skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Spanish constitution recognizes the right to self-determination inasmuch as it explicitly enshrines the international treaties that define it.

Spain (executive and judiciary) is choosing to ignore that (unlike Canada, for example), and not letting Catalonia exercise that right in any way. According to polls 70%/80% of Catalans think a referendum about independence should take place. The current Catalan government has the mandate from last elections to find a way for the Catalans to exercise this right even if Spain opposes, given that Spain has also refused all previous proposals to find a solution.

Catalans literally have no other option. They either waive their right to self-determination or they exercise it.

Some relevant sources:

Referendum Law: http://dogc.gencat.cat/ca/pdogc_canals_interns/pdogc_resulta...

The Legitimacy of Catalonia's Exercise of its Right to Decide (a Report by a Commission of International Experts): https://www.unige.ch/gsi/files/9115/0461/7417/EXECUTIVE_SUMM...
Thanks, I'll keep them in mind if a wire transfer comes up in the future, that looks useful. Unfortunately, many of my non-US customers still request remitting in their native currency via paper check. And IB doesn't seem to accept paper checks from commercial entities other than banks.

Part of my forex broker's value add is they have banking points of presence in many nations, and can accept the check there, then convert to any currency I designate (typically USD). That would probably explain much of the spread between IB's and my FX broker's margins.
I don't think it's reasonable to call winning via the only electoral system we've ever had not "fair and square."
The money is speech legal argument never made sense to me. The thing about speech is that no one has more of it than anyone else.
You can use GraphQL for basically any Web Service endpoint. It's a way to specify what data you want the endpoint to return without writing custom endpoints for different use cases. Write the schema, define how to retrieve the data then make the queries to the GraphQL Server. It's like a more optimized version of RESTful APIs.
A previous example is Soylent, which prominently advertises both that it's "vegan" and "made with genetic engineering".

I am vegan and happy to drink Soylent. :-)
One serious concept that sounds a bit silly at first is to put solar panels on the back of solar panels used for grid scale arrays.

Obviously not optimal since these are literally turning to continually face away from the sun yet apparently get you a 1% improvement and you're spending the rest of the money for installation, wiring anyway so at a certain price point it makes sense.
In 2016, US GDP was over 16 trillion dollars. Spending approx 0.033% of GDP every 4 years (~6bn per the article) in a Presidential election doesnt seem all that unreasonable to govern such a large economy.

[edited since i had my original order of magnitude too low!]
Had my first volunteering session today and it was amazing to see the look on the students' faces when we showed them what anyone can do with a browser inspector! Anyone who knows how to code should volunteer and help train the future workforce!
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Does Silicon Valley have a diversity problem?
Does Silicon Valley have a diversity problem?

I have to post here with a different username because I am afraid of the consequences of using my usual one.

The day the Google Manifesto came out, I was talking to a friend working at Google that had been trying to move from another state to the campus in Mountain View.
I asked if he found a position. He said he did not and that 5 out of the 6 positions open went to women.
I joked saying: you should sue them for discrimination. He stared at me with a serious face and said: "This is a very sensitive topic and whatever you said is going to be taken in the wrong way so it is better to shut up and suck it up."
After reading the manifesto and the following articles, I understood what he meant.

I was at a local co-working space attending a meetup a while ago. Boring event. There was another talk in another room that was more interesting and they had free pizza. I saw people looking at me giving me the stinky eye, only one or two people were friendly. After the talk an angry girl came by saying: "Why are you here?" I realized that they were all women... She said "This is a meetup for women.". I said something funny trying to break the tension. I wondered around talking with the friendly girls but I was very uncomfortable. Since then I avoid any meetup that has "women" in the description even if it says the meetup is open to men.

I keep seeing this everyday.

You can look at the panel of judges at the TC hackathon: https://disruptsf2017.devpost.com/ 5 out of 5 are women.
When a friend saw that page said: "What The--?!" and he immediately shut up because of 2 girls next to us.

Does all of this seems normal?
Close your eyes for 40 sec and try to imagine what I wrote inverting the sexes. What did you think would happen?

I am going to answer my own question. Yes, SV has a diversity problem. We are discriminated based on sex but it is not the sex that everybody thinks and you cannot talk about it.
Then let's shut down CNN and all the newspapers.
It isn't always as simple as setting some environment variables. None of the projects I work on will compile when told to compile for another OS_ARCH because of the dependencies they have.
If the government hadn't done that, there was a very real chance of the economy grinding to a halt, with mass layoffs resulting, which would have had a very, very large impact on poor people. So yes, in a way, it was a bailout of poor people.

