skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you provide some color on this? What was it like when a gov't closed banks to avoid a financial apocalypse?

edit: would be interested in your experience if you feel comfortable giving it. Interested if new mediums of exchange took place and just generally how it played out as I am not familiar with the Argentinean crisis at all.
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Folks, if this actually happens, is there anything technically preventing us from all just renting PO boxes and using those?

Iirc, that is a perfectly legitimate option and relatively cheap for those of us with numerous domains.
There seem to be a lot of bio / pharma readers here, and I appreciate their input into things like this where I might not have otherwise run into them.

In the end medicine comes down to data mining and statistics, with a lot of computer science lineage.

And for that matter, the whole startup scene exists on the wet side of the fence too.

(And also, I suspect that a lot of us here self diagnose our mental state, thus making any information like this of interest.)
Well that was a pretty huge deal in the U.S. in 1933.

Life goes on, but as many can attest having gone through the crisis worldwide at varying levels from 2008 -> 2013/2014/present, it's not always pleasant.
Of course but that doesn't change the fact the ECB would cut off the tap in that scenario.
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/daemon.html
This is really bad for the people of Greece. I have seen small bank runs with my own eyes where folks queued for hours to get their savings rescued. ($bigCorp going down with internal bank). Bad sad bad.
Hey there, are there any Greeks in startup/tech scene that want to express opinion on whether the government is doing the right thing about this referendum?

I'm really short on quality, direct feedback about what Tsipras is doing. All I can read about the topic is politics influenced.
If we ever managed to emulate our consciousness on other hardware, wouldn't we be also able to emulate bodily sensations and emotions?
Greece to Consider Bank Closures and Capital Controls on Monday
Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1178095, thanks!
ZTE+Maven+Smartphone+Specifications+|+AnsMachine
Received telemetry from Dragon after the event - Gwynne (From Conference).

Bit of positive news to take from this sad day.
For Rails apps I've been using god to manage unicorn and delayed_job/resque processes in recent years. I've been mildly skeptical of systemd---not really out of true knowledge but because keeping things simple matters to me, and that seems to be the gist of the criticisms. But if systemd would let me do away with god, that would be nice! I agree that pidfiles are a hack and often cause problems. It seems like I'm going to need to learn systemd soon anyway, so I'll be looking into whether it can do what I need for Rails apps.
Of course,
with multiple monitors will make it easy for developer
to see in wide screen without minimizing important windows.
I am a firm believer in native code and consider Emscripten and Web Assembly nothing more than fads.
This is a terrible paper. It barely made a point, and is riddled with distracting misspellings and grammatical errors.
Placebo effects without deception? Well, not exactly... (2010)
Do you have a demo video or anything that shows a bit more about what Hibiki does?
I think the lesson that the last few years have taught us is that you can do ambitious things, but to get buy in it needs to be an incremental and gradual. This is the cost of a large system with >4 largely independent implementors with significantly distinct plans and goals.

It's not too hard for me to imagine a near future with smooth python support in the browser. A webassembly python runtime with GC integration in the browser served trustlessly and with a high cache hit rate from a CDN using subresource integrity (and perhaps with even the popular runtimes packaged ahead of time in browsers). It might be possible to load and run the python source through the webassembly runtime using the ES6 module loader. I wonder if we'll even see JITs in webassembly-based interpreters that compile code that they're interpreting down to webassembly.
So it's because some USB devices might report the same ID and Windows doesn't want to accidentally confuse one for the other, right?

What would actually need to happen for this to go wrong? You'd need two different USB devices, that are not only cheap/bad (using a non-unique ID), but they'd have to just happen to actually share the ID as well.

Isn't that a rather unlikely thing to happen? Unless many devices report a very common ID such as 0, or something.

Then, I'd have to unplug one device, and plug in the other into a different port, and what would happen is the OS would try and "talk" to the device using the wrong driver, yes?

But, given that Windows doesn't go through the whole "installing new device" spiel if you plug the same device again into the same port ... what if I would unplug that device, and then plug the other device (that reports the same ID as the first) into that same USB port. Then Windows would still get confused right? So the problem isn't even really solved, at all. It just makes it slightly less likely to happen (by a factor of your number of free USB ports).

Okay so that is one thing. But then, from what I read in this thread, I get the idea that Linux in fact does consider devices with the same ID to be the same device, regardless of port (correct?). So, in Linux you'd run into this problem? Has anyone ever actually experienced it? Because I certainly haven't.

