skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...]so unless that petition has more than 33 million signatures then it doesn't prove much does it[...]

It's not going to prove much even then. As a test I just signed this with a fake name, all you need is an E-Mail address and to enter some valid UK post code.

Anyone who's paying any attention to some Internet petition that's implemented like this is crazy. In some other European countries there's online petitions like this, but they'll make you go through the government's official login gateway.
Not really, I only have a trivial shell script to pull from about 160 mostly quiescent repositories.

When a pull fails, I use SourceTree to review modified files (which, for technical reasons, are mostly spurious tool-made harmless changes that should be discarded but are usually included in commits and conflicting).

Discarding, staging and stashing files and then applying a stash are particularly convenient operations with the SourceTree client (much better than merging or rebasing), and avoiding extra commits is a major advantage.
I know much of UK wants to remain, and Brexit is a mess, with EU Japan-ification and inherent mismatch of fiscal policy with monetary policy b/c of sovereign states, maybe UK will ultimately come out ahead as economic free agent?
This [0] indeed seems like such a rookie mistake, with all kind of edge cases ready to mess up the path encoding. The fact that they left such a broken behaviour in the lib for two years doesn't inspire much confidence.

0: https://github.com/ReactTraining/history/pull/465/files#diff...
>We already know half the country wants to leave and half wants to stay

The two halves are not static. Leave voters are predominately older and enough of them have died to shift the proportion (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-leave-...). It's clear that that Leave was a racist (https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/06/25/483362200...) campaign designed to frighten old people.

>Even if no one had changed their mind since the 2016 referendum, population changes mean that, from 19 January 2019, a majority of voters will back staying in the EU, according to the analysis. By 29 March, when Britain is due to leave the bloc, the Remain side is forecast to have a majority of around 100,000.
Taken literally it is indeed false.

But in democracies the percentages who want this or that are counted through voting. So technically, it is correct.
Now that 'Escape' is not a real hardware key in the new Macbook Pro anymore and even otherwise 'Escape' has always been one of the hard to reach keys, what is workaround for avoiding the 'Escape' key in Vim?
Not easily. There is a court ruling that states that invoking Article 50 repeatedly can be seen as an illegal abuse of the rule to exert undue pressure on the EU. So if Britain wants to do it all again, they need to clear that bar.
> Current opinion polls

Polls before Brexit where wrong, no reasons to trust them now.
AFAIK my country's EU representatives are against, so Wikipedia in the Netherlands might not see a need as rallying citizens doesn't change a thing without a clear call to action.
Well I think cloud providers look at software offerings differently. To them, software is a managed distributed system that works at scale and probably doesn't make very much sense if there's only a single user. It's hard for a managed service like that to be distributed as a single codebase or binary in the way that redis can. But they still pump out technologies that have high dev adoption.

Things like Lambda, S3, Kinesis have become huge in the dev world in one form or another - Lambda as the serverless concept, S3 as the standard API interface, Kinesis as Kafka (not implying causation or copying, just that AWS independently developed a technology very similar to something that became huge in the dev world).

Not too sure about Microsoft.

Google has invented so many technologies that have shaped development that it would be exhausting to list. MapReduce, AngularJS, Kubernetes and TensorFlow each transformed the development world and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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. Marches do nothing, they're preplanned to cause minimal disruption, just make the people in them feel like they're doing something so that it doesn't go further than that. The march on Saturday needs to at least move off the preplanned route and actually cause some inconvenience.
That was my reaction. Microsoft is smart to capitalize on overzealous IT Security departments though. There’s a lot of money to be made in the gradual extinction of Windows. I’m surprised they didn’t go for Android though.
The leave campaign was illegally funded. If the referendum was not advisory it would have had to have been re-run. So how is it valid?
> I’m surprised they didn’t go for Android though.

Just wait...
What's your point? Please elaborate!
Ironically, the EU itself is unable to fix it. The contract has to be amended by the member state governments. The MEPs are powerless on this.
You own small a grocery store, and as an altruistic service to the community you provide a public bulletin board at the store entrance. Town residents can use this to share public messages and advertisements. Someone with no relation to you anonymously pins a poster with copyrighted images to the bulletin board at the entrance.

You originally had no idea the images were not the property of the creator of the poster (how could you?), but as soon as you are made aware of the problem you remove the poster in a timely manner.

Does it make perfect sense to you that I (owner of the images) can now successfully sue you (the owner of the store and provider of the bulletin board service) for copyright infringement, and have you pay damages to me as compensation for the time the poster was visible at the bulletin board?

