skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lots of the illegals cannot even read and write.

Except they can. Many Syrian refugees are proficient in English, and many even speak German. There was strong collaboration between German and Syrian universities historically.

(I'm not saying that everyone can read and write, but then again, Western societies have a surprising number of total and functional analphabets.)

And re the automation argument: Automation only takes away medium-skilled jobs. Jobs are for unskilled people because they don't require training, and that's also why they are a poor fit for robots. (Robots don't like irregular situations and need programming for new tasks, whereas you can easily explain a new task to a human worker in a few sentences.)

I always laugh at how people equate more people in a country with growing unemployment rates. If this really worried you, you would move to outlaw procreation, since procreation produces new workers to compete with you about 18 years from now.
Or in cooler terminology, the circle of death. It can also happen with sheep and larger herd animals, although they're at least smart enough to (usually) stop and take a break when they get tired.
The article addresses this,

>Others argue that student bodies have simply gotten smarter, but by a variety of metrics, this is not the case: standardized test scores and graduate literacy have not improved as grades have risen.

and links to http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/01/same-pe...
It's weird how some phenomena can act so differently when the only variable you change is gravitational acceleration, even if it's still in a pressurized, oxygenated environment and it seems like a change in acceleration would only have superficial effects on a system's fundamental behavior.

It's nice to be surprised though.
But this doesn't prevent ridiculous referendums, like the one about immigration. It shifts the responsibility to the people, true but who cares about who does what? We must care about the results - the society we live in.

It's all about media. I will always blame the media for being extremely biased in whatever they do. I cannot mention today one objective and inquiring media. They ALL report what people already know or what they want to know. Democracy without objective media is oligarchy.
Yet unemployment is only 5.6%.
I think by Direct Democracy the parent means where every vote is put to the people rather than via an elected proxy like an MP.
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Sort of. AFAIK, cells basically just send out signals and the nearest available cell with a compatible protein that can "read" the signal picks it up.
lol people pull from github on every deployment?

At the very least, you need a local mirror to prevent hogging the network when you're deploying to many servers.
The only conceivable way that a UK government can ignore this result is if the EU comes back with a substantial offer of change including a significant compromise on free movement. That could be used as a reason to trigger a second referendum.

I can't see that happening though and all the rhetoric from the EU and EU nations has been "goodbye and thanks for all the fish".

I expect the government to drag its heels for a while before it invokes Article 50 while it sorts itself out but industry will be clamouring for clarity so it won't drag on indefinitely.
100% with you. If contagion can be avoided, the EU got today its indepence day.
> You're forgetting to take into account those who didn't vote.

Those who didn't vote but could of effectively decided "I don't care enough to participate. You decide for me".

If they were too lazy go out in the rain, mark a piece of paper with a pencil or use a postal vote then they can't really complain after the fact.

I'm sorry if I sound a bit annoyed, this is not directed specifically at you, I just don't like the result.

The issue was important and the voting procedure for those eligible to vote was not onerous.
People have trouble understanding OO because usually it is presented informally with insufferable dog/cat/mouse examples.

Moreover, the fact that "subclassing==subtyping is unsound" is swept under the rug. A lot of people actually grasp the latter at an intuitive level, that's why they're never comfortable with objects.

OO should be taught as abstractly as possible (I recommend Didier Remy's writings). After grasping the concepts, many people will conclude that they'll be better off with FP and modules.
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I'm not sure what you mean? No I don't have anything to do with hubspot...
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -- Upton Sinclair
You can tear out any part of Phoenix. Try to look at passing --no-html to the phoenix new command :)

There is even a generator for json API iirc.
definitely beneficial.

GB was occasionally blocking some EU proposals based on no significant evidence they are that bad to be blocked.
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> this may be good news for the EU, even when we
> sacrifice a generation of UK citizens for our benefit.

As a British citizen, I'm appalled by the sentiment expressed here. It flies in the face of the ideas and values upon which the EU was founded. I'm not going to say anything beyond that.
Well to be honest if it is badly written and contain nothing of interest...
Sour grapes!

- The Euro collapses as countries leave

- Spain and Italy leave the EU

- the EU collapses completely within 20 years

Look, we can all make wild claims!

I voted remain, but your list is a farce. It's a list of the absolute worse case scenarios.

