skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question wasn't about the size of the government, it was about the physical size of the country. Tiny countries would lack many natural resources, would probably lack any sizable military, and would be powerfully affected by the economies of the countries around it.
nice, but slow(er) than the original for comments > 50. The original is 2x faster than this clone, for that.
I'm not making any claims about what the Spaniards should or should not have done, only about what they did accomplish: undermining the legitimacy of the referendum.
We chose Salesforce, and haven't regretted it. The thing you need to keep in mind if you are doing any semi-complicated B2B sales, is that you will need to do some customizations, and Salesforce is a king of this. We have heavily customized it, and especially workflows have been quite helpfull for us.

It does come with a hefty price-tag, but when moving forward you will eventually outgrow most other CRM solutions, and it will be quite time consuming to switch later on.

It also helps with recruiting, since most people have used Salesforce previously.
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To perhaps sum it up more, I believe the attacks he frequently receives on the internet suffer from people unwilling to view the situation in any sort of context and end up looking for a way to settle an issue in the short format of an internet forum (or God forbid, twitter).

It's this same gung-ho strategy that leads to the videos of protesters approaching Peterson after shutting down his speeches and smugly asking him "about the neo-nazi" presence" at his event (he of course responds that he deplores them) as cheap way of implying guilt by any sort of implied association.

It's stunningly dishonest to try such cheap association tactics against someone who's spent their career studying and lecturing on the dark aspects of the human condition and how they lead to murderous and authoritarian movements like the Nazis and then sets out frameworks to both recognize and turn away from that darkness.

Edit: to be clear, I don't view your writings in this dishonest lens, the comment was more about the patterns I've seen creep up in general.
> 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.

I’m curious what you mean here, do you mind expanding on your opinion?
Me and my co-founder refined our pitching skills somewhat. Overall I wouldn't say it's worth it.
Sure, but this comment was supposed to convince me do undergo hallucinogenic treatment because it can be profound experience, or something. I'm not really sure actually, but it does say that in the first sentence.

The actual result could not have been more different. I'll Nope out of that one, thank you.
You see that because the DoD uses their own root certificates for sites intended for internal use that browsers don't trust by default: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/147606/why-woul...

If you were afflicted with the military and were planning on using these sites on your own hardware regularly, you'd install their certificates: https://iase.disa.mil/pki-pke/Pages/tools.aspx
The way in which Apollo + GraphQL + React work together is just awesome sauce. I love that you can simply declare your data dependencies with a GraphQL query string and Apollo just fetches, wires up and injects the data into your component. I had the pleasure of using this stack for a project once. The speed at which you can move once you have the stack in place and a full grasp of it is pretty mind blowing.
Not answering point by point, but this is just a referendum in 40 years, overwhelmingly wanted by catalans, and just about moving borders, not sterilising anybody.

And yes, police has been sent.
I didn't downvote, but suspect some of them are because you offered an unlikely or minor reason behind the superlatives.

Also, I'm unsure of your exposure to Japanese, but superlatives are used frequently in daily conversation. "Sugoi"/"Suge" ("great/amazing!") or " kawaii" ("cute!") are a couple examples. There's some nuance and loss in translation, but the general usage and frequency is similar to American English from my experience with my Japanese in-laws, friends, and employees.

I do agree that Californians and our sun-fried brains seem more likely to take it to an extreme.
Close.io -- clean, stays out of your way, very extensible API for when you want to tie it directly into your site/dashboard/various marketing mechanisms.
>That is quite a chilling statement. What right do others have to silence speech?

You have the right to silence speech that infringes on your rights. Someone's speech shouldn't be protected if they knowing print lies in order to ruin the career of another individual. Someone's speech shouldn't be protected if they leave a burning cross on the curb outside their black neighbor's house. Someone's speech shouldn't be protected if they are reprinting the published work of another person without permission or fair use. Someone's speech shouldn't be protected if they are threatening violence on another individual.

>A right is not something that can be taken away due to public opinion. Otherwise it is a privilege.

You don't even have to go back a decade to find that this isn't true. Prop 8 is a perfect example of how a right can be taken away by public opinion.

Some people get misled by the Declarations of Independence's whole "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" thing that human rights are some natural phenomena. That has never been true. We bestow these rights on each other because we as a civilization have decided they are the bare minimum that every person should be guaranteed. As human history will show it is a constant struggle to help ensure that is true.

>The entire foundation of a free society is built on free speech.

By that logic no free society has ever existed before.
Yes, he was. The comments are praising him for the amount of lives he saved.
Well... there's intellectual understanding and then there's emotional understanding. These are people who were the very top in their high school and the very top as undergrads. They've always made the cut when most everyone else didn't, so why should a tenure track position be any different?
Are you sure that's not a parody account?
> I know the only ones claiming Russian involvement is the US government and media.

