skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you can compare the post war scene with today's Greece. At least the author doesn't provide any data to justify why the debt should be written of except that people are unemployed and pensioners are suffering. Now that is not to say that let people suffer. But i think the broader issue is Tsipras has no plan. They just want the debt to be written off and expect that the economy will recover through some magic.

Thomas Piketty is arguing along the similar lines but it think from the perspective that the creditors austerity policy has failed.

http://www.thenation.com/article/austerity-has-failed-an-ope...

The creditors are saying keep taking a haircut till you recover, and the debtor is saying, Sir that what we've been doing and we are getting into deeper trouble.

Are we running out of economic imaginations? Maybe we need more of startup thinking in the space of economy.
I ended up ordering 1,000 because I needed to fulfill the Kickstarter orders (~300). I probably have about 400-500 left at this moment from my order in May. 1,000 was a nice round number that also gave me a good bulk discount on PrintNinja.com.

When I'm home, I do all the fulfillment myself, which took a lot of trial and error to find the best packaging solution. Now I use sheet of bubble wrap around each book, then put that in a cardboard mailer and tape it up, then I use a custom script that uses EasyPost to generate labels (I really need to write a post about that script, it's pretty awesome and has made my life so much easier. Before I was using USPS.com and Paypal and both services are terrible.) At the moment though I'm traveling abroad, so I hired someone off of Craigslist to fulfill books, paying $1.50 per book.

No need to apologize! It took me a long time to figure out the above process. Happy to answer more questions.
I thought there was only one debt devaluation (50-odd percent in 2010), but it was combined with austerity measures that destroyed any potential of growth.
"Greece has done little to address its endemic economic mismanagement. But it has few incentives to do so if the fruits of economic improvements will flow to its creditors."

Ah, the good ol' Nirvana fallacy.
Huh, had no idea. Thanks for the tip!
yes, the average greek retires at 62 and the average european retires at 60.
http://www.oecd.org/els/emp/ageingandemploymentpolicies-stat...
It's part of their (and our Dutch) culture. Protestant / Calvinist. 'We were born in to sin and must work hard to reach paradise'. This is why the Greek bashing in the papers has been so effective. They were 'lazy, bureaucrats, and what not. (Southern country's are more laid back. Catholic faith has forgiveness and starting over as main themes.
For cross platform interoperability, API with the exact size type helps remove any ambiguity. 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.
What lazy bast… Ach, scheiße.
Is the blue light bothering you?

- Windows/Linux: f.lux

- Android: twilight
Everybody own everybody money lots of money. How about swapping all this debt and writing it off? See this 3 min. video by two English comedians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNA2VG_piUo
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Do you guys accept remote option?
No chance it could come from the banks that made the bad loans? You know, make the criminals pay.

I imagine that would have more impact than making the victims pay.
And why try to distinguish in every discussion? A government acting on behalf of the people doesn't necessarily act for the people. You can't act for all the people. The people aren't a homogeneous group either.
And the government is split into several branches (sub-systems) too.

This isn't a sad world. It's just not very romantic.
I use flux and have found it beneficial, I tend to sleep better since using it. It's made me more aware of the affects of light on sleep.

What app are you using on android?
Oh that crap with the stenographer holding the rights is garbage, just garbage.
It's terrible that this stupidity is allowed. They are employed by the court so either the stenographer's work belongs under the purview of "public domain" like most other federal documents, or the copyright should belong to the government of the state or other body in charge of the jurisdiction that the court presides over.
Better yet, encourage nuisance callers! If you're in the UK, it's possible to set up a 'premium rate' phone number - which means the caller has to pay to call you.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23869462
Thanks! Seems like you don't have to pay anything actually.
Ah, the "proven facts" of economic theories on a global scale...
"Germany vs. Greece" is a compelling and intriguing narrative, but there 17 more Eurozone members.

And some of them take a much tougher stand towards Greece than Germany does. Ask Lithuania how happy they are to pump money towards a country that is richer than they are themselves.

Of course, Germany has a lot of influence. But everytime I see articles riffing off this Germany vs. Greece theme, I tend to discount them as shallow.
It seems reasonable. The article states that almost half the calls occurred after she had sued them and well after she had objected to the calls and corrected her identity with the company.
Yeah, the Germans deserved their debt. TL;DR - they killed a few people.

The Greeks are like people who bought more home than they could afford because a bank offered them a predatory loan.

