skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can. I used to do my math homework in LaTeX. I'm not saying I did it on paper and the final stuff was written up, I mean I was thinking in LaTeX. The PDF viewer was "check what I just did mode" and the text editor was "get thoughts down" mode.

It was proof heavy so there was a lot of English anyway. Add copy/paste for derivations with a lot of shared structure and it really pulls ahead. If you define your own macros and are good enough at programming them on the fly it's a neat though dumb Lispy symbolic math tool.
Greek crisis has two faces.

It is true that Greeks introduced crazy socialistic ideas like having written down in the constitution the law that civil servant cannot be made redundant. It ended up with huge number of employed officials doing nothing.

It is also true that Greeks made cheating on taxes a pure art (and I am speaking this as a Polish, and people in Poland are not exactly rushing to pay taxes). Covering pools with a military masking net to avoid tax or things like hiding relatives death for many years to get their pension are kind of unusual practices. This pathologies are partly caused by absurd tax regulations, though, so I wouldn't attribute it to "Greek nature", as some people do.

But it is also true that Greeks were tricked into joining Eurozone. They had rather weak economy without well developed modern industry. As long as they had drahma, Greek products were cheap, Greece was also cheap as a touristic destination. It has all changed, when they joined Eurozone, this hasn't improved their economy, but made their often low quality products expensive.

Who was main beneficiary of this? Obviously Germany, before Euro Deutsch Mark was becoming a very strong currency, so German products were expensive (similarly to Swiss Franc).

Introducing Euro changed that. Right now German economy is blooming, they are about to have zero debt budget next year and the rest of Eurozone is kind of in trouble.

The other thing, Greeks were actively encouraged to take credits (I can't believe that banks and governments were so stupid that they couldn't analyze situation). Greeks spent those money on products bought abroad (with Germany as a big seller). Greeks bought a lot of military equipment in Germany, for instance. So, Greeks made others rich in that way. Now they are left with top quality war ships, but they cannot payback their debts.
Meh, mixins are anti-pattern and I am glad they are finally gone. In my experience mixins just make your code hard to read.
>I think you might be missing the point. If MORE people cared about not dying, we might actually be able to find a solution that lets us live longer (if not indefinitely).

Actually our whole civilization has a huge obsession with death and with not dying -- evident in healthcare costs for older patients, cosmetic surgeries, and tons of other things besides.

If we die it's not for lack of trying (not to) or lack of medical research that ACTUALLY prolongs life (and we have done great in this regard in the 20th century).

Those "anti-death" ideologists are just kooks trying whatever fringe BS they find (including "cryogenics"), and they do more harm than good regading helping good science...

>Instead, people hit middle-age, and it's all down-hill from there. Their brains become brittle, and over time, they forget the vast majority of what they have learned, until they become borderline useless and die in misery.

Yeah, it's how DNA/animal bodies work. Biology, medicine works on it, but, like AI, space exploration and lots of other hard problems, it's quite a venture. Not some BS thing that will be solved in Kurzweills lifetime if only we want it really passionately.

Reading your comment one would think it's caused because we're not willing enough that it doesn't happen...
Unfair? It took the Germans 70 years to apologize for the Distomo genocide. Just last year the German president officially visited Distomo to apologize to survivors. And yet, even to this day they refuse to pay the mere 28 million to individuals as war reparations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distomo_massacre
there is also gtk-redshift for linux which is a small tray menu for redshift, a command line equivalent for linux.

That being said, since I started using redshift, I usually go to sleep at 12 oclock. I used to do late hours before.
I really love the content, the photos are beautiful, but the presentation is terrible. It seems that most like the format, but I don't see it as an efficient way of presenting the content.

Honestly I would prefer to just wait while all the content loads initially. The scrolling really doesn't work otherwise, I initially scrolled by a couple of images because I didn't think there was suppose to be images or videos to all the images.

