skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given the political constraints from Deutschland limiting the ability of the European Central Bank to launch into Fed-style monetary base expansion

This is not so. The Bundesbank gets regularly overthrown by the majority in the ECB panel when it comes to decision about this. Respectable Bundes-Bankers have already resigned, because of that.

Thats why the ECB holds billions (i.e. american billions = 1e9) of greek, italian, spain, portugese state debt.

And this despite the fact that the ECB is not allowed to engage in financing states by the treaties. And all this despite the no bailout rule in the treaties. The treaties are not worth more as a piece of used toilet paper, but the politicians cannot understand why the hell people get more and more anti EUR.
Somebody asked a question, I answered it. Who says there has to be some big "point" to it? The reader is welcome to take what he or she will from what I write. If you don't find it useful, then please move along - there's nothing here for you.
Live Reload?
What a shame, you are going to miss on all these ads that Google has them lined up for you. Google Glass apps might even sell the fact that your voice is coarse today and convince Johnson & Johnson for $1.50 off a cough medicine. Or use an app analyze your toilet bowl before flushing to see if Kellogg's cereal would benefit your diet. Or suggest some new makeup to your girl friends, maybe it's the lighting but it seems like they could use some new makeup. They'd love that. Who wouldn't, right? You are so hip.

Google Glass was designed by people that make a living by tracking you, your friends and by annoying the hell out of you with advertisements. That is the fundamental problem, it solves their problems, not yours. For almost everyone, there is no need to walk with glasses on, unless the designer of such glasses needs to know every step you take. Need directions? Check the phone and check it again 5 minutes later. No need to look like a glasshole.
You know, my professional network is partly based on me listening to people angry enough at their startups (which they didn't found) that they're starting their own. :)

I listen to them like I've wanted to be listened to, offer validation if they seem to want it. ("Yeah, that level of 'insanity' is completely normal, I've seen it. Fear of financial doom changes people, brings out the worst in them. You've clearly gone out of your way change things, and they just insult you, so you don't owe them. And their strategy sounds fucked to me too.")

Then I ask my network to help them at trouble-points. Worried your investor's pulling out because your great CTO's legally tied up for a couple months and can only work nights? I'm emailing people that night, and we're meeting that insightful contractor together tomorrow. (And my network is pretty small, but it's increasingly getting get the job done.)

And I'll remember that you know an effective lawyer, and will probably want to find good people with domain experience in X in a few months... There are just so many open connections left hanging in the universe, and it takes so little effort to nudge them together.

So basically, sympathy helps everyone. I don't care if people dismiss complex internal forces as "self-pity." I don't buy into that hyperindividualism that we just need to tough it out without help.
Mobile Internet access in New Zealand?
At Mixrank we process a lot of data, so a lot of our time goes into designing efficient data systems. Algorithmic complexity really matters, and small tweaks can result in large improvements.

If you'd like to spend more time designing algorithms, then working on big data systems is a sure bet.
Most definitely - we love honesty. Can you flesh out your comment a little? I think most businesses have problems getting traction to start out - what specific challenges are you seeing?
Tried - one or two. Actually used, productively - zero.
Fair equilibrium? Perhaps anyone can be incriminated, but access to the incriminating evidence is anything but balanced. Remember, he was tracked by the FBI, not some ordinary Joe.
At a guess, transistors on a die.
This is 100% contagion for depositors in all shaky countries. If they can do it in Cyprus they can do it anywhere. I would expect huge inflows into Germany to continue matching outflows from everywhere else in southern Europe. Insanity.
As I recall, Wave suffered from a poor reference implementation and such complexity that amateurs were unwilling to create their own. It also received a lot of bad publicity from branding and people who were unsure about what to make of it, but what killed it was that it never left beta (much more concretely than other Google products).
As a citizen of a fiscally responsible EU country, reading shit this makes me very angry and eradicates leftover trace amounts of solidarity.
http://livereload.com/

I'm presuming you're lazy to use Google or don't know what Live Reload is because you have not articulated your question very well.
Eveeyone keeps saying that but how is it a wet dream and why is it bad? Give me a concrete example.
Hi Sahar,
I am looking for a different style of design.

I really need someone that is a designer first, that can also produce HTML, CSS & jQuery....as opposed to the other way around.
Thank you ! Exactly.

And that's one way science can fail of course :-)
Interesting to see the products that Google has deceased over time. Would also be interesting to see what products are up-and-coming and what products are still alive (would be a cool road map of the company's pipeline and future).

