skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone feels a populist fury that requires retribution against Wall Street then the course is clear: don't bail Greece out

As a non-Greek European, however, I'd rather Greece was in fact bailed out because if Greece collapses, my own economy, which shares a currency with Greece, goes along with it even though there is not all that much wrong with the financial practices of my own government (I'm Dutch).

This is probably one reason why banks (and Greece itself) got away with what they got away with for so long: if Greece collapses, Germany and France and a whole lot of other economies with which there really isn't all that much wrong, will go along with it.

Which just isn't worth it.

So what will probably happen is that the EU will force Greece to swallow a draconian austerity package that will clean up their government finances but that will bring comparative hardship to 11 million Greeks. This way they avoid causing economic misery for the rest of the 328 million inhabitants of what is known as the Euro zone
Windows Phone 7 Series and Microsoft’s partner problem
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I did not author the archive, by the way. It seems epi0Bauqu is the one responsible.

Edit: epi0Bauqu is the one responsible.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Uspop.svg

The Gen-Y baby-boom is not a larger group than the original Baby-Boomers. However, there is definitely a noticeable Gen-y bump. I'm guessing that the most common ages for criminals are in the dip of that curve, maybe 20-24, which means the downward trend should soon begin to reverse if this correlation holds true.

edit: just realized that chart is from 2000; you're absolutely right that a second spike is missing.
I do hope there was a tongue somewhere in your cheek when you wrote that.
judging by the points it does look like what hacker news wants to read, but we can always do with less snark.

This looks like the best example I have so far to pass along to people asking me about css, which happens quite often.

That aside CSS is messy and complicated, lots of programmers dont understand the basics, and even experienced developers can easily miss a few very useful tips.
Listen, when they rolled out Buzz, it showed a giant splash screen and asked if you want to try it or not. I have a screenshot of this screen. There were two links at the bottom that either allowed you to try it out, or to not use it and go to GMail.

If individuals are hung up about privacy, they don't have to join. If they do join, I have a whole set of screenshots I took before the revamp on Thursday showing all the ways they could configure Buzz before it was activated.

If users actually bothered to read, Google's plan would have worked well. Unfortunately, people who say they're hung up on privacy can't be bothered to read how to protect it when they join a new social network, yet, have plenty of time to blog about it to complain afterwards. Irony, that.
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Absolutely stunning. This is probably the most impressive TED talk I've seen.

On the other hand, we also see some annoying telepresence issues even in this pre-planned demo run. (The speaker is embarrassed about not being able to get the camera to point where he wants it to go.) That makes me wonder whether it will ever be possible to make this technology smooth and frustration-free.
To summarize, unprivileged accounts (e.g. a commenter) can view the deleted posts of all users (e.g. the admin).
It was not unavoidable. On every account I saw Buzz activated on (4) on Wednesday last week, users were given an option to try out Buzz or not.
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Because they are expending their mischievous energy on reddit and 4chan.

I'm joking, but the point is serious -- if youth are the main demographic to commit crimes, and our youth now spend a lot more time indoors/online... wouldn't it make sense that the internet is actually responsible for keeping hoodlums off the streets?
Excellent is an understatement! thanks for the link.
You know that's on purpose, right? Different browsers have different defaults. Therefore, the easiest way to ensure consistency is to start from a clean slate and be explicit.
Here was the link to the initial posting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=184766

I updated it weekly thereafter for a long time, but eventually stopped when people stopped coming to it regularly. I was originally hoping pg would add a link to it somewhere. Thankfully, searchyc.com did add a link from their ask yc archive page: http://ask.searchyc.com/
Just touching an item in a store makes you more likely to purchase it.
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Markets don't reward smart people. They reward value.
It's the unfollowing that hurt, isn't it?
How was the Aussie able to converse with the customer service people with the state-run telcom? He didn't mention any knowledge of Estonian or even Russian.
Well, the travel expenses aren't anywhere near what a speaking fee would be, but at least the speakers aren't having to dip in to their own pockets to make a free talk happen. So where does the $6000/ticket go? It seems like a bit more than what would be necessary to cover those costs.
This is nice. I remember this game. I got interested into hacking and the web development because of this game!

I remember that for CnC games, you could just edit the .ini file and you could basically change everything in the game.

I ran a small fansite called Tiberian Sun Oracle -- back in the days, most people submit their sites to Yahoo Directories, etc. I also remember RADen, Battleground TS. I also remember using Newspro (later renamed Coranto) for the news management. Good old days.

