skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What creates those extremes is genetics and poor parenting (considering that IQ is ~80% hereditary,) and in some infrequent cases environmental pollution (heavy metals in the government supplied water.)

Capitalism just deals with the results, in this case human capital.
> Which will come first, flying cars and vacations to Mars, or a simple acknowledgment that beliefs guide behavior and that certain religious ideas—jihad, martyrdom, blasphemy, apostasy—reliably lead to oppression and murder? It may be true that no faith teaches people to massacre innocents exactly—but innocence, as the President surely knows, is in the eye of the beholder. Are apostates “innocent”? Blasphemers? Polytheists? Islam has the answer, and the answer is “no.”

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/sleepwalking-toward-armag...
the point is, there are still unrepresentables (1/3 e.g.) in binary encoded decimal. If it's all about literals, just make the user put the correct literal in, and make them understand that floats are imperfect anyways. If you're doing anything remotely useful with Binary Coded Decimal, probably about two or three operations in, you're going to lose resolution on your exactness. It doesn't buy you much. GIGO.
I agree with you. Unfortunately these attacks tend to strengthen the resolve of the people who want to reshape the middle East.

The other complicating factor is that not-intervening will mean sitting on our hands while civilian populations get badly treated by their governments.

What to do? what to do? I don't know the answer.
HN is indeed increasingly pro-helplessness. My personal hypothesis is that it's actually merely a second-order effect. The community tends toward pro-specialization which leads to the tenet that personal security ought to be conducted by specialists.
To put it simple - Scala puts together the best parts of Standard ML (functional programming - so one could reason about code as a form of calculus, plus pattern matching on type-constructors with destructuring, partial application, etc) Smalltalk (everything is an object and objects communicate via messages passing by calling methods - the original concept of "pure OO" by Alan Kay and the best part of Smalltalk implementation) plus foundation ideas from Erlang (an Actor and messaging DSL based on high-order procedures and some syntactic sugar). Together it is already worth switching, especially afrer realizing what a crap Java is compared to this conscise and well-researched mix of complementing each other features). Scala is also famous for its emphasis on immutable collections, which makes GC less painful.

Scala initially is a product of a single remarkably well-trained mind, instead of committee of mediocrity.

Clojure, BTW, was a solo remake of Scala's approach (Java interloop, emphasis on collections, immutability, etc) while starting from Common Lisp (strong, dynamic typing) instead of Standard ML (strong, static) as its basis.

Actually, the Scala course on Coursera is very good start.
I've just realised that the dinosaur scene from Terrance Malick's Tree of Life is a hat tip/rip-off of the weird dinosaur battle set to Stravinsky's Rites of Spring in Fantasia.
Equating this with a cold virus is the height of imbecility. Governments have a responsibility to protect their citizens. The scope of this protection is up for debate, but ignoring it is not a choice that most citizens will tolerate.
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No. It can be rational in the context of anti-colonialism and sovereignist ideology and historical revanchism, as well as many other not at all irrational ideologies. It might or might not be effective, depending on the specific political goals in question. It is not, in general, about religion per se, except in so much as religion is part of group identity (in a similar vein as say, nationalism).

But that is not the point. Targeting civilians for political purposes is not an act of insanity, but it is an unacceptable means, no matter the ends.

(Not saying that the ends are good in this case, nor the opposite. It just really doesn't matter.)
US has been mostly used as a very expensive bludgeon to deal with internal enemies.

You don't like your local police officer, call him terrorist and see the world's most expensive bludgeon deal with him. Don't want to deal with rebellious village? Tell Americans they are terrorists.
A lot of the time, terrorism is carried out by irrational people, but orchestrated by slightly more rational people. The people willing to risk their lives are not the same people that are convincing others to risk their lives. After all, if people like Sayyid Qutb actually risked his life, he wouldn't be able to convince other idiots to die.
What about airports?