Seems like Google still strives for the move fast, iterate approach with their products, throwing spaghetti on the wall and seeing if it sticks. Though it may break a few hearts here and there (yes, I once was an avid user of Google Reader), Google has a plan for everything.
My grandparents were born in Europe throughout the second world war. They always "warned" me not to keep too much money in the bank as when times get tough it is going to be worthless. Always thought that this was kind of a war-generation mindset, but the Cyprus situation makes me actually believe that they are not that much off after all.
Startups – Understand project constraints
FTL : The little game that could ... raise more than 20 times what it asked for.
I think the only reason was price. If it costed less than a scooter you'd have kids rolling around the place on these things, and adults eventually too.
I hope the OP can go here and see this, but I am currently in Vietnam as well. I am a CS student studying aboard in the US, but I was born and raised in Vietnam. I am currently on vacation. Hope we can get in touch :)

And yes, I can confirm these education is true. However, the level of the last problem was taught to very few chosen gifted student in a very limited selected school. I do remember me learning about matrix, dynamic programing, graph theory, various pascal optimization for quicker run. The rule was, if you program run more than 1s, you're out(except stated otherwise).
And of course you are neither opinionated nor an armchair economist?

Do you consider taxation to be theft?
This web designer made $38 000+ with his e-book
Engineering time: the Trinity clock
Cypher - desktop application for protect your online messaging.
Cypher - an easy to use application for protection of private online messaging (skype, google talk, etc) using Diffie–Hellman key exchange algorithm. The problem of protecting private data is now more than ever. https://github.com/rafaelkyrdan/cypher
What about the old reader?

It seems the most direct route and they removed the 'manage your contacts' requirement (unless you use it to find friends, which seems reasonable).
I used reader more than most sites, and would have paid for it.
But for some who dearly counted on those savings to pay rent or medicine, to be taken without their consent or knowledge, it is theft, plain and simple.

Again, what's the alternative? Without the bail-out, government employees will lose their jobs, foreign assets are frozen, they'll be removed from the Eurozone, the economy will collapse, and they cannot buy medicines either. Sure they could increase taxes, freeze or decrease wages, etc. But the net effect will be the same - people will lose money.

No matter what opinionated armchair economists like you have to say.

This has little to do with armchair criticism. My pension fund has been downgrading as well, there is a lot of uncertainty on what will be left when my generation retires. The thing is, we have to blame ourselves as well: in electing populist leaders rather than visionaries, for our unbounded consumerism, and for participating in corruption. E.g. in my country:

- People are obsessed with this populist right-wing politician (Geert Wilders) who dominates every discussion, always shifting the attention to muslims, Eastern Europeans, and how we are wasting money on Greece. In the meanwhile we have a mortgage bubble that is almost bursting and a healthcare system that becomes unaffordable. Moderate politicians, that get relatively little attention, have been warning the electorate for years.

- People buy expensive gadgets and phone subscriptions, without really having the money.

- Although there is relatively little government corruption, lots of people try to evade taxes at every possible occasion (e.g. through unreported employment of painters, construction workers, etc.).

- We dislike the banks and bonuses, but refuse to transfer our money to more ethical banks.
Wow, I don't know about you, but this is amazing to watch.

It's like Google is operating without a head. It's turned vicious and acting offensively against a specific technology.

RSS will live on, of course. Amazing that Google is also so pompous.
I don't mean to sound like a scrooge but... it's really expensive! I'm super interested in this service, but before paying 29/month (that's more than what i pay for a VOS server) i want to be sure that the service 1) Is working properly according to my needs 2) It's efficient 3) will be helpful.
A.K.A. Add a free plan to try it!
GitHub playable version of The Conception (browser-based 7-day roguelike game)
In 2013, Apple Will Release The Smart Watch: What Should We Expect?
Disclosure: I work at Google.

I wanted to explain myself when I downvoted you, but I am just going to say that I would rather be a glasshole than be that bitter.
The Android console race begins today with Green Throttle's launch
"There's no way of even knowing if someone else is recording you through their glasses from somewhere in the cloud."

I wonder if the author makes sure to turn their monitor to face the wall when they've finished working so hackers can't film them while they sleep.
My first impression when I opened your site was "Oh, another open source project!" — I think this was not the impression you wanted me to have :) Apart from that, very interesting service, well done :)
Some folks published a paper last year or the year before about their roulette monitoring system. You can improve your odds because you're allowed to place bets while the ball is bouncing. Some physics prof claims to have successfully used a device to count the bounces and decide which half of the wheel to bet on. I'd find the citations for you, but I'm sure you could do that just as fast as I.
> I, for one, have no problem supporting bars that promise an ass kicking to anyone who shows up wearing google glass

Bars can just ban photography and ask their customers to not have Glasses on without the need of any sort of ass kicking. I would never go to a bar that advertises ass kicking as a feature - independent of whether I have/wear Glasses or not.
I like this http://couchsurfing.org
"Code golfing" is a truly marvelous term.
Is Equity Crowdfunding A Threat To Venture Capitalists?
$70 is a months wage in many parts of the world.

