skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So a country called Greece which had been a part of the EU had a severe financial collapse a year or two (2009ish?) after the period when (2007-2008) the US had a subprime mortgage collapse that triggered the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the period that we sometimes call the Great Recession now. This led to a great lack of faith in the value of the EU because it creates some notion from the richer countries, "ew, why do we have to bail them out?" And that perception in turn caused by 2016 a lot of political pressure on the leadership of the UK to seriously consider exiting the EU, as they've always kind of held Europe at arm's length, e.g. by not embracing the Euro.

So this prime minister named David Cameron thought he would squash the whole "let's leave the EU" dissent by revealing it to be a minority position by some clever politicking: he would call a referendum and they would get only 15% of the vote and he could dust his hands and say "well we had this vote and you were wrong and let's stop holding untenable positions here." The problem was that rather than 15% of the vote, Leave carried 52% of the vote. Legally it was not a binding vote, the Parliament is still allowed to do whatever they want. But the Conservative Party that Cameron had led was sincere about "we're going to do whatever the public decides." Due to the complete reversal of his expectations, Cameron resigned as PM and was replaced by May.

May is in a tricky situation because if she holds a second referendum, "really, truly, are we going to leave the EU?" then it looks like her party is just going to keep asking the question until they get the answer they want -- and that is not really democracy. If they just say "eff it we give up, we're not doing this Brexit thing" then they are reneging their earlier promise.

With that said there is now a widespread belief that if they did re-ask the question the majority would say "hell no, remain in the EU, we didn't mobilize with enough urgency because we didn't understand what the country was signing up for in that last vote." If a different party were in power, probably they would have done so by now. But because there is this direct line from Cameron to May, May has been very firm on her belief that they need to go through with Brexit one way or the other.

Because May was so obstinate on this point, there have most recently (Dec 2018, Jan 2019) been some votes of no confidence trying to upset the government and have a new government that might be able to do the actually-popular thing. Those have failed.
The human element of teamwork
Serious question: Why not just remove the government guaranteed part of the loans? This seems backwards to me.
With all the brexit challanges, why not have a new referendum to "confirm the will of the people"?

It's unclear whether or not it will be possible to construct majority support in parliament for that at present. There's also the issue of legitimacy; while I don't agree with the view myself, there is concern that a second referendum smacks of an attitude of "you did it wrong the first time, try again". This is the outcome of a badly-designed referendum, which should probably have included a ratification vote.

Also, doesn't brexit basically guarantee Scottish independence?

While I'm a huge Scottish independence fan and would love this to be the case, the reality on the ground is more complex. The case for the previous independence vote in 2014 was based heavily on continued EU membership for both Scotland and the rest of the UK. An unstable, hard-Brexit neighbour will be difficult for Scotland, which is heavily intertwined economically, culturally and politically with the rest of the UK. Brexit probably enhances the emotional case, but doesn't help the practical one. Additionally, due to the constitutional structure of the UK, Scotland cannot hold a legitimate referendum on independence without the consent of the UK parliament – something which is unlikely to be granted any time soon.
Well, nobody can be made happy, I agree. Maybe they should go for "least unhappy". Put three options on the ballot - remain, hard Brexit, and May's best deal. None of the three will get a majority. (Brexit might get a majority if you lump May's best deal and hard Brexit together, but as you point out, those aren't really the same thing.)

What do you do when nothing gets a majority? You could go with whatever gets the most votes, but as you said, that leaves the majority unhappy. Instead, on the same ballot, ask everyone what their second choice is. If nothing gets a majority of first place votes, then go with whatever got the most first and second place votes.
Fly-by-wire means the control surface actuators are connected to cockpit controls electronically rather than with hydraulic lines or metal cables; it's not necessarily related to stability and control augmentation system.

With regard to the other point, I don't think anyone is advocating for very high aerodynamic stability. That would be a B52 carrying nuclear weapons. It was designed to be extremely stable and forgiving. That being said, you don't want to rely solely on stability augmentation for trimming an airliner.

It reminds me of Air Canada flight 143, the pilots lost both engines and power. yet they were able to land the plane safely on an abandoned airport. I'm not sure if that would be possible with a 737 Max.
> In a web app, a single compromised server will compromise all security instantly.

This is only true if the server has access to the keys of your data. E2EE typically means that it doesn't, only you do.
>Can you prove it's round? Then show me how to do it, so I can prove it to myself?

This is what happened originally, so why is this unreasonable?

Was this not done for you in some way before you accepted the fact of the world being round?

>Taking other people's word for it is just censoring alternative points of view

What a terrible straw man.

>This is America. I don't want anything to do with censorship.

