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"In other words, if this bubble pops, who will loose out? Will it have catastrophic consequences for the economy at large?"

Bubbles aren't defined solely by the extent of their damage post-pop. They're defined by the delta between bubble valuation and real value. In admittedly simplistic terms: the size of that delta, multiplied by the number of people who buy into it, usually dictates the impact of the burst.

Right now, we're arguably in the early stages of a bubble. Almost everyone admits that startup valuations, not to mention a few recent, high-profile IPOs (Groupon in particular) are inflated. Money is easy.

I'd argue that today's operative question isn't "by how much are valuations inflated," but rather, "how many people are buying into them?" And where will the contagion spread from here?

We have a few troubling indicators. Celebrities like Ashton Kutcher are leaping into the angel and VC scene. I have nothing against Ashton Kutcher, but I do question his fundamental grasp of the technology business. And I wonder whether his sloshing easy money around the startup world is inherently constructive or destructive to rational valuations within that world. Furthermore, Ashton's just the tip of the iceberg. CAA, Hollywood's leading Hollywood talent agency, is launching a VC arm focused on tech companies. Precisely what a Hollywood talent agency understands about tech firms is anyone's guess -- but CAA has more money than God, is extremely well connected to investment banks and hedge funds, and could serve as a bridge to the general public's interest in tech equity. (We'll recall that the 1999-era bubble was marked by a similar influx of carpetbagging investors from outside the tech industry).

People often point out that the frothy tech startups of 2012 are fundamentally unlike the frothy tech startups of 1999, in as much as 1999's startups went IPO, and today's startups generally get acquired. This is fair. But in both cases, investment money became (is becoming) very easy and very loose. This leads to a propagation (and propping up) of fundamentally unsound startups. History indicates that, eventually, there can be so many bad apples in the batch that people stop being able to tell the good ones from the bad ones. That's when the trouble begins. We're not there yet, but why wait around and let it happen?
it has big advantages in terms of readability and is necessary for self-documenting code
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Just a quick list of annoying things:

- comments start with --
- no bitwise operations in language
- default numeric data type is floating-point. it's possible to change it to
integer but it raises uncertainty with compatibility of external libraries
- OOP in lua is quite programmer-specific: everyone seems to have their own
best practises

Of course lua has good features too, like coroutines and good C API. Squirrel (http://squirrel-lang.org/) also seems like a nicer alternative to lua but it requires a C++ compiler.

IMHO lua's best asset is the small and fast VM. I wish there would be other good, modern languages that target it.
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I don't know where on earth you picked up this conspiracy theory but it's not.

If you'd been following this whole mess you'd know it's just a typical EU nonsense legislation that no-one knows how to implement and the UK is once again implementing it too harshly in law but giving it absolutely no teeth by creating a practically powerless and massively underfunded enforcement vehicle while our EU brethren quietly ignore it.

No big conspiracy, just your bog standard bureaucratic incompetence from the EU.
This isn't about third party cookies, it's about cookies period - with the exceptions listed in the article. If you use your own analytics package, the chances are it will use cookies, so user permission will still be required. Log parsing isn't sufficient to get user-based statistics.
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Curiously, 26 conversions (@ $29) in 7 days seems low compared to your March figures - naively dividing out I would have expected 39 sales in 7 days...
Some startups are more demanding than others. There may be a difference depending if you're a founder, early employee, or regular employee. 40 may be too much for some and too little for others.

One of the startups I founded required 10 hours a week from day one. Made my first million. That's when I realized that the number of hours you put in to something doesn't necessarily reflect what you will get back from it.

Another startup I founded required 60 hours a week in the beginning, and 5 hours a week down the road.

These days? RescueTime says I'm at 61 hours this week so far. Obviously not sustainable, but it's what needs to be done to reach my goals. I know where I want my startup to be, and what it will take to get there. It's important to be honest with yourself.

I keep my significant other in the loop so that she understands what I'm doing, why I'm doing it, and why I'm putting in long hours. She knows that right now I'm working hard, but there will come a time when I won't have to put in long hours. Communication is key.

