skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Direct, low-level answer: because it begins to lose on the ground.
High-level answer: because humiliated rage knows no bound.
In the UK we seem to be failing to integrate populations quite knowingly and deliberately, by promoting separatist faith schools for religions of all persuasions, including Islam, radical and otherwise, and various fringey forms of Christianity.

This is curious behaviour in a society that's become increasingly and adamantly secular.

I have no idea how Rest of World does it, but government policy on this issue is either insane, sinister, or both.
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In Netherland, you have to be well above average to hit the highest tax bracket, and even then, most of your income will fall in the lower brackets. To have most of your income in the highest bracket, you're well beyond middle class.
I may be off here but, I found that when I had the window fullscreen the graphics were rendering very slowly and my reaction times were very slow. I then made the window smaller and the graphics were much smoother time and my reaction times were much better.
Note that adding your site to the HSTS whitelist in Chrome (from which Firefox, Safari, and Edge will follow) is very easy:

https://hstspreload.appspot.com/
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The Filipino-Moro conflict has a centuries long history that predates the modern jihadist movement, it's not a "past 20-30 years" thing. It's also hardly as one-sided as you're presenting it. The Spanish-American War was a significant externality in its escalation, go figure.

True, Western foreign policy is not solely to blame. But it has definitely shown itself to have cumulative negative effects.
The west only needs to dump their old good friend, the Saudis. This corrupted family morally and financially support and endorse extreme and barbaric version of Islam, Salafism.
But unfortunately, economics (e.g. massive sales of arms) and geopolitics don't allow the west to do the right thing!
> On the first point, these people are not numbers. They are human beings. They are someone's father, mother, child or sibling.

Right off the bat you lead with a red herring appeal to emotion, you've already left the realm of reasoned debate by starting off a logical fallacy. This is the premise of your argument, it is fallacious, you cannot build a rational argument on a fallacious premise.

> That's where cold statistics fail us. Nobody should tolerate the idea of people being killed by the hundreds every so often in a theater or futbol field and argue that they are "a fraction of a fraction of percent". Sorry, that's just sick.

It's not sick, it's realistic and rational; statistics aren't failing us, they're showing you the truth that your emotions are blinding you to, that this simply isn't a big problem compared to all the other ways people die in far greater numbers. More people die in mass from plane crashes. Here's the CDC's top 10 leading causes of death in the US.

Heart disease: 611,105
Cancer: 584,881
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 149,205
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 130,557
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,978
Alzheimer's disease: 84,767
Diabetes: 75,578
Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,979
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 47,112
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 41,149

It is quite clear in context, that terrorism just isn't a real problem, it's not even in an order of magnitude of the realm of a real problem, certainly not one worth destroying liberty for.

> The problem with this logic is that automobile accidents are a matter of statistics and probability. There is no intent behind it.

That's not a problem with the logic, it's a problem with your emotions caring about intent so much that you ignore how few people are affected. Your reaction is emotional and wildly out of proportion with the size of the problem. Terrorism only changes the world because of the inappropriate reactions of emotionally driven people who happily give up freedoms to power hungry people totally willing to have more control over the populace. The problem isn't terrorism, the problem is your reaction to it, which is the goal of terrorism. By being so emotional, you are quite literally letting the terrorist win as this is their goal. If you want to beat terrorism, stop being terrorized, suppress your emotions, and use reason instead; that's how you beat terrorism.

Terrorism is simply crime, you cannot eradicate crime and your attempts to do so make the world worse for those who currently enjoy freedom. It is the actions of those like you, in your attempts to "protect" people, that makes terrorism worse. As long as there are people, there will be terrorism, accept it, stop overreacting to it, and you'll see it's not the big problem your emotions make it out to be.
You are quite right that 8GB memory and a cheap processor is good enough for home use. However I thought the consensus is that one cannot skip ECC with ZFS because a silent bitflip can corrupt an entire zpool. In any case the extra cost is minimal so why not.
Thats an ideological opinion, one you are not alone with. However it has nothing to do with the discussion we are having.
tl;dr they have no idea and the test is useless.
And when that fails, as it surely will, do they get ever more powers?

Tell me again how those powers helped (or would have helped) with The Troubles?
Police and civil procedure only work in your own sovereign state where everyone plays by the same social contracts and has shared values (mostly).

Force necessary to achieve threat elimination and future deterrence work on sovereign adversaries who chose not to play by your rules.

Doesn't matter why they don't like you (rightly or wrongly), if they are a violent adversary you will suffer consequences if you do not stop them.

