skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it is changed to an addon, it will still be installed by default. It will just be easier to remove. That means most users will take the performance hit because most people don't mess with the defaults.
In my experience, a combination is best. Reading gives you the broad scope, doing gives you detail, repetition and context.
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Given other comments here, i find myself once more reminded of Upton Sinclair.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
It would be great if you could add some screenshots or demos
Do you even know what the word imperialism means? If you're European, it would be quite appalling if you didn't.
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>>> Rosetta/Philae was a European achievement paid by the EU public, yet that barely gets mentioned.

I don't know man, I was reading quite a lot about it and loving every minute of it.
With my interested bystander hat on, I agree with you.

As someone who has a family interest in Greece being a pleasant place to live and work, it would have been nice if he had been even a tad effective along with it.
You already have that exact same patriotism there.

Enter any thread, on any major forum online, and bring up any of the following topics: healthcare, crime rates, gun control, two party systems, standard of living, inequality, conservative religiousness. You'll be rapidly overwhelmed by bragging from Europeans, about how they're superior.

You can't get away from the boastfulness out of Scandinavia, Germany, France, the UK, the Netherlands - about how they're all superior to America on any given topic. I've yet to find a major forum where this doesn't occur.

I disagree that patriotism or nationalistic bragging is in any way uncommon in Europe.
I get impatient reading about people who get impatient learning new things :)
But honestly, if you suffer such impatience, try learning something more tactile like playing the guitar. You'll learn patience as well as learning the guitar.
Have you heard of mindfulness, or Zen meditation? It's the practice of sitting, quietly, without thought, focused on your breathing. The general idea is to quiet the mind and to be focused on the moment we're in.

I've found that when I meditate for even just a few minutes a day, I'm much more focused and less distracted -- more focused on what I'm presently doing, right now.
That's completely meaningless nonsense, money is fungible.
I see a bunch of people crabbing about motorcycles and how they shouldnt stop us from choosing a more slick road surface.

A slicker road surface is not a good idea in many places, see something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp2sqrfGSPI where cars are slipping and sliding down a hill covered in ice.
Rochester NY tried the same thing, with roughly the same results. It's a shame the technology and need for public transit correlated with the automobile explosion, but culture drives society - if people in either Rochester or Cincinatri or anywhere else with a defunct subway project really wanted it completed, it would have been done. Now the fashion is urban density, and cars are increasingly seen as a blight on walkable downtowns. At least Cincinatti's regular tunnel upkeep gives the people the chance to dream.
> The Germans want France to change their culture (pensions, social system, etc), but France is too big a target to go for straight off the bat.

France will leave the Eurozone before that happens. There's already discontent with the EU and Euro in France, nationalists rising, etc...

And they're a strong enough economy that leaving the Euro wouldn't leave them with worthless francs...
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Reading all these heated discussions on HN, I find them to be extremely polarized ("good Germany/bad Germany") and missing the essential component: Greece is not a country that can sustainably live without working hard. Why do so few people mention that almost 75 percent of Greek pensioners retire before the age of 61?

While I do think debt relief is a necessary tool, I also believe that we should hear much more about what the country will do to improve productivity and work harder.
This is awesome. Congratulations to everyone who pulled this off (and fingers crossed that the data gets back successfully).

Everyone has earned the right to chant the name of whatever country they feel like.
>The American voting public took on all of the downsides of this program.

True. But the rest of the world bears the brunt of American liabilities.
I wouldn't go so far as saying it was appalling, but it was in bad taste. No one doubts Americans are ahead of everyone else in terms of science and exploration, so they certainly deserve to celebrate however they want, but science and exploration are beautiful and inspirational because they're borderless and bring humanity closer, even if it's for a short moment. I'd have preferred them not to chant U-S-A and wave flags during the flyby, because that short moment is at its peak when the flyby is happening and everyone around the world share the same curiosity and happiness by watching the stream live, but if that's the way they want to celebrate, that's the way they're gonna celebrate. They deserve it.

On a side note: I completely disagree with people who compare this to the World Cup or the Olympics. The whole idea of those competitions are nations competing with each other and science and exploration is not about the achievement of one particular nation, rather the advancement of humanity.

None of this means that we should take any credit from NASA or the American tax payers. Everyone should be thankful and I am.
When the financial crisis hit, almost every country on this planet increased public spending and introduced stimulus package after stimulus package in order to help the economy back on its feet.

Greece is in a situation where their economy desperately needs any kind of stimulus. Instead, the rest of Europe decides to make an example of them by forcing them to implement austerity measures that target the masses (and not the tax-evading elite) because that is the fastest way to collect more taxes and cut public spending in a short timeframe (VAT increases, pension cuts). This is the total opposite of what Europe was doing when they were hit by the crisis.

