skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Sweden and never even thought about how Germany "dominates". Is it just because I come from a much smaller country with much smaller population and therefore much smaller expectations about what we can accomplish on the world stage? Or is it because our views align much better with those of Germany, so we are part of the same "bloc" in EU politics whereas the UK would want to pull in another direction but can't?
The potential impact of Spectre on mobile performance and security
Say your downloader times out after 3 min.

1. Use find to compile a list of files that have not changed:
find /path/to -type f -mmin +3 > mylist.txt

2. Tell rsync only to sync files on the list:
rsync -a --files-from=mylist.txt /path/to remote:/backup

3. Homework: make sure it does not barf on strange filename.
>Which other option does the UK realistically have for those things other than just accept the EU rules? //

I'm not sure if it was a main driver but the powers that are pushing this whole thing behind the scenes clearly have realised the opportunity to subtely rewrite a lot of regulations/legislation to prefer their interests.

The "sovereignty" part of Brexit is playing out as taking power from a more socialist and green EU and giving it to the hidden capitalist interests behind the Tories.

The incredible sleight-of-hand has been getting the working classes to vote for something that could then be twisted to be so highly detrimental to them.

Anyway, to your question about industry regulations: safety, food standards, and environmentalism costs money. Companies within the EU trading block will sell the stuff that meets the regulations, UK will get to have cheap stuff that breaks easily and no longer have the 2 year 'warranty', or the restrictions on unfair business practices - UK companies will try and foist our lower standards on whoever we can fool in to it, eg with promises of "foreign aid" that end up in developing world officials bank accounts. Bonus, the workers making the stuff will get paid less, have less job security, less rights.

Double bonus, UK environment will be open for capitalists to fuck up if they want to make a quick buck.
"In an official announcement, South Korean government reaffirms there will be NO TRADING BAN"

https://twitter.com/iamjosephyoung/status/951428854085689344
Author here. So I've created what I think is the best WordPress companion extension for Visual Studio Code. nearly 4,000 snippets covering the entire WordPress API.

This one differs from the others in that I've added argument type hints for functions. I've found this has helped me spend less time on documentation lookups, especially when I already know the function I want to use. Anyway, if you're doing WordPress development in VSCode, I'd be delighted if you'd give it a try, and let me know how it could be even better.

Higher-level snippets are coming soon, for things like quick shortcode and widget scaffolding.
Yes, the polarization is deliberate, following the US culture war template or the older UK colonial practice. Keep the population fighting each other to prevent them uniting to focus on the real inequalities. Lots of people in the most marginalised parts of the country voted for Brexit in an attack on "elites", but of course the "elite"(+) running Brexit aren't going to start caring about Lowestoft.

(+) used with heavy sarcasm to describe the current lot http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reshuffle-cabinet-priv...
Robocall moguls outwitted the government and wrecked the Do Not Call list
Russia has 144M, and EU is not exactly folding their cards and giving up in regard to trade deals or sanctions.

Population size don't seem to be that important.
This seems like evidence towards Gwern's theory that pineapple fund is a retired dark net drug dealer...
If anything because they'll have to rewrite thousands of
laws and procedures that came from the EU times, and deal
with the caos that that will cause.

I've never understood this argument. Surely all you have to do is write a law that says: in the absence of British law, default to EU legislation. That's the essence of the great repeal bill, is it not?

They have to negotiate with the EU so that they're not
completely cut out of commerce, with nothing to offer in
exchange and therefore no negotiating power.

Uhm, there is the little matter of the ~£60 billion shortfall that the EU has to find from somewhere.

It's old people in the country that have decided this,
based on their ignorance on the matter...

What makes you so sure that old people are more ignorant than young people? I think you'll find that it usually works the other way round.

I'm Italian, just talking based on what I've read and a
handful of friends who live in London

Take what you hear from London with a massive pinch of salt. The EU has done very well for Londoners, thank you very much, and they aren't very happy about the fact that the rest of the population of the UK have just made their comfortable futures a lot less certain.

Consequently, the rhetoric aimed at the other side comes with more than a little hyperbole.
Wow, I'm struck by the similarities to Buddhism. Renunciation, solitude, reflection, nothing to fear or hope for, unmoved by worldly events, at peace. Some of this stuff is like what I would expect to hear from someone like Thich Nhat Hanh.
Is it not time for an annual "Upvote Aaron day"?
50% to the new Office of Cybertechnology, 50% to the victims of the breach.[0]

I don't think Ms. Warren really understands most of the issues in finance she's often cited as a champion for, and dislike much about the CFPB, but this new effort to put dedicated personnel around setting minimum security standards and imposing civil penalties isn't too bad, as long as it doesn't indemnify the bad actors for victims seeking individual damages.