Yeah. Right. And?
Amiga: Legal Woes and Some Announcements
>And you can forget trying to call anybody - nobody answers because every phone call is a robocall or a scam.

Same for email, as soon as every site required signup, then felt the need to send a daily marketing email people just gave up on email. Now it's just for getting signup links and password resets and anything unexpected is just drowned out in the mess of advertising.
I am able to login with Firefox 64.0.2 on fedora. If they are doing user-agent filtering, they either don't target me, or they backed it off due to the hitrate.
Turn off slack to be less productive?? Surely you mean turning it on.
I'm still an FB "monthly active user", in that I use it about once a month. As people have dropped off in my circles, one-per-month has become more than enough to catch up.
Nothing is a problem if we are willing to stick our fingers in our ears and quietly hum la la la. But anyone who wants to square and explain how the common definition of free will works in this universe, still has a problem.
Have you heard the Good News?!? Waterfox is FF before it dropped support for well loved extensions like Tab Mix Plus. It is actively maintained with security patches.

https://www.waterfoxproject.org/
> There is, for a revocation of article 50 notice to be legal, Parliament has to pass a motion directing the Government to do so[1].

We're talking here about what MPs can reject or not, and the fact that Parliament must direct the government before the government doing it is legal is not a legal barrier to MPs taking action on it (the form of which action would be an Act of Parliament directing the government.)
While as an open source software and company creator I highly connect to the emotional content of his response and feel the pain for Elastic when it comes to the competition by Amazon, I do agree that he does not address the factual issues at hand and uses badly the word "open" for stuff that is "shared source".

One aspect Elastic is also not directly attacked on and therefore not addressing is the choice of features that are not free and the price point. Elastic's business model is quite smart. You can easily develop on top of elastic, however once you have done it and want to go to production some key features are missing and they are not cheap. Particularly securing your cluster data is one of the features in xpack which is problematic not to have. I'm pretty sure you can search for open ports 9200 over the internet or company intranets and find unwanted unprotected data. And it's not cheap as you need to go for Gold subscription if I'm correct. I would be surprised nobody has proposed a pull request with competing code.

Elastic has and is investing a lot as open source and they do need a good business model that allows investment in the core open source code. The thing is I'm not sure it's missing here. Elastic.co is quite healthy. It's hard to know if it would be without this business model, but anyway there is little chance they would do differently given Elastic.co is VC backed. In the end the real fight is between the big money players, not about whether Elastic the software is sustainable. The reality is that given the community, it would very probably be even without the "xpack" package. Now it's not sure Elastic.co would be able to aggressively invest in both oss and non oss as much and therefore compete with Amazon.

OSS is tough. When you go for it, you should go in it for OSS, not for the company, because keeping the company at the level of the OSS success is hard both for small and big OSS projects.

Ludovic Dubost (XWiki)
OSX was used originally to just describe version 10, a big change to the OS which broke backwards compatibility. Now its used loosely to describe any version above 9.

Each point version of OSX has a codename, Yosemite is v10.10.
The latest version 10.14.x has the name Mojave.

Apple recently rebranded OSX to macOS, possibly to have a version number higher than 10 some day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS#Mac_OS_X
Is there an 18 year old who would be a good risk for tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars of collateral free loans?
Here is a thread[1] from one of the researchers. She spells out what they have found. I think the most damning quote is.

“Do not let people minimize this issue. This isn't "some random hacker can steal an election" this is "SwissPost can prove they didn't steal an election, even if they did"

[1]https://twitter.com/sarahjamielewis/status/11053782573171916...
When someone wants to make it official, I expect them to want to marry, sue, hire, or fuck me. None of these is what I expect to be offered when reading a blog.

I don't know why the wording of that message irritates me so much, but I can't imagine many people would appreciate it.
void choices()
{
if(uk_MPs_yes_vote(12_march))
{
brexit(29_march[current_deal]);
}
else if(uk_MPs_yes_vote(13_march))
{
brexit(29_march[no_deal]);
}
else if(uk_MPs_yes_vote(14_march))
{
if(EU_yes_vote(21_march))
{
brexit(extension_date);
}
}
else if(uk_MPs_yes_vote(22_to_29_march))
{
brexit(29_march[current_deal]);
}
else
{
brexit(1/0);
}
}
I think my argument is that open source has in fact won, it just hasn't brought the benefits some people expected it to bring. (And it's totally fine to say, "Having seen the results, I'm no longer a supporter of open source," if you want.) The open-source-is-viable argument was that people will find a business model other than selling the software itself, and the software industry won't collapse when proprietary software becomes unviable - and that's exactly what happened. It turned out the most profitable business model wasn't support contracts or custom development, it was largely software as a service and advertising. It also turned out that this business model was so profitable that there are tons of free-as-in-beer but non-open-source software products out there, including the vast majority of what Facebook, Google, etc. offer.
I presume it’s because there are people making money from the cost inflation that the federal taxpayer guarantees provide, and so they lobby to keep them in effect.
What’s the “low altitude flying” rule that isn’t being enforced?
The EU doesn't want the UK to leave. It would damage their project massively. It might even unravel it entirely if some other countries decide to follow in the UK's footsteps.
Students would not qualify for loans if they were not guaranteed by the government. They are young people with little or no income or collateral -- who would be willing to lend them tens of thousands of dollars?

