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Just my own experience here. I commute every day, it's a 1 hour train trip in both directions. So I get 2 hours a day just for me. There I work on a side project. It means 8 hours a week. That's not much and a lot at the same time. The intersting thing is that I had to get used to it. Now I just do those two hours no matter what happens. It has become a routine and it's not that exhausting. Also, since 2 hours a day is not much, I have become very picky about my tools. In a one hour trip, I cannot aford to have my Eclipse to be up and running in 3 minutes => I changed editors. I cannot afford to spend 10 minutes trying to understand code I've written months ago, therefore I write my comments as I should, I write things as simple as I can. Since I only have one hour on a trip, it means I must solve my problems in that hour (if not, the time to start the task becomes too long). Therefore I choose my problems before getting in the train and I use a lot of "BUG", "FIXME" notes to put aside non urgent matters. I also don't have any web access in the train => impossible to get distracted (but then I need very good documentation to help me out when I need some information). The biggest hurdle to me is that moving from prototype to production-level takes a huge amount of time => sometimes a I set to work in the week end in order to have say 2-3 hours in a row to solve issues spanning across the whole code.

About choosing tools. I've selected ruby first, but ruby + Qt is not stable enough (I cannot afford to look for a strange bug in a C++ binding). So I moved to Python where things are better in that regard. I started with Eclipse (because it had a good and free Python IDE) but it takes too long to boot => now I'm in emacs. So although I prefer Eclipse or Ruby, I've deliberately chosen other tools to shave a few minutes here and there. (3 minutes is 5% of the time I have so that's important)

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Maybe add the city to each lunch? I think all of them are in Stockholm right now, but not sure.
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stuck on dad... :/
If i used this it would make me depressed. I find if I run my life like a anal accountant I get bummed out fast. For some this may work but for me it's something I'd end up asking a friend to do for me :).

That all said I don't do facebook and this is something that would bolt on there easier than most. Maybe look at g+ as a interface platform.

Good luck, and nomatter what people say, see if it floats would be the way as you have already done all the work etc.
In relation to point one. Everyone is biased no matter how hard they try not to be, at least with Portillo you know what you are getting and can treat it with a pinch of salt.
This could be awesome. How about a filter for not showing past lunches or lunches today.
> Because it is neither rock-solid nor stable. It changes too much, too often, in an irregluar, unpredictable pattern

Perhaps you are watching Ubuntu, which does do this. Others are rock-solid and super stable. Slackware comes to mind, Debian is another. Lenny only went out of life a couple of months ago.
I've also seen some of the games from the Humble Bundle campaigns show up there, like Braid, World of Goo etc.

Interesting to see how many games show up here vs in the Chrome app store like From Dust. Chrome store seems to have a mix of NaCl, WebGL and HTML5 based games.

http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/03/look-at-3d-native-client-...
It's a lost cause trying to explain this to people who don't live in the UK IMHO.

The liberal agenda prevalent on Reddit etc simply refuses to believe that there isn't a huge conspiracy theory, where all those private CCTV systems installed in corner shops, all those local council run CCTV schemes, are all linked together and tunneled into the government so they can spy on people.

But just for the hell of it:

Most CCTV in the UK was installed in the 70s and 80s, when the hardware became cheap. Independent Shop owners installed it so they could catch and prosecute shop lifters. It typically goes straight to a VHS tape which is cycled through and taped over after a few days.

Also for example, you have CCTV in petrol stations to catch people not paying. For some reason this type of thing doesn't seem to exist in the US...
Admittedly my exposure to opening hours in Greece is limited to the tourist areas, but I've found they have longer opening hours than most places in Western Europe. --Definitely longer hours than the UK, Germany, or anywhere in Scandinavia!
I have no idea how one gets to be on the Olympic Committee but intelligence and thoroughness are presumably not required. They could have hired a car and gone on a drive by themselves.

On second thoughts, nowadays they would have been no doubt identified through their payment and the lights surreptitiously switched to green anyway.

Whatever happened to the Olympic spirit of fair competition?

No doubt this exploit had convinced the government more than ever about the value of mandatory online identification, mandatory financial transactions monitoring, car registrations tracking on the streets, and control of traffic on the Queen's highways in favour of the VIPs.
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This post really hits the mark on all major points. The transition from 4-6 to 15-20 is a huge phase change that can completely disrupt a startup's culture and flow.
Perhaps that's why the US has such a massively high crime rate compared to London.

