skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The need for a true, decentralized p2p network is to solve the problem once and for all so that we can shed all of the moral hazards around having a company at the center. If a company starts the project, and abandons their ideals and starts censoring content, users can just download the same content from other nodes. The ideals are salvaged. On the other hand, if 99% of users agree that some content shouldn't be permitted, it would be really hard to find that content.

"Unique identities", or naming, is a hard problem by itself. One way to solve it for our purposes that I think would be sufficient is to just let each user own a keypair to authenticate messages, and the names are NOT unique.

As for a concrete proposal, it takes a lot of time to write something like that, and I just haven't done it yet because I was unsure of the community interest. However, it seems there is a good deal of community interest based on this article. Perhaps I could write a whitepaper, or maybe just a longer, technical document, where I try to solve all the problems. Note I don't actually claim to have solved them all yet - but maybe I would be able to solve them all in the course of writing the paper. Having community feedback really helps identify the problems that need to be solved (thanks!).
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The problem with "your money" (as well as Belgium's etc etc etc) is that it didn't "go to Greece": it went to private lenders, aka French and German banks which were holding Greek debt. The honest people of Portugal were swindled out of their money, in the tradition of socializing private losses (while privatizing profits wherever possible).

So I would suggest you redirect your complaints towards the real responsible parties: European bankers and the elites who keep enabling them. Portugal would benefit from getting together with other countries and ask for their money back from the (mostly German and French) financial sector, or at least a big haircut. This is also true of Italy, Spain, Ireland and so on.
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I did not know about "proofs without words", it looks brilliant!
It aggregates jobs from multiple job boards, scans for relevant emails in job descriptions and on company websites and then allows you to apply to those jobs by clicking Apply. When you do that, an email from your own gmail account will be sent to those companies, so from their perspective, it's just an ordinary email. The result for a job seeker is saved time by not having to register to each job board and go through a tedious process of filling up different forms for each and every job. Just one click and you're done.
Excellent article.
I wonder what software was used for the computer simulation in the second part. Can one do that in R relatively easily ?
The idea isn't "don't use promises", it's more "use/chain the promises you already got from libraries (e.g. AJAX calls), don't construct new promises yourself". See the StackOverflow question inglor linked to: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23803743/what-is-the-exp...
Sorry for late reply. We're also looking for Business Development and Technical/Fraud Support if you're interest. :-)
Nature is a proper noun? Okay, I'll grant you Nature, Science, Communism, and Christendom. But mankind, too? Really? Change, too? ("Change (abstract noun) is hard." vs "The change (menopause) is hard.")

I chose the "One giant leap for mankind" example not because I didn't know that "one" is a determiner but because "one" and "a[n]" usually can't substitute for each other (with the usual complicated rules). Danish doesn't have this distinction at all, using the same two words for the cardinal number and the indeterminate article.

I guess my point really was that determiners are hard -- and calling them adjectives doesn't help.
The good tech picks are already posted, so I'd like to share a bit of a broader scoped list:

- Adrian Kennard's (revk - CEO of Andrews & Arnolds UK ISP) blog: http://www.revk.uk/

- GOV.uk's digital services blog [UX, Design, Govt]: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/

- Canonical design blog [UX & Design]: http://design.canonical.com/

- CGPGrey, excellent youtuber and podcaster [misc. history/politics/sciences]: http://www.cgpgrey.com/

- Martin Graesslin's blog on KWin/KDE [programming]: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/

- Alexander Brazie's (Blizzard/WoW, League of Legends) blog [game design]: http://xelnath.com/

- Eric McClure's random ramblings [programming, misc personal] - http://blackhole12.blogspot.com/

- EFF Deeplinks [tech politics/activism] - https://www.eff.org/rss/updates.xml

Also on gaming opinions, history and news: Totalbiscuit (soundcloud + youtube) and SuperBunnyhop (interesting pieces on game design incl. https://www.youtube.com/user/bunnyhopshow/videos)
That is a very good start.
Not just startups.
If outside buying of real-estate isn't controlled, then you can get into the situation where locals and citizens cannot afford to buy property because its driven up by outside investors, especially ones who buy using large sums of cash.

It is true that it creates jobs and and local fees but ultimately the local populace should be able to afford houses. This situation becomes worse in areas where there is no new housing being built.
This is factually incorrect for the Chinese readings of kanji/hanja/hanzi.
And your house "probably" won't get broken in to. But you still lock the door.
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Besides the science, IF is great as a 'lifestyle' diet. It's a simple way to balance food and exercise through awareness and knowledge rather than fads or short-term programs. I think that's why it's caught on well with lifehackers.
How/where would content be stored? As transactions on the blockchain? Seems like that could be bloated. Maybe an identifier could be added somehow to a transaction that points to where the content is stored?

