skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that in the past, the peripheral countries were able to live beyond their means without such drastic consequences.

Too much debt? Devalue the peseta and drachma. Exports increase, imports decrease, unemployment adjusts. Lenders knows that they must charge higher interest rates to those countries.

That process can't happen anymore. So the same behavior that was mildly damaging before suddenly became very, very damaging. Neither Southern nor Northern European leaders fully recognized this problem when they created a single currency.
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Why not a poll?
Are we sure, FWD.us doesn't really stand for "F* the World's Denizens - U.S."?

See also :

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-political-gro...

http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/04/26/1925921/mark...
Which is such a lame "gotcha'" by FB. If they really cared about user engagement then surely removing user engagement, even in a competing, but tangential product, isn't the way to go.
Good catch. I've fixed this and updated one of the examples. You should be able to do just as you described: http://zipasaur.us/state/ca/city/los+angeles
I find apples compiler seems to change its mind on what is a warning with every single version, which in turn made me less interest in removing every single one of them (especially when you use third party stuff - unity3d seems to spit out a bunch of warnings right now).
Atheism, is still a faith-based judgment call. Atheists BELIEVE that there is no god. I think agnosticism is a better goal.
It wont boot without drivers for various pieces of the hardware, drivers that are developed by third parties and that are most likely closed source. Those drivers may be released at a later time as 'binary blobs'.
It seems the billionaires that support Democrats are "billionaires" and the billionaires that support Republicans are "greedhead billionaire assholes".

Flagged for tone.
You don't want to look like this?

https://plus.google.com/photos/+Scobleizer/albums/5870920743...
https://www.gimbal.com/
I really hope journalism can go a different route than CAD, DAW, ERP, BI and most other non-developer areas which are dominated by proprietary solutions.
This week the Irish government who now unwillingly own a huge chunk of bank of Ireland said it could do nothing about the chief executive's generous salary. This despite further losses at the bank. Meanwhile further cuts in the rest of the economy.
If we must have religion then, let it be untainted by theism.
There have been a lot of medium.com links lately. On Firefox version 20 on Mac, the text always takes forever to load. This doesn't happen in other browsers and in Firefox it's the only site I ever notice this with.
Ah, so I'm not the only one that notices a smell and finds it unpleasant. (I asked about this elsewhere on this thread.)
That was Twitter, not Instagram, and it was well before twitter cards had an API. Keep in mind Twitter also removed "find your friends using Twitter" functionality from Instagram too.
I don't know about free will because it depends how you define it and it's not something I've ever understood, though it doesn't seem like a concept that is dependent on how the universe actually is in a physical sense.

The nature of knowledge is pretty vague too, but if you mean the concept of how we can ever know things, that also doesn't depend on how the universe physically is. In another universe with different laws of physics, it would still apply.

The same is true of mathematics, for example.
I read this earlier today and have been thinking about it since then. This story seems like a great example of thinking hard but methodically about what you want to do. Then planning it out. Then just doing it.

Agile methodologies are really en vogue in software development right now, but this story, complete with its 100 foot long, 35 foot wide trailer seems to be very nearly the (literal?) antithesis of "agile".

Maybe I'm grasping at straws, maybe it really is a lot more complicated to build web sites or whatever we all do, but this story seems to illustrate a "waterfall" process, executed relatively successfully 50 years ago. Why then, are we so bad at it now?
What, pray tell, is a "chav"?
> In other words, Mark Zuckerberg is a Republican as are, apparently, all his tech pals who are putting their cash to work for conservative causes. Just like all the other greedhead billionaire assholes.

Are they not allowed to do this? I mean if you don't like his political stance, you can certainly disagree with him, but if you just dismiss Mark as an "asshole" because you (not he) labeled him a Republican, you're just as big of a problem in the political system as all the "greedy billionaire assholes" you're talking about.
Is it ironic that notforest.com is blank after using it?
What the is the precedent for austerity?

To have enough money left behind to pay the bills.

What countries have used it successfully to get out of recession and improve unemployment?

This worked in the (now seemingly ancient) past. Governments were a much smaller portion of the economy and taxes were much lower to begin with. These days, up to 50% of people can be employed by the government. When governments get that large, there is no possibility nor space for a recovery:

Stimulus: add more debt to an unpayable debt? increase taxes and chase out people who pay the largest sum of taxes?

Austerity: cut gov't pay and jobs? that leads to less tax revenue and higher unemployment... nevermind the fact that the party won't ever be elected again.

