skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Vixie can simplify his message to Stallman-level clarity, how would that be a bad thing?
http://rowvid.com/?v=PuNymhcTtSQ&t=200&s=1
This sounds terrible but how should I invest to capitalize on this? Is there something on Vanguard I can throw some money at and be glad I did in 5+ years?
Or it would signal that ending austerity is actually impossible for Greek politicians. If several parties in a row had promised to double the number of moons, they would also have had to renege on that promise.

The main difference is, of course, that it wasn't clear that it would be impossible to end austerity, with some thinking that the Troika would give in. But that doesn't mean the end of democracy.
Ok, we changed the url from http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0404510v2.pdf.
I think it is entirely fair to presume biologists incompetent and sloppy until they have proven otherwise.

(My impression from admittedly limited contact with biology students and from browsing through the occasional paper is that most of them barely approach mediocrity from below.)
I think the point that grandparent was trying to make is that with Debian support, Ubuntu support comes almost for free, and you get other Debian descendants included as well. It broadens your set of officially supported users quite a lot for a cost comparable to adding support for a new Ubuntu release.

While generally it's also true the other way around (if something is made for Ubuntu, it's likely it will work on Debian without big issues), it would be nice for companies to recognize Ubuntu's roots and make the support official.

Of course in practice the community will quickly report back to you something like "hey, change your dependency to include libjpeg-turbo8 or libturbojpeg0, in Debian there's no libjpeg-turbo8" (real example from early Steam package), however, maybe it's just me, but when I see something having official support for Ubuntu only it sounds like "we were too lazy to give it a try on other distros", while explicitly stating support for Debian-based distributions starts sounding much more professional :)
To be fair his mandate on election was to reduce the impact of austerity. He has pushed for that but now the choice is austerity cuts or exit the Euro, neither of which he has an elected mandate for. Many other leaders would make the decision regardless but he had put it to the Greek people because ultimately it will be them that have to live with the decision and he knows that most don't want to leave he EU. So now they have to decide what is more important EU membership or no more austerity cuts.

However in reality it is no decision because without EU membership there is no money anyway so austerity is happening to Greece one way or another.
Bitcoin is not the solution for the Greek government, but could probably be the solution for the Greek people.

Why Greece Should Not Switch To Bitcoin
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/28/why-greece-should-not-switc...
http://libreboard.com/

It's pretty cool. But please keep going, competition is always good.
I highly recommend Hugo Larochelle talks:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6Xpj9I5qXYEcOhn7TqghAJ...
ZH is a good example of the role information and news plays into the stock market machine game.
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What's wrong with colloquial style? Perhaps the usual stuffy style of academic writing is a trapping to avoid, not something to imitate and perpetuate.
Grandparent obviously meant case insensitive filesystems.
You will be using ETS directly way more often than you will be using Mnesia in many Erlang systems, so I wouldn't really say you'll use it rarely.
So they promised something they couldn't deliver and now haven't delivered it. This appears to have done nothing to help the situation. "Blackmail" might not be precisely the right word, but you could perhaps argue it's some kind of fraud? It's certainly a failure of their entire platform.
Loyalist or Mercenary investors?
I really hope Greece does not cave in to ECB:s demands. Because if they do, it will spread first to Portugal and then to the rest of the EU. And I don't want to have to work until I'm 75, have my vacation weeks cut and my future pension decimated.

And I don't think the EU should interfere in how Greece wants to raise their state's income. If they think it is better to raise corporate taxes rather than decrease pensions, the ECB can't just say that's wrong and if you don't do as we say you won't get any money.
Err kind of. I phrased my claim poorly. Something more like if you have a partial union it'll be less stable than the alternative, more human suffering, etc.

Look at the origin of the crisis, the union is simultaneously strong enough for international debt to be accumulated, but too weak to control the situation to keep the accumulation to survivable levels and too weak to keep humanitarian services operating regardless of financial market issues. A weaker (no?) union would have never accumulated the debt due to lack of procedure or trust, a stronger union would have regulated the loans and cut off the flow before Greece committed debt suicide years and years ago.

Or look at midgame. The weak union had to decide if it should make German banks suffer or the Greek people suffer, the union was strong enough for them to enforce their decision, at least for several years... A weaker union would still have decided for the banks but the Greeks would have told them to pound sand and this would have been water under the bridge years and years ago. A stronger union would have sent in the tanks and troops and taken it out of their hide, pretty rough stuff but it would have all been over years ago and we'd be talking about the recovery that started years ago etc. The weak union doesn't really have any idea what to do.

