skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. The Baltic states, Poland, everyone except the southern countries (and I assume Spain with a thriving economy in 2014/2015 will join the club when unemployment drops) is on the same page. But as an excellent demagogue Tsipras knows he needs a simple enemy (Germany) to rally the mob.

2. Yes Germany defaulted, but did not make it it's modus operandi.

Excellent that you've brought up the Marshall plan:

The Marshall plan was essentially the same as what the EU imposes on Greece: "The Marshall Plan required a lessening of interstate barriers, a dropping of many petty regulations constraining business, and encouraged increase productivity, labour union membership, and the adoption of modern business procedures."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan

Where it differed: Beside that the Marshall Plan required European countries (beside Germany e.g. France, Britain, essentially everyone else) to buy from US companies: "Much of the Marshall Plan aid would be used by the Europeans to buy manufactured goods and raw materials from the United States and Canada. [...] The Marshall Plan aid was mostly used for the purchase of goods from the United States" (Same source)

Last interesting tidbit from the Marshall plan "The first substantial aid went to Greece and Turkey in January 1947".
(Same source)

Indeed Greece got nearly twice the money from the Marhsall plan per person compared to Germany.

(For comparision Germany got 1.5B, Greece 0.4B, UK 3.3B, France 2.3B)

2. On war damages: I agree they were not paid and I agree with you on moral grounds, but I'm not sure it is economically relevant. The billions from the EU and the (2015 Euro) Marshall plan did not help, so I would not assume paying war damages would put Greece in a different situation. Except perhaps this makes Germany (see 1) a nice enemy.

While we're at war damages, I don't think Greece has paid war damages for any of the wars it started over the last 2500 years. The invasion of Turkey, the baltic war or going back to the support of Alexander the Great - I wonder if Greece paid war damages to Iran for that. Or to Italy for the occupation and exploitation of Sicily (or the other colonies when Greece was an imperialistic colonial power house). So while I agree that Germany should have paid damages on moral grounds, this is a very slippery slope.

3. Tax cheaters always find moral explainations for their behaviour.
I'm looking at some Noritake data sheets for VFD's.

Looks like you could possibly just use those things as distortion elements.

From the picture it looks like this part is a dual triode device. The groups of three pins on either side are the anode/grid/cathode, and the four pins in the middle are separate filament circuits. 12AX7 and similar tubes usually have only three pins for two filaments: the filaments are in series with a center tap for hooking them up in parallel.

If this thing is similar to VFD's, it can probably run at around 20V for the anode voltage, and a small voltage for the filaments, around 2V.

It would be interesting to develop a tube board for the ADA MP-1 guitar pre-amp with these things. The stock one uses a pair of 12AX7's. A 9V power feed is used for the filaments, and 190V for the anode voltage. That could all be gutted out, and a simpler transformer used which doesn't provide a high voltage tap. The silicon side of the MP-1 runs on +/-15V rails; the same underlying transformer tap could could power the Noritake tubes.
>The disdain for working class culture among academics was part of the reason I choose not to pursue a formal higher education.

I don't have statistics, so this is all anecdotal, but most Professors I have gotten to know well have a favorite team or sport etc. The reality you present sounds more like movies than real life. For example, I can see Dr. Epps from Numb3rs being snoody about sports in a way I have never seen a real Professor be.

Is it possible that it was the popular culture image portrayed of academic attitudes is what stopped you, rather than actual academic attitudes?

> but I am also an academic and an intellectual. Many highly educated people have told me so, I just don't have the paper to prove it.

Do you have problems getting published without "the paper to prove it"? Anyone can be an intellectual if they are intellectual, but at least in my mind, being an academic implies peer-reviewed novel research.
No. We just felt that there should be a place for the community to talk about heroku addons so we made this.
This may be different in the US but in the UK, I would say that small talk about sports, especially football, is much more common among men than women and I was surprised that the article didn't mention this. I've spent a lot of time in female company the last few years and sport is very rarely mentioned, whereas working for a tech company as nearly the only woman, I ended up learning lots about football just to not feel completely left out.

We also have sports such as cricket which are probably a topic of conversation for the middle classes more than the working classes, but then class division is something that we've had centuries to refine!
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It's a classic rhetorical trick.

"My side favors [nuanced, detailed presentation of my faction's views], while the other side favors [simplistic nonsense presented as the other side's view]."
The correct response is to prove this a clear scam. Don't just say it.
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Show HN: A minimal C runtime for Linux i386 and x86_64 in 87 SLOC of C
I wonder of the US northeast counts as a single megacity.
How conflict minerals funded a war that killed millions
Send me your resume on fameoflight@gmail.com if you want to move to SF Bay area and work at Postmates
> Several years ago, I was at a talk by Michael Albert at MIT where he chastised American intellectuals for what he claimed was cultivated disdain of professional sports.