Obviously, the European leadership wasn't happy when someone who understood this and was willing to speak up about it came into power in Greece. Luckily, the media was happy as ever to make this a human interest story and focused on Varoufakis' lifestyle instead of actually looking at what they were trying to achieve and how Greece was in an impossible situation. They've been in power for about 6 months now and are somehow responsible for all the tax evasion, public spending mistakes and, really, anything else Greece gets blamed for.
Turing: Application of Probability to Cryptography [pdf]
Actually many unions argue for flexibility of how their members are paid - it is the overall pay that is important.

Once you have settled on a gross pay, how it is paid needs to take into account the tax system. In the case of some benefits it is better for the employer to pay since the effective tax rate is lower.

The whole issue of contractors verse employee is quite complex and even from a employers perspective it is not clear cut that one is better than the other in all cases. I think we can agree that in general it is best if people have the maximum flexibility possible without creating external costs.
At least one of these sites would do well on Martin Lewis's Money Saving Expert site ... Seriously you should contact his team.
Last time i tried it it could not even handle Youtube.
That article is from 2009, I remember reading that he was forced to hire more people to do marketing etc. which made the job full time.
"In the "flyover country" where you DON'T get big city salaries"

Sure you do. I could expect at absolute most a 25% pay raise if I moved to CA. Its not worth it. The ratio in cost of living might be 10:1 but the ratio in income is more like 5:4 or so.
While I agree with some of Varoufakis ideas (e.g. that Greece may be better of leaving the Euro, since internal devaluations are hard), he doesn't portray the other side objectively.

Many of the suggested improvements are objectively sound, e.g. property taxes, tax collection in general, normalized VAT, reducing government corruption and red-tape, removing various monopolies, etc.

Greece is the most corrupt country in the EU[1] and also one of the worst for doing business in general[2]. It also has one of the lowest levels of productivity.

It's been ~5 years since the first bailout, yet Greece haven't made much progress. Many of the suggested improvements require a simple pen stroke by the parliament. No wonder Germans get tired bankrolling all of Greece.

[1] http://www.ekathimerini.com/155963/article/ekathimerini/news...

[2] http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/greece#st...
Are the huge companies in the tire industry going to let this happen or can we expect some lobbying so these tires won't be in accordance with regulations ?
> Stoneage lefties like to discuss, well, preach, all day long while spending other (EU) citizen's money

What did you find particularly "stoneage" in his ideas?

It's not the first time I notice criticism (a rather empty one) of "left ideas" based on "being old". Isn't it a little non-sensical, to criticize ideas for being old?
What's hard about detecting the signal ahead as well as the driver behind? The car might just elect to push through the orange rather than stopping abruptly. It could check and make that decision faster than any of us.

Or, if paused in traffic with a car approaching too quickly from behind, it could eat up some of the space in front of it to escape/minimise collision. It could balance this decision with the risk of starting a chain reaction by taking that course of action.

No one's pretending that these vehicles are ready for prime time now, but that they're ahead of what many would expect as the schedule, and could quickly handle what you've listed as a human advantage.
It's 2015 and it has been clear for at least 5 years that Flash was going to die eventually. If you still haven't migrated away or - worse - are still developing new apps in Flash, it's your own fault.
Anyone interested in this should also look at

* Marx, the CSS framework without classes: https://github.com/mblode/marx

* Classless, the HTML5 framework and themes for CMS-like templates: http://fiatjaf.alhur.es/classless/
Hmmm - how fast is fast?

Do you know how to actually do this math?

Like, to lift a 200 lb person, without a heat exchanger (or a more reasonably sized one)?

How long would it take?
Schäuble, who maintained the funds of his party in the 90s and insists that he forgot about some 100k DM of unaccounted donations in an envelope (and by an arms dealer, no less).

Schäuble, who presides over the public KfW-Bank, which hosts the Greek recovery fund, where 15bn EUR in Greek assets are supposed to end up.

I wonder which transactions will be 'lost' this time.
So someone has an opinion that is entirely valid and a group of people are mobbing in order to attempt to ruin his life -- due to an IDEA?! This is 1966 China Cultural Revolution / 1984 thought control tier stuff right here. It's out of fucking control. We no longer live in a free society. Either you agree with this mass of people or they'll fucking end your career.
I'm not sure why you'd expect that apartment owners wouldn't put chargers in their garages? I'm guessing that a metering or coin operated overnight charger wouldn't cost that much more than a normal charger. There's also the possibility of workplaces providing chargers. Mine does but we're sort of weird.

EDIT: Remember that a parking spot can easily cost over $10,000 so the extra money for a charger isn't that much.

http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/HighCost.pdf
This looks like a lot of fun but I'm surprised to see this in Java. Nothing against Java, the JVM, or the ecosystem surrounding it; I expected to see a REST interface, or something similar.

