skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that extremely odd. It's like an engineer who doesn't look at that data at hand: Since 2005 every attempt to put a referendum (e.g. France, Netherlands, Greece) on any matter that had to do with the EU, ended up with anti-EU vote win.

So if you look closer at the data, then you'll see that anti-EU sentiment is way stronger then pro-EU throughout Europe.

I believe that people higher-up the food-chain have access and a say in the social and mass media. This creates a strong reality distorted (like London vs Rest of England).
From 2015. I assume this was just a joke.
This was after the General Election in May last year. Not the same story.
He's considered a bigoted prick by a large majority of the country - I doubt quitting will remove the necessity of security.
>Monday 11 May 2015 16.33 BST
It doesn't rate against those tools, to be more clear.
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>>If your manager is not a software engineer himself you will have even more stress.

Someone should do something about this. Certain other professions, such as the law, protect workers from incompetent management, in many jurisdictions.

It might also attract more people to the profession if you knew your boss had done something similar.
I definitely understand the skepticism. If you search my HN comment history, you'll even find me saying that I'm skeptical that Matrix will achieve widespread success, too. But I still think the way to overcome that is to keep trying. The main edge that Matrix has over previous systems like Google Wave and XMPP is that it's been designed from the start to be bridged to other systems, rather than trying to fight them for mindshare. This means that Matrix can grow and be useful even if people don't "switch" from their existing systems to Matrix. That aspect of Matrix does make me hopeful and optimistic about its future.
I don't know if you're involved in Matrix's development, but what's the advantage compared to XMPP? I feel like it's bringing a new protocol that - as xmpp - is unlikely to break the massive silos that are Hangout, Messenger, whatsapp etc...

Or am I wrong, and if so what did I miss?

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I'm dreaming to see the end of that fragmentation happening, and I don't want to discourage anyone to address that problem, I'm simply wondering if anything is fundamentally different from XMPP.

Edit2: found a few answers here : https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#what-is-the-differen...
> I wonder if there's much history of groups starting out with common languages, then groups separating and the languages evolving separately, either intentionally to demonstrate group membership, or just due to lack of communication between groups, and continuing to differentiate until they're effectively different languages.

Thats basically what sociolinguists investigate. Here's an example of a study that kind of does that:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233713880_A_Quantit...
Oh, found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip_inflation_now
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We have all been bitten by the unfulfilled promises of Wave, XMPP, Chandler (yes, I tried to use it), Psyc, SIP, etc etc

That doesn't mean that we should give up. One technology will finally get the right balance and take off, by learning from the mistakes of the precursors. Maybe that will be Matrix; maybe we will be another stepping stone in the journey - who knows.

One thing for sure is that big commercial for-profits like Google are absolutely not the best positioned to fix problems of cross-industry collaboration and defragmentation. Which is why Matrix attempts it as a neutral non-profit.
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> A “person like me” is now viewed as twice as credible as a government leader

I wonder what this statistic looks like over time in China and India.
That's from May last year, when he resigned and then un-resigned after failing to win his seat in the last election.

Of course, possible a similar thing could happen again.
>No, why they have to start negotiations if there is no change in the status quo.

Because talk is cheap and uncertainty is expensive.

>How it is vindictive?

Insisting on article 50 being invoked before starting negotiations will trigger a massive amount of economic uncertainty (and possibly panic). This uncertainty will be worse for the UK but it will be very bad for the EU too.

The EU is on tenterhooks even if it doesn't realize it. A wave of euroskeptic election wins in Europe could trigger cascading copycat leave referendums and ultimately the death of the EU. Its negotiating position really isn't as strong as it believes it is.
On another HN thread, several commenters did get that visa (O-1 Extraordinary Ability), apparently you need some well-known prizes (Nobel Prize would be best, or Turing Award, but apparently Google/O'Reilly Hacker of the Year works too) and national media coverage.

