skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit of personal anecdata: After the first bubble burst, I took a jib at $BIGCO for a slightly higher salary than I was making at the startup I was laid off from. $BIGCO was pretty stingy about raises and bonuses though during the bust, and I wound up leaving for another startup 4 years later with another slight salary bump.

Also after the burst, my roommate and I asked our landlord for a $700/mo rent reduction, and we actually got it.
They probably refer to Diceware [1].

[1] http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
The closest thing I had to a friend serving, switched from a barely tolerable racist to a fellow who was proud he was protecting our oil interests by shooting hadjis.

Difficult to understand how creating enemies abroad is protecting us here.
Can you elaborate please? I don't understand.
$100k in pre-tax income comes to only around $60k after taxes. (varies by state)

It also depends on rent and your lifestyle.

I'm able to save 25%-50%+, but I live cheaply.
isn't all this just a matter of time?

https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/koos-jansen/guest-post-5-c...

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/04/21/the-myth-of...
Client sends a request to delete item #12345 from DB. The item does not exist in DB. Is that a 404, because the resource isn't found, or just generic 400? 404 should be reserved for URL/route errors.

We need a few new error codes for common REST operations.
I believe the 'selection' abstraction holds in culture. It happens to ideas, products and of course living forms. The "forces" are different but still.
Since you've mentioned south Europe, here in Serbia since a few years ago the fines for not using a seatbelt are so high that taxi drivers often ask you to buckle up if you don't do it yourself and they never give you strange look for using it. At least one good thing here.
This is a very lazy article. It makes a lot of broad and sweeping claims, but doesn't have any evidence to back it up.

Most importantly: why is this bubble worse than the last one for employees? Employees all had stock in the dot-com bubble as well, and were equally wiped out when it burst.

Personally, I think this argument is much less feverish than the last one. Unicorns might not be profitable, but they're generating substantial revenue. Uber has a crazy valuation, yes, but they're also making $10 billion a year in revenue. [1]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-revenue-rides-drivers-an...
I've never seen rates that low, but again, you may have been at the lower end. I knew lots of developers who were at that end of the spectrum who were deceived by the rates being paid in 1999 into believing they had "made it".

I think it's a positioning thing. If you're at a big consulting firm, it'll be tough. Companies that used to pay $200+/hr for projects will find it's better to bring in some generalists and pay them $80k/yr.

During this time I was a developer in HR in travel, 9/11 hit, and I went to building web apps for health care. No issues whatsoever with work. During this time I also did some smaller projects, again, in mainstream industries: transportation/logistics, telecom, etc.
god bless noble soul...
sigh
i am numb :/
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Yeah, I'd recommend 6-12 months in cash, with surplus savings in something liquid (like stocks) and a maxed IRA/401(k).

An investment property isn't liquid, and it's also leveraged.

If you're overleveraged, you'll make extra profits during the inflationary boom, but you'll get wiped out during the next recession.
"$10k+" is an abbreviation for "$10k or more".
Again, I see this as you mistaking "I don't understand" for "there is nothing there". I obviously don't think it's handwaving, and it has been a long time since I took unsupported accusations from Internet randoms very seriously.

Sure, you could be a very special snowflake, so smart that the world really does always break down into "obvious to brobdignagian" and "dumb/meaningless". But if you're that smart then I'd suggest that either a) you should use your smarts to make your Olympian view comprehensible to us mortals, or b) you're wasting your time talking with the likes of us.
That video helped a lot, but I'm still struggling to understand what the N=NP question means and how to prove it.

I think that all problems with a set definition for "solved" is solvable as in "P".

For example, the rubik's cube is solved if all sides have a solid color. And is thus a "P".
It's a pretty simple situation. Zero and negative interest rates are causing enormous sums of capital to chase yield through non-traditional sources. Sand Hill Road VC's have a good pitch and connections, so they wind up with a significant portion of that capital. That capital has to go somewhere, so the VC's basically use the Stanford admissions process as a proxy for screening, and they give anyone that has been admitted and can get an app written huge amounts of this money. VC's haven't suddenly gone crazy; they simply find themselves drowning in money that they have to deploy.

Some of these companies will undoubtedly be successful, as the ability to spread virally and scale the IT infrastructure to meet demand these days is absolutely unprecedented. That is the primary difference between the first "bubble" and now. It looks the same in terms of frothiness, but anything that delivers real value to people these days will spread very fast, largely for free, and may actually become profitable.

