skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about whether third party investment is a good idea, it's about whether the valuations third parties make are reasonable or based on hype.
The cost of bubbles is in talent misallocation - could talented people be producing other things of more enduring value?
You are wasting time with this pointles pontificating.

Head down. Innovate.
How do I forward linkedin requests. lol
>I would not want to work for Facebook for any amount of money.

For any amount? I'd even work for the Koch brothers for, say, $10m/yr. Of course I'll be gone from their company and the entire rat race after a year, but still.
Who would have thought 15-20 years ago that e-mail would turn out to be a hindrance to productivity, not a booster. Perhaps it's that e-mail is too easy to send so people do it even when it wouldn't be necessary or there would be a smarter way to communicate. So many people end up with thousands of e-mails a day, only a few of which are important.

It's hard to assess the overall effects of e-mail vs. productivity, though.
the only bubble I see is in social media (instagram and zynga, mentioned a lot already in this thread). it's funny that business models which from my point of view are far more sustainable and also much more beneficial for society get considerably lower valuations (or at least media attention). i mean startups like asana, heroku, fogbugz or duolingo - whose main use case goes beyond sharing/playing with friends.
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I absolutely agree. I've been hearing predictions about the startup bubble for quite a while now, no doubt the market will fall at some point. Markets are cyclical so you can safely make a prediction once a year and eventually be right. What I want to see are people stating when the bubble will burst and even better, putting money on their predictions.
Chrome has PDF viewing functionality built in (as a plug-in?); and that thing doesn't seem to support drag-and-drop at all.

Or one could say it's not a 'Preview window', don't expect it to behave.
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Interesting, I got what you meant straight away and thought it would be interesting to see what happens too. Shame eh!
Administering administration much?
This kind of research is a bit further down the chain in the sense that it addresses how to actually use functional programming in the real world to solve practical problems.

But it is not less important and at that level it really is the cutting edge.

One very big mistake we have made over the last years in Academia is to only value "new" ideas rather than revisiting old ones. To a certain extent we are blind to research and work that came before.
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Front-end and design is one thing. Get better at them, and build your career on that. On the other hand, companies will usually try to box you in to one of those disciplines. Don't underestimate how insane they will get as they try to do it. If they succeed, then either way you should always find time to pursue other interests, and to develop other skills, and to grow in your main field, or else one day you'll be left ass out with nowhere to go. What you know now can become old news very quickly.

For your future to be bright, you should retain this "duality." And branch off on your own one day (before the ship sails).

Specifically about the front-end vs. design question, what I've seen is that most design+front-end folks reach a maturation point with the front-end technologies (and it becomes mostly about keeping up), then spend the rest of their time further developing their design skills.

I'll say it. I think that the best or most successful future tech entrepreneurs will be the Front-end Engineers and the Marketers. They are sitting there on the edge everyday with the users, and (overtime) they intuitively learn exactly what matters.

Most of the others fail.
I'd like to know how DF traffic converts, for one. I'd like to.
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Loved the tool !!
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Atlassian loses a lot of people's JIRA data
Not to mention that they have a PDF version.
Technically, CloudFront supports Accept-Encoding/Transfer Encoding, and /not/ compression. If client and server supported ROT13 as an encoding, CloudFront would support that, too. CloudFront is neither compressing nor decompressing anything.
Dear wmf,

First of all, thank you very much for your kind reply :)!

It would be great if I can get a more detail about how "password anti-pattern" works!
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If you haven’t done so already, it’s probably worth killing your old Firefox profile and starting completely anew.
I'm feeling a little cranky over this... possible viral from the upvomgin biopic starring Don Cheadle?

(Hopefully this will be the Oscar that Cheadle has already earned in my opinion...)
Has a small line running through the arrow on safari (mobile). FYR
> (literally) 100's of libraries

We passed 4000 libraries last month :)
Picking a linux/bsd distro is such a personal decision, though. Unless this service let's me pick from about 20 different distros (and it might), I'm probably going to wind up installing what I want anyways.
>Unlike the poster below thinks though I don't have 40 free hours a week these days. I am working to build the next big thing because this is in my blood,

I suspect this is what the poster below meant by having 40 free hours a week. If someone handed me a billion dollars I would probably take a bit more vacation than now, but quite working? No way! I have a million ideas. I'd like to do as many as possible in the time I have.
the raw data would be nice - the full emails would be best,but just the sent w. cc,sent w.o. cc figures, time of message, time of response, number of reponse asking who is alex, .... anonymified recipents,... such data would be cool,
So you're some sort of electrical engineer, then. You need to factor in all the time, energy, and resources it took you to get to this point of self-sufficiency.

