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The thing is that the nature of speculation is to generate bubbles. Every financial market is a bubble, financial products are always overvalued (relatively to their current earnings) because people believe they will be worth even more in the future. The real question that needs to be answered is: when will the bubble pop? AFAIK there's no scientific way to answer that question.
That's a really good idea since it does require sign up. Thank so much for this suggestion.

I was actually planning on calling them on the phone if they put their phone number in the sign up form. Its a boutique sort of app. Should end up having a low-ish number of users with high-ish revenue per user.
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Andy, the same Andy mentioned in the article, wrote a blog post in 2014 with his perspective of what it's like to use Haskell in production, if you're interested. https://engineering.imvu.com/2014/03/24/what-its-like-to-use...
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I just can't get over, what seems to be the masses apathy regarding this issue.
Your comment inspired me to write it up, so thanks for that. :)
"Deal flow halted for 6 months" - Sequoia invested in Airbnb, Dropbox, and Green Dot within 6 months of RIP Good Times. Pretty nice deal flow.
Oh man, that's a great idea. If I get some time I'll try to write that up too.
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What does tightening the funnel mean in this context?

The user base is people who own small mobile auto detailing businesses. So pretty specific. I imagine most of these companies will be way too small to have an IT department restricting their ability to install Chrome.
I don't think it sells for anything close to $10B. At the $3-5B range there's no shortage of people who'd snap them up. EMC, Cisco, IBM. My money's on Microsoft.
This seems like a great idea for incentivizing success. I'd support such legislation 100%.
And if you're really slick, you can make a lot of money after the pop.
"Logarithmic" is practically a constant. Do you mean "exponential" instead? (as in "double in X years")
That was it, although I see I've conflated the views of Gary Marcus (who I think it is fair to characterize as anti-Deep Learning[1]) and Lake, Salakhutdinov, and Tenenbaum who wrote the paper.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/544606/can-this-man-make-...
Great read. I love it when oral history in our field gets recorded. One of my great fears is that more interesting stories than not will be lost to time.
The lab processes introduce color and flaws only if they're wanted.

The old way of making diamonds, growing them in metallic solvents at pressures over 50K atmospheres (where diamond is the thermodynamically stable form of carbon) produced crystals with metallic solvent inclusions and other flaws that would distinguish them from naturals. It was hard but not impossible to make a D flawless gem with HPHT methods. It was never economical because of the equipment capital cost and slow growth rate required for that type of diamond.

The microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) can make D flawless gems routinely and cheaply. Using hydrogen and methane as the source gases, one can make very nice colorless rough which can be further improved with a short post-deposition high temperature anneal in hydrogen plasma. Laser cutting and conventional faceting then give you a very nice DF rock.

If you want colored diamonds, boron in the synthesis gas gives blue. Other treatments give the full color spectrum.

It is possible to tell CVD synthetics from naturals, but it's not easy. Flaws and inclusions aren't usually helpful. It takes sophisticated absorption and luminescence spectroscopy to see optical features that uniquely identify CVD gems. Most jewelers don't yet have this capability.
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Here's the source video of that GIF I would imagine everyone's seen: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=476393822444

The same author posted a different video of the same tree to YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYlhQKmDovk

Then there's this video of a pet (edge-case rescue) least weasel, which is a definite candidate for relevancy here (along with all the other videos in the associated YT account): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy6oaDzy0-Q

Also, I'm not sure if you'll see it, but YT's video relevancy/subject analysis system is neat: http://i.imgur.com/zvLG5nu.png
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The housing bubble lasted a long time, even when people in 2004 were sounding the alarm bells. It kept going. A bubble bursting doesn't mean everything is getting wiped out, and it's nothing to fear...just something to hedge against. It does hurt people, and that's unfortunate, but it has to happen. It might even put me out of a job, I hope not, but it's very possible.

Yet as much as it hurts, it has to, and will happen. Doesn't mean it will be as bad as 2008, but it's part of the business cycle. I don't think there's any denying that valuations have gotten way out of hand, especially in the private equity and VC world. But trying to call a top is just as hard as calling a bottom, if it were easy policy decisions would be easy.