There's something to say for efficiency too: make better use of the time you do have. My personal efficiency hovers around 92% — While I'm at the computer, I'm unproductive only 8% of the time. If you're working 40 hours a week and you improve your efficiency by 25%, now you can do 40 hours of work in 30.
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Still don't see it. Algorithms and data structures are going to be the most performance critical parts. It's the glue code if anything that should be written in a scripting language.
What you're suggesting sounds like a dark pattern to me.
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I'm not quite sure I'm following you. You don't need the sound to break the water into drops. You can do it without the sound by just adjusting the flow rate. I've done this.

Are you just saying that by using sound, you can break up an even faster stream, one that would ordinarily be too fast to break up on its own?
You can get user-based statistics without cookies with:

(new Image()).src="http://your.tld/track.png?ua=" + encodeURIComponent(navigator.userAgent);

and then parse your logs.

Update: this is just an example, as ars notes the user agent is sent as a HTTP header. But screen resolution etc is not.
Wait... cageface wrote: "but the verbosity really gets in the way" and you write "I'm much more productive with ruby because it's so expressive.". I am not a native speaker but isn't that contradictory?
On a tangential note: Though the different alignment of the AUD amount wouldn't even register on my radar - I'm 99% sure the exchange rate you're using _will_ be significant for most of your target market. The AUD has been trading above the USD for many months now - and _everybody_ here who buys _anything_ online knows that.

http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=29.95&From=USD&...

It might be worth revisiting those non-USD prices...
I sincerely question this story.

C1 requires around 20,000 words of vocabulary. That's more than 100 words per day to get there in 5 months.

I submit that's impossible, even if you do that all day.

On a more intuitive level, I'm C2 in English, and it took me 20 years to get there. I don't think C1 in 5 months is realistic.
Yes, but they also say "we are highly unlikely to prioritise first party cookies used only for analytical purposes in any consideration of regulatory action."

So in theory all cookies are the same, in practice they're not - first party analytical cookies are mostly safe.
You can set your browser to do that; but making it the default will make too may sites unsable (e.g sites with shopping carts, banking sites etc.)
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Not quite what you're asking about, but an interesting related innovation:

http://untyped.com/untyping/2011/02/11/stop-ab-testing-and-m...
More likely at a Rails conference ;-)
Wouldn't it be better to mandate that sites honor the Do Not Track* HTTP header, rather than require each site to explicitly seek user consent?

* http://dnt.mozilla.org/
???

How does this help? The UserAgent is already sent in the headers - what's the point in sending it in a query string?
Bypassing the blogspam:

Press release from Simon Fraser University: http://www.sfu.ca/pamr/media-releases/2012/study-finds-cance...

Paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (paywalled): http://www.jbc.org/content/287/14/11481.full?sid=76cffabf-8c...

A useful rule of thumb is that whenever you see anything on sciencedaily.com or physorg.com, unless it's absolute nonsense there's another more direct (and often more informative) source you should link to instead.
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A site is much more like a shop - private property, but a public place, and therefore it has legal restrictions if you want it open to the public.
Many of the sellers ARE profitable but it takes a while to get them there. The actual 'formula' to figure out how to correctly price their items is passed around in the forums. Nothing wrong with this but it does show you that most sellers don't have a clue when they first open a shop. They just want to sell anything at any price.
"Agree on the Japanese point. The way you build sentences is just TOO different. You can definitely learn Japanese and speak it as a "gaijin" (meaning using european-style sentences with Japanese words) but speaking Japanese like a Japanese takes tremendous efforts and a serious re-wiring of your own brain as to how you approach language."

I don't agree with this. The way you have to 're-wire' your brain isn't too different from what you do while learning a programming language.

The difficult part of Japanese would be all that vocabulary and all those funny symbols and combinations of symbols.

As a Korean learner, vocabulary is a mountain that I make great progress in scaling, yet my progress seems insignificant compared to the size of the mountain.
This probably means more reliance on "low-tech" tradecraft like dead drops, etc. Surveillance is so endemic today, agents are probably being told "assume you are always being photographed." So even a casual meeting in a bar could be observed.

So expect a lot of thumbdrives taped to the backsides of toilets in the future.
Possibly, but how is the ICO supposed to regular browser vendors?
> The pypy is faster than cpython (the default, official implementation of Python) despite being written in Python

This is far overreaching and as such very wrong. Also, "x language is faster than y language" is a meaningless comparison. Faster at what? In what cases? Pypy does some things faster than Cpython in some cases.

