skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is that we don't know who is fleeing because of:
1. war
2. need to perform acts of terrorism
3. want to find better job

We definitely don't want guys from the 2 group, and probably don't want the ones form the 3rd (they can use a traditional application for visa or something like that).

Moreover the problem is that most of the fleeing are young, healthy males, which is quite suspicious, if you fear war you should get your wives, kids, parents out sooner than later.

On the other hand groups 2 and 3 will mostly contain young, healthy males.

That's why (probably most) people in EU would prefer the stance that Australia made to illegal immigrants (the "No Way" campaign).

Another point is, why they are fleeing to countries that have completely different culture, they could as well go to ones that have similar (middle east or african ones).
We have those in NYC too, they are called dollar vans and they are ubiquitous, albeit apparently invisible to the upwardly mobile urban white people that are typically noticed by startups and the media.
In fairness, character encoding is clearly the work of terrorists.
Agreed. I was surprised to not see it mentioned in the article, and only at the bottom here. I love it, it's my goto front-end framework.
Wait, what? The article actually derives the conclusion that 8 people live in the same zip code, are going to the same destination, in the 10% technophile bracket, and leaving in the same 20 minute window -- and this makes it impossible? Doesn't that show the exact opposite, that even with really pessimistic assumptions, matches are still likely?
I'm agnostic so really no prejudice on either side. I see so many religions/gods on earth and I feel Muslim is the one that stays with their stone age laws/rules without updating/revising the original released versions. Other religions seem evolving over time, but Muslim is different and I feel they are just so out, thus all these tragedies. Anything that has no ability to upgrade/evolve overtime is doomed to be losers, and losers will go crazy easily to blame others for their own failures.

Democracy or staying-politically-correct or show-mercy-to-the-murder are all useless to combat this level of violence, the only way to really fix it, is either they evolve and modernize quickly, or get erased by a war at a large scale. It seems more likely the latter will be the case as they're turning everyone against them quickly.

There are no good Muslim or bad Muslim, Muslim itself indeed is the root cause here.
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A poll would merely tell you what people say they value. What people actually value is apparent from reality.
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> Dang it, guys. Encryption is now illegal for us to use, everyone uninstall PGP.

Said no terrorist or criminal. Once the cat has been let out of the bag there is no getting it in again.
Honestly, no. That's not enough.

You're competing with jobs here, and you ask if 180€ a month is sufficient? And then you're surprised that women prefer to stay in the workforce?
I think the data can be, and should be, crowdsourced, like Wikipedia or OpenStreetMaps are. However, I have no idea how to do that. How to take two learned neural networks (or whatever) for a specific application (like image recognition) and merge them efficiently? I think it needs to be figured out first.
> Mind Reader

This is a really, really bad idea.
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The difference is that Huysmans' A Rebours is a relatively intellectual and sophisticated novel, while Houellebecq's is pedestrian garbage.
If one says "keeping up the articles of Magna Carta, rather than resort to catastrophic violence on the part of the powerful outlawed states, would likely help lessen some of the chaos in today's world", does it imply that one is physically calling to go back to the thirteenth century? Similarly, Americans calling to restore the fourth amendment may not mean taking the clock back to the nineteenth century. Salafism in essence doesn't mean any different within the relevant conceptual framework.

In the world of Fukuyama et al, rather than a basic religious worldview with precise tenets, is there a solid framework of meaningfully defining/determining good/triumph/progress? How/why does it matter in the long run whether or not a bunch of Amoeba get transformed into more complicated organisms, or hot elementary particles end up forming heavy atoms and structures, or killing and chaos spreads among the humans a la world war II? From a materialistic/nihilistic standpoint, everything -- or nothing, for that matter -- can be viewed as triumph or end of some (part of) history (or not).

Islam in the 19th century was no more and no less than what it was before, but the Muslims were (and still are) trying to come to terms with the colonial destructions and ensuing effects.
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I have to confess that while I absolutely understand not owning a car as an adult under some circumstances--and in some cities especially--the concept of never learning to drive and get a driver's license somewhat astounds me. There are so many places I go both locally and when I travel that would be effectively inaccessible without a car. And even leaving my regular commute aside, there are plenty of times when I need a rental car while on business trips to get to a customer site or other location and a taxi doesn't really fit the bill.