If the adversary is reasonable, diplomacy is always a preferable option, but not the most common denominator.
A platform as closed as iOS is a devil's bargain. You get cleanliness, ease of use, simplicity, and in many ways improved security. But in exchange you give up freedom, control of your own property, and ultimately the potential for any innovation beyond the imagination or agenda of the platform's benevolent dictators.

The same, I think, is true for closed proprietary cloud platforms like those offered by Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. They're the enterprise version of iOS, and the trade is very much the same: do things our way and get a clean experience, but give up the opportunity to ever leave or to ever do anything in any way other than ours.
Convert Muslim to Christian.
Where does that leave scientists who were already working when Harper showed up and unilaterally muzzled them?
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it's not effective. you can just start another process and try again right? i think after 16k attempts you have about 2/3 chance of succeeding. kind of cool but not secure.
Yeah, it somehow screws with full screen QuickTime video playback. I think in those cases the video player is trying to bypass some of the standard OS display processing and send data straight to the screen to save power, or similar.

I’ve found VLC doesn’t have an issue, but I’m not sure if you could use VLC to play Netflix videos.
Upstart editor writer! Nice syntax highlighting code you're using there. :-)

(You should take the latest: it now supports Unicode languages).
Yeah, what about Burma? You sound quite well-informed, so could you explain a bit about that history, and how it relates to the centuries of persecution of Muslims over there?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Muslims_in_Myan...
Very exciting news if it holds! Can someone discuss how close the quasi-polynomial complexity is to P - that seems to be the really interesting detail that gets covered less.
"many of the cons in the language will be solved"

Can you elaborate on this?

Re type system, how does it compare to python in use?
This conversation does not belong here...
It would help not to think about teamwork as "playing politics".
I pray they make a breaking change before 1.0 and make it zero based
Maybe supporting "moderate" Islamic groups more?

(N.B.: I am not saying that use of force againt ISIS or other terrorist organizations should not be used - I am only suggesting something to do _in addition_ to a military/intelligence program to target the threat)
The animation was very jerky, and I had to press the keys about three times for it to even register. Maybe a better title would be "How laggy is this website based on your reactions?"
In a sense, this feature/dialog is "close" to e10s as it's under the same umbrella at Mozilla, the "Snappy" [1] effort to work on performance. But it's not the same:

- e10s is about making each browser tab an independent process [2]. Some addons have glitches with it, but uBlock Origin is not one of them.

- The feature you saw just proactively tells users about addons degrading performance and help them disable them or adjust their expectations. See [3]. EDIT hmmm, you are right, actually! The bug explicitly mentions the goal to "identify add-ons that are causing jank because of their CPOW usage", and CPOW is an e10s thing [4]. TIL, thanks :)

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Snappy
[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1071880
[4] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiprocess_Fir...
True on my end also. Dropped 100 ms just from shrinking my window size.
I totally understand what your point is, I just don't think that it makes much sense.
I would even hesitate to call it a "dark" side, as many of the same patterns of thought are used (to an extent) by most people.

You might be able to establish some sort of link between ruthlessness and "psychopathy". I'd love to hear where schizophrenia enters the picture, though.

While your first link is only a personal blog post, it does present some coherent thought - but even the author states that "terrorists, by and large, do not suffer from psychosis".

There is also the fact that what we think of as psychopathic actions (or stereotypes thereof) are primarily driven by the ego of the perpetrator, as opposed to the alleged ideological motivations of (e.g. islamic) terrorists.

Note that the first article focuses on the common superficialities (their behaviors appears somewhat similar), but says nothing of the cognitive processes at play in practice - the piece is mostly speculation.

By the way, the statements that "the Palestinians have perfected victimhood as a science" (near the end of the article) leads me to take this source with a grain of salt.

The second article is an argument based on a hell of a lot of assumptions (it even admits this), and basically assumes that since the causes of mental illness and terrorism resemble each other they must be connected (or even the same).

My gripe with your initial post is that the assertion is dubious (at best, and not really theoretically supported), and that it:

- Gives a psychologically satisfying explanation as to how "they" can do things like this, that makes it easier for us to see them as something other than us.

- Ends up perpetuating mental health stigma.

- Politicizes psychopathology.

I suggest taking a look at what a professional authority, e.g. APA [0] says about the matter.

[0]: http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/11/terrorism.aspx
Why would they want to negotiate? They're winning hands down.

