skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Scottish Independence referendum of 1979, which produced similar results with 51.6% wanting out failed because a 40% of eligible voters had to support the proposal. As the turnout was only 64%, this means that only 32.9% voted to leave - shy of the required 40% required for it to be successful.

Therefore, for that referendum - eligible voters that did not vote, still contributed to the vote by inaction, and weighted towards the remain camp.

This is a much more reasonable way to hold a referendum of this sort, as the burden of change is weighted on those trying to break status quo.

Wish we did something similar for this referendum.
Good luck not giving any power to Google, Microsoft, Intel,...
> A further claim is that increasing welfare reduces work effort. Is this disputed?

Yes, it's disputed. Assuming that you/the GP are correct, and that data do exist that people on welfare have reduced "work effort" (how is that measured?), increased fertility, and increased drug consumption, then you of all people know that correlation doesn't mean causation. It could be that their increased fertility and/or drug consumption caused them to go on to welfare. Or vice versa.

Either way, it would be very hard to draw any conclusions from such data outside of correlation.

In addition to confounding, you also run into lots of statistical biases in such data. As someone else pointed out, poor people are screened for drugs at much higher rates than non-poor, because the jobs that poor people work in are much more likely to require them. As such, even if such data exists, it would be very suspect.

Furthermore, drug testing the general population, even one that has marginally higher drug use rates (and I've seen no convincing data of this either way) runs into the problem of predictive value and false positives (for the same reason screening the general female population under 40 for breast cancer results in massively high rates of false positives).
More Common Than You Think: An In-Depth Study of Casual Contributors [pdf]
Anonymous (and /pol/) are backing Trump. Everything is done "for the lulz".

go check out 8chan or /r/the_donald on reddit sometime if you think I'm joking.
An Empirical Study on the Usage of the Swift Programming Language [pdf]
> made fun of constantly on TV

This. I've heard far too many charges of racism and xenophobia, as if many legitimately believe 52% of England are racists.

Heaven forbid an electorate that has not been a beneficiary of globalism vote against the staus quo!
Painting the whole UK as racist is unfair. Even if you accept the thesis that most brexit voters were racist, they only represent 52% of the population[0].

I am very skeptical of that study however. Japan has a reputation for being one of the most homogeneous countries in the world and there are a number of pretty terrible anecdotes of how foreigners are treated there. It could be the phrasing of the question, for example. Very few people would open admit racism here in the USA but studies have shown that systemic racism still exists here.

Also, just because South-Asian immigrants, as you claim, may have some issues with homophobia, I'm not sure restricting immigration is related to that or would help with that.

[0] 52% of those who voted, but let's say that's a representative sample.
I think we should be talking about inequality of opportunity rather than inequality of wealth. Someone seems to have kicked the social ladder above the middle class.
The point about the Iraq war is a good one, and highlights one of the biggest blind spots of the western media. Take, for example, the U.S. media's handling of Trump's opposition to the Iraq war. It has been bizarre. They've turned it into a debate about whether he was sufficiently publicly opposed to it before it happened, and whether he said that Bush lied to get us into the war, or whether he merely said it was the biggest mistake any President has ever made. The whole time ignoring its own consistent and vociferous support of the single most disastrous undertaking in U.S. and U.K. history.
Completely agree !
Neat CPU. That and adamnemecek's comment made me do a quick Google to see if there's interesting results in OISC that you all might enjoy. Found an improvement on SUBLEQ that's pretty impressive. Original first and newest below:

http://hasith.vidanamadura.net/projects/subleq/

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1106.2593v1.pdf

"Our test results demonstrate that computational power of our Subleq OISC multi-processor is comparable
to that of CPU of a modern personal computer."

I didn't see that coming for OISC projects. Pleasant surprise. :)
The concept of the scanning tunneling microscope is so simple and ridiculous that it was probably thought of and dismissed long before someone built one. "You're going to image atoms by dragging a tiny needle across them"? Yet that's pretty much how it works.

The first one was built in 1981, but one could have been built in the 1950s. Piezoelectric crystals were known. Raster scanning circuits were known. Feedback circuits for controlling the height were known. The tricks for making one-atom sharp points were not known, but the earliest STMs just stretched out a tiny platinum wire until it broke, and sometimes you got a one-atom point.

Hobbyists have built STMs.[1] It's simpler than building a 3D printer.

[1] https://dberard.com/home-built-stm/
So we don't have "average people" in Scotland - which voted heavily in favour of remaining in the EU?

