skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Five hundred years out is an awfully far distance into the future. I could see most of this happening in 200 years, or probably less.

One of the problems with making predictions like this is that technology begins to compound and affect itself in weird ways - a book I have discusses how once you have proper mind-machine interfaces and can copy a person at will, one of the most efficient ways to travel becomes transmitting yourself at light-speed and getting a new body once your persona has been downloaded at your destination, rather than traveling in a physical body. This is something I had never considered before encountering it in that book, as much as it is a logical step from cybernetic brains and being able to back yourself up.

Similarly, racism, sexism and language issues being to disappear as you approach a higher level of computer integration. Racism and sexism become quaint ideas when most people can change to a body of the opposite sex whenever they want, and skin color becomes a matter of aesthetic choice. You might end up with wholly different types of racism (or perhaps species-ism) due to deliberate genetic changes to adapt to different environments resulting in wildly different types of humans, or due to experiments to bring certain species to human levels of intelligence (apes, dolphins, octopi?)

I find it interesting that he would have geopolitical boundaries exist at all. The idea of nations may well be an outdated one a couple hundred years hence. As we continue to improve our abilities to manufacture and grow things on ever smaller and more controlled scales, there may come a point where we no longer need massive structures of human organization like nations, corporations, etc. On the flip side, these things could become more ingrained and efficient such that we approach hive-like efficiency/societal structure (group minds etc.)

I suppose I find most of these speculations rather tame. I think that things will change a lot faster, and in a lot bigger ways, than described here.
It seems they take a bit of time to validate offers. Let's wait. ;)
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Who is insulting him? People are just saying that his age is not relavent to what he did, and I agree. His post should describe the project. It should be about how awesome his project is, not about how awesome he is.
Good point, though I think the NSA can accomplish all the domestic spying they wish without any help from the TSA.
What designers hate might be what makes what other's (most of them) job easier.

that said, I myself have a "reset.css" template so that I don't have to deal with the defaults...
Passwords are useful, but impossible to enforce. If anyone decides not to use the passwords for their key you are in the same spot.
You need better tools, something you can enforce server side. We use two-factor: (note that I founded Authy)
http://blog.authy.com/two-factor-ssh-in-thirty-seconds
Thanks, I think I'm much more comfortable with sending a copy of my Driver's license.
I don't understand how such a simple service is able to block 3rd party clients. Just scrap that web site if need be!

I have an user, I can acces the site via a simple text-based protocol, who cares what weird client I'm using?
Ask HN: Would Twitter have a problem with this also?
At WordBiLLY.com we've been making custom word signs and one of the items we offer are custom Twitter ID pieces to be hung/placed at the office and/or home. Would this be a problem with Twitter? With the recent talk about Twitter's guidelines, I wanted to ask this. I am aware that asking this is also a risk but at the same time, I wanted to put it out in front of the community.
> It's great that we see youth influenced and impacted by HN.

So this is the HN version of "We did it, reddit!".
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design kvetching always strikes me as shallow. Just because something looks like others, it's not a problem.
Do you have proper vox.io etiquette?
As a 16 year old, telling someone something is good because of their age is very detrimental to their learning later in life. I wish people didn't treat me differently when i programmed when I was younger. It creates a fixed mindset.
> multi-user web apps

Uh, does that need to be explicitly mentioned? I don't know any framework that doesn't have support for "multi-users".
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> They are not shutting it down,
"refocusing" = cutting jobs ans shutting down plants ( and they do cut 1700 of them ), refocusing is just the expression suited for the "yesmen".
So, he's crazy because he doesn't want to regulate things. You believe homeopathy is bullshit - fine, I agree with you. We can campaign against it and inform people it's bullshit. But you and I have no rights to tell people what to believe and how to spend their money.

I would like to specifically talk about climate change, though. I don't want to question the legitimacy of the claims that it's happening - to the best of my knowledge it is. However, people somehow assume it's definitely a bad thing, which is simply not true. Climate may indeed change in one place and make life of people more difficult, while it may also change in another place and make life more prosperous there. No scientists I know of can predict what effects exactly and on which places climate change is going to have. It seems to me, people who are afraid of climate change simply want to preserve the status quo. Not a bad thing - everybody wants to protect their life and assets. But we must recognize it for that - an attempt to preserve the status quo, not save the planet for the greater good.