For me to fix a dead TV safely, I'd need a few semesters of college or a solid month of shadowing an expert, if I was just interested in TV repair alone. Or just pay you the 700 dollars to do it.
Disregarding whether the accounts are spam accounts or not, I created a little search tool, to check for user names:
http://twitterleak.martinwittmann.at/

Maybe this will be helpful for some people.
Huh, I wasn't aware ECN wasn't enabled everywhere yet.

To enable it on Linux:

sudo sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_ecn=1

Across reboots:

echo net.ipv4.tcp_ecn=1 |sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/10-ecn.conf

Other OSes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit_Congestion_Notificati...
I appreciate how your experience in the late 90s has given you a heuristic for picking up on the signals and leading indicators of a bubble, but I question how relevant it is in this case.

The poetry blog post is just one bad idea that a couple guys had in an attempt to gain a small amount of funding from a notable startup indicator. That's not to say that there aren't more small teams with laughable ideas out there, but I think it's important to note that nobody gave them money. I suspect they went home empty handed because the folks who manage VC funds did learn from the mistakes of the 90s, even if a new generation of wantrepeneurs have no clue.

Which brings me to my point. The niche based thinking expressed by the poetry disruptors and many others is an expression of the realization that individual programmers have the ability to work alone to create products and businesses that are capable of supporting them financially in much the same way that a sole proprietorship would in the physical world.

I'm fairly certain that this wasn't possible in the 90s without outside help, but I think that it explains a lot of the misguided enthusiasm from people who want to build lifestyle businesses, but don't realize that venture capital is not the way to go about it.
Considering it does not require any additional hardware, I believe it is easily scalable.

What do you think?
From what I understand, bubbles bursting in the past (e.g. Tulips, Dotcom) have been triggered by a specific event rather than a new, more exciting outlet for money.

In the Tulip bubble it was a failed auction in Haarlan, in the DotCom bubble it was the Fed raising interest rates, paired with the judgement in the US vs Microsoft trial.

So, its interesting to hypothesize what the 'trigger' event could be in this case. I doubt it will be the Facebook float, as I think we have a while to run yet.
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There's been some discussions of similar (or identical) ideas:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=194028 29 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462278 26 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2830122 33 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3219747 no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3286693 86 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3347468 39 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3702070 99 comments
It's unusual that I can begin a project right away, the 10% deposit is just to secure the project in to my schedule.

I decide on a starting date with the client and detail it in the proposal, when work is due to begin I'll request the second payment. Though if it's a short amount of time the client will usually just pay the full 50%.
Re: Rust contributors, Github's new graphs make the case quite well:

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/graphs/contributors
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Lol. Cloud computing is the future eh?
Actually, GHC has been using GIT for about a year now. There was a lot of discussion but darcs has (mostly) been dropped. There are a few libraries that are still darcs-controlled but generally because nobody has got round to migrating them I think...
Isn't it absurd to suggest that there cannot be a bubble if everyone agrees we are in a bubble?
Retailers and consumers love Linux! It has has 61% market share. (Source: http://tinyurl.com/ce6t8dk).

Maybe people just don't like Gnome. (viz. http://tinyurl.com/834bn2j)
here's a scenario for you - end of 2012, and for some reason ad spending is down and consumer spending has not increased as much as was forecast. the major platforms that capture that ad money suffer hits to their stock. FaceBook will be public by then, and if they suffer a decline in profits, much less a decline in revenue, this early in their history, the luster will come right off, taking them from $100 to $30 in a few days.
the reverse halo effect of FB will cause optimism about the resale value of shiny startups to decrease. by this time next year, PG is blogging about "sanity and wisdom" and how he has seen it all before.
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I just bought a used sewing machine. It cost less than a new one. It's 98 years old, and with a minimum of care will last another 98. It was built to last.

This notion of "bury the throwaway culture one repair at a time" treats symptoms, not roots: there is nothing persuading manufacturers to make stuff which will last. Should the movement take hold, manufacturers may very well respond by making stuff even cheaper, as the effort to make things so inexpensive it utterly undermines the movement is easier than making things robust and durable. I appreciate the movement's intentions, but think they should seek means of persuading production of durable goods, not eeking another 20% of life out of something having a very short lifespan to start with.

Occurs to me that the only durable products made today are firearms. Ironic.
I'd actually be very interested in such a model. It's a major amount of work, and in an area in which I am not expert, so I know that I will not be working on it any time soon, but I agree that it would be a great addition to the scikit.
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So wrong, it took more than a decade.
Or they need to invent some new word for devices like iOS/Android, because "smartphone" predates them.

