skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make it look more native (in the icons and the input fields for instance) and put it all in HiDPI for High DPI displays (panes' icons are still in low resolution for instance).

But mostly, the mardown/knitr part is the big thing missing for data exploration/presentation.
I found it confusing that they expected growth over the last 2 years when in 2014 they functionally announced they were going to abandon it, transitioning it to "community ownership"

This is a self fulling prophecy
But whatever they call it, it is majority indeed and that's the democracy - you either accept that majority wins or well... don't know
The issue here is that Theresa May cannot call a general election.

The Fixed-term Parliament Act means that the only ways to call an early general election are if parliament passes a motion of no confidence in her majesty's government or a two thirds majority of MPs passes a motion to bring an early general election.

(A third alternative would be to repeal the act.)
Compare:

$100 is nothing so it doesn't matter what I spend it on.

to

I spend $100 on entertainment every month because I like watching TV.

To clarify, the $32 million spent by 18F sounds like fantastic value for money, and we should emphasise that value.
This brings back so many memories from working at a design-heavy web consulting shop during the first bubble. We had some of the best designers I've ever worked with, who could meet with the client once and produce multiple great concepts the next day.

None of that mattered with some clients: get a room full of VPs, an indecisive founder, etc. and before you know it the endless tweaks and revisions blue well into six figures and start delaying work on everything downstream.

Some of that was indecision, poor management, etc. but much of it was simply many stakeholders with different priorities. Get a dozen Sony executives in a room – which was the average meeting – and unsurprisingly it turns out that you have a dozen opinions about what the most important elements of the project are. Someone visiting that website or using a product has absolutely no way to know any of that and sees a design they could do quickly – if they'd only been presented with the end vision of what the project was about…
Can you not show the final price to the consumer, then itemize it out on the final bill or receipt?
anyone have any good introduction tutorials for

1. org agenda integration into their todo lists
2. babel mode? i'd love to integrate code into some of study guides for interviews

love emacs, but i never feel like im using more than 1% of org mode's potential.
If you happen to use MS SQL Server, there is ApexSQL Refactor, a plugin to SQL Server Management Studio (https://www.apexsql.com/sql_tools_refactor.aspx).

As the name implies it mainly does stuff other than formatting, but the latter is what I use it for, and I am rather happy with it.

When I write SQL myself, I tend for format it rather scrupulously, but when I have to read SQL written by somebody else, it is very useful.
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The risk comes in from the fact that a startup has a decent chance of flaming out and ceasing exist in less than a year in which case you are out of a job.

While you could still lose your job at a big company, they are generally more stable with billions in the bank.
Unfortunately it was a clear result, but not a decent majority. Makes life difficult for everyone...
And if Theresa May thinks that taking back board control is worth leaving the single market, can she do that, just because of the referendum?

People also gave Tories majority in the Parliament and Tories' manifesto committed to stay in the single market.

>As I understand things, there was a vote on leaving the EU, and the UK voted to leave. And as I understand things, there's only one way to leave the EU, and that's by invoking Article 50.

You are interpreting people's reasoning here, as Article 50 was not mentioned in the referendum (another option to leave the EU is to declare war to it, is that what they voted for, then?) and as I understand things, in UK, that is the Parliament's job.
They should have opted for elections long ago to give the electorate the responsibility to choose both leaving and who will take them out.

I wonder if it is possible however for either Tories or Labours to go with a believable pro-brexit stance in the polls. Ideally one would take the "in" stance and the other the "out", the point is who is with what?
and people voted to invoke it
Because apparently that's not how the UK system of government works. Parliament has a sovereignty different than that of the people.
Hmmm, that's some food for thought... maybe I should stop pushing my HN job search tool[1]

You wouldn't have found your current job if you used it.

[1] https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com/
Because the referendum was only advisory, something that was stated clearly at the start. Both sides were aware going into the referendum that invoking article 50 would ultimately be decided by parliament.
That's the thing about Parliament being Sovereign it could pass an Act saying "notwithstanding the Fixed Term Parliament Act the next election is on X" and call an election. It could also just repeal the Fixed Term Act.
If you don't pay even $100 in taxes, the government will seize your assets with a levy or - if you continue to resist - send goons to threaten you at gunpoint to turn the money over. Snapchat gets a free pass, because they don't force their investors to pay using a police force. The IRS maintains its own SWAT team dedicated to enforcement of the tax code.

I'm not saying the FBI shouldn't get a TV in the breakroom, but there's no level of money that shouldn't have a good justification.

