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The only reason that Daesh exists is the idiotic and pointless wars that have been waged by the US and Europe in the Middle East. Destroying governments and airlifting in weapons is handing them victories and arming them. Their existence is the result of 15 years of a "war on terror". And your conflation of low birth rates in Europe with the topic of war is a symptom of very confused thinking.
You can pretty trivially expand the question as to why woman are choosing their careers over children.

Anecdotally, my other half would love to have children but I want to delay it right now because of finances. We live in the south-east of England so this is how things look:-

We have a nice 2 bedroom terrace that costs £500,000. I earn a good living but we're hardly living in luxury. The bank of mum and dad aren't rich, thus I struggle to pay that down. This could perhaps be attributed to woman joining the workforce, a lack of building, and a political lanscape that setup property as invesments.

She wants children to go to private school that may cost £9000-£30000 per year, with an oppertunity cost of upto £2,000,000 per child. This can probably be attributed to the nigh on impossibility to get your kids into a good performing state school and grammer schools being given the shaft after our parents had their turn.

She wants them to have a dad, but Men are afraid of commitment due to the litigious nature of break-ups which screw them over. I'm not saying Dads shouldn't pay for their kids, just they shouldn't be paying £4,000,000 for an ex-wife to keep the advantages of marriage whilst the man no longer gets anything in return

There's probably many more problems because the birthrate is fairly low right around Europe but these are some pretty big negatives for middle class men to commit to having children, at least not until they have their lot in life, which means there's less time to have more than 1-2.
> I was just surprised to see someone I esteem so highly as jacquesm expousing what is, to my mind, such an ill-informed opinion

Embrace the occasion to reconsider whether it's actually ill-informed, then. :)

To clarify what I was saying before, I don't mean to say that "God" hasn't been the main driver for wars and terror before. My point is that it's usually just an excuse, so that more may join the cause.

If you want to wage war on Madeupistan and 95% of your country is hardcore vegetarian, it's easier to get followers if you tell your people you're spreading vegetarianism than if you tell them you want their unobtainium mines.

> We're hardly going to be able to tease this one out over a Hacker News thread.

Wanna try twitter? #140characters
or ask Google, Apple, and Microsoft to automatically un-install the nefarious applications from all computers and phones... not sure what they would do about Linux ...
They can definitely hide in the population. Rakka still have 200,000 people living there. I have no idea which part of that population are hardcore isis member : 40-50k maximum maybe. Assuming you could take Rakka, you can't just execute or deport every one with a weird accent. Mosul is even bigger.

How many ground troop would it take to occupy all these cities ? This would be a repeat of the second Irak war, or Afghanistan, with the endless terrorist attacks, IEDs, etc.

Even if you have contributions from Kurds, Irak regular army, or Hezbollah, they would not be welcome as savior in Sunni's territory.

Like in most conflict, the military option can be used to create conditions for a political resolution, but you have to provide some sort of long term plan for Sunni population : you can't just tell them they will go back under Assad rule they despise in the first place. Currently, I don't believe there is a clear political solution. In this condition, the military option is doomed to fail.
It's not that difficult— if such a person travels travel, they go to major cities or resorts or places where driving isn't necessary, and if they want to go hiking, etc., they take public transit or go with friends.

Downtown-oriented companies (e.g. startups or banks) often do business with other urban companies, too. Versus oft-suburban companies (e.g hardware companies.) often do business with other oft-suburban companies. The license-free urbanite will generally get a job at the first type of company.

Beyond that, in much Europe, driver's licenses are often appropriately difficult to get (a 6-month course at age 18 and a test that's usually failed, rather than a quick lap around a parking lot as in Florida), and rural transit is often at least adequate.

Not having a car or driver's license is very limiting in suburban sprawl, which are designed exclusively around cars— but urban places (or even villages), where walking is the default mode of transport, it isn't. So it just depends where one spends one's time.
Back when I was way into Haskell, Johan Tibell was the guy I tried to be most like. I learned a lot from him not only about Haskell, but good software development practices in general, and how to work better with others. Great guy.
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The mistake, maybe an historical one, is that Europe, or better, the media insist in treating the symptoms instead of treating the causes.
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"One key premise here seems to be that prior to the Snowden reporting, The Terrorists helpfully and stupidly used telephones and unencrypted emails to plot, so Western governments were able to track their plotting and disrupt at least large-scale attacks. That would come as a massive surprise to the victims of the attacks of 2002 in Bali, 2004 in Madrid, 2005 in London, 2008 in Mumbai, and April 2013 at the Boston Marathon."

