skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, i have used both in both open social environments and large corporate websites.

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==MooTools==

-very simple, very light, almost minimalistic

-the community is more on the "creative" and "artist" side of things, the site just looks well designed

-Mootools becomes unmanageable in a mixed framework enviroment

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==jQuery==

-great for the medium sized website

-unobtrusive, allows you to rename the jQuery object

-architecturally simpler, but highly abstracted

--does not map to native javascript, so its a ton of work to pull jQuery out of your JS.

-HUGE community

-hundreds of Plugins

-has inside influence with Mozilla, Webkit, and now IE

-documentation wiki, when something is broke, anyone can fix it.

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==reasons to use neither==

-framework lifecycles are hard to manage right now

--websites with thousands of lines of code can be hard to upgrade to new versions

-developers need to learn Javascript 1st and then the Framework

-Caja breaks most frameworks

-Half of Opensocial users are on Caja containers

-debugging can be easier on native code.

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there are things i love about both frameworks and i would recommend either of them to different people, but i think any JavaScript 'rockstar' will need to know all of the frameworks and why one is better than the other.

personally i don't like prototype (sorry), but the namespace is bloated. Why do i have a different interface for css selectors and element ids, jQuery Gets this WAY right. i am finding that i don't like attaching framework objects to element IDs, it forces you to have ids on everything which should all be unique. i am still deciding if css classes make more sense, or maybe a custom attribute makes more sense. the downside to this would be performance. ids are hashed, vs attributes are not.
I cannot refute the bold statement about stability, since I have no experience with Mac OS X. However, I have extensive experience with Linux and OpenBSD and I've had zero stability problems with Linux. OpenBSD is a different story.

The funny thing is that BSDs have this nimbus of being ultra-stable and bug-free; my experience is just the opposite.
You are correct. I get around the firewall by tunneling (SSH) to my U.S. server. However, when you simplify "tunneling" by using point and click tools, now you have something generally identifiable and blockable as these tools also will use known discover and tunneling points. So if you don't have your own server in a foreign land, you can't easily tunnel without being blockable.
Being the owner of a 3 year old Dell Inspiron 9400 (E1705 in the US) I would have to agree. There's nothing physically wrong with it, and it performs as good as ever. However, the rubber grips came off the bottom due to excess heat being transferred through them, which is Dell's problem as the fans don't run in it until the CPU temp gets past like 50C so the entire metal case starts acting like a heat sink.

Problem two is that with the rubber grips gone (I've replaced them, but I've yet to find any of similar quality so I'll pick up my laptop and the damn things are adhered to the table because it's heated them so much the vinyl surface adheres to paint or varnish) the bottom of the laptop has started losing paint. The plastic shell is fine, sadly it also has metal casings to protect the ram slot, which is now incidentally a nice chrome.

There's also multiple other problems I've noticed through prolonged use of the Inspiron. Note these are nothing I'd dump a $3000 laptop over, however the next laptop I buy is going to be a macbook. The most annoying problem is if you don't close the lid properly, like you're just picking up your laptop to move it while still in use, it can turn off the screen but as it didn't fully close it won't turn on without a hard reboot. Another problem is that Dell doesn't supply up-to-date drivers; Intel released updated drivers for multiple things, including an overhaul of the built-in GPU making it compatible with more games and improving the shader emulations making the thing run a whole lot faster. In fact it improved it so much I stopped using my desktop for games as my laptop got better refresh rates. Sadly I had to uninstall the Intel drivers shipped through Dell and install the Intel ones manually. Obviously the few crash occourances Intel patched weren't important enough for Dell to bother testing and it still hasn't been released.

So even though I do love my Dell as it's served me extremely well. I would just prefer more quality for the price.
Interesting, it's really similar to the iPod Touch:

- Wifi/a browser

- App store

Only I guess you get a camera instead of an MP3 player. (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-dsi-vs-psp-3000-v...)

I wonder what the standard will be for publishing a DSi game. It seems to be the trend now (Facebook, iPhone, and soon Xbox) to let everybody and everyone submit games to the store and the variable pricing seems to foreshadow that here, but it seems very un-Nintendo-like.
Great idea. We're working around the clock, even though a quarter of our staff was on Eid break when the site launched. They're all back, but yes, everything should be back to normal in terms of turnaround in the next 24 hours. We've also added more people.
Android - Ruby on Rails app integration (RESTful hello world)
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I've never understood what it means to be connecting to an "unsafe" wifi point. Isn't most of my data ultimately going over the Internet unencrypted anyway? Does this just mean there's no firewall blocking traffic on certain ports between me and bad guys?
The Coming Digital Presidency comes to the iPhone | mathoda.com
Most people who have a hard time rolling their Rs are trying too hard; and it makes their tongue too stiff. Try relaxing your tongue (in other words, make it loose and lazy) and then try to roll your Rs.
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CIM GSA provides some kinds of card printers to make id cards, plastic cards or business cards.
I hope it spurs Apple to deal with background processing instead of simply disallowing it.

