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>The second thing to do is to invest as much money as possible into developing domestic energy sources, as well as alternatives to crude oil

Folks in the West with stakes in maintaining the monopoly on oil as an energy source have a lot of power. They won't give up without a fight. The same Neocons that make a big show of decrying Islam to their base also chum around with Saudi Arabia, sucking up the royals.

>Arabs will just go back to what they were before - a bunch of desert nomads with no real power

Here's a nice summary of arab contributions to mathematics.

http://www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/history/arab/arab.html
Repost of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4098430

Here's where he discussed the metrics around last time it hit #1 here: http://rigoneri.com/post/25804668500
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I'm not looking at this from an impartial point of view, I'm looking at this as an American citizen who greatly enjoys the benefits of having been born in a developed nation with global hegemony.

I have no illusions about the various immoral and unethical acts committed by the US government over the last 50-75 (and probably more) years in various 3rd world countries in the name of American interests, nor do I think they are defensible from a moral/ethical perspective. I'm merely stating the simplest and most effective method of ensuring that the US's global hegemony remains as it is now.
webfaction was a good one, i was with them for a long time. I now go VPS so I am in full control.
Just a heads up guys, you haven't changed the default URL for user activation - it currently points to http://localhost:3000/user/pM33mHzATCP8JiBA2cUL/activate
while it should be http://coupono.us/user/pM33mHzATCP8JiBA2cUL/activate.

Hope this helps! :D

Also, great work.
What i know is that every other OS on the earth allows that.
To me it sounds just like a convenient excuse :)
Easier to say "blabla security blabla" instead of "we shut down apps because we don't want competition". Even if it is true that it increases security somewhat. I'd vote for more "freedom" instead of a more restricted environment.
FYI: Postgres also supports the hstore data type since 8.3. It is quite handy if you want to store key-values in your table

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/hstore.html
I think this will be really cool when we can index and query on parts of the JSON structure, similar to hstore.
> Folks in the West with stakes in maintaining the monopoly on oil as an energy source have a lot of power.

There are certainly people at home who have just as much of a vested interest in preserving the status quo, which is precisely why things haven't changed much at all despite the rise of militant Islam. It's upstarts like Elon Musk that are going to force the hand of Big Oil on this matter. But it will be a long & hard battle, one that may not be won for quite a while.

> Here's a nice summary of arab contributions to mathematics.

I don't see how mathematical contributions hundreds of years ago have any relevance to the modern world. We're talking about a time when the US as a country didn't even exist.
Wow this is a surprisingly hateful and ignorant comment for Hacker News and its not even getting downvoted.
Apologies, I wasn't a HN reader when this was posted.
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See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4652244 for earlier discussion
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You don't have to be hyperactive, even though your mind might be - in that case I suppose it's just ADD, right?

I got the same feeling as you from reading the article, but as someone who has extreme trouble concentrating, I can definitely relate. I never had it diagnosed, but always suspected that I might have a similar problem, but my life worked out, so I didn't have to bring any attention to it.

When programming your brain is all over the place, slowly piecing together smaller parts of a greater whole. In my case it seems to work, but then again - I was never diagnosed with anything.
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For those unfamiliar with Maddox, he is a blogger whose public persona is in fact an over-the-top professional pompous ass. So your observation is spot on, but he does it on purpose.
steam isn't an open 'app store' though. It is entirely curated through valve. Valve chooses the games to list and if they aren't happy, they will not ask you to list with them. They could easily refuse to sell games if you did that.
At this risk of getting this all out of order (since you edited rather than replying)..

The west is RUN by militant christians (and militant jews and militant atheists etc). They use armies to inflict their particular brand of extremism. They killed about a million iraquis. They murder people in cold blood by dropping missiles from drones from 50,000 ft up. Pretty fucking extreme if you ask me.
"What gains could one expect..."

one of the most difficult principles of zen to understand and follow is "no gaining mind". this is an extension of the notion that attachment is the root of all suffering.
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> Whether you want to admit it, there are things you can never know. That's incontrovertible. You have two choices: you can throw your hands in the air and say "oh well I'll never know" or you can start to learn how to sense when other people have a depth of knowledge or experience that is unavailable to you, and use their knowledge to help you act in the world.

That's the exact same argument my dad gave me once about why I should just trust Bush when he wanted to start a war with Iraq so badly. It was even credible, since Bush got classified intelligence reports every morning and I didn't. Needless to say, I no longer trust it.

