skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government debt is a smokescreen.

the origin of the crisis was private debt, as in loans issued to businesses and individuals.

That debt, while boosting consumption in the short term, end up restricting consumption in the long term.

What then happens, depending on government action, is either a deflationary depression, or a increase in government debt.

The latter by having the government buy domestic products and services that would otherwise be laid fallow as the private sector instead focus on managing their debt.

This is what is happening not only in Greece, but also Ireland, Spain and Italy.

In all of those places euro-zone banks were offering cheap loans. This could be observed by way of building booms and similar.

So in effect what the ECB, IMF and others are doing are bailing out French, German and other private banks, and that is where the majority of the payments to Greece etc end up.

This while Greece etc are burdened by a domestic recession/depression as local industry etc go bankrupt from debt burdens. This in turn lead to masses of unemployed that the government is pledged to take care off via various support systems.
Guesses?

They encountered a problem, or the teams doing the updates are out of sync. Or they're scrambling to get it out due to some caching problem. Who knows really any number of things could be going wrong.
It took me until:

> Hashes are always O(1) reads, inserts and writes.

To realise that this was a joke.
It always amazes me when smokers try to paint themselves as martyrs, because we keep trying to get them to stop exposing other people to their smoke.

I'm sure it's inconvenient that you have to go outside and away from the doors to enjoy your habit, but if that's a problem then maybe you should have picked one that doesn't pollute so much.
> Delete ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.d if they exist

Ehhhh, no!
I have a 16gb 4S (Q_Q) that has the exact same stability problems with Podcasts. It drives me nuts, it crashes frustratingly often while I'm driving to work in the morning.
He's attacking the guy's experience and insinuating that the OP is being sensational to get upvotes.
Because the AC-130 is far more vulnerable to MANPADs and so has had periods even in Iraq where it was restricted to night flying only due to losses.
Just install "lein" and then in any project run "lein deps" to use maven to pull in all dependencies, including the version of Clojure that you have in your project.clj file.

Clojure is really a simple language to use, which is one reason why I like it a lot (and use it for most of my projects). Compared to Scala and Haskell, Clojure is fast to learn. Java interop with Clojure is also really simple. I often use existing Java code by including it in my Clojure project and adding the magic Java build stuff to my project.clj file. Some purists might like to have just Clojure in their projects, but being able to pull in my old Java code (and other open source libraries) as needed is a large time saver. If Java libraries are small, I like to have them in my project. I use IntelliJ for both Clojure and Java development and having all the code in one place is often nicer than pulling in JAR dependencies.
Epiphany works pretty well for me, I've been forced to customize the User-Agent string to that of Chrome to make certain things like Outlook Web App treat it like a Real Browser(TM), on occasion I have to use Firefox still (Plex doesn't work in epiphany) but overall it works fine.

I should note that Epiphany is the only Linux web browser that seems to interact with touch screens correctly, drag-to-scroll works wonderfully on my XPS 13 meanwhile Chrome and Firefox just keep trying to highlight text.
Or because it's a lisp? : )
The parent of the comment I responded to requested something without Cygwin.
FYI: Apple Music requires iTunes 12.2 and its download page currently says: "iTunes 12.2 is coming soon."
Oh, so then that means that fluoride is actually for mind control. Gotcha.
Absolutely agree with this article. Safari is fast becoming the bane of my existence, to the point where we're considering migrating our entire app to Electron just to lock down compatibility issues. Something the article doesn't touch on is that the maximum version of Safari is locked to the OS version, and on desktop, many A/V professionals have serious PTSD when it comes to upgrading OS X. We have many customers using our app who won't upgrade from Mountain Lion, so supporting Safari cripples what we can do - even flexbox isn't an option.
Well to the layman like myself, bonds and investments sound different. With a bond I expect there to be some security or asset backing it that I could potentially recoup if you default.

I don't know like say, Greece loses some it's territory in equal worth to it's debts?
See the Better Business Bureau for another example of this.