Back to Ron Paul: he may not be the guy I can agree 100% of the time on everything, but then you can never do that with anyone. Before trying to assess why he voted for this or that, one should understand the reasons why he did so. For instance, he voted against net neutrality, but not because he believed internet shouldn't be free - he believed the government itself cannot make it free, but competition can.
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مشاهدة مباراة الاهلي والترجي 
مشاهدة مباراة الاهلي والترجي مشاهدة مباراة الاهلي والترجي مشاهدة مباراة الاهلي والترجي مشاهدة مباراة الاهلي والترجي مشاهدة مباراة الاهلي والترجي مشاهدة مباراة الاهلي والترجي
I like your words. It's not a different problem. Doubly said "expression of systemic moral hazards" leak into these successful platforms. They get fat and then formally hire 1000x more inhouse devs, biz, and design folks when they could ad hoc pay the people who were there from the beginning. Or new people who spring up and bring the platform forward. It's creativity in contracts the status quo is lacking.

I am curious - where are the "public highway" equivalents of Twitter or Facebook? Who owns the infrastructure all this data is passed through? It's definitely not publicly owned. In my opinion, your analogy is mismatched.
It's a bit of blogspam, here's the link to the real article:

http://lifehacker.com/5959742/how-can-i-turn-my-mess-of-idea...
"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."
--Niels Bohr
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I'd recommend wuala, free 5gb with encryption.
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I think one of the only things we can be reasonably certain about is energy. Many or even most of the changes Charlie listed would require changing much of the technology deployed on our planet (except of course those changes that are more or less inevitable, like rising sea levels). Changing any of the hardware in our world on a large scale requires massive amounts of energy, and energy follows rules that don't change at all over a 500 year timescale.

Fusion seems to be inevitable. I can't say I agree with people who say it'll never be competitive with other energy sources. All that has to be done is to solve the engineering hurdles required to make fusion scalable, and perhaps to add the capability to use fusion reactions that make use of a greater variety of elements. (And yes, those are huge challenges, but we're talking 500 years of advanced engineering operating on something that already works in a simple prototype system.) Once that has been achieved, fusion power can outperform >any< other terrestrial energy source (except perhaps fission), as a matter of physics. I imagine the economics of that will fall into place once that massive supply of energy is made potentially accessible, since there will undoubtedly be demand for titanic amounts of cheap and reliable energy.
Well... I predicted this exact quote to show up in this thread within its first hour -- seems like got the hang of it, then!
As the owner of a TonidoPlug2, the wifi doesn't stay connected (proprietary kernel module crashes). Also the web interface software is slow and dated (but capable). It would be awesome to have OwnCloud on the TonidoPlug hardware.
I said I have no interest of discussing anymore. I'm not here to build a thread pointing failures in first order logic in other comments, this was my opinion and it would be better if you just accept that I do not believe in the same things as you.

If you wish there are plenty of refutations of why the criticism of Austrian school about modern economics is misdirected, I believe pretty much of them do a good job, Bryan Caplan was right in almost everything, you need not to accept any of them of course, I respect you, but you'll need to know that I do not accept anything that comes from mises.org and do not read them anymore.
I completely agree about the breadth of matplotlib, though the difficulty can be looking for examples. I've often found the examples on the matplotlib website to be horribly out of date compared to features added in recent releases. Are the plots you've done available online / Any recommended blogs for interesting examples of plotting?
We should be gathering STEAM for arts education
That most of such analyses on the purpose of people choosing between BSD/GPL are mostly based on the presumption of imaginary or hypothetical reactions of human rather than solid data from real world, renders these analyses less convincing as such assumptions on human behaviours are very likely to be wrong.
This is rad, keep it up! Seriously when others detract remember minor threat: "what the fuck have you done?"
Clearly you aren't a politician, if I can cut a program that saves $8B a year then I'll announce it as saving $80B over 10 years. :-)

That said I realize its not one of the heavy hitters in the budget, my cynical point of view was that the Government would keep around egregious programs just so that they could cancel them to distract people from real issues without losing any of their pet projects.
Great stuff, it will be even better if I can run this from within browser.
The "HN" ethos tends to reward those who go against the odds: founders who jumped off a cliff financially, teams working crazy hours with too few employees, working a full time job while bootstrapping, trying to have a family life, etc. In the end, none of that matters: you either ship good stuff, or you don't. However, whether you have a full-time job or are dealing with the time-suck that is high school, we're here to support, sympathize, and empathize, so it's all relevant.
Media Lab develops programming language for social applications
With the growing focus on STEM education, I found this an interesting adaptation of the model: adding Arts to the mix. Given how much company differentiation and product usability are being driven by design and creativity, it makes sense.
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Has anybody checked out [http://www.ioccc.org/2001/herrmann1.hint
Rumor mill [1] claims TI's trying to make the division more attractive to sell off to Amazon - so they can make their own chips to compete with Apple.

