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I fully agree, those books are awesome if you want to truly understand JS. I would, however, not say that understanding JS will help you become a better programmer and the time invested in fully understanding JS might be better invested somewhere else.

Some parts of "understanding JS" is just understanding a (insert your swearword) designed language, unfortunately. You might just not fully understand those parts and call them the bad parts. I can't stand not understanding, though.
The gov.uk petition site is one of the most popular and regularly gets a "pulse of the nation" issue brought to parliamentary and media attention. (I suppose that is in many ways the prOblem we just faced)

For example Turing was given a pardon after JGCumming of HN fame started a petition on there.

It's not perfect, it is "just" a voting site, but we have had a taste of direct democracy - we might just start to like it.
A fair point - i have removed that part of the comment as it is not massively connected to my main point. Also, have an upvote
This sounds like a huge deal to me. Lets say you want to invest and built a presence in a new market. Until now if you wanted to go to Europe you could have picked UK as you main point of operation, now you have to decide, huge market with easy open trade or UK.
The funniest/most interesting part wasn't the call for a second referendum, but the second petition described at the end of the article:

A map of the petition signatures showed that most came from England’s major
cities, topped by London where there is a separate petition calling on
Mayor Sadiq Khan to declare the capital independent from the United Kingdom,
and apply to join the EU.

I'm not even sure how that could work, but it would certainly take a lot of the impact out of the Brexit and prevent much of the chaos that's caused the markets to react so strongly to the vote.
Class divide existed pretty much forever. Now it is just more obvious than ever.
Seconded. It is also one of the few languages in which you can easily bundle everything into a static executable.
That's obviously possible but it seems a lot more risky and less efficient for the criminal - at that point they almost might as well just mug or pickpocket people.

And it also seems like there are several physical (or software) locking designs you could use to work around the problem.
A huge number of London commuters could not vote, being stuck in the trains thanks to Govia scumbags.
I run a business and I do not ship to Switzerland simply because the hassle is too big and there are hard to calculate risks involved. It is just not feasible. Dealing inside the EU is pretty much the same as it would be within borders.
Amex said Costco was 11% of their business (that breakup must have been really acrimonious), so I don't doubt that Citi is going to have scaling problems on-boarding that many new customers at once. It took a visit to the membership desk to get mine to work.

Oh, and as a former Citi customer, if it weren't for that 4% back on gas purchases, I would be using someone else's card at Costco (you can use a membership card + any Visa-branded card there now).
IaaS vendor says that companies don't want to host their own infrastructure, more at 11.

I tried to get a neutral take on this, but it reads far too much like a sales pitch, even for vendor blog levels.
Based on my experience with SaaS, those that do offer Open Source software, are only open sourcing the core of their product. There is typically a whole suite of tools and add ons that expand their core offering into something that makes it more beneficial for companies to just go with the SaaS offering. Deployment and monitoring are two pieces that come to mind.
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> It's not obvious at this point that the EU will still be around a couple of years from now

Why?
The Scottish government published a detailed blueprint for an independent Scotland, due to it being the SNP the ruling party in Holyrood which initiated the referendum.

There was no similar blueprint for the UK outside of the EU due to the government being essentially pro-EU, any blueprint wouldn't have been credible and easily accused of bias.
It might be good for them to cool off for a couple of decades and rejoin. It's not like Britain is dependent on EU subsidies or anything.
If looking for job opportunities, in addition to tech think of a field / industry or two you like and focus on their business model for your AI applications. Also make sure you understand when AI and machine learning are actually useful instead of merely silly: not every correlation is useful. Many times, nothing meaningful comes from them, however big your data sample is. Machine learning "emergency" is not going to replace the scientific method.
Just one more point.

I actually don't think that "one of the biggest geopolitical events of a decade" should be on HN if it is not directly connected to Tech.

Here is a more fitting article to be on HN: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/24...

There are plenty of other forums for talking about this subject.

In the past, i've found HN Comments about political issues to be of the least quality/value.
There's no way the independent London thing could happen in practice but a 2nd EU referendum is possible. The Irish repeated their one, the Scottish one looks like repeating. Go 2nd referendum!
That's not how democracy works. If there is a referendum, and you don't like the result, you don't just do a second referendum.

If you'd do that, you could achieve any result you want, just by doing it over and over until. Due to voter's fatigue and/or daily sentiment, results will vary, so you can pick a result by deciding when to stop.

It might make sense (though still be questionable) to repeat the vote if major facts changed, but I don't see that happening. The stock market shouldn't have been a big surprise, Cameron's resignation neither, nor the Leave faction retracting some of their promises.

