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There is a lot of soul-searching (and poll-searching) going on in the UK right now. And it's worth capturing some of the main points (some reflected in this article some not)

the vote is best seen as a protest vote driven by three emotional issues

1. Fear of immigration
2. Fear of economic dislocation
3. Frustration at being out of political decision making

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All of the above are common threads in right wing and centre right politics across the western world. From Trump to Greece there is a strong right wing, older, lower educated rump of around 15% who are the economic losers in the past couple of decades amazing debt field growth that has lifted hundreds of millions out of absolute poverty (a Good Thing)

But these three themes (the New Right) are not intellectually driven. They are weirdly fact free zones.

For example, the strongest Leave votes in the UK come from area with minimal immigration. Just as no Mexican ever stole a Pennsylvania Coal Miners job, Immigrants in the UK are not taking jobs from workers in Hull - because there are no bloody jobs in Hull.

2. Economic dislocation is a problem - London is a black hole pulling jobs, finance, young people, from everywhere else in the country to itself. House prices reflect this - houses can be bought for a few tens of thousands just a few hours drive from central Londons million pound pads.

Nothing about this makes sense - our economic future is a concern whatever we do with Europe, and it's just more dislocated in the UK.

The problem is fixing it. Our economy is mostly services now - finance being a ridiculous 10-15 % of GDP. And we are not competing when selling real goods with Germany or others.

Fixing that is a huge industrial policy issue and I don't see people taking it on.

As for the last - well An amazing BBC clip (TBC) shows a voter who voted to leave, seeming genuinely shocked at the result saying "but I thought my vote did not matter".

Turns out people feel disconnected from a political process that actually is working. When it is used. The problem is politicians and electoral rules clouding the direct levers.

So rant slowly ending - we have had a massive protest vote "against the establishment" - which is driven by fears that turn out not to be based on facts, that will result in election of a person who is just as establishment (Boris Johnson was in the same posh school / university class as Cameron. It's not a diversity win here)

My feeling is democracy has stopped being served by five yearly elections - that the real issues are much more local, and we need to find ways of forcing "evidence based politics" and more direct local action.

Sadly that can be the same sound bite as "take back our sovereignty"
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> The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.
Can somebody explain in simple words what urbit is? I just couldn't figure it out from the website.
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"I mean, 52-48 is not insignificant, but it's also not a "clear, strong message" for leaving - it's a message from a divided nation who is quite literally not sure what it wants. Just sit in a restaurant tonight and look around - whatever your opinion, half of the customers agree with you."

Not entirely sure of your general opinions on voting, but for the most part, majority is majority when it comes to democracy. You can't now claim "oh but it isn't victory by a significant margin, therefore people didn't really know what they wanted to vote for." The message is: "52% of the voters at the time wanted X, therefore democracy-dictates we do X". If it's good-enough for electing our leaders, it's good enough for a referendum.
I don't think infinite scrolling is an obvious lowest common denominator manipulation technique like sexy photos, pimple popping thumbnails, or clickbait titles. Mainly because it isn't signalling that the content is obviously low quality, it's just a more accessible reorganization of the layout.
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I am just beginning to learn python.With so much resource peppered around the web, what would you recommend that helped you with learning and applying your python knowledge.Resource, books, vids..etc.
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Nope, as I previously commented [1], there is no room for giving new benefits for free as it will cost the EU its existence.

I think a consequence might be that trade with Russia will be reopened. The US influence in Europe has been lessened with the departure of the UK.

Also, did you think about the buying power of the UK? The mortgages stand, but the prices will going down as the pound looses it value. In periods of uncertainty trade will fall as will investments. Those we can afford quality goods from EU might still want to buy it (eg. luxurious cars from Germany).

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1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11977081
> CFG parsing can be done better than O(n^3), reducing to Boolean matrix multiplication, which is about O(n^2.37).

Is there a known lower bound on running time to parse CFGs, like O(n^2)?
With the hidden service address, an attacker can access whichever ports are exposed by the hidden service.

Turning Tor off and on is a relatively expensive operation for the Tor network. It wouldn't particularly help resilience.
Inspectors do not typically check plans and calculations for adherence to the code, they check whether the work matches the plans. Checks for whether the plans match the code are generally done by the reviewing agency, to varying degrees of effort. For example, an agency will check for adherence to their design manuals (which are the governing code for their work): Caltrans against their manuals, railroads against AREMA, building departments against the building code, etc.