Is that a thing? I've certainly never noticed it from the outside looking in on American intellectualism, or from my more direct experience with educated acquaintances.

My own take is that I enjoy athletic excellence, but disdain the laughably irrational fandom that almost always overwhelms any gathering or discussion involving major televised sports. When there is a controversial judgement made by referees, why is there such a strong correlation because the team you support and the way you think the call should have gone? Why is it always the team you support that the announcers and referees are biased against? It's just so inane and boring that I have zero interest participating in it.
I think the startup/established company debate boils down to personal taste, but I do prefer startups for the control you get over your future. My experience with start ups (at least in their growth phase) was that there was no need to switch positions or leave the company to grow professional, you just grow with the company.
> 0-60 in 4.4 seconds

Why didn't BMW go full electric? The Tesla Model S P85D can do 0-60 in 3.2 seconds, costs less, and can carry a whole family. It isn't quite as sexy, but it's close.
Also based out of Cleveland -- feel free to contact me privately if you'd like to be put in touch with a few people.

My suggestion would be to go to some of the meetup groups. CleRB, ClePY, NodeJS, Burning River Developers, there's plenty of others. Dont' be scared to go outside of your area of expertise. Check out some of the startup groups... LaunchHouse, Bizdom, Flash Starts.
Can this be mitigated by shielding the CPU? And are aluminum macbooks already shielded from this?
Avoid CISSP.
> Do she really believe he has no idea where his arrow is going?

Has no idea? Of course not. But there's a magnitude of difference between knowing roughly where your arrow is going within 10 to 20 feet, and within 30 to 40 yards. Olympic archers are accurate at 70 yards. Not to mention that longer distances also increasingly force an archer to take into account that arrow trajectory is not going to be a straight line, but an arch both vertically and horizontally.
Systemd is probably the most polarizing change I've seen come to Linux in recent memory.
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Affect =/= affectation, if that's what you meant to say.
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Thanks for the feedback. pearmarket.co was kind of thrown together for this small beta test we ran in november. I haven't taken the time to update it.
The problem established N^2 as the given, and implied N^1 is the lower bound, by demanding an explanation for it being that way.

In a group of N people, there are N x (N-1) potential direct 1-to-1 interactions, and (N-1) x (N-2) interactions with one predetermined intermediary. Those are both N^2 terms. Per capita, it would be an N^1 term. At the human scale of around 150 personal relationships, everybody knows everybody, so the burden for anyone is knowing everyone else.

Beyond that size, you need at least one intermediary. There are N x (N-1) x (N-2) interactions between two people with an unspecified intermediary. That is an N^3 term, so N^2 per capita. The burden there is knowing at least one person that knows the person you want to deal with. At another critical size, again dependent on human social limits, you can no longer effectively use friend-of-a-friend connections.

Then you create sociological systems to take the place of personal intermediaries. These tend to scale relatively proportionally with the size of the population. A road system for a town with twice the population will be about twice as big. Miles of road per person will be similar near the median town size. The same goes for cops per person and sewer pipes per person and cash available for withdrawal from bank branches per person, and so on. For simplicity, we can just assume that all the systems of civil society scale according to N. So now all trades with two counterparties have complexity N x N x (N-1), which is again an N^3 term with an N^2 per-capita component. But the scale of the system is not necessarily N^1. We just know it's a positive number. So the per-capita coordination burden is more rightfully N^(1+something).

That "something" can be found by performing a statistical analysis of city budgets by city population. That seems like a task for someone more interested in the topic than I am.
I am an immigrant. Grew up in the Eastern Bloc - no exposure to computers until high-school (given country), but tons of exposure in school to math, etc. Even in high-school, CS was absolutely more popular with boys and they were enacting the "hacker" model as they perceived it from distance, so there was some "girls don't belong here" attitude, but frankly, once you know you can do it, that stuff is much easier to ignore :). Again, they didn't know what "hacker" meant, more like adolescent posturing.
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I haven't thought of this. Thanks!
> I think professional sports are the closest we have to real-life dramas, tragedies, or even comedies, and they have profound life lessons.

I think anyone who thinks this is spending too much attention on professional sports and not enough on real life: because there is plenty of actual real-life drama, tragedy, and comedy; professional sports are not the "closest we have" to those things (though there is some of all three in professional sports.)
Great to read. Fingers crossed for the project.
Aye, and that goes both ways. Many normal activities are labelled "intellectual" and actively avoided by people who don't want this label.

In this light, there's no need to single out nerds/intellectuals/whatevers. We can just say that cultivating an active disinterest to isolate yourself from others is generally a bad thing.
That's a (very good but) modern rule. I can't say for sure, but I suspect it originated as a specific weapons safety rule with Jeff Cooper in the late 80s or so.

