skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "crash" wasn't a day-long, week-long, or even month-long stock pricing event, but lasted 6+ months from the first tech sector to the last going through the crash.

The first stocks to get hit were the web 1.0 properties in Q1'00 (use Amazon (ticker: AMZN) or Yahoo (YHOO) as a proxy as there aren't many left standing that are easy to find historical prices for) and amongst the last were the comm equipment companies which didn't peak until 6-9 months later (e.g., Cisco (CSCO) or Ciena(CIEN)).

All of this is completely separate from whether any of these companies had viable business models. Some did, like the telecoms, their suppliers, semiconductors, enterprise software. Some did not, like pets.com.

A very small number of dot-coms survived, and ultimately thrived after the crash (AMZN). Though you would have had to have enormous foresight to properly select your investments during the boom to not lose a ton of money if you bought in this frothy period.

All of the company fundamentals were well known at the time. It's not like the enormous cash burns of certain types of businesses was hidden from view. It was a badge of honor at the time (also true today in a few places). Some of that cash made it into other businesses that had been around for almost 100 years, like HP or Lucent, but juiced them, and they suffered withdrawal symptoms when their customers stopped spending (or even paying their bills).

To a fundamental investor, the perplexing thing about the whole era was looking at one of many not particularly unique companies that was trading at 25x annual sales, growing 50% a year, and losing money (which is a ludicrous valuation for a public company). Yet you'd find it at 40x three months later.

To get back to your question, having been close to the situation, I can't point to a specific event that started the cascade, but once it started, there was no stopping it. To a fundamental investor in early 2000, the outcome was perceived as being inevitable, but impossible to predict when it would happen. If you'd asked them at the time, they would have told you that the tech market had detached from fundamental behavior back in 1997/98 earlier with no signs of slowing down.

As an aside, if you were willing to look outside tech, it was an amazing buying opportunity in pretty much every other sector of the stock market. Industrials, energy, commodities, real estate, and so on were trading at discount prices even in the midst of this enormous bull market in tech/telecom and related stocks. Unfortunately that is not the case today and it's hard to find any sector that could be considered cheap.
Giffgaff redirects me to a page telling me I need to be 18. As it happens the domain's own home page says exactly the same thing.
besides the obvious of laptops being a large part of the 40-50% "desktop" figure you use, the CMOS battery in your desktop tower is lithium.
"Some comes at 12:30 AM and leaves at 8:00 PM "

That's nineteen and a half hours in the office. This is crazytown and that employee needs some pastoral care. Unless that's a typo for 12:30 PM...
> Number of git commits!!!

Well, it's true. Differential privacy is a nice idea, but in this particular case, you're disparaging a style of research that -- to date -- has had a much greater impact on improving actual, real world privacy than all the fanciest query engines in the world.

> Software changes the world.

The most important thing to know about differential privacy is that when in comes to privacy, software always plays second fiddle to policy and politics.

Differential privacy algorithms are literally nothing other than the implementation of a legal spec. Without the law, the algorithms are pointless.

Mind you, I don't intend to disparage differential privacy work in any way! But disparaging policy research while holding up differential privacy systems as the answer massively misses the point...
> And regarding your concern about me, if anything I should be the one engaging in this ridiculous witch hunt against Deep Mind

I dunno; if your cavalier attitude toward privacy protections around personal health data reflect how your research was managed, there could be a very strong personal-interest reason for you to be waving around the "no big deal" flag you are waving about DeepMind.
I think it's also trying to suggest that his cartoon is more internally consistent/idiosyncratic than something produced in teams would be.
I don't want to have to wear headphones.
Reuters: Ban on most electronic devices on US bound flights from 12 countries
I really don't understand those numbers. Surely mortality is 100% regardless of exercise. How was the study designed?

So I read the study for fun and the non-adjusted rates are 3.84% death rate (cohort study) in no exercise vs. 2.35% in 1-30 minutes and 2.08% in more. And that's not adjusted for pre-existing conditions if I understood correctly. So meh. Even though 20% and 20% sounds really great!
I work at Google as well and actually they give us plastic plates to be able to bring dinner home. Some colleagues of mine use this perk to bring their baby food so that they don't have to cook at home.

There's a catch though: the dinner is served at 18:15
It’s Time to Take the Gaia Hypothesis Seriously
My doc told me to always take magnesium if I take vitamin D.

I've just found an article about why to do it:

http://www.easy-immune-health.com/magnesium-and-vitamin-d.ht...

Seems like magnesium is needed to convert D to its active form.
I'm just a little confused, With terabytes of disk and gigabytes of ram, why should someone spend time shrinking the size of a binary down?

