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Commuter trains have dedicated tracks so they don't suffer from the same congestion issues as carpools and buses (if we ignore the benefit of commuter lanes on the roadways).

Commuter trains take advantage of their dedicated tracks to make many stops without impacting travel speed too hugely. (Imagine if your vanpool exited the freeway and slogged through surface streets for 10-20mins for each passenger it deposited).

Commuter trains travel routes that go to where people work, and people choose to live near the train routes as a lifestyle choice. You're not going to know where your carpool buddy might live before you choose a house.
This is old news: Peter Norvig, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data (2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvDCzhbjYWs and a previous article from 2009: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
Radical Islam is not solely a response to western influence. It sure is also that, but it is also due to the ideology of the islam itself and the failure to modernise it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_war |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_modernity
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Comment of the year right there.

But, great writing/analysis like this about two levels higher than the HN hivemind can comprehend. X = Y (lisp = productive), sure. But X = Y until Z then maybe Q = F is too nuanced for mass understanding around here. If it can't fit into a pmarca simultaneously smug and condescending tweet, nobody will believe you these days.
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> That seems a very poor and weak definition.

It's not the definition. It's my poor recollection of a book I read over a year ago for the purposes of a HN comment. I'm not trying to establish some all-encompassing holistic definition of morality right here in this comment chain.

I'm just replying to the religious OP (@cmdkeen) that if he's interested in what secular people have to say on the subject of morality there's a lot written on that subject. I found Sam Harris's book on it interesting, but it's certainly not the first or the last word on a secular definition of morality.

Having said that I'll elaborate a bit more on my poor recollection of the book.

> 1. It focuses on human as only a human can be happy.

I think for the purposes of the book, yes, but there's nothing intrinsic about his idea of morality that's isolated to Homo Sapiens. If you wanted to maximize human and canine happiness you could do that too to some degree.

> 2. net increase is relative, so this is relative to the author's life/view of the world.
> 3. Well-being doesn't mean anything. Does he defines it too?

He argues that this largely isn't the case.

The basic idea he's putting forth is that there's actions you can perform which will make people happy (e.g. being nice to them) and sad (e.g. subjecting them to genocide).

Obviously this is not a single-axis spectrum. So he's setting forth the argument that happiness can be attained similarly to how we maximize the performance of a hill-climbing algorithm.

If we were in real-time able to monitor the net happiness of every human (and also animals, if you insist) and tweak our societies so that net happiness would go up we'd arrive at a moral society.

So thus we can say that some societies are more moral than others. E.g. every modern western state would be morally superior to the Mongol empire by this happiness ratio we can say the society is "better", and once we have a metric we can work to maximize happiness in our own societies.

I think the main hole someone who's religious would poke in this would be "but that's not morality, you're just optimizing for hedonism!". I think to some degree that's true, but from what I've read of secular literature on the subject the idea of "morality" is pretty much discredited.

It's based on the notion of absolutes, usually handed down by some deity. Once you get rid of that (because deities don't exist) what do you replace it with? Some combination of "don't do harm" and "let's make everyone happy" most likely.
Yeah, well. I think the key word is naïve.

There's a mosque around the corner from where I live, and a lot of people called Mohamed and Hilay and so on live in the area. Few of them visit that mosque, so if your extrapolation were right, there should be a considerable number of murdered apostates. Which there isn't.
What numbers are we talking about here? It seems that an extremely tiny percentage are radicalized, and they don't seem to come from a specific social class. In other words, is it not a gathering of nutjobs?
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I'm not recommending hyperinflation. Countries like Japan and the USA with their current levels of debt will someday have to inflate or they will have to renounce the debt officially. That is a mathematical certainty.

But that day is a long way off. Low inflation is better. If exchange rates are out of balance, such as in Japan in 2010, inflation in the prices of only imports should be sufficient and that should be moderate at worst.

In any case it's nothing to worry about now.
Weapons, food, training cost a lot of money. So who are giving so much money to ISIS?
That's interesting, I don't remember the jobs of law enforcement and intelligence ever having supposed to been easy. In fact, we nominally have plenty of safeguards meant to make their job difficult. That's the point. If they don't feel like devoting effort to get past barriers, then the case is not worthwhile to pursue.

