skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I was here in the Valley for the original Bubble, and the situation now is nothing like that was. Back then people were saying there was a "new economy" driven by the Internet, and that productivity was going to go up like a step function, which justified higher p/e ratios for any company that could claim to be a participant. If you had money to invest you felt like you had to have most of it in the stock market, because money parked in bonds would miss out on all this growth that was coming.
Back in the 90s I was sure there was a bubble happening, and was notorious for telling everyone to sell. And yet I remember that even I thought it was dangerous to have money sitting in bonds. I don't think that now, and I don't think anyone else does either.
What's happening now is a lot more localized. A few professional investors are paying higher valuations for startups than they were a few years ago. But the number of participants and the amounts of money moving around are both very small compared to the 90s. Plus the companies are better. In the 90s, it was the dumb leading the dumb: smooth-talking MBAs were raising money from hapless LPs and investing it in startups run by other smooth-talking MBAs. Now it's Yuri Milner investing in a company run by Mark Zuckerberg."

-pg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2231352
AngelList meets wikileak
Hell, the very first iPhone quickly became a status symbol, since it was both expensive and had a very distinctive, trend-setting design. For a a brief moment, it was a pocket computer to the digerati, and a fashion accessory for everyone else. (Actually, I'm not sure that's changed much...)
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Really, this isn't news and should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that's looked at their keyword metrics anytime in the past year.

This graph (all search traffic plotted against keyword-not-provided) speaks for itself: https://neosmart.net/blog/2013/google-search-encrypted-traff...
Mythbusters even did without freezing it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJ9fy1qSFI&noredirect=1
I fully agree on the SA stuff. Sadly more often than not it's some dev who knows enough to be really dangerous. I make a good amount of money by coming in and mopping up after those kinds of scenarios (sadly... I'd rather make less money up-front by helping in the planning phase). I will say however that while yes, it's a risk shift you can still have and will have plenty of those risks that are shifted to the cloud still unaccounted for. For instance, backups. Just because your servers are now on 'the cloud' does not mean they're immune from losing all of their data if the instance dies, especially on EC2. On EC2 it's generally just a 'whoops, bye!' scenario. At least with Rackspace cloud it might be a 'whoops, restore from a VM image snapshot from last week'.
It seems odd to me that people are seriously talking about a bubble coming as if it's never been talked about before. It seems to be once a month that there's another article on TechCrunch decrying Silicon Valley as a bubble after stumbling upon the party of some douchebag who watched The Social Network and decided to snort cocaine in Palo Alto. But I quote Peter Thiel's "Party like it's 1999" lecture: http://blakemasters.com/post/20582845717/peter-thiels-cs183-...

"Bubbles arise when there is (1) widespread, intense belief that’s (2) not true. But people don’t really believe in anything in our society anymore. You can’t have a bubble absent widespread, intense belief. The incredible narrative about a tech bubble comes from people who are looking for a bubble. That’s more overreaction to the pain of the ‘90s than it is good analysis."

In other words, if the majority of people believe there is a bubble, there is not, by definition, a bubble.

Valuations for seed-rounds are frothy because there are a lot of investors competing and looking for astronomical returns, but Series A is still hard to come by. Just a couple days ago there was an article on HN about "avoiding the Series A crunch," and today we have a "what to do in the bubble" article.

If anything is widespread, it's good old fashioned paranoia.
Lately, they leased an Airbus A330 for $30k/day (that is $11m). They are also leasing multiple other planes. I guess it's manageable since they are making money from tickets.

I forgot to mention that they enjoy no competition in my town (basically they revived the town small airport) but not much on the rest of the country (being sabotaged by the national airline)
To be honest, I am most likely to type a particular brand/model that I want, in which case I almost always get non-wikipedia pages (which in those cases are exactly what I want.) "honda accord" for example gives me honda.com search results before the wikipedia page.

Now if I just search "sedan", I of course get the wikipedia page first. Is this google just putting wikipedia at the top there to try to force Honda to buy ads for "sedan"? Somehow I highly doubt that. If I search "sedan", chances are I am looking to read about sedans, not jump right to buying an as-of-yet undetermined sedan.
And yet this thread is about the Python open source version, missing in the list
Pardon me, scan and email what ?
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Note also that it's a perfectly fine position to have to think the CRA is a bad idea while also recognizing how ridiculous the idea is that it caused the bubble.
Everyone knows that caring about what other people are wearing or what device they have is childish; and also, handle bar mustaches and unicycles are for complete tools.
I saw it for the first time at lunch today.

WOW is the UI bad. I see this amazing space-grey device that is light, and looks amazing, and then the UI comes up and it honestly looked like a 13-year-old's phone. Just wow!

There are themes in the Android market that are much much much much better than iOS 7. Just wow.

