skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure there is some debate about a possible debt from Germany to Greece for crimes committed in WW2. That's a big discussion by itself. Doesn't change the fact that the original article ignores the Marshal Plan.

Anyways if Greek was not in the Euro it could devalue its currency. Which would benefit their exports, if they had any. However their debt would still be payable in Euro and the new currency would have a terrible exchange course. So no win. There are scientist who say the real estate market might boom in such a case. Since most Greeks are home owners that may provide some cash in the short run: International investors and rich Greeks who transfered their assets out of the country before the crash will buy in.

It's still unclear if a state can actually default. I guess if you're not dependent on import you could risk not paying back your international partners(/enemies). There are examples of countries regaining some power in isolation.

I agree about the risk of lending money, that's probably the reason why so much of this money was used to decouple Greece finance market and ensure existing (private) contracts were honored.
I disagree. In your case, the problem formulation is inconsistent with the answer (actually I don't think one question in this case suffices anyway): from the formulation we expect that the roads don't have detours; so the question formulation is omitting the truth -- indeed if you aren't truthful in your formulation, any puzzle would be unbeatable.

But in this case there is no missing information from the formulation -- it is truthful and complete. He even puts quotes on the labels, which indicates they are not necessarily true (but they are necessarily as written). A 'Gotcha' in this case could be for example Q:"The two labels are "..." and "..."" A:"There is no solution, because we decided to use another label!". The solution of the puzzle shown is the correct way to perform inference assuming what the statement says is true (and in real life if this happens -- that is, the inquirer is sincere -- if you chose either box you may fail).
The wonderful thing about triggers: How particle detectors know to record data
True. One alternative was/is still nuclear de-foresting.
Ruby Book Bundle
I don't like the requirement of using nexus 6 only. I don't mind switching to android from iphone, but nexus 6 is almost 1 year old. and it is huge...
I think they have selected one over the other - let. var exists for compatibility, but there is zero reason to use it in new code.
"I suspect it will be possible to create a large business with a collective identity community but it will require an unprecedented level of host-community interchange."

TL;DR You can't monetize a democracy-driven online community, but could support it with a coop model.
It's certainly the same phenomenon as Wikipedia -- certain users become influential, and some of them use their influence to solidify the way they do things and make the site more like what they want. This often is at odds with what a new user wants because they can't remember being a new user.

SO's many levels of reputation that give you additional abilities, I think, made the whole process happen faster. It got the site ramped up and turned into a reliable resource faster, and it also let people create their fiefdoms of influence where they wall out new users faster.
If there was a way to do massive changes in existing videos it would be feasible to use them as storage - that would be a definitely interesting approach.
Anyway, advanced data encoding would be needed to prevent it from damage after format changes. Well, it's not impossible and even not that hard to achieve.
"Oh hi Mr. VC, could I interest you in funding a website that specializes in hating fat people?"
See I never assume a project is abandoned unless there are open issues regarding bugs (or possible bugs) that the owner never commented on. That combined with commits a long time ago is usually a pretty good tell in my opinion.

Simply just not having in a commit in a year isn't a tell but it is concerning; I haven't come across tech stable enough that even very minor commits don't become necessary within even a few months.
You beat me to it. I was working on this and downloaded all the items using firebase API. Great job. How did you parse the location? I thought that would be the hardest part.
Pentecostal Catholicism would make for some interesting services.
I can't tell if that's a joke or a legitimately held belief. Reading the rest of the charter (and vaguely from memory), it seems like the developer believed God literally told him about this OS.

Also, the KJV-only perspective is misguided given the textual scholarship that renders KJV as somewhat outdated.
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That's exactly what I said: intent, not promise.
Inside an artificial brain [video]
There is no limitation in TLS preventing you from cycling your keys every 24 hours. Most CAs let you do unlimited reissuance. It makes public key pinning hard (impossible?), though.
Yes. They state this in the abstract: "We maximize the capacity of the battery in generating movement with the electric engine, and we have found that we can also use the system as a hybrid for light aircraft: the pilot can activate it when she wants, adding up to 40 horsepower for take-offs or whatever is needed."
Not to deny what you're saying, because I believe a key tenet of biology is that structure follows function, but how would the structural abnormality be caused by the operation?
No, it's a lot more absurd than that. By leaps and bounds.
You are correct, but it's still the name of an entire field of study. When things have names, we have to use the names the things have when talking about them.

The initial page for it on wikiepdia is interesting too (November 14, 2001): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Software_engineer...