The game was still under Westwood back then.
If anything, this debacle demonstrate that the process should be open to all and public, not opaque as it is today.
I can't stand trying to figure out a 4 column layout that works in most browsers. Also, there are really lightweight frameworks that don't touch default text and form styling.
Yeah, the socio-political talks are pretty soft-ball, but I really enjoy the tech and art talks.
If it is cross-border it is almost impossible to prosecute. Not suggesting fraud, but many international companies do use transfer prices to manage recognized profits in different countries; clearly they will shift income to lower-tax areas.
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I certainly would be surprised. Do you have any references? I recommend "Understanding crime data: haunted by the dark figure" as a good summary of the research on this topic.

It's easy to come up with anecdotes of particular unreported murders. The data shows that these are statistically very rare, almost every victim has a family who reports them missing even if no body is found.
Excellent writeup
I tried ChatRoulette for the first time by myself and experienced rejection at a rate faster than could possibly be had at any bar. As a chubby, unshaven 35 year-old, this did not surprise me. It's amusing to see the looks on people's faces as they're evaluating you.

Next time, at my wife's suggestion, I held our 11 month-old in full view of the camera. Pretty soon, one of the naked guys came up. The look of horror on his face as he quickly hit "next" was priceless. I don't think he had considered the idea that he would be showing himself off to a kid who just got his first teeth.
I've idly wondered a couple of times if the industry would be better off from a PR POV if a plane went down every week. Right now a plane crash with fatalities is NEWS with capital letters. This would make it ho-hum.

Then again, if you're averaging one down a week, statistically you'll probably end up with a cluster of five or six+ planes going down within a day or two and suddenly it would be news again, regardless of whether it was actually statistically significant, so shrug
If you're interested in cognitive biases, heuristics, etc, here are some resources:

http://www.lesswrong.com (start with the "about" and "sequences" pages)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_biases

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

Also check out the books of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.
Because we can also speak English here...

Although, as an Estonian, I'm a bit disappointed he chose Tallinn as a city to live in... :S
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=lottery+tax...
I'm going to second this, in a way. Some parts of this look nicer than my iPhone (e.g. bringing up a list of letters to skip around in your contacts), and the entire interface is their own creation (i.e. they're not aping Apple or Android in the visual style).

The contacts thing I don't know how practical it would be (it interrupts the flow of skipping to a contact vs. the iPhone's index sidebar), and I don't like the interface (compared to the Pre or the iPhone), but I have to give them credit for being original at least.
Aw this just brings back traumatic memories of the day I found out Westwood was acquired by EA.
Most likely in English. Plenty of people speak English in Tallinn.
Then they won't be able to port it to new platforms and sell it again.
They're doing this so people have something to play until C&C 4 comes out (unless you're in the beta). Of course, this game is absolutely nothing like C&C 4. In fact, C&C 4 will probably be the worst selling game in the franchise's history. I cancelled my preorder after playing the beta. It's just not the same game anymore.

edit: Weird, I guess someone didn't like my opinion. That's fine, but at least leave me some feedback so I can make sure I don't do it again. :)
You make a lot of assumptions that are not necessarily true. Markets didn't collapse (went down 4% I guess) after Lehman went bankrupt and Lehman was at no point of systemic importance, which crucially, lots of proponents of bail-outs made it out to be. Some market players believed so, but it turned out to be wrong - people tend to overestimate such things because you cannot disprove them. This is exactly the same reason Greece should not be bailed out. Not every debt obligation is going to be called on immediately because lots of players are going to look for a save haven for their money, there will be contrarians etc. Lehman showed us that the whole melt-down scenario is probably (no one can be sure) overblown. And considering the social costs of moral hazard, one can make an equally valid argument, that it's no one's business to bail out any private enterprise or country.
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John Carmack did just this with Wolfenstein on the iPhone.
In America, you are either self-employed or you're not.

So-called "unemployment benefits" are taxed as income meaning you are actually self-employed while receiving them. It's a matter of perspective. Where does your income come from and how much is it?

I'm an optimist. I believe growth in the production and movement of goods and services (the economy) will come from millions of people acting in their own self-interest. A massive collection of interconnected garages, basements, home-offices, libraries, schools, etc. -- all making stuff.

Government can stimulate all it wants, but the heart and soul of our success has always come from individual initiative.
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Unfortunately, "yes, you can be too careful" doesn't usually go over well with when people are afraid of something. We need people who are brave and charismatic to come out and say it. Paranoia is harmful.
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Forced Job Performance Rankings Are for Winners?
Are you comparing Id to EA?

