skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Politically it is very interesting and a result that in a lot of ways can bring about real change too (however, I do have obvious scepticism).

The tide is now with change as for the Union to continue change must happen. A lot of the high yes vote was not because people 100% believed Scotland should be independent but more they wanted change to the system (and I do believe a Scottish Parliment offered a better system), it did come with a lot of risk and a possible lose / lose for the people of the UK as a whole.

It opens up the question of representation for people of the regions of England, Northern Ireland and Wales. I think a lot of momentum has been gathered for something a kin to federal government in the UK and is something I would very much welcome.

In essence that is in a lot of ways what that Nationalists wanted... to keep the currency union and have essentially the same terms of attachment to the EU.

I voted no on the day after a long time believing in a yes, the tide of politcal change swayed me that we may ultimately be better in a UK that had the momentum with change to our representation. The no campaign however ran an abysmal campaign and it pained me to end up siding with them, and that was in more in spite of what they had to say.

Being part of the UK benefits Scotland's internal trade immensely and to think terms would have remained the same with the rUK who would have become a foreign nation at that point was naive. I think a Union with the UK has much the same arguments as staying in the EU with respect to trade, contracts and funding. It is just English nationalism and Scottish nationalism have picked differing sides.
Probably. Decriminalization and being able to get hard drugs from a doctor would go a long way in reducing drug-related crime. I don't think society is ready for hard drugs in the supermarket aisle. At least i'm not ready for it.
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I agree, though as in a real market, the betting odds are quite sentiment driven. Maybe more so.

Many more people were betting "yes" than "no" (see oddschecker). This tended to skew the market towards a higher "yes" probability. At least one high-street bookie said the same thing. They said that they had their books setup effectively gave them a bet on "no".

This means the betting markets were optimistic on "yes". "Yes" was never that likely.
Sure you can throw together another Snapchat in a weekend. But very soon - if you have real significant user base - you will need to build and maintain apps on all platforms. You will need someone to fix bugs, add new features and scale things better everywhere. You will need people who can create and conduct marketing campaigns (FYI - Techcrunch isn't writing about for you without getting paid and Snapchat didn't become popular without playing tons of marketing tricks). You will need guys who can do business development, accounting & taxes, create partner relationships and so on. You will also need customer support, social media management, metrics measurement, all kind of dashboards and so on. Before you know, you will end up with significant staff, needing office space, doing moral events and likes.

Per head aggregate cost of an engineer these days is upwards of $230K when you add up all health insurance, 401K, signing bonuses, office space and so on. Even if you hire just 50 employees, you can easily expect $1 million burn rate per month. For things like Snapchat, you can't anticipate much income during initial growth period. So this means you need VC for getting ~$10-20M of funding per year until you get sold, IPOed or have ad based income flowing in.

In support of your thesis, there was actually one guy who did plantyoffish.com and managed it through out everything all by himself for many years. But finally things have caught up to him. Now he has more than dozen employees. This is of course outlier case and not a typical scenario where competition will eat you alive if you don't defend your castle aggressively every day by one-uping them. And for that you need employees and bandwidth to work on lot of things at the same time, many of which likely won't work out.
Indeed I thought he was mid 50s, I was kind of shocked when I read 70. I am surprised I never knew this considering.
Yep. And even more to the point, there were a lot of people who were hired as "webmasters", and knew little more than some HTML. Those people were cut almost immediately when the crash came. It's not even a metaphor -- almost the exact same scenario played itself out in the late 90s. We know how it ends.

It amazes me how resistant we are to learning from experience.
:/

the title is still misleading. when you read the title you really think the guy actually bought a tank. most people, even military amateurs, don't know what a BRDM2 is. it could have been a 70s tank.
I don't think there is a need to use specialized phone hardware as a desktop computer when computers like Intel's NUC have an idle power consumption of only 6.8W while being an order of magniture faster: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7566/intels-haswell-nuc-d54250...
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Thanks for sharing this! Very informative.
yeah, even some armored vehicle have 20mm cannon that can pierce other APCs. I guess this one just has a big machine gun, something like a .50, but nothing really bigger.

syrians built their own armored vehicles.
A lot of links don't work / are not available, got "Ooops... Error 404" (e.g.: http://www.orientechnologies.com/docs/2.0/orientdb-etl.wiki/...)
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember reading that Snapchat was originally pretty slow to acquire users, and conducted almost no marketing campaigns. According to the founders, they focused on building a great product, and this paid of in the long run as the product gained traction through word of mouth.

