skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes of course they're long term goal is a caliphate. But they attacked the US because our presence was a direct obstacle. They didn't put suicide bombers in China or Copenhagen or Paris for that matter.

Back in 1991 after Saddam invaded Kuwait, I remember thinking "why the hell do we have to solve the problem? Why not force Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States to take responsibility for their security?"

Practically all the Islamist terrorism that the US has experienced since then has flowed from that decision.

The likelihood of terrorism should be part of any decision making process when it comes to the Mideast, no different than estimating potential body counts from land invasion.

At least Eric Shinseki wasn't afraid to estimate the real costs of the Iraq war.
My thought is that if we implement a back door policy, the public will have communication links which are much easier to compromise by any party, while terrorists can still easily use encryption and/or steganography to secure their communications.

All the back doors accomplish in the end is harming the general public.
Copenhagen, Denmark: CloudFlare's 65th data center
> Modern Christians and Jews often fall back on the excuse of interpreting their books as metaphors as opposed to the literal word of god. It's a great cop out.

While Christians have usually viewed some parts of the Bible literally (though not the same parts for different Christians in different times and places), the idea that the Bible is entirely to be understood literally (and the related idea that the Bible is the entire basis for Christianity) is a relatively new doctrine, belonging to a small (globally, though more prominent numerically and, even moreso, politically, in the US) subset of Christianity. (As the Bible directly contradicts itself on basic things like sequences of events in several places -- even within the first couple chapters of Genesis -- its also an internally inconsistent view, so its hard to see the alternative as a cop-out, since its the only possible internally-consistent approach.)
> The Seventh Day part of the name is because of the rejection of the belief that the Catholic Church has the authority to move the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday

Nope. At least not according to the 7DA web site.

http://www.adventist.org/fileadmin/adventist.org/files/artic...

The word "Catholic" does not appear in that document. But this does:

God has revealed in Scripture the authentic and historical account of His creative activity. He created the universe, and in a recent six-day creation the Lord made “the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them” and rested on the seventh day. Thus He established the Sabbath as a perpetual memorial of the work He performed and completed during six literal days that together with the Sabbath constituted the same unit of time that we call a week today. The first man and woman were made in the image of God as the crowning work of Creation, given dominion over the world, and charged with responsibility to care for it. When the world was finished it was “very good,” declaring the glory of God. (Gen. 1-2; 5; 11; Exod. 20:8-11; Ps. 19:1-6; 33:6, 9; 104; Isa. 45:12, 18; Acts 17:24; Col. 1:16; Heb. 1:2; 11:3; Rev. 10:6; 14:7.)

So does this:

The second coming of Christ is the blessed hope of the church, the grand climax of the gospel. The Saviour’s coming will be literal, personal, visible, and worldwide. When He returns, the righteous dead will be resurrected, and together with the righteous living will be glorified and taken to heaven, but the unrighteous will die. The almost complete fulfillment of most lines of prophecy, together with the present condition of the world, indicates that Christ’s coming is near.

If quoting from the church's official web site is spreading FUD, well, so be it.
Slayer of Empires: How Bitcoin Could Become Far Bigger Than You Think
I think the nature of ads is fundamentally changing from clear-cut commercials and poorly-integrated pop ups towards product placement, PR/ad firm trend manufacturing, and "native content" - aka ads that read as serious articles without disclosure.

It would be easy to make the best ads ever through VR. Sprinkle some coke bottles and billboards into whatever first generation games come out for Oculus. For immersion's sake, of course. Create a Coke Cafe where you can talk to your friends in a virtual environment for free. The best part? You don't have to pay for physical objects or real estate. Create a few models, pay the dev studio/Facebook, and you're done.

Rather than being constrained by a screen (TV, computer, Apple Watch), VR ads could have so much room for creativity given a fully immersive and completely absorbing experience. And, just like Facebook and Snapchat have done to drive user growth, if we stay ahead of the adoption curve we probably won't see them until the tech is boring anyways.

There's a fine line between great ads, games, movies, shows, etc. - they're all different forms of entertainment w/ different agendas and different reasons for existing, but if they entertain, that's all that matters at the end of the day.
Nobody is saying only religion leads to extremism.

When you recognize that I hope you also recognize that religion is the main cause (or tool) of extremism in the world right now, and that Islam plays the biggest role there.
> "But this aspect isn't basically the issue of publishing? If you post your Facebook status/photos and mark them publicly visible, you're a publisher."

Sure, that's part of it. However, the issue is that Facebook have tried to increase what constitutes public Facebook content over time.

Here are a couple of links about this:

http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/

https://www.eff.org/en-gb/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timelin...

