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The European Parliament isn't the central body of power in the EU. Only the European Commission can propose new laws.

To give you a quick introduction to the EU's legislative process... There are three main groups involved in putting together new EU legislation: the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Council. In terms of democratic debate, the European Parliament is where the bulk of elected representatives sit, with the Council being the 'upper house' (equivalent to the House of Lords in the UK). However, neither the Parliament nor the Council have the power to propose new laws, they can only discuss proposed laws put forward by the Commission. Therefore, it is the Commission that controls the agenda for the EU.

EU Commissioners are not elected democratically. Furthermore, they are required to take an oath to put the interests of the EU first, and not take any instructions from the countries they are from.

In addition to all that, the Commission has very close ties to big business. There are reasons why TTIP and CETA are being pushed forward even with resistance from MEPs. I'd recommend checking out the documentary The Brussels Business for a look into the ways the Commission and big business work together.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xMuUEd6w54E
I think it could be different if the intention is that the message (or method body) is always executed in the context of the called object. E.g. in an own thread, which is used instead of the thread/callstack of the the caller, and which is also exclusivly used even if the method is called from multiple threads - which would elide the need for synchronization.

However as far as I understand most implementations that talk about messaging (e.g. ObjectiveC) do exactly the same thing as plain method calls. The difference seems to be that there is more dynamic in the "messaging" (can send any message to an object or can write a "method" that processes arbitrary messages) - but for me that sounds more like the difference between static and dynamic languages than as a completely different messaging concept instead of methods. I don't know Squeal and Smalltalk so maybe I'm missing something here
Apple can't even keep up with streets in major US cities. For instance, Long Bridge st in San Francisco does not exist according to Apple maps despite appearing in Google maps and open street maps.
Freight costs (especially Asia to Europe) are at an all time low.

http://www.reuters.com/article/maersk-containerfreightrates-...

"Shipping freight rates for transporting containers from ports in Asia to Northern Europe fell 17.8 percent to $540 per 20-foot container (TEU) in the week ended on Friday, a source with access to data from the Shanghai Containerized Freight Index told Reuters."

You generally have 40 foot containers, not 20. But then double above freight. With how much you can fit in there, it is nothing. You can fit 3 cars in a 40-foot container (though normally you'd use special vessels for cars).
This would require that any new image format only did things that were foreseen by the creators of the metalanguage. If the metalanguage is Turing complete then it's just an interpreter. Python, for example, could be your metalanguage. Then I would argue that we already have this.
Yeah, Germany is going to come out a big winner out of this. And I'm glad, too. Germany seems a lot more democratic than UK lately. It deserves to be the #1 country in the EU.
UK bank stock prices collapse by 30%
It's not different.
Switzerland and Norway are better off by agreeing to terms which the Leave campaign explicitly does not want.

They also have significant strategic advantages which the UK is just lacking, and their economies are rather small. The UK can't get a better deal even if the EU wanted to give it to them. Which they don't by the way!
sadly it's also become much more difficult to hire people from outside. also, isn't more immigration the opposite of what the leave campaign voted for?
See my reply to AstralStorm. If you can argue with what I've said based on facts, then please do so.
So today Britain cripples it own economy for nothing. But hey, no more Cameron!. I call it evens.
See my reply to AstralStorm.
And so it begins...

If a Brexit-fanatic like Boris somehow gets hold of the UK, and Trump does the same in the US, we'll be looking back at "those good old days prior to June 2016" in no time... The world-economy will get more introvert, like the "me first" kids at school who don't care about the rest. And that will be the fuel of the upcoming unrest in the rest of the world...
With plenty of venture capital, $10,000 per month is not the greatest expense by far, in San Francisco. That’s 800 employees on Slack Plus, or enough space for about 20 employees with an open floor office and no meeting rooms, or less than 1/10 of the salary of an average software engineer.

Certainly, you should try to eliminate unnecessary expenses. That’s one of the appeals of cloud services: You no longer need to buy your own servers and get professional Internet service to reach the whole world. Nor do you need to spend the time running all that stuff, which can be significant.

If you do need fast Internet for your startup, have you considered Sonic.net? They have gigabit fiber only in the Sunset district of San Francisco and a few other neighborhoods in the Bay Area, but their price is only $90 for a small business, or $40 per employee when you have 5 or more “work stations.” That’s 250 work stations before you reach $10k/month, and by then probably you have enough money and need for room to pay for an actual SoMa office.
Yes, less sorry.

Whats the evidence that people will increase the amount of children again? I really dont see such trends, the hole first world is flattening out or shrinking.

