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> If men, armed with guns and explosives, kill scores of civilians and injure hundreds more in the name of a particular ideology what are we supposed to actually do?

What we're supposed to do is distinguish them from non-violent people claiming the same named ideology and focus response and condemnation on the murderers, not the community claiming the ideology that the terrorists are trying to target and recruit from with the idea that an apocalyptic existential struggle is in progress between the named ideology and the rest of the world.

Because when you do conflate the terrorists with the named ideology that hundreds of millions of people who aren't terrorists claim and target your response against that community rather than distinguishing the terrorists from that community and targeting the terrorists, you validate the terrorist propaganda, and make the people that the terrorists want to be your enemies into your enemies.
Ask HN: Best way to find open minded people for crowd-sourced travel guide app?
Hi I am searching help and ideas to find open minded semi-professional travelers for the crowd sourced travel guide app STAPPZ.

In short STAPPZ is a personal map that everybody can fill just by posting with the smartphone app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stappz.android

What we search are open minded community people who travel a lot and like to share their travel experiences right where they make them to create the first collaborative and crowd sourced travel guide of the world where people can contact the authors.
Hence, please let me briefly describe our app: The STAPPZ app goal is to create the ultimate smartphone travel guide by leveraging the potential of everyone to participate in the creation of a personal travel guide. At the same time, the personal travel guides work collaboratively together to create a holistic travel guide of the world. With STAPPZ you just take a picture and enter a text and the information gets saved at the current geoposition where you are at the moment. Succeeding, it gets saved automatically in our cloud and it is visible to other people in the app and available on a webmap ( http://maps.stappz.com ) of an user – super easy. Our app even works offline and uses offline available maps and an automatic delayed upload in case you have no network. Altogether, is the world’s first real-time and collaborative travel guide. Our STAPPZ app is for Android and IOS will be released soon.
An app demo video is also available in the google play store --> click here to see it in the store http://stappz.com/get

Now I try to find out where to find open minded travelers who want to participate. I'd be very glad to get new ideas from you.
Yeah, I also didn't really agree with this:

> Whack-a-mole is a game, not a plan. Leave the Middle East alone. Stop creating more failed states.

For some reason, I have difficulty thinking that just "leaving the Middle East alone" will somehow lead ISIS to disappear on its own and the Syrian government/Syrian rebels/Kurds/various fundamentalist islamist groups to magically arrive to some peaceful balance. Especially with ISIS having the stated goal of world domination (yeah, just leaving alone those who want to dominate the world rarely works, we tried that for a while before 1939).

The truth is, human society and civilization isn't a fundamentally stable system that's being thrown off by US or European interventions. Intervention is sometimes useful, sometimes bad, and it seems difficult for everyone to estimate whether interventions will be good or not.
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I read an interesting piece the other day. It posited that the true goal of mass data collection programs like those run by the NSA and GCHQ is not to stop terrorism but to gather information and track financial transactions so that more taxes could be collected. I think the only piece of evidence supporting the supposition was the fact that the data will be kept "forever", so it wasn't the most convincing piece, but I liked the unorthodox nature of the idea. I think it was on ZeroHedge but I can't find it at the moment.
Yeah like it's a great idea to "leave alone" a culture that is so expansive, so evil at its root, calling each and every one of its member to go and kill for their god, prophet, twisted idea of a perfect world. Yeah, that's a terrific idea to leave them alone, yes.
Nearly everyone who was ever disrupted had the exact the same attiude that you emit here. Blockbuster video probably thought "the market wants what we are renting! physical media ftw baby" fast forward and they are dead.

I'm being dramatic here and I obviously don't think amazon will die. But lets re-visit this post in 5 years and I bet AWS is selling a lot more bare metal. Because thats what the market will want.
Politics and science really have no place together. Politics is about pushing the most favorable agenda, and science is about the pursuit of truth. Politicians and liars have always had close association. Politics and science are thus inherently at odds.

That said, I have seen, on more than one occasion, scientists become untruthful for the sake of grants and political agendas (and this is not necessarily referring to global warming). The FDA is one example where money often trumps science. http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/10/common-decongestant-m...
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That subpoena is fairly damning evidence that these politicians don't understand how science works. Instead of scrutinizing the published data they have to dig into communications - where all sorts of theories might be floated and dismissed - so they can find something to take out of context.
What other response than "we will find them and kill them one by one" can be given by democracies? Democracies cannot back down because of terrorists. I honestly think that, by design, terrorism cannot win against western democracies.

