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If Rajoy had really wanted to fix the "Catalan problem", he'd have called the bluff of the referendum the first time around, like Cameron did in Scotland, the vote would have been a very clear "No", and that would have been it.

Instead, here we are. Yes, this is very much the PP's fault.

And absolutely, the Catalan politicians are another bunch of disgusting corrupt agitators, who will also benefit from the tension and violence. They are also loving it. They literally couldn't have hoped for a better outcome.

I was merely answering the question of "Why is the Spanish government acting in such a stupid way?"

Oh, and I'm afraid your "commie-dar" is a bit misaligned.
problem is, having unimpeded speech online requires being harbored by private companies, as there really isn't much in terms of government-managed domains, government-managed DDoS protection, etc
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The intention was to stimulate discussions on startups that could challenge all 3, even if individually, in one topic; not necessarily one startup that challenges all 3. I've revised the title to a plurality.

But I don't see why there couldn't be a search, social, and shopping startup. Success is not necessarily taking dominant market share.
Everyone knows it, no matter how gifted you are chances of your discovering something important is same as any random guy discovering something equally important, i.e., mostly random.

You limit access to the data, you limit ability of others to make an important discovery. Status quo won't offer free access to this data because it apparently reduces their importance.
I'm a fan of declarative (eg. logic) programming but how is XSLT declarative when Java and XML isn't? XSLT has been proven Turing-complete a long time ago (eg. [1]), and if anything, is functional, being derived from DSSSL/Scheme up to the XML syntax.

[1]: http://conferences.idealliance.org/extreme/html/2004/Kepser0...).
Is this related to glitch.com?
Ask HN: Best podcasts out there?
My current list includes:

- Startup
- Reply All
- Freakonomics Radio
- Serial

Any good 'uns I missed? Not necessarily tech-related.
> when one reads a real book about real world history, does it look more like git log history of a repo which has been using rebase, or merge?

This is a bizarre analogy. History books are a record of things that happened in the world's timeline, which is in fact linear. Source control is a record of things which happened in the timeline of development, which is typically branched.

Imagine a history book from some terrifying PKD-esque sci-fi universe where timelines branch and re-converge. Does that look more like git log history of a repo which has been using rebase, or merge?
The sovereignty of Spain falls on all Spanish citizens. The sovereignty of Catalonia falls on theirs (if they wish so).
I didn't know it was called "Half-Tile", but Treyarch's Spiderman 2 used this approach (I think it was called "bricks" internally) to stream the game.

So when Spidey was speeding up to some direction, I think it was three bricks that would start asynchronously loading, and others would get cancelled (say CancelIoEx on Windows/etc.)
Clearly, identities (Catalan, Spanish, religious, atheist, ...) are very much layered, personal, and they fluctuate with time. How to reinvent the nation state (whether the Catalan, the Spanish or any other one) to take that into account seems to be a largely unanswered question.

Any good reading recommendations on that? Surely, there must be creative solutions! Maybe information technology can even help technically underpin progress in this area?

P.S. Good luck to all the Spanish and Catalan people that treat their neighbours with respect. I hope for a peaceful solution.
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I think you both missed that; it's about the arrangement of world chunks, not about the arrangement of tiles within those world chunks.
> Also you need wide spaces between buildings to have light at ground level.

Yes, and much better to have that wide space provided by parks or natural land than a drab eyesore like roads, no?
If you allow anyone to declare independence then Europe might split back apart into hundreds of small provinces. For example, there were times when major Greek and Italian cities were independent states, what if they will want to return back to that time? In this case an external enemy will conquer those small states one by one like Pacman eats dots.
Depends on where you draw the line of what is a democracy.

Sweden was certainly on the way towards it. There were elections and the parliament was pretty powerful (though less powerful than today. But that change happened in '72, and you'd be hard pressed to claim Sweden wasn't democratic before that). Votes were still weighted towards the rich, and women couldn't normally vote yet, though.
That's a good rule, and a correct deduction from it. However, it's not new to Docker workflows - you shouldn't build a good old fashioned binary per environment either!
Still selling overpriced broadcast hardware of course and trying as hard as they can to make sure software can't enter their market.
Yes. Twinjet airliners must be able to take off if one engine fails at or after V1.
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There is no flaw.

If a group of people doesn't want to be governed by a certain body they should have the right to secede.

A government derives it's right to rule by the people accepting this rule.

