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Are you sure about that? What about the 1 million 'immigrants' that may all of a sudden have to leave the South of Spain, South of France, Ireland, etc.

It's a possibility that most of those British expats would have to come back to the UK. Most of them don't contribute much to those countries (other than spending as a pensioner, using the local health-care or having low qualified jobs).
How is that related?
And an annual season train pass into London can be £3-5K. Not cheap either, in fact several months' rent.

I do wonder whether people feel trapped. You get paid a lot working in the City, but you have to spend a lot, too. You can try your luck elsewhere, but it's hard to think of where exactly, and you know for a fact there's this huge network that's the big city.
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But if your salary is huge the 43 percent left could be very significant. Thats why you need both absolute AND relative metrics.
Are they GMO free as well?
Great article. Interesting that modifying and reading word-sized values is an atomic operation on ARM. IIRC on x86 this is not the case because values can be cached on the cache of the different cpu cores, and thus be out of sync. Does someone have a more detailed insight into this?
If the UK leaves the EU, then it may become even an even more attractive safe haven for foreign-capital investments, given that the whole point of BREXIT is the limit the reach of the EU authorities.
... and the rest! I'm looking at commuting from the Midlands to London and the annual season ticket is pushing £8k!
There would also be the issues that 1) it doesn't work. The cost of building a last mile network is a massive deterrent to competition even in Europe, which as Americans tend to like to point out in discussions like this, has a far higher population density than the US, which makes it more cost effective, - places that allow it rarely see a proliferation of competitors, and certainly nothing like the EU/EEA competitive situation where having access to dozens of ISPs is the norm most places. 2) if it does work against all odds, there would be massive issues with companies digging up the streets all the time.

The "complete control" in the EU is very limited. The details vary by country, but the telecoms directive required each member state to ensure that access to the last mile was guaranteed. Most countries have opted for a solution where the incumbent was forced to separate out the operation and maintenance of the last mile infrastructure, regulated its prices on a cost plus basis and outlaw differentiated prices per provider, and provide access for competitors to lease space for equipment in local exchanges.

The rest of the ISP space is mostly unregulated.

What has been regulated is access to critical last-mile infrastructure. Nothing but cost stops people from building additional last-mile infrastructure.

In the UK, for example, we have numerous fibre ISPs operating their on physical infrastructure in the larger cities, where you can cover a lot of subscribers for relatively low cost, as well as Virgin Media (cable provider) that maintains their own cable infrastructure, and anyone can pay for access to install additional conduits.

But the point is you can start a competitive ISPs without it. In fact, due to backhaul (you can get IP handoff of your customers connections at a set of central locations rather than having to put your own equipment in), you can start an ISP very cheaply, and grow by adding equipment in exchanges as it becomes cost effective).

In fact, this solution has made control harder. E.g. the court decisions to block the Pirate Bay applies to a set of the largest providers only, presumably because they figured it was the most "bang for the buck" in terms of court costs. But pretty much anyone can choose from any of dozens of other ISPs without such blocks in place if they can't be bothered the hassle of working around it. Similarly the infamous "child porn filters", is something that the largest ISPs have been coerced to "voluntarily" sign up to, but because the government does not have the balls to try to push regulation of it through parliament, anyone who oppose the filters (good reason to: there's no oversight over what exactly is being filtered) can chose from dozens of ISPs that don't use them.
Okay, there's a lot that's dubious about this.

Firstly, they've completely ignored the existing standards effort of ACME, which Let's Encrypt has cooperated with to develop, and created their own API. This detracts from the effort to standardise this, to no real end. Use Let's Encrypt and you can avail yourself of the entire ecosystem of ACME clients, of which there are many (I develop one). It's likely there will be other CAs supporting ACME in time as well. Whereas this is a CA-specific API with, presently, one implementation.

Secondly, they're still carrying out the dubious practice of charging for revocations.

Thirdly, they claim "Not just for one domain, but up to 120 domains with wildcard support", but this is under their 'Pro' offering, yet Let's Encrypt supports up to 100 SANs per certificate for free. Their free service is limited to 5 SANs.

The only apparent benefit of their free certificates over LE certificates is the one year expiry time. But the whole point of the LE 90 day expiry time is to motivate automation, which is a gain in the long term.

Fourthly, their website is full of broken English, which is impressively amateurish for a CA and the high barriers to entry you generally expect that to imply.
I was talking to a Spanish friend of mine about the same thing. They thought the Spanish government would be quick to sign some kind of agreement to keep expats there, as many of them are pensioners and who function as a kind of cash injection into the Spanish economy.
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Why doesn't everything have DP then?

