skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> while refusing to allow equivalent imports

That very much is in citation needed territory, please give at least one example of how Germany is refusing intra-European imports in any category. Free trade is one of the cornerstones of the EU, Germany imposing a tariff or blockading goods produced elsewhere in Europe would make some pretty fat headlines.
> only 3 possible bad outcomes

4. All south European people stop buying german products until the end of the actual bullying.

This is a no-no win for all.

The fact that the german people are not the same as the german government can not be ignored. Germans are suffering also this trap, carefully placed by a few. People at the South were increasedly thinging that a percentage of the debt is simply faked by banksters and not our responsability at all.
Chemists find a way to unboil eggs
Angular is hot. You're very employable, in whatever capacity you want to be.

Post in the hiring/freelancer threads that come out Sunday (and January's, if you want). Apply to positions that interest you.
> Germany is one of the riches countries on this planet.

A lot of that riches comes from the fact that EUR is a common currency both of economically successful countries like Germany and of economically weak countries like Greece. That makes the currency artificially undervalued, which boosts German exports and hurts Greek imports, making Germany more competitive and Greece less competitive (longer comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8954377).

I think it's time Germany admits to that and pays its dues, by which I mean help finance the rest of EU (via a fiscal union).
Why 2015 Needs to Be the Year of Security Awareness
The most biases typically exist in selecting sourcing channels and the subsequent shortlist of resumes.

Like "The Voice", it's the initial filters that need more calibrating.
Here is what I want to know. What role does the Greek central bank play? What is the fractional reserve rate in Greece? What is the interest rate set by the central bank? How is the money generated in the first place and what are the return rates and restrictions on that method (eg: in US it's treasury bonds)?

I'm increasingly convinced that central banks operate only marginally on the interest of the country they serve, enough so they don't ruin everything, but instead are primarily (and counter to what many economists will say) working for their own profit. Keep in mind that profit is actually usually in the form of political and economic power, but not money directly. Of course I'm coming from the American perspective where I think the Federal Reserve Act was passed on suspicious circumstances by suspicious men for suspicious reasons and that congress should stick to the constitution and control coin itself and not allow some outside potentially foreign entity to control our money system, but hey, every economist I know just says trust the Fed so they must be right.
Mac Media Keys and Google Chrome
With enough gain, anything can be used for computing!
It’s Time to Clear Up the Confusion About the Future of Google Glass
Does this help?

http://www.irisreading.com/speed-reading/speed-reading-tips-...
You spend multiple sentences telling us the wrong reasons U.S. went into Iraq. Pray tell, what is the real reason U.S. invaded Iraq?
Given that I have absolutely no real understanding of chemistry, what implications does this have?
Yeah, I guess I wasn't thinking about people who are really struggling. There might be a point where it is bad enough that it would be too heavy for a kid.
@sharkweek The problem here is that SEO companies are usually not equipped to solve those problems. Their developers are usually secondary roles in the company, and might even be second-rate themselves.

Also, good/real SEO usually requires content writers. Which is an ongoing process, and is probably not worth the cost to most small businesses.
Interesting that Mongol archers on horseback, in teams of 10 I believe, were the dominant military force over a vast part of euro-asia.

You have some good points about the viral videos, but watching them gives credence to how scary 10 Mongol bowmen riding on fast horses could be to their opponents.
I can't see where we can estimate the per-capita consumption though. We know the communication cost and the per-capita production, but I don't see how I can derive total consumption from that.

Also, gamma has a loop in it and the function we're dealing with is a surjection, so its graph can't have a loop.
Maybe they do value design. Maybe they just value different designs than you.
Now with Kinja, Gawker is kinda fulfilling that vision...
The talk "Database History from Codd to Brewer and Beyond" by Doug Turnbull while not representative of entire database history. Gives pretty good motivations for why things are the way they are.
Talk link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiXoEQzf-Zg
Blog link: http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2013/12/11/codds-relat...
Not "rewrite". You do have to tweak apps to be Sandstorm-appropriate, but it's usually somewhere between five minutes and a couple days of work. Namely:

* Delete the login system and use Sandstorm's. If you build on Meteor, for instance, this is a simple matter of swapping dependencies.

* Delete your sharing system. If the app hosts multiple things that can be independently shared, change it to host only one such thing. The user can create multiple instances of the app and using Sandstorm's sharing. This is probably the hardest part, but we've done it for several apps now without too much trouble. Since it's largely deleting code, it's not very difficult.

* Find the places where your app connects to the outside world and insert a bit of code to make a Sandstorm powerbox request to get permission first, then address the requests to that permission.

