skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Scientists have never been allowed to examine the E-Cat, details of the supposed physics have never been revealed, and even the identities of his US business partners were only discovered by online sleuthing.

for fucks sake, why even publish such a bogus article
This makes little sense. If you could see the original, then the followons make just as much sense.

For myself, this post was just as much fun, if only for the links to more archery stuff on youtube.
Here is something that maybe I am not understanding.. but saying that 6/10 greeks pay no income tax does not tell us how much tax evasion there is, right?

From what I can google: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxtopics/federal-taxes-house...

43% of Americans do not pay federal income tax (and some % of those get a net gain of federal income tax). Sure 60% is > 40%... but that could be due to a ratio of more people really poor, compared to more tax evasion.

(Not doubting Greece has a tax evasion problem, but 6/10 not paying taxes seems bad evidence).
Why do news reports keep saying that Greece got bailed out?

Let's say you lend $100,000 to my startup. I have to pay you $10,000 a year until the loan is paid off. I hire a thief as a CEO who gives the $100,000 to his friends and family, and my startup has nothing to show for it.

Now my startup is bankrupt. I'm working as a waiter in a restaurant to pay the rent. I can't make my annual payments to you, much less pay back the principal. You've just suffered a $100,000 loss. That's the risk you take as a lender.

Surprise! Now the government steps in and gives you $50,000 to buy this bad loan from you. What a great deal! It would have been a total loss!

Then the government garnishes my wages from my waiter job for the next 50 years to reimburse the government.

Who exactly got bailed out here? Me (the Greek people), or you (foreign banks and bondholders)?

And what happened to the thieving CEO who stole the money in the first place?
Yes.

I know more about Google Play than the others.

You underestimate how much attention people will give you. Let's say you find the perfect user - someone who types "news game" into Google Play. Well, you don't show up for that which is one problem. Imagine if you did though. What do I see with you among the competitor apps? I see Blanqd (what does that mean?) and a big letter B.

The first sentence of your description is key. It says "Blanqd makes a game out of getting your daily news fix"

Frankly, people don't care what Blanqd does. You're presuming they do. Something like "Get your daily news fix while playing this awesome game" would be better.

A better icon might say "BLANK to City: Drop Dead" or "BLANK defeats Truman" or something like that. Maybe that would be too detailed for an icon, but a giant B isn't that great.

You care about Blanqd but other people don't. They don't care what Blanqd does, or what Blanqd wants to make a game. You should put the "BLANK to City: Drop dead" screenshots and promotional graphics up front. Don't wait to show people what it does. "Fill in the blanks - engage with your news" means nothing to me and I'm not going to wait to see what it means. Just show people up front what your app does.

Also for the app - tapping anywhere but back on the popup should move forward. Don't make people on small phone click a tiny little arrow.
>We need to accept some creativity and change.

Yeah, like this. http://www.choishine.com/port_projects/landsnet/landsnet.htm...
As other comments have pointed out, and Tsipras pretty much says himself in this article, good money was thrown at bad but was done so not to prevent a productivity fallout in Greece but to prevent one in the rest of the EU or world. And now Tsipras is arguing bluntly that Greece's economic system will not rebound as expected because it's productivity problems are deeper than liquidity.

It is worth looking at Detroit here. Not because of where they are similar but where they are not.

Detroit could not repay debts and required restructuring (aka hair cuts). Importantly they decided the type of hair cuts on their own. They had to do this because there was no Federal bailout. Michigan agreed to pay 194 mil for pensions as a lump some (aka a gift) but Detroit had to sell off assets, renegotiate with creditors on their own and reform where they could. But again, they did this because they knew they had to. It wasn't directly dictated by "The Union" (Fed).

Importantly they were given some breathing room because at least some portions of social services providing stability are Federal (social security, medicare, medicaid). And though they just exited bankruptcy it's likely without investment from overloads (state and federal) a full recovery will not happen. Or at least, investment will certainly help that become more possible.

