skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not - but it reduces the clarity of your position. People will associate Che with what they associate him with - not the iota of character you try to embody with one of his quotes.

To expound on that a little bit - what kind of confusion would there be if I wrote a blog post about efficient systems and quoted Adolf Hitler?

Generally I used to jump around to whatever seemed suitable for the message - but generally getting people to follow you from one thought to another is the hardest part - don't make it harder on them.
'Wired in'
I've found Windows 7 great in terms of installing drivers and updates. It's much smarter and most don't require restarts. Obviously the first time you update the OS they'll be a lot of them. How is that any different than an OS X update?

Most people actually like the W7 UI. The new taskbar is better than anything else in my opinion.

I think most of your frustration is because it's a brand new install. Once all the setup is done, most of those annoyances are gone and what you're left with is a fast, stable, and really usable OS.
We started out looking for funding. We backed into consulting/bootstrapping. Consulting has sort of taken over our lives (it's lucrative, and we love the work), but we've never not had a full-time dev team. We joke, constantly, about how badly the company would have done had we been unfortunate enough to actually close a round.
Microsoft won't package much with the OS because of the antitrust problems they had ten years ago. Linux and Apple aren't afraid to do so.

Also, use ninite.com to install software to a clean install of Windows.
I can't down-vote anyone. I was actually quite disappointed when I first read that you can down-vote above some karma threshold.

Text/turn-based commenting system already ensure that one has to 'wait' for the other to finish their writing. Down-voting only seems like shouting louder and thus seems unnecessary. The only reasonable excuse is SPAM prevention. For that, however, I think that automated flagging system, that won't influence points, would do just fine. I also try to up-vote any opinions that I do not agree with, but that argument their point well.

Long story short, I think down-voting is unnecessary and even potentially harmful. I don't comment often, so it's not going to happen anytime soon, however I plan to not use my down-vote privileges, once I get them, for any reason at all.
(Actually, I think I'll create greasemonkey script to ensure I won't downvote anyone accidentally.)
For package manager read "app store". People do care.
I just updated my Amazon wish list at my mom's request! http://amzn.com/w/1WO5IE7YF9N7H
The many apps that sync with the wondrous Dropbox
This is exactly what happened to me 2 days ago at my haircut. My barber and I enjoy talking about the Pittsburgh Steelers (American football). Somehow, our discussion turned into my nonstop complaining...

"I hate when they run up the middle on first down!"

"The referees call too many penalties!"

"The kicker should go back to bagging groceries!"

"The announcers don't understand the game!"

"Instant replay ruins the experience!"

"They should just pounce on fumbles instead of trying to pick them up and run with them!"

Finally, he said, "Well then, what are you going to do about it?"

I answered the only way I could, "I'm going to drink more beer and yell louder at the TV. Maybe, just maybe, someone will hear me and do what I say."
I didn't even have pain with the install.
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Way back when, people used to argue (rightfully so) that Linux was painful to install and not desktop ready. You had issues with X11/graphic cards/drivers/etc. These days installing ubuntu (or any of the LiveCDs) is actually pretty straight forward.

Having had to deal with Windows 7 in recent years, it is the most convoluted of the three OSs as far as a desktop installation goes. For me, in order of increasing complexity the list is: OSX, Linux, Windows.

Things getting even more extra-special with Windows, if gasp you want to upgrade from a previous version (IE, have a valid XP/Vista license) and do so as a clean install. There are registry hacks there that sometimes work, sometimes you have to resort to calling MSFT tech support. If you swap out some hardware on the machine after activation and it determines you need to reactivate? That isn't always clear cut either.

