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Nobody blamed you for being consistent, organized, eager to work more and getting rightfully rewarded for it.

This is the way it's supposed to be.

Also the problem is not losing 6.75 of ours savings. For most Greek people it's 0 * 6.75 anyway.

The problem is that I am poor. My country is poor. My country was born poor. My country was funded from the beginning of its existence because of being born poor. My country has always been and will always be poor.

But now somebody decided that we are not poor enough. And there is nothing that we can do about it.

And while at it, that same somebody is trying to make your life less comfortable and blame me for it.

This is a scheme over personal economics. It escalates at country level. Further above what some countries or even coalitions of countries can cope with.

And let's not get started with black market money in Swiss or wherever banks. Everything is plain pretense.
Looks like a very cool tool. Live reload alone should speed up development quite a bit, or at least remove some of the annoying wait between changing code and seeing the result.

Unrelated: Ah, Sublime Linter, you are always making ST unresponsible. Clicking away the message has almost become part of my workflow. I should probably just disable the warning, though.
Good man, good hack. I have no sympathy for the casinos whatsoever.
http://fred.rachelbythebay.com/ - is that sufficiently dense? I came up with it after realizing I didn't want any of the left, top, or bottom gunk in Reader. All I do is flip, flip, flip. Just keep pushing right (or sometimes, left, if you catch something neat and want to go back!)...
It's pretty much the same in India: LOGO -> BASIC -> Java + problem solving.
Casinos have of course been known to use "interesting" methods to ensure you don't come back.
I'm already engaged to someone, and sorry, but I really do feel pretty uncomfortable with open fanboyism. I guess for a better response I might paraphrase Marx: the development of you is the basis for the free development of us.
The Microsoft extinction was of every product except theirs. The purpose of EEE was to eliminate the competition and capture all the market, and it's kind of hard to do that when you eliminate yourself.

Not to mention, that we can not really say they extended the readers, because the extensions didn't make them incompatible and so prevented people from moving, like the EEE did.

I'm glad people are losing some misplaced trust in Google, but let's not blindingly apply labels to this.
I believe the author [linked to wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic) when he used the term.
That this question even needs to be asked shows how much of the libertarian kool-aid people involved in Silicon Valley culture have been drinking. Of course a for profit company is not compatible with ethics (of any flavour). It's in the damn name: 'for profit' not 'for humanity'.
As an earthling, reading superficial and insensible comments like this, makes very sad and eradicates my faith in humanity.

Of course, we had it coming.

Let's see your economy strive without the southern suckers.

Oh no, wait.

We have the chinese market now. Screw the southern suckers.
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There are some different APIs, both official and unofficial, most of them described here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1966503/does-imdb-provide...
In my opinion, if you would make the match work most of the time, so you get a category and rating that would improve the service. You can still have the users report when the movies don't match.
yeah and nope, toki.net was not my first but my third try.

i am somehow not able to login with two different browsers (opera mobile and chrome) to log in. only firefox worked.

my new account there is "toki1". but i havent been able to add feeds somehow. the input box does not to react when i click submit.

feel free to use me as test user. contact me via the mail i gave with my account data. i am rather busy today, but from tomorrow on i will have more time.... :)
I learned recently that Ghostery is owned by Evidon [1] and thus no longer trust it.

My solution on Chrome is AdBlock, NoScript, turn off Flash, and turn off third-party cookies.

I prefer Firefox, which I additionally use CookieSafe, BetterPrivacy, and RefControl.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidon
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Gold has little intrinsic value (well, you can make pretty things with it), its value is what people assign to it for the purposes of trade. So it most definitely is a fiat metal. If it was something like copper, there would be some intrinsic worth, but it isn't convenient to carry around while there is only so much intrinsic demand for copper!

Gold has failed just as often as fiat currencies have. When the Spanish conquered the Americas, the natives were amused that the invaders saw value in such a useless metal, but the amount of new gold that was discovered caused significant inflation back in the old world because Spain was just sitting back, buying everything it needed with its gold, and producing little of value.

Similar things happened when Africa came online as a significant source of gold, it got to the point that gold was no longer a stable representative of value, because anybody could just mine more! So you see lots of movement away from gold throughout the 20th century to something...more stable...fiat currency believe it or not. Countries now have control over their monetary policies, for better or worse, and are not beholden to some arbitrary metal.

