skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people were also consulted to an extent in Greece, though you might say the results were inconclusive. The series of 2012 elections were de-facto a referendum on whether to accept the bailout/austerity or not, since it was the main issue in the campaigns. There were also pro- and anti- parties on both the right and left, allowing people to make that choice independently of their usual political alignment (left voters could choose between PASOK and SYRIZA; right voters could choose between New Democracy and Independent Greeks). If you go by popular vote, the pro-bailout/austerity parties narrowly lost the May election (48-52%) and narrowly won the June election (51-49%).

There's a little bit of subjectivity in assigning those numbers, because a number of pro-bailout/austerity parties were trying as hard as possible to take up tough-sounding, qualified positions, e.g. in the first round Democratic Left was "less" pro- than the others, even though it eventually joined a coalition government that implemented the demanded conditions. So one could argue that Greek sentiment was more anti-bailout/austerity than the results implied, since some people voted for what they thought were moderate anti- parties who turned out to be grudgingly pro- in practice.
That's a good test to evaluate startups. How honest are the founders on their expected failure rate? If you're not a person they need to be lying to (i.e. not a potential/actual employee, investor, customer, journalist, etc), will they tell you that their realistic probability for success is very low?

If they can't do this, that's a red flag. Their irrationality will injure people in a relationship with them. They may disrespect others. Optimism is vital, but so is groundedness.
While I do believe that all of the reliance on ad revenue contributes to the "Internet surveillance state," I wouldn't exactly say that the newspaper industry would agree that ad-supported blogs are 'furthering their goals.' I think that many big newspapers would disagree with you there.
>"Back in the day you'd at least get reasonable interest by keeping money in a bank, but nowadays it's really only the convenience of direct deposit and online bill pay that draws me."

Back in what day? You mean, like, 5 years ago? We're still amidst one of the worst recessions ever and rates are at all time lows. No, you don't get riskless real returns right now. But you can also borrow at exceptionally low rates. That will change in the future.

Hording physical gold outside of diversification is a bad idea. You have storage costs, pay a premium over spot when you buy it and eat a spread when you sell it. And, as another commenter said, look at its real returns; not spectacular.

Want to know what was a good buy? The stock market, 4 years ago. When everyone was screaming about the world imploding and it was at irrationally low levels. But that's just the thing: you have to be willing to zig when others are zagging.
Wikipedia says:

"FedEx and United Parcel Service (UPS) directly compete with USPS express mail and package delivery services, making nationwide deliveries of urgent letters and packages. Due to the postal monopoly, they are not allowed to deliver non-urgent letters and may not directly ship to U.S. Mail boxes at residential and commercial destinations."

I don't know what specifically the definitions of urgent and non-urgent are, but you get the idea. UPS may not now be designed to deliver non-urgent letters efficiently, but that's largely because they aren't allowed to, so why would they bother?
Anyone who has that kind of money already has it offshore in the Cayman Islands. Why pay Chinese taxes on it?
I think incubators (except for truly valuable ones) are doomed because have these options:

a) raise seed money from an angel

b) develop a mvp, show some traction and raise money from VCs

c) bootstrap a profitable product

or d) go to an accelerator

from my expirience almost all accelerators have will present you with a bad deal (say 10-20k and office space) and claim to provide you with more value by helping you out with their expertise in other areas. In exchange they want a 20-30% equity cut. BUT the value add through their network (for most accelerators) will be negligible that's why it is a bad deal.
Every other option is better:

a) Angel -> can be a vocal defender and loyal partner or early adopter of your product

b) VC -> You get money at a fair valuation

c) Bootstrap -> Keep all the equity and stay hungry

So for what it's worth I think reducing the number of accelerators would not be a bad thing for the startup eco system.
It was completely voluntary and managed by the producer through their AdSense account.
"XP SP2"

