skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may yet lead to war. If the EU starts to disintegrate, I expect to see war in Europe as a result.

I do have some sympathy with the argument Brexit is a waste of resources, it matters of course but if people were sold lies that can never happen (good trade relations with a trade bloc you just left, low immigration and a strong economy, freedom of services and goods but not of people), that’s a waste of everyone’s time and money for years, it’s not a serious political argument, it’s a deadly pantomime which undermines representative democracy and encourages extremists and fascists. We’ve already seen one MP murdered by extremists (Jo Cox).
The British Parliament can do basically whatever it wants. The concepts of separation of powers and Constitutionally-mandated red tape are much less developed than in the United States.

So the answer to why anything happened in the UK, including holding a referendum, is basically just: because Parliament decided to.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that whilst AirBnB have undeniably executed well, Booking.com is at least as well placed to go after AirBnB's market as the reverse (AirBnB-type rooms, apartments and villas at competitive prices do exist on Booking.com albeit in much smaller numbers, they also have a strong brand and hosts aren't tied to a single platform).

The other interesting comparison point is Sabre: completely the opposite end of the distribution scale and not a rapid growth company, but they're significantly more profitable than AirBnB at a tiny fraction of the valuation (and have an excellent moat)
And yet of the top ten airports, all of whom do at least 75% of ATL's traffic, 7 are not in the US, and display similar characteristics of international traffic versus domestic.

I'm amused by the notion or implication that other countries are far more capitalistic and profit motivated than the US - when it comes to airports.
Depends, is the secret service still able to pay trump hotel for their stay?
I think you would need very accurate and fast head tracking to overlay the road with enough precision to be safe.

Plus you still need some headlights for non-augmented cars to see you.
Absolutely, I didn't mean to imply it's not possible, it just hurts your public image. They're looking for a solution that also lets them keep their jobs.
CA Governor Brown signs wildfire safety bill blasted as PG&E bailout (Sept 2018)
I went solo... It's more likely that you'll succeed
"Another is that policies are only as good as the population is educated (US climate change, brexit)"

I do believe you just called all Brixiteers stupid? I know loads of them who are highly educated :D

Actually it was the poorer regions of the country which voted to leave - that's been explained in detail elsewhere.
Or.. DDG is just a tool in a bigger war in the background. It feels like it can exist only because its benefactors allow it to exist.
And some EU states still don't recognize each other. Just look at the 49.999 hz issue.
I understand that some things are much harder for some people than for others, but let's not just throw out entirely the idea that individuals can make a concerted effort to change their lifestyle.

I used to cope with boredom by overeating candy and drinking sugary sodas. after a while I noticed that I was starting to get fat. I figured this was probably happening because I was consuming too many calories, so I stopped eating candy and drinking soda. it sucked for months, but eventually my hunger adjusted to the new level of calorie intake and I no longer had to think about it consciously.
Zero-cost abstractions only exist in a world where you don't highly value language simplicity and comprehensibility.

Simplicity and comprehensibility were things the committee had to give up in order to pretend they had "zero-cost" abstractions. Nothing in life comes free: everything, including all abstractions, comes at some cost.
Pinkertons Are Suing Over Read Dead Redemption 2
He has never been an MP.
> the others are just angry - and I mean really angry.

Out of curiosity, how has "EU is telling us what to do" affected these people to make them so angry?
And what about that says '2 week sprints'? It takes as long as it takes to do each step.
U.K. Parliament Rejects Theresa May's Brexit Deal in Pivotal Vote
> Corbyn himself isn’t a great fan of the EU

this is somewhat of an understatement

he voted against its creation, and against every single transfer of power to it

prior to being elected Labour leader he would denounce it at every possible opportunity (alongside his mentor Tony Benn)
I loved the comparison to a submarine made of cheese: https://twitter.com/hugorifkind/status/1072222230791229440?l...
Pxxxx@ix.netcom.com About 1992, it came with the dialup Netcruiser Internet service.
Not sure what your point is. Sucralose is more sweeter than sucrose, but they put a lot less in it.

Sucralose also has no nutritional value, so I'm not sure why you're body would crave it beyond you just liking sweet tasting drinks.
One of my biggest gripes when using Google maps for car nav. The road names it uses rarely match street signage or road markings, especially at busy roundabouts. The approaching lanes it recommends are also usually incorrect. I wish there was something better.
> to operate a not-for-profit market for event contracts, and to offer event contracts to U.S. persons, without registration as a designated contract market, foreign board of trade, or swap execution facility, and without registration of its operators.

My understanding is that they don't need to register as an exchange because of this. That doesn't necessarily absolve them of being a form of gambling, does it?
Are they being greedy or is this just inflation? $7.99 was the original DVD rental fee in 1997 → which is $12.51 in 2019 dollars.
I wish I had a better mental tool for working with inflation in my "get-mad-o-meter", haha.
Brazilians love baby talk
What sort of "good deal" do you think May could realistically have extracted from the EU? Everything I've read has implied that the Brexit options ranged from "poor" to "apocalyptically bad".
That's not a great takeaway.

