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The links you provide are mostly from the previous recession. In a recession politicians demand rate cuts everywhere, even in Germany. What I'm saying is that compared to other European countries the Germans have always been on the hawkish side. They were the ones who made sure that the mandate of the ECB did not include fighting unemployment (contrary to the US Fed). They were the ones who wanted the "no bailout" clause in the treaties. They faught the French "economic government" idea tooth and nails. Their ECB members are the greatest hawks. The Germans have always been scared of importing Italian style economic policy and they made sure the ECB's only mandate was fighting inflation.

The Greek were not forced or pressured to join the MU. The article does not say that at all. They wanted to join and the other countries didn't want to block them even though they suspected the numbers weren't quite right. The full extent of Greek book cooking was only revealed in 2010 (or 2009?).
I'm not usually negative, but I hate coming across stuff like this because it's just a waste of time. I couldn't figure out what your site was offering in 10 seconds. I was reluctant to search, but I proceeded anyway in hopes that it would clear things up. It didn't. I entered the suggested "San Fransisco" and received a nice big "Something fishy with the server :(". I have no idea what "strictly ironic!" and "Ironically popular" signify, nor does "We're having new age fun with a vintage feel!" tell me anything at all about what we're doing here.

In fact, just about the only thing that I do understand on your site are the facebook + twitter buttons on the left.
Biggest newspaper, heavily self-opinionated. Even _if_ (big if, I don't buy it) the "the Euro is costing us poor Germans too much" would be right: What do you think what would be the outcome of a report like this for the following survey?

They reach (according to Wikipedia. YMMV) > 12 million readers. If after their anti Euro campaign (again, ignoring the facts at all) still 50% of the population are in favor, how does this even remotely make the non-supporters a majority?

Having done the numbers: The track record for facts from that specific newspaper is poor. Even if you like their agenda in this point, please don't implicate that they are NOT largely misleading (to avoid harsher terms).
If you're new to the startup scene and you looking to make some connections with like minded people there is no better place then a Startup Weekend event.

About a year ago I went to the one in Boston and made some amazing connections that opened all sorts of doors. Trust me, there is no better way to really make connections with people (especially startup types) then spending 54-hours in the same room trying to build a company.

It's also the only place I know of where an absolutely nobody can pitch an idea on Friday night and take first place on Sunday. And when it happens to you, like it did to me, it will really open your eyes to just what you're capable of. Its just an amazing feeling.

So go already!
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Ask HN: Feeling Sick 
Hi HN,

I have been here since the beginning and I was more normal that what I currently am. Obviously I am using my past self as a metric to measure my present self, which is not really a good scale, but please bear with me.

I am unable to get things done, and I can't handle it anymore. I never believed in reading productivity p0rn, but my situation started getting so bad, that I took a 1-2 week break, and focused on reading all the popular recommended reading from GTD by Allen, to Zen Habits, etc. This was a couple of months ago, but I still can't seem to focus. I understand what needs to be done, and its really trivial, but I am unable to bring myself to do anything at all. I feel like throwing up. I really can't focus, and this i driving me crazy.

I am otherwise perfectly normal, healthy/fit, had a girlfriend (asked her for time off after valentine's day), and a great relationships with friends and family. I have been blessed with more that what most people in the world have in their lives, and I am thankful for that, but really I really don't have any motivation or desire to do anything.

I asked myself if i could do anything, what would I want to do, and really I have no idea. [I could say travel and help others in third world / other countries or here, but really i have done that and it just doesn't click].

If you have any advice that could help me reset, I'd greatly appreciate it. I even tried meditation, but I can't still for more than 5 minutes anymore.

Thanks.
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Fixed the problem with server crashing.

Google won't talk to us ... well, there isn't really much I can do there I don't think :(
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knieveltech, I'm moving to Durham from North Raleigh next month. Raleigh is definitely "safe and clean". If you are looking for safe and clean in the Triangle, there is always Cary. It has received many accolades for its family-friendliness.

Safe and clean is not really what I'm looking for in a city though. I'm more interested in the culture: food, music, art, interesting people and companies. Also, my wife and I were looking for a cool neighborhood to live in and found ourselves overwhelmed with great options: Trinity Heights, Trinity Park, Duke Park, Watts-Hillandale, Old West Durham, Forest Hills, Burch Ave, West End. Can I walk a mile in any direction and not encounter any sketchy streets? Nope. Durham is a little more integrated and not quite as homogenous as other communities. And I consider that a plus. :-)

I'm really looking forward to living in Durham. There's a lot of exciting new stuff happening here: http://www.startupstampede.com, http://www.launchboxdigital.com, http://www.durhamcookery.com.

