skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a calculated risk though, right? If they bail out Greece that sets precedent for future mismanaged economies to get bailed out and it gives the rest of the pigs the impression you don't have to pay the piper.

On the other hand, if you let Greece leave the euro, it signals the others that Germany (and France) are serious and they had better not fool around.

A Greece with a weak currency does not impact the euro zone economy in any great way. Yannis probably thinks Germany would blink but at this point Germany has likely written them down already.
The European Parliament is an elected body. And for the first time, the head of the European Commission, the actual governement of the Union, reflects who won this election.
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Why does the military need a special exception compared to the orphanage down the road?
Why has it taken 2 decades since the invention of the personal computer for this to work robustly?
Spheromaks, specifically the Dynomak, look much more promising than this.
I'm honestly surprised it's that low. I know the difference is supposed to be that Apple Music accounts will all be 'paying'. But if they're only paying out low-single-digit higher rates than Spotify, I don't see how it's supposed to be meaningfully different than Spotify Premium or Tidal, except that people paying for Spotify/Tidal through iDevices are paying $13/month instead of $10, and $3 is still going to Apple.

And that actually makes the previous stiffing of artists an even more raw deal. I had read elsewhere that the rate was rumored to be closer to 90%, and at that rate it would take about a 10 months of someone subscribing to Apple Music to pay out higher than Spotify Premium, which pays out at roughly 70% (considering 3 unpaid months).

If you make the same comparison with Apple Music at 73% and 3 months free/unpaid trial, Spotify at 70% and 1 month, it would take more than 4 years before Apple paid out more. If you think you'll subscribe to either for more than 4 years and you care about the artists, it might be worth it. But it's going to take a long time.

If that payout number is correct, a conscientious consumer might as well subscribe to Tidal (who pays out at a similar 70% rate), because they'd at least get access to higher-quality tracks and the artists aren't getting payed significantly more or less.
It does.

Some people like to call undemocratic elections that did not pan out the way they hoped.
Looks like the Microsoft shills are back.

Nobody outside the Redmond bubble could possibly thing this is a sane thing to do.
This apparently started on June 10th, so down for 12 days and counting!
The people that allow for an exception are called agnostic.

There is such a thing as informed total disbelief.
This was a neat summary. I'd add that often, you can use a length of string to measure something, without actually needing to know the numerical length. But then from that perspective, a tape measure is just ~2000 pieces of string neatly rolled up.
What makes you believe that? 1,000+ user channels are common on Freenode.
The moral hazard argument feels a bit flat considering that

A) Imposing harsh sanctions on Germany to "repay its debts" after WWI was a major factor leading to WWII, and

B) The modern industrialized economies of northern and western Europe owe their start to the Marshall Plan. The loan portions of the plan were eventually repaid, but represented less than 10% of the over $12 billion in aid given.

In historical terms, working with Greece to restructure and actually fix the economic problems would be a financial drop in the bucket compared to the money lavished on rebuilding other European economies within living memory.
Ask HN: Slow engineers, did you get faster? How?
After four years, I left my first team in March to join a new team at the same company. Now it's performance review season, so my old manager forwarded some notes to my current manager about my prior work. Basically it said that I had solid results, wrote some really stable code, "championed" testing and testability for the team, and that people liked working with me. I haven't seen it yet, but apparently it was a lengthy essay.

But he also added that the one thing that had been keeping me from moving from SDE I to SDE II was my velocity at turning out deliverables. I'm basically the last one of my peers who hasn't made the jump, and that was the ongoing reason from my old manager. I'm getting passed by newer engineers pretty regularly now, and I've been at my current level for about three years.

In the last couple weeks since my new manager got that letter, she's seemed really concerned about my velocity. It wasn't until this Friday that she had read anything about it.
Yet in the same time span, the new-guy-on-a-new-team feeling was pretty much gone, and productivity was up. I got put on a pretty high-visibility, high-impact feature for this month. Before, I think my manager saw me as ready. Now I think she sees me as a liability.

I was starting to get worried that I'd never meet this speed expectation at my old job; but now I'm extra nervous that if I slip on any deadline even a little bit, I'll seal this reputation with my new team and make it my label from here on out. The Slow Guy. Sure he's nice, and he writes maintainable, reliable code... but if we need it done soon, might as well give it to an intern!

Q: Did anyone else shake a reputation for being slow? Is there any hope I can do to put this velocity thing to rest and catch up with my peers? Or am I just a B engineer who peaked right out of college?

PS: I'm getting married next month. Will I have to choose between my marriage and permanent 12 hour days?
Sure, but the idea is the 18-34 set is developing brand loyalties, so when they actually do have money the marketing will pay off.

