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Should the US and GB now form their own union?
It seems that the nation-state is buried in our DNA. We still like to belong to a tribe. All conflict today is still rooted in the differences of our tribes. Leaving aside for the moment why humans like to celebrate their differences rather than the strength of their synergistic cooperation, can we embrace this fact? Since the US and GB have more in common than GB and the EU, should we form our own 'Anglo-Saxon' union? Is language a strong enough denominator?

I feel bad for the those who struggled to start their businesses in GB now only to find their products and services in the EU more expensive. It seems the EU will get 'their pound of flesh' from GB one way or another. Can we help these young startups and companies by opening our markets to them?

The devaluation of the pound has been stark and no doubt a lot of US money is already flowing to GB. By exempting any new GB services and products from US sales and other taxes we could make a good first step in supporting their economy and the jobs they will lose by leaving the EU. The increased demand for US products and services will support jobs here. And GB in turn could eliminate taxes for all new US products and services. (the new vs old distinction is a compromise I make to the politicians whose salaries depend on money obtained through taxation. I do not want to jeopardize their view of the world by reducing their collections. New economic growth should not be taxed, at least for 20 years. We give our children this kind of support, why not our fledgling businesses?)
This is my ignorance speaking, but with the gcc, clang, and msvc all fully supporting C++11, where are the holdups?
"The EU is a very large economic entity and to negotiate with 27 countries individually the UK of the past had formidable clout but today the situation has changed very much and turning back the clock like this simply isn’t going to work."

Assuming other members of the EU don't follow the UK's example, the UK only has to negotiate with one - the EU. Tragedy of the commons might be at work here.
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Like many things about the article it's hard to tell when the author is joking.

Knowing DNA was helical from the fiber diffraction images (not crystallography- they were working with DNA fibers, not crystals) was actually "obvious". A helix forms a distinctive cross pattern, this can be (and was) predicted easily from diffraction theory applied to a helical structure.
It's easy to dislike or hate C++ due to its immense complexity, and programmers like to be able to keep simple abstractions in their head so they can concentrate their energies on their problem domain without worrying about language confusion. With C and many other languages, this is possible as they are smaller languages. C++ on the other hand: is there any language with widespread use that is so deep and complex? However, there are undeniable conveniences to C++ (safety, a good library, much more -- especially functional-style programming with lambdas now) that can speed up your work process, and if you can accept that you will never know the entire language and can just use those bits that make things easier, it is possible to have a healthy relationship with the language. And it offers tremendous room to grow as you get more and more comfortable with it. Few languages allow you to just keep diving in deeper and deeper as you desire, while still letting you get to work right away without being a master. Even template metaprogramming alone is gigantic area of ongoing research -- the stuff you can do with it is mind-bending and unavailable in nearly all other languages. Templates are, after all, one of very very few wholly functional, immutable languages out there. And template instantiation is the underlying force behind many of the modern features like lambdas that allow you to access that power without actually knowing templates well. It's a powerful language for which you must accept its character flaws in return for its abilities.

It's doesn't hurt either that the libraries available in C++ are really cool.
My point is mainly that if the UK is even able to get, and agrees to a deal like Norway, they're in the exact same position they were before the brexit, only worse.

Norway has to pay the EU, has accepted free travel and has to adhere to EU regulations.

I don't see how this could be a "win" situation for the UK; it's just a downgrade of their status with the union.
The elite in London is still there, still the ruling class. what really did the elderly achieve?
"honestly telling everybody that our financial stability and indeed prosperity since the financial crisis of 2008 is much thanks to EU membership and 'passporting' through the City of London while the EU paid for the economically weaker, rural regions."

Why should the working class be happy with this? The benefits to EU membership accrued to the connected classes in the big cities. The subsidies provided to these regions by the EU are a small fraction of the economic damage which has been done to these people's lives through a triple punch of increased labor / safety / environmental regulations, free trade (with countries powered by low wage and low labor and environmental standards) and immigration of cheap labor.

Everybody wants to tell these people to just eat cake.That's not a reasonable solution to the economic challenges in the rest of the country. If London is doing so fantastic economically, they should have focused on helping those hurt by these policies.
You're free to make your own decision. I'm not about to pack heat every day for some bogeyman. The few times I've felt threatened, it's been trivial to remove myself from the situation. Awareness and caution can go a long way.

