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Democracy is a system of government, populism is a strategy for maximizing popularity by appealing to emotions with rhetoric and unrealistic proposals, and pitting a group of people against another group. Since I can see where you are going with this, yes, the notion of populism does require the politically incorrect idea that not everyone is perfectly rational, intelligent and well informed. One can be in favour of democracy without necessarily agreeing with the voting decisions of general public, and without agreeing with political strategies that exploit this.

(just like one can be in favour of the freedom of speech to say X without agreeing with X)
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Show HN: BOB, a JavaScript library for building complex html structures
That's the whole point of the exercise: to show that these frames of reference are all relative. And if you think about it, the exact point of origin of the 'big bang' might actually be a frame of reference relative to which gravity disappears globally.

Relativity is a very tricky concept.

Of course gravity is a 'real' force but the ability to shift your frame of reference is a powerful reminder that gravity and acceleration can look the same until you exit your frame of reference.
Dictionary entry for lemon:

4. Informal. a person or thing that proves to be defective, imperfect, or unsatisfactory; dud:

"His car turned out to be a lemon."
The Lisp Machine: Noble Experiment or Fabulous Failure? (1991) [pdf]
In the case where an open source framework loses its maintainer, in the worst case you are the maintainer. In that case you are no worse off than with your own framework, except that for a number of years the maintenance work was done for you for free.
In democratic free schools, like Sudbury Valley School, students are free to follow their interests without any compulsory courses or exams. In follow-up studies, former students are happy and successful even though they were never formally "taught" to read, do math, or write a "book report".

The typical school model was designed to control students, it is unnecessary and even harmful to real education. Non-compulsory education is not just for smart kids, all children have a natural inclination to learn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awOAmTaZ4XI

http://www.amazon.com/Free-Learn-Unleashing-Instinct-Self-Re...
Borrowing rates are historically low most other places as well.

Regarding 'trust' in Portugal: Draghi's 'whatever it takes' statement and actions are mainly what fixed this.

You need to be careful about definitively attributing an outcome to a particular action - hey, maybe you fixed borrowing costs by eating weetabix for breakfast one day in 2010, and now Portugal has low borrowing rates.

We are also of course only considering one very limited measure of 'success' - you did not mention unemployment or GDP, for some reason ...
The Quiet German ~ the most powerful woman in the world.
>infecting

I would use a different word here, but I love her spirit!
Sources plz.

>>Modernized versions of T-72 is still in wide service with Russian army.

Oh, that's funny. SKS is in wide service. Along with Mosin-Nagant.
The frames of even cheapest bicycles last 30 years. The other parts do not (or at least they appear ugly due to rust).
How does it work? Will you open source this at any point?
Indeed, the FBI are known to lack a sense of humor when it comes to funny money.
Perhaps we're in agreement and I'm misreading your comments, but it seems to me that tablets are clearly useful enough to be considered 'successful'. They're just not the kind of thing everybody wants or needs. And I'm not sure tablet makers ever really thought that.

Using the term 'languish' just seems a bit too negative to describe this particular outcome. Tablets are finding (or found) their market, and are doing okay. Smartwatches will probably be a similar kind of thing. Setting the bar for 'success' at smartphone levels seems a bit too high to me.
Germany successfully refinanced several German banks during the crisis and the current debt of Greece will not be payed fully back before 50 years. German EU contribution will be cut back. The impact to Germany will be minimal.

For Greece? Take a look at Argentina.
5-10 years? Not if you take a look at Argentina.
It looks more and more useful, but I wonder why fnord was ported from ruby to c++?
You could run PS within QEMU or something, perhaps. Would be slow though.
I think the iPad did well partly for the same reasons that the iPhone did well despite not being the first 'smartphone': an easy, slick user interface and decent/great hardware. The fact that the iPad had tons of apps (which the iPhone didn't) probably helped.

Another factor might be timing. The iPhone, and by extension other smartphones, laid the groundwork for making it socially more acceptable to use these kinds of devices. I vividly recall being a bit embarrassed to pull out my geeky 'PDA' in the dumbphone days, and I felt much less of that when I got the iPad (while none of the people around me had one).
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I sincerely don't understand people like that. Sure you can ignore your physical health, eat too much and become obese (I did so), you can stay obese even, although weightloss isn't that fucking difficult (spoiler-warning: track your food, stay within your calories limit and perhaps move a bit more).

