skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Latest polls have Yes on 49%.

The First Minister needs a big swing in the polls to Yes somewhere in the 6X% to get this to pass.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/13/scottish-in...
I would love to see some examples on the process, e.g. how much you pre-interacted on Social Media before sending your mail. But also a few sample messages you sent. Even if they were for imaginary adressants.
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He lives in Sweden. Of course it always can be something else, but I think he is in a better position to judge that than you, since he lives in the system that has that policy.

Unless you have a good reason to think otherwise, why not just believe him?
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We have the technology to prevent it. Its not an "unstoppable genetic super-weapon".
https://phys.org/news/2016-12-anti-crispr-gene.html
Less so if you assume the cryptographic hash will be truncated to 32bits so that its size matches crc32c. Furthermore, some of those collisions will be on message pairs with small hamming distance, probably including messages with a single bit flipped which CRC will always detect.
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They underestimated the No vote last time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_Scotti...
I would love to use Synchthing but Bit Torrent Sync, now known as Resilio Sync, works behind firewalls so much better. Hope to one day come back to syncthing.
And it looks like two of the last really big tipping stones are being addressed:

1) Advanced NAT traversal via UDP, which is is less efficient than TCP, but orders of magnitude better than relying on relays. More about this here: https://kastelo.net/2017/03/08/syncthing-kcp.html

2) Internal filesystem notification watch facility for near realtime sync (currently possible via an external service -> syncthing-inotify). For more see pull request https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/3986

The future looks bright!

Addendum: Have a look at the community forum https://forum.syncthing.net
I had expected them to wait until 2019 given that's the probable date for the next general election. I think they might be timing this to coincide with Article 70 notification this week. Apart from people's fears about what that will mean, there's a chance of adverse reactions from the markets and business which might focus Scots' minds on what could happen.

They're definitely not bluffing. Clue's in the name.
You've seen linear encoders in mouse/stepper motors..how about Absolute Encoder
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Security wise there is a difference. This difference don't matter to the average person. I don't reuse passwords, so I don't need this protection.
You can find similar stories in other publications, and in other countries:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/12/22/teachers-who-s...

http://www.sgvtribune.com/general-news/20120328/union-threat...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/02/unite-union...

You are simply wrong - the union is obligated to do their best to protect the jobs/rights of their members. That includes union members accused of sexual harassment.
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Perhaps not Christianity as practised by literalists and derided by militant atheists.

But it’s perfectly compatible with forms of Christianity that have always been widely observed, which are far more symbolic and metaphoric, and primarily focused on maintaining inner strength and compassion, similar to Buddhism or Taoism.

Jordan Peterson (University of Toronto Psychology Professor) is someone worth following for deep insights on this topic.
I live in a dense little pre-zoing code neighborhood full of tiny lots and no setbacks. I don't have a problem with people like you preferring big lots and setbacks. I have a huge problem with the fact that people like you have made neighborhoods like mine illegal.
It needs them .. to keep all those programmers busy.
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Syncthing works fine behind and through firewalls. Which year did you last use it?
The "Project Fear" approach was used successfully in the 2014 referendum and then failed in 2016 because very smart political strategists such as Dominic Cummings worked out how to counter it.

Given that the approach used to achieve the Brexit vote has been documented in great detail I wonder how we'll see them applied in this new referendum?
But we're not talking about a monopoly here. For example for cloud hosting, it's competition between Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OVH, and perhaps a few more "big" players.

Like in many technology fields, you have high fixed costs that are distributed over all of your customers, and economies of scale. It is much cheaper for Google to add 10 000 new servers to their datacentres, compared to starting up a new hosting company, building small datacentres on five continents, and rewriting all the software that Google Cloud offers on top of servers.

So seems plausible that a highly concentrated industry with a few big companies each having >10% market share is more efficient (and can offer lower prices) than a market with thousands of small artisanal hosting companies with <0.1% market share.
If everyone "browsed" the web the RMS way, there would be an actual market for RMS-browsing products and services.
Literally align them -- whenever you make up a to do list, place it under one of your long-term goals. That way, every time you are doing something, you are working towards one of your goals. And if you find yourself putting together lists that do not fit one of your goals, it is a red flag to yourself that you are not aligned.
Those people need to be lashed.
We have this retoric in Denmark in the current political climate. It only works to a certain degree, but the liberals have this wet dream where everybody becomes contributing citizens if we just take away everything and threathen their existens. It just doesn't work that way for everybody.
syncthing honestly is one of the best pieces of software i use. It manages a fairly often changing music library, a lossy copy of it, and my phones photos really handily all on a raspberry pi 1. One of my favourite programs i use daily.
Come up with an alternative that's better and I'll happily support it. The problem is that too many people are comparing the current system -- taxes to fund governments -- with a nonexistent utopia.
I agree that you can't simply capture a bomb then detonate it; there are many ways to prevent that from happening.