I wonder if terrorists understand that. People will be afraid, people may be scared, but at the end, governments will not yield. And to be clear, I'm not saying politicians are brave or whatever, it's just because of how democracies work.
you are making my point. if women there are happy covering themselves up, that's fine. if there are women who are not happy covering themselves up, or following Islam, or praying, or being forcefully married, then their human rights are being violated. So regardless if it's a part of Islamic culture to oppress certain minorities for their beliefs, this world will want to correct it, whether it's offensive to muslims or not. We are not living in the 6th century anymore and we don't want to go back to it. we as a world want to continue to progress.
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Yes, what we have here is the volunteer actually being paid in social capital and personal satisfaction, but not directly from 18F. 18F has heavily promoted recently, and that along with them being a part of the government and the project being open source all contributed to the volunteer feeling it was a worthwhile endeavor at that price. It's an interesting case study of how any market pricing function that looks at purely monetary cost is usually a poor pricing function unless the market is extremely liquid.
Without any sort of metric which defines what a successful tax policy means then reasonable probably means, "is sufficient to pay for the services the people demand."

Why is a percentage reasonable? Why not a fixed tax? Why have tax brackets at all as opposed to a smooth curve? Why should taxes scale proportional to income and not amount of services consumed or potentially thousands of other variables? Why should a pacifist pay for the military? Why should a pedestrian pay for the roads? Is it fair to use taxes to manipulate the incentives of consumers to they consume more or less of specific products (like corn and tobacco respectively)? Is is ethical to use taxes (or lack thereof) to steal businesses away from other states or countries? Should people who work in certain industries be taxed more or less? How about different tax rates based on age, race, sex, or gender as there's probably data to support different risk factors for different segments of the population. Should people who have been on welfare be taxed more to compensate? Should the tax rate be negative for certain income levels?

I have absolutely no doubt that you can answer all these questions relative to your own personal definition of reasonableness but there's no chance in hell any sufficiently large group will agree on any or all of these.
meh, if I wanted to run a full bitcoin node (for example, so I don't have to rely on Coinbase or spv wallets) with minimal hassle(sp?) on a new computer, it would save me some time / effort and presumably run in the background with minimal annoyance - my view is that it's aimed at the experienced and frequent user of bitcoin rather than those who think of "blockchain" and "bitcoin" as a marketing buzzword
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I would think most founders who've been through YC would recognize Jessica's importance in the equation, so it's interesting that it is some sort of secret in the industry at large. Even early on, before her first book was published, she was obviously on top of, and involved in, everything. She was the primary point of contact for damned near everything for founders.

So, it's an interesting phenomenon that even with such a preponderance of evidence, the story that gets told and re-told mostly leaves her out. Our industry has so many internalized prejudices that are invisible unless and until you're looking for them, it can seem perfectly normal for the story to be about a lone man building an empire with a few supporting characters. If the story were framed as building a "family", rather than a business empire, would Jessica's role be more prominent in the telling? I think one could tell it either way, but the tech industry doesn't have language for that, even though I think some of the best companies were as much a family as an empire (early HP, for example).

Gender roles are weird, is what I'm trying to say, and the tech industry is more rigid than many.
The take away for me is no matter how good you are, you still need to sell yourself.
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I understand what you're saying, however, for the ISIS project to work, it is not necessary that all Muslims agree with them. In fact, ISIS are more than happy to genocide all Muslims who disagree, notably all the Sunni Muslims, and have steadfastly been doing so in the lands they have conquered.

Might is right, and as long as the Caliphate keeps on existing, they will do what they're doing, simply because they can. Your theological objections cannot be taken seriously because they're a state power, you're not, and quite naturally conflicts where one side of the argument is a state, are best settled by war.
Founders at Work, her book of founder interviews, is stunningly good. I'm not surprised she's key to YC.
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From what my French friends have told me, the public attitude there does take for granted that Government will know everything about you. They see the US debate over Internet privacy as silly (never had enjoyed those liberties themselves during the land-line phone era).

I have never been in France myself, so take this comment with a grain of salt.
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Hold up. Before this turns into an HN firestorm, PG's essay notes:

> Jessica was mortified, partly because the guy had done nothing wrong, but more because the story treated her as a victim significant only for being a woman, rather than one of the most knowledgeable investors in the Valley.

You're exactly right, it was sensationalism. They acknowledged that with

> After that she told the PR firm to stop.
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I think the US and Russia genuinely see eye-to-eye on crushing ISIS.

They also are playing tug of war over Assad, which complicates cooperation on that objective.
I noticed the same thing on the CNN feed they run in the lobby at work. All sorts of talk about encryption being the reason that massive international intelligence apparatus was unable to prevent or predict the recent attacks in Paris.

