skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's never been out of the question. In the years that they have been kicking the can down the road, all of the EU financial institutions have been preparing for this exact thing. You can expect Greece to exit the euro with little to no effect. The euro will of course rise, because the caliber of the remaining countries are much stronger.

The real issue is contagion. The EU doesn't want Italy or Spain to go down as well, because the markets/bond vigilantes love to pile on when there is blood in the water. Look at what happened during the Asian currency crisis, it was mass contagion throughout Asia that caused the subsequent problem.
Jo: A Go-Style JavaScript ES6 Compiler and Packager, Based on Babel
Alan Stern, the mission's P.I., dispelled rumors that contact had been lost on the USF forum, saying "Such rumors are untrue. The bird is communicating nominally."[0]

Also the Deep Space Network[1] page shows an ongoing 1kbps downlink from New Horizons; during the safe mode event it was at only 9bps. So that's a good sign! I'm sure they are still panicking a bit about what went wrong, but hopefully we're out of the woods on this particular anomaly.

[0] http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8047&...
[1] http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
I'm glad you brought Sprite up. Been meaning to look at it closely. Far as Amboeba vs Plan 9, that was intentional on my part: get HN readers seeing something a bit different that happened in the same field. Probably just phrased the comment badly again (sigh).

Sprite homepage for HN readers following along:

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Projects/CS/sprite/spr...

Edit to add: The retrospective is definitely worth reading. I think most administrators, to this day, have it harder in some ways than people running Sprite due to their clever design choices in networking, storage, and single-system-image.
Official projection shows 'no' winning in Greek referendum
Can someone ELI5 this whole situation in Greece?
It's not exactly fair because security is a process. Even following all best practices, new attacks happen all the time. Sometimes the security process includes post-attack investigation and mitigation.

It's quite easy to point a finger when you have a few servers that you spend all of your time securing and monitoring. It's something else when you have departments of people connected to your network and running services, breaking policies, taking laptops out of the office, etc.

Nobody wants to see their data being breached. I applaud companies for publicly sharing their investigation and response.
>so they do have a certain moral obligation to give back.

What moral obligation are you talking about? There's no moral obligation for anyone using open source software to give anything back. Are you aware of how software licenses work?
If the backups aren't maintained, the data will be instantly, totally, and irreversibly lost. The maintenance on paper involves not leaving it in the rain or setting it on fire; both failure modes shared with digital.
It's a REPL! It's for debugging. If you're not optimizing for ease of use, you're optimizing for the wrong metric.
Two big classes of flaws that seem new:

* Exploitable memory corruption (really only began to be recognized in late 1995, and only became mainstream with modern heap exploits, perhaps 10 years later). Really, this trend meaningfully picks up speed with the dawn of the clientside exploit era, in which we no longer obsess about Sendmail vulnerabilities and start obsessing about browser vulnerabilities. In essence: the revelation that memory-unsafe languages are insecure in the presence of virtually any defect, not merely unsafe buffer copies on the stack.

* Side channels, not so much for crypto (crypto attacks are fun but rare, and certainly not the low-hanging fruit used to compromise most networks) but for weaponization of other flaws. Side channels are the other side of the "covert channel" coin, which coin basically describes "surreptitious unintended exfiltration of data from software". So here you're also talking about things like blind SQLI.

In-band signaling and the insecurity of using simple strings to encode program behavior would be a third major class of foundational flaws, but it isn't new; it was well-known in the late 1980s. But industry certainly hasn't adapted to eliminate it; witness, for instance, very widespread Java application frameworks that embed executable server-side scripting code in UI inputs!
Perhaps better to fail under your own terms than those of someone else?
I'm honestly puzzled by what the Greek Government's endgame is here. It looks like they've won their vote, but what's next?

They return to Europe tomorrow and demand a better settlement. Why do they think the other Eurozone governments will accede to that demand?

Yep the greek government now have a clear democractic mandate to demand a better settlement, but that doesn't mean the other Eurozone governements have to agree to one.

The bit that I've not seen mentioned prominently in many articles on this is that every billion Euros that is forgiven from Greek debt or that is provided in aid, is a billion Euros that must come from the other Eurozone economies, and by extension their taxpayers.

From a political perspective what national parliament are going to pass a bill that costs them that money, at a time when their own economies, in many cases, are already suffering.

Also AFAIK a new bailout deal needs to be passed in all 18 other Eurozone nations, unanimously...
Probably because as a Seattleite, it's what I'm used to (no ac or heat needed). Chinese people think I'm nuts, especially when we have to share rooms on trips. Couple that with preferred western sleeping temperatures being much lower than Asian ones...it leads to conflict.
"to at least spread some of the wealth around"

In other words "spread the cheer around".

