skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the whole 'dunk Ganesha' thing, for one. Teams of young men group together and compete between groups to buy/build/decorate the grandest elephant man to dunk in local ponds and rivers. Thats surreal.
http://fantasticcontraption.com/ for hacking... uh... contraptions.

Be warned though, it's crack.
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Dell new presentation in the market Inspiron 15
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This is Steve Gillmor-class word salad. Microsoft is alternatively described as a ship, a water buffalo, a cathedral construction crew, something that guards a basket, a monarchy, and a net hanging in the jungle. The various metaphors try to fight it out, but they don't have a chance amidst all the cliche and jargon.

This level of inattention to language makes me think that not many neurons were fired during the writing of the article, and prejudices me against what might be a perfectly valid point, if I could find it.
Really, this is one of the very few article on GCOS that actually make sense (or at least tries to). So far, most of the coverage has been "ZOMG!!1! SHINYCOOL NEW!!1!".

Although I still don't think GCOS will take over the world. It's going to be an OS for the clueless. I'm pretty sure most geeks would rather use a regular Linux distro than a stripped-down web-centric OS that has Google's branding everywhere.
It actually reminds me of this: http://i25.tinypic.com/2it1s9.jpg
Some academic teachers seem to be very afraid of GOTO, up to the point of considering it harmful no matter what use. They pass it onto students, which take it as an absolute truth, never even trying to understand the inherent problems and advantages of GOTO in the first place.

Structural programming was a great idea, but not to be taken to the extremes...
No, education is most certainly NOT the silver bullet for this (at least not our current system).

There are too many kids in school, racking up absurd amounts of debt for worthless degrees right now. A backelor's degree is more-or-less worthless right now because it is so common. Currently, you'll need at least a masters degree if you want to get noticed, possibly even a PhD.

The idea of "lets churn more people through this ridiculous system! That will fix the problem! The numbers won't lie! 4 years chained to a desk will fix the problem!"

No. Please not more educations.
They used a jailbroken iPhone to run the app in background, but the paper gives no detail on the battery life they got.
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I myself have thought quite a bit about the better representation issue.

I once read somewhere that all human concepts are fundamentally associative in nature. If you see the halftone image of an apple, you don't have to work through pixel by pixel to figure out the concept, "apple". The concept apple with its related features naturally occurs to you.

Taking this further to learning, it would seem that we all go through a stage where our knowledge is of a deliberate, serial nature and once a certain degree of habituation is reached, the knowledge gets coded enough to be associative in nature. Consider solving problems in Mathematics - initially, we all have to consciously do a state-space search to figure out the right method to solve the problem. To expert problem solvers, however, the method to solve the problem becomes immediately apparent just from the patterns in the problem. Ditto for chess, etc.

Lets call knowledge that's serial in nature second-order knowledge and the knowledge that's associative, first-order knowledge. I think there's immense promise in investigating whether the transformation from second-order to first-order can be made systematic. I.e., consider learning as a new subject in itself. I am pretty sure that research has been done on this though.
Why not. He chooses to work with VSS, so we know he enjoys self-flagellation ..
I agree. I think he's probably talking about this:

According to Microsoft:

"When running on a solid-state drive (SSD), Windows® 7 requires a minimum of 16 gigabytes (GB) of space. Although some configurations of Windows 7 may appear to fit on smaller drives when initially installed, 8 GB SSDs are not sufficient for deploying Windows 7."
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Yes. If scammers are motivated by greed and desperation, scam baiters seem largely motivated by a desire to humiliate, or just feel superior to the scammers.
There is a 'trophy room' on that site where scammers are posed often naked, sometimes with their wives/partners) with juvenile signs, generally framed by the obvious trappings of poverty.
Microsoft will, of course, offer a similar product based on IE + Bing + Live. The only real loser here are the PC OEMs. In 2 years they'll be reminiscing about the good ole' days of high margin netbooks.
Yes! Friedman is an even better comparison.
any more hints
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Your country as a whole certainly doesn't profit, but there's certain corporations doing extremely well out of your wars
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Another great interview question.

