skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think taking 1999 as a general example is a bad idea. The mechanics of how the bubble popped is not really interesting. It could have popped any number of ways.

What happened in the 90s was this. People realized the internet was a huge deal. World changing, re-writing the rules of the economy, among other major human institutions (learning, governance, etc.) They were right. 20 years later a lot has changed because of the internet. Revolutions have been driven by it. Economic titans have been created by it.

A large chunk of the blue chip economy is now made up of internet and internet compliment companies, even Apple & MSFT are in that category. Google, Alibaba. The new blue chips being generated today are internet companies and I'll wager the blue chips generated in 2030 will also be driven by this.

The investors of 1997 were not wrong about the scale of the revolution. What they were wrong about was the importance of early mover advantages. It's as if they expected the internet economy to be built behind walls constructed in their entirety by 2000. They thought they were buying shares in Google, Facebook, Alibaba & Uber, that these companies were all being founded between 95 and 98. Seems silly now. But, hindsight.

The really large scale irrational exuberance lasted a short while, just 2-3 years maybe less. That's hard to justify but it's the end of a bubble when bubble thinking is totally disconnected with the rules outside the bubble.

In that environment, it doesn't matter what bursts the bubble, it's going to burst.

Without that kind of bubble, you don't get that kind of burst. With that kind of bubble, you inevitably get that kind of burst. Investor sentiment may be fickle, but U-haul traffic jams are caused by real economics, not panicky investors.

So, who are these unicorns? Can they survive a month or twenty of panicky investors? Can they do away with investors all together? Are they reliant on investor money for revenues like all the ad selling startups of 1999?

Here they are: http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/

I think no matter what investors do tomorrow morning, Uber, Xiomi, AirBnB and Palantir will still pay salaries, bonuses and such. The IPO might be put off by a couple of years. If the market goes extremely nasty a lot of people who expect to buy houses with stock options will be disappointed. That might cause trouble.

U-Hauls? I don't see it.
index cards, blu-tack, pens, free wallspace.
That's wonderful :-)
Maybe try to see if you can buy a FX swap that guarantees you to be able to sell your yuan in dollars at a given exchange rate?
How to Live Wisely
The first two weeks with Elixir lang. First impressions
It means we've borrowed the css directly from Bootstrap for the grid (as well as some variables and mixins) so, aside from giving credit, if you are familiar with the bootstrap grid it should be easy to get up and running with Elemental.

We're actually developing it first and foremost for use in Keystone's Admin UI - we needed a robust and flexible css + component library for that, which users could extend & build plugins on, so we started building one.
Ask HN: Finding Office Space in London
I wanted to know if anyone knew a better way of finding office space in london in the tech sector. Rather than just browsing the property search sites are there any dedicated and good sites for Tech sector offices?

I'm looking for space for around 10 people and flexible on the area in London.
Smell? The whole article reads like one large implicit "this is paid content" disclaimer. Which is so much better than the usual camouflage of hiding the ad behind some toothless faux-critical negative paragraphs to tick that "balanced" checkbox.
Thanks for pointing that out - webre using react-router and it works locally, not sure why hosting on github pages breaks it. Will check it out.
I stand corrected, thanks.
Sonar – A Framework for Scanning and Exploiting Internal Hosts with a Webpage
> There are still many developers and dev-shops working with flash on a daily basis.

They need to break out of that stagnation soon or they risk being completely obsolete and not noticing until it is too late. I for one don't have flash installed (or enabled in cases where it is present as a built-in) in my usual browsers (and that isn't going to change: we are long past the point where anything a Flash app does is replicated by something else so if it is a choice of "use flash or don't be able to use X" I'll skip X and use Y instead of re-enabling Flash). I'm not the only one I know with this attitude and while we are in a minority currently that will change over time, and probably not a long time.

> It seems important they get an official EOL from Adobe with an upgrade path (most likely to html5).

