skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is defined as explicit consent? Most terms of service and EULAs on websites and software do explicitly give the company the right to sell your data.

Also aren't the FTC's Fair Information Practices just recommendations with no consequences for violating?
It makes explicit that the intention that a promise should be rejected, as opposed to a throw where one might reasonably expect an exception of some sort.
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Yes, basically that money was used to bail out irresponsible lenders. Now, Greece were irresponsible borrowers, but the bailouts basically solved none of their problems, they were just delayed a few years, and here we are again.

Now for the economical elites this is a much better situation, they get to present the whole situation as lazy Greeks causing problems, present the rest of Europe as the good guys, and pretend that the money we lent them should have saved them somehow.

It's important not to forget all the sides that caused the problems on 2008, just because we already solved the problems of one of the sides it doesn't absolve them from the responsibility.
Are users going to pay for decentralized Reddit? I'm not sure they will care much about the possibility of the company's interests being against them, especially the majority of users who don't speak much of politics.
Or insulting the type of people who would let personal insults dictate their decisions affecting millions.
Ask HN: Is shareware dead?
Are there any HN users who make $$ from a shareware ? Any full timers doing this ?
Right, that worked great for Steam build in mod-shop, people sold only their own creations. Oh wait, they didn't, they submitted everything they could find on Nexus. Re-posters are already an issue, even when all they can gain is some karma/page views, it would be crazy to raise the stakes with bitcoins.
it's also been posted to HN 8 times already.
It's prudent considering their neighbors...
It's been quite a while, surprised Twitter hasn't caught on to this and stepped in or something? I guess it's not necessarily their responsibility though.
Now imagine a universe, a parallel universe, if you like, in which the Greeks were the stupid ones...

> If everyone else can't handle the truth then they're being fools.
If your economy collapses, partially because of global recession and partially due to corruption enabled by cheap foreign money looking for a quick buck, your GDP ratios all look worse all of a sudden.
Re you any relation to Binky Melnik? zshe's from Massachusetts, once worked at Apple and now lives in New York City.
> I named the banks I thought people would know.

But not the ones who actually held significant amounts of greek debt.

> Any guesses why France is the strongest supporter of Germany in the Troika?

French banks already lost the money. At best this might explain why they supported Germany in 2010-2012, and that's assuming that France was acting in the interests of French banks and not the French government which, as already covered, they weren't. You're suggesting an explanation which makes no sense to explain things that didn't actually happen.

> 2) The haircut was in 2012. Interest rates in the decade-long run-up leading to the crisis was 5-7%. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to calculate how long it takes to make up a 25% loss at those rates (hint: less than the 10-year maturity period of the bond).

First, it was a 75%+ loss, not a 25% loss. Best case, if a bank made a 10 year bond, sat on it for 9 years and 11 months, and then went through a haircut, they still lost a bunch of money.

Second, even if it had been a 25% loss (which, again, it wasn't), they still wouldn't have come out ahead; you're ignoring their opportunity cost, cost of capital, etc. You're also ignoring the fact that the people who made the loans were mostly not the people holding them when the music stopped. It's the same mistake you made when you mentioned Goldman Sachs, who made money helping Greece cook their books but didn't hold Greek debt*

Third, BNP Paribas and the other banks lost billions of euros; it did not come out ahead, or even close to it.
France and Germany don't have hostile neighbors. I bet Greece also spends a lot on its Navy and Air Force.
I don't really get what is going on here. Why are people spamming her with death/rape threats? There doesn't really seem to be any context given. Is it literally that someone decided that she was a good harassment target for completely unknown reasons? Why is she a notable figure?
The blog concludes that the abuse of statistics is politically motivated by a vested interest in keeping gun-safete legislation minimal. This is not the same as implying that there should be more gun-safety legistation.
France for instance has a primary deficit:
https://sdw.ecb.europa.eu/quickview.do?SERIES_KEY=325.GFS.A....
I.e. the state budget is in deficit even before the interest on the debt. So it borrows just to repay the interest plus that primary deficit.

These countries are not in default but they are definitely broke and reliant on debt to an insane level.
> The problem with "your money" (as well as Belgium's etc etc etc) is that it didn't "go to Greece": it went to private lenders, aka French and German banks which were holding Greek debt. The honest people of Portugal were swindled out of their money, in the tradition of socializing private losses (while privatizing profits wherever possible).