Having read Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/), I think it would be a neat side project to abstract as much out of the intelligent agent model from Chapter 2 as "makes sense" and see to what extent you can allow interfaces from any programming language.
Hmmmm, Hillary tried to do the same thing a long time ago and failed. But more importantly, even if you are correct, that is totally irrelevant to whether or not Obama had anything to do with it.
> Ask the Polish how bad the Euro has been for them, for example.
Poland isn't in the Euro, its currency is the zloty.
Most of which are political BS. Let's have a better conversation here!
You sound pretty bitter yourself.

I find it strangely Kafkaesque the way each country has their own vested interests in destroying Greece. We know absolutely that they will not pay this money back (and as a price Europe is destroying their country and seizing assets, a coup of kinds).

I think they should go bankrupt - and the banks will be falling over themselves to lend them money again! It's amazing that 90% of the Greek bailout money went to the Banks and that they are no longer exposed to the risks that they made, instead tax payers are.

It really feels as if the banks should be made to pay for making such unstable, non repayable depts? Just a thought.
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What privacy implications are you thinking of? (I have not thought about this before.)

And again, a quick Google search shows this [0]. But perhaps you mean a more backwards-compatible solution?

[0] - http://stackoverflow.com/a/30810322/1507139
I doubt it, people know we aren't in the euro and aren't directly exposed to the Greek problem.
Can't decide if you're more insulting to those who are autistic, to those who believe in democracy, or to those who are in academia...

Yanis Varoufakis' problem is that he was playing a different game. He was trying to be an economist and do the right thing for Greece when the Eurogroup was playing politics and trying to punish Greece. They never were interested in economics or a prosperous Greece, only in maintaining the power structure across Europe.
That is a moving target no less.
A comment on here might do little. Something a little noisier like a microsite or infographic linking each politician to payments from lobbyists might annoy them and get more attention?
There isn't a Doctor Jeffrey Bass working at Brigham and Women's Hospital [0]. There isn't an obvious email address either, so I can't just ask them if he previously worked there or if the picture matches.

[0] http://physiciandirectory.brighamandwomens.org/?Index=10&Las...
Revenue in 2014 was approx $100 million. Maybe growth numbers were not doing well...
It's extremely likely to pass. Since this isn't technically a "treaty", Congress can only pass a bill to disapprove of it [1]. Obama can then veto the disapproval, and there are enough Democrats to override the veto.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/world/middleeast/congress-...
I like to think I'm pretty good at mental arithmetic. Converting feet (0.3) and inches (2.5) are easy enough to do with good accuracy, but lbs requires multiplying the number by 0.45 in your head. Sure I could do that, but it's hardly what I'd call "read the US units no problem", and definitely not something to expect of your general customer base.

The other option would be to try and get a mental "feel" for the size of a foot, 10 foot, what's 5 lbs of water look like, etc. I did something like that back when we switched from Dutch Guilders to the Euro, cause I knew it was going to stick around, so keeping a conversion in my head was just holding me back.

But with US units, nobody's switching, and further, there's no ubiquity in my IRL day-to-day life of things that are supposed to be exactly 1 lbs, 5 lbs, 1 gallon, 10 foot, etc. to calibrate with. The only time I come into contact with inches is in the abstract space of the Internet, where they mean nothing except a quick mental arithmetic puzzle getting in the way of what I actually want to know.
Adobe Flash has been blocked because it is out of date
I am doubting the last sentence. Iran clearly has a nuclear weapons program and clearly that program has a constituency within Iran, although I am sure lots of Iranians don't want it or need it, but that's not the same as saying that nobody wants it
You can use a saw to cut a stick in half, but you can also use it to create joinery. Learning something as complex as joinery -- and doing it well -- is necessarily going to take some time... even though you could probably teach an ape to use a saw.

Different learning resources have different goals. This is a book that is meant to be comprehensive, but also provides two different ways to approach learning the language. The target audience of this book was never intended to be someone who only wants to devote 20 lines of effort to learning a programming language. If that's what you want, read http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/rust/

Edit: But when you realize you can't grok language semantics like borrow checking or sum types for results, you might have to spend more than 20 lines of code to understand the usage and benefits of those concepts. This is when you move from sawing to joinery.
There's a building in lower manhattan that was designed for that purpose as well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
Technically there are two buildings built for telephone switching, but I don't think the other building (375 Pearl St) is nearly as overbuilt.
If you want the American public to increase funding for NASA instead of cutting its budget and spending more on wars, maybe it's good to let them run up the scoreboard and slam the football on the field. It is hard to convince the public times of economic trouble to fund missions like this is felt out of fear or national pride.

In an ideal would people would support it for science alone, but we don't live in that world.
I've frequently been told that it's illegal but most European countries that I've lived in or visit don't act like it's illegal. Some places' worst bars even have signs up that suggest they will not help you if you aren't paying.

