skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The assumption that institutional investors are not intelligent and did not watch the same news you did about the 2001 bubble and housing bubble is a very dangerous assumption to make.

How so? The only dangerous assumption I see is the constant "but it'll be better this time" that the general public irrationally believes. Are the institutional investors not aware of the impending education (lending) bubble as well? Of course they are, because they stand to make money off someone else's loss. It's the Greater Fool Theory at play.[1] Financiers make their money off predictability, and bubbles are much easier to predict (and manipulate) than straight-line growth, with much higher profit potential.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
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At the moment there's only two countries left that formally and openly grant citizenship with zero years of required residency in exchange for cash: St. Kitts and the Commonwealth of Dominica. In the 1990s there were a lot more (Grenada, Belize, Marshall Islands, etc.). Montenegro used to do this too up until recently but they came under pressure from other European countries to stop. Austria is rumoured to do it under their "contributions to national interests clause" (the one that other countries usually use to naturalise soccer players) but the price tag is in the 7 or 8 US$ figure range.

http://ciu.gov.kn/

http://www.dominica.gov.dm/cms/index.php?q=node/678

https://www.henleyglobal.com/countries/austria/citizenship/

On the other hand, dozens of countries will give you a visa in exchange for an investment; there's nothing unusual about the US in that regard, contra what forgottenpasswrd tries to imply. In some cases the "investment" is just a purchase of government bonds; in other cases it means an actual business that is capital-intensive and generates good jobs for locals. After you get the visa, you still have to actually live there for some period of time and show evidence of integration (like speaking the language) to qualify for naturalisation. The amount of money and the period of time range from four or five figures and a couple of years (Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Dominican Republic) all the way up to seven figures and the better part of a decade (Hong Kong, Germany).
Nice perspective.

Conservators in museums face the same issues with video art and installation art. The video equipment becomes obsolete and breaks down. The light bulbs are no longer made (an art-prep person for a recent MOCA retrospective had to drive a van from LA to Arizona to lay hands on the last available batch of a certain type of florescent tube). With some minimalist installations, just changing the bulbs can make a huge difference.

Here's a little piece on conservation challenges with a piece by Nam June Paik, who pioneered wall-size video installations:

http://www.digitalartconservation.org/index.php/en/exhibitio...

"In the case of Internet Dream, the splitting system was the Achilles heel of the installation. The video splitter used since 1994 was produced by the South Korean manufacturer DASH. Since the manufacturer helped Paik with the technical realization of many of his works (including Megatron/Matrix in 1995), it is likely that this device was specially constructed for the installation. By 2008, the device’s shutdown function had become problematic, probably a sign of more serious loss of function to come."

You see the same dichotomy between fine-art creators versus conservators, as you see between video game artists and emulator designers: "whatever works in the moment" freedom versus obsessive attention to detail.
The circles should be colored to indicate performance.
>I think SASS [...]

Based on what? Sass helps me to write cleaner, better organized code. Furthermore, it reduces typing work. It's great, really. There is a reason why more and more people are using it.

Did you see the vendor prefix debacle? With Sass/Compass, vendor prefixes aren't an issue anymore. Everyone who used Sass/Compass correctly was not part of the problem.

How do you handle sprite sheet generation? How do you handle cache busting of your background images? How do you handle vendor prefixes? These things are very annoying to handle if you have to do that manually.
Is that really a meaningful distinction? The judiciary is part of the government, and the other parts are bound by its decisions. Honestly I don't know how judges in India are selected, but presumably it's subject to the same democratic checks as elsewhere (either because they are directly elected or because they are appointed by elected politicians). "The government" doesn't get off the hook just because it was a court that did the dirty work.
I like this technique! Only caveat is it adds another piece of infrastructure (Varnish) to your stack which while Varnish is very good, some people may not want to. But nice writeup!
<i>Ditch digging is worth less than programming in the market only because there are more ditch diggers than programmers.</i>

Is that the only reason? Surely the labor supply matters, but so does the value of the work to others.
I like the idea. It would be good to have non metal music also.
I definitely understand, I should publish that one article as 4-5 smaller ones. I think my next post in the series will be those examples + commentary. ie. Screenshots of various landers from around the web with notes on what works and what doesn't. I'm hesitant to do that as I don't have any real data on other peoples conversion rates, so I could descend into speculation pretty quickly.
I definitely feel as though the color information is being wasted; the placement of the circles along the horizontal axes already conveys "period of time" pretty well.
Roominate launches Kickstarter to teach young Girls about Technology
He's already paying the 15% capital gains tax on the stock that he owns, which comes to about $500MM. The $170MM must be referring to something else.
Technical solutions for social problems are tricky.