And then there's the part that, if the problem occurs, you'll figure it out real quick, because it only happens right after you plug in this new USB toy that you recently bought, on the cheap. That's not too bad, is it? I bought a €1.50 USB-hub a while back, noticed my keyboard and mouse started acting glitchy, didn't take a second to figure out it was probably that cheap thing, and threw it out.
Even worse, on Mac OSX some people use case-sensitive file systems. So you’d have to support it anyway.
A note -- if you're linking to arXiv, it's better to link to the abstract (http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404510, or http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404510v2 for this specific version) rather than directly to the PDF. From the abstract, one can easily click through to the PDF; not so the reverse. And the abstract allows one to do things like see different versions of the paper, search for other things by the same authors, etc. Thank you!
Just watched some of it. The SpaceX COO just said they're still analysing data s dont have anything to add to Elon's tweets yet. The rest of the conference is just reassuring everyone that the ISS is fine for the time being.
whereas in Erlang (IIRC) ETS cause some issues with GC

There isn't any at all for ETS:

Note that there is no automatic garbage collection for
tables. Even if there are no references to a table from
any process, it will not automatically be destroyed
unless the owner process terminates. It can be destroyed
explicitly by using delete/1. The default owner is the
process that created the table. Table ownership can be
transferred at process termination by using the heir
option or explicitly by calling give_away/3.

Of course, you'll seldom be using ETS directly, but rather through Mnesia.

From: http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/ets.html
You should not focus on what is in demand right now, but what will be in the next future... You are too late for being a leader in the hottest language of today, but you are just in time to be a great leader of the hottest language of tomorrow...
Deconvolution of astronomical images has been studied since the Hubble "astigmatism" incident. That was later corrected with more hardware "up there", but until then deconvolution was the only way to improve the quality of the images. From then on, the technique has been improved, thanks to better math and more processing power available in computers.

It isn't the same as getting closer, but it better resolves details of the image. I think their disclaimer about fine features is sort of a "we're saying this now so nobody screams ALIEN COVERUP at us later" (well maybe not that specifically, but there's always someone that sees one image and interprets it in his own way -- take Ceres Bright Spots for example).
I strongly disagree in regards to the colloquial aspect you mentioned. Academic papers have no reason to be pompous or high level and can benefit from increased visibility by presenting the findings in a more colloquial manner.
I recommend reading this short article published on The Economist to get a grasp of the consequences of Greece defaulting.

For Greece the gains from defaulting would be slight, and the costs potentially vast. True, the country could walk away from debts of €317 billion, or almost 180% of GDP. But that is worth less to Greeks than it sounds. Although the debt is huge, it is at bargain-basement interest rates and repayable over decades. Interest payments until the early 2020s are just 3% of GDP a year. Even for Greece, that is manageable. Nor would leaving the euro do much good. In theory, with a new drachma and its own central bank, Greece could devalue and gain competitiveness. But Greece’s trade is modest. And it has already lowered nominal wages by 16% without a boom in exports.

The costs of Grexit still outweigh the benefits
By contrast, the cost of Grexit would be exorbitant: bust banks, slashed savings, broken contracts and shattered confidence (see article). Politics could be devastated. Syriza, Mr Tsipras’s hard-left party, is anti-market and anti-enterprise. Neo-fascist Golden Dawn and the Communists, with a combined 12% of the vote, would thrive. Most of the parties in the middle, already discredited, would struggle. This week Mr Tsipras was due to play footsie with Vladimir Putin in Russia. Ejected from the euro, and possibly the EU, a country with a history of coups would risk becoming violent and even more corrupt.

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21654598-greece-and-eu...
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exactly. Life will always go on, but I can attest that it is a big deal, especially for businesses that already have a hard time surviving in the hostile Greek environment...!
It uses yelp for the locations and mapbox for mapping
The Django ORM isn't that good, that's true. But the framework integrates with it, and several great features depend on that integration.
I don't know why Greek geeks, in particular, would have any insight, but here is what some economists think:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/06/the...
What's the strategy for making sure the database is preserved in the event of a power failure? Would be interested in seeing references that document this issue.

I'm surprised the article didn't cover this question.
> All that's changing now is that ICANN are actively enforcing a part of the registrant contact they previously had been laissez-faire regarding.

You say that like it's a small thing.

If the government suddenly started throwing all the operators of marijuana dispensaries in federal prison, you could say that all they're doing is enforcing the law, but it still represents a fundamental shift in policy.

Rules that aren't enforced don't get repealed because people care more about what happens in actual fact than what would happen on paper. Threaten to start enforcing them and you can't be surprised when the thing people want to know is not why it wasn't previously enforced but rather why such a stupid rule is still on the books.
You missed the point.

