skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a bad HN comment and so blatant a violation of the site guidelines that we'd normally ban the account that posted it, but I hate to ban accounts that people have had for years. If you post anything like this again, though, we will ban you. Civil and substantive comments from now on, please, or none at all.

Edit: I just noticed how many other inflammatory comments you've posted to this site against its rules. Please don't do that any more.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
At least amazon.de already provides English language version of the site. I don't know about French Amazon, never used it for ordering.
In Chrome I use Referer Control: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hn...

This gives you the ability to whitelist websites, and also a lot of control over what kind of requests are blocked and what aren't. I have it set to block everything by default, and only a few websites cause problems.
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." --Jeffrey Hammerbacher
I just bought a Mercedes Benz and I absolutely disagree. The GLA in the US is absolutely barebones, you have to pay for literally everything, while in EU even the most basic version of that car is very decently spec'ed. Maybe it's not true if other models,but literally every single review of the GLA that I watched on YouTube had to be corrected for the EU market because of how poorly the US cars are configured by default.
That would cost them tons of jobs to do that.
From the decision (linked in the EFF article):

For example, hacking is much more prevalent now than it was even nine years ago, and the rise of computer hacking via the Internet has changed the public's reasonable expectations of privacy. ... Now, it seems unreasonable to think that a computer connected to the Web is immune from invasion. Indeed, the opposite holds true: in today's digital world, it appears to be a virtual certainty that computers accessing the Internet can - and eventually will - be hacked.

That's what you get when you combine the doctrine of "expectation of privacy" (which essentially confounds Is and Ought) and the insecurity of today's software.
I took it as sarcasm...
What about the precedent of the previous, say, five or six centuries of European history? All of that is, in part, the story of "other countries' own interests."

History has rightly judged Neville Chamberlain as an abysmal failure in dealing with German interests. I'm happy that Britain has given Merkel and her cronies the finger.
Germany would have a large trade surplus even without EU. They just make a lot of stuff other countries want
> In my opinion, the chances of any sort of war at this point remain pretty low.

At this point yes.

But what about 10, 15, 50 years from now on?

My opinion is that the chances of a war are far greater in a Europe of nations vs a Europian union vs a Europian nation.

I really hope Germany, France, Italy and the rest take a notice on the wake up call and transform this to an opportunity for tighter integration.

And Greece too. Get your shit together Greece!
> The scaremongering goes on even after the vote has been called...

The terms are simple: You can't have free movement of goods without the equally free movement of people. As long as people in the UK are ok with the free movement of people (even though the fight against it was a big part of the "Leave" campaign) then I would see no reason why us, the rest of the EU people, should impede the UK products' access to the European market. You can't have your lunch and eat it too, meaning you can't be against free movement of people (against "immigration") and then expect us to accept your economic products. It's not "scaremongering", this are the true, hard facts.
"this was a vote against non-British"

Unfortunately that was my impression of the main motive behind this Brexit vote - xenophobia.
With current technology diesel engines have to run less efficiently to ensure more deisrable gases being produced.
More from Alan Kay: http://alan-kay.wikia.com/wiki/Alan_Kay_Wiki
Meh, I think that argument (stealing everyone's information) is post-rationalization with a particular preset frame of reference in mind.

So I disagree with the 'kernel of truth'. That isn't the kernel of truth. Google isn't stealing everyone's information (IP laws are weird sometimes, but the bottom line is there isn't a natural monopoly to information like there is to, say, real property), and there is a beneficial exchange. When done right, and adwords is a good example, ads can benefit the user as well.

Internet search engines are beneficial to the user, the site owner, and society as a whole. Adwords are very powerful, and they are underwriting a whole host of really awesome shit, eg: android, chrome, gmail, google photos, tensorflow, and much much more. Overall civilization is benefiting immensely.

Think what would the world be like if Google was run by the kinds of people who ran tobacco and oil companies? The kind of people who have repressed scientific discovery in the name of profits. Google has it's warts, but nothing that evil. I think we are forgetting how shitty people are out there, and we are getting too relative. Google to perfect is a lot closer than Exxon to perfect.
Monads and cookie jars
SVVR2016
Polls are generally unreliable, they are only recognised as such in the UK.

They would have given him a better a deal on immigration, which they thought was an absolute non starter, and was the main grief against the EU. I think it would have made a difference.
But how well does the UK do on democracy: Scottland and Northern Ireland will be removed from the EU against their will, by a narrow majority mostly built in Northern England. How does that actually get people a government closer to them? It seems much more sensible to remove the useless middle layer (i.e. the UK) and for everyone to collaborate in the EU.

