skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Republic of Ireland joining the United Kingdom

Sure, but this is somewhere in probability behind "UK destroyed by asteroid impact".

> Scotland making a bid to join the EU

There are persistent rumours that people on the UK side are trying to avoid having any kind of double-no-border situation that would work for NI be also applicable for Scotland. Because during the referendum all sorts of claims about the need for a hard border were made, often by the same people who claim there doesn't now need to be a hard border in Ireland.
Who's the "unknown"? What's the startup? Not clicking the clickbait :P

Edit: I found the info in comments here on HN. The founder is software engineer Zhang Yiming and the startup is ByteDance.

:)
I guess the problem is the combination of "35-year-old" with "unknown".

Seems the 35yo bit is irrelevant to the story, that's neither old nor young: you can have a significant career by that point and you are a long way from retiring. So I can understand some people from the Valley would think this is just another case of ageism.

A bit like saying "A Black Woman left me her seat in the bus" can be suspicious even though it is factual.
I've followed Zig's progress with some enthusiasm, but would have considered it too immature for a serious project at this point. In that vein, a few questions about your experience:

1) What's your workflow like in terms of tooling? Coming from C# and C++ people are typically used to great IDE support, debugging and profiling tools, etc. Zig doesn't have any of that. How do you work around it and do you find the experience reasonably productive?

2) How do you deal with the language still rapidly evolving? Do you run the latest nightlies or freeze a particular compiler version and update periodically?

3) What are the most important things Zig gets you over the traditional gamedev approach of using a restricted subset of C++ (in some cases literally just C with function/operator overloading for basic math and a few other convenience features)?
I am very interested. I support Zig on Patreon, because I really believe Andrew has hit the sweet spot when you are looking at staying with C, or C++, or moving on to Rust, but can't quite get it. I have been playing recently with Lua/Terra for game dev stuff (scriptable and low-level, but no big user base yet), but I am really a Lisp guy. Zig may help me to bridge a few of my toy program ideas and aspirations to go bigger as you have.
Smaller hiring pool leading to higher wages for the sober drones is the implied hypothesis here if I am reading it right.
Probably worth bolding that DR.
The Guardian's In-House Security Expert Accused of Unwanted White-Hat Phishing
Stock down over negative 3% today.
Any reason it doesn't serve HTTPS?
I guess I'm not familiar enough with the monarchical aspect of their government to know how (if?) that would go down?

But you make a good point. Why can't their queen or whatever just say no we're not leaving? I'm not sure? I'm from the US. We don't have the whole monarchy thing going on.
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I’m having a great time in Vapor 3.
ByteDance also made news for "highest salaries in the world" and "unlimited salary for unlimited talent". $1M USD salaries plus options.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/201...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-24/in-battle...
Scotland and NI quit UK to form their own republic and rejoin EU together. Everyone happy. Maybe even republic of Scotland-Ireland.
There was a requirement in 2014 (I think?) and recently they updated it in 2017. I think people that weren't meeting guidelines started getting notices from registrars around that time. A few clients of our had this happen to them from everyone from GoDaddy to Network Solutions to NameCheap. Some organizations that had their emails set to go to a person that no longer worked at the company were having their domains suspended...but it was all because of ICANN.
Elon Musk Wanted to Impress Girlfriend with $420 Price, SEC Says
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The entire idea of the Brexit is that mobility to the UK is not of equal value to mobility of the rest of the EU.
Yup it’s rude to call a billionaire “unknown”
Are you sure it's not more like announcing you plan on robbing the local gas station on X date?
Turns out I never enabled HTTPS in Blogger. Just clicked the button... https://blog.plan28.org/
I'm not in the western world, but News Republic is on plenty of phones around here, as part of the initial bloatware. I have not used the product myself, so this is not a comment on the quality of the product.
I definitely agree, but I wouldn't say the market crash is the biggest risk.

Tenants who damage the property and withhold rent are way worse.
Real estate has always been a stable asset. The problem with it is that people are used to buying or selling a house a certain way, and they often do it only once or twice in their lifetime. The offer stage is very untransparent and manipulative. The closing process looks so hard that everyone thinks that we should pay 6% to agents and thousands of dollars to title companies. Tech can make the process to be transparent. Propy is doing it with smart contracts.

The question is raised whether there are more efficient or straightforward methods of doing transactions of real estate. Why shouldn’t buying properties globally be as simple, as buying a laptop from an online store in a different country?
Some of the benefits of being able to purchase real estate globally easily:
-You’d able to invest low amounts for a stable return
-The real estate market would gain liquidity
-You’d have access to multiple markets

Blockchain technology is one way this can be done, and we’ve already had successful global real estate transactions on our platform using it.
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Mino Games Is Hiring Haxe Game Programmers
I think his account is special in also the sense that he has two usernames: mark and zuck. I don't think any other Facebook account has that.
Fella is overwhelmingly used as a gendered term to refer to men.