As for energy, I think that with continuing growth of population, you will have even more urbanisation and that means less energy per person. A New Yorker uses less energy then somebody in a small rual town.

The total energy output of the sun can be massivly harvested for energy. We also have nuclear that we could use far more of. We have lots of proven Gas left, and neither coal nor oil is used up. Their are of course a hole bunch of other viable option. Thats before even considering more futuristic tech.

Even should the price go up, the market can massivly react to it. Their are so many simple ways to save lots of energy that people just dont bother with right now.

As for Climat change, I think the economic predictions on it, are not all that bad. Because of the long time scale we have time to do a hige amount of adoption. Living near the equator will be less habitable, but loving in Canada might be improved. The economic models I have seen trying to account for the cost of adjustment are not actually that high.

Admitatly, if you are right that population growth will rise in the rich countries, we might have a problem in the long term bit their are many other problems that are far more worrying.
Previous HN discussions on the movfuscator:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9751312

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10021259
Look into the role of the European Commission.
Ah yes, the classic EU way of disrespecting the will of the people so popular since the Lisabon Treaty.

Another way out of this mess is to perform European Voting: rinse and repeat until Brits get the message and vote as they are supposed to. Worked with the Irish...
For what it's worth, I was the beneficiary of such "blind hiring". I ended up working for an incredible trading department for too short a time and I am told that I beat out 70 or so other applicants who actually had degrees, let alone PhDs and Masters degrees. As far as I'm aware, I was not shafted on the salary though it might have been 20 or 30K less than I would have received otherwise. I don't think this was because of my lack of credentials: my salary + bonus beat most of Google/Facebook any day.

But there is another side of it. People like me (kicked out of the house at a young age, a couple of stretches of jail time) who didn't get a degree, didn't get it for a reason. We have life situations that tend to follow us around. Unfortunately, I was not able to shed my background in a good way and that was my biggest failure in the situation. I'm still working on it.

It seems that GS are trying to detect such situations as they should.

All in all, a good move.
iPhone stock keyboard is horrible for foreign languages, and just flat out doesn't offer auto suggest for a lot of them. And since their third party keyboard API is still very buggy after two major iOS releases you really don't have any good alternatives.

My experience is mostly focused on SE Asia but nobody here sends an SMS if they can help it at all. They're fairly expensive, especially given that monthly 3g plans are as cheap as $3. Whatsapp, Facebook and Viber own messaging here.
Short Answer:

Calling a method is "Command and Control" where "command" is about getting a thing to do something that you want, and "control" is about preventing a thing from doing something that you don't want. In any case, you're running the process.

Message passing is about negotiating with something that is already in process. It turns out that this is the key to building scalable¹ systems (for all the usual reasons: enforcing loose coupling, abstraction, decentralization, etc.)

Longer Answer:

1. The actual powerful thing about a general-purpose computer is that it can simulate anything, including a "better" general-purpose computer (think about what Universal Turing Machine means).

2. Recursion is about making the part as powerful as the whole

Putting those two together leads to the original insight behind OOP: Why not build systems out of (scaled-down) computers!

So, in de-jure OOP, objects are supposed to be computers. Sometimes they are general-purpose computers (i.e. they contain an interpreter for a "Turing Complete" programming language), often times they are more limited special-purpose computers (e.g. functions, procedures, programs, etc.) . Crucially, the only way to interact with a computer/object is to send it input and receive output. It's completely up to the computer as to how to interpret the message (n.b. each object contains an interpreter). I like to think of OOP as being about scaling computer networks in both directions: scaling up gets you something like the Internet, scaling down can get you something like desktop publishing (I recall that Alan Kay said something like desktop publishing was really just about getting rid of the borders between apps).

While, in theory, method calling and message passing are equivalent, the problem with method calling is that it tends to limit you to building systems out of mere data structures that just happen to have all of the functions/procedures conveniently "nearby". Data structures are good if you want to make a process, but lame when you need to deal with one.

¹Scaling to me means that, with respect to some metric, there is a point at which the difference between the addition of part_n and the later addition of part_(n+1) becomes negligible. A part can be lots of different things: e.g. a user (metric is performance), an edit to the codebase (metric is pain), a new compute node in a network (metric is cost), etc...

