skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll say this first: I personally think the referendum was a terrible idea. Economically, I disagree with the result. This notion of "prosperity in 10 years" with "a bit of a recession in the short/medium term" burns the working class the most. It's not fair on workers at all to throw the dice like this.

Nevertheless, it is absurd to predict the collapse of the UK because the pound tanked. Most people pressing for a Brexit probably expected that, and many may profit from it. Similarly, the turbulence so far is a non-event compared to the banking crisis.

I would feel better about Brexit if it had a plan behind it. Equally, if Scotland would be extended an invitation to vote for its independence and then EU membership. Of course, this (apparent) lack of planning is not the fault of the electorate.

I think the big issue now is indeed the response from an elite which has had its pretty face scratched. All that these desperate articles on Brexit loopholes reveal is that, since people who profit from speculating are thinking about such loopholes, you can bet that the likes of Boris Johnson (or any Conservative for that matter), who will prefer or profit from preserving the status quo, are thinking about the same things.

About how they can reimagine or circumvent the idea that the majority voted for. About how a Brexit can be converted into a downgrade from EU to EEA membership, or how the Brexit might be indefinitely postponed. It might make economic sense, but there will be a lot of perplexed people out there watching "BoJo" become a hero who handled a difficult situation by failing both sides of the Brexit debate in equal measure.

Of course the kind of thing Farage has in mind is absurd, of course, but a Brexit doesn't have to be a tragedy. People just have to realise that for a profitable solution, the EU must be identified as a competitor as well as a friend.

Personally, I think Cameron and Johnson planned the whole thing from the start. Boris acting as a Trojan horse for Cameron/the remain campaign. He was never a Eurosceptic, until suddenly after the Leave campaign started gaining momentum.

I have no proof, just a whisper. Observations of the both of them, and Angela Merkel's sudden "patience is a virtue" approach after a phone call from Cameron over the weekend followed by a cocky return to parliament by the incumbent prime minister.

And no, it's not wishful thinking. I don't enjoy recessions more than the next person, but the recession is not guaranteed no matter how many times the banks warn against it. I am not concerned by nations or identities. I believe in realpolitik and economic strength. If Brexit turns profitable, it will have been worth it. I'm just speculating for the sake of speculating.
I can confirm this as true. I need to get out of this place.
Spot on. Local travel is where majority of need is, and in most places in CA it's sorely lacking and could benefit a great deal from state funds. Time waste there FAR exceeds that between HSR stops. HSR is a bet on people commuting more between city centers, which - if true - would only increase the local transport problem that city centers have today (as people arrive sans cars), and if false, would remain underutilized. Isn't a win either way.
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People have been poking at it for over 30 years now.

I'm scratching it up to "it's the future, and always will be ..."
Wondering if you might have an undiagnosed medical condition.

I've been very a active exerciser my whole adult life. It's part of my identity.

Last year I started suffering from chronic fatigue. Exercise began to hurt. It hurt when I did it. It hurt afterward. I was tired all the time. I was gaining weight. I stopped exercising. It brought me no relief. Only resting did.

I knew something was wrong. Went to Doctor. Treated me like I'm a lazy ass who doesn't know how to care for myself. Fuck that dr.

I was on my own to figure this. I finally found out a treatment that works. Salt supplements and licorice root to address adrenal insufficiency. Day and night difference.

I feel bad for anyone who goes through something like that. It's not fair. And many people are dismissed by the medical establishment when they need help and compassion. It's awful how people get treated when they are sick but don't have the standard common diseases. The whole system sucks.

If it weren't for a long history of excellent health and fitness, I might thought I just don't like exercise. And never have the motivation to figure out how to get better.
Netbeans IDE. Cannot remember one serious crash. Have emptied the cache twice that I can think of over the years I have used it. (And most importantly: I have less problems than my colleague who uses IntelliJ.)

Also as others have mentioned I've had major stability problems with eclipse, mostly in connection with the perforce plugin.
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My problem with these sorts of screeds is that they treat all techies as complicit. It’s really a problem of big tech companies, and the big tech companies have so much power because there is money in it, and they have the money because humans choose it. We individually chose to give our freedoms to huge corporations with unfriendly designs for our lives.

It’s not like we couldn’t see it coming. Stallman, for example, has always argued against use of Facebook and similar services.[0] It’s just that it’s much easier to run centralized services, so they improve, they create better user experiences, and they draw in even more cash, while decentralized Free Software struggles to get enough attention to stay in business.

I, for one, didn’t get a Facebook until a critical mass of my friends got one, and I didn’t get a LinkedIn until a government agency refused to give me service without one. I tried to avoid the surveillance state, but it’s very difficult to function in society without it. Especially if you don’t have some sort of fan club to support you, like Stallman has.