I think they should have done much more to break up the banks into smaller chunks in the aftermath, but I'm tired of this sort of lazy condemnation of what they did as some conspiracy to help rich people and not poor. They were trying to get the country through some very dire times.
I live near the Adirondack mountains in New York, where internet access is still dial-up or satellite. In most places populated enough to have stores, however, there is 3G cell service and that allows for wireless POS terminals and ATMs.

The places I've seen either use that or accept cash only.
Basic right for whom? Are you talking basic human right? A random bunch of people right? Who?

When defining a right, you must show who is the subject of that right.
Do you any any examples of a company having ONLY a graphQL API for public use?
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No. Not of course. If the Electoral College did not exist, the campaign strategy would have been completely different for Trump. If it was by popular vote, Trump would have campaigned primarily in California even though he had no chance of winning the state (so spent very little resources there).

I am inclined to agree with you that the EC is unfair. However Trump won fair and square.
A nice analogy I saw in the Scottish referendum was a divorce. Would it really make sense that both parties had to agree if one felt unfairly treated?
Depends if there are enough candidates for the people to choose somebody they want, and if extra money buys more votes or if it is just a fixed entry cost.

It creates a huge potential for democracy being taken over by a kleptocracy, but it is not something automatic.
> “The corruption in the U.S. does not stem from officeholders putting money in their pocket,” he said. “This is systemic corruption of the process itself. When you are dealing with billions and billions of dollars, much of that focused on buying influence, it overwhelms the system, and it is much harder to defend against and maintain representation for ordinary Americans.”

In other words, if you accuse someone of taking a bribe, you had better be able to back it up. If you hand-wave about "systemic corruption," no proof is necessary.
An intercom in theory makes a sound when it is listening in or starts to work when the party on the other end presses a button.

See this with regard to evesdropping:

"New York makes it a crime to record to record or eavesdrop on an in-person or telephone conversation unless one party to the conversation consents. "

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/new-york-recording-law

Do I think anyone would be prosecuted? No but the way I read it it's a violation of the law.
Many, many communities still rely, at least in part, on volunteer firefighters. I know a number of former military guys that love it--provides that the risk/rush and camaraderie you're looking for. And it ain't a cakewalk.

https://www.volunteerfd.org/become-a-volunteer-firefighter/
The president doesn't govern the economy...
But the design of the electoral college was to deadlock the states and provide Representatives in the US Congress the final say in the matter. In effect, our country's founders were AGAINST the founding of political parties, in part because they knew it'd break the system that they worked so hard to set up.

Alas, not all plans work out. Our current system is an accident, created in the ignorance / naivete of political parties with little thought or design put into the real operational use.

The only thing that DOES work is that our constitution can (and regularly does) change when everyone is convinced that our rules and regulations are in need of an update. And more and more people are beginning to think that this whole "Electoral College" crap is stupid.
It almost looks like they combined a CVT and a planetary gear.

For those saying it has too many moving parts, consider the number of parts found in an 11-speed internally geared hub on a bicycle [1]

I would be really curious to see if this inception drive could be an alternative to internally geared bike hubs.

[1] https://www.sheldonbrown.com/alfine-11.html#details
Why not actually push a .js file instead of just examples in a readme?

Or, I guess the modern method would be why not publish every line of every function as a separate NPM package?
Huh? How is receiving a phishing email an evidence of compromise?
>Applying voltage to the devices pushes positively charged silver ions out of the silver sulfide and toward the silver cathode layer, where they are reduced to metallic silver. Atom-wide filaments of silver grow, eventually closing the gap between the metallic silver sides. As a result, the switch is on and current can flow. Reversing the current flow has the opposite effect: The silver bridges shrink, and the switch turns off.

makes me wonder if there is any potential as a non-volatile memory chip.
"data transfer out", presumably, based on the context.
Most of the vegetarian/vegans I know are more likely to be glad that Oreos are vegan than to fight against GMOs. Anecdotes != data, but I suspect those two demographics overlap less than you're suggesting.

Personally, my motivations for not eating meat have precisely zero to do with any "natural" or anti-GMO stance, and everything to do with environmental impact and animal welfare concerns.
I wouldn't call it the only one we ever had considering a few hundred years ago the electoral college was not elected by direct election (in every state, it was actually up to the states how they wanted to elect the college and the original states predominantly did it differently in the early 19th century) and if we were under the old rules pre-amendment Hillary would be the VP right now.
> it the juice coming out of it

What do you think is in that juice? Sure the cattle are bled after slaughter, but you never get all the blood out, even after it's been hung, which is still retained in the tissue.