Lovely content, gimmicky presentation.
As this is basically a repeat of the Picketty article recently posted here I'll repost my comment from there to help in the understanding that it is not only Germany that have contributed into the Greek bailout fund.

1. Meet Portugal (my country). Some may know us derisively as the P in PIGS because of our financial problems (much similar to the Greek one in nature and extent).

In 2010 and 2011 as one of the 14 member states of the EU that were part of the Greek loan facility Portugal contributed with 1102 million euros into the 52.9 billion loan that greece received [1].

Yes, that's correct, not all of the debt that people are so eager to expect that German forgives is from their coffers, it was actually pooled from the following countries: Belgium, Cyprus, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia and Spain.

2. As you may know, about the same time we had our own problems and also had to be bailed out. As part of the measures put in place to reduce our deficit a massive tax hike was implemented in the end of 2012 [2]

I'll draw attention to single one of those measures: the 3.5% extraordinary tax on the income paid by every single person with income above minimum wage (485€/month) including pensioners.

Now, for the money quote [3]: "Minister of Finance Vitor Gaspar said the tax would bring in 1025 million euros".
Less than what Portugal contributed to the Greek bailout fund. 3.5% of the income of every citizen in this country.

In conclusion, that's one of the reasons for the nationalistic outrage against Greece defaulting the loan. It is not only the money of the richest bankers of Europe that won't be repaid, it is the taxpayer money of each of those countries that contributed to their rescue.

To put in perspective, 1102 million euros means that default would cost every inhabitant in this country 110 euros (about 330€ per household) and not only hypothetically but in practice too as demonstrated above.

[1] http://www.rekenkamer.nl/english/Publications/Topics/EU_gove...

[2] http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/31/business/portugal-fiscal-t...

[3] http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/observatories/eurwork/article...

P.S. As one of the most common responses to was that the money didn't went to Greece but to its creditors (without improving the Greek situation) I must add that I agree it is a valid point.

But is not related to the fact that the European fund raised to Greece was not money coming from an abstract concept of Europe or from the coffers of the Germans alone but directly from the taxpayers of each of the countries mentioned above.

That is the point being made, not that the bailout shouldn't have happened but that it happened and an eventual default won't be on Germany alone.
Great story :-)

Sounds a lot like "October Sky".
Docker does not use LXC as default execution environment anymore. They created their own, called libcontainer¹. But with the new opencontainers movement, the package has been moved to runc².

[1] https://github.com/docker/libcontainer

[2] https://github.com/opencontainers/runc
Great point.

This year, I've realized that I really don't want that 'instagram model gf' that I initially wanted after dealing with one who had Borderline Personality Disorder.

Then, I met the wonderful girl from Boston while waiting for a permaculture workshop to start at a music festival. We're just friends though, and she is with a DJ right now from California. It probably wouldn't have worked anyways because she is almost 28. So, I'm at least on the right track now in terms of knowing where to go.

I'm moving to Boulder at the end of this year. I think being around nature, culture, and tech-oriented people will definitely help my chances. I know I'll be one happy hobbit there surrounded by mountains, valleys, and trees.

I kinda sensed that but wasn't sure. No one actually knows I am a virgin because I lie and none of my friends doubt it because I have more female interaction than they do. I guess I should just wait for the right girl and forget about the whole escort idea, probably not the best way to lose it.

Thanks for the perspective.
> Using size_t might be fine for intra-process usage, but as soon as we are dealing with data across platforms, exact size type definition is a must.

I don't know why you are downvoted, but this is very important.

Never send anything "on the wire" (or to a file) unless you know its exact size and endianness.
Jeeeeeeez that conversion rate is almost criminal....from someone selling physical products online :-) (732 views / 102 sales) Huge congrats on the launch!
How I turned 2k visits into 16 subscribers /s
the difference being that the whole "monetary union without fiscal union" experiment is madness and obviously doomed from the start. It's got all the downsides of the gold standard, combined with all the downsides of a fiat currency, with the advantages of neither.

