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From my experience, this sub-thread has a very high probability of veering way off topic and into a flame war territory.

1. The idea, that the basic rights of Russians and the Russian speaking minority are somehow violated in Ukraine right now is false. The only attempt by the government to do anything language-wise, was to instante Ukrainian as the only official language, meaning, that it would be the language of all the __public offices__, like the mayor's office or schools. This is the same as in the vast majority of countries. For example, there is a large Russian minority in Germany, but the official language is still German, but nobody is complaining about that, for some reason. You certainly don't see the Russian foreign ministry harassing their largest (and overpriced) energy market due to some "trivial" issues, like their minorities.

Secondly, having partaken in some local "Maidans", I can say, that I've seen as much Russians there as Ukrainians. Although the Kremlin (as well as some very dodgy parties in Ukraine) are hell-bent of framing this as an ethnic conflict, it is not.

2. I think it is wrong to think, that any war, especially such as in the East of Ukraine right now, can be fought without damaging civilan sites. The deathcount now is somewhere around 3 thousand people, most of them military personell and about 1/3 of that civilians. For comparison, the death toll of civilians only in Russia, during the second Chechen campaign was 200k people. Does that mean that the Russian government hates their citizens in Chechnya?

Furthermore, there is a lot of humanitarian effort in Ukraine, governmental and private, to help the people in that region. A lot of people have fled: some to Russia and a lot to western Ukraine and Kiev. But the reporting on that is quite thin outside of Ukraine.

That's it. Back to talking about Scotland and the UK.
It uses raw lists as the data structure for everything (including code) and has enormous math/sci and presentation infrastructure. Every part of the system can easily talk to any other part of the system.

Because of this you can just throw things together and get great results, where in other systems you might need to use external libraries or otherwise have to deal with high-ceremony architecture (I'm looking at you, OOP).

So I think the difficulty for newcomers is recognizing that "there is no spoon" and that you're entirely welcome to just start flying around like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnuquqR7QOQ

The language itself is simple, I think. But I could see how the APL-ish/functional aspect of it could seem abstruse to new people.
You are right on both points. They do say that (I see now that my laptop says "designed by Apple in California") and yes, I did not imagine that all of their engineers are in the US.

I would still guess that they would try to move to another country rather than shutting down. I admit that it would be hard if not impossible.
For comparison, yesterday's turnout was 84.59%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_independence_referendu...
I think it was a typo. I've never heard of the term before.

edit: Oh, it seems it's a Scottish term for Rest-of-UK. TIL.
Yeah, if they gave Greenwich Council any more power, I'd be moving out of the borough quick-damn-smart. They're bad enough with the limited powers they have.
This is crazy. Having just moved to france from the US for the long list of things that France gets right (health care, mandatory paid leave for all, environmental protection), laws like this make remember a lot of what is wrong with france (anti-entrepreneurial climate, over-regulation, rigid class structures). Each time I read something like this that makes me say WTF, I have to remember that the US congress passes some equally crazy shit now and again. At least France has great bread on every corner.
I think it's interesting to talk about the failure of polls to predict the magnitude of the result. Here are the results of the final polls from six major polling organizations, taken 1-3 days before the vote

Organization Yes No Number*
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Opinium 0.479 0.521 1087
ICM 0.477 0.523 1010
Panelbase 0.474 0.526 954
Survation 0.473 0.527 910
YouGov 0.474 0.526 3043
Ipsos Mori 0.474 0.526 951
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TOTAL 0.475 0.525 7955

* excluding undecided voters

On one hand they were accurate in that they forecast a "no" result with high probability - the proportion of "no" voters is more than four standard errors away from 50%; the standard error being

s.e. = sqrt(0.475 * 0.525 / 7955) = 0.006

On the other hand, the final proportion of "no" voters was 55.3%, which is more than four standard errors away from the forecast value of 52.5%.

So the polls were significantly underestimating the proportion of "no" voters out there. A similar effect was seen in the Quebec independence referendum, where the polls actually predicted a slight advantage for "yes" but the final result was a decisive victory for "no".
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is this better than the terrassect OCR?
Apple can use private/undocumented APIs which are forbidden from App Store apps. I believe you can run a strings command on the itunes file to see what the APIs are called.
I suspect "bit of fuss" would have been an understatement. Thankfully it's an issue that will be explored some other day, in some other part of the world.

