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Allah literally means God in Arabic. It is comprised of definite prefix 'Al' and the word for god 'Elah'. In English, to show the difference between generic god and specific God, the first letter is capitalized. Arabic does not have the same capitalization rule , so instead they call the specific deity 'Allah', literally meaning 'the god', or 'God'.

This is important because not all Mulsims are Arab and not all Arabs are Muslim. Allah is first and foremost an Arabic word. As a result, practitioners of Islam in other languages use other words to refer to God.

In Iran, for example, Persian word 'Khoda' is used by Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians to refer to God in their religion. 'Allah' is never used except in phrases and words borrowed from Arabic and using it on its own in the middle of a Persian sentence would sound very odd.

I have also heard that Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews use the Allah to refer to God in their religions, but I have not fact-checked it.
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I made a self-watering flower pot with an arduino, a moisture sensor and a small pump once. Worked like a charm. Well, until I forgot to put water in the reservoir, that is. I suppose I could hook it up to water mains, but I couldn't be bothered.

The plants we have at home are 'trained' properly so they can survive with an intermittent splash of water every now and then. At the office we have hydroculture and a gardener that takes care of them.
Hmm, ok, let's use a small sample from this very thread:

Karma judgment (the zen master): "What we call minimalism comprises people who maximalize meaning, value, importance, and purpose."

Competition: "My girlfriend and I are very minimalist (err... maximalist?) owning only a few outfits each (no accessories), and just the bare necessities of home items. If we find something has no utility, it gets donated or trashed."

The True Scotsman: "Just to note, 'minimalists' are almost universally hated in every minimalist community I've seen and I would really not take them as any soft of spokespeople for minimalism."

Moral goalpost: "It sometimes amazes you how little you need to be happy yet everything we do is to get as much as possible."
I don't think any woman I've met so far in life has damaged my self-esteem quite to the extent that services like Tinder have.
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Don't know about the GP's article, but there are actually quite some YT videos around of someone interviewing people in Asia (I think the last one I saw was based in Japan), asking them if they know the meaning of the words on their shirts.

Some of these are hilarious..
ES2015 is pretty common in my experience. I don't recall seeing ECMAScript very often. ES6 or ES2015 seem to be the most common.
Simple web application designed for the use of athletes, teachers and coaches
I for one, do not trust or use them. All I'm saying is they could appear more trustworthy, perhaps because users are less aware.

In this particular case as far as I understand, disabled means no recording at all, while keeping private means your data is already transferred and access is granted to parties based on how private is defined in the tos.
Nothing directly “wrong”, but you seem to be judgmental towards people who have (just) casual sex, going so far as to imply they objectify women, which is a word that has a strongly negative moral connotation in today’s world. But really, there’s nothing wrong with casual sex.
well i have only one macbook, and not so much data to backup/sync. if i had a use for 1tb of backup i would subscribe to the package. right now with less < 50GB i dont feel like.
Anger fueled by fake news that Russian extraterritorial propaganda department happily spreads with three help of their army of professorial trolls.
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> There's no guarantee that the source code you are looking at matches the binaries that are being distributed isn't it?

Couldn't one compile from source and then compare blobs?
And I thought I was the only one that enjoys sitting back, opening countless tabs on my iPad and researching various options for hours, days or weeks (depending on the significance of purchase) as soon as I have decided that I in fact want/need the new thing.

It's easy to find the high end and the cheapest option of a product category, but there's always the sweet spot that provides fantastic quality for a reasonable price. Identifying that product is a task I love.
That's a very romantic view of medieval times (link is broken, by the way). Half the year off for vacation? I hope you enjoy vacationing at home, because if you're a serf, you're going nowhere. If you're a noblewoman, you're as likely to be married off for politics as not. Women in general were markedly less free - barred from education, property, public life, so on and so forth.

To further your analogy, would you prefer to be a diabetic paraplegic in the modern era, or the medieval? Because you're not going to be able to medicate yourself with the insulin you need, and there's not much work for paraplegics to do if they're not born into money.

> Our 60 years of wage slavery in windowless offices might seem unconscionable to a medieval peasant drinking mead all day by a stream with his friends, even if he ends up dying at 50.

We have the opportunity to change our lives if we don't want the wage slavery; entrepreneurialism is the whole reason why this site exists. For a medieval peasant, they can't move into the nobility, their inventions are not protected, they frequently aren't allowed to move around, travel is dangerous, communication with anyone outside the area they grew up in is more difficult due to language differences, hobbies are limited largely to what you can build yourself, since trade for items is difficult and expensive... the list of restrictions goes on and on.

