skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One issue that bit me pretty badly wrt comments is either Perl's DBI or the ODBC layer, but when talking to SQL Server from a Perl script via ODBC, I had to remove all comments from a rather convoluted SQL query.

I ended up keeping the comments in my source code and removing them via a regex at runtime, but it took me quite a while to figure out why my Perl script failed with a query that ran perfectly when copied and pasted into SSMS.
> the pursuit of taxing specific behaviors is supposed to only be used to fund things caused by that behavior

At least in Germany that's not the case. State income from taxes is not earmarked. Other fees like the mandatory television licence might be.
> That's just how democracies work

Our democracy is a parliamentary democracy in which Parliament is supreme. We elect representatives so that they can make the decisions for us.

Any referendum is really just advisory.
Well said. It's why I have no respect for people who work in the porn industry, however successful they may be.
> this is akin to Trump receiving a 52% majority by US voters (yes, 52% is still a majority, no matter how thin), and then the Electoral College deciding to vote amongst themselves instead about who becomes President: of course it would be Clinton

It's more like Americans voting in a referendum that a trade agreement with Canada should be scrapped in favour of something new, and then the Supreme Court ruling that the date of departure and negotiation objectives are set by Congress debating and voting and not by the House Majority Leader exercising prerogative powers.
And only 26% voted to remain, out of all of them...
This is the case in the United States.

Maybe there are some exceptions, but elections are generally run by each county, with county officials supervising citizen volunteers. Citizens are also able to inspect the equipment and process.
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Yup. One of the reasons why referenda are such a bad idea in the UK is that every single one has been run with different rules, usually for the purpose of putting a thumb on the scale. The Brexit referendum excluded resident EU nationals - who are allowed to vote in Parliamentary elections.
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I while back I wrote a crappy SQL mapper that has an interesting SQL template language that uses SQL comments to make Jdbc place holders: https://github.com/agentgt/jirm/blob/master/jirm-core/README...

One of the interesting side effects of using the parser was easier to read SQL.
What is it about org-mode that you find attractive? For me org-mode is inseparable from emacs. I find it hard to imagine what you'd be looking for in another editor and how it would work.

You can write an org file manually using any editor. Org-mode just provides a lot of tools to make this easier and more efficient. How would these tools look in another environment? Lots of GUI buttons?
Hi guys, I've recently made a heave review of our domain name suggestion engine with 5218 hand crafted prefixes and 6281 postfixes. It's easy to fall in love with your own baby so if you have a minute to review what you think of the suggestions and areas of improvements I'd be very grateful, thank you!
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I would say moderate oligarchies. 'Oligarchy' sounds negative, but it is not always bad.
It truly depends with me. I'd rather have music than a bunch of things shuffling in the background - studying in the library as a kid was just torture. I'd hear folks turning pages and dropping things and any murmur people did. And it was just absolutely horrible. I'd lose my place reading and stuff like that.

Quiet class time was the same. This has decreased a little with age: Yet it comes back just the same while meditating or doing some other tasks. Sometimes it is nearly painful.

Yet I find actual quiet - the type I get at night when the neighborhood is sleeping - quite wonderful at times.
These are all lies told by the leave campaign, not the remain campaign?
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Let's be clear here, you need to do that for potential candidates far before the interview.

Otherwise you'd be choosing less confident candidates simply because they are female, that's sexism and unfair to those who aren't being prejudged as low confidence. If you need confident people who can still work after facing "rejection" you'd also be hobbling your organisation.

If I'm a low confidence male then your system is going to stack heavily against me because of my sex.
Source?

Edit: The study linked above [0] showed the following for voter regret (specifically "do you have doubts about the way you voted?"):

Remain

Yes / No / Don't Know

98% / 1% / 1%

Leave

Yes / No / Don't Know

90% / 6% / 4%

[0]: http://www.britishelectionstudy.com/bes-resources/brexit-bri...
For anyone looking to quit smoking I can't recommend e-cigarettes enough. As a very passionate former smoker I got off the habit pretty much accidentally and without even trying in a timeframe of about half a year. And it actually started with the intend to find a cheaper alternative to expensive cigarettes without any desire to quit.