Catching the bad guys is easier than ever, encryption or not.
> When starting a new project, there is always a need to find an appropriate way to scaffold the front-end

This isn't a good premise to start with. I think a lot of people would be surprised that plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript is a great solution to small- and medium-sized problems. Overuse of frameworks and libraries is why the modern web is such a horrible place, especially on mobile or slow networks.
Perhaps considering the total military expenditure will provide a better perspective - $80B for Saudi Arabia in 2014; 3rd highest in the world in $ terms, and highest in the world in terms of percent of GDP (10.7%).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
I have no intention of belittling your experience - but "battlefield" is not the right term (unless you meant it as hyperbole). There were no battles fought (a battle is "sustained fight between large organized armed forces" according to Google).

This was a terrorist attack on French soil - in Paris, the thought has weight-enough on its own, there is no need to frame it as a battle.
Wouldn't people living in a city bombed by a Western country consider themselves the victims of Western religious zealots?

Absolutely, and from my perspective, some western nations (in particular the US) do have the problematic tendency of voting Christian fundamentalists into positions of power.

There's a debate to be had how much of the blame for past actions should go to religion, and how much to worldly motivations, but there clearly was an element of that (remember Gog and Magog?).

But talking the long-term perspective, religious 'nones' are on the rise in the western world, even in the US.
Thank you so much for this. Not only you, but thanks everyone that took part in this conversation.

I definitely have better understanding now.
General disillusionment is a characteristic of the entire European south (or EE) in general. I don't think it has more to do with islamic radicalization than other kinds of radicalization though.
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The reason I use bootstrap: It looks good enough, and I don't have to spend time arguing with the UI guy over the "integrity of the design".

The people paying my bills would rather have functionality that looks good enough now than the same functionality that looks beautiful three months from now.
Wasn't there that guy in Santa Barbara who shot a bunch of women because he hated them? The Waco seige? No one has a monopoly on violence for attempting social change

Though here that's beside the point. The Paris attacks were not because France is a free country, but because France was bombing Daesh. This is more like the Lockerbie bombing than like some sort of "clash of civilizations" that so many are implying
yeah, that's a fair point i guess
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I run dnsmasq locally (and silently redirect all traffic from a certain uid with an iptables rule) to do adblocking and ... minimal parental control on my son's laptop. it is pretty great, I don't have to worry about him using the neighbor's wifi to get around my rules. ;)
> 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.

We know why, it's just an inconvenient truth. More women are choosing careers over having more children.

To maintain a stable population, each woman has to have an average of two children. But that's the average; many will be infertile or homosexual or never find a mate or choose to never have children or only have one. So a great many would have to have more than two children to balance the average; many of our parents had five, six, seven, eight siblings because their mother's entire life consisted of raising children.

It's not easy for a family to raise five or more children while both parents work full time, so hardly anybody does that and the average falls below the population replacement rate. That's the why.

How to fix that without going back to the Old Ways is not a trivial problem.
Need more details on what you're doing, but many simple operations used in satellite image analysis are embarrassingly parallel. You could, for example, read in chunks or strips using GDAL, distribute them across multiple threads or cores, and get some speed-up. If much of the time is spent in numpy rather than Python, I think it should be non-blocking so the GIL won't get in your way.
It's time we start to distinguish between financial and real assets. Financial assets are not "real".

Growing an economy is building infrastructure, knowledge, real and human capital. Things that allow improve the quality of life of the people.

Inflation could imply redistribution but not necessarily destroying real assets. Deflation, in the other hand can only be solved by destroying real economy in order to adjust it to the financial economy.
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I know plenty of people who literally believe in angels, the resurrection of Jesus, the turning of water into wine, the divine miracle of statues that appear to be weeping, etc.

I have had countless discussions (ok, arguments) with people who believe in the literal Biblical story of Creation, the talking Satan snake, and the flood that Noah endured.

They think that Evolutionary theory is a hoax and it's basically impossible to even get them to look carefully at convincing evidence like the fossil record, arctic ice samples, evolutionary history in DNA, or anything else that might point against their belief in the Creation myth.

I think that it's a weakness of the modern Westerner to disregard the depth of religious belief in fanatics.
TBH, I am still using Boostrap 2, because it is simple to start with, and is still compatible with old version of interent explorer
>And a very large number of people in my country would happily throw back those fleeing the carnage to become victims of that 40%

That statement really doesn't make much sense at all. People are fleeing a war, among them people from the 40% and the 60% group alike. And no one in Europe is advocating throwing anyone back into a war zone. Many want the refugees stay somewhere in the region instead of letting them come to Europe by the millions.

It's not my opinion, but please don't compare that opinion with people who advocate that homosexuals, adulterers and apostates should be put to death. There is no 40% group of the population in Europe that holds views that are anywhere near as disgusting as that. Your relativism goes too far.