I'm nostalgic too (not about Windows that said) but... Windows XP is the most exploited Windows right now: zombie botnets are made of a huge part of Windows XP PCs. Microsoft ain't patching several critical exploits on XP and it has been demonstrated for a fact that any local hole on XP means admin rights.
Its really inspiring to go through the dev stages you guyz went through while building it. Thanks for sharing :)
Who said anything about indispensable? There are lots of things I like that aren't indispensable. One of those things is being able to follow a few people on Twitter in the same place that I follow all the rest of my RSS feeds. I don't think I'll kill myself if I can no longer do that, though.
You don't need a bank for your bitcoins. You can keep them in your laptop or smartphone and the Government wouldn't even know you have it there. And even if they did they cannot force you to decrypt your hard drive.

You can even keep you bitcoins in your brain. No joke. You can just memorize a passphrase that would recreate an encrypted bitcoin wallet:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet
On German TV someone joked, that Merkel found a way to have tough reforms without hurting voters. So it makes really a lot of sense, it is just not aimed at helping Cyprus.
Appreciated! There's still a whole bunch left to do but we're really happy with how it's turned out after just 1 month.
"Headlong motion through walls of emerald green, milky
jade, the sensation of speed beyond anything he'd known before
in cyberspace... The Tessier-Ashpool ice shattered, peeling
away from the Chinese program's thrust, a worrying impression
of solid fluidity, as though the shards of a broken mirror bent
and elongated as they fell --"

http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/neuromancer/ (1984)
MatthewPhillips, you can disable that button, "Mini Toolbar", from this panel: http://www.feedly.com/home#preferences/mini%20toolbar
The strange things that happen at a lock-picking convention
Evolution of the NY Driver's License
If you mean the goofy, information-poor magazine view, you can select the familiar-looking Titles view by clicking the gear icon over a feed.
Why we’ll never make an unpickable lock
i.e. "has one's cake and eats it"
Roundcube, and SquirrelMail are the two alternatives I can think of. Last time I tried Roundcube was years ago, so I don't know what the state of it is now, but it was an attempt at a more Gmail-ish interface.
Placebo Surgery
This is not true. Currency depreciation leads to price inflation. That's why your dollars (or euros) buy less things year over year.
The comments clear it up a little - a coin flip breaks tied bids, and you're looking for an amount that would let you win even in the worst case. So you'd need to be able to pay 34/round to only allow your opponent two plays.

It's worthwhile to note that if you win the first two turns, you can bid the house on the third turn and your opponent has to respond in kind - otherwise they lose. Then you can simply outbid them for two other spaces.

Supposing you take the center and a corner, in the first two rounds, then you only need to have 51 to spend on the last space in order to win. Your opponent pays 51 and blocks, leaving them on 49. You can bid 25 to set up a fork, your opponent blocks (leaving them with 24), then you pay 25 each to play out a different win. Or if your opponent doesn't block, you have enough left to convert one of the two wins guaranteed.

So, 119 points is sufficient to win if you suppose that your opponent lets you take those first two spaces for 34 points in each. You could probably get it even lower if you realize that you have two fork opportunities, so you could probably bid even lower than 51 and still force out a win.

I'll leave determining how many points a win takes if your opponent does block one of your first two moves as an exercise for someone else.
With CalDAV being deprecated, the more pressing question for me is, "when are they going to kill the free IMAP protocol?" Individuals who use desktop applications like Thunderbird or even Outlook never see any Google ads. The most sophisticated targeting advertising techniques in the world can't help if a company can't get your eyeballs on the ad in the first place.

If the trend does continue, I can envision a future where everyone will have to use specific "Google connector"-style APIs [1, 2] to access the various Google services.

[1] https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gappssync

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/provider-...
I miss Google Video for one simple reason: Download links.
I'm curious as to which of the countries currently in financial trouble can be considered "third world".
If CS isn't on the list of things that we measure, doesn't it stand to reason that it's going to get the short end of the stick?

Whatever you measure, that's what you get more of, sometimes in a way that is not at all what you were expecting, and often at the expense of things that aren't measured.