I don't think you should see UK exit from the EU as a dead cert. That debate has hardly even begun. Of course right now it's being driven by the Euroskeptics because a referendum date hasn't even been set and they're the ones agitating for it. But as this referendum shows, sentiment can change a lot in the runup to a vote.

There are lots of people who do not want to see the UK leave the EU, although I guess most of them would be in favour of a rebalancing of powers. Those people will presumably/hopefully learn lessons from the iScotland campaign and base the "no to leaving" campaign on positivity rather than simply listing all the problems the UK would face on its own. If the no campaign can seize the positive moral ground AND it has lots of economic arguments on its side, it should force the yes side into simply being negative about the EU and well, Salmond has shown everyone the power of positivity (even over reason).
Yay for hyperbole!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shy_Tory_Factor
Absolutely. No "experienced machinist" can reasonably make this part within spec. The time and cost for a CNC / operator / programming is exorbitant and simply beyond the reach of most people.

3D printing in this context allows for the fabrication of complex geometries that would be incredibly resource intensive otherwise.

You're correct in proposing that measurement techniques have enabled for this. But what good are the measurements if your tools do not allow for you to produce anything meaningful from the data?
You can get a DOI for github.
Interesting. I think the article downplays the brutality of the mafia, but the takeaway I've gotten from it is simple: if you want to lower organized crime, offer genuine, legal opportunities of advancement to those who currently don't have them.
Why not have one every summer? It's very entertaining and does wonders for tourism.
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Yes definitely, though it can be even worse. Look at how poor Nick Robinson was the subject of professionally organised protest marches for the crime of asking Salmond difficult questions and then being blunt about his lack of answers:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2755858/BBC-s-Nick-R...
Perfectly possible, although I'd say I'm severely lacking in stress management and people skills. Both of those are a matter of experience and confidence. The other thing I'm lacking is a desire to make startup levels of money, but I can't say how widespread that is in autism. If Bill Gates is considered autistic, he certainly doesn't have problems being ruthless to raise money. More of him would answer your question.
How do you decide who has expertise in an area? That seems to be very open to gerrymandering.
Normally called Liquid Democracy, FWIW http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegative_democracy
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Ask HN: How can I save my failing product?
Background: My product extracts data from pdf files. Free users get 8 free jobs. Paying users get 40 jobs. Each job is a data extraction from a pdf file.

Problem: User engagement terminates after they run into a bad extraction. On some pdf files it just doesn't work, it returns empty data. Most times it extracts data but not exactly to what the user had in mind (duplicate, mismatching column, unwanted data). Right after this happens, the user will either try a few more times with other pdf files or just give up and never return again. To fix the cases where it returns empty data, it takes me at least 10 hours.

Concern: I can't support myself to work on such fixes and I can't see the number of bad data extraction that needs to be fix decreasing for each user. It's very tough problem to extract data from pdf files, it's never perfect but I was hoping it was good enough for some users. Even a paying user with their number of fix requests, I would have a hard time getting to them all. The bigger problem is that I priced is cheap so I would get more users, turns out this would lead to a far greater number of problems being encountered with the data extraction process.

Search for solution: My immediate thought is to ditch the free plan, increase the product price and somehow deal with the number of fixes being requested and barely breakeven.

I don't know if anyone's been in this situation, it almost seems like the end user cares about the result of the data extraction unlike say a bookkeeping web application that has a much narrow scope of problems expected. Like if a pdf doesn't extract correctly, it's of no value to the user so they will want this to be fixed right? And as they keep encountering more and more fixes I won't be able to keep up....I'm really about call it quits I've worked long and hard on this project and I don't think I can go on.
I actually think generation later trend would be more towards uniting rather than splitting. Splitting rarely benefits population as a whole. Sometime a portion of population might benefit but overall it's loss.

General evolutionary trends for human kind had been towards uniting. We started out as small tribes then evolving to city-size kingdoms and now to huge unions like China, Canada and USA. Big countries do well simply because there far far more resources at their disposal, they are more resilient to disasters and overall utilization of resources is much more balanced. Small countries have little chance of ever matching growth and momentum of large countries. Sure, Norway and Finland can be relatively "well off" by exploiting their natural resources but they simply aren't going to be country who goes to Mars or invents next big things. By law of numbers, number of engineers and scientists in small country will always be small and thus their ability to take on big projects always limited.
I haven't seen it amongst my friends (who, admittedly, are usually Googlers). Nor do I hear it from startup founders I've talked to, all of whom have complained that it is ridiculously difficult to hire good engineers.