I assume the threat model people are worried about is the plot of Tom Clancy's 'The Sum of All Fears' [1] wherein a damaged nuclear bomb is captured by terrorists who can't enrich uranium themselves, but can replace the firing mechanisms once they have the fissile material.

And of course, a group that might be able to replace the firing mechanism would be able to engage in nuclear blackmail even if their replacement didn't work so long as nobody called their bluff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sum_of_All_Fears_(novel)
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You may be right, but keep in mind that the SNP managed to take 58 out of 59 possible seats in a recent election. Calling the bluff of someone who can campaign to a result as good as that... hm...
> So you're saying only rich people should get taxi rides?

I do agree with that, best if middle class people use public transport (or worse, their own car).

> I thought Sweden supported the poor more.

It has nothing to do with support of the poor. In India, taxis are incredibly cheap, and there is no shortage of poor people. Poor people can drive buses and trams, too, you know.

> Also, you're aware that when the minimum wage is too high, it just means there will be more unemployment

No, it doesn't. It was never empirically proven that there is a connection between minimum wage and unemployment. (You are simplifying the whole economy to the labor market, but there is also demand side.)
Right. This disinformation campaign gathered steam in the 1970s. The Powell Memorandum is a decent marker of the beginning of this modern corporate political movement.

Here's a place to start reading. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/how-cor...
I think when the Brexit deal is clearer the swing will effectively be an Scotland's approval rating of the deal.
I have been a happy user of syncthing, it is brilliant Piece of software, I no longer have to run around looking for data cable, I just open my laptop, and it syncs the complete file system!
I find this sort of conspiratorial meta complaint boring and (IMHO) off topic. I didn't flag it, but I'd understand if others did.
I'm glad we are in agreement - unions will attempt to protect the job/rights of the accused harasser. Hence my comment that I'd be very happy to have a union rep if I wanted to harass people.
OK so what should have they used instead?
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Could be worse than that, at least from the viewpoint of the Conservative and Unionist Party, to give them their full (and oft-forgot) name:

> "For the first time in my life, the prospect of a united Ireland is not only credible but inevitable"

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/northern-ireland-stormon...
While he might make a few usable points, this article is drenched in non-recognized bias.
He takes his (as I see it, heavily bottom-up leaning -> 'in order to grok it I have to essentially rewrite it.') cognitive style and applies it as universal.
Maybe they are bluffing in the sense that their request will almost certainly be denied at this point, and it may very well be they are banking on that.

I certainly think there is a sense that to get a poll on a timeline they want, they need to start pushing now, because they know they can expect resistance.
I think you mean Article 50
Google is a technology company that sells ads. Amazon is a technology company that sells goods. It's not what you have, it's what you are.

The future isn't bright for companies that just "have" technology.
Well, they're obligated to prevent the accuser from losing their job from making the accusation. The accuser probably wants more than that, however. My understanding is that in many countries other than the US unions are legally allowed to do the sort of self-policing of their members that would help in this case. The law exists because historically many non-socialist unions in the US formed part of the bulwark of segregation and had to be prevented from finding ways to kick non-white members out.
> It is too easy (and satisfying) to prioritise 10 small urgent tasks, complete and check them off, and feel productive

Very true! I avoided this by doing all the unimportant tasks I could as early as possible, or by ruthless prioritisation (since the person I'm cheating by focusing on busywork is me).

If you have a constant stream of urgent tasks always pushing down the important tasks, you have a workload problem & need to address that first (i.e. by hiring an assistant or reducing your obligations).
Brilliant piece of software. Perfect to gather data from different devices to backup in the cloud or to sync documents or a massive music collection.

The only thing missing is an encrypted external sync node so I can put it on a VPS somewhere
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Note that that's before the official start of campaigning. During the last campaign it went from something like 35% to 48%, partly due to how godawful the Unionist campaign was.