We've all seen management-by-measuring go sideways in the business world, why should schools be different?
And, to complement this, I wrote a small program that serves static (or Jinja2) files from folders (optionally on AppEngine):

https://github.com/stochastic-technologies/static-appengine-...

You just create a folder called "yourdomain.com" and put your static files in there, upload, done. All URLs are rewritten (/foo/bar/ resolves to /foo/bar.html or /foo/bar/index.html) and you can host multiple domains on the same GAE instance. I use it for various static sites, such as my company's site (http://www.stochastictechnologies.com/) and my resume (http://resume.korokithakis.net/). They're all pretty much hosted for free, since they're static files on a single app on AppEngine, and migration is almost free (you just upload the whole thing to the host of your choice).

You can also assign multiple domains to one site, or rewrite your URLs to custom files.
You got me there.

I mean hard working bankers that deserve their 50,000% annual bonuses for destroying people's lives.
Again, this is just begging the question. You are positing that we need free time because we are humans to explain the assumption that we need free time because we are humans.

I understand that people work lousy jobs. This is not the interesting case. The interesting case is for those people who are working jobs doing things they quite like, for example musicians.
>"They have many (natural) resources standing still on the earth. Which can be used to pay back loan."

Like the German war reparations after WWI? That worked out well for everyone.
Wish I could leave a flower for G+

Unfortunately it is a zombie, dead but doesn't realize it yet.
I think for people living in Europe it makes more sense to use Bitcoin Central, since they accept SEPA transfers in euros without needing to convert them to dollars before buying bitcoins:

https://bitcoin-central.net/

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin-Central#EUR
Ask HN: German considering hiring a US designer (remote), got some questions
Hey HN,
I am considering hiring a US based freelance designer and have some questions about that:

1) I am willing to pay a reasonable but not excessive amount so I think wont be able to find someone from LA or NYC due to the cost of living there, which alternative cities/states would you suggest?

2) Where would you suggest I start looking? Elance, Odesk, 99 designs and designcrowd seem to be populated by Indian people providing discount services. As I am not looking for cheap but reasonably priced and skilled labor which is why I am extending my search to the US.

3) What would be a reasonable rate for remote work for a US based designer outside of the Bay area and NYC?

Any answers would be much appreciated.
All I see is this:

sed: 2: "x;s/\n//g;${p;x;} }'s)
": unexpected EOF (pending }'s)
>"the simple fact that the banks fucked up"

The banks are run by citizens and funded by citizens. So when the banks "fuck up", it's going to end up on those same citizens. There is no way to isolate losses to some "bank" entity.
-) DuckDuckGo https://duckduckgo.com?q=duckduckgo+about
TFA is wrong. First, Red Hat is not "for profit", they are for profit. This publicly traded company would not exist if they were not making money.

Second, Google is killing RSS, on purpose, and for profit. Is this amoral? No, they have a license to do so, which is called capitalism and the free market. Capitalism is simply a way to align personal and collective incentives for profit with the common good. Generally, it is a great thing, but there are casualties. Products with a vocal user base will be killed because those products were not profitable and will hinder further growth of other products. Bourbon will be diluted, Google Reader will be discontinued. Is that amoral? If so, then all of capitalism is. Instead, you are asking for a society where as long as someone is using your product, you are obligated to support it and maybe even give it away for free. Raising prices equates to greed, and discontinuing products to evil. Apply this logic to your ventures and tell me if that really is the society you want.
If receiving mail is a basic skill, then so is having a mailing address. Thus, Alaskans should subsidiz my rent.

As for your arguments about subjective feelIngs, if the minor grudge people feel when they are forced to pay for video games is smaller than the enjoyment gamers gain, should the government force non-gamers to subsidize gamers? If not, why not?
1: Because it's not a solution.

2: It's a temporary measure that will only lead to a worse temporary measure.

3: GOTO 2;
I always trusted http://www.mariopiano.com/mario-sheet-music-coin-sound.html
>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.