More importantly, do you think making the store owner vulnerable to litigation is 1. in line with how similar laws usually work? 2. a fair administration of justice? 3. a net benefit to the town and society at large?
The chance to "petition" was before the vote happened in 2016.

You've made your bed, time to sleep in it.
> The sheer stubbornness of Theresa May's position

What do you mean? To me, it seems she's tried pretty much everything, but the parliament voted down most of the proposals...

Edit: I have nothing but respect for her. She's literally the only person in the wide political spectrum in the UK that's willing to actually deal with this like a sensible adult, and she's been eating a ton of shit for it, barely complaining at all. She sacrificed a lot, her political career is completely over, and for no real result, because she was stuck between a rock and a hard place.
If you can list them we can consider what to do about them.
I thought the same thing - the company the person is CTO of builds the petitions website if you click through the link in their bio and then into their projects page

https://unboxed.co/product-stories/petitions/

e: This came out worded as if I was disproving, I'm agreeing with the grandparent comment and showing my working
> Report it with relevant authorities.

Happy to do so, but which are the relevant authorities?
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Are you sure they don't check the electoral roll behind the scenes?
You don't want french protest culture, IMO. There are some good things about it and specific protests can achieve good results, but it adds up to a very stasis oriented bureaucracy/policy ecosystem. It also gives populists a hand.
Well yeah, but existence of Google and similar warps people's usage of the web. Search is not just typing something into search field. You can search by surfing, by going through a link dictionary, by going through links on websites.

People say, that most people are connected by i don't know how many direct relationships (6?). The same may have been true for web pages.

When the search engines were much worse, people were using webrings, pingbacks, whatever - I remember going through lists of links at the end of paper magazines. Web was optimized for this kind of searching. It was called surfing for a reason.

Search engines like google hugely distorted the incentives on the web. In the name of seo and adsense people did crazy things to the web (as an ecosystem). There has been an entire cottage industry of individuals creating websites specialized just for getting pagerank for other websites, or for capturing audiences via other tricks (mirroring other websites or public/national databases), or for making the website a soup of boldened keywords.

Anyway, there are specialized searches all around, if you look. Product searches, torrent searches, Shodan, whois, transportation, pretty much anything that's annoying to search for in Google has a better alternative somewhere.
My understanding is XProtect works off signatures and only for data coming in from certain pathways (registered quarantine agents, chrome/safari etc). This doesn't protect against using a vulnerability in an app (chrome/safari) to trigger another process to download a malicious payload.

Being signature based instead of behavior based limits it's ability to detect evolving attacks.

The following seems to be a good overview of a specific attack bypassing xprotect.
https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/how-malware-bypass-macos-ga...
Oh wow me neither. Just one word (ombudsman) stood out to me, but I thought it could exist in English. It does in my native language so I did understand it :p

That's a nice translation!
José Bové (Greens) supporting art13, it is like voting for Monsanto
The problem is individually I’m better off using an edge cdn, and optimising seo for google than self hosting and ignoring google. Unless it’s a pure hobby site. Maybe then a raspberry pi server on my home “broadband” with 1Mb/s would suffice.
let me know when they get to 17.4 million signatures.
If it had gone the other way, all these points would have been exactly the same - why would it be any more/less acceptable (from a democratic process point of view)?
And ipv6 deployment without NAT.
Chiang Kai-Shek and Deng Xiaoping were different leaders who left different legacies; who knows what might've happened if Deng had been 15 years younger?

(I'm specifically noting those two because their deaths were epochal events in the modern political history of both countries.)
>People inside China are very aware of it; most just don't care that much.

The OP said they don't talk about it. Doesn't mean they don't care about it much. It is simply they don't have any means, tools or action they could do to change it.
Which variety of options (in negotiations/terms of the deal) do you think that Theresa May has tried?
It was also their internet currency. If only it worked, it'd be as big as Bitcoin if not bigger. But they could only come up with Flooz.
I see it like this.

If you're a single user, effective offline backups are probably a better investment. It's not that bad starting from scratch if you have all your data. It takes me about an hour to throw a usable build onto my laptop.

However corporate networks where the damage has a big multiplier may benefit from it and you certainly don't want to be asked all sorts of questions about whether or not you had a risk mitigation in place if something does happen.
Off topic am I the only one fascinated that Eliezer commented in the other discussion?
I am just excited that this guy is still using hacker news for 10 years now (he mentioned in 2009 q&a that).

