skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that U.S. monetary policy seeks to create a low, predictable, consistent level of inflation. This allows everyone to incorporate it into their long-term financial plans.

It's harder to plan for surprise 10% haircuts.
I like your username. To those that have not read Heinlein's 1959 novel "Moon is a Harsh Mistress"(1), one of main characters is a computer ("High-Optional, Logical, Multi-Evaluating Supervisor, Mark IV, Model L" - a HOLMES FOUR) that the narrating character has named Mycroft Holmes, or Mike for short. Mike is a supercomputer that has other computers added to it, until one day he woke up. It is my favorite novel.

Plan 9 software appears to be software that would enable a person to make a HOLMES FOUR on their own. Pretty cool.

1. http://www.amazon.com/The-Moon-Is-Harsh-Mistress/dp/03128635...
an old lesson that has been forgotten needs to be relearned. Money is not meant to be saved. Money is for earning and spending. Saving should be done in real tangible assets.
Have people changed significantly since then?

Plus, he was saying that prior to banks being how they are now, things were different. That prior period encompasses the middle ages.
From one head to another, nice job.
Thanks for the answer Joel!
By the way - I'm curious why you guys had to built this internally - I always get the feeling people prefer using a 3rd party service like kissmetrics than building something.
>This sure seems like it would be a violation of a person's right to be secure from seizure of property in the USA.

The US government made a 50%+ profit by forcing people to sell their gold in 1933:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102#Effect_of_...

>Executive Order 6102 required all persons to deliver [gold] owned by them to the Federal Reserve, in exchange for $20.67 ... The price of gold from the Treasury for international transactions was thereafter raised to $35 ... resulting in an immediate loss for everyone who had been forced to surrender their gold ... The resulting profit that the government realized funded the Exchange Stabilization Fund
This is pretty damn cool, but I can't help but notice that the UI seems to be severely limited by Sublime's API.
I don't know the stats but I suspect that most of them don't have degrees. Many exhaust their college eligibility just "a few credits" shy of graduating.
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Ask HN: BizDev compensation structure
We are early stage startup with some customer traction and currently trying to bring a person on team (part time) with impressive bizdev record in valley.

What is typical bizDev compensation structure looks like?
Good article, but I wish one of these days I can visit a tech site without having to disable JavaScript.
Guess I should just go out and buy a ticket hey...
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.

I already said that I agree it was a bad move due to the effect on confidence.
I've read this already 2 years ago and discussed it with our Physics prof. It's definitely wrong. Otherwise I'd like to see a proof.
They knew it would cause this Tuesday which is why it is done now so that the peasants have to wait several days to be able to do anything. In the mean time the elite have days and resources to do what they need to do.

These are acts of war on citizens by corporations and should be treated as such.
I cannot comment on the rights of a person in the EU against seizure of personal assets. In the United States there is a right to due process of law if the government wants to deprive citizens and some other classes of people (long conversation) of property (money or actual physical property) or freedom (jail). This can happen through legislative action and (sometimes) by the fiat of an government agency like the IRS, but when either of these happen people can get the matter heard in court. However, at times Due Process can be a fuzzy concept, like when property is seized as part of certain drug related or anti-terrorist laws. TL;DR: This type of taking would be harder to do in the US unless you are a terrorist of a drug dealer/smuggler/or in possession of drugs.
The DRM on DVDs, while obviously long ago cracked wide open, still carries the legal implications of DRM.

> Music industry already dumped DRM for good.

This is the part that really gets to me. The music industry is still largely dominated by the sort of companies that also dominate video, and music files are vastly easier to trade around due to their siz, and yet DRM in music is nearly completely nonexistent these days. The only difference, as far as I can tell, is that these same companies just think they can continue to get away with it for video.

Really the proper course of action is to give them reason to reconsider that.
I would recommend for BromBone to simply say first thing on your site that you provide a service to get screenshots of a web page. Could eliminate most of the rest of detailed explanation about headless browsers. Never even heard that term.
Hopefully multiple services will displace Facebook. Facebook's 1 billion+ users use Facebook in so many different ways. I don't want to share a service with the "friends" who simply want to send me game invitations, show me the dinner they just cooked. . .or fight in public.
This is yet another thing I hate about the brogrammer culture of VC-istan: the idea that if you can't get an introduction to that person specifically, you're garbage. Perhaps that applies to upper-middle-class males who were in Silicon Valley since they were in junior high school. But there are a lot of good people-- 40-year-old programmers who spent their career-building years Milwaukee for family reasons, but who studied on their own and became really good-- who end up at front doors because it's all they have. It's not fair to assume that he's an idiot and a loser just because he's at a front door.