The takeaway is: Linux's /dev/random and /dev/urandom interfaces are both broken, in the sense that neither is reliable for embedded developers during certain early boot conditions. Some of that was maybe worse in 2012 than today, but the fundamental interface properties have not changed.

Tl;dr: Use getrandom() instead of /dev/[u]random. Do not use GRND_RANDOM. Do not use GRND_NONBLOCK.
The real issue is that the people who voted "for Brexit" were all voting for different things, because it wasn't at all articulated what "Brexit" would look like. Now that that's better understood, there should absolutely be a second referendum, probably with three ranked options:

1. Stay

2. Soft leave (May's deal)

3. Hard leave (No deal)

With months and months of nonstop coverage, one could now say that there's broad understanding of what these precise options mean (though probably not their longer-term consequences, especially of option 3).

In any case, you don't have to be "ignoring the will of the people" to go back and ask again now that there's better information.
Yeah, this will almost certainly have a negligible effect on their subscriber base. I won't say it's zero, but damn close. $2 monthly increase means $24 a year, or ... less than a single meal for a family of four at Wendy's or KFC.
I'm curious what the mineral content is of the brine water. There are a few cyanobacteria, like spirulina, which thrive in alkaline water that other algae can't handle. One could likely use the run off to process high nitrogen content sewage water and produce spirulina which could be used for food, oil and ethanol production.
Polar vortex has fractured, eastern US faces punishing stretch of winter weather
And what does {what you said} have to do with 2-week sprints?
That is incorrect. From the man page:

If enabled, history expansion will be performed
unless an ! appearing in double quotes is escaped
using a backslash.
Immediate fossil fuel phaseout could arrest climate change
That reminds me of the Despair demotivational poster "Mistakes: It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."
If there's an authority which can deem an election decision as "uneducated" and "harmful" then why have voting at all?

Why not just leave major decisions to a committee, if we're going to pick and choose which elections are decided "correctly."
Apocryphal quote.

https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest...
> Note that [[ is actually a command/program that returns either 0 (true) or 1 (false).

This is true for the [ command, which is the same as `test`, but the [[ ]] syntax is parsed directly by bash, as is (( )). In particular, [[ ]] is not subject to whitespace splitting, so you don't need to quote most variables.

They mention $(( )), but don't go into (( )), which gives you very nice integer arithmetic and logic:

for (( x = 0; x < 5; x += 2 )); do
echo $x
(( y = x * 10, z = y + 2 ))
echo $y $z
done
you can buy puts and easily limit your down side.

edit: whoever downvoted this, do you not understand how buying puts works? your risk is capped at the money you spent on the contracts. you can only lose that amount.
MAD's not really a thing unfortunately. Nuclear winter was always a myth.
is literally anything with a risk-reward tradeoff gambling?
Just how much are friends and family expected to attend to someone whose mind is in decline?

My grandfather had Alzheimer's. We attended to him more and more as he got worse and worse. But one day, he went down to the basement while grandma was napping, and was doing something that involved a chunk of wood and a piece of pipe in a vise, heating it with a torch while beating on it with a hammer. Luckily, it just set off the smoke alarms and the fire department came. He could have burned the house down with him and grandma in it. That's what happens when you leave someone with Alzheimer's unsupervised for a few minutes.

If software can help when they aren't being actively supervised, I'm all for it.
That "woman of great importance in the UK government" is the Prime Minister. For the purpose of this discussion, and until she's voted out, she is the most important person in the United Kingdom.
Lotteries are reverse solidarity: a lot of people pay to make 1 person rich.

Lotteries are my prime example when I want to highlight that humans don't act rationally
Bringing Internet Explorer 4.0 to life on Windows '95–in 2019
My bash scripting cheatsheet after maintaining a couple tools for 4+ years: use system Ruby / Python or anything else instead, really. Once over a hundred lines of code it becomes a massive pain to work with.
And, you know, cosmic radiation.
> Scheme is another Blub: a Scheme user looks at Common Lisp and thinks, 'hey, I don't need generic functions; I don't need packages; I don't want separate namespaces for separate things; I don't want to extend my reader.' Meanwhile someone who's built large systems in both Lisp & Scheme realises how glad he is to have those things.

I find this list a little funny, because we do have generic functions, packages, and the ability to extend the reader. In Guix we use reader extensions for G-expressions, for example.

