skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because we are not in a tech-bubble doesn't mean there is no bubble. All these crazy valuations may be secondary effects from a larger, hitherto unseen bubble.

-Credit/Money: We are currently printing money to finance our lifestyle here in the US. China currently holds around 3 trillion US dollars and the dollar is only worth something as long as they don't try to cash out.

-Education: Something bad is happening and it is fueled by cheap, govt backed credit. Everyone is rushing to invest in their children's future because of the it-can-only-help-them mindset, similar to the it-can-only-go-up mindset of the housing bubble (also fueled by cheap, govt-backed credit).

-healthcare: this is a weird case and probably only local to the US. Heres the situation: We value our health, but we don't pay out of our own pockets for much, our employers do. So naturally we keep slipping down the slope of wanting more and more done for us. A huge friction coefficient is being added to our economy due to the nature of making businesses provide healthcare, meanwhile insurance companies interests are aligned with the insured because they both want as much done as possible (provided neither of them pay for it).
However, it should be pointed out that the behavior seen in Air Strike Patrol is due to the developer not adhering to the letters of Nintendo's development guidelines. They found a sneaky way to utilize the SNES hardware, and one Nintendo hadn't foreseen. It's thus the only game making use of those mid-scanline effects.

Also, for a quick comparison of the benefits of accurate SNES emulation, check this overview on the website of byuu, author of bsnes: http://byuu.org/bsnes/accuracy
Have a read of this recent BusinessWeek article: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/24762-on-diaspo...

They're still going and actually were just accepted into YC.
I read recently that TB on windows couldn't hot swap yet. Meaning you have to turn off the computer to get something to detect, that's pretty bad. But apparently will be fixed in future software updates.

TB is pretty great, the biggest downside I've seen are the cost and availability of cables ($50 from apple is the cheapest), and that devices are higher priced. However up until recently you couldn't even get the TB interface chips from Intel. Now that more are released and entering mainstream production, we should see a lot more devices, and maybe cheaper ones as well.
I think that's a good enough reason to not include them in the stats, but I find the use of percentages confusing over simply the raw numbers?

20 People. 3 Not Looking, so removed. It mentions your fellow students, so minus 1 more and we're down to sample size of 16. 88% of 16 is 14.08 - 14.08 people is a weird number. Maybe the maths was done including yourself, so that'd be 17... which gives us 14.96 people - so that doesn't make sense either?!?

Surely something like "Out of his fellow students 16 were looking for, and have job offers on the table. 10 of whom are headed to startups, with the other 6 mostly employed at consultancies." My numbers aren't accurate, but I think the sentence is much clearer.

This is an aside though, congrats on being brave enough to go off to another country to do this - never an easy choice, though sometimes here on HN it comes across as not-a-big-deal.
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The Mac version is next inline of release cycle, so preety soon!
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Indeed. I did copper too, in DOS x86 assembly. Some programs used it to practical effect: you can exceed 256 colors in an 8-bit framebuffer by swapping palette values mid-screen or mid-scanline.

In fact, every Atari 2600 game is a copper effect. The 2600's graphics chip is one-dimensional, working with only one scanline at a time. To display a picture, the software must run in lockstep as the electron beam traces down the screen, changing sprite bitmaps and colors and positions each scanline as appropriate. In other words, the 2600 literally uses the phosphor on the physical TV screen as the frame buffer. No surprise that this was tricky to emulate, and why 2600 emulators took longer to reach usable compatibility levels than emulators for the later more powerful Nintendo systems.
Unfortunately, Apple is trying to force it as a mass market technology. A MacBook Air comes with a Thunderbolt port, but no USB3.
Not really unfortunately.

I've learned Python since the 1.5.x days, mostly on the job and following pydev discussions, so never had the need to look up for such tutorials.

But as I said, I find this one quite good.
I co-founded Everlane (http://www.everlane.com). I'd agree with these three priorities, although I wouldn't use those words. A customer who comes back to your site, does N things, but doesn't purchase is telling you something -- you just have to be clever enough to find out what that is.

But decoupling engagement from revenue puts you in a mindset that leads to more interesting product decisions. For example, the "love it" button on Modcloth might only be weakly correlated with revenue for the people loving it, but has secondary effects when it comes to sharing on Facebook (distribution) and filtering products by "love" for other customers (monetization for those other users).

More simply: a user who never buys a single thing but shares your site with 1,000 people who then do buy something is really valuable. A revenue-only mindset makes it hard to see that.

