skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The American economy will have experienced a gentle yet relentless decline. Our children will not live such comfortable lives as we do. The spread between the rich and the poor will have grown, and crime will have become so prevalent as to threaten the social fabric. The rich and the poor will form 2 armed camps. Most automobiles and heavy machinery will be manufactured in Japanese owned planets located in America. Yet, agriculture and higher education will be our most successful exports. There will be no fast trains connecting American cities, but a network of levitated superconducting trains will be under construction in Western Europe and in Japan." - Sheldon Glashow

This was the most stunning part of the predictions as it's far more negative than what truly is the case, yet points to many truths and is what many could say about the next 25 years.
It was definitely a joke :) - Jeff from Humble Bundle
I was simply trying to model a standard 4 year college education.
Watch the cyan tile carefully in the animation. It always propagates to adjacent rhombi across edges, all of which are parallel.
Amazon Net Income Plunges 96%, Shares Follow
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Zelazny did get ebooks right though.
Don't believe the hype. The rich avoid taxes by not selling shares. Instead they take out loans out against their shares.

"But how much income tax will Mr. Zuckerberg pay on the rest of his stock that he won’t immediately sell? He need not pay any. Instead, he can simply use his stock as collateral to borrow against his tremendous wealth and avoid all tax. That’s what Lawrence J. Ellison, the chief executive of Oracle, did. He reportedly borrowed more than a billion dollars against his Oracle shares and bought one of the most expensive yachts in the world.

If Mr. Zuckerberg never sells his shares, he can avoid all income tax and then, on his death, pass on his shares to his heirs. When they sell them, they will be taxed only on any appreciation in value since his death."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/opinion/the-zuckerberg-tax...
I guess it can be called into question as to whether these came directly from Apple's supply, but it is indeed the same panel. Several people have taken the monitors apart and taken pictures and it's the same LG panel as the Apply cinema display that has the same resolution. I can't find the threads now, but they are somewhere over in the monitor section of overcocker's forum.
Coleman says that her contact with hackers indicates that they would not want to work with a government that encroaches on online privacy.

Other data -- such as the readiness of the Maker and hackerspace communities to accept DARPA funding -- suggest the opposite.
I do not think much will change, but if your site/app has heavy API usage you will likely need to pay a commercial fee for API consumption. If this happens it wont be for a while and I wouldn't worry because if they ask you to pay a fee your site/app is probably seeing serious traction. ;)
As I mentioned in my post, this is what I wish I personally learned. I probably should have been more clear...
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I've always thought that Copy / Cut was a poor metaphor. The metaphors are so awful that I almost never used GUI filesystem manipulation until the mid-2000's, doing everything through the command line. I still usually use the command line.

Okay, I want to move files from point A to point B. What you're supposed to use is "cut" and "paste". If I use "cut" in a text editor, the text is gone until pasted. What if I do a "cut" on files? Are they deleted? Are they put in some super-invisible temporary trash bin? Or does the OS actually do nothing until you "paste" them? Do they have the same clipboard as copied text, or a different one? If you do a "cut" on files in folder A, followed by a "paste" in folder B, followed by another "paste" in folder C, what's the result? How do cut/copy interact with shortcuts, junction points, hardlinks, or symlinks? What are the subtle semantic incompatibilities in these metaphors across different versions of Windows, PC, Mac, Gnome, KDE, etc.?

Using the GUI is a crapshoot in terms of whether what actually happens will match my intent, and I'm an expert; I can scarcely imagine what a n00b's experience must feel like. You can do things much more precisely with command-line mv, cp or xcopy, find | xargs, or writing a simple Python script with os.walk(). About the only thing I use the GUI to do is select a large number of randomly distributed files from a directory.

"Trash" is also confusing, because things don't end up there consistently. If you cut things, they don't; if you delete them from the GUI they do. If you delete things from the command line, they don't. If the things are on a removable device, the Trash doesn't get them. If you delete things within an application, who knows what happens? It depends on whether the app is coded to use whatever API routes stuff to the Trash.
Hmm, the AMZN after hours trading shows them to be UP after this news. This headline seems to be verifiably false.
Why speculate when we can race?
Doom! Gloom! Disaster Just Around The Corner!

How depressing. Not just the worlds they paint, but that some of the brightest minds were (and are) trapped into such a negative way of looking at the future.
good old hacker news. Hey, someone is doing something cool... for me to poop on.
Someone I know who lost a significant amount of weight told me that his best source of motivation was measuring his weight every day and plotting it.
What's interesting to me is how some made assumptions that didn't turn out to be true but got much correct anyway.

