skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could trade gold for almost anything.

So, anyone who had enough gold could afford most of things - without worrying about the reason the gold is valued.

Many smart people work for Google and Facebook and a lot of them do not care about negative effect of ad economy on the society because the wages which they pay enables them to afford a house in a good locality and good enough lifestyle and probably interesting work.

Most people don't look at things from fundamental level.
I agree with most of this...except the Linux/GNU thing.
Early on GNU was an operating system in need of a kernel and Linux was a kernel in need of an operating system. Today we have a number of distributions which could rightfully be called GNU/Linux systems as its a symbiotic pairing of technologies.
No. A 16 year old is at best, a teenager. Sometimes they can be viewed as young adults.

A kid is, generally, younger than 13, though a 13 year old can sometimes be called a "kid". An 8-10 year old fits squarely in the "kid" bracket.
But that's my question, what's a "realistic consensus"? Mind you, consensus within the UK isn't enough, you need consensus with the EU as well - and I don't think anything better than the current deal is even possible.
Ditto, EE too. I bought a copy of Abramowitz and Stegun just for the great table of Laplace Transforms.

If I were a professor, I’d ban all electronics from the room. All the decent professors handed out copies of the notes anyway, or wrote them in real-time on an overhead projector, for easy copying later.
> surely the original referendum counts as being listened to in some way?

Even ignoring all the illegality and fraud about the referendum, and ignoring that because it was advisory large portions of british citizens living abroad were prevented from having a say, and ignoring the arguments about 16-year-olds who it would be directly affecting because of the time lags, and ignoring the arguments around the fact that the process/success has been wildly, wildly different than promised,

Ever since the referendum 50% of the population of the UK has had no representation in Parliament and government, whilst being endlessly parroted at that it is the "will of the people" and simultaneously being blamed for everything going predictably wrong.

Democratic governments aren't supposed to have one vote then completely ignore the rest of the population.
Maybe most of the few who weren't bootlickers left, and what remains of them are still in America.
I wasn't clear, but I meant back in the day, it seems what you filled in didn't have much to do with your mortgage. Nowadays, yes, they verify a lot of things.
I've just been sharing your site URL around on Twitter quite a bit, but it seems to have broken it! If it doesn't have caching already, would be good to add it!
I want to ask about the converse of this article. I teach at a college. I make presentations using LaTeX. I like to imagine that one advantage is that students can suck them off the intranet and work from them.

I want to ask if this is common. Do students not find that other people do it?
> You always get the worst of people when you target their irrational fears

You get the worst anti-democratic statements from people who believe their own voting to be based on rational thought and everyone else's on irrational fears.
People become more conservative as they grow older and more experienced (case in point: in Slovenia, the support for the far-left party with almost communist policies is highest amongst the young). Maybe the old dying would be outweighted by the young growing older.
Agreed. I thought the same while signing the original one right after the referendum result was announced — I wasn’t expecting to get what I wanted, but signed it in the hope of sending a “Of course I still love EU” message.
You can still fire the waiters who aren't up to your standards. I believe that the restaurant management culture is responsible for good service. I've had bad service at tipping restaurants and good service at non-tipping restaurants. To me it's not an indicator either way.
Am I the only one that finds the ECJ decision that UK can unilaterally decide to stay deeply wrong and offensive? This is absurd.

You announce to leave there should be no going back.
That's how Steve Jobs tells it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5f8bqYYwps&t=2233
If there was ever to be a workable Brexit it should have been driven by a Leaver. Theresa May was not a Leave campaigner before the referendum, just an anti-immigrant Home Secretary.

She therefore adopted the anti-free-movement position, which condemns the UK to being outside the free trade area, and completely blows up the Ireland situation.

What "should" have happened is one of Johnson, Davis, or Gove running it. Or, after the Tory Party elected a Remain leader, she should have stayed Remain and run a GE on that basis. If people wanted Leave they would have had to vote in UKIP.
> And she's horrified when she sees people around here (we're not in Japan) dip vegetable tempura into soy sauce.

FWIW, tempura dipping sauce is usually ginger/mirin/daikon/sugar/soy sauce, and is far sweeter than soy sauce alone—a wonderful combination for tempura.
This really stings. I purposefully chose a Nokia for exactly these reasons - Android One and European.
Threads and Threading in Python
Coincidentally, I am also from a 10 million country surrounded by mountains... and I feel the need to say a few words.

What sovereignty are you talking about? The one we had before WW2, right before we were occupied by Germans? Or after WW2, that brief moment before we were controlled and later even occupied by Russians? That sovereignty is an illusion, especially in today's interconnected world. We can either be small and be controlled by the big ones or be a small part of a big one. Is EU perfect? Certainly not. We can talk about reforms. But despite all shortcomings, I would still say that being part of the EU is the best era of our history.