Looking at the endgame, a weak union has the possibility of creating a generational depression instead of getting it over with quickly like either alternative, basically the midgame argument but emphasizing the length of the crisis, like a weak union is optimally designed to maximize human suffering.
The chapter Understanding Git in Git Internals by Scott Chacon also has a good explanation of how Git works.

https://github.com/pluralsight/git-internals-pdf
Ultimately the way for Greece to get investors in the future is to be a productive growing economy. While Greece's existing creditors may be "pissed off" for a while, they aren't the only people in the business. Smart investors won't care so much about the past that they'd miss out on a good investment.

Greece should leave the EU, and the debt should be forgiven. It should have never joined and will be much better off outside, like Switzerland (a structurally similar economy).

The idea that Greeks have a "culture of tax evasion" is simplistic. A lot of this has to do with the government's cozy relationship with Greek oligarchs. You are less inclined to pay taxes if they are perceived as propping up a corrupt government.

For all its flaws, Syriza doesn't seem to be as corrupt. I also don't see it as the "far-left" ideologically socialist party it's often portrayed as. They seem to be people that will learn fast where and when government should intervene productively.
Frej's JIT is going strong! Maybe it will be present experimentally in the next Erlang release. But such things may change over time.
It is interesting to speculate how the climate in Greece might be different if bitcoin had been more widely adopted there prior to this meltdown. No central control. No banks to close.

It is something that Greek officials joke about: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/05/us-digital-currenc...
I used to work for Orbital as a NASA contractor. I never dealt with the business end of things, but the margins were small and very stable so long as there was work to be done (i.e. a giant (sub)contract on some huge NASA project). It wasn't exactly a pressure cooker of a work environment. The government stuff was a very different atmosphere than the commercial side.
I'm not sure why I would expect a group of successful self-starters in software to reflect the "diversity" of the country. There's no particular reason to believe that
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> investors who will be much less likely to invest in Greece or the EU in the future

I hope so. This will be a win/win situation for everybody.

This way investors will learn to choose better and look more closely at their money the next time, instead to act like fools for years and them panic and waterboarding entire countries unless they agree to assume their private failures as own and fix with public money their recurrent malpractices.
This post was flagkilled by users, but as we usually do when there's an ongoing discussion, we unkilled it so commenting can continue.

We changed the title to (most of) the subtitle, since some of the flaggers seemed to be reacting to the Buzzfeed headline.
Is there a resource that goes into detail on differences of various in-memory databases? Where do I start learning about these things?
Lots? Only in movies.
As far as I'm aware it wasn't so much the ECB that were worried about the debt sustainability of the latest greek proposals as the IMF, who felt that more of the gap should be filled with cuts to benefits as opposed to increases in taxes.

The problem with not "caving in" to the demands of their creditors is that if Greece defaults, it's likely to have serious consequences for the affordability of their pension arangements. Whether those are more, or less, serious than the consequences of acceding to the requirements of their creditors is unknown.
The case for containers
I think Gerstenmaier was saying that may be a distant possibility.
I agree with this post in the general sense, still I think you can go way overboard with this.

If you take as your goal this: "understanding what this piece of code does 1 year from now", as opposed to "I should name these variables and this function fully and correctly" then I think you'll do a lot better each time. There are numerous places where I can more quickly and easily consume "i" as apposed to "someArrayIndex", or "fname,lname" instead of "firstname, lastname", etc.
"Gtk has won" [citation needed]
Indeed.

Looking forward to the follow-up post, "Choosing good types".
I don't know if you're in the software industry but ever team I've been on (and that's quote a few) has been stuffed with Chinese and Indian men and women. So the diversity is there, just not the kind the NYT et al seem to want.
Take the fastest webserver written for Java and for Erlang. Now run static requests around 2048 bytes, 10k connections, 3 req/s on each connection for 5 minutes. Measure the 99.9th percentile latency.

Erlang wins by a large margin because the JVM has to garbage collect and block everyone while doing so. This is not desirable in a soft-realtime system.

I'd definitely not order one as the strict superset of the other.
Or, in this case... lining up Koopa shells. :)
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I agree The Economist isn't exactly unbiased here, thanks for pointing that out.
This posting convinced me to learn Haskell.
But it requires to be more than just a programmer.

Why I love Python, - because of scientific-friendly community.

Haskell is more than that: more algos, data structures, functional programming, math, - completely next level.
I guess it depends on what you want out of life. If you just want to hang out at the beach and have enough for basic shelter and food, you don't need to work a lot, or even at all. If you want a nice car, a condo, laptop/smartphone, nice dining room set, etc., you're going to have put some hours in.
Bummer. Telemetry will be useful and of course. I doubt it will de-rail SpaceX.

