skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR - By 2012 we'll have moon bases and missions to Mars if AIDS doesn't wipe us out first.

They really had high hopes for space exploration. Shame that never happened. :(

EDIT: Oh this was a good one (thankfully not at all accurate):

"TIM POWERS: Probate and copyright law will be entirely restructured by 2012 because people will be frozen at death, and there will be electronic means of consulting them. Many attorneys will specialize in advocacy for the dead."
Next up: Humble Standup Comedy Bundle with Lewis CK, Jim Gaffigan and others..
Because it's terribly obvious.
my at&t dsl 3mb down/760kb up costs me 24/mo, and that's because i wasted a lot of time researching how to get it without the extra 12/mo for a land line. (there's a secret phone number)

300/24 = 12.something... so if I paid upfront one year, i'd have 7 years of free internet... sounds like a hell of a good deal to me.

not to mention that at&t goes offline for 1~10min every day around 3pm and 10pm. oh yes, and i'm in a huge metropolitan area near L.A. and that's the only option i will have here.
Whenever I read about these things, the words "milking machine" come to mind. Get enough cows in the barn and turn 'em on.
But it's a pie chart! Pie charts are evil! :)

http://www.quora.com/How-and-why-are-pie-charts-considered-e...
The deal hasn't closed as of Facebook's investor's call today
Automated organic grocery shopping
Gregory Benford's notes are perhaps the most interesting, given his present position on the board of Genescient - a company that mines the genetics of longevity:

http://www.genescient.com/about/board-of-directors/#gbenford

Interesting for the pessimism, that is. Every age and sub-age and decade and year, and so on down, has its seeping pessimism - yet here we are, still.

Humans are good at foreseeing, identifying, and solving problems. Yet despite the vast evidence of that trait at work in our history, recent and otherwise, our capacity for progress and success is greatly underrated in every present day in comparison to our capacity to build problems.
> Replace Japan with China and he's spot on.

...except for the prosperous and peaceful part, right? And oh yeah...everything else?

I think you will find yourself just as wrong about China as Glashow was about Japan.
Dude - I think you're awesome... and I am here to learn as much as I can!
"works on linux...... whatever that is" about halfway through and then at the end "it even works on linux (person has a wtf look on his face)"
Some of these are very salient (Pohl), and some not so.

Brilliant points (Orson Scott Card):

> We must count ourselves lucky if anyone has leisure enough in 2012 to open this time capsule and care what is inside. In 2012 Americans will see the collapse of Imperial America, the Pax Americana, as having ended with our loss of national will and national selflessness in the 1970s. Worldwide economic collapse will have cost America its dominant world role; but it will not result in Russian hegemony; their economy is too dependent on the world economy to maintain an irresistible military force. ...

And this one by Roger Zelazny, pretty spot on until...

> It is good to see that a cashless, checkless society has just about come to pass, that automation has transformed offices and robotics manufacturing in mainly beneficial ways, including telecommuting, that defense spending has finally slowed for a few of the right reasons,

I stopped reading at "defense spending has finally slowed"... no one could have predicted George W. Bush I guess

This one is almost completely opposite:

>Multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease will be effectively cured. However, AIDS will not yet have been controlled. It will have become the leading cause of death worldwide with millions of new cases each year.
> surely there must be a better way

http://www.spark-project.org/
I actually don't mind reading - all the books on the list I created I've read.
Dotcom tells Ars: industry stats vindicate Mega's takedown policy
Why do you need a college class to learn about liberal arts? I see way too many peers doing nothing with their time - if I saw more students actually pursuing something productive, I may have a different outlook.
Step out of your box. And show some respect.
Fears of War, Population Explosion, American Decline, and Japanese Ascension with some anti-Reagan sentiment mixed in. Pretty much a lesson in what pop-culture fear look like in 1987, and every one of them turned out to be a non-issue.

This ought to give one pause and great skepticism when evaluating today's pop-culture fears. Of course, just because an idiot picks (c) on an SAT question doesn't mean it's wrong.
I think you meant HDCP. DHCP is something else entirely.
I would advise a mix of both strategies. Auto-generated content can allow you to test a large number of keywords/niches, and you can go to town creating better versions by hand once something has proven itself to actually be worth the effort.
Outside of the US, demand from China is mostly seen as a kind of saviour, bringing with it huge economic development, e.g. especially in Africa, Brazil and Australia.
http://deductivepolitics.com/ Not making any money off of it, just an experiment I'm doing. I try to predict who people will vote for in November based on Facebook likes.
How so? I thought they were doing a decent job of developing the product, and wanted to support a for-profit business. In many ways, they made APIs sexy. It's just a shame that they've become a monster.
This looks more or less (maybe not all the business books) like 50% of what I would expect a strong, motivated undergraduate to do in their free time, on top of normal coursework.
I support this message as a Marketing/Finance major turned software engineer.
One of the artists in the video was explaining how the bundle works / what it is and said basically that it was available to mac and pc users, then: "and linux...whatever that is..." and then there was something at the end (blooper?) of him mentioning no need for steam codes and that it was "linux compatible" with a confused expression and then getting up and walking away.

