skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That graph is of course correct, but the question remains, at what level do you centralize? The idea of the EU is that the central point is the EU, and that it is the EU which makes deals with the rest of the blocks.

If we follow through with the idea that the ideal level is the nation state, the you have 200 odd countries doing deals with each other. Not very practical.

OR, we have several world regions doing deals with each other, plus the UK.

Which is a version of "Beggar_thy_neighbour" policy [1]: in a world in which countries in world regions are cooperating with each other by making compromises, there is always the option by one of those countries to play dirty and try to game the system (for example, tax heavens).

Note: this applies to big issues. There are things which are better decided at the national, regional or even the city level.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggar_thy_neighbour
Please don't bring that garbage here.

It's not a funny meme.

It wasn't funny when it first aired and it's not funny now.
Don't worry, most of the new "IoT smart devices" will probably be DRM-enabled, so you'll be a criminal if you try to fix them. Problem solved?
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> Porque no los dos?

Please don't bring that garbage here.

It's not a funny meme.

It wasn't funny when it first aired and it's not funny now.
The author fails to take in to account the short term issues associated with the Brexit.

For the next ten years, and probably more, Britain's economy is going to be all over the place. It will be hard to keep things stable whilst new treaties are negotiated and new trade links are established.

Britain is effectively rebooting its relationship with it's biggest trading partner. There is no way that such a move cannot have significant negative repercussions.

I've already seen such repercussions with UK friends who run small businesses being impacted the drop in the value of sterling. Another UK friend who runs a tourist coach business has been told by his EU based tour operator clients that once the Brexit happens they may have to drop him as a supplier - which now means a planned expansion has been put on hold. This is the sort of stuff happening even before article 50 is invoked, once that happens then all bets are off.

The leave camp didn't have a plan, but even if they did there would still be major negative effects on the UK. And so far people have only focused on issues surrounding trade the movement of people. There are dozens of other issues that will need to be dealt with as well such as standards compliance, product safety certifications, cross border consumer issues, science/R&D partnerships, the NI peace process, OpenSkies agreements and so on and so on.

Lets assume the author is correct in his thinking and that in 10-20 years the UK economy will be thriving, you can't deny it will have been a very, very painful journey to get there.
Why do you say that? I'd love something like this product, and my work flow is single tasking. I have all my windows open in full screen all the time and switch between them, and usually have a movie playing on the second screen while I work.

Yes, it takes me a day to watch an hour's worth of movie, but it's a nice and easy distraction when waiting for stuff to build or doing other low cognitive impact work.
I believe it's a joke about programming language names/framework names/etc.
Spoken like somebody who's never read Journey to The End of The Night. In my opinion (and many others') it's one of the best novels ever written.

Tastes may vary but to dismiss foreign literature outright betrays a lack of experience as a reader. This is where I complain, as an old guy, about the poor state of liberal arts education.

Do yourself a favor and pick up some Dostoevsky. Or Gunter Grass. Or Murakami. Or Knut Hamsen. Or oh hell, there are far too many to list, those just come to the forefront in my head.
This echoes my thoughts.

When I first heard about the referendum (as a non-Brit) I felt it would be an interesting thing. At the time I was not aware of the propaganda around Brexit, and thought it was a decision for more political and economic control. Which sounded like something that might be good for the country; but as someone not aware of the details, I wasn't sure.

Then I realized one of the main reasons was immigration. Which was my first inkling that something is wrong, and that it can be harmful. Stopping free movement could end up destroying tons of lives and probably affecting the economy in the process. Before I had read about this I thought Britain wanted a Switzerlandesque deal, where you still have free movement and whatnot; just a different trade/politics situation.

And then I saw the full extent of the racism fuelling this. And then I was convinced it was a bad idea.

From the article:

> Jingoism, xenophobia, and Trump-like obnoxiousness have led to an obviously wrong conclusion, so the story goes.

This has things backwards. It might be indeed that leaving the EU was the right decision. The fact that it was caused by xenophobes is the main issue. Because xenophobes will want to move forward on this in a xenophobic way. They are not fuelled by a desire to make the right decision[1]. They are fuelled by xenophobia, with getting the immigrants out being the primary concern. If leaving the EU turns out to be the right thing for Britain, that will be by accident, even a broken clock is on time twice a day.

(This sort of echoes larger issues with our system. Being fuelled by a desire to gain votes is not the same as being fuelled by a desire to make the country better. But it at least is an approximation.)

[1]: They may think they are, but in this situation I mean making that desire foremost and doing the necessary research to make it true. AFAICT this campaign was in part about ignoring the experts, which disqualifies it from being foremost concerned about making the right decision.
> the damage there is already done. You look like a bunch of racist, impetuous, sulky, ill-informed yobos blaming the world's victims for the acts of the very people you voted into office.

