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> On the face of it it seems so childishly spiteful that I feel I must be missing some strategic consideration.

Probably hoping one of the recounts comes out in their favor, at which point the other side will ask for a recount. Probably childish and spiteful also.
This election shows once again how terrible the FPTP voting system is. The Tories gained like 41% of the vote, but 48% of the seats. And this is a "better" outcome than it would've been in the U.S., where you also have other high arbitrary thresholds for third-parties, and the media virtually ignores them throughout the year-long election cycles.

If the Tories had 41% of the seats (per the number of votes they received) and Labor 40%, it would've been much easier to form a majority with Labor. Now that seems unlikely, even though all parties should see that the Tories are in rapid decline in the voters' eyes, and they shouldn't attach themselves to the Conservative party in any way.

It's a real shame the Tories killed ranked choice voting (alternative voting) in 2011. I would have still preferred a proportional representation system, but RCV would've been a definite improvement over FPTP, too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/6g6e5d/half_...

It's also an even bigger shame that the Liberals in Canada decided to betray their voters and back-down on moving away from the FPTP voting system, which was one of their biggest campaign promises in the last election. With the risk of getting the Conservatives back in power in Canada, I hope the Canadian voters punish them hard in the next election (by voting NDP or Green), because such betrayal must not be rewarded.

Canada could have finally moved away from the the undemocratic FPTP voting system, but the Liberals decided it may be better to stick to the undemocratic voting system if it means they can just switch places with Conservatives and dominate the government every 1-2 elections, as it happens in the United States with the Democratic and Republican parties.
The key part here is they are deciding to make it enabled by default. Does it not really amount to malpractice against their competitors in the guise of user experience. Anti-trust?

Because just saying that one can always disable it and use something like uBlock Origin is missing the point that most of the people will not bother to do that except a tiny minority and that would essentially mean this coalition, which by all measures comes across more of a sham, will succeed in monopolizing ads completely.

I think the least they could do to even look impartial is keeping it disabled by default rather than making it opt-in.
I'm not sure I follow. American politics isn't two ideologies, but it does have ideologies. Is it better to bundle up these dozens of ideologies and interests into two parties than to have ideologically driven parties?
> the whole Brexit process which was due to start already next week I believe.

> I believe

If you don't know what you're talking about you should shut up, or I'll assume you're spreading misinformation.

Put more charitably, any sentence ending in "I believe" should not be on HN if at all possible. Unless you want the place to turn into Reddit that is.
no. michael gove and boris johnson tried to use euroskepticism within the conservative party to strip cameron of the leadership. the referendum was a play by cameron to shut down the euroskeptics and sideline johnson/gove

none of gove, johnson or cameron thought the leave side had any chance of actually winning which is why all three of them bailed in the wake of the vote
I'd imagine the hardcore Conservatives will see BoJo as the only possible "Stop Corbyn" candidate - Amber Rudd is too high risk and not well known enough, even though she did very well in the campaign.

The problem is that, by all accounts, while BoJo might come across as a nice guy by all accounts he'd likely make an awful PM (e.g. read about the chaos that was his last leadership attempt).
It probably can be reversed if the UK wants to. Any amendment needed to make that legally possible would most likely be passed by the EP. Not that it would be easy, mind.

If neither the UK nor the EU desires this break-up, then it won't happen. It all depends on what the UK government does (which realistically speaking probably does not include pulling the emergency brake on the Brexit, unfortunately).
What an absolute mess. It really just again demonstrates that the country is divided right down the middle - inward vs. outward, young vs. old, nationalist vs. unionist.

Nobody is coming out of this well, and I think it's virtually certain that there will be another general election in short order - but I don't really expect the outcome to be much different.

I guess this is what happens when parties move apart like that. Corbyn's Labour have shifted quite far to the left, while the Conservatives have turned completely inward. There's a huge gap in the middle, and unfortunately our electoral system leaves little hope of filling it.
Hypothetically, Would they accept a united Ireland as part of the UK?
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Perhaps if Labour actually won own majority, sounds more like a very poorly run campaign by May. Complete lack of leadership. Just the single fact of shying away from debates.