Quotes from other threads:

From USCIS:

* Receipt of nationally or internationally recognized prizes or awards for excellence in the field of endeavor

* Membership in associations in the field for which classification is sought which require outstanding achievements, as judged by recognized national or international experts in the field

* Published material in professional or major trade publications, newspapers or other major media about the beneficiary and the beneficiary’s work in the field for which classification is sought

* Original scientific, scholarly, or business-related contributions of major significance in the field
* Authorship of scholarly articles in professional journals or other major media in the field for which classification is sought

* A high salary or other remuneration for services as evidenced by contracts or other reliable evidence

* Participation on a panel, or individually, as a judge of the work of others in the same or in a field of specialization allied to that field for which classification is sought

* Employment in a critical or essential capacity for organizations and establishments that have a distinguished reputation

For science:

- publications

- recommendation letters (preferably a blend from business, research and politicians)

- awards (even things like "the best paper" of a small conference with only 30 papers from local researchers)

- interviews

- be a member of an association only open to certain persons (for example with a Ph.D. you qualify for IEEE membership, and they will deliver a good-looking membership certificate)

So having a Ph.D is not enough, but if are a decently successful researcher and have a good network for the recommendation letters (or your future employer), you can get it without being of Turing award level.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8228338

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10400912
> That's been the theory behind decades of such experiments in many countries. Worked out great, we all can see how the money keep s"trickling down".

Do you have an example? I don't know of any serious economist that backs trickle-down theory except as a strawman, but many point to lower and flatter taxes that can be used to support market-based economics as enabling high productivity. The obvious country that backs this - the US - has done pretty well from it, as have a multitude of smaller nations (Hong Kong, Switzerland, Singapore, the UK, Canada, Australia).

Some countries with higher taxes but also based around a free market economy have done well - Germany is the prominent example and Sweden and Finland. Some have succumbed to corruption and are failing, or on the brink of failure (Italy, Spain, Greece).

The opposite - high taxes, lack of a market and extreme governmental intervention - has certainly been tried in many, many countries. Most (all?) have failed badly in a way that has destroyed generations of productivity (North Korea, Cuba, The Soviet Union, Venezuela, etc.) and really fucked-up their societies that way - usually accompanied by secret police squads, the crushing of liberties and very low quality-of-life.

> That theory is actually very un-capitalistic: It assumes that only a few people know what is best for the majority.

That's actually very 'capitalistic' - the man with the capital makes the ultimate decisions as to where it gets invested. Perhaps you meant democratic?

I'm not convinced by the rest of your argument either. The capital owner usually employs many people to invest portions of the capital into smaller investment opportunities - it's not like Bill Gates has to invest all of his fortune into just one opportunity is it? If anything, this site is based around the idea of giving capital to the unexperienced to start businesses with promising ideas - that's pretty much the exact theoretical definition of angel investors, incubators and VCs.

One might argue that these institutions suffer from cronyism and don't do their job as well as they should, but their job is after all to re-allocate accrued capital to value-producers in a risk-balanced way across a broad portfolio which, I think, is what you seem to want to advocate.
I think Tesla screwed up by hyping it like they have an autonomous driving system. Mercedes, BMW, etc. did not make that mistake with similar technology. Just google "tesla autopilot" and you'll see the phenomena: people sleeping, playing games, recording videos of themselves.

From that search, here's an interesting article from WIRED warning about the dangers (and lawsuit proneness) of the technology:

https://www.wired.com/2015/10/obviously-drivers-are-already-...
> lefties

Ah, one of those comments.

Most of the EU countries where immigration is currently an issue have had 'right wing' parties leading them for a very long time.

Immigration is just the easiest populist button to press to get a large number of people to vote against their own interests.

One of the problems underlying all this is not immigration per-se, but the rapid and unbounded expansion of the EU to include countries with a huge range of incomes and costs-of-life. Add to that the ability and willingness of people to leave behind their old lives and/or families in order to go abroad to make some money and you have an instantaneous problem.

But the powers that be have it right: in the longer term the only way the EU can work is by giving everybody the right to relocate to wherever they want. That way at some point it all levels out again.

Try to imagine a USA where someone from Texas would not be able to move to LA or NYC or the other way around. Border controls against movement on every state-border. If you find that hard to imagine try to come up with a really good argument why it should be any different within the EU.

Finally, there are people that wish to migrate to the EU from regions outside of it. The EU made a strategic mistake here, which is that they have been partially (together with the US) responsible for the destabilization of the region just outside of it. That this could lead to a huge influx of refugees was a risk they took knowingly, and that I feel it is only responsible to deal with. It would be nice if the countries that are not walking distance from those regions or that are protected by a body of water that is not easily navigable would take their responsibilities in this as well.
Destroying stuff is just more fun than building stuff. That applies to kids in the sandbox like it does to ill-bred grown-up politicians.

Dropping a bomb onto a house is more fun than building one.

Leaving the EU with a bang was certainly more fun to him than the long negotiations that follow could ever be.
Being confronted by a conga line of people whom you regularly speak out against is considered being attacked?

