skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With every area save England flatly stating that they would rather leave Britain than leave the EU, I think the consequences of this move are highly exaggerated.

First, there is a real possibility that Britiain will not exit the EU at all.

The referendum is actually non-binding in a legal sense. Parliament could vote to suspend it tomorrow. Another referendum could be held. The Privy Council could even intervene on its own authority.

Second, Britain has yet to invoke Article 50 of the EU charter, which would formally begin the separation process. Despite the insistent (and foolish) efforts of the French and German governments for Britain to invoke Article 50 immediately, they have not done so, and thus remain an EU member in good standing.

Third, there is a substantial body of evidence that a large portion of the "Leave" voters had no idea the consequences of their actions.

The areas that have gathered, or will have gathered by week's end, as many signatures as the original Leave petition include;
Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, and London. In short, almost all of the U.K., save rural and smaller cities in England proper.

Northern Ireland is even holding talks with the Republic of Ireland to unite the island. Protest Northern Ireland frantically scrambling to join the Catholic Republic of Ireland, and receiving a tepid response, is something I never thought I would see in my lifetime.

The nation of Britain is disintegrating into its constituent parts.

Great Britain may never leave because there simply may not be a Great Britain any more.

Finally, Britain's elite are already seeking to mitigate the effects of the referendum. Even if they hold their country together successfully, Britain will almost certainly seek a treaty to retain their economic rights while gaining some control over their immigration process.

Let's not start burning the furniture yet. Britain was independent for most of the post-War period.

The current panic may be merely the flip side of irrational exuberance.
You're conflating completely different kinds of security.

Banks are good at not losing money.

But website security is an afterthought for them.

It's easy to make a website that has better security practices than a typical bank website.

It's not about having better skills or resources, it's about having the motivation to do it in the first place.

A bank could set up spectacular security, but that doesn't mean they usually do so.
Ask HN: How to measure if it is “worth it” to accept a job with less coding?
Hey HN.

I have a dilemma. I will get an offer transitioning me from developer to developer team lead at my company. This is being described as being a job with more responsibility and more administrative work (i.e client communication for example). It is also described as being higher paid. My boss knows me very well, and knows I like to code more than to write emails and following up my co-workers. But I also see his motivation, as I am the most obvious candidate for it.

Now, in the conversation where the management wanted me to know this, I recognised it as an opportunity (nice on my CV and such), and said I would have to see the offer before I finally said yes.

So my dilemma is this. Being a less interesting job-title, I feel there is a certain amount of salary increase required for me to accept the job. If it was only to look good on my CV I would have said no right away. But I am not sure what the lowest level of increased salary would be. Would love to hear some thoughts on it.

I guess my question is:

What would be the minimum (for example in percentage) increase in pay you would recognise as good enough for you to take a job that would look good on your CV, but be less interesting on a day-to-day basis?

A little context:
- I live in Norway.
- My salary is around 480K NOK (currently 55.3K USD)
- I work as a web developer (5-6 yrs professional experience, no tech education).
Sadly did not work very well for me with Windows 7. In some situations it works like in X11, in some nothing happens (no copy/paste). Breaks opening links with middle click... Is there some alternative or fix that would make it function more like in X11 ?
It's at least as relevant as the "Electrn v0.0.5-rc finally released!" style posts that seem to accompany every random web framework version release.
Not incorrect, although the revamped system has become pretty infamous for going down, leading lines to ring busy and overworked dispatchers to revert to pen and paper. The outages have been responsible for several deaths.

http://lubbockonline.com/stories/020299/LA0689.shtml#.V2_jIp...
> But if you call 911 in Manhattan and tell them you are on 4th Street they will ask you if it's East or West 4th.

Why is that an unreasonable question? People calling in emergencies are generally stressed and often very bad at accurately communicating where they are. A few clarifying questions, even if they don't make sense to you, can go a long way towards verifying the information they're being given.
Measure it in USD and the FTSE looks quite different.
That's a great story. I continued to read the post on his restoration of a Computer Space cabinet which was also a good read.
Don't forget, however, that Norway's population is ~5.2M, vs. UK's ~65.1M. (Norway's GDP per capita is ~$69k, UK's is ~$41k).
That's different, people can't learn from fatal accidents. They do learn not to ignore the "check oil" indicator though, we don't need to disable the engine to make people pay attention to that. This is acceptable, even if it costs the occasional fool an engine.
I have a related experience to share.

Two weeks ago I called 911 after hearing a loud car crash within a few blocks of my apartment. Took out my phone, placed the call, and listened to music for ~6 minutes before I was able to talk to someone. Once the 911 dispatcher took all of the information I had, the call was transferred (another ~3 minute wait). The original dispatcher introduced herself to my local dispatcher as "911 north".

