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Good. We should be striving for a more integrated world, not a world of separatism.

People are naturally tribal. But tribalism must always be rejected.
People who hold onto tribal identities are excited by the prospect of political independence, but unless real conditions for that group are made genuinely intolerable, there is no excuse for separatism.

Catalan is one of the wealthiest parts of Spain. They are not being oppressed.
A lot of people get the impression it's only cancelling where there's no speech, but it's also cancelling during speech -- just not as much. If you look at the spectrogram at the top of the demo, you can see HF noise being attenuated when there's LF speech and vice versa.
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> Getting into Mars is solvable technological problem.

Unfortunate typo there.
It is the symbol of the "Guardia Civil", a spanish paramilitary force.
Is this news? This was mentioned in a 2012 TED talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/nirmalya_kumar_india_s_invisible_e...

(at the end)
The 1714 is in an abbr tag with a title that explains that ;)
For that I reckon you'd have to file a bug with golang.
Impressive work but a little buggy on my chrome android
Ah ok, I saw the "download for Android" and installed it right away :)
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ah yes, it's the 20-somethings. It's always the 20-somethings.
Just a bit of feedback. This weekend there is a referendum in Cataluña, a province of Spain, about their independentism. This is not supported by the central government and it is consider illegal, and that is the reason the app was removed from the PlayStore, the court ordered it.

Nothing so see here unless you want to talk about politics.

EDIT: as you want to talk about politics, them you should have a bit of background. I think this is a good video (spanish): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbeyN2fuz_4
Why not both? Lots of smart people working on both things any ways. I'd rather Elon focus on stuff that will iterate and get us off this planet in any case as he seems built for that.

Since he's focusing on that, why don't you go ahead and focus on making the holodeck. Thanks!
weazel clauses do not save you from fraud. Meaning just cause you put up a bunch of clauses, that doesn't mean you are then free and clear to commit fraud.
This is a great idea, as it is a 'meta' idea, in that it is about making the new ideas faster and better. However, I think that what is proposed is a moderation issue. GAIs seem to be a bit of a ways off still, so humans are still the ones that need to write these messages and determine what would be prompted to be shown. As such, I think that a (gasp) market economy may be a good way to get people to do this. Maybe you can get an 'expert' to be paid to write these messages and as payment, they get some percentage of "ModCoins" that are mined in the background. I know that's not very much, right now, but who knows.
Yeah, that's an intriguing piece of hardware. A camera that outputs a Z buffer at conventional digital-photo resolutions and data rates would have lots of uses, but it sounds like it fell short of that goal.
I have one of these:
http://www.vesalia.de/e_keyrahv2.htm

It converts the keyboard of a C64 into a USB keyboard. It is of course an unholy abomination so I usually don't talk about it.
Isn't the above water music the Super Mario 64 water music theme?
Also, really cool demo!

edit; oh I get the play on the title now.
The only thing that strikes me as odd about the story is that he's said to have been browsing Reddit and Facebook. Why would an intelligent individual like Bob not use the time to build his own company instead?
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>>Once everyone else realizes the superiority of cryptocurrency, they will all want to switch over, and the value of fiat currency will collapse.

>You really think so?

I didn't write the blog post, but I think it's pretty clear that he's saying is that this is what many crypto fans believe. I don't think he's claiming to believe it himself.

> Cryptocurrency is not fundamentally an IOU any more than a bar of Gold is an IOU.

Correct. Bitcoin is digital gold. But a bar of gold is an IOU. Because gold gets most of its value from its ability to be traded for other stuff, it's basically a form of credit. You can think of gold as a general purpose IOU from the economy to the person holding the gold. If the economy collapses, the gold isn't worth much. Bitcoin is the same.

Unfortunately, neither bitcoin nor gold can be currency. Currency must have a reliable stable value. As far as I know, the only way to ensure stable value of a currency is through centralized monetary policy.
Why always. Can't we just have a tribe counsel ?
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ooooh got it, thanks. Not used to using force touch on the web.
I'm not sure what you mean by "the crypto is not ideal"? I was under the impression that there are not yet collisions for
SHA-256 https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/22

Only for SHA-1 (which has 160 bit hashes) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1#Attacks
The nearest bits of Europe aren't that much further from the US mainland than Hawai’i is. (Ireland to Maine is a hair farther than Hawai’i to California.)

And the US certainly has non-state territories even further away.
The South in the U.S. Civil War?
Musks idea for this is "build it and they will come" that being said all he has to do is create a market and someone else will fill the void of who will make the spacesuits and grow the food and do all the things that will make a colony.

