skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can certainly monetize via RSS ("click through to view the full story"). The is a push towards Google+ and reclaiming resources spent on Google Reader, nothing more.
The traditional answer in this situation would have been to devalue the currency. Cyprus is not capable of doing this because they do not control the Euro.

It's important to note that 10% haircut is much, much less than what would have happened if Cyprus was not under the Euro and had devalued. Just a few years ago, everyone in Iceland lost more than 50%.
That guarantee is clearly a dead letter in the case of Cyprus anyway, because there's no way that their government can make good on that promise in the face of multiple large bank collapses.

That's where the EU steps in, or rather: was supposed to step in.

We were promised that our small savings accounts (<100k) are safe under all circumstances.

This came with the implied assumption that when shit hits the fan, they will shave what they need from the big accounts (>100k). Because those did either benefit from the gambling or can at least afford a lawsuit to recover some of their funds.

That promise was broken today. Many people will be very, very unhappy.
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Or skip the screencast altogether and just write step-by-step instructions.
The Cypriot savings didn't lose value, they lost a part. It's not the same thing at all. The proof is that Bitcoin returned to its previous value (and then some) rather quickly, while the savings will never return.
Exactly. Here on HN we can see people complaining about Chrome being bloated, slow and that they're considering moving back to Firefox as result.

Since only a minority of Chrome users are RSS users, it makes sense to have it as an extension. They're not stopping anyone from building one. So, hack away.
False equivalency is a major logical fallacy. If you aren't trolling you have some damage to repair in your brain.
Sorry but there is no information in the post to justify that using C or assembly is more simple than using python, ruby or clojure. There is also no justification as to why making the code in a library or server simple would result in more complexity down the road. Having written servers, applications and libraries before, I'm left to wonder why making their codebase simpler would result in more complexity down the line. Also I wonder if complexity is being confused with (expressive) power. Simplicity is always a good thing. Lack of others things might not be. The trade-off is usually between simplicity and thought+work put into something. Not functionality/power and simplicity. The shortcut often taken is making things more complicated to make them more powerful without making the effort necessary to make them simple.
Socialism and capitalism are tools, not complete methods to run and provide for a country's people, or society. No country exists as purely one or the other. Every country is a shade of socialist and capitalist grey. Even the US has a huge amount of socialist spending. The huge military for starters, all that money that goes via the military to the industries that supply it. Money straight in to jobs. And so on....

Socialism is basically government spending. That is all. Capitalism is the bit that raises the money for the government spending. The very simple problem is when the balance goes wrong. The balance has gone wrong, every where.

Thing is, what the anti socialists seem very keen to forget is that this all kicked off with subprime loans, badly regulated, free market loans, not government loans or spending. That was us, the public and its ever increasing demands for personal borrowing, and capitalism absolutely lapped it up, until it failed. Capitalism failed, not socialism. Capitalism ran rampant and crashed. Luckily socialist levied money was there to bail it out. The bail outs are government spending. If government didn't have money to bail them out, they would have catastrophically failed. I assume the anti socialists wanted the banks to fail? Fair enough actually, that is how capitalism works, the weak fail. In some ways, I think the banks should have failed. But, if we are to get angry at 10% of people money being converted in to bank shares (did people miss that? It is a bullet point here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21818598 ), then losing everything in a bank fail must be very much a no no. So, we do like government spending when it suits.

So, one cannot complain about the spending when it was the money provider, capitalism, that screwed up in the first place, leaving no money to spend.

Put it this way: If Mr Hubby lose his job, its not the wife's fault for spending the family budget each week, is it? Equally not the wife's fault if she asked Mr Hubby if she could take out a loan, he agreed, and not cant pay it back because hubby lost his job. More, over, if Mr Hubby was pushing her to take loans, it is even more not her fault.

So stop with the finger pointing rightard anti socialism hate stuff. It doesn't work, its childish, and way too Glen Beck for sensible discussion.

