most (depending on costs: rental car, hotel, flights, etc.) I want to talk to my employer ASAP, but I also don't want to be laid off between now and August in case they want to replace me.. so waiting might be better.

- Have you had an employer allow you to move and work remotely?

- If so, when did you let them know? Months in advance? Weeks in advance?

- How did you enjoy working remotely in a new location?

- How often did they need you to commute to the office and for how long was your visit?

I'm mainly trying to decide when I should let my employer know so they and I can both be prepared for what might be involved in looking for new work down the road.

Thanks in advance.
> Illegal immigrants do not generally get the kind of high paying jobs it takes to be a net tax payer. As Mitt Romney infamously publicised, they're only 47%.

No, Romney didn't "publicize" that net tax payers considering all sources of taxes vs. all costs are "only 47%", he made some false implications based on a claim that about 47% pay no income tax (which was true, even if the implications he tried to make from it were not, if one assumes he was talking specifically about federal income tax.)

But federal income tax isn't the only tax, (or the only federal tax, or even the only federal tax on income), and the people not paying it aren't only the poor, and who is or isn't paying federal income tax isn't who is or isn't a net tax payer (and, even more clearly, who isn't paying federal income tax isn't equivalent to who is a net tax payer, which is what your presentation of the meaning of the 47% would claim.)

> But most of America's illegal immigrants are from Central and South America, and the well educated portions of those countries do not immigrate to the US illegally.

Sure they do; I've personally met several well-educated professionals who did that were later beneficiaries of the 1980s amnesty, and the fundamental reason why they did hasn't changed since then. For many decades, one of the major sources of illegal immigration from Mexico is that the waiting time in the main family preferences categories is decades long because of per-country limits that guarantee that the supply of visas for qualified, desirable immigrants under the basic purposes of the family-centered immigration policy is perpetually misaligned with demand.
> As a Windows developer and somebody who actually likes using Windows, I'm still shocked by how pathetic Windows Update is.

Heh. My workstation in my cubicle at the office is getting a hard drive replacement right now because some update left it stuck at startup, saying "Windows is configuring things. Please do not turn off your computer." (Or something to that effect.) I get it; if it takes longer than 15 minutes to fix, core IT is going to re-image the drive, but now I have to reinstall Visual Studio and SQL Server, and patch, and patch, and patch. And always be afraid that it will just happen again some day.
The Dollars Comeback?
Twitter account stripped of it's followers unceremoniously
Your friends are still posting, but you don´t see it anymore
Extending telco identity to gMail with WebRTC
Not to mention that you can use straight ports of Debian apt-get[1], FreeBSD pkg-ng[2], or even Arch pacman[3] on OS X if you so desire.

1: http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/apt
2: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg
3: https://github.com/kladd/pacman-osx
Just used OS X a few times, but memory management seems to be a constant complaint.
Really agree with the point of pressure, that having a bad day whilst working from home feels way more terrible than having one while at the office (production-wise)
This is a poor question. You are asking a for a lot but providing little. The answer, at the same time, can be yes and no.

You leave out critical information, such as what the scaling is for. Is it to support lots of users or lots of computation? Lots of concurrent connections? Are you talking about meteor.js alone, or are you looking at other technologies? And what is high performance to you? What is a large code base? Why do you presume it will require a large code base?

You provide no requirements, and the question is purely subjective.

But pc86 makes a good point: it probably doesn't matter at this point. With the information you provided, that's the best answer anyone can give.

tl;dr: Yes and no.
Car dealerships are also generally small family owned businesses. The kind that plays well in red states as being the heart of the American economy of self made people. They must protected at all costs from competition, ideas, and regulation that could put them out of business.

See Obamacare, eVerify, FMLA etc.
Re-read the post you downvoted (13 hours ago, it's true) and tell me you're not part of the problem. Whatshisface you're defending fixed the nonattribution part after many people called him out on both that and removing the part of the poem that didn't fit his agenda (which he "fixed" with an elipsis). I'm not the one being a hypocrite about this things. But I'm done arguing with y'all. HN is clearly slashdot next but with better article submissions.
Meanwhile in Germany the pirate party is once again completely irrelevant. Thanks to the debate culture of mailing lists and twitter, fractionism, us-vs-them thinking and the refusal to throw trolls/idiots out of the party. And a hole lot of feminism drama helped.
seems an amazing idea, App platform for drones.
nice one!
I have been mad as hell at a colleague, and we've had it out in a lengthy, heated argument. Then when work hours were over, we would go hang out and forget it all.