I hope the iPhone just goes away and we can all get on with our lives. I don't understand why people hope that $FOO changes to be like $BAR when $BAR is already $BAR.
America contains 5% of the world's population yet remains a leader with 20& of the world's economic output. Watch the markets. The American markets dictate what overseas markets due on a daily basis, not the other way around. Sure, things aren't rosy, but to suggest that the American economy is anything less than a clear cut economic leader is silly.
aka Capitalism
'Byrne has long argued that the press dismissed his views at least in part because Weiss - hiding behind various anonymous accounts - spent years controlling the relevant articles on Wikipedia, the "free online encyclopedia anyone can edit."'

If The Register is reporting this correctly - a long shot by current online journalism standards - then this guy is simply a crank. Who needs Wikipedia in order to get heard?
Companies can’t be coy if they want reader action
SoundExchange will generously offer to spare them as long as they play what SoundExchange wants, whenever and as often as SoundExchange wants.
I'd second a recommendation for Clojure. If you're already strong with Java then you could consider Clojure a complementary language that gives you lispy constructs and syntax, but is backed by libraries you already know.
How Do I Select The Right Toll Free Service Provider?
All of us today understand the importance of using toll free numbers. Having realized the importance when we decide to have a toll free number for our business, it is important that we choose the right service provider. There are some important criteria that they should meet for you to select them as your toll free service provider.
because someone mike like $FAR better than $FOO or $BAR
I learned the hands free approach as a kid (no assistance, just experimentation). Now I can reach ear piercing levels that temporarily damage the hearing of those within 5-10 feet using either a 3-5 second burst or 10-15 second sustained whistle. I've found it makes for a very effective training mechanism with dogs.
If people are willing to pay real money for virtual gold due to time issues, and the game isn't fun until you put 1000 hours into it, then it's a design flaw. People want instant gratification, not spending their time leveling up.
First off I never spoke about cash I said the gain in the value of a stock that you buy is not taxed. (http://invest-faq.com/cbc/tax-cap-gains-basis.html) My point is covered under "You inherit a security" but reading the whole thing is useful.

Second, in you only leave 1 million in stock to your child they pay zero tax on that.

PS: There are a tun of way's the tax code helps high net worth individual. If you have 1billion in capital gains you pay 15% before deductions, but if you're a contractor making 10$ an hour you pay more than that to SS and Medicare let alone the rest of the tax code.
Buffet mentions a crisis of confidence in the markets as a reason for the bailout. But what is the cost to society of the loss of confidence in the government? What will happen to people's faith in our political system if this bill passes despite the opposition of the American people? What will be the effect on the people once the realization sets in that their government only represents the ultra rich?

I think it'll be much worse than letting the current "crisis" play out without instigating the biggest coerced transfer of wealth in history from American taxpayers to a few people on Wall St.
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It could be setup like that but it's not. You don't pay capital gains at the time of death and the people you give it to don't pay when they receive it so only some of the money is ever taxed.

PS: The really sick thing is giving stock to a charity: "By doing so, you never have to calculate gains nor list the sale as income on your tax return. Moreover, if the stock was held more than a year (long-term gain), you get to itemize the charitable deduction at fair market value on the date of gift." (http://invest-faq.com/cbc/tax-cap-gains-basis.html)

To find out why this is messed up calculate what happens when you give 100$ to charity now vs buying 100$ in stock that is worth 10x a much in 20 years. I had an aunt who was audited and ended up getting close to a million back because of this stuff.
Next-generation adaptive optics produces sharper Jupiter images
Is Google Blog Search a Techmeme killer? No way.
A good read:
http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html
I don't see the money supply contracting by a third like it did during the Great Depression. There are several different accounts of the Great Depression, but all of them agree that the monetary contraction was one of the biggest causal agents.

This "Pearl Harbor" talk is baseless fear mongering. The numbers I've seen for growth, employment, and lending activity in all non-real estate and non-financial sectors has been downright normal. Over 200 economists from good universities have signed a letter urging Congress to act slowly and deliberately. I believe the "Bankruptcy is the answer retard" that you speak of is a professor at Harvard.

This is not Ron Paul supporters speaking, this is level-headed people that are urging our representatives not to act rashly out of fear (again). If you think a repeat of the Great Depression is likely, perhaps you should learn something about it. Until you do, you can go easy on the self-righteousness.

Edit: Here is a blog with some links that show bank lending is up through the month of September. Several indicators have hit all-time highs.