>PS: Some "Python" in above sentences might actually be rpython. But as it is subset of python it probably doesn't matter.

I don't know for sure that this is wrong, but it sure seems to be.
He's joking.

But like all good jokes there's an element of truth since I suspect that's exactly what some websites will do.
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Those sources don't have RSS feeds, and ScienceDaily and PhysOrg have a bad habit of not linking to such things.
There are surely accessibility concerns over hiding links in comments.
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The most likely impact it will have is that it will drive more advertisers to closed platforms like Facebook where gaining consent will be easier. That's not to say Facebook won't be impacted, given that they won't be able to passively collect analytics using the Facebook like button on sites.

In terms of workarounds, here are a couple that I have found:

* Don't be a UK based company

While non UK companies are encouraged to respect these guidelines, they are not required to do so. From the guidelines:

"An organisation based in the UK is likely to be subject to the requirements of the Regulations even if their website is technically hosted overseas. Organisations based outside of Europe with websites designed for the European market, or providing products or services to customers in Europe, should consider that their users in the UK and Europe will clearly expect information and choices about cookies to be provided."

Anyone care to guess what happens if a US company has a US based website but also a based UK presence?

* Get the 3rd party to get the consent. The following wording says that if the 3rd party cookie provider has gained consent from the user, it's the website will not also need to. As in:

"The key point is not who obtains the consent but that valid, well informed consent is obtained."

i.e. Facebook may only have to gain consent for it's Like button once for any particular user, same for Google analytics etc.

This is going to be bad for a whole bunch of folk:

* Display advertisers

* Sites that need analytics

* Sites that use 3rd party widgets that require state and those 3rd party providers (discus, Facebook like buttons, etc.)
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DNT is not implemented in most browsers, and it's not the default policy in any, AFAIK. It'd hardly have the same effect.
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The law is the law as it's written and then as it's reflected in court decisions. We can't choose to do what is defined as illegal just because a FAQ says "we probably won't come after you". That's a risk that many businesses can't afford to take. It's a poorly written law, and as is often the case in laws as knee-jerk reactions to tech changes, throws the baby out with the bathwater. I do think this law shows that we need better tracking mechanisms to meet the needs and expectations of the site owners and the site users, but it shows us by trying to destroy instead of trying to help guide.
Cheaper than a "real" Pi? Does $35 even get you an Arduino with an SD card and an ethernet port? _Maybe_ someone'll clone these, but surely these not much "fat" in the price to be undercut the "official" ones by enough to make it worthwhile?
I am currently a webmaster (and I don't know if that's still used either, doesn't feel like it), and this is going to be a huge pain in the arse. The main reason it is a pain is the vagueness of the legislation, nobody has any idea what they can and can't do.

Sure we can follow the ICO and put a pop-up on the site asking to accept cookies or not (which if you select 'not' ironically creates a cookie), but as other people have pointed out that's laughable (for a huge number of reasons) and would push online trade away from uk sites. Easiest option for me would be to shift hosting outside the EU, take the SEO location hit and get back to work as usual (EDIT: it appears I am a little behind on the legislation as last time I read it hosting overseas was a loophole, looks like I need to refresh things).

Alternatively if I could dispense with cookies and shift tracking upstream to a CDN that would also save me the problem and at that point I should be getting even more data such as IP addresses.

Users need to take control of their browsing and privacy, they need to be aware of what they are giving away when they join a site or go online in general. Currently they are clueless and that is what needs to stop, force a prompt for all cookies regardless of country, evens the playing field and make people think for a change (if you're a chrome user "Edit this cookie" is an invaluable plugin for monitoring and removing what each site is placing on your machine).

It's also a bit rich saying that tracking cookies are bad whilst trying to pass a law attempting to track almost all communication:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/uk-government-proposes...
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With sound, you can break the stream into the same pattern of drop every time
Having played with genetic algorithms before, that is a hugely interesting idea to me. You would need to take special care on the types of mutations used though. I don't think it is possible to do it well at scale, but it would be very impressive nonetheless.
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I read your blog. Do you mostly program Python these days? If so, do you miss static typing? (I'm giving http://dropwizard.codahale.com a try).
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Look, there are tons of data available in the browser, see http://panopticlick.eff.org/ for a good example. But they are non-stable for reasons outside of the user's control. So, if a user wants to kill her cookies every day, cool, they can. They can't randomly change their useragent+screen-resolution on a daily basis with the same ease. In addition, UA changes outside of user's control (a browser update pushed on them, for example) and that breaks tracking they may want.

