skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or maybe they exist symbiotically? And the role advertising plays is to accelerate the feedback loop in a way that's beneficial to the interests of their employers.

Not to mention, advertising often has been used to create markets out of thin air:

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/82feb/8202diamond1.ht...
To play devil's advocate, saying "but you can never ban encryption anyway" sets up a false dichotomy. You're right, there are open source projects that will survive no matter what you do. But you can certainly force or convince companies like Apple and Google to prevent those apps from being available in their stores, and you can force large companies like Facebook to give you a backdoor.

Sure, someone tech savvy can get around that, but not everyone. Just look at how many criminal cases end up finding emails explicitly talking about plans and crimes. So there are people nowadays not even using encryption when committing crimes. If you make encryption-by-default impossible, the amount of unencrypted messages will increase, and you'll have gained those.

Now whether that's good or bad is a separate discussion; I tend to think it's bad, but that's a more nuanced argument than "you can't ban it, so don't do anything about it".
I think this is spot on.

And to your second point http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-29/apple-s-se...
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Isn't it funny that Wahabbists hate being called that ?

They get really agitated and say we're not Wahabbis we're just true muslims.

One interesting theory I read is that 19th Century Islam was forced to confront the reality that they had declined while Europe had soared.

In the ensuing conflict of ideas the one that won out was the thesis that the Islamic world had declined because they had gotten out of touch with the true values of Islam as practised by those at the time of the prophet.

Hence Salafism - Literally a return to the time of the prophet. Francis Fukuyama was laughed at for claiming the end of history a few years ago as he believed Western Democracy had achieved an eternal triumph.

What are we then to make of these people who believe that the end of history happened more than a thousand years ago ?
You're assuming that the religious/ideological choices of a society aren't contributing factors to their state of war or unrest.

It's like saying, "You'd need to find a Jainist[1] population that's at war or serious unrest."

Their ideology tends to self-select states that aren't at war.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism
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To sum up, it is a frontend for Docker swarm, including volume and multi host network management. Additionally, it has ldap/ad integration, so it has auth/access controls for containers. And some minor stuff too.
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I support freedom of speech - absolute and unrestricted. I don't support freedom of religion, but support freedom from religion - no other human should be able to force religion on other. The religion should be private matter to the individual and individual alone.
And therein lies the rub no? If we concentrate on the words in a book that will never disappear how do you propose we get out of this mess? And if Christianity could - to some extent - overcome the limitations of the bible how can we assist Islam? Surely not by attempting to polarize.
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This is just unacceptable. Given how the "international community" put sanctions on Iran that caused great damages to Iran's economy they could do similar things to ISIS. I say there is no will to stop ISIS similar to the will there was to stop Iran from enriching Uranium.

P.S: I'm from Iran.
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Of course, ISIS is not a one variable function.

I think the point you and @chappi42 miss is that being a jobless individual with no prospects in a war torn country with no end in sight is a whole different psychology than just being a jobless guy. Add this mix some religious agitation and you have the easiest job of all times as the HR manager of ISIS. I think this is the biggest contributing factor. Not the religion itself.
Fellow agnostic here, with religious friends and family.

I've asked my dad this before (Catholic), and his response was (paraphrasing):

Of course those stories are parables. There wasn't really a literal burning bush. But, whether the supernatural stuff is real, that's what faith is. Faith means that even when you can't see it, you know it's there because you can feel it. So you trust that what's there is what you think is there.

That's the supernatural parts of religion to my dad (I think he was in his 60s when I asked him about that.)
This might be hard to understand for us, but I am sure there are Sunni civilians who would rather be under ISIS rule that Assad or Iraki rules. Isis found a fertile ground because Sunnis area were oppressed or neglected by their central government.

At any sign of serious ground military actions, all that ISIS fighter have to do is to hide in their civilian population. And that will be Fallujah all over again.

This is the reason why currently no one consider seriously to send ground troops.
Really? I kind of criticised Haskell records a while ago on IRC (they're a bit crappy given whats possible...) and the answer I got was surprisingly:

"Yeah, we know :( We're working on it though: (links to 3 proposals, one of which will become a part of ghc 8)"
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The Kurdish part of Iraq did pretty well once Saddam was deposed. The central government is weak, and wasn't able to fend off ISIS but at least their human rights record is much better than Saddam's. And like, if Saddam still ruled Iraq currently, would he be able to hold back ISIS? I'd say no. In fact, ISIS would get even more sympathisers because by this time everybody would be sick of Saddam's shit. Look at Libya. Khaddafi's "strong man" reputation didn't mean nothing when people started fighting back against his regime. Look at Syria. Assad is supposedly "strong" but this days, and historically he had very weak control of his country.