EDIT: Ah ha! My apologies and I stand corrected :) Apparently the red colouring in the steak juice is myoglobin and not in fact blood:

https://cooking.stackexchange.com/a/8964/33

https://cooking.stackexchange.com/a/32619/33

http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/meat/INT-what-meat-colo...

https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/stop-calling-juicy-steak-bl...

So you learn something new every day.
I prefer the term "corporate oligarchy."

When there exist corporations capable of mass cultural shaping and branches of government that intercept that data, it is inevitable that power will be used to control the masses. Astroturfing is already becoming the norm, even on sites like this.
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"Depends on your viewpoint of the Electoral College vs Popular Vote of course."

I think Wikipedia succinctly provides a factual assessment in this case: "The United States Electoral College is the mechanism established by the United States Constitution for the indirect election of the President of the United States and Vice President of the United States. Citizens of the United States vote in each state and the District of Columbia at a general election to choose a slate of "electors" pledged to vote for a particular party's candidate."

One can argue about the merits of the popular vote, but as per the Constitution, elections are won according to Electoral College vote.

That's the rules. That's how it works. Since the 18th century, with little change.

Mrs. Clinton also had a chance to win a round of Yahtzee, if Rock-Scissors-Paper were used to determine the winner.
I agree that there are more important issues in the world, but it doesn't make this unworthy of attention. You don't have to care about it, but if you're going into threads about transgender people trying to convince other people it doesn't matter, that's way past not caring and into the territory of "actively opposing."

Personally, I have many causes I support. This doesn't have to be one of yours, but all I'm saying is, just because you want to spend your time on more important things doesn't mean you should spend your time telling people how unimportant transgender issues are.
Is there going to be a replacement for DuckDuckHack[0]?

Had a cool instant answer integration I wanted to contribute, that I hope would be useful to a lot of people (primarily students/scientists).

Seems a real shame for there to be no route to community contributions in the future.

[0] https://duckduckhack.com
Please don't editorialize headlines. Also "don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> In fact, the United States performed well on Transparency International’s 176-country Corruption Perceptions Index from last year, ranking 18th, behind Denmark (1st) and Germany (10th), but ahead of France (23rd) and Russia (131st).

This is no wonder, the index is only about perception. In richer countries like Germany corruption in high politics and big companies is rarely seen by the population as corruption.
Some people would buy the next Galaxy. Plenty of people wouldn't, though, as soon as the helpful employee at the T-Mobile store warned them they couldn't reinstall their old apps on the new phone. It would be a really risky move. I imagine they'd have done it already if it weren't so likely to fail.
> Loading down one of their companies with debt and then having it file for bankruptcy is a strategy they've used in the past

Bain will lose almost all its money in Toys ‘R’ Us. It has written its equity down to zero, didn’t really take any dividends along the way, and itself holds the most junior tranches of debt.
Polling is essentially what the electoral collage does.

More important is the method of how each citizen chooses, and how the choices are counted.

https://onelections.net/2017/09/06/electoral-reform-movement...
solution: Make the political system have less influence in our lives. Make politicians less valuable to purchase
And what else can you do? You select randomly and then pass the 'id verification' with flying colours and then on the phone with the customer service rep, you verbally refute each one. The service rep says that they don't see any on that on their end.

Basically, it's like a web script that's not hooked up to anything in the backend... Like their recent "has your information been leaked" web forms.

I suspect that's the case across the entire industry.
Not really. It predicts that the amount of ocean carbon will cross a threshold by ~2100 that will likely cause a GMEE sometime afterwards.
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I think you'd be unlikely to do that if you cling tightly to the idea of "one person one vote", and, by extension, have a negative reaction to "one dollar one vote".
I haven't personally used either of these, but they look interesting and I'm hoping to test them out at some point:

https://github.com/gmr/pgsql-listen-exchange

https://github.com/subzerocloud/pg-amqp-bridge

In theory, these let you use postgres NOTIFY to add messages to queues (which can be done from inside triggers).
The best ones are where you did legitimately open a credit line 20 years ago with some store but the list of options only include the backing bank's name ("BANCORP BANK, INC").
I think what it is spent on is more important than the amount.
Mission Bit is an organization doing this on a local scale in SF: https://www.missionbit.com/. It looks like the main difference is that Mission Bit works directly with SF public schools. Personally, it feels like there is plenty more space for non-profits reaching out to underserved communities.
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I had it at Momofuku and it was medium rare. Similar to this example I found on Google Images: http://imagesvc.timeincapp.com/?q=60&url=https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us...

It was nothing special, but was a convincing meat substitute. I'd be happy taking it over any kind of fast food burger.
Here ya go:

http://procrasti-nation.eu/racism-sexism-privileges-for-the-...
> completely different for Trump

I agree things would have been different. That's not the real issue.

