skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got my first skateboard in 1996. I was 10 years old at the time. I grew up in a small town on Long Island and because I was obsessed with going out to skate with my buddies my mother let me walk into town on my own. Spend all afternoon doing whatever I decided to do (usually skate) and then come home. The only rule she had for it was to call her if I was going to be late and explain why. Sometimes I'd take the LIRR (local commuter train) to Montauk, which took about 30 minutes, to go to the skatepark there.

A month after my 16th birthday my little brother was born. He's 13 now and when I look at how little freedom he has compared to what I had when I was a kid I sometimes wonder how he's going to figure out how to do anything for himself.

To echo your point about the internet... My brother is online, often playing Minecraft, all the time. He loves the internet. He loves that he doesn't have to ask permission to look at anything. He enjoys meeting random people to chat with online about video games and weird youtube people that teenagers are into now. I think it's pretty awesome. He has a sort of digital version of what I experience IRL.

The contrast is actually kind of amusing when you consider that in 1996 I also got my first computer. A Mac running System 7. At the time the internet was considered dangerous for children and my parents heavily monitored my activity on it much like they monitor my brother's real life experiences.

I wonder what I'll be worrying about when I have kids.
> If you’re not famous, no one cares what you have to say, but if you’re famous, it doesn’t matter what you’re talking about, people pay attention and like you.

This is the most interesting comment in the whole story, in my opinion. I might be taking it entirely out of context, but I wonder if, as our world grows larger and more automated, celebrity becomes a relatively more important form of capital. The growing prosperity and connectedness of the world population creates a new class of consumers to be influenced by celebrity, which is infinitely replicable due to the internet. Meanwhile, typical jobs get robotized whereas social capital is hard to automate away.

Celebrity has always been an object of desire, but it probably feels more attainable these days. There are more niches to fill and easier distribution channels for it. We used to compete for attention in our vicinity, but the internet makes us small and has us pining to be noticed. [/armchair analysis]
I largely agree with this article. It is still very dubious to me how anyone thinks that things like increasing VAT at the moment are going to help anyone.

However I don't really understand the author's reasoning here:

> I’ll end this ramble with a discussion of a fashionable view that in fact, the Greece crisis is not about the money at all, it is merely about creditors wresting political control from the concededly fucked up Greek state in order to make reforms in the long term interest of the Greek public. Anyone familiar with corporate finance ought to be immediately skeptical of this claim. A state cannot be liquidated. In bankruptcy terms, it must be reorganized. Corporate bankruptcy laws wisely limit the control rights of unconverted creditors during reorganizations, because creditors have no interest in maximizing the value of firm assets. Their claim to any upside is capped, their downside is large, they seek the fastest possible exit that makes them mostly whole. The incentives of impaired creditors are simply not well aligned with maximizing the long-term value of an enterprise.

The argument he disagrees with here is that the creditors are actually not so much interested in getting back their money but in keeping leverage over the government to enact reforms [0].
He believes that this cannot be the case, because as creditors their incentive is not the long-term good of the nation, but only their short-term recovery of the debt.
I don't think this is necessarily true.

In the end, the goal of the EU should be (I hope) to allow Greece to become a prosperous nation with a sustainable economy, to form a stronger union overall. Whether or not the actual debt ever gets fully repaid should be secondary to that. So aren't the incentives in this case, unlike for corporate debt, actually quite well-aligned?

To me the idea that the creditors do not want to give up all their leverage (the debt) makes perfect sense to me. The Greek government has shown time and time again that it is unable to enact the reforms it needs to. Properly reforming the political structures and getting rid of clientelism and waste is going to require some external factor forcing them to act.

[0] http://www.vox.com/2015/7/2/8883307/merkel-nsa-wikileaks-gre...
The first issue that I see with this notation is that you loose information compared to standard notation. For example, a half note contains the information of how long it will last along with the note itself. This information is given to you when your eye hits the note at which point you can stop looking at it. In this notation, you either have to continue seeing the note for the length or memorize the lengths of different notes which would require you to "zoom out" much farther.

IMO, an experienced sight reader would have more difficulty sight reading more complicated music using this notation.
If each subreddit with over 10,000 subscribers (all 2,000 of them) required just one hour of moderation per day and reddit had to pay $8/hr for it, that would cost them over $5 million/yr.

If each subreddit with 30,000 or more subscribers (all 1,000 of them) required just 5 hours of moderation per day, and that cost $8/hr, that's over $10 million/yr.

This is ignoring many mods are industry specialists who could charge $50-200/hr for the time they're donating to reddit.

Saying they would like their tools updated and to be taken seriously is a small "power play" considering the massive amount of labor they donate to the site each year.
Hopefully the reason for a lack of windows on mobile devices is because their screens are too small to manipulate them effectively with a finger.