Cars are a good example. I'm pushing 50, and when I go to buy another car I'll probably buy a Toyota, because I've had good luck with that brand. The other carmakers can spent a trillion dollars on marketing and it's not going to influence me in the slightest. But people who don't have any experience with cars beyond dad's hand-me-down jalopy are going to be more receptive.
I think there are is a sizable contingent of those of us, who do not like Javascript (or the often impending callback hell that comes with a language not initially designed with concurrency in mind); the HN echo chamber may lead you to believe otherwise, but I personally will be very happy when I can skip the Javascript altogether, and pick a language I find more amenable when I get goaded into doing front-end development.
The opposite of belief is doubt, not disbelief. In the absence of evidence, a premise is nothing but speculation.
Synergy is great... when it works. At the very least, it is worth the $10 that they ask for.

Having said that, using it on Windows can be challenging on your patience. I've had to deal with missing mouse pointers, window focus issues and the like in the past few versions that can be very frustrating from a productivity perspective.
but did Apple ever say that? posting text from an article doesn't mean jack shit. Show me where Apple themselves said "We will not pay you during the free trial".

the ONLY thing i can find is:
http://beggars.com/group/pressrelease/90/with-regards-to-app...

which says:
> In many ways the deal structure is very progressive, but unfortunately it was created without reference to us, or as far as we know any independents...

>At the moment we do not have an agreement with Apple Music that would allow us to participate in the new service.

so what does that mean? does it mean they are upset because they won't be getting paid, or does it mean that they are upset because their content won't be on the new service?

the above article was cited in

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/independent-labels-refuse-...

that claimed:

>The group’s main problem is with the three-month free trial Apple is offering to users when it launches on June 30. During that time, artists won’t be paid anything when their music is played on the platform.

however, the blog post they cite doesn't at all say that. it says they won't be a part of the new service.
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Yes, but their total disbelief needs to be phrased in the correct form. Furthermore, not every exception will be valid. Altogether, it is a logical problem. They have to solve it correctly. I want to see their proposal in which they phrase their disbelief, because if phrased correctly, it will also be a statement of staunch belief in the exception that they propose.
what language are you proposing they should use for this project we know nothing about yet?
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Thanks for the link.

After a brief skim, the articles feel more like generic science and technology news rather than a curation of the ideas and news we all have to keep up with in this industry.

---Alex
From my experience at big companies, plenty of people do bring things up, but the security minded people rarely have authority.
...you, uh, you think he writes blog posts under the assumption that people won't realize he's the Greek finance minister?
Are there any SaaS services that take care of hosting, selling, billing etc that small bands can use? May be the SaaS app can take 10% of the sales or something like that (like udemy, but for music)? If there are, what are the reasons the smaller bands aren't using them?

If at the end, Apple/Google/Amazon/Microsoft replace the record labels and become the new overlords of music, then nothing much has changed, right?
I used to occasionally give time like that back when I wore a watch. E.g., a friend would ask what time it was, I'd look at my watch and see 8:37, and say "half past 8:07" or "quarter to 8:52". It's a great way to be funny and be an ass at the same time.
Every shared web hosting company out there. Just giving you an example. They have been doing this for 10+ years.
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Wow, I had no idea how bad it was in Greece. This article is an incredible summary. They've removed 40% of pensions, raised taxes, agreed to sell off most public assets within 10 years, agreed to put a 'fiscal council' (read: bankers) in charge of the country's budget.

As a result: Aggregate real GDP fell by 27% while nominal GDP continued to fall quarter-in-quarter-out for 18 quarters non-stop to this day; Unemployment skyrocketed to 27%; Undeclared labour reached 34%; Banks are labouring under non-performing loans that exceed 40% in value, Public debt has exceeded 180% of GDP; Young well-qualified people are abandoning Greece in droves; Poverty, hunger and energy deprivation have registered increases usually associated with a state at war; Investment in productive capacity has evaporated; young workers in several chain stores get fired as they approach their 24th birthday so that the employer hires younger workers in their place to avoid paying them the normal minimum wage which is lower for employees under the age of 24; employees are hired part time for 300 euros (340USD) a month, made to work full time and threatened with dismissal if they complain; Around 1 million families survive on the meagre pension of a grandfather or a grandmother as the rest of the family members are unemployed in a country where only 9% of the unemployed receive any unemployment benefit. ... and I didn't summarize the whole article, this is only about 10% of it!