You need social proof to get around all the purple squirrel requirements. A company that mandates 5 years of experience in a 3-year-old technology won't be able to hire outside of its immediate social network... which is sometimes fine, and sometimes crippling.
In no way was this a good plan. It doesn't net a significant amount of money in terms of EU GDP, and it enrages and frightens a lot of people.

The difference between a government switching what it taxes and this is that the former goes through intense oversight and debate by the elected officials of the country involved. People can influence the decision and it is an internal matter.

In this case, it was an external force that decided the seizure was necessary. More, it was a German-led decision. Germany imposing its will on the southern countries hasn't been well received in the past and I don't believe it will be now.
See: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/tips-for-google-reader-use... (linked from the post)

Tip #1: "A more condensed view"
I think that is just a normal tax in a different form.
Actually, money is specifically designed for saving.
If you look at his website (http://www.compholio.com/wine-compholio/) apparently he is using some of his own custom Wine patches to resolve choppiness.
Actually, in hindsight it was my action that crashed your server unless someone else clicked cancel as well. Sorry about that. I'm glad you were able to track and patch it quickly.

Maybe HN is a bug reporting tool as well. :)
The old adage "follow the money", or the even older, "cui bono"[1] really should be brought into play here.

jwz made out all right, he got the startup lotto. But most people won't. And I'm not keen on seeing underpay and overwork glorified in some song and dance by a CEO/VC/$etc. Cui bono.

Of course, if someone wants to pour blood, sweat, tears, health, and their life into a company, that is of course their choice. But I think they should own both that risk and that reward for that risk. I think that if an employee is asked to go without, then the employee should also own the reward as well. It is a basic principle of investing: higher risk carries higher rewards (otherwise you don't invest).

If the employee with a family who works 80 hours a week and sleeps under his desk wants to write a paen of glory to their lifestyle, that I will respect. They will know of what they write.

I think I would rather be underpaid in graduate school, personally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono
This does depend on where you live. In some places, mortgages are offered with "offset accounts", where your positive balance in the account offsets your outstanding debt on the mortgage, and in doing so reduces the interest accruing on the loan. This means that your excess funds effectively earn the mortgage rate of interest (and since interest avoided isn't "income", this isn't taxed as deposit interest would be either), so it's an attractive option if you have a mortgage.
Hey I hear you can download software to your own computer and use it without having a dependency on a cloud service. Craziness!
I long ago installed a plug-in that blocks most or possibly all of the above. There are several now that will do this for, say, Firefox.

In a related benefit, sites load way faster for me and consume substantially less bandwidth, since I'm not constantly waiting and paying to download the malware that so many sites now feel the need to embed.
Yep. RSS is a better way to read news. If I subscribe to an RSS feed then I get to pick through the whole thing at the point where I feel like reading it. Twitter just blasts past so fast it's gone in minutes, I miss maybe 90% of my Twitter stream (conservative estimate, it's probably more). I realise you can go and look at an individual Twitter feed but it takes several clicks to see the whole thing and it's not as fast as RSS.
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In the last two days only 500 people in front of me have left the queue. Feedly definitely gets point for their speed, but as others have stated the layout just isn't for me.
Seeing as I'm a student with a big loan and limited savings that will go towards my first proper flat deposit.

If I lived in Cyprus, would the government now take some 6% of my savings and leave my loans untouched?

Anyone?
Yes.

One is intended as an encouragement to invest and, it works for the most part(401k, roth, 529, etc.. etc..) Most Americans know that that just sticking your money under a mattress is stupid, so we actively invest. Just about anyone in the US with disposable income invests in some way. This is something that benefits society as money that would normally be sitting idle is out in the market being used. And, how it gets used is determined by society and the markets, not a bureaucrat.

This, on the other hand, is simply confiscation. There's no plan, no incentive, nothing. It's a short sighted implementation that will hurt things in the long run. What's everyone who's had their money taken from them without warning now thinking? They certainly aren't considering options that allow them to stay active in this country's markets. Quite the opposite, I assume.
Feedly must be having a party now. Kudos to them.
However much sense it contains, it really is best to avoid writing an article along the lines of "Arrh, now, back when I were a lad..."
At the end of the day you have two camps: debtors and savers.
You can't force a tractor factory to make a factory once it has closed down ie: you can't force a debtor to pay debt they want to default on.
The only way to rebalance the system is to screw the savers. It was always going to happen, the question is whether by stealth via inflation or overtly. It looks like they are taking the overt path.
The problem is the savers saving in the instrument of debt: currency.
Oh dear, that's worrisome. My Account page shows me March 18th as the shipping date, but you're clearly an earlier backer than I was.
...sorry, it's hard to hear you through that massive chip on your shoulder.
MixMax, as in the cakes? You wonderful human being. Those cakes rock my world.
My advice: stop advertising PhantomJS and let me sign up for your service. Why did I have to scroll down 80% of the page to get to a sign up button? And nothing on your page convinced me that I should.

