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Absolutely this.

Our Prime Minister (by default), Theresa May, used to be our home secretary. She seems technically illiterate.

Unfortunately the base she appeals to is also relatively... Ignorant... Of tech issues and of the real world.

If it won't play well in The Daily Mail, it's not a priority.

According to people in the know, there aren't enough police in the community, and there aren't enough armed police, and there's not enough money going into the police force.

This has all been brought into sharp focus by the recent terror attacks.

Her actions read like a bad conspiracy theory.
That's precisely my point.

Canonical did a good thing of mashing it all together into a single product. DDG does the same for search in my book.

They've both outsourced the heavy lifting to some third party.

In DDG, Bing/Yahoo/Yandex does all of the heavy lifting. In Ubuntu, it's the Linux kernel. They would be nothing without those products they depend on. But they bundle that with like hundreds of different, smaller in scale products to offer a nice experience out of the box.

For smaller in scale companies that are trying to compete with big players (like Microsoft and Google), this does seem like a winning combination in my book.
> There are about half of the population of Catalonia that doesn't agree with you.

By the way, polls show that people in favor of having a referendum is majority. A lot of people agree to have a referendum when they themselves would vote no to independence. They are different things

> This is not a referendum to ask about sideways width. It's about asking people if they want to commit a crime: secession.

Secession is a crime? Tried Scotland or Quebec to commit a crime?

Czech Republic and Slovakia are criminals?
I‘m not talking about photosynthesis (oxygen evolving complex, photosystem II and photosystem I), only the very first step. I don‘t see why it should be inefficient.
> The sun has risen at least 166 times already, but it is not proof that the sun will rise tomorrow.

If the sun has risen at least 166 times, the probability that it will rise tomorrow is at least 99.4% according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_problem
The elephant in the room being?
Is search traffic dropping for “Vox Day”, “infowars”, “dailymail”, and “Drudge Report” also then?
As someone who has attempted to use the original Chromebook Pixel as a development machine, I'm glad to see they've added more storage options. The original Pixel had 32GB of storage, and this one offers 512GB.

For those unfamiliar with ChromeOS, it allows you to run Linux application using Crouton/chroot, so it really has a lot of potential as a Linux dev machine. However, I ultimately ran out of storage space, and it wasn't worth the time to figure out an inelegant scheme for mounting external storage.
Is hydrogen low stability and easy leakage not an issue anymore?
The 5 features of ES8 and a wishlist for ES9
They're beating Google at monopolizing the internet's advertising?
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Yes, specially since we already lost many of them since the early 70's, mostly due to politics and bad management decisions.
I guess the cause of that isn't 2 techlife 'product' guys with a ton of other people's money (which they got on the off-chance they completely disrupt the market).

Gutting of small towns is done with multi-year business strategies decided in the boardrooms & committees of giant corporations for shareholder benefit: also bad, but less offensive.
Hello World! Compiling Executables for the Classic POSIX Subsystem on Windows
Seeing how things are going for a REFERENDUM, do you think they will ever allow catalans to make a legal referendum as long as we are in Spain?
It's the only time I can have a coherent conversation without being interrupted (married with children), alone, in a car.

I'm soon to be audio free, no auxiliary input on the car's system and FM is being turned off this month in Norway. So, silence from now on aside from the gibbering emanating from my very own pie-hole.

Isn't there also something nice about driving along with only the faint glow of green or blue from the dashboard, not the 46" screen that Tesla have 'tastefully' mounted in the dash?
I was surprised with a friend's Jeep where the seat warmers were in the touch screen interface. Really? On my old 2003 wagon, they were just dials.
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Same here. Actually, I find it amazing how much I like it - before, I always had ten to twenty different browser extensions installed on both Chrome and Firefox: Mouse gestures here, an "Omnibar" there, Superdrag... yada yada yada.

Because of that, I suspected that Qutebrowser would be too "bare bones" for my tastes. Interestingly, that isn't the case at all. It's amazing how much extra functionality you can replace with an efficient control scheme.
Why not?

Is Barcelona people demanding it?
Mine is front page of BBC News this morning. Seems like it's never good news at the moment.
It seems to me that if you extend 'conscious' to cover things outside a persons attention, you've made the word 'conscious' meaningless. If I take away all of the things that you claim to be 'conscious' of but not actively aware of, would you be comfortable with me saying you were no longer conscious? Sure you actively thinking about things, but you don't have that sensation of the bottom of your big toe in your shoe somewhere in the background, therefore you must be less than conscious. The idea of meta-consciousness I think still has plenty of merit, but extending 'conscious' to everything you are unaware of is useless and also can never stop. Why not include the things that are stimulating your nerves as well as the stimulation of the nerves itself? Why not extend it out to blanket the whole of the universe?
Credit Card Fraud Detection Using Apache Spark Streaming and Kafka
So, practically speaking, how would one go about setting this up for local use? I would this would also work very well for locally stored books and docs.
> Taking this as a 'no' then.