I'd prioritize retention over engagement, personally, or maybe the author means engagement in a way that encompasses retention.
Good to see Arduino coming to Africa
Facebook likely to set share price at $38 – valuing the firm at $104 billion
Do you know on how many centuries of tabulating 'links' Newton, Darwin, and Einstein built their work? Apart from modesty, there is truth in Newton's claim about standing on the shoulders of giants.

Also, this is not a random fact. People have argued both ways whether coffe is healthy or not. If we want doctors to give advice based on facts, we have to, somehow, figure out who (if anybody) is right there. Barring a clear mechanism either way, looking for facts is a step towards scientific understanding.
Great thanks. I am loving web2py so far as well. I have dabbled in Django as well but not enough to judge. Good to know that web2py is working out well for you. Just a question, how big is your app on web2py. Any scalability/security issues ?
Since the OP is using nginx, here is how you properly do a 301 redirect straight from nginx.conf (in the 'server' section for meloncard.com):

rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://safeshepherd.com/$1 permanent;
I thought, by how you phrased your question, you knew that Obama had reversed Bush's funny accounting policy. If not, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/us/politics/20budget.html

Either way, the wars are very cheap these days.
The SNES is now close to 25 years old, and the older the hardware gets, the more serious the issue of "bit rot" will become. Among NES collectors, it's not rare to find people lamenting not being able to play their original cartridges anymore. Those cartridges don't last forever. Thus, emulation serves an important archival purpose, and without it, those games may be lost forever.
We provided the author of this story, and all other stories all the numbers. I guess the percentages just are easier to write about!

Thanks for the compliment! It was a crazy ride.
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Many thanks to the Jython developers in case you're reading this.
You don't get it. It's more expensive to hire any programmers when the average rate that a programmer gets is inflated by an influx of cash. It's independent of experience. You could substitute talent with "skilled labor" and everything else would stand.
This is like starting a big coding project without first writing a plan.

It's best to prototype first be it on paper or photoshop.

Otherwise your design is shaped by programming requirements, rather than a fully thought out plan/experience.
Your tech stack needs to be focused on development efficiency. In a startup, you need to quickly iterate over your releases to validate your idea. The faster you can get what is in your head on a computer screen, the faster you can validate it. Use whatever extensions, gems, etc that work for you to save you time.
Hi

I work at Google helping webmasters like this.

As far as I can tell, there are a couple of interacting issues we're seeing on the site that can be causing what you're seeing. It's a bit technical, but it's easy for you to implement a fix.

Firstly, our algorithms recently have been picking one of the following URLs as the canonical URL for the homepage:

http://www.safeshepherd.com/
https://www.safeshepherd.com/
https://safeshepherd.com/

For example, I see that the non-HTTPS pages redirect to the HTTPS pages (e.g. http://www.safeshepherd.com/ to https://www.safeshepherd.com/), but the non-www pages do not redirect to the www pages (both https://www.safeshepherd.com/ and https://safeshepherd.com/ return content). When we find the same content on multiple URLs like this, our algorithms pick one representative URL, and over the past few weeks the choice has been changing. As of 3 days ago, the current choice is https://safeshepherd.com/ .

As it stands, our algorithms are trying to figure out the right canonical URL format, but it's difficult in this kind of situation. You can help by redirecting to your preferred URL format (say https://www.safeshepherd.com/*), and our systems will pick up this signal, and that will be reflected in the search results and reporting in Webmaster Tools.

Secondly, Webmaster Tools treats these as different sites. For example, you would need to verify and check the statistics of both https://www.safeshepherd.com/ and https://safeshepherd.com/ (as well as the HTTP versions) as they're separate sites. It may be that you're checking (say) the stats for http://www.safeshepherd.com/ but if our algos have picked the https://www.safeshepherd.com/ URLs as canonical, the search queries of the former will suddenly be closer to zero but the latter will be a more accurate reflection of the site's traffic.

Hope this helps,
Pierre
Thanks, this will definitely help. And if my boss hasn't heard of VMWare, I know that his boss has.
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Have you heard of the "Amstrad Mega PC"? An Amstrad 'ibm compatible' with a Sega Mega Drive (US: Genesis) built in.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_Mega_PC)

£999 in 1993 is ridiculously expensive.
Articles like this are pointless. Americans as a whole will not band together to prevent or rectify problems like this because of one or more of the following:

FEAR) We're all expecting the government to view anything related to freedom as an act of terrorism that will get us into pound-me-in-the-ass prison or worse.

DENIAL) That will never happen to me if I just keep my head down. Only bad people have that happen to them.

