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This is some twisted logic if I ever saw it.

"Leave campaign have no plan". Yes, they do, their plan is to re-assert border controls and negotiate the best deal with the EU possible from that starting point. You may not like such a plan, but it is one.

The fact that the contents of such a deal are unknown is entirely due to the fact that the EU refused to discuss or even contemplate any alternative to the status quo. If anyone was idiotic enough to actually try this idea, they'd simply hit the same problem: the EU would not talk to them, and they'd be left campaigning with no plan.

So if your criticism is based on "out voters don't know what they were voting for" then well done, you'd put yourself in exactly the same boat.

Moreover, the same sort of anti-EU feeling that drove Brexit is not isolated to the UK. It's rising all over Europe. 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?

In 2017 there are four votes that could potentially damage the EU, this is coming on the heels of a vote in Austria where the "Austria first" presidential candidate lost by just a few thousand votes.

https://medium.com/@octskyward/ok-what-now-e3f64d38f7
thanks, that was a nice explanation
Basic income and the freedom to pursue things without having to worry about money, could be that opportunity.
There's no prerequisites, Andrew manages to make all the maths self contained. He uses MATLAB/Octave, and the assignments can take around 8 hours or so of work.
There are about 7 big reasons not to brag about it.
London is libertarian, or old school liberal, not left-wing, and Boris Johnson did just fine as an old school liberal mayor before he started agitating for Brexit.
Good news! Now time for all the library and framework authors to add support for .NET Core. I know a lot of people were waiting for RTM before starting this, considering the massive changes between RC1 and RC2.

I've started a support matrix project at https://anclafs.com. Feel free to file an issue or send a PR on GitHub.
Look to how Tokyo does things. A few takeaways:

- mixed use zoning: reduce requirement for long trips by mixing many compatible types of commercial with residential, and remove single housing type developments. Also, allow many smaller apartment complexes mixed with single family houses, instead of segregating housing types.

- street design: No more hierarchical/dendritic street layouts. That is, no more dead-end streets, which lead to collectors, which lead to arterials - you're bottlenecking a huge population through a very small, fast, and unsafe road system. Instead, make the streets highly connected, and narrower to encourage slower but steadier car traffic, and blocks shorter. Porous streets networks can route around bottlenecks and can have many more concurrent cars than even crazy-huge Texas-style freeways.

- no big street setback requirements: encourage density by removing crazy suburban-style setbacks.

Edit: I wanted to make a plug for form-based zoning, which is zoning where the form (building type) is zoned, not its use. This doesn't necessarily refer to its style (Neoclassical, Modernist, etc) but how it interacts with the surrounding buildings on the street. E.g. buildings above a certain size might not be allowed in an area, and not be allowed to take more than N number of yards of street frontage. Setbacks of a certain size might be prohibited, or allowed. This allows of a reasonable number of mixed uses like restaurants, shops, and other day to day commercial uses to coexist with residential. This does not mean that heavy/noxious industry can be built up there. This was the error the Euclid v. Ambler decision made 100 years ago: they threw the baby out with the bathwater by restricting zoning by type; there is not a small amount of racism that came with Euclidean/exclusive zoning, e.g. removing a formerly viable way for immigrants to start a business with a house above (a la Bob's Burgers) and thereby increasing the barrier for success.
“Hello world” in the BCPL language on the Xerox Alto simulator
Sure but that's true whether they're in Kansas or the Valley.
Well... they call it overdraft protection, which is when they loan you money for a fee to cover a purchase that exceeds your balance.

In practice, instead of getting "Declined" and using a credit card instead, you end up paying $35 in order to borrow $1.
Klarna, Minecraft, King, Soundcloud, Paradox ...
See, this is a GREAT comparison, because thinking, "No one will call 911 at 3am" EASILY falls into the realm of destructive negligence. Like "I didn't realize these cars could be hit from the side!" or, "I didn't realize how much worse I drive when I am drunk, officer!"