Great opportunity to put country before party now.
Note that this happens anytime you mistype a variable, e.g.

export FOOBAR=/usr/local/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$FOOBAL

So yeah, fix the source of the problem in ld.so, don't blame it on Torch.
I think two things could happen. A torry-libdem coalition which would kill these nonsensical surveillance laws (libdem vetoed them in the past), or a new general election soon, then all bets are off.
Which boot camp did you attend?
Not really, and the hardware is getting more complex all the time.
A modern CPU is like a probabilistic OS nowadays...
For testing, we propose free accounts.
For the different sort, we did the choice to emphasis quality over cost, on purpose :)
In practice, it means we need to duplicate the data for each sort in order to do has much as possible at indexing time. We have seen few users that were not ready to pay but the big majority see the value and this is aligned with our cost.
Why is that? Which law did Theranos or their founder break?
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Ruby's rack explained
Didn't the conservatives face an impossible situation anyway?
Hence all the resignations after Brexit? Is this, with the missed debates, possibly just an attempt to sit out a tough round of governing?
I won't attack his history, I don't know it well. I will attack his sustainability, however. This phone won't sell. It is not innovative enough nor in touch with the market.

I will say I watched his interview at codecon, and he seemed completely self absorbed. It didn't help that he kept bragging about Android popularity, which he had little to do with, on top of its awful design.
People aware of third party cookies usually disable them anyways, so don't assume third party cookies support is a given.
Honestly, I reckon May's decision was understandable. Great polling with a complex negotiation coming up - makes sense to establish a national convention consensus government and press on (regardless of that decision being a bad one or not).

But she completely fluffed the campaign, to a ludicrous extent. She had a weak opposition and popular support, and seemed to make every possible attempt to run as poor as a campaign as possible.

I'm nervous about this being spun as a victory for the left, which I'm already hearing. It's more of a collapse of the Tories.
My 18 year old son was checking results at about 6 this morning - he voted for the first time for Labour and our constituency was a very narrow win for Labour over the SNP (about 250 votes).

Pretty sure his reaction is "Wow this voting thing actually works" :-)
LibDems ruled out a coalition with anybody last night, they're not willing to step into that fire again - and they fundamentally won't accept either the Tory or Labour policies on Brexit.
How do you implement browser fingerprinting ?
Possibly. But Corbyn certainly benefited a lot from having a weak candidate against him. He could possibly not be so lucky if there is a new election.
The bigger question there is why would the Irish want to become part of the UK after less than 100 years of independence?
I find Knuth's idea fascinating. The fashionable languages come and go, but facts about how machine works does not change much, probably will not in the future.
The record for the number of recounts in a UK general election stands at 7.

Presumably if there is only one vote in it, it's well worth checking carefully, especially if recounts have different counts.
The only 'chaos' I recall was trusting Gove, was there something else?
Thanks mate, I had a blend of the two as my understanding per my edit. I thought both wanted a united Ireland, but one from the Union and one from the Republic. I had that understanding as I thought that was largely what kept the issues within Ireland minimised.
It probably is. So what is wrong with say MurmurHash that you have to hack your own?
Amber Rudd, rather than Angela - but I agree she's probably in the running if May resigns today.
hard to say. there was a narrative that corbyn was unelectable so a revote might get more buy in from his detractors and a more unified labour front

theresa may also ran an absolutely terrible campaign and is personally unpopular so if the tories replace her they may do better next time around. it's hard to imagine the tories producing a credible leader on short notice though. most of the plausible candidates will want nothing to do with this mess and the second tier was mostly already rejected in favour of may last year
s/lethargic/anxious/, and I do this all the time! Doing a quick mind dump usually clears out my anxiety, or at least reduces it to a manageable level, allowing me to continue doing things.
Why the most of bootcamp grads go to frontend jobs? Is it easier?
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Quite a few prominent EU figures have said they think it can be reversed quite easily. I imagine it gets harder the more negotiation has actually been done though, because especially if Theresa May takes her attitude to them there'll be increasing numbers of burning bridges behind her.

The EU want us to stay though, so at the moment I think a reversal would be quite painless. In a year's time, maybe not.
Use the volume down button on an iPhone.
Every time I try web development I feel like I have lost every sense of control. It feels like abstractions upon abstractions that are governed by conventions hidden from me, and every time I step outside them things break in weird undocumented ways. And whenever I try any web frontend stuff it feels like I have taken everything I hate with UI development, squared.

I have however embraced the magic of "no idea how things work under the hood" and now build things for our intranet in seaside.

I am however a bitter old fart that envy people that can throw beautiful web pages together in 25 minutes. Most of my work these days are management and scheme coding,so that is probably.the way it is going to stay.
That's awesome!

If they have a big enough database of half-typed-then-abandoned questions, do you think it would be possible to train an RNN (or something) to read a post in progress and predict at what point the answer should be obvious to you?
Don't we have a few extensions mimicking the most common settings to defeat such fingerprinting ?
Why on earth would they want that - I don't think I've heard anyone even mentioning that idea.

It's about as likely as the US deciding it wants to be a UK colony again.
He would be an absolutely shambolic PM.
Lib Dems were crucified for their vital and successful minority partner in government for 10-15. The UK population wants a dictator, not a grown up concensus.

