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> Though I agree that we have to bridge the gap. The us vs. them rhetoric is toxic.

Indeed. However, it is "Western culture vs ISIS". The other part is that it's also "Other Muslims vs ISIS" along with "Muslim countries vs ISIS". ISIS dictates that they are indeed bent for world domination, as much absurd as that seems.

But ISIS acts like Anonymous with a country. Yeah, you can nuke the land and kill millions of people. But they're still going to be in Europe, North America, Asia, and everywhere else... and the extreme tactics will only encourage more to join the cause.
> advertising is much more powerful/effective today than it ever was before

I'm sceptical of that. I grew up pre internet and much information on stuff to buy came from TV ads, magazines financed by advertising and the like. Now I've basically stopped watching TV and reading those, read non commercial stuff like HN and when I want to buy toys check out the review sites to see which product is best, not which has the sexiest ads. Here's a graph showing ad spend tailing off http://www.digitaltonto.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Ad-sp...

(from http://www.digitaltonto.com/2011/how-digital-leakage-is-rede...)
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I've worked on several projects that used Bootstrap to great effect and others where it was probably a mistake.

On the projects where it didn't work well, there were stakeholders who kept insisting on "little" tweaks.

On the projects where it worked, the stakeholders said "that looks awesome" on the first cut.

Not surprisingly, the projects where the stakeholders were happy with generic Bootstrap were the ones that ended up looking and functioning better, in my opinion.
> is either "print your way out"

I have yet to see any country which was able to get to an actual way out by inflating their currency. Reality always catches up.
You're right. Let's legislate to require that clothing prices not depend on size either. What are we, cattle?
I blame it on unicode. Without unicode these terrorists would not be able to communicate with impunity.
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Are you suggesting that if the police tase someone to death it shouldn't count.
Sounds like a shitty company, you're probably missing much bigger symptoms.. Get a new job

JIRA is [s]fine though[/s] ok, I've used when at a HN hip company, and it worked really well, granted it could have been a little simpler, but still much better than any homegrown alternative, and it was on-premise too.

Clojure use it to track issues too, and very few moans (surprising given the amount of hammock time devoted to simplicity)..

Disclaimer: At one point prior to using JIRA I did retweet '"Im so happy we use JIRA" - no programmer ever' or something like that, cargo-culting jira hate?
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The middle east is politically undeveloped and unstable so wars would be inevitable, with or without western involvement. It is unfortunate, but "great powers" were involved in the nation building of many many different countries. They seem to fail in middle east - so far. But that doesn't mean that it would all be peaceful of the westerners stopped being involved.

The problem is, as your comment shows, the idea of a nation is far less appealing than the idea of religion in middleeastern countries. You need to first have people willing to fight for their country more than they are for their religion.
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> It's my sincerest hope that French troops will be deployed to Syria in the near future,

Maybe you should join the counter-terrorism forces or intelligence community instead to help your country, if that what you're actually after, not just blind revenge because you have to admit that these attacks were a big SNAFUS on the French security apparatus part and some heads got to roll over this but I was amazed to see that Hollande is going to raise their compensation and reward them even more for their incompetence.

I REALLY REALLY wish I had a job like this where they pay me more every time I fuck up and make a total mess of a situation. I really picked the wrong field and career here.

Also, I find it really amusing that the general sentiment in France towards guns and a 2nd amendment style right is negative when it is not a stretch to say that some lives could have been saved if armed persons of the populace came to the rescue and took out the terrorists instead of filming the massacre as it was unfolding helplessly.

It proved beyond doubt now that security forces can be overwhelmed when faced with ops of such scale & magnitude and it would very imprudent to have just a single line of defense to protect people, when two or three backup could make wonders and end the situation in a matter of minutes and save the lives of a lot of people.

So, maybe you should petition your government to relax the laws concerning purchasing and carrying guns to avoid such a disaster from occurring on this scale in the future and leave the ME to its people to sort out the mess.
Well, Robert A. Heinlein took the problem by the other end in Starship Troopers, military service is not mandatory, but required to be able to vote. So the only people that might be capable to rebel are eventually the only ones that won't.
Could it not be that what the article said was wrong, but that someone twisted their arm for correctly exposing how they were communicating?
Introduction to Anomaly Detection
The Saudi Wahhabis are the real foe
Depends. For indies it can be substantially less expensive. If you go early access you can skimp on QA, you don't need expensive (well, not that expensive) devkits, you might even only have one target platform, which has obvious benefits as well.
Yes. But why do you find it so hard to understand why people could believe in angels if they believe in God? Both are spritual beings.