In any case, the peasants of yesteryear are analogous to the working class of today, and they don't work in offices, windowless or otherwise.
I could not not answer 1-3.

"Who would be an ideal advisor for your startup?"
someone who do not give advice. who really cares about the product, understand the problem/idea at deeper level. be as a helper or friend on various matters that helps to solve many chicken-egg problems, weighting on various assumptions, the area's where entrepreneur did not foresee it. accelerate the things where founders lack at, be with them in long term, and shares success or failure along with the founders emotionally. - from my point of view.
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This is interesting - as there do no longer exist equal opportunities between the different castes with this.

Saddle the lawyers, we ride at dawn!
There's a not on the Github page, where he mentions that he doesn't uses GIF but video's.
The files generated are actually videos, not proper GIFs. Videos are created much faster, take less disk space, and on Twitter, functionally identical to GIFs (videos less than 6 seconds will also autoloop).
While living away from my native California, I had a good laugh seeing someone with a "San Bernardino Beach" shirt.
Yep. It's like people nowadays getting tattoos with Han characters without knowing what they mean. Or the exact opposite happening in the CJK countries where Latin letters or gibberish English phrases are used decoratively in t-shirts. It is also well known that Nordic smiths would—with varying success—imitate decorative patterns and Latin phrases found in items forged by their Central European counterparts.
There's no comparison because the data isn't there, not because the news report on something or not.
I have, and they're also a great resource. I tool up a lot of junior devs, and I usually start them off on Eloquent if only because the format really lends itself to structured lessons. I like YDKJS post-Eloquent, for when they really want to dig into something specific (closures, async, etc). I think the two collective works marry pretty nicely.
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That sounds like a pretty good explanation for most conflicts up to the present day. We are just chimpanzees that wear clothes and can talk.
But such a form of minimalism won't work unless other people are non-minimalists.

For example, if you find you need a trilobed screwdriver to repair one of your few possessions you'll either have to borrow it from a friend or rent it[0]. Both those options require that someone else be non-minimalist for your benefit.

If all people were strongly minimalist this would have the effect of moving nearly all gadgets into the service domain. Screwdriver-as-service, ironing-as-a-service, yard-brushing-as-a-service. Is that scenario really less consumerist and less stressful than just going out and buying a screwdriver and keeping it in a box in the garage?

[0] or buy it and then sell it when done, which i'll categorise as renting here
It sounds like many plants that are not common house plants, actually. The first that comes to my mind is cacao, for example, or many orchids too.
Education is key. Either find a friend that know how to care for plants, and teach them your plants needs, or find a friend that want to learn it. Watering plants can be the same as caring for someones cat. I mean this in the best way, because a plant is not something you can just water willy nilly and expect it to be fine, unless it's a hardy plant, in which case it'll survive a week without watering anyway.
GDP is not the best measure for firms that get much of their revenue from retail, import, and export. That said, alibaba and ten cent are too big to fail/kill without causing social instability trough immediate mass unemployment which is a big no no in Chinese politics. However, the state security apparatus has always had the other options to exert power over the key decision makers at any Chinese company so this is essentially a check on the political influence of said executives.
I just realized a simple shell script would make a passable imitation of JMeter, without the horrible UI and xml.
A little off-topic, but does anyone have any recommendations for methods for managing 10s of git repos as various dependencies for wildly varying projects as opposed to this sort of mono-repo approach? I've seen some organizations try to use ivy, but never in a robust way.
some of it exists inside google photos/drive. i know the risk and am willing to take it.
I agree -- and that's simply their 'big bets' if we give them credit for trying to do other things. The reality is EVEN their core business which, if we simplify to 'rsync that just works for people who have no idea what a terminal is', actually does require substantial overhead at their scale.

In other words, while I appreciate that it's nice to fantasize about the single hacker making $$$ off a side project they built over a weekend, reality is far more nuanced. There exists these people, to be sure, but they are far and few between. Most of the time, big companies valued in the billions of dollars actually do need headcount to help keep that business running.
I just open a webgl page, seems more effective
Ask HN: What are your favourite flow music?
Me and my team are currently using Kiasmos looped for 2+ hours as our go to flow music, what other 2+ hours good flow tracks are people using to enhance their flow experience?

