skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Google Brain Team's Approach to Research (Jeff Dean)
And indeed, turn out was pretty low
I wasn't referring to copyright laws. If someone in the "move bits from point A to point B" business wants to make it their responsibility to suppress activities that are legal, purely on ideological grounds, then they should also shoulder some responsibility for the activities they're facilitating that actually are illegal and actively harmful. I mean, priorities! Otherwise they should stick to moving bits from point A to point B, cooperating with lawful orders when required.
Sensitive topics need to be brought up substantively, or the conversation tends to degenerate into flamewars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Though secession surely would require a higher hurdle than normal parliamentary elections, for such momentous an election? These aren't normal elections,but the breakup of a major European state.
>One thing about wine I really enjoy is that there are so many different tastes available, and that tastes may vary by year.

Are there? You may be missing that not everyone even notices this enormous variation in taste[1]. For my part, all wines taste like sting-y grape juice, and most beers taste like empty sting. This persists after numerous wine/beer connoisseurs have insisted that I just need to try one more of this special brand, or insisted that each wine in a particular flight has a very different taste.

For that matter, perhaps you're just imagining the flavor variation and have tuned yourself to give the socially-correct answer?

Furthermore, there may be an unrecognized disagreement in the basic ontology of "liking" something. I know people who will swear up and down that they "like alcohol", but it turns out they only like it when it's heavily diluted with other, universally enjoyable flavors (e.g. sugar). In my book, that's not what liking something looks like.

See also this reddit thread, with numerous posters agreeing that all alcohols taste gross to them:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/2juncs/d...

[1] Important reading: "What universal human experiences are you missing out on without realizing it?" Punchline: people casually assume that all humans experience X, ground major beliefs on X, and turn out to be mistaken. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/17/what-universal-human-ex...
interesting. any source you could share?
Funny you mention Brexit.

https://thinkprogress.org/assange-catalonia-independence-0a8...

http://www.smh.com.au/world/on-catalan-independence-julian-a...

Seems to be modest pattern emerging.
a decent turnout?
It's a bit early to call both the Kurdish as well as the Catalan referenda 'succeeded'. The Kurds will face difficulties with Turkey and Iraq. The Catalans will have their very own set of problems, I don't think anything is decided right there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._White

When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State. The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final.

Similarly, Catalonians and the rest of Spaniards approved their Constitution in 1978, which states that matters like this shall be voted in national referendum, once approved by congress.
Here's a not-atypical example in which he:
(i) acknowledges the controversy surrounded his statements wouldn't use certain pronouns under any circumstances because they were Marxist
(ii) spends several paragraphs repeating this claim about Marxism, and lambasts his fellow professors for being Marxists (though you'll have to go elsewhere for his many arguments in favour of defunding the ones he thinks are dangerous revolutionaries)
(iii) concludes by arguing people don't have the right to
choose their preferred pronoun because multiple gender identities are harmful

Sure, he also expresses concern that his free speech might be constrained. But I don't think that anyone can argue in good faith that the thrust of that argument is channelling Voltaire rather than insisting that gender nonconformism is a Marxist plot.

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-the-right-to...

But yeah, I'm sure I'm straw-manning and really he's earned his recently notoriety and $50k per month on Patreon for having the same view on campus speech as the ACLU...
Voting in an election or referendum gives explicit support to the right of that referendum or election to exist, so I don't think your analogy holds.

I think the result should absolutely cause a second, officially sanctioned referendum, for what it's worth.
Over half of the population chose not to participate in an illegal vote that the police were lawfully shutting down. Clearly, it's only the supporters of independence who would be motivated to turn out anyway. People who respect the legal authority of the Spanish government all stayed home. This has no legitimacy.
well there was a routine earthquake drill the same day just hours beforehand.
This is completely misguided.

When you cook with wine you lose all the alcohol, which is the only constant between two bottles of wine. You're just left with the rest from which comes the taste.

There's no such thing as "cooking wine". Bad wine is bad wine. If you wouldn't drink it, don't cook with it.

That all being said, I personally think wine snobbery is basically bullshit and I think blind taste tests tend to support that view.

Still, a wine isn't bad because it's $5. Nor is it good because it's $30.

When I lived in the UK I'd often get by with the table wine from Tesco for under 5 pounds and honestly it was fine. I found quite a few decent bottles of Portugese and Chilean wine for under 10 pounds. Beaujolais wasn't more than 3-5 pounds.
You might setup a Trello board as your CRM:
https://trello.com/b/lrAIa0JW/sales-crm-pipeline
How I Built Emojitracker (2013)
> First and foremost, a PhD program trains one to become a professor.