It's possible that it could be that there are more marginal devs moving out to the Bay Area without many skills because they hear the pickings are good. If you can't program, you will find it hard to find a job as a programmer regardless of how good the market is. But anyone who's got a couple years of experience - or even if they don't, if they've done an iPhone app or a webpage as a hobby project - seems to have many options available.
But does the fact that the band tours and does merchandise separate to recordings mean that I can engage in copyright infringement? I think not - do you?
I think English regions should be split up too, and their is great desire for that. England is made up of many quite distinct regions, the problem is much of the power is concentrated in London and subsequently a lot of investment and money is poured into London and immediate surroundings. The fact that England has such a disparity in investment between it's first city (London) and second city (Birmingham) is a problem. It also isn't helping concentration of populations and jobs which remained close to London.

The issues Scotland has are felt throughout the UK, and Scotland therefore has a lot in common as far as wanting powers as do regions of England out with the immediate surroundings of London. This in essence is why this result could be better for the regions of England.
I'm not sure because I don't know where you've sourced your data but where are the figures for undecided voters? That was always a large number and explains why your s.e. is too small.
My guess is that a lot of people like the idea of an independent Scotland but are frightened of the reality and bottled it on the way to the polling station.
That does erk me slightly. I appreciate the need for anonymity in some circumstances, and the desire for it in others whether it be needed or not, and I'm not keen on being tracked any more than the next person, but...

The "why should I have to give you X before you'll give me Y? - here have junk instead" thing is wrong IMO. You don't have to give them X, you have the option of going elsewhere or simply living without Y. Why should they give you Y without you providing X if they don't want to? Their house, their rules.

Voting with your feet is more likely to have some effect than providing fake information will.
I'm politic science MA and currently goes my 14th year in programming for living. From my experience - and I've been working with self-taught passionates and academic-taught masters over the years - you can assume sort of rule about your future employer. If he's wise and know programming market he'll never toss out anyone who doesn't have academic degree in programming. Best specialists I know had no science degree in IT field. They were all crazy about programming, fascinated about possibilities and they were always improving themselves. Wise employer will know this and take advantage of it. So - yes, You should state fact You have no college degree in programming. I do and I had never regreted it :)
I can't understand why Twitter does have now developer conferences when they try to kill third party clients and services. Same for embedding pictures from others services (instagram, twitpic etc...).
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Yes, I know the bibliography is a bit sparse right now, but we're gradually increasing its coverage. Will also add more annotations to it (per category), e.g. areas where deep learning could be applied but is lightly or not at all applied yet.
LOL! My 1st year university course was 1989. When were you born?

Interestingly, that is exactly what I see in the current generation of FP hypsters. Grandiose claims based on very limited experience. Aka: know so little, assume so much.

But don't worry, it happens to the best. My favorite is still the Simon Peyton-Jones talk on Data Parallel Haskell, where he can't help himself, but just has to make the snide comment "this is only possible in a language like Haskell". Hand raised in the auditorium: The HPC community has been doing this for years. In FORTRAN. But carry on...

(And of course, the results are dismal: 6 cores required to match sequential C! Considering that this sort of concurrency [there are others] is exclusively for better performance, that is a damning result).

Despite these, er, issues, it is an absolutely fascinating talk, and the techniques look quite worthwhile. After all, they've been in use in the HPC community for some time :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWSZ4c9yqW8
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Independence was the high-risk option.

I don't think it's surprising that people are more risk-averse on polling day, when their vote actually matters.
The presidential Bush family also gained some of their riches through slavery. I'm not going to draw any conclusions from this right now.

I think a lot of African Americans are getting a bum deal out of life. Murder and drug dealing are wrong, but society doesn't give them a lot of other realistic options. But this is just feeding into the pessimism that David Brin was complaining about.[0] There is no silver bullet.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8332614
I've been dabbling with learning J recently and, yes, it's really really humbling. However, I think it can be much easier. The thing I have the most trouble with is, predictably, unfamiliarity with the large amount of verbs.

So, what to do?

I'm beginning to think approaching it more like a foreign language will make more sense - i.e., reading & spaced repetition of phrases (short programs - J's specialty!) / vocab (useful hooks, forks) using a flash card system.

