skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Assad a fanatic who can't be reasoned with? The Europeans and US are finally starting talks with his ministers. Over the past few years they've been trying to undermine his government. They're still trying to undermine his government.

Syria and Iraq were fairly peaceful places, but the US began poking them, and working to undermine their secular "pan-Arab socialist" leaderships, and invading them. Once the US and Europe were done torturing people in Abu Ghraib, making sick sexual photos of prisoners, and blowing Iraq and Syria to kingdom come, they turn around and call the soldiers trying to expel them "fanatics who cannot be reasoned with", "savages" and so forth.

Of course that's the attitude of the imperialist invaders, it always will be. The French who colonized Syria, who have been bombing Syria have this attitude as well, so the only thing they understand is returning their bombs with bombs.
This is an important topic that should be top of mind for all of us and discussed on a regular basis. Facebook is trying hard to become like AOL in the mid 90s. Total control from soup to nuts. Zuckerberg and his team are very clever and calculated in their approach (as any of us might be in their position, similarly incentivized and with no malicious intentions). But we will all be worse off if they are successful. The open web is one of the few things in life I've found worth really fighting for.
I really enjoy typescript and I really enjoy the cutting edge features. Atom editor is the only editor that has the typescript plugin that works with the latest features of typescript. I hate the performance of atom but it is worth the tooling.
There aren't any, that's the problem. Because most language designers these days seem to think that the best way to solve problem X is to develop an entire closed-garden ecosystem that also can solve Y and Z, and ends up doing none of them well, while forcing you to use their language and only their language.

Everywhere I've worked, I have seen the same things reimplemented poorly over and over again in general-purpose languages. Every system I've worked on is roughly a mash-up of database, dataflow graph, state machine, work scheduler, IPC, process coordination, programming in the large, and very low-level algorithmic stuff. Each of these could be factored out into a common simple language, but almost invariably they're just patterns imposed on C/C++/Java/what-have-you code. This greatly hampers understanding and analyzability.

There are rare occasions I see DSLs used to fulfill these roles, and it's to great benefit. Working with a well-designed PostgreSQL database rather than some half-baked home-grown object database is a dream. You get a concurrency model that works, and you can extract graphs of your data model for free. Same with using a state machine description language like SMC rather than hand-coding stuff as C++ boilerplate. Same with using a process coordinator like Erlang's OTP (which isn't a DSL but is close enough).

I'm not writing these posts to try to get developers to use DSLs more often. I'm writing them to try to get language designers to design DSLs more often.

On Coq:

Coq is not at all a practical programming language, since it has no concept of communication with external processes (i.e. I/O). This is exactly as it should be, since Coq is focused precisely on the domain of functional algorithms (and proofs). And, I have found that, within that domain, the restriction that all my algorithms must provably terminate is nearly invisible.

There is a very simple general way to ensure that all programs in Coq terminate: augment each recursive function with one additional argument which is a counter which must always count down to 0 (at which point recursion must halt). On the initial call to a recursive function, select a starting value for this counter which is greater than the number of iterations the algorithm requires. (When proving correctness in Coq, you will be asked to prove that this starting value is in fact suitably high.)

I have kept this requirement in mind when designing programs in other languages, and I have found it trivial to meet in all cases. Turing-completeness is not a feature I need in a programming language.
The real issue is that the media and politicians use the term ISIS instead of IS because it's better for SEO

Got a citation for that?

Even if what you're saying were true, it could be more charitably described as "not using a term that shares a spelling with one of the mostly commonly used words in the English language".
What is really most concerning about these studies is that the intervention too resembles the metric in order to believe they don't teach to the test. It's like treating depression by teaching people how to lie to psychiatrists. If you're measuring intelligence by performance on little 10-minute puzzles, and you show an improvement by teaching people to solve puzzles, I'm not really impressed. If you show an improvement in puzzles by teaching people guitar, giving them a drug, or sending them to basic training, I'll invest in your company. On the other hand, if you measure intelligence by job performance or some other life measure, and you show an improvement with puzzle games, it doesn't seem quite so unfair.
The Islamic State has specifically said they don't limit themselves to Syria and Iraq (they're trying to establish a caliphate), so the Daesh acronym the article is pushing is incorrect.

If you want to call them something they don't want to be called that's fine, but you're not being neutral.
Has anyone asked to have their child's sample destroyed and received a response from CDPH that it was? Did you mail or email the form?

