skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ECB statement:

ELA to Greek banks maintained at its current level

- ECB takes note of decision on Greek referendum and the non-prolongation of the EU adjustment programme

- ECB will work closely with Bank of Greece to maintain financial stability

- Emergency liquidity assistance maintained at Friday’s (26 June 2015) level

- Governing Council stands ready to review decision

- Governing Council closely monitoring situation and potential implications for monetary policy stance

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank today welcomed the commitment by ministers from euro area Member States to take all necessary measures to further improve the resilience of euro area economies and to stand ready to take decisive steps to strengthen Economic and Monetary Union.

Following the decision by the Greek authorities to hold a referendum and the non-prolongation of the EU adjustment programme for Greece, the Governing Council declared it will work closely with the Bank of Greece to maintain financial stability.

Given the current circumstances, the Governing Council decided to maintain the ceiling to the provision of emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) to Greek banks at the level decided on Friday (26 June 2015).

The Governing Council stands ready to reconsider its decision.

Mario Draghi, ECB President, said: “We continue to work closely with the Bank of Greece and we strongly endorse the commitment of Member States in pledging to take action to address the fragilities of euro area economies.”

Yannis Stournaras, Governor of the Bank of Greece, said: “The Bank of Greece, as a member of the Eurosystem, will take all measures necessary to ensure financial stability for Greek citizens in these difficult circumstances.”

The Governing Council is closely monitoring the situation in financial markets and the potential implications for the monetary policy stance and for the balance of risks to price stability in the euro area. The Governing Council is determined to use all the instruments available within its mandate.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2015/html/pr150628.e...
Programs were called apps long before the iphone.
Not imposing capital restrictions is suicide, i don't know if Yanis varoufakis is an economical genius a madman or simply amateurish.
My sister used to keep rats and they erected a little barrier from cardboard in front of the food bowl because one of the dogs used to come over to watch them and they didn't like food that had dog breath all over it. Very intelligent for something so small and short-lived.
And you really believe that the middle and lower class Greeks ie. "the Greeks" did benefit from that money, right? It's their mistake voting for shady politicians all these years but this situation is a result far away from their powers.
IMHO, Nope.
Just now : ELA continued : http://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2015/html/pr150628.en...
I was agreeing with you; I took your response to be one to a sentiment in this thread that 'Greek people are lazy'
I thought that was part of classical homo economicus. If buying something would cause you some emotional disquiet (because you suspect you're wasting resources), then your willingness to pay for that product is lower, and you won't buy it. So it explains it pretty well. Also, the article mentioned this possibility (that 20 is simply too many) repeatedly.
Wait, is the banner on SpaceX's YouTube channel really the terraforming of Mars?

https://www.youtube.com/user/spacexchannel
> "breadcrumbs" which is specific data/files that you can place on the real machines

If the breadcrumbs are realistic then you will end up having employees mistake them for real data, and the employees being mistaken for an attack, no?

If the decoys are realistic then they will have realistic behaviour, for instance, doing an auto update. Now, let's say I'm a malicious actor on the network, and I fake the auto-update server so the patches downloaded are backdoored. Its very hard to detect this attack. Any network has a lot of broadcast traffic between all the nodes - if a decoy doesn't transmit any then it would be a suspicious, and if it does, then its hard work for a decoy to separate the real traffic from a potential attack.
https://github.com/httpsGithubParty/FOSS-for-Dev
UTorrent free download
> in many countries where politicians and civil servants
> want something out without having it tied to them

I wonder if there are any democracies where this mechanism isn't used
it would be nice if the site or github repo had some information about how it actually works
Vitals by Greg Bear is an interesting (fictional) take on this premise, in which modified bacteria can be be weaponised to influence people's behaviour.
Well, by first saying "capital controls" and then "no capital controls", Varoufakis just kept in line with the diplomatic strategy of Greece, which has been to promptly deny everything it has just said.
We already had a requirement to reveal contact information to LEAs with just cause. At least here in the EU, we can't go revealing data to just about anybody who asks for it due to data privacy law.

I'm taking another read over the report.
> you are forgetting that Greece made a lot of tough decisions for its people when asked by its creditors to "reform" yet it is just not sustainable, it's like asking the greeks to commit suicide.

No, I am not forgetting this. The Greek people are certainly suffering from the reforms. But this suffering would have happened anyway, with or without the Euro.

Greece has made such a mess of its finances, in a number of ways, that even if it had never joined the Euro, it would have gone bankrupt at some point anyway.

> The euro is an insane experiment anyway. It cannot work. Too many structural and economical differences between euro countries.

Perhaps, but I hope you're wrong :).

> It seems that the only country really profiting from this is Germany.

There is free trade between all EU countries, not just the Euro countries. It is this free trade that Germany is profiting from, not the Euro currency.
they made it portable between different UNIX kernels (it predates Linux).

