skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to predict these things, but if I had to guess a trigger, it would be some kind of major negative news about internet advertising that causes at least a temporary stampede of advertising spend out of the sector (which could in turn trigger an even bigger investor reaction/overreaction).

Not sure what precise form that'd take. Anything from a major click-fraud-type scandal (would have to turn out to be significantly worse than the current assumptions about fraud, though) to a damning report about ROI from one of the more credible white-paper-issuing analysts, or one of the players themselves.
Thanks for the info!

"Now, courts are increasingly taking into account whether employers have explicitly described how email is monitored to their employees.
"

Yes this is why all contracts have been updated. It's in most new contracts. (The 'fine print'). Best thing to do is not use the company e-mail privately (if you value your privacy that is).
You're not using Xcode. I mean Really Using Xcode. Like making a serious attempt at exercising its features. Hell, you really don't even have to do that. Create a project, edit some code, compile and run your app. That's usually fine. Now, try repeatedly, several times a minute for eight hours straight to use the debugger on your app (intentionally overrelease something or create some other reason for Xcode to launch lldb when your app crashes.)

Xcode will crash.
Tone is everything. People pick up when you have their interests at heart.
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I know this sounds a bit uncouth, but maybe the problem is that you're not good enough to work at many of the startups that are hiring?

The kind of ROI that a startup needs to get out of their first hires is immense. They need people who could have been founders but are willing to work as engineers. Many people may just not have that level of value.
I think it's important to recognize that the Public can't easily invest into startups. It really is just a small group of investors who are in this market right now. This is an important difference between today and the late 90s.
definitely this time it is less of a bubble, nowadays investors have more tech experience and knowledge the late 90s. just need to watch specific startups and what they are doing.
Does anybody else get chills from the implication of the final sentence in the article? Makes the whole article read like CISPA propaganda.

Further, and this is preaching to the choir, if the security researchers of the respective companies could get the same unfettered access to their CEO's as the government, I'm sure they could 'scare the bejeezus' out of them, just as well.
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I think it comes down to a matter of taste. Having the ability to restrain one's ego is the mark of a true professional. If you're good, you don't have to flaunt it, your work just speaks for itself. For startups, this doesn't mean you can't promote or sell your product as you see fit, but you shouldn't run around saying "what we've come up with is the most brilliant thing in the world." A lot of people do this and it's quite the detractor. Again, though, this is a taste thing and not a universal preference.
I listened to it this morning and found the article frustratingly devoid of specifics or any countering view. There was a reference to an attack on firmware, but otherwise sounded like a DARE session for biz execs.

Addeddum: Some of the comments to the article are interesting. One ties the article to the lobbying effort for CISPA.
Ask HN: Do you plan on investing in Facebook?
I've read a variety of perspectives on Facebook's IPO but I'm curious to hear the mindset of the HackerNews community. Do you plan on participating in the Facebook IPO, or to buy their stock in the days following the initial offering?
This is the way to do it, until the graphics guy wants the box to have a drop shadow. The pseudo elements' shadow is square, so your options are either to hope that nobody notices that the arrow doesn't have a shadow (like in this example), or to use an image for the arrow.
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css, sass and scss rocks. all those ideas should have their place in css3 or later.
Please fix the title, the meeting is not in two years
908 days!!
Neat, but:

1) What's up with everyone trying to implement this PARTICULAR effect? I'm not saying that fixed-positioned, above-the content menu shall stay unique to Path. But there's no point in copying the same animation, arc of icons, rotation, etc. "Good artists copy, great..." and all this jazz: please steal, and by stealing, make it your own. Now you just copy.

2) The effect has a common CSS bug, where page flashes after animation. I'll send a fix as pull request, but just in case you didn't know how to fix this, the trick is setting 3d-transform(0, 0, 0) on parent object. This activates GPU for that element, and it no longer flashes.
Wolf3D JavaScript port.
>"What I think we are seeing now is the Venture Capital bubble. Lots of funds have shitloads of money they MUST put to work."

I agree. The fallacy of some who don't believe we're in any sort of bubble often lies in the fact that they believe it will play out like 2000. If you read some of the anti-bubble VC chatter, that's the spiel you'll often hear, "I lived through the first tech bubble, and this ain't it."

