skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arg.. I just spent a half hour writing a long comment on this article, but then Chrome crashed when I hit "submit". I'll try to briefly retype my thoughts here since you've covered some of them.

It's quite clear that Boris did not want the referendum to win. While (like all tories) he would occasionally grumble about Brussels nobody considered him anti-EU during his time as mayor.

He was, however, obviously after the top job. He would upstage Cameron every chance he got.

When he decided to switch back to being an MP, Cameron brought him into his cabinet (without a formal position) He knew he had this referendum campaign to fight and having the popular internationalist by his side would help him command as much party loyalty as possible.

Boris then immediately pirouetted (bad mental image, that) and decided to lead the "Leave" campaign instead. The grassroots (largely Euroskeptic) tories who will pick the next party leader would appreciate his help. Cameron already announced that he would leave before the 2020 election, so this would mean PM Boris probably in late 2018/early 2019.

So the best result for Boris would be a narrow referendum loss while looking like a great anti-EU warrior. A lot of the rhetoric he employed was to this end -- when he would compare the EU to the Nazis, it would make him look fierce to the hardcore Euroskeptics who controlled his future, while whispering to the electorate-at-large that the whole Leave campaign was nutty.

It didn't work. He got what he nominally wanted, and now he has the chance to be PM faster than expected... but he has to deal with the fallout from this disaster.

If Cameron had invoked Article 50 immediately then the rest of the party would blame a sloppy exit on him... "we had a great plan to pre-negotiate everything, but Dave messed it up!" He's not giving them that option: if the country is to be destroyed, he wants them to pull the trigger.

It's startling watching the "moderate" Leave wing falling over themselves to dial back all of their promises during the campaign.... turns out there isn't more money for the NHS... of course there would still be free movement of workers from EU countries... maybe if Scotland doesn't want to do it we should call it off to preserve the union.... etc etc.. In victory, they're terrified of what they've done.

Of course, to the far-right any wavering will be seen as treachery. A fight is brewing there.

Meanwhile, Labour is also in full self-destruct mode. Corbyn just sacked the most credible member of his shadow cabinet and many of the rest will probably leave in protest. There have been many times in British political history when the out-of-power party goes through this sort of process, but never when the governing party is also in such disarray. Interesting times, unfortunately.

I don't know if UKIP will disappear, though. They could now be the party of northern grievance, locking Labour out of power entirely.
Yeah, the damage to the EU is also a huge issue. It's terrible it's come to this.

There is precedent for a second referendum - Ireland did so in 2009 on accepting the 28th Amendment. I admit, this is a lot bigger.

I think the context here which may help this to make more sense to those outside: a lot of British people voted for leave on false claims. Ok, lots of elections have false claims. But these were enormously misleading and widely spread. It seems like there are a lot who regret their decision, though I'm not sure what % they represent. If there is a general election called early with a party that explicitly backs EU membership winning, then there's no way we can leave without another referendum. And if we vote to stay, I think there would be grounds for the EU to get us to accept a lot of things which we might not have before.

But yes, it's a totally miserable situation for everyone.. you know what, I'd even say it's miserable for the politicians who 'won'.
> This is why conservation is important, even as a selfish act. Take away bear habitat and you have safety problem to deal with.

This is not usually the case. Take New Jersey, the most densely populated US state. There are bear problems in New Jersey. But since the 1970s, while the human population has increased 20%, the bear population has exploded from less than 100 to 4,000. This indicates that the bear problems are caused not by an increase in human population, but by an increase in bear population.
Health-wise? Sure. But you may be less anxious due to the novelty of your new diet and the conviction that it's healthy, reinforced by the trendiness of "paleo" diets. You should be at least a little suspicious of the powerful placebo effect before jumping to bizarre theories.
Thanks for that.

Paging dang...
> For the past 30 years all around the world all cities are safer than ever.

Yeah, I think I remember reading that heart attack outcomes improved "a lot," so long ago that it's just an assumption I have by now. It's better with 911 than without (along with all the other improvements in first response).
>> "This post is intended to introduce concepts and practically demonstrate a method. The implementation provided is not a reliable/hardened solution (i.e. there are vulnerabilities because finite fields are not used) and should not be used anywhere near a production system."

Above is on the page you're linking to.
So are the Swiss. Turns out that they are so successful outside the EU that even Swiss garbage men earn more than most citizens of EU member states could ever dream of.
Every time I hear the "Norway" issue I just point out one crucial fact: oil. Norway is a huge oil exporter.
In case of Brexit they didn't work at all. See e.g. http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/06/polls-v...
Europe has a strong tradition of ignoring EU referendum results.

The logic behind ignoring this one is pretty good too. Leaving the EU feels about the same scale as a constitutional ammendment in the US, and that requires 2/3rds gov't vote + 3/4ths state agreement.

