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Hmm there is a difference between a unknown and a crank. Zhang was a trained Ph.D. mathematician with an academic lecturing position. Now I didn't even finish my Ph.D. in physics but I know enough about how to do research to not submit a proof that is not rigorous enough to warrant peer review. One should not refuse to peer review a unknown researcher with the right credentials/trainings who make serious arguments in line with academic practices.

Same as you this is not a comment on Dr. Granville. I wrote in response to your comment on how the field is typically cloistered among a few insiders. I don't think that justifies refusing to review an unknown (as in not famous) researcher who demonstrates training and seriousness (which fortunately they didn't in Zhang's case but Zhang also was extra careful in making his ideas crystal clear). This happens too rarely for the insiders to claim undue burden. Cranks are very obvious to identify (a lack of literature review and understanding of previous works is a tell-tale sign).
It's thrilling to see real democracy at work in the birthplace of democracy.

Democracy is still a radical concept.
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Despite entering Government under the most difficult circumstances, to my mind Syriza haven't put a foot wrong. Say whatever you like about them, but if I was a Greek citizen, I would certainly have voted for Syriza.

But of course, right know the rest of the EU are probably cursing the ancient Athenians for inventing democracy...
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I don't think that this is a huge problem when it comes to selling relatively expensive and bulky items like bikes. First you get to buy see & try the bike. Most of the time the seller will not ship it. There is a huge incentive for telling the truth on a product you sell when you get to actually meet the buyer : it's an awkward moment for the seller when the latter realize, after a 30 min/1 hour trip that the item was not described accurately. I won't say that it never happened to me as a buyer but it certainly happens more often when you buy a used item that is shipped to your place.

Also the buyer knows where you live, and is relatelively close to your home. Some buyers being complete morons hidding the flaws of an item is definitely a bad idea.
It's actually rather relevant geopolitical commentary. If Greece won't be getting money from the IMF they will after all need to find a new monetary partner.

There have been clear overtures in that direction already and key party officials already have long-standing relationships with one of Russia's most extreme and influential ideologues [1].

Not to mention that the article itself clearly mentions the visit to Putin on 8th of April; one day before the possible default.

[1] http://www.rferl.org/content/greek-syriza-deep-ties-russian-...
I remember getting an email from Jack a few years ago asking if I wanted to help them build their iOS app. They knew exactly what they wanted and where they needed expertise, which is the right way to approach contract work. I wasn't surprised when their app turned out to be very well done :)
Emphasis on almost. I'm not going to reiterate what's been said here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9289225 , so just the TL;DR version: in case of major trouble, a CFIT of an unoccupied vehicle is a viable safety option, for that 1% that almost works. Try that with an airplane full of people...and you would become a terrorist. Tiny, tiny difference, nothing to worry about.
The discussion over the last months was not about austerity - this was an 2014 topic - but about a plan for the future. The greek government did provide a plan without much detail, one you would not get any money from your bank for a house or any money - this is HN - from a VC. Greece hopes to get billions of $ based on some napkin calculations.

Reason is Greece does not want to commit to any foreign influence because it feels nationally threatened.

The IMF enforces a way by which it hopes to a.) get the money back it puts in b.) no need to put money back in 5y in the future. You could make this about money or investment, or you can make this about right-wing/left-wing.
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It's a possibility, which is why you need to evaluate how much the community likes the project, how much they depend on it surviving, how many people would be likely to keep it afloat in case the core devs peace out, how active the core team has been over the long and short terms etc. There's a whole art to picking OSS tooling for your team, none of it is devoid of risk, there's no free lunch.

Obviously, it'd also be totally OK for us to help maintain it with the rest of the people who care, that's a big part of it. Given how much you end up reading the source of frameworks once you really start using them (at least in my ecosystems), you're one step away from starting to change them.
So cheating others who lent you money out of their money is democracy. Indeed this is radical. But breaking contracts is not something to base your future on if you're not self-sufficient.
They don't honestly think that. They know very well what they promised is stupid. It's just that left-wing people are a lot better at making promises than at living by them.
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Its really hard to imagine anyone giving Greece even more money after a default to the IMF.
I like how the workaround is to open the file with The Gimp and export to psd. Then Photoshop will open it fine.