The idea that these people should be propped up because they are "lesser evil" has no experimental basis. Reminds me of WW2 "appeasement" honestly. It only makes the problem worse in the long run.
It does seem odd. But it seems like there are at least a couple sources of discipline. The first is that you could call two brokers and take the one with the best offer, or use other kinds of pricing services for comparison. The other is that you could still negotiate directly with the dealer yourself.

Also, while they're paid by the dealers, the dealers are still competing with one another for the chance to pay this commission.

Hopefully this is just a small step towards buying cars directly from the manufacturer.
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I suspect that to those perpetrating all these activities their actions seem perfectly rational. It is to us that they appear irrational. To me they are crazy, to them I'm crazy. But once we start down that road it's just a small step to demonization and saying 'bomb them all' and that's really not a solution that has my vote. So rather than resorting to those methods and getting everybody (including Christianity) up to the standard required for scientific rigor in their thinking we're going to have to walk a different path. Religion is - for better or worse - most likely here to stay and any solution that includes abolishment of religion, no matter how welcome that would be to me personally if it happened - is probably going to achieve the opposite of its stated goal.
Japan's trend growth is zero. This is business as usual, not bad economy. If we want recession to mean bad economy, definition of recession for Japan needs to be revised.

See http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=31307.
You can, I can, which is 'we'. But we can not force others to reject their irrational beliefs.
Well, the context here is user acquisition via advertising. You are talking about user acquisition via field sales teams. So, apples to oranges when compared directly.

But anyways, in both cases what matters is the LTV of the customer vs the acquisition cost. The scale of the number doesn't matter.

I doubt this same scenario is happening with field sales teams anyways. It's much harder to scale up your field sales team than it is to just raise your online ad spend.
Seriously, yes. "News" outlets for decades have printed "anonymous officials" and "inside government sources" with devastating opinions.. even worse is "So and so was CALLED XYZ by ... " this is like assigning a variable in programming, X=Y.. talk about programming the mass consciousness!
Yea, as soon as I got to the "8 out of 31000" line, I knew the author wasn't being intellectually honest, and I couldn't trust any of the other assumptions he made.
In some sense, France already does this type of thing in Africa. Most recently in Mali.

Not sure in which way Syria would be significantly different.

Also, Russia is being pulled even more into Syria. So a truly international force may materialise at some point. Not that I'm advocating that's a good thing.
That's an open door, I don't need to kick it in. It simply revolves around how you define terrorist and that horse has been beaten to death by now, I really don't see any reason to revive it just to beat it to death again.
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What I found interesting is the method of communication was outlined in "Homeland" by Cory Doctorow (Or perhaps it was in "Little Brother"). I suppose we need to outlaw books now also.
Hitchhiker-style carpooling is alive and well in DC.
http://www.slug-lines.com/

All the major arteries into DC from Virginia have HOV lanes. At many major interchanges, there are parking lots. If you want a ride that doesn't take 2+ hours, you park at the interchange and hop in a stranger's car.
It's not about religions being good or evil. But different religions are different and expect their adherents to behave in certain ways.

Christians, ideally, are supposed to behave like Jesus.
Buddhists, ideally, are supposed to behave like Buddha.
Muslims, ideally, are supposed to behave like Mohammed.

These three individuals were very different.

Of course, adherents aren't ideal adherents. But you can still generally expect different behavior from each set of adherents. That's now calling one set evil and one set good (now that's some cultural imperialism!), that's recognizing reality. Muslims, historically, have taken very seriously that apostasy is a serious crime punishable by death. Christians and Buddhists, not so much; it's the rare exception and not an almost-rule.
> writing messages via in-game functions, like spelling words with dropped items or shooting walls

I'm kinda ashamed I haven't thought of that.
Such terrorist attacks are being cynically used as a pretext by the state security apparatus to shutdown private communication between its own citizens. If Chine spies on its own people then that's a violation of their human rights. If the freedom loving west does it, than that's to protect you from the terrorists.

"Despite what the papers say, there’s no evidence ISIS used PS4 to plan Paris attacks"

http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2015/11/despite-what-the-pap...

"Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual Culprits Who Empowered ISIS"

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-abou...
So are you saying that because some have made it marginalization is not a thing? Of course its causes are also cultural, that is exactly my point: we need to find cultural answers to this.

