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Actually that is true. He was referring to Greece having a budget surplus, not a plan. They missed their target surplus but still had a budget surplus for 2014 of near 2 billion euros.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/greece-misses-target-on-budget-s...
I remember months after Eich resigned I was looking at new phones and I asked the salesperson if FirefoxOS was compatible with their network. She said she didn't support Mozilla because of how they had acted towards the LGBT community and that Android was the open and respectful platform I was looking for. It was very forceful, and it was clear that any further discussion of FirefoxOS meant I was a bad person.

It was so bizarre I didn't even engage on the topic, she didn't even realize they had won. She was on the clock at work representing her company, she even was training another employee. It was so unexpected that I didn't realize what had happened until it was over.
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Can't sign up without a referrer header. :(
Looking at the docs it doesn't appear this is meant to stream to the client, but to the server. From there you would still need to manage queues and sockets, etc.. I've had to write several exchanges that do something along these lines (stream order data to a client) and I've always accomplished it by having the code that writes to the db also push a client update to a queue.

I guess my question is why would this be a preferred solution? It seems to run afoul to the 'one job' design goal. What am I missing?
Wages and infrastructure are key factors, but they're not the complete story. Other countries have lower wages, yet import more per-capita.
In theory that's the central bank's job. 2 issues, though...

1 - It can be hard to tell the difference between solvency and liquidity. What's a derivative of an MBS really worth? Or a CDO that's made off of other CDOs that are trading at an undetermined liquidity discount? Or a unique plot of real estate?

2 - The bailout decisions are often political, as well as based on imperfect reads of fundamentals.

Yes, the FDIC provides run protection from both bad banks and good. Protecting bad is the price of protecting the good.
Ive noticed a lot of public wifis are putting each host in its own vlan/subnet.
Would that inhibit this?
Frankly I'm more concerned about an industry built on shit -- shit that I see not being worth a whole lot in the future, and then there's a whole lot of well trained but not so well developed programmers on the market that are all laid off who aren't in demand to build cheap shitty apps anymore because the VC isn't there. Second collapse. I'm trying really damn hard to switch to A.I. or video game developer - or perhaps go to school for education in biology and apply programming to that area.
Try to retain your former boss as a customer, likely they'll need you two weeks time.
That was my thought too , i don't think CISSP has big weight in this industry .
A lot of the mechanical keyboards on the market have Cherry switches inside. While the IBM Model M is timeless, Cherry has been around forever as well (founded in the 1950s, started making keyboards in 1967) and their MX switches are about the same age as the IBM Model M (early-mid 80s). The age/tried-and-true/original argument has little weight here.

edit: also what falcolas said about being able to choose your switch, Cherry has half a dozen ones with different tactile and sound profiles [1] [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZF_Electronics#Cherry_switches...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=cherry+switches&tbm=isch
Is 834-29-1293 your actual SSN? :\
"But more generally, it shows that bitcoin isn’t always as anonymous as it’s made out to be."
It's never been anonymous, that's a pernicious myth.
Sorry, not news.
Of course they tracable, that's the whole point of the Blockchain.
Pseudonymous != Anonymous
Anyone who's up to date on bitcoin tech should know this.
GE is available for Linux too - but I don't know if the Pro version has additional features from Windows/Mac
On a quick read before I've entirely finished my morning coffee, Hawking radiation will still exist.

The argument seems to go like this:

1) the event horizon in GR is infinitely sharp
2) gravity's rainbow implies nothing can be infinitely sharp (because that requires space and time to exist on scales below the Planck scale)
3) therefore gravity's rainbow implies the event horizon does not exist at those scales

Above those scales, something that looks very much like the event horizon still exists. The time taken to fall into a black hole will still be very long, just not infinite. Presumably the details of the theory show how this happens, which is the interesting bit. It's one thing to say "Hey, maybe the horizon is smooth or doesn't exist at small scales!" but to be useful the theory has to show how reality will actually behave if that is the case.

With regard to using black holes as power sources: if we have the technology to do that we'd be unlikely to need black holes as power sources.
I disagree.

The solvency problem is ongoing, even regardless of current debts.

Greece cannot raise more taxes. It's trying, but taxes are declining. A government system can't be reformed in a few years and achieve 40% savings without (a) causing mass unemployment and knock on effects, further reduction in tax base, etc and (b) massive reduction in government services, including those necessary for economic activity that is necessary in order to "put those resources to their highest value use" to borrow some vocabulary from the more free market side of the debate.

Think of the US' Detroit. Decline breeds decline. Once the Government cannot keep the roads or pay the cops people leave and tax declines further and on it goes.