It is such a device mismatch from the hardware.
The images on apple.com make it seem closer to red. Maybe it's my monitor here are work (though other colors seem fine). Nothing wrong with pink, but you're braver than I.

Edit:
I went back and some of the other pictures make it a bit clearer. Also the selection says pink in the html so I guess it must just be my eyes.
Direct link to the APK since it was taken down from play store:
http://www.huluwa.org/imessage/download/platfrom/android/iMe...
It's even better when those taps lead to actions. I permanently deleted some messages because of a non-descript icon (on Android's confusing modern look).

The worst thing about all this icon frenzy to me is that they often even take up more space than text that could descripe their function.
Well, until they decide Good news everyone, we just made even easier to engage with your viewers by linking all other videos of your account in 'what else to watch by..'. There's a good reason for parent to use separate accounts.
Does this finally include SNI support?
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Hey dude, you rock,your products are awesome! just wanted to say thanks.
It's a different approach to learning that I think favors the actual learning curve, not the perceived learning curve.

Your brain is actually built to memorize symbols like this. (I feel I know the learning process pretty well because I have toddler-aged kids who are also learning Chinese.) Of course, kids are not grownups, but even for grownups the process of binding symbol->meaning is easier than it looks like it should be.

Also, when you have name->meaning, the name inevitably is chosen for orthographic reasons and supplies its own meaning, which may mislead from the actual definition of the primitive. If you bind a symbol directly to a semantics, you lose this source of confusion. It is replaced (ideally) by an odd sense of "seeing the function," which I think is also present in experienced Perl ninjas.
1) Generally they do things that are harder to prove illegal, harder to show were doing something they knew was wrong and don't send messages in IRC channels 'joking' about shorting stock when releasing bad news. In essence, they are smarter about it.

2) Some are.

3) Not everyone involved in investment is doing something immoral.
Is this guy actually complaining that Google is taking measures to increase user privacy? Or am I being too cynical/not cynical enough? 'Cause my knee-jerk response is "Dear Marketers, This is why people hate you."
This isn't actually a Crossfit move per se, it's a strongman move called a "Continental Clean" or "Axle Clean/Jerk". The form still isn't great, but I just wanted to point out this isn't a power clean and jerk.

Edit: I missed that someone else posted this below, but thought it deserved it's own easily seen distinction.
Good point, but I still don't think it's a true bubble until it starts feeding on itself, responding to liquidity-driven demand in toxic ways. And I think the toxic way we'll see here is bad startups getting funded.

Another possibility we'll see is startups getting overfunded and drowning in their own capital (another thing that happened in the old dotcom era). But the true quality startups shouldn't allow themselves to get overfunded anyway.

I also think we should see a drive to IPO to drag unsophisticated money in, like back in the day. We're not, I don't think. Exits these days seem to be primarily M&A driven, and how vulnerable is that to liquidity surplus?
Funny, that's exactly what people used to say when OS X came out, right after Steve Jobs came back …
Did Apple acquire WoTC at some point recently? These are like all the MtG card colors (including foils and legends!).

tap Green iPhone, Regenerate.
Valve's had a surprisingly good track record with getting companies on-board with improving their code. They managed to get a lot of improvements into Apple's OpenGL implementation, which is something that Blizzard couldn't do for years.
So, he's not 'mindless flocking sheep' because he wants new device from apple. He wants it because it's fashionable. I can't help it, but it sounds like 'mindless flocking sheep' to me, too.
You probably don't even ride a Penny Farthing.
There is a lot of proprietary IP in a modern GPU driver: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6176498
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So this is what moldbug does in his spare time.
Free the Monsters
Ok, cool.. I read this line wrong apparently :
"PyCharm license includes the initial 1-year upgrade subscription qualifying you for the receipt of the new product releases and technical support (available via email only) free of charge"

Didn't realize the "via email only" concerned the support only. (non-native english speaker here).
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Huh? So, does the existence of an open-source reimplementation of early versions of SSL also imply that if you had access to the raw packets you can read anyone else's SSL stream? How about if we first require the data to be sent in the clear to someone who refuses to tell us how DES works, but is willing to provide a web service that implements it? This app is not by any stretch of imagination proof that the protocol on the wire is not encrypted. Yes, that might be the case, and we might learn some interesting things at pod2g's talk on iMessage at HITB (I'm definitely looking forward to that), but that would be totally unrelated to the existence or possibility of this app.
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In my opinion CSS is very object oriented and the cascading nature of it is very much like inheritance. The problem is that a lot of CSS folk don't come from a programming background, let alone an object oriented programming background so "thinking in objects" isn't something they've learned.

