skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The unemployment rate is well over 20%.

If more austerity measures are imposed the rate of unemployment will go up even more. This translates to increased poverty. Those repayments have to come from somewhere else within the Greek economy. That somewhere else will have a knock-on hardship.

If that is the case then Greece should default and leave the €zone. But that is not a great outcome. As the next weakest economy will come under fire. Also, others will be reluctant to join the €zone.

Restructuring and short- to mid-term solutions kick the can down the road. Ultimately a fair system of fiscal transfers needs to be put in place. Loans are _not_ fiscal transfers. Like it or not the €zone is in this together now.
>or who stole the weapons from someone else,

This rings alarm-bells with me, let's have a look:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers_%28Ame... says (sorted by year)

First one:

>In September 2012, Rodger visited a shooting range to train himself in firing handguns.[12] In November 2012, he purchased his first handgun, a Glock 34 pistol, in Goleta, after doing research on handguns and judging the Glock 34 to be "an efficient and highly accurate weapon", as documented in his manifesto.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Isla_Vista_killings#Prepa...

Second one:

>The Glock 9mm pistol used in the shooting was legally purchased by Vargas in 2010 from a local gun shop, and he had a concealed carry permit for it.[8][18][3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Hialeah_shooting#Prior_to...

Third one:

>On May 22, 2012, Holmes purchased a Glock 22 pistol at a Gander Mountain shop in Aurora. Six days later, on May 28, he bought a Remington 870 Express Tactical shotgun at a Bass Pro Shops in Denver.[64]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Eagan_Holmes#Events_lead...

Fourth one:

> Following an incident later in 2007 involving his stepfather, a restraining order was filed against him, barring him from possessing firearms. The order lasted a year and had expired at the time of the shooting.

(Seems to imply the guns were his? Can't see in article)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Hialeah_shooting#Prior_to...

Fifth one:

>Loughner allegedly purchased the 9mm Glock pistol used in the shooting from a Sportsman's Warehouse in Tucson on November 30, 2010.[28]

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

Sixth one:

>He got out, shot, and wounded a woman on a motorcycle with a Norinco Mak 90 semiautomatic rifle.

(doesn't say who owned it)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_IHOP_shooting

Seventh one:

> Items found on Wong's body included a hunting knife, in the waistband of his pants;[13] a bag of ammunition, which was tied around his neck;[27] and two semi-automatic pistols (a .45-caliber Beretta Px4 Storm and a 9mm Beretta 92FS Vertec Inox, matching the serial numbers on his New York State pistol license)

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

So of these 7 rampage shootings, 5 were done by people who used their own gun, one is implied (possibly not?).

Furthermore, some of these had past known mental health issues: Elliot Rodger, Scott Evans Dekraai had a restraining order filed against him, Jared Lee Loughner was told to get his mental health evaluated if he wanted to return to university (later diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic), Eduardo Sencion was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia a few decades before the shooting, James Eagan Holmes was seeing several psychologists of which one tried to warn his campus police, the others have unknown motives.
Why would you accept this statement without any context, even if it comes from Steve Jobs? What makes this person evil?
Inevitably, whenever The Economist (or the press in general) latches onto a markets story, it's because everything is already in the price. Shorts should be taking profit here, because the journos are usually the last to know. Recall, this is the paper which wanted to sell gold at 300, and wanted to sell oil at 11.
> It's a guaranteed right codified in our country's founding document, end of discussion

That doesn't mean you can't change it. You realize your constitution is pretty recent right?
The "cheese from yeast" example the article is taking about represents cell based experiments. The discoveries will be more like 3d printing with DNA. Structures, food and clothing made by microbes. The existing companies are good at drugs and will not likely be replaced by this.
Long puts on FXI, but I bet the premium is really high now because of the expectation China is going to tank in a very short period of time (-20% of their annual GDP in 3 weeks). The unexpected event would be a major rally.
Last year I had some severe dental issues (two impacted wisdom teeth one each side got infected...fun) and while waiting for the surgery the doc gave me codeine.

60mg of codeine with 50mg diphenhydramine (over the counter sleep aid) was a spacy experience - didn't realise it was a potentiating agent.
I agree most small time companies would not spend an extra price for a library. Even though doing so would make sense based on the financial risk you take by utilizing a free option.

