skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is true, but I imagine the NSA to have more interest in this sort of target than in the general case (owning logistics networks seems very useful).
I am an overall happy customer of Mandrill. But they have a reputation system which sets a hourly quota. If your reputation gets hurt, your hourly quota could go down significantly. I had a client who once got tagged as a spammer and that brought down the hourly emails quota to literally 2 digits and it was in thousands before. But mandrill is very good at improving the reputation as well if you use it correctly. Also, they do send you emails everytime your hourly quota is adjusted. So that is your signal to check and ensure that emails can still be sent.
What I have to add is that you're obviously pushing an agenda and creating arguments out of thin air for doing so.

The flaw has already been pointed out to you.
Have you considered in putting KONG [1] which is basically OpenResty (nginx) in the front? With LuaJIT performances [2] are outstanding.

[1] https://github.com/mashape/kong

[2] https://github.com/mashape/kong#benchmarks
I think many publications are "BuzzFeed for (x)". For example, here are two articles about sandwiches:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/14/dining/field-g...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kaylayandoli/all-anyone-really-wants...
I sleep an avg of 10-11 hours where my longest sleep was 13 hours a week ago, and I could still continue sleeping for hours more.
>If Microsoft did offer something in that arena, I'd expect the licensing costs to be obnoxious.

Nope. First, both AWS and Azure offer Windows hosting. Second, licensing costs on AWS are around 30% markup on top of same Linux hardware. Hardly "obnoxious".
What is better than partially restricted arms trade and movement?

Being able to create any arm, any where, at any time!
You cannot produce value from thin air. When they produce that money, it is a form of taxation because it decreases the value of the previously produced money. Monetary inflation devalues the currency.
This is nice. I actually used to manually create zip archives and prepend a shebang.
Expanded UPC look-up via an API: Get data for any UPC using our API
>So we get PEP 484, which is ugly but might help Python survive. Might.

This seems really hyperbolic. I'm not sure Go really competes in the same space as Python; also Python is so well entrenched as the successor to Fortran in the scientific computing space, that this would seem to guarantee continued relevance far into the future. It's probably like a lot of things, it may not be as sexy or break neck fast (though PyPy is staged to change that, and maybe we can also feasible get a non-sucky version of IronPython or Jython), but it's pretty much everywhere now, kind of like Perl, C, PHP, Java....
>> Governments do not produce money; they take it from taxes.

Exactly. Where does Greece thinks the bail out money they received came from? That's right, the tax payers in the other EU countries.

Greece saying NO is not Greece giving the finger to Europe, it's Greece giving the finger to the people of Europe.
Yeah, containers are much slimmer.
> once the fraud that was perpetrated on Brussels became clear, why weren't they kicked out immediately?

It was clear from before the Euro ever started. Everyone (by which I mean, the elites, analysts, the press, politicians, et al) knew that countries like Greece and Portugal had no business joining the Euro, and were lying through their teeth to get in. Then again, everyone knew that the entire project was founded on lies, cooked books, and ignored rules, sacrificed towards the overriding goal of ever closer union.

After letting Greece in with a wink and a nod, why in the world would they have then kicked them out? The fraud, if you want to call it that, was on the voters and taxpayers, not on the people running the EU. And if they kicked them out, how could they justify not kicking out all the other countries who had engaged in blatant trickery, which would be, well, all of them?

France engaged in some elaborate budget trickery to get their deficit under the line (swapping future pension obligations for one off payments to make their deficit look low enough)[1], Germany waffled a bit but the moves were accepted. How could they not be? France at least lied to make their deficit pass muster; Germany was in blatant violation from the start (which was meant to preclude their entry, or at least trigger massive fines. Naturally it did neither.)

Or in short: It's the old glass houses rule. France, Germany, Italy, etc, were in NO place to demand a strict adherence to the rules in the case of Greece, since by a strict reading of the rules they shouldn't have been in the Euro zone either. The Euro project was inherently political from the start, and politically it needed as many countries to join as possible. Even if that was economic disaster.

Edit: A better link[2] about how by the terms of the governing treaties, most Eurozone members did not qualify for entry, including (hilariously) Germany which had too much debt.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/20/news/20iht-euro.t.html

[2]: http://www.voxeu.org/article/politics-maastricht-convergence...
Money is just a reflection of production (i.e. scarcity of production). Due to market forces inertia, monetary supply can be manipulated, but you can't just start printing money left and right without causing inflation; there is a hard science of doing it without disturbing market balance.
The earlier backgrounds were hand-drawn. The later backgrounds were Amiga-generated -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_(character)#Produ...
we use the same technology with KONG [1]

[1] https://github.com/mashape/kong
I believe the Constitution was a work of genius, but I also believe it was conceived at a scale we've long since surpassed, and it's overdue for a massive refactoring. If nothing else, our current technological base enables a tremendously larger pool of representatives, for instance.
It is stored in the network cables aswell.

