skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you dress your child in last years baby clothes now that the regulations have changed?

We had this panic here - everybody had to throw out their Nalgene water bottles because they contain PBA and it MIGHT leach out AND it might be a health hazard - although we had been using them for 20years
Google finally puts the Google into Google App Engine
How Amazon saved Zynga’s butt—and why Zynga built a cloud of its own
I hope in a way this bubble would burst, I'm getting thoroughly sick of all this web2.0 bullshit. Its nothing but social networks and photo/something sharing sites. Nothing really happening and we need smart Engineers and developers getting back into some worthwhile endeavors. I blame Facebook.
Optimisation - don't waste your time
Here's the official announcement: http://googleappengine.blogspot.in/2012/05/looking-for-searc...
In complete agreement. However, its technically lot more challenging because it needs to do more positional calculations. Other things that suck at the moment: Cant remove individual moustaches and retrieving/saving can be a bit slow. I wanted the whole thing to work in html5 with no server side stuff but IE didnt want to play ball. I figured out a way to do direct FB graph submissions through the browser but only some browsers work. I'll add that to next version....
Unfortunately you not noticing any change in the content doesn't make for very reliable or convincing statistical results. Thus the suggestions for making the experiment blind to you by choosing whether or not to CC after you compose the email.
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What is Google Merchant Center?
I have a theory about bubbles: It's relatively easy to spot that you're in one, but it's very hard to pinpoint what sort of bubble it is. I'll explain...

During the lead up the 2008 debt crisis I saw a lot of people talking about how house prices had been going up year on year and questioning whether we were in a property bubble. There was a debate though. Demand for housing was strong (partly due to population growth) and it appeared that globalisation had freed up the capital so banks had plenty of money to lend to people to buy houses. So the rising price of property, it was argued, looked like the natural effect of market forces. In hindsight it's easy to see that there was an oversupply of wholesale debt, but at the time I think people assumed that it was just a more efficient distribution of global capital that was opening things up.

Similarly, in the lead up to 1999 people seemed to know that there was too much money floating around. Everyone seemed to be investing in stocks or property and swapping stories of how much they had made. Yes, tech stocks were rising quickly, but so was everything else, and there seemed to be no shortage of investors coming up with money to fund these tech companies so what's the problem.

I think what happens is that people always look at current circumstances in the context of recent bubbles and try to look for patterns. When they don't quite fit, they argue over whether this really is another instance of a previous bubble. My theory is that the overpriced asset is rarely the same thing as in the last 3 or 4 bubbles.

So, back to the present day. We have lots of high valuations for tech companies. But we also have lots of tech companies actually making a profit, plus operating costs are a lot lower. So we're not about to see a burst in the sense that the funding will dry up and companies will run out of runway. Instagram was like, 12 people(?), if they couldn't have got that $50mil investment I'm sure they could have found a way to keep operating for another year or two.

The challenge is to think about where the bubble might actually be. Could it be in advertising revenue? Are advertisers burning though reserves trying to get attention? Could it be in mineral resources? Are server or bandwidth costs artificially low? Could it be a bubble in intellectual property? Is the exact implementation of Facebook not actually as valuable as the companies valuation suggests. I have no idea, but I don't think this a complete re-run of 1999.

TLDR; I don't think this is "[Tech] Bubble 2.0", this is probably "[Something else] Bubble 1.0".
I thought one of the characteristics of a bubble -- almost a pre-requisite -- was for the money of the general public to be flowing in.