Whether or not the value of the successful companies that emerge from this era will make up for the massive losses of those that fail remains to be seen. I think it's actually possible. The real losers will be the engineers, because when interest rates rise and people pull money out of these funds, all but the most promising companies (in terms of actual traction) will see their funding vanish, and millions of people (thousands of top engineers among them) will be out of work.
You've described that they can be linked. But what value does that provide to post it here?
I think (unsubstantiated as well) that less parachutes are being given out to employees this time around, and VCs have gotten smarter. Many VCs were around then, whereas I'd bet that better than 50% of those reading this thread weren't of working age when the last bubble burst.
I don't really see how people get to much more than $40K a year in expenses. That's like a $2K/month apartment and a pretty nice used car with lots of margin for going out.

Granted if you're too aggressive with IRA investing or student loan payoff you can get in a situation like this. That's my downfall - I'd rather be in the market, but you really shouldn't expose your emergency fund to that kind of risk, especially given near-perfect correlation between market performance and personal financial security.
Although a bit tangential to the article, you make a really good point. There has to be some room in the market for plug-n-play servers with 0-maintenance web apps that are present in the home instead of a public cloud.

It'd be really tough to compete without the massive consolidation benefits of the big players. Moreover, it'd be tough to position the product because it's essentially the same service, but with privacy benefits.
Great question! We're still working on our solution. Let me know the best way to reach you and I'll let you know when we've finalized the design there.
You're not in academia, are you? There're hundreds of obscure journals and conferences with very low standards. As long as you choose venues that are within your league, you can publish anything that remotely resembles research, and it will show up on Google Scholar. A new academic paper is published every 15 seconds, and most of them are "negative results, meh results, and flawed research".
I despise anyone that keeps their startup a secret.
The methodology is completely flawed. They correctly measure that 1% of the bitcoin addresses contain 99% of the bitcoin wealth, but this doesn't show wealth distribution in the "bitcoin community". Addresses don't translate to people.

Almost every wallet uses a number of addresses for accounting and anonymization. Even if I own a lot of bitcoins, if I regularly use my wallet I will most likely end up with a few addresses with a decent amount of bitcoin each and a bunch of addresses with small amounts of bitcoin each, leading to a distribution similar to the one observed.

As another factor, a lot of bitcoin wealth is in online wallets or other online services. Many of them consolidate all bitcoins into a handfull of addresses for practical reasons. That makes these services look super rich when in reality they just hold funds from other people.
"MBA Oath" for managers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBA_Oath
Have you considered virtualization? Before adopting OSX, I went the virtualization route myself 4 years ago. I know it works on vmware (at least for me back then with vmw player running on Dell Linux laptop).

It probably depends on your requirements. YMMV

If you're going through this to save a few hundreds, get a mba refurbished.
From http://www.princeton.edu/communications/services/editorial/r... :

> “Use the title Dr. only when referring to a medical doctor.”
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> 404 should be reserved for URL/route errors.

What dichotomy are you working off of here? It is absolutely a 404. How is this any less applicable to a DELETE request than it would be to a GET request for the same resource? What extra information would this new status status code carry?

----

> 10.4.5 404 Not Found

> The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address. This status code is commonly used when the server does not wish to reveal exactly why the request has been refused, or when no other response is applicable.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10...
My brother is in the US Army (and so was my cousin). I don't believe that Snowden-like reveals put him in any more specific danger - AFAIK, he's at much higher risk from "insurgent" activity, which the US's actions have created without any help from leaks.

Nor is using the word "serving" instead of "working" beneficial to how people think about it. It's a job, he enjoys it, he's fairly well compensated (good credit, benefits, etc.) The military offers all sorts of bonuses and recruiting tactics to hire people, like other companies. You're not forced into the military, and when he joined, the various divisions were actually quite picky and it took a while to find a properly compensating match, just like other employers. (Though in my cousin's case, after suffering severe damage on base, they had no trouble discharging her to a rather miserable life, hey just like other corporations.)
...and your point is....?
But how does it explain that? The situations are clearly very different on either end of the spectrum, so you can't directly use the intuition from one end on the other. The only thing you've really shown is that the categorization will be mildly imperfect.
Yo is real, Bro was the satirical take on Yo.
Seems to be a great insurance plan for staying fit and clean when times are rough. +1
This really sunk in for me when I learned we were able to create robots that always win at rock, paper, scissors. A regular person wouldn't naturally expect this.

https://www.google.com/search?q=robot+always+wins+rock+paper...
Check out xv6. It's a Unix v6 compatible OS rewritten in C for educational purposes. It's pretty neat!
I think they're fascinating from a Hayekian point of view, namely that small centralised groups of directors have only a fraction of the information necessary to direct large groups, compared to dispersed but dynamic information flows you get from market economies via the price signalling system. Which explains the vast misallocation of resources and overall malinvestment.

