skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it was remarkable that the course of an entire nation can be so greatly changed by a 51.9% victory in a single vote. Seems like such an important change should require a supermajority of some sort. (And, of course, the original choice to join ought to have as well.)

People are fickle and easily divided. For normal elections, we hold them regularly, and that gives people a chance to correct their mistakes or change their minds. But for something like this, there isn't going to be another vote in a few years where people might decide to go back, it's likely to be once and done, at least for decades. The bar for change should be higher when it's like that.
Pushing Bits with Python
Message-passing is a necessary but insufficient abstraction. It's not pixie dust, but if you want to build a robust and organized system you'll probably want to reach for it. For the data integrity issue, you need to have a strong data model implemented upon your message-passing architecture, like an immutable event log. Project useful aggregations and indices from that. I'm wrapping up an implementation of exactly this today (Node.js + Kafka = poor man's Erlang actors), AMA. Email is in my profile as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution

HTH
If OP has a correct interpretation, that would be the best example of "why the richer must check that the poorer get a good part of the cake". Or why London should redistribute to rural England (or why Germany still funds the Greek economy).
What's strange to me is that so many people seem upset about "stagnating" at such a high standard of living. Most of the people driving anti-globalization are flirting with the highest quality of life of any humans to live. But because it's not slightly better than that, they're flailing around trying to find someone to blame. I think this all has much more to do with a changing "way of life" than economic factors.
Here's the thing: old people don't vote for that kind of thing, at least not if they have children and grandchildren. They've invested decades of heavy personal sacrifice into building a future for their posterity. They're not going to counteract that lifelong goal and knowingly vote for something that will inflict real pain or hindrance on the generations they've parented.

Personally I believe the elderly make much better decisions when voting precisely because they have something that gives their votes far-reaching meaning. Young voters care primarily about getting what they want in the moment; any other interest may be considered out of goodwill, but it is intanigble, whereas people with children and grandchildren truly care about the long-term well-being of the nation, because they know their posterity is going to be living in it, most likely for hundreds of years.
“Oculus removed the headset check from the DRM in Oculus Runtime 1.5”
> Because London isn't a sovereign nation.

What is or is not a sovereign nation is not an immutable fact of nature, and the Brexit vote may change that.

Though Scotland is more likely than London to get away.
Building on that, the resources available to students are increasing. Miss a lecture or have a gap in understanding the material is but one click away in a multitude of formats so students can supplement as needed. The school itself is providing TA hours and tutoring sessions on top of that to help catch students falling through the cracks (the cynic says getting them to pass to milk them for more money, but it is to some degree symbiotic).

The number of well qualified and motivated students attending college has never been higher and it always baffles me when people suggest the universities should respond by jacking up standards to preserve some nonsensical ~academic elite~.
We cannot trust academia, they are a special interest in their own right. Their power depends on bureaucracy and big government, not to mention that their field is incredibly undemocratic itself, lots of research is funded or excluded depending on the political flavor of leaders.
If you're interested in a similar post, StatusPage emailed 100 companies a few months ago and wrote it up here: http://blog.statuspage.io/customer-service-email

I'd really prefer to see the questions and depth of reply. Time to respond can be easily lower bounded by giving a shitty answer fast.

In my experience, customers are much happier with a response that takes longer, if they: 1) know it will come and 2) know it will be thorough.
Ask HN: What is your go-to example for a good REST API?
I tend to always look to api.github.com when I need a little inspiration.

Anyone have some good examples of a particularly well laid out API?
The EU needs richer countries.

If they can get the north of the UK without the "haters" in the south, they will grab it.
"gated communities with armed guards"

That would be Mexico
That would have other benefits. The reason health insurance in the US is so expensive and complicated is exactly because of how commercial plans fund medicare.

If we stopped doing that hospitals could publish actual prices for procedures - same price for everybody, insurance or not. Then people could actually shop around and healthcare costs would drop.

But today prices have to be secret and impossible to understand or the way commercial plans fund medicare would collapse.
It works super well with NoScript, aside from the pricing calculator (obviously). The worst sites are the ones that hijack your scrollbar and use JavaScript for layout.
Filing 100 tickets to find out how to send better support email auto-replies
You can have trade without globalism. You don't need to give up control over your nation to foreign entities.
PR doesn't work for binary questions, it works for electoral representation.
Referendums are a blunt instrument.
In the general election the winner takes all and the losers are marginalised. Big majorities in first past the post are bad for democracy.
If there was a decision making process that took into account all who voted we might have a more engaged electorate.
If you apply this common understanding of "closure" where the values that closures close over are not really values but mutable objects, then closures don't count as (pure) functions.