I understand if you are working in an environment where both of those could be limited such a tool would be extremely helpful. But I don't think I have ever decided to not use a program because of the size of the executable. I don't spend my day looking at the size of awk vs sed vs grep and then using the one that is smaller.
Toronto – Archon Hiring Web App Dev (React.js)
The energy density (Watt*hours per kg) is about half compared to the "explosive" cells on the market.
>It is not a matter of just being shut down due to low volume. The rates that you get depend on the volume. So the "back up" gateways end up so expensive you have no interest in even keeping them around.

The rate difference would be an investment in redundancy. If Provider A goes down, I would guess you'll be grateful to have Provider B taking the failover traffic, even if costs you an extra 2.9% in transaction costs. You'd keep feeding Provider B the minimally-acceptable amount of traffic at the higher price point to keep that redundancy alive.
Props for thinking it through yourself.
Interesting analysis of fuzzing on Edison (previous generation?) [1]. For my uses, the ARM boards like ODROID and Raspberry Pi have superior value. But it's good to see Intel competing here.

[1] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/edison_fuzz/
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you could also try running it in various vacuums.
Congrats on Distill Chris, sounds awesome.

> I also have unusual experiences, like dropping out of university to support an accused terrorist, that I might like to write about. But it feels kind of like an abuse to use the attention the deep learning community has given me as a platform for these other topics.

You've got the attention of the deep learning community because you write about interesting stuff; I hope you write more about your non-DL experiences and I think a lot of people (both inside and outside the DL community) would find them very interesting.
> if your browser auto-downloads the PDF then … you have a browser that can't itself show PDFs ….

Surely a browser that shows PDFs itself downloads them in order to do so? (I don't know for sure what was bothering anw, but I'm often on a limited data connection, and, whether the PDF is displayed in my browser or dropped in the download folder, it hits my data allowance the same.)
Indeed they do not exclude each other but they are also not the same thing.
I wonder what magic_beans ("your body WANTS to move around", three posts up) thinks of this response.
Cool, and good luck with your work.
Has anyone run both Linux and BSD on a server? What was your experience?
I have the same intuition about this that I had when the OPERA team thought they had exceeded the speed of light [0] -> this violates a fundamental law of physics so this must be wrong.

My money is on experimental error.

[0]: (most upvoted HN post if you search for "speed"+"light") http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484
This sounds right. Many things require different talents, and the tasks can be divided so that people with different talents can focus on what they do best. If I were involved in a video game, I could be productive in programming, but definitely not in the artwork. Lots of tasks are like this.

However, there definitely is a real truth to the saying "too many chefs in the kitchen". You don't want to waste the chef's time with table service or janitorial duties, but you can't have 20 chefs all arguing about the menu or how to prepare food. The problem with too many companies, though, is they want the product done sooner, and think that adding more people will get it done faster, just like having 9 women will cause you to bring a baby to term in 1 month....
That's a distinction without a difference for present purposes. It's substantially the same release and had a major discussion less than a month ago.
On the topic of home security systems, have you watched Home Alone with localhost(https://youtu.be/zkzlc76wJ6k)? It covers someone else building their own security system.
> Alternative suggestion: write a script to automatically syndicate your HN comments to your blog :)

It's funny you mention that as it's an idea I've considered several times. I find it so easy to crank out a few hundred word post here in response to an article or its tangential discussion. I agree that the form factor is a part of it, so something more than a tweet but less than a blog post is interesting.

I've also been thinking about a blog post format of summarizing long / deep HN comment threads, similar to what r/tabled does for AMAs.
"...the paper describing it simply leaves out too many details,"

... and that would be because the patent hasn't been issued yet.
how do they compare to LXC? I ran into a lot of annoying issues trying to set them up in ubuntu
No, because improving throughput requires a generational GC

Not necessarily true. Often, the throughput issues can be improved by reducing memory pressure. (Though this may not cut it for situations with very high performance requirements.)

requires a generational GC, which is something you need to design from the beginning. Once you do, it tends to be a massive win.

Depending on the environment, you can switch to a higher throughput GC in production.

Or maybe you don't notice any throughput problems because most mature GCs have good throughput, leading to the incorrect conclusion that throughput is unimportant.

Maybe. Most of my experience working in GC environments was in VisualWorks, which had an excellent generational GC in its day. One of the points of pride with the VM was that it was common to see only around 2ms latency for GC pauses. There was quite a bit of work done to eliminate perceptible GC pause. For the initial experience, people would notice the GC pauses first.

In any case the words "extreme low latency GC" are yours, not mine, and I suspect you have a very particular subset in mind when you use that term, which perhaps isn't what I have in mind. Emphasis should be on low latency, to the point where the average programmer doesn't have to think about it very often, until it's time to optimize the program in general.

Take JS, for instance: you know how JS-heavy apps are criticized all the time on HN for being slow to load? That's a throughput problem.