It didn't seem like it was insulting linux (or its users) to me, either the artist was reading from a script and really didn't know what linux was, or it was just a mild joke playing off the fact that your average person doesn't. Seemed fairly harmless to me, and linux users are overrepresented in the humble bundle so the context (if it was a joke) is probably appropriate here anyway.
Probably worth noting, since a few stories have left this out: The phones labelled "Sony" aren't actually Sony designs or devices. They're fully apple designed, most likely using the brief of "what would sony do here."

It's being brought to court as evidence because it could be used to indicate that Apple appropriated design inspiration from Sony. (Such as the clie.)

It's interesting to see this being brought up as evidence, because if you were to remove the Sony logo it doesn't actually convey much of a Sony 'feel' at all.
He was making a joke about misreading 'pom.xml' as 'porn.xml' (all caps: 'POM.XML', 'PORN.XML'). I guess the issue works both ways for those more used to seeing maven projects than pornography!
Google Ed: online degrees accredited by Google without the $100k+ burden when you're done. Yes?
What's your definition of being productive? Do you think that spending time reading 'The Four Hour Work Week' when you haven't had a job is time well spent? I don't think reading dozens of startup books is particularly more productive than, say, anything.
Looks neat, but I don't see that it is open source.
Before I log in, can you explain the service a bit more?
For the most part I agree, but experience with broadband differs greatly depending on what area you happen to live. Even within the same company like Comcast, broadband in one state can be great and one state over can be horrible.

Cell companies on the other hand are basically crooks. Every other month I get 'services' added to my bill that should only get added if I respond to a spam text. Of course I never respond to the text, but somehow "Fact of the Day" for $9.99/month keeps getting added to my bill no matter how many times I call I tell them I will never subscribe to this so stop letting them attempt to fraud me. After a little research it turns out that the cell company can get 30%-40% of the subscription fees on these bogus services. So, of course they turn a blind eye on what isn't much better than stealing through fraud.
I've used gengo.com, icanlocalize.com, and also random sources - sometimes users help, our head of support speaks French, and our intern speaks Mandarin.
I would remark that a lot of business books are badly written. There are excellent ones, I'm sure. But a lot of the ones that make noise in the press do not age well.

You are correct to insist that the student write frequently about what he or she has learned. That it is on a blog seems irrelevant to me. You do well to mention reading one unrelated book per month. A lot of college students, and for that matter a lot of persons in middle age who think of themselves as literate and up with matters, do not read that much. I'd want to see some guidance on the reading. Also, I think that language study should be all four years. One year of a language doesn't get you very far. (Unless perhaps you're a native Spanish speaker learning Portuguese or German speaker learning Dutch, or etc.)

And I am not much impressed with talk of "personal branding" for anyone, let alone college students. Are you acquainted with the definition of "Rhodes Scholar" as "a man with a great future behind him"?
I dunno, I feel the opposite. I think that buying something just to "support" it is all fine and dandy if you want to give them money, but it creates inaccurate expectations of long term idea viability. If 100 people purchase something because they like the idea and only 5 purchase because they want the product the next time it happens and that desire to validate the idea isn't there it will flop.

There is a limit on the amount of times something can succeed based on good will, eventually it has to meet a need or provide value.

The Humble Bundle is already a very powerful brand, this will succeed without the need for good will, although I do think "good will" purchases are a noticeable portion of Humble Bundle sales, but not a significant amount.
We launched our second startup today
We would love to get some opinions or suggestions about our product, because we cant rely on friends to judge from their biased opinions. Link: http://peoplepointnetworks.com/
it's a joke based on the fact that the guy in the video is a music artist so he acts like he doesn't know what linux is.

he talks like he tried to learn what to say from previous hibundles ('no steam codes'). just a joke. kind of funny too.
Was Ma Bell's support actually bad?

The current company called AT&T obviously has appalling support, but I'm not old enough to have dealt with its previous incarnation.
BinaryJS, Streaming realtime binary data to your web browser
Engineer @ Simple here. Don't psych yourself out. Before I applied I figured I wouldn't even get a call. I was some rando from the midwest without much on Github and very little internet presence. I figured the worst thing that would happen is that I would get interviewed and they'd just pass. If that's all you're risking, you're not risking much. As it turns out, the team and I clicked and I've spent the best working year of my life cranking on this. I look forward to many more years of the same.