I'm not sure how much is talking points or how much is just commercial news media looking for an angle they can pitch as new insight. Either way, it was really weird to run across. There are so many factors at work here and so many conflicting motivations and policies and bits of info...yet the top story is about how long-existing, commonly available methods may have been used to thwart the combined intelligence agencies of the western world.
No, it doesn't make sense. Risk in lending is not just the term, it's also how much you lend to whom.
I bookmarked this so I could come back and take a look. I'm assuming this was supposed to be a "Show HN" post and you're looking for feedback because it's largely unworking and appears unfinished. If that's not the case, please disregard.

A few things, mostly design/UX related:

The departure location in the upper right should be part of the middle block. It didn't even jump out at me initially, being in the place you'd often find a "search" field. But since it's a required field to conduct a query it belongs front and center

The budget field looked like I could drag the $ symbol as a slider (which would have been cool). The field accepts negative values and values below the threshold of 50-20000. If it's not permitted, don't allow the end user to select the value. I would make it a slider with a starting value of $50

If the from and to fields were a simple range picker, rather than 2 separate date pickers that would be equally as intuitive and would save a click.

It wasn't intuitive that I could pick both remote and urban at first. I think there's a way to clean that up (something like an "anywhere!" option?)

If you don't allow any searches but are looking to get early access, then remove all the form fields and put a landing page explaining what it is that you're doing or trying to do. I had to fill in required fields in order to get to the early access page. I didn't see anything on the page that described exactly what you're trying to do

Once I conduct a search, clicking on the "wander" link in the upper left does nothing. I have no way to get back to the main page without manually manipulating the URL

Your terms page mentions "contact us" but doesn't provide an email address. The privacy page does provide an email address.

Accordingly, I didn't provide my email address because I don't see how this is any better than any of the other hidden flight apps that provide a working interface.

The error noted by the other two posters is fixed however.
See above in the thread, it was a typo and should have been corrected by now.
Part of what is said in the article might be true, but some of them startups are striving hard to make this world a better place than it already is. The content undermines the effort of so many innovators/engineers. What I see is pure hate.
But while parents are fully informed of the doll’s recording features—and can even log in to access all of the data Barbie collects about their child and post that data to Twitter or Facebook for laughs—children themselves are unaware that everything they say to the doll is being listened to.

Ok so that's messed up for obvious reasons, but the worst part is, is that parents won't be learning about their child through play and communication (you know, human things), they're learning about them through some shitty $80 toy.

This is it ladies and gents, the "internet of things"; a cheap toy vying for the spot of parent.
> The original point is that Christian terrorism is objectively rarer

In the present.

> Again: you must acknowledge these points, else you're betraying ignorance at best, and bad faith at worse.

He doesn't have to do anything.

As for the subject itself, Islam has yet to go through 'enlightenment' (assuming that will happen some day) and before Christianity did it was one of the more brutal religions on the planet. 5 centuries of progress can't be suddenly synchronized across the planet.
Scheme has rationals, but decimal literals aren't rational by default. You have to type #e in front of it, or express it as a fraction.

It really ought to be fixed at the implementation level (how much stuff would it really break if floatin point errors went away?), but failing that I'd love a macro that did it for me. I can't figure out how to write one robustly.
Does it have GC? Or does it perhaps use reference counting? Can it detect cyclic references?
Why are parentheses optional for functions? The big thing one can borrow from Python 3 is that there should be one way of doing something to save the community the endless unproductive fights of which one of the many ways of doing something is best!
Great points
Officially Google still provides security patches for Android 4.4 but there is not much information on what this means in practice. How many OEMs actually make use of this and provide security patches for 4.4 devices?

(source: https://source.android.com/security/overview/updates-resourc... - "Android security team currently provides patches for Android versions 4.4 (KitKat), 5.0 (Lollipop), and 5.1 (Lollipop MR1). This list of backport-supported versions changes with each new Android release.")

Google themselves dropped the Nexus 7 v1 from security support a while ago, after having updated it to 5.1.
One of the points in PG's essay is that the story told there is bogus. It was supposed to be a story about Jessica as one of the most knowledgeable investors in SV. It got turned into something about sexism over a non-event, as far as she was concerned.
Interesting story. Where are you from in the US originally? Your comment is worth expanding into a longer blog post - I would happily read it. @simon on twitter if you want to connect.
This ignores the fact that whack-a-mole has almost certainly indeed thwarted other attacks that would have otherwise sailed through. The problem is complex, no doubt, but I think for a civilized society pursuing this individually is almost the only option.
I'm never sure how to reconcile PG's stance of "our founders are good people" / "X-ray vision for character" with some of the things that some of the portfolio companies do.