[0]https://stallman.org/facebook.html
As I've written in another comment:

> That's because the weight of the gas cylinder is relative and you got the point of reference wrong: The base weight is when it's a vacuum inside the cylinder, because otherwise it doesn't even displace the air which you don't want to measure for your reference weight, making it appear heavier. Whatever you add inside the gas cylinder now will make it heavier and the difference you get is the weight of the gas.
I was not stating an opinion on whether it is reasonable to subsidize HSR; rather I was just pointing out the discrepancy between the claim in the comment here versus the multiply-sourced claims in the article.

Additionally, the HSR proposal explicitly promised not to require ongoing subsidies. I think that was foolish: HSR would have passed without making silly promises.
Ever since I turned off notifications on my phone, I've been noticing this more and more.

The worst part is when my girlfriend (or anyone really) asks me a question, then starts staring at their phone before I even begin answering. I'd understand if I was boring and they didn't want to listen to me drone, but they don't even give me a chance to begin to be boring.

Maybe I'm just fundamentally boring. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm curious why this is being downvoted. Did I miss something fundamental in the original article that speaks to why this works or doesn't work?

The intent of my question wasn't to blindly try to techsmith a solution, but rather, to understand what a traditional practitioner brings to the table vs. what can be provided via an automated process.
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Seems to me this gets a lot more interesting when they start building fighter jets without the assumption that a pilot will be in the plane at all. You can build much smaller, lighter planes without the need for life support systems or worrying about g-forces that will kill a human pilot.

I'll grant you that doing this in the US is going to be problematic because of ethical concerns, but there is definitely going to be some country that does it, and as soon as they do, they'll instantly gain air supremacy.
I've seen it in connection with the Britain leaving the EU vote.

I wasn't implying I've seen it here, so I hope it didn't come across that way.
I primarily use Evernote for storing and tagging web pages (i.e. a more flexible and organized bookmarking system with page snapshots).

Are there any alternatives out there?

edit

I found some!

https://thinkery.me/ Looks like it should do what I need :D

And here are some more alternatives:

http://www.alternoteapp.com/

https://www.onenote.com/

http://www.keep.google.com/

http://www.simplenote.com/

http://www.gingerlabs.com/ "Notability"

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204987 "Apple Notes"

http://www.workflowy.com/
Discussions of class can be semantic minefields, but broadly I'd consider that entry level customer service job ($20/hr as another poster mentioned) as lower middle class. Importantly though, entry level lower middle class jobs can serve as a path upwards for skilled individuals who would become more solidly middle class after a few years. It's not just the loss of the entry level jobs I'd look for but the few rungs in the ladder above them as well.
> Next time I'm in charge of QA, I'll be rolling my own tracker, again. To better support our workflow directly.

What is the workflow that you use? Is it supported by JIRA today? If it is - what would need to have to happen in JIRA to be something you'd support?

We're always keen to improve.

Scott, CEO Atlassian
I'm on Windows and I honestly can't recall the last time I saw a PS crash - and I've used it more or less daily for the last half-decade or so.
The biggest difference is in the way we handle checks inside AWS. When you add our EC2 Instance we automatically discover your infrastructure and track changes. When you create health checks for groups and other dynamic AWS resources (ELBs, RDS, ECS, etc...) we track membership and automatically update your checks with no maintenance.
If you want to be really concise you could also remove the precondition that loggedIn returns true before calling hasRole and have it simply return false if loggedIn isn't true.

But it seemed to me that the important bit was two dependent conditionals, not this exact example.
My guess would be lack of eminent domain to force buyouts at reasonable market rates, or a lack of political will to make use of that ability.
Designer/developer of ZeroTier here. :)

Yes, our goals are much broader than VPN. You can think of ZeroTier as a virtual smart switch built on a P2P network; a "smart switch for Earth." We want to totally abstract away the physical network. A lot of ZT's complexity over WireGuard is about working around the underlying network (NAT-t, dual-stack support, dealing with timeouts and path failures, relay fallback, peer location and roaming, redundancy, etc.) as well as smart switch features and robustness against DOS attacks and similar things.

Nevertheless ZT's core code really isn't that big. The core protocol implementation is 23,000 lines of C++ code. This includes many very long comments documenting the protocol, etc., so total lines of actual code is probably more like 18-20k. It's comparable to an embedded TCP stack.

WireGuard does have some things in common with ZeroTier, such as the use of cryptography to identify endpoints and eliminate the hard-coding of endpoint addresses. This is one of many ways that IMHO cryptography actually simplifies networking. I really like the WireGuard design in general and I think it has a somewhat different use case from ZeroTier, namely fast long-lived provisioned links across WANs and insecure LANs. You could use ZT for that but this being in-kernel makes it likely faster. In any case I hate IPSec (over-engineered mess, terribly hard to configure) so any alternative to that is welcome.