Will the following code compile and if yes what will be the result of it ?
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How many times you had problem or were asked about what happened to this object in your function? Or why this is not an object you expect it to be? Probably these times you have to remind yourself or your fellow programmer about function context.
http://www.hackyourself.org/ :-)

http://www.theyesmen.org/ reality hackers.

http://www.rhizome.org/ technology + art
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Also there is no real control of which pages get censored. There is not even a judge involved. There are secret blacklists only approved by the BKA, the German FBI.
Sadly most TOR servers have already been shut down in Germany. Some of the server providers have been accused of spreading child pornography and other illegal activities themselves. The pressure is immense.
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Yes, it does. Either we implement control over this global information monopoly or one day we'll wake up in a nightmare society. The Google China censorship is just the beginning.
Ask HN: Lightweight Programmer's CMS?
Does anyone have any recommendations for a lightweight CMS?

I'm happy writing pages in HTML & CSS but I need something to take care of the menus, header and footer etc ("theme" if you like).

So far I've survived with a shell script that literally cats some common header and footer HTML onto my pages, but I feel there has to be a better solution.

Update: It seems what I'm looking for is often known as a "Static-site generator".
Here here. Very insightful. I often wonder... I've made a pretty bad employee so far, which is one of the reason I'm a consultant for my cash monies and start companies whenever I can afford to. But... then again I've never had a really interesting job... ever.

I wonder if I would make a great employee at some kick ass company doing interesting research, large or small?
It's amazing how much commentary there has been about a piece of vaporware that is over a year from release (at least). Oh, I'm sure Google will release it, but there is so little known about the final architecture that it is almost impossible to speculate intelligently about it.

And does anyone see the parallel with the Java Network Appliances that were going to be "the next big thing" at the end of the 90's? Certainly, we live in a much more connected world today, but to pretend that nothing of value is done on PCs except opening up a browser is a bit of a blindered view, IMO. Oh well, it's all just speculation until there's a product..
yeah, that is great fun. sometimes those are huuuuuuuuge, would take months to make and paint, only to be dunk in the sea. apart from polluting the water, its great fun.
Ever since the Taleban have been ousted the Heroin production in Afghanistan has skyrocketed. So basically the war was about regaining the control over heroin production as far as I'm concerned. Now 80% of the global heroin market is provided by Afghanistan.
How about desperation?
It's easy to talk about our superior standard of living, but there is an edge, a steep edge and lots of people are near enough to it to consider crazy things.
http://www.cnczone.com
This prompted me to ask what lightweight CMS's everyone recommends: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=700031
yeah true. but public memory is short, I'm guessing that the influence/impact of those bills would be lesser if done 4 months before the election, than 1 month before.
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The yesmen are hilarious, I just watched their movie about a month ago.

How about that "management suit"?
Making stuff: http://blog.makezine.com
Broad range of hardware & electronics hacks.
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America wasn't founded on the concept of egalitarianism, that was an idea of the French revolution. America was founded on the idea of equality before the law (something that we are still working on).
I've used these; perhaps not this exact brand but the same generic product. Sheets of thin white plastic that adhere using static to walls and other surfaces.

They work pretty well; you have to take care not to get crinkles or wrinkles in the sheet of course, and not be too decisive with the eraser or you'll pull the sheet around on the wall.

The major problem these can have is that there is no border; the sheet is very thin and its easy to slip up and draw outside.
I'm using Jekyll, the static site generator known from github pages. It will definitely be a step up from writing html and doing cat HEAD ARTICLE FOOT > PAGE :)
Gregory Brown recently posted a different take on Decorators using Ruby's delegate standard library.

Worth a look : http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/gregory/008-decorato...
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How is the card game and the bar game the same? If a man is obviously old, he can drink alcohol or other kind of drink. In the case of cards, there is only an answer.
Write one yourself in your favourite programming language! Don't forget to include (what I use on my blahg): a markup language (textile), code highlighting(pygments), a templating engine(mako), RSS.

The markup language and the templating engine are the things that really make this effort worth it. Especially since you can now use your favourite editor to edit posts. You can't really do that with wordpress.
So it's disabled by default?
That looks pretty good, I'll probably give it a shot.

My only concern is that it seems oriented more towards blogs; do you think I'll have any problems using it for a small open-source project website?
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I'd love to, but that's a bit much work. And I'd go mental when I wanted to urgently make a small change to the website but was forced to spend hours fixing some stupid bug.

I do use Wordpress at the minute, and pasting text from Vim tends to be painful, which is one of the reasons I don't want to use it for my project website.
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First Australia and now Germany. I don't freak out when China puts the blinders on but I get real unhappy when the First World democracies start acting all backward.