Actually using them as an example was a mistake on my part, I remember reading in that same article that Snapchat actually only got VC funding when the server costs were about to become too much to pay. Spiegel, who is the founder and CEO isn't a technical person, but it looks like his cofounder is.

Here is a link: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/12/snapchat-not-sexting/
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it's true that it would have changed a lot of things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeF_o1Ss1NQ&t=2m21s
This referendum has convinced me that we should enfranchise 16 & 17 year olds for US elections. My main hangup before was that these people might be pressured by their parents into voting a certain way. It turns out not only do they have political minds of their own, their energy and intelligence was clearly a boost to the spirit of democracy so evident in this election.

As adults, we often romanticize our childhoods, because well .. they are by and large romantic. The experience of discovering the world and yourself is the centerpiece of youth, and it's important that we have that perspective reflected in our democracies.
Dear mods, do you <i>have</i> to revert to the misleading clickbait titles?
When I clicked the link, it was titled "NFL announcers keep mistakenly calling Surface tablets iPads" (which is what is actually happening), but right now it is titled "Apple intercepts Microsoft's Surface tablet NFL play" (which implies a conscious effort on AAPL's part to sabotage MSFT)
You should also check the size of the image to make sure it's actually an image. I can quite easily get a php file into your system using your current way as you ONLY check for extension.
Could probably replace most of it with a bug/feature tracker on a public block chain.
I don't know about that, but more and more things can be done in CloudCDF, which is standard open web technology.
By size I mean dimensions.
Out of interest, is common lisp similarly compatible?
Note: I am self-taught.

Here is what you need to know: It doesn't matter. Most people are biased in one way or another. Stop trying to make other people happy.

The most important thing is that you have the skills to do the job required. In interviews, draw on your skills and past experiences to answers the interviewer's questions to the best of your ability. If that isn't enough, believe me, you don't want to work there anyways.

Most people are biased in one way or another. Maybe your interviewer is self-taught and maybe they aren't. Perhaps they've worked with a terrible engineer that was "self-taught" or maybe their self-taught engineer was the best thing since sliced bread. You can't pretend that this won't cost you a few job opportunities, but is that so bad? Ask yourself honestly, do you want to work with someone who doesn't think you're competent because you didn't go to Stanford?
How does FP, most notably Haskell, not encourage polymorphism? This statement is just plain wrong.

Type classes are the definition of polymorphism. And you can write very generic, abstract, polymorphic code using these constructs. It's not any languages fault if you write your code expecting only concrete types. By this standard it's Javas fault if the developer isn't using generics. No it's not it's the developers fault. The mechanisms are there. Use them.
Very true, at least the rest of people were smart enough to keep evolving their concepts instead of going to mainstream same ol'.
US still needs their lapdog in the EU.
If only we had that in high school. The simple geometric interpretation felt so authoritative. Here it's just pure beauty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens%E2%80%93Fresnel_princip...
Won't you just have other pensioners then?

I read something along those lines somewhere else as well saying in 10/20 years all the old folks will be gone and they yes will win, but hasn't history shown us that idealistic young just turn to realistic oldies with time?
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Cloud laboratory is so cool. I've also thought you could launch some amazing startups off the back of Wolfram Alpha language. But yeah quite a steep learning curve
Obviously, she’s the new seneschal:

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071005

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Check your facts, the result in '79 was a Yes.
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That's crazy! Look at all those pictures!!
Very useful for sites like Quora who do not understand that some users don't want to use their real life identity.
Technically you are correct - but that referendum had some odd requirements (it wasn't a simple majority vote) so devolution didn't happen:

"The referendum resulted in a 51.6% support for the proposal, but with a turnout of 64%, this represented only 32.9% of the registered electorate, short of the required 40%. The Act was therefore repealed."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_devolution_referendum,...
> Guile is an old GNU project, it languished for a long time but recent developments have really pushed it forward.

A bit like Emacs then ;)

(it seems much more active around v24 onwards)
> We have seen a strong and undeniable media bias

On the contrary, the media insisted for weeks the referendum was "too close to call", citing endless polls that generally favored the 'no' vote, but were close to 50-50. Obviously people vote more conservatively when it matters.