Obviously this is a really hard problem and it opens up the door for all kind of abuses, but ultimately democracy demands that. Democracy first needs a demos. A group of people who feel connected by whatever reason they like and agree to form a community. If the borders of the community are not drawn by the community itself, it's not democratic. Just look at all the wars being fought about borders which were drawn by colonial forces and didn't respect the locals.

In this I also see the power of parliament's and federal states - even if your vote don't win the election, you are still represented in parliament and you have the local gov. Without that, it would be hard to keep regions where a majority voted different than the whole nations majority.

Globalism, neo-liberalism, individualism - all that severely reduced the solidarity people have which each other. The internet then connected us with people that we share much more with than just area. All nations, democracy as a whole will have to face this tremendous challenge. And I have no idea how.
Afaik the Catalonian separatist movement is a lot larger than the Scottish one, fueled by the last financial crisis.

I strongly doubt the UK can claim moral superiority above Spain.
It is, but the point of the project wasn't to create yet-another-markdown-editor, it was so I could play around with WebRTC and get two browsers talking to each other directly. I used Markdown just so documents wouldn't be plain text.
The problem is how you determine the entity that should have a right to such a vote.

There are many wealthy regions in many countries that may want to keep all their money for themselves in spite of the fact that their wealth is based on its historical role within the country as a whole.

For instance, London has a lot of reasons to declare itself independent from the UK. But it would seem rather odd if all it took to secede was a simple majority of people who currently have a London postcode.
The pro-Spain arguments here in this post are really poor. The only two good arguments that on their face are worth looking at are: Catalan's pop is evenly split on the issue and local officials are pushing it to gain power.

Spain was baited-they took it, and now Catalan's secession movement has international sympathy.

For abit of context of how something this is handled here in America. In 2015 the US Supreme Court temporary blocked a Native Hawaiian non-profit from counting votes in what lower courts called a private election (that the Supreme Court said used public funds granted to that non-profit). The issue plaintiffs were suing the non-profit over was it was excluded only to what they considered 'Native Hawaiians'. They wanted to establish a Constitution for Native Hawaiians for self governance.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-supreme-court-block...

http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/08/29/15...

The organization later dissolved from what I read in the Supreme Court's opinion on sanctions. I had trouble finding more info on it. From what I can tell the courts barely cared except for the issue of using public money for a racially exclusive election. This story reminded me of it so I thought it would add to the debate.
Does it download the videos themselves onto your local mac or does it stream them like the AppleTV does ?
Wow yeah now it all makes sense actually.

Spain's actions in all of this seemed completely bizarre to me. They could have diffused the situation so easily. They did the one thing that makes it all worse.

But yeah, once you realize that Spain is ruled by a nationalist party that wants conflict and violence to maintain power.. this all must seem like a gift from heaven for them.
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The Mindful Geek (http://a.co/egwKvoo) could be a good starting point for the HN crowd. I'm about halfway through it and I enjoy the no-frills explanations of various meditation techniques.

In my experience, the most difficult part is keeping the practice in my daily routine. Just like with exercise, it's easier to absorb it into your lifestyle if you have a coach or a group of people with which you regularly train.
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Content-addressing doesn't alleviate the problem 100%, since content can still fall off the network - but it improves the structure of the network in a way that makes it tremendously easier to keep content around. You don't need control over the original domain name to help in distributing a certain piece of content.

My colleague Matt addressed this beautifully in a recent talk at the NSDR Symposium: https://archive.org/download/ndsr-dc-2017/04_Speaker_3_Matt_...

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Let me play whataboutism. Cannot we say that in this case the independence of Kosovo should be decided by all citizens of Serbia (who are against it)? And independence of ex-soviet satellite countries should be decided by all citizens of ex-USSR which means they have to return back to Mother Russia?
I've tried it out and it appears to stream them, however, there's an option to cache the videos locally.
No worries. Faster browsers just mean that web developers can put more stuff in web pages, so everything will be back to normal.
I can’t tell if you’re joking with the app or not.

If you’re good enough to meditate around the app, you don’t need any help from the app to start!
Again, no. The article cites Cloudflare and points to their statement on why they terminated DS. You can find that here:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
Same hear, Nissan 350Z scrapes most speed bumps even going as slow as is possible.

Also, they don't work for a lot of cars - I see lots of cars (presumably without stiff suspension) fly over the things at quite high speed. It seems that at certain high speeds, if you straddle them just right, you don't have to slow down at all.
I wonder how far before contact because some of the placements don't jive with what I was taught as a youth.

