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> I’m just making the connection explicit.

You're making things up. Don't use 'common sense' and arguing by analogy for this: read actual behavioural science studies on driving instead. Or simply realise the difference between attention-grabbing as a distraction to your web using & as a signal to help you avoid killing yourself or others.

My anecdotal evidence is that I don;t have any problem with this, I learned to drive three times in three wildly-different automobile environments, and I find street signs extremely useful and easier to miss. Holy crap why are UK speed limit signs the size of a paper plate.
You can start at the beginning of VLSI revolution and read from the horses mouth 'Introduction to VLSI Systems'. If you are still serious about it get into MITs EECS.

Btw you ask about 4 almost totally separate areas(RTL UVM TB etc), only managers/execs/veterans/architects know the whole process from raw silicon to packaging.
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What's an "illegal" vote?
But you are not polling inmates, you are effectively polling wardens. How many wardens will poll to release the inmate their own jobs depend on? None.

Independentism is always a thorny subject, because most justification ends up being defined ex post. It’s like “resistance” movements against lawful but tyrannical governments: if they succeed they will be freedom fighters, if they fail they’ll be brigands and terrorists. Usually the threshold for legitimacy is overwhelming support from the population, something that happens sporadically (it happened in Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Kossovo, almost in Scotland, and of course in post-soviet republics all over the old federation). But once popular support is somehow made manifest, then the Wilson doctrine must be allowed to set the agenda.
Several people and they provided pictures and testimony. There are more facts, like that the organization changed the methods 15m before starting and lost internet access and had to resort to writing people's names manually without checks are not even disputed by the Catalan authorities. They breached ~50% of their own electoral law, that they made up for this event alone. You are not going to find a statistical study of the elections, obviously. But nobody who was watching impartially has any doubts as to the fraud guarantees.
Recognizing manipulation is one thing, but doing something to help the issue is another. Most of the ease of propaganda is due to social media. Even if we enact some sort of digital isolationism, that would be trivial to bypass due to proxies and government hacking.

The sites themselves(Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc) could change the algorithms to emphasize local community formation instead of focusing on more national news, but if that doesn't maximize revenue for them, then they likely wouldn't do it. Plus propaganda could still be spread on a more local scale. On top of that, the idea of these social media corporations manipulating whose stories and meetings can and can't be spread is off-putting to me.

I believe this issue is here to stay. If anything is to be done, then maybe the government should be transparent about the issue and try to emphasize social harmony.

Or perhaps the whole Russia pivot is just an attempt to push people into social harmony. I personally haven't seen any direct proof of Russia's involvement. It's just the government that claims it's occurring.
Ok, it's part of customer comms. I still don't think expecting full post mortem right now makes sense.
As far as I can tell, the point is that there was NO actual reason why they hated him apart from they didn't know him. Once they knew him, they didn't hate him.

The ones that changed their point of view, eventually just realised they had no remaining reason to hate him. And by extension it was irrational to automatically hate every other black person they didn't know yet.

It was his attempts to understand them, that helped some of them understand him. As he points out though, there were plenty of klan members that this didn't work out with though.

It obviously takes some level of self awareness/reflection to change your mind like that.
Why did the national government respond with personnel at all?

If the national law, which all the states voted on in merely 1978, didn't allow for any state to unilaterally declare independence and this was deemed illegal and pointless, then why did they send police to enforce that, if it doesn't matter?
Just flat-out racist…
The 90% is plausible, since only the people voting yes were mobilized. What is doubtful is the 40% participation. What there's no doubt about is that it's not representative of the general population and there weren't enough guarantees to take the result seriously.
I first learned of the existence of the Green Book thanks to Matt Ruff's "Lovecraft Country", which features a similar work called the "Safe Negro Travel Guide": http://www.bymattruff.com/my-novels/lovecraft-country/a-read...
The reply functionality seems to be a bit broken. Currently when I try to reply to someone using the clone it replies to a totally irrelevant post..
If you're running case management for a large corporation with tight SLA's - you by definition need real time analytics.

Similarly for if you're tracking outages, downtime, etc.

If setting up notifications is "real-time analytics" I need to rewrite parts of my resume.
The smaller the better.

Given the US perspective of polarized politics, how does it make sense that the strongly-held beliefs of one portion of the voting citizens should be foisted upon the remainder of the entire population?

Smaller government is more responsive to the local conditions and culture than is large government. And the inevitable abuses of the state against the citizenry will be limited in scope.
Context: I have been to Techcrunch Disrupt a few times (free both times) and have friends whose companies were in startup alley.

The answer to this is relative to the time and cost inputs. If you are a small company and bootstrapping, then no, it's unlikely to be worth it. Better to skip the table and just hustle to meet press/investors/other startups, since $2k can go a long way elsewhere.