I have meant if Rust fails to get adoption as systems programming language, it will become just another business language.
This a really good system design example, if a situation is possible and you don't design that situation into the system, then you will run the system in uncharted territory, eventually. Probably running it off the rails.
Exactly. Over 67,000 Tesla Model S's have been delivered since 2012. Over a billion miles have been driven in them. I've heard of 3 or 4 fires.

(source for delivery stats: http://my.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/tesla-delivers-10030-... source for billion miles http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/23/tesla-model-s-owners-driv... )
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize
My computer science classes had an average of 98 boys to 2 girls. It seems to me that the problem may be a lot more systemic than hiring bias.
Also relevant: how many gasoline-powered cars catch fire every day (lots), and how many Tesla fires injured their occupants (zero)?
It shouldn't be.

I mean, things go wrong. It's the one universal truth of any engineering process. Finding out why the thing that went wrong went wrong, and making sure that it doesn't go wrong in the future is just part of the job.

I work on an on-call rotation --- it's not as exciting as rocket science, which is both unfortunate and fortunate --- and yes, things go wrong; and one of the biggest rules of our process for when things do go wrong is 'Is it the end of your shift? Then hand off and go home. NO THIS IS NOT NEGOTIABLE.'

If the process itself is unable to cope smoothly with something going wrong, then the process has gone wrong. (And someone should find out why it went wrong, and make sure that it doesn't go wrong in the future.)
Not sure if it's of much relevance, but my ex-collegue blogs on Greek start-ups:
* http://eulenausathen.com/
* https://twitter.com/eulenausathen
Why doesn't NYT let hackernews links through their soft paywall? I guess I will go and google the headline so I can read the article...
Show HN: How to create a Markdown wiki with the Moya web framework
My only question is, is the real time telemetry at a high enough resolution that the exact cause of the explosion can be ferreted out? I'm guessing yes. This is another very important learning experience. One of countless thousands on the way to reliable space launch and recovery.

My only pessimistic thought in all this is that companies like Space X simply do not have the funds necessary to keep absorbing catastrophic loss and will just give up.
But do the users care? I do not think so. Otherwise a lot of famous websites would have native UI clients.
I doubt anyone here is able to recall that :-). And from what we know, those were some of the worst times in recent US history...
Oh, I was definitely planning on having a discussion with you — it's just that other things intervened. Now the post made it to HN (again, I think), which is why I responded here.

I posted a reply, because I wanted people to see that there is another viewpoint — and one quite different from yours.

I will only pick up two things to discuss here:

* "Purchasing power parity" is something everybody understands differently. Even reading the reples in this thread, people talk of things like "weaker economy". Economy doesn't matter. What matters is how you (the reader, personally) will be able to live. And most people reading HN would be able to live here very well indeed. It is not very likely that you'll become a millionaire by founding a startup (though it's not unheard of), but it is quite likely that you will live in a nice, clean and safe city with lots of green around you, you will be able to afford good education for your kids, if you have a medical problem it will be taken care of without you going bankrupt, and that you'll be able to work on interesting problems.

* I specifically avoided mentioning the word "patriotism", but yes, that does play a part. And I do agree about the allegiance to your children. But even if you only think about the children — will you be raising them as Americans or Poles? Will you try to teach them Polish? I'm not saying you should, just pointing out that these are things to carefully consider. I certainly did.

I am looking forward to discussing this in the future — for now, Dear Deaders, please just remember that opinions are quite different on the subject!
Why should HN be an exception?
Traces are the kind of thing that should be automated anyway... You shouldn't have to write explicit trace statements in your source code, instead your language or framework should have an automated way of inserting these statements at function boundaries. Or even better, attach a debugger and reproduce the issue yourself on the prod server.

Just plain "debug log statements" I have yet to hear a good use case for. Every time people have put them in, it's because some bug called for their inclusion, then the bug got fixed, then the statements got left around after the bug was fixed. Or the bug didn't get fixed and it's a matter of "why don't you fix the bug?"

There's rare cases where there's an ongoing issue with a known bug that you don't know the fix for yet, so you drop debug statements in production code hoping to catch it. But this is supposed to be a rare, rare case.
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You buy a large if you aren't staying in the restaurant. Drive thru and to go!
Greek startup owner here. Our government is trying to recover from a mistake by commiting a bigger one. Our Varoufakis-illusioned prime minister thought that he could force a better deal from Eurozone members by blackmailing with a worldwide economic Lehman Brothers moment. This obviously didn't work, and the referendum theatre was setup to cover up the failure. That in turn, is a huge gamble, putting the country's prospects for generations to come at risk.
SpaceX rocket explodes after Florida launch
I remember an old saying about drinking the water from boiled potato to improve mood.
Hmm, that actually may not be true. Recent research has shown positive correlations between succesful businesses and diversity of staff. (Of which a few quick ddg searches have not found me the paper for, although I think my wording was poor.)
well you would have to convince females aiming towards medical or legal careers to go into tech.

