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How is this any different to a male and female friend better married just for tax benefit? Its not widespread now, why would it become widespread when people of the same sex can do it?
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From the article, a small investor: "China’s stock market is really different from other countries"

It's different this time. I'm sure I've heard that before.

Anyway, something tangential but a little bit interesting; it seems that an accountant quoted in this story, "Yao Lina", sold all her holding in February 2012: http://s-aint.com/store/files/Bloomberg_Business_News_Headli...

And also in November 2013: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-01-21/china-ipos...

And June 2015 in this article.

All Bloomberg origin, as far as I can tell.

Sure, maybe she really does binge on cycles of all in and all out, but it seems odd nonetheless. If I had to guess, if she does exist, she's a reliable source for journos who need an "ordinary chinese citizen" to tell them she's bailed out completely, and give them a good quote, always on the same theme:

“I have no confidence in the stock market,”

“I thought the market was going nuts and someone was coming to manipulate the market... I have no confidence in the market because there are lots of speculators playing in it.”

...the government may take as long as five years to fix “structural” challenges in the economy that have curbed growth.

This most recent article contains an odd change of tone, though. She's still bailed out (so she says, again), but also “China’s stock market is really different from other countries. The government surely has some measures to control the movement.” I'm sure I've heard that before; people sure that the magical government can somehow stop a market crash.

It would be interesting to work out how well her quoted comments match the official PRC government line (and unofficial government line) at the time; if she exists, is she a government mouthpiece, or just someone the journos know is always good for a negative quote about the Chinese market, from the small investor? I wouldn't be surprised if all these Bloomberg journos ever saw of her was a controlled press release of suitable comments and sources from China, for them to mine from to make their story.
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If the project is popular because it's a free alternative to something that costs then I imagine charging would kill it completely.
Mike Perham has done a great job of turning two successful open source projects (Sidekiq and Inspeqtor) into successful businesses.

If you're interested, I recommend listening to his interviews on the ChangeLog Podcast (https://changelog.com/159/, https://changelog.com/130/, https://changelog.com/92/) where he talks about how he monetised those products.

I'm pretty sure that succeeding in this is not going to be a matter of how many "stars" your project has, but rather a function of the dollar value of the problem your software solves and how well you market the paid product. You should start that marketing now by providing a link to your project :).
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The real solution is that Germany leave. The Euro could then devalue for the benefit of all the weaker Eurozone members: Greece, Italy, spain, Portugal and Ireland.
How well are GDP figures isolated from the loans that Greece was taking on? For example, imagine that we measure GDP based on income. Greece takes on loans in order to pay its pensioners, who pay corporations, who report the amount as income. Does the act of taking on this loan automatically increase GDP? (By an amount greater than the loan itself due to trickle down effects?) I assume that because of these loans, someone in Greece became richer than they would have been otherwise, and the wealth allowed them to buy a sportscar, which contributes to Greek GDP. But that doesn't mean they 'should have been' buying sportscars, and you can imagine an alternative timeline where there were no loans, and they weren't rich enough to afford it. No growth, no contraction.

If the economy is temporarily stimulated by heavy borrowing, and then the borrowing is shut down, it seems like the GDP will grow and then contract. The percentage of change will depend on the size of the loans versus the overall economy. Is it potentially the case that the "old" GDP was in some sense false because it was supported only by the loans? Is the contraction a "bad" thing if the previous GDP was artificially inflated by the borrowing and in no way sustainable on its own? Is it "bad", or might this adjustment be necessary to realign the economy around operating without heavy borrowing? I'm not an economist and don't know these answers, but they're certainly questions I'm wondering about.

Describing the crisis, the World Post wrote:

> Nobody expects Greece to repay its debt. It has for a long time been incorporated in behavior and financial planning that this would be absurd. It is therefore a misunderstanding when the crisis is sometimes represented as creditors forcing Greece into impossible austerity. It is not at all about that.

> It is about getting Greece to change its economic model from the existing one dependent on heavy borrowing year after year to a model where revenues and expenditures broadly speaking match each other."
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Yep, being a conscientious objector wasn't enough to get off the hook, thank goodness for volunteer military.

Well, so I think I can comment on the "gay sex, big deal?" question from a deeply Christian religious/believer person's standpoint.

I'm not hardcore into the bible, but I took some bible study on the old testament for the first time this year. We studied Moses and we ran through the "man laying down with another man being detestable to God" passage and the study notes didn't really address it directly other than to say God gave the people sexual purity laws and you gotta pray about it and decide for yourself. As I recall there was also a bit in there about chopping a woman's hands off if she touched a man's junk inappropriately, so yeah, lots to pray about...

