skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> embargoing or imposing severe tariffs on U.K. exports

They don't even have to actually do anything to achieve that. WTO rules basically establish such tariffs already.

> raise prices on U.K. imports to cover the monies not paid by the U.K.

Same here. Also, additional tax revenues would likely be collected on business "redirected" from the UK towards internal companies.

I still hope we'll get another referendum before we reach a point of no return.
> They can, but then travel and trade becomes ~illegal between the UK and pretty much everyone else

Reverting to WTO rules and hard (but not closed) borders isn't trade and travel being illegal, but it is a lot less free than the state when the UK was in the EU.
One step closer to killing off Mac OS.
Because certain projects are only possible when we pool our money together in an organized fashion. That is the whole point of collecting taxes.
I haven't heard any suggestion that they're going to roll back any of the trades that happened, in fact I'm not sure they even can because that money may not even be on the exchange anymore. Their plan seems to be to clear orders, reopen trading again about a day after last attempt (so about now), and hope it goes better this time.
How does this affect ad buys for marketers? Interesting...
I see what you are getting at, but my comment stands. Responsibility is not being taken.
Hmm the idea of a Patreon donation per minor version is actually very interesting....
It's hardly so black and white, and people's failure to recognize this and operate in a respectful middle ground is a large factor in our current situation (which is worsening).

We've assimilated so many political positions into our cultural signaling subroutines that almost every issue is seen as "identity politics" nowadays. This occurs by design, because political profiteers are profited by creating clear boogeymen and corralling "their side" by shaming them for even considering the other side's POV.

We need to get back to a political ethos based on mutual respect, and an understanding that the "other side" is not an evil, but rather a check that is necessary to keep things balanced and smooth. Conservative principles do not arise out of the liberal caricatures that Republicans hate the poor, and liberal principles do not arise out of the conservative caricature that Democrats are communists vying for totalitarian economic control.

We cannot see each other as separate tribes and expect to succeed. We have to see each other as people of goodwill, on the same team, working for the same ultimate purposes.

Politics has been commoditized into television entertainment. There is no better indicator of this than TV showman Donald Trump employing those tactics to win the presidency. And like everything else on TV, what start out as mild differences gradually become "Flanders-ized" [0], and we hardly realize it until we look back to see how it was.

There are going to be winners and losers in any political action. That's a reality of political life and it's why we have the carefully-designed representative government systems that we have.

We need to acknowledge and weigh the costs on both sides instead of ignoring one side of the equation and saying "This bill ONLY exists to hurt Class Y!" or "This bill is great and has no negative consequences for anyone!"

Regardless, changes in technology including air travel, telecommunication, and 24-hour live news have permanently shifted our political landscape. We should think about how we can change our processes, our use of this technology, and/or both to ensure that we maintain a coherent and peaceful union, and stop the polarization. Polarization only serves the interests of pirates and opportunists.

[0] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization
How much money was it?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rdacalos/upstart-the-bo...

Looks like $35k. No one would risk destroying their reputation over that small sum. I wonder what the other side of the story is?

Abuse is pretty common in gamedev, but this would be flagrant.
What's the point with deliberately voting down my statement? I was just rejoicing. I was already happy with 1.7 and 1.8 is even better. How on earth does demand retribution??
I am only looking at my federal tax bill. That being said the site seems to be giving me different numbers now that I am on a computer at home. I checked my phone (still had the tab open) and it was showing near half what the site is showing now. But now the site shows the new tax bill will save me money, when before it said I would pay more.

The numbers I am getting on my computer are closer to the real numbers for the current plan.

As far as somebody saying "current tax bill saved zero" being weird. Yea it is weird but not really an issue. Keeping the same plan won't save you anything, I would be more upset if it tried to suggest it did save you something.
I was working on LLVM (C++ compiler) for 3 years and Java server backends the other 3 years. Those were the main products, with a side of Python, Groovy, Bash and JavaScript. In all fairness, I suspect LLVM uses linked lists internally for things like instructions in a basic block, but that was a level of abstraction under me.
There was actually an interesting paper written about this recently: http://john-joseph-horton.com/papers/uber_price.pdf

Essentially, when Uber raises fares it increases earnings in the short term, but not long term, because more drivers enter the system and push their earnings back down as each driver gets fewer rides.

Uber could solve this problem by limiting the number of drivers. But that of course turns some underpaid Uber drivers into unemployed ex-Uber drivers. Which doesn't sound like a desirable outcome either.
> I don't understand why this entire field seems so focused on gaming

Because gamers are a community well know to spend several hundreds of dollars easily for any kind of upgrade to their existing hardware. At least the core PC gamers, and that's quite a large segment nowadays.
In the mid-'80s the workstation PC vendors like Sun were competing to introduce a "3M computer". The three 'M's were megabyte, megapixel, MIPS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M_computer

In the thirty years since, we've got fifty thousand times more performance (a recent Intel desktop CPU easily does 50,000 MIPS) and sixteen thousand times more memory... But most computers barely have two megapixel screens.
It seems like it's even worse - "we were too lazy to jump through additional hoops to open a bank account in the proper jurisdiction and instead relied on a business partner to handle it for us"
I was really into golang too to the point I started doing some production work on it, but after I tried crystal, it became a little dull. Crystal is a great language and surely has a bright future for those who love ruby syntax.
Wonderful alternative to Office and (Pages/Numbers)
They are not responding to criticisms, but rather that people are installing spam protection for the web, making web advertisement about as relevant as email advertisement. Google did not become one of the richest companies in the world through email advertisement, and the reason is obvious. Email advertisement is kind of dead as it is impossible to have a email box without blocking unwanted email.
The OP simply said all ads are annoying, not "overly intrusive ads". You're responding an imaginary point.
That's the first Intergraph gui on CLIX I've seen. I almost still regret not buying two Intergraph computers at auction a decade ago. I still somehow ended up with a Clipper CPU board though. The last I searched the Internet, there just isn't much information about these machines.
Crystal production users: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Used-in-product...
You are making this comment on an article about a language called Crystal.
I'm tired and bitter, but: there's no rule saying good outcomes are possible.

It's entirely possible to say "this is a false dichotomy, both parties are fundamentally hopeless on this issue" and also say "third party candidates are completely unelectable".

I'm not entirely fatalistic; I think "a major party greatly realigns its views on privacy" is possible, if hard and unlikely. I mentioned Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders as contrarian voices each pulling their party away from bulk surveillance, and I hope we'll see more such voices in the future. A realignment looks increasingly possible, and increasingly necessary. But I honestly don't think "third parties are powerless" should be seen as a reason to have any hope at all for our existing options.
Other explanations for why the working-class voted for Brexit are available.
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OSes tickling the BIOS is nothing new. Vendors have been providing Windows-based flashing utilities for a long time. Even most of the special bootable flashing disks run freedos.
Yeah, I was a little ambiguous with the term "rocket". "Rocket stages" would have been more accurate. Most rockets that use vertical integration use it to assemble the various stages (i.e. the upper stage and payload are both mated to the booster in the vertical integration facility)
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Installing python 3 on my machine is easy.

Now if I distribute a piece of software to 10,000 users, I need to explain to all of them how to install Python 3. That is much more painful.
> I then want to leave the dinner which is only right

But you would at least pay for what you ordered. Anyone just upping and leaving would be considered very rude, and nobody would invite him ever again.
why can't they just show a small demo?

You know the answer to that already.
What incentive? Huge incentives, obviously. This entire thread is a promotion to help a former government official kickstart a business to "research" this phenomenon, where his partner is contractually obligated to get paid $100,000 a year.
This is not true. Brexit is good for the UK and the EU. Now finally clowns like Farage will be exposed for their 'rebel for good' fake ideals. The British public will either accept it's own sentence following decades of 'the bad bureaucrats in Brussels' fake news or come to realize that cooperation at both economical and political on large scale is the way to move forward.
Oh please please please share if you do find them! :o)
There's also a good criticism of BCH here: https://medium.com/@homakov/weekly-sync-friction-the-most-im...

Basically it will be too much bandwidth for most users to bother running their own core, meaning increased centralization for BCH and easy way to kill it in the future through some government action or bug.
What do you mean, you might be an insider?
Is that really true? My understanding is that ordinary boiling water reactors contain safety systems that work just by boiling. Reading the wikipedia article[1], the Isolation Condenser, the Automatic Depressurization System, and the Gravity-driven Cooling System all work just by water boiling and with natural convection in the water, without any active pumps, and they are supposedly enough to keep the core from melting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_water_reactor_safety_s...
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> Or UK citizens would not be able to buy products from the EU because there would be no agreements in place that'd allow companies in the EU to export goods.

This is where you and I fundamentally disagree about how trade works.

If I want to trade with a person in a foreign country, I don't see why our governments need to even know, let alone come up with some agreement. If the foreign person and I can agree a deal, why can't we trade without asking permission from our governments?
Myself and millions of others would spend thousands for this, and thousands more for upgrades. When you consider this is the tool that you use to make your salary, anything that makes me more productive with a better quality of life starts to be worth more than the price of a new car.
Or, the EU is deluded about its worth in the modern world.
#1 is false. Uber has an insurance: https://www.uber.com/newsroom/insurance-ridesharing-uber
#2 is also false. There are background checks: https://help.uber.com/h/6970e704-95ac-4ed3-9355-e779a86db366
I assume they are already tightly coupled systems as you need a single login, but you're probably right it's 3rd party systems that would be an issue.
Because it's easier to 'steal'? Their laws are different so they don't see it as stealing and have no problem with it. Each country is unique and I'm happy US can't force their IP laws to everyone around the world.
I don't really think the taxis should be regulated. But the popularity of Uber and Lyft is likely caused by the app flagging and pay features.

The regulations they flout, like surging pricing, aren't very popular.

And Uber is still subsidizing rides with VC money.
VHS tape with arm half extended is actually the exact size I calculate for hololens, given the field of view of the hololens is 30°x17°, and an outstretched arm's distance is 35cm:

2 * tan(30 degrees / 2) * 35cm = 188mm

2 * tan(17 degrees / 2) * 35cm = 105mm

A VHS tape is 187mm x 103mm.
I think the technology is just not quite there for that yet. When it is we will see innovation and a push towards that.
For your point 2), have you seen the Tap (no affiliation, just excited about it)?
https://www.tapwithus.com
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Could you point me to any resources that show what such a support contract generally looks like?
Is there any chance you could email us at support at vallettaventures dot com? Potentially there is something specific about your document triggering the crash. If you could paste the crash report into the email that would be really helpful.
Cars are still built in Coventry regardless of who takes the profit.
Shady practice or not I find this interesting. Following is a link for North Korean BitTorrent activity.

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/KP/daily
You absolutely can just leave!

Now, lets say the five times larger economy doesn't accept your unilateral trade position, who just happens to be by far your largest and closest trading partner, what do you think happens then to your companies who are reliant on the EU market? Even if you don't work for such a company, what do you think would happen to your employer's clients? And if you work in the public sector, what do you think will happen to the tax revenue from those companies?

More than 20% of the UK's GDP is made up of exports to the EU. What do you think will happen to the government that cost the country millions of jobs because of one stupid decision to appease populists come election year? That's why the government can't just leave because it would be extremely popular in the short term but within a few years bring about very dire consequences.
Interesting, thanks for jumping in! I'd be happy to revise my judgment when I see the new product in action
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Is this really a new norm, where troll accounts are created to push bigoted talking points? This account is 9 minutes old. The other day I had a similar “interaction” with a 30 minute old account. Who is paying for this campaign?
I'll admit that it wouldn't work for offices with the open floorplan nonsense where across the table is another human face staring back at you, but in my experience as a consultant visiting dozens of different IT offices around the US every year, most office workers I meet are in cubicles where it's trivial to hang a black piece of paper up with some thumbtacks.

Might not work for everyone, but it'd work for some people, which is quite often the case with basically every product that exists anywhere.
But he's already paid for far more than what he's eaten. If anything, the others at the table should be giving him money back.
I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games
Brexit isn't about Farage. As you say, he is a clown, a distraction, and a totem for the anger of middle-class metropolitans.

Brexit was about the working-class of the UK who voted to leave the EU, and their reasons for doing that.
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But not about its worth to the UK. The EU is by far the UK's largest market and still has a lot of growth potential (especially in the southern and eastern member states).
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A rising tide lifts all ships.
It's probably because of the need to go to market quickly (a simple design helps) but I wonder if there is at least one founder of those companies that needs prescription glasses. Apparently all of them have perfect eyesight or wear contact lenses.
This is a pure opinion based comment with no fact and a naive conclusion. This extremely complex topic deserves better, especially on HN.
> Just not on Windows with Firefox.

I am pretty sure uMatrix works fine on Firefox/Windows: it's all HTML/CSS/JS code, and thus OS agnostic -- uMatrix does not care about OS.

Firefox is supposed to resize the popup panel according to the size of its content -- the resizing is Firefox's responsibility, it's out of reach of uMatrix.

I believe there are issues in Firefox with regards to using multiple monitors with different DPI. In any case, you should report your issue to buzgilla.mozilla.org.
Well, when a city forces you to buy a license and then lets everyone else compete for free, they are rightfully pissed.

The solution is governments reimbursing the licenses and just letting everyone do whatever they want.

I don't blame them for wanting the government to hold up their end of the bargain. That doesn't make the taxi companies the bad guys.

Shit in cities that allow Uber, if you drive a taxi without a license you STILL get fined.
This is completely anecdotal and almost certainly doesn't scale, but in proportion to its obscurity and especially the effort put in, I feel like I've gotten a surprising number of donations for my recent side-mouse-button-fixing OSS project[1]. I remember reading on HN that even the most popular and well-maintained OSS software basically sees nothing from donation links. My humble app nets about $5 every week. I'm pretty sure the reason is that I included a Donorbox link, since it lets you pay by credit card without having to deal with Paypal. It’s all been Donorbox so far — nothing from Paypal at all.

[1]: http://sensible-side-buttons.archagon.net
Because you have agreed, implicitly and in concert with your fellow citizens, to live in a polity with rules around how members of that polity interact with members of other polities in order to collectively wield the power of your polity for the aims of that polity.

You can try to change the direction your polity takes with its stances towards others. You can leave if you don't approve of those stances and see no signs of changing them. But the question belies a fundamental misunderstanding of...yanno...why polities, why politics, exist.
You may forget what 2015 was like. The Oculus Kickstarter was in 2012. By 2015 there were a lot of people questioning whether or not the CV1 was actually going to happen. Yes, we had the DK1 and DK2 at that point, but we're not actually talking about a very long period of time here. Magic Leap first formed in 2010. It's said that the iPhone took 7 years to develop, basically in secret, for an established company with consumer electronics experience, with other products to live off of.

I've been pretty critical of Magic Leap and their teasing in the past, and while we haven't seen any real evidence that the product is real, we also haven't seen any real evidence that it isn't.
OK, but the article is about Europe. So European prices are relevant, not New York prices.
Ask HN: Would an Open Source Projects Revolt Restore Net Neutrality?
I'm wondering if as a community we couldn't stage a revolt against the Ajit Pai's, Marsha Blackburn's, and ISP's? That revolt would be in the form of stopping all development and access to Open Source projects. Sites for these projects would be taken down and replaced with text explaining that everything about the project will be offline and unavailable until Congress passes strong legislation protecting Net Neutrality. Github repos would be taken down. No bugs would be fixed. No documentation would be available. Developers of those projects would agree to not support them in any way during the revolt.

Imagine the impact this would have. So many companies rely on Open Source software these days that almost immediately CEO's would start getting reports that key projects are delayed because their developers are having to do things the Open Source community would usually handle. Or that they no longer have access to documentation. Or that they can no longer download something. Those CEO's would very quickly be on the phone with the politicians. And, interestingly, many of the companies who will be impacted will be the ISP's themselves.

Is this doable? Would it work? Is this something the community is willing to take on? Would the major Open Source projects participate?
You are aware that the power or intensity of photons does not diminish over range, correct? Things that are closer are appear brighter because they cover a greater field of view. You could keep something at the same luminosity but make it larger and it's the same effect as bringing it closer. Also, you see precisely because photons are beamed into your eyes.
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The "real" and digital worlds will be merged in ways unimaginable. The breakdown of the physicality of the world has begun (and I'm really excited).
I can see this being useful in the final phases of a paper, when I’m killing orphans (words and sentences), overflows, and underclass, via slight sentance rewriting. Right now it’s modify, build, examine, modify, ...

Of course that I can do this at all is due to tex’s layout algorithms that try for good fits but not too hard (a good choice IMHO).
What's your reason for moving back to Wordpress?
I know the language is there, but I do miss something.
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I am going to cancel my cable if I have to reenter my password more often. It's already a huge pain in the ass.
Look at the context in which the comments were made. The point sz4kerto made was about issues surrounding the import of BMWs and BMW parts. tzahola followed up with a comment about Jaguars. Jaguar is known for being a British car brand. The suggestion of importing from non-EU countries was not made clear, the implication I took from it was that British people could buy British goods, so I made the comment about who now owns Jaguar. Make more sense?
It wasn't the need for people to take taxis where the regulation stemmed from. It was because cities didn't want their streets to be overly congested by private vehicles (where at least in manhattan, uber has made far worse).
„WTO rules“ are just a framework for trading rules. Those rules itself still need to be negotiated.

For example, „which form do you have to fill with which information in how many copies, in order to export pastry?“.

That‘s much faster than a real trade deal, because it‘s mostly administrative, but it is still a hurdle to clear before you can trade under „WTO rules“.

And now do that for a gazillion sectors and special cases. With every trading partner.
the EU is rapidly turning in to a union with few willing and satisfied participants

the EU would be much better off letting disgruntled states go, even if it diminishes the size and prestige of the remaining union, unless the bureaucrats relish spending the next fifty years in endless, pointless debate and hand-wringing

the UK isn't alone. I doubt the EU will see 2030 in its current form.