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Thanks for pointing out that site. One difference we have is we're not just coming up with ideas.

We source all our opportunities from real people who've told us about a specific pain point they would pay to have solved.

This then acts as a pointer for us to explore further. Then we do a little more research and analysis about the problem space. If we think it's worthwhile, then we send it out.

To give you an example, to date we've gone through over 70 opportunities and of those we feel only 17 are good enough to send to customers.
> If so would they say the real reason - "we don't want to set a precedent and embolden Catalonia's bid for independence"

They would have no second thoughts about saying that out loud. It's not like Madrid are being shy about keeping Catalonia, against their will or not.
As a Brit I find the while thing fascinating too! You can probably tell I have significant leave leanings even though I voted to remain, and that's because I kinda wanted to see all this unfolding!
Is there any (uncontroversial) theory that rigorously defines what a 50 % probability for heads and tails means? It certainly doesn't mean that in the long run you will obtain the same number of heads and tails because there is a (vanishing) chance that you will always get heads even though the coin is actually fair. And just saying that you will obtain the same or at least similar number of heads and tails with high probability is a circular definition at best.

Does Bayesian thinking just deny the existence of intrinsic probabilities or considers them out of scope? Assuming there is such a thing as true randomness, for example in quantum physics (and it is not due to our ignorance of hidden variables like in Bohemian mechanics), could a Bayesian assign probabilities to the outcomes? Would a Bayesian be mislead into assigning something other than 50/50 for spin up and spin down if he, by chance, only observes spin up although he is really confident that this is just a statistical fluke? If he is mislead, does that mean that uncertainty about the truth of his assumptions creeps in in case the system momentarily deviates from the expected behavior?
I am utterly disgusted and bloody sick of being portrayed as a racist, xenophobic bigot because I wanted to take back democratic control of my country. Race issues had nothing to do with my decision to leave.

How dare you paint me in that light when you know absolutely nothing about me or my motives for wanting to remove my country from the clutches of an undemocratic state. Your narrow-mindedness is part of the reason I want out.

This all reeks of bitterness and toy-throwing by those that voted remain.

It's over. We are out. Accept it or feel free to move to a European country... I don't mind.
I'd be curious to know how they correlate a facebook / twitter identity to a passport number. The number of people with the same name is huge. You could use circles of friends to identify family numbers which you can use if you have access to the Vital Records, but in many (developed) countries, Vital Records are not even digitized.
Or with less sugar coating - "Robots will decide who to kill"
After reading this, I'm pretty sure I understand why Appelbaum is getting bombarded Assange-style with rape/harassment allegations: He single-handedly acted as the voice of reason in this conversation.
I've wondered the same thing.

I think the cost difference might be an important factor. Secretaries were generally paid a lot less than managers. This was also tied into status. Outside of the military, typing was often seen as women's work, and below the status of a manager.

There was also a much bigger need for typists back then, as much more correspondence was done through the mail. For example, you might write a draft on a typewriter, add hand-written notes with corrections, then retype to get the corrected version to send to your customer. Computers reduce that overhead.

One of the organizers of a scientific meeting I regularly attend says it's harder now to organize the meeting than when he started. It used to be that a company included a general service component to one's job, which could be used to help organize a conference, or review papers. Now, the organizer said, companies want employees to be more focused on the bottom line.

But at best those are hints. They don't answer your questions.
you're surprised that most of the channel agreed with him?
The First Minister also has a mandate to represent the Scottish people, who voted to stay in the EU, and most whose elected officials are pro-EU. Not to say I disagree with you, but Nicola Sturgeon (her own political goals aside) is only being competent by exploring these possibilities. Views aside it's nice to see there's at least one British political leader that actually has plans and is publicly engaging in a conversation on what should be next.
Ouch! Appeal to authority stings. But in response, I pitted mighty Google against Intel and in the first ten hits for "cache coherence scalability paper" I found the one that prompted me to write my original comment:

From http://people.ee.duke.edu/~sorin/papers/tr2011-1-coherence.p...

"Using amortized analysis, we show that interconnection network traffic per miss need not grow with core count and that coherence uses at most 20% more traffic per miss than a system with caches but not coherence. Using hierarchical design, we show that storage overhead can be made to grow as the root of core count and stay small, e.g., 2% of total cache size for even 512 cores.

Consequently, we predict that on-chip coherence is here to stay. Computer systems tend not abandon compatibility to eliminate small costs, such as the costs we find for scaling coherence"

And now the quote from TFA:

"Do we really need cache coherency across a hundred cores or a thousand cores on a die?"