Have you seen how wide Australia's blacklist is? https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/Australian_government_admi...
CMS.txt? http://cms.thewikies.com
Maybe that is a UK thing - Amazon.co.uk also does a scheme where you pay GBP 50 up-front and get a year's unlimited first-class post.

Tho' I guess that's kinda the point of the original article - if you can afford to buy into the plan in the first place, you save money.
I second the magic whiteboard. It will static cling to anything, including the ceiling!

It comes in a carrying box, like cling film. So you can easily take it to client sites and stick it on their wall/glass.

Further, you do not have to erase them, you can just stick a fresh one ontop. In that respect it is more like Butchers Paper.
Sounds impossible to implement.
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That's what prompted me to ask the question. Have you used it? What do you think?

Going on what I've seen so far, I think Jeykll might be the best choice.
FYI the Australian plan to implement DNS level filter never got implemented mainly due to public backlash. The current blacklist is only for people electing to use the (govt. paid) client-side filtering software.
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Right and if I read one more article about how no one can do anything on a netbook with their paltry 1.7 gig Atoms I am gonna spew.

I am running a stable of happy 900 mhz machines for my bread and butter work.
It's true but most middle class can't afford to jump those lines (not many people I know can afford a maid..) ... so, as least, I guess only a few percentage of the richest can afford to skip the lanes...
> The major problem these can have is that there is no border; the sheet is very thin and its easy to slip up and draw outside.

I fix that by drawing a border (with a red marker -- hard to miss).
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I'd say that bachelors degrees in traditional subjects from traditional universities retain most of their value.

In most cases, a degree from a second-tier university is unlikely to be a good investment, but that's not the only reason that people do degrees - if a grown-up (18) wants to do it anyway tho' that's got to be their choice (and their responsibility to pay for it).
I like the combination of Xdebug and MacGDBp on OS X quite a bit, as I blogged here: http://alexander.kirk.at/2008/12/26/debugging-php-on-mac-os-...
you got to love how they labelled the cans with "this" and "that"

http://www.ideapaint.com/site/products_work.html
If you're just converting static content, Make + Markdown + small amounts of Awk/Perl/etc. should suffice.

There's also werc (http://werc.cat-v.org/).
Microsoft could have taken .NET and created a thin layer of glue onto the hardware, and come up with a really good, robust, and revolutionary OS

... That ran only on one exact hardware configuration.
Haha, I know I love it! But its very bizarre to an outsider stuck in a traffic jam because of the big elephants.
Seems like a pretty nice language, though it's basically just syntactic sugar for ML. (Not such a bad thing; syntactic sugar is tasty, and I can understand not liking ML syntax much.)

I'm a bit put off by the way the documentation repeatedly says "continuation" where it means "closure".
You have to be comfortable with C, so that rules out some people.
I picked 'None' — why boils down to a few things:-

* My service is free at the moment. I'm not approaching billing till I have bridged the gap between technically-inclined users (the folks who've found it thus far) and more mainstream users.

* When I do approach billing it's going to be pre-pay via Paypal because of relative implementation ease and because...

* I don't want to do business in my country because I don't think it's a great place to open and subsequently grow a "guy with a laptop and a VPS" business.
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Thats great, its just too expensive for my taste at $4 a square foot.
Don't forget Webby (Ruby-based), which is pretty lightweight, but can be extended depending on your environment.

It features various markup languages, some syntax highlighting options, autobuild, and more.

http://webby.rubyforge.org/
Here's a How-To for a glass whiteboard:
http://www.instructables.com/id/A_glass_whiteboard/
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Or - you could use Django and whip something up really fast - just use their template engine, and you get all the menues, header, footer, etc, and replace the content with a big block of HTML pulled straight from the DB.
"Remove all Flash from your website. Remove all stupid intros and load-times. MAKE IT SIMPLE TO NAVIGATE AND EASY TO FIND AND HEAR MUSIC (but don't autoplay)"

Brilliant. All websites should adhere to this advice.

I despise autoplay anything. It's the Internet not Television.
Which is why galleries in the UK usually forbid photography.
It has gotten better recently, but it is lagging quite a lot compared to plain Chrome.

Text rendering used to be horrible but it has gotten better. But if I can't even configure proxy settings without hacky gconf editing, that tells you that you are definitely using a browser in catch-up mode.
"fi" and "esac" come from shell programming. He's copying various style/syntax elements (including ugly bits!) from sh and C in hopes that it will be less off-putting to mainstream programmers than ML syntax.