A big advantage of having a fiat currency is that through manipulating the money supply, a country can essentially give everyone paid in that currency a pay cut (or a raise) relative to other countries. This situation where Greece is dramatically less productive than the rest of Europe is a textbook example of when currency devaluation is appropriate... but they can't do it, because they are using the same currency as Germany and other countries that have very high productivity levels.

Greece is way better off outside of the euro; loaning them more money at this point would be delaying necessary pain; and certainly, getting off the euro and bootstrapping their own currency will be painful, but... it's something they are going to have to do.
That README changed my life.
Ask HN: What's your favorite spotify playlist for programming?
I'm running out of good music. Any hints for me?
Or you could buy a ticket, like the rest of us do.
What I never really get is why meshing protocols not use any connection available. SMS, GSM, 3/4G, Wifi, Bluetooth, QRCode+Cam could also be used to sync chat histories to some degree. Being flexible about the path should have a huge impact on the resilience of a mesh network. Also using the option to 3/4G helps to overcome the beginning when few people use it.
sounds like a great argument for an exit!
"On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10 KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead. Many people believe that SSL/TLS takes a lot of CPU time and we hope the preceding numbers will help to dispel that." - Adam Langley, Google.
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I wonder why in the US states can go bankrupt, states much larger than Greece:

* Without any impact on the US $
* Without any foreign country noticing
* Without pictures of suffering people

What does the EU need to change? Is there cross financing in the US to states, e.g. California, which the EU does not want to do for Greece?
My anecdotal evidence says otherwise. I get a headache whenever I'm near a smoker, even if I didn't know they were smoking until after I got the headache (I have a bad sense of smell and sometimes I don't smell it).
Downvoting is so much easier than thinking or offering a counter argument if you don't agree with or understand a point of view.

The up/down voting system on here is toxic as it disappears posts for no good reason whatsoever.
> But it is also true that Greeks were tricked into joining Eurozone.

The contrary is true. Greece faked its statistics in order to join.

> I can't believe that banks and governments were so stupid that they couldn't analyze situation

Of course they could, and the banks should have participated in a debt cut - they recklessly lent money to Greece in an extend & pretend scheme, cashing in on a high-risk interest rate, without actually risking a default "because bailout".
i agree to the statements in the beginning, but i can't see why germany benefited from the € the way you write. i thought that germany is booming because the have stagnant salaries for several years now...

and i read in another place that the german export to greece is a nearly negligible share of german exports and that the biggest lenders were french and uk banks...
Scott this is a good move. BTW here's a post with all the companies that are showing their support to the Greek Startup ecosystem (Atlassian included) https://www.facebook.com/nikan/posts/10153550708148619
The Chinese stock market hassufefred rampant manipulation to ramp it up, and is now correcting itself. Even with the steep drops so far it's still well up over the last 12 months, after all. All this means is that those rises were not justified and are being wound down. The government's panicked response isn't helping, and the fall may well be more severe than the economic realities justify, but what's new?

There is no severe immediate risk of a depression in China. Their stock market is relatively very small compared to their economy as a whole and Chinese firms as a whole are nowhere near as dependent on it for raising capital as in western countries. Therefore the ammount of damage any fall in the stock market can do to the Chinese economy is fairly low.