But you are probably correct, the time in the cables is probably not even close to the time the data is stored in the equipment itself.
Yes and no, two different sources.
Because building concrete ships has worked out so well in the past. The Selma developed a crack, nobody knew how to repair it, so she was scuttled. However she was too big to scuttle with other ships, so a specific spot had to be made.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Selma_(1919)
The bailout was also wrong, of course. But the damage was done long time ago, and it is irrecoverable in any moral way. It's impossible to make Greek politicians and government workers sell back their possessions and privileges.
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So the money that the Banks lent to Greece and collect interest on is actually EU tax money?
It's much easier to do this with Commodity ETFs and Futures.

Doing it with equities or baskets of equities gets very complicated and if you read the prospective of most ETFs pretty much all of them track the indexes within some margin of error.

Commodity ETFs on the other hand have an underlying asset that will expire or require taking delivery. Most of these ETFs are managed by a group of less than 10 people. They simply do not have the resources to take delivery of an underlying asset. They don't deal with the hassle of storing / taking delivery unless things are really out of whack. Therefore, as a the underlying futures contracts approach maturity, they need to rebalance their portfolio, almost daily, and at minimum once every couple months. In a contango market, it is very easy to front run these funds compared to ETFs that track equity indexes.

I should know, this was my primary trade 4 years ago before quantitative easing killed all volatility in the market.

That being said, the Russell 2000 index is rebalanced only once per year. Opportunities to front run that index with the futures contracts are one of those trades that I miss dearly.
Correct, but only partially so. How most of US law deals with this is ridiculous (i.e. the older partner becoming a sex offender). If two minors within a certain age range have sex, they may theoretically be "raping each other", but considering that an actual criminal offense in itself is absurd.

Now, an adult having sex with a child on the other hand is obviously acting criminally. It's the adult's responsibility to act in the child's best interests due to the child's lack of ability to give consent -- even if the child (for whatever reason) engages it, it's against their best interests to follow through.

As for sexually active "minors" and very young adults, especially at very narrow age ranges, that's not as trivial to answer. A hard cut-off seems the most straightforward answer but creates absurd outcomes in edge cases (e.g. someone who just turned 18 having sex with someone about to turn 18 in a country where 18 is the age of consent would be considered a rapist but not if both of them were just a tiny bit younger or older). I guess it's best to have case law deal with these situations individually.

Maybe I should clarify that the reason I used the word "kids" was to make it clear we're not specifically talking about "children" in the intuitive sense. The danger that six year olds will randomly decide to have sex with each other is relatively low (if we ignore "sex play", which is a different can of worms). That's not what the article is about. We're specifically talking about "kids" (i.e. minors, which depending on where you live can include anyone between 12 and 21) who are fairly likely to be already sexually active without any external motivation/dissuasion.
A ship made of pykrete is probably a lot easier to scuttle than one made out of concrete. You just let it melt.
The biggest point that is rarely raised in this whole debate is that Germany has benefited for the last decade from the low Euro; which has been courtesy of the Greeks. In the last decade the Germans have had their main stock index gain some €40T (much more if you take from 2003). The increased tax income to the German state over this period would handily pay off Greece's debts. So Germany has benefited from Greece over all these years and now they refuse to pay for that benefit.

This is a case of ideological holier than thou treatment, a bureaucratic banality of evil. Meanwhile people sleep on the streets in Greece, from children to pensioners.

Both the past Greek governments shouldn't have borrowed the money, and the past European governments shouldn't have lent them the money; now both sides will suffer. And I'm starting to get the feeling that only one side will learn from this (and it isn't the EU bureaucrats, calling them technocrats is too generous; they follow the rules and ideologies even when they are wrong).
In R %*% is matrix multiplication.
I was once like you! In high school, college, and medical school I slept at most 4 hours a night. I was even a Division I varsity athlete. Never tired. No problems studying, drinking, exercising.

Then something changed a few years ago...I'm 42 now, so I think it started when I was 38...I now sleep 6 hours a night, sometimes even 7! It has seriously cut into might reading-for-fun time. I really wish I could go back to 4 hours.
They used layered newspaper, right?
I had a friend like this in college, a high-energy athletic dude. I don't remember the exact details, but I believe in his case it had to do with his body over-producing iron. He only needed 3-4 hours of sleep a night and his father needed even less (and would routinely work 24 hour shifts at the hospital).

I was a bit jealous of him. I'd love an extra four hours to my day.
It combines technical prowess, pop culture references, and an air of mystery. It's hacker catnip. :-)
We have this already with VNC. Ramnode has a HTML5 VNC client in their CP.
Perl 6 has full gradual typing YAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id4pDstMu1s
my dad fractured his skull when he was a kid, and ever since gets by on ~4 hours of sleep.
So who is at fault for loaning money to what everyone knows is "a clientelist corrupted state if there ever was one"?

