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* EU has got to deliver *

It needs to show that it can provide solutions for the euro financial crisis and the refugee crisis. Solutions that are sound, long term and have popular backing.

It has shown that it cannot.

And thus we europeans are better of with a smaller, simpler european cooperation of independent nation states.

At least this should be the very real threat the EU politicians should operate under.

We need a better EU.
The author seems to think configuration management is about installing packages. That's something the package subsystem does, with a reasonably mature handling of dependencies too. That makes it look like a glorified shell script. (Which may be a case of when all you've got is a hammer everything looks like a nail.)

But configuration management concerns centralized management (hence "management") of decentralized systems. It can answer questions such as "why is this sceduled job running on nodes of type x but not y and who put it there?", and guarantees such as "application w and z are always in lock step concerning parameter p".

I've seen organizations move to containers, and they all inevitably end up with more and more containers and increasing complexity. Centralized configuration management is more important in that environment, not less. Modern tools such as Ansible and Puppet have grown up in a devops worls and have good support for managing containers (even if they are a bit of a moving target) and there is no reason to be scared of them.
Great Britain sounds fine to me.
Being a part of the EEA and not the EU basically means that you accept most rules from the EU while not being able to influence anything.

The UK really has put themselves in a bad situation here. The main reason people voted to leave was immigration and to "take back power Brussels" and because they were convinced by the campaign that they could still get all the benefits of EU if they left. How will these people feel when they realise that they're going to need to join EEA which will mean the same level of immigration and less political power?
Seems arbitrary, what's the reasoning for that? Isn't this exactly what everyone warned about with DRM in html5?
This government is for austerity and cutting public services and expenditure. He is no less a reflection of his party.

Next PM's in line: Theresa May: Pro snoopers (spying) charter. I don't like the term police state but her actions are worryingly in line.

Boris Johnson? A very charismatic idiot. His selling point being the golden coloured hairy creature that has permanently occupied his scalp.

Yes. We have a great line up of next potential PM's for Britain.
I wish to point out an important but not-directly-economical angle to Brexit that has seemed to play an important role.

I wish the liberals take a notice of the problem of immigration, mainly the immigration of from Islamic countries. I am a liberal at the core. But what I have found that when it comes to Islam, many mainstream liberals and liberal politicians follow a double standard. The legitimate criticism of Islam, Quran and its prophet are shunned by many mainstream liberals by labeling it as racist attacks, Islamophobia, far-right and what not. I call such people phoney liberals.

The phoney liberals take a stance that the Britons/Europeans should bend over backwards to accommodate Muslims along with their medieval, backward Islamic way of life in order for the integration. They never tell Muslims in clear words that "Look, we have a policy of separation of church and state, in your case it means separation of mosque and state. You should accept, if you want to live here, that we value freedom of speech and that includes freedom to offend you too by criticizing Islam or by making fun of your religion, your prophet, your scriptures and your religious practices." But what did the phoney liberals do after Charlie Hebdo episode? They criticized the tabloid for being offending to Muslims.

A liberal thinker Bill Maher has put this in a very good manner [1],[2],[3],[4]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntv3a80RGiw

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL8rZTuGfZo

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Zfgj2k0KM

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipu0ifyC-Xc
Redux is definitely a step in that direction. Elm, which it's inspired by, is even further along that road in that its design is better handled (but then it doesn't require handling in JavaScript so I suppose that is why)
For those of you that don't want to code interactions (going beyond simple notifications) via SMS & especially Telephony/IVR calls - and also let your business team members build and manage these interaction flows via a browser instead, check us out: https://www.engageSPARK.com .

Developers use our Subscription API to trigger an interactive SMS or IVR call campaign (that they've built via our website first) - by simply sending us the campaign ID and the recipient's phone number. This saves them days/weeks of coding to Twilio/Plivo/etc's APIs and they offload all changes to the interaction flows to their business team members. We've been used in 80+ countries, including by Intel and UN WFP. :)
In that case the EU isn't a choice at all.
Many of the 48 % might also have wanted to change the status quo but were afraid of the economical consequences.
London is only the financial powerhouse it is because of its dubious status as the least regulated economy with access to the EU market. If they lose said access, that role naturally goes to Luxembourg, the next-least-regulated economy, and that's where these services will move to.
Because despite all the pointers to "definitions" to the contrary, the United Kingdom is but a single country, with a single passport, a single UN seat, one olympic team, one set of defense forces, and with a single central government only which can enter into formal agreements with foreign powers.