"sorry suzy I know you realy wanted to be a vet or a lawyer but those courses are over subscribed - its CS for you"
It worked out quite well in Cyprus in 2012. So just by itself, capital controls aren't the end of the work.
2 Pi or Not 2 Pi?
Yes, that's right. I was under the impression that it's still getting closer. Exciting nonetheless ;)
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He's also famous enough that whenever I see ntlworld.com [1] I immediately think, "Ah, must be JdBP - that'll be worth reading."

[1] It's actually slightly astonishing his hosting still works at that URL given that NTL was consumed by Virgin nearly a decade ago.
Eh, developed by/for the Air Force, e.g. the mid-50s Jupiter used RP-1/LOX. For that matter, Mercury and Gemini used Army and Air Force rockets for boosters, it wasn't until Apollo that they used purpose built civilian rockets. The gas-generator design of the rocket engines goes back at least to the mid-50s in the USSR, not sure when it was first used in the US, but various Saturn rockets developed for Apollo used that design.

They're using cutting edge stuff here and there, e.g. friction stir welding, which is a good match for the long seams in boosters, but mostly its organizational, and clean slate, not starting with a military rocket which is developed for and under different constraints. Or explicitly (Apollo) or implicitly (Space Shuttle and beyond) as a public works project, where cost is secondary to employing a lot of people.
SpaceX at this point is pretty well-funded, still in a solid position to tap capital markets and has a healthy manifest of paying customer launches. There's probably some insurance in place to mitigate financial losses. And this is the benefit of bringing costs down, especially with the complete complete re-use SpaceX is targeting.
From watching the video, it looks like the engine is running until breakup, which is very sudden. This suggests to me, based on no evidence whatsoever, that:

1. Something went wrong.

2. The onboard automation tried to compensate and kept going in the hope that it wasn't a fatal problem.

3. As soon as it realised it was a fatal problem and the vehicle was lost, it triggered range safety (aka the self destruct system).

If the vehicle had started to topple and broken up due to being pushed sideways through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds, then I would expect to see much bigger pieces and a slower breakup. As it is it turns from a single vehicle that's obviously in trouble to a cloud of shrapnel very, very quickly. This suggests deliberate destruction (which is the right thing to do).

Although it does seem to take a long time before this happens, and you can see a piece fall off about six or seven seconds before the engines stop. This strikes me as being a lot. Maybe it's not as automated as I thought.

I hope the postmortem is made public once it's done. It'd be fascinating reading.

Edit: I hear a rumour that the bit which fell off was, in fact, the Dragon capsule being ejected. I wonder if it made it down all right? Probably not or we'd have heard about it by now...

Edit edit: According to the press briefing they had Dragon telemetry for 'some period' after the event. So chances are it worked fine until it hit the water. I bet they have boats out looking right now in the hope it survived.
"X wants Z, but doesn't want to pay Y for Z" implies several things. Perhaps you didn't intend them. But almost every reader will make those assumptions.

In particular, it sounds like Y is offering Z at a standard rate, as in "Sam wants a Chipotle burrito, but doesn't want to pay Chipotle for the burrito." Sam doesn't look good here - does Sam expect to get the burrito for free? Why does Sam think he is entitled to that?

Readers may not realize that there isn't a standard, objective rate for commercial licenses for Mono. Especially for the single biggest consumer of Mono, Unity, which uses it in products that its customers ship - a particularly complex situation.

Again, maybe you didn't intend to, but it sounded like you were saying something very negative about Unity. A less biased way to say it might be

"Unity and Mono could not arrive at mutually acceptable terms for Unity to license newer versions of Mono."
Politics are already devastated, for the simple reason that all governments pre-Syriza put the country in this mess to begin with, and then simply couldn't find a way out that didn't involve huge social strife. The EU should help the new government correct the situation, if anything because they were elected with a relatively large mandate to do just that, and they clearly have the brains to do it (they took a smalltime ultraleft party and brought it in government, they can't be stupid). Instead, EU governments are scared of... What exactly?
It's not helping hands that's needed, it's the removal of factors that actively discourage participation in tech culture for arbitrary reasons of race, gender etc.

And it's not hand-wringing, it's anger at watching people who would otherwise be substantive contributors in a technical sense be subjected to abuse until they leave the field.

I see the lack of diversity at these companies as a sign of distortion in the overall tech community - the reason they're having a tough time getting the diversity they want is because so many people have been discouraged long before they develop the chops to apply at a place like Google.
End-To-End Arguments in System Design (1984) [pdf]