18F seems easy to justify.
Chromium[1] is sort of free, Iron[2] is free, iridium[3] is free, epic is free[4], chrome is not. Google Chrome is a google (alphabet?) product, hence based on the business model of providing service or software for gratis but tracking[5] users and usage, building profiles and so on to sell ads.

In the end these ads are paid for by sales, which means chrome is not free, you're not giving money directly but paying with your privacy and personal profiling then indirectly paying with money to buy advertised products which pays for ads which pays for chrome.

[1]: https://www.chromium.org/
[2]: https://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
[3]: https://iridiumbrowser.de/
[4]: https://www.epicbrowser.com/
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#User_tracking
> Linode is moving 200-300 Gbps globally. That is about 37.5 Gbps per location.

We're actually moving to 5-10x that figure per location. We aren't playing around!
Or realise that the 52-48 reflects a point in time, that things change and therefore it's perfectly ok to campaign against brexit, and try to stop it.

Or do you subscribe to the point of view that we should only have had a single general election and abide by that result for all time?
Because if I have a machine pegging 90% CPU, I totally want an i/o heavy job running on that machine, because interrupts are, like, imaginary, man. Yeah, i'm sure the machine's utilization goes up... right up to triple-digit load.

Honest question: can't you dedicate some cores to handling the interrupts, leaving the others for the other processes?
I'm not sure if you can describe modern democracies as a will of the majority -- marijuana legalization, civil rights movements, anti war sentiments as examples.
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6% of leave voters regret their choice according to an academic study published about a month ago, enough to swing the vote the other way.... And as the effects of a potential Brexit continue to bite, this percentage will only increase

http://www.britishelectionstudy.com/bes-resources/brexit-bri...
The standard rule is to double the rate for staff to account for overhead - healthcare, retirement, paid leave, etc. If they're paying a GS-15 staffer $125k I'd be surprised if the effective net cost is significantly less than $250/hour – and that's probably a big win compared to a contractor charging you $250 for someone making $90k.
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The referendum is a poll. UK has representative, parliamentary democracy.
Agree, this seems overkill, privacy is good, but removing a feature because some use to spy on users seems to be a quick fix. I mean will they also remove cookies because some adds networks use them to track users? Probably not.

And the problem probably won't go away by just killing one feature. As far as I know such user fingerprinting techniques work because values from lots of APIs get taken into account, so just killing one API won't solve the problem completly.

What bothers me most, is that this is a step back for webapps developers, the web app loose a feature the native apps can still use, it's just sad.

I guess the mozilla team has put some thought into this!? I would really like to know what their pros and cons where. I wonder what other solutions they considered and why those where all dismissed until finally deciding in favor of such a drastic move.
Narrow majority would be more accurate.
> Portier will probably add more "special handling" cases in the near future.

We certainly currently intent to.
Top end macs? Based on the latest MBP offerings, I think Apple has forgotten what that is.

Unless your senior exec is carrying around his Mac Pro from his desk. That's a nice piece of hardware--without even needing USB-C and new dongles.
Parliament is involved in the Brexit process, including through the Brexit Select Committee. Politicians from across different parties will have their say on how the UK leaves the EU.

However, the British people have voted to leave the EU, and it would be an affront to democracy if the will of the people were denied by Parliament. It would be unacceptable for Parliament to vote against triggering Article 50, so why even vote if there is only one valid outcome?
I didn't know about Horizon2020 and Erasmus, thanks for sharing. I do know decisions ought to happen before March 2017, when shit would hit the fan for the Swiss. It would be a shame, it is a country I would definitely would like to live in sometimes in the future.
> I really wish they'd stop calling it a "clear majority". I'm not sure when 52-48 was ever such.

It's a majority though. If they wanted to have a higher threshold for the vote (say 60%) they should have done as much when writing the referendum.
He should have been a foot-soldier in the trenches of WWI - or more likely - just wants to appear as a badass.
> you can proxy SNI without every touching the real connection. HAProxy handles this well.

I guess you're thinking of the paragraph "SSL/TLS passthrough" described in the webpage above. Unfortunately, that doesn't work with either a CDN or a DDoS protection service, because it's simply forwarding the whole traffic to the origin: In that scenario, you can't cache assets at the CDN edge or detect layer 7 attacks.
To me it seems just like wasting money instead of using the same money to produce business value.

