skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Greece was doing rather well at the end of 2014 before Syriza decided to stop playing ball.
Greece among others pardoned your Nazi debts and reparations in 1953, helping you rise. Greeks did nothing so terrible to "owe a debt". You owe them a debt which is far stronger than promises ("debt") held by investors, part of which was from the dictatorship and therefore odious debt.

Piketty: "When I hear the Germans say that they maintain a very moral stance about debt and strongly believe that debts must be repaid, then I think: what a huge joke! Germany is the country that has never repaid its debts. It has no standing to lecture other nations.(https://medium.com/@gavinschalliol/thomas-piketty-germany-ha...)
I wonder what the EU expected. How is this morally different from the fact that most of the other 49 US states pay for the debts of Mississippi? If we hadn't been doing it on a long-term continual basis, and MS ran its own economy, we'd be talking about "bailing them out". But life support to MS is the long-term normal in the US economy.
off-topic but I was looking for a reader of my pdf-to-image converted documents. This reader looks really nice (and in-browser too).
I think it even leaves python in the dust regarding "batteries included".
I know someone who heavily uses matlab and every algorithm or idea he threw in my direction would've taken hours, if not days to re-do in python.

Yes, that's anecdotal and probably related to the specific domain, but it looked more like a "get shit done/playground" mentality.
The code won't be readable, but you got something working with all the bells and whistles in a familiar UI.

And no, translating matlab code to python is not fun :)
Open? Connected?

BS!

Or they mean "Connected to Facebook alone"?
I think one of the core problems in the whole euro zone disaster was the ability of previous governments with low credit ratings suddenly going from paying 8-10% on their bonds to 2-3%. Basically the lenders completely ignored historic risk, counting on the richer euro countries to bail out any country that abused the cheap credit.

I think we are seeing the effect of that policy. For the people who are demonizing the Greeks I would like to remind them that it takes two to party.

The drunk sailor who wastes all his money, and the fool who lends him more money, expecting to be repaid.

Either there is a full currency union with the transfers (meaning more and more federal like rule) or we will get some sort of collapse of the euro zone at some point in the future.
Of course everything is moving to http(s)/html. It's easier to get users to use their browser than to get them to install something, and they can probably connect; maybe port 6667 is blocked because IRC is dangerous, but port 80 and 443 are likely open.
Breathtaking ruins of the Soviet space shuttle program
Merely having wide adoption of OpenID or Mozilla Persona would be a worthy start.

I just don't have much faith in these idealistic open source projects these days; when I google "diaspora oauth" and the first thing I find is abandonware (https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora-client), it pretty much confirms my cynicism. "Nice-looking" isn't the only thing we need from identity management.
Holy crap your not wrong! Was anyone ever thinking that was a nice level piece? I honestly thought it was a joke at first.
Sounds fascinating. Thanks for the recommendation!
You make it sound like Greece's debt was camouflaged against its will.
And dealing with the fact that paper is typically destructive and hard to copy.
Facebook Tests Features That Make Sharing GIFs in Messenger Easier Than Ever
The idea of concentrating all these one-of-a-kind newspapers into one building is crazy. What if it burns down?

> At such low oxygen levels, the contents simply can’t go up in flames.

Famous last words.

> And with standards for the documentation, archiving and accessing of data – official and personal – still being thrashed out,

I don't understand why this is a problem. Scan them to pdf files, and put them on web pages. Let google index them.
Worth noting that "Greece accounts for less than half a percent of German exports"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/01/eurozone-greece-in...
I don't see an unemployment rate of 25% plus more spending cuts inbound as doing rather well. It was falling but very slowly.
Why Humans Run the World
Take away the debt payments, they're already running a surplus. No new loans = no reason to pay creditors. This is a worse outcome for Germany than Greece...
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Either way looking forward to the next update!
I'm astounded at the fight here between pro and contra austerity. It's not about to save or not to save - it's about where to save. Greece could (have) bailed out itself with just a semi-decent stab against rampant corruption, without endangering the common people at all. Switzerland offered to collect billions of Euros of Greek tax offenders on Swiss accounts on their own. The List with the names "disappeared", and some years and dozens of questions later, reappeared with half the names removed. Switzerland's still waiting for Greece to make a move. While the last weeks were all about the 1.5 bil EUR rate, Greeks moved 3 bil EUR out of the country every fricking day. Greece infamously doesn't even have a register who owns which property and real estate.

