skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is of course hard to predict 500 years out. Hell, it's hard to predict 20 years out. Did anyone really see the world of today even 20 years ago?

But I'll take my own fanciful stab.

I don't foresee either an energy or a climate crisis. There is a hard limit on how expensive energy gets because at some point you can turn totally renewable energy into a fuel of some sort, ideally taking CO2 out of the atmosphere to do it. It's not cost effective now because energy is so cheap. But like I said: there's a limit to how expensive it can get.

The bigger problem (IMHO) is going to be certain elements and metals that aren't so easily replaced. I agree with the author that getting certain elements from space is going to be economically tricky (rather than technologically tricky) compared to how cheap it is to pull stuff out of the ground.

You can recycle iron to a degree but a certain amount is lost through corrosion/rust. Rare earth elements are harder to replace.

I do foresee there being a lot less of us and that is probably going to be a traumatic change.

Sadly I don't foresee a huge presence in space. The energy costs, particularly when you look at even the most optimistic models of interstellar travel in particular, are just too extreme even with perfect mass-to-energy conversion.

Change like evolution is often perceived to be smooth but it's not. Our world like life itself is shaped by key, often small, events. Europe in 1914 was a powderkeg in 1914 but one man's death triggered a sequence of events that resulted in World War One, the armistice for which sowed the seeds for World War Two. One could argue that if the Archduke had lived something else would've triggered the war and you may well be right. Still how different might the world be if, say, JFK was killed by a chance bullet in World War Two?

As far as longevity goes, that's a tough one. I expect there'll be a certain class of people who live much better and longer than others but then again the history of the world thus far is those kinds of technological advancements always trickle down eventually. Living forever? I have my doubts.

Artificial intelligence as always is the sleeping giant of the future. I believe that to be inevitable and the effects could be profound to put it mildly.

I too believe the nation states of today mostly won't exist in 500 years.
And even faster using tab or shift+tab to pop up or down a level, regardless of whether you're using tabs or spaces.
I wouldn't doubt it, since codes within codes was common. However its not clear that they are necessarily related. There where some secret codexes where the additional codes acted like a watermark to tell you whose copy of the notes it was so if they leaked out you could go deal with them.

As a kid I was always making up codes and ciphers. Much more of a spy vs spy kid than a cops and robbers kid.
So, the real question: What was the watch?

My guess is something like Sparkfun's BigTime watch: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11178
Letting parents choose schools is not any more respective the choice of the individuals most directly affected than having government decide on the school.
mine:
http://new.weavesilk.com/?d640
http://new.weavesilk.com/?d6bb
Interestingly, any physical, finite machine can be modelled as a finite state automaton (which is even more limited than a pushdown automaton) with a large enough state space. The distinction only comes up when you consider idealized infinite machines.

Theory of computation is weird.
Physicist here.. I use CERN ROOT as it does just about everything. Occasionally I'll mix it up with python and matplotlib. GNUPlot is still great though too.
Israel mobilizes 75,000 troops for Gaza
What does SMB stand for?
Rust from Python & Ruby
That's what I'm guessing, but I wish the linked blog post was a bit more descriptive.
No, signs with Twitter handles should not be a problem. Twitter is limiting access to their API for retrieving twitter feeds. You're not using any of their resources, so you're fine.
Duplicati does not yet support Amazon Glacier. For an interesting discussion about the troubles implementing it, read Kenneth's comments:
http://code.google.com/p/duplicati/issues/detail?id=689
Here's a direct link to the job posting, since it was hidden behind the "more" link for me: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4464588

Also, the poster (wheaties) is not Bob, since they mention Bob in the third person a few times in other posts.
What does this do exactly? Will it permanently change lein to use drip? Or only temporarily for whichever command replaced the "...". Also, do you know if the advice here: https://github.com/flatland/drip/wiki/Clojure
works with lein2?
The XML URL is calculated by taking the image's filename (minus the extension), calculating the MD5 hash of that + a static salt (which is visible in the source), then replacing the image extension with the first 10 chars of the hash + ".xml". Example [1]. What type of third party would they be giving this API to?

[1] http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/3432/as8132329zz9.d907da5...
That's a very nice sentiment, but it won't fly if you're trying to provide third party authentication in a manner that minimizes the potential for fraud (hence, the oauth clusterfuck).
A github issue (#34) was opened, and you released a changed version soon after, but it remained unusable for me (in the meantime I upgraded to 12.04 and did not test drip since then).
None of what you say about climate change is an argument for ignoring it, which is what Paul wanted the USDA to do.
I Cry, Therefore I Am
Guys been dead one year and all we hear from people like you is that innovation is dead at Apple because they haven't launched any new $50 billion products in the last 4 quarters. Steve produced a handful of what you're calling "new value propositions" in over a dozen years and most definitely had his hands all over everything Apple has launched from his death to today.

