skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK let me say this as clear as I can after reading most of the comments. Yes we have a dysfunctional economy. We have a lot of red tape and corruption going on in the public sector. We spend a lot of money in pensions and salaries, more than any EU country. We have an inefficient to say the least tax collecting mechanism. And many other problems.

But. You expect us to change all that in just five years. This is fucking impossible guys. Please, get a grip of reality. Countries don’t just change in five years. And then you get disappointed and become nihilists arguing that we haven’t implemented any reforms. All the effort Greece has done in the last five years, moving from a 14% deficit to 1% surplus doesn’t get enough credit. All we get is been constantly hammered for our failures. No wonder the NO vote took 60%. People here are so fucking tired. Six years of recession and we have the Troika constantly down on our throats without cutting us any slack. If EU leaders had shown some flexibility things would have turned up a lot better for everyone. We could extend the maturity of some loans, achieve a sustainable surplus and start repaying. Instead we’re facing the nuclear option of defaulting on most of our debt. How does that help anyone?

And if you think Tsipras is radical wait until Le Pen wins the French presidency. She has an open agenda of exiting the euro. Then we can talk what compromises Germans are willing to do.
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"lied". The rest of Europe knew very well that Greek books were cooked. They went along because the Euro is an ideology. It's destined to fail and it's going to fail. Like every attempts at a common currency. It doesn't work and Europeans are going to pay the price of that insanity. That's why I decided to leave the EU. That thing is so doomed.
It's 1:1, being able to vote is a perk you get for having donated $23 or more. This is only the first time we seek feedback, not the last. :)
> In fact these bailouts where were unpopular in Germany, because it cost us a lot of our money, we could have spent on infrastructure, education, etc.

You should have. It would have been better for Greece if the former Greek government had not been strongarmed into being the fall-guy for a rescue programme for French and German banks.
Could the headline here just as easily be "Chinese stock market drops down to March 2015 levels"?
From July 3, 2015:

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/greeces-debt-burd...

'As long ago as 2010, when Greece was first bailed out, many knowledgeable observers, including some members of the I.M.F.’s board of directors, worried that Greece would never be able to pay back all of its debts—its total debt burden is about a hundred and seventy five per cent of the country’s G.D.P.—and advocated imposing a haircut on its creditors. Rather than doing this, the European Union, the European Central Bank, and the I.M.F. loaned the Greek government money to pay its creditors, which were mostly European banks, at a hundred cents on the dollar. In the now-famous words of Karl Otto Pöhl, a former head of the Bundesbank, the bailout “was about protecting German banks, but especially the French banks, from debt write-offs.”'

It's true that later in 2012 there was a "haircut" (as the article states) but that should have been done as part of the 2010 agreement. The funds paying off the banks in 2010 became part of government and government agency debt not covered by the haircut of 2012. They should have made the banks take the haircut in 2010 and thus the taxpayers would have been held accountable for far less debt.
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This is an absolutely fantastic post. Not just legally, but morally as well. It doesn't just outline the legally correct thing to do, but the morally right thing to do as well.

It's what separates a responsible researcher who improves security for all, from a petty cyber criminal. +1 on the above advice.
Yes! The Phillies used to have a fan-favorite outfielder who played hard and often made spectacular catches - but he was actually a pretty bad outfielder; the reason he made spectacular catches is because he turned routine plays into adventures.
I went into these comments looking for the reference to "on error resume next", wondering why it took a while. I guess a bunch of the younger crowd here won't remember it.

It's worth mentioning that shell scripts also tend to lean towards keeping chugging when they encounter errors, and writing proper error checks in a shell script can be tedious and troublesome. I know I have been bitten by this.
Seems fine by me, since I can bring my own water but not my own WiFi :)
Perhaps, though a quick look at http://www.reddit.com/about says that 100k isn't really a huge number for them. For now at least, its a text-book definition of a 'vocal minority'.
I'm kind of appalled at how all the stories I've seen relating to this are giving credence to the various claims made here, such as how Reddit has "entered into a new age of censorship", without even making the slightest attempt to contextualize or explain how absolutely bat-shit nutty it is to make that claim. Reddit enforced its rules and shut down a few vile subreddits that were explicitly and unrepentantly harassing people. That is unambiguously a great move by Reddit. But a lot of people are suddenly screaming "censorship" and, if you read nothing but the news stories, you'd come away with the idea that those screaming "censorship" are right.

This actually feels a bit reminiscent of GamerGate, which for a while was able to have news outlets report on them as if their stated goal of ethics in game journalism was actually what it was about.
The Swift standard library is not yet up to snuff for that, you still need to know Cocoa to do basically anything high-level. Thankfully I know Foundation better than I do straight-up POSIX, so that's tenable for me, but it's not for most people who want something script-y.
You are actually right. Everytime a company gets compromised it is a stark reminder that people DO have to be super careful with their data online.