Glasgow, which has some of the most deprived inner city condition of anywhere in the UK, voted to remain.
The idea is that we will be able to write web applications in a sane, proper language like C# or similar, and then compile to Web Assembly. I, for one, embrace this idea whole heartedly.
You don't need to ride a bike to get crippled by a car accident. You can choke on a piece of food while eating dinner. You can fall in the shower awkwardly and get paralyzed.
The same thing could be said to people that vote but don't understand what they are voting about. A lot of of the Exit votes were a way to express disappointed to the state of things of their lives.
In C++, I can use pointers (or their equivalents like STL’s iterators or ATL’s positions) to combine simple built-in data structures into complex data structures to suit my needs.

For example, a vector that keeps some items + hash map that implements an index over that vector. Or some container that keeps some items + a linked list to track and evict the least recently used item from that container.

Rust is just too safe for that. That might be technically doable, but harder to implement, and harder to use.

This certainly applies to Rust’s built-in data structures as well. See this example, the problem is trivial to solve in most languages: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3cz71e/holding_a_muta...
We forking off onto a tangent, but one would say in the current system, wealth buys opportunity, so they are the same. Indeed, if opportunity were near equal for all, then many fewer would be complaining.
The downside of indirect democracy coupled with corporate meritocracy is that the strongest players rise quickly and then rig the game to enshrine their elite position. This is what happened shortly after WW2 and we've been pawns in their experiments since.
I have in fact tried kdenlive in the past and found it be (for my needs which are admittedly small) to be subpar compared to Blender. Addtionally, so as far as I know it's only available on Linux while both Blender and Natron appear to be available on multiple platforms which is an important feature to me.

I'm not a professional video editor of course and everyone looks at this stuff with different slightly desires. Blender had NLE before kdenlive even existed, if I recall correctly. My comment was in reference to that period of time. It's nice to see competitors like kdenlive and natron have appeared.

What must-have features are missing? Last I checked it did basic video editing really well and it's compositing engine is really quite nice. It's not Adobe Premiere but for most use cases I've found it to be the most complete and featureful editor out there that is both multiplatform and Open Source.
> Dude, they were not legally obligated to do this.

I did realize that. The court of public opinion is not a real entity. It was a plot-device, analogy to point out why I believe they made the correct decision which was a selfish appraisal of their leverage.

I encourage their selfishness, because they should be self-interested, but I will not champion them for it. I am not a gamer, but as a technophile I have heard many people on reddit, HN and various other places commenting about how they are doing a poor job.

This isn't the worlds biggest social network where they can kill messenger and force users to download their apps. This is a nascent technology that has not decided on a platform or set of platforms. They need the community to embrace them both as developers and as consumers. They also need potential customers to embrace the technology. This was a smart capitulation, but a back-pedal after they got a market reality check.
So why were young people overwhelmingly in favour of remaining in the EU?
Blender's compositor is good enough for lots of things, but it's a bit limited. Natron has a larger range of node types and also allows you to run OpenFx plugins, of which there are many (including both free ones and expensive professional ones).
They wouldn't count each frame individually, as that's not how it's done - they'll have "guide feathers" which are manually keyframe animated, and the feathers in-between are interpolated from the guide feathers (which is how hair/fur is done).

Per frame this just results in different positions/shapes for the curve primitives which make up the feathers.
Infinite scrolling fits SQL. Remember that LIMIT is considered harmful and is actually not part of the SQL standard.
How to Recover Deleted Files in Windows or Mac: An In-Depth Guide
I love that offhanded comment about how the helical structure of DNA is not at all obvious from that crystallography. All the more impressive then, the history of that discovery.
Business value is great because whoever is using the term gets to define it. So the term only means what the speaker wants it to mean.
I thought the symbol guideline page discussed "running text", but I guess not. Apparently the "running text" requirement isn't part of the published criteria even though it is enforced in discussion.
To expand on this, will our descendants have the same demands in 200 years? Will a revolution in transportation dramatically change infrastructure needs? What will employment look like, how will businesses operate? Will citizens want the structures we build in the locations we build them?

