skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't think it was that impressive to be honest.

Skyscrapers were around at the end of the 19th century, we haven't reached 200 livable floors yet (as one of the commenters on that article said), and you certainly don't see "air-ships and carriages fastened to balloons for the transportation of the people through the air, and you will often see collisions in the clouds."

It just seems like a linear prediction based on what was seen during that era.
Would anyone happen to know some of these "facade" drug names? (If anyone here is on meds right now, please don't look at the replies--you might decrease their efficacy!)
Gen X. 90s indie music was pretty defining for us I thought.
I remember using the www at high school, you had to load up trumpet winsock, as windows didn't support tcp natively. This would be about '94 or '95 I believe. It was sort of cool, but at the time I was more into writing games in assembly so I don't think it grabbed me then.

The thing that really blew my mind was in University I got into talkers - chatrooms you visit by telnetting into them. Think the one I used to haunt was "The village". I was just amazed at how cool that was and trying to figure out how the hell it all worked and how you could write a server. I wanted to have my own chatroom. For me that was so much more useful and clever than what at the time were pretty static websites.

Now years later I sort of do with Mibbit ;)
That is advice up with which I will not put.
C is next to ideal for low-level programming. Its many traps and pitfalls are actually advantages in this scenario.
There is a shortage of work in the U.S. And despite the work being redistributed worldwide, the ability to travel to take that work is limited (various and numerous reasons; legal, social, and practical). Another aspect of the fallacy of describing the current world-wide economic system as "free trade".

So, once again, we (this comment is U.S. centric) mortgage our future to pay for the present. This time, our intellectual and productive (as in real things, as opposed to words and paper) future. When we have no products to offer in return, we will be reduced to selling our capital -- the country itself -- in order to pay for the things we need. All the more so as other economies continue to develop both the legal structures and "service sector" workers to do to jobs that we were -- in grotesquely misinformed and/or misleading descriptions -- supposed to retain.

Not to mention that, even if we did retain such work indefinitely, there's not enough of it to go around. Furthermore, not everyone's inclination nor ability lies in being a banker or a lawyer. A society consists of a diverse population; it is morally reprehensible to disenfranchise entire segments via such unsustainable market imbalances.
Would it be possible to get a public RSS-feed of my saved posts (for Friendfeed :) )?
1990, so solidly Gen Y. I remember not having internet access, but I don't remember not having a computer at home. Some of my earliest memories involve playing DOS games.

I think 9/11 is a pretty defining moment. I was in 6th grade that year, so I was old enough to understand what was going on but not old enough to really be interested in politics, so I became politically aware in a world with a war on terror and patriot act.
No way - silent generation. They're so ashamed they're not even talking about it :P.
Hey. I'm at Drupal Camp Chicago right now, we're all using Mibbit to follow the conference via IRC. Thanks for a useful product. http://drupalcampchicago.com/irc
It doesn't surprise me that IE javascript performance is worse. MSoft has incentive to keep it its Javascript engine throttled back. If it gets too fast, then javascript-based web apps will start to perform on-par with their office suite of apps, and then where will they be? ;-)
I was born in 1975, so I've been around the block... if not many times, a few, at least.

My point was that once upon a time, companies and their employees were likelier to stick together through good times and bad. These days the equation has changed: companies are liable to dump you when quarterly profits aren't good, and you're likely to dump a company at the first whiff of something better. That's better in some ways, but I think we've also given up something that may be harder to quantify. For instance, if you're a happy worker and not worried about the next quarter, you can also invest in the company long term, rather than strictly looking out for your own interests, and vice versa, even if there's a bad quarter. Said companies also had time to invest in things like creating Unix, and lots of other R&D that wasn't immediately registered as profitable.

