skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Aum Shinrikyo fundamentally terroristic?

A lot of this gets into questions of what defines a religion, if a religion even has a definition, or if it's just a contentless cultural virus that people use to interpret their own preconceived notions and practices in a predefined rubric.

Salafism is an easy target because many of its famous adherents are the unsavory sort, and it's "obscure" enough that people can bash it without seeming Islamophobic and even manage to present themselves as a bit cosmopolitan and knowledgeable. But there are definitely many peaceful adherents of it, and many who oppose terrorism within its ranks. You can deduce calls to terrorism from its muddled mess of scriptures and thinkers, but you can also deduce calls to peacemaking. Same as any other religion.

In the end, though, in a world with limited resources, focusing counter-propaganda efforts on Salafist communities seems like a pretty good idea. On the flip side, that almost certainly involves not stigmatizing all Salafists as terrorists.
Totally agree! The last company I worked for demanded we be in-person, even though I was #1 in every single support metric (number of tickets resolved, fastest response time, most bugs fixed per month, etc). I just don't get it. If the work gets done, who cares if you're there or not?
Yo ryanlol, you made the press again except the pricks didn't mention your name:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-mint-website-hack-a-tim...
I don't really want to work at home, because that just means sitting at my kitchen table all day long... but I do appreciate working away from the office, or at least having the flexibility to get away from there some days.

People get into these debates about working at home vs working at the office, where some people like to be at home and some people like to be at the office, but my primary desire is just simply to not be in the same place all day every day.

That's what depresses me, not any innate features of either an office or my home. Both are nice enough places. I just want some damn variety and freedom in my day to day life.
MatLab/Simulink feels natural for control system / DSP design.
I've never used Uber in Taipei (I'd rather use the amazing Ubike bicycle rental system).

But the friends who do, mostly see it as a luxury service.

Especially when they want to send a home safely after a night out "take an Uber" they'll say.

It's the premium feel, vs a chatty taxi driver asking you about how much rent you pay.
Pakistan/India is more akin to North/South Korea. It is impossible for Pakistan or North Korea to maintain dollar for dollar defense spending with their rivals given the size of their economies.
This might come as a big shock, but grass-fed farming operations are in fact less sustainable and worse for the environment than even factory farming. I really recommend you check out the documentary Cowspiracy (it's available on NetFlix), or just look at the fact sheet on their web site - http://cowspiracy.com/facts

Your claim that vegans have worse health is entirely unsubstantiated. Do you have any evidence for this?
This is a great feature of coworking and definitely isn't just limited to programming - I've had great learning moments in many different areas of my work from talking to people not associated with my business:

1) how and why to set up a development environment

2) why to increase pricing on my product

3) various sales techniques
People already do follow their own moral codes. However, morality is subjective. What's "right" to you isn't necessarily "right" to someone else.

Additionally, it's part of human nature to act in our own self-interest. Call it antisocial if you want, but it's part of us. We're people, not ants. Trying to fight against that desire is a losing battle.

Instead, the focus should be entirely on the system itself to create such tremendous disincentives for crime/cheating/etc that it's in our self interest to follow the law (e.g. the laws against theft and murder that you pointed out).
>In fact Safari has often been the best mobile browser

I know. I meant across platforms. It's obviously the best on in iOS.

>Few users could tell any difference between native app and web app running in a browser that has modern appy capabilities, provided there is same quality of implementation. The only thing that can make the experience subpar is precisely the lack of capabilities.

For one, a web app adds the extra burden of a JS VM and DOM over native code. This rules out all kinds of graphic and CPU intensive apps. Actually, for any app that's not just a glorified content screen / database view, there's not even a comparison between a web and a native implementation.

Even for basically text-based content consumptions apps, like Flipboard, they had to jump through all kinds of hoops to get smooth 60 fps scrolling within a web view.

And of course there's the battery life, that's a real killer with web apps.

A future based on web apps for mobile is a regression over even 2005's state of the art in the desktop. And it's an experience similar to cross-platform apps -- that is, a "lowest common denominator" across mobile platforms.
As you said, you have been programming for 20 years, therefore you likely have built a lot of experience and innate skills for dealing with text and considerably less for dealing with diagrams.

I don't think this tells anything whether someone with the same amount of experience in diagrams might be able to make more of it than you with the equivalent text representation.
Larping.org imports and resells foam arrows. Global Archery also sells foam arrows, and is suing for trademark infringement and patent infringement. According to this article, the trademark infringement claim is based on the name "Larp Arrow", which sounds pretty generic, but more importantly is actually only being used by some unrelated seller. The patent claim is based on patents dated after the company that made the arrows started making them, and Larping.org doesn't make them anyways, they only resell them. Larping.org launched a crowdfunding campaign to finance their legal defense, and Global Archery demanded that they shut it down, shut up, and pay them all the money raised so far.