Totally different corporate cultures.
finally some facts to back up marketing "theories" I'm tired of marketing people who don't have open minds
Damn, that was a looong time ago ;) about twice as much as I've been on HN.
When I read this article, I felt that hypocritical governments are the root of all evil here. Goldman just did the job it was paid for. But Greece duped the EU into believing it fulfilled its membership criteria, got away with faking statistics and hiding true debt levels for a long time and is probably getting away with it all by being bailed out. So who are (EU) governments to criticise banks for acting the way they do when they tolerate it amongst themselves?
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Can someone provide a summary? At work on this Monday, and would like to know if I should watch it later when I'm home.
As a completely uneducated layman, I'm skeptical of the link between murder and other crime. I thought murder more often than not is a crime of passion.
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True, but not really on-topic. The article is about perception versus reality in a sociological setting, and what you're saying is "there's still too much crime".
the video streams are all client to client, all chatroulette handles is the session initiation.
This is excellent! I wish there was a semi automated way of voting a post in or suggesting one. Either way, this is an awesome resource!
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Oh? Because you live elsewhere in Estonia and would rather he moved there? Or because you don't want the secret to get out and be flooded by itinerate programmers?
No, he's not. He's saying that if id did it it can be legally done.
Seems like it might not be a bad idea for services like Twitpic, etc., to strip certain EXIF data from photographs.
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I'm going to go out on a limb here. This is the inherent weakness of the capitalist system. Eventually productivity outstrips need. The process is kinda backwards but that seems to be the truth. In my world, a manager lays people off to save money. Then they realize work isn't getting done because they have less people. So they use automation to fill the gaps. Those jobs don't come back.
1) There is no phone yet. This was just a very superficial first look behind the curtain. Right now it looks like a modified Zune.

2) Delivery of devices by the end of the year seems a very tight schedule. That gives them basically 8 months to get to RTM. They haven't announced developer tools yet. I would expect a very basic 1.0 release this year if they make it at all.

3) It would be good if they succeeded. It's to no one's benefit to replace one 800 lb gorilla (Microsoft) with another (Apple). A counterweight is needed and Google Buzz has caused me to do a complete re-eval of that firm's worthiness.
They only get the promotional benefits if they create an official release.
Certainly one of the most impressive TED talks and one of the very few that the speaker got a standing ovation at the end.
Facebook and social networking
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Just because bankers are not the root of all evil does not mean they are not evil.

The key message is that bankers do a lot more damage than good with the money and leverage handed to them by the govt. Their positive impact on the economy has been vastly overstated, and the public is increasingly wise to that scam.
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Since I wasn't sure what you were referring to, I looked it up. Wolfenstein 3D was ported to the iPhone and open sourced, then sometime later was put on the App Store.

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/45679/John-Carmack-Release...
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Reading his examples reminds me of when I worked tech support for a large cable ISP. But those situations were more like one in a hundred.
While I agree with most of what he's saying, I think the solution doesn't start with education.

Consider this: why did we create the education system as we know it today? Not for some altruistic desire to have an enlightened populace, but to fill the needs of our industrialized society. The change didn't come from within, it came from the corporate world.

As long as companies keep requiring a minimum GPA and a degree from a name brand university, higher education will be crippled by a constant need to establish themselves as one of those name brands, emphasis will continue to be placed on numeric performance, and admissions will be based on likelihood to achieve the all-important high gpa because those will be the people that get jobs and make the school look good. As long as this is how higher education acts, high schools around the country will continue to groom kids for a career of servitude in the same system.
Most of the telecom and multimedia companies that I know in eastern Europe have someone ready to take your call in either English or one of the neighbour country languages. Same with banks. A bit worse as far as other services go (electricity, etc.)
Good writeup but it could have been more useful if he showed the equivalent Java code.
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Not to mention with the advent of digital distributors such as Steam, making an ancient game available for $2 still draws in a couple buyers every now and then without any marketing or much effort.

In fact, Commander Keen, a game that was released by iD Software 20 years ago, is available on steam right now for $5.

Naturally, there should be some drop off point in sales where the PR becomes more worthwhile than the couple bucks.
Yeah, we all know it was broken, hackers know that. Many of us felt like misfits, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with us.
And this guy might have some idea on what to do about education and the whole institute around it, it's down there at the end of the article.
Right... Remembers me that priced TED talk by Jamie Oliver (www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html) showing how heart diseases and fat were killing much more Americans than murders or cars.
It's an interesting mishmash.

Presumes educators won't adapt to the changing economy. Perhaps they won't, but consumers of education eventually will, and will find new educators. The bigger problem to me is that the skills needed in the future are not terribly obvious to most people.

The devaluation of place argument is unusual. If I sit still what how will I be benefitting from repeated interaction with the local yokels? I must be blinded by my corporate education. Seems to me we can interact with people across time and distance using technology, but we are still learning how.