I don't know that I'd be happy like that, and I think that the cream of the crop in today's world oughtn't look to other people's companies as a place to make their mark; still, I think it's something that bears thinking about. Perhaps the pendulum will swing back at some point in the future.
Gabe & Max's Internet Thing
Yes I do but didn't use WWW for a while. Before I used WWW I thought the Mouse was a useless invention and GUI applications were slow and tedious. To be honest I didn't think it would take of in this scale until the WWW. I understood after struggling with my mouse for a while that this thing is great invention, it will be useful for everybody not just developers.
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Unfortunately, profit-sharing didn't improve anything except people were happier (sure! their salaries doubled!). But performance didn't improve. Neither did responsibility, initiative, etc.

In hindsight if I had to do it all over again, I would have tied profit-sharing to improvement in performance above the current baseline, and also had healthy bonuses instead of everyone sharing equally, whether they were coasting or thriving.

Keep in mind this was a company of 85 people, 50 of which were in the warehouse $8/hr pick-pack-ship, 28 were customer service answering emails, and only 6 jobs were "other", such as bizdev, tech, or management.
I have a friend who does general medicine - he says that sometimes they will prescribe a saline nasal spray as placebo.
Dear Sir:

As the primary account-holder of the future which your generation has mortgaged, I would kindly request that you address all future payments to us, directly.

Additionally, it has come to our attention that your account is more than 90 days past due, and we must inform you that if you do not begin making payments immediately, we will be forced to turn over your debt to collections. If you do not respond, your future may be repossessed without further notice.

Sincerely,

Generation X
Would prefer to see some sort of demo that doesn't require signing up. Maybe a interactive demo, simple flash presentation or at least graphical use cases.

Nitpick: big buttons at the bottom don't seem clickable.
Thanks for pointing out my mistakes. I forgot about Google's share of the CPC. Duh. I was also misreading Google's traffic estimator. That exact phrase, "personal development" only receives 14,800 searches per month. Big difference.
Certainly better than what's out there now, but then every generation says exactly the same thing don't they!
'Old People Restored to Youth by Electricity, While You Wait.' Were still working on that one.
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I am sick and god damn tired of ignorant poor people believing there is some leviathan force of rich people out there keeping everyone else down.

I am sick of all these huge numbers being quoted without acknowledging that most of it is tied up in the working capital of major companies.

Sure socialists, tax the hell out the rich in the erroneous belief that they have enough money to support everyone. Watch society fall apart. I'm sure you have a 5 year plan to fix everything.
I find that it takes a combination of tools, the key is a Blackberry and Nagios-

Nagios is a tool to automatically check machines for problems- It's very convenient in that I can highly vary the configuration for each machine- Dev machines might only be checked every 15 minutes, where productions machines might be checked every minute.

I have it parsing a variety of log files, and sending me emails when it finds different errors, or warnings.

The Blackberry is irreplaceable in this context- While I have an iPhone for my home calls and for testing mobile versions of our product, the iPhone mail client is next to useless.

It doesn't have any filtering or searching at all- That's fine for emails to friends, but it's worthless for monitoring.

The Blackberry, on the other hand, allows me to set a filter for certain messages, such as those with "ERROR" in the subject, to be "Level 1" messages, which I can treat differently.

For example, a normal message might vibrate the Blackberry, where as a Level 1 message is set to ring my BB increasingly louder until I manually check and clear it..

This ensures that if I'm sleeping, and we have a site-down-event, it'll wake me up and make me respond, even if I'm rather out of it.

With the iPhone, on the other hand, it's all or nothing.

Ideally, I'd prefer an app using the iPhone's push notification (whenever it arrives), that would allow me to use XML push requests for different alerts.. I could send an XML Warning, Error, or Fatal Error, for instance.

I'd settle for an email client with proper filters on either device, though..

The second point is search- The iPhone doesn't allow me to search through prior emails, which is ironic given the publicity of spotlight on the desktop. With my BB, I can search by day, sender, subject, etc; This is a necessity when trying to understand the context on a discussion.

Third- The BB email is much, much faster. Because it has real push email, I can get messages before they appear on my desktop- This is crucial for alerts. There is no good way to do this on the iPhone, without forwarding all my mail through Yahoo. Zimbra on the server side, connecting to a BES server is a cheap and reliable solution.