If you remove the government backing you might as well just not bother having student loans at all.
> This is 100% incorrect. By that definition every company's private source code is a barrier to entry for their competitors. Clearly this is wrong.

Nope.

In the case of source code, a competitor has just as much opportunity to solve the same problem in either the same way or a better way.

In the case of data which is no longer available, there is no equivalent way to reproduce it. You either took advantage of it when it was available, or you never can.

These are two different things. Google’s code may be replicable, but their data and access to data are not.

You place "The product is so advanced that nobody can compete" in quote marks as if it’s what I’m saying, but in reality, nobody is saying this. It’s just a straw man that you can keep railing against, as if it’s what other people are saying.

You can repeat your misunderstandings again and again with additional emphasis if you like.
Yeah, I feel like making the loans forgivable is the correct solution. It should be the lenders on the hook, not the schools. And if lenders offer fewer loans because they don't see it as cost effective, the schools will be pressured to provide a cheaper and/or better service in response.
Identical twins raised separately have a 50% higher concordance of sexual orientation. Note: Not 100%, but also not 0%.

This tells me that, at least in the case of sexual preference (and possibly, all other preferences, such as in learning how things work/STEM), it seems to be significantly (but not completely; but also not insignificantly) influenced by nonsocial/biological/"root" factors.

This is of course, unfortunately, the most troublesome answer, because all it does is lead to even more questions.
I don't understand what you're asking. The use case is literally in the title ("file transfer").
A very high traffic CDN customer is likely to run afoul of section 2.8, Limitation on Non-HTML Caching, of the Cloudflare Self-Serve Subscription Agreement:

> The Service is offered primarily as a platform to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless explicitly included as a part of a Paid Service purchased by you, you agree to use the Service solely for the purpose of serving web pages as viewed through a web browser or other application and the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) protocol or other equivalent technology. Use of the Service for the storage or caching of video (unless purchased separately as a Paid Service) or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content, is prohibited.

This limitation does not exist on the Enterprise plan, and Cloudflare salespeople are likely to make that point when selling the upgrade.
Yep, that's what I meant. Overall chances of leaving the EU I'd put at 50%. Which is really another way of saying I have no clue.
> and it's especially good for republican voters.

This is true, but maybe not for the reasons you think. The number of people who self-identify as "Republican" has shrunk considerably over the past few years. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/06/14/trump-owns-...
The very-immature Phoenix LiveView kind-of fits this use case.

It looks AWESOME and I'm excited to watch it mature over time.

Basically, LiveView is an Elixir library that allows SPA-style web page interactivity with server-rendered pages.
Read here for the why: https://github.com/mozilla/send/blob/master/docs/metrics.md
I think it uses a cryptofill shim for browsers that don't support all of the crypto api
How many people have died from the issue with these? If that many people were killed by any group other than a corporation, they would've been deemed terrorists.
Yes but there's been no suggestion of malware introduced into the 737-MAX control software, as far as I've heard.
Is there a need for all 18 year olds to have access to tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt?
> But that stirs far less controversy.

There's a difference between claiming that there are no difference and critically examining specific claims to see how well supported they are by the scientific evidence. The book review you linked to appears to fall in that tradition of critically examining claims and looking at sources of systemic error.

> At the very least, no-one ever got fired for claiming there are no differences.

Nobody has been fired for relevant scientifically-supported claims, either. What has happened is that some guys have spouted off outside of their areas of competency and tried to avoid the consequences by handwaving something about engaging in science. Science is a tool for becoming less-wrong over time, not a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Navy, Industry Partners Are ‘Under Cyber Siege’ by Chinese Hackers
Exactly the same for me. Except that I've never used Chrome in my life. I had to install Chromium once because a German government site I needed to use insisted on Chrome.
Please stop subsidizing these institutions. The US backed loan system for ever-climbing tuitions are an obvious cartel. Never mind the uselessness and lack of ROI of most degrees in the broader job market.
>Nowadays a lot of people are only available via SMS, and I don't have the patience to type out long messages there.