So, no, these workarounds are not the right answer; we need mechanisms that let users control their data and let them choose to share it. It's up to us as product makers to give them a good reason.
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The exactly same way there are attempting to regulate website owners - by passing a nonsense law that will do nothing to solve any real privacy concerns.

The ICO has the power to force browser vendors with a UK presence to implement this at the browser level. I wonder why they didn't? Short-sightedness? Or perhaps they knew that Google/Mozilla/Microsoft are more capable of presenting a unified front to fight this, compared to however many thousands of web developers are affected.
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You have the ability right now, go to your settings and switch your cookie handling to "prompt me for all cookies", and tada! you are now in control.

It's a pain I admit, but such is the burden of maintaining your privacy online. Whenever I set up a computer for friends or family I always do this (as well as blocking flash and javascript as standard) and explain what it entails, because without that they cannot know what they are giving away.
I believe you are in the minority - most people, even on HN, are probably comfortable (or apathetic :-) ) enough to accept the status quo.

If you are really serious about protecting your privacy online, I imagine you already have your browser configured to deny all cookies except those which you explicitly accept. The tools to solve this problem already exist - either built in to the browser, or easily available as extensions.
Sure, but I still need to know where you are and what you're doing in the "shop" to make sure you're not just making it crap for everyone else
Some really good points there, especially about the Celebrity investors, who would have thought Ashton Kutcher was in the know how about all this stuff?!

For me there's usually a trigger, which I think Instagram was, with some justification as to why this time its different, which for me is Cloud. The Cloud has triggered some early successes from really small teams which is only going to excite investors and founders more to launch even more start-ups which will inevitably lead to more weak ideas and a self inflicted bubble of selling to the greater fool once they realize half the new start-ups aren't going anywhere...
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Welcome to the information age. Facebook has orders of magnitude more information about nearly everyone than those companies. There's no predicting how much they can profit from it yet. Facebook's valuation represents that unknown upside combined with an upward trajectory.

The valuation may or may not turn out to be overly high right now, but it's by no means insane.
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The ICO would have website owners pop up a box to new users asking them to give consent to using cookies.

Which if they refuse has to create a cookie so that their selection is remembered.

(Edited for clarity)
He's not joking.

Take a look at what the ICO themselves do - they show a consent box at the top of every page unless and until you opt in:

http://www.ico.gov.uk/
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Verbosity is a subjective assessment that concepts require too many or complex, specialised words to express compared with some other approach.

Expressiveness is subjective too, but in this context talks about ability to express concepts in elegant or clear ways.
> The law is the law as it's written and then as it's reflected in court decisions.

That's true. While I'd welcome clearer law it's important to point out that it's the ICO who'll be enforcing the law, so if they say they're not going to go after people it's safe to say they won't.

If anything people want the ICO to be a bit tougher - there are plenty of actually dodgy privacy invading practices going on the the ICO seems to be powerless to stop.

> knee-jerk reactions

This law has been a long time in the making. Self-regulation would be ideal. But there are too many operators who are willing to ignore sensible privacy standards for self-regulation to be possible. Unfortunately some of those bad actors are going to ignore any laws.
"… but you can't argue with success."

McDonalds sells more meals than French Laundry. I don't think Thomas Keller cares.

PHP certainly has it's niche, and like the "fast food" niche, it can be adequately nutritious and fullfilling for the customers, and hugely profitable for the sellers.

There are _certainly_ other ways to do things though, and without doubt ways of measuring results that are more or less flattering to PHP. I'm not personally any more enamored with "Enterprise Java" as as web development tool, but there's clearly people selling those solutions who've got a _very_ convincing sales pitch.

(But yeah, I can see why PHP specialists might be "over" HN's typical attitude towards PHP…)
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They have consultants brought in who do this for a living. I don't know the specifics but, at a high level, they will introduce a range of possible values of people who would switch and the correlated range of losses that would inflict. They get a recommendation based on a number of other variables which tightens the range and have to make a judgment call. This is what they decided.
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More likely those companies already lobbied the hell out of the situation and got people to make it someone else's problem.