skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue we didn't see a war between Germany and England, or Britain as we are these days, as we were occupying them in the aftermath until 1949 and maintained a British Army of the Rhine there until 1994. The Allies also established a new Constitution and political consensus that is vehemently anti-war - witness German reluctance to be involved in fighting in recent NATO and other coalition conflicts.

There's also the small matter that the Russians were effectively still occupying half of Germany until the late 1980s. The origins of the EU came that trade prevents wars. The Democratic Peace Thesis likes to discount all sorts of countries as "not a democracy", a good example of No True Scotsman. Given we're seeing Turkey rapidly heading towards dictatorship, Hungary's far right leadership despite being an EU member, and all the problems the US is going through it is a salient reminder that just because you are a democracy doesn't mean you stay one. One of the pretty unique things about the UK in the EU is its political history - France is on its 5th Republic, Germany has only been reunified within living memory, Italy's system is from 1946 etc. You can see how relatively new, potentially fragile systems of Government might want to prevent resurgences of problems, especially under the shadow of the Cold War.

Edit to add: Oh - there's also this thing called NATO as well. When two countries are in a military alliance they also tend to avoid going to war with each other. NATO is of course also the body that intervened far more decisively than the EU in the Bosnian and Kosovan Wars - those pesky examples of genocide in Europe that people overlook about how fantastic and peaceful we are as a continent.
Given that Spain is still recovering from flooding, cold weather and a bunch of other issues [1] that have made growing vegetables impossible in many areas, that's not really a surprise.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38666752
> You seem to be forgetting the part where the British people voted to leave the EU.

A minority voted to leave the EU.
>The problem with this being that group borders are petty flexible and easily manipulated.

Not that flexible -- it takes long, historical processes to change them.

People were living within the same "unified" culture, state mandated et al, forced to be together in USSR and Yugoslavia for 50 to 80 years -- and yet those states exploded into multiple national countries as soon as they had the chance.

Some borders are organic (based on culture, shared history, geographical boundaries etc) and some are not (based on colonial rules drawing lines in a map which include groups with different cultures which have historically been enemies in the same "country": the British have done this time and again, and is also the most common cause of tension in Africa etc).
> Being useful

+1

Everything else is irrelevant
I'm sure a growing number do, now that the most popular vehicle in America is made out of the stuff (F150)
Britain's Article 50 letter: The full text of the Brexit trigger
Not true. Chile was a vital ally, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falkl... The United States secretly provided satellite imagery and telecommunications during the conflict but was careful to project a neutral stance in public.

Also France was perhaps ambivalent about the conflict, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9767736/Thatc... Certainly support from EU countries was not easily visible.

Sorry for the links from the Telegraph since there a clear source of bias there but there are plenty of other references which can back these up.
Apologises in advance for using sarcasm and an analogy:

Cars without the very very very best armour are completely unsafe. Don't use this nice, good, performant, practical and mostly bulletproof van, instead settle for the google armoured car because think if someone starts shooting at you with a 50 cal sniper rifle from a perfect angle!

PS: for extra goodness the hood of the google car is welded (closed source even if we know the engine from chromium), pulling trailers (real extensions) is not possible and by default it records your every turn of the wheel and sends it to Google because you never know...

PPS: Oh, at close range even the google car yields to a sniper rifle.

Me: happily using Firefox. Happily driving a reasonable family car. There are certain places I won't drive that car at night but I can live with that.

(Feel free to bookmark and reuse. : )
That's 3D printing a pill. Nothing to do with synthesizing the active compound, and it not going to allow you cheaply produce drugs.

The issue is creating the active compound, not putting it into pill form.
I get a 404 on this.
I'm staying for now. Don't want to unnecessarily disrupt my family. But if leaving is what's best for them, I'll be out of the door and won't look back.

I know a few who have moved on too. Not many, but time will tell.
The link is a 404 Error.

For what it's worth though. I went to the homepage and it does seem like a really nice product that a lot of effort was put into. When I saw game maker I didn't expect to be as impressed but it seems far better than the other web based game makers I've seen.

Although it requires the absolute latest Chrome (I was half a version back) which is interesting. I wonder what is in Chrome 57 that is required and not in Chrome 56.
Article 50 triggered: Formal Brexit process begins
Write code fluently by memorizing APIs
Well, "solid" doesn't have to mean "not a liquid/gas/plasma", it can also mean "all the way through". For instance a table made of "solid oak" is not trying to say it's not a liquid, it's trying to say it's not veneered particle board.

That's how I interpreted the use of "solid" here, but I'm no electronics engineer of course.
The risks are really only economic. And those can be solved with trade pacts... without having to sacrifice any other independence such as with laws, courts, and borders.