The key is to steadily reduce the amount of nicotine in the liquid you're using. Once you aren't using nicotine any longer all that is left is the social ritual and habit of going out for a smoke, which isn't a very convincing reason after a while. Soon you'll forgot to take your e-cigarette with you one day - you'll use it less and less. Until it simply doesn't matter any longer.
I'm very curious about Fpga applications. Can you share any details? (Company name, target application, verilog vs vhdl, etc.)
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Agreed wrt. the permissions gate. I wish more web APIs used these. I think there's an argument going around that these things are bad UX because they train the user to ignore prompts and just accept anything and everything so they can use the app, but at least on Android, it seems like users actually take notice of permissions (and complain about excessive permissions in Play Store reviews.) Keeping users aware of exactly what data is being leaked about them can only be a good thing. Bonus points if the API returns fake data until the user accepts the permission and there's no way for the app to tell if the data is real or not, so it can't force the user into accepting permissions they're not comfortable with.
Isn't the current Swiss controversy just a simple case of Switzerland abrogating the treaty? Switzerland and the EU member states signed a treaty agreeing that Switzerland would be given access to the common market, on the same footing as if it were an EU member, in return for following the EU's common product labeling/regulation, and allowing free movement of labor between all signatories of the treaty. Then, recently, the Swiss voted in a referendum to curtail the free movement of labor. That's their right to do, but it means they're no longer honoring the treaty, so naturally they can't expect the other side to continue honoring it either.
You didn't read my statement. Of those who voted, 52% obviously didn't like the EU. Of those who voted remain, about 45-50% have told pollsters they did so purely out of fear of economic consequences.

That is not "liking" the EU anymore than paying the Mafia to make them go away instead of fighting them makes you a fan of the Mafia. If the EU had committed before the referendum to striking a good trade deal with an out UK, continuing cooperation in areas where it was possible etc, then most likely leave would have won by around 80%. Which is why the EU didn't do that.

The polls are quite clear on this point. The EU has very little real support in Britain, defined as people who actually like the idea and want it to be extended further. It seems only about 20-25% of the population can be called real federalists. But basically all the EU leaders are.
Reread what I said and note that I didn't say you were definitely wrong, only that it's inconsistent to treat two anecdotal accounts in completely opposite ways. I'm entirely comfortable accepting that what you wrote is what you honestly believe but you're trying to argue that your limited personal experience represents an entire field so completely that everyone who says otherwise is either confused or lying.

If you want to convince anyone, post some actual data or peer-reviewed analysis. Otherwise it's just a question of whether this is garden variety argument from authority or some sort of stronger argument from Dunning-Kruger version.
Are they? I thought they could only vote in local authority and European elections.

Parliamentary is only British and commonwealth citizens.
Well one needs to become the output, so if you only have immutable data structures it's afaik impossible.
These are beautiful.

If you're interested in these you might also be interested in the book "Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty":

http://www.worldcat.org/title/computers-pattern-chaos-and-be...
Eventually React will fall out of fashion like every other framework before it, and teams that went all-in on it will have to do a painful rewrite.

Or they could just keep using what works? React's surface area (compared to something like Angular or Ember) is so small, it's not obvious to me why you'd want to do a rewrite just because it "fell out of fashion".
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For lecture notes/papers/website documents, a system of Pandoc and scripts does all that I need (usually Pandoc is sufficient). For my calendar, first I moved to the system that came with my email, then eventually to a small script I wrote so I could have things the way I like.
David Cameron is really the architect of this clusterfuck. The referendum legislation should've made it clear what needed to happen.

May's position is that the PM can wake up one day and decide to irrevocably and unilaterally leave the EU. That's a ridiculous position. You can argue there was a referendum but it was non-binding.

MPs from Scotland and Northern Ireland will oppose leaving as their constituents vote overwhelmingly to remain so much so that many in Scotland want to revisit the question of independence.

The leave vote was a proxy for two issues: first and foremost was immigration. The second is control of territorial waters and the resulting overfishing.

On immigration, there is no access to the single market without freedom of EU has made that clear. That will mean paying into the EU coffers too but without any voting rights. So the alternatives are both terrible (for the U.K.).

The U.K. while in the EU can and has extracted concessions on the threat of leaving. This is the best position for them. After pulling the trigger the UK has far less leverage. The EU does want access to the U.K. market but I think the U.K. needs the EU more than the EU needs the U.K.

Hopefully this decision is upheld but even the delay is good. Maybe cooler heads will prevail. An uninformed 52% fueled by a Leave campaign making a bunch of promises they cannot keep and had no intention of delivering upon (since they expected to lose) is hardly a clear mandate.
Yes, it started around the time when Google put the tag "beta" on all of their products.
Persona was a great service. Such a shame.
Since when have party manifestos been used to hold political parties to account?
Yes, another classic case of "ease of use" vs "ease of learning". It's easy to conflate the terms (and most people usually mean "ease of learning" when they say "ease of use").

I'm with you, though. I wouldn't call it simple, but man is it easy to use.
Really?

That explains a lot about you: although mostly your preference for strong typing. Working for a phone company will do that for you.
If you join a year after the company starts, you're probably not a cofounder.
It is common for big corps. Here in Bavaria some employers give you only 27 days of holiday because we have 3 more days of christian holidays. In the car industry you have additionally only a 35-38 hour work week.