Take it as a 'I don't consider your question as stated to be meaningful'.
I don't see what was wrong with the first solution. Keep it simple!
It would absolutely be possible to produce prerendered videos of mostly static scenes using today's technology that would be indistinguishable from reality, although the expense would be high.

And yet, no one has. :)

It'd be a fun trophy to claim.

My theory is that it's not merely a matter of computing power. We have massive horsepower now, but our algorithms are still wrong at a fundamental level. We still approach it by trying to simulate the underlying physics of light: the transport algorithms, radiance sampling, and so on. But between the RGB textures that have nothing to do with nature and the physics approximations that we're forced to settle with, something ends up lost in translation.

No matter what we try, that human observer ends up looking at a final product that looks nothing like a real camcorder video.

Back during ~iPhone 4 days, someone forged some pictures of the "next gen iPhone." It was a hoax, but a lot of people were fooled at the time. Remarkably, it was a computer rendering. The reason it looked real is because he took a picture of the rendering using a real camera, which muddied up the colors to the point that you couldn't tell it was a rendering.

The idea here would be similar: analyze the actual pixels coming out of a real camcorder and try to mimic the nuances as closely as possible. In the best case, it wouldn't be a physics simulation at all: the program might be able to guess how the scene should look based on partial data and past experience.
This article is an exercise in ignorance. Wallet providers? Does he not even understand the concept of personal wallets? Anybody that keeps a significant amount of money in a hosted wallet outside of specific circumstances (I. E. trading) is not only doing it wrong, they are being extremely foolish. And it looks like he's counting dust wallets and orphaned wallets.

Maybe he should have learned something about the subject matter before writing an "authoratative" article.
looks neat
Is not only that. The article 1.2 of the Spanish Constitution clearly states: "The national sovereignty resides in the Spanish people, from whom all the powers of the state emanate."

All Spanish people have the right to decide about all the things in Spain, not just a bunch of people.
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Any chance you can unsnippet that quote?

In the longterm can the HN team to look at how snippets work on mobile.

Reading that on my phone was horrendous...
There are about half of the population of Catalonia that doesn't agree with you.

They don't agree with independence, or with having a referendum at all? Just curious, I haven't been following it closely.
Uhh, to be fair both reports were answered with appropriate concerns.

First made it sound like a very specific issue for that one user, and was given a way to disable it for him.

Second made it sound like an entire class of users would need it off, and an option switch was provided.

What do you think is more probable, that he intentionally left that hole open despite not directly benefitting from it, or simply that when he answered both original reports and provided an appropriate solution, he didn't fully think about the details and implications of what those issues meant?

Have you really never have a closed issue come back to you "went from bad to worse, abort!“ ?
Ask HN: Does sometimes post get removed from the front page all of a sudden?
There was an interesting (and lively) discussion about Bodega here:

LINK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15291795

, being 4th in the home page.

I tried to re-read it after 5 minutes and it was nowhere to be found, suddenly being positioned at rank 80.

Seeing how this thread had been active in the past few minutes while the threads around 80 hadn't been active since yesterday it does look a little weird.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15258547

I have nothing to do with Confluence or Kafka, but I really hoped there would be some more discussion then. Therefore the repost.
OK. I will try. I am a EU citizen thereby granted to have free access to all EU territory. If just UK people is allowed to vote, then they are depriving me, and other EU citizens, from the right to freely visit/live/work in UK.
Yeah, he seems to have had a bit of a personality issue and clashed a lot with everyone around him.
The waste of money on a stupid idea is offending the author in light of the increasing issue of wealth discrepancy and homelessness in SF. This may not be offensive to all, but is not inappropriate usage.
Bitcoin is not completely anonymous.
The discussion is not only about Bitcoin or PoW.
We found a way to do transactions that nobody can tamper with. We managed to solve a really serious problem and this is that when money is involved people get greedy and corrupt. No human being should be in a high enough position to steal money or tamper the transactions or commit fraud. It is so obvious that distributed ledgers are a solution to this and it disappoints me that the HN community cannot see it.
This I don't agree. Catalonia is a nation, it has never been a country. A nation doesn't require its people to live under the same government and sovereignty.

Also, can you add some references to some of the more polemical claims (like "The secessionists have even forbidden the opposition to participate in the debates in the Parliament of Catalonia.").

