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Mostly about design, I've found some cool Pods and I've integrated them into my projects via CocoaPods. But now I don't understand how to integrate them into my designs. I guess I also need to learn how to design a UI in iOS to begin with.

https://github.com/HighBay/PageMenu
> Isn't Scotland kind of part of EU right now?

Scotland is part of an existing member state of the EU, but it is not a member state of the EU. Were it to become independent, it would likely have to join the EU as a new member state.

There's perhaps an argument to be made that if the UK broke up, each successor would have a claim to be a successor to the UKs treaty obligations and benefits in general, which might carry some weight (though would be extremely complicated for a treaty arrangement like the EU) if it happened before the UK formally started the process of withdrawing from the EU (if it happened after that, even viewing Scotland as a successor to the breaking-up-UK would leave it a short-term member of the EU in the process of exiting under the Article 50 process, inheriting the exit date that the UK has, and needing to negotiate its own exit agreement if it wanted anything but the default exit terms.)
I am amazed at the low level of discussion in the UK even by their representatives.

Here in the US, I find myself wishing political discourse would rise to the level of the UK.
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No. It's pencil and paper. Strictly it's not even anonymous.

http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-1051,00...
There is an unpublished max file size. I think the max file size is 10GB.
So does this mean it's a good time to take a vacation in the UK?
This is

* not based on observed user behavior

* not reproducible by you (recorded/replayed network where possible)

* not reproducible by peers

* in stark contrast to reproducible tests provided by others

You describe it as "highly scientific" and jump straight to a marketing campaign. Honestly, who's skipping a lap of the race?

It's pretty clear the data generated is useful from an engineering point of view. It can help identify problem areas. It's also absolutely clear that the conclusions being marketed are blatant misrepresentations of the work.
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>only for use on desktops
This doesn't seem true. I can use several scripting solutions from my VMs. For example, I am using rclone to sync my backups to ACD.
> The UK move is interesting

Completely with you up to this point.

> On Scotland, it seems to me that Scotland already got their vote

100% agree. If we hadn't just voted to leave the EU. There is every chance that a second referendum will have a significant backing in Scotland now. The last one died mostly from an economic argument. We've just royally blown that as the line "England can't be trusted with the economy" will have more than enough evidence regardless of the oil price. My guess is that it'll all come down to the EU's reaction. In the first ref they were against a break up so they said it would be difficult to re-join. If they spin that around and welcome Scotland, which is a very real possibility, then I think they'll go independent.

> Northern Ireland is in the best position of anyone

Indeed. But they'll not be a New Scotland. Scotland's pretty prosperous nowadays. NI not so much. But the EU is good at throwing cash at small nations so if they vote to leave the UK, and can stay in the EU, they'll be fine. Well, assuming that it doesn't re-ignite the Troubles, of course, which is a not insignificant risk if there's a strong push for a united Ireland.

> I expect Wales and England ... had the most to gain

Really? What I don't get is why the rural parts of England voted out. Westminster really couldn't give a shit about them. As far as I can tell, the whole economies of East Anglia and Wales are based on EU subsidies. I could understand (though not agree with) an immigration argument for cities but they all voted to stay except Birmingham.

> The UK may become a Norway

I sincerely hope not. It's got a much smaller economy that's really quite reliant on oil (though they're working on that). Fortunately we have a fairly large economy although it's centred on services so it's going to get a pummeling for a while. Hopefully we'll only regress about 5 years and not take a lot more than 10 years to make it back up.

> of course the do-well Londoners want to be a part of the EU system

This'll be me in case it wasn't clear from the rant. What's not massively clear though is, while a lot of England and Wales was doing badly in the EU, what is it about leaving that will turn, say Doncaster, into Croesusville?
"flaws of the free market approach"

But, but, (sputters), but the Patriotic American Baby Jesus loves Freedom Markets™.
My first association with brewing directly over ice was when I ordered vietnamese iced coffee many years ago:

https://ineedcoffee.com/brew-vietnamese-coffee/

I've been brewing my coffee directly over ice since I first got an aeropress... which is old enough to be the original blue plastic, whenever that was.

It never occurred to me that this was some magical technique.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11971486
>Seriously? It's one of the worst DEs on linux. Any DE which isn't based on gnome is just cheap nowadays.

I'll take your hot opinion and replace it with mine: Gnome (3) is hands down the worst DE in the entire Linux ecosystem and is actively harming all others by merely existing due to the mentality driving its development: "fuck everyone that's not us, we set the standards and you will like them".

Currently KDE is the most polished and feature complete of the "batteries included" DEs. And even then as a developer I prefer a bare-bones tiling set-up, picking and choosing what I want and having an experience customized to my preferred workflow.
This is a difficult problem to solve. Presumably a trigger warning about trigger warnings would also trigger?
Are you sure?