I'm very positive that they check people's passports and papers in airports.
The data on terrorist attacks does not support this conclusion. Terrorism is rarely effective in its political goals and studies have concluded that it is not a rational or cost effective strategy.
Wouldn't that destabilize the middle east even more?
It used to be rational, rather. The classic terrorists of the '70s wanted "a lot of people talking but not a lot of people dead" -- and also wanted to survive the experience. The new breed of terrorism in the '80s and '90s was different from those; the IRA, the PLO, and various state-sponsored terrorists in that period had/have more in common with each other, despite their obvious differences, than any have with al-Qaida and ISIS, which aim for suicide missions with high body counts.

This particular operation is either ISIS-conducted or ISIS-oriented vigilanteism; whichever it is, backing down in Syria will only embolden them. (Or rather, embolden those like them; I don't imagine that very many of the specific attackers here are going to have particularly many opportunities to do this again in the future.)

ISIS is specifically out for either world empire or apocalyptic defeat (see http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi... ); tactical concessions will work about as well as they did with the Nazis and the Communists -- or even less well than that, since neither Naziism nor Communism believed that success was a sign that Divine Providence was smiling on them.
I think it is actually the opposite. They are trying to provoke a christian involvement in Syria so that they can claim it is a cruisade and recruit more fighters in the muslim world. It is usually how terrorism work. IRA or ETA were doing exactly the same.
I like the idea as a way to track daily averages, and I'm going to definitely try it for myself. But it doesn't help me with what causes my nose to be buried in Quicken every Sunday: bills don't get paid little by little daily. They come at fixed times in the month (or year). This system doesn't help with the tactics of making sure there's the right amount in your checking account at the right time. Ive had many close calls where my paycheck is every two weeks but bills are monthly, and 2x2 weeks ≠ 1 month.

I think I'd like a service that let me get paid 1/14th of a paycheck every day and also pay [1/28 | 1/29 | 1/30 | 1/31] of my bills every day. Then, your day-to-day finances are literally an exercise of making sure there's always a small balance and that the pay-bill spread always remains positive.
The population of France is about 7.5% Muslim. France has had a close relationship with the Muslim world since the 19th century when they colonized parts of North Africa and the Middle East. Sadly, the position in French society of colonial immigrants and their descendants is not very high. Also sadly, France has had a lot of experience with this sort of violence, both in the colonies and "at home".

If you know the attacks were carried out by Muslims, there's no reason to assume these attacks were carried out by refugees.
You can't wear a cross around you neck in a public institution either.
GCC has a '-Weffc++' option, which claims to do roughly what you want. Although, it's no doubt using obsolete guidelines these days, since it aims to match Scott Meyers' guidelines from his book. (Yep, same Scott Meyers that wrote this blog post.)
The borders are not closed, it's just a restoration of border controls.
You really think that the sincere belief that you will spend an eternity in heaven and secure a place in heaven for 70 family members of your choosing and earn the love of God has nothing to do with it? It's hard for people who are not religious fundamentalists to understand that some people really believe this with as much certainty as you and I believe that the sun will rise tomorrow. This belief is precisely why so many of these attacks are suicide attacks. Ask yourself why so many suicide bombers? Why blow yourself up when you can make a bomb and then another and another? Mohamed Merah answers this question: "We love death more than the infidel loves life". To these people death is not death. This life is just a test, a test that you can ace by blowing yourself up, death is not the end but the beginning of the real and infinitely long life.

No doubt there are other factors involved, but to deny this key enabling factor which makes suicide terrorism an eminently rational thing to do is laughable and makes you blind to an important and maybe even the most important strategy against religious terrorism: education that sheds doubt on the literal interpretation of holy books. When you have even 1% of doubt that this is what God wants you to do, you may not be so inclined to blow yourself up.