The problem with having a built-in object system is that you're stuck with it. People mean very, very different things by OOP, and being able to add an OO system when it's useful is probably a better approach. Using OO without "bolting it on" works well for the Lisp family and for Lua. (Adding a prototype-based, class-based, or message-passing object system with via metatables is quite easy.) You just need to have a sufficiently flexible core language.

Of course, doing it in a fully static-typing-safe manner is tricky, but since OO is arguably defined by late binding, that's naturally works against pinning as much as possible down at compile time. (Lisp and Lua are just dynamic and don't worry about it.)
The blog part will come handy for a project website, as you will probably have a news-section on the front page with release and event announcements.

You can use the 'topic' feature to select "non-blog" articles with a given topic. Say if you want a menu entry generated with links to all your 'documentation' topic pages.

I forget what the tool/library is called, but there is even support for syntax highlighting code. Lots of languages supported, even Erlang which is properly obscure I think.

I find the Yaml premable in articles very useful, if I add a description entry there, i can refer to page.description in my template to add a meta-description header, and in the RSS feed i can use it to summarize the article.

I also feel pretty secure in that if I would ever want to give up on Jekyll most of my site would be in textile format which is quite practical and supported by other things than ruby.
Putting aside the legal questions, the Wikimedia Foundation's moral position appears to be this:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD...
I've used them as well. To me they are TOO thin (though I understand why). They're too small, take on too much of the substrate's texture, and suffer the problems "unwind" mentioned.

Would love to try that paint, but I have a (perhaps neurologically unsound) love for really, really big whiteboards. Me trying to compensate for something, perhaps...?
It looks like a gigantic roll of cling-wrap/cling-film. How it is reusable (effectively) is the vital question.
My apologies; I figured the "et. al." would have covered that.
Ermm, no, class segmentation is when you show up and say "My father is Lord so-and-so and I went to Eton" and they let you skip the queue. Or alternatively, being a member of the Party, Comrade.

Paying cash and getting what you want in a straight-up transaction is completely classless and 100% American.
Unfortunately it is useless for me, as it is NYC specific. For us located in other areas, padmapper is more useful.
It's not quite as simple as searching the net for a suitable image which is entirely legal in the US and may be legal in the UK too.

It's also not simple to take such a photgraph of these paintings as the gallery prohibits it.
I understand why they do it, but I don't like speed over usability as a default. I would rather be able to tighten up the execution via a few declarations, compiler options, etc., if necessary, but have the default be maximum flexibility, detail for debugging, etc.

I like the typechecker mostly because it's easy to use a few type annotations to do things that would otherwise require loads of unit tests.

My rule of thumb these days is, "Python is fast enough, without proof otherwise."
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I don't think he's actually read much of PG's writing. For example, he says "great hackers" aren't willing to do grunt work, but the way you get Robert Morris to do your Unix admin is to give him a big chunk of equity!

Smart people are perfectly happy to do mundane or tedious tasks a) in support of a grand vision or b) for a big pile of money. That's why movie FX and games pays so badly, and SAP implementation pays so much. If you're in the middle somewhere, well, complaining about it won't make much difference.
If all you want to do is attach a header and footer to an otherwise static HTML page, why not just use SSI? http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/ssi.html
Flash photography, as they are worried about the cumulative effect of millions of flashes per year damaging the pigments, same as leaving the painting out in the sun would.
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I was going to post the same link but for the subtleties of the wikimedia policy, e.g. Photos of coins aren't public domain but flatbed scans are.
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+1 for jekyll
Good suggestion, but I think I'll go with one of the other solutions for a few reasons:

- I'd rather keep things completely static if I can

- It ties my site to Apache a bit

- I may as well take advantage of some of the other features Jekyll etc provide
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Wow, thats a much better product. I can afford that one. Thanks!
I've seen the "blackboard" paint for children's playrooms, but this is awesome. I prefer this to the static whiteboard sheets I've seen.
There is also the WML (Website Meta Language) at http://www.thewml.org/ -- I used it for a few static websites in the early 2000s, but it isn't maintained any more. It combines an HTML macro package, embedded perl, m4 and a few other tools into a nine-pass compiler.
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Because then they'd be wordpress?
"Windows is an enormous collection of design mistakes that work well enough to get by."

Don't forget, Windows was ripped of of the Mac, so....
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And soon the whole word is one huge whiteboard.