skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt that it's going to be anything like 2008's financial market crash. VC-funded startups just aren't that important. Housing prices and interest rates affect everyone; VC is just a game for rich people playing with other peoples' money by taking bets on young narcissists with big ideas.

So far, when VC flips its products on to the public markets, the markets react fairly rationally and the bad companies tank. Look at Zynga. The market may be overvaluing it still, but it's nothing like the 1990s. Public markets seem to be recognizing shitty tech stocks as what they are. So, we're not at the 1999 level of bubble.

Furthermore, the 2001 crash didn't have a major effect on the economy (although it was bad for the Bay Area, and for many engineers). It wasn't the crash, or even 9/11, but the sluggish ("jobless") recovery in 2002-4 that made the 2000s (except for people on Wall Street or in the slowly recovering Valley) a shit decade.

So, let's assume that the VC bubble ends. Some people will get hurt. The celebrity engineers who make $500,000 and aren't any good will get beefed. Run-of-the-mill engineers, if they're any good, might drop from $140k to $125k; not such a big deal. The ScrumDrone engineers will have a hard time finding work. Unfortunately, this will also hurt self-taught (meaning "no college degree") engineers even if they are good; the ones who are talented are still in a position of low leverage because "everyone knows" (well, employers know) they're more sensitive to a dry-up.

The short answer is that some people will take painful hits-- you're going to have a lot of 25-year-olds who thought they were millionaires, find out that they worked overtime for nothing-- but average people of average-or-better talent will mostly be fine. Bay Area salaries for good engineers might go down 10 to 20 percent at worst.

The bad news: housing in San Francisco's not going to become more affordable. First, the people who actually have money (not a half-million from options) are already diversified and less exposed to dot-com/VC, and the foreign money-launderers aren't exposed to it at all. Second, people hoard rather than sell (a steep positive volume/price correlation) when the market "should" soften. The stupid competitiveness around getting rentals (e.g. competitive open-houses, people cutting checks for a whole year's rent) will go away, but rents and prices will stay about where they are.
Show HN: Scrwl – Shorthand code reading and writing language
Definitely one of my stranger ideas, and the result of doing a lot of whiteboard interviews.

What if you could utilize the idea of shorthand writing systems for outlining algorithms?

Feedback appreciate, I'll answer any questions.
Dropbox is a pretty inexpensive consumer product. Assuming they're profitable, they probably aren't any more likely to go down than netflix.
It's funny, just yesterday I was in a thrift store and found a brand new still sealed in shrinkwrap copy of Visual C++ 2.0 (with its totally awesome C++ logo made of 3D plus signs: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Visual-C-2-0/dp/B0016LE9FO) for $2.99! I remember when I was a teenager looking at copies of Visual C++, QuickBasic 4.5, Turbo Pascal, etc. on the shelf of CompUSA and wishing I could afford any of them so I could go beyond messing around with QBasic. Kids today have it so much better with access to great free development tools, and they don't even need to crawl text files on local BBS' to figure out how to use them anymore. :)
I think you're missing the point, and would mind if we all went through your financial, medical and personal records. These records are made available to OPM under what are supposed to be strict privacy controls, because it's very very personal information. Everything from divorces, psychological counseling, drug history, you name it. You open up every secret in your life to scrutiny to demonstrate that despite all that you can be trusted. None of that is anyone's business, and it supposed to be protected and only available to a small number of people for a period of time to determine if you can be trusted.

Everyone has things in their lives they'd rather not have made public because it's nobodies business, and this compromise just betrayed the trust all those people put in the US government.
I think both stances have merit. Anyways, here's a plug for a meta-project; an open source definition of open source; https://github.com/nickdesaulniers/What-Open-Source-Means-To... kind of surprised no one has split hairs over free vs open source, yet.
Well, in a few ways bitcoin is to money what email is to messges: they allow moving those activities on to the internet in a decentralized way with no (technical) barriers to entry.

I suppose the decentralization comes with efficiency and simplicity costs in both cases. Maybe they are worth it if your values align with it.

Maybe entrepreneurial HN'ers would tend to not like decentralized systems, because there's less control and profitability.
Snowden having that level of access and the ability to siphon off so many documents undetected virtually guarantees that Russian/Chinese moles have been doing the same (without going to the press about it, naturally) for quite some time. The idea that they don't already have the data is a crock of shit.
In the UK there is little pretense that any journalistic publication is truly objective, so the tradition is for opposing parties to use different channels in the media.
I never heard that phrase "thread the needle" before that's good
I disagree about FB.