FWIW, this is a city in the top 30 by population.
The attacker needs to both be able to read the page and key log every keystroke and be able to associate as single letter, digit, or symbol to you password and not only that to the correct placement within the password.
This is virtually impossible to achieve by any effective means.
They ask random characters from your password in a random order if you login into your bank twice a week it most likely will a year or more until a some one can phish your entire password from you this is not scaleable.
It's 8000£ per capita. Accordingly to your own numbers uk exports 4600£ per capita. If this is not huge I don't really know how to call it.
"Scotland is all but certain to leave."

Not a certainty at all, especially if new EU membership involves taking the Euro. There is a reason Sturgeon has not yet called the vote, they know that EU joining terms are likely to be very ugly for Scotland at this time. She first has to convince the EU to give them extremely exceptional rules (or legal challenge so Scotland isn't necessarily leaving then joining).

Your statements are hyperbolic. No one has any clue what is going to happen next. Making these assertions is unhelpful to everyone.

But. If you truly believe in what you are saying, now is the time for you to make yourself millions of pounds in the next few months easily. Plough your savings into the market, take large, leveraged positions against the UK.
Yep. Sadly the question is boiled down to "In or out of EU" instead of "How to make EU better".

IMHO, Europeans need to act together on a personal level. If people forget about "French", "German", "Italian", "Greek", etc. in their minds for a while, this union will be a huge benefit for everyone. This will probably give a better european parliament which should realize the problems and act as one.

At this point most of the countries think for themselves, because of the pressure of populist ( actually that's why Cameron did this referendum, right? ).
That is too simple. There was strong autocorrelation in prediction market odds changes which suggests herding. You are not taking this additional important information into account.
I wonder how helpful that would be. It sounds like the influx was due to a failure of their normal food sources; the bears sound like they were starving and desperate. Would they move on from the town if all the food sources were locked down? My experience growing up near bears in the western US was that they generally stayed far away from people whenever possible. The fact that they were in town at all is a sign of pretty dire straits for their food source.
> 911 may have a local component and it could be your city being slow.

911 is very much a local service, with significant variation from place to place.
> The reason it works is that all inhabitants are given a personal identification number upon birth

Isn’t that the same as the Social Security/National Insurance number you get in various countries? In France you have a unique number that depends on your sex, where you’re born, 3 more digits to differentiate you from all other people of the same sex that were born the same day at the same place and then a final digit for a checksum.
Hamiltonian systems and closed orbits in replicator dynamics of cancer
> If the EU is so great, why aren't those UK citizens in support of it, emigrating en masse into Greece?

Now that's a straw man and I'm sure you know it. Let's turn the snark to 11:

If you were planning to emigrate to the Mediterranean climate and were short on funds, why wouldn't you aim for the cheap places - such as Egypt or Syria?
HSBC always used a token for online banking you can either order a secure Key or for the past year or so use a mobile authenticator.

The "password/memorable phrase" is only used as a secondary authentication measure and in order to initiate a token recovery procedure on the site.

P.S.
I still use the physical OTP token, just got a new one last month it's a Vasco Digitpass 270 supports upto 8 digit pins and it locks out automatically after IIRC 5 attempts.

I don't recommend using a phone authenticator for the sole reason that losing a phone is annoying enough on it's own you don't want to lose your bank account access too :)
Cameron doesn't want to stay in power, he announced he would stand down before the next election at the end of the last parliament.
If you want to do the heavy lifting in understanding Cryptography, almost all the relevant documentation can be found at the following resource.

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsFIPS.html

A lot of the hard (math heavy) stuff used in modern cryptography has been published almost a couple of decades ago and good books are available on Amazon. I usually just buy them used as you get very good deals for books that have been published several years ago.

I would recommend Bruce Schneier's 'Applied Cryptography, Protocols, Algorithms and Source Code in C'. I was surprised to see the 20th Anniversary Edition is out now.

https://www.amazon.com/Applied-Cryptography-Protocols-Algori...

The math involved uses a lot of number theory (prime numbers, prime factorization, modulo computations, chinese remainder theorem, elliptic curves, etc)

Once you get a basic understanding of the math, you will find out why it is hard to find the keys (if properly generated) through brute force computer attacks.
That defense also works for plaintext passwords.

Tell me why plaintext password storage is bad, and you'll defeat your own argument.
Depending on what you are looking for ExtraCreditz might be an excellent alternative.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ExtraCreditz
> Every article written that suggests that [...] all who have voted for Brexit are stupid racist...

Not all, but apparently the majority of them... Google stats are the proof.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/24...

https://twitter.com/GoogleTrends/status/746303118820937728?r...
Forcing users to type out passwords does not educate them, or even encourage good habits. All it does is frustrate people who already have good password management habits, and encourage those who don't to keep (re-)using passwords that are easy to remember and quick to type.
>As a yank, this issue is none of my business. As long as the people are voting, there is a feedback and correction system in place, I try not to worry about the internal affairs of allies.