That's the "invisible hand", "selfishness turns out to good" political economy motto.

Which is unscientific BS.

If a company can lie, cheat, steal or sell people things that are bad for them, including making them want stuff they did not care about through misleading ads and manipulation marketing, they will do it.
that's what it says on the sheet...
Obama to announce $2 billion plan to get US cars off gasoline
Agreed. Except that new economic system already exists. It's called Bitcoin.

Also, debt money isn't necessarily bad if it isn't controlled by politicians and bank oligarchs. Ripple is a good example of this.
No. It just happens.
Chords: G/D G6 (with jumpy voice leading), can be approximated nicely on the 12th fret harmonics of the guitar.
Iceland is already a growing economy, while Greece, Spain and all the other troubled euro countries aren't.
The page was just a black background with white text that said "No Photos" for about 60 seconds before it finally loaded the map/photos. As a regular user, I would not have given it that long to load (without any indication that it's even loading), and would have just left.
For non-techies Twitter achieves what they would use RSS for (notification of content) with convenient annotations. Yes they are very different, but that's how it works in principle. I doubt RSS will ever be completely gone, but the number of human readers was never high and is unlikely to go up in future.

Even apps that make use of it will be moving away from the user being directly aware of it.
Attempted to upload my consciousness to this but it just crashed Chrome. Github issues link pls.
Maybe we'll need Google-Glasses-free zones.
I have always liked the debugging as figuring out a magic trick comparison. In both cases you are mystified solely due to incorrect assumptions.
I'm one of those "idiots". You're welcome to say it to my face.
This is an example of loaded question.

Because it's assuming being for profit is fundamentally unethical (at least according to 'Hacker Ethic').

No, there's nothing wrong in being for profit, you can follow your ethic and make money, next question.

Unless like some you're so far removed from reality that you think any money making is bad or several other examples that fit the definition of mental disease.
Hm, anything more than $2-3/mo would be to much just for a reader access.
They'd won a fair banking system with emphasis on commercial operations rather than endless rigged schemes on the investment market that are advantageous to few and destructive for many.
Again, it's about reputation. Most users don't want to have to try to examine the motives of the people behind every product they use to decide if it's likely to stick around. Most users have neither the savvy nor the desire to analyze business models and see if they seem sustainable. They want to say "Google - that's a solid company, so it should be safe to depend on this."

And if Google keeps invalidating that assumption, people will stop making it. Instead, they'll say "Google is famous for discontinuing their products, so I'll hold off on using this until I know it's really, really popular."

And that could make launching new services very difficult for Google in the future.
I love seeing the source for such elegant single-purpose projects like this. I'm in the middle of writing my own static site generator for Python; it's a bit more feature-rich, but it's up at something like 800 LOC for the minimum feature-complete implementation. Great to see evidence that I have a long way to go..
DNS Currently working on a DNS service, need a few of you
I'm currently working on a DNS service, need a few of you for testing the panel.

If you like it, you can continue using it. Of course it's anycasted :)

Please leave your e-mail for further contacting. Or contact me at amfy@nerdsein.org.
Feedly won't load without the extension.
I have the book mentioned at the end, _The Medical Detectives_, by Berton Rouechè, and it is full of fascinating stories - highly recommended.
It’s Not RSS’s Fault, It’s Google’s Fault
5 Point bar has banned this tech:

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/no-google-glasse...
Google pays $ 5.3 million for privacy violation
No brainer for me: automobiles. The world IMO is run by information (in the Claude Shannon kinda way). Internet and medicine trumps autos any day (I walk a lot anyway - almost everywhere I go)
Wow, are those really the state of art? I can already feel my inner hacker wanting to do a Node based alternative.
It's actually still available on 9 current models. Ford calls it SecuriCode. They keypad layout is the same, though perhaps the implementation has been hardened. Realistically, it probably hasn't.

edit: wording
Now look. Greek politics drama follows:

Party A was in power until 2009.

