skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sense a little cynicism here. I currently work for a startup and most of their capitol was NIH funded. We are currently releasing 3 or 4 commercial products this year. We are hiring like crazy. I understand a certain distrust of government but I think there is a disservice to assume everything government touches is corrupt (or at least 100% corrupt) You really don't have to look further than the scientific community. The limitations I've seen from NIH funding most people would agree with, like we can't share private data specifically about users.
My experience with Rails is that if you stay on the path it marks for you, you will really develop on rails. If you want to customize a little, it makes it really painful.

If all you need is a CRUD app such as Basecamp and the other products from 37signals, Rails is a no-brainer and you'll be already half-way done.

If you need something more or something different, you better off looking deep in the pool of plugins, because if they don't have the answers, you'll need many hours to break the convention and tweak to your requirements.

The essay-like queries is a code smell, by the way, and to me it suggests you're underutilizing Active Record scopes.
There are really two potential "bubble" worth talking about at the moment - the broad equity markets (up almost 100% in the last two years) - and the early-stage Internet market (not Facebook, but Groupon and the early-stage investments.)

I'd argue they're maybe related but they're not linked, given the lack of a big tech IPO market. In the 99 bubble it was the vision of a big IPO driving the private tech bubble. These days I'm not sure that's true.

There's a third bubble worth noting - real estate. I don't think it's nearly done deflating, and if rates start to rise back to normal levels without incomes starting to pick up (which would require a major drop in unemployment) we're going to see another down leg there as millions of baby boomers try to get liquid on their home equity to fund retirement.
I meant user-controllable results like searchwiki.
What if your job history is relevant to the position at hand? Do you submit a shortened resume with the points that you would like the respective company to see and bring a copy of the longer one in case they ask?
I didn't meant to say that Donut was itself a mapping from data to representation, just that there is some kind of mapping somewhere. I absolutely agree that Donut should not be concerned with its representation(s).

In Flex, this is managed by a 2-part view consisting of the collection view (List) and the item view (ItemRenderer). When creating the List you pass it its data provider (oft. ArrayCollection) and its ItemRenderer.

Perhaps this example could benefit from a similar separation.
In it's first year of sales, the iPad would already be a Fortune 500 company.

Apple has no problem making money off their hardware.
You make good points and I think I may have to work more on using more distinct passwords.

Though, as you alude, this will become easier as keyring managers mature. I am also hoping that as security technology matures more places will move to forms for two factor authentication.
One addition to kleinsch's fairly comprehensive post:

Is the serving going go be just ROS or is there going to be any matching/targeting involved?

If targeting is going to be there, will it be fixed (based on pre-set data values) or dynamic, algo-driven.

If it'll be algo based, you need to factor in the associated processing loads etc.

HTH
There are a lot of people who HAVE to live there. So just be glad you have a choice.
Almost works in IE9, that's amazing in itself. But dead in IE8/7 of course.

(via browserling) http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4448/ie9corners.png

Hmm, webpagetest shows it works completely in IE9

http://cdn.webpagetest.org/thumbnail.php?width=930&test=...

maybe a later release
Not to be flippant, but 'strong directive influence' and 'contingent upon service to the state' for the entire economy is a far cry from a tiny fund of money.
Yes, you can "try" an idea in a weekend, but it's only going to be a rough sketch, not a polished experience. You still need a team and months/years of effort to bring it up to the next level so it can get the billion dollar valuation. How many weekend projects have billion dollar valuations?

Edit: In reply to mkr-hn whose comments I cannot reply to for some reason... I believe that this thread was about a bubble and billion dollar valuations not weekend companies worth much less.
Malinvestments wreck the economy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
If you were able to see the data using a packet sniffer, that would mean they're not using SSL to transmit the data...

"No sergeant, your men are already dead."
Ask HN: Does this service (for the paralyzed exist)?
Imagine this: a mouth retainer with a touch screen built into it, that lets paralyzed individuals navigate/maneuver using their tongues.

Does this exist?
This is one of the many reasons why instapaper is great.

Or readability for that matter.
Thanks, I'll have to fix that. Seems my scan queue has grown out of control since this morning, so I apologize the queue wait time is running at about 30 minutes now...

note to self, add a queue list to scan page..
"but also shows that Watson is no different than established A. I."

How does it show that?
The headline number doesn't have to be big for there to be overvaluation going on en masse. What about the hundreds of early-stage fundings going on right now? I don't think there's been a sudden explosion in the number of good companies being started - just a huge increase in the number of investments that angels and VCs are willing to make. That's a sign of a bubble
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I'm not talking billion dollar valuations. I'd rather have a thousand million dollar companies than a few worth billions.