What is missing in the EU are these social safe guards. And it seems a good time to build them. Rather than dictate to Greece how to alot retirement or social welfare or other social services, they should provide a baseline EU wide option for entities that default. This option makes it easier to let them get at least as close to default as is required for them to be in a place to consider what changes they could make to provide future stability. And when it comes to bailouts it should come in the form of investment. Both seem to be a rather obvious steps in maintaining the Union and providing greater trust and integration. Anything else should be decided in negotiations only after Greece begins the hard negotiations with its creditors after all accept imminent default.
BMW fixes security flaw in its in-car software
This is a goldmine! Thank you.
What's your source, your intuition? Germany is one of the highest savers in the Euro area; much higher than Greece.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNS.ICTR.ZS
This isn't a "fringe" variation in any but the sociological sense. I hadn't heard of either of these ideas until today, but my first thought was, "Yeah, that makes sense" (I'm a physicist, but not a gravity person.)

If you believe in the Planck scale (and almost everyone does) then incorporating it into SR as an "observer independent maximum energy" that is comparable to the usual "observer independent maximum velocity" is a very natural thing to do.

The theory might not have got much play, but this result will definitely increase interest because the black hole information paradox is a pain. However: the amount of interest a theory gets does not reflect the likelihood that it is correct. Caloric was once a very popular idea. Currently string theory is. Tomorrow maybe "extra special relativity" will be.
It's worse than simply "no obligations". EU and ECB bailouts of EU member states were specifically forbidden under the Treaty of Lisbon http://euwiki.org/TFEU#Article_123 http://euwiki.org/TFEU#Article_125 . Instead, not only did both the EU and the ECB prop up Greece's borrowing, they moved to block Greece's access to a normal IMF program, which would have involved losses for non-IMF creditors.
Hey everyone, we'll be hosting a live webcast and Q&A with our engineers this afternoon to introduce the new changefeeds and cluster management API in RethinkDB 1.16.

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Show HN: Official UK Food Standards Agency Android app is so poor I wrote my own
In a usual display of government efficiency and effective taxpayer pounds utilisation, the original version of the Food Standards Agency app was an embarrassment.

For about two months It crashed on startup, then was 'updated'. Now the app redirects to the Food Standards Website, which isn’t particularly well designed for mobile use. And is slow as balls.

The food hygiene ratings are ‘Open Data’, which means anyone is free to use them. There are a handful of other apps using this, but they all have bad UX and are generally mildly annoying to use / look at.

All in all a pretty poor show. So I made a better one to teach myself Android development, with a backend that can deliver search results in less than 5 seconds (woot).

It’s available for free, no ads or anything. I don’t have many devices to test on, so any bugs or crashes you may run into would be really useful to know about. Try not to hammer my poor little VPS server too hard.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pjhaynes.foodhygienerating

tl:dr Government agency makes bad, slow app. Made a better/faster one to learn Android development and make the world a better place. Peace.
If you're being clear that you're just gonna be attempting to relay info, then you're probably OK. The issue is that you'd discover it to be more profitable to lie, and pretend you're the actual business. That way, you're holding their reputation hostage. If they don't pay, those customers feel that the real company just ignored them.

It's not a terrible idea for targeting SMBs that don't have a website, so long you aren't misrepresenting things.
Thanks! I'm really glad that you enjoyed the format.

At the beginning of this month I create a standard speaking/coding screencast and I didn't love it. I opted to cut out speaking and focus it entirely on live-coding.

I think it's worth developing further, I'm trying to continue making this series full-time this year.

Next month I'll be launching an app where full-resolution copies of previous screencasts can be purchased, but if you're interested, donors on patreon are emailed copies early on release days. http://patreon.com/doingcomputers

Thanks again!
I'm not sure you've established the problem is the individual developers. Of course you can't provide all relevant information for diagnosing the issue in an HN post. I'm just making general suggestions.