Meanwhile, the bookmakers, who actually had skin in the game, knew a 'yes' vote was unlikely, and reflected that in their odds.
Staged demo proves a staged demo?
I write a lot of interactive SVG based user interfaces in JavaScript and always default to using "classes" to represent composable elements in the UI. I've recently been wondering about whether writing UI code with a functional language would even be possible. When it comes to data manipulation though I will always use underscore.
Admittedly there are only two of us — but we have reading on our company calendar. Thirty minutes every day 3:30-4pm. Because learning new stuff and getting alternate perspectives is bloody important.
This has actually been my experience with almost every Apple product I've purchased. I'm typing this on a macbook air with a power adapter that wore out (bendy cable issue) after just over a year, my iPhone lasted a very short period of time (compared to my Android and Windows devices), I had a mini that would constantly drop it's internet connection, etc. etc.

Lots of people have told me "you just go into the Genius Bar and they'll sort you out". The thing is, I don't want to go into a store and get sorted out. They make promises that things work, and so far, in my experience, they have never lived up to their marketing hype.
Ask HN: Programmer Job Crunch in SF?
I caught a couple of mentions in recent threads about people having a hard time finding a programming job in the Bay Area. Is this a growing trend? I don't pay attention that closely but I've understood programmers to be in very high demand in the Bay Area for a number of year now.

If so, can anyone comment on the underlying factors that my be causing this? Enough supply now? Fewer jobs? Outsourcing?
Having to time the colours doesn't make it more enjoyable, just frustrating.

And since that's the entire basis behind this game, I'd go try something else.
I suspect that now that independence has been introduced as something to be seriously considered that in a generation or so it might also look more sensible than it did at first.

So the plan is to ask again and again and again until yes wins, isn't it?

To be honest, that doesn't seem fair.
The UK will not leave the EU any time soon.
What I meant was there is a possibility of it happening as a sweet taste (parent didn't mention sweeteners, just sweet taste) response since there is a similar response to carb rich drinks (study didn't mention the kind of carbs so no idea)
Checked the facts.

"The referendum resulted in a 51.6% support for the proposal, but with a turnout of 64%, this represented only 32.9% of the registered electorate, short of the required 40%. The Act was therefore repealed."

This I knew but I'd never heard that...

"the SNP carried out a survey of the electoral register in the Edinburgh Central constituency. This appeared to show that the register was so out of date that even in an area where major support for a 'yes' vote might be expected, achievement of 40% of the electorate was virtually unattainable."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_devolution_referendum...
Same here. It is surprising how many times I've done that over the years and people are both surprised how easy it was but easily convince themselves that "it'll be all right" somehow and they'll fix it later...
Off topic, but this made me think that it would be neat if libraries on places like github and nuget could someout include "cited by" data. Something that referenced open source (maybe closed source too) projects that had a dependency to the library similar to google scholar or CiteSeerX.
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The whole OOP vs FP argument is like food vs drinks argument. I am empowered and capable of using both. What is the problem?
Are you saying it would be fair for one generation's majority political opinion to irrevocably tie the hands of all later generations?
> 311,534 male students (73.3%) and

> 113,571 female students (26.7%).

> The fact that it’s not even close to 50:50 is surprising.

It didn't surprise me, I went there & searched for it. How can it be surprising (you see these ppl all the time on campus!). And it shows that there are ~3 times more men at Harvard than woman.

So thank YOU so much for nearing to a problem: Girls do better early on (cf. orig. article) & men later in live (cf. your analysis)

Why did you screw that? Political correctness? You are dishonest (you'd have my downvote).

An important aspect: We need to make sure to not loose males [which would do fine later] during early years.
Been waiting for this, now I might start to use Google Cloud Datastore (well, at least experimenting with it).
I did this and released it as an iOS app (http://www.lineup-app.com). It's not free, but it is built entirely on Twilio's APIs and has most of GV's functionality. I currently live in Berlin and use it all the time with my "old" US number (after porting it to Twilio).
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Why not? The threat of repeated referendums is the only way to ensure that UK will actually implement all the promises it's given Scotland in the past week.
I think its increasingly difficult for people to concentrate for longer than ten minutes these days (I certainly notice this in myself). We are not encouraged to concentrate for long periods either, instead 'multitasking' is considered a good thing. Pop up notifications every time an email comes in. A vibration in my pocket for a message / whatsapp / whatever.

The popularity of Buzzfeed seems to fit with this.