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-abou...
EDIT: Deleted because it was inappropriate to make this personal.
I am not blaming the victims at all. For example: You could call many people living in the hood 'bad people' because of the crimes they commit but are they really 'bad people' or do they eventually commit these crimes because of the situation they grow up in and the disadvantages they have had in life? By stating this, am I blaming the victims of armed robberies, of theft of murder? Of course I am not. I just think we should have a nuanced rational discussion about how we can prevent crimes instead of discussing about offenders and victims, bad people and good people.
This shouldn't be on the front page of HN. In order to get a million dollars for one of the millenium problems one needs to have one's proof accepted by a peer reviewed journal and remain unchallenged (for two years I think). This clearly hasn't happened here.
It's not. The evidence points fraud.
They remotely fired it just prior to deorbiting the station, as a test.

They never fired it while the station was manned.
The Shuttle could not be landed by autopilot until far into the 2000s. Astronauts insisted that there had to be something only humans could do. It wasn't until 2006 that one Shuttle was finally modified for full autopilot control: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-3xx#Remote_Control_Orbiter
Python isn't necessarily replacing the hardcore number crunching code (at least in my industry). It's more becoming the glue code to wrap those libraries and make them more accessible. That and data processing. I don't see people running massive simulations on clusters using mpi4py or whatever (thank god).

Even then, in a lot of cases programmer time is infinitely more expensive than CPU time, so it often still makes sense if Python is the more accessible choice.
All of technology's history has recurring themes of distrust. The first Kodak cameras inspired mobs of angry Luddites who smashed people's cameras, especially if people are taking photos of them.

Would you mind terribly if someone snapped a shot of you on their phone without asking? It's for reasons like these that the Japanese government mandates phones sold there make a shutter click sound whenever a photo is taken.

So yes, we do get used to things, generally, but there will always be activities people find off-putting, or creepy.

However, and this could kill Facebook in enough time, people can go "backwards" as much as they can go what the tech industry considers "forward." It could simply come to be that people, enabled by technology that easily encrypts their communication and obscures their actions, get sick of being watched all the time and prefer social networking sites or means of communication that explicitly do not track their users. Right now the global perception of trust is declining in nearly every major institution, and in the eyes of many who do not live in code, Silicon Valley is just one more group of rich elites who claim to make the world a better place but in practice make it more rushed, monitored, and unpleasant, thanks to lauded businesses that sell people's data right back to them.

I'm reminded of the scene in Fight Club when they loot a liposuction clinic to make soap: "Selling those rich women's fat asses back to them."
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If anything, this article enumerated reasons why I do want to use Bootstrap.
I've always likened meditation as teaching yourself to become more resilient to emotional turbulence. Free writing seems like it would not help too much in this regard, at least any more than say cooking, playing music, or any activity like that. If you get a random thought while free writing and write about it that increases your investment in that thought and I'm sure if you continue stream of consciousness writing on some of the more bothersome thoughts you might have problems with the activity. In meditation, it's more about noticing you had a thought and then letting the thought go. The whole goal is to teach yourself to not become invested in the battery of thoughts and emotions that can come with each day.
You're being disingenuous. venomsnake's point was that a nation should treat religiously-motivated violations of its laws the same way as any other violations of those laws (and not provide legal exceptions on religious grounds). When an individual should consider it worthwhile to break the laws of their country is an orthogonal concern.
The prices in the Mission or downtown Palo Alto, for example, don't really reflect your contention that people in California don't want to live near public transit. The real issue is that California isn't building much new transit, and it's essentially impossible to build much new housing or corporate headquarters nearby— so it's mathematically impossible for many people to live near public transit.
Here's a short BBC audio interview with the Professor who claims to have solved the hypothesis. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03891wc. I still have my doubts though.
It was designed into the station. It didn't rip a hole because they got it right.
Read again, you're not getting the joke.
>The conservative advocates of Sharia who execute people for their sexual orientation are executing people who live right now in those countries

Yes. So other countries should not encourage the tolerant co-patriots of those fanatics to adopt their attitudes -- e.g. by showing a plundering, hypocritical and hateful face of western democracies that destabilize the region, arm dangerous fanatics like ISIS and Laden, meddle in their politics, pillage their resources, and while condemning backwards islamism at the same time hi-five equally backwards Saudi regimes.

Because that's what has been happening. All of these countries were much more tolerant and humane 30 and even 50 years ago.
> "Haven't a clue what you mean by this analogy."

The analogy is used because the benefit of Facebook as a tool to improve social relations is questionable.