The EU being anti-democratic sounds like a case of "citation needed" for me. What major problems remain after the 2009 changes?
It will help British industry, while hurting savers, so maybe it's more a transfer of wealth than an overall benefit or loss?
You can bet that the big EU countries (Germany and France especially) are going to play hardball to make an example of someone who dares to quit the EU.
Hacking Uber – Experts found dozen flaws in its services and app
Globalism still means there could be countries. But borders will mean less.
What do you mean? I am not predicting a war, but pointing out its possibility is inherently volatile.
Are there any examples of Kay's ideal other than The Internet? Especially systems that I could actually inspect and learn about in detail, rather than read short stories about.
The historians of the future will point at Greece for playing a major role in brexit and any subsequent demise of Europe with gaming the financial system and f*ng up the immigration issue.
I don’t have a horse in this race, but the language you use (‘bigoted’) is way too strong…

The UK is a really popular immigration destination (perhaps due to it being a rich English-speaking economy and the legacy of its colonial empire).

Let's say the British public is willing to accept a fixed amount of immigrants. The UK can easily fill this up with high-skilled immigrants (Masters/PhD’s in technical fields). Wouldn't that be better than accepting blue-collar workers from Eastern Europe? Are you ‘bigoted’ because I think a PhD from India would be better for the economy than a blue-collar worker from E-Europe?

It is high-time that the UK start re-engaging with its own commonwealth. This includes closer trade and immigration.
Except that IP violation, isn't a form of theft.

Also, Google, and every other search engine, is covered under fair use.
The average age of someone who is voting to leave is above 60, the average age of someone who is voting to stay is below 35. The older generation have voted for something that the younger generation did not want but are now stuck with. They have voted away their future for short term gains.

The sooner the baby boomers are all retired the better.
you can't really negotiate trade tariffs without agreeing on consistent regulation (i.e. you won't be able to sell stuff which is illegal in the EU).
So basically you end up in the same position, having to abide by EU regulation, but without having weight in the decisional process.
It's silly, really.

FWIW, there is a host of things where nothing will change, as most treaties don't get invalidated and the UK is still a member of the council of europe, EEA, EU customs union etc
[quote]Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, has told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that he thought it was a mistake for the Vote Leave campaign to say that it could save £350m a week by leaving the EU and that the money could go to the NHS.[/quote]

Well, nice to see that UKIP is wasting no time backtracking from the lies they sold this vote with.
No, it isn't compatible with any of the existing APIs that accept array or strings.

So making it compatible would probably require breaking its semantics.
Think that would politically difficult at the cost of many of jobs.
Looks like we might up with a "United Ireland" referendum and a Scots "Indy Ref 2" - both NI and Scotland voted pretty strongly to stay in.
Amazon.de just introduced a new translated UI for english. Click the globe icon on the menu bar, next to "My Account" and select english. Haven't tried it myself, so I can't comment on the quality of the translation.
> But won't the UK just be able to pretty quickly renegotiate basically similar terms again anyway?

You seem to think that the EU is made of sensible people. It's not. Indeed, Brussels is at the very root of the problem. The terms they'll offer will be humiliating.

I can assure you, that they'll be nothing that a UK gov can sign and we'll be displayed in a very, very public manner to make the Britons feel humiliated.
Yes, to an extent. 52-48 is quite too close to mean anything other than "the Leave vote won". A lot of voters could have changed their minds either way had the vote been a week ago, tomorrow morning, or in a month.
However, the UK economy is relatively small compared to other EU export markets. Specifically, this means that as a percentage of the total, it's not going to move the needle nearly as much as it will in the UK.

It's definitely going to hurt, but it's nothing like the pressure that will be on the UK.
NATO's time has come and gone. Europe needs to defend itself against Russia. It's not like they lack the resources; the only thing they lack is the will. No one wants a strong German military because that has always led to catastrophe in the past, but maybe it's time for them to re-arm. I mean, what are the odds that they'll produce another megalomaniac?
Please don't take threads off topic like this, please don't call names, and please don't sling accusations about astroturfing and shillage so lightly. That's a breach of civility here.

If you're genuinely worried about whether HN is being manipulated in this way, you could read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11844253, and if you want to know how serious we are about cracking down on abuse when we see it, you could read https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix=true&page=0&dateR.... Considering how much work we put into it, I think "buy moderation points in bulk from ycombinator" was in rather bad taste.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11964225 and marked it off-topic.
Well I also use uMatrix which covers the cases where the built-in option does not. It can also be controlled on a per-site basis. I assume the functionality is pretty much the same.
No one has any data one way or the other, and will not for at least ten years. The UK entered uncharted territory. Your guess regarding what the future holds is about as good as anyone's, including those of the experts.
Using the message crackers and type safe handles introduced in Windows 3.1 SDK made it somewhat better.