Worst we can do is say 'no'.
https://www.simple.com/careers/
Improving the landing page is high on the list of priorities. Have an incredible designer onboard now, so look for improvements and a ShowHN soon :) Non-FB login will come at that time as well.

Essentially, It lets you share a virtual business card via email or SMS (see: http://callmemae.be/nb). Essentially it was created because I can never remember my cards when I go to events, but always have my phone.

Some of the features I'm in the process of writing are:

* Bump two phones together to exchange contact info (all JS/HTML5)
* Share contact info with an entire group at once
* Customize your card background and choose your own fields
* Analytics surrounding sharing (who's opened your card, clicked the mailto:, etc...)
'Advanced Pimpin' on Facebook Derails Woman's Legal Case
I was thinking the same thing about the business books. Years of college wasted on a business book a week? As someone who has read hundreds of them, there aren't that many secrets in them. Books on psychology, mathematics, economics, design, sociology and other topics are much more important than most tomes in the business section of the library. Read the true core subjects first, then you'll know enough to sort the real business books from the BS.
I think the naming might have yet another effect: Customers now feel an association to one of the tiers. For a studio customer to buy the 'freelancer' tier might feel unprofessional / dishonoring. I'd like to know how much effect just the naming alone has vs. the price / feature changes.
It's interesting that you point that out (especially out of the thirty or so books on the list). 50% of that book is fluff, yet there are very important points mixed in (i.e. - checking email a few times a week, specific tools to save time, etc).
But why did you come to the conclusion that only possible problem was that she absolutely must not have been on the guest list, when the entire point of the post was that Yelp was excluding people based solely on their name?

I am genuinely curious.
OK, so what about auto-generating pages that you intend to rank for organic search, NOT to advertise in Adwords? Do you think this should never be done? Or are there scenarios where it's gray-hat, but you figure it's safe to do?
Yes, so now how do I get people to sign up?
This is a huge step forward for the javascript community. Having _real_ binary communication for WebGL games, media streaming, data analysis, etc etc is going to be huge.

Can't wait to see what people do with this.
How do you get that message in front of potential subscribers, besides advertising?
Most of the time, if people want to physically hurt you, you're either doing something really bad, or really good. I don't think Yelp falls into the "really good" category.
My elementary school included a class that put a time capsule together during the 1968-1969 school year, with pupil predictions of the year 2001. In the year 2001, the time capsule was opened up. We were quite concerned about air pollution and, wouldn't you know, running out of petroleum, and both turned out to be less of a problem than we anticipated. I expected more progress in the United States in "race" relations than there actually has been, but it is a fact that the United States is experiencing an ongoing reduction of "race" consciousness that is hard to imagine to people who remember the days of legal segregation by state law.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/14635780-post3.html

I was interested to see that another page on the site hosting the submitted article has a description of the late L. Ron Hubbard

http://www.writersofthefuture.com/lrhbio

that perhaps needs some fact-checking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard

http://www.villagevoice.com/related/to/L.+Ron+Hubbard/

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/07/25/bay-area-great-g...
I find this syllabus overly specific. I appreciate the pillar of "Application" but it is too applied. Any one of a hundred things can invalidate this curriculum.

The industry could switch from Rails to some non-MVC model. Facebook and Twitter could turn out to be fads and Internet marketing moves onto another platform. Lean Startup could be replaced with some other methodology and all the Mixergy wisdom is rendered useless.

An education should teach you something more fundamental than the flavor of the month in the fields that you care about.
Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. Good point about learning a language - my initial thought was to learn one while traveling in a foreign country.
> If you can't take an hour out of each day... you're doing it wrong.

So if you work a nine-hour day, take 3-hour evening classes to advance your career, get the required 8 hours of sleep a night, commute for 2 hours, spend 1 hour with your family, and then another hour for showering, dressing, breakfast, etc., you're doing it wrong?

I think a lot of people don't have an extra hour every day to spare. Your attitude is awfully condescending.
I can't wait to see a real, scalable game on the full javascript stack: webgl/html5 graphics , node.js / binary.js backend, and a mongodb database.
> Why would you want to use plain old "grep" instead of "ack"?

1. Because all the cool kids are doing it.

2. Because I hate Perl.
Don't call to_sym on untrusted input!
I like reading too, but I think I've managed to ingest close to my lifetime limit of business books. The good ones are rare. The bad ones can be replaced just as effectively by a few short blog entries.
I wish monitor arms could come down in price with them. Its crazy that some of the arms cost as much as the monitor themselves.
How exactly did they go about proving that it continues to glide forever, despite the lack of periodicity? Is there some finite combination of subsequent tile groups in aperiodic tilings, such that you just have to show that all of them involve a transition another part of the glider cycle?
I had one TN display that got unpleasantly dim along the edges when viewed a bit off angle. I could never find a position for that monitor where I could go from sitting straight to slouching without some one of those positions resulting in dim edges.

