skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Maybe the Wintel intentional software bloat to sell more hardware has reached a critical mass and can't be stopped."

Having worked on the performance team for Windows Vista (yes--it actually exists), I can tell you first hand that there's no conspiracy here.

Instead, there are thousands of developers each solving problems in their parts of the OS without a holistic view of the impact of their tiny little growth in memory use or CPU consumption or processes required at startup. Each team's impact is minuscule, but in aggregate, adds up to enough to fully use a new generation of hardware.

The perf team can help fix some of that, but only so much. And they only bother winning enough battles to make Windows run on the hardware that people willing to buy an OS upgrade are going to put it on. The vast majority of these buyers are tech freaks like us, or people buying a new machine from an OEM, so it's not malice so much as lazily chasing the easy dollars that causes commercial OSes to run best only on near-latest hardware.

Fwiw, Apple's similarly lazy...
People call you scrooge because you are just like scrooge... seriously, you made a website because you don't like getting off of work, getting gifts, and spending time with family?
When I first learned programming, the tradition was to use 'f' and 'n'.

On the ZX81, the "FOR" command was accessed by pressing the F key in a special "command mode", so by typing the F key twice you got "FOR F". Similarly "NEXT N".

Edit: Yes, duplicate of what axod said here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1971594
I wasn't being sarcastic. It is just not an easily monitizable space.

It is $150 total, but the way credit was signed up, almost all of it is guaranteed by me. I am looking into consolidation (and partial forgiveness), that might make it entirely mine and that might just be worth it. Take full responsibility and take full action.
Bump is hiring and will definitely do H1B sponsorship. I believe visa difficulty can vary by country though e.g. India may be more difficult.

We are hiring for server(python/redis/mongo/C)/operations/Android/DESIGN.

http://bu.mp/jobs

Please also mail hackernews@ourdomain to get above the noise.
I've seen that before, but I found it disappointing that they limit the height to 10 ft above the ground. It also seems like it may have some problems flying in wind judging by their instructions for outdoor flight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7K0O0YJnFo
Like most hosting services, AWS has rules in there terms about what can be hosted. Agree with wikileaks or not, I think there is little debate that the documents were obtained illegally. Therefore, AWS was right to take them down from a business standpoint.

I'll probably get downvoted for saying 'obtained illegally', but I'm talking about the guy who downloaded the docs, not the guy who posted them. I think the worst Wikileaks could be charged with would be purchasing stolen property.
Hundreds of wikileaks mirrors appearing everywhere
I want some Terry Pratchett books, as well as books/chapters by Knuth.
Don't forget their dull and drab email with its pointless tags and terrible filtering options.
White iPhone 4 coming Spring 2011
GoogleTV was just released. If it succeeds at doing for television what Android did for phone, it's kind of a big deal.

I got Logitech Revue (GoogleTV) a week ago through the Google developer program and I've been playing with it, trying to imagine how this is all going to fit together. It's a bit bleeding-edge now but it could easily take off if they can just push out enough updates and introduce the App Store to it.
Some kinds of creative work have deadlines that aren't on the same kind of timescale that procrastination happens on, though. Writing a book, for example—you're given an advance and six months to write the thing; whether you waste an hour watching TV when you could be writing has a negligible effect on how much time you have left to write.
tl;dr -> Martin got annoyed by having to unexpectedly answer viewer questions during an interview.

And if you understand that my first sentence was a joke, you understand the importance of what Steve had to say. It was a well done essay.
With all due respect, I don't think those are the correct lessons to be learnt.

The lesson is: don't take on debt. Get investors. If you can't get investors, bootstrap, do some gigs on the side, and use that money to run the company. Then, get investors. If you can't get investors, well, repeat until...

If you do this for a long enough time, and the idea, product, company, team and timing is right, you will be able to get investors. If not, that's the world telling you that it's not such a hot idea, product, company, or whatever. Take the hint.