How many real world examples of fella being used to refer to women can you find?
whose definition of 'prominent' ? many, many assumptions there
It doesnt need to have the S in http - the AI does it all for you!

Ill say it again A dot freaking I.

Bam! $75B right there.
Main problems I see are one step deeper:

- Too many equate "legal" with "moral" and defer to the authority of the state when it labels someone officially as a "criminal," no matter the offense. This is a deep cultural problem, and I blame compulsory state schooling for exacerbating the issue of blindly trusting the government. Deference to arbitrary authority is drilled into our young minds over many formative years. Since public school is one of the main religions of America, I don't see this changing any time soon.

- The cultural perception that justice means punishing the bad guy. Too many movies end with the villain getting killed, as if that solves the problem. If instead our culture thought of justice as making the victim whole, then entire classes of crimes would not exist, and a criminal who made restitution would be done with it. BIG NOTE HERE: people should still be able to judge whether to hire or not based on a person's history. No matter how much restitution the thief has made to past victims, for instance, a bank will probably not hire him and for good reason.

- The state should have no say in whether someone is "rehabilitated." If you think for a minute how this would play out, you will realize that it opens the door to either huge abuses by the state or completely absurd outcomes. On the one hand, if you give discretion over a person's "fitness" to reenter society to a prison warden or state bureaucrat, then you allow for unlimited jail terms for those with politically incorrect views. If you try to encode into some regulation a rubric for whether someone is rehabilitated, it will utterly fail to encapsulate the nuance that is the human mind and will lead to gaming the system almost immediately.
WhatsApp message destroys 71% of Infibeam's stock value
That's because Kate Gregory is a terrific teacher! I like her talks and teaching style a lot.
Not if you have kids or any valuable belongings. Then it can become incredibly messy.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fella
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fella

Nearly every usage of "fella" I've heard has had a "male" implication. At least in US English.
If only marriage implied raising a family...
Because it would be the last official act they would do.

It would cause a huge problem, as they have to sign off every law, and every large cheque. It would require an actual real constitution, which would be impossible give the current damp paper bags we have in parliament.
I'd wear "Unknown" as a badge of honor.
> Allow me to rephrase: that disproves your statement, "nobody would invest millions into figuring out the right arrangement of atoms that cures some disease, if there wasn't a way to profit from that."

You really want to play that dumb semantic game? Fine, I'll play: I didn't specify financial profit. When publicly funded research leads to the cure for a disease, then the public profits.

> Everything else is noise.

No it isn't, "everything else" is the whole damn point that you fail to address.
EDIT: retracted, the article title was similar to something else I read that didn’t mention kids, when it isn’t, darn memory.
There has been something of a push towards a simpler style of C++, and the speaker (Kate Gregory) is one of the best at articulating how and why it can work.

Incidentally — in principle, most of this talk is applicable to _any_ software engineer. It's just that she's coming from a C++ point of view, and talking at a C++ conference. It's definitely worth a watch.
So so so sorry for zero peoof reading. So many typos. I just really wanted to get my thought out .

It's too late to edit and fix the issues :(
Go ahead. We'll miss your funny northern accents.
Divorce proceedings offer protection to the lower-earning partner. But also a marriage usually means more pooled resources (which counts more if you don't have much) and a more stable environment in which to rear children.
What if the attacker is already in the system, and using this announcement as a probe for response and as an opportunity to harvest more info?

(ie announce server x is going to get attacked, and stand back while logged into server y and monitor where/who the increased security presence and attention is coming from, and use that to target the next sigint / humint attack)
I'm surprised you use the term "constitutional crisis" here. Isn't the UK one of those rare countries without a constitution?
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Here’s a good reply I saw in reddit in response to your type:

> Malaria is only carried by a tiny number of mosquito species. Of the thousands of species only something like a dozen actually matter to humans. We can target exactly the ones we want and even better : nothing stops us from maintaining a population in some labs somewhere.

If it turns out they matter in any significant way, contrary to various impact analysis... we just release them back into the environment.

The current cost of not wiping out those few mosquito species is about half a million dead children.
Imagine that someone was nuking a mid sized American city every year and you could stop it right now but you'd prefer to wait for a slightly more athsteticly pleasing solution.

How much blood would you be willing to let stain your soul .
Recursive fibonacci benchmark - you are doing something different in which case you could just evaluate the closed form φⁿ / √5 and be even faster.
> If the rent is more than the mortgage why would I rent?