That being said you would have to bootstrap something to get to that point but step one we have to get to Mars before we can even think about those things. That is what musk is trying to do even though it is nearsighted if you think about the long term.
I'm not a lawyer and I don't have an opinion on the Spanish government's or judicial system's concrete actions to stop a illegal law to take effect, but: the only websites, posters, etc. being seized are those paid for and organized by the Catalan government. Any association, political party, or individual is completely free to campaign for whatever they want, including independence.

We have a Spain-wide constitution. The Catalan government decided it has a democratic mandate by the people of its region to not abide by it. The NORMAL reaction by the state is to apply it, and stop the Catalan government from breaking it. It's only oppresive insofar laws and the judicial system are opressive.

Disclaimer: I'm a non-nationalist Spaniard living (but not born) in Catalonia. I don't particularly care about Catalan seceding or not (except for pragmatic concerns such as freedom of movement, etc.). I do care about whatever country I live in being able and willing to enforce its laws, insofar they are enacted by legitimate democratic institutions (and thus can be changed or repelled by democratic means) and there's freedom to disagree with them.

I also support a secession referendum for Catalonia. There's a very strong and majoritary demand for it that the state should address. But it needs to happen in due lawful process.
They’re not mutually exclusive but the main reason that Swift is so performant is because it’s a compiled language rather than an interpreted language like JS. To support live reloading with a compiled language you would either need to support live compilation and re-deployment (difficult) or treat Swift as a scripting language (redundant).
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"All told, it looked like he earned several hundred thousand dollars a year"...

At Verizon in 2013? Seriously?
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It's just a fasces. They show up everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces
The symbol is called fasces, and, despite its name, it is not necessarily a purely fascist symbol.
The advantage is that the code runs close to your users. 90% of the people on Earth are within 10ms of a Cloudflare location, so by pushing your code out to the edge you can make your site faster. You also save on the cost of transmitting data around the world.
Catalan parliament has deployed a referendum law with +1 MPs, breaking regional Catalan law, silencing opposition and its own constituent powers. The referendum law states that any positive result from the referendum will result in a declaration of independence, with or without agreement with the central government.

Trying not to be get too biased, I'd conclude that Spanish central government is trying to protect the rule of law, state-wide or regional-wide, while also protecting those who didn't vote for separatists parties, which in 2015 elections were 52%.
I love where you're going. I would eagerly join a team working on this problem. If approached in a critical fashion, I do belive there could be a cohesive approach. There are numerous seemingly impassible problems and barriers, but this kind of thing is rarely done from a truly critical angle.

My thoughts here may lack some formbut one of the paradoxical issues I see are that a brand must be developed, but by way of a keen awareness of the problems of branding. The brand would have to be defended without alienation before market domination. But also, there is not a market for a convention such as knowledge to be automated. The competition is brands which automate opinion validation instead. I think your idea is already stepping ahead of this by automating away the process of deciding on sources.

The result would need to be something like automated research as it is done in a library.
I really have difficultly seeing how this could be considered anything other than natural. We, our actions and our impacts on the rest of the environment are, after all, born of the very same nature.
As much as I like the idea of space-based industry, it's likely that the level of self-contained precision required in a vacuum would also render Earth-based industry entirely non-polluting, though probably unprofitable as well.

The argument for space-based industry has to start with economics, where it's cheaper because it's closer to the raw materials (asteroids) or closer to the consumers (Mars, lunar, and orbital habitats). The elimination of dirty industry from Earth would only come about as a far-downstream side effect of a well-developed space economy that makes it cheaper for Amazon to drop a Kindle on your house from orbit that it would be to manufacture it in China.
Agrees. Sounds like Bob is excellent at managing remote team(s). They should put him in charge of outsourcing to reduce development cost based on his excellent track record of cost savings and on-time, quality deliveries.
Bob went to Equifax.
> TL;DR: If you love FOSS-friendly hardware and if you love Matrix, please preorder a Purism Librem5 Matrix-native smartphone, so we can fully bring native Matrix communication to both phones and desktop!

Something about this header rubs me the wrong way. This is not "hey, throw us 10 bucks because $reason" (The Librem 5 seems to be 599$ and it's not from a company I moderately trust to ship a good product, on time)

Call me cheap, but I've never bought a smart phone for more than 300 EUR, and they've all worked fine at the time (HTC Click, HTC Vision, (ok, the Kingzone wasn't great) and Nexus 5X (still 100% fine with it, right now).
I often wonder at what point should we (as programmers) ignore a countries ruling if we disagree with it.

(Note I'm not arguing for or against here, I don't know enough about the situation but thought it may be an interesting conversation).

We (generally) have the knowledge to get around most restrictions, some of us can even bypass enforced walls.

I do wonder what it would take for a large subset of techs to say 'screw this, we're going to flood their airwaves, satlinks, reroute all out out traffic' etc. (Yes I know this is an impossibility, I'm theorizing here).