This is exactly what we did, and are still doing. Unless you hit gold, it's slow as heck. But still, I'd never take on personal debt for my startup.
might be there, let's see what my wife thinks about this :)
Right on the "Buy Now" button.
How did your credit line get expanded without you knowing it?

A key detail I was not aware of is 'business cards get switched to personal cards when not pain on time'. That's a bit one that we should all be aware of (though I don't have a business card yet, good to know).
Your 16 bit app will be out of luck if you ever install a 64 bit version of windows ... though a 20 year lifespan is pretty decent.
There are people who have absolutely no passion for a task, yet perform it expertly, without practice. One would have to conclude after reading this essay that these people are, in fact, talented [i.e. possess some innate ability].
Maybe it's not the norm, but I've read about new findings in the past, mentioned them to my family doctor and found that he's familiar with the same studies.

Like developers, I'm sure there are doctors who just do their 9-5 and go home, while others continue to study, attend conferences and discuss new techniques with other doctors. Also similarly it's hard for the people who hire them ("us") to differentiate between them unless we have domain specific knowledge or someone who does and we trust to recommend a good doctor.
Indeed .. in that case, being shorter and faster would lead to a favourable outcome.
A good introductory classic Greek (Attic) textbook.

A nice, small tube amp.

I'm unlikely to get either since I haven't made these wishes known to anyone who's going to be buying me anything. In any case, they're both the sort of thing you're better off buying for yourself.
The iPod was largely built on contracted work and Safari/Webkit was built off KHTML. I don't get this whole "if not built 100% in-house, it doesn't count" meme. You might have a point about YouTube being an acquisition, but giving credit to anyone but Google for Android and Chrome's (or Apple for the iPod and Safari's) success seems like intentionally looking for loopholes instead of acknowledging their work.
Hugged into submission by an overzealous fan?

...

Really?
Test yourself: Are you a Highly Sensitive Person?
Don't boycott amazon because of WikiLeaks.
Or just don't print it and keep using formats that everyone else can already use.
Almost certainly just a coincidence (i.e. the condition was going to occur, this was just what kicked it off)
It may be a rule, but it's still stupid

You've never done government work, have you?
And why did you have to install Windows 7 on the first place? Any special software requirements (ie. games)? ... if not, why not just installing Ubuntu, the obvious restricted packages and OpenSSH server so you can connect remotely?
I agree with the equation as well. Effort can make up for less talent the same way talented people may require less effort than others to achieve the same result.

Put a zero in any of those and it all goes away.

results = 0 x effort x time
results = talent x 0 x time ... etc will still be zero

No effort (or very little) even if you have talent or no talent (or very little) even if you make a huge effort will probably not get you very far.
Well, market salary is not clearly defined. The spread is huge, even in one area (often in the same company even). That's why H1B workers usually make less on average.
"Christmas gifts are dumb. If I wanted something in gift price range I would have bought it for myself already. I'm not living paycheck to paycheck."

This is not the reason why people get each other gifts.
you are missing the point. the article was only criticizing hiring process at google.

when google makes an acquisition, they'll also gain people who built that technology/product too. these people usually went through completely different hiring process and it's entirely possible that early employees who made let's say youtube, would probably never make it through those tricky interview questions at google...

heck, most startup founders here wouldn't make it into google through their standard interview process. then google ends up buying their companies for millions. go figure.
As useful as a cobol programmer.
While taking it all on might suck, it's totally under your control at that point. Having your credit info impacted by the decisions and actions of others can be painful.re: sarcastic - just wasn't sure how to read what you'd written.

re: monetizing - wikipedia isn't easy to monetize either - which is why they do the appeals. Without knowing your situation, I can't presume to tell you what to do, but you may find a sizeable chunk of people willing to help donate to offset your debts, perhaps in exchange for a guarantee of continued service.

re: 150k - I hope you're able to get that reduced (via forgiveness, consolidation, whatever) quickly - perhaps to $100k soon. There are a number of stories of people getting through debt quickly on various personal finance blogs. Perhaps some of those may serve as motivation from outside the tech-o-sphere.

