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To confirm, I don't think there's any real belief in the party or the wider independence movement that Scotland would somehow 'inherit' the UK's EU membership. The idea seems to rather be along the lines of negotiating fast-track entry into the EU. It's possible that this won't happen, but on the other hand it's worth noting that Scotland is already subject to EU rules and compliance is a much less complex issue that for a country which is entirely outside the EU.
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You can set it to sync only on wifi and/or only when charging, which has always done the job for me. Depends on your use case, but things like password DBs need to be update-able from both directions, which rsync doesn't really do. On the other hand, I can rely on the fact that I don't need my home to be sync'd up unless I'm actually at home, on wifi.
But as you can see, no one in the discussion actively disagreed with anyone else. (No one flamed anyone.) It just wasn't very substantive and the reason it was buried.
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Yes, please publish this!

Additionally, if you're using WebVVT format subtitles, I'd be interested in merging that code into the appropriate SDK. They're all on GitHub if you'd like to send us a PR: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/ (I'm on the team that is responsible for these.)
> Analyzing a set of studies can reveal an average correlation between two variables that is statistically more precise than the result of any individual study.

I don't know what talent is. And just being good at something isn't it. If you have the opportunity to sit and watch a lot of different folks "get something", absolutely do it. Then talk to them about what just occurred. I have this hunch that talent is having the mental model and the physical world be sync such that any error in the mental model is instantly repaired. That the person undergoing talent, is literally doing multiple experiments in the moment with result times on the order of subsecond to minutes. They aren't pushing skills in as much as playing. Skills build on skills, dancers, athletes, musicians. We have all seen someone good in one thing instantly pickup another and decry, "oh they are so talented!" They applied 100% of what they already knew and added 1%. What they needed was already in their skill-dna.
The best way to manage output (since that comes up a lot in other comments) is to:

1. Figure out bottlenecks and fix them, they may be individual, they may be on level of way team operates. E.g. "our tests are slow", or "Jane knows C++ but Joe doesn't, so only Jane can do C++ code reviews when they come up."

2. Talk about the reasons you want stuff done. This gives the team the opportunity to figure out better solutions, rather than just being code monkeys writing a spec.

Focusing on hours is a mistake: you focus on the thing you can measure since it's easy, even if that reduces productivity. Micromanaging people's hours is not a good way to increase productivity.
It's fallacious if you use it merely as "Authority X said so," no matter whether the authority is true or false. A fallacy happens when the conclusions do not follow from the premises of an argument. E.g. it doesn't follow from the fact that "Al Gore says that Global Warming is happening," that Global Warming is happening.

If, on the other hand, you say "Al Gore said Global Warming is happening, Al Gore's argument is premise A and B, therefore C" that's not fallacious because your argument doesn't actually rest on the identity of the authority, but the argument they made.

But all of this is irrelevant because it's not an appeal to authority. It's an ad hominem. The author is being attacked for not-being-an-authority.
> If you write better code you will spend less time debugging, adding features and iterating in the future, and I would argue it takes less time to write better code once you're in the habit of it.

Yes, that's probably true. But you'll spend more time now. Sometimes that might be time you don't have.
Last I heard, Scotland would have to join the queue of applicants to be considered as a new EU member and no one in Brussels (definitely anti-nationalistic) wanted to encourage Scotland in this move. Spain would undoubtedly veto this given their strong stance against Catalan independence. They could be out in the cold.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/10/independent...
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Sunrise FL has revenues north of $300M and a $40M police budget, forfeiture isn't exactly keeping the city afloat. And they were seizing cash / property from people who actually attempted to buy drugs not random people.
Couldn't a speedy entry process be negotiated?

My guess though is that the EU won't be keen on the UK splitting up and thus won't encourage it by providing Scotland a quick ascension.

This is also a wonderful bargaining chip for the EU to play against Theresa May in negotiating the terms of the UK's exit.
Syncthing does redundancy by default, no? Just add a node.

But RAID and Syncthing aren't substitutes for backups, for the same reason: no restore if your data get hosed.
Unions are obligated to protect jobs. In this situation, the perpetrator's job is at stake, but the victim's job is not.
Yes, there were two bombs as the plane broke. One bomb, from its internal perspective, had a "fully normal drop": there was the switch that was triggered only once the bomb actually leaves the plane through the expected door -- it was activated as the plane broke exactly in a way that from the bomb perspective it simply wasn't an accident but "do it." On that bomb, the only switch that wasn't "on" was the one which a crew member was supposed to pull prior to the drop.