They got a lot of criticism before and immediately after their IPO for not justifying their value. Today they are genuinely making a lot of money. Their advertising platform it is valuable not unlike Google's. I think the only thing likely to harm facebook is losing users.
Ok but I would like to know if Mac os taking FreeBSD code did benefit to Free BSD. Edit: tried to add more but some js breaks everything on my phone
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent - John Maynard Keynes
Interesting question. The second one sounds more severe, competition for money from different asset classes.
I guess PayPal, Square, Venmo, and all banks suck too, because they also don't let you increase value out of thin air? Shouldn't preventing unauthorized money creation or theft be like design requirement #1 for any financial system?! This comment sounds like complete trolling, or maybe I'm misreading.
Magic concatenation: the "+" operator is understood by the compiler to be the concatenation operator if either operand is a String. "Magic" in the sense that it's an exceptional affordance made by the language (not the library) for this one data type and operator.

Auto-conversion: "2" + 5 = "25". This looks horribly hackish, like some type buggering perl might do, or js. But it comes in handy when you want to build a message string.

And yes, as the article tells us, a lot of things are very purposely left out of Go, which has advantages and disadvantages like most trade-offs.
> I think the only thing likely to harm facebook is losing users.

Which is supposedly happening.
The NSA is also well versed in OPSEC, but a guy took a ton of their documents and is currently residing in Russia. There are always holes in the system.
It won't be answered.

Section 23 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000:[0]

"Information held by a public authority is exempt information if it was directly or indirectly supplied to the public authority by, or relates to [...] the Government Communications Headquarters"

[0]: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/23
If the tech/ anything bubble pops, what tech companies would be the best to work for preceding this event? Which industries that employ tech workers would be the best to work in preceding the bubble? This under the assumption that getting a software dev job would become increasingly difficult with a rise in unemployment in this sector.

I'm a junior developer, so if there became a huge oversupply of developers I think it would be very hard for me to get a new job. This is actually something that really worries me currently. I'm already having a hard time finding a new job, if there was another economic crisis I feel like I would have to leave the tech industry to get a job.
Is it the entire SF-86 database, including contractors? Or just government employees?
I don't have a citation to backup GP/OP, but the school of thought is that because interest rates are so low, capital is chasing increasingly risky investments to get an "acceptable" return (which is $expected_return after any taxes or inflation).

With interest rates rising, other asset classes will see returns rise, reducing the attractiveness of startup/VC investing.
>1. OCaml compiles to a binary like Go and Rust do

And Haskell.

>2. The type system is helpful without being a huge burden on learning/productivity (unlike Rust and Haskell)

What? The type system is partly why my coauthor can use Haskell, unlike JS or Java. Haskell was her first time ever programming and now she's teaching Haskell to her 10 year old son.

I use Haskell in my day job, I couldn't do my job without the type system!

So in terms of learning and productivity in Haskell (can't speak for Rust), I will strongly disagree here.

The rest of the points apply for Haskell as well.

Haskell doesn't need to be hard to learn at all, it hasn't had the learning resources it deserves and expectations weren't being set properly. It's more like learning a new way to program (functionally) rather than a dialect of an existing paradigm (imperative, but we give you a map and a reduce function).

That paradigm (functions alone) is very simple but the implications are non-obvious and require a method of introduction that involves a lot of exercises.
But what happens when some of the apps require different versions of the JVM?
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Oh yeah I just pulled that from a fever dream I had, that sort of thing never happens in real life.

> "Embrace, extend, and extinguish", is a phrase that was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
Those vibrant colors are not gone from the HUSL palette, they are there at the top. But they are not the only colors. There is more variation. The HSL palette is "over saturated" with saturated colors.
Brilliant. Necessary. And all cars should have autonomous braking that keeps them at least 3 feet from cyclists.
That is not what sources in the article are claiming.

>"Well, we are told authoritatively by people in Downing Street, in the Home Office, in the intelligence services that the Russians and the Chinese have all this information and as a result of that our spies are having to pull people out of the field because their lives are in danger."

There is a line about also damaging ability to collect information, but this is a separate claim; allegedly, information in one or more of the million+ files could jeopardize lives of human intelligence people stationed in foreign countries.
As a known lawyer here, you need to appreciate the water law of The West (and all the nuance involved). Unless otherwise over-ruled, it's at a state's discretion issue. IANAL, but I have considerable experience with water in the west; specifically, The Rockies. The oldest water rights are agricultural, so what takes precedence as a matter of law is geared towards that.