It seems it's comparable in size, but not smaller

Take a look http://mapfrappe.com/?show=40241 (it's a rough sketch of Switzerland but the size should be right)

Edit: yes, I think parent meant population, not actual size
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"UK is taking advantage of its position as a global financial hub in the EU."

I imagine EU courting Switzerland for assuming this role from now on.
That's not what got me. I don't care about the brand too much, and most of the games I was interested in were supporting Oculus first.

When I read about Revive adding Vive support to Oculus games, I ordered a Vive as well and would keep whichever shipped first. Oculus had my order for 2 months and hadn't done anything; The Vive shipped within a week after putting in an order. That is what killed Oculus for me.
+1 a million times. Maybe we should have an AI consult the voter before voting
I'm keen to learn more about these Freedom Markets™. Can you provide one or more examples, in the real world?
Little more nuanced than that...
I would hope that with a default that could be an internal choice, and they might have asked the EU for help and support.

I certainly don't want the EU to put a government there.

Even if that was not possible, a default would have been good. Normal election would also cause some changes after such a period.

What the EU is doing is just terrible. Not letting them default and making all lending depend on the countries complaints with the EU.
If the exploit is classified, how can it be verified that the exploit actually extracted the evidence claimed? That is, how can the FBI prove that it did not obtain the evidence by other, illegal means (as they have instructed other agencies to do)? Provenance of evidence is everything in criminal cases.
Wow talk about someone not prepared to look at data but instead sneer and insult . Quelle surprise (that's French by the way)
I see a lot of people leaning left and a lot of people leaning Libertarian. What's conspicuously absent is the religious right.
They deserved the backlash for implementing it, and I hope the Rift continues to suffer now that people know Facebook's true intentions. Not to mention how poorly they treated early supporters after the buyout, e.g. stocking Rifts on retail shelves before they'd fulfilled orders for all backers, then telling backers who complained to get a refund and go buy one from a store...

They're only doing the "right" thing because they have no choice. They couldn't pump enough money into third party development to make up for the ill will they'd garnered with this exclusivity DRM, especially not with companies like Valve doing the complete opposite -- giving money to third party devs with no exclusivity deals whatsoever.

Turns out some developers can't be bought[1]. Who'da thunk it?

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/4nxpnq/fuck_facebook_...
(For the sake of fairness, it was a time-limited exclusivity offer that was made to the Serious Sam devs, but an exclusivity offer nonetheless.)
Barely anyone knew who represented them in Europe. Fewer still knew what powers those representatives had.

I suspect 99% could not name more than five people in the EU machine, including Nigel Farage as a free point.

The EU is absolutely other people to the UK.
Time to assemble all the evidence in both directions from sci-fi (such as most of Star Trek: TOS, some of Futurama, etc), feed it into a deep learning algorithm and see if it models a better machine society or a worse one. I trust this is a useful first case to test this hypothesis. :)
It amazes me that such a vote was not compulsory. About 28% (~13m voters) didn't care enough to vote. I suspect that a large majority would have voted to stay if they had to choose. This would likely have resulted in the UK staying in the EU.

IMHO, a change from the norm should require a greater majority (60% majority) if the vote is not compulsory.
Well when I originally thought this was satire I was ready to upvote.
True story: I was an American in the wastelands of Uzbekistan and needed to find a bank to get currency. Locals pointed us in the direction of a tiny cluster of buildings on the horizon. We got there and one of the buildings was indeed a tiny bank of some kind. We gave the person running the place our debit card and he looked at it with surprise. He flipped it over and over then gave it back. They didn't accept magnetic stripe cards-- only chip and pin. What backwater place did I come from that still issued magnetic stripe only cards?
This is incorrect.

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

The EU is the largest trade partner of the US.

And when ordered by US Exports, the EU is the 2nd largest trade partner after Canada.

I suspect the problem you saw was related to American Brands (for food) vs the actual company behind the food. Many foods are bottled/packaged in local plants, and/or resold under local brands.
It's also possible that Scotland's independence happens before or simultaneously with the UK's exit, in which case Scotland could remain a EU member by continuity. This would also be a good lifeline for the rest of the UK once they recover from their spell of madness - form a union with Scotland to sneak back in.
I was able to confirm it by watching a "top 10" of car ads on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eekrb4wJl-k

The ad "tall girl" (Volkswagen, 2013) has a shot where a man exits a small car and is effectively measured against the car and even the frame (his head is cropped when he straightens up). The idea is that it shows that, after a string of shorties, she's about to meet someone who is tall enough for her.

