skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm having trouble reading between the lines here. Was he given a push by being excluded from the recent meetings? Is the suggestion that he was actually a hindrance to Greece progressing? Is he saying he supports the move or that he 'has to'?
Maybe Greece should declare war on Germany to get rid of their debt?
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I will surely follow his future career... he seems to be a master poker player.
Tropical MBA podcast
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He gave 2 talks a few years ago that are well worth a watch - he talks briefly about the abuse of mathematics in certain parts of academic economy, cites a Star Trek Voyager episode and other interesting things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3uNIgDmqwI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUWxNifJJ8
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He's content with leaving his position, that Greece now had some leverage to negotiate better terms.

He understands that the last restructuring agreement terms is not acceptable. I would assume that he was probably being very vocal in meetings, thus certain parties would think that his presence might make future negotiations more difficult.
How would this system approach, say, child pornography? If it is truly decentralised, then there is no way to keep such content off the network. But there must be a way for users/nodes to avoid hosting or encountering such content, otherwise the risk of participating in its distribution, even with plausible deniability, makes 'Reddit on the blockchain' a legal/moral/ethical non-starter.
Good question. Another possibility: he knows there is nothing to win.
cool. thank you for the clarification
I believe so. Boingo is also used on the Washington state ferries. Its horrible - looking at $16 for internet for a (up to) 30 minute ferry ride.
"This article disagrees with my priors, therefore it is wrong."
Friedman and Stiglitz yes, but they are not very recent (in terms of when they produced their main work) but for the others

Tyler Cowen [0]:

So I take the Georgist view to imply two claims. First, it is easier or better to tax barebones land than barebones labor. Second, taxing a factor directly is much better than taxing complements of that factor. Since I am not convinced either of these are true, I hold no particular attachment to the idea of a single tax on land

Paul Krugman [1]:

"Believe it or not, urban economics models actually do suggest that Georgist taxation would be the right approach at least to finance city growth. But I would just say: I don’t think you can raise nearly enough money to run a modern welfare state by taxing land [only]."

>I have no idea where you are getting your misconceptions from.

I'm pretty sure you are getting yours from Wikipedia.

[0] http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2005/02/why...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
no matter it's called liandan or lianshu, anyway, for most Chinese, they can't visit facebook.
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The 'right' thing to do is to tell her. This is trust building and makes you vulnerable. By doing this, you also acknowledge that you trust her to do the right thing should she encounter a problem with the iPad down the track or accidentally bumps something of yours.
USA is totally different from the EU. And that's the point.
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When i was a teenager, i frequently felt shocked how politicians managed to justify even obvious crimes, like: Soviets had a theory explaining why Berlin blockade of 1948-49 was good and justified. Now as i am getting old, i am less and less surprised by anything, and yet these Greek guys stand out.

I hope i will live enough to see sovereign debt being given only with a physical collateral: a piece of national territory. Otherwise, no way currency union, or any other supranational union except those backed by force (like USA) can survive. If EU leaders had balls, they will prevent what's happening with Greece now, but nobody wants it to do in their electoral cycle.

Debt must come with strict, enforceable and unavoidable means to collect it, otherwise both sides - lender and recipient - if they are sovereign nations - are making troubles for themselves and others.
He's talking about milk teeth, not adult teeth. There is no implication that teeth are related to memories, just that your milk teeth come out at around the same age that your memories are wiped.
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He refused to negotiate technical details of Austerity in Bargaining sessions, and continually lectured the Troika on the need to provide debt relief. When he says he wears the creditors loathing with pride, he really means it.
Yes it could really be expanded outside of the just the restaurant business. Having once had a garden where I grew my own heritage produce I really, really, really miss the quality of those crops - the taste was just fantastic. I now live in an apartment and would pay a significant premium to get someone to supply them to me again.

One final tweak would be to allow people to also select organic growers as well - I personally would not care, but I suspect it would be a big market for this.
Germany and Austria should not have existed after WW2. They pretty much annexed economically Ostbloc via EU.
I'm sure this is a question you all thought about, but.... If there are no downvotes, does community moderation work? Does this even resemble the Reddit we know of?

A lot of good posts and a lot of good comments are at a single-digit number of points (quite often 1), because clicking the upvote button is effort. I can only imagine how many posts will stay at one bitpoint if it takes actual money / work / computation to upvote. And those will be indistinguishable from genuine spam, trolling, off-topic rants, etc. (Given that the current Reddit uproar is about poor tooling for moderators, I don't think that shifting even more moderation burden onto the mods is fixing anything.)

