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> So as I think I pretty civilly and clearly laid out my reasoning for why I think it is an important topic to discuss, and so many of you feel strongly enough about it to downvote, maybe one or two of you wouldn't mind to put your thoughts into words?

I think dang already laid out reason enough already. But hell, I'll add more fuel to the fire...

> [...] I did position myself pretty far to one side of an interpretive spectrum, as I find that is often a good way to elicit a response

You elicited a response alright. But not a good one, and not one conductive to constructive discussion. The well has been poisoned, so to speak. Why? Well, there's playing devil's advocate, and then there's playing the devil - your initial posts look more like a xenophobic version of the latter, to me, than the former. No offense...? I assume this is why your first post ended up flagged.

Even if we assumed this was on topic such discussion is unlikely to be productive at the moment as a result.

Rather than let sleeping dogs lie, you made a second post, defending the subject as on topic. Dang pointed out that it wasn't. Your reply, which we now discuss, admits you knew that it was "a bit of a stretch" (a bit of an understatement) - and still, yet again, attempts to force the topic, in explicit response to being asked not to. And you're wondering why it's attracting downvotes?

At this point, it wouldn't surprise me if the entire topic tree is eating down-votes - nobody wants to see any of this negative wasted opportunity for discussion. That includes this reply - if HN supported PMs, this is where I'd cut and paste this reply into one, to spare the other posters. As stands, I'll just have to take my licks as they come, if they come (I've found HN rather lenient in handing them out.)

(edit: fixed some awkward sentence flow.)
I'm so glad to have discovered that the OED classes it as an adjective.

I was always dissatisfied with definite article. It seems like a tautology.
Greece has a massive annual deficit before counting interest on existing debt. Beyond defaulting on their existing debt they need to make large structural changes to their fiscal policy for recovery to be sustainable. Otherwise their borrowing costs would be beyond junk.

Put it this way, if you make $100k per year and spend $160k, and you have no assets, what bank is going to give you a loan?
All those points have the implicit premise that every problem has a technical solution. Well, except 5 which isn't so much a solution to a problem as a statement about a desirable state of affairs.

Software development seldom occurs in a vacuum and no technical solutions exist to problems that are caused by stakeholders having contradicting priorities and/or bad incentives.
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Why don't big tech companies offer to buy a few islands from Greece?
Extended-precision mode is a disaster because it's confined to the FPU. If it were an 80-bit datatype it wouldn't be a problem. Because of this property, it's only predictable if you write all your math in assembler. If you write C, the generated code is very vulnerable to perturbation when the compiler changes when variables are written back to memory.

It may well give you more accurate results, but if you're doing something that's inherently numerically unstable (in our case, ASIC timing feeding into k-means clustering) it can give you different results in response to tiny code changes. Force-truncating trades accuracy for stability across changes to the software.

And obviously if you want C code that gives the same results on Intel and non-Intel hardware, you can't use Intel 80-bit FPU.

(Edit: I'll concede somewhat on "within epsilon of the right answer", because there are some examples in the Matlab case where 80 bit gets much closer to the right answer to 64-bit.)
The IMF has been out to lunch when it was needed most with more reasonable and 'Greek adapted' solutions. Essentially they have forced Greece down a very narrow path that would have worked in Germany but not (in a lifetime) in Greece.

So now we have the end result of that strategy (which both the IMF and the previous Greek governments as well as their lenders are party to).

Varoufakis is a very smart man that made a whole bunch of moves that make no sense to me, I think that the last 6 months have pushed Greece into a corner taking away whatever manouvring room they had and now there are only (very) tough choices left.

Going after the tax dodgers with a really big stick should have been the first order of battle for instance, now it is very late to start to solve this in a structural way, it's chaotic at best and catastrophic at worst.

How the EU will handle this will be a defining moment in their history and will potentially make or break the union in the longer term.
https://twitter.com/expresstechie/status/618010135181422592
Eurozone problems, perhaps. I do not understand how you can attempt fiscal union without true political union.
The idea behind the word "shareware" is that you "shared" the demo version with your friends, and anyone who wants to buy a licence can.

So now that we get everything from a direct download, it makes sense that the term "shareware" is no longer used. The concept of having the demo spreading organically as people share it is gone.
Sad that people still fall for these blatant PR smear tricks.
I've included that! That's why I'm using PPP conversion factor for private consumption provided by world bank http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/PA.NUS.PRVT.PP/countries...

I've also considered direct taxes for this comparison
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The most popular Bitcoin paper wallet generator explictly tells you that it's very very unsafe to be running it remotely. It is the equivalent of wgetting a compiled executable, weakly signed with keys that may be compromised (HTTPS), instead of building something from source.