In the 3am 911 case, those admins could EASILY have cost LIVES with their decision. If that inbound call handler's machine had updates waiting, or more especially had any difficulty installing those updates, you could've had HOURS of downtime in a scenario where MINUTES mean life or death!

I guess my main point is that naivete like that is called criminal negligence and is punishable under the law in many cases. There may have been no malicious intent, but in a case so potentially catastrophic, it hardly matters, and if those admins didn't get into DEEP TROUBLE, they're either very lucky or your administrative discipline system is VERY broken.

And Microsoft is straying into similar territory with this whole thing.
The Industrial Workers of the World was founded in 1905 in Chicago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_Worl...

There was also the Women's Trade Union League, founded in 1903, and the American Federation of Labor, founded in 1886.
There is an example of a player of SimCity creating the optimal city which consisted of a reusable grid of components ensuring everyone had access to work and services within a reasonable distance from their homes [1]. There were a lot of assumptions that went into it - including perpetual access to water and a completely flat layout - but it at least seemed to validate the belief I have had that a city at heart simply needs to fulfil a certain set of needs within a reasonable radius and the people can take it from there.

When I lived in Rome briefly I was astounded at how livable it was. Throw a dart at a map of Rome and as long as you don't hit a major park, ruin, government building or the Vatican, you can reasonably assume that within a walkable radius, you will find grocers, restaurants, convenience stores, bars, hairdressers, gelato shops (there is a LOT of gelato in Rome), and everything else you need in your daily life. The tiny twisted streets barely offer enough room for a single car at a time - and my hat is off to the brave individuals who choose to drive through them - but because everything is so dense, you really don't need a car. You barely need public transit either, unless your place of work is too far to walk most days. It is also worth noting the majority of buildings in Rome are within 3-6 stories high, much unlike the American expectation that city centers feature enormous skyscrapers that pack people like sardines. Ultra-dense Manhattanized city centers may be efficient, but they lack the ancient and livable simplicity of old European cities.

Exception: Australia manages brilliantly to merge dense city centers with far-flung suburbs with an excellent mix of trains, light rail, and busses, which allow residents of large cities to get around easily without needing a car at all.

[1] http://www.vice.com/read/the-totalitarian-buddhist-who-beat-...
As far as I remember the long term plan is to stack the remaining APIs from the full .NET on top of .NET Core.

So Microsoft would have: .NET Core - base for everything. .NET - Windows specific bits, Xamarin - mobile specific bits.
Eesti can into Nordic?
We have autonomous vehicles once you forbid pedestrians on the road.
They link to some benchmarks in the article: https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks (they're a little hard to read on mobile, but I think the tl;dr is "plenty fast" (or to quote the article: "Our lab runs show that ASP.NET Core is faster than some of our industry peers. We see throughput that is 8x better than Node.js and almost 3x better than Go, on the same hardware. We’re also not done! These improvements are from the changes that we were able to get into the 1.0 product.")
My biggest issue with Windows Update (specifically) is that it has absolutely no clue what a laptop is. If I'm on a laptop, I'm likely to be out working from site to site, so don't force me to keep my laptop ON so updates can install! Ugh. This is just stupid-headed engineering.
It would be very difficult to justify letting the Scots maintain a deficit worse than Greece but without the same German-led austerity.
You're right, the link was updated after the announcement post was made public (was https://www.microsoft.com/net/) :)
Beat me to it. Without some sort of income guarantee, most people would not move to remote cities.

edit: not sure why this is controversial. other than retired folks, who would move to the middle of nowhere as a result of this "kickstarter" if they aren't going to be guaranteed a job there?
>she was always careful to opt-out of the constant requests to upgrade.

