skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree but in a different way. We should try to capture terrorists and put them in prison for life, and let Imams and psychologists work on them to convince them that what they did is wrong. To their fellow terrorists this means that they are now going to hell instead of heaven, because according to them the only way into heaven is by their cult ideology. That is what they fear most. The only deterrent is the possibility of hell, not the possibility of death.
There are many sects in Islam, but only two major ones: Sunni (90%) and Shia(10%). Shia in turn are divided into many different ones. Sunnis don't have any subdivisions. The salafist/wahabist movement within Sunnism stresses that people take everything in Islam literally and follow a very strict interpretation. When we talk about radicalism or a certain percentage of Muslims in the world wanting apostates being punishable by death, we are largely referring to sunni muslims.
I used TrueCar (and other similar services) as a starting point, but was able to negotiate a better price in person (~6% lower) than what TC quoted (what they considered an 'excellent' price.) I actually didn't find the process to be painful at all. My salesman was friendly, willing to work with me, and gave pretty close to the final price right out of the gate.

You're never going to do better with car-buying services than just communicating with the dealers, especially their fleet or online managers. That said, one should figure out what they value their time at, and realize that they can easily spend hours/days trying to haggle that last $500 when it doesn't make sense from a time investment standpoint.
Okay, a handful of tiny countries with massive immigration of millionaire tax cheats may have more per capita cash. That's not meaningful in the context of a real sustainable large country.

"Japan is not the type of country I would like to live in"

I agree -- the weather isn't to my taste. Remember you're free to emigrate at any time.
Right. This is where the phrase proof of burn comes in. It is nice to show, in a provable way, that you have have destroyed the coins.
White people shooting others is not usually considered terrorism

If those white people were part of a religious movement indiscriminately targeting the larger society, then of course they would be labeled "terrorists". Do you have an example of where I'm wrong?

calling the president a terrorist

If you'll recall, the White House referred to the GOP as suicide bombers over debt ceiling negotiations. That's political posturing when either side does it and has little to do with legitimate use of the word "terrorists" in the context of labeling organizations seeking to maximize loss of life and destruction through surprise attacks on civilians.
Ask HN: Want to talk with a group of high school students?
I'm currently teaching a class called "Who owns you?", where students ask critical questions about the apps they use and the sites they visit on a daily basis. They're focusing on questions like "Do our posts really get deleted after we share them on Snapchat?" and "Do the developers of these apps and sites even care about things like our privacy?"

We're in a small town in southeast Alaska, and I'd love to give my students the chance to talk with an individual or group of individuals who are involved with app development. You might be curious to hear what high school students think of your app, or the product you're working on as well.

If you're interested in participating in a videoconference with students, let me know here or email me at ehmatthes@gmail.com, or on twitter @ehmatthes.
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The US Air Force has its own remote control/autopilot space shuttle

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/16/secretive-us-mi...

So not only were astronauts made redundant, the pentagon got the remainder of NASA's budget.

We sure have some screwed up priorities.
Why not just divvy them up proportionally among all addresses with positive balances? It's functionally identical, since (to everybody besides you) it's just a change in price level and bitcoin prices aren't sticky like dollar prices are.

Only issue I can see is divisibility: this would inevitably result in some addresses deserving <1 satoshi, leading to discrepancies when rounding.
> We're hardly going to be able to tease this one out over a Hacker News thread. I was just surprised to see someone I esteem so highly as jacquesm expousing what is, to my mind, such an ill-informed opinion. I have no intention of taking it any further.

That's rich, given that you all but dragged the whole thing out in the first place.

If you're ready to call me 'ill informed' and you're unable to see that to victims of war it hardly matters whether the perpetrator is two old white guys praying in an old building for guidance or some Imam in a mosque who by remote control pull the trigger then indeed, I should have left this well alone. But trust me, as long as that is a thing that can not be discussed with some dispassion this mess will not end, it will only get (much) worse.
I've learned more about Islam, ISIS, and the state of affairs in Syria from this article than anywhere else. I wish I could TL;DR this one, but I can't. It's so full of details and context I wouldn't do it justice. It's a long one, but absolutely worth it.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi...
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You don't think it's hard to explain what?

How advertising causes high rents in San Francisco?

Be my guest.
True. Ironically, it's generally understood by Americans that this was done to break Japan's will to continue fighting. It worked. Everything we do in war is to break the will of the enemy to continue.

Thus unless we expect one side to nobly surrender, we ought to expect the most extreme atrocities to occur in war.

When you think about it, it's silly to draw an arbitrary distinction of humane combat, since if we really wanted to be humane we'd have our leaders compete in chess boxing or something that would minimize the destruction of property and loss of life.
>I'm interested to hear that JobDSL is painful for Jenkins masters do you know what the pain points are?