I suggest re-doing this with a better stack.
You could "share" the demo/lite version with your friends, unlike boxed software where any copy was prohibited.
And do what with them? There isn't much overlap between IT and the tourism business.
so many "could"s ...
Recent events @ housing.com look like a movie.
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looks like hacked
If you are willing to forgive all the debt there probably isn't much reason to kick them out of the Euro. I'm not watching the situation all that carefully, but I expect that kicking them out would further damage their economy, whereas if you don't kick them out, individual actors can just note that lending money to Greece isn't a good idea (so it shouldn't be the case that they are able to quickly build up a new untenable debt).
It was very common to find that kind of software on magazines' CDs. For example, I installed for the first time WinRar after finding it inside a promo-CD of a magazine (I don't remember the name). I guess the 'share' was because the license was(is) permissive in terms of distribution (internet mirrors, magazines' CDs, promo floppies, etc...) and after a certain amount of time, it was required to pay the license to keep using the software.
It probably related to the practice of sharing useful tools on CDs. Before the internet the highlight of my month was the CD ROM that came with computer magazines and was loaded with sharewares and freewares.
I think you're both right. And knowing the right balance is the key.
Zoho.com is not bad.

But I switched to https://runbox.com a few years ago.
30 euros/year for 5 gb, 100 aliases, a very good hotline and the option to put your mails on a server without backup, which means that when you delete a message, it's deleted, not stocked on a backup (yes, if their servers fail, you lost everything you didn't backup yourself, but for now, it has never happened :)

And they can get you your own domain name for 15 bucks/year.

And they're green and in Norway and if you use their roundcube webpage, it manages GPG keys and yes, I sound like a fanboy :).
Creating a tech country sounds interesting, but this is the main reason: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4334356/larry-page-wants-t...
It meant that you'd download it from one BBS, then upload it to the next for those sweet file sharing credits. That was my standard method for getting software until 1994 or so.
At first glance, I thought the title read:

"Fix Reddit with Bacon"

but no, decentralized reddit sounds like a better idea... maybe until figuring how how to distribute moderation and other privileges.
BTW! It went down at around 4:15PM IST and came backup at 4:35PM IST for couple of minutes. After that same story.
Sure. But sometimes the equipment just sucks. Was at a outdoor festival last weekend. One of the bands had a sound guy and I wondered that the sound was so shitty. Couldn't hear anything of the bass player. Normally the sound should be pretty good when a band is having their own guy on the mixing desk.

Said this to a friend (who was standing some metres off) and he said everything sounded fine for him. Went 3 metres to the right and suddenly I've heard the bass player. Talked with the sound guy afterwards and he said that the PA simply sucked. Never heard this so extreme.

I would say it is a thing of many factors: the PA, the band (their equipment) and of course the sound engineer.
> There is nothing worse than shipping a half-baked product.

Well, other than never shipping at all, which is, of course, the point ;)
The only moral mechanism I'd be comfortable with, as of today, is the "moral red button" - i.e. create a way to stop any pre-programmed moral reasoning rules, and let the nearest human override them and take control of the robot's actions under their own responsibility.

This would recognize that robots are ultimately machines, not agents with their own volition, and they simply perform behavior that a human intends them to carry out. Just like a conveyor belt carries a big red button that stops the machine for safety reasons, the moral red button would acknowledge the need of putting a human in control when the automated behavior is not behaving as expected.

Of course all these concerns would be different in the hypothetical case that the robot is an autonomous agent with volition of their own - but you could guess from my nickname my position on this mattern. ;-)
Sorry about the lack of links, but this os how i remember things.
Microexpressions representing emotions, as representes in 'lie to me' are a lie.

The scientist behind the research that inspired the show admites he faked his research. I am mobile right now, but if you search microexpressions here in HN you will find it

Edit: i found it http://m.chronicle.com/article/The-Liars-Tell/149261/
and apparently my memory stretched the truth a little using the strong words 'admited' and 'fake'. But it is a debatable research
> Do you have examples of any that have done so without extensive debt relief? I'm can't think of any.

Ireland perhaps the most recent one.
Amsterdam has basically an entire website on the matter: http://www.iamsterdam.com/en/local/work
It also links to search engine with moderately up-to-date vacancies: http://www.iamsterdam.com/en/local/work/working-in-amsterdam...
The search application is an older version of one of products developed by Textkernel, they have a number of positions open: http://www.textkernel.com/company/jobs/

Disclousure: I am currently working for Textkernel
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Just a suggestion: Make signing up and signing in easier. Just have a username/password, don't ask for email and don't make the user repeat. If they make a typo when registering, they can make a new account.