However, I don't think it's the fault of "the." Nobody thinks The New York Times or The Washington Post are government entities, for example.
> Linked lists don't suffer from this problem, but at the cost of 1-2 pointers per item.

And decreased memory locality (more cache misses) and increased number of allocations.
A demo of Amiga branded Taos was released on a CD or DVD with a game magazine. I played with it. It worked.
> That didn't happen with IE6.

Yes it did. That's the entire reason IE6 was such a headache: IE6 was by far the worst browser platform out there, but everything in the corporate world was written with IE6 in mind. This made it a nightmare to support these sites -- because they didn't work in Firefox or Chrome. So when IE6 was finally deprecated, it was a mad scramble to try to patch internal tools (or hack an unsupported install of IE6) so your HR person could access payroll.
I'm not a Scala user, but Clojure the language tends to be extremely stable. Existing stdlib functions almost never get updated, unless they add a new (backwards-compatible) arities.

Releases tend to consist mostly of new features, and a small number of bugfixes.
I've been looking for a simple computer/CPU simulator for kids to play on. Something like this http://thlorenz.com/visulator/ is almost there but it's a bit too complex for elementary/middle school level kids to start on. A game would be even better but the one we're discussing here (TIS-100) is basically designed to confuse and challenge rather than illuminate. Suggestions and pointers are extremely welcome.
that reminds me of this CSS file I once saw on microsoft.com: http://farm1.staticflickr.com/49/119928279_59247e2095.jpg
> So my interest compared to the possibility of employment
> would be meaningless.

I haven't really read the article yet, but this isn't true, depending on what they're actually measuring. For example, if people who are interested in the field are systemically denied access to the education to actually get into that field, this kind of measurement would account for that, no?

It's hard to measure the right thing.
Photons can't have "temporary states" because photons don't experience time. That's where the word "temporary" comes from, the Latin "tempus" meaning "time".
The Poe's law is strong in this one. It had me going.
The real issue is just whether Apple has a monopoly or not. IANAL, but as I understand it what's illegal is using a monopoly in one market to muscle into another market via bundling deals. Just doing bundling deals if you're not a monopoly is perfectly OK.
Uber’s API Affiliate Program Pays Devs $5 for Each User They Refer
Different people will draw the line at different places. To you, the hypothetical malware vuln should be fixed before e.g. improving battery life by 5%. To some other user who is on a long plane journey without a power adapter and doesn't e.g. click on .flv links on specialty forums, maybe it shouldn't. But to a greedy fruit executive who wants the web to be insecure? There's no question! b^)

This thread explores the possibility that, for strategic reasons, new web stuff is not implemented on Safari. That proposition is scarcely undermined by hypothesizing a typical user who doesn't care about new web stuff as much as she cares about battery life. She's hypothetical, why should she care about anything as much as she cares about battery life?
> I would love it if anyone repeating the tired talking point, that solutions for rich people's problems will magically transmogrify into solutions for real problems with actual impact on human potential and quality of life, could name even one example of this that's come out of U.S. technology startups in the last ten years.

Android. It was a technology startup purchased by Google.

Stripe, it has enabled small working class merchants throughout the US to make multiples more money. Every farmers market I go to now days has merchants who can now accept credit cards (my spending has increased dramatically!)

Multiple other mobile payment and banking solutions have helped people around the world gain economic freedom.
It might be nice if that were an option, but having that as the default behaviour would be strange and unexpected IMO.
There are apartment buildings that ban smoking throughout the building. It's unfortunate that there are those that don't.

I work in an office complex that prohibits smoking throughout all buildings and nearby, but provides a "smoking area" outside; unfortunately that area is right next to the path between my building and the next, so the smoke and smell inundates the path. I have to wonder how much they'd lose by simply banning it anywhere on the grounds. It's not like smokers are a protected class, or that there are any requirements to provide for them.
Its a bit tricky but thing is that "money printing" can be used to buy domestic goods and services, that in turn help pay down business and personal debt.

