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You may have misunderstood me there.

Yes, Islam is a particularly violent religion -- if you have read the Koran, many of its concepts seem very incompatible with the idea of a free secular society. Then again, the bible has the crusades.

I'm personally an atheist and I honestly don't think the problem is the the text itself but the cultural, ideological conflicts of an impoverished region that allows whoever "shouts the loudest" to assume power. The kids committing these atrocities probably couldn't even tell you what you just told me about Mohammad -- my point is that they are brainwashed and utterly uneducated so whomever comes along and says "this is god's word" is who they will listen to.

Anger + Desperation - Education = Extremism

You won't solve this problem by banning the Koran, but if you can get Muslims everywhere to renounce this "us-or-them" culture in favor of a more moderate interpretation (you know, how all religions seem to evolve if they want to survive) then perhaps we can neuter these kinds of groups before there's a power-vacuum?
My identity isn't particularly relevant to these foundational principles. I could be a committed nihilist or an anti-liberal ideologue and still explain how draconian ethnic surveillance violates the principles of an open liberal society.

Whether an open liberal society is ultimately good or worth maintaining is something I don't bring into the debate at this point. Since it is essential to the core values of the French republic, disputing it seems pretty futile.

If "democratic" has any real meaning, a democratic state can not take any stance on the subject: it can't take an anti-democratic stance, because that would be a contradiction in terms. Of course democracy is endangered by terrorism in exactly the way that people point out constantly: it undermines the basic security and "social fabric" that allows for democracy.
You understand how bayesian reasoning works, right? There are probably between three and six million muslims in France alone. Whatever monitoring you're doing, you're proposing to find on the order of a few hundred people, if that. False positives (which, remember: we cannot distinguish from actual positives) would end up targeting orders of magnitude more innocent people than guilty.

Worse, by breaking the compact of a free and just society with respect to a single religious group (cough), you're basically doing the terrorists' jobs for them - you end up marginalizing and disenfranchising huge swaths of your population (remember again: millions of people in France alone). Even if one is not not ethically and morally appalled by your proposal, the problem remains: your proposal would probably contribute more to radicalization than any other single action the terrorists themselves could take.

It is at a time like this when we most need to stick to the principles of a free, just, and open society. We need to re-affirm those, and I say that as an American who has lived through the post-911 transition into a security society. Learn from our mistakes: we've gone and made people more radical, spent more civilian and military lives, because as a nation we somehow thought we could fix the "muslim problem" through fighting and surveillance. Neither worked.

What will (eventually) work is working toward a nation and a world where all people are free and equal. Sure, there may still be attacks against such a nation, but that's what police are for (when the police are also just and equal). Furthermore, it's a lot harder to radicalize people when they live in a safe and just society that pays attention to them. I'm not surprised at all, given how non-muslim westerners have treated the religion and people, that we are seeing radicalized people.

And aaaaalso, this bears mentioning although it's kind of tangential. Not all muslims are brown. Not all muslims speak bad english / french. Consider all the work Imperial Japan did to wipe out christianity (you can't tell a religion by looking at someone), and all they did was make it stronger and drive it underground.

Consider: in the US, actually, the biggest terrorist threats come from white people. White people of the white-supremacy and militant-anti-abortion camps are responsible for far more terrorist attacks on US soil than ISIS and al-qaeda combined. We, as a nation, just don't really like to talk about surveiling all white people. It'd be ridiculous, a fact we understand instinctively because the white narrative is the non-marginalized one.
If I try the swing today and it is safe (with my weight, and with my use of the swing) trying my hardest to see if it will break and it does not, then the next day you come by and you sit on it and it breaks am I liable?

Should I have judged my test as 'inability to figure out if it was safe'?

Nothing short of a destructive test will tell you exactly what load a swing like this will support, but common sense will tell you to be careful with tree swings regardless of whether or not someone tells you that it is safe. It's a non-engineered project probably made on a budget (even though in this particular case the tree swing had chains rather than rope so it was constructed fairly well) and it ended up being the tree trunk that snapped rather than the branch the chains were attached to.
> Jack knew he was Jewish

Doesn't sound like he spent much time spinning his dreidel
> Best thing to mitigate the problem would be a knee-jerk reaction that does least amount of damage. Because in democracy you will have that knee-jerk, sooner or later.

