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And how about if the vote had been phrased as "do you wish to remain in the EU", with a 2/3rd requirement to meet the bar, meaning 1/3rd was sufficient to trigger Brexit? Would tha…

To not only use UTF-8 as the internal string encoding but practically mandate it, if you want to remain safe. UTF-8 is a fine transport format, but for raw runtime performance it's…

Are you sure? I thought Algolia literally was Solr (which is ElasticSearch which is Lucene).

That seems like a really unfortunate design decision. I used to think that Java's use of UTF-16 for strings was just a problematic legacy thing, but compared to this it seems quite…

The direction of the nation is decided by less than a majority in every vote. So why would this one in particular require "special measures"? I think what you're getting at here is…

IPv6 is less common at work, more common at home.

But are you roaming in those places? For reasons I don't understand fully but are presumably billing related your IP traffic gets tunnelled back to your home ISP when roaming, or a…

Isn't it "people an NSA analyst believes are Russian hackers"? I read the Intercept story but didn't see where it showed convincing evidence of that. It just says they showed no do…

I don't know of a text off-hand, but this infographic is helpful: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/poster There's more to critical reasoning than understanding logical fallacies of…

The problem with insisting on roundness, which has been a focus of the education system for years, is that it generates tons of generic shapeless people who specialise in nothing a…

Eh? UK engaged in mass telephone/fax taps during the Troubles with wild abandon. http://www.lamont.me.uk/capenhurst/original.html The inability to monitor suspects telecommunicatio…

There is also the opposite problem. The public aren't asking for it not to be done either. Internet surveillance isn't a hot button political topic either way. However, terrorism i…

Thought crime already exists for a long time already. Planning to commit murder (thinking about it) is punished nearly as harshly as succeeding. Is it really so controversial?

You're comparing the UK to the USA there and assuming the USA is saner. The origin of the USA's prohibition against self-incrimination was people who were tortured into confessions…

I've never liked May's authoritarian tendencies - no way does that stuff remain restricted to targeting Islamism - but your last paragraph is in fact exactly what they are doing. H…

They did that. It was the first iteration. The problem is that - as described above - many websites use ads from multiple networks, so actually even if you paid, most ads did not d…

I know for a fact mine weren't, because the profs tended to tell us so. Also, many of the academics could barely code themselves. Instead they found creative ways to set mark schem…

Learning to read errors is itself a skill. The number of professional devs who ask questions of the form "I got this message what do I do" and the message itself tells them what to…

I seem to recall that in prior HN stories about CRISPR some poster was saying he believed CRISPR didn't work the way people thought it worked. He said it was simply killing cells t…

I saw the same thing. I had to kill the entire Chrome process. There's something being loaded, probably via ads, that totally wrecks the entire Chrome process group not just the re…

That's completely wrong I'm afraid. ART is a standards compliant JVM and Android has supported the native development kit (NDK) for C/C++ apps for years. You can't do everything yo…

Well, I hope we're not getting sentimental about Win16. I've written more than my fair share of Windows API code and even though some of the concepts are now coming back into fashi…

Thanks for the correction - that's neat. They really pushed a lot of high level detail into the draw lists!

There is/was an extension that did that at some point, but it was never used (on Linux) due to poor implementation and a desire to target low RAM machines. Mac's backing store impl…