This while also devaluing the currency vs foreign ones, benefiting exporters while giving the population a incentive to spend domestically.

But it has to be performed while there is otherwise a slump in the overall economy. I think term is countercyclical spending.

And it has to be used on domestically produced goods and services. Otherwise one is just asking for trouble.
Load the decks and live stream and record the video:
Basic screen:
[ | ]
[-video- | -deck-]
[ event_timeline ]

Allow the presenter to move through the deck on the service so there is a timeline of events of video and deck traversal. Then reviewer can highlight key moments on the timeline with notes that are part of an overall critique.

User presentation is the base. Deck critique comes at a premium.

--Edit-- HN didn't like my formatted 'mock' screen.
Why have new vocabulary for the state monad?

Transducers are mostly function and function composition, but with a specific signature. There are a handful of contracts on a transducer, so it is useful to have a name, so you can say "this function takes a transducer" and "this function returns a transducer".
Aggregating HTTP access logs and storing them on Hadoop
python-requests is a must have!

Requests: HTTP for Humans http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/
This has been a standard feature of an IDE since forever; it's disappointing that the plain-text editor community has just cracked it.
Apart from the initial time they chose to smoke (and bear in mind it quite possibly might of been in a time where the health risks were far more contested) it's interesting that you suggest an addiction to be a choice.
Yeah, you're right, letting users submit and then ask them to sign up or sign in to verify that submission would be way better. That famous "add to basket and then sign up to finish" move works great.

We'll try to implement something of the sort and make a pull request, because for now we're using stock Telescope app [0] which, I believe, doesn't have this feature.

You can sign in using Facebook or Twitter and submit your item. It seems to be a great resource, will appreciate your submission.

Thanks.

[0] http://www.telescopeapp.org/
> affluent

effluent
We worked with a third party API for a data source which had inconsistent formats for dates. Also, we A/B test inputs and its awesome to be able to change how users input dates on the front-end without server-side code changes.
Yeah, really odd choice for an Open Graph image. They specify that burger and soda image directly in their header.

<meta property="og:image" content="//nebula.wsimg.com/7cdaeb9fbb87f3450dc65108e6d6af87?AccessKeyId=6E4E9B5CC8D37F66F76C&disposition=0&alloworigin=1">
Python-dateutil is unintuitive as all get-out in my humble opinion, so I recommend dateparser instead (recent release has many great improvements over dateutil, but check it out for yourself to decide [0]).

[0] https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser
Do you really need to create "true" (i.e. language level?) cyclic structures? Shouldn't you be able to simulate cyclic structures at the cost of requiring more space (and probably time) to compute the simulation?
You're a dude. As a woman, I have MUCH higher requirements of my hairstylists.
I actually just read through the last dozen or so articles about the F-35 on breadkingdefense, they don't sound like fans of the F-35 so much as they just are enthusiastic in general.
Why I Walked Out of Facial Recognition Negotiations
Hi @zallarak, nice to see you on HN! Not sure if you're doing any text analytics yet, but NLTK is designed to be super-quick to get up and running.
How long before browsers default to HTTPS-first, so they don't have to carry around a hefty preload list?
In my theory, nuclear is mostly irrelevant. It's not a model for the third world (who can't afford or operate reactors, even if the rich nations would let them have one), it's not a model for low population densities, and it generally costs in the billions and requires the involvement of both local government and international regulatory agencies.

Sure, UPower and others are working on reactors that are small scale, cheaper, safe, and hard to weaponize. But they're still a limited solution to the problems I'm bringing up.

Fusion is a fantasy. Maybe someday it will be real, but betting the world on it is foolish.

Solar is cheap, fine-grained, clean, sustainable, and not weaponizable. It solves all my core problems. Why should I care about difficult, expensive, dangerous nuclear?
110 wpm is pretty "proper" by the measure that counts. And a two-finger technique works better on tiny keyboards, which seem to be the direction of the future. But...

