skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a ton of economic incentive for the rich to leave China and move to the US. In fact, I'd argue it's happening now already, regardless of the performance of the Chinese economy.

Some observations:

- The luxury goods that the rich in China are looking for are much cheaper here in US. The international students I know at school go on insane shopping sprees at the Apple/Sony/Microsoft stores since how "cheap" all the products are compared to the 1.5-2+X markups they have to pay back home. I've seen some classmates fill their suitcases with luxury brand clothing, Apple computers, iPads, Playstations, Xbox, to all bring home and share with their families.

- Assets in the US are much more appealing options in terms of investments, especially real estate/property. There's been a lot of stuff written up in NYT about this. I've seen the same things here in South Bay (Mountain View, Cupertino) where brand new townhouses get snatched up instantly by wealthy families from China that can commit that much $ in such a short amount of time. Being able to pay for your house in cash moves you towards the front of the line.

- Avoiding the whole "corrupted officials with lots of $ in bribes" anecdote (despite it being somewhat true from the crazy stories that I've heard from friends in China), it is much easier to spend the money here without worry of alerting the Chinese government. Especially if you're paying for a lot of your things in cash. Spending money in a lavish manner in China raises a lot of eyebrows.

- Not too knowledgable on this aspect, but apparently there's the loophole where if you bring aging parents in China over to live in America, they can qualify for senior benefits from the US government. They come, despite never having worked in the US, and get monthly checks to cash that are substantial enough to live on. Don't know enough about this to elaborate and I'm a little skeptical about this, but have heard a lot about this.

- America is so much more attractive than China. A lot of the wealthy international students I met in college had very tracked and relatively stress-free lives growing up. They never had to study for or take the gaokao, which is the infamous college entrance exam, since they knew from early on that they would be coming to the US for their college education. A lot of them do try and swing for jobs here after graduation as well, since the pay is substantially higher than in China. Heard this sentiment from a lot of Hong Kong residents.

Curious if anyone has heard/observed similar.
"...I don't see how you could effectively encode your knowledge of
a programming language on to flash cards."

I've occasionally wondered if an Anki deck composed of Clojure idioms would be valuable. It would be dependent on paredit conventions, teaching "shapes" along with symbols.
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I'm simply saying that they should not say that they take security seriously.

They should instead say that they take their business seriously, and don't care about the security of their clients' data as long as they don't walk away.
I would strongly question the idea that he has "no structural abnormality".

It would be very interesting to see exactly what type of imaging they performed on him. Bear in mind, an abnormality in the hippocampus or other memory related structures could be sub-mm in size and result in a significant impairment.

If, for example, he did not have an MRI with diffusion weighted imaging with a sufficiently high B value (gradient value) they may be missing/have missed a very small stroke (this test is also time sensitive -only positive within the first few days of insult).

If they did not perform susceptibility weighted imaging, they may have missed a tiny micro-haemorrhage. Both of these scenarios can result in memory loss if critical structures are involved.

There are also several technical issues that may have resulted in a sub-optimal scan, precluding finding a tiny abnormality. There's also the question of whether the person reading the scan got it right or whether the strength of the magnet/technical parameters of the study were sufficient to resolve a tiny abnormality.

Either of these scenarios could have been a consequence of reduced blood flow (hypoperfusion), a small clot (embolus) or a tiny blood vessel injury (dissection) that could have occurred during the procedure - possibly related to the anaesthetic but not definitively so.

I suspect there is a definitive abnormality that the clinicians that saw him were unable to pick up. This seams a lot more likely than the idea that we need to revise our entire conceptualisation of memory formation to suit a psychological theory.
Here is what seems a recent list of airline which provide inflight wifi.

http://blog.edreams.com/in-flight-wifi/
"Greece’s debt ballooned once we entered the Eurozone"

It ballooned because when you entered the euro your country was now able to acquire and spend much more debt then before.
Ships have hulls to keep the water out, too, but sometimes the water gets in and they sink. I can think of dozens of ways the archive could still burn.

Here's just one: large earthquake breaks open the building, cuts electric power, breaks gas lines, fire starts. Firemen are overwhelmed and give priority to saving civilians in other buildings, stacks of newspapers are at the bottom of their list.

Another: Fire starts in building next door. Wind whipped flames set the archive on fire from the outside. Archive burns down with everything in it.

A third: bunch of militants take over that part of town. Set fire to the archive because they are opposed to history. Not like that has never happened before, like in ISIS controlled Iraq, and the great fire of Alexandria.