I don't even know who they might get to do the No campaign who has any credibility in Scotland. The most sensible option is probably Ruth Davidson, so the most likely choice is someone like Blair McDougall. Labour will probably have to spend all their time trying to avoid letting Jeremy Corbyn say anything on the subject.
Facebook with Whats App has the strongest penetration in developing countries of all companies listed. Many of these places have large, young populations. I would be curious to know how many people exist in Facebook DBs but not the DBs of their own government. This is where I see Facebook value.
Posting on a social news site is a privilege, not a right. I've had stuff removed from Reddit and a few from Hacker News that got flagged after going on the front page...I've had stories on Reddit that got many upvotes and still removed just as it was going viral because the mods didn't like it...it's just the way it goes. It def. can seem unfair at times. No question about it.
With the legal issues they have had with Oracle, I'm surprised they didn't move on from the JVM/Java much earlier.
It seems to me that it's healthy if we as a community are able to discuss issues with how the community is policed. Some may find it boring, but I'd argue that it's useful.
>So?

So, there's a huge lesson when an organization starts blaming every one else for scale problems; if everywhere you go there are issues, it's you.
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Nobody said dead.
The approach used to achieve the Brexit vote was to lie about everything and to write off rational reality-based objections as "Project Fear."

Unfortunately in international politics, winning a vote at home doesn't translate to a winning move internationally.

The huge disconnect between how Brexiters think the world works and how the world really works isn't subject to a popular vote or to media spin. It is going to cause the UK - well, England - catastrophic problems over the coming decade.
Well speaking Java 8, this java to html library is clean, mean and tight: https://j2html.com
> Ok. That's a weird detail to bother hipsterbragging about.

> "Successful people have better things to do than arguing on reddit/hn"
Intel has made acquisitions of almost $40 billion in the past couple of years. It will be interesting to see if they can make this money back as competition becomes more fierce in the PC and server markets because of AMD and Qualcomm.
David Allen's getting things done hands down. You don't even need to read the book to implement it, although it's a great read. here's the 15-minute summary that will get you going right now - https://hamberg.no/gtd/ - I have used Trello to implement it - here's a screenshot. http://i.imgur.com/dbH8yGq.png

specifically answering your question - this framework makes you regularly review your task list and ensures that you have a quantifiable next action for every large scale (1-year project) that you can do to reach your final goal.
Yes, probably 2020 on the election too, but there was some talk of a referendum in 2019. Will not edit ... Article 50 possibly as early as tomorrow.
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It's just like the "Japan has no housing regulations and it's better". It's not; the homes are small, cheaply made and over priced compared to anything in the west!

The only places where housing is priced at a sensible level are those countries that the government build high quality local housing that the market has to produce better housing than to compete.
The system that works well for me is to think (as in really think, focused and uninterrupted) every morning and decide what I should be working on today. Dedicate 10 minutes to this before I head out to work and get distracted by the emergencies of the day.

This, for me, greatly helps aligning daily work with long term goals. I can still get sidetracked, but usually not too much. YMMV.
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I agree. Google's removal of the discussions filter was a big blow to the openness of the web. There are some hacky solutions that emulate that feature but it is not as good. I was hoping Bing might pick up on it and introduce similar features, but it looks like their ad sponsors are just not happy with people having instant access to uncensored and unmoderated product discussions and reviews.
And it only needs to be average, or approaching average, in your niche. There's a lot of truly awful enterprise software out there, and it gets sold on promises of features and support, not quality.

I wish software engineering had the barriers and requirements of other engineering fields. I deal with industrial control systems, and we have the national electric code, UL, CE, NFPA 79, etc. With all that you can still make a machine that doesn't work well, but at least it's going to conform to certain conventions to make installation and maintenance easier, it will have a robust safety system, and it will be well-documented. Most fields of software engineering have no such minimum standards.
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You're right. Calling a second referendum is the best way to apply pressure on the UK government.

If the terms are unfavourable to Scotland, they will likely leave the union.
The site is being crushed by traffic right now -- but without reading the article, I've also found that some stories that I thought were important that were scrubbed from HN's front page just about as soon as I saw it (when I doubled back to read the comments)...

While I realize I'm not entitled to explanations, some transparency would be appreciated. Maybe it could even be automatic, whenever a mod removed something forcibly from front, they could leave a comment and it'd show up on some page?

[EDIT] - After reading the article, if a mod did indeed take down the post because it discussed reverse engineering the rank algorithm, I think that's pretty naive. Security through obscurity isn't a thing, and the better response is just to make a better algorithm, not try and suppress knowledge about it.