But no two bubbles are alike. I don't expect the Nasdaq to blow up, crushing people's savings. But I do expect to hear a large sucking sound as VC money dries up. I do expect that the crazy demand for engineers we are seeing will soften, drastically. I do expect to see far few incubators and poetry startups. All of this amid an ongoing global recession.

There's a lot of money, billions, that is sloshing around the system. When that disappears, the resulting effect is never nothing.
Last time barmstrong, AndrewWarner, and rubyrescue were here. This time it's playtomic and inaka. Times change, prices go up by 300%, a few of us are still here, a few new foreigners have arrived, a lot of porteños have started using HN since then. It's time to get a regular meetup going...
Generate word documents using workbooks (in a way mailmerge never could)
A random user who is coming to my site to win something who is probably not even in my demographic. And you want me to pay for this?
By augmenting CSS with PHP, do you mean something like this?

p {color: <?=$mainColor?>}

And then just setting .htaccess (or whatever) to allow PHP execution in .css files?
I have flights booked from Toronto. I'm pretty excited.
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Show HN: SeniorTracer - passive monitoring for elderly people
How do you know somebody owns a 180g vinyl copy of "Kind of Blue"?

Don't worry - they'll tell you.
growt's link does an excellent job of illustrating it.

Ultimately, how the border is joined at the corners is undefined by the specification:

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#border-style

> Note: This specification does not define how borders of different styles should be joined in the corner. [...]

Many rendering engines will join borders at an angle, producing those diagonal lines.
That's so funny... just yesterday I built my own sass mixin to create custom triangles to do the little arrow pointer on a dialog box like this. Two triangles (border color and background color) with an offset. I toyed with using :before and/or :after to create the second background-color triangle, but the specs said you could only do text or an image so I didn't even try to make the triangle. My version required something like <div class="arrow arrow-left"><div class="arrow-inner arrow-inner-left"></div></div>. This is so much more semantic, elegant, and awesome. I love it!
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TLDR; I don't think this is "[Tech] Bubble 2.0", this is probably "[Something else] Bubble 1.0".

It's a 'social, generate zero or near zero revenue bubble.' It's certainly not a tech bubble in general. There are lots of small tech companies making plenty of money right now. Some happen to be acquired so not, but even the ones that are not continue to generate profits and carve out their niche.

The other thing, is that when this bubble bursts it will mainly effect investors and the tech worker who happens to bounce from social app X to social app Y in SV. Those tech workers who are running their small profitable startup will keep on running it. Those working in BigCorp won't even know what happened other than not seeing Instagram like news anymore.

And as an aside, so what if funding dries up. The barrier to entry on the software side really has reached what Carmack mentioned years ago. A lone developer with some motivation, a computer, and a fridge of diet cokes can make a successful startup/piece of software. No rounds of financing needed.
He means it's the first one in 908 days, not it's the first one and it's in 908 days :p
True... but I imagine they can also distinguish between frequently-shared IPs and rarely-shared ones.
i just tried to clarify
Ask HN: Where to put links of your Minimum viable product?
As a Startup company we created plenty of MVP's. But after every MVP there was always a question.

Where should we put links so a MVP can get as much users as possible?

Facebook.com
Twitter.com
Pinterest.com
Reddit.com
http://news.ycombinator.com

...

Where was your "getting users" media?
The article acknowledges IE9 is fine, but questions whether it is too little too late.
Four Things to Get Right When Starting a Company
Isn't Cybernetics really more about systems and control theory than CS subjects?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
Yes, I would recommend everyone do this. Save it in a folder, and do a new application every cycle. It's interesting to see how the answers change from cycle to cycle.
Somehow I feel this is what Squarespace is already doing?
Just bad reporting. Despite what the world might like to believe smart phones existed before the iPhone, before 2007. Really, as early as 2000.

Just as an example, windows mobile was really terrible. But it did provide a web browser, data connection, installable apps, email, calendar, etc.. in your pocket.. on your phone.

It was expensive and Apple certainly did it better... but this articles metrics are disingenuous as hell.
But it's not really "in public" though, is it? I mean really, how many people would you expect to go to search.twitter.com and type in "expandrive" in the twelve or so hours that they cache that post? That's the only way anybody would know that your dirty laundry was airing, and then only if they could parse what the airer was trying to say.

