skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they do, their plan is to re-assert border controls and negotiate the best deal with the EU possible from that starting point.

They can't reassert border controls while negotiating to be part of the common market, and they need the EU far more than the EU needs them. The leave campaign plans were fantasies sold to the electorate, and some frankly very distorted (like 350m for the NHS every week), and they have rowed back on almost all their promises. So yes I think it's fair to say they don't know what they're doing and certainly to say that they have no viable plan. Here is Boris Johnson traducing everything he stood for on the campaign trail in an attempt to court Brussels and the rest of the electorate (attempting for example to claim that the campaign wasn't about immigration after all):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/26/i-cannot-stress-t...

and being soundly rebuffed the day after:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/27/brussels-rej...

If they reassert border controls UK trade would suffer massively, they simply can't take that risk, and if you read what the chief architects of the leave campaign are now saying, it's clear they know this and are going to have to compromise massively on their promises, including not imposing border controls at all, because that wasn't a very practical idea, and it would lock them out of the EEA.

What makes this guy think the EU will actually even exist five years from now, let alone be something actually desirable to be a part of?

Many people now feel the same about the UK, the markets are certainly behaving as if the UK is damaged goods. Ask citizens in Scotland, Gibraltar, London or Northern Ireland and you'll find they're being taken out of the EU without their consent - all these regions voted to remain, only England and Wales wanted to leave. There is a serious possibility of the UK not existing within 2 years as Scotland wants a referendum. Perhaps Brexit will mean the downfall of the EU, which you apparently consider with relish, but I doubt it, and sincerely hope not, as that would mean almost inevitable war on the continent. I suspect the EU will survive, as long as they can stop petty national concerns (like German domestic politics) from interfering in their treatment of important issues like Greece.

While this London petition was obviously born of frustration and isn't particularly helpful, it does raise an interesting issue - many inhabitants of cities nowadays don't feel any particular allegiance to a given nation state or regime, nor do they want to, the reason they voted remain is simply to keep parochial identity politics out of their lives, and be part of something bigger. I think the really interesting issue here is how nation states and national identities are starting to be blur (they are after all relatively recent invention), and what will replace them as globalisation spreads.
DVDs?
Finally!! This was so stupid of them. imagine all those people who had a failed upgrade and PC couldn't get to the desktop anymore.
I'll agree that the nagware aspect is pretty harsh, but disagree they shouldn't have pushed it via autoupdate... it really is an opportunity to update/upgrade to a new version... or would you expect ubuntu to not tell you there's a new version you can upgrade to as well?

That said, I'm kind of with GP, I'd rather have most people updated to the current windows, spyware issues aside, it's better for stability/security.
Agreed, however, their model should include a base level of direct support for straightforward things. Like "my cluster is unresponsive" right now thats a forum post and seems a really poor experience.
Even if, another tax haven. So what?
That is not the problem.

The problem is that the Euro-area has not countercyclical stabilizers:

In USA, if some states have problems, the federal government will compensate the fall in spending. In the Euro-area, if a state have problems, not only it's not going to receive surplus from other countries but the troika is going to made it to kill internal demand.

So the Euro-area has procyclical automatisms.. What is totally crazy.
There are different ways to "approach 0.5 as the number of repetitions goes to infinity": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_of_random_variable...

I think in this case you have "convergence in probability" (but I've not read carefully the discussion). There is a stronger form, "almost sure convergence", where there is exact convergence with probability one (i.e. in some cases there is no convergence, but those happen with probability zero).
That's because any Trump supporter (be it by privilege or other) seems to be unfazed by Trump's racism and xenophobia. If we elect him, these are policies that will be at risk of being enacted, and this will affect minorities, immigrants, and Muslims. This is a large cost to our society, values, democracy, you name it.

In modern times, not caring that the rights of minorities and immigrants will be trampled is rightfully interpreted as being a racist xenophobe. We are trying to collectively move away from these old-fashioned bad ideas, and supporting Trump is backward in this sense.
To a lot of people, that's still absurdly expensive. Your total living costs can be less than that in a lot of places.
Unfortunately you're wrong on both counts.

The butterfly-in-Beijing metaphor is normally a good sign of someone who misunderstood the dynamics of complex systems. IIRC there's a lecture series from Santa Fe on intro to complex dynamics that might help.

And 'dire results': the tyranny of the perfect! We get very good results from both, compared to the intrinsic information of the system. Again you're thinking about single results rather than probability distributions. It's a hard habit to crack, again, an intro to the field would help.
For Fukuyama, you might be pleased to read some of his more recent stuff from foreign affairs:

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2016-0...