There might be an exception in the voting patterns on the very large / default subs, but decentralizing the defaults alone is a very different goal. Most of the value of Reddit, especially if you care about anti-censorship, is in the long tail of subreddits.
I think .bind(this) could be added as a (more common?) alternative example to var self = this;

Personally I'm most excited about the module system. It's by far the most confusing thing for our students (and hard to google since you end up going down the rabbit hole of build systems etc.)
As the most competent economist in the room in any negotiating meeting, he clearly made the mostly-incompetent politicians insecure. I mean, Schauble studied law and was an average accountant, Djesslbloem studied agricultural policies, Lagarde is a lawyer. When he suggested advanced financial instruments of policies, most of them could not understand what he was saying, hence the accusations of gambling and so on.

In that sense, yes, he's better gone: he leaves while on top, having been vindicated by both economists (IMF report) and the public. I fear this might mean Greece will still have to swallow a bitter pill though.
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Confucius says you should do what someone with an earlier birth date or higher social status

That's categorically false.

In one example in an old confucian book I read - if you are the ruler of the country, and your parents committed a murder, you should first send an arrest order against your parents - even if they protest otherwise, and then abdicate and help your parents escape the law.

This example directly contradicts your generalised assertion[1].

In confucianism - you must try to fulfil your roles at all times. Yes you must respect your elders, but in no way you should obey their commands without considering your own position - and even if you wish to, do not obey them blindly to the point of betraying the responsibilities of your other roles. Don't murder your brother just because your parents told you to do so.

The "in confucianism you must obey your elders at all times" is a convenient myth perpetrated by various governments and parents throughout history.

[1] According to confucianism, the parent always has higher social status than the child, and, the parent could also be a visiting ruler of a much larger country.
This whole Greek economic (and now social) crisis is one muddy thing. At first, until Syriza came to power, I have understood what's been happening between the key players. The "story behind", while never completely told by the media, was clear. With Syriza, that's no longer the case. For example: The way they have negotiated with the creditors, their whole communication with the media, who financed them. Totally contradictory. And now, the man in the duo Varoufakis resigns... What a show! But, what's behind it?
But looking at your graph Greece jumps back up ~2 years into their current depression before diving parrallel to the USA 80 years prior.

So I'd say looking at that graph they're in exactly the same place the USA was ~4 years after the 'start', depending on where you measure it from.
I've done some thinking on this problem, but my own implementation (PeerNews) is sort of stuck in place because I lost interest.

That said, if "P2P Reddit" sounds interesting to you, I'd love your feedback on this rough spec document.

https://github.com/FeepingCreature/PeerNews/blob/master/spec...

The design takes advantage of the P2P nature of the network to customize content to the person reading. Using friends and de-friends (hates? unloves?), you would form your own trust weighting for people's upvotes, thus forming a network of cliques where everybody can read the same content, but sorted differently according to their interests.
Rentoid [1] was one that started about 10 yeas ago in Australia. Not 100% how well it was working. At least it is still going when I checked a few minutes ago.

Although its idea is slightly different to being an Amazon. It allows your items to be rented out instead of sitting in your shed gathering dust. Kinda like p2p renting.

[1] - http://www.rentoid.com/
1) The number of greek bond holders is numerous, obviously. I named the banks I thought people would know. There's a reason I tacked "et al" at the end. Any guesses why France is the strongest supporter of Germany in the Troika?

2) The haircut was in 2012. Interest rates in the decade-long run-up leading to the crisis was 5-7%. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to calculate how long it takes to make up a 25% loss at those rates (hint: less than the 10-year maturity period of the bond).

> the only real holders of Greek debt left are the troika and domestic Greek institutions.

Which was my point.
Certainly, but I have seen many people tasked with analysing data in a work context who have never picked up a stats textbook.
Is the starting point of that graph accurate, or was it a "liar loan" GDP?
FLOSS weekly: http://feeds.twit.tv/floss.xml

A variety of FLOSS projects, usually entertaining and quite often I learn about projects I've never heard of before.
Randal Schwartz et al. are pretty good at extracting interesting information.
Yes it is a hard problem. It might be worth trying on a small scale with a few close typefaces to see how hard it is to separate them and what sort of accuracy could be achieved.
My theory is that this was his endgame: the eurogroup is now forced to make a move, unless Merkel and her entourage want to go down in history as those that broke up the Euro by moralizing demands of having to pay back debts but could have prevented it. And Greece will use exactly this smugness as leverage for further negotiations.
TIFF/A Standard Initiative
http://www.teslamotors.com/powerwall is somewhat doing that?
No offense as I'm sure you're a great guy, but I'm really glad they cancelled the project if that is what you were hired for. There's so many reasons this could never work (I would loved to be proven wrong though).

1) I'd say about 10% of the reddit user base even knows what bitcoin is, and far less have any. I don't see people willing to acquire bitcoin just to participate.

