skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love how Paul Graham is President-elect and still submitting stories to HN.
> The day a Jewish Terrorist decides to bomb El Al, is the end of the "Interview" system, and the adoption of shoe screening, liquid screening and full body scans.

I always figured white old ladies would make for the best terrorists.
i see:
- some significant progress against cancer in the tenties and that being a big thing.
- growth of a chinese middle class with a voice and some balls and independence
- continued problems with islam, terrorists, and the first terrorist small nuclear detonation.
- possible but not probably achievements in nanotech or energy on the tech front
- wifi data collection on everything as the main tech change in this coming decade. internet and software basically a sideways moving bore and snore
- privacy as an issue for the common user
My 2009 Prediction List Graded (and prepping for the 2010 List)
Pizza Recipe
Too Light for Print
Though I don't agree with you for most of those, upvoted for the child tracking point, as much as I hate to see it. Looking at the trends of my brother's middle school, 6th grade is the year you get a cell phone -- and this is by no means the wealthiest middle school in our area.
Please Help: Launching Community Aggregator Like Hacker News in NYC (non-profit)
The NY Tech Meetup (a huge collection of entrepreneurs and technophiles in NYC) is experimenting with a YC Hacker News style aggregation site to help promote entrepreneurship in NYC (http://news.nytm.org).

This site is 100% not-for-profit; the only value we expect to gain is in improving communication and engagement within the tech community in New York.

It's different from HN, reddit, etc. in that the goal is to connect local hackers with events, activities, opportunities, and ideas in NYC. In that regard, it's kinda like craigslist meets Hacker News.

That said, I'm having a little trouble getting our core constituency to take advantage of it as there isn't much up there at the moment with most eyes on the mailing list; i.e., the chicken-egg problem.

I was hoping to garner some support from folks who share my appreciation for the HN style of discussion and sharing so that we can work together to jump-start the community.

HN is host to a fantastically supportive group and I suspect many folks who post here live in or around NYC and so would be interested in this utility gaining traction.

Thank you for listening! I really hope that we can get this off the ground; any advice or support you can offer would be GREATLY appreciated.

The site: news.nytm.org (yup! It's powered by slinkset ;)
I if remember correctly they mentioned during the 26c3 talk that they get 40% of their traffic from search engines.
Cousin Marriage Conundrum: The ancient practice discourages nation-building
"As to the first part, a person's odds of being personally affected by terrorism are infinitesimal, especially if you don't live in NYC, Washington, LA, or San Fran."

The OP was claiming that it is incorrect to state, as the article does, that "effects of terrorism" == body count.

Any time I fly I suffer the effects of terrorism because I'm now forced to spend an extra few hours engaged in security theater. I get additional delays driving along the US southern boarder as well. I have politicians looking to restrict my means of expression because of supposed fears of terrorism.

Now, even granting all that, I don't know that this is the gravest threat facing the USA, but the opportunistic reactions to terrorism certainly is a major problem that affects people daily.
I like the idea. I've signed up.
I knew buying a Y2K10 survival kit would be a good idea.
Oh and another thing - quantum computing will start to surge around the third quarter of the decade. It won't be a general tool and it won't be used for cracking crypto - it will be doing things like data mining, bioinformatics, and solving variations on the travelling salesman problem.
I wonder if the FTC is scratching their heads wondering what to do about Apple product rumors.
They should demand that airplanes flying to the US be painted entirely black. That way the terrorists won't be able to see them and blow them up.
This is a good post. I found it when I ported After the Deadline to Intense Debate and wrote a post about it. Here:

http://blog.afterthedeadline.com/2009/10/09/how-to-write-a-g...
The author does not have a place for comments on his blog ... so I will use this space to suggest that:

1. anyone interested classical music should use Pandora.com to find out what they like: I ended up with a lot of Telemann and Corelli as performed by Manze and Egarr

2. if you have space in your apartment/house, go on Craigslist and get a decent set of speakers and a CD player and tuner/amp. Listening to classical on headphones is good but listening in open air is better.
Not exactly There is often a sustainable advantage in being the "first-mover" in the competitive marketplace. Combine that with a strong brand name, (for example: Twitter) and being the first to market can be a huge asset. After all, if you've "pave(d) the way for later arrivals," you'll at least know which paths led to dead ends. Your competitors won't. Besides, later arrivals will also be "behind" in the respect that they won't have had as much time to learn from mistakes. In the hyper-competitive world of the web, it's actually pretty easy to use the first-mover advantage to the detriment of potential future competitors.

For example, a business like eBay has fees which are ludicrous, an interface that is not at all intuitive, but because it was pretty much the first established brand in online auctions, it's what most people keep using.
A world in which would be bombers instead come from wealthy families and are smart enough to be engineering students,

You know, like the last would be bomber.

