skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a former employee of a penetration testing firm, and a current purchaser of such services, this contrary to my expectations.

I expect any competent firm to be able, in an afternoon, to look at the overall documentation of the web site, chat with me for an hour or so, and come up with a multi-point threat model that will guide the testing. I expect to pay for the actual week or weeks that the team is actually testing the system, and that the report after is a day or two and part of the price.
I was surprised to find out that the torrent fetching part of the prototype didn't happen in the service worker . Which is obviously the most cool place for it.
Exactly. I love Dropbox. And exactly because of that I'm concern that they will be crushed by Google Drive or OneDrive.

OneDrive is not so great but for same price of Dropbox you get Email, Word and Excel. Same in case of Google Drive.

Yes - there might be some companies going with Dropbox for Business but Microsoft is hard to beat there.

In short, if they do not do something soon they will like SugarSync...
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VCs don't invest their own money; their money come from pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, etc.

They make money off deals, so bubble or not, it's a bonus.
A lot of interesting work has been done by the Israeli hydroponics industry around water conservation like some of the stuff in this article (as they grow their food in very high temperatures).
Over the last 16 years we've seen several boom/bust cycles in speculative markets driven by interest rates.

First the bursting of the first tech bubble. Then Greenspan's housing bubble in 2001-2007. Then interest rates were held abornmally low, for 80 months straight, which is something that the world has _never_ seen.

Would we have seen this tech boom if interest rates had been say 5% and capital had somewhere else to flow?

I'm pretty wary of "The music hasn't stopped playing, so it can't possibly be a bubble" arguments. Lets watch what happens as rates go up and venture backed tech has to compete with other returns.
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"

Or perhaps the more apt way of putting this in our times is:
"Multiples will be crazy high as long as central banks keep interest rates crazy low"

Rather than thinking about this in terms of bubbles I think it's fair to say that the probability of getting very high ten year returns on the US stock market at these valuations is low. The problem is there's no other asset that will give you the chance of a better return. That's no coincidence.

Apple's P/E is 10.85 according to Yahoo Finance. That's low given current interest rates.

EDIT: The average Nasdaq P/E is 22.55 ... This is historically high but is ~4.4% vs. the 10 year treasury being 1.61% (and I say that painfully as I attempted to go short at one point). That is basically the story right there.
I agree with the introduction part of the article. However, pro gun guys should also stop this "my right to own a gun is in constitution" BS. Once this is also done, it just boils down to a certain group of people having a specific need to be fulfilled.

The problem is that we all have different needs that we want to fulfill but we limit ourselves for various political, sociological, and environmental reasons.

In my neighbourhood, a gun shop is robbed, and hundreds of guns are now in black market. I not only see all these mass shooting news but also lots of irresponsible gun owners killing/hurting themselves or family or friend.

If we have introduced a new gadget today, with so much security and safety issues, I guess it would be ridiculed in days if not hours. It is clear to me that guns are in the same category and I don't care if the author of this article or any other person uses them carefully. It is just that many people don't.
Universities have the luxury of collecting huge tuition, tax money, and endowments to support these facilities.

Being one person with minimal investment, I doubt I'll be able to start out at that level..
I encourage everyone to use MySQL Workbench over SSH. For whatever reason people seem to not understand the concept of SSH and the inherent security it provides. But, once you explain to folks how to use it effectively it really is a good balance of security and usability.
I don't think the bubble is just going to "burst". I think the rapid growth in technology is real. The market may correct itself some, like it is right now (particularly with investors), but I don't think there is going to be a great tech apocalypse.
It was a quote from the TV show 'Yes, Minister':

James Hacker: How am I going to explain the missing documents to "The Mail"?

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Well, this is what we normally do in circumstances like these.

James Hacker: [reads memo] This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number of secret documents, a few others which are part of still active files, some correspondence lost in the floods of 1967...

James Hacker: Was 1967 a particularly bad winter?

Sir Humphrey Appleby: No, a marvellous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files.

James Hacker: [reads] Some records which went astray in the move to London and others when the War Office was incorporated in the Ministry of Defence, and the normal withdrawal of papers whose publication could give grounds for an action for libel or breach of confidence or cause embarrassment to friendly governments.

James Hacker: That's pretty comprehensive. How many does that normally leave for them to look at?

James Hacker: How many does it actually leave? About a hundred?... Fifty?... Ten?... Five?... Four?... Three?... Two?... One?... Zero?

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes, Minister.

(Source: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0030014/quotes)

Edit: Although apparently a similar real-life incident occurred when Hurricane Sandy wiped out a significant portion of an FBI record archive: https://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/archival-neglect-...
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Not to mention all of the unicorns supposedly worth billions that aren't IPOing. Because IPOing would finally let the public decide what they are worth (it would be a harsh wakeup call for a lot of them). Instead we're stuck with their VC cronies stuffing self-serving valuations down everyone's throats.