So far, I haven't been impressed with ANY terminal applications- The iPhone's screen is too small, and too much space is taken up by the virtual keyboard on these, and the BB doesn't include any useful keys, like pipe or backtick on the default screen. Normally, I use the phones to receive information, and then fire up my laptop + Aircard to fix it.
Remember that this is about teaching students to program and not about producing code for a business on deadline. I learned much more about how to program by doing things myself from scratch than using the relevant libraries. Also, I find learning the low-level stuff much more interesting that memorizing libraries and reading documentation.
Wow. You know, being exposed to this forum at 18 is putting you miles ahead of where I was at your age. Don't take that for granted, take heed to a lot of the advice here, especially from those who have been around the block.
I have not. I used to read the American Prospect to which Reich regularly contributed, but I haven't read that book.
We've opened up parts of the site so that you don't have to be logged in to view it. Some links will need to be added to the front page, but maybe this will satisfy your curiosity for now. http://ivylees.com/associations/IvyLees
Oh, but they did in the 30s.
Great point. Radiolab had a great episode on the placebo effect and how powerful it can be. It's a great listen if you have time:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/05/18
A concert that a few friends went to in high school:

RHCP headlining, and a few other regional (northwest) bands opening: Nirvana, and Pearl Jam. Everyone was quite into RHCP, but weren't so sure that Nirvana was that great.

Me, I was (am) more into Fishbone, who are, incidentally, still a going concern.
Thanks, tyohn. I suppose it depends who ask if we're filling a real need. PR agencies pay hundreds of dollars a year to have access to media databases. Companies pay anywhere from 5-350 dollars to put out news releases to the big newswires. To us, it seemed like both of these needs could be served much cheaper with a tool-based social network.
>>GAP? Pari/GP? Mathematica? Magma?

Are you suggesting these as tools for mathematicians? Now what is supposed to happen? They have to find problems for these tools? It should be the other way around...
I remember the cost, how expensive it was to use the internet; Stories of people living in shacks while putting all their money to pay for the connection. I do miss Netscape navigator.
I think it's impressive. If you read some other predictions and if you're a fan of Sci-Fi, you'll see that this one is actually pretty close for a change.

Try making a linear prediction for 2100 and see how hard it is.
That looks like a great replacement for forklifts to shuffle parts around factories, especially spots where turning space is limited. It looks like it would make path planning a little easier too (for autonomous use).
Windows on Amazon, Day 2
I was not commenting on the way things should be, only on the way they have been.
I am Gen Y (1983), but culturally I feel more at home as 'Gen X'. I worked during the dot-com boom, most of my friends (and with few exceptions, the women I've dated) are late 'Gen X' (1975-1981).
Looks pretty good for something written by a 14 year old. If I had to take a guess when I was 14 at what the world would look a hundred years later I wouldn't even know where to start (I still don't).

Things like air-ships fastened to balloons you have to translate to their modern equivalent -- for example in NY you can take a helicopter shuttle to the airport (to avoid being stuck in horrible traffic).
Gen-X according to those ranges (born in 1973) but I disagree with at least some details of these definitions, if not the entire premise behind labeling "generations."

For example, the Gen-X stereotype would be some lazy, self-centered kid listening to 90's grunge music, while blaming his parents generation for fucking up the world, while wearing a flannel shirt and ridiculously long sideburns.

I feel pretty much nothing in common with that stereotype, fucking hate grunge music, and am far more interested in how we (my "generation" or whoever) can change the world, than in assigning blame to others.
Evaluating search result pages
my two comments would be
1) make the "tools based" either link to a page describing what that means, or find a better way to describe it. I think I know what you are getting at, but I'm not sure most people (non-tech) would.