If you really wanted to "expose" something in public, you'd put it up on a blog or someplace that's actually on the public facing internet. Not that it would get you any more chance of the company hearing about it, but at least other people might see it.

And, of course, if you run a company that simply doesn't respond to things on Twitter, the customer in question will hopefully learn that they can send you an email and get a fast response.
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File -> Save Page As?
Two weeks of smartphone charging in your pocket
I would not say the tech startup market is overvalued if one looks at money invested.

On the other hand, if one considers the amount of time we're all dedicating to development and market research on our as yet unprofitable projects...
Hi, I'm from joshfire. Thanks for the feedback, for this text, we are using the "Ubuntu" webfont from Google Fonts. I will investigate why it doesn't look nice.
Wow, people sure do fall over themselves to declare people "geniuses" nowadays.
Virgin Media seem like an odd target frankly, they're complying with a court order, they literally have no choice in the matter. (Unless I missed details in the court proceedings and Virgin were actively pushing for this?)
they made end up being dump pipes with low margins too.
The gathered troops here were all cooing at this demo until the drop shadow was noticed as absent from the arrow. A real shame (although obviously the box-shadow being bounded by the rectangle makes it impossible to do this way).

Maybe it's time to propose a mask-shadow property?
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Keep in mind what Google does. They don't give away your personal details to advertisers. Rather they offer demographic profiles of an anonymous group to advertisers. In addition the advertiser does not know who sees their ad other then that Google thinks the viewers are within their target demographic profile.

Apparently that organization bought ads for a profile you fit. It does not mean Google thinks you are a victim of assault.
Wow nice prototype, does it make sense to use Arduino production?
Seriously the crashing is what amazes you about XCode ?

How about the lack of ANY refactoring support emphasis on ANY, the joke that is autocomplete, the atrocious file management, the complete lack of preferences, the way SCM destroys project, the inane approach to compiler flags. And don't even start on the index.

Honest to god. I swear the XCode team must be stuck in the 80s still listening to walkmans.
Applying macro-typography for a more readable web page
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I have experience of acting for clients on both sides of passing off and copyright infringement claims.

There was clearly no passing off here in the way you tend to frame a passing off action as per Warnink (in the UK at least). What misrepresentation are you referring to?

The defendant was a tea company looking to use an image, the claimant was a gift company so it wasn't a case of a customer going to the tea company when they meant to go to the gift company. This is the misrepresentation which generally has to be in place for a passing off action to be successful.

Copyright infringement does not just cover identical images but substantial reproductions. The correct question is whether the copy was a substantial reproduction or whether it simply borrowed elements from the original, that is to say whether the line between inspiration and copying had been crossed.

\edit I would also add that in general passing off actions are far harder to prove than copyright infringement. To my mind, if a copyright infringement action is available this would always be preferable to bringing a passing off action.
Here and Reddit so far, though I really should investigate Pinterest more (I'm targeting families). Twitter has a really low pickup rate for me, probably because I'm not that popular. Facebook is a little better as friends are more easily blackmailed into testing things ;)
I've been expecting that for a while. Too many startups have crazy valuations, but too many seem to make good money for me to think all the investment will dry up for 5 years or anything like it.
This is something I have in mind: Cloud save.
It will be added in the roadmap.
Please contact me and I will keep you in the loop.
Regarding the money I am thinking of adding a donate button to support the project.
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This is my friend's weekend project, but I find the idea interesting. It was originally made because of his elderly relative.
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The basics about a dissertation format are about everything from the double spacing rule to font selection and proper formatting of the font with regards to size etc. You also need to keep the margins in consideration.
Writing a word processor may indeed be boring but a lot of very cutting edge tech goes into something like Photoshop. I doubt you could write an acceptably fast Photoshop in Haskell but I'd be happy to be wrong.
This is great! Very ingenious design. How would it fare with thin wire?
I used to develop at Apple. Radar is a piece of junk.
That reminds me of the Linksys WRT54G. Some people predicted that it would disrupt ISPs because it was so hackable.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2004/pulpit_20040527_0004...

The manufacturer responded by replacing the Linux firmware with a proprietary real-time operating system. That allowed them to use hardware that was less powerful than the original both in terms of electricity consumption and computational performance. Furthermore, most people have better things to do than reprogramming their wi-fi routers.