That they have to choose passwords of string complexity, that they have to use different passwords for EVERY single thing where a password is used, and optimally even that they use a different login for thing requiring one. That they be very careful about what exact data they share with any given service. etc. etc.

You may have intended to be snarky in your response, but you have unintentionally hit the nail on the head.
> Does the term "sovereign nation" mean anything to you?

Does the term European Union mean anything to you? Does the term common currency mean anything to you? If Greece fails, Do you really think Germans won't suffer any consequences?
I wouldn't really recommend Reflux. What advantages it has are shared by other, better libraries like alt or redux, but it has some disadvantages all its own.

Ran across a good writeup here: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/3ap0y6/flux_no_...
Take the incident at JP Morgan Chase. Chase PR was on the point about keeping the public in the know that at no time was their money under threat. You can't tell me this was anything other than coordinated or even orchestrated.

After keeping the breach(es) a secret for at least months, Chase kept strong with its spin on the topic. It is clear that Chase does not consider the breaches too important to its business. As far as Chase was concerned, their perspective is that they dodged a bullet. If there was any indication that account balances were fudged, I doubt Chase could keep nearly as calm.

My tired point is that for many companies, they make a distinction between "them" getting breached vs their customers' data getting breached. How can we believe that Adobe does not know the best practices to store passwords?
An expensive prediction. Sure, they are now right, but the index grew from 4250 at the time of that article to over 5000 before this latest crash. Anyone shorting the market on their prediction would have most likely been wiped out before they could make a profit.

Calling the top of a market is difficult, and to be fair, the Economist hasn't done too badly here. However, you've got to call the bottom too. Will the Economist be able to say if the current market price is now 'correct' or not? Has the bubble burst or is there more to go?
When I got home from the hospital after the worst of my seizures, I found the instructions that were given to my mother. She was advised not to permit me to go outside unescorted.

She had put it with my stuff then never mentioned it.

Mom is actually quite an intelligent woman but sometimes she can be a little daft.
Given that this is Reddit we're talking about, and given the behavior of a lot of the people who are vocal about this on Reddit, it's probably fair to assume that a very significant chunk of those signatures are fake.
I remember going to a security conference where one of the speakers said that security flaws and 'fixit' recommendations come so thick and fast, and are so difficult to implement, that even security researchers, who know all the issues and tradeoffs, often don't follow best practices.

Security is bloody difficult, even for lauded members of the community. Schneier apologises in his blog when he says he still uses Windows, for example.
they just changed names this year from whoaverse.
Is this post on that thread accurate? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9832812
Or gave Boing Boing another visitor?
Sure. Although I do think if people don't respond out of fear of being labeled, then it's a shame because it is possible to discuss this topic without being portrayed as a xenophobe/racist. A lot are just observations I've heard and seen, especially when I was a chaperone for children from some of China's elite a few years ago.

Interesting on limiting real estate to only citizens. Although I doubt homeowner(s) who are selling care about where the money comes from, especially if it's upfront and comes in cash. And if you look at some of the prices for these townhouses/homes in South Bay suburbs, I imagine it'd be hard to say no.
Ask HN: Companies That Use Take Home Projects for Interviews?
I'm an experienced developer (previously worked for Microsoft) who left to pursue building a SAAS business. Unfortunately things aren't going as well as planned and I've been looking for work over the past few months. I've had several interviews but no offers. Although I used to be pretty confident in my interviewing skills, I seem to be tripping up on the technical portions of the interview. Usually on things I wouldn't struggle with.

I've seen discussions about companies that give project based interviews, but have never seen one in the wild. I'd be happy to complete a small project to show I'm competent, I just don't know which companies to target.

About me:
All professional experience with .NET stack (willing to learn others, if given the chance)
Located in Seattle (Remote would also be an option).

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
Yeah I'm not saying that 100k is definitely enough to get her removed or anything. But if 100k people saying "this sucks" is meaningless, imagine how much more meaningless just quitting and saying nothing is.

I'm not saying that these people will accomplish their goal. But they're definitely stirring up bad publicity for Reddit. That's not a great way to get a CEO fired, but bad publicity is a lot worse for Reddit than losing 100k users.
The Seattle data is heavily biased by for the fourth of July fireworks. Look at data before the fourth and across the city.
Hmm.

Although I don't agree with all that is said in the article. I find that it makes a nuanced and well structured point.

Depending on what the security industry wants to achieve, they can either ridicule (punish) or ignore (reward) companies that at least publicize they've been breached.
Keeping in mind that companies have a certain tendency to work short-term angles over longer-term alternatives. I think the carrot is more likely to achieve better security than the stick.