That's an interesting take on it, and I don't really disagree with it. Maybe I hate that I don't disagree with it though. I hate having to settle for something. :/
To my knowledge the Mac has never had an (easily usable) eject button. I remember it being really annoying because a couple times I had to get the disk out and the computer wasn't working, so I had to push one end of a paper clip into a tiny hole next to the drive.
A million times this. Disarm the region by UN force. Establish peace and lot's of the issues at hand will be solved with it.

Yes it's hard but it needs to be on the top of that list.
These are pretty high standards for the coveted position of tree ownership.
By prospective users of those swings because it is their lives and health on the line.
My foremost example of apple's form over function is actually the 'Form' of the hardware. Every apple product that I have touched the phones, pads and macbooks are a slippery nightmare. They are often thin enough to be impossible to grip and trying to get even thinner for no reason. They have clean slippery lines everywhere, edges sharp enough that I think it will give you deep cut if it falls in the proper angle again for no reason. The only saving grace I found with iphones is that for the thinner width the grip isn't as bad it would be otherwise.

I remember my fear of dropping my office macbook every time I had to move it the first few weeks and while I got rid of the fear mostly the device didn't get any safer to use.

The biggest crime of apple probably (if I'm attributing this right) is it has pushed the idea so much and corrupted the whole market and other companies that everyone now tries to be a 1mm thinner as if that makes it look any nicer and just makes it hotter or slower or lowers battery. I think the surface book (I have only seen pictures) might have better grip on the hinge side but even its edges look sharp if not as bad as the apple product.

Now if you talk about weight than at least has the benefit of usability when it gives you 3lb full power laptop. But even for a phone does it matter if its 135g vs. 145g?
reminds me of http://zachholman.com/spark/ (spark-line graphs using unicode graph chars)
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It is on the front-page of HN because sufficient HN members found it interesting enough to upvote. If you visit Github, I am sure you will find quite a few stories that have not made the front page of HN.
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It's certainly only a subset of eating establishments in the US that offer delivery, but it is widely available.
This article begins with the premise that programs that treat disruptive children with kindness aren't working. His evidence is an article from the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-school-discipli...

Key text in the LA Times articles includes this:

"some teachers are dubious, in part because high staff turnover has stymied efforts. A highly regarded restorative justice counselor was let go in January because foundation funding ran out, and 10 of the 11 teachers on the school's restorative justice task force last year have left the campus... Schools with enough staff and training, however, report success."

Well yeah. You often get results that roughly match how well you run your program.

Maybe a more important issue is in plain sight:
"An ideal span of control in an organization, according to modern organizational experts is approximately 15 to 20 subordinates per supervisor or manager. However, some experts with a more traditional focus believe that 5-6 subordinates per supervisor or manager is ideal." (http://www.yourerc.com/blog/post/Span-of-Control-How-Many-Em...)

A teacher typically manages 25 and up.
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I was quoting the relevant part. Or rather, the irrelevant part. I don't see why only Muslims that have the potential to be radicalized should be monitored.
The USA are still a net importer of oil, and OPEC are called upon to manage the price of oil because they put themselves in that position by doing so repeatedly since 1973.
There are so many small traits like that they could have shared. This is anecdotal evidence e.g. not very good base for extrapolation. Imo atleast...
I hate it too :/. But it makes sense. A valve to relieve pressure - in some direction that isn't destructive, or doesn't contribute to further radicalization, creating a feedback loop.
I haven't looked into it in years, but my recollection is that you don't buy the inverse ETF, you short the corresponding long ETF.

That's because there is inherent "decay" in the price of the ETF - if the market just keeps going sideways, the ETF slowly trends downward over time.

So if you buy the inverse ETF and the market doesn't go up at all, you still don't have a profitable trade - you should short the long ETF.

Is that still the case ?
"Surges in demand", not "surging demand".
Vagrant just boots a VM and runs a provisioner on it (at a basic level). I'm guessing that even if you started a VM and installed Linux on it by hand in VirtualBox, the Salt config would've given you some trouble. A lot of configurations I see in the wild that are used with Vagrant and/or with cloud VMs are extremely brittle and have a lot of unwritten assumptions built in.
You're missing the point - at the root of all societal discord is an intellectual and emotional disconnect, which is, practically speaking, now easier facilitated by technology. That is, people fueled by hatred are much more driven and capable of mobilizing with technological advances than groups who wish to address the root causes. Driverless cars are simply a "feel good" development, along the lines of bariatric surgery. I'm talking about getting deeper into the human psyche for the benefit of all mankind, which isn't a "negligible" type of pursuit. Also, if society valued lives via driving, people would be subjected to more rigorous testing using technology, not simply cut out of the loop.
In the grand scheme of things this is possibly the correct answer. However, what technology can do is bring some meaning to more peoples life. One reason people do things like those which happened in Paris is due to the fact that these people are not integrated into a friendly, peaceful society. Thus they feel a void and need to fill it with something that gives them a sense of power and belonging. Technology can be used to enable people to create meaning for themselves. For Instance, the advent of digital music production enabled people who couldn't play a "real" instruments in the olden days to express themselves musically now. I know a guy who used to get into fights at night clubs until the day I introduced Cubase to him!