EDIT: For those downvoting, feel free to tell me why you disagree.
as for standards of living, what about Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Monaco, Luxembourg, quite a few Caribbean islands etc?

Just curious about such bold statements, Japan is not the type of country I would like to live in, for quite a few reasons
don't forget Euro Truck Simulator 2 http://www.ets2world.com/
Kind of like how they used guns!
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Oh cool! Thanks for your time maintaining Gfortran. I know I said Intel has a stranglehold, but personally I prefer using Gfortran where I can as I prefer open source. So thanks!
Yes, simplicity counts for a lot. Staying in user space is simpler.

The reason LMDB can pack so much functionality into only 7KLOCs is because using mmap is much simpler than using read() and maintaining a user-level buffer cache.

In the vast majority of cases, developers need to profile their code if they actually care about performance - and fail to do so.
Sorry, I don't think you'll find any free lunch here.

The products I would like to see don't exist because they're not economically viable (e.g. high-quality development and mobile phone hardware using open source firmware) or they depend on technology that doesn't yet exist or doesn't scale well, etc.

You may come up with a novel idea for a viable product, but no one can do this for you.
But he hasn't been able to implement his "more surveillance" policies, because he's been consistently blocked. Also, how will more people die under a state with more surveillance?
I'm sure I don't have to tell you I was being sarcastic. :)
"Motivation" in the business sense of "can make sufficient return on investment", not the trivially reductionist sense of "I feel like making a new drug today". So regulatory costs affect the motivation.
Am using a simple random pick from your list of Pocket bookmarks, so hopefully, you wouldn't see the link that you have just Pocketed so quickly. :)
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Counting "number of attacks" is extremely misleading (I'm tempted to think, deliberately so). A moment's Googling shows that Islamic terror is responsible for the majority of deaths, by a long way

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7552225/terrorism-europe-chart

(and you can add a big chunk of green for France November 2015 now too)
The blog basically says: if you can't say be 100% sure whether someone is a terrorist then don't bother since it could violate expectations of justice. I disagree since proper machine learning systems would probably distinguish between someone doing something with a red flag only occasionally and a fanatic who does something based on a strong belief. If someone wanted to check me because their system found something suspicious, I would be happy to help because I would understand it is part of national security work. Customs control today makes random sample checks of the passengers and that's ok. Just watch Border Security, Australia :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEiMHdISTvE
Your comment is unhelpful, you're agreeing with the author. If you're not a front-end person or you just don't give a shit, Bootstrap is probably fine. But if you're tasked with building an extensible website, Bootstrap is like choosing to drive a semi-truck to pick up groceries. It works for the thoroughfares but you're gonna get stuck on the hills and in turns.
> ... (slavery, murder, and Hitler)

You are using the "someone did some bad things some time ago (and now that I've put things into perspective for you), lets be open minded about another someone doing another something bad right now, because it's only fare!" argument.
I've had the pleasure of playing around with kit for a few months, and it's really addicting. I find myself spending a lot more time than I thought I would putting together kits. Here's one I made last night: http://kit.com/trevorkmarshall/nerd-battlestation. Congrats to the kit team!
not true, you over-romanticize your view on that country
Then I disagree with what you say, but will defend your right to say it.
Did I just miss where they explained why this is a thing that people want to do?
Oh I don't disagree with you on that, increase in productivity is one way of increasing GDP

However I don't see this happening in Japan right now.

I agree with the debt commentary
Analysis of 114 propaganda sources from ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda [pdf]
I'm completely with you there.
What's your point? That Islamic terrorism is compatible with open society because of a bunch of things were done to them over the past thousand years?

Or is it that because Western society has had some bad actors/states, that we can never thereafter point to bad behaviors or systems of thought?
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What I've never understood is if these people believe so strongly in their God, and that he will punish them for apostasy, then why the hell do they have to kill them? It undermines their alleged faith.
Every morning I ride my bike to a corner in my suburb, lock it up for the day, and usually there are a few cars waiting for people. I jump in the first one, usually the driver is a stranger. The casual carpool has been going on in the east bay for 40 years:

http://sfcasualcarpool.com/
Who owns your thoughts? Forget 1984, License agrmnts are the real thought police
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i think "having other options" is a pretty good definition for "not need".
So you're saying that women getting the vote two entire generations after men is not a sign of some sort of gender discrimination? (Let me guess, you're a guy.)

That would be a pretty rich claim on its own. Perhaps if were the single historical or present example of discrimination against women, maybe it would be worth considering. It isn't, of course.