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2014-0...
Then disconnect it from the internet, and disable automatic updates... easy, peasy.

edit: regarding downvotes... if the software versioning is mission critical for a system, then having automatic updates and being connected to an external network is a risk to that critical system. I wasn't trying to be pedantic, but was being perhaps more terse than some may appreciate.
From afar, it would appear that the middle-class would be for "Leave" not "Remain"

The "Leave" movement is a denial of big business, corporations, and large government. It's a counter to income inequality, correct?
I'm not impressed so far. The demonstrator on the linked page found out that I live... somewhere in Europe.

You could get a more precise location by simply reverse-DNSsing my IP address.
1. I can't say for sure. Maybe this? http://getakka.net/

2. There's https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff926074.aspx + your favorite IDE which can automatically reformat the code. Visual Studio can do this. If you want to enforce things, there's: https://stylecop.codeplex.com/
I've thought about this. My thought has been, bump the street level up one story to create a pedestrian / bicycle promenade and move building entrances to the second floor. Keep the existing street below intact, with parallel parking etc. Essentially build a boardwalk above a commercial street, so that traffic can flow below. (Though for ventilation purposes, it would be best if most cars at street level were electric.)

Raising the street grade one story has been done before, when flush toilets were introduced in the late 1800's. Notably in Seattle and Chicago but in pockets other low-lying cities as well.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/independence-refe...

53% Yes for Scots-born,

72% No for rest-of-UK born,

57% No for non-UK
I see two endeavors that may be completely discrete:

1. Building from-scratch cities that are optimized for quality of life.

2. Evolving current cities into more nearly optimal.

Which direction will this effort go? Is there a risk of from- scratch cities being built so fast that and being so desirable that they cause historic cities to empty out?

And... what if the optimal solution is not cities at all, but, say, small towns?
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I wonder whether the developed world's political leadership can figure out how to unwind financial capitalism without the help of a global pandemic, famine, or great war. It's seeming less and less likely.

In theory it's obvious. In practice, much harder: tax the wealthy and techno-upper-class sufficiently to provide safety nets for the general population and to invest in opportunities that the free market would shun on its own like solar power, enact meaningful regulation to protect workers, consumers, and the environment, and remember that all people are people with hopes and dreams and strengths and fears.

Like I said, it is hard to implement, but for the problems you describe, that is the solution.
I've transited through the USA a few times. Might be coincidence, but every time I complained on Twitter beforehand about the security theatre, I was "randomly selected" for special treatment.
All this is unfortunate yet very obvious result of free market and capitalism. Wherever money goes, technology goes. Android is about to bring back low latency audio. Just like PHP, the whole system is optimized around optimization.

It's up to the people who cares to organize and assemble teams etc etc .. but only rarely it goes somewhere I believe.
I still hope for a sane cpu, sane gpu, sane dsp, all very very open so that a solid software can be written without too much reversing and friction (I saw that tagged pointers architectures were back in research on risc-V so who knows).
I honestly took the WP article at face value and told a coworker that Brexit voters were regretting their decision based on conclusions drawn from Google trends.

I feel like one of those ants that have been infected by the mind control fungus, helplessly infecting others with misinformation designed for an agenda.
It's a tricky balance to be certain. I grew up in an Asian country with extremely laissez-faire regulations and the urban landscape was a bit hellish.

Very, very economically efficient with huge economic diversity and competition, but nonetheless unpleasant (and unsafe!) in many ways.

Complete freedom is likely not the right answer, but neither is the extremely prescriptive type of planning that has dominated American cities since the 50s, the type that Jane Jacobs rails against in her famous book.

Oddly enough we were really good at this between the late 1800s and early 1900s. The places in America that people continue to enjoy being (and now have become enormously unaffordable) have almost all come of age in that era. I'm still not entirely sure what the x-factor was, but part of it was probably a more "gardener/enabler" philosophy to urban planning than the "prescriptivist/masterpiece" thought that dominates now.

Planning in many places in that era was more about setting the foundations for the market to grow productively, rather than monumental projects designed to micromanage the conditions of every day life. See for example the Commissioner's Plan of 1811 in NYC.
This is an interesting point-

MEP Daniel Hannan on the differences between the US Constitution and the EU's-

https://youtu.be/dS6hQQ2pyco
> It's disappointing to me that some people defend racists and xenophobes against being called racists and xenophobes. This is what they are, and it's completely appropriate to call them that, and worse.