Well ok fine, so I get into the discussion group, and the men were much more specific and clear on the topic - the Word said gay sex is abhorrent to God, so there you go, case closed. I can tell you one of the main points they wanted to get across to me was that God doesn't just want your praises, He wants you to OBEY.

So, with that kind of mindset, I can see how deeply screwed a religious baker would be if the law tells them they must do one thing or get sued and God is saying, no, you gotta set yourself apart from that and not participate in or bless that thing.

The men in my discussion group also said that Jesus discussed marriage specifically in the context of man and woman too, although I'm not well-versed in the new testament and I never read that myself. One of the most interesting things I learned was Jesus said that God HATES divorce because of what it does to the family.
In regards to the GitHub stars, I don't think that a high amount of stars actually correlates to the amount of people using the repository.

Cachet (https://github.com/cachethq/cachet) has 2.6k stars but I know that the amount of installs is actually far higher.
What if I need to change the password for a particular website (for example because it has been compromised and all its users were encouraged to change their password)?
You don't hire Simon Marlow to hack PHP.
I know a little bit about him -- his Memex of course, but also his role in creating what became the National Science Foundation in "Science, the Endless Frontier":

Advances in science will ... bring higher standards of living, will lead to the prevention or cure of diseases, will promote conservation of our limited national resources, and will assure means of defense against aggression.

- Vannevar Bush, "Science, the Endless Frontier" (1945)

It's among the documents that set the way for technology to become a major national and economic initiative of the US.
Because marriage in the states of the United States have been defined as a contract where the government is one of the parties who also has interests.
Yeah, SuperGenPass has great integration too. You can run it almost anywhere, though you have to have some faith (there were proof of concepts against the earlier bookmarklet version, though I believe they've been mitigated by using an iframe approach now, but you're still running crypto in the browser–I probably wouldn't use it for anything genuinely sensitive).

Other 'problem' is that it uses a fast hash function. There was a fork going round that used bcrypt I think, I'm not sure what happened to that.
Selling related software that works in a different environment (say, mobile, or resource-constrained, or a different OS).

Yeah, I've already done your second approach, that's not what I'm hoping for (which may prove elusive).
> It would be rather regressive to tax a two-person household each earning $25k/yr at the same rate as a single individual making $50k/yr, despite the fact that household income is the same.

Two individual people earning $25k should pay a lower rate of tax than one individual earning $50k, yes.

But a marriage-based tax break is not the right way to implement this. Tax them individually, just like everyone else, with a progressive tax.

The married couple already have significant financial advantages over the single person: the financial security that comes from having two incomes (or even from having one person managing the household, if that's what you're imagining) is huge.
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I have a job in Beijing and frankly like it; I'm not an investor or a business guy, I'm just a programmer/researcher/geek who is living the life he wants to. If I was in the states, I would just throw my money in safe investments and buy a house; here all of that is impossible (well, you can do things with the banks, but kind of dodgy). My best bet is just to transfer money back home and play the American stock and real estate markets like my Chinese friends are already doing :p

Business and investment in China is absolutely crazy: your partners are more likely to screw you over than not, and in order to win you have to be constantly on your toes. When public construction SOEs are rebranding as internet companies, you can bet the smaller hole in the walls are doing the same!

Every third-tier city wants to be like Beijing. For example, my wife's hometown in Hunan (Chenzhou) has big aspirations but very little to offer. It is just heart break waiting to happen. Apartments being built everywhere shoddily without central heating...who wants to live in those?
It is interesting to think about the motivation of the Greek elected officials. To me it looks like they are trying to avoid the responsibility of making a painful decision. It also appears quite likely that the Greek citizens will vote against reducing pensions, etc.

So with that in mind, what happens after 5 July? The rest of the EU will be placed in the uncomfortable position of either caving to the demands of the Greek citizens or somehow taking the position that the referendum is irrelevant--which will look very undemocratic. But to cave to Greece would mean the rest of the EU taking on an indefinite financial drain.

I don't see how this ends any way other than Greek banks collapsing or Greece leaving the EU.
Note that he wants to create a lifestyle business, not a startup. Not sure how important scalability is for that.
NB, articles such as this (and, frankly, quite a few others) really make me wish HN offered more metadata on posts. Title, author, and date, at the least. A blurb as well (lede paragraph) perhaps. Microcontent matters.

Though avoiding editorializing becomes a challenge....

Bush is among the particularly interesting tech pioneers.
I've been using SnapKit, a similar library, with great success recently:

https://github.com/SnapKit/SnapKit

In fact I've essentially ditched interface builder for my last two projects. I've found this to be an overall boost in productivity and code maintainability, particularly on team projects. I was skeptical of doing layout in code and I'm not sure I'd advocate doing this in ObjC but the expressiveness of Swift makes it possible to build such a nice DSL for layout that I think it's a net win over IB and Storyboards.
Fair enough, and to be clear, I'm nowhere near 2.6k stars, although the project has grown quickly with no promotion.