In a multi-tenant environment that we run using Enterprise Jenkins from CloudBees, the default option for JobDSL is to create jobs at the root level which is problematic if you don't allow teams at that level. We've also had issues with jobs just getting "stuck" which even after a restart of the master doesn't clear it out. Plus the fact that it encourages bad behavior among teams by allowing them to create thousands of jobs that never get cleaned up is just another reason we've banned it from other installations we've setup. Jenkins itself is pretty terrible and even the proposed 2.0 changes don't appear to do anything to change things for the better. If Spinnaker can replace Jenkins, more power to them. But I don't think that's the initial aim.

Regarding your other comment about "something that sits atop Jenkins in driving your build and deployment activities" that's just about exactly what the Workflow plugin ecosystem does. However you're still stuck with Jenkins and its baggage.
>To be effective, attacks should be launched against soft targets that cannot possibly be defended to any appreciable degree, leading to a debilitating security state:

> "If a tourist resort that the Crusaders patronize…is hit, all of the tourist resorts in all of the states of the world will have to be secured by the work of additional forces, which are double the ordinary amount, and a huge increase in spending."

That is huge misunderstanding by the author. That is absolutely standard military tactic at least as old as Sun Tzu art of war. The idea is to force enemy to spend more money than you are spending. Security state is just meaningless side effect for ISIS point of view.
My earlier post posited not caring, let the civil war continue, hand it over to the "nicest" Sunni group we can live with, give it to Assad - none of those outcomes involve a terror exporting aspirant state controlling territory. If we temporarily control a swathe of territory it puts in a position to make a bargain with someone.

I'm not saying it is good, but is it better than a pretty shitty situation. Do the other groups regularly crucify civilians and hurl homosexuals off buildings?
If we acknowledge we can't impose a new government can we create a new normal whereby we smack groups which get out of line but otherwise stay out of the way. It's actually fairly similar to the old Roman system on the outskirts, and the same approach the British initially adopted in the early days of Empire. It's what the Americans sort of did in Afghanistan before the invasion of Iraq effectively dragged them into a civil war.
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I wonder what you call "adherents of Islam" and "Muslim population". As far as I know they are many groups that claim they are Muslims and they sometimes don't recognize other groups as Muslims (I have many friends that are Muslim and I am pretty sure they would tell you that the 40% your are mentioning are not Muslims) so I think it would be a bit weird to consider all of them as being "Muslim population" as if they were a single group while there are clearly just separate and unrelated groups that happen to claim the same name.
There was a full blown study released stating Facebook actively manipulated users news feeds for something like 6 months [1]. That's one way to manipulate their emotions and such.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+study+manipulating+...
So you feel that genocide is the way to go?
It's no longer "battle tested" if you're doing it yourself. You just created all the bugs Bootstrap fixed over the years. That's called reinventing the wheel. Is a few extra bytes worth it?

Why waste the time rewriting it?
You respect people when you agree with them, and when you disagree they are 'ill informed'. See there the root of many a problem, it is just this side of possible that I'm not quite as ill informed as you make me out to be and to realize that we disagree strongly on a point where neither of us is willing to make a concession. I'm not calling you un-informed either, I'm sure you have your reasons for believing what you do.
If your firm is too cheap to hire someone with actual design skills, use Bootstrap. Otherwise, don't.

If nothing else, it raises the bar of mediocrity.
Seems interesting and (at least for now, while the numbers are small) not to chaotic.

But really, "best viewed with $Browser" is making a comeback?
I don't understand what you're getting at but I'll try to explain.

Fukuyama said that Capitalist Democracy was the pinnacle of civilisation.

In the same way Salafi / Wahabbi ideology says that we must as much as possible live like the prophet and his contemporaries. Any innovation is derided as Bida/Heretical.

So its not possible to reform certain laws in response to changing circumstances. Eg: Women can inherit only half of what men do. Now I'm not justifying this but this might have been pragmatic (socially acceptable??) for a time where women were subjugated and men were often the sole breadwinners for the entire family.

However in the 21st century noone can really argue that its relevant. But if anyone tries to reform laws such as these you'll have the Wahabbis and Salafis going ape and branding everyone heretics.

There was a cleric in my part of the country who had a very unorthodox interpretation of the scriptures. He was a brilliant orator and a scholar who could hold his fort against the traditionalists. He began gaining a lot of followers however one day he just disappeared and was never found again.
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Thanks for a measured and informative response. I could add to your list reams of links of where 'we' have behaved badly.

I suspect you too have a bulging bookmark folder like I do of hypocritical western behaviour.

However the battle against militant jihadi extremists is one issue where 'we' are completely in the right. Completely.