Windows 7 cleans up a number of things but system installs and maintenance (registry, install/uninstall, updates) need serious work.
"Microsoft doesn't care about the home/small-business user experience"

It sure seems that way. Maybe the Wintel intentional software bloat to sell more hardware has reached a critical mass and can't be stopped.
But what if you don't have talent to know how to be passionate about something? :)

Right amount of talent in right environment drives passion that further hones the talent. And the cycle continues.Somewhere down the line you have so much passion that right environment doesn't matter.
You're having bad luck. I've never had a problem with Windows 7. I don't think you should be surprised that 16 months after launch, there are a lot of updates, and you not liking the ribbon UI doesn't make Windows a "horror show". If you were expecting a package manager then I have to assume you were just setting yourself up for disappointment - surely you know Windows doesn't have one.
Really? Wikipedia is pathetic unless he starts charging for it?
With news, or when old links are posted on news sites, the fact that it was just recently posted means that there will be a lot of people focused on it at that specific point in time, and in turn conversations can play out on the forum over the next several hours. There's a value to being able to have more-or-less realtime conversations like that going.

If the old links were just kind of hanging around the news page, without anything to suggest that they're specifically relevent to the moment, it would be hard for them to attract the kind of time-focused attention that you would get from a freshly-posted item. You could probably get by with a "featured classic link" that changes every day or so to keep people interested, but that would be more of a small feature or gimmick than a new type of site. Trying to push it much more than that would, I suspect, thin out the commenters too much, killing the ability to have back-and-forth conversations and turning it into more of a bookmark site.

There's a place for collecting good, old links, but news sites are for news. I think trying to force both ideas into one site would feel too awkward to work well.

(But by all means, prove me wrong. I thought Twitter was stupid, too.)
Here you are :)

http://mrdoob.github.com/three.js/examples/materials_cars.ht...

(needs WebGL capable browser like Chrome 9 dev channel or Firefox 4)
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Yep, I stopped after that also.
I actually think they did hurt themselves here: I now have to say to clients who I'd otherwise push towards their cloud services:

"If you get a national politician unhappy with your product, they do have a history of pulling the plug on people, see wikileaks".

While that's not a boycott, that is a move from a strong buy to a "consider other options if you have any chance of pissing someone off".

I do think Joe Liberman single handedly handed cloud computing to non-american countries though with his stunt. Why base your cloud here when your company gets better data protection in :insert jurisdiction which doesn't give a crap about Joe Liberman's threats:
Ask HN: Who's doing Java and what skills do they have?
I am at core a Ruby programmer, other than that I have wide horisons.
I have been asked recently to warp my mind into java "enterprise" projects for document management (Alfresco anyone?) business inteligence and so on.
The worst puddle untill now has been transparency (compared to ruby's readme driven development). By transparency I mean accesing knowledge on issues that seem best practices (say Spring) is hidden behind a gruesome "complete to access the docs" forms, information pourposely hidden and twisted to urge you "buy the enterprise version", "buy support" and so on.. One alfresco book I've read is half about "what a good and pro DM I have on front of me" and the other half only manages to scratch the concepts I'd like to know about.

This is my attempt to gain some inside knowledge and evaluate my competences on the matter.

1. Are you doing (server side) java?

2. What java skills do you have? How did you learned them? What (java topic) would you want to learn further?

3. On what (enterprise) context tho you use theese skils (DM, ERP, EIS etc)? How big is your team?

4. Do you think another platform whould make the above (3) easyer?
Obviously the first time you update the OS they'll be a lot of them. How is that any different than an OS X update?

My experience is that the disk doesn't churn an hour before you can shut down. Instead, the disk churns a much shorter time upon restart. The latter is much less of a bother with a laptop, as you can take it with you and let it turn on at home. I've had the experience where I've had to leave a Windows machine at work because you can't shut it down in the middle of the updates.

Just a little thinking and a modicum of engineering, and you can avoid major headaches for the user. Apple does a bit more of this than Microsoft.
From disk in drive in my macbook pro, to install Win7x64 ultimate, boot camp drivers and all the windows updates takes about 2 hours.

OSX takes about the same - though they seem to do a better job and slipstreaming updates so you have fewer dependency cycles in the update realm.