Edit: My solution is for the people wanting water rights need to purchase them from those that have them (i.e. the agricultural folks).
Junior developers do fine as long as they actually have coding skills and can demonstrate their work with a portfolio. Make sure you work somewhere where you can point to stuff you've shipped and you'll be fine. The folks who get tossed out of the tech industry in a recession are those who should never have been in it in the first place, i.e. the folks who heard it was easy money but don't actually enjoy programming or building things.
The small size of the consideration is probably not a convincing argument in court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_%28legal%29 Fortunately there are other problems with this situation.
For me, the most interesting part of the experiment was how it was ended. A moral person objected. That's a real lesson in leadership.

Wikipedia: "Zimbardo aborted the experiment early when Christina Maslach, a graduate student in psychology whom he was dating (and later married),[14] objected to the conditions of the prison after she was introduced to the experiment to conduct interviews. Zimbardo noted that, of more than fifty people who had observed the experiment, Maslach was the only one who questioned its morality."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
> when you license something under BSD, at any point you have the power to take it to another license or make it proprietary

And that's why I would NEVER contribute code to any of your projects. You want people to work for you for free, then when you're ready just close the code and run with it? Yeah, right, try again.

The GPL is a "you can't screw me, I can't screw you" license. The BSD is a "whatever" license, much like the MIT or a CC0/Public Domain. If I don't care about the code, if it took me no effort to create, I may consider the BSD... or just the CC0, whatever. Otherwise, you're either looking at a real contract or the GPL, and you better don't try to screw me either way.

Oh, and you can re-license YOUR code under any license you wish. If you published it once under the GPL, it only affects whoever may get it from that publication; you can still re-publish it in the future under any other license you wish, since it's YOUR code, to do as you please.
> BSD doesn't remove any freedoms from the original software author, and in fact it unshackles them from having to publish all future development, allowing them to go proprietary in the future if they wish to.

IANAL but as best i can tell, neither apply for GPL.

The changes do not have to go back to the original developer. All that is required is that the code changes are published if ever binaries based on those changes are made public.

And going proprietary is possible if everyone involved agrees. Note the number of multi-license projects out there, including some fairly substantial ones like Qt.
If you have 20% downside protection in a nearly even odds game, you can figure out the optimal strategy. Also, he was betting $100k a hand, so he didn't have to play too many hands before deciding to stop as a winner or take his 20% loss rebate. (If you have the 20% loss protection, the optimal strategy is to bet big.)

For example, his downside protection was 20% of a loss of at least $500k. If he was at -400k, he had no reason to quit; he should keep playing until he was ahead or at -500k.

Also, casinos previously negotiated 20% loss rebates on a LIFETIME basis. He negotiated the 20% loss rebate on a PER-TRIP basic, correctly pointing out that if he was ahead at a casino, he had no reason to return if another casino also offered the rebate.

The lt;dr summary is: He didn't cheat or count cards. The 20% loss rebate combined with blackjack being a nearly even game gave him an edge.

You could do the same thing at craps. At craps, there's an obscure rule that lets you make a bet at true odds after establishing a point, sometimes for 10x or more of your original bet. If you're playing at a place that offers the 10x backup bet and the 20% loss rebate, you could do the same thing at craps.
Indeed that may be true. But it's still pretty pitiful that they only let you apply your discount to $1000 worth of products a year. That means you save.. $100 each year!
Depends on how good you are. Something like this will be inspiring people for a long time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWvcwVWCcnY
This sucks because the user is still downloading the ads, and most likely paying for the bandwidth todo so.
No one will go down unscathed if the bubble bursts. Even companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft will be hurt when consumer investors react by selling off their "tech" portfolio and moving it into other assets like stock in pharma or bonds. They could lose 20-30% of their value if consumer investors perceives a bubble burst.

Companies like Uber, Dropbox, Twitter, Facebook can just downsize their operations and keep their business afloat since they all have substantial revenues.

The ones hurt the most will be these series A-D companies that haven't started bringing in serious money yet all while raising 10s of millions of dollars. There are probably hundreds of pre-IPO companies that have raised $50m+ in the past few years.
But then you have multiple dimensions: corporate vs. individual and security vs. non, so you have to start using a real CMS or your own code and tagging, not a plain file list on github.
> Turns out, Islam tends to have virtually no influence on European culture.

You absolutely don't know that. Can you point to a specific study? then you just made it up. Turns out you are making stuff up for the sake of shutting down the discussion.
> A large number of small and new VC funds will get wiped out.

I'm not an expert, but I think most VC funds have a 10 year lifetime. Once a fund raises money and closes, it can't really be dissolved during those 10 years. Maybe the post-bubble lack of unicorns would mean the new/existing funds don't return anything, but most small VC funds don't end up having attractive returns today (especially taking into account their illiquidity).
The GPL is a great way for companies (socipathic, soulless, etc.) to work together.

The BSD is a great way for those same companies to get your $100... and ask for another $500.