Why? Why would you NOT want to upgrade? I get that restarting in the middle of a skype call is shitty and ridiculous, but it has been a year now.
Barcelona's block layout comes to mind: http://projectivecities.aaschool.ac.uk/portfolio/yuwei-wang-...
A friend accepted the Windows 10 update but then his Asus laptop had some failed windows update and went into a reboot loop. Completely unable to boot. This was 6 months after Windows 10 was released.
Brexit and the future of Europe
Yeah, while you can solve it that way, you're not getting any insight from the analysis. Logistic regression assumes all data are known exactly, while error bars are important for this case. Take a look at my comment to the parent for a better way.
> Whether the OS is proprietary isn't the important facet of this issue.

The OS being proprietary is an important issue. With libre software, lightweight forks that still work in old hardware can be maintained. Also, the software stack can be customized. Note that it's not security patches what makes software slow, but the zillions of layers of indexers, UI frameworks written in three layers of dynamic languages, etc that are included in a desktop environment. A modern GNU/Linux distribution function decently on old hardware as soon as you swap the desktop environment. With either you upgrade to a 20GB OS with a desktop environment that requrires 2 gigs of ram and so on, or you are stuck with an unsupported Windows XP.

> Custom software initiatives make sense for people who have a high aptitude and the time to undertake them. This use case doesn't fit the vast majority of people who use computers.

The average american watches 4 hours of TV a day [1] and they spends more time on Facebook than taking care of their pets [2] and takes weeks of training in order to get a driving license. I think the average person has the time to spend one or two days, when they upgrade their computer, pairing with a technician to get to understand the software they have and how it works and how to protect themselves. It's a matter of priorities. Sadly, for a lot of the software industry, an empowered userbase is not in their best economic interest.

[1] https://www.csun.edu/science/health/docs/tv&health.html

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-23/americans-...
No idea, but they don't go in your ear, so much less likely to trigger an infection I would think.
Depends on where you are - HN uses cloudflare, so it can be incredibly quick (even on 3G on a mobile) if you hit a cached page.
Yes! I keep forgetting I have it installed :).
They use it for spacesuits. See "Spacesuits and Node.js - How open source will change NASA" by their Director of Software Engineering [0]. Also, "One small step for the Thinker: A case study of RethinkDB at NASA" [1].

[0] https://vimeo.com/168064722

[1] https://rethinkdb.com/blog/nasa-case-study/
> Will it matter to Scotland's goal of joining the EU after getting independence from the UK that they would have the worst deficit in the developing world

You probably intended to say "developed" instead of "developing", but the link actually says worst in the OECD, which is not equivalent to the developed world (though most OECD members are in the developed world, lots of the developed world is not in the OECD.)
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Prior to the current wild swings in the currency markets, the price of the UK pound was always pushed up by the intensity of the economic activity in the City of London.

This screwed the rest of the country over by preventing a proper devaluation of the currency; making industrial exports overly expensive, and generally destroying the competitiveness of UK industry.

(Of course, the generally shit state of UK management didn't help much either).

The mispriced pound killed jobs and generally contributed to the economic malaise and sense of exclusion which helped to produce the resentment which produced this referendum result.

As the situation stands, the plummeting pound is going to help this a bit, but only to the extent to which the electorate have shot the financial sector in the head, and forced it to be exported to the Eurozone.

As I see it, a (very very limited) form of Londipendence may be our best bet at preventing the flight of jobs and financial services revenue whilst decoupling the pound from the deleterious effects of an economy overly skewed towards London and overly skewed towards financial services.

We'd get a more well-rounded economy, and we'd keep the financial services jobs and expertise in London.

Far from radical, I think its' the closest thing that we've currently got to a win-win situation.
How do costs go down by having to repurchase what would have already been available for free?
Sure it's obvious. Like I said I "get it" it's just core has always been a part of .Net just less directly referred to so my first thought was this was .Net 1.0's core until I started reading through the link.

Overall I think it's a good move just a little confusing (unless I'm the only one) for those who have done .Net work before.
Hacker city ? Put me down for a summer home.

could you have a city that is a mix of private / public and be a public company listed on a stock exchange.