My advice is to go to the hackathon the weekend before and build "something" with your cofounder (presuming you have one). This should* get you two free tickets to the conference.

Someone else here mentioned that if you sell to startups it might be worth it - I'd probably agree with that as an exception if you aren't already based in the Bay Area.

* You would have to confirm that Techcrunch are still offering this. They're usually pretty quiet about it (for obvious reasons) but I've used this method both times I went (for free).
Despite all the emotion and opinions about Catalonia, what you said is absurdly stupid.

These are protesters being whacked with bats and shot by rubber bullets, with no reported deaths yet. Saddam killed 5000 people with mustard gas, and the current day Iraqi government employs summary executions against accused ISIS members. They are universes apart.
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This is why to solve the Facebook / social media silo problem, we really need to solve the web identity problem.

The solution needs to allow identities which are "register once, use anywhere" across the web, and portable so that you can migrate to a different identity host/provider/implementation without losing all your accounts. Ideally these identities would also allow you to reveal as much or as little information about yourself as you want, and not force you to reveal some unique property which is correlatable between colluding sites.

Obviously that's not an easy thing to create, and may actually be harder than creating a viable rival to Facebook, but if we don't solve the web ID problem, then governments and corporations are going to "solve" it force us, and we'll all be the worse as a result.
According to qualys (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.sddc.army...), that site uses an untrusted certificate.
If only one side participates, the match is called off - you don't get to kick the ball into an empty goal and call yourself the league champion, however much you want to play. (FWIW I think the Spanish government have behaved like complete shits and should resign, and the independence movement heads are mostly a mix of opportunists and useful idiots, already trading off the blood of well-intentioned and reasonable Catalans, of whom I know many.)
I tend to agree. But I do see a problem with political systems such as the one in the US that allows injustices like slavery or racial segregation to go on as long as they did. there is a real issue with minority groups being disenfranchised by representative democracy.
The Spanish government and courts said that it was illegal for the Catalan regional government to run this referendum. That's what makes it illegal. You may very well feel that is morally wrong, but that has no bearing on legality.
It's using the magic of Google Slides if you can believe it. They have a lot of nice information modeling shapes.
> This referendum is illegal and unconstitutional. There are millions of public money and public space used in order to carry on with "crime of sedition", using the political force against the law in order to rebel against the institutions.

Since the referendum doesn't have any legal force anyway, why did your government send out cops to use force to keep people away from the polls?
I absolutely agree, the rhetoric here is unscrupulous. Voting is basic freedom of speech. Whether the vote compels anybody to anything is a whole different story.
It's also not impossible to become a professor without a PhD. That doesn't make PhD programs useless for that purpose, as long as they make that career path easier to attain.
Why the need to "lawfully shut down" a vote with force? Why can't Spain just… ignore the results?
I've heard of Highrise (came out of 37signals) and Salesforce (because they put their name on buildings in many major cities)
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> When it comes to pedestrian safety, the only EU country with a record that can match Romania's is Latvia

The roads in Latvia are OK, but they have (signal-controlled) pedestrian crossings on 60 mph highways… and uncontrolled ones on 40-50 mph.
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While I don't want to belittle this accomplishment. The magic of Hacker News is the community that is on it. As a piece of technology NH isn't all that impressive.

This kind of feels a little over-engineered.

Edit: To downvoters, care to explain why I am wrong?

The project is extremely well done. It is impressive in its documentation and execution. But in the real world done, launched, and with traction is more important than being well engineered. The existing implementations of upvote style sites work just fine.

When Digg.com -- one of the first upvote style boards to go mainstream -- launched in 2004 dozens of copy cats came up. Few succeeded. Why? Community.

Also, we are moving away from the decentralized web, unfortunately. For instance, few people run their own Wordpress blog now. Most use Blogger or Medium. I don't see how projects like this fit in in that world.

Now, if rather than be a HN clone he added the ability for people to create and moderate their own boards. That would get my upvote.
I don't think ZFS has patent issues, I think the issue is that it has a BSD-like license, and it's too free for the linux people. BTRFS just isn't good enough. I'm waiting for bcachefs.
Perfectly right. But I fear that the opposition of the spanish government to a well organized referendum leaves us with this second rate opinion poll as the best we can get: 90% for yes, with 40% turnout.

Pretty bad managed by Spain.
I am sorry, but your gut feeling of why you think this is over engineered is not an argument.
Hm, I think the article got that wrong -- Wikipedia seems to suggest that it's a lesser indicator [1]. If you don't have access to that PROP chemical they mentioned, an easier test is tonic water. Does it taste extremely bitter to you? For me (someone who has a lot of the features of a supertaster), tonic water is a nightmare.

