skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good? There is a scale in play here. Either the centralization of nations is good or bad, on a case by case basis.

For union - Centralization means more bargaining power in international negotiations because your economy is just physically larger. More tax revenue means the central government can do more ambitious things. Centralization is good for business because trade barriers are lower between providences and states than between countries.

By far, however, the greatest historic argument for large countries has been for militaristic purposes. Having a nation of a hundred million men spanning half a continent could historically walk all over smaller neighbors. This historic basis for centralization of power has fallen way by the wayside in the modern era of global communication and more importantly nuclear arms. It doesn't matter if France is smaller than Germany when France has hundreds of nukes and could remove humanity from the Earth a dozen times over.

For division - Minority cultures, groups, and people who simply do not agree with the majority opinions in a country but have solidarity in their region / culture are oppressed by the central government.

The arguments basically come down to an economic rationale for big centralization or a social desire for self determination and liberty. Now of course dissidents could want secession for good or ill - Indian independence from Britain was by almost any account a moral good, but the desire to secede from the US by confederates just to persist their industry of owning human beings was not. But fundamentally we should all be able to at least agree that righteous revolutions we agree with are justified and worth the economic cost to obtain liberty.

The debate over Catalonia shouldn't be along the lines of economic consequences from seceding because if Catalan is justified in what they are doing the freedom of its citizens has to supersede economic arguments to stay without liberty. Freedom has to come first before profit, and the debate should be if the Spanish governments has been legitimately oppressive of Catalan, and if you agree they have been, and you believe in liberty and self determination, you have to support their secession no matter the economic cost.Hygiene works by attaching an invisible "syntax context" value to all identifiers. When two identifiers are compared, both the identifiers' textural names and syntax contexts must be identical for the two to be considered equal.

It is probably very romantic an ideology, but democracy has always been rooted in romanticism.
What you can't do is to reward people voting on a poll that the majority does not want to vote in.
I think that begs the question though, how would you set limits? Was the colonies forming America wrong, it certainly wasn't a peaceful/legal revolution.
Plenty. India, Kenya, Australia, Canada and various ex-SSRs all spring to mind. Not many without violence on the run-up, I'll grant you, but in many cases, the actual process of independence was performed entirely legally.
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Is there a search engine or other convenient discovery mechanism for Onion services?

I know DuckDuckGo has their own hidden service, but it seems that site only returns results from the regular internet, not from other hidden services.
>> The illegality of their vote is supported by the judicial system, not political.

However it came about, that's a really political situation to be in. It sounds to me like Spain has set up a legal framework in which war is the only way to leave a democracy. I'm not familiar enough with Catalonia's motive's here to judge their decision, but that's a shitty situation in which to make that decision. And to be clear, I think that's a problem with a lot democracies. You end up with tyranny of the majority, and you either "pay the price for living in a civilized society" or you end up in an armed battle. There's no, "oh okay - I'll stop using nationally-funded roads and you can stop taking my money to start wars elsewhere." I think this is subconsciously part of why the 2 parties in the US seem so irrational to each other - there's only a need to get 51% (or in very few cases 67%) and then protect your existing supporters - there's no need to make a system that works for almost everyone. So people feel alienated and defensive, but basically do the same thing that was done to them the second they get their foot in the door.

>> the votes were not supported by any international body and were not conducted in a public or transparent manner
>> Only 38% of Cataluá citizens voted, the remaining 62% did not participate in this vote.

Huh - sounds like elections in the US too. #twins
Trait of this title is plain wrong.
The New York Times has it now https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/world/europe/spain-catalo...
I wouldn't be too sure about that. There are some jurisdictions where if someone squats the land long enough, and the owner of the land does nothing, the squatters gain de jure property rights too. [0]

3 years in this instance were the alternate Battlefield servers being run outside of EA, which might be considered a reasonable space of time without the publisher taking action to the point where the alternative servers might be considered the inheritors of the intellectual property?

It's a bit of a stretch, but perhaps there is some validity here. I don't feel too strongly about it, so I hope you don't feel like I am trying to shut you down.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession
> Overlay networks has a very expensive overhead

Single onion services are a thing now for quiet some time actually: https://web.archive.org/web/20161219230314/https://blog.torp... (had to use archive.org since images are broken on their blog currently)
Politically active get to decide. I'm not sure why expect it to be otherwise.
Because there is no scarcity that requires management by enforcing an monopoly. If I want to stop playing chess why should everyone else stop playing chess as well?
This situation is exacerbated by the fact that, for Windows, Anaconda is the only way to get packages like numpy etc. working without downloading prebuilt wheels. If pip on Windows worked reliably Anaconda would have no need to exist.
There is practically no difference between options and RSUs early on when the value the company is low and the strike price is (or at least should be) minimal.
"Laws change depending on who's making them. Cardassians one day, Federation the next – but justice is justice."
– Odo, 2369 ("A Man Alone")

How much representation does Catalan has in the central government and high court?