But grow to be 300, let alone 600 pounds? To the point where you can't even got to the bathroom so your mother can wash your (who, judging by your pictures are at least obese herself)? The only thing that comes to my mind is "fucking loser" or "whiny bitch". Food was the only thing that didn't reject you, other than the nice girl you are eating two icecreams with?

No the only thing that rejected you was you.
Nothing was "discovered"; the rest of the Eurozone knew it all along that Greek figures were fantasy since the very moment they entered the EU.
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I want freedom to win and if it only comes in the form of the web then I will settle for that.

Unfortunately capitalism motivates device manufacturers to try and build captive markets.
The need to trade nature/randomness for predictability, bandwidth and absurd indicators pops in a lot of places, it's somehow scary.
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Yes

From Wikipedia

"Populism is a political doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions (such as hopes and fears) of the general people, especially contrasting those interests with the interests of the elite."

Democracy: Cheap Education
Populism: Easy-to-get student loans

Democracy: Low taxes on essential products
Populism: High taxes on essential products, then "stamps", "aids", or low taxes/subsidies on a very specific range of said essential product

Also similar to the Roman Strategy of Bread and Circuses
Yup. I am not that excited about the changes. I run a production web app on 2 dynos with 1 standard PostgreSQL DB and SSL, and my bill is over $100 per month. I am looking to moving over to DigitalOcean, where an equivalent setup starts at only $20 per month.
You don't get to 600 lbs without some sort of mental illness or deep unwellness. Do you look at people who commit suicide with contempt? Its similar.
The Last Great Problem (2003)
Wittgenstein gave some lectures on mathematics and logic, where Alan Turing was present and they had discussions about mathematics (a book is available with the lectures on mathematics). That was 3 years after on Turing's paper on computable numbers.
The U.S. invaded The Crimea? Weird. Chechnya, Degestan? The U.S. seeded war in the Balkans? I remember all those U.S. supplied snipers in Savajevo killing civilians in Sniper Alley.. How about all of those American made AK-47s being used across Africa?

I'm not sure how discouraging Russian and Islamic expansionism is somehow 'seeding war.' I don't recall Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait being 'seeded' by the U.S. During the Korean War, it was the Chinese supported North that attacked the South. How about Tibet? Or pretty much every conflict in Africa? This "America as invader" meme has no basis in reality or fact. The U.S. just doesn't sit around throwing darts on maps to pick countries to invade. We could suggest that countries like France in Africa and Indochina, the British with Northern Ireland and the Faulklands, the Germans (twice) in Europe, the Italians in Ethiopia and Libya, the Egyptians in the Six Day war and the Yom Kippir War..
The U.S. has been the belligerents in very few conflicts. We could talk about the Cubans in Grenada, the Soviets in Afghanistan..

The U.S. isn't perfect, but they definitely don't spend their time invading their neighbors because of some ethnic claim or another. The U.S. is involved in many places but there's a big difference between getting involved defensively as opposed to offensive, territorial-grabbing objectives such as seen in the Ukraine and the Caucasus.

By the way, I am not passing judgement on any country; it's just important to maintain perspective based on facts and not some knee-jerk assumption.

Ask Poland and the Baltics if they want the U.S. around. Huge majorities would say yes. Woukd you rather have the US sit in the sidelines while Russia marches unchecked to the German border?
Commentary: The psychological conflict of consumerism
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Now to find a ragpaper laptop screen...
>> It's not a matter of technology, it's a matter of physical impossibility.

I would say (and I've been saying this all along) is that it's first and foremost a matter of economic impossibility.

Under the assumption that you can make the technology work well enough for a sufficiently large group of potential customers, the business case for streaming games simply doesn't make sense to me. You need to invest huge amounts of money to build, maintain, and update (keep current) highly-specialized server farms that are mostly useless for other purposes, in the hopes that people will pay money to play games on them. All while hardware prices keep going down, and game visuals (including resolution and GPU requirements) keep going up. If you stop upgrading your server farms, within a year or 2 what would previously be top-of-the-line hardware will be so cheap (new in the case of PC's or second-hand in the case of consoles), that unless you are dead set on being able to play the same games no matter your physical location, you can get a much better experience for less money by just buying the hardware.

It has always occurred to me that many people are still convinced cloud gaming is a good idea, but the repeated failures of services like OnLive seem to have proven this wrong for now...
Ask HN: Best SEO Book/Resource?
As a freelance Web Developer, my clients often ask me about SEO. I tell them that I put all the right tags in the website so that Google can scrape it well. However, I know SEO is way more than meta tags + adwords, and I'm tired of being clueless on the subject.