If things like this poetry IPO idea haven't happened and garnered piles of cash from unwitting investors throwing money into a market they don't understand in a herd mentality ... how exactly is it a sign of anything other than a goofy idea?
A BizSpark account will cost you $100 over the course of 3 years. You can get every OS they've released and run them on whatever you want. Yes, you'll have to spend time installing the OS, but Win 7 installs pretty quickly these days and that's the only way you're getting IE 9 anyway. It was a pretty good investment for us. I run Win 7 in VMWare Player on Linux & VMWare Fusion on Mac pretty regularly.
The demo page is broken in IE8, although it does work when you copy the HTML/CSS to a new file.
Manage Your Android Device from Web-Browser via Wi-Fi?
Build An Animated Chart In 19 Lines Of Code With d3.js
Example? I've watched most episodes and don't remember ever seeing this.
In a tech bubble, capital does not chase engineering talent; it chases whatever shiny thing resembles the last shiny thing that made headlines. And when the bubble bursts, the entire sector goes hungry for capital, even companies which, in a more sober market, would be recognized as good prospects for growth.
good point, there's certainly some exposure to let's say rather overvalued companies. eg. if you looke at the featured clients list of asana. nonetheless in their case, I think the possible applications for their service go well beyond IT companies.
>"It seems horribly inefficient."

It is until you hit a home run.
wrap it up in a cocoa app please, so I can use it when I'm not online.
JQuery Plugin for Pie Menu (like Path)
I was citing the amount of work to create a minimal acceptable toolkit to a programmer on the street, the sort of toolkit you'd point a hostile Python programmer to to say "Yes, we have a native toolkit", not the toolkit that you'd use to convince an already-converted Haskell user. Bear in mind that Tk prior to their relatively recent theme work was not that toolkit either! And that was actually a pretty decent kit, with layout managers, a nice text widget, tabs, all the basic stuff you'd need, if not the fanciest ever.
Drag and drop may or may not be equivalent to copy/paste. In case of Windows Explorer, their behavior is the same but it could be different for other applications.

E.g. let's say you have a word document, if you drag and drop it on an open Word window, it will open it. You can't do copy/paste to open the document. If you have an FTP client with drag and drop support, you can drop a file to upload it to the FTP server. In general, a program can attach its own meaning to drag and drop which could be different from copy/paste.
PHP team makes another attempt to close critical CGI hole
Arrow is repeated too many times nowadays.
Neat.
Standards-compliant seems to have taken on an odd shift. Most of the cool new stuff people want to use aren't in any published standard. They're draft specifications and implemented through browser vendor extensions. So, it's more like a de facto standard because a lot of people are doing it and changing the draft after the fact is going to be painful as a result. But the whole de facto standard thing is what got IE in trouble in the first place.
Awesome!! However, I couldn't help notice that if you have a 3D object, it seems that it keeps spinning the chord around the machine - at one point it would unplug itself - should be an easy fix though.
You've given everyone permission so no, it's not a crime.
I wonder, why this magazine is hyped right now?

The cover claims May 2011 - so its a one year old 'news'.
a bubble in the sense of the dotcom bubble doesnt require the involvment of the public at all - it's simply an overvaluation of companies. as mentioned before, bubbles may be limited to very small sectors (eg. social media) and don't need to take down whole economies (like the housing bubble did) once they pop.
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> Darcs is not "another", it is "the first distributed" version control system that gained some traction in open source projects.

Wasn't BitKeeper in use by the Linux kernel for several years before Darcs came out?
To be fair, the guy in the story you're linking to overstayed his visa by over 6 mos. This cannot be seriously considered an "oversight", and Singapore is not known for leniency to lawbreakers, which he clearly is. He rolled the dice, and lost.
OP appears to be under the illusion that the only living poet that anyone has heard of is "Maya" (whoever that may be)

I'm not particularly interested in poetry, but even I could name three living poets immediately without thinking, and a few more with a bit of thought.
Bubbles require huge flows of investment cash to grow. You can't miss that scale of growth. They don't sneak up on you. What's hard is determining the point at which the growth is legitimate and at which point it's fad investment/fraud.

It was easy to see huge flows of cash into tech in the dot com bubble. It was easy to see huge flows of cash into real estate and the financial sector in our most-recent bubble.

But the biggest problem right now, is a lack of growth. I simply don't see how you can have a bubble without massive investment and no-one's investing like that in anything.