[1] http://deepchip.com/items/0514-03.html
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Awesome work! I recently launched a niche job board platform and would be happy to give you a free account/site to allow you to focus on growing audience rather than features. I'd love to be able to support your efforts. Check it out at http://www.jobboard.io
That's what I call fun Saturday reading . . .

"GM mangroves that can grow in salinated intertidal zones and synthesize gasoline, shipping it out via their root networks, is one option."

That one sentence overloaded my system with a visual day-dream about the potential for our future - the way it's written evokes that famous Bladerunner line:

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. . ."

A few dozen words in both quotes that evoke such richness. Beautiful work.
This introduction feels eerily similar to an opening interview at Google.
Glad you don't let it get to you. Keep it up: I suspect you've contributed more to the hacker world at your age than the haters twice your age.
No, this is not how we roll here. If you have any association with the company, you put it in disclaimer to reveal bias.
"Thanks to the strong, consistent Unigrid design program, the National Park Service has saved many tens of millions of dollars over the decades by not reinventing brochure and map design with every new print project"

Yea, but we always need to be reinventing everything! Endless growth, forever! That's how the economy works. Geez, didn't Vignelli know anything? Planned obsolescence applies to design too. You can't make it too good, otherwise you would never be hired again. : )
I suspect there's a second code hidden in there. From the article, describing the code symbols that are Roman letters:

These unaccented Roman letters appeared with the frequency
you’d expect in a European language. But they don’t
represent letters—they mark the spaces between words.

It's implausible that these characters just happen to appear with a language-like frequency distribution and are all meaningless spaces. I suspect they actually have a meaning and provide a second message.

To clarify, it's like taking "SthisEisCtheRfirstEmessageT" and assuming all the capitals just indicate spaces.
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MozCamp Asia 2012 is happening at Singapore. Mobilize Mozilla.
Runs pretty smooth and the multiplayer seems to work fine (though Quick Play dropped me into an empty game the first time). Giving the bullets a black outline is a good move because I cannot make sense of the rest of the visuals - horribly low contrast and super noisy, almost random use of color.

Seems to play pretty well other than the issues created by the indecipherable visuals though. I think multiplayer makes this kind of game more engaging, but you need to take steps to overcome the visual confusion and tendency to be overwhelmed when there are 4 players worth of bullets and special effects flying around the screen.
The blogger is also co-host of Radiolab:

http://www.radiolab.org/
Twitter want vertical integration.

They're not quite sure what they can do with it, but they know any hope of monetization is lost if all they are doing is providing a backend for third party clients.
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The API for videos is described here: http://code.google.com/p/imageshackapi/wiki/YFROGxmlInfo

For images it should be hidden.
How does a screenshot of a movie you own look any different from one you don't?
My intention was never to try and impress anyone. That "app" was actually born from a mistake. I was messing with some particle generation in ogl for iOS, forgot a clear and found myself very amused with the results. From there, I used it as an excuse to explore PS and UI design, and the addiction fed itself until I got overwhelmed doing other projects.

I have long since realized that getting noticed in an app marketplace requires some serious time, PR and effort - none of which I am fond of parting with at the moment.
A bit more than technically true. The Dead Sea is an Israeli icon...
We built our own and ended up building something somewhat similar to a basic version of KISSMetrics simply because KISSMetrics, and also Google Analytics real-time, doesn't let you pull out data out in real-time (or even poll their API in short bursts - <5 seconds).