Best wishes to you on that difficult journey.
I bought one of these: http://www.brighthub.com/electronics/gizmos-gadgets/articles... and wrote a plugin for CherryTomato: http://www.beatpoints.com/cherrytomato - so now when I am in pomodoro, it goes red, indicating to my colleagues not to bother me. Works pretty well, though the Skype/messenger status seems more effective.
You should make them known. People REALLY want to help, they often just don't know how.
Do you ever refer to a person's brain size or weight?

I don't understand your point. Sure, our brains are made out of matter - and are physical organs. However, the interesting thing about a brain is the way it functions; I think it very necessary to think in terms of physical prowess and mental or psychological prowess when considering whether someone's naturally talented.

Being tall isn't a talent - it's an attribute that could give an advantage to a person who plays basket-ball. If the sum total of that person's other characteristics are also conducive to being good at basketball - that person would probably be known as a talented player.
SOX compliance is also really expensive for smaller businesses, though, and it makes IPO's seem like a bad idea unless the company can be really, really huge. Companies with more than $5B in revenue only spent 0.6% of their revenue on SOX compliance, while companies with less than $100M spent on average 2.55%. This doesn't really have anything to do either way with a bubble, but it does disincentivize a company from going public.
Interesting. I'm using Chrome 8.0.552.215 beta on Ubuntu 10.04. This is what I see when I visit the website: http://imgur.com/vKrLZ

It appears to be a bug of some kind with the optimizelegibility property, although I don't know exactly why it's adding hyphens.
Um, you realize that newspapers generated billions of dollars in profits over more than a century by "tricking people" into using coupons, right? Coupons are about helping businesses attract customers they wouldn't have gotten otherwise. The specifics are a little different in the Internet age, but there's no reason to think Groupon is any more a flash in the pan than the advertising supplements in newspapers were.
From what was posted, it would seem the audience was sampled too soon. Wouldn't this fall under the 90 second attention span problem?

Edit: expansion -

This reminds me of an experience related to me by a concert goer. Dan Hicks was scheduled to follow a classical performance artist (pianist?) - Very poor combination, musically. He played a couple of songs and the audience, presumably there to hear more classical, got quieter and quieter.

Before the next song, someone dropped coins and they slowly, audibly rolled down the sloped floor to the front of the stage. Mr. Hicks was reported to have said something along the lines of "I feel about the same," put away his instrument and left the stage.

If the audience is not a part of a performance, not giving any feedback, the artist has negative feedback, and I assume this is where the phrase "I died up there" came from (see George Carlin's little talk on violent terms for performance art for audiences).

Mr. Martin's complaint is that he was not given the time to react to the loss of audience, once the repartee was interrupted with the first audience-requested conversation topic. The continued interruptions prevented any reboot from happening.

I use similar feedback techniques when teaching high-tech knowledge to groups. Very dry stuff, and if not handled carefully, a great chance for a nap.
Yeah, but it is the reason it's dumb.

The reason some X is dumb rarely has to do directly with the reason proponents of X say X is great, but rather with something they don't think about.
AFAIK you're good to go as long as you don't reveal any patient information (called PHI in the HIPAA world). So instead of leaving a message like, "Calling to confirm John Doe's appointment at Johnson Health Institute" it would need to be "Calling to confirm an appointment at Johnson Health Institute". That way if the number is incorrect for some reason there hasn't been a breach of privacy.
If you have never started a business and suffered the consequences of having hired the wrong employees you lack the perspective necessary in order to voice an opinion on this matter. From my perspective, having started several businesses, succeeded and failed, I see no flaw whatsoever in what Jason is saying.

The consequences of hiring the wrong people can be dire, particularly when you need them to perform. I had a director of sales who was instrumental in killing one of my businesses.

When times got tough he did not have the "killer instinct" Jason talks about. Sales were down. Times were tough. I relied on him to go turn over rocks and find sales. Long story short, he just didn't have it in him. I had hired the wrong person. Funny thing is that there was another candidate that was rougher around the edges but definitely had the drive. I chose the more "refined" candidate (in my eyes) and made a huge mistake.

