skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case of Greece: As much I remember, one big German bank held many debts of this country in 2010, but the CEO of that bank also was the adviser of the German chancellor. No wonder, the so called rescue-umbrella did also rescue this banks money.
Here's a related article on how highways and the auto industry gutted many American cities:

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/14/8605917/highways-interstate-cit...
Correction: the test launched in late April of this year.
No need for pics, it's the thing about Lisps that you can run arbitrary code during compilation. The distinction between compile-time and runtime is pretty blurred, especially that Lisp programs tend to ship with the compiler in the image, which means you can compile new stuff at runtime.
> How much did encryption help Lavabit? The court forced them to hand over the encryption keys anyway.

Lavabit has a pretty bad system because it did not take the law into account at all and was run by someone that does not seem to understand legal concepts very well. From what I understand, the court that forced them was not FISA, but a plain old federal trial court. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
This has been in my reading list for a very long time! I'll print it tomorrow :)
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Facebook Announces Video Monetization
If you've played a lot of DDR or Guitar Hero, it's not too hard.

Some tips:

1. Don't look at the top of the screen - your mind needs some time register what it's seeing and react accordingly. Look a bit ahead - probably around 2:30 to 3:00 on a clock.

2. I find that tapping every key is actually easier. It helps you maintain a rhythm and reduces the cognitive load (do I tap or do I not?)
> I have no idea what you mean here.

Nested lists are similar to nested function calls. Did you skip the rest of the paragraph?

> the "things" are sticking out in a variety of ways

No, they don't. Syntax-wise, everything is the same.

"Scheme's very simple syntax is based on s-expressions, parenthesized lists in which a prefix operator is followed by its arguments. Scheme programs thus consist of sequences of nested lists."

There shall be nested lists. That's all, folks!

In other languages, you have syntax for importing stuff, syntax for declaring a variable, syntax for different loop constructs, syntax for branching, syntax for classes/methods/functions...

Each building block comes with its own syntax.

This isn't as elegant as having one universal construct for everything, but it's easier to use (once you got used to it), because the syntax itself carries a lot of the information.

(define (square x)
(* x x))

I rather write something like:

square(x) => x * x;

"bla(...)" is a bit of syntax for defining a function. "=>" is a bit of syntax for defining a lambda. "x * x" is a bit of syntax for using x's "star" operator.

> Again, I don't understand what you mean.

J and APL aren't popular languages. There are many unpopular languages with worse syntax. They are also both array programming languages which is a rather odd niche.
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Oculus and the like have developed procedures for wiping down the headset between each use during demos. As long as there is a human operator (which is somewhat necessary for this generation of VR experiences), this shouldn't be too much of an issue.
Logan act??? Was greece's debt limit part of a dispute with the U.S. Government?
I think it very much depends on which companies you look at. There's lots of boring stuff done in .NET, but there's also some amazing stuff. The next few months are pretty exciting - I mean, just watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip6wrpYFHhE
No worries, really a minor thing but is happening for me on both chrome latest(43.0.2357.130 64bit) and firefox developer 40.0a2 on OS X 10.10.4.

Click log in, pops up a window where I either login or it says "use this account you're logged into?" and then drops me back at the forums with a signup modal(and when I close that, still logged out).

Meteor has been great for me though, you guys are building(have built) a really cool thing.
The possibility to not redeploy instantly when the library changes may be the biggest win one get from not using services.

Also, a library does not force people into the same technology stack. It makes it easier to work with the same programing language, but it's still possible to not do so. Microservices also often have complex data structures that only work well when created and parsed by the same set of tools. There is some difference, but much less than you are claiming.
If a library dictates a "technology stack", then maybe it's more of a "framework" than a "library"? I think we're supposed to deprecate those now.
Poor is relative. The rich at war with everyone are not the 6 figure developers, or even the one-time cashout millionaires who sell their startup to Google. Its the billionaires who control entire swathes of global industry and are ego tripping power maniacs who are addicted to it. Its the Waltons and Kochs, not the Carmacks and Grams. Its even more the dynasties whose names are not national news because they own every news network or their best friend owns it.