As Catalan has been operating independently, surely with its own police force and Catalan people in the army, can the central government force the Catalan to release power?
I suspect the only reason the US government lets Americans think the second amendment would enable the population to forcibly remove an undesirable government, is because the weapons and strategic/tactical/leadership skills of the population are vastly out-classed by the armed forces.

What good is a semi-automatic against a supersonic jet that just fired an air-to-ground missile in your direction? Plenty of AK-47s in Afghanistan, they don’t even take on subsonic drones effectively.
Pretty sure he wrote absinthe.
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This federation is only an outside appearance, though. Spanish gvt has the tools (and is willing to, and already did many times) to bend the laws from any of its regions' local governments.

And the cancelled laws were not all about independence. They were about protecting the people who can't pay for energy in winter or banning bullfights, among others.
> one of the biggest productivity improvements in the history of programming, comparable to the introduction of Java and VM-based programs in the 1990s.

If languages like Smalltalk, APL and Lisp aren't counted, then sure, Java was big productivity boost in the history of programming.
Russia is actively interfering in politics so we should resort to burning books. Yeah what could go wrong. Next we'll start accusing people of being communists..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare
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Hmm I'm thinking people can sign up for Dropbox or Google Drive instead and transfer via them?

The website seems easy to understand, I like that. Something that's a bit unclear to me is how will I pay? It costs money, but nevertheless "There's no sign-up or hassle for either of you" ?

Another thing that comes to my mind — what about privacy? I don't know who you are. Likely there's something important in the file that I don't want unknown people to have access too. — Google Drive feels safer in this regard, feels as if I know who Google "is" and it doesn't have any interest in looking inside my large files.

How large files b.t.w.? 1 GB? 1 TB?

If you want feedback from more people, you can try https://usability.testing.exchange (I'm developing it).
You should understand the basics of Macro and Micro Economics imo.

For example, something as simple as supply and demand concepts will make you understand a lot of stuff.
Sure: There is no... reason why a country that in every way (culture, language, its own flag, etc) is its own country outside of the fact that it has been ruled over by other countries shouldn't be allowed autonomy if the people will it.

I'll finish 2 as well: Such a vote will always be called illegal by the occupying country. The creation of Catalan, despite being voted on, will be called illegal by Spain. That's their perspective of it, not Catalan's.
> I was surprised when Jack said they'd be returning ad money from RT/Sputnik,

Twitter was playing into the "Russians" PR story. Basically explaining the results of the elections as reversed by the Russian influence. Everyone talked about it for months on end. After months of investigating, it turns out Russians bought ads on Facebook and I guess were approached by Twitter to promote their version of "truth" as well for some extra cash. So now Twitter feels a bit guilty, because even though it knows the narrative is bogus, they have to go along with it.

That's the danger of the conspiracy theory mindset. Once they go down that path, it's hard to really get back out, because it would mean realizing everything that has been said or repeated so far is mostly bogus. It's really hard to fight against cognitive dissonance, both at the personal and organizational level.

However, I think it's good in general they are trying to reduce subversive influence and bring light to it. Hopefully they apply the same effort and zeal to expose and reduce the influence of other governments, corporations, political organizations and so on.
Precisely. That's the difference between land and IP. IP is made. Land is bought, maybe worked on, developed, but as Mark Twain said about land, "they're not making it anymore."

>Inb4 South China Sea.
I think you'll find that it's like euphemism creep: in a few more decades, you'll be arguing to slide the time over another hour, and in another few decades, you'll do the same thing all over again.

Better to just stick with real time and be done with it. We're adults, are we not? Have we not the tools at our disposal to take responsibility for our lives?
Keeping the prices updated and correctly tagged adds value to the product. Walmart in particular seems (from my observation relative to other stores in my town) to have a bad track record of updating their stickers and keeping their shelves sorted.
The thing about static typing is that there's a lot of research behind it and it's getting better every day. Eventually it will get to the point where it's nearly almost the same as dynamically typed systems, but with type checking (but today is definitely not that day). Checkout liquid types [1]. It's a way to get type inference with nearly dependent types. Cool stuff.

Dynamically typed languages, on the other hand, don't really have that much more research that can even be done with them. Can't do any more research on the type system because there isn't much of one. Really the only thing you can do is introduce language features that are difficult to type in a static system, but at that point you're just giving more theory CS phd students targets of things to find a novel way to type.