It's a "creative destruction" within the capital markets. Gets the dumb money out...funds businesses that actually make money and builds upon the rubble on a stronger, firmer foundation.
Are manmade diamonds usually made from coal, charcoal, or atmospheric carbon? Because if it is either of the latter two, the resulting diamond will have a higher carbon-14 content than a mined diamond. That said, if you need a mass spectrometer to determine whether or not to buy jewelry, you're doing it wrong.
Wow, those are really cool and pretty much what I had in mind. It's a shame that the prices are so... extravagant. I understand that they don't care about the hobby market, but it still sucks they don't have one for around $100-$150.
The funny thing is how POS systems in the US have regressed over the past 25 years. The IBM registers I used in the early 90s were fast and accurate while slinging packages over the scanner. Nowadays everything is laggy and needs special care to present the UPC to the machine just so. That is except for Aldi's systems.
the fact that there are very few tech ipos is probably the best indication that there is a bubble in common stock valuations of private companies, which would not be supported by public markets. Why? because public markets have many sophisticated players who can easily sell short and private markets don't.
Come on Sam, these clickbait fools aren't worthy of such attention.
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"In a distributed system, you can know where the work is done or you can know when the work is done but you can't know both."

A simple thought experiment will quickly tell you that's not true. Given a task queue, the compute process that pulled the task and put a result could easily provide where and when and give you both.
Good read! We've had a few good "haskell in production" articles recently. Hopefully this encourages some folks to try it.
The long term game for Dropbox is in having businesses outsource storage to them. While consumer cloud storage is a tough market (due to it being a race to the bottom), the vision of getting businesses of all sizes to replace their legacy file servers with Dropbox sounds very compelling.

You can already see Dropbox has transitioned its focus to businesses. Mailbox and Carousel shut down.
That is because a single consumer can easily switch to another service based on price alone and can afford to spend his/her own time on figuring out how to migrate their files.

On the other hand, once you have 100 business users which got used to Dropbox, switching to another solution has a real cost for your business. That's why Dropbox is focusing on businesses: they are stickier in the long run.

However, Dropbox will still maintain a strong consumer presence because familiarity is one of the key points for selling Dropbox to businesses. Moreover, every business starts small and every founder is a consumer at heart.

The promise of Dropbox for businesses is in outsourcing the complexity of storage in exchange for a monthly/yearly subscription. Consumer cloud storage is just a step in executing a bigger vision.
Nice to see an encouraging response for 18F here. They are fighting the good fight, and most people don't even know what they are up against.
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It feels just like 1998, but for the fact there's enough folk memory of the dot com bust to put IPOs on ice.

I guess they don't want to risk duplicating lastminute.com

Only question is when it pops.
> 2008/2009 was only partly insane because of tech,

Its easy to provide all kinds of justification in hindsight or "after the crash". If you were a "happy investor" sitting on top of January 2008 crash, I bet the last thing in your mind will be "someone is insane". Its only because the crash happened just after that and so now you have the liberty to say "INSANE TIME".

Its the same economic cycle happening right now. I don't know when the DOW/NASDAQ is going to crash and how many points, but I do know that almost no one can anticipate it right on top of the price chart, and say "Hey look, this move will now cause an economic recession". It always happens after the fact!
That was the whole point of day trading. You hold something that's going up because it's going up, with no consideration of the underlying value. And you try to be the first one out the door when the party's over.
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I guess Apple doesn't care about developers like you with above-average requirements.

They have no incentive to provide more RAM when the average IOS mobile dev only needs an existing MBP or Air. As long as every new mobile app developer is still buying a macbook, why should they bother? Maybe when people start showing up to conferences with non-apple laptops they'll start to think about upgrading!
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What? NaN is actually a number in the sense of being in the domain of the floating-point type. You seem to be mixing up "not a number" (as in character string or list) versus "not a number" as in a special IEEE representation that has special uses in numeric code.

A floor function that returns NaN when given a string, instead of throwing a type mismatch exception, is crap design, and a strawman example of that type of checking. It's not an appropriate use of NaN!
How are there so many "Must be about GMO labeling? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" top comments without any references to e.g.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

"Last year, I wrote about an Oklahoma State University survey indicating that over 80 percent of Americans support “mandatory labels on foods containing DNA.” ... Obviously, such DNA labels would be absurd. Nearly all food contains DNA..."
The two US stores I've seen have kept one cart after the cashier. When done checking out, you take the newly full cart and leave your empty there for the next customer.
Given our current computer architecture models, we'll run into Planck's constant or some other universal constant eventually. Already the path forward has more to do with increasing the number of cores rather than the performance of a single core.
Great to see some folks from WA on here. I know that a university consortium (possibly spearheaded by CSIRO) advertised recently for a new precision ag initiative there. I know one person who applied, who, if he is awarded the project, will undoubtedly implement some interesting projects in your region.