Your site is very niche, meaning that fewer visitors will agree to invest time into registering to upvote / submit.
Reid Hoffman:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bldr6K1IEAAzeSl.jpg:large
If I am not wrong then there was a townhall meeting going on @ Mumbai headquarters when it all happened.
"Lately, after 30 years in the programming business, I've finally managed to cut down my projects to a reasonable size."

... long before those thirty years, someone who thinks he is a great manager may take over the steering wheel (he or she). And things are ready to start from the beginning.

Im my group, we have another flavour of not finishing things: managing by whatever is in front of the managers mind and declare it highest priority. This is the best way to work hard all the time and get nothing done at all.
Well, we all read peopleware a long time ago, all except of the managers.

Anybody here, who has a good idea how to handle these traps?
If you use R it's easy, if you use python it's probably easier to that simulation there. It's more about knowing statistics, all of those conclusions in the article are not trivial to come to.
It's offensive how whenever topics of bigotry and hatred in tech come up, the ensuing conversation is always dominated by regular commenters (typically privileged white males) giving their two cents on something they've never experienced and have no way of relating to. Here's a radical idea: if you're actually interested in supporting and being an ally of women, people of color, LGBTQs and other minorities DO sit back, let them speak and listen. DO NOT inject your own unsubstantiated and unhelpful opinions into a topic you by definition cannot relate to.
All they'll get is the IP addresses of the swarm. They'll have similar luck cat'ing the access logs of their httpd.
What's the point of promises being part of ES6?

I understand them and use them quite a bit. I just don't understand why they're in the language spec. They don't add anything new to the language (vs say generators or symbols).

Is it purely for performance?
This is new to me. How does this exactly work? Can you report the email senders to someone, if you get spam or something?
So I was reading this, and the only things that kept repeating in my mind were "Ionic, Crosswalk, Webworkers, Ionic, Crosswalk, Webworkers..."

(Yes I know Crosswalk is Android only, but it works wonders).
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Remote: Yes

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Technologies: Python, Google App Engine (GAE), Flask, Django, Webapp2, HTML/CSS, Javascript, NoSQL and SQL databases.

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By that logic, Varouf. was a german spy that was purposely put there to stir the waters and thus shield the markets from any kind of greek collapse/default/grexit whatever. And it worked: arguably the markets barely shrug about greece anymore. What did greece win?
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Basic doesn't necessarily mean simple. In this context, I think it refers to a low level building block.
It is backup again now.
The article makes some good points, but I wish he'd asked someone else to proofread and correct it... it has way too many mistakes (I understand English is not the author's mother tongue, but it's not mine either).
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The public "You should go voice your complaint" campaigns do more harm than good as far as ICANN goes.

In the end, it all comes down to ICANN typically just has one person review all the feedback - and when there's a mass write-in those typically get dismissed in bulk.

If you want a good example, check out how ICANN handled the .jobs adjustment in 2010 (http://forum.icann.org/lists/jobs-phased-allocation/pdfDrGz8...). Heartbreaking.
I'm currently working on http://engineeringblogs.co - its a list of engineering blogs from tech and startup companies such as Facebook, Twitter, AirBnB etc. It currently needs more work and that will be happening soon!

EDIT: If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.
See pandasql: http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/pandasql-sql-for-pandas-datafra...

It uses SQLite too.
> "there were serious discussion to the effect..."

Ah, unsubstantiated claims of Internet speculation over something? That must make it true!

> I'm not saying it's a good law.

What law? Where?

> ...it includes categories of recklessness and negligence, which could quite easily be argued along the lines of "you were browsing an unregulated P2P network that is known for containing contraband images".

"You were browsing the Internet, which is unregulated and is known for containing contraband images".

In reality, you filter when you browse the Internet, and that defines your intent. The same would apply here. Access the "HN" sub-P2P-reddit for unflagged posts then nobody can claim that you had intent. If the "HN" becomes rife with unflagged contraband and you stop using it when this starts to happen as a consequence, then nobody can claim that you had intent.

If the whole network becomes unusable because it's rife with off-topic unflagged contraband, then what you really have is a different argument. You'd be claiming that the network would be unsable because of off-topic unflagged contraband. You wouldn't have any argument about the risk of criminal liability from unintended contraband download, because no law-abiding user would ever get that far.