Any dissolution of power to "regions" like Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is at the discretion of the central government, which can remove them at will.

The fact that it has separate sports teams is a weird throwback to history, now intended perhaps to largely confuse foreigners. (Perhaps a clever way to allow the UK to increase its odds of winning? :)
You do seem to have a distaste for the term machine learning.

It is applied math, anybody who claims otherwise could not be more wrong. It is applied probability theory and computer science with lot more focus on algorithms than is expected of a statistician, and yes without a fetish for asymptotic normality. Usually, but not always, with a stronger focus on prediction accuracy rather than on accuracy of parameter estimates. In that sense its closer to (non-parametric) decision theory than to run of the mill stats.
Why does this mean you can't host your code there?
If this is followed by a Trump win in the US, it will mark the biggest change in mature men's hair style of recent times.
Newton's Apple.
It may actually be directly caused by it. If you want people to come to your university, you need good post-degree employment figures.

If every tech interviewer phone-screens by asking about multiple inheritance and red-black trees, it's really not surprising that universities might tip the curriculum towards that sort of thing at the expense of actual programming experience. After all, if you can't pass the phone screen you'll never get the opportunity to write code.
This is just a ridiculous brinkmanship issue all the way around the table. The current situation with the exit vote wouldn't have been necessary if the concerns of the Leave side had been taken seriously by EU leadership (more local governance, for instance).

Now we're in a sorry situation where each party's incentive is the opposite of what is required for a healthy economy, and the important decisions require referendums and take a very long time. The fact that the vote to leave was mostly supported by older voters is a tragedy for the future generation, who do not have a straightforward way of having their concerns heard in the coming decades.
What's the use case for using port forwarding with IPv6 rather than just allowing the traffic to the machine in question?
I wonder: what is that last sentence referring to? What got it right first? (Or gets it right now?)
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What has he ever done, other than reletentlessy dividing his country, every way he could, for all of his 6 years ?
Same here. There's only one minor thing that bugs me a bit - Phoenix seems laid out more similar to RoR than to Django, so took me a bit of getting used to. This is not a criticism by any means. Overall, I'm really thrilled with Phoenix (and Elixir).
> The EU does not have a common enemy to force it together.

Yes it does, Russia.
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I don't understand why people blame this on Cameron, no one else would be in a position not go a ahead with this, this is a divisive matter but it's clear that the people wanted a vote on the subject.

And let's be fair English left was pretty much demolished in the last elections the Labour lost just as many votes to UKIP as the Tories did as the British blue collar workers used to be their base and many of those are now UKIP voters.

The Labour also lost Scotland to the SNP and the Greens/LD pretty much got rolled over.
The Labour had pretty much zero chance of winning the elections and they knew they had no way of forming a government with the projections for the LD because they could not form a coalition.

If the Labour spent just a little less time attacking the Conservatives and more time reconnecting with the blue collar workers they lost to UKIP and try to maybe not hand over 50 seats to the SNP we wouldn't be in this position.

Heck if the Labour would've done it's job during this referendum we might not have been in this position the so called "Pro-EU" party was silent, the SNP was silent, and the results are well what you would expect.
I think they expect businesses to use more traffic, and to require more expense to support.

Practically all Internet service is oversubscribed to some extent. The uplink is maybe 1 gigabit, but the downlink that has been sold is maybe 30 gigabits to 200 gigabits, when you add up all the customers. It is actually a feature of the Internet, that you don’t use any bandwidth when you don’t send anything, and you have the full bandwidth available to you when nobody else is sending anything. You can’t afford high-speed Internet if you had to pay for all the bandwidth yourself.

The problem comes if you use the bandwidth a lot. For most of the day, home service is idle, with a peak in the evening when everybody is watching YouTube and Netflix at the same time. And that traffic is mostly downstream, so a big company like Comcast can receive it for free, or even charge the source for “transit.” Businesses peak at business hours for their time zone, and a lot of businesses have a significant amount of upload traffic. If your company successfully expands overseas, then it will be uploading all the time. In theory, business plans cannot be oversubscribed as much.

If your web site doesn’t use HTTPS, then the big ISPs also tend to do deep packet inspection, and some of them inject their own ads. Fun times.

Of course, there are also captive audiences and rent-seeking.
I am not sure why my observation merits downvotes. The original artical was indeed paywalled.
The western civilization?

From philosophy, to mathematics, to physics, arts, and to democracy, we built everything based on each others past ideas.

Our foundations are really the same.
These are Tory policies; Labor opposes them.