https://youtu.be/P_iO30bDEIw
I have psychomotor retardation (thanks for putting a name to one of my biggest struggles!) due to major depression but exercise really does help more than anything else. It's definitely hard to exercise, but often it's not that I can't do anything at all, it's that I use up all my willpower doing one thing in a day. But if I make that one thing exercise, then for the rest of the day it's like my psychomotor retardation goes away completely and then other tasks are manageable. I actually brush my teeth, do the laundry that's been piling up, make a healthy dinner and clean up the kitchen after, etc.
I have multiple shirts that say Surf Ohio on them, I’d assume it was also a tongue in cheek thing like that.
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I understand that Cantonese is exceedingly popular among the Chinese diaspora, particularly in the US, but some quick searching implies that the number of worldwide speakers is closer to 70 million. The article that I linked specifically qualifies their 60 million figure with "in China", though they don't state what their source is.
I use http://usepanda.com/ for browsing through trending GitHub repos and read all tech related news. It has a nice feature of viewing feeds in columns. Great for spending two hours in the morning.
> But doesn't that theory start to fall apart when a couple is going out together?

If you're in an environment that isn't conducive to gay people being seen as people, you may choose not to go out. Or to work up the motivation to move.
Surprised the article referred to the value of weak ties without explicitly mentioning Granovetter‘s seminal paper, The Strength of Weak Ties (which applies to much more than dating): http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/225469
CE isn't certification but declaration by the manufacturer that the device complies with relevant regulations. Testing by independent laboratory only serves as source of paperwork that limits manufacturers liability should somebody want to contest that declaration.
Sounds like a vulnerability. Isn't that how the argument went about source code? "If you know how the program works it may be easier to write an exploit." But then experience taught people that exposing source code to the bright sunlight by opening its source could actually make software more secure through many eyes finding holes. Why is this not applicable to virus detection algorithms?
then how will you have reception?
>This tacitly implies that women are sex objects and that men only seek them out as such. I find that offensive, but more so than that, sad.

Extremely attractive people belonging to either sex, of all sexual orientations, do this. Extremely attractive men treat women on dating apps as sex objects. Extremely attractive women treat men on dating apps as sex objects. Happens with same-sex pairings too. Not sure why everyone is focusing on gender when it's really looks that matter the most when it comes to behavior and options.
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Here you go.

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If only mining cryptocurrency had been a thing back then...
The majority of modern men who use (resort to?) dating apps are seeking companionship first and foremost, and being left wanting.

Which is fine and completely fair, of course. Not everyone deserves companionship. Not everyone deserves happiness, or even a base level of satisfaction.
They weren't judgemental towards casual sex...

If you carefully parse the original sentence ("The top [..] men get [..] frequent sex with no reason to commit") it is making the absolute statement that good-looking men have no reason to commit, implying that the only reason for commitment is securing a frequent sex partner.

They can be completely accepting of all sorts of kinky shenanigans (as I am), yet still not consider it a good idea to paint all men with the same brush.
My wife worked in an iconic and eye catching office building designed by a big name architect. She said it was by far the worst office building she has ever worked in.
The municipalities could allow building vertically for more dense housing in both SF and the wider Bay Area but NIMBYism is pretty strong out here so not sure why the commercial developers are being chastised.

The reality is that the market has determined that, with the limited resources available given current building codes, it is more profitable to build and lease commercial space. I don't know that I would blame the employers so much as the actual existing residents fighting against more dense housing.
I wonder how many commercial code bases/products can do that. Certainly an interesting proposal for verification purposes like this, but e.g. the recent Debian efforts show that it is not trivial.
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The funny thing about social circles: I met my gf online a few years ago; after we connected I realized that I knew her PhD advisor (she studied outside California) and that a fellow student of my advisor whom I knew (I also studied outside California but in a different city from her) lived next door to her and knew her well. And we have both lived and worked in Palo Alto for the last 15+ years.

Yet despite those pretty tight connections our social circles are essentially completely disjoint.
Agreed.

As an anecdote, when I had been symptom-free for a couple of years, I decided to move to a bigger city for work. Because I didn't know anyone else living there, I fell back into old habits of isolation and my hallucinations came back. I ended up explaining to my employer and we came to the conclusion that I couldn't keep working there as remote work wasn't an option.
A few weeks after I had moved back home, the hallucinations stopped again. I quickly realized that my support network was the main thing keeping me "sane", and as such I started valuing them much more and ensuring they know that I'm here to support them too.
I thought it was common knowledge that hot water from the tap wasn't drinkable, but here in France the reason I have always heard is that bacteria tend to develop in the hot water storage tanks (which are set to around 60°C usually, not hot enough to prevent their development).
When you just can't wait any more:
In ancient Rome, the gap between the rich and the poor was even more obscene that it is now. Despite having such a low GDP, Rome's wealthiest private citizens were as rich, or richer, than the richest of today. For example, Marcus Licinius Crassus' net worth was estimated to be up to double that of Bill Gates.