[Edit] And just to make it clear, I do not believe that it is really 40% who really hold those opinions. It's probably less. I hope.
You do know how the process of computing an average works?

Im guessing you're not living in, say, Egypt or Pakistan, are you?
I believe the stock HN response to mathematically certain sovereign debt disaster is either "print your way out" or "grow your way out".
>That one is on Obama

Well, no. Bush had a glorious, golden opportunity in the wake of 9/11 to turn this huge wave of international goodwill into something that could have actually made the world a safer place.

Instead, he did precisely what the terrorists hoped he would do - Bush not only invaded Afghanistan, he lied the country into a breathtakingly stupid and pointless war with Iraq, single-handedly destabilizing the entire region and creating the ideal climate for terrorism to flourish.

The fact that Obama hasn't been able to put the toothpaste back in the tube doesn't mean that it's all his fault - it just means he was unable to clean up the global catastrophe that Bush created in eight years.
He seems like an incredibly fascinating and flawed man, and I love reading his novels (not to say that I agree with the views in them..), but I've never been quite sure where the real Houellebecq starts and the fictional persona begins. Maybe what you see is who he is, but I'm not sure.
Knausgaard had similar observations of Houellebecq and Huysmans:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/books/review/michel-houell...
> I support freedom of speech - absolute and unrestricted.

What if my "free speech" involves drawing masses of people and telling them, persuading them, to kill you, your wife, your kids, your mother and father because you have the wrong skin color, eye color, religion or whatever else I imagine?
"This, multiplied by another few imported components, will result in too heavy code."

Let's have a little chat about "how people misuse measurements to talk themselves into premature optimization"...
Religion is more than just beliefs and speech. It is also religious organizations, religious rituals and so on.

The first part I support - no one should be prevented (or punished) for saying - I believe in X. On the other hand there should be total override of secular laws towards the commandments - if your country orders you (or forbids you from doing) something that contradicts with your beliefs - you do it, and sort it out with your deity later.
It's just conventional. If a PUT fails, you (and others) know you can safely retry it multiple times without having to worry about it having any other effects, like duplicate rows. The concept is called idempotence.
but... don't you see this is exactly what they are striving for? you don't blow up yourself on stadium or in cafe to defeat a country, and not to conquer it in any way. no sane jihadist (and high ranks are probably pretty clever folks) would expect that.

the goal is simple - create chaos, increase tension between europeans and immigrants, create a spirale of violence producing more violence, till every side has good reasons to not step back. this is goal of jihad in europe, footsoldiers will be people already living here, that initially were living peaceful life, but eventually some violence will drag them in. at the end, civil war.

France for example could actually avoid that, if it retreated from all its military interventions, but that's not going to happen, and again, jihadists realize that too. I must agree with parent poster, nice approach ain't going to solve this, and victor at the end will be probably the more ruthless one. But fear not, as they say we're 7 days to the wolves, and we europeans can still kick a butt or two if pressed hard.

I hope I am wrong, that's for sure :)
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From what I read on the ntpsec website, it's essentially a clean up of the ntp codebase as the latter has accumulated a lot of cruft over the years.

OpenBSD developed OpenNTPD precisely because of the state of the ntp codebase. Why not start off this, and add the features that are missing ?

Another question: why is the Linux Foundation funding both ntpsec and ntimed ?

My previous question also applies to ntimed, but that's not for you to answer :).
I think YOOTheme's UIKit is a great modular framework that not many people know about.
But you're talking about government spending (public money) that is a financial disaster. That can't be denied. But that 1100 million Euros in arms sales did not go to the government, it went to the defence industry. Don't you see what's happening? The defence industry is reaping the benefits of the wars while the people suffer (both in Germany because they have to pay for the refugees and wherever the weapons have been used).
The reason that I think the author is not using "ride sharing app" in your sense is that the author concludes that such apps will not pencil out to cash on cash returns attractive to Valley Venture Capital. If we assume that the author has at least half a clue, then the author could not reasonably be assumed to include Uber or Lyft type apps in their definition of "ride sharing app".

If the author is without a clue, then probably the article should be flagged.
Putting NSDAP and ISIS in the same boat is nothing but a historical equivocation. One isn't even a state at all.
I work for a Bank and we use encrypted external email all the time. We have to for regulatory reasons. I'm sure it's the same for defence contractors, and it's a prudent precaution for governments and many other businesses and in many parts of the world.
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Click Baity title. Has nothing to do with JIRA but trying to compare velocity between teams.
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Can the old master still accept requests if it loses contact with the monitor or secondary? What happens if the monitor goes down? Can there be data loss on failover?