That being said, the problem with static type systems is that there is a lot of details that you need to figure out to A) be able to use it and B) be able to avoid the edge cases. You'll eventually need to learn about type theory ... which isn't just one thing. Agda and Idris have incompatible definitions of equality and that has an impact. Are your dependent types intensional or extensional? It matters. And that's just the theory side. Two different type systems with the same theory might have different implementation details that impact the programmer. Are you using ML? Is that an applicative functor or a generative functor? Hey, you're using first class modules, cool. Btw you can't use that with applicative functors, don't ask why it has something to do with complicated type theory stuff that took people years to figure out. Using haskell? Is it GHC or is it some alternative ... because that impacts some type class definitions that are possible.

Eventually the static types are going to win because we'll slowly figure out how to type everything (well, nearly everything) and we'll slowly figure out how to package that power in a way that everybody can understand.

However, in the mean time there is a very real cost to having to learn any given static type system that doesn't exist if you live in a dynamically typed system. Additionally, if you do understand some type theory you can bring over the lessons learned to your dynamic system. You won't get type checks at compile time, but you will get a more disciplined way to produce code.

[1] - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=029...
If you're using Tor surely you should be disabling third-party and non-onion assets and JavaScript?
What is the fundamental difference between a colony and any other patch of territory?
There have also been few successful secessionist movements that weren't backed by force of arms.

Anyway, I think the calculus is unique in this case. We are already seeing major companies move their headquarters out of Catalonia. Catalonia's independence would mean disruption of access to EU common market benefits and Schengen. Also they couldn't stop smaller provinces from voting to rejoin Spain.
More likely for users in China etc.
Yes, that report doesn’t include all taxes. It’s also completely up front about it. It says “federal taxes” in the title and throughout the article.

I have no problem with analyzing a subset of taxes. I have a problem with analyzing a subset of taxes and lying about it by just saying “taxes.”
You are allowed to vote to parties that want the secession and promise to vote for Constitution reform. The thing is people, even in Catalonia don't want independence. This question is presented over and over again as a Catalonia vs rest of Spain, when it's actually a debate that's not settled inside Catalonia.

Parties that don't propose independence had less votes than the ones that do, the electoral system being the culprit that they have majority in regional parliament.
I tend to agree with the parent comment, a small team can get away without it if the software stack is stable. PHP 5.2 to 7 is quite a change and should have been documented upfront. I assume that the project must conform to certain software requirements. On the other hand, npm is full of surprises.
Maybe he's trying to avoid the same fate as JFK.
I will just leave this here:

https://spanishpolice.github.io/
(6) is misleading; the president of PP (the party of the central government) in Catalonia has himself asked for a secret vote recently[1], hoping for defections in the pro-independence groups. Yet a few hours later he calls them cowards for having a secret vote.

[1] https://twitter.com/elsmatins/status/923815123260772357 (you'll notice it was retweeted by Albiol himself)
The topic is a hobby horse of Mark Ames, whose work I really admire. It's not necessarily on a "large, coordinated scale," but it's a mistake to assume it has to be to be influential.
Listen, you make Cobol programming highly lucrative, and there will be plenty of people coming to do it.
Skynet is just sloppy though. The easiest way to get a practical human extinction is to make entertainment so fun that people forget to have children, then just wait.
You say "brutal suppression" based on the images you saw in the media, right?
I don't really understand this. "Infinity" just means without finite quantity, doesn't it? I can, theoretically, count for infinity - there are no end to the theoretical numbers.

If I can prove a value can be reduced arbitrarily close to a limit, we can say something is equal to that limit for any finite resolution (for any resolution of "closeness to the limit" there is a precision in the calculation capable of delivering within that resolution)

Hence, I can say "F(x) = 3 for any finite resolution", so if no infinities exist, then none are needed for mathematics. They are a calculation artifact that represents a single function over arbitrary levels of resolution.
> hidden services

I think you responded to your own question.

Besides that there are lists of onion services. Apparently there are also search services like https://ahmia.fi/
It's very hard to see a discussion on this topic that does not miss the true point:

This "conflict" is the fight between nationalist movements (Spanish and Catalan) which re-enforce each other in every turn for the worse of the majority and of the European Union.

On the Catalan side, the Nationalist movement is used by dubious politicians which belong to the richer statements of Catalan society to grab power and "make history". The love of the flag and the dishonest approach to history and current socio-economics of the region are strategies followed by every other wannabe-patriot in the world. The illogical approach to their goals and the complete divorce from reality will likely hurt any further attempts for autonomy or proper independence in the long term.