I suspect you have a very good blog post about the details.
Freshmeat turned into Freecode and it's still there, but locked in perpetual read-only nostalgia mode from 2013. It is quite literally frozen in time.
To be fair, it would get you laughed at in a lot of places in America too. If you have a great credit rating and a rapport with a good, locally-controlled institution, this might work. The parent seems confident it would work in his case, which is great, but it is definitely not always that easy out here.
The linked video appears to be a purely artistic expression, the comparison it to a home security system is not applicable.
> Art literally means something created by humans

Mathematics are created by humans. Math is the map, not the territory.
Completely and Strategy
hahahaha was about to point out the same exact thing.
Looking for a great designer/front-end developer
I'd like to give fastvenues.com a facelift.

The issue is, our current design is REALLY not optimized at all for mobile. We need a new design for a great mobile web experience, without building an app just yet.

Looking to discuss this more, email me at anthony@fastvenues.com

Thanks!
Yes, thanks. :)
Fedora and the all FOSS ones tend to avoid patent-encumbered codecs. I'm not sure about Debian based ones.
Our expression of grief is probably a result of a mutation that altered the structure of our amygdala so that fear controls brain chemistry less than our primate ancestor. When an animal is in fear, chemical reactions desensitize and suppress brain activity involved in emotional expression to protect the self from being perceived as weak and dedicate brain energy to motor functions.

Looking at tears and the neurological development from genetics through adulthood would be a great way to understand what makes us human.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871162/#!po=29...
Electronics banned from cabins on some Middle Eastern flights to U.S
"but I'm missing freshmeat website. It seems that most open source stuff is advertised now on www.openhub.net"

I don't understand this comment ...

First, my experience is that most open source software is now on github.

Second, I feel that github is infinitely better in every way than freshmeat was.
Can you provide some counterexamples?
Resources out there are going to be dependent on the scale of goat rearing you plan on doing. What works for 2 goats won't necessarily work for fifty, and what works for fifty goats won't necessarily work for 200.

They're also notoriously difficult animals to get right. Most vets do either cats and dogs, or cows and horses. Goats are an entirely different beast, and really, the best education I had was just doing it, and learning things the hard way.

I'd spent some time prior to farming working with herds in both France and England, which was very informative. If you're able to find someone who's at the scale that you imagine your self to be at, some day, learning from them is likely the best option.
Lies, which couldn't be sustained forever, as in most bubbles. The most common kind of lie in this era was advertising sales fraud, in which ad sales (and rates) were wildly inflated by what were really swaps of rights to run ads that had a net null effect on the companies but were trumpeted as massive revenues, and massive ongoing increases in revenue, although in fact no money was changing hands, at all.
I started using i3 back around 2012 I think. I had tried a couple of other tiling window managers (awesome, xmonad, etc).

I occasionally try new ones every couple of months if I start using a new machine or laptop, but I keep coming back to i3. It feels like it's the easiest to use/deal with and I like the tree/stack way it handles windows.

Having used a tiling window manager for years, I don't ever want to go back to overlapping windows. Even when I have to use my Windows machine, I tend to keep everything full screen in each workspace.
I believe I read that PayPal's founders themselves have stated that PayPal would've been impossible to start under post-9/11 banking regulations. We all know that the current (terrible) state of banking is a regulatory/legal problem, not a technical one.
I mean, there is one of these things on a lab bench somewhere.

wouldn't hooking it up to a charge controller, weighing it, then watching how long a lightbulb stays on suffice?

Even if it's a complete black-box, and the thing never gets cracked open, if i understand correctly, the claimed energy density has not been achieved?
> The 'bootcamp' approach is what we know at the present time to work best.

What other approaches have even been tried? I don't think, in the absence of meaningfully tried alternatives that have been shown to be lacking, that a proclamation of "best-ness" is particularly warranted. ("It's the best!" "Oh? What else have you tried?" "It's the best." cycles aren't responsive.)

I note you're a physician, as well. How much of your perspective on the matter is a result of your having been through a similar process?

I'm not. But I take the word of my physician friends — one of whom, a perinatologist, recently accepted a position at a prestigious teaching university — very seriously. They aren't just speaking from their experience. They're, if their explicit statements are to be believed, relating the experience of nearly every other physician they know.

Sure, that's still a vanishingly small fraction of the total physician population. At what point, then, does this chorus of, "This is not the best way to do this" become worth listening to, and not merely writing off as griping by the uninformed, or a minority of slackers with sour grapes?
It's easy advice to hear and hard advice to do. As a programmer, I just naturally want to measure everything. Something feels so weird about putting a thing into the world and not measuring it, not knowing if or how it impacted people and how the community reacted.

