skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really about a institutional setup. If Greece is allowed to make debt common to the hole EU, it will set a president.

The marekt thought that debt was held in common and bond yields were the same for everybody, now they have to make it clear to markets that this is not the case. Because if it was the case, then ALL the debt is held by everybody.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lDRRJhgiFTE/T9tShSNsaII/AAAAAAAAA...

It does not need a PhD in Game Theory to see what the likly outcome of such a system is.

Greece is in the unfortinate situation of beeing the case were this choice has to be made. Its not all their fault, but its also not their fault.

This is just on of the problems of the EU and the Eurozone.

Its my beliefe that if debt should be assumed commonly, it will break up the EU because no voters in any country would agree to this.

It is really sad, and if you want to blame somebody, its the eurocrats who have steamrolled over many economists and many others who have point out the idiocy of their plans.
The Erlang book direct from publisher has to be one of the highest ebook prices I've ever seen.
Nice work. Looks like a useful tool, especially since time calculations can be confusing.

Remember to sanitize your input. http://durat.io/?q=%22/%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(1);%3C/script%3E
Those really are incredible figures when you think about it. 20% of market share reaping 92% of the profits. Is there any comparable in any other industry? Ever? I'm currently in the android camp but I have to say I'm astounded how Apple consistently pulls off these kinds of numbers.
Let me address this and the comments asking 'why' below:

There are GUI libraries for Common Lisp. CommonQt+qtools is essentially the gold standard, and everyone seeking to make a GUI application should use it.

I like the web, it lets me design applications with a precision native GUI tools don't have. And you can make an app that runs on the localhost and you can access through the browser: I do this for some applications I've written.

The problem is distribution: most users won't really know what's going on when they run an executable and it opens a terminal window and a browser window to some weird URL called 'localhost:41000'.

So I wrote this.
Not exactly. The profits went to Intel and Microsoft because they were figuratively selling ALL the computers. Apple is gobbling the profits in a different way.

Samsung/HTC/others aren't failing to make money because their products aren't differentiated, it's because they're selling large numbers of low-end, low-margin products. The question is how they can compete with Apple on the high-end. Nobody's managed to do that.
That's a nonsense argument. There's a world of difference between using the platform's native framework and controls (which may be instantiated from an XML file) versus a single WebView which contains the entire app.

Saying "HTML is nearly XML, therefore HTML is native" is akin to saying "Vietnamese is written using the Latin alphabet, hence it's basically the same as English".
One game that came out recently to a lot of acclaim is Ori and the Blind Forest.

There are also games like Super Meat Boy and Binding of Isaac.
Is this a surprise? The i-Sheep hardly ever pay retail, Apple's success is its ability to convince the phone companies to subsidize their phones more than the others, and receive larger kickbacks on the data plans
That isn't what people mean when they say native.
Most people would consider a Ferrari to be more desirable than a Toyota, yet Toyota sells many magnitudes more cars than Ferraris because Ferraris are out of reach for most consumers. If money were no object, many more people would own Ferraris in lieu of Toyotas (but not all, given that Toyotas may be more practical, more reliable, easier to maintain, etc.).
We had a 9Gbps attack from SK earlier in the year. I have no idea why we were targeted, but my best guess is that a user in SK got upset at some user-generated content and decided to DDoS the site rather than report it to us. Weird.

Anyway, we decided to move to OVH, and haven't had any problem since. We did get an email about an attack being mitigated a few months ago (which didn't cause any outage at all), and since then the trolls have realised that we can't be DDoSed any more :)
Ability to be wrong

Ability to take criticism
What is the best way to clean my MBP Retina screen?
I purchased a product called Whoosh! at the Apple store and was told it was the only safe product Apple recommends to clean retina screens. The weird thing is that Whoosh isn't sold at Apple store anymore and I'm wondering if it's because of the residue/streaks/film I'm seeing when I use it?

http://imgur.com/dWqtPvM
Last time I checked, Macbooks cost the same as Thinkpads.
They are already provided in source to those with access to the beta, so yeah :) Again, license TBD.
None of the other companies have a repeatably successful flagship phone that comes anywhere close to the iPhone in terms of brand recognition and prestige.

Some might argue the Samsung Galaxy, but the image associated with the galaxy is not one of luxury, but of practicality and a sacrifice in usability in exchange for for customization; the general Android vs. IOS argument.