If you're into live jazz, there's an awesome set every Thursday night at Whiskey starting at 10:30. Really talented musicians from NC Central's Jazz program show up and jam.

Durham is definitely not without its flaws. There are areas that are unsafe. There are also areas that are suburban wasteland, such as near Southpoint. But the downtown is increasingly alive, filled with people, walkable, and gritty. I'm looking forward to the grit and being around to see Durham continue to change!
I don't think so but the Italian government at the time wanted to be part of the Euro. I happen to think trade barriers are good (at some level). I'm opposed to free trade because there is no agency to regulate against negative externalities.
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Not to mention that the Underhanded C Programming content is showing how you can have malicious code hidden in plain sight. Even doing a source code audit wouldn't be guaranteed to show exploits.
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FYI, EDNS0 (Extension mechanisms for DNS) is supported by most clients and allows for large UDP packets (configurable to MTU) and includes other extensions. Common uses for > 512 byte packets are records that include several entries of both A and AAAA type, as well as all DNSSEC replies. It's from RFC2671 proposed in 1999. The only snag is that some consumer firewalls still don't support > 512 bytes when proxying DNS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension_mechanisms_for_DNS
His opening thesis starts out strong. But his language bashing is too myopic. It's a shame to read some of these points from such a well respected computer scientist. I guess it just shows that we're all capable of being human.
Very few problems are addressed before they turn into high-profile cases.

Really? How would you tell if that wasn't true?
Agree with that 1000%. I helped organize DevNation (http://devnation.us/events) for a few years, and it was a traveling conference. It was such a pain to have to book venues and caterers remotely. It helps so much to organize locally.
Yes, sorry for the server trouble. I've fixed that.

As for the point of the site ... well there really isn't any. I just wanted to make something silly in node.js with the instagram API.

Think of it as a big joke. I just called everyone on instagram (including myself) a hipster.

Also, the page title comes from this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzocvh60xBU

Actually ... let me just add an explanatory text on the first page. Thanks for the suggestion :)
I was talking about a scenario in which Greece wasn't part of the Euro. The bond market would have attempted to factor in the risk of default or currency devaluation in its purchases of Greek bonds.
Europe confirms raids on ebook publishers
> Something a little more high tech, like running MySQL on top of a file system that does synchronous replication.

You can't guarantee a consistent snapshot from the file system alone for Innodb. You need some other logic on top which is exactly what Xtrabackup provides.

RDS certainly isn't going to work for Facebook, but in order to achieve their fast snapshot feature RDS is almost certainly using LVM snapshots.

LVM snapshots can be a better option than mysqldump but LVM snapshots are local and therefore require enough space to take the snapshot and keep it for the time it would take to copy it off box. This can be a big problem as you can't rely on your snapshot to always work. Also, using an LVM snapshot requires a 'flush table with with read locks' command to be run while the snapshot is in progress which can bring in its own issues.
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Not sure where you get the "one step removed" bit. It is a content farm, at least in the places where it isn't simply copies of Wikipedia or autogenerated text.
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I visited the site via a member's profile here and found a broken page. Link below, in case it is not known to the operators:

http://hnofficehours.com/profile/list/

(I think the above URL is linked to from almost all pages of the site thus:

List orphaned links here: All Users)
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I'm not sure after your paranoia inducing post anyone is going to download zip files from links you provide.

Are these videos somewhere on the web in viewable form?
>The first one "Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians." just sounds like bragging between academic camps.

From a mathematical/proofs point of view, computer science is much harder then many forms of applied math. Sure, basic programming isn't all that difficult, but algorithm design and some of the more complex fields, like computer vision? Proofs of correctness are harder on algorithms (you need more in your head, state wise, then you do to a simple inductive proof), and even basic edge detection (Let's say 'Canny', because that's a particular algorithm) requires a deep, intuitive understanding of multivariable calculus.
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IPv6 is silly to support. There are no IPv6 NATs, so you should know your IPv6 address.
They do static analysis of your executable and check what you call, which is why they know if you're using a private API and reject you because of it. They've also caught bugs in my app and sent it back.

I believe the advantage of Objective-C for them is that all messages pretty much go through one point in the runtime (as far as I know). That signature is probably very obvious, and they can probably do a lot of looking at your code with very little effort. If you have malware in your code, there's a pretty good chance they'll find it based on what it does. I imagine they can see a lot more about our apps than you'd think, since they probably run them in a debug build of iOS.

I can think of literally dozens of things they can look at, and I don't even have access to their systems to know what data is available. They have hundreds of engineers who have probably figured all of that out, and automated it for the approvers, too.

