It's dated January 2015, not 2014.

How could it possibly be dated January 2015??

EDIT: I mean, indeed it is, but we're like, you know, still in 2014

I feel like I have seen the comment on singularity somewhere else (by MJ himself). Does anyone remember?

Google Cache - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8rhxYGx...

Here are the Finnish names (in the order of the headline):

lehtikaali, kukkakaali, kaali, parsakaali, ruusukaalikasveille

A fun project on similar lines: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

Isn't this behind a paywall? Doesn't HN got some guidelines on posting articles behind a paywall?

Isn't this one of the April 1st jokes from 2012? Most of the commits were made on March 31, 2012[1]. And there's even a reference to the pi joke[2].

[1] https://github.com/philipl/pifs/commits/master

[2] http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/01/Jun/pi.html

You could also look at Shark, which is basically Hive on Spark.

http://shark.cs.berkeley.edu/

Third paragraph - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/sports/worldcup/most-fans-...

Robin Munro wrote a pretty much detailed take in 2009.

http://www.thenation.com/article/remembering-tiananmen-squar...

This 2009 article you posted is actually the exact same piece as the 1990 article that the op posted, except with a few different opening paragraphs.