Luxury breeds profit by turning users into silent evangelists/role models. Combine this with Apple's extremely strong ability to [1] set prices (Android is not a direct competitor, it's a whole different marketplace with its own internal competition) and [2] force costs onto partners (who wouldn't want to work with Apple and see that volume of business with those nice margins?) and it's no surprise that the iPhone is destroying competition on the profitability metric.
Does Apple have to pay a ridiculous patent tax to Microsoft for use of an OS it developed?
You left out Axiom Verge. Fantastic game in my opinion with really nice looking environments, and all the more impressive considering one guy coded EVERYTHING in the game, including the graphics. The tileset is a pretty accurate tribute to Metroid/Super Metroid
That's what happens when you compete on price. Nobody is going to pay an extra $50 for an Android phone over another comparable Android phone.

Samsung alone outspends Apple on marketing. Samsung needs to continuous battle against the other Android phones.

If you want an Apple phone either you pay what they are asking or you don't get it.
> i dont get how interest can be negative - i get paid money for borrowing?!

Yes, that is how negative interest works.

I should have qualified that, though, with "real interest rates", meaning that inflation is accounted for. Rates in the US at least are nominally not negative. But the net effect is the same: a borrower with a negative real interest rate is being paid to hold your money. This implies that investors are looking for very safe places to keep their money, so much so that knowing you're going to lose a little bit is OK.
So? Taking out a loan has an inherent risk associated with it that you may not be able to pay it back. How do we protect institutions who desire to loan money from losing it when they loanee can't pay back their debts?

Borrowing isn't risk free. Nor should it be.

Both sides have a responsibility in this. Actions have consequences.
I think this is it exactly. The number of people who buy high end Android phones is a tiny slice of the total Android market. The vast majority are the same people who bought Nokia candybars in the past--people looking for whatever they get for "free" on contract.

This is also why the Apple app store sells so well compared to the Google Play store. People with crap low end Android phones struggle to run many apps, and their phone didn't come with enough storage for them.
The new Director General of ESA wants to build a village on the Moon
I think he's implying something that would be remotely exploitable on a server running the JVM for a service with an open socket. Which is very common. Also the the File API could potentially be exploitable (if a vulnerability exist) remotely also if for example it was used for file uploads or something. Seems non-trivial but I can see how it could happen.
In before Finns are labelled lazy and corrupt.
Upstream vendors are the ones that should take flak for allowing the announcement. And they definitively should slap on policy restrictions on this ISP.
There is a far more serious issue at stake: The threat by the hardline creditors, most importantly Germany, as well as by 'euro-skeptics' in the UK and elsewhere, that European integration and union are not goals and ideals, but transactional economic arrangements that are good only for the money. When is the last time you heard someone argue the political and security benefits of the EU and the costs of losing it?
> The US is a sovereign nation that issues its own currency.

Note that only major economies with a history of having a stable currency are able to finance all their debt in their own currency.
It seems based on the tech site reviews that I've read, flagship Android phones have only now caught up to or surpassed iPhones with regards to camera quality with the latest iterations of flagship Samsung and LG phones.
I wish to God that Oracle would simply deprecate and discontinue browser-side Java applet support.

Whenever people see a headline like "Java Vulnerability Found!", it is virtually always referring to the client-side applet plugin. Yet 99% of readers don't understand that, and think that Java is insecure in general.

Whenever people see snark about Java installing the "Ask.com Toolbar", it is referring to the client-side JRE installer (i.e. applet plugin). That's virtually irrelevant to developers, because we install the full SDK which contains no crapware and never has. Yet 99% of readers don't understand that, and think that being a Java developer means dodging malware with every upgrade.

Java applets are basically the non-Microsoft business world's answer to ActiveX. A dead 1990's technology that no one has cared about in 15 years or more, which only still exists to support backwards-compatibility for some horrible crusty shops still running on XP or even NT/2000. No contemporary Java developer gives a fuck about applets, and by "contemporary" I mean "any greenfield development done since 9/11". However, we're all sick to death of having to defend our ecosystem against constant FUD, due to this horrible piece of obsolete legacy cruft.

Just kill it. Seriously.
> Humans have always created art. Modern conceptions of intellectual property have not always existed. Why would art depend on that?

Eh? The people who painted on cave walls surely didn't get paid, but they also surely didn't spent much of their time painting. Michaelangelo got paid, painted full time, and achieved mastery. He didn't need IP because copying a painting required a painter. Whatever you think of IP, it's a modern idea to address a modern situation.

Yes, there will always be art. But mastery and time are linked, and time and money are linked. If you want full-time artists, they need money somehow.
The point stands. People who have a choice (have enough money) choose iPhone rather than allow crapware and not having access to timely updates. I am very pissed with Samsung for not upgrading my Android from 4.4.2 yet. I used to be an iPhone user and while using iPhone I didn't have problems upgrading my phone to the latest version.
You can move units of most things if you slice the price enough.
Why would anyone lend to Greece again after debt forgiveness?