No offense but it sounds to me like you already made up your mind and are just bashing Microsoft for the sport of it.
It would have been epic if he had walked off stage with that routine...
The holiday season is here. Boycotting amazon isn't going to do a damn thing.

The average consumer has no clue that amazon has anything to do with the tech industry. To most people it's just an online store.
I'm not. If I objected to every company that ever did something morally questionable in the interest of their business I'd be naked, homeless and starve to death.
I agree that our consumer culture is probably not a sign of enlightenment. But it is hardly true that most of the evil in the world stems from lies told by a conspiring and all-powerful elite. A lot of good has been done by cynical governments because the way reality works is that unintended consequences are so important. The world today is probably better for most than it has ever been.
Well, if you think Windows 7 is so bad, go and ask yourself why you did not install one of the bazillion Linux on your grandma's Dell.

Oh right! Because you cannot leave the house anymore if you would do so.
"millions of users" - is that serious, or sarcastic? I couldn't tell. If you have millions of users, I'd suspect you can find a way to monetize them a bit more than what you already are to get that $150k debt down faster - perhaps even a direct appeal ala Wikipedia.

While credit checking for hiring does happen, it doesn't happen everywhere, and you can likely explain your situation reasonably such that it doesn't become an automatic strike against you. There may be some jobs that are not available to you now - you might not get a defense contracting gig - there are others.

Is the $150k split between the 3 of you ($50k each roughly), or is your share of the debt $150k (as in it was $450k)? The rest of the team probably won't want to voluntarily take on more debt, but they might be willing to help you pay down some of yours voluntarily, assuming that they don't have their own $150k chunks to attack.

What are your skills? It's not uncommon for a sr-level programmer with in-demand skills to be able to pull in $100k+ doing freelance or contract work, and even with other expenses, you can probably have this $150k taken care of in 3-4 years.

Also, have you talked to your creditors to see if any will forgive some of the debt? They may 1099 you for the difference in some cases, but paying tax on, say, $10k of forgiven debt is different than having to pay $10k.

I feel for you - I've been in that situation, just without so many zeros. :/
Too late. May as well keep discussing them.
The state of MySQL forks: co-operating without co-operating
How to Pick Up Girls (http://www.amazon.com/How-Pick-Girls-Eric-Weber/dp/091409443...)
I thought this was excellent. I highly encourage everyone to read all five parts; the bits about signals were particularly enlightening to me.
Businesses toss clients and customers all the time when they become unmanageable or too costly (or a drain on them).
The goal is to make 2 worse than 1 so that future companies, when faced with similar government pressure, will make a different choice.

As EFF says "Other Internet intermediaries should now expect to receive a phone call when some other member of Congress is unhappy with speech they are hosting. After all, it worked on Amazon."
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.

If you're really stumped, maybe think of something you don't like to shop for (clothes, bowls&plates, a lamp, laundry detergent? boring household stuff) and ask for that and let them pick what type.
Historically, optimism has won.
What is Google doing at the moment? Chrome and Android are under development, but I can't really see anything else on the horizon. Search results now have a somewhat annoying hover preview, but I am wondering what else is going on over there.
Ask HN: Name for Hackernews iPhone app?
Hi everyone,

a friend of mine and myself are working on an iPhone app for Hackernews. There's a little more work to be done before we release; for example we need a name. Could you help us out with that?

I'll give you some preview shots - so you don't think we didn't even start.

http://dispatched.ch/pic/main_menu.png

http://dispatched.ch/pic/submissions_view.png

http://dispatched.ch/pic/feed_view.png

Thanks for your input. As thanks we will release this app for free soon.
The people at Amazon might not actually like Wikileaks or the PR it brings. The government might not have anything to do with it.
Clickable:

http://dispatched.ch/pic/main_menu.png

http://dispatched.ch/pic/submissions_view.png

http://dispatched.ch/pic/feed_view.png
Back in the day I had some kind of plugin that toggled the caps and scroll lights based on ethernet Rx and Tx traffic. Nifty hack, but got distracting real fast.
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What you have been through sounds terrible. I can imagine you a feeling very burnt out.