But if you can make your stuff work with no abstract legal entities getting involved, then sure, BSD or CC0 are the best.
Grandparent post may have been parodying the "nothing to hide = nothing to fear" argument that's used to support ubiquitous surveillance etc.
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What's easy to predict, though, is who will benefit from the burst: Chinese big four will likely be the winners. (Protected on their back by the gov, they also have the lucrative commerce in their hands, and they'll harvest all the engineers from the failed start-ups.)
>[Citation needed]

A citation for a future event? Its clearly a prediction...
I propose we change the alleged "startup-SV-VC bubble" term to "cockroach" because it just won't die. People have been predicting bubble for years. Coincidentally, people have been predicting the decline of Tesla stock, and when it drops 30 points they claim, "see!" Please.

https://medium.com/@silicondowneyjr/bloat-not-bubble-a90bb9c...
Hell, they've been willing non-anonymously to lie to Congress to protect these programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Clapper#False_testimo...
More like digital gold. This in that it has a arbitrary fixed amount, and if the storage unit holding the "coins" gets lost that amount is forever reduced.

All in all, it is the perfect fuel for speculation and hoarding. Neither is something you want with a day to day main street trading currency.
Physical proximity certainly does help, that is why lovers cuddle and parents hug their children. They need this physical proximity to gain the ability to trust and build more complex relationships on more abstract forms of closeness.

I do not think that high intelligence removes this need and magically gives you the ability to create relationships or fight loneliness by brain power.
How does concurrency in OCaml compare to Go, Clojure, Rust, etc?

Thanks
A lot of investigators are completely incompetent and the job has one of the lowest pay of any cleared jobs out there. My investigator didn't realize I was male until he had interviewed a friend of mine and corrected him.
Ask HN: Swift for web development?
With Swift becoming open source soon, does that mean it will be possible to use Swift for web development? Are there any web framework for Swift projects out there?
Form and aesthetics
Sure, I'm with you there. I was surprised to learn that NSA held patents at all.

It looks like NSA bought their ECC patents (the ones they license on the forelinked ECC PLA page) from Certicom. I'm still confused as to why NSA would buy a portfolio of patents and then license them restrictively (albeit at no cost).

Just seems a weird thing for a govt agency to do. Not suspicious or nefarious. Just weird.
Simple Microservice Demo
443 UDP though - different to anything else.
I'm just curious those using Sublime how they debug their programs?
As an American, I tend to use "no problem" when the value of what I gave was much less than the utility they got out of it, such as when I already know the answer to a problem they've spent a lot of time researching -- for me, it's 30 seconds of recalling information, while for them, it's 30 minutes of time saved. So the person I helped ends up much more thankful than I am put out, and deflecting the need for any thanks is appropriate in my eyes.

I tend to use "you're welcome" when it's things like getting called at 4am to come pick up a friend whose car broke down in the middle of nowhere. There's absolutely no way there their request didn't mess up my day, just due to the timing and time commitment involved, so it seems more appropriate to take their thanks seriously.

But on the whole, I think both are accepted well enough by native Americans in both situations, and it's one of the less important details of the language to worry about.
> I have a hard time believing this thing is going to choke on most datasets.

It won't, but 512GB is nowhere near "big data". In fact, most datasets we see should not be called that. My personal rule of thumb is that nothing that can fit in less than a dozen machines can be called "big data". The whole idea begun when we started manipulating datasets that were so huge that moving the data from where it was stored to where it would be processed was no longer practical.
It plays out as companies that cannot reduce their costs enough to be operationally profitable will exit the market or be bought for pennies on the dollar. So something like uber getting bought/absorbed by a cab company. Options/stock will be worthless in the dead company. Several VC companies will report large fund losses and investors in those funds, and possibly a LP or two will get out of investing completely. Some folks who thought they were set for life will discover they have to get high paying jobs to support their personal burn rate. They won't be able to and it will change their life, bankruptcy, divorce, suicide.

For most people it will be a non-event, they wondered how people could invest in a company at those valuations and so won't be surprised when they lose their investment.

It will be really really hard to raise money for a while. Perhaps as many as 6 or 7 years. Companies that depended on new startups like digital ocean will have large layoffs as they cut costs to stay profitable.

Anyway, that is my guess. We get to see how it plays out.
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I was using inflation-adjusted prices. I took the phrase "$100 of their currency now" to mean one hundred 1980 dollars now, which would be worth about $250. Otherwise the argument is a straw man. Any non-perishable commodity is going to outperform an inflating currency in the long run. There's nothing particularly special about gold in that regard.
Or you could archive it on an air gapped network and delete it from all systems connected to the internet. Seems like a relatively simple procedure that I imagine is in use all the time with sensitive data...