skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it obviously isn't reasoned. I actually really hate Gove, but if you look at his whole quote rather than just cherry pick the first half, he was bang on. The actual whole quote was roughly "have had enough of experts who say they know what is best, but get it consistently wrong". Economic experts predicted a recession in the UK immediately after a leave Brexit vote, and they were completely wrong. The experts usually quoted are institutionally biased to be pro-EU, pro-immigration, pro-free market capitalism.

And also, the British people have decided they want smaller families, that the world needs less people, not more. Politicians are allowing mass immigration in direct defiance of a desire for a smaller population, and smaller families.

If birth rate is so important, why not do a national campaign to have more babies, rather than get migrants to move here? Because, as educated, liberal people, we know there are too many people in the world and growth above all else is bad. So why should we be ok with allowing population growth through the back door?

In fact, right now the UK government is penalizing people on benefits with more than 2 children, rather than celebrating the birth of a new future worker! They are cutting tax breaks for families, reducing financial incentives to have children.

Government actions never seem to match the reasons given for immigration. For example, we've known for decades we need more nurses, but instead of encouraging people to take up the profession we are now charging them tuition fees. Shouldn't we be giving student nurses grants instead?

Honestly, it's insane. None of it makes sense.

Finally, if you spent 10 seconds thinking about it, if someone takes 20-40% of their lifetime earnings out of the UK, it means they're not paying the VAT they'd have paid on all that money if they'd spent it in the UK.

So, yes, ultimately they paid less tax than a native, plus lose the UK wealth when the transfer it, which you can almost certainly predict is conveniently left out of those reports.
For reference, ExxonMobile controls 70 BILLION barrels of oil. That's 70 billion * $70 ~= $5 trillion at current prices. On top of this, most years, their reserves increase, not decrease.

No company is going to walk away from $5,000,000,000,000 in potential revenue unless the margins are very negative.
I was telling myself the same thing, even if I'm not expecting a potential employer to actually do all of that, their reactions and answers probably will say a lot about the culture of the company
> I don't like Google Maps and I deleted it. Now I can't see the map!

i mean, is it common for a user to hold contradictory thoughts like that?!
Telemetry has a nice creeping scope like that, although not necessarily a problem with fedora, this scope often expands to "how can we monetize this info".
It's prerelease, so still needs a lot of work.
https://www.eia.gov/state/rankings/

California: 199 million BTU per capita per year [0] -- 210 gigajoules. Multiplied by 10 billion, that's 2100 exajoules per year (2.1 * 10^21 joules). That's equivalent to steady yearlong consumption of 67 terawatts.

This was the first open-access article I found about global solar generation potential:

https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/sepm/article/view/1218/115...

It states "The current global solar potential technically available was estimated at about 613 PWh/y." That's 70 terawatts. So there is technically enough potential from solar alone, but it would be a tight squeeze. There are also some countries that cannot meet even annualized needs this way because they are densely populated and located in areas with relatively poor solar resources. Belgium and the Netherlands, for example.

Note also that the article says nothing about storage. Storage is the biggest question mark hanging over proposals to fully decarbonize without using nuclear technology. Early news from utility-scale storage implementations is encouraging but there is still a very long way to go.

Finally, note that commercial nuclear power too would have to undergo radical transformations to deliver a steady 67 terawatts of electricity. Breeder reactors would be necessary. Currently there is 1 breeder reactor in the world large enough for commercial electricity production [1]. The proposed follow-up design to this reactor is now on indefinite hold [2]. It would take a bit over 76,000 BN-800 reactors to generate 67 terawatts. The world currently has fewer than 500 operating power reactors.

As a general principle, you should treat any proposed miracle-solution that "just needs a few years of engineering work" with extreme skepticism, whether the claimed miracle is a much better battery or a much better reactor. Most of them die between the press release and the factory floor.