Certainly, you can work around some of this for a time by carpooling with friends or making other types of arrangements but I'd think it would be very hard (and just personally limiting) over the longterm.
Wow. You can argue all you want about the atrocities of western armies versus the atrocities of Islamic terror. What I find very hard to accept is that you can't see them as distinct phenomena (they may be related, but nonetheless they are not the same kind of thing, at all).
Crappy teams and bad management creates management problems, not tools.

JIRA is fine. So far as "enterprise" tools go I'd actually say it's quite decent. Good teams need ways to collaborate and communicate on projects and JIRA has a lot of good features to do that as do other options out there. However, at the end of the day good tools don't make up for crappy teams... and honestly good teams will find their way to work with/around bad tools. However if you have crapy teams and crapy management then you're basically just screwed... but you know someone will decide to do another pointless re-org or something dumb to try and solve the problems.
But you can't say the same about every issue tracker. For example, GitHub Issues is so constrained that it's difficult for management to bend it, for good or ill.
> if your country orders you (or forbids you from doing) something that contradicts with your beliefs - you do it, and sort it out with your deity later.

Independently of religion, this is horrible policy. Not every country has rational sane laws, not every goverment wants their populace to be free. If you'd be given the option in Hitler's Germany to join the army or die, would you comply or try to fight?

The rational thing is to figure out if your beliefs are reasonable, then adjust them if necessary, and then to act according to them, law or not. The source of your beliefs aren't half as important as what you do to figure out if they are sane and have a positive impact or not.
> Yes, you can write high-performance Haskell but it requires expertise or huge amount of profiling and time.

Is there a language X that allows you to write high performance X without huge amounts of profiling and time?

> On the other hand, you can easily write faster (speed-wise) prototypes in C++ and get superior performance almost all the time.

You can't really compare development time though can you, even with C++x11? Even if so, you should probably specify the version of C++ you are referring to since they can mean very different experiences.

> List of ways to write performant Haskell: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10209798

Cool!
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Mail may be logged, but they're certainly not opening most envelopes to read their contents.
It is good you have self awareness about your religion. Do you admit both views are complete fallacy?
Lot's of reasons the most obvious is it does not impact trade or currency. However, from a repayment standpoint the debt payments are generally taxable which reduces the effective interest rate dramatically.

Hypothetical example: Interest rates are 8%, inflation is 5% = 3% over inflation. Now tax that 8% at 30% and your paying 5.6% - 5% inflation = 0.6% effective rate. (Assuming you don't let interest compound tax free.)
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People really didn't like my Obesity comment! The number one killer has a "personal responsibility" component and the techno-libertarians here object. Go figure... We live in an upside-down world where good is bad and right is wrong.
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> a significant number of adherents of Islam hold ideas that
> are incompatible with an open society.

Yet, a significant number of them also do. You can't generalize over a billion people like this.

For example, there are many Muslim-majority states that have had multiple women as heads of state. Sounds pretty progressive when you put it that way...
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From my personal experience, Bootstrap is pain if you need anything beyond its default style. You spend too much time in removing the style of its components and introducing new ones. In many of my projects, I have used bootstrap not because of its 'good-enough-defaults' but because it has reusable components - grids, tabs, pills, labels.

For the latter use-case, I am consider using inuit.css[1] which provides the components but without any defaults which seems perfect for my use case.

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Poor example. Christianity had nothing to do with that civil war. For reasons incomprehensible to most (as is also currently the case with Shiite vs Sunni), the Hutus and Tutsis had a deep cultural mutual hatred, and eventually acted on it to the slaughter of one side. There was nothing about the motivations related to a [mis-]representation of Christianity.

Near as most can tell, Islam _is_ a central factor in recent events. A lot of people are looking for a reason to conclude it isn't; if you can explain (either way) please do.
Could a cat on the keyboard might produce things that even fuzzing might not?

My cat loves a warm laptop keyboard. Perhaps that would aid testing?
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Surely you can see that they think the exact opposite. In order to do something like that, they have to convince themselves that they the good guys, and it has to be done to "purify the evil in the world" or something. The truth is that people are not inherently bad. Evil feeds on itself; if you insist on calling them bad, then you are falling into the same trap that they did. Hopefully you wouldn't act in such a heinous manner, but Western societies kill thousands of innocents all the time, and it is masked with the same rationalizations; if a drone strike kills someone, we define them as a bad guy.
Unfortunately that process isn't as easy as clicking the little triangle, and hence only 4 out of 10 eligible "moderators" participate[1]...

