skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German citizen who moved out of Germany here. The country rebooted from scratch in '48 with the most unsocialistic / market-libertarian constitution / law landscape the country has ever had so far. Immediately there was the "German economic miracle" (not a miracle at all) but since then socialism has grown every year. Notably faster paced since 1990 but "dialling down socialism a bit and the free market up a bit" is optimistic and illusory. Once this beast feeds and grows, there is no real turning back, all you can possibly adjust is timing. They now have not just income taxes but taxes on everything that moves and every step of every transaction or value chain. Once these taxes exist, they are never removed and keep being raised. Continuous talk about new taxes. All political parties are various shades of socialism and this is apparent in legislation. They make it harder for productive people and firms every year and the real miracle is that there is still "power in the power house", and I'm convinced they're still riding on the momentum of the 50s-70s. All these various 100s of "social state insurances" schemes and constructions are about to collapse a few years down the road and every euro spent on them whether through taxation or debt will not prevent this and just be a waste and destruction of productive human energy.

I dropped out, I stay a perpetual traveller and out of Germany because my conscience forbids me to feed this corrupt destructive apparatus and the greater EU with the fruits of my labour. The only legal way for me to still be able do this and keep my citizenship is to stay outside the country for 180 days or more a year, and not stay inside more than 2 months in a row -- roughly. But hey they the left was already calling to tax permanent travellers so I guess I'm not the only one.
Well, yes - jsonip.com has no AAAA records. I'm not sure that reporting (only! - it only knows where the connection is from) an IPv6 address is all that useful, either.

That said, there's space for a jsonip6.com...
Where is the request for allowing worldwide developers to sell apps ?
Is there an HTTPS service planned? Without it, you may just be seeing the IP of a transparent proxy server.
With so many countries borrowing so much to make their bubbles grow and regrow, citizens of countries that don't go for this false growth are supplying the funds by deferring consumption and saving their money.

And countries like Germany and China run trade surpluses, because the bubble countries are not borrowing paper; they're borrowing the labor of all those savers.

That labor must be delivered somehow and that's why there has to be a trade surplus.

The bubble countries can't resolve this imbalance by cajoling the savers into not saving or somehow obstructing trade. The trade imbalance HAS to equal the net borrowing of the country.

The only way is to correct the trade imbalance is balance their budgets AND stop artificially lowering their own interest rates, which causes the private sector to borrow more than it otherwise would.

Policymakers have bought into the idea that somehow there is a shell game to be played that magically creates prosperity. But the reality is that all the game playing wastes an enormous amount of resources.
Indeed and that's exactly what it is.

And (stupid?) sources of these commentaries keep forgetting that Germany and France (but AFAIK mostly Germany) are footing majority of "european" expenses. German workers are the ones willing to tolerate lower wages so that others will be able to develop and compete with them easier.

I mean think of it - these guys dug themselves out of shit, while bailing out the rest of Europe. Using mostly common sense and hard work. They also had a retirement plan reforms, which changed retirement from 65 to 67 (!!!!!) for men and they took it with grace, no riots no thrashing of commonwealth (Greece? France??).

Disclaimer: I am not German, but I wish that my national leaders would have the integrity and vision of German leaders.
Authors do benefit from libraries; not as much as if everyone bought every book they ever read, but enough.

Public libraries actually have efficient economic properties from a macroeconomic perspective that governments should try to replicate and extend:
* Authors are paid by the government on behalf of the public in proportion to the demand for their work (libraries buy more copies of popular books to meet demand from patrons).
* The public pay the same amount no matter how much information they consume (via their taxes).

From a macroeconomic perspective, information has different properties to physical goods:
* Information has high fixed costs, and low variable costs.
* Variable costs of disseminating information can be spread to individuals other than the original creator.
* Once the fixed cost of information that improves productivity is met, the most efficient outcome is to distribute the information as widely as possible.

Therefore, there should be a way to compensate information creators in proportion to value to society, without imposing a price disincentive to consume information.

One way to do this would be to have an alternative economic system for digital works where there is no limit on how much digital information an individual or company can consume after they have paid a fixed amount in the main system, with allocation of the individual's total in proportion to some metric - such systems are tricky to get right while not incentivising dividing up one invention / work into small pieces or creating complex entity structures to game the system.
This has to be the best article I have read on TechCrunch in a while. There is no way I would have ever considered watching a Justin Bieber movie, but I feel like doing so after reading this.
http://whatismyip.akamai.com/

Pretty reliable.
npm install fibers

Also, node's cb-passing stuff is pretty close to the very canonical examples of CPS in Scheme, so I'm not sure what you mean by it not having continuations.
I also say, 'Wow'. Pretty much everyone in Australia in my age bracket knows him too. Funny that Terrence Hill was always cast as the smart guy and Bud as the dumb companion.
It's a handful of iframes going here: https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig , nothing more.