What Book/Resource would you recommend to start understanding SEO and improve my code ?
Stolen bikes and parts are indeed a major category of "lemons".

I have, however, bought some second-hand parts which are clearly legitimate, i.e. credibly documented and not stolen:

- parts that someone has bought new over the net (often from abroad), and then found out that they don't fit their bike, and cannot really return

- parts that someone has bought, tried, and didn't like or need them, even if they did fit their bike.

Generally, these are shipped in the original containers and come with paperwork, which means they were not from a stolen bike.

The stolen bike market is big here (north Europe), though. Or at least the number of stolen bikes is huge, though I wonder who buys them. (My son-in-law had his bike stolen, then a few months later spotted a similar bike for sale on a net site resembling Craigslist, and went to "buy" it inviting the police with him. He got his bike back but I don't think the thief got anything but a stern telling off by the police, so he's back in business.)
Such empathy.

Do you feel the same way about people with a substance abuse problem?

To get to that kind of weight, it's more than just being lazy and not tracking calories. It's a serious psychological or physical problem. It doesn't happen just by deciding not to skip dessert.

I've always been thin, but I can still empathize with someone in that predicament. Do you think that he didn't want to lose weight and get some control over his eating habits? Read the actual article. He in fact did gain control over things for a while, through a regimented routine, but the surgery put him off it, and he lost control again.

You're calling him a "whiny bitch", but this guy, who has a family that was obviously supportive and loved him, had a serious medical issue that ultimately resulted in his death.

Try imagining them as an actual human being and not some cartoon caricature.
Just buy a new bike any time something breaks.

I don't say that to be glib, I say it because I suspect it is actually the cheapest path to what you want.

It might make sense to hire someone to come and take the bike and change the tubes every year or something like that. Or perhaps hire them to deliver a new bike once a year, and take the old one away (depending on how much easy money they smell when you ask them about this, they might even give you some of the proceeds from selling the lightly used old bike).
Future contracts depend more on the position of a country than on its payment history. Consider Ecuador. It has better ratings and access to credit after it pursued aggressive debt haircuts.
From the first paragraph of your link: "Research shows that the EURion constellation is used for color photocopiers and is likely not used for computer software."
Yes and hopefully Germany picks an Euro exit.

As is clear to anyone interested in the topic and listening to French government officials, binding Germany in the Euro was the price for reunification.
So the learning happens where? While watching the multimedia presentation? Homeworks are a central part of schooling because doing them is where most of the learning happens. Notetaking has also shown to be highly beneficial to learning. This proposal downplays both of these and replaces them with testing and ipads.
I agree with Ștefan (and with the lessons that history provides), but I have to disagree with the context in which this is put. We were talking about Europe here (well, the Eurozone part of it, which is nothing but a level of integration), where we talk about "us" on a broad (unional) level, about solving problems that we all have in our court. The next thing you know is a shift in prospective, where "us" got restricted on a national level (guess why and on who's interest), and now the rest of what was formerly "(the non-Greek part of European) us" you count as "enemies". Maybe we are more different than we wanted to admit, and we may have to work harder for what makes us "us (in an acceptable formula)", but we are not enemies.
Really? There are no superfluous public servants that could be fired? No corrupt ones to be put in jail? No one who received unearned pensions? No ill-gotten land in the hands of the Church to tax or confiscate?

How about repealing or at least amending §103.4 in the overly long Constitution?

http://www.hri.org/docs/syntagma/artcl120.html#A103
I encountered this error in 2005 on a Photoshop version that was 2 or 3 years old. Also, back then you could mirror the scanned bill in some other app and it would open fine in PS. It is funny how this is still front page news in 2015 :P
Inkscape has a rudimentary font editor. Might fit your needs if just need to throw something together quickly.
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GermanWings and airline safety – where the danger (does not) lurk
It depends on what you want to use it for. Australia currently has polymer currency that means we've basically forgotten about counterfeiting, but before that we had a $100 note that was greyscale with a bare whiff of colour. Not the best design. You'd occasionally hear stories of people who'd simply photocopy the bill on standard paper, scrunch it up to look used, then find a sleepy clerk at a late night convenience store. Buy a couple of bucks worth of stuff, leave with >$95 real change. You'd have to be pretty inattentive to be fooled by it, but, well, humans have foibles...
I've seen this a few times with projects I've worked on. I think what it comes down to is this: "despite the trouble I had with feature x, did the framework save me time and effort because 90% of the work (i.e boilerplate) was done for me".