NVIDIA for example invented a word "superphone", for devices using Tegra3 SoC.
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Well yes I admit that but I did the same before I even started the degree and I knew virtually nothing back then...

And I wouldn't charge you $700 to fix it. I tend to do favours like that for cider, swap a few books or mowing the lawn for me.

Not every "transaction" needs a wadge of cash changing hands.
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In the old days, things WERE better.

But that's because in the old days, I was 12.
This is great, stack exchange needs a LOT more trolls. Helping aspiring programmers who could change the game is WAY overrated.
IBM also makes a large amount of money servicing and implementing other company's technology products, specifically SAP and Oracle (and probably a lot of Microsoft too). To me, they are a technology services company providing consulting, implementation, and outsourcing services, and they also happen to develop some of the technology products that they sometimes implement.
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That is pretty cool, I wonder if there will be other shapes. I can't wait until there's no need for creating small images.
Shared hosting.

If you use mod_php, every customer's code runs as the apache user, which is bad for security. If you use PHP-FPM, you end up needing at least one long-running process per user, which wastes resources.
And air quality, and road safety. That kind of scheme is an incentive to lower the externalities of motoring - older cars burn more fuel, produce more pollution, and have less safety features.
Now you're just being an ass.

What makes you think insert is important anyway? The typical use cases for an array/list are pop, append and indexing. Python's list implementation uses arrays, not linked lists, internally for exactly this reason: indexing being O[1] is more important for most purposes than fast inserts. (http://docs.python.org/faq/design.html#how-are-lists-impleme...)
IPhone web app to draw freehand.
There's certainly some bubblish stuff going on, but you're right that it'd be nice to have more data.
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So you are saying that the bubble can burst if, when it comes time for the shiny new things to be working businesses, they fail. I completely agree.
For those who enjoy sass:

=triangle($direction: up, $size: 10px, $color: #000)
width: 0
height: 0
@if $direction == up
border-left: $size solid transparent
border-right: $size solid transparent
border-bottom: $size solid $color
@else if $direction == down
border-left: $size solid transparent
border-right: $size solid transparent
border-top: $size solid $color
@else if $direction == left
border-top: $size solid transparent
border-bottom: $size solid transparent
border-right: $size solid $color
@else if $direction == right
border-top: $size solid transparent
border-bottom: $size solid transparent
border-left: $size solid $color
To be honest, we use JIRA and Fisheye. Their non-cloud solutions aren't much better.

JIRA got killed for 2 days thanks to a bug in their workflow engine and Fisheye has been indexing our repository for 5 days now...
I eat junk food, cook food that's past the expiration date as long as it doesn't look/smell fishy, and I wear old clothes. My clothing probably isn't too fashionable either and my mattress isn't spotless.

No, I probably wouldn't dress a baby in “highly flammable second-hand sleepwear” but the critical part of that phrase is “highly flammable”, not “second-hand”. It's ridiculous to suggest that because clothing isn't good-as-new to automatically assume it's a “highly flammable” health hazard.

> What makes it acceptable to purchase a brand new electrical appliance and dispose of the old, worn and unsafe one to the less fortunate? What message does it send?

I use old appliances all the time. Sometimes I do replace them. But just the act of buying something new does not make the old any less usable. What message does it send that those old appliances are good enough for me, but they are below the standards of people who can't afford to buy their own?
This has been solved already:
http://openradar.appspot.com

If you file a new bug with Apple, publish it here as well. No more black hole, you can see what others have already posted. You can even see what duplicates are about (if the original bug was also at open radar).
I love the creativity that results from CSS' limitations (or, arguably, its flexibility). Neat trick.

It took me a moment to realize exactly what was going on to make this work. For those interested: borders are styled in such a way that they angle toward the edges if the border is large enough:

\ /
/ \

That gives you four "V"s to work with. Therefore, to create the arrow, you simply need to hide all but the appropriate border. The border around the arrow is accomplished by underlaying another "V".
With the exception of duolingo, these are all companies which make products for other businesses, so we should ask: What do their clients make? If their clients get popped in this (hypothetical) bubble, won't they?
Ah, right. In the UK they have the ones that read the credit card, in Greece we have simple number generators. Every bank uses them, though (I didn't know what they were called, we call them "tokens").
People who don't have data in the cloud also lose data, though probably not as publicly.
Right - I think my first bullet is probably triggered by an event. Facebook could be it, but I think you're right: it'll probably be something further down the line. Wouldn't surprise me at all if it turned out to be SOPA-like legislation coupled with a ruling on sales tax.
I don't think the picture is legit...
Good fun! Though I agree the rotation feature is hard to use, it would be better implemented with a photoshop-like free-transform, dragging is much easier than clicking a moving target!
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I don't disagree, but I would suggest that if the "successes" are worth billions upon billions, then even "failures" are quite valuable as well, at whatever point in the processes they are still indistinguishable.

