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> "leaving the Middle East alone" will somehow lead ISIS to disappear on

This is a strawman attack. The author never stated that ISIS or terrorists will disappear or that a non-interventionist position by the west is a solution to a century of middle eastern conflicts.

The article is about reevaluating failed strategies and exploring other strategies which might help minimize the negative externalities of the middle easts constant turmoil. Not fanning the flames is a very valid position to take in this context.
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> If Google takes customer service really seriously, Android will be amazing

And if weather turned for the cold, it will freeze in Hell!
Related to this discussion. For those interested, here is a report by NIA (Anti terrorism federal agency in India) about recruitment of a 22 year old by ISIS (It is redacted but kinda readable):

http://www.nia.gov.in/NIA-Cases/Mumbai/01-2014-NIA-Mum(CH).p...
Yep! This was the first thing I took away from the post, too. Like, more people know about me than about Dave Goldsmith or Jeremy Rauch, but of the three of us I was the least important to the kind of success Matasano found.

"Because I'm a writer" is a kind of highfalutin' way of saying "because I'm super noisy". :)
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That's an option, but it requires a significantly more complex generics runtime.
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This NPR podcast gives good insight to the rise of ISIS as well http://www.npr.org/2015/09/30/444721285/journalist-discusses...
Then get another job. We don't owe you your line of work.

If you literally can't compete with volunteers maybe you should see what they says about your niche and then find a new one.

Once when replacing a server (and fixing the wiring, etc, etc) I also replaced a router and dual-homed the company's site as a freebie because it made my job easier (the new router had diagnostics, managed-switch features, etc). It was a line-item I could have billed for separately, or it was a new level of service.

By the "save the work for the guy feeding the starving children" philosophy we should nickel-and-dime our clients instead of providing our true value. I don't like that.
I think CINT was superseded by cling.
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> Rakudo and MoarVM clearly aren't what we, as potential Perl 6 developers and users, want.

Why not? A core implementation with its own VM (MRI+YARV for Ruby from 1.9 on, for instance) seems to be pretty common for languages.

> Like I said, we want the Perl 5, Ruby, Python, Lua, and Tcl type of experience.

But that's exactly what Rakudo + MoarVM offers. For the Ruby comparison, Rakudo is analogous to MRI, MoarVM is analogous to YARV.

> We want there to be one consistent implementation that's widely used and trusted.

And why can't Rakudo be that implementation?

> We want something proven and familiar.

Well, clearly, it won't be proven till its been around for a while in production use, and won't be familiar till you've used it for a while. But I don't see any reason that Rakudo (which is used for some things exposed to the public now) can't be the thing that ends up "proven and familiar"?

> Unfortunately, we aren't getting that with Rakudo and MoarVM

In what concrete way is that true?
Islamic 'terror' started long before colonialism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquests

People often forget this, but 1000 years ago Islamic armies were in Spain, Italy, and had conquered 'Roman' lands. 500 years ago they attacked Russia, the Balkans, and central Europe.

While the actions of the west may have inflamed things more recently, they were attacking us long before western 'colonialism'.
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We also have a concept called "Richtgeschwindigkeit", a recommended maximum speed. For the Autobahn (German motorways) it's 130 km/h unless there is a speed limit lower than that. This is the speed you're expected to drive under "normal" circumstances (i.e. good weather, low to medium traffic, clear sight).

Part of driver's education is being able to adjust your speed to the conditions and safely maintain the recommended speed on the Autobahn when possible. If you are too scared to drive at such speeds or unable to do so safely, you won't pass.

Of course we still have plenty of drivers who are afraid of driving on the Autobahn (often because they don't do it regularly enough once they have the driver's license) and especially the elderly can be in denial about the limits of their actual abilities and make up for their inability to drive safely by driving more slowly (which isn't necessarily any safer).
Wow. Your struggles sound oppressive. How do you overcome these daily challenges to self-esteem and sense of belonging?
I don't remember the detail at the time but I think the lack of free tools hurt Eiffel's wider adoption.
Looks like it's gonna be time for another round of "no, you can't write Facebook/Twitter in a week" again.

Yes, both are quite easy, as long as you ignore all the parts that make it hard. Like scaling. Lots of things are easy if they don't have to scale.
Western involvement in the middle east is an imperialist, colonialist action, at the behest of oil companies, military contractors and Zionists. The French have been bombing the Syrians for over a month - where were the mawkish "We are all Syrians" corporate media campaigns at that time? The French bombed the Syrians, so now the Syrians have bombed the French, the French got what was coming to them.