Angels are like God's build tools. They are there. They may have a critical role but you don't have to understand them deeply or know too much about the intricate details to be a Christian or believe in God.
It's really not documented well (and the generated docs are a joke) but from what I can gather, it's bog-standard PG replication with a go app to monitor the replication and do automated failover.

The monitor node appears to be there to act as neutral witness node so that a secondary is only promoted leader if it can reach the monitor and the monitor cannot reach the current leader. Hopefully, the leader also commits suicide when it cannot reach the monitor.

MS SQL server implements this pattern and calls it "Database Mirroring Witness": https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175191.aspx
Bootstrap has a righteous dominant position in that kind of solution. When "good enough" is really "enough" and, mostly, when "now" is really mandatory, Bootstrap shines. To quickly deploy something that works, that's what I'd do anyway.

My pet peeve with Bootstrap, however, is its usage in larger applications, in applications with very customized styles and/or a defined styleguide. If you're spending a minimum effort in developing a web app and/or specific styles, then Bootstrap will - very, very soon - be a liability (performance and mantainability-wise).
I thought TensorFlow is designed to run mostly on Google's infrastructure, although I have seen a post about someone trying to get the CUDA code working on Amazon GPU instance. Am I mistaken?
Oh, so basically `PUT` is just like a `POST action="add" id="XYZ"`? In any case, that only works if the ID can be known in advance (which e.g. isn't possible if you want sequential IDs).
It takes what it has always taken: good police work.

Encryption is like envelopes for the mail. They can be broken into with enough force, but their purpose it to shield the contents of the message from those handling it in transit. A post card offers no such protection.

So suppose the banned encryption (envelopes). Im sure the government would still reauire envelopes. As would anybody dealing with health records. Or banking, financial stuff has a legitimate need for secrecy. So they ned envelopes.

Pretty soon what you have is a class of people allowed to USE envelopes and a class of people not allowed it use them.

Like envelopes, encryption is an idea, not an inplementation. They may block you from using this tool or that tool, just like a government could make selling pre-made envelopes illegal - but the IDEA of encryption is simple just like the idea of an envelope. Anybody with paper, scissors, and glue can fashion their own envelope. Encyption is the same, one person can dream up an build their own encoder and you can never ban or prevent that idea from being used.
No, you should not change your mind on your opinions. You should however keep your opinions to yourself or give up on "l'ascenceur social". Pick one.

(And also, read between the lines. People are dropping heavy hints in their responses to you.)
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While the west complains about immigration and the issues arising from it, here's the other side of the problem.

Japan has not grown significantly in the past 20 years and it won't grow again. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/gdp
With 25% youth unemployment, wanting to get a job doesn't mean getting a job. People give up after a while, and the resulting desperation is dangerous.
Well… I don't know how to say this: but if at first it sounded hollow, this talk of ethnic subgroups and culture makes it sound rather racist.
We have to get rid of this narrative of bad versus good people while we're at it. It removes every bit of nuance from the discussion.
Contrary to the author's opinion, BS isn't hard to maintain and the code isn't messy. I've developed more than 30 projects using BS as the framework. It has enabled me to prototype, as well as build for production, faster, cleaner and better. Might there still be something better out there? Sure, but there are definitely cons to continuously changing your tool set and diverting yourself from actual building. Imagine if a carpenter bought a new power saw every time a company introduced a slightly improved model. The economics of that should be clear.
> You can downvote me but you don't get a downvote in governments around the world when they outlaw real encryption.

I'm pretty sure you can downvote them by voting for representatives that do not support such laws. At least if you're in some kind of democracy.
That is not documentation, that's a bunch of code comments and signatures turned into a web page. You cannot tell from this documentation how the system works, what are the failure modes and how to recover. Those are kind of useful things in a failover management system.
Can you come up with one where significant numbers of the billions of Muslims in the world are committing terrorist atrocities abroad? The vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace, just like everybody else.

To your question though, the French resistance during the second world war could easily have been called terrorists, as could the American revolutionary army.
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Even respecting proportionality, body count is not a major determinant. For example, the first gulf war and the liberation of Kuwait was universally acknowledged as a "just" war.

The Iraqis suffered casualties of greater than 150 to 1 vs casualties of the coalition forces.

The hostility and attack upon national sovereignty committed by the Iraqis was far more important than the subsequent body count in determining proportionality.
The "smart" bad guys (most aren't, but some are) have been communicating covertly all the time. Avoiding electronic communictation entirely, using dead drops, trusted couriers, etc. You catch them by infiltrating their organizations, turning members into double-agents by bribery or blackmail, etc. the way it's always been done.
Isn't this article about suburban ride-sharing? Car ownership in the suburbs is 100%.