None of this involves "rewriting". We have 20+ apps on the Sandstorm app list, most of which were ported by two people who certainly didn't have time to rewrite each one.
Hey! @hausdorff (Hi Alex!) below already commented on it, but feel free to hit me up. We do things with devdiv and there are a bunch of people who're into releasing things - just hit me up via email (felix.rieseberg@microsoft.com), I'm happy to chat about it!
Would this imply hawking radiation doesn't exist? Can we no longer use black holes as a potential energy source?
Oh. My. God. (irony intended).

Here you completely agree with my original point. But you're only willing to point fingers at the other dominant religion and take umbrage that your own flavor of Abrahamism could ever inspire bad behavior.
What the Sharing Economy Takes
It probably wouldn't be too hard to do something like

grep "foo"
& "recursive" <~ True
& "maxCount" <~ 100

in a typesafe way. It just probably wouldn't be worth the complexity. It also probably couldn't be a straight `IO` action then, which was a design constraint of Gabriel's.
> "forced depression"

Nothing about Greece's current situation was forced on them. Sure, lots of politicking went on and the current situation was definitely engineered to benefit others, but Greece was effectively bankrupt and in default prior to the bailout. You just can't tolerate the level of corruption [1], tax avoidance, and union greed that Greece tolerated for so long. A normal sovereign default would have been just as painful, but in different ways. Greece as a country decided it wanted to stay in the Eurozone, thus picking its poison.

Comments like this remind me of people like Cristina Fernandez of Argentina, obsessed about the pain of their economic situation to the extent that awareness of how they got there in the first place is lost.

Greece got itself into a very deep shithole with only two main ways out. People look at the hardship of the current path out and see that it's obviously painful, then make the classic fallacy of the-grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/greece-most-c...
Does that really happen? Because that would be awesome.
> told to use Swift arrays as we would C arrays

Until you can declare a fixed-length Swift array, or a Swift array that isn't copy-on-write by default, or a fixed-length Swift array that doesn't live on the heap, this can't possibly be true, no matter what you think you've been told.

> it should be usable for low level, high performance programming but "safer than C".

With optimizations turned on, the 'Swift []' code comes within 3x of the performance of the ObjC code. Lots of room for improvement, but not abysmal either.

> Furthermore, using UnsafeMutablePointers in Swift makes the program a magnitude larger than the corresponding C program...It is a last resort, not something you should use all of the time.

I agree.
It appears to not be off-shore but Canadian local (Montreal).
Science/Engineering/Technical forum: A place to share practical knowledge
Talk to a lawyer, practicing medicine with out a license comes immediately to mind.

It looks like it might be covered under identity fraud:
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story....

May want to reach out to your local prosecutor and avoid those legal fees :)

Section 403 CCC:
403. (1) Everyone commits an offence who fraudulently personates another person, living or dead,

(a) with intent to gain advantage for themselves or another person;

(b) with intent to obtain any property or an interest in any property;

(c) with intent to cause disadvantage to the person being personated or another person; or

(d) with intent to avoid arrest or prosecution or to obstruct, pervert or defeat the course of justice.

Clarification

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), personating a person includes pretending to be the person or using the person’s identity information — whether by itself or in combination with identity information pertaining to any person — as if it pertains to the person using it.

Punishment

(3) Everyone who commits an offence under subsection (1)

(a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years; or

(b) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Winding down on Chef support
Should this vulnerability be hard to demonstrate with a proof of concept? It sounds pretty straightforward.
Web WhatsApp-How to Setup
I've been accused of this same thing with some of the exams I have given in the past. I'll assume that most instructors probably have. Sometimes the complaints are justified, and sometimes I believe that the students have just not prepared well. Even without mass protests, I will sometimes notice that a significant fraction of students performed poorly on one or more questions/sections, and take that as an indication that I have either not covered that unit's material as well as in the past, or that I have asked the question(s) in a way that was unclear. I can't say whether or not this exam was fair, but I can say that if 90% of students make similar complaints, that I would have to take a hard look at the way I had managed the course prior to the exam.
Forgiven debt is not "paid by someone else". It's a write-off by the creditor. Creditors would likely not write off a bunch of debt and then lend Greece more money.

Now, if the bailout actually paid off the creditors and Greece now only owes money to, e.g., Germany (the IMF, etc), then sure, the original creditors might extend new loans to Greece if Germany forgives the Greek debt. But then, that could happen anyway, because the bailout already happened.
+1
I went to Sandstorm's home page, and spent the first 5 minutes trying to figure out what it is & what it does.

"Sandstorm is an open source platform for personal servers". Ok, fine, but what is it REALLY? What does it do? Why is it better than (hosting / VPS hosting / AWS / Docker / PaaS)? Give me some examples of what I can do with it.

Sorry, you lost me with your home page.
As mentioned at the end of the article:
http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/code-keyboar...
I previously worked for a small design/development shop that ended up doing a ton of SEO work and eventually pivoted to selling those ongoing services as a large part of what they did.

