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The Saudi regime and it's population are two different groups of people. Most of the sponsoring of violent Islamists abroad is done by the Wahhabi establishment, not the regime. Though, the regime does lay the groundwork for much of the Wahhabi proselytizing by its sponsoring of madrassas abroad.

So, the Saudi Regime does a lot of absolutely abhorrent shit, and so do it's people. But without the regime we'd probably be in a worse-off place.

>delivers weapons and money to radical islamists in Syria which fuels the civil war

The civil war is being fuelled by Iran's support for the Assad regime, both directly and by it's proxy, Hezbollah. The draw for radicals to fight in Syria is the Assad regime.

>SA that hangs a shiite cleric as an atempt to sabotage the atom deal

I definitely wouldn't say that the execution of Nimr was an attempt to sabotage the nuclear deal. There's really no evidence of that, and it's illogical because there's almost no way it could do that. Read the Pollack article above to understand the likely reason as to why SA killed him.

I can't believe I'm hear almost defending Saudi Arabia. I just think they're less despicable than Iran, but both are absolutely abhorrent. Both regimes push their own version of violent Islamism and are a pox on the world.
I love gitlab and its features, and will commit to actually using it once dockerhub has gitlab integration. I agree though that is more of a limitation on dockerhub.
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What's the unit of measure of success? Networth-Orgasms/kgCO2?
Trump says he will get Apple to 'start building their damn computers' in US
Wingsuit flyby of spacex landing...
I often tell my management, "If it doesn't need to work, I can get it to you any time you want." Everything other than that is a cost/benefit analysis. To be honest, it's hard enough writing a reasonable sized program and not ending up with a horrid mess when I'm doing my best. I'll always recommend giving up functionality over quality if early release is desired. It's easy to add functionality later. It's hard to add quality.
My favorite tidbit about pharma payments to physicians comes from Ben Goldacre's book, Bad Pharma. Based on a survey, most physicians think that the money doctors receive from pharma definitely affects their prescribing choices, HOWEVER, that only applies to other doctors. Each doctor is convinced that they are perfectly unbiased and that they can receive money without having their opinion swayed, but other doctors are not as strong willed.
>> The stereotype of a programmer as a solitary eccentric who’s allergic to human company is unfair and inaccurate. As a group, we’re a very social bunch.

I'm a disabled programmer too. In my case, it's autism so statements like this make me cringe. It puts up an exaggerated effigy of some weirdo with asperger syndrome so neurotypicals can say "We're not like that guy!"

Programmers need a quiet place to work. But that's a hard thing to even reach for if you're also trying to distance yourself from the "solitary eccentric". Socializing is generally noisy. A deaf person just spread sentiment that fundamentally encourages the raising of noise levels. I'm not sure how to respond to that.
"Stochastic optimization," "equivalence checking..."

Assembler optimization is starting to sound like the ASIC tooling I've been reading about. That's exciting given what's been accomplished with that. :)
> I tried using the Plex app, hoping it would replace the HTPC that I finally junked and replaced with a TiVo. Sadly, my NAS is not powerful enough to transcode, so I'm back at square one

Instead of running something on the computer or NAS to transcode, you could try using the free VLC app on the Apple TV to access your NAS (although it currently doesn't support AC3 audio and will in a later release). You could also buy the Infuse Pro app on the store, which plays all video and audio formats (including licensed ones) from any available network share. In both these cases, the decoding/transcoding happens on the Apple TV.
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This sounds like the same thing you often hear about Congress. People like their congressman but think the others are doing a poor job.
Anywhere - free speech IS non negotiable, free speech IS essential. However, intelligent speech is what I expect to gain traction on HN. There's plenty of free and inaccurate speech on the internet. I mistakenly expected a democratic, community curated forum to up vote accurate speech. Alas

BTW- it's okay for a stranger on the internet to disagree with one's blog/opinion. Clearly, for every stickler like me, there are hundreds who actually enjoy the baroque writing and opinions. I'm just likely not the target audience - which is just fine by the author and a cursory glancer such as I.

But you see, my speech is drowned out in a sea of upvotes that completely disagree with the me, somehow lending more credence to the author. It's like a town hall meeting where the crowd boos someone because of differing popular opinion - they only want to hear what they already think.
>I'd say financial security sufficient to not live on debt.