In practice, the only platforms that really use it are GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd. Even Android uses Bionic libc. Though I guess there's also novelty projects like GNU/kFreeBSD.

perhaps call all of that accidental complexity "the tax of the UNIX philosophy".

I don't know why anyone would call it that.
>Homo economicus assumes that the utility of the person is reflected in price optimization.

But obviously only price optimization between two identical bundles. It only says we'll pick the lower price between bundles A and B if we have the same valuation of them. You may be confused because often intro econ textbooks assume that the marginal value for something never goes negative. But that assumption is broken here.

Chicken nuggets do not have a consistent per-nugget valuation. When purchased ten at a time, they are more valuable per nugget than when purchased twenty at a time. To such a degree, clearly, that even when the twenty nuggets are costed at a much lower unit price they are less attractive.

There are actual challenges to homo economicus and the assumption of rationality, as in this paradox: http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/10/12/how-rational-are-y.... But the chicken nugget result is not one of those challenges.
> When banks lend money to a country this isn't charity.
> They get interest payments and in exchange risk not
> getting paid back at all if things go sour

...

> The banks who lent to Greece got 90% of the bailout
> package. Not the people of Greece. So it's not true
> Greece received "several hundred billion in aid"

It's a shame that these two pieces of information aren't at the absolute top of every article, every piece of coverage about Greece.

If Greece was a person, they'd have gone through bankruptcy and been discharged by now, and the banks who'd imprudently lent to them would have taken a haircut.
Looks very interesting! But I don't understand how python is being executed in a web browser. Is there any run time in the browser that I'm missing out(like V8 for JavaScript)?
And now it will continue:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33304674
I don't see how it does. You'll still have to download the language runtime (including a garbage collector for a language like Python). Perhaps it can be cached, but that's a heavy requirement for a web page, particularly on mobile.

By contrast, a language that compiles to regular JavaScript can use the GC built into JavaScript.
While that may be what the statement says, the other part of that statement is that the Greek ELA program has been frozen. As such it is only a matter of time before the entire program is unwound a la Cyprus in March 2013.
How is that different from the majority of people who are only motivated by money to work? You're right, motivation is not something you can command at will. Nor is it something that you can detect in others or stereotype across a vast group of people as you're doing here.
Certainly with the BBC, that likely means "we talked to people who gave us information we judge to be correct, but we cannot tell you who those people are (likely because that was a precondition for them giving the information)"

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/editorialguidelines/edguide/... (I would make a clearer distinction between unnamed ("we know who (s)he is, but cannot tell you") and anonymous ("we don't know who (s)he is, so we cannot tell you") sources)
It is possible to run GPS time-synchronized NTP servers (GPS time is a fixed offset from TAI). You must however make very sure your clients do not confuse your own NTP servers with any public UTC-based ones. http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/right+gps.html
It is still in NetBSD but it still cannot compile the whole kernel so you need gcc too for now but there is support for a mixed build.

OpenBSD decided against it.
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Nothing wrong with that. When you're interviewing, you can use any criteria you like because you're not denying people (except yourself, which is your right) jobs they're qualified for based on random, often discriminatory information.
Because parsing xml is just so fun? ;)

http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html
My only issue with Python being used for client-side web programing is that significant newlines/whitespace would be an incredible pain if you're inling things in HTML. Although you would pretty much be forced to use GZip rather than just minification, which is good-ish.

Plus, loading a 900KB file to run the Python client-side is probably a terrible idea when you could either transpile to JS or asm.js or (in the future) WebAssembly.
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You can use oh-my-vpn to setup shared VPN server with your friends. https://github.com/alaa/oh-my-vpn
Several people are interpreting "stays the same" as good news for Greece and contrary to the article. I interpret it as the opposite: it will not expand further to meet the demand, thus Greek banks will run out of money. I didn't have the impression anyone expected the full amount to be recalled.
He was a game playing machine! World class chess, backgammon, and poker player.

I watched him play when I went to the U.S. chess Open in 1978. He drew crowds and was fun to watch, often getting in time trouble.
Disclosure cannot be refused solely for lack of any of the following: (i) a court order; (ii) a
subpoena; (iii) a pending civil action; or (iv) a UDRP or URS proceeding; nor can refusal to
disclose be solely based on the fact that the request is founded on alleged intellectual property
infringement in content on a website associated with the domain name.

That's incredibly bold.
Another thing I've been pondering occasionally is what this and other discoveries might mean if cryonic neuropreservation (head/brain only) storage & reversal is ever practical, or if full head transplants become a viable surgery.

Just how much of actual personness is stored in places other than just the brain? Surely the hormonal (endocrine?) systems of the body, as well as things like the microbiome are going to play important roles, although I have no clue if they're necessary.
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There needs to be more promotion of this, as this is the first time I've heard about the version specific classifiers.