Which is how most general users use windows on the desktop, so they're not losing much.

I've noticed this too, and it's puzzling - I've seen people maximise browsers on large monitors and end up with a narrow column of text surrounded by tons of blank space, or the more difficult-to-read extremely wide lines of text. Why don't they resize their windows to a comfortable width, and also gain the advantage of being able to interact with the other things outside the window?

I very rarely maximise any windows, but usually have several of them arranged such that I can see the important bits of each one and switch between them easily. One thing I do a lot is comparing the information in different windows, so perhaps it's entirely natural that I do this. It's definitely better than the alternative of switching repeatedly between full-screen windows and memorising their contents...
How is that "worse"? They have two other installment duration options.

Again, though, that's the same thing that happens if you break your phone on T-Mobile before 24 months if you don't have Jump, which not everyone has.
So we just ignore the fact that the Greek government misrepresented their economic state, failed to implement the necessary changes and then puts up a completely bogus referendum?
While this is a lovely sentiment and a perfectly fine way to approach the sciences (and also engineering oriented disciplines), not all physicist think that way.

There is a lot of beauty in deriving laws of nature without relying on physical intuition. A lot of beautiful results are based on purely requiring laws to be self-consistent and seeing that only one possible law is self-consistent. For instance check out what Scott Aaronson says about probability in quantum mechanics. While Feynman in his famous lectures just says that quantum mechanics is counter intuitive and you are not supposed to truly understand it, Scott Aaronson uses math to explain how to correct your intuition (and I am stressing, this is not just about learning the math, it is about basing your intuition on the math, not on the everyday experience).
I'm glad I was born when and where I was, growing up in the 2000s. Random outside wandering never appealed to me at any age - it felt fairly boring in comparison to indoor persuits like video games, cartoons, lego, drawing, internet browsing, books, and so on. The scenery was nice outside but the novelty didn't last long.

I remember my thought process at the time was like "I can't jump very high or fly out here like Spyro, there are no items to collect, no puzzles or enemies or portals.."

Video game worlds in general always felt more interesting, fun, and cool to explore at the time. Structured and rewarding, a lot more things you can do, characters and stories intertwined to be invested in. You don't get tired, you don't have to struggle to keep up with faster-running others, and you don't get bug bites or broken bones. Kids today have online games and skype for a nicer experience.

Nowadays I do appreciate some hiking or other nature walks but I'd never choose that as a replacement for computer usage. I don't get why people think it's so important for kids to run around unsupervised and get bruised up.

Someone earlier complained about "play dates" rather than randomly ringing friends' doorbells. You should always know where your kid is, and who would rather walk than be driven?

The attitudes on this issue I always see on the internet are baffling.
You're going to have to make a very good case for me not just keeping my cash in my wallet, where I can spend it anywhere.

Otherwise, the risk doesn't seem worth the apparent convenience. This seems less "deposit my cash with my smartphone" and more "give you my cash and you'll give some of it back."
It's a good primer to describe the facts, but it does not say much in terms of what should have been/should be done.
I'm not encouraged by statements like this: "There is nothing inherently more scientific about using an ordinal rather than a cardinal quantity to describe an economic construct. Chemists' free energy, or the force required to maintain the pressure differential of a vacuum, are cardinal measures of constructs as invisible as utility and with a much stronger claim to validity as 'science'."

Utility is ordinal not out of some deep desire on the part of economists to "appear scientific" but because it reflects a simple empirical fact about humans. "Utility" is a measure of value to someone, and human values are ordinal: I value my children more than my cats, and no number of cats will ever equal the value of my children. It would be incoherent and wrong to say I value my children ten times more than my cats, and no cardinal relationship between them could possibly represent reality.

This is not mysterious or esoteric. The ordinality of human values is what makes rational choice under uncertainty such a difficult problem, because we can't compute expected values from ordinals (unless there happens to be a market in the things we value, in which case we can get cardinality through prices... but there is no market in children or many other things we value.)

By making it sound like economist's interest in publicly testing ideas by systematic observation, controlled experiment and Bayesian inference--which is what the discipline of science actually is--is some kind of inexplicable fetish instead of a perfectly reasonable goal for anyone who wants to say anything meaningful or interesting about the world, the author does everyone a great disservice.
I think we should look at the proposed idea as two-fold:

1) giving E-Mails more inherent structure that is managed centrally (streams) instead of by each user (filters, folders).

2) making E-Mail more synchronous instead of asynchronous.