As hard as economic value is to quantify, "enduring value" is even harder. So I won't even attempt to make judgments on that front.
IANA Musician but rumor has it that Davis wasn't a great technical trumpet player, that he lacked the speed and range of others. The essence of his genius was in his understanding of the music and his ability to examine and re-arrange its principles.

It's worth considering in the discussion of the value of 'rock star' programmers.
I think it's fair to say that when people suggest "any amount of money" they have already bounded it by what is reasonable. Of course the Koch bros. aren't going to pay you $10m/yr to scale their website. They don't even pay people that much to spout their agenda. Similarly, "any amount of money" probably means 150% or so of the going market rate.
Right, didn't think of that. Here in Sweden Alex is just shorthand for Alexander (which means something like "defender of the men"). The female version here is either Alexandra or Alexis.
I remember my mother used to have a pedal operated Singer sewing machine that seemed to be largely constructed from inch thick cast iron.

Unless it has been scrapped for it's (not inconsiderable) scrap value I suspect that thing will probably survive the next ice age.

[We also had a typewriter from the same "Forth Rail Bridge" school of over-engineering and conspicuous iron consumption - possibly an Underwood?]
The overuse of the prefix "cyber" makes the whole article sound like something from a 70s B-class scifi flick. Hard to take seriously.
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This is for people learning to program, remember? If they have to install Mono, that's just an extra hurdle, and doesn't get them any closer to their goal vs. just using Python.
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Cool service, thanks! Glad to see I'm not affected, though I do think the majority of these addresses are just spambots.
I normally use SCSS, but this should work as well.

=triangle($direction: top, $size: 10px, $color: #000)
width: 0
height: 0
border: $size solid transparent
border-#{$dir}-color: $color
Its true that most of the time, merging files by "shuffling the decks together" works pretty ok. Many small changes are independent, even most.

But sometimes they're not, and there is no way on earth the merge tool can distinguish. E.g. I fix a bug by incrementing a counter in the caller; you fix it my incrementing in the subroutine. Merge: now we have a new bug, the counter is incremented twice.

Another simple, irreconcilable issue is files that contain lists of things. I want to add two more items to the list; you add three. Merging, we have a 'conflict': we've both changed the end of the file. The merge here would have been trivial: add all the lines. But the merge tool cannot intuit from a text file, which kind of change it was: list edit or algorithmic change.

A database instead of a text file can help, as long as the schema allows sufficiently complex description to help the merge tool, and that would require considerable foresight on the part of the database designer.
it would be interesting to see a screencast showing how you develop a website with this technology
I just want us to win on all metrics ;) at least if there is benefit for the users in it.
I'm as against monopolization as the next guy, but...

6 companies having a major presence in the market actually seems like a lot. How many have a major presence in the mobile OS market? Carrier market? Browser market? Soft drink market? None of those hit 6.

Similarly, that there even are 140 other movie studios to compare to is amazing. There's nowhere near 140 mobile OSes, or carriers, or browsers. Maybe 140 soft drink brands, but not that anyone has access to in one area.

"Control" is so vague it could mean anything. Do these 232 media executives review every show, every article? I don't think so. An article is written, goes to an editor, maybe approved by a middle manager, and then hits the presses. Reddit and my local paper have the same owner if you go high enough on the chain, but there is certainly no connection or common message between the two. In general, I think executives care about profits, not message.

90% media market share does not mean the same thing as 90% of what Americans consider important. You can try to defend the connection if you like, but you can't just assert it without evidence or argument.

Even so, correlation does not imply causation. Maybe Americans would care about the same things regardless how many companies controlled the media. Maybe the reason these companies are so successful is that they're telling Americans what they already want to hear.

There is just way too much to the issue to say that because 6 companies control 90% of the media market we're all trapped in some common viewpoint.

Finally, go to the original source please: http://frugaldad.com/2011/11/22/media-consolidation-infograp...
On a related note, do not use S3 on the web, use CloudFront. S3's performance is highly variable and latency tends to be high. Serving files from S3 and not CloudFront is foolish and will slow your site down.