You also have another group of privacy invasions enabled by the phone apps from Facebook:

https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/210676372433246

http://fortune.com/2015/11/09/facebook-photo-scanning/

I'm sure I could find other privacy issues with Facebook. Can you opt-out of all of this? Probably, but it certainly requires vigilance by its users, especially when new features are rolled out.
> You know that my argument makes sense but you let your ideology and emotions get in the way of making meaningful policy adjustments.

If not ideology (ideals) and emotions, what else are we?

Anyway, you're wrong about me. I feel strongly about this, and I do not have nor am pushing any particular political agenda.

To me, simply, restricting gun ownership is in the same boat of restricting access to grenades, restricting access to RPGs, restricting access to plutonium to the general public. People should not be able to buy a tool that is designed for the sole purpose of doing harm. I keep making the comparison with drugs, but I'm all for drugs legalization, because the only person you are harming is yourself, and you should be free to do so if you want.

And do not think that I loathe weapons: I would love to shoot an M4A1, put my hands on an AK-47, and spend far too much time researching weapons as I come across them in games. They have a kind of forbidden beauty, but still I do not see a valid reason for the public to have them, including safety. There's no safety when anybody could carry a pistol in their handbag, IMHO.

I agree that you can stop or scare away a burglar with your handgun, but the downsides are far too big: much more people will buy guns, the percentage of mentally unstable people with guns increases, bad things happen.

EDIT:

> guns are not available to everyone in the US.

I know, but since many have guns, if I, mentally deranged teenager, want to get one to shoot people at my school, I know plenty of people to get one from.

You know how many people I have ever known with a gun or rifle? One. I don't even know where to buy one, I don't think I've ever seen a gun shop where I lived in 28 years.
Original: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/543486/single-artificia...
When someone drives a car into a farmers market there not exactly choosing there victims. In extreme cases you have things like people flying airplanes into someone's home.

Sure, they did not intend to crash, but choosing to risk others lives is considered a reasonable thing to do. Assuming your not overly blatant about it.
The Economist had a good article about the reasons for Russia to support Assad [1]. I know that it doesn't directly answer your question, but I hope it helps.

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/09/ec...
More specifically the article is proposing that an uber-for-suburbs is a mathematical non-starter and the comments against that conclusion are primarily non sequiturs along the lines of "I live in an urban area and uber and mass transit work great for me". Cool. Rock on. But that has nothing at all to do with the article's business plan, or the research in the article or my own mathematical model that came to the same conclusion as the author via a different path.

This is also a live example of survivorship bias. Nobody who tries to live in a mass-transit-less uber-less suburb in the current year will last very long. Nobody who can't afford a car can afford a house in the burbs either. Therefore there is a natural self selection such that roughly 0% of potential uber-for-the-burbs startup can physically live at this time in the burbs. If uber-for-the-burbs already existed such that potential customers could be found in the burbs, then a startup could in fact sell to them, although starting up into entrenched competition isn't as much fun as a wide open field. But the geography has self selected such that all potential customers cannot currently live there. It is possibly one of the least possibly fertile areas to sell a service idea. It is like the proverbial trying to sell ice to eskimos. The burbs are multiply mathematically provably possibly the worst place on the entire planet to try an uber-for- startup.

Perhaps the business model for uber-for-the-burbs should bootstrap off little kids and suburban nursing home residents (I mean, who else is left there, to sell to, who isn't already a car owner?). Although little kids have safety issues and nursing homes have privately owned bus routes and taxis are already pretty entrenched in the market. And the little kids and old people might not be the wealthiest residents of suburbia (demand doesn't matter without the cash revenue to back it up). I would guess the best bootstrap would be physically disabled / handicapped but then you run into wheelchair issues and drivers being medically qualified? And how many little kids / disabled / retired / nursing home residents are commuting into the big city to desk jobs anyway?

I edited this post to emphasize that the "startup lesson" of this whole topic is you can't just look at where to sell, you need to think up who to sell. Finding a giant underserved geographic area with plenty of money is utterly useless if by the inherent existence of the area they have no use for it. Hawaii is dramatically underserved with respect to snowshoes, but I would strongly recommend against a startup trying to sell snowshoes in the Hawaiian islands.
Let me know if you want the file that sends commands from Twitch. It sends GCODE over USB. Should be plug and play with Grbl.
Join a local facebook group. I joined a local music/partying facebook group and have met tons of new people after that through regular meetups.
I like to seed testing databases as follows:

* Take all data that caused a failure in the application and have a script that generates that in the test database. Maybe it is a unicode character that was misinterpreted etc. This makes a basic regression test easier to apply.

* Take some percentage of the Production database and have a script or application obscure the data and load it into the test environment. Generally I like to make this configurable so it can be used to generate a small dataset on a devs laptop, or a larger dataset on a test server.