On the another bomb, from which point of view the dropping sequence was less "normal" (the breakup of the plane made less clear-cut case from the perspective of that one, so some internal components didn't activate) the same switch was discovered in the "on" position.

So it was really, really close call.

(A "small" curiosity: These bombs are two-stage bombs, one weaker nuclear explosion forces the next, one stronger. The "weaker one" part of one of the bombs, with its radioactive content that has enough material for a nuclear explosion is still there(!) deep in the ground.)
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At some time, the post with few upvotes (perhaps < 5 or something) had the rel="nofollow" attribute to discourage spammers to get a "follow" until the post was flagged. I'm not sure if that is still the current criteria or if they are using some additional signal to enable/disable the "nofollow" attribute.

Probably the mods don't want to disclose the complete criteria, because it may change constantly without warning. Try to send again an email again, but I guess you will get in the reply only a general idea of the system.

If you see something horribly misclassified, try sending an email to the mods.
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We have to put these tropes to rest, they are damaging to everyone.
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I doubt even the most "get it out the door" shop in the world would want code that flubs the arithmetic, so I'm having a hard time seeing the distinction you want to argue for.
Sort the array:

L = [7, 4, 6, 3, 9, 1]

-> L = [1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9]

Now L[k] = L[2] = 4.

The notation is potentially misleading, but consistent with this interpretation.

EDIT:

Ah, I was completely wrong.

List : [7, 4, 6, 3, 9, 1]
Index: 1 2 3 4 5 6

The smallest element is 1, the second smallest element is 3, the index of the second smallest element counting from 1 is 4.

This is deeply, deeply confusing. Badly expressed, and a very poor example.
Current thought within the SNP is moving towards building an economic case for independence which is not dependent on North Sea oil revenue. That reliance was seen as a weakness in the previous campaign, and there is awareness of that within the party.
I use vim style bindings but agree that vimmers tend to exaggerate about the benefits. I think it works fine and so does a mouse and it's a small impact in the grand scheme.

However, with regards to your example, things like easy motion/avy solve this exact problem, I think no slower than a mouse. You basically punch in one, two, or more characters at the place you want to jump (depending which package/command you call), and then every match on the screen is highlighted and replaced with a different letter. Then you press that letter and jump there.

Not arguing that's it's much better, just that's approximately the same. Check it out: https://github.com/abo-abo/avy.
As I've said above they won't act as lender of last resort and they won't set monetary policy with regard to the needs of Scotland. A currency peg can be broken, though it is embarrassing and usually very expensive during the period you try and defend it - see "Black Wednesday".

Sticking with Sterling wouldn't even allow the option of crashing out of the monetary peg if needs be. I think you'd see an exodus of financial institutions' head offices down to London. An independent Scotland simply couldn't afford to bail out a large institution in Sterling, or even if it let banks fail couldn't afford the economic hit because its debts would be denominated in Sterling. Iceland was able to devalue by 60%, Greece wasn't able to.

The point of the currency debate is that it has consequences with whichever choice is taken. Separately applying to join the EU saying "yes I know I have to join the Euro, but I'm not actually going to do that" isn't the best strategy in the book. France may get to pull that kind of thing, but they're already in the tent.
This is an interesting idea, but I don't think it could work the way you are describing it (like RAID). Remember the limitations of RAID, and then add intermittent failures and huge latency to the communication between the "drives". It would not be able to remain coherent in real time.

Now, I think you could definitely set up a system that could handle the distributed data like this and allow you to access it, but I am skeptical that you could construct such a system that would be able to read/write/update/delete files on the fly and retain N-node failure tolerance at all times. You would probably have to allow the system to replicate data slowly.

There is also the problem of network splits. When they rejoin, how do they resolve conflicts and such?
Well, probably not for such a broad description of "ungameable", but there is an entire research field dedicated to try and come up with such algorithms/systems: Mechanism design!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_design
But they missed mobile, and PC sales will go down (at some point). Also, ARM on the server?
I use Firefox on Android with an adblocker installed via its extensions page without root and it makes me a happy browser. It obviously doesn't do anything for other apps, though.
For C++, I think Jules Storer's code might be worth a look.
> Which would then mean that maybe these high karma users have too much power.

And on top of that are allowed to use HN as a platform to ask other users to jump to their aid in flagging stories they don't like.
I don't really want syncing. I want a distrabution of the blocks of the filesystem that allows for redundant storage & expansion of storage space.