Also, how much would you expect each message to cost? Assuming 1 message = 1 transactions, how does that translate to actual coin amounts + mining fees?
The Greek government has recently run a primary surplus. This means they would _not_ be in trouble if all government debt was pardoned.
Ugh, it is annoying. And the author is a bit of jerk (Read it and you'll see what I mean.)
Highly recommend the a16z podcast:

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Episodes are usually small bites (~20-30 mins) of discussion/interviews on one of the upcoming technologies/trends by a couple of Andreessen Horowitz partners and an invited guest. Content is usually pretty insightful and they are really good at doing a thorough analysis of the current status of the tech industry.
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You do realize that finance is one of the worst places for representation of women and is recognized as a cesspit? (http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0316/072_terminated_women....). It's wonderful that your friend has had positive experiences throughout her career.
Is Gogo vs Boingo basically business vs consumer? Or..?

I just realized I never realized they were different, since the name is so similar.
This statistical lesson is actually a textbook error, similar to taking a p=0.05 test on multiple subjects separately.

What makes this interesting is the political context.
I had a look at the contents of the files I grepped with Google in the name and it appears most of them are invoices and contracts for things like Maps, Earth and Adwords.

My guess is they use Google Maps for finding addresses from GPS or vice versa. Or something like that.
Yeah the screens suck, but BYOD with no in-Seat USB charger sucks.
What about all of the thieves that have already locked up a significant amount of bitcoin? Wouldnt they be able to use that to easily overshadow a user? Maybe that would give rise to DaaS (downvoting as a service). Miners wouldnt care since they are getting their block rewards + mining fees -- which presumably the thief would gladly play.
This is beyond ridiculous and in fact insulting to recent Greek governments. Come on, do you really think the media landscape and average knowledge of voters in 1933 in Germany was anywhere comparable to elections in Greece from 1990 onwards? Germany only became democratic after the 1st world war, had totally unstable governments, a head of state who openly did not believe in democracy (Hindenburg), the great depression hit and SA troops were beating people up in the streets.
It is willy-nilly IMHO. Over the phone an Indian (or is the custom also common in other countries too?) spoke to me, a peer and I might add a Yankee, with a "sa" at the beginning of half his sentences. During the call I parsed this as "um" or "yep" would be parsed, and after the call I thought maybe it was a "sir" in a non-rhotic accent.
Yeah, if you ignore the corollary #shadybusinesshack, which is to strip + suffixes from @gmail.com addresses, or any other domain with gmail MX records.

Slightly more advanced trick is exploiting the fact that Gmail ignores . in addresses, so that first.last@gmail.com, firstlast, fi.rst.la.st, firstlast.., are almost infinitely unique encodings of the same mailbox. But again, smart spammers can just remove all dots so that the spammee can't tell who sold the address.
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and its podcast Exponent: http://exponent.fm/
Hope the following helps, I think we all are trying to learn as much as possible about this as it unfolds.

I thought the article about Peronis Democracy was interesting but I need some help seeing the connection to the current crisis.

Judging from your comments it seems like you believe the Greek government is spending more than it's taking in(primary budget deficit). Which is not true at least for 2014 according to the Wall Street Journal. The Greek government needs to borrow more money not to fund additional purchases but to pay off debt that is coming due. For example they have $5 billion(not sure on exact number) worth of debt that matures in 2015 but they will run a primary budget surplus of $2.25 billion so they need to borrow an additional $2.75 billion to pay off the additional debt.

The next few years will be very terrible for Greece, but so have the last few years. The fundamental problem with Greece comes down the idea of a fiscal multiplier, which is how much gdp changes when government spending is cut[1]. Right now the IMF estimates that the fiscal multiplier is 1.7.[0] This means that every dollar the government cuts(increasing the primary budget deficit) reduces the size of the economy by $1.7(which also reduces the governments tax revenue). So the current austerity measures of a surplus of $2.24 billion reduce the size of the Greece economy by at least $3.8 billion[2]. The current Great Depression level unemployment in Greece is the result of cuts in government spending that generated a surplus of just 1%. Imagine what Greece would be like if they achieve their target of 3.5%(was 4.5%).

P.S. excuse any spelling or grammatical errors, its too late for me to be on hacker news.

[0]http://www.eurointelligence.com/news-details/article/imf-adm...

[1]http://www.wsj.com/articles/greece-misses-target-on-budget-s... - behind paywall unfortunately, so there will be a need to google.

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_multiplier#Net_Governme...

[3](at least because of the feed back loop of +surplus-> -gdp -> -taxes -> -surplus so to achieve a surplus of 2.24 billion more than 2.24 billion in cuts would need to be mead)
A blog that has a full screen image, with no text and adds no value to the story asks why there is software bloat?
This assumes you have only US citizen's data. One Canadian in there for example and you're surely breaking the law.
> A: Yes. In many jurisdictions, a business must disclose the actual name and address of the business behind a web site, or be guilty of a criminal offense.