Though this line of argument reeks both of moving the goalpost after the fact and "yeah the elite want to get what they want and ignore the voice of the people".
I feel at liberty to speak candidly with you about these matters, and I'd like to hear your thoughts about that semicolon…
Right now small businesses in the UK that don't export at all have to comply with all EU rules. If the UK leaves then they won't. So the effective influence will be greatly reduced.
Only if they also capture the website output so they know which logged key press represents which character of the password.
This PC thing that keeps blaming White Men for everything is hilarious.

Maybe there are not data sets made by woman cause woman don't take their time to contribute to them? But of course that's men fault... white men fault as usual.
Sweden also ignored a referendum and it's own decision to diamantle nuclear power. The government decided that all nuclear power would be dismantled after 2010. (Can be seen in the Swedish article). The majority of those plants are still in operation and can be replaced according to a new decision by a majority of the government. Probably sensible considering the changing understanding about carbon emissions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_nuclear_power_refere...
Please take a look at how the Swiss are doing outside the EU. They have no oil, just their financial industry.

Actually that's quite similar to the UK, just that the UK is much stronger in many other areas too.

I suspect that the UK will do really well outside the EU.

Edit: Has anyone here even considered that it might be the EU that will break up long before the UK? As I see it the next time Turkeys dictator Erdogan decides to unleash millions of refugees (as he has threatened before) the EU will most definitely be finished.

In my country (Austria) the guy that a few weeks ago lost the presidential election (with 49% of the votes) said that he would support a referendum for exiting the EU. So did Le Pen from France and Wilders from the Netherlands. Recent polls show that in Italy and France an absolute majority wants to have a referendum about exiting the EU.

And you believe that the EU can actually punish someone for misbehaving?

Every article written that suggests that the UK should ignore democratic decisions or that all who have voted for Brexit are stupid racist will fasten the process of a collapsing EU. So please continue!
I have a wife and 5 kids under age 7. Were my family to be confronted with a dangerous criminal, I couldn't possibly defend them all without a gun, and even then it might still be very difficult. So I carry a Glock 22 at all times. It really is that simple -- I'm often surprised at the bewilderment about one's desire to own a gun.
As the article implied, a lot of people think so. But it varies.
>>Right or wrong, it doesn’t matter, there are a lot of people in the UK that feel that ‘the foreigners took their jobs’, or that refugees are the kind of people that there simply isn’t room for. It’s a tough problem, but I highly doubt that this problem is large enough to isolate a country over from its main trade partners.

Unfortunately, it doesn't matter whether immigration has a net positive effect on employment, GDP or pretty much any other measure of wellbeing...

The reality is simple - there aren't enough jobs in the traditional industries for poorly educated people (especially in the North & Wales) to continue 'as normal' on a liveable wage. This has been the case for at least 30 years.

All solutions cost money - whether it is retraining, increasing the minimum wage/benefits or investing in forward thinking industry in affected areas, Politicians and the wealthier middle & upper classes decided it would be 'easier' as well as cheaper to perpetuate the lie that immigrants are to blame.

And after a few decades of continued job loss and struggles, there are now enough people who are affected and believe that immigrants are to blame, that our lies have finally caught up with us.

So it doesn't matter whether immigration is good or not - we've dug ourselves into a hole, and I can't see any politicians admitting the truth anytime soon.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11980581
Questioning the accuracy and objectivity of such a simulation seems perfectly valid.
I don't see it as shitty. It is simply not complying with the modus operandi of the owner of the original source (facebook).

I'd rather see http://archive.is/ffjTe or even an image than to be reminded that facebook wants to be the gatekeeper of content.

I do block these pop ups when I can (ublock). But that means you want the average user (not using blacklists, not using whitelists, not even using adblockers) to be reminded that he should login so as not to feel like a criminal.

Oh wait. The average user has a facebook account and is always logged in.

I am not the average user, I am a specific person.
It's a valid defense against hardware keyloggers, ignoring that you're way more likely to encounter a software keylogger.

If your account is interesting enough for criminals to break into your computer room and attach dongles to your PC (I'm imagining a Mission: Impossible style break here), congratulations: you've clearly made some good financial decisions in life :-)
A ZFS developer’s analysis of the good and bad in Apple’s new APFS file system
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/balance-of-tr...

See the trade-deficit of +3 billion bounds every month?
Britain is bleeding dry. And now the money won't "stay in the family".
On the other hand, the super famous receive a lot of mail I suppose. Think of it as a spam filter - you only get the really searious stuff.
We do have this (I know it's not the same thing exactly): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
I get the feeling the Brits like to not have too many written rules. Including s constitution. Personally I think it is detrimental to them.
14 years of distributed prime number calculations lost with no backups
Or maybe Boris looked subdued because he just had the flu.