The only way to win at this is to not have an economy that depends so heavily on indebted government nor one that removes risks for the banking system. If a country is already at that point there is no moving forward. Declare bankruptcy, destroy your credit ratings and start over.
After 25 years in jail, the Internet blew my mind
I'm stunned. I was expecting it to chug with something like that, but nope, instant.
The plan was "harmonization" of tax and spending policies. It's not really any secret the people actually running Europe were trying to cobble a United States of Europe together, first by sharing a currency and then by moving all the decision making to Brussels over time.

Of course Italians and Spaniards don't have any desire to become Germans, and vice-versa. The currency part was easy - the "harmonization" part will take generations if it happens at all.
Why complain?

The Economy is only taking a 'siesta' (nap)..

These 'uptight' anglo-saxon coutries only think about work... (sarcasm)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1478863/Cheltenham-la...
python is good for web development.
Well-known hacker Zooko wrote about his family's experience with bipolar disorder: http://zooko-on-aaronsw.blogspot.com/2013/02/part-2.html
A type system like this can create a lot of drag, when, say, you need to interface to an external library and suddenly discover that this library, annoyingly, only works with strings, not your data types. In this case you might have been better off, just by keeping name conventions straight.

Still. Yes. Your point is certainly valid.
For most pizza, the pie arrives at the table already sliced, thus the problem is generally just one of negotiating fair distribution.

P.S., I just read the first chapter of Concrete Mathematics, and I thought this was going to be about lines on the plane.
Albania was the first nation in the world to officially declare itself atheist, after World War II. Members of my family were there and they do not remember it as a happy time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_atheism#Albania

http://www.amazon.com/Banishing-God-Albania-Giacomo-Gardin/d...

Penn Jillette has proof by assertion and snarky facial expressions to back up the Reign of Terror and the massacre of the Vendee in France, the mass closing of schools under the Third Republic, the liquidation of the kulaks under Lenin, the Great Purge and the Holodomor under Stalin, the Cultural Revolution under Mao, the killing fields of Cambodia, and, and, and,...

And in the 1980s, I came home from school to find my father sitting on the couch dumbfounded, with tears in his eyes, holding a letter telling of how his youngest brother had been shot trying to escape from the kind of society that achieved what Penn Jillette advocates. The look on my father's face was very different from the smug condescension on Jillette's. Bastard.

Here's a cute pattern to ponder. Many atheists claim that most wars have been caused by religion. For the past two centuries, religion has declined in influence in the West. Over that span, the wars only got deadlier. There was the French Revolution, followed by Napoleon, Europe steadily turning into a powder keg from the Great Game, the two World Wars, then the fate of the world hung in the balance with the Cold War. Something to think about.
>Spain doesn't "just" need stimulus, it needs well guided and allocated stimulus or it will accomplish nothing.

The last thing Spain needs is "stimulus". What they need to do is fix the labor market so it's possible to fire people. When employers can't fire people they only hire as an absolute last resort. That means companies can't exploit growth opportunities as easily and it means employers are unlikely to gamble on people who don't have a solid resume, i.e. young people.
> (On that subject, I'm looking for work in the north SF bay area, Sonoma/Marin region)

Why not put a CV/homepage link in your profile?
Finally, something useful on the internet!
Even better: https://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/ Extensions still needs special-casing, though.
Ahhh, this old chestnut. It does not take "faith" to believe that something does not exist. There are literally an infinite number of things that you believe do not exist, simply because there is no evidence that they do. For example, if I told you that there is an invisible elephant in the boot of your car right now, would you consider yourself on the fence as to whether I was telling the truth? Or would you simply reject the idea as absurd, until shown evidence to the contrary?

Agnosticism is fine, but for people who place the burden of proof on those who make extraordinary claims, atheism is not a faith-based decision.
I'm interested too some service that does printing... and cutting to custom shapes...

As for just printing CafePress.com does it (color on white, a few different sizes), $markup might be more than you want though...
In a smaller market, everything happens on a smaller scale.

No. Scale has nothing to do with market size. Though you picked to build something (not yet a product) that seems to lack a market (defined as people willing to pay for it).

In a smaller market, you can demonstrate expertise.

Its actually easier to demonstrate expertise on bigger markets, due to its density. A small market can only have so many experts.

In a smaller market, you can iterate faster on non-programming skills.

This is more of an attitude than anything else. Its not a big vs small thing itself.

One question I have to ask is why are you trying to develop a new kind of product on an untested market, when you can improve on an existing product and just focus on selling? You are still picking the most difficult choice. And the one that usually tends to deliver a failure.