Can I borrow 100€ from you to pay back this other guy from whom I borrowed 100€ which I then spent on alcohol? Yes please? Okay, thanks, now unfortunately you didn’t actually give me any money and it’s not my fault if I can’t pay you back because actually your money went to this other guy. It had nothing to do with me or those empty bottles you see back there, it really went directly to this evil person OVER THERE AND YOU SHOULD ONLY TAKE IT UP WITH HIM!

In other words, the money of course did go to Greece, it’s just that Greece was so far in debt by this point that they couldn’t decide for themselves on how to spend it because they first had to pay back other people. On the other hand, there is still plenty of private property in Greece so the country itself is far from bankrupt. It’s just the people deciding they would rather default on their loans and continue living than to tax the rich and wealthy.
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Among the problems is that "the channel" has squeezed out shareware.

The channel is the path from developer to end-user. At one time, one had to purchase hookers and blow for the distributors. In some respects the app stores are helpful but I regard them as eliminating our ability to determine our own destinies.
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On the other hand... having a huge list of potential internal reforms that will all improve the economy is a different kind of room for manoeuvre ;)
And the funny thing is? It wasn't austerity that got the US out of that depression. It was FDR's New Deal, probably still the most left-wing plan ever enacted by a US government.

Rather than 'tightening belts,' FDR responded with Social Security, the TVA, banking reform, relief funds, the housing administration, new tax policies, the list goes on.

Amusingly, even then, those on the right charged him with attacking business and even communism, but unlike the left-wing policies of the last couple of decades, he actually stuck to his guns and rode the goodwill of the people into the first and only third term in the history of the presidency.

About the only case I know of for austerity ever actually leading to anything half-good is Finland, the only country in WWII ever to pay off the full extent of its war debt. But while the eventual result was to turn the country into a proper industrial power, the intervening decades are still remembered as one of significant poverty, of literally making bread flour from tree bark because wheat was too expensive. One even wonders if this was the start of Finland's lingering reputation for depression and alcoholism, from which it is only now starting to recover.

The ugly truth about austerity politics is that it is very much about making a handful of very rich people even richer, and little else. Look at Britain, where the party of some of the richest people in the country are blabbering about tightening belts. You think David Cameron's cutting back at home?

Or hell, look at Germany. The biggest bully for austerity politics in the whole EU is also literally it's richest country. And you can damn sure bet they aren't playing the same game at home.

And oh look, just as last time Europe tried to squeeze a country into bankruptcy for its debts, there's suddenly all these new fascist parties gaining popular support, and an iron-fisted tyrant consolidating power in Russia. It's almost like we've all forgotten the 30s ever happened already ...
Upgrading the Web (a talk by Douglas Crockford) [video]
Oooh gush. Digitise and immediately place behind a paywall so that the BL can sell subscriptions to personal historians more like. No kid will be able to walk into a public library in Britain and access these archives for free.
Even better if you run your own mail server, have it use . as the suffix character instead of + e.g. you+comcast@domain.com becomes you.comcast@domain.com

This evades sites that filter on +'s and spammers that strip them out to anonymize their list. Also if they strip out the dots to further anonymize it, they just create invalid email addresses.

Admittedly this only works because not everyone does it.
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It's still a recession until it hits 'zero' again, even if there is solid growth?

E.g. if a country started with a GDP of 100, dropped to 10 in a single year, and then over the next 90 years grew its GDP by 1 each year, it would be 90 years of economic growth but still a recession?
> I'm not sure how familiar you are with bitcoin, but you can buy real stuff with it. It is quite well integrated into the normal economy at this point, considering how young it is.

I'm quite familiar with it, but you really can't survive off bitcoin alone. There just aren't enough vendors taking it, but more importantly, this is because it is hard for vendors to price items since it so rapidly fluctuates. Bitcoin is also tax disadvantaged because it's classified by the IRS as an asset not as currency, so you get taxed every time you transact bit coin and it has "changed value" relative to the dollar. Can you image trying to do business with dollars if you had to pay tax every time it's value changed compared to the Euro?

> You can buy food, shelter, and clothing with bitcoin. Spend some time around /r/bitcoin and you will see these opportunities. How many places could you use a credit card when they were only 6 years old?

Food and clothes yes (although very limited choices). Shelter? I'm not familiar with anyone who takes bitcoin in exchange for a place to sleep.

You compare it to credit cards, but that isn't really an apt comparison because credit cards just represented dollars in another form.

> A p2p network where anyone can run a node seems strictly better than a central organization to me with respect to "bad actors". When reddit, Inc. makes a decision the users agree with right now, they can't overturn admin decisions. It would be far easier to do so with a decentralized reddit.

But then you get chaos and a fractured ecosystem. I would say that's worse.