The concept of "the gun is always loaded" or "never point it at anything you don't want to shoot" is an old one however. But it took a while for the belt-and-suspenders approach to become popular, and historically people seemed comfortable enough with their finger on the trigger. (It's rare to see anything else in historical photos.)

A fair reminder for today, but nobody'd have told the General so at the time.
"Today's Apps" is a strong headline when there is only one app actually being discussed, and even the author acknowledges the strong probability that the app itself is meant to be satirical.
The author also forgets to tell the german people that he is going to just steal from them 160€ billion.
Why are you assuming that this is in fact a new discovery? We don't know what the hell it is because the inventor won't tell us. Until someone can attempt to replicate the results it should be viewed as a scan.
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Not liking sports doesn't make you a snob or elitist. Its when a percentage of people who don't like sports put down people who do that these words come into play.
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The Cleveland food scene has had a pretty remarkable renaissance over the past few years. Downtown is growing as more people live there (occupancy rates upwards of 99% as apartments can't be converted fast enough to meet demand). We have seed accelerators. The arts are perfectly fine here. University Circle has more cultural and art institutions within one square mile than any other square mile in the country. There is plenty of live music and touring acts come here frequently.
People tend to view football as a bunch of dumb lugs pushing each other around, but theres crazy amounts of raw physical strength, finesse, and smarts involved. Each play might involve linemen pushing defenders one way or another to mislead them just long enough to let the ball carrier run through. Watching a great run play unfold is truly amazing, especially at the professional level where the players are basically freaks of nature/superhuman.

Then theres the Odell Beckham catch from earlier this year which is just an insane feat of athleticism:
http://www.gfycat.com/PointedKindheartedAtlanticsharpnosepuf...

2 years ago I thought football was stupid. Then I started actually watching it and realized theres a lot more to it than I gave it credit for. Now I highly anticipate the start of each season.
This type of attack is often mitigated by making the entire room a faraday cage. I know that many SCIF[1] facilities where top secret information is kept have more or less faraday cages as part of the walls to conform with the TEMPEST standards.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Informa...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_%28codename%29
1) Sprint on a side project using tech you're excited about to keep you motivated while you're looking for jobs in parallel. Don't limit your job search geographically but also don't rush to leave unless the opportunity is worth it.

2) ClojureScript, React, Datomic are my preferences. A well-designed language with JS as a compilation target, React Native, and a graph database with ACID guarantees and scalable reads are powerful tools.

My story:

I was fired 2 weeks after moving to a suburb ~90 min from nyc (employer had ok'd remote work, oh well). I came up with a good side project using all the technologies I was excited about and sprinted on that while I 1) signed up for unemployment, 2) updated resume, 3) updated linkedin, 4) started looking at freelancing marketplaces, 5) go to all the relevant meetups, etc. This worked really well because it gave me something fun to focus on while grinding through all these job channels.

3 weeks later I found a local job using some of the technologies I was excited about (Clojure, ClojureScript and Datomic!) and I'm working there now. The market is nuts.
I have the ebook version, it's fine if you're ok with ebooks for this sort of stuff.
As I mentioned the code that writes the event to the db notifies the client about it, so it knows about the client. This isn't really an issue.

In the case of an exchange I never split a single order book across multiple servers, but I can imagine a lot of applications where this could be an issue. How do you handle data consistency across nodes? Ultimately you have to solve the same issue...

Again, this isn't a big limitation for my use case. That said your answer has certainly given me a greater understanding of other circumstances where it would be very useful. Thank you.
Constructive Manslaughter
Just a random addition. Someone in this thread posited that this was "Patty" as mentioned in this blog post I read today.

http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/unreasonable...

I just thought it was incredibly interesting how a person can be so polarizing. This person acts like she walks on water!
To be fair, disinterest and contempt are very different things.

Saying "I'm not interested in X" has very different connotations from "I can't see why anybody is interested in X".
Just curious, do you know what someone with training would do differently with a modern weapon? I imagine there's more to it than hold it tight or wait between taking shots.
Sounds like you're in a fine position to follow some dreams and set yourself for a future in either startups or freelancing (both of which offer a lot of freedom).

> would you stay in a smaller city?

I think you should. Your cost of living is much lower there than what it would be in a major metro, so it's much easier to afford a great life (especially if you're looking to build a family).

It sounds like doing some contracting would be a great opportunity for you. Generally nobody screens contractors for their CS skills—what matters is that you can execute. Also, having a product-driven focus can be a major asset: user empathy is one of the biggest things I look for in developers.