Just because we have contentious argument doesn't mean we don't like each other.
San Francisco Above the Clouds and Undulating Hills
Google Cache seems to work: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a5OjeFf...
Angry birds profits dive
Most of my projects are consisting of an API-server and a web front-end lately but you are right, I'll at some point surely need to come-up with something which runs native on Windows and will need to setup Windows anyway.
So a little background, this looks like backlash from a few very controversial decisions the government has made recently and recent corruption allegations.

The biggest one being; Stopping the nations talks with the EU and a few days ago withdrawing* the application without discussing it in the parliament and putting it to a national vote as both parties promised would be done before the elections.

This backlash agains the 'old block' and what is called 'traditional politics' started when comedians, artists and musicians (among others) started the 'Besti flokkurinn' (Best Party) and won the elections for city council in Reykjavík ?five? years ago.

People saw that new people and new parties could do a better job then those 'professional' politicians and I think the Pirate Party is riding on that wave and every controversial decision and corruption allegations just strengthens people's believes that politics must change.
It won't happen in 2 years or 6 years but we might start to see some big changes in 10 years time!

*The foreign minister wrote a letter to the EU to withdraw the application but the EU don't take it as a withdrawal. It's very strange.
Depends. Some companies use GPL with copyright assignment to control the project: you can use it as a wholly open source product, but the company has the right to do future development in a closed source way, embed it in proprietary products, etc.

I don't know if that's likely with a build tool, but it happens elsewhere.
Ah, ok. I stand corrected, thanks.
Receiptful receipt supercharger launches Builder 2.0
Actually there is some amount of extremely well written code in Lisp.

Check out the book 'Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming' by Peter Norvig. It is one of the best books ever written about programming and it explains a lot of Common Lisp.

http://norvig.com/paip.html

You should have no problems reading this code a week later, a year later or ten years later...
Can someone please shed some light on the arguments from the other side. How were these dealership protection laws ever justified by politicians?
Human senses work on log scale so 10000 lux is not that much perceivably brighter than 500 lux.
Seems to me that while the Windows Update hanging is a problem there, at least as big of a problem is that your "core IT" is only keeping base images of systems rather than images of complete-and-current builds with applications and current patches.
This is great news. People often forget that dealerships often abuse their power and take advantage of consumers. This is especially true since purchasing a car is a large purchase with information asymmetry (although new resources have made this less true). It's especially appalling how dealerships often discriminate on race and gender [0]

I am disappointed that this move only applies to zero-emission vehicles but hopefully this will lead to future legislation undoing the protection granted to dealerships.

[0]http://islandia.law.yale.edu/ayres/Ayres%20Siegelman%20Race%...
I think you should read the message you are responding to again, as you just agreed with what I said.
The linked article discusses that Inuit study, too.

(Also, Cicil Adams is almost certainly not a single person.)
Just a suggestion: Using Virtual Machines is a good idea for your development environment. You can backup regularly and experiment freely.
"Jobs" is probably the "official" argument. If the middlemen go extinct, people will lose those jobs.
> The overwhelming majority of people prosecuted by the Feds are guilt.

That is not the right narrative for HN. The cop is the perp and the perp is the victim is taken as gospel here.
Sounds like you need to go to different dealers. I'm no fan of the dealer experience but I have gotten prices and costs online and certainly never had a dealer try to tack on $6K. Maybe it was some particularly in-demand model. At least one dealer I've bought a car from has been "no haggle"; the price on the sticker was the price.

The problem with getting rid of dealers is that most people will still want somewhere to test drive, someone local to handle paperwork, and there would need to be a service network in any case. Tesla will still have dealers. They'll just be owned by the company. And the experience will doubtless be comparable to existing high-end car dealers.
Hmm, likewise. Too bad that was one of my favorite reference things (though it was getting a bit dated).
I was looking for this solution for a long time, great work!
Maybe you should reach out to your boss, rather than us? I mean, we're mostly ok with it:-)

Perhaps you could find some good arguments for keeping your job here? http://www.amazon.com/Remote-Office-Required-Jason-Fried-ebo...
I used to think that. Try using Windows 8.1 and see if you can figure out basic things. Try it with two monitors and you'll find that the hover zone for some of the hidden stuff is about 30x30 pixels. It reminds me of trying to find hidden doors on Zelda.
Heh. Last time I installed the "driver" for my Logitech mouse on Windows, I think it was 150 MB. 150 MB! For a mouse driver!? I remember when we got REAL WORK done with DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11, and Office 4.0, and it all fit on a 10 MB hard drive, with room left over for Doom.
APNG support lands in WebKit
Status: RESOLVED FIXED

It's implemented on top of vanilla libpng.