If one thinks of them as proxies to the closed-over objects, they are quite like "procedures". Another way to think about them is simply as objects with only a single method.
I struggle a bit to find a difference between these and alcohol. It's also offering the same options - either drink too much and die immediately (directly or indirectly of intoxication), or kill yourself a bit, day by day.
Over 1 million more people decided to leave. Percentages say one thing, but over 1 million people is a huge number.
Exactly how far would Europe have gotten with inventing those things if it hadn't built upon the numerous mathematical, scientific, and technological achievements of India, China, the Arab world, etc.? [Perhaps, counterfactually cut off from the rest of the world, Europe would've eventually rediscovered everything on their own anyway. Well, the same can be supposed in reverse, then...]

If the bulk of technological accomplishments of recent centuries were made in European and European-derived countries in recent centuries... well, that's because those happened to be the affluent regions of the times, the result of being the ones that colonized and ran roughshod over the rest of the world. But there's no reason to suppose non-white people were/are somehow intrinsically less capable of innovation.
That's Mexico specifically. Immigration in the US across the board increases the population. I don't know if immigration from Mexico + Central America increases or decreases. And you seem to have conveniently ignored

> The article, at a glance, doesn't really seem to give information on the data that lead to a "shorter" conclusion.

and

> Are American families with no hispanic genetics also getting shorter?
A less devisive explanation is that the UK is a big place with respect to beliefs and urbanism. It is completely reasonable for these different groups to disagree and the fact that they disagree on such easily explained features indicates to me the current government is not adequate to represent them. Not uncommon these days.

The real problem arises when the needs of one side are only met through contributions from the other. That is complicated in this matter beyond the tax base of London.

Should be interesting to see, at the very least. Personally, I think much is overblown with regard to economic impacts. This strikes me as more about identity politics. Again, not uncommon these days.
That is sad. In the us it is easy to lobby congress and the senate. It takes coordination and determination. Whether they listen is another story. But my daughter's cause is something that both sides of the isle care about.

Writing the state bill turned out to be easier than we would have thought but it took a lot of presentations and having the right people listening the presentations. She actually had surprising cooperation from a democratic state chairwoman of education and a republican state senator.

The cause is funding for afterschool STEM competitions for disadvantaged schools.

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB246
Shock, Anger, Rejection, Acceptance.

People just lost a lot of opportunity, unity and economic prospect. Let them be angry for a bit.
That's true but just don't say bad things and you'll be fine - right?
> Those who live outside London but provide the rudimentary services will dramatically increase their prices (you still can't make due in London without four maids and a cook!)

You what?

Okay, first of all, define the area of london. I think if London seceded pretty much every satellite town that mostly lives from business with London would go with it. So hopefully people who work in london wouldn't have to go through the wall.

London is already responsible for a huge portion of the taxes that UK collects; if the mechanism of collection is changed to tarriffs instead it would hardly matter. And the rest of the UK would still ahve to compete with the EU providers in that, so they couldn't be that prescriptive. (Assuming of course london gets to keep its airports)

Those who voted leave weren't voting for economical reasons; they were voting out of protest, against their own interest.
Your payment processor tacks on sales tax. Just list where you have nexus. You get a number at the end of the quarter that you pay when you file taxes.

With VAT, you have to keep careful track of input VAT and sometimes later claim repayment from various governments.

There is a lot of obligatory registration and document submission.

The velocity of legislative change is high, especially when summed across member states.

Small entities have an incentive to underreport. Thus, a lot of enforcement activity is targeted at small entities.
Go ahead London, become independent. The City makes more profit than the rest of the country, so you don't need them, do you? Then see how much the UK starts charging you for the food/water/power/transport/infrastructure it provides that you rely on to exist.
This makes me both sad and mad. We have these same type of un-informed head-in-the-sand, "I don't care unless it effects me" type of people here in America. The citizens of England never got a say when the EU was created and they have no idea that a foreign legislative body full of corrupt grossly over paid bureaucrats are making their laws. The EU is the one world government pushed by the New World Order so I am so happy to see it crumble.
IMO its as easy for the elites to manipulate the public via media as it is for them to manipulate elected representatives and the latter is easier to address via checks and balances, though nobody seems willing to put them in. Elections are in the public interest so campaigns should be solely funded by the government, not by private backers. Private parties should not be able to run media campaigns on behalf or against individuals. Lobbying would be rendered useless.

Further, certain other countries do not in fact vote directly for their 'most powerful person' -- in Canada, you vote for your representative locally and the party with the most local representatives sends their leader to be Prime Minister, and even there, the Governor General in Right of the Queen has final say just to make sure.