Some successful entrepreneurs like garyvee prescribe similarly not using analytics for the first year of building a blog.
James Hand, a former BBC Jersey presenter, came up with Boaty McBoatface

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-35860760
The word stress has a broader meaning than the mental/anxiety aspect though.
SHA-1 Collision Detection on GitHub.com
Are you sure it is not for post mdma effects ? :)
I already have a nomination. The guy who wrote this blog post:

http://adilmoujahid.com/posts/2016/06/introduction-deep-lear...

It's the only way I could get a working model of Caffe while understanding the data preparation steps. I've already retrofitted it to classify tumors.
Oh man, that site is a blast from the past in terms of web development.
If you had a normal electrochemical cell, with a sodium anode and sulfur cathode, and liquid electrolyte, the sodium would release an electron into the circuit and hop off the solid anode into the liquid electrolyte. On the other side, sulfur would grab electrons from the circuit and hop off the solid cathode into the liquid electrolyte.

In the middle, the ions would keep their charges and physically arrange themselves such that the charges are balanced in every direction. This would be an energy minimum, and it would be hard to reverse. Trying would probably cause the electrolyte to decompose instead of redepositing the original reactants onto their electrodes. It would not be rechargeable.

As a physical metaphor, you have two mutually-attracted boulders rolling down from opposite ridges into the same bowl-shaped energy valley. When they collide, they strike with such force they turn to sand.

In the rechargeable battery, you prevent that last step by putting a giant springy foam block in the center of the valley, so that the boulders can't touch. You prevent the sodium and sulfur from coordinating physically to cancel out the physical force from separated charges. Then to recharge, you tow or push the boulders back up the hill.

I think the "same metal at the cathode" might be an artifact of putting the springy foam block in to keep the boulders intact. You couldn't switch the anode and the cathode any more easily than you could swap the elevations of the ridges and the valley. That is, it takes as much energy to do the physical rearrangement as it would to charge the system electrically.
Github is nice, but it's not quite the same. Freshmeat was more about new releases and discovery. It was the daily list of new ideas (some terrible ..) and software updates in the open source world. Today Github alone doesn't do that. It's more like GitHub + Hackernews or Reddit or some other aggregation site to show you what's new and neat or updated.

There was a lot of dreaming during that time (late 90s/early 2000s) of what we could accomplish in the OSS communities. Slowly community projects became part of foundations or startup/corporate controlled. Gimp never took the place of Photoshop, and many of the lofty ideas about open source really started to fade:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source-...
> Right - identifying AR as a hot area is easy, but formulating what that looks like requires vision.

Good point. And an relevant parallel between Sculley's Newton and Cook's potential "AR innovation project".

However - I get the feeling that it's a bit different from the mobile/touch UI revolution. That required lots of vision in terms of software and design. In AR I think there's really a lot of low-hanging fruit in terms of UX/design - once the trick part; the AR hardware has been solved.
I work almost exclusively with this setup: Dual split screens, shell on left, browser on right.

The reason I comment is to share what took me too long to realize. If you want to resize the two full screen apps, the experience is much smoother if your browser is in focus first. Click browser, then drag to resize.

Something to do with the terminal trying to keep to character-width bounds, I think.
> but have rooms available ... for heads-down working

Seems like you don't have to.
Perhaps I did misunderstand. I didn't see how "pendant" could make sense (I used to wear one, and I couldn't see how a person could be confused with a pendant). But since you thought of it as a "symbolic token", please do explain what you think Tyson symbolizes and how he is a token, like how the user whack mentioned.

As for your last paragraph, I'll admit that I am not great at English and I don't understand its rules, so I'll assume you're right.

Disregard that example and take this one instead: the comment used a source and gave it the number 1 instead of 0. Someone could argue that using 1 instead of 0 "gives the wrong idea of what acting intelligent is to youth" with some pedantic argument like "everything must be zero-based because think of the children/youth, we need to set the right example for them". What I'm arguing is that such an argument, just like an argument about a gramatical mistake, is weak at best. It doesn't provide much insight, it doesn't provide any solution, it just whines
Sorry for being pedantic here, but despite lack of video hardware I would argue it has a lot more in common with the PI than an Arduino. It runs Yocto Linux and you can pretty much use the full suite of Linux tools to program it.
It bothers me a little that economists might lack the ability to factor in changing consumer or business habits that are emerging because of recent events or secular trends.

For example:

>One additional consideration that I think about is the possibility that low rates are scaring people and causing them to save more and invest less, while conventional wisdom is that low rates should lead to more investment and less saving.

I will say that even when times are good, but can no longer be assured, people will save more. Moreover, when the costs of economic vulnerability have never been higher, the spending habits of the past no longer work.

Many of us are one pink slip away from permanent unemployment, underemployment, and financial ruin.

Many of us are one chronic - not necessarily life-threatening - illness away from peonage.

It seems unrealistic to expect people to behave as if it's 1957 or even 1987. Jobs for everyone or the threat of nuclear war probably spurred a bit more "live for today" mentality than what we might experience today.