[0] Primary energy, not energy available to do work. But to avoid nitpicking I'm just going to do it The Hard Way and assume 1:1 joule replacement with electricity from non-combustion sources.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-800_reactor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-1200_reactor
Wow, didn't realize how inexpensive homes are there (vs LA, SF at least. I see 2 bedroom/2 baths for under $200k..tempting!
Where did you read that the UK would be in a deep recession 2 months before Brexit actually happens?
There are always winners and losers when decisions are made.
No. It's not realistic to get an improvement that way. FPGAs can provide improvement in some important cases but the system design (software and hardware co-design) is radically different. You can't expect to iterate your way there when you're starting with a conventional software-only system running on a generic white-box server.
>The amount of meta-work required to consolidate and annotate data we collect, in order to prepare it for public consumption, seems likely to hurt government efficiency.

I (briefly) thought the same thing when I first read about it, but I think the efficiency gained from having digital, standardized formats will eventually outweigh the inefficiencies of the initial conversion to that format.

I'm also happy that otherwise "dead" data (e.g. papers sitting in boxes in a basement somewhere) could now be used more effectively in aggregate to further increase operating efficiencies. Imagine trying to put together a comparison between a specific subset of finance reports across departments when Department A uses one digital format, Department B uses another digital format, and Departments C through Z all have them in boxes. What would have otherwise been a beaurocratic headache _before you even get to data munging_ now becomes an ordeal that's easier on all fronts, and that data can then be used to fight back against otherwise unknown inefficiencies.
It's true it's not as bad as some predicted and I imagine with a no deal brexit we'd muddle through but it still wouldn't be great.

For reference here's some prediction from back then:

>The Treasury's "cautious" economic forecasts of the two years following a vote to leave - which assumes a bilateral trade agreement with the EU would have been negotiated - predicts Gross Domestic Product would grow by 3.6% less than currently predicted.

>In such a scenario, it suggests sterling would fall by 12%, unemployment would rise by 520,000, average wages would fall by 2.8% and house prices would be hit by 10%.

Which was pessimistic. Sterling certainly fell, about 20%, but unemployment's doing fine so far.
In that example they'd expose it through the source control system and through the build system, though that's really stretching the meaning.

What it really means is that if you're building something that you run on your teams hosts it needs to be exposed through services. For most of the services at amazon that means using the common service interfaces that everyone uses and not just giving out DB credentials (which I've seen happen it took (think it's still in progress 5+ years later)) to untangle.
To var or not to var is purely a "tabs 'n' spaces" debate, but doesn't affect performance.
Vancouver brought in regulations to try to regulate Airbnb into actually behaving like the service is intended, that is to ensure that people are simply renting out other rooms in their residence and are not buying condos with the explicit purpose of renting them out full time like virtual hotels.

It's abundantly clear that Airbnb has zero interest in helping Vancouver enforce these rules. Vancouver has had to struggle to enforce its rules and is failing at doing so.
That would make sense... If this provision included additional funding for the additional burden of providing this service.
They are only in Ireland and they have been in business for over forty years under that name.

I don't think anyone accidentally walks into their store thinking it's McDonald's.

https://goo.gl/images/KqX3tJ

I mean look at this.

Mcd can always hit back with a lawsuit if there is evidence I'd credible deceptive after practice.
In NYC, Airbnb’s largest market, with tiny exceptions, it is illegal to rent out an entire apartment (i.e. host not present) for less than 30 days.
Apple’s main business is hardware, and software that helps sell the hardware. Any revenue from data is likely a seperate, minor stream; and for it to become a significant one, likely requires significant changes in Apple’s operations. Like any other hardware company, they don’t need google’s kind of data collection to make money.

But DDG is primarily funded by search, and the search business is funded by ads, which are more valuable based on targetting quality, which is improved by... data. About the unique user, specifically. For DDG to grow while maintaining search as it’s primary business, it’s difficult to imagine them not eventually (or at least, being heavily incentivized to) approach/mimic google-style of data collection — because data collection is their money maker.