Given a choice between being knifed/shot/mugged etc, and having a camera watch me, I'd choose the latter.
In the USA. Don't forget that. I'm a masters student of computer science in Austria and my debt is (depending on month) 0€ - 500€. Same in Germany. Same probably everywhere in the western world except the USA.
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By now you may recognize that each hint uses letters preceding the current letter, therefore use that to guide you on a new answer. After all, it's a hint for a reason :). So for dad, what can you do with the "d" to make it somehow an "e"?
The purpose of a University Degree (even a post graduate one) has never been to allow an academic career. It has always been the case that these degrees are necessary but not sufficient for an academic career but in the vast majority of cases Masters and Ph.D's go off and do other things instead - like practice in their field. In terms of educational psychology there is a very active and inquisitive community of research developing a number of strands of theory. I don't know very much about it at all, but some of what I have seen with respect to cognition, learning and development is impressive. Some is less so - but all of the people who I have met who are working on this agreed and wanted to change that, which I view as healthy.

As an aside if you were to (honestly) think about almost all fields of inquiry (maths may get a pass, possibly) then I think that you would have to agree with the statement "those professors didn't know that much to begin with and neither did many of the students". We are pretty ignorant about more or less everything when you look closely.
That's a good question, I think the reason is that the platform built around viewing web pages is way too flexible and versatile to be dismissed as merely a structured text markup document viewer.

Basically document markup processors are text-driven programs and all programmers know it's just too easy to hook up extra functionality if the behaviour of your program is already defined by a textual input file. Thus <blink>, then JavaScript, and a bit later, WebGL.

The text, links, and scrollbars approach is excellent for presenting information (i.e. text documents with images). Happily, the current capabilities of the platform don't preclude this sort of presentation. Certainly some fraction of genuinely informational sites these days are more like programs than documents but I just think in addition to all old and new text+link documents there's a huge array of mostly non-informational entertainment sites that didn't exist in "web 1.0".

I could live with the old-style hypermedia web, too, but sometimes I just wonder if the printing presses ever thought "Damn, these machines were built to print books and distribute information and now these newcomer publishers are using them to print stupid TV magazines with little if any content."
The government closes down after 13:00 for the whole afternoon? Or only for a siesta?
The hours worked figure is misleading. in The Netherlands, Germany etc workforce participation rate of women are much higher. But because women tent to work mostly part-time, especially if they have kids, average the number is really low. Also a lot of young family's split this time as both parent's work part time to spend time with the kids. A normal work week is about 40 hours so if you take out 6 weeks for vacation days, sick days etc your left with 1840 hours. I think a more interesting number would be average work time per household I suspect that the list would look differently.
We're led to believe the solution to this economic crisis is either getting deeper in debt or more austerity measures (higher taxes, less subsidies)
We're led to believe it's either A or B.
It's neither A or B for most countries. The truth of the matter is that it's a political problem.
We have to reduce the size of the government.
Upgraded, the message now displays much less often :).
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Assuming this is an app that tracks favors for the sole reason of saying "you owe me one", I wouldn't use it for friends. gives off a cold & calculating vibe. Maybe track something else like "help me do this": you say you need help with X and your friends pitch in. I'd feel much better helping my friends out. just don't keep score.
"Best viewed in a WebKit browser."

Ah yes, that brings back memories. IE 4.0 was it?
if you have the code, then just put it out there. What's the worst that can happen?
You should feel responsible. You should be willing to learn something. I certainly do.
The families of solutions are described by the puzzle's author here:

http://apps.topcoder.com/forums/?module=Thread&threadID=...
Fine,

I never said borrowing was wrong. I said borrowing without having means to pay back is wrong. You almost make it look as though Greece did nothing wrong in borrowing, but now Germany and alike are committing a huge sin in not bailing them out.

UK, Italy and all those countries you mentioned might definitely have the same debt. But the situation there is different because those people have a way of paying their loans back.

I am not expert in economics but I know, spending more than earning(Or what you can earn) is not healthy for any economy.
"Sometimes you should be free to call a spade a spade."