Overall it looks like the entire population is suffering, no sane young person will stay in the country, and the population are essentially being forcibly reverted to a permanent state of debt-slavery. Not sure about anyone else, but to me it sounds like it is time to cleanse the temple - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_and_the_money_changers - and default. If the state changes its name and all of its banks go under (perhaps bar one for a kickstart), it might be enough to hammer in to the minds of the rest of the Eurozone that yes, an economically failed state is not the same as its successor. The corporate world allows this to happen: it should be allowed to happen for nations. After all, it's hardly fair for a child to be born in to the world eternally cursed under the labour of a debt which, frankly, the lender(s) made in error. There is risk in money lending, as there is in borrowing, and at this juncture it's immoral to extract anything more from a victim who has already declared bankruptcy and offered up their firstborn.
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Do they work? I'm thinking out loud, but I see two types of case:

1. People care enough about what's being kept secret, e.g. the Apple Watch. As a result, it leaks and the agreement didn't work.

2. People don't actually care about what's being kept secret because it's really boring, e.g. almost every corporate agreement. So yeah, nobody talks, but that's because nobody cares.
Sure - it's mature and rock solid.

But it's also overkill for many problems requiring persistent storage. If I were teaching a programming beginner how to save data for a program to persist across invocations of the program - there are tools I'd reach for before saying "well, first we need to install MySQL or Postgres, then the db abstraction libraries, then we need to talk about ORMs … ". Pedagogically, going from variables to hashes to tied hashes to NoSQL is a relatively direct progression - at least to me.

Having said that - there's an enormous amount of PHP ( and Perl and …) code out there showing beginner programmers getting shit done with minimalistic but workable understanding of SQL.
Well, why is Germany underwriting their debt? It's not out of the goodness of their heart. It's because Germany didn't want a Greek default to end up giving a haircut to lenders in Euro-denominated sovereign debt. Greece isn't the only country that's "ceded the control of their currency to the EU," and fiscal unity that requires that the Greeks (and the other countries in financial distress like Spain and Italy and Portugal) give up control but doesn't ask countries like Germany and France to do the same isn't really unity, it's exploitation.
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Ask HN: Guide to becoming a dad?
In a delightful father's day surprise, my wife and I found out this afternoon that she's pregnant. We'd planned on this, though maybe not for another few months. After the initial excitement/crying/what have you, I realized that this is a subject that I know woefully little about.

Since I can't tell anyone I know just yet, I'll ask anonymously: how do we do this? I'm asking mostly for books and articles to read, but advice is helpful, too. Did any of you read a helpful book that approached prenatal nutrition (I cook for us), preparation, early child rearing, etc. from a scientific or "hacker" perspective? It seems like a lot of what I'm finding on Amazon are based on fads or shaky-at-best assertions. Recommendations for a dad-to-be are very much appreciated.
> think about how many people would have to be "in it" to make it work. Then think, what are the chances of none of them, ever letting anything slip. To anyone. Ever. The chances are almost zero. People talk. The damage - to Swift, to Apple - it's just too large.

a) Successful secrecy of new product development at Apple

b) Snowden revelations

c) Other things that we don't know about because people can keep their mouths shut
I believe that all beliefs (in non-falsifiable existence) stem from imagined experiences.
"Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It's my opinion that music should not be free" - What a capitalist.
I second this, as the proud owner of a Rigol 1102E (and several other scopes), it's amazing what $400 gets you there. A good scope is about so much more than just the bandwidth, it's about having a good front end with low noise, and things like AC coupling, and an easily readible screen. I think if I were to only be able to own one scope and do it on a budget, Rigol 1XX2E series is really the only way to go sub-$1000.
As with any fake implementation of a service, you definitely need coverage that verifies that the fake and real have the same behavior.
They even named their new programming language after Taylor as a co-promotional ruse. Wake up sheeple!!1
Right. But the trial could be significantly lower. They're not saying.

It's worth nothing that by "higher rates" we are talking about a hundredth of a cent per stream.
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http://taskwarrior.org/

Command line, so easy to integrate into other systems.

If you finish a non-important task, it yells at you and says, dude, you had more important tasks, do them first.

Also auto-orders them.
I was a Spotify Premium Subscriber, but then canceled when they didn't have Mylo Xyloto. I'm wondering how many top albums missing it will take before Spotify will restrict certain albums to their Paid Tier only.

Regardless, now Spotify is in the crappy situation of Apple having some top albums they don't have, and Apple offering it for free (to subscribers).

You really don't want to get into a $$$ fight with Apple.
You might call it a DAQ, since that's much more in line with what you're doing.
Through most of my life I've been distinctly aware that I was lumped into Gen X (born 1978) with some of my aunts and uncles, while my sister (1980) and, more recently, my wife (1981) were usually lumped into some other generation (the name of which has shifted every few years).