No need to apologise for past wrongs. If we have regarded life as too cheap in the past, that is irrelevant to ensuring your own family cannot be killed.

Now prior actions of our own may have exacerbated, strengthened and accelerated the militant jihadis ( Iraq, Afghanistan ). But even without our own errors and crimes militant jihadis would have arisen eventually.

The jihadis have so many 'reasons' to kill us. If some 'reasons' did not exist because we didn't invade Iraq say, or we addressed other 'reasons' ( say for example we disbanded Israel ) there are just so many more 'reasons' left for the jihadis that single us out for killing.

Lets say Iraq was still under Saddam and Syria under Assad. No ISIS perhaps. What then about al Qaeda, the Taliban, al Qaeda in the Yemen, Boko Haram, Jemaah Islamiyah.

And the militant jihadis have found a brainwashing method that repeatably draws from a small but replenishing minority of evil, vain and stupid young people.
Could a computer one day be powerful enough to reverse generate the private key for those "irretrievable" bitcoins?

Granted we are living in a very different technological age by then.
Why I Wrote PGP (1999)
I'm not in Europe, but I've heard about Geert Wilders and seen him speak in a few online videos. He doesn't actually seem to be that radical, except in terms of immigration where he seems to be taking a tough stance.

But as all seemingly extremists becoming prime ministers, he'll eventually learn to see a bit more of the bigger picture and cool down if he gets in office.
If a person calls for an Uber and rides alone, there's no less congestion because there is no reduction in commuter-vehicle trips. Just an increase in raw vehicle occupancy. In addition, unless the Uber is already in the commuter's driveway and waits at the curb until the commuter is ready to leave and parks in the commuter's driveway overnight, the use of an Uber increases traffic overall.
My current project for a client has dozens of pretty basic CRUD screens and a few slightly more complex screens. Its reasonable to look at, and scales to a mobile device, including a side navigation bar that slides in/out on small screens.

I wrote about 10-20 lines of CSS.

Even though it's expressly an "admin" UI for the app (which has no public web UI) they would not accept an app made with no stylesheet and just a page of form elements. It would be practically unusable without any CSS, and the time it would take me to write the CSS for just the navigation bar OR just the pagination system OR just the reasonable form layout on multiple screen sizes, dwarfs the amount of time it takes me to download bootstrap and copy the dist folder.

For a public facing website - I think bootstrap is terrible, and I'd rather see something like Bourbon used, where semantic markup is then styled.

This isn't about that. It's about getting a usable interface that takes almost zero time to implement.
> I know other designers we could hire who (I'm pretty sure) we could pay a lot less, would do a better job

You want an "A" you can pay for less than a "B"?
The policy responses in the west have been very different from in Japan. For a start Europe only started doing anything like QE this year, and only in a very limited fashion compared to the US or Britain.

If you look at the US and Britain, they did carry out extensive money printing operations in the form of QE, but they also let their economy take the hit hard and early in the form of bankruptcies, job losses and housing devaluation. As a result, their economies have largely been through the pain. The US economy particularly has bounced back and it actually doing pretty well in global terms with growth of 3.7%. That's hardly 'the same results' as in Japan.

So Europe followed a completely different path and is still stuck with low growth, while America and Britain did use QE but avoided falling back into recession. It's not as if everything's come up roses in the West, we still have major challenges to deal with, but how things have panned out is completely different.
I think the assertion is that Joe Public doesn't really care about his/her privacy anymore provided they consent to it's initial release.

It seems to me that over a billion people are fine giving their privacy over to Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/<insert other company> but not necessarily the Government (of any country).
If you don't understand how branding it as "Islamic" terror, despite the insignificant association between the two populations will make law-abiding Muslims (who make up about 99.99% and practise Islam) feel divided from you, I don't know what to tell you.
Say what? I'd rather have a hacker, that created something reap its benefits, rather than some "idea bros".

Winklevosses were just a couple of deuchebags with an idea. Go to any Techcrunch/tech party in NYC, and you will meet plenty of them. They go nowhere, because they don't have the hard skills to make something a reality.

Ideas, are cheap. Given some beer, and one hour of time, anybody can come up with a dozen of decent ones. Execution on the other hand is hard. It takes sweat and real work to make something happen.
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I think Japan will manage. Not sure about Europe.
Because the Japanese have effectively lent it to themselves.
Ironically, this site presents a huge ad at its top that makes reading on a small laptop a challenge until the ad disappears.
https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html

"Why I Wrote PGP", by Philip Zimmermann

We really need to emphasize the envelope metaphor a lot more. It's much easier for non-technical propel to understand than any discussion of key/signing/etc.
As with most things, I think that it is a trade off. There is a very delicate balance between security and privacy.