Legit question, not sarcasm or anything.
Tightening the funnel means that potential customers are less likely to go all the way through to signing up and becoming a regular customer.

https://blog.crazyegg.com/2014/03/03/website-conversion-funn...
Thanks, that is an improvement.

I'd be happier still with something solidly black for body text, and a larger font.

Blogger also breaks Firefox's Reader Mode, which is unfortunate.
This reminds me of the Automated Curse Generator from DailyWtf

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> Haskell -- like other pure FP languages -- is built around
> the approximation of denotational semantics,

Interesting, do you have any references for this? I thought that the primary reason for purity was to enable equational reasoning, but I have no sources for this. Also, AFAIK, there are no formal semantics for Haskell?
I've been waiting for the PocketCHIP to become reality before ordering anything. It looks like they're planning to ship this month, so it might be time to order.

I love that it includes a game dev kit that includes a music tracker...that's what I want it for. I have an original GameBoy for making music with LSDJ, and it's a lot of fun. But, it is difficult to find good condition GameBoys for anything approaching a reasonable price these days. I'd love to have something a bit more modern with the same basic feel and sound.

The PocketCHIP has the advantage of having a "real" computer inside and a QWERTY keyboard, so if I get bored with four note polyphony, I could run something like SchismTracker or SunVox or whatever. It is in the sweet spot for me for this kind of device, in a way that the Raspberry Pi hasn't been (though the Pi is cool, too).
Well going solo is always more expensive so I am not really surprised or dismayed. The rapid rise is an issue but usually can be traced back to some over zealous restriction on what can be built and where.

Cities have expensive housing because those who own housing either want to keep their property values up or don't want a different class of people near them. They also tend to be very good at communicating the need by misrepresenting the reasons, hide behind protecting historic area, quality of life, environment, and such.
Raspberry Pi Zero has no wifi, no bluetooth and no build in 4GB storage. BUT: it is cheaper at 5$! :-)
I got the hell out of London ten years ago, moved to the south West, started a web development company.

We're now 40 people and we're struggling to hire developers fast enough - we mopped up the local talent, and we're now hiring EU nationals mostly, as while we offer a relocation package etc., the cost of living here is a fraction of London - but folks coming from London usually want a London salary - and aren't willing to negotiate. So they stay in London and moan about their rent trap, while most of our employees now own their homes.

Shrug. Inertia's a bitch.
Its certainly true that different hardware handles buffer underruns differently, my high-quality RME interface emits fairly muted pops when the buffer runs dry, whereas I've had cheaper units make absolutely horrendous noises as the speakers flail around trying to cope with the signal discontinuities. The RME is interpolating the signal towards a zero crossing.
Not everyone needs HDMI; I use my Raspberry with composite just fine.
That's really cheap, but it's worth noticing that it doesn't comes with a WiFi NIC and on-board storage.
My wife and I are nomads and we've have lived all over the world. Medellin is one of our favorites. We lived in El Poblado last year for about a month and found it as safe as any big city and the people are lovely. It's true that El Poblado is the very nice part of Medellin, but we wandered all over the city and had no problems.
What it should do is give the UK government more control over if they want to make it more or less attractive. Which way they actually turn that lever if it comes down to it is very much an open question, and probably dependent on the results from the next election. Personally I'm not convinced the government would want to force out all that foreign capital and they may even be tempted to try to attract more.
That seems to be a limitation of the barcodes themselves. Why don't they have three additional random-ish digits? Then the two-item/double-scan confusion would have a 1/1000 chance.
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> I do wonder whether people feel trapped.

Whether they feel trapped I'm not sure but a girl I used to date worked in the city and she was definitely trapped.

She worked for a large bank in the finance sector and felt she had to play keep up with her colleagues and more importantly her managers on the social scene. This meant that she would often go out to dinner/drinks a couple of times a week. Obviously you need to dress smartly to work in the city, so had a clothes bill too. Lunches, make up, hair dos, nails, yoga and so on. It all adds up

She was probably earning somewhere in the region of £50k, which isn't bad I guess, but used credit cards and loans to keep up appearances.

I felt that she was locked in, with no choice but to continue working in London to earn the money to pay the bills she couldn't afford.
I had to cut off an audio file abruptly once, and I found that I could smooth out the abruptness by quickly fading in a reverberated version of the audio, just as the original audio was about to end, and then letting it ring for a fraction of a second after the original had ended.