2)the "Journalism" and "PR - Business" links at the bottom of the page that are somewhat greyed out. They look good in the sense that they don't draw too much attention, but I'd think that the least they should darken when I hover to make it apparent that they can be clicked. The way it looks right now, I'd think that they were greyed-out as in unusable.
I saw that talk back then ... it is a lot easier to follow his writing than his talking.
Can I join and mercilessly spam the heck out of media outlets?

Also, what's the play here? Are the tools supposed to pull people in? Do you have any journo or PR cred behind the project?
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I first started using the internet back in '96. I think I was actually most excited about being able to play Quake online. But getting e-mails was kind of exciting, too -- as an actor in an AOL commercial said, it was like "getting a present".
Ah, the days of the "local" freenet based out of Tallahassee. That was circa 1993-1994 for me. I was 14 in 94. We got our first actual computer with a modem, a Macintosh Performa 635CD. 2400 baud dialup modem.

The first time I connected to an online service was fun. My cousin was over and we had pooled our money($20) to buy the Internet Phone Book. Thick book filled with several thousand websites. It came with a CD that offered dialup access to a company in Portland. Obviously my mom had a problem with long distance fees, so we ditched that before we started.

I had no software to actually do a connection, but my computer came with Clarisworks. Clarisworks actually had a COM program built into it. I got the number for the Tallahassee freenet from my local library. After a lot of trial and error we were able to type in the right modem commands (ADTD... etc) and it dialed up. Woot, we were "online"!

Pretty quickly we figured out about local BBS's. Spent most of 94 and into 95 on those. By this time had upgraded to an actual telnet client. One of the BBS's also offered dialup PPP access. Finally got that working in late 94 and was on the Internet itself finally. My cd from the Internet Phone Book had a copy of Mosaic 1.0, so I installed that. Then we loaded our first webpage. Forget what it was, but it took forevvvvver to load.

Spent a lot of time over the next couple years on BBS's, then MUDs, and a LOT of time on IRC. As I upgraded modems over the next couple years access got a bit faster. GlobalVillage modems FTW! My first exposure to firmware was when my 28.8k GV modem was upgradable to 33.6 via a software update. Talk about me being a newb and having no idea how software could update hardware. =)
Make sure this gets posted to Reddit, they need more political spam too!
Y here. I'd say that it was for me too.
"This should infuriate the informed investor because it
means that Apple is quite literally trading on P/E ratios
that do not reflect more than half of its business."

Yawn. No, it should -excite- informed investors because there's a tremendous opportunity to buy really cheap Apple stock from uninformed investors who don't know Apple's true earnings.

Unless, of course, the world economy collapses and demand for expensive consumer goods dries up.
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I remember when it was conspicuous when a corporation included their website addy in a commercial or in print or on the radio... now it is commonplace.

Cheers
For learning all the crazy and bad things you can do with programming languages, C++ can't be beat.
Give us something casual. Bug tracking need not be painful.
That would have been about 1991. The web did not exist, or at least I wasn't aware of it, and for me the internet = Usenet. I printed out copies of something called The Terrorist's Handbook ( http://www.capricorn.org/~akira/home/terror.html ) and sold it for $5 at school (and in 1991, this was perfectly acceptable behavior. It didn't even occur to me that I could get in trouble for this). Mostly I read stuff like this on alt.tasteless:
http://www.tocotox.net/bedtime/smut/beaver-and-mr-ed.html
(Warning - do not click on that link)

But the internet didn't really make a big impression on me until I saw NCSA Mosaic (precursor to Netscape) on a Sun workstation a few years later. I knew the web would be huge.
Generation Y here. I wrote some ideas that we stand by earlier this year: thought, action, stimulation and freedom - http://datainsightsideas.com/post/35037689
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Now that you've "opened up parts of the site" and I played around - I think it makes a lot more sense to me. If you can gain some critical mass it just might work. Good luck!
Generation Y. Born and lived in a small South Asian country for 19 years. In the US for the last 3 years pursuing undergrad CS degree in a not so popular university with a decent CS program. Not gone back home since I arrived in the US.
Starting to really grok Lisp with Brian Harvey's lectures at Berkeley.
I'm on the fourth lecture, higher order expressions, part 2 (lambda, ycombinator, etc) Thus far, I like it, I really like it. Anything else of this quality for sophomore or (looking ahead) or junior level CompSci? Also, anyone know if Anarki is stable on PLT Scheme 4.1.1? I installed 3.5.2 for arc, but I think I'm better of learning scheme as a beginner.
I remember it was a lot of fun. My friends and I were geeks and we had these RPG clubs, where we pretend fight in AOL chat rooms.