Seems pretty clear from many sources that their stated goal is to restore the "caliphate" — an Islamic state under the rule of a community of religious scholars guided by a caliph taken to mean the successor to the Prophet Muhammad For them anyone who doesn't believe in their interpretation of Islam must convert or die.

Meanwhile President Obama has encouraging words for them:
“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”. So much for free speech and cartoons.
the web is also similar, you are locked into a restrictive api that vendors choose to support (or not...)
Orange safety glasses entirely block those wavelengths. This kind of thing: http://amzn.com/B003OBZ64M/

If looking through your glasses doesn’t make everything look significantly yellower/oranger than usual when you first put them on, then it’s not blocking too much blue light. You can try to find a spec sheet with the spectral transmission distribution to get a full idea.
An off-topic aside: It's interesting watching the up/down votes on my post. As much as Hacker News likes to think of itself as self monitoring the substantiveness of comments, often times it degrades itself to simply trying to silence opposing opinions. How cheap. How little.

My comments might not bear much currency, but the contrarian article that I link is substantive even if you disagree with it. While I don't think you are obliged to upvote my comments if you disagree with them, to down vote them because you oppose me is to merely to attempt to silence discussion rather than ensure that it is a quality discussion.
Apparently I might not be human.
In wonder if we shouldn't treat Qatar gas and Saudi oil the same way as blood diamond.
Short term: food and a safe place to sleep.

Longer term: end the Middle East war(s), stop treating everyone who looks like they're from the Middle East like they're terrorists (or at the very least terrorist supporters).
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Good patches should not be rejected by the ground that anyone is anything. What matters is code quality.

ESR was talking about the issues the SJWs make wanting a code of conduct and other political things. That they should be kicked out of projects when they do that sort of thing.

If they submit good patches, it should be accepted. If they cause a political issue instead of a coding or debugging one then they are just stirring up trouble.

In the example the POC (People of Color) submitted several patches but only one or two got accepted because they were good enough. The SJW got upset over the fact that not all of them got accepted. Called the project leader a white straight male, and project leader replied back he was a Latino and accepted a few patches from POC and goes by quality not race to accept or reject a patch.

Really hard to tell a SJW from a troll pretending to be a SJW, Poe's law and all of that.
First we must ask who is our enemy? My enemy is anyone who uses violence as a tool to gain power. I am not represented by the military actions of Western governments. When I see the Muslim hashtag #notinmyname I feel it applies to me too but in relation to all that has gone on in North Africa and the Middle East in recent times. When I see my cousin join the Marines to go fight in Afghanistan I see the same thing as what I see when I see young angry Islamic men shooting up a concert in Paris, that is misguided, brainwashed and exploited young men doing the bidding of power hungry assholes.
If you want to do something about this, the f.lux team has asked supporters on facebook to sign this petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/allow-flux-on-ios
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Noticed the same thing here - several hundred ms lower for a smaller window size
Same here. I reduced my reaction time from 500ms to sub-300 after re-sizing the window down to about 400 by 400 px.

If anything, their model suffers from omitted variable bias--the power of your computer!
I think we seriously undersentence criminals who cynically and cruelly hurt people for money, but don't happen to use physical violence to do so.

(Often "undersentence" means "completely ignore." Unjustly evicting a family from their home is no less destructive than burning it down while they're out, but the former doesn't even seem to be treated as a crime.)
It would be nice to know something about the accuracy of the age estimate (stdev? or 66% of 29-year old's trials are between blaah and blaah?), and also, how many tries did the test subjects get. I got a couple of "we are not sure you are human" ratings after a few tries (around ten tries total).
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You ignore the hundreds of years of violence perpetrated in the names of other religions.
Amen. As stupid as it may sound, this is the only reason I haven't gotten into it ...
Anyway, natural uranium is no way a hard-to-get asset for a state-level actor. It is found nearly everywhere - although most of the ores are too low concentration for profitable production - but given the market price of uranium is under $100 a pound it is no problem to spend an order of magnitude more to get a few tons for a reactor to produce bomb plutonium.
If they'd open source it, users would be able to compile for their own devices just fine. There are fully open alternatives that Apple doesn't mind, like https://github.com/anthonya1999/GoodNight

I know where they're coming from, but all this wolf crying is getting annoying. I wouldn't mind if they came clear and said "we can't open source f.lux because we want to pressure Apple into letting us monetize it someday."
Seems you haven't understood the Apple world. You get fancy designs. You loose your freedom to install what you want. They decide, not you. That's the deal. Live with it or don't buy their products. (I choose the latter.)
In Swedish if you read a word you have never seen before, you know how to pronounce it. But you have to memorize if it's neutral sex of non-neutral sex. ("en" or "ett")

In English you have to learn spelling and pronunciation separately. Which is lot more work than Swedish genders. The structure of the language is simpler. But there is more exceptions to every rule.