I messed up catching a football, and jammed my left index finger hard enough to break the joint closest to the end. I found out that, for a touch typist, that finger is responsible for six letters, plus three keys on the number row. But for your approach, it would be much worse.

You don't always have the use of all your body parts. Redundancy is a good thing.
Probably, more because its a lisp, whereas Scala was more of a fundamentally new language that isn't a member of such a well-studied family, but instead was led by inspiration from lots of different places, and has a lot more work in shaking out how to reconcile those influences into a coherent whole.

Though Scala being not merely statically typed by aimed at both interoperating with Java's type system and supporting a more robust and powerful type system than Java does did pose particular challenges.
PS4/XBONE mostly run games at 720p or 900p at 30fps, which isn't great by PC standards. A new $150-$200 dedicated card would be able to hit 1080p/60fps with comparable quality settings. In the sub-$600 space consoles are a bargain, but they have a lot of limitations compared to a slightly more expensive PC.
Apple had little choice other than to Open Source Webkit unless they wanted to violate LGPL licence which forces - source code of any derivative work to be released back to the user.
And its back up.
It could be worse; it wasn't very long ago when the dominant "operating system" was DOS, for example.

I personally would love to have a modern Lisp machine. Alas, having lived through the 90's, I'm glad that we at least have Unix. Perhaps someday everything will be unikernels.
>Now, whether or not their choice of education (and thus chance of employment) was due to a gender bias or gender discrimination is another question.

I later clarified that I don't discard that line of reasoning.

E:

I will further clarify that I don't personally think this is the case though. Roughly 30% more women are attending tertiary education than men (at least in the US and other "western world" nations) and through affirmative action they even have the upper hand in being biased in favor of further education [0].

[0] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ENR.TERT.FM.ZS/countr...
Google’s Disk Failure Experience
Doesn't appear to fix the issue with randomly sending blasts of full volume static to bluetooth audio devices... Thanks Apple.
Ha whoops, on mobile it looked like you were responding to the OP article instead of a top-level commenter. Mea culpa. It's just something of a pet peeve that there are people who call 'ad hominem' at every insult.
It's important to note that this study was performed in China where they don't intentionally fluoridate their water supply. There are many areas with natural (or industrial waste..) levels of fluoride and many of these areas far exceed the level recommended for use in the US.

The current target concentration in the US is 0.7mg/L and is routinely monitored and lowered if the background level is too high where some of the 'hot spots' in China that saw childhood development issues had water containing above 6mg/L and one area had a range from 118mg/kg to 1,361mg/kg (thank you coal mining).

Another confounding factor is that many of the areas with high fluoride levels also had high aluminum, mercury, and arsenic levels as well.

I'd like to see a study comparing IQs or development with actual usage levels and without the heavy metal pollutants from industry.

Full HSPH study:

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ehp.1104...
Surprisingly it was an okay experience in chrome for android. Only a broken top menu and a bit sluggish scrolling.
O(n) in the size of the string not the hash map.

Also, if the key space is known before hand, it is possible to build a perfect minimal hash table with 1.3n total keys (n is the size of the keyspace)
"Purity of Essence"
Russia to replace proprietary software with open source
Good idea - we'll make this change.
Quite a few companies toyed with using it as the basis for their next big thing, but it never quite happened. Pity really as a lot of good people worked at Tao.
ORTC is basically Microsoft's NIH version of WebRTC.

Maybe some of the good ideas will end up in an improved WebRTC standard, but ORTC itself is not "the new version".
So what happens when I borrow money from a bank to buy a house and I default on my loan? "They took a risk and lost"? Hooray. I get to keep my home.
They are not a protected class, but that doesn't mean you have to go out of your way to screw them over. In your example, they could just move the smoking area, couldn't they?
yes, looks like a simple .map
im with you, i dont follow "normal" typing methods, but i can reach much higher wpm then most of my counterparts at work. i personally dont think staying at the home row all the time is useful when writing code, because so many of the characters i use force me to bend my pinky in uncomfortable ways. pips, curly braces, brackets, etc were all left out of the typing classes i took, so i modified my hand placement a bit.

so ill be the decenter here and vote no, as i was taught proper and hacked it to my liking. im a firm believer in what works for some doesn't have to work for all.
http://www.brendangregg.com/
Looking forward to the next part. :)
Part of it is that the standard library API has been stable for years, where new things are added but no breaking changes are introduced.