Interestingly the first ad in that Youtube video is the animated dancing robot Citroen C4 from 2005 -- entirely CG. There's also a full scale model car made out of cake, and other humorous tricks. Not a lot of potential roles for the Blackbird.

Another collection of ads (top 10) starts with a VW car driving along with a dog with his head out the window. I think that would pose similar problems for the Blackbird methodology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuXJwR7SKok

It's quite possible that witty art direction and the whole VR/environment mapping/mass customization agenda of the Blackbird are products of two groups of people who just don't intersect in reality.
"Individual nation state cannot deal with a crisis of this magnitude efficiently."

They absolutely can! Britain is now able to say "no more migrants are allowed into the UK", and it will now happen! That is a working long term solution for Britain.

This doesn't help OTHER EU countries of course. But why should Britain care? Those countries got themselves into this mess, so they can solve it on their own.
To be fair, doing the right thing after the wrong thing is different than the right thing in the first place.
> What I don't get is why the rural parts of England voted out. Westminster really couldn't give a shit about them.

As a distant observer, it seems to me that the second sentence is the resolution to the problem posted in the first: Westminster clearly wanted a "Remain" result, Westminster is seen as being unresponsive to the needs of the group in question, so there was a reaction against Westminster and in favor of groups challenging the consensus there.

Now, it may not be rational to expect that the result of that would be a change in government that would result in Westminster caring, but voting is often emotional and not always rational.
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Because the FBI wouldn't lie about stuff like this. And parallel reconstruction does not exist. I meant honestly, if there were any real hard rules, other than do whatever you can get away with, much if not all criminal case evidence would be highly suspect, demanding at the least a retrial.
I have no real reason why I think it would work well, but I have always felt that voting on anything should only be allowed to the people that can show a half decent knowledge of that topic and not for people that just go with the first thing they hear. You might as well flip a coin at that point. If you want to vote, do your part as a citizen and learn about what it is you are voting on, how it will impact you and your country as a whole and if you don't want to do that, don't vote.

Democratic countries gave power to the people, but we basically give it right back because "its too hard", or "i dont have time", etc. so we only vote from our gut feeling and follow the loudest voice. Gut feeling is fine in a fight or flight sense, but not for policies that impact the whole country.

IMO I would think decisions like this and many others would benefit from something similar to the scientific method. Construct your proposal, share it with everyone, let them critique it, revise, share, etc. and then vote. Biggest thing is taking ego out of the equation.
Monkeys get more selective with age
I'd actually modify most referenda and other public elections to include a brief quiz about the choice taken.

For example,

I VOTE:

[_] LEAVE [_] REMAIN:

My choice above means (choose one): (_) more welfare; (_) less welfare.
Foreign trade will be (choose one): (_) simplified; (_) complicated.
etc.

If the quiz choices don't match the vote itself, the vote is INVALID.

Thus the amount of uninformed votes would be reduced to zero.

Of course the options would have to be agreed upon by both sides.

"Oh, but someone could easily be taught to 'cheat', you could tell someone what answers to pick!" Well, sure. Good luck convincing an immigrant to tick the "(_) less jobs for immigrants" box.
to expand on this a little bit;

There were two functions, one that checked whether the occulus headset was connected, and one DRM function. Occulus consolidated those functions into one, in what many assumed to be a move to be able to justify taking down projects like these under the guise of "they break our DRM", which did end up being a talking point against the projects later on.

Apparently they reversed this change now, and you can write a compatibility shim without breaking the DRM once more
Europa.eu doesn't allow encrypted HTTP connections
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They do still, to this day, have a loop on the cloakroom for hanging their swords on though so it's not totally out of character.
You're right that Switzerland is physically bigger than the LA metro area. I didn't compare land masses.

Edit: Also, Wikipedia is possibly a better source for comparing sizes of landmasses.
He also said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

"Perhaps the late Lord Attlee was right," she [Mrs Thatcher] observed, "when he said that the referendum was a device of dictators and demagogues."
The writer of this article is really wrong to assume coffee aficionados don't drink cold brew, that's absolutely false. It's made even worse that he's conflating cold brew with iced coffee. They are very much not the same.

I'm sure it's lovely but it's not cold brew. Cold brew is less acidic because it's not heated; it's also said to have a more "true" taste because it's not extracted with hot water.

I have some stomach issues, one of which is an ulcer, and I am unable to drink hot coffee regularly as it tends to upset my stomach much more. Cold brew besides actually having a richer taste because of the slow brewing process actually hurts my tum tum less.

... Granted I also live in PDX, so I'm fairly sure (based on some comments) not everyone out there has had, or is actually being served, cold brew. Putting hot coffee on ice just doesn't even begin to compare.