With that said, major vendors who sell very expensive gear that use open source libraries like OpenSSL could afford to pay a license fee per device, and then pass that price on to their enterprise customers. An enterprise customer would gladly pay an extra 500-1000 dollars for a stable SSL/TLS library if it meant they wouldn't have to upgrade their devices every ~8 weeks due to OpenSSL bugs. Its cheaper to pay for a more stable/secure library (if one exists) than to upgrade mission critical devices so often (or worse, get hacked).

One thing you can say is that a bank has a lot to lose--they'll invest in whatever it takes to secure their networks and devices.
It's not gonna be simple if you start comparing Swiss citizens with the US citizens.
Microsoft seems to be perfectly successful to me, no?

R&D, by virtue of being R&D, rarely makes it to the market in a recognizable form. My guess is that the lessons learned there certainly have been applied to their real profit centers.
Peter Thiel Wants You to Get Angry About Death
Someone asks: "Hey, what information should we ask for on the form?"

Response, without much thought given, because the person answering has a lot going on: "The usual stuff... Name, address, phone number, email, resume, work history, etc."

And it never gets changed because:

1. Changing it isn't a priority.
2. It's information that they'll need from hired applicants, anyways.
Gun-Shaped iPhone Case ‘Is a Terrible Idea,’ Police Officials Warn
> he’s built a computer with almost zero latency—when you do something, the computer reacts instantly.

Oh, the irony.

It's Microsoft's own fault in the first place that we have an operating system that is so horribly unresponsive.

And, now, umpteen years later, it's a BIG ADVANCE that we actually make computers do what we want, when we want. Just like before Microsoft.
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My favorite counterargument to moon conspiracists is the following: it was technically possible to fly to the Moon, and way easier to fly than to convince everybody without actually flying; so - why not to fly? Technical details of the Apollo project show, that it's not rocket science :) by today's standards at least, not so much. Meaningful application of known approaches, moderately conservative (say, F-1 parameters, except thrust, were well within known models proven already experimentally), with a lot of work... but not really magic, no more than you'd expect from a project of that size.
Just to follow up, even getting a bank account with no credit history can be a problem. I had excellent credit in the UK, but got turned down by about 4/5 banks before I was allowed to open an account here.
What was the most difficult step in the self-publishing process?
Bet you $5.
Unix had this since day 1, you put your app in a file, and run it as a process. The modern day fashion of making an app out of a thousand separate files is just a silly fashion, and Docker is just a way to make this stupid model barely usable.
I suppose that's a fair point. My perspective on people getting unnecessarily riled up by the use of metaphor is usually that those people need to re-examine the level of maturity with which they're approaching the discussion. But to your point, the fact that it's someone else's "fault" doesn't change the fact that using language like that can provoke emotion that derails the conversation.
> In a democratic republic (and since the Greeks originated this concept, I think we can allow that they understand it)

This point keeps being repeated, but even if we allowed that historical political achievement could direct the actual national mentality, please consider that since the times of ancient democracy Greece has mostly seen governments which are still remembered as the epitomes of dictatorship and politicking -- from Byzantium, through Ottoman Empire, all the way to the post-WWII military regime. Today's common mentality in most of the Balkans, including Greece, is very far from the ideals of the Athenian democracy (which was itself not really very democratic, leaving out the large majority of people such as women, slaves etc).
I like 'em a lot, they're generally fairly high quality and well presented.
> the documentation is half done

The literature and documentation in
operations research optimization is
enormous, going back to the 1950s. The
best of that literature is quite well
written.

For combinatorial optimization, there is

George L. Nemhauser and Laurence A.
Wolsey, 'Integer and Combinatorial
Optimization', ISBN 0-471-35943-2, John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1999.

The details of optimization are not always
trivial, and several fairly challenging
graduate applied math courses, complete
with non-trivial theorems and proofs, can
be needed for much depth in the subject.

I've had four such courses and taught one.

> I guess it's extremely difficult to
implement generic optimization solver,

A "solver"? Would be nice to have a
"solver". Lots of people talk about
giving a problem to a "solver". For
linear programming, maybe usually can do
that.

Otherwise my experience is that asking for
a general purpose solver is, for now,
hopeless.

Instead, for the real problems I've had
success with, have to look carefully at
the problem and exploit special
structure particular to that problem.

Typically part of the work involves doing
some derivations using the math of
optimization.
Largest transaction ever mined, 999.657 KB. Consumes an entire block
VNC is supposedly much slower than RDP.
Science was originally termed 'natural philosophy'...

Science demonstrates that there is no need for a 'designer', and that evolution elegantly replaces the notion of instants of 'creation'.

