skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does not matter if houses are priced in dollars or donuts, they are increasing in value because of an oversupply of capital sloshing around looking for investments.

Wealth is not currency wealth is things of value, and we have systemic issues with profits from investments being reinvested instead of being spent, as everyone is looking for returns. This inflates the value of things that create future income streams.
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Reports of threats from Catalonians themselves.

It's true Spain did wrong too.
> And now Twitter banned RT ads to get the "problem" off their shoulders. Isn't this hysteria?

I can’t help but feel everyone in Silicon Valley is desperate to believe every narrative about the election except the version where Trump wins because he was the only one promising prosperity to people not located in major cities.
I might agree, but you still have the same density problems, and you now also have the problem of people commuting into residential areas with schools and such. I'm not sure, while the idea seems appealing at first glance, it seems fraught with problems.
I think it depends on how big you think each thing you want to identify is. If a heavy hitter contains 10% or 50% of traffic, then sampling is absolutely a great approach. Since we're talking about DNS traffic here (very small packets), a "significant" increase in queries for one domain could be e.g. 0.01% or less, which could be much easier to miss with sampling.
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Does anyone know why they posted this story through Medium?
Because one of the core tenants of the EU is rule of law. And secession is illegal .
See this subthread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15567778
Oh, sorry. I wasn't aware of that.

Yes, I was talking about hackintoshes that don't have AMD support for some reason.

Specifically I was talking about this hardware guide:

https://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/october/2017/#Graphic...
Contrary to what some Brexiter's make out, the EU really has quite limited powers over member countries. There's not much it can do in these kind of disputes.
> The "can Haskell..." stuff has a similar smell to it. The answer is always "yes, Haskell (and everyone else) have hash maps and HOFs."

+1 !

If necessary you don't need to use and ADT+pattern matching on JSON. You just work with the hashmap directly.
Why was AES CBC removed in TLS 1.3?
What about the whole of the country subsidising the more wealthy region by things like brain-drain and leanier taxation?

What would happen if California were to separate from the US? Who would afford their army? What about billions invested by the whole of US in the industries there?

By your logic I may just reply that "if the people want independence now - then all that matters if I have enough military power to keep them in the saddle". Because the laws are changeable.
What was the "whole FIOS debacle, and what happened when google started offering citywide Fibre"?
Why the down votes? This sounds interesting, but I am not sure what to search for to learn more.
Mandatory voting, with real but minor punishments for not filing a ballot (but no requirement to actually vote for a candidate, to allow for cases where none of the above appeal).

Of course, this will never happen with the current political structure of the US, as the Republican Party works to aggressively reduce total voter turnout everywhere it can.
Well, that sounds like a book.

But despite the failure, I'd point to Brexit as an example where there was a conflict that was still broadly speaking handled in a civilized manner. If I recall correctly, the EU never said that if the UK left, they would take steps to liquidate Parliament. It was (and is!) an acrimonious debate, but still a civilized one (contrary to apparently popular belief, "nice" and "civilized" are not synonyms and are at times diametrically opposed; at best "nice" is what can result from civilization, it is not the cause of civilization). And despite the fact Brexit narrowly passed, I guarantee that had the EU gone the route that Spain did, Brexit would not have narrowly passed, but passed by a wide margin.

Contrariwise, even with all of Spain's errors and provocations, by numbers it seems like Catalonian independence just barely has something like a majority, or narrowly misses a majority, despite the superficial voting numbers, and that I would imagine includes a lot of very squishy support. Let's call real support in the 40-60% range. Some emotional sweet talk in attempt to emphasize solidarity, combined with some threats about what "could" happen (both in terms of bad things that may happen economically and vague threats of retaliation from Spain) but with no actual violence threats, along with emphasizing that it is their choice ultimately, would probably have resulted in as much as a 2-1 defeat for the independence. If nothing else, even just an appeal to the status quo rather than the dangers of such a radical change has had some success as a political campaign ("don't change horses midstream" - relection slogan for Abraham Lincoln [1]). Convert that "squishy support" into "squishy rejection", and the numbers change a lot. I hope what I'm writing here makes it clear just how much of a wild-ass guess that is, rather than some sort of principled analysis; if your mileage varies, more power to you. My big claim is that it would have made the situation better moreso than the precise numbers.

That is an example. There were other approaches that would have done better. I'd also observe that the approach I'm proposing here strikes me as fairly European, with the emphasis on solidarity and such. I'm pretty sure I'd recommend a substantially different approach if we were discussing Texas secession.

I'd also point out that I'm not viewing successfully keeping Catalan in Spain as the end of history. The issues would still be there. "Something" would really have to be done about that. But all countries have stresses, and Quebec remains part of Canada to this day, for instance. The stresses don't have to explode.

