skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are mistaking a small political class within the UK for the population as a whole. The public sentiment in the UK today is heavily anti-EU and the electorate would obviously choose to leave if a vote happened tomorrow.

Whether this would actually be a good idea for either party is a different question, of course. In the short term, it would almost certainly be painful for both sides, but short term politics is not necessarily the priority at this scale.

In any case, it is important not to mistake avoiding a federal system of government for a general policy of xenophobia and isolationism. You can have things like free trade (the original EEC), free movement (Schengen), and shared recognition and defence of fundamental values (ECHR) without the heavy political integration of the EU or the heavy economic integration of the Eurozone. You could have mutual defence agreements similarly.

There are a lot of people in the UK right now who think we and the EU should recognise that our goals are not aligned and go our separate ways amicably, and that we should seek simpler and more narrowly focussed agreements with our European neighbours for mutual benefit, as we would with any other foreign partner.
>You can't take the address of a primitive or object and pass that.

Not correct.

In Java, if you have an object you take the address and pass it. If you have a primitive, you pass a copy of the value. Both things are called "pass-by-value" (something that confuses a lot of people).
It's certainly very attractive to try to make other people more happy when that means that we can squeeze more juice out of them.

It seems we finally have enough stuff and comforts[1] to be able to question what exactly we need more of in order to find fulfilment. That seems like a relatively recent shift. And some people - for themselves - are finding that instead of pursuing things that might one day fulfil you, they can instead try to find things that fulfil them right now. And not in the sense of drugs or anything like that; it might be just an ordinary education and eventually an ordinary career. But it has more to do with letting yourself try to enjoy the journey, instead of pining for "finally finishing college", or "finally getting that raise", or "finally retiring".

I think that if we see a massive shift towards happiness, society might look from the outside as being quite the same, and most people's lives will look "mediocre". But the difference will be in how people appreciate everything around them, instead of being annoying obstacles towards an ever-moving goal.

[1] Maybe we had enough 30-40 years ago, compared to today.
3DFormer: a pen draws in air is on kickstarter
>I mean if you actually read DailyKos or whatever it's clear that a lot of the people there are batshit crazy. But as far as I can tell it's one level of crazy, I'm sure there are exceptions but for the vast majority of people I don't think it goes 10 levels deep. Whereas on the right it seems to be the rule that when people are fighting against the public option for healthcare what really want is to genocide minorities, rather than the exception.

I don't think comparing crazy blog commentators is a fair standard for either side. I'm going to come up with something I think is a bit more fair: compare the intellectual component of each side.

* Left intellectuals (ie: writers at the Guardian, Jacobin, etc.): tendency towards hero-villain thinking in domestic policy/class struggle, a tendency to apologize for violent regimes that purported to be engaged in class struggle. Occasional cultural silliness, and fairly commonly prone to apologia for anything a perceived "underdog" does whatsoever. Otherwise, generally quite cogent and able to come up with extensive critiques of the status quo and platforms of action.

* Right intellectuals (ie: the National Interest, The Economist): tendency towards hero-villain thinking in foreign policy, leading to support for violent regimes purporting to "keep the damn dirty Leftists out". Large amounts of cultural silliness, especially prone to believing that hierarchies of authority just are morality, especially prone to tribalism and a bizarre fixation on people's recreational proclivities, especially sexual ones. Often cogent, but not actually consistent in platforms and critiques: usually more focused on rationalizing the existence and actions of some power-hierarchy to which the intellectual is loyal than with establishing any universal moral principle at all (other than hierarchy itself).

It's pretty damn clear which side I'm on, but I also can't think of any facts I've neglected at the moment. Worldwide, the separation between Left and Right seems to really be about principles versus hierarchy.
I'm sorry, but if you think that is what a state-less society will turn to, then it says more about you than it does about other people. I, for example, don't not smash people's kneecaps because it's "against the law", just like most other individuals that inhabit this society.

On the other hand, you seem to be under the misconception that there can be no "common ground" in a society without a state-mandated "common ground". Here are some links to start you off on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispute_resolution_organization

#Note. Sorry for detracting from the main topic being discussed here. But I sometimes do feel compelled to enlighten individuals that seem to have some very "spoon fed" definitions about the possibility of a state-less society, and how it might look like.
> I think you've been reading too much Daily Kos if you think it's an exceptional right-winger who doesn't want to genocide minorities.

I mean you could just watch Fox news or whatever and see what they say they want in their own words. It's largely not social liberals who are supporting the war on drugs, war in the middle east, privatized healthcare/water/education, climate change denial, etc.
how so? o.O
According to this piece:

(a) Miscellaneous fundamentalist elements of the Christian right who clearly don't support gays have been doing miscellaneous agitation through their missionary arms; African churches have been lobbied (in the passive voice) "to drop ties with mainstream Christian groups." I'm not sure who these shadowy figures are, but it sounds like they're not mainstream.