You've no idea how nice it is to read somebody talking about this situation with a level head.

> Having said that, I am quite taken back by all the drama I'm hearing on my social feeds.

The media have stirred up the general public in the UK to levels of crazy I've not witnessed since Tony Blair and the weapons of mass destruction.

I'm not on Facebook but my partner is, and the amount of emotion and spats she's witnessed on there have forced her to seriously consider closing her account. She's a self confessed Facebook addict, and just can't handle the amount of noise and vitriol. People are genuinely losing their minds over here.

It's impossible to have a meaningful discussion with pretty much anybody about the situation. Everyone has a very emotional stance, hardly anybody has facts to reference their arguments by.

> Whatever they do -- and I hear now that maybe they'll vote to go back

Despite the 2m people who have signed a meaningless petition, there's no going back. I hope people here now invest their time and efforts in making this work and coming together as a nation, rather than continuing to bitch and moan at one another - all the while freaking out about the fall of GB.

The UK has been through much worse than this. Like most things in life, the outcome won't be as good (or as bad) as those on either side would have us believe.

I'd like to think one thing we have learned is not to trust the media - but I doubt it.
I am starting to be even bigger fan of 2FA. I had once bank account that prevented me from pasting pw first I made grease monkey script to remove this blocking then I removed my bank account from that bank.
The non-answer is actually an issue common to 911 centers. A large, visible event happens (like a giant fire), and they get flooded with calls, all reporting the same thing.
Alternative view: if you must use C++, stick to nothing later than C++2003.

Anyway, declaring a constructor " = delete" isn't the same thing as making it private. If it's private, the code in your class scope can still use it. If you can't trust your class private code to do things correctly, then you're screwed; go join IT and write backup shell scripts. So basically this "= delete" is just another ear growing out of the elbow of C++.
You've been lied to.
That makes prediction markets non-falsifiable.

There's a simple fallacy here - you can't use a market mechanism to define the probability of the outcome of a one-off event like a major referendum.

All you have are hopes and fears about the probability, which are always - by definition - limited and subjective.

In fact you're simply quantifying opinions about opinions. That's one step removed from what polls do. Polls fail because of practical sampling errors (and sometimes because of political bias) - not because no one understands the theory of polling.

There's no way a prediction market mechanism can be self-correcting, because by the time you have real data the question is settled.

Some people may find this kind of thing useful. I'm not convinced it's any more than entertainment.
That's right. I wouldn't be so worried about the EU as I am about the UK, which wouldn't be so united any more.

On decentralization: http://magarshak.com/blog
It's funny how the interpretations of Pope Francis' comments on the issue are taken. Some quote him as indicating too much immigration and Europe could lose its culture, others indicate he's open to the immigration and Churches should be at the vanguard in acceptance.

Personally, I think there is a place for limited acceptance of refugees, but first priority should be keeping people in the region they are from, not hundreds/thousands of miles away and expect different cultures to readily accept a large influx of a group of individuals who may/may not accept the culture they are being relocated to.

Maybe world powers should do more to settle down the unrest there. That said, a couple hundred years of meddling is hard to undo.
I recently played an Asterioids cabinet at a retro gaming convention.

The shots in particular are extremely bright. Perhaps the cathode ray sits there slightly longer than for the other lines so that it's brighter.

I have a lasting impression of just how different the screen looks from modern displays. The combination of high contrast, light bleeding and the long image persistence makes it so different to emulation.
This is the line of code that pre-checks whether an incoming packet should be parsed at all. If it is not a response packet or if the number of questions is not one, it should not be parsed, simply because the packet parsing function expects a reply packet with exactly one question, namely the one that has been queried for.
That was 2006. Myer's most impressive "Aha moment" w.r.t. C++ came last December, eclipsing the others:

http://scottmeyers.blogspot.ca/2015/12/good-to-go.html
I hope that you and all the other people that are happy for the referendum outcome will feel the consequences directly on their skin.
If you still don't understand that this is the beginning of a crisis comparable to the 2008 one I don't have much more to say.
Maybe the articles you mentioned are not so wrong if there are people that can't see simple consequences based on facts.
> but forget how important they are society wide

Even in Germany, the train conductors got a lot of hate, even though Germany has by far the lowest amount of strike days per worker...
I, Robot was another amazing piece of engineering. A simple 6809 main CPU and a custom math coprocessor built out of AMD 2901 ALUs.
"Grumpy old people."

Naive young people.
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In hindsight it turns out the "No"-side was right and had been speaking the truth: staying out of the EU was not a problem and has been advantageous.
Fascinating. It took me a while to realize that the symbol that looks like 4^E is actually 'ye', or 'the'.
I've been looking, is there a FTSE 350 graph in USD?
Boulder seems like this, too.
Interesting, I didn't know about `delete`.