If the answer is no, then using a framework was probably a mistake. However, for 99% of web applications, I don't think the answer to this question is a no.
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The first thing I noticed is you hijacked my back button. After landing on your homepage I was unable to go back.
> Note to governments: when ordering your weapons systems it may be a good idea to get a cost-per-unit quote before signing.

What makes you think they're unhappy about the outcome?
Not every if-then-else statement, needs the else
I think you missed the point of the article because the author states that he had very good scores at tests, so at least "working harder at school" wouldn't have helped with what he is complaning about whatever it is.

However I agree that this article sounds whiny, especially when it comes to the phrase you quoted. But if we look at the bigger picture the author is drawing, we can acknowledge that Education is not only about college students, it's also about students in primary and secondary school and even high school. At these levels students won't have the critical-thinking and I-will-do attitude you are talking about, they need guidance from the system. They need that the system teach them how to respect themselves by example by respecting them in the first place.
Seriosly I don't believe in such buls... anymore. Save brave chrisian people. Sorry, but the US has killed and totured so many brave non christian people just for politics and power-- and if you talk about christians - do you remember what a brave christian does when he gets beaten?

this world will not get better as long we don't unite and overcome ancient separation by nation or believe.
Huh? You can't boot any recent system without running code from software that totals many lines more than a mere 8 million.

That they keep quoting it really just makes me scared for the people working there, their worth measured by the lines they contributed to the behemoth as dictated by people that started in the 70s and never did learn anything new.
The number of directories under repos/ is far too long for GitHub or most browsers to handle.
Wait. Is that really related to suckless.org? I've just checked that suckless.org Unix tools are called "9base", not "Sbase", and is different code. Could someone explain that?

http://git.suckless.org/9base/tree/cal/cal.c
http://git.2f30.org/sbase/tree/cal.c

http://tools.suckless.org/
The curse of being an introvert
The problem as I see it is most teachers went straight from being taught to teaching. It's a feedback loop. The best teachers I had by far took up teaching later in life, having lived in the real world for a while. The best teacher I ever had spent a good chunk of his life developing back ends for restaurant POS systems. I learned so much from his real world experience.

Going straight from being educated to educating is insular. Teachers do things because that's the way it was done to them. It's how they were taught and some sick part of their mind liked it, so they went into teaching.

From my own educational experience there was a lot of "do this, or else" which isn't really education, it's just conditioning. For crying out loud we know negative reinforcement doesn't work in animals, ask any dog trainer, why would it work in students? Give me at least as much respect as a dog, please.
It's much less frequent of course, but Foreign Affairs is in the same space.
I suppose the different types of 'buzzes' might make it easy enough to ignore most notifications without looking, but it remains to be seen if this is how it actually works.

I do think over time we'll learn to deal with these kinds of things. Already we're (slowly) developing etiquette about how we deal with phone notifications, but especially initially it seems people are slaves to the whims of new inventions.

I've seen this pattern with 'regular' phones, for example. In holland I grew up with very clear etiquette of how to communicate by phone. Generally speaking, you pick up and say your name, then the other person says their name, and then you talk. You also don't generally call during dinner time, very early in the morning, or during the night. That this isn't 'natural' behavior became apparent to me when I lived in a country where phones were kind of novel. People would just call each other up at random times and start talking without introducing themselves, causing frequent miscommunication.

Perhaps the apple watch will function in such a way that it 'coaxes' users into better behavior. I certainly hope so. Otherwise, it will just take time for society to develop a proper relationship with our attention-grabbing devices.
Ask HN: Observations about Reddit's /r/thebutton?
Reddit has been running this since April Fool's.

I believe it's quite an interesting social experiment. HN-ers familiar with it (I expect a lot are), what deeper things do you notice? Like the spontaneous creation of "religions", how each group develops rhetoric to insult the others ("non-pressers for life" etc.) and other such things.

http://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton/
Back in the early days of recorded gameplay there was a massive influx of gaming VODs to Vimeo, because they were basically the only mainstream video hosting site that had good enough quality. Iirc Vimeo even had to ban gameplay videos.

Many games were not viable on OnLive, some because of latency and some because of fuzzy image quality. It was a good service for the super-casual gamer. But those all play games on their phones now.
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when I click the [Rails] tag, oh-my-zsh appears as first in the list. I realize it has a rails plugin but I'm not sure it's one of the most relevant rails projects.

I think there should be some kind of "sort by relevance" feature.