Does he really believe these vicious conga lines of diversity will stop just because he quit?
It's a circular definition though - it's not falsifiable, because if they are in power they must be smart, defining smart as "ability to get into power", if they can't get power evidently they are not smart enough... Not very useful, except if you enjoy making "winning" arguments that you can't lose.
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> This is part of a larger divide that has been opening up between “mass populations” and “informed publics” (Edelman defined the latter group as those who have a college degree, regularly consume news media, and are in the top 25 percent of household income for their age group in a given country)

By Edelman's definition, it would appear his elites are more fit to govern than the masses (again, by his definition). That doesn't mean the latter are ignored. But if you put every issue to a vote, the people who have experienced less worldly exposure, less challenge in critical thinking, who are not consuming information from outside their narrow social circles and are not economically tied into the whole will always win. If you're a fan of good long-term decision making, that's a lousy prospect.
I am an outsider (European) looking in but closely following the US presidential primaries this year, so I don't have a horse in the race. There are a number of levels at which there has been clear unfairness or cheating (depending on your perspective) in the DNC primaries. Here are some of the simpler ones:

- The recent release of hacked documents from the DNC show that the primaries were not set up to be a fair competition from the start.
- The rules are specifically set up in a number of states (New York is a prime example) to disenfranchise any new Democratic Party members from being able to vote.
- Thousands of registered voters were removed from the voters roll. There is even a case where a lifelong Democrat running for a congressional seat on a Democratic ticket was removed.
- Media coverage made it appear that Clinton was in the lead before any voting even took place. That coverage has been shown to have been orchestrated (at least at the start) by the DNC.
- Funds raised in the DNC's name were disproportionately funnelled to the Clinton campaign.
- Voting stations were closed down in huge numbers in some states and territories (Puerto Rico and California being prime a examples)
I think he'll get a peerage and be in the cabinet within the year.
If you look at the demographics of the people who voted for sanders you'll find its representative of the overall population.

I.e. 50% of sanders' voters were women. You'll get similar proportional percentages of minorities.

Simpson's paradox creates the perception that sanders' voters are composed of mostly white males. It's untrue.
> Out of the total number of human concepts that have ever been communicated, the majority are only available to English speakers.

Wait, I'm not sure if I agree with the rest of your post, but this last sentence is surely an exaggeration, no? You mean over 50% of human concepts that were ever communicated are only available to english speakers?
> Do you have an example?

A not too large and not too small and recent example - using the whole of the US is more muddled also because of larger timescales which include the ability to blame other developments - see Kansas.
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This is like trolling everyone for no real good reason..Confusing to say the least
His party has only 1 single seat. But Farage as a person has been instrumental in creating strife. Much like Wilders in NL (who has far more seats in parliament here), politically he doesn't have much clout but he is very capable of fomenting dissent and division within our society (and the press is complicit in giving him a disproportional amount of airtime to spew his provocative bile).
They jumped on the bonnet of his car as he left.

It's clearly unacceptable in a civilised society.
This is because the elites have all the big artillery. It is not the hereditary nobility that are providing the brains behind all this propaganda.

The masses know they are losing, they just don't have the leaders able to fight the ruling class and so are blindly lashing out at all authority - the current situation is rather like the Great Rising [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt
As an EU citizen: what's the point of moving/keeping an international startup to/in the UK if the UK is no longer in the EU?

Surely the benefit of the lower corporate tax would be outweighed by the difficulties of accessing the EU market and the British market is not big enough in isolation (compared to other English-speaking markets or the EU as a whole). In terms of growth potential moving to the US (to stay English-speaking and find more investors) or to the EU (to be able to easily expand to other countries) seem the more obvious choices.

I can see how it might incentivise local startups to stay in the UK but at that scale the difference in taxation is likely not particularly noteworthy and simply an excuse to do what they already planned to do (i.e. "I don't want to leave anyway because I love working in Brighton but look how much money I'm saving by staying").
One thing about those subtitles on movies and shows are that they are often done using the audio alone. I have seen some hilarious examples where the actor uses a generic term, while the subtitle use a specific term that do not match the context on screen.
i am in the same bandwagon (free weights & treadmill, rest is done outside) and from my perspective - there are people who can enjoy any generic activity on their own. if there are in group of friends, fine, but it's not mandatory, and in fact sometimes can be annoying. I am like this, set my own speed/intensity, but my goals are not bodybuilding nor power-lifting.