This will be a Tory government with DUP support on confidence and supply
Political unstability is pretty ugly. Some countries are good at forming coalitions and sticking to them (UK, Germany), some are absolutely terrible at that (France) and you end up with a new government every week. There are some merits to these systems which give a clear majority to the largest party over a fully representative but deadlocked parliament.
"Darpa Funds Development of New Type of Processor: Worlds First Non-Von-Neumann "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture ?
That was my original point. The rules about DST (or even just the base UTC offset) may change between now and the meeting unpredictably according to the whims of the local government, and this happens all the time.
I'm a bit wary about the idea of a DUP + Tory agreement, because the DUP must know that the Tory position on Brexit is a huge threat to the stability and peace in Northern Ireland, and a hard border with the Irish Republic would be disastrous.
The thing about brexit was that the UK was already enjoying a lot of privileges and leeway in regards to their participation in the EU - they didn't participate on the agricultural subsidising fund, they didn't have to covert to Euro, etc, setting them apart and ahead of the other EU countries.

I'm quite positive that the remaining powers of the EU, starting with Germany and France are actually delighted at leveling the playing field and harmonising the EU commitment for the remaining members.

So if the UK wants back in the EU, they will certainly be welcome with the open arms, but without any of the special deals and privileges that UK has enjoyed.

If only for this reason and Brexit was a terrible mistake.
Yup, and not only murder, is torture in fact. You unroot an innocent young lattice, begin tearing off some leaves and chop, chop, chop the plant finely, then squeeze vinegar and salt in the open wounds, smash it with the teeth and finally disolve with acid the remains. Is horrifying if we think about it.
Effective solution (but unpopular sentiment): Lots of alcohol.
As someone who lives in a country with proportional representation as the basis of its electoral system the UK and US first-past-the-post voting system is really weird to observe. It doesn't seem very democratic that a party could get 20% of the popular vote nationally, but win no seats whatsoever.
Just a reminder, and I think it's getting lost here in the HackerNews demographic narrative.. but:

The Conservatives Won The Election

They will be ruling for 5 years, in a coalition with the even more conservative DUP.

Labour/progressives are out of power for at least another 5 years.

I know it's a bucket of cold water, but I think people aren't facing up to reality after Corbyn did much much better than expected. But he still lost.
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Would depend a lot on who the Tories would pick to replace May, although the word this morning is that she has no intention of resigning. Doesn't mean someone isn't going to try and oust her though, there are a lot of Tories who'll be extremely angry with her after last night.
The comments on that page are pretty weird
Pale Moon is lacking security wise, maybe waterfox is a more suitable alternative. Also Waterfox author plans to fund a startup to fork the firefox to support XUL and go from there:
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/03/13/waterfox-dev-has-big-plans...
I learned to do my self talk in writing. I just switch to Emacs and start typing (either in my project "notebook", general "mind dump" file, or a throwaway buffer).

These days I actually feel I'm worse at talking to myself in my head than I am in talking to myself via a keyboard.
I strongly believe it would be good. A few friends already run their DNS, so DNS censorship is limited too. Not even mentioning .onion routing.
> Formal writing style - especially in long essays -
is quite different than spoken word cadences.

i think many observers say that reader preferences are
trending to a more conversational style these days anyway.

and, if you have an iphone, you can use the dictate command on
the keyboard to input into the notes app. you need to do a fair bit
of editing, it's true, but many first drafts require that anyway.

so all in all, i think that dictating your first draft is a pretty smart idea,
especially if these conversational flashes happen to you during a walk,
and also if you are prone to forgetting them before you get them down.

for instance, i dictated the first draft of this comment on my walk just now,
and then emailed it to myself to post it here. i cleaned it up, of course, but
if you want to see the original, as is, i posted it here:

> http://zenmagiclove.com/simple/comment.txt
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I'm curious has something like that ever happened. A country was conquered, then won independence and then at a later point, decided to "rejoin" them.
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The degree of access to the EU market. Which is effectively a tradeoff of access to market for sovereignty. Ie if you implement all EU laws (even though you have no say on them), you are EU compatible and will be given access. That's basically where Norway is. There are legitimate concerns of which is worse between loosing sovereignty over loosing the single market access.
I think it's more accessible - my designer friend felt sorry for me when working because I had "no pictures". Front end development usually means GUI programming, where graphics is the first world.