2) At some point you have to host the content on a computer somewhere. Time on computers costs money. In the case of reddit, this is 1000s of dollars a day (and would be even more in a decentralized system due to the overhead of coordination). Right now the bitcoin economy is not robust enough to extract 1000s of dollars a day, and there isn't any provider that will accept bitcoin in exchange for compute at that level, or even close to it.

3) Fewer and fewer people have the ability to host content anymore, be it at home or in a datacenter. So you'd be relying on just a few people who would be willing to host content. This basically leaves you very open to an "attack" on the network by a bad actor, who could take it over with reltive ease if they were just one of a few that were hosting content.

4) Child porn. It would be way too easy for someone to put that on the network and then everyone would be at risk, further reducing the number of people willing to host (see the list of Tor exit nodes that aren't government spy nodes as an example of how few people would be willing to participate).

5) Related to number 4, the laws in different countries are different. If I host in the USA and you host in say Sweden, content that is legal for you may not be legal for me, again opening me up to liability unless I closely police the content, and unlike reddit Inc, I don't have the lawyers and common carrier protections.

Like I said, I'd love to be proven wrong, but given my experience actually running reddit, I just don't think the bitcoin ecosystem is big enough to support it today or even in the medium future.
Isn't people needing it for supplemental income an argument for a decent minimum wage, rather than one for Uber to be allowed to make more money?
She never said finance was sexist, only that people were rude in general. I'm not making any claims myself, only relating the experience of a colleague.
I love his writing voice! His writing at idlewords.com has appeared here a few times. (See https://hn.algolia.com/?query=idlewords.com&sort=byPopularit... ). I'll miss his sarcastic tweeting though.
Is the suggestion that he was actually a hindrance to Greece progressing?

Yes. The Troika wanted to negotiate, but Varoufakis didn't have the power to negotiate anything because the Greek prime minister reserved the right to veto anything which came out of the negotiations.

First rule of negotitations: If you're serious about negotiating, you send someone who has the power to negotiate.
+1 for #3. I was working very actively on that problem about a year ago. The issue is to scale such thing with current way. Also typical chicken and egg problem
I would like to suggest you to try http://www.typingstudy.com which is a great thing to use to learn to touch type faster.
I don't see why. Could you shed light on this view?
Anyone else getting a fork/replace itch from ICANN lately ?
Perhaps. But Germany back then, before the war and now, has/had a large industry and infrastructure to work with (albeit a large part of it destroyed in the war). Greece doesn't have that. I don't disagree we should consider pumping up the Greek economy, but I do not believe the results will be like the German one.
To me it just seems immature, populist, random, yet he seems to have a huge fanbase?!

As far as I can see it is much harder to reach a deal now that there is a precedence to have the negotiated deal rectified at a referendum.
Sorry, first the outburst, then the argument:

Such a load of bullshit!

The reason:
What are you talking about? Generous? Currently, Germany is profiting from Greece as it extends loans at comparatively high interest rates.

The interviewer suggests with his question that it's about generosity? (come on!)
Piketty responds that Germany is profiting.

Using the math I learned, adding up say 5 years of 5% doesn't even come close to the 50%-80% haircut that's gonna be needed. So how is there profiting?

Even worse: In the end, the creditors of sovereigns are rarely other sovereigns but banks and funds. The former will be probably bailed out by the taxpayer, the latter is usually pensions of taxpayers. Of course, the sovereigns themselves are funded by the taxpayer, too.

So no matter the result, it's not about generosity, there is no profiting (except for the few) and someone's got to pay (debts don't disappear) and he (the taxpayer) is not even mentioned.

I sincerely get angry when I read such "elitist" opinions that completely contort and ignore facts.
Growing rice is also insane.

Yes the major problem with water in California is its current ownership and pricing. Almonds should be near the top of the most productive agricultural uses of water. Almonds also look rather nice - certainly much more interesting than alfalfa.
A common way to measure the length of a recession is to start counting as soon as the GDP drops for two quarters in a row, and stop counting when the GDP recovers past that 'zero point'. A slight slowing in the rate of decline after years of recession isn't quite a recovery so you wouldn't start the clock from there. You can see a similar local max. in the Great Depression line when the government stopped the stimulus programs and passed a law to balance the budget.
A related one on security, ATT's Threattraq: http://techchannel.att.com/showpage.cfm?threattraq

They tend to have some really good guests.
Before PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman did Reply All, they did TL;DR. It was pretty much the same thing but over on WNYC. There's plenty of great episodes worth going back to:
http://www.onthemedia.org/tags/tldr_podcast/
In 2010! That's almost a century from 1918. If Germany had to repay reparations from 1945, it would probably be repaying WWI debt to this day.
This is a bit melodramatic. Debt is a business agreement, if it's not secured then the interest rate will be higher. There are numerous ways for lenders to protect themselves against default, but default is always an option.