Waiting for that would be a bad business decision on their part. It is obvious where things are going (or at least where they are not going or where they are no going to stay) so waiting for Adobe to tell them the facts is silly. They should be researching alternatives now if they have not done so already and making migration plans.
I could see Netflix doing better in a recession, a few bucks a month for the entertainment it provides vs the cost of going to the cinema (two good cinema tickets here costs ~4 months netflix subscription).
The claim that prices "basically doubled" during the Euro switchover seems rather exaggerated: http://www.inflation.eu/inflation-rates/italy/historic-infla... (i.e. inflation was about 2-3%).
(FYI, Tesla is owned/run by Elon Musk; the company doesn't share his name.)
Taking My Parents to College
Interesting, I'm also servicing an ailing CentOS 5 server; un-upgradeable and a pain: currently having to migrate the core application onto a new server, haven't had issues with Ubuntu LTS for server usage in the past so that's what I'm going for but the discussion here makes me want to go with Debian instead next time!
It does, but not really. You can get another gmail account and have another 15GB.

There are tools to sync and use multiple gdrives.
It looks like pure magic. Older versions was released under GPL2 (though the copyright notice contains "All rights reserved" too, tough call), but newer versions are under a restrictive license.

I wonder how well it works for equations.

http://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf-foss.html
This looks cool. I'm kicking my heels while I wait for react-bootstrap to be compatible with react 0.14-beta3. But I see this isn't compatible with 0.14-beta3 either... :-(

What's the weight of elemental UI once it's minified?
So this thing, instead of doing multiple successive shots like in standard HDR, it integrates over multiple shots of single pixels. Integrating AD converter comes to mind. I am sure this improves on standard HDR but it just moved the turtles one step down. With this technique you may still get motion blur, albeit only on the otherwise saturated, washed out parts of the picture.
I see. Well, I hope that indeed can be understood - merging code to mainline which is known as requiring a rework means breaking some people's code later. In this situation, maintaining a fork till more momentum is gathered and issues are resolved does make a sense. But please keep in touch (e.g. via MicroPython forum) - alone knowing that you keep working on it and it does work for you is a good motivation for other folks to not drop the ball with this port (and for new folks to pick it up).
What are you considering Unicorn?

Small, early stage companies (say <100 employees, <250m valuation) that high profile investors are competing to get in on? If so, most of them are supposed to fail. The money is still small by systemic standards and so are the number of people affected. Volatility here is not dangerous, it's expected.

Or, are you talking about the Unicorns expected to go public any day now? The Ubers and AirBnBs? Thee are also kind of retrospectively Unicorns at this stage. If these guys go under, that's a problem. But, these guys aren't rely reliant on investor sentiment.
There are still places where flash reigns, mainly in digital out of home.

Its changing though, but it does mean we need a standardised way of deploying bundles of html/css/js and traditionally we haven't been great and standardising.
Search seems to be the biggest issue, so we're going to upgrade that today. Have fixed "radiologist" and "vascular surgeon" for now, but aware there will be plenty of others.

Another comment mentions the short profile of an actual person. It's an interesting idea and one we'll consider adding.

Mapping is coming soon in the form of a care journey / pathway. We have this built in the back end already, but need to spend time doing the mapping before making that public.

Thanks for the feedback, excited to keep working on it!
The primary data structure underneath is a "causal tree" CRDT. However, import/export to a JSON structure representing rich text is the "native" format. Example is the source used to create the text in demo instances of the editor:

https://github.com/ritzyed/ritzy-demo/blob/master/src/create...
Looks interesting. Have anyone here tried it and seen how well it works?

IMO in any state it can't be much worse than the current NPAPI does in X11, so I'm interested in anything which can be used to get better FF Video performance.
Would you be looking for a private suite or something in a shared environment?