Can we put to rest the myth that it's lack of opportunity and education that creates terrorists? It's blatantly not true.
Seeing if a date is close to the current date with regular expressions = not a good idea.
You sound like a manager.
Myths about blog posts:

Every time you see one bad example of something, you have to write a blog post detailing the related "best practices".
"former Google Inc. executive Lee Kai-fu"

You would think Bloomberg would at least get his name right..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai-Fu_Lee
This also affects big email hosting providers, eg gmx.net.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Jahr-2010-Problem-im-...
as a classical musician, this was inspiring and makes me feel happy :)
Not if it includes digital 'taking back' of goods you thought you owned - when your dealer decides to get out of the market, or change their business plan or you don't want to sign up for their next offering.
Snow Leopard ("0 new features") makes more sense in light of this. They let the engineers concentrate on decreasing the footprint and improving performance, while the UI/design team was pulled off to work on the tablet.
Anytime? Or until your kindle breaks, or Amazon decide to stop offering the service. or your ebook supplier gets bought by a competitor and discontinues your device. Or they decide to introduce a new fee structure that you don't want to pay?

Anybody notice any small print in their contracts where Amazon offer free, eternal downloads of books to any future device
What if the company fails in 6 months? Do note that the visa is one for "Permanent" residence.
We don't make the rules, but we should play by them. In the USA, there is no good outcome to believing, or cooperating with, any police authority at the federal level. Its not a matter of political views, its just the way the system works. Even at the local level, when in doubt, or if their the slightest bit threatening or intimidating, shut up and lawyer up.
Hey, thanks!
It’s Always the End of the World as We Know It
Maven builds are an infinite cycle of despair
Makes sense. I think most of the time your body should know what sleep schedule is best for your health better than you do. I tend to just wait until I feel ready to go to sleep, be it 10PM or 2AM, and get up when I feel well rested.
Maybe it has a charging dock with a vga/dvi/hdmi & audio out to connect to LCD TVs? I'd might buy that!
Since no one else wants to, I'll take a stab.

Meddling. We meddle in other people's affairs (in the Middle East). Iran and the Shah, where we supported a brutal dictator. We give money to many oppressive governments in the Middle East.

Of course, the thing that increase terrorism the most was invading Iraq when Bin Laden was in Afghanistan. The second thing was invading a country (Afghanistan), rather than just sending in a squad to arrest Bin Laden.

We are seen in the Middle East as bullies that only care about oil. This is grist for the mill of terrorism, where we setup ourselves as an easy target.
A very well-written article. Good advice that can be applied to a variety of professions, but somehow especially appropriate for people in IT and social media. :)

While the word "friendship" may have become diluted in this era of social media mouse-clicking, the relationship between people who know and respect each other remains essential. Such friends (be they spouses or colleagues) are not afraid to give each other the straight dope.
Let's hear it for reckless enthusiasm
I have an idea similar to yours: in the far future, software will be ancient, largely bug free, and not be changed much over the centuries. Information management software will evolve to a high degree of utility and then remain static because why change bug free software that works perfectly. Operating systems may be easily themed, but there will be no need to change the core that works and has finally become bug free over centuries of infrequent bug fixes. Think of Asimov's "Spacers" society.

What we think of programming will evolve into using incredible high level scripting languages and frameworks. Programs will be very short.
I brought him up as an example that there are certainly people out there that don't agree with macro evolution and can reason well beyond that of a "grade schooler."

Fair enough. And I brought up the evidence for macroevolution,

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

in relation to the main point of the thread-opening submission, to show that college-educated persons with normal curiosity, reading ability, and access to the Internet should be well convinced that macroevolution is a fact, in the same way that nuclear fission is a fact. Perhaps the problem of someone who doubts macroevolution (as, in fact, I was once taught to do) is not a problem of reasoning ability at all, in agreement with you. (I thought my reasoning ability was just fine, and some forms of school testing including the GRE suggested that it was, before I became convinced by the evidence for macroevolution. But I had a crucial lack of curiosity when I wasn't looking up the evidence

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

to use my reasoning ability to evaluate that evidence.)

Now I'm curious about the puzzling pattern of upvotes and downvotes here. I think the concern about science education expressed in the thread-opening submission would be a general concern of HN participants, and I would think that a comment that posts a link to a source of reliable scientific conclusions in such a thread would not be considered a detriment to the quality of discussion on HN.

Perhaps if origin evolution could come up with scientific theories that are falsifiable, we'd see more refuting research.

Demonstrating my curiosity in what I hope is a friendly way, what kind of theories do you have in mind? What would be a way to falsify a theory (from any point of view) about origin of species?
There are no absolutes. Sometimes early is good. Sometimes not. Next Question?
You hit the nail on the head > first established brand...