Funnily enough, the person to first advocate as little interventionism as possible for government was Chinese philosopher Laozi, who compared governing a nation to frying small fish for lunch: too much stirring and lunch is ruined.
I don't think we're going to agree on the quality of this paper, which is perfectly fine and a normal part of science.

Two things:

> I don't think this is that unusual since I see plenty of references to publications in press in papers I read - econ papers spend years as preprints

This isn't normal in biology. It's a stance that researchers are trying to change (see http://biorxiv.org/, notably), however.

> I don't see any such claim. I think you are again confusing different stages of storage and revival.

At a molecular level, the two processes may work differently (we don't, of course, have the SafeSpeed protocol). However, the article states:

"During this time, it is necessary to allow 30-45 minutes for vitrification processes, 15-30 minutes for slow freezing processes, and 24 hours for all processes to safely recover and verify the survival of the worms"
That wouldn't work for a rollover or prevent someone being ejected.
The article doesn't say that.

"Unlike the 2000s, VCs will not be in the line of fire. Employees and founders would take the fall."

Employees and founders were in the line of fire in the 2000s, but unlike last time, the VCs won't be joining them.
Also "know your exit strategy". Foreclosure means giving up control and probably losing everything, and you should try very very hard to stay in control of what happens here. Selling the house quickly might have been difficult, but the big immediate mistake here was not selling the car - anything that gets repossessed is gone and you won't get any of the cash, anything you sell yourself you have some control over where the money goes.
Liquidation preferences have value, and a lot of value, I'm saying that they just don't make VCs immune from bad consequences. I'm sure the reason they are so common is that a VC wants it, and it seems fair to the founder and is easy to toss in.

Founders certainly don't accept anything the VCs dictate, and terms like this are on the table during negotiations. This is especially why as an founder you want competition from multiple VCs so you a little bit of leverage. But at the end of the day the VCs are going to want some sort of preferences over the common stock, and this is a fairly easy one to toss in.

As to why the preference might not be so great for a VC, let's imagine a hypothetical scenario. I make a 20k personal angel investment in a company with a 1x liquidation preference. A year later the company is tanking and sells for less than the valuation, but enough that I get all my money back. Great. I lost the opportunity cost of that 20k for one year, but nothing else.

But imagine the same scenario with a VC, but let's say it was 20 million of their 100 million dollar fund. A year after they make the investment, they get the money back. But they now must return that to the LPs. The fact they got the money back quickly makes no difference to them, because they can't re-invest it. And now they now have only 80% of their fund left to try and generate a big return. Yes, getting the money back is better than not getting it back, but is wasted ammo they cannot re-use in their quest to generate a big return.

And also lost in this is that many times when a company is tanking they will either go completely bankrupt or not return all the money that investors put in (see: Fab).
Yes, he is talking about real dice. He comes from Bitcoin security point of view: don't trust anything.

Dice, being physical objects outside of computer networks can be trusted to a pretty good degree.

When it comes to creating something random on a computer, it's actually incredibly hard to guarantee randomness. Most RNGs are black boxes or are so non-transparent that they might as well be black boxes.

You might have an idea how your *nix /dev/random works, but can you actually guarantee your OS is not compromised? Can your guarantee your BIOS is not compromised? Can you guarantee that your hardware is not compromised?

That's why if you want a truly secure Bitcoin cold storage, you generate a wallet offline using something like dice or coinflips (dice are quicker).
I am glad to have read this post. I have never been in as rough of a financial situation as you have, but I have been in a similar state of mind many times. I am happy that you were able to get back to a good place.
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It's probably technically wrong, but still, I can't escape from the thought that someone selling a zero revenue idea to an investor for a few million dollars is no different than someone selling a stock short. When a bubble bursts, the short sellers make out.
Ok, so client requests "DELETE www.company.com/api/thing/1234" and gets a 404. Or even "GET www.company.com/api/thing/1234". Delete vs get doesn't matter.

Did 1234 not exist, or is "/api/thing" the wrong path?

404 is overloaded. It can mean two very different things.
There is little evidence that flossing prevents dental decay or plaque buildup
GlassWire, EMET and AppLocker are new to me but they sound promissing!

Why do you prefer Avira? I find hard to compare since the reviews are usually personal experiences without any real data, and since they are usually closed source it's even harder.
Parallel proving should be a big bonus. Nipkow found that on the Isabelle test set, using 3 theorem proves in parallel gave as good results in 5 seconds as the best among them gave in 120.
> However, it makes the assertion that the only way to allow people to reliably develop software they don't understand is to have the compiler 'understand' it for them (I use understand loosely of course).