Especially: Methods have improved through the 1980s and 1990s, but the complexity in requirements have increased fast enough to consume any improvement.

There is also a constant eagerness to develop new tools and try the newest tools in each new project.

If the programmers are good, the system will work, and the customer will not fully appreciate how complex the task was.
Making performant React applications
> Ideally, bands would think of the sound guy as a member of the band. Kind of like the conductor of an orchestra is a vital member of the orchestra.

I know one example of this: Front 242. Bressanutti (the group's founding member / reclusive "mastermind") would man the mixer for live performances.
I forgot to add a second reason why there are few innovations in photosynthesis. In most ecosystems, photosynthesis is not the limiting factor. Other things like water, space, mineral nutrients and predation are more important, so there is no evolutionary pressure for photosynthesis to improve.

But in agriculture we solve those problems - we provide space, water and nutrients, and we keep pests and competition away. Then photosynthesis becomes the limiting factor.
I would think that cartel violence is targeted enough not to qualify as a rampage shooting. Often they are perpetrated by larger groups of 10-15 armed men, and the victims are targeted because of their affiliation with another rival group. Yes, it's a mass killing, but it's a mass killing with a discrete purpose.

I would also think that a bit of the Republican hypothesis about guns holds up here: people don't perpetrate mass shootings where guns are ubiquitous because the risk of someone shooting back is much higher. Law enforcement in these places is often corrupt if they exist at all, so individuals take policing into their own hands by carrying weapons everywhere. But personally, I don't want to live in a country where I have to carry a gun to feel safe.
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This is kind of a special scenario since what's described in the pipeline is already an I/O action, which makes it easy to insert logging anywhere (e.g., a "tap" component that prints its input and output w/ timestamp).

Such pipelines aren't necessarily made up of I/O actions though; they can also be pure computations, which cannot perform side-effects such as logging. In that case, you can still insert debugging helpers, but you might need to be slightly creative. For example, if your pipeline generates a list of values, you could put debugging entries into that list.

Generally, though, the saving grace in such a case is that each component will be a pure transformation, which means that you can easily call it with a test input and inspect the output.

There are some step-by-step debugging tools for Haskell, but I haven't used them, and Haskell programmers mostly seem uninterested in that way of debugging. It doesn't fit very well with Haskell's evaluation model anyway. When I work with Haskell, I just debug in a different way, focusing on verifying correctness of functions and their combinations.
This is a good example, Bulgaria grew like crazy -- after 35% of their debt was completely forgiven and the remainder was heavily subsidized via very low interest rates.

http://i.imgur.com/7zPvyKo.png

For Greece, an equivalent amount of debt relief (a reduction of 46% on an NPV basis) would equate to something like $150 billion in forgiven loans.

I think they'd be much more competitive, don't you?
> This is Google's first toe-in-the-water for apps to request a ride, but it obviously won't be their last.

What makes you think it won't be their last? Google frequently puts their toes in the water and then decides it's too cold to swim. It's like, their modus operandi.
Square Enix Blames OpenGL for Final Fantasy 14 Mac Refunds
Yeah I think in the case of code or any intellectual property they should only be able to sue if you made actual use of it and it can be shown to have directly impacted the business. And in that case it should be handle as a civil lawsuit over criminal.

I feel the same should be done for counterfeit goods.
No One Asks to Be Buried with His iPad
Check out https://github.com/Telerik-Verified-Plugins/WKWebView
For those unaware of the context, there's recently been a huge growth on fundamentalist "christian" religious churches in Brazil. They have their own parliamentary representatives and push the hate speech agenda pretty hard - mainly against other religions, gay people and "communism".

In a recent episode, a 10-year old was attacked with stones for wearing typical Candomblé clothes (an afro-brazilian religion). They've also been asking the "flock" to not buy products from companies that advertise for a gay public, and communism in all its forms (some of the leaders consider the government giving money to poor people, be it through social programs or straight cash, "communist depravity").

This specific project gained a lot of steam after Facebook's pride celebration - all the rainbow pictures pushed some folks too hard...

Pretty crazy Twilight Zone/Black Mirror material.
It's disingenuous to switch from your original context in which you, a bystander, urge listeners to believe that this is an unsolvable problem, to the context of the victim, which you aren't.

If you, the bystander, decide to take a stand rather than write this off as too hard a problem to solve, you help the victim by giving them support, and you help future victims by decreasing, however slightly, the chance that harassers will continue to believe that their behavior is tolerable.