27 days ago (my favorite non fiction writer of all time): https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Eliezer

His comment is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19231120
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> There is a court ruling that states that invoking Article 50 repeatedly can be seen as an illegal abuse of the rule to exert undue pressure on the EU

So Britain would try to invoke Article 50, the EU would say “no,” and then...? Civil war? Hard Brexit?
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Somebody let me know if they reach 17,400,000 signatures; because if they don't it's completely irrelevant. Not that signatures can't be faked; which seems much more likely.
seriously? evidently things are very different over there, here in the UK youd be lucky to get much over £25-30k in an entry level job and if you dont have a few years experience under your belt then you better be prepared for a long fight to get a position at all
I did see a few 502 pages, but eventually got it to work - haven't received the email though.

Update: Eventually got the email and confirmed my support.
It seems pretty plausible. His tweets give information about why the site crashed, some discussion about how the back-end works, and the company he claims to work for lists the Petitions website as one of their projects.
Article 50 was triggered by an unelected prime minister
You don't get to keep having do overs until enough of your opposition has died to get the result you want.

Might as well just start banning "racists" and other undesirables from the polls outright if that's the path you want to go down.
Looks interesting, but reading the text is nigh impossible on my phone due to excessive javascript acrobatics.
I wouldn't know at first glance what radare2 does, so this title was actually slightly more informative. Still nice to hear that it builds on previous work, though.
What specifically should one ask them to vote against? I'm sure they have a lot on their plate, so what's a good way to make it easy for them to understand which vote this is about?
The challenge can be the company but really you should be able to raise your request to your boss who can navigate the system for you.

I'm personally always happy to pay a premium for the tools of my trade.
We are having a lot of elections this year, so one meme floats around on FB: "Bad government is that happens when good people do not vote".
The 50m is a slightly misleading point (it includes everyone too young to vote, whatever their viewpoint) but there's a much stronger case to take into account the perspective of the 16m people who voted against this car crash.

To declare that because a poorly defined proposition sold with untruth and misdirection won out in a vote means that we can't reflect on what is now known is absurd.
It worked for me on the third attempt to submit, but I didn't get the confirmation email, so probably that's down as well.
Haha, true about the cakes. If you look at baking recipes sugar is usually measured in cups. There's a bakery near my place that offers no-added-sugar items. I find them delicious. They're probably mostly targeting diabetics, but they sure have my business.

Since we're trading anecdotes, I was told that in Egypt people drink sugar drinks, like Cocacola, like you would drink alcohol in the West. Islam forbids drinking alcohol, so they use the next most boring drug: sugar. The picture that was painted for me was a group of grown men sitting around a cafe-bar drinking Cocacola.
I could copy an entire blog post here, taking credit myself, instead of referring to it with a link. Would that be "fair use" too, and in which countries?

If that would happen, and the blog owner would sue, to which extend would the proportionality relate to real money? $50, $500, $50000?
I'll be explicit then. Let's take the example of Microsoft VS Code. You have "nothing to hide" from a text editor, as long as it's not uploading the content of any of your files. VS Code is open source, it's trivial to check if it does.

If you think there is something that it might upload that you might not like, please let us know. Here's the extension - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-telemetry. You can check for usages here - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode

There is plenty of personal information that I never want shared with anyone, like my location history, who I speak to and so on. But what shortcuts I use, what features I use in an application, after it's been anonymized? I have "nothing to hide" there.
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That's awful. I probably have hundreds of pages of notes in this thing. Time to mass PDF export.
The principle of charity: Criticize the best interpretation of an argument
some people use Shift Lock (which is barely used, and closer to pinky), and a colleague of mine use the sequence 'ii'
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I made a progress bar against the NoDeal counter-petition:
https://brexit-petitions-count.now.sh

(Pending API availability)
Probably it's "compose key" feature available on linux, allowing one to type alternative characters via key mnemonics, rather than numeric key codes like on windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key
It would have been better if written in JS and hosted with UI elements on github pages to be used directly without running after cloning.
There Is No Way to Prevent the Next Cheating Scandal
I don't mean to imply that modern-day China exists because the state is organized the way that it is, only that it does exist this way and that leaves little incentive for Chinese citizens (within the current climate) to upset the apple cart.
Several people have asked about the management of certificates for this solution. There is indeed a seperate certificate management body created called the Secure Telephone Identity Governance Authority (https://sites.atis.org/insights/secure-telephone-identity-go...).

The Governance Authority will define policies on how certificates are to be issued.

Any old certificate from a web CA won't be accepted by the system.
> The editor implementation would often require a lot of uncertain design work as people hashed out what the editor UI should even look like.