(b) Everyone is helping support the death penalty for gay people because the Obama administration gave the Museveni regime cash and military aid.

This situation seems problematic. However, notably absent is commentary about people who "say they support gays but are against gay marriage" lending any form of material support through their actions. Is it possible you have conflated several of your political enemies? It's an easy mistake to make, we pretty much all do it from time to time...
"Bikeshedding" has become yet another empty dismissal. The colour of a bikeshed is irrelevant when designing a nuclear reactor. But the "bikeshed" of a webpage has to do with usability, which is a critical component of any webpage.
I do notice this. Thank you!
I'm NOT a psychopath, I think that honest writing makes for more informative posts, while showing empathy and common ground for the OP.

You highlight one of the most famous cautionary tales: the Chain of Revenge. You're right and, as I suggested, OP should let it go. Although a grudge, no matter how small, is not something you just shake off from you. Rational thinking can only take you that far, the real deal is to forgive, which takes time and willpower.
But I think you advocate doing a project with the candidate, which is also very time consuming. Doesn't that also filter out some good candidates who simply don't have the time? I assume you pay them, but still.

After a couple of job interviews in recent times my personal inclination to invest a lot of time has gone down by a huge amount. For my first application I even took the time to contribute to one of their open source projects (as they asked on their job application page). Didn't get a job - how many times am I supposed to invest that much time for a job application?

Is determining technical skill even the biggest problem? I think my GitHub account shows I can code, even if it mostly contains small projects - but vastly more complex than FizzBuzz. I'm not even afraid of whiteboard interviews (if I had a dollar for every time I was asked to implement Quicksort or compute Fibonacci numbers recursively, I'd probably have ten dollars by now).

Yet I don't get hired. So my conclusion is that there really isn't that much of a talent shortage. Not enough to let companies look beyond my age or my lack of passion, anyway (my answer to the trunk vs branch first development question would be "I don't care much", although I could probably blab about presumed pro and contra arguments).

Edit: just looked up Starfighter again. In a way I am excited, as I have recently decided that only online games that have an API really interest me. However, it sounds like it would require a huge time commitment, too. Wouldn't the time be better invested in side projects for GitHub?
It's kinda weird to suck up to Apple by claiming it's a great strategy upfront without there being any proven sales success.

I don't think there is much of a demand for smart watches and the luxury edition will make many people think if they want to support a company that offers outrageously priced products along with normal priced products, as both hipsters that can easily afford apple products and wealthy people might not vibe with a dual strategy like this.
No e-mail validation. The idea is cool, but this is a basic feature for an e-mail subscription plugin.
Linux kernel initialization process, part 3
>We are usually so overworked, or constantly worrying about when we will work next, that we really have very little time to fight back or even to enjoy ourselves.

Bug or feature?
That's why Clojure calls it "partial" to indicate you're doing partial application http://conj.io/store/v0/org.clojure/clojure/1.7.0-alpha4/clj...
While not an insult, and probably not actually said by Luther, the best-known quote used to be "Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen." And this proves that Luther was the first owner of an IFA car.
Definition of bailiff:

a person who performs certain actions under legal authority, in particular.

North American:
an official in a court of law who keeps order, looks after prisoners, etc.

British:
a sheriff's officer who executes writs and processes and carries out distraints and arrests.

It would seem that just by that definition, they serve a purpose. Are we looking at different definitions, perhaps
Many promise libraries (e.g. bluebird, Q, when) as well as some observable libraries (e.g. RxJS) successfully preserve stack traces.
Bruteforce iPhone password with this hardware device
I guess he is from the BayArea and he don't like remote sessions :-)
"A hundred-dollar gadget would have to sell to virtually every middle-class family in the country to yield meaningful revenues for Apple"

Since when does Apple only sell to one country? Last time I checked, the US accounts for less than 5% of the population of this planet
So to summarize, you have a Java function:

public void f(Foo bar) { ... }

Which is the equivalent C++ function?

void f(Foo bar) { ... }
void f(Foo& bar) { ... }
void f(Foo* bar) { ... }

It's the last one. Java passes everything by value, but non-primitive objects in Java are actually pointers (which Java inaccurately calls references), and the pointer is passed by value.
I'd have to believe that a very small percentage of off-shoring from first world nations (economically speaking) ends up in classically corrupt countries.

Most labor off-shoring from the US has not gone to corrupt countries (if we're talking about corrupt being Sudan, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Somalia, etc).