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being a catalan expat with some expertise in computers, is there any useful way that i can help this weekend? (I am not afraid of losing anonymity nor being condemned or prosecuted by the spaniards, I actually would find it rather amusing.)
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All AI is just objective minimization. AI cannot solve the halting problem or perform Solomonoff induction.
Always because tribalism implies 'us vs them'. Which is destructive.
That's better than outsourcing the entire project overseas.
2013 but still funny. Almost as good as the graphing calculator story ! ( https://www.pacifict.com/Story )
I'm making a point. Software developers, for some reason (maybe it's the pay, the benefits, the mobility, the ignorance of history, or some combination thereof), seem very resistant to organizing. It's easier to complain than be the only person in your office seen as a problem because you're fighting against some trendy, money-saving bullshit.
The compiler doesn't really play a role in this. If a syscall changes, then you'll need to change the arguments in the C code that invokes it.

The system libraries like libc themselves use syscalls internally, yes. But on those platforms I'm talking about, they're maintained by the same people who maintain the kernel, and both components are versioned together. So they can go and change a syscall, and then also make the corresponding change to libc (without changing the latter's public ABI), and ship the updated versions together as the new OS release. Well-behaved apps dynamically link against libc, so the change is completely transparent to them.

On Linux, different people maintain the kernel and libc (and, in fact, there's no single officially blessed libc - this is one case where the old adage that "Linux is just a kernel" is in full force). Consequently, the interface between the two has to be treated as a public API, with stability guarantees.
> ...then why not go to other places on Earth as well?

I'm addressing this because I know someone will ask. Honestly my first reaction was to laugh, then I made sense of it.

Economically this does not make sense. Price points do not make sense for this, even from the most ambitious startups. You'd want to use a space plane.

BUT I still think it is a good idea. The reason being is that this is a quick way to get his technology to TRL 8/9 [1]. TRL 7-9 is the hardest progression in this scale. So I'm going to guess that Musk is going to make a loss on these flights because SpaceX needs to prove that the vehicle and related technology is flight ready. What better way then doing a bunch of flights close to home, where you can easily repair and monitor the vehicle? NASA is going to be extremely strict on them sending people to Mars. Earth and Moon are the way to go to show proof (even NASA is planning Moon mission before Mars).

Or I could be off base and this isn't what Musk is planning. But it is my hunch.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/trl.png
Yeah, smartphone web apps were server side business. But smartphones existed, windows mobile & symbian ones.

Here's a post on using the Firefox DOM inspector from 2005: http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20050228
There are hard realtime systems for which segfaults are a game over, but even for the airplane, there will be a watchdog triggered and the system reboots. This means your control surfaces are neutral for about a second. There are some situations in which that could be fatal, but it typically is not.

If the system gets in a state where it is in a reboot loop, that is obviously bad, but those are more tractable to fix. In any event, I believe that FAA requires semi-formal analysis for software the failure of which would cause loss of life, but I might be wrong.
Why don't you start working on Holodecks. Musk wants to get humanity off this rock. Funding the building of a ship designed to land anywhere in the solar system, including Earth, by using it for Earth transport is brilliant. If one can make the trip from New York to Shanghai in 40 minutes, for the same fuel per person and ticket price as an airplane, why not. Having a fully reusable rocket will be amazing.

Once reliability is proven one could even start thinking about nuclear powered rockets and get those CO2 emissions to zero. I'm sure it is on Elon Musk's mind and Mueller has even mentioned looking into nuclear rockets. Solar system travel could really use nuclear rockets to get reasonable travel travel times.
> Interplanetary space travel is going nowhere fast because there is no profit motive.

This is so very true. We can do it for Science, and for fun, but not much else.
The code is in the bundled file at [1] (look for the "calcular" function).

The hash was distributed in URL form through twitter by both the Catalan president [2] and the catalan economy minister (who is the 2nd in command actually) [3].

[1] https://ipfs.io/ipns/QmZxWEBJBVkGDGaKdYPQUXX4KC5TCWbvuR4iYZr...

[2] https://twitter.com/KRLS/status/911482634789953536

[3] https://twitter.com/junqueras/status/913010751429840896
If you can afford a child's closet in SF, you can afford a small house in NJ that is far closer than the 2+ hours you'd need to spend each way from PA.
If the truck has to come back after making deliveries it's usually better to load it up with scrap metal than to send it back empty.

It's a pretty damn good example of the market solving a problem by itself.

This only really falls apart when the cost of new stuff is less than the cost of recycling. High wages are not good for recycling/repair businesses.

When you get new tires on your car most places will take the old ones for free. They get recycled into filler for lower quality rubbers (you can't re-vulcanize rubber, it's like un-baking a cake)
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> I would say that software development has been good to me so far as a career, but I still think I would hesitate to encourage a young person in America to pursue it.