I'll stick to https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas though this is quite nice. I wish it could remember the lists I had visible, but I realize why it can't :)

To the maker: nice idea! It makes me ponder over what other sites this could be done to... though this is a particularly perfect fit!
Great idea by the way! I don't know what for... yet... but great idea! For some reason I have a strange urge to combine this with http://openkeyval.org/
>they bought a good number of 50s era jazz cds to listen to in their bus.

It's may be because Rod Morgenstien (their drummer) is basically a Jazz Fusion musician.
21 android apps ripped off, exploits added and republished. 200k d/ls.
What I do not understand is why no-one is complaining about Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 as a closed system but about Apples iOS line.

WHY is Apple bad for closing a system but Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are not? I really do not understand that.

WHY on earth has a cellphone to be open as a OpenSource project? Is there a reason for that? (Android has open sources but no-one can commit changes. It's all in Googles hands what comes into the next Android version which doesn't fit with OpenSource at all)

WHY is taking a 30% cut bad for all developers and Apps? (Jobs said that the 30% cut is not for SASS Apps but only for Newspaper Apps, right?)

Please give me some answers I'm starting to don't understand these discussions lately.
Sounds like he was a conscientious designer with an intuition for usability. I can relate to him, I also analyze screws and designs of trivial things. Is this really the optimal screw for this sort of task?

If you didn't want this level of analysis, why the hell would you take a $150/hr engineer and have him screwing in shelves rather than call in the $12/hr maintenance man?

I know the answer already. Your company thinks it is saving money by not having janitorial or secretarial staff and just have the engineers do all the menial cleaning and shelving tasks.
This is fantastic. Since you're really just framing google code, I take it that there is no way that you can inject code into the frames and enhance them somehow?
RStudio: An Open Source and Cross-Platform IDE for R
Thanks. And yeah, I really wish it could remember the lists. I'm hoping that someone will know an undocumented parameter we can pass to http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig to select a list. Anyone?
Indeed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union), but whats interesting that per capita benefit the Netherlands is paying the most (1467€) followed by Denmark and Sweden, with Germany on 4th position.

But one must take notice that Germany's eastern half has more in common with Poland, Czech and Slovakia than with western Germany - the workforce is still socialistic,... So real contribution of western population is enormous.
Parsing text is too hard. It'd be easier if it was in JSON.
Apologies if the headline seems a little cryptic. This a link to an ongoing discussion on reddit about how 21 popular apps on the android marketplace were downloaded, had root exploit code added before being repackaged and put up on the official android market for download. There's since been between 50,000-200,000 downloads of these trojaned apps in the past 4 days.

There's some commentary here: http://blog.mylookout.com/2011/03/security-alert-malware-fou... along with a list of publishers and applications.

If you're an android developer you might want to check this out. If you've been affected I'd love to hear your thoughts and feelings about this here.
It's not possible in traditional browsers, given the way browser security is set up these days. I've done exactly the thing you're talking about though with AIR and my own versions of webkit. So, the effect you desire is possible if you're willing to use a separate executable on your machine. Kinda loses part of the charm for me though, since one of the main reasons I moved to Google Tasks is so that I could do more from my browser.
The Zloty is now worth 18% less than in 2008. That translates into 18% cheaper wages. So for Poland, one important aspect is that they had their own currency. The PIIGS are forced into years of deep depression and painful wage cuts to achieve the same increase in competitiveness.
The quote is quite harsh, but hides a real problem of our (I am from Germany) economic model: Export only works if other countries import. If all countries in the EU would follow the german model and maximized export, while ignoring their home markets Germany's economic growth would be a thing of past.
Using Unicode in Erlang
This strategy doesn't seem very helpful to the middle class :

"estimates that the disposable income of the German middle class hasn't increased at all in the past decade. About a fifth of the workforce, he says, is stuck in insecure and poorly paid jobs, often earning a dismal $550 a month."

And doesn't concentrating on the high end exposes Germany to improving capabilities of Chinese companies , and improvements in the Chinese brands ? china is working on those capabilities , how can Germany defend against those ? move to the higher end ?
I think this glosses over an important point. Hiring or firing is expensive in opportunity cost (e.g. project delays, disruption to the work environment, morale) and so it makes sense to internalize that cost in a hiring decision.
Suppose Person A will provide value Y per year, cost X per year, and turn over in one year costing Z. Person B produces value Y - K, costs X, but will stay for 3. If K < (Z - Z/3) all else equal you'd choose person B. Building a brand that you jump ship for better jobs ought to cost you something, even if that something is much less than the salary you gain not being a gold-watch girl.
Undo isn't back. They're different concepts. If I send a friend request on Facebook and then click back, that doesn't cancel the friend request.