Because the you don't have the savings for the downpayment to qualify for the mortgage with the payment at issue.

Because property ownership cones with more expenses than just he mortgage, many of which remaining with the owner in most leases.

Because no one is selling single units of the type you want at the time, but someone is renting them out.

Because you're bearish on the housing market and prefer the risk of paying too high a rent at the end of a relatively short lease term to longer-term exposure to risk of loss of property value.

Because you intend to have a federally controlled, even if state legal, substance on the property, and want to control your exposure to risk from civil forfeiture.

Etc.

Etc.

Etc.
Like that guy Elon accused of being a pedophile in under 30 seconds?
> They are willing to share work documents and emails with Google, but not Facebook.

Last time I checked, Facebook did not offer free personal and company e-mail and collaborative office suite.
Brexit has definitely changed my mind on one thing - majority vote in a referendum is bad. Or rather, the percentage vote required should be proportional to the gravity of the question. Referendums are rare, so most votes should require well over 50%.

I did not used to think this. In 2007 British Columbia had a referendum on switching to proportional representation from FPTP. The result was like 52% in favour, but the government had set a minimum of 55%,so it did not pass. I thought it was a a terrible idea at the time (the people had spoken! Democracy!), but I don't think so anymore. Another example is the 1995 Quebec independence referendum, which "stay" narrowly won, but afterwards the federal government passed an act making it much harder to pass a referendum.

Basically, the bigger the question, the longer and larger implications it has, the more it has to be thought through, the more consensus there should be. The US constitution has features like this when it requires large majorities to pass amendments etc.

As an engineering metaphor, having a fast-response system without any dampening can lead to out of control oscillations, which ultimately destroy your system.
They need to adapt rather quickly if the mosquito population collapsed in 8 to 11 generations during the trials. They also could have adapted in places where malaria was erradicated but did not.
Are you suggesting independence for NI? That would be interesting...
this whole fame+valuation approach serves the purposes of .. who ? other posts mention the shallow (and worse) nature of this kind of adspace.. long toiling projects starve while this is the monetary king-of-the-hill ? ugly
> Nearly every usage of "fella" I've heard has implied that it referred to a male.

Neat, and I've heard it implied multiple times to refer to generic groups of people, in US English as well too just like you. The thing though we need to consider is definitions, facts, sentence context, and even the auhtor's intent much more heavily then both of our personal experiences.

It can easily be argued based on context that the author's intent was to refer to a group of people generically, they even used the "nonstandard" and generic version of the word.

Personal anecdotes do not make facts.
Article contradicts you and supports mythrwy:

Many poorer and less educated Americans are opting not to get married at all. They’re living together, and often raising kids together, but deciding not to tie the knot. And studies have shown these cohabiting relationships are less stable than they used to be.
What? It says they're having kids right in the article.
Fair. I'm from Canada and am borrowing what I know about our system and what I know about theirs.

We would call it that. Hmm. What do you call it in the UK? A crisis caused by the challenge of technically legal but completely unfounded government/monarchy actions.
You can give Brave (https://brave.com/) a try. I used to play whack-a-mole with the pop-ups until I started using it exclusively for browsing the internet. Not anymore!
Why is the democratic decision to leave not an "adult" decision?

To conduct the referendum and then not abide by the result would absolutely be undemocratic. The UK is already dragging it's heels on taking action WRT Brexit IMO. I think that they will drag it out so long that they say the mandate of the referendum has expired, and then re-rerun the referendum. They will rinse and repeat until they get the result they want.

As an example Ireland voted not to join the EU the first time they did a referendum, they simply had more referendums until they got a yes.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/dec/13/eu-ire...
California is a good example of what happens when pretty much any policy can be set by simple majority vote. The result is, to be kind about it, a lot of room for improvement.
And please don't email code samples through BITNET because each IBM SYSOP has their own different home brew set of EBCDIC<=>ASCII translation tables. (That's why C has trigraphs!)
Orca 'apocalypse': half of killer whales doomed to die from pollution
The SNP aren't going to be willing to make such an overt bid to join the EU as an independent state any time soon, even if they manage to achieve the latter, given that a sizeable minority of their supporters actually supported Brexit.
Overtime Hurts Your Software and Your Team
The Gaelic/Celtic Union is an idea that has been batted around for a while now. It might be political fantasy, but the populaces seem to be general amenable (not including, ironically, the various "unionists").
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I mean one could argue that anything hosted on k8s should be reproducible anyway. I completely rebuild my k8s servers on a rolling two week cycle. The pain from that forces people to check in everything they need because if they don't it'll be gone very soon.