And saying that people had more say over our country during the communist regime than we have today... that contradicts my experience and this is the sentiment I would like to express in the strongest possible terms.

And I would not be so sure about what "most people here would rather..." - if I might share my position on this: I voted yes to join the EU in order to get roughly what I got and I would not change my vote.

Just my $0.02 - article 13 is not about what Germans and French want, it is about what powerful lobbies want - being outside of EU would not save us from something like that despite what majority of the country wants - the fact is that we were not overruled; check the stances of our representatives (https://saveyourinternet.eu/cz) - unless there is some other mountains-surrounded country I do not know about, most of our MEPs voted for the article 13.
It relies on the JSON enpoints of the petition API to be up, and with all the load they are unstable at the moment.
Thinkpad t480 (t480s if you need at any cost something as slim as possible) or t580. Bonus part: nothing is soldered so you can replace any minor part without problems (yes I hate any notebook which has not easily replaceable ram or ssd or, worse, battery)
Many countries have laws that require certain types of contracts to have an obligatory right to withdraw within a certain time. In my country, all contracts that have been entered "remotely" for example (over phone, over the Internet, etc.) have this, meaning that if you enter a contract over the phone, it can be nullified within a certain period for any reason.

So in these cases, whether you were "conned" or not is not a part of the legal language, which is probably very much a conscious move. It simply extends the customers right to withdraw from an agreement, keeping the reason for it legally irrelevant.
It is scientifically proven that handwriting is better for your memory because it forces you to process the material more than note taking on a laptop.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://linguistics.ucla.edu/pe...
If I recall correctly, is not the invoking of Article 50 non-revocable?
Nothing in politics is ever clean, and all those things are problems. But, we have a tendency to notice these things more when we don't like the outcome. Treating Brexit as illegitimate is not a recipe for a good way forward, IMO. Democracy works better with respect
Good, it's ridiculous in Amsterdam right now with investors buying houses left and right just to rent them out.

A city of renters is a soulless city; less people are long-term invested and no one really buys into the community they live in.
It refreshes every 5 seconds, and uses the data from the petition JSON API (just add .json to a petition URL).
Correct, it isn't easy to censor because the web is decentralized. So it seems to me that "nerds" had more sophisticated views on the subject at hand.

You don't have to consume uncensored sources, but in most (all) parts of the world, that is a serious blessing.

If there are some people that cannot stomach the existence of Alex Jones, that is their problem. I think he exploits his audience, but that problem isn't to be solved with China tactics.
+ 700000 British citizens living for 15+ years in EU countries who were not allowed to vote https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-second-referendu...
Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to go 100% renewables
I'm only pointing out that the two sides were not competing fairly, e.g. the Leave side broke the law:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/07/corrupt-vot...
This law may work for it's intended purpose, but it's an unconscionable violation of property rights. I worry that our statistician's approach to legislation is hastening our times' abandonment of principle, and that we're sacrificing any particular individual's good to the good of faceless society.
Ok here's an angle. I can completely understand you if you are concerned about wanting free trade, free migration; but abstracted representation? Foreign authoritative bureaucracies?

I don't mean to say you're wrong. I'm just saying there appears to be obvious, legitimate concerns here, and your suggesting otherwise seems possibly disingenuous.
This is a great idea and I hope more cities take the hint and fight housing speculation.
some people are more susceptible to marketing tactics.
Yes. In many ways Brexit is one of those "cascade failures" we read about on COMP.RISKS; democracy has been malfunctioning for a long time, every effort to fix it has been blocked, and now we have the consequences.
Two main thoughts here. First I love that municipalities are thinking creatively about the housing crisis. Second, I’m curious to see how policies like this end up playing out in practice. I can think of a bunch of negative outcomes such as rental properties degenerating and home builders getting less work.

In the end we can’t know what’s going to work until the experiment plays out which to my first point is why it’s very encouraging to see so many places trying different policies.
Well, the key property is it doesn't rust :P. 2nd key property is that it is hard to come by. Gold has a big advantage over, say, (picking a random substance that is expensive by weight) printer ink because with printer ink if you don't store it properly it is likely to lose its value. Gold storage can be delegated to any idiot (such as a central bank official, heh heh) and as long as they do not lose it everything will be fine. Doesn't burn, doesn't rust, doesn't dissolve in water.

Anything as difficult to extract as gold is worth about as much (gold isn't especially profitable to mine). Gold just happens to be about as indestructible as anything we know of and have a very convenient value/volume ratio to procure. It is also a pleasing shade of yellow, which counts for something.

If we are trading without me having something you need right now then I need a way to show you that I'm not some layabout asking you to do stuff for free. Gold is a guarantee that if we unwound the chain of trades at some point someone did something real. That sounds really silly, but it turns out that some axiom like that is needed for trading to make sense.
> I don't really understand how Paris has real protests almost every weekend, yet we're leaving the EU and we've just had a few marches.