The only reason I pulled that particular indicator out of the hat was to provide some reasonable benchmark for comparison.

But perhaps it was not a reasonable benchmark, after all.
what are you talking about? how does that article have anything parodying this statement? i think you misunderstood the statement. what did you think my statement meant?
Listen, downvote all you like, but it seems you never were on the wrong end of verbal abuse. Trust me a well sharpened remark, can be waaaaay more painful than a gut punch.

I never said witchhunt needed to end with violence. You can become black sheep, losing job, family, friends without a single follicles of your hair being torn. Your freedom could be taken, without you suffering any violence, e.g. house arrest.
This is relatively common in the military where being married bumps up your salary and gives your spouse free health care. One young lady I knew had her husband take out credit cards in her name. Also, IANAL, but prenups hold different weight in different states, no?
It's really sad that it has come to this.
Thanks for the excellent resources, I'll look that up.

> You should start that marketing now by providing a link to your project :).

Well, I haven't even created the paid product at this point, it's still early in the game. Just trying to get a feel for the potentials.
This is a huge deal, and is a make or break time for the European Project. We are now asking (a second time) for a democratic mandate to negotiate against an unelected (but appointed by elected officials) economic central bank.

I honestly did not expect this one :-)

Inhave spent some time trying to wrap my head round this and it does seem that the Greek government, fairly or unfairly, is going to have have its legs broken over this, but if serious fiscal Union of other steps towards solving the fixed exchange rate and debt issues across all of Europe are not included then the ECB is at fault - they need to turn round to the rest of the council of ministers and say "you need to include this - we don't have the authority"
> Neither of these situations provide substantial benefit to society deserving of special treatment.

Are you kidding? You've heard of the national debt? Who, do you suppose, is going to pay for that? Nations need children. Lots of children.

And children are stupidly, ridiculously expensive. In a bygone era, children were assets. Now from even before birth, having a child is just about the most expensive financial decision you could possibly make. And taxes, like college, are priced progressively. As a society we generally want our families to be able to feed and clothe their children, so the taxes those adults can afford to pay while doing that are necessarily lower.
i'll simplify it for you. the answer is. no
> To me it looks like they are trying to avoid the responsibility of making a painful decision.

In reality, they're just keeping their word. They were elected to prevent austerity. By not signing up for even more austerity, they are just fulfilling their democratic mandate.
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Pipe dream.

a) 100k / year is not 'reasonable', it's huge in microisv terms. The modal revenue for independent software vendors is $0 (stats from payment processors). To get there in 2 years is even less common.

b) The number of 'stars' has correlation r=0 with ability to monetize. I'd even speculate - the more stars, the more ingrained in people's heads it is 'this is open source, ergo free', the harder it will be to make money. If you're selling support for something only slightly popular, customers will have no other options - but on support for Wordpress, you have to compete with other devs, with 2$/hour rentacoder people, with Amazon selling 'teach yourself Wordpress in 60 minutes' books etc.

c) What incentive do companies have to pay for it? You have to be able to articulate it clearly before going down this path. Your wording makes me think you are thinking 'this is my secret sauce, I can't give it away', which is (frankly) very naive. If your idea is even a little bit good, you'll have to stuff it down people's throats to accept it. I don't know of any business that makes money OS software (on the software itself, not the consultancy around it) without having a dual licensing model - GPL or commercial. And if that was really a cash cow, Trolltech wouldn't have been sold a dozen times (or so) over the last 10 years...

To judge whether your product has commercial potential, you need to

1) Describe your customers. In detail. Not just 'anyone using a database', but 'medium scale accounting businesses with on-premises case database' (idiotic example, of course). You need to do this in such a way that you can derive a strategy from it on how to find them. E.g., accountants meet at industry events, where you could book a booth.

2) Identify a sample of, say, 100 of them, using the methods from step 1.

3) Start calling them. Preferably after you've taken a sales class (just 2 days will give you life changing insights, I promise). Not emailing, actually talking to people. For the 100 from step 2, identify how many would buy your product.

4) Get sales promises, 10 or 15 or so. People who you can excite so much about your product that they promise (informally) 'yes, I'll buy this if you offer it within 6 months' or whatever.

5) If you can't even do this, you have no (OK, 'barely any') hope of succeeding.