I grant you the separate namespaces thing, because, well, we really don't want to have a separate namespace for variables and procedures :)
Maybe? I get what you're saying, but the confusion of the past 2 years of negotiations and the magnitude of this vote's failure is a pretty strong indication that it'll not be possible to 'Brexit in name only'. The nationalist side will (correctly) point out that if you're still subject to the same regulations & trade deals, you haven't actually changed anything. The EU might go for it, but would probably be like "If you're going to say that you're not part of the EU, we can't realistically give you a voice in shaping EU policy", thus leaving Britain in a worse negotiating position with respect to those trade deals. I thought that was the grandparent's point.
Are you sure it’s the sensors and not the infotainment display? I had a 2016 model of a car and just got the 2019. The display was significantly updated for 2019 and it has a noticeable improvement over the older model.

I am almost positive they are the same backup camera. The higher resolution screen shows better detail and light. I’ll look up the part number on Mopar when I get home but I’m sure the sensor is the same.
I feel like there's still a ton of stuff on Netflix that I would be interested in, but the interface has made it harder and harder to find any of it, to the extent that there are any number of films I'd actively like to watch that I only discovered were on Netflix from one of the third-party sites that indexes their contents.

For example: http://flicksurfer.com/ If I could just get pretty much exactly that interface in the Netflix app, plus toggles for "I've seen this, don't show it again unless I look for it specifically" and "I will literally never want to see this, never show it to me again", Netflix would have much higher value to me.
He's never been a MP, UKIP has never been considered a "major party" (how is this even defined?), there was no election in 2014, UKIP won 12.6% in 2015. He's clearly representing some people but your facts are way off.
I compulsively look at ingredients in packaged food, including pet food. Two of the most common ingredients in cheap pet foods are soybeans and corn. Neither of these are evolutionarily-appropriate for our pets.

Corn is mostly starch, with little in the way of nutrients. Humans traditionally made corn more digestible with a little lime [1] -- modern corn tortillas are all made this way, but corn chips are not. I don't think pet food manufacturers properly treat their corn (I'm speculating here, and would be happy to be incorrect).

Soybeans have some nutrients, but they also contain mega-doses of the inflammatory Omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids.

Soy is also a potent source of phytoestrogens. These plant chemicals cause an estrogen-like reaction in tissues. In healthy people estrogen is tightly regulated. In unhealthy people, adipose tissue creates aromatase [2] to turn testosterone into estrogen, creating a self-destructive feedback loop that is hard to escape. Estrogen is removed from the body by the liver [3]. When the liver is overwhelmed it can't keep up with excessive amounts of estrogen.

Pets, people, and food animals need evolutionarily-appropriate foods, fewer soybeans, less corn.

One of my family would like to lose weight (more than one, but I'm thinking of one in particular). He commonly has a "healthy" salad, but smothers it in inflammatory soybean/canola oil (sold as "salad dressing"). Even expensive pet foods are typically contaminated with canola oil (ostensibly for the "omega-3's", but really because they're cheap calories that look good on the label).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominy#Production / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipose_tissue#Physiology - "Adipose tissue is the greatest peripheral source of aromatase in both males and females,[citation needed] contributing to the production of estradiol."

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrogen#Metabolism
Since they have tons of mediocre content, I think having more money will just lead to more of that.

If they had the ability to create good content but were lacking the finances, they could take it from the mediocre content.
> We change pricing from time to time as we continue investing in great entertainment and improving the overall Netflix experience.”

Is it improving though? It used to be better, had more quality content, easier to navigate, user ratings, reviews etc.

I feel it is one of those cases where to get the real meaning behind the corporate PR message you have to invert it. Then it would be something like: "We change pricing from time to time as we continue investing in subpar entertainment and worsening the overall Netflix experience."

I had canceled it a few years back as I ended up spending more time looking for something to watch than actually watching anything. To be fair their original shows were not too bad. I enjoyed Stranger Things, House of Cards and a few others. But it just wasn't worth the price overall.
Researchers create an application that ensures anonymity and trustworthiness
I'm an attorney and have worked with several financial institutions drafting policies/statements/investor disclosures about privacy and user data. For most financial institutions user privacy is good for the bottom line but expensive so they tend to do the bare minimum. The bare minimum is not a lot but it's quite a bit more than nothing, which is what most non-medical/non-financial institutions have to do. I've never worked with a tech company on privacy matters but I would expect any company that depends on collecting and monetizing user data to be much more aggressive than the typical financial institution. That said, comparing Apple's privacy policies to those of a financial institution they are truly above and beyond any minimum regulatory standard.

I know most people don't pay them any attention but I'm really not sure you could find a more customer-focused privacy policy. I've yet to find one and I would guess I've read at least 10x as many privacy policies as the average person. Everything from what their disclosures say to how they've structured them to be easily read, easily understood, and (dare I say) engaging is indicative of just how much they prioritize user-privacy.

edit: meant non medical
> Just get on with it, and forget about all the posturing and game-of-thrones crap.