Several interesting questions came to mind though, especially given the successful test of the Dragon 2's thrusters, which is whether or not an inflight abort could have saved the cargo. I understand that isn't practical in the general case but in the specific case of a Dragon cargo capsule, I'm wondering if they can fly one with the super draco thrusters. And have that one do the in flight abort sequence at some point in the future.

And given a rocket at mach 1+ what is the velocity of the explosion wavefront? In particular if you know that the back end of the rocket has just exploded, how many milliseconds do you have before the shockwave catches up to the front of the rocket? Could you perform a disconnect and burn of the super draco package to put the Dragon capsule far enough ahead of the shock wave to survive it?
The greek people have made it very clear that they want the euro. They don't even want their own currency and they certainly don't want bitcoin.
AFAIK they made no promises to stay in the Eurozone. They just said that they would try.

Given the way that the negotiations are going, they were essentially faced with a choice of slashing pensions and wages to the bone (wouldn't have helped with paying the debt back, incidentally) or... plan B.
From what I can tell as a non-expert, kids cannot learn certain things very well until they reach a certain age or maturity, but after that age it's very easy.

My gripe with the education system is that early on, there's too much focus on learning things that people are going to learn regardless. If your kid learns the alphabet at 4 or at 8, what's the difference? Can anyone not learn how to read a newspaper by the time they leave school?

Later on, when the kids get to the teenage years, they are able to learn a great deal of stuff. But then nobody is really teaching them when they can learn. There's a whole load of scientific stuff that's quite interesting that ends up getting crammed into a few years of high school, and crammed in a way that turns kids off. And culture classes (literature, history) are so horrific some people never pick up another book.

There's also not enough emphasis on motivation. The emphasis is on passing tests. If you're motivated, you can learn anything. You'll even spend your own time and money learning. My guess is the home schoolers have figured this out and that's why they're not that far behind ordinary schools.
You can only do that in greenfield projects where all developers are on board with modern C++.

The talks from CPPCon 2014, made me realise there are still lots of devs using it as C with a C++ compiler.
If you feel the need to ask on an Internet discussion board where you should invest to profit from $X, that's probably a good sign that you should just keep your money where it is. Flippancy aside, the most likely result is going to be downward pressure on stocks generally and European stocks in particular.
It's really not that clear that Ireland really has pulled itself out of its mess yet...
Some think the modest rise in bitcoin prices is a consequence of the Greek difficulties. For example:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/16/us-eurozone-greece...
In some ways it might improve things in the short term as financial transactions could continue absent banking requirements, however in the long term I would suggest it would be a bad thing for the greek economy.

One of the major recurring themes of the greek economic problem, has been tax avoidance/evasion which has reduced the amount of money that the government have to support themselves.

With bitcoin's less traceable nature, it seems likely that it's introduction would make the job of efficient tax collection even harder, which would in turn cause even more problems for the greek economy.
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The SNES graphics chip supports up to 32 sprites per line; this must be a limitation of the game.
I've observed that it's easier for homeschooled students to mimick being products of the zeitgeist than for products of the zeitgeist to gain the benefits of customized education. Raising a child in a beneficial environment gives them more options as an adult in that way (I.e. I'm not making a broader point.)
They are retiring earlier, maybe just by a small margin, but earlier regardless. I think that if you also compare the average tax contribution of those retired people you would see that the level of contributions paid by germans would exceed those paid by Greeks. So a direct age comparison won't give a true picture of fairness.
There are multiple strains of Anarchism, each as valid as the next, and some diametrically opposed to the other (eg. Anarcho-Capitalism vs. Anarcho-Communism). People are going to self-identify in ways you may not agree, so just focus on the content not the label.
...more of the gap should be filled with cuts to benefits as opposed to increases in taxes.

What's their reasoning behind this?
The Yellow Emperor's Classic, which is over 2,000 years old and possibly the most important fundamental text in Chinese Medicine, advocates avoiding grains in many situations ... but there is much debate on exactly what was meant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangdi_Neijing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigu_(avoiding_grains)
They are definitely being disingenuous by stating this as a fact rather than an opinion. What political party would ever describe itself as anti-enterprise, for instance?
Yeah, most of the people that are against the referendum seem to follow some kind of reasoning like: "Syriza should take the decision by themselves so that when everything goes to hell only they are to blame and not the Greek electorate".

Which is strange because those who will have to endure the consequences of the decision will be the Greek people, so I don't understand what is so negative about involving them in the choice.

The bad thing is, both ways will probably mean hell to the Greeks so it's not like there is a good answer. Trying to pay an unpayable debt by destroying the economy will never work, and changing back to the drachma and devaluating the coin won't probably do much good in an economy like Greece where there are very limited exports.