Greece is still in the top 5 state: of military spending per capita, and the list goes on.

No matter how much money you pour into this banana republic, it's just going to evaporate on the way there.

Still, their best option is probably where they are going already: a proper default and return to a weaker currency, just as it helped iceland.

http://netrightdaily.com/2015/06/icelandic-default-could-sav...

Still won't help, if they don't tackle corruption as well.
I agree with your point. And it is true that the austerity measures have hit the most vulnerable in the society. But I found it problematic to maintain that the whole Greece is made of "deadbeat dads", my point being that the Greek elite is not shouldering their part of the recovery effort.
The main reason billions of euros “transferred” to Greece were to save German and French banks. This way our politicians (european citizens' politicians) turned a private debt to public debt that just keeps growing because everyone on the globe thinks that it is unserviceable, thus refuses to lent us.

At the same time they sold us a “bad europe” story and sold you a “bad greeks” story. Most of the facts circling around (e.g Greeks average retirement age) are myths. Germany's minimum wage is double the average greek pension. Our prices in common goods don't differ much. One of the terms of our previous bailout was that people under 25 should work for 511 euros per month —that is gross salary. Can you survive on 400 euros per month (salary after deductions) in Germany? Neither can you in Greece. Now they want us to work for 300 euros a month. Do you think this is fair?

We have a common currency. The currency's main purpose is to be used for the citizens' well being. But we can't manipulate our currency anymore because the rest of the EZ members (particularly Germany) have different plans. What can we do?
Midaz can be used as premedication before induction of general anesthesia, but it's not an induction agent itself. If you're getting general (as opposed to "twilight") anesthesia, once you're induced, you should be unconscious (to the best of our ability to understand consciousness).

I'm medicine, not anesthesia, so I don't use these agents all day and therefore referred to cardioversion which is more in my domain. Cheers!
The criticism is of the emptiness of the PR-written responses. A few people at a company being "pretty upset" about a security breach doesn't mean the company actually takes security seriously. Responses like this are fairly obviously canned and insincere, and are designed to deflect criticism of companies' actual security practices.
So, instead of saying "we take security seriously", they should add a clause to their EULA stating that in the event of a breach, clients will be compensated such and such.

If they don't have such a clause, then I don't think they take the security of their clients' data very seriously.
> You do realize that plenty of US states carry a "deficit" right? Many states receive more money from the Federal budget than they pay back in.

That's not a "deficit." If that was a deficit, than every person in the US who pays less than $11,000 in tax would be running a "deficit." That's just the way governments work: the amount you pay in tax and the amount of services you get back from the government aren't always the same. But we do all have representation in the authority that chooses how to spend the pot of money.

Greece is different because they have sovereignty over their budget. Greece's taxes aren't collected by the ECB (with enforcement power) and there is no European body deciding how the taxes will be spent.
For me, there are several reasons why the rest of the eurozone should help Greece get back on its feet, rather than only give it more loans:

1) Due to being in the monetary union, Greece is not able to print more money, devalue its currency or other monetary policies to help its economy. Greece is paying the price of being in a monetary union, and it should either get help from the other members of that union, or it is not really a union.

2) Also, take into account that Germany and other countries are benefitting from this monetary union by being able to use a currency that is devalued due to the poorer countries, and therefore is able to increase its export.

3) Much of the bailout went into the banks of other eurozone members therefore helping them as well.

4) Do not forget that Greece if not in the eurozone would be able to default on its debts, live on the primary surplus it is now generating and when it is considered a good debtor to get loans again. Instead of having to exit the eurozone (which would be a bad sign for the whole union) and default on its debts (which would mean other countries losing money) and THEN grow, it may be beneficial to everyone to do a debt restructuring.

5) Greece is paying an interest on the loan given to them to be able to pay the older debts to the ECB and others. They are not able to pay that interest on the subsequent loans and are asking to be able to use that for economic growth to pay the older loans! In a sense, you can see that as debt restructuring, which can also happen in other ways. This way creditors will also get their money back, altough restructured or payed later.
I recently used someones template tool to generate some methods in Swift but with some erb-like syntax to actual Swift code.

It was actually more pleasant than I thought, and I usually use Ruby for this. Might do this more often in the future.

But Ruby still has the benefit with gem install that can get you anything from a twitter client to an IRC-bot lib.
Googled, "greece primary surplus". First result: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/02/16/greece-st...