Now, of course the socialism bit has to do its bit and contract so that the capitalism bit can breathe and rebuild, while regulating it enough such that insane lending and borrowing cant happen again. The balance must be restored.
Especially given that every comment gets emailed to everyone who'd starred the bug. Leaving comments open (and receiving "BUT WHYYYY" comments) just annoys the hell out of everyone who'd starred it.
Why not? A web browser's goal is to display web content, and RSS is web content.
Really? BRIC? Perhaps a few of the most corrupt/oppressive/restrictive/authoritative/land grabby/no-due process governments in the history of the world? You'd feel safer there? Not Canada, US, UK, Australia, Japan? I'd take any one of those over BRIC any day of the week.
I had exactly the same feelings when I heard about the decision. Now I'm planning to stop using Google Voice, which has the same indications of getting killed soon (zero development, no promotion, etc.) I am less excited about Google+ as well - I just cannot tolerate a company that kills features and products like this. This decision from Google is really damaging to them and they are idiots of they don't see it. This "focus" thing applies to small shops. Google is huge. They can afford to keep a product like Google Reader - small shops can't.
I'd like to add one thing, that those people weren't just hoarding that money. What happens now is that Cyrpus is losing out on some badly needed investment.
If they're so smart, why aren't they any better at bringing newcomers up to speed?
No, I don't. RSS has been brought to the forefront over the last couple days, so the fact that someone thought of this bug is totally conceivable.
It's more correct to say that GCC is compilable with a C++ compiler, and now allows C++.
It's not like it was all rewritten in proper C++ between 4.7 and now :)
No, I'm not missing the larger picture. I just choose to acknowledge that the people who chose this course of action have dedicated their lives to the financial sector, are highly educated, and have access to the brightest minds in the world.

Considering that we learn about bank runs and trust in the financial system in high school economics class, I highly doubt that these people don't know about them.

In all likelihood, they chose the option that with the information they had, appeared to have the highest chance of success.
In case anyone is confused, the original title was "Schumpeter on the Cypress Bailout."

Incidentally, to those who complain about mods changing titles: we fix stuff like this constantly. All day long we quietly fix breakage, and every month or so we revert a title that someone was attached to, and we get an indignant mob bitching at us.
I see this as part of a bigger problem, which is a lack of gusto in Sillicon Valley. People aren't striving to solve problems deeply meaningful to themselves, they are looking for the next big buck in social/local/corny. Others are just as much going after whatever seems to have money in it rather than some problem domain they could be passionate about. Then, of course, if you haven't some problem that truly bugs your existence, you're gonna cash out and live like a fat cow as soon as you can. I could never understand people aiming for exits. Exit? I want to change the world! Or a tiny bit of it. But MY tiny bit.

Passion, people! I know the term gets thrown around a lot and it often doesn't mean as much as people make it, but I'd say a minimum of passionate involvement with your problem domain would be nice to find in SV more often. I know I can never rest on my laurels until I've brought down at least one big corporation by doing what they do in an open source, anarchic, power to the people way. Hell, I want to bring down the www, have it lose mindshare to a fully peer-to-peer network, but bluetooth doesn't cut it. I hate these walled gardens, I fear for our future which they can undermine, and I wouldn't want to contribute to more of these gardens, pretty on the inside with unicorns and flowers, until you reach a wall and see surveillance equipment and people shot down trying to escape.

But what do VCs know? They're in for a buck, and so are most companies who get big enough to lose it's founder's initial vision. Some companies are founded on a great vision, to solve a passion imbued problem, to give true value to society. O'Reilly has been discussed here recently and it rekindled a lot of my beliefs. I don't want to be at the helm of some billion-dollar ex-startup if I'm just gonna be a puppet to a board of investors. I'd rather stay lean, hungry and foolish, make a true crowd business out of my problem domain, where my software is open source and lots of third-parties have a go at profit. I'm just one of them, thriving on an open ecosystem. That sounds better. I like what App.net is doing. More people should follow the lead.
Yep, Goog wants you to read news, find out about the world only through its walled-pages, read the penultimate paragraph of this naive article sums it up! http://gigaom.com/2013/03/16/why-google-killed-off-google-re...
Eventually the small guys get so desperate and bored that the only way to pass the time is to violently attach the big guys.
ghostery blocked 8 of 10 (I have google and twitter unblocked).
I think the term "assets" in "all the worlds physical assets" doesn't mean all physical items in the world - including baskets of half ripe banana's, but things like durable, enduring, tradable wealth assets. ie: precious metals, collectables, land, art. Things that super producing wealthy people trade their massive inflow of currency for and therefore retain value.

There is only one asset you need though, and that is the same physical asset that Central banks hold that is not an IOU from another country. It is that asset only that will be able to be revalued and reflate the balance sheet when the currency 'assets' have burned to the ground.

http://www.ecb.int/press/pr/wfs/2011/html/fs110706.en.html
When you boil it down Twitter, Facebook, and G+ do the exact same thing as RSS,but they are all just easier,less flexible, closed and more centralized. You publish something and your subscribers receive it....seems at least vaguely related to me, imo.
Still there: http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleTechTalks/
My wife just starts typing the name of the site she wants from memory and the browser auto-completes it. No readers, no bookmarks. I would guess quite a lot of people browse the web this way.
Looks like the e-cigarette business is booming. And CEO's are psychopaths. Good stuff.
I didn't get from your paragraph what it is you are doing. Care to elaborate?
Because if you can't subscribe to a bunch of RSS feeds to follow the news and click on what interests you, the two options you're left with are either remembering to open a bunch of different sites a bunch of times a day to check the news or looking at your twitter stream. Most people I know have opted for the latter. In an RSS free world, I would too. Perhaps with the exception of opening HN (which I already do) and maybe reddit a few times a day.
I am glad you launched!
If I can just give my 5 cents here, it will definitely get you more users if you could summarise your test into easily readable point forms or short paragraphs to explain your product on your main website.
Similarly, if you are sending out to your mailing list, you will want to keep it concise!
So, what do you propose he should do with his money?

