skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because these people live in societies that have been colonized, manipulated, held down and bombed for decades on end, forcing them to get radically hateful and fundamentalist as a response and pass that on to others (younger men etc). Why would a white Swedish, Canadian etc. have any reason to do the same?

Besides, is it just terrorism that's incompatible with an "open society", or other acts of murder and oppression too? Because from the extermination of 6 million jews down to colonialism, slavery, the pogroms, nukes on civilians, gulags, the massacre in Manchuria, 2 world wars, etc, most western and asian countries don't look that good either.
Not to mention, a skilled web developer will take Bootstrap for the responsiveness and other extras and make it look good[1], or at least not like any other site.

[1] https://expo.getbootstrap.com/
The problem is that by calling them 'bad people' you imply that they committed the crime because they were 'bad people'. And that's the core of the problem. They were not 'bad people' before they committed the crime. They were just people in need of help. By focusing on how they were 'bad people' you make it seem like you haven't contributed to the problem and there is no other solution then to fight them (using violence) while in fact there are many things we could have done differently and many things we still can do to prevent these crimes from happening. The fact is that it's much easier to blame it on them for being 'bad people' then to look at the consequences of our own actions.
> The most notable the Apollo 11 Rendezvous Radar Switch eating all available CPU and nearly aborting the mission.

Except that it wasn't. The Apollo Guidance Computer had full multitasking, and it was reporting that the rendezvous radar, which the crew had accidentally left on, was trying to eat up CPU and was denied it by the scheduler. The (correct) reaction was ignoring it and letting the scheduler continue booting the radar off the task list.
Good insight, I wonder how many nefarious plots were thwarted by surveillance rather than old-fashioned police work.
> Interesting way of doing that by making everything a gender issue all the time.

If you want people to stop making an issue out of something being unnecessarily gendered, then help stop the unnecessary gendering.

> No, he just praised Jessica for performing the role of mother in the YC family.

Yes, and "the role of mother" is gendered. (And heteronormative.) There are many ways he could have praised her without bringing gender into it. But he did.

> when there's bullying starting to happen

Yes, me giving mildly mixed praise to a billionaire using a site he owns is pretty much bullying:

http://wondermark.com/1k71/

How ever will he survive?
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If you're Joe User, it's much easier to install a browser plugin or hosts file than it is to set up a DNS server of your own, route your machines to it (even internally), configure it properly...
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Why is it considered best practice to use the content type header for API versioning? It always seemed like a hack to me. Url versioning makes much more sense if you consider that your API is a resource and the content of your API is a subresource. E.G. GET /v1/post/1/comment/456 would be semantically equivalent to "give me comment with id 456, which belongs to post with id 1, which belongs to api of version 1".
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To me the extra year in a job is trivial because I spent close to 9 years in school, working part-time to pay for college/grad school. And who knows what the future holds? However, I am hoping that by the time they're in high school, they will take dual-enrollment classes and finish college a year early; something I wasn't able to do. I have twins and I spoke to my wife last night about this...whatever happens, we both wish for them to be in the same grade. We would hate for our daughter to skip a grade because she's developed faster...which is also not fair to her.
CRISPR, a low-cost gene-editing tool, spreads across the world (visualized)
If you don't need flashiness, why use bootstrap at all? All this complicated CSS with its inevitable namespace pollution, what problem does it solve exactly, and is that really a problem that needs to be solved?
Contrary to the author, I think Bootstrap is not used enough! The value it adds to a company to have their own hand-craft version of a CSS grid is sub zero.
>There have been over 2 million victims of those interventions in the last 10 years alone

I was comparing social attitudes not counting casualties of armed conflict and its repercussions. Comparing these two things quantitatively makes very little sense.

The conservative advocates of Sharia who execute people for their sexual orientation are executing people who live right now in those countries. They don't execute European or American racists from the 1950s and they don't do it as an act of revenge for the Iraq war (that I strongly opposed by the way)
> US Astronauts were very aware of the early Soviet deaths and failures and wanted nothing of them.

So they jumped in an overengineered spacecraft, built by bureaucrats from NASA, sometimes 8 at a time, and as a result more astronauts died.

The shuttle went the way of the dodo and we are using Soviet's 70s technology to get into orbit. If anything, the history is hard to ignore. And the irony is there too, staring us it the face.

Also nevermind that Soviet's Buran prototype was the first fully automated space shuttle, so again autocratic state wins? (going by your labels here...)

> Environments built on fear perform sub-optimally.