Second paragraph, krugman quote:

"Despite this catastrophe, Greece is making payments to its creditors, running a primary surplus — an excess of revenue over spending other than interest — of around 1.5 percent of G.D.P."

How much did you look, and where are you seeing the opposite information on primary deficit the last few years?
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I'd be very interested in sources for this.
Clojure, Rust, c#

Clojure is a powerful and simple language that gives you access to the jvm and the web. The community follows a composable library based approach to functionality which allows you to really understand how your stack works.

Rust, because it's a safer alternative to c/c++ but still allows you to be bare metal. Want to work on microcontrollers? No problem!

So combined Clojure and Rust fluency give you the ability to develop for pretty much everything and they are incredibly powerful in their own rights.

And finally c# because it's a nice language with lots of well paying jobs.
> 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).

> 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.

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.

> 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.

> 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.
They are NOT running a primary surplus - this claim has been debunked.

http://www.dw.com/en/the-truth-about-greeces-primary-surplus...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/02/16/greece-st...
You get to regulate what's in your state. If Google is in your state, you get to tell google how things are. But if a coal mine is in a different state, you don't get to tell them how things are.
True that the troika only came into play in 2010, but the Greek governments of Karamanlis and Papandreou had been applying austerity packages themselves (although admittedly rather milder than the troika's) since the start of the recession.
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Yeah when they don't have Greece to kick around anymore it's not as though the Germans and French are going to stop telling other nations how to live. It's funny how all the people who assured us for years that the Grexit would never occur are still just as certain, only now they're certain that the Grexit will teach all those other Mediterraneans a lesson in frugality. It's not a question of whether someone else will exit, it's a question of who will be first.

Especially in about five years when it will be clear what a boon the Grexit will have been for the Greeks.
When you own your own currency, you don't need creditors. You can lend to yourself, and are thus not subject to forced austerity and blackmail. You simply increase the inflation rate when the economy is down, which Greece cannot do and Germany refuses to allow. Which is why Greece is in this position.
It's possible to take an idea seriously, yet seriously screw up the execution. The criticism presented is criticism of the hollow words that get tossed out there by someone in P.R. after the actual execution failed. It's like a car company announcing a major recall due to defective parts, starting their press release with "At [company], we take quality very seriously!" The proof is in the pudding.
To enforce a justice estate, what the 'troika' is basically asking is to bring back the same corrupted government(s) to deal with.

Greece needs the equivallent of Marshall plan. The troika wants to keep the Greek oligarchy in power and does everything in their power to keep the current status quo.

So generally speaking, what the troika did was destroy a heavely indebted country instead of actually helping.

The Siemens scandal (google it please I'm too bored to write another summary) and Christoforako's case (Varoufakis talked about this with Scheuble) shows the real problem: Greece has it's issues of course, but the troika was never about helping, it was more about exploiting all along.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/02/imf-greece-n...
For me, what's maddening is people claiming 'cognitive dissonance' when the Federal Government does the job it is supposed to do, which is make sure 'states rights' don't get out of line with the constitution or the bill of rights. In my experience, the people shouting 'states rights!' are generally the people who are doing something completely hideous ( violations of secular principles, human rights/liberty, etc. ).

I believe, the reason there seems to be a push to do everything at the 'Federal Level' these days is because extremism in political views is really LOUD and the more people are getting into a frenzy by living in communal echo chambers. The more people believe that the 'world is ending RIGHT NOW' the more urgent and forceful the 'solution' becomes.
The banks that loaned the money for those "mortgages" are counting on being payed back. If they aren't, they might go bankrupt, causing a financial crisis. Or, they might start lending a lot less, or call in their loans early, putting the squeeze on others, including other banks, causing a financial crisis. And a financial crisis affects everyone.

You are nothing to a bank, a bank is huge, and fully expects some people to default on their mortgages. They can take it. However, what if everyone in California defaulted on their mortgages? Then it might cause many banks to fail, cause a financial crisis, and depress the entire US economy, including your neighbours.

The monetary union disguised the risk of lending, which was still there.
Particularly text. Once OCR-ed, the content of the entire building fits on a consumer HD.
> the premise of the referendum was that it would strengthen Greek's negotiating hand

Wrong. The reason for a referendum is so, whatever comes next, the people and the governing party go in knowing they are together, with a level of bonding that is extremely rare in our cynically modern western democracies. Compare with Spain's recently gag law, which was passed by the government against the will of almost half of their own voters (and presumably against 100% of everyone else).
The second of those articles seems to imply that aid to Greece is a key part of the income in the calculation of "primary surplus" and the third says "Alas, the Greek government’s 2013 primary surplus is a statistical mirage" - not exactly positive messages!
If the kid exists both parents are responsible for it, no exceptions.