Are you sure it's not legal? I increasingly get the feeling that this is an urban myth based on wishful thinking.
I'm more than a little disappointed that we haven't got gleaming alien cities in the viewfinder this time, but I guess there's still a chance that Ceres is going to give humanity the boost it needs.

:)
They have. Back in 2011 they acquired PhoneGap, which makes an HTML5 app platform. And Adobe Flash Professional can make HTML5 apps now.
> Corruption and tax evasion are an economic problem, not a moral one.

Not true. The Greek state has traditionally been seen as an enemy of the citizen and something to take advantage of. This is due to the muchtar system established hundreds of years ago by the Osman empire, establishing clientilism. E.g. Estonia is much better on all these metrics, but income levels are similar or below Greece.

> Greece did not spend other EU citizen's money

They took advantage of having access to "Germany's credit card", with interest rates dropping from 25% to 5% post Drachme. Then they proceeded to consume that money. Even in 2014, the public and private consumption relative to net national income was at 114% [1], a completely unsustainable level. If Europe wasn't financing elevated standards of living for Greece before the crisis, they certainly did in the last few years.

[1] http://www.cesifo-group.de/ifoHome/publications/docbase/deta...

> You know what hinders startups, business, and innovative people? A repressive tax regime.

New York and California have comparatively high tax rates, enormous housing costs and expensive wages. They seem to be doing just fine. Also see Germany, Austria, Switzerland and all of the Scandinavian countries.
Motorcycles and bicycles have a vastly disproportionate impact on improving traffic flow. As traffic density increases, two wheelers fill the gaps left by cars, occupying effectively zero road space when traffic is completely gridlocked. Bikes also occupy very little parking space - five or six motorcycles can fit in the space of a single car.

As pvdebbe points out, motorcycles can be extremely fuel efficient. A 125cc motorcycle or scooter can realistically achieve 90-100mpg. A small motorcycle is much more economical to manufacture than a small car, with about a fifth of the embodied energy. Modern bikes are equipped with catalytic converters and have sophisticated engine management, so produce very low levels of local air pollutants.

Two wheeled vehicles have an essential role to play in solving our current transport problems.

http://www.acem.eu/images/stories/doc/pressreleases/2011/PTW...
Companies valued purely based on revenue streams alone will typically sell for 2x to 5x their yearly revenue.

This is a big part of why it's SMART for most consumer startups to avoid earning revenue at all. Doing so will often cap their potential exit price, in practice.

Still, this at least was at the higher end, for purely revenue-based valuations.
Maybe, but hotlinking images has historically been considered rude at best, and theft at worst. And most people still host their own CSS because it tends to come with whatever app, or theme, they're using.

In any case, the defaults I live with cover all the other web resources too.
It's a harder sell politically to cap compensation to what's in the fund after the fact.
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What alternatives are there anyway?

I wonder what could be done to serve 3rd-party ads, making sure they can't hinder the experience of the users of the webpage.

Is this just laziness from those ad networks, or do we currently have the tools to counter this?
Whenever I talk to people who work for ad networks or similar companies, I'm, without fail, impressed by how little technical knowledge they possess. If you work for a company that sells internet services, you should at least have some basic understanding of how the internet works.
Development of anonymizing Wi-Fi device mysteriously halted
Not sure how major they are but there's Coffee Meets Bagel as well. They got some traction from being on Shark Tank.
Well, since the US didn't capitulate and the regional nuclear arms race was already in progress I guess it goes back into the things to be proud of column; although, really the only ones who are upset with this deal are hardliners in Iran and Israel and the fact that they are upset is a stronger indicator that this is "a good thing"(tm) than any punditry we will hear over the next few weeks.
Yes, because when California almost went bankrupt in 2012 all they had to do was call Pennsylvania, who then promptly wrote a check for 1/2 of California's GDP, and then said a few years later, when California still hadn't fixed its ridiculous retirement fund shortfalls, 'Nah you know what, you have nice beaches we visit every now and then, let's call it even.'

Oh no wait, they didn't - and the amount of federal funding even New Mexico gets is dwarfed (per GDP) by the deficit the Greeks were trying to roll over - again. How many US states fail to collect 25 to 40% (depending on what you count) of taxes? If there were any, how long do you think other states would keep that state afloat?
In honor of Clyde William Tombaugh [1], the astronomer who discovered Pluto, a canister [2] containing his ashes is on-board the New Horizons space probe. It reads:

"Interned herein are remains of American Clyde W. Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto and the Solar System's 'Third Zone.' Adelle and Muron's boy, Patricia's husband, Annette and Alden's father, astronomer, teacher, punster, and friend: Clyde W. Tombaugh (1906 - 1997)."

A fitting tribute.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Tombaugh

[2] http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2015_28/1109391/150706...