So, why should ICANN enforce this? Especially since this is not true of all jurisdictions -- but even if it were, why is it useful for ICANN to be involved in enforcing individual national or sub-national laws? Shouldn't the standard legal process of law enforcement (and lawmaking, if necessary) in each jurisdiction cover this? What is ICANN's role in enforcing criminal law?

What happens if California repeals that law? Should ICANN still have these requirements?

> See California Business and Professions Code section 17538, which reads: "[...] the vendor shall disclose to the buyer[...]"

This section doesn't seem to have a requirement for the vendor to disclose their information to the general public, nor does it seem to have a requirement for the buyer to disclose their information to the vendor, let alone the general public.

For instance, as you mention, ad-supported websites may or may not be considered commercial. I may be willing to disclose my legal name and street address to my advertisers, but not to my site readers.

> Any site which accepts payments, offers items for sale, or engages in transactions of value should be considered commercial.

Isn't this at odds with your prior claim that individuals have privacy rights that business do not? If I set up a tip jar via Stripe or PayPal for my open-source project, am I now a business?

And, again, what about private individuals who make payments? If I log into a website using OpenID based on my personal domain name, and buy something with a credit card, has my domain name now become a site that "engages in transactions of value"?

It seems like we should have good answers to these questions before adding additional requirements. Again, in the absence of a clear reason why law enforcement needs ICANN's help, the fact that criminal law requires things is not, by itself, a reason for ICANN to urgently require things. Criminal law will take care of itself.
Because our Android devices and web apps are really bad at proper offline sync.
Is this somekinda of new way to sell TV monitors?
>Yes. The main difference being that Greece didn't invade anyone....

Actually Greece Invaded Turkey in WW-I.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_(1919%E2%80%...
East Germany was forced to pay reparations to the Soviet Union. They were not part of the Marshal Plan. Any functioning industrial assets in the Soviet Sector was appropriated and sent east.
Just wait until they come to us next.

I bet we would have voted the same if given the opportunity.
> How/where would content be stored?

Modern web browsers have a real database called IndexedDB. The users store the content. Most users, of course, would not store most content. Users that wanted to could run the app full-time on their local machine, where the database would be leveldb instead of IndexedDB. They would store much more data. Not all data would necessarily be saved forever.

> Also, how much would you expect each message to cost?

Payment channels reduce the cost of transactions to next to zero. An "upvote" does not actually go on the blockchain - only when channels are opened or closed to transactions go on the blockchain, incurring a transaction fee.
I really enjoy Reply All, it's not technical, but is more about Internet culture.

http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/
Those pink mustaches and glowing blue uber signs probab eliminate 90% of the fraud. Couple that with a few sting operations once every 6-12 months and I doubt there would be much fraud.
It's always fascinating to see the Pixar PR machine at work. "Guys, this July 4th weekend remember that there's a great family movie called Pixar's 'Inside Out!' Pixar made it, and it's family friendly, starring an eleven year old girl and these various situations that you can relate to. Scientists think emotions are good, but sometimes when they appear bad they're also good."

It was published July 3rd, too.
Are you saying that initiating (and losing) two world wars is less bad than financial mismanagement and corruption?

Keep in mind that Nazi Germany did a lot of damage in Greece, and still hasn't repaid that debt either. Insisting that Greece pays back all their debts when Germany is so good at avoiding to pay their own, is outright hypocritical.

Sending an economy into destruction like this is a terrible idea, and goes against everything the EU should stand for. It's disgusting to see Germany at the helm of such a ride to hell.
Nice response, Lazare. It's great to learn from people with the competence to understand the facts, and the desire to stay objective.
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Oh but the current generation of Germans has a moral responsibility to help the current generation of Greeks because Germany got debt forgiveness 60 years ago ???
> What about all of the thieves that have already locked up a significant amount of bitcoin?

That is a risk, but it is hard to do and wouldn't work most of the time.

> Maybe that would give rise to DaaS (downvoting as a service)

There is no downvoting in this system, only upvoting. (How would you take bitcoin from someone?)
Good observations. It's also interesting to look back 2K years at the kingpin Eurasian languages for evidence of definite/indefinite articles. From right to left, ancient Chinese (probably) lacked the qualifier but was exposed to its existence via the silk road (which used the lingua franca Aramaic which had them) and also through exposure to the Greek Buddhist colonies in North India (ancient Greek had a definite article). Same holds for Sanskrit in ancient India, which lacks any definite article. Same for old Latin. And Greece was subordinate to Rome, which only tolerated Greek as a language of the intelligentsia. Curious how an appendage in ancient secondary tongues became so mainstream in so many dominant contemporary languages.
Hi Ryan, What do you envisage happening to the downvote? I was thinking that charging downvoting could be one way that money could go into the system to pay off those who are hosting the system and/or give money to new users after gaining some "proof-of-participation".
Also do you think advertising could work in this model at all? It's a great way to inject a bunch of money into the system without users having to deposit their own.
people don't use unsupervised pre training in deep learning anymore afaik
Here are a variety of weekly newsletters I haven't seen mentioned.

