skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was reasonable to do a referendum on "leave or stay", if only to know whether they need to negotiate the terms of leave or not.

Now that they did, it's reasonable to have another referendum on those specific terms. To not do so would be undemocratic, in fact.
i m under the impression that the UK elites are in favor of brexit. Or rather that the elites are not in favor of remain, and they are not going to mobilize for that. The UK people, despite apparent polarization, does not expect major changes in their lives any way.
Good to know. Has this really been around for that long? I swear I was reading about this as an issue for Apple Maps just recently.
I don't think NYC is Airbnb's largest market.
Thanks for the correction. I think the 47% figure is misleading in this sense though, I mean to refer to the running and maintenance costs of the public transport service, but in fact of course TfL does various other things, including maintenance of the roads and contributions to large capital investments like Crossrail which will always mean public grants.
In Australia my anecdotal experience is that hotels are ALWAYS more expensive than Airbnbs, usually at minimum $150 a night and going straight up from there. Also the benefit of having a whole house with all the facilities using Airbnb is usually far better than any hotel, though I do enjoy staying in nice hotels now and then.
I have noticed it does not take long for solar panels in Kuwait to be coated in layers of dust. Does this reduce efficiency by any measurable amount?
"The majority of EU citizens did not vote in the Brexit referendum"

The overwhelming majority of EU citizens did not vote to join the EU, nor did they vote in favour of the Treaty of Lisbon upon which the authority of the EU currently resides.

Nor do any of the citizens of the EU get to vote for the EU executive, or anyone who has any material influence over legislation (their MEP's can't introduce legislation).

In fact, majorities of several EU nations voted against the Treaty of Lisbon after which it was 'passed anyways' (I'm looking at you France), and after which the other referendums were cancelled because the elites knew it would would fail.

And of course UK citizens never voted to join the EU, they voted to join the EEC.

Most EU citizens want something like the EEC, with some nice freedom of movement. They don't want a hard or ideological political union.

Have a look at Pew historical polling, it's interesting [1] - it shows the majority of even very large EU nations actually wary of the EU - up until the 'Brexit scare'. After Brexit, this will continue to languish downward.

The EU has so many existential issues that it's facing, and it doesn't seem to want to suggest anything other than 'more political union' as an answer, which is clearly not it. (See the recent 'twinning' agreement signed by Macron and Merkel last week as an example of trying to get some political momentum going on the pro-EU side).

The EU needs to reform, but it can't unfortunately for a variety of reasons, and I don't see any meaningful path forward.

[1] http://www.pewglobal.org/2017/06/15/post-brexit-europeans-mo...
I'm on the fence about the patience issue.

Complexity is still fun for me, but my patience for gratuitous complexity has greatly diminished.

When it takes three clicks to get to a menu item that used to take just one, that's gratuitous complexity to me. Got no patience for it.

When it turns out that to design an isothermal substrate holder for diamond CVD, I need to learn some COMSOL tools, that's fun complexity.

I worry about cognitive decline. I have a dear friend who is going through Alzheimer's and knows it. Formerly a superbly
bright cognitive light, now struggles for minutes to find a word he needs. It's awful.

So I do wonder if my (rationalized) impatience with gratuitous complexity is just a way of refusing to realize I'm no longer up to the task of yak shaving. I suppose time will tell, but I might not be able to receive the message.

If you want to make a real difference in the world, work on dementia.
The whole Ethereum VM is too complex. For a role like smart contracts you'd want something dirt simple with few operations and provability.
The complaint isn't that they are showing us personalized ads, it's that you can't participate in modern society without sacrificing a ton of privacy or being incredibly inconvenienced.
duck duck go is pretty horrible compared to google, for search results... i wish it wasn't. Tried it, both myself and my less tech savvy wife, thought wtf is this?
What is Bitcoin? Part 1
It's the best deal they can deliever that's still meaningfully a Brexit (i.e. it achieves other political goals that were the reason for it in the first place).
Bear uses CloudKit for the backend so should be just as private as Apple Notes.
> I'll take an all wheel drive S4, ATS, C class or 3 series over an SUV any snowy day

