skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(2013).

Also, how has Estonia as a country benefited from this so far? The GDP/person seems to be stalling , although generally growing fast since the 00s. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD/countries...
Exactly. My father was dirt poor. Grew up sharing his bedroom with his 4 brothers. Never had a new piece of clothing except underwear. And that was just normal for everyone he knew. Being a farmer in the 50s and 60s meant you were frequently very poor.
A Robotic Pancreas--after 50 years of effort
There is a fancy name for this that I have forgotten.

Multi-tenant?

Is there a place where 9p namespace enthusiasts can unite and change the world?

There's #cat-v, the 9fans mailing list and so on, but I don't think any of today's Plan 9 enthusiasts are really intent on "changing the world". They just work for themselves.
> Staying awake for lengthy stretches is key in both hacker and rave cultures

Work smart, not hard - you you ain't no hacker.
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Terence Mckenna: Know Your History [video]
America's wealth is built upon the labor of foreigners whose treatment would be illegal if they were in America. Even our working class benefits. We reflect blame to the "greedy billionaires" but in reality all of us enjoy $thousands of consumer value derived from the suffering of non-Americans. Some of us ignore it, others of us hide behind willfully twisted logic about how the laborers are better off with jobs than without, ignoring the lies employers tell, the violence against employees, and the outsider-driven destruction of their independent opportunities.
WhatsApp, probably.
Will High Tech Cars Lose Their Value Faster Than Ever?
I thought the point of the internet was that it was fault tolerant enough to be deployed on the battlefield?
Mercurial Evolve handles this edit-history debate well. There are draft commits, public commits, and non-publishing servers where people can collaboratively edit commits. This is all encoded into hg itself rather than relying purely on social convention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OlDm3akbqg
Here's a concrete example of what this is about:

"Conventional programming languages are growing
ever more enormous, but not stronger. Inherent defects
at the most basic level cause them to be both fat and
weak [...] inability to effectively use powerful combining forms [...] lack
of useful mathematical properties for reasoning about
programs." [0]

It goes without saying that mathematics is at the root of computer science, but we've gotten so far away from those roots, which is why we're reaching the upper bounds of complexity that can be foisted upon our old, broken way of thinking. Time to go back to basics.

[0] https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf
Avoiding using the "M-word" and pretending they're just "recipes" is going to cause confusion when these new Haskell programmers see someone using the list monad.

I don't understand this almost religious need to rename things. It's a monad, call it a monad. People don't know what it is? Well, explain what it is to them. If you hide the real name from them they're going to be confused later.

It's also very strange and unhelpful to tell people that ; in Haskell ("inside a do block") and OCaml are equivalent. The closest equivalent thing in Haskell is (>>), which sequences two monad operations together, discarding the result of the first. Alongside that, there's (>>=), which sequences two monad operations and passes the result of the first operation to your function. From there, you can then introduce do-notation, which is just syntactic-sugar. This way, you avoid newcomers being confused about what `do` does: https://wiki.haskell.org/Do_notation_considered_harmful#Dida...

So `p1 (); p2 ()` would be better translated into Haskell as `main = p1 >> p2`. And in `main = do putStrLn "world"`, the `do` is redundant.
If interest rates are at 7% (savings account returns you 7% annualy) who will invest in risky start-ups?

If you can just go to a bank branch deposit cash and get back 7% -- are you going to go and invest in Uber instead? Really? Because it has "great valuation" ?
That's why I get diet Mt. Dew in their handy single-serving 2 liter bottles.
Well done! I know it is not an easy task to do. I built something fairly similar (and way less quick) http://jsfiddle.net/2XLBr/ and the git repo: https://github.com/skimhub/phone-highlight
Leak of spec for Perl 7.
Once you get past the headlines, is it more like a course (where you pay tuition) or an incubator (where you commit to a % of your future company in exchange for money)?
The problem with accepting computer programs as results is that they require much more scrutiny, as computer programs typically incorporate structures that are irrelevant to the result and yet may affect it (think memory leaks, etc). Mathematical proofs are a "pure" program, unencumbered by the technicalities of the real world.

As far as better languages for math, you'll enjoy this article + HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9572426
Another idea would be to multiply pension plans with whatever the drachma to euro ratio ends up being - that way only the world bank suffers and the pensioners can keep their standard of living. They would likely have to do something similar for employees and business owners, but that would still be manageable.
I don't see how anyone could have thought that it cost $2 million to replace this computer.
It became very clean that it was for a revamp of the entire system.
Because they're comparing to 1999.

In 1999 you could get a billion dollar valuation with not much more than a domain name and an idea. Most of those never ended up making any money at all.

Now, OK, valuations may be high, but at least there is cold hard cash involved. There are hundreds of success stories involving cold hard cash, where in 1999 everything evaporated because the whole damn thing was based on smoke and mirrors.