Once again for everybody: Don't build new things in new markets. Take old things and improve them.
"Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time. [...]
I ought to call myself an agnostic; but, for all practical purposes, I am an atheist. I do not think the existence of the Christian God any more probable than the existence of the Gods of Olympus or Valhalla. To take another illustration: nobody can prove that there is not between the Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptical orbit, but nobody thinks this sufficiently likely to be taken into account in practice. I think the Christian God just as unlikely." - Bertrand Russel
It is funny -- Mac might be the most popular "Microsoft Signature" install.
I am sure there are many Grade A students who never went on to do amazing things, simply because there are many aspects in life that cannot be controlled. Many things one does in life end up being meaningless, and that's life. Your grudge against Grade A students is unjustifiable.

You may want to check out this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2036416/

It is a story about Giddens Ko, who grew up despising Grade A students, then became somewhat of a Grade A student himself. He went on to become the most successful Chinese author / director.
no, Atheism is the belief in the lack of a higher power. Agnosticism is the lack of belief (or belief in lack of capacity to choose....).
Ask HN: Any recommended PR firm for (cash-strapped) startup?
I'm seeking PR service to generate awareness for my social/shopping startup at under $1000

Any recommendations?
I hate to be the one to say this but I feel it's true. If Amanda Palmer were Adam Palmer he could have messed up a hundred different ways, turned to drugs, fathered 10 children and abandoned them all and still not attracted the same lame attempted controversy. Every time I read controversy about Amanda its more forced and more angry & bitter than the last time. I'm convinced it's envy and jealousy.

There's a lot of guys who dream of being in a band and seeing a woman (who's music is good but not great, and whose looks aren't bleached blond porn star) rise above them so quickly just pisses them off. So they do what they've always historically done. Attack that bitch and put her in her place. How dare she make it in this world. How dare she surpass them.

=== Kickstarter "Drag the Bitch Down" campaign list ===

- Amanda Palmer, Anita Sarkeesian, Susan Wilson & her 9 year old daughter. (if you don't know about Wilson: http://kotaku.com/internet-rallies-against-kickstarter-for-n... + http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-kickstarter-rpg-mackenzi... )

All 3 successful. At the time of their attack they had not failed to deliver to their backers. 2 of the 3 had their personal lives viciously verbally attacked by internet hate groups. Sarkeesian and Wilson were ripped a new hole. Palmer just invoked anger without the rage, probably because she has a lot of male fans. Men seem to avoid messing with women who have male fans, due to the possibility of getting their ass kicked.

Search for "kickstarter controversies" on google and you'll get mostly Palmer and Wilson.

=== Kickstarter gentleman who are forgiven or forgotten. ===

- Josh Dibb, aka Deakin still hasn't delivered backer's rewards after 3 years. He isn't really talked about.

- Schuyler Towne, big delayed delivery, broken gifts, mental breakdown. Have you heard of him?

- Diaspora project, failure, long delays, needs more funding, 1 suicide.

All 3 failed to deliver. No campaigns of hatred and revenge.

If I'm missing something contradictory please let me know. I don't want to believe this is the world we still live in, but that's what current evidence is showing so far.

Theoretical Lesson: If you're a woman and you're about to make a whole lot of men jealous. Make sure you have a picture of a strong, tall, beefy alpha male in your kickstarter video. Your chances of being messed with will be much lower.
And nobody understands exactly why.

The British Royal Society offered a 1,000 pound prize recently for an explanation, so far this is the winner, though it's not complete:

http://www.rsc.org/mpemba-competition/mpemba-winner.asp
Some recognized the problem, but they were largely shouted down. The single currency has always been a political initiative, not an economic one.
MPAA Executive Tampered With IFPI Evidence in Internet Piracy Case
The depression of 1920-21 in the United States is sometimes cited as precedent.
Indeed. It's hard to "harmonize" countries or regions that don't speak the same language. Workers can't easily move from country to country to take advantage of job opportunities (and thus spread culture through direct interaction), and there's little shared media.
That's not enough money for a anything worthy.
I'm falling in love with Go, but I use Python and PHP a lot.
.NET MVC (C#)
Here's a study[1] that concludes there is "no significant risk".

[1]-http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/08958378.2012.7...
The title of this post could use some "grammar checker."
have you looked at mythryl: http://www.mythryl.org/ ?
I won't argue that a superior strategy is to maximize returns against efforts - not minimize potential for competition.

I wasn't making the argument that small markets offer the best returns for effort. Clearly that can't be true either - just by its definition.