Too much surveillance

- General public feels incredibly uncomfortable due to lack of privacy

- An incredibly scary amount of power in the hands of whoever has access to that information ( and who knows what they will do with it )

- Reduced risk of terrorism and security concerns

Too little

- Increased risk of terrorism + massive security concerns due to lack of intelligence ( it's like trying to find a needle in a huge haystack )

- Public feels safe due to perceived increased privacy and yet feels unsafe due to ( potentially ) increased number of terrorist incidents.

It's a rather difficult problem to solve. How can we extract critical security information without invading people's privacy?
So then how does the TV's with things like "game mode" or whatever handle this? I assume some delay is inevitable based on your explanation (and it still feels slow) but I guess it just dumps the filtering and processing to what's bare minimum required?
one example out of many - services of arms smuggling make one quite rich if surviving long enough, not sure about doing good though
It was to keep astronauts feeling important and in the loop, it was a political decision. If space shuttles could be completely automated imagine how you'd feel as an astronaut, who trained for all those years, waited, and then you just mostly sit and watch the flight computer do the work for you.
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No. You completely miss the point. Many of the terrorists were westerners recently converted to Islam. Also they did not come from poor social classes.
They don't have the "excuse" of having grown in a troubled society, they were not desperate because of their shitty life,... Yet they decided to commit atrocities too.
Fuck you YC
I did not apply this to this round of YC because I realized something. I am diametrically opposed to the funding model of YC. In fact, I hate what you're doing to the world.

I've wanted to get into YC for about 8 years now and applied almost every round with different groups and ideas. I put on workshops and networked looking for the perfect co-founders. Hell, I even had an in with a prominent YC alumni. None of that mattered. I got rejection after rejection but I kept applying. But this year something has changed. I got angry. Maybe hurt. The side effect of my disillusion was that I stopped idolizing your organization and started realistically examining it. I have come to some conclusions.

You are the architects of the next great recession and I really hate you for that. You all are some irresponsible, selfish babies. Why? Well, you create this facade of wealth and success, while most often providing no real world value. These mirages of success find easy marks in optimistic investors looking for a big score. This as a variation of a ponzi scheme. Pumping money into worthless products with no return will lead to a bubble with devastating long term effects.

The world is catching on though. Investors are already dwindling and stock prices dropping. The fairy tale couldn't last forever. So here's to you YC, fuck you. Really.
Interesting that the 10clouds site itself uses bootstrap....
QE is a separate and complex thing. Without going into M1 vs M2 etc. It creates short term virtual money while bonds are out there at the cost of destroying real money in the long term when there paid back.

If you actually want to create currency there better off buying junk bonds that don't get paid back. That or sell the bonds for less than they paid for them.
It's probably better to email mods rather than flag the submission.
Show HN: Hacksboard – A Pull Request Tracking Tool for Your TV
That was quick. I don't even have my robots back yet!
Hacksboard is a tool to show your project open Pull Requests on the TV. We launch today as an open free beta. All the feedback will be welcome!
>The problem here is not the sharing of DNA information, but the incredibly poor resolution of the standard tests that are used in forensics.

This seems like a goal post shift from 'DNA information alone cannot cause harm' to 'sharing of DNA information alone cannot cause harm', with the alone excluding all uses of DNA information. To me would be like arguing that giving everyone a nuclear bomb is not harmful, it is their use of the nuclear bomb that will cause harm. Or to generalize further, the harm is always the fault of the last event in a chain of events, and all events leading up to it cannot be blamed.

To make another extreme comparison, violations of the 4th amendment related to searches aren't harmful, it is only the (mis)use of that information that is harmful. That isn't an argument I'm buying.
In case anyone is interested, the best OS tutorial I've ever found is here: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~exr/lectures/opsys/10_11/lectures/...

I've never been able to find a finished copy, but this one definitely gives you a good start, if only for 32 bit archs.

In any case, I'm pumped to try out this Rust one- looks very well done, and it's finally an excuse to learn some Rust!
Is that so implausible? If you like the things that make Haskell different from other programming languages, Idris does most of the same things, only more so. It's the first language with a better type system than Haskell's to become even remotely mainstream.
In my opinion, this is the most incisive reply in this thread.

The yearning for "deep" friendships reflects some underlying need. I tend to think few strong relationships develop as the result of deliberate effort. They arise naturally, at any age, as a result of shared experiences and a sense of mutual understanding.

My suggestion is to focus on your work, and perhaps try to find a romantic partner. Relationships inevitably emerge in the context of collaboration, and much "loneliness" is actually sexual frustration. Also consider imposing limits on the amount of time you spend alone in your residence and, if you can tolerate the compromises, roommates can help reduce the sense of alienation that comes with living alone.