skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll buy the occasional $10 scratcher, and then wait like a week to scratch it all off. The $10 is worth getting to ponder what I'll do with my massive windfall for that week!

Already maxing my ROTH and 401K so I figure it's like $80 a year well spent to entertain the phantasy.
Going through with Brexit will as damaging to elected representatives as canceling it. People have already lost faith in elected representatives. I don't think anyone is going to come out of this unscathed.

The referendum uncovered a fault line in the nation — in the world, really — that needs to be processed. The wave of "yes" votes for Brexit mirror the features of the Trump election — anti-globalization, anti-intellectualism, anti-politics.

Whether or not Brexit happens, the biggest problem the UK faces might be that it's opened the door to nationalist, reactionary, populist (in the modern sense), authoritarian forces of the same kind we're now seeing in Poland, Hungary, Italy, Brazil and other places.
Also, isn't EVERY analyst predicting a recession sometime between now and 2 years from now? In the event of one, vacation rentals are the first thing people cut back on.
>Also an American, but from the outside I don't see how a majority desire can be so objectively determined beyond a vote.

My personal opinion is "majority" wins isn't necessarily a proper majority. Given how our Congress votes party line on most things, and the ratio is more or less 50:50 Dm to Rep, a 66% majority seems minimal for passing any law unblemished with party bias.

With 72% of registered UK voter turnout, Brexit won with only 52%. That's not a mandate for anything except perhaps another vote after clarifying what it would actually mean and how it would actually happen.
The majority of EU citizens did not vote in the Brexit referendum. They shouldn't have to suffer the consequences [edit to clarify] of a war resulting from this vote.
They'll actually have 5% of the customers, because the other 95% percent will live in the area and have been charging their car at home all night.
Vive Pro Eye first look: Fast track to the future
Lotteries are rational for the same reason that insurance is rational.

Insurance on the face of it is irrational -- insurance companies make money, therefore buying insurance is paying a premium above what the expected reimbursement is over the lifetime of the insurance. It's a reverse lottery; the expected outlays exceed the expected returns.

What you pay the premium for in insurance is to reduce downside variance.

What you pay the premium for in a lottery is to increase the upside variance.
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> You don't get a re-do just because you didn't like the outcome.

Not asking for a "re-do," asking for a vote on the final terms of the agreement. There is a lot precedent for voting on the final deal, e.g. trade union negotiations.

> unwillingness to abide by the will of the people

"The will of the people" is her catch phrase, the brexit vote is the only mandate this shows.

This comment does not suggest a great level of familiarity with British politics or the Brexit process.
Netflix is excellent value for me. Amazing original shows: Stranger Things, Ozark, Bodyguard, Bird box, Maniac, Narcos.
It's not possible for anyone to tell you that you can't take a given action.

But it is possible for someone to inform you that if you do take a given action, they will take draconian, but completely legal, measures against you.
I do not get the bizarre cynicism that appears in every discussion regarding Netflix.

Same here. I mean, yeah, Netflix doesn't have everything I want to watch. But it does have a shit-ton of stuff I do want to watch. I only allocate a few hours a week to entertainment, so at this rate, I could watch Netflix at my max rate for the next 10 years and probably not even get through the list of stuff they have right now, that interests me (that's assuming nothing got dropped during that 10 years).

That said, yeah, their movie selection in particular is pretty weak. But at any given time, I can always find at least a few dozen that I can say "I'd probably enjoy watching this" if not "this is something I've very specifically been waiting to watch".

I don't know how much higher they could go on price before they'd lose me, but for now, I'm getting my money's worth.
Conventional wars have been fought in the past between two nuclear states. On example is that of the Kargil War[1] which was a major conflict between India and Pakistan. This was not fought in a different territory.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kargil_War
Yes, and another bonus is that Intersection Observer is asynchronous and eliminates the need to tack on an additional debounce function.
> So how is that different from hedging your bets?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the difference is, no one is betting that you actually do have an unforeseen incident, so there is no bet to hedge against.
I guess it is like leaving any contract or agreement without fulfilling your obligations. You can do it, but there will be consequences.
I'll never forget zombo.com.

I'm still waiting!
I'm a LAMP developer. Marketing sites are WordPress and Beaver Builder. App functionality is the Slim framework with the RedBean ORM or a WordPress back-end.
They'll find the sweet spot...add more chargers (they can squeeze them differently,) increase prices or what not. The important thing is to have charges along the way like gasoline cars do, prices may vary :)
What? Serbia is an EU candidate, not an EU member. It is an outsider to this.

