skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost the whole world that is islamic became muslim through military occupation, the mass slaughter of the males who fought or would not convert, the looting of property and the selling off into slavery of their women and children. This was all based on emulating the behaviour of Mohammed (known as sunnah in islamic practice); Mohammed took 20% of the spoils from his army of warriors. (Some describe him as the profit of 20% because of this). This can be verified in The Life of Mohammed, the first biography of Mohammed (and written by a muslim 100 years after the death of Mohammed). The author, Ibn Ishaq, was a christian who was taken as a slave to Medina, and converted to islam for a better life (one of the inducements used in the spread of islam).

The real lesson is that christianity endured 300 years of this aggression, before Pope Urban made christianity do an about turn, and began the (very minimal) Crusades against islam. They were a failure, and islamic violence against European christendom continued until the Siege of Vienna (when Jan Sobieski defeated the muslim army on September 11, 1683).

Watch just 1 minute of this video to see what happened:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

The muslim attack against Europe continued beyond this. The white slave trade continued for hundreds of years (it was stopped by a joint British/US naval bombardment of Algeria in 1815). In 1951 the UN report on slavery calculated that 5% of the population of Saudi Arabia and Yemen were still slaves.

Buddhism did not respond in the same way as christianity to islamic aggression. Many experts on the history of buddhism say that buddhism died about 1000 years ago (e.g. Conze). And they explicitly attribute this death of buddhism to the onslaught of the islamic invasion & destruction in India.

The real lesson is that some religions are actually militant political movements wrapped up in religion. Islam is one such religion. Islamic militancy was going on for hundreds of years before christianity responded in kind.
On the contrary, the cases you cite are actually very clearly cases of protected speech. The "imminent lawless action" test has a third element: intent. Unprotected speech has to also have the intent of causing "imminent lawless action."
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The content matters too. They are certainly spamming you if the email they send just says "<Person You Know> just sent you a message on <Service>!" and force you to log in to read the actual message. Just put it in the email, willya?
Ask HN: Lost my passion for development, anyone else been through this?
After 7 years of working as a professional software developer I have realized this is not my passion anymore, and have started to doubt if it was a passion for me to begin with. I feel I'm not smart enough to keep up, I feel I will never be anything close to a "hacker", I am stuck being an average programmer. I have tried building things but it all seems like work to me, no matter how interesting the project might be or the technologies I choose. I have tried taking courses via coursera, learning new languages and technologies, even going back to the fundamentals learning algorithms, compilers and so on but again I lose interest, it all seems like work, makes me feel too dumb or stupid, not fun, and work has become something I dread and its making me miserable, I can only wait for the weekend to come and get drunk.

I live by myself, recently moved to a new country where I don't know anyone, but I have a mortgage and development is the only thing I "know" how to do and the reason I moved countries. I am still trying to find my passion, music has always been something I love, I am teaching myself electronic music production and guitar but at 30 I don't see myself making a career out of music or anything else for that matter.

Has anyone else been through a similar situation? is it possible to reignite my passion for software development? is it possible to switch careers at this stage in life? if not then how can I make the best of this situation?

Thanks HN.
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Except free speech only exists in US, doesnt exist in any Europe country for instance. In US you can say almost anything you want about anything. Not the case in Uk or France. If you deny holocaust in France for instance , you're going to be prosecuted.
So while the article is interesting it only applies to USA.
Are you telling me I should not be allowed in the USA of which I am a law abiding citizen because of my ethnicity?

Its okay, be strait with me. You won't hurt my feelings.
Shouldn't you know which email you signed up an account under since

A) They emailed you the notice (most likely this email), and

B) Most people only use one email address for personal stuff. Work emails don't count.
I was excited until I tried to submit an article and it asked me for the Pubmed ID. Science is bigger than Pubmed damnit. Titles mistleading :( Nice site though. Can't argue with that.
More documentation, additional details in the Readme, usage/installation instructions etc would be really useful. Right now, I have no clue what I'll be doing with this or how.
The point is that you ought to be able to advance this theory and distribute pamphlets supporting it, even if you happen to be wrong.
At which point the discussion simply derails into a debate over whether you believe limitations to freedom of speech are ever acceptable.

As another note, don't forget to consider the second element- "temporary safety". If the safety purchased by showing greater deference to militant Islamism is not temporary, the quote is not applicable.

I am not arguing that this is the case, merely reminding to think critically- his quote was very specific, and it aggravates me when people abuse it without a moment's thought.

Anyway, I know what I believe, but I don't have the material to make a case right now, so that is all.
That's absolutely a valid point. This solution is more like a band-aid than a cure. We are still actively trying to solve the root problem.