And yes, it is good practice to cite the code as appropriate but it isn't necessary - any questions by the agency will be sent as comments and approval will not be granted until they are satisfied.
Heck, even in places that support both, chip-and-sign cards are an enormous pain. I'm a Canadian with an American corporate Amex and inevitably the dance is:

1. The guy dips the chip. Machine errors out.

2. Guy tries it again and fails.

3. Finally listens to me and dips the chip, then swipes. But it has to be right after the chip fails so the machine will accept the swipe.

Why? Well if they swipe first, the machine says to use the chip, then they use the chip and it errors out on that, and then they swipe again and it works.

Technology!
The back button is usually broken with this approach. At best the user is going to get a very jumpy experience, usually they will need to scroll down and click "show more" several times.
Google, Facebook quietly move toward automatic blocking of “extremist” videos
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11976036
Sure - but the converse - punishing them for leaving - confirms that the EU is a political hegemony whose purpose is to usurp sovereignty, rather than a mutually beneficial union of member states who are members by choice.

That would provide perfect ammunition for nationalists everywhere.

See:

http://newobserveronline.com/brexit-contagion-germany-fears-...
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I think infinite scroll is, for the most part, a lazy design pattern that tries to take advantage of our laziness. Every time I go to Facebook, I want to catch up on the latest shares from the people and pages I care about. I only need up to the last article I read, then I'm done. It's queue processing, not television watching. You should be able to get to the end of the feed. Instead it just starts rehashing old content.

Certain applications do more resemble television watching, where there's way more content than you could ever fit into a processable queue. Instagram, for instance. What I want there is for pics I've seen to get marked as seen and not come up again. Here infinite scroll makes sense.

Another interesting example in this space is Tinder. I'd like an Instagram-like experience for Tinder. Instead of having to swipe to see a new pic, I should just be able to scroll, and already-seen pics are treated the way left-swipes are.
Thanks - at this point I have looked through as much material on the subject since my project really only involves genetic evolution and multi objective optimization. Time to dive in!
Don't need it, necessarily. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/printing-money-...
The author is actively working to comply with licenses right now.
But humans happen to be direct competitors for the exact same territory and resources as us!

Wily bastards too, you can't trust 'em...
Have you seen Squirrel? [0] It does have a lot in common with Lua, but does have a bit more of a C++ feel to it.

[0] http://www.squirrel-lang.org/
Yeah, probably... Alright, sticking to MCU's, what do you think about the 1802 used in high-integrity space applications and COSMAC microcomputers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_1802

It's another old one from my collection. Links to two implementations by modern hobbyists showing it can be done. Not sure if the architecture is worth reviving for education, experimentation or high-reliability but it paid off then esp on SOI processes. Included a stand-by mode, too, despite being 1970's chip. Intersil also still sells them for government or commercial clients for legacy systems presumably.
The latest version of Swagger Codegen (https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen) also automatically generates documentation (markdown) for API clients/libraries, e.g. installation, getting start, doc for API endpoints and models.

Here is an example: https://github.com/wing328/test-java-okhttp

Please pull the latest version and give it a try.
Yes but it's not possible whilst everything is done to make short term profits for a small number of people at the very top 1% of society.
Security Onion intrigued me a couple years back when I heard about it. I think it was on the Linux Action Show.

I have been using Alien Vault OSSIM (https://www.alienvault.com) for a few years and haven't seen any reason to switch. But this does look like a great project still.
When you add unicode, it can become more complicated (or rather, cumbersome)...
Sorry, but the point of the EU is not to just let everyone mooch off of the central banks and beg for handouts.

Scotland outside of UK and part of the EU is a Scotland ripe for service industry. If the EU helps it's member states to be better than they are individually, which is supposed to be how it works, then there's no reason to assume Scotland will be running at a deficit forever.
Right, because you know my life well enough to make that kind of judgement.

It's a nice, clever cop out but ultimately a cop out. Bicyclist gets hit by a car. Loses his legs. Did he make poor life choices? I wouldn't say so. Say that same bicyclist has built a career as a great door to door sales man. Now he's on hard times. Did he still make poor life choices? Should we, then, all avoid bicycles and work in door to door sales, even if those two things happen to be things people enjoy and, on the whole, beneficial?

You can think of an unlimited number of scenarios where someone has fallen on hard times through no fault of their own. In fact, the most callous and unhelpful thing to say is "you made poor life choices bro" like you even know what you're taking about.
Shadowing and mutability are not the same thing.

Shadowing within the same scope is admittedly unusual.
Oops. Part of the page didn't render on the device I was using. Couldn't see the name. Thought it was him with the illumos and joylent references. Thanks for the correction!