Thanks!
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Secession is a crime? Tried Scotland or Quebec to commit a crime? Czech Republic and Slovakia are criminals?

I'm not opposed to the referendum, but those places are not under the rule of the Spanish constitution.
This is the next step ;)
>Some programmers might stop here and say, Let's switch to a real programming language. Do it the right way.

Isn't using Python switching to a real programming language?
Who pays $1,199 for a Chromebook?
>Ball has found some evidence that long-bone injuries, which are far more common than head injuries, are actually increasing.

My assumption is that has nothing to do with rubber playgrounds, but the fact more kids are obese than ever. The less you weigh, the less you splat when you fall.
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But its deprecation hasn't been planned, and a binary you provide won't suddenly be upgraded and stop working. That is not the case for Chromium apps.
The real question is, why did they skip 9?
20K turns into roughly 33k in 30 years. I think trivial is a relative term.
I'd still say FPTP is like 80% of the reason why third-parties can't rise to power in the U.S. and elsewhere, but yes, the two main parties have added further obstacles to make the rise of third-parties in the U.S. from almost impossible to virtually impossible (save for a country-wide "wake up" and a huge rally behind a "surprise" new party, etc)
Our Marxist-Leninist party in Germany has recently put up election posters that read "Rechtsruck der Regierung stoppen!" - basically "Stop the government's swing to the right!".

I really have no idea what they are talking about, considering our "conservative" government ruling party is now pushing far-left open border policies, unlimited migrant and refugee intake, gay marriage recently passed under their government and they implemented minimum wage laws. The CDU has never moved as far left before as they are right now.
See also an obscure nation in the Pacific which has higher GDP than any single-payer country.
The secessionists tried another fake referendum in November, 9th, 2014.

Now it's even more illegal.

Edit: to the people downvoting this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_self-determination_ref...
> Physical currency is already less than 10% of currency.

I got my terminology wrong here. I didn't mean physical currency like notes or whatever, I really just meant currencies backed by a government, £/USD etc.

> It prevents fraud from Governments

Doesn't it just replace it with another form of fraud, but this one without any ability to democratically replace it? Specifically, consensus algorithms that fall over if you manage to own enough computing power?

> You are mixing up a currency with a payment merchant.

Sorry, you're right. As someone who has tried to learn about bitcoin et al and never seen the point, the fact that I have to trust another payment provider for no obvious benefit is where I lose interest.

Presumably in the future that won't be the case.
The same way your wife wants to divorce you and you don’t have a word about it.

Who deprives you from working, living and visiting Catalonia?
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive1/updates/fe310-chi...
How about we work on not allowing patents in fields where it's unreasonable to expect the patent office to assess novelty and non-obviousness? Like software?
I experimented briefly with QuteBrowser, but was disappointed when standard cross-browser keyboard shortcuts that have become muscle memory did nothing.
The elephant in the room is that the main parties in the Spanish goverment are using this independence process as a smokescreen to hide all their wrongdoings.

There have been plenty of scandals, but all are hidden because of this.

Also there is a complete blockage to alter the constitution and there's no negotiation on their part to open the process and make it more inclusive. They are using Catalans as scapegoats in order to win votes in other regions, as they have always done.

I'm seriously tired of being treated, by the Spanish press -guided by the main parties-, as an insolidary nutjob that doesn't conform to the rules. Specially when Catalonia is one of the most solidary regions (giving more to the state than we receive). But we are "guilty" of speaking another language, of thinking differently, of voting differently, of whatever shit they dare accuse us.

I'm sick of it all.

And I'm not into politics, so I cannot fathom how burned are the people that are into politics.
Or to put it in Edward Tuft's "Lie Factor" terms using a 5000 lbs elephant and 5mg mosquito I get a lie factor of 454046 (if someone can check out the math).
Why did you reply to yourself?

EDIT: actually it appears you just posted at the wrong place
I'm obviously not condoning patent infringement. The idea is to learn from useful ideas and implement a non-infringing equivalent as an open source project. You can't patent "math", or "computer science", or ideas comparably broad.
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UK is an union of countries. Spain is not.
You have to consider the circumstances under which the Spanish Constitution was written. Franco had died, and after years of dictatorship and repression, the government was afraid of exactly this: separatism.

So I guess that as a concession to the still strong fascist powers, the Constitution stated that is a crime to attempt to break the "the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation".