An "established brand" did get into the mind first... - you might possibly gain ground on them (eBay) by focusing on a unique segment (Esty) or a host of other ways. Getting established is the hard part - being first is not a guarantee you'll end up being the "established brand". Was Facebook the first social site? And while a strong brand name is great to have - easier to remember and easier to market - its still nothing compared to getting critical mass.

First mover is a huge advantage if you manage to create a new segment and then spend all your time focusing on promoting how great the segment is - and hopefully at the same time gaining critical mass.
Family names come first in Chinese, Japanese and a number of other languages. E.g., Chairman Mao was Mao Zedong, not Zedong Mao.
I'm interested if anyone at HN has good things to say about Maven. I've only scratched the surface of it, but my initial impressions have been:

* slow (even with -o to stop it downloading the internet every time)

* incredibly verbose, in both configuration and output during builds

* inflexible (but I've not really looked into plugins or advanced configuration)

* opaque and thinly documented even for basic needs

I did a fair amount with ant a few years ago and found it a much more pleasant experience. Maven seems to me stereotypical "enterprisey" software: a mediocre, moderately complex solution to an extremely complex problem.
"After filling out their form all I got was an SQL Error. This must be some secret-ops-CIA-type of Company..."

Weird. I filled it out using the same single character for every field and it worked fine. They apparently do zero validation of input.

Anyways, this may be handy:

http://www.highlandsupply.com/PDF/FilmSection.pdf
The reason classical music is less popular among the masses is not that it does not appeal to emotions - a lot of people would argue with that. Half of the story is indeed in the conservative nature of it (my father is a musician and I know how he goes about interpretation of classical compositions, stage appearance and all these rules).

But there's also another half of the story which is simply lack of education in listeners. I only started to listen to different kinds of music (including jazz and classical) after I played an instrument for a year. It takes understanding and practice and since classical music is not really about any social group (like, say, punk-rock or classical rock are to some extent) it's hard for it to get this attention from people seeking for just emotional satisfaction. Over time, when a person gets more musically educated (and I mean doing music, not listening) his emotions require more intellectual sources, which is the structure of the composition (harmony and melody) and skills of the performers. That you can only appreciate when you try something yourself.
The display isn't bright enough.
Being more specific, do you think it will be impossible to buy a public IP address for any price?

If not, then in what sense will it be exhausted?
"The author doesn't. The author says that there will be more middle class women with jobs, but fewer poor women with jobs. He/she wants to help the poor ones."

What about helping men achieve equality with women in the desirable job sectors? What about providing a security net for everyone that falls through the cracks?

"He/she also points out that, while they're in the work force, they make less money, and provides evidence that this is because they take time off to raise children. He/she thinks its a detriment to society overall when a woman, who is equally capable as a man, makes less money just because she has a gap in her resume. That's not inconsistent."

One could make an equally valid point that women, as a class, receive more benefit from having a family. Men, traditionally, spend less time with their families and derive less emotional benefit from them - hence the higher alcoholism rates in men, the higher male suicide rate and the higher tendency towards violence. Of course, there's no great multinational campaign to target men for any affirmative action on these causes, in the vein of the 'equality' laws that can work against them. The article rightly says that positive discrimination tends towards the creation of feelings of resentment; a better solution needs to be found.

I think that the OP was attempting to make the point that, in many (most?) ways in the developed world, women are equal to men, and in some ways they have superior rights. This is causing growing resentment, and pushing for further action while ignoring "men's issues" (it feels absurd just to type that!) will cause further resentment. Take a look at child custody rights for an example.

I wonder what will happen when, across the board, women are acknowledged as having equal rights to men. Will women's issues charities close down, or push for more? I think that there's a growing suspicion that 'equality' means professional talking heads, professional charities that carry out government policy and a push towards superiority that threatens to grow the gap in the (non-traditional) direction.
You can always do it your way on your machine. No one is forcing you to download DRMed content.

The DMCA contradicts you.

DRM protects content by keeping key components encrypted. SaaS protects content by keeping key components server side. They're two technical approaches to achieve the same goal.

Not at all. "Possession is 9/10ths of the law" is a long standing common law principle. The way companies can "own" stuff you have in your possession runs counter to that. Not a good thing, IMO.
Short version: comments must be maintained and take visual room, so don't comment if it's not needed. Making the code self-documenting is usually good, except if it makes the function a lot longer or slower.
Because a brand new body is easier to maintain than a broken-down old one.

To provide a frank example, look at a car.
I hope you are correct. I still boot my MacBook to OS X sometimes, but universal use of Linux in the cloud, private servers, and on the desktop will lead to lowering computing costs and produce more solid software. re: Lisp: that would be nice :-)

re: singularity: a friend and sometimes colleague who is one of the most far thinking and creative AI people I know is likely to move to China because of their willingness to fund long term AI research. I have a gut feeling that Roger Penrose may be correct that conventional computers may be incapable of consciousness but, quantum computing may take care of that.
Damn clever.