I hope you're putting on the correct type of tires for snowy days. A lot of those models come with summer/performance tires which are incompatible with snow. For my S4, I have a set of Bridgestone Blizzak snow tires that I use during the winter months.
Then that's what we get. There's no guarantee of a good outcome: if the majority of people want to do stupid things, a democracy will let them.
In such a case we'd probably be fucked regardless of what form of government we had. A dictatorship, monarchy, or oligarchy lets a minority of people do stupid things, and if you have a majority, it's fairly likely there is a powerful minority contained within them.

If that’s the degree of freedom you need to be happy, you probably need to live somewhere that has ever claimed to offer it. If you’re just convinced of the incompetence and doom of the race then while I can certainly see your point of view and don’t dismiss it, I don’t know that such a perspective is useful in a public policy context as it offers no solutions or hope.

Not accepting that we’re fallible, that principle is subservient to outcomes, and that a 48%-52% split is not exactly a significant minority-majority split seems unhelpful. More, if you see doom around every corner then what’s the harm in another referendum with a better defined question, and better controls on lying, dirty money and foreign influence? Remember that we’re less than a century away from the last time Europe tried to tear itself apart and take the rest of the world with it, maybe some caution is warranted here.
What if some jerk replaces half his cells with rocks then swaps the pack and you get it?

You have to trust the charging station that you’re getting an equivalent pack in trade. Are incentives aligned to ensure that?
Interesting thought. Some places play video ads while you wait. Selling snacks seems like it would be more profitable than that. Build it into the gas pump so one swipe of your card pays for it all.
in reality the permission was given the moment that people buy the phone. Nobody is going to realistically buy a phone and then deny the terms. TBH the idea that users consent because they click a button is bogus unless something like money is at stake.

I think they should try adding warning signs to phone packages, like they do in cigarettes, "tracking inside" , and see how this affects consumer choices.
I work on ganache, one of the tools used to uncover this attack, and we only heard about it this afternoon via a Reddit post linking to a medium article.
Ditto for Toronto
When I first read that Google is funding WordPress development, I was honestly expecting that Automattic would use that money to update their code base. It's horrible 15 year old code that has no namespaces, autoloading, or any of the features introduced in PHP 5.3 or later.

It unfortunately looks like they are trying to shove AMP down the throats of small scale news publishers and yet charge them $1-2K to host a same old WordPress site, quite possibly with Gutenberg, and now with AMP on top.

Thanks I hate it.
tl;dr, interfaces are good
A zener diode costs $0.01 and gives pretty good randomness. You mix network traffic, user input, other sensors when available and you are gold.
Roasting aka burning the beans seems like it would be a cause of cancer, similar to research about cancer causing agents in the burnt aspects of meat, etc.
There's a really simple answer to this. You said:

> All it requires is that the UK accepts that EU customs checks are performed between Britain and Ireland ... I have no idea why the extreme brexiteers find this idea so objectionable?

Generally they don't. However the government is only in power with the support of the DUP[0] who see it as THE END OF THE WORLD, and it would be a complete anathema to Ulster loyalists[1], whose are (essentially) half of the Good Friday Agreement.

In short: if they accepted this, the British government would fall and armed conflict could well break out again in Northern Ireland.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Unionist_Party

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_loyalism
> most of them are premature optimization

The person asking may be prematurely optimizing, but can you make that assertion for every single person arriving at the same question/post from a search engine? If premature optimization is a bad thing, then prematurely calling out premature optimization is doubly-so.
I believe apple has ridden the hardware train about as far as it goes. There's no money in laptops and desktops anymore. The latest android phones are good enough. The "apple store experience" has become a dystopian nightmare compared to almost any other form of shopping. Constant pressure to increase earnings will inevitably force them to move a larger and larger percentage of their business to data and start striping away privacy features.