Would be interesting if one could buy stock in the nyc or San Francisco or even a Singapore of the future.
Maybe polyamorous?
This looks super interesting to me :) something I really thought we do need. I will be looking into how Spry develops in the future.
I think it's important to point out that not only did Twilio choose a great problem to address, it was (critically) also one that a large audience already understands is very difficult. There are plenty of equivalently "valuable" problems to solve, which aren't as easy to communicate effectively, because most people lack enough domain-specific knowledge to understand the difficulty of the problem.

This, I think, is the core truth behind the oft-repeated observation that you should "pay attention to the startups with a few customers that absolutely LOVE their product". Not all valuable problems are ones that a general audience is likely to comprehend, but when you narrow it down just to the audience that does, how do they feel about what you're doing?

Put differently: the Twilio demo is so effective not just because they have a very good problem, but because it's an exceptionally common one as well. They have an impressive solution to a tough problem, sure, but they laos did a very good job aligning "the people who have this problem" with "the people listening to this demo", and that's what makes it great.
It means some 20 or 30 something didn't bother to see if there was already a previously existing term, and decided to jump on the "polyfill" bandwagon because it seems cool.
I see I was wrong. I found a better phrase to search in Google to find many more examples of existing use. One is the movie "Not a Feather, but a Dot", with a trailer at http://morristowngreen.com/2013/05/28/meet-director-of-movie... and the movie site at http://www.notafeather.com .

I still don't think it's common, though I agree it's not rare. I provided counter-evidence that my observations are not solely biased by the people I know nor the regions I've lived in. To flip your question around, perhaps you are in the one region of the US where people do that?

The other part of my response was because I didn't like the wriggle room in your paragraph describing how being 'casually racist in informal conversation is still a "thing" in the United States' and that such uses are 'very inappropriate in most cases and should be avoided especially in formal communication.'

HN is full of informal conversation. Is HN casual enough that it's one of the few places where this "thing" is appropriate? I don't think that's what you meant. I wanted to make a more firm statement which removes that possible interpretation.
Also here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement
What about rethinking to what extent large cities are and will still be necessary? Thanks to the internet, lots of jobs that required going into an office every day can now be done remotely. As collaboration tools get better, I'm hoping that companies will become more receptive to allowing this.

The company I work at in SV does not allow remote work, but I've heard from a few of my teammates that if it did, they would seriously consider moving away from the area to someplace with a much lower cost of living. I would too.
Microsoft’s open source .NET Core and ASP.NET Core hit 1.0
Every time I travel to silicon valley I'm amazed how difficult it can be to find electricity. It may seem like a small thing, but I think accessible electrical outlets should be as important as public water fountains. Similarly, water fountains and bathrooms should be accessible!

I'm really fascinated by the way that Dubai is designed in terms of industry-specific districts, it gives you scalability but also network effects and serendipity. They also have overground driverless trains. Masdar city nearby has an underground driverless car system and sustainable architecture, a very attractive model.
I know it _just_ launched but oh my god how do you launch such a slow site. I'm trying to load the "System.Drawing" API docs and Chrome inspector just shows a GET pending alongside a _lot_ of analytics and marketing calls being made. I waited to see how long it'd take, 30s to load the page: http://i.imgur.com/Z6y1ulSr.png

Anyway, ignoring the launch issues: My #1 annoyance with MSFT documentation is sub-classes being on a different page. If you want to call a DirectX method which takes 4 inputs, you need to open up a new tab for each of those inputs to see the possible values / etc. I hate it, very very much. I hope their new documentation doesn't have this issue, I'll check back again in a few weeks to see if I can actually load pages on this site.
The "XP situation" happened because Win7 sucked. You do not get to release an awful, backwards "update" to your software and then expect that people pay you for it on the grounds that you also can't be bothered to keep updating the old, good version.

