skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Experience comes into it too, but as I mentioned earlier, they mostly fixed the "butteryfly problem" by avoiding spurious reinstalls. The butterfly problem was the source of at least 90% of the pain relating to cabal installations.

They are also going to allow multiple installations of the same package version with differing dependencies very soon, which will help alleviate some of the final problems still there with cabal.

I do think that it is not my relatively smooth experience that is the anomaly, but your unsmooth recent experience. Perhaps your installation was somehow borked? Perhaps you were trying to install new packages using a very old "cabal-install" that still had long-fixed issues?

If you just install the newest Haskell Platform and run "cabal install cabal-install" that does work on Linux. For Windows, IIRC, you also need to install cygwin/mingw (well-documented) and then it is a smooth install as well. I don't know about OS X but it is generally smoother than Windows.

Can you describe in more detail the actual problem you encountered?
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So, a few examples have come forward but I don't see a trend that suggests that using Windows on a daily basis is just an ever annoying adventure in avoiding crapware. So far the examples provided I'm familiar with but for the most part avoided. Likely maybe because of the crapware but also just as likely I didn't want/need/like the software being mentioned.
It's open source, though. Another company paying the developer to work on an open source project instead of your own paying isn't exactly a bad thing.
I should have known better, especially in the context of this website. Due to a recent conversation with a friend about ph balance and the acidity of various foods, I thought it was a discussion of the chemical properties of various substances. Extraneous context affecting my initial impression.
Yeah, kind of disappointing. I was expecting cringe-inducing bytestream parsing in PHP. Booh.
Thanks for the vote of confidence. Now I have the challenge of actually trying to be that person.
I love this, but it really only applies to small ideas.

He clearly articulates the emotional weight of these forever projects though.
Horowitz: The Most Important Quality In An Entrepreneur Is Not Honesty
Hi - feel free to ping me ash [at] sendhub.com and we can try to work out a more affordable plan for you, will you be using text much?

We don't do international calls right now, although it's highly requested.

You can make calls over data on sendhub - via both the website and the iPhone app.
I worked on the backend team for a project at Aol which was written in C# and while most of my teammates used VS, I hated it and used vim on linux instead. I was able to successfully compile all of their code while sharing the same project files. Mono is really a great C# port, in running as well as building.
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> Yes, of course Lexis and Westlaw provide digital copies of case reporters.

My point is that you don't have to pay Lexis and West just to get copies cases that are published digitally. You may have to do more leg work, but you don't have to pay Lexis or West.

I think Mr. Foster's use of the term "rent seeking" makes it clear that he is the one who misunderstands the situation. It implies that through some collusion with the court system, Lexis and Westlaw have made themselves the sole source of getting public domain information. This is the sense in which I was using the "charge for access to cases" because this is the sense implied by the term "rent seeking."

But charging for their copy of a public document is not "rent seeking," nor is it "rent seeking" to build a value-added service on top of publicly available information. Indeed, that's pretty much Google's business model--to make money categorizing information they don't own. I don't think anyone would accuse Google of rent-seeking if they e.g. showed ads associated with cached copies of a page.

In the context of pre-digital cases, why should "freely available" be coincident with "download[able] for free?" Back then, "freely available" meant putting a paper copy in a public law library (of which there are many). Going back and digitizing those reports, then charging for access to the digital copies is a value-added service, not "rent seeking."
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That worked for me, although it also didn't include all the subscriptions. Could that be a bug on your end, or are some channels somehow private and not others?

What I'd really like is a quick way to dismiss some of the videos from my subscriptions that I don't want to watch. That way I can come back again later and see only the ones left. I realize this is really just a 'watch later' playlist, but I'd prefer to remove things (permanently) from my main subscription interface.

Great work so far though!
I can't sympathize with this article and most users in this thread because I don't understand why anyone uses Java within web browsers. Today, Java is for server-side code. Full stop. Okay, I know some people still have to use Applets, but none of us here, right?

Kidding aside, I've installed the Oracle JDK on dozens of Windows machines and not once have I been prompted to install a toolbar or bloatware.