And how would we know? Is a malware author going to blog and say "I tried to slip malware into the App Store, and they denied it?" Since an attempt costs $99 (I can't imagine you'd keep your account after a failed attempt), that raises the bar to trying. I seriously doubt we're the first to think of exploiting iOS, and you haven't heard a word about it...

I think security theater is a bit of a stretch, frankly.
Work to live, don't live to work.

Stop worrying about your productivity and indulge in life. Ask that girl if she'd like to disappear overseas for a week or two.
Sigh. This article is a little too mystical about the Cambrian Explosion for my taste. "[W]hen life, for no obvious reason, burst into a crazy display of weird new fantastic forms"—this sort of thing happens when evolution comes across a new trick, like triploblasty, or skeletons, or ecommerce. Suddenly new species appear that use the new trick; and the first players will be much more varied than the later ones, since the later ones will all be descended from the species that won out in the first round.

(My layman's hypothesis is that the Cambrian Explosion is an illusion: there was a lot of diversity before, but it was all soft-bodied species that don't fossilize. Then some unicellular life form evolved that made use of calcium, perhaps as a shell to resist predators. It wasn't a perfect defense, so the predators managed to eat some of them, which got calcium into the food chain. This triggered an arms race, as predators evolved weapons, and prey evolved shells and skeletons. Suddenly all the existing lineages were evolving into species that could appear in the fossil record.)

Edit: here's a Wikipedia article that says I'm not the first to think of this: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Small_shelly_...
Interesting details at Wikipedia, along with some links to other Lobopodia:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Diania
Thanks, Heiflo, I was going to say the same thing!
It's easy to be indignant when you wilfully misunderstand and/or ignore the fundamental principles of human society.
Still a bit raw (since it's a new, as I see), but already does an amazing job! Congratulations!
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Once again the famous selection bias... For one Justin Bieber -- whose story so perfectly fit the good ol' American dream it isn't even funny, we've all seen 4564398 movies with this plot already, but I digress --, for one Bieber how many talented, hard working people who didn't success?

What about giving some friggin' facts for a change, instead of same old tired, rehashed, syrupy story not even good enough for Cosmopolitan magazine?
It's much easier to spread FUD on the internet than to actually do it.
> On the other hand - or so they say - you're free, and if you don't like your job you can pursue happiness by starting a business of your very own, by becoming an "independent" entrepreneur. But you're only as independent as your credit rating. And to compete in the business community, you'll find yourself having to treat others - your employees - as much like slaves as you can get away with.

The whole piece is like that.

Self-defeating. Blame others for problems. Finding trivial problems insurmountable. And also - flat out false.

He overlooks some basic things - like that you can work part time, freelance, or save up your money and then not work for a few years.

Some jobs and are enjoyable and people like their work.

There's no rule that says you have to be a shitty boss.

You don't need a credit rating to do business.

But mostly, it's just all self-defeating negative nonsense. I've basically never been salaried, I started in business with no credit rating at all (I avoided credit cards like the plague, so I got a credit rating at all relatively late in life), and I've never had to slavedrive anyone.

It's easier to blame others than to look for solutions. Probably feels better. But it's nonsense. You can build a pretty good life with some effort. Takes effort, true. But it's there if you want it.
This is from 1990, and from my viewpoint I think a lot has changed in the past 20+ years. Of course there are still factory jobs, but if you want freedom you can find it as long as you look to the future with open eyes.
This is great news indeed.

Can anyone from Amazon say something about plans and/or an ETA for a South American region for all those people in Brazil, Argentina, Chile etc.?
This is one thing I've been wondering about, how is it that they don't know every single API call the executable is linked to?

I know that Objective C and messaging is different from function linking in some fashion, but certainly there must be a way of determining if disallowed APIs are ever called, at all, without just using the app and hoping you trap them.

I think at the very least they should be able to examine the executable for object types used, and function signatures used, as well as determining what signatures are passed to which objects.
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How to Design a Good API
I am interested in building an API for a small site. I found this nice document about building APIs (http://www.examville.com/examville/How%20to%20Design%20a%20Good%20API%20and%20Why%20It%20Matters%20-%20from%20a%20Google%20Engineer-ID6508). Can anyone refer similar documents that I can review about building APIs. Thanks!
I can't really say I understand why "fragmentation" is a problem.

HTML5, CSS3, and ECMAScript are all standards that don't change very frequently. Not all browsers support them equally, but I thought we were trying to get away from caring about that. I haven't seen a "this site is designed for X" (X being some browser, usually IE or Netscape back when this practice was popular) badge in quite a few years. To me it seems that this strong competition amongst browser developers to compete for features and updates has been influencing web developers to bring back this bygone era. Is that really where web developers want to go again?