Two easy examples were women not being allowed to own property:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverture

And women being treated as the sexual property of men:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_rape
An interesting video summary of the history of the Syria war/mess (5 mins). You don't know who to blame really. It's a shame both Russia and Turkey said they were sending bombers to attack ISIS and then went after other targets instead (the anti Assad forces, Kurds respectively).

http://www.vox.com/2015/11/14/9735102/syria-isis-history-vid...
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Microsoft's plan to port Android apps to Windows proves too complex
That's not what unfalsifiable means. If it were false, we would see evidence, such as speed limits being lower and actually respected, and strong widespread opposition to government surveillance. I think the word you're looking for is "unfalse".
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well, they tend to be a bit racist, xenophobic (just ask koreans how they are treated) and super-closed to foreigners
The Astoria project at Microsoft failed because a breakthrough was needed to overcome the complexity of the software development challenge. Microsoft tried to automate mapping the Android UI into the Windows 10 UI and to map Google services within the app such as maps, payments and notifications into Microsoft equivalents. Automated conversion of a UI from one platform to another has never been successfully demonstrated.

When I first saw Microsoft's Android bridge at Build 15, I thought it was achievable. But project Astoria as it is called is much too complex. Drawing on my architectural knowledge of the underlying Microsoft/Lumia hardware that is very similar to Android phones.I concluded that in the context of partitioning the device or running a VM Microsoft would succeed. But Microsoft tried something much more ambitious. ﻿
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Thanks for the correction, comment updated, the Dutch term is 'minister president'.

And yes, the coalition is pretty much our hope right now, but Wilders is ex VVD and SP might even join (they have a lot of similar things in their programs even though they're on opposite points of the political spectrum in nl, how that happened is another story). A 'cordon sanitaire' has been discussed but it is also already being broken.

The Netherlands that you knew in the 90's is dead, 25 years of divisive politics have seen to that.

Yes, it is absolutely deplorable how our 'chosen leaders' are positioning themselves and how they use the Paris attacks as a fig leaf cover to do things they nominally would have nothing to do with, except now that it is politically expedient.
Flagged for typo ("ressurecting") in title. The linked article / URL get the spelling right.
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The long sought pipe dream: socialdemocracy in the middle east. This time in the form of the so-called "Arab spring", a fiasco all EU and US liberals hailed as the panacea for the middle east and which has only caused untold suffering and destruction. Libya is in disarray, Egypt saved by the bell, and so on.

Apparently we're too dumb to realize that the best these countries and their culture can do are kinda-socialist pretenders like Saddam and Assad who rule with an iron fist. Trying to create western democracies in that environment is simply insane.
"Aim:
To identify precisely what ideology is shared by the
three groups, as revealed in their propaganda, in
order to inform effective counter-narratives from
mainstream Muslims, governments and civil society."

Done using Nvivo software.

(Reposting with the IP as the DNS name seemed to hurt the memory of at least one reader, don't let it offend you, it remains very informative :)
I have heard that one of al Qaeda’s biggest problems was attrition of “infiltrators” to the American way of life. The example I heard was truck-drivers, once they got real jobs and were welcomed into western mosques they assimilated fast. Thus the 9/11 hijackers were ordered to quarantine themselves in their hotel rooms until the actual event…

(I have no idea of the veracity of this story; it sounds a little trite, but compelling like so many trite things)
Bootstrap was never meant to be used as a website development framework

This seems odd. Most Bootstrap styles aren't namespaced, so it's a nightmare to add Bootstrap to existing projects of moderate size. In my experience, it only makes sense to incorporate Bootstrap at the early stages of a project as a "web development framework."
The 30,000+ dead and 2 million injured a year in the US alone question your contention that car commuting is 'nearly perfectly safe'.
Your understanding is correct. TensorFlow is a library for defining and executing mathematical operations on multidimensional arrays. It just so happens that much of machine learning, and especially deep learning, can be described as mathematical operations on multidimensional arrays.
In my mind, it comes down to what a society's priorities are.

If the priorities are Freedom > all, then encryption is a necessary tool.

If the priorities are Prosperity > Safety > Freedom > all, then society will run roughshod over freedom.
Historically, though, the real threat is usually a state actor -- often one's own government -- that has been granted (or has seized) a monopoly on such tools. In particular, the modern notion that the state is the only rightful wielder of force has an unlimited downside.

Terrorism is pretty far down the list of things that frighten me.
True (oddly, the article uses the word "regurgitate" twice and left me wondering "whose nipples?")