Ok, so its more complicated than that, but reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard is quite an experience if you are a goldy.
Let's get real picky:

- chunks should vertically move down together, they don't just change color

- leading char is a bright green with outer glow

- movement doesn't always start at the top

- there are gaps in the chars

- there are vertical groups as small as 1 char that change chars at random

- there is no trailing transition in the color

http://www.endlessvideo.com/watch?v=Or2m7rYHb_Q&start=0m...
Okay, then Dropbox is evil unless they support open file syncing technologies?
Solid. Thanks!
I don't think that an actual once-and-for-all solution does exist.

People much greater than my humble me couldn't provide a non-temporary solution.

And I must admit that I don't carry the most temperate mind around.

At theoretical level, the only solution that is intriguing me for many years now is a society's hard reset via global bank run.

Rebuild everything from the ashes and maybe learn from the past mistakes this time.

Replace money with something else. Maybe something of non-long-term-accumulative nature.

But also, on the same time, find a fair way to compensate for the fruits of one's excessive labor.

Not the smoothest thing to do.

The inconvenience of millions will be the salvation of billions. Fair or not?

The real problem is that human's greed-driven ingenuity will abuse, overcome and nullify every kind of systemic fairness.

We live in an infinite loop of imbalance.

Unless the next asteroid is big enough and hits the target before we set our GPS navigators to the deep space :)
The -fsanitize=address and -fsanitize=thread sound like a very useful feature too, a nice complement to valgrind and -fmudflap.
I think it's wrong to speak of a hacker ethic in such strict terms. I would not say somebody is instantly not a hacker if he holds the believe that it is alright to make a project openly available and sell a corporate version with specific features for example. Where to cross the line is up to each person, the extreme example being rms, who even refuses to use a computer where the BIOS isn't free (which many hackers would say is exorbitant).

Also there are quite many companies and business models around free software / open source software.

Additional examples (granted, some of them no big shots):

-) Canonical

-) Codeweavers

-) id Software (engines under GPL, older games -> source code available)

-) Mandriva / Novell

Also there are sometimes open source strategies for certain products (OpenOffice as Open Source Variant of StarOffice for example).

And what about the hosting providers and Linux / BSD support companies, which granted, aren't global players, but there is a vast amount of them.

Is FOSS compatible with Profit? Yes

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html

Is FOSS evenly compatible with profit compared to proprietary products? No, not with today's corporate and economical structures (and the strict copyright)

What goes against "Hacker Ethic" and what not? Debatable
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Sadly I never really used canvas before, so I don't know how to hide the dark-green afterglow.
You don't pay for Hacker News.
If you think that Greece and Cyprus are sovereigns, think again.

And Iceland chose not to receive "economic help".

Greece and Cyprus were forced to receive "economic help".
OP uses RedHat as some kind of shining example. I did an Oracle server installation for RedHat as a consultant a few years ago. They took 3 months to pay me - literally paid me on the 90th day.

The wikipedia article the OP links to reckons the Hacker Ethic is "access, freedom of information, and improvement to quality of life."

Interesting that "quality of life" is in there. Building a profitable company is just about the finest thing you can do to uplift a community's quality of life when you create sustainable jobs and those employees fuel other sustainable businesses in the community.

I run a profitable company and it often crosses my mind how the dollar that I'm spending at the mom and pop bakery has travelled around the world via happy customers and employees into my local community.

There's something else: I read about another startup dying today. They just ran out of cash. I really really hate to see great software and great ideas just die because the creators couldn't figure out how to sustain them. Well guess what, you sustain those ideas by turning them into a profitable business. Profitable companies are a great way to keep your idea alive and available for customers.

I make GPL'd software and I make money from it. 90% of my customers use my software for free. Running a for profit company lets me continue to create open source software and to create more of it. It also lets my customers use my open source software for free.
Mozilla tracks JS speed at: http://arewefastyet.com/

Firefox is basically at par with Chrome.

If your particular Firefox is slow, I suggest you reset your profile:

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix...
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From what I've observed, they're only found on early to mid 90s Fords(+Lincoln/Mercury).

This is what they look like: http://www.ford-taurus.org/taurusinfo/G3/G3Keypad.jpg
nice article.

But you should really obfuscate things like api keys and mail adresses.
It is on the list!
You should take a look at this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5383976
Why should mail delivery cost the same everywhere, unlike everything else?

Why shouldn't people in Alaska subsidize my manhattan rent? What (besides status quo bias) makes mail special?
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Businesses are run for profit, that is true, but it doesn't say "for profit excluding all other considerations".
The argument Casinos use is that they are in the business of "games of chance" and card counting is more like a "game of skill".