All those plausible theories are just that: plausible and theories. Who knows what's going through Johnson's head right now? Who knows what will happen in the future? What good is this sort of analysis, that's based on some vague attempt to form a theory of mind of a particular person (rather than a class of person, say) by people who have never even met the person in question in, er, well, person?

In any case BoJo and all the Tories on the side of Leave are typical populists: their tactic is to agitate and profit. They shake the tree until office falls out, then make a grab for it. In chaotic times, the populist leads, so the populist actively tries to create chaos, in exactly the opposite manner than reasonable politicians do (regardless of whether they are also intelligent, capable or not).

This is BoJo's time. It's futile to hope otherwise. The whole country abandoned reason. The prime idiot is not going to back down now. Those people are not in this game to leave a good name for themselves in history: they're in it to do well in the here and now, and damn the rest of the world to hell.

If the reasonable people in the UK wish to retain control, they have to get their noses out of their consolation drinks and squeeze their brains hard to come up with actual ideas, rather than pipe dreams and wishful thinking.
By that criteria all the countries in the world have had constitutions from the beginning of time :)
"surveyed the scene, and decided that they needed a drink." - Exploded into laughter in public transit!
The UK would have to agree on free movement like Norway and Switzerland to get the same deal, and that's the main thing they voted against. They never really had it anyways, getting into the UK has always felt more like the US border crossing. Good riddance.
Interview Question: Wine Bottles
As an aside we should note that the globalists' regime is, per their concerted scaremongering propaganda effort since the Brexit vote, indeed so fragile that the mere defection of one nation sends it into a tailspin.
The bias against men in this article is staggering.
Yeah I was thinking they could do that. You'd only need to record a few logins.

Re brute forcing, some like firstdirect make you type a word as well and they probably block you after 3 fails so it would be quite hard to brute force. Tddirectinvesting only ask a 7 digit account number and 3 digits from the password so you could probably brute force coms of those with a botnet though they only let you transfer money to a pre nominated bank account so it would still be hard to nick people's money.
I really enjoyed few courses I found on the site. I think my kids would enjoy it too.
I wonder if Britain's exit is really as big a deal as everyone is making it out to be. My pretty much working class family in Germany has made frequent use of open borders in the Eurozone, traveling to Spain and France several times in their lives. I wonder how much that would be true for generally working class British people. Do they go to Disneyland in Paris? Do they travel to music festivals in other European countries? My siblings do this in a car for cheap in the way that a young person in the US might travel to another state to go to a concert.

On top of that is that the UK has had a different currency whereas in the rest of the Eurozone everyone uses the same currency. It's so easy to go to Belgium and just use whatever's already in your wallet. Like a country like France or Germany or Sweden leaving the Euro would be a much much bigger deal than Britain, which I don't think really integrated as well with everyday people as they do on the continent.

I'm not saying it is not a step back, but I doubt it will be the end of the west as global leaders some people are portraying this.
And fwiw this seems like a beautiful project with noble aims (I stumbled across it after reading about large RSA numbers the other night). Any way anyone may be able to help these guys I'm sure would be much appreciated.
Overall for a country it can be beneficial to have immigrants, but it can be hurtful to low-skilled workers in that country to have to compete against the foreign workers. Higher skilled workers usually have less to worry about as connections, language skills, and industry-specific experience give them an incumbent advantage. I realize one of the founding goals of freedom of movement was to allow workers to be able to move to countries with greater opportunities, and that that is overall a good thing. But politically speaking, how do you ensure that you don't alienate large swathes of the working class, and make sure that their needs are attended to as well? As globalization and technology displace more and more jobs, it becomes very easy for people to fall into the trap of joblessness. They then fuel the radical right movements that are springing up across Europe.
Apple paid £12.9m in UK corporation tax in 2015
It can easily be done by declaring a prototype of B:

// file: A.h
class B;

class A {
B* _b;
};

// file: B.h
class B {
A* _a;
};
The correct response to dubious arguments from either side is truthfulness, not even more emotive lies.
So the people who created the field are nothing more than "a sea of dudes". What an ignorant and sexist viewpoint. Bloomberg and Microsoft should be ashamed.

We need to stop being ok with racism and sexism against anyone. White males included.
I also noticed the grammatical mistake on MU/TH/UR's screen after interrogation: it should have been 'Ensure', not 'Insure'!
As a yank, this issue is none of my business. As long as the people are voting, there is a feedback and correction system in place, I try not to worry about the internal affairs of allies.

Having said that, I am quite taken back by all the drama I'm hearing on my social feeds. It looks completely beyond the normal angst you would see in a nation changing its treaty status. I didn't hear this kind of emotion when decisions were made to go to war. That's really quite strange and somewhat disturbing.