> I have found that with certain things I had to first accept them and live with them, after someone I trust and respect, with different experience than I have, suggested they were true. Only later, after living with and applying the ideas, was I able to rationalize them.

I believe this tactic is traditionally known as "theology".

In both cases, it's reassuring to finally see a confession that feminism is an exercise in blind faith, and is hence of no use to rational people.
I am thinking of getting people addicted to blogging, and then paying them a fixed salary.
There's one too many 'r' in your first url.
while talking about mathematics, please include this as well.
Islamic conquest of India bloodiest in the history http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/32812

History may paint a different picture, but essentially its terrorism in its true form.
The violence is there for other reasons. Religion is an outlet. I agree it's not a simple matter.

Neither is just saying they are violent, and that is the end of the story. That is a bit simple, don't you think?

Should I assume that you're "a devout Muslim of one of the more violent sects"?
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Well, Google "screen scrapes" millions of websites. They bet their business on it and they seem to be doing OK.

If you upload something to an http server connected to the public internet on tcp/80, and you don't exclude the path to it in robots.txt, then should anyone be surprised if it is copied? HTTP clients don't read TOS.

If Google had to read and interpret every every website's TOS, I doubt they could easily, if at all, produce an index the size of the one they have. It seems by ignoring a "fear of scraping" they managed to produce something valuable that the courts seem to side with in spite of offended copyright holders.

Moreover there's no requirement for them to make their "cache" publicly accessible. But they do. And again this has held up in court quite well. I doubt anyone would be surprised that people are using it. Or "scraping" it if you want to play word games.
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out. I don't know if women are dominant in art. I meant many art classes these days have a lot of girls so people are probably less likely to claim women don't like art.
Interesting. We deploy to Heroku multiple times every day and use the 'preboot' heroku labs option - turning on maintenance mode every time we deploy would be bad, since we deploy so often.

It would be nice to automatically run any new migrations or seeds though. Right now we have a crazy set of shell scripts that work, but could almost certainly be better. ;)
I think it is fair to say that both Islam and Christianity were spread with more or less the same mix of techniques. The two religions have a great deal in common.

However that should not be interpreted as praise of Islam. In fact, I think that comparison is extraordinary damming.
"The introduction of islam to much of the world was through trade, just the same as the christians. "

Would you care to provide evidence for that assertion about trade rather than jihad? There is evidence that for areas like Indonesia & Malaysia, trade was the route. For almost everywhere else, it was by war. Next you'll be telling me that the hundreds of years in which islam used violence to dominate Spain was a Golden Age of tolerance and multi-culturalism.

Ibn Ishaq's book "The Life of Mohammed" was known by muslims for hundreds of years as "The Book of Battles". Muslims must emulate Mohammed. In the 13 years he was in Mecca, he attained 150 followers. In Medina he embraced war, assassination, slave-taking and robbery. By the time he died, all of Arabia was muslim.

Essentially, Islam was spread by the sword.

Attacking that video as "dumb paranoid aryan propaganda" is an ad hominem fallacy. Deal with the facts.
I remember this popping up here a few months ago. Definitely looking forward to WordPress integration, but this looks amazing so far.
>There are certainly people at home who have just as much of a vested interest in preserving the status quo, which is precisely why things haven't changed much at all despite the rise of militant Islam. It's upstarts like Elon Musk that are going to force the hand of Big Oil on this matter. But it will be a long & hard battle, one that may not be won for quite a while.

I'm guessing/hoping that Big Oil will be killed by grassroots innovation, open hardware designs that don't have companies behind them that can be bought out and their patented tech buried. If it's simply a matter of spending money or killing a few people to keep the gravy train going, they'll do it.

>I don't see how mathematical contributions hundreds of years ago have any relevance to the modern world. We're talking about a time when the US as a country didn't even exist.

True.
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I would use some more empathy and adopt a bit more diplomatic attitude if I were you. There will be suicide bombers well after Arabs go back to being desert nomads. It's not all that expensive to blow yourself up.
Hi, I'm a (fellow) cofounder at Tabule.

You make a lot of valid points. As guptaneil alluded to, the ideal case would be if we could get teachers to post their assignments on Tabule. Teachers for the most part already post assignments online, but the education market lacks a good central homework management system that aggregates assignments between classes.