And even if these individuals are not strong enough to do something productive technology could at least give them a glimpse of power and belonging in online communities. For example, a person who is busy playing WoW all day won't get to shooting someone in the streets.

What I wrote above is, unfortunately, hugely idealistic. More realistically I see two options for this problem:

1. don't just bomb targets but level the ground.
This is of course not something we actually want to do because it would kill many innocent people. Still from an unempathetic point of view: Is killing millions of people now worse than eventually allowing <made up stat>twice as many people to be killed over the comming decades</made up stat>? instead:

2. We have to fucking evolve and acknowledge that they found a bug in our system and "we are the best, democracy rules, those guys are in the wrong - why are they so mean?" as well as a couple of bombs simply don't cut it anymore. Instead, we should come off our high horses and work our ass off to address the (political, cultural, economical) domains OP mentions so that we can leave our current conception of the world behind us and progress to something that serves us better in the coming years. However, this is radical and it is hard to make a society move into this direction as all of us would have to question everything we do.
Maybe finding time for teaching refugees your language for free is more important than working longer hours so that you contribute to pushing the GDP. Maybe moderate Muslims should do more to prevent those attacks even though it is neither their fault not their responsibility to do anything about it. Maybe the "average customer" should be more mindful when s/he goes shopping by making sure that s/he doesn't support supply chains which somehow benefit terror supporters. In short, every member of society has to work their ass of to bring some positive change about.
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Lets hope the House of Saud burns up its sovereign funds before they do permanent macroeconomic damage.
Using iOS means learning how to finger dance. Press-Press-Tap-Pause-Swipe-Pull-and-Slide!

For a laugh, I walked into a UX lab at this year's WWDC. I started to talk about my app in terms of GOMS - specifically Fitts law. There were two Apple UX engineers. He didn't know what the hell I was referring to. She did - and really enjoyed exploring the tradeoffs from a user-centered-design perspective. We discussed personas. Gesture cost. And the tradeoff of breaking an idiom. I hope she gets promoted.

I was introduced to GOMs by Jef Raskin. He also left when Jobs came back. I wonder if there is a tradeoff between product and UX. Parc had rigorous design during its downturn. Apple had great designers during its downturn. Maybe part of the magic is hiding the rabbit under the hat.

And then there's Apple Music [shaking head] geez.
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Uh, no. It's because they valued design highly, made it an indispensable part of their company, hired great designers, and gave designers like Jony Ive extraordinary power to shape products.

BTW, what flaws, precisely, have now magically become "difficult to disregard", but were entirely invisible before? Just a couple examples will do.
75 subjects divided into 4 groups, so about 19 people per group.

Suppose the study was studying the effect of coin tosses per group. The standard deviation is sqrt(19)/19 or about 23%. And that is only one sigma.

So we might also conclude that those who flip heads are <insert effect here> than those who flip tails. Is anyone really surprised that the reproducibility study [1] found reproducibility comparable that of a coin toss (to about one sigma)?

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-f...
Wow if I could give +1s on this website I would do so. I've seen a lot of that way of arguing -- for example people yelling about "states rights!" and then passing laws in Texas that forbid local cities from making minimum wage laws. Why aren't they yelling about "city rights!" Obviously because it doesn't fit their agenda.

In this case I'm not sure how anyone could defend the homeowner or AirBnB when the house had a picture of the swing on the website. Granted AirBnB isn't filtering those pictures looking for potential problems (hrm, image recognition problem here that could be interesting) but the owner sure could have if he/she were trained or asked to do so. Right now they aren't -- it is just a "host your home for free and get people to give you money" without thinking about the consequences.

I can see why the homeowner might not have all the insurance or knowledged needed to make it a safe(r) place. That's why they are homeowners and not hotel or apartment owners -- they aren't that sophisticated. But is it right for AirBnB to profit off of that?
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> If you can't afford to keep your trees safe then you can't afford the trees and/or the property.