For the current map of Federally recognized tribes in the US: https://www.nps.gov/nagpra/DOCUMENTS/ResMAP.HTM or https://www.blm.gov/cadastral/biamaps/biaoffices.htm
And yet here we are..
UNHCR already give cash directly to registered refugees:

"For the individual refugee, it also empowers them by giving them the choice over how to meet their most immediate needs. Freed from having to queue or travel to receive one-size-fits-all aid, people can buy their own food, fuel, clothes, medicine or pay the rent based on their personal priorities. In this way, refugees contribute directly to local economies and foster positive relations with host communities."

http://www.unhcr.org/uk/news/briefing/2016/12/5853b3ed4/unhc...
> It's things like that story that make me think humans are going to be in the loop for a long time still and that AI taking over the world is still a long ways away.

I've found that the world continues to turn contingent on tremendous amount of what I call "dark wisdom" - crucial pieces of knowledge not found in any server, spec sheet, or manual. Usually inside the noggin of one or a few people. It just seems like a consequence of maintaining complex systems. In order for AI to fully take over, it would have to control and account for every corner case of every system, from mining the ore, to fabbing chips, to replacing wires chewed by rodents.
what do you mean by "get triggered"? if someone downvotes trashtalk, does it necessarily mean they "got triggered"? are there other explanations?
.... Only if it's meant to be a pointer. Don't just make everything a pointer.
It might be easier to find out, if rigorous research into psychedelics weren't so arbitrarily difficult compared to other medicines.
Called it in the Daily Stormer thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15032517

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15032956
This is such an interesting topic and so hard to draw the line the right spot. The biggest question is always "Who gets to say?". If you leave it up to whoever is in charge right now, they have all the power. Slippery slope and all that...

I've come to the (current) belief that these idiots have the right to free speech even if I hate it. Outlawing it won't stop their bigotry, just take it underground and give them another thing to blame on the "bad" people.

I also think although they should be able to have their rallies and websites, we also have free speech to identify and make public their identities and call their families and employers and ask them if they support these ideas too. Some people at Charlottesville were dumb founded when they got fired. I think this approach does a better job of saying this line of thinking is not accepted here but maintaining people's right to free speech. I also personally believe you aren't going hate by yelling at people that they are dumb. Cliche but you only stop hate with love and familiarity.

I also think there is a topic in this discussion that doesn't get enough mention. I personally feel this issue is as much an economic one as ideological. People don't have jobs and Trump's platform gives them someone to blame. It is the immigrants who stole your jobs and we are going to bring all the jobs back to the US. We need a wall to keep out all these "bad" people. We are going to do everything America first. This rhetoric give people a pass. People who feel they have nothing left to lose are dangerous. Even more so when someone else is giving them a target to blame.
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we don't arrest and convict people for thoughts

If whether they're getting arrested is your concern, there's no need to worry. Simply being a white supremacist doesn't get you arrested. Though it looks to me like the thread started over the question of what sort of non-government concession a tolerant society owes to white supremacists and the like.
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No it's not. Does it sound so?
> Europe, as we know it, is a set of "large" nation-states that made enormous contributions to humankind. These contributions wouldn't have been possible if Europe was a number of small fragmented states with their own languages and customs.

Even if that were true - and I don't see any evidence from you - how does it back up your claim that there wouldn't be much left of Europe if Europeans had more control over their own local affairs?

> How do you equal shooting rubber bullets to "potential killing of civilians"?

Because I know what rubber bullets are, and what they can do. Whereas you appear to have no idea.
This can be broadened: stupid patents are dragging down the US economy.
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Remote data works just fine. CxJS grid exposes sort information which can be combined with filters and pagination to get data from the server.

https://docs.cxjs.io/examples/grid/pagination
Yes, the same winning side. Ho Chi Minh did not want to be as cut throat as the guy ( forget his name ) who outmaneuvered Minh to take control of running the war versus the US. (According to the episodes of the PBS doc I have seen so far).
Not just new layout signs - we seem to be bombarded with signs!

Seriously, some places there are just so many signs that you couldn't possibly take in the information they provide in time. And the majority of the information they provide isn't useful.

One of the things I hate the most are the digital signs that are springing up everywhere. These things are expensive, and >99% of the time they are distracting me with pointless messages about watching my speed, not drinking and driving, not driving while tired etc. Such a waste, and surely causing more harm than good.
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I appreciate the effort and think it's a good idea in that it tries to help people remember that this wasn't a barren empty land before European settlers arrived.