But what is "it"? Sadly, Politics will always be about ideology, and that's never going to be boring or quiet.
So why would they vote for something they neither understand or care about? It's all about perception.

People do things that are bad for them all the time (smoking, drinking, etc) but we still do these things because us humans like having a choice. it's up to us to decide our fate, and democracy gives us these choices - even if they are bad for us.
https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/more-tigers-in-america...

>With an estimated 5,000 tigers, the U.S. captive tiger population exceeds the approximately 3,200 tigers in the wild.

While not just Texas that is still insane.
This is really curious. Are there any systems that govern well that don’t recognize democratic principles?

I’m trying to figure out how the U.K. can make decisions given that very few will have a literal majority given that there are so many non-voters (eg, babies and comatose).

What is a better form of determining the will of the people than an election?

In the US there is a constitution so huge changes can’t be made by referendum. Would the U.K. adapt a system like that? And how could they if it required 50.1% of every soul in the U.K. to vote for it?
> Dementia ruins everything.

I like to think that it makes everything a lot more interesting. Just like I like to think that, if I ever found myself falling through the atmosphere for some reason beyond my control, I would enjoy skydiving once before I die, since I would never jump out of a perfectly good plane. I'm sure I'm wrong in both cases, but I'm perfectly happy being an eternal optimist right now.
Yeah my eyebrow went up at that one too…
> it’s vanishingly rare that a street will have both a number and a name.

Not really. In New Jersey for example, almost all major roads have both a name and a number, and both are displayed on Google Maps.
Nothing can be boring when it concerns some of the ultimate properties (albeit not always unique) that make us human: Greed, desire, and belonging.
10-4. Why is she being resoundedly disapproved upon by her own gov't? Presumably, the same gov't that put forth this vote? At least some significant margin of politicians must have wanted this vote knowing that 'yes' is on the table. Where are they?
For those who are having trouble googling that term: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16535067
>MAD means we probably won’t have a major war any time soon

Was the Korean war a major war in your book? To the Korean people it was.

In that war, the US's having nukes did not prevent North Korea from starting the war, did not prevent the Soviets from sending MIGs with Soviet pilots against the US army and air force and did not prevent China from sending a million soldiers.
Though I sometimes enjoy Berry, he's wrong. We can't be 'at war' with nature. We are nature. Human destruction of ecosystems is a natural process - it's not fundamentally different from introduced flora & fauna overrunning island ecologies. It's just happening on a planetary scale.

The only 'unnatural' aspect of the picture is the common notion that humans (primates designed for small-scale tribal interactions) could somehow magically adapt to managing planetary-scale populations (let alone the vast network of ecologies hosting them).

The story of human 'progress' or 'destiny' is a religious myth. Amusingly, it is held with particular vehemence by many technologically-inclined atheists without a shred of irony.
Well, what if? You're essentially arguing that if our benevolent overlords decide that the democratic process might result in something unfavorable that they should do the wise thing and ignore the will of the people.
This page produces tons of spurious correlations:
http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
But "the republic" is not a uniform mass. What's good for some is bad for others. It is far from certain for me at least that the huge influx of cheap labor from Eastern Europe does not harm the lower classes in Britain. I'm pretty certain, on the other hand, that this works extremely well for the upper classes.

Besides, given the quality and moral scruples of "decision makers" that governments are usually comprised of, why would you so completely trust them with the fate of the republic in the first place, especially if the populace does not have the benefit of either the first or the second amendment of US constitution?

This strikes me as a hypocritical position. I bet you'd say otherwise if e.g. the will of the people was to remain, but the government decided to exit, because in their estimation it'd be better for Britain. You can't pick and choose. If your position is that government knows best, you should be prepared that the government will make decisions you don't like, too.
It's possible Labor will take over if May loses her confidence vote. But Corbyn's current position has been that he'd pursue Brexit with unicorn promises, rather than cancel the whole thing like his constituents want him to do. So it's doubtful that Labor would revoke article 50.

Just spitballing here... Methinks May will win her confidence vote tomorrow. From there, the consensus seems to be to steer towards a peoples' vote -- aka a new referendum -- in spite of May being hostile to that idea. But don't rule out some back and forth with the EU. May has a long way to go to win a rerun of this vote, but if her premiership is anything to go by she's resilient, and the GBP lost around 10% against the USD and EUR within minutes of the Commons vote. (Edit: the GDP seems to have bounced back since.)

As an aside, I'm no fan of May, and the referendum campaign was full of lies and manipulation, but methinks May actually has merit in raising that a peoples' vote would not be good for the legitimacy of and trust in politicians and institutions. After all, what's the point of organizing a referendum and then electing representatives that don't deliver. And what's the point of organizing referendums if the powers that be will continue to ask the question again and again until constituents give the expected answer?
The example works; it must be because a single ! doesn't expand to anything.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18911296