skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're just going by entrance GPA/test scores, then I would still question the usefulness of that base rate after the person has graduated and also passed whatever screening process your company has. GPA/test scores surely correlate with intelligence, but they can be gamed to a large degree especially by students with the means and motivation (the typical Asian student). As far as I've seen GPA/test scores only correlate with success in the first year or two of college. So again we're left with the question of how meaningful is your base rate at all? I don't think there is any reason to think it provides any information that isn't completely overshadowed by the fact that the person graduated, their college GPA, and their success in your own screening. Using such dubious priors is biasing your decision making based on unjustifiable assumptions, and will likely end up with worse decision making.
After rebuilding a mg sprite 1275 motor, then looking at some motors produced by Datsun, good god the design of the MG motor makes me not want to drive the car, if the timing skips a tooth the piston will hit the cam thats in the block, and then explode (guessing, thats why it was rebuilt in the first place, the old block exploded).. In fact in the classic mini that we will be working on its going to get a honda D-series motor, good ol faithful.

American cars are v-8's :p
Calling France and Italy "neo liberal" economies I think is pretty far from the reality. They are very much anti-free market, regulations heavy, high taxes, high public spending, high public deficit countries. And with the unemployment and low growth that goes along.
It's just a shallow transformation to julia, so it's fast ;). Would be fun to compare with a production quality APL implementation (I hear they have some fancy optimizations that we don't yet have in julia).
It's official - the UK has voted to leave the European Union.
The UK is basically England. All the decisions are made there. England wouldn't leave the UK as much as disbanding it.
You do know that the cars were polluting more because they are more efficient? Right?
My bad, it was much closer than I thought. I do recall that the majority prior to joining the EU was with commonwealth nations.

Regardless, it's not like materials to trade disappears... my guess would be the UK negotiates with the EU to basically keep trade the same. If not the UK will be increase exports elsewhere.
I'd wager Scotland will want to leave the UK and join the EU. But I'd also wager that the backdoor deals made during the exit negotiations will prevent that from happening.
As an Irishman, I think Dublin is well placed to take a slice of that pie.
Look at the typical domain of programming: procedures, branching, merging, data structures, time, parallelism. We already have a burgeoning set of visual standards (eg. look at those recent console git hack fonts with symbols for merge, branch, etc.)... it wouldn't take too much effort to replace the majority of control structure identifiers in most languages with intelligent language-neutral graphics, and it would simplify the hassle of syntax when considering programs written in languages with which you are not personally familiar. Some nerdy lisper should implement this, bonus if it can eat code and libraries in arbitrary languages.
The current title of the actual article is "EU referendum: UK votes to leave in historic referendum".

It's still technically a forecast, but the BBC has called it and so has everybody else.
When you describe it this way, it sounds great. In practice populists are frowned up because they end up telling people nice things they want to hear, but aren't true or are appealing to their more basic instincts.

Imo it goes down to what your message is - both Trump ans Sanders are populists.
Much of the UK gets a huge boost from the EU. Places like the north and midlands get massive amounts of money pumped in from renewal and development funds.
Ok, now I discovered it. Had to put my phone in landscape mode (in portrait mode the website is totally different)

Pricing starts at 220€ per year, in case anyone is interested.
Maybe this news is a bit special?
As opposed to the Bishops of the House of Lords?
Isn't "objective quality of life" a semantic contradiction? Whose lives are you talking about, and who is a better judge of a person's quality of life than that very person?
> Is Scotland going to be exiting the UK next? Guess we'll see in a few years.

It's possible. The same with northern ireland. But more interesting question is which european country will leave the EU next. Hungary? Greece? Finland?

The UK is a pillar of the EU ( 2nd largest economy and the 3rd most populous country ). Don't see the EU surviving without the UK.
I don't think it's terribly surprising. When people are demonized for their political beliefs (i.e., you're stupid and/or racist if you support Brexit), the truth will only come out with anonymity. Hence, polling becomes much more unreliable.
It's the beginning chapter of a history book we've all read several times. What a shame.
If Northern Ireland can't secede and join the Republic of Ireland, what will happen to that land border?
Well, apart from the bit where an exit supporter murdered an MP.
Pretty sure trade agreements with the commonwealth remain unchanged. Basically, you don't choose to trade, if an agreement is in place the companies choose to do trade. With a weaker pound it would be cheaper to buy goods from the UK.
The special IPO is the one where that _doesn't_ happen.
Which is exactly the same agreement they have now - except the refugees and asylum seekers, which have recently been regulated, but not implemented yet in most EU countries.