[1]: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
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advanced, wealthy, egalitarian societies simply do not produce babies because nobody really needs them and they're extremely expensive both in actual cost and opportunity cost, especially for females. sure you can shift the cost from the family to the taxpayer or employer, but that doesn't actually remove it.

and this phenomenon is not limited to white people, i.e. japan, korea, singapore, taiwan.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
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I followed a few links, and didn't see much background information about Ben's experience with companies using JIRA at scale; from the tone of the posted sounds like he is seen some bad management and action.

But here's another point of view; at work we (among other things) train and consult companies on effective use of JIRA. As best we can tell, our students and clients are well-intentioned, trying to use JIRA for good, not for evil. They often want something similar to what Ben wrote about, to get numerous projects and teams across a large organization using the same tracking tool (JIRA) in approximately the same way, with local variations as needed but avoiding pointless variations.

I've actually not heard of any of them trying to "ensure velocity parity", but rather the typical goal is to be able to roll up and understand project status and progress across a large and sprawling organization working on goals that far exceed what an individual team could do. This seems like a worthy and important goal.
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You really have to go back in time to find these examples. Their dates of terror operation are 1970's, 1980, 1980's, 1995 and for one which doesn't very well compare, 2010. And then they were largely hounded down and imprisoned (or executed, for McVeigh). Islamist terrorism is a newer and also much bigger trend (even in the West, although the vast majority of people killed are in Muslim countries).

I see this line of argumentation regularly, but since those movements were brought down with significant police and military operations, I don't see them as good examples for why Muslim extremism should not be brought down by police and military operations. There are other reasons, but this comparison doesn't qualify.
Isn't that the kind of place where you'd expect apostates to be killed, if anywhere?

Not necessarily, no. Support for murdering apostates can be low in countries with a majority Muslim population (Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan are all in the low single-digit percentage range, it's at 8% in Turkey), and the figures for minority Muslim communities in western countries might be comparably low.

Also note that supporting an action does not automatically translate to enacting such an action, but such a mindset is still problematic.

And as the cases of Bangladeshi atheists that have been hacked to death show, such things do happen. Generally, apostates probably know to keep their head down in places where it is an issue. The fact that you say you live in a place with a considerable number of apostates shows that it's likely not one where you are.
Also adding that the total military budget of the US is 600+ billion a year. Talk about scary and it is not just an idle threat. The US has killed more civilians than any other actor in the modern world.
Unfortunately, it's without a hint of irony, as the same media companies deploy SSL/TLS on their websites for - at least - login and signup, taking payments, and more. I'm not sure if it's simply that no one has explained that SSL/TLS is encryption, and the nefarious things that could be done (stealing identity, credit cards) if certain communications aren't encrypted.

In the end, it's more education, isn't it? Most things are. But in some cases, like this, it's a race between general education and political (and spy agency) advantage-taking.

That's Snowden's greatest legacy - a few more people became educated, and the public frustration and pouting spy agencies are doing regarding encrypted communications are a bit more transparent than once they were.
Actually, most reputable newspapers have very strict rules about anonymous sources, including some who ban them altogether.

Here is the NY Times Standard and Ethics Statement, which describes the newspaper's "distaste" for anonymous sources:

http://www.nytco.com/who-we-are/culture/standards-and-ethics...

In fact, that's probably the reason it was pulled: a complaint was made to the NYT Public Editor about the piece's sources.
There's another well-written obituary that's also worth reading here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11997024/Robert-C...
You are right. I didn't express myself properly.

My point was about the fashionable view of fixing the economy by "internal devaluation" that is so in vogue in Europe.
> the high terrorist attack output of Islamists vs other non-Islam subscribers

I wonder if this is really true though. Some statistics:

https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/terrorism-20...

While Anders Breivik was shooting kids on the island in Norway, the Norwegian media were speculating that it was most likely perpetrated by muslim extremists. Even though we've historically had way more examples of terrorism perpetrated against immigration related targets by right-wing Norwegians (which was the case with Breivik as well).

The average Norwegian won't remember any of the mosques, immigrant reception centers and immigrant stores that were bombed in Norway in the past. I guess terrorism is quickly forgotten when it isn't your own group that is targeted.
Agreed. It's no longer in kitchen now.
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If I were to schedule a football game between the New England Patriots and a good local high school team, one could agree to play it by pro, high school, or NCAA rules, and referees could call all penalties scrupulously. It would then follow the rules. Would it be fair?
Fair points and I can see your perspective, but also think you're kind of too focused on the notion of streaming revenue as the goal for unsigned bands/musicians/artists. Even signed to a major label, the income is negligible.