If you, the bystander, are willing to spend time on one person who doesn't yet understand but who may be willing to think, and then to move from thought to action, your efforts gain leverage and that minuscule probability decrease becomes larger.

If you, the bystander, continue to do this, even without being a victim yourself; if you do this in places your voice can be heard; if you do this even when you gain no personal benefit, you hopefully influence the people around you to at least think deeper, and from there, to act in some way that fits with their conscience. And in doing so, you give the victims hope for a day when this isn't their norm.

It's not a clogged sink. It's also not an intractable problem.

So let's fix it.
it's not just closure of mental-health institution. You may also say the roots of homelessness lie in liberal values.

Here is a bit of context for often mentioned closure of mental hospitals/services: at first there was a decision NOT to force anyone with mental issues to be admitted into such establishments against their will unless they dangerous to themself/others. And only ofter that closures of half-empty at that point mental facilities started.

How do you think, how many of those psychos on the streets of SF/SJ will seek institutionalising on their own?
What bothers me about mjd's explanation of "Why doesn't every logic puzzle fall afoul of this problem" is:

> > Portia explained to the suitor that of the three statements, at most one was true.

> Notice that the problem condition gives the suitor a certification about the truth of the labels, on which he may rely.

(the first sentence is quoted, approvingly, from a puzzle by Gardner, and the second explains why it saves that puzzle). Sure, there is a certificate provided in the problem; but why may we trust Portia's certification, any more than we may trust the labels on the boxes? It seems that one needs either

- an annoying intra-textual infinite regress: "Portia said this, and Balthazar said that Portia was telling the truth, and Stephano said that Balthazar was telling the truth, …" (which still doesn't really address the trust problem, just moves it infinitely far); or

- a meta-textual reassurance: "Given that at most one of the three statements is true, which of the caskets should the suitor choose?"

(EDIT: Oops, mdpopescu (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9837257) made this point much more succinctly several hours ago.)
Actually, you're not wrong. [1]

Chicago ranks higher than any city in Mexico save Acapulco (which is a short-term spike due to an especially violent cartel turf war raging there). That said, most of the worst of the cartel violence in Mexico takes place in rural areas, and wouldn't make this list.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
Some of it is probably a bit of me-too-ism, but keep in mind that both Microsoft and Google are huge companies with a large number of people working semi-autonomously. Sometimes a team of a half dozen or so has been working on something just like it for three years on-and-off and, having been beaten to the punch, they go ahead and launch whatever they have rather than let it go cold.

It's not terribly surprising that some of these ventures are short-lived and half-baked; there's a reason they hadn't launched earlier. But once you've spent three goddamn years of your life on something, you might as well try a Hail Mary before the project is shut down.
If sharing a ride with someone frees up my attention to use my smartphone instead of watching the road, google can make more money advertising to me during that time.
The "is" in "your house is big" is not non-contractable, as can be seen here:

It's big.

What are you saying about "the"? There are lots of words with essentially no (in the case of "it's raining", literally no) semantic content; they belong to various parts of speech just the same.

EDIT:

I want to also bring two more examples of "the" in English to your attention. The first was recently produced by me:

> It's a famous result that the people who believe premarital sex is wrong account for fairly little of the premarital sex.

"The premarital sex" has basically the same semantics as "all premarital sex", and the use of "the" is required for that effect.

Here's the second:

> In considering India it must always be borne in mind that here was the original seat of the Aryan civilization and that, though the Hindoo is as dark as many of the American negroes, he is of Aryan stock like ourselves.

( http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27233/27233-h/27233-h.htm )

Again, "the Hindoo" uses a "the" that cannot be interpreted anaphorically, and the noun phrase is in fact not linked to anything prior. It appears in the context already marked for definiteness.
These right here are the problems with Cordova.

Cordova is not a replacement to build native apps. Its a tool that allows you to build really good apps that works on all platforms.

My app[1] wouldn't have exist without Cordova. And based the feedback, most users are fine with it.

I have yet to find a solid native app that is available on all platforms, not belongs to a big company or a startup with huge funding, and made by 1/2 developers.

[1]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435?m...

http://hn.premii.com/ (HTML5)
Looks good. Still, pg doesn't have a client with a good graphical editor yet (to draw tables and their relationships between them).

On the other hand, MySQL has MySQL Workbench which works quite well, even if it has some bugs
Does anyone know if Foundation addresses the issue of how to handle the migration of existing users from the pre-foundation version of the interface to the post?
There are times to break some code out into a separate function, even though the function will only be called in one place, simply because the name of the function will make it more clear what the code is doing.

