skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, how does this compare to Less Framework? http://lessframework.com/

I just decided to use Less Framework, and now I see this...
Ages ago I wrote a script which downloads the comics, and the subtext, and put together an html page with Next and Prev so I could scroll through. It's not in a fit state to upload and give to everyone, so this not only isn't braggin, but is a comment on how I never really finish anything. I only ever get it "Good Enough" and then move on.

Maybe I should look to publish more snippets.

What about you?
TL;DR: Computers are complimentary and competitive with human intelligence - hence wages. Initially, computers increase wages by increasing productivity, but later as computers fully replace many in the labor market - wages fall dramatically due to essentially Moore's Law.
"Personal Dynamic Media": Smalltalk and what Personal Computers could have been
Jersey shore season 3 episode 7
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I believe that we will be able to build artificially intelligent general intelligences, I'd be surprised if this happens in my lifetime, but I do believe it will happen at some point. If it does I suspect the possible outcomes are:

- Good - we end up with a society that looks like a low tech version of the Culture with AIs and humans co-existing

- Bad - See The Second Renaissance from the Animatrix

- Weird - Economics 2.0 from Accelerando

I think at this moment in time I'd probably go with "Weird" as my estimate of the most likely outcome!
S/TechCrunch/HuffingtonCrunch/g (AOL Renames TechCrunch To HuffingtonCrunch)
Those countries combine for approximately 242.63 million people and 1,236,644 km^2, or 3.5% of the world's population and about 0.8% of the world's total land area.
I know this is not what we're talking about, but you must be very careful using this line of argument. Would you apply it equally to prostitution?
Well, it's actually closer to 20x cheaper for 1/2 the quality - hence why so much is made there. Being I manufacturing, we see both the move back to the US due to rising wages, shipping and materials costs, but many things (toy painting) are very much still an outsourcing game.
Yes I think we'll have to do something like this. We can certainly do this for our investor's website, but not sure how things are set up with third-party affiliates and whether this is even possible.

Any idea what a typical cut might be? Or is this like the length of string?
It would be very strange if the phones just didn't implement it, so at a guess I'd say its a protocol issue too, but as far as I remember, the upper levels of the protocol stack were the same between GSM and CDMA so I don't see why the protocol wouldn't support it (since the user data is inside the message payload itself and doesn't interact with the rest of the payload. I guess CDMA must not support a user data header for some reason?

I'd be very interested in hearing if this is true or not, if anybody knows.
Lisp syntax has always been a complain for new programmers that approach the language(s). But as I experienced myself, syntax is just syntax. Once you learn it, it does not matter anymore.

It's like learning a foreign language: it can have a (very) different syntax from yours and at first it can be difficult. But when you learn to speak the language fluently, it comes naturally.

I experienced this also in programing languages. I started programming in Pascal and then in C, for which the syntax is almost the same. Then I went to C++ and then Java. Both are Object Oriented languages, but they have some differences in their syntax as well. Still, no big difference.

When I started with Objective-C, though, the syntax was really confusing for me, even if it's an OO language. At first I was not able to understand even the sample code. But I was interested in it (for Mac development, iPhone did not exist yet) and now I find it more natural than Java (just because I am more accustomed to it since I use it every day, not because it's better).

So, when I learnt Lisp, I did not worry about syntax anymore. Sure, it's different, but we alwys have to learn new and different things anyway. Now I develop in Clojure and syntax is, again, not a problem.

EDIT: some spelling mistakes.
Bundle While You Git
I started emacs with clojure too. Paredit reallly rocks and is really easy. Some paredit function are so useful that I use paredit for other languages to here is the chatcheat http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PareditCheatsheet.

Emacs has paredit or like 90% of it. Its written in clojure and you can use it as a library (https://github.com/laurentpetit/paredit.clj).

Im not sure about vim. It has nice rainbow parens (each level of nested parens gets a different colour).
This post may be a little over the top, but if you dont think manufacturing is going the way of agriculture (standard processes & very thin margins), you're not near progressive manufacturing... 3D printing (for direct manufacturing) already approaches the cost of materials, and will be far cheaper when materials patents expire and margins get razor thin on production.
If you want to share images online and mitigate risk, imgur [1] is a great image site for doing so, as it strips all metadata for you.

[1]: http://imgur.com
You certainly can get netbooks with 9h battery life. http://www.compuplus.com/ASUS-Eee-PC-1015PED-MU17-1166505.ht... for example.

GPS - when I can get a standalone satnav unit for $70 with its own processor, screen battery et al, that's hardly adding up to a huge extra cost. The accelerometer and gyro can be handled by a single relatively cheap chip from what I remember.