* Obscure the data differently every time the application runs, and have the data stay within the same range as the original production data. For example, if a currency field showed $199.00, then you might obscure it to be $179.00, use a formula to do this. If a string contained 4 spaces, 2 capitals and 3 punctuation marks keep the ratios the same just obscure the character values (I do not obscure punctuation for testing).

I point out the obscuring because it is the easiest way to help prevent client data from being lost, stolen or abused. I like to write an application that copies the data over and lets you pick how much data to use. For example, for a dev laptop, maybe they can only get 1% or 10k complete records. For testing server it can get anything from 20% to 100%. Also, if you do it this way, you can have a developer database generated every day overnight so it is ready for anyone who needs to just copy it local in the morning for test, and for the test server you can regenerate it on some rolling basis to keep it fresh. Also, have the application reseed the cache from the newly generated test database.
A minor correction: Bosnia is not a country with a majority Muslim population. At least 55% of people there are not Muslim.

Christians make up 52% of the population (Serbian Orthodox 36%, Catholic 15%, Protestant 1%). There are also a few percents of atheist, Jews, and others.

Edit: Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina#Ethnic_...
What about Discord[0]? I believe it uses it's own protocol, however there are already many unofficial API clients.

IRC-esque text chat, with Mumble-esque voice chat, with the best UX I've seen yet in a chat program[1]

[0] https://discord.gg/

[1] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/115226319603630086/11...

Edit: s/seen ever/seen yet/, discord link
You are right. Here comes the "target group" aspect (and some others) into play. Oversimplification: Are you targeting techies or eldery? Some will endure security-related hardships, others won't. As said, there is the need to watch who you design for.
You haven't actually addressed what I was saying. Let's say all that about Bush is true. It doesn't change the reality that today a terrorist organization, ISIS, operates with impunity in a large swath of land, from which they plan and carry-out global terrorist attacks. I just remarked that this is the exact situation that America after 9/11 swore would never be tolerated. And I guess now it is.
I think that the Plaza Accord had its toll on the Japanese economy and only benefited the Americans and Europeans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord
With escrow you accept counterparty risk in the form of the agent holding the escrow, with a scheme that destroys coins there is at least some incentive for everyone to play nice.
I love Idris as much as the next guy, but I doubt virtually anyone is using it for production code. By contrast, there are millions upon millions of lines of Haskell code in production all over the world.
My+Daughter's+Journey+With+Prematurity
Stenographically encrypted in the printed image? How would that work?
With regards to the original guy who said he went to social events from Facebook, you completely missed the point.
Not sure what the qualifications for "dead" are, but I know of several companies that still use Zulip, and it was recently open-sourced by Dropbox.
It's a good question. I often wonder if I'm missing out on valuable relationships and stuff by not using it. But then when I do use it, I get frustrated and regret having used it. My stream could be summed up as baby photos; right-wing political nonsense; image macros; and pithy one-line comments with no meaning to me. I don't want any of that.

I never really "used it" for any length of time, just a few weeks or a month or two. This was probably 5 years ago. I still have the account, but I log in maybe once or twice a year. I basically accept everyone I've met IRL, because it'd be rude not to (right? I don't know the etiquette). I know there are muting controls and stuff, but that's already more effort than I care to spend given I see no benefit.

I'm quite introverted. I'd say I have about 10 people I'd call friends, and even fewer that I talk to on a monthly basis. I have my own sources of finding entertainment, and I don't like parties; I go to three or four a year and host one or two myself. That's plenty for me.

It just doesn't fulfill any purpose in my life and actively makes me angry.

(To be clear, I'm just describing my own situation, not expressing any sense of superiority.)
If there was some way to learn the identity of said terrorist simply by observing the origin and destination of an encrypted message, then perhaps. It would possible for them to coordinate and avoid this outcome. And there are still plenty of secure crypto systems out there so we wouldn't be able to decrypt their messages (unless quantum computers turn into an actual thing).
Interview with a Tor developer who works on hidden services
> able to roll up and understand project status and progress across a large and sprawling organization working on goals

The major problem with that is we are incredibly good at gaming the system. I've seen mediocre, at best, team became a glowing beacon under the velocity game; they managed to close 2000+ stories in one year! (a developer closed well over 1 story per day on average).

Software estimation is a really hard problem. We can attempt to establish order by pretending that burning down/velocity charts actually say something useful. How do they work when all the methods we know fail? No idea. But have faith, because we have plenty of anecdotes of its success!
There's also the fact that in many poor nations, there simply isn't enough of a social safety net to take care of you in your old age. The surest form of insurance is to have as many kids as you can and count on some or all of them to support you when you're no longer able to work.

With SS, Medicare (in the US), etc. even though you won't live in luxury, you at least have some kind of income coming in in your retirement years.
I'm with you so far, but let's not forget that Pakistan is/was the primary sponsor of the Talibans, and that the Saudis, Bahrain, Iran... all play the game of thrones. It's not an all-western show.