Note well: This is not "always". Do not do this with every single line of your program. This is not even "often". But once in a while, it can dramatically improve clarity.
From last week: http://www.paulkuehnel.com/full-google-project-fi-review-a-m...
> Don't IUDs have a lot of negative impacts on a woman/teenage girl's health?

IUDs are classified as "pretty safe" for most users. They are also easily removed if undesired side effects are noted. They almost certainly are safer than pregnancy for most users. Individual users have contraindications that prevent IUD use or make IUD use riskier, that is why they are a prescription medical device and users are advised of the risks and their other options.

IUDs also have some benefits.

>I seem to remember there was a study about bleeding, irregular menstral periods, and an increase in urine tract infections.

There are two types of IUDs, hormonal and copper. ANY hormonal contraception "messes" with periods in ways that aren't predictable. If side effects are not bearable you can simply get the IUD removed, it is easily reversible. Irregular bleeding is not harmful in any way but can be a huge nuance. Copper IUDs can cause increased bleeding but aren't hormonal. If UTIs or other complications are a problem then the IUD can be removed.

>It seems irresponsible to give a device like that out to any teenager that wants one.

It seems irresponsible to not offer teenagers a very effective contraceptive. All medical interventions have a risk of side effects. We would like the user to be aware of such risks and make an informed choice.

UIDs (in general) got a bad rap because of the Dalkon Shield in the 1970s. It had a design flaw that harmed a large number of users. Modern IUDs are much safer.
Advanced Observer Design Pattern via Events
Now for a site to help college grads to see who is hiring.
Yeah, there's an entire cottage industry devoted to demonizing majority sexuality--supported least of all by folks in that same majority.

Buncha prudes. It's kind of like how interesting projects like programmable vibrators and Three.js dildo design tools are quietly shuffled off the front page, but unhealthy uninclusive topics like who got harassed out of a conference are given top billing.
Ask HN: Why do you read reviews?
Specifically reviews of entertainment products. I'm curious what people like to get out of reviews of things like movies, books, podcasts, etc.

Do you look at reviews for things you haven't purchased yet or do you look at them to better understand things that you've already seen? What are some of the best review sites/blogs that you like to visit?
Given the state of its unicode support, yes.
Monkeys' cosy alliance with wolves
>Making the whole society depend on automated tasks that can't be achieved by hand is a suicidal proposition

Isn't that the points of automation, though? Using robots/computers to take over tasks from humans (freeing us up to take on another new, potentially critical task), even to do the tasks faster than humanly possible?
Where and why does she do that?

Competing anecdote: when I was a teen, I had no idea what the health department was, or what it did, and I never met an employee of the health department.
"This one http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11442892 ?"

It was a similar article.

"So he's still correct."

The Germany's case was very, very different than that of Greece. After the both wars the winning forces just dictated the sum and the loosing forces had very little saying in the mater. It was most likely an exaggerated figure to start with, probably out of PR reasons - "we made them pay, dear people!" Later, when the emotions faded for the most part, a more realistic figure could be put in discussion and sold to the wide public as an act of generosity. Now let's talk about Greece and how many parallels can be drawn here. Greece was not being dictated figures of debt, Greece took the money willingly. Well, one could argue that only a small political elite made the decisions, but the money were actually reaching the average persons too, as budgetary salaries and pensions (and I bet they all enjoyed it). Write off some of the debt? There's no real reason to do that (but if that would be what it takes to bring them to saner fiscal practices, I would be OK with it anyway). So, Mr. Piketty may be "correct" in some twisted view in which paid-in-full war compensations are not actually recognized as such¹ and more importantly - he wants to be correct in an even more twisted context that puts on the same footing a subject of dictated-upon debt and the one of self-inflicted debt.

¹ Because the war winners have chosen later to adjust low the asked war compensation, and by doing that they manage to morally deny the "repaid" status. They could however have managed to achieve just the same by adjusting high (i.e. continuously calling for higher and higher sum so that it could never be paid in full).
I hope that the very generic names you have chosen is just for the example, but otherwise that is exactly the type of names that make a codebase incomprehensible. How about something like

function CalculateSalesBonus(err, salesmenEmployedByTheLastOfMonth) {
// do stuff
}

which actually contains much more information than

db.getSalesmenEmployedByTheLastOfMonth(function (err, data) {
//blah blah does stuff
});