As much as I don't like the outcome of the first referendum, I think it would be fundamentally undemocratic to do a second referendum.
I think there is still a lingering mentality that you don't have to be an expert with JS to do front end work, and that's just not the case anymore.
I've come from your perspective before to customers (talk about the pain points, focus upon problem-resolution fit not tech, etc.) and it's awful hard to tell customers that have 80% of costs being related to labor and have reasonably well-performing technology that when they're talking to you only because you're trying to cut costs directly in your SOW it can be frustrating when touching that 80% is completely off limits and a political landmine.

Almost all the big vendors and sales teams start with the approach of looking for problems and trying to re-message their products and services to appeal to the problems of their C-level customers, not the engineers (whom never make the vendor relationship decisions). Several years ago everyone was "cloud-washing" their products to tell CIOs "oh yes Mr. CTO, we're ready for your cloud initiative" by slapping on a web frontend to their managed services and boxed software when they didn't have anything before to maintain a relationship. Those are red herring projects though I've found - it's just another way to keep vendors on their toes.

Another problem is that accurate problem statements can be very hard to get to without escalating to higher level managers that it turns out are oftentimes swayed by existing vendor relationships to get something done more effectively. From here, I simply have to ask "are you happy with the results your vendors have promised compared to what you expected?" and everyone complains about cost but you need to get away from that conversation honestly if possible - because IT at a company will never, ever, ever cost too little since it's a cost center.
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Ask a poor Greek who dutifully paid their taxes now struggling on 80 euros a week who can't get medicines if there's anything wrong with the EU.

The EU's sheer brutality towards Greece is one of the reasons I abstained. They didn't have a democratic mandate to do that and the institution itself is being gradually changed in order to remove democratic oversight (that's one of the reasons they could be so fucking brutal). More real power exists in the ECB and EU commission now and the parliament is more and more toothless. That's wrong on multiple levels.

I'm pretty sure the British outside of the cities are rationally voting to reduce competition in the labour market. Just ask the "in" campaign:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/eureferendum/1218...

If the EU keeps preaching austerity, labor market suppression and other neoliberal ideas I expect it to dissolve in a decade or two.
Oh duh, I forgot about that - even commented on a few days ago!
Other countries look at the UK precedent, Greece leaves, things disintegrate.
It is not that absurd when you think about it for a moment. It is not the time yet but major cities probably do better with less friction on movement of goods and people with other major cities. If that's true any hindrance is suboptimal.

I'm hopeful that England will join the EU as a full member (including common currency) within our lifetimes. It would preempt any credible calls for an independent London.
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it's more like ~6.8% than 10% but this will stabilise after initial hiccup of course.
Interesting, but with a few photos this would be even more interesting. (See for example the post from https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=medievalbooks.nl )
"digital rights management"

which usually means "copy protection" introduced with the goal of protecting the vendor, but which almost always degrades the value to the consumer (sometimes catastrophically, if support by the vendor ends; the nest debacle is probably the most recent example)
> EU if we join the Euro and Schengen

They aren't going to join neither

Also this is certain to make people even more pissed

Schengen does not make sense for the UK. (They have their own deal with Ireland because of Northern Ireland called the Common Travel Area which might go down the drain as well)
Democracy doesn't work by voting until you get results you want.
Over 50% of the country are chavs. There is nothing more stupid in this world than a chav.
After reading the problem but before reading the solution, I came up with 0^ln(x+1). Did I do my math correctly, and is this a legitimate alternative answer?
People treat js as a toy language then get upset when people use it to build actual applications.
Personally I think a (major) referendum should be voted twice even with just a week difference.

A lot of people most probably didn't vote because they assumed the result from the pre-vote pools and for other various reasons. Now everyone is alarm, they won't be leaving it up to chance.
Those 50 and a change results remind me of the quote about Versailles = "This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years"

Nothing is solved. both remain and leave need 60+ to claim a mandate.
this statement is idiotic:

"We the undersigned call upon HM Government to implement a rule that if the remain or leave vote is less than 60% based (on) a turnout less than 75% there should be another referendum"

it would mean infinite loop of referendums without consensus.
It's amusing that you attempt to marginalize well-reasoned opinions you don't share by labeling their holder as having "anger".

Finally, do you think it costs $30 to maintain a consulate? Just stop your whining: either renounce or pay your taxes.