Surely not the borrower? I mean, historically, for basically all time, it was the job of banks to say "no" to borrowers who were not good credit risks. That was their job, first and foremost, not to lose the principal.

In the last decade or two for some reason they decided that preserving their principal wasn't the primary goal, "returns" were.

I don't think it's surprising that people who historically have not been given enough rope to hang themselves suddenly get more rope and are expected to know that the world has changed. They don't.
But actually, the more I think about it, I enjoy your analogy. The missing tools for sure in "DIYbio" are consumer-oriented lab technologies. Something like a 3D printer for budding biologists to gather themselves around...but nothing really comes to mind. Even a homebrew qPCR machine or sequencing platform leaves out many cruicial components like incubators, ultracentrifuges, etc. Can't even get started on mass spectrometers, flow cytometers or other "Core" technologies that not even every lab can own.

To stretch the analogy more, though, I don't think there is a "Homebrew Biotech Club" in the same groovy, sharing sense than that which Jobs and Gates had way back when.
Ultimately, the market has to bare the loss of the Greek government. It's really no different than when a corporation fails to pay its debts. Mind you, it does cause a massive decline in the country's economy. I think the IMF has the right idea, give Greece a means to grow its economy and put a hold on all debt payments. To do otherwise, I think is to court failure of the entire Eurozone.
They don't affect performance, but I have to agree they really don't look nice to read or write, which is unfortunately the antithesis of Python's philosophy.
True, but on the Greek case a lot of that money was used in transfers to voters to prop up their income (pensions, early retirement, unemployment benefits, etc.)

In a way, most of the austerity discussion is a red herring. The key problem is not whether to raise sales tax by 1% or not. The real reforms are raising the retirement age, liberalizing labor markets, fixing their IRS, etc.

If you condone debt without reforms then Greece will be back to panhandling five years from now. Since I really doubt they will be able to pull of the reforms (after 20 years of not doing so), the only sane option seems an orderly default + Grexit. Sure, you'll likely have 6 months of crisis and a loss of confidence in the EU, but it's not going to be the end of the World...
Hehe, if you think everybody should share your opinion, then it's you who have naive understanding of world :) Good luck to you too. Bye.
I was wading through the confusion in this thread looking for this answer. The big benefit for me is that it is not virtualized. I can repurpose physical machines in my cluster quickly, by spinning up a different container. I don't want to run three VMs on one box, I want to run the same kind of node on thirty boxes. With Docker + Kubernetes (or Mesos), I can then switch these to another node type incredibly quickly. I can run the same container on AWS, VMWare, GCE, or Azure.

I guess most people don't need to do this...
Great website! Amazing UX.
except the "market" already got a bailout laundered through the greek government so merkel, sarkozy, strauss-kahn, et al, could pretend they hadn't given their banks giant checks
Fair enough! We share most of our view of what's what, and differ mainly in interpretation.

For what it's worth, I consider consciousness to be a capability, like the ability to digest cellulose or to echolocate; and I consider it to exist on a continuum, with us humid beings being the most capable (that we know of) and unicellular microbes arguably the least. And the degree of capability looks to be strongly related to the complexity of a living being's brain (or what passes for it - microbes cogitate, in a very dim but adequate-to-their-needs way by discharging and detecting chemicals in their protoplasm). From all the examples we're aware of, it appears that consciousness is a process, what brains do, kinda like a flame is what a candle does.

We've only ever (reliably) observed the phenomena we associate with consciousness in living brains. If we work hard enough at mimicking brains in silicon, we may one day see consciousness in man-made machines. I, at least, have a lot of trouble imagining that consciousness can arise independently of structures painstakingly evolved in that direction or even more painstakingly constructed. Humans pay a huge price for their capable brains - the difficulty and risk of childbirth, the prodigous consumption of (I think) one-fifth of the body's energy. If consciousness were something lying around elsewhere, evolution would not have needed to take this costly route.

That's me, science and reason talking. Of course there's always a possibility we're surprisingly wrong about this.
To be snide, maybe they should, I am an expert in this topic this is what I do all day every day.

They're doing development without understanding how computers work, where the bottlenecks are, or what the maximum theoretical throughput for the use-case is. They ended up with something slightly better than the horrible situation they were in, and are celebrating a inefficient solution as a technical triumph.
No, but they do have a blog.
Lighting the Brain
Help to help the Internet: a startup defensive patent pool
Which honest economist could have told you that there is "a hard science"?

And by the way, western countries mostly don't "print" money to create it, the money creation "invisibly" happens in the financial sector.
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I think another big part of the "appeal" or notability comes from the fact that there were so few gatekeepers for information on par with TV and radio stations.