However, once the smoke has subsided I'm sure you take positives from this. If you need a salaried job, I suggest you look for a medium sized company that would value your experience, rather than a large corporate.
Can you raise investment or sell the company outright ? - if you've got millions of users then it might be viable route.
That's an interesting article. I would argue that diluting a drink will alter the texture, as would many Whisky drinkers when debating straight up versus on the rocks.

Whenever you introduce ice into the mixture you're going to affect the concentration of water and introduce all of it's impurities. In a Martini you pour out the Martini but leave the ice in. Thus when you stir, there's more time to melt and you get a more watery Martini. You can actually taste the difference if you try at home (shake for 20 seconds - or 12-15 according to TFA - versus stir for 30-45 seconds).

That aside the article looks spot on, nice find.
I'm doing Grails and have been doing so for 3 years. I'm usually a team of 1, and didn't have much Java before this - primarily PHP, Perl and ASP/VBScript. Learned via brute force.

Grails may be an easier transition in on the web side if you know some Rails already. Grails is using Spring, so you can delve in to that if you want to. You can use as much or as little pure Java as you want to, but as a transitionary process, easing from Rails in to Groovy/Grail to get in to Java would be a path to investigate (as would JRuby).
The holiday season is the best possible time for a boycott of any retailer. Last-minute shopping hasn't happened yet, and for most people, there are good alternatives for most of what Amazon carries.

More on why a boycott could have a big impact at http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=2201
Shhh, don't say that aloud here. You'll get down-voted. I thought Hacker News was about getting things done and kicking ass, not living the easy comfy life. Sheez.
You're right, except the part about package managers. This is one of those things that Steve Jobs' quote about "People don't know what they want until you show it to them" applies.

People will LOVE the app store on OS X. For all intents and purposes, the iTunes app store is already evidence of that. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be easier to use than whatever we have now. And what we have now isn't as usable as an app store (or "package manager").
There has been a significant shift in education to emphasize concerted effort as the most important intrinsic factor to be rewarded. That is to say, saying to someone, "Wow, what a great job, you're so smart", only serves to reinforce the notion that the accomplishment was due to innate ability, whereas saying, "Wow, what a great job, you worked so hard", instead reinforces the idea that accomplishment was due to exertion.

If it really does take 10,000 hours of practice at something to be good at it, then this isn't necessarily a bad idea for people to have ingrained upon them. Nobody has 10,000 hours of natural talent.
HN readers might be interested to know that this site, The Point, is the basis for Groupon.

http://www.groupon.com/about
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Sounds like you need cut bait and run and to declare personal bankruptcy.

In 3 years of reasonable payments you will have all your debt gone (or if you have no assets outside a house and cheap car, chapter 7 even, with your debt gone near instantly).

Chapter 13 doesn't last a long time, and was designed for your case. The point is not to take a productive citizen and hang upon a yoke of debt for much of their life.

In either case, with 150k of debt, you're going to be in the credit crapper for much longer by NOT declaring bankruptcy.

Random google page on the difference between the two: http://www.creditinfocenter.com/bankruptcy/chapter13BK.shtml...

I've known a couple people who went through bankruptcy, and all of them have felt much better afterwords, both immediately and years later.
You firstly need to realize that mood is like the weather, it's never permanent.

You have some real practical problems to deal with, but no more than lots of people, no more than lots of people who you admire have dealt with.

You need to talk to the organisations you owe money to, you need to negotiate a payment plan you can actually afford.

You need to listen to this interview with Rand Fishkin, http://mixergy.com/seomoz-rand-fishkin-interview/ in which he talks about being in debt.