I'm assuming this is a case of "the suits told us it couldn't import banknotes", so they made it not import banknotes. Banknotes that were already imported... well you didn't say anything about that.

(The same thing happened for the DVD encryption. Someone asked an engineer for encryption. The engineer just happened to have made it easy to bruteforce the key, negating the entire point of the encryption.)

Remember: you're the software engineer -- write the software you want, not the software you think someone wants you to write.
The IMF is a creditor just like any other, -> and assumes risks when it makes loans <-

Exactly this

All that Greece and the institutions that lent money to them did was to push the problem forward and make it worse

Greece has basically two options: deflate their prices in Euro (what austerity ends up doing) or have a currency that can float. It's that simple

(Or having a stronger fiscal union in the Eurozone, but that's hard as well)
In fairness to the OP there is a caption on a photo below the article that says Greek PM is due in Russia to visit his counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Greece has been making overtures towards its eastern giant, claiming it opposes economic sanctions on the country. The site itself made the implication. Because it's a pretty out in the open and does relate to the issue.
“We are a Left-wing government."

The government is a coalition of right wing nationalists and left wing - nationalistic - marxists. Not sure why this should be called a left wing government. Calling the government left-wing is marketing to get sympathies with leftist people in Europe.

So I'd rather call the government nationalistic populist.
Does he define what an 'object' is? This is anything but trivial.
"Concrete Mathematics" by Knuth is by far the best presented book on maths relevant to CS that I've seen. You could definitely work through it with your background (I did with a similar background), it's challenging but approachable.
The console api isn't really linked to chrome. I prefer the chrome debugging tool but those things should work on firefox too. I think you could be clearer on this point.
I haven't been following the news for a while, but I'd start looking at the other PIGS economies.
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You mean, other than the recently discovered backdoor?

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I don't think the author is intimidated by a framework rather highlighting there is greater opportunity cost associated with learning a framework and having to bend to it's will instead of writing code that does not rely on a monolithic framework.

The author appears to have solid understanding of the principles and it takes deep knowledge and experience to call out bubbles. Successful investors often take similar contrarian views, carefully weighing what is simply exuberance of the herd vs facts.

As you mention, time is required, to fully dig deep into someone's framework. At the end of the day, a framework is like software. you need time to learn it. when you use it in cases where you don't absolutely need it to do a job, you are affected by marketing or herd mentality.

'Everybody uses it so it must be right'. ex) MongoDB.

Everybody suddenly needed NoSQL. you started hearing recruiters ramble on about NoSQL and the urgent need to fill it. Then you start fiddling with it and you end up firing your entire team because they built their church on a questionable sand (MongoDB) and run into all sorts of problems.

I often feel like developers freely toss around frameworks or use new things because they are bored and want to try things differently. Ewww server side render pages are so 2005. I won't touch anything that isn't JS. No, I want this my blog built in Node.js so it can serve millions of yet to come visitors.

Again and again I'm reminded of turf wars where people's job rely on identifying with one set of philosophy even if they are as crazy as writing tests before you code and expect things to not fail.
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Someone introduce this man to the world of analog modular synthesis.
The problem is that this article is from a typically conservative source. It's not written as straight news.
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Do people still maintain that the US is some kind of low tax haven? It hasn't been in a very long time. Today the US is an upper-mid range tax nation. The US is also quite regulated. A lot has changed in 50 years, and that includes the addition of an extraordinarily vast numbers of economic regulations (both at the federal and state level). Many people outside the US don't seem to realize we have an entire other government system nearly the size of the Federal system, courtesy of state + local taxation. I often see that massive tax haul left out when comparing other countries on a tax % of GDP basis, they'll list the US at ~20% instead of closer to 38% (local + state tax revenue will be around $2.8 trillion for 2015, versus ~$3.3 trillion for the federal).
Well this is Greece. The locals are not to be ignored if history tells us anything. I think that's where the no-brainer comes from. These are elected officials doing the will of the electorate as far as I can see. The country doesn't want to pay back the money because they don't believe in the system backing the funds in the first place. They don't have faith in the Eurozone or the Western central banks.
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Coincidentally (?), You Don't Want XTS (2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9312599 was re-posted today, opining on this question.
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it's similar; getting off the gold standard allows you to print money, and insofar as they don't have the right to print Euros and therefore it is like Gold (can't be created by fiat, by them at least, they have to get it from somewhere), introducing their own floating money is very similar.