DISTRIBUTION OF RESPONSIBILITY) I'm nobody, so how could I change government policy? That is something that important people can do, but not me, I'm just a(n) __________.
What I find interesting is that most attention is being spent on BSNES when the subject of cycle accuracy and proper emulation of hardware comes up, like this is a new or novel discovery. BSNES is hardly the first to aim for this sort of goal, nor is its efforts as close to complete as the efforts spent by others. The NES scene in particular is now down to the level of breaking out scopes to measure response times on real NES hardware to get the sort of information they need to further push their level of accuracy up. Even 'obscure' systems like the MSX have had this sort of cycle-accurate push in emulation.

It's no longer the 90s and people shouldn't even have to mention NESticle existed in an article unless they're that out of touch with trends of the last decade.
PC in a pendrive, plug it in the nearest monitor and there you have it, mobile computer on the cheap.

I like the idea.
While David's argument is interesting, how would his claims be falsified?

The economy is a noisy mess of contemporaneous booms and busts. What we typically call a "bubble" is a boom that lasts long enough that the bust is socially noteworthy.

What if the information age is simply arriving faster and faster? Parents and grandparents are now buying tablets and laptops, uploading photos, liking wall posts, etc.

There could be a huge shift toward the digital economy even if no bubble is occurring.

How many wall posts result in a greeting card not sent, paper not manufactured, trees not felled, shipped, and processed? What other efficiencies are occurring to divert so much capital to information tech?

Most of the technologies that are getting the most money are things that save people serious time/money/effort. This is equivalent to big dollars.

So not only should capital be diverted from other industries, but certain existing ones become more valuable -- photo finishing has more value when you are sending in 30 favorite pics chosen from 1000 digital photos you took, rather than sending in a roll of film and hoping that a few out of the 24 on the roll turned out as expected.

Travel has more value when you can use yelp to find great restaurants, AirBnB to find the perfect lodging at a great price, and Facebook to reconnect with old friends who it turns out live there.

Technology brings value to so many areas, both expected and unexpected. This is why capital is flowing. And it will continue to flow.

Yes there are meta factors such as monetary policy that impact the cost of credit and to some extent influence the risk-appetites of investors, but I think that's likely to be a small fraction of what we're seeing. The reason it's less obvious to us is b/c we've lived in this world of tech for at least 5-10 years before the rest of society started to arrive.
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"Help Scout is the only help desk your customers will never know about."

How does that solve my problem as a customer ?
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I work on that type of environment, and I would stay with Java.

You might have some luck with Groovy, but the performance hit might be an issue, depending on which types of applications.

On a former project I've found out it was easier to sell the Groovy than Python, due to the syntax being almost the same as in Java.

As for .NET I would only use it if you are only targeting Windows. Mono is not really an option for heterogeneous environments in the enterprise world, plus there are a lot of FUD discussions around it.
So conversely, more money is needed to compete with those who are already profitable.
More so, if it worked on linux then it could potentially run on Raspberry Pi, which is an obvious choice for such a device.
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no it's dropped substantially. now it's about 10%
Interesting article! Of course, it does begin with: "Once you have built your product and it’s in the market..."

What are your thoughts here on top three priorities BEFORE this stage?

(I would say,

1. Don't give up equity, keep your credibility, don't be full of hot air. (If a dozen people think you're kind of cofounding this with them and your paperwork is a mess, you're dead on arrival!)

2. Keep dedicated and always do SOMETHING that moves you closer to "Once you have built your product and it’s in the market..." (I say this as a technical single founder, obviously it goes double if you CAN'T do the technical side.)

3. Reach out and network, even well ahead of product or need for money or in the case of talent, for this particular talent. No one will look down on you for saying, "You know I'm nowhere near the normal time to seek funding (or to bring you on board, or whatever), but I thought I would mention that I'm working on this..." Do welcome any feedback. The fact that you're putting feelers out even while it's too early can't bite you (unless you're always full of hot air, see #1), as if nothing else (I expect) you can refer back to this contact instead of taking up contact totally 'cold', when the time does come.

What do you guys think? Of course, these days #2 can be "Move your team to the Bay Area. Get funded. Funded for what? We'll cross that road when we get there, sheesh!"

Not that there's anything wrong with that...)
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Great effect. Of course, it chugs my browser just as much as flash does... (hitting 100% of cpu usage on one core) An HTML5 canvas is not automagically awesomeness. :)
There are three options when it comes to relative RAM and data sizes:

1. All data fits in RAM
2. Active data fits in RAM, but inactive data does not
3. Active data does not fit in RAM

Case #1 is trivial, though still widely used for e.g. web sites.

