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I certainly don't feel insulted, and I can only imagine your immense frustration.

I must, however, disagree with the notion that this isn't our war. When my countrymen get slaughtered in the streets, it is de facto my war. And to be clear, there are elements of Western foreign policy that I condemn as harshly as you, if not more.

Where I do agree with you is with regards to the fact that military action is a short-term stopgap and not a long-term solution. I think you're very lucid in your analysis: this is a cultural war, not of East vs West, but of obscurantism vs enlightenment. I'm well aware -- and indeed very reassured -- to know that most Persians and Arabs are on my side, and I on theirs.

>I would suspect Saudi Arabia ( the US closest ally after Israel in middle east).Can you fucking believe it ?

There are no words to describe how enraged I am by the state of global politics. I wouldn't dare suggest that military action fixes the larger problem, but I'm fairly convinced that killing jihadis is necessary, albeit insufficient.

In any case, I really hope to visit Iran someday (as a civilian, obviously). It's by far the Middle Eastern country that fascinates me the most. :)
Oh, "manipulated". In no worse way than I'm manipulating you now by writing a hasty, little aggressively-toned response. Reading this comment will probably shift your mood a tiny percent down. Should I call my university's ethics board to ask if I can post this comment?

The whole "Facebook manipulating emotions" fiasco is one of the most ridiculous things I've seen happening in the field of social sciences in front of my own eyes. And it illustrates a very dangerous thing about science reporting - hyperbolizing. Almost nobody reads the primary sources (like actual papers), so when a journalist starts using strong words like "manipulated", it colors people's interpretations of the issue, leading them to severly overestimating the meaning of the issue - lo and behold, you can create a shitstorm out of thin air.

The way press was describing Facebook's "manipulating users' emotions" is akin to describing sneezing as an act of biological warfare. Scope matters.
A lone gunman managed to derail dutch politics for decades.
On one side I understand the need for good passwords given how bad websites are at keeping their clients data private, but fundamentally the problem is rather that websites are leaking data, not that passwords are too weak.

How do we solve that problem?
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This is effectively what happens, because the remaining bitcoins become more scarce and (in theory at least) more valuable as a result.
Japan requires the shutter snap sound as a way to combat a specific kind of unlawful photograph. Specifically upskirt and peephole surreptitious photographs, not to combat photographs of strangers, etc. It addresses a specific problem in their (and in others) society.

Of course that doesn't stop the harcore ones who build homemade cams into their shoes, or people sabotaging the speaker - but if stops most garden variety ones.
Wow, it really sounds like you have a personal vendetta against Mark, who you've probably never met. It's easy to get misled by only reading second or third hand accounts.

Trust me: he is smart and an intense thinker. Facebook didn't get to where it is today by chance.
I've been really getting into the flat file CMS's recently. I just did a quick project using Grav and its use of twig and yaml made the set up a breeze. With NGINX and not having to muck around with a database I was able to stick the whole thing on a Raspberry Pi and physically handed them their server to plug into the router. I won't dread the next build if these lightwieght CMS's keep popping up.
This is like saying that the future of houses is wood, not hammers and saws. The future of houses is in HOUSES.
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Just take a look at the sheer mass of Tokyo, and that just becomes more truth than fiction. The US actually, is going to have a massive GDP issue once a generation passes from where we are today. Why? Baby boomer generation is retiring. If immigration is not allowed, we will have a bigger problem on our hands than President Trump's legacy (that's a joke, btw).
I support the author and his journey.

He's not yet aware that his freewriting revelation comes on the back of months of consistent meditation. He's almost saying "pedaling a bike is better than inflating the tires."

The big picture is: The way to thrive as a human is with a battery of self-development and self-awareness habits, such as, but not limited to, meditation and freewriting. Even these are just templates for you to embellish. Saying one is "better" than the other is probably just b8.
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It's worse than that. If you don't have a profile, Facebook builds a shadow profile of you based on data from data brokers and the social graph of people who do use Facebook. It should be illegal (Belgium is fining Facebook tens of thousands of Euros a day if they don't stop doing it in Belgium).

http://www.zdnet.com/article/firm-facebooks-shadow-profiles-...
Do they want attackable weaknesses in crypto, or a "master" key?
"perhaps you should view this as an 8 year education in philosophy/business"

That's awesome. I love this
How likely is this to be merged upstream..? There's a glut of reasonable-to-good third-party solutions which I'm always hesitant to commit to as they are just Some Startup's solution.