By the way, I too am worth 2.5 billion dollars. What?! You want me to prove it?! Get off my lawn!
Markets are future looking so you use future p/e if you have negative outlook on apple margins then its not a 11 p/e.
Using a file to cut gears doesn't take a lifetime, they even did this in one of the documentaries about the subject.

https://youtu.be/5mIGJzqrGnc?t=36m9s
I doubt that it has any impact.
Which brings up the interesting problem that, in theory, we can never be sure it is or is not a bubble unless we look at the behavior in the limit as t -> infinity. One problem with gauging things in the universe (or in the economic sense, the fundamentals in order to value something) is that we will likely never have the tools to do it in the "real" sense.
I'm pretty sure you didn't read the article.
I work with a set of database, API and front end services for which I have a collection of VMs, each based in the same vagrant/puppet specs as the production hosts.

Spinning up a dev environment requires two Linux VMs and a Windows VM for the web service. Then the Visual Studio for C# development kills everything.

I would prefer to spend a bit of extra money for 32GB of RAM rather than a Windows laptop for the VS development.
Yeah, forgive me if I'm too cynical, but Hanlon's razor fails when this sort of thing involves criminal investigations of government employees.

Edit: it also inspired a variation on an old joke about how the same word means different things to different people. For example, suppose the order goes out to "secure the data center."

Marines report back, "We have destroyed the data center."

Army reports, "We have killed everyone in the data center and are holding the position."

Navy: "We locked the doors when we left for the day."

Air Force: "We signed a three-year contract with an outsourcing company, with an option to extend at the same price for ten more years."

Which of course means that just because I don't think Hanlon's razor applies doesn't mean I think they're competent.
I don't think the bubble thing is true for our time, nor it will be in the near future, it's just tech has become more competitive than ever. I am too young to know exactly the circumstance surrounding the last .dot com bubble when did it happen ... but I guess, it could have happened, the VC had not seen the full potential of the internet back then...

I can't buy the notion, that we will or ever see a bubble ... it's just ups and lows just about anything in life ... because at this point and in future internet is too larger to be vulnerable to it.

But that said, there is a little room left, for developers living in the mom's basement., and that's truly sad.
I've actually just started seeing boxed products at Walmart where the UPC barcode runs up the entire side of the box, so they do appear to be grabbing this strategy. I can't remember the brand-name of these products, but they're rock-bottom cheap and come in pretty plain blue cardboard boxes.
I would venture that to do so would devolve into a full source audit, which seriously increases the scope of the test. Full source audits are likely to consume ten times or more calendar effort.

Performing a full source audit is going to result in sticker shock for all but the most well-funded.
Yes, racism existed (and still exists today.) However, the degree to which racism played a part in the construction of suburban America has now been greatly distorted and exaggerated by multiple generations of leftist academic historians, as part of a much larger political and cultural program aimed at disparaging traditional society in general.

This is in turn part of the larger and extensively documented phenomenon of leftists having come to control almost all American academic discourse during the past few decades and systematically stifling any dissenting narratives, especially prevalent in the social sciences.

While some racists certainly existed, the vast, vast majority of individuals who moved from the cities to the suburbs neither knew nor cared about any racism that was going on. It was not a factor at all in their personal decisions to build or move to suburbia.
What the article doesn't mention: Aldi optimizing the speed of their cashiers is nothing new. The northern Aldi ("Aldi Nord") for a long time had three-digit article codes for every product that cashiers had to know by heart--which also meant that they couldn't have more than 1000 different products. In fact, that system was so efficient that they completely switched to bardcodes only in 2002 as they didn't see any advantage before that.
Yeah, more powerful computers allow us to actually automate the things that currently still require a human being to manage.

Although @seanwilson is correct that almost no one needs a faster Excel, faster computers enable programs that automatically generate what Excel was being used to produce based on plain language specifications. That requires a big round trip to a monster server at the moment.
Yes I realize McDonalds is attempting to go upmarket with their interior redesign, but so far this is only implemented in major cities, which I think the sample of HN readers live in large cities, especially SF and NY area, where the vast majority of McDonalds are not located. I used to drive up and down 85 from FL to NY a couple years back. Most McDonalds are as I describe. It doesn't surprise me that the few in the larger cities are nicer and have amenities. I stopped by the one in Charlotte one time and it even had a fireplace and a piano. Those are few and far in-between. Changing? I don't doubt it, they have to try something, they are losing relevancy quickly. Of course, instead of focusing on interior gimmicks and tried to actually make their food good it would do miles more for them than stylistic upgrades. Take In-n-Out burger as the canonical example. Interior is horrible, but most are packed out because the burgers and fries are simply good.