Obama's gone, the US isn't going to follow through on that threat. It was just fear mongering because they liked the status quo. It was actually a massive misjudgement of the British psyche by Obama. He threatened us thinking it would help the Remain camp! That's not how Brits think, he probably convinced more people to vote Leave with that threat then anyone else, it was a stupid thing to do.

The EU won't be too crazy as it needs access to the UK's market to keep their own economies afloat. It's in the interests of some EU politicians + bureaucrats, not in the interest of the actual states or companies in those to economically alienate the UK now. There's a lot of anti-EU feeling in a lot of other countries and attacking the UK using the unelected bureaucrats of the EU will fuel that, not reduce it.

NI won't leave as it might start another civil war.

The UK economy won't "collapse completely". Not important globally? The 5th or 6th biggest economy is "not that important globally". That's simply not true.

EDIT: Also, what's actually happening in the EU at the moment? You might argue that they're attacking US companies. Data privacy laws. Google anti-trust laws. And the UK is leaving that? But somehow we'd be at the back of the queue...
OOP should be something you only get into after you have written some practical programs

I'd modify that to "practical programs that are nontrivial enough to benefit from OOP", just like how I advocate not teaching about functions until they become useful. IMHO the CS curriculum should start with the low-level basics and work up from there in a natural progression:

- Representation and interpretation of binary data.
- Basic straight-line computation (more like calculation), concept of instruction execution
- Flow control: decisions, loops
- Functions/procedures/subroutines
- Grouping data together: Arrays/structures/records/etc.
- Basic OOP, grouping data and code together: Objects, composition, inheritance
- Advanced OOP: virtual functions/polymorphism/etc.

I have worked with some of that type of Java-student you mention, and it is astounding how many can create huge object-oriented monstrosities (including design patterns), the bulk of which are object creation and method calls, while not understanding arrays or even basics like why datatypes have a finite range. Their code has more object creation and method calls than branches, loops, or simple computational statements. Given that sort of inverted knowledge they have, that they fail fizzbuzz is not surprising at all. It also explains a lot of the inefficiency and bloat in most software. It's somewhat like teaching calculus to students who don't know arithmetic.
Yes, I think this will happen and likely it will happen on a much shorter time-scale than a Scottish vote for independence and entry into the EU.
Referendum was organized under supervision of Russian special forces and Russia acknowledged this. By all laws it was a military operation which is normally called annexation. Hitler made the same annexation in his times.

Interestingly, the survey conducted in 2013 in Crimea doesn't show any sign of Russian language discrimination at that time.

Which proves one more time that all Russian propaganda was just lie.

And you intentionally or unintentionally support Kremlin propaganda.

http://www.iri.org/sites/default/files/2013%20October%207%20...
yeah, so why have it installed at all?
Well, his post was pretty negative towards the UK, yours is a bit too positive...

IMO

Plenty of companies will move to Ireland/Germany.

I think the EU/UK will reach agreements that are more or less the same as they are now (making Leave a bit pointless).

The economy will not collapse, but it will be worse off short term.

I don't think US cares more about either the EU/UK. Equal for all.

If Scotland goes - why would those companies not move to the EU, since it would be about the same difficulty wise?
Higher than any UK General Election since 1992.
Yes, we have deeply opposing views here, obviously. I can clearly see where you're coming from and follow the logic.

Having said that, I strongly disagree, see my initial post. Only the future will tell who will be right (or none of us?). Political Power Play is a gamble, and I bet strongly on a more united europe. Others do different bets, as seen in the brexit vote. All sides contain competent and educated people finally.
Not worse in the 'people are economically worse off' sense. Worse in the 'I worry that someday a psychotic lunatic will be voted in as prime minister/president/whatever' and lead to another massive war sense.

I worry the politician voted in as a protest against elites and globalisation is going to be someone merely using that as a cover for a far worse ideology.
Really fascinated of this kind of semi--outsourced work procedure. Outsource the manual data entry to somewhere else for a minimum cost and then focus on your core strengths alone.
> I am also of the idea that if a country doesn't want to stay

Vastly complicated by the fact that Scotland and Northern Ireland don't want to leave, and will in fact face calls for independence referendums as a result. They get significant funding from the EU in these disadvantaged areas, and I find it hard to believe that the London government will step into the breach and up the funding in the face of a potential recession, and a London-focus over regional focus from Westminster. I can foresee the end of the UK.
I don't really understand this obsession with messages.