In your opinion, is it racist or xenophobic for people in Britain to believe that the laws that govern them should maximize the prosperity of people in Britain, and not that of anyone else?
I mean it covers 99% of what most people do with their computers, and in a simple, lovely way. Word? Check. Excel? Check. Photos? Check. And, most importantly, browser, check.
What's your current stack? Maybe we can compare and contrast the two stacks.
If you think a nation's wealth is maximized under certain conditions, isn't the majority better off taxing that maximized wealth than pursuing a different policy?
No. I think the best illustration is the continuation-based Web programming work we did several years ago: http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/khmgpf... If you don't have the right underlying language (in this case, with continuations), you _can't_ have a similar API. Similarly, the reactive APIs we had in Flapjax [http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/mgbcgb...] enabled entirely new kinds of primitive “library” operations; see, for instance, the drag-and-drop example in that paper.
​Red Hat makes container development easier
What do you think then, is now extreme measures like BIG or negative income taxes imperative and no longer just nice ideas?
It's not obvious that it isn't. While it would obviously suck for California it could be good to incentivize starting companies elsewhere.

Consider introducing 50% tariff for all IT related services coming from California. The business would be booming everywhere else in no time. If you get rid of those tariffs in 5-10 years maybe the net result would be better for people. It's not obvious at all that it wouldn't be.
GPS is helpful, and key, to autonomous cars. But let's not forget the various ways GPS can be hacked. We need multiple methods of navigation (visual/radar/lidar to stay within lines and avoid obstacles, inertial/GPS like aircraft use to sanity check your inputs, ground-based authenticated systems to identify current location (imagine being able to poll an intersection for its identity, we already have computers at every intersection with traffic lights)).

If we rely too strongly on GPS, we eliminate many existing roadways with tunnels, and many convenient constructs like parking decks, or new tunnels where they make sense.
Are you intentionally talking past urban planners? They are literally the expert on this topic.
I mean, not too much changes with apple upgrades. Sure, someone in the know can pick out generations, but I (and most people) sure can't. Win10 is a drastic change.
I have seen similar things happen, with anonymous Joe accounts being linked to a network of people. It is very good at it.
To be fair, some voters are regretting their decision.

Here's the former editor of The Sun (a large uk tabloid "red top") saying he regrets voting leave.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/former-sun-editor-ke...

There are many others, but I link this one because, well, he should have known better.
> That's because any Trump supporter (be it by privilege or other) seems to be unfazed by Trump's racism and xenophobia.

If you say that one cannot morally support Trump because Trump is a racist and xenophobe at heart, would you also say that one cannot support Hilary, because she is a drug warrior and "tough on crime" crusader at heart?

(I think the answer is no, because it's reasonable to support a politician without endorsing all of that politician's world views).
>this will affect minorities, immigrants, and Muslims

It is possible to support policies that affect these groups without being racist or xenophobic. It's unfortunate that there are groups that will suffer as the result of things like immigration laws, but there are several very strong arguments to support immigration laws. Would we want unlimited, open immigration from Mexico? The vast majority of people would say no, but that's also affecting Mexican and South American people tremendously. Why is there no uproar about xenophobia directed at those people?
Interesting way to look at it.

A different way is that Britain (through the mealy mouths of the Boris and Nigel show) is massively conflicted; the ever-popular (Wo)man on the Street is confused and angry from a decade of being bled by "conservatives", and, as often happens, responded to their pain by symbolically punching down. It is obvious that the vote had nothing to do with opinions on the EU to a huge number of voters. This is unfortunate, but often happens, especially when there are opportunists looking to ride anger to power.

The problem is that that anger is dangerous and unpredictable. I think the little weasels never expected to actually win, and now they've had their bluff called. Just watch little Boris try to jib and dance around all their lies on his recent appearances - it would be great comedy if this weren't all so dangerous.

My bet is that England (I'm not talking about Britain) doesn't leave; Scotland, however, does eventually get a divorce, and I don't yet know what I think about Ireland.

And the Boris and Nigel show ends like a lot of these little fits - they both learn to not care about their reputations and make out just fine after demonstrating their incompetence at running a proper insurrection.
I am not sure we can make cities that are great to live in beyond a certain size. I don't know about the US, but in Europe smaller cities (less than one million citizen) do not have the systemic problems than larger cities have.

However, economic activity draws people and companies in, which generates more activity. We end up with over-populated cities like Paris, and the issues that come with them: ever-increasing housing prices, large suburbs, long commutes.

So I wonder if the main issue is really cities, or how to find a way to go from large monolithic cities to several reasonably-sized cities that cooperate. The technologies involved being transportation, remote work tools, etc.

Also, when I think about cities I like in Europe, an interesting point is that they are often built on the seashore (Lisbon, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Nice...).
I worked in the Microsoft c# & asp.net world for many years (since 1.1). The company I worked for got acquired and our product essentially killed. Their product is in Java (among other things) and using eclipse. It is horrible.