Could you not say "black" instead? I think "spade" carries unnecessarily derogatory baggage.
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I don't know about Greece, but I grew up in Portugal, and I suspect there are some similarities. People in Portugal "work" long hours. But they also work in a very infective way: long useless meetings, everything requires lengthy social interactions, bizantine bureaucracy, too many managers for too few real workers and so on. There are complex cultural problems that cannot be expressed by such simplistic metrics (and that, unfortunately, cannot be solved with quick fixes).
yeah this kind of problem does happen in many property sources. At the moment the users can report "Expired ad" so those properties won't appear again. We are brainstorming hard to tackle this tricky problem.
Maybe a way to cancel a join?
We got burned by CloudFront about 18 months ago... we were serving our static assets (CSS, JS etc) through CloudFront and had bug reports from some users in eastern europe (I forget where, it might have been Slovenia) that our site was displaying without CSS. I got them to check and they couldn't load CSS for GitHub (which used CloudFront) either. We went back to serving directly from S3.

It's an infuriating bug, because I can't see how we could confirm that this kind of thing isn't an issue any more. I'd love to go back to CloudFront but I'm just not confident that it will reach all of our users.
"Financial bailouts of lending institutions by governments, central banks or other institutions can encourage risky lending in the future if those that take the risks come to believe that they will not have to carry the full burden of potential losses."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
I'm guessing they're not counting 3D chips without hardware transform & lighting support (where the 1999 GeForce 256 was the first) as "GPUs". Also, 3Dfx got taken over by nVidia soon after, so I guess it's not completely wrong. Also... press releases aren't exactly the best place to look for unbiased information.
Not just wrong but completely absurd, not even close to having a factual basis.
Gah. Yet another site that wants access to a social media account without explaining why.

OK, you had a "cool" idea. Took you a few hours to implement it. Now that you've implemented, please write some documentation (in the form of introductory information on your web site) explaining that you'll be requesting access to my Twitter/Facebook/WTFE account and why. And, no, typical marketing bullshit is not acceptable (e.g. "So that we can offer you the best possible experience" is not a good reason to want permission to post as me)
So when this debt is dismissed from your balance sheet who repay's the lender?

Apart of the reason of the low cost to borrow for student loans is baked in the non-dismissal of the debt. It lowers counter-party risk for the lender therefore they will give a lower rate to the borrower.

If you allow student loan debt to be dismissed with bankruptcy then you increase counter-party risk and increase the cost of those loans originally.
> It went to Germany.

The last numbers I read for Greece's imports from Germany were very small, in the low one-digit range. So I am not sure this is valid to say "it went to Germany" although at the beginning of the crisis this was a picture the Greek newspapers were all too happy to paint: the wealthy, greedy Germans who got fat and rich off of all those Greeks buying so much from them...
Great idea. Get G+ hangout integrated maybe?
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Germany has massive part on it by enforcing such shockingly low borrowing rates across the Eurozone.

It completely destroyed countries with immature Real Estate landscapes, countries used to high inflation rates that collectively shot themselves in the foot.

Germany and France took no hostages when they were stagnating and failed to meet EU requirements. They gave absolutely no regard to these countries and now they are paying for it. They will either way, because that's their main market, Europe. Because it's not just Greece that's over-borrowed, it's most of the eurozone including Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, ... basically most of the Eurozone by GDP.
Spending more than you earn can sometimes be quite healthy, for an individual, for a company, and for an economy. It's called investment.

An example: when you buy take a mortgage to buy a house several times your annual income, you've spent more than you earned. Typically you need two or three decades to pay off the extra money you spent.
The overall UX is very good. I could not figure out how to modify the graph data (assuming I can).
The perfect democracy achieving the will of all voters is not achievable, as different groups may promote conflicting policies. There are however parts that are consistent with all populace, and as the cabinets change you definitely can see what they do have in common.

Greek politicians are Greek people too, with same cultural background and overall attitudes prevailing in the society. Ditto for Greek government employees (a huge sector of their economy), who are there to enforce the regulations.

If there is a culture of tax evasion, you can't expect the government to fix it just because there is a tax code in the writing. People's attitude have to change.
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Reminds me of just how entertaining this guy was when he was blogging regularly. I miss this stuff.
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interesting as the site is also listed #73 ~ http://prop1.org/prop1/radiated/ny0rept.htm
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Nah, you fly from your yacht to your Olympic Suite in a helicopter. This was done to favour the next rank down, i.e. government officials who have to be a little circumspect about their priviledges but not circumspect enough to allow their subjects to go about town unhindered.
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So I suppose these "I implemented this in less than a day" headlines do not imply any kind of quality control. I'll adjust my mental model to incorporate that.