History proves you wrong again. A lot of environments built on fear produced rugged dependable products.
I'm afraid it's not as easy as booking a flight and taking a cab to the airport.
Do they have vertical column alignment and equal-height columns yet?
Gourds and squashes adapted to ecological anachronism through domestication
It is interesting how many allegations there is in something like this, but there is essentially now way for anyone like me to verify any of it. Not saying it is wrong. Just saying I'd love verify it.
Because the first thing someone dismissing a pro-Snowden article will do is bring up the author. Of course Greenwald will defend Snowden. So it comes down to what the meat of the article brings. And Greenwald does a very nice job.
At it's core, a search engine is high tech while a social networking website is low tech. Before you want to argue, I know Facebook is nowadays damn high tech but that's not the point. Techies will always have more respect for a business built on actual high tech. See Apple. See Tesla. I happen to respect Zuck a lot for his amazing ability to grow the company and maintain control rather than his tech prowess, which is nothing to be ashamed of.
Germany drastically increased its GDP while not growing its population over 40 years.

Population expansion is in no way necessary for economic expansion. The people arguing for immigration on the basis of it being required for meaningful economic growth are pushing propaganda, the facts easily prove them wrong.

Productivity gains, new inventions, new processes, stability, science, R&D, sound monetary and fiscal policy - all far more important than merely increasing your population. There's endless proof of this, see: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Finland, New Zealand.

Or better yet, see: Japan 1974, to 1994. 10% population growth, 1000% economic growth. If population were an integral factor, their growth would have been pathetic over that time.

Japan's growth problem is debt, it's destroying the capital that would otherwise be available for investment and business formation. The collapse of their savings rate has gone in tandem with that, and has further removed capital required for investment to generate productivity gains across an economy. Most of Europe and the US are mirroring that exact outcome, having loaded up on massive amounts of debt, they now find they can't grow beyond extremely low levels. China is in the process of joining that club as well. You can have growth or tons of debt, you can't have both together for long.
I'm wondering about 'kick' when firing a cannon mounted in an aluminum can (space station). Why didn't the thing rip a hole? And what about orbital mechanics - the cannon ball goes that way, space station goes the other way. And the gasses expelled from the breech - noxious fumes in an enclosed space! It sounds like a fabulously dangerous thing.
You're also dealing with a labor market that punishes people who actually take their maternity/paternity leave, or who actually leave the labor force to raise children, by simply never letting them back into a career-track position ever again.

So not only does 180€/month not substitute for a second salary, it doesn't substitute for the permanent hit to the second wage-earner's career caused by raising children.

The economic message is clear: raising children is intended to be a low-paid, part-time job done on top of a full-time career for economically non-valuable warm-fuzzies.
jdright raises some good points. Which is kind of the point, no-one has come up with a good "right" way to live or act and it is often even harder without a theist grounding to decide on some pretty major points. You can clearly construct ethical philosophies but it is very hard to compare them to others and say whether one is better than another. Especially once you start getting into "brains in vats" territory.

Plus going back to burning witches and stoning homosexuals, really? Firstly there's some really interesting language translation behind "suffer not the witch to live" - in that isn't what it really says. Burning people has to be seen in the context of history and politics.

It isn't about "cherry picking". Different traditions have their basis, I'm not sola scriptorum, the CofE believes in "scripture, reason and tradition". But in all cases it is about looking at scripture as a complex document full of metaphor, stories and allegories. Then making an argument based on that which can be debated, discussed and a conclusion arrived at - and one that can later be decided as perhaps wrong.
What you also need to bear in mind is that significant parts of what Jesus is recorded as saying is pointing out areas of religion where the Jews had become caught up in process or tradition rather than the underlying message.
The distinction between "destroyed" and "lost" is significant, to the extent that if coins have been destroyed people know that the coins will never resurface; it's impossible to distinguish between coins which are lost and coins which have simply been unspent (e.g., the Satoshi hoard).
It most definitely affects the currency, and the currency of course affects trade.

The core difference between internal and external debt - or more precisely debt denominated in a country's sovereign currency vs. foreign currency - is that a country can typically always avoid defaulting on domestic debt by printing more money, despite typical "independence" of central banks. Rates on domestic debt can also be controlled in a similar way.

The Japanese Central Bank is currently undertaking a quantitative easing program of gargantuan proportions, which basically means that they create new money every month and use it to buy Japanese government bonds. They are, albeit indirectly, creating money and loaning it to the government, which then uses it to run a large deficit. Government social programs are significant. The effect on the currency has been dramatic, with the JPY depreciating nearly 40% over the last three years versus the dollar. The central is bank is expected by many analysts to expand the program in the near future.