> I'm not really sure - most of the time you probably wouldn't know, so there would be times when you unintentionally hosted something you disagreed with.

It's not the stuff I disagree with that's the problem, it's the stuff that's illegal -- ie. my government doesn't agree with.

> This is the general problem of reputation, trust, authentication, and naming all in one. I think this project should aim to solve these problems sufficiently well to make things work effectively,

I'm not even sure what to say here. I know this is HN, but this XKCD explains it perfectly: http://xkcd.com/1425/ (It's the one about making the computer recognize a bird)
No, the early Internet economy tried micropayments. First Virtual, Cybercoin, Millicent, Digicash, Internet Dollar, Beenz...

All failed.

Anyway, payment isn't the problem with distributed social networks. Asshole amplification is the problem. If one jerk can easily annoy hundreds of users, there's a problem. Trying to build a federated social network which can survive spam nodes is going to be tough.
Especially if users are anonymous and can create additional identities easily.
So, how could there be enough info to solve any problem if we can't trust the information at all? I mean bot boxes could be open, with the treasure being in green box at all but it could be all dream! The treasure was in red box all the time. Kinda stupid.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9777316
That makes no sense. All businesses suffer along with the rest of the economy when flow of money dries up. It's not just lower wages, it's lower sales, profits and for those business kept afloat by financial leverage, such crisis often mean complete death.
StreamSquid is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs

Grooveshark user! This will allow to save all your Grooveshark playlists and import them into the site
This is secretly a lesson about comments in legacy code.
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I should drop that into my (small) build script, yeah. thanks.
Troika forecasts and numbers show a very similar graph, so probably pretty real. See, eg, the first chart here

http://www.bruegel.org/nc/blog/detail/article/1647-is-greece...
> mostly meaningless

Well, you have to know at what interest rate the country borrows, and have an idea about the country's deficit and rate of GDP growth to know how sustainable the debt is, I suppose, but it's a pretty important number nevertheless...
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Most of those countries reformed like there was no tomorrow. Greece reformed like there would always be a mañana.
> moral responsibility to help

No. No one is saying that. People are saying that Germans should help Greece because it's a rational thing to do. No one, except complete idiots, is saying that they have moral obligation to do it. Here's the quote from OP:

> Nonsense! This had nothing to do with moral clarity; it was a rational political and economic decision
Hi, well firstly it saddens me somewhat that you think I was suggesting that, as you put it, "well it sucks that little girls are taught to stay 'safe' by taking the opinions of fuckwits seriously but I didn't teach them that so tough shit!"

Honestly for me it's not about sex. I believe men and women are in fact equal and anything less than that is ignorance.

As for a 'silver bullet', there won't ever be one. Best I can do is teach my son gender equality.
What is wrong or subjective? Well we still don't actually know what's going to happen. Maybe all their debts will be forgiven tomorrow. Seems unlikely, but right now we don't know what's going to happen we just have a range of good and bad guesses. Until we know for sure they have failed we can't call them delusional; indeed lots of people think they are right to fight against austerity, not delusional. And working to maintain his own brand... even if their isn't an argument to be made that getting people to like him is beneficial for his party and his job objectives (which surely there is), how many politicians do you know who don't attempt to maintain their own brand? It's the game they're in.

All in all... we get it, you dislike the Greek government, disagree with them entirely, and are confident you know what is going to happen. Your views are subjective.
Well, he already did his job. Greece is rolling down the slope...
I link to the Jobs or Carers section of each company that I list at http://www.warplife.com/jobs/. Most companies post only a few of their jobs on the boards.

My Seattle and Portland area pages are most comprehensive.

I dont have a feed yet but my markup is quite simple; however the markup of most of the employer sites is a steaming pile.
I'm noticing them now too :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9837188
Ok, I take my words back. Only Bulgaria is comparable to Greece.
The concept of subscriptions is completely separate from the router you use. At some point you would need to define who can subscribe to what documents, in any system with private data. It is called ACL.
It's sad that certain creditors didn't want to negotiate with Yanis anymore. To me, it seems he's a true hero of his nation, putting the needs of his people before the needs of the creditors. I wish politicians in my country (The Netherlands) would be more like him. Our politicians on the other hand seem to do anything the EU tells them, possibly in hope for a cozy, well-payed EU job in the future.

Yanis will wear the creditors' loathing with pride: http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/07/06/minister-no-more/
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9268951
This is actually really bad, happy as I am to see this company get ruined.