Come to think of it, the trick to make something private in order to "remove" it is one of these very few areas where C++ makes you pay for something you don't use, so I'm not surprised that there is now a special keyword (well, a repurposed keyword) to address that.
You are probably right, I added that part in because I read somewhere that not all countries maintain lists of personal identities as comprehensive but that might have been a long time ago, in that case my mistake.

For more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity_number_(Swed...
The gbp went down, however it started going back before the market closed.

And a lower currency actually gives the economy a boost.

I fully expect everything to fall again because of the drama of over weekend. That should have been completely avoidable
> Northern Ireland is even holding talks with the Republic of Ireland to unite the island. Protest Northern Ireland frantically scrambling to join the Catholic Republic of Ireland, and receiving a tepid response, is something I never thought I would see in my lifetime.

Not true, see http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36621822
> Frankly, I'm voting for Trump because the working class desperately needs a pay raise or I'm afraid we'll eventually have a revolution. Moreover, I think the income inequality is what's driving our general economic malaise. We need to improve the job prospects of the working class for everybody's good.

But that's an argument to vote for somebody on the left!
What is Ukraine? UK Reign?
> ... you get a popup on the phone (via the gsm network and sim toolkit, not ip)

What about customers who are traveling overseas, or live in a different country?
Man I hate those security questions with a passion. They are super weakly protected backdoors into your account.

Here's how I deal with sites that require them:

site: "What is your first teacher's name?"

me: "'Fx|<n8K@W8#[_,[ (1p)jqPC"

The answer is a password equivalent, so I just treat it like a password.
> because PEG parsers don't really support that kind of consistency-checking

Not true at all. You can easily check if a new parser is breaking anything in the old one.

And in practice you never mix languages at the same level. A more typical example of such a mixing would be, say, regexp syntax in javascript.

EDIT: if you want more details on a theory of this static PEG verification, they will be available some time later when I polish my next bunch of commits.
> The damage to the UK and global economy will be huge

I agree - the short term damage to the UK and global economy has been significant. That's confidence being shot down overnight, and the markets reacting accordingly.

> Even worse the uk won't secure any trade deal with Europe because they will want to discourage other nations to follow the same path.

Really? Come on now. You're telling me that European countries will stop selling to the UK?

Nobody really knows how this is going to unfold but it's not going to be doom any more than it's going to be a huge success. In the meantime please stop spreading hyperbole about how the sky is falling.
I can't tell where the camera is from your pictures. Where is it?
As someone living in the Netherlands, let me place a few sidenotes next to the section about it:

- The 88% poll appears to be conducted amongst (online) Telegraaf readers (here is an online version: http://www.telegraaf.nl/watuzegt/25920298/__Britten_moeten_i...) which is a bit comparable to the British 'Daily Mail'.. It's very anti-EU, and while it definitely has a large number of readers, the 88% is not at all representative of the Dutch population.

- The Ukraine referendum is mentioned, specifically: "The agreement itself is not that critical but the vote was widely used as a vote on the EU itself. It went against the EU by 61% to 32%, albeit on low turnout of only 32%.". The low turnout is relevant, a lot of people decided to strategically not vote in order to signal their dislike for the referendum itself. Although the minimum turnout (30%) was barely reached, the fact that this turnout was so low - combined with the fact that the anti-EU parties implicitly marketed it as an anti-EU vote - signals to me that much fewer people would vote against the EU in a referendum similar to the British one.

There is certainly a lot of anti-EU sentiment, but this article does appear to cherry pick its sources.
A boost on businesses that export, which the UK doesn't do much of. Also, isn't the definition of a strong economy basically a strong currency?

> The gbp went down, however it started going back before the market closed.

That's an interesting interpretation:
http://i.imgur.com/XL2K38H.jpg
There are people which, for reasons good and bad, use very old versions of their tools. There are also C++ compilers other than gcc, clang and msvc.
I'm no world economy expert, but that sounds like the exit will be bad for Germany.
Honest question: are you American?

I ask because while I may agree in principle with your ideas I would like to stress that it's a bit difficult, on a personal level, to go over considering yourself French, Greek or whatever when your thoughts are framed in a language which is Greek or French or whatever. Take citizens from any two random US states: they still have more in common than people from two different cities in Belgium, just depending on which language is in the majority in the area.
In a deflationary environment countries that run trade deficits make the rules. Germany is currently exporting its deflation (and its effects) to the UK via its trade surplus which the Bank of England then has to mitigate.

At this point severe trade restrictions with the UK would likely mean even more severe imbalances inside the EU and the eventual exit of Italy, Spain and Portugal.