This is absolutely terrible advice. Please do not ruin some young American's life with this advice. Technology seems to be one are where the demand seems to always outstrip supply, and a person trained in Computer Science would be capable of learning new skills and advancing rapidly in the tech industry.
I'm not actually suggesting that they are fascists, similar symbolism is used in the US as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_(1920_statue)#... . And the phrase "E pluribus unum" on American money also has the same roots as the symbol. But it is amusing to me, because the idea behind the symbol is very authoritarian and fascist.
> The roads are better

Are you planning to drive in Manhattan? Car ownership in NYC is a world of hurt.
Actually I'd argue that it's more important because the government doesn't support it.

Unless there was a rule stating it was illegal to take a census before this existed, shouldn't that be a huge red flag for taking this down?
Not a paramilitary force,but a nation-wide law enforcement corp
Slovakia was much poorer than the Czech part of Czechoslovakia. The decision to split was made by the politicians rather than the people in a referendum though. Seems to be working out quite OK for everyone so far.
Yeah, I was thinking about HN in general and coldtea specifically when writing that "nobody denies" part. I don't see fundamentalists here often and I thought that we can talk about the bible on the literary and historical levels.

Then I read a comment saying that there is no morality without god and saw my previous comment above downvoted... I initially tought that you overreacted (not that I don't understand your reasons for it 100%!), but now I'm not so sure... :)
Sad to hear that. Being an employee mostly sucks in Sweden.

(If you put some (throwaway?) contact email in your profile I'd be interested to trade stories/old gossip via phone over the weekend; it seems like we worked in similar markets over similar times.)
In the 1980's, people also tried to build video phones and failed. Let's not try today.
Yeap. It's true that the ax is older than Fascism, but its adoption on the symbol of the Spanish Civil Guard is from 1943 - right during the Franquist regime.
Would you say the same thing if Chinese or Venezuelan courts banned google apps that give information "considered illegal" there?

This is ridiculous. The app just gives a list of the schools to vote according to your address. Even if the referendum is "illegal" under spanish law, it is completely bananas to ban such an app.
This is IDERA's way of operating. They're doing the same to Delphi. I've talked to the Delphi product manager about this. He said their way of doing things is to hire contractors on a (mostly) per-bug or per-feature basis, rather than having the people in-house as employees.

We'll see how that turns out.
> "Be very careful to make "executive" expectations brutally clear and consequences for any and all hubris terminal."

Any examples of how to "do it right?"
Here is what Elon said on instrgram, "Fly to most places on Earth in under 30 mins and anywhere in under 60. Cost per seat should be about the same as full fare economy in an aircraft. Forgot to mention that."

Source : https://www.instagram.com/p/BZnVfWxgdLe/?hl=en&taken-by=elon...
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I am studying in college that has is not known by most people in India, and the official average here is around 18 LPA. I have the stats from the placement unit of our college. For IITB and BITS Pilani, I can confirm from friends it's around 27 LPA. This is one public stat I can find: http://www.selaqui.org/iit-jee/placement.php. Average is 24.67 LPA for CS, and it's from 2011-12. I don't know why you reacted with so much disbelief, when every one and every newspaper tells that average for IT placement is very good.
And apparently you make that happen by sending men with guns to deal with anyone who doesn't want to be in your larger tribe.
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That is an exaggeration, or your standards are much much higher than mine. I live in a good area that attracts bankers and minor celebrities. Flats of the type you describe are 500-600K. Still expensive...
There's a difference between building "your one desk" and assembling 10 of them for the new company office. It gets old after a few hours :P
I don't think IBM is a good example, because they've been exactly the kind of low-quality Infosys style body shop that people make jokes about. The only difference is that IBM is mining out their reputation (built up all through the 20th century up until the 1990s) in order to charge inflated prices to clueless enterprise customers. Remember, they were the ones that charged the TSA $1.4 million for a left/right randomizer app. If you've ever used a piece of 21st century IBM software, you probably don't remember the experience fondly.

There are companies doing great work in India (Zoho comes to mind). Why would anyone want to use IBM as the representative of Indian innovation?
Your argument is essentially. "Good. We should be banning books with political viewpoints that I or the government disagree with"
I love how they describe it as a 'scam', but this is exactly what corporations do all the time. He received a salary, and in return completed his work in a timely, efficient and apparently excellent fashion.
The people driving that were very wealthy.
> The winters in NYC really aren't that bad.

I still have nightmares about those hidden pools of half frozen brown sludge that accumulate at street corners that turn your shoes pitch black if you accidentally step in one!
This is most certainly not true. I don't deny there will be shitty houses for a drop-dead rents, but you can also get a fairly luxurious rentals in Mumbai and Bangalore, at least (I don't have personal experience with other cities).
A conceptually identical icon is used by Anarchists as well ;) https://propertyistheft.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/1917_iww...