It would be nice if the readme listed what failure scenarios are handled and what guarantees you intend the system to have.
Last night, I was reflecting on the common point between people flocking to SV or to Syria to support Isis.

I know this is pretty far fetched, but at the end, I feel both have the same kind of appeal :

Stay where you are and remain an anonymous cog in the machine, or move to a place, where you will endure hardship, but where in the end you can change the world and you will create a legacy.

And in both case, the reality is less rosy. This is a kind of an archetypal "Call to Adventure", but it might have another name.
The student very clearly applied the repeated addition strategy to solve it. It's very cut and dry.
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I suspect that it's (relatively) easy to take an adherent of any religion and radicalize them with a slight permutation of said religion, versus trying to radicalize somebody without that shared kernel of faith. I therefore assume that "regular" Islam is an "in" for extremists; they can build upon existing indoctrination and subvert it for their own purposes.

I don't think there's anything particular to the Islamic faith that lends itself to this pattern, though. Charlatans and tyrants have effectively used religious beliefs for their own goals since the very beginnings of human civilization. I believe Islam faces a "perfect storm" now; it is immensely popular across the world, but a large number of its adherents are stuck in a region that has been dramatically destabilized by foreign influences. The Muslims there are able to use the shared elements of their religion as a way to reach out to Muslims outside of the region and incite them to revolution.

To paraphrase Dan Carlin of Hardcore History: it's not religion that's the problem, it's the tyrants that are the problem.

Of course, even if you (and I) are right in assuming that a (relatively) large percentage of Muslims are currently radicalized in comparison to other religions, this doesn't actually mean that there's any practical way to respond to that. The lazy answer is "stabilize the middle east at all costs" but that never seems to actually align with Western political and economic realities, so here we are...
Right and as it says in the title, use of JIRA is often a symptom that there is a problem with management. Nowhere is it stated that JIRA itself is the problem.
The good they've done is fill the demand of 1/6 of the world's population who use the site.

> So far the data seems to indicate that internet.org is comparable to releasing swarms of burrowing parasites upon the poorest of the world.

Haven't a clue what you mean by this analogy.
Richard Dawkins expresses this well: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=grccDzrTWLUC&pg=PA259&lp...
For Russian neighbors (I live in one of them) such statistics, along with actions in Ukraine is very much worrying and we do everything we can to prepare for possible (even likely) Russian aggression -- increased military spending, re-introduction of conscription, lobbying for NATO high alert forces and stationary units.
These are mostly economical solutions. The problem however seems to be on a sociographic level.
So, are you saying that what Bush started is incorrigible?
Perhaps not. If only the politicians have a will to take the right path. Obama clearly doesn't have it.
"Universal condemnation" is precisely what they're seeking. The more notoriety, the better. Hence, pushing gay men off of buildings and drowning men in cages (with underwater cameras filming). They are seeking street cred, a rep, a mystique of fear.

Condemnation doesn't work. What does work is a combination of excellent police work in routing out cells of recruiters and operators, and precise, devastating bombing raids followed by boots on the ground to protect and empower the civilians, most of whom would never support these psychopaths by choice.
Can you? I use higher-kinded types all the time, and OCaml simply doesn't have them AIUI.
Not sure if you're trying to disagree with me.

(1) When people claim they care about X on surveys, but then don't back it up when they actually have to spend their own money, I trust the second measure as their "real" preference more than their first. (Lots of ways to justify this, but the single biggest one is just that survey answers are wildly inconsistent with each other.)

(2) Insofar as preference depend on nudges/framing -- that is, insofar as preferences aren't even uniquely defined -- then you need to actually test the various nudge. Seat size penalties have never been tried, so your claim that "evidence says people won't look at anything but price" isn't valid. Maybe you didn't understand what I meant by this? The whole point is to adjust the price on the search page to incorporate those other factors. If, in this situation, people continue to seek out tiny seats, then by golly, I think we should conclude that those seats represent their true preferences.

I think everything else you've written is also consistent with my primary claim, which is that we should not legislate seat sizes. I appreciate the other info, though.
That makes you want to get a job or raise unemployment subsidies, not go kill people in the street..
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> "cater to the limitations of humans" end rather than the "cater to the limitations of the machine"

I really like this distinction!