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>>> We do have a formal one. In practice that is not so clear, as the many corruption cases show, with political use of the police included.

I would agree that there is some leakage, but it is the exception to the rule. I would not make such a generalization.

>>> Also they not only have declared the referendum illegal

They have suspended the law that would allow the Catalonian goverment promote the referendum, so it is indeed illegal to promote the referendum.

>>> I am Andalusian and I'd be happy to keep Catalonian withing the Spanish state

Me too.
I am Andalusian too.
The world is more prosperous and peaceful now than any time in human history. To be born now in a developed country (of which there are far more of than even ten or twenty years ago) is an incredible advantage compared to what the vast majority of humans ever experienced.
I wonder if the technical edge is there only because German diesels do not meet emission regulations. It is easy to have the best product on the market if all the competitors need to make weaker engines to meet the regulations and German companies make a cheating software instead.
REST/HATEOAS/JSON-HAL, JSON-API, Falcor.
you shouldn't be able to patent a query language for a graph either but here we are
Then you should read more, maybe. I can think of ABC, La Razón, Intereconomía, La Gaceta or Okdiario.

Apart from pointing that out, is anything of what it says inaccurate?
There might be a misunderstanding about the word "populist". Looking at Wikipedia:

Populism is a mode of political communication that is centred around contrasts between the "common man" or "the people" and a real or imagined group of "privileged elites", traditionally scapegoating or making a folk devil of the latter.

Merkel does not scapegoat elites.
If you are a node developer there is Falcor by Netflix

https://netflix.github.io/falcor/
'Cuz they'd have to move out.
they also had a huge accounting scandal very recently. westinghouse was icing on the cake.

the company has admitted to inflating its net profits by $1.3bn over seven years. then, former top management played a role in the padding of profits by an additional ¥40bn ($339m) over a three-year period.
Kotlin, Rust, Scala and vaguely Go. Swift benefit over Kotlin is that it easily interfaces with existing objective-c and C code. It also has deterministic garbage collection through automatic reference counting which is better for interactive systems and maintaining low memory footprint. Since it is native code and doesn't have a complicated garbage collector it can be used like C to create libraries for other programming languages. This is impossible to do with Go and Kotlin.

Compared to Rust it is considerably easier to learn.

Go is probably easier to learn than Swift but Swift is a lot more expressive. You could do scientific computations in Swift but that would be cumbersome in Go since you can't easily define matrix, vector and point types yourself.
This discussion last month includes many anecdotes regarding various email providers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15029186
This last election is a poster child for the gridlock system being a good one. When things go your way, they never move fast enough, when they go against your wishes, it’s always too fast.
Incredibly so. But I have realized that the large majority of Internet users today have no point of reference to that time because they were either not alive, where very small children, or weren't paying any attention to what was going on. But for a brief time, humanity was being uplifted instead of being loaded onto digital cattle cars. There truly is a threat here--technocracy is turning America into a gulag and it needs to stop. No, I am not kidding. It's not just the Internet, it's all the companies collecting massive data "to better serve us" that are creating the . chains.

I'm just glad I experienced that early period. Sunsite at UNC was the greatest. There were many true humanitarians back then. Today, we have the growing evil of Google and the Never-Was-Anything-But-Evil Facebook!
Are these software patents a problem for EU companies?

I mean, we don't have software patents in Germany.
HNers probably replace the OS as soon as possible.
Those schools and companies looking for a low maintenance thin client platform won't (or they'd lose the "low maintenance" appeal)
>>> Actually there is no power separation on Spain

That's a pretty bold statement. Maybe you should provide some evidence.
I am reminded of (fake) Franklin quote in the movie 1776:

A rebellion is always legal in the first person, such as "our rebellion." It is only in the third person - "their rebellion" - that it becomes illegal.
LOL - in a metaphorical / rhetorical contest, yes, the difference is irrelevant. What matters is the sense of overwhelming difference between the elephant and <insert most common animals or insects>.
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Should I buy my own GPUs for deep learning?
I've been using DDG as my primary search for about 2 years now, it rarely ever falls short for me. When it does, it's usually related to some type of image search I'm doing, I think google still has nicer tools for that.

Overall, super happy with DDG.
legal just told me it's ok for us to go ahead with react, some guy named watty on HN just set the lawyers straight
Their design is still fairly naive in dealing with worst-case scenarios (eg lack of core catchers).
We lose tree style tabs by the end of the year
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> More sick are the majority of Catalans who don't want the secession.

Nobody knows if they are a majority or not. At least, unless they can vote about it, of course.

And please, don't give me polls.
Why does corporate brainwashing seem far-fetched to you? It happens all the time. Advertisements are all about brainwashing common people to buy things they don't really need.
Yes! I have a very nice Samsung Chromebook Plus, which folds into a tablet, and which has a pen, but for roughly 1/3rd the price of the new Chromebook Pixel.