A good place to start doing well structured CSS is to separate the layout from the style. Doing this will give you a much better grip of your CSS and makes for easier future changes and adjustments.
wow how did I look over that again and miss it, sorry :)
I thought "sight unseen" meant not having seen it in person. At least that's how I used the expression.

It's really hard to get a good idea of how these phones look in pictures. You have to see them in person. But many (most?) of those 9 million didn't.
I distinctly get the impression that the authors of this project will already know what Lojban is. This language (especially when you get to the part about reserved words, actually made up with special characters as runes, and how to pronounce them) made me think of the structure of Lojban right away.

For anyone who hasn't heard of it, http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/

Urbit of course having the advantage that it can be programmed in... the video is very cool!
Internet every day:

"Here's a comment from Bob, and another from Alice. I'm going to ignore that they're not the same person and pretend that if you smash them together like play-doh you get a single hypocrite."
I don't, this would require fundamental changes to the module (such as how it handles verifying SSL certificates) and it would cause API improvements to stagnate.

It's painless to install, so I prefer it as a module I can just add to all of my routines.

I feel like stdlib is where cool Python modules go to die...
Totally understandable. I would rather JetBrains do well than be greedy and demanding a "free" version.
>> One that I enjoyed particularly was SignalR combined with Angular.js.

Agreed, I'm really enjoying SignalR + Angular too.

+1 for BDD with SpecFlow.

That said, after 11 very good years of Microsoft .NET development, I'm going 100% non-Microsoft for my personal project that I hope to turn into a paying product. After the Windows 8 fiasco and the carnage of the internal Microsoft politics that caused it, I believe Microsoft lost their ability to take good care of developers. But a useful side effect is that they created a giant escape hatch with WinJS apps.
> You can't argue that college is worth it for a profession if a college doesn't teach the profession to begin with.

I disagree. There is a lot of indication that we already have more people with degrees than jobs that require degrees (in all variations of the word require). If you are going to promote the value of eduction, you have to think about what those people are actually going to be doing with that education once they leave academia. It is not simply a matter of: Have degree in basket weaving = weaving basket career.

> But, once again, to the root of the article, is college worth it to gain some insight into the business of agriculture?

It very well might be worth it, but that is a long way from saying it is required, which is the context of this discussion.

> I find it hard to believe that many people could get their foot in the door without a degree.

Given that electrical "engineering" (i.e. you won't become a PE) is taught at the community college level, I'm not sure why you would think that way. Clearly there is a demand for people in this sector without the college education and degree that goes with it.
Yes, but that's not the most likely interpretation. Teams are new, people are young. Of course, it's possible that "new" was meant, but it's a lot more likely that they were describing the attractions of the people on the team, not the organization's friendly newness.
The article writer contradicts him/herself when they emphasis "simplifying" infographics (with the animated gif example), but their favorite infographic at the moment is the Microsoft/Nokia example they showed. That infographic contains a pie chart.

Pie charts are hard to read and to compare size. As you can see in that example, for you (the user) to gather the information, you need to see the percentile, then also look at the legend outside the pie chart. A bar graph would've conveyed the information more efficiently.
Hi there - I sent you an email a few days ago regarding lengthening the password field for login. Thanks for the prompt reply: I was now able to login. Good to see you on HN!
That's not the concern any more, it's just a fun and different way to make an app. Im a web guy so its familiar territory and will be portable to other platforms.
Has Apple already striked ? "We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server."
You should watch CNBC's American Greed. Highlights numerous white collar financial crimes from pyramid schemas to embezzlement. Most people I found came from low wage jobs into multi-millionaires.
That was a line said once by Richard Branson when he was asked how to become a millionaire:
“Start as a billionaire and then buy an airline.”
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You are a sophisticated user. You probably use Ad blockers too or try very hard to tell an ad from content. That's not what "regular" users do. How many people search for Facebook.com and Twitter.com on Google?
Ohh, so that's what they kept them for - http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01583/planes-big...
Copyright, the blight of thought.
If you build it, they will EFF U UP!
The link that you provided is for IntelliJ and not for the separate products that the GP is referring to (AppCode for ObjC, RubyMine for Ruby and PhpStorm for PHP).
Could you point to an example? 'Hand holding' could mean many different things. Hiding configuration settings? Verbose instructions? Big shiny pulsating continue buttons?

If you mean people were complaining that the controls were too visually complex and they attempted to differentiate themselves too much, I guess personally I'd have to disagree with those people.
(I helped write the piece)

I went with MariaDB because of the features in MariaDB - because the goal wasn't just to improve availability, but to speed up queries, and the improvements MariaDB's made to complex queries and indexing made that decision easy when compared to Percona Server or MySQL Cluster.
Hey everyone,
I'm also a co-founder of CueNotes. Try installing the chrome extension we built and then watch this Limp Bizkit video with comments by Fred Durst: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx9n-1ginEc
It's a sign that the product is mature.