Five EU members don't recognize Kosovo as independent, meaning that Kosovo can't even apply for the EU membership. Serbia's making small steps, but won't enter any time soon.

This was a European problem (as in, the continent) that had nothing to do with the EU specifically.
Another example is the First Step Act that has been signed Dec 21 last year. It is being considered especially important for poor and black people.
It's not people voting against May, it's just that nothing _could_ command a majority at this point other than a fanciful option that takes the best of EU (no economic shock) but strips out unchecked migration and European courts.

Our gradient descent has ended in a local minimum, and noone can agree enough to climb the hill.

Immigration is a very powerful topic (fear and loathing?) in the mind of voters and much of the 'debate' is not based on reason on either side. It's probably worth noting since the referendum was announced it's unclear whether one person in a country of 60 million has changed their mind on what they preconceptually had locked in at the start.
I feel like I am simulating orgasmic responses!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species

Robert Paine developed the theory when he went to a bunch of tide pools and picked out some of their starfish. What he found was that the ecosystems (isolated tide pools) where he removed all of the starfish rapidly collapsed. It turns out that the starfish were critical to controlling the population of another animal that was preying on herbivores. When the starfish disappeared, its prey grew out of control and ate all the herbivores. This caused seaweed and other plants to grow out of control, exhausting several key resources faster than the ecosystem could naturally replenish them, until the tide pool became a deadzone.
So first off, thumbs up and thumbs down is dumb.

There are movies which are really great, there are movies that aren't but are still worth watching, there are movies that aren't great and aren't really worth watching, and then there's the movies with Adam Sandler or Amy Schumer in them...

And reasons for liking a film could be that I liked the cinematography, or the script, or maybe just one actor, and not just that it was a horror movie.

Take for example Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010). It's weird, the story wasn't all that for me, the ending is weak. But I loved the way the director shoot it as an 80's sci-fi film, really capturing the look and feel of those films. And well, I love slightly weird movies. So overall it's a movie I really enjoyed watching, and will likely watch again a few times. So just how would Netflix interpret my thumbs up for this movie?

I've rated literally hundreds of movies in Netflix. I still get 90+% match recommendations that I can tell just from the poster and blurb that I'll hate (and my control for this are the movies I've watched elsewhere and hated). I've found some of the sub-50% match movies to be great, and really enjoyed watching them.

I know Netflix had this machine learning contest a few years back, looking for winners who made better recommendations than their own algorithm. But IMO it's just gotten worse and worse.
No.

Gambling is a useful analogy but what is missing is that a person creating a business or buying a house, fixing it up, and flipping it are taking a risk on /profit/ but fully intend on creating real value whether they end up losing money or not.

That's quite a bit different than laying a bunch of money on red at a roulette table. The only value created -- the fun of the gamble itself -- is completely intangible and immediately destroyed.

Of course, there's a spectrum there, too. How much value is created by the efficient allocation of capital in our markets? Lots, it can be easily argued. Well, what about the marginal micro-transactional allocation in HFT? Well, maybe not so much.
> do you mean that some content was removed

Yes. Content would be removed. Especially top rated IMDB movies. Instead there would be more B-movies. In-house shows made it better, but there weren't enough of them.
Google Claims to protect privacy as well. In fact they make a number of tools that are built just for that reason. But it's all marketing, and the tools are there only to really benefit Google. Just take a look at Android's Wi-Fi assistant that creates and automatic VPN to Google's servers.

My point is it isn't as back and white as companies claiming to protect privacy. At the end of the day Apple is just as bad.
The general sense is that elected officials can be quite good at blaming others for their own failures (this tendency is by no means limited to British government). The EU is the convenient scapegoat in European politics, even if Britain has wide latitude to opt out of swathes of EU politics or even drive the EU itself as one of the largest members.

The other point you make is quite true: even Brexiteers didn't think they would win the referendum. And the problem is that, in unexpectedly winning, they wanted to lock their success in quickly, before anyone could discover the problems in their arguments. And when they themselves found the problems, well, see the point I made: it's not the Brexiteers' fault that they couldn't come up with a deal that the EU would like, it's the EU's fault that Britain is in this mess.
Has anyone bought a property to exclusively rent via AirBnB? Looking to buy something with this in mind.
Time isn't real
Techies don't "know" this, I want to be abundantly clear that having a technical background doesn't make you more savvy to security concerns -- if this were true, the prevalence of security problems throughout the industry wouldn't be nearly as pervasive.

Security isn't about being perfect, so stop pushing that false narrative. It's about being good enough, and plenty of companies making smart TVs can certainly become "good enough".
Of course they used identifying information to actually identify people. This is 101 level of forensics and research.
He's talking about the MEP elections.