Netbooks also have keyboards, touchpads and extra interface parts such as USB and SVGA that tablets don't tend to have - not expensive components in themselves but extra parts to integrate into the design that aren't supplied with tablets. And, in a large number of cases, they come with a Windows license.

So, we're left with an SSD rather than HDD (retail, marginal cost about $70 for bigger drives than tablets use) and a touchscreen rather than a non-touchscreen (don't know the component suppliers for them to research it).

I still don't see why they're so much more expensive, beyond 'because we can' novelty value. The numbers simply don't stack up for me.
Personally, I would write a game such as Quake.

But I have about ten years experience with game dev, which is probably a special-case situation.

(P.S. tasteful use of C++ features allows you to approach the productivity level of other languages.)

(But the fact is I tend to prefer writing in C over C++, and Lua over both.)

(But yeah it would be silly to write a web app in C or C++.)
It /can/ be. If I'm working on a project for myself I try to keep track of hours spent as if I were working for a company.
Haha - if you're going to have a "faith" - having it in humanity's ingenuity to make amazing things is still a good bet.
More like a moped actually. :-)

Where is the point in cycling if you don't have to use your own muscles to ride?

Because sometimes you have the energy and sometimes you don't. Sometimes you're ok with sweating and sometimes you aren't. Some days are 100F degrees and some are 60F. Maybe you're not strong enough to maintain your speed up a hill by your house but you're ok for the rest of the trip. It might lower that one part of the trip from "too hard" to "doable" and it's one more person getting more exercise and driving less.

It's good if everyone bikes more but the whole point of a commuter bike is that the exercise part is secondary. First is getting from point A to point B daily and conveniently.
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Clojure for GAE is nice. Its really cool that you can use this library with all ring-bases webframeworks (witch are basiclly all clojure webframeworks).

I don't now how python is for the appengine but clojure is much more better then java. The leiningen plugin that this library provieds is great.
Exactly, the Google Reader does its job pretty well and the most important thing is that if I read something at work, I don't have to skip the same post at home. Google Reader and native clients that integrates to it like Reeder are fantastic.
New Lifehacker
What's the definition of doing well? Spending money to acquire others? IIRC their new blog/online strategy has yet to be profitable.
So... because somebody from Sweden downloaded a document and Wikileaks had servers in Sweden it must have been them!?
Why can't they have a healthy respect for them instead? One nation's people fearing another rarely leads to good things.
Justin.tv is now thepiratebay of TV networks?
China Bans Reincarnation Without Government Permission
I use VIM to code in Clojure. I don't have paredit [1] but I don't find it really necessary, I can live just with rainbow parentheses and paren-matching (not to say that I would not find it useful if I had it).

[1] When I set up my Vim for Clojure development I made some research and I never saw it mentioned anywhere, so I think it's not available.
His examples are awesome. HN might be a good example too. Up/downvotes seems easy to improve upon, but perhaps most "improvements" would hardly make a dent.
well said, plus I'm sure facebook is involved in encouraging this trend
Neat idea, will use! It took a few minutes to work out how the site is supposed to be used though and can't find any sort of introduction tour, I didn't realise at first I must 1st follow a show, then it'll list the episodes for me to mark as watched. I think they're right about the fantastic interface, the show pages are extremely well built and it's possible to get all the needed info instantly: eg http://followmy.tv/shows/18318/The_Big_Bang_Theory
Okay, Helvetireader wins hands down. Best I've seen, and it's slapped directly onto Google Reader so that's always a good thing. Where were all these good alternatives when I asked HN last time?
I tripled my income in my last upgrade. Don't cap yourself. Definitely aim for getting at least 15-20% upward motion in the next move though.
1. Get a crap job, live with your parents, and start buying domain names.

2. Spend a year writing your own scripting language.

3. Then start building basic services (free email service!).
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In the UK at least it feels very much AOL --> Facebook, and for what it's worth I've always assumed that in that aspect we are just mimicking America (without having bothered to confirm that assumption).

From (roughly, from memory) 2000 to only a couple of years ago I was regularly seeing "AOL Keyword: <blah>" in video more traditional (print/real-life) advertising. The biggest example that comes to mind is movie trailors, they ALWAYS promoted with AOL, but plenty of other brands were, too.

Possibly the reason I always assumed that it carried over from America was the fact that, at least in my corner of England, AOL were reasonably irrelevant. I mean, they weren't unknown, or even unused, but they didn't exactly seem like a big player. (Again, this was during the latter part of my childhood, so this is from memory of my experience, not from analysing businesses at the time.)
Ask HN: Feedback on my blog, 1week1project.com
You would need to extend PHP somehow and make the kernel and its data structures visible.

But I have no intention of even dedicating one minute to such thoughts
Handheld CPUs: Past, Present & Future
That is only a part of the story for medical tech. The stuff would be expensive even if sold at cost.