Don't conflate the two concepts. Undo good, back... not always required?
Agreed - If I wanted a desktop application, there are plenty of better alternatives. The nice thing about google tasks is that it's there in the browser. And it's tied to your google account, which I have open anyway.

Still - Nice idea. I'll use this for the next couple of days and let you know if I find it usable in the longer run.
Wow, I for one enjoy free, good quality kindergarden, highschool, university and healthcare.

I am not saying there are no problems here, but I do enjoy the social benefits and I am happy to pay 50% tax for that.
I understand the sentiment, but you're overlooking one big factor.

In a true free market scenario with freely floating currencies, currencies in countries like Spain, Italy, Ireland, Greece would have devalued. Germany's currency would have strengthened. This would have made German exports (to other EU countries) much less competitive than they currently are.

However, the Euro tightly integrates these other countries with Germany and makes it very difficult for them to revive their economies.

Using a single currency without a single federal government was a risk for all countries involved. Germany has a huge interest in keeping the Euro alive and the EU as a single unit. It shouldn't be surprising that many people in other European countries expect something in return (for having given up the options that they had before the Euro)
I totally agree. We are seeing the emergence of completely new uses for web pages, i.e. using a web page as an interactive tool rather than a content delivery system. At the moment the infrastructure just isn't there to provide proper support so we are having to work round it, sometimes with fairly nasty cludges. Until the infrastructure catches up with the change in use, there will have to be compromises. Saying these compromises are intolerable problems that should be fixed is unhelpful and missing the wider picture.
Ha ha ha. :-)
"I'm not sure that reporting [only] an IPv6 address is all that useful"

Why not? It's useful to me, and anyone else who has an IPv6 address. The future is now. Get with the program.
Web Development: Making Web Technology Work For Your Business
i'm genuinely wondering how they managed to break something this simple in Opera.
What kind of non-engineering classes might there be in a engineering degree? In the UK courses are (or at least used to be - some have gone all "modular") rather narrow in focus - in the 4 year CS course I did in the 80s only one elective class was included that wasn't specifically related to maths, engineering or CS (and that was a rather enjoyable "History of Science" course).
Please do, and if you have any suggestions I'd love to hear them.
A lot of games would have been banned either way e.g. use of Lua scripting or any 3rd party framework for cross-platform dev.
Most of the time they do have the vision, but the problem is that every proposed reform is heavily objected to by the unions, pensioners, students and so on. For example, flat tax rate reform proposal under previous government, then the pension reform last year. It's always the same: large population groups (pensioners, students, state-payroll workers) do not want to give up those privileges ...
It is also out of self interest that Germany pumps money back to the European rescue funds from their trade surplus with these less-than-stellar European economies. It's not altogether unlike how China finances the US debts by selling more stuff to it. So in the end, it just leads to more co-dependence.
http://support.twitter.com/articles/14589-how-to-add-your-ph...
Can someone explain to me how this is different from using GroupMe as-is?
You should probably include the ?callback= functionality anyway. A great deal of libraries assume it will be a get variable, and cater for it specially

i.e. jQuery with http://jsonip.com/?callback=?
I disagree. For me, I would like to see a world where you could press a button and get a transcript of any video for the times when I don't have the time to dedicate but I would also like the video for those times that I do.

The problem with just reading programming things is you're seeing the final product. If you watch the video there is a better chance that you'll see how the person got to that point.

The thing that always annoyed me about Haskell tutorials, for example, was people would put in all this beautiful code but I couldn't ever make it run. In a video they would probably ran it themselves and I would have been able to see the import statements they were using but not putting in the tutorial (this isn't a problem with Haskell literate programming afaik).
They do different things, so I'll give you an overview:

HBGary have a tool called FastDump Pro for imaging memory. What Responder does is it takes (or acquires) a memory image and reconstructs the processes and left over memory modules. It also reconstructs details of open files, sockets, registry entries etc. at the time of the snapshot.

Responder Pro has a thing called Digital DNA (which backs up nearly all of HBGary's enterprise products) - it's a mechanism that looks for potentially malicious code (I say potentially because it's easily triggered by things like McAfee because it has a load of strings in memory at any one point in time). Digital DNA uses known indicators to look for specific signs of things like keyloggers. It's not 100% but it usually reduces analysis time by a lot.

There's a fairly straight forward disassembler, you can look at strings tied to processes and memory modules, check for hooked SSDT, IDT entries etc. and there's a canvas type function for mapping out a processes' structure. There's a C# interpreter for scripting but it's not well documented so most of our guys don't use it much for other than basic scans for specific things.