1. Navigate to java.oracle.com

2. Select Java SE.

3. Select to download JDK SE 7u11

4. Accept license agreement

5. Download Windows x64

6. Open installer

7. Select to install "Development Tools" and "Source Code" (disable "Public JRE")

8. Wait and then close installer

9. Run c:\java\bin\java.exe

10. Review Windows' "Programs" and note only JDK has been installed; no toolbars

11. Celebrate

I suspect many people are installing the JRE, which is something I've never done. Since the JDK can run Java code, why install the JRE at all?
Great article and perspective. The lack of comments makes me wonder if he needs more link bait.
It depends of your needs. If you plan to use their email (newsletters, password recovering, ...), then that's very valuable to have a verified email. But if you don't, I think you could go further by removing the email field from the signup form.
Well, if majority shareholders put in a crony that hurts the company as a whole but benefits those few shareholders personally (as could be argued to maybe be the Ballmer case) - then that is currently illegal and can be attacked in court by any minority shareholder.
Life tastes best when you eat what you kill
Swedish Public TV starts webcasting, demands TV license fee from computer owners
Previous discussion from another source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5090668 (1 day ago, 23 comments)
SendHub does premium voicemail transcription (as in it actually works) and you can access them on your phone. You can forward both calls and texts to another number. Email forwarding coming soon.

You can port your GV number to SendHub. Ping me at ash [at] sendhub.com and I'll give you a free upgrade so you can do the port and also use our vm transcription.
It's also highly unrealistic to see everyone looking like actors and supermodels. Especially within the set of people who know emacs and nmap.
Well, Windows has open source software as well so those positives apply for it as well.

As for package managers, money talks. I would have said the same thing about someone sliding in crapware with a Java update some years ago.
(unfortunately its really long)

NOT "unfortunately". Thanks for the links. I have the entire Feynman Lectures on Physics series but have never actually heard his voice.
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There are definite problems with the service. Problems that don't surface once you dug in and started using it for a while with people knowing only your GV number.

1) Inbound texts occasionally arrive late or not at all.
2) Google Voice Android App sometimes breaks silently so you can't receive
calls or texts until you relaunch the app.
3) Sometimes you can't make outgoing calls through the GV android app.
4) MMS messages sent to you are rejected. Neither you nor the
sending party are notified that anything went awry.
5) No confirmation that your text has been sent.
Sometimes GV lets you know that it failed, sometimes it doesn't show up in your
conversation but has actually gone out.

Additionally there are missing features:
1) A bunch of non-google services don't recognize GV numbers as valid and
will not accept it as a phone number.
2) MMS sending and receiving.
3) International texting.
4) Android App with clear semantics what constitutes a conversation and a
clear history of what you sent and received.

I should add that these issues have existed for a long while and there has been no communication from Google about resolutions to them. Not sure if there is any development going on the backend, but the android app development hasn't moved in the past year.

Other than that, it is a great service at the price of 0 dollars and non-trivial frustration.
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You can make calls via IP on the website or from our iPhone app.
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You also could allow the user to create an account and access the website directly but remind him that he needs to verify its email address. Of course it depends on your website and what you are offering, but allowing user to access your application as fast as possible should be a good idea.

Take the example of twitter which allows you to create an account and start using it without the verification. But it reminds you to verify the email everytime you log in.
Underground Lake Found in Mars Crater
It seems like you'd be opening yourself up to a lot of potential discrimination claims if you made a habit of reading potential hiree divorce records.
Why not use Windows 7? It's so far my favorite version and from what I've seen, Windows 8 is complete trash (this is what happens when you try to force tablet interfaces onto desktop users). There's nothing wrong with going back a version.

Switching to linux is a great idea, but I suggest you make the switch gradually: use a VM (ie Virtualbox) and install a popular distro (Ubuntu seems good for newer linux users). Try it in fullscreen mode for a while and if you get stuck/frustrated, Windows is always there to welcome you back with open arms.

Then again, there's something to be said for just diving in and figuring it out...depends on what your goals are.

Also, as mentioned, check out Mono. It's a very good framework if you use C#.
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It's already happened--Clinton, not Bush, was the originator of "extraordinary rendition".
Towns aren't free market. We fund roads millions of times more than public transportation. We let developers build infrastructure and then hand it over to towns which get to maintain it. So the free market basically has no responsibility for anything they build.
A lot of these issues are really going to come to a head in 8 years when boomers start dying in huge numbers.
I quite like the sound of this, but I only really install LTS, and then only on servers, so as long as LTS stick around I'm not too bothered what they do between each release ;-)

Also, BSD releases work that way don't they?
I often feel the same way with Ember. They need a lot more when it comes to practical examples. Now I need to reevaluate Angular.
Atlassian offer Stash, an enterprise Git product: https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/overview

It's priced more competitively than Github and you get access to the source code.
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It's not mentioned in the article, but there is also 7-weeks of parental/paternity leave available for the other parent.
I'm the founder of TeamDoList.com:

http://TeamDoList.com/

The killer feature, in my (biased?) opinion is the fact that TeamDoList.com doesn't require logins at all and you just start creating tasks from get-go. Zero setup.
I get it. When our experience is exceptional, we see the need to share, but you're taking away the entirely incorrect lesson from your own experience, and from the author's blog post.