Jason is right.

If you don't understand it's because you lack the context. My favorite Mark Twain saying applies here:

"A man holding a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way".

Hold THAT cat by the tail first. Then you'll have an opinion worth considering.
The installation and setup process of Win 7 is much much better are more smooth than for XP. After a fresh install my graphics were working at the right resolution, my wireless worked and my audio too. In XP I had to install all the drivers manually. In win7 it all installed automatically via WU.

While it s true that WU sometimes postpones your shutdown when you really dont want it to, but it never lasted for more than 15 mins (which is quite a lot)

Can you give an example of inconsistent layout? I am not sure what you mean by that.

I agree that the ribbon is over-bloated with buttons that I almost never use.

As for the applications, I use Ninite to automatically install some of the most common applications. You should try it.
زوار اضافات اشهار
Chrome on windows 7. I get hyphens everywhere and it makes it difficult to read.
And, be fair: there's probably a sensible kernel to this rule; to wit, just because you see something on the news doesn't mean it's OK for you to talk about: (1) by doing so, you could be confirming facts that are mere speculation, (2) you run the risk of disclosing more than was actually disclosed, (3) you inherently disclose "metadata" about how widespread the information was, (4) you make it that much harder for the genie to be put back in the bottle in cases where that's feasible (admittedly, the Internet seems to moot [4]).

Like I said, the rule is probably moot in Wikileaks case, but probably not moot in others. Meanwhile, the classification system does revolve around substituting rigid rules for individual judgement --- and that makes sense, given the sheer number of people who come into contact with CI.
اكسب زوار اضافات اشهار باك لينك والكثير
Maybe there is something in Google Books you can use:

http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1,bkv:f&tbo=p&q...

(query is for "attic greek" restricted to "full text available".)
Great post. This is similar to the idea of a site my friend and I put together called Lessons Learned (http://lessonslearnedby.us/).

We've only just started coding on it again after focusing on ramping up another more easily monetizable project with investor interest, but even in its simplest form we found that it makes a huge difference when walking away from a situation to say not just "well that rocked/sucked" or even "won't do that again" but to ask ourselves "what lesson can I learn from this?"

It seems being mindful and asking the right questions, consistently, pays immense dividends.

I'm adding this question to my list. One could even say I've "learned" a "lesson" :)
Take out equity loan against house, pay off your credit card. Be ready to walk away from your house if you have to.
There's no mention of this on John Draper's personal website or MySpace page. How do we know this message is from John Draper?

http://www.webcrunchers.com/

http://www.myspace.com/jdcrunchman

(Found webcrunchers via Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper and found MySpace via webcrunchers.)
I've had credit lines expanded on me with just a letter in the post saying "we've upped your credit line". I didn't ask for it. Granted, I still keep up on stuff regularly, and noticed quickly, but it wasn't something I applied for. In some situations, I can imagine a busy person not noticing for several months.
They went through pre-Bush bankruptcy-law bankruptcy or post?

http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/050420/...
The US healthcare system never fails to shock and horrify me. I am so thankful for my dual citizenship every time I hear a story like this. Pathetic and sad.
I almost donated, but dug around and can't find verification of his situation. Anyone got anything more concrete?
I don't think it's about worthiness...more likely, it's a legal issue.
This is a personal letter between two people, though, and responses took days. Sending memos back and forth (in a sense what we're doing now), would be wasteful, likely rude, and expensive.

For those of you with family in the military, do y'all send long messages to one another, sometimes going at great length to ask a question in the middle of them, like this email? Why?
How do you contrast the Wikileaks situation with other organizations like the NY Times?
When I installed Windows 7, I went from no OS to functioning desktop in 17 minutes. 2 of those minutes were spent crawling around on the floor to write down my license key. (Like an idiot, I stuck the sticker on my case before I installed the OS. Oops.) This was faster than OS X and Ubuntu. Until Windows 7, Ubuntu was the fastest installing OS I'd ever come across.