In my experience, medical devices cost a lot to make because a lot (if not most) of the hardware is custom, the amount of required testing and documentation/traceability is stupendous, and the sales volume is comparably low.

The high manufacturing cost (per unit) combined with the high fixed cost (per product) drive the prices up pretty quick.
I love Google's Spreadsheet. I know there's API to dynamically create and read/write spreadsheets. If there was a way to embed their spreadsheet in an existing page while still keeping it editable (not just an html output widget) then it would surpass every solution mentioned in this article. It allows copy-pasting, read/write XLS files, mouse-selection, formulas, and filtering.

If you're writing a web-app, you can relatively easily create a new spreadsheet-per-account on the fly, set it up with the right-structure, and just let the user do whatever they want. Periodically you can check the format/content and tell the user if something is invalid (missing column header, missing row data etc.) When everything is ok, the user hits save and you grab all the data from Google using their API. The best part is that each Google Spreadsheet comes with history so if a user doesn't screw something up, they can revert to an older version that worked instantly. Of course, you have to write your code to handle such features.
I am a fan of a number of consumer brands on Facebook, and occasionally I'll experiment with Liking them just to see if they are doing a lot of branding and interaction with customers.

But I notice that I don't get much value from these Fan pages. Most of them don't offer me any incentive to come back, and don't tell me much more than what I already know about the product. I think it's smart to promote a brand or B2C company there because of the numbers, but I wonder if the conversions created are all that big.
Let's not forget when Second Life was going to be the future of the Internet.
Revisiting Wired's 1997 "101 Ways to Save Apple"
Low, yes. But you don't have to worry about going bankrupt if you get sick or laid off, I'd imagine.
A month is fifteen weekends
Ah, the Lisp syntax. For me a very simple rule seems to have "clicked it": parentheses around the whole call, not only arguments.

Interestingly, I picked up this rule when I got into OCaml. Then I got back to Lisp and suddenly it looked much more readable. YMMV.
Judging User Happiness
Though "designed" might give you the impression that they're materially different from the hummingbird based hardware that Samsung make for themselves and others when in reality the differences are slight and probably more like making a choice from a menu (e.g. selecting a different GPU) than stepping into the kitchen yourself.
Have you actually tried using clojure? Last I heard, relying on a large jar like clojure meant you spent 29 of your request's 30 seconds loading the jar and had only 1 second to do real work before GAE killed you.
I am pretty sure there is paredit-like mode for vim, because I actually used it for some time. It seems that it is part of slimv [1] now, however I recall using it without setting up slimv.

[1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2531
I would convince my parents to buy tons of Apple stock.

I would ask that girl on a date and follow through.

I would get a cochlear implant sooner.
Yes for modern phones, although I can't say how many free texts is considered enough. If you're not on an unlimited plan and you start texting with someone who is, you can quickly stack up hundreds of texts without realizing it...
Been using myepisodes.com for some years now, works great. Simple and not too much stuff that gets in the way.
"In 2000, a new company called AOL Time Warner, with Steve Case as chairman, was created when AOL purchased Time Warner for US$164 billion. [...] The shareholders of AOL owned 55% of the new company while Time Warner shareholders owned only 45%, thus the smaller AOL bought out the far larger Time Warner."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner#2000

So yes, AOL bought Time Warner, not the other way around.
I'm in my mid-30s, so I sometimes look back and wonder what I could have done differently. I launched my first ecommerce site in 1997, and it was just much too early. If anything, I wish I had just spent more time thinking about domain names to register and keep.
Check out VimClojure http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-el... comes with rainbow parens and some parts of paredit if I am not correct.
Are you really a guy whose name is Loren?

Sorry; had to ask.
Here's the reason I started it: http://1week1project.com/post/925649367/prologue

and the rules I setup for myself: http://1week1project.com/post/930496448/the-rules

TL;DR: In an effort to organize my ideas and actually get something done, I created this meta-project with 9 rules to act as a framework to guide my endeavors.

I'd appreciate any feedback you gals/guys have on the project itself, the projects I've worked on, the organization of the site, etc.

Essentially, how could it be better?

Thanks.
Net powers: IPv4 is over. All hail IPv6
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Just wondering: where are all those hookers who perform their services for free?
True, and that is of course applicable here in the UK too, however it is rare, in my experience at least, to see people being too concerned about text length. In the past people would be very anal about using 'text speak' i.e. hi m8, how r u? partly to fit into the char limit.
"Love it or hate it, I guess I was right when I said you need to jump back into Facebook. As Web Professionals, we need to pay attention to this fundamental shift and act accordingly."

Just because someone else is doing something does not mean that I need to do the same thing.