I still think they are full of manure with this, but that explains a little bit of their angle.
I'm not addressing to a technical crowd and I doubt the majority of HN uses RSS.
argh! well now I know. :-)

I'm still guessing a ban will happen somewhere.
I have just graduated from VNU (Vietnam National University), major in Information Systems and I don't recall being taught any of these. I live in the capital so I'm sure my curriculum is the standard one, approved by the Education Ministry: studied about Windows 3.1 at grade 3 (circa 1998), Microsoft Office suite at grade 5, Pascal at grade 8 (secondary school), Pascal again at grade 11 (high school). For high schoolers, we also have to study either IT class or mechanic class for a few months. At college, we study C/C++/Java/PHP but no mention of functional languages. The last exercise is too hard and I would agree with luckymoney that it is only given in gifted school/class.

What I'm trying to say is that the story is pretty one sided. The school website[1] is currently down but I have found the school in the department website[2]. The school appears to be one of the first three national-standardized schools in Da Nang. It also focuses a lot in using IT for management and teaching.

1: http://www.bevandan.vnn.vn/

2: http://pgdthanhkhe.edu.vn/donvi/detail/48491409.aspx
Resistance to technologies like Glass is pointless. They're going to happen, and a whole lot more to boot, like it or not. People running around demonising Google or Glass are just silly - Google is just one of the few global entities with the necessary resources and vision to consciously make the next big steps in a pretty plain sequence.

The real question is adaptation - as Clay Shirky says, it's all about learning how to work with the wind, not against it.
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I think the Hacker Ethic works just fine with a for-profit company. What it is incompatible with is bureaucracy, which is all about control and predictability, and successful companies tend to acquire one of those with time.
I like that Opera handles feeds the same as email.

Another alternative on Windows is surprisingly IE. The user interface is actually similar to GR where you can read multIple feeds at once when you organIze them In folders. I used it before I switched to GR. It can also import/export OPML
I think master locks are a much more prevalent example of this.
>It is still a laudable goal to have the cost of that process be socialized; that aspect has not changed.

Why? I don't see any reason I should be subsidizing other peoples' chosen lifestyles. They have the option of moving to a more populated area.
Ask HN: Half of YC company websites are SSL-only. Time for SSL-only internet?
As most, if not all, websites now do some form of e-commerce, is it time for an SSL-only web browser to force the transition? And what about sysadmins forcing SSL-only connections by only opening port 443 and not 80? Other than making sure routers have port 443 open, is there any reason not to force everybody to move to SSL-only?

I just checked the website of every known YC company of the last four rounds. About half are SSL-only now. Here's some stats of the SSL-only companies:

YCW13: 10/18 56%

YCS12: 26/69 38%

YCW12: 22/54 41%

YCS11: 23/57 40%
The more desperate the need the higher the potential to turn a profit, so in a fashion, pursuing the maximum profit is fulfilling the needs of the market.

Giving people what they want.

Sure, there are sometimes negative externalities, giving people what they want isn't always what they need. At least sometimes, people want stupid things. But enormous world changing products and services which are profitable in line with the extent that they change the world for the better are certainly not necessarily a net negative for humanity, in fact I'd say it's closer to the reverse..
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I didn't ask you.
Wedding essentially third world countries with Germany's isn't healthy, but at least it stops wars.
Yes, since I follow them on Facebook.
What about Facebook?
It really took me some time to find out what this is about but it becomes obvious when you are near the target :-). Great job!
Not really if you consider that no one can or would pay in the case of bankruptcy.
Sounds like Cyprus is sort of a cesspool. Whenever I get into the underlying conflict, it get's very confusing to see who is right or wrong. Its sort of scary that such a little island could cause so many problems though.
Google next move: Remove Adsense for RSS. By the way Google Currents is doing good job as feed reader and it is relatively new product. I don't think Google has declared war to RSS. Since most of its APIs is based on Atom. May be they want to make a transition to JSON based standard.
More important question is : Why you spent a day for building a blog in 2013?
Actually the general situation in VN is not really different from what author described about US CS education for high school students.
In VN, CS is literally translated and understood as Information Technology. Students, parents and teachers still focus primarily on natural science subject like Math, Physics and Chemistry because they are needed for the University Entrance Exam, considered as the terminal goal for every student, as well as traditional subjects required for high school graduation. For CS/IT, a typical high school student in VN most likely never know the advanced topics shownn in the article. They are only taught the basic of Pascal at best, as well as daily usage of MS Office, Windows, DOS. Only students enrolling in specialized classes will get trained in those topics, usually for national/international competitions.
Another thing to note is the primary school mentioned by the author is located in Da Nang, arguably the best city in VN. Its local government recently has invested a lot in education. It is good to see their effort showing very promising result.
Very cool work. I am glad there are people still working on Plan9 and its concepts. I think it is a very underappreciated OS but its time will come atleast its ideas. Kudos!
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Another similar project with a cheap IKEA table http://www.ikeahackers.net/2013/01/lack-arcade-coffee-table....
I was hoping for ST3 support, but since the author is running ST2 Unregistered, that's not going to happen soon. Oh well.
>We're not discussing whether a particular person -- or any person -- is cured.