I might also add I worked for McDonalds.
depends on how quick you can operate I guess ;) There's a reason that stuff is on a continuous drip while operating. But I've seen people accidentally hit an anesthetic dose before when using recreationally and be knocked out for 20 min or so.
18F is severely outgunned. They need your help. I can't say that enough. The entire Western US is on fire, there's a drought, they have one fire hose and their next boss may turn it off.
Probably because they think the price will keep rising, and that they'll be out on time. It's basically a pyramid scheme.
The 2008 bubble was caused by fraud, what is the current bubble caused by? Most people are saying we are in a bubble because all of these companies that are making 0 dollars are worth extremely large amounts of money. Everybody is aware that these companies aren't making money however and still believe the company is worth an insane amount of money.

If everyone is willfully deluding themselves and see nothing wrong with it, for what reason do we believe that it will change in the future and that the bubble will pop? And the current situation is different from the 2008 crash in that people know what they are buying into, companies that don't make money, and they don't care.
But the term bubble, at least when used by the media, also seems to have a connotation of bursting in the near future. If someone told me tech was in a bubble, but the pop wouldn't be for another century, I would not define it as a bubble. Even if the future pop was enormous.
This is a very sound leap of logic you're making.
Thank you for that link!
I saw it a while ago and didn't realize it was on youtube.

slightly offtopic: Does anyone else think that unless a History based TV Documentary is made by the BBC (or at least a presenter with an english accent) it will almost devoid of credibility?
I love Dropbox's support for a GNU Linux client. That said, and ironically, I am no longer a paying customer since they put Condi Rice on their board of directors. If Rice quits their board, I will immediately become a paying customer again.

Annoying that Google and Microsoft don't have official Linux clients for GDrive and OneDrive, but at least their web based support is passable.
Tbh, it happened a number of years before my birth as well, but some of us choose to learn the history of computation / networking. ;-)
It's gamble. You can make money all the way up until the bubble pops.
What is the upper bound on latency?
DeBeers isn't buying out the labs. They're suing the labs for patent infringement [1].

The technology barrier to entry is low. If you have the tech chops and can spend $30K, you can do a DIY microwave plasma system and grow your own diamonds. I do this at home. Buying the extant labs won't inhibit subsequent competitors entering the business. And neither will lawsuits, in the long run. IP has a limited life.

I think the brain of the DeBeers dinosaur has finally noticed the mammals gnawing on its tail, and is responding in the only way it knows how. They would be better served to go into the synthetic business themselves, using their marketing resources and > 1 century of branding weight to carve out a new business sector. DeBeers is not a fast mover, so I don't expect this to happen.

[1] http://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/de-beers-gr...
The only thing between your data and /dev/null in a cloud data center is a vacation and expired credit card.
Someone who thinks they will unload it on a Greater Fool (TM).
Yes, makes them less easy for the NSA to turn into a remote bug.
I guess the irony/humor was lost in my post.

My non-ironic point: there's tremendous mistrust now on the Net, as information seems more dubious than ever - from the curating of news (recent story with Facebook) to the paid reviews (Amazon finally cracking down on, but which are still quite ubiquitous), to ads that look like articles. If there's a reason I come to this site, it's because I feel like I have a more direct line to the truth, and it's 'curated' by discerning readers and comments. (Some of whom, ahem, are a little aggressive in their downvotes).

Now, how is that not a souring of the good faith of the reader, when the ad industry pursues insidious/sinuous/backhanded tactics, all because the reader doesn't want to see, hear or read something that the ad industry wants them to see, hear or read.
Thats just like... your opinion man...
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Sigh. When I was in university, I worked at a computer store one summer that provided IT services to local offices. One of the clients was the Mexican consulate. We were hired to do various things, including installing a tape backup system.

I was installing some service packs at about 5pm. Windows NT4. 5pm, everyone's gone home, safe, right? Server asks if I want to restart, I say yes. Then a guy walks into the server room, asks if I had restarted the server. I say yes. Whoops, OK, I guess someone was working.

Next day, the database was dead. Seemingly because I had restarted the server while someone was using it. It was a custom database job, and the contractor who had made it was on vacation in some other country. Here's the kicker. Usually tape backups have rolling tapes, right? But we hadn't started rolling tapes yet. So the good backup from 2 days prior was overwritten the night before with the crashed database. Ugh. And I was due to go back to school in 2 weeks in another city. Ouch. I still feel bad about that to this day. No idea how my boss ended up.