Over at included.co we work with a number of shared hubs, with some offering both. Whilst our list isn't in any way an exhaustive list of available options in London, we may be able to help with our free 1-on-1 search service.
Application Tiering: The Secret of a Winning ILM Model
Not suggesting that you're wrong, only that you're lucky: there is always a risk that things go in any direction.

If you're in it for the long haul, selling your ETFs a month ago isn't necessarily the best thing to do – at least by virtue of allowing yourself to sell your stocks when you feel it's the right time, which is mostly going to be dead wrong.

And selling them today is certainly a terrible idea.
Show HN: Techfolio – Build your tech portfolio
In 2000 this best trade was not to short stocks (too hard to time) but to go long safe haven assets (treasury bonds) for a much smoother ride. However this time around that might not work with the Fed wanting to raise rates(which would hurt bonds).
No offense, but based on your post, I don't think you understand what being introverted actually means. It appears you're referring to social anxiety or something, which is VASTLY different then introversion.
> If, on the other hand, you mean showing the cursors from other people working on a collaborative document

This is what I meant. Good that its not very hard. Though I'm curious: how do you know what the "right place" actually is i.e. don't the coordinates of the cursor position depend on the rendering of the text which is under the browser's control?

What about showing multiple selections from other authors like Google Docs (and Ritzy) does?
I've been buying in continuously before the drop, and will continue to do so after. That's the best way of negating some of the risk.

You can't really know if things are going to go down further, or jump back up again soon.
The 'unique properties' of attention spans – BBC
Thanks! We are going to focus on improving the search today then. NHS careers already provide a detailed profile for each role, perhaps we can link to those pages. Love the mapping idea.
Note that if you are working on a latex document you can use latexdiff.
10 Years of Web Design and Development (in brief) from 2005 – 2015
Hi ben, I love the idea, currently you are missing neurologist.

I'd be really interested to speaking with you about something I'm working on at the moment http://benlowery.co.uk/medical_diary/the_idea.html

Briefly, it's a fully integrated 'MIS' (it's similar at least so that other techies/tech management understand what I mean) aimed entirely at patients and allowing them to better manage their own care, will be freely hosted and open source.

So far I've gotten a bunch of people and friends from various industries on-board (though I'm still the only developer, it kinda snowballed) but I've never done anything like this and (nosying around) it appears you have.
Refactoring if statements for readability
Blatantly sexist.
Encounters with the Posthuman (2013)
You might want to check the rules of "Show HN":

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> A Show HN needn't be complicated or look slick. HN users are comfortable with work that's at an early stage.

You might also want to check site guidelines for gratuitous negativity:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7984826#up_7989747
The problem with this line of thinking is that, like most other things, introversion/extroversion is not binary; it's a spectrum. The Myers-Briggs type indicator (considered as borderline pseudoscience by many) places me, for instance, in the introvert camp, but the tests suggest that I'm only 6% into it, which makes things way less clear-cut than one would be inclined to believe. Relying on it being a strictly binary identificator opens up the possibility for all types of these interesting speculations and categorizarions, but they all break down when you realize the complexity of human psyche very resiliently defies them. An introvert who can effectively pretend and act like an extrovert (which is a skill like any other) can be a better entrepreneur than an extrovert who doesn't know how to use their extroverted tendentions for this particular use-case. I'm not contending that the article is completely false, but the overall conclusion is too exclusive ane definitive to be applicable to humans at large. People with the skills that define entrepreneurs are good entrepreneurs; their other characteristics may help them or not, but no effective conclusions can be drawn from such a narrow point of view as the one presented in the article.
Given the mention of Edison, I think the parent was referring to Nikola Tesla.
It might exactly work because a rate raise is expected. That way, you can make a gain twice. First due to the flight into safe haven assets, and then again when the raise hike is postponed again and again. (Just a scenario. :) )
Stock Rout Spreads Through Europe After China Plunge
I didn't read the whole document, but I'm amazed how modern the Z1 was.

All-binary architecture, programmable, 24 bit floating point, microcoded ALUs.