I'd have to agree with simonlebo - it's getting harder to find packages compatible with the latest version. Some of these are just slow at updating, but will eventually get around to it at some point. However given how old Django is now, there's going to be plenty of old projects which clutter up search results for packages which are no longer maintained.

Maybe djangopackages.com could add support/filtering to hide outdated Django projects. Or perhaps the encouragement could come in a more official way with a Django Package Index - a site which uses PyPI data, but with filtering biased towards the current released version of Django to encourage people who maintain those packages to get a new version out with support for the latest version.
>No, it was not motivated by race.
You mentioned in your previous comment that it was a "customary" reaction to the accident. I'm no expert on the culture, but I'd assume that public drinking is a great deal more socially acceptable in South India.

Singapore is lucky enough to be close to a tremendous supply of inexpensive human capital - even more so than the US/Mexico. Their immigration policy allows low-paying marine/construction jobs to be filled quickly, but workers' rights are essentially nonexistent.

Those 12% of foreign workers are almost all guaranteed to be earning enough to support themselves and their families back home - and that's without the benefit of a minimum wage or membership in an effective union. This sort of public policy may attract foreign investment, but it's unfair to the workers that have made Sg rich and it's unlike anything seen in the rest of the developed world.

>not to mention the ST has had its own feuds with the Singaporean government
Are you referring to the long-standing tradition of the PAP suing print journalists for libel?

I was browsing the front page of their site after I looked up coverage of the riots. The biggest story currently is about a marine trade union leader and MP resigning in disgrace after embezzling funds. Nowhere in the story does it mention his involvement in the PAP. There's a reason they have the worst press freedom rating of developed countries.
Well, where I live, if the domain ever runs out, or you want to transfer it, they’ll send a letter to the name and address you gave with a code. This is to prevent shady registrars from taking your domain away from you, but it also means the registry knows your address.

Luckily, the organization that administrates .de domains has 4 types of contact data: zone-C, the person managing the whole DNS zone, Tech-C, the person managing the servers of the specific domain, Admin-C, the person practically owning the domain, and OWNER, the person who gets the letters. Only Tech-C and Zone-C are available through WHOIS.
IIRC it was initially developed for some version of SunOS.

Edit: here's the list of supported platforms, from the 1.09 tarball:

alpha-dec-osf1
i386-bsd4.3
i386-force_cpu386-none
i386-gnu (for Hurd development only)
i386-isc2.2
i386-isc3
i386-sco3.2
i386-sco3.2v4
i386-sequent-bsd
i386-sysv
i386-sysv4
i960-nindy960-none
m68k-hp-bsd4.3
m68k-mvme135-none
m68k-mvme136-none
m68k-sony-newsos3
m68k-sony-newsos4
m68k-sun-sunos4
mips-dec-ultrix4
mips-sgi-irix4
sparc-sun-solaris2
sparc-sun-sunos4

> I don't know why anyone would call it that.

It was a tongue in cheek remark, given how projects that don't want to pay that tax get accused of being in violation of said philosophy :-)
The article was incorrect by stating ELA would be "turned off", as it will merely be frozen, or at least the ECB is saying so.

However if the ECB follows through on this, the end result may be the same and it's only a matter of time before the entire ELA bailout is unwound like in Cyprus.
IIRC, the sound sample thing was just a happy accident. They had no intention of adding sound, but they left in the sound playing code and discovered that Nintendo used the exact same sound lookup table. Which is perhaps even cooler.
'Please give it to the next person who cannot afford a full meal', maybe?
That one is a classic, although the text is incorrect as you didn't fall prey to the attack by simply clicking the link (if you work computer is vulnerable that is ITs problem, if it is a zero-day then nobody is safe).
The fact that we are in a tech bubble is in no doubt

Yeah... no. It is in doubt, otherwise all the smart people who are still taking risks would stop. I don't pretend to know what the outcome is going to be, but from my perspective anyone who claims certainty is probably selling something.

To be honest I find Benedict Evans' analysis more convincing. Like many others here I was there for the dot-com boom (& crash) and this feels very different to me. There's real revenue being generated from a decent sized online population, not just a legion of ad-funded sites fighting for speculative CPM dollars.
CNN confuses sex toy banner for ISIS flag at Pride
A Tale of Two XML Transformations
I dont like to be taken as threatening, but it feels like the rulers up in ICANN who are making these decisions need to understand the impact of said decisions and as they are not avoiding dangerous people or situations, they simply dont care.

Are all of their domain names registered properly? Shall we start sending them A LOT of mail explaining these consequences?
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Yup, looks like they edited this photo from Wikimedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MarsTransitionV.jpg
It clearly is. Damn, that's cool!