That isn't really true, though. You could argue that our allies were just doing our bidding, but other countries definitely saw this meddling both in the 2016 POTUS election and other elections.[1] I also think statements like "US is much closer to civil war than most realize" needs some quantification or support.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/07/russia-us-el...
Is that a reference to something?
Oh no they just regurally kill opposition members (Niemcow) and independent journalist (Politkowska). What should we be afraid of ?
> For example, in languages like Perl, JavaScript, and CoffeeScript adding a string to a number is permissible (e.g., "5" + 2 yields "52"). The same operation yields 7 in Php. Such an operation is not permitted in languages such as Java and Python as they do not allow implicit conversion.

Regarding Perl, the quoted statement is wrong:

$ perl -E 'say "5" + 2'
7

Furthermore, this is not an implicit conversion. The + operator is an explicit numeric conversion. Here's a more detailed description:

https://codespeaks.blogspot.ca/2007/09/ruby-and-python-overl...
So? Ignore the declaration of independence. Let Catalonia decide what that means. Whatever action any person (civilian or official) in Catalonia takes under the guise of "independence" – be it non-payment of taxes, or eviction of Spanish military – presumably there are laws against that.

Criminalizing a vote – to the point of beating people – is beyond stupid. It strengthens the cause for Catalonian independence. It only makes rational sense if the Spanish government is very afraid of what a "legitimate" vote says.
On the contrary, smaller countries are less effective in the international arena (militarily, economically, and politically). Banding together with other countries only creates a meta-republic of countries (e.g. the EU).

So I think the original question is quite valid. There's a sweet spot somewhere between "as big as possible" (e.g. US or Russia) and "as small as possible" (e.g. city-states).

My gut would be that it's more determined by economic production and ethnic subgroups than some constant. Sufficient economic production to play competitively on the world stage, while grouping as many like or agreeing ethnic groups as possible (and preventing their repressing minority groups).

Or in other words, international jerrymandering.
Well, it's incurred each time you navigate away and then back to HN, which happens any time you click on a link on the front page, right?
> Had the government not acted, it would have set a bad precedent: that constitution doesn't hold weight in real life.

Nobody expected them not to react to the referendum. Using cops with clubs instead of lawyers was disappointing.
Maybe you just live in the wrong region. Over here, you can get a decent wine for 5 EUR, if you know where to buy. That said a wine for 30 EUR from the same wine maker most likely is a lot better. One thing I've learned is to buy from good local wine makers (I admit that's not possible everywhere though :-) and to forget about wine stores, international prizes etc.
Interesting idea. I already track/log my decision making process for everything important, so i'm right in your target audience, but I think your approach has the following problems:

- Decisions and opinions brew over time, but in bursts; you spend some 'active' time thinking, or get intuitive realization in 'background', or something 'external' happens. When one of those occurs it's important to write down the new ideas or changed opinions immediately when it is in memory with all details and emotions. Your timed email reminders seems completely wrong way (for me).

- The decisions worth tracking are the important ones, and to trust any cloud based application with critical financial or personal decisions is major barrier. You would need to offer some pretty amazing benefits over tracking in encrypted plain docs, but i'm not sure what those amazing benefits could be: plain docs work fine.
I learned of it by watching my parents use it while growing up in the Jim Crow south.

You people were never supposed to know of it. You could not be trusted not to burn the businesses to the ground.

Are any reader surprised to learn that such is still very much needed and that several things things may well still exist and be in use to this day?

Same as it ever was. Thats why those of us who live through it still teach our children and grandchildren to "Never Trust Whitey". Funny how White folk are offended by that concept.
It permanently changes you by causing conditions by which your brain rewires itself. For psychiatric patients that is often a good thing because where they are at is not a good place. But why would you throw a spanner in the works if you're already a well adjusted individual?

If you want to be content and enjoy life, why not get a lobotomy. It's a more consistent result. Oh you don't want to do that to your brain? Well acid may have different mechanisms but can trigger similarly drastic effects, it's just now you've introduced a roll of the die, and I'm not a fan of gambling without a winning strategy.
That may work between two people, but not for a large enough group. For example, if a group of people owned a large enough amount of land to be self sufficient, should they be able to separate their land from their country? Even if it is a few dozen people, and a few square miles?
I think the 60 minutes interview with him did a much better job of disseminating his rhetoric. It probably had 10 million viewers on airing, and several million more after. This was of course a direct result of the antifa movement's attempt to protest / silence them in Charlottesville. I believe this is a textbook definition of irony. I guess my biggest protest against silencing groups like this is more times than not, it does the opposite.

>There's no useful difference between action and talk, especially in peace times.