Biased subjective opinion: no sane person having any other option would work for a start-up. Therefore the start-up employees have worse conditions. My ex-GF had 24 holidays and a 40+8 hour work week (+8 hours for unpaid overtime if necessary).
Yeah, but it costs 100 euros extra.
6% of leave voters have changed their mind, compared to just 1% of remain voters:

http://www.britishelectionstudy.com/bes-resources/brexit-bri...
The point of retaining the option for Parliament to veto Article 50 being invoked on a specific date is to ensure the MP for Maidenhead actually has to get their consent for the approach she chooses.
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My suggestion is, if you're wondering whether the LRNG has been competently audited, that you ask someone in a position to know. There are lots of those people.
just imagining the perks and benefits, free high quality porn for all employees!

joking aside, you never hear about porn companies hiring, how did you get in?
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A slow paced serial killer is safer than a fast paced serial killer.
You can't have a plan without negotiations happening.
> You could dismiss pretty much any election by multiplying the "yes" votes with voter turnout to get less than 50%.

Not in Australia. Here we have compulsory voting, and referendums have to have a double majority in order to pass (so there's no question about whether the majority of the people actually wanted the change).

So multiplying by voter turnout would not meaningfully change the results (voter turnout is >95%). Maybe more countries should adopt mandatory voting...
I guess there is also anxiety involved: if you actually start to build something, there's a big chance you will run into at least some problems. "Playing startup" is a good way to avoid those problems.
I for one. I voted remain, but having actually gone partly down the brexit path, would be comfortable with it now.

The treatment of leavers by remainers has been frankly disgusting. Accusing them of being racists, stupid, and various other things. Brexit has made them lose their minds. They simply refuse to believe their are people who would vote brexit for reasons other racism. I know many people who voted for brexit on informed reasons, that have nothing to do with racism.
If "joins" are operators like "and", and you put "and" at the end of the line, shouldn't you put "join" at the end too?

from
table1 t1 join
table2 t2 on t1.col2 = t2.col1 join
table3 t3 on
t1.col3 = t3.col1 and
t3.col2 = something_else
I have no problem with taxes on harmful products like tobacco and alcohol since they are a harm to society and a burden on society.
Who are you blaming exactly when you say that "EU refused"? What should this other party have done -- written a Leave plan when the UK government wouldn't do it?

The referendum was a matter between the UK electorate and their government. Other EU states played no part in that.

The Treaty of Lisbon specifically offers a way for a member state to withdraw in the timespan of two years. Not sure how you read that as "irreversible".
The main ones were "I will trigger Article 50 the very next day" from David Cameron and George Osborne's threatened "punishment budget" where he tried to directly threaten the public into compliance by basically telling them he was going to take all their money.

There were also an awful lot of predictions of total, immediate economic armageddon. Up to and including telling us that the very fact we were having a vote was harming the economy massively.
Hoisting a comment of mine from a previous thread:

The UK has never been through a "year zero" forcible reconstitution, so its constitutional and administrative arrangements are full of little adhoc anomalies (the various islands like Sark and Man, the City, "County" Durham, chancel repair liability, and so on). Mostly these are a fine and picturesque addition to the texture of the nation. There's certainly no real appetite to "fix" things, although Scotland managed to abolish the feudal system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_Feudal_Tenure_etc...)

However, this means that the sort of internal tensions which in the US get nailed to the mast of the constitution instead float around, un-crystallized. Until now, when the "brexit" vote has triggered a cascade of constitutional crises: is parliamentary consent required to leave the EU? How does this affect the Good Friday Agreement? What about Scotland? What exactly is the constitutional status of the Human Rights Act and why do the conservatives keep trying to abolish it? And so on.

Right now the fight is about "sovereignty", but everyone seems to be operating with a sixteenth-century Henry VIII view where sovereignty must be absolute and means getting to do whatever you want. People keep talking about trade deals without realising that they also involve a compromise in arbitrariness, especially when things like ISDS are involved. Pretty much any international agreement involves the governments binding their hands and refraining from doing certain things (e.g. preferential subsidies) in exchange for the counterparty also accepting the same restriction.

There seem to be a lot of people who simply cannot handle the idea that other countries are free to not go along with what Britain wants if it's not also in their interests. Compromise lacks the stirring power of "sovereignty", but it's necessary if you want to get on in the global economy.
The express is so low on quality that it doesn't even feature in most mainstream discussion.
A pro-eu party may do very well in any such election, possibly unseating many Tories. I don't think May will be foolish enough though: she has a parliamentary majority to force brexit through regardless of the new requirement.