(I say "fading in", but it might have been that I had the reverb applied but dry, and transitioned to wet just before the signal ended.)
It can be argued that the influx of "cheap" European migrants also keeps wages down. I think there's just too many variables to make an accurate prediction on housing prices or wages in either scenario.
Quoting from the Waldorf microwave XT synthesizer FAQ:

The brightness of the click depends on the speed of the level change.
The faster the level changes, the brighter is the click. So, the
level change speed can be compared with the cutoff of a lowpass
filter. There is an easy formula for it:

Let's consider a level change from full to zero (or from zero to
full) output from one sample to another on a machine that uses
44.1kHz sample rate. So, we first transfer the sample to milli
seconds:

1 sample equals 1/44100 second, which is = 0.02267573696ms.

To calculate the cutoff frequency of the click, just use this formula:

Cutoff (Hz) = 1000 / Level Change Time (ms)

which in the example results in:

44100Hz = 1000 / 0.02267573696ms

Whoops? This the sampling frequency and, err, very bright.

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> "You can try your luck elsewhere, but it's hard to think of where exactly, and you know for a fact there's this huge network that's the big city."

Depends on what type of work you're looking for, but there's plenty of IT jobs along the M4 corridor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_corridor

I'd also suggest looking into Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester.
> Part of me wonders about what their accuracy rate was with that kind of system.

We bought all our groceries at Aldi Nord in Germany when I was young, and I never recount a cashier typing a wrong code, despite the ridiculous speed.
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The aim of BREXIT is to reduce immigration.

_IF_ that truly happens (and i seriously doubt that the "Borrises" are actually genuine about this) then local-uk wages will increase especially for skilled labour. Low wage producer's will simply be replaced by foreign imports, increasing the deficit unless of course the UK engages in a protectionist war with EU and EVERYONE else... (which it won't do).
There are 2 Aldi's near me here in the UK. One in a wealthier area and one in a poorer area. They do seem to alter the store somewhat to match what they sell. The Aldi in the wealthier area has a larger area for fresh foods and a large stock of those foods. I think the poorer one has more biscuits and soft drinks.
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There is a vast amount of empty housing in this country. There are places where you can still buy a street of habitable homes for under £100k.

There is even a huge amount of vacant property in London, most of it owned by large landlords who don't need the incremental income and associated hassle, as just sitting on vacant properties waiting for the market to rise is enough.

No, the problem is not migrants placing demand on housing stock - it is those that are telling you these fabrications, and the completely broken housing market that they built while you and I were still suckling our mothers' teats.
"There is no point in trying to distinguish incompetence from malice when it directly benefits the party committing the error."

You need to treat it all as malice.
Note that a lot folks genuinely enjoy living in large cities.
I worked in Tesco in the 00s while I was studying, and when I first started the checkouts had physical keys with some quick access keys on the side of the screen which changed depending on the context. The normal keys had a rather satisfying mechanical mechanism, where as the quick access keys just used a conductive-rubber mechanism so were a bit harder to press.

When I first started there was a menu driven by the mechanical keys so if you didn't remember produce codes, you could use this to go through everything. The systems were networked and these menus were updated regularly with seasonal products. To get to potatoes (for example) you would press Menu, Down, Down, Enter, Down, Enter and be presented with the different types of potatoes. You could even hit the keys in quick succession without waiting for the UI to update, so it was pretty quick if you knew what you were doing.

Later they changed the system to instead of being driven by the mechanical keys, to use the quick access keys. These were harder to press and you couldn't press them in quick succession - you had to wait for the UI to update before pressing them.

Just before I left they started phasing out the physical buttons, and I think all the new checkouts are touch-screen driven which I assume is even worse. Under the hook they (were anyway) running Windows XP, and the same software.
Well, house prices will go down as the economy completely tanks.
It's only going to get worse, everything new built in London (very very small studios/1 bed flats) cost about £600k+ in the area I live in. Property developers are laughing.
Some network protocols for live audio performances do this.

Filling the audio buffers with some predicted blocks of audio to avoid an ugly sounding gap.

See for instance in this Thesis:
"Low-Latency Audio over IP on embedded IP systems"
http://www.ti5.tu-harburg.de/staff/meier/master/meier_audio_...

Sect 4.1.2 Packet Loss Handling
It would be nice if there was an explicit CC license, but ArXiv has a perpetual license to distribute it, and you can link to ArXiv. Why would you host the paper yourself?