A sane court system would be able to investigate and dismiss the IP claims quickly, before they forced the defendant to incur any significant costs. The US courts, however, are not a sane system, especially where intellectual property is concerned. It is a system where people believe, first, that if you don't spend a lot of money on lawyers, then the merits won't save you. And it's a system where defendants almost never get to recoup the money spent on lawyers.

So we get this. When patents appear in the news, it's always a mean plaintiff trying to bully a meritorious defendant out of a market, or extort a payout. This is very different from the stories our lawmakers hear about, which are about patents protecting virtuous inventors from theft by big companies--a scenario which, as far as news headlines are concerned, never ever happens.
This was an interesting book.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004H8G5FA

The author worked as a paramedic in Riyadh for several years, dealing with auto accidents, revenge killings, and the cultural implications of "Inshallah" as it applied to telling a family that their loved one didn't have long to live.
I think that quoted phrase may have been all about doing just that - retreating to non-Saudi air bases; getting out of the way of a Saudi conflict.
Try

git checkout -b wip-syncing
git commit -m "wip means work in progress"
git push <whatevs> wip-syncing

on your laptop, then

git fetch --all
git checkout <whatevs>/wip-syncing -- .
git push <whatevs> :wip-syncing

on the desktop. of course, this "rewrites history", but only in a very localized way.

In general, you're going to be fighting against git if you take an absolutist stance against rewriting history. Which is fine! But a little bit of controlled rewriting can open up a lot of options.

Edit: and I'm typing this from memory on my phone so please don't copy and paste the commands without verifying that they work correctly first!
I think many people are more focused on party affiliation than actually paying attention to what their party is doing.

Identity politics.
[Edit: Apparently this is language-agnostic, which wasn't clear from the blog post, so please ignore the complaints below. Will leave them here rather than deleting.]

I loved the pitch, but then I discovered that this is Scala only, which was disappointing.

Sure, if your entire organization runs on the JVM (like Twitter presumably does), then something like this is going to be fine. But many/most organizations use multiple languages, for various reasons. At my company we are currently looking into replacing our current microservie RPC (JSON over HTTP) with something better, and we do need to support Ruby, Go and Node.js, as well as plain HTTP from browsers.

The only viable cross-platform RPC technologies right now are gRPC and Thrift, both of which are rather heavy-handed (lots of IDL + code generation + client/server setup code), and neither of which solve the really hard problems (discoverability, load balancing, fault tolerance, etc.). It's also doubtful that gRPC is really in a usable state yet. Thrift is by far the most mature solution in this space.

Maybe we'll be able to take some inspiration from this project when building our upcoming solution, whatever it will be.
not if they don't know how to fix it.
> Al-Badri and Nelles take issue, for instance, with the Neues Museum’s method of displaying the bust, which apparently does not provide viewers with any context of how it arrived at the museum

This saddens me, as the Neues Museum has seen the other side of this coin: After the war, lots of items were looted by the Russians, most notably jewelry from Troy. But I guess this must be common practice for several museums.

Random fact: While the museum doesn't allow you to take pictures (not even from another room), they do have a 3d reconstruction you can touch, destined to blind visitors.
How much of that 20+ years of experience was in visual languages and how much it was in textual languages?
>Since when has asking "cui bono?" been considered conspiracy thinking?

"Cui bono" is a necessary (but not sufficient) ingredient of any conspiracy thinking.

>Sounds like somebody might be a product manager at Apple

I rest my case.
On that subject, I'm kind of surprised that it's been out for months and nobody's reverse-engineered it publicly yet.
That's an awesome idea!
I interviewed at 3DO and one of the people I interviewed with was Needle. I recall hearing that the guy only wore t-shirts, and never wore one twice.

At the time I thought that the only way that could happen is if he had a network of friends who supplied him with a steady stream of shirts. It was hard to imagine a person spending the time and money if they had to do it all themselves.
Furthermore, given enough money involved, there are a variety of advantages to creating an entity like a foundation. No, it won't cover clearly personal expenses like a mortgage; that would be clearly illegal. But it can write off salaries, travel, entertainment, etc. related to the operation of the foundation in a way that would be difficult for an individual.
webrtc is horrible to build and integrate with a native project, even without the quirks of ios or os x to deal with. i feel sorry for whoever gets the job.
Hey, if you are scared of it, don't be. It's very easy once you actually start diving in. You are already making functional constructs all the time in your favorite languages. Don't be afraid of the nomenclature. They are just your average programming patterns which are identified/talked about by esoteric names :)
...and it ends up with Ranchers holed up in a federal building with guns.
In addition to the things other people have mentioned, you also have the ability to easily call C code from python (compared to the unpleasantness that is JNI, for instance), and there are tools like Cython, Numba, Blaze, etc that let you rewrite your hot code into a more performant variant.