Although the stated intention is to generate inflation, a cynic might suggest that without such massive buying by the central bank, the governments enormous debt load would soon be at risk of becoming unsustainable - JGB interest rates could easily become unserviceable as investors become more concerned.
A lot of interesting data here. Just eyeballing it, it appears as if Uber (plus green taxis) have significantly grown the number of taxi-like rides in Brooklyn and Queens relative to yellow taxis alone. However, in addition to Uber and green taxis being a small part of the Manhattan mix, it looks as if the number of rides they take may have come largely at the expense of yellow taxis.
I believe Tupac Amaru and Shining Path would like a word with you from prison, also the entire 1970s in Argentina and Uruguay
So what's the alternative? All of the suggested alternatives mentioned in this article seemed like they were even more low-level and less functional than Bootstrap.

If I'm primarily a coder who doesn't really understand CSS and doesn't have time to become a front-end designer, what should I be using? Ideally I want something that will look pretty enough for end users, and have customizable themes that they can play with--without involving me.

Is there a better out-of-the-box solution than Bootstrap?
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I'd also add the model that's essentially the same as shareware (also popularized on PCs and other home computers). It's not as common as I'd like but on both PC and mobile, I occasionally run across games or other applications that offer the first 10 levels (for example) out of 100 for free and then you can choose to buy the full game after getting a chance to try it out. Or maybe the first chapter of an interactive story game or the first third of a point-and-click adventure.

The point is still the same and some non-game programs do similar things (free version gets the main function, paid version unlocks all of the more specific options of features). I really like this model because I'm not buying a game or application sight unseen but I also don't need to keep feeding it quarters in order to progress.

I have no problem buying software on PC or mobile but it's a lot easier to buy something without reservations if I know it's what I want. Likewise, when I buy something, I generally want to buy it once and not get stuck in a cycle of endless microtransactions or open-ended subscriptions. I'm sure I'm not the target market but when I play a mobile or PC game, I find myself wanting to pay when it's something I enjoy or find useful. But if a game uses microtransactions (pay to win), I basically refuse to ever spend any money on it at all and just play until it gets old and then move on to the next distraction.
Who, or what, is a techno/peasant?
WHO, OR WHAT, IS A TECHNO/PEASANT?

You are, in all probability.
Technocrats have labeled you this
because, A) You're overwhelmed by what's
going on in the various new fields of
technology, and B) overwhelmed,
you remain ignorant -- too
uninformed to have any
say in your own future.
You are, therefore, a peasant.
The nature and quality of your life
is increasingly determined
for you by others --
those in the know: the technocrats.

-- Excerpted from the introduction to *The Techno/peasant Survival Manual (A
Print Project Book)*, published January 23, 1981 by Bantam Books.
-- http://www.amazon.com/Techno-peasant-Survival-Manual-Print-project/dp/0553012649
There are certainly multiple things at play here. I think the three main ones are:

1. Religion

2. Politics

3. Personal gain

For instance the politics around hating the west and hating Israel, and personal gain in sex deprived young men getting to rape women in Syria and getting a salary that's 5x as much as the average Syrian. These three parts are intertwined and can't be separated from each other. Most media focuses solely on #2, but a theory built solely around #2 does not explain the behaviour of ISIS very well, whereas a theory built around all 3 aspects fits the data very well.

As for the idea that high ranking members of ISIS do not truly believe in the ideology, and they are just manipulating everyone for personal gain, it is possible but I consider it unlikely. The leader of the Heaven's Gate suicide cult also committed suicide himself along with the others. And George Bush is himself a true Christian believer. I consider it unlikely that ISIS is an exception.

It is interesting that the only people equipped to intuitively understand the sincerity of the metaphysical beliefs of a suicide bomber are those who are or were in a cult or fundamentalist religion. For instance Megan Phelps-Roper who left the Westboro Baptist Church does understand this.
As an atheist, I see Islam as a barbaric belief system of some ancient cave men. Sorry but I feel very difficult to empathise with people who in this day and age feel so strongly about religion.
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Having a business model and money does not make one a "serious challenger" - by that logic, Ford and every other car manufacturer is a serious Tesla competitor.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9884616
I find the idea you bring up quite interesting. A key difference between that and the text editor argument in the (awesome) XKCD you linked is that, at least in the XKCD comic, they are arguing in favor of an alternative. The linked article just says, "don't use this" and mentions a few alternatives without saying much about why they'd be a better option. I find it more constructive to read about why something is a good option, not why something else is a bad option.
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I've started seeing this like locking down all coffee houses just because it is a convenient place to meet and discuss things and some people happen to plan terrible acts in these places.
Switch between projects in ten seconds (or less)
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US citizens are at greater risk of harm from police officers

How is that a fair or even interesting comparison, though? Islamist terrorists aren't killing people ostensibly engaged in criminal acts. Islamist terrorists aren't otherwise expected to be agents of the government charged with using physical force to protect the laws. Islamist terrorists target innocents in a deliberate effort to maximize damage and loss of life. Body counts tell almost nothing of the story in an honest comparison of the threat from police officers vs Islamic terrorists.