In other words, even if a company earning $10m/year in profit isn't worth $500M, at least they're worth something. Last time they weren't worth anything.
It's actually moderately appropriate here if they're "drafting" out of school. (Potential versus having real work to show)
The ACE score
Thanks for sharing.

How have you find the coding and debugging experience of server-side JS in general? I'm most familiar with Python and Java but wonder if server-side JS is going to cause me a headache trying to learn everything. The one thing that's slightly holding me back is the development time (i.e. more documentation and libraries for Python/Django means it's easier to figure out how to do stuff)

For your own user management, do you have any reference material to share? I haven't been able to find many good articles on getting everything all set up.
Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center [pdf]
Just a side note, because it's not directly relevant to this conversation, but I love how useful and powerful libuv has become. I'm not a huge fan of JavaScript or Node, but the Node project's work on libuv is a great boon to a large number of projects, for which it is the perfect level of abstraction between raw non-portable OS interfaces and opinionated, performance-sacrificing language APIs.
Especially since it's 5% sugar -- drinking 1.5 l or 2 l a day is bad enough, but 10 bottles (5 l) a day is going to be harmful.
I wouldn't call it a bubble because bubbles burst all at once. Tech does have value, and some tech companies are actually creating value and seem to be worth every penny of their valuation. I'm talking about the Übers and AirBnBs. I would call it a Gold Rush; everyone thinks if they show up with their pickaxe, they're gonna strike it rich.
We were working on a Medium-style text editor for a while and text selection is notoriously hard. Things like https://github.com/timdown/rangy somehow made it more palatable but seriously, what a pain when you want to select something and apply DOM transformations to the underlying nodes.

Could a WYSIWYG text editor be based on your library or does it have a completely different target?
I graduated with a CS degree during the last bubble and never got my career started so I will assume we're in the next one when I can find a job??
The one thing that's telling me it isn't a bubble is the sheer number of people calling it a bubble.

It seems the majority of people, inside and out of tech, see it as a bubble. This is what makes me think that it won't "pop" but instead deflate slowly and painfully.
I'd personally throw in something like geometry, which (at least when I took it back in my middle school days; maybe my experience was atypical) had a heavy emphasis on mathematical proofs, how they worked, why they were important, the differences between postulates and theorems, how to prove theorems, etc. Whereas most of my prior and future math courses (particularly algebra) ended up feeling like an endless barrage of busywork, geometry forced me to actually think about what I'm doing.
Not very big, 10s of millions of rows. The biggest Postgres install I have gotten to work with was in the tens of thousands of rows. I am sure Postgres could handle more I just haven't seen it in the wild.
That's what bubble means.

Tulips remained quite lovely flowers and the south sea had pleasant beaches throughout their respective bubbles.
Haha, that's pretty great. Whoever runs the Twitter account must feel pretty bad about the timing on that...
My question isn't is it a bubble or not, the question is what would the effects be this time around?

Most people seem to agree the bubble (if it exists) is in privately held venture backed startup companies. Does the popping of that bubble have significant ramifications across the economy as a whole?

1. Last time they were all public companies, including the big ones like intel,msft, being wildly overvalued. Everyone lost money, not just VC's

2. It will certainly be harder to do a startup, but I suspect all these engineers won't be unemployed. They will go and work for AppGoogBook. AppGoogBook will welcome them with open arms.

To recap, at least I think/hope, VC's and founders are the only one's losing money compared to everyone who might be invested in S&P 500 (read everyone) and there shouldn't be any kind of major unemployment causing extra problems

Is this a reasonable view?
I don't know much about it but I'm sure Minecraft was worth a shitload for a while when Notch was the only one developing it.
Every profession has a tendency to overstate it's own importance. In the eyes of programmers , we are misunderstood , under appreciated and people don't fully grasp our worth.

Management thinks that they're the real movers and shakers , having to take all the risk , make all the tough decisions , while having to deliver results while being saddled with sometimes recalcitrant and inefficient teams.

Mathematicians feel that they are the ones at the vanguard of progress and are angered by the fact that people have the temerity to say that they don't "get" math or have any use for it in real life.

Though Delmania's comment skirts dangerously close to what pg might call a "middlebrow dismissal" , he makes a very important point. Our increasingly unequal economy and limited opportunities are forcing us to increasingly push ourselves harder and into a fierce cycle of competition that is destroying us.

Some lessons in Humility , Resilience and Self acceptance would do us a world of good.
Thanks for sharing this. Great work!.
I was wondering if it would mark a second time and third and I could test it in the small demo. It meet my expectations :) Great work!