That said, I think the NPR article overstates the quality of the map. I can't speak with any authority about any Native American tribes outside the upper Great Lakes, but the map understates the extent of both the Odawa and Potawatomi tribes, and fails to recognize the relationship among those tribes by, e.g., failing to list the Odawa name for the Odawa (Nishnaabeg), which would clearly mark them as closely related ethnolinguistically to the Ojibwe.
One very important vector for adoption that often gets overlooked is interoperability. The cost of adoption can be significantly reduced by making sure the new thing nicely interoperates with the existing deployments. We're attempting to do this well with IPFS and libp2p.
Donate money. A dollar goes a long way there.
Dear god man please go read some more on the topic. You’re embarrassing yourself.
It doesn't seem fair to use the rate of injury during an emergency evacuation as a measure of what could be achieved with the same slides under non-emergency conditions.
The letters represent locations on a QWERTY keyboard. If you draw out one "word" at a time, you get patterns that look (... if you squint a little) like T X C C.
What the comment says: "Puerto Ricans are US citizens so as long as they know English ... it's relatively easy"

What you think the comment says: "Puerto Ricans are US citizens as long as they know English"
You don't understand. Good programmer can write in Fortran in any language.
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Sure. But even so, the search results are terrible. Gorrila slots?
No. And I don't think any US state would seriously contemplate secession today however polarized politics are.

That said, if any state or group of states did overwhelmingly want to breakaway from the US, it seems unlikely that there would be meaningful support for the federal government to go to war to stop them.
It's basically a meme referencing the "good old days" of traditional gender expression. It's usually used with some amount of irony or sarcasm, but occasionally in earnest. I think the classic phrase was "when men were gentlemen and women were ladies", but in geek circles it's probably better known from Douglas Adams's riff on it:

"In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri."

edit: it also occurs to me that "real men" was probably somewhat (re-)popularized by the 1982 book "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche", which was poking fun at rigid and nonsensical concepts of masculinity, but a lot of people use the pattern of "real men don't X" very seriously.
I'd be curious to hear a rebuttal to this article I read the other week criticizing Social Capital / SPACs by someone more knowledgeable about this field than me: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-15/icos-vcs-...
A company that can distribute very mentally elastic quick learning biped robots that respond to voice driven learning.
Through no fault of its own, this is a very American-centric view of early computing. I'm pretty sure that at the time this was written, the story of COLOSSUS was still highly classified by the British government. It has since been declassified, and you might read about it in this book [1].

1: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199578141
I know, but it's the history of the person I'm looking at. Monero could well have weaknesses. That's why I don't rely on it. In fact, I know it has weaknesses. Monero's problem is they do not adequately tell people how to use it safely. The marketing is all about how Monero is safe, not about its limitation. Dangerous game for them to play.

It's not about rolling own crypto. My understanding is that zcash is more risky due to the newer concepts involved.

This is all theoretical right now anyways. Without more support for shielded transactions, it isn't feasible to use zcash to clean Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. Exchange volumes of XMR-ZEC are also too small from what I can see to make stacking them useful.

That said, we are reconsidering things. We will probably add zcash as a payment method sometime this week.
Would love to see the processing chip for the star wipe!
To misdiagnose the problem is worse than not diagnosing the problem at all. Remember when our collective consciousness believed that eating fat was what made you fat? All the food manufacturers starting advertising 0 fat but loaded the food with calories and sugar. This went on for about 15 years.

Instead of assessing the problem as "sitting," maybe we should look at what scientific data says. I know food manufacturers put a hell of a lot of sugar in foods, even foods you wouldn't expect, like spaghetti sauce. They use it as a preservative, so it's in damn near everything.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z8849j6

I know watching food commercials subconsciously compels people to eat, even after the restaurants are closed. Children consume 45% more food when exposed to food commercials.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2743554/

I know certain foods, sugar in particular, have addictive properties similar to cocaine.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23719144

Sitting may very well be a factor, but this article shows no links to any studies. Until I see some data, I'll consider it BS and so should you.
My only DMT experience lasted about 15 minutes, and that was plenty.
And maybe human progress in general.
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What djKianoosh means is that you missed reading the word "so", leading you to read the comment as:

"Puerto Ricans are US citizens as long as they know English..."

...instead of:

"Puerto Ricans are US citizens so as long as they know English..."
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I'm trying to soften the blow, what do you think I should tell them?
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