The French make themselves unrulable, while the British have been utterly subjugated by the state. Positive change has completely exited the British imagination, to the point where even progressives can't articulate a positive program, only a defence of whatever happens to exist at the moment.
how many of the 50 M have not voted because they didn't understand what they were actually voting for? The hyperbole spread in campaign[1] was just surreal. You need informed discussions before calling for a referendum not the "feely hearts over minds" bullshit.

Putting the question to the people, in a representative democracy, is a terrible idea. they should have known this after Boaty McBoatface already.

In addition UK MSM has some of the most inflaming language in all the news in Europe (and even US). I have my news.google.com set to UK by default and I switch around to other region and languages to get a more complete picture. Every country has screamy headlines. But the UK tabloids (Express, Mirror and Daily) seem to be the absolute fucking worst. Even from just reading the headlines (and knowing that it's BS) fills me with more hate than any other country's news. And I wonder: if _I_ feel so incited by this, how do Brits feel who compared to me have actual skin in the game?

[1] actually on both sides. The leave camp was infiltrated by the radical right and the left was controlled by people who were so arrogant that they'd called anyone a racist who disagreed. Those minorities who are at the fringe and work 16 hrs days (while still on the brink of homelessness) were thrown into the same pot as white-supremacists.
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For the non-Indians in the audience, what is "CTC"?
This doesn't damage the big majority of individuals, unless you consider investment funds as "individuals".
Also posted earlier today: ‘New Zealand PM announces ban on all assault rifles after Christchurch massacre’ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19449256
Her party was way ahead in the polks when she called the election. She is just incredibly bad at her job — literally, as in if you went back in time 5 years and described what she’d done[1], it would not be considered credible.

[1] hand-waving the credibility of tine travel, of course
So weird to see "remnants" of old products, years after they're shut down. I can't remember exactly which product like this I was looking at and it was depicting kinda the zeitgeist of those 2008-2009 years — wish I'd have a name but it doesn't come to me now

Probably we'll look at this article the same in 10-20 years
Drip coffee, of course, is the default method in many places. Paper filters were invented in Germany.

Really interesting how you feel burgers are less than "real" in other places.
I worry that by the time the faceless particular individual´s have finished littering the entire planet because they can´t be bothered to care for anybody else, there won´t be a society.
I had nothing but trouble whenever I used React Router. For example, sometimes paths would be appended to the URL instead of replacing it, making it grow indefinitely, and it wasn't obvious why.

There were two API rewrites in a short space of time and it was extremely frustrating, especially since it seemed almost compulsory to be experienced with React Router (along with Redux) to be taken seriously by recruiters.

For my own projects, I started using page.js years ago and haven't looked back.

https://github.com/visionmedia/page.js
(New Zealander here) I was surprised that these weren't already banned. How many bullets do you really need to hunt? Some clarification on NZ's new gun laws: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/explainer-how-...

The rest of the world sees that the US constantly ties itself in knots over the gun issue, and the horrific loss of lives. Hopefully NZ's swift response shows that things CAN change.
It wasn't they became rare, it was ubiquitous refrigeration that made them popular. It was prison food because it was basically spoiled.
Except society isn’t faceless. It’s our friends and neighbors. It’s our cousins and coworkers.

I’m more than willing to give up a bit of my extremely affluent lifestyle if it would genuinely help those around me who haven’t had the same economic opportunities as me.
Thank God for the Second Amendment.
>I would say the opposite: unless you do that, you have already given up on democracy.

As you say yourself, despite all that has happened, the vast majority of leavers and remainers still believe in the same choice. Most of the issues are matters of opinion, not fact. Even if leaving the EU is a disaster, many Brexiteers will believe it was only disaster because "it wasn't done properly".

My take on that is, this was a risk they chose to accept when voting for Brexit and which I chose not to accept when voting for remain. However they won the vote, so we all took that risk.
It's likely a form of misrepresentation law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misrepresentation
>I can think of a bunch of negative outcomes such as rental properties degenerating

Why would that be the case unless the property was losing money. Typically people care about properties that provide an income.
He actually got to fly on the plane he is modeling.

Wired has a good video of him on YouTube.
Actually the house owner doesn't own the ground the house is build on. But the city remains owner ("leasehold"). Hence they can add restrictions and terms before you are allowed to build/use the land.
I can't tell if that is sarcasm
That seems really messy to be honest because you can’t then ensure flags are nested correctly.

I guess for simple purposes this is fine though.
China has how many Muslim Uighurs interned? Millions?

Do you support the right to arms for Uighurs?