It was like D&D, we all had a certain amount of health and used dice rolls to attack.

Someone even made a whole program out of it based on Final Fantasy, that kept track of health and automatically did dice rolls for you. It even had great music clips to go along with it.

Oh man, those were great days. Making fan sites of Final Fantasy and other games just for fun.

I'm glad my girlfriend doesn't read hacker news or she'd dump me.
9 Things You Should Do Instead of Buying Stocks
Advice by a cartoonist (Scott Adams) on 9 steps to take to generate and protect wealth. Very timely.
Huh, I always considered Gen-Xers to be have been born no later than the mid 70s, or so.
At least this 14-year-old writes better than the 17-year-olds of today.
Indeed, sustainability is the new trend. However, recently I came across a random blog comment that noted that 19th century buildings were far more energy efficient:

But look at lower Manhattan and all the traditional pre-war New York skyscrapers . . . in fact, look at any great pre-war building . . . they are all 10x more energy efficient than any modernist structure.

They tended to have thick masonary walls and windows that opened. (That's why people had paperweights). They were also more slender and indented than the sheer glass slabs that the "less is more" crowd have forced on us.

Traditionalists like Ernest Flagg and Sanford White were building for natural ventilation and energy conservation because there was no alternative. And they managed to solve this problem with soul-soaring art that was funtional and profitable.

Thom Mayne is attempting to invent something that had already been perfected generations ago but discarded in the name of "progress." But isn't that so often the case. If he weren't so self-absorbed he might have learned something from his elders.

Source: http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/2007/03/san_francisco_d.h...
I wonder if incorporating TipJoy into HN as a karma alternative would increase the quality of comments.
Ah, gopher, newsgroups, and muds....
In Seth's own words, his job to remind people of what they already know. Even if you don't like it, I don't see why it's so hard to see the value of such a service.
Playing around with it now and so far:

1. Love the design. Simple, clean, effective.

2. The "tools" sections need to be much more apparent. This is in theory the main purpose of the site.

3. 140 characters is hot as Hansel right now, but there's no way someone can pitch me effectively in 140. I think that needs to be upped significantly.

4. I'd like the homepage to be more of a personal dashboard. History of direct contact, recommendations of new releases that fall in line with my "public collections" (I don't like that terminology, 'groups' maybe?), etc.

I focused on the negative because those are the areas I think need the most work, but overall I think you're off to an awesome start. I could see this becoming very usable for me - ie, button on my blog and a note that I will only consider pitches delivered via Ivylees. Man, that sure would help my inbox...
I'm always weary of when advocacy organizations make up terms and apparently expect others to adopt them as if they were official designations, like the FSF's use of DRM to instead refer to "Digital Restrictions Management".
Fund your 401(k) to the maximum.
Fund your IRA to the maximum.

How is this not buying stocks? Is he suggesting putting all this money in a savings account paying 3% interest?
sounds like entitlement to me.
'81 is gen x? Didn't know that...
Irony is 68-point font telling you to "whisper, don't shout"
The design is nice, the opened page is very facebook like I don’t think it has to be, use your talent to stick to your originality.

I don’t know much about journalism and PR work but I will suggest you find a way to source your content from other sources in other to attract users don’t count much on user-defined content, I get this from watching a friend of mine struggle with his content driven social site.

I must give you guys an A for your design, I have not tested it usage (will do so when I have a minute) but I will strongly suggest to make some content visible without sign-on. Sign-on-before-you-see scenario can be a turnoff for most people.