Algis Budrys stands out in particular.
You're more right than you know. Many people thought that Japan was going to be the global economic hegemon. This was based entirely on the pace of their economic growth over about two decades combined with some odd quirks of international finance. But as it turned out that prediction was off, by a lot. Today Japan is still strong but their economy is troubled and nobody thinks that they are poised to control the world. And now we see people making similar predictions about China. Again based on a short period of economic growth combined with some odd quirks of international finance. But it's no more true this time than last. China has some very fundamental, deep seated flaws in its governance, society, economy, and industry. And it's likely that those flaws will become more apparent and become more of a drag on Chinese economic growth as the country gets wealthier and more modern.
I don't think anyone's talking about kiboshing at this point, we're at the earlier stage trying to justify future kiboshing.

Remember that the original discussion here is over whether large government institutions are beneficial to the public or not in the long run.

What tide of public opinion is changing where the editor of the Wall Street Journal feels he needs to write an editorial literally changing the history of the internet to convince people that large institutions were NOT involved in this information age and subsequent economic boom?
Writers Of The Future is a Hubbard thing. He originated it. So it's not surprising it has a more favorable view of him than other sources...
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I would've expected the ebooks to be cheaper. They don't require physical manufacturing, packaging or home delivery. They probably do incur Amazon a persistent charge in the form of keeping them stored in their servers and keeping track of who bought which book, so the buyers can re-download their books. They could very well expire the re-download for a purchase after a certain amount of time. But it is possible, the lifelong storage of the digital books management of their ownership, downoads etc. make an ebook more expensive for Amazon.
This is wonderful. Their confident pessimism brightens my day :)
"Every single time I called any of these three companies, I had to sit and listen to elevator music for 3 to 30 minutes. Every individual rep starts over from the beginning, asking you your "first and last name please", as if they had no CRM, no DB, no internal communication whatsover."

While this is a valid complaint, I hardly expect Google's "disruption" will result in anything except even _worse_ customer communication. I can just imagine Google expecting people to be perfectly OK with getting billing/service problems resolved on a crowdsourced community forum…
If local dependency resolution is your thing you can tell maven to use a local repository. it has the concept of multiple places to look for things, I normally set it to use my local cache first then go out to servers as it needs to.

Its a little bit to wrap your head around to get started with maven. The first time I had to write a pom.xml file I almost burnt down my house. However SBT came along and fixed that problem. The only problem I have with maven now is that there is no way to tell it to make a single binary without a plugin.
Yelp is not in the personnel security business, so I don't think they really care what you think about the security policy of their building (which is most likely supplied by a third party contractor anyway, as is the case in my building, and most others).

What it really comes down to if you don't like their policy, don't host your meetup there.
I just want to say what an excellent explanation that was.
It is great, but never can use it.
Looks fascinating, but I can't get to page 2 :(
Sorry, neither of those, but thanks.
I'm sure that Patrick didn't "invent" email marketing, SEO or A/B testing, nor it was my intention to undermine the contributions of all the people involved in the field. I myself have an academic background in most of what is now called "Data Science", so I kind of understand how some areas of knowledge, already applied in industry, can be "rediscovered" and "rebranded" giving the impresion of a "new field"

Maybie I should have been more specific. I meant the influence in the HN microcosm, which sometimes seems to work as a "collective unconscious". Of course this is all gut feeling and maybie I shouldn't had brought it up, but I do get the impresion that either Patrick "gets" some upcoming "trends" beforehand and applies/writes about them in his blog, or he triggers the trends himself (the popularity of HN is no secret).
I actually like when people focus on the case and don't pollute their manuals with such things. If you don't know how to, it's information you can easily obtain elsewhere and you probably got some homework to do anyway.
Thanks for taking the time to read and comment, I'll reply here as well!

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I expected them to be cheaper as well.

However, the cost of storing the books is probably close to nil - Amazon has leagues of servers at their control, I doubt a book that's a couple hundred kbs would create a storage issue.

And, as I found out in my last post, it's actually the publishers who set the prices. They take Amazon's 30% into account, and then some.
I'd love to read about this from about anyone but Forbes. There are too many errors to count.
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looks like the stock tanked initially but has recovered since.