A weekend sketch can be enough to get that team.
Rails is self-described as very "opinionated." In practice, I have found this to mean that if something is difficult I'm not doing what Rails expects me to do.

Sometimes that means I'm not using a mechanism in Rails that does exactly what I want, thereby making life harder for myself. Sometimes that means that means I want something different than the use-case Rails is optimized for. This is still possible, but more complicated. In the balance, this has meant that easy things are easy and hard things are hard.

If it is hard to do something easy, you are probably doing it wrong. Working through some up-to-date Rails tutorials/guides will likely make your life much easier. You still might not like it, but you'll be working with it instead of against it.
Ask HN: What are the long-run implications of Watson's technology?
How are normal consumers going to see this type of technology (if at all) in the future? What are the possibilities?
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As much as we like to slam government backed programs, at least it looks like they're partnering with the right people. The TechStars guys certainly know what they're doing when it comes to early stage funding. I'm interested to see how this turns out.

While I'm not a fan of government dollars invested in companies, some of the other stuff in the initiative (http://www.whitehouse.gov/startup-america-fact-sheet#adminis...) certainly sounds like a win for startups: "Administration Will Propose Permanent Elimination of the Capital Gains Tax on Certain Small Business Stock"
I'm sorry, it's not clear to me why you're "ecstatic".

Are you thinking that your SaaS strategy won't work without the Apple tax?

Second, a lot of people have pointed out that taking 30% of ALL subscription revenue just sounds unconscionable. Computers/Internet were supposed to reduce friction in commerce, not add a 30% tax.

It seems to me that you're OK leaving a huge amount of your fruit of your labour on the table. I hope there aren't too many people like you. Many won't be "ecstatic" at this offer.

And for the record, I think Amazon terms are just as bad, if not worse.
>My intuition says sliding the spoon down the side of the mug, then turning the flat side upward and lifting it in the middle of the mug would be one such more efficient motion.

You're still going to be getting laminar flow unless you're lifting fast enough to eject the tea from the cup (which I assume is contrary to the rules). I use a forward and backward motion going from low down at one side to high up at the other (especially when stirring hot soup for my little nearly 2yo) - I'm trying to produce a ragged (turbulent) collapsing void of air, maximising the surface area exposed particularly in producing as much turbulence as possible at the surface. One tends to get spiralling voids at either edge of the spoon.

I wonder if you can stir fast enough to produce cavitation and what effect that would have on the results.

Also can I design my own spoon to use?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation
look again

http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chfdeh=0&chdet...
The nerve of them, trying to encourage entrepreneurs to come to "the ghetto." How dare they want to spur economic growth among those ... people!
No two bubbles are the same and I agree with a lot of the things people are saying about the differences between now and the dot com bubble. But I think there's plenty of evidence of angels and various successful startups mafias pumping up valuations in the Silicon Valley web startup world. The good news is that the damage is likely to be a lot more localized this time.
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It does matter, because it means huge amounts of capital is being mis-allocated - that's money that could be better invested elsewhere, assuming those sectors are in fact overvalued.
But are the odd billion dollar valuations outliers or representative? How many profitable tech startups are they surrounded by? Is the support for those profits sustainable?
Monopolistic? Apple is in no way a monopoly. They have 4% of phone market share. Do you know what a monopoly is? Because based off your comment I don't think you do.

"In economics, a monopoly (from Greek monos / μονος (alone or single) + polein / πωλειν (to sell)) exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it.": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly

So what product does Apple have a monopoly on? Laptops? No. Cell phones? No. Mp3 players? No. App store? No: https://market.android.com/

There are alternatives to Apple, you just don't like them.

Apple is a middle man, just like Wal-Mart, eBay, or Amazon who all charge for their service (selling your products).

If you don't like it, sell it somewhere else, but calling Apple monopolistic is factually inaccurate and intellectually dishonest.

Oh, and the reason I cited Zach's comment, is because the topic whether it's Rhapsody/Spotify/Last.fm/Pandora/Netflix still applies and credit is due to Zach for his spot on comment/analysis of the situation.
"Ultimately, a programming language that's useful for large-scale programming projects needs to have clear, unambiguous grammar and syntax so that any developer familiar with the project and the language can instantly figure out what's going on."

I have a hard time swallowing the necessity to rely on restricting the expressive power of the language to prevent people from creating code that is hard to understand. My current project is in the order of 100 KLOC in Python (the horror, you can even redefine methods of single objects at runtime!) and so far none of the problems we've got can be tracked to language abuse.
Until they fix performance problems I'm pre-rendering stuff like that. Thank you very much.
I can't see how these two sets of data correlate into a massive bubble popping, just that the reality is that the US is still trying to come out of the results of the last bubble bursting...as an example, since the fall of 2008, unemployment has not recovered, so what, exactly, is about to burst?

