skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We at Cumulus have been told by our customers that having one of our rocket-turtle stickers on their laptop results in a much faster and easier negotiations about discounts with their Cisco sales rep. An Arista sticker probably works too.

It is one of the reasons we made the stickers. =