Most investors are paying any stable sovereign nation with its own currency to hold onto their money for them (very low, and in some cases negative, real bond rates.)
AS far as browsers go, I think Opera innovates better than anyone. The speed dial interface you see in other browsers now was copied from them and poorly at that. Unified search & address bar appeared in Opera first (at least that's the first place I saw it). Custom search engines & shortcuts are awesome. And I rather like the mail client.

Don't get me wrong, it has its downsides. But it's much lighter weight on memory than Firefox and better on CPU than Chrome in my experience. And I don't get all the weird ass blitting issues I seem to have with Safari. I've also run into far fewer crashes. So, when it works on a site it's phenomenal to use. When it doesn't, it kinda sucks.
I'm getting rather fed up with this witch-hunt so I'm going to defend the witches...

Yes IE6, 7 and 8 were absolute bastards, but they've done good with IE9 and IE10 is looking even better.

They know what they've done wrong and are making amends.

5 years ago was the time for the witch hunt, not now.
The Pirate Bay Partners With Academic Researchers to Counter Propaganda
You gain:

1. A better price on an equally specced machine because we buy in bulk.

2. Save time installing and much more importantly testing and making sure everything works out of the box. If you like playing with drivers, then maybe this is not for you (although we might want to hire you!).

3. Get to work faster - choose your distro and software packages on the site when you place your order. A fully customised machine is delivered, so that you can get to work the first time you boot it.
Tagline font looks pretty bad in Chrome/Win7:

http://imgur.com/Kigfl
Why the Meta Description Still Matters
Don’t Judge Your Social Success From One Update
Not sure if you're looking for a hosted solution (there are less of those) or a library to build upon (google "scraper"/"crawler" and the programming language of your choice).

Either way, check out ScraperWiki: http://scraperwiki.com

Hope this helps.
Making Time for Social Media Marketing Management
Still kind of wish computer science should have ended up being called "Cybernetics", it is a much cooler word.
How to find list of possible words from a letter matrix [Boggle Solver]
Thought it was gonna be about js templates.
I did not know about MARS, do you have any practical benchmarking dataset / sample tasks where MARS is state of the art? What kind of regression problem do you use it for yourself? What is the typical dimension of the problems it can address efficiently (n_samples and n_features)?
The Climate Fixers (Geoengineering)
http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html

http://blog.chromium.org/2011/06/new-chromium-security-featu...

as well as empirical Chrome behavior.
The problem is, the money still has to come from somewhere. When income drops in one area (SMS), and costs do not go down, they'll likely have to increase pricing in another area.
Jquery 'learn in a min tutorial Series' Part -1
Joe was the good one.
Lightweight Clojure/ClojureScript Markdown Parser
No really large changes are being made in this budget

Well.. there aren't any huge structural changes (unless you count the Carbon Tax), but a budget turn-around of >3% biggest reversal in over 50 years[1]. That's quite significant.

I think it was a fairly reasonable budget in the circumstances, and I think most commentary reflects that. I think the biggest opposition criticism is for holding back the cut in company tax. I agree with that, but if one takes the view that returning the budget to a surplus is a high priority I think the delay in that was reasonable given the cuts to other sectors. (I am not at all convinced the priority given to returning to surplus is required, so I guess that is also a criticism).

[1] http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/BUDGET-20...
But it's a chronic or widespread overvaluation of something, right?

I guess I just don't see how professional investors could be snowed on a grand scale. Even if there is a bit of a trend in, say, social media - that doesn't mean an incubator is going to be taken in by a nonsense pitch, does it?