The main skill you need is marketing to succeed at an endeavor like this. The quality of your software, or its popularity amongst the crowd that uses Github, is of secondary importance at best. That's not to say that you can succeed with selling people crap product, snakeoil style, just that your life as a software vendor is 10 or 20% of software development, at best (or worst, depending on your perspective...)
An unplugged drive doesn't need locks, and if a program puts a file into an inconsistent state and leaves it there because it has a lock? Have they ever heard of crashing or power outages?
> Greece takes on loans in order to pay its pensioners,

Apparently, what actually happened is that Greece took on loans (from the ECB, EU and IMF) in order to pay its previous loans (private banks). The people haven't seen much, if any, of that money.
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Thanks for pointing this out. I'm learning Japanese now and this will be massively helpful.
In the military, getting married to get paid more or to get off-base housing (a "sham" marriage) will get you jailed and dishonorably discharged. The housing allowance gained through the sham marriage is technically larceny -- it's a stolen benefit. [1] [2]

I would not be surprised if college kids in a sham marriage to gain financial aid could be charged with larceny of the financial aid.

Another, less felonious option, is to simply wait until you're 24 to start going to college full-time. Spend a few years going on some ridiculously interesting adventures, and another few years trying out various jobs, and you go to college as a mature adult with some actual life experience and a better idea of how you want to spend your life? I'm surprised it's not much more common. I guess if the cutoff was 21 and not 24 it would be an obvious choice, 6 years only works if you can actually start working in your industry of choice before getting the degree.

[1] - http://archive.armytimes.com/article/20121024/NEWS/210240319...

[2] - afcca.law.af.mil/content/afcca_opinions/cp/hall-38241_pub.pdf
That makes a lot of sense.

However at some point, I expect some kind of approval body that would vet an autonomous car comm, similar to GSM for example. This is also a situation where you don't want bad actors emitting in the wrong frequency band, at the wrong time, with the wrong power, etc..
How much traction did you get? Also you need a website
> Thanks for the excellent resources, I'll look that up.

You're welcome!

> Well, I haven't even created the paid product at this point, it's still early in the game. Just trying to get a feel for the potentials.

Sure, but you're at the top of Hacker News right now and there's zero downside (and lots of upside) in getting your project in front of a bunch of developers. Even if they don't start using it right away, maybe it will stick in their minds and then six months down the track (when you do have a paid version) they'll Google it.
But the "actual" names of the AIs would be in Marain, not English and thus likely wouldn't have the same syntactic ambiguity...
I'm using only mobile version which is a standalone page. I memorized the icon generated for my master password so I can spot if I made a mistake whilst typing.

I also use salted master password for each site, so I'm feeling safe at this.

Regarding "quick hash" or "slow bcrypt" - it doesn't matter here. Bcrypt complexity is to prevent obtaining real password from it's hash. Here we're dealing with real passwords but not hashes.
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Yes, it is definitely realistic. We've seen several projects like Sidekiq (http://sidekiq.org/) that did it.

Another quantitative indicator you can use is number of downloads on relevant package manager (npm, PyPi etc.). These indicators only tell you how big your audience is and not whether your project could provide income. However, having big audience increase chances of success - you have a good position here.

Check out MinoHubs (https://www.minohubs.com). We provide tools that will help you get started with monetizing your project in several ways very quickly. Let us know if you have any questions or if you're missing anything.
Yes. They took on new bailout loans with different people in order to pay their existing loans. They were for that purpose specifically so it shouldn't be too much of a surprise. If they didn't need the money to pay the old loans, they wouldn't have taken new loans. And likewise, since they took out new loans to pay their old loans, it's understandable that the money didn't stay in Greece. Money would only have stayed in Greece if the new loans were even bigger than the old ones. Ultimately, the risk of default was transferred from one group to another.

But, the money was in Greece initially, in the form of the original loans. That money has been propping up the economy and stimulating investment for years. The money should have already had its effect, and now Greece's creditors want it to be paid back. Greece hasn't fixed a lot of its dysfunction, so it seems like the loans haven't accomplished much in the way of permanent benefit.
There are a few podcasts that have discussed this. Typically it is done via support for existing OSS, offered to companies who need to be able to depend on full knowledge & stability of that code. A couple of examples:

1) Redhat

2) "some guy" from one of the podcasts I can't think of at the moment who forks Ruby and keeps a stable, supported version for his corporate clients, while dealing with patches & upgrades on his own to his fork

In both of these cases, you can see that is isn't actually "how many users", but "how many corporate users who need a service that keeps software X completely stable and managed"

So I think from what you've said that it would be a good thing to look into. You may want to contact the guys from http://www.tropicalmba.com/ for a few pointers - this is right up their ally and they are very willing to discuss
Of course he wants a referendum. That way whatever happens people can't blame it on him.

IMO that's the sign of a weak leader.