The author seems to come to the same conclusion: What I find most surprising is how the young Konrad Zuse could come to such an elegant design for a computing engine. Whereas the ENIAC, or Mark I teams in the US consisted of seasoned scientists and electronic experts, Zuse was working in isolation and without real previous experience. From the
architectural point of view, we compute today as Zuse did in 1938, not as the ENIAC did in 1945.
Below tech stack is used for the development-

1) Twitter Boot-Strap at the Front end.

2) Spring Framework, Spring Security, JPA and Google Data-store.

3) Deployed to Google App Engine.
European Stock Selloff Intensifies as DAX Heads for Bear Market
Ask HN: If you had a big screen in your office, what would you use it for?
To what use would you put a TV screen with a Chromecast mounted next to the development team? There is a number of cool ideas, we will be using it for code reviews, progress updates, debugging difficult issues and other tasks that only require the display for a short amount of time.

However, for most of the day, we output the background images that come packed with every Chromecast. I would love to hear how YOU would use a big TV screen right next to your dev team.
Ah, I understand now. Thank you for expanding — I agree with your criticism.
Does anyone have a good link to a quick refresher on fundamental analysis and/or a reading list besides Graham and Buffet? Seems like just about the right time to look over some financial statements/balance sheets in depth.
Yes. It's not reasonable to assume that all these people actually "care" in the common sense of the word. They just happen to work in the field of "healthcare".
I was just wondering what the ETA for ditching flash altogether is..
are you not able to buy precious metals as a store of value?
Interesting. Is there a reason why the parsed AST size isn't used instead of raw source code size?
Shrugs, in theory you could apply slippery slope argument to just about any conjecture on what will happen next.

However this Government has a track record of (badly) privatizing things and a fairly clear ideological bent.
The section about how confused the layperson is about technical details, e.g. what a database is and how the Internet generally works, makes me think that this data release is going to exacerbate paranoia about data and the Internet in general, rather than lead to a general awareness of better security precautions. I think as more fallout happens, there will be an increased sentiment in favor of such things as "right to be forgotten"...though perhaps that's not such a bad thing if it is in the context of requiring companies to wipe out old customer billing data upon request.
Twenty years ago today, Windows 95 was released. Here's the ad that was used
Mozilla Study Shows Bitcoin Has Negative Impact on Donations
Immediately, somebody should begin a study on the impact of this data leak. Millions of cheaters exposed? What will be the increase in counseling? Divorce rate? What percentage of folks will carry on like nothing has happened?

It's an incredible story. I'm not sure the English language has a word to describe this: watching millions of people go through marital pain all at the same time. It's not a train wreck -- you can watch that and see that there are real people suffering. This is all just some huge faceless mob.

I am reminded of Stalin's quote: when one man dies, it's a tragedy. When a million men die, it's a statistic.

(I absolutely do not approve of lying and cheating on spouses. I will not keep your secret for you. But I also do not approve on taking action that would result in folks I do not know getting exposed. Folks have a right to their own lives.)
Wal-mart employs 2.2 million people.
No, the smart investment is in "cash" right now.
There is no question a well sorted 944/968 can out handle and out race a 911.

It's not just the challenge of driving - well, they are very different in many different ways, and that's the sort of thing people like when it comes to making a special purchase. A 944 is very conventional in comparison, even if it does have a rear mounted gearbox.
Showing some sort of notifications of your repo in order to see realtime when new code has been pushed
In the end it all boils down to inputs.