Not saying it doesn't work for them or it couldn't work for me, but I do feel its justifiable to deduct a few "points" there.
The real limiting factor of contemporary and future computing systems (from desktop to high performance ones) is power.

The FPGA can give GPU and (especially!!) CPU a run for their money in the area of performance per watt.

The clock frequency gap is not relevant at all. It exists here as a side effect of some old wars between vendors. Some of recent CPU projects for exascale computing specifically reduce CPU frequency, trading it for predictability and reduced latency of operations. Both amount in less wasted cycles and in greater efficiency in the end.

Witness Xeon Phi, for example.

As for embedded devices... I don't know. My friends from embedded world used small FPGAs as a replacement for a lot of standalone logic chips (FPGA reduces set of 74xx chips to one). That's about it.
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Cruel!

The usual solution was to take a marker and swipe the deck along the top side, in a diagonal, so they are much easier to sort.

You might recall that Fortran ignored everything beyond column 72. This was where you put the 'sequence number', aka line number, so when you drop the deck you stick the cards the sorting machine and voila, it's ordered again.

Ahh, I see Wikipedia covers this bit of arcana, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming_in_the_pu... .

But there are many stories of the heartbreak of those who didn't take one of these precautions.

Ha! In looking for one I came across http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/sorter.html :

> You may have heard the story of the operator who dropped a whole box of cards. Wanting to put things right as quickly as possible, he sorted the cards, without consulting the user. As it turned out, that was the worst possible response. Up until that point, the box had contained a sample of random numbers.
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Social media expands one's capability to make (and more importantly, keep) friends, especially if one's busy and/or not an extrovert.
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I had it explained to me that if a sect comparable to ISIS where to arise in Christianity, it would basically be one that wants to enforce Old Testament rules. That's what ISIS is - a revival of early Islam.
Because it's an interesting topic in a sense that you understand what this person feels - bitterness. Doesn't matter if it's right or wrong. Human, after all.
Considering some of the largest app markets are not run by US (or EU) based companies (e.g. China), the assumption of control is also a fallacy.

"If you make encryption-by-default impossible, the amount of unencrypted messages will increase, and you'll have gained those."
Requires you to monitor every message for every form of data, and assuming the false assumption that banning encryption increases the simplicity of finding messages, you would probably only find more things not related to what you are looking for. Only assuming you have control over all data channels, which even the US doesn't have.

On the other hand: This message is then flagged: bomb, truck, explode. While you could better be looking at other stuff like origins and communication contacts. These give a clearer view than the random words you will be picking up, even when they are encrypted.
I think the tendency to label them as extremists is a step in the right direction. I prefer "extremist" alone to "Islamic extremist", because in the latter the association remains, but let's be honest that association has been cemented by the media already, it's not going away. I am not a Muslim, but live in a Western country with a lot of friends who are and can see the identity struggles they have, wanting to assimilate, but having the media drive this wedge between them and people who don't know them.
Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing grounds. To explain why so many Christians participated in the violence, this book looks at the history of Christian engagement in Rwanda and then turns to a rich body of original national and local-level research to argue that Rwanda’s churches have consistently allied themselves with the state and played ethnic politics. Comparing two local Presbyterian parishes in Kibuye prior to the genocide demonstrates that progressive forces were seeking to democratize the churches. Just as Hutu politicians used the genocide of Tutsi to assert political power and crush democratic reform, church leaders supported the genocide to secure their own power. The fact that Christianity inspired some Rwandans to oppose the genocide demonstrates that opposition by the churches was possible and might have hindered the violence.

Source: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/africa...

The Rwandan genocide, just like the Paris attacks, must've been carried out by a bunch of nutsos. They both used religion and its tools to promote and support their wicked agenda forward.
Sure. Someone just out of school working for some urban startup with a circle of friends (at least some of whom own cars) who also live in a relatively dense city with decent public transportation can often get away without driving for a while. They're probably not going on a lot of sales calls, they can carpool with their urban friends to go hiking or to help them move, and they can just choose not to vacation in areas that require a car (the vast bulk of the US) unless they're going with someone who can drive.

However, some of those friends will probably move out to the suburbs or exurbs, there may be interesting job offers that aren't conveniently reached by public transit, or it may just get tiresome to always be depending on others to go skiing or to the beach.