We're moving away from it. This is not how we program in the 21st century. The last popular language that supported this paradigm (Objective C) is being replaced and will probably be all but gone in just a few years as Swift (not message based) takes it place.

Besides, this idea of message passing is really not that useful for modern programming anyway but a lot of people still have this weird idea that message passing magically solves the problem of data integrity in parallelism. It doesn't. It does nothing to solve it. You can still have deadlocks and you can still have data corruption.

The only approach that has provably improved our problems in this area is immutability, but even that paradigm comes at a cost that sometimes doesn't make it worth the trouble
In Europe is more like "Plays the FIFA Euro cup" = "Europe" :p
Some of the most elite private high schools in America do not issue grades. Instead, universities have to rely on standardized test scores and recommendation letters
As an Irish citizen I have to say that I certainly don't see it as a hood thing for Europe. It's influence will be sorely missed for what it's worth.
Multiple things. First it is something i like.

Secondly, it is the only way i can absorb information in a way that works. Talks, video, podcast, etc are too slow for me. It lacks a good throughput of information and meaning. Which means i tend to just drop or complete what the speaker is telling.

About applying knowledge : yes everyday, in my life. Once you hit a good amount of knowledge and have a nice way to filter it, think about it and deal with it, thngs become nice. Understanding a problem come faster. You can draw link between different situations or use ideas from other field into yours.

Knowledge is rarely lost.
I'm from Ireland. The potential reinstating of "the border" in the north of Ireland, effectively rebuilding a physical wall based on the outcome of this brexit, is a concern. The psychological effect it will have on Ireland as a people will be tectonic.
Ah, good old Mode X hackery; all that effort for 40 extra scanlines (and paging).
Apparently, Nicola Sturgeon has been in contact with Sadiq Khan. If you're going to upset the status quo you might as well do it in style.

If Scotland and London secedes, I'd vote for it. Unfortunately I think the EU would welcome Scotland but not sure about London.
Interesting. Will this outcome have a profound impact on tangible aspects of your daily life? If so, what are it's most salient features?

Or are you mostly just lamenting your contrymen's xenophobic and isolationist attitudes, without necessarily foreseeing a particular measurable change in your life?
Not exactly into iOS dev but based on my experience, it might be worth checking out the following:

1. Freelancer.com
2. PeoplePerHour.com
3. Guru.com
4. Upwork.com

All looked upon as 'fish markets' and 'sweat shops' by many which is not entirely inaccurate, but you will frequently find decently paying jobs too. You might have to struggle initially (with bottom-of-the-barrel jobs) in order to build up your profile and get some reviews, but once you have a few under your belt, things should start getting better. YMMV
I'd propose sport, namely football. Take a look at how the Euro16 tournament is going, and how the fans are interacting together in France.
The greeks can choose to leave the eurozone (I am an greek an in favor of that myself). This shouldnt affect our position in the EU, it benefits us greatly and has guaranteed a relative stability for a long time.

The UK is our #1 source of tourism (that contributes 2.7% of our GDP) - it's sad that brexit is making it harder for them to visit.
> If a politician keeping a promise is a problem, then we're all doomed

Yes. We are.
I'm not entirely sure how what is being discussed in the article has anything to do with the EU. Surely that same problem applies in the absence of the EU and its replacement just as much.
>I recently heard someone make the argument that while a lot of the Google AI tech is impressive, they haven't really been able to build something that feels that useful as a product in the real world. It's an impressive tech demo for sure at Google's conferences, but once the tech makes it to Android, they don't really become used all that much.

As you mention above when talking about Google+ etc. Google have not really been great at doing products in the past (though they've definitely gotten better).

But the key is that they are getting themselves onto a virtuous cycle for their AI development - they're attracting brilliant minds, which leads to bigger better breakthroughs (like Alpha Go and driverless cars) which leads to great PR and attracts more talent and customers/consumers of their AI.

So what if Google doesn't build AI products, what if AI is the product or platform. What if AI is the future to most things (e.g. automation of routine labour or optimisation for business operations through machine learning). If Google can position themselves to be at the heart of all of this, they can let other developers and companies build on top of that to deliver the useful products. Just like they've done with Android.