Whether its from school or work, everyone has an email address that they must check regularly. Anything longer than a three sentence text I'll just email.
I still test on Firefox because it has been my main browser since the Netscape days (pre-Firefox), but for most customers Chrome, Safari (on iOS) and IE 11 make the bulk of our RFPs browser acceptance matrix (in Germany).
I'm an attorney and used to work for a bank. One of the hats I wore there was Anti-Money Laundering Officer. We had a potential client with this type of arrangement that went through several countries so I insisted on getting more and more information because it seemed suspicious that someone would go through all of that trouble unless they were doing something illegal. It turned out the gentleman traveled internationally quite a lot for business... and had accumulated three different families on three different continents. His revocable trust owned several LLCs as part of a complex plan to facilitate payments to all of his wives and children upon his death without them finding out about one another.

I regret that I wasn't privy to his plans for keeping them apart at his funeral.
Yes. It's just self-discipline at this point. I find habits and self-discipline to be closely related.

Where willpower/motivation does come into play is the formation of self-discipline and habits. People often need that spark to get started. Look at someone like Goggins with insane self-discipline now, but if you listen to his story it took some very low moments for him to find that initial motivation.
All they are saying here is "these are the browsers/OSes we can offer support for, and that we test our site with". I mean they specifically say:

> Some features and functions may not operate properly with unsupported browser versions.

I don't understand why folks are so surprised this works elsewhere, or why anyone is getting super upset about this. If they were filtering based on user agent and explicitly preventing it from working for you when it otherwise probably would, then I could see the issue (ahem Apple icloud, anyone?). But this isn't that.
> Colleges and universities argue that, should such a measure be implemented, it would harm schools that take on disproportionate numbers of low-income students, like historically black colleges and universities and for-profit schools.

This strikes me as bizarre. This is supposed to be a protection for the student, not the school. If schools are failing their students, they should be held accountable, especially for low income students. If someone gets into a school, takes on loans and drops out, the college didn't do the student any favors
The real value of a property manager is having someone who is invested in increasing the value of your rental property asset. In multi-family this is easier because the value is directly tied to the net operating income. Increased rents and lower operating expenses = higher property value.

Single family gets more tricky because the value is more closely tied to the property value and not the rental income. I think this is where the inventives are often misaligned. Even so, the best property managers will handle a lot more than just filling units, collecting rent, and handling maintenance. They understand the goals of the owner and will adjust their management strategy to meet those goals (eg income property or a quick sale in a few years).

To add to your list: tenant retention (highest cost is actually unit turnover), setting rent to the right amount based on local comparables, and keeping in compliance with the ever changing rental laws.
SUSE was my first distro in college back in the late 90s. My first job was my exposure to Debian, and I've been on it since. Distro hopping is fun. The issue with OpenSUSE is it's huge unless you do a minimalist install. yast is a great tool, however. Debian should have something like this. I agree zypper is a nice package manager, and it's fast.
I hear you, but aren't both of them faceless corporations?
"They also gave rise to Martin O’Malley, a city councilman who was elected mayor on an anti-crime platform in 1999.
O’Malley set about implementing what was then known as the New York model: zero tolerance for open-air drug markets, data-centric “CompStat” meetings to track crime and hold police commanders accountable and more resources for law enforcement paired with tougher discipline for officers who abused their power. By the time O’Malley, a Democrat, was elected governor of Maryland in 2006, crime rates, including murders, had fallen across the board"

Geez, for how maligned it is, broken window policing seems to work - causally so. In this case, put it in and murder rates go down, take it out and murder rates go up.
That, plus the fact that it's for an intangible asset that can't be repossessed.

If they give an 18 year old $30k for a car purchase they come take the car when you don't pay and get most of their money back. There's no way to seize a diploma to recover their money.
Good, then maybe we wouldn’t have colleges trying to outcompete each other on who can ratchet up the unnecessary expenses of a school.
Same thing in Russia.
So you routinely log in as an admin and run sql queries directly on a production DB? That seems quite a bit more "bad" than the example.
Who would be willing to lend them thousands of dollars to study a useless degree?

Ah, nobody, that's the damn point.
> Personally, I think that if you're going to do that you may as well just skip the referendum entirely, declare that the whole thing's cancelled and save everyone a lot of bother.

I think it's significantly more democratic to have another vote. Most people thought remain would win the first one, but they didn't. If leave won again, we'd definitely definitely have to leave.

> there'd be no Leave option as most people understand it

I question that there is such a shared understanding of what leave means. Leavers seem pretty split between hard and soft options.
It would likely destroy the rating of the outstanding debt and would raise serious questions around the US Government's ability to honor debt in general.

I don't disagree that student debt is a crisis that needs to be dealt with, but the US government coming out and saying "JK, we're not going to back this debt" would surely be a disaster.