It was in no way scummy, nor intended to break search engines.

Our approach to SEO was, in a nutshell: "write quality blog articles relevant to related search terms, include a CTA at the end."

We posted lots and lots of articles. We started ranking very well for long-tail keywords, which we should have--we had the best content available for them.

Nothing scummy about that.
Ugh. Why is this on hacker news? I can see the original video being an intellectual curiosity. But commentary and more commentary on top of that? What does this add?

I really could not care less about this entire thing. I didn't even watch the original video (who has time for ELEVEN MINUTES of bow shooting!?). I hope this trend dies fast.
The austerity measures was the only rational thing that Greece did and even then they complained.

There's really no out for Greece on this one: their economy seems to be dependent on tourism, they have little to no manufacturing, probably little exports, and imports many of their goods. Greece's economy was never stable to begin with and I do think that they ought to exit the Euro not for Greece's sake but for the Euro's sake.
This looks nice, but I've always thought of YAML as Human JSON, and thus suitable for config files, test cases, or most any other cross platform thing where humans may need to read or edit data files.
Getting the government to bail out your failing business? Sounds like a big win for the business.

*Note. I don't know the details of the RBS issue in the UK. Just commenting on a simple interpretation.
Well, sorry for choosing a word you don't agree with. I could have chosen "interesting" instead of decent - it does not change my point.

"'deceptive practices', 'impersonation', or 'extortion'" - this, however, is your interpretation and it is taking it pretty far.

'deceptive practices' - that I can agree with. No matter how you do it, it is deceptive. Then again, a lot of businesses were built with (oh, say Airbnb or Youtube) / use (every cheap airline website) shady practices.

'impersonation' - does not have to be. What if they clearly list that this is not an official X site? If your data is public and crawlable, is it illegal for people to use that information?

'extortion' - does not have to be. Isn't this an equivalent of going to the same business and saying, I did a bit of research on you, then I told 3 people about you and they would love to buy your services. I'll refer them to you if you give me $5. Is this illegal?
If Greece was to finally capitulate to the markets and declare bankruptcy, how different is that to the 2001 Argentina default?

It seems crazy to me that banks are allowed to deal with corrupt inept politicians who accept debts that are not repayable on the behalf of a country's people. Countries should be allowed to declare themselves bankrupt and after should follow a period of distrust not unlike personal bankruptcy. As a result banks would think twice before lending to poor debtors. Or is this a completely niavie viewpoint? I'm not in any way an economist so I'm genuinely interested to hear people's thoughts
RethinkDB 1.16: cluster management API, realtime push
Very nearly 100% of the people living within U.S. borders are dependent on the government, whether in the form of tax subsidies or use of government-built services.

He means net payments to/from the government, not using the roads.
Probably because the analogy breaks down so fast.

"And to prove he sent the package, he locks it with his key and then you use your copy of his lock to open it so that you know it's from him!"

It's a useful analogy for one specific use of public/private keys. But it doesn't capture the full spirit, which may lead to more confusion than just using no analogy.
IMO, 20% sounds exorbitant.
Game your way to coding success
Yeah, this was what I came here to suggest and had to see if anyone else had beaten me to it ;-) Using the username as the token means no "command" of ambiguous intent is being copy pasted but resolves many of the usability issues.
I didn't say someone was fake, I said the source(s) were/are fake.

You cannot call something a "source" then link back to yourself, that isn't a source, that's just repeating. In this case the way they're citing sources is quite misleading, in particular as the articles they quote as sources don't themselves have sources.

So ultimately it isn't sourced material, it is just one person's quantitative and qualitative material.

I also find it a little suspect that you link to quora which is just a reference to Gigaom which you yourself likely have links to but fail to mention that as if you're some impartial party pointing at a useful piece of material. There's nothing wrong with referencing your own blog or site, but it is nice to let people know you're doing so rather than sending people through a quora answer as if you just randomly ran across it on Google.

The whole thing smells funny...
The goal is to get traffic from facebook/reddit/twitter/etc, not to report unique or relevant things. By blurring the boundaries they create opportunities to link to each other and re-monetize content because both sites have a shot at pulling traffic from social media.
There are no obligations, just necessities. Without the bailout, Greece would have defaulted and (it was feared) the French/German/Spanish banks that had financed the Greek debt would have fallen as well.
Yelp Goes to Court to Protect Identity of Anonymous Review-Writer
Actually I work pretty closely with my juniors and teach them the right way to do it. That and provide a code base of conventions that shows them the right way to do it. It's really hard for me to understand how you let juniors get to the point of having bad habits. If you see them doing something wrong, let them know, provide them feedback telling them why what they did was wrong and show them how to do it right. It's really not that hard, just part of the job.