What we're trying to achieve is to bridge to that ideal case with student-submitted assignments. There's an interesting dynamic at play here, because inputting all of one's assignments is trivially better (perhaps even worse if we consider switching cost) than using Google Calendar. For the second person to join the course though, the experience is already better, because all of their assignments are already available to them. It's an interesting chicken-and-egg problem. If my assignments aren't already in the system, then there's no immediate value for me, but there will be for everyone that comes after me.
Does Muslim violence negate arab achievement in mathematics? If so, does the US killing of native Americans negate US scientific achievement?
Actually, this one is real. AKA "parity". Another example (with n=2) is to create a doubly-linked list while only storing one pointer (ptr = prev_node xor next_node).
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> STL's limitation is its design.

Care to elaborate more on this?
Yeah, I've also been working on a startup in this space -Notable ( http://notable.ac ) - It allows students to take their notes collaboratively online, and everything is linked to the page in the course slides that it relates to. You can also ask questions on these documents and have them answered inline.

Would be interested in people's thoughts on it.
> "If you want to fight militant Islam, the first thing to do is to limit immigration from those countries and spread the immigrants out to force assimilation."

It would work, but is not very different from banning all white people in order to shut down the KKK.

The proportion of Arabs to radical Islamic fundamentalists is so small that it really, really wouldn't make sense. That's a lot of baby for very little bath water.

I'm not sure if your comment is meant to be hand-waving theorizing-out-loud or if you're actually serious - if you're serious, I'd hold your post up as one of the reasons why people despise America so much. You paint with a broad brush, advocate irrational fear-based decision making not supported by your own numbers, and demonstrate a tremendous amount of racial and cultural ignorance (desert nomads? seriously?)

[edit] I've noticed that all of the posts here pointing out the racism in w1ntermute's post are getting downvoted. Normally I don't point out downvotes, but this in particular seems especially cowardly. Would the responsible party please get out from under that rock and explain why you feel the need to, without justification, silence everyone who has expressed this?
You kind of can using partial function indexes already but it's not very flexible.
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Simple... I've been thinking for long... and came up with this...
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In short: would you use the platform which search for person who is either looking to find the solution for the same problem or has just found one recently?
It can be anything... And much deeper than discussion board or simple review...
Let's put it this way: You are working on X... and got stuck with some problem... Have you ever thought about making right connection to the person who is working like crazy on similar thing?
How's that?
We know how to make it... Really...
What you guys say?
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I don't know why you were downvoted. I found your explanation very rational.
The world cup had 800k - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2010...
plv8.

https://code.google.com/p/plv8js/

Besides the obvious (such as projecting a sub-datum from a json datum), you can also do data transformations (whatever javascript can give you) -- as a contrived example, the sine of a number or the sum of two numbers -- and, you can try projecting arrays or hstores from a json and then using GIN/GiST to do a more expensive but more powerful index over them.

A quick and dirty example from some time ago: https://gist.github.com/1152997

Some more exotic built-in indexing will probably show up in the coming years, but a lot of things can be accomplished relatively soon with this extension.
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How would this site be different to the current model of finding a solution to a difficult problem (ie. first MDN/Dev docs, then StackOverflow, then Quora)?
until you had > 20 projects to deploy dozens of times a day, to multiple machines.
>The violence is there for other reasons. Religion is an outlet.

That's what I'm talking about. Why do you assume this? Why do you assume people who have been beheading each other for blasphemy going on 1500 years have suddenly decided God can take care of himself and it's all really an excuse?

>Should I assume that you're "a devout Muslim of one of the more violent sects"?

Why would you assume that too? What difference does it make?
There are valid reasons to be able to turn off the ability to zoom -- web apps with a touch UI, for example.
Quora is more like discussion board. I'm talking about platform wich really connects 2 people who have passion to work on the same problem... Kinda find "best friend for X topic"
Yes as a fortysomething who has been hanging with techies since my youth i can tell you that yes people can grow out of love with writing code. If said person doesn't have another immediate road they often become managers of people who write code, or go into a related field like information architecture. Also frankly once you become a thirtysomething you often tend to get settled down with a spouse and perhaps even kids -- so the joy of spend an all-nighter no longer becomes a joy.