It's been very easy to dismiss UKIP's parliamentary holding only because the UK is first past the post, had it been more representative these last few decades, we probably wouldn't be in this mess.

Instead we've had two decades of Tory and Labour governments effectively sticking their fingers in their ears and going "lalalalalaaaa, we can't hear you, growth is king" when anyone mentioned the word immigration. Or talking about lower immigration targets, while at the same time the treasury was producing budget forecasts based on mass immigration continuing.
>trivially solvable from a pure technical perspectiv

You have a trivial technical solution to removing gigatons of carbon from our atmosphere?

You have a trivial technical solution to cleaning up microplastics?

Please, would you kindly share this trivial technical solutions with the rest of us?
> It's hard to understand why Germany or France, who stand to gain from excluding the powerful UK service sector from the EU financial markets

No they don't. Germany and France contain consumers of services as well as providers.
> This is really curious. Are there any systems that govern well that don’t recognize democratic principles?

The United States has two branches of Congress to insulate the country from the whims of the mob. Pure democracy has long been derided as an anti-pattern in government.
The main problem with it is that its hard to navigate. Why isn't the show I watched last right there visible for me to click when I revisit the page ? Instead its buried two page lengths down.
Highly disagree, I see Airbnb growing massively in the developing world as local safety+tourism infrastructure, desire to travel there, and internet familiarity/enough English to make a listing among those living there increase in the next 10-20 years. Of course, Airbnb is already big in places like Bali, but over time I see essentially all areas of Indonesia, Malaysia, Ecuador etc. becoming vacation destinations
> Where are the people who initially brought in Brexit- why are they not supporting May?

Many had radically different aspirations for Brexit, no influence on the process and/or disliked May and her government on principle. Others were part of May's Cabinet, some even directly responsible for negotiations, but couldn't deliver anything which matched their initial promises, disliked the deal that was put on the table and decided eyecatching resignation was better than compromise. One or two, like Gove and Leadsom actually are still backing May, but fairly reluctantly. Everybody agrees the deal isn't fantastic, but few are prepared to admit their alternative aspirations were pure fantasy.

The flip side is that [nearly] all the Conservative MPs who voted down May's deal will vote confidence in her government very shortly because they value staying in power and loathe the opposition parties too. Which leads nicely on to the next point...

> What is preventing the referendum from being declared stupid and that the UK gov't is not going to do it?

The same forces that protect a President that has made Nixon's actions look like model of propriety and is quietly despised many of his own party's leading figures. A mixture of partisanship, terror of defying ones own voters and party members, fear of what political upheaval might happen next and doubts over whether they actually would manage to stop things if they tried.
I tend to agree with your main point, but I'd be cautious about being so certain that the referendum would fail this time based on polling. The polls generally overestimated remain last time around (see Polls of Polls, e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_Unit...)
The EU isn't foisting immigration on the UK.

EU freedom of movement isn't unconditional. You can only move to a different EU country if you have a job or can support yourself.

You have three months to make it work, and then if you can't make it work, you can be asked to leave.

The UK deliberately opted out of this requirement. Until recently, the UK was one of the most generous and open states for EU immigration.

The UK also made the most noise about allowing the former Soviet Bloc countries to join the EU - coincidentally, the countries which have sourced a lot of supposedly objectionable immigration.

This is because the UK likes to play a game. First it imports cheap foreign labour to keep wages down. Then the same political group which quietly promotes this makes a big show of saying "Oh no! Look at all the immigrants! How terrible! We should do something!" in public.

And this reliably wins elections. It's been winning them for well over a century now.

You can be absolutely sure that if Brexit happens this game will be played again - most likely with cheap labour from the former commonwealth countries.
It's pretty bad and convoluted. I see the same content in 80% of the first ten rows. I don't need "popular" and "trending" next to each other. Just get rid of one. I would love a way to reduce this to a simple grid of 50 items showing the box cover art with no previews unless I click to see them.
I wanted to show my GF Star Wars... but it wasn't on it. Same for James Bond, Die hard 4, Oblivion, MI1, etc. It's a shame, really. I would gladly pay 20$/month, but in this case, I want ALL available movies, not just some cherry-picked ones.

FWIW, for watching arbitrary "not on Netflix" movies, Youtube is actually a surprisingly good option. Their "pay to rent movie" service has a pretty deep catalog, and an awful lot of their choices seem to be in the $2.99 - $7.99 or so range. It's quite often I want to watch something that's not on Netflix and find it on YT for, say, $4.99. I don't mind paying that a couple of times a month, on top of what I pay Netflix.
> Sure, you can’t in the general abstract case, but my exact point is that you can do this in practice, for programs which we actually write.