Isn't this just a dodgy way to circumscribe the complete failure of the W3C to keep their specifications sane enough for them to provide a reference implementation, even for a simple browser? That's how we arrived at the mess we have today, where you need a 9 figure budget just to maintain a modern browser implementation.
Yup I wouldn't want it every weekend. But the scale of Brexit is much bigger, its going to affect our country for decades. It just seems like there should be more protests rather than marches or at least civil disobedience
Sure the "50M didn't vote for Brexit" is BS as is the "but the 17M" with such a tiny margin of pro-Brexit votes.

Implicitly agreeing to the "but the 17M" frame, the Remainers lost the public discussion.
Entries are absolutely validated, you cannot just use proxies and automate hundreds of thousands of signings.

The people behind the petition website are not idiots.
They were within a margin of error on the day of the vote.
Tune xfps and actionfps values in config.h to really high numbers and st can be on the same level as xterm/ml-term.
Resource Hacker: a resource compiler/decompiler for Windows applications
Perhaps if she hadn't called a pointless general election and then run one of the worst campaigns in living memory that ended up removing the Conservative majority requiring pandering to the DUP I might have some sympathy.
Something different, but I use this

https://remarkable.com/

Think of a big Kindle, good battery, and really good writing experience (much like paper). I can note on pdfs, it has handwriting recognition, exports well and is otherwise a joy to use.
I used to have a top of the line Samsung tablet before, and was never really happy with it for taking notes and reading.
The funny thing is - we now CAN transmute lead to gold :) It's just not profitable :)
> But then again, email spam has been solved for the most part

Only if you use one of the big email providers or if you pay to route it via some antispam system. If you don't and play around with e.g. Postfix and spamassassin then you'll notice more than enough spam.
Yea. In my industry you could hire a team of generalists and I wouldn't expect any of their conclusions to be valid. Now if a domain expert can get them a valid dataset...then they can do some statistics and analysis and maybe uncover something I wouldn't notice.
Section 44ADA, not 44AD.

44AD is for businesses and has a presumptive taxable income of 8% of gross income. 44ADA is for (eligible) individuals and has a presumptive taxable income of 50% of gross income.
> We already know half the country wants to leave and half wants to stay

I get it's a democracy yada yada, but how are people expected to make such a decision ? It has so many consequences on short and long term, even experts in the field struggle(d) to predict. We're not talking about the color of a national football team jersey or a 1% increase on alcohol tax here.

The vote wasn't about staying or leaving EU, it was about how modern propaganda can tear apart a leading world nation.

You always get the worst of people when you target their irrational fears "they" steal our money (EU budget) , "they" invade our country (immigration), &c.
Not totally true, MEP could raise a motion that would then go down the process and eventually come up as an amendment that the EU member countries would have a final vote upon and. But I don't foresee any wanting to block something as fundamental as that.

Just sad that that initiative has just never happened, actually it exacerbates me personally even though it has no effect upon me whatsoever; Just irks me as one of those great unfairness that could and should be fixed even if too late now for the current utilisation, but any future use. Though I'm wondering if the EU likes it as it stands so it will cause friction and allow that friction to be laid upon those who action article 50. Who knows, beyond it's a massive oversight upon peoples rights from a collective that trumpets, peoples rights.

Though we do live in strange times.
That's a very interesting thought. How would you do it? You can only sense the acceleration - if it's lower than 1G you're falling. The angular momentum doesn't actually tell you anything in an aircraft.

I wonder if it's possible to estimate the local air speed based on ground speed (GPS) and local weather data (can we measure wind speed at altitude?).
Live seminar https://webcast.web.cern.ch/event/i807176

Paper https://cds.cern.ch/record/2668357/files/LHCb-PAPER-2019-006...
Did you ask the provider about it, and if so, what was their reply?

Being small may not have been their problem. I run a single-user server and haven't had any trouble with delivery to Gmail.
Earlier discussion on the ban: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18568456
Not sure what you are saying, the time it takes after you hit a key for the sound to reach your ears is 10ms when sitting at that distance. It's the same time it takes if you use headphones and use a plugin with a 10ms latency. If anything the speaker situation could be worse since you may add room reverbation to the sound as well. If this is an issue or not depends on the player and how sensitive they are to this.
For some reason most robotics contests seem to be restricted to highschool students. It's bizarre. It's like "Hey kids get into STEM because robots are cool! OK now stop and go build accounting software."

Edit: Thinking more about it, it's even worse. "Hey kids, robotics is a toy for kids to play with."