Edit: The code has been published as well, under the MIT license. https://github.com/openai/improved-gan
Anecdotally, I see far more screens driven by HDMI, be they TVs or computer monitors of some sort. HDMI carries audio. Some DisplayPort versions carry audio. This may be a factor for mass market appeal.
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Arriving at the most meaningful words eliminating the noise is the hardest when you try to get these working for some real world scenarios.
And Bristol and Bath, and even Cornwall where tech grants grow on trees - honestly, demonstrate a half decent idea and they'll match your investment up to £100k.

There are huge incentives for technology workers and entrepreneurs outside of London, but those already in London are trapped within its diamond dome - I left for good a few days after realising I hadn't been outside of the m25, other than abroad, in several years.
> now own their homes

Most londoners don't consider that a plus if it's in the middle of nowhere with no culture or anything to do.
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There are other large cities. There are even small cities which grant all the amenities and few of the drawbacks of their larger brethren.
This is incredible representative of the London I know. 20-somethings earning huge salaries compared to other people of their age around the country, but with a much lower quality of life once you remove the 'social' (drinks/eating out) aspect.
Do you mean that a compiler optimisation could cause tearing of the mentioned data types? That's surprising to me and I'd like to know more about it.
I think remote job positions are the way forward. However, I think we're going to need an entire generation of management to get out of the way before BigCos in the city start to take this approach mainstream.
Same here. I use Siri for everything that would be slower to do by hand, or my hands are busy.

"Wake me up in X minutes"
"Call <person>"
"Remind me to ... [in X hours, in the evening, when I get home]"
"What's the weather like today", when I'm getting ready in the morning
"What's on my agenda today?", while driving to work

I rarely use Siri to query for specific data, which seems to be the thing Google Now does well. Siri for me is just a way to operate the phone faster.
Well, that's exactly what immigrants do in the UK (contribute more than they take by certain metrics [0]), ... but it doesn't stop the hostility in the media.

In Spain the perception is that Brits in the south are low qualified and old and that they have driven up the price of housing with their real estate speculation. When young, they are perceived as violent and disrespectful (probably the image created by short-term young binge-drinking tourists). It's certainly prejudice and first impressions, but that's the kind of irrational reactions you could see after a UK exit if Spain is struggling with its own economy.

I had heard the opposite statement, by the way, that they took more from the healthcare than they contributed ... but my google-fu failed me. Do you have a reference? (I don't know what the answer is either way)

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29910497
I assume they mean they use it to build and serve their web pages, but not necessarily their backend services. Ironically, Node is much better suited for data APIs and backend services.
Because the average IQ is, by definition, 100.
Same could be said about literally any product you buy online, actually the same could be said about buying things in B&M stores seen as you can't just teleport there for free you either have to add the two public transport journeys or the gas to drive there…
"Neither the Air Force nor Lockheed Martin, the defense firm that runs the database, could say why it became corrupted or whether they’ll be able to recover the information."

Incumbent trusts local IT manager and local IT manager has contract with external company.

The question becomes: "Did the contract with Lockheed Martin cover any form of regular backup and additionally some form of long term open format archiving?"

Perhaps some checklists or standards that all long term record keeping systems need to comply with would be good.
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By this line of reasoning, any single bankrupt company is proof that all private companies are doomed to failure.
> I don't believe pwn2own is representative of the security landscape in general.

It's representative of the state of the art in attacking large, mature, modern C++ codebases.

> Is that the only information you based your comment on?

No, it's due to watching lots of security bugs go by over the last several years. I work in this space, you know.
> You can try your luck elsewhere, but it's hard to think of where exactly

Huh? Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle have plenty of work, you get paid rather less (surprisingly not much less last 5 years - but that's been London rates falling rather than north rising), but keep significantly more in your pocket. The people and beer are nicer in the grim North too.

Aside from during the peak of dot con and y2k contract rate insanity I've avoided London like the plague. It's a great place to visit for a show, but live and work?

I never understood the appeal of earning 25% more, but having 50-70% less in your pocket after housing and travel. It's the only UK city where the pollution is palpable, and constant.
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I think using percentages obscures the actual numbers. My experience is that in London the money left at the end of the month may be a smaller percentage of your salary than it would be elsewhere - but it's more money, which is what matters.
Ultimately, the UK economy is very dependent on the housing bubble that has built up over the last decade.

Governments will be forced to do everything they can to keep it inflated, as if it pops, then the damage to the UK economy will be immeasurable.
If housing prices didn't rise then nobody would speculate. The foreign investments are just the symptom amplifying the original problem.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by carelessness."

Unless that malice is aimed at keeping an individual out of trouble rather than harming others.