It's obviously a lifestyle choice people can make--and it's more practical in a handful of very dense cities--but it is something that they're likely to find very limiting over time.
I didn't downvote, but you failed to explain how Facebook's product could figuratively resemble a swarm of burrowing parasites.

The original author is trying to hint at his perception of Facebook as a time/energy leech, and its ability to become deeply ingrained in someone's life, to the point where the person might not even realize they're carrying such a leech around. It also highlights the product's highly distributed nature.

Seems a bit macabre and dramatic to me, but there you go.
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Lions of Rojava / YPJ / YPG / PKK are anti Assad and anti daish and are fighting in north of Syria. They have some support, if only because they include women in the fighting forces.

Here's some information that (probably?) wont mean you end up on a watch list: https://cccounterterrorismcenter.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/wh...
It was not my intent to blame others; just to point out that this type of model is unsustainable.
Rejection can cause two reactions, and yours is one of them. It is also not the reaction that is productive.

I think it was Stephen King who said every rejection letter he received from publishers, he would pin it to his wall. They were all over his place. So you've applied over 8 years; King got a lot more than 8 rejections. Use them to fuel your motivation, that is how you direct your response. Just cursing at everyone with a "Fuck You" subject line is not likely going to make you a better businessman, let alone a better human being.
The problem with having everybody possess potentially deathly tools is not terrorism, but crime in general. I, for myself, can think of a lot more crimes committed by normal people than the government.
The historical argument is of course not completely unreasonable, but there are also an awful lot of discrepancies when looking at states government today and 300 years ago. At least in Europe, where I live, the government can be trusted in a lot of issues --- especially it is highly likely that they _try_ to do what is best and are no "evil emperors".
>I'm a firm believer in anti-hate-speech laws.

And I am firm believer of benevolent dictatorship. The main problems comes with the inheritance - how can we ensure the next is also benevolent?

Same is with speech - we cannot project into the future how laws banning (especially widely defined as the lawmaker bodies love to do them) categories of speech will be abused - so it is better safe to not have them at all.
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Does anyone really believe the world needs yet another article bemoaning the common and unpopular practice of imposing arbitrary requirements on passwords?

I'd much sooner read a piece discussing the reasons developers so often make this design choice. Is it a thoughtless formula, a common misconception about how brute-force attacks are conducted, or something else?

I'm far from an expert on the subject, but as an aside, I'd like to point out that the XKCD comic on the topic seems inconsistent with what I know about how brute-force attacks are usually conducted. To my knowledge, these are usually dictionary-based attacks, which would significantly decrease the "search space" to discover even a long, lower-case sentence. Thus a password with random characters and shorter length might be more secure in practice than a longer password composed of English words.

Edit:

I've been informed that my layman's speculation on the comic was mostly wrong. As I said below, "sorry to be on the other side of the 'infuriating argument with someone who doesn't know information theory or security.'"
Please calm down. Before YC, there were others that were able to build businesses and were successful. People are often so bent on getting into YC, TechStars etc. that they forget they can be successful without them.

That being said, even if YC takes you in it does not mean you will be successful. Others have actually failed after getting into YC.

So stop being angry and get YC out of your head. Focus on what you think that great idea is. Rejection although hard should serve as motivation for you. So don't quit what you are doing if you think it is great idea.

Winston Churchill said: "When you are going through hell, keep going" so do exactly that.
I think more to the point, blame Joel Spolsky:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

He made it easier to understand unicode!
I experimented with some free writing recently on vacation. I was very apprehensive bc I was ashamed and afraid to think the things I thought.

But I found it was immensely valuable to me. I wouldn't obsess over the rules like pen vs. typing. And I do think it's different from playing music or cooking because of the verbal layer.

Writing down your thoughts blazes new trails, modifying your subjective experience.

By free writing, I don't mean, random, I mean, not directed toward publishing or even paragraph/prose structure. A thin editing layer between raw thoughts and written/typed media.
They carried out a successful military action that furthered their goals. And they killed far fewer people than many of the military operations we have engaged in. They are only bad because they didn't follow our rules of war and weren't us. (We often defend our own who don't follow our rules of war; see all those defending torture of detainees.)

They are bad, we are bad. The only not bad involved in all of this is the little children who we both have hurt, and even then those children will grow up and become what the other side considers bad.
Depending on what you mean by premeditation a large percentage of US murders are more or less random.