I am in your target market - I build websites for a living, and I hate testing in multiple browsers. Convince me, in one sentence, why this is a good idea, and give me the option of doing something about it.

Good luck.
Heya,

Do you plan to license this for self-hosting? If you do, I think you might be surprised at the enterprise buyin on this sort of thing. I can immediately think of $confidential projects that could use this.
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Well, for one thing, inflation doesn't cause bank runs. Even if you suppose that inflation is really an asset tax, this tax in Cyprus has just been evaded by anyone who's been keeping their money stuffed under the mattress.

Greece, Italy, Spain, etc. will now be lucky if they don't themselves start having a problem with bank runs. Arguably it won't happen elsewhere, but who can say for sure?
MixPanel can do this and they have a free plan.

I custom-built my own cohort reports but as number of users grow in my own app, I'm planning to replace it with MixPanel. You don't really want to put stress on your own database servers which are meant for production, not for analysis.
In any circumstance where a bank employee of any bank receiving a bailout receives any bonus at all - this is criminal.

The first measure should be a cut of all executive pay and bonus monies in any bank that so poorly managed themselves that they needed a bailout.
It's a perfectly horrible idea:

- penalizes savers who lived within their means and didn't overextend themselves, saving up for a rainy day. Debtors who took out excessive mortgages etc. aren't affected.

- penalizes foreign investors like the Russians, who will be paying about 40% of the money to be raised from this measure if you do the math. Never a good idea to scare foreign investment away.

- might create a bank run in other weak economies in the EU, like Italy, Spain, and Portugal. That could create a problem on a huge scale.
That looks very interesting, but typing several lines of text rather than speaking them is painful to sit through. I would suggest turning off the music next time and just tell people what it is and how it works.
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as a designer (not a coder as much), tributary helps me realize my concepts quicker by helping with some of the technical stuff like automagically linking csv and json files. my go-to workflow is finding a d3.js example (e.g. from bostock's blocks http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ ) that has some components in common with what i want to accomplish, and then hacking/repurposing it to get what i need. sharing my tributary inlets makes it super easy to get feedback on what im doing wrong, and changing variables with sliders is now difficult to live without.

being able to change the parameters of animations/simulations and see the results in real time is pretty incredible.
If someone were interesting in self-hosting, I would talk to them.
I'm generally annoyed to see Linux go the "poettering" way instead of the Plan9 way. It feels like going backwards - and unfortunately - every few people are knowledgeable enough to understand this, or care
Your conclusion that this action would be lawful in the US is an overstatement. Without contorting the Euro Zone economic rules into the US monetary system, if something like this happend in the US, it would not be a tax, but a seizure of private property without Due Process. Kinda a no-no, legally speaking.
With music, they had a limited choices: 1) Keep DRM and deal with Apple but lose the non-Apple market; 2) Deal with a bunch of other DRM formats that don't work with iPods; or 3) dump DRM and be able to sell to everyone (with a side strategy of suing downloaders). For video, there is no dominate hardware manufacture that has a proprietary DRM format -- almost everyone that sells uses a software player of their own design. Ebooks are the one case I don't understand though.
>In no way was this a good plan.

mdasen gave some very reasonable arguments that in fact, yes, in some ways it was a good plan. Fr the reasons you gave, you can certainly argue not a good plan on balance. And I would tend to agree with you, although I would confess significant ignorance to the particulars of the situation

But it is misapplication of the affect heuristic to say that because the plan stinks over all, there is nothing good about it.
>This could do harm to other countries whose banking systems have been having trouble.

This. Cyprus isn't the most troubled southern EU country. That honor goes to Italy or Spain. It was a bad idea for Germany to have tipped its hand this early in the game. They should have reserved this for Italy or something. You're going to see a bunch of people moving their cash out the southern EU countries ASAP.
I think it's mostly about practical implications, rather than legal ones. Legal battle is about those who push some junk in the law vs those who attempt to repeal DMCA/1201 and etc (and that can take quite a long time to achieve). But practical battle goes about simply adding more DRM everywhere vs getting rid of it.

Companies of the RIAA/MPAA style don't operate with common sense and pure logic. Practice demonstrated it multiple times. They are driven by random impulses like paranoia, lust for control and so on. So don't expect them to give you a logical answer why they don't use DRM in music, but use it in video.
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It happened more than once.
I didn't mean to imply that I would expect to make money from buying gold (if that's what you mean). Even if gold prices were expected to drop, I'd still be interested in buying it as an insurance policy. No matter how severe a crisis, once the dust settles, gold will always be worth something, for reasons I don't understand.
Seems to be the case. There is no information about personal loan forgiveness being part of the EU's plan.
Run your own resolver on 127.0.0.1, and your own authoritative nameserver on 127.0.53.1, and configure the resolver to ask the nameserver (returning NXDOMAIN) for

* facebook.com
* doubleclick.net
* google-analytics.com
* su (abuse)
* 2o7.net
* any others you want; get ideas from the MVPS hosts file

Since facebook domains (fbcdn.net, facebook.net, etc.) are all serviced by facebook.com nameservers, returning NXDOMAIN for *.facebook.com will thereby sabotage all facebook related queries. This way you won't have to play whack-a-mole with future facebook tracking hosts, so long as they use facebook.com nameservers.