The author was using flossing as a metaphor for a common oversight: just because things are one way today doesn't mean they'll always be. Well, duh. Yet, we all forget it. It's the same reason that investment advice is given with the caveat that past performance is not to be used as a determinant of future results.

I disagree with the author's approach though. I've also never had a cavity in my life. Just turned 36 today. I also have excellent gum health. I floss, at most, once a month. The difference between my experience and the authors is that I continue to go to the dentist every 6 months.

My dental health is fine without flossing, so why should I floss? The author's contention is that this could change at any time. I agree, which is why I get regular dental check-ups. The assertion that I should floss anyway is just acceptance of dogma. I don't buy it. The important part, in my view, is that you always keep an eye on conditions. At the first sign of change, I will adapt my routine to accommodate.
The vast majority of MBA's are not executives, but work in either mid-management or finance-specialist jobs (accounting, audit, financing, etc).

Are you sure that MBA-typical people are really what you call "MBA types" ? In mass media you'd be seeing only a small, very nonrepresentative, very biased sample of them.
Ballmer probably knows it's his last executive position he'll ever get in this industry. So he's squeezing as much out of it as he can.

You think he fears the high price of COBRA insurance maybe http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2011/03/11/steve-ballmer... ? Virtually any type of a job after MSFT, unless he was passionate about it (NBA team President for example) would be seen as a downgrade. Love them or hate them ...MS is minting cash and will continue to do so for a long time http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Microsoft_%28MSFT%29/Data/Gro...
Not always. There are always disagreements on teams; generally they can be resolved among the participants but not always and especially not on issues where everyone has strongly held opinions.
Also Assembla: https://www.assembla.com/home
SSN and similar is already supposed to be redacted in these records, no? If not, well that's something that needs fixing whether it's free or $0.10 per page.

If I were a bad guy engaged in identity fraud, I imagine I would already have access to a stolen credit card for use with PACER.
The whole practice of combing through old documents searching for confused accounts of astronomical phenomena is fascinating to me. I wonder if there is any chance of crowd-sourcing that kind of searching. Language issues would probably prevent that from working too well though.
Email Brad Feld (brad at feld dot com) if you're looking to donate them - he's seeking laptop donations for the students at Monarch HS.

Source: http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2013/01/request-for-laptops-...
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Because they want to maintain a high-availability online system, not one where you have to wait for physical media in the mail or for someone to seed. How many law firms do you think would bother to use BitTorrent?
chef, vagrant, ubuntu, apt-get, pip, virtualenv, heroku, ssh.. oh there it is, sth about learning django. I'm saying it not to diss your work, but don't you think setting up a linux env on a vm and signing up to heroku shouldn't be the point of a django tutorial? point explained in another discussion about zed's approach to writing 'learn x the hard way' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4961593
Why not place a reddit button on the page with a link to the submission?
This strikes me as exactly the mindset the author of the NY Times piece is writing against.
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There are several orders of magnitude less people in C-suite positions than in MBA programs. If most needles are found in haystacks, it doesn't mean that haystacks consist mostly of needles.
yeah, and the feelings often are true no matter how many times you've upgraded in the past... especially the fear and possibly the anger, but hopefully happy ;)
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I think it's rather clear that he's talking about high availability in the CAP sense, which is precisely the kind of availability FoundationDB (rightly) doesn't claim to achieve (http://foundationdb.com/#CAP).

BTW, the images are failing to load on that page for me.
I was just about to decry ZDNet for calling the kettle black here, but it seems they removed the scummy invisible pop-up ad click target they used to put in the negative space next to the column.
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> 99% of the public wouldn't know what to do with PACER

99% of the public wouldn't know what to do with the YouTube API[1] but the fact that it's readily accessible means the 1% can do interesting things for the 99%. Don't be so presumptuous about the value of this information being freely available. Neither you nor I can envision all of the possible use cases.

[1] Replace with government data, open source code, etc.
Do you really lack this much tact? Why not build up your own YouTube frontend without any framework / library -- post it here, and then we can chide you for all the time you spent re-inventing numerous wheels?
Awesome work.

Can we get an option to speed up the voice? I think I can process info a little faster than base speed. I believe I saw something where blind people who use screen readers have the output come at blazing speeds.

Also is it possible to skip links, or replace links with a ding noise? I'm not likely going to write links down to visit them, but if i'm interested, i'd probably go back into the article to click it.
And for those who appreciate tongue-in-cheek mockery.
What happened to SDCH?
It works for some things. There is still no MMS (for most people), and the text messaging still isn't properly integrated into Android[1]. I still use it, but these issues are major annoyances, and haven't been fixed after several years.