The great majority of foreigners in the UK are coming from non-EU countries, and they are not refugees. Leaving the EU will not change that.
That might be true except cars have vastly different wheel sizes and wheelbases. One video would only work for a single platform. Even then, the company states that the rig is customized per car to get the ride height and tire size right.

I think they use CG cars instead of real ones for the same reason everything is CG: cost. It's cheaper to just rent one of these from a local film studio than sending out a small fleet of actual cars to film in whatever salt flat they are using this time. It also gives them more control of the look and design of the car. Did you know that 75% of the items in an IKEA catalog are CGI?

Also, I wouldn't be surprised (given the tight release schedule of some car models and the secrecy around them) that this lets them film the advertising of a car concurrently with the final production stages. They don't have any cars coming off of the line to shoot with, so it's easier to rig up the wheelbase (which is established early in production) and get the marketing done concurrently.
So, what you are saying, is that France will put its own interests before the interests of the other EU countries that might benefit from trade with the UK?

Great for European unity, I see.
That's not true, the turnout is 76%. So the remaining 24% don't care.

0.51 * 0.76 + 0.24 = 0.62

So the majority of the population 62% are happy with decision.
I think everyone in this thread is fine with it.
It's not really a majority though. If I polled 100 people and said to you the majority said leave, how many would you estimate that is? 75-90 perhaps?

This result seems to be 52/48 so it's incredible that such a monumentally important decision is to be made from this interpretation of a majority.
Apparently Scott Adams is persona non grata on HN these days...
Facebook has a bigger presence in London than in Dublin, although I don't think either is formally the "EU headquarters".
Magic Leap Has 4 Predictions About Our Mixed Reality Future
At the most basic, a strong US Dollar against the UK GBP means that US exports to GB become more costly, which reduces US exports, which hurts the US Economy, which is not good for the US.
Tech companies buy land? Since when? Sounds like a silly rumor.
It has been known for years that immigrants are net contributors to the British welfare system. (For example http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21631076-rather-lot-ac..., and elsewhere too.) What's the point of repeating that old trope? It won't become any truer if more people say it.
Really happy to see this. Of course this is about immigration. Moderates on all sides of politics in all countries have long asserted that it is important that Israel remain a "Jewish and democratic state". Now some right wing extremists have taken this same logic and applied to other countries :-)
Absolutely not. Democracy means decisions made by the people. There's NOTHING about the concept of Democracy that requires using THE WORST possible method of decision-making, i.e. majority rule yes/no.

There's all sorts of other ways to make collective decisions such as score voting, consensus, requiring approval from a combination of stakeholders (such as in a case like this requiring that all parts of the UK all approve), and so on. Majority rule brings tyranny of the majority and is the worst way to run a democracy.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11966250 and marked it off-topic.
“The EU” is not the same as the people of the EU. The French and Dutch people voted against the Maastricht Treaty when given the chance.
Fair enough. Perhaps my surprise comes from the fact that the prediction markets got it wrong as well.

You're right nevertheless--25% is a meaningful probability.
I wish people would stop opening pandoras box. This could get messy.
Please don't call names in arguments (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), especially politically inflammatory ones.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11966245 and marked it off-topic.
If 51% of voters choose to murder all minorities, would that be allowed? The US has constitutionalism which requires supermajorities to effect fundamental changes. It slows down progress on issues like universal health care, but when progress is made, it is rarely rolled back.
Facebook Live grows up with two-person broadcasts and waiting rooms for viewers
I don't see where you address my points about dealing with individuals, not groups.

Generation after generation, many immigrants to the U.S. have come from poor, backward countries and brought beliefs that would horrify you (and me). The Americans who had came before had the same reaction to them you do. But don't worry: In a generation or two, the descendants of those new immigrants will say the same thing about the next group.

> to pretend there's absolutely no signal at all doesn't seem good either

Copied from a response to another post of yours:

many other factors may determine the social views, as an example: Is the group concentrated in a certain region? I'll bet Mormons have a stronger belief in democracy and civil rights than (pick some religion concentrated in a non-democratic country). Is the group disproportionately poor or rich? Old or young? Well or poorly educated? Does it have a political structure that lends itself to certain types of behavior (for example, I don't know about religions, but for nations democratic structures generally yield more peaceful behavior)? etc.

Think of it from a scientific basis: Can we control for other factors and isolate behavior down to religion? It seems almost impossible. And what is religion? Scripture? Teachings? The local clergy? Family? Personal beliefs - even those change. Within religions, there is enormous variety in observance and belief; very few if any blindly accept all their religion's teachings. It seems impossible to paint the individuals with a broad brush.