Apple is unique amongst FAANG in being non-data-reliant, from the start; they never had strong incentives to turn to it, and took the opportunity to stand against it, improving their primary business without any immediate loss (they’re hit by opportunity cost for it, but otherwise).
> However, I think enthusiastic, organized and proactive engineers don't need any process to be productive.

They definitely do: I'm currently working with a team of enthusiastic, organized and proactive devs and they are delivery at a crawling pace due to the lack of process.
Inheritance is also one of the most tight forms of coupling, which should be avoided. One is better off to use composition than inheritance.
I wouldn't say it's because it's the "wrong" result but that only now you could make an informed decision because only now you can see what a Brexit looks like.

To be fair, it could be seen since 2016, but now it can no longer be honestly ignored.
Amongst other effects not stated in this study
That because Apple isn't primarily a Web or services company.

Any company who's business revolves around online ads will be tempted to invade your privacy.

See: http://peakads.org
I think this claim is about nodes controlled by the NSA, not about nodes housed inside the US. Presumably the NSA could be in control of servers hosted in other geographies.
I would say go for it.

From my experience, a company can't be partially remote. Fully remote is a much better option.

Communication breaks down when you do partial remote. Some people would attend physical meetings. The remote ones are out of the loop and a separate remote 'meeting' is needed to update them. The non-remote people are also very unlikely to get on Slack, Jira, or whatever. It falls apart, and you end up with non-remote people handholding the remote ones.

The one fully remote team I worked with was extremely productive. Our Slack had about 20,000 messages a day. People were very good friends with each other; it's amazing how shitposting at 4 AM builds relationships faster than face to face conversation.

We didn't even need meetings. Since we talked on Slack 24/7, it was clear what the next step is for everyone, what everyone was doing, what wasn't being done, and what possible risks crop up.

Other benefits including saving on office space and cost saving of being able to hire top tier people from cheaper countries. 25k Euro annually will net you a good software developer in Lisbon or Kuala Lumpur. Double that, which is about the median for Berlin, and you'll net top tier devs from these countries.

For big things like a full app design workshop or training session, you can still handle them in person, fly everyone in.

Take note that many people can't work remotely. You'll be hiring from a different pool of recruits, the ones who prefer remote.

I'm in the office before sunrise, back home at sunset. 7 to 7 sounds crazy, but there are naps in between, playing with the kids, and plenty of rest. I know a guy who does two 3 hour batches in the day, and 2 hours at night, and does grocery shopping or laundry in between, during his rest. You also get the night owls who are happy working 6 PM to 6 AM.

For that reason, we had stand up meetings at 6 PM, where one group clocked out and another group clocked in. Side benefit was that we could assign one group work at night and the management team did code reviews in the morning. When the night team was exhausted, a fresh pair of eyes might spot a solution they didn't see, and vice versa.

p/s if you want to leave a country just to avoid taxes, Malaysia offers entrepreneur visas. Top of corporate and income tax here is about 25%.
Excited to see how this works out! Congratulations Brave team for taking the first steps toward your goal.
Edwin from Stripe here. We want to support as many types of businesses as possible, but if you're not sure if we can support you, there's no harm in proactively reaching out. It might even be better so you know ahead of time, before you start integrating.

Feel free to email me directly at edwin@stripe.com
Doesn't medium allow exports of comments?
I wouldn’t recommend system 76 all they are doing is putting Linux on a Clevo. You would be much better off with a dell laptop.
Remember that EEA now requires a hasty renegotiation of the deal, including continuing ECJ jurisdiction and free movement. Someone has to tell the kippers that the Poles will stay.
Still, that doesn’t guarantee they’ll turn evil once (if) they are big, which the parent comment seems to imply with the word “only”.
If you were old and senile, your Auntie who called would be ancient.. And BTW some older people use lots of apps, I probably have more than 100 on my iPhone. But I can't remember what they are for.. (Just kidding ..)
Yeah, this is bullshit.