The paper's 512 cores are in the middle of the range where TFA suggests you start to get enough problems to seriously consider breaking compatibility and foregoing cache coherence. Why is the paper which supports its claims with concrete analysis less credible than an unsupported offhand remark from someone at Intel, a company that made a fortune from all of its CPU designs except that infamous one where they abandoned compatibility?

BTW a basic understanding of coherence might lead one to doubt the claims about lack of scalability. When you hit the cache, you know that you own the data so it's fast. When you miss the cache, it's a very slow operation anyway, the overhead of checking whether to fetch the data from external memory or another cache can't be that bad. And if data travels a lot from one cache to another because of true or false sharing, that's the fault of the code doing that. Coherence is not supposed to make sharing blindingly fast, just to make it correct, and to make false sharing correct as well.

Of course none of this will be relevant if there's no substrate on which to put a thousand of x86 cores, which right now there isn't.
Indeed. The last time I tried (about 5~6 years ago, I think) some patches were needed but nothing that required a huge investment of time. Unfortunately its not Sisal90 that had other goodies, (starting with true multi-dimensional arrays and not just array of arrays).

If you are digging into this take a look at the parts that call backends. Many optimization passes are disabled by default by hard coding. At least that's the way it was when I had picked it up. There was not much interest in merging the changes and I thought a fork would be rather rude and presumptuous (I am hardly the compiler writer type).
> NI, despite voting remain, is very unlikely to want to leave the UK.

This is part of why the referendum was a bit sketchy - it wasn't very clear about the consequences, even those that were known from the outset.

If there had been three choices: a) UK to Leave, b) UK to remain, and c) UK to leave but only if it can agree as a union to do so (i.e. not break up).

then c) would have been attractive.
Certainly, I listened to Nicola Sturgeon's post-result address and it sounded like she was out talking to all the leaders she could.

If the question of post-Independence EU membership is resolved on the EU side I'd love to know, during the last referendum the EU was pretty clear there would be no automatic entry for Scotland. But whether that was true or politically driven... guess we'll find out.
> It requires much more. The most important being an intrinsic desire to break things. Persistence is another.

How do you think most of us learned sysadmin ?
Agree it's a mandate and we have to respect it - however I'm still shocked it was a decision made on a direct majority as opposed to some level of supermajority for such a potential dramatic change.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11982625
I get the sarcasm, but given there are hundreds of millions of US border crossings annually, a policy of taking everything seriously regardless of size probably does make the US safer.
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I order lunch on WeChat and send a red envelope inside a group chat as payment after its been delivered. The group has 300+ members. This is the exception, though. There are better ways of making payments through WeChat and I'm guessing that envelopes make up a small fraction of the stated number.
I wouldn't be so sure a re-run would go the way you expect. There was also a large amount of open lying and misinformation from the Remain side. To name just a few:

Cameron saying "I will campaign for in or out depending on whether I get a good deal for Britain". Reality: he got nothing and then claimed leaving the EU would be morally wrong.

Cameron saying "this isn't about me, I'll stay on no matter what". Reality: resigning the very next day, having known full well he'd do that if he lost yet he openly lied to the public about it.

Osborne saying "there'll be a punishment budget". Reality: that has now mysteriously vanished.

But I don't think any of that will really matter in a rerun anyway. The pro-remain side seems to think voters are spreadsheets that weigh up the output of yet more spreadsheets which pretend to represent the real world, and then make their decision based on that.

In reality most Leave voters clocked ages ago that politicians were not trustworthy and made up their minds based on other factors. If the referendum is ignored then expect a lot of Remain voters in the regions to switch to Leave: it will be widely interpreted as the end of democracy itself if they don't.
why wouldn't a scan count? Every tax agency I've ever heard of accepts scans in lieu of paper.
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Not very accurate - got my location incorrect by over 10000 km.
Seen from another EU country, saddened as I am by the UK leaving the Union, my take on this is:

1) Even if the referendum is advisory, given the importance of the issue it would be difficult to dismiss it and do as if it didn't happen. I'd be embarrassed to make decisions with leaders that are willing to ignore such address from their people.

2) It's better for the UK to leave as quickly as possible because uncertainty is bad. It's bad for business and for anybody. See the hours we are wasting writing about it ;-) Furthermore uncertainty could prompt unrest, especially in the UK (you voted, you won, you're ignored, you get angrier and angrier).

3) There is no reason not to keep being friends, even if a little disillusioned, and keep doing business together. There will be some extra barriers and cross border exchanges will decrease, but IMHO the UK should become as one of those other European countries that don't belong to the EU. No need to be punitive.

4) If Scotland wants to stay in the EU they should either get independent or make some clear deal with the UK, and the EU to accept them. I understand but not approve the reason for Spain not liking the idea, but they'll be frowned at quite a lot.