Case #2 is where the relational databases have their sweet spot. For example you could have a 200Gb database with all customers and history of orders, but only a subset of those customers are placing orders at any one time, and all the new orders are stored close to each other, so only 8Gb of data is hot, and the rest is accessed occasionally. Assuming you have more than 8Gb of RAM, there will be no IO at the time of the insert, there will be some sequential IO in log file at the end of the transaction, and there will be some "random" IO come at checkpoint time. The latter will not be totally random as SQL Server will reorder all delayed writes in the most sequential manner possible to reduce the seeks (hence there is a good reason to space out checkpoints). The log flush is also sometimes shared between several adjacent transactions if they end up committing at the same time, so under load you can get less than one IO per transactions.

Case #3 is the one you refer to. In this case each btree update will push out some other old dirty page to disk, causing IO elsewhere in the database.

Now what you are saying in this comment is that because there exists case #3, there is no case #2. I think you severely underestimate the importance of the case #2.

I recommend a copy of "Inside SQL Server" by Kalen Delaney to learn more about SQL Server.
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I've never found anything on Prime that hasn't been on Netflix... Maybe 10 times now or so I want to watch something on netflix that is dvd only so I go to amazon prime and look to see if they have it and while they typically do, it is not prime eligible.
The talk is interesting but the suggested solution at the end, more taxes on the rich, is highly political and no evidence what-so-ever is offered in the talk that that's the correct solution for fixing the stated inequality problem.
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SCTP is much cooler. It's not HTTP-foucsed, doesn't violate layering and no-one uses it!
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Is there an "after you built your product"?

I kinda thought that you only stop building your product when you go out of business.
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I think the fact that the SNES hardware is proprietary would make it very tough to catch all the corner cases (since we'd be reduced to tons of test and check cycles or using SEMs to examine the chip).

Plus, many cartridges has supplementary chips, so the fpga would also have to include all the different chips used, and all these are proprietary as well.
Yes, you can link directly to a set of results. And if you go the route of sites like Kickstarter that automagically update the URL as you scroll, you still avoid having to load unintended content when you reload it for that set of results.
Indeed.

Considering that one can buy used effects pedals for much less, or even something like a new Yamaha THR10 or a new multi-channel mixer with built-in effects for a similar price.
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Wow! Kudos to Google putting someone out in the wild answering these kinds of questions. Is there a normal place to ask for web/index help or does HN serve that purpose?
If nothing else works, remove the domain from google webmaster tools - completely. I had two sites that lost top serp positioning and once i removed the domains from google webmaster tools, they went right back up to first 3 results on page 1.

Google webmaster tools is more or less designed to help google, not you.
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When companies like Instagram and Pinterest are valued more then NYT , Warren Buffet is doing what he has always done - make prudent investments solely on market fundamentals.
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"Tax avoidance"? He doesn't even live here anymore. Remind me again why he's paying any taxes?
When companies like Instagram and Pinterest are valued more then NYT , Warren Buffet is doing what he has always done - make prudent investments solely on market fundamentals.
How about a 5% anti-Chuck-Schumer tax, whereby any elected representative would be charged a 5% higher marginal rate if it could be shown that he had been proposing bills for show rather than for use.
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Here is the paper itself:

http://post.queensu.ca/~khomhf/docs/Khomh-MSR-2012.pdf
Ethically, yes. Legally, no.
Can the bubble be deflated instead of bursting?
Pierre, thanks for stopping by to confirm these issues. I often see sites be inconsistent between www and non-www, or between http and https. It looks like safeshepherd.com was doing both. More consistent redirects and adding rel=canonical should definitely help us figure out which url you prefer.

Just to confirm what I said elsewhere, this site doesn't have any manual spam actions or anything like that. It's just a matter of Google trying to pick the correct canonical url when you have a lot of different (www, non-www, http, https) urls you're showing. If you make things more consistent, I think Google will stabilize on your preferred url pretty quickly.
It's interesting to note that GPGPU is on there but general-purpose computation on FPGAs isn't. It amazes me how the former has taken so much mindshare.
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Where are the PUTs? POST /inbound/faxes/{id}/mark - Mark as read/unread

Shouldn't that be a PUT on /inbound/faxes/{id}? Seems like you're updating the representation of the fax, not performing some non-idempotent action (like a resend, which can easily justify a POST).

In general though, I think the API looks good. I'm sure it's much better than the SOAP equivalent!
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters

Those folks would have spotted these issues pretty quickly.
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