Two humble suggestions:
- the glare effect in the text "Damn fast easy marking with serializable selections" made me think for a sec that this library was about different thing that I though. I'd remove that effect and mark the word "marking" in that text, so the slogan it's already a demo.

- If the library support marking in different colors show it in the demo would be awesome. or maybe in different advanced demo
Polish Railways(state owned) had an Odra 1305 machine, manufactured in 1973, still operating on one of their stations until 2010. It's fascinating really.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odra_(computer)
Old but working
This article is a sociology of code, not a technical manual. You absolutely could get a lot out of it.

I get the GP's point about this being reminiscent of GEB, not in the sense that it covers the same topics or is at the same 'level', but in that it describes an intangible idea by approaching it from different angles and describing that same core concept from the shadow it casts in different directions. In GEB that core concept of self-reference was tackled from multiple perspectives so that an image of this common theme emerges as you read these different views onto it. Similarly, this article tries to conjure an image of 'code' as a cultural artifact, by portraying the shapes it casts in different directions - on the people who create it, the people who have to fund it, the tools and artifacts it generates. And it does so, like GEB, with wit and intelligence.
I do not miss those days of waking up early in the morning after finals to find those emails. I would nervously read them in hopes of not being disappointed by my grade
If you have let's say enough revenue to support yourself, or at least to make your bank account stretch for years and years, but your valuation is $RIDICULOUS, and then your valuation drops to $NOTRIDICULOUS, well... that sucks for your owners (including your employees, presumably), but your company stays alive and your employees stay employed.

If you have no revenue and a high burn rate, then when your valuation drops you get no investors and can't pay your employees and the company folds.

That said, I'm not sure I buy the idea that this boom is marked by a massive increase in companies with (significant) revenues. I mean, yes, Uber has revenues. Instagram didn't, Snapchat doesn't, Whatsapp had laughable revenues, etc. Uber is the most massive outlier of this particular boom. It is definitionally not typical.
It's definitely a good idea and we're doing something similar but focused on other data sources.
And after that, you can get a little bit funky with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM5WPCsWA3M
I think it is a good idea if it was a numeric scale rather than text-based. The problem with text is you move it, read text. Numbers are easy to process at a glance of 'low -> high' or 'bad -> good'.

The descriptions aren't "right" with what I'm trying to put down even if I understand which direction I'm moving the slider.

I'm basically treating it as a numeric scale anyway.
Would it be feasible to have this all on one page to easily and quickly fill out?

It's clearly a 1st prototype, so I'll cut a lot of slack on the mechanics. Overall it could be a great way for medium and large companies (where it's impossible for everyone to talk to everyone every day) to understand the sentiment of their people.

Keep going with this, please!
The Exchangel Crown
Well, I am using it mostly for CLI applications where multi core is not a problem, but the type system is a bliss. An we can just compile to native or bytecode and deploy a single file (just like Go). Does Haskell support CSP (channels, cooperative threads)?
The California proposition system doesn't seem to be working out too well.
It was in Silicon Valley. The company was owned by a huge conglomerate on the east coast, but was mostly left alone and entirely managed from Silicon Valley.

I had worked there for almost 2 years. I was originally hired at about 2/3 of my previous pay (it was a rough time to look for work), and they suspected I was looking around (it's stupid not to at least look once in a while). They tried to retain me by making me a lead over 2 other engineers (don't care) but not by modifying pay, though I made it clear that that would help.

When it was clear I was still looking around, boss called me in to try to get me to sign a "pledge" to stay at the company for 2 years. I refused.

A couple weeks later I got my offer and gave two weeks notice. There were a few meetings with management where they claimed they were going to make a counter offer, but they never actually offered me anything.

That meeting was the last one. Immediately afterward the lead counsel called me in for a meeting and apologized. He said that the other meeting was supposed to be a substantial cash offer (significantly more than Google was offering), but I declined pointing out that I wasn't ever going to be able to work in this town again; certainly not for him at least and the lead counsel said he didn't blame me.

I tried to help with transitions and stuff, but I was told that I'd be paid for my 2 weeks, but to not bother coming in. I hear it didn't go very well after I left.
What is this supposed to mean? I don't see it as anything wise or insightful. It just sounds strange. Am I missing something?
But unlike most companies in SV they were worth a lot because they were making a lot of money! They were selling a product, not giving it away and praying they got bought or found an innovative new advertising model.
It is funny reading hacker news from outside the bubble, so to speak. When I hear of this troubling issue of too much money being thrown around by VCs, I do wonder if, while they are at it, they could learn to throw a little further maybe.
Anybody who can survive a few fights and keep going is a tough dude. the problem with boxing is that losing has a much higher price than other sports. I can challenge the No 1 tennis player every day and get only my ego hurt. In boxing every loss (and often even a win) comes with brain damage.
Due to the tremendous population growth, and higher standards of living of human population, I think it will be extremely difficult to achieve the kind of dream your talking about. Nevertheless, this dream would have to go through better education at all levels.
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As the article you linked says, they're underfunded because the investments didn't perform as well as expected.