That's what I was discussing.

>Ah -- my apologies -- I didn't realize we were discussion religion. Thanks for the heads-up.

What an idiotic thing to say. We're not talking about quantum mechanics here. Just because your oncologist doesn't realize you've been cured doesn't mean that's not the case.

>Oncologists don't operate on the basis of faith and belief. That's why (s)he (at least, a professional oncologist) will never say that someone is cured of cancer. Neither will a scientist.

Again, they won't say it because they don't know. Let me break something to you as gently as I can: Just because you don't know something doesn't mean it isn't true. The idea that some number of people are cured of cancer every year isn't controversial at all, even among oncologists and scientists.
Exciting dude! I'm in the same position. I've got 57 subscribers (probably 7 from friends, ha!) already on my web app, and it hasn't even launched[1] (psst - we're launching tomorrow). I was excited to learn that the latter part of sign-ups included people I had never heard of. One of them being a former Olympic silver medalist diver who does triathlons that signed up! That's a pretty cool feeling.

[1] - http://www.competehub.com
>$70 isn't a lot of money. Is it an hour of your time?

Spoken like a guy that hasn't discovered that the internet is global, and that $70 dollars can be your monthly salary (or very near it) in some places.
There is a huge difference between believing that energy conservation is wrong and believing that there could be unexplored avenues in the technological application of electrostatic forces.
I wouldn't know, I don't have an account.
Justify what sort of thing? Using the nag version, which is his full and total right? And being from a place of relative poorness, where the asking price is equivalent to $400 dollars?

Where exactly did you bought your moral high-standing? Was it cheap?
You are right - RescueTime is very helpful indeed for overcoming some kinds of procrastination.

>>It is literally a little virus

Just a little nitpicking ... it is not a "virus", neither literally nor figuratively - it does not replicate nor infects anything. You can call it a "trojan" at worst, but certainly NOT a virus.
>This is why I tried creating my own simple "text editor" within my experimenta live IDE, so that I would not be limited by anyone's API or closed source and could create something more unusual.

Which is self defeating. By not being limited by ST's (or anyone's) API, you are limited by your own capabilities and time. You now have to right the editor AND the extra stuff.

As such you have, what you say a "simple text editor".
Bloomberg TV (which also owns Business Week) covered this a month ago in an interview with Paul Graham: http://ycuniverse.com/pg-on-bloomberg-tv

As was said at the time, the portfolio effect requires investing in many startups to diversify risk. Most startups are high-risk investments that will obviously fail. And only extremely qualified investors should invest in startups.

One major issues with all these accelerators is the mentors are increasingly less qualified and experienced to give advice. The other major issue is the startups themselves are not focusing on actually making anything people want, but rather focusing on raising money. Paul Graham said as much at Demo Day for YCS12, where the startups were prohibited from speaking about fundraising efforts: http://ycuniverse.com/ycw13-likely-less-than-50-companies
Sublime Text 2 has been really slow for me on Ubuntu for a few months. I haven't been able to fix it or even google anything about it. So sad.
People don't ascribe in anything that's "the law" or "established".

Take the US for example.

Slavery was the law back in the day.

Segregated buses, hotels, restaurants and housing areas for blacks and whites was also the law, just 50 years ago.

Death penalty is still the law today.
Thanks :-) It requires some imagination...
This isn't about the start-ups in the incubators being a bubble, but rather the incubators themselves. There are too many incubators supporting too many companies, and if incubators don't have exists, which many won't, they aren't making money and therefore will fold. It's a flawed business model for all but the top few.
>What do you think banks do with your money? They certainly do not keep it in a vault. Hint: bank runs are possible.

No matter what they do with your money, they are expected to keep it as it was, at least nominally (maybe with a little interest).

Bank runs and bank defaults can be possible but are far far far far rarer than yourself investing and losing your money.

So your argument is like:

"You think chainsaw-tied-on-your-head-skiing is dangerous and you'd rather stay at home? Do you know how many people die at their homes?".