As far as I understand, you're arguing against (2). I agree with everything you wrote, however I still find (1) a very good idea. It is also an idea that IMO could be implemented entirely without changing the protocol - it's just a question of where you put this additional information. Streams could also simply be represented as a group address in the CC field that is managed differently by their client/server architecture, but otherwise fully downwards compatible.
It's sensationalist to suggest this vulnerability is anything new. The warning is late, indeed... I'd suggest putting it in the Terms of Service of every SPV wallet, but then even fewer people would read it. Maybe a better approach would be a popup each time the wallet blindly trusts a new merkle root?
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I think what msabalau is saying is that there are many issues at multiple levels of this system and instead of addressing them as a whole they turned on a single instance.

The implication is that Greek's issues were used as a scapegoat for a systemic problem.
This is an interesting take on things w/ a lot of merit, but I think Vox actually summed it up better here w/ a short video and a longer article: http://www.vox.com/2015/6/30/8867939/greece-economic-crisis

Until/unless the rich European countries are willing to subsidize the poorer countries, as a financial union, the Euro is just a complete non-starter since the fiscal policies these states need are so far apart.
I am leaning towards yes, because it was well known a long time before the crash that Greece was messed up. The incentives were wrong and encouraged irresponsible ledning. The Greek government just happened to be the worst borrower.
The technique served me very well doing physics and engineering in an earlier life. I struggle now with the chaos of software systems because I'm unable to "feel" what's going on.
Technically, all of it?

Lift is cause by higher pressure air pushing into a lower pressure area.
Have you tried MiniHack? I think it will provide a better comparison.
The Dune series is absolutely my favourite series ever and in my opinion the original is only a prelude to the real story.

It's depth barely scratches what comes next, especially in the 4-5-6 books. Even though there are inconsistencies the last 3 books are much much better in my opinion, especially the fourth.

The first book is just an (almost boring) introduction.
Interesting article, but more details on how the attack succeeded would have been worth reading. Was it a problem with password reset in the Harvard email system, i.e. was publicly available information used to answer a verification question in combination with an arbitrary email address? Or was it a social engineering attack, i.e. did the attacker convince somebody at Harvard to initiate a password reset using this information?
> I've seen people maximise browsers on large monitors

I am guilty of this, but what's odd is that it is something I only do in a Windows environment. When I'm in gnome or other linux environment I don't tend to ever maximise windows, but when I'm in a Windows environment I almost never not maximise windows.

I don't know what it is, whether it is an aesthetic thing or other reason I've not yet worked out why I have such different modes of working.
Agreed. The second and third books are pretty boring but the 4th is the best of the series.
Only if the contact information they have for you is still correct and hasn't also been compromised and changed.
I have often pondered, that if it were possible for me to transcribe every thought that I had into words or actions immediately, how both wonderful and at the same time, frightening that would be.
Yes, pretty much. The author's argument is that everybody knew that their economic state was misrepresented, so the banks should have never lend them money in the first place.

The mismanagement leading up to the financial crises was of course the fault of the Greek government. However, the reforms that the EU has proposed/enforced since then seem to have been more about punishing the Greeks than about actually building a properly functioning economy. That might feel justified (and because of that it has the support of many voters) but long-term it is not a viable solution to the problem.
You missed the best part then.
In either way it could have gone back in 2010, the profligacy of the Greek state would not have been ignored. Had it defaulted to the private creditors at the time, the country's borrowing costs would have shot through the roof. People hear "default" and think that it's a get out of jail free card. It's not. Money would be harder to come by for the state to fund its operations, which may have provided the backpressure needed for meaningful reforms to take place without shrinking the national income by 1/3.

But since they didn't default, and instead the banks holding the bad debt were bailed out indirectly though loans to Greece (a tiny fraction of which remained in Greece, mind you), national income did shrink by 1/3 because of many of the changes that the institutions insisted take place _did_ take place. Now the likelihood of those loans getting paid back is as close to nil as non-failed state can get. So, to look to the future rather than the past, everybody should be trying to figure out how to repay the institutions as much money as possible. Shrinking national income further isn't going to do that.

With respect to the "completely bogus referendum", not gonna bite.
TBH, I'd prefer a manual. In fact, I'd prefer frequent use case examples, documentation and flow charts for more in depth understanding. English takes too much time for me to scroll through : /

But I can understand the appeal. If you're looking to feel more intimate with the technology from another persons perspective or do not want terrible documentation, this kind of style makes sense I suppose
I agree. The value of SN is that it's abstract. It assumes a certain structure (the one that western music uses) and describes melody in terms of that structure. It doesn't concern itself with the actual sounds involved (eg. frequencies and durations) or the mechanics of producing them (eg. tablature).