Never ever let someone who doesn't know what they're doing mess around with your mission critical systems where the consequences are not recoverable. Always guide them. Although in my case, it seems I may have known more than my boss at the time, so maybe wasn't possible for me....
All your points are great, just offering these counter points for the sake of discussion:

Firefox was slower with the UX animations. It seemed to skip frames/uglify the animations. Though I did not have a lot of problems with bugs that crippled the application. Internet Explorer was mainly the browser with crippling bugs that were sometimes hard to fix.

The counter point to the "carrot" of more users from Firefox is that I'm working with limited resources. I feel like if I hired another developer, one of the things they could start out on is cross-browser compatibility. But right now, in order to get those firefox users, I have to sacrifice somewhere else. I don't think not supporting all major browsers is a good long term strategy, but I think it might be a necessary early-stage strategy.
Well, not necessarily. Let's Encrypt gave us the ACME protocol. Would be nice if we started seeing competing implementations of that.
That's me above in Ian's [2]. We're hoping to have something ready to share by the end of the month. I'll post a Show HN when it's available.

In the mean time, here's a paper from some folks in Norway that shows attacks against two prefix-preserving IP address anonymization schemes:

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11767831_12
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Why do bubbles collapse at all?

When valuation changes cause widespread insolvency, imo.

That was possible in 2008 because household debt levels combined with the subprime scams create underwater households that could no longer keep up with payments.

Who would become insolvent when tech stock valuations change?
+1 I totally agree with you. Sustainable and slow growth (or even flat business growth, with a profit) should be fine, if vulture capital is not involved.

I am visiting my Dad and we were just talking about bootstrapping vs. venture funded startups this morning. He pays to go to the MIT club's startup talks in San Diego, and really enjoys the presentations (he is in his 90s, and likes to hear what people are working on).
I would be happy to pay a little to get free users. Once I felt ready, I was planning on just calling mobile auto detailing businesses up and trying to get them to let me demo to application. I own a mobile auto detailing business myself, so I hope maybe I won't get blown off as much as normal because of the common ground.

The brushing capability took me 3 days to implement. I did it in sort of a "manic" phase of productivity. I like the way it looks, but I feel like I burnt too many cognitive resources on something that should have just been implemented in a "good enough" way. Not sure if that tidbit is interesting?...
Can anyone point to a bubble where everyone was, for years, constantly asking whether or not it's in a bubble?
As someone who's completely ignorant about this sort of thing, and about whether it's a bubble:

If it is indeed a bubble, is there anything positive that will result from it bursting?
I dislike both extremes. I agree with your parent post about Aldi being depressing in character, but it's not just the bareness and speed, it's the herding. I've been in an Aldi recently only once, and had gone in just to look around and see if I wanted to shop there in the future. Once inside, I realized that there was no path back outside except through a cashier. Look around and leave? Oh, no, you will buy something in order to be allowed to leave, the design seemed to say.

After I realized that Aldi didn't want to let me leave without buying something, I was determined to buy nothing, and finally waited by the entrance until someone coming in opened the door so that I could leave to the entrance side of the airlock/lobby, and then again for the outer door. I expected this procedure to look very odd and for people to stare, but it must be common enough, since no one seemed to notice.
The Aldis near me is looking for employees at $11.25 an hour.
Running ads is difficult. There's clearly people spending huge amounts of money through online advertising and this happens because they are able to get results (understanding what works and what doesn't work on each platform).

Once they figure out how to get the results they need, they can put a dollar into Facebook and get more than a dollar out. Then they just turn the budget knob to 11.

Point is, those who make posts saying that Facebook is scamming people are just dipping their toes into advertising and will more than likely fail at first. Advertising online takes some investment to find out what works for your situation.
What the hell is Sam talking about? Quoting people from 2007-2008 saying we were in a bubble then as if nothing was wrong at the time? 2008/2009 was only partly insane because of tech, but it was an INSANE time: VCs were too scared to ask their LPs for cash because they knew the capital calls would fall short. Dealflow utterly halted for 6 months, and took another year after that to get back to something that felt productive. We were absolutely in a bubble then.

Using bubble-quotes from that era as evidence that we're not in a bubble now is absolutely preposterous.
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Maybe Finder could stash that stuff elsewhere if the new file system accomodates metadata on directories, or such.
Valuations have been questionable but that alone does not mean we are in a bubble. I'd rather we looked at the amount of funding that has been raised and the amount loss to gauge whether we're in a bubble.
So many pixels, so few bytes
Right. ncurses, too, implements the same kind of lazy redrawing of screen contents, and probably all graphics systems do this as well. The technique is fairy old.
Not related to the content, but in the Background section I tried to click on "Provably secure" sort of expecting it to expand. Meanwhile under ORE constructions, the similarly-styled "Semantically Secure Order-Revealing Encryption" is a clickable link.
i'm curious how that works in Romania? and why is $55K the cap?