It's the classic eggs-in-one-basket scenario.
European politics is funny - EU treaties talk about "ever closer union" and the Euro was deliberately designed with no exit mechanisms; but at the same time politicians never talk about forming a "united states of europe" as it's deeply unpopular with voters.

In other words, if you ask whether the EU aims for a single financial and regulatory regime the answer is "yes and no"
Your doctrine would in practice massively disadvantage both women and kids because it asymmetrically sets up hurdles.

The current way of dealing with things is kid-centered. Once a kid is there it needs to be taken care of and both parents share that responsibility. Wanting to wriggle out of this responsibility is, frankly, highly immoral.

Also, conception doesn’t impact bodily autonomy (of the person who is no pregnant). I find it shocking that you would jump to rape rhetorics for your political aims.
Why can't Apple keep up? Is it because they don't want to keep up and push people to apps (ala Windows with IE)?
Anything can happen. However, it will all dissolve to entropy given time. If you find a way to disprove the notion that all is impermanent, you're sitting on a potential goldmine. But ahead lies a terrible choice.

If you inform the engineers, they'll potentially write you a fat check, but the world will be run by engineers, and you will be responsible.

If you inform the philosophers, Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, physicists or your local psychiatrist, they'll laugh and explain why you're wrong.

I suggest talking to the second bunch first, they're nicer people with better food and drink to discuss the matter over, and are more likely to be based in reality than the engineering/theoretical maths set.

Personally I sometimes like to step back and view the rise of computing as a terribly mistaken and fallacious dive by humans in to a theoretically perfect world, built at great effort and expense, where the entropy of reality is fought with layers and layers of artifice. In time, it will all crumble. What are we learning out of all this effort? Surely, something that will stay with us. And yet the Eden of earth before modernity is being spoiled while we collectively swipe, at increasingly higher resolutions, speeds and brightness levels, at an ephemeral iconography of collective abstract mental masturbation.

(Note to pre-empt negative responses: As stated, this is a line of thinking I enjoy taking sometimes, not a fixed opinion on reality.)
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I've had an endoscopy before, to push down some food stuck at the top of my stomach, with no sedation or numbing. Being held down by a couple of nurses and the doctor whilst the procedure was done three times - the first two times I pulled the endoscope out after having panic attacks - was the worst medical-related experienced I've ever had, and it still gives me nightmares. Turns out the doctor was known for being a sadistic bastard who enjoyed seeing his patients squirm; I wish I was making this up.

OTOH I regularly have a colonoscopy under heavy sedation, and never remember a thing.I know there are risks with any kind of sedation or anaesthetic, however anecdotally they've saved me a lot of trauma.
Companies aren't people; they aren't entitled to basic human dignity and fellowship. When they fuck up and hurt people, and it's clear that their actions are "all in the game", it's time to start hating that game, perhaps enough to get the rules changed.
The opposite of that. Using somebody else's code, written for a different app in a different environment, is where most unexpected behavior comes from.

Here's the bits that aren't robust enough: any open source that isn't either used by thousands, or used in exactly the way you will be using it.
Probably? This article doesn't address that one way or the other.
But everything you're saying would apply whether Greece was on the Euro or the Drachma.

Yes, an entire country defaulting would screw a lot of creditors, but the risk of default should be priced into the loan/bond terms (interest rate, etc). That's part of the reason investors can make money on bonds, because there is a risk/reward curve they're riding, and the risk is that they won't get their money back.

I get the "too big too fail" argument, I just don't get the "monetary union puts us on the hook for our neighbors" part.
Awesome!

Incredible to get two implementations.

I really appreciate that you've made this happen.

Is this built from scratch or a port of one of the existing drivers? Did you have a chance to have a look at the other implementation - what do you see as the major differences?

Any thoughts of submitting to the libgit2 project?
Sounds like you're the article's model customer -- the person who doesn't mind paying exorbitant prices because they own a business credit card.
The problem is that Greece imports about 50% of their food (and several other goods), so the consequences of drachma are going to go way above expensive iPhones - the food prices will surge, hurting the poorest the most.
Not even close, Delaware, Minnesota, and Illinois are the top 3 that get the least back from federal taxes on a per dollar basis.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-st...

California is almost parity for dollars in versus received.

The bigger question is if that is even a valid comparison to make that 14 states get back less in federal dollars than input.

If it is then you'll have to concede that Wyoming, Kansas, and Utah, aka: decidedly not blue states, are in the same boat as "we blue states".

I grew up in one of those states that is in the top 5 of dollars received. Main reason is the entire state has next to no population. I'm not sure how you get it to parity without a population to do so. That and despite being quite liberal, I have to admit this argument that this is a blue versus red state thing based on dollars received is maddeningly annoying and disingenuous.