So lets see, which is more likely?

a) It just so happened that France, Sweden, Norway, UK and a bunch of other countries turned racist over night (see the rise in numbers of voters for the extreme right parties), or

b) you are wrong because you have an incomplete picture of how the world actually looks like?

I'll let you decide which one it is.
Regarding the "champion of free trade" idea that the article raises - this is pure fantasy. The idea of dropping your trade barriers and just hoping by some magic sense of fairplay everyone else will do the same is ludicrous. Ignoring the prima facie illogic of expecting selfless altruism from your trading partners, I know from experience that this will not work - as does everyone else in NZ. We know this because it was the brain-dead approach our governments took in the late 80's. It has lead to us having NOTHING to offer in trade deals as we'd already given away the family silver.

TL;DR, the OP is seriously confused about how economics works.
I believe the article was satire.

I believe it was intended to mock developers evangelical quests to educate the public on programming languages/frameworks/methodologies/etc.
it's far easier and more accurate to track someone based on browser fingerprinting and a few other features than any IP address -- period. IPv6 in no way makes this worse or better than IPv4.
ah ok then you're better off learning OpenCL, if you don't have access to a beefy graphics card just rent one by the hour off of amazon. You can prototype on your laptops CPU then run the real simulation on a remote machine.
> You want a life-style business.

A non-funded company is not by definition a 'life-style business'. That's pretending there are only two choices whereas in fact there is a huge continuum ranging from mom-and-pop operations all the way to enormous privately held conglomerates.

If you work for a venture fund you should know that the choice is slightly more complicated than funded and life-style businesses.

Being 'happy' does not mean someone wants a 'life-style' business, it simply means they want a healthy work-life balance and that says nothing about the eventual size of the company.
> You can always get one of these(0).

I did. Sadly, they suck :(. First of all, there's a problem getting firmware that would run on Windows. Secondly, getting the pedals to simulate raw control keys is tricky (but can be done). But thirdly, the construction isn't too solid - I had them in the office for a while, and somehow someone (I suspect the cleaning crew) managed to break off one of the pedals. :/.
Toady should decouple the ui from the game so people could write a nice ui for a change. The only thing which stands between me and the game is the horrible ux.
Similar boat as you.

I've decided to not take investment any time soon (if ever)

The very fact that you're having doubts about this says that you really don't want outside investors.

If you're making statements like this:

> We just want to be happy and don't have a more busy life

Outside investment will just make you utterly miserable.
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> a) it is not racism but classified as such by the left

Then what would you call it?

Racism has been growing across the west in line with discussion of immigrants and refugees. The last two months, and especially since result, has seen a change in the UK I cannot explain by other means. It's more than just immigrants at Calais, or Poles and Latvians - all of that has been there a decade or more without people being quite so blatant about it. Something has changed. If not brexit and the campaign how else do you explain the last two months? For heaven's sake there's a huge amount of incidents along the lines "you lost, get out" which is highly indicative of mindset, no?

> But what I do know is that leaving the EU is not as suicidal as people make it sound to be.

I happen to agree, even though I was in favour of remain. However, this particular means of leaving the EU, at this time, in this way seems to have higher than evens chance of poor outcome.

What do I mean by that?

The first exit by any nation is likely to receive poorer terms than they might expect in any subsequent trade negotions, "pour encourager les autres".

In lacking any plan, team or responsibility for the outcome we are even less likely to get good deals. Both sides should have been planning, the FO should have been using our alleged diplomatic skills to start forming plans and allies. Start thinking about trade missions and so forth.

Selling brexit by means of a series of lies has split the country (cf 350m a week to the NHS with Farage and Boris the morning after result) in a way that was near unthinkable.

So no, leaving the EU need not be anywhere near as suicidal as people make it out to be, but leaving the EU in such a clumsy, ill-prepared and scare driven, manner could easily be.
Airports Displays Real-Time Wait Times to Help Reduce Passenger Frustration
Same here. We have moved to something called Sophos.
This seems really well put together, but I can't help but wonder how long until it gets a takedown notice from Google?
I understand the rationale but I have the feeling we are still "not there", and in the mean time, this is kinda lacking.

So thanks to op to provide a starting point. I'll definitely use it.
> The most multi-cultural areas of Britain voted to remain i.e. cities and university towns... The areas that voted leave seem to demonstrate xenophobia in its fundamental form: fear of the other.

This is why I can't take the leftist arguments seriously. You refute phenomenon that have been taking place for thousands of years in order to glorify an ideology that you believe in without a single shred of evidence...