(Edit: there are things you can do to speed up user-mode networking like zero-copy data paths, etc., so it's not guaranteed that this would always be faster. But that's another topic.)
Avoiding the teleological default misconception of "evolution means adding features to DNA," to boot.
The Fulcrum/Intel FM10000 was released but it didn't get much love.
a lot of people cant exercise though
I agree.

I was meaning more that a conventional war is more violence then politics. There are various aspects to war, each type has its own balance of these aspects. I just feel that in a guerilla war the politics has as much a part as violence.
I maintain 2 command-line utilities for my own needs:

to google: googler - https://github.com/jarun/googler
for bookmarks: buku - https://github.com/jarun/Buku
But I think the "novelty" in his scheme is that he has separate canaries for different time periods -- so it may not be helpful in letting users know the number of requests received, but it would allow them to know when they had been received.

Assume he had a scheme that just said the following:

We have received no NSL letters in Jan 2016
We have received no NSL letters in Feb 2016
We have received between 0 and 249 NSL letters in March 2016
We have received no NSL letters in Apr 2016
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I've lived in New York or Boston my entire life, and travel from Boston to NY and back again about 6 times a year. I've only ever ridden on Amtrak once (from Albany to NY) and it was slow, uncomfortable and expensive. To drive from Boston to NY in a 15 mpg pickup truck costs about $50 in gas and tolls, and takes a little over 4 hours under normal traffic conditions. My car is comfortable and has all my stuff in it, and it costs the same if I travel by myself or with my family of 5. The same trip by high speed rail is 4 hours 11 minutes, and costs $200 per person, and I have to get to the train station early so I don't miss my train. HSR in the northeast corridor is terrible.
"Maybe I'm too close to the problem."
>> Does the server get a separate wg interface for every client that connects?

> No. Each wg interface has a public/private key. It then has a list of peers' public keys and associated allowed IPs. By tying each public key to the allowed IPs of that public key, you can be sure that if a packet comes from wg0 and comes from a particular src IP, it comes from who you want. So no need for a new wg0 for each peer.

Does this mean that it is impossible for two clients to connect to the same VPN server from behind router doing NAT? Or does each client choose a random source port for their traffic and then the combination of source port and source IP identifies the client?
You run into the same problem as means-testing social security and similar ideas -- turns out that income is a very pyramid-like distribution and there's just not a ton of it at the top, relative to the base and the middle. It wouldn't surprise me if 75% of this proposed tax would be collected from the component of salaries below the FICA limit ($118,500 for 2016). Another question is do you consider RSUs to be part of payroll on which tax is due? What about options? These can be 50% or more of compensation in many of these large firms.
Thanks! It's wonderful to hear that the thing our team worked harder on than anything else is appreciated :)
Does anyone know if there is a good way to do server-side rendering (svg files) of D3 charts while being able to reuse the same code in a browser?

We do a lot of charts at work to visualize electricity consumption and are currently thinking about how to rewrite the js we've accumulated over the years. I've found some attempts at doing server-side rendering but nothing really compelling for now...

D3 is a well thought out library to do interactive visualizations in the browser and having an easy way to do svg exports (for things like automated emails) would be a big plus. Doing screenshots through selenium ain't always so pleasant ;)
But then how I am going to leech free wifi off the coffee shop without going inside?
Nothing profound, just historical reasons.

To really show the problem, you have to do something like contrast how "blogspot.com" is a top-level site, one level below a TLD, but so is bbc.co.uk, one level below what "co.uk". The naive "count one element" doesn't work, or all of "co.uk" would share cookies. And it turns out that now there just isn't much you can do other than have a huge table. Sure, we'd probably do it differently if we had it to do all over again, but, we don't.
The JDK, including the toolchain. Just works.

(Yep, not my only posting but I figured they should go in separate comments.)
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As an "at will" employee, I can be fired for not liking football, or eating tuna, or wearing sandals, or having teeth that are too yellow, or because it's Tuesday.

It's nice to think that there are specific reasons why people can't be fired, but as long as I can be fired at any time for no reason, then no list of specific reasons that cannot be used as cause for termination will ever have any relevance to me, no matter how long or thorough it may be.

The Dems are not a Labor party. Most unions cozy up to them just because it's better to woo Belphegor than Beelzebub.
I can easily see somebody who isn't sufficiently motivated by being physically fit because they're too focused on intellectual persuits. This is now a(nother) reason for them to exercise.