You are grossly misinformed. PhDs programs are training for a career in research. Professorships are only one possible path... and just like you intuited, it's not even the dominant career path.
I think that the price is pretty high already for app store standards :)

And honestly, if you look at the app, a higher price would feel like a ripoff.
That manifold is a torus - you can walk in circles by walking West-East or North-South, each of which repeats every 1 distance unit. If you walk along the diagonal you get a repeating path every 1.4 distance units. All "great circle" paths (straight lines on a manifold) on a sphere repeat every 1 unit of distance.
>"What would you prefer them to do first: work on the follow up plan, or spend time writing a blog post about the follow up plan?"

This blog post was published a whole day after the outage. Also I never questioned anything regarding the lack of follow up plan. I was questioning why technical detail wasn't more forthcoming.

>"This is customer communication, not post mortem from engineering ..."

The customer comms and service status were posted on their Twitter account on the 29th.
"Muh russia" in Hackernews? Say it ain't so!
I think it’s more similar to the Scottish independence referendum than to Brexit.

Even if there was no good reason for independence to begin with, police violently trying to stop the referendum makes now the best argument for independence.

Edit: And I say that as a strong supporter of a tightly unified Europe with a single constitution, government and all.
They were trying to resist a violent crackdown, equivalent to trying to vote under military occupation. It’s a miracle any ballot was cast at all, not exactly the time for being picky on how it happened.

Without the crackdown, the vote could have been monitored by independent organisations, like it happens in modern democracy.
I think you're right just wanted to highlight that some seriously impressive tech was applied. Any suggestion that it was a exclusively Russia/Ukrainian team that did everything could be a distraction so that the whole issue can be lumped into the popular dialogue. I'm sure there was a Russian or two on the real team.
Just from looking at the list of libraries/frameworks/tech used, it seems like it was over-engineered. It was probably a fun project to work on, or maybe it was a good learning experience for the developer, but it seems like it's a wee bit too over-complicated. If someone wanted to release something like this to actual customers then I don't think you'd want to make it like that.

This is coming from someone who started out in the front-end with JS and SPAs. Why add in the responsiveness (and overhead) of a SPA when your users won't really notice the difference?
It was an illegal act, funded by public money. Had the government not acted, it would have set a bad precedent: that constitution doesn't hold weight in real life.
Real-time data is crucial to commercial publishing, and ads, and financial services, and costing serverless, and supply chain, and probably a whole bunch of other domains
Is anyone else getting a non-secure warning from chrome?
Any way to counter being electrocuted by overhanging wires in an earthquake?

Seems pretty hopeless
Weren’t they forced to do that due to blocking of precincts by Spanish police, though? That specific rule change makes sense in context.
I'm also all for democracy. And the Spanish government has handled the situation atrociously.

But the referendum is a joke. Both the way it was called, and how it has been conducted.

Furthermore, the result is impossible to believe given previous results in open elections.

A sad day for Spain and Catalonia.
The more resources that are dedicated to political churn (whether externally generated or intrinsically arising) in a country then the fewer resources that can be focused against those unfriendly to it.
Because an ad that makes people angry over a lie is 10 thousand times more effective than "buy our brand next time you shop". Why are we here commenting over a political story instead of about what toothpaste brand is best?
I'm not sure what you mean, could you elaborate?

The post says that for a torus, which is a product space of two (or more?) circles, we can analyze the the distance "along each circle" from a shared origin for a chosen basis. One circle is our "x" and the other is our "y". (Contrast with a plane and two lines.)

This seems reasonable if the objects we're looking to measure our distance to are expressed in terms of those circles as well, since this allows us to simply put a measure on each circle and get a distance formula for any two points that behaves the way we would like.
Integrity of national borders against infringement from outside is good because it prevents aggression. Separation within the borders can be violent or not; for instance, separation between Czech Republic and Slovakia was a slow and entirely peaceful process. Most of the time, though, there is a significant faction that does not want to let go of a part of "our land", even if they have no ties to it and never even visited it.
Clearly a ton of people supporting independence stayed at home to not get their heads bashed in by police and hired thugs. It evens out.
There's no need to argue via analogy.

Who gets to decide if the Principality of Hutt River (75 square kilometers, so larger than San Marino) can secede from Australia?

Only those who live there? Or can other Australians be involved?
The majority stay home for most elections, that says little.

Granted your argument would have more weight if say 10% of the population voted, but with 40+% of the population voting you need to accept many yes and no voters stayed home out of fear.

Or more widely if their where much doubt the government would have let a vote take place secure in the knowledge they had popular support.
The only time I have missed not getting a PhD was when lawyers have me explain to someone who has a PhD what I mean so that they can bring my testimony into an IP case by a more identifiable 'expert'.