If anything, your experience seems opposite of what supertasters experience, which is that certain chemicals overpower and blot out the normal flavor that others experience, especially with alcohol.

[1] "The cause of this heightened [taste] response is unknown, although it is thought to be related to the presence of the TAS2R38 gene, the ability to taste PROP and PTC, and, at least in part, due to an increased number of fungiform papillae." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster#Cause
The only two autonomous communities I could see leaving are Catalonia and Basque Country. Madrid, despite being rich, has many more privileges than Catalonia.

What makes you think less than 15% of people voted? Did you by any chance get these numbers from the extremely objective and impartial newspapers abc, el mundo, or la razon?

I don't feel like arguing at 3am, so I will leave it at that, but reading things like our history is null makes me pretty sad.
Or Brave with Block Scripts set in lion menu - or NoScript on another browser, or Safari reader mode.
Pretty difficult since a unilateral declaration of independence is due in the coming days / weeks.
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This kind of influence doesn't have to be obviously coherent, rational, or consistent. It happens in bulk, and it is to the benefit of influencers if it appears to be human, fallible, inconsistent, and organic while still driving toward a goal. Supporting black activism could be 98% off target w.r.t. propaganda goals, and still be useful to a comprehensive program of political influence. Similarly, you will find everything from 100% fictional goofball pizza parlor child abuse wild-ass rumors to completely objective statistically valid pieces in RT and in Russian influence campaigns.
A little out of date now on point 9 but otherwise not unreasonable as far as I can see - https://medium.com/@tripu/referendum-e53331ddf841
I don't think what was said is "absurdly stupid".

Compare the actions of the Iraqi central government to the Kurdistan independence referendum vs. the actions of the Spanish central government to the Catalonia referendum, the two votes occurring roughly one week apart. In both cases the central government considered the vote to be illegal. The Iraqi central government, despite declaring the vote to be illegal, took no physical steps to prevent it. The Spanish central government turned to violent repression. So, rather than absurdly stupid, the comparison is quite accurate – in this particular case, the Spanish government behaved far worse than the Iraqi one did – and stuff that Saddam did (nothing to do with the actions of the current Iraqi government which is controlled by anti-Saddam forces), or stuff that the current Iraqi government does to ISIS fighters (summary executions are abhorrent, but nothing to do with the Kurdish independence vote) are just irrelevancies.
Right, this is what completely baffles me. I haven't seen reasoning yet given in the news outlets. The only "logical" reason I can think of is the Spanish government thinks beating people queued in a line in the age of sousveillance is preferable to the outcome of a legitimate vote on this topic being made known.
Is it really a gut feeling when Hacker News itself does not use hardly any of those technologies?
The length of that is the same as doing it in any other language, it's just that the ways to do it aren't built into the language. You could eschew a lot of these things, but you'd just end up building them yourself.

Flow? Unfortunate that it's a separate thing but it gets types which will relieve most programmers.

Yarn? .NET has Nuget, Ruby has Gem, Go has dep, etc.

Passport? I sure as hell don't want to do authentication all on my own.

Jest? I mean, you don't have to test but everyone should.
Sioux Chef! Perfect name for a Native American restaurant.
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> and lambasts his fellow professors for being Marxists

I suspect You're employing a little slight of hand here that reads like he's shouting "marxist!" at all professors rather than some professors, that is, the professors who he claims promote that ideology. If he suspects that some professors have that aim, he's entitled to call out what he sees without people painting it like he's screaming at shadows.

We could argue around in circles about this, although I think we might agree on what we're debating.

- He argues that using non-traditional gender pronouns is road to gulags. (paraphrasing your first comment)

vs

- He argues that compelling speech through policy is a road to gulags, and the noun issue at hand happens to be a vehicle in this particular instance.

I'm not saying that I agree with his thoughts on the nouns in question, but it seems that your focus is the hill he chose to stand on, whereas I'd argue that it's important that people stand on hills when it comes to laws that compel speech.

When you say that he argues that people don't have the right to choose their own nouns, I think it's lacking context from his lectures.
He explains in his talks that he sees rights as something that become the responsibilities of other people. So in essence here he's simply repeating his assertion that his speech, and therefore his thoughts (if you accept his premise that control of speech is a tool to shape thought), shouldn't be compelled by demands of other people to control speech via policy.

I'd concede that it's not the readers fault that the context is lacking in the writing, and that leaves it open for you to reasonably argue that he didn't make that statement with this context in mind. Anecdotally from watching hours of interviews and lectures, I'd make a claim that the context is important.
It depends. It worked for Pied Piper.
I personally feel that you raise a good question. I believe that the US is much closer to civil war than most realize, and the government is trying to prevent it by lowering fuel and grain prices, spurring economic growth without hurting the lower class anymore, and creating a common enemy(Russia). I know the only ones claiming Russian involvement is the US government and media.