Putting stuff server side might help - meaning it doesn't matter so much what client people are using.
Actually Amazon and Yahoo and others have much more impressive "after 3 years" returns
I like to think of it as Kozmo with a business model but then again, i'm also one of the founders and i guess we all know to well that being overly optimistic about your own startup is one the biggest weaknesses (strengths) of founders. But seriously, we do charge for deliveries, we worked hard on an algorithm that helps us determine the costs of a delivery based on historic data and most of us are engineers who are in love with the idea of solving big problems. ;)
I like the value proposition of being private by default.

With a kid on the way, I expect to share lot of pics and videos to close family members and I am in search of a proper (and private) solution to this.

However, before I commit to any service these days, I always verify what is the company's policy and offering for user's private data.
Do they allow you to easily export/download your personal data?

Unfortunately, with Everyme, they have not mentioned anything about this on their site.
The size of the circles is also the I.P.O. value -- the same value shown on the Y axis.

In the first few steps, it's not terribly useful. But once you switch to the logarithmic scale, it's nice to keep a reference to the true (read, "linear") relative value.
It looks like the size of the circle is the same as the value on the Y axis. The advantage of having higher values have bigger circles is that you can make all the crowded companies at the bottom of the Y axis can have smaller circles.
I think what we're seeing here isn't an issue of Facebook's viability as an advertising platform. It has the eyes, and it has the in.

Consider this: I post a link on my friend's wall about a show coming up that I want to see playing locally. Why isn't Facebook right in there with a ticket deal for two? Is it invasive? Maybe a little, but if it's coming in with a deal, then it's more than likely a welcome invasion (as odd as that sounds). Hell, if the deals are good enough, you might even see people encouraged to spout off keywords to attract ad bots.

People are using the tech to connect to one another on a social level. Even Facebook doesn't understand this yet.

With our site NoSweaters.com, we went out hunting the web to see where people were asking the question, "What should I get my <person> for <occasion>?" It's a question being asked everywhere, and especially on Facebook. Why are they not right there with suggested items?

It seems like a staggering oversight. No, Facebook isn't Google, but it's got such amazing potential.
Very few humans are rational...
Yeah, DHH invented Rails and has shepherded the project to be a dominant player in the web framework world. Really, you could credit him with all the copycat frameworks like Django as well and a good percentage of the other frameworks that reproduced significant innovations introduced in Rails. He's no Linus, but he was a huge force for technological innovation back in the mid-to-late 200x years and maybe a few weeks ago.

But what has he done for us haters lately? I say we hang him. Maybe we should pluck his fingernails out first for making HN members up-vote his blog post.
The trouble with light boxes
I was going to come in here and ask just that question. Now a followup--what was wrong with d3? was it just too slow to render? Or too slow to load?
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The three most important points to me:

1) Saverin doesn't live here any more. So why does Schumer care?? The guy already paid his exit taxes.

2) Saverin was never even originally a US citizen in the first place -- he's Brazilian.

3) "enforcing Schumer’s proposal might run up against the “perpetual problem of trying to figure out what’s in a person’s mind” when he or she give up U.S. citizenship." This is key -- using motivation to determine the punishment for a crime seems OK (i.e. degrees of murder). But using motivation to determine whether or not something is a crime, just feels ridiculous.
Is there a transcription available? I can't listen to podcasts at work (and don't listen to them in my free time as a personal preference).
The idea of someone skipping a CS degree to learn some Ruby on Rails and start as a web developer makes me ill. It's classic short-term thinking

I'm not sure if you are directing this at me, but I've never been concerned about specific technologies. I spent my "college years" learning how to adapt to anything, which does include, but is not limited to programming. I've also worked professionally in several other industries.

Yet there are surprisingly few people who can create new recommendation algorithms or build massively parallel systems that scale to thousands of nodes without downtime.

There are very few that can do this period, CS degree or not. And even fewer companies willing to pay people to do that kind of research. Re-implementing someone else's algorithm to do recommendations, like, say, a Bayesian recommendation model, is no big challenge though.

Nearly everyone who complains about CS degrees being a waste of time is complaining that college isn't a vocational school.

Again, I'm not sure if this post is even directed at me, but I never made that claim. Formal CS comes with a lot of value. It just would have been a poor decision for my career. If you are willing to sacrifice business to be a better programmer, don't let me discourage you. It takes people who are willing to do that.
No worries at all--glad it turned out to be easily fixable.