then there are those who don't do almost anything alone. bike ride? only with friends, otherwise no ride. going to run in the gym? only with friend/colleague. I am not this type so cannot really comprehend the necessity of companionship at (almost) all costs. but then I am more introvertish, so it kinda makes sense
My immediate thought after reading this article was like there is nothing wrong or disadvantageous in having a single language all over the world. It would make communication easy and universal. But the point here, which the author stresses, is that every language has its own perspective of looking at an object, emotion, action etc. If we let a languages die then we are essentially losing this perspective. May be there is some language in this world which can express a particular emotion which other languages, for example English, cannot express no matter what. Won't humanity lose a lot in this scenario?
And besides this I think that English is the so called universal language just because English speaking population conquered most of the world. It is not so that English is the easiest or most simple and complete in all aspects.

As a student of science I tend to believe in universality of language. It makes exchange of knowledge easy. But the points that I mentioned above are also important. According to me, letting a set of people try and revive the dying languages is worthy and helpful to human civilization.
As I understood, he wanted to change the economic model of Greece only. It's the EU that didn't want economic pluriformity.
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NY was pretty ridiculous.

It's going to look pretty ridiculous if the DNC is ever audited, or has someone more credible than Guccifer2.0 hack and release their documents.
There have been programs similar to that in the past.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multnomah_County_Poor_Farm
Note, that people who have a clue about why the EU came to be at all are either dead or have been managed away. BXL became a parking place for second rate politicians (understatement). Manipulators like Cameron, Farage know this too: and this is the tragedy.

McCreevy, déçu de voir ses arguments taillés en pièces, ne prenne la parole, le visage rougeaud, sur un ton énervé:

"Monsieur Rocard, si c'est la guerre que vous voulez, vous allez l'avoir."

Réponse de Rocard, d'un ton posé et ferme: "Monsieur McCreevy, des guerres, dans ma carrière, j'en ai déjà arrêté deux. Mais ce n'est pas parce que je suis un homme de paix que je céderai à l'intimidation. Je maintiens donc mes positions."
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But we replaced it with the Church Of Capitalism, which has its own sets of dogma. Maybe we need a separation of finance and state?
I answered the same question elsewhere in the thread so I will just link to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12028977

Happy to follow up with additional questions, though!
My email inbox offers a dumb pipe to companies who have already engaged me to engage me again without filtering. I'll take my chances with the algorithms.
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Shipping it as a gift usually works.
Like there was plenty of "political innovation", especially in Europe, after the Great Depression in the 1930s? I'd argue that didn't work out too well. Hopefully this time its different.
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Couldn't have found an easier route than to build this in FPC with Lazarus.

Even though I had hardly coded a line in the language before, it was built from scratch to "happy end-user" in 80 hours, including learning the language.

I built it on Xubuntu, then imported it on my Windows VM and compiled, WITHOUT A SINGLE CHANGE! On Mac, I needed to add a missing import statement or so.

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(The tool: https://github.com/NBISweden/mdc-file-export )
If I understand correctly, there was a significant gap between the turnout rate for the young people and the turnout rate for the elderly.

https://next.ft.com/content/2994afe4-43b0-3763-a80c-92351473...
Is there a recommended place where geeks in need can apply for donated laptops?

I took a year off with my wife in kids in the cheapest US locale I could find (agricultural area of Puerto Rico) so I could survive on my passive income projects while I learn some new skills (C++, Go, deep learning, and a few others)

I didn't expect to lose both laptops I brought - One to power surges caused by bad infrastructure and one to tiny sugar ants that decided to build a colony inside the laptop.

I've ended my sabbatical and am heading back to the mainland, but it's hard to do dev work on the laptop I managed to breath life back into when I know that if it dies, I have no way to replace it.

I'm sure I'm not the only poor geek out there. Where should we look for cast-off equipment that doesn't get mined by opportunists who just want free stuff to sell on ebay?
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To his credit, he has been an MEP for seventeen years.
Can we have a feature where we block users who reply to people complaining about ad blockers rather than just voting them down?
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Do you think the Fox News or the British Daily Mail makes an attempt at presenting both sides of the issue? These are traditional networks (tv, newspapers). People always had filtered content available to them.
Another mistake regarding extraEU immigration is that they put all the responsibility on the Schengen border countries instead of creating a common solution for that.
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On the other hand, not all managers with a tech background have good people skills to manage engineers.