I think as noble as 'I get to decide what matters most' is, it's worthless when issues reach the kind of complexity that requires specialization in your field. As another poster mentioned above, you don't vote on what kind of medicine a child gets, you leave that up to a doctor -- a professional. Now feel free to pick that professional!
The intro animation is annoyingly slow, but are you supposed to be able to scroll on that page?

Another page, the specs, does not seem to override my scrolling, so that feels fantastic indeed but it's probably not what you mean.
That was my first thought too. A return to nation-states a la ancient Greece.
Please stop adding meaningless fluff.
I'm not deflecting. Their best result was something over 35 % (don't remember the exact number) of the votes, and that was in the elections before the ones they supposedly won. Democracy failed not because the "general public is too dumb to vote", it's exactly the opposite. It fails when the ruling class overrides the general public's vote, as they did in the March 1933 elections in Germany.
We should just put machines in charge. I don't trust any humans to rule over me anymore. Power corrupts, absolutely
Again, playing devil's advocate: what are the immediate downsides? We're still in the EU today, and will be for apparently 2 and half years. The currency movements are positive for as many people as they are negative. The share movement has taken us to last weeks level on the FTSE 100 (FTSE 250 is down on a week). Interesting impact on Euro and european stocks, which suffered worse than UK stocks.

Again, I must emphasise I'm not making an opinion either way. Just pointing out there are statistics and opinions both ways.
The people who voted out were mostly the children who's parents voted into this EU, well an entuirly different beast and indeed much changed and not as many feel for the good.

Also many who voted remain wanted the EU to reform and people have been hoping for that for decades and nothing improved alas.

Now they have an opportunity to listen to the people instead of dismissing those who do not fully agree with them and step away from this label and dismissal of issues.
Whoops. Too bad it's too late to delete now.
Outsmarted himself and fucked up royally. Time to go.
The support of Trump has data behind it.

Second-hand anecdotes of people claiming they'll vote for Trump just to see the system come down is not data.

Without data, it may be such a minority of people that it's not worth significant consideration in a discussion. I'm apt to believe it's an extreme minority given it's an extreme view.
That included a lovely hidden assumption that the population has some static or perhaps declining intelligence/academic motivation. Given the increase in student resources, as well as as rising trend in standardized test scores (SAT, ACT, etc) I'm inclined to dismiss the hypothesis.
You're absolutely right. The drinking age is too high. 18 is perfectly reasonable.
That's how it works for commercial plans. Very easy, simple paperwork.

They have to compete with each other, if they were confusing no one would sign up.

> Sounds like you need a better system in the US.

It does work for most people, it's the edge cases that fail.

> Maybe not so many different stakeholders in the system?

Making medicare normal would require much higher taxes (medicare/medicaid hospital payments are below costs and are subsidized by commercial plans). People would then save money on commercial plans.

Net dollars would not change, or maybe go down, but the distribution would change, some winners, some losers.
Or you could, you know, choose not to kill each other.
"wouldn't bat at eye at giving a D or F to someone who didn't do the homework / didn't do well on tests / didn't show up to class"

Are there schools where this isn't the case? I sure hope not. When I was in college nearly every class's grade was determined at least 50% by test scores. Then 10-15% homework, and the rest projects.
Swiss democracy has similar issues though. In 2014 they made pretty much the same mistake EU is making now; decided to move away from free movement in europe, without quite realising that this core principle of the EU is tied to all the trade deals, and cannot be refused on its own. The consequences haven't fully been worked out yet; but it seems like the same problem.
The sovereignity of the UK is the most important argument. The way the EU resolves regulations is an undemocratic process (for the citizens of the affected countries, not inside the EU). Most people dismiss this argument as conspiracy BS, but I can encourage you to read up about it.

Of course many people voted because they want to "close the borders" but:
1) This doesn't invalidate the sovereignity argument.
2) The protectionism/anti-immigration stance is a reaction to the existing politics, not the cause. And it's something we currently see all over Europe.

There are more valid arguments for leaving the EU, but I think the argument for democracy is the most important one. Saying there are no good arguments to leave is dishonest or ignorant.
If you don't search for it, you want find it. I am not sure if the "Leave" people voted for it for the right reasons or the wrong reasons (xenophobia).

I think its fairly easy to make a case of why the EU is a bad institution. I have made so here and other places. I think people are blinded by the idea of the EU but ignore the actual EU. Can anybody deny that the EU has shown horrible management in everything related to economics? We have a Great Depression level crisis and now a horrible slow recovery. 90% of this hole crisis could have been avoid if the EU and specially EMU were such horribly setup institutions. The EU is not really democratic either, when it should be the most democratic. It should improve on the state of institutional democracy, while in reality its a very clear step back. Take a look at Swiss Federalism and Direct Democracy, its a much better set up for a system but many of the ideas are nowhere to be found in the EU.