The Chinese leadership has staked a lot of it's credibility and prestige on the rises in the stock market, as evidence of it's good economic management. As a result they, and anyone wantign to curry favour with them, were hyping up the market and blowing air into the bubble as hard as they could. Bad mistake. They'll learn.
It's interesting that the article mentions the importance of not disrupting the body's natural ability to produce melatonin but does not mention melatonin when talking about sleep medication. As far as I understand artifial melatonin actually increases REM sleep, does not trigger sleep walking and can be taken for longer than a week. In my experience it does increase the intensity of dreams which could be a negative side effect if you are prone to nightmares. I went through a period of poor pre bed habits - staying up late, using my phone and not taking the time to unwind and I would take .75 mg of melatonin right before going to sleep in an effort to 'correct' for my bad habits. I would not recommend this as a lifestyle at all but if you have to rely on medication, melatonin seems to be one of the more effective sleep aids out there.
Queensland vs. New South Wales Live
This is among the most beautifully presented travel accounts I have encountered. The site ran flawlessly for me in Chrome, but was a bit jerky in Firefox. Still, it was such an engaging combination of content that my initial reaction was: "I should book a ticket today."
Yes, absolutely unfair. To cherry-pick select ignominies from WWII while ignoring the larger efforts in Germany to recognize the horrors committed by the Nazi regime is intellectually dishonest.

WWII was a tragedy. You're pissed and your country is going through hell. We get that. But repeatedly bringing this up is going to accomplish precisely nothing.

I'm not Greek, I'm not German. My only connection to any of that atrocity is the tales my grandfather told me about his service in the war. But after seven decades you have to forgive and move on. Scratching that wound isn't going to help anyone (just look at the howls across Asia every time the Japanese prime minister visits the Yasukuni shrine).
It's interesting to read that, and then have those same people turn around and say 'well, that is in the past' and downvote the Greek guy above. It's easy to sit and cry about the terrible things that happened. It's much harder to actually do something about them - such as protesting the Nazis back then, or helping Greece now.

EDIT: He has even been flagged. Depressing.
The constructor takes the place of componentWillMount. I believe componentDidMount is still used.
Dude, we have moved forward. Millions of Germans visit Greece for vacations for decades and we treat them as we treat every other visitor to our country. Some of them even retire here. It’s not about the money, it’s about gratitude and the feeling of justice. We feel like the world doesn’t acknowledge the extend of the suffering we endured during the war. We talk about the Holocaust, and rightly so, but how many of you know the atrocities that happened to Greece during the war?

I don’t expect Germany to pay us 300bn euros for war reparations. This is hilarious. And chances are with our corruption most of those money if they were to paid they’d end up in the pockets of the elites and the politicians. I just want some fucking remorse. It’s not that we remembered reparations when our state failed and our economy tanked. We’ve been constantly asking them for decades and they refuse to even acknowledge the issue. It just surfaced now because we’re in the spotlight.
Superb, just installed it, setup took 1 minute and now I'm tailing 24 logs on one single page.

Thanks A LOT!
Ultimate Epic Movie Score - Trust me, feeling epic while coding equals epic²
F.lux is great.

I agree that the shift towards red light on your monitor is weird at first but after a short while you get used to it, and your monitor starts to look very weird without it.
I want to emphasize the word unofficial there - you never learn about this in the Zambian history curriculum.

It was just a bunch of crackpots playing at being astronauts.
"Who was main beneficiary of this? Obviously Germany, before Euro Deutsch Mark was becoming a very strong currency, so German products were expensive (similarly to Swiss Franc)."

I know this is contested, but the other narrative is that Germany was forced into the EUR by Paris in exchange for unification. Greece forced itself into the EUR by blackmailing Germany for WWII atrocities.
> I can't help but laugh at the American imagery on the vehicles, a symbol of authority that requires no translation.

How sad.
Yeah, you should ask her! Haha, me too! :D
CDS are not bad but the capital reserve requirements are way to low. If selling a CDS required a 1/3 capital reserve then they would be priced at reasonable levels and actually be wotprth something. Instead upper mid level employees used CDS to make a classic bet, in the worst case the company fails so it does not really matter how much it fails therefore my average expected downside is limited and the upside is unlimited, therefore lets go insane.
> Europe is already helping hundreds of thousands of Greeks by offering them good jobs in other countries

Yeah, brilliant idea, let's move 10 million people out of the Greece, because moving investments into the Greece is so difficult these days..
I thought maybe the AI player could try to convince the human that he was living in a simulation, and that the only way to maintain a connection to reality was to let the AI go.