Asking since I'm about to be a parent in a few days and definitely want the sample destroyed.
Daesh is a relatively small group, and propaganda is central to its growth strategy.
Whether hijacking popular Twitter hashtags or using little known distribution channels
to post videos to YouTube, their leadership knows that the war of words online is just
as key to increasing its power and influence as the actual gruesome acts they commit
on the ground.
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JetBrains has an IDE called AppCode, an alternative to Xcode (not open source). But it still relies on Xcode for distribution and the UI designer, and it lags far behind the update cycle of Xcode. And that is a commercial company with steady revenue dedicated to making IDE. Imagine the difficulty of an open source alternative.
No, it's a great idea. It denies them recognition and legitimacy.

If we described domestic terrorists (bomb makers, mass shooters, killers, etc) as 'that waste that killed a bunch of people in X during Y' and never /ever/ published their names (in the news anyway, court transcripts would need to show them) then it would make those actions a lot less sexy.

In that same way, we should also call the extremists in the middle east that; possibly picking an arbitrary flavor word that is of no relation to them just so we can make a distinction. There are /quite/ a few extremist groups in that area of the world.
It's not a filter, as others have suggested, but rather a standard artifact of vacuum-tube-based television cameras that were in use at the time. (I don't know why this lecture wasn't filmed, but the extensive dark halo effect makes it clear this was shot with a TV camera. This was the early era for magnetic video tape, but I assume that's how the recording was preserved.)

Anyway, the point is that these TV cameras are based on the fact that incoming light will dislodge electrons from a thin plate in a vaccum tube in an amount proportional to brightness. A very bright spot in the image produces a shower of electrons that is more powerful than the rest of the tube (the part that detects the electrons) can deal with. The net result of this "splash" of electrons is a mild desensitization of the detection apparatus around the bright spot. This makes the nearby stuff appear darker.

You mentioned that dark spots also seem to have a bright halo, but I don't see that in the video, and it isn't consistent with the usual artifacts of these cameras. Are you sure?
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Sure, my point is just that food delivery is one of the most expensive options for feeding oneself (compared to cooking at home or take out). People order food a few times a week, but it seems unlikely for them to redesign their lives around it long-term (in the rest of the world outside San Francisco/NYC that is not populated by wealthy single folks). Unlike other services like Uber, which can save $ by allowing you to ditch the car and have allowed people to permanently alter their lifestyles. I assume that there is some thesis baked into these business plans that food delivery will become more wide spread, and more frequent. Perhaps that people actually prefer to be served at home instead of going out, and that the savings from rent and waiters can be captured by these services instead.
The ip Disney is trying to protect is Winnie the poo.
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The vast majority of my work has been in open source languages using open source tools. So my experience with xcode is very limited and I imagine your thoughts to be something that may change my tune if I were to be in that ecosystem.
It was a great talk and his high-energy delivery I think is a well welcomed change of pace compared to many tech conference speakers
Ya, running a public cloud and competing against Amazon, I can see why he has so much angst about VMs. The reality is, the market wants what Amazon is selling and no amount of blasting VMs is going to undo that.

https://www.joyent.com/public-cloud/aws-comparison

The funny thing is he almost gets it right at the beginning of the talk about how Docker focused on the developer. That's what made Amazon successful.

Who is using Joyent?

https://www.joyent.com/about/customers
While arguably not correct, is there any particular reason to downvote this? I think it's a fairly valid point
Daesh have no more relation to salafism than what Bush and Blair's murderous excursions have to do with WMD or democracy.
Daesh apparently attracts two categories of people:

1. people suffering from PTSD who have lost much of their capacities to think clearly; specifically, part of butchered Sunni community in Iraq following the sectarian war fuelled by US invaders after years of deadly sanctions (they also include former members of Saddam's secular stasi-equivalent http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-file...), and some of the Syrians going through Assad's butchery.
This is no different from how a bunch of peaceful villagers turned into brutal group that was Khemer Rouge (http://johnpilger.com/articles/from-pol-pot-to-isis-anything...).

2.A tiny western group who are largely clueless about the world (almost entirely about religion), seeking certain warped sense of glory: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/04/jihad-f...

On a different note related to welfare, Saudis are probably not that worse off in certain ways: any (poor) Saudi is eligible to receive funding/stipend from his/her government for studying in world's top universities, unlike many rich capitalistic states that are effectively no less of an oligarchy.
Fight the causes, the real causes; stop neocolonialism (France has bombed Lebanon, Syria, Lybia, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iran, all Muslim countries, and I'm not quoting military intervention in Africa), education - but meaning sensibility from the West to Third country history (links to the technology issue below)

That's just to start.
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What are you talking about? Where does he say it's acceptable to kill innocents? It's obviously never, so why not point out that France has no clean slate? Just that it happened 70 years ago (other events like the Greenpeace bomb are much more recent) doesn't make it right. You can't just say just because France was attacked two days ago now they're suddenly holy.

The attacks on France were despicable, as were the actions of France in the past. As were many actions of many if not most of the countries currently in existance. Countries usually are wrought from blood.