The issue for us is that it is difficult to accurately classify something as important or useful, and something as merely informational, since that classification can be different for each person. As we collect more data, this will become easier to do over time. In the meantime, we are looking at modifying our interface to encourage more targeted content.
What makes an idea something worth a startup?
I have a great idea. What are, in your opinion, the questions to think about to check if it is, or isn't, a amazing base for a startup ?
The hostility and philosophical differences of muslims or militants?

I think you also misunderstand. Militants are a small subset of society which also includes some muslims, some christians, hindus, atheists etc. Point is, vast majority of muslims are peaceful, just the same as christians or atheists.
" I would like you to choose a different adjacent color as the ones used by the people below"

Any clue about why this?
Nice work!

This would be very helpful for writers, although it can also be used to target ads.
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? After all, back in the Bible days, God was taking out His vengeance on people who got on His bad side all the time.
Don't worry, we put the actual message in the email. We hate those types of notifications too :)
well, yes. It is worse because it is usually targeted not just one individual but a category of people. Even though the person who commits hate crime (e.g beating a chinese to death because one hates chinese) to only one person, the damage goes beyond one person. All the chinese people would feel the hatred and would be angry by that. The consequences could result in very very nasty back and forth revenge,war,mass murders. We had learned these painful lessons from history.
All I know is Kathy Sierra's book on Java was pretty much my first intro into programming (SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Study Guide). I've gone on to become a software engineer for 7-8 years now. But I still swear by that seemingly simple book because it was so well-written.

And as Jeff Atwood and many others have written, I know whatever she writes about on this or any other subject is a lot more correct than people realize. Just thought I'd register that.
It's been 1300 years since Arabs were "a bunch of desert nomads with no real power".
Well, looking at the math I see them getting about $6,615,000 worth of ad-time (not counting news or social media, just the video stream)

The math: 7.35 average daytime CPM[1] * 5 Million (5,000 thousand) viewers, watching for an average of 90 minutes (* 180 30-second spots) each.

That is: $7.35 * 5000 * 180 = $6,615,000

Of course if the news coverage mentioned "RED BULL SPONSORED DIVER..." then my number gets blown out of the water.

[1] http://infoacrs.com/a/tvads.html Daytime, spot TV, CPM average
I'm glad you are not offended by my remarks. It may seem like I'm taking a shot at developers or Mozilla. As a user who hates bloated web browsers and Java, maybe I am. But from an objective viewpoint, I'm not. I'm just saying journalists and developers have as yet not been able to find common ground, even though they both know they need each other. Something is amiss.

Meanwhile solid journalism is deteriorating.

As for me, I am taking action, but at a lower level. The stuff I'm working on is much bigger than page views, pay per click, or even news. I'm interested in software that can alter paradigms. I want to see the original version of the internet. No middlemen.
Replace 'Western' and 'Arabs' with Superpower X and Subjugated peoples Y and it's immediately clear how defective your root cause analysis is.

It's an intentionally defective 'root cause analysis' from the perspective of Superpower X, where all wars waged by X on Y have no part in discussion of cause and effect.

The rules seem to be:

1. Y is always irrational, savage, subhuman.

2. X is always civilised, noble, well-meaning.

3. Aggression by X is always unfortunately necessary for some greater geopolitical good.

4. Aggression by Y must always be explained in terms of 1., and never as a result of 3.
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Thanks for sharing that, Mwill.
The author lost me at "much of the actual content of the program focus on corporate skills and how to network to get a job." He has obviously never been near a real MBA program. After having gone through core curriculum classes in Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Entrepreneurship (yes it's part of the core!), Leadership, Ethics, Operations, etc., this year I'm taking classes such as Entrepreneurial Finance, Financial Management of Small Firms, Founders Dilemmas, Launching Technology Ventures, Strategic Marketing in Creative Industries, Competing with Social Networks, etc. along with getting school credit for working on my startup.

I chose to go back for an MBA after 8+ years of a wonderful career because I knew there were significant holes in my knowledge that I wanted to address while simultaneously using it as a platform from which I could start a company. Yes, the alumni connections are wonderful and the school name does carry some weight in certain circles, but more than anything I love learning from faculty who are some of the great entrepreneurial thought leaders of our time and passionate students who genuinely want to create businesses with lasting value.

Of course it's crazy expensive and it's not a choice you make lightly but for me personally, it was the best possible way to become an entrepreneur. (The school actually gave us some funding/grants, allowed us to incubate on site, etc. Super supportive.)