I recommend that you rule out other possible explanations:
(1) A former manager told them to always use a VM.
(2) A CS professor taught them to do this and no one has instructed them to do otherwise at your company.

Coming back with the same question multiple times is problematic, but maybe you didn't offer a sufficiently clear explanation. Next time you explain something say, "Do you understand?" or "Was that clear?" Then you'll be able to say, "people like this" next time they ask the question.
https://pilif.github.io/2008/05/why-is-nobody-using-ssl-clie...
The article doesn't actually mention the population of the Pearl River Delta, which I find a bit odd... anyway, from Wikipedia:

Population
• Metro	63,724,157~120,000,000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_River_Delta

For comparison Tokyo's metro population is 35,682,460. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo
> if he actually believes he can control the fate of his country even so slightly, I'm afraid he's delusional

He's the elected leader of sovereign nation. If you don't think repudiating the debt is an option (good or bad), I'm afraid he's not the delusional one. If that's not "control" of the fate of the country, I don't know what is.
You use vanilla ssh to authorize the ghost of a customer account?
Google Security Reward Programs: Year in Review, Year in Preview
Here's the solution for these kinds of situations:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4ZKIeNnTBe2Q2ExQkJRcVNNYkl...

Search for "Responding to Micro-Aggression" for a step by step guide.
I went to the ball pool for adults and now I feel much calmer
5 Lessons Silicon Valley Can Learn from Robert Scoble
> Germany is one of the riches countries on this planet. We will do almost anything to keep it that way.

If the only practical effect of European union will be to enrich Germany at the expense of its neighbors, European union will fail, and rightly so.

> I appreciate that he needs to sell his own agency to his people, but if he actually believes he can control the fate of his country even so slightly, I'm afraid he's delusional.

Just a suggestion: before Germans start telling other people to get over the idea of having any control over their own affairs, it would probably be wise to reflect on how well that message went over the last two times they tried it.
Gawker is terrible because they over cross-promote. Sometimes you go to deadspin.com and barely any of the stories are actually about sports.
Why Stanford Is Trashing Harvard Business School
I love Google Earth, but it hasn't been updated since 2013. The Mac binary isn't signed so it doesn't even run on modern OSX[1].

Has Google abandoned Google Earth?

[1] Unless you know how to work around that, which the average user doesn't.
I got to fire one of these at a range in Vegas while I was at a bachelor party a couple of years ago (Everyone else went for the Desert Eagles and AR-15s things like that, but being a history buff I picked the Thompson just to see what it was like.) The first thing you notice when you pick it up is just how damn heavy it is - the thing is incredibly dense. The range owner explained that the weight of the thing was what made it so effective - especially in the hands of people with little training, the "kickback" of a normal gun would make it hard for someone without a lot of training to keep fire concentrated over a sufficiently small area, but the heft of the Thompson makes it "drop" back into place very nicely after the round is fired and the recoil kicks in. Sure enough, when we pulled the targets back, mine was the most accurately shot round-for-round (no one there was very experienced with firearms), which I found to be pretty impressive since everyone else was shooting modern weapons and I had this old brick - but the range owner said that was what made the thing so effective. You could put it in almost anyone's hands and make them fairly dangerous with little to no training.
Maybe market it to journalists/writers. Either to novice ones (students) so they get more aware about what good article title might be. Or to the experienced ones so they become more aware how everyone else is making up titles. Analytics from other users could also be interesting for journalists.
Greece did not become part of the Euro zone in 1981 because at the time the Euro was a distant dream in the heads of some politicians and bankers.

Please refer to the introduction of the Euro, not Greece joining the EU, those two have absolutely nothing to do with each other. You can be part of the EU but not part of the Euro zone just fine.
I spent a year living in Greece, and the impression that I got was similar to what you are saying.