100 people were a part of this "controlled" study.

Please don't be one of those people that runs around telling people this. This is nothing more than biased surveying by a weak company in attempt to create self-promoting propaganda.

Thank you @1_over_n for doing the research
Thanks, that made intuitive sense to me. A tutorial is always appreciated though. :-)
There's a different name to the organization and a different cohort of voters, and certainly there was a case for offering voters a chance to ratify or reject Maastricht and Lisbon treaties (which may or may not have reduced the mess). But the EU fundamentally is what the EEC set out to be in 1957, far more clearly than the current Brexit options resemble the various 2016 pledges about a post-Brexit UK's aims resemble the respective deal and no-deal options actually on the table.

Free movement of workers and capital, common policies in agriculture etc, a European Investment Bank and Social Fund redistributing member states' tax revenues, legislative oversight, a European Council, Commission and Parliament are all in the original Treaty of Rome. The EEC was smaller then, of course, but it didn't hide its intent to invite more countries to join. And the UK completely avoided participating novel EU projects like the Euro that voters clearly didn't want.
Well that's what I'm saying - this is what you hear people spouting, it doesn't matter that there were good reasons for everything, you just have the distrust of the democratic process left at the end of the day.
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Honestly, I don't think "useless and incompetence" is a relevant criticism of those who were put in charge of the negotiations. Even a team 100 times more competent than May's would still run into the same hard issues.
There's an argument that the bias towards the status quo weighs in the other direction. People are biased towards the status quo, if 50% of people are willing to go against the status quo they are more likely to be right than the 50% of people not willing to.

I actually find it really remarkable that 50% of voters were unhappy enough with the EU to go against the status quo.
Thanks! That's like 80% of the way there. It looks to be missing a lot of state internal to the mouth (understandable given that it's targeting avatar lipsyncing), and appears to discretize the values somewhat, making it less useful for linguistics practice. But I bet the underlying technology could be adapted easily.
I think you're on the correct track, but in this case the default state should be assumed to be one of failure.

It needs to operate like a deadman switch, and if out of prescribed safety bounds require active feedback of intent and will to not trigger stages of reaction. Contacting family/friends, and/or emergency responders if the situation is critical or at risk of becoming so.
I wouldn't say that assuming that "developers are good at everything, including all non-programming tasks" is old-fashioned. At the contrary I would call "old-fashioned" the idea of the caveman dev who only talk to their computer.

That being said, I agree that it's assuming a lot from developers, but that's a working recipe for a successful project. If you have another way, please do share it :)
Which is basically the thesis of the underlying "Ron Was Wrong Whit Was Right" paper --- that discrete log systems are safer than RSA. Since then, there's been more work done on the pitfalls of prime generation, perhaps most notably the "Prime And Prejudice" paper, which is really excellent and more interesting technically than this article:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/749.pdf

New systems should generally avoid RSA, for this reason among several others.
yep play services is the one thing that ties it all together and is the crucial part of gapps and the minimum of gapps installs.

i have used custom rom without googles stuff(including services). i was fine for my use case as i do not rely on google for my workflow.
In reply to point c)

The government spend £9.3 million pounds sending a pro-EU leaflet to every household in the country. That is more than the £7 million campaign spending cap. This is the leaflet in question: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

The leaflet doesn't even pretend to be neutral.

I think it is ridiculous to claim that leave overspent+cheated compared to remain. I think both parties played loose and fast with the rules. It just so happens remain is basically in control of the institutions and the bulk of media in the UK so you only really see one side of the story.
,,key stakeholders around the Ethereum community have determined that the best course of action will be to delay the planned Constantinople fork that would have occurred at block 7,080,000 on January 16, 2019''

Who are those key stakeholders? And what happens if they don't agree?
Making all Internet gambling in WA a felony is a relatively recent thing. Passed by progressives for their political allies the Indian Tribes. (WA doesn't even get any share of the gaming proceeds.)