When France was trying to reimpose colonialism on Syria in 1945, Syrians marched through the streets for independence. The French army shot the marchers down in the street. For the past month, French bombs have been attacking Syria and the French attitude toward the Syrians haven't changed a whit.

The corporate news was telling me the secular Assad was a monster who gassed his own people in the past years, and the US began arming opposition groups, including Islamic fundamentalists. Now I'm being told ISIS are monsters and such. And at the same time I'm being told that the Russians are bad because they are helping Assad fight ISIS. It's risible.

Fox News says the same thing about blacks in the US. Like Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown. That they're animals and savages that have to be put down by police. It looks like all the same thing to me.
The only solution to end this is economics.

Where people are not economically well off, these will happen, people are terrorists for a reason and it wasn't because their life was great.

We left Iraq susceptible without a Marshall Plan like economic effort after the military effort like we did in Japan and Europe after WWII. We downgraded the quality of life and that is not the direction things need to go for peace. The downgrade in quality of life fueled extremism even more.

A peaceful place is a comfortable place and usually the cornerstone of that is an economy where everyone can participate and succeed, the government is secular, and bombs aren't being dropped where you live.

There is nothing you can do to combat terrorism other than make a better life for the people susceptible to it and maybe they will decide it is not worth it. When people are comfortable they are calm. Bombs create more terrorism and gang like tribal attacks on both sides.

Our strategy in Iran (and Cuba) is actually the best one we have going. Allowing people to live and let live and prosper as long as there is a mutual agreement not to attack. This worked in Japan, Germany and other places that also had idealogical control that was overly strong.

We'll need a smarter economic plan for places we deal with. China is an emerging world power and their trade routes and economic benefits they bring will win out if we don't get back to building up after tearing down.

It looks like this idea is out there in some circles [1]

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/mideast-marshall-plan-syrian-refugee-...
> or they will kill us

(I don't think you mean it this way, but I'm going to appropriate your comment to make a point:)

They? Us? Who is "us"? Hacker News readers? Americans? Do any believe in Islam?

The foundation of hatred is the concepts 'they' and 'us'. Once the discussion is framed that way, the haters are empowered. That's how ISIS' worldview. Let's remember that 'us' is the vast majority who want peace, freedom, and justice, of every religion. 'They' are the perpetrators of hate and violence, everywhere. A fundemental tactic of hate groups like ISIS is to drive a wedge in our group, to alienate our Muslim brothers and sisters.
It's uncomfortable to me that Paul Graham felt he had to write this. In particular, his enumeration of Jessica Livingston's 'Social Radar' as if it is some kind of superpower reads to me like a long list of the virtues emotionally unintelligent hacker dudes lack, like he felt forced to justify her role in the founding of YC. I could be overreacting but I also find it telling that he doesn't praise her for business acumen (until that blip at the end about data), but rather for her intuitive judgments.

Not a very interesting character portrait, and has an slightly weird sniff about it.
Fewer *moving parts.

Tesla was bragging that it had less moving parts thus less parts which will wear out and fail eventually. They didn't claim they had less parts overall or less complexity.

And even if Tesla could theoretically build a minimalist car, their current vehicles are anything but, they've invested a lot of technology into safety systems and electronics.
It's indeed an exercise in douchebaggery, but the fact is, Smith has the right to subpoena the emails. They're public property.

If you saw The Martian, you might remember the arguments among NASA managers about how much information on Watney's predicament should be revealed to the public. It was pointed out that their only legal option was to lay it all out there. That's pretty much how government agencies actually work, and it's not a bad thing.
Maybe there's a convergence of shared interests across all advertisers that serves to create a culture of consumption? I don't think it's that hard to explain or that it requires the positing of any sort of conspiracy.
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I think you mean "overstate" :)
Couldn't they have just used software to emulate the steady stream of Bitcoin that this thing produces? The inclusion of the miner and it's subsequent price tag (over what a normal Pi costs) makes it seem ridiculous.

If their endgame is to create a mining chip that can be realistically put into devices, they'd better figure out a much better form factor for it as well.
She didn't want PR for its own sake. She wanted to get a message out, and the tech press was less interested in the message than in how many clicks they could milk out of any drama involving YC.
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Its sad - that she isn't out there more: setting a visible example for other women. But it is by her choice, and I am glad she has the choice.

As men, we should make tech more accommodating to women.

It is interesting that if Jessica was really a man "Jessie" how would the experiences have been. (i.e. founders ignoring "him", assuming "he" was a secretary, etc.)

Of course, I better make sure I don't fall into this trap!