This doesn't make sense in the 21st century, I think, but that's the way it is.
If you can read Spanish, those news are in all newspapers.
In the west we eat a lot more chicken feet than people think. Nearly any decent chicken stock is going to be made in part with chicken feet as they provide a lovely gelatinous component to the stock.
Not really, it's that the country as a whole can't decide on the results it wants. Both parties are roughly equally split between moderate and more extreme wings, so even within each party they can't agree, and then when the two parties are pitted against each other in campaigns or in the practice of governing, they again can't agree. Double whammy. It shouldn't be any surprise that under these conditions not much gets done.

Also, controversial opinion here I'm sure, but imho that gridlock is mostly good thing. The less the government is able to do, the more of a stable and predictable state the country is in, making forecasting and planning more reliable. The one exception is the government's inability to reign in deficit spending, and perhaps their longer term inability to ensure solvency of social programs.
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I assume my question will be lost in comments, but I'll ask it anyway here, because it seems to be very interesting side of cryptocoins. My boss is somewhat educated in economy and routinely tries to model the bitcoin economics. He came to the conclusion that the amount of bitcoin turnover is supported not by regular players, but by country-sized economies like China and probably few other states. Most of capitalization comes from really, really huge amount of money, because there is not so much many money even in criminal activities like drugs, trafficking, arms, etc. Bitcoin is alive not because of blockchain mining and not because of human's freedom, but because it enables to move capitals and gray industry volumes across the borders with no usually defined penalty.

If that is true, there is strict confidence that it's not going away in near future. But that also means that it is surely regulated or at least heavily monitored. Or it leads all of us to such economical crashes that world never seen (and can't just deal with). Idk where it goes and how one evaluates it, do you have any ideas on that hypothesis?

The basic idea that regular people use it for freedom and security is parallel to this one, and is of no interest since the volume of it in ordinary currencies is too low to consider.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15292834
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Different countries, different histories, different legal traditions. Scotland is a nation in the British Commonwealth, not a province (shire) of the nation of England. Aragon and Catalonia did not follow the same pattern.
The elephant in the room being?

The elephant in the room is what I just wrote. A referendum to vote to commit a crime is a crime. And secession is not a walk in the park. Spanish government passivity might have given that impression, but at some moment, it seems to be now, things will start to get very serious.
It's a empathy exercise, not a question? You implicitly asked, "who would this statement about bank accounts be helpful for?", and I suggest that you try to think of someone.
" All of this effort, and it looks nothing like real camcorder footage."

Well, who decided that was the benchmark and explicitly stated goal of real time synthetic image generation? I've worked in the video games for several years, and I've never heard an Art Director/Artists tell us : "Make it look like it's shot by a camcorder" ... Of course some games do it, and do it fairly well.

The whole idea is to give the player an immersive visual experience, not to make you sea sick by watching wobbly footage from your uncle Ron's camcorder. You can achieve very realistic and immersive visuals without anything looking like a camcorder of some other type of video footage.
Having worked before at a government agency in a program explicitly designed and chartered to cause change in the respective agency, I really can't agree with that particular item. As organizations get larger and older they become ossified and (in the absence of systems designed to improve standards) slower, which tends to cause a vicious cycle that all large organizations suffer from private or public sector. Not all agencies are described this way, but the ones I have interest in changing (the most influence) are very, very resistant to change and what changes do happen are the opposite of the what I'd wish due to cultural resistance stuck in a feedback loop. This is at least leading to failed companies in private sector oftentimes, but it's even sadder in public sector.

I think many people see this list and the first reaction will be "how will this enact change?" because many of us see that these actions are oftentimes ineffective against very well funded political machines and an increasingly jaded public. I basically don't look at political flyers and thanks to ad blockers I saw almost zero ads this past election cycle. But I did see lawn signs in Atlanta's record-setting congressional race this year.
Last year I contracted for a mortgage origination system vendor supplying Virgin Money aka Northern Rock. The client preferred to run a heavily customised Windows C++ 90s version of the system, with XP desktops. All attempts to persuade them to move two generations forward to a browser GUI .Net back end were resisted. Migrating forward two generations would have been a huge project. The status quo was a heavily customised, almost bespoke, system that was booking huge volumes of business.
I attempted it but extension support is not especially user-friendly.
> how does this company pay the bills?

Looks like they aren't making money yet: https://www.proff.no/selskap/vivaldi-technologies-as/oslo/in... (warning, the website is in Norwegian, Vivaldi is based in Oslo).

I don't know if they have raised money yet, but the company has been created by the previous CTO of Opera, who made millions out of it.

Also, former Opera employees told me that the amount of money search engines are willing to pay to be featured in browsers is huge (relatively to the cost of running a browser company, even more so when you don't have to build the rendering engine).
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