Refer to chart: http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/amzn
Being a Professional
This reminds of the recent Game Music Bundle:
http://gamemusicbundle.com/

The difference is that bundle had a ton of albums whereas here it's only a handful. I expected also to see a more game-centric flavour to the soundtracks -- considering the pedigree of the Humble Bundle -- instead of stuff like They Might be Giants.
Onanism and child sexual abuse: A comparative study of two hypotheses
Is it just me or does it seem like everyone's stack is moving away from Rails? I mean, it's a great solution to many problems, I just feel that there's a lot more platforms that offer you even better customization and leave a far smaller footprint.
Being South Asian myself, I can strongly say that is purely a coincidence. Good observation though, I didn't catch that myself.
Sayonara India - impossible govt and tax regime
is the badness in st_lookup or rb_enc_str_new ? I haven't traced the execution deep enough to see where things go south...
Lojban - a human language that computers easily understand
>It's funny , for years Apple were all like "Macs can't get viruses!" now they're saying "we need app store lock in too prevent malware!".

Yeah, it's funny because:

1) Apple never said that explicitly.

2) It was (and still is true), i.e not that Macs could not technically get viruses, but that they had got no viruses, with the exception of some lame trojans. In all, a minuscule number of OS X Macs were ever affected by anything in the last 12 years, and even those clicked and installed it themselves.

3) All other naysayers, ignoring the practical lack of any real viruses on the platform, pushed for more protection and security measures.
I pressed further, and they informed me that she could not be let in because she was an "undisclosed security risk."

Y'know, it might just be some poorly-paid security drone reading blindly from some poorly articulated status message on some crappy security desk app.

So instead of something tactful and polite like "Not on the guest list", the applicable field got set to NULL, which bubbled up as "Reason: Unknown".
Writing a program that analyzes traditional Scottish music and composes new tunes in the same style. Right now I'm in the careful planning phase--reading up on LSTM recurrent neural networks and such, but I should be able to start coding shortly (at the very least I can do all the software engineering parts while I figure out what the best algorithm to use is).

I'm not deluding myself about its long-term non-profitability...I'm just doing it because I find it fascinating. At least there's no hosting cost--I already have a laptop running SBCL and Emacs, which is all I need.
Is this the same L. Ron Hubbard of Scientology fame ?
This is my only concern with Google taking the reigns as a ISP. Though perhaps with this they offer additional calling support, I wonder if anyone in Kansas can chime in.
>Besides, if something has passed app store verification then surely Apple are happy that it is not malware? Therefor they can be somewhat more lenient with sandboxing restrictions?

It's about minimizing the attack vectors. Sure, Acrobat, for example, is not malware and could be sold in the App Store. But there are tons of viruses and malware that targets holes in Acrobat. If Acrobat was also sandboxed, they could not do much harm.
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Nope, its just that other things are being hyped apart from rails.
When this comes to Vegas I will buy a TV specifically to take advantage of this. If anyone at Google is reading this, please come here as soon as possible. Seriously, the internet quality out here is atrocious and I REALLY want to support this business model.
I'm on Firefox 17 but http://examples.binaryjs.com/hw.html tells me

> Your browser doesn't support binary websockets and is not yet supported by BinaryJS. Fallbacks are in the works but not yet complete. Chrome 15+ and Firefox 11+ are known to work.

I do see a picture of a flower, so it looks like it did actually work despite the message..?
Even including the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the defense spending is a much lower percentage of GDP than it was in 1987.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/more-on-defense/
It is going through the "small, cohesive" -> "full-featured!" -> "bloated" -> "modular" -> "too many abstractions" cycle.. in terms of overall adoption, I'm not sure. Many people like having all the "hard" problems solved for them.

People tend to talk about what's new and shiny because there is greater social reward for being the advocate of something new/better than there is to say "what we have is good enough and so I like using it!"
College is extremely expensive and probably not right for everyone, but it's a different experience. Should 18-year-olds be learning what it takes to program in the real world? Absolutely. I think that computer programming education shouldn't start in college, but much earlier. That doesn't mean that being active on Github is a substitute for the liberal arts experience.

All that said, liberal arts education isn't about getting a job. It's about learning, by studying history and philosophy and literature, the critical thinking skills that you'll need if you want to lead and to make complex decisions that effect other people. (It's also a lifelong process; you need to keep learning and maintain an interest in that stuff or it doesn't count. If you never crack a book after graduating from college, you probably shouldn't have gone in the first place.) And yes, I firmly believe that you're not qualified to be in any higher leadership position if you don't have some education (possibly pursued on one's own-- it doesn't need to be a 4-year degree-- but autodidacts are rare) in the liberal arts.

College is also about learning how to learn. Well, actually, people shouldn't need schooling to learn that, so it's more accurate to say that it's a time to dedicate oneself fully to improving one's ability to learn. The actual learning has to be a lifelong process. If your curiosity stops at college, you missed the point.