I have a hunch your little smarty-pants speech didn't help him one bit.
There's no reinsurance, and the rules only ensure that there will be enough funding to cope with a single "medium-sized bank failure" ... by 2020.
I've always been under the impression that Apple doesn't worry about that as much because they are more concerned with selling hardware.
If an article ever needed a TL;DR, it would be this one.

For perspective, the way post works in my country is that there's a company which is owned by the state and is forced to provide a postal service in all cities. The post office can still make a profit (and usually does). While courier firms like UPS compete with it, the post office probably delivers most packages in the country.
I'm surprised because someone who has committed this much time to developing an extension is arguably beyond the evaluation phase.

> Sublime Text 2 may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use.
"Clearly Google wants all its user data piped through G+,"

Equally clearly, they're living in a fantasy world. G+ is a ghost town. I have ~150 people in my G+ circles (lots of friends and acquaintances signed up out of curiosity when it was new) and see maybe 2 new posts per day. My Facebook feed, which has roughly the same number of people, gets somewhere close to 100.
Browser implementations of nothing more than dynamic bookmark entries were worthless.
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We are. If you ever want to share some old tour stories, please send me an email - I'd love to hear them. Bands like the Dead and Phish are so consistent with the hacker ethos. I wonder how most people miss it.
I see plenty of ads in my feeds. And nothing to stop Google from placing ads in Reader itself.
> Have people changed significantly since then?

I don't know. Your question is sufficiently general that a plausible answer could be given to support either "yes" or "no" answers. It is very dependent on what you mean by "change". And therein lay my answer: I don't know what you mean by "change".

The poster in this case was touching on a point that going out and taking a farmer's property (or generally anyone for that matter) explicitly was very unlikely to happen, but taking it from a bank is considered something else entirely. I think that's fairly reasonable in the first world. Could a scenario arise in the future where that isn't reasonable? Sure. But, that's kind of beside the point here I think.

If you extend your reasoning to the extreme, you could pretty much say to anything, "Well, humans have done it before so what's stopping them from doing it again?" The answer is nothing, but it's a red herring: it ignores the possibility that the chance of some Event X has gone down with the passage of time. Perhaps it has gone down so much, that it is no longer reasonable to address it if one want to maintain a modicum of concision.
Yes, but as the article pointed out, trust is broken and everyone thinks this will happen again
It's funny to see a bank holiday used for what it was initially invented for — preventing a bank run.
> It never really made sense for the web browser itself to also be an RSS reader anyways.

Well, I can understand that it might not have been for everyone, but it was super convenient to be able to read RSS "folders" in Firefox. I'm a Chrome/Chromium fanboy these days--I use it on all of my devices--but I still miss that feature. If you don't want to use a certain functionality, it's easy to just avoid it; you can't ever use something that isn't implemented, though.

Clicking on a bookmark and seeing the most recent BBC headlines, for example, was awesome.
That is the million dollar question eh? I've published some results but I don't think I'm finished. And what does finishing even mean? Maybe when I'm tired of accumulating I'll go off and do my own full super programming language?
I can't believe we're going to see idiots actually wear google's spyware on their faces in a few months from now.
3rd row from the bottom, right side.
Unless you are Isaac Asimov, and your writing produces about 8 books a year on average during your whole lifespan.
I doubt the margins differ too much than selling to dell or HP. They're cutting out the middleman, but quanta is still selling to volume customers, at the sort of margins that volume customers expect. It was a commodity space for OEMs before their customers became their end users.
In theory, the advance is just an advance, and publishers could ask for the portion back that is not covered by royalties. However, they almost never do that. It's one of the few ways in which publishers actually behave decently towards authors.
The Germans have had enough of this and when they can (couldn't in Greece, even though the population suffered) they let others share in the pain.

Cyprus along with Dubai is known as a place to send your hard stolen billions so you could understand the goodwill towards them.

Edited to add: Cyprus also doesn't make it easy for EU. EU has master plans, namely more or less to get along with Turkey to the extent they can, and to start the remaining Eastern European countries in the EU path. Cyprus were let in EU as a divided country, only after Greece (their sister /mother country) threatened to veto any new other members unless.