Britain has economic problems right now because a lot is changing, but I see no reason that the long term growth should be negatively impacted by this. In the long term I think it can be a net positive. It all depends on how Britain will operate going forward.
> The referendum is advisory and not binding.

OTOH, the referendum did kill the Britain-EU agreement on new terms -- as that was expressly conditioned on a "Remain" vote -- so while it doesn't legally obligate the government to withdraw from the EU, in addition to creating a strong public expectation (both in the UK and in the rest of the EU) of withdrawal, it also makes the conditions for staying in the EU worse for the UK than they were before the referendum.
D's GC really could use some love, but they are working on it this year's GSoC.

As for using GC in a systems programming language, even last a few days ago we had the links from Xerox Star. Originally developed in Mesa, which eventually became Cedar, that made use of GC.

Also the whole set of ETHZ Oberon workstations.

And many other experiences.

The oldest I can find is a Flex computer system developed by the UK Royal Navy in Algol-68RS.

I am pretty convinced, that just like e.g. JavaScript performance, there needs to be someone with enough money to bully the industry with such technologies until they stop being tabu.

I still remember reading from C guys on Usenet that C++ would never be usable for writing OSes.

Yet there are quite a few of them now.
It's also not like your 'perfect' system wasn't financed by of the dirtiest money humanity has ever seen.
Anything else the older generations would like to fuck up?
Is it clear what will become of British citizens who have already relocated to other member states? Are they likely to be deported?
I think for the majority of the population, it does
Please don't be snarky, especially on divisive topics.
I think you're missing the sarcasm in those comments. Just like this petition as a whole, they are deliberate ironic echoes of the Leave camp's claims in order to raise the question of "Why is your vote valid but not ours"
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/24/europe-plung...
AKA: auto-responding humans.

IMO, it gives you an insight into the support culture of the company. If they treat support as "close as many tickets as fast as possible", then I'm gonna have a bad time.

If they treat support as "Make sure the issue is solved, and the customer only has to email once or twice", then I'm interested in doing business with you.
The Leave campaign spent plenty of time telling people that the UK would be economically better off without the EU, £350m per week better off. Lots of bullshit about how if it weren't for the EU they could afford to support farmers and so on. People voted against it because they think immigrants are taking their jobs and EU regulations are driving British producers out of business.
> Or why London should redistribute to rural England

"London should" ? I know several people (Londoners) who would retort "London reliably votes for Labour. If they were in power there would be more redistribution, rural people don't vote for their own best interests, fools, etc."

You could argue that labour has been "neoliberal" and not very good at this lately; you cannot say that the Conservatives have been better.
> elderly make much better decisions when voting precisely because they have something that gives their votes far-reaching meaning. Young voters care primarily about getting what they want in the moment.

I'd be more positive about of future if this were the case.
Do you have any examples of where this has happened?

I always had the impression older people voted more conservatively, because they were tired of things changing, and mostly happy with their wealth and position in life.
They can still go and live in Europe, not a big deal
Are you buying GBP futures then?
What I found surprising is how close it was in places that are being cast as representing one side or the other. Scotland, which is portayed as wanting to remain in the EU so much that independance is now likely, still had 38% wanting to leave. Wales, which is being painted as being in solidarity with (non-London) England, still had 47% wanting to remain.
Very nice data. But strangely Northern Ireland has no detailed area information. Every other region seems to.
Oh, no! Software development stack for desktop apps are all about developing desktop apps for either the most profit or the most reach. Exposing features? Please, the '90s are over - no need for vendor lock-in.
U.K. entrepreneurs react to Brexit vote
Improving REPL with Read-Eval-PrettyPrint-Loop
Does the UK use easily hackable electronic voting machines?
I don't understand why this is not combined with a big announcement. A clear "we fucked up, sorry" would go a long way in making the Oculus popular again. This silent reversal looks more like one party inside the company opposing the DRM won for now, but does not have the power to make Oculus promise to play straight. This way it is all too likely that they will later add DRM again.
Hate to use a poker analogy but: Cameron forgot the cardinal rule of gambling. Always leave yourself 'outs'. He raised the stakes when he had little to gain (shut up some dissidents in his party?) and everything to lose. No one forced him to do that.
What if I run my own DNS aggregator (dnsmasq, say), and send the most egregious advertisers to 127.0.0.1 via DNS lookup?

Does that count as an "ad blocker"?

See:

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

Someone told me it was pretty effective to do this.
For what it's worth, brewing coffee directly over ice is extremely common in Vietnam as well.