I would think that hyper inflated values and unsustainable YOY gains in valuation for asset classes (stocks, real estate, internet companies) would be more of an indicator of a bubble.
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My premise is that embedded devices and servers don't matter to the vast majority of people who use computers, then and now.

If you're a home or office user, you can't use a server to do your work. You can't use an ATM to do your work. You can't really be pretending the desktop computer market is some narrow or obscure thing, can you?

In 1998, as a home or office user, you had a very specific set of choices for computing tasks, of which Microsoft controlled the vast majority.
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Apple obviously doesn't look at the AppStore as a MarketPlace. They view it purely as a convenience value add for the IOs. Every move they make indicates that they don't mind people filling holes in their product offerings just so long as they aren't attempting to fill that hole themselves.

If you base your business on the iOS platform then you only have a business for as long as Apple doesn't want that business for itself.
I wish I had the balls to have mentioned this particular risk in my startup school talk re:music a few months ago. People probably would have thought I was being paranoid/delusional.

The subscription model is already pretty f---ed even without a Deus Ex Machina from Apple.
It's really hard to get a 1st time conf off the ground, even if you are Jason Calacanis. I like the effort that Launch is putting into getting people involved and offering deals like this. They are being very active and it will pay off.
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Who says iOS devices are consumer only? There's plenty of business apps in the app store and plenty of large enterprises who are using the iPad and plenty of people who would love to handle their ERP through the iPad.

Even then, not all of those businesses are enterprise focused like Oracle. I'm pretty sure there's a bunch of people (myself included) who would love to have MS Office on the iPad instead of what's out there.
I lost my belief in Sony ever since the rootkit scandal a couple of years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_sca.... They don't know how to to day software. Would always stay away from them.
Turning that around, you think that in the presence of a powerful and expressive language it is nevertheless somehow easy or straight-forward to force people to create code that's easy to understand?

I'd be interested to read more of your thinking in this matter.
Just for arguments sake, let's say we are in a bubble. Isn't that a great thing for entrepreneurs wanting to startup or get additional funding? Does that mean we should put the pedal to the metal now instead of waiting for a potentially bad funding environment post-burst?
Here is the PDF - http://ps3crunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/psn.pdf

You'll notice this: "Even if a connection is SSL encrypted, companies are aware of the big risk behind custom CA ﬁles and it's possibilitie"

So AFAIK, Sony uses SSL but these guys think it's not enough. So headline and original article is exaggeration.

Again from PDF "SONY is only relying on
it's https connection. With all those CFWs spreading around, this is not secure anymore."

- Which is total BS. If you are downloading a custom firmware that's not Sony's problem go blame firmware developer and yourself for running something on your system from an untrusted source.

So looks like collecting information is the truth (as expected) and rest of the article is just baseless accusation.
I have to think you are correct. Even if there are valuations that are unwarranted, it is not equivalent to the Dot-Com bubble, where almost all companies were getting flooded with cash and high stock valuations on ZERO revenue.

I don't want to ignore the possibility of a secondary recession, but I can't see much merit in talk of a 'bubble bursting'. This isn't much of a bubble.

A dangerous bubble is when your neighbors, parents, sisters and coworkers start talking about leaving their jobs and making it big in 'whatever' the big thing is...real estate, dot coms....gold...this might seem like the case in SV, but it isn't common anywhere else in the country, yet.
But it's not corporatism or fascism, or socialism, it's a frickin seed program that may be a small waste of money. The government funds basic research all the time, with a pretty good track record.

Fascism is telling Volkswagen to make tanks.
How does this not exist yet? "Email Setup Guide" as a service.
Like many SaaS web site or ISP businesses, we provide email services for our customers. And like many of these businesses, roughly half of our support time is helping people set up their email.

I can only imagine how many HN'ers have this exact problem.

What I'd like to see is an web app that has an exact walkthrough of major email programs with step-by-step instructions, similar to this: https://portal.plus.net/support/email/setup/index.shtml

However, with the exact account info sent in via API so that the "walkthrough" is 100% accurate for the customer doing the walkthrough.

I'd think the app should be 100% HTML5/Javascript, where the API is done either via XHR or just in the GET params. It could even be open source, so that you could just grab the repo and drop it on your server and program in 1 webhook to provide the account info.

The 95% use case is for straight-up IMAP setup. Mail.app, Outlook Express, Outlook 2007, iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Palm, Windows Mobile, maybe a couple others?

Alternatively it could be run as a business, with the system hosted as a SaaS app, on SSL, with a small annual fee to use it for your business (maybe co-branding or something).