But it's not the blood of countries that is spilt, it's the blood of civilians, individual human beings whose part in the operations of the countries is indirect at best. That doesn't mean the people should not be held accountable for the actions of their elected governments, I think they definitely should. I think it's perfectly acceptable to be angry at the average frenchmen for their indifference at the Greenpeace bombing, as it is acceptable to be angry at them for taking part in the bombing of IS targets in Syria. But no one in their right mind is suggesting that children at a concert should suffer horrific death for it..
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I'm not sure that follows, or for that matter that there's any evidence to support your position.

These attacks are not the terrorist group form of advertising, getting the name out in the MSM? No, they are to drive home some kind of ideological point - that's going to happen whether you call them "ISIS" or "fuzzy pickles".
If only your family knows the truth, how do you know that the people twice his age that he beat didn't practice for four hours a day since they were in kindergarten?
Cantrill is one of my favorite tech speakers. Brilliant guy, and much more down to earth than a lot of others on the circuit, not to mention great energy.
Where does he say it's acceptable to kill innocents?

Oh, i dunno, right about here?

Now the Syrians are doing to their "former" colonial masters what the French have been doing to them for the past month - bombing them.

The implication is absolutely disgusting.
I agree, I find that overall the android user experience is enjoyable and polished, not that you can't find anything important to criticize, but way above average for sure.

On the other hand, I also know a lot of people having a mediocre feeling with it.

This is an interesting perception gap to investigate.

And I would suggest that a big reason of that is that there much more Samsung customers than Nexus owners.
Holy crap, that "equivalent to 3 donuts" is so depressing.
See, this is why I am on HN. I'm interested but not as advanced. You included good examples; now I have to figure out wtf you are talking about. :)
I feel like the whole argument is based on "your true IQ is the highest score you'll ever receive on a test", which is a statement that by definition would make improvements in IQ impossible.[0]

I still don't understand why, if everybody in the control group only change around the error ratio and the test group on average advances beyond the error ratio, that doesn't show an improvement. According to the authors what would show an improvement?

[0] they don't say this outright in the paper, but the SAT discussion clearly allude to this form of thinking. They don't even entertain the idea that practice might be the reason for a large increase in a persons SAT score, but rather say, the highest score is representative.
Mountain View has done the same thing.

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3814583,-122.0585511,3a,75y,...
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1280x1024 on a 17"/19" TFT screen was common in 2004. Your numbers are from a decade before that. Websites were often optimised for minimum width of 800px to cater also old 800x600 CRT screens from last century.
But that is kind of the point. Like calling people of color 'boy' in the more racially charged times of our (sadly fairly recent past) it is a powerful insult to someone, challenging them on many levels.

Calling this group daesh challenges everything about them, their legitimacy, their aspirations, and their leadership. That it has deeper meaning in Arabic is icing on the cake as far as crafting an insult goes.
What do they fear? A public relations nightmare? Because they sure as hell aren't going to go to jail for any of this. Neither the Justice Dept. officials, nor the Judge authorizing this, nor the police carrying it out will have to deal with any negative consequences as a result. The USA is a nearly-complete police state, after all.
Your position is that propaganda is useful and we should structure our speech for maximum utility?

That way lies Newspeak.
Can someone give a TL/DR for this? I don't have 40 minutes to invest and the first few minutes didn't give me the impression it was going to be worthwhile.

But I would like to run containers on "Bare metal"... which for me right now means running containers under CoreOS (which is running on the bare metal... so no VMs.)
This seems like a great idea. What if we all decided to start calling them Idiot Squad or something?
Honestly, it's hard as hell for adults to make new friends. It's hard as hell for most adults to even maintain the friendships they have, what with moving around and more formalized obligations like family.

In practice, you make them at work - and that's it, because that's the only place where you end up spending enough time with others to actually form meaningful social bonds. I've also made friends when I've been thrown into an atypical experience with a bunch of other people simultaneously - an incubator in South America, a long boat trip to somewhere remote. But just going about your normal life - eh, it hardly ever happens. Even when you put work into it by inviting people out to do something fun, most adults are busy enough that you just can't see them often enough for a real friendship to develop.

If you find a decent solution, come back and tell me what it is.
This seems like a bit of a sideshow. I would rather spend my time reading this incredible article:

What ISIS Really Wants
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi...
He is making an observation. Perhaps you should ask him if it he thinks it is right that those innocent people died, or if he thinks those people were not innocent then we know what sort of ethics he's applying. These sorts of discussions work better if you ask directly instead of filling in gaps yourself.

edit: The whole situation is disgusting, the war is certainly as disgusting as this bombing. But perhaps if not for (our taking part in) the war things would've been even more disgusting out there, I don't know.
It reminds me that it's annoying that there is no "engineering" mode for printf (to force the exponent to be a multiple of three). There is this project on github using %.*f: https://github.com/dhoerl/EngineeringNotationFormatter
I think very few people would consider themselves neutral in their opinion of that group.
Fun fact; what these things implement is more general than DER; a sub/superset of BER.

