skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At some point to run a business you have to participate in the economy. The way you do that is be getting things you can use to trade for other things. Usually we use money as a way to simplify this.

I'm not sure how familiar you are with bitcoin, but you can buy real stuff with it. It is quite well integrated into the normal economy at this point, considering how young it is. But of course it is not as popular as credit cards yet.

> How do you extract value from the bitcoin ecosystem, until there are enough people willing to exchange good for bitcoin, like food, clothing, and shelter?

You can buy food, shelter, and clothing with bitcoin. Spend some time around /r/bitcoin and you will see these opportunities. How many places could you use a credit card when they were only 6 years old?

> I think that's just proving my point. There would only be a few people participating as full nodes because it's complicated, putting the entire network at risk of a bad actor.

A p2p network where anyone can run a node seems strictly better than a central organization to me with respect to "bad actors". When reddit, Inc. makes a decision the users agree with right now, they can't overturn admin decisions. It would be far easier to do so with a decentralized reddit.

> That's great but how do I find the content I don't agree with?

I'm not really sure - most of the time you probably wouldn't know, so there would be times when you unintentionally hosted something you disagreed with. One way to solve that is to simply not host content at all, and only download.

> Who would flag it? Can I trust them?

This is the general problem of reputation, trust, authentication, and naming all in one. I think this project should aim to solve these problems sufficiently well to make things work effectively, and not solve them 100%. For instance, flagging could work by having a buddies list, and trusting their flags, and maybe their buddies' flags. That would be partially effective and better than nothing, but not perfect either. We would iterate and improve the flagging system with time.
I believe that was a translation error?
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Yanis Varoufakis resigns despite referendum no vote
> You never heard of any of them

Quite bold statement
He did our country a great service. Even now after his personal victory he does what is in the country's best interest. The creditors demanded his removal. True he is a poor diplomat and politics need diplomacy but if more politicians were a bit like him the world would be better off. At least he is honest.
As for the situation, as we often say in Greece the truth is somewhere in the middle, we must repay they must let us do so with dignity and hope.
/However, a crazy relative can still kill you without a handgun. In countries that introduce gun laws, they get more murders with knives, blunt objects, etc./

Do you have data to back up this claim? I hear it quite often in these debates, but have never seen anything to back it up, and it seems suspect: It's pretty easy to imagine that even if the number of assaults were the same per capita, that the lethality of the weapon involved in the assaults will have a bearing on the total number of fatalities.

(As for me, I would be happy with a sane approach to prisons, better mental health treatment, AND better gun controls... These need not be mutually exclusive.)
The screen shots of the email showed they didn't use pgp it seems. Whoops.

Time to break out the popcorn.
Thought this presentation was well done and informative.
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If you plan to start a company that centrally hosts content (which you said below the user's would do.. now Im confused), whats the point of even using bitcoin? What role does it play besides some sort of integrated pay to post and tipping system? Both of these things can be done without bitcoin -- and far simpler too.

Sure the load could be distributed to a p2p network, but how are you really going to prevent malicious users/nodes? It seems like it would be a nightmare to develop a fair system. A fair system where a user's post is actually propagated (included in mining) to the network and not silenced by a large installation that doesnt want the content on the network. It would seem that if youre using some sort of bitcoin system (or some derivative), a node would just need to contribute enough hashing power to exclude specific content that they don't like (or have been paid to exclude) a significant amount of time to frustrate users. Your centralized resources would always have to be able to provide more hashing power to keep control of the network. Seems silly to chase after big mining installs. Maybe I dont understand your idea... "Fix reddit with bitcoin! [[insert story about being let go and why what you were working on was actually valuable]]" doesnt really explain anything. Maybe this could be a good idea, but it just sounds like vaporware at this point.

Just create an altcoin that you have more control over. But I guess that no one (you?) would benefit enough, because its not tied to bitcoin's value being inflated.

Disclaimer: I own some bitcoin. So dont think Im just trashing on bitcoin.
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The demands are not moralizing, but consistent. If other countries went through austerity, why should Greece be exempt? Imagine what will happen if everybody suddenly thought, that if they act aggressively and recklessly enough, everybody else would pay?

It's a race to the bottom.
I've found SRS (with Supermemo) is indispensable for learning vocabulary of languages in which immersion is not possible or too impractical e.g. ancient Greek/Latin.