Apparently some developers cannot do math, salary-per-hour * effort-spent.
Even if May could get past the Fixed-term Parliament Act, a general election could turn in to a rerun of the EU referendum if the Labour party were to campaign on the grounds of not wanting to invoke Article 50, so the Tories would seen as the Leave party and Labour as the Remain party. Given the events of the past few months, I doubt that the Tories would risk that.
I'm stuck on the first graph. What does it mean? Its X-axis is labelled "Electoral votes for clinton", yet its bars represents either "Clinton" or "Trump" and there is no explanation of the y axis.
The referendum was an opinion poll, with no legal effect.

The effect comes from what the government does with that poll, and the high court has ruled that the government cannot act without parliament's consent. To be absolutely clear: The referendum had no legal effect beyond being an opinion poll.
I've never seen anyone call this a clear majority, all the news I've read, seen and heard called it close. Anyone who calls this a clear victory or clear majority is kidding themselves.
Article 50 states that "Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements." It's the "constitutional requirements" clause that's the problem. Britain does not have a written constitution, but it has traditions that are considered an unwritten constitution, eg. the government (ie. the ruling party) cannot take away rights of the citizens without the consent of Parliament. How exactly this interacts with the Brexit vote is a difficult question, hence the need for this court case.
Every period has its black sheep.

The government can replace its tobacco tax with a carbon tax.
But "everybody" did not vote on whether the Brexit should be hard or soft or whatever.

The advisory referendum told Parliament and Government "we want out".

The idea that all the hundreds or thousands of details that this referendum leads to were also implicitly voted on as "Government alone shall decide" is preposterous.
Ultimately a clear majority of the UK population is in favor of leave. This has increased since the vote as the lies of the remain campaign proved not to be true.

Much of the remain support is concentrated in a handful of London consistences meaning that almost all english MPs have a significant majority of leave supporters.

They have to vote for that or they won't be selected in a future election.

In any case. If the government doesn't follow the will of the people, then the 18 million people who votes leave will ensure that we have a new government one way or another.
37.5% of the population voted to "Leave the EU". The definition of what "Leave the EU" actually meant and the way in which the leaving would actually take place was never discussed.

If the EU was just a group of people holding hands, and after deciding to leave you were informed that instead of just letting go, the only way out was to cut off both of your arms, I imagine you might want to re-think your decision?
What do you think will happen RE Supreme Court? I'd infer same again from your comment?
> the 52-48 reflects a point in time

The number of people who claimed to wish they could change their vote after the result was surprising. How many referendums do we need before people decide they've voted "properly"?
...and the referendum was purely advisory which means they can do whatever they wish.
There have been substantial discussions of this in the past - anyone who values the collective wisdom of HN might find value in looking them over:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8561080 (381 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6236478 (349 comments)

There have been other submissions with rather less discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12157443

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11560420

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11016695

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9999935

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9723368

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9602893

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9250058

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9117291

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8944612

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205697

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6766926
It is only double if you are receiving cereal one at a time: but with distribution centers and things like that, it is rarely the case.

It is likely, if you are ordering one box of cereal, that it is packed in a box with other things and that you get the box with your normal delivery. Heck, with this model, even getting two lawn mowers along with the shipment doesn't change the pricing all that much.

You basically have the same shipping for all 8 boxes of cereal on your shelf.

It is much more true when you ship to consumers - the cost is nearly double if you are sending the 2 boxes to 2 customers. Gotta have separate boxes with 2 labels, because they are going to two houses.
The referendum gave the What. Parliament would give the How and When.
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> I have a huge backlog in my Steam/Origin libraries.

5 years ago I would have played most of the games I had unfinished in my library. But my tastes in everything, especially games, have changed so much that I wouldn’t want to touch 90% of the games in my account…
Raspberry Pi has one big flaw as a mobile device: it cannot sleep. If you disable peripherals etc you can get it down to ~100 mA or so when idling, which is still order of magnitude more than a real sleep mode.
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As the referendum was only advisory in the first place, what the threshold would actually means?
> This has increased since the vote as the lies of the remain campaign proved not to be true.

Just curious as an outsider, what lies are those?
Isn't it a well known fact for everyone by now that leaving the EU would have dire consequences to England? Losing the shared market access, researchers not being allowed into shared EU projects, the European Stock Exchange moving from London OR London leaving the UK, Scotland leaving the UK, maybe even N. Ireland leaving as well to unify the island (erin go bragh by the way!). How would it be in the interest for anyone to go on chasing this rabid dog that is Brexit?
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Parliament can indeed do that, but it would require either the consent of the House of Lords or the application of the Parliament Acts (which is a multi-year process).