The author suggests we build structures to stand the test of time and addresses structural, economic, and environmental needs, but not societal ones. The Moai referenced are not artifacts because they weren't engineered well enough, they're artifacts because they outlived the societies that built them.
I think they are interested in delivering a basic income such that it should be enough to live off of. Alaska [0] only offers ~$2,000 for the entire year in compensation. I am not sure what program you are referring to for Puerto Rico...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund#Annual_i...
One of my first jobs out of college was doing manual chip layouts (which will give you some idea of how old I am). Once the layout was done, the design was sent to a "mask house" which would print the layout onto a series of glass plates (the "masks") which were then used in the chip fabrication process. When the masks for my first chip came back I popped one of them into a bench microscope to see what it looked like. I was expecting to see my design in black-and-white printing, but all I could see (of course) were rainbows because the mask was effectively a diffraction grating. This was my first visceral encounter with quantum mechanics. I knew there was a pattern there, but I could never see it directly with my own eyes.
Figuring out whether the insurance companies have the assets necessary to pay out is never a simple matter. They don't have the assets to pay out if every policy is fully claimed at once, almost by definition, which means that it's a complicated matter of assessing how many policies are likely to be claimed at once, which requires figuring out details like whether the construction industry is making widespread use of a potentially dangerous material. Insuring the insurers can only help so much; Lloyd's was the insurers' insurer of last resort, and as
dalke points out asbestos claims wreaked havoc on them.
Though for this specific discussion (which illustrates the uncountably infinite nature of the set of real numbers), it is useful to note that the class of realizable computers includes both analog and digital variants, though usually we are more familiar with the digital in the form of our desktop/laptop computers or servers.

Analog computers can be indeed be used for these types of problems, and their usage in the field predates their digital siblings. Sampling of the result of an analog calculation is of course limited by analog noise (e.g. thermal noise), which we must contend with in this universe. On the other hand, processing in the analog domain gets us further than quantization noise and heat dissipation (due to clock signal & switching) would in the digital domain.

Edit:
If you are interested further, here is a discussion of the application of analog computing in solving differential equations:
http://chalkdustmagazine.com/features/analogue-computing-fun...

Also, someone on here once posted a link to a recent dissertation comparing the efficiency of solution finding for a problem tackled analog vs. digital, wherein given the problem's nature, the analog computer outperformed its digital counterpart both in terms of performance and energy consumption.

Edit2: Here is the dissertation
http://www.cisl.columbia.edu/grads/gcowan/vlsianalog.pdf

And the comment it was from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11728186
Is there some history of refresh rates around? I'm really curious why they used a "weird" rate on the Alto.
> This technology has been around for decades and, like the advent of the synth, has given rise to all manner of jackassery.

What's with the synthesizer hate? That seems random.
I'll wait until SCOTUS upholds this before I get too worried.
as andrewstuart2 mentioned, you need it to see all traffic, which doesn't happen if you just connect it to the router. If you have an ethernet connection your internet traffic goes through, you'll want to put a device in there that sends you a copy of all traffic (one simple and cheap option is a Netgear GS105E switch).
I'm with you on the Blender VSE vs Kdenlive question fwiw. First tried Kdenlive years ago and couldn't get sound to sync, so gave up. Tried again a few months ago, can't remember what the exact problem was but found it to be wanting compared to Blender.

I will admit that Blender has an unusual UI that will deter a lot of people.
For someone whose almost exclusively studied cryptography in cyclic curve groups rather than cyclic integer groups (coming from an algebraic geometry background). Maybe someone can explain to me why the modulus isn't always chosen to be prime for DH? Is there some reason you would ever want to allow composite modulus in DH?
"Democracy doesn't work by voting until you get results you want."

No, it works when people make informed choices they understand. That didn't happen in this case.
I'm not saying that an you know it. There are other factors, but I'm primarily talking about a set of voters discussed.
Blender's node system can do compositing and basic video editing. Another free software graph based/dataflow system that can be used as a basis for such video editing and fx is GIMPs new engine GEGL; this goat filled video presented at this years libre graphics meeting was edited and composited using software based on that stack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJJPgLGrSgc
Yeah. I've read your chapter on this repeatedly, and then the Rustinomicon, both hugely useful, but so far all I've done is use of for Rust -> C bindings and vice versa.

It's taken me a year to feel good about my Rust code, I'm still getting a handle on unsafe though.
I'm currently working on a parser generator with easy of use and performance in mind.

https://github.com/dragostis/pest
I made a similar point in the original YC basic income thread.

I questioned the value of doing this when something like public healthcare is working very well in Canada, where it operates much more cost effectively than the US public/private mess, and it has been for a long long time. And we're right next to the US. Yet there has been little progress adopting a similar system in the US.

I'm not sure if just getting examples of it working will be a sufficient motivator that they hope it will be. But I guess public healthcare is old hat now and not in need of scientific study for it's efficacy, just political will which is much more expensive and involved than running social experiments.
I find JS works well as an OO-language, and falls short as a functional one. Not only when writing it, but also when it's executing. Dumb-as-rocks object oriented JS-code tends to have a smaller memory footprint, is less crufty, and is easier to debug. Functional JS-code tends to spam the heap, difficult for the JIT to optimize, and when writing it you have none of the compile-time safety of a true functional language.