And now I know what "nerfed" means. :)
I believe, that a simple google search would do: https://www.google.com/search?q=life%20in%20ussr%20in%2060s
HP will reportedly announce restructuring plan next week, up to 30,000 job cuts
Most large institutional investors use fundamental analysis which is not impacted by the Greater Fool Theory. (see your own wiki article).

Also, I'm not seeing a lot of, "but it'll be better/different this time". If I were, I would be considerably more worried.
Social media QR Codes 
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Friend Scan Me is a new way to add friends to your social networks in the real world.
Description
Simplify your real world life contacts by translating your social networks into a QR code.

Others can scan your QR code and add you as a friend instantly! No more fumbling with email addresses or spelling names, just scan, confirm, and you're done!
I think this would be even more interesting if the "Value 3 years later" number was incorporated into the graphic somehow.
Well, we can probably agree on downvoting them, even if we don't agree on their value (I don't think I'm ignore value - I just think there are more potential sources of it)! - the faq does ask people to refrain from posting them, and I feel duty bound by the requests of the site owner.
1. an Illustrator-style object selection engine so you don't have to do that "right-click > pick layer from list" BS.
2. Multiple versions of one screen in a single file. Think collapsed/uncollapsed states of a form or all of the tabs of a form.
3. Small file sizes because it uses PNGs.
4. Ability to import PSDs and use style from PSD layers. Same with Illustrator files.
5. Customizable patterns UI so you can drag and drop custom buttons, etc.
6. Built in prototyping. Just click-through stuff using hotspots, but it's a good way to see if an interaction is going to be worth pursuing further or not.
The most recent episode I don't think is listed. However this may have changed from when I helped my mom with this stuff.
The Facebook is the most important IPO to EVER hit the StockMarkets
SpaceX prepares to launch first commercial flight to space station
Yeah, I suppose if you mail-ordered illegal drugs from abroad it would be you who gets into trouble, not the person sending them if they were perfectly legal in their home country unless the country in question had specific rules forbidding sending such items.

I am at least a bit encouraged by jlist.com et al. doing direct-sending including food items from Japan for years apparently with no significant problems.
You can check for safety the links which you get from untrusted sources with GoogleSafeBrowsing
We just added data export to our mobile apps. You totally own everything you share, and you can request an archive at any time with all of your data (full-resolution photos, stories, circles etc.). We also automatically send you an archive of all your data if you delete your account, before it's destroyed.

It's very important to us that users feel comfortable sharing in Everyme.
The response is eloquent, but I think it sidesteps the point that concerns me and many others. Yes, for the reasons stated, this talk is not the right one to be highlighted on Ted.com. It's not censorship, it's a valid editorial decision.

But I think the real point is this quote from the NJ article: "But even if the talk was rated a home run, we couldn't release it, because it would be unquestionably regarded as out and out political. We're in the middle of an election year in the US. Your argument comes down firmly on the side of one party." (attributed to Chris Anderson)

Is this quote accurate, and does Ted have an official stance of avoiding controversial issues? The fear is not that Ted is in the pocket of any particular party, rather that the bounds of public debate are being set by parties (plural) who benefit from the absence of debate. If Ted isn't independent enough to start this discussion, who is?
data.gov for the US. Not sure about other countries.
This [1] is my hideous destruction of the graphic (sorry) to overlay world population on the Internet with respect to time, data from some worldstats site[2]. I propose that the proper size of a tech IPO should be normalized (and upper bounded) against the possible global reach, which I think the % of world population on the internet does a good job of showing.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/HyeKf.gif
[2] http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm
I imagine it's the performance hit of moving around so many DOM elements on the page. We had a similar experience with this visualization that started as D3 http://trends.truliablog.com/vis/greener/
Works great on an iPad.
I heard that the Kinder Egg in Germany isn't sold in the US because it has a toy in the center and would be considered a choking hazard by US safety standards.

I realize right now it's just a small operation but if you hit it big, what are the approval hoops that you have to run thru for stuff like that?
Varnish allocates one thread per connection. Even if it supports websockets, it's not going to scale well across tens of thousands of simultaneous persistent connections. The context switch and memory overhead will be considerable.

For now, Java-based servers (using netty) and node.js may be a better idea.
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Anyone else wish Apple would take the lead in replacing the mouse with something like this?

Build a couple motion sensors/webcams into the monitor, be it a widescreen desktop monitor or a laptop, arrange them in a triangle or whatever layout is optimal for 3D movement sensing, then build Kinect-like software into the OS so that you can control your computer with hand gestures rather than the mouse.

A 'design is how it works' company like Apple could rethink the entire UI/UX based on this. For example, it may be possible to get rid of the mouse pointer and interact with UI elements more directly, like with tablets and smartphones, just without having to touch the screen, and perhaps with a Z-axis added.