The mythical mafia does this in popular culture as well by apparently buying Turkeys at Christmas time (for example) and helping people out in small ways and building trust. That trust allows them (in theory) to get away with the crimes that they commit (among other reasons). I say "mythical" because this is a popular cultural observation of mine, not some fact backed up by research. But I have found it to be true that people tend to look the other way if their palms are getting greased.

In case it's not entirely obvious it is also one of the reasons (along with tax benefits) that the rich give to charity causes. The good will gets those in power to look the other way.
Aren't these "simply" software implementation bugs? Unless I misunderstood what the GP meant by "computer science".
This article makes fun of people who get breached. This is less than helpful.

> “We take security seriously”, otherwise known as “We didn’t take it seriously enough”

This implies that if only the companies that got breached had taken security more seriously, they wouldn't have gotten breached. In a world where databases are valuable (the AFF example cited in the post, for example), software is virtually impossible to get to zero defects, and where zero-day vulnerabilities are traded on the open market, some big fish are going to get popped.

The idea that getting breached means you're incompetent is toxic and needs to stop; it just means that you're a sufficiently high-value target. It's very possible (and quite likely) that many of those breached expended extensive efforts in defense. The idea that they would've been fine modulo more security expenditure not just a baseless assumption, it is in many cases patently false (granted, there's plenty where it's true). As a security professional working in customer-facing security, I'm helping exactly the people who are getting breached, therefore I say that having a monetary motive to say that they aren't spending enough efforts and should give me more money ;-)

The article also ignores that knowing that you got popped probably already means that you're in one of the higher percentiles of security posture... That's sad, but, again, blaming the victims here helps no-one.

(By the way, if you too would like to help people who get breached instead of making fun of them, we're hiring. Contact info in HN profile.)
Actually, I can reasonably argue that. We get the government the majority wants (subject to filtering by the property holding oligarchy). I would much rather have that than a libertarian dystopia, which would be pure oligarchy in practice.
Exactly. It can be just a coincidence. A blood clot, undetected cancer, genetic disorder, or a million other things.
>The situation about Greece is mired with propaganda and media tells us that Greeks just want to lay on beach, never work and retire when they are 50. I've heard so many parrot that because they read it in a magazine and it is not true. Greeks work the most hours in the EU and their retirement age is higher: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/world-affairs/2012/05/expl....

This has nothing to do with what the commenter is arguing. What s/he is saying is that Greece was trying to provide top-tier medical advantages while their economy was running down the shitter. I don't really think we need "stats" to back this up. The economy is lackluster right now, how do you provide 'amazing' healthcare when there's no revenue?

In 2000 Greece was ranked 14th in overall healthcare systems, above Germany and the United States![1]

How do you provide that kind of medical industry without having a decent revenue stream or some way to fund it? Sure their economy might have been growing at that point. But when your economy shrinks and you have less revenue streams your public services need to shrink with it.

[1]http://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/whr00_en.pdf
The key advantage with digital is that it's easily copied.

For that advantage to be worth anything, the material has to actually be...copied.

Central repositories for this stuff are fine, maybe even essential. But they need to also be spreading around full copies quite liberally.
Perhaps , we ll see . this is a lot more violent than an orderly exit.
First of all, more VAT will decrease tourist dollars spend. It will decrease economic activity. Decrease GDP.

Second, when you suddenly tell people who don't have a job (remember, unemployment is already high in Greece, especially among the youth) that they need to find one, it leads to a further strain on employment, and societal tension.

And remember, pensioners spend money. The money may come from the government, but it goes into the economy. If this money isn't going back into the Greek economy, the GDP decreases.

These measures will only increase unemployment and decrease GDP further. Exactly the opposite of what Greece needs. It may seem like a small thing, but on a macro scale, small changes add up.
So would I. But another way to look at this is, instead of "I'd quit", saying "they'd have to pay me 3x more to work in a place like that". At which point you can again start looking at it as an economic problem.
Interesting! The approach I take to the "script fails after running for an hour" problem is to drop into a debugger on an exception. I use https://gist.github.com/naftaliharris/8284193 for this but you can also use "python -m pdb myscript.py" or "python -i myscript.py" and then "import pdb; pdb.pm()" when your script fails.
The Universal Constitution of Humanity
This is a project I'm developing myself. It is completely my own work, but I'm sharing it with anyone interested in making a positive impact on modern society.
It's fascinating to see a book approaching data visualization from first principles, without any preconceived notions or the baggage and confusion of modern tools and techniques
Have some experience there. Not meaningfully different from finance IT as a whole. Finance orgs generally fall under the bucket I described in my first comment here, of "spending enough not to be the easiest targets", so there's that!
That's a large part of what makes me no longer enthusiastic about working in the space at all.

Which, as it happens, I've rather pointedly not been.
> It should only matter to you if you think you or someone you care about will die some day.