I think most people have been convinced not to try to make that happen.
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This is what parent is referring to: http://www.cultofmac.com/324445/inside-apples-secretive-imac...
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I've considered doing something like this myself for fun. I thought something like "code ownership by file" could be useful for example.
It's the same in the Galapagos islands too. I wonder how it is that rats are so fierce that they destroy everything they touch...
You probably want to look at Hexo - https://hexo.io/
Fiddler works on all platforms. It is my proxy cap tool of choice.
That video. I'm traumatized, yet I can't look away.
> A hobbyist should not need to host their own repo, they should be able to rely on their SaaS. I would love it if GitLab.com could be rock stable like GitHub

I completely disagree, here a little story

before 2005 I was hosting my own SVN repos, then came a community "we host your open source project for free" and I moved my sources there

and it closed, so I moved all my repos (they kept growing) to google code

my main reason to move to google code was "its' google they will never close down"

guess what? few years later, google code close down

at that point I decided NERVER EVER AGAIN, I moved all my repos to my own private dedicated server

now I do use Github but as a mirror, they can close down tomorrow I don't care (note: I don't wish them that)

Some people take their repositories very seriously, hobbyist or not, for me it's like backup you only see how important the infrastructure is when the shit hits the fan.

Things like Github, Gitlab, etc. are nice but it's merely a beautiful web UI on top of what is important: the repository.

My point is even if you are an hobbyist you should own and control your repository, if you can host it on a dedicated server, or at home on a spare box, whatever, do it, do own it (the infra), yes because a tarball archive of your repo and a JSON export of your issues is completely useless.
Burp is great too: https://portswigger.net/burp/
A lot of people here are focusing on network effects or feature comparisons between G+ and FB.

However, I think the biggest reason for G+'s failure was that the spirit that permeated it was corporatism and inauthenticity. It's frustrating, because it could have been a great opportunity to thoughtfully integrate Google's services.

G+'s phoneyness often manifested in overriding user preferences. E.g., unthinkably, Eric Schmidt thought it was a great vehicle to get people to start using their real names. Coupled with forced signups, butchered product integrations, destruction of Google Reader, awkward promotion by Black Eyed Peas, and Vic Gundotra constantly posting Youtube videos that were clearly meant to appeal to "regular people", it has been painful to watch.

The public is not oblivious to motive, especially when it comes to choosing a social network. FB's key to its early success was an air of Ivy League exclusivity. G+ had Google's relatively sterling technical reputation, respect for privacy, and credence in the "don't be evil" motto, but squandered it to desperately imitate Apple and FB.
I don't think your conclusions follow your facts.

More secular governments would be a good thing, but that's not really going to happen. See Shadi Hamid's writings on the matter. Essentially, the future of the Muslim Middle East is more illiberalism and more Islamism.

As you mentioned, currently the only democracy in the ME is Israel, though I have hope for a secular and democratic Kurdistan. I've heard whispers that the main reason the US isn't backing an independent Kurdistan separating from Iraq is the worry that the lack of the Kurds as a moderating force on Iraq will enable Iran to fully control the state (more so than it already does), essentially allowing it to become an Iranian client state.

Being neutral in the Sunni-Shi'a divide is functionally impossible for a number of reasons, but to easily understand why it's impossible, just try to imagine what neutrality in that context would actually look like. There's no answer that all sides would agree is neutral. The US has to be a part of it because the US has no choice - Americans benefit from the US dominated world order (as do most other people of the world). When you're a superpower with stakes in virtually every matter, even inaction is an action; even not choosing is a choice.

Enabling Iran hurts American interests. Iran is a destabilizing force, rather than a status quo power. Iran has had, and continues to have a choice: is it a movement, or is it a respectable state? It's leaders have consistently chosen to be a movement, exporting its revolution wherever it can, and upending the region and the world according to its vision. And let's not forget, a part of that vision is the annihilation of America's one reliable ally in the region, Israel, and the murder of all of its Jewish inhabitants.

We can only say that Iran acts rationally if we understand its motives. Its leaders view power and geopolitics as a zero-sum game, and it cannot win as long as the US, Israel, and the Sunnis are not dominated by its Shi'a axis.
So the article title could be changed to "Peach API has replay vulnerability"?

I haven't actually tried this yet but can someone confirm the app has pinning? If so, thoughts on how he sniffed the original traffic and ran the replay?
There was a comment on Reddit about the ingredients to relationships: Common purpose/Shared interest, serendipitous meeting, continual facetime (IIRC). Schools and churches form a ton of relationships due to their nature of bringing people together under a singular purpose and allowing for serendipitous connections to form.

It doesn't have to be church that brings people together, and there are other communities that have church like qualities such as car clubs, user groups, etc.