Your claim that Apple probably has no new products in the pipeline is one the most laughable things I've ever read on HN. Apple is not Microsoft or Google, they don't demo a thousand shitty products five years early and hope some of them catch fire.

Your claim that Apple's current product lines are all doomed is also silly and disproved by inspection of their desktop and laptop business. Apple is an innovation machine and everyone else is trying to hit a moving target.

Yes it was drivel and hogwash.
Berkeley team tried using only Twitter to Predict Elections
Moved this to a more accurate name (genderstat)
https://github.com/cllns/genderstat
He-he - the only ones I played were running the old Hunt the Wumpus game described at http://www.filfre.net/2011/05/hunt-the-wumpus-part-2/ . It's amazing; a telnet command and one can time warp to a 1970s-era OS, then run games from that era.
I don't think that this can be fully communicated in a few lines on a post in HN. Selling is a contact sport. You really need to be there with the customer and develop a feel for how things are going.

For example, I've had sales calls where it makes complete sense to say very little and force yourself to be respectful of what your customer might be saying during the conversation, even if sometimes what they are saying is wrong. I've also had cases where I've had to put one of the people in the room down hard because they'd come off as "experts" when they really didn't know the subject very well. So, you have to forcefully (verbally, I mean) establish yourself as the alpha dog and then the rest of the pack calms down. I've also had cases where not a bit of business was discussed at all. We'd go grab a cup of coffee or lunch talk about all manner of things personal but no business. And then you go back to the office. The next day a purchase order shows-up along with a thank-you email.

You can't teach these things in a few hundred words. You have to experience them and, depending on who you are, your personality and your upbringing it could take anywhere from six months to two years to pick it up. Because I spent a good part of my young life in Argentina I picked it up very quickly. Argies are pretty fast.

I should also say that I saw this cultural thing play out when it came time for me to hire sales people. I really wanted to focus on engineering so, eventually, I set out to fire myself as a salesman and hire someone in. I must have gone through seven or eight people. Men, women, younger, older, with and without experience. They all sucked. It was frustrating. That all changed when I found this Iranian guy who was hell-bent for selling. He had that middle-eastern drive to make a deal and he delivered. He wasn't super-polished, but he could certainly sell. On more technical sales I'd just tag along to deal with whatever he couldn't handle.

Hiring a good sales person has been one of the most difficult experiences in my entrepreneurial career. Most people who call themselves sales-men are order takers. They can grab fish if they jump into the boat. A real salesman knows how to find and catch fish. Huge difference.
That's really cool! Definitely a lot more sophisticated than my approach. Maybe at some point I'll do something like that. For now I plan to add functionality to crawl websites first.
I agree with you.

And in 500 years I would imagine "human" being almost beyond comprehension to us now. Like, consciousness woven into spacetime at the subatomic level, crazy.
Humans slowly but surely losing intellectual & emotional abilities?
Reading and calculating with your unconscious
Steve Ballmer Spills the Beans on Windows Phone 8
A few more years, and barring total failure to push the reforms through, repealing healthcare provisions will quickly become totally politically unpalatable in the US too.

Just like the Conservatives in the UK had to turn 180 a few years after the National Health Service was established because it was that or cease to exist as a realistic contender once people saw the effects the existence of the NHS had on their lives.

I think this is part of the reason why the republicans fought this issue so desperately: It is going to be almost impossible to reverse once people experience the full effects.
Highly doubt any of the countries that exist today will exist 500 years from now. Honestly I highly doubt most of them will exist 50 years from now. Most developed countries are headed for their day of reckoning as the bills for their welfare states come due. Combined with the fact that every developed country has a negative birthrate due to these policies delaying adulthood many countries will collapse from just demographic changes in the next 50 years.

How do people still believe in run away global warming? There's been absolutely ZERO warming for the lat 16 years, the Earth warmed for 15 years before that, then cooled for 40 years before that. Cloud formation, the major environment influencer of global climate, now seems to stem from cosmic rays.

I do believe space travel, specifically mining, will become much more prevalent. This will eliminate any resource problems. As for energy advances in solar technology and nuclear (fusion or fission) should drastically lower the cost of energy by an order of magnitude from today's prices.
What's especially interesting is that gists are allowed by github's robot.txt and none of the links are nofollow. That means every gist spammers create with links are helping their ranking.
Enough to give me a business plan ;)
Abe, I think you missed the point - Niagara Falls is (partly) in the US and is an American landmark, but I wouldn't tell a Canadian that they were 'mistaken' about visiting Niagara Falls on a trip to Ontario 'because Niagara Falls is in the US'.
It'd be nice if gists had a link to report them as spam. Also, links in gists should be nofollow.
Thanks. Thought it's Samba, but doesn't make any sense
"The half-life of a public corporation today is about 30 years: ten half-lives out — 300 years hence — we may expect only one in a million to survive."