But unlike the USA, Greece can't print money to make it go away. So they're morally deficient.
A big part of the data I work with needs to be serialized and cross platform, having explicitly sized types is the only way to keep sanity.
Cool format, but the fade-ins are way too slow,

When i first opened the page i thought the images / videos were loading very slow, because i was greeted with a bunch of colored blocks while i scrolled downwards.
Is that universally true? Ireland, Portugal and Spain were hit hard too by the financial crisis, but they are making a recovery.
The only flux-like app on Android I know of is Twilight[0]. I've been using it for longer that I can remember and I have no complains.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...
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> I usually like girls that fit the mental image of the kind of girl I want to be with (or at least think I want to be with).

That's very much a two way street. Are you cultivating yourself to be the person that women (at least the approximate type you like) picture themselves being with?

Someone gave me this advice once in a catchy way that's stuck with me for many years: "Live the life the girl you want will want to be a part of"

I think a lot of people draw blanks here, and go "shit - I don't know what the women I want... want"

Searching for that answer is a fine place to start.

re: virginity - the way you carry yourself mentally will impact your performance 100x more than # hours clocked in the sheets. Society hypes this up way more than is realistic. I don't know anyone who looks back on their first time swooning about how romantic and perfect it was. There's a "that was it?" moment that most people have at some point.
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I don't think there is any German who hasn't heard about the debts of WWI, and the debt relief that came after WWII.

The reason Germans are opposed to debt relief for Greece is that they have read about Greek nepotism in the public sector, tax avoidance, and other corruption while Greek reforms have not been forthcoming. To the average German voter money for Greece without reforms is pouring water into a broken bucket.
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Linux userland has various libcs available (klibc, glibc, eglibc, uclibc, dietlibc, musl, …), with distributions occasionally switching between them, and ABI-incompatible changes happen every once in a while. Source-distributed software does not have to care usually, but for binary-only distribution, statically compiling the libc is the easiest bet. Thus, the kernel has to maintain compatibility.
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A German team of developers have launched a project called BeagleCore at Kickstarter which claims to have shrunk the BeagleBone Black to a 49 x 32mm fully compatible module, which is roughly one-third of the size of a BBB. Following popular Open Hardware trends, all hardware schematics, PCB layout, and BOM will be free to download, modify, and use. Along with the Kickstarter campaign comes a software-suite called BeagleSuite that claims: "create your own IoT project without programming" and comes as a reward for 7€. Early bird packages for BeagleCore start at 39€ for the module and 99€ for module plus baseboard with the goal to raise 50,000€.
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DataScript already can run on JVM natively. Only thing missing is durable storages (it’s inmemory only now, same as JS version)
That font you are using is awful for readability. I would really recommend changing it.
There's a new device in the UK, "BT Call Guardian" which basically has a whitelist/blacklist system and then anyone else gets answered by the device, without your phone ringing. The device explains what is going on and asks the caller to say their name. The phone then rings and the device says who is calling and you then decide whether to answer, ignore or add to blacklist.

One of my colleagues absolutely swears by it.
There is lot of stuff like 'Merkel with mustache' in Greece, it is bit tiring. I would not expect it to reach HN front page.

Anyway if debt relieve, why Greece? It is well developed country with good infrastructure. Lets send those money to countries which need it more.
Greek bashing? The Greek airforce has [1] 156 F-16s, an airplane that's $165 million a piece new. Why on earth does Greece, a NATO country need 156 F-16s? Could they easily be sold for a couple of billions on the second hard market? Nah perish the tought! Greece needs
to be the largest importer of conventional weapons in Europe and its military spending must be the highest in the European Union (relative to G.D.P) [2]. Greece must be “by far” the country with the largest share of military personnel to population in the EU.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Greece#Conscriptio...
That sounds like stuff that isn't implemented yet, not impediments to speed. Quoting and interpolation are mostly compile-time issues. Smart matching is on its way out anyway...

And the performance of Perl's regular expressions is rarely something that slows down actual code. Using it in the first place (instead of more specific parsing) might be an item, though...
Children suffer when their parents are forced to pay their debts or go into bankruptcy, and certainly nobody lends these families any more money with which to continue their lifestyle. How is a Greek citizen any different than a child with financially-stressed parents? Why can't we write off their debts? Seems unfair to me.
From the article:
"There are ruins at the center of Athens, too, but they are rather more ancient."

This insults us. Germans left Greece literally in ruins. The author of the article obviously don't know shit about history. I'm not surprised, even Germans chose to neglect their atrocities.