What we do lack is a church-alternative meetup for the masses that forge a community together. The closest we probably have is reddit. Just before the technological age, communities were brought together for survival, but now that we really don't even need each other for survival e.g. more efficient to hunt/build together, it seems that communities are decaying away.

I've found it interesting that in the immigrant communities, religion is a pretext for bringing a single ethnicity together for people to form relationships and business partnerships. It does seem that religion has a certain staying power only if to purely provide community under the guise of spreading a "good" morals.
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My language is not only about user defined syntax; it's also about user defined code generation. For example, you can define your own syntax that compiles directly into a DB stored procedure or into GPU shader, or into whatever technology that might be invented in the future, like for example quantum computing. In fact, it's less about user defined syntax than it is about user defined code generation as I am trying to limit new syntax into certain patterns rather than leave it in the wild.
Seems a bit involved to get a result. It should be like american fuzzy lop.
Also, please note that the author is a professor at NYU. I'm certain of his higher intellect than mine, humbly noting.

However, he's no stranger to peer review, both as an author and reviewer. The opening statement of this post just wouldn't make it past his own editorial standards - a point worth noting.
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Precisely.

Anecdotal, I know, however I have a family member that shows up on the site. His number is low—less than a couple of hundred dollars—but I asked him about it when I first heard of the site from Last Week Tonight. His response was that they were medical device manufacturers taking his team out for meals to discuss devices they were either already using regularly or were in the process of trialing. I can't imagine anyone can find fault in such a thing.
As a foreigner, I have to ask, is life very different for non-white working classes? Is it better, worse or equally suck in different ways?
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Lightweight modeling

http://categoricaldata.net/fql.html
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I'm surprised by this. Both Google and Amazon forced the adtech provider I work for to move to HTTPS and fix all the associated errors mid last year.
I think technical debt in the right places is fine. You have to know when it's OK to cut corners and when it's not.
Novice software developers will sometimes think that all technical decisions are equally important, but that's not the case. Some technical decisions are way more important than others.

For example, I've found that anything related to the general architecture of your app is very important and you should almost never cut corners in those areas -
This includes decisions related to what framework you will use, the structure of your URLs/links, how your app will use/reuse components,
database engines, etc... These are fundamental engineering decisions and if you rush those, you will likely suffer for many years.

On the other hand, I found that it's generally OK to hack together the contents/features of individual pages within an app - If you mess up one page, you can always rewrite it fairly quickly.

Software is like a tree - If some of the leaves become diseased and start falling off - That's OK; so long as the tree's trunk is healthy and sturdy, the leaves can grow back quickly.
If the trunk is rotten and the whole tree falls down - You will have to start again from scratch... If it doesn't crush you on the way down.
Richard Stallman is the "prophet" of free software. The EE license is not a free software license (and probably isn't an open source one either). The given license doesn't give you any of the four essential freedoms.
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Not to mention, in the process they more or less broke the core functionality of Skype: video and audio conferencing. Skype is so bad it's difficult to believe it's not some sort of a practical joke.
There was a BBC article (about rebooting a species, inbreeding and recessive genes) mentioning Bells Pyramid last week. Perhaps that spurred the update?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160113-could-just-two-peop...
We are currently studying Facebook and Wall Street to answer that.
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Can these compete with something like the Hamilton Star? [0]

0. http://www.hamiltoncompany.com/products/automated-liquid-han...
Rats are terrible all right, though stoats are worse. There has been some success with new locally developed trap technologies. These ones use a CO2 cylinder to strike the rats or stoats, then reset themselves automatically. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1402/S00802/unprecedented-0.... Much better if you're a city boy who doesn't really like dealing with traps and dead animals too much.

We use a bigger version to catch possums. Its hard to tell how many we catch though, as the feral pigs like to carry off and eat the dead ones. Its really a fascinating logistical problem trying to eradicate a broad spectrum of pests.
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I guess this technology is promising in a way that it delivers websites to be read by humans only, not the bots. I fail to recognise the practical use of it unless building the most unknown blog in the world, since obviously site on cmsjs is not going to be indexed by google like your ordinary wordpress blog. But, there is something to it. Something important. Blog for humans, readable only by humans, kinda timely in the modern days of senseless content aggregators.
Yes I agree that 90% of all the projects advertised are what you describe and not worth anything. No-one should waste their time on it. But there is also this 10% of really quality work. There seems to be a shortage of talent in some areas of the world and the technology is here for teams to be distributed so some CEO/CTO give these freelancing sites a go.