Oh and I am considering applying to Y-Combinator/TechStars when I graduate because while I'll have a solid business foundation, there is still tons I need to learn about entrepreneurship.
Thanks for all the support HN. Noon Pacific was picked up by LifeHacker and I'm up to over 4,000 subscribers in one week of being live.

http://lifehacker.com/5950839/noon-pacific-finds-the-best-ne...
Perhaps the user is referring to the allegations that US intelligence agencies, using the State Department as a proxy, let people into the US who otherwise would have been denied.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/SPR302A.html
You can't point to a change in one area of the earth and conclude something about the entire earth.

I assume you were commenting on decrease in Arctic ice but why is that more important than the record amount of Antarctic ice? (http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/09/19/antarctic...)
I do my best work when I take stimulant medication. I simply do not get as much done without it, and even then I find it can be ineffective. With programming I often lose track of what I'm doing and end up off task without even realizing it. I can have a low tolerance for working on things that do not interest me, finding it almost physically impossible to apply myself. Somehow amphetamine salts make me feel more engaged with things I might otherwise find dull.

I should note that I was tested for ADHD and the results indicated that I actually didn't have it, even though the symptoms of inattentive ADHD seem to describe me perfectly.
He's going for a similar style as Svbtle(.com) where each person that blogs has their own identity that corresponds to a color/image so they can easily be cataloged and seen.
very awesome! make this easy to use for the mainstream and you have a winner!
Start with www.coursera.org. There, you will find classes with varying degree of difficulty. If you can, audit a computer science class in the nearby college/university. Build something that you think you would be able to use yourself. Build it bottom-up, one small feature at a time.
Looks very compelling. I'm tempted to try this out... only thing is that I don't want my site to look too cookie-cutter if Syte catches on. :-)
My guess is that because he went so much faster initially, he covered a further distance faster. I haven't done the math, and he definitely deployed early, but it still seems plausible to me
I have something in the works. Will try to post on HN in a few days.
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It never crossed my mind. You are absolutely correct.
Alas it is not I who wrote it, though I do have a fork I've been tinkering with.

Feel free to tweet at the author though, I'm sure he'd love to hear from you! https://twitter.com/rigoneri
This is just a government power grab cloaked with a bunch of rhetoric that happens involved Muslims.

And it's probably not a coincidence that this debate flares up in the media just as sable rattling for military action against Iran reaches its peak.
So are only mentally ill people qualified to write articles about mental illness? Are only cancer patients qualified to write articles about cancer treatment? Are only fat people qualified to write about the difficulty of weight loss?

The author is implicitly assuming that sexism is not capable of being studied in a scientific fashion, and so all we can do is have people write up their personal anecdotes.
>You can make a reusable launch vehicle that's economical.

I find that difficult to believe, given the enormous extra weight that will be necessary.

Look at the Apollo rocket, with that teeny tiny capsule on top of that massive thing. The capsule was the only thing that came back, and that whole massive rocket was needed to push that little capsule to the moon.

Now add wings, landing gear, etc., to the capsule, and imagine how much bigger the Saturn V would have to be.
I would have just said "haters be hating" and spammed some more.
Thanks for the feedback! Those are some great points, and something that we've been discussing for some time.

We're experimenting with a couple marketing strategies. Our primary strategy has been to focus on students for a grassroots adoption, hence the silly marketing copy and the koala logo. We've been handing out t-shirts and posting funny flyers on various college campuses.

In addition, we are talking to professors to encourage them to officially adopt Tabule in their classrooms. The teachers that are currently using Tabule are seeing a large increase in student participation, since they feel more comfortable asking questions. It also provides the students with an official source for due dates that's collaboratively maintained, so it should always be correct.

The biggest problem is, like you mentioned, the students that are most likely to be organized and post content to Tabule are also the ones that have less of a need for a system like ours. That's why we are starting to lean towards focusing more on marketing directly to instructors, although that is a much harder market to reach and to convince to try new technology.

Having said that, I think you would still find Tabule useful over organizing assignments yourself in Google Calendar because if an assignment is announced later in the semester and isn't on the initial syllabus or if a due date changes, you're more likely to have the correct information if you and your classmates are using Tabule.
The "skunkworks" is one of my favorite concepts. Look at what they were able to achieve. Truly amazing.
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you should probably scale (the canvas function) the game a bit better. Get window.innerHeight and scale the game to fill the full height, rather than sticking to the small window. Or is this because of performance reasons?
I don't usually have access to a version of "sort" that supports the "-h" flag.
Programming the Universe by Seth Lloyd (physics professor at MIT who likes to call himself a "quantum mechanic").