I agree that people should do something they enjoy (doesn't need to be selfish). I find that outdoor physical exercise works for me. My girlfriend says the same, when I take the
off-road detour home from work on my bike, she says I am less grumpy.
I've always read it as ruck, or just read Rump-UK in my head.
I found Scala to be hugely more productive than Python.
I've learned Haskell at university too. That doesn't prove anything though does it? At the time I've found it useless and plain wrong ... it is much later that I learned to appreciate it and value what it brings to the table...much much later.
Definitely. If it is genuinely invalid, refuse it, otherwise store everything as-is. You don't know on the way in what encoding will be needed on the way out: the same sting could be output later plain, in HTML, in a JS literal, in SQL if someone is daft enough to use ad-hoc unparamerterised queries, and so forth.
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As a one man bootstrapped SAAS business, I generally omit that information unless asked. If the question is asked, I answer truthfully. The hardest part about being a one man startup in my experience actually is getting press coverage. When they ask you about your "Team" and you say it's you and a freelancer, the conversation seems to end pretty quickly.

I'd love to hear others opinions on how to approach the press as a one-man bootstrapped SAAS startup?
Not sure how that is to the contrary? Press may report that it's too close to call to motivated No voters to get out and vote.

(I don't know either way, not being paying much attention to the press, though BBC Scotland has seemed quite balanced)
As a parent, the idea of repeatedly asking the same question to get consent is familiar to me, and I can confirm it often does work ;-)
This is my personal pet peeve.

Press will write "Poland to buy 1000 tanks". Inside the article 100 tanks and 900 support vehicles, most of them wheeled.
Translation: "Waaaaaah! I'm a VC; I'm not the only game in town anymore; and I have to pay money. Waaaaah!"

Yeah, guess what? Nobody likes VC's. They screwed everybody over in the 1999-2000 bust, so those people have stayed away ever since. And, now, the stupid 20-somethings are starting figure the same thing out, are buckling down on very small amounts of money and cashing out to Yagglesoftazon ASAP since there is very little barrier to entry on something which is solely software.
I saw the media coverage more as either populist - the majority did vote no, or wanting something to talk about - once you go into detail there's very little the yes side has, whereas the big companies were thinking of moving out of iScot which easily fills pages.
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I don't know how a federal system could work when England is about 80% of the population. The USA already has issues with California and Texas being so significant in terms of population, but England would dwarf both of them in terms of proportion.

The only way it could work would be to abolish England entirely and break it up into regions.
I wonder why the parent comment is downvoted. He's dead on.
Not how you're likely thinking. That said, we will use the Keyless technology to expand our data center footprint into locations that we wouldn't feel comfortable storing customers' keys. That will end up benefiting even Free customers who will be faster around the world.
More like West coast/East coast USA thing. You'd get the same kind of help in the midwest. People love to have a story to tell.
It's not pedantic to critique misleading titles.

Imagine article "How to build website in assembler" to learn author meant writing it in javascript but it's close enough.
Saying the referendum is "too close to call" is not the same as being even-handed (i.e. not having a bias).

They were biased because they consistently took a negative stance towards the potential ramifications (not chance of outcome) of independence.
Hi thanks for the feedback, this is indeed the idea behind the game, timing to hit the tubes with the drop, as you progress tubes get faster and drops as well. don't hit the lab rats dough!
Why be so unambitious? We have the technology these days to make every change in the law a referendum, with a form of automated delegation in place to ensure people can focus only on the areas that matter to them or they have expertise in.

The tricky part, technologically, is finding a design that preserves all the qualities you might want in a voting system whilst still having the new features. For example being able to delegate your vote by topic in a treelike structure is attractive, but this is somehow opposed to the notion of a secret ballot.
Exactly this. What of the companies that require "SMS" verification? Where does the text go to?
>It turns out not only do they have political minds of their own, their energy and intelligence was clearly a boost to the spirit of democracy so evident in this election.

Does it? I would always assume that, but I'd shy away from claiming it without proof.
The "its only secure if its open source" argument only really works if you compile the source yourself - otherwise you
're just trusting that the binaries on the devices are in fact compiled from the source that is published, in which case you may as well trust anything they say.
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My immediate hope is that everyone who has got off their butt to participate in the yes and no campaigns can stay off their butt and volunteer in other ways to help Scotland. Huge numbers of people could make real permanent positive change possible without the cost of new government institutions.