In any case, OWL, VCL and later on MFC were my tools during those days, when given an option.
What does it mean? The Powers That Be have prognosticated every manner of doom should Brexit succeed. Despite that fear mongering, the threats and demands of all major political parties, many corporations and foreign leaders, the brave people of the UK have asserted their sovereignty. Over 72% of the entire electorate voted and produced a clear majority. That is monumental.

What happens next? Next is the shaming; the usual suspects will condemn the UK as an island full of racists. The political class will start trying to figure out how to achieve "Brexit-in-name-only." The BBC will come up with a story template they'll reuse annually telling how -- if they had it to do again -- a majority would vote stay. What happens next is the elites will figure out how to work around their subjects and nullify undesirable electoral outcomes, as they always do.
This applies to Apple's stuff in general. If you live in the US and mostly interact with Americans it works well. If you live elsewhere or communicate with people outside the US then Maps, iMessage, and the stock Apple keyboard will find their way to your junk folder.
You've been downvoted but as European I can say that the part of your comment about Europe is true and that's why we should be careful about taking the way of nationalism again. With the EU we fixed the major problem (wars), anything else is less important and can be fixed with some good will. Not that having to go through borders and possibly multiple currencies and tariffs every time we move and buy won't be a major pain in the ass, still a less major problem than others.
#3 is where its all at. I suspect this is the start of a wave of anti-globalisation action worldwide.
Decided to make a lightsaber app
I can easily see the stupid conservative government of Poland starting some motions to leave EU(despite the fact that Poland is one of the largest beneficiaries of the EU) and if it did,then Russia would be super happy. Not saying there would be war,but if Ukraine was in EU then the whole crimea business wouldn't have happened.
You can't free market your way out of it

I'd argue you might be able to have a generous social safety net if you adopted a high tax, low regulation approach.

EU is high tax high regulation, US is medium tax medium regulation.
When talking about trade deficits, I always like to remember what one of my econ professors said about treating them as scorecards, which is usually misleading.

Exports are things we sell, imports are things we get to keep.
Two things:

- A blitzed economy coupled with increased nationalism... ring any bells? I'm obviously guessing about the economy, but it's not unlikely.

- Russia. A dissolving Europe is going to look... let's say "interesting" to a certain Mr. Putin.

I agree with you that the chances are low, but they are definitely higher than yesterday.
I'm not saying that 52% of the UK voted leave because of immigration, but I'm certain that at least 4% did, which is enough to clinch the win. In an otherwise tight race, that is a big difference so I think it really has trumped other policy issues in this case. But I can't 'prove' it if that's what you're looking for. I don't think it is an unreasonable statement given that the polls repeatedly identified immigration as the key issue driving the leave vote eg [1].

[1] http://m.smh.com.au/world/brexit-poll-why-the-british-people...
This comment [1] from /u/he3-1 on Reddit has some good reasons that many think this is bad:

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Economist here. This is what a recent poll of economists on this issue looks like [2], we have a pretty good idea of some of the things that come next and they are not good.

There are four major areas of concern;

• London is the financial center of the EU because the UK is both in the EU and is relatively friendly to financial services. Absent the UK having a regulatory treaty with the EU (which they can't without being part of the EU) financial services will be forced to move to the mainland. Even prior the vote there was work underway on this, the first movements will begin to occur in a couple of weeks. Several other sectors are similarly at risk.

• When the UK leaves it has no trade treaties with any other country in the world. This means all British goods will incur new or higher tariffs in all trading partner countries, British goods become more expensive when compared to comparable goods produced elsewhere. There is not a magic button here, it typically takes decades to either create new treaties or join an existing one.

• If the UK decides it wants access to the single market it also needs to adopt single market rules, effectively accepting all EU regulation but without having any voice in that regulation. That's assuming France & Germany don't just block UK access to the single market out of spite.

• The UK no longer has visa free access to EU states and the same is true of the EU to the UK. There are enormous numbers of British ex-pats who live on the continent and enormous numbers of non-UK EU citizens who live in the UK. Even if the UK & EU manage to push through a very hasty set of reforms allowing those who have lived there for n years to remain we are still talking about pretty significant labor displacement & disruption.

When every major central bank in the world have brought in extra staff and have prepared their emergency liquidity facilities you are going to have a bad day. I expect the pound to hit dollar equality tomorrow, its going to be the ERM disaster on steroids.

---- end quote ----

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4pkt3k/bbc_forec...

[2] http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-re...
I currently favor models that go after "easy exit, hard entry". Freedom of movement without standards causes problems. We should be free to go where we please, but it's up to other nations to set the price.

Within a nation, tiered citizen privileges with some sane defaults should control the degree of social security. Keep human rights intact, keep a basic standard of living intact, but ensure that all work is productive and that the people receiving welfare have a plan to not be economic deadweight.