But that's just my 2c.
That seems to depend entirely on who you ask. Greece claims to have run a 2014 primary surplus. The EC and ECB appear to recognize a smaller 2014 surplus (smaller than Greece claims).

But IMF's most recent review suggests that there was no surplus: Greece had been counting privatization revenue (ie: the sale of utilities, ports, and airports) --- which they technically weren't supposed to, and those revenues turned out lower than Greece had projected. Further, Greece had accumulated additional liabilities from pensions and tax refunds than they'd apparently stated when they announced their surplus.

If you're not running a primary surplus, it's hard to see how you're paying loans without external assistance. Can you help me understand that claim a bit better?
I'm not sure that "redneck" qualifies as a racial slur, nor that we should never have words that describe different cultural groups.

But fair enough. What term would you prefer we use for generally uneducated, reactionary populations that infamously believe their personal arsenals will be used to overthrow a tyrannous federal government and establish socially conservative concepts of personal liberty?

This belief in revolution certainly isn't limited to conservative reactionaries (and I mocked leftists in the next sentence), but I'm not sure it's that productive to start a tangent of personal offense rather than address the questionable idea of armed revolution.
Personal attacks are not allowed on HN, even when someone is wrong.
> That is unambiguously a great move by Reddit

If that were the case nobody would care and protest about it. You could argue that the move was wrong and you could argue that the move was correct. However, it was clearly not unambiguously a great move. :)
This is why JetBlue won best customer service in 2014 and it doesn't seem like they really have serious competition; they actually make an attempt to make customers happy.

I book JetBlue every single time I can (even when it's more) because I can actually use WiFi without spending more than my (already expensive) ticket cost, and I get more than a single miniature water bottle.
The security industry can could praise companies' transparency a bit more...
A family friend of mine went under general anesthesia and woke up senile. He was in his late-70s, early-80s at the time. Lives in a nursing home now. Once in a while can have some moments of somewhat clarity but they only last for a minute or two.
The economics of airplane wifi remind me of the economics of the hotels wifi. Go to a 5-star hotel and you will pay 15 extra dollars for the priviledge of having a lousy internet access. Go to a small hostel and you will get good internet access for free.
So, right now Greece is living beyond what it can sustain. To go forward Greece need to be both more productive and cut its standard of living somewhat. Unfortunately fixing this in a straightforward way is hard. You have a lot of confusion and bargaining around who has to experience pain and it probably won't be distributed evenly if left to itself. And because of sticky wages/nominal loss aversion efforts to reduce people's pay in nominal terms tends to cause unemployment[1] which means that the pain in even worse.

Enter inflation. It sucks, obviously, but it's a great way to spread the pain around evenly between workers, pensioners, and creditors. And it doesn't cause unemployment. It causes a bit of additional pain through things like menu costs but that's small potatoes compared to everything else happening.

Of course this is all presupposing a carefully calibrated monetary policy. It worked great for Iceland but I'm not sure I'd trust the current crop of Greek politicians not to give into the temptation to print themselves out of debt. That way lies hyperinflation.

EDIT: I tend to think it would be good if the Euro zone could be dissolved somehow and it would probably be good for Greece in the long term to leave. However, I'm not at all convinced that in practice the "no" vote will work out well for Greece or anybody else over the next decade or so.

[1]http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/09/why_dont_wages.h...
Sorry, I mean export-oriented industries. I apologize for the lack of clarity in my expression.
That blank period, where you know things happened but have absolutely no recall, is horrifying. I have a period like that, and it still bothers me a lot.
My understanding of the "time slowed down" phenomenon is that the recollection is more detailed due to the intensity of the experience. However this extraordinary detail is an illusion.

The recollection feels so detailed that, in retrospect, one feels that time must have been slowed down during the experience in order to absorb so much information.

It is the apparent intense detail that produces the subjective effect of time dilation. However the detail was not collected during the experience; it is conjured during "recollection".

These recollections are generally inaccurate. Almost saccade-style, the imagination fills in gaps. The recollected detail -- e.g. facial expressions during a car crash -- did not actually happen. They are imagined.

Eyewitness accounts of highly emotive events such as robberies or crashes are notoriously unreliable, yet the witnesses swear on their accuracy, and describe events in detail -- inaccurately.

On mobile, references tricky. Google eyewitness reliability for more.
Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid.”
You're dodging my point.

Greece isn't simply arguing that, morality being relative and all, they've decided not to pay back their debts.

They are demanding more money from their creditors. It seems like they have to: they're running a primary deficit; they're losing money even before you take debt service into account.