RW times would be slower but storage would be bigger and more redundant.
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Oh the poor English :(

technically that would be sectarian and not racist, as both Scotts and English bellong to the same race.
Sublime with Anaconda is pretty good..
London independence would surely only come with the complete collapse of the UK. Or it becoming an EU-like organisation. And that's not entirely impossible - there are enough regional independence movements that it's possible to imagine it.

Much more likely, though, is that everyone argues about it for decades and nothing happens.
If they want to 'protect' the moderators they should use more neutral language focusing on the actions. You can easily say "This account has been x" instead of "We've x this account" or "x has been changed to reflect y" instead of "We've changed x to reflect y". It's less personal, but that's the point.
It's not exactly a filesystem, but git-annex allows you to configure multiple nodes, and to defined the minimum number of copies each file should have (globally or per file type). Using the daemon (assistant), the nodes will automatically copy files from other nodes until the number is reached.
I got one with my car (a Hyundai) recently. Works rather well, although has some false positives once in a while, where it screams that I'm about to hit someone while there's no one near me. Just think about the scale and quality of the data they collect like that!
http://www.supportdetails.net/ and http://www.whatsmybrowser.org/ both give the full UA string.
>Let companies decide what workers they want.

What you're saying is "companies should hold a lot of power over workers." Management is much more powerful than an individual worker and collective bargaining via unions seeks to be a check on that power. Why is that so undesirable?
It's better to wire the cops.

There should be a federal law requiring all police officers wear body cams while interacting with the public. Further, it should be required that they be the kind that send a live feed to police dispatchers. I've seen how quickly police brutality gets dealt with when it's witnessed by public transportation security through their cameras at train stations. When someone is responsible for reporting crimes as they happen because they're watching them live, bad cops lose their jobs before the press can even report it.

It should be law that a police officer loses their authority the second their body cam is off. Streaming body cams should become the new police badges. Arrest someone without a body cam? Kidnapping and assault. Pull someone over when you're not on duty? Impersonating a police officer. Bark orders to people at a gas station on your way to work? Disturbing the peace.
I use Panda Planner, a physical notebook designed to help you with monthly, weekly, and daily prioritization. I have found that the process of physically writing down and tracking goals each day forces me to sort through my mental clutter and decide what is important.

For me, this priority-setting process is really a separate domain than daily task tracking, project-level organization, and so on. As long as I do that daily review, it doesn't really matter where I keep my task breakdowns. I actually use several of those to keep tasks separated based on the project domain -- Visual Studio Online for development, Todoist for marketing, and so on.
What kind of minimum resources are required to run this? Can I run this on my 128MB VM?
The author here takes the average of the conversion rates from different websites. Am I wrong in saying that isn't quite right? Shouldn't the "average conversion rate" be just the sum total of users that go to Toggl and sign up over the total number of users that went to Toggl?

It's obviously still useful to break it down by the referring website, it just seems like an opportunity to inflate your conversion rate numbers.
depends how much you have to start with and other factors
It'd be very easy to set up parallel legal structures in Scotland and then just transfer the business up. You possibly wouldn't even need to relocate.
This is really neat! I'm wondering why the name is so Raspberry Pi-specific ;)

Is there a docker container for it already, by any chance?
Worth mentioning their factories in Israel are side by side and they already work together on projects in Jerusalem. A lot of Mobileye workers are ex-intel and sometimes vice versa.

The companies are a lot more linked than it seems.
I've seen that "move fast and break things" mantra used in projects, and yeah, some people think they're being the next Zuckerberg when doing so. But what I've (almost) never seen is someone who actually fixes the shit when it's broken.

Fine, go ahead and break stuff, but be willing and able to actually FIX it afterwards. That part never seems to get picked up.
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> This is also a wonderful bargaining chip for the EU to play against Theresa May in negotiating the terms of the UK's exit.

Yup. "You lot can leave, but we'll take Scotland. Your choice."
HN supports self promotion as long as it's on topic.
It's ad hominem; the author is being attacked to invalidate the argument, instead of attacking the argument itself. Which is never valid.

Appeal to authority usually takes the form of skipping making an actual argument for something and instead resting upon "X said so" and not explaining further. This is also not valid but is sometimes a shorthand for saying "X made argument Y," which can be valid if argument Y is valid (in which case the fact that X made the argument is purely incidental trivia).
Kafka is pretty unique in what it is and how it does things and the way it is designed means you can build all kinds of solutions on it. If what you want is a more traditional messaging system, Kafka is probably overkill for your scale.