If there's something else to it, by all means feel free to state precisely the difference between how these pension funds from the random article you googled operate, and the USPS's requirements. There might be, but the article you linked doesn't imply that.
From 'Dropout Crisis' To Record High, Dissecting The Graduation Rate
what's the state of mono on Linux ?
When you have VCs giving the idea people free money, yes, it's a fucking bubble: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/12/no-team-no-idea-no-pr...
Where did you get nobility from. This isn't the author's point at all. Obviously knowledge about different areas of knowledge can be of more practical benefit at different times. The point is that in the next few years knowledge of math will become relatively more valuable and programming relatively less valuable.

Regarding the quote, it is a best a great oversimplification. Mathematicians have been interested in computation for a long time. See the Euclidean algorithm for example. Interestingly its computational complexity was worked out a hundred years before computer science was even considered a subject. Many great mathematicians like Gauss also had a keen interest in computation. A description of the fast Fourier transform was found in his notes after he died.

It is true that mathematical theorems have historically not been written from a computational point of view. But many many theorems can easily be turned into an algorithm (anything based on induction for example). Mathematics has many different subfields and the number of such constructive theorems varies based on the area. However, constructive arguments in mathematics are so pervasive that I think it is silly to even try and separate computation and mathematics as separate ways of thinking.
Yes, and I agree with them. There is a right to "anonymous free speech". But that is not the same as a general right to anonymity, and I would question whether anyone has a general right to remain unknown.
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User generated content sites are some of the most important that need to implement HTTPS.

Consider reddit for example. The entire site is HTTP. That means your ISP can pull up a list of your entire reddit browsing history. They can see every post you read, every comment you wrote, etc. Collectively this data could form quite an accurate picture of a person's mental makeup. Is that the kind of data you want floating around?

HTTPS encrypts query strings so upstream providers cannot see which specific pages you browse.

Of course, HTTPS still shows domain names... but it's a start. Next step is DNSSEC for everybody!

p.s. Anyone interested going down the rabbithole exploring mass tracking of individuals, should google "entity mapping llc" and poke around the results...
This is a follow-on to my previous article http://davidsterry.com/blog/2015/06/arguments-in-the-bitcoin... which failed to even contain the word consensus as helpfully pointed out by a reader.
Same here. I've travelled quite a bit, and I don't generally feel homesick, specifically. "Dissociated" is a word I use often. If anything, I'm 'homesick' for multiple homes: I am constantly missing Athens, Kiev, Tokyo, Berlin...

In many ways, constant travel is really wonderful: I'm almost always saying 'hello' to new friends, and 'hello again' to old ones. At the same time, though, you're constantly saying goodbye, as well...
I'd say it's more of a froth. Some areas are depressed (relatively), some are about right on target, and some are way overvalued.

In a bubble lots of people become sudden "royalty", but in a froth, only a select few are made into kings.

It's clear that "valuation", as term, is not indicative of the value a company provides/produces, or the market it serves. It's a kind of shared fantasy.

What we keep seeing is that companies with grossly inflated valuations end up M&A'd into a more mature company, and the value that company had is corrected over a couple years to be some fraction of the purchase price.

There's also little longevity for many of these companies. An unmonetized cat picture sharing app gets "valued" at $billions because it's hit some kind of faddish meme growth curve, is bought be Yahoo! or whomever, and then turns to vapor within 6 months. The acquiring companies don't even have enough time to insert their ad network monetization scheme onto the pages before the curve turns upside down.

Meanwhile, the founders of the site are sitting on piles of cash, and go on to angel invest in other bad faddish ideas that have a monetizable life-span of 12 months.

Or other startups form that require as their monetization strategy, for some non-trivial percentage of all humans on the planet to be using their service before they can start skimming profit off of operating expenses. They hit 85% of those metrics, sell or IPO for the GDP of a medium sized European country and everybody is surprised when they have monetization problems.

The Startup->Invest->Value->Sell cycle is broken in several subtle places and it's not clear how to fix it other than for investors to just get smarter and/or have other investment vehicles available to them. Or at least start asking for startups to "start up" with a good business plan in place, and carefully evaluate it for nonsense. But this won't happen so long as the cycle as broken. Uninformed investors, who were trained on what success looks like from their own ridiculous lark of a company fundamentally don't know what a real company looks like.

Meanwhile there are other companies with real ideas, making real money, who are struggling to get valuations at 1xrevenue.

Like anything with money involved, tech startups have become a hit-driven industry, and over the long-term (10-20 years) this is generally bad for everybody.
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