[0]https://www.scribd.com/document/368838846/Data-Breach-Preven...
It is true that we suck at estimating. Doubling helps you get closer since you always think you'll be less busy and have less distractions. You can also get really good estimates by breaking all tasks down into things that are less than one day. However, this takes time as you are really doing investigation that is part of the task itself to figure out how many sub-day tasks you need for a bigger task.

In the end, estimating is bad for how people use it (imo). It is used to make gantt charts and plan release dates which are useless. It is much better as a personal tool to track how effective you are at turning concepts into working products. If you track time, it should be so you can reflect and improve.

We all really need to move to prioritized iterative development (not scrum) where the team is working on the highest value items in prioritized order. This also means cross training so people don't say things like "Jill doesn't know the image processing code so pick so other (lower priority) task". If you are always completing the most valuable tasks, everything else will come out in the wash.
yes, would be a better name for the project. I hope the subheading clarifies the purpose.
ah yes, the old "fake news" argument

the data is from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Publications/Files/Key_Findings_...
> It would also let the agency fine them in the event of a data breach, to the tune of $100 per affected consumer as a minimum. Half of that money would be redistributed to the consumers caught up in the data breach.
The EU is more than an economic union. In fact, economic integration was/is only one of the strategies to foster lasting European stability, peace and path towards harmony among warring neighbours.

To face these negotiations only on the basis of economic gains/lost is ignoring the political and less tangible goals of the union.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vz06QO3UkQ&feature=youtu.be...
> What 'popular' really means is that the tool is more likely to be where you need it to be and the people you need to use it will already know how.

There's a balance point, for sure. For instance, the pace of "innovation" in front-end javascript libraries throws out a lot of babies with the bathwater, and we might be well-served by accepting a paradigm for 10 minutes and building on it rather than always chasing after the next hot thing.

But at the other extreme, there was a time when PHP was ubiquitous for back-end development, and it stuck around largely because of inertia: the obvious flaws were accepted just because it was so accepted as the tool for that job. But I don't think many people are lamenting the fact that we've moved on to better tools for back-end development. In that case inertia was a bad thing because it delayed innovation.

For me an example of a "good enough" tool is GIT. It's not perfect, it's got a non-trivial learning curve, and surely some innovations could be made to improve version control. Some would already argue that Mercurial is the Betamax to GIT's VHS - but it does the job well enough, and everybody uses it, so it's good enough.

I'd argue Make is more like PHP than it is GIT.
Is Corbyn for Brexit? He campaigned against it all around the country before the referendum.

Can anyone provide anything close to a first hand source?
> They know I'm a vim user so they ask me for good tutorials and I tell them there are lots out there but they should start by running vimtutor (included with vim). Takes around 15-20 minutes to work through the interactive lessons and gives you all the basics of movement and editing.

I think that I am rather good at memorizing lots of obscure raw data - but in my experience it takes a lot longer to remember all the "obscure" commands of vim. In this sense I would not say it takes 15-20 minutes, but at least a day if at the end you really want to have the commands in your brain.

In this sense the mistake in your argumentation is the timescale that you are talking about.
Stop estimating, and use previous efforts as evidence of capability to perform future work. The basic idea is to use previous projects as a basis for a distribution, use Monte Carlo simulation, then use whatever quantile you're comfortable with to "estimate" the new project. You can even use multiple quantiles to provide a range, if you care to.

https://www.infoq.com/articles/noestimates-monte-carlo/
Missing context - apparently the guy being interviewed sold all his Windows apps, including this WiFi thing, to the people who are interviewing him. With whooping 17 reviews in Windows Store I'm not sure this is anywhere as notable as they are trying to make it look like.

https://mobile.twitter.com/HelgeKeck/status/9444279856203571...
The most interesting part of RS was that the more raw the product, the more it was worth - you could get more XP out of it.

And before the Grand Exchange, buying in bulk cost more than buying small amounts, because buying large amounts of materials required you to sit on World 1 spamming "buying iron ore whatever each" for hours.
> there's little to no evidence yet of any exodus of highly skilled workforces

Like I mentioned, I'm speaking from what I read and a few friends living there. My friends all left because of uncertainty (all of them are programmers).

> Mario Monti it isn't willing to impose a free market in service in the same way it has for goods - and stand up to blatant protectionism

It's not protectionism, it's corruption and/or mafia. The government is ruled by companies (much like that of the US), and the mafia. Only when you realize this the initiatives they take (or don't take) start to make sense.
Such a system probably wouldn't include people driving automobiles?
I still use his `html2text` python library on occasion.
>If a company is willfully negligent

I agree with a lot of the points in this post, but I think it's important to remove 'willfully' from this statement. If a company takes on this type of power and responsibility, it should not matter whether their negligence was willful.
I just want to highlight an an interesting parallel you've drawn here, between the "sovereignty" Ireland obtained leaving the UK, and the "sovereignty" the UK, or rather parts of England and Wales hope to obtain by leaving the EU.