As you say, it requires discipline; but if something is important you'll find the time, if not you'll find an excuse.
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Look, someone that had not read the articles or who is the one writing then and write the first stupidity he thought.
> If there are no downvotes, does community moderation work? Does this even resemble the Reddit we know of?

This system would not be the same as the reddit of today. Whether moderation would still work - see all my other comments in this thread about flagging. Basically, flagging would serve as downvoting and would be partially effective. Would love to find a better way, but flagging may be good enough.
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Nationalism is healthy when it centers on positives about the country. Being proud of good things made or achieved by people from your country is fine, for example, especially as a call to action for achieving further good.

It is unhealthy when it centers on negatives about other countries. Being proud that you're so much better than those lazy freeloaders across the border is not so great, for example.
What the hell ?
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Very impressive how John Rauser tied all the relevant RFCs together to make his point on why to increase the initial congestion window. I specially liked his appeal to humility towards the end of the talk.
You might think that, but it's a fact that he managed to move the debate from "more austerity to repay all" to "the unsustainable debt has to be renounced". Both the IMF and the public agreed with him. The fact that he didn't need "trained monkeys", unlike his counterparts, is exactly why they clearly felt threatened and spent six months name-calling him.

> It is a determination of the process for greek exit from the Euro.

It might well be the determination of the process for Euro dismemberment. It's now clear that a country not useful to the current "enlarged deutschmark" will be just thrown to the wolves, so the clock is ticking for Italy and Spain.
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He doesn't post often, but when he does, the articles are almost always good.
> This is really unprecedented stuff.

Several Eastern European countries took a similar dive after they got rid of their socialist governments in the 90s. Then their economy started to grow a bit later.
(Dumb Question) How is this different from bitcoin?

And is it based on the same principles?
It's not really like that. In the end the choices he made supposedly happened because he saw the future that this was the best way for humanity to survive.
What happens when you use game theory in a rough political situation? We will see it soon. We are entering in an uncharted territory, the risk has increased. This kind of negotiation is going to settle a new battle field in politics and as in any battle there can be huge losses.
I completely agree. Any valid economic arguments he had, he himself made absolutely unsellable due to his behaviour.
It's more interesting than that. If you take the labels at their face value, evaluating the red label either causes itself to be correct (flip-flop), or causes itself to be incorrect (#REF!), based on the state of the world.

treasure in green | treasure in red | green label | red label
------------------+-----------------+---------------+-----------
no | no | false | flip-flop
no | yes | false | flip-flop
yes | no | true | #REF!
yes | yes | misquantified | #REF!
Then the question would be, 'why isn't this person investing in Bitcoin if they believe in it so strongly?'
Because, in history, other countries were forgiven their debts, as well, especially so Germany. If Germany gets their debts forgiven after waging war over Europe, then why not Greece after living beyond their means? That would be consistent, as well. And helpful if it means it keeps the Euro zone together and relatively stable.

And let's not forget how much of the help for Greece wasn't actual help, it was a bailout by proxy for German and French banks. How would the political climate in Europe be if these banks had needed an explicit bailout?
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points
out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of
deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to
the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is
marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;
who errs, who comes short again and again, because there
is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does
actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great
enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in
a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the
triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he
fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his
place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
neither know victory nor defeat.

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Easier vote buying, usually.
Thanks so much for writing this up. Happy to help getting those shirts out. Let me know if there's any way I can help out, with the shirts, or any other way. This just has to stop.
Reminiscent of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"But the plans were on display . . ."

"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar
to find them."

"That's the display department."

"With a torch."

"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."

"So had the stairs."

"But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"

"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in
the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a
disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware
of the Leopard'."
How can a security firm even be taken seriously when they don't even employ two factor authentication at the very least.
Never pay for wifi. This isn't primarily a budget concern, it's just that it's almost always far worse quality than free wifi. And hotel wifi is always worse than hostel wifi
The Greek economy was and is primarily based on an oversized public sector, which was only made possible by a) devaluing the Drachma at every point possible and b), after joining the Euro, falsifying statistics to facilitate being lent more.

As such, it seems more reasonable to compare the current GDP with a reference in, say, 1990. Back then, Greece’s GDP was at 98,251,934,651, whereas for 2014 you have 299,615,364,238 (USD), or roughly a 305%-growth. In comparison, France stood at 1,275,300,566,196 and is now at 2,829,192,039,171, i.e. 221%.