(Nitpick: the Greeks are the debtors.)
Java Web Start, not jdk or jre
No, they're great examples: most people find search useful and don't object to it, even if it brings Mozilla revenue and if it has privacy implications.
To go from "We can send your web server an HTTP request" to "We own your datacenter."
I still quote this in internal meetings, about decoupling our business components.
Also, make it part of the process that each time ssh is used, logging or monitoring is set up to catch what it was used for, much the same way that a test is added when a bug is discovered.
I would argue that programming = craft. Not engineering like a civil or structural engineer would understand it.
How many people that bought a Corolla would have taken a Camry for the same price? (Again, not saying that Apple is better.)
Poor little Bobby Tables can't register :D Thanks
You can hit L to either check or talk; you don't need to open the menu at all.
Reality is not black and white.
Which book are you referring to here?
Yes, when the company was so far in the hole that they were willing to grasp at any lifeline.
The "native" part of native app doesn't mean machine code. It means that it is native to, i.e. feels like it naturally came from, the host operating system. It uses its APIs, conventions, UI components, event queues, etc.
I've tried playing platformers on a touch screen. I can never get the hang of it, because I have no idea when I'm touching a button.

The only Nintendo games I'd be interested in playing on mobile are RPGs like EarthBound or Pokémon.
Yes, that's my point. There has to be more to it than just "they're better", because no matter how Apple fanboy someone may want to be today, there's no conceivable way they are that much better. There must be some kind of moat. Full stack integration or some sort of big savings from owning the OS or something, because it has to be more than just "they're better". Besides, if it were just a raw "they're better" they'd have a much bigger market share, too.
Why is it so hard to accept the notion that people are paying a premium for a premium product?
In French it's called "Où est Charlie?"
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Good points. I would imagine that Apple has a better supply chain, and more aggressive/favorable terms with each provider than competing smartphone makers. I'm not sure it accounts for the entire difference. I wonder if there's a middle area or marketplace where people pay disproportionally more on average which helps this figure (92%) climb so high.
The bit that probably make GP puzzled - out of the EURO countries, only Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Slovakia matches those requirements.

Or less than 20 millions out the 330 million people living in the EURO zone.[0]

The Debt-To-GDP ratio is a mess. You can see the combined effect of austerity and crisis on some economies. And countries like France have only been twice within the target and not recently. [1]

At the end of the day, as many things with the EU, the real rule is around the interpretation of what means "satisfactory pace" and "exceptional cases" - which is regular political hidden under a layer of pseudo-righteous mathematics. (which is not unusual at all for an international treaty)

[0] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&l...
[1] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&plugin=1...
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<< Its my beliefe that if debt should be assumed commonly, it will break up the EU because no voters in any country would agree to this. >>

But that's exactly what happened in the early days of the founding of the US, when Alexander Hamilton negotiated the Funding Act of 1790: "The Funding Act authorized the federal government to receive certificates of state war-incurred debts and to issue federal securities in exchange."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_Act_of_1790

Without the Funding Act, the state governments would've defaulted on their Revolutionary War debt. By assuming the debt of the states, the US greatly strengthened their collective borrowing ability and also brought the states closer together into the union.
ObBadCarAnalogy: Well, a Ferrari Enzo is more desirable to me than a Skoda Octavia, but I own a bicycle, so there's that.
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Why should the user of a calculator care how the numbers are represented internally?

More importantly, why should they be forced to?

It's a bug.
are you doing this as a preventative measure? do you have a history of Parkinsons in your family or something?
> Some still have too much debt compared to GDP

Some countries never defaulted except during wars (Italy, France), other did (Germany: 1931, 1953) and have now a decent debt/GDP ratio.

One can say much about Italian politics, but part of current Italian debt goes to repay debts contracted to pay war reparations back to the first world war.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/economic-histori...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_debt_crises
Building a Scalable Real Time Bidding Exchange in Erlang
Freebie:KUKU for those who want to share content on multiple social nets at once
Look what we did with writer.is in two months
I'd like a more indepth analysis of [1] and related stories.

At a glance it seems that there is a big push for privatisation and more power for capital over labour to encourage business, which the cynic in me assumes will be for the rest of Europe to exploit.
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Perhaps it's related to the distribution channels. Apple sells through their stores and website, where they must take in a significantly better portion of the sale than through sales by carriers.

Google sells through a website, but I'm not aware of other manufacturers selling direct to consumer like this.
What are these politcal benefits? Security benefits, seams like the EU is more likly to cause war then to make it go away.

