skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, basically.

Pension payments and debt repayments are both part of the general "national deficit." Printing money directly plugs the hole. Printing money causes inflation, so it also also makes the hole smaller.

A Keynsian might say that salaries (and other prices) are "sticky" and can't be adjusted down like the price of petrol. Prices need to go down in a business cycle low point (which often happens simultaneously to debt repayment problems). So the inflation is a good thing in addition to the more commonly quoted Keynsian suggestion that government spending shouldn't be cut (austerity).

A classical liberal perspective would just see this whole manoeuvre as default or a tax equivalents. Paying back debts with debased currency is a default and printing drachmas is a tax on whoever holds drachmas.

Both agree that if you do this too much the currency becomes unreliable and contracts start to be denominated in a foreign currency or inflation adjusted. This makes the inflation problem worse because nominal prices and debt repayments go up when inflation happen. You need to print more to get the same effect, causing more inflation...

With regard to pension payments, I am a little more cynical. I think the Greek Government was happier to write the contract than make good on it. The pensions were promised many governments ago, and the political gains have already been had. Paying them was left to future generations. Taken together, all these promises add up to more money than they have. The current debts are a manifestation of this "pass it forward" politics. To be both ideological and realistic, they could have set aside money as the liability accrued rather than promising that future generations would pay it without worrying about how.

I don't like these "Emperors Clothes" slogans. They are too easy for politicians to sound like they are making a point without (necessarily) having any content. We should hold leaders to a higher standard, not accept rhetoric that skips over important questions with slogans. An ideological position is good, but it also needs a plan for how to make it happen.

Also, I think if the Greek government could print money, devalue the pensions and get out of this mess they would. They did it when they could.

For a different (and very valid) perspective, see the vide linked by wsc981. For a very simplified synopsis: Germany loaned Greece money so they could buy german goods. Greece consumed the goods. Germany accumulated the wealth as debts owed to them by Greece. EU policies were encouraging this dynamic.

My personal feeling is that this is not a victim/culprit situation. Greece's political imperative was consumption , they wanted loans for this. Germany's was exports (and subsequent economic benefits like jobs, accumulating bank wealth..)

worth watching.
I believe that if a node in the consensus group exceeds ε clock skew, it will be kicked out of the group.

As far as network partitions go, a consensus must exist for reads or writes. If you don't have 3 out of 5 working correctly and talking to each other, then you are down.
EdTech Shines in Boston as LearnLaunch Holds 3rd Annual Demo Day
But this kind of is the point - ideas don't matter, execution does. If you suck at execution, you'll not be able to compete despite "your good idea". If you execute well, you'll get results but quite likely throw away the initial idea that seemed good at the time.

No matter how unique your concept is, the success or failure will anyway be determined by how well you compete with others doing the same thing, and this will have to be on the basis of execution.
Ask HN: Why doesn't job entries in HN have discussion enabled?
The BBC did a fascinating series of programmes on Crossrail over the winter.

At one point, the new tunnel was being cut past an existing underground station (I forget which one). It had to be threaded in 3D between a few access tunnels carrying passengers on their way up or down, and at one stage came within 5-6 feet of them, all without them knowing.

Edit: for those who can access it
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04b7h1w
Netshare – Share passwords/strings locally in your network
Not that I disagree with your premise, but you can only use evolutionary arguments for populations in equilibrium. The human population has undergone so much recent evolution (I actually know of no non-domestic species that has changed more in the last 100,000 year) that you can't use evolutionary arguments like this. There may well be people alive that will never use all the capacity of their brain given their lifespan.
The zlib code has to make numerous workarounds for old compilers that do not understand ANSI-C or to accommodate systems with limitations such as operating in a 16-bit environment.

This is true for many older open source libraries. I wonder:

- Are old platforms still tested as time passes? Is it really worth it maintaining extra cruft for old systems even if it is unknown whether it still works? Are there projects running CI for OS/2 Warp, MS-DOS, or A/UX?

- How many users of old or obscure platforms are there still around? Are they even updating such libraries?

- What platforms do we need to get rid of to get rid of autoconf/automake/configure and use e.g. CMake instead?
Greece is 2% of the EU economy ...
The important thing about the three sided chessboard is, that one or more parties may actually play capture the flag.
When a+b+c does not equal c+b+a
3 interesting startups from Europe: Bitcoin, E-commerce and Security
Facebook Overhauls Its Inmate Account Takedown Process
Ask HN: Build a curriculum to meet current US govt threat against crypto
If I were starting an undergraduate program today with the goal of training to meet the current attacks on crypto with nothing but a basic understanding of the math and programming challenges involved in cryptography, where would I start? Help me build an electronic privacy protection curriculum?
What is the downside of having it all secured?