Finally, in a civilized society, when you encounter laws you don't like--you work to get them changed. Otherwise you're just a childish scofflaw--no different than the bank robber who complains about the laws against robbing banks. "emigrants like me can have a backup plan"--not sure if you meant this as a joke, as it entirely undercuts all your arguments. If you want a backup plan--you gotta pay for it. You could have just as well gone to Somalia as Sweden--so the unlikelihood of war there is not germane to the conversation.

Whiner.
There is already an independent London inside London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London
Highest listed ADSL download rate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_digital_subscriber_..., ADSL2+)

But here we actually want the upload rate, so it would take even longer.
Some of the brits may be rationally voting to reduce competition in the labour market but it's dubious that it'll work to raise wages. There is the counterforce of companies locating elsewhere to avoid tariff uncertainties. The main problem in Greece and the UK rural areas are the dumb austerity policies.
> And it equals its reciprocal, because 0^0 = 0^-0 = 1/0^0

Doesn't this already assume that 0^0 evaluates to 1 and not 0?
If they didn't vote because they assumed some result, perhaps they are not as passionate about their position and should not get to vote a second time.
Okay. What is the definition of the OS in your opinion?

And thank you for taking the time to disagree with me respectfully. So many do not.

And I do recognize the tinkering capabilities of smalltalk. This is why I found your points odd.

I have yet to learn Smalltalk. The full environment, as opposed to text editor development feels odd to me, especillay after struggling with monsters like Eclipse. Also, SBE is several years out of date, and there isn't really much in the way of good documentation for those who don't already know what they're doing.
In Europe, I identify as Spaniard.

In Spain, I identify as Catalan.

In Catalonia, I identify as someone from Barcelona.

In most world affairs, I identify as European.

It is human nature to look for your own identity; and sharing that with your neighbours substracts from your own personality. On the other hand, against external competition you would look for group membership.

What I'm saying is, the Brits are not special or different on their aspirations than their neighbours. Their main difference is who owns the media and the aspirations of those media moguls.
> It's not obvious at this point that the EU will still be around a couple of years from now.

Two years! Pretty sure it will be around. Now if you'd said, say, 20 years then you might have a point.

Personally I very much hope the EU is around in 20 years, but massively reformed. I think it needs far more transparency and clarity (no more "<insert random city here> Agreement"). Also every policy which doesn't have a good reason to be decided centrally should be delegated down to local level, even to sub-national / city / county level.

And you're right about the shaky financial foundations. I think the Eurozone, assuming it doesn't collapse, should be a separate organization entirely.
Well, Nigel Farage immediately claimed after the vote was finished that he lied about one of the key statements made during the campaign (£350M/week to be spent on NHS instead of EU). Does that qualify as a major fact changing?
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Services: help from the consulate. Ability to return to the US without getting a visa. Ability of your children to return at will to the US and benefit from our universities at a much lower rate than do non-citizens. Your backup plan.
As someone living in greece, I'm really tired of the country being used as a toy example for EU failures.

Greece's failures are mainly self-inflicted and run far deeper than the handling economic crisis. It's a complex subject, not one you can cheapen by emotion crying out "Look at the poor greek who cannot afford medication".

Seriously...
"Democracy doesn't work by voting until you get results you want."

What are you talking about? That's exactly how it works! You vote for what you want and hope the majority votes the same and you keep doing it for the things you believe in.
x=0 has the same problem of 0^x being undefined
Yup, and those boring requirements is where the money is. Thanks, enterprises!
These petitions are a relatively new thing and have never (please someone jump in and correct me if I'm wrong) lead to anything meaningful.

For a very small value of "meaningful", I signed a petition when the government made suggestions they would be moving businesses to submitting tax returns four times a year. The response was not actually a change in policy but a pretty good explanation of the miscommunication over what they were actually planning to do and why it wasn't worth getting worried about. So at least as a way to get the government to explain their intentions more clearly, it worked.
Well, ST at Parc was, by some definitions anyways, an OS. HW objects are certainly an interesting idea, though, and now I kind of get what you mean.
I think he is looking for Dirac Delta function.
Greece might leave, but I don't know of any other country that would want to go back to the days of restricted travel and trade.
I don't want to be harsh on the buy, but some of those dark corridors were in fact marked as not where you wanted to go.

>To eliminate this warning, please install libyaml and reinstall your ruby.

This line should make you think of using brew or apt-get or whatever to grab libyaml first. A few clues, the lib prefix is much more common for native libraries rather than interpereted ones. Second, the request to re-install Ruby means that this is a dependency that is required at compile time for Ruby, which rules out anything you'd install as a gem.