There's no moral failing, it's purely an economic decision from here forward. Greece will technically default, they'll renegotiate terms, they might leave the EZ, but in the end, life will go on and banks will gladly lend to them again.
All photos are ~1.2Mb jpegs straight from a Nikon d3100 these days. I don't archive raws or process them other than perhaps rotation. Videos are h264 with a reasonable profile although this will change one day.

The key to keeping it contained is to not keep everything. I'm not afraid to throw away stuff.
He called the creditors "terrorists", I'm pretty sure it didn't help.
The other features? Already being done: https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

Modules? That may be a while, and isn't a big concern since until HTTP2 is in wide effect (which may be really soon anyways) it makes more sense to just package the files in to one file (which you can do right now) using Browersify, JSPM, Webpack, or what have you than having the client request a whole bunch of javascript files at once.
Maybe I'm being a little too snarky for these parts, but it's amazing how many Greek economics experts are hanging out on HN tonight.
Feels like an un-compiler-assisted State monad.

IMO threading an object through is probably the best method, unfortunately. You could use an Immutable Record or something to help keep it under control.

I would personally just use async/await to more explicitly handle the sequencing/binding.
It seems that these days corporations (banks, car manufacturers) can easily gain the magical exemption of "too big to fail" but countries can not. Megacorp SciFi is close.
Irresponsible or unavoidable borrowing?
There was an article in the NYT that sheds some light into the issue: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/business/dealbook/hopef...
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But you did not pay it for me for charity, you still want me to pay it back, just to you, not the bank, no?
Ask HN: Why is the housing app so fast?
This [app][1] is blazingly fast.I doubt it has much use in the American market but could the HN community speculate what could be a possible setup behind this?

I've tried doing a normal systrace analysis but could not come up with any concrete reasons.

PS: I am asking only regarding the API responses and not the images.

[1]:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.locon.housing
Neowin and Ghacks are cool
The problem isn't that Greece cannot repay the debt. The real problem is that the people of Greece were indebted by the politicians whom most of them didn't even vote for. And those who did vote for them, were not fully aware of the implications and consequences they and everyone else in Greece were going to face.

Basically, what happened is that one small group of people sold everyone else into debt bondage. They had no moral right whatsoever to do so. Now these people lost their savings and face a daunting prospect of shortages and hardships. Call it democracy, but really it's just a crime. Perhaps it's time to rethink what role should governments play in our lives, if any.
Sometimes I wish I could save all of my upvotes then use them on a comment like yours. Thank you. This point of view is so sorely needed on HN.
I think you are leaving out that he wasn't exactly a decent diplomat or politician, calling the creditors "terrorists" and publicly offended the German finance minister. In fact, I'd consider this the biggest reason he has come in disfavour with the other ministers.
I find it striking that there was a recovery in 2010, after which the austerity measures were implemented, which were then followed by a downward slide. I have never understood why any sane economist is in favor of austerity measures while it has been shown that every time they plunge the economy into recession making it harder to pay back debts.
Maybe that wasn't his plan, but he can now see the very situation you depicted. I believe he was too proactive for a government that bases a lot on pretense (read - paperwork). Old world vs. New World.
Do you have an example of some cards you're using? Was there an existing set or did you develop them yourself?
As another HN thread notes: Piketty mentions that Germany got a lot of their own debt written off after WW2. Germany itself has shirked paying reparations to Greece for all the looting they did (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOKuNAdMIEI for example). Also "pieces of national territory as collateral" has not worked out very well during say WW1 reparations -- it just encourages far right politics.

Again, I am not saying Greece should not be more fiscally prudent. The Greek government needs to be more fiscally transparent, collect more tax and generally run itself better. However clearly the austerity medication has not worked and (as the IMF itself recognizes). At some point the EU has to decide if punishing Greece's youth (who will not get decent pensions or social benefits anyway) is an appropriate response to overspending by their parents and grandparents.
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Just so you know, the OAPI is run by Randi Harper, who herself has harassed many people. Most notably Vivek Wadhwa and Claire Schumann, but there are more names on that list.

I wish you luck in tracking down the guilty parties. Threats are not okay, no matter who makes them.
London managed to go from nothing to congestion charging, although I wouldn't say its made a huge difference. The roads in central London are still hideously dangerous, especially for cyclists.
I think this move serves to weaken the political cover for the Eurogroup refusing to continue negotiations with Greece (they can't say "we refuse to negotiate because of Yanis"). I'm starting to think that this was his plan all along, and that he and Tsipras are outplaying the Eurogroup right now.