A real concern for privacy has only ever existed in the open source world, and google and apple have effectively crushed that threat.
Because the way it backs up your files isn't symbolic with the file system. The Hugo template I'm working on does this for you. Their are some minor annoyances, but it is the most powerful tool that I know of to get setup quickly. Wish there was some more standardization around Templates though, and the ability to do custom output templates for section lists that create paginated sections of content based on grouping, custom parameters and more. Best thing is it is all managed in a logical folder (section) and file (page) hierarchy and so far I've just about got a infinitely nested template setup with paginated sections and pages throughout, with the ability to add custom paginated sections using specific layouts for custom sections.

It's a bit less than ideal, overall. I would like to see you be able to assign a custom output format, so for each index and section kinds it would be nice to automatically create paginated sections that you want for specific layouts. I've tried this and it only sort of works, but expects them to be the pages as your lists.html or index.html, and can't paginate a path.

Also, built in client-side search. I'm working on Mermaid.js, Chart.js and Reveal.js short-code integration next.
No, it's just that I hate the way it looks.

When I was young and stupid, I was very careless. I didn't keep my teeth clean. And I smoked hand-rolled cigarettes (unfiltered) using a tasty but extremely tarry Turkish/Virginia blend (Balkan Sobranie).

Anyway, after I finally quit the tobacco habit, I gained considerable weight, going from 68kg to 91kg over perhaps 3-4 years. And then I became a total workaholic, with no time for exercise. So I stayed at ~90kg for maybe two decades.

Over the past few years, I've been gradually doing more and more weight training and aerobic exercise. So I'm down to ~79kg, with a relatively low fat to muscle ratio. And I've been thinking about getting back into whitewater kayaking. It'd be a rush. And from my experience with hypothermia and near-drowning, it'd be a great way to die.

But anyway, given that I've lost lots of fat, and gained lots of muscle, my skin is a few sizes too big. And it shows little sign of shrinkage. I can deal with the flaps on my gut, arms and legs. But my face, you know, is just too much in my face :(
is the narration downloadable?
I think your facility in creating/using new interfaces won't be much of a protective factor. I think your being, say, less than 35 years old at the moment would be much more important. By the time you're 65+, there's a reasonable chance there will be effective, affordable treatments.
The second referendum was on the broad question of leave/stay, without the fine details. It is widely accepted that a lot of people voted without understanding the details.

Now there are specific options on the table. It seems only fair to allow people to vote on no-deal, the best deal they could get, or no Brexit at this point.
> The satellite view doesn't have street name

Are you sure you're not in hybrid view?
A minimal customization is likely to bring most benefits while still being easy to maintain and unlikely to break with updates.

I have a quite small .emacs, and tiny user.js, .stumpwmrc, .bashrc and a few others. I think it's the way to go. Try to use as little software as possible, stuff that is well maintained, and don't fight its defaults too much.

In cases like emacs or vim, you do need some customization since they are trying to address such a wide userbase that their defaults are sometimes a bit odd, or just there for historical reasons and backward compatibility.
IMHO the VM here isn't really the problem. Its the compiler. The way I look at it this is really a compiler bug, that only gets "activated" with this upgrade.
Any in particular you can recommend?
There already was a customs union. It was called the EU.
> Why is she being resoundedly disapproved upon by her own gov't?

Because "Prime Minister" is not the head of state, so there's little respect for the position. Her position is equivalent to Speaker of The House in the US, only in a system where The House is also the Executive.
Does “sacrificing privacy” mean something other than “seeing personalized ads”? What’s the difference?
My car has backup lights. They're white and illuminate really well. I can see way better on the camera than with my own vision surprisingly.