Anyway, just daydreaming...
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This is not about the world, it is about the US and how it perceived the world as its allies and enemies 50 years ago.
Better change the title as "The US in 1962"
Before Eduardo Savarin was a US citizen, he wasn’t a productive foreigner; he was a teenager who had been targeted for kidnapping in his native Brazil. (http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/12/what-eduardo-saverin-owes-a...) His father was a wealthy businessman (which is why Eduardo had been kidnap-worthy), but I don’t know if he was wealthy enough to qualify for immigration to Singapore.
I'm looking at the tracking page for askedrelic's order, and the only thing that would make this the best tracking page in the world, is for Alex, the courier, to be able to add notes on the page - for example, "Ordered and paid for", and then "Next in line", or "5 minutes more due to a problem with the grill" when relevant.

Also, the page doesn't say when the courier arrived at the location, so while we know he accepted the delivery 50 minutes ago, I can't tell whether the food has been ordered 10, 20 or 45 minutes ago. (I do see "pick up in 0 minutes" though, but it doesn't mean anything at this point).
Not to mention DRM.. it's a serious problem.
The "back button" section feels a little out of place to me. I was expecting some form of pro-active advice much like all of the following sections give, but didn't find any there (did a double take on my first read-through because I thought maybe I had missed it). It might be nice to tie it up with something the reader can actually chew on (along the lines of "make it clear that the user has ended up where they want to be by including signs such as product images, logos, or whatever makes most sense above the fold where the user can see it, and heed the following advice to reduce the chance of users reaching for that button").
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That's actually more complicated than it needs to be, see http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#Taxing_Rewrites

Bad:

rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 permanent;

Good:

rewrite ^ http://domain.com$request_uri? permanent;

Better:

return 301 http://domain.com$request_uri;
Ask HN: What platform would you pick to optimize for hiring top talent later on?
I'm not saying this is necessarily a good idea, but it's an interesting exercise. In the past I've built projects on technology stacks that have turned out to be difficult to find people skilled in later on. Looking it at it from the other end, if you know you'll need to scale the team up, what platforms (if any) would make this easy?
Points made in an explicitly partisan manner are inherently less valuable to anyone other than the party being supported.
And do they host only the encrypted version of that data? Encrypted to the people you share it with?

Not decryptable by Everyme? That would be something really new and useful. Almost revolutionary!
Yup, I agree. Thorough with lots of good stuff to think about. Thanks!
This looks interesting.
A big downside for me is that it sounds like they route all communications through their website. I would rather run a server on my local network and keep communications between me and my imps private.
Note that, for better or for worse, relative performance after three years has a lot to do with how the tech market overall happened to be performing at that time.

For example, the companies that I.P.O.'d in 1996 and 1997 tend to do well using this particular timeframe, and the ones that I.P.O.'d in 2006 would be affected negatively.
See page 5, especially the transition between 4 and 5.
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Those data read like they're limited to VC firms big enough to join the NVCA, which requires funds to have at least one full-time employee to qualify for membership (see http://nvca.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl...). So angel investment wouldn't be included, and (anecdotally, I know) it feels like angel investment is where a lot of the big recent money has come from.
Hiphop could be a good market, lots of independent releases there.
The Google AdSense Killer And Other Ways Facebook Could Make Lot More Money
I'm reminded of an Arduino-powered pedal on Instructables: http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Guitar-Pedal/
That's an interesting idea. I am not sure if it's possible to do that and keep the same level of performance, features, and usability that we offer. If it was, I would certainly be open to it.
I agree with the "next door neighbor" allegory. There's only a "bubble" when we can identify a bag holder. That almost inevitably winds up being the plebs, whether it be the general population or via government bailout (still the people). I'm not sure if anyone has yet identified who would be the bagholders in this "bubble", because a bunch of rich guys at Andreesen or Sequoia sure aren't it.

You need a vehicle for the commoner to piss away their money. I don't see that yet. Maybe in a couple years, when your local community KickStarter has you pulling money from your 401K to invest in corporate backed internet startups will they have a way to start to attract Joe the Plumber's wealth.

And with that, a "bubble" comes with it the psychological idea that it's RISK FREE money. That you can borrow money now, sell later and cash out the gains as your investment surely grows. Add to that the real actual feeling that you'd be stupid not to do it (because everywhere you look people are making money off this). That's when we've got a bubble.

When someone can point out a large, wide, gullible, set of people with no access to real fundamental information willing to give up their money through a simple mechanism (stock markets, housing, etc..) then folks, we've got a bubble.