> I am inclined to agree with you that the EC is unfair.

I think this is where you and I can agree, and is the more important issue at hand.
Yes.

The democratic ideal is self-rule of the people. The candidate who wins is identified as the most legitimate because we identify the will of the majority with the will of the people. Ultimately, the people affirm the power of the political class. I don't know of anyone who has a concrete way to associate the idea of democracy with a particular method of public will-formation.

However, this does violate the norm of political equality. The choices available reflect natural differences in status among candidates - there isn't an equal or nominally equal path to candidacy for all people. And I think the status quo challenges the claim that America is a liberal democracy.

Rather than creating a democracy that promotes and respects Liberal-Humanitarian freedoms (speech, right to property, religion, safety and security), the elite political community has made American non-elites their enemy (or at least their opposition). Political taste makers are not committed to a State that has the power to protect those freedoms. The GOP fights unions and the DNC-Google fight Damore and both are victories that affirm the right of consolidated power to make decisions for other people.
This will be my fifth year volunteering with ScriptEd! There's nothing quite like teaching others to solidify your own understanding, and nothing as rewarding as seeing the light go on when one of my students grasps a concept. I strongly encourage devs to volunteer!
My house got robbed and I found my DVD collection at a nearby used video store. Inside most of the DVD cases was my name in sharpie. The owner of the store had a photocopy of the guy's driver's license and the cops did nothing at all. I called them once a week for months, nothing.
He or she, along with Congress (whose elections are included in these numbers), are directly responsible for the policies that impact trade, deficits, employeer/employee relations, etc. All of which are instrumental in how our economy functions. They may not "govern," but they have immense influence.
I was wondering the same thing. Part of it may be selection bias, though.
When you weigh the loss by the sum of money spent, it IS fair and square. In other words, megadollars per percent of votes.
No, it wouldn't. :)
Nope. Samsung would not have survived. First their stock price will drop as soon as they announced the departure from Android. The market would not have any confidence in any alternative, because history has taught us well. Second, as others have already pointed out, it is either Android or iOS. Try spin up a new mobile OS today and I guarantee you it would be hard to recreate the existing ecosystem. Samsung has the money, but good luck getting enough apps. You'd have to build a whole new interpolation layer so no one has to rewrite, ot rewrite as little as possible. That will take at least a year. Testing stability, reimplement every feature in modern mobile is going to be a multi-year project. By then, someone else would have taken Samsung's place. XiaoMi would is Samsung's contenter right now.
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Seriously? No mention of how Barack Obama rejected public funding in 2008 and singlehandedly opened the floodgates on campaign spending? [1] The fact that this isn't directly mentioned anywhere in the article speaks to how far the credibility of the NYT has fallen. [2]

[1]: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9595714...

[2]: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/us/politics/20obamacnd.htm...

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edit: for a visual on how unprecedented his 2008 spending was, see charts here: http://metrocosm.com/2016-election-spending/

Note the stability in spending starting in 1976 when public funding was introduced.
Sure? The current situation doesn't have anything to do with Pujol family being close to go to jail for corruption?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordi_Pujol
Actually it was people living in Scotland. As a Scot living in Spain I wasn't allowed to. "Fair enough" I though, until we got completely screwed over with the English and Welsh voting for Brexit.

Lets face it the lead up to both referendums were based on packs of lies (on both sides probably - but it can only be proven for the winning sides).
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And the writers of the Constitution didn't believe in Political Parties. Things didn't work out as they expected however.

The expectation was that each state would deadlock upon "local favorites" and then the House of Representatives would choose the winner.

Clearly, the Electoral College system is not working as designed, and I really do think its time that we start thinking about changing the constitution to make things more fair.
when connecting to the agent teleport uses `SSH_AUTH_SOCK` environment variable, so as long as you set the right variable, tsh login should work, unless I'm missing something.
> If you hand-wave about "systemic corruption," no proof is necessary.

This has been looked at. It looks like government lobbying has a 400x return on investment. If these corporations weren't benefiting from all they spend, they wouldn't spend it.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-donius/goldmans-great-ret...
There's no real sense in which this is the only electoral system we've had.

The electoral college is an order of magnitude smaller than the original constitution would call for. The method by which many states apportion electors has changed since the US's founding. We also count people differently than we used to. Not to mention the 12th amendment.
Pay politicians multi-million dollar salaries like they do in Singapore and you'll get top talent that doesn't need to be bribed and can focus on their actual jobs instead of pleasing lobbyists.
all gifts are bribes.
It would not have access to Google services and would end like Windows phone.