Once Cyprus got in they threatened veto against cooperation with Turkey, the other part of the island etc., making work much harder for EU and especially NATO. US would like for EU and NATO to cooperate but Turkey is a member of NATO but not EU and Cyprus is a member of EU but not NATO. Both can veto but Turkey has a million man strong army, and has been a NATO asset for 60 years.

In other words, they were in for some payback. A tiny country played the entire EU for fools for a long time. http://www.bing.com/search?q=Turkey+eu+cyprus+veto&;
> Linux's libc is the slowest with normal maths functions

Do you happen to remember which one? There have been a few "sporks" of glibc in the last few years and, if memory serves me correctly, Debian now use eglibc.

I think the sporks were done to address bloat, but I'm also curious if they address speed.
I'm aware of it, but I don't think it's perfect, at least not for one of the older versions of OS X which his computer runs. Moot point, anyway, he doesn't want me messing with the way he has his display set up.
What would you improve? Always looking for useful feedback!

Cheers
The fuss is about Google embracing/extending and then suffocating every WWW technology they can't shove at least 20 ads into.
Thanks for the links. We have some Profs who have a God Complex, but he's just the typical nice Physics Nerd. He didn't proof that it doesn't work and urged interest in it, if somebody finds out more. But he couldn't find out a way that this phenomenon was real. That doesn't mean that phenomenons like the on in the article are impossible, but that the setup to create such phenomenon is probably wrong or not documented well enough to come to a better conclusion than - "it's definitely wrong".
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The engine switch doesn't bother me. It's just that Opera as a company is currently in flux, and they are discontinuing work in their Dragonfly web inspector, for instance, which does not at all suggest a good future ahead of Opera.

Firefox is pretty much the polar opposite of Opera in terms of features, although I like their work on open standards like Opera's.
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IF YOU'RE NOT PAYING FOR IT YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.
Sure, that's basically a rule for when to do the "introduce explaining variable" refactoring [1]. There's a bit of taste as to when to name things in this instance, but certainly if a name can replace a comment then it's better to use a name. You might additionally use a name for something you wouldn't comment, if the logic is straightforward but the code is long enough that it would otherwise be hard to read.

If you use something more than once, then you either have to give it a name or repeat it, and generally people like to avoid repeating things. Some people will accept two copies and get rid of the duplication when they get to three copies, though purists would dislike that.

[1] http://www.refactoring.com/catalog/introduceExplainingVariab...
It not the size of the GDP that is at issue, bank runs happen out of fear. I can tell you from conversations I have had with friends (not very scientific, admittedly) that people in European countries are legitimately freaked out by this. Additionally, there may be a physical limit on withdrawals, but electronic transfers are far easier and more common in the EU. That is the real threat. If we are all lucky, tempers will cool by Tuesday.
Most of the young men who play in the NFL do not come from money. In fact for a lot of them, being the best football player in their high school was their only hope to go to college at all, let alone earn millions of dollars.
Sigh. There is no 'them' there is only 'us'
Surely if you read that you read the following sentence: "There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation."
A few things to consider:

Central banks are buying gold. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-10/putin-turns-black-g...

Central banks are repatriating gold reserves held overseas. http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2013/01/16/germany...

The LIBOR rigging scandal has turned the spotlight to the gold market, where it has long been claimed that the price of gold has been manipulated. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/mar/13/london-financ...

It has also been claimed there is a ponzi scheme in paper gold, i.e. instruments may not actually be physically backed, so when things go pear-shaped and you ask for physical delivery, you will have to fight other investors over legal ownership. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-12/hsbc-sues-mf-glo...

Given recent banking scandals, anything is possible. Caveat emptor!
Except RSS doesn't have an access control layer; everything is public.
Loving that Google Glass empty grave at the bottom of the page. It seems to be a product many have already written off as DOA. I'm not sure if that's fair or not.
I remember the FF bugs for removing it suggested only 7 percent of people used it.
What frustrates me is that 7 percent x web scale is not a small figure; and many of those were curators - prepping info for others.
It was not DOA when they first started using it -- it was better than the streaming technology available via Flash at the time - and also the only one with DRM that would meet the the qualifications of the media companies that they license their content from. I don't think Netflix wants DRM any more than the majority of us, but they don't really have a choice to offer such content.
Losing value and losing a part is the same thing.

Say you have 100 dollars. And with 100 dollars you can buy 100 beans:
* The dollar loses 10% value. Now you can only buy 90 beans.
* You lose 10% of your 100 dollars. Now you only have 90 dollars. You can only buy 90 beans.

Compare that with:
* Cyprus banks go bankrupt, the euro loses 10% value - never mind that people actually lose 100% of their money.
* Cyprus savings take a 10% cut, Euro keeps 100% of its value.

Sure it's a simplification but I think it's a valid point.
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