Here's a relevant paper by Lloyd titled "Ultimate physical limits to computation": http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9908043v3
Will lots of people pay you lots of money for it? If not, will lots of people pay you a little money for it? If not, will a few people pay you a lot of money for it?

Any of the above would lead you to then ask yourself whether you or your team have the right skills/experiences/capital to pull it off and then you need to understand if the cost of acquiring customers leaves you room for profitability (basic CAC vs. LTV).

I'd recommend and go talk with a bunch of your prospective customers to get feedback on the idea. Look for trends in what they are saying to understand if there is a compelling need or not.
You should become a PowerPoint ninja if your school only offers PowerPoint.
The "Muslim Menace" us being used as an excuse to attack free speech just like child porn has been used to attack privacy. News at 11.
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with enough people taking part he could use every profile color as a pixel and create pictures where each pixel links to a profile...thats just my idea though
Either that, or a rainbow of users.
Thanks for the mention, wheaties. We're very proud of Foundation (http://foundation.zurb.com), and our team devotes countless hours to ensuring it's the best responsive front-end framework out there.
Hi,

It seems like you want support in expanding, mentorship etc.

There are a couple of options you have. You can see if you can take classes at your local junior/community college in python.

You can try to do what you want, and when you get stuck, go on a python mailing list, a irc channel, stackoverflow.com, a python user group, a hacker space, etc.

You can also decide things are too hard and give up, or put things off. I won't judge you, programming is often difficult and frustrating when I'm doing new stuff.

Anyway, do something else, dive in, or give up.
Wow. This just crystallised a bunch of thoughts bumping around in my head, on why this argument goes around and around all the time.

Thank you! This was a great comment.
Also, it's likely the person(s) who set up that promo had little to do with the people who maintain Origin. And may not even be related to those who maintain the server.
That a promo code could be used more than once, or that you could use it in ways it was never meant to? Of course the problem it's not simple, but anyone who thinks it is shouldn't be working on these things. Either someone screwed up building the system, or someone thought they could use it in ways it wasn't intended and screwed up. Sure, the solution might not be as simple as a lack of server-side validation, but either way, the solution is simple, the problem isn't.
> I can have a low tolerance for working on things that do not interest me, finding it almost physically impossible to apply myself.

It sounds to me like you're describing the human condition more than ADHD. Amphetamines have been shown to increase performance on a wide variety of tasks for most people, the fact that they help you should definitely not be taken as a sign that you have ADHD.
It's cool :) and I just want to say that the readme is awesome. I love developers who communicate :P
It's not a contradiction at all. Remember that the original context was "Moneyball" - sussing out the "true value" of baseball players using statistics as opposed to basing decisions on less accurate gut (or social) assessments of value.

This use of "true" merely means "accurate" - corresponding with reality. The aims, in the case of baseball, are implicit, of course - the aim of any manager is to win games. In the case of books, people's aims will differ more. This means there's no single "true value" but for any given aim there will be some amount that book will contribute to it. This is usually hard to determine, but that doesn't make it subjective; it makes it that much more interesting if you are able to get at it.
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Wings aren't the only way. Both Elon Musk (SpaceX) and Jeff Bezos (Blue Origin) are pursuing reusable launch vehicles that land vertically by gimbaling and throttling the rocket engines.

This isn't wishful thinking either -- both have already done some initial low altitude VTVL tests. Videos here:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/22/spacexs-grasshopper-verti...

http://www.blueorigin.com/updates/updates-2011-11-17-video-o...
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Done. (Thanks for the interest!)
I feel compelled to point out that most of the examples in the article are free speech that happens to (gratuitously in most cases) piss off the minorities. Notable for their absence are transgressions against authorities -- e.g. the sort of vicious recriminations against whistleblowers whose free speech rights are for naught when they hurt the powers that be. Assange nailed it -- free speech is tolerated only so long as it does not interfere with the interests of the power structure. The moment it does, it will be swiftly dealt with -- under one guise or the other.

Somewhat disappointed in this piece from Turley, who's otherwise quite nuanced.
"Almost the whole world that is islamic became muslim through military occupation."

This is just plain bullshit! The introduction of islam to much of the world was through trade, just the same as the christians. And if you take slavery, trade and military occupations to be evidence that "The real lesson is that some religions are actually militant political movements wrapped up in religion." then I am afraid you will have to say the same of christianity.

Once again, the point is that extremists / militants use religion (or any other reason) to justify occupation, oppression and murder. To fight militant-ism you have to do just two things.
1.resist.
2.not become one.

ps: were you serious about that video you linked? seems like dumb paranoid aryan propaganda to me..