And still it's a bit of a battle to get people to test new versions of things, k8s included. "But it's working" is as much of a rallying cry as it ever was, "cloud" or no.
Yeah. Divorce are messy and expensive in part because untangling a long relationship is complicated.
It always interested me that this could be Asimov's (1956) response to Arthur C Clarke's (1953), 9 Billion Names of God, where the stars went out.
Oh crap indeed you’re right. I read another similar article that I thought this was, it didn’t talk about kids.

EDIT: worth noting that I’m not sure who downvoted him, but I have him a vote to try and counter it
73 out of 536.
I work for the municipality of Skanderborg, Denmark. We have what we call digital elections, but what’s digitized is the registration process. Basically every adult gets a voting card with their information + a barcode, we scan those barcodes when they turn up to receive their ballot(is that the right word for voting list?), and then they are registered.

The actual voting takes place on paper, and while it takes time to prepare the ballots and count the votes, the process of voting doesn’t take very longer than a few minutes for the individual citizen. From they enter the voting place till they are done.

I think that’s the way to digitize elections, you make them speedy for the citizens, but safe for democracy.

I can’t for the life of me understand why you would ever do a digital vote. It’s just so risky. I guess you save money by adding effectiveness to the process surrounding an election, preparing ballots and counting votes, but those parts of the process are owned by the public sector and I don’t think the government should ever value the safety of our democracy as less important than money. We count votes by enlisting employees of the municipality, members of political parties and paid help from local NGOs, and everything is monitored and counted a few times. It’s a little taxing, but everyone involved enjoy the process, and financially it’s not that expensive compared to paying a license for voting machines.
It's why I just drink cider now. Hard to find quality ones, but when I do they don't involve getting punched in the face with hops.
By teaching? Parent demonstrates behavior, child learns. Same as in a human society.

Not speculation - emerging but well supported science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_culture
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I've driven across many EU borders without stopping, let alone having to show any ID.
Who uses exceptions in C++? Better use good ol' return values like in pure C code.
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Right, this doesn't detract from your original point at all. I was just wondering if there was some technicality I was missing.
Just hypothetically, to better understand chip fab:

If Intel wanted to fab a CPU using TSMC, what would be involved?
> Too many equate "legal" with "moral" and defer to the authority of the state when it labels someone officially as a "criminal," no matter the offense.

This is s huge point, and not just in drug convictions. If someone us poor and gets a warrant on the for unpaid parking fines, that is used in any public debate about them to show they are of low moral character. Reverse the issue and executives that settled charges without admitting fault are without sin, because obviously it was all legal.

If the US wants to truly embrace the ideals of free speech, then we must also accept that there will be actions that are immoral but legal.
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This is just too much work at some point. And I'm guessing the GDPR scare plays a role too for European users—and often a counter productive one at that it seems.
> many with criminal convictions are bad people.

In addition to what others are saying, I'll also point out that many with criminal convictions merely made bad or stupid decisions many years (even decades) ago. To put too much weight on that is to commit the fundamental attribution error[1].

Further, in our justice system there are plenty of innocent people who were convinced to take plea bargains to avoid risking much worse sentences that they don't have a good enough lawyer to do them justice. This is especially true for poor people relying on overworked public defenders. Better to just take the six months than risk 10 years and not get to experience your children growing up.

If any of what I've said above is untrue, I would love someone with more direct experience in the justice system to chime in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
>But also a marriage usually means more pooped resources

Are you suggesting that marriages cause overeating? ;)
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> Reform is desperately needed.

I don't disagree, but it's not like there aren't any arguments for both sides. You can point to negative outcomes for any piece of regulation, it doesn't put the whole concept into question.
More unaware drones/flying objects with greater mass than birds, maybe?
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> ... the divorce rate as a ratio of divorces to the total number of married women. So, the divorce rate’s decline isn’t a reflection of a decline in marriages.
GP was wrong. They acquired musica.ly in 2017 for $800 million. Musica.ly accounts for a minuscule portion of their valuation. The article itself clearly spells out what Bytedance's main businesses are, but commenters don't appear to want to read!
All of their wireless gear is OpenWRT based, EdgeOS is only used on the switching hardware. Their wireless gear has been mmuch more popular and has significantly more variety than the switches/routers Ubiquiti offers.
For those like me who don't know, and aporia is an irresolvable contradiction.
There are currently too many elephants in certain parts of Africa:

https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/17793/20151027/elep...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-southern-afric...

http://www.krugerpark.co.za/krugerpark-times-2-1-elephants-1...
Well, certain versions of stuxnet were sent to Natanz suppliers first, and I believe the infection made it out into the world from one of these suppliers, not Natanz itself.
Just come out and say it: Millenials are killing divorce!