So tie before Hollywood effect.
if a web problem is worth solving we can build a new browser which solves it, which is what google did vs microsoft. That is simply not allowed on apple hardware.
I really like the idea but it's completely off. What it should do is measure your reaction time: the time between the sign appearing on screen and the user pressing the mouse or tapping the screen. What it does is include frame rendering time. I apparently have the reaction speed of a 80-year-old at 22 (900ms), while I'm sure my reaction time on computers is around 225ms (measured on different occasions).

Also, you compare with the average, but what's your error margin? Were there 25 year olds that got 350ms and 200ms or did everyone consistently get between, say, 240 and 250?
Twilight's permissions requirements include device and application history, bookmarks, etc. Why would that be necessary?
My understanding is that a portion is on OpenStack, a portion is on legacy bare-metal, and a portion is in the Public Cloud (Rackspace and presumably some Joyent per this thread). Source: I work with a bunch of ex-WM employees and have interviewed a bunch more over the past six months.
> We're not sure if you're an actual human being With the reaction time of (271) milliseconds.

Really? That is like two deaths by a railgun in quake III. And lets not go into the real twitch games like Ninja Gaiden or DMC III royal guard. Or random bulletstorms ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VCX4p3Iw3M

Edit - couple of more trys - consistenly under 300 ms. The majority of time is lost in the click itself. With Type M ior cherry red could probably shave to 200-sh. Also getting better results with keyboard (cherry blue) vs mouse (DeathAdder)
Prosecute them? You are going to mail a warrant to a war zone in Syria? Assuming the letter even makes it way to ISIS they will be grateful for the free toilet paper.
> but what are we supposed to do?

One rational response is that we know plenty of terrorist plots are foiled by intelligence agencies and police, so giving them more resources to act could be a logical thing to do. Similarly, improving communication between agencies and between countries might be helpful.

Most of that would not be publicly noticeable, so to the general public it might seem like "nothing is being done." But that wouldn't be the case.

What might not be rational is to change public policies, like foreign policy or domestic policy or immigration policy. Those might serve the role of theater, making the public feel that something is being done. But you also run the risk of being led along by the terrorists - the attacks might have been a provocation intended to elicit that response (do they want France to stop attacking them in Syria? Or to attack them more so they can more easily radicalize their followers? who knows). Instead, if we react rationally, it doesn't matter what they intended.
At first I'm 55 and then they're not sure I'm human. I'm actually in my late 20's.
you could also build a new cellphone, the point is the barriers are extraordinarily high.
I'm proud to call myself a nogrammer. I'd much rather use/modify existing code than write from scratch.
Taleb should include the famous line from Shaw's Man and Superman that fits this idea:

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
I wonder if something which flatters the user is more likely to go viral?

That it consistently underestimates my age by a couple of decades certainly makes me want to link to it and boast.
Is there a quick explanation of why the f.lux can't simply be put into the App Store just like any other? Why did they have to try the "side-loading" method at all?
There was an interesting submission about your qustion earlier today, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567408 There the author is arguing that simpler is better, I guess the discussion there eventually spawned the submission of this one.
I took a countable dense set in R^n - C, x_j, j = 1, 2, ...,
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function g_j: R^n --> R 0 outside the
circle and on the circle with
values on the radii much as in
the function Milnor, Rudin, and
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"You have the reaction of a 23 year old". Since I'm 45, I guess I should take that well, but I would guess it has more to do with spending my 45 (one way) mile daily commute watching for animals on the road.
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How is that a 'devil's bargain'? Just seems like an everyday deal to me.
How are the PaaS offerings of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google closed? You use their API or website to deploy standardized VMs, from which any open-source or COTS software can be used for configuration.
IANAL, but my understanding is that you can not distribute a copyleft software using Apple's app store. Therefore, all copylefted applications that are in Apple's store must be dually licensed.
You have a freedom to install what you want by jailbreaking it.

Its not about not allowing users to install f.lux, it's about not allowing developers to use development practices that are not approved by Apple, common - authors of f.lux are clearly doing something that is not allowed under iOS development terms and they want to change this rules just for them and let other developers use unapproved techniques which might cause security concerns for non technical users who are majority of the user base on iOS?
Or simply having a fast computer. If you make the window smaller the graphics speed up and your reaction times magically shrink.