Desktop PCs used to be beige, or rarely black. Now they come in colors with LED lights, and all kinds of decoration.

Cars used to come in black, now they have colors.

It's like that for everything - at first you just want the thing for the functionality. Later you also want it to look nice.

I've sometimes waited to buy a new gizmo till I see it offered in colors - that's my sign that the product is "finished" and is as good as it's going to get. (It's true for games too - do you know games where you can change the color/outfit of the character?)
After reading the paper referenced in the article (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/09/20/1308825110.abst...), I can only conclude that this is pretty cool work.

The authors actually do point out that their sampling method collects data in a way that is independent of the hypothesis they test, so it is not an example of cherry-picking examples that support their ideas.

While I cannot comment on how valid the model is because I'm definitely not an expert in that area, it seems pretty solid; they gave neighboring areas the capability to develop military techniques of certain strengths, the capability to lose it, and saw where civilizations tended to develop the different areas would "fight it out" and transfer military technique back and forth, and the result of their simulation appeared to be quite similar to the map of that time period.

There was also some talk in the comments about overfitting, and while as a person who works in chemical simulation I understand those concerns, this work seems to involve simply their taking initial conditions and plugging it into their simple simulation, and obtaining a result which was a remarkably good match to the actual world map of the time.

I do think the Ars article, like most scientific reporting, restates the conclusion in a way that is a stronger statement than the actual paper. Unfortunately, the way it was said changes the meaning of what was said in a subtle but important way. But.. that's typical scientific reporting, I guess. Overall the work is pretty cool, showing a computational model for studying the spread of military technology in a field that doesn't tend to frequently use computational models (according to the paper).
It also adds enormous friction to making changes/releasing updates in the first place.
If Google cares about about user privacy, why do they prefix every search result link with their own URL? Clearly the HTTP referrer header isn't enough for them. They want to capture even more tracking data (even from the tiny minority of users with referrer header switched off). Forget trying to copy and paste a URL from their search page.

Given how lax they've been over deleting wi-fi data (promising to delete data and then failing to do so), it's hard to take their offical statements on privacy seriously.

Their reach over online browsing behaviour is simply pehenomenal - greater than any other online company and yet their privacy policy is as vague as it possibly could be.

This, for example, is from their Google Analytics privacy statement

"Google Analytics does not report the actual IP address information to Google Analytics customers. Additionally, using a method known as IP masking, website owners that use Google Analytics have the option to tell Google Analytics to only use a portion of the IP address, rather than the entire IP address, for geolocation."

Notable by omission is what Google do with the anlaytics data themselves, they presumably capture (and save) the full IP address as well as all the tracking data from the site using Google Analytics.

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/analytics/privacyoverview...
So what exactly could one develop with this? Not sure I understand the use case.
No. Even if you shout it in your defense on Hacker News, you're STILL a mindless sheep :).
There was a lot of talk about why things were different because we had entered a "new economic era". Some attributed this to the Internet. Others to Alan Greenspan.
I am also eagerly waiting for an answer.. I hope DO makes an official statement on this matter.

Personally, I have had a great experience using digital ocean. Now I am terrified of moving forward with them if they proceed with this "shut down first, ask questions later" pattern.
You also can't return an app in iOS. If there is something grossly wrong you might be able to talk support into it, but in general that $5 purchase is final. I've heard that as a popular reason for the IAP model after people stopped buying apps after buying real duds for real money.
Is it a multi-language editor? I.e. can I switch between html, javascript and python and expect to have a similar interface, commands, API, etc. ? If so, it looks like a strong contender against Sublime IMHO.
* anti-Google+ ranting

is what you meant I think :)

It is a bit amusing how Google+ can do no right. From my point of view, everyone I know uses Facebook and no one uses Google+, so that's the only reason this feature doesn't serve me at all.
I see it as common marketing strategy. It's all about shifting the conversation from "do I really need an incremental smartphone upgrade?" to "are you getting the gold or sticking with white?" I realise its significantly more nuanced than that, but at the core, its subtly changing the decision process of the consumer.

The comments in this thread, the blog post itself, and all the other media coverage, is all playing the same game; it underpins most tech coverage - be it android/ios, xbox/sony, mac/pac - its about setting up either/ors and removing the decision of none.
Still kind of frustrating. I don't want to schedule a task for a specific time, I want to change it back from 1/1 to 0/1. Is this coming in the next release?
Normally yes, but NYC is sort of the Big Exception in the US - it's the only city in the country where the density is so insanely high that I can imagine niche delivery businesses surviving.

We've seen this with eBay Now - the economics are sustained by limiting service to only zip codes with sufficient density.