In practice, only WebKit-based browsers will get APNG, not Chromium-based ones. That's not a big market share. But WebKit and Blink engines are still pretty similar, so there's something to consider.
If you are always holding their hands, they are going to be unknowing when they grow up.

Let them see for themselves why they shouldn't install the Java runtime and explain to them why it's bad.
or you can block third party cookies all together. That's what I do, it's a simple setting on chrome.If it breaks a website well too bad,it shouldn't.
File and window management is what kills OSX for me. Finder is just too simple and restrictive, and simple things like window snapping doesn't even exist in OSX. Don't get me started on the horrid mess that is maximization of windows. I really don't know what will happen when I press that green little button in the corner.
one of the issues in open source is that the numbers are very hard to quantify.

I know, from personal experience that most large companies are using mysql, even if they use postgresql they're also using mysql for smaller things..

to give some examples the only company I ever worked in which used pgsql as a direct backing store and primary database still used mysql to manage it's internal documentation servers and caching systems (records used to keep track of what is cached inside of memcached).

simply due to the ubiquity of the tools developed around mysql and the notion that you will never have a hard time finding a person with mysql experience causes people to choose mysql when designing new things.

currently I'm getting a lot of force against postgresql adoption in my company, even though it makes complete sense for my project- the fact that "nobody understands it" and that "tooling exists behind mysql" is enough to keep the status-quo for a long time unless someone fights really hard (which I'm doing).
Then the obvious question is: Why not have both? :)

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/538/731/0fc...
You can use some of the trigger-based replication methods too, for a low-downtime migration. Read the second half of this post:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/rds-postgres-read-replicas/
TAG Heuer, Google and Intel Announce Swiss Smartwatch Collaboration
Simple form with e-mail and questions from site visitor. I want to do it without server.
Using plugins in Cordova apps built with Visual Studio
From Elon Musk:

> It is worth examining the history of these laws to understand why they exist, as the auto dealer franchise laws were originally put in place for a just cause and are now being twisted to an unjust purpose. Many decades ago, the incumbent auto manufacturers sold franchises to generate capital and gain a salesforce. The franchisees then further invested a lot of their money and time in building up the dealerships. That’s a fair deal and it should not be broken. However, some of the big auto companies later engaged in pressure tactics to get the franchisees to sell their dealerships back at a low price. The franchisees rightly sought protection from their state legislatures, which resulted in the laws on the books today throughout the United States (these laws are not present anywhere else in the world).

The intent was simply to prevent a fair and longstanding deal between an existing auto company and its dealers from being broken, not to prevent a new company that has no franchisees from selling directly to consumers. In most states, the laws are reasonable and clear. In a handful of states, the laws were written in an overzealous or ambiguous manner. When all auto companies sold through franchises, this didn’t really matter. However, when Tesla came along as a new company with no existing franchisees, the auto dealers, who possess vastly more resources and influence than Tesla, nonetheless sought to force us to sell through them.

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/people-new-jersey
which never technically existed in the first place for that company, so the "people" who would be out the job, wouldn't have that job in the first place
Every CIO Should Cross the App Delivery Chasm in 2015
>Yes, it is very much as bad as it sounds and a big pain point with Postgresql in general and RDS in particular.

this is pretty much a problem with RDS only. Postgres itself offers pg_upgrade which can do even huge databases (2 TB here) in seconds.
Volatile: Almost Useless for Multi-Threaded Programming (2007)
This is a third repost.
How many more are we going to see?
I think the OP has a lot of confusions about the "vendor", "operating system" and very suprisingly with "linux" and "ubuntu" generalization.

I can understand the first two, but can't seem to understand one who has 8 years of xp with linux is able to generalize "ubuntu" with all of the other linux operating systems.

Quite the waste of my time to read this, nothing gained for me other than the thought of "hackernews top posts are going bad" sadly.
Is storing the elements in-place instead of with a pointer seriously all it takes to be intrusive? I'd have thought that would be par for the course in languages like C/++. Is there something else to it that I'm missing?
As a website owner I'm free to respond with any HTTP headers I feel like like when your computer makes a request. You're free to use a browser that doesn't decide to store cookies when you get a reply with those headers.
Uber offices raided in Paris by French police in 'car-pooling' controversy