Your argument smells a lot like the self-made-man American myth. Just because some have made it out of poverty, often in different conditions than these, doesn't mean we don't have to fight poverty because everyone who is smart enough will pull herself out of it by her bootstraps (and I'm not talking just about material poverty).
Another way to accomplish it if you've got a spare computer (even something like a Raspberry Pi) is to configure it as a DNS server and then use your stock router firmware, if it supports it, to point DNS servers to that computer's local IP. So one device in your home or network would then become the local resolver.
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The lack of humanity will emerge soon enough if the practical problems of servicing massive government debt and supporting a European-style welfare system are not solved by having sufficient taxpayers on the ground to fund these outgoings.
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> After all what else is there to do? Deal drugs?

Jihadism provides these youth a sense of purpose. We failed at this. Now they fight for what is sold to them as (and they firmly believe to be) a high spiritual purpose instead of doing the jobs nobody wants to do and living a dull life in poor suburbs being treated like shit while watching rich white people enjoy loads of money on TV. In essence.
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I loved this story. How brave to go against everything you've been taught, which was only possible after being exposed to the wider world.
Sorry. My country has a pretty long history of being on the wrong side of historical arguments and was on the right side once or twice as well by 'virtue' of being invaded.

We've been refugees, have taken in refugees, have been a battle field and have waged war with neighbors and overseas creating battle fields elsewhere.

An isolationist strategy is given that history to me morally bankrupt and not an option, even if the position is coherent I find that for me personally that's not a road worth walking due to the inherent hypocrisy that would require.
If you're open to discussion I'd like a word less on the tenants of Christianity but more on the experience. Many highly conservative Christians are portrayed as angry, blind, even openly judgemental and rude. E.g. I read an article on NYT discussing some conservative Christians talking about how all gays need to be put to death.

Do you feel judgemental or upset when people exist that are very wrong according to your morality?

What is it like to be so drawn to God? Why God and no one else? How do you feel about people that don't perceive God or don't experience religious experiences that would point to God existing?
> > a significant number of adherents of Islam hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society.

A significant number of adherents of Christianity also hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society.
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Encryption or the use thereof doesn't threaten your life. Screwdrivers or the use thereof don't either, however if someone misuses the screwdriver and stabs you in the temple you will die.

Does this mean we should outlaw the use of screwdrivers ?
So if declaring war on ISIS is the wrong thing, what's the alternative? Giving in and taking terror for granted?
Strange as it may sound to you, Iran is an easier target than IS because Iran plays more 'by the rules' than IS. Which is part of the reason why the strategies so far have failed to deliver the intended results (in fact, may have made matters worse).

Iran, as a declared nation state with fairly well defined borders, a seat at the table and a lot of connections with the rest of the world is also in a position of having more to lose, so sanctions against Iran have a much higher chance of being effective.
it is happen already, i commented about duration.
christians have killed many more muslims than muslims have killed christians

Undoubtedly, but important questions about the ethics of war aren't usually based upon the body count. They're based upon initiation of force, hostility, ability to negotiate peace, treatment of captives, willingness to adhere to treaties, etc.
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I find your comment very relevant and I agree with all of it but I miss some references to the influence of not Levant nations in all this mess.

To your comments I would like to add:
the Russians invading Afghanistan, the CIA arming and training of all kind of "rebels", the invasion of Irak, the protection of the House of Saud by the EUA, the interest of Israel in being the only strong nation in the area, the support of dictatorial regimens (and their removal) by the "western powers", etc..

It's almost impossible to solve a problem without understanding it. And this is not a simple problem.
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What's wrong with newspaper reporting hearsay, while describing it as hearsay?

NYT didn't seem to pass it as anything else than it is. What's your logic here? Should all anonymous sources be banned? Or only the sources with opinions that you don't like?
This is what you get following link in the article:

An ICM poll on behalf of the Russian news agency Rossiya Segodnya tested the awareness of the group ISIS (previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant), in three European nations; Great Britain, France and Germany. The poll revealed that overall 2% and 7% say they are very favourable and somewhat favourable towards ISIS but a greater 26% and 43% are somewhat unfavourable and very unfavourable towards ISIS.

Not only they didn't break it down betwene religions, but I'm not even sure how NYT themselves extracted their "1/4 youths support ISIS" claim from this data.

OTOH, have a look at this link originally posted by imaginenore in some other thread:

http://www.pewresearch.org/files/old-assets/pdf/muslim-ameri...
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This issue brings up a larger point that many in the tech world have ignored for awhile. Now that end to end encryption is easily accessible by everyone, how do the authorities figure out beforehand when a terrorist attack will take place? The answer is not banning encryption technologies or giving authorities a 'key' as the FBI director has proposed. But now authorities have a very difficult problem on their hands. Encryption can't be contained, and the authorities need to figure out how to still catch the bad guys.
What makes you decide some bible rules are good and others less good? Same answer, probably.
> As a counter-point let me ask a non-religious person,
> what makes an act good?