I say this naively myself, as I've never had to maintain a ranking algorithm with these many users who depend on it (or any at all for that matter), but surely the problem isn't intractable?
I can only assume that Intel will axe some of the C-Suite and attempt to rekindle the flame with Tesla. Mobileye was functioning a bit too much like a traditional (and glacial) vendor in the automotive industry. Tesla wanted to develop and implemented quickly, while Mobileye became a bit too focus on the what-ifs.

The truth is, Tesla vehicles are safer than their counterparts in almost every situation imaginable. Mobileye screwed the pooch when they began issuing negative press releases that attempted to push all the responsibility and potential liability onto Tesla.

Intel is smarter than that. Intel has become fairly accustomed to implementing and following through with aggressive development and launch cycles.
This is no bluff, this is a real action. If you want a poker metaphor, this is a raise.

If anyone's bluffing in this environment, it has to be Theresa May; the Brexit plan is far less coherent than the plan for an independent Scotland, it's not clear what cards she might hold that have any value, and her ministers are briefing against her in the Times.
people were using tables in HTML for formatting instead of just expressing tabular data

Yep, and there are algorithms that try to distinguish between ‘data’ tables versus ‘layout’ tables for precisely that reason[1][2]. It’s unfortunate that they have to exist, but the web has routed around past mistakes.

Now people sometimes use divs to represent tabular data.

Yes, and that’s wrong and a simple fix. But regardless of whether some ill-informed people do that it’s still no worse than Gopher, and when they get it right it’s a lot better.

Regarding search, that’s great if you have exact keywords for what you’re looking for. Less good if you just want e.g. a list of headers on the page so that you can narrow in on the part that interests you.

[1] https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/accessible/ht...

[2] https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/WebKit/Sour...
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This is just perfect! So simple, so fast and can even sync to a Gist. Great job! I was looking for something like this for a long time.
That may be so, but it's useful for us to know whether/and what kind of things get removed.
This lines up with my understanding of the history as well.

And actually, I found an article on phys.org that says to the contrary[0]! I was surprised myself.

>Instead of burning methane (CH4), its molecular components, hydrogen (H2) and carbon (C), can be separated in a process called 'methane cracking'. This reaction occurs at high temperatures (750°C and above) and does not release any harmful emissions.

https://phys.org/news/2015-11-energy-fossil-fuel-carbon-diox...
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and you haven't read getting things done? https://hamberg.no/gtd/ even the book :)
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Uber drivers cannot choose their own pay rate, if that's what you mean. Recently, they've been unable to even choose if they want to accept Uber Pool rides (i.e. there's no indication when you're picking someone up if they're the first in an Uber Pool ride).
It looks like that's pretty much the intention:

> Speaking at her official Bute House residence in Edinburgh, Ms Sturgeon said the people of Scotland must be offered a choice between a "hard Brexit" and becoming an independent country.

Autumn 2018 - Spring 2019 also fits the two year negotiation timeline.

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Specifically, I wrote a program to search for single-bit-flip collisions in sha1 truncated to 16 bits. The program didn't need to search for long before finding two messages with the same 16-truncated sha1 with a single bit flip at bit 1 of byte 171 of a 256-byte message.
376 1 171 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

https://gist.github.com/jepler/96d1e779dc95b8941b208887e10a8...

On the other hand, any CRC will detect all such errors; a well-chosen one such as CRC32C will detect all messages with up to 5 bits flipped at this message size.

This is quite appropriate for the error model in data transmission, of uncorrelated bit errors. https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/networks/dsn02/dsn02_koop... is a pretty good paper, though there are probably better ones for readers without an existing background in how CRC works.
Like they ever would have gone away even if the vote was over 60% to remain. They'd have demanded a second referendum (and 3rd and 4th and 5th...) until they got the result they wanted.
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> whenever a mod removed something forcibly from front

Mods (as far as I know, I'm not one) never forcibly remove things from the front page. These are almost always the result of user flagging.
Polling 5 years ago was around the 30% mark. It's much closer to 50% today -- Scots are rapidly becoming in favour of Independence. Such kind of change takes place over years/decades rather than weeks/months

The last referendum -- the Scots voted to stay in partially to guarantee EU membership. This referendum will be fundamentally different as it means choosing between the EU and UK something the UK forced on Scotland.