BER does have "constructed values" which are most 'obviously' parsed recursively. OpenSSL handles this via C macros that unroll the parsing 7 levels deep, but no more.

(What does it do when given nested constructed values? Well-- when its expecting an integer it goes and traverses into the constructed values in a particular order, pulls out the primitive types at the bottom, concatenates their bytes, and treats the result as an unsigned integer. ... Why? Because this is precisely the kind of madness that happens when you deploy a 'too powerful' language! :) )
Which, you'll note, I did. And then he doubled down in the very next post:

Indiscriminate killing of civilians? Like when the French opened fire on crowds marching for Syrian independence in 1945 (like the French did in Algeria and elsewhere?) Like the French bomb and kill people on Greenpeace boats?

Again, the implication is crystal clear: France killed Syrian civilians, so Syrians are justified in killing French civilians.
Joyent chose BSD which does containers better than Linux and Cantrill is pissed that everyone chose Linux+VMs.
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> It denies them recognition and legitimacy.

This doesn't mean anything. We recognize them as a legitimate threat because of the land they've taken and the people they've murdered. This reeks of the "homicide bombers" campaign, or the people complaining that "Xmas" takes the Christ out of Christmas. If anything, it's even sexier that the greatest powers in the world are so terrified that they refuse to even say their name - is it for fear that they might appear?

It was disappointing to me that the SNP chose to make forcing the BBC to use "Daesh" their first issue after the elections.
Nowadays, they are all in with their bet on Azure, Windows10-as-service, Office365.
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It was an HTC EVO 4G (non-"LTE"). Quite old at this point.

I can only surmise what actually happened. I was full-time wifi tethering for a month or two and the symptoms along the way seemed to point to this cause. The phone eventually stopped taking power at all, until I plugged it into a USB port instead of the OEM 1A charger. At which point I realized the higher current was the problem, and investigated the cable.

It actually felt like a really nice cable - very robust and strain-reliefy. But apparently that's because the whole thing was mostly plastic and essentially headphone wires. Lesson learned!

If my theory is correct , it's a pretty stupid design. But I feel like there's probably many weird corner cases in consumer electronics that don't matter because 99% of people won't find them, and the ones that do won't realize it's a bug, and by the time anybody could put it together that specific model has been obsoleted anyway.
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I guess you're right, in my reading he more dodged the question than offering a direct judgement, though it certainly could be that implication.

I read it more as "France killed Syrian civilians, so Syrians are killing French civilians", i.e. minus the "are justified in".

Just as an aside, I think it's more likely the perpetrators were actually French civilians or perhaps Iraqi civilians, with an interest in conquering Syria for establishing the (Iraqi) IS caliphate. So perhaps the whole "revenge for syrians" angle doesn't work at all in any case.
"Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."

- Albus Dumbledore
If you see the api the occurrence count is very low ( if it means the total count as the name suggests ) . So not pretty sure of the data ! ..
Its interesting to read Daesh in Boston Globe, a western propaganda media. The usage of the degrading Daesh is very common in Russian friendly media like vineyardsaker or southfront.

Well, those old Russian propaganda experts knew, that its important to deny them their prefered words like "Islamic" and "State", but instead call them with a bad word, that accidentally is also an acronym of their name.

PS: consortiumnews is also using Daesh
and second thought there; bizarre scheme .. is that a new one?
I'm not a fan of this for several reasons:

1. If you say, "ISIS", everyone knows what you're talking about. Not so for "Daesh."

2. Anyone can read "ISIS" and know how to pronounce it. How does one pronounce "Daesh"? Is it daysh? Dash? Dah-esh? I don't know.

3. We'll still need to know and use the old names. There are thousands of historical news articles using the terms ISIS, ISIL, IS, The Islamic State, etc. Googling for them is already hard enough. It reminds me of xkcd's Standards (http://xkcd.com/927/).

4. "Daesh" autocorrects to other things on iOS, Android, and Windows 10. It was very annoying to write this comment, as I was constantly un-correcting "dash".

The author makes some good points, but I think they're outweighed by the disadvantages I mentioned. Unfortunately, the cat is out of the bag. We now have yet another name for ISIS.

Edit: I just thought of another one. If "Daesh" takes off, people may think those who use "ISIS" or "The Islamic State" are sympathetic toward the group. I'm certain I'll slip up in conversation and have to dig myself out of a hole.