Update: hit post early.
So how do communities gain appropriate representation in your system? Does everything come down to a test?
"I just know he's guilty, your honor. I just know it in my heart of hurts. Just trust me on this, OK? Just, like, trust me. I mean I am here busting my balls working 14 hour days keeping our people safe, your honor, and I just really need a win right now. So can you just, like, find him guilty? Like, I've never asked you for any personal favors. And I totally have the evidence, but who needs that. I mean I just not it, just by looking into his eyes. Look at him, doesn't he just look guilty to you, your honor?"
> Until we have better software we’re unable to build good models from small datasets. (And when I say “small” I mean, not ginormous.)

This is completely wrong - to build a useful model your model just needs to be able to distinguish between the signal and noise in the data. There are decreasing returns to scale with increasing size of your data, as percent statistical uncertainty goes like 1 / sqrt(N).
This is what happens when major decisions can be determined a simple majority vote. What does 52 to 48 mean? It means UNDECIDED. Half the country feels one way, and the other half feels the other way. For a change this large, it should require at least a 60/40 vote. If the population is undecided, why on earth would you suddenly stop what you have been doing for the last 50 years (which has worked out fine) and go down a different path? There needs to be much more of a push in the other direction.
This algorithm needs to be very crafty to avoid manipulation. We'll have to constantly re-adjust the weights
> The EU does not have a common enemy to force it together.

Yes it did, that enemy was "world war".
Passing objects as method parameters and returning objects are sadly underutilized.

The look on Developers faces when I suggest this refactoring pattern seems to say "but that class doesn't do anything but encapsulate message data."
The checks made no sense in the first place, it's a loose-loose on all ends for occulus. A closed ecosystem basically does not work when it comes to PC gaming, and with hardware this expensive it's not like you could buy the valve-sponsored vive and the rift.
Most of the Brexit voters seem pretty non fascist and Hillary is well ahead in the polls so I don't think it's that bad.
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they're not doing the right thing, they're undoing the wrong thing they went out of their way to do. And it's not the only sleazy thing they're doing, that palmer & co. previously said they wouldn't (read: buying exclusivity)
The first time women had the right to vote in Switzerland was 1971.

Quite far from perfect in my view.
I don't disagree with you in terms of -now-, I mean historically. The Syrian refugee crisis has changed demographics in Europe in a way that I don't think we've yet seen the full ramifications of.
I outsource everything I suck at.

So that tends to be a lot of stuff.
> We need a better system, one where representation is proportional.

Besides changes to the system itself, doesn't having a smaller country equal better representation for their constituents? Being part of the EU created a further layer of disconnect from decision making. I read that the UK only represented 3% of EU voting boards.

It's not surprising that people feel disconnected and left out from the political process. That's a natural outcome of attempting to manage the interests of 500 million people (EU) instead of 65 million (UK) with a centralized system.

I also see a correlation between the size of a country and the apparent dysfunction of their governments. Living in Canada and seeing other similar countries like Australia, Sweden, Denmark, etc with healthy economies and governments, it seems that smaller is better.

Accountability, progress/innovation, and appeasing members is far easier with a small organization than a large corporation... the same must apply to countries at some level.

The larger a state becomes, the more top heavy they become with bureaucrats trying to appease various sides of the greater and greater diversity in political bases, where no-one ends up being happy with the result.

One of the big factors in US politics that is often not mentioned is how much larger the US is now compared to early years that everyone harks back to when it had healthier and stronger governance, economic growth, and national identity.

There is quite a bit lost in between in the exchange for an economies of scale style bloc arrangement like the EU.
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Swiss culture is very small-c conservative, with heavy value on making rational, pragmatic decisions. It is no surprise that they have a system which reflects that, and performs well for that population.
How is a binary "good vs. bad" result going to work? Don't you think it is necessary to have many many "bad" conditions--i.e. errortypes?

You're just going to have to hide that away and that just drives this paradigm moot.
Right. Formally you are correct.

However effectively the Brexit vote is an expression of sovereignty of the populace. It's about power. Why? Because some parliament members are afraid to oppose the outcome.

Of course some things are different from the Swiss direct democracy. First the votes aren't ordained by politicians as a gamble but are set in motion by predefined rules in constitution and law. Second, the federal minister (Bundesrat) who has «lost» a vote doesn't retire like Mr. Cameron. Quite the opposite: everybody expects that he obeys the people and takes over to try to find the best way. Like a child who has to obey its parents and can't retire if he disagrees.
A few months ago I went to use my high street bank's ATM and it had an unusual card aperture. The rest of the machine looked normal. I walked into the branch, explained my concern and the cashier looked at me for several long moments, as if I had made some amazing comment, then said their engineers had fitted it and it was fine to use. I got the impression that I was the first to ask about it, and that such questions are unusual.
Worst Infographic Ever - but an interesting article nontheless