SN is difficult for beginners because music is difficult for beginners. Notations that focus on the mechanics of the instrument are easier to start with, because they don't require any theoretical background in music. That's fine, but they won't be able to replace SN.

I'm very interested in this sort of cognitive technology, but I have yet to see a proposal for improving on SN in its own terms. Is there some notation out there that is simpler than SN, but just as expressive? Something that could be approachable for beginners, but still useful for experts?
And they're not even always maximised now either (thank God).
Forgiving all the debt to Greece causes a worldwide financial collapse.

Greece's debt was restructured to be drawn out into longer payment terms at a lower interest rate and at a reduced principal to be fair to them and to prevent a financial collapse.

It's containment. It's been 5 years of containment now, and it's working to some extent as nations within the eurozone are much less exposed to the greek situation than they were 5 years ago.
- Machines get verifiably "slow" for no apparent reason. This is sometimes fixed by a reinstall, sometimes isn't.

- Even on supposedly "locked down" machines, you'll come around for a support call and find 15 IE toolbars sometimes. It apparently requires a genuine domain expert (which some $100/hour enterprise network consulting firms in the Midwest don't have) to accomplish a seemingly common goal on a Windows domain with Group Policy: only run the software we preinstall for you.

- The infrastructure to automate installation of your Windows image via netboot technically exists, but is expensive (requiring salespeople and resellers) and difficult. Large corporations tend to have it, small-medium ones tend not to. I spent most summers of my adolescence clicking through Windows installers.

- People install (and are exploited by) malware pretty regularly.

- Windows Server and particularly Exchange are dominated by quirky, undocumented behavior on the sysadmin side. You cannot do what seems natural or what it says in the manual - you need a subject matter expert who is experienced in all the ways common admin tasks will break things and how to fix them. Not 1/1000th of the time, more like 1/5th of the time. It also generally requires a business partnership with Microsoft so you have access to real support people. Even they aren't always helpful.

Managing a healthy Windows domain is certainly possible, and lots of big companies do it more or less, but it requires a whole lot of effort, highly experienced people who can "eat" the quirkiness and complexity, and a special relationship with Microsoft.

This might be reasonable for a very large, complex deployment, but it's also required for the simple case of "deliver an office suite and web browser to ~35 computer-illiterate people." I think any modern SaaS company would be appalled to deliver something with UX as poor as Windows for small-medium companies.
there are three pre-crisis article in the first paragraph that are cited as evidence that it was no secret. creditors were (apparently) not blind to the fact.
Because reasons, I actually started reading the series from the 4th book to the 6th and only years later I acquired the first 3 pieces of the story. I enjoyed the 4-6 books a lot without reading the other books before because they actually make sense standalone.
So basically yes, you can start reading from the 4th without a problem.
It looks like a good start. I've been trying to learn Haskell and F Sharp and other functional languages and always wondered if there was a web option.
The creditors ( banks ) are part of "moral" game here too.
If the Euro cannot handle Greek ( and Spanish , Italian, Portuguese , Irish ) default then members of the Euro must share the imbalance.

As an american tax payer it hurt to watch bank bailouts here. In europe I keep hearing countries names, but this is a bank bailout fundamentally.

Sticking the debt on national governments while also forcing austerity ( defacto shrinking of GDP ) leads to a lose:lose.
There is a way to use physical intuition in QM too, although it obviously isn't the physical kind (tables and flipping them over). It tends to be mathematical, but it certainly isn't rigorous chugging through equations. The canonical example of this are the test questions you see in undergraduate QM courses that show you a space potential graph then ask you sketch the wavefunction in different regions. You have to have an idea what a wavefunction does in certain regions, oscillate? decay? how many nodes, etc.
My site has been around a long time. Not sure how a "new" site would do that attempted to sell desktop software. No, I can't live off of FileSearchEX alone. Too many pirated copies floating around. If you have the cycles, I say go for it.
Neurodiversity – Is Autism something we should accept as a difference?
I enjoyed the last 2 books of the series, although not nearly as much as the originals. It was nice to have an ending to the story. I think they're ok for Dune fans.
Agreed. My interpretation is that Paul actually failed completely as a hero.
I think this is interesting because the implications go beyond just physics and mathematics.

Sometimes we learn things in one domain that could be easily applicable in others, yet since we've never practiced said things in another context, it's hard for us to make this connection. Often, all we need is a little nudge in the right direction, which could open to us a new world of insights that we didn't have before.
I haven't seen the show, but from your defense it smells like racism no matter how thin you try to slice it.
this would be much nicer if word spacing was like 5px!
It becomes much harder as you age to run around and get bruised up. Kids can take more damage than adults.

It's important, I think, to do that while you can. There's always time for the rest.
"that is how comedy works"

Says whom?