If someone else in the world makes as much as you do in a year in a day (or better yet an hour for 99.99995% of people), you are incredibly poor relative to them. And 99.99999% of humanity falls into that class of poor.

The TPP is not being written for the betterment of the "rich" over the "poor". Its being written to make about 70,000 (overwhelmingly) men even richer than they already are, by subjugating national sovereignty underneath their corporate will.
Pressed by Debt Crisis, Doctors Leave Greece in Droves
I have been having a lot of issues with Safari lately.
When it comes to new web features, buggy support is much worse than no support. For example, flexbox on ios.

Apparently, there is a reason and its not me :)
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Ask HN: What's your favorite code editor color theme?
Please name your favorite color theme and the code editor which it's used upon. I would like to try some new color themes that are pleasing to the eyes.
> Obama is not a progressive and I don't think he's been particularly supported by progressives (other than the fact that they tend to vote for Democrats).

A lot of progressives supported Obama in 2008 primaries, especially toward the end of that season, because, as it was clear who the reasonably viable contenders were for the Democratic nomination, Obama generally seemed slightly to the progressive side of Hillary Clinton (which is perfectly compatible with him being a centrist Democrat rather than a particularly progressive one; I don't think anyone in the Democratic party has mistaken Clinton for anything other than a centrist for a long time.)
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Yeah moving the software in the cloud (the new name for the Web) is the right way to go... well if you want to end up with a terminal in your hand and the whole intelligence upper in the cloud... like an interactive TV from the nineties or a french Minitel from the eighties. :)
Stuff like this will thrive: https://thevoid.com/

The VR experience has to be enhanced from what people will be able to get at home. Having a bunch of VR headsets in a room and calling that an arcade will quickly become obsolete. But what people won't have as much access to is spaces that mirror the virtual world and allow you to "feel" the space. A 1:1 physical mapping with a virtual world has a very powerful effect on the suspension of disbelief.
PayPal Buys Xoom
Nicholas Winton Is Dead at 106; Saved (669) Children from the Holocaust
Not useless--but certainly much closer to that end of the spectrum than WP's "runs a good chunk of the entire Web." Its strong underpinnings notwithstanding.
It's hard to correlate the points made in this post with eventual consistency. Microservice or any service's runtime distribution and deployment model has impacts on consistency but that doesn't imply that systems will automatically become eventually consistent. Nothing prevents service instance clustering and co-location on the same hardware machine in different runtime units like containers or vm's talking to a db running on a single machine. It's a function of the scale and maturity of the system. Consistency itself is a function of state management within a system and more importantly, a non-trivial system typically has quite a few data stores and access patterns with their respective consistency requirements. Saying that running microservices implies eventual consistency is painting with very broad brush strokes.
This managed to crash Firefox...
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The problem is capital investment. A VR arcade will be cutting edge for what, 18 months at the most? After that the hardware is no longer better than what you can achieve at a consumer level. That's not very long to make back your investment.

I do think there is a place for a third party business when it comes to VR though in the realm of 'guided' RPG's and narratives. Imagine paying 25 bucks for you and your friends to join a 3D D&D style adventure with a professional DM and actors in mocap playing the part of the major characters. There's a lot of compelling things that could be done in this arena, and it takes the focus off of the tech and makes it more about interactivity and immersion. There's also quite a lot of relatively cheap untapped talent in local improv/community theater scenes to find some reasonable acting talent. Heck, mocap is getting good enough that your actors could have home studios easily enough withing a few years.
http://vungle.com/jobs 404s, I assume you mean https://vungle.com/careers/
It might not be the case for Greece as I think accounting standards and regulations do not apply to states. But if that was for a company, I am pretty sure that structuring a transaction off-market with the intent to help a client hide its debt to the market would land a banker in jail.
Elixir/Phoenix on Rails for Client Push Notifications
You are taking comments made by a few people and claiming the entire community makes them. There were eight other responses to your comment excluding mine, all disagreeing with you in some way and doing so politely and largely dispassionately, but you focus on the single simplistic one that called him scum. One person could be described as hating him as you suggested, the other eight are hardly that passionate (nine, including me).