(For the mathematically inclined, I think scaling is about making sure that the sequence of steps for building a system is Cauchy.)
I still use it of course (it is my travel netbook OS), just not with the same enthusiasm of former times.
As a Swiss this argument kind of baffles me. Governing according to the people's will should be the norm in a democracy, not some kind of strategic play.
You've been pretty busy moderating the past few hours I imagine, I hope it doesn't wear you out or make you think about quitting. I guess one can be glad I no longer moderate any discussion forums: if I was the moderator, this whole submission would be nuked well before it got to even 100 totally useless comments, for my own benefit and desire of laziness and for the health of the community. Well, I flagged, but I felt like bringing it up more directly on an already unlinked thread for the off chance when things quiet down you can link me to (if you've written one) a reason why HN governance sees fit to very frequently ignore what I find the key guideline to HN off-topic: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
EU as a whole perhaps. But not individual countries. For individual countries (e.g. Netherlands) political games will just increase the amount of people wanting to leave.
What do public URIs have to do with it? I don't think we are speaking the same language.
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> But I'd also wager that the backdoor deals made during the exit negotiations will prevent that from happening.

Who would make those deals and what is there to gain from that by those parties?
Sanctions against Russia hurt the German economy, and the workers, just to send a message.

Accepting lots of troublesome unskilled illegal immigrants hurt the German economy, and the workers, but sent a message.

I think I can see a pattern here...
How to Build a Neuron: Exploring AI in JavaScript Pt 1
Not necessarily. That was one of the points Alan made in his AMA when suggesting 'send processes rather than messages'[1] That thread used the example of how to find things and then what to do when you find them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11948686
Probably end up with Boris.

Suddenly Trump doesn't seem so bad.
I still don't get how developers in closed source ecosystems work. If i don't understand why/how something works i just check the code and figure it out, this is usually the most efficient way (for me) for doing stuff as supposed to. If i notice something is broken, i fix it. And if i don't like how something works, i can easily fork or just monkey patch it.

I can't help but think of proprietary language coders as chaotic coders that start crying when something undocumented happens.
I don't agree with that, the EU has a very strong cultural union that was created by the enunciation of the French Revolution principles. It's not by accident that, for example, there is no state in EU with death penalty. This makes states within the EU very similar at certain levels, otherwise a claim could be made that the cultural delta is the same between two different EU states and between an EU state and US, but this is not true, if you check a bit the fundamental values you'll see that EU nations have a lot in common.
I had no opinion about UK leaving Europe (because we don't know what their new situation will be), but I just wish a referendum existed every few years for all international treaties signed by our leaders, when they act as law. I'm looking at you, TPP and TTIP.
> now we will finally pursue tighter integration without fear UK will sabotage such attempts.

Hitler and Stalin will be proud of their heritage.
Yes, it is. If you're a manufacturing country. And the UK hasn't been one for quite a while now, most industry has moved out to other countries (former Soviet satellites and Asia).
Ok, we changed it to that from https://next.ft.com/content/6a74d22c-b399-3da2-a86c-476bd27e....
Instead of lemmings?
"Generally" strongly assumes equal or even perfect competition.

For example say Country A and B trade coal and agree to no tariffs. Country A now cuts back on worker protection and wages, such that their coal is cheaper. Country B's only other chance than doing the same would be to raise a tariff to keep its own coal competitive. That's why Country B wants a say in Country A's labor laws.
My question as an ignorant American is does this mean other countries might also leave and how many can leave before it collapses?
> it was always more difficult to go to/from the UK

This is not true. You obviously haven't travelled many times from UK to other european countries (or viceversa)...
I did not mean to imply that a formal arts education is necessary to train a great artist. But you seem to be saying that great artists don't need any education or training at all!

Hemingway did not spring to life a great writer. He might have only completed high school, but high school was enough to get him a reporting job at age 18, and it was a reporting job that sent him to Paris, where he found Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, F Scott Fitzgerald. I would call that an education.

The original point I tried to make was this: by expecting all poor and middle-class kids to spend their formative years preparing for practical, low-risk careers -- at the expense of their artistic "passions" -- we are depriving ourselves of their creative output.

Things were different 100 years ago. If Hemingway didn't go to college, it was because he didn't need to. He was lucky enough to live at a time when you could work as a journalist at age 18 having no greater qualifications than a high school diploma and a few articles published in the school newspaper.

What would Hemingway do today? Following gist's advice, he would go to college and study computer science or biomedical engineering. Or maybe he would substitute San Fransisco for Paris, and instead of A Farewell To Arms we would have another social-some-shit to add to the cannon of timeless iPhone apps.