I don't think anyone disputes that a lot of people live in cities and don't own cars.
Typical New Pravda SOP. Drop an unsubstantiated rumor blaming something the government doesn't like then retract it once e damage has been done.
No, clearly it was rational. ᴨ = 3.2
I think you are assuming consciousness (of the group) where can be none.

Shouldn't be in the interest of the majority to make sure that minorities are not marginalized?
I agree with this. We shouldn't forget that Muhammad was basically a military leader.

Anyway, we are in danger that this narrative and others similar becomes the only explanation in the mainstream media, instead of only a factor that probably is not very relevant. After all, the majority of Muslims don't believe that they should go to war with other countries.
I recently bought two cars, here's the relatively pain-free process I went through.

0) Wait until the model years are flipping on the car you want, they need to get last model year inventory off the lot

1) Used Costco to get a prenegotiated price. There's some other things attached with it, but walking in with a price below MSRP opens up the negotiations.

2) Used a couple other sites (e.g. [1]) to get price quotes on the make/model/trim/configuration I wanted. A deluge of emails and phone calls occur within a day or two after this.

3) Simply tell each responding dealership that you are soliciting offers from all the local dealerships and to email you with their best price.

4) Pick a dealer, not the one with the lowest price, but it doesn't matter which one really (but some will try to differentiate with special warranties or other things), open with the Costco price, then follow with the lowest quote you received. Say "beat this and I'll buy my car here, otherwise I'm going to these guys". And don't budge.

5) They'll always come back with a lower price, maybe not by much, but it'll be lower. Be willing to leave if they don't. Congratulations you've just negotiated a low price for your new car. Watch the price buildup for unnecessary fees and fight them on those (or have them throw in overpriced things like floor mats or cargo nets or whatever in exchange).

6) Once you get to finance, don't necessarily accept their rates, the dealership finance people can solicit financing on your behalf from other banks. Simply have evidence that somebody can offer you a loan cheaper than the dealership can offer (Credit Unions are great for this), and haggle a little with them, they'll eventually use their network to do all the legwork for you and it can save you quite a bit of money.

Bonus round:

1) Take your old car to Carmax and get a quote from them to buy your car.

2) During trade-in talks at the dealership see if they'll meet or exceed Carmax's quote.

3) If they don't, you have a guaranteed buyer (Carmax) at a good price. If they do, you get to unload your car hassle free.

4) Take car to Carmax and sell it, or try to get more on the private market. Carmax takes about 30 minutes and the people are pleasant.

It took about a day in each case to buy (and sell) each car, but I managed to save between $3-5k below the retail price in each case, then made above the KBB estimates on my old cars. There wasn't any emotion involved, nothing got heated and the negotiation portion of the process took about 20 minutes at the dealer, most of it was the salesperson waiting for their manager to approve a price reduction. I'd describe the experience both times at two different dealerships as "pleasant", and because we had the negotiations locked up, spent most of the time making polite conversation with the salesperson.

1 - http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/best-price-...
Assuming the numbers wouldn't go up from people encrypting out of spite
From “idea” to TwitterGrade in 3 hours with Meteor
> Bush jr

The next installment may be on the way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10524791

tl;dr: if you run nearly-a-year-unpatched software (Magento) you will be hacked by script kiddies.

This is a fairly competent article, other than the obviously click-bait title. Although the Bitdefender post linked as a source contains much more technical detail and less copy-paste tutorial: http://labs.bitdefender.com/2015/11/linux-ransomware-debut-f...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10529532
>This is how Europe does things.

This is also how America did things up until about the 1950s. From about that time period onward we didn't just build suburbs, we made them mandatory legally.

For instance, in your typical American suburb, you can't legally build a modern equivalent of a rowhouse; it might be too small to fit in the minimum lot size, its floor area ratio might exceed the ludicrously small allowed ratio, and it wouldn't have required side yards. Multistory apartments are mostly banned or, if they aren't, are required to sit on large lots so as to minimize their density. Then we tack on single-use zoning to ensure that nothing is within walking distance.

This would be bad, but manageable, if we could still build in our cities. Unfortunately our great cities have decided that their state at X point in time is the best humanity can achieve, so they have made it difficult to build new buildings. Our large cities in some cases have less housing than they used to due to urban freeways, misguided urban renewal, and the fires and riots of the tumultuous Civil Rights era.

>Basically, the mix of vehicles (cars, trains, driverless cars, whatever) is far less deterministic than the urban development patterns.