Whatever the moral dimension of paying back their debt is has nothing to do with the question of whether Germany (ie, the EC) or the IMF (to whom Greece just defaulted) or the ECB (which doesn't want to be in this particular lending game to begin with) is going to give them more money.

If Greece can't persuade the EC, IMF, or ECB to lend them more money, it's doesn't look like they can just walk away from this whole scenario. "Oh well! Debt is just politics and morality!" That might be true, but if they want to allow people to retire in their early 60s, or pay half the nominal tax rate, or not regressively tax the poor through punishing VAT increases, they're going to need to convince someone in the world of some kind of compatible morality, right? They require additional financing, don't they?
You can get problems if the market goes up, people borrow a bunch of money to buy stock and then it goes back down again. The winners aren't much affected, the losers cut their spending / lending and so the economy (as in total spending) dips.
I have come to regard them as unpaid labor and so refuse to participate in them anymore.

My resume is truthful it would be easy to look up any of the projects I mention.
I can't figure out if you're merely objecting to the idea that it "protects the weak", or if you're trying to actually justify the position that free speech means you're allowed to harass people. Because that's what the banning was really about.

Free speech, at its core, really means the freedom to express any idea. That's pretty much it. It does not guarantee you a soapbox upon which to express the idea, and it does not mean that the community around you cannot react negatively to what you say. All it actually guarantees is that the government cannot restrict what you say. As long as you don't commit a crime. Which harassment is. People can and do get charged with harassment and related offenses, but nobody tries to claim that charging someone with harassment or a related offense is a violation of their free speech. They recognize that there are in fact limits to what you can do and say, which in general are when what you do and say starts violating the rights of other people.

But this is the internet, and on the internet, the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory[1] comes into play. Because it's the internet, people think that they're free to say whatever the hell they want, even if it very clearly amounts to harassment of other people. And that's just plain wrong. Reddit is absolutely correct to ban subs that are harassing people, and I wish they'd be even stricter about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Arcade#.22Greater_Intern...
This whole spectacle began because a beloved woman a lot of subreddits depended on was fired.

To claim that this is about hating Pao just because she is female is absurd, it has probably more to do with her obviously not understanding reddit at all.
not me, but a person i met and asked him that very question.

he ran a dating site at the time. i got nowhere asking him if he needed anything he didn't already have. so i asked him what he was buying already. to the best of my recollection this was the list:

credit card processor so he didn't have to file for pci compliance.

private github. he said it was silly but since it was set up it was too cheap to put off setting up a new server for another month.

image api. easy resizing etc.

i want to say help desk/bug reporting but can't remember the company

colocation, rackspace i think

drat. there was one more but i forgot. sorry
Ahh, the nytimes. If there are two biases the NYT is guilty of, then its being stubbornly progressive and subconsciously anti-German.

Take this for example: "... financial carpet bombing. The European Central Bank severely limited financial assistance to Greek banks, ... making it hard for retirees ..."

Calling it "financial assistance" helps in framing it as an assault on a guaranteed right the Greek Banks have. Especially if it's something that was "severly limited" by that evil Frankfurters.

I know perspectives fluctuate quite heavily from country to country. It is actually the reason why I read as broad as possible (including NYT) to get to know a possible different viewpoint on pending issues.

But the american progressive view on the Greek-Bailout-topic is so much flawed that I might call it derailed. It is not simply flawed by ideology but that ideology also decides what details are to be amplified over the distance-caused resistance. And more importantly, that ideology decides what details are not to be amplified.

The ECB is still lending money, it is just not legally allowed to issue new credits (credits are what those "financial assistances" really were) to a benkrupt country. And the whole american-progressive story of Germany/Rich-Europe enslaving the poor Greeks is just as stupid as the european-progressive story of America enslaving the third world. The world is not that simple to just blame everything on the fat cats.

And actually those uninformed progressive world-views (wether it be european progressives judging american foreign policies toward third parties or vice-versa) bear something deeply anti-progressive in them: framing a whole nation evil, accepting illiberal leaderships as long as they are anti-<evilnation> and often calling for harsh intervention.

Or in the case of the Greferendum: Making it a progressive virtue, that nation A's tax €s utilization ought to be decided by nation B's voters.
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
What term would you prefer we use for generally uneducated, reactionary populations that infamously believe their personal arsenals will be used to overthrow a tyrannous federal government and establish socially conservative concepts of personal liberty?

How about "strawmen"?
It's the same situation on both sides of the Atlantic. Both JetBlue and Norwegian are low-cost carriers and offer free Wifi while the big flag carriers charge for it, if it's even available.
Good advice to follow for all important communication.
Pffff ridiculous. Can we starting calling this the Godwin's Law of economics? Economic policy intended to rebuild an entire continent after the most traumatic conflict in its history is necessarily going to differ from policy during times of peace.