More like have the compiler make sure (and let it be able to make sure) that you didn't screw anything up. You still have to understand ownership and lifetimes, so I don't get what 'understanding' you're offloading.
In Ontario Canada we have an organization doing so, the PEO. Any professional that has the word "engineer" in his title, including software engineers must do a license exam, old a valid engineering degree and have 4 years of supervised work experience with references. It isn't as common for software guys then let's say civil engineers.
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I personally know many "bootcampers" that are better engineers than many CS grads, and many "front-end" engineers that are better, more knowledgable, more up to date, and in higher demand, than the some of the crusty java devs who haven't changed or read a tech blog since 2002. Most can produce their own json, but most don't need to. I'm not sure they're the ones to fear for.
I think I would be good. They are using the ace text editor, so something simple like:

on pageload:
var t = localStorage.getItem("textbackup");
if (t){
__editor.setValue(t);
console.log('restoring from backup');
} else {
__editor.setValue(document.getElementById('basic_intro').innerHTML);
console.log('putting in the intro');
}

and on any action:
var text = __editor.getValue();
localStorage.setItem('textbackup', text);

It's the approach I've taken in my version a playground for a different program.
http://xqt2.com/mjslab/mjslab.html
REST is an architectural pattern that specifies properties about the interface, not the data - how does using JSON over XML make your interface not RESTful? In his dissertation[1], Roy Fielding always refers to data in terms of resources rather than specific formats.

[1] https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arc...
Interesting article about Facebook’s quest to absorb the internet
While I believe you're very much correct in your first statement, I do disagree with your other statements.

Some of us believe that the best way of protecting our service members is by not putting them in harms way in the first place.

This also entails after service privileges. We should be spending infinitely more on our service members, not less (in terms of healthcare, education, housing, everything.) Instead, were spending an incredibly large amount of money on corporate welfare for things that will probably be either useless, or worse than useless (in that they are dangerous to our troops, for just one example, the infamous A-10 vs JSF debacle. One is a proven way of saving US lives on the ground, the other is a giant waste of money.)

Second, we may also feel that the service members (our friends and family) are here to protect the People, not the Government, and thus enforce the ideals behind the Constitution. This entails protecting our (I would go so far as to say everyone's, but I know that's a rather radical interpretation) freedom, from illegal search and seizure that the NSA has very obviously been violating all of our rights, including our soldiers.

Secrecy of communications is one thing, but the NSA (and the military) has shown that they care less about that, than they do in actually spying on everyone. The US military's communications system is such a clusterfuck that you often times have troops that are within a mile (in 3d space, so this very much applies to aircraft), that cannot communicate with one another.

Maybe I took your comment out of context, but I believe that we should take care of and protect our troops. But that doesn't mean we subvert the ideals of the country that our troops are theoretically fighting for.
Dice map trivially to alphabet+numbers, and you know there are no flaws in the generation.

It doesn't have to be competely random, but when humans make up passwords they grossly overestimate the entropy levels; it's easier to say not to do it at all. Especially since the longer a password a human makes, the more likely they are to use shortcuts to gut the entropy, such as involving not only words but actual sentences.

Biased random number sources are okay, but you have to understand the bias, and it's easier to use an unbiased source. urandom is nearly perfect (post-boot) so use that.
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Its nothing to do with what people might say. The issue is another dev seeing your startup and thinking "hmm, maybe I'll do something similar" and then competing against you.
It would be great if this could also show diffs to previous versions!
Interesting, so technically isn't weak typing, but in practice to me it is a distinction without a difference. You could make int a subtype of string, and allow things like "1" + 1 == "11" and end up with many of the same problems of weakly typed languages.
> Tangential to the article

You got me. Hopefully my point is interesting regardless though -- basically that some companies like Pinterest are vulnerable in ways that others like Square aren't.

> Moreover, it'd be tough to position the product because it's essentially the same service, but with privacy benefits.

Oh man, I'm glad you brought this up. I think one of the only interesting insights I have here is that _the personal server stuff is totally tangential to privacy_. Personal servers are cool because they're useful and technically sweet -- I can move from querying my friend's review of a software product, to looking at his code using that software, to reading his blog posts about it, all without leaving the same datastore (on his side) or the same UI (on mine). Right now that would involve searching Acme Software Co's website, then GitHub, then Blogger, which is a plain worse process.

EDIT: spelling
Wish they dropped it in the move to 3