The problem with the college degree is that when you give people a leadership education and then there aren't appropriate jobs, they get really pissed and clamor about how they were fucked over. And they're kinda right, too. That's what we have now: a society where people spend half a house on a leadership education and then struggle even to get regular entry-level jobs.
I'd guess that their customer service would take a different, 21st century approach. I'd never call customer support for a gmail or google calendar issue...maybe a similar approach will emerge with these plans
D'oh, yes, thanks :)
>Would having a sandboxed app store help with any of these?

A sandboxed app can only write/damage it's sandbox.

That's kind of the whole point.
"Because we will be in a trough between 20th-century resources and 21st-century needs, in 2012 all storable forms of energy will be expensive. Machines will be designed to use only minimal amounts of it. At the same time, there will be a general expectation that a practical cheap-energy delivery system is just around the corner. Individuals basing their career plans on any aspect of technology will concentrate on that future, leaving contemporary machine applications to the less ambitious or to those who foresee a different future. The most socially approved-of individuals will constitute a narrowly focused aristocracy, and will be at the mercy of dull functionaries and secretive rebels who actually perform the day-to-day maintenance of society. It should be noted that most minimal-energy devices process information and microscopic materials, not consumer goods. The function of "our" society may depend on processing information and biotechnology to subjugate goods-producing societies. These societies may be geographically external, or may be yet another social stratum within central North America. In either case, crowd-management technologies will have to turn away from forms that might in any way impair capital goods production. Social regimentation will then have become so deft that most people will regard any other social milieu as pitiable. "

Most were quaintly charming, but that was right on. I'm surprised that fewer authors mentioned the information revolution as being a large force in society.
Oh wait, i get it. every symbolized string is added to the global symbol table, so you can basically make rails devour incredible amounts of memory by sending it new values. neat.
There's badness just in rb_intern, at least in 187.

MRI scares the bejeezus out of me.
There are worse problems than that, I think.
Congratulations! Smart engineers doing very well!
That's why I'm putting it more like 20 years out. Eventually there will be printing technology that will provide the tolerances required for a complete gun that doesn't blow up in your face.
Edtech without the tech
Very cool, I'll have to play around with this.

One request: could you also include an explicit LICENSE.TXT file stating that you have licensed it under the MIT license as opposed to just putting it in the comments? It would make it a lot easier for people to find if they might have requirements in terms of various licensing.
Imagine CEO's life if all of the 623 job seekers would apply this method.
Surely the fantasy game itself is a game subject to chance, and so betting on it would be illegal?
Same here with FF Aurora.
Definitely what we need in a thread about a security issue in a hugely popular web stack is a language war.
I realize these decisions are hard to make on the spot, but it's important to grab everybody and pull them out on the spot. As a teacher (or me in a previous life, as a manager --- also of adults), when you disagree very strongly with the ethics of actions of others, I found it both personally and team-wise rewarding to react decisively in front of my team so they'd get the message.

This applies to not only strange security, but harassment, unethical behavior, and other inappropriate actions.

Trust me from personal experience, you'll never regret it, and as you get older, the retelling will only get _more_ enjoyable, both for you and those who were there to see you blow up. On both sides, so long as you keep it professional.
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That post is only talking about a certain type of people, who disparage startups on the whole. Not liking one particular startup does not imply that you don't like all startups.
Actually, Microcenter carries one model, so you can buy domestic if you'd like.
"Do you stream them or just download them instantaneously without regard to how much space they consume?"

"Stream" is a euphemism for "download you are not allowed to keep".

Expect to keep seeing the word "stream" for a while.
A wonderful link. My votes are: Wolverton for prescience, Silverberg for wisdom. Your AUs per year may vary.
It's just you. :) In seriousness, many of the newer stacks (e.g. Meteor) offer fast ways to get started then you realize you need functionality such as authentication, authorization, server-side validations, migrations, queues, caches, API connections to other sites to retrieve data, etc. When you add all that in, you're essentially rolling your own large framework of pieces.
Yes it was; Yelp is recruiting.

Yelp's stupidity can teach your whole class about the importance of working for conscientious, thoughtful corporations. Arguably, that's a more valuable lesson than whatever tricks pinterest used to scale (but I'm old, so take that with a grain of salt).
Same here, I'm really interested in hearing about Disco and potential benefits/costs vs. Hadoop.
It is. Being open source was always their selling point. http://identi.ca/doc/source
I'd like to believe Marco is right, but let's not kid ourselves. There's been large, high-profile, five-year experiment on exactly this and the disappointing results are in: [almost] nobody gives a sh*t about Freedom 0.