Most of it has gone to India, Mexico, China, Philippines, Vietnam, etc. Rising, former third world nations. US companies obviously don't like to off-shore to countries like Sudan because those countries are neither safe nor stable for investment or operations. It does a company no good to build a factory in Somalia if it's just going to be arbitrarily nationalized or destroyed.
But the US accounts for a lot more than 5% of the people willing to buy their products. My guess would be closer to 30%.
It is always surprising that HN falls for this Marxist claptrap. Globalization, and the consequent lifting from poverty of hundreds of millions, is responsible for the slight flattening of wages in the West. Not that we shouldn't always strive for better but has there ever been a successful implementation of Marxist ideals no matter how small? Brook Farm?
So, in other words, you'd prefer a situation similar to the world as it was before World War 1?

I didn't say that.

You say that you would prefer a world with no superpowers.

I didn't actually say that either. I'm commenting on one particular theory, not expressing any sort of personal preference.

Such a world has existed, and it's always been rather unstable, with many regional powers jockeying for position, often leading to massive wars.

If you look far enough back through history, that is true.

Then again, periods with a single superpower that became aggressive have probably led to more death and damage than any other periods in modern history except for the World Wars, while two superpowers playing poker gets you the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Given the developments in both international diplomacy and military power since those historical periods, I don't think it is reasonable to assume that a lack of superpowers would necessarily have the same result in the future.
The man says:

>But it's kinda both. It's pass-by-value for everything, with the twist that for class instances, the thing that's passed-by-value is the pointer to the object, so it behaves like pass-by-reference.

So he's saying: We call them all "chickens", but some of them walk like a duck and quack like a duck, so they're basically ducks.

You can't extract from that quote "THEY ARE CHICKENS" (all in caps)

When he says "kinda both" and "it behaves like pass-by-reference" I read some "subtle" hints saying that he thinks that basically class instances are passed-by-reference.
More gold per unit volume than what?

Early reports mistakenly reported that Apple was using a gold-ceramic mix, which would result in less gold used by total weight. However, these reports turned out to be nothing more than speculation, and Apple is apparently using a relatively normal high-end gold jewelry alloy (without ceramics). As such, the Apple watch should contain a fairly typical amount of Gold for it's volume.
A sneak peek of Facebook’s new office in Tel Aviv
The industries where personal connections matter the most in getting a job
Indeed, <10 millisecond search results on 14TB is amazing (absolutely wrecked what we managed to get out of any other indexer - order of magnitude faster). Honestly, Sphinx is a little ugly to setup -- but it is an absolutely amazing piece of technology.

We are currently in the process of shifting everything to RT indexes and have been absolutely delighted with the new beta features.
> "Bullshit job" isn't a judgement against people [...] it is a judgement against the system that forces people to do "work"[...] and it doesn't really contribute much to society.

I know this is probably not what you've meant, but:
I do think that this can be seen as pretty judgemental. Contribution (without parameters/scale) to society (without further specification) feels very subjective to me.
You can demand all you want, but if there are no unions or legislations to back your demands, nothing is ever going to happen.

Unions, which are most widely found in western Europe accomplish little these days (the negotiated wages for call center workers are barely livable for example).

If you're a skilled developer, you can work your way to freelancer / self employed consultant or join one of the companies that offers part time work / 4 day work week (there was a recent article about one in Portland that only does 4 day work weeks).

If you're unskilled, you'll always be fucked to varying degrees, as such is life unfortunately.

Also it's hard to take an article seriously when it cites Marx, whose theories obviously don't work in the real world, as humans are competitive to varying degrees by nature.
British Citizens, English law.

Subjects has been out for 30 years.
He seems to have a mental blockage with this situation. Some years later and he still needs to write about it and ask for advice. He is probably taking this as an excuse for others unrelated things happening in his life (this is very subjective, but I was in a somehow similar situation years ago)

A legal action is just a way to put a definitive end to all this. The outcome is not important; he will feel liberated, even if he loses.
> We want not be dominated by our technologies, but rather, to control them.

If that were true then nobody would choose Apple products, which always lack control-features that are offered elsewhere. It starts with their hardware and continues on throughout all of their software. Apple is the company of "one button" and "why would you want to do that?"

Their most basic mode of operation is to offer the bare essential amount of control to users. It's a great way to do business for them because it costs less to make things that have fewer options and if they perfect the few options that they do offer, then they can claim to be "better" than other products.

Apple products will force you to do things the "Apple way" and if you don't like it, then you're not going to have a good time. If you do like the Apple way, then perhaps you can fool yourself into believing that you actually have some control over your technology.
A friend of mine who works for blackberry in mississauga feels otherwise about TO, he said the highest paying tech jobs are mostly in financial industry.