If you think that the fact that certain cities voted X compared to others who voted Y describes the sudden rise of nationalism across all of Europe AT THE SAME TIME, then you sir are in for a ride.
Well, even though they market it that way, it's more like a multi-monitor setup, which is totally valid to have for, at least, a developer.
"NONE of the Brexiters had any planning in place to get us from in EU to out."

I suspect that is in part down to "Vote Leave" and "Grassroots Out" being political campaigns, not political parties. UKIP, a large voice in the campaign to exit the European Union hold _a_ seat in the Commons, any plan they make is completely irrelevant. Equally, we now face a situation where the next Prime Minister is to be decided by a Conservative leadership election. There is no necessity that the new leader be from the Brexit camp - even if we do end up with the fore-runner, Boris, compromise with the majority of MPs who voted to stay is necessary.

If anything, I place blame at the feet of the government. Planning for losing is not the same as planning to lose. The idea that the only plan the government had for this scenario was "don't let it happen" makes me appreciate the preparation of the Bank of England quite a bit more than I did beforehand.
> Of course, if you only want a regular bar chart, you'll do better with things like C3, nvd3 etc'.

I know you probably know this, but for other people's sake - NVD3 requires the D3 library to work. It's therefore probably quite a good entry point into D3 - less complexity, but the same underlying code.
The UK had a rise in racist / xenophobic ideology with groups like the English Defence League, Britain First, and the Knights Templar.

Most people recognise those as extreme groups, and don't join them.

But now? There's been a dramatic rise in reporting of racist incidents. Those incidents are not being committed by members of those groups.
I did not use the word immigrants. Not even once. I was talking about homogeneity. A society without immigrants can turn heterogeneous as well. This has nothing to do with immigration, it has to do with cultures and ideas.
"New Zealand's crime statistics are compounded by the over-representation of Māori. Though Maori make up only 12.5% of the general population aged 15 and over,[28] 42% of all criminal apprehensions involve a person identifying as Maori, as do 50% of those in prison."

No matter how you interpret that, there is something fucked up:

"The figures lend themselves to extremist interpretations: at one end, some accuse the criminal justice system of being brutally racist, as either intentionally or unintentionally destructive to the interests and well-being of Māori as a people. At the other, there are those who dismiss the entire Māori race as constitutionally 'criminally inclined'."

NZ has quadruple incarceration rate compared ton Finland, Japan or Iceland, which you could claim to be homogeneous.
Using Google in the domain name alone is enough for it to be taken down.
>Physicists have a better understanding of statistics and better data to work with than pyschologists.

They certainly have better data to work with in most cases, but what makes you think that physicists understand statistics better than psychologists? Is this just the physics superiority complex?
Show HN: Create a dynamic web site in 1-2-3
Hey, I'm a second career writer too! That's a fantastic piece.

My background is in software and I still freelance to pay the bills. I have been writing on and off since I was old enough to hold a pen. Little fits and starts here and there, but by the time I was in my early twenties I focused on making a living instead of learning how to write. I dreamed of one day making enough money to retire and maybe write a few books.

Three years ago I realized that was crazy. I wanted to write, putting it off until the end of my life not only increases the chance I'd never get to do it, but also means that I'd miss out on years and years of practice. I decided to do with writing what I did with programming—set aside nearly half my time to learn how to do it, then keep doing it until I could make a living.

I'm not making a living anytime soon, but after three years I've written a couple novel manuscripts, published a short story collection, and am due to publish a novel at the end of the year. But I'm still hesitant to answer, "I'm a writer" when someone at a cocktail party asks what I do.
Yea so is Sweden, Norway and a ton of other places. FOR NOW... That is the whole point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass_(disambiguation)
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I'm not surprised they think everybody should understand how chips are made.

Using their documentation last year was a nightmare with errata in archived forum posts. I also found the community response quite hostile to simple outsider questions.

Then again, when we finally completed our testing of their chips we found the memory transfer overhead killed any benefit for us.
The difference is that all of those services are accessed via an API, which means your client can do clever things when it fails, like timeout, give a fallback, find an equivalent resource in another zone or region, etc.

With EFS, it's exposed as NFS, which hooks in much deeper. If it goes down, there isn't anything you can do to work around the problem, unless you start hacking your own file system kernel modules.
Hiring Is Broken and It Isn't Worth Fixing
Not having the official delegated authority to do something and not having any options are different. Step up and let it be known that you want to help.
> If you have ever travelled to Europe and tried to buy clothing, food, or a computer, this is why they are so much more expensive than in the US

I would like to see some figures for that, but I think that more than tariffs, the author is not taking into account the VAT, the price of carburant and some other things.
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I am claiming that economic hardship coupled with a ready scapegoat at hand leads to scapegoating. Are you claiming that this has never happened before in the world? I'm pretty sure if I try REALLLY hard, I might even be able to think of an example or two in European history.