I would think you would need a lot more money from less educated or indirect sources to start passing off unquestionably weak companies, due the heat of the sector. (e.g. people trusting their long term money to money-managers with conflicting short-term incentives who are willing to gamble on known-bad goods on the assumption that they can find a bigger idiot to sell to before the music stops. Which essentially describes the entirety of the IPO and CDO nonsense in the last two bubbles.)
If you hit a home run. And it's not so much hitting a home run as winning the lotto.
> Over breakfast, we’d divvy up the newspaper. I’d go straight for the Business section

Impressive. When I was a kid, I went straight for the comics.
Maybe it's not a bubble per se, maybe it's just overinvestment? The world economy really sucks right now, and people are seeking havens for their cash. The tech industry is one of the few bright spots in the world economy, and there's an evergreen hope of some runaway hit. So it could be possible for there to be overinvestment even in the face of widespread skepticism.

We also have a lot of supercool mobile electronics platforms being made by China now, and the companies and workers over there are just not getting a fair share of the value they are creating. Just look at Apple's balance sheet. Labor costs are rising, but given how things work in China...? So maybe it's the Chinese Oppression Bubble.
"We do NOT encourage these actions. We believe in the open and free internets (sic), where anyone can express their views. Even if we strongly disagree with them and even if they hate us.

“So don’t fight them using their ugly methods. DDOS and blocks are both forms of censorship."

Great statement from the TPB-crew there, for those who believe the Anonymous and the file-sharers are all the same bunch. Blocking or censoring content is not a good way of fighting what you disagree with. Fight back with openness and dialogue instead. Or as they continue on their Facebook-page:

"If you want to help; start a tracker, arrange a manifestation, join or start a pirate party, teach your friends the art of bittorrent, set up a proxy, write your political representatives, develop a new p2p protocol, print some pro piracy posters and decorate your town with, support our promo bay artists or just be a nice person and give your mom a call to tell her you love her."
> some worthwhile endeavors.

Like what?
It has been removed by moderators, but here is the original URL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2694603/add-a-number-to-a... seems like it could be likely... shame
Many of your requirements are met by Ditto (on Windows) and ClipMenu (on the Mac). The basic model is: Ctrl-V pastes like usual, Ctrl-Shift-V pops up a menu of every previous paste. Previous items can be selected and pasted using either the keyboard or the mouse. This gives you persistence, visual display of the clipboard, and keyboard and mouse interaction with the history. And it turns out to be insanely useful. Oh man. I would never go back.
That's probably because the CSS pixel resolution isn't matching the device/screen resolution so you're seeing the edge of two elements that don't quite match (imagine a percentage being rounded). If the page included a meta viewport tag with the correct default zoom level there would probably be no line (not tested) until you zoomed in or out.
Bubble 1.0 created an asset class that the public could get irrationally excited about and invest into. Calling this Bubble 2.0 is misleading. The tech bubble in the late 90s could characterized by companies going public with sky-high valuations without revenue. It seems obvious the major difference is that there are still very few companies going public. And the companies that do all have meaningful revenue/profit.

What I think we are seeing now is the Venture Capital bubble. Lots of funds have shitloads of money they MUST put to work. If they don't put money to work most firms can't raise another fund and at some point the LPs can back out of their commitment. For a while now there is a market where the only way to put large amounts of money to work is to make much larger investments at a high valuation, expecting a lower return.

9 and 10 figure valuations are being driven by too many large funds chasing too few good companies. The LPs will get burned, funds will close, but there is going to be no collapse of the venture/seed market.

If you see this Bubble "burst" it will slowly over the next 5-10 years when second tier funds can't raise more money. VC is turning to a winner-take-all game where only the top 3-5 players make sizeable returns, because their brands are the only ones who afford them access to deals.
Simon Sarris [0][1] is a regular contributor to HN and he knows the canvas element pretty well. He also contributes/answers many canvas questions on Stack Overflow. I don't know him personally but he comes across as a nice fellow - perhaps you could shoot him a tweet or email if you need some help.

[0] simonsarris.com
[1] @simonsarris
I'm not an expert here, but is the real problem that there is no way to short a startup? You pretty much have to wait until a startup IPOs to bet against it. (Or is there some equivalent of shorting in secondary markets?)