The second reason is that Clojure libraries are typically shipped as source. This avoids the whole binary compatibility problem you see in Scala. Typically, you only compile the end applications to byte code.
"A reactionary, defiantly anti-social politics has been emerging for the last decade. It was well known under the auspices of “trolling” and well hidden by its pretense of trickstersism. It was actually juvenile fascism and vitriolic racism but, because it grinned and operated in cyberspace, it was a sensation when it first appeared less than a decade ago."

For only the last decade? Only in "trolling culture?" Where has this author been?

It's pretty common for the highly intelligent and sensitive to embrace reactionary ideology after becoming disillusioned in turn with pop culture, counterculture, and academic liberalism. Maybe this is it, they think, finally a movement that's intelligent! Neo-fascists and reactionaries know how to play to this with the whole 'red pill' nonsense. Eventually people move on when they realize that this, too, is dumb.

You'll never find an intelligent movement because there is no such thing.

For something to become a movement, it must be reduced to communicable meme-sized sound bites. Then a low-fidelity game of telephone is played with those, further bleaching out any depth. That process inherently erodes any subtilely or grace that the original may have once possessed. Then demagogues rise up and 'ride' the movement, hoping to gain money, power, sex, or just attention. These people tend to be sociopaths and narcissists, and they proceed to shit copiously upon whatever scraps of intelligence and value might remain.

There are deep, interesting, and thoughtful authors of nearly every political persuasion, from right and reactionary to libertarian to Marxist, liberal, progressive, feminist, you name it, but none of that intelligence can or will ever translate into the popular representation of any of those things. They are all worth reading, but that takes time.

The Internet is new, and we're still assimilating it. One thing we're finally (I think/hope) coming to grips with is that it's actually a great vehicle for the rapid spread of stupid, shallow ideas. Social media is biased toward sound-bites and click bait. Those are the things that spread. Ideas that take too long to consider and assimilate have a low viral coefficient.

As I've grown up with the net, one of the things I've learned is the value of being selective as to what channels I pay attention to. There's a lot of high-quality stuff on the net but you have to be picky to find it. Popular areas of sites like Reddit and noise-boxes like 4chan are the gutter and are to be avoided, as is the perpetual borgsong of the Facebook feed. Smaller and topical sub-reddits and smaller sites like Hacker News are somewhat better, and are at least decent starting points.
It is a great idea to revisit public policies that were put into place at the same time Doctors were advertising Cigarettes as healthy. Water is a precious resource and should be protected as such.

"Generally, in Germany fluoridation of drinking water is forbidden. The relevant German law allows exceptions to the fluoridation ban on application. The argumentation of the Federal Ministry of Health against a general permission of fluoridation of drinking water is the problematic nature of compuls[ory] medication." (Gerda Hankel-Khan, Embassy of Federal Republic of Germany, September 16, 1999).[0]

Germany halted its water fluoridation in the 1970s and France never started.[1]

[0] http://www.slweb.org/50reasons.html
[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/17/water-fluoridat...
The plan sounds hopelessly naive but it did bring Indiegogo down at the time of writing. I guess that is something :-)

It does place things in perspective though. It will not solve all the problems, but we need to realize the resource we have available as Europeans are quite extensive indeed. There is a solution out there, and giving the Greeks some slack will not bring down the skies.
Kong definitely looks like something I should look into more for when we develop more APIs and add functionality to our back end. As of right now what we use for API management was built in house, and is somewhat hacked together.