On top of that, having only data that must be secure makes it very apperent to anyone looking that 'hey this is totally important information.' Having everything encrypted makes all encrypted traffic seem perfectly normal.
It's a more difficult issue with something like OpenSSL as new features are added. Zlib is done though, there is zero interest in sdding deflate64 or a different algorithm, they could just put a version on ice, keep it around for distribution and make a more clean 2.0
Well, it's clearly not normal because it bound at the low end. But assuming a normal distribution shape for the high side is probably a reasonable first guess.

Put it like this: I'd say that the average being 29 means that around 80% of founders funded by YC are below 40.
It's interesting, but not a scientific experiment. Can we draw any conclusion with "1 datapoint"? The 7% increase may be explained by familiarity with the effort test the second time, 7 weeks additional training, better confidence and morale and so on...
The state of Apple Pay adoption
Which is why Grand Tours are really a test of climbing and time trialing ability.
Yeah, I used it industrially for a brief period, using it to do theorem proving on hardware descriptions. Pleasing is the right word, especially the clean syntax, close-to-pure functional nature, type signatures and type inference. At the time the tools were immature so it might not have been the best idea, but they've had some time to settle down.
You offer great additional information (the basics of this are all included in the article). Just another additional remark: None of the administration fee goes to the university itself, it is divided between the students and the Studentenwerk (which is separate from the university and organizes things like dining halls).
That's true, but you can ignore distributions, and assert that they must accept more people under 29 than over 40.
No. VO2 tests are pretty well understood, and just don't vary like that (unless someone is sick).
If git's biggest weak point is not having to fix (most likely human) errors then we're pretty good off I'd say.
> Seems like these machines are kept very busy, which makes sense given their cost.

Interestingly, many TBMs are left underground forever, as it's often more expensive to disassemble and remove them then to just abandon them.
Once the Vulkan drivers are in (and the games written for it) I'd expect Linux to have even better performance than Windows in gaming.
> Some are painfully aware of the disaster that awaits Europe if Greece defaults. Others are less aware. Some are utterly unaware. They think it can be contained.

Greece's default is as important for the EU as Detroit's default was for the USA. The rest is media burlesque.
Seems like these machines are kept very busy

I believe that many of them are actually single-use. Some (or perhaps all?) of the Crossrail TBMs are being buried at the end of their tunnel. Apparently the effort of removing them isn't worth their resale value?

That tunnel talk page does mention that several TBMs are being reused though so perhaps this is changing with newer/larger machines.
Bitstamp loses another financial intermediary
Sure it's fine for loads of games, but unless it's fine for all games you're going to have to produce an N tiered system of steam machines (maybe class them on an A-E scale, and developers write something like "must have a C or better steam machine) and and the consumer is going to have to deal with system specs just like they do today (and just like they don't have to with consoles).
I haven't dealt with the ops side of running our clusters, and the details are not fresh in my mind, so I don't remember much about the storage engines. But we encountered surprises on almost any front when taking C* to production.
The central limit theorem might have something to say about that...
So you're saying it's a hard number and, one-for-one, if something new goes in, something old goes out?
I do not like these types of posts when I can't actually see, try the product and it is kind of annoying since I kind of got hooked but will have to drop my email to some company that hopefully won't sell it to some ad company :(
I took the second live offering of Dan Grossman's class on Coursera in fall 2013. There was another in the last year, so if the pattern holds, there would be another in the next few months or so.

https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang
I do believe Cassandra requires a much more intimate knowledge of its internals if you want to do anything serious with it - more so than any other database I've worked with.
Jhene Aiko is my second favorite blackanese now... :)
Not sure. This was the book I used: http://www.it.dtu.dk/introSML/

There are plenty of suggestions here http://www.smlnj.org/doc/literature.html
I'll be watching this with some interest. A couple years ago I tried using some of the x86_64 assembly versions of inflate_fast() and longest_match() but found them to be subtly buggy -- they'd both sometimes do reads outside of the allocated memory and could crash if that happened to land at the end of a mmap'ed segment. I emailed all of the relevant authors, but nobody seemed to be maintaining that stuff any more. Honestly, just having a zlib with a bug tracker is a huge improvement.

I am sad to see that a lot of the zlib-ng seem to be around code style updates, which will make it hard for things to travel back and forth between the codebases. I guess one branch or another will eventually have to "win", which is sad.

Also, is zlib-ng going to commit to keeping the same zlib license? Some of the zlib improvements floating around on the net have snuck in more restrictive licensing. It would be fantastic if zlib-ng could hold the line on license creep.
This actually doesn't describe a green/blue environment - it describes having a single environment that has code deployed in a rolling fashion. Which is useful, but not this use case.