I think what's really going on is that most of the advertisers ignored Gen X as a waste of marketing resources when Baby Boomers were always the pot of gold. Most of them are now looking back and realizing that they missed an opportunity at that crucial age range, and they're trying to make up for it by continuing to ignore Gen X and going straight for the Millennials. Of course, that's not to say that Gen X was completely ignored or that marketing doesn't work on them. There are clearly any number of instances in which they were targeted with some effect. However, I think that, in general, we live in a world which is still largely skewed in favor of the Baby Boomers, despite the fact that most of them are shifting into fixed incomes and/or continuing to work full-time well into retirement age simply because they do not feel they can retire (sometimes because they're still supporting their Gen X or Millennial children).
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This is going to rapidly replace every instance of regex in my code. The readability improvement is immeasurable. It's also conveniently similar enough to Python's verbose regex syntax.
Why is it plausible that Recode and every other news site and Taylor Swift all made this up (or that someone fed this to them) and that Apple did not correct them but instead acted as if they are making a change in policy?

I mean, it's also possible that Eddy Cue's Twitter account was hacked by Taylor Swift, well known infosec thought leader that she is. Why is nobody reporting on the real story here??
That is indeed the historical facts. I think that the Greeks need to remind the Germans of this each and every day.

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

"Under the London Debts Agreement of 1953, the repayable amount was reduced by 50% to about 15 billion marks and stretched out over 30 years, and compared to the fast-growing German economy were of minor impact.[2]

An important term of the agreement was that repayments were only due while West Germany ran a trade surplus, and that repayments were limited to 3% of export earnings. This gave Germany’s creditors a powerful incentive to import German goods, assisting reconstruction.[3]

The agreement significantly contributed to the growth of the post-war German economy and reemergence of Germany as a world economic power. It allowed Germany to enter international economic institutions such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization."
Copy from web site:

Taskwarrior is open in as many ways as it can be:

It is free and open source, using the MIT license
It uses human-readable text files for storage. It imports and exports JSON, so your data is never held captive
There is DOM access and a Hook script API
There are many available free and open extension scripts
There is Vit, a curses-based UI
There is FreeCinc, a free online sync service
There is Inthe.AM, a free online sync service, web UI and iOS client
There is Mirakel, and Android syncing client app
There is BugWarrior, so you can import your bug issues from a dozen different bug systems
The Major Difference is Apple will not be offering an ongoing free tier to compete against their paid tier. That's got to be attractive to people like Taylor.
I think Lee Phillips is probably a good judge of Lee Philips' current opinions. But maybe that's just me.
In much the same vein, if you've got a little extra cash to cough up for a cheapo $60 scope (which can be pushed to 20ish MHz bandwidth, or perhaps better), I've managed to a lot of the similar stuff (in Python) on a Raspberry Pi with a library I rolled for the Hantek 6022BE:
https://github.com/rpcope1/Hantek6022API
It's not like Apple is affiliated with Swift or anything....wait...
How sure are you the outrage is 'hers' in the first place if it was in written form on a blog? Believe me, her tirade was edited, vetted and revised by multiple parties six ways to Sunday. It matters very little if the original author was TS herself.
In entirely unrelated news:

June 4th - OPM breach announced.
June 12th - OPM confirms security clearance records exposed.

I'm glad I don't have an urgent need to US visa or passport or any form of vaguely federal security or residency or travel related paperwork to go through.
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That's just silly. Apple doesn't need to do anything like that as they already have millions of captive eyeballs on their iOS devices. As soon as they put a nice big icon on the home screen, they'll have an audience.

Case in point: a mere six months after it launched, iTunes Radio had more listeners than Spotify:

http://www.cnet.com/news/itunes-radio-now-third-most-popular...

Once they unify everything under Beats & iTunes Radio and make it an in-your-face feature of iOS, they'll have all the visibility they need. No reason to engage in some weird false-flag PR campaign like you describe.
Do not confuse correlation with causation. High on cheap loans, the Greek economy had a helluva party until 2008, and they were going to have a really bad hangover no matter what. There are some pretty epic stories of the corruption of the era: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/may/07/greek-debt-c...

Has austerity made things worse in the short term? Almost certainly, and they've cut plenty of meat along with the fat. But there's no way Greece can pick itself up off the floor without some pretty painful reforms.
It's nothing like it.

The simple fact is that states that have large differences in productivity / accumulated infrastructure / endowments must either

1 - have floating currencies;

2 - use government purchases to sterilize the currencies ala china;

3 - support permanent financial flows from the more to the less productive states

Since the currency union effectively forbids #1 and #2, the only solutions left are #3 or the end of the currency union.

This is more-or-less identical to the continued subsidization of the south -- direct fed to state government transfers, eitc, medicare and medicaid, welfare, the military (which is, for many soldiers, essentially a work program), etc -- in the united states by the more productive coastal and northern states.

You may also be unaware that Greece has largely never been bailed out: of the so-called bailout so far, more than half the cash went to shaky German and other foreign banks [1].

[1] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2012-05-23/merkel-shou...