I'm fully aware that this is a very unpopular observation to make, but ask yourself not whether it would be nice if this were false, but whether it is actually true or false. Wishful thinking does not get us anywhere.
That wait was over more than an hour ago, unfortunately.
If your tv is the thing generating the inaudible signals, it could still choose to play them using its internal speakers, and send just the 'real' audio to the external ones.
An excellent film.

The cinematographer on Koyaanisqatsi (I forget his name) also directed two films called Baraka and more recently Samsara, which are in the same vein if you're into that kind of thing.
> Coordination can be done via throw away sim cards and personal meetings so you don't really need to communicate that much.

You forget the fact that the communication channel is always being monitored, but in this sad case, nothing was caught. Someone has already smuggled the weapons in before hand, just like how the bomb was able to made it to the plane early this month. Someone must have been tipped and bought the weapons from possibly local gangs and bam...
Are you suggesting that migrants are somehow genetically inferior? Because that'd be, frankly, an insane point of view to have.
This whole site has amazing reads. Thanks for the link.
Aware for Android – A better news reading experience
I've started a translation effort of the 'State of emergency' French laws + some relevant press releases from the government: https://gist.github.com/fasterthanlime/faa2ae629d22f325beb7

Feel free to suggest improvements in the comments and/or request other relevant documents to be translated.
Aware (which can be downloaded from the above link) is an app that works a lot like Google Now on Tap, except for the fact that it is designed to analyse news articles and then present information about the main people in the article (for example,their wikipedia or instagram page).Moreover,it isn't restricted to devices running Android Marshmallow, but it is compatible with Jelly Bean forward (unlike Now on Tap). Try it, you might just like it
Your reaction is emotional, Islam has nothing to do with this whatsoever is not valid for the hundred victims and the hundreds of people who loved those victims.
And I think that Wahhabism/Salafism is responsible for this and an unknown amount of atrocities against in the first place other Muslims.
I wasn't aware that there were "universals" in synesthesia. Might not the blues of the ocean have looked better when paired with strings to another synesthete or to the (presumably indifferent) mostly non-synesthetic audience?
> Please stop this pointless killing.

I think by definition this anything but pointless.
"This statement is so naive that it blows me away. As toomuchtodo said, there's a huge difference between n car accidents per year, and the equivalent damage done by a terrorist attack,"

Unfortunatley from a mathematical standpoint you are incorrect, from an irrational human standpoint you have a point however.

The human mind is much worse at reasoning and reality than anticipated, how you and others perceive the world is not as real as you'd like to think, thats the whole point of math and science:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
My wife and I were just there for part of our honeymoon and literally flew out hours before, around noon on Friday. Some locals had talked to us about the recent attack some weeks ago and how they didn't want to let such people stop them from living their lives. This day is worse but I feel like the lovely people we talked to were determined, resilient and optimistic. God bless the city with peace.
There's no reason a JavaScript emulator can't take a local file and run it in the browser, using the HTML5 File API.

That's not different in any way from an emulator written in a native language - the user supplies data to a runtime on their own hardware.
I don't think they closed their borders. They invoked the Schengen protocol for re-instituting border controls. Under Schengen driving from France to Italy or Germany is like driving from Texas to Louisiana. But there is a clause allowing re-instituting border controls under certain conditions, including a national security emergency.

[edit: source France24; http://mashable.com/2015/11/13/france-border-airlines-flight... . Hollande did refer to 'fermeture des frontières' which is confusing https://twitter.com/Elysee/status/665314066106159104 ]
This is being pedantic, but it's the first enforced curfew since WWII...I think we can cut the GP a break, since the all this stuff is part of the state of emergency/emergency measures.