In short: if functional network then no legitimate risk.
Exactly, I absolutely love Ionic and it's the fix for most of the issues raised in the article.
Not at all. Just securely store a copy of all work keys on a non-networked, "cold storage" server and back it up for redundancy. Record keeping is preserved while you gain the full benefits of PGP.
Those features are probably extensions. The POSIX specification for make is quite simple: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ma...
I looked at the cancer survival rates. Over 30 years this looks like slow progress to me:

http://healthhubs.net/images/cancer-survival-trends.gif
I dont know from Cordova but a former employer bet the far on Solr without evaluating in any way. When I tried a search for solr sucks I got 600,000 hits. No one ever answered my questions on stackoverflow.
There are other important reasons not to show things before they are done:
one is the impatient group member who rather refocuses a development than to wait until it converges to something usable. It takes a lot of experience to make a realistic guess, how long software projects take. It also takes a lot of experience to put progress reports in a way that it always looks like great things are happening in order to avoid the refocus discussion.

The all important point is a constructive team that knows their job. But especially in space project related development, you may be surprised to find managers who don't know much about software.
I would be terrified by a machine that took those kind of decisions over human life without taking into consideration the specifics of each particular situation, merely from an abstract rule that some engineers thought of and derived from first principles in their laboratory, without input from the real world or from a limited sample of cases. In your hypothetical example, what if the elder was the only leader of a faction that could negotiate a tready and avoid a global war, but the robot has no built-in rules to detect such development and kills the elder anyway?

There's a reason why we keep judges around to interpret and implement the law, even if the rules are established by an independent body and are in theory are designed to maximize the common good. The moral of Asimov stories was that it is impossible to encode morality as a simple set of rules, as the complexity of real life will always produce unpredictable situations, and ethics will provide ambiguous answers depending on which principles are considered more important.
Do the "click here for free ipad" ads give voice to the people too? Because that's what he did by giving false hopes. And then you congratulate him for not taking any responsibility for what will follow. Let me remind you that his 5 months as a minister were spent doing nothing , absolutely nothing ( yeah, he hired back 50 cleaning ladies for his ministry, that takes us into negative territory.)
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Yes, Shareware is dead. The entire idea with shareware was that you could share the software with others. The distribution channel was sharing. But the shared software was limited, and those who like what they received could call and upgrade.
For me, the more glaring problem is that the article simply makes statements, with no argumentation to back them up. There are no examples, no data to support his claims, no follow-through on any of his categorical declarations. The only useful information I got from it is that the author is frustrated with Cordova.
You may want to setup multiple Twilio DIDs/numbers, and roll through them for outbound calls.
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Look for actuarial tables. They are used to set life insurance rates.
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Sure, but does it describe itself as shareware? The original benefit of shareware was that you could redistribute the installer to your friends. This is no longer a compelling benefit, and 'shareware' has serious negative implications nowadays. The term is dead.
"If you're embarrassed by the first version of your product (i.e. suppose it's buggy, ..."

A first release must not be buggy. But it can have a limited set of functionality.
Imho, the real art of software development is to restrict the initial set of functionality and get that done, as quickly as possible (but not quicker), bug free (sic) and useful.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/
Isn't invite-only software a similar concept?
If you think "giving up" on a project is easy. Try "giving up" on your "dreams", those project you work on every day, even though you know you wont make it.
Although you and I probably disagree on root causes and perhaps solutions, this was a great summary. Thank you.

Reading the HN comments, it occurs to me what a total mess this is. People on all sides are not happy. Furthermore it's one of those he-said, she-said stories where each party has a long and detailed argument for why outsiders should consider things one way or another.

Along those lines, I am very unhappy that Piketty chose to give this interview on this topic. I want to see his ideas about wealth being put under harsh light and deep scrutiny -- after all, he's supposed to have something important to say in this matter. But now he's just turning into another Krugman -- economist-cum-pundit. That's probably great for his career, but it makes honest and objective evaluation of his ideas much more difficult because from now on everybody's going to conflate his political views on various matters with his academic ones. Bah.
Apple's waterproof now? What has science done.
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Hi there fellow country mate. Refer back to the first point where it's clearly referred to our situation as "much similar to the Greek one in nature and extent".

The purpose of that answer is not to identify the party at fault or to explain what went wrong. It is to explain one reason for the increase of nationalistic rhetoric when there are talks of defaulting that loan.

Many people weren't aware that the money didn't come of an abstract "European fund" but from individual countries and helpfully it shed some light on why nationals of those countries consider it "their money".

Also, by showing the amount of money that countries (specially the weakest ones like Portugal) have contributed compared to the sacrifice the population (specially the weakest ones like the minimal wage pensioners) had to make to collect about the same amount (3.5% of all income) hopefully it helps in the understanding that the sacrifices are not being made by abstract concepts and organizations but by the people living in those countries.

As for the rest of your comment it doesn't help advancing or refuting the points explained above so they are a little bit out of place.
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