I use it as a large format document reader, and as an easy-to-secure, easy-to-wipe, easy-to-restore travel machine. It's also great for sketching out design diagrams on a table in a meeting. The fact that the Chromebook Plus also runs Android apps is a huge plus.

I've never unlocked it to install Linux, because that reduces the security guarantees, which were a major selling point for me when travelling.
One aspect of this is trying to find content that has already been viewed. There are tools to archive web browsing locally for future re-use. Any improvements to local search would benefit this use case tremendously.

Relevant discussion: "Wallabag: a self-hostable application for saving web pages" | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14686882 (July 2017)
Does Vivaldi have sync yet? It's been years and every time I check - no sync.
Agreed. It's not perfect but I'd prefer to give it the first chance(s), and if necessary fallback to Google, etc.
Yup. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
Personally, I value my privacy more than the small amount of time tweaking my search query to get the results I actually wanted vs. the out-of-context results I got. I think anyone using DuckDuckGo is of the same opinion. When you think about it: total loss of internet privacy for some slightly better search results? Pretty massive trade off of with some serious consequences.

However, I do get your point. Without that extra context, the search results can only ever only be so good.
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> An alternative to using the git tools which is appropriate for serious work

This belittles their and anyone else's bash scripts for git as 'toys'. That's unfair, and completely unnecessary for your point.

> big shell pipelines (operating on text gets slow pretty fast, and often you end up using xargs...)

Big shell pipelines are actually blazingly fast, since each command in the pipeline runs in parallel.

> It's not as succinct as a bash script but it's easier to build something that's correct. Use the shell to prototype, build it right in a saner environment.

I would say the ease depends on the relative difficulty and functionality of the languages. Casting bash as the insane bad language doesn't win you any points: we all know bash is a hot mess of a garbage fire, now let's use it to do useful good work.

I would struggle to justify the work I'd need to do to write the equivalent in C (or python, where it would be slower) for one command that's only run in the release process.
Is half the support of the catalonians again to secede from the rest of the country and not respect the inner laws of their parlament? Because, to me, it sounds like a coup d'etat.
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I'm not. It has outlived its usefulness, safety, and privacy models.
As a Spaniard (southern), I fully respect that some part of the country wants to decide about their future and become independent. This is like a relationship and sometimes relationships get to an end (for whatever reason).

I support their right to decide but at the same time I feel that the way this has been managed by both Catalan and Spanish governments is not going to have a good outcome :(

On the other side I always had the feeling that this is just politicians willing to use this situation for their own benefit and raise votes. Instead of creating a peaceful dialogue (both sides) they just prefer to keep with the same story over and over creating more and more hate between different parts of the country...

It comes to my mind a book by Chomsky (Media Control) that suggest how US has created always an enemy to have the country united and the support of the people.

Borders..... such a colonial western invention and all the problems they have created.....
After posting that I figured that's what was going on, yeah. That seems kind of scary though - I can easily brut--stops mid-sentence

brb, finding out how fast my old i3 really is

Edit: I drowned in the differences between md5 implementations. And all the "superfast" code I've found produces different results than stock /usr/bin/md5sum. So now I want to find an actually-fast and working md5sum implementation, and figure out why I'm getting different results. Yak shaving && stackdepth++

HN will likely lock this thread before I get to completing the above which is kinda sad, but email still works, I guess.
Redox can run in 256 MB if it is installed to disk, and is not running the GUI.
The Spanish people voted yes to democracy, not to the constitution. The communist party supported it because it feared continuing to be illegal otherwise, and it is an issue that still causes them a lot of division.

My generation did not vote for the constitution, and many of us dislike it. I agree that it is a conservative constitution made out of fear, with a flawed electoral system, a king, etc. The same fear that the party in power, lineage of the dictators, uses to address our aging population.

"Mejor malo conocido que bueno por conocer" (Better a known bad than the good that is jet to be known) is the worst Spanish saying.

I am Andalusian and pro-referendum.
It is however a fact that several cryptographers are moving away from ARX. Some do that for hardware efficiency (e.g., as promoted by NORX designers), some do that to better estimate impacts of differential cryptanalysis (e.g., MD6, probably Gimly too?).

The post makes those points more explicitly to our attention than any other post I had seen before. Hence, no FUD to me.
Checking Google Scholar, this seems to be proven by clinical trials: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal..... Interesting.
The fact that you have no memory of time while you are asleep does not prove that consciousness is absent.

The fact that your brain's executive network are unaware of the workings of "autonomous" activities does not indicate that those activities lack consciousness. You are also unaware of my consciousness but I assure you that it exists.
I always thought so, but then I look at Australia, which has instant runoff voting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting#Australi...). And we too have almost a two party system (Labor vs Liberals), the other parties get a seat here and there, but the big two don't show any signs of going away.
Empathy is a big way to raise awareness.