During the 2009 elections party A said: "Oops! We're screwed! No more money!". Party B said: "No! Party A is lying! There are lots of money!".

Guess who won? That's right: Party B.

0.0000001 seconds later

Party B: "After all there is no money as we thought... But hey! We're in charge now! We'll save you! It's what we do best!". Nobody said that what they do best isn't very nice...

Forward to 2012.

Party B: "Vote us, so that we'll keep saving you with our great plan and our great banker friends!"

Party A: "Noooo!!! Don't vote for Party B! Their plan and their banker friends are baaaaaaaad!!! We have a better solution! A magic solution!"

Guess again who won? That's right: Party A.

0.0000001 seconds later

Party A: "Shit! Actually Party B's plan is the only real plan... But we are in charge now! Why bother to bring back Party B to keep going with their plan? We can do it as well! Probably even better!"

The End.

Desperate people? Yes.
Retarded voters? Yes.
Incompetent government? Not really.
Corrupted government? Most likely.
Do you agree that some things should be subsidized/socialized?
Ah yes, two digit answering machine code phreaking.

001122334455667788990246813579258369147032949727651
07182162805263064098753937431738420861950415485960

(No, I didn't remember that... but I bet some people did.)
isLargerThanSix = if x > 6 then yes else no

You don't need CoffeeScript to do something as redundant as that, since comparison operators return a boolean:

var isLargerThanSix = x > 6

Of course, CoffeeScript doesn't even offer an improvement for the level of explicitness in the example, since it removed the ternary operator. This javascript is invalid CoffeeScript:

var isLargerThanSix = x > 6 ? true : false
HTML doesn't have a access control layer either. So?
When Is It OK To Bash A Founder?
Does not seem like a big deal to me; because it's unlikely to work outside a lab environment, nor passed the first 256 bytes (without a truly massive amount of connections at least).

And all that work for what - to sniff out your own cookie?

I mean, what is this good for, it's not a man-in-the-middle attack, it's not a spoofing attack, etc?

*Though it's really good work on the researchers part, and the author of the article explained it all in an excellent way.
Funny thing, Reddit mostly doesn't have an indigenous white-nationalism community. What you see is, mostly, a raid from Stormfront that turned into a permanent infestation owing to Redditors' bizarre notion that the First Amendment guarantees them a right to say anything they want on Reddit without censure or moderation.
On question #2, HN has a monthly freelancer thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304173

If you're willing to put in some effort to pursue an approach with low signal/noise-ratio, you could pick some random cities and post ads in Craigslist's gigs section, e.g. http://chicago.craigslist.org/web/. That will tend to get you a lot of small-time freelancers of varying quality, many of them art-school students and similar. If that's what you want you can get some great deals (at the cost of a lot of time spent filtering).

If you're looking for more established design firms, rather than Craigslist you might just try web searches with a city name appended, for stuff like [st. louis web design firm]. Will also require a bit of filtering to find something you like, but from a different starting pool.

Rates really vary, partly depending on what you mean by design. More technical designers who also do some coding tend to cost more, for example. Designers who have a good network and high visibility cost a lot more, especially anyone whose portfolio includes big-name web properties. Since the discovery problem is quite difficult (as you seem to be noticing), the price/quality curve is imo very inconsistent, with some great designers working cheaply because they don't have good networks or marketing, and some not-so-great ones charging a lot, because they're able to bring in so much work that they can get away with it.
Impressive. Congrats on shipping and launching.

Constructive criticism: it looks like something I could actually use i.e. automation, server-side rendering, useful for SEO. But, I left the landing page and couldn't tell you exactly what the product will do for me. I have a vague idea that it might be useful for SEO or automation. I'm too busy to read the long copy. I'm not too busy to write this post, though :-)

I'd like to see different headlines (or landing pages) that speak to my pain points. "Having trouble getting your Knockout.JS website ranked?" "Frustrated by trying to automate testing of your JavaScript-heavy site?" etc.

Again, kudos. Something tells me this service is going to do fine... patience, right? ;-)