When I first had a look I got quite pessimistic about my chances of finding work and money through it but decided nonetheless to give it a fair go.

I passed a few tests that gave me an initial edge as a newcomer, and decided to follow most freelancing advice I found on the internet: don't down-value yourself with a bad hourly rate, and apply to jobs professionally. It took me a few weeks to get a first contract, and after a month or so I was working 60h per week. I also read "The Freelance Pricing Guidebook" by Glenn Stovall which is a simple pdf of a dozen of pages which really gave me a good think of how to approach being independent and potential pricing strategies.

I also try to get out of the platform once I built the relationship with the client but it is not without risk if they run out of money, you don't have that nice guarantee that the platform offers. It happened to me that a client owed me 5 digits amounts and I regretted for a while having gone directly to him (he ended up paying, he had just ran out of cash).

If you find an USA client and you are not in the USA, with the strong USD it can be really advantageous for both parties. If you are in the USA I'd still say you can do well (I think Australia is more expensive than USA).

Maybe I really got lucky, or necessity forced me to succeed since my girlfriend got sent to a rural area with no work for me. Now days my work is so much more interesting, better paid and I met some amazing people thanks to that platform.
That was part of the implication but not necessarily all of it, they may very well try to find another labour intensive but low skilled job, so not lazy. But there are many who are simply quite happy to work hard and go home.

Not everyone is out for intellectual progression or even a better wage. I can tell you this first hand from living in country towns, where there aren't many high skilled jobs, but plenty of happy people who just like that lifestyle.

There can only be so many electricians in a 2000 person town once the bolt turning factory shuts down, for example. So for them it would mean skilling up in an area they may not be happy about, because it is what is available, or moving town to somewhere with similar work to what they had before.

I agree with what you are saying though, at that point it is up to institutions to support and retrain them if they are to continue being useful to society as a unit, but they may very well lose a lifestyle they were quite content with.
Though any good university may have filled the same role for an exceptionally bright an enterprising person with a modest background, Bloomberg is know to specifically credit Johns Hopkins as almost a beginning of his life completely different from what he had known before. This NYT article goes into more depth about its transformative role, his later significant donations, and how he valued rigorous social science research when mayor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/nyregion/at-1-1-billion-bl...
> because they didn't understand the users' needs

That's generous - users told them repeatedly and in no uncertain terms that they were extremely unhappy with numerous aspects of the platform. Google simply did not care if users liked the product. How they expected it to be a success with that attitude boggles the mind.
It's fairly static, at least the article is still relevant. I was under the impression that org-mode is really well known (it is the only reason I started using Emacs as a primarily Vi guy) and in any event it should be well known as it is quite awesome.
I wonder if you are also scared of lobsters. Now tarantulas, that is an animal I wouldn't touch with a ten feet poll.
Well, I think there are communities if not whole countries that would benefit from a better understanding and application of law.

If we can use "semantic systems that understand the law", and outsource to computers the understanding of certain laws in the context of others, then we can at least hope to reduce bias or at least make unjust laws hard not-to-see.

There are debates about which laws would benefit from a refresh, as they benefit the wrong kind of people, entities right now. I won't get into a debate about that.

But again, the sheer complexity of the law right now makes it a better candidate for a computer to understand and make sense of it rather than a human being.
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Reminds me of a Radiolab episode[1] about a similar effort to bring back a specific species of tortoise in the Galapagos islands. The offending infringing species there where goats. What was really interesting was the method used for the eradication program.[2]

[1] http://www.radiolab.org/story/brink/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_goat
what's the cost of freedom and independence ?

I'm personally glad to have done things the hard way,
sure it took some time to learn but learning sysadmin made me a better developer.

To me, setting up a repository, an issue tracker, a wiki etc. was more about learning about a process than learning "how to make it work on the server".

Process as "how to organise the production of writing software" and this is imho extremely important, I reuse what I learned all the time from web app to mobile app to server backend etc.

Simply put, I see a lot of people who fail to deal with software production simply because they just use the tool "a la mode" like Github, but are completely oblivious to the benefits of using semantic versioning, an issue tracker, a wiki for documentation, etc.

When you learn all that by yourself, you can compare different tools and have a feel for what's a "bare minimum", you just know how to manage/organise a project a make it work in production.
Where do we stand on the whole SEO issue at hand? I recall Google experimenting with it a few years ago but have not heard much back since.
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But this is a static site generator. It says so in the title. For dynamic content client & server site rendering makes sense. But there are still many uses for static sites. Blogs, manuals, tutorials pages like Wikipedia, they could and should be rendered once.
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