Greeks felt abandoned by the Eurozone -- they expected a 2 way street, and felt cut loose when they needed a hand.
If I understood GP right you both say the same: Being frugal means consuming less (= saving instead).
This idea is exactly what I've always wanted, too. As others point out, it would definitely have to be opt-in, or it would be a great way to track.

(It would be nice to have ephemeral keys per-site, too, a la Bitcoin: why have a publically unified identity?)
I have been more entertained by watching Lars Anderson do archery for five minutes than any other archer on film, ever. Honestly, it was more entertaining and more memorable to me than any of the fake archery shown in the Hunger Games, Robin Hood or Lord of the Rings. I can't remember another archery video that went viral.

Perhaps some of the claims are a little hyperbolic and self congratulatory, but you can't say "all this guy is good at is marketing". Please. It obviously took practice and skill to perform some of those stunts and I just don't understand why dissenting voices always need to cut people down instead of just making their case.
Wow, the realtime push feature will be a game changer. It removes so much of the boilerplate required to build server push apps. I'm super excited to start using this.
Thanks! h/t to Néna Nguyễn :)
Nit: in 2008 the US had both insolvency and liquidity problems. The former from the real estate bust, the latter from things like securitizing loans collateralized by said real estate, with the holders of and potential buyers for those securities just not being able to determine what they might actually be worth at the time.

So e.g. TARP was explicitly sold as program to buy up those securities, wait for the dust to settle, and then sell them for what they turned out to be worth (that that sales job was a lie is another matter).
Mobile Sensor Networks: Creating a Social Laboratory
I lived there for a few months. The structures are extremely sturdy, with some fantastic views from the upper levels. The base of the Gasometers have been cleverly fashioned into a shopping complex, with adjacent cinema and gym. No need to ever venture outside! (Even the underground train station can be reached under cover.)

My apartment overlooked one of the hollow central 'cylinders': not much sunlight reached the interior, and - without net curtains - not much privacy (since neighbors opposite had a clear view across the space).

After seeing a huge crowd queuing in the lobby one evening, I realized the basement was used for rock concerts! And yet, not a sound (or vibration) reached the residential areas above.

Great place to stay for a while...
Kinda. It's S(CA)DA where each node can have its own TCP connection instead of being RS232, Modbus, etc and then aggregated over TCP through a device server. Basically facilitated by cheap Ethernet hardware.

e.g., I have a BeagleBone monitoring a mousetrap in my basement. Total cost about $60; would be half that with a Raspberry Pi. It's only on my internal network, but it would be trivial to put its webpage online or serve up the data to something like what Pachube used to be.
I'd rather make them go through the trouble of getting my data physically then just typing

grab * -ss 834-29-1293

or whatever they do.
Cross-host Docker Networking: Building a Redis Cluster
Worth at least a quick browse in the bookstore: the essay "The Puritan and the Prig" in Marilynne Robinson's The Death of Adam.
Fantastic article and in the past seven months, we've been a basecamp user, then former basecamp user, as we switched to Trello. Ironically that was for cost, like switching from 3rd party to (finally) a home grown php tool to replace the Saas $200 fee.

Essentially, what we're seeing from my team's perspective are the culmination of a few trends that started being bigger back in 2003, when I first worked from home full time for about six months, prior to joining Yahoo at giving up the lifestyle for a few years. With nearly ~6.5 years in WFH experience; I've done it nearly half my professional career.

Those who can make it work, do it the way in the article, there's no option, only pain, to that process. It broke up a 12 year business partnership I had, in the end, written goals were broken, therefore, I ejected. Simple, straightforward and asynchronous. There's a movement, tempo to when a team is producing. My CTO and I are incredible partners this way, and we spend less than twenty minutes per session "Talking," because he's even more introvert than me, it seems.

At the end of the day, team's ship something. Marketers should be shipping business models, spreadsheets, powerpoints, Adwords copy, Blog Posts, Social Posts, Images, Videos and more. Engineers ship code, so, they rock and should have it a bit more straightforward.