5) There are territories around the world, some virtually independent from the country that claims rights on them. There are some of the especially in Asia, maybe for face saving reasons. Could Scotland be the next one? Even London is possible, but much more difficult to implement IHMO.

That said, we are human beings and we are used to bend the written words to our wills. If we agree on the result any act or constitutional chart can be interpreted to match it or changed.
Fascinating. Is there an explanation for his 'atomic feeling'? Doesn't seem possible. And if it's more accurate than machine measurements, how do they determine that?
The Remain side has a far bigger and more systematic problem with classism than the Leave side has with racism.
Quantum puzzle game where you have to guide your wavefunction through obstacles. https://linkingideasblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/learning-q... (Java required)
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> In theory modern CAD etc. can help to design

Only if you know the limits of the physical manufacturing process - otherwise you are going to design the perfect bizarre piece that your experiment needs, only to find later that glass blowing can't produce it.
I was thinking this question is like:
"Can we all go Republican?"
"Can we all go Catholic?"
"Can we all go .Net?"

While the question can be asked, why would someone want to take choices away from billions of people? this article tries to justify taking choices away from people... I'm noticing a trend here...

Fanatic adherence to belief systems while not allowing others the leeway or freedom to follow their own without being hassled is a big part of what is bringing society down.

Also, they forgot point 6: Meat is Delicious.
Definitely the former. That and possibly an attempt at a second indyref if the current momentum doesn't die. I live in Edinburgh, one of the areas with the highest No vote in the indyref, and pretty much everyone I talk to who voted No would strongly consider a Yes vote. Depending how the situation in westminster develops, this might calm down or it could get stronger.
Legally the UK is still ruled by the Queen.

That situation would change in a heartbeat if the Queen actually tried to rule.
Send the scans to me - I'll do any cleaning, compression, documenting, then put them up on github and give you a shout out.

My contact details are on my profile :)
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The EU Commission has already said flat out there would have to be a new application.

That application would certainly be vetoed by either the Spanish (catalan issues) or the Germans (Scotland has a bigger deficit than Greece).
Maybe. But to my recollection a passport is required to use those gates.

If I recall correctly:

Minimum age requirements; kids are not allowed
A biometric passport
A passport from an eligable coutry. Essentially the EU, Island, Norway, Switzerland and potentially a few more
Having machinists in an engineering school makes sense from an undergraduate education perspective; for certain types of engineering, designing something with CAD and having a machinist make a prototype is a core part of the work students are being trained to do.

I assume getting custom glass blown isn't a core requirement of the chemistry curriculum, or a very common thing for working chemists to be doing.
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The UK is one of the most ethnically diverse and tolerant nations on Earth. This is a fact you'll find difficult to argue against.
I suspect it's best not to tell them you have a social media account on 'Hacker' News.
I don't think these millennial-types are any different in that regard than their Gen-X predecessors.

Except of course that adult Gen-X slackers, who are more likely to be a homeowner, have had a lot more time to learn what a good plumber or electrician is worth.
I suggest naming it 'Scottledon'
The consequences for Scotland leaving the UK are an order of magnitude worse, and that is if they were guaranteed admission to the EU on a roughly similar basis to to the UK's current status. In reality they would probably have to adopt the Euro and thus have even less control over fiscal policy which would mean dealing with the 9% budget deficit, higher than Greece's which would be political suicide.
Hopefully we'll all start using login methods like SQRL and alike and all this nonsense will be a thing of the past.

Link for the interested:
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
Xenophobia isn't the reason intelligent people are pro 'Leave'.

For example, many powerful free-trade Libertarian think-tanks backed Brexit: the Hoover Institution [0], the Cato Institute [1], the Adam Smith Institute [2], etc.

These certainly aren't racist dumb-dumbs or protectionist "little Englanders", and their opinions are well worth a read. While bigots exist and certainly voted 'Leave' that does not mean that there are not good, open, free-market reasons to leave the EU.

[0] http://www.hoover.org/research/cautious-yes-brexit

[1] http://www.cato.org/publications/economic-development-bullet...

[2] http://www.adamsmith.org/evolution-not-revolution
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They're mad now.

But a second referendum would force the situation to be analysed a lot more carefully. And that situation would not be a strong argument for leaving, no matter how much the Scots might like the idea of the EU.
Calling episodes of racism and xenophobia for what they are qualifies as "hate" towards those who voted Leave?

The attack on the Polish cultural centre is "rhetoric"? The murder of Jo Cox is rhetoric?