That said, there is a particularly annoying type of PhD in the tech world, it is one who assumes that the person they are talking to who doesn't have a PhD, doesn't have that degree because they were incapable of getting it, rather than they simply didn't bother. That is, I suppose, human nature. It is always amusing when I encounter it because I know the person underestimates people.
So you’re saying that the Spanish government's violent authoritarian tactics backfired? Whoops, sucks for them. Maybe if they wanted all their supporters to turn out they shouldn’t have been violently beating and shooting people at the polling stations.

If the Spanish have any doubt as to the fact that the vast majority of Catalonians want to leave Spain, they can feel free to allow people to hold a referendum without attacking them this time.
Perhaps that's a point of failure in democracies as we have seen them implemented, in that a large group of people are sometimes beholden to a larger group of people with whom they don't identify.
Except for a brief period in 1600s, Catalonia was never a sovereign entity.

If it weren't for a Catalan language revival in the 20th century as a response to Franco's dictatorship, it's claim to independence from a historical perspective has even less weight than Venice's.
As I understand there wasn't even a 'no' campaign and the whole thing was created and run by the 'yes' campaign. Surprising they didn't get nearer 100% in those circumstances. (Police brutality by the Madrid government is a separate resigning issue.)
> You can also be a good, e.g., mechanical engineer without getting an engineering degree, but this is an exception to the rule.

That's an awfully incorrect analogy. Enrolling in a PhD program has absolutely nothing in common with getting an engineering degree. An engineering degree is conceived to give the students a pre-established set of skills and technical knowledge that meets industry demands.

A PhD program is set to help the PhD candidate research a very precise and specific topic, which more often than not is entirely irrelevant to any industry, so that in about 4 years he is able to produce some scientific findings and defend a thesis in front of a jury.

The key difference is that an engineering degree is tailored to teach marketable job skills while the PhD program is the exact opposite.
I feel a little bit disappointed with hacker news having this superficial and anti-analytical article in the front page.

As a Spaniard id like to address some points brought up here in the comments. I've read people comparing this with Crimea, thoughts on self determination, thoughts on the repression by the government, etc.

The first thing is to question the referendum itself: there was no census, there are people from Madrid voting, people voting twice, people inserting 4 votes at once, etc. The percentage of Catalan people voting this probably doesn't even get to 15%.
And the people how came to vote were the only the ones who believed this referendum was democratic (99.9% of people who want the independence).

Then there's the legitimacy of this referendum. In order to make this referendum, the catalan parliament approved new laws without majority and breaking the Catalan laws in a dictatorial disgraceful manner. 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.
If anybody recalls past dictatorships, many of them had these kind of referendums.

After knowing how this referendum was done and why it was illegal and anti democratic, I'd like to address the people who can't conceive liberty with rules.
Referendums on self determination are unconstitutional by law in Spain, I can agree on a change on the constitution. But to change the constitution in order to allow these referendums you need a national referendum, because your changing the constitution of all the country, not just Catalonia .

I will finally argue on self determination and try to clear some superficial comments I've read.

The first and impulsive thought all of us have is to think that everybody should decide about everything. But in reality, that extreme liberty can take on someone else's liberty.

If you allow catalonia to self determine their independence and then they do get independent, the next will be país vasco, then Galicia, then Madrid, and so on.
The problem with this is not that the country would disappear (I'm not very patriotic) the problem is you're creating extreme inequality by regions. If Madrid gets independent they become rich because they give a great percentage of their gdp to Spain in taxes. But andalucia or Extremadura would become extremely poor. If you have a little bit of socialistic view, you can understand this is wrong. It's against redistribution, against equality, against globalization, and pro-isolation, xenophobia and discrimination.

Also, Catalonia can never be compared with Scotland, their history is null in contrast. Their identity is as special as many other regions of spain.

[0]Here are some tweets on how the referendum was done:

Guy votes 4 times
https://twitter.com/key_opinions/status/914529367543382016

People voting
https://twitter.com/juanmalamet/status/914448261964029957

Fake census on a small town
https://twitter.com/yuyudecai/status/914577981812674566
I don't think Russia is the bogeyman you think it is.
Seeing threads like this makes me want to go back, and ask for forgiveness for all the occassions in which I strongly voiced an opinion in matters I had absolutely no background, and for which I was utterly unqualified to talk about.

Because it's clear that most people here have no clue about how Spanish constitution works, how it was ratified in 78/79, including Catalonia, what are the consequences of using public funding for illegal activities, including polling, and how states have a say in their whole, and each of their parts.