You have to be pretty ignorant of history if you can't find parallels with Irish, Jews or Blacks and different times and places. And YES I am saying that just as in history when all those groups were demonised, this current bout in Europe is racist.
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> The first exit by any nation is likely to receive poorer terms than they might expect in any subsequent trade negotions, "pour encourager les autres".

Absolutely. But someone has to be the first. Could/should it have been someone else? absolutely, but that's just how things unfolded.

> In lacking any plan, team or responsibility for the outcome we are even less likely to get good deals.

Couldn't agree more. I just think that the anti-EU themselves did not believe it would happen so fast.
Demo Video (hidden in the press-kit): https://youtu.be/B4JqN0uxnzw?t=16
> you don't have to be number one in order for conflict emerge.

But that's what the anti-immigrationists were claiming - that the UK was taking in far too many immigrants and that the country was being flooded with immigrants.

Only about 5% of the population of the UK is an EU immigrant.

EDIT: London voted to remain. London is about 40% immigrant. Multi-culturalism isn't just about immigration, it includes different religions (London has a Muslim mayor) and other stuff, all of which London does pretty well at.
uh, because a GUI based on a flat "desktop" metaphor with overlapping square interfaces works so damn well.

And the places where the metaphor differs from a RL desktop its because its more convenient that way - say like how documents (windows) have no thickness or how its easier to look straight ahead with a 90° to a surface instead of downwards onto a desktop at an angle?

this concept actually takes advantage of 3d spacial navigation by basically giving you an functionally unlimited of desktop area.
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This course looks pretty good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11902172
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Web browsers are at least somewhat sandboxed - they have to be. (I'm not sure about adblock - it blocks some threats in an ad-hoc way, but it might add an exploitation vector of its own). QubesOS is only a little bit more sandboxed than a web page; it's relying on Xen (which has a poor security track record) and mostly still using commodity OSes written in C for the insides (though there is some hope e.g. http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2016/01/01/a-unikernel-firewal... ), so at the moment even running Qubes you're still almost certainly vulnerable in all sorts of places. I agree that something like qubes (that is to say, an OS formed of a number of strictly isolated modules with a small well-defined API between them) is the path to genuine security, but we'll have to at a minimum replace the Xen layer with something proven correct before we can claim to have a genuinely secure system.
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Don't have any figures but I lived in the US and I can confirm that statement on a personal level.
> There has been peace in Europe because, frankly, the Europeans are weak.

What is this? Most of the regions in conflict in the world are, according to the scales he sets, "weak".
https://www.niagain.com test mysite to hack. thanks
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> You’ll probably need to be on a university campus or ask your anonymous internet friends for help to get around paywalls.

Sci-Hub is now everybody's internet friend.
Also back in the day, SpaceTime 3D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMw7ftk5-1s
United States National Radio Quiet Zone
Thanks for the "pithy maxim" - I have never seen it before, but the idea has always been my key to giving a decent presentation. It goes straight into my quotes-file!
Scala Partial Functions Are Disgusting and Unnecessary
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Buffer still have some advantages - Dashboard is currently US Business only and the app is iOS only. If you're outside the US and/or an Android user, there's still reason to use Buffer (or Klout, etc), for now.
I was usually able to switch the language by right-clicking, there's a submenu that lets you select which audio stream (i.e. which language) you want to listen to.
Same reasons the Jews were blamed when Germany was economically and spiritually crushed by the Treaty of Versailles.
winamp. sublime text. anki. libre office. audacity. quicktime. eclipse. komodo. english dictionary (part of mac os). TextEdit. codeblocks. virtualbox. join.me, vcl

broken software I hate: all web browsers, thunderbird, gimp, microCommander, calibre, itunes, iphoto, cyberduck, skype,
It's a bit sloppy - the most egregious are:

Audio codec - compression is now common but only coding/decoding is required (hence the name).

GPIO - General Purpose Input Output.

Schmidt trigger - I have no idea what they wer trying to type but my cats do the same thing. A device with a Schmidt trigger input provides hysterysis for noise rejection?
This is a documentation page for an old feature. I don't think this is really in the spirit of "Show HN" (as pointed out by another commenter on one of the 8 other recent "Show HN" posts for this product https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11489452).
So you don't believe that the influx of immigrants into the UK was affecting its homogeneity?

I can't quite see how you can't see that remaining homogenous and accepting immigrants are opposite sides of the very same coin?
You look at it the wrong way.The point is to make the system multi task.Its like you opening several tabs/windows. I often spend time browsing HN while my project builds in the background.Similary while a site I am opening opens(yes this is a thing because developers love making heavy websites these days),I shift to other tabs.

And when you have to port design specs to code.It is much easier to just turn your head instead of switching tabs/windows.
This would indeed be a much better option.