Feel offended, but at least don't try to paint yourself as subject of hate.
For other's not up to speed, I take it Jacob Applebaum's nick is the same as his twitter handle, ioerror.
Why are they using IRC instead of something like SILC? Or is this an internal IRC channel that's only accessible using TOR (or maybe something else?)
Stubbornly following the result of a majority vote is majoritarianism, not democracy.

Nonsense. In the case of an A/B referendum, following the majority vote is democracy.
> Is it just London that wanted to remain? What about the other cities?

Despite much of the media describing this as the north voting to leave, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle upon Tyne, Harrogate and York all voted to remain. Further south there's also Bristol, Cardiff, Cambridge, Oxford.

There are cities and urban areas that voted to leave, but generally speaking it does seem to be that the areas with lower population density voted to leave. I'd be interested to see a visualisation which examined this correlation.
Simple, the TLAs (Three Letter Acronym organisations) have Stingrays set up (IMSI-catcher) and vehicle number plate readers.

You're much more easily identifiable your mobile phone number, vehicle registration number, name, and social media account(s) added together.

Because that's probably what is already happening.
There was this idea floating around a few weeks ago, about a startup that curates online sockpuppets of obidient citizen personas (I think it was in response to landlords surveilling their future clients). What was sureley meant as sarcasm is looking more and more like a serious business model.
Considering the loss of old time glass factories in West Virginia and Ohio, some only have had shut down in the last decade, one or two are still about, plus the former glass blowers and artists are working independent there are ample people who could get up to speed and work glass for laboratories
"The UK rescued the Scottish banks. Scotland will have to take on half this debt."

That's an extremely common fallacy. The banks were bailed out not by the countries they were based in but by the proportion of their wealth that belonged to citizens of each countries (roughly, it is slightly more complicated than that). Only a small proportion of the "Scottish Banks" wealth was actually that of Scottish citizens. The majority of it was English wealth along with a few other countries, therefore England would have had to bail out a sizeable chunk to avoid the economic ramifications of these "Scottish Banks" collapsing.
Really? From what I saw, the news sources with the biggest circulation tended to be heavily biased towards leaving.
The incidents you mention were awful and are not to be tolerated. We (as a nation) voted to leave the EU, not to allow this kind of hateful violence.

But you know full well that the rhetoric I'm talking about, as exemplified by that post, is the attempt to paint everyone with any 'leave' symapthies as a racist.
Door-in-the-face[1] corresponds with what I was thinking of, thank you, though I seem to have it filed away in my brain under some other term still.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
Even if the employees capable of directly signing the files make up a very small group, they would probably be authorizing over the phone or a similar indirect route. This opens the door to social engineering by anyone, employee or not, who knows what number to dial and what information to provide. The tech would be authorizing the file without seeing the customer's device and proof of purchase themselves.

To foolproof the system, you would need less than a dozen people trusted with the ability to sign the files, and require the device and proof of purchase to be shipped to them rather than allowing unlocks to be authorized remotely.

It's unfortunate that the last line of defense against a stolen machine, the firmware password, has a backdoor. I'd have expected a firmware password on a MacBook to be just as difficult to bypass as an iPhone's passcode. Apple refuses to unlock phones, but will gladly remove a firmware password on a real machine. Disappointing.
The difference is that a knife isn't likely to explode, sending hot, toxic gases and acids all over the laboratory.
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I will never activate my wechat payment. Actually I avoid all Tencent products like plague. Having been seeing Tencent's shameless copy-cating and alluring teenager to spend money on its shitty virtual costumes (In early days, you would have a half naked virtual avatar if you didn't purchase any costumes and costumes have expirations),it is hard for me to regain any trust in this company.
Madrid would have certainly blocked Scotland if it separated from a UK that was still in the EU (for obvious Catalunian reasons).

With the UK on its way out from the EU, an argument can be made that Madrid will be persuaded to let this happen.
Things that have changed, off the top of my head:

-- Typing and distributing paper reports used to be a big part of the workday. You needed someone who could not only type an error-free 70+ words per minute, but also who knew how to format documents properly (headers, footers, page numbers, envelopes, etc), and who could take care of the reproduction, packaging and mailing.

-- Setting up meetings would require phoning around to other people, or more likely, their secretaries.

-- Travel arrangements would need to be taken care of manually by calling a travel agent, collecting paper tickets in advance, etc.

-- From the "supply" side, institutionalized gender discrimination meant that there was a steady supply of cheap labor that didn't have a lot of other alternatives, career-wise.

Computers killed the typing pool. The WWW and email killed the need for dedicated support staff for all but the highest-value employees. (Greater) equality in the workplace means that women have other career options, putting upward pressure on compensation for executive assistants.