Peace to all.
The French TV mentions that the terrorists were speaking French. And based on previous attacks it is more likely to be home grown terrorists. Syria is probably just a pretext, like a lot of European leftists in the 70s were using the Palestinian situation to justify their terrorist attacks.
That depends on what the goal is. My personal belief is that terrorist acts like these are a recruiting tool and a way to split society further enhancing opportunities to recruit and as such they can be effective if the counterparty reacts as they are supposed to do.
github link

https://github.com/golosio/annabell
I was pretty disappointed about this. The predecessor games to Elite Dangerous, Frontier and Frontier First Encounters, had a Newtonian flight model (and an optional "time acceleration" feature to artificially shorten intra-system flight time).
> This system doesn't help with the tactics of making sure there's the right amount in your checking account at the right time. Ive had many close calls where my paycheck is every two weeks but bills are monthly, and 2x2 weeks ≠ 1 month.

A paycheck every two weeks can never give you less than two paychecks a month. It'll give you three paychecks in two out of twelve months. So the issue you describe could never cause you to be unexpectedly short of cash? How could you have a "close call"? (I'm assuming here that a paycheck gives you money, and bills take it away.)
In 2014, net imports accounted for 27% of the petroleum consumed in the United States. 37% of that comes from Canada, followed by 13% from Saudi Arabia. [0]

Our dependence on foreign oil is no longer an excuse for our meddling in the Middle East.

[0] http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=727&t=6
That's fair, but I see two big problems with this.

First, to what degree can we say Ukraine is threatened by nuclear weapons, when we know (not because of empty promises, but just the realities of nuclear weapons) that nukes are not on the table? Would we say that Iraq or Afghanistan were threatened by nuclear weapons? I certainly wouldn't.

Second, let's say the mere possession of nukes by the attacking party does qualify as a threat. The US and UK then go to the UN Security Council and seek assistance for Ukraine. Russia has veto power there, so this will do nothing useful whatsoever. You could say that they ought to do as they promised even if it's useless, but it would still do nothing to actually protect Ukraine.
If you're already tried to communicate these concerns to the leadership in your company, and are not getting support, your best course of action may be to move to a new company where good development and deployment processes are given the respect they deserve.
Ghassan, I was intrigued by your article. I wanted to share with you some thoughts I had regarding it, via email rather than here. But the email address you post on your website is broken. Your domain lacks an MX record. You might want to fix that.
I just set up the first spreadsheet shown in the post, and having that magic number of net daily recurring income is very...elucidating.

I feel like I suddenly have a much better grasp of actually how much money I make.
> Taking cash from the economy, which is a productive asset, useful for investment, and purchasing land which you plan to do nothing with, is most definitely an economic loss. There is no question about this step.

No man. The cash doesn't evaporate. It goes to the sellers of the rights, who then plug it right back into the economy. They may even go right back and purchase that same stock! If it makes it clearer, try to think of the coal rights as a bond with zero interest rate. Obviously, people trading the bond around doesn't destroy value.

> Give us an estimate.

I'm not sure your 20 trillion dollar estimate is very relevant. Most folks see the next 30-40 years as the key phase we need to get right, after which the switch to renewable will be more or less complete. In other words, your usage of 400 years of coal WAAAAAY overstates the size of the problem. But yeah sure I'll throw some numbers up.

If you assume mineral rights are 5% of total cost (if you buy them intelligently), and that you can rustle up $5B in cash, and that in the next 30 years you have a gradual slowdown of coal usage anyways, then the scheme cuts between 10 and 20% of US coal production. Not too shabby. Now, I admit my numbers are soft and optimistic, but it's by no means "orders of magnitude" below what it needs to be.

> Another factor is to slow down production today one has to buy more than mineral rights

I see no reason why this is the case. According to the article the gov't owns most of the rights, and the whole idea is to make it easy for private actors to buy just the rights.

> You also ignore the fact I stated that as places get purchased, since this does not change demand, so other places will simply produce more or more places will become coal mines.

Well yeah, but at higher cost. Producers are forced to use less optimal sites, and to outbid each other. This lowers overall production as coal is made less competitive than gas/oil/renewables. That's the whole point.
There was a bitcoin faucet that gave out 0.2 btc for stack overflow rep over a threshold. I've got a lot of gum now!
As a not-believer-of-anything, I appreciate your post. Some, hopefully most people, are able to realize that this is not the work of Islam in general. As a white male living in NYC, I have no idea what it's like to be in your shoes, but I'm also afraid that there will be a backlash against you.