[1] Yes, I realize that it can be set as the default app for sending texts. Unfortunately this does not make third party texting apps work with it. What should be possible is to use it as the underlying text message provider, just like my carrier would be without Google Voice. Then all of the regular apps that know how to send/receive text messages would work with it seamlessly.
Well, kind of. I read this was successful in targeting the company to react positively towards Hamed, however, the university is still throwing the book at him. I guess that's a better tactic, going publicly after the company, rather than through university management.
Or you could do what they did and find the free source data and correctly scan it in yourself. If the data is easy to find then Lexis and West aren't gateways. If the data is hard to find then why should they do the hard work of finding it and then give away the more-useful version for free?
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It's likely they're just using spare infrastructure used to host Basecamp which is essentially already bought and paid for. As long as Basecamp stays alive it's likely this version will too.
Love this. Would love it even more if there was a toggle for Night Mode though.
I recommend Sutro Baths:

http://www.oldsf.org/#ll:37.780073|-122.513765&m:37.7772...

and building the Palace of Fine Arts:

http://www.oldsf.org/#ll:37.802903|-122.447580&m:37.8027...
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Cool story bro, so you broke CAP too?
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Around 1980 I read Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".

In 1993 I started sketching some ideas for a novel loosely - very loosely! - inspired by it.

I kept poking at the ideas, and tried to write the book several times. I never got much traction, but did end up writing and publishing several non-fiction articles in national magazines in this time.

In 2011 I started. I wrote 160,000 words and created a fairly epic (in scope) science fiction novel that tied in moon colonization, desktop manufacturing, genetic uplift, AI, open source software, and more.

In 2012 I kept going. I wrote a second draft, and it reached 180,000 words, and was a MUCH better novel. In September 2012 I kept going and wrote the third draft, splitting it into two novels.

Right now I'm taking a one month hiatus before writing the fourth (and final?) draft.

I hope to publish it later this year.

So far I've sunk over 2,000 hours into this project, and it's one of the things that I'm proudest of in my life.

All of which is to say: yes, hang onto your crazy side projects; you'll be glad you did.
To get over 1000 minutes, this would cost >$100/month. I'm not sure why it should cost more than a mobile plan for that. The pricing plans need a lot of work, IMO.
Looks different to me

http://mxr.mozilla.org/gaia/source/apps/wallpaper/resources/...

http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/...
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Who's to say what you're interested in. Most people would not know what to do with either PACER content or server source code, but in the hands of someone that does know what to do both are quite valuable. We have the ability for all this information to be free, I don't see why it shouldn't be taken advantage of.
On the Commodore Amiga, I listened to MOD files a lot. Didn't have MP3 at the time (I remember how exciting it was when I got my first MP2 encoder!), and a wave file of a whole song took up nearly half of my hard drive. Very impractical.
One might think, as I did initially, this is just an API mash-up, or some natural language processing, but the developers geocoded many of these images manually. It's not clear a digital solution exists. This is an important contribution to the common historical record :-)
Sorry, I wasn't entirely clear. I meant actively trying to reform them, but not releasing them until we know that they are reformed.

Some people seem to have the idea that reforming criminals is just a bunch of 'bleeding hearts' going into the prisons and singing 'kumbaya' with the prisoners, then releasing them as 'reformed.'
The windows in my 1850s-era apartment do this automatically when it rains, so I'm guessing Apple didn't come up with this idea alone.
Your comment says more about HN commenters than his says about Windows.
I think that it is only in the long term that Balmers mediocrity becomes clear. Short term analysis turns up that he really likes "DEVELOPERS!" and throwing chairs, but all the real criticisms (not amusing anecdotes) that I am seeing span several years.
This is really cool. FYI. Old photography exhibit going on now at Rayko. http://www.UpOut.com/sf/do/photography-exhibit-san-francisco...

Full disclosure: I am a cofounder of UpOut
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i totally agree, and i furthermore think (but cannot prove) that the traditions of buddhism and confucianism that pervade asian societies to varying degrees may be responsible for their lack of entrepreneurial activity, which ultimately hurts their economies. buddhism encourages you to be satisfied with your life without desiring more, and confucianism encourages you to fit in rather than to stand out, which is why, for example, japanese companies very frequently hire CEOs who are foreigners - very few japanese people have the inclination to stick their necks out.
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Great project; I've long thought about this.
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I don't like pepper, but I don't expect the pepper industry to disappear overnight.

Or in other words, I don't know why your personal experience is relevant to the parent comment, there's entire entertainment industries that are funded by gossip and gossip alone so obviously there are people out there who would care about that kind of thing.