Crockford succeeded in popularizing JS, partly by stressing the Scheme-like features of the language, but I'm not convinced that's where the strengths of the language lay.
I agree with Perlis, but he was championing languages like APL, which offer truly different ways of thinking about programming. The arbitrary ins-and-outs of extrinsically complicated designs are another matter; learning those doesn't necessarily affect one's thinking about programming for the better. I realize that what I'm saying sounds trollish, but it's something it took me many years to figure out.
They voted for more globalism, they just haven't realised this yet. Because they're stupid. And racist.
> The BBC seemed like it picked a winner, and the US media does the same while dismissing all others. If I remember right the last UK election was pretty surprising to the BBC and its pollsters.

I don't know anything about Minnesota, but wrt this referendum and the last UK General Election it wasn't so much "picking a winner" as that relentless vilification of the non-establishment side led to people concealing their actual voting intentions from pollsters. In the case of the GE this even applied to exit polling, i.e. after people had voted. There wasn't any official exit polling for the referendum, but some major banks did it privately and I think Leave's premature concession early in the results points to the same thing happening there.

Thank you for a very thoughtful and measured post, by the way; we could do with more of that. The atmosphere here in the UK at the moment is just poisonous, with some fairly mortifying behaviour on both sides.
This is probably the best thing Greenwald has ever written. Everyone in (or interested in) media, politics, government, academia, etc. should read it carefully and with a wide open mind. Grappling with this piece, its linked pieces, and Twilight of the Elites should be something that is now done in earnest; this is a chance for elites in other troubled western countries to work on getting ahead of the problem, as they failed to do previously, before it really gets out of hand.

The status quo is a failure, and continued denial will only lead us down an ever-darker road. We need a new way.
You realize this is based off of Android 5.1, right?
While I am not an artist, I always had a distaste for the phrase "scam artist". It didn't seem appropriate to elevate someone who commits fraud to the level of "artist".

But my hope was the phrase would shift out of the professions entirely. And certainly not into my own profession.
I hope they will be taking the Hawthorne effect into account here.

I am fundamentally a proponent of UBI but the last thing we want are experiments in pseudo environments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
This, a number of times.

Ridiculing ordinary people over years is what made Brexit and made Trump a possible candidate.

I did not argue for Brexit (I knew too little) and I don't like Trump but I am smart enough to understand why people are fed up.

Your point about Christianity rings true as well: I understand why a religious villain makes a better character in a plot but somewhere it has to stop (unless someone is pushing an agenda but they don't do do they ? ;-)
Hey dang, where's your moderation?
"Nothing stops you..."

Except my lack of creativity using k at this point.

Thanks for this.

As a k noob, I wonder: is thinking of solutions using iteration and control structures a bad habit, at least until I have command of the rest of the language?

Currently I'm using recordio to save my sessions; crude, but it works well enough:

recordio q 2>log
High labor costs.

Also the postwar construction boom dominated by big projects killed the industry for higher end brick.
Regrexit Petition Map
"Don't talk about product or you will lose to me or someone better."

I was with you until that little gem. Products fill a known need, solving a problem shared by many organizations. They don't claim that they can help everyone with all problems... but they do solve a specific problem, and if you have that problem, products are good things.

You can flip the attitude the other way by saying that consultants who act like everything they do is better than everyone everyone else will lose when working in well-established problem areas because they re-invent wheels. Expensively.

The truth is that good business can be done from either a broad consulting perspective, looking for new ways to help a specific customer... or from a narrow product perspective, solving a specific need for many customers. One is not inherently better or worse than the other. Just different.
Today's Fed, led by Yellen, has become a technocratic institution blinkered by "data", unable to rise above its econometric myopia to see what really is happening in the society which it serves. It has essentially been subjugated to the same economic doctrines and dogmas which serve the elites so well, and which are rolled out every time a brexit or a trump rears its head: "careful, this is bad for The Economy" (read: this is bad for the elites).

Say what you like about Greenspan, but at least he had a self-determined intellect and swagger, which he used without needing to justify himself constantly with a spreadsheet's output (even if he used said swagger to serve his own class of capitalists).

So I don't blame Yellen. She genuinely believes she is doing the right thing by the rules of the game she has been carefully selected to be unquestioning in.
If immigration stopped, we'd have quite a different problem, and one that looks like Japan and China and most of Europe: namely, an ageing population with no end in sight. The welfare state problems would be exacerbated.
This is why referendums are so terrible. Whatever the question is, it will be hijacked to some degree as a tool to protest some other issue independent of whatever the referendum is actually supposed to be about. Usually people will protest against an unpopular system/government by voting contrary to whatever the system/government supports.
I know, I did a benchtop STM lab for my Nuclear Physics course some years ago. Most of the day was spent trying to make single atom needles by a wrist-flick technique for cutting platinum wire with some sharp pliers.