Why? When I'm dead, anything that anybody does will no affect me. (assuming I had an iPhone) Apple shouldn't not-unlock it because I might not want that. I want nothing, since I'm dead.
If you're referring to software license terms, you're making a legal, not a moral argument.
The scond law of thermodynamics says that the total entropy of a system always increases. It doesn't prohibit local entropy decreases. So a part of a system (newspaper, archive, planet) can maintain or increase its order.
He failed to mention that local anesthesia can also lead to neurotoxicity, and I was too ignorant to know about it(for some reason I assumed that local anesthetics are harmless, and didn't do my research).

You get that "neurotoxicity" in this case is almost exclusively referring to deleterious effects that local anesthetics can have on nerves at the site of injection, right? Subcutaneous injection of local anesthetics will have very little, if any, involvement with your brain.

You did the right thing finding a surgeon that would work with a block instead of GA if you were concerned about the (potentially real, if not that bad, effects of GA) but I think your fears of local anesthetics causing CNS damage are overblown and I wouldn't want others to refuse the use of them in themselves or their children based on your post.
Would be better if they actually aggregated the data into metro regions. There was exactly one town I heard of, on that list. Everything else was essentially suburban neighborhoods.

Apparently they like really like Kansas City and Indianapolis.
Thank you for taking the time to answer - I had not heard of bohnanza! : )
I'm surprised that you thought your off-topic trolling was saying anything well, but berating someone based on bad assumptions made from 2 sentences is certainly not saying it any better.
That's a fair nit to pick. We won't really know the EVs here, but the point was more about EV tradeoff anyway.
Just to pitch in at the last minute :)

I could make a living from my windows installable watermarking software http://www.watermark-image.com (I am kinda, I also run a consultancy and is bootstrapping http://timeblock.com with the reveneu from those two business)

I have been working on it for five years and 5x the revenue after attending MicroConf in europe 2 years ago.

Currently I work on the software and do supports 5-10 hours a month making $4-5k i could probably grow it some more, but is using my energy on TimeBlock.
Djb et al.: EdDSA for more curves
That's the logical extreme of the "network segmentation" bullet I listed above. The problem with endpoint security and internal trust is that the endpoints aren't the most valuable goal on the internal network; we attack them because they're pivots to internal applications, which are the most valuable goal. So making it harder to compromise an individual desktop from within an internal network doesn't really do much. Making it harder for an arbitrary desktop to reach the document management server, though, does make a difference.
Edge. Of. Seat.
> For that advantage to be worth anything, the material has to actually be...copied.

This is they key. I think people are afraid of our all digital world because no one backs anything up.
How come they reversed the dots and commas?
>People are currently celebrating for it, though.

manipulating currency is one of the way how politicians, bankers and other people in power f&ck regular people. Obviously, being f&cked by your own instead of by foreign politicians/bankers is the more preferable situation. I'm not joking - just look at all the wars there foreign invaders were enthusiastically fought against by the regular people even when their own governing regime was nothing to fight for.
Figured out might be giving to much credit. The system really is in their favor and the more you have, the easier it gets. It's almost as if capital acts like gravity in our current setup.

Maybe that's a good thing, and it's only the governance model that is at fault (private ownership).

Or perhaps we should look closer at the externalities involved. Why is it that you can own a limited resource, like land, and profit from it. Shouldn't the exclusive control over a limited resource come with a cost?
Well our company believes in the power of tools to empower people and developers, and bring about social change. So I can definitely speak about this. And so can my cofounder: http://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2013/04/a-new-kind-of-platfor...

"Our job is not to just build Facebook, our job is to make the world more open and connected — and we in Product Infrastructure are tasked with giving the whole software industry the tools to help us accomplish this mission."

Then open source your social network and let it be hosted in a distributed manner around the world. Instead of shutting off access to APIs like this: http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/28/facebook-api-shut-down/

When I see companies like Twitter and Facebook become open source like Wordpress for blogs, then we can say they really care more about making the world more open and connected instead of building their own silo.
Thanks for the suggestion, I implemented it: https://github.com/ichub/physics/commit/5b875ea2d5e3dfa3f5a0...
Not all countries use the U.S. style
There are many standards for decimal notation [0].