Chevy Suburban ~2012
The court transcripts of the Visio provide a snapshot of insight. Visio was selling reduced data without informing consumers that they were being monitored. There is case information on line and I don't recall it exactly, but it was demographic, ethnicity and watching habits. I'm sure that could be extended to recognize room furnishing. In another project Affective sells Emotion As a Service (EAAS) which extracts data from 24 points on the face. A single capture can be decoded as an expression, and expressions across time can be decoded as emotion. That algorithm could be ported to a smart TV though I don't think there have been any announcements yet.
Surely with "the crown" and not with the King?
The whole idea of a following the results of a non-binding referendum that 52% of the people that voted passed for such a major thing as leaving the EU seems quite strange to my American eyes. I would think something as major as joining the EU should have required a super-majority of people voting for it in and a super-majority to leave. Like a US constitutional amendment. I need to read more English history to understand how people think this is the way things should work.
Which is worse on cities, Uber or Airbnb?

(My gut says Airbnb.)
Art of Decision-Making
> Fully agree that Google and Facebook are mainly to blame.

Let’s not ignore the complicity of their users. You can live without Google and Facebook.
> If you google "how do I write my own contract" you go down a rabbit hole of impossible to reconcile contradictions and absurdity.

I find legal drafting and programming to be remarkably similar. And I think you get the same rabbit holes when googling either way, but when you're developing the feedback you get for the "solution" you found on Google is almost immediate. The function either works as you expected or it doesn't. When you're drafting an agreement you might not find out that the snippet of legalese you found worked in a way you hadn't anticipated for years, or decades later, if ever.

There's also the added complication that the law is constantly changing. When you're developing you know you're using Language X v10. And when the meaning of a reserved word needs to change, everyone upgrades to v11. We can't (yet!) update all of our contracts every time a court ruling calls the interpretation of a clause into question. Add to that the complication that sometimes the courts don't even agree on the interpretation of something for years. It's as though a team of programmers are all working on the same project without a GitHub repo.

Source: Lawyer who codes.
Authentication can be implemented via a proxy, it can build very complex and encrypted data-types with pretty little automation.
Honestly one of the coolest site ideas I've seen in a long time. I'll be checking back.
I'm seriously considering going iPhone for the first time, I've been an Android user since I could get my hands on an Android phone on Sprint for the first time (2009? I think...) and lived through the crappiness of early Android. I prefer Android cause I can root it, but I never do, feel like it will break something I want if I use a "ROM" (why they're not called DISTROS is beyond me) but also last time I tried to install a ROM I screwed up my phone so bad I had to factory reset the hard way through a tutorial, I basically bricked it.

With iOS I only get iOS or jailbroken iOS. Not really satisfying, but Google made an open source kernel into a proprietary mess of literal spyware.
I guess ending compulsory military service, safety inspecting our food and opposing entirely state-controlled education systems are the negative core of capitalism then. Who knew.
If users are payed to see and click on ads won’t the entire user base be incentivized to just behave like a giant clickfarm?
Google's surveillance system has more reach that Facebook's. Both are extensive, but it's pretty common to find webpages that contain no facebook tracking but do contain google tracking. In fact it's pretty rare to find websites that don't contain any google tracking. And I can avoid Facebook's gaze by using email, but if I use email almost inevitably somebody I want to email will be using gmail, meaning any messages sent necessarily go to google.

Then you've got the Chrome problem.
> Now, back to drinking my mocha latte.

Another study claims that consuming coffee with milk-products inhibits our body's ability to absorb beneficial compounds, so it might not matter.
I solved this by just setting up a magic keyboard/trackpad at work and home. I'm happy with the MBP keyboard but I have issues with debris sticking in keys. This way I can still be a slob, but keep the actual laptop keyboard clean.
It's not Airbnb's responsibility to enforce the law. Full stop.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_franche_du_pays_de_Gex

There was a custom's border inside France from 1815[0] to 2008, with different treatment for imports/exports from Switzerland to the small part of France beyond that custom's border.

According to that article, you can still buy cars w/o EU import duties in that part of France...