Also we needed to mix in our own data to segment the analytics on a deeper level, and due to our privacy policy, we don't share user data with 3rd party services so it needs to be in-house.
Glancing at the source code http://mikescoding.com/imageshack/index.phps for 30 seconds, it seems the way this works is that the uploader IP address is retrieved from some XML file on the imageshack servers. It seems every image on imageshack has a corresponding metadata XML file stored at a secret location, but the algorithm to calculate this URL was exposed during the earlier pastebin leak?
Ev in 2010 answering "does being open give the golden goose away?"
Maybe a good rule of thumb: When someone complains about a Show HN that links to Github, post their own Github profile, or STFU? :-)
Possibly by it being linked from a torrent description saying "Here is this movie that I pirated and am offering to you illegally for free - <username>" and then having that same username attached to the ImageShack screenshot that also provides your IP address?
I could be wrong, but isn't the precedent that IPs aren't adequate evidence of a person's identity? I don't think that a dynamic IP address that was used 18 months ago is going to be of any use now.
Speaking from the UK I take issue with his: "the English speaking world was a few million barbarians occupying a handful of damp islands on the outer fringes of Europe". We may then have been limited in extent and geography as this suggests,but we were supporting the three oldest universities in the world, excepting Bologna,and had a general education system that was about to produce Shakespeare and which had already produced Chaucer many others of his quality.

These brusque assumptions about the past tend to reduce my faith in this analysis of the future.
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Check these out:

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http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-best-actual-VC-pitch-deck-or-...

http://www.pitchenvy.com/

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I agree about the visuals. I also found the WASD movement, arrow keys to fire scheme pretty hard to use. Can you use the mouse to fire?
I'm a designer and I don't hate PowerPoint, I hate the fact that most users abuse PowerPoint by cluttering up the screen with endless novels and too many graphics that don't illustrate a point. A good designer can clean up a well done PowerPoint show in minutes by changing themes and picking the right typeface. However what's often really required is an editor to turn volumes of text into a story -- and that's a task that shouldn't be done at the last minute.
"Would love to see a retina iPad version of this."

There are several other iPad generative art apps. Check out Art of Glow.
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I'm a single founder with a non coding background looking to make a website.

These are two things that I can fix and I'm planning on doing so before I apply next time. I already have users waiting to use the system, I just need to make it.

If anyone is in NYC and wants to work on a website to change the way scientific communication takes place, hit me up:) I'm going to start being more aggressive in picking up co-founders soon as I need the technical help.
Javascript or similar compile to JS languages.
It has very good performance thanks to google V8, you can use it on the client side, the server side and it's a dynamic language so it's easier.
It's also similar to C and Java. A strength if you want to code algorithms or learn C later.
Many didn't like posting the age in the title. Yeah, no one ever words their HN submissions to be inflammatory and get to front page, right?

I'll take a million hackers showing their projects and trying to win brownie points with their age than a single freakin smart phone troll blog post any day of the week.
I have one Dropbox folder. It is linked to my account.

I have several GIT folders one for every project. Other people have access to some of the GIT folders and the files there don't count against some global quota linked to my account.

I want to have several Dropbox folders in the same computer, that's all.
Unless they simply took random letters from some other text to get their spaces, in which case you'd get the correct frequency, in a sufficiently large text, with no meaning.
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Not quite Ikaruga level yet, but quite impressive and the gameplay is good. It could feel almost like a whole new game with re-done artwork.
Good one! Seriously! For the work you have done according to your age is tremendous. I certainly was not able to do anything even close to it when I was 15. So I'd say, hats off!!
How is a "limit to how much memory [one] can address" not a physical, rather than logical, constraint?

Really, the crux of the matter is that you can have a function call itself an unbounded number of times in C (i.e. unbounded recursion). That you eventually run into a stack overflow is a limitation of the machine, not of the language; the definition of C does not prescribe a maximum number of recursive calls. This, together with conditionals, makes the C language Turing-complete.
that makes sense, because almost no application of OMAP really used all it's features (notably embedded DSP core), only significant consumer/mobile application I can think of are Nokia's phones based on Symbian EKA2, which are effectively dead now (and OMAP combined with EKA2 was significant competitive advantage for Nokia when they wasn't, as that enabled them to replace their ARM-based custom SoC with OMAP and build smartphones essentially derived from feature phone hardware without dedicated baseband CPU). Before that (early 00's) there wasn't any other real SoC solution, as most other mobile processors required some external (mobile-specific: touch screen, power management...) support circuitry and OMAP previosly filled this niche, now it seems that there isn't any real makret for OMAP SoC's as nobody is interested in building anything that leverages OMAP architecture, because random mobile SoCs paired with some generic baseband are cheaper and consumers does not seem to care about battery life.

It does not make sense to develop hardware which nobody really uses and try to be price competitive with cheaper designs that are adequate for most customers.
Presumably all that'll happen is that firms will send their erroneous or overreaching patents elsewhere? Or is there a process to avoid this?