I love every time I go back to c# to write a tool or test harness. Autocomplete and intellisense allow me to barely type and let the code fly out from my fingers getting my production closer to the speed of my head figuring the stuff out. The difference is amazing.
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Agree in general - but keep in mind that $DEITY is often your neighbors.

Absolutely. I remember way back when there was discussion of what to do with the huge plot of land north of us. Corner store, maybe? The local paper quoted someone in the neighborhood, "who's going to walk to the store in the rain (which a suburban of Seattle gets a bit of)?" Umm, maybe all of the people I see out walking when I'm walking the dogs in the dead of December in the dark and the pouring rain? Back to California with you Mr. NIMBY, the rest of us deal with walking in the rain just fine.

But that's probably the guy that shows up to zoning meetings and I'm...not. Yes, I'm lazy and yes, I should fix that.
Please place your identity-based politics in the trash where they belong.

Wealth inequality and the class struggle are the defining problems of our generation, and all this nonsense about who is more underprivileged than whom is merely a concerted attempt to obfuscate that.
The only reason for me to upgrade is DirectX 12 exclusivity, a practice I personally abhor, and always have. Luckily, there are no games on the PC that use DirectX12 beyond some hackjob implementations for DX11 games. I think I'll be just fine on Windows 7.

I may upgrade when the OS is "finished." For now, though, I think I'll let others trudge through the mud of a forced public beta.

Maybe, just maybe, I might take the plunge when the video games I built my PC for actually require me to.

Until then? No thank you.
But the laws that govern them have maximized the prosperity of people in Britain, just not them. So yes, it is racist and xenophobic to blame anyone but their own country for them not partaking in their country's prosperity.
When the armature for the building is being prefabricated with a milimetre level precision by a CNC metalworking machine, and than assembled on site like lego. This is to minimize the amount of on-site metalwork
That's weird, only shows up for me. I just reposted without the link and it does show up in incognito, so the link must have filtered it.

Youtube comments suck, can't even get paragraphs formatted normally.
The funny part about this "painful" experience is that the TSA has effectively sewn a crisp, clean, machine-embroidered "KICK ME" placard onto the backs of their own uniforms. They're such a blatantly incompetent pack of busybodies that it's actually become fun to mess with them by accepting their repeated invitation to gum up the works by opting out. -- All I have to do is stand here and grin, while you lot stumble around slowing yourselves down and tripping over your own feet? Sign me up!

More seriously, it's also the only form of civil disobedience I can think of so far that has any shot at ending this farce; if more of us opted out more of the time, the system would become unworkable, and it would have to change.
In these types of changes there are riches to be made. The current crop of Russian billionaires made the seeds of their riches in the turbulence transition from Communism to Capitalism. There are likely to be a lot of opportunities here as well if you can find the opportunities.
I disagree. Outdated and thus soon malware-ridden systems are a threat to all systems connected directly or indirectly to them, so users are obliged either to keep their systems clean and up-to-date. Either themselves or through experts, or through automated servicing.

Much like how cars must be serviced in regular intervals if they are to be operated on shared infrastructure (roads).
You could in fact do exactly the kind of formatting in the article on an old mac for exactly this reason. The formatting data was stuffed into the resource fork which the compiler was free to ignore but could be used by the editor.

Interesting sidenote, Windows has supported resource forks since the days of NT, but the only time I ever saw them used was when virus writers were trying to hide their payload. Even Mac files brought over to Windows tended to have their resource forks stripped out and stuffed into some cryptically named directory. Ultimately, the resource forks on Windows were such a forgotten feature that they couldn't safely be used, because you never knew when a user might try to compress a file with an oblivious compression tool or send it via some old DOS program and strip out the resource fork by accident. They are the kind of clever feature that only works if everybody agrees to honor them, and become a total nightmare otherwise.
People say that gets is fundamentally broken as an API, beyond repair.

However, gets could have been "rescued" in C by requiring every implementation to publish a constant, say in <limits.h>, which indicates a maximum of how many bytes (including null terminator) the gets function will place into the target buffer, and ensuring that gets observes this constant.

Indeed, evidently, there was talk of this, and supposedly Doug Gwyn proposed that simply BUFSIZ be re-used for this purpose.

With such a constant in place, programs using gets could be wrenched out of the jaws of undefined behavior by sizing the input array according to that constant, ensuring that there cannot be overflow.

Rather than introducing this requirement, in the end the function was simply removed from the language.
I think that degree of anthill-overturning would be past prudent.
56 seats out of 650 = 8.6%.

Population of Scotland as a percentage of total UK population: 5.3 million people / 64.1 million people = 8.3%.

Seems like the Scottish have about the same level of say as the rest of the UK population when it comes to the House of Commons. Plus, they have their own parliament in Holyrood.
That is the problem they started solving - and customers pulled the rest of the product out of them