You seem like you understand data; projecting from a survey of Egyptians to the likely behavior of every U.S. immigrant of a certain religion seems like an incredible stretch.
In my opinion, the EU needs the UK more than vice versa: it has spent decades stumbling from failure to failure, both economically and politically, and has very few member states with support strong enough for it to count on. Attempting to punish the UK now would be suicide.
Let's not forget this was the general sentiment pre WWI and WWII...
> there aren't even any rules drawn up

Yes there are, it's Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. Scotland, Gibraltar, or whatever other country/region, will be considered as new applications for EU membership as the previous application was by a "different" country. This was reiterated by the EU during the Scottish referendum, this is no different.
For their internal markets maybe, but the EU is half of their exports. So either they stop exporting, or they follow the rules of the EU without having a say in them.

There are some good arguments for leaving, but this isn't one of them, IMO.
It would achieve nothing: what would happen if the UK stays in the EU while the British have voted to leave? EU criticism and discontent would become so loud it would be impossible to lead a normal life. Everything would be blamed on the EU.

I do not think any politician can fight for such a prospect. They will need to accept the result.

Out is out.
I agree, but it would have been the same either way. ~50% ejected against their will, or ~50% trapped against their will.
> Same values, I beg to differ. The values of a Greek and of a German could be completely different as far as you know.

Depend which values you are talking about but Greek signed European Convention on Human Rights, there is a LOT of values written there if you ask me which those countries you mention share.

> Connected Markets? The EU has become a tariff-heavy zone, the opposite of a Free Market - look at how many trade agreements we have to regulate and impeach free markets.

It's not true for most products, but some indeed are regulated because if you have 28 different countries you need to control some of the segments of markets or your country/other countries will suffer, that's why you have for example limits for milk producing etc. Show my any organization exactly like EU which doesn't regulate their common market.

> There's no recipe to avoid war

For sure there is no 100% certain recipe to avoid war but nothing was created closer to that recipe than EU. I live in country that was transformed from communism to democracy in 1989, trust me it can be a lot worse than it's now in EU, you can't imagine.
Populism rewards short-term thinking at the expense of long-term results, because the common person isn't always aware of the deeper issues in a given field. Put another way, would expect the average person in the street to have an informed opinion on the details of [banking|medical|energy|transport|agriculture] industries?

We already know how easy it is for yellow journalism to sway popular opinion; expecting direct democracy to be able to deal with the subtle nuances of governing a millions-strong society is nice in theory, but simply isn't practical.
You can't add non voters like that because you could also say

0.49 * 0.76 + 0.34 = 71.2%

do not support change.
I feel that the growth of Fascist sentiment worldwide can't possibly be a coincidence. Globalisation and it's benefits are being questioned.

People are disappointed. Even this vote , is actually a vote of dissatisfaction against the status quo. They just managed to direct enough of that anger against the EU.

I'd like to suggest the following three hypotheses and hear what you guys think :

1. As growth slows , liberal democracy ceases to be the status quo. It's much easier for a demagogue to whip up sentiments against the "other" when people feel that they have been left behind.

2. The media has always been a gatekeeper and helped keep the more extreme voices out of mainstream discourse. The internet breaks this dynamic and now disaffected majorities can coalesce across regional boundaries within a country.

3. The Western working class has realised that globalisation doesn't seem to be raising everyone's living standards. It's more of an equalisation where large numbers of people in Asia are lifted into the middle class while the western working class stagnates.

This diagram shows a clear class divide in the voting:
http://i.imgur.com/SneDXWa.png

I don't have much more data to back these up so I'd be interested hearing any thoughts / anecdotes about such things around where you live.
Whatever "formally" means, many US companies (Facebook and Microsoft are the best known examples) attribute their european earning to Ireland in order to enjoy a low tax bracket.
Not at all. Nearly every Leave supporter I've talked with over recent months finds Farage and Boris just as foolish as any of the rest of them.

If you live in the NW or NE it's probably down to disenfranchisement. Large parts of the NW and NE are still not out of the 2008 recession, so hearing the constant bleating about the economy, they're told is doing so well, just reinforces the emptiness of the political classes.

On Europe specifically most of the remain arguments were economic. It's quite hard to listen to those seriously whilst London is in its usual bubble and the area in which you live is still suffering. Nearly every EU economic argument is reinforcing the EU being about big business, just proving, in their minds, the disconnect with the people. People who are living in areas that have seen enormous decline in the last 30 years. Makes it harder to vote for free movement and markets when you can see the decimation of your once vibrant industry and town centres.

So nearly every argument for Remain is demonstrably untrue in their own life and region.