And no, I'm not here to advocate taking your guns away. Just trying to suggest that there are certain downsides to always carrying a lethal weapon, and that given our mostly secure society, people might view it as antisocial.
> a group of women train it

You refer to actually running the training phase of machine learning algorithms? You think if you are a woman you get a different result if you run a Linux command?
Did you miss the part where I do not have a way to save for retirement? And why on earth do you assume that I am rich? Because I live in Norway? I barely qualify as middle class. Thanks to student loans and zero support from my family, I still have a significant negative net worth, despite the fact that I live as thriftily as possible and have been working as an engineer since 2010.

If you are a US resident and mess up on your taxes, you do not get fined into bankruptcy. You just have to pay what you owed. The fee structure is the insane part of FATCA, not the taxes themselves.

As soon as I get Norwegian citizenship, if FATCA has not been repealed by that point, I will seriously consider renouncing. Because of the above reasons, not because I am some rich fat-cat wanting to evade taxes. If I wanted to evade taxes, I would move back to the US, which is a fantastic tax haven, instead of living my life here in Norway.

What the heck is "expat welfare"? The only relationship I have with the US government at this point is stress and expense from these forms every year, along with my inability to save for retirement. Literally no other developed country imposes this stress and compliance cost on their residents abroad. It is not welfare to expect to be treated like everyone else. And, if it was just filing regular taxes, and then getting it excluded with the FEIE, that would still be annoying, but fine. However, there is a whole extra set of insanely confusing forms to navigate, where you get fined into non-dischargeable bankruptcy if you mess them up, even non-willfully. People develop mental health issues and have even had their marriages destroyed from the stress of this prospect. It is not "just some extra forms" or "expat welfare" to want this onerous burden to be removed.

Sometimes I walk past the US embassy because it is in downtown Oslo (it looks like a prison and is a total blight on an otherwise charming neighborhood, btw), but I do not get any kind of "expat welfare" from it. I suppose I will visit there when my passport needs renewing in a few years, but that is it. If I wanted to contact them or voice my concerns about the pension issue (which could be resolved if they updated the tax treaty, like Germany has done), I have no way of doing so.

Why are you trolling this thread with support for FATCA when it is clearly a terrible thing for millions of people? You have no idea what you are talking about. Ugh!
> It's quite clear that Boris did not want the referendum to win.

It's not clear to me. I think you are taking it as self-evident that Leave is a bad idea. In the mainstream narrative, the EU is associated with everything nice and international and the only reason to be against it is if you're a crazy old-fashioned nationalist.

There's a classical liberal case for Brexit, though, which Gove articulated reasonably well. I think Johnson kinda believes the same things, though without Gove's conviction (I voted Leave but I don't like Johnson, I think he's an opportunist). Like all conspiracy theories yours assumes that the conspirators concoct these elaborate schemes which have multiple failure modes. Leave had roughly 1/3 odds of winning all through the campaign, so it's not that much of a surprise. Nor is it clear that a Remain vote would have helped Johnson's career, given that almost the entire establishment backed Remain.

> It's startling watching the "moderate" Leave wing falling over themselves to dial back all of their promises during the campaign.... turns out there isn't more money for the NHS...

The media is really playing up this angle. Vote Leave isn't the government and the referendum wasn't a general election where the campaigners campaign on a particular manifesto. There is now more money in the UK budget, where it gets spent is up to the next PM.
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I do not agree that they store a password in plain text. You cannot say for sure. What if they hash each character and store each with its position in the db?
What does it matter what the UK unilaterally decides to do, anymore? The rest of the EU has declared, in no uncertain terms and at the highest possible level that they want the UK out as soon as possible.

The president of the European Community has said so, the president of the European parliament has said so, the foreign ministers of the EU's six founding members have said so.

Their primary motivator btw is that the current state of uncertainty is bad for business and if it drags on it will mess up with everyone's still ongoing recovery from the last crisis. The UK may well go through a recession and everyone in the EU will be trying their damnedest to avoid following suit.
> I wonder if Britain's exit is really as big a deal as everyone is making it out to be.

Y2K, bird flu, Swine flu, SARS, Heterosexual AIDS, the hole in the ozone, over population, acid rain, mad cow, global cooling, global warming, Ebola, Zika virus...

Probably not.
Isn't that an extremely sexist view?

Hitler used to talk a lot about "Jewish physics" vs "Aryan physics" as if there's a difference.

I'm just surprised to see extremist talk like that on HN.
Friday I finally asked some friends on FB to explain it to me.

The answer I got was that this was a symbol that is related to a lot of other issues people care about, both overseas and at home. So the thing itself is not as important as what it might symbolize or portend.

I think this agrees with what you list.

Still, my interest is in free countries peacefully deciding how they want to govern themselves. Much more than their actual policy changes or what it might portend.