Weirder still, much of this emotion is being brought out by my friends who aren't even part of the vote! Saudi Arabia is busy beheading people, and my friends from the U.S. are concerned about a possible recession in Britain due to a change in their trade policies. I do not understand this and it makes me think the conversation is being prodded/changed/guided somehow. But that's just a guess.

Whatever they do -- and I hear now that maybe they'll vote to go back, or the first vote doesn't mean much -- as long as there is a system in place for feedback and course correction, and the governing system has the consent of the governed, I wish them the best.
In case you haven't read it already, I suggest

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00KTPM1H6

For a survey of (human) tools for this kind of analysis.
>The world is a much more connected place today than it was 50 years ago and next to a unified EU with the UK as an outsider (and, if we are to believe the latest developments with England as an outsider) it is not a very important country economically.

The sad thing is that if the UK were more invested in the EU (for example, with the Schengen zone), then people might have ended up feeling more attached to it. The constant opt-outs made the UK an outsider, I think.

This does bring up Junker's reaction though("Please leave immediately, close the door behind you"), which is a depressing reality of how most EU politics end up happening.

Especially with the handling of Greece, there's this whole moral grandstanding that ends up becoming super antagonistic, when actual pragmatism would solve problems much better.

"They need to suffer for their sins" seems to be a leading political thought process in Brussels(+Paris+Berlin), that makes the union seem less like a partnership and more like the Troika, flying in and making things worse for the hosts.
Personally, even though I also noticed the mistake, I don't really see the point to be honest. I wish I could trade whatever grey matter was trained for spelling intuition, and use it for something more interesting.

I know people who can't spell better than an average sixth-grade student, but they are brilliant at what they do.

You have to admit, spelling is at least somewhat arbitrary, especially in the English language. How do you spell 'centre,' for example?
And that’s why I host all my email myself, and have my VPS with no password login (only key auth), and have 2FA enabled for the VPS control panel at the hoster, and have 2FA enabled for any change to the domain requiring a letter to be sent to me.
There's a difference between owning a gun and carrying a Glock 22 at all times. It's sad that people imagine themselves in some action film surrounded by violent criminals out for their blood. I take it that where you live there is no police force and that you and your family are always isolated from bystanders who could help, witnesses who would discourage an attack on your family, etc. You've chosen to live in a failed state with your large family, it seems.

Statistically, it's far more likely that one of your children will kill themselves, or a friend, or each other, with your gun than it is that it will be helpful for self-defense. This is going to be a bigger deal as your kids get older.
And that's why I got payed +/- 2.2 for every monetary unit I bet on Brexit

(the reason I did this is because I'm pro Remain)
I wonder how much of this regrexit sentiment is actually present and how much of it is just isolated incidents being held up as if they are representative. By the same media that predicted the outcome entirely wrong.
If I pose with a Porsche, will more people buy my stuff?
> The UK would have to agree on free movement like Norway and Switzerland to get the same deal, and that's the main thing they voted against.

I don't think that's the main thing they voted against rather than a percieved opaque, wasteful and possibly corrupt system.

(I'm not sure but I'm afraid media cherry picked a bit to present the image of dumb xenophobic Leave supporters.)
Some reasons why watermarks could be objectionable are covered in the accompanying Torrentfreak article (already linked in other comments here):

"'Books should be used as tools for disseminating knowledge and information. What ‘social DRM’ watermarking systems do instead is turn books into tools of surveillance and oppression by monitoring who shares what knowledge, where,' IBI explain.

"'We don’t like this, and because the publisher Verso has refused to remove the watermarks themselves, we decided to do it for them, and to show everyone how these systems work.'

"But there are bigger issues at stake. While people in the West take the freedom to read books of their choosing for granted, not everyone has that luxury.

"'Imagine if a watermarked ebook contains someone's name (as many do). Suppose that someone is reading that watermarked ebook under a regime that bans the particular kind of material covered in that book,' IBI add.

"'If the operatives of the regime see the watermark, they would then be able to arrest and perhaps even execute the purchaser of the ebook if they too are living under the same regime.'

"But matters of life and death aside, IBI say they believe that people should not only be able to read whatever they want, they should also be able to share that knowledge with others."
Im really afraid that we might have revolutions in western europ during my life.
"Braking forces are applied longitudinally to the track so unless you were in a curve there is no downward force."
Why is that? Is it because the cars behind are pulling on it and keeping the usual forward weight transfer from happening?

Think of a motorcycle doing a "stoppie" i.e. read wheel is in the air under braking, all weight is on front wheel.
>I suspect that the UK will do really well outside the EU.

Can you give me some specific insight into how Northern Ireland, Wales or Cornwall are going to benefit from being outside the EU?

Will UK's farmers, for whom it is estimated that 55% of all income comes directly from EU subsidies, also benefit from an exit?
Is this adjusted with the cost of living in Switzerland ?