Reading Cringley's predictions in that article is cringeworthy.
Thanks for hearing me out. I don't want to put your team down because I do know that a lot of sweat was put into the thing. It's not a knock against your team, but more so your strategy in general. When I want to share something with my wife, I am using Pair because she is not immediately accessible in person. And more often she is within 5km. Why is this relevant? Pair is sort of a novelty at this point. I'm hoping Pair is trying to replace my "our family memories" box, which contains everything from the first flower I gave to her, right down to receipts at restaurants. Now back to the 5km relevancy – if it is easier to save our memories in a box than it is in your app, you've failed because I can just go to the memory box or to her.

My advice (grain of salt) is that you point these events and moments inward to Pair – have Facebook, Twitter post to Pair (e.g., "Post messages I leave on my partner's wall to Pair") or Foursquare check-ins (e.g. "You and your partner were at Giant Tiger together on May 9, 2012". I understand that Pair is for 1-to-1, but since there is no community element, it's hard to stay engaged. If Pair was more like my memories box I think it has legs. You could kind of think of it as an Evernote for relationships.

I also think you should really try to have Pair accessible faster. Having other apps post to it is one way (people are happy to have Facebook open, for example). Another way is to make it as fast as possible for a user to be able to post memories.
It doesn't really. It's far closer to saying IE9 may be fine but they need to pay penance for past crimes.

Surely the approach is do bad things, we punish you, do good things, we reward you? IE9 and IE10 are, broadly speaking, good things. To continue to punish MS for them looks a little emotional at best, petulant at worst.

But surely the real decision should be what is right for the individual business? Different companies have different user profiles using different browsers.

This whole decision should be an unemotional one based on resources, customers, revenue and profit.
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His experience of having trouble answering more than '5 why's' is a nice revelation. This is an exercise that nearly every engineer learns about (that started at Toyota[1]) and has become one of the basic tools used in continuous improvement. I often complete the exercise and it is trouble enough to make it to the 5'th why, the thought actually never occurred to me to go farther.

As a side note - when you are improving things, that 4'th and 5'th 'why' are often things that are very hard (and costly) to change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
So business decisions based on grudges is good now?
To Be or Not to Be
Indeed.

The first commercial smartphone was introduced in 1996:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator

The Ericsson R380 from the year 2000 was the first to look more like a modern smartphone with a full-front touchscreen:
http://www.gsmarena.com/ericsson_r380-195.php
Argentina seems to be ranked as among the worst places in the world, besides actual war zones, in terms of economic freedom and political corruption type rankings. The currency isn't stable either and the government is appropriating private assets when they feel like it. You'd have to be insane to start a business there, but maybe the main topic of your meeting will be how to get out. I mean you could technically try to start one there, but you'd have to take a long look in the mirror first and answer the question "why not just move to Chile?".
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True, it's definitely a case where eventually the number of bugs becomes incredibly difficult to manage but it's still essentially training people to not report bugs if they can't see even the smallest amount of traction on it.
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I think I require further explanation. I played with this and all it seems is a quick and easy way to build a feed reader with a data source of your choice. It does look like you can put your own HTML and CSS to change the look but I don't see how to change or add functionality with code. I think that part needs to be explained more because otherwise it just appears to be a "Look at my feed!" app. I'm sure those have their uses but it's easy enough to make a page on our site that's a feed.

Plus, why is there a debugger if I'm not writing any code? That is what's making me think I'm missing something somewhere.
> we really should be devoting some chunk of it to showing what’s on the clipboard, or at least that there’s something there.

I could see that. Microsoft tried something like that with a stack-based (presumption) clipboard in Office. I don't think it worked very well. I thought it was confusing for most. You went from copy-this-and-then-paste-it to having to select what you wanted to paste. Simple is better in this case.

I can think of no instance where I explicitly needed to know what was in the clipboard. Now, admittedly, this is me, a single data point and not a casual user. I am sure it is different for casual users. In fact, I am sure that most of them don't have a clue that ctrl-c/v/x/z exist.

As for devoting screen real-estate for showing clipboard content. I can't really get a feel for the idea because I don't feel that I need it. In some cases I know that I don't want to give up any screen real-estate to anything other the the application/s currently running. For example, my EDA package uses three screens very well. I don't want to see anything else while doing this work. Again, just me.