Devopsweekly http://www.devopsweekly.com/ is a good summary of major goings on.

Javascriptweekly http://javascriptweekly.com/ is the same.
And to think a couple years ago he was talking about how to sell virtual hats... an interesting person to say the least.
This is exactly the point. The variable in question is whether to try to reduce the gun-owning population to get shooting rates down. It sheds no light on that problem (and makes no sense) if you restrict the shootings to the gun owning pulations.
As I commented on the article, I think this whole monetary system might deter adoption of the application. Either way, check out Freenet if you want to see prior art in creating a decentralized web: https://freenetproject.org/

In that p2p project, all you contributed was storage and bandwidth.
Maybe gp is including blog posts as well? Marco Arment ventures into other political topics to some degree. I don't think I've ever heard John Siracusa or Casey Liss hit on anything significantly political other than women in tech.
> It's disingenuous to compare shootings purely by a per-capita basis. It should be per-capita among gun owners.

First off, I don't live in the US and I don't have a horse in this race.

You may have a point. However, wouldn't the fact that having a large number of gun owners directly correlating to mass-shooting fatalities still come down to the same conclusion: that guns should be regulated further? Or do you think that if the analysis was done it'd show something different to what the analysis in the original article shows?
USA. Whether or not they're living up to it is another thing altogether though.
For reference, this is the same Yanis Varoufakis who, before working for the Greek Ministry of Finance, worked for Valve as a digital economist: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a...
Both are useful, but I'd hesitate to call it better. What makes you say it is better?
Their podcast during the initial phases of building up the company is also worth listening to.

http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/

The on-the-fly pseudo-pitch that Chris Sacca did in the 1st episode is a gem.
Same reason I mentioned sexual orientation - they factor into how people are treated. And yes, different permutations are affected in their own unique ways as well.

For the record, I am also a non-white male.
Yups, RIP.

Too bad; I grew up reading Dr. Dobbs, in late 80's, and have so many fond memories. I had to travel 1h by bus to a nearby city every month to (try to) buy it. Only two newsstands in the entire state used to carry it. This was south of Brazil, so an international subscription was completely out of reach for my teenager penny-pinching standards
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> The victims are the customers of the company, whose data has been lost to the wilds.

Yes, but the article points out two complications:

1. We only know about those cases where the company has publicly disclosed their breach. There may be lots of victims, and just caring about the publicly-known ones seems misplaced.

2. In many cases, the data has not been lost. "Servers compromised, encrypted data stolen, decrypted keys not stolen" is generally more-or-less fine under a threat model. Victims of the LastPass attack last month are much less at risk than, say, victims of the 2013 Adobe attack.

It's important that we build a world in which prospective password-managing companies are incentivized to act like LastPass and not like Adobe, and I'm worried that LastPass is only acting like it is because they're good people (leaving room for a smooth-talking amoral competitor to undercut them). My general impression is that the companies that don't care about security are being very rational about it: getting it right is expensive, you're at risk either way, and the PR blowback is not well-correlated with how good your security design was. So you might as well not care, and as long as nobody cares, you can just write "industry-standard security measures" in your blog post once you're hacked.
I think the monetary system not only wouldn't "deter" adoption of the application, but would strongly incentivize its adoption. People will love being able to be paid for their work, rather than letting other people who they don't know get paid for it.
For blogs, I read various Planet aggregators: Planet Debian, Planet GNOME, Planet Freedesktop, Kernel Planet, and Planet Mozilla.

I also read LWN extensively; subscription highly recommended if you work anywhere in FOSS, especially if you work near the kernel.
The Heller decision wasn't based on textualism, though that argument holds true as well.

If you'd like to see stricter laws or the outlawing of personal ownership, feel free to lobby for an amendment to the Constitution.
I saw this comparison earlier and was struck by the depth of the Greek recession:

http://i.imgur.com/mHgxQeQ.png

They're in worse shape than the US was at the same time into the Great Depression. Six years after the GFC, and Greece's GDP is still 25% lower than it was pre-crisis.

This is really unprecedented stuff. Hard to blame them for taking extreme positions to end the suffering.
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The idea isn't that Germans have incurred a special moral responsibility (which they otherwise would not have) because Germany received debt forgiveness 60 years ago. Rather, the idea is that the debt forgiveness Germany received 60 years ago ended up working out quite well, most of us would agree. Thus, we would do well to learn from this history, instead of dogmatically keeping debt forgiveness off the table.
Awesome, thanks for sharing this! I only just found Reply All, so I'm still working my way through :)