I'm from Canada and our economy (and defence) depends heavily on the US, we both strongly benefit from an economic relationship. It's mutually beneficial, as all pacts should be. Yet we don't have to worry about policy being dictated out of NAFTA or worry about the economy of Mexico - which is totally different than Canada - dragging down our own.

Once you look beyond short term economic risks I really don't see thee problem.

It seems to me that smaller countries have the healthiest democracies - one of the reason government functions so well in Scandinavia and here in Canada. The problems with US politics is largely the result of the disparate views of regional communities. Just look at the vast cultural/economic/educational gaps between California, the 'south', or the midwest.

Those gaps are even greater across Europe, so I'm hardly surprised that various countries in the EU, not only people in the UK as we've seen recently, is feeling uncomfortable with the idea. You're just lucky you don't have the Euro to further lock you into the relationship.

Edit: Also the idea the EU stops wars seems ridiculous to me in 2017 given we have NATO and the UN... and that the west only really cares about economics. Sanctions like that were done to Russia or Iran would not last long in a western country, they'd cave in so fast. Pretty much eliminating any risk of internal EU conflict without assuming total economic destruction.
This is a good start, but I really hope this guy figures out the hardware sprite system soon or he's going to be in for a world of performance hurt. There's really not very often a reason to draw directly to the framebuffer.

I ran into that same problem with a few games I wrote for the PSP[1,2] in high school. I did all the rendering by drawing color values directly to the framebuffer. Quickly all of your CPU time per frame is taken up by drawing pixels and you have no time for game logic. This doomed my projects to small scale, and I didn't have the interest in learning actual PSP hardware programming and rewriting the rendering to use it.

[1] http://brightnightgames.com/games.php?game=dyox
[2] http://brightnightgames.com/games.php?game=abahd
Yes anecdotal evidence of one trip to the supermarket which has nothing to do with the very terrible winter in Southern Europe.

Time for anecdotal evidence. My weekly supermarket bill has been going up since the Brexit vote.
IIRC the human rights act and membership of the ECHR are separate to the EU.

I agree, there's been some awful rhetoric out of the Tories about dismantling those, but as yet they aren't under threat AFAICT
> Can we really say that it's the EU though?

For some conflicts, yes. The Good Friday agreement in Ireland is a legal fiction, only possible because of the EU. Basically, the border vanishes because both sides are members of the EU and thus, via the EU have the right to move across that border at any time for any purpose.
The EU has been giving favours to the UK for decades. A better deal is not possible; the best next thing would be something like Norway, but since the UK doesn't want free movement, that is also out.
Thanks. I was losing my mind over this.
I considered Silicon Valley until I realised how different UK and US politics are. Extreme right wing in the UK is a bit to the left of Obama.

If the EU does collapse, I'll consider Canada.
Both the browser choice, and the "N editions" (without media player) were in the EU/EEA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp_v_Commission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu
> Has anyone anywhere in the poetry of the two worlds ever seen such complete idiocy? These ‘Ahs’ and ‘Ohs,’ this want of comprehension of the simplest remarks, this repetition four or five times of the same imbecile expressions, gives the truest conceivable clinical picture of incurable cretinism. These parts precisely those most extolled by Maeterlinck’s admirers.

Even though he was publishing in 1890's, it's clear that Max Nordau would have been right at home here on HN.
>They even pay mad bucks on their royals for basically nothing.

Royal family costs the UK £307m (highest number) with a revenue from them of £500m [1]. Seems like good business to keep paying for them.

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/is...
Depends where you are, but I'd say: find the contact details for your local party branch, and see if you can help with campaigning for the local elections this May.

At 11% in the polls we're not going to stop Brexit right now, but certainly (where I live) we have a real chance of becoming part of the local administration for the first time since 2005. From little acorns...
That scenario would mean ruin for everyone, the 1% and the 99%.
>If someone does not possess the means of independent subsistence, then it is not unreasonable to expect that someone to at least generate equivalent productivity under whatever circumstances are available, trading it for equivalent subsistence.

Of course it's unreasonable. Why should you be able to take the stuff I needed to fend for myself, blame it on me, and then "negotiate" from the profoundly advantageous position that I'll starve and you won't if I walk away?
Learn about the magic of compounding interest and investing in index funds.

Oh yeah - if you save 68% of your earnings, you can retire in under 10 years.

The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Early Retirement
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...
You can keep your stinkin' High Street. We Chesterton Roadies don't want any part of it!
> Greece is in the EU straight-jacket

The lack of freedom for Greece to manage its finances is because it's a member of the Euro, not the EU. That isn't really relevant to the UK.

And as far as I know, neither the Euro nor EU laws limited the Greeks' ability to prosecute their bankers. Is there a reason those are connected?
Yes, but you do get tax breaks if you have a small company, such as Mkb-winstvrijstelling, which is 14% of the profit.

