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"In the name of what, a group can decide over another on what is it allowed to do?"

Of course that a group can decide over another group which is a subset of the former. Otherwise, any city of any country, or any group of individuals, could decide to vote and set their own rules for whatever they want.

No, that is not what is happening. Spain is a state where the majority of the people wants to belong to the state. Catalonia would be a state where half of the people wouldn't want to belong to it. I wonder if the future Catalan government will allow referendums so that such people will be able to split from Catalonia.

Besides, not voting is also democracy. Most of the Spanish people don't want to allow these kind of referendums in Spain. Therefore, Spain is doing what the majority wants (== democracy).

There are also many many people and windows without flags ;) Once they become an independent country, it will be one where ~50% of the people doesn't want to belong to it. Let's see what kind of "democracia" will they apply there.

one more sensationalist headline for deepmind

https://www.google.es/search?q=mujoco+learning+to+walk#q=muj...

No way if by America you mean the US.

I want the data for the same reasons that any content producer in the Internet wants it. Bloggers, youtubers, any company...everyone. Despite the noise this data might contain, it seems it's useful for everyone except for scientists...to whom I am surprised to hear that it's better not to give the data, in case they misinterpret it. Very risky statement and precedent.

As a scientist, give me the data and I will know what to do with it. AFAIK in the http://biorxiv.org/ they provide some statistics and it does not represent a problem.

Nah, I mean that it is a pain to upload error-free files. Due to dependencies with libraries and other reasons, a file that compiles in your computer often fails to compile in the arxiv.

I hope it is replaced with something better soon. You cannot see access statistics concerning the papers you upload, and they provide this absurd reason for not doing it: https://arxiv.org/help/faq/statfaq (it seems they think arxiv users are idiots or something, so they have to take care of us). Also getting the uploaded latex files to be compiled without errors is a pain, and they don't let you to just upload the pdf (this has pros or cons, but I wish there was the freedom to choose... and I guess that 99.999% of the time people just download the pdf).

Seriously, please someone explain this. I thought DNS info is propagated among DNS servers, and it is cached on all of them... How can an attack to a single DNS company cause this outage??

did they make a patent on that algorithm?

The problem is that every remote desktop solution I have tried works quite slow and laggy. It does not feel as if you are sitting in front of your computer at all. Has anybody experienced the opposite? (I haven't tried this iceberg.io, so maybe theirs works ok) And it seems it does not really make sense to render all the graphics in the backend machine and got them sent over the Internet.

I have been looking for a solution to do web development in the cloud, so that if lose my computer I can continue right away from another terminal, or I can also code from my iPad or check all my stuff from my smartphone or whatever. However your product is not suitable for my use case because I do not need a lot of computing power, for that I ssh to my AWS instances. What I would need from a remote OS is to be cheap and of course without time usage limits. The closest thing that I have seen to what I need is this Multiplex project: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/3jvwj6/multipl... . Just my 2 cents!

My short attention span prevented me to read this article... It seems I crossed the no-return point, I am hopeless.

And the law does not mean that "you made something wrong therefore we have the right to treat you as shit".

And by the way, that is not what is discussed in this thread. These people made a mistake when getting the visa, and instead of getting an error, they were put in jail 33 hours. Not everyone that makes a mistake with the visa is a terrorist or an illegal worker. Probably most of them aren't.

It seems that your 60 second research missed the point that the ESTA is also valid for business purposes.

https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/

And the fact that you cannot ask for ESTA if you already asked for a J1 is not explained in that site.

Besides it is crazy that instead of displaying an error when they asked for the ESTA, they were put in jail for 33 hours. The worse part is that some people do not see anything wrong with that...

But changing perception is in our hands. If everybody starts not giving a F for the .com, then people will start not caring about that... If we keep fighting for the .com we are just supporting that ugly business of buying nice domain names in order to sell them for a ridiculous price to people that actually want create something.

I guess we all have different definitions of "quality of life". IMHO, the salary may be very high in the nordic countries, but with the weather the have, I wouldn't consider that a high quality of life.

It has been know, but has it been done before?

For me it is more difficult how to stay motivated in your 8-5 work when you are building an awesome side project.

For those of you who can speak Spanish, this guy replicated Clavijo's route by motorbike and he recorded some pretty cool videos of the adventure: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQS7oakJitCbDcGFtHRgg...

That is a pretty strong accusation. What is your source?

food + heat + plastics doesn't sound very appealing...

If I were Google, I would start charging a fee for being indexed in Google news.

I don't now how to feel about this.

It is great that facebook provides a good environment for Machine Learning research. Besides they publish papers and contribute to the community.

However, it is sad and disturbing that all that talent and knowledge in AI is also working to create a tool that doesn't give a shit about our privacy.

I don't now how secure this is, but the look&feel of the site is awesome. If you happen to fail in this project, I encourage you to try another one, since you clearly have talent to make really cool web apps.

Just because you care about something, it doesn't mean it belongs to hacker news. Otherwise, let the porn stuff begin.

I agree with you, but I am not sure about this:

P(A) * P(Not A) * P(Not A) = P(Not A) * P(Not A) * P(A)

P(A) > P(Not A) * P(Not A) * P(A)

Also, of course these are not independent events: if a plane has an accident for some reason, all the future flights take extra measures to avoid the problem that caused the accident and other related problems.

[[citation needed]]

"I'm perfectly fine with them changing to a better sourced URL and a more accurate title"

I can see how this behavior can bring some benefits. However, what if the mods just change the urls in order to point to their own blogs? Or to blogs where the opinion expressed shares their view or supports the interests of whoever? That behavior can dangerously lead to manipulation.

I do not like the fact that I can see some news in the front page with 200 votes and the article that I read is not the one that received those 200 hundreds votes.

I also do not like at all the attribution issue that you mentioned.