skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was dealing with power hungry career politicians and did everything to piss them off and is now wondering why they act so mad and irrational.

I personally think, that Schäuble is horrible. Aside from the political anecdotes [0] I find the press conference in which he humiliated his spokesman particularly informing about his character [1].

In my mind Varoufakis is partly responsible for how things went, though. He always underestimated how fragile the EU community is and how little interest other leaders had to enrage the people at home by seemingly giving money away to Greek clowns on motorcycles.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_2.0

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8TzusgYN30
It's pretty awesome actually. Montana's in a lucky spot; our power company in the 90's got deregulated and decided they wanted to be the next WorldCom. They threw down a Billion dollars of assets down, went bankrupt, and now Montana has an excess of backhaul fiber. As such we are able to buy bandwidth at reasonable rates. When combined with peering at the SIX in Seattle, we can provide a very nice service for rather cheap compared to other rural locations. That, and we are designing our network more like a datacenter which has greatly reduced costs.
If either Mario or Pokemon were released on iOS or Android, they would blow every single mobile game out of the water EASY.
While off the topic, I always thought a stethoscope was like a crude microscope for sound :)
Install useful .bashrc shortcuts: u check updates, l detailed file list, .. parent dir, i [appname] install package, x [file] uncompress file, own [dir] get access to folder, p [procname] find process by name, f [string] find string in this folder's files, gg git commit and push

sed -i "$ a\#custom shortcuts \nx(){ case \$1 in .tar.bz2) tar xjf \$1;; .tar.gz) tar xzf \$1;; .bz2) bunzip2 \$1;; .rar) rar x \$1;; .gz) gunzip \$1;; .tar) tar xf \$1;; .tbz2) tar xjf \$1;; .tgz) tar xzf \$1;; .zip) unzip \$1;; .Z) uncompress \$1;; esac; } \nf(){ grep -R -I \"\$1\" ./*; } \np(){ ps aux | grep \$1 | grep -v grep; } \nown(){ sudo chmod 777 -R \${1:-.} && sudo chown -R \${USER} \${1:-.}; } \nalias u='sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y && sudo apt-get autoremove -y' \nalias l='ls -la' \nalias ..='cd ..' \nalias i='sudo apt-get install -y ' \nalias gg='git add . && git commit -a -m "." && git push -u -f origin master'" ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

More here https://github.com/gulakov/nodejs-starter/blob/master/README...
> The gameplay on mobile games mirrors many of those older games

If only. There are exceptions but the vast majority of mobile games that "make it" have very simple and mindless gameplay. Games like Super Mario/Metroid/Zelda do exist on mobile but very rarely do well, and as a result not many people make them. It's nothing at all like the 80s/90s.
People who use privilege as an argument aren't asking you to be ashamed of being white, they're asking you to be ashamed of being conservative.

Well that's a big problem too.

It's essentially erasing the experience and stories of an entire swath of the political spectrum, and shaming people for their political orientation.
I have some familiarity with this from Australia's FTTH (now FTTx) rollout:

Since you mention that you live in a semi-rural area, one hugely important factor is the density of premises along a street. The less dense an area, the fewer potential customers you can "pass" by installing a new fibre cable down a street. Not all premises that you pass with a cable will want to sign up and pay for a fibre plan.

Construction can be made dramatically cheaper if it is possible to re-use existing infrastructure. This is important, as if you are laying underground fibre then the cost of digging new trenches (~AUD$100/m) is a huge component of the total construction cost. For example, when installing underground fibre, if there is existing underground duct with capacity that can be used then it is far cheaper to re-use that (~AUD$20/m) than digging new trenches. Similarly, if there are existing poles that can be rented then installing aerial cables (~AUD$30/m) is cheaper than digging trenches, but more expensive than using existing underground duct [1].

Another way to re-use existing infrastructure to reduce construction cost is to make use of existing cable, such as copper lines or HFC, instead of laying fibre over the full path from the exchange to the premises. The quality/speed of the connection will not be as good as a pure fibre connection, particularly if the existing infrastructure is old/degraded. These approaches are now being favoured in Australia's national broadband project [2].

[1] note that in the U.S. labour costs are lower than in Australia, so don't take these cost-per metre estimates too seriously. These costs exclude the cost of the fibre itself, which is typically a few dollars per metre.

[2] personally I think it is short-sighted to embark on a major infrastructure project and then try to save money by avoiding building the new infrastructure, and instead re-use the existing degraded infrastructure. These decisions were hugely influenced by political factors after a change of federal government, i.e., the old plan was necessarily bad and needed changing because the previous government started it.
Setting aside the rhetoric of Schäuble and his supporters, is there any defensible argument for the capacity of this (or future) Greek administrations to enforce fiscal discipline on its peoples.

There is nothing to suggest even affluent Greeks want to pay their share of the tax burden.

From a Der Spiegel article, five years ago:

His staff have become very creative when it comes to
tracking down tax offenders: They use police helicopters
to fly over Athens' affluent suburbs and make films of
homes owned by doctors, lawyers and businesspeople. They
use satellite pictures by Google Earth to locate country
villas, swimming pools and properties. And these tactics
have revealed that the suburbs didn't have 324 swimming
pools, as was reported, but rather 16,974.

Tax fraud investigators spent a number of weeks on
nightclub parking lots in Athens and noted down the
registration numbers of luxury sedans. Their
investigation revealed that approximately 6,000 car
owners have vehicles worth €100,000, but only reported
to the tax authorities that they have an annual income
of €10,000.

[1] Finding Swimming Pools with Google Earth: Greek Government Hauls in Billions in Back Taxes

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/finding-swimming-...
It's not just about the lack of oversight. If that's all it was, I wouldn't bring the concern up; it'd be banal.

The problem is that startup investing is nothing at all like investing in public company stocks.

Venture capitalists don't back a single company. The majority of startups fail. Pushing all your chips in on a single startup is like going all in on a queen high hand. Instead, VCs invest in whole portfolios of companies.

But that's not the only difference. Because most companies fail, there's a theme to VC investment theses. And it's not obvious, because it drives founders (who are atypically savvy about startups) batshit. It's this: the winners have to pay for the losers. A decent shot at a 2x return sounds like a no-brainer, but it isn't. The returns on the wins have to be so good that they make up for all the failures.

Then there's dealflow. Good VCs get preferred access to the good startups. Most startups that raise money --- and all the startups that fit the "win will pay for other losers" mold --- plan on taking more money. If your first round is low 7 figures, your second round is going to be 8 figures, and probably not crowd-based! If you know you're going back to PE/VC for money, you care about who take money from this time. So if you can take money from Sequoia, you do. Sequoia gets the best deals, and crowd-funders get adversely selected into crappier deals.

Most VC funds lose money. Those are funds whose investments come with control --- something no crowdfunding investor gets. They can fire the CEO. They get bespoke due diligence, not to mention the VC's network of other firms to syndicate with on future investments. And when they close a deal, they tend to get preferences built in. Despite all those advantages, they still lose money. Crowd-investors get none of those things. Why would they do better?

This is before we get into how comically subordinate common shareholders of private companies are. Startups routinely do things that would generate shareholder lawsuits in public companies. They get to do those things because they are taking money from people who know the game. Consenting adults. The crowdfunding public can't do that.

And finally, why do we grant the premise that normal people are capable of selecting startups to invest in? They're not even able to do that with public companies. In 2015, companies listed on the major stock markets have proven an ability to drive revenue. We know where their money comes from. Venture capitalists have to prognosticate about that. How are normal people supposed to compete with them?

It's just a bad idea.
I wish people would stop saying that Lisp is not suited for the real world when there are billion dollar businesses built using Lisps (other than Clojure).

It is 2015, please let us stop the FUD at least now :)

PS: I love Java and use it for my day job. Just a few days back I was reading about AutoValue and Immutabiltiy and wishing that Java had more power that would make these hacks unnecessary. I am not saying Lisp is the greatest, but Java definitely feels like assembly when you reach the edges and one has to wait for years to get updates.
>They're basically an infosec Bhopal

I lul'd.
In addition to being CEO, one of his many other accomplishments was that he was the main programmer for Earthbound, a game close to my heart. A death like this always tragic, but the death of a fellow programmer makes it feel closer to home.
If there's an airbnb in there then I think it's worth betting more. 15 million spread across 100 startups, is that too much? I expect most to fail but the point is I have limited downside risk for unlimited return. the overdiversification argument is moot here because you are not optimizing for total portfolio return but maximizing your exposure to upside. Who says you have to do it all in one go? Keep moving and make bite sized bets but not being married to your ideas. Also how can you be sure that your sound logic isn't going to hurt you in the end like those guys writing rejection letters? I'm sure they have done,some introspection.

And like that guy who said he's going to see nd me a business plan in an hour, I've yet to hear from. One clear distinction is that I am also investing in the person, and if they can't hold up their end or if they think it's an easy way to swindle a years salary they are fucked in the head. I'm here to make bets not run a fucking charity, excuse ma francais.
It depends on your salary requirements. Something a lot of people have trouble with is a massive pay cut on paper. A $150K job in San Francisco pays $65k in Montana. That said, the cost of living here is much lower while the quality of life is much higher.
Definitely seems like the future. Meadow (YC W15) is doing Skype evaluations for renewing medical marijuana prescriptions: https://getmeadow.com/md-renewal

Not sure whether they're only doing renewals because of legal regulations or to limit actual fraud.
> You could probably write a bot to filter them out, very similar to the ggautoblocker whose perl sources *are on GitHub, just, the other way 'round.

I just did that, actually.
> like Gordon Ramsay wrecks the restaurants he visits on kitchen nightmares.

What's the evidence for this?
Bingo.

And this is what makes the way he handled it -genius- :-)
As long as people continue this Greeks are reckless good for nothings myth it is going to be hard to find solutions.
We work out the The Shop, a co-working space on Last Chance. Heck yes come and say hello!

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Yes, that's why I trust GitHub to come up with a (proprietary, unreleased) algorithm a la PageRank that won't easily be game-able.
The OP is saying that Gordon Ramsay isn't to blame for whatever happens to restaurants after he leaves. The big show might not save Greece or the restaurant, but the original issue is not the big show's fault.
Ask HN: US Hackers Who Spent  6 Mos Traveling Europe
My wife and I are looking into spending a year traveling Europe. I plan to pick up some freelancing work, however, through some research it looks like I'll need to obtain a visa to be able to stay in Europe that long. Has anyone done this? And if so, which country did you go with to get the visa? Also, what about health insurance?
I do somewhat agree, and the trends in modern gaming (generally speaking, making games easier or hold the player's hand more) make older games a tough ask for today's generation.

I'm susceptible to this myself, I played through the Resident Evil 1 remake on the Gamecube when I was probably 12-13 and managed to beat it a couple of times. I tried to pick it up again recently with the newest remaster and found it brutally difficult (as I suspect it always was, but I feel sensitive to it in an age where CoD regenerating heath and cover systems make games very easy)
After graduating college and beginning to work in the real world my expectations have changed drastically.

I feel a lot more like a cog then an individual. Even if I excell at work I'm just a well oiled cog.
I did a barebones Haskell to C++ template compiler as a fun diversion once, see http://gergo.erdi.hu/projects/metafun/ If I understand right, this guy is doing this by hand -- why not just extend MetaFun for whatever language constructs he needs to use that are not yet supported by MetaFun?
It's all stated on the list ;-)
Iwata was apparently a legendary programmer. We've learned bits and pieces of his prowess in translated interviews over the years.

Iwata was a lead programmer on Earthbound/Mother 2 (my favourite game of all time). The game went through a troubled development and if you trust the impressions of Itoi, the lead designer, Iwata's incredible skills saved the game from cancellation. An Earthbound fan translated a Famitsu interview from Mother 2's initial release where he talks about programming a bit. https://yomuka.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/weekly-famitsu-septe...
EDIT: More here: http://earthboundcentral.com/2013/03/itoi-iwata-discuss-moth...

Incredibly, Iwata was still doing some programming work during the Gamecube era in the 2000s. http://nintendoeverything.com/iwata-on-his-super-programmer-...
> This will solve the issue partly.

On the contrary; it will turn the whole thing into something that can be gamed even better by those who are good at rallying, organizing mobs, and shaming people into doing what the mob organizers can't do on their own.
Cutting cost and power consumption for big data
I grew up in Kalispell! I'm glad you liked it though it's too bad you couldn't stay longer.
About smoking and drinking -- Montana has the most breweries per capita in the nation. I suggest you try drinking beer sometime as it may put hair on your chest ;)
Only paid user has cookies stored, which you can clear anytime. The app does nothing to track users' activities.

Technically, free users simply use requests.get method as web client, which has nothing store on server side.
Magit is love. Magit is life. If you're an emacs and git user but don't use magit, it's a big, big waste of the powers of emacs.
Iwata during GDC 2005: "On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer."
What you're describing are just plain bad coding practices by people who didn't understand concurrency. Proper locking and synchronization are the real fixes.

Again, that's not to say that immutability never has a place.
Using GCC for an ARM Based Microcontroller
There's a long running series of interviews called "Iwata Asks" where Iwata would interview various Nintendo game developers around the time of their latest game release. Iwata certainly doesn't ask very hard hitting questions, but nonetheless they're interesting looks behind the scenes of Nintendo development and well worth reading.

http://iwataasks.nintendo.com
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Thanks! I'll follow up via facebook.
I'd argue that all it takes to start a company is a place to sleep and a good Internet connection (and good beer, but that's me). Also, fun fact, you could buy a house in Helena and pay less than your rent in NYC.
Saying that they're trying to open this up is like saying a fat person is on a diet because they've switched from regular cola to diet cola.

It doesn't make a dent unless they also exercise more and eat less.
the whole 3D thing also seems to complicate controls to all hell.
In a market where you just need one winner, being overdiversified argument is invalid be cause you are not optimizing for total portfolio return, you want to maximize opportunity and upwards exposure while keeping each downside risk limited. If you make too few bets the numbers are against you. Now this is nothing like spray and pray, you are still dealing with people, at the minimum you need to deal with founders who can be trusted.
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It is radically different. Your "drunk friend" is not an allegedly sovereign nation. To conflate these is a pretty serious anthropomorphic fallacy.

Either continue with the fiction of nation-states or do without it. That's the choice that will be highlighted.
> Had the author made that distinction it would've been helpful, or had they perhaps instead used some of the Japanese or Soviet forces as an example it would've been better.

But even for these forces, I think the claim that they are all to be regarded as evil goes too far. Were there individual evil Japanese, Soviet, and German soldiers? To be sure—but there were also evil American ones. More importantly, does serving an evil government make you evil? Since 'evil' is determined, as history is written, by the winners, this would seem to amount to the claim that being honourable largely amounts to picking the winning side in advance. (I think positing instead an absolute definition of 'evil', as a disagree-r may be tempted initially to do, is probably untenable.)
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Fiscal sovereignty was already surrendered when the adopted the Euro in the first place.
> I also hope that Shell is paying Australia for the gass that is being pumped out.

Why? Australia doesn't hold title to the oceans.
It's not illegal to know how to make nuclear weapons, but a law against making them is not unreasonable.
Police+hunt+drug+lord+'El+Chapo'+Guzman+after+he+escapes+AGAIN
That is a very good point. In my mind I was targeting those who are working on their own company, their own idea, no matter the cost, without accounting for those who would be working for them.
Hi varelse, can you tell me more about your profiling use case? nvprof should support MPI profiling scenarios, but perhaps yours is different. I'd love to know details so I can help improve the product. Feel free to contact me at first initial last name at nvidia.com (name is Mark Harris).
Any medical residents in this thread? I'd love to hear your take on our residency scheduling platform. :)

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Down with Craftsmanship
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I'll just add: to estmiate stuff like BATNA, try breaking the problem down and summing up. It's the same as in programming. How do you solve big problems? By breaking them down into littler and littler problems.

Then when you go back to talk to these folks, give them the rationale and the small numbers rather than (just) the big number. If they have issues with your methodology you can likely work it out.

This is largely covered by the book, "Getting to Yes". Short and helpful.
Not my words. Their economy is smaller than Louisiana's, their population is more than twice, and they really, really like entitlements. Sorry if this hurts feelings, but that is not a recipe for success.
Yes - completing higher education is correlated with intelligence, but it also requires conformism. I also recommend Disciplined minds.
"unlike a real datacenter, it's only good for floats." That's actually not true. You'll find integer throughput is rather high on GPUs also. And the memory bandwidth is very high too. "miniature 4-function calculators": make that 5, where the fifth function is a really fast special function unit that can do very fast sin, cos, sqrt, 1/sqrt, and many other functions.
Honor is a personal thing, not something that you can slap on a large group of people once and for all just because they wear the same uniform.

It is honorable to save (relatively) innocent people, whether from natural disasters or from other people.

It is dishonorable to be someone from whom other people need to be saved.

Simply joining and remaining in the military may or may not have anything to do with the above. You stand on the honorable side when you rescue victims of a terrorist attack and kill, incapacitate, or otherwise restrain the perpetrators so that they cannot harm anyone else. You stand on the dishonorable side when you then go on to bomb a village full of civilians.

War sucks because once you get involved in one, it's hard to win without doing at least some dishonorable things, at least by mistake if not intentionally.

On the other hand, I think the armed forces of the world are at their best when they are mobilized for disaster relief. The manpower, order, and logistical competence of the military can make them extremely effective first responders when a hurricane or earthquake strikes, although NGOs are rapidly improving, too. In a world that is increasingly ravaged by an unstable climate, I see a an opportunity for militaries to do more honorable things than ever before.
If that's what you got then no, I think you should check with your local donation institutions because I'm not running a charity. Another red flag actually, because I checked my email and I didn't find a business plan in my inbox and 2 hours has passed. If you were serious I would've read it and rejected you because the first thing I would do is not read the business plan but talk about your experience and see if you have a history of being non punctual or any thing that would suggest dishonesty.
Thanks for the great info.

We are ~10Km from the nearest village that likely has decent bandwidth, though no idea on the backhaul available from there.

Still 10K @ $30 (AUD/CAD)\m would be $300K+ to put it along existing hydro infrastructure. Wonder what the likelihood of getting 100 households to put up say $3-5K in installation costs would be? That would represent a decent fraction of those reachable along that stretch, and those nearer in may already have DSL.
There are plenty already.

http://leiningen.org/
http://www.scala-sbt.org/
imo flappy bird was pretty much the pinnacle of what action games are possible on a touch screen
> what stops a security researcher from selling the same 0-day to several different buyers, and then selling it to the company to fix?

People willing to pay 5 or 6-digit sums for a zero-day are likely... not nice. One wouldn't double-cross them willy-nilly. Multiple-sale to multiple third-parties scenarios are likely happening every day, but selling to developers could be considered an act of sabotage against all buyers, so there is no incentive really.
What are some good examples of games without a 3d engine? Your comment makes me feel like I'd like to check them out.