We'll have to agree to disagree. Wanting to murder someone and actually murdering them has an ocean of difference.
Sad thing is, if this were to happen in US with say California or Texas, the same pattern would likely emerge.
Until this week at least opinion was split in Catalonia with no supermajority on either side. Catalonia is very proud of its high standards of education - hopefully they don't want to look as completely stupid as the British now do after Brexit.
Guess it's more or less a management problem. I think it's possible to rebrand a PhD program to be a more targeted education, not just "how to become an academic". Specifically, a doctoral program could teach people how to:

1. identify "known unknowns" and formulate the problem.

2. search and study existing literature and properly cite them.

3. cook up a clever way of evaluation and publish the results.

etc, etc. Unfortunately, in most universities, these techniques are kinda sorta taught, but they're far from being systematic. And many of them don't have the body of knowledge and staffers for this kind of things, probably because they're incentivized for wrong goals (e.g. the number of papers, media recognition, etc.)
Since this site seems to be down, here are some other resources:

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book

A very powerful clipping from the book: https://i.imgur.com/fo8vKHO.png

You can read the full book here: https://archive.org/stream/history_green_book/87_135_1736_Gr...

And there's an article here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/read-these-chillin...
Every country on the planet tries to influence US elections to some degree or another. Why focus on Russia and not, say, Israel or China?

Clinton didn't lose because of Russia. She lost because she was a bad candidate who ran a bad campaign.
Kansa listed as "Hutanga (Kanza)" (in Kansas), Osage listed as "Niukonska (Osage)" (in Oklahoma), Wichita listed as "Kitikiti'sh (Wichita)" (in Texas) — all three that you mentioned are present on the map.
yes... The absence of participants.
"The only sound in the room is the sound of crickets"
I have found some pretty good wine from Australia that is only about seven dollars a bottle. Merlots and Cab Sav are my favorites. I got a bottle of Merlot from Portugal for so little I thought it would have tasted terrible but in fact, it was great. Now, I am not a wine professional by any stretch of the imagination but I think you can find some great wine for ten dollars or less.

Just don't buy a bottle based on how the bottle looks.
You can profoundly understand something because you understand the mechanism of its working and have deeply integrated it into your mental model of the world. Or you can "profoundly understand" something by having your brain remember what it feels like to profoundly understand, and enter that state in association with the new belief. Even if the belief is wrong (and you will never see that it is wrong).
> What I have an aversion to is people who want to talk endlessly about wine.

I'm trying to popularize the term "enanists" for that sort of people.
Why no business partners? Sounds like an ideal place for biz dev. If not, than the startups there are not thinking strategically. The little guys got to band together to uproot the big dudes.
I guess it is really hard to believe that a PhD graduate could not even figure out if a number is odd-even. It is usually taught at the first year in a CS bachelor. Maybe they are from a different bachelor?
The chance to make it more representative was yesterday, and the spanish government chose not to.
A trick for dealing with periodic coordinates, not discussed in the article, is to convert each periodic coordinate (eg, an angle theta) into a pair of cartesian coordinates (x,y) on the circle, and then compute the distance in cartesian space. Ie, convert to x = cos(theta), y = sin(theta).

In the 2d example in the post, you would rescale the coordinates so the unit cell is from (-pi,pi) in both dimensions, and then the distance formula would be

sqrt(((cos(x1) - cos(x2))**2 + ((sin(x1) - sin(x1))**2 + ((cos(y1) - cos(y2))**2 + ((sin(y1) - sin(y1))**2)

This works well for doing things like determining the "nearest" point to another point, and similar operations, and has some other nice properties.

(I forget the name of this system, but it is commonly used for calculations involving dihedral angles in MD simulations)
I think the meta-conclusion that we're getting is that "this kind of study is extremely haarrrd!"
I just read it, and it the whole point is: referendum is declared illegal, and therefore it is ok for Spain's crackdown on it. And people should not vote on illegal things, so they deserve it.....

The point of democracy is for people to voice their opinions and vote on their future. Even if the referendum has no legal binding, it should have been allowed to happen.

What's next, "polls" being declared illegal?
Good point. So let's talk motive.

EVs and solar are on the verge of a tipping point that will destroy petroleum at least as the world's most important resource. Sub-10k EVs are coming since EVs are actually a lot simpler to build than ICE cars.

Russia's economy is over 50% petroleum based last statistic I read. John McCain famously called them a "gas can with a gun strapped to it."

Other Petro states will fare pretty bad too. Saudi Arabia has IPOd Aramco to cash out and now via SoftBank are indirectly buying huge stakes in tons of things. This is smart, but they also have in many ways fewer problems than Russia.