In other words, Greece borrowed too much and now people are upset that they can’t continue their just-achieved standard of living because people don’t give them any more money. But even now, their cumulative GDP growth over 24 years is still larger than that of France, one of the primary lenders in the ongoing debacle (comparison to Germany is difficult, due to reunification complicating everything).

(Source for all numbers: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD )
They should now change their name to Hacked Team.
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TL;DR

There might be something in it but nobody really knows because no one has studied it properly.
He is good talker, but I wonder if Yanis would let me borrow his bike or other possessions he has. No guarantees from me.
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No, they can refuse to negotiate for all other childish reasons the Syriza government brings to the table.
Lets not forget that Germany also lost a third of its territory, so its not as if they got away that easily.
> At least he is honest.

He's been caught lying on multiple occasions, most recently only two days ago about already having new proposals from the eurogroup.

And it's still remains to be seen how truthful the arguments with which he sold the Greek public on a "no" vote are.
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Brilliant.

I believe his exit was planned before the referendum, regardless of the outcome. He had already openly stated that he would step down if the result of the vote was YES, but the media never asked him what would happen in the event of a NO victory.

His exit, especially in the early AM before EU markets open, will give some confidence to the bankers and most likely prevent the markets from sinking. Furthermore, it will signal to the creditors that SYRIZA is serious about reaching a deal.

I've been following the evolution of Mr. Varoufakis's thinking for the last 5 years, through his many appearances on Doug Henwood's Behind the News podcast. Listening to him speak on the Euro-crisis, it's clear that there's no one in the media who has a better grasp of how we got into this mess and how we ought to get out of it.

http://lbo-news.com/2015/01/28/yanis-varoufakis-on-btn-16-ti...
Because people want to save.
Damn that gradient makes me unable to focus on the text.
Bullshit. People need to sit down and be told they're being stupid. Being able to take it is another thing. Call him harsh, but the more I'm reading the more valid his points seem to be.

If everyone else can't handle the truth then they're being fools. Is that true?
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Kuro5hin's alexa rank is about 300,000 also many stories have significant pagerank. One can see from google trends that k5 is a popular site to read, but the five dollar one-time troll suppression fee discourages new members.
> If you plan to start a company that centrally hosts content (which you said below the user's would do.. now Im confused), whats the point of even using bitcoin?

The point of using bitcoin is so that users are rewarded both for sharing content, and for hosting the content.

> What role does it play besides some sort of integrated pay to post and tipping system? Both of these things can be done without bitcoin -- and far simpler too.

Although the idea I sketched out is for a decentralized reddit, a centralized reddit that just integrated payments is also totally valid idea. Imagine if Changetip were integrated directly into reddit so that upvoting tipped people. That would still be really valuable and a lot of people might use such a thing. But it doesn't solve the other problem of what to do when the owners of the service have different ideals than the users. (Note that I actually worked with the guys at Chain.com to produce a proof-of-concept of something like this.)

> Just create an altcoin that you have more control over. But I guess that no one (you?) would benefit enough, because its not tied to bitcoin's value being inflated.

A new altcoin would not be as useful as bitcoin outside of the system. Using bitcoin makes karma as real as possible. Using an altcoin would just be annoying and a lot fewer people would want to use the system.
Perhaps they should get less tanks and use the better their money? Greek has more tanks than Germany and France together. A huge army for a little country.
What's preventing all those systems to integrate p2p payments now ? AFAIK users only need to share their wallet id, so it could be as simple as a line in the profile; when users click on a "tip this" button, the system can get the id and send some amount.
Australia had the massive advantage of its own currency and a low government debt. Australia had room to manoeuvre through the GFC where as Greece went into it with a currency it does not control and very high debt levels resulting from reckless (and fraudulent) lending. While Wayne Swan did OK, I doubt he could have done much if he had been the Greek finance minister in 2008.
Sorry for sidetracking but this is a really big annoyance of mine on hn/reddit. A quote without any context is just an invitation to a pissing contest between who can google the most appropriate random piece of text some famous dead guy said. It's not exactly constructive. All you're saying here is "to hell with the critics" and making it seem like TR agrees with that viewpoint wrt greek economics 100 years after his death.
It's illegal to sell user data without explicit consent in a lot of countries. It should also be illegal in the US tho due to the Fair Information Practices.
>Yep. Probably the best way to do this is to found a company that hosts servers that host a lot of the content. Anybody could do this, of course, and the company's servers are not privileged in any way. However, by being the first and best service provider on a new decentralized platform, they would profit (I call this business plan the "Satoshi model"). Note how in the article I explain that the users actually pay to download content - a possibility that was not available when reddit was founded.

So if there is a "first-and-best" service provider, how exactly does this change from what Reddit is doing today? I can't really wrap my head around how you have defined the problem, nor how this solves it. You still have Reddit at the center - and to most users thats all they will ever see.

This solution doesn't seem very different from writing an application that downloads all content from reddit and posts it to voat. If reddit decides to be a bad actor, it won't really matter because they still own most of the pie.
Thanks for the link, I didn't see that.
Hmm it seems HN lost my reply. Odd. Anyway...

> The gold standard also ensures accessibility (the responsibility for accessibility is transferred from browser maker to developer). I suspect many developers, even Google in some of their examples, will forget to add it or think it doesn't apply to them/their app, I find this a huge concern (the web until now embraced accessibility as a universal value).

So there are a few things to keep in mind about the gold standard. First, it's not entirely accessibility related and I would argue it's mostly a best-practices check-list. When you look through the gold standard I would say a large majority of the items are things you need to take care of regardless if you're creating a web component, a simple composite of HTML tags, an angular directive, ember component, jQuery plug-in or even an opensocial widget. For instances you always need to be mindful of your dependencies, load order and local side affects when giving anything to the general public that you hope to be used.

Yes there are a handful of things that you need to do to make web components behave a little nicer in web browsers as far as accessibility goes but the majority of those items need to be applied regardless of how you break up your code so this argument isn't very interesting or useful, in my opinion.

Second, depending on your use case you may not even care about many of those items. Sure in an ideal world we would all care about every item no matter what but the truth is if you're developing components to simply organize your code in a small web app or just for your organization you may not care at all about side affects or dependencies and I think that's fair; not everything needs to stand up to the rigor of something being related for the general populous to use.

I will agree that Google does not always follow their own guidelines with this type of thing, however.

> Web Components are not ‘just’ composites of plain old HTML, some styling and JavaScript, they require tooling and polyfilling (and some polyfilling will make apps slow for users that don't have the latest tech). This is potentially bad for new people in the industry (have to learn many tools before they can get started), and bad for users (as their device might be toos low).

Actually web components are just composites of plain old HTML, styling and JavaScript. They do not require any specific tooling (in fact the only tooling I've seen or used for web components is Polymer's vulcanize and it's absolutely terrible; I've never seen it work correctly on the first shot) and they only require polyfills if you want to use them in non-evergreen browsers (Firefox and Chrome mostly support what you need today). Regardless of the technicalities I do agree that web components can be slow and it's one of my gripes about them though I really don't know what tools you're talking about being required to start.
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I think it is counter productive to flag good and reasonable comments.

What is wrong or subjective in "delusional government", "failed", "working to maintain his own brand"?

Is it the "trained monkeys" you object to?

Edit: and I think you are just trying to use appeals to decorum to suppress dissent.

Note: "childish", "defamatory", "bad-faith", "stooping", "vacuous", "insults". Hoisted by your own petard? Projection?
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Yanis Varoufakis Abruptly Resigns as Greek Finance Minister
Yes I would say this is right. There needs to be an ability for all sides to save face here so someone had to go. I suspect that he has been extra obnoxious of late so that he could be removed at the appropriate time. Classic ploy.
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Greece Land Registry Challenge
Greece's lack of a working land registry creates massive difficulties for investors and tax collectors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/world/europe/greeces-tangl...

It will be interesting to see whether local customs and practical knowledge can somehow be recognized in the development of visualization apps.

You almost certainly can't trust the existing data.
Just buy a 10-20Ah portable battery and you're set for mobile devices. I can weather a 10-12h flight with one of those and my iPad/iPhone. If you have a recent laptop, you should be able to weather 5-8hr for work; I seriously doubt you could get better on even an international flight.
If one considers their creditors imbeciles (as one might fairly do in this case), it becomes an open question where they plan to get money from in order to continue? Even if they go bankrupt, they have to keep getting money from somewhere.