I'm just one miller on the content farm: if there's one thing that I'm going to take away from this, it's that my ratiocinations don't mean jack shit. I'm still curious as to what other people think.
I don't understand. If they don't want job losses, they have to trade with us.

I'm expecting most EU countries wanting avoid as many job losses as possible.

Doesn't really matter who's got the most leverage. The optimum strategy for both is low/no tarrifs
The scenario to have another election is logistically hard to organize: the expected deadline for the UK to exit is in 2 years. The time can be easily consumed by having negotiations on post-EU agreements.
The Mill Blackbird
Is LLVM still using SVN??
Coming from MS-DOS and Amiga as background, I was amazed how Win16 was a productivity changer (for the better).

It is funny to see people bashing it nowadays, given how I came to enjoy it.

When I started GUI coding on UNIX, Xlib, Xt and Motif on the other hand were anything but productive.
> Don't like it? Leave.

Please don't use flamewar tropes on HN.
high performance, fuel efficiency, low NO2 emissions

pick two. (this is controlled by software which means they can sell the same engine that differs in performance and fuel consumption)
Reminds me of Penn & Teller's "biased as fuck, but fair" approach to skepticism.
Facebook uses a method called LinkShim with a bit of JavaScript (to avoid garabling copy&pasted links) and a hash of the URL generated serverside to avoid open redirects.

I'm thinking on working on my own implementation for a project

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/link-shim-p...
I get the feeling that if AI gets sprinkled all over iOS, it's going to be annoying because the device will try and suggest actions that you may not want. That turns away users because the device is trying to predict too much.
Another hit for the seeing-is-believing crowd. Automobile VR platform.

More at Autoblog: http://www.autoblog.com/2016/06/23/mill-blackbird-car-rig-vi...

And The Mill's website: http://www.themill.com/portfolio/3002/the-blackbird%C2%AE

The Blackbird is the world's first fully adjustable car rig that cannot only alter its chassis to match the precise length and width of almost any car, but its looks as well. Using CGI, the car rig can be re-skinned to look like any car, and its electric motor can be programmed to emulate the driving characteristics of the subject car, too. Automotive content producers no longer need the physical vehicle for a shoot as the Blackbird is a do-it-all-rig.
True, but... other countries around the world are producing the very same things, even cheaper, but they are taxed in the EU. China has no major deal with the EU for this reason. UK leaving would open to that possibility that Switzerland decided to open in 2010, balancing what comes in and what goes out and both countries got a major boost in respective goods. Swiss got access to the manufacturing in China for Swiss high tech companies and China got access to the major luxury good produced here, plus bank services, med techs and collaborations with universities like ETHZ.
One bold difference it seems between the companies is that Apple idea cycle lives around the release of the iPhone or hardware, though may change in the future. Google, on the other hand, is the complete opposite. The idea cycle is always ongoing (think core app updates) and hardware is an afterthought or accompanies later. This likely will lead to different outcomes for AI implementation for each respective company.

"the promise of extracting new insight from all sorts of data pools will not always be met."

While certainly true, we can all agree that not having access to these data pools is a disadvantage.
The laws in question are not about poisonous plants. It's about laws try to force people to have ornamental gardens rather than veggie patches to keep up the "tone" of the neighbourhood.
...even if you ignore the second largest democraticaly elected body in the world, European Directives are designed by nationally appointed bureaucrats and implemented (as law) how and when the local Parliaments decide. I agreed that the People should have even more direct influence in this process but leaving the room is the opposite of being constructive.

The thing is, the -exit camps can't have it both ways: saying that EU is imposing and than arguing that someone should make it more Democratic or" else we'll leave".
My thoughts as well - it's surprising (well, maybe not) to see how effective these populist movements are these days whether it's France (Front National), Germany (AfD), Britain (UKIP), Czech, Poland, etc.
To me it seems that Switzerland is the only country where its population can be trusted with plebiscitary measures, referendums and other forms of rather direct democracy.
Google and DuckDuckGo do this with a redirect system, right?
I'm hearing a lot of people comment that this will cause a huge macroeconomic deficit worldwide, and I'm going to briefly explain why I believe the Pound Sterling's 9% devaluation is purely speculative.

The UK simply didn't buy the EU's story about the Euro, and now they want a fully independent monetary policy. I'm not sure how much they have studied such possibility, but I bet that taking this to a democratic level was a data-driven decision.

The EU is going to want to put some political pressure for sure, but I don't think that they are going to want to do such a huge damage as wanting to establish a trade embargo with the 5th biggest economy of the world.
Just to clarify, this video is sped up. But yea, I get the point.