skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically at this point there's just hardly any woo-woo going around about the New Economy Being Beautiful With Money Falling From Trees or other neo-utopian wackiness. I think we might be in the early stages of a tech funding boom, but I just don't think people are that bullish right now. I see a lot of uncertainty going around. People are simply scared of the Great Recession and there're way, way, way too many people thinking about the '01-'02 bust.

When that fear starts going away I think a bubble has a chance of beginning.

/famous last words
That's fine and dandy, but quit showing mock-ups and talking about how great they are going to be and how they're going to change your life and all the other heavy breathing. Wait until it ships.
Sadly for every company that isn't Apple, Wall Street works in the exact same way.
"Your competitors could just download the source code, figure out what you wrote, and re-work it into their app. As long as it was different enough, there's not much you could do.

I'm not sure how this would really help you."

It prevents your competitors from forking a proprietary copy and building on top of it. Looking at the code and re-writing it is a substantial investment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist

Given my brief scan of that article, there are too many possible associations for the meaning to actually be clear. It could be to do with politics - anything from accusing Apple of being Nazi's, Communists, Communist Nazis (etc) and then there's the racial overtones.

It might just be a call for Solidarity.

E.g. I don't like this, if I revolt will you revolt with me? [ ] Yes [ ] No.
You mean, can generate some plans for some first class software. ;)
If you like this interview you should check the Mixergy episode with Naval, it is really good.

http://mixergy.com/naval-ravikant-venture-hacks-interview/

(oddly enough, I was listening to it when I saw this story pop up on HN)
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Well stated. I'll continue to think about this.
iPhone was announced four years ago. In that time a lot of innovation had to come. Well, we got iPad, from Apple…
Eh, how about not.
What do you want, a critique? Input? because it's hard to do anything with simply a one sentence description and a url.
Long ago, some people said computers would never beat humans at chess, and they were wrong. A human brain contains no magical components. It runs on physics. Whatever it does, can in principle be done by some other machine that runs on physics. I won't be surprised if someone finds a general way to replace metamathematical insight with clever search-and-pruning over a large but simply structured space, like it happened with chess.
Data export via API is on the list. It'll be done as soon as someone actually needs it. :D
> The hallmark of a sockpuppet is not responding with anything but a canned ad-hominem response, and posting the same set of talking points in enormous volume.

That's a good list for that style of Persona. Here's an example:

http://www.reddit.com/user/jmeasley/
> TL;DR: Microsoft excludes only GPLv3 software because it forces them to open all their source code in Windows Phones.

Um, no. That is entirely incorrect and is not at all what your link says.
I'm hesitant to pay since I can't see any examples of what I'd get. A short trial would be great.
If that's all the value you're offering your users, DRM is the least of your problems. If it's that easy for users to exhaust the content they actually want, you're going to have problems with customer retention, not to mention customer acquisition.
Original comment was that the links were nofollowed. On the Current Members page they have the nofollow attribute right on the links.

In response, Kyle linked me to the Major Supporters page, on which the links themselves do not have the nofollow attribute, so I deleted my comment. However, it seems both Kyle and I forgot to check meta tags, and the links in question are indeed nofollowed.

Good catch. :)
If we take the "increasingly desperate" seriously, there's a simple explanation: lots of utterly unqualified jobless people applying. Sure, there are probably people who are both unemployed and good, but throwing all resumes from unemployed people in the trash may save a lot of time.

I'm not saying this is morally right, or even smart; but it explains the observed behavior at least as well as "they would be a problem" (which, as you point out, isn't that strong an argument.)
>It looks to me like "just" playing with numbers, i.e. normal phenomenon ultimately describable with some math theory.

group theory is dealing with even simpler rules and it was able to reach the state of "math theory", though far from completed. Anything more complicated than that - tiny islands of understanded surronded by narrow seas of "playing with numbers" in the vast oceans of unknown.

>It looks far-fetched to me to describe it with the terms like "simple rules can result to complex emergent
behaviour," etc...

>Now this looks similar to me

any proof of "far-fetchedness" or similarity would put you right into the head of the line for the Fields :)
Exactly, about the shutout. Remember the project that siphoned juice from the audio jack to power sensors? That would probably be a no-go. I'm thinking about jailbreaking my iPod just to experiment with that project.

The dock connector is actually pretty good for providing power and basic connectivity-up-to-a-USB-port, but I'm betting it would be shut down by App Store rules. Which is a shame, because Cocoa is probably one of the best frameworks for a researcher or hobbyist to build in.

Which is where Google would come in: they could provide a great API for building out sensor platforms, not only in WiFi and Bluetooth, but also whatever 2.4ghz home-rolled or XBee modules people are using.
This is awesome on chrome, but I'm having some trouble on my iphone4. It worked fine on the 3gs though, so I'm not sure whats up.
ah, my bad guys, missed that ;(
Whether it's MBA raising money from LPs or Yuri Milner raising money from individual investors/on london stock exchange, it's still stupid money, though.