If America loses those red states, we lose a lot of our ability to feed ourselves on our own. The grain belt is a huge asset, even given its cost. Giant cities are not islands unto themselves.

/squirrel banter mode off.
> This approach creates a more unified country because people are able to make their own decisions and live with them.
>>I don't know why you would assume that: There's a whole host of tensions that come with decisions made at the state level. Reciprocity is a huge one that comes up semi-frequently (for example with firearm laws).

There are and those get to be negotiated and worked out. The tensions arise, such as with firearms laws, because states don't see eye to eye on those issues so they get to dictate exactly how things work in their own states. That is entirely the point. Firearm laws are a great example because just because I might wish your state did things differently...it's not my state and therefore I don't really get a vote.

> People are able to move within the country to states with policies more in line with their own views.
>>"Just move" is an ok answer if your beef is, say, with Oregon's gas pumping laws.

"Just move" becomes a much more difficult proposition when your beef is with the entire country. I have neighbors who moved their kids out of Colorado as soon as marijuana was legalized. That was a choice they were able to make with a policy they disagreed with.

>>It's a really awful answer if your problem is that your state allows "separate but equal" bathrooms for black people. Those suffering at the hands of those extreme policies are also the least likely to have the means to move.

The extreme example counter response is never far behind in political discourse. Civil rights / human rights issues are a different ballgame and those absolutely are things that need to be resolved at the federal level. There's a whole host of other policies that don't though.

> States have to have balanced budgets
>>I don't know why you think that. State budget crises aren't unknown or even all that uncommon.

They are crises because they have to be balanced. That is the point. If your state's budget doesn't work there are furloughs, layoffs and immediate budget cuts to balance it. At the Federal level that doesn't happen unless Congress fails to pass ANY budget regardless of whether it's balanced.

> There's a push in this country lately to do everything at a Federal level though
>>Because for most of the history of the United States, human rights issues have only been resolved at the federal level. Slavery, segregation, women's suffrage, and same-sex marriage have all been framed as "States Rights" issues.

Again, above answer applies. Those ARE the issues that are Federal issues. There's a wide gap between those issues and virtually every other policy in the country being effected by a broad reading of the interstate commerce clause.
the LVT is highly regarded among economists as among the most efficient taxes.

Almost no mainstream economists recommend a land value tax. For example, consult any graduate or undergraduate textbook. I would challenge you to find a single professor in a top 20 school who advocates a land value tax as the primary form of taxation.
At least its a good basket, in a reasonable place, with safeguards in place. Two or three 9's more likely to work than...doing nothing.
They also have a bad record on actually collecting taxes due. Tax Evasion is at 6% of GDP which is considerably higher than similar economies.
You responded 2 mins after I posted. Did you read the Die Zeit interview with Piketty which I linked to?

What do you think about points like: "I am much more afraid that the conservatives, especially in Germany, are about to destroy Europe and the European idea, all because of their shocking ignorance of history. [...] Look at the history of national debt: Great Britain, Germany, and France were all once in the situation of today’s Greece, and in fact had been far more indebted. The first lesson that we can take from the history of government debt is that we are not facing a brand new problem. There have been many ways to repay debts, and not just one, which is what Berlin and Paris would have the Greeks believe."

Or how about the fast way for a state to leave delinquency: "Germany proved it in the 20th century. Essentially, it consists of three components: inflation, a special tax on private wealth, and debt relief."

Have you read David Graeber's book which he recommends elsewhere ("Debt: The First 5000 Years") which covers how debt is just a promise, and it's fetishized (more than say promises from politicians to their constituents) when it's a promise from the weak to the powerful?
The poorer Euro countries keep the Euro down which is critical to Germany maintaining their high export levels. If the Germans were still on the Deutschmark they would not be the export powerhouse they are now.
Regardless of who's at fault here, and regardless of several wrong points you've made, what people need to realize is that when attempts have been made, when whatever asked has been materialized, and yet no solution is visible, then something needs to change.

There's just this something that I can't help but add. There isn't a single country that has received more debt relief in modern history than Germany, but for a reason people seem to forget that. It's possibly because of that that you are now present. If one were to continue this would turn into some sort of debate/argument of you-did-that so I do-this. No, this isn't (again) about who's at fault, it's about realizing what is actually doable and what isn't and acting based on that. It's about not repeating a paraphrased form of history as we know it, which we so happily seem to indeed be doing.

Edit: Learning how to separate paragraphs.
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Note that plenty of countries receive EU funds as well (they're usually called net receivers) which is comparable to what you're talking about (see EU budgethttp://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jan/26/eu-budg...).