The experiencing self v. the remembering self is a nice meme. Must write a note to my remembering self.
Genius! This solves a huge need among the more recent HN readers.
Hehe, nope.. I have lived in Tallinn for a few years (during university time) and this place is a lot more nervewrecking than either Tartu or Helsinki in Finland.

Also, I had some friends over from Tallinn this weekend and we hit a nighclub last Friday - they were a bit amazed how relaxed Tartu is compared to Tallinn.
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Don't forget the economic role of cheap liquid fuels at relatively stable prices. Those days are over, probably for good. Any economic recovery is vulnerable as long as rising GDP triggers severe oil price volatility.

Edit can the person who down-voted this please explain why?
It's heavily inspired by the Zune interface, which is surprisingly a great experience.
I'd like to know where you went to pay 100-200k in tuition fees and get nothing but networking out of it.

Where I live, a bachelor's degree is about 15k (total), and is about learning engineering, physics or whatever you want to do. Going to TED twice won't give you quite the same skills...
Not as long as those phones are hard to run my own code on, I can't.
I read this tutorial a long time ago for a basic app I was working on and found it quite helpful. It was my first brush with css positioning
bigger, "reputable" commercial airlines contract out many of their flights to lower quality and/or less experienced, no-name service providers in order to save some $. this fact is hidden from the customer, as the ticket, plane, boarding gate, etc. are still branded with the big company's logo.

this is a problem, because while the big company has certain quality standards set, the smaller ones do not necessarily have to live up to those same standards. and they usually don't, which is why they're so much cheaper.
Who makes the automation possible?
Tell HN: Warning, Google ignores opt-out for Buzz if you set an away message
Well, my opinion of Buzz just did a 180. When it first asked me to join I opted out and moved on. I didn't see the big deal for privacy concerns, since I could easily opt out and never use it.

Today, I set a status message for google chat as an away message, and suddenly I was auto-enrolled into buzz. My away message was published as a status update, I had followers auto configured, the whole deal. I think I've successfully killed it now, but already my privacy has been lost (just the auto-follow behavior exposes who I chat/email with through gmail).

So a warning to other HN readers: be wary in using google chat status updates, or you may find yourself enabling buzz even after explicitly opting out.

And if anyone from google is reading this: No means no. If you enable buzz after I explicitly say no, then you just buzz-raped your user.
Man, that's really a lot of filler-text to announce that you're basically doing "something with HBase".

Can we get at least some basic details, like is this going to be a hosted service or something I install on my own servers?
When you're poor you instinctively accumulate stuff.

If that is the case, why is this instinct part of poor people and not rich people? I tend to see it most often in people who have lost a lot, like one of the other comments mentions living through the great depression. I see it in my grandmother and she also lived through the great depression.

However, I know some younger people who are poor and didn't live through a time of loss and do not accumulate a lot. They are minimalists. This seems to indicate to me that accumulating a lot of stuff is a learned behavior rather than an instinctual one.

Also, if it is instinctual in poor people, why is it not also instinctual in rich people, or simply all people? Is there something genetic that predisposes people to being poor? Are you implying that or am I incorrectly inferring it?
I've always thought that alias_method was a pretty silly way to solve the problem of defining a new method in terms of an existing method with the same name. alias_method is definitely "simpler", but I think the way it actually destructively creates a method in a class is a bit ugly. I don't know what "AbstractQueryFactoryFactories" are, but the name makes me want to stay pretty far away from them.

These monkey patches constitute my solution to the problem:

class UnboundMethod
def origin
owner.instance_method(name)
end
end

class Proc
def to_method(object, method)
me = self
object.class.class_eval do
current = instance_method(method).origin rescue nil
mine = current.owner == self rescue false
define_method(method, &me)
result = instance_method(method)
mine ? define_method(method, current) : remove_method(method)
result
end.bind(object)
end
end

class Module
def redefine(method, &code)
original = instance_method(method).origin
define_method(method) do |*args, &block|
code.to_method(self, method).(original.bind(self), *args, &block)
end
end
end

You use this as follows:

Fixnum.redefine(:+) do |old_plus, other|
if self == 2 and other == 2
5
else
old_plus.(other)
end
end

>> 2 + 2
=> 5
>> 2 + 3
=> 5
>> 2 + 1
=> 3

I'll admit that its implementation is pretty horrible, but I think the interface is much nicer: you pass in a function which specifies your new function in terms of the old one, which is always passed as the first argument.
But the people laid off may found a great company afterwards. You look at the economy as a zero-sum game. But the pie is growing bigger nearly all the time.
My point is that older people with longer memories can still note that today's crime rate is by no means low, even if younger people (say, people my age or younger) have lived in a United States with declining crime rates for more than a decade. Trends are important, but what base they start from is important as well.