I realize that Keynsian economics is unpopular here and I am pretty sympathetic to free market ideas myself. Greece is in a bing that we don't know how to solve. Unless creative destruction of Sovereign States is on the table (easy to say when you're far enough away) what real options other than inflation are there?

If Greece defaulted tomorrow, and all the banks and lenders took the loss without collapsing the financial system again, what then? Greece would not be able to pay salaries the following day without borrowing money.

I have the same reaction as I assume you do when I see Greeks demanding government jobs when that is what caused this. But, that doesn't mean "austerity" is working. We have seen pretty much no cases of countries rapidly slashing their spending and managing to stabilize their budgets. Inflation (AKA monetary easing, printing money..) is the way countries get out of these binds.

I genuinely like a lot of Austrian-inspired ideas for putting losses where they belong, and allowing market feedback to do its job. But nothing guarantees that a government will not run into insolvency at some point. At EU scale, its practically guaranteed once a decade (once every 300 years per country).

We still need to answer the question "What happens when a State is insolvent?" Printing money carries risks and costs, but it works. What else works?
The Pirate Party's lone MEP might just fix copyright across the EU
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Sure, but I think almost anything is better here than "Sandstorm is an open source platform for personal servers."
They seem to have abandoned separate but similarly named Google Earth Engine also...

I wonder what's next.
Ok. Is my credibility at stake now? :) You should read his article on AWS Lambda, in case you think he is one sided - http://research.gigaom.com/2015/01/why-aws-lambda-is-a-maste...
Where is it that space does not exist? The headline seems like a contradiction in terms.
am I required to study all these to be considered for a job at Matasano ? That seems a lot of things ?
It's a shame they haven't updated it, but I guess the WebGL-based "earth" now in Maps is the replacement.

(As an aside, I find the code-signing in OSX to be pretty crooked -- charging $100/year just to allow people with default settings to run your executables seems pretty sketchy. If it really was about security, I would expect at most a one-time fee, with Apple reserving the right to revoke your key if your programs contain malware.)
That sucks. I jumped from the world of tech into starting my own agency. There seems to be a lot of crappy agencies and firms out there that use questionable tactics to get the job done faster and for cheaper rather than correctly. I think it stems from not wanting to leave any money on the table. Rather than only taking clients that are a good fit culturally or have realistic goals, they take everyone. When you take everyone it pretty quickly turns into a race to the bottom and you end up with shoddy work.
Does anyone else see this a move to try and get people "hooked on" Google Earth over other more open options (such as TopOSM)?
> 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.

You should have gone with how we suck up the the US all the time; that would have been a way better put down. Given what went on in Greece over the last couple of years, I'd recommend you drop the nazi references for the time being.
If we're going to compare apples to apples, the Yangtze River Delta (including Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and other cities, all of which are very close to each other), is substantially bigger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_River_Delta
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I'm on record [1] as skeptical of the heat measurement techniques, especially on the output side.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8435322
It's my own, but I'd like to think that Cachet (https://CachetHQ.io), although in beta is a good replacement for StatusPage.io
Everybody says it's a fraud. But you have to admit it's a very long fraud (5 years?) and nobody complained about loses yet. It's not a fullfilled fraud therefore it's not a fraud yet. To me Rossi looks more like a good entertainer performing a magic routine: he pretends to pull energy out of nowhere, the energy seems to appear, nobody loses money and nobody can use that energy (at least not yet) and the enthusiastic public screams "it's a fraud !!!"
It's a part of it. But greece was insolvent not just because of historical debt but because of the budget/tax ratio.
Please can you elaborate?
Prefixes for binary multiples (Ki, Mi, Gi... you should use 1 MiB not 1 MB)
It's works a bit different than 'releasing a key': http://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-u2f-v1.0-ps-20141009/fido...
How does it compare to sqlite? (Yes, sqlite can do K/V if you structure your table simply.)
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Because it's not all about the E-Cat. "Parkhomov has openly revealed his reactor design, ingredients used and experimental process, which is not terribly complex, and this allows for further experimentation to take place in the public domain, not under a cloak of secrecy"

I'm still a skeptic until plenty other people replicate it, but it's nice to see that some cold fusion researchers are acting like scientists now.
Sports are so prevalent that if you're not interested, it must be an affect :)

I can watch some sports for a while (basketball and football), but after a couple hours it gets pretty boring, plus I've probably had some beers so the combination tends to make me sleepy. It was exciting when I was in college and rooting for my team at the stadium and all that, but how people connect with teams outside of such a setting has never really made sense to me. I'm from Pittsburgh, a city that loves their team, but it just doesn't connect with me for whatever reason. I'd prefer if they win, sure. But that's about all.

And there is a lot of new info to keep on top of, every day. It strikes me as somewhat of a serious commitment to be into sports, and though I like sports a bit, that commitment isn't worth it to me. As I said, I can watch a game alright (or really more like half to 3/4 of a game), but knowing which players are good, who's having a good season, who is the new coach, etc, it's just way too much uninteresting information. Like learning times tables again, or something.
On the face of it, it does sound really bad, yes. However, the E-Cat is a longstanding project and whatever the nature of the process behind the anomolous results, it is gaining an increased amount of attention from groups working around the world, including NASA. If the independent replication attempt is the real deal any group of scientists will be able to investigate and verify it now, because the details are provided out in the open.

And the implications are enormous. If the process is real and robust it will mark the start of a new era in energy generation. It's a total game changer.

I have been following the E-Cat for a while and it has all the hallmarks of a scam, an incredibly elaborate scam if it proves the case. But it also could be a real revolution in the making. I think that makes it worth reporting on. Especially if this replication turns out to be valid.
Oops, fixed. Yes, don't take copy directly from a hastily written Hacker News post :)
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There are some great presentations on YouTube from the Chaos Communication Congress and similar conferences about the abyssmal security of PLC-controlled industry stuff, including prisons. It is exactly as you say. They think their systems are too obscure for anyone to figure out. Of course, they hire the cheapest talent they can find to bang the things together in the first place and constantly look for ways to cut staff and replace developers and security personnel with newer (cheaper) people all the time, so they never end up with anything of any significant complexity. Even many places that think their networks are airgapped turn out not to be. In one prison discussed during one talk I watched, the prison had a commissary or something run by McDonald's... someone had connected to the commissaries Internet connection giving the Internet a direct route into all the insecure systems controlling the prison.
I do not get the brogrammer reference.
In summary, you should try liking things that a lot of other people like because you might like them yourself and it will help you make conversation with those that also like them.
Stuff like this is what happens when you let metrics drive your vision instead of the other way around.
Another attractive element of these games is the moral questions that sometimes arise. I know this is particularly true in "This War of Mine" (e.g. - choosing to take in a starving child that comes knocking on your door, but who also becomes a resource burden on your small tribe).

Questioning and reflecting on decision making, moral choice, and consequences of (in)action are a central focus of literature study, so I would love to know about additional games in this vein that I could potentially bring into my classroom as 'game-texts'.

Suggestions?
this whole [0],[1] thing is so retarded
I love using the built-in flight sim (flying over mountains and pausing to check out Panoramio photos is cool) but I was surprised to find how old the binary is. Hope they don't completely drop it. :-(
That did seem like a strange omission, agreed. Neither is quite what we would traditionally have called a 'city', though - Tokyo is an entire prefecture (aka state, or province, depending on how your country divides its regions), the PRD is a Gibsonesque Sprawl of huge cities and smaller ones. So while I agree with the general premise that these are the largest urbanized areas in human history, we will need to revise our terminology to call them cities (or they'll need to implement a single local government, tax structure, address and street naming, etc. to fit the exiting definition).
I agree with yer maw :P. I done a degree in Physics and we would get asked questions like this all the time - unseen, but with the definitions you need included mid sentence. We had our fair share of complaints about professors to make but this seems a little entitled/lazy. shrug
We're a LAMP shop that is doing more and more angular. I contract with many HNers. Please email johnny d0t goodman @ cpap d07 com if interested in discussing further and setting up a fizzbuzz.
> I'm not an economist, so I might be totally wrong, but for a regular person an investment (of this scale) in Greece was obviously a bad move, at least in hindsight. It's sad for Greece, but they where just casualties of their own politicians and a Euro they should never have been allowed to be part of in the first place.

Well you have to understand that what happened was an indirect financing of German-French private banks via Greece. Germany was never really interested into helping. They are just ripping a dead body with the permission of Greek corrupted political parties who ruled the country for ~40 years.
What does Datomic have to do with a brief history of databases? Datomic only came out in 2012. Your comment seems like a shameful plug that has no place here.
The issue here is that we know Greece is not as competitive in exports as Germany. So what can Greece do to run a trade surplus while in a common currency union with Germany? They are not able to depreciate their currency. They are not allowed to put up tariffs either. Also, where does the German do with their export surplus. They don't just hide it under the mattress. German banks is also looking for a outlet, however, Greece is not allowed to implement capital control to block the inflow. So the only alternative is to out compete Germany or some other Euro-zone countries (but this just substitute Greece for some other PIGS).

The key here is that for everyone in the world, the trade surplus and deficit must sum to zero. So someone has to run a trade deficit if German/Japan/China wants to run a trade surplus. German now wants the entire eurozone to run a trade surplus which means someone else must run a even bigger trade deficit.

BTW, it is in theory possible for Greece to run a government budget surplus but a trade deficit. This would mean that the private sector is loading up on the debt. Even in this case, the private sector is really the banks which has to be backstopped by the government anyway. So bank debt is just another form of government debt.
>Thompson wrote in a 1918 memo to firearms designers.: "I want a little machine gun you can hold in your hands, fire from the hip and reload in the dark. You must use ammunition now available and I want it right away."

While not of the same magnitude of the actual moon landing, that must have seemed like quite a moonshot in 1918.
I didn't, embarrassingly because I've never used Docker and didn't feel like learning another tool while I set all this up. I need to though.
Seeing the same on latest Chrome for Mac.
It would be trivial to pipe the output of the stream to the `client` yourself. The benefit of that being that rethink doesn't have to auth the clients.

This is a preferred solution because the only efficient alternative is to inspect every insert or update, manually determining which clients care about those changes.
Below commenters are correct - the blog platform.
>If you believe in the Planck scale (and almost everyone does)

What? The idea that spacetime is quantized is most definitely not widely accepted. Spacetime is presumed to be continuous by basically every mainstream physicist (though most will admit that we don't have conclusive evidence either way, we only know that spacetime is not quantized down to a certain scale (which is short of the planck length by a good deal)). I personally think spacetime is quantized, but the only physicists pursuing the consequences of such an idea tend to be the fringe ones...
I don't have much actionable advice, but - this is a good time to be a JS dev. If you just built an Angular app you should be in demand. I bet you are pretty shaken, so just keep in mind that you're overall in a good spot.

Good luck out there, sorry to hear it. For whatever it's worth, I know people who got fired from jobs that turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to them.

I am from Pittsburgh. I would recommend moving west for all sorts of reasons, but I know that's not realistic for everyone. Look into it if you can.
Oh come on. "Elected leader of a sovereign nation". You gotta be kidding me. Merkel is the elected leader of a sovereign nation significantly more powerful than Greece will ever be, and yet, Obama is listening to her phone calls and she can't do anything about it.

One of the first things he did was meet with officials from other EU countries, no? Concluding that he's not gonna do anything for the time being. Go figure.
For something similar check out Outerra. Only the paid version has vehicles, but it is really nice, especially in VR.
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> Greece cooked its books and Greek debt holders at the time of the bail out were suffering the consequences of lending to a fiscally irresponsible state.

You (and many others) are doing again the same mistake: Everyone KNEW that the books were cooked. When Germany had to choose a pm for Greece after Papandreou's resignation, he choose the guy (Papademos) who acted as a bridge between Greece and Goldman Sachs in 2001. Do you that it is a coincidence? It's propaganda, politics to justify what was about to happen in Greece!

I'm not saying Greece had no fault. It sure as hell Greece has it's own false, but don't for a moment believe that at some point in time Germany (or other major EU partners) were deceived by a Greece.
No, not at all. They don't seem to be actively pushing Earth and seem to be pushing aspects of it in Maps instead. It doesn't look like a heavy push to "hook" people on Earth.
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Greece and Germany both profit from a Grexit, it is middle tier countries that will suffer with the demise of the EU.
I suspect the `....` isn't part of the canonical URL, despite the site serving the same content either way. URL should be http://pandoralive.info/?p=4488
Re power source, I think the idea is you have a small, quickly evaporating black hole (electrically charge so you can hold it in place?)

And you feed matter into it, and immediately get radiation back due to hawking radiation equivalent to e=mc^2 of the matter you dropped in?
That's a great question. We published a blog post earlier this week explaining why building realtime features into the database is so exciting: http://rethinkdb.com/blog/realtime-web/
Perhaps people don't take it seriously because it sounds a lot like "double secret probation"?
15-20 years ago Germany was the sick man of Europe. Labour market reforms in line with an industrialization boom in Asia restored the competitiveness of her industrial economy.

The real problem with this argument is that they are too short-sighted. Germany cannot artificially reduce its competitiveness to appease other EU countries, because competition happens on a global stage and so the EU would simply lose out further to North America and Asia.

Your are correct that Germany should spend more on infrastructure.
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Greece elected Papandreou who is to be largely to blame for initiating this regime. However, I don't agree that was not forced upon Greece... Greece was exploited from day one[1].

[1] https://anestis.quora.com/Links-to-credible-sources-about-Gr...