(I've also read some analysis that suggests these actions would have been politically untenable for Spain's current leadership. So I'm talking about what Spain as a whole "should" have done, not what Spain's leadership necessarily could do. I still don't know where I fall in the "forces of history" vs. "big actors in history" debate, but I tend to think the answer is "yes, both by a lot".)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._presidential_camp...
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>RT is state propaganda of a dictatorship, not some legitimate news source with a left or right bias

And yet the quality of its content exceeds quite a few "legitimate" news sources.
I believe that's a common misconception. UN charter makes no mention of colonies Art 1.2(http://www.un.org/en/sections/un-charter/chapter-i/index.htm...). Although a UN-charter-based document is applied to colonies, which is what you might be referring to.
The full context for this decision includes Brexit.
You can in the US - most mortgages are written in a way that let's you walk away from them if they are underwater.
Ask HN: Is React 16 (“Fiber”) faster than VUE.js now?
I love Vue. I fits my brain perfectly! but after reading about react's new rendering engine and reconciler - i wonder about application speed between both.

Are there any verifiable benchmarks out there? what your 2 cents ?
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The Scottish Government might support them - it's not much (we're only a semi-autonomous nation within the UK, so not exactly an international heavyweight) but they're not completely alone
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> Thats not speculation, thats straight down investment.

You make no sense, all investment is speculation.
> My main point was addressed to the economic argument being put forward, however; that it wasn't specific to "foreigners". "Foreigners" as a culprit are a red herring.

Right, that's why I said "speculation" and not "foreign ownership" in my reply. Holding periods for ownership, non-residential use must be rented out, etc.
Public finance problems in Chicago are a product of unrealistic pension guarantees. You can call that "corruption", but by that definition many other major metros in the USA are equally "corrupt".

The Chicago and Illinois Democratic party machines are almost certainly corrupt (or just rife with corruption), like most single-party states. But it's not clear to me how this impacts ordinary life for citizens.

Indianapolis is fine. I generally think, if you're going to move to a Midwestern city with no critical mass of tech companies, you might just consider throwing a dart. There are more tech workers in Chicago than Indianapolis, but in no Midwestern city are you going to exhaust the supply.

We generally need to get away from the notion that the locale in which you start your company is make-or-break. What we don't need to do is suggest that there's a Midwestern Ur-city where everyone needs to go.
> more common

This doesn’t sound right. I’d like to see some proof of this. I’m from India and I only use government to refer to the legislature which happens to commingle with the executive branch. I’d love to join the mainstream if my usage is in the minority.

Also, Spain is a parliamentary monarchy so in a thread centered on Spanish politics, I feel you should use the word government as used by Spaniards.
A colony of Spain? What is that based on?
Most middle managers at large companies are totally clueless. Consulting companies are built to take advantage of them and drain their budgets.
I'd be interested in hearing more about your Serde experience, if you have the time.
Maybe the gentle people of Twitter had expected RT to work towards a Clinton victory.
Here is a long excerpt from Professor Mark Taver (inventor of the Qi/Shen language), which I think sums up both sides of the argument nicely:

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(quote from someone named Racketnoob) “I have the strange feeling that types hamper a programmer’s creativity.”

The above sentence is a compact summary of the reluctance that programmers often feel in migrating to statically typed languages — that they are losing something, a degree of freedom that the writer identifies as hampering creativity.

Is this true? I will argue, to a degree — yes. A type checker for a functional language is in essence, an inference engine; that is to say, it is the machine embodiment of some formal system of proof. What we know, and have known since Godel’s incompleteness proof, is that the human ability to recognize truth transcends our ability to capture it formally. In computing terms our ability to recognize something as correct predates and can transcend our attempt to formalise the logic of our program. Type checkers are not smarter than human programmers, they are simply faster and more reliable, and our willingness to be subjugated to them arises from a motivation to ensure our programs work.

That said, not all type checkers are equal. The more rudimentary and limited our formal system, the more we may have to compromise on our natural coding impulses. A powerful type system and inference engine can mitigate the constraints placed on what Racketnoob terms our creativity. At the same time a sophisticated system makes more demands of the programmer in terms of understanding. The invitation of adding types was thus taken up by myself, and the journey to making this program type secure in Shen emphasizes the conclusion in this

paragraph.http://www.shenlanguage.org/library/shenpaper.pdf
Is it unethical to make a game AI that is secretly non-competitive?
Data Driven Analysis: /tmp on tmpfs
Can I still type in a IP address directly?
All of the ARMA games have had this feature if you bother to enable it. It's not usually seen in the popular online "maps" though
Physicists propose test of quantum gravity using current technology
Honestly I crack up when I think about twitter influencing the election. No conservative person I’ve ever met used Twitter. Twitters demographic is so far and away from the Trump demographic. The only people being “influenced” on twitter were other bots, the primary users of that service.
This comment does not address the question the parent post asked, which explicitly was about "voting", not "secessing".
OP here: definitely the keywords-in-title have limitations as a feature set. Once I get more training examples (enough to characterize what "interesting") I will definitely look at the full text, HTML metadata, etc.