People with an agenda are going to latch on to this to further push bad legislation like Wassenar, and criminalize security research, or worse, make it "terrorism", because Soghoian runs his mouth and policy makers don't understand how things really work.
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> Both the IMF and the public agreed with him.

From my reading of the IMF report abstract, it seems that they believe the debt is unsustainable given that Greece didn't follow the plan laid out in the 2012 framework. Hardly a change of message, I'd say.

Relevant passage:

> By late summer 2014, with interest rates having declined further, it appeared that no further debt relief would have been needed under the November 2012 framework, if the program were to have been implemented as agreed. But significant changes in policies since then—not least, lower primary surpluses and a weak reform effort that will weigh on growth and privatization—are leading to substantial new financing needs.

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=43044.0
Without knowing anything about the details of it, I am immediately suspicious of the truth of the swimming-pool allegation simply because of how universally it is mentioned in discussions of Greece's economic situation. Anything which gets used that ubiquitously, in my experience, ends up debunked on Snopes or Politifact sooner or later.
I imagine that risk varies for those saying something other than the status quo. Often those people are keys to progression of society. Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, etc.
Obviously it's hard to know for sure. But most likely this is the work of "harassment hobbyists" who have no particular agenda other than the moronic thrill of messing with people from the safety of their keyboards. There is a great explanation elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836242

Most likely, Jess appeared on their radar because she is a very active and popular maintainer of Docker, a high-profile (and occasionally controversial) open-source project. She is known for impressive and sometimes hilarious hacks using Docker, witty and informative technical articles, and for contributing a great deal to the friendly and welcoming atmosphere of the Docker community. In short: she is awesome.
Consequences of Greece's 'No'
> A new altcoin would not be as useful as bitcoin outside of the system. Using bitcoin makes karma as real as possible. Using an altcoin would just be annoying and a lot fewer people would want to use the system.

But is that really true? The overwhelming number of users that would participate (at reddit's scale or a couple of magnitudes less) have 1) never heard of bitcoin, 2) dont own bitcoin, 3) think its scammy or for buying drugs. Almost all of the potential users would have to purchase bitcoin just to participate. The only people that would be annoyed by using an altcoin are the ones that currently own bitcoin and would not receive a benefit from an increase in value.

Lets be real. This type of application could definitely be developed with some sort of decentralized/p2p token system where tokens are earned, posts are paid for them and maybe the tokens gain some sort of value, but it doesnt require bitcoin. It could literally just be pebbles picked up off the ground if enough people believe that that is correct. Bitcoin isnt valuable enough and doesnt have enough utility for it to be an absolute requirement.
Three years ago and five months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4114295, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9030564.
I don't think it's ignorance you're experiencing, but rather common sense. When you borrow money you're usually obligated to pay it back. It's really that simple. Your people borrowed more money than they could afford to live lavishly. Times were good and you thought it would never end - and then the financial collapse occurred and it was all over. Your debts became due and you couldn't pay so you kept borrowing more money to pay back loans you could never repay without making the necessary sacrifices to do so.

If you feel your country is owed money from Germany then by all means go and try to collect it so that you can apply it to your +350 Billion Euro debt. Although, I have a feeling that the money Germany owes you is just a drop in the bucket for what you owe.

Congratulations on your "No" vote and good luck on your exit from the Euro.
> And you can damn sure bet they aren't playing the same game at home.

Harz IV. Kurzarbeit. Eurojobs. Stable currency for decades/no devaluations.

Lo and behold, it actually worked for them (although it was quite unpleasant for many Germans).
If you're unable to, and can prove it, then yes you can declare bankruptcy.
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I doubt that. Remember a paper I read about how a stomach biopsy may not necessarily always find a gluten intolerant.

I nearly died on that shit (Gluten). My life would have been very different if it hat been picked up in my teens. In the end I figured it out myself when I was basically dying (they looked at me when I waked into the hospital and said: Mate, sorry to tell you but the first thing we have to do is an HIV Test. This may give you an idea how I looked.) I know my form of intolerance is rare (1:10.000 to 1:100.000).

My life is different now. I feel better than ever.
Suppose you had to purchase her a new iPad. What would that cost?

Now suppose you didnt tell her. Even were it undamaged what would that cost you?

If we lose our self respect we have nothing.
There are undoubtedly a lot of problems to figure out. But you absolutely have my support to run the experiment to try and figure out how to, finally, actually build the front page of the internet in a truly decentralized way.

You (*or rather, relevant people) will have my bitcoins in support on day one, if this ever launches.
MD5? Just a couple of years ago I had to "fight" several managers and executives to get our product to hash passwords at all, until then, they had been in the clear.