En kurdisk demonstrant har skjutits till döds i sydöstra Turkiet i sammandrabbningar mellan demonstranter och militär. Den 24-årige mannen, som avled på sjukhus, protesterade mot att regeringen vill bygga militärbaracker i Licedistriktet i den kurddominerade Diyarbakirprovinsen.

garyebickford writes 'Space Finance Group (in which I'm a partner) has launched a Kickstarter to fund updating the "famous Integrated Space Plan", created by Ron Jones at Rockwell International in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and can be found on walls in the industry even today. The new Plan will be a poster, but also will provide the initial core data for a new website. The permanent link will be thespaceplan.com. As additional resources become available the website will be able to contain much more information, with (eventually) advanced data management (possibly including sources like Linked Data) and visualization tools to become a resource for education, research, entertainment, and business analytics. The group also hopes to support curated crowdsourcing of some data, and is talking to Space Development companies about providing data about themselves. They hope to be able to construct new timelines and show the relations between events and entities — companies, agencies, people, etc.'

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Tusentals människor demonstrerade runt om i Spanien på lördagskvällen med krav på folkomröstning om monarkins fortsatta existens. Manifestationerna stöddes av ett dussintal vänsterpartier och medborgarorganisationer.

För första gången på flera decennier håller USA och Iran direkta samtal med varandra. Mötet ska handla om Irans kärnkraftsprogram.

KentuckyFC writes: 'In 1978, the American researcher Michael Hart published The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, a book that became an international best seller. Since then, various others have published similar lists. But all suffer the same drawback: they are subjective list ultimately influenced by numerous cultural factors. Now data scientists have come up with a way to extract an objective list of the 100 most influential people in history using the network of links between biographical articles on Wikipedia and how they vary between 24 different language editions, including English, Chinese, Russian Arabic and so on. The researchers assume that people who are highly ranked in different language editions are influential across both language cultures and that the more appearances they make in different language editions, the more influential they are. But the actual ranking is done by PageRank-like algorithms that consider a biographical article important if it is pointed to by other important articles. The resulting lists of the most influential men and women might surprise. The top PageRanked individual is Carl Linnaeus, the 18th century Swedish botanist who developed the modern naming scheme for plants and animals, followed by Jesus. The top PageRanked women are: Elizabeth II followed by Mary (mother of Jesus). For comparison, just under half of the top 100 most influential also appear in Hart's 1978 book. But this is just the beginning. By counting the individuals from one culture that influence other cultures, the team is able to work out which cultures have dominated others. And by looking only at people born before certain dates, they can see how the influence of different cultures has waxed and waned throughout 35 centuries of recorded history.'

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Egypten har förbjudit olegitimerade imamer från att predika eller undervisa islam i moskéer, enligt ett dekret som undertecknades av Egyptens interimspresident Adli Mansour på lördagen. Olegitimerade imamer som bryter mot förbudet hotas med böter och fängelse, särskilt om de bär kläder som förknippas med det ansedda islamska lärosätet al-Azhar, som är landets högsta religiösa instans.

En man hittades på lördagseftermiddagen död utomhus i Pajala. Enligt Norrbottenspolisen har han utsatts för ”yttre våld” och en kvinna har gripits och anhållits misstänkt för mord eller dråp.

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Dr. Drang: How it works:

Now, when I need to analyze a structure or a piece of equipment, I ask for the design drawings. In my world, design is what engineers do to make things work.

Our point of view at Q Branch is that engineering is part of design. So while it’s easy to say that I work with two designers, and everybody knows what I mean, the truth is that the company is made of three designers.

If Vesper Sync works well, is unobtrusive and fast and easy to set up, it’s because all three of us designed it that way.

Is Chris Lattner a designer? Hell yes. As are the zillions of great Apple engineers who don’t know Photoshop from MacPaint.

(I’ve been watching the videos. My head hurts in the best way possible.)