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/09...
Dirty Sexy Money Episode 2.01 : The Birthday Present
Even as Lisa and Nick planned to celebrate his birthday privately and quietly, Tripp and Letitia Darling decided to throw a lavish party for Nick on their yacht. Nick helps in reconciling Tripp and Patrick, who is still burdened with his troubled marriage and missing transgendered lover.
I like the oracle of Omaha as much as the next ripe-from-college-finance-student, but I can't side with the faithful teacher on this one.

Too many of us are calling this a depression where we should be calling it a correction. That's not to say corrections aren't messy -- they are -- but it's absolutely necessary if you're to return equilibrium to the markets. Til now prices have been artificially inflated by interventionist government policy. That's inefficient (it undermines the price mechanism) and it's unsustainable.

Government intervention isn't the answer. It might stave off a correction in the near-term, but it can't stop a correction in the long-run. Better for Washington to do nothing, which is to say, better to let the price mechanism do its work and restore natural equilibrium to the markets.

And please be fair: The "Bankruptcy is the answer" argument is hardly retardation (as you've put it). The article you're referring to captured the opinions of 166 economists of the Harvard/Yale/Princeton/UChicago ilk. You may not agree with it's conclusions but for God's sake man, don't call it retardation.
I agree, I believe the new tech meetup in SF is the largest in the country.

Also find a language or group specific to gaming. SF Ruby meetup is huge.
Do We Live in a Giant Cosmic Bubble?
I meant "long term" in the sense of investors who consistently make a profit in the long term, not those who happen to hold particular equities for a long period of time.
As a corollary, beware of geeks who think they know the right course of action for Treasury right now.
I think this is good advice if I would have known more about the startup world I would have worked at a startup out of college instead of big business.

If you are not opposed to moving there is a great opportunity to work with some cool startups in Boulder, CO

http://boulder.me/

Shameless plug, I am in Boulder. My startup is a bit to small to be a part of Boulder.Me, but I know a bunch of the teams involved and it is really cool.
Parallelization + horizontal scaling is my guess. If you can't scale up, scale out.
I wouldn't call him a crank, maybe he is even right, but this was my thought as well...he could maintain a blog for example, write all his findings there a now everyone could see what he was up to back then.
>It seems like a smaller amount of money could be used to fix the confidence problem and get the "wheels of credit" turning again

The wheels of credit are turning, just not for the real estate sector:

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-banking-data-wheres-...

Fears of the credit market freezing up and plunging us into a depression are just that: fears.
The article misses a lot. Swapping happens often even when there isn't directly pressure on memory. Because Linux very aggressively keeps recently touched files cached in memory (usually, although not always, a performance win), it will swap out unused processes—again, even when there's plenty of memory to go around.

How aggressively Linux swaps stuff out can be tuned via /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, although it's arguably still too aggressive even when swappiness is given a low value.

http://lwn.net/Articles/83588/ is a little dated at this point, but overall still correct.
Other countries also love the stuff we in America produce, I think Buffet said in his Charlie Rose interview that we export 12% of our GDP which is good but also pales in comparison to how much we consume which is where a lot of the global market makes it's money (from US consumers).
Financial crisis = startup opportunity.  NYC developers, join a startup
Sadly, no. The Newton was the last of the lisp machines really. The coolest thing about Newton app development was that the prototype based environment and soup data stores made it very easy to "monkeypatch" existing applications to add new features or change functionality. Apps ended up being very small but still quite powerful. You had a system that the application-level equivalent of browser-based userscripts (a la Greasemonkey) and javascript-powered web site mashups.
Nokia Reveals iPhone Competitor And Prepares To Do Battle With iTunes
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic aka the Tube released plus first hands
The only real saving grace is the speculators that were allowed to be wiped out.
Complexity is a great book. Inspired me when I read it in high school years ago.
I don't mean to crash the party, but notebooks by many brands are manufactured, and even designed by the same few Taiwanese companies. Apple included.

But I agree with your point. Apple designs their own stuff, and despite what keep being repeated by some here, design is not just about looks.

Apple simply puts more thought into their products. That's what design is all about.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanta_Computer

[2] http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/17/report_quanta_...

[3] http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html
Useful example, adding memoization without rewriting the actual function, just add @decoratorname above the function.

class memoize:
def __init__(self, function):
self.function = function
self.memoized = {}

def __call__(self, *args):
try:
return self.memoized[args]
except KeyError:
self.memoized[args] = self.function(*args)
return self.memoized[args]

@memoize
def fib(n)
Except Warren doesn't sprinkle with fairy dust - or sell.