Disclaimer: "World" in the above statement refers to parts of the earth map which are not occupied by North America and old Europe. ;)
Surviving “Founder Fear”
Isn't it their biggest failure? It was supposed to be something huge from the start. Something that could compete with wikipedia.
I don't agree, Gmail is also really useful to them. I'm pretty sure all their employees use it. What was the percentage of their employees using Knol or Google Reader for example? I bet it was a small percentage.
Which was a great solution when I only had one computer and a phone that could send SMS and nothing more.

These days? Not so much.
Waiting for the Accelerator Bubble to Pop
The middle ages had merchant banks, which is quite a step away from the bank that ordinary citizens use to place their earned wages.

Instead, the 17th and 18th centuries are a good milestone in the the history of banking where its function is similar to the one we expect today. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking)
light green + glowing + pulsating.
I subscribe to arstechnica because they have a meaningful, long blurb. If I like it I'm going to read the whole thing.
To counter the inflation effects you could just buy Gold instead of Euros. Gold offers also a higher value/volume ratio than paper money. ;)
Seems to me that quite a few people wanted it. This doesn't mean that it was wrong to close as WONTFIX, but people dd care about it.
Well, I don't expect enormous leg room and posh seats, just to be comfortable (and clean). It may depend also what you define by those. Very often the car is a Mercedes so I'm rather fine with that. I actually prefer radio on, but never had the trouble to have it turned down or off when I wanted to call someone or chat with the driver.
Why do they call this a bubble? Almost all startups fail, and this has been true since the beginning of time. If there's suddenly a glut of seed investors willing to give startups a shot at survival, we're only increasing the chances of unearthing another dropbox.

http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html
You're right gommm - our reason for starting this was to build a resource for fellow entrepreneurs to talk about serious issues.

The only person who can help an entrepreneur out of the hole is one who has been there him/herself. NO ONE ELSE

We are all human after all
It actually started already. I have a friend who was looking for a new laptop with a good screen, good keyboard and a trackpoint. He tried several laptops from Lenovo and Samsung and sent all of them back. You know what he ended up with? A second hand Thinkpad T61p, 15.4" non-reflective display with a form-factor 4:3 and a monster resolution of 1920x1200. He paid for this only 440 €.

For someone who does not need much power (works remotely) it is a very good choice.
Rather than try to replicate a really complicated set of conditions, why not see if ionized air blown at an object in a wind tunnel causes more pressure than non-ionized air? The crux of the theory appears to be that a cyclon of ionized air was set up that was unable to attach to the sheet.

Generating a vortex of air is pretty common, a lot of industrial mixers and sifters do this. It's what inspired Dyson to make his vacuum.
IRC and Usenet aren't part of the web. Your definition is at issue here, not the actual definition in what the web is.
Though no more a bad idea than the US dollar from the perspective of the federalists who most strongly supported it. The problem is the union is too weak to force it to work in the way it can in the US.
So it'll become legal to own a fully-armed 17th-century galleon again?
Disclosure: I work at Google.

Or changing the world one ad click and one snoop at a time. (since you started it)

Fine. Being bitter, assuming I am, can be transitory. Once your sell your soul for a salary, you can never get it back.

You have a couple of years before "Googler" becomes a toxic word. Maybe less, given Larry's focus on squeezing every penny out of the ecosystem, so plan accordingly.
I'm not sure (primarily because I can't see the images) but that sounds like a basic flood fill question doesn't it? Does everyone in Vietnam do competitive algorithmic programming? (That sounds like what you're describing.) That's really interesting, because where I'm from that's typically taken only on interest, and there aren't that many interested.
Not the OP, but I am one of the guys behind SA. First of all, thank you for the nice emails and the gmail recommendation (we are answering emails and hope to fix this ASAP). Bobby and I deployed this Saturday afternoon and told 3 people, so this caught us a bit by surprise. Apologies if we reply late to folks.

I must note that both Bobby and I agree that we are very fortunate to work in an industry like tech. The reason we started this site, was because we wanted to do 2 things:

1. Pay it forward - when we closed our companies, people who heard about our troubles, some non-friends helped us out. We wanted to pay back the community which gave us so much.

2. Start small - Bobby and I know precious little about the world, but this is one area where we thought we could actually help.

Thanks once more for the support, and if you would like to be part of the folks of willing to listen to others, hit us up. @mexitlan and @bomatson.
I'm Vietnamese and when I was young, I was not taught those thing :) probably they are added recently
You're diverting. Bad software teams are bad. The fact that they were Indians is irrelevant - using home grown talent doesn't guarantee a level of quality.
I can't help but wonder about the top rated comment on HN being one that kindly shifts attention away from our beloved ad-powered Silicon Valley firms, to the Real Bad Guys all the way in LA and Washington.
I think it are the wrong type of characters. The Asian characters in the Matrix are less complex than those (Wikipedia says "half-width kana").
Also, if we're being picky, the characters change in the trails, trails have different lengths, not every trail is lead by a brighter char, some moving/stationary single chars, etc.
I suppose it has been discussed and put to rest but..

