skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I thought his argument was very reasonable, and I also appreciated that the interviewer pressed him where appropriate to draw out some quality discussion.
We're a very long way from congestion pricing. We don't even have the simplest of toll schemes yet. It would be trivial to establish a toll on the eastbound Bay Bridge, for example, or to raise the westbound toll, but we haven't done it. It would be a matter of a little bit of paint to extend the existing carpool hours on car-choked freeways, or to establish new carpool lanes. Removing street parking spaces remains highly controversial. This city is a long way from congestion pricing.
Promises I find rather ugly to read. So far Im liking arrow functions and template strings. Async/await I'm looking forward to in ES7.
It won't reach the edge of the solar system for many decades, at the very least (if the edge is defined as interstellar space).

However, it truly won't leave the solar system entirely for at least 30 000 years:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/astrophysics/vo...
> 1.5-2+X markups they have to pay back home

I'm surprised to hear that, esp. since much of it is actually manufactured there.
But they were lending greece. And getting nice profit. When TSHTF, politicians made that private debt public.
On a related note, Mary Boas's text, Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences does a great job of giving you the necessary bag of tricks to learn all of undergraduate level physics (and probably much more) without diving too deep into any single topic. It should be sufficient to give you lots of intuition until you decide to pursue something at much greater depth (although doing that alone, and without a professor/PI/expert of some sort is realistically, almost definitely a waste of effort).
Not necessarily. In the short run, perhaps, but that's not the point. The point is that your analysis reflects a very poor grasp of what's happening.
All of this seems predicated on the assumption that no work or fun happens without continuous internet service. Why not download and queue up your work/entertainment ahead of the flight? I look forward to digging deeply into something for a few hours without the notification hail and temptation to browse the web aimlessly.

Also, it bears repeating that Gogo issues fake SSL certificates to intercept their users' encrypted traffic.

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/gogo-inflight-internet...
Some of my personal favorite resources on this topic:

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-General-Systems-Thinking-...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Systems-Bible-Beginners-Guide/dp/0...

http://www.amazon.com/Ackoffs-Best-Classic-Writings-Manageme...

I really enjoyed these books, but I am not super well-read in this area, so there may be better ones out there. You could try searching for "systems theory" and see what other resources are out there.

Systems theory is a very broad topic, so you'll find it attached to many specific disciplines, but the general idea is that you can take a bunch of simple things, hook them together, and produce a "being" that has totally weird behavior in aggregate.
Wow, HN commenters are brutal! :) I thought the title captured the spirit of the piece; the problem was that people shared it without discussing the contents. As if to say, "Welp, that's it: Safari is the new IE. After all, some dude said it!"
Show HN: How fast can you jamwich?
I have little interest in greek politics other than passive, I just speak the language. I think you might be taking my comment more aggressively than it is.
How about instead of just saying "We take security seriously," disclose some evidence. What specific things do we normally do to keep customer data secure and prepare for attacks? How did that preparation fail this time? What was this particular attack vector? What exactly was compromised, and when? What specific, verifiable steps are we taking to make the victims (customers) whole? What specific, verifiable corrective action are we taking in order to prevent this kind and other kinds of breaches going forward?

Just saying "We take security seriously" is like saying (to quote Chris Rock) "I take CARE of my kids!" What do you want, a cookie? That's what you're supposed to do.
I believe you, but could you flesh that critique out some more? My understanding of Greek's fundamentals start here:

http://pseudoerasmus.com/2015/02/23/greece-orthodoxy-peronis...

(this was linked from the Interfluidity thing everyone was talking about before) and continues through here:

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2015/cr15165.pdf

(which I read when someone claimed Greece had a 2014 primary surplus, which IMF disputes), and is colored by Tyler Cowen:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/07/the...

... who I do not agree with on most things, to the extent that matters, but whose commentary on Syriza and Greek financing I now understand a little better.
No, they're thinking "How much money can we rescue tomorrow."

And that's all they're thinking.

Piketty is right - it's atrategic idiocy of the first order.

As for tax avoidance - some countries, including the UK, have based significant sectors of their economy on tax avoidance.

In the same way that it's immensely hypocritical of Germany to lecture Greece on debt, it's equally hypocritical of the Eurozone to lecture Greece on tax avoidance, when the bankers and corporates know damn well that if they weren't avoiding taxation at least as aggressively, austerity would be completely unnecessary.

But of course they mean tax avoidance by working class people, which is a very bad thing, and not tax avoidance by corporations, banks, and oligarchs, which is a very good thing.

It's this kind of twisted self-serving nonsense that has created the situation in Greece. Sovereign debt is a symptom of much deeper problems, not a final cause.
CTM, since it's not in the referenced article:

http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Techniques-Models-Computer-Pr...
Maybe youre right, but your example is not a good one. Your problem reduces to, does 1m of rope provide enough to cover a cat? You actually have greater than 1m of rope since the cat has width.

Maybe a better example is, what is the best way to accelerate a ball horizontally from a fixed height? IE how can we most efficiently translate potential energy to kinetic energy in the horizontal direction?
You probably haven't heard it from them because complaining about such is so often labeled as "whining" and met with replies of "get a thicker skin." Even if you, specifically, are a genuinely sympathetic ear, they've likely been burned too often to open up yet again.
If you are hiring security professionals, it might be helpful for you to keep in mind for your new hire folks and for your customers that there is a new metric underscoring the thesis of Troy Hunt, who is quite experienced in this industry: MTBCA -- mean time before CEO apology: http://blogs.forrester.com/rick_holland/15-05-20-introducing...

Is it realistic to expect a health company to have prevented a breach if that breach is a consequence of an Exchange 0-day? The topic of the article is that the breaches have gone on for a significant fraction of a year. If that is the case, that there are intruders waltzing in your network, it is hardly appropriate to say that you take security seriously.
Minibars are still a big thing in Asia, especially at resorts where convenience stores are probably far away.
That does not cost Greeks any money, but it does cost ECB to throw good money after bad.
> I think there should be a distinction between a country that kills and tortures millions and one that does not.

Which reminds me...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Civil_War

158,000 killed due to those bloody stupid Communists :(
Ah no I think I misunderstood. tptacek replied with examples though.
No, the greeks don't demand more money. They want to make the debt viable, in order to be able to pay it.
There are other options. You could teach English. I was able to live in Japan for 3 years doing this. Not only was I able to support myself, but traveling to other parts of Asia (and even Australia) were much less that it would have been if I flew from the US.

After I got sick of teaching, I found some remote jobs online and did that till I decided to come back to the US.

I came back with no debt or gaps in my resume. For the remote jobs, future employers didn't even know I was out of the country.

Most people don't want to do this though. Many of the people I met along the way would rather just party every night and do nothing until they run out of money and are forced to go home.
Varoufakis has been featured heaps on NPR's Planet Money show. In one episode [1] he was quoted on Australian Radio Show "Late Nite Live" to say:

> "When you have an implosion of the economic sphere, then suddenly the political sphere follows suit. And then all sorts of riffraff, like me, come out to play."

Varoufakis is truly a fascinating man.

[1]http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...
Glad too see that I am not the only person to quite excited about the The Little Prover. Don't think I have ever felt this way about the release of a CS book.
The Nazi government was more or less democratically elected, at least as much as Greece's government.

Germany had loans forgiven less than one decade after they were systematically killing tens of thousands of people per day in gas chambers, human ovens, or worse and barely twelve years after they had firebombed London and other cities, resulting in 40,000 dead civilians.
I look at it from time to time... haven't seen anything good on there in a while though.
Kudos to her for standing up to it, but she should clearly never have to. This kind of thing just shouldn't be happening...

I don't think I know anybody who does this to women. I really hope that's because I don't actually know anyone who does, and not that people I otherwise respect are secretly doing this. How would a person know, if it's anonymous?

Well, maybe a few ways. The question is, are these all actually anonymous? Jessie's post lists messages on IRC and e-mails. I'd bet some people get harassed on Twitter, Reddit, or other widely-used platforms. Some of these people must be identifiable, surely? At the very least, some might be using the same username/e-mail address across many services, and might end up using one in relation to a job application.

The last thing I'd want is a witch hunt, where innocent people end up on the wrong end of an Internet lynch mob. What I'm about to wonder out-loud might be a bad or ill-conceived idea, but here goes:

Would it be reasonable/helpful/worthwhile to have some centralized place where these kinds of harassments can be forwarded and grouped? E-mails with headers, tweets with screenshots of the full context, IRC messages with Nickserv registration info, etc., so that repeat offenders would have a form of evidence (and I stress evidence) stacked against them? Some form of "witness" system, where other recipients (Twitter users, IRC users, etc.) can sign off that they saw this take place?

Basically, create a sort of tech industry predator list. Not everyone on there would be readily identifiable, but maybe some would be. I certainly would check it before hiring anyone, look up GitHub usernames and such, and it might help give people who don't experience this a better sense of just how terrible and prevalent this all is.

So, good idea, at least in part? Terrible idea with too much potential for further abuse? Somewhere in-between?
Exactly what I thought. The peak now is ~2/3 that right before the 2007 crash.
Ask HN: Have you ever been contacted to sell your user's information?
My friend who runs a student service with a couple thousand users was contacted today over Facebook with an offer for his user's emails:

"It's for an event newsletter. Won't say we got it from you."

This ask really bothered me, both from an ethics and pragmatic standpoint. Which got me thinking about the scandals and pressure larger companies, especially ones that are failing or have failed encounter with their user data. At non trivial quantities or certain domains this data must get extremely valuable. Combine this with the increasing likelihood that developers have access to production services and I was left feeling a little uneasy.

Have you ever been contacted as an employee/founder with an offer for your user's data?

What happens to user's data when companies die? Is it purged, sold off, dormant?
Most corporate communication is hollow, but these PR platitudes are especially absurd when juxtaposed with evidence to the contrary. It's like AT&T telling me "Your call is important to us" every 5 minutes for a half an hour while I wait on hold.

On the other hand, I can think of a number of companies that have a track record of making high quality products, and none of them regularly feel the need to issue press releases touting their commitment to quality.
security@ is common, but it's unlikely that I'm going to blindly send an email to an address without knowing it is monitored, except as a last resort.

Having a web page on your website that is easily identifiable via google is probably one of the best. You can put a PGP key there if you like. You will find that security researchers have a wide range of caring about how secure the communications are, so don't be surprised if lots do not bother to use it, since it's still your data that is at risk and not theirs. Alternatively, there are bug bounty programs for incentivizing researchers (both to find bugs, but also to play nice), and those generally work over HTTPS, so it's encrypted to that extent.

HackerOne recently launched a Directory service for security contacts: https://hackerone.com/blog/wheres-that-security-at I don't think that is the most common way by far, but if you particularly care, you might want to use that.
So your solution is for greece to start WW3?
If you pay up for a given amount of megabytes of transfer, what is the risk that someone else can wireshark up your MAC, clone it and overrun your quota?
Yes, we are interpreting the nations of individuals, rather than nations composed of many individuals.

If I buy a home and am forced to eat ramen to pay for it, that's entirely separate from my estranged uncle's mafia loan shark forcing me to eat ramen.

Modern day slavery - debt bondage - also passes from generation to generation. You don't choose where you are born.

This is a very complex and ambiguous situation.
The lenders presumed that Greek debt would always be acceptable to the ECB as collateral, and thus would always be worth face value. This analysis of ECB collateral policy proved correct. The blame, then, lays in the policies and signals of the ECB, which were transparently dictated by the political urgency of keeping Greece in the Euro.

Had the Eurozone and the ECB adhered strictly to their budget rules, and penalized departures through ECB collateral policy, we'd be in a very different place. Of course, had those players had used proper accounting and figures, Greece would never have been qualified for the euro in the first place.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40766/40766-h/40766-h.htm

TLDR;depends.
I've lived in SF for over 20 years.

Nobody actually wants to drive downtown, but public transit isn't good enough to reliably use it from large parts of the city.

This is typical nanny state SF government.

They ban things instead of coming up with better solutions.

(Yeah I don't think for a minute this will stop at market street.)
Even better: The arrow function example used the statement form of an arrow function, instead of the expression form, which allows you to omit the return:

// using arrow
var adder = {
num: 2,
nums: [1,2,3,4,5],
addIt() {
return this.nums.map(n => this.num + n)
}
};

console.log(adder.addIt()); // [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

I'll concede that the arrow function is a bit overly complicated, with this, sometimes-optional argument list parenthesis, and object literal/function body syntax ambiguity.
A constitution under which it is illegal to fire state workers unless by law!
Thank you for checking. Do you mean the sheet "Public expenditure on old-age and survivors cash benefits, in % GDP"? What numbers are you comparing exactly? The stats I found end at 2011 and the Greeks pensions have been slashed since then so I wonder how reliable they are for their current pension benefits.

Anyway I found stats for Finland (the only Scandinavian country using the Euro) for 2015 here: http://www.etk.fi/en/service/average_pensions/1453/average_p... and for Greece for 2015 here: http://www.macropolis.gr/?i=portal.en.the-agora.2622 If the numbers on those pages are true, then the average pensions per month are 1588 and 884 for Finland and Greece respectively.
In other words, Greece should declare war, and get occupied? (It probably would be better for them than what's going to happen). If only there was a way to resurrect Marshall and Ike, and make them dictators over Greece…
Here's another take on it:

[1]"As the war’s outcome became apparent, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was determined to return Greece to the prewar rule of the monarchy and the old regime. He was motivated by fear of Communist influence within the resistance movement.

Churchill tried to get the Anglo-American army that was getting ready to invade Italy to attack Greece instead. Indeed, he tried so hard to change the war plan that he almost broke up the Allied military alliance; when he failed, he threw all the soldiers he still controlled into Greece and precipitated a civil war that tore the country apart."

[1] http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026942363
> My comment was supposed to be an addendum but I failed by nitpicking and questioning your interpretation. I'm sorry.

Well, I appreciate you pointing out where I was vague. You provided, and brought about, some important clarification.

> Which channel are you using as a first contact ?

It takes quite a bit of effort to make a nice writeup for an identified vulnerability, and hunt down where to send it. Generally, someone willing to take the time to be nice and send in a detailed report, is willing to look for the best channel to send information through.

I start by looking through the "About" and "Contact" pages of the web application or service that I found the vulnerability on. If they have a reference to a bug tracking system, a system administrator, or a security contact, I send it there. If they are all emails, I usually send a message to all of them, to make sure that someone receives it.(If I don't know who is going to get the message, I am initially vague on the vulnerability, and ask for a technical contact to forward the technical information to.) Otherwise, I look at whois information to see if there is a good technical contact. If I still haven't found a good contact, I send a message to all of the emails listed in the RFPolicy. If all of those messages bounce, I send a message to any email address I can find for the domain. And once, I even called in to a sales line after all of this, and explained the situation. They got me in contact with "Bob the website guy", to take care of the issue.

I have never received a bounty for any of these. I just want to do my best to make sure it gets taken care of.

> Would it be enough for me as a saas supplier to monitor security@myservice.com ?

I think this would be a good backup plan. Probably safe to add forwards for all the RFPolicy emails.

> I must admit I'm bit afraid by a cleartext channel for this kind of disclosure. Would you have some recommandations for the receiving part of the vulnerability ?

My recommendation would be to make it easy and clear to find how you would prefer to receive notices. If you include your PGP key on your contact page with a message that all security reports should be encrypted, most I know are willing to do so. If you prefer them to send it via an HTTPS "Contact" page, say so, and most will see that and send it via that channel. Just like your saas, if you make it intuitive and useful, they will be happy to use it.
Another reason why you shouldn't take this year as idicative. However, you said "2015 Greece has begun privatization" whereas the article says the exact opposite. I'm not sure what point you're debating at this point.
Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?
I listen to the Changelog, programming throwdown podcasts when I'm driving and try to read one cs related research paper a month. Would like to know what blogs/podcasts/websites/magazines do you follow?
The reason we rejected thelast bailout was because it didn’t include any
terms of debt relief which is the only way for the economy to recover.

Well, according to many the way to recover is to make sure the state doesn't spend too much. The public sector is way too big and inefficient. Many european voters were against plunging into depts so that the money could be sent to greece. European leaders did it in anyway, in part to save the banks. Everyone in the other euro countries is carrying a huge dept for you right now, thousands of euro's even for newborns.

Even though the european leaders vowed to their voters that all their money was going to be paid back to them, Greece had to pay back less than the european voters gave due to low interest and generous installments. Some earlier debts were written off already.

Also, if Greece would have started to give the creditors slight hints that they were actually making the economy more healthy, than it would be easier for the euro leaders to break their pledges and forgive debts.

The current economy doesn't suffer from the debts, it is suffering because it is structurally broken. Before Tsipras started to take over, the economy was getting better.
He increased government spending.

Even if all Greece's debts were forgiven, it would still have the problem of a third world economy. RIGHT NOW Tsipras is asking for more money, because the economy is structurally not sustainable.
I don't understand. Aren't the terms the Greeks are negotiating over additional financing from the EC, ECB, and IMF?
> Game theory tells us that incentives and constraints can get so messed up that developments take on an eigendynamic which was nobody's intent nor interest.

You don't need game theory of this, you just need history. Game theory is the hammer that thinks every problem is a nail.
Example from something I added today....

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Front:
Setup a flask view that requires basic authentication. Use the httpauth extension.

Back:
How did it go?
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I have a lot of cards like this where I put the onus on myself to code up my own samplers.

My hobby is one where I'm playing around with Magic the Gathering data in JSON format. Over the past week, I designed a database, wrote SQLAlchemy scripts to populate it, and built up some RESTful web service views over it in Flask. It's been a lot of fun.

There'a a natural harmony where my performance on Anki reviews boosts my project work and vice versa. If there's a "key thing" to it all, it's that I have a project flow that works for me and makes me happy with the whole process.
100% Lisbon.
Don't bother doing it responsibly - it's easier, worth more and safer to sell onto to other interested parties.
Wow. I can't believe template strings (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...) aren't in this list. I'm incredibly excited to start having those at my disposal.
And austerity has been shown to be a remarkable failure for any form of economic recovery not just the first, but pretty much every time any country has tried it

Why would you try it on Greece then?
Funny that. From time to time since 2008 or so I have tried to learn LaTex but always I get Lost while attempting yetbstrictly speaking failing to read the fine manual.

I was very excited to find abLaatex resume template, thats the main reason I want to use LaTex. mBut it didnt make muchnsense to me.

Its not like I cant read instructions or am unwilling to, its that the instructions for some things are so burdensome to read that I often choose to do without.