And yes, the money moving around is smaller compared to the 90s. But the economy is way smaller compared to the 90s as well.
iOS is merely an iteration of a platform that's been under development for over 20 years.

It took Microsoft over 10 years to create a consumer-friendly version of Windows NT, and almost another 10 years to deliver an acceptable followup.

Software is hard. Consumer software much harder. Platforms take years and years to develop and mature.
Shouldn't be an issue here then: there are nine words.
Ask IBM's Watson Research Team Anything
> "PEE-no NWA" as in French

Unless the French language has changed since I lived there, Noir would be pronounced NWARhh, with a gutteral R.
I think it's a great idea. I'm fascinated by business models. I would love to help or contribute in anyway.
Well the article does talk about that. And there are plenty of bot posters out there as well, they were quite notorious in manipulating stock prices.

Terminology note - sockpuppet is a Persona that is created to back up the opinions of second Persona. The general term here seems to be Persona, of which sockpuppet is a specific kind of Persona.
Yea, you're right. Check out the link to the blog post? That has a pretty good insight on what the premium meat looks like. I'm working on better non-user facing stuff as I write this. :) Takatakataka
I can't imagine being cut off from the Internet so badly. These things take time to spread fully, though. It's hard to force it when our networks are slower and more expensive than most other modern nations in the world.
In my (admittedly limited) experience, when web developers say they wish browser vendors would follow standards, what they really mean is that they wish everyone used WebKit.
Unsustainable? How about 'normal retail practice'? It's funny watching people froth at the mouth about normal retail practice.

I don't like Apple or how they run their business, but a 30% cut for a retailer is even be a little low. Go into a bricks-and-mortar store and usually 30%+ of the price you see is markup on the wholesale price.

Apple provide a service: they deserve to get paid for it. Even if Apple allowed apps to be sideloaded, you wouldn't sell anywhere near as many apps if you marketed them yourself, not to mention having to deal with organising a payment system and easy, integrated way of getting them.

App developers are the wholesalers. Apple is the retailer. If you want to be both a wholesaler and retailer for your app, then Apple isn't for you. Go to Android... but you'll find it's still better to give Google a cut and be on their market as well...
You might be right about forbidden fruit, but Apples aren't mentioned in Genesis at all. It turns out that the first reference to the Apple in the Torah is this:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+32:1...

Based on 40% of the verses in the Bible that mention Apples being in the Song of Solomon, Apple is definitely a naughty little fruit. :D
In fact, the list of languages with formalized syntax and grammar is a very short one. I'm thinking of languages like Haskell and ML.
Wait what? An attack on another company didn't involve finding faults in your own company? Impossible.
Possible uses of "free" (as in freedom/libre) ...

There's free for whom/what:
- the developer's freedom
- the user's freedom

... and there are also multiple time-scales of "free" (much as there are multiple timescales of "wealthy"):
- free for me proximally (when I've already got the code)
- free for me in the more distant future (when I might not)

For users, the GPL ensures both free-now and free-later.
For developers, one could argue that the GPL makes the trade-off of reduced freedom now (freedom to do what you want with the code you've currently got) for more freedom later (freedom here to at least get the code and then do what you want with it).

The strong case-in-point here is when a developer modifies some code, and then releases it, and would like to have the freedom to later build on contributions by others.

Is the trade-off worth it? This is now something of an empirical question.
That is a pretty &!@(&ing awesome link you pulled out there with an actual Air Force project that does just this thing.

Wow. Saved to disk in case that page vanishes without a trace.
If you make it to Palo Alto, I'll buy you a cup of coffee, swap war stories, and see who I can introduce you to. Good luck to you no matter where your road takes you!
His first mistake was accepting the initial invite. He should have specified that he wasn't available that day and asked to do it another. He didn't though, so either got to lie and say that something new has come up which can't be avoided, or tell the truth and explain that he double booked himself, which might make him look a little silly.
During the 2008 elections, it was hard to miss the fact that one guy managed to get the first comment on almost every single news site with comments.

Maybe he had no life, but I strongly suspected that that was his job. Also, he vanished immediately after the elections were over.
I'm afraid that the only explanation I can formulate for your comment is that you are simply unaware of alternative python implementations, because the differences between rubies and pythons are documented approximately evenly.
That is an assumption regarding the human brain.

Also, the limits of computation have been given an upper bound. If it's not computable by a Turing machine with a finite memory tape (or anything else that is mappable to a Turing machine with a finite memory tape), it's not computable by a physical computer.