If you're interested in working on some Javascript for Cafe.com, I've hired a number of contractors of HN and would be happy to talk to you. morgante@cafe.com
In high school geography they called it a megalopolis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopolis_%28city_type%29

And the US Eastern Seaboard was the canonical example, from Northern Virginia/DC up through Boston is about 50M people.
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This reminds me of RiftSketch[1]! Maybe you should get in touch with brian_peiris :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8411638
Care-O-bot 4 – mobile robot assistant to support humans in domestic environments
internet security agents aren't cyber police. Presumably no law is broken if a company has a security flaw in their processes.
Why a SaaS company helped competitors generate leads at AWS re:Invent
I need inspiration at specific time and for that a periodic email is not going to cater me well. Would you consider delivering this in some other format - for example online gallery that is available when I need it?
This seems so obvious I'm baffled I didn't immediately think of it.
I could have phrased it better, but my reference to dramas, tragedies, and comedies was specifically in reference to the theatrical tradition of them (hence not real-life).

Unlike those, sports are not scripted, they unfold in real time. Sure, other real-life situations have this, but sports are one of the few stages where millions or billions watch and share in the same experience.
I'd argue that the big money in education is contributing to financial inequality as much as any CEO or attorney.
Admittedly people don't find that out until they've already decided to click, which they might not if they expect it will take 10 minutes. :)

Maybe we should change the button text to "60-second demo" or something...
It is a megalopolis! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis

"A megalopolis (sometimes improperly called a megapolis) or megaregion is typically defined as a chain of roughly adjacent metropolitan areas. The term was used by Patrick Geddes in his 1915 book Cities in Evolution,[1] by Oswald Spengler in his 1918 book, The Decline of the West, and Lewis Mumford in his 1938 book, The Culture of Cities, which described it as the first stage in urban overdevelopment and social decline."

vs megacity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacity

"A megacity is usually defined as a metropolitan area with a total population in excess of ten million people.[1] A megacity can be a single metropolitan area or two or more metropolitan areas that converge. The terms conurbation, metropolis and metroplex are also applied to the latter."

NYC alone is a megacity. The US northeast is a megalopolis.
I won't deny that there's a cultural aspect but I've never been into team sports for the same reason I'm not into religion. When I was a kid I realized that thinking your home team is better than everyone else's is something that happens just because of where you are. It's the reason why people believe that Jesus is better than Buddha or Mohammed also, or any other ordering of those three.

Teams sports amplify and dignify an "us versus them" dynamic. I think that part of us is one of the most problematic aspects of our nature.
That's very interesting; I really appreciate your sharing.

Do you have any theories as to why, even in high school -- both in the US and the country you grew up in -- CS is more popular with boys than girls? And do you have any suggestions for how that could be changed?
Penny Arcade's comic today comments on the fact that Joystiq itself was reporting on rumors of its upcoming demise: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/01/30/godspeed
Thank zeus for this article. Sports is a 4 letter word in a lot of social circles (academia, tech to a decent extent) and it usually just reeks of pretentiousness. I find myself having to be unusually careful not to bring up sports when talking to anyone in tech I don't know well, whereas I rarely have that issue outside of it.

Congratulations, you dismissed the entirety of American football as "roid rage violence". You also have an encyclopedic knowledge of internet memes, so I'm not sure I really trust your judgement vis a vis what qualifies as a worthwhile endeavor.

> Sports aren't intellectual

> Sports talk is glorified tabloid talk

Go to a sabermetrics conference and prepare to be baffled. Nate Silver got his start as a baseball writer.

> Sports are overly violent

So is GTA 5. Watching sports doesn't make a person any more violent than playing video games does. Sports-related violence is semi-frequent and deplorable, but blaming sports for causing drunken boorish behavior is just like blaming Doom for Columbine.

Most professional athletes are well aware of what they're getting into these days [1], so I don't buy arguments about "protecting the athletes" as a reason to ban sports entirely either (augmenting the rules to decrease injury rates, sure, absolutely).

> I'm not going to pretend to like something I don't like

That's fine. Just don't be a pretentious asshole about it. I can't even begin to count the number of times a conversation has navigated to sports one way or another, and some jackass decides to one-up the group by going on a 5 minute monologue about how ignorant they are of sports because they're too busy with "intellectual pursuits".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JMsWtObHhE#t=30s
There are all kinds of exposed wires on a computer system that extend beyond the case. Even shielded, you could still get RF/EM off of something. To protect a system from this kind of an attack vector requires deliberate design choices and testing. You're not going to get it "by accident"
I disagree. Using a probably hyperbolic metaphor: I don't want to be a slave but neither do I wish to be anybody else's master.
You are wrong on the terminology; the line is a bit blurry, a submachine gun is a carbine designed to fire handgun ammunition, wheras a machine pistol is a pistol that is either select-fire or fully-automatic.

The Thompson, with a fixed-stock and foregrip is clearly an SMG by that definition.

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Here's a machine pistol[1] (though you can get longer barrels and either a foldable or fixed stock, at which point it gets confusing)

1: http://www.thespecialistsltd.com/replica-mac-10