But, aside from that one bad example, if the text is crisp and there a plenty of pixels, then it is probably good enough for programming and text editing.

Many programmers also do web design, photograph, games, or other tasks that benefit from a better display though.
Cybersecurity Bill Inches Closer to Passing
When I was a kid I bought a paperback copy of The People's Almanac: The Book of Predictions[1]. The book is mostly wacky, but over the decades I would thumb through it from time to time and catch something that someone got right, although mostly by accident. The psychics that were interviewed were way off. The scientists? They did a lot better. It's a fun read if you can find a copy.

[1] (http://books.google.com/books/about/The_People_s_Almanac_Pre...)
why is this still a 4 year education? people don't (shouldn't?) stop educating themselves after they turn 22
I find it rather gratifying - even comforting - that by and large their predictions missed the mark by a wide margin.

Predictions are the product of your current experience - your time until now. Many brilliant people try and predict the future, but in the end the future is up to us.
I see the charity thing is an interesting angle, but otherwise I'm not sure what the difference is between this and e.g. bandcamp.
> There is pretty much no decent scripting language available on Windows

Hmm, how about JScript? All excel files can be manipulated via COM.
Can't get to the video at the moment, but was the comment from Frontalot or Coulton? If it's the case it's likely it was very tongue in cheek, given (particularly in Frontalot's case) they're both probably quite familiar with the OS.
>at a price point that doesn't really seem any better.

$70/mo for gigabit speeds and a terabyte of cloud storage and a wifi router? Or a one time installation fee for free internet comparable to what people are paying $50/mo for now?

Can you direct me to the pricing for the companies that are doing anything close to this? Really, I'd love to see it.
Currently, the only thing comparable is Verizon FiOS at 300mbs for over $200/mo. http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/google-fiber-launches-in-ka...

This is the very definition of disruption.
> Except that its illegal to offer online real money gambling in the US

They are only offering gambling where it's legal, so the UK and other places like that.
Do you realize that all your "poor third world kids" are asian/brown/black and the donors/buyers are white? Maybe there is some correspondence with reality, but this just reinforces the streotype IMO.
Incidentally, it's Louis CK. I point it out because you spelled it like it's spelled rather than like it sounds ("Louie"), which is an extremely atypical spelling mistake :)
Most Americans are barely literate, think in images rather than symbols, and think the future is something that will happen to somebody else…

Right on the money.
I think if there was too much of this anywhere my neck would get a major kink in it. The specific font choice didn't help.

It's cool that this is _possible_ however, just not so cool for accessibility, or readability.
Video or audio chat? Why? You need the new media stream components to get a usable stream for those anyway, and if you have that, you might as well use PeerConnection.
What if they refused to let her in because she was black?

Here they are practically claiming she is a terrorist. The principle is the same.

By sending her out you validate their discrimination, which is based on falsehoods and lies.
Very nice! Could you explain a bit about the choice to go with BinaryPack, specifically what is wrong with sending ArrayBuffers over the wire?
Group-think and reality tunnels apparent throughout.

If someone thinks we aren't doing the same thing, they're insane.
Deviantart-photos
Art - community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry / prose. Art prints.
WOW! what a great news!
I hope Google keep this job quicken in another country.
We here in Taiwan need a REAL FAST Internet!
The Price Difference Between Book and Kindle Prices on Amazon
Oh wow. rb_intern() is a mess.
Meet 'Rakshasa,' The Malware Infection Designed To Be Undetectable And Incurable
Rodriguez - he had a continent full of fans and he did not know, for years.
College is an upper-middle-class luxury. Most job-seekers don't even have that piece of paper, so they'll have an even more difficult time finding work.
I felt that it'd be helpful to allow people to send any JSON type rather than just binary data. You can actually write Javascript objects, arrays, strings, and numbers to any stream or stream metadata in addition to binary. By using it as part of wire protocol it only adds exactly one byte to each message, so why not.
A Modest Proposal: Recruit The Hackers
Wishfully perhaps, my right brain read the title as "The Human Music Bubble" before issuing the signal to my left hand to click...
I've been thinking of going the 19/30/19 route, but I've had a hard time finding an affordable mount that converts that scheme into something I can mount on a single monitor arm.

I'm signed up for a metalworking class in the near future, so maybe I can solve that problem myself :)
Please state what criteria you use for banning people.
Go is boring
Facebook Like Button + Privacy = Solved.
Great post. One thing that wasn't clear to me - how did your pricing changes affect existing customers?

Did former "basic" accounts get automatically changed to "Freelancer" and start getting billed the extra $10 the next month? If so, how did you handle notifying users and was there much complaint about the change?