I strongly disagree with this doctrine, because it disadvantages men in practise. If the child was conceived against the explicit will of one the involved parties, that party should not be coerced to pay for, or look after the child. Women absolutely need to acquire written conception consent prior to conception. No written consent, no alimony. No means no. It's shocking that one needs to spell this out in 2015!
it's mentioned in the article that microfilm is digitised
Does anyone know which language(s) the NASA engineers write the spacecraft's software in?
In Italy they have Finance Police: when you buy something, you MUST hold onto the receipt until a few hundred meters away from the store. Some Italians may be able to shed more light, as I've only ever seen them operate in Rome and never in Florence or Venice.
To be honest, I spend much more energy studying the economy of my country (USA) than China.

In the USA, we will probably have a major market corection to current "bubble-ism" soon, and in my opinion a 20 to 25% drop in prices would deflate bubbles and probably make things more stable. A good thing in the long term, I think.

The other good thing about the current problems like we see in China, Greece, etc. is that it will hopefully slow down the trend of the elites making massive amounts of money with financial transactions instead of BUILDING THINGS and other productive activities. When the elites make money by pulling it from the lower classes that is a bad thing; they need to go back to building infrastructure and becoming more decent world citizens who care about the world that their children and grandchildren will be living in.

The problems that China is facing are bad, but they do have high savings rates and an increasingly better educated population in their favor.

It will be really interesting to see how things shake out in the next few years. I am fairly optimistic, but we will see what happens.
This is nothing to with fairness. Greece need debt relief or it will collapse, and the creditors will still lose out. You're no doubt familiar with the concept of drawing a line in the sand and making decisions for the future common good, as happened with Germany's debts after WW2.

The potential long term political and financial cost of abandoning Greece far outstrip the 70B it owes Germany. It will leave the European project in tatters, despite what Merkel assures us.
The main difference is that much of the US taxes are collected at the federal level with compliance enforced by a federal agency.

European taxpayers aren't going to be willing to permanently transfer money to a country if they feel some of the government's problems are caused by widespread tax evasion.
You're free to down-vote me, I don't care :-) I can assure no hard feelings about it... I had expressed many unpopular opinions on HN and had been downvoted many times, never held me back from expressing my views.

What I'm saying is that solidarity towards Germany was key in 1945. Now it's time to make a Marshall plan for Greece that will bring 'justice' to the country, fix our tax-system, etc. Every Greek would welcome that sort of change even it came from abroad.

The troika didn't do that at any point. It just sucked money from Greek tax-payers.
Companies in general do not really care. I've been on the inside, the infrastructure guy who knows what's actually being done to implement proper security and who's responsible for a lot of it. Companies care much more about the next set of features, the next release, the next big deal that will change everything, the sales goals for this quarter. They may even care about "usability", the latest site re-design, "user stories".

Security is always the very last thing they care about, until there's a huge very costly breach. Then they care for 2 months, and I get to actually work on the security stuff, and get other developers to cooperate, and clean up the known messes left all over in the typical mad dash of feature addition and replacement. Then it's all forgotten about again.

They should say "we suck, we focused 100% on features and market share, we know now what's important", and they should get security right. It does kinda suck that the market often rewards companies that prioritize all else above security, and I wish such companies all the damage a breach can cause. Otherwise, there's no reason to not suck at security.

They should just be honest: "This is what happens when you make a product people love. It's insecure and data is lost and service is interrupted. But you all love it so thanks :)". People should not be under the illusion that their favored products and services are secure. They should know they love insecure shit.
Leaving the Euro and deflating will destroy savings...
You can find WSJ stories suggesting that the 2014 primary surplus is also dubious; under what the WSJ says is a "conventional" definition of primary surplus, not the one tailored to Greece, they apparently ran a deficit of over 8% of GDP in 2014.

http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/2014/04/23/greek-primary-surpl...

So far, the narrative that Greece was chugging along running a surplus before accounting for debt service does not appear to square with the facts.
Does the term "sovereign nation" mean anything to you?

Do you feel an obligation to pay for the debts of Greece? No? Then why would a German, or me as a Dutchman feel such an obligation?