There is nothing similar in the UK AFAIK.
That may be because the minimum wages are massively different for the two countries, with $0.48/hr in Mexico vs $4.98/hr in Spain[1]. Globalism does exploit the lower standard of living of other countries, after all. That means that even though there are massive tariffs, these "third world" countries can still make a profit because of the abysmal quality of life for its citizens.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_count...
It doesn't help the EU is acting like a petulant wronged partner. We didn't even cheat on you!

I mean, seriously, £68 billion for stuff we're not going to be able to use? Grow up and rework your budget. No trade negotiations until we leave?

It makes them look like utter fools, one dose of actual democracy deciding they've had enough of backdoor federalisation and they're threatening every punishment they can think of.

I know others now express regret at voting leave, but I now start to have the opposite, I voted remain and the way Junker et al. are acting is a stark reminder at how undemocratic, bureaucratic and unrepresentative of its citizens the EU is.
As a hobbiest, I usually see them in high stability power supplies.
Try it for a while, then switch back to not using it, I'll promise you, you'll notice the difference!
The worst effects will be felt when the UK is booted from the EU single market. UK trade policy has been based around being an entry point of products from elsewhere into the EU. When that goes poof, a whole lot of trade will go directly from the world to the EU countries and those areas will do their very best to make free trade agreements with the EU. The UK will simply lose out. That's the jackhammer awaiting the UK.
What? Norway is a member of the EEA and Switzerland has bilateral agreements that come to the same thing. Nothing changed for them they just don't get a say in the rules.
Look to Comcast and TW to buy a few of the mid-tier established VPN providers, and then play both sides of the table.
I don't buy this argument.
There was a long period of peace after Waterloo in 1815.
After WW1 the powers of Europe were still big players on the world stage and Germany still felt it had some sort of imperialist destiny to fulfill.
After world war two Europe was exhausted and reliant on the usa for protection from the warsaw pact.
> European nations were now second tier economicly, and threatened by a big external nation.

Wasn't this also true for eg WW1?

Even with the same actors
But her emails?
I wouldn't use the word "psychopaths" but outside of that, I feel HN lately is populated by people who are overly optimistic about the USA governmental organizations -- or refuse to be realists, pick one.

Still, you don't have to use such an extreme language. I too agree USA is becoming pretty scary, but "corrupt" is probably a much better word than "psychopaths".
#PunishUK
The USSR was a re-implementation of the Tsarist Russian empire by another name. The peoples yoked together in the USSR had been absorbed by Russian expansion in the 18th & 19th centuries. Yugoslavia was a variation on the same theme. The north had been part of the Austro Hungarian Empire, and the south part of the Ottoman Empire.
iPhone users fooled by fake ransomware
If the pound was currently undervalued analysts would be all over that by now. None of the large investors in the world are currently investing hard in British assets.

There is nothing indicating that the market will correct itself.
On $35k, the price of a Tesla, which is what prompted that xkcd link
As a sysadmin I just want to point out to this mostly dev crowd, that my current favorite method of operations is to have multiple compartmentalized VM's which then may or may not hold containers or jails.

Why do I do it this way? Because having a full stack VM for each use-case on a good server is realistically not that much more resource hungry than a container, but the benefits are noticeable.

Lots of the core reason stems from security concerns. For example, there are quite a few Microsoft Small Business Server styled linux attempts at hitting the business space, but instead of playing to the strengths of modern hardware, they all mostly throw every service on the same OS just like SBS does... which is a major weakness. So instead of an AD server that also does dns and dhcp and the list goes on, each thing in my environments get it's own seperate VM (eg, SAMBA4 by itself, bind by itself, isc-kea by itself, and so on)

Another reason for this is log parsing related. It's much easier to know that when the bind VM OSSEC logs go full alert, I know exactly what to fix. On multi container systems, a single failure or comprimise can end up affecting many containerizations and convoluting the problem/solution process.

Of course, the main weakness to such a system is any attempt to break out of the VM space illicitly could comprimise many systems, but that's why you harden the VM's and have good logging in the first place, but also do it to the host system, along with using distributed seperation of hosts and good backups.

Just some real world usage from a sysadmin I wanted to convey. I still will do a container or a VM with many containers for the devs if needed, but when it comes time to deploy to prod, I tend to use a full stack VM. I'm also open to talk about weaknesses in this system, as I'd be curious to hear what devs think.

To be fair, I still haven't fully caught up with the whole devops movement either, so perhaps I'm behind.

Also, a big shoutout to proxmox for a virtual environment system, FOSS and production quality since 4.0. I have also run BSD systems with jails in a similar way. The key pont of the article is that zones/jails/vms are top level isolations and containers are not (but that doesn't make containers bad!)
I absolutely see the advantages of having common standards, tariff agreements etc. to make trade across borders easier (i.e. something akin to the European Economic Area). I'm however also a proponent of federalism, because I believe that for a democracy to truly work it is necessary that the people still feel responsible for their votes and their decisions. This is something which I'm missing in centralised and unitary states after they reach a certain size and heterogenity. I'm aware that the European Union is not (yet) a unitary state, but it is certainly shifting away democratic power from a more regional democratic system to a centralised government.

I agree that the UK's decision to leave the EU is not an optimal one (and potentially costly), but I believe it's long term the right one, given the current state. An alternative would be to change the EU within, to force it to focus on its core competencies (which I mainly see as a trade union, and leave most of the political decisions to its nation states); however I'm not sure that this would happen without any big bang, such as the Brexit might have been.
"Independence" it's not about some lone man bellowing "ME".

It's about like-minded people sharing a common culture (as developed historically up to some point), over a hodge podge of states being united by sheer power or top-down dictum.

Empires and kings ruled thanks to tons of bloodshed and continued vigilance and stomping of revolts.

The "Great Britain" itself is a bad example -- it lost colony after colony due to wars for independence, and even sibling states like England, Ireland and Scotland have either split, or want to split. And of course it took some wars (and a lot of resentment) to bring down the Scottish into the UK's stable for example.
why is China so large in the voter turnout map?

I realize I actually know very little about the political process in China

are there regular elections there? what are they voting on? I perceive that you're not voting for any politicians from opposition parties to the official communist party, am I wrong? are you voting on who gets to control the party apparatus within the communist party? who is that vote actually open to?
Or for something a bit more fancy see some of these models: http://www.bellerbyandco.com/index.php/globes.html
Is Scratch today like the Logo of the '80s for teaching kids to code?
Don't be ridiculous.

Machines can't replace doctors. You can't sue a machine for chance occurrence poor medical outcome.
Off-topic: Always better to quote the earliest reference. Plato said practically the same think around 347BC. Maybe there was someone before him too when we had no written texts. History repeats itself.
Interesting, didn't know that :)
>> "It wasn't nationalism which caused conflicts in Europe, it was a lack of democracy."

The Yugoslav wars were centred around nationalism. The Irish conflict, again was centred around nationalism and civil rights (you can't seriously think there wasn't democracy in Ireland?).
It is totally unrestricted immigration of low-skilled individuals that the government (and it's fair to say the British population) are opposed to.

This may be the case. Brexit is the dumbest solution to that particular problem though.
There are many reasons to not use tantalum caps (inability to handle voltage transients requiring derating being the primary that comes to mind), but I've never heard of a company instituting such a policy because their assembly process was so poor.

Did they also blanket ban diodes?
Is there anything the average user can do to protect their data/privacy from their ISP?
This is anecdotal, but my friends in the UK (typically working on their PhD or medical doctors from the EU) have already encountered open hostility and have little intention to stay to be exploited for their skills without any guarantee.
Shit, I'm sorry. Of course I don't use a browser that announced plans like that, so I'm not really up to date on it. My mistake.
That's what I write. Merely getting people to live together under one "union" doesn't mean it will stick, or that they like it, or that they'll identify with it over their prior and existing identities.

Nor (as happened in both cases) that they wont split on the first chance they get.
How are you applying for EU citizenship? All I can find is that it is automatically granted to all Nationals if member states. I.e. if you are Irish then you automatically have EU citizenship.

Is there anything else you can do?
This has been the longest period of Peace in Western Europe in history by a massive margin. That's evidence. Non top tier countries used to fight all the time in Europe before.
This might be true but in that case I'm in the 0.01% who want to know how much time I spend on HN and other sites instead of working. I ended up installing a time tracker(ManicTime) but I just realized that history statistics in the browser would be good enough for me.
The IPCC report is that, a series of papers that reviews everything and presents it in a technical but topical way.

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RffPSrRpq_g
Probably because when designed right (they are far more finicky then ceramic) they typically offer higher energy density.
The difference is, until recently, nobody knew the statistics for self-driving cars and how often they disengaged (by the way, Tesla is doing horribly in this regard). The information for traffic deaths has been public for decades.

Again, my emphasis is on the point that Elon Musk is spinning the information to his advantage. He has no interest in bringing attention to the shortfalls of his technology, only to sell the public on his soon-to-be-level-4 Autopilot system. He is also wildly misleading the public as to the capabilities of his technology, but unless you work on self-driving cars you wouldn't know that.

Of course it's his job to do this, and any sane businessman would. Which is entirely my point - Elon Musk is a salesman first and foremost.
I think you're missing the point here. These are people who are already here talking about leaving because of a climate of anti-european and more broadly, anti-foreign attitudes in the UK at the moment. I've no doubt the current government will make it less onerous for people like them to come, the difference now is, would they want to?
Previously, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230219
Run everything over an encrypted channel.