#Pollution #Cars
I have no shortage of money now. I wanted to get in so I could work with and be around smart people but now I realized they are gaming us all.
Well they were, and the IRA would still be a terrorist organisation, were it to continue, you know, performing acts of terrorism.
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What does it mean 'for the first time'? My GF in grad school ran an atomic physics experiment where they cooled helium down to a Bose-Einstein Condensate at a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero using a laser cooling system (kick out the hot ions with a laser until only ridiculously cold ones are left). Doesn't get much colder than that...
That slows down things. It also allows currier interception.

If it's so easy, then, go ahead, replace all your daily encryption with gpg and couriers, see how effective you become.
So true that it's upsetting.
The result of this strategy is an extraordinary lack of cruft. Postgres has some obscure unpopular features, but it really doesn't have any legacy behaviour.

If you read the MySQL documentation, it's full of "until version 5.7.7.3 this returned NULL if..." or "this will accept invalid dates unless a certain mode flag is enabled" (I'm paraphrasing, obviously). Postgres has none of this.

They do occasionally deprecate features, such as OIDs, which are supported but not recommended (or particularly useful), or they change some key behaviour (standard_conforming_strings).

Sometimes the development strategy leads to incomplete or overlapping functionality because they prefer discrete, additive changes over big, one-off overhauls. But in general, Postgres' conservative strategy has really paid off.
Of course there are answers: ISIS just attacked NATO -- definitely Darwin award material. NATO can "wipe the desert clean" in less than an hour anytime NATO is willing to do what ISIS does -- create civilian casualties. By clean, in the ISIS areas, no more buildings, oil infrastructure, vehicles, tents, flocks, camels, or people. None. Then, the end of ISIS and whatever beliefs, determination, goals, history, etc. Dead people don't attack NATO, and NATO can convert ISIS and everyone in the ISIS areas to dead people in an hour. The only question is, when will NATO do that.
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It's not the exactly the same thing from your perspective, but I bet it is from the victims'.

Imagine if a drone from Saudi Arabia or better yet Assad's Syria swooped into your community looking for, the leader of a US infantry commander, and instead blew up a wedding party. And not just once, but dozens of times over the course of years.

How would you feel about that? Would you want retribution?

Would you want to spend time debating what a "terrorist" is?
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Much of the architecture of yoke was inspired by manatee. In fact, we've spent the last 2 years working with Joyent on smartos and illumos, so we were heavily inspired by the great engineering behind manatee.

Manatee didn't work for our use cases, which should not be interpreted as "manatee is bad". Here are a few of the reasons we forged a different solution:

- While node.js is a great language for many things, we didn't want the overhead of running the node.js/v8 runtime alongside postgres. 50M might seem negligible, but with thousands of postgres clusters for our clients every MB adds up.

- We didn't want the administrative overhead of managing a zookeeper cluster, and instead built the cluster management semantics directly into the yoke project.

- This may be different now, but at the time manatee was very heavily integrated into illumos/smartos. We really love smartos, but recognize that not all clients are able to use this tech.
I know, it's hilarious and annoying to be honest. It shows how behind the EU really is.

Pretty much all the British digital policies are silly. I think the simple thing they seem to not understand is that the Internet is smarter and moves fast than policy.
4 million out of 17 have fled already. I'm not trying to blame anyone for anything, just saying. His decision to stay is his decision.
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Also the funding of the Syrian rebels by Obama and other Western nations. ISIS was just one of the groups in the Syrian civil war, a bunch brutal and crazy idiots, that would have never amounted to anything.

At the same time CIA wanted to destabilize the region, to kick the currently Russia-friendly government out (and as a consequence kick Russia out of its pretty much only naval base in the region). So they kept funneling funds, training and weapons to the "moderate" rebels.

Of course all those weapons (along with many left behind in Iraq), and all those "moderate" rebels switched to ISIS. Now you can either say CIA is stupid or malicious. Stupid because despite the $100B in funding, they couldn't foresee it and it was a surprise, or it was pretty much the plan.

One can say, at the end of the day what are they (and many other military and intelligence) branches will do if is there is no new threat to worry about. "No drones or SIGINT targets, no promotions and paychecks". Both for military industrial complex and the government employees alike.

Either way I find it interesting how this was spun as a surprise to the media: "We had no idea why ISIS grew so fast, and managed to occupy so much territory. Not really sure how they got those modern tank killer missiles they keep making videos with...".
My apologies, I completely misread "It's absolutely not inconsistent" as "It's absolutely inconsistent".
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