Lesson learned. I'm sorry.
I'd imagine you also noticed how sweet most tomato sauce is in the US! I don't make pizza much at home, but for pasta sauce I always make my own. I can't stand the store bought sauce.
No, I'm saying they got exactly what they wanted: the referendum is less meaningful than an online opinion poll.
> If a single party wants to dissolve the relationship, that is sufficient.

Interestingly enough you will find that this is not the case in all jurisdictions.
I'm out of my depth but I believe it's a torus because it's 2 cylinders, not circles?
This would have happened without the crackdown as well. That’s why a referendum often requires a quorum of voters: if the majority of people think it’s pointless, they don’t show up and the referendum is void.

But with the crackdown, now independentists can claim a moral victory as well as a vindication of their reasons, and they can even claim the missing voters could have been for them, because cleary it was unsafe for most people to show up regardless of political inclination.

Good job, Spanish government, you’ve just strengthened your enemies. This was phase 3 of the classic Gandhi quote.
I would say that the illegitimacy is on the part of the Spanish government and the police who used violence to prevent a peaceful political statement by the people.
Also there's lots of government researchers as well. The US has its NIH, FDA, CDC, DOE, USDA, and so on, and other countries have their own versions (if generally not quite as large).
What browser / internet speed / other diagnostics info?
Catalan goverment run this vote against all laws. There is no laws in Spain that allows such a vote. Catalan goverment has used the people only as a way to declare secession in next days.
+1 for ios.

In addition, it feels slower than regular HN. No actual benchmarks though.

Checking https://github.com/clintonwoo/hackernews-react-graphql/blob/... it might be on purpose though. Toggle code is commented.
Maybe a court should be deciding whether or not it is illegal, not the police. Again, my comment was about using the proper response to a given situation.

I don't think the use of public money for the illegal act necessarily sets a bad precedent. The constitution didn't say to go out there and spray rubber bullets at civilians. So how a government can respond to this illegal act is a subjective choice.

Spain could have chosen to use less authoritarian methods to deal with the consequences of this ballot without setting any precedents. It could have been declared unenforceable by a court, which is a more appropriate venue.
Really well done, and thanks for sharing on HN + sharing the source code. Very kind of you!
To be fair, when police are shutting down a not insignificant number of polling stations, it seems justified to allow people to vote at any polling station and not just the one that is potentially shut down.
> An illegal referendum that half the population either chose to or was forced to boycott does not have any legitimacy

I see it differently. I see a government suppressing the will of the people, then using low turnout due to government intimidation as a way to delegitimize the vote. There wouldn't even be a vote if a massive amount of people didn't disagree with the direction that their government was forcing them in.

If people can't separate peacefully, there will be many who try to do so violently.
Cataluña es España = good

Косово је Србија = bad
> but nobody likes a place that never gets sun

I take it you have not visited beautiful Scotland.
It's laudable that the likely end results are presented so clearly and early. Have you ever done a survey immediately afterwards to see how many students goals align with the likely outcomes? It seems like if a student is in that position where they were very successful at being a student for the prior 16 years and succeeded at getting into your graduate school that they might think they are the 1 in 8 - maybe all eight of them for a given eight.
The Chumby was a cool device (or rather, set of devices) for sure!

The common wisdom was that the introduction of the smartphone basically doomed it, but in retrospect you could look at it as something like a before-its-time Amazon Echo Show (which Google is supposedly making a competitor to right now as well)...

There appears to be modern market for this type of thing, though newer devices are certainly benefiting from everything that came along with the smartphone revolution like super cheap SoC packages, cheap high resolution displays, cheap capacitive panels, more mainline support for embedded devices in the form of modern Linux kernels, Android, etc.
I dare beating firemen for voting is more illegal than holding a vote itself, let alone attending/partaking in it. The use of violence by the state forfeits such claims and opens up an avenue for reciprocation by others, which is a terrible thing to enable all due to a vote.

>that constitution doesn't hold weight in real life

We will see what carries more weight, violence or paper.
If you are ideologically opposed to large and powerful nation states you'd almost categorically support breaking them into smaller states.
I don't thing those kind of PhDs really exist in significant numbers, especially in research. "Ya, that guy who just got that breakthrough in machine learning? He only has a master degree" is so common it's already normalized.
I prefer darktable's workflow to Rawtherapee's for organizing photos. I just wish it would quit crashing on OSX.
I suspect you don't know many Catalans. They are not cowed that easily and always ready to take to the streets. I saw a marvellous clip earlier of a white haired little old lady of about 90 going for the throat of one of the state stormtrooper wannabes