However in other avenues, such as 'music review' and licensing for film/commercials, there's a genuine thirst for finding the "next big thing" and getting involved with the artist before the 'long tail' even gets started. My favorite example is Chvrches, which turned free publicity into a viable career. Yes, there are only a few at the top who have the quality and capability, but that's kind of the point of curation, review, and promotions teams - if they don't find something new, somebody else will.

Remember all that buzz around whichever indie/unknown group was featured in an Apple commercial? That's more what I'm talking about, because they probably made more from the commercial and initial sales bump than they ever will/would from streaming revenue, and that's just the nature of the business. Hot today, cold tomorrow, better make something new to stay in the game.
Why? Why can't they be the same thing, just in different contexts? On both sides there's people who believe the enemy will destroy the world, and believes in a particular ideal, and who sends out armies to achieve their goals, and both sides are very clearly not very precise in who they actually target (the bombing on Doctor's Without Border, anyone?). Both sides cause tons of civilian casualties, both refuse to apologize, both sides are full of rhetorics, both want the other to disappear, etc...

While you can point out differences in their justifications, you can't pretend their actions are unrelated.
"Tiny" is probably no longer quite the right word, but yes, most are staying in the region. The poorest ones apparently.

And to make it clear, I'm not concerned about the number of people coming to Europe. I'm concerned about the attitudes of conservative Islam, anywhere in the world.
Hmm ... let's not get carried away here. The abstraction leaks in Haskell seem to me to be of an order of magnitude less significant than in, say, Python or C++, but Haskell still has them (especially around _|_ and performance).
Exactly my experience as well. Let's use a grid and the bootstrap elements! designs come in without grid in mind, and no bootstrap elements

Though I do agree with the article in some respects. Bootstrap can be a bloat on a heavily designed site. You end up only using the grid for instance, and there are lighter weight frameworks for that.

Bootstrap is a godsend to strapped IT departments with no designers backing them though. Can really break the old schoolers out of table based layouts and nice pretty buttons quickly.

I leaned more heavily on Bootstrap when initially wrapping my head around RWD, but now that it has "clicked" in my brain, I'll be switching off of Bootstrap to something smaller. Bourbon and Neat more than likely, but I do need to look into Pure CSS too.
Well, discrimination according to religion is illegal in the UK, isn't it?
I beg to differ. Assuming we want to make machines intelligent by mimicking humans, more focus would go into modeling brain which means algorithms. A human (perhaps even a baby) could see one image (and its context?) and identify anything similar. It's not processing terabytes of similar images to "learn" about the object.
Taxing themselves out of growth. Effectively their tax rates are too high on individuals and business that there is no incentive to spend or grow. Similar reason why any supposed US recovery has been anemic.
The problem with terrorist attacks conducted by Islamist radicals compared to their non Islamist counterparts is the scope of those attacks as they transcend national borders and are not confined to a certain region or location, it's more of a global worldwide theater of operations for them unlike the usual terrorist organizations in Europe or the US.

Also, I have reservations including nationalist movements and lone-wolf ops in your rebuttal as the underlying nature of the struggle is completely different than that of the Islamic terrorism. You could reason with a radical nationalist and persuade them to explore other options than an armed struggle to reach political goals but good luck trying that with a faith-driven, theology-loving radical who thinks he's on some divine (read: apocalyptic) mission to cleanse the masses of their imaginary sins.
I was thinking about this a little more and realized that ReverbNation already has a "pay-for-listens" model where artists/bands have to fork over cash to have 'a community' review tracks and give a rating on a 0-10 scale. If a song hits higher than 8, it's allowed to submit to big name outlets (CBS Radio, etc) through their platform. So, I think it's kind of a flipped model - the people who listen to ReverbNation as a curation function are, more than likely, paid to sit there and go through the submissions.
Funny how politicians twist reason to suit their own ends. Bad guys use guns, but apparently were not allowed to ban them because they'll somehow find a way to get them no matter what. So the solution is to legalise them.

However when it comes to encryption, bad guys use it so it needs to be banned!

It's like they have it completely backwards.
Yes, but I'm saying they shouldn't be excluded :)
Funny how these guys twist reason to suit their own ends. Bad guys use guns, but apparently were not allowed to ban them because they'll somehow find a way to get them. So the best way is to legalise them.

However when it comes to encryption, bad guys use it so it needs to be banned!

It's like they have it completely backwards.
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I'm personally a fan of graph-tool in Python land.
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