I know it is separate from the Federal Wire Act, but I present it as a counter to the commenters here that seem to believe restricting online gambling is some kind of a Trump/GOP thing.

Progressive democratic party politicians are more than happy to criminalize online gambling when powerful interest groups that give them money ask for it.
It's supposed to be a weird example. We could think of lots of things that don't belong as services. Bezos's post doesn't offer guidance on what should be a service - only that you'll be fired if your team doesn't have one.
This is cool (and I don't even use mechanical keyboards). It reminds me of the movie "The Dilemma" where the characters were making an audio system to emit fake "muscle car" engine sounds for electric vehicles.

Not a great quality clip, but here is the scene:
https://youtu.be/Etu44hXY3zg?t=55
Don't try to make the land around your home "immaculate". Suburban lawns are a terrible idea, especially in the Western US. Diverse plant communities are much more attractive and hospitable to wildlife.
I felt the same, but I went with a Surface Book 2 instead, I love this thing. Pretty sweet keyboard and I can get as Unix friendly as I need to with MobaXterm (use it for X forwarding) and WSL. I have an ASUS Laptop with Linux on it for my pure Linux itch and I still got a Macbook Air. I was ticket off that the Macbook came back and the Air looks more like a Macbook than the Macbook, they should swap names (I've said this too many times) between the products.

Anyway, I love my SB2, and my only regret is not being able to somehow know they were going to release it in Black a few months later. I await the SB3 and will buy it in Black if they offer it.

Another option for you might be Dell. The Dell XPS is a sweet looking laptop, I haven't had the pleasure yet though.
What's wrong with any "use at all" of dynamic? It's just another type like object that has runtime reflection built-in and works well for interop, and without much performance problems.
> churned out by content marketer hacks

I'll pretty much skip 99% of articles that indicate they are from Medium. It's kind of like getting a search result from Quora. I'm sure there are great articles on medium but most of them are content marketing or link-building.
Not yet, but soon: https://caniuse.com/#feat=intersectionobserver
It was always clear the UK would never get a better deal than Norway. At no time an EU officer ever claimed anything different. The EU would never give the UK the Brexit as it was sold by the UKIP crowd because, if they complied, pretty much every country would want its own *xit deal and the EU would collapse as an empty balloon.
So why did the government pay £14m to emergency charter ferries from a company with no ferries?

The UK survived by huge logistical effort and food rationing. It's now led by people I wouldn't trust with the logistics of a trip to Tesco.
Please do not seed a userspace RNG from /dev/random. Most major crypto RNG attacks trace back to userspace RNGs. If you can trust /dev/random to provide a seed for your userspace RNG, then by definition you can also from that point on trust urandom as well.

(getrandom(..., 0) is probably the right long-term solution).
I meant this particular journal.

I'm sure there is honest discussion within the field generally.

This is not name-calling to pull this hoax. It's an demonstration (or experiment if you like).

You can discuss all you like but at some point we need a demonstration.

Nullius in verba 'n all that.
There are many complaints about the MBP keyboard. I don't know whether "not noisy enough" is one of them.
They don't, they write a library and others consume it.

It's not a "you must find some data or service to expose". If you have data and someone wants to use it, they do it via service.
Hotmail. I was about 8 years old I think. My mom wouldn't let me use my real name, so it was (partial real name) + elvis@hotmail.com

Later on I made games and my dad said the name looked trollish. So I switched my main email to (real name)@gmail.com
I see you've never worked a helpdesk. :)

(Depressingly, yes. PEBKAC is the most common diagnosis and people get really angry about it.)
> EU nationals resident in the UK are entitled to vote in Parliamentary elections.

No they aren't:

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/faq/voting-and-regist...

I agree with your general point though.