[0]. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-0169/overview-9/inde...
That's also what, afaict, is keeping the problem from just being solved. Greece is small enough that it's quite possible to restructure their bonds into some workable package rather than kicking the can 6 months at a time. The IMF, for example, was floating a €50 billion debt haircut, which is not a ton of money in absolute terms. Alternate proposals would cap repayment in line with GDP, e.g. 1% of GDP per year, which would in effect amount to writing off a few tens of billion € per year (by letting it inflate away). But the EU is worried about setting a precedent that might impact a much bigger country with bigger debts, like Spain. (The other issue is just pure political constraints. Many EU countries currently have strong populist-right parties either in government or with an influential position in the government, like True Finns and Dansk Folkeparti. These parties are obviously against anything that looks like being "soft on Greece".)
I live upwind of Chicago (by prevailing winds) in Minnesota, and we have read in our weather reports that forest fires in Canada have added a lot of particulate matter to our air. The sunsets here have been spectacularly red in recent days. I suppose checking those city-by-city reports of measured pollution for long-term trends and recent spikes might help figure out how unusual Chicago's current conditions are, as you thoughtfully suggest.
But the fact is no matter how much money and effort you put in to it, someone determined enough will find a way through.

What most people don't realise when it comes to computer security is, the foundation on which our modern systems are built never anticipated this much growth.

I think I am happy with companies that care enough to come forward and admit their mistakes. IT security is hard, very very hard.
Roughly:
Greek economy in bad shape, to put it mildly.
Greece take loans from the IMF. Owes lots of money. Greece cannot pay it back. Will not pay it back.
Deadline was a day or two ago to deliver a payment of over 1 billion euros (which again, i'm not sure why they are voting for/against a deal that has expired a day or two ago but... well....)
Greece can now default on its payments, and as a result, leave the eurozone and the euro. Hello Drachmas.
Allegedly Greece's entry into the euro zone was made possible by some banks fudging some numbers to make their economy look appealing while in reality it was already in dire straights.

And here we are - the first country about to leave the EU. Hopefully this won't start a trend. I wish I could say "hopefully" with more conviction but I'm really not sure what is best any more. I guess I'm pro europe because I'm also a French national as well as British.
Throwing in my two cents: Atom Shell is now known as Electron[1]. Clever, eh?

[1] http://electron.atom.io/
I don't want to invite illegal content, but I am strongly opposed to censorship - in any form. So my question around which policies are best is in the context of no censorship unless something is (likely) illegal.
Are you a Greek company Blocked by capital controls?
I think I figured it out. Someone put their book on the F8 key during a restart.
I got tinnitus a week after a dental procedure with anesthesia. Don't know how to live with it, to be honest. Your fear is anything but irrational.
Wouldn't we need to know more about the constitutional law of Germany to meaningfully make decisions based on warrant canaries from German companies?
General anaesthesia is actually somewhat dangerous.

Your chance of dying from anaesthesia is around 1 in 100,000 - 185,000. While it may seem like a safe number, it's orders of magnitude higher than winning a major lottery.

That number also doesn't include medical fuckups during anaesthesia, like overdose, airway obstruction. In that case the number shoots up to 1:2500 - 1:5000.

http://bja.oxfordjournals.org/content/95/1/95.long

1.5 people in 1000 wake up, so the pain shock alone can kill you.

Dental anaesthesia is known to kill, around 2 children per year.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/13/dental-sedation-chi...
IIRC, the effects of the late '90s Asian crisis didn't last this nearly this long though... The Greek tragedy/farce double feature has been going on for over five years now.

It's like Greece has been frozen into a creeping state of crisis. This can destroy an entire generation. A rapid shock might have been preferable all along.
so is root canal dangerous??
German banks were stupid and lent money to Greece. 2008 Merkel saved German banks by moving Greek debt from private to public hands. They have been giving money to Greece just enough to cover the interest payments while pursuing a politics of austerity that devastated greek economy and employment.

Greeks got fed up and elected government to end austerity. Merkel was stupid [expletive] and refused to give real deal on the table - one that must include basic debt relief. Tsipras got case of no balls and asked greeks to vote instead of just choosing to default.

That's is.
What? The other way out would simply be to accept the reformations demanded by the EU. Greece would also need a new government as soon as possible. A government that does everything possible to help Greece to regain economic strength. Build new industrie, start-ups, let the tourism in this beautiful country flourish again. The EU has already agreed to give Greece a huge amount of additional money. But they obviously want to make sure that the money is not wasted and stolen by corruption as the hundreds of billions since 2010 [1]. History has proven that socialism doesn't work. You guys need another government, but only have a couple of pigs [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm
Greeks defy Europe with overwhelming referendum 'No'
Interestingly, the 'stable spoon' developed by Lift Labs (now part of Google X) for folks with Parkinson's and essential tremor was inspired by work on this same problem.

Source:
http://engineering.berkeley.edu/2014/04/control-design-lift-...
I think it's fair for the islands to have the same level of taxation than the mainland. Greek islands shouldn't exist to be the gateway to tax evasion.

Pensions are money taken from the working classes and the capital, it doen't magicaly create GDP. Again, it feels fair that a country way poorer per capita than the US or Germany should at least match their retirement age to those country.

Corruption, red tape and over spending are the reasons why Greece is in bad shape.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9833746