He does however buy good businesses at discounts to their true long-term value.
But if ones includes the inflation tax that they (Banks, etc.) directly benefit from by getting the fait funny money first before the rest of society and it’s results on everyone, this may not be true. There are more poor and middle class that have the inflation tax steal from them (for which most don’t understand the how of it) in addition to the direct tax that takes to support the preplanned central banking scheme that benefits the few. When you add to that the mal-investment which makes decisions skewed for the poor or middle class trying to get ahead, one may be able to make a even stronger case against the preplanned ordered centrally controlled economy and a better case for a more market based one with sound money.
On niche subjects where certain parties have vested interests, this is almost bound to happen. In such cases, Wikipedia is like power up-for-grabs. People who care will take it.
There will always be new uses for more power, ones that we can't see today. It's silly to say you'd be happy to see that go away.

And, yes, I think a lot of the gains in future computing power will be in parallelization, but that wasn't the point of this article.
Warren Buffett has been in favor of higher taxes and stricter regulation for about four decades. So I guess "these economy guys" isn't a very useful classification, at all.
The author seems to be freaking out a wee bit much over branching, which the last time I checked is quite fast on the shallow-pipeline ARM cores in the market. Branches get more expensive the deeper the pipeline gets, which means they're hugely important for desktop CPUs (although a little less now than in the days of the "netburst" cores from Intel). But for ARM? Meh.

What's a much bigger deal on ARM are cache issues. The L1 caches are very small, and there is no L2. Keeping working set sizes down for instructions and data is hugely important, which means that tricks like these aren't always a win if you're using them instead of (e.g.) calling a "min()" function.

And (someone correct me if I'm misremembering) ARM doesn't have a physically tagged cache, which means the caches can't survive a change in memory domain like a system call. I know for a fact that syscalls on my Motorola A780 (XScale CPU, Linux 2.4 kernel) are 20k cycles or more.

The bottom line is that I think the author is missing the point. These are elegant assembly hacks, but aren't really where performance-conscious programmers need to be focusing their efforts.
That's good to hear. I hope this uptick in activity will be good for your overall business and the growth will be sustainable.

The two responses I received this morning were top-notch, by the way. The information was very concise and saved me a bit of time already.
Leveling up is what it's all about actually. It's Blizzard's job to make that process fun along the way, so the goal doesn't become the only reward (which I'm afraid is the reality with WoW now). If not, it's a huge impediment to new users and casual gamers.
As Clinton said on Letterman, all the people that bet against America lost. He's betting on America.

(I love that attitude and I'm not even American)
The math of this story doesn't make sense to me:

* World of Warcraft creator Blizzard looks set to get $6m (£3.36m) from the makers of a software 'bot'

* sold more than 100,000 copies of the $25 (£14) program.

So, estimated gross revenue is L1.4MM for the lifetime of the bot company, but Blizzard was awarded L3.33MM ---almost three times sales? I don't understand. Is this expected to ever be paid, or simply expected to crush the bot company?
It would be horrible if Pandora's algorithm's were effected by some sort of 'deal' like you describe. I hope they can stick to their guns and not bow to pressure to play the 'hot new singles' more (or sneak in unrelated trash).
(1) Doesn't running the GPS all the time kill battery performance?

(2) Isn't this application a bit of a stupid pet trick? Turning the ringer off in theaters?

(3) It's probably worth repeating that Locale isn't possible on the iPhone because they've deliberately chosen to make it impossible.
Maybe I could do it when I was three, but I definitely learned when I was in my teens.
My iPod is pretty, but "stable" and OSX are not two words I use in the same statement. I think my iPod has gone down more than my two Vista machines since I've owned them.
Great comment! Can persistent effort increase intelligence?

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-sm...
About time Nokia! However, it would be nice to see some Specs for the phone, how the UI works, and what this means for developers who want to write apps for this phone.

Also, with all these different phones running different OS's it makes it harder for us developer types to target all the platforms, unless we could write apps using Java and/or Flex which Apple disallows.
I agree about the condescension part, which is very unfortunate knowing the immense potential Mootools had when it was still called moo.fx. In fact I believe it could have reached as wide an audience as jQuery, if the community was more friendly.

What's seriously better? MIT License maybe.
I recently acquired a MacBook after using a variety of standard laptops with Linux installed on them.

In my experience, the Mac is better as a /consumer/ laptop, while the Linux box is better as a /geek/ laptop. I'm sure that I'll get better at getting under the Mac's hood at some point, but right now it's frustrating to have to use GUI tools for everything.

In general, everything (apps, UI) in Mac are prettier and easier to use than their *nix counterparts, but /far/ less functional.

Also, Mac OS X is internally UNIX-y enough to make me /think/ that things still work in the same way, but are different enough to make me sorely disappointed when I find out that I was mistaken.