Update: Interesting state of affairs. My comment is being downvoted.
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vegabook, I encourage you to make a non-hostile comment explaining in plain english how swaps are much closer to 24 hour loans than the underlying securities. This is a good explanation and deserves to be near the top of the comments on this article.

The jargon and tone of your original comment is the reason it is being down voted.
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Should I consider it super than CoreOS in the Docker-native OS distro land?
I bought this book out of curiosity 2 years ago. I did not google the author. I'm glad to know she is the one behind it. I also own her husbands book.
It takes control away from the user and breaks the default scroll behaviour. It's frustrating and annoying and I instantly feel at odds with any company that uses it. Also has the tendency to glitch out on trackpads and go past where I want it to.
SELinux has means to handle desktop security, but yes, it is rather PITA. Could you tell more about OS X process sandboxing?
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For a business purposes, part of the benefit of "that family thing" is that it would tend to make employees less likely to jump ship because of a personal connection and bond.

This is also the reason why in business (the reverse example) it's important (generally and depending on the circumstances) to keep an arms length relationship. If your brother in law is, for example, the contractor doing work and renovating your home, your hands are tied more than if it's someone that you don't have a personal connection to. Weighed against the potential upside of getting a bad job from someone who has no relationship with you at all of course. (Details and the parties involved matter as with anything).
I Googled cloud mining and found https://www.genesis-mining.com/pricing this page where I can buy 50 GH/s in the cloud for $22.49. Why would I want this local for 18 times the price?
Why hate? Why can't someone merely disagree with the premise of the GPL and prefer not to use software that is V3 encumbered? The use of emotive language by the FSF and other GNU exponents is actually very off putting. It comes across as very dogmatic. YMMV.
This is somewhat complicated by royal jelly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_jelly

Post menopausal woman and some adult workers have both lost the ability to reproduce. But, they did have it in the past.

Which suggests the question; should we consider tribes a 'super' organism? As it includes and benefits from sterile members. What about things like monastic orders or wolf packs whose members forgo reproduction?
Exactly, we do not care they are different (usually). We care in what way and how much they are different. Then we care about what possible explanations there may be for that difference.

I would say an exception is studies of ESP, etc where the existence of any effect would be surprising. However, in practice, everyone just assumes paranormal researchers messed up the experiment somehow. Small effects are not taken seriously even if they are "significant" because there are many explanations for such differences.
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In a way, Edison is a very American inventor. His skill wasn't in craft or science, his skill was in sales and turning a profit.
>Any form of volunteering replaces some amount of paid work.

This makes very little sense. They still have $3,498 left from what they had budgeted, money that can (and will) be spent elsewhere. The money doesn't just disappear into thin air.
There already exist commercial clones of the 4004, but w.r.t. DIY the easiest way to get to the guts would be through the Verilog version on an FPGA [0].

Alternatively you could go full monty and build something like this http://www.megaprocessor.com/

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The above graph is the source data for the famous "Hockey Stick" graph. The one below it is similar data taken from another location (IIRC one was taken in Arizona, the other California). Why they chose to use one and not both is beyond me. So, there are some types of science that are more based on perception. (Note, I'm not saying that this instance invalidates anthropogenic global warming, just that sometimes people present the data that favors their hypothesis).

The distribution of primes, on the other hand, relies on one set of data. We don't know everything about primes, and have some theories that may be invalid, but the data is isolated and irrefutable. This is how math is different IMO - it has a tendency to revolve around the nature of numbers rather than ever-changing real world measurements.

There is a lot of money in climate science and green tech. A friend of my parents got a multibillion dollar grant from the government to develop a clean energy solution, for example.

My usual disclaimer - I dont care one way or the other to what degree humans are warming the earth - I say act environmentally friendly either way.
On the one hand, good for PG for speaking up. On the other, how can one write a piece about persistent discrimination against a woman without mentioning societal gender discrimination as a thing?

He even asks the question, "If Jessica was so important to YC, why don't more people realize it?" His answer: he's vocal and she doesn't seek attention. Those may be true, but that's not enough to answer the question. As the NYT just wrote, even famous female economists get slighted like this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/upshot/even-famous-female-...
So you are saying that she figured that out after 1 bad interview and didn't know it about the press prior to hiring a PR firm?
Me too!

And I already wanted to learn Lisp. Because I kind of half-assumed this tool to be there already :-P

I always assumed, obviously Lisp didn't get this popular if people had to keep track of all their parentheses. Sure they probably had to in "the old days" (although I wonder even when?). It just seems like a tedious thing to have to do in order to work with such a consistently structured language.

Of course you can get most of it with highlighting matching parens and auto-formatting shortcuts. Like most languages.