The notion that there are an abundance of large markets, many of which are underserved is quite a simplistic argument.

There must be a reason that they are both a) large, and b) underserved.....probably because the barriers to entry are exceedingly high. Energy markets come to mind. Hard to get larger markets than that, but it is easy to find large subsets of customers that are disgruntled and would gladly switch to a `better service`.

The trick is that every Tom, Dick and Harry can't start an energy company. It is VERY capital intensive, even more labor intensive and heavily regulated.

So, I think if you were to reword that statement to say:
"There is an abundance of large markets, many of which are underserved...and easy to reach/service for a single web developer anywhere in the world". I would surely argue that to be false.
How does declaring bankruptcy help creating more jobs? (Honest Question) Would seem to me that it would been even harder to get credit flowing once all your previous creditors have been wiped out.

From an admittedly fairly uninformed position it appears to me that cutting spending is only going to further erode businesses positions and tax revenue, leading to an even worse position.
Contracts are only a substitute for physical or cryptographic security when you're not the one with the most to lose from a successful compromise.
If I recall correctly, ice frozen after being heated has fewer air bubbles. I wonder if there is a correlation.
I liked that very much. Now I'd be quite interested in knowing what your four other chosen poems are.
Is he indiscriminately leveling criticisms? Of characteristics people have no control over (ugly)? Or is he perhaps criticizing choices and behavior, of which people can change and pick and choose themselves? Hmm? Not a valid analogy you made there. Do people make value judgments about diet and exercise so as to help so called fat people get into better shape? All the time they do, yes. If I care about someone, and think they are making choices that are detrimental to themselves, I'll tell them. If you don't, because it may hurt their feelings, are you doing them a favor?
Strong atheism is the belief in the lack of a higher power. Weak atheism is the lack of belief. Agnosticism is the lack of proclaimed knowledge, regardless of belief.
Yes, and in recent years Spaniards have been immigrating to South America to take incredible cuts in pay to do jobs (Often regardless of legal status) that require few of the qualifications, if any, they had earned in Spain.
The push hub
The push hub is a news aggregator and social network that allows people to share and discuss topics of interest. It cuts out the noise in the news that you can find with other aggregators by concentrating on trusted news sources.

Within the site you can make friends and share and discuss news media with them. You can join networks and share and discuss news media in a group setting. You can also read the news within the site.
Thanks for the tip. So what should the budget be for something worthy?
You may very well be right, I had assumed more involvement on his part based on this article: https://medium.com/obvious/e74637f2fe22
Haha, you're right. I think I need to learn more about grammar. My English is bad, that's why I create and love this gem :)
Those who borrow a lot must import a lot.

Those who produce more than they consume export what they do not consume.

Its simple physics.

To produce more than you use is a virtue. Germans are hardly to blame for their virtues.

I guess their failure was in lending to those without the means to pay back.
Withholding my opinion, but it's interesting. The solidcoin community seems to be plagued by mistrust, conspiracy theories, alternate views about directions for the project, etc. http://solidcoin.info/solidcoin-ready-for-bitcoin-collapse.p...

There are also a number of pastebin / IRC logs shedding more light into the dispute. Doesn't make a lot of sense, but it makes slightly more sense than the other theories I've seen proposed.
Having a random person cut slices and then randomly allocating slices is not a bad idea, but has a problem too. That procedure is unfair to those who value reliably-sized slices.

Say A and B use this procedure. A and B both hate each other and want to make the pizza selection turn out bad for the other person. But while A is just normally hungry, B is at death’s door from starvation and needs at least 1/3 of a pizza to live. This procedure gives a 1/4 possibility that A can starve B to death, by letting A cut a tiny piece and a huge piece, and randomly assigning A the huge piece. Whereas no matter what B does, even if he is lucky enough to cut and receive a huge piece, A is not going to die. So A has the advantage. But a truly fair procedure would assure both A and B at least 1/2 a pizza, a property that would assure that B would live.
Trom: 3D Fractal
Wouldn't be surprised if some developers laughed at us for using Firefox. Especially companies like Twitter/Medium.
If there's a limit to the precision to which one can compare slices of pizza, any algorithm that can meet or beat that precision can be successful.

But the game gets more interesting if the perceptions of the players are subject to influence! Say player A can choose to buy a pitcher of beer for player B, or cause him to travel at relativistic speeds with respect to the pizza . . .
"precedent" means "past experience", not "abstract theory".

macroeconomics != microeconomics.

<100% tax on in-country activity can't really drive anyone away, because leaving the country would mean leaving money on the table.

http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html