(If she does, I'll be standing in it by the way, because my party has already allocated candidates to seats for any snap election).
Before switching to ecigs, I tried to quit with gums, nicotine patches, and herbal cigarettes. They did nothing for me (to be fair, the first time I tried ecigs, the crappy 2009 models, they didn't help either).
When will they come up for review? I want to know when the cut off is for placing orders at the current rates.
> now you lose your shit when the kid at Mcdonalds messes up your order because he upset your calm

second time you described a situation like this as if it's perfectly normal behaviour. it's not. and it's got nothing to do with meditation either.

is this yourself? or do you witness this sort of scene frequently?

you realize that if you say "well they probably have a lot on their plate, so they lose their shit at the tiniest slight", this makes you part of the problem right?

because, and it feels a little silly explaining to a person over the age of 12, but verbally abusing someone, be it in a shop or anywhere else, is never appropriate or acceptable, no matter where they put your olives, and no I don't care who started it.

> this is what the Buddha intended

the nice thing about not fully buying into Buddhism and still practising meditation is that you don't have to place any extra importance to what scholars say that some guy may or may not have said or intended thousands of years ago.
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Your response is typical of why the EU will eventually collapse in a messy way that will likely make all of Europe poorer. It is simply re-running the story of the USSR in a less extreme way. EU supporters even think of themselves as being "anti-fascist", language identical to what the Bolesheviks used in the 30's and 40's.

I absolutely understand that the EU can simply "refuse to play" and that's what I expect them to do. See my comments elsewhere. The EU is held together by fear and needs to make itself a sworn enemy of any country that wants to get out. It's an unstable strategy and it will eventually cause serious chaos, especially when the Euro falls apart. If the EU was willing to undergo massive reform and change itself, the transition could be orderly and yield minimal or even positive economic impact. It never will, so Europe is gonna have a very troubled next few decades.
The tobacco companies are adept at adapting to the market. I would suspect they all either have e-cig products out or are in the process of doing so. As far as taxes, the US has one of the most progressive tax schemes in the world and income is not a major wealth point for many Americans (though it does beget a ton of jealousy)

Not to go too far off track. The real tax on the poor isn't cigarettes, for the poor and stupid its lottery tickets. The real tax on the poor are the vast amount of licensing and related fees that they cannot escape. It is distressing how many lower income jobs have ridiculous fees attached let alone the costs of doing business with every day government interaction. Then throw in all the fees of everyday life and boom, your hurting.
It's funny how both sides insist that, as the last few months have proven them right, attitudes have obviously changed to favour their side.
That the meaning of "Leave" was left so vague was with hindsight reckless. It allowed the leave campaign to bring together all the various differing factions as they could all believe it meant what they wanted it to mean. I can only assume the government was so confident it would win that it went for an option that gave the best soundbite and best opportunity to shut up the euro skeptics in the Conservative party.
270 electoral college votes are required to win the election, which is why the graphs changes color. If no candidate wins at least 270, Congress chooses, I believe. 538 is currently giving the chances of no candidate hitting 270 at 1.4%[1].

The y-axis is the probability of that particular outcome (or range of outcomes?) occurring.

[1] http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/?...
Around KDE 5 first releases I had a thing for it. But I had what resembles javascript fatigue. The KDE world was too much of a moving target; also, but that's on me, I was fed up with DEs, except for the basics GUI (think OS2, Win3/95) I felt they provided no value over emacs, so that's what I ended up with wmii,emacs,chrome.
Current betting suggests 60% chance of article 50 triggered Jan - July 2017, 39% not triggered before July 2017, and 1% during 2016.

Although the betting wasn't a great guide to the original brexit outcome, so you have to wonder about trusting it...
This kind of argument only makes sense if there's a reason to think the people who didn't vote would be significantly different to the people who did.

For instance you say only 37.5% of them voted to leave. That means you'd have to find fewer than 12.5% of the 27.8% who'd agree with them, basically 45% of the non-voters.

So you need some sort of explanation of why a selection of the population, which is a lot of people, came out 52-48, while the non-voters would have come out 45-55.

Without such an explanation, you'd have to think the law of large numbers would suggest that people who didn't vote were pretty much the same as the ones who did.
This is factually incorrect. As a parliamentary democracy we voted for all the governments that agreed to all such treaties and had the right to veto or reject any of them (which we did, the Schengen or euro treaties being examples thereof).
>For the Americans out there, this is akin to Trump receiving a 52% majority by US voters (yes, 52% is still a majority, no matter how thin), and then the Electoral College deciding to vote amongst themselves instead about who becomes President: of course it would be Clinton.

Um, not really. It means that we are applying the law, not meddling... The prime minister doesn't get to decide what she wants to do regardless of whether it can pass in the commons, and an advisory referendum is certainly not legally binding.