Recon comes with responder pro and is used to test potentially malicious code pulled off disk in a VM. You define how long it's going to run for then it runs the code under the VM. You can then go back to responder and there's an actual slider that shows you all the changes from registry, files, even cpu registers over time so you can zoom in on your process and see the encryption algorithm in the malware decrypting and flip back and forth, which makes it really cool for basic malware cryptanalysis when you're me and not you :) - it's also handy for extracting 0day from exploit code because you get to see what's being exploited and how, so you can quickly write a cheeky canvas/metasploit module.

There's another tool called flypaper that stops the process in recon from exiting, which can be quite handy.

Although the company's in a bit of disarray at the moment the products are really great for malware analysis, and could be used for exploit dev (but I wouldn't).
The subsidy is in the form of a shared currency, and Germany is the primary beneficiary. With Germany running a large current account surplus, its currency should be appreciating drastically, and that of its trading partners depreciating. Because the currency is shared, and the exchange rate locked in, this can't happen, so in effect Germany is running a mercantilist beggar-thy-neighbour strategy.
Borderline stuff might be useful to some extent, to a minority of people. Blatant crap is - well - blatant crap with no use to anyone.

I accept your point about it being harder to classify, but I don't see how the SE's job being harder can equate to slightly useful content being worse than outright spam.
Leaders != politicians

unions, pensioners, students, etc... got their own leaders which are defrauding the people they should lead.

Thats the difference between Germany and the rest of the Europe. Maybe in industry the fact that workers get to share the board with investors help, I don't know. But I know that Germans manage to not shit in their plate time and again.

Edit: Why am I getting down voted on this?
It feels like you are saying something insightful here but I struggle to parse your writing. Could you somehow rephrase what you just said in more layman-readable English?
Germany isn't doing anything to maximize exports. Its just a net lender to the world. It has more savers and policies that don't incent its citizens to borrow too much.

It isn't paper that the world is borrowing from Germany; its the labor of Germans.

If the rest of the world stops subsidizing credit and balanced their budgets, the principle effect will be a decline in interest rates in Germany. And Germans will find it more reasonable to consume more or start new companies at home.

Its not a problem. Germany wins either way.

And those that keep consuming more than they produce will continue to lose, just as individuals do that behave unwisely.
I agree this looks miles ahead of the competitors, the admin panel is superb.

The most usable client for feedback, knowledge base and support that I have ever seen and my clients will be super happy.
I think the issue here is that you're saying "if person A is good at math person B may never be able to get as good at math". This I would agree with, but I think person B might be able to get better in some area than person A ever could.

Equal in that sense, not identical.
Great; thanks.
Other scholarly societies have very small overheads.
But since Italy, Spain and Greece run the same currency - why don't they use the same strategy? Are you saying that they are more "ethical" and don't have the stomach for such an evil deed?

Edit: I apologize to readers and commenters - I got out of context, I'm not referring only to the current monetary/fiscal position of Germany, but to the whole process that got everybody where they are.
HTTPS can be proxied, too, transparent or not, and you'll end up with the proxy's IP. (as the HTTP headers are encrypted along with everything else, the proxy can't even include an 'X-Forwarded-For:' header) Still useful for maintaining the full 'lock' icon when embedding in other websites, though including jsonp in an https site somewhat defeats the purpose. You'd need CORS on the server for it to be useful.
What phrases are you having difficulty with? Maybe you can give me some examples?
If it was myself at 15 I would have been insufferable. This aint too bad!

Though my mother would never have me to stay up til 4am coding.
Oh I see! This is what you are looking for: http://www.showmyip.com/xml/
The attitude expressed in that quote is indeed pretty ridiculous, but it's not as simple as asking for a handout. The ongoing debate is about German consumers not consuming enough and saving too much. And because Germans are saving so much they tend to be very aggressive inflation hawks, which led to the ECB _raising_ interst rates in 2008.

Still, I think, it is deplorable how little respect the Germans get for simply making what others want. They're doing that very well and other European nations should ask themselves how they do it instead of complaining about a two speed economy. Get up to speed guys!
> _J for C Programmers_ (http://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/contents.htm)

Thanks. For those who prefer PDFs, that book and more material are available at http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Books . (Had to dig around a bit, because, in spite of the original URL, the book was not listed in the help page.)

Question: I have a vague memory of seeing a web page named something like "A Garden of ..." with neat examples, either for J or K. However, my search-fu is failing me.
people in germany are very pissed about the "rettungsschirm" which guarantees in principle the bail-out of all the other euro countries (PIIGS, portugal, italy, ireland, greece, spain) because it is german money that is given to the other countries. if there would be a referendum about the euro, german people would vote for leaving the euro zone. they want their deutschmarks back. the euro is a political instrument and was never welcome by the people in euroland.
Can someone explain to me just how Germany is supposed to be like China? It seems to me that all the article is saying is that both countries are export driven, but that is just about it.