That's not really the case. Wealth inequality increased massively under the previous 13 years of Labour government in the UK, for example. They're more 'new liberal' policies than Tory or Labour policies.

How? The UK has had internal free movement of labor for a long time, and it didn't damage them. Blaming the immigrants sounds suspiciously like populist propaganda. It doesn't make it false, but can you back it up?

I guess I wasn't that clear – I don't actually agree with them in the aggregate, and I'm solidly pro-EU and pro-free-movement. 'Blaming the immigrants' as you say is solidly nationalist propaganda. But there is a perception in these communities – false though it may be – that 'immigrants from the EU' come to the UK and 'take jobs,' 'put pressure on public services' and so on. Many people in these communities haven't been well-treated by successive governments, particularly around immigrations. That's why they're annoyed, not because immigration is bad for the country (it isn't.)
Greek =/= Latin!
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> What culture do Germans, Greeks, Latvians, Bulgarians, Fins, and Spaniards share?

The one that used to be called the Roman Empire, then Christendom, and is now called Western Civilisation. It is also arguably the greatest achievement of the human species.
We've been warring with each other for 2000 years. Also, the same space was very integrated culturally.
The UK has voted to leave the EU – how does this affect travellers?
Ask HN: An engineer's perspective on healthcare
Hi all,

I'm a long-time HN lurker, and I need some advice. I've just finished my undergrad in Electrical Engineering, with specializations in CS and Biomedical engineering. I want to spend two or so years in the industry, and then probably do a PhD or an MBA.

I've always been passionate about poverty alleviation and as a core component of that, healthcare. The problem is, I'm not sure how to go about applying my broad educational background in an effective manner: I can potentially work in biomedical devices, or I can do things more Computer Science/machine learning related in healthcare, or perhaps even in some other softer/less technical manner. I'm not sure what I should pivot myself towards, and I'm trying to solve that question.

Before I can figure out where I want to go (any advice on this is welcome as well!), I need to update my knowledge of the healthcare system. I was wondering if people have any recommendations on:
1) Books with a general overview of the healthcare system, focusing on US but perhaps with some excursions into global healthcare.
2) Books from an engineer's perspective on the healthcare industry, or something that covers predictions on the future of healthcare, including avenues of technical/healthcare innovation and legal/structural changes.

I know there are a lot of books out there about healthcare, but a lot of them seem to be about certain very specific issues, and not a general introduction. This book (http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118971086.html), for example, seems to be a type of book I'm looking for, but I can't find any review of this one anywhere online. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations?

Thanks a bunch.
> European economies were integrating before the EU anyway.

No no no, the EU is an artefact of that integration. Just because it's grown a head and legs, and started to talk isn't an excuse to kill it though. Better off talking back. But when the quality of representative you send over is Nigel Farage you can't expect much of a conversation.

Definitely a frank discussion to be had about the behaviour of the EU (in particular the EC) and maybe such a discussion will be the good that arises from this ill wind.
The well-educated people have been promising growth and prosperity to the less-educated for the last 30 years or so.

It did work out quite well for the well-educated, but not so well for the less-educated. So now the less-educated beg to differ.
There is no mass immigration into the UK. That's the lie, I think.
We were never not free, that is what is so sad about all this. That was nationalistic bullshit to whip up the less educated in support of Leave.

As a Brit I am in despair this morning.

I'm assuming you are in US. Imagine the feeling you will have the morning Trump wins the presidency. This is the same feeling. A gut punch. My Facebook feed is full of very upset friends. It's really depressing.

Fear, hate and ignorance won.
Petition for second EU referendum so popular the government site's crashing
Isnt that exactly what the people do not want? I for one moved away from the EU, also because i did not like how my country was slowing losing its sovereignty and with that their traditions and national proud (in a good sense, not the nazi one they have a lot of that right now).
This isn't some run-of-the-mill political news story. This is world history in the making. Surely, if any case deserves an exception to the general rule, it's this one.
Russia is not an enemy of the EU, although the NATO countries in Europe and Asia (Turkey) often treat it as such.

EDIT: Maybe some minority circles in the Russian Federation want to make it an enemy of the EU or the rest of Europe, but most people, rich and poor, don't want to. The former because of trade opportunities and the latter because of shared cultural heritage.
FTSE 250 chart is just "frowny face" right now for me.
True, though to me it seems the House of Lords actually serves a useful purpose.
This is ridiculous. London and Scotland overwhelmingly voted to stay. I have no love for labour after the alternate vote referendum but anyone who blames this on labour is clearly trying to rewrite history for scumbag David Cameron.
Better prepare for some more belt tightening, whether the PM tells you to or not that's the direction this will go in now.
> Same language, same culture, directly voted government and Senate that answers to the people. A standard democracy on both state and federal levels.