US citizens are at greater risk of far right or Christian extremists than they are of Islamist extremists

This is a slightly more interesting comparison, but even then you have to look at who the FBI and other law enforcement agencies are watching to understand that Christian extremists are individual actors who target specifics like abortion providers. They're not looking to take down all of Western society. They aren't amassing armies in other countries to assert 6th century law on all the territories that they conquer.

So sure, Christian terrorists' kill numbers might be comparable or even greater than Islamic terrorists domestically (if you unfairly exclude 9/11) - but that doesn't mean that they're the same level of threat in a strategic geopolitical sense.
No, I'm talking about generating Julia code from elsewhere. I'll derive some math in another program (e.g., Maple, Mathematica, SymPy) and output code that represents that math. I can't do that with Julia right now.
Paperwork (https://github.com/jflesch/paperwork) is a great tool too. I'd take a look at lector. Been trying to get a sane (heh) ocr setup for a while.
There are only few ways to monetize a business model. While some people object to any ad supported business, others only to data driven ad business, and others care about specific pragmatic day to day consequences on people's privacy. It seems that last category where Facebook is more likely to complicate people's lives.

Also, perhaps, pagerank is viewed as an innovation founded on real technical insight, as opposed to Facebook, which basically recreated MySpace (etc.), initially resegementing the market by serving privileged Ivy kids rather than lower status music fans. That's not the sort of story that people valorize here.
IS' successor would not be a territory holding aspirant state, it would have to be more like AQ - which we have already significantly degraded.

Now there is the interesting concept of the rise of the "lone wolf" or individual cells that don't really have central co-ordination. Would Western intervention in Syria cause more of them? Would their rise be countered by reducing or removing the ability of IS to generate attacks? There's a debate to be had.
This! The generation of large primes needs to be banned. The government needs to work with chips manufacturers to insure that no computing device can generate large primes. This is the root of the issue. If large primes go away, so does encryption! We need to make sure our government understands this.

#BanLargePrimes
Could be. Another difference is how they came to success. Zuckerberg solved an "easy" problem building a social network web app whereas the Google founders solved a "hard" problem building search engine algorithms.
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Cool! Screenshots remind me of Microsoft Train Simulator
So your point is unfalsifiable? If you don't have evidence and accrued data, then your assertion seems like a point without value then. ("Sorry you had to find out this way.")
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I think the grandparent was talking about terrorist attacks in third countries.

This way of thinking of "us vs. them" in a global scale. After all Europe and the States have his own domestic terrorist too.
Countries fail to police immigration, promising us that it will go well and we'll all benefit. Then they demand our civil liberties so they can police the immigrants they invited. And our taxes have to rise to pay welfare to them. But don't worry; a few million more and we'll all be better off.
> Maybe it's time to start thinking why people who end up living in the West are unwilling to reproduce, despite having the highest standard of living ever available to humans.

Not "despite", but "because".

In an agricultural society, you need lots of children because you need a lot of hands working the farm. If you're dirt-poor in an industrial society, you need lots of children so they can all work in factories to earn money for the family. In any society with a high infant mortality rate, you need to have even more children because you can expect a lot of them to die young.

In the modern West, we're not subsistence farmers or dirt-poor factory workers, and almost all of our kids survive to adulthood. We don't have lots of children because we don't need to have lots of children.
It doesn't just remove nuance, the entire framework of the discussion is built on untruths when we start there.
I haven't read the one that came out this year, but in previous novels I always got a sense that a lot of the writing did speak to his actual opinions, and felt like I could tell alot about him just from his fiction - but always also with the underlying question of not being sure where he was drawing from personal opinions and where he was being entirely fictional.
Bombing? Boots on the ground? You think these things work? Have you been asleep for the last 15 years?
I can see your point but, as someone who works with Bootstrap and jQuery, don't mix them. :) It's not the same kind of problem.

Even seasoned pros can gain something from jQuery. I know, I know: most jQuery-based code is bad, and the need for jQuery is becoming smaller everyday, but it still is among the nicest pieces of JavaScript. jQuery can save you time and boost your productivity without "imposing", as Bootstrap does (and any other CSS framework, as CSS is inherently global).