We have lost sight of the fact that software, operating systems included, is supposed to serve the consumer. Users choose to upgrade because there is a better version available. Developers demanding that users upgrade because, well, gosh, that's just what you do, is backwards.

Microsoft's decision to not charge for the Win10 update was a step in the right direction, which they promptly reversed by nagging and abrupt, involuntary updates.
> On January 19, labor leader Joe Hill was arrested on murder charges and executed 21 months later.

I looked into this fellow. One really interesting bit is that he seems to have been executed for a crime he didn't commit, because he refused to give an alibi.

> His most famous songs include "The Preacher and the Slave" (in which he coined the phrase "pie in the sky"[4]), "The Tramp", "There is Power in a Union", "The Rebel Girl", and "Casey Jones—the Union Scab", which express the harsh and combative life of itinerant workers, and call for workers to organize their efforts to improve working conditions.[5]

> In 1914, John G. Morrison, a Salt Lake City area grocer and former policeman, and his son were shot and killed by two men.[6] The same evening, Hill arrived at a doctor's office with a gunshot wound, and briefly mentioned a fight over a woman. Yet Hill refused to explain further, even after he was accused of the grocery store murders on the basis of his injury. Hill was convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. Following an unsuccessful appeal, political debates, and international calls for clemency from high-profile figures and workers' organizations, Hill was executed in November 1915. After his death, he was memorialized by several folk songs. His life and death have inspired books and poetry.

> The identity of the woman and the rival who supposedly caused Hill's injury, though frequently speculated upon, remained mostly conjecture for nearly a century. William M. Adler's 2011 biography of Hill reveals new information about his alibi, which was never introduced at his trial.[7] According to Adler, Hill and his friend and countryman, Otto Appelquist, were rivals for the attention of 20-year-old Hilda Erickson, a member of the family with whom the two men were lodging. In a recently discovered letter, Erickson confirmed her relationship with the two men and the rivalry between them. The letter indicates that when she first discovered Hill was injured, he explained to her that Appelquist had shot him, apparently out of jealousy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill
Is having an HN or Reddit account considered social media?
Looks nice. Much more useful than the original release with only the Enterprise Mobility docs.
Basic income is absolutely one route, but I can think of a few others. A startup could thrive in a smaller city where their employees could achieve a high quality of life without extraordinary expense. You'd still have to solve the recruiting problem, however, and employees would be wary of lock-in effects.
I'm going to get flamed for this, but I deeply regret the hours I put into learning Angular.

I'm still disappointed that Angular 2 is such a sharp departure from Angular 1 and certain aspects of Angular 2 development, e.g. the fact there is still multiple CLIs, the fact that "compiling to Dart" is still a thing, and the fact that it's still unreleased give me no confidence to build anything in Angular. I can't help but feel that with any library, less is more, and that Angular 2 is already trying to do way too much. IMO Angular 2 should be a Typescript-only library with one CLI and one way to manage your files (among other changes made in the name of simplicity).

All this being said, I hope I'm terribly terribly wrong, and Angular 2 becomes the super-simple-way-to-create-great-UIs that the authors intended that the whole community can follow along. This article however, made me ask myself if that will ever happen.
They're following Microsoft's example, I have iOS 9.2 in my iPad, I receive at least two nags per day...
Paste 2. The new way to copy and paste for Mac
You are correct - I was trying to avoid the acronym and ended up completely bodging the meaning; I modified my comment in response.
Jesus! I had to force-kill my browser after a tab (didn't know which one at first) started eating all my 6GB of RAM, then realized it was this one when I restored the session. I almost reboot my computer entirely if it wasn't because I was doing something important in the Terminal. One would assume that posting a link in this website would be after some testing of the link in itself. I guess I will need to be extra careful when clicking shared links, specially if they have JS in the URL.

Linux 3.16 (amd64)
Google Chrome 52.0.2743.41 beta
Four other tabs open, five with this "anime-js.com"