Of course, at megascale these optimizations might still not be sufficient, but there is no reason you can't deliver hundreds of thousands of requests per second very affordably with a python stack.
> who would suggest to clinically depressed people to "just smile again" as if that would magically solve all their problems and mental disorders?

No. I'm not saying that at all, and tried to point that out. But something like 75% of this article is focusing squarely on unhappiness. That's all I'm saying. If all you do is write about unhappiness and end up suiciding, is it really that surprising? Your body is what you consume physically; your mind is what you consume media-wise. If all you do is read Sylvia Plath poetry all day, and then write poetry inspired by Sylvia Plath, then you may in fact end up just like she did.

What tipped me off is that he even said he wanted to suicide dozens of times. Which on the one hand, is kind of "TMI" for an article like this, and on the other hand... so why are you reading about other suicides?

That is what I'm saying.

That, and most of the people cited already had diagnosable mental difficulties, which means he is openly confusing the apparent proximal cause between "oppressed IT person" and "is emotionally-challenged already"

One night not too long ago, I couldn't sleep, and for whatever reason I decided to watch 9/11 videos on YouTube. Guess what happened? I fell asleep and had nightmares, and for the next day(s) I was depressed as hell. I surely didn't function as well as I could and, dare I say it, I am sure I brought less goodness into the world as a result. All because I focused on watching 9/11 videos and listening to final phone calls and watching people fall to their deaths from great heights, one night.

It's worldview distortion, basically. Yes, bad things happen and sometimes, bosses are jerks. Yes, some people have emotional difficulties (some of which should be treated clinically). Yes, IT careers seem to draw in a bumper-crop of sensitive folks (it's the curse of high intelligence, really). From this, you cannot draw the conclusion that there is a systematic problem going on.

Disclaimer: I'm diagnosed ADD, AND sleep apnea, and (sometimes) take meds for it (on bad days when I really need to function), so I'm not the kind of person who wouldn't understand that some things just need treatment.
Do you ever use a spreadsheet?
Almost anything is better than PHP, that doesn't make this particular framework standout among many tens of others.

In any case, I'm not going to consider using any framework that isn't on the first half of this list

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r11&hw=...

Many of them are for JVM, but one cool thing about JVM, is that you don't have to use Java (Kotlin is often compared to Swift for example) while still using frameworks written in Java, like Undertow or Rapidoid.
I don't think so. It talks about "rigorous planning exercises".
Which language doesn't have "practical limitations"? And it's no doubt more "general purpose" than assembly. How much webdev are you going to do with assembly?
Mass shooting suspect in Michigan was also Uber driver
And yet, Trump does not even have any unproven allegations. A long way to go to match our beloved leader Cameron.
Recording a timelapse using a Raspberry Pi, with only raspistill and ffmpeg
I have never heard that before. It's a very interesting Uber effect.
If you want to be hyperbolic, then yes - if the whole world went vegan today, hundreds of billions of animals would be without "purpose". However, the reality is, we breed these animals into captivity, and as less demand for these products exists, fewer animals would need to be born to a life of misery.
For what it's worth, mathematicians work on paper so they aren't constrained by anything, but they still use textual nested syntax instead of visual dataflow graphs.
Landing pages with signup forms aren't a great fit for Hacker News. It would be better to post and discuss this once it's out.
Exercises are anything from all-out wargames to moving cargo from one base to another.
But then I don't understand what you mean by "Saudi Arabia's government is in favor of the United States".
First, condescending backslapping is rude and rationalization of ignorance is dumb.

The sheer volume of methane from animal production is raising the temperature of the planet dangerously.

Next, the Petri dish that is playing Russian Roulette by exhausing antibiotics and incubating the next pandemic are the two final nails in the coffin of meat.

Good luck with that belief that energy-intensive lifestyle should or can scale to 10 billion people.

We should be setting a better example for developing nations and choosing wiser diet and lifestyle behaviors which won't doom us to move entire cities inland.
That's why I added the "and I say this as someone who lives and dies by the whiteboard" comment to my answer. Plenty of experience with diagrams. Wouldn't want to code with them for most use cases (and sure, there may be some use cases where visual programming tools make sense - not saying they're aren't any, just IMO, not many).
Yeah, I've always thought it was insane that for an operation as huge as 9/11 they'd do something as risky as train in the US itself. Rather than venture into conspiracy land (nothing against conspiracies in general; they're often entertaining and, depending on the subject and degree, are not necessarily invalid), I wondered if there were plausible explanations for it.

I can buy the idea that they either didn't think the possible risks through, or just believed they could get away with it long enough to pull off the attack. And also that they may have thought they could learn more about US aviation policy or protocol in the US than elsewhere.