I am not sure what was the underlying expectations of the austerity route, the official narrative of eventually paying the debt is obviously not going to happen, so I suppose that the underlying message was to play along for X more years until the EU decides to solve the mess at some point. But playing along any longer was not something that politicians could sell to the Greek electorate anymore. And the EU intervening and solving the mess is probably impossible to sell to the electorate of the strong economies of Europe like Germany, specially after so many years of "lazy greeks" headlines. So some sort of scenario like the current one was bound to happen sooner or later.
Well, Greeks are not Slavic but the Orthodox Slavic populations certainly view Greek culture (or to be more precise - Byzantine, East-Roman or Roman culture or whatever you'd like to call it) as one of the foundations of their own culture.

We view each other as brotherly nations and there's not much that can change this, just as the Muslim populations on the Balkans view Turkey as their brotherly nation.

The only reason they all signed up for the EU is because of the promise of a better economic future, not because they want to be part of western culture.

During the last years it has become apparent that these promises will not materialize and that's why I expect that the EU will massively contract in the next years.
Wait, people actually use cL in Germany? I thought most metric countries would say "400 mL" instead (that's what we do in Canada anyway). It seems so arbitrary to me - if not sticking to powers of 3, then why not just say 4 dL?

(Not that there's anything "wrong" about this - I just don't understand why.)
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I live in a major city and we have freeway closures due to vehicle fires on a near daily basis. Most recently a truck full of bread caught on fire and resulted in one of the cities most major arteries being closed both ways for 4+ hours.
What's crazy is that EU won't give Greece an extension for the referendum. The negotiations stalled over small issues like if they're going to raise the retirement age to 67 in 2022 or 2025. This all seems like political moves, the EU wants to force a failure of the leftist party and make an example of the country.
If they have a referendum, that gives renewed democratic legitimacy to whichever side wins. Considering how much is at stake, that seems entirely reasonable to me. Democracy is something Europe in general could use a whole lot more of these days.

Right now, Greece is stuck between a rock and a hard place: agreeing to the Troika’s demands for continued austerity and see another 5 years of economic depression with no end in sight in a way that sells out their campaign promises, vs. leave the Eurozone and see possibly immediate even more dramatic economic collapse but with a potential way out of the mess through a currency under Greek control more appropriate exchange rates.
>There's also not enough emphasis on motivation. The emphasis is on passing tests. If you're motivated, you can learn anything.

My problem with education is that there is no 'one-size-fits-all' policy. Some kids fail hard in a structured system that puts emphasis on passing tests, other thrive in it but fail in a less structured 'find-your-own-motivation' system. Like a pendulum we just keep swinging back and forth and realize we keep missing a portion of the kids. I don't know how you fix it because it's expensive to tailor education to a kid. I guess it's all up to the parents.
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What your perception of Varoufakis is? He seems reasonable in his assumption that more austerity will not work, and Greece needs a new approach to solve its economical woes?
"more than 150,000 annually, which kill some 209 civilians every year" http://www.businessinsider.com/17-cars-catch-on-fire-every-h...
Ireland's is doing undeniably better than Greece. The numbers are still pretty grim though:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/ireland-recovers...
Spain was wildly fiscally irresponsible in numerous ways.

Their total government spending went from $280 billion Euros in 2002, to $450 billion Euros just six years later in 2008. That's a 60% increase in government spending in six years.

The government premised their spending on the real estate bubble, which was floating their growth for years prior to the crash. The fall-out from that behavior of course was a tripling of their debt to GDP ratio in just seven years when the crash hit.

Their household debt to income ratio went from about 70% in 2000, to 125% by 2007.

Spain was living far beyond its means for years, with the bubble temporarily holding off the consequences of that behavior. They weren't being fiscally prudent, they were being fiscally irresponsible by spending as though the bubble would go on forever.
Recent events in the Silk Road criminal trials suggest that governments have the ability to trace BTC transactions to a useful degree--witness the guilty pleas of two former federal law enforcement personnel for enriching themselves via extorting bitcoin. Yes, it does take a different mind set from conventional banking records, but ultimately everything is recorded in the blockchain.
Definitely. Also, when you're in non-systemd environments, runit or supervisord will happily manage your undaemons.
For longer, drier background reading, recommend "This Time It's Different." One key insight the researchers shared was that outright defaults (complete failure to repay) on sovereign debt are rare. The Soviets did it on the Tsar's debt, but usually what happens is that repayment is delayed. My guess is that Greece will do that rather than switching currencies. The exact terms depend on what their creditors will allow, but their creditors have a lot to lose from failure to reach agreement, too.
No it happens, so friends car was overheating, opened up the bonnet to see flames, car was engulfed within 7 minutes of stopping the car.