Attempt to enter an "incorrect" time like "2012-05-14 1:00PM" and see the code dump a 'native' error into your browser.
Might have been referring to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-1173678...

For some balance, the USA didn't let someone into the country because of their tweets: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/Emily-Buntin...
Trying to host a lunch:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/web.py", line 931, in wrapper
return callback(args, *kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/auth.py", line 296, in _on_request_token
Exception: Could not get request token
We found it way too difficult to find new and interesting people who wanted to discuss the same topics as we did. So we created this during a quick hack at http://startuplocation.com/hack just to get the discussion started. However, if you are curious as to how and what this does with credentials here you go: https://github.com/siavashg/lunchspire
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I'm British too, definitely our humor.
Not only that, but number plate recognition means that ANYONE is and can be tracked as you drive around the 'city' of the London - once you enter certain zones your plates are checked to see if you have committed and crimes etc. It's done by a system alongside the CCTV, but doesn't need someone to visually track the car, the system does that automatically.

It part of the same system that charges people for entering the congestion charging zone, and those that drive in bus lanes.

http://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/CityPolice/Advice/TrafficT...
Our intention with the project was to initiate a discussion among the hackers at the hack and hopefully inspire them to keep in touch. Sorry about the lack of quality, but feel free to contribute: https://github.com/siavashg/lunchspire
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I looked for a flat in London twice in the past year so I've felt the pain and would love to find something that makes the process easier. I'm not sure you're addressing the true pain points though.

What I found to be truly nightmarish when looking for a flat was:

1) The immense majority of flats listed on rental sites (either aggregators or the letting agencies sites) are either scams, have already been rented or are just baits that letting agencies publish just to get you to ring them so that they can try to sell you the flats they actually have available.

The result if that pretty much all the online rental listing websites and apps are nothing more than a spectacular waste of time as every time you find something that looks decent, it's either already gone, it's a scam or it was never available in the first place.

2) In a place like London, the rent is only one part of what a flat costs you. Council tax, charges and agency fees are massive and can easily add 20%-40% to the cost of your flat. And these charges can vary a lot from one place to another. Yet, no site ever displays the total cost of a flat. This makes it really hard to compare flats.

To address the first point, I always thought that charging both landlords to advertise and tenant to look for flats would cut a lot of the crap. Landlords should only be able to advertise for a maximum of 3 days (they could pay again to extend for another 3 days). Since tenants have to pay to see the listings, landlords shouldn't get harassed by time wasters. Having to pay to advertise should hopefully keep the scammers at bay. And since landlords have to make the effort to renew and pay every 3 days, it should hopefully reduce the amount of flat still listed but already gone.

Of course, it's likely that scammers and letting agencies would quickly find a way around this - but it'd be worth trying. Might not be your space right now since you seem to be focusing on aggregating from existing sites. But if you want to add real value, I really think you need to re-think the way rental sites operate.

(as a side note, the only rental site in London I've found not to be a big fat waste of time is http://london.spareroom.co.uk/ - pay for access to the latest listings and you generally find genuine and good offers that are still available. And it's not just rooms in shared houses - there are actually quite a lot of flats to rent there as well)
I'm an outsider. I didn't realize this.

But this article (I cannot comment on the claims therein) states that people sitting in the "London Traffic Control Center" "followed them using London's infamous CCTV".

So.. If(!) that's true or close enough, then outsider seem to have the right impression?
As of yesterday TalkTalk (ISP) are now setting all new accounts to 'blocked' by default, users will have to opt in.

It's not /law/ yet, but once all the ISPs fall in line, it won't need to be law.

http://www.techdigest.tv/2012/05/talktalk_turn_o.html
Civil liberties covers more than just tracking. The UK police are a lot more likely to automatically fine you for speeding or for forgetting to pay you vehicle tax. But on the plus side, they are a lot less likely to shoot you if they come to arrest you for it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3966187

The focus should be on having a healthy criminal justice system which is completely free of political interference and effective in enforcing sanctions on the police when they behave unjustly and neither Britain or the US can claim that at the moment.
Ask HN: Storing financial data securely in web apps?
How to store very sensitive data like credit card transactions sercurly in a simple web application?

Intuitively I'd store it on the users computer (IndexedDB, File Api?) because many users won't store their data on any web service.

Is there a better way I'm missing?