How will they monetize that? No idea, in my mind I imagine using consultants or licensing fees but that doesn't feel very "Googley"....
For me the best game of the era was Shadow Warrior. The amount of detail compared to other titles was staggering.
Why would #1 #3 #4 and #5 not apply?

"every code point represents a semantic meaning" is completely consistent with the notion that some code points e.g. have differing visual representation depending on their position in the word.
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> one of the most bloody and backwards "achievements of the human species"

You know very well he is celebrating where this has taken Europe and not the brutal aspects of its history, which, if you're honest, you'll agree are present in all cultures, especially when they rise materially and technologically above neighboring ones. If you stand by your statement, would you prefer to have western civilization go back to pre-roman times? Was it less bloody and more civilized than present-day Europe? C'mon.
I wonder what this will mean for the London tech scene. A LOT of people there are from other EU countries. I will affect the American giants too. Google and others have big development centres in London where it is easy to attract top talent from around Europe. They could re-focus to Ireland or Germany, but it will be harder to make people move there for a job.
Oceanhorn is very Zelda-like, originally made for iOS but later ported to many other platforms. It got great reviews and is not free-to-play.
Independence for London!

Roll on London Independence Party!

</half-joking>

Edit: Calls for London declaration of independence on change.org

https://www.change.org/p/sadiq-khan-declare-london-independe...
What we do is create a static site using Jekyll (or any other SSG) and then add teletext.io on top for content management. Then host it in S3 or GitHub pages.

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This theory was presented at the International Symposium on Ball Lightning in 2010. The proceedings were published in 2012. See my other comment. I agree that it isn't made fully clear in the referenced article.

Anyway, I don't see why a red flag would have to be raised if it wasn't screen by peer review. This is a logical fallacy. The scientific value should be judged on its content, not the context.

Something is very wrong in your logic.
> If anything I feel the failure of OO languages

What failure exactly?

OOP has flaws but it has certainly proven to be extremely versatile and adaptable over these past decades since even today, it's still the dominant paradigm to solve modern problems in computing.
If by elites you mean the middle class and up.
as a training... i read. That is all. I begun when i was 5. Never stopped. So i nearly always was like that. The more you read the more you train your brain to read. And your mind to understand how to deal with knowledge and information. Filter it, classify it, absorb it, apply it.

For non fiction, yes it happens. Lot of book sjust repeat the same thing over and over again. When you begin to read a chapter and can complete what will be said in the next 20 pages just from your understanding of the whole situation, reading it is a loss of time. And it would make me be bored and get down from "The Zone".

I keep track in my brain. I have the advantage of being able to always remember if i have read something by just looking at the backcover and the first lines. I still have to forget a book i read. I can not remmeber all the technicalities of course but far enough to know if i read it before or not.

I reread the books i really like or need when needed anyway. Mainly during vacations.
> The british economy will collapse completely, they are by far not that important globally.

The UK has the worlds fifth largest economy by GDP and the second largest economy in the EU (Germany is larger, France is smaller) [1]. To claim that they're 'not that important globally' is, frankly, asinine. Do you really think that the EU won't also get hurt by the UK leaving? If you think it won't then it's worth asking why EUR/USD has also gone sharply down today...

[1] http://money.cnn.com/news/economy/world_economies_gdp/index....
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Who told you economists can't agree? See this IGM economists poll (note that 'uncertains' largely pertain to specific exceptions or arguing that focus on trade balances doesn't make sense in the first place)

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Definitely. Going from a max workable resolution of 320x240 up to 3d accelerated 640x480 (with far better looking textures due to mip-mapping) was amazing.

The first games I got working on my 3dfx was Quake and Tomb Raider, both game changing for the time.
Like I imagine it felt in 1930s.
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It is entirely accurate. The UK parliament is "supreme", and cannot be bound by previous parliaments. This principle is the basis of the UK constitution.

http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/sovereignty/

Until Scotland leaves the UK, any powers enjoyed by its institutions can be repealed or changed.

Of course in Scotland, the people could choose to be independent, and not be subject to UK parliamentary supremacy.
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Fair enough. However those right wing movements often seem to be the ones that gain significant traction.
What country?