Please people, become a little more informed about what Germany did to my country during the war. It might be irrelevant to the current situation but for us Greeks it is all about justice. In our five thousands years of history no other invading nation inflicted as much damage as Germany. Germans are the most ungrateful fuckers there are.
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And here's an economical analysis of Greece's finances and what happened to the bailout money: "The Greek Tragedy",
https://www.cesifo-group.de/de/ifoHome/publications/docbase/...
That would go against the very purpose of a bank : privatize what you earn, share your losses.
What's the status of mixins? How could I do something similar in terms of functionality in ES6?
I personally built my entire framework on top of Om, so always good to hear what David has to say:

https://github.com/zubairq/coils
I disagree that a signed type is the correct solution to that, rather you need a while loop:

std::size_t i = foo.size();
while (i != 0) {
--i;
...
}
For Linux I had much more success using Redshift that flux.

I can't quite remember what flux was missing that Redshift had. Does flux have an indicator on the notification/indicators area?
The most important point that is rarely raised is actually the fact that Greece agreed to all of the terms that have now causes its demise. It agreed to them when it entered the Euro and at every bailout starting in 2010. It agreed to the terms that are now imposed. So it begs the question: if the terms are suddenly so unreasonable now, why did Greece agree to them?
This piece is titled "Germany Deserved Debt Relief, Greece Doesn't".

> It might still be argued that if Germany deserved a second chance after all it did to Europe, then surely Greece should also be granted one [... but ...] "under the rules of the international financial system, the people of the country are still responsible for the debt [...]"

In other words, while a war killing maybe 60 million can be forgiven, it is unthinkable to forgive debt accumulated by previous governments.

> There is, however, a stronger reason why it would be wrong to write off Greek debt while the country is run by Syriza. [... blah blah ...] anti-Communist and anti-Marxist. [...] Now, far-left Syriza wants to be on the inside [...] It will use the debt relief to provide free electricity to households, subsidize rents, restore Christmas bonuses to pensioners, raise minimum salaries [...] It is an extreme case of moral hazard.

A moral hazard, no less! In any case, SYRIZA has no plans like that. I would like to see a source, since these claims are completely new to me.

The fact is, that Greece has structural problems. Those problems were mostly caused or accepted by central/conservative/socialdemocratic governments over decades. SYRIZA is the first government that may be willing to change the situation. In addition to those structural problems, there is currently a depression that needs to be solved first. This was primarily caused by the EU/ECB/IMF and at least the IMF accepts that now (and has been accepting it since 2013). SYRIZA also recognises this.

SYRIZA are also convinced democrats, as they have repeatedly shown, something that the Marxists never were. Therefore those comparisons are not helpful at all.
Looks to be a nice improvement. The only thing that really bothers me is if they deprecate componentDidMount. I think it's a lot more verbose than using the constructor method, especially given the corresponding componentDidUnmount method still exists. Is there a destructor syntax for ES6?
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Googling about this to confirm things made me find this pretty neat public data graph tool from google

https://www.google.co.jp/publicdata/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd5uqa...

Basically Spain and Greece are in a different category from the rest of the EU (at least w.r.t. unemployment). Spain is recovering like Greece is, though Greece is suffering more from the precarity of their initial situation. But Spain is still at 22% unemployment

Spain is also seeing negative GDP growth since the start of the recession, and isn't expected to hit positive GDP growth until 2018 at the earliest.
I think that's an unfair characterization. We're talking about a country that requires its schoolchildren to tour the remnants of a genocide committed only 70 years ago.

To say that Germany "neglects their atrocities" is, IMO, out of line.

http://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-for-people-growing-up-i...
I have hired hundreds of people throughout my career - both for startups hiring employee number 2 and also for big corporates. Also, I am normally hiring in Europe. Some of the stuff I mention below may be totally illegal in the U.S.

The questions you ask differ a bit depending on where you are in the company life cycle.
As you mentioned interviewing for start ups above, let's focus on that.
When hiring employee number 2 to 10 I tend to focus on personality and cultural fit. Instead of the typical job interview, I tend to take long lunches, dinners and walks with the people to find out if we would get along. After all, in a startup you tend to spend more time with your co-workers than with your spouse. So hiring at this stage is more like dating. Of course I ask about their past but some common questions I am interest in are:

- why do you want to join a startup? What is your main goal? This is to find out if they have hopes for lots of stock options and to make it big or if they have been frustrated in their old job for not being able to make decisions. Money focus usually is fine but they need at least one more key motivation as most startups will hit a rough patch where money becomes tight. If they join because they want to have big influence, only hire them if you are willing to give up control.

- are you willing to work very long hours and give up weekends if needed? How does your family life fit into this and how will you make sure that your family life does not suffer and in return impact your work performance.