'At first I did not speak out because I did not believe they were coming for me.'
Well, no. Hardly any non-statistician knows what a CI really means. It's also just a statement about significance in disguise.
600k 'signatures' don't trump 17.4 million votes.
That's not accurate at all, it's one of those "common sense" myths that sounds good but isn't supported by evidence.

https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2018/07/24/conserva...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25472493
Though there is a downside. I decided to start working when I was 16, and it was hard to keep business with no right to enforce my own liabilities in the contract.
This is related to com.qualcomm.qti.autoregistration.apk :

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/191883/

https://github.com/bcyj/android_tools_leeco_msm8996/blob/mas...

https://twitter.com/drwetter/status/1081267425637814273
As someone who has just bought in another European city with high demand for housing , this sounds great on the surface level, but again the devil is in the details.

> It’s not yet been clarified, for example, how long an owner would have to occupy their home before being able to rent it out.

My GF has had offers of a years work in Melbourne and we have talked about it saying, it would be nice to do. Right now it would be easy to rent our place out, but it would be impossible if the rule stated that you must live in the place for 5 years.
> Why is there such a permission in the first place?

Google Play and F-droid require it in order to update apps automatically.

Essentially, you give one app a permission to install other apps. Whether it notifies you or not, it's up to the app.
> unconscionable

It's by no means that, and learn how to spell the fucking word before you use it incorrectly.

Moron.
> How many bullets do you really need to hunt?

In the US, this is the question used to neuter the second amendment. It isn't there to protect us from deer. The 2nd is meant to be used against people. The right that exists is the ability to protect your rights, life, and property, through force if necessary.
That might be OK for casual use but is a non-starter for anyone who deals with colours, photos or documents.

The entire 'warm white' concept is based around the colour temperature of candles, those being traditionally associated with night illumination. But look at the actual colour temp of an overcast sky just after Sunset; it's 5000K+ blue-grey, not 2500K yellow. The latter has no place in nature other than fire. Yet somehow our ancestors managed to go to sleep...
Isn't that exactly what the shooter wanted?

They're playing right into his hands. They skipped the step where you negotiate with the terrorists and went straight to accepting his demands. I guess that doesn't matter when you need to be seen doing something.

Edit: I mean that the shooter wanted NZ gun control as a means to the end he seeks. Not that it is the end he seeks.
Why should property rights be the same for a commercial enterprise as someone's actual home? Not sure about unintended consequences on this one, but I would rather have a law be in place to allow more home ownership over more investment properties. As someone who grew up in a rental, and rented for the first 10 years, I see the benefits in home ownership.
I'm rather shocked at how complacent everyone in this thread seems. Why is it ok to settle for neighborhoods that are built around cars and not suited to the tasks of every day living, outside of them.

In cold conditions, walking a mile is terrible. You shouldn't be needing to cross many intersections just to go shopping.

The car infrastructure is half of what makes everything spread out in the first place. The other half being zoning and underdeveloped land, often held that way for speculation purposes.

It is totally conceivable to live somewhere that has good shopping within two blocks radius. I've lived in multiple apartments where this was true. This should not be some kind of crazy unattainable thing, this should be the default.
HMD is Finnish, but AFAIK they have zero own software development in Finland. Not sure whether it is public knowledge where they buy the SW from. Of course the Google part is known, but I assume the application reported here is not from Google.
Clear headlines that put the most salient information in the headline are not clickbait. The headline on this post is not clickbait.
Just yesterday I came across one listing that worked out to 11,000 euro / sq meter. At that price there are very few rental options that would still work.
Cutter is a fantastic piece of software, and I use it for university coursework and CTFs on a regular basis. Obviously it isn’t yet as feature complete as something like IDA, but it sure does look nicer when you’re using it. The fact that it’s running radare2 under the hood is great, because it supports so many different kinds of binaries. I hope that GHIDRA gets absorbed in part into r2 (I don’t know if that’s architectural possible), because a good FOSS piece of software to compete with IDA is sorely needed in this industry.
I think those three would have failed just as hard.

IMO, whoever was in charge, it should have been done like this: 1. Nationwide consultations about type of Brexit; 2. Determine best fit; 3. Work out negotiation objectives and fallback plans; 4. Then invoke A50.
Huh? It's more than just that; the Android build comes littered with software from an unscrupulous source, even on phones that are supposed to be close to a clean version of Android.
I already feel safer, knowing that gun-law-abiding terrorists will now have to reload after a mere seven shots. Furthermore, I am confident that the lack of "military style" will actively hurt both their already fragile egos and their aiming skills.
Its only modern purpose is to enable mass shootings and support gun owners pride.
A proper followup referendum should be something like this.

A) Should we leave?

B) if we leave, should be we leave even without a deal with the EU?

I.e. two (or more) distinct questions. If you vote no at the fort question, you still get to express your opinion on the second.