Note: So someone else that worked there was imploding and could use some time at aforementioned projects clean-slating or improving HW/SW architectures. :)
If people are provided a minimum lifestyle what will they do? I don't think anyone really knows if it will be a golden age of entrepreneurs and self improvement.

If only there were a group of people with sufficient money they never had to work! We could study them and see what they did to amuse themselves.
> I would guess shadowing wouldn't affect values shared with a different thread...

That is actually a big deal, though.
AS response to _9MOTHER9HORSE below [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11977154 ]

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The cost of another country leaving may indeed be higher, but the EU simply can't afford to punish the UK, even as a deterrent.

You keep mentioning the EU can't afford it, but why do you think it can afford to let the EU explode?

I'm not sure what you mean by "special benefits". Yes, the UK negotiated the rebate and certain special conditions of membership, but fundamentally it was a net contributor to the EU.

That is not relevant. Access to the market will have to be paid for, so they still need to be a net contributor. Maybe even more than they did so previously.
Also: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator (which makes x86 single-instruction)
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I had to use it at one job and it was exactly that, a spaghetti nightmare. I did not like it. I don't want to say it's bad, though, I just prefer to shy away from it and don't see any point in using it again.
I've been writing JS a long long time and my strategy has been to never learn the intricacies of 'this', or the other bad neighborhoods of that language (but especially 'this'). I just avoid those neighborhoods. I write functions at the top level, keep all the signatures explicit, and enjoy the things in the language that are straightforward.

Once every couple years or so something comes up that forces me to dip a toe back into 'this'. If Plan A (find a way to avoid it) fails, I go to Plan B: relearn the minimum necessary and forget it as quickly as I can. I'll never pass a JS job interview, but since another life goal is to never endure another job interview, that part's ok too.
I'd like to know if the people responsible for promoting this idea will be punished for the lives that are going to be inevitably destroyed?

The last time we did something this stupid with predictable chaotic results required a corrupt president and retired general. So apparently it has gotten easier since then, to convince people that the shit they're eating is ice cream.
It doesn't have the same semantics, because even after introducing the new variable, it is still immutable. So you cannot accidentally modify the new variable. e.g.,

let x = 1;
let x = x + 1;
x = 99; // Error: you can't accidentally modify the immutable variable `x`

let mut x = 1;
x = x + 1;
x = 99; // Ok

You can even turn back a mutable varaible into an immutable variable, like this:

let mut x = 1;
x = x + 1;
let x = x;
x = 99; // Error: `x` became immutable

This can be useful to "pin" the variable after a large number of calculations done to it.
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That obviously depends on what you're doing. Paginated content (with the obvious exception of multi-page articles) is often a symptom of poorly defined search criteria. Did you really mean to view all 6 billion cat pictures? Or only the latest ones? Maybe only the ones of cute ginger cats?
The Naked Maja (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Goya_Maj...) comes up as safe, but a pumpkin lantern (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Balle-%C... ) gets an R rating.

Too bad.
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>racing a production car ... was very expensive

Yea, it most certainly is
>We're not running out of limestone anytime soon

There was an article on HN some time ago on how we are running out of the type of sand necessary for concrete. There is apparently a big black market for sand stolen from rivers and beaches, leading to violence and environmental problems.

I was surprised the article didn't mention this.
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It entirely depends on yourself and the type of work you can get. If you're an extroverted type, working in consulting may be a good experience. If you're highly creative but introverted type, you may not enjoy dealing with your client as much. If you're service oriented, you'd enjoy working with a client. If you're product oriented, you may prefer working on purely software/tech side of things!
Note that I don't know anything about SGX, but skimming very briefly through the first part of the below slides [1], it may look like it's just the ability to create — at runtime — special memory regions that are unreadable outside of the process space (as in, when the region is created, even root can't unscramble that region).

Or are we talking about execution of pre-encrypted code on disk that the machine owner can't disassemble? Because the former sounds like a good idea, while the latter sounds like an insanely bad one.

[1] https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/332680-002.pd...
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Dude has a bit of a... "hook" with stars...

> I see that you didn't star Iris, can you tell me the reason in order to fix that?

https://github.com/kataras/iris/issues/148#issuecomment-2217...

screenshot in case he edits it like every other thing: http://i.imgur.com/5YxCVO5.png

edit: same behavior at https://github.com/kataras/iris/issues/225 and a couple other places. :|
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Yep. Another common tactic is to bundle an expiring patent with a cheap OTC med like acetaminophen or ibuprofen and call it something new.
Education is the great emancipator, but education you and I take for granted as being common, is often not.