The Greek case of lying and spending way beyond any reasonable means does not compare to it.
"China in general has lots of money sloshing around looking for a decent place to invest, because the usual mainstays like bank deposits have zero to negative returns"

Umm... this is the situation everywhere right now. This is one of the reasons that big money from hedge funds etc. has started moving to riskier bets in venture capital territory.
As an isolated case I would agree, but I'm still betting that this combined with the eurozone events will be the final straws for reversing investor sentiment to precipitate another large global recession.

The underlying causes of the 08 crash in America were never addressed (consumer debt, real growth), and the Fed's interest rate games and QE only served to force investors into riskier and riskier assets, which only hurt productive real investment. All the valuation and volatility metrics have been screaming louder and louder for a long time now.
This hit the news here in Greece a few days ago. It’s an initiative from Greek start-ups in US that will act as a mediator to help pay costs like hosting and such since all Greek credit cards are blocked for the time being. I assume these companies have subsidiaries in Greece where they can receive the money in cash. It’s a solidarity gesture and probably not a permanent one.
>> I don't understand why this is a problem. Scan them to pdf files, and put them on web pages. Let google index them.
> Before making such broad, sweeping statements, perhaps read up a bit on the principles of information science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_science

By putting the data in a standard form, like pdf, and making it available to anyone, i.e. put it on web pages, then any organization can devise an organizational and retrieval methodology and apply it. It is completely unnecessary for the archivists to do so, and it should not be blocking them in any way.

Google is just one such example.
The reason the Marshall plan was put in place for Germany was to stop the Russians getting the upper hand in Europe.
The choice was between letting Europe become a communist utopia or help the Germans and hence keep EU in the western world.
Nothing in geo politics is done out of the goodness of our hearts but for a clear ideological purpose.
Pretty amazing lack of leadership on all sides to let this degenerate into a game of political chicken with no good endings for anyone. Clearly the Greeks were going to have an exceptionally hard time paying back their debt and certainly the Germans who were in a similar situation after WWI should have realized the depth of the problem [1]. Anyone who honestly thought that the situation would get better under the austerity program despite all economic history to the contrary should have realized a couple years in that it wasn't going to work. After a few years the debts would be even more difficult to pay after Greek GDP shrunk by 25%[2].

From my personal it seems like if Europe had really wanted to help Greece tackle their debt they should have used the crisis to change Greek laws to make it easier to start and run a business there. Currently Greece is by far the hardest country in the Euro currency to run a business as it ranks just before Russia (61 vs 62) in the World Bank's "Ease of Doing Business Index"[3]. The other economies that are held up as examples of recoveries like Iceland and Ireland rank 12 and 13 respectively.

Having a monetary union without a political union is a questionable undertaking in general [4]. Given that the leaders of Europe know that they should either be working to get closer to a political union with similar laws and workings or looking for a way to gracefully exit economies that aren't working out. The current approach of bashing Greece with no real alternative to grinding economic suffering seems like the worst sort of denial about the reality on the ground.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles
[2] http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/02/18/how_bad_is_gr...
[3] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IC.BUS.EASE.XQ
[4] http://www.euro-know.org/europages/articles/rmu.html
[5] http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-st...
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The idea that we have an ongoing digital comms with something this far from Earth is completely fascinating to me. Are the encodings used documented anywhere? All I can find out is that it's X-band, 1kb/s.
> Egypt massively subsidized food... and Egyptians promptly had massive numbers of children that overwhelmed even the ridiculously cheap food prices.

That's not what it looks like when I Google for information on the food subsidies and the birth rate.

Egyptian birth rates fell from the '60s until just recently, when they started to rise.

Egypt's large food subsidies started in the '70s, and do not appear to have had an affect on the birth rate.
Terms for new loans should of course include measures for improving the economy, but austerity never will. The last few years have shown (again) that austerity will only ever contract an already stressed economy.

A reasonable deal should be a stimulating one. Not one with just spending cuts. A major haircut of existing debt, and enough new money flowing in to actually stimulate growth.

There are no good options here. It's not like Greece will return to the Drachma and become a picturesque olive exporting tourist attraction. What will happen is that the following decade of poor economy will see extremists and Putin run the country. From a democratic and security perspective it's likely the lesser evil to just support the Greek economy. Those of us in the rest of Europe (not least in Germany) have made good money from having an artificially low interest rate for years, at the expense of the PIIGS countries.
And as much it was our fault to borrow money like there was no tomorrow it was ECB’s too that looked the other way.
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But the USA is one country the EU is not