On the Spanish side, the winners of this conflict are ruling right wing and all the until now minoritary extreme-right movements. Thanks to Catalonia, Spanish nationalism of the worst kind can resurface and perpetuate itself in power. It is not casual that Spanish rulers have been completely deaf to the long standing demands of a large part of the Catalonian population.

The only way the Spanish nationalists win is by having the Catalonians take the most confrontational of the paths: declaration of independence.

The only way the Catalonian nationalists win, is by having the Spaniard ones repress and provide a moral ground which supports their otherwise futile aspirations: break the law.

Whoever the winner of this fight is, it will be a sad day for Europe, because nationalism and national borders will have prevailed and this goes against everything we need to build a stronger and better EU.

The tragedy here is that, in the end, everyone loses. Politicians are not focused on crushing poverty, judges are not working to end corruption, police is not busy catching terrorists. The majority is just watching this sad show, hoping it's over soon, so they can go back to their lives which, by the way, are exactly or worse than before.
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I don’t think it’s valid to claim the non voters in an aggregate 65%. Otherwise you could say 68% of the country didn’t vote to leave. Which presumably means it was a stronger position.

Edit - I see you removed that claim.
Twitter have said they're going to donate all the RT ad money to external research on use of Twitter for things like this. They said it's $1.9m. Also the profit report seems to be based on a claim for next quarter, and presumably they've either costed that donation in Q3 or factored it into their Q4 prediction.
> 5) Other regions of Spain, such as Pamplona or Euskadi,

yeah...not sure how well informed your are...Pamplona is NOT a region, but the capital of a region.
Yeah, but it bloats up considerably when you add in the other features.
Well it is not so easy.
First, they will need to modify the constitution, which requires being approved a qualified majority not a simple one in parliament, in this case, is 3/5 of the parliament this reform might need to be approved by referendum (all the country not just Catalunya) in case a tenth of the parliament requires it.
Second, the government has no desire to modify the current regional system, which is in line with its voters. Anyway the Canada case is not the norm and similar legislation are in use in other countries, for instance in Germany.
https://www.thelocal.de/20170103/bavaria-must-remain-part-of...
I'm not super familiar with Vagrant or docker. But I've used vagrant before to do linux development on a windows machine. AFAIK that's not even related to anything docker claims to be able to do.
Why not let foreigners vote?

Why not give them free healthcare?

Why not subsidize their education abroad?

Why not let foreigners pay our politicians to make legislation - the money goes to lawyers, consultants etc. i.e. right into the economy!

For the same reason we have borders, that we don't allow foreigners to buy some kinds of assets (i.e. wireless spectrum) - or do some kind of banking, own certain kinds of companies.
Author here. lively.next is a runtime and development environment. It comes with a graphical user interface and programming tools that allow you to program similarly to Smalltalk and Self, i.e. instead of a edit-compile-run cycle you have an ever running "program" and change various parts of it directly. With that you have access to runtime objects that you can inspect, use for code completion, or modify.

Apart from the UI (inspired by Self's Morphic [1]), lively.next implements a meta system on top of normal JavaScript that makes such things possible as to hold on and inspect system state (variables defined inside a module, mechanisms for redefining things etc).

Also, lively.next runs on any JS system and it's various packages can be embedded, e.g. to create a programming environment for node.js and other such things.

The Lively project evolved over time and lively.next is the newest version:

- https://www.lively-kernel.org is from the Sun Labs / HPI days (check out the ancient http://sunlabs-kernel.lively-web.org, fully SVG based rendering)

- Lively Web: https://lively-web.org A live, programmable wiki (2012-2015)

- lively.next since 2016 https://lively-next.org.

[1] http://ftp.squeak.org/docs/Self-4.0-UI-Framework.pdf
How would what you describe be any different from a large European 'nation'?
Nuke-practice is why I only use tar these days.
If you're using python, maybe jinja would work. I like twig in PHP, but that's because I like php.
> So much user-facing network software is built on top of other programs, like ssh or rsync, and when those things fail they just don't know what to do. And so much of the problem is precisely because they're not using them as libraries, they're using them as command-line utilities.

Unix CLI utilities have well defined way to return an error - non zero exit code. It is even possible to return different errors as different exit codes, though it is rarely done.
Cobol.

It will still be used in prod when these 3 languages will have disappeared.
That is incorrect. It might be your impression, but Spain is actually one of the most decentralized countries in the world. Catalonia has something around 5% of their state workers depending on the central government.
Thb, most of the interesting work I've seen has come out of Silicon Valley. What breakthroughs have come from China?
I don't think it is a conspiracy theory to say Russia influenced them as well (at a $$$$ level):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnol...