skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that this article is basically right, but would add that bubbles are generally dangerous based on what they represent, financially and culturally. If Bitcoin hits $1,000 again, it's not innately dangerous (unlike housing, no one needs Bitcoins to live). It might represent a bad thing, like the collapse of a currency.

We're still in a housing bubble (although not as much as one, and one with a sharper geographic profile) but what's propping it up now is industrial decline and extremely lopsided job availability. Much of the country is starved of economic activity while a few metropolitan areas (e.g. New York and the Bay Area) have healthy job markets but extreme real estate costs.

All of that said, I have no way of predicting how that bubble will resolve or when it will crash. We could see it happen in 2 years or in 25, and it will probably vary with geography (just as Vegas and Florida got hit hard in the last one, but the Bay Area and Manhattan remained unscathed). Housing bubbles are weird because there's so much corruption (foreign money, NIMBY regulations) involved that makes them political and therefore unpredictable.

The 2001 tech crash didn't do a lot of damage to the rest of the world (9/11 did far more). The 2008 crash is still being felt in Southern Europe. I can't predict how much of an effect the ~2017 VC-land crash will have. To be honest, the numbers don't look that bad; when Silicon Valley drops a turd like ZNGA on Wall Street, the Street usually reacts with proper skepticism. So I think that this one's going to be relatively limited in terms of its impact on the rest of the world. I don't like what it represents about our society, and what it may continue to represent, because that is corrosive. The truth about VC-funded startups in the Bay Area is that 98% of that stuff has nothing to do with creating new value, but with devising ways to profit from widespread organizational decline.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9907315
Yes, my point is that the only modern Intel alternative I know of without Boot Guard is Chromebooks.
I'll add "supporting reuse and reduction of e-waste" to the second option.
Yes, and when what's expected is starting a start-up, you get HN crowd, where someone who never tried like me often feels that starting a start-up is really overrated here. For instance, I wouldn't bet a lot on Larry Page or Mark Zuckerberg being much happier in their lives than your average immigrant taxi driver.
I've been running Linux for over fifteen years, and I beg to differ: free software is almost always preferable.

It depends what you're doing, but if it involves anything to do with gaming, professional/business software, or the creative/multimedia industries, I stand by my previous comment.

For example, arguing that LibreOffice is an acceptable professional substitute for MS Office is fine until your accountant can't open the spreadsheet you sent over because of some incompatibility in the macros, at which point the amount of money it's going to cost for the lost time on that one occasion will instantly cover the cost of buying the real thing.

For another example, despite the recent push by the likes of Valve, gaming on Linux is still a far cry from gaming on Windows or any recent console.

That's simply an unfortunate fact of living under repressive regimes which try to forbid one from playing the DVDs one has bought; it's certainly not their fault.

But most people aren't going to care, because they want to watch their movie, and this laptop won't let them unless they jump through hoops and, in many places, break the law along the way.
This article is from April. In June, there was a course correction: http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/05/hp-the-machine-no-memrist....
You can also use vnstat with vnstati to generate nice graphs.

I use it something like this with cron.

Bash - https://github.com/tuxy/bash/blob/master/vnstat.sh

HTML - https://github.com/tuxy/static/blob/master/vnstat.html
Another way to explain the first argument, without the cartoon, is to compare it to a woman's right to an abortion. This is also a constitutionally protected right, but in many states laws have been passed to make it ever harder for women to exercise those rights.

With that comparison it's easy to both capture the gist of the cartoon, but also the ridiculousness of it. There is one abortion clinic in Mississippi and 10 in Texas. In the strictest of states there is far more than 10 gun stores.

But I write to object to your "two sides" viewpoint. You write:

> We have seen gun control laws used to victimize minorities and immigrants, by removing their ability to defend themselves

Certainly Regan and others introduced gun control legislation to make it hard for the Black Panthers to arm themselves. But you left out at least two factors. 1) easy access to guns means that police can justify a shooting Tamir Rice because the toy gun might be a real one, or Ricardo Diaz-Zeferino because "officers said they could not see one of Diaz Zeferino’s hands and believed he was going to reach for a weapon." 2) the co-existence of a weapon during some other crime can be used to "enhance" the penalty, even if the weapon wasn't used to commit the crime.

If weapon restrictions were equivalent to that of, say, Norway (which also has 'statistically tiny mass shooting', but definitely not non-existent), then there would be less justification for police killings of suspects, and less ability to apply even more charges.

I'm totally willing to talk about the wholesale use of gun control similar to what's in Norway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Norway . I don't see anything I want to avoid addressing. Therefore your statement makes no sense to me.
siavosh, this looks great - I think this would be super useful for a team (especially with slack integration), are you or will you be looking for beta testers for a corporate solution?
no it won't you wouldn't even feel bird shot falling on you the energy it has from it's terminal velocity is really nothing.

Anyone who's been to skeet, pigeon or water bird shoot can tell you that, you only really notice it when you hear it hit your hat / jacket it sounds like rain more than anything else.

A bullet needs to be fairly heavy to actually kill you, even 72grn bullets are not heavy enough to do serious damage, they will hurt tho...
Apparently the first Core2Duo MacBooks (MacBook 2,1) can also run free firmware: http://www.libreboot.org/docs/hcl/index.html
This entire article in one tweet:
https://twitter.com/tonymillion/status/417213069572714496
I don't know the reasons why, but on my phone on both Chrome and Firefox the text size is drastically different between comments. I ended up going with the Dolphin browser for HN because it maintains a consistent text size, but I changed the settings on the browser to use the maximum text size. The main negative with this has been certain unzoomable pages having a paragraph less than the width of my phone and only showing a few words per line, causing me to have to scroll constantly as I read. Unless the content is really good, I normally just skip these. As long as they are zoomable, there hasn't been forced white space / margins added to the paragraph (shortening the already too short paragraph width, apparently gleaned from my phone screen size), or the text is reasonably sized (not too big), other pages work just fine though. Also, the Dolphin gesture feature is fun! (I have HN set to a y gesture)

On a side note, some of the best experiences I've personally had browsing on my phone have been through VNC, if I have a good network connection. I realize that a lot of the processing gets offloaded from the phone this way, but I would really just like a more desktop-like experience on my phone. I have always been annoyed by apps that are basically just websites...The browser is often the only app I need. And mobile websites just frustrate me because they often take away features of the desktop version or make me have to use it in a completely different way and make it obnoxiously difficult to switch back (some random link at the bottom, or having to go settings -> request desktop version -> retype the url because it was changed to a mobile one -> reload the page). Browsers have had ways to change the "User Agent", but more and more this feature is either removed or doesn't even work.
Oh no, not at all...

Rather, I went to http://world-glance.com/ (aka Cecile's website), gave it a quick read, checked out the images, and figured out where it was hosted.

Between those things, World Glance does not look very professional.

I'm sorry that I wasn't more clear!!!
Interestingly enough there are also two MacBooks there (the early plastic ones), but they're based on very similar hardware to the X60.
Hi atroyn,

Thank for your feedback. I have two ideas in mind. One is about a process I would like to streamline using technology at my current job, and the other one deals with ESL and learning a new language. Many of the ESL or learn a language methods out there are so boring, and I think I have a way to make it less boring and actually learn something. I had this problem when I wanted to learn French. You can sit there and repeat all the French words until the cows come home, but it will be no use to you when you want to converse in real life situations. The idea is about learning a new language in a way that is engaging, not learning from a CD and tucked away in your bedroom.
I have flagged this because it's paywalled.

edit. unflagged, apparently that's against the rules (that I disgree with but will follow)
The definition of a recession is tied to changes across the entire economy, which GDP is usually taken to represent.

Housing constitutes only a part of GDP, so it's possible for bubbles to form in housing prices (or indeed any asset category) even though the entire economy might be in recession.

Furthermore, the definition of a bubble is pretty tenuous. Often, a bubble is only known in hindsight. Furthermore, during a recession, certain asset prices (safe haven assets like perhaps gold, government bonds, the strength of the USD) may increase substantially as people seek safety and cash flows into these assets. Does this constitute a "bubble" in these assets?
The RC field would've received a grounding notice from the FAA, like any other private / civilian field.

Emergency areas are cleared for emergency flights only and their airspace is restricted, even news copters cannot go into that space and many of them were fined and even licenses were revoked when they violated the restrictions.
Ad tech is killing the online experience
Ive bought an headphone amp/dac from FiiO - stuff was cheap, compared to "brands" and it works just great (looks very solid too!), so I'm not suprised they love it
DO NOT USE IT FOR ANYTHING IMPORTANT.

It just can't save Unicode characters, anything Unicode will turn to question mark ???????? junk.
Two things. First, cecileortlieb.com is not actually Cecile's website - it is the website that hosted that article which claims that she is a scammer.

Cecile claims to be with world-glance.com. He site would be here:

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools#dnsReport|type=domain&&value=w...

Second, dnsstuff is great - I haven't used it before, but I have it bookmarked now.
Duplicate content is de-duplicated to an extent. Oftentimes, if I forget where the HN story that corresponds to a page I'm reading, I resubmit it, and HN redirects me to the HN story.

I believe this is time-boxed by a few weeks, which allows for things like "Something interest from the past (2008)" to get posted again.
Some blog have standard end paragraph like "If you have read all of this, you may like to subscribe to my rss", or "We are always hiring at ABC, send your resume." Another problem are short captions that look like a paragraph for the html parser, like "Advertisment" or "XYZ Benchmark (higher is better)". One possible solution is to skip the paragraphs that have less than ¿150? letters.
Nice, but do remember that dang has asked people to resubmit some links. Which is an interesting variable of did the initial link actually gain traction before it sunk into obscurity with no adding of comments.
I don't know if the 1929 stock market crash was really the start of the great depression. It seems like the real issue was far more widespread and the stock market simply accurately reflected what was going on.

Even just the timing is suspect as many indicators started to fall in the 1928 while the market was still going strong. IMO, if you want to point out just one thing it was probably waves of bank failures which created and sustained a deflationary spiral.
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Intel Boot Guard is about the BIOS, not the "chipset firmware".
All corporations usually suck at talent management and compensation because we are terrible at measuring true value. We pick metrics which we think are a proxy, but often aren't or are easily gamed, or manager bias overrules it all
They probably meant Impostor syndrome[0] instead.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
You can't control birds, you can control idiots who are flying drones in what common sense would dictate to be a restricted zone.

This argument is on the same level as "people die due to lighting strikes every year, so why do we need lighting catchers on buildings?" Or better yet why have surge protection at all?

This is blocking an ambulance level of dickery here sorry and there is no way around it.
I also recommend using http://prose.io/ to edit the markdown files and commit directly to github. It even writes metadata for jekyll.
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There are many many options for you if you want a laptop that will run windows "well" (even if most of them suck).

But that's rather the point. I'm willing to trust a clean Windows 7 installation and well-known drivers not to be phoning home. Given a system that was never contaminated with junkware, I then have a reasonable chance of only getting stuff I choose on there afterwards and keeping control of what applies downloaded software updates and when, and that is my primary requirement in software terms for a system I'm willing to trust. The desire for a good spec is just because so many business laptops are overpriced junk here in the UK, and the physical switches are just safeguards to mitigate things like zero days attacks or, frankly, embarrassing forgetfulness.

I don't really buy the theory that the source for everything you install theoretically being available somehow makes your privacy better protected. Given that I'm not going to personally audit the entire source code of the OS distro being installed -- and neither is anyone else who buys these laptops -- the benefit is largely illusory, and the reality is that I'm just trusting the distro and everyone contributing to it instead of trusting the likes of Microsoft. Either way you're also assuming the system is secure so any privacy you start with will stay that way.
> if we ever have to cease service, be sure that we'd have a free export function.

...and open up the source under a proper open-source license, I'd hope?
Another Jekyll theme that I've been using is Poole:

http://getpoole.com/

It comes with the barebones theme, and two other sister themes.
De-duplicating might have a couple of downsides:

1) Not all good stories get taken up the first time.

2) Not everyone reads every story on HN.

After a couple of years of reading HN, I'm happy to see quality posts reappear. I often glean new insights each time. If it's interesting to enough people, it'll bubble up again. The beauty of HN's "gravity" is that anything that's universally boring will disappear quickly.

"Anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" needn't mean, "Hasn't been posted ever before."

If, however, a de-duplicator could automatically provide references to all previous HN discussions on the same topic, that'd be very cool.
Hi there;

I don't know if Bing's numbers are completely accurate and you may find better ways to get this information (dnsstuff.com is sure useful). In this case, I was looking into world-glance.com so I will use that website as an example.

1) ping world-glance.com - this shows an IP address of 94.136.40.15

2) Go to bing.com - search for 'IP:94.136.40.15' (without the quotes)

It will show 18,800 results.

I hope that this helps...:)
Relevant: http://yourdatafitsinram.com
Here is the HN submission for the New Yorker article about the imminent earthquake: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9878160
Looks interesting, but honestly building your own language to make a game rarely ends well. I know of a lot of failed projects that went this way.

At least with this, the work is open source, so even if the game never comes out, the language has a shot.
>http://go/codegolf

How does this work, some sort of TLD magic? (That shouldn't be possible, right?) Is it just routed within Google's internal network?
I think the biggest voice to say there is a debt problem, at least in high yield and junk bonds, is Carl Icahn. It seems that the biggest problem is that the underlying debt market is very illiquid and people are using ETFs and other financial instruments to create liquidity. This is why Icahn called BlackRock a dangerous company. Icahn is not a man I'd want to bet against. Though, this so called bubble could go on for years.

I think the market will have a minor "taper tantrum" but I don't know if that will be the needle or not. As the housing market of 2001-2008 showed, this can go on for a lot longer than people expect. People were sounding the alarm in 2005, but it didn't take full fruition until late 2007.

IMO, the bubble will pop in the private market before we even see it pop in the public markets.
Perhaps this method could be used by a strongly-typed compile-to-js curried language. (PureScript, Elm, and friends)
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If nothing else psql has a nice tabular output. Sometimes I go out of my way to import something into a local pg instance just so I can format things using psql.
I'd assume the same way localhost works on your computer.
Perhaps. The team is a group of seasoned veterans of high performance server engineering. But perhaps there are others who could improve on our efforts by a significant margin.

Of course we do not use std::string.
Unacknowleged writes were a bad default. I think everyone with a shred of honesty will happily admit to that.

It was certainly in the documentation, in the blog posts, in the startup logs, and in the README for quite a long time. If you missed it, it's probably because you weren't paying attention. Again, there are plenty of good reasons to dislike MongoDB, but this isn't one of them, and harping on it substantially degrades your credibility.
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Messing with the gut is really dangerous, your probably far better off just harvesting some sugars from the blood stream than trying to use methane.
Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical, on why open source is blasting off
Those aren't simplifications. Those are optimizations. They actually require more hardware and technical know how than the original.

This article is a fantastic little recipe for what might be the easiest path to a first IoT project. It puts the maker in a perfect position to go on to add a second sensor or switch and further experiment. There needs to be much more of this type of thing on the web. Props to the author for writing this up.

Cleverly optimizing out the arduino or adding a fancy SBC to the mix are great suggestions. After you've got the basics.
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Hi
I’ll contact you.
OP: To answer your question, make something worth posting (can be a simple side project) and tweet Ryan Hoover asking for an invite. AFAIK he got traction initially by tweeting at people who posted Show HNs, and even though PH is past that now I'm pretty sure he's still very active on Twitter and your chances of being accepted are quite high.
People are disabling zooming because it causes a delay, which is in turn caused by developers trying to make HTML act like native apps.

Articles on the web should not be JavaScript heavy. HTML is responsive and zoomable by default. It takes a few thousand lines of JavaScript and CSS to make it hard for people to read.

It just boggles my mind how much of the web is static content embedded in some whiz-bang JavaScript framework. It's static content. Serve it from static files you generate, let hyperlinks just be hyperlinks, and get on with your day. :)

/grumpy low vision user is grumpy.
You shouldn't use bind() for two very good reasons. First, it's performance is abysmal. Second, if you .bind(foo) a function and .call(bar) on it later, it silently ignores the new 'this' argument.
Assuming just for a second that they could do it relatively safely, why shouldn't they?
Neat!

Sounds similar to what happened with Bluespec, though not Niklaus Wirth of course: http://csg.csail.mit.edu/IAPBlue/workshop/Augustsson-designe...
I agree that it is quite reasonable to ignore paragraphs that are fewer than 3 sentences.
Bluespec – Designer's perspective (2003) [pdf]
Honestly, I usually don't. It's extra work for not a whole lot of benefit, at least not for a startup. That said, Khan Academy released a great accessibility tool http://khan.github.io/tota11y/ which I'm excited to try out.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9911808
If you are interested in the Jekyll / Github approach, you ought to check out Octopress (https://github.com/imathis/octopress) by Brandon Mathis.

It includes all the benefits of this approach, but with a nice out-of-the-box theme as well as useful helpers to make the blogging experience much better.
Welcome! With your background you might be interested in the YC startup Pigeon.ly. Maybe you could apply to work/intern for them to gain experience. http://blog.ycombinator.com/pigeon-dot-ly-yc-w15-a-startup-f...
I've had a blog[0] on GH pages for a few years now. I wrote a few posts about how to go about setting up feeds/og tags, GA, and I really should write another one about setting up everything else.

Basically, hosting a static blog is a rabbit hole. Keep track of where you came from, and share it out there. It's kinda amazing what you can do with a little bit of effort.

Personal plug: I cofounded Feedio[1], which gives you a widget for doing email subscriptions (among other things).

[0]: https://stevenkaras.github.io

[1]: http://feedio.co
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closest thing today that I can think of is buying one of those fake chinese 128GB USB drives on ebay/alibaba, running h2testw to determine its really 8GB, making a screenshot and starting a refund claim - bam a free 8GB usb drive.
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Hi,
Yes, these are plans for the more advanced ESL students. I am working towards including guest teachers, some of whom may contribute lesson plans for the lower levels. I agree that It is very challenging for teachers working with true beginners to create interesting activites. The New York Times has an ESL teaching section that might be of interest to you. Another useful site is Betty Azar http://www.azargrammar.com.
What about the fact that your content is duplicated in multiple places? Does that concern you at all?
Also https://github.com/developmentseed/jekyll-hook
>always take the necessary steps to ensure that no one is harmed.

That is always publish anonymously.
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OP will deliver. We just have to wait...
Realistically, though, almost always at least some portion of your hacks makes it into production. And if you're saving 10 minutes for 5 hours lost, then even at a going-into-production-rate of 10%, it's still not worth it.

Hacks that remain hacks in 100% of the cases, are rare :)