When I had kids and started walking them around in a stroller, you learn really quickly where the sidewalks with ramps are, and you (and your toddler who likes to help!) come to appreciate the buttons that open doors automatically.

I run as well, and it's not fun to trip on uneven sidewalks. Sometimes at night I'd rather run on the road where I can count on a more even surface and no branches hitting me in the face. I think I'm more inclined to shovel my sidewalk in the winter because I don't like running on compressed snow that melted in the sun and refroze overnight.

So...yeah! Fix this stuff for disabled people, and other people get to benefit. Sidewalks are for everyone.
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> partly because traffic is really bad in major cities.

This is particularly relevant in the European context, where most cities were not built for cars and now cannot be significantly altered.
You don't get it--the next step in the evolution is something so completely decentralized that it can't be controlled at all. I'm talking about small devices placed in key locations that broadcast and forward data at fairly low bandwidth. Because there is no future for the all-censorship-all-the-time Internet and it's not going to look like the one we have today.

What most pisses me off is that US tech companies are helping the Chinese enslave their own people. No ethics.
Also, https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
I'm generally aware of the shadiness, but lots of things have sordid origins, I don't think that's a definitive argument against it. Corruption in politics is unfortunately not exactly a rare occurrence here in the Iberian Peninsula.
That may all be true in this instance, but previously, executives have been executed for various things. The story I recall was some sort of fraud, but who knows what the real reason was. I don't have a reference handy unfortunately.
I think some reference is useful, here.

Agriculture is and will be much more land-intensive than solar.

I once calculated that the US could switch entirely to solar just on a fraction of the land that is currently used for ethanol production alone.

And what is a better place to put solar panels? In the desert or fertile arable land? Deserts contain life, of course, but the density of life and biodiversity per unit area is much smaller. Additionally, solar panels provide shade and, unlike agriculture, don't require intensive tilling, harvesting, irrigation, spreading of pesticides (natural or otherwise) or fertilizer and the runoff that causes. They mostly just sit there, maybe getting a cleaning every once in a while (but unlike concentrating/thermal solar, don't need to be cleaned super often).

Once the panels are placed, your desert tortoise can nestle in the convenient shade they provide.
"Just install Linux on it" means higher return rates due to all those people who didn't bother to read the specs. That might be more expensive to deal with than the $39 OEM Windows 10 Home license.
This is a HUGE problem here in the south. I moved from Arizona to Georgia in 2012 and the two things I noticed immediately are: There are hardly any sidewalks outside of the city (and people routinely are forced to walk on the side of the road), there are almost NO lit highways. Even major interstate highways that go through the heart of Atlanta aren't lit! Both of these strike me as enormous lawsuits waiting to happen.
I'm sure the Tesco, Sainsbury, Co-Op, and Waitrose in Torquay can handle card payments if you were really stuck.
> the country as a whole can't decide on the results it wants

Which will always be true of sufficiently large groups of humans. The more we insist that we all share common goals, the wider the schism between us becomes.
If the patents hold up (doubtful, but...) then this doesn't matter because the alternatives could just as well be infringing.
While I understand her frustration with the lack of sidewalk ramps, the article went on to describe other places her wheelchair cannot go - like small lips in doorways, or small branches.

Pavement cracks. It should be fixed, but that takes time and money. And able-bodied pedestrians are unlikely to report minor cracks. Shouldn't a $30,000 wheelchair be capable of traversing commonly encountered impediments? Cracks in pavement, small branches, doorway thresholds? The article states her wheelchair cannot. That seems like a major design flaw to me.
There have been overflow bugs, usually logic errors during subtraction.

I encourage the use of checked subtraction and addition to prevent these from becoming issues.
Closing all of the Nuclear power plants after Fukushima was a bit of a dumb reactionary move. It's shifted power generation from emission free Nuclear to dirty emission heavy coal, which emits more radioactive Uranium into the atmosphere than a Nuclear plant (or so I am led to believe).

It's basically paying lip-service to being environmentally friendly so that you can feel good about yourself while doing nothing productive. Kind of like having separate bins for recycling, green waste, and general rubbish in the home/office but in the end just emptying all of them into the same place.
Thanks for pointing this out, this did indeed fix the problem. Somewhere in the installation I had ended up with 1.1 but it works fine now.
>Pixelbook

Google will have tough luck registering this trademark in China
Depends on which species [0]. Elephants weight 3500-5900 kg[1], devide both numbers by 1100 to get 3.18-5.36 kg (7-11.8 pounds) and you have a simple interval-overlap search problem[2]. For example with dogs[3] the answer is a Japanese Chin[4]. So it should be "Google would be an elephant while DuckDuckGo is a ~~chihuahua~~ very small dog".

[0] http://www.metzerfarms.com/DuckBreedComparison.cfm the most common duck (mallard) is 0.72–1.58 kg, the most common farm duck is 2-2.5 kg, but certain breeds are close to the right interval.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heaviest_land_mammals

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4446112/search-for-inter...

[3] http://www.akc.org/content/dog-care/articles/breed-weight-ch...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Chin
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Actually, and this might be different where you live, but it's my understanding that shops don't really make any profit on cigarettes/alcohol/lottery tickets, and that they are only sold to entice you to buy other things (ie. if they didn't stock them, people would shop elsewhere).
> ￼Nobody wanted to filter that traffic because the pipes were less expensive than the routers to handle filtering packets at high pps rates

Situation is better nowadays, modern routers like Juniper's Trio-based MX platform do things like bogon filtering and reverse patch checks at line rate without performance impact.
wine's type should conform to a Stack protocol so you can pop champagne.
If consciousness is always present, but we don't show signs of it until ~5 months, maybe it's just that we need memories to understand the depths of our own thoughts? Like going from a 2D plane of the now to a 3D plane of the now, before, and after thus birthing more abstract thoughts such as cause and effect?
Is that a bad thing? As the chancellor for all of Germany, her job is to act in favor of as much of the population as possible.
>As an example take the entire stackexchange and wikipedia dumps in their entirety(including images).

>That's an rough approximation of all known human knowledge.

Are you taking the piss?
Judges managing the top tribunal are choosen from the main Spanish politic party. And also they are managing them to hide all their corrupt causes. Most of main Spanish gov are direct inheritors of Franco.
I prefer the counterpoint of "They laughed at Galileo, they laughed at Einstein, and they laughed at Bozo the Clown".
Just because one supports the referendum doesn't mean one supports anything else the Parliament of Catalonia is doing, though.
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But it does have the problem of how mind & matter interact.

Yes, that is where the magic is.
I buy them for anyone in my family that "just wants a laptop to browse the web", as they are fast, secure, cheap, and easy - with great battery life.
There was an episode on The Soprano (no mafia/pizza pun intended :-D) where Tony tried to visit a prostitute he was "in love" with.

She was not there, but her roommate, also a prostitute, from Russia (or an alike country I don't remember), with one fake leg, was.

As he was complaining how miserable he was, she starts lecturing him of how Americans people have stopped having real issues, or living in life threatening situations, and so they invents themselves new ones which looks ridiculous for people coming from less developed countries.

For me it's exactly that.

And don't get me wrong, I'm perfectly aware that there are people in deep trouble in America, homeless or not wealthy enough to treat nasty diseases right.

And this is a first world problem you can also witness in some European countries too. Or cities, not necessarily while countries.

It's like we, humans, cannot bare to go through life being just happy.
I hope this will be as cutting edge as 2015 Pixel LS (I own one, running vanilla Ubuntu): 16 GB RAM, awesome screen (2560x1700) especially good for coders because of 3:2 ratio, first laptop with USB Type-C charging, first laptop with 2 USB Type-C sockets and last but not least - design and build quality that I would argue is even better than that of Apple laptops.
> now cannot be significantly altered

And why should we? (as in: I consider car-friendly cities a bug, not a feature)
In this context — absolutely.
Alas, the worrying trend I see more and more lately that people start to have trouble seeing context of anything. Sometimes it can be amusing, sometimes it looks dangerous.
OK. The thing is there's nothing illegitimate in this case. Spanish authorities have full legitimacy. We are a standard democracy, integrated in EU and NATO since the eighties, our ellections are clean and our 1978 constitution was widely praised at the time for being a cornerstone of national reconcilliation.

The national government is held by PP, a right-wing party where a lot of corruption cases surfaced recently. There is much pressure about this, but the reality is that the prime minister was voted by a majority of parliament, so...

On the other hand, the referendum organizers voted it in an illegitimate regional parlament session. The regional president's party has been also corrupted to the roots. They
were trying to hide it all behind all this adventure.
Let's take a look here. The message being communicated was "google is much much larger than duckduckgo". Metaphor used carried that information. Communication achieved.

What's this about a goose and a mosquito? What's that adding to the communication? Seems pretty irrelevant.
Perhaps, but patents can be sold. Imagine a future Facebook sells the patents to BadTrollCo. Now you have two parties : the company that open sourced the thing (hence, perhaps didn't intend to sue people for infringement) and BadTrollCo that wants their pound of flesh.
There are a number of accounts of that sort of situation floating around the Internet; it's not necessary to acquire the scars personally. As to how we get into those situations, I suspect that the universal path would be an erroneous 'rm -rf' command affecting the /bin directory.

http://www.terminalinflection.com/negotiating-a-damaged-linux-filesystem-using-only-shell-builtins/
http://eusebeia.dyndns.org/bashcp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1212051
A coworker had one. IIRC she used it primarily for writing.
Fastest fix ever.