A better solution would be to integrate the Greek economy into a paneuropean federal country, that simply eats the losses of Greece. I am certain some states in America are net beneficiaries of federal spending (more government dollars flow into it than are retrieved through taxes.)

This is likely a lot better solution than local currencies: I would back a (metaphorical) 'civil war' (being on the side of the North of course) in Europe in which countries are really kind of shoehorned back into a federal European country under centralized rule, a central constitution, and with limitations on 'state rights'. (Note that all the while, as in the analogy, this central federal paneuropean country would remain democratic.) I've never heard anyone else express this opinion though.

EDIT:
I don't mean civil war literally of course, and have edited to clarify. I was just drawing an analogy with the South seceding from the union. Obviously there is 0 chance of any actual war, nor would anyone want one for a minute. The difference between past wars is that there actually are democratic European institituions - i.e. the EU - just as America remained democratic through and after its civil war.
I wish more people remembered this - breach of contract is business, not moral decision.
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Defaulting on a loan is not "cheating" -- it's one of the core reasons (if not the core reason) why there's interest. Loaning money is a risky business, and defaulting is relatively common and certainly not criminal.
I dealt with this too. It's so weird that it defaults to that.
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What is happening in Greece is the depraved child of democracy. Politicians, playing on people's insecurities and feelings with tub-thumping and misleading rhetorics, in order to clasp their fingers to executive power.
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Not sure this will work when countries do not pay back credits or bonds. Most countries today need to raise money to finance their spending. If everyone does this, the lending market will break down.

Not sure that this helps those countries that depended on credits most (like Greece).

I'm also not sure if it is the best strategy for Greece to bite the hand (EU as the IWF is just the beginning) who transfered billions of $ to Greece over the last decades. If the Greece government has a plan to not depend on credit and EU subsidies in the future, hurray to them. Perhaps with the new Russian conflict they could trade in EU subsidies and wealth transfer to renting bases to Russia. But they will find out it's much harder to break a 100 year contract for a Russian base in Greece than a contract with the IWF.

If not, this looks like a bad move.
Most of the performance differences are in how these systems handle representation, I/O, and execution scheduling. In other words, implementation. The challenge in closing the gap is that the architectures across systems are quite different so you can't just add performance that is largely derived from fundamental architecture.

Columnar MPP needs to be carefully defined to answer the question. Some important data models that fit in these architectures operate on data types that are not meaningfully order-able at a mathematical level i.e. you can't sort them. A lot of columnar implementations, and virtually all in open source, assume sortability as a property of the represented data types.

tl;dr: Columnar MPP sometimes is not far outside what you can express with Parquet/Spark/MapReduce/etc, just much faster, but there are data models supported in some advanced Columnar MPP systems that are not usefully expressible with that stack. It depends on the platform and the use case.
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> Yeah, it's not so much a left-wing government as it is an anti-EU government

Syriza is pro-EU, but the EU officials and the Troika have been acting anti-EU towards Greece for years. If the EU had acted earlier instead of watching for years as Greece paid up to 38% or so in interests (to french and german banks, so it was very profitable to "watch"), this would never have escalated.
Well, it's created by relatively simple facts: a less productive periphery without the aid of a floating currency will require permanent subsidization by the more productive core or the end of the currency union. Now everyone has to pick.
It's called left-wing because Syriza has 149 seats while the right-wing party only has 13. While they are a coalition, they don't have the same power.
By the way, in my career of 25 years of professional software development, I've only once delivered something that was certified to be bug-free.