I used the linux Liferea in 2006, and I still use it in 2013. I can hit update and read the new articles offline.. Privacy status: It runs on my computer.
The Euro losing 10% of value in relation to what? USD? Yen?

And even if the dollar loses 10% of the value vs every other currency, it's not true that you can only buy 90 beans, because you're not the only one with dollars: there are farmers who sell in dollars, and buy their stuff in dollars, and so will probably keep their prices.

When everyone you trade with uses the same currency as you, there's no value to be lost or gained relative to them, and since Cyprus trades in Euros, a loss of 10% versus say, the dollar, wouldn't automatically make everything 10% more expensive.
Font never referred to a specific file or just files in general. In current-day usage it‘s synonymous with typeface. That distinction is just non-sensical. It’s a stupid ret-conning by annoying pedants.
The other weird thing is that until about a year ago, the guidelines said writing better titles was ok. Now, it doesn't. So a policy changed there for some reason.
OPAM 1.0.0 Released
Science Museum: Brought to life
Off by 80% error

"You could wake up one day and see that your €1 million has shrunk to €100.000 overnight."

Should be "1 million has shrunk to 900.000" or "1 million has shrunk by 100.000 overnight"
not by a large margin, imho. Both zoho and yandex are decent, and fastmail is superb (but paid).
Teleportd has been doing it for years.
What is the OP's definition of the Hacker Ethic?
Then why doesn't it come without a camera?
What would life be like if everyone wore a spy camera that transcribed all conversations and uploaded them to various internet services all the time? If you knew everyone you ever talked to recorded it all and put it on the internet?

Once your data is recorded, you can't take it back 30 years down the road if you decide you don't like the direction the company has taken, or if privacy laws have changed to no longer be in your favor. The data is already out there. If you think changes in the TOS are bad now...

And your info won't just go to Google. There will be apps. You'll "Post this conversation to Facebook" or something equally stupid. Now fifty different niche websites are accessing things you said to your friend that you never uploaded. (Also, remember seeing in the news that some jobs require your facebook password as part of the interview process? What if that became more common? What if it wasn't just facebook, but everything you ever did, said, or saw happen?)

Our personalities will change, too. We'll become accustomed to constant and total self-censorship

People's data will be subpoenaed too, or just made available for general monitoring in some dictatorship somewhere. Maybe you once had a conversation with someone who later is investigated for something, and out of context your conversation sounds terrible. Now they investigate you. This investigation won't lead to a conviction, but it might fuck your life up for a few months. And that's an optimistic scenario.

I don't really believe it's stoppable though. We're not taking smartphones back. This is just a smartphone strapped to your head. We probably will tell people not to wear them in certain places, but how long will that last? We'll get used to it, like we got used to the TSA. Technology is only going to get more ubiquitous. Maybe we can fight fire with fire. The cypherpunks have been doing it for a while.

Play devil's advocate sometimes. Google Glass may end up being the best thing ever, but we should always question things. If the answer to the question is good, then it doesn't matter that we asked, but if it's bad... we'll be damn glad we did.
Judging by the vote patterns I see in this topic, the laboring class here does have class consciousness. I get the feeling a lot of start-ups are really just utilizing Ricardo's Law of Rents to reap the full value of the founders' labor without having to rent it out to an external capitalist. As long as that can continue profitably, it will and should.
What Cypriot assets? They lost Euros, which happens to be the same currency that their trading partners use, so there's no value to be gained relative to them.

And no, I haven't assumed that Bitcoin will regain in its 30% in value - it already has. But that it can gain (or lose!) so much value relative to the common currency is a big difference, since the common currency can't gain or lose value against itself.
Google Code Search is the only service I have been missing. And it is not on this list.

Code search had a good regex search and nice options for searching based on metadata. GitHub's newly launched code search is not good enough (yet) and doesn't have a big enough haystack to search in.

The prime use case for code search was finding example code of badly documented APIs.
There's a vast difference between a "we'll be taking 25% of your income each year" tax and a "we're taking 6% of your already taxed savings with immediate effect" tax. Taxes you know about in advance are more just than those enacted over a weekend with no time to prepare your household budget.

I'm not big into the "taxation is theft" rhetoric but I empathise with those who see certain forms of taxation that way.
Note that this is more then reloading the web-page. It actually seems to be doing hot code-replacement on the fly. I only know this from Java in the debug mode or JRebel. Having this work for Javascript will be really neat...
I am feeling more and more confident that my move away from Webstorm to ST2 was the right one...
Looks interesting. If I may ask, what inspired using luvit for this project in the first place?
and that, simply, is why mailing a letter through UPS is so expensive.

What?