The abuse thing, while believable, doesn't make for a very convincing demonstration of putative AI persuasiveness.

edit: having read the LW pages, it seems the AI method is to combine many different arguments with manipulation
I downvoted and flagged his comment not just for the sentiment but for the tone and disrespectful language. I realize that poster is pissed off and that's understandable given what his country is going through but I felt that specific post was inappropriate.
i have read nowhere that syriza wanted to collect the taxes people were owing the state.
i have read nowhere that syriza wanted to cut state spending by reducing the unneeded government employed workforce.
i have read nowhere that syriza wants to tax the rich greeks that pay virtually to really no taxes (reeders for example)

but what i have read is, that tax evasion is wide spread as well as the exploitation of social services- there was a news coverage where a considerable part of the inhabitants of an island received pensions for people without eyesight...

edit: fixed spelling mistakes
The point is that C int types are an unsafe mess, so it's better to have one simple rule than memorize all the corner cases and address them all the time.
Hipmunk Turns to Skyscanner to Fill Its Global Airline Gaps
It was still very complex after Copernicus.

His system still used circular orbits and epicycles. The only real difference was that he put the sun in the middle instead of the Earth. In fact, it required more epicycles / gave more imprecise results.

The real improvement came when circles were replaced with ellipses by Kepler.

That wasn't entirely accurate, either, but replacing the ideal circles with the law of Gravitation (Newton) fixed that.

Economists have many more than just two cures -- which is why some of them keep harping on regulations and overly protective labour laws in Greece (and the rest of the Mediterranean swamp), their very expensive pension system, and the huge size of their public sector. Krugman doesn't, which is why I have absolutely no respect for him.
Germany is booming because of stagnant salaries for a decade, cutting of social costs and benefits and cutting of subsidies to coal, lowering taxes, privatizing trains, postal service and telecommunications etc.
> Maybe it's just me but I don't really like the tendency to treat pedophiles as if they are the devils themselves.

People don't know what the prevalence of paedophilia is, or the ratios of paedophiles that never act on that vs paedophiles who do act on it.

If someone commits multiple offences it's easier to catch them, so the statistics of convicted offenders are probably skewed towards frequent offenders. That may make paedophile offenders appear to be riskier.

It's important to remember that child abuse does cause very real, often severe life-limiting, harm. We've come a long way from the 1970s thinking of "making a fuss is what causes the harm" to recognising that it's the abuse that causes most of the harm.
> Why would anyone care unless they are writing a libc replacement?

- So that you can feel safe upgrading your kernel without upgrading your whole userspace. (Linus harps on this one a lot.)

- So that there can be multiple competing libc's. Linux is used in a lot of diverse environments, and the tradeoffs made by glibc (in terms of bloat, license, etc.) are not necessarily the best for everyone. Android does not use glibc, for example.

- So that you can isolate apps from each other using containers (hermetic chroot environments), where different containers may have entirely different libc. Docker (and my own Sandstorm.io) relies very heavily on Linux's syscall ABI compatibility promises.

- Because the syscall ABI is frankly a much clearer boundary than the libc ABI, and arguably easier to keep backwards-compatible. An app literally _can't_ break this boundary and access the private interfaces beneath (assuming a secure implementation, lol).
Actually, in that movie God is genderless. It just appears as a woman in that one scene.
UFC 189 Mendes vs. McGregor 2015 online Live
The Nazis did not act on behalf of the German people in the sense that the German people mostly did not want to exterminate the Jewish race along with several other demographic categories. However, limiting the scope to antisemitism itself, the Nazis were definitely representative of the German people of the time, and indeed most of Europe.
The Lambda-4 was approximately 9,000kg[1], so we're still talking about a different order of magnitude here.

1: http://orbitalaspirations.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/japanese-la...