I have a small whiteboard that fits in my laptop bag that I've used for sketching out things. I would then photograph the board and use Gimp to clean up the images for long-term saving (if I had something worth saving).

The page-protectors approach is so much more convenient.
Haven't there been some efforts in implementing "database filesystems"? Wasn't this supposed to be a key feature of Windows Vista?
Sounds to me like he's expecting them to have recreated BumpTop (the 3D multitouch UI for Windows) on OS X. It'll be hailed as innovative and revoutionary I'm sure.
It has nothing to do with lack of opportunity or education, that was not my point.

It's exactly that which blinds people to see that there are plenty of other reasons outside of material possessions and education that drives them to become radicalized, that is the root cause of all this.

Dissatisfaction has many roots, not just those that one kind of society values.
Recently I compared Portugal's GDP with the revenue of a couple of companies. A workforce of 5.52 million from a population of 10.71 million produces around $244.64 billion; Microsoft, Apple and Google combined employ around 148 thousand people and have $112.71 billion revenue.

So the point is perhaps that Facebook will make Zuckerberg (where does Zuckerman come from?) wealthy enough to be able to afford a developed yet relatively poor country, some time in the future.

That the example happened to pick Portugal is a funny coincidence (I'm portuguese too). For those who don't know, mocking the country's politics and economy is the all-time favourite national sport here.

(BTW: the source for the numbers was Wikipedia)
Is rule based spam filtering still helpful? Wouldn't a big default spam database + machine learning work much better instead of rules + an empty default spam database + machine learning?
That may be but they don't support my platform of choice so I can't use them.
My adage is: "it's morning somewhere."
It seems like you could easily build a file browser like this on top of the file system. That way you preserve operating system hierarchies while getting all the benefits the article talks about. If you kept a database of tags mapped to files, you could keep every file in the same folder, without suffering from linear search of the directory.

But really I think the author just needs to discover 'locate'...
Interesting that Sun bought what later became the E10K, a huge moneymaker for them, for $50M while SGI bought what they thought were the "crown jewels" for almost 15 times that. SGI is gone, Sun is still around (sort of).
Plus, change take time, even I'd imagine in organisations such as gangs.
Or HR consulting?
Of course it is a personally matter- and I thought I made that clear. You view it as amoral, but the "animal rights" activists view it as immoral, so my argument is that if it is immoral, how is breeding fish, a life, to have certain genes which make it profitable to sell any more moral than cutting up an animal for education. I view that as hypocrisy which I view as disgusting.

(Maybe doesn't apply to you) Secondly- I'm shocked I got down voted for expressing a negative opinion. I doubt I would have been down voted if my opinion was positive. But no matter. It wont stop me from saying my mind.
i agree that life is complicated. but, at the same time, i think there are more similarities than differences in the attacks so far. for example, i understand that engineers are way over-represented amongst bombers. i have no idea what that means, but if it's not some strange statistical fluke then it's evidence that there is some commonality.

and i don't disagree with what you're saying about lunatics jumping on a bandwagon. as far as i'm concerned that's quite possible - but that doesn't mean you can't ask questions about what makes bandwagons work. for example, completely random thought: if the usa became much more of a federation, and emphasised the role of central government much less, then perhaps "america" as a target becomes less attractive (much like people don't try to "attack europe" to anything like the same degree - and when it does happen it's interpreted largely as an attack on american allies).

maybe the above are really stupid ideas. it wouldn't surprise me - i thought of them in 5 minutes. but i am seriously starting to worry that no-one at all is brainstorimg about this where it matters.

another example, that got me a pile of downvotes in another thread, is american funding of israel. the usa pays a huge amount to israel and seems to be getting pretty poor value for money: the us president asks them to do something and they just laugh in his face. again this seems to be entrenched ideas (big government if you like) resisting market forces - wouldn't you get more security per dollar spending that money on better airport screening?

i'm rambling and drifting off topic here, but my more general point is that "america" doesn't seem to be thinking much at all. and i think there should be a lot more thinking - that includes but is in no way limited to the minds of terrorists....

edit: and to put that in perspective, i don't think it's sufficient to just bullshit (as i have done above). spend some money and study the problem. can't some kind of science be used here rather than the "armchair discussions" you mention? this is why i avoided putting forward ideas earlier in this thread - because i don't know the answers. what worries me is people are not looking for answers because they're not even bothering to ask questions, and/or they don't think answers can be found. if as much effort was put into the minds of terrorists as was put into the minds of consumers.... why is selling us crap that we don't need a science, but saving the world just a big debate?