No, you can not do that for programs which we actually write. Even just a trivial program taking an array of single-precision floats can't be exhaustively tested, there's north of 2^100 input states (assuming a 64b platform and arrays can't be bigger than that).

If a program on a 32b Windows system takes a file as input, that's like 2^10^15 possible input states…

We can test every single case for very simple, trivial programs e.g. we can exhaustively test a function with 32 bits of input (a 32-bit integer or a single-precision float: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-fou...) in a minute or so if the function is not too complex. It might be feasible to add a few more bits, but assuming the same trivial function at 40 bits you've jumped to ~4 hours, at 43 bits you need more than a day.

At 64 bits you need 8000 years.

Alternatively: let's say we want to exhaustively test 32 bits division. That's 64 bits of input * 26 cycles per division (we're optimistic) and let's say 4GHz, 2^64 * 2^4.7 / 2^31.9 = 119647558364 seconds, or about 3800 years.

And that's just the division itself, mind, we still need to account for some incrementing, jumping, etc…

And that's just to exhaustively test the division of two single-precision floats.
Somehow I saw "re" before the "Signs" that got me excited!
There's little interest in them with young people. It's all old people now.
Insurance is the precise opposite of gambling; instead of concentrating reward, it distributes risk.

When you buy insurance you're not betting that something bad will happen to you, you're hedging your otherwise implicit bet that something bad _won't_ happen to you.
SQLite had a vulnerability recently[0], despite being considered one of the most thoroughly tested projects out there. The reason why not is combinatorial explosion[1]: because complex software has so many possible inputs and states, it is not feasible for tests to cover every possible edge case.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18685296

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_explosion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18914411
This sounds like an amazing thing!
Anyone serious does their work reproducibly. This shouldn't add more than a little bit about storage on devices and paper, in terms of costs.
After the Marvel implosion, I already cancelled. Not the only reason but enough for me to finally walk out.
> Your reasons for why “Agile” isn’t working is the same for why “devops” isn’t working

Thank you. This brightens my day.

Far too many companies want to appear "up-to-date" with the "industry standard", so they rename their ops team as devops and call it a day. Maybe add some automation-focused reqs to justify the change.
Ops with some ansible and terraform sprinkled on top are still ops. Just call it ops.
The UK already has the best possible deal with the EU of all countries on earth, in or out. They have all of the benefits of membership, and are exempted from some of the downsides: britain controls their own borders and their own currency. The status quo is the best the UK can ever hope to get, from that position, no matter what deal you make it'll be worse than where you are. That's not the "EU sticking it to the UK", that's just reality.
So if a general purpose computing device comes with a camera, but the camera is restricted, then it's not a general purpose computing device anymore? What if it didn't come with a camera in the first place? Plus, there is no restriction against connecting your own camera peripheral which you do control.
Racket does support mutable pairs.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/mpairs.html?q=mcons#%2...
Urbit: a personal cloud computer
untrue. many of these sites have been active for nearly a decade and operate with crypto currencies just fine.
Looking at it the wrong way. The companies that should be adding chargers are the fast food joints. Pull into a McDonalds to charge up... might as well go in and grab a meal for the whole family. Use it as a loss leader.
Please don't use "UUID" for that, it's taken (and useful).
>The Brexit promise is something nobody can deliver on..

I would - respectfully - point out that's not the situation.

It is (was?) a promise in the sense that the government is there to enact the will of the people. The majority of people who voted, voted to leave (personally I was in the minority).

So now (in engineering terms) it's pretty simple. If everyone sits on their hands, the UK will leave the UK as scheduled in March (and so fulfil the wish of the people).

The actuality is the unedifying spectacle of lots of shuffling, muddying of the waters and lining of pockets as anyone with skin in the game scrabbles for whatever they feel is to their own advantage.
Here's the updated opinion [1] referenced but not linked to in the article. They link to the old 2011 opinion [2] that said that only sports betting was covered.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/olc/file/1121531/download

[2] https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/opinions/201...
you will probably get down voted on HN for that comment but I think you bring in a good point. How are they going to compete with the likes of kodi which is something even my parents can manage to use. They keep adding cost while lowering quality in my opinion. Yes they may have added a few things but the user end experience is just bad and I can't see how they can win me back.
That sounds like hedging a bad idea with another bad idea. Options expire, so not only do you have to be right that the stock will go down, but you also have to be right that it will go down before your options expire. The further away the expiration, the higher you'll be paying for implied volatility. This sounds like a terrible strategy for a hunch that regulations are going to eventually impact Airbnb at some fuzzy point in the future.