"Fragmentation" to me isn't an issue. A user shouldn't have to trust your code implicitly always and forever. If they don't want your shiny new features, they should be able to download an earlier version and stick with it.

Also, as mentioned elsewhere -- distro's might take issue with this sort of scheme.

To me it seems more like a competition with Chrome than a technical choice.
> This is one thing I've been wondering about, how is it that they don't know every single API call the executable is linked to?

They do. I used an old example from the Internet, and that API was now private; Apple rejected the app and included the name of the API that I wasn't supposed to use.
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> A lot of people see iOS and think that OS X is doomed and eventually all Apple hardware will be in Apple's walled garden

I think this is precisely the logic behind most of the Apple hate you see online. What these people (ones who dislike Apple for this reason) don't realize is that there are so many advanced users (content production, education, science) for whom OS X is essential that it is never going away, and that Apple understands that.
What are you trying to get done? Why? What would you do if you didn't have to do this stuff you're trying to get done?
Ah, I misunderstood: by free market you meant exchange rates, not the bond market.

But note that the Euro is for the purposes of this situation equivalent to the gold standard. Fixing exchange rates means trading the risk of currency depreciation for an increased risk of default, as we seem to be assuming the bonds are issued in the local currency.

The issue here seems to have been ignorance on the part of bind investors to the reality of the Greek situation.
I know it's probably off-topic, but would it have killed them to link to the original reddit thread?

They were more than happy to copy the whole story and quote verbatim from the thread. Strikes me that a direct link would have been the polite thing to do.
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FWIW, I have written over 1 million lines of BASIC for over 100 customers, most of it still it production, and all of it doing important work producing goods, services, and jobs in so many uncool industries we couldn't live without.

No offense, but being in production for a long time is not an indicator of design quality. Some code is kept because it works well, other gets stuck in production precisely because it's a tangled, fragile and undocumented mess that people are afraid to touch.

As I see it, the real measure of code quality is how easy it is for others to modify your program.
Also, take a look at the jobs he's listed as doing. That's not the career path of someone who has any direction or ambition, it's the career path of someone who takes whatever job comes along because he's out of money and desperate.

I know, because I used to be that guy. My early career path looks like this: work at dad's restaurant, work at mom's jewelry store, temp agency, Cutco salesman, furniture assembler, temp agency, retail salesman in the mall, ear piercer, retail salesman in the mall.

Then I finally got my act together (thanks to a not-entirely-honest-but-still-greatly-appreciated recruiter) and went Navy, freelance IT, freelance programmer, salaried programmer, freelance programmer, published iOS app, entrepreneur.
AskHN Any idea who is behind this caustic (and rather funny) Twitter account?
You don't appear to support my desktop browser of choice (Firefox) or my mobile browser of choice (Safari), so I won't be using your product even though it sounds interesting.
Edit: Release notes say "Firefox is in the works as well", so I'll stay tuned.
Is the motto from this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I
Jason, I stumbled upon this last night while googling. Im guessing that leaving this up is deliberate? What's your reasoning for doing so?
HN is not really a good place to post this.

Here the audience is mostly aspiring "entrepreneurs" dreaming of making it big, so they are tied to the rat race and take all the "american dream" BS to heart.

Apart from a statistical insignificant minority that will "make it", the majority can always come back to it in 10-20 years, when they are bitter and wised enough.
Well, commenting on the blog post got me a quick response from the moderator and a promise to forward it over, so that's something.
There are some numbers < 0.7% of the market that are not explicitly included on that page. Particularly Firefox 2, which still has about 0.25% of the overall market (0.8% of Firefox), and some older versions of Chrome.
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> So don't use every implementation. Pick one.

But then a library you need doesn't work on the implementation you pick on your operating system, or you want to port to another operating system.
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Is it just me or is the new site realllllly slow?
If the sincere question would have taken two seconds to type "DHH" into Google to answer, then down-voting is fair game.
We've built an API using ruby on rails. I highly recommend the book written by Paul Dix if that's what you are using.

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your absolutely right, but I did not make jsonip.com

If you are using a framework for this, most of the time you are able to override callback function name, i.e. jQuery uses jsonpCallback : http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/

If not, load it manually as a script and generate a function for the callback.
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Lists like this invariably end with Ada Lovelace.
If you watch the android video you'll see that a link will do the trick, not even a download. So it makes no difference really - either you trust the link or you don't. Scary, huh?

I'm not aware of these vids being anywhere else but they are from the guys who make the aforementioned framework.
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