Was Crassus an ancient Bill Gates though? Not so much. Rome's wealthiest mostly obtained their fortunes from conquest. Crassus, on the other hand, made his fortune by taking advantage of his peers. For example, during Sulla's dictatorship, Crassus would buy the estates of other citizens after they fell victim to Sulla's proscriptions for pennies on the dollar. He even snuck the names of wealthy individuals onto the proscription lists just so he could plunder their estates! Crassus also, famously, ran a fire brigade that would show up to fires and then refuse to put them out until the owner of the burning property sold out to Crassus for cheap.

For a society of mafia warrior lawyers, the Romans sure let each other get away with murder.
That’s a great way to kill your page rank.
Looks matter more than anything else, at least until you reach 8 figures of wealth or you attain some level of fame/celebrity.

I'd also hope that all of us are being progressive and judging women based on those things (especially wealth) as well. I certainly am. Need that huge combined income to comfortably afford a house and kids anywhere that I'd actually want to live, after all.
Don't forget earthquakes. They're common in California where the wildfires are now.

I'd bet that (crazy made up number) 100x more people die in earthquakes in concrete structures than they do in the typical stick-frame single family homes that are common in the USA. Stick-frame houses simply don't "collapse".

But maybe a lot of the collapses I see on TV are because of either non-existent building codes or because nobody followed the code. Poor quality rebar and poor quality concrete?

But about carbon footprint for concrete, maybe it's not as bad as you say. If a concrete or brick structure lasts 100 or 200 years, might it not be better than a stick-frame structure torn down in 50 years?
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It's like a child that doesn't get his treats.

But then again, he hasn't been a good boy, did he
A shell script wouldn't be enough (I've tried). However there are plenty of CLI based load testing tools, including one I've written myself. And if you need something more advanced then there is always Gatling, which is run via the command line and produces proper HTML reports and graphs plus is extended in code (eg in Scala) rather than GUI controls
I built a device to show the departure time of trams at the end of my street, to avoid walking to the stop too soon, and having to stand in subzero temperatures for too long.

(I live in Helsinki, and it was the end of last year when I put this together. Temperatures were colder than -20C for a week or two.)
Let me add more of the lesser known “quick-fix” things that work for me:

- Magnesium has been shown to improve „untreatable“ depression, and for me it does wonders. I use it transdermally because oral Mg gives me diarrhea. This can turn my mood around 100% in minutes.

- Near Infrared light is generally really really good for you, and I expect it to become a standard (or at least auxiliary) treatment for many diseases. Most studies have been done with LLLT (lasers), but literature suggests that standard LED diodes work almost as well, at least for cells at the surface. Buy a 850nm CCTV infrared floodlight and point it at various organs and your forehead; and buy some 250W infrared lamps, screw them into a wood board and sit in front of this for a couple of minutes naked. Add sthg like the Vitalux lamp for the extra Vit D kick. Insta mood and energy improvement that lasts up to several days—it feels like having been at the beach.

- If you are a low serotonin type, you could get your md to prescribe serotonin tablets (I haven’t), but in the meantime, dark chocolate could also do it. The crucial thing though is to keep the supply steady. I have to wean off the chocolate after a few days.

- PEMF (haven’t tried that yet) has also been reported to work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/20385376/

There is a PEMF device called ICES that is affordable (about $400 last time I looked).
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Good read and gutsy publish.
That makes sense, though I think there's still a large difference between the virus detection and ranking algorithm comparison. The entirety of the virus detection code is running on the client's PC; surely it can be reverse engineered and understood fairly successfully?

The same can't really be said of Google's algorithm, as it's essentially a hugely complex black box, and you can barely interact with it. That's kind of like reverse engineering a chip purely using its inputs / outputs.
And that's still just a feeling. You just feel you can trust the encryption application. Which can be changed any time in the future in a way it is not secure any more.

You just need to trust. So what's wrong in trusting Mozilla, if you can easily trust your encryption/decryption software?
Ask HN: Which open source library if compromised would impact the most systems?
I'm trying to drive awareness of supply side attacks and I think this question is relevant for anyone in software.

So for example in the Java world commons-logging.jar is used in lots of projects and downloaded with no code inspection from the internet. If compromised and unnoticed overtime lot's of systems would be back doored.

All languages and frameworks have this issue.
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The Islamic conquest of Iran happened in the late 7th century. The aforementioned remains were probably from the 9th/10th century. However, in that time there were still many Zoroastrians, Jews and Christians in Iran. I agree that the existence of Persian remains does not necessitate that there were Muslim vikings.
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