Once you hitch a keyboard onto a tablet, there is no functional diffrerence between it, a laptop, or this new iteration of the netbook.
See this great interactive, What Size Am I?, by Anna Powell-Smith

http://sizes.darkgreener.com/
It reminds me of affective, developed in MIT. I hope this time it will be Open Sourced instead of sold like the other one. I think marketing companies have already enough tools to fool us...
Actually, 1 - jabłko, 5-21 jabłek, 22-24 jabłka, 25-31 jabłek, 32-34 jabłka and so on and so forth.
* affectiva (http://www.affectiva.com)
This is going in another direction as the cited article, but there are aspects when it comes to software aging and software rejuvenation for high availability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rejuvenation

There were some interesting reads in the AT&T Technical Journals for the 5ESS switches (e.g. Kintala, Bernstein , Wang “Components for Software Fault Tolerance and Rejuvenation”)
a long time ago. The journals are not free accessible, but I have found another text from one of the authors about the same topic
http://www.crosstalkonline.org/storage/issue-archives/2004/2... (defense related web site) or http://srejuv.ee.duke.edu/shaman02_secure.pdf (other author)
Think he meant Nikola Tesla
Galaxy S6 Edge +review vs. Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
...1,968 stocks fell by the maximum 10% allowed by regulators…, or 68% of all stocks in China…

I don't really understand the way a price regulated stock market would normally work. Anyone understand this?

Normally the problem with price regulation is that the market doesn't clear. If the 10% limit was hit, there are sellers out there that tried to get out at the lowest allowable price but failed. Doesn't this mean they are probably going to be shares for sale at a lower price tomorrow?

Any time you hit the floor price you are accumulating a backlog of sellers. I don't think getting a call from a broker that he was unable to sell your shares is likely to cause calm tomorrow morning.

Basically, how's China's regulatory stuff going, now that it's getting tested in rough conditions.
Cromebooks are in essence netbooks 2.0. Only this time round you have Google backing them from top to bottom, rather than hardware OEMs getting "good deals" from Intel and MS in exchange for dropping the concept.
It's also the gigantic whirring fan on air cooled engines that is removed with water cooled engines which lowers the noise down significantly.

One of the initial engine designs for the 911 was a twin-fan engine. Apparently it made such a racket that the porsche engineers nicknamed it 'the threshing machine' and Butzi Porsche canned it on the spot.
Is cloudfront.net DNS down?
7 Proven Ways to Hack Your B2B Customer Development Process
I don't think it has to be one thing... I think that they are less expensive, and more usable are big things... having a separate keyboard for typing on is definitely a better use case for many over an on-screen keypad that takes up half the screen.

gDocs is probably a big influence as well... as an all around value, I really like the Chromebooks... from a security standpoint, I tend to like them for mom & granda even more... (with uBlock)
Interesting. I would hope that the safety net is at least something like 90% successful, but I haven't done my studying at all.

Thanks for your insight into exactly who falls through the net.
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Truck driver shortage? Someone else mentioned they sometimes get only 20 cents per mile. How can wages be so low when there's a shortage?
That's really odd. In my eyes, source code length is not a good way to measure the semantic size of a function. But what you're saying is very interesting; I learned something new.
Not kidding, genuinely intersted. I think you have answered the question.

The reason for asking is occasionally I read about stories of people who are sad that they no longer live in a communist country. There was a movie made about that storyline as well.

I always thought that - given the mass movements of people after the borders were opened - everyone would have seen it as a gigantic waste of years of their life and would hate the very mention of it. But I've only met a handful of people who lived under communist regimes and usually they don't want to talk about it.
Relevant: http://acme.com/mail_filtering/
Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
V8 doesn't use an AST, it uses a CFG, but I believe it comes down to efficiency - it's far cheaper to look at the length of a string than to traverse a graph, and by its nature JS needs very fast compilation times.

This is probably one of those heuristics that works well enough on enough real world code, even though everyone knows it's suboptimal. I've heard that the turbofan compiler will remove this limitation but that's still very much work in progress.
Is this component based. Where I could pick the modal without all the forms. Or form elements without all the grid system. I'm dying for a pick what you need framework rather than all or nothing like everything else out there.
Given that npapi flash clearly works on Linux, i really do wonder why Adobe is not providing a straight download of it anywhere.