For a whole-systems re-design, I think that beyond just tailoring genetics, nutrition, and herbicides to site-specific conditions, we need to be thinking about all of the interspecific interactions, spatial designs, and other natural processes that we can be harnessing. For example, we're currently constrained to operate farm machinery in a grid, or perhaps on contours. One way to improve that would be to start adding complexity to the grid. On a simple level, you could have one row of grains and one row of pulses as a means of breaking up pest migration. Slightly more complex would be to use intercropping or to perhaps co-locate crops that provide pollination services, moisture storage, or other benefits to each other. More complex would be to start using trap crops more frequently or taking advantage of natural seed predators with interspersed natural vegetation. Even more would be to incorporate trees (agroforestry) not only on the edges of the field but also within the field. Finally, once machinery is sufficiently sophisticated and the logistical hurdles are surmounted, you could break away from the grid pattern and start experimenting with other configurations such as concencentric circles or other shapes - the possibilities are endless.

We do grow crops in rotation in the states, although more in some locations than in others (about 15% of farmers where I'm from in Montana use pulses rotated with grains). Cover crops are a great option, though of course in dryland semi-arid regions early termination to prevent moisture losses is always an issue.
The housing bubble, obviously.
It seems like it was just yesterday that everyone was arguing the Facebook valuation from Microsoft's investment was impossible to ever live up to.

$15 billion. They'll do half that in net income in the next four quarters.

Interestingly the $125 per user figure quoted on the Gigaom article (the $15 billion valuation divided by their daily actives or total users at the time), is now more like $195 per user (1.68 billion daily actives with $328b market cap).
Headline is wrong, there are many directly imaged extrasolar planets. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla...)

The accurate news is near the end: this is the first star where we have directly imaged one planet (CVSO 30c) and found another by the transit method (CVSO 30b).

"Conclusions. Therefore CVSO 30 is the first system, in which both a close-in and a wide planet candidate are found to have a common host star. The orbits of the two possible planets could not be more different, having orbital periods of 10.76 hours and about 27000 years. Both orbits may have formed during a mutual catastrophic event of planet-planet scattering." (http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/po...)
Companies get acquired now whether they've ever had a viable plan to make money or not. Sounds like a bubble to me!
>By the way, I too am worth 2.5 billion dollars. What?! You want me to prove it?! Get off my lawn!

While I agree with the first part of what you wrote, when it comes to this I can say:

You don't need to prove it (and those unicorns didn't prove it either). You just need to be able to get some millions of dollars on your 2.5 billion self-valuation, and you'll be as good as them.

Because they did that.
This idea is too simplistic. Although I used to support it. I've changed my position from yours to 'retrained and demotion' position. Since people make mistakes, I think being 'barred from further work' is counter-productive and the government would lose out on many able and competent workers. Heck, this idea could also be exploited by lower-level workers due to not liking their higher-up bosses; i.e. a lower-level worker intentionally screwing up and costing the job of the higher-up boss because of the 'new law' stating the higher-up is now 'barred' from further govt work. Easy way to take out the competition going up a ladder.

P.S. I think legislating accountability is an issue the public needs to debate. In all countries. The US has seen numerous gross negligence/errors (heck one is too many) in various levels of govt (fed, state, local). I hope we can come up with a better solution than 'fire them and bar them' and even mine of 'demote/retrain'. There has to be a better way to legislate govt accountability.
What's an Aldi customer's incentive to do this? Is the cashier going to throw your groceries on the floor if you don't keep up?

If not... why not take your time and bag your groceries safely?
It seems like MSM is awesome, from a quick Googling. Humans really should be eating bone marrow, organs, etc. to get full nutrition from our meals - and the process reduces waste, which means less animals can be slaughtered.

I totally get why cow MSM is banned, considering mad cow disease.
Interesting, do you have links?
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I think there's a case to be made that bubbles result in malinvestment, that is, you end up building capability to produce goods and services for which there isn't enough demand to support that capability. It's inefficient.

When a bubble bursts we collectively look around and think "What is it that we really need?"
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http://hamwan.org is worth looking at.
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It's Medium. It needed a flowery header image.
1999: The "Dot-com" bust; Alan Greenspan is famously quoted for using the term "Irrational Exuberance" in 1996 (3 years prior to the bubble burst)
> What's an Aldi customer's incentive to do this?