This set of books offers a new, valuable, perspective on evolution. This is how science advances. There is nothing to fear from living with uncertainty.
Oberon had so many good ideas. It's still worth studying.

The problem in the 90's: provide executable content across the net for browsers.

Java was supposed to provide the portable universal binary code you could load and execute everywhere, except that it did not have the necessary features and was too complicated. Then came Javascript but it was broken mess for long time and needs binary format.

There was Juice back in 1997 http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt69.htm. Ligthing fast single pass compiler that works with AST and gives constant-time type and well-formedness checking portably over the net.

If WebAssembly is ready in 2017, we can finally have the portable binary with the same set of features as Juice 20 years later. Instead of Oberon system, we have browser in the client and node.js in the server throwing WebAssembly around.

It's like déjà vu all over again.
Another one from WWI was the SS Atlantus. Although scrapped after 2 years service it was used successfully to transport troops back from the Euro theatre after the war. I remember seeing its 3-piece remains sitting in the waters off Cape May, NJ during a visit there as a little kid.

With concrete canoes, wonder if they ever experimented with Roman seawater concrete, which generates heat when it reacts with water. Heated hulls supposedly exhibit less friction which may give a slight edge in a race.
The language: is it Oberon or Component Pascal (which was a descendant of Oberon)?
I understand the utility and have used linq to do this type of thing now and again, but I like to do this kind of labor in SQL.

Working with collections is what it's suited for, so why try to do this anywhere else?
Note: I'm not an economics expert by any means, so go easy on me :)

I'd just like to ask why in situations like this, governments tend to intervene? In the long term, wouldn't it actually be better to let the market just naturally figure itself out? That way the end prices reflect the real value.
I would assume it has something to do with how much you learn as well. Children sleep more because they're constantly learning. Then we gradually move on to executing on knowledge rather than learning - think reinforcement learning in CS. It's natural to sleep less as you get older.
This may not apply to the US: In my corner of the world, word on the street is that sellers of tobacco products make nearly no profit at all on it. Reason is that between sky-high taxes raising prices and anti-smoking propaganda lowering demand, sellers are squeezed out of a profit.

However, there still are a lot of smokers who would be less likely to visit your place of business if you stopped to stock tobacco products. So you continue to deal in it even though it makes you little money.

If a large player leaves a market like this, they drop a low-profit use of shelf space, but also lose smokers to competitors. In that position, the most desirable endpoint would be more bans on smoking, because less smokers mean less of an advantage for competitors.
Mao's peasants worked really hard.
I also thought about shorting Canadian banks, especially Vancouver, the joke is that there's not many corporations traded on stock exchange, but I feel like the Chinese economy crashing would send ripples here where Chinese money is keeping BC afloat, especially when the real estate bubble here pops, we will see vast majority of homeowners using debt to make payments default.
> Wolves don't generally choose to fight animals that can fight back

... but Liam Neeson!

(for those that don't get it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1601913 )
Most scientific computing is not "serious". My past couple papers, for example, have been mostly Python analysis of geospatial data. I use Python because it's easy to integrate with Postgres/PostGIS, and the numerical code provided by Numpy is fast enough. (I drop down into Cython when needed.) The algorithms I need to run aren't hugely intensive -- at most, something might take an hour to run, and most of my simulations take just a minute or two.

I don't need raw speed. I need development speed so I can easily iron out bugs and try new methods. My colleagues develop in R for the same reason.
Yes it does. And the book is mighty good as well.
OpenVZ is closer to KVM (full virtualization). OpenVZ container is a lightweight VM which shares host kernel, has persistent FS and traditional OS you have to manage.
Something like this shows up in Arthur C. Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth.

In that book, the interstellar starship Magellan can reach a large fraction of lightspeed, thanks to its "quantum drive," but, at those speeds, interstellar gas and dust becomes a real problem that could damage the ship. The ship, therefore, has an ablative shield on its nose, made of ice. (This shield has to be replaced, which is why the Magellan stops off at the mostly-water world Thalassa en route to its final destination.) The shield is built of giant hexagonal tiles of ice, which contain seaweed as a strengthener; the resulting mixture is dubbed "icecrete" by some of the engineers. Clarke may have been alluding to pykrete here; I assume he'd have known about it.
I think to much on the market has no real value.
sounds like someone read Misbehaving by Richard Thaler, which I'm about halfway through right now.