It's a compelling language to learn (even just for the fact you can pretty much program using a pen and paper while waiting for the bus - short little rows of verbs you build out gradually as you reason about it or type them in your iphone), and I hope my approach has merit.
Also, maybe this isn't a common issue and would be solved by better designed models but.. using an ng-repeat against a list with some heterogeneous data.. ng-if works well to show only the UI components that apply to the object in question without rendering things for no reason and then hiding them.

For example if you have a list of objects where some particular action might apply only to a portion of them.
Aren't historic vehicles exempt / grandfathered from certain requirements? I wonder if you could fit a tank in such a loophole.
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Thanks for explaining. I know HN is traditionally programmer/programming focused, but some of us come from other areas and only have limited experience with such topics. It's very common for me to enter a thread about a security vulnerability, for example, and think "wait, how big of a deal is this?"
Speaking of exotic languages, I'm somewhat intrigued by Rebol and Red. How bad of an idea is investing any time into learning either of these?
By that argument, why do we bother having elections all the time, when we could just have one and be done with it forever?

Does that seem fair?
Not the only way: The Norwegian system is such that regions are compensated for their geography - rural areas with less direct access to government have disproportionately more representatives.

The EU also works quite well for small nations.
I bootstrapped and run BugMuncher on my own, and while I don't shout it from the roof tops, I do have a few rules:

- Never use the "royal we"

- Always sign emails personally from me - No making up fake employee names or 'BugMuncher Team' sign offs

- If someone asks then I'll tell them.

So far I've not had any issues because of my one-man-band status.
Appropriate somehow that September 19 is also being proposed as Huntrodd's day - one where we celebrate coincidences:

http://plus.maths.org/content/celebrate-chance-coincidence-a...
And there were notes that went along with these figures. Certainly YouGov's. They said that if correct, their figures were likely going to be multiple-points out in favour of No because of various social factors:

- "No" is fundamentally negative, people don't like to be negative
- Supporting the Conservative party is seen as violently offensive anywhere north Sheffield. People that do are less likely to give their opinion in public.

Given the lack of precedence, these are factors they couldn't adjust for.
I'm seeing the title as "Apple intercepts Microsoft's Surface tablet NFL play". Could be the LA Times is serving up different titles to measure the response.
Dissolving England as an entity with all of it's history would be a very difficult pill to swallow even on a purely emotional level. Do we start sending Manchester United to the world cup for example? What would the flag look like?
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Or, that is how it was represented in the media - I understand there was one "Nick Robinson" banner (here pictured) but the wider protest was against the BBC's bias.

That is, in fact, strictly what the article says, but not how people are encouraged to interpret it.
I would guess that there will have been more iPhone 6+ orders by the end of this month than Lumias-with-OIS ever. That's why people are gushing.
I upgraded my ipad to ios8, the device is showing BlueScreen every hour and it will automatically reboot
A welcome move in Node.js, like to experiment with it.
I'm wondering how listening to audio books compares to reading printed texts. I have in the last couple of years switched to listening in almost all cases where the audio version of the book I'm interested in exists.
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That's a good point, and I've now corrected for that, but it makes very little difference to the top line result (that the polls underestimated the support for "no" by a large margin).

The proportion of undecided voters in these polls was about 7.1%.

Source is http://whatscotlandthinks.org/opinion-polls
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Given all of these drives are popular and benchmarking sites are everywhere, testing everything, it's not hard to find the data... And there aren't that many drives on there.

Even at a minute a drive (and that's slow) you're only looking at a couple of hours to do the entire thing.
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This is a lot of why I voted no. Scotland isn't unique in it's struggle in the UK against London concentrated power, it just in happens to have a get out clause from historical geography and politics. This does not mean we should leave behind those we have much in common with in the regions of England.
I fear that the EU would seek to usurp a UK parliament that presided over a collection of small states and want each state to go direct to Brussels where they would have a marginal voice due to their small size.
A related question I'd be curious about is the likely voter issue. In the US, left-wingers are less likely to actually go vote than right-wingers. Pollsters try to correct for this with a "likely voter" model (which varies by pollster, but tries to discover how likely a respondent actually is to vote).

If you poll everyone eligible to vote, you get left-wing results. If you poll registered voters, it pulls a bit right. If you poll voters that match a reasonable "likely voter" model, you'll get results that are even further right and tend to be closer to the reality of votes actually cast.

Does this dichotomy exist in the UK and/or Scotland specifically, and if so, do pollsters there try to correct for it?