And anyway, speaking for myself, I can see people being on the fence. Reading about articles or even comments online can be a tipping point to get (back) into a good habit.
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There is no such insistence in the US. My insurer gives premium discounts to members who maintain a healthy BMI, blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar level. So people with problems on those metrics do pay higher premiums than the rest of us.
Well, they have six lanes but since it's accepted here to overtake on the right we all the time have a few slew cars blocking the road for everyone else our you end up constantly changing lanes to make your way through. I always like to compare it to having extremely good cables but using a terrible network protocol. Freeways I Europe have fewer lanes but you can go much faster if you want because shore cars are pretty reliably on the right and fast cars in the left.
The World-Check DB has very little to do with actual terrorism.
While it does include a lot of individuals that are also on the US sanctioned lists due to terrorism it's more or less of a risk rating DB for individual and organizations based on many many factors.

It targets, money launderers, people involved in fraud, people who were involved in scandals, people who are the targets of large scale criminal or civil lawsuits and many many other things including political risk of doing business with individuals and organizations.

This isn't the no flight list, this is a DB of potential impacts on your business mainly around direct financial loss if you do business with any of the individuals on that list.

Just to be clear only 20-25% (out of those only 1-2% are due to terrorism, the rest is just normal crime) of the people on that list come from sanctioners like the US government and the European Union, the rest is data they have collected and 75% of their data is about PEP's mainly from media and public records.
This is more of a high school gossip list than anything else and the 25% of names which are actually sanctioned are available publically the US and other country do not have secret sanctioned lists.
What is Uptime as a Service?
The industry might hit the point one day, but for now it seems to fall in the bucket of "modest payoff, very very very high cost".

The upsides are real but other avenues of development may still have higher payoff vs cost (effort).
I think alot of it depends on how the deal is structured. If the software house doesn't have ownership in the final product, then the incentives just aren't going to line up and the product will suffer.
I have to quit the Mac app a few times a week, when it just decides it isn't going to play songs.
Aren't those called missiles or UAVs?

As in, we should consider why we have planes in the first place: it's to deliver some payload (bombs, missiles, or in the olden days, cameras for photography) to a specific place where you make use of that payload and then go home. Once you remove the human, you're not left with too many uses that can't be solved with existing technology.
> Turns out the world is pretty cool. If you still think like this: travel, study people and get outside.

I agree with the last two points, but why travel? Wasn't one of the points in the article that we're so busy trying to think broadly -- by going to faraway places and dreaming of general case solutions -- that we reject the small-scale case of the people already around you? Unless you mean travel to Bayview...

From the article:

> I am very suspicious of attempts to change the world that can't first work on a local scale. If after decades we can't improve quality of life in places where the tech élite actually lives, why would we possibly make life better anywhere else? ... We should be skeptical of promises to revolutionize transportation from people who can't fix BART, or have never taken BART.
An empty cylinder should measure exactly as much lighter than the air as the air weighs. That point is your zero point.

Put in helium and you'll eventually reach and exceed the parity point as you keep filling up (same weight as the air), and the ratio of how much it moves for x volume of additional filled gas tells got the additional weight.

Soon enough you'll reach 2x air weight and you'll have tipped the scale exactly.
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I just got back from 3 weeks travel in Europe, taking HSR from Rotterdam to Paris and Paris to Lausanne, fast commuter (max 170 mph / average 80 mpg but they don't consider that high-speed!) from Lausanne to Zurich and Berlin to Amsterdam, and several commuter trains. For trips under 300 miles, there's no contest with air travel... top speeds are lower but there's a lot less overhead and the experience is uniformly better. Some notes:

1) You can put a train station in the city center. Yes, getting the right of way is a huge pain but it simply isn't feasible to put an airport in the center of a city. This means minimal commute times to the airport—in contrast I have twice spent more time in traffic from LAX to downtown LA than on the plane from SFO to LAX.)

2) HSR requires far less security theater because, you know, a train isn't a deadly projectile (or if it is, it's got a pretty limited set of uses). Couple this 1) and it means that you can arrive at the central station ~10 minutes before departure. I budget 90 minutes these days when flying out of SFO.

3) Volume! A 10 car TGV Thalys train, for example, can carry 370 people. That's almost a 747-400 worth of people. And that's with seating arrangements in 2nd class that are more generous than US business class. With airplane-like density I think you could get 600-650 per 10-car train.

4) Trains are more robust to weather events: thunderstorms don't shut down train stations; snow and ice can be dealt with pretty easily.

5) Electrical outlets are standard in every seat. I know that US air carriers are trying to roll this out now, but this has been standard for a while in trains.

I find the comparison with self-driving cars odd: high speed rail is currently 20 times as efficient, but obviously it doesn't work for final-mile transportation. Maybe that will drop to 5 or 10 times with traffic control / convoying / etc., but really the right comparison for HSR in the transportation ecosystem is plane travel.
Highways are federally funded. California's politics don't enter into that very much.
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