Although I suspect that your problem is that you didn't like to code in the first place (which you sort of said). I think the thing to do is to find something related and realistic that you have enough passion to keep you going. So can you be a rock star at age 30+? Maybe, but it's a long shot. But I bet that there is something that is viable that does get you excited. And I suspect that you're smart if you had the ability to go another country and earn a living (maybe your passion has something to do with that?). But whatever you do, don't try to fake a passion.
>It still doesn't make any sense. If God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the Universe, can't He take care of Himself?

If you really believe your religious text is the word of God, why would you question His motives? It's not your place. The word "Islam" literally means "submission" in Arabic. The context for your thinking is the European Enlightenment. There was no such thing in Islam.
The problem is not rooted in governments. It is rooted in the Fatwa culture, which streches across national borders. Many goverments try to protect targeted people, with limited success and high consequences for the target individual. I find it offending that we let ourselves be supressed like this. But it is a sort of terrorist scare tactic which we sadly seem to be very vulnerable to.
The aesthetics are nice but from a usability standpoint having the navigation as a mix of external links and syte navigation seems like a poor choice.

*edit. I see now that it's just twitter and the contact that leave. Not bad.
This is hardly the first case of Abrahamic religions not making sense. If you going in expecting self-consistency and logic, you are going to have a bad time...

Anyway, I don't think the GP is entirely correct. Sure, perhaps to a certain extent religious people react negatively to the blasphemy of outsiders because it is the dogma of their religion to do so. I think the greater cause however is that all people, even religious people, tend to be rather rational. When people hear others poking fun of their religion they become upset, not because they "know" they are right (and most would say without hesitation that they do), but because somewhere deep down inside a part of them considers the possibility that the blasphemer just might be right. Blasphemy tickles those deep-seated insecurities. As rational as people are, they really don't like being wrong and made to look a fool.
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The real unfortunate thing is that while you may make the personal decision to not take the risk, legislation makes that decision for everyone. I'd definitely err on the side not letting violent extremists censor me.
Anyone have an example? I really dont want to download this.
Try enlarging the template preview at: http://unbounce.com/landing-page-templates/#mobile-apps

They have good advice on there. From a copy and screenshot perspective I think the major points have been covered.
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Inner Game of Tennis is still ranked ranked among the top 1000 books on Amazon, and it's #1 in 3 categories.
Impro is not much behind on the sales rank, so I'm guessing still quite a few people buy it.
If you ever take an improv class, your teacher will most likely recommend it.
The Superior Orders defense did not automatically become a bad defense just because a certain unsavory bunch of people decided to use it.

...but let us be honest. It did.
A player told ms it's on github, but I can't find it ...?
It should be mandatory to include an example in such projects, so I do not have to clone it.
> It would work, but is not very different from banning all white people in order to shut down the KKK.

There's a big difference in that those white people are already in America, and getting rid of them would be impossible. Note that I'm talking about implementing stricter immigration policies going forward, not getting rid of people who are already here.

> The proportion of Arabs to radical Islamic fundamentalists is so small that it really, really wouldn't make sense. That's a lot of baby for very little bath water.

To be honest, this whole Muslim immigration issue is more applicable to Europe than it is to America. America has (fortunately) maintained much stricter immigration policies than much of Europe, and the latter has consequently suffered from large swathes of Arab/Muslim immigrants failing to properly integrate into mainstream society. I'd say America has done quite well in comparison when it comes to assimilating Arab immigrants (although it has failed quite miserably so far when it comes to Hispanic and African Americans).
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It may not be obvious from the name of the publication, but Monthly Review is a Marxist magazine, therefore their view and what they publish is far from neutral. Regarding what Einstein had to say, it can be easily detracted by multiple arguments that are usually a cause of long and heated discussions on HN for those who do not understand economics and do not support free markets. Einstein was certainly a brilliant physicist, but genius does not always translate well in other disciplines.
Wow, that's pretty extreme. I'll look into that. But I don't think the bloggers were doing stuff like the picture with the noose? I can imagine some gave stupid comments to the situation, though. Anyway, this actually makes me curious.
Very good point. This should be mentioned on the blog post too, and maybe brought to the attention of the site owners. It definitely makes a stronger case for either:

* avoiding giving away this piece of information on the forgot password screen

or

* telling the user whether it's their password or username that is wrong.

You might want to take a look at this security stackexchange question http://security.stackexchange.com/q/13079/7306

update: I noticed this was in fact mentioned on / added to the blog post.