You don't need to learn about data structures, count in binary and you instantly see graphical, useable results. It's a gateway drug.
"CoHort"

Sorry for OT, but this caught my eye - did you capitalize like this on purpose? If so, why? Just curious about language oddities like this :)
Was "just" solved in a 2016 paper? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal#Cometary_emissions...
I would be shocked if May survives the day.
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Why do you think you're having trouble? Presumably you know at least 1 language well and can build shit? Are you looking for competitive jobs and are you trying very hard? In my experience a lot of people get jobs through networks so I wonder if you are quite qualified, feel competent you can do (or learn quickly) the job but simply can't get the opportunity. I feel that way.

I went to a boot camp, know a few languages fairly well, can do a lot with a computer. I think certainly more than enough for entry level. I am trying to break in myself, once "in" I think I could carry entry/jr workloads but getting in is hard
Start with escape continuations (using call/cc to make an early escape) and work onwards from there.

It didn't click for me until the third tutorial, and there are lots of resources out there
I used to have this and it was as inconvenient as you said here. I tried to work on extending this 'skill' (really important to first acknowledge that it's not necessarily a weakness) by just feedbacking "reality-check" to scenario-modelling. For example in my "Deliver a class" mental scenario, I used to assume that I'd be as smooth as Feynman. In real life presenting, that's obviously not the case! I used to cringe and get frustrated so much, until I told myself to back off and let the process continue (indeed, it's not easy to shut your brain down!) So I tried introspection. I realise several factors about myself and what things from the environment affect me ... so I loop all this back to my mind so the next time I do another mental presentation scenario, I take these into account. It gradually gets more 'accurate' (by this I mean real outcomes don't seem as widely off-the-mark ... it also helps to acknowledge a large margin of error!) and now I use it for "important conversations" as a way to find key points/ questions and, surprisingly, to get myself more relaxed.

Hope this helps somehow!
In the extreme:

Weak = become like Norway or Switzerland; technically not in the EU, but bound to many of its treaties. Get you the benefits of, say, open borders, but also means paying for, say, saving the banking system and (almost) accepting whatever new rules the 'real' EU counties come up with (because it got exemptions for lots of EU regulations, Great Britain currently is almost less of a EU member than Switzerland, so it probably wouldn't go that far)

Strong = break all ties with the EU. No open market, border controls everywhere (including the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland) but also no more payments to the EU, and having the freedom to, say, create import tariffs for German cars.
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Yeah, I don't get it. I heard about "talking to yourself" being a sign of crazy all the time when I was a kid. I was actually terrified to realize how much internal monologue I'm doing in my head; I did initially thought there's something wrong with me.

Now I don't care. Self-talk (today mostly done through typing stuff into a text editor) helps me focus.
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mozilla.firefox.
This is connected with a truly amazing website that does not make my eyes bleed in any way.

https://dosaygo.com/
The terms can be anything the UK and EU (but that's all of the EU) agrees to, including reentry.

So its reversible, and if there was a change of government that wanted to reverse it I suspect the EU would go along. OTOH, it seems near certain that if a coalition is formed, it will be a Tory-DUP coalition, which won't want to reverse it (the DUP seems to want a softer Brexit, but it's not clear that the EU is interested in that.)

If a government can't be formed.(which doesn't seem implausible), then my understanding is that there is another election in fairly short order.
> Problems with variables that are constrained to be integer can take much longer, but they are orders of magnitude more efficient today than a few years ago.

Yet, they are still NP-complete.
Someone closer to the UK than me mind explaining why SNP lost so many seats, including several that seemed pretty safe? I thought that Scottish nationalism was on the rise after Brexit, with many people there wanting to remain within the EU. Why the sudden shift to the Tories there?
Got an iPhone?

1. Pull out phone.
2. Press power button.
3. Swipe the time left (don't unlock)
4. Press volume down button to take photo.

Two seconds tops from photo op to photo!

Note: You don't have to swipe the time, you just want to avoid swiping a reminder and the time is an easy and guaranteed-to-work target.
I actually clicked on the comments to this article specifically to see, and laugh at, the flamewar I knew was going to ensue.
This list describes what my memory is of my first circuits class for a B.S. Electrical Engineering. I did a quick search and found this online.
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
I don't know DUP. What is there view on surveillance?
Crimea kind of did that. They were conquered by Russia ~200 years ago, won independence with the Ukraine and then wanted to rejoin with Russia.
No probs, what's been keeping the issues under control here is the Belfast (Good Friday) agreement [0], which (among lots of other things):

- grants dual nationality (British and Irish) to all the people born in Northern Ireland (simplified, there's a bit of complexity in there)

- allows for the Northern Ireland to become part of a United Ireland if the majority of people in Ireland wish it

IMO there's been a voice of reason coming from the middle ground, but this election has seen the province move more towards tribalism and the middle ground parties loosing their seats.

[0] - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-belfast-agree...

(edited for formatting of the bullet points)