If I had to have an opinion, simply from watching the monetary policy sausage-making, I think the EU is a beta. And like many betas, it's structurally broken. That doesn't mean stay or leave. I really have no idea how you would go about fixing these structural issues. I imagine that no matter what some folks might think, there are no easy answers. Anything you do is going to suck in one way or another.
Pardon my lack of familiarity with "the literature" and its standard age groups. Good of you to immediately dismiss the data as "massaged." I couldn't even view your study.
Here in Norway, almost all financial and government institutions allow a form of authentication called BankID (https://www.bankid.no/en/company/).
I use the mobile variant and it works for all government related stuff like taxes, health, relocation notices and also with all banks both when logging in and paying bills, signing contracts etc. It is a legally binding identification akin to signing a paper.

The procedure for the mobile version is to input your phone number and birthday on the login and you get a popup on the phone (via the gsm network and sim toolkit, not ip) to input your password along with a short phrase like "pink bridge" so you can verify that it was the web page that sent it.
This also works with a lot of credit cards for paying online via 3dsecure.

It's become so common that a large majority of our customers (I work in a bank) are using this as the sole mechanism of identification.

(And yes, for the non mobile version of BankID you can paste the password!)
Its undercovered because when it happens its uninteresting.

The breakup of the Austrian and Ottoman empires in the early 1900s gets a lot of ink spilled. Or look at the dissolution of the concept of Iraq as a nation, currently.

Most people forget the Soviet Union broke up in the 90s without a world war. Or the British Empire dissolved with relatively low levels of bloodshed (not zero, but not "that much" compared to WWI and its continuation as WWII).

Also in binary world there are only extreme conditions and UK not being in the EU somehow magically requires a border wall and shoot to kill armed guards and extensive use of landmines and retarget all the UK nuclear arms to point at Brussels. Back to reality, the relationship will likely be as confrontational as USA-EU or maybe Switzerland-EU. Worst case maybe Turkey-EU. Or instead of comparing to EU, could compare to UK, and it'll be like Canadian-UK relations. As much as the pouters insist on being very loud incredibly sore anti-democratic losers, I'm not thinking anyone is going to send infantry brigades over anyone's border anytime soon in either direction.
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Exactly. Same here in Germany. The xenophobic Pegida movement is strongest in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, which incidentally are also the counties with the lowest fractions of immigrants among the population.

Source: https://www.destatis.de/DE/ZahlenFakten/GesellschaftStaat/Be...
I wish I had enough Karma to downvote him.
And, right now, he has 52% of voters behind him.

But, that is somehow making him do a sad face?
Boris is not a conservative in the typical sense though. He's a populist like Trump.

And for at least the next few years it will all be about the UK. In particular all the internal work of redefining its relationship with the EU e.g. diplomatic, trade as well as figuring out what to do about EU regulations.

I would be surprised if any EU country has the appetite to hold another referendum when they see what it is in store.
Yes, but the distractions of C are just as inconvenient, though wholly different. The amount of extra low-level work you must do in a C program considerably adds to the time you need to make it work, time that could be spent thinking about more interesting things. I'd rather reach for a C++ vector and just let it manage the memory for me (or unique_ptr or many other easy tools) while I'm crafting my program logic then spend a nontrivial fraction of my time making sure my memory handling is correct.
Would you elaborate on how you'll think these numbers play out after Brexit?

Isn't it a chicken-and-egg-problem and we can't just say: because Germany is producing and Britain is consuming, the latter will be worse off by Brexit?

For many developed economies General Trade Agreements are the last straw of growth. And with Brexit both sides of the Channel loose.

And another spin: A consumerist economy (US, UK) seems to have its own benefits, in that it can much easier survive on its own.
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I suppose the logical extension of this thesis is what solution, analogous to weighted links for google and private facebook for Facebook, will emerge in digital personal assistants, self-driving cars, VR, and/or AR? It's the solution giving people the experience they want that gets the reliable eyeballs that allows someone to own the advertising.

I suspect that the inevitable slow progression of hardware is going to fragment AR, VR, and autonomous autos. That leaves digital personal assistants as plausible, since it's mostly software.

However, digital personal assistants are not a new problem. They're an old problem with a new name. They're just a verbal command line interface. It's extremely difficult to figure out what a user WANTS given only the minimum possible interaction. I suspect digital personal assistants are more of a data and trust problem than an interface or algorithm problem. If the users don't trust the service enough to let them have all the contextual information necessary to make a SWAG at what they're trying to do then it just won't work.
> With PEG or another lexerless parsing it's totally trivial. You can mix any languages you like.