Or hell, just create a list of prefixes announced & owned by AS32934, Facebook, and block all. Just to be sure.
The risk of doing business in an offshore jurisdiction.
Extracting money from people's bank accounts without even an acknowledgment is akin to foraging through their purses and wallets without consent.

Can't you see the larger issue here? This shortsighted measure will backfire.

Imagine you saved just enough money to cover rent, or see a dentist. You counted on that money being there. Wouldn't this be upsetting and a betrayal of your trust? Would you be so quick to leave money in a bank account ever again?

Edit: Actually, re-reading your comment, you went both ways and waffled like a politician. You didn't actually say anything.
It's a good point, so I did a quick google search and it appears that in most countries the insurance is paid out by a seperate insurance fund that all banks pay in to over time. Presumably the fund is reinsured with lloyds, Berkshire Hathaway or something similar. So it's independent of the banks and the state.

I couldn't find anything specifically for Cyprus, so I'm not sure what the situation is there, but it's probably not much different from other countries.

Edit: Here is a good explanation: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-10-318_en.htm?loca...

"7) Will Deposit Guarantee Schemes have enough funds to pay out in case banks fail?
There have been shortcomings in some countries in the past. It is not feasible or necessary to provide schemes with an amount of money equivalent to all deposits. But banks will have to pay on a regular basis to the schemes, in advance, so a pot of money can be built up, and not only after a bank failure. Such 'ex-ante funds' will make up 75% of the overall funds in DGS.

If it becomes necessary, banks will have to pay additional contributions, which will contribute a further 25% of the target funds. If this is still insufficient, Deposit Guarantee Schemes could borrow from each other ("mutual borrowing facility") up to a certain limit (again 25% of target funds) or use additional funding sources such as borrowing on the financial market, e.g. by issuing bonds.

The new financing requirements will ensure that each scheme has enough funds in place to deal with a medium-size bank failure. This level is comparable to the existing well-financed schemes in the EU. These levels of funding will have to be achieved in all Member States by 2020.

Banks having a riskier business model than others will pay higher contributions to Deposit Guarantee Schemes - up to about 3 times more."
I was just wondering if you were planning to integrate CasperJS too, which is an awesome addition onto PhantomJS. If not, it'd be interesting to have access to an online PhantomJS REPL.
This is highway robbery. It reneges on the contractual agreement between the depositors and the banks to get the full deposit back. If they impose a 10% levy on the new deposits, then fine. They are levying on existing deposits retroactively. That's simply robbery.

Just because the money is from foreigners doesn't make it right. EU banking will have not credibility after this.

This will discourage people to put money in the banks and encourage them to keep them at home.
In this circumstance, the first measure should be to cut losses now and dissolve the most toxic banks. Cyprus' banking system is ridiculously oversized for its economy. We need to get back to the idea of banks facilitating business, not being it.
All banks (at least in Poland) are backed up by kind of guarantees fund, which allows to return some money to clients in case of bankruptcy. (WRONG INFO: It's 100% for amounts < 1000 EUR, 90% for amounts between 22'500 EUR and 0% (no guarantees) above that.) EDIT: actually it's 100% up to 100k EUR and 0% above.

But it's kind of risk you should be aware of when keeping money in bank. Simple taking money from accounts under risk of bankruptcy isn't.
Surprisingly, Feedly seems like the best replacement at this point. But it's bizarre that Feedly requires plugin/extension for browsers and an app for iOS. Obviously the winning solution is a web site and iOS-optimized web pages.
Goverments steal purchasing power already via targeted 2% inflation. There is a precedent already - this is just a different way to skin the cat (or more to shear the sheep!)
It takes one player to break the trend and to demonstrate the benefits of DRM free distribution. So let's see if that will happen with video.

Someone should make a good service (site?) which will list DRM free distributors for various media where DRM is still present in general.
Acts of war by governments you mean.
No, but if you look at troop levels, he began the drawdown in his first year. But his strategy was to make the North Vietnamese so scared of him that US troops could leave. Hence the bombing.

Of course he could not publicly take credit for this, because that would have interfered with the image he was trying to project to North Vietnam.
Fantastic point about banks not being business. Totally agree.

We need a greed reset button on all economies.