You're definitely right that housing price is affordable in TO but there are people who still want to go back and prefer Vancouver over TO. They don't mind to pay more for the quality of living in Vancouver.
Ask HN: Which OS License you try to avoid? And why?
If you are a developer you have to deal with software libraries and software licenses. Which licenses you try to avoid and why? And which licenses are OK for you if you develop a proprietary product?
i have added your blogpost to the document as prior art.
This is not really a good format for continuing this discussion, because lack of notifications and such. Would you consider opening an account on lesswrong and posting in open thread? Or you could PM my account there at http://lesswrong.com/user/ike/overview/. That said, here's my reply.

>Can you explain more clearly why what I said implies that, because I don't think I mean to say that.

It's basically a reformulation of the circularity argument.

I assume there's some level of pain that you would prefer to the specks; say a single second of torture, equivalent to a smack or such. (If you think we should prefer 3|||3 specks to one smack, I could go further, so let me know.)

So counting up from that one second at a time (i.e. 2 seconds of pain, 3 second, etc), eventually we reach a point where you no longer think it's better than the specks. Call this X.

So X and X-epsilon are qualitatively different; the lower amount is not bad enough to outweigh specks, but the higher amount is. You need to prefer giving X-epsilon to a large number of people rather than X to a single one, if the qualitative difference is to be upheld.

(I may not be phrasing this so well. Maybe try working through the circularity argument above, or the other phrasings I used in this thread.)

Now to respond to your line of reasoning: this proves too much.

Imagine instead of dust specks, we want everyone to donate a dollar to save the person from torture. Are you really going to say that we should be spending unbounded amounts of money (3|||3) to save anyone from torture? Have you donated all the money you could get to prevent torture? (and yes, I'm sure there are charities that are at least partially effective.)

Why doesn't your argument work for the case I just outlined as well?
I'm pretty sure that Apple uses a very conventional gold alloy with a similar density as other gold alloys. Somewhere on their website they provide the weight of the cases and the bands. A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that their gold is twice as heavy as their stainless steel. They are pretty specific on the steel they use, so we know it's density is 8g/cm^3, meaning their gold is roughly 16g/cm^3. This means their gold is probably a completely normal alloy, not some ceramic composite as some people believe.

We also see their yellow gold models are slightly heavier than the rose gold models, which is expected, since the silver/copper ratio is slightly larger in yellow gold, and silver is denser than copper.

Sources:
http://robservatory.com/the-all-in-one-apple-watch-spreadshe...
http://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/03/apple-gold/
i stand to be corrected on the subsidies part! Did some more research this morning. It seems that the reports are generally focused more on how other cities are providing more subsidies than Vancouver, rather than Vancouver stopped providing subsidies.

Definitely agree Vancouver is awesome to live in. To be perfectly honest, I'd love to move back to Vancouver. It's a very nice city, nice enough that I'd want to visit twice a month! I have to be honest, for the right job and at the right time in my life, I wouldn't mind taking a slight pay cut to enjoy the life style here. I'd love to still enjoy a place of my own though. :(

Funny last weekend I was in SF Mission and a friend recently bought a new condo there. $600K, and small just like the Vancouver ones. However our sentiment is that SF can support that kind of market because the price is mostly backed by the crazy tech money. Unlike Vancouver where the housing price don't seem to be backed by any economic boom.

At the end of the day, I guess money still talks. Especially if one tried to raise a family or do anything significant in life like owning a home.

I definitely think Vancouver has great transportation... As long as you live close to a Skytrain station. Many new developments in Vancouver outside of DT seem to emphasize on walking distance to the Skytrain. Some are even built on top of or next to the Skytrain stations, like the ones around the Cambie Canada Line! Otherwise, I don't think Vancouver's bus system is any particularly better or worse. Also, with some of our light link rails and street car projects coming online in the next 24 months, the situation will definitely improve in Seattle. There is already planning into extending the LLR to the Eastside to Redmond/Bellevue areas.
You didn't think about what you said. Yes, Apple only has a small market share but they are one of the biggest manufacturers.

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/01/28/apple-samsung-strategy-a...

I see the new smart watches as a new market. Health and fitness will convince many people to buy the new wearables.

Since Apple is always a premium brand, I wonder if Pebble or Android is going to be the new dominant wearable brand.
I guess you have never used a MacBook.
This! People say java passes by reference sometimes, but in C++ the references can't be null whereas in java they can.
Leslie Lamport is a man. You could argue something about Barbara Liskov's Viewstamped Replication, though, I guess.
The world is not split into Stalinistan and Reaganland.

There is a happy middleground that is currently in place in Western Europe, a place which coincidentally has the highest quality of life in the world.