As you say, there is interesting deep stuff going on in the JS space, but there is too much average stuff for me to look at right now.
Plenty of counterexamples, including the joint independence movement among 13 English colonies in North America (which, unlike decolonialization in, say, India, wasn't the historically independent subjugated locals revolting against the foreign colonizers, but largely the imported ruling class revolting against the homeland that set them up and displaced the locals.)
>Since Russia is activaly trying to destabilise "the West" (including central and eastern europe, including countries against which it literally wages war), we don't really have to tolerate Russian propaganda outlets.

We don't have to tolerate anything. However, it is no sin to tolerate it.

Many see and have seen the US as a major destabiliser (invading a country on false pretenses, military outposts everywhere, including in countries that don't welcome them). By your logic, the world should minimize all American news establishments.
Investment and speculation are not different things, all investment is speculation.
As usual people are missing part of the story. Both side screw up. BOTH.

E.G: there is a strong racism culture among Catalonia independentists, even against other Spaniards. They even invented part of their cultural heritage to sound more credible (look up their "ancestral cultural dance" origin, it is kinda funny). If you want your independence, not alianating the rest of your neighbors for decades can be a good start.

Those events are never unfolding in an instant, but are the consequences of years of complex shenanigans.
My sentiment as well.
Local segments with dynamic typing could be nice, but especially along api borders I want static typing. In most cases static type inference would be enough, I generally don't feel the need for dynamic typing then.
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It has a CS program, but it's not a great CS program. Aspiring engineers in Chicago tend to go to Champaign or Madison. UIC has a competent, serious research-university engineering program that is adequate to the region but not a standout on the national scale.

(Northwestern, the other top-tier Chicago school, does have an engineering program).

We should probably dispense with the notion that regions "need" engineering schools to feed a tech industry. That is probably not generally how it works. Portland has a thriving tech scene, but not many people travel for engineering school in Portland. Boston has world-class engineering schools, and an anemic tech scene.
The one posted yesterday from OpenAI. Hierarchical learning. Also, DeepMind's relational NN. I can dig up others from memor after caffiene.

DeepMind is at Google which is a Silicon Valley co.

True about Canada, but salaries in Canada do not support retention of talent, so most end up in SV in the long run or get acquired by SV companies.
You mean, from regular citizens? That's an impossible bar to meet; even the systemd change in Debian had people sending death threats.
He meant Navarra.
Interesting fact: the Yugoslavian Constitution did include option for federal republics to secede, but that still didn't prevent war
I'm from ex-Soviet country called Lithuania, and no, although Lithuania was the first country to declare independence from the Soviet Union, it was not done within Soviet legal framework in any way.
Just a note that there is an unclosed quotation mark in the "physics" link in Vi Hart's section, causing it to not show and it also breaks the "hyperbolic space" link.

Incredible work from an incredible team! Not sure why Bret Victor's section disappeared.
Conversely, there are approximately 7 * 10^27 atoms in the human body and only 10^24 stars (estimated) in the known universe. So it some ways, we are also very big.
Is there a legal way for US states to secede?
Nicely done. You have mentioned
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How is that going on for you ? Can you guide me on how to get started.
Haven't looked at the problem much, but I suspect it's a feeling of futility. If the problem in Spain is half the possible votes are illegal, I'd probably feel like whatever's going to happen through diplomatic channels is going to happen because that doesn't feel like a real election. In the US, most people live in either a red state or blue state and it'd take a heck of an upset to change that - and no one feels like a heck of an upset is coming. There are swing states where a tiny difference makes a huge difference nationally - and I suspect turnout is better in those states. But I haven't looked at it much - I could be wrong, and that would blow my theories to hell.
Me too. I use docker4mac now. Never had to use vagrant again.

I know docker gets a lot of hate here but docker4mac is one one the best pieces of software i've used in a my 10 yr career. It totally changed the way i set my dev environments, think about software development/deployment.