That was when the company transferred our work, and the test servers, to India. We shipped the machines, and to send them, they had to be packed on pallets. The pallets were wooden. For Indian customs bureaucracy, I had to arrange a paper called phytosanitary certificate, which states that the wood has no bugs.
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I probably would also have voted for Syriza. But expected them to soften their ideologie and start reforming the burocratie for real. Just go on overspending using borrowed money cannot go on forever.
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6 months planned and you get it done in 2 weeks...something tells me you should not be in project management.
>It is essentially a nightmare scenario, since Greece is doing what the rest of the EU was trying to avoid by borrowing money to Greece, which is having Greece having to default. So now we both get Greece to default and lose a lot of money on top of that.

logical end to a typical "payday loan trap". The only difference is that borrower is a sovereign state with its own army, so some typical ways of debt collecting just can't be applied here.
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> There are lots of farms in the US that grow their products naturally and without processing

You're buying into the hype

"Naturally" means nothing.

Sure, the poultry raised there is healthier, but the risk of Salmonella in eggs is probably the same, or even higher.

You can also bet they have some rodents going around, insects, fungus, and depending on what you get from there, yes, it's ending up in your food.

Of course I prefer food that wasn't picked/slaughtered as soon as possible (and helped by hormones)
I would love the irony of a poor national socialist militant being a victim of discrimination in a foreign country.
> That's a horrible description. The best people with "software architect" in their title that I have worked with have focused on total system quality through striving towards simplicity mainly by focusing on development and tooling and using their position as the arbiter of technical decisions to guide the system under development to coherent whole that fullfills the business requirements in a technically sound way.

Thanks for the this. This paragraphs sums up perfectly what I strive for in my day to day work. It's clear and concise.
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No, the IMF isn't a creditor just like any other. Its wikipedia page reads,

>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., in the United States, of 188 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.

I realize that you might consider it simply marketing text, so that you may likewise read the same thing about Goldman Sachs. I can imagine reading this text in an advertisement:

>Goldman Sachs is an American multinational investment banking firm working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.

But I wouldn't take it at face value. Do you really think there is no difference between the first sentence and my version with Goldman Sachs in it?

This is an open question. Personally, I read the first versoin (with IMF, taken from its WP page) at face value, whereas I would roll my eyes if I saw the version with Goldman Sachs in it and would consider it to be content-free marketing written by an ad agency with no relationship with Goldman Sachs, nor is there any chance the second version would be accepted by Wikipedia as a neutral point of view.

Basically, I am saying that in my personal opinion and Wikipedia's, the IMF is not "a creditor like any other."
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So much for democracy and the will of people to choose their own course.

What you're suggesting is a United States of Europe, which many of use in Europe don't want and certainly not by force.
The goal of sharing wealth to encourage social betterment is a laudable and positive goal. The idea of closer political union to avoid another war is also a good one.

However they are not necessarily going to go hand in hand - but I cannot think of a case where they did not. Mostly cos political conquest in empires lead to wealth "sharing" - the common idea was transaction costs dropped under one empire increasing the wealth beyond taxation costs.

This is something Eurozone has done well without actual war - but it seems to have reached the point where we are either all in for the Euro (total fair wealth sharing) or just give up.

However selling "total state level socialism" (from States that have to states that do not) is a hard sell - even if right here and now, that's how Greece looks the best solution.

However every country thinks it needs to keep it's own wealth and not give up it's sovereignty - but this is like tribes who used to live in the countries themselves - they have up Independance for security and prosperity.

It's a hard sell.
>They don't care if you know the framework or even the language.

Good luck telling that to a recruiter.

"Oh looks like you don't have 5 years of experience on a super esoteric framework released last year. Great we'll talk soon."
Agreed. First line of the article: "Greece is drawing up drastic plans to nationalise the country's banking system and introduce a parallel currency to pay bills"

The solution is for Greece to either (1) cash out of euros into another nation's currency for the time being or (2) create their own currency and start stocking the Greek banks with it. Not sure what kind of purchasing power a new Greek currency would have outside of Greece though. I'd say the more likely option would be for them to default, sell their remaining Euros for USD (further undermining the price and credibility of the Euro). Not sure if this is possible and it would likely get really messy.
Spain, no doubt about it.
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