Great book on behavioral economics, and Thaler's academic career, for anyone who hasn't read it.
> It reminds me a bit of the Silk Road story, as in: who is who, are they indeed victims as they say, or not

I dunno. This sounds more plausible than the Silk Road conspiracy theories.
This depends on three things, doesn't it?

1) The cost of living.

2) The distribution of wealth.

3) Social safety nets.

So, if Greece has a higher relative cost of living, if the distribution of wealth is relatively more unequal and if they have a relatively worse social welfare system then, yes, they'll face hardship.

A key news story for me from a few years back was how an elderly man lit himself on fire (or hung himself? committed suicide in public anyhow) in a central square in Athens as a direct result of the hardship brought about by austerity measures. And this, in an as you say demonstratively wealthy country. Sickening.
It won’t be able to read and write to kernel memory unless it can capture the user’s password and the user has sudo access. Also, as xkcd says, if you don’t have sudo, “If someone steals my laptop while I’m logged in, they can read my mail, take my money, and impersonate me to my friends, but at least they can’t install drivers without my permission.” https://xkcd.com/1200/
Ask HN: Browser History API, a bug or a feature?
Hello HN!
Can you all help me build some context on history API on the browsers. It leaks out the navigation data from the tab. Is it a bane or a boon. Please guide :)

Thanks
Easy Multi-GPU Deep Learning with DIGITS 2
Do you drink any form of caffeine?
Wow, I've just stopped telling people. I think that folks who know my sleep patterns still look down on me for sleeping so much, but I've long since ceased to care about that.
Since my teenage years I have operated at a sleep deficit during the week and "made up" for it on the weekends. I'll get 5-6 hours per night during the week and 10 on the weekends.

I have relatives who are morning people who act like they're personally offended that I sleep 10 hours on Saturdays.
> god help you if you need SQL server beyond what express provides

Too much drama. Here's pricing for m3.large:

Red Hat: $0.193
Windows: $0.259
Win + SqlWeb: $0.367

Besides, you get several(?) free SQL licenses with BizSpark, if you're so inclined.
How does the PipelineDB differ or build on the ideas from Aurora/Borealis/StreamBase? At least at a high level, something like LiveView[1] seems to provide similar functionality to PipelineDB's concept of a Continuous View.

I was under the impression that the academic projects had proposed StreamSQL as a general language, though since StreamBase's acquisition it now seems to have been branded as TIBCO StreamSQL[2]. Have you guys been part of any efforts to make sure that there is an open language standard?

[1] http://streambase.typepad.com/streambase_stream_process/2013...

[2] http://www.streambase.com/developers/docs/latest/streamsql/
You're a rounding error. A few hundred thousand more people became consumers today.

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

8 billion by 2025.
Predicting Airbnb's valuation in 2020
Yep decent strategy I would think. The idea is to find the second order implications which are not yet priced in. The first order "China is slowing down" is already in the price of the pureplay indices, and as you point out above, the implied downside vol is now much higher than the upside as a result.
Editing was hard, I didn't pay for a professional editor and I still wonder if the book could have been better had I paid for a professional to go through it. I did recruit an army of testers and volunteer readers though, which helped.

Fulfillment slowed me down a lot, especially since I released a paperback book rather than keeping it all digital (I really wanted to have something physical to take to events, plus designing an actual book is really fun.) I almost went with a local printer, as I wanted to support a local business... but their cost per book was ~$10, and going with a China-based printer (PrintNinja.com) dropped the book cost to $3.60 — I pretty much had no choice since I wanted to sell on Amazon (anything over $5 would kill my profit.) But being that it was printed in China, it added two months between submitting the print order to getting the books in hand, and I had a lot of people waiting for their books for about a year since the Kickstarter. It was really stressful, but at least now I know and can plan for this delay in the future.

Oh, and a shout-out to marketing, which this blog post obviously is. Of course I wish I could release the book and get revenue without effort, but that won't happen. Self-promotion is really hard, and I'm learning how to market my products better but it's really not that much fun and very stressful. Necessary though.
Same as you except I need my 9 hours of sleep. I'll feel bad if I don't sleep enough, like I want to throw up during the day... But I got better and better by just trying to force myself into sleeping less.
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Reminds me of the 1ms touch delay technology also from Microsoft's applied sciences group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
It's a bit amusing how suddenly everyone seems to be an expert in economics.

In any case, what all those people are missing is this: The Greeks signed the contract. The contract hasn't changed since then. If they are "correct" now they shouldn't been willing to sign the contract.

Sometimes, the truth hurts.