If you see an advantage in using Facebook then do it. But think for yourself and don't just follow the other Lemmings.
Yes, really. =]
Util you can say profit, your definition of success is going to be somewhat shaky.
No, we are looking for a pretext to run down people who work for Oracle.
Last I heard though, Oracle was generating mountains of spare cash. The sort of profits they can lay their hands on can buy a lot of Next Big Things to let others take the initial risk and then sell out to Oracle when they're more established.

(Which, from what I understand, isn't far from what Google has done, with the bulk of non-search success having been from acquisitions.)
How did you learn about Clojure on GAE? What editor/IDE do you use (for Clojure)?
Android 2.4 confirmed for April release
True, but I think this is a real trend.

I know plenty of people who never go online for anything other than email and Facebook. And Facebook is trying, at least, to take the email part for themselves.

I even know quite a few "techies" who never bothered to use RSS, but use Facebook as something like an RSS feed (by "liking" someone's page, you get the updated to your wall).
Washington State has had a program for decades where you can go to a community college for the last two years of high school, for free. I earned an associate's degree instead of a high school diploma.
"Erase and rewind": Thoughts on the BBC's plans to delete 172 websites
I don't think he's saying you've got to use it, just you need to be aware of it, understand it and understand how and why people are using it.
looking for it now, someone pulled data from the GSS and did a regression.
Rewrite Rules on Google App Engine
Well, the first computer I owned was Spectrum clone... but this was in Russia in mid-nineties, so I might look older than my age.
Be sure to incorporate where they can't sue you and get a domain name ICE can't seize.
For that I press [Space], it changes to the next feed (or folder). If the article is open (and too long) just press [Enter] and then [Space] will have that effect.

When the next one is a folder (i dont usually read by folders) you can use Shift+N (next feed) and Shift+O (Open feed).

Now that I think about it, shortcuts in Reader and Gmail are extremely useful.
If I were you, I'd be amused.

On one hand, I'd think about changing my name. On the other hand, you turned it into a strength, which is really awesome. (Username "guynamedloren"; website screams "Made by Loren"; etc. It gets you noticed, thus turning a "weakness" into a strength.)
Kinetic Interface Design
I only did some proof of concept stuff nothing big but I didn't have any problem.
It's cool and all but what is the difference from http://www.mytvshows.org or even http://www.boxee.tv/ ?

I believe that last.fm works because it scrobbles what you've listened without you ever noticing.
Having to manually mark an episode as "watched" is a big hassle and will never work well.

So this is a good idea, that implemented some nice features but that is not solving the main problem.
Boxee solves that problem but misses these satellite features.
Polish Hand Magic is also an interesting trick to do multiplications: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=parents-cor...
A comic illustrating the trick: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1914#c...
That's a fun thing to think about. In 1996 I was 12, and quite shy. So I'd probably start to have fun with soon, being a lot more confident than I was back then.

I'd be terribly bored in classes, and thus I'd start to get bad grades. Still I might catch up on some foreign languages that I neglected in school.

I'd immediately start to play my favorite sport (table tennis) in a club, and thus have chances to actually excel at it.

At the end of my school career I'd invest a bit of money in companies that I happen to know turn out to be quite successful.

But most of all I'd enjoy having time and energy for studying another topic besides the ones I'm relatively good at. And when bored, I could try to write a good, distributed version control system, or some fun web application that nobody thought of back in the days...
Focusing on tablets?
The feature itself is a feature of GSM and part of the GSM specifications (see lower in the comments thread, I am not sure this also works on CDMA and remember having read it didn't, but can't find the source again. If anybody knows, I'm interested), so it is available at least in GSM networks (AT&T and T-Mobile).

On the other hand, I do not believe US operators to be quite as generous as UK (or more generally european) ones when it comes to SMS bundles, though I can be wrong: I at least know that many (most?) US cellphone customers pay not just for outbound but also for inbound text messages. And from checking the Verizon and Orange UK websites (I'd have checked O2 but i can't access their shop from outside the UK):

* At Verizon, texts are either 20c each or bundles of $5/250 texts (2c/text) or $20/5000 (0.4c/text), there are apparently unlimited options with the $10 and $20 bundles but they're only between VZ phones within precise coverage areas ("National Enhanced Services and Extended National Enhanced Services Rate and Coverage Areas")

* At Orange UK, two out of three plan lines (Dolphin and Canary) have unlimited text messaging from the start, Racoon (apparently the one used to talk to your grandparents) and value have limited amounts of texts (an unlimited texts option is available for £5, prices for out-of-plan texts are similar to VZ's). And I believe incoming texts are not double-dipped (only the sender pays, unless it's an international text maybe)
jquery-mobile-960 are not just the grid. this is a grid inside jquery-mobile. If you just need a css grid. less framework is a viable choise