All of which took about two hundred years to achieve. The starting point was a mix of languages, to the point it was not clear that English would become so dominant as it has become (and it's not clear it will remain so) and the majority of the adult population could not vote at all.

The EU is at the point of trying to "work around" the type of problems the US had under the Articles of Confederation. A lot of the cumbersome messy structure of the EU basically comes down to not wanting to make those mistakes (leading e.g. Congress to vote for measures only for states to just ignore them and refuse to fund stuff they were against, with Congress having no means of enforcing decisions). It took a lot of time and problems before the US went fully federal.

> US-like federation of EU is not possibly for the lack of common language alone.

By that argument, the existence of the US is an impossibility. The US did not have a common language when it was first created. There are still millions of Americans that speak little English, though the proportion is much greater now tha it used to be.
Freedom of movement != being stopped at a border

One simple example, when you come back from an international trip to your native country you still need to go through the border even though you have freedom of movement there
Equal Marriage was a good move which was broadly supported. Other than that, not much.
There is definitely a lot of IoT stuff coming out that isn't great. However MFT companies like Aspera, Innorix, and Attachmate must be loving it~
> Not sure which UK you are living in

The UK where waiting times for A&E are at the longest they've been for years; where waiting times for NHS consultant-led treatment are at the longest they've been since they introduced maximum wait times; where there are no in-patient MH beds for adults (seriously, just last week all adult inpatient MH beds in the country were occupied. (This significantly increases risk of suicide)); where the rates of suicide are increasing (after many years of decline) (and we know that economic decline increases rates of suicide).
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> many friends under 30 have bought a house (without parental help)

Wow really? Do you live up north? Or have rich friends?

I mean I think the UK economy is in pretty good shape (especially compared to the rest of the world), but let's not pretend that houses are remotely affordable.
While I agree with you, I don't understand why "Hackers" shouldn't comment politics. How is that a shame?
Travelling without a visa is not freedom of movement. That's visa waiver.
Democracy involves thinking about the citizens, both short term and long term.

Populism is just catering to the short term needs, even basic ones, just to get attention/votes/support.

Populist example from Romania: get an IMF loan in order to increase pensions. Text-book example of shooting yourself in the foot long term, but a very popular action among pensioners, which are a large voting demographic.
I looked up the distance from Bucharest to Rome it's 700 miles. The same distance as Minneapolis to Denver. The cheapest price I found quickly booking 2 months in advance was $34 (eu) and $90 (us) respectfully.

Interesting price difference. It seems after a little bit of research this has to do with reduced demand for air travel in the us. But if it were to be something the eu has done, which largely generally surrounds higher regulation and the suppression of competition. How has it done so?
Unfortunately Northern Ireland doesn't have the economy or infrastructure to realistically function as an independent state at this point. You never know about the future, but it's likely not on the table any time soon.
Does Ford still manufacture cars in the UK, I thought it was just engines now.
Many benefits for sure, especially if you live in one of the richer countries. But what the EU gives you are certain rights, which are guaranteed to any EU citizen. Movement is no longer governed by treaties, but a right. As a business, you have the right to sell across Europe, without local regulations being able to ban you unilaterally.
Wait to see who replaces him before you say that.
Maybe you can tell us something about their coding practices. A friend of mine who work at GS told me they have an absolutely massive ball of spaghetti that takes 7 hours to compile. That's for their trading systems.

Naturally, it's not something that attracts me to working there, and he basically told me not to come.

There must be other divisions where people have different experiences?
Young voters wanted Brexit the least – and will have to live with it the longest
Well, one could make an argument that the house of lords represents exactly no one, and yet it is a part of the policy making process.
I expect Scotland to split and join the EU shortly. Just look at the map in the linked article.
This! In the last years my country, Portugal, has been seing a mass exodus of highly qualified young people (many nurses and medical doctors) mostly to England. If there are many restrictions to move to UK, I don't know if they will start moving to central europe (as outside france, we do not have any cultural proximity to other countries)..
Either way, it's a lose-lose situation for both countries.
Chances are you're English though.
> Deciding the fate of the country base don what's best for his political career.

It's rare that it is so out in the open but the vast majority of decisions are made like this.
It gets worse. The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland both have teams. They both wear green and white, They can both draw players from both sides of the border, and they're both coached by someone named M. O'Neil. And they both made it through to the knockout stages.