Anyway, I think that this should exist, is doable in a pretty small amount of time, and would literally save me 100+ hours a year.

I know I'd be happy to sponsor getting such a project off the ground (maybe Kickstarter?) and would guess it'd be very easy to raise the amount needed to make it worth the time to do it.

Thoughts?
This is really, Scala (and any of those extra JVM languages) considered a harmful addition for large java projects which makes a lot a sense. It surprises me a bit that it needs to be said, and said in such fashion.
I was actually referring to the cloud of people who may be planning on participating in an eventual IPO rather than those who have already invested.
Good to see them catching up with Bing. Bing has been doing this for some time now.
I've always assumed this kind of psyops has been used by, if not govt agencies, PACs or private entities. Digg commenters in particular.
No details and a single "anonymous hacker" is your source? I really hope this isn't the future of journalism.
I doubt that there will be many, if any, implications. As a narrow AI system Watson is unlikely to have wider applicability or scalability. It's the classic dilemma of narrow AI.

People asked similar questions after the famous Kasparov defeat to Deep Blue. That event did have implications for chess players, but not much beyond that.
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This part would've bugged me too. That is, if I weren't already bugged by Palm^WHP's habit of pre-announcing products 6-18 months too early, accompanied by the virtual abandonment of currently released technologies -- everything from capable devices not getting 2.0 despite promises, to not fixing bugs in current OS versions with the explanation "fixed in $webos_ver++!".

Great product, poor marketing (premature announcements: shut up and ship! weird commercials that target god knows what demographic), poor management.

In the likely event WebOS fails, it won't be the technology or UX that failed it, it will be the employees around it.

Some WebOS engineers are great (Josh M., etc)
This appears to be UK only. Apparently Staples did a similar promotion for US-based stores a couple of years ago (along with free business card printing)

http://www.centernetworks.com/staples-free-resume-printing-b...
Actually, that's not exactly true. Remember the term 'irrational exuberance'? Alan Greenspan wasn't talking about how everything was peachy keen, and that was well before the implosion.
What the government is doing here is 'tinkering' with a process that doesn't involve them. When such tinkering occurs, societal and market distortions are introduced in unanticipated manners.

How could the government, sponsoring a few thousand startups, be harmful to anyone? If they start competing with existing VCs, angels and incubators, they may become the ONLY source of funding. Look at the Dodd-Frank Act, they're already squeezing accredited investors out of the game. The State has an unfair advantage, they can assume any amount of risk and stay in business as long as they want. That's some steep competition.
Yes it will distort the startup market slightly - but the people creating startups are smarter than the government!

We started a company in "a special development area" = 30 years of high unemployment since the shipyards closed and a civil war didn't help. Every government department was queuing up to give money to create new entrepreneurial industries.

Department 'A' required you to have less than 5 employees - no problem you just count the founders.

Then Dept 'B' had a grant if you had created 10 jobs - no problem you just count every web designer and contractor.

Dept 'C" gave you money if you worked in a green technology - no problem you just sign up another startup doing green stuff as a customer and do some work on their website.

It actually did a fantastic job of creating an unofficial network of startups who all borrowed staff off each other and discussed the latest tricks to get the latest grant.

Still cost less than having the army on the street,
If you're pretending that English is a Romance language, that's a valid concern.

Alternately, just go with "Who am I talking to?"
Well, take a look at this sample (http://dispatch.databinder.net/Common_Tasks) and see if you can figure out what all those operators do just by looking at them :)

Thats the kind of abuse possible with languages such as Scala, Haskell or c++ templates.
From where I'm standing I don't see any evidence that a technology bubble is taking place (actually the reverse). Perhaps there will be a bubble emerging in the next few years, but that's always hard to forecast.
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Go back to the roots of philosophy (Theory of Forms) to explain where the object oriented paradigm came from.
There is some serious witch hunting to be done in this thread.
Natural language is an artifact of human communication, so the most obvious application is human interaction. Eventually (who knows how long it will be), you may be talking to a Watson descendant for most interactions with businesses -- everything from requesting online help on a website to ordering your cheeseburger at McDonald's.

"A Big Mac? Wouldn't you like a nice order of Global Thermonuclear War instead?"

Like Ken Jennings and Kent Brokman, I too welcome our new (computer) overlords. Bring it on, Skynet.
Two other alternatives to emacs in this situation are sshfs, and mc's (midnight commander's) fish protocol.
The problem is that if you have a language
designed to make it easy to do this, you
encourage people to do it.

As the author of the BASIC DSL[1] in question, I must say that it was decidedly not easy to do. It would appear that Baysick is the number one reason that Scala hasn't swept the enterprise.

[1]: http://github.com/fogus/baysick