For instance, the vigorous, long-lasting and constantly denied spamming that AirBnB did off CraigsList with fake names, or some of the early Reddit fake accounts and general puffing-up (which was, to be fair, less bad.)

Maybe business tactics are explicitly not part of what PG and Jessica consider "good character"? It seems increasingly clear that they mean something different by it than I do.
The several times I've ever been quoted in a blurb/paper/article, it was taken horribly and embarrassingly out of context. So, in my experience, these quotes almost certainly don't reflect reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Another point the author seems to miss is that we have NO idea what evil has been thwarted by all of the resources the US has spent on fighting terrorism. ...How many 911s have there been on US soil?
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*if you care about public recognition from journalists (or bloggers might be the better word) who fail to properly research their subjects.
I mean, that effectively is just an adblocker. Many readers here really get bent out of shape on the use of blockers, and you may be one of them, I don't know. But directing the ads to you from a language you can't even read might as well be an adblocker as your mind can't even absorb the ad by osmosis. Just use uBlock Origin.
I like it too, when it works. It's a nice clean swipe thing. But it goes in the opposite direction for me about 30% of the time. (Using two-finger scroll on a Macbook Pro trackpad.)
It's not. What differs is which app displays the content once you click on a link. By indexing the app location of app content, google is able to show you results that will immediately open it in the app when clicked on from the results page, as opposed to just showing the web version of the content in a web browser.
> For Sudoku puzzles generated for humans

I agree that there's a significant difficulty jump, when that algorithm fails to suffice, and I think it's fair to say that's the "hard" jump. But I think a lot of puzzles intended for humans are "hard", by this definition.

Teaching a computer that special-case rule might not make sense for speedy computer solving, but I think it would make sense for telling a human "here's how you could have found this number".
It's unfortunate that such sensationalized articles tend to get so much attention. They make it all the more difficult to have a reasoned discussion on the matter, because they introduce so much "outrage fatigue".
But wouldn't it make sense to only do that if the return actually happens? It's not like Amazon doesn't know whether or not the item has been returned.
Following your logic the emails of politicans should be public record also, shouldn't it?

Who on the NOAA part does ignore a law?

And if you don't let complete strangers in your house, do you hide something?
So, what's her secret?

Is it something you can learn, is it experience, x-ray vision you either have or have not? Are women better suited for this job?

What clues are you looking for while talking to founders?

Is there something like a 'perfect' character or does she make a list of positive and negative traits?

Are some traits more important than others?
But breaking the law has a place in protest.
Grants, careers and reputations aside there are fields like Mathematics where there can be no political agenda because the findings are not input to political decisions. Climate change is definitely not such a field and people are wary of agendas in either direction. Given the huge interests involved it is impossible for even the most well-intentioned layman to arrive at a safe conclusion without spending an unreasonable amount of energy (pun intended).
I'd just like to point out that the civil wars in both Syria and Libya were far from 100% organic.

The U.S. Was pushing to fuck around with Syria and were embarrassed by Russia about two years ago, just prior to that we were funding and supplying rebels, who we now call terrorists.

The U.S. Is very very good about fomenting "organic civil wars" among many other things...

Syria is the new hotness in proxy war.

And one of the things that sucks is that now the Paris issue tied with fake Syrian refugees is resulting in all sorts of craziness all over the world, including U.S. States' governments refusing any "refugees"

My pessimistic side feels that some portion of the governments of the world are looking for the next arch duke Ferdinand to whack as a tinderbox.
Interestingly, Sudoku is known to be NP-complete.
I count backtracking as mechanical; but I was also using it in a perhaps overly-broad sense, which includes that solver.
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I'm using Arch and I really like it. However, it does take way more time and effort to install than the more mainstream distros like Ubuntu and Fedora, especially if you're like me and you're used to things like wifi "just working."

Antergos and Manjaro are both distros that try to streamline the process of Arch linux installation. I have yet to try either one, I wonder how well they work.
It could well be annoying, but if she produces good code and gets accepted as a dev (and gets paid the same, etc.) it doesn't rise above the level of annoyance. Me, I'm annoyed that I look like everybody's nerdy whiteboy dev stereotype. I'm a grown-ass man. Yes, I can see that R-rated movie; I actually remember when PG-13 wasn't a thing. No, I don't have a student ID; college was a long-ass time ago and I'm glad it's over.
This could be the distinction you're looking for in pg's own words: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/665962369890123776