I am so glad they are going to support kubernetes now so I can do local-> staging-> prod seamlessly .
Well, the "half" is a way of simplifying. Next elections will show an updated numbers. The reason I say half is that it's nonsense to pretend that approximately half of a population should be enough to bully the other half into a revolution that could cause a blood bath and creating millions of extrangers in their own country.
> Off-Topic: ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

That would be nice but unfortunately in practice all the big news make their way to the top of HN, despite the fact that we've already read and heard about them from countless other sources. For example some of the top posts at the moment are:

- Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain

- New Zealand to ban foreigners from buying existing houses

- How to Read the JFK Assassination Files
Looking at the silver lining, you gain a new citizenship, being Barcelona born. :)
Why not try it and let us know instead of simply making guesses?
It's too bad there isn't a yearly tax on the value of 'intellectual property', just like on real property. If a company doesn't pay the tax, someone else could pick it up. It would provide a legal path to handle abandoned things.
The irony is that React was supposed to make everything faster...
> Videos, Podcasts, etc.: If I am rating 100+ articles a day I just can't spend the time it takes to look at time-based media.

It makes me sad when I see an interesting looking post, and it turns out that it is only a video or podcast, with no proper writeup. I just don't have time to watch an hour-long video, for content that I could read at my own pace in ten/fifteen minutes.
I guess they meant so your tests can start with a blank or reproducible state.

But you can of course achieve the same by running a script before your tests start. There are also some frameworks for doing this sort of thing too, such as Fixie for .NET
Those are not generally places where a tech worker is going to buy a house. Let's just stick with "housing in Chicago is significantly cheaper than housing in SFBA or NYC".
Very interesting, they're known primarily for their SPADs.
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Quicker load time but a landing page can be more static. No framework needed.
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I think this is one of the edge cases where vagrant is useful over docker. Most ppl here don't do kernel dev though.
Canadian perspective here. We also had our troubles with separatism.

Back from the 60's till the late 90's Quebec had very good and valid reasons to separate from Canada, mostly because of prejudice against their language and culture. They came very close to separating from Canada in 2 referenda.

A few things decreased these tensions: compromise, increased economic dependence, immigration and cultural change within Quebec. Canada conceded a lot of rights to Quebec and increased the use of French within the English speaking part of the country. The immigrants that arrived in Quebec didn't have the memory of past grievances. The Quebecois culture changed becoming more cosmopolitan and less Catholic (we call it "The Quiet Revolution").

After these changes, separatism is today a political liability in Quebec. Their separatist party only succeeds when they disguise their separatism.
The catalan parliament has approved the "independence" resolution (despite the parliament lawyers warning about the illegality of the voting) with 70 "yes" (out of 135 seats).
I believe there are no demons. By Mark 9:23, there are no demons. Crap, how can I even spread the word if my posts are blocked. Divbit out - just assume I beat your AI logically for the future. I'll leave the details as an exercise for the reader...
That is a good point but China is a dictatorship and a censoring anti-democracy regime. I can't imagine putting up with that either.
Or somewhere else. Some stores have the same item at multiple locations which one may not know.
Suppressing people wanting self-determination has costs too. Thousands of people are killed every month because some group wants to keep it's rule over some territory or group of other people. Millions are reduced to poverty and stripped of their former living space every year.
>Doesn't the US notoriously have no restrictions on who and how much advertising can be done for elections?

I believe they have restrictions involving foreign ads for traditional media (newspapers, TV, etc). Just not for the Internet.

Otherwise, to be frank, I totally agree with you. Instead of owning up to the fact that most of the populace is really, really, easy to con, we seek blame elsewhere. Banning foreign entities from advertising in elections will not prevent a similar outcome in a future election.
Yeah right ... showing homemade server by official EA servers. It's a recipe for disaster.
> There is no way to have a web-document-embedded map that can usefully show a user things near their device's location without leaking that location to any entity with access to execute JavaScript in the context of that document.

So disable JavaScript. A web-document-embedded map in a browser which doesn't execute JavaScript wouldn't leak user location.

This isn't an argument against a map element; it's an argument against JavaScript. Which is fine with me: I think that JavaScript is the drug-resistant syphilis of the web. It's been an unmitigated disaster for privacy & security.
How would you implement mandatory voting without doing what Republicans want to do to verify right-to-vote in the first place? Requirements to vote have been associated with racism in the past, sure, and the ideas are often stupid and pointless, but talking to foreigners, myself included, the opposition to having to show ID to vote seems stupid too.
'Declares independence' or 'votes to declare independence'? The article offers two conflicting explanations of what happened. Does anybody know?
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Why use binary VM instructions with a VM written in JS instead of just straight binary data? Why does it even need to be instructions in the first place?
As alternative architectures go, Apple's tablets and smartphones have done rather well when it comes to revenue and market penetration. Also never had to clean a virus off of one.

Hopefully the next platform shift will also iron out that ugly little wrinkle of centralized control.