Look yourself in the mirror, are you really exhausted and out of ideas ? I don't think so, I think you're just getting started.
Strangely enough, it's not hyphenated in the source code, just placed within
<em>
tags.

I wonder what's adding the hyphens. From my quick glance at it, nothing that I saw added hyphens.
This sounds to me like what we now call the Busy Beaver problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver
This was a great post. It really reminded me of Malcolm Gladwell's 10000 hour rule.

So in relative terms (ex. rate of learning) I can be worse than others at something, but in absolute terms I can be much better.

Its a very interesting equation that seems to hold true for many things.

Cheers!
Agreed.

But I'm saying that the vast majority of Amazon's customers are not software developers. They're soccer moms, busy middle class honest workers who don't know a damn thing about AWS or even that Amazon had anything to do with wikileaks.

They don't care. They'll buy from wherever is cheapest/most convenient.
Not quite, I'm afraid: http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/pearlharbor.asp
Where do I click to let Amazon know that I'm not boycotting them?

I mean really, Amazon is my favorite Big Company right now. They have all sorts of really cool services to make it easy for small businesses to do their thing. And every month or so they send me an email telling me that they just made one of those services cheaper.

They also manage to stock every single item of anything that I've needed to buy online in the last several years, and are capable of getting it to me in 2 days without any hassle whatsoever. They do all the creepy user-tracking stuff that every other big company does, but somehow manage to pull it off in a way that is not only not creepy, but actually makes me happy. Hey, Amazon just told me about the new Black Keys album. That's something I might actually consider buying. Thanks Amazon!

So yeah, no. I'm not planning to boycott them over some silly internet controversy that they didn't want anything to do with. Pick a better company like PayPal or eBay or Microsoft or Facebook or pretty much anybody and I'm with you. But lay off Amazon. They're cool.
Wow, this is a tough read. I know things look bleak right now, but I think you need to step back and realize that things are going to be fine.

First off, start looking for a job. I know that you are worried about credit reports, etc, but if you are good, someone will hire you. Don't assume that you will fail to find a job because of this.

Second, consult someone knowledgeable about bankruptcy. I don't believe your house will be at risk and you will be able to start fresh without the debts weighing you down. Bankruptcy isn't a personal failure (this is possibly a controversial statement but I strongly believe it).

In short, don't give up, don't assume that job search is hopeless before you start looking, and just try to make progress a little bit every day. In a few years this will be distant memory.

Good luck.
A Randian begging for money is pathetic. He either did a 180 on his principles or he's just ignoring them (exactly as Rand told people not to do).

And it's not like he wrote a paper explaining why it turns out Rand is wrong after all.

I'm not the only one to think this:

http://knol.google.com/k/why-ayn-rand-would-decry-jimmy-wale...
I don't think too many here can read Farsi. If it even is Farsi; I'm guessing here.

What is this about?
Dear Amazon.com,

WikiLeaks offered the government a chance to review the cables before they went online. They made the offer to ensure that the leaked documents would not jeopardize lives. The government declined. To date, no leaked documents by WikiLeaks have resulted in any harm coming to any individual. While the past cannot be used as a measure of the future, it does support the notion that such releases will likely cause intractable harm in reputation rather than flesh.

Although WikiLeaks does not own the content, the scope of the content reveals a problem with the United States: that people in power are more corrupt than could otherwise have been known. If exposing truth and honesty while holding governments and corporations accountable to moral lessons of right and wrong is insufficient cause for Amazon.com to overlook its self-imposed terms of service, then the owners of Amazon.com have taken the moral low-ground. And I shall have nothing to do with them.

This a complex issue, with many arguments on both sides, yet one fact remains: WikiLeaks has published Truth. And if Truth stirs trouble, then we, as a society, have failed. We have failed our peers. We have failed our governing. And we have failed our children.

And now? I shall tell hundreds of friends.
Always check Snopes first. http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/pearlharbor.asp