Nowadays you could probably get some attention, both positive and negative, from defacing the website of a huge company. Maybe if you got "Facebook" to show up as "Fuckbook" for thousands of users for 10-15 minutes or something. Otherwise, there are so many websites and we are so accustomed to having access to a sort of mass communication that the rarity and impact is diminished.

I remember being a kid in the 80's and a teen in the 90's and even then, I was blown away when I learned what public access TV was. The idea that you could actually get on TV!! as a normal person and run a show seemed insane. TV was that thing that talked at you. There were 13 channels for us frugal or less well-off families and there were maybe 50 or 60 for our luckier friends. Other than that, it was something out of reach.

We played with camcorders and tape decks, playing at being radio DJs or TV personalities but the idea of something like a Shoutcast station in the late 90's or a Youtube channel in the 2000's would have fried my tiny brain as a hyperactive, creative little kid.

So not only was someone subverting the technical systems of a big company but they were doing it to TV. At least to me, that was one of those larger than life things that took place elsewhere and the rest of us just watched. Co-opting a TV broadcast was like getting the policeman's mythical "master key" or sneaking into the White House.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete#In_the_media
I am currently reading Paul Graham's book "Hackers and Painters" and on page 228, paragraph 15 --- it says that one thing that would help web-based applications, and help keep the next generation of software from being overshadowed by Microsoft, would be a good open source browser. A small, fast browser would be a great thing in itself, and would encourage companies to build little web appliances. He goes on to say that "If you want to change the world,write a new Mosaic. Think it's too late? In 1998 a lot of people thought it was too late to launch a new search engine, but Google proved them wrong. There is always room for something new if it is significantly better.

Is there room to create much better browsers than the current ones in existence?
Check Niklaus Wirth work on Modula-2 and Oberon, and its respective OS.

http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/

http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/projects.html

http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/books.html

http://www.modulaware.com/mwbiblio.htm

Noteworthy

"Compiler Construction" -

"Project Oberon" both 1992 and 2013 versions

Oberon descedents "EthOS", "Active Oberon" and "Component Pascal":

http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/view/eth:38713

http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/view/eth:27966

All the Xerox PARC stuff about Mesa, Cedar, Interlisp-D, Smalltalk,

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xer...

How Apple used Common Lisp, Object Pascal, UNIX, Hypercard and lots of other goodies on their early systems

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V...

Smalltalk books, specially

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html
Greece is giving the finger to the EU in the same way Argentina gave the finger to the IMF: it wasn't the people that "chose" to bail out the banks, it was the government at the time. Why should every Greek person today be held accountable for what a very small subset of them did back then?

I really dislike people saying "the Greek are doing this or that". Taken to an extreme, that is that kind of generalization and simplification that leads to xenophobia.
Going to have to disagree with the criticism of gevent. The monkey-patching is very robust, despite the fact that monkey-patching is a sin in general. I've never had any problems with it, with the exception of third party native modules.

If code is using the regular Python socket and threading libraries, it will almost always work seamlessly. Gevent provides the closest thing to goroutines.
Are there plans for Go bindings anytime soon?
> Now the received wisdom is that we'll have a glut of supply stretching into the far future.

Uh, source? We have a short term glut caused by production picking up, but our long term reserves haven't changed tangibly. There's about 1,324bil barrels in proven reserves (among the largest 17 reserves, ending with brazil at 13bil); global use is 95mb/d -- which is about 38 years of use. That's not 'stretching in to the far future'.

(numbers from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves#Estimated_reserve...)
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I was going to reply indicating that criminal law has no Statute of Limitations but that seems to be a Canadian thing. In the US it has to be considered a "Heinous crime". I'm certain under modern light of what hacking has become they'd likely consider this relatively innocent event heinous by modern standards.
This paragraph is a manifestation of a problem with how people think about governments: Governments are not conscious or even sentient. There are no physical entities, 'governments', no matter how many times you refer to it in your language. There are interpretable codes, people who execute the codes, and people who assign the codes.
I don't know how much that's true.

China's current economy is built on the impact of its 1-child policy on its historical culture of children taking care of elderly parents: that's really really hard to do now, so everyone saves like crazy, and the government uses those savings (in state-run banks) to finance state-run industries with below-zero real interest rates, which are of course wildly profitable, and the plutocratic elite splurges on its take of the surplus.

But they really need to watch out for a number of shocks, of the whole scheme could fall apart badly and spark social unrest. In particular, inflation (eating away at those savings) sometimes leads to riots, and their monetary policy has been very extreme for many many years. (In different ways than US policies, but still, makes "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke's interventions look like the amateur leagues.)

Economists continue to worry and it's not 100% clear that China will continue to function after a real economic crisis. They might, but it's really hard to tell (they're so opaque it makes detailed analysis impossible).