You might be interested in reading The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris for an in-depth start at an answer to that question.

It's a secular look at morality and how we can reason about morality without a foundation of unscientific ideas (e.g. the existence of a deity).

In essence it makes the point that the religious idea of morality driven by a god with a big stick in the sky who'll discipline you if you step out of line isn't moral at all, and neither do most religious people actually adhere to it in practice.

E.g. we're not stoning homosexuals or burning witches as we once were, and it's not because the scripture changed, but because of secular progress despite of scripture. How do you decide which instructions to cherry-pick from the Bible or whatever piece of scripture it is you believe in?

He essentially defines an act as "good" if it's a net increase in human happiness and well-being. Burning people to death of persecuting homosexuals, not so much. Looking out for your fellow man so he'll look out for you. Note that this isn't the same thing as reducing morality to hedonism.

Anyway, I'm doing a poor job of paraphrasing the gist of that book so I'll stop. But if you're genuinely interested in what constitutes a good act or moral behavior in the secular sense there's a lot of well-researched and interesting works you can read on the subject.
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This 'paper' relies on some very flawed assumptions and hence have no basis in reality.

Ridesharing services like Uber aim to be cheaper than car ownership, while being as reliable as running water. Many people are finding that once they add up all their vehicle costs (maintenance, depreciation, parking, registration, fuel), uberPOOL or even uberX is cheaper than owning a car. Plus, you get to work or relax on the ride instead of focusing on the road. How much is your time worth?

Assuming that only 10% is willing to pay less for a superior experience is absurd. Once you change it to a more realistic figure of a third to a quarter, the conclusions fall apart.
You are confusing the equivalence of the result of the operations with the equivalence of the operations. The operations are not equivalent. That is the point. The question is not testing just whether you arrive at the correct result but whether you arrive at the correct result via the correct operation. The question clearly prompted the student to apply a particular strategy, and the student did not correctly apply that strategy. It's very cut and dry.

There is also a big difference between teaching a complex subject to a student and laying the groundwork for a later class. You can see that in the array problem on the same test. That's introducing matrices without getting into full pre-calculus yet.
I am afraid the answer to all of those questions is NOPE. ISIS did grow and will continue to grow as long as there is foreign military existence on Middle-east soil. It is extremely easy to recruit people to do anything while their national/religious pride is being pissed on by their historical enemy.
I know this is anecdotal: at my undergrad state university (UT) the intro to programming for non-programmers (I was a liberal arts major) was (is?) Haskell. Personally, I think it's a great first language---along with Python. "Getting stuff done" Haskell has virtually no learning curve. Generally, you can introduce new (deeper) concepts as the student's & learner's run into issues on the 5th or 6th time.

I think UT's pass-rate for it's Haskell class is just as good as TAMU's intro-to-programming (which is C/++).
Why not? How about we fork the Qur'an like it were source code, delete the parts about killing people for their beliefs, add in some more commandments such as "don't rape, don't discriminate, be nice to everybody. It's ok if you don't literally believe that Allah exists." etc etc.

Then we can rename it to Islam2 or Progressive Islam, or something like that. Everybody wins.

I'm pretty sure that's already been done with Christianity, and it's called Unitarianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarianism#Other_beliefs

I think Unitarianism is a step in the right direction.
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Yes, but its a context switch. You can't build unicorn for a billion people if the maximum possible market size is actually 10K people, or to be extremely generous, we'll say a couple million absolute tops.

That is an interesting sized market for a lifestyle business or maybe a government sponsored non-profit to target. Startup with VC money? Not really.
Bearing in mind the number of young French people who supposedly had a "favourable or very favourable" opinion of ISIS vastly exceeded the number of young French people who were Muslim, I suspect it had little to do with religion and everything to do with a particularly poorly phrased French version of the question....

The polling organisation is reputable, but the detail that they and the Russian state media organisation they conducted it for provided is scant:
http://www.icmunlimited.com/media-centre/press/isis-poll-for...

Similar polls of almost-exclusively Muslim, mainly Sunni and generally anti-West Gaza have found a much more negative opinions of ISIS
"of all creeds"

As you quoted yourself, this is among all creeds, not among muslims. France has larger muslim population than germany or GB that were in the same survey, yet this still does not explain the huge difference in youths actually supporting daesh. So, its fair to say that french youth in general is disillusioned. Also note that this was before charlie hebdo and the recent attack, not sure how the non-muslim french would respond now.

The banlieues are often referenced , but were the terrorists from the banlieues? the whole thing seems to be orchestrated from belgium.