Though we define ourselves as "different" from the English, we are very much "the same" in a great many respects, and there is nobody more like us in this world than the English. In that respect England is kind of like an older brother that periodically gives us a kick but whom we tell jokes about behind their back. But we love them all the same and they us.

However, you also allude to some human rights abuses by the crown in the North, and in some respects this was a continuation of policy that had heretofore gone on in the rest of Ireland.

Do you think this is far fetched? The potato famine for a start. This was very much a political matter, and not merely a matter of a few spuds. Then there was 1916 where by far in excess the majority of fatalities were civilian and inflicted by the British army trying to regain control. Not to mention the subsequent illegal executions.

This was the backdrop against which Ireland sought independence, which seems a bit different from the narrative beneath brexit which appears to read as "something something sovereignty something something take back control".

With all that said, the UK would do well to look at how Ireland fared economically after independence. Not too well for a number of years but our eventual accession into the European Union helped to relieve that.
I look forwards to the anti-Brexit bus having "If we abandoned Brexit, we'd have an extra 350 million pounds a week for the NHS" written on the side.
The point is, everyone cannot be working on creating AIDS medicine. Someone has to be working on things that, say, cheer up the person working on aids medicine when she hits a wall.
The problem is you can't have a multiple choice referendum because it would split the leave vote. For example:

A. "Hard" Brexit

B. "Soft" Brexit

C. No Brexit

Brexitors would be somewhat split between A and B, and all remainers would pick C.

However, based on polling data it would suggest most people in favour of Brexit do want a "hard" Brexit, or a brexit that would give the UK control over its own trade and immigration policy.
He's an author and activist. No surprise that he does different things than journalists. This is a "commentary" column in a science fiction magazine. He bills himself just as I said:

https://boingboing.net/about
How Blockchain Technologies Can Help You Make Your Business Future-Ready
This is an article about Brexit. What's your point about the Euro?

(For those who don't know, the UK has never adopted the Euro)
I agree somewhat. I think a lot of people feel that way - some of them perhaps only unconsciously. That's why when someone comes along and says he has something meaningful to do (be it religion or making life multi-planetary), he gets attention.
It sure resonates with me as well (not the religion part ;-) ).
take a look at this current pkey impl: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/OpenSSL_1_1_0-stable...

and compare that to 0.9.8: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/OpenSSL-fips-0_9_8-s...

You'll notice how much cleaner the code is. Error conditions are more consistently handled. Many fewer macros interleaving the code... etc.
> Now Playing, has a daily battery usage of less than 1% on average, respects user privacy by running entirely on-device and can passively recognize a wide range of music.

Maybe I am missing something, but this seems to be much less respectful of my privacy than an app that only listens to the ambient sound around me when I explicitly give my consent (by opening/activating the app).
The powers that the Members of the European Parliament have are mostly eclipsed by the European Commission, national parliaments (and for some stuff, the ECB).
What does this have to do with the comment you replied to?
Yes, to both your rant and question. Shoot me an email at the email from https://github.com/andreis, we're hiring remotely and in several countries. Either React or Go experience or interest is appreciated, since we're using both extensively.
Yes, that's a fair assessment.

It's hard to imagine how this whole situation could have been fucked-up to a greater extent. I'm a solid supporter of remaining in the EU, but I'm open-minded to the idea that an orderly Brexit could have been planned and executed, with the public being aware of the various trade-offs. A single market on one hand, balanced against free movement and regulatory harmonisation on the other.

But that discussion didn't happen. There was literally no coherent concept in the public sphere about what the goals of Brexit where, or what the desired end state was – and there still isn't. Obviously to some extent because the outcome was unexpected, but that doesn't excuse the ongoing incompetence and failure to be realistic on the behalf of the UK government. Various government ministers continue to be frankly fucking deluded about what they are trying to achieve – in a way that I have to assume that they are deliberately lying. There is still no coherent government policy on what Brexit actually is, and no corresponding public idea of that either.

This is in stark contrast to the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 – though I was on the 'yes' side then. I have a book published by the Scottish government sitting on my bookshelf, which outlines in decent detail the plans and desired outcomes if independence was chosen. Not that all of that would come to pass, or would even be possible, but even to have a stated government plan is light-years ahead of what is happening at the UK level. It's almost criminally irresponsible.

Worse, there is no obvious out – either a reversal of this policy, or any sign of a government that can realistically set out what it wants to achieve. The main opposition party is weak and equally committed to Brexit, and with the leader of the opposition being the only realistic figure around which support could coalesce, there is limited room for manoeuvre.

Now we see the fallout – not in the short term, but taking a longer view. I've had people explicitly tell my startup that they are no longer funding in the UK because they "have no idea what's going to happen". It's become much harder to hire EU-based workers, because of course they have no idea what their position will be in a couple of years. I have watched a number of talented friends and contacts move away from the UK, because they can't really be bothered with this nonsense. In the long-term, this cack-handed mismanagement is going to be another bullet point in the long and slow decline of the UK. It's not like the world is going to end – it's just that everything is going to be a bit shittier.

I know that's a bit of a rant, but it's utterly frustrating to deal with from inside the UK when so many are currently banging on about how good it's great to be to have a different fucking colour of passport.
Theft -- in UK law -- is the intentional taking of someone's property with the intent to deprive the owner of it permanently.

That's why there's a specific offence of "Taking Without Owner's Consent" when you steal a car to joyride in (and crash and burn, rather than sell on): otherwise it's too easy to claim you only "borrowed" the car and intended to give it back, at which point it's not a crime any more.
Has Endgame published any research papers? I am curious to have a look at them.
I'm also not entirely sure how well the Polish line holds of late either. Hasn't there been a bunch of religious conservatives elected there lately? I honestly don't know if what I'm reading is propaganda any more but it seems they were doing lots of ugly things like cracking down on free speech.
The EU can unilaterally allow British people to work in th EU, no UK consent required. The UK does want to curb immigration, so that’s not exactly a route they want to take. No card for the UK.
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/archive
Translated into American: imagine if the president was able to appoint Supreme Court judges ;-)

Jokes aside, from that to saying that it will become a dictatorship... I just don't see it, sorry.
Yeah, it was when the Grand Exchange locked in market rates - you couldn't trade at any price outside 10% of the established price.

At the same time, ClanChat was introduced, allowing enormous groups of strangers to coordinate their activities.
Once I had a very difficult customer who insisted on extremely precise timelines when we were doing some unknowable research. I finally got them to agree to "as fast as possible and no sooner".
How are you supposed to test it if there's no success criteria? And by extension, how are you going to write good software without tests?
Pardon me for asking, but why a third-party source?

They're all on his blog[0], which is still alive.

[0] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/books2011
The author of the article is a professor in said department.
4 things that you need to know about seo
> If this was 20 years ago, atom would be built with java using swing. It would be just as slow and just as un-native.

They did, and the result wasn't that bad: http://www.jedit.org/
The Challenge of Millennial Workflow
I think it is reasonable to push back and ask for more requirements. If they say that they don't exist yet, estimate it will take 6 months. When they accuse you of being unhelpful, restate that at present you don't have enough information to make any kind of reasonable ballpark estimate let alone something for them to put in their awful gantt chart.

If that path won't work, then I'd tell them that I need two days to break it down into all the tasks that I think I'll need to do and then give them an estimate after you do that investigation.
How much of an "Asshole Surcharge" did you add to the project?
Law is not a functional programming language, in which we insert facts, turn a handle and get an answer. The law is essentially what you can successfully argue, bolstered by existing law and case history and all the rest of it.

"in the absence of British law, default to EU legislation" would by no means be any kind of clarity, and I would anticipate such a thing would give years and even decades of discussion and argument in the various legal forums and courts to interpret that in all the various permutations and possibilities.
hey do you have any more info about this? have been wanting to do something similar.
Real-Time Business Communication: With Hop Channels
Companies that want to protect themselves from breaches should avoid collecting and quickly discard sensitive data.
Deploy Full Serverless Applications with a Single Command
Yeah Davis says lots of things ...

But what's important is that all the UK cabinet got behind it, including Johnson. It's a "get out of jail" card for the whole mess. It solves loads of problems for everybody.

The only person actually grumbling was Farage, which can only be a good thing.
Of drivers? Sure! :)

Another interesting issue is that it is hard to do effective cyclist/pedestrian education in a hardcore car culture. In such an environment it is not really possible to include information about common driver errors such as right and left hooks. I remember the particuarly unhelpful things I learned in school. It came down to looking both ways before crossing the street and riding in a straight line. That is pretty wrongheaded in an environment where 80% of the collisions are caused by driver error.
Learn about your package manager
It's always been this way (at least, since the start of the 70s, according to my mother). Those who are capable of reading the user manual (or documentation, or stackoverflow, or...) will be regarded with superstitious awe by those who are not.
Well change the words "music" to "conversation" and song to "person" (or phrase), and things start to get pretty scary.