Would it be fair to say that, until the IPO, every player in the system has an incentive to inflate the price?

And in our little world even the press doesn't usually see itself as having a critical role. Quite the contrary as with Arrington & Calcanis and their ilk.
Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser
Top Biggest Entrepreneurs of 2011 (Infographic)
Is there any struggling entrepreneur in the real world who would actually turn down ANY offer from Mark Cuban?

He comes off as a bit of a scumbag on the show - he frequently makes exploding offers that will expire if the entrepreneur doesn't accept them within 30 seconds, or he'll state that he'll withdraw his offer completely if they even talk to another one of the "sharks" about the possibility of another offer.

After watching the show I'd be very wary of working with someone who negotiates with people like that unless there was a more equal footing.
XCode has never crashed for me in 3+ years.

Your project is corrupt. You're doing something wrong. Look to a professional for assistance with your IDE.
It's the next instagram! I predict another $10m valuation!
Extra tools will be available to compile Native Client modules written in C#
Would it be fair to say that, until the IPO, every player
in the system has an incentive to inflate the price?

If you had unlimited money to invest, this would be true. But every player invests out of a fixed size fund. The more money out of your fund you bid, the lower your return.
That assessment of IBM is way off. They service other company's products insofar as is necessary to develop complete integrated systems for their customers, systems they build mostly with their own technology elements. In some cases, they build systems entirely with their own elements (a Power7 machine running a DB2 server in AIX, for example). Their relatively recent acquisitions of companies like Rational and Telelogic were moves to own more of what they service. Owning and developing the hardware and software they sell and service is core to IBM's business.
I'm not sure what the problem is. Apple has created a filter to bug reporting that they're clearly comfortable with.
I still don't get it. What do you mean that "borders are styled in such a way that they angle toward the edges if the border is large enough"? What causes the angle?
and watch John Carmack's commentary on Wolf3D at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amDtAPHH-zE
It only works because many people choose to never venture outside what they are hand-fed. The "90%" cited only comprise about 3% of my actual consumption. You can get variety if you're willing to poke around a bit, and it's usually cheaper -- if big media scares you, help the small outlets you use and love become more profitable. Otherwise, please give the "OMG someone do something!" routine a rest.
I hope so! Living in a caravan in my parents backyard at the moment. :-)
There's some info at http://martinkool.com/post/22706224644/how-i-brought-html5-t... about the HTML5 stuff they're going to be doing, which looks extremely cool. I think that in addition to promoting the kick-starter campaign it could be a great demo of what can be done using today's browsers. I'm really looking forward to seeing what they come out with.

The demo was done by Martin Kool, who previously ported some of the early space quest and other Sierra games to HTML & Javascript, which can be played online at http://sarien.net/
Bad prose is not the way to make me trust your judgment in poetry.

'Why don’t most poems make sense?

Poems don’t make sense because poets have no incentive to make them make sense in order to get them read. Does that make sense? The fault lies not only with the poets, but also with the system through which supposedly “good” new poems and poets are identified and published.'

For what value of "most"? My reading time is finite, and there is only so much poetry that I read, but there are poets actively writing whose poetry is quite as clear as prose.
I can't tell if you can access hardware features (camera, accelerometer, etc.) with Joshfire. Does anyone know?
Take a look at this:
http://jtauber.github.com/articles/css-hexagon.html
Premiership Stars and their Cars
Cosm - Where the Internet of Things is being built.
Same here and add to that "git branch". It's a bit silly, and I still miss the Darcy UI and patch-based model
The Hindenburg's Smoking Lounge
Converting C# properties to Java?
In the UK at least (and I would imagine there are similar provisions under US laws), the directors have obligations not to act prejudicially against the interests of minority shareholders. Dilution being likely to be an example of such prejudicial conduct.
Miles Davis knew when to keep silent. He played the notes and the space between them.