It's also worth noting that this use case is actually pretty hard to model in ansible without external tools or the like. You basically need to deploy four jobs:

- deploy new code to inactive environment

- switch persona from inactive to active

- reconfigure load balancer to send to newly active

- switch formerly active persona to inactive

within some or all of those individual tasks you might want to apply these rolling techniques. But since rollouts may not be idempotent and this process isn't transactional, you have to be very careful indeed to code this out.
> Those 3 billion mobile phones either are Android, in which case they don't exactly run Java

That's true, but it's also academic. Android's runtimes, Dalvik and ART, have very similar semantics to runtimes that use Java bytecode.

In the Android toolchain, Java source code gets compiled to Java bytecodes. This enables Java tooling to work with the Android toolchain. Then the Java bytecode is converted to Dalvik bytecode.

So, on the one hand you can say "There is no Java in Android devices." But very few Android APKs are created without Java in the code base.
Actually, I like this strategy and it probably works. It's a good strategy against pirated software too. If 90% of terrorist suppliers are really cia entrappers, terrorists are going to have a hard time coordinating anything that requires resources beyond 1 person. Entrapment requires lying. And if you have ready decided to lie to your own people, may as well use its full evil power on the adversary.
What good is hyperloop for cross-city travel?

People in 1915 were I am sure imagining a future of personal flying machines which they were confident would be in operation by 2015.

Here we are, still cramming into the same tubes that people were travelling in (albeit probably less crammed) over 150 years ago.
Exploring the possibilities of live unit testing [Experiment]
In Search of the Red Cross' $500M in Haiti Relief
> There is no word like hafu outside Japan, but I think we need it here.

Welp, she's Japanese alright, she's even mastered nihonjinron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihonjinron

But more or less the same concept elsewhere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapa (Hawaiian, and another loan from the English "half")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luk_khrueng (Thai for "half child")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BAnxu%C4%9Br

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mestizo
Well we can set hard upper and lower bounds on the ages of people they fund (let's call them 18 and 80). And if we further assume that 18-22 is more common than 65-80, that gives us fair bit of information to start building a likely distribution.
Haskell in Production: Bdellium
"We were actually hoping that Cassandra could store things more compactly than our raw data"

Why in hell would you think that?

CQL is not SQL? No shit. Actually, the docs pretty clearly spell that out. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Cassandra or any big data store would know you need to understand how the system works, and what it's limitations are before you model your data for the system.

COMPACT STORAGE is for backwards compatibility. Turn it on and you are turning off CQL3:
http://docs.datastax.com/en/cql/3.0/cql/cql_reference/create...
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-in-cql-3-0

Counters are only usable for things where you don't care if the counter gets increased exactly one time. It is for stuff that doesn't really matter, like "likes" on a page or something.

I'm not even reading "Check Your Row Size: Too Wide, Too Narrow, or Just Right?" because measuring the number of columns max and the ~10MB performance limit is trivial to do and this is a datastore designed by data scientists for people who are willing to do the very little bit of knowledge gain required.

This whole article reads like someone who decided to incorporate Cassandra without actually spending any time learning how to do it correctly before trying to do it.

"He said, “You honestly expected that adopting a data store at your scale would not require you to learn all of its internals?” He has a point."

No shit.
I doubt they have funded a Sufficiently Large Number of people.
you wait to crossrail 2 if that ever happens, the same sort of thing, but from the SW to the NE.
> It's not the kind of place where people feel forced into working in a silly way.

After reading your post, I'm having a hard time seeing how this is the case. Perhaps people are not directly forced into doing weekend "hackathons", but I'd imagine there is quite a bit of indirect pressure to show up for these things for fear of not being seen as a team player. Although, maybe my own personal experiences have just made me too cynical.
linux kernel takes 20 minutes to build on my workstation, a plan9 kernel takes something tiny like 60 seconds on a raspberry pi. This is due to a few reasons.

1. Plan9 C does not allow headers to include more headers, this speeds up compilation, as there is far less useless preprocessor churn.

2. Plan9 C/Go does not do heavy optimisation, but does a decent job.

3. The system has less code overall, something like 1 million lines of code for something like gcc seems like bloat to me, They don't remove useless features and dated features as fast as they pile it on.

The whole Go compiler builds from source for me before the gcc configure script has completed.
..but more than 2% of germany's export market. Also, Greece is a sort of canary for larger countries: Italy, Spain, Portugal, and to an extent, France.
All that means is that you don't have to point to the Constitution to prove a right exists. The right still has to exist somewhere and be recognized.[1] The power of courts to access nearly all evidence with due process predates the Constitution and nothing about that document shows any intention to alter that practice.