If on the other hand, you want an event store, it might be worth using. You can build event stores on top of lots of different data stores but you'll have to manage the edge cases your self usually. Kafka has them built in.

That said, Kafka is pretty complex to operate. I'd only start using it when it became obvious it was the solution to your problem or there was some external factor pushing you to use it.
http://hnrankings.info is a nice UI to see this happening in real time.

Here is an example of three submissions, two flagged enough to get kicked off the front page (for poor use of sources on a contentious topic) but not get marked as 'flagged':

http://hnrankings.info/13714928,13714987,13715552/
This is a reality I've had a great deal of difficulty coming to terms with. I haven't internalized it fully, but I can't help but think not acknowledging this has harmed my career.
Good writeup. Ironic that this story is #1 on the front page now.
I wrote the original article visualizing clickbait from scraped Facebook data: http://minimaxir.com/2016/08/clickbait-cluster/

Yes, there are obvious tropes of clickbait. Facebook, however, is cracking down on them, so there's been a slight brinksmanship between "how do I get people to click articles without following the tropes?"

From the visualization in my article, you can see there is a spatial blend between sources like the NYT and BuzzFeed when subjects like kids and Pokemon are brought up.
The corporation you work for can be political and has unilateral control over whether you get a job. The corporation can make political contributions and lobby. Corporation C-level execs are taking large paychecks off the backs of low wage factory workers. But the corporation is working (in practice) solely for the shareholders. It seems to me that Unions are no better/worse than the corporation except that their duty is to their members. In this way Unions don't need to be a paragon of virtue because they're a balance to corporate power (even if a bit of a greasy one).
I have to disagree. I don't appreciate this guy white-washing what Goldman Sachs does.

/s
HN is like reddit where the 'downvotes' on a story outweigh the upvotes 30 to one or so.
that redux devtools extension tho! oh man oh man. It was like Christmas in March when I first discovered it.
That's very insightful. It's not the time you spend on something, it's the time you take working through the hard parts that determines success. I read before that they believe character determines success more than talent, with perseverance being the most desirable character trait. Your idea aligns nicely with this.
Thanks, that's reasonable and makes sense!
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"While I realize I'm not entitled to explanations, some transparency would be appreciated."

No, as a community we are all owed a public explanation.

And if stcb and dang can't provide it, they need to step down and make room for someone who can.
For me, the question would be why you cared about the performance metrics. Sometimes bad performance can be a sign that something is fundamentally broken, and fixing the metrics might be the solution to the stability problem. Sometimes, it's less important and more of a distraction. Usually, it's not to difficult to put together a case that performance issues are impacting stability.
Ask HN: If reCAPTCHA captured speech could NLP be significantly improved?
reCAPTCHA has completed digitised the archives of The New York Times and books from Google Books. Could an audio reCAPTCHA make every word and dialect understandable through NLP, or make it significantly more accurate?
One thing to note about Pub/Sub vs Kafka. Pub/Sub does not offer as strict of guarantees around ordering as Kafka. If you don't need that strictness I'd definitely recommend Pub/Sub over Kafka but if you do I don't believe any of the Google Cloud Offerings will provide you that (Kinesis on AWS will).
I saw the Great Barrier Reef die last weekend, and I wept
probably because they weren't mentioned then, and unions aren't that topical in the US where the corporate lobby has mostly dismantled them and disadvantaged the citizenry.
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The lose scenario of a split already happened with the Brexit. Now it is time to save as much as possible. Scotland wants to stay in the EU and has interests diverging from England and Wales. Why should Scotland stay with them to make them stronger?
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Also github project explains https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole
I'm a big pedant and I agree with the parent; it's not that bad. It might mark an uncompleted word order change for a native speaker "what does A have in common with B?" as opposed to "what do A and B have in common?" but it's not that distracting TBH.
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Those are the numbers for the second attempt, where the first attempt was 50.3% vs. 49.7%, won only after counting mail votes, and that first result got annulled because of challenged vote counts.
The problem is, we don't have a clear definition of what clickbait is.

nouninformal
(on the Internet) content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link to a particular web page.

But that's basically everything on the web.
The main problem I have with this is that similar to Reddit, HN is advertised as open-minded, free-talking place by the team themselves.

When you then secretly censor stuff, because it doesn't fit your agenda, be it politically or financially, it makes you look even more like a hypocrite.

Branding yourself liberal while employing fascist methods (censoring and banning) seems to be a trend, not only on the internet.
> I don't use AWS.

A big chunk of the web does, so you're using it indirectly.