However, I don't think it's a bad thing. Despite our issues, civil war would be a terrible, horrid occurrence.
99% Invisible did a good episode about the Green Book. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-green-book/
Who cares? Ignore the results, challenge them in court. Sending in police to beat people for writing on slips of paper is fascism in its purest form.
as extreme as he is, he usually is right when it comes to IP, privacy, etc.
Many writers try to span America’s political divide
The catalan government is full of opportunists - like every government - rightly implementing the wishes of the overwhelming majority of catalans: a democratic referendum.
My question is a little different: whose to say they weren't just on a VPN on Twitter instead? It's not entirely impossible.
While you're there, why not speculate that Russia spreads rumours that US government does black flagging?

Anyway, no-one really cares about Russia. Russia cares about the USA in the same way someone is envious about their rich successful cousin.
Something u can build in a coffee shop with your computer doesn't sound exciting enough to me. Maybe it was exciting 10 years ago, but building a website/app/service is commodity now, it is not special at all.
Wasn’t bison a huge part of Native American food though? I haven’t seen it represented at any Mexican or Central American restaurant I’ve been to.
Nice try but not at all: governments come and go while cultures have a much longer lifetime. Witness "grim and gloomy" russians under prescriptive eternally optimistic communist dictatorship.
I think those folks that downvoted my comment had a different idea and, perhaps, felt it's too close to home for comfort.
Here's the original tweet, instead of a retweet:

https://twitter.com/Excelsior/status/913961924181630976
No, people who are afraid for their own economic circumstances and safety are responsible for that reputation. Pretending that the problem is a few vague high status racist talking heads that have the masses brainwashed is just a scapegoat for the reality that by in large we're nimbys and aren't as charitable as we believe we are.

I can sit at my desk and post empathetic tweets that loudly proclaim my support for refugees safe in the knowledge that either way the situation won't affect my life in the slightest. I haven't been tested -- and so I'm reluctant to throw stones at the people who have because I'm can't say whether I would pass myself.
Generally really good points. However one great use of realtime analytics is as a way to immediately catch production errors (particularly when connected to alarms, e.g. Splunk).

My thought is that realtime amazing systems as discussed can be an exceedingly difficult engineering problem or a trivial business problem (use google or another hosted solution).

Personally, any engineer who would try to reinvent the wheel on this one (rather than leverage any of the many incredibly refined existing technologies) should not serve in a decision-making capacity.
Yes, we all remember the time Hungary and Czechoslovakia behaved illegally. Quite right that the Soviets lawfully, according to their own laws, shut that down.
Sampling can be really bad for web analytics. Take Google Analytics for starters. It heavily samples above a certain threshold of hits. At more granular drill downs, certain reports are at best unusable even directionally and at worst are misleading. Small efforts get lost in the noise of the rest of the data and often show up as zero values.
This to me is essentially eternal political debate between the collective vs. the individual. Do we "put down" the individual in order to promote the well-being of the collective (read tyrannical majority rule) or do we value the rights of the individual regardless of they impact the collective? I am personally on the side of the latter.

Secession is by definition a break out from the collective. So considering what the collective wants seems to me like asking the majority to vote for their tyrannical interest (very biased way of doing things).
The difference between politics in theory and politics in practice is how legal decisions are applied.

Sending in the riot police to enforce the ban made the Spanish government look weak and fearful.

In all actuality, they could have just said "Sure, vote. The results won't be legal."
See https://medium.com/@tripu/referendum-e53331ddf841
You lost me at "Musk is the only one who really seems to be "walking the walk"", which is inconsistent with the rest of your theory, but luckily for you that was the last sentence. :)

It's clear Musk is also interested in consolidation and expansion of his empire, probably one day under X.com brand, but I guess since he is good at working on his fan base and talking about imaginary ideas, he should be treated differently than Larry Page or Jeff Bezos.

When you think about it from another perspective (playing devil's advocate here for the sake of illustration), SpaceX is not about going to Mars, it's just another satellite launching business working its underpaid employees 80-hour-weeks with that line; SolarCity was just another put solar panel on your roof business you see a ton of in Costco without any clear differentiation (how about "unmerging" that too, by the way?) Heck, look at Tesla "Autopilot", nothing but a joke.

If what Musk does is Good, I like to point out Larry Page's company had a self-driving car project since ages ago; they tried doing breakthrough work on life sciences, and a lot of other things. Perhaps Larry Page should have dated Hollywood actresses all-year-long to get more positive press coverage.

The point is, yes, there are pros and cons. And you basically agreed to the parent post's when you brought up Musk's example.