I did the Windows updates (after enabling updates for all MS products) in 2 restarts.

Your problem is that you're restarting whenever you finish uninstalling program X. The fact of the matter is that you can uninstall most all of the programs one after the other and then do a single restart, even if the uninstaller tells you differently. (The only exception I make is when removing AV software like McAfee and Norton.) Also, you might want to check out PC De-crapifier. ( http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/ )

For batch installs after you've cleaned a machine, you might want to check out ninite. ( http://ninite.com/ ) Select the programs you want on there and walk away.

When you run Windows update, make sure you have the option to update other Microsoft programs ticked.

(And you can thank the Justice Dept for making you go to the MS website to download even the most trivial of programs. Derp derp monopoly derp derp. It's ridiculous.)

The fact of the matter is that Windows 7 is miles ahead of XP in terms of installing updates and not requiring a reboot. XP used to take hours. Windows 7 took me about ten minutes after the initial installation.
Time to continue working on my startup. More runway.
Google has definitely been humbled by Twitter, Groupon, Facebook, etc. That said, they're still awesomely successful and useful. The point of the post, though, is about how Google is becoming less relevant/useful and I couldn't disagree more.

Pewpewarrows listed technologies. These are the ones I gladly depend and use at least once per week on:

Search

Gmail (6+ accounts)

Docs

Cal

Contacts

Tasks

Picasa

Custom Search

Reader

Android

Chrome

Ad Manager (DFP)

Adwords

Analytics

Website Optimizer

Python (a bit of a stretch, but I use it because Google does...)

My life is just a lot better because of these bits of technology. Seriously. Lots better. So bummer about Groupon, but Google's rockin and super relevant.
If I'm enjoying a show and have the opportunity to email the producers about it, I probably won't.

If I am really disliking a show and have the same opportunity, I might take it.

If 10% of people don't like the show they're watching and they all behave like me, then the producers get lots of emails from people who don't like the show, even though they are in the minority.
A WakeMate. Here's hoping they ship before Christmas...
Chat: uhhh, really?

Docs: fear of Microsoft

Calendar: uhhh, really?

Checkout: sucks

Youtube: Acq.

Android: Acq. but still sucks

Chrome: Awesome product.

Voice: haven't heard of it, and that's saying something.

TV: Also haven't heard of it (enough).

But, you left out one major thing, and what I think will be their saving grace (besides the obvious other 2):

Google App Engine: Getting Much Better!
I'm from Cuba and I cannot download Java!

p.s.: I'm not from Cuba but that's the same issue, is a legal issue, hopefully WP7 Marketplace will open later for other countries meanwhile this guy needs a partner.
1) tooth whitening- brightsmile or whatever the best in-house solution is (I hate applying the disgusting gel)

2) anything from here: http://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/3CLNZ1QEZAO6S/ref=cm... (the first page of the list especially)

3) a new timing belt for my Camry
There are plenty of startup founders that got their credit ruined before like Max Levchin. It got to the point where "a ruined credit history prevented him from buying a car, getting a cell phone, and renting an apartment." However, "Levchin kept going without much downtime." Levchin says: "Every time I had torn up my certificate of incorporation… the delay between that and registering a new company was typically no more than 24 hours."

http://gigaom.com/2010/08/06/max-levchin-says-embracing-fail...

Levchin's 24 hours might be extreme to follow, but we can definitely learn from his relentlessness. As for $150k in debt, creditors nowadays are pretty used to arranging settlements. You might be able to arrange some payment plan with them and reduce the debt to under $70k. A big part of it is interest and fees that they tackle on so they would rather remove that and work with you than watch you default. So given you get a job (startup jobs don't check your credit as much) you might be able to fix it in 1-2 years without declaring bankruptcy.

I know how demoralizing it can feel but you are definitely not the only one and will emerge stronger after you get over it. Look forward to seeing blog posts/interviews about how you struggled and overcame your debt when you rise again.