[0]: Yes, as a result of Napoleon's defeat and as part of Geneva joining Switzerland.
(Too late to edit, so replying to myself.)

Correction: Netflix, Sling, Hulu, and CBS All Access. No Amazon button.
In reality the permission was given the moment that people buy the phone.

Not for Google. Permission is given when you agree to sign up for a Google account. Google tries to trick you into signing up by using a dark pattern. Just click "Later", then remove the signup app. I've been doing that for years now on Android phones.
Nothing stopping me from building it but hours in the day :)

Would love to do it actually
I'm a software engineer from Colombia and Narcos is definitely exaggerated and over dramatized. The cartel war of the 80s and 90s was definitely very brutal and absolutely terrible for the country but for the vast majority of people that lived through those times (me included) we watched the violence in the news like everybody else. Only in very specific areas of the country some people got to experience actual violence.

Colombia has a population of 50 million and at most those cartel gangs add up to 15,000 members in total (counting the guerrilla groups) which is a pretty scary number but still only around 0.03% percent of the population in total. Cartels tend to operate in very marginalized or remote areas (like the jungles) so for many Colombians violence like the one showed in Narcos is something we rarely experience.
So, you're mad at Airbnb because the government isn't regulating it properly?
I have no doubt that fielding ignorant questions every day inculcates a certain attitude of presumptuous arrogance. How could it not?

However, as the sibling comment says, I'm most commonly annoyed by this when I arrive at an answer via search and have to wade through the whole interrogation process about what the OP was really trying to accomplish.

It's like, look... you're not being brought on as a consultant, where whole-system analysis and root-causing issues would be part of your professional responsibilities. Sometimes a person just wants to ask an obscure question about software to see if maybe someone else knows the answer. That person shouldn't have to provide a complete backstory and concept of operations for whatever it is they happen to be working on.

They're also not entitled to an answer, so if you don't know, for the love of god, just move along and do something else with your day. I think this kind of behavior wastes a lot of time for everybody involved.
To be fair, we also said progz.
They've got a 5 year, $2 billion contract with Google for cloud services. There's $100 million / quarter right there. Plus they have staff.

Yes, servers cost money, but locking in that cost doesn't make sense to me, because it makes it very hard to reduce costs, even if you invest developers in efficiency.
That's a helpful article, but I don't know of any examples of organisations other than the Treasury that predicted a deep and severe recession occurring before the UK had even left the EU.

One has to admit that there is something of a conflict of interest when it comes to the Chancellor of the Exchequer producing a document to analyse the negative consequences of a scenario which his own prime minister was campaigning against.
Is this available as a podcast? I can't find it, but I'd like to listen to these as I drive to my non-startup job.
This isn't a productive way to criticize something. Please state what you were confused about and suggest an alternative.
Cliff Click language hacking: aa
But why do you want to drive a car into a city?
Hollywood's portrayals of everyone are ridiculous. Cops. Nurses. Railroad engineers. Librarians. Teachers. Kids. Everyone.
Yes, once you scale really big it is hard to keep a high growth rate. But if you have been always growing at 50% YoY, it is possible to keep that rate even at year 12. This is pretty common amount bootstrappers. I am speaking from my own experience at the company I founded: JotForm’s last 7 years were at 50%.

Ahrefs recently announced a similar growth rate:
https://medium.com/swlh/how-we-achieve-65-yoy-growth-by-igno...
Parliamentary Supremacy: Parliament has the last word on all constitutional matters, whether written or unwritten, and in any event can change any inconvenient aspects of the written constitution (e.g. historical bills and charters) with a simple majority.

Historically the House of Lords provided a check on populist sentiment in the House of Commons, but the powers of the House of Lords have slowly been diminished over the past century or two (albeit with their consent, more or less; but it's a one-way street), while also making membership more "democratic" and thus more likely to express populist sentiment.
The word “car” is really fun. It can mean “sedan” or “personal passenger road vehicle” depending or what kind of point you want to make.