1. Handling it like that might mean more cut down trees, which is probably not something the town/city has an interest in. (Maybe they should send professionals to check out all the trees?)

2. Properties can change hands much quicker than cut down trees can be regrown.
> I'd suggest starting with schools. Make sure that kids go to school.

We already try to do this, they already fight this with violence (on us and on their own children).
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This is absurd. Being a terrorist is much worse, morally speaking, than simply being a coward.
I didn't know France was doing that?

Anyhow it works relatively nicely here in Finland. We only take part in UN operations as peacekeepers. And we don't have radicalized Muslims doing strikes in Finland. But for some reason Finnish Muslim radicals still travel to Syrian and join ISIS.

I don't think Levant will be peaceful in my lifetime unless Israel magically disappears from the map.
The other responses are being incredibly polite here (including on your past comments). I read your PDF - http://vixra.org/abs/1404.0435

You start 2.4 with the words "I am not a mathematician. I do not fully understand the Einstein field equations." You can start the whole article with "I am not a physicist. I do not understand physics."

Then we can put the 30-100 hours you spent writing these 6 pages into a context: although you're doing something, it's "not even the same sport" as Physics.

It's like training in how to beat Usain Bolt in the Olympic sprint (he's a runner), without moving from your kitchen table. Whatever you're doing at your kitchen table, it's not even the same sport!

Your writing is much more interesting than most religious writing or many types of fiction. If you enjoy this style of provocative writing, making statements like "moving faster than the speed of light isn't a big deal" (2.7) I suggest you spend this time writing science fiction.

If you include a plot and some characters, you might find an interested readership. It also seems you have some interest in history - you could even make it a historical science-fiction fantasy novel about how the second world war could have happened differently if humanity discovered some totally different laws.

good luck, you clearly have a lot of creativity, I hope you find a better outlet for it.
I bought a lightly used copy of this book at 'Community Thrift' in San Francisco. There was no electronic edition available at the time, but it seems a Kindle edition will be out next week:
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Uh, there is strain relief. On every cable. You're probably doing what everyone does, which is to wind that cable on the power supply as tightly as you can around the charger, which is going to eventually break the cable. Instead, make a small loop where the cable begins, then wrap gently. It will last essentially forever.

And no. This isn't a "well known design defect". In fact, Apple's cables are inevitably designed and manufactured better than competitors'. Have you even seen the awful mess that passes for PC power supplies lately? At all? Well, I have, since I administer about 200 Macs and around 75 PCs. I can tell you that there is no comparison in design or quality.
Yes, your subjective experience has its locus in your brain, but that is not at all the same thing as "Everything you will ever experience is all in your head." There is an external reality that is separate from your brain. Some of the things you experience (like getting hit on the head with a sledgehammer) involve processes that operate in this external reality, and others (like dreams or psychosomatic pain) don't. This is a salient and useful distinction which "Everything you will ever experience is all in your head" only serves to obscure.
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I've been using Vagrant lately to spin up clean VMs to run Ansible against, and that's definitely something that you have to be very very careful about. I'm currently looking at setting up Jenkins to frequently re-provision from a clean VM, just to keep an eye on me to make sure I don't accidentally introduce a change that breaks things.

So far, I think the only real assumption my users have to deal with is that you need a full source tree checkout, not just the smaller part with the Ansible playbooks. The project uses Subversion, so it's quite easy to just checkout a subtree of the project instead of the whole thing. Which users did and immediately discovered how broken things are in that situation :)
Whenever I read stories like this about Microsoft I have to chuckle about all the similarities to Aperture-Science from Portal 2...
I think we need more languages with syntactical significant whitespace.

I did a few projects with LiveScript and it felt like a different world. These dangling delimiters, end or even } and ], just feel like a burden now.

I'd love to have a language that just get stored as abstract syntax tree, so everyone could adjust their syntax as they please. But there are just things that are nicer to write with special syntax's. And stuff that got written with SSW could look rather ugly if viewed with {} or ends. But it would probably be a nice experiment :)
Heh, I remember TerraServer. It was pretty amazing to me at the time (late '90s), the first thing I did was find my grandparents' property and sure enough saw a few shadowy figures which might as well have been me with them and the dog given the date on the tile. When Google Maps (and maybe MapQuest too?) started doing maps in color I was a suitably impressed kid.