So, no, they're not voting for Farage, they're voting against the Westminster groupthink bubble. If they had got more regional development, or the regional economies were given better support, things could have been very different.
The thing to remember about currencies is that they don't move under the guidance of some magical force. Currency markets are literally people converting from one currency to another 24/7. Fear and uncertainty, whether warranted or not, is what rules the market, and makes it ripe for speculation. I haven't done Forex in quite some time but if I were, you bet your ass I would've been out there shorting the GBP like no tomorrow as the poll results started inching towards "leave" because of all the doom and gloom scenarios that have been floated about endlessly -- it logically follows that other people would be doing the exact same thing.

Remember, this won't even take effect for another two years or so. Literally nothing about UK or the GBP has fundamentally changed as of this moment, and yet the currency has been shorted as if the UK has simply snapped its fingers and is, as of this moment, no longer in the EU.

What you'll see in the coming days is an upward movement. Shorts are going to take their profits, which is going result in GBP buy orders, which is going to squeeze shorts, which will lead to more GBP buy orders. Will the GBP go back to its value as of yesterday? No. But it won't remain down 10% either. Bank on it.
I've already stated my complaint: that getting gratuitous icons into Unicode is easier than actual scripts for human languages. Since you're having Google issues, I'll link you to a page I already mentioned, which it self links to other relevant pages http://unicode.org/standard/unsupported.html

I love the echoing nature of these counter-arguments, that a problem doesn't even exist unless it's "major" and "nobody is working on it". I wonder how many actual different human beings have responded to me in this thread...
Anecdotally, the things that have made me most likely to stay at a job is seeing a few high-profile people leave, only to come back with horror stories about their other jobs.

I honestly believe I work for an amazing company so the metaphor may not be perfect, but if you want to increase confidence temporarily you could certainly try to manufacture these circumstances. In my case I think they're genuine, which does actually give me significant pause any time I think about how much of a raise I might get, or where else I might go.
We shall see how these threats pan out. To me, they look like desperate attempts to prop up a failing institution, rather than serious statements of policy.
> That might be true except cars have vastly different wheel sizes and wheelbases.

I see you didn't watch the video where they showed the wheelbase, wheel sizes/design, width of the platform, as well as suspension tuning can all be adjusted easily.
They have MEGATONS of other options.

Both Japan and the US has enormous car manufacturing industries, as do many other non German countries.
There was an earlier discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11964880, but that one was focused on the results in progress while this one is focused on the outcome, so we'll treat this one as current.
No, politics is a process to resolve disputes without violence. There should be a supermajority required to decide something so fundamental, and absent that, there should be a compromise found that satisfies people 70/30 rather than splitting the country 51/49.
This kinda sucks, but I've had 2 displays go out in the past year and I had to repair (fortunately it was easy enough DIY if you can find the main panel, otherwise it's $600 if done by a "Genius"). With no USB3, price, and much heavier than other 1440 displays, it was no longer a leader, unless you needed the extra webcam or the Apple logo.

I know there's some decent IPS displays out there; is there a good way to daisy chain on a MBP and retain decent specs?
From what I gathered they'd just issue a new currency (that would be instantly devalued everywhere though).
Wow - what a self-indulgent pseudo intellectual prick. Nobody forced him to work there.
Score voting does not really work with 2 choices.

Requiring all 'parts' of the UK to agree would not work well either. Do you do it by state? County? City? Person? If by state, why?

100% required for change means its tyrany of the minority. So it's really no better.

The problem is we don't know of a better way than FPTP for decisions like these.
Sweden also has it's own currency. Sweden is in a similar situation as Britain, and their closest neighbor (Norway) has never been in the EU. I'm not saying "Swexit" is imminent, but of the northern/western EU countries it is perhaps the most likely.
Apple Music can't resolve ampersands to and and vice versa. Disaster.
time to plan my cheap vacation from US to London
Did I just lose 10% of my saving ?
> In my opinion, the chances of any sort of war at this point remain pretty low.

I would have said the same thing 4 or 5 years ago, but in the meantime we did in fact have a war in Europe, I'm talking about the war in Eastern Ukraine (which is still part of Europe). But you're sort of right, who can think of something like that spreading to the Western side of the continent?

Until last night I would would have answered: "no sane person", but after I saw the idiot Nigel Farage speak on the BBC (I don't actually follow UK politics, this was my first time hearing him actually speak) I had quite the internal shock. To hear a (what has now become) mainstream politician talk so vividly against immigration and against "multinationals" in 2016 was... don't know how to put it, harrowing. You're probably from the States where you people treat Trump like the idiot that he is and think that even if gets elected things will move on as usual, but us in this part of the world have had the privilege of slaughtering ourselves in the trenches of the Ardennes or in the steppes of Western Russia because of people like Farage in the past.
>Be the hero, save the world
>We’re drowning in low-quality information

Right. Self-promotion on Hacker News does not help.