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Elon Musk had already started thinking seriously about that phase of the colonization project.
Are Submissions private?
I have just posted a link. I personally can see it in the newest page. However, if I am using another user (or anonymous) I cannot see the link. What's happening? Is there some approval process to be able to post for hacker news?
The Greek version of monopoly - they cleaned out the bank early, and everyone loses (game over!)
Here if you prefer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeiBFtkrZEw
Is this even legal? Isn't a like supposed to be performed by a human (and owner of the liking account)?
The ELA freeze was for Sunday. It will be reviewed on a daily basis.
I had two interviews with Google in 2011 (senior dev position in corporate engineering), got rejected after the on-site interview in Munich, Germany.
I'm not sure why, I think I did really good back then.

Their recruiters keep calling 1-2 times a year since then, but nowadays I can't even imagine applying. It's a huge preparation effort with unclear chances and benefits. Just can't afford it.
He has an impossible job - when taxes are not paid, people retire at forty, government jobs pay people even higher salaries because they actually turn up, then any chance of balancing the books is looking like a Greek tragedy.
The article seems a little confusing/confused but not strictly incorrect. There is no statement that the full amount would be recalled. The value of ELA has effectively become the extensions - the newly-lent money is being withdrawn daily. "Ending" this and refusing increase the limit could be considered the same.
You are acting like only businesses register domain names.
And in first world countries health insurances can often pay a fortune in the last couple of years of people's lives.
They say that newspapers readers and television viewers love a train wreck, a situation where everybody knows very bad things are coming and we all pop the popcorn and watch. It's a sad reflection on human nature, but audience numbers prove it out.

But wow, the Grexit is painful even when put into the train wreck category. It's going on and on, and the invective, hate, and hard feelings linger and fester. The amount of misery this has produced seems vastly out of proportion to the incident itself. I wonder if severe, immediate action taken at the beginning of the crisis wouldn't have resulted in something much less painful than this. 25% shrinkage in the economy and then massive bank closings? Good grief. It's becoming reminiscent of post WWI Germany.
A massive database of over 10,000 unicode emoticons (╯ ･ ᗜ ･ )╯︵ ┻━┻
Meta: what is HN policy on flagging? Is this a reason to?
I'm not sure why we need python for the client side web programming, when JS is already used everywhere for that. Does it have to do any issues with JS or it's because Python is easy ? Please enlighten me here.
Are you talking about the police being insane and dangerous?
>The seventh cargo resupply mission of Dragon to the ISS, also carrying the first International Docking Adapter in the trunk of Dragon, for use in Commercial Crew missions.

Are they looking to relight and land today? They usually do for geo or ISS missions.
There is discussion about the truthfulness of "de bello Gallico". Some historians even call it propaganda (http://www.researchgate.net/publication/242303564_Julius_Cae...). He likely will have exaggerated the strengths of his enemies.
Except it's not just one person. Most Greeks lived well beyond their means for over a decade. I'm from Turkey and have many Greek friends, and the overall sentiment in the country up until 2008 was that they could just continue borrowing and living like kings and queens until the end of time. Then the financial meltdown happened, foreign investors became bearish and the Greeks lost their easy access to capital, and things quickly unraveled.
A hundred sites?? What kind of sites are these?
Yep, and Of Course I Still Love You is in position.

https://igcdn-photos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t51.28...
I've noticed Greek politicians making excessively bold, emotional statements in public since the election, where perhaps some pragmatism and diplomacy would have moved things along better. It gives the impression that there is some intention to exit whilst avoiding blame with their own electorate (who I read are majority pro-EU by polling, contrary to the impression giving in media). Extremely uncooperative negotiating followed by throwing it to the people is one such tactic, claiming that you are forced to allow a banking collapse because of EU philosophy is another.
Chrome on Windows and similar (less usable but better looking) experience on Safari/iOS8.
That is true if you [1] have a Facebook account, [2] are logged in, and [3] have JavaScript enabled. None of which are true for me, but I wonder for how much of the Web-using population it is.
Solar desalination is a form of "distributed generation" - it bypasses the need for large scale transportation by generating (reusing) water locally. The source water can be the ocean if that is the local resource. Inland, the source water is irrigation drainage (water leftover after irrigation). In other locations the source water is brackish groundwater, wastewater, process water or any other local impaired water source that can be converted to freshwater using solar energy. In essence, desalination is a form of reuse - every user of water can be a re-user.

A good analog for this is rooftop solar, another form of distributed generation. Transporting electricity is bypassed by generating solar energy locally (i.e. at your home). Scale is achieved by having thousands of small generators instead of a small number of large power producers that distribute electricity over long distances.

Net metering takes this concept further by leveraging the existing grid to enhance distributed resources. Excess solar energy is distributed back to the grid - users become providers. The same is true for water - large water users (like farmers) who are connected to the water grid can reuse and generate excess water that is redistributed through the existing water grid.