My suspicion is that the Lords (where the government has no in-built majority) would vote down the new Act on the basis that it was an abuse of process.

The backup option is a German-style 'technical' declaration of no-confidence, where the Prime Minister whips their MPs to vote no-confidence in the government for the express purpose of triggering the Fixed Term Parliament Act's clause. This would be effective, but would have a (relatively small) political cost in public perception.
Not sure if the majority of the population likes the outcome either. Promises were broken, lies were told, facts came out.
I can't believe the UK government allowed this to happen. They went ahead with the referendum without ever explaining what Leave means.

They should have drafted the Leave plan first, with very specific dates, and have people vote on that. "Do you want Britain to invoke Article 50 by 31 Dec 2016?"

That would have been the responsible thing to do. (If anyone argues that you can't have a referendum on such a specifically worded question -- well, if the
electorate doesn't understand even the basics, is it a good idea to have a referendum in the first place?)

Cameron must be one of the least competent political leaders of our time. Maybe the Venezuelan ruling party could hire him as a consultant.
> Ultimately a clear majority of the UK population is in favor of leave. This has increased since the vote as the lies of the remain campaign proved not to be true.

I would argue that the opposite is true.
Very similar to my style, though I rarely use <> and instead mostly use !=

Never realized I could do tuple compare and will probably adopt that.
There's fear of poaching because the tech industry is so incredibly bad at giving raises. People are forced to change jobs to get what they're worth after just a few years.

Some companies are smarter than this, but most are not, from what I've seen. So yeah, they're going to worry about poaching because they know they aren't doing what's really needed to keep people.
It does, but it also goes though cloudflare as far as I know (which does caching).
You're already anticipating a "remain" vote by parliament.

That's not on the table, so far. Parliament wants to be involved, not necessarily kill Brexit.

You can come back with that argument if and when Parliament actually tries to stop Brexit.
You're confusing democracy with populism and idiocy.
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> This has increased since the vote

Source? Not being facetious, genuinely interested if there's evidence of this.
Or become party leader, as in the case of Jeremy Corbyn who defied the labour whip over 500 times.
In the US, hardly any software companies offer less than 3 weeks vacation to new employees. I've never heard of 2 weeks.
That depends on how binding the referendum is. (It is not some sort of universal truth that a referendum has to be some sort of absolute thing that has to be followed.)

I would guess it also depends on how detailed and clear the referendum is.

Just imagine the following situation: There is a referendum on a carbon tax that wins a majority. The referendum itself doesn’t give any further details beyond the question “Do you want a carbon tax?”

Does this hypothetical vote give the executive the complete authority to create a carbon tax, including all the myriad (unanswered by the referendum) policy decisions that would have to be answered when implementing such a tax?

One sentence obviously does not make a tax and with a carbon tax you would probably have to write a book to arrive at something useful and implementable.

Why does the executive get all this power and the legislative gets none of that power?

In fact, creating (not really creating, but I wanted to avoid writing “legislating”, which would, however, be the more appropriate word here) a carbon tax (including all the detail questions concerning its exact implementation you have to answer when doing that) is more of a legislative task, anyway! The executive isn’t even supposed to do things like that.

So what gives the executive that kind of power and the legislative none of that power? Why should that be the case after a referendum?

I know that invoking Article 50 is not the same as a carbon tax and I know that’s a more complex process (without a referendum I would expect both the legislative and the executive to be heavily involved in such a process), but I just wanted to give a clear-cut example illustrating the problem.

All this, by the way, comes back to a fundamental issue with all referenda. The executive could just as well ignore the referendum. That’s undisputed. So you can’t really use the argument that parliament could vote against leaving. The executive could just as well decide against leaving.

The issue here is more about who gets what power when making decisions – and why the executive or the legislative should get what kind of power and when.
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Theoretically, yes. That's sort of like saying the British army ultimately answers to the Queen so the Queen could run the country as a dictatorship if she wanted to. It's not an argument rooted in the real world though. Queenie would be gone tomorrow if she tried that.

The vast majority of the British voters do not like the EU. Most voted out and of those who voted remain, about half were motivated by simple fear of economic consequences like higher prices rather than any actual support for the project. Given that the EU wants the UK out ASAP without any kind of concessions at all, the people who want a "soft brexit" (whatever that means) are likely to be disappointed as such an option will not be on the table at all.

If MPs attempt to ignore or roll back the referendum in the face of an EU that's already committed to screwing the UK, Farage will return to UKIP and UKIP will absolutely slaughter the other parties. It'll still happen, it'll just take longer.