When I heard the news I went to the neighborhood deli shop to buy cigarettes. The owners and workers there are muslim. They had a TV set up and were watching the news. I hung out with them for an hour or so. Watching, talking, feeling, reacting. All of us just being human, as the vast majority of people do.

As I was leaving I said, "Vive la France." And everyone there started saying it too.

I hope for the sake of everyone that all of us can realize that this kind of behavior has nothing to do with the teachings of Islam or the vast majority of how muslims think.

My thoughts are with muslim people all over the world tonight just as much as they are with the people of France. There will be reprisals against innocent people. But I will argue and fight against those just as much as I support and care about those who have lost loved ones in Paris today.
They should do neither and simply carry on with the plans they had to date. Any reaction beyond police action to find out what the chain of command is and then targeting those individuals specifically is playing into their hands.
I don't understand how can you talk about ISIS, Nazis and Communists in the same sentence? Communism has nothing to do with violence compared to ISIS and Nazis...

Edit: Why downvotes? Idea of communism does not propose violence, Nazis and ISIS on the other hand do.
This article hits too close to home.. I myself have a manager who has grand swings of emotion. His sole attitude can ruin my day. Otherwise, I kind of like the job..
That's precisely the point. Bar psychopaths, nearly everyone thinks they are doing the right thing, even as they do horrors. These people are so deeply indoctrinated that they think they are ultimately doing good in the eyes of god.
That is the common response to my complaints.

The problem is this: what part of the process I described has anything to do with security? As far as I can tell, nothing. Apple's review process is pretty superficial and is entirely geared towards stuff like making sure nobody ships a browser that doesn't use WebKit, or an app that posts information about drone strikes. Getting something malicious past the gatekeepers is completely trivial. It's building the malicious stuff in the first place that's the hard part.
From what I can see from this thread¹, it would seem so:

“The last versions of OS 9 were pretty good about right mouse button support. Most mice should work fine.”

I would test it myself on my iMac G3 (Summer 2001), but unfortunately, I already upgraded it to Mac OS X v10.4.11 Tiger, and it’s getting active use, so I can’t exactly go downgrading it at the moment.

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¹ — https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1824021
Quay.io has been outstanding for us so far. Much better overall than Docker Hub for our organization. Particularly in ergonomics and team/permissions granularity.
A way to let others know you're safe even if you can't get through to them personally.
Obligatory pedantic comment: "base-2 decimal" is an oxymoron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_decimal#Extension_to...
It would be nice if gcc would update the guidelines too, the new effective modern c++ book is very nice
I recently spent some time working on exactly this, in 2D:

https://github.com/blevinstein/SRAsteroids

To see what it looks like, you can check out this youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hSCz7tRl1s

I wrote an engine that modeled object positions as "timelines", where position varies with time, and demonstrated the basic relativistic effects (length contraction, time dilation, and frequency shifting).
Unfortunately, I never really figured out how to turn these into actual game mechanics.
The vast majority of European travellers use trains or roads, not air travel.
He pretended to run a hacking crew in Gamer. Had dreams of what life would be like as a real one. That's where his transformation and stealthy visits on HN began.
I can't really speak for that area. But if I chose out of three you listed, it would be L3.

A close friend of mine spent years managing the network of a smaller ISP in the northeast using both Cogent/HE for their eyeball network, and he was constantly telling me about packet loss issues with Cogent. On the other hand, I haven't seen as many issues with HE as a whole, more localized.

Either way using the cheaper options is a good choice if you want to keep costs low during expansion. Hell, it's probably still better than what I see through TWC.
I think he might be talking about Stalinism. Or at the very least, just Stalin.