Russia has a demographic crisis that is compounded by young people and high skill people leaving. If oil collapses as a major revenue source they are completely hosed. They will suffer a repeat of the economic crash that came with the collapse of the USSR.

Add to that the "we were once a great empire" bitterness that likely infests the ranks and it makes sense for them to try to disrupt the world order as much as possible. They don't have a lot to lose.

Edit: there is also an ideological dimension. Putin is an admirer of among others Julius Evola and is more or less a fellow traveler with the US and EU neo-fascist movements.
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All thanks to the spanish government.
But if you are the wealthier party, you will be required to pay support...

The problem with easy non-mutual dissolution is that a party with a temporary advantage can transform it into a long term gain at the other party's expense.
Because in principle peer review is the basis of scientific progress. Without peer review, poor incentives lead to scientific inquiry about as accurate or useful as Buzzfeed.

Of course modern journals are a disgrace to the enlightenment. But the solution is to fix them, or if that can't be done, replace them. Not to stop the system of peer review entirely.
This is a nice example of the state of the art of a React & Friends stack. Thank you for building it and sharing it. Is it supposed to be completely functional? Login doesn't seem to work for me, at least.

After 1.1 MB transferred, I experience subjectively sluggish page transitions and less-subjective FOUC on a recent MacBook Pro and Chrome over fast wifi. The features in this stack are impressive and appealing, but IMO they are not worth the general performance cost weighed by hundreds of kilobytes of JS abstractions.
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But by arguing/accepting that you're essentially saying all a state has to do to prevent a secession (however popular) is disrupt the election/referendum process.
You're mistaken if you think there were not opposition ads against the opposition. Even just looking at the mainstream traditional ads by Hillary, they were very dark ads. Just the other day she was still chiding women for not voting for her, as if she was owed their vote. Who has that much entitlement?

In your example Satan is accused of owning the pope and all other miscreants.
Nothing below is actually evidence, merely assertions that lead back to military intelligence. If you are skeptical of the Russia story in the first place, I see no reason you shouldn't be skeptical of this story. The nature of the "link" is not substantiated. Imagine if instead Blacktivist is a real activist page that is now roped into the Russia story by reactionaries in military intelligence. The story is now black people's outrage is manufactured by Russia in the midst of reaction to the #TakeAKnee protests. What do you guys think?

"The Blacktivist Facebook account was among the 470 Russian-linked accounts identified by the social media network and disclosed to Congress earlier this month, the sources said. The matching Twitter account was among the roughly 200 accounts Twitter identified with links to those found by Facebook.

Facebook shared its findings about the accounts with Twitter, enabling Twitter to identify 22 matching accounts and an additional 179 accounts that linked back to those accounts, the sources said. This matching process went beyond public-facing similarities and included private information that could link the accounts.

All of the ads handed over by Facebook were linked to the Internet Research Agency, a shadowy company that U.S. military intelligence has described as "a state-funded organization that blogs and tweets on behalf of the Kremlin." A senior Kremlin spokesman said last week that Russia did not buy ads on Facebook to influence the election."
This argument seems to fly in the face of the startup ethos (which I guessed had some currency at HN). It is precisely a rag-tag team with $100k and _a different way of thinking_ that brings down a $1bn machine. I'm not saying that this is what happened in this case, but it could happen (or have happened), so don't dismiss it just because of the resourcing asymmetry.
This was my experience working on SoCs at Broadcom also where we didn't really use FPGAs at all.

But at another employer that did not work on consumer designs, I did use a lot of large FPGAs in final shipped products, and in those cases we did some of our heavy testing and iterating on the real FPGA(s). For example I built a version of the FPGA with pseudo-random data generation to test an interface with another FPGA. When I found a case that failed I could then reproduce it in simulation much more quickly.

That employer also built some ASIC designs and I remember some discussions about using FPGA prototyping for the ASICs to speed up verification or get a first prototype board built faster that would later get redesigned with the final ASIC. I don't know if they ever went down that route but it would not surprise me if they did. These were $20k PCB boards once fully assembled, and integration of the overall system was often a bigger stumbling block than any single digital design.

There are a lot of different hardware design niches so I'm sure there are many other cases.

All my information is also about 10 years out of date.
I never said that was a goal.
The real concern here is not loss of thrust, but rather, what other parts of the airframe are seriously damaged or destroyed by the debris. In the accident record I believe there is precedent for separated engine parts seriously damaging wing and tail surfaces, causing at least partial loss of control.
Ask HN: Are startups partnering to win against the monopolies?
It seems to me that the FANG four are kicking away the ladder. Is this a successful pitch for newcomers to partner / biz dev aggressively with one another to create a competitive beachhead against those who are dug in?
@sillysaurus3 you can actually leverage browser caching as well.