But maybe I just have shaved too many yaks and know what what already.
>> Traditional AI methods of language understanding depended on embedding rules of
language into a system, but in this project, as with all modern machine
learning, the system was fed enough data to learn on its own, just as a child
would. “I didn’t learn to talk from a linguist, I learned to talk from hearing
other people talk,” says Corrado.

It's becoming more and more important to me to make sure this sort of insidious
fudging of the truth with the ultimate goal of overhyping Google's tech does not
go unchallenged. Why is it important? Because leaving this nonsense unchallenged
is basically leaving Google unchallenged to dominate the market- and we end up
with crap tech, like we did when Intel's crap CPUs dominated.

(yeah, x86 is a piece of crap- the Von Neumann bottleneck and so on)

So here's the problem with that paragraph above: yes, children don't learn
language by studying its rules. However, they also don't learn it by sifting
through terrabytes of data and optimising the parameters of a model in their
heads.

Hell- adults don't learn like that. I live in a foreign country where I learn
new words and expressions daily. I am still amazed at my own ability - no, my
own _brain's_ ability- to learn how to use such new words and expressions by
just hearing them once in context. It's like the way to express old meanings in
new ways, or even whole new meanings, somehow nails itself firm into the middle
of my old... context? Or whatever you might call it. It's just finding a new piece of a puzzle behind the sofa. Somehow, the moment I click it into place, it fits in perfectly and stays there for good. I don't need to repeat it a thousand times to myself or see it in the same place in a thousand puzzles. I just... learn.

Obviously I have no idea what really goes on inside my head when I learn a new
language, or whatever goes inside childrens' heads when they learn their first
language, or what went on in my own when I did.

But one thing is exceedingly clear: human learning is _nothing_ like machine
learning.

You want to argue that machine learning is better than hand-crafting rules for a
rule-based system? Go right ahead. There's arguments for and againsnt and
there's a healthy debate to be had.

But don't argue that machine learning is the way to go because "it's how people
learn".

Because it's not. It's nothing like that.
Don't have the cash to buy it.
After France and the Netherlands rejected the original proposed European Constitution (basically confirming the EU as a socialist superstate), they came up with the Lisbon treaty. When Ireland rejected the Lisbon treaty, they were made to vote again one year later. I would say that some form of a second Brexit vote with slightly changed conditions would be a very EU-like thing to pull.
While I can get behind some of the points made in the articles you reference, for tech articles the date provides very important context. Imaging the shift in your thinking if this article was 10 years old. Little in tech is timeless, especially hardware. Put the date, please.
No, this is quite different (and the article tells you what it actually is). The Dirac delta is a distribution, this is a perfectly well-behaved function. It's just one that's tricky to write a formula for that doesn't require stepwise or partial functions.
"elites" - that word again. Can you define exactly what you mean by it?
Actually several parties have tried to make the case that sports cards constitute an illegal lottery, e.g: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB846202501868224000

From a brief read around though I couldn't find any successful suits.
It appears that British love curry a lot[1], and they are having issues with getting qualified chefs in the country from Asia[2].

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/0/24432750
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/22/curry-restau...
I wish you were wrong. Silos are everywhere -- ugly and unavoidable bottlenecks. Nobody has a plan to fix that culture though because it works only just good enough.
Puppet is dead? A Fortune 500 company I'm familiar with adopted it a few months ago to start doing configuration management.
Hey, why isn't my city listed there?
And they are chavs that beat you in your own game.

I do think that http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberali... this should be mandatory read before declaring a big group of people that won as inferior.

That is the attitude that as well may get Trump elected. And gave Bernie unexpectedly solid run.

If you think that chavs (hey it is totally ok using slurs as long the receiving end is white) are that stupid - why was referendum given in the first place ... chavs may be stupid, but it seems the Conservative and Labor Eton elites are stupider.

Also sophistication for the sake of sophistication is worthless. British lads from underprivileged background may lack some social polish, but the ones I know are awesome people.
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No - you have the following identity because 0 = -0

0^0 = 0^(-0)

and by the definition of negative exponents,

0^(-0) = 1/(0^0)

So whatever number 0^0 is, it is equal to its own reciprocal.
Another referendum is unlikely, but the next elections might have the same role.

What if the next elected prime minister is elected on the promise of staying in the EU?
I’m fantasizing this scenario: successful independence referenda in Scotland and Northern Ireland, followed by negotiations for their reentry into the EU (and maybe, regarding Ireland, also a call for reunification?); and London’s self-proclamation as a free city-state, establishing free trade and qualified migration agreements with the EU.

But as a naïve foreigner, I can’t judge how plausible this is.