But study journalism or English literature with a view towards becoming a reporter or (gasp) a fiction writer? Out of the question. You know those majors won't go anywhere. You need to earn a living.
Here's the direct link to that time point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnBC5bwV5y0&t=65
How to sum two integers without using arithmetic operators in C/C++?
The UK makes about 1.6 million cars a year and exports about 1.2 million of them.
Of course. Also there are trade barriers inside the existing EU. Disbanding them is extremely controversial (just imagine what would happen if Bulgarian Uber drivers using Romanian-registered vehicles started to offer rides in Paris.)
You're shifting goal posts. The statement was free movement of people. You cannot freely move to UK, it is outside of Schengen. Stating that free movement is not free movement is illogical.
Why should 1/5 of car exports lead to exactly the same propostion of lost jobs? That argument even prima facie wrong.

And it's not about Germany. It's about 27 countries, some of which don't even like Germany too much right now.
No, EU citizens can work without a VISA in the UK.
That's a bad thing. Russia is an enemy that needs to be contained. they will take advantage of any "favorable" disposition. He doesn't seem to realize they are a threat.
Good points man! You really covered the topic well. And chat and conversation is a nice building block to not only get stuff accessible in places that are low bandwidth and low-tech but also prepare for future developments in voice interaction as what you learn and cover in text you can easily move to voice once voice is good enough.
I also like the approach of Viv here to build complex queries dynamically over different hooks. These kinds of technologies will be key to enabling more complex use cases with bots.
Making the assumption that all 27 are equal and cannot possibly lean on others.
The economy is not everything. I know most people including leaders these days think all political decisions should be made keeping the economy in mind, and that's the most important thing. But I don't think this to be the case. Sovereignty and the right for people to make the rules that govern them are just as important if not more important than the economy.
Exactly. If the majority want out then we should come out - and I say that as a Remain voter. Really interested to see what the future has in store. Thankfully us tech people should weather it better than most.
There has been so much scaremongering in the UK press that the markets are now reacting accordingly.

Ultimately trade deals are important not just to the UK but to the countries it trades with. People in power will make deals happen because they have to.

There's going to be some short term pain - but ultimately everything will balance out.
It is sad that Britain leaves the EU. Britain is one of EUs founding countries. One can wonder how this on the long term affects peace in Europe if there are external challenges like a country being invaded.

A good thing I can see is that British offshore banking will not be allowed to siphon off European tax payers money. In my country there is things like pharmacies where medicines are payed by the wellfare state that is owned in British tax havens. Right now that is the only positive effect I can see that may end.

In light Norway and Switzerland are also doing ok as countries.
The U.S. Congress is also pretty damned incompetent at its duties. In many ways the EU institutions are functioning better than their American counterparts. Sometimes it's better to have 20 different opinions to reconcile, rather than two polarised factions that can't concede on anything.
Everyone in a country will not agree upon anything. This is how democracy works, and to me it seems to be working well. 52% got what they wanted while 48% did not.
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They still could, there is no reason we couldn't have another referendum.
This seems to objectively be the case in the US, right?[1]

[1] http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPPS%2FPPS...
What's the source for that? Not challenging you but I'd be interested to see a party breakdown.
Its his fault we're here. His policies made inequality in the UK so high that people got angry and started blaming the EU and mainly migrants.
Language, national identity. The US and EU are not the same
Does the EU have any trade deals with countries outside the EU?
Same. It can start with something small and get out of control fast. Especially with our destabilized Middle East, tension in the South China Sea, Russian aggression in Europe and the Arctic, and growing nationalism and anti immigrant sentiment.
But can it backtrace IPs?
"Same goes for the Dutch."

Eh, no. 58% wants to remain, 26% leave (numbers as of two weeks ago). The Dutch realize much more than the Brits how much we depend on tight integration with others (as a small country, as a heavy trader, but also as less inward-looking as the Brits).
Yes. Because you're thinking like a Swiss

Especially thinking that all decisions will be calm, collected and will result from evaluation of all sides

Most people will base a vote on false facts, spite and stuff like "following their heart"
Let's simply refrain from comparing leaving the EU to ethnic cleansing. Ok?
And even then USA had a civil war...
Sort of ridiculous that economists can't agree on whether this is a good thing or not for the economy of the country consuming the most in the world yet not contributing the same back.
> you and the old people voted are small-minded parochial idiots

You can't comment like this on HN, and if you do it again we will ban you. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11967357 and marked it off-topic.
With emerging talk of Irish unification and Scottish independence after the referendum, some legacy he is going to leave behind.
Right, they have no incentive other than to make themselves better off. And it shows[1].

[1] http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPPS%2FPPS...
Not over everything. And the system is democratic, but it does decide against the UK vote more frequently than most other countries. In that sense you can claim that the EU does not represent the UK very well.
I love how you have compared apps stores to menu cards, awesome read!
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Some investors are going to make utter bank on the panic.