I'm also not really sure that I'd paint 1985-era Saudi Arabia, Egypt or Death-To-America Iran as markedly better than they are now. The region has historically been ruled by despots. Western intervention has occasionally (by design or accident) made things worse, but the West has the same responsibility in the rise to power of noted humanitarian Khomeiny as France's position during the negotiation of the Treaty of Versailles.
Step 5: Go back to a regular job
Nobody does this in practice. Absolutely nobody. Ask any Holocaust survivor.
Q&A with FCC's David Bray
Perfect software is a myth
How would a hypothetical governments requiring mitm interception capability "kill the modern economy"? If China, The EU etc required it, others would follow... Ordinary people would keep on using gov't mandated mitm encrypted comms and apps. So long as there was protection from your neighbor snooping on you, and the gov't guarantees [whatever that means] it won't use it against you except in "combating terror" most people would go along with it.

Just as with disease, you're not looking to eliminate it, you're looking to minimize it.
That is phenomenal analysis, well done!
Scaling containers: The essential guide to container clusters
JobDSL came from an engineer who collaborated with some others at a conference. It's not anything we own or drive the development of. It's used in some places internally but is not pervasive. The Spinnaker guys were not responsible for JobDSL, totally unrelated.
Earnest raises $275M in equity+debt Series B
> As a side-note, creating external deadlines is also a great way to rally a team

My experience with this is that external deadlines work for teams that are unfocused and whose own motivation is low. However, for a team that is already executing well, an imposition of an external deadline (especially for a reason as poorly-thought-out as "to rally the team"), if it's aggressive enough to see increased throughput, will lead to poor processes, cut corners and burnout.

Perhaps there is an element of rationalization here, where a poor manager, who failed to anticipate at a distance a goal that was then attainable, becomes aware of it once it is closer and in danger of passing by, and has to make huge efforts at re-prioritization and motivation to meet it. In hindsight, the manager rationalizes that the fire drill was a good thing for the company, because obviously, the deadline was achieved! Oh, and look, next week there's a customer coming on-site, wouldn't it be great if this other feature was added in time for that...?

I have not had to build and lead a team yet myself, but the process I would follow, and the advice I would give others, is to choose to work with a focused, motivated team, and reduce the importance given to external deadlines. They should influence the prioritization given to relative projects, but cannot be used to crank the throughput nozzle.
Mark her as "close friend" / tick "Get Notifications", and you'll get every update along with a handy notification for each. Hover over the " Friends" button on her profile to enable that.
The right answer? Kill Assad and help the people take back Syria. We should have done it three years ago before much of the moderate resistance was killed but it still needs doing.

And as for your Israel jab, they're better to the Palestinians than the Arab states in the area are. And none of the Israelis I've talked to seem to have inherently racist beliefs but many of the recently middle-eastern Arabs do. (About the Palestinians.)
With 19,000,000 rides in a 6-month period for uber, with an average assumed ride cost of ~$7 that would mean $133,000,000 in revenues, if Uber takes ~40% - that would be 53,000,000 or nearly 10,000,000 per month that Uber made in that 2009 period alone.

Wow.
China says it has shown 'great restraint' in South China Sea
> That means it isn't going to calm down, but it also means that its claims to legitimacy based on fulfilment of prophecies about unification of territories are more readily defeated by military means than other jihadists' claims to be defending the Muslim world from infidels.

I agree. The fact that ISIS effectively seeks to become a nation state makes fighting them a lot more straight forward. It's very difficult to fight an insurgency or terrorist group which is not interested in holding territory and blends in with the population. It's pretty straight forward to bomb, lay siege to, or generally bleed a group which needs to have government buildings, infrastructure, police, logistics etc. The fact that their legitimacy is primarily based on continuous expansion is also great, as defeat creates a highly negative feedback loop for them making recruitment more difficult.
I always wonder about this myself. If my situation were that extreme I think I would try to flee by any means even if I had next to no money. I would put a backpack on packed with non perishable food and as much water as I could carry and I would start marching towards a border.

I'm very ignorant to the viability of this plan though. Would it be possible to escape on foot? Would you be stopped for trying? Killed? Maybe that's why people don't "just flee".
An app idea – igmi
I'm a full stack web/app/embedded developer and I have this app built which allows users to share photos in a place like a whatsapp group. I'm targeting marriages and events, where the couple at the end of the day can view the photos and vids shared based on timeline and geo from their invited friends lists.

There are other social features like invitation, comments, etc etc.

Does this interest you, is there a market. what'd ya think ?

P.s igmi stands for I'm getting married ;)
Syrian Journey: Choose your own escape route (based on real life stories)
They work but there has to be a commitment to seeing things through no matter the extent of the ensuing carnage, something most western countries have lost their stomach for. See: Chechnya.