Contrary to popular belive you can make agreements without the EU. If you want to have a security agreement, create a security agreement.
Yup that's what I was getting at, my first thought was that they'd be competing then I looked at the use cases and I wanted to point out that they were different, but I might have been the only one who thought that in the first place :-)
I am not sure if you are talking about the same but this may be the source[1]. Also the blog discusses about the relation between device usage to the degree of affluent neighbourhood[2].

[1]. https://www.mapbox.com/labs/twitter-gnip/brands/#5/36.280/-2...

[2]. https://www.mapbox.com/blog/visualizing-3-billion-tweets/
So, future generations should be condemned to misery and poverty because of the bad decisions of the past and a need to make amends for that?

If that's really your theory, then Greece is not the first European country you should target.
Lenovo sells many laptops which cost much less than Thinkpads. Thinkpads tend to be the more expensive models. A quick search for "macbook" and "thinkpad" prices between $900 and $1300 for macbook and between $400 and $999 for thinkpad. Searching for a regular "Lenovo laptop" (excluding Thinkpads) I see prices as low as $190.
Even in a family, if the breadwinner loses their job, they should not sell their car if that's the only way they'll get another job.
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It's time to say WP good bye and working on new version of Writer.is based on Laravel5 and parse.com
Actually, it seems to be to implement the "Contacts API": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=857730

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1d77c3062662

Note that it's only enabled in Nightlies with no plans to ship.
> What are you talking about?

I'm talking about what the author of the article pointed out. Did you read the article?

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> Oh really, you're not going to change the name because 3 people on HN suggested it?

I'm sure the people behind FUSE file system library might have some comments to add. I would never name my product after a major open source project. Like as if I created something and called it Blender or Pencil.
I wonder if someone has done marketshare numbers with respect to flagship phones. I thought the Nexus 5 was a great phone for $350, but then the Nexus 6 went back to full flagship price and pushed me back to an iPhone for that amount of money.

My thought is, if Apple is pulling all of the profits then they are the flagship to buy if someone is in the market for a flagship phone. Otherwise, if someone is buying on price it is Android all the way.
Are they really good phones? All the android devices I've owned have lots of fairly glaring usability problems.

Most recent example: My nexus 7 periodically does something that kills the battery, and the touch/tap responsiveness is quite laggy.

I could go on and on. Apple devices have significantly better usability and many fewer warts than Android devices.

IMHO the only people who think the two platforms are on par are people who look only at hardware specs.
Isn't Tim Cook a supply chain guy? That may partially explain why Apple is so good at squeezing every dollar out of their products.
Why the editor of the Times kicked News UK’s big data chief out of his office
Why is it that nobody in the Eurozone is willing to discuss the fundamental and disastrous consequences of a unified monetary policy with independent fiscal policy?

Are we going to wait until Greece has to be bailed out a fourth time? Or a fifth time? What about when Spain defaults? This is going to keep on happening until the underlying problems are addressed. Ultimately, the EU is going to need the ability to tax and spend to redistribute wealth and keep the economies working. It's the same way the US taxes New York, Massachusetts, California, etc... to give to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and so on.

I know it will be unpopular politically, but the EU really needs to make itself look more like the United States of Europe if it wants this whole unified currency thing to work. They have been trying to ignore the elephant in the room for so long that smaller countries are drowning in its shit.
This is called a "Winner takes it all market". What is interesting is that smartphone became such a market considering the profits, because when considering the revenue it is much more fragmented.
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On paper, yes.

In reality, English is being used, as it is everywhere else in the world whenever you need to talk to people from other countries.

Evidence:
http://www.theguardian.com/education/datablog/2014/may/21/eu...
There is a lot of enterprise, server side Java running around. It wouldn't surprise me if there were a vulnerability that could be used to attack it.
Some programs require you to register an account to report a bug while others use email, but you don't need to get permission to look.

All bug bounty programs have rules that outline what parts of their site/product you can test and what kinds of bugs they are looking for (here's Facebook's https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/). As long as you follow the rules you won't have any legal problems.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9877941
Ask HN: Does anyone know the technology behind Magic?
What platform do they use for two way text messaging? How do they do payments?
Can anyone comment on when is a good time to start a bug bounty program?

I have some clients with relatively small scale (small budget) projects. Is it better to post a bounty program on HackerOne? Or force them to budget to hire a security researcher consultant for a day to find high-level issues? Or both?
They've been having DDoS attacks since September last year, so it seems unlikely that it's caused by a recent event. I'm surprised they haven't done anything about it before now.
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No, but neither does Samsung.

Apple does have to pay for R&D for its own operating systems though.