Steve Yegge started exploring the metaphysics of computer programs before he stopped blogging; it makes for interesting reading.
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Awesome article!!!
Whoops! One sentence. Correcting.
I don't see how that can be true. It's perfectly possible to benefit from lying.
They don't own their whole stack, but they do control it - especially the critical stuff - to a larger extent than other verndors. They've done this by making large bets on component manufacturers: first on flash memory, now on displays or touchscreens (or both).
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One of the things I've wondered about what the long term impact of this policy is. If company A only accepts employed people, then when someone leaves company B for company A, a spot opens up at company B and maybe unemployed people can get hired there instead. So the same number of jobs would be open to the unemployed, it just extends the pipeline.
Totally different purpose. "Fiber on mag-safe power port" can eliminate (doesn't have to) the Ethernet port and adds _any_ future ports that can be multiplexed into fiber's bandwidth. PoE on the other hand can't eliminate the power port due to:

1. PoE devices are not common.

2. Ethernet port will never be as ubiquitous as the power socket.

3. PoE 2009 is rated 51W max, macbook adapters are rated 60-80W (45W for Air).

4. Say future PoE comes out with 110W rating, Apple can't and won't trust all vendors to follow the standard to eliminate something as important as the power source.

If the PoE does not eliminate the power port, it adds nothing to existing macbooks.
The whole industry of recruiters and head hunting is pretty shady to begin with. I'm surprised the head hunter didn't just blatantly lie about her past to get her the job.
Most egos in the valley are far too big to be starstruck by another geek ;)
I got distracted after the first link to the product :) This is right up my alley, so I'm definitely going to try things out and hopefully have good reasons to pay.
I think it depends on what you're doing with it. John Mackey (of Whole Foods) caught some significant flack and legal trouble for talking about Whole Foods stock very glowingly under several aliases. That'd be a problem.

But, if it's just for "shooting the shit", about random topics unrelated to your bottom line, I can't see that it would cause any trouble.
The case of people who never take risks is well understood.
Whoops. If I could still edit my post I would. I'll settle for an upvote here and hope people get the point :)
>If you live in a nation with rule of law and wide ranging protections of freedom of speech like the US there is no need to be anonymous in the vast majority of cases.

Tell that To Glen Greenwald, a journalist, who is finding that Bank of American is actively "scheming" to discredit her because of her support of WikiLeaks.

Tell that to Helen Thomas, a former White House correspondent, who criticized America's Pro-Israel stance and how it impacts on peace in the middle east.

The larger point that I'm trying to make is there are certain debates in this country that are one-sided. By that, I mean one-side controls the debate. It is not interested in honest discourse and the free exchange of ideas. It is interested in the status quo. It has found out that it is easier to discredit its critics (AIPAC has labeled most of its critics as 'anti-semetic', even if they are of Jewish Heritage.) than engage them.

In these instances, it might be easier to lay out the facts in sourced, cited, verifiable articles while remaining anonymous.
MWC 2011 summarised
LOL I like it.

But in all seriousness the Android phones we have today are way better than our choices from back in that era, even the ones running dated 2.1 OS... curse you AT&T!

Blackberry REALLY changed mobile phones. Then a lot of catchup. Apple did it again. Then a lot of catchup. I don't expect the story stops here...
I think he's making "a distinction without a difference".

Pyramid schemes, Bubbles and Ponzi schemes are all instances of what Hyman Minsky called Ponzi Finance. They all "recycle" new "investment" money coming in as their operating income.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Minsky#Minsky.27s_theorie...

A "pyramid scheme" makes it more explicit that the earlier entries get more. If you make that less explicit, what else do you have but a "bubble"?

The reason not to worry about these variations is that there aren't really three distinct variations of this theme but three million, with one born every minute - along with the suckers.
Then they have two problems. (reference: http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247)
I don't have a handle on the Python implementation landscape, but the various Rubies all regularly contribute to rubyspec[0] and report on how they're doing. And with rvm[1] it's incredibly easy to test code across rubies. From where I'm sitting, it seems dead simple to find the differences and how they could affect me.

0: https://github.com/rubyspec/rubyspec
1: http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/
I agree. It's dishonest to say that Microsoft isn't implementing HTML5. But they've actually said something much more subjective: that IE is not a "modern browser". The argument, which hasn't really been explicitly stated, is that a modern browser attempts to implement these new draft features before they're standardized.

In the past, Microsoft was not shy about implementing all kinds of new HTML technology but since IE6 they've only been doing the minimum necessary.

You can't get around to codifying a commonly used feature if it never becomes commonly used. And it's pretty clear that all these new HTML5 features will be in common use everywhere else long before the HTML5 standard is finished. So even though Microsoft is going to be releasing a new browser shortly, it'll be obsolete almost immediately.
I’m not arguing against anonymity.
News outlets have been picking up from HN very fast indeed.
...and outside seating, since it's gorgeous today.
Google needs to just accept links are irreversibly compromised. They're not a measure of usefulness anymore.