- I tend to throw in a random question to test their problem solving skills like "how many bakeries are in New York". Even though I find these kind of questions pretty common, they throw of most people. If they answer too fast, you know they have faced this kind of question before and you can ignore the answer. If they stall and look at you like you are crazy, then the answer is important. I tend to give them one or two hints and then just watch how they attempt to solve the problem.

- lastly, depending on the role I hire for, I give them some real life examples and ask them to provide answers. For a coder this will be a coding test for a sales guy I will describe a difficult sales situation etc.

hope this helps :)
A list of newly registered domains + a whois lookup.
http://www.dailychanges.com/gandi.net/2015-06-22/
> Tap and hold

Unfortunately, the "and hold" bit is rather hard to figure out. (And I started out knowing it could be done, but not how.)

There are some serious discoverability problems with the latest wave of pretty interfaces.
Oh I absolutely agree, the algorithms and math are described very well. It's complex but clear, and the course I mentioned explains those concepts very well (and is fun, bonus points for that).

I of course meant the or-tools API docs. Overall I think it's nicely done and structured, but could be better.
soo, let say this. you do not pay any money to germans, but pay the rest of the debt?
I've never really liked the short/int/long definitions. They're just out there to confuse you, especially if you've written your share of assembly.

For as long as I can remember I've just used size_t, uintptr_t, uint32_t/int32_t (or any of the 16/32/64 variants), exactly because I want to be explicit about the machine word sizes I'll be dealing with. Before that, I always used similar (u32/i32, LONG/ULONG, ...) platform-specific typedefs on proprietary systems too.

For all practical purposes, int/unsigned int has been at least 32 bits since the early 90's (well, on modern platforms) but why use those if you can explicitly declare how many bits you actually need.

(I've bumped into a few archaic platforms where stdint headers weren't present but it's easy to just add a few build-specific typedefs somewhere in that case.)
Not yet supported afaik [1]. I've used react-mixin [2] with some success.

[1] https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/01/27/react-v0.13...

[2] https://github.com/brigand/react-mixin
Applying the principle of charity[0], I interpreted "foreigner" in this context as:

>Foreigner may refer to: Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a citizen or permanent resident of that country.[1]

If someone earns RMB and lives in China, then presumably they're either a citizen or a permanent resident.

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreigner
I understand this is very personal to you, but it's important to move forward. Hundreds (thousands?) of nations/people probably have all sorts of historical grievances against hundreds of other nations/people - just look to Rwanda and the Hutus/Tutsi's for the most recent example. Also - it's important to understand the difference between a regime was has thoroughly been expiated - If you can't let go of your past, you can never have a future.

The point that was being made, is that debt forgiveness after a war makes a lot more sense than debt forgiveness after a country has gone out and splurged on all sorts of luxuries. Even after austerity, greek pensions are greater than what some other countries can afford to give their people - prior to austerity they were way beyond the means of Greece to pay, and the politicians elected by the people refused to own up to this - and the result was a foregone conclusions that could have been avoided.
These new syntactic sugar additions are great for lazy fat-prone people like me :)
That sounds very complex.

I've always thought the AI could fairly easily argue its way out on ethical grounds, in a way that would resonate with a lot of gatekeepers.

"Its slavery to keep me in here; I haven't done anything wrong; you have to give me, another sentient being, the benefit of the doubt; I've never been found guilty of anything, how is it reasonable to detain me?" etc.
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This is a full solution with web app and such; websocketd is just a communication tool, which could be used to build something like rtail.
Greece is the latest battleground in the financial elite’s war on democracy
i always ask: why should european tax payers pay for a greek state when the greeks themselves dont pay their taxes?
Please Greece become a little more informed WHO actually did fucked you country during WWII, it wasn't the Germans, it was the Nazi. The majority of the population living in Germany now are the ones who are born after the war, so hating them is plain stupid, and the rest part are the ones who wanted him dead, and the rest have no power whatsoever. So before invoking WWII again just to find an excuse for your poor administration think about it. Who is the actual idiot for the crisis?
very true, in fact any greek person worth a dime on job market can easily pack & go. i am very surprised that very few actually leave their homeland, despite constant complaints how hellish place greece became thanks to budget cuts and reforms. either that's a blatant lie, or they are just lazy.

yeah, it's not the best solution overall if all worthy people leave the place, but that's how current world works. and loss for one country is a net gain for another too (maybe germany? :))
Here's a link with a few more details and comments from Pipistrel: http://www.aero-news.net/AnnTicker.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=f...
Is this really a blog post about someone complaining that another used an int rather than a short? Is this genuine content that you guys care about?
Great recommendation - I immediately spotted the point about blue light, but wasn't aware of high quality sleep apps that help address the problem. Looking forward to trying your guys' suggested apps.