I was sceptical about it being because there are more flight schools in the US, because AIUI they only acquired limited training anyway, which they could have received anywhere. But whatever competence and training they ended up with, they probably at least intended to get as much as possible, and train in bigger, more appropriate aircraft, so that is possibly a factor too.

Thanks everyone for the replies.
There's a survivorship bias in what you describe. How many others in your position, who perhaps thought they knew what they could handle, did end up losing their houses, and/or racked up years and years of debt on a gamble that didn't end up paying off? It's something we don't really talk about in this industry, but I suspect it happens more often than the success stories.
Stats 101 is basically what you would learn in the first applied statistics course taken by an undergraduate (or advanced secondary schooling). Mean, Median, Standard Deviations, Z scores, T-tests, etc. For control charting, just look at the "Control Charts" page on Wikipedia, which provides different methods used to figure out when data point are outside of limits.

I do have a published paper, but I try to avoid linking my internet accounts to my real life. So I'm reluctant to link to it as that would give away my identity.
You can already do that.
Question for someone who knows patent law:

If the foam arrow already existed, how is it not prior art?

And if the patent is invalid how are they not using the courts to bully a competitor out of business?
The damage done by low oil prices to Russia has been way overstated in the west.

The lower value of their currency has actually caused them to engage in import substitution (something Saudi can't do because they basically don't have any local industries) and started to make Russian industry more competitive in export markets.

This is basically what China did to itself deliberately in order to turn itself into an exporting and manufacturing powerhouse.

Russia is still hurting but there's a big silver lining for them that doesn't exist for, say, Venezuela.
No, the trademark claim is based on the defendant's deliberate use of Global Archery's "Archery Tag" trademark to market their own product.

Their use of that trademark is probably fine (you're allowed to compare your products to those of other firms), but it's not correct to suggest that Global Archery is somehow enforcing a trademark on all of "larping".
Actually, I just read the lawsuit - the trademark infringement is over "Archery Tag". The ad in particular they have highlighted is a Google ad, where they say they are better than Archery Tag.

Which isn't trademark infringement in any way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
> Extreme success is not like other kinds of success; what has worked for someone else probably won't work for you.
Popcorntime.sh site owned by MPAA to track movie pirates
Like everyone, all of it. Doesn't bode well for this product idea.
Why the CEOs of Microsoft, Google and Pepsi Are Indians
torrents cant get compromised so you are safe if downloaded via torrents.
> The main problem I see with flask is that it isn't obvious to people picking up the library the right way to structure and scale an application code base.

I wholeheartedly agree! Do you have any resources in mind (even perhaps not specific to flask) that you think would be useful to people hitting that wall?
Yup. Notice that "i" in tortious? You haven't linked to:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortous_interference
I don't think it's fluff, it describes the man (in fairly unflattering light imo).

Of course there is nothing applicable to you, you are (likely) not an extreme person like Musk. I don't think the point of the article is to teach you "How you too can be successful, just like Musk", but to shed a light on extreme personality from someone who knew him well.

edit: although Vox's slug is how-to-be-successful, I still don't read that piece as "you too can be successful if you imitate what Elon does"
Modularity comes with a price in form of wasted space. Nevertheless, this is something completely fresh from a major smartphone vendor. And it is done with their flagship phone. That's the spirit.
Liechtenstein. And Saudi Arabia is named for a dead guy.
That is until they for torture someone to get around it.
Death from above, dished out by algorithm
I work at GoGoVan in Hong Kong.

We operate in 5 countries in Asia offering van hire and delivery services.

But in Taiwan we've had regulatory issues, so we only operate a scooter delivery service.

Its a similar issue to Uber. We'd need to have a license and a minimum size fleet of vehicles to do it.

https://www.gogovan.tw
No no, you're missing the point, it's an RPC proxy which is language agnostic. It sits along side your application as opposed to being a library that you bake in.
I used to read those articles! Fond memories.
> That doesn't necessarily mean support for ogg opus in audio tags, though.

Oh, Apple will be Apple if they'll not enable Opus in audio tags. So classy.
The German license is just the requirement for the driver to actually have a drivers license.

In Germany people who want to transport others for profit need a special drivers license. Say bus drivers, taxi drivers, chauffeurs, etc.

If Uber drivers are willing to get this license, they can operate completely legally.
Don't worry too much about it. Job requirements are ridiculously inflated and mostly meaningless. With your 2 years of experience, you should be fine talking your way through.

I saw (no exaggeration) some job postings the other day for "QA Intern" requiring 2 years of experience with Java, Selenium, Jira, and a half dozen other tools.

Job ads are absurdist these days. If you meet the main requirement, you apply and bluff your way through the rest by saying what you know and talking up how other experience is comparable to what they are asking for.
What Computers Can Learn from Babies
It appears that LG is the only company to dare offer real innovation on its flagship models. I don't know how well this model will do but it seems it's not just a faster rehash of last year's model.