There are companies that specialize in submitting crap to digg, reddit, even here on HN - those are all paid links.

Infographics are a marketing tool sites use to generate links - you pay your money, someone designs it and submits it to social news sites to generate links back to your completely unrelated website. Those are paid links too, and not necessarily the aforementioned ones.

The mainstream blog networks are virtually content farms these days churning out summaries designed to do nothing more than reinforce their search positions for companies and products etc.

There's a big market for selling and swapping links, any forum for webmasters of any kind is going to have that at play.

Then there's flat out spam - last year I watched a site get all the way up to the top 10 for "free online games" with nothing more than blog spamming software.

There's all the sponsorships, endorsements, paid promotions, reviews with incentives, referral/affiliate stuff, etc etc.

So many ways money can change hands to cause a link to appear on a site.

Meanwhile there's a massive amount of the internet that is not going to get any legitimate link love, ever.
Seems like you already made your decision, and the best thing would be to be honest with your current employer. Go to SF where you feel your calling is, BUT, ensure that the demo could be handled by your peers. Let them know of your plans and that this is some opportunity which you would not want to miss. If the company totally cares for your well-being, they should (and I assume) would understand.
So when is the CrunchPad being shipped?
Let's see here, it's been a while...

Sir Walter Scott wrote more than Ivanhoe - his stuff is pretty flowery

Lord Dunsany wrote early, early, early fantasy. His stuff is absurdly purple.

Tolkein's writings are on the flowery side too.

The (Anti-)?Federalist papers also have some fairly involved and technical prose.

The characteristic of the above writing is that it flows. Also notable is that they were native English speakers not translating.

Most modern writing and reading is locked into a school of thought that elevates concision, smaller words, fewer clauses and smaller sentences.

There was some pivot around the time of Hemingway to this form of writing, I haven't looked up what happened.

At any rate, the snippet the grandfather posted didn't really work in a language sense. Lunch is over so I can't really spend the time to take it apart. :-)
Having no idea about what they just learn in CS. I've ran into CS majors who barely graduated and pretty much know nothing.

Then there are those who did really well, but all they can do is program in the language they were taught. They struggle learning a different language, or picking up a broader range of programing knowledge and theories.

I see this in a lot of majors, but most people chose the major because they think it will lead to a job. In other words they didn't learn it because they like it, they treat it as if it's training for a future job.
Wikimedia Foundation does the same to support Wikipedia. Check out the list of Sustaining Corporate Donors: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Benefactors

Unlike W3.org, these aren't nofollow links. So they are outright bought for anchor text goodness and PR juice.
Indeed, mathematics requires a big deal of creativity. You could argue it is a somewhat subjective discipline, as interesting questions receive infinitely much more attention than a random question. And how do you define what is interesting?
There are an infinity of directions you can take -- which for humans is fine, because they know that you eventually have to end up with something your peers find interesting as well. How would a machine do this? I feel this could be akin to train a computer to enjoy music.
While computers will continue to become more and more involved in theorem proving, it's not clear to me that they will be able to ask interesting questions within the next few years.

On the other hand, journal papers keep pouring every day at rates that are impossible to keep up. In the future this situation will be hopeless in the absence of some AI to guide us among that mess. But then again, papers are written in a combination of natural language and mathematics.
If a software system becomes better than the best humans at building new innovative software than there is going to be another "space race" but instead of space, it's going to be knowledge/intelligence. Some country will perfect the system and become the new world superpower overnight.

It means hold on to your hat Dorthy, cause Kansas is going byebye.
The "Donald Duck as prior art" case
Right, it would be insane for him to ever publicly communicate any possibility of a bubble, since it would certainly get picked up by the tech press, and potentially cause direct material harm to his interests.

Not that I think Paul is that calculating, but if YC were a public company, it might even be illegal per fiduciary responsibility.
The document indexing is nice, but not nice enough to let some 3rd party hook into my gmail account.

A simple has:attachment label:labelname and some search text is good enough to find years old attachments for me.
Sweet! Send me a note with what I need to do to get you as a customer. :) My email is in the footer when you're logged in.
it bums me out that the thumbnailing breaks the aspect ratio of images.

can i use it to mass delete attachments out of my gmail account to free up space?
??? I'm not trashing Java. Did you read the article? I was making an analogy between the risk of having a language like Scala, which would mean there was stuff the Java-only people would not understand (which is what the article claims), with the black box auto-generated code produced by early J2EE (which is similarly a no-fly zone).

Believe me, you'll know when I'm trashing Java, because I'll use the g word.
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The claim is that the people investing now are super smart guys like Yuri Milner, so there is no bubble.

I'm mildly skeptical - Silicon Valley VCs appear to be as affected by herd mentality as everyone else.