[1] "Rights" are exceptions, not the rule. The rule is the will of democratically elected legislatures. Rights are exceptions to democracy and should be construed to swallow the rule.
Finland, another country that's traditionally been very isolationist -- before the EU came along, it was second only to Albania in having the fewest % of resident foreigners -- had its own version of this in 1996, when a Finn of half-Nigerian descent was chosen as Miss Finland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Wallinkoski
I'm pretty sure he was comparing the value of their company to his not saying he was hoping for them to randomly cut him a check for 1/12th their selling price.
And tactics knowing when to husband your teams strength and when to push to get your GC contenders time advantage.
A 3D live map of the London Underground
Yes, the old versions (where there were periods in which someone could fall into a shaft) look dangerous.

The Hitachi version is interesting because it incorporates the behaviour one expects from standard elevators, at the cost of some speed.

It sounds ideal for a mass transit station, and it could use the same pattern as is currently used for subways (a small time it remains motionless, then the doors close after a beep).

I found an English version of their video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnX5WZhvzZY

and ThysenKrupp is also working on a similar idea:

http://rt.com/news/210143-maglev-horizontal-elevator-thyssen...

Though Hitachi has decided to focus on speed instead:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/smart-news/worlds-f...

I hope the innovation in this space doesn't dry out :)
It is not clear to me what you are reading in the proposal. There is no need for DNS and SSL hosting. Packages are put as tarball onto the Internet. Then in the opam-repository the metadata, including a signature over the tarball. The tarball is fetched (over any insecure connection) and its signature is verified. The naming and trust delegation happens within opam and the opam repository.

How is an update supposed to work if the connection to the timestamp is prevented/intercepted? How if the connection to the repository is prevented/intercepted? Using a single connection leads to less potential failure modes.
Ah that's what it stands for. Alright.
tray.io – simple yet powerful enteprise app integrations
Given your experience: Have you considered a NewSQL db like MariaDB with one of its modern storage engines? Also Facebook moved from their Cassandra to Hadoop/Hive a long time ago (and the MySQL side was never touched).
Off-topic but have you come across Irmin? It seems like something you might be interested in.

https://mirage.io/blog/introducing-irmin
Well I am not a product (ad target) for Larry Ellison, but I am for Zukerberg and Brin.
There are some perspective's that think that having the Greece in a crisis (but not a collapse) is also very useful for countries like Germany because it weakens the Euro which strengthens their exports.
I picked up a used copy of Jeff Ullman's Elements of ML Programming a couple of months ago for less than five bucks. It strikes me as compact and readable in the K&R style, in that it doesn't get bogged down in the tedium of regurgitated technical details or over emphasis on syntax.

It probably helps that ML [Ullman uses SML/NJ] isn't much on ceremony to begin with. Yet somehow, I never feel like it needs more curly braces and semicolons.
The idea reminds me of double-buffering. I wonder if there are other parallels that can be drawn (pun not intended) from the similarities
Be careful. From the £ I presume you're UK. Your employer will probably have access to your current tax payments for the earlier part of the year and could deduce that you are lying. If you are caught lying in your job interview/application, you could be sacked at any later date. You've just signed away a lot of your employment rights.
Implement my ideas please

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas
Desktop Notifications for Hacker News
HNDN is a chrome extension that brings you latest top/new stories from Hacker News. It does not store the notifications, so only the latest notifications (after you start your PC) are available. The extension uses background permissions so you do not need to start chrome for using it. It loads up at the user-login to OS.
Have a look at reagent too. Different paradigm (React-based) but very similar syntax.

http://reagent-project.github.io/
This is a non factor in my decision making. I want to play games on the most advanced/compelling platform. If the device is ugly, it doesn't matter to me because there are many ways I can hide it or disguise it.
"You've hit your limit of 5 free articles as an anonymous user this month."
A name, once taken, cannot be unclaimed. If the package should be removed, an empty delegation will be put there.
I worked for a company that did certain kinds of bespoke software development / consulting projects for a particular industry.

The company was able to close sales for development of bespoke software based on prototype software. Sales were worth well in excess of 50k. This relied on the company having other profitable activities and experience in the same industry so that it was able to fund the development of a plausible prototype in order to get a sale. Afaik the company had not taken any VC funding.

Maybe this anecdote suggests a possible approach: think of a ladder of consulting services / cheaper products that will permit you to stay profitable until you build up enough plausibility to close a sale. Perhaps with enough profitability from other activities you might not need as much VC funding.

(i do not have experience of the situation you describe, so my anecdote may be wildly inapplicable)
Great link, I was actually reading that article just the other day, as I am looking into replacing puppet with ansible.
Why did you fire him ?
That is just playing futurology. We will never know.

Just like some of us would have liked that Apple would be just as successful with BeOS instead of NeXT, but we will also never know.

In 1993, I learned UNIX on Xenix system. Coherent being the other option.

Linux only became production quality when the likes of Intel, IBM and others started supporting its development. As far as I am aware they never supported BSD like that.