Designers ship design. If the "Business monkey," isn't playing secretary, documenting things and helping others ship, OR shipping something with their fingerprints all over it, something is broken. For a production oriented individual, remote, WFH work is the most empowering kind.

Freedom. Run at your own pace, if the team gets slow, develop new skills, a new hobby and explore. The digital world is a vast place; for example, I'm building free, open source SaaS, running two blogs, a team, built two visual novels this month, learned Daz3d, Carrara, Gimp for animation & more.

I ship what and how I want, when I want & where. The team does the same, as a group, we have aligned objectives. So the business moves at one pace, and as an individual, I carve my own lane. Run ahead, scout, explore, learn and grow. Then perhaps, those skills in animation & 3d become useful to the business. Or not. Time will tell.

Great article, and thanks for posting your experiences. I love learning.
Whenever you see economic sanctions applied think of it as a very low key war or the prelude to a hotter one.
> I, for one, am glad that large scale war with millions of human combatants, appears to be diminishing in likelihood.

We did have a nice quiet period there, but I suspect China might be a real threat to world peace. Unfortunately China has growing up now a "forgotten" generation of young men who outnumber women their own age over 2:1, and what has history taught us societies do with a bunch of unhappy young men? Kill them in wars.

So while China might not be invading India or the US, there still might be a civil war if this bunch of unhappy men decide to turn on the government to force "change." That too would be a threat to world peace, as an unstable China is bad for everyone.

I think Russia's recent aggressive stance against Ukraine is worrying. But we'll have to wait and see if this is an "isolated incident" or some part of a USSR-mini-reformation. However the social makeup in that region of Ukraine (where many of the people living their speak Russian and want to be Russian) might be a unique one off rather than a specific change in Russia's overall international stance.

Let's also remember ISIL ("ISIS" as the US calls them). A group of mostly young poor men rampaging through multiple states because they feel their own governments have let them down, and are unhappy with the US's interference in the region and or drone strikes (that sometimes kill civilians, often with even an apology or investigation by the US).

Yes, there is a religious element to ISIL's increase in popularity, but it is often quite interesting to look at the social economic situation that allowed extremism to bread rather than simply looking at the extremism and pretending it gained popularity in a vacuum.

I general I suspect you'll see the US get involved on the ground with ISIL, you'll see the Ukraine situation simmer out with the Russian's holding the occupied land, and you'll see some major national or international incident with China in the next 15-30 years.
Because the Model M has one feedback type, and one noise level. Between the various Cherry and Topre switches, you get a lot more customization options.

And for an interface device I spend a dozen or so hours a day on, it's worth the effort to make it match your needs.
Crude conspiracy theories could be right
This is a fantastic idea, something I'd use as a consumer. It dovetails nicely into the growing movement around democratizing access to scientific research as well.
The NSA is a bit crippled. They are so intensely afraid of someone (anyone) figuring out what they do or how they do it that they can not act on any information they gather. The 9/11 Commission report showed that the NSA had full access to all of Mohammed Attas communications, knew exactly where he was, had translated his messages, etc, yet they did nothing about it. When the CIA requested access to the information they had, the NSA refused. When the FBI requested access to the information, the NSA refused. The degree to which they are obsessively paranoid can not be overstated. It's quite possible that they are very well aware of these weaknesses along with multitudes of others, but they will never say a word about it for fear that someone might figure out what they do.
> but why don't web browsers make signed requests, just as web servers make signed responses?

They can. The WebID people at the W3C are trying to make a standard out of this, that would allow for federated authentication in which you can securely share data with websites you visit. (They're not getting terribly far - huge portions of the stack are missing around the subject of "tell a server you own that another server can access <these bits of data>, where the other server is identified using a WebID".)

The downsides? Basically, the UI sucks and is inconsistent between browsers, up to and including failing to let you log out or have multiple accounts on a website.