So yes, you are putting words in peoples' mouths by describing the community as being voiced by the one instead of the many.
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Regarding the TURN server, if they are already defined a custom protocol they could try to do a hack where they try first to connect via a TURN then while progress, test if peer-to-peer direct media would work. If it does transparently switch to that.

I do like the idea of load balancing on the client, that is pretty cool. I did something similar on the local LAN.

Apple uses TCP multipath for cases where connection might drop out wonder if that would be an option here as well.
Stubbing network responses when testing with kiwi
Paypal is acquiring Xoom
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All property is a government enforced monopoly. Without property there is no trade. There is no reason to transact when you can just take or copy.
I don't think it's just good PR. The way SpaceX has gone about building rockets is different. They want to land and reuse the rockets, nobody else was doing that. I think that helped excite a lot of people (myself included). You get a bunch of nerds excited about something and the PR will follow organic style.
Going by rank of the top 10 pharma companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharmaceutical_compani... we can see that 4 are American and 6 are European.

The total revenue of that top 10 is 60% European companies and 40% American.

Now if this TTP chapter is two-way and with that equaly so for European markets then if anything would it not favour Europe more. Though between the two collectives involved. This only shuts out generics made outside of those two markets more than currently.

As for doctors without borders, they operate outside this trade agreement location wise and would not that open up for cheaper supplies from the producers outside this trade agreement. I would of thought so.

Though would perhaps, once settle reduce production runs of generics in some area's that depended upon this `sudo` gr[a¦e]y market. Then that may raise production costs, though if mroe than one generic then it would become more a price war without the more fruitful markets to utilise. Though always new markets and myself not sure about medical drugs and Russia and how that works at all.

But really such agreements need to be public before signing as about trade for the people as a whole and not a niche area that impacts national security of the people.

So the whole aspect not public just does not sit well, nor bode well for trust or indeed any scrutinising and that which has and has leaked. Just hard to get the full picture as hard to scale.
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It is classic crony capitalism - you can't blame the auto industry and absolve the massive federal government program that paid for it.
AutoCAD Worm Is Serious Example of Suspected Industrial Espionage (2012)
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The article missed some of the other giveaways to Big Pharma. One is a narrowing of the patent obviousness requirement for "me-too" drugs. Claritin (loratidine) is the classic example. Loratidine is a stereoisomer; there's a left handed and a right handed version of the molecule. One has an anti-allergy effect, and the other doesn't seem to do much. (That's very common; biology isn't symmetrical at the molecular level.)

When the patent ran out on Claritin, the manufacturer came out with Clarinex, which contains only the one isomer that does something useful. They then pitched doctors hard to switch their patients to Clarinex, with considerable success.

But the manufacturer lost a patent case, on the grounds that separating the isomers and only keeping the useful one is obvious to anyone skilled in the art.[1] Now that isomer separation is routine, although non-trivial, the FDA requires it as a purification step if the non-useful isomer has any negative effects.[2] You can't claim that a step required by existing regulation is a new invention.

There's a clause in the TPP IP section to reverse that decision.[3] "[US/JP propose; CL/MY/PE/SG/VN/BN/AU/NZ/CA/MX oppose: For greater certainty, a Party may not deny a patent solely on the basis that the product did not result in an enhanced efficacy of the known product when the applicant has set forth distinguishing features establishing that the invention is new, involves an inventive step, and is capable of industrial application.]" That's from last year's draft on Wikileaks; I haven't seen the new draft yet.

Incidentally, the TPP resolves the issue of patentablity for software and business methods: "Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 and 3 (which relate mostly to plant and animal patents), each Party shall make patents available for any invention, whether a product or process, in all fields of technology, provided that the invention is new, involves an inventive step, and is capable of industrial application." So software and business methods must be made patentable in all TPP-signatory countries. This, again, is from last year's draft. Check the new one once it gets published.

[1] http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/schering-plough-lose...
[2] http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInforma...
[3] https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip2/