Social pressure. You've just waited in a queue, and there are people behind you in that queue.
I can attest to this. I do some tech support for a growing construction company nearby, and I just tossed out their aging server. Moved all their data to Dropbox and set it up on the PM's laptops. Took me about a week of answering questions before they were all happy and smooth again.
My one issue with OneDrive when I tried it (late last year) was that it was very CPU-heavy compared to Dropbox. It noticeably slowed boot times, and syncing large changes slowed the whole system down for the duration. There might have been other factors at play here, but I've since disabled it on my Windows install and only use Dropbox, and I don't ever notice it's there.
Well, the articles links to that survey or a very similar one, so it's not like that point was missed.

In fact, those survey results are pretty much the point of the article.
One difference between a bubble and a declining market segment is that the bubble bursts -- abruptly.

So it doesn't matter whether people repeat prophecies or doom for a long time or not -- unless it's actually a bubble, it won't ever burst. At worse it will start declining slowly.

That's why the arguments like "it hasn't burst all those years so it's not a bubble" don't get it either.

Being a bubble is not something that has to do with duration (whether it lasts for a long time or not) -- it has to do with the non-linear effects of the burst.

Of course it the burst never comes, or it's instead some gradual decline, then it's not a bubble.
Which is going to be a struggle due to businesses also shifting other things to cloud and other providers offer complete solutions whereas dropdox is a piece of a large puzzle.
Chrome does not obey cache headers on refresh, I think they assume something is wrong if you are hitting the refresh button and fetch all files from the server.

I can't really blame firefox for obeying the headers that the server sent them.
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Maybe, or it's a sign that companies are recognizing they are richly valued and want to take advantage of that while it lasts.

MSFT has a P/E of 38, for example

If I had to guess, I think we'll see a lot of M&A activity at some very high prices from other companies that are richly valued.
one point anecdote: Google's Keep lost my data after it decided to upgrade itself (gone from phone and cloud). Just some notes but still.
It hasn't lasted ten years. The last one ended with the great recession, and was of course never a bubble of the scale of the dotcom bubble. This latest semi-bubble (ie extremely elevated valuations) - caused solely by the Fed's hyper low interest rate policies pushing up all asset prices - is far more similar to 2005-2007 than 1999. The pre great recession semi-bubble in tech was also caused by asset inflation from bad Fed policy mistakes.

It's also why this latest bubble / not-bubble was popped by the first Fed moves toward hiking rates. All the panic around unicorn blood in the street started exactly in line with the Fed's moves to hike rates (nice coincidence eh). And it's also why the stock market has struggled to move higher since the Fed's QE program ended (sideways for ~19 months now). If the Fed hikes rates (which they won't in any meaningful way), it'll continue to deflate all elevated asset prices.
Spoiler spoiler alert: you can however lock two carts to each other, though it is a bit of work! I never tested more than two, but the geometry of the situation would make it moderately difficult.
I have a OnePlus Two, and yes, there are CyanogenMod builds for it, I've been running them for the past year. Just last week, the updates started coming through the in-OS updater, rather than me having to download and flash ROMs. I haven't been bit by any bugs or even particularly rough edges for the past three months or so.

I assume these builds will eventually get blessed by CM -- maybe they already have?

The thread I keep an eye on:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-2/development/6-0-x-...
The strangest thing to me is how upset this makes people, even though it doesn't affect them, at least not directly. Look at the quote about Facebook's valuation- who gets so upset about that?

Why is it an affront to you if some business guys can figure out a way to call FB worth $33B? Of course now nobody would question that, because they're one of only two games in town when it comes to advertising. But even before that, why get so pissy? If the valuation is sooo crazy then bet against it. Why get so upset that LinkedIn sold for $26B? If you think MS wasted their money then let them waste it.

Why be so concerned that VCs are making bad bets? Let them! Are you a limited partner? Then who cares?!

I get that people don't like the knock-on effects, rent goes up, engineers are harder to hire. But I don't see why anyone should give a shit if a dumb VC wasted their firm's money on a dumb idea.
Read down thread my reply to laughinghan. The implication you personally, explicitly threatened direct legal action (whether implied or not) is possibly too strongly stated and I'm willing to rephrase that.

Suggesting it was meerly stated as a preference though, is not how a reasonable person would read "you're not entitled to use" and "we are not letting other people use our name in their products".

Perhaps it wasn't your intent, but the implication was clear and additionally the law follows the letter first. They "were threatened legal action with if they did" and even if you didn't actually intend to open that risk to them from yourself (as it was understood), they were still after that, at threat from others.
The voluntary layoff says nothing about stock. Are there still employees being held hostage by golden handcuffs?
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Nice read, you encouraged me to give haskell another round.
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