It's hard to learn and work on improving yourself when you have no time or energy left from being able to just pay the bills to eat, sleep and work.

Poverty really is a cycle that more people should try out to see how quickly all of their options, rights, and entitlements dissapear and become inaccesible and traded for constant struggle.
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I think your first quote relates to tyranny of the majority [0]. Moreover, Alexis de Tocqueville brings up some interesting downsides of democracy in Democracy in America [1][2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzr3AOtFA8o
Agree with most of your comment. One nit: interest rate (and monetary policy in general) isn't as important as the independence to determine fiscal policies. The two are related of course if you don't have an independent currency. That is my biggest beef with the Euro.
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Could you use this, for instance, to detect an infected Windows host talking to a botnet? Or would that sort of connection info be lost as noise in the presumably large amount of data captured?
Sure, but does that really justify Rhode Island having the same number of Senators as California?

I don't mind the temperament of law that the Senate provides, but I do think it would be more fair to have the larger states have a bigger voice in the Senate.

Make the minimum 1 senator per state and the maximum 3. It will never happen of course because passing a constitutional amendment to do it would require the small states give up power, and why would they vote to do that?
Straw could probably be used effectively for lightly loaded structures (slabs, bearing walls in nonseismic areas) the same way that fiber is used currently. It is essentially for crack control and provides nominal flexural capacity which is generally hard to quantify but there are some formulas which are accepted.

Using straw for anything that is loaded in flexure will be a disaster. Reinforced concrete theory relies on the reinforcing to act as a crack stopping mechanism which will yield in a ductile manner. Straw's variable strength and inability to place it at critical sections means that it cannot perform the function of reinforcement as it will be possible to encounter localized weak reinforcement which will not prevent cracking and loss of section leading to progressive and sudden failure.
On one hand, I want to bash WebAssembly because it takes away our ability to see what we're running on our own PCs. On the other, it helps us slowly get away from the mess that is modern JavaScript.
Didn't epoxy coated steel rebar solve the problem of rust and "concrete cancer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWUpMWJtgvc It's pretty much the standard now.
There's also Em-DOSBox, a port of DOSBox to JS using emscripten: https://github.com/dreamlayers/em-dosbox

It powers the Internet Archive's DOS games library, and also https://win95.ajf.me/ (Windows 95 in your browser!), the latter being my own project (hi!).
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We are gonna end up in the future that Wall-E has predicted. Machines do everything and humans are fat slugs. Our minds are lazy and want to do the least amount of work. If given the option, we will do the least amount and occupy ourselves in entertainment. Now is that living? Thats up to you to decide. A good book to read on experiments done to understand human behavior is Daniel Kahnemans Thinking Fast and Slow.
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I am pursing an education to learn programming and I wanted to know if there is any way I can directly reach the user regarding a post they made in the distant past.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5969644

I'm also searching for guidance from a mentor to assist me with understanding the basics and any reading materials that the users here feel are worth recommending.

I am 23 years old without a job and soon to be without a home once my last relative passes. I want to build a skillset towards at least one thing before that time comes.

I have an incredible work ethic, but a lack of direction prevents me from investing it into anything fruitful.

I give my thanks ahead of time to anyone who is able to share their knowledge with me.
>I don't think it's the sort of thing that yields to calculations…

"But we often have plenty good metrics that people don’t want to use."

"I think the problem is more fundamental; basic human prestige programming."
My favorite thing about this constant is the counter-intuitive fact that if you uniformly randomly choose a real number, there's a 100% chance it will have the Khinchin behavior, and yet there are almost no known numbers which actually do.

Or as Wikipedia puts it:

> Although almost all numbers satisfy this property, it has not been proven for any real number not specifically constructed for the purpose.
It will be initially though, which is what we know for certain. Whether they will become a service industry utopia, is something which remains to be seen. In that case, it makes much more sense for Scotland to have control over its monetary and fiscal policies and not have them dictated by the ECB.
This article only covers the code. For the projects I work on (mostly C++ and/or C#), about 50% of decisions I make while coding is about data, not code.

IMO, Rust just not good enough for creating complex specialized data structures.

Even a trivial tree is hard to implement in Rust, and the implementation will be severely limited: https://github.com/SimonSapin/rust-forest

D surely has it’s problems as well (in short, I think the language itself is very good, but its runtime and libraries still need a lot of work), but at least it’s good for complex data structures.
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