Yep. Many people fail to understand this; land use and transportation go hand in hand. Build sprawl, and you'll end up in traffic hell with no possible transit relief. Build dense development and, though congestion may be high, actual trip times can be shorter and alternative modes can flourish. It just so happens to also be vastly better for the environment.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I know a lot of people, myself included, who have the patience to roast a golden brown marshmallow. I've only heard good things about Sandberg, but that seemed like a really weak anecdote to depict one of the world's most innovative people.
Unfortunately this is a very widespread notion in culture and is helped by major religions.
I'm not sure why you conflate the fiction of The Da Vinci Code with the cogent writings of Dawkins.
> [They] receive direct support from many countries in the region. Namely from rich oil-producing countries.

I assume the author is alluding to Saudi Arabia here.

How absurd is it not of the West to

* on one hand is claim to oppose Islamic terrorism, while

* on the other hand having among the closest allies in the region what probably amounts to the most radical, fundamentalist, human-rights abusing and not the least culturally and religiously influential states there, preaching religious intolerance to a world-wide audience of susceptible followers.

Recently, Nicholas Nassim Taleb, author of Black Swan, wrote[1] a thoughtful commentary on the situation:

> Since 2001 our policy for fighting Islamic terrorists has been, to put it politely, missing the elephant in the room, sort of like treating symptoms and completely missing the disease.

> Policymakers and slow-thinking bureaucrats stupidly let terrorism grow by ignoring the roots. So we lost a generation: Someone who went to grammar school in Saudi Arabia (our “ally”) after September 11 is now an adult, indoctrinated into believing and supporting Salafi violence, hence encouraged to finance it — while we got distracted by the use of complicated weapons and machinery.

> Even worse, the Wahhabis have accelerated their brainwashing of East and West Asians with their madrassas, thanks to high oil revenues.

> * * *

> So instead of invading Iraq, blowing up Jihadi John and individual terrorists, thus causing a multiplication of these agents, it would have been be easier to focus on the source of all problems: the Wahhabi/Salafi education and the promotion of intolerance by which a Shiite or a Yazidi or a Christian are deviant people.

> If we absolutely need to put people in Guantanamo, it would be far more effective to ship the Salafi preachers and Wahhabi clerics over there, not just the people swayed by their teaching. And if we need to correct the profound Saudi problem, we need to start by sending to them our preachers, educating them into tolerance, explaining the very concept of the separation of church and state. Or, better even, encourage Muslim preachers who promote religious tolerance (“laka dinak wa li dini“) — instead of seeing them ostracized.

> And if you find violence unavoidable, it should be directed at the Saudi and Qatari funders of violence, as well as the Salafi theorists, rather than the young performers.

> P.S. Beware the usual ISIL crypto-sympathizer who sort of “explains” (that is, justifies) what happened (the intentional targeting of civilians) with some other Western event that can hark all the way to the Crusades… Otherwise it is presented as “biased.” You can spot such people from a mile away. For them, you cannot condemn ISIL without at the same time trying to be “balanced.” Who are they fooling? This is the technique of bundling together problems that should be treated independently, and you need to learn to deal with such people by forcing them to discuss the problem of ISIL on its own.

[1] http://www.politico.eu/article/the-saudi-wahhabis-are-the-re...

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Mark Zuckerberg isn't really a person.

He represents a class of extremely misguided super smart rich people who convince themselves they are doing good by getting themselves richer.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/opinion/campaign-stops/...
Forgive me, I'm not from USA, is Iowa the deep south?
But you need guidance throughout your life to understand things and build knowledge. You can have a computer as sophisticated as a human brain. I am sure in the history of evolution our human ancestors did not told by a deer how to start a fire, or make clothes. But I think they slowly build up the knowledge, and pass to the next generation. You are right that there is brain in DNA.
Yes, you get people fixing each others' typos. This is rather wonderful... rather than demand perfection from people, and punish them for making mistakes or not having all the right knowledge, it turns this to advantage. People complement each others' weaknesses and form powerful teams.

This isn't wishful thinking... we see this all the time. The Git history documents these interactions.

It does sometimes make it harder to cherry pick patches to backport to old releases. Yet that's a minor cost compared to the benefits of getting more, and happier, contributors.
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Germany made their way out after WWI, but lets just say the results weren't pretty.

At least from historical precedent, it seems the best solution is to "cheat" your way out, by massively inflating a currency, then if hyperinflation kicks in, create a new currency in quick succession.
Knowledge uploading like in the Matrix movie
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"France had until now only struck Islamic State targets in neighboring Iraq"

So, zero. They participated in 3% of the air strikes in Iraq, 0% in Syria.