Not strictly true; combining PEG parsers will always work, but it might not give you the answers you want. If you have some outer layer that has 'value=' and you want to follow it by an expression in various sub-languages, you have to try each language in turn - if language A has some weird corner-case where it happens to accept something that's an important and common case in language B, language A will always win unless you swap the two languages around, in which case B might recognise and mask some important syntax from A.

Worse, your combined language parser cannot tell you that the combination of A and B cause a problem, because PEG parsers don't really support that kind of consistency-checking. It's just a bug that'll crop up at run-time.

You can get around this by manipulating the outer syntax to have special "language A" and "language B" prefixes to mark what syntax to expect, or by manually merging them to create "language AB" which has the syntax priorities you want. But in both cases, that's (potentially delicate and thoughtful) human intervention, not "straightforward combining of two parsers".
My most important C++ Aha moment was in 1995 when I wrote my first lines of Java and realized that it was possible to write OO code without having to fight the compiler every step of the way.
Vacation travel (Disney Paris) is generally subject to a much more relaxed set of regulations, EU or no EU. Permanent (or semi-permanent) relocation for work is what's potentially at risk with the Brexit.
If this hyper politics game is real, what was the exit plan? There was simply no way it would pass? Or Cameron wants to stay in power so bad that he'd do the dirty work that the people willed and taje the fall for whatever fallout comes?
That's assuming that the UK doesn't establish similar rules.

Many of the EU regulations are designed to help consumers e.g. data protection.
"he's still highly popular with the membership."

A large proportion of which probably just voted for Brexit - I think Corbyn wasn't that keen on the EU in the first place and knew that a lot of core Labour voters weren't keen on it either.
The bias isn't the surprise. I'd like to think that the core NPR demographic understands that every narrative has a bias. The surprise is that the mainstream left is exhibiting behavior previously associated with the far-right.
Except there is no sexism or racism against white men (which I am assuming you mean, please correct me if I am wrong) to be found in this article.

Sexism or racism are societally useful concepts if you include the power dynamics. Without them all that's left is that someone wasn't very nice to you, which really as a grown up you should be able to deal with.

The power dynamic here is that the software of future is created by a majority of white men, who, overall, were the first and last group who were and remain globally in charge.

So to say "uff so many men!" in an office 75% full of white men, is completely different than saying "uff so many black women!" in that same office. Not necessarily because of the numerical, but because of the powerbalance.

To point that out, does in no way mean that each individual man in that office is a terribly racist sexist! It just means that there are biases in the whole setup.

In the same vein it's not "sexist or racist to use the data provided by the participants",but if you're not careful and you let the biases in your reading of the data, that were shaped by your experience as a human on this planet, affect the way your AI is trained (and it's almost impossible to be unbiased in that sense), then the outcome of what you're trying to do might well be.
Don't the ages 5 and 14 strike you as strange? What boundaries do they fall on? Not any standard one I can remember for young children, and 14 is a bit more common, but it's not when you become a teen, or the traditional coming of age which is also generally 13, and more like 16/18/21 in the modern US.

If you've been in the field of science long enough, you learn the smell of bad studies, and this one is patently obvious. But I can look more closely at it if you insist.

As for viewing "my" study, note the "Download Free PDF" button to the upper middle right, all you have to do is supply an email address to do it as a guest. Or ask and I'll put a copy up.

And since your point was couched as a warning to others, another counter is that it's relatively easy to keep your family from joining the bad statistics by gun proofing your kids (which you should do anyway, since you can't control when they might come into contact with one outside your home), and storing your guns responsibly.
If no one in the Tory Party has the balls to push the button, the British public will elect politicians who will in October.

Many of the dire warnings about the economy fell on deaf ears with the white working class precisely because they feel like they've got such a poor deal from the present arrangement.

UKIP will reform, re-organize, and probably rename to the UK Nationalists over the summer and stand on a platform of invoking article 50 and rejoining EFTA.

Buoyed by white working class votes they will take a swathe of formerly Labour seats in the north and former industrial heartlands and in the Tory shires. There's very little reason to suppose that working class people who voted Leave at this election will vote Labour at the next.
From what I've been able to find, the EU established a common format for VAT invoices, so it's now easier to scan and file your tax receipts, especially when dealing with businesses in many different countries. Also, VAT declaration forms now have a similar layout in all member countries.

Also, it appears that for international consumer sales, the seller may now apply its own country's VAT instead of needing to know the VAT regulations of the buyer's country.
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