But I kind of expected Lisp tooling to go the extra mile. Because it is that structured.

From my limited knowledge of Lisp, I figured some vague ideas on how such a tool would work / should be designed. It's kind of cool to see that the author's initial steps match up with that idea: define a grammar, some invariants, and "have at it" (ok, so I didn't figure that far). And then he made it work!

Maybe a silly question, but since the author is in this thread: Was it hard to make? :-)

BTW the idea of switching between these two modes is a very clever approach to keeping certain invariants invariant while still being able to modify the code--because the trivial way to preserve the invariant would be the tool immediately reverting your edit :)
Yup, as an early employee of a very successful company, I know the opposite side of this. The ratio of key contributions between founders:early employees is probably between 2:1 and 1:1, while the ratio of tech press is about 1000:0. And you are dead on with the co-founder and founder thing. The tech press really has a founder and "single-person" fetish in the way they write their stories.

Basically, don't value yourself based on what the tech press writes about you. If you are the one getting the press: you actually aren't that great; if you aren't getting the press: who cares.

I understand that PG is writing this article because he feels it is unfair he gets written about too much and Jessica not enough, but the real crux of the issue is that the tech press is so stupid it doesn't matter. I mean just look at that article that was written about Jessica...
> One reporter gives a bad slant to a story and that is enough to make you give up on setting up and getting other PR? What am I missing here?

Character? It's clear from PG's essay that she hates being in the limelight. What was very likely her worst fear about doing PR happened straight away. It's completely understandable that an incident like that would have had her just back away from it all as fast as possible. Especially when it's something she doesn't have to do.
> "There's a sort of Gresham's Law of conversations."

Generalized, this explains why a lot of the really cool, thoughtful, and kind people I know seem to fly under the radar.

And it suggests that moderating a discussion forum means constantly pushing uphill.
pg was famous among programmers before YC so it makes sense that everyone considered it pg's new venture. It's the same with Stackoverflow being considered Spolsky and Attwood's venture even though there were a bunch of other cofounders.

Also, the publicity. pg was public in a bunch of ways that Jessica wasn't.
Well perhaps she learned a lesson that if you are going to "lead" with a tasty vignette like that the rest of your message will be lost. So it's a lesson learned, right? Next interview she would perhaps not do the same thing and simply save the story for PG.
Hey really appreciate you taking the time to follow up. I agree with your points and I think it will take a bit of work to find those core building blocks that can be combined to achieve variety but should be worth it long term.

It would be cool to have a website that listed 5 of these main ingredients at the top and listed all of the meal combinations beneath. Imagine like RiceChickenBeanTacoMeat.com know of anything with similar intentions?
I have a tendency to scroll while I am reading. This made it so the first section, which I had not yet finished reading scrolled out of view. I scrolled back up and had to re-look for my place and instinctively scrolled down again losing my place again. Took strong will to give up scrolling and read each slide completely before moving on.

Deviates significantly from a normal user experience and results in a jarring experience for me personally.
Note that the dependencies aren't because of setting the colour temperature, but to get your location information (see geoclue in the list). geoclue has several providers, but a common one for desktop machines is to connect to a network service that does geoip. Consequently most of the dependencies arrive due to that (eg proxies, crypto, glue code for object models to do all that, and some innocent bystanders).

The location information is used so that redshift can alter the colour temperature during the day (less needed) and dusk, evening and night (very needed).
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Do you think bids would come in negatively for Firm Fixed-Price work. In this case (micro-purchase), you are not allowed to bill again for the same service so the $1 is pretty much where you stop, unless further contract work is pursued which can take months. Genuinely curious.
The new "buffered mining" and predictive mining features they announced take more of the risk out of mining. Not only do they have a pool to ameliorate the variance of finding a block, but they remove the risk of the difficulty varying, and even give you advance payments on mining before you've done it.

By taking out all the risk, variance, and profit, 21 is step-by-step approaching a design where customers just buy bitcoin with money. Except they feel like they are mining, with a very wasteful, expensive, inefficient chip.

Buying bitcoin was the right design all along. Eventually, 21 might discover this, if they can get over all the sunk costs they've invested in making mining chips without a market.
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Livingston's book, Founders at Work is the most insightful book on startups I have read. In hindsight it was her ability to bring out the core of the founders' character that made the book so informative.
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>The data should speak for itself

Are you serious ? Not only is there multiple way to interpret same data (after all there are so many competing models to explain it) and at best you can debate confidence intervals and models - it's far beyond non-experts expecting them to review the data directly is ridiculous - the only way they can work with experts is based on trust and credibility.
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