Any technology (not just Angular) has the potential to be misused. As a senior developer/architect it's my job to review and mentor my teammates as appropriate. I don't really see this as a problem particular to Angular, it's something you have to watch out for everywhere.
I should clarify by saying I wouldn't bother hiring an SEO agency anymore - definitely not worth their billable rates. BUT, if I were a smaller company growing a marketing team I would definitely look for someone with a legitimate understanding of this as a marketing tactic, it's getting better but it is still the wild west in a lot of ways as well, so at least being able to monitor and interpret what is going on is ridiculously important. And if I'm a bigger company, I would hire at least two strict SEOs, one technical, one content.
This idea kind of ties into the idea of a 'computable' universe: I'm no expert but this article gives some ideas[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics#Criticism
Thanks, I was aware of these products, but didn't know the history with Brace.
What I was trying to say is that most politicians at the time (this applies to the US as well, I guess) were willing do to almost anything to stop the collapse, even if that meant hurting the Euro in the long term. The (somewhat hypothetical) alternative could have been a lot worse.
Same on Safari, OSX 10.10.2

Seems to be across the board based on comments.
This is utterly ridiculous. West Germany was FAR better off economically when the D-Mark was strong.
Ask HN: Tool to create animated welcome dialogs?
I seem to recall seeing on HN a few months ago some tool or library that would allow you to easily create a sort of welcome walk-through for your web application. I think it used tooltips that would one-by-one show you different parts of the UX. My google-fu and hn-searching abilities are failing me however. Can anyone remember that or find the link?
Paul Krugman: New PM's plan to save Greece- stop the beatings so morale improves
I could work with your arrogant personality, if it’s backed up by skill
> If you'd like to state why you think it's insecure, I'd love to hear it

The long-term security of Linux containers has not been well explored yet. There have been exploits against the Kernel found, and there are likely to be more.

Plus, how much effort has gone into hardening the Cap'n'Protocol bridge? Do you have a security expert reviewing the code and looking for vulnerabilities? If so, great! I take that part back wholeheartedly.

I appreciate that you've worked past the Docker failing of not signing and validating files; this is a huge step in the right direction.

> Instances of the same app share their code an assets (read-only)

But not their in-memory caches. Code and shared make up a fraction of their presence in memory.

> infrastructure continues to get cheaper

This has always sounded like a lazy cop-out to me. Yes, infrastructure is getting cheaper, but our applications are getting bloated at the same rate. And if we're running potentially dozens of PostgreSQL instances on a single machine, your infrastructure costs to make all of the apps performant are not going to be cheap.
The system knows about other apps installed on your server, but not necessarily apps on other servers. To connect to something on another server you will usually want to obtain a Cap'n Proto capability to it. You might do this through, say, a messaging app that has the ability to embed capabilities. Your friend sends you a message with a capability to some object on their server, and then your messaging app publishes that capability on the receiving server, such that it will now appear in the powerbox for other apps on that server.

Alternatively (less cool, but more practical), you might just drop a URL into the Powerbox and Sandstorm will connect to it and turn it into a capability.
Paul Krugman is overrated, and you're drastically simplifying to say he's backing their economics. I'm mostly calling them clowns for the disservice they do their own cause by calling debt repayment economic waterboarding.
Heaven forbid the discussion of something extend beyond the local and temporal realm of its submission on HN...
The US aviation regulators appear to have reasonable constraints on the use of aerial drones for recording this sporting event. One can expect that the precedent will make it easier for future high-value uses.

Perhaps too, there will be an increasing demand for quiet aerial vehicles.
If all they do is write interesting content and promote it, why do we call it SEO? Last time I checked, that matches the job description of public relations writer.
Better MySQL Metrics in Datadog
Tsirpas article is as shallow as it is boring. His statement "Greece's debt is currently unsustainable and will never be serviced" is a typical, bold, populist statement, twisting reality. Greece's debt would indeed be sustainable, if it wasn't for Tsipras' recent claims that they would rehire some recently laid of government workers and stop the privatization process. The debt is serviceable, it just isn't repayable. But that's no problem since the ECB can always take over these bad loans, once the Greece government has fulfilled all the requirements for reform. When he says in his last paragraph:

I understand that, behind your 'demand' that our government fulfills all of its 'contractual obligations' hides the fear that, if you let us Greeks some breathing space, we shall return to our bad, old ways.

Then this is exactly the reason why the debt needs to be retained. Tsipras has already proven with his recent actions that he's very tempted to return to the "bad, old ways" of Greece government spending. European solidarity means helping out equal partners in the union, it does not mean funding dysfunctional governments at the expense of others.
Didn't they experience exponents? Maybe multiplication should also be out of questions? Its their final year, I don't think phrases like "third question could be as well in chinese" is suited here.