Am I the only one who read this and went "Wait, 10 half-lives... that's 1/(2^10)... that would mean about 1 in 1,000 survive -- not 1 in 1,000,000."?
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Does anyone still use imageshack for anything serious any more? I'm surprised to hear they're still around.

Here's what their compete chart looks like, for what little it's worth (login required, so screenshot instead): http://cl.ly/image/3z1v152G3r1l
My number one takeaway from this article and the comments here on the article: Learn basic accounting, especially how to read a balance sheet and financial statements. The time spent in the short term will more than pay dividends in the long term.

As other commenters have noted in greater detail, how future revenue is booked depends on your accounting method. If you use the "cash" method (default for everything except C Corporations), meaning that you generally book revenue when received and expenses when paid. Under the accrual method (C Corporations), revenue is accrued when earned and expenses when owed regardless of when payment is made or received.

Ryan's company was a C-Corp, so the accrual method applies. The $175k prepayment is thus not booked on the P&L until earned. However, it is booked on the balance sheet as an asset. To account for the fact that the $175k has not yet been earned, it is offset by a "reserve account" liability (i.e,. "refund reserve" or "unearned income reserve") to reflect the amount that the $175k could have to be reimbursed to customers. Generally, the reserve account is less than or equal to the prepayment and reflects the dollar amount of uncertainty as to how much of the prepayment will be retained. Thus, the $175k could increase the net assets of the company by anywhere from $0 to $175k.
And now if only someone cracked the Voynich manuscript!
Perfect, yes, thanks!
With all the talk of engineered intelligence and huge biotech advancements, I think there will be a massive space expansion, and I'm surprised to see it doubted.

First off, a human settlement on Mars, while technologically challenging, would need a relatively small initial population to get started sustainably (say, 2000 people). All of the advancements in food and energy production mentioned in the article could be used to provide for a colony there.

The OP talks about genetically engineered animals for food production, but they could also be engineered to better work and thrive in space-based industries; collecting raw materials, zero-gravity manufacturing, energy collecting, etc. Sophisticated, autonomous machines could do all that as well, so that actual humans have very little need to spend much time out in space, other than traveling between planets and settlements. Or perhaps all travel is virtual, using telepresence to see the solar system.

Machines built in space don't have the costs to get up there in the first place, other than the initial factories and material harvesting equipment.

Great thought-exercise, though. I love thinking about this stuff, and I think our generation has to start anticipating these changes. Some other commenters pointed out this all may happen far sooner than 500 years, so we just might need to be ready.
Alternativly you could just point out where he is wrong or show that Tonido isn't a unique player in the market.

I agree, biases should be revealed, but just berating him and not his argument doesn't move anything forward.
It's not silly. All countries with no government or almost no government are hellholes. Whereas, since the fall of the soviet union, most countries with more government than the US are pretty nice.

So, it's not silly to say 'try somalia if you want zero government'. It is silly to say 'try north korea if you want more government', especially since north korea provides fewer government services than western states.
How startups can learn more while building less
In part because scraping the website is going to break all the time, and sometimes on things you simply can't see because they're running an a/b test. Then there's usually the site TOS that explicitly denies scraping (I don't know if Twitter does, but it's standard fare).
So would messages ala Laurent Bungion's (sp?) MVVM-Light Messaging system fall under 1,2, or 3? You send out a message from an object and then any object "registered" to receive these messages can pick them up and handle them as they wish... doing something, doing nothing.... returning a value or more likely not...
So why don't you update the article then admitting the error?
How a game about Tourette’s Syndrome can make us re-examine our lives
I think that ImageShack still imposes bandwidth limits and other restraints. I can't see why anyone would use it over another service like imgur.
That command runs drip only for that particular invocation of the command. You can put the following:

export JAVA_CMD=drip

into your ~/.profile (etc) file to have it affect all future Java launches from leiningen.
I'm currently in University studying Comp Sci; I can say with confidence that the level of competence demonstrated by you doing this surpasses the majority of my peers and your work-ethic is certainly much higher than those of us who have skills.

Good show dude! Keep up the awesome stuff and you'll have money & praise showered on you.
Adding/Removing Wireless Profiles in Windows 8
Guess I'll leave one of the few comments about the project itself.

I'm going to evaluate this when I get home. If it works as described, I think I'll be integrating this into an imaging service we're building. The interface looks great.

Keep coding man. This looks really good.
He acknowledges the mistake in the comments.
I saw it phrased as "Better to eat your own young than let something else do it", which is slightly grim but I'd say close to the mark.
I wrote this article because I've seen the many ways that user experience methods can contribute to lean startups. Launching is a good technique for learning. But I've seen many quicker, scrappier methods work great, though they're often overlooked.
Agreed! But personally I found it inspiring so perhaps I misunderstand their rage.

Seems like they drank too much haterade.
The robot with a real human skeleton and movement
"Similarly, if an employee smuggles in GPLv3 code in to the company's codebase then the company can't just shrug that off, and must release their proprietary source code as GPLv3."

No, assuming the company was in violation of the GPLv3, they would probably need to stop using it, and potentially pay damages if sued by copyright holders, but would be under no compulsion to release their own proprietary source code. Unless, of course, they wanted to comply with the terms of the license and continue using it. However, the GPLv3 alone wouldn't even require that unless they were selling or making available copies of the software.
At the very least, my model of a stupid terrorist would wear civilian clothes, typically a suit —maybe one that doesn't fit well. I mean, it takes a staggering amount of stupidity to not even think of blending in.

I don't disagree with your point though: if I'm charged with spotting danger, I would have a hard time distinguishing "suspicious" from "unusual". And despite what I said above, I'm not even sure I should.
You can use an Xbox 360 gamepad if you've got one lying about :)
this: "The unaccented Roman letters didn’t spell out the code. They were the spaces that separated the words of the real message, which was actually written in the glyphs and accented text." makes me think of a cyphertext within a cyphertext, something like an ancient form of stenography.

...maybe the symbold used as spaces are not actually random and there's another message hidden there, with another cypher, offering the writers of this "plausible deniability" regarding its existence: they could only give the way to decipher the first level of encryption and say that's all there is, while the really important information was hidden in the "space characters"...

(... now putting my tinfoil hat back in the closet :) )
Wow, that's really cool! Thanks! :D
How Do You Become the 9th Employee at Google?
Shame on you Google. My experience with the Play Store.
which may have weakened the power of selection to weed out mutations leading to intellectual disabilities

What the hell does it mean? Smart people aren't breeding? Intellectually disabled people are breeding?
I'm glad he didn't take the doom and gloom approach. We do keep seeing the bad side (overpopulation, disease, environmental degradation, wars etc) but slowly and surely the opposite has been happening. Prosperity has been improving things for (virtually) everyone, not just a few westerners. And people do strange things once prosperous - they protect the environment, have more greenery (compare richer versus poorer neighbourhoods), buy organic, electric cars, contribute to charity etc. The question is can we continue to improve prosperity, and there is no reason to believe it won't keep happening. Matt Ridley of "The Rational Optimist" has a lot of material to substantiate that.

Here is a quick TED talk and a transcript of the opening to get you going.

http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.htm...

"When I was a student here in Oxford in the 1970s, the future of the world was bleak. The population explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. A cancer epidemic caused by chemicals in the environment was going to shorten our lives. The acid rain was falling on the forests. The desert was advancing by a mile or two a year. The oil was running out, and a nuclear winter would finish us off. None of those things happened, (Laughter) and astonishingly, if you look at what actually happened in my lifetime, the average per-capita income of the average person on the planet, in real terms, adjusted for inflation, has tripled. Lifespan is up by 30 percent in my lifetime. Child mortality is down by two-thirds. Per-capita food production is up by a third. And all this at a time when the population has doubled."
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thanks. stuff like this is what makes hn still worthwhile.
That link is 404'ing for me. Did they close this already?
I don't really see the point of speculating about 500 years out. Wouldn't it be a lot more useful to figure out how to increase the rate of innovation and discovery now?

For example, if innovation happened in flight and most people could fly at hypersonic speed within 10 years, the world becomes even smaller. Cure most cancers within 10 years instead of 50 and maybe the "next Steve Jobs" will get another 2-3 decades.

There are lots of big problems that would could solve decades sooner if we could find better ways to innovate now.
I enjoyed this article and I agree with most of the prediction on this timescale. I'm surprised, though, that he didn't mention one issue in particular: the continued development of human-computer interaction and its impact on the world's socioeconomic makeup.

Over the past 20-30 years, computers have completely changed the way people interact with the world. Most highly-educated people's lives center around their iPhones, laptops, iPads, etc. As time goes on, automation will likely continue to advance. As computers surpass humans in efficiency for more and more jobs, what role will the uneducated play? Clearly, wealth will continue to concentrate in the hands of fewer and fewer highly educated individuals. Will the rich exploit the poor, or will the need for consumers cause the wealthy to redistribute wealth just so that people have money to buy their goods? Will ordinary people end up like the passengers of the spaceship in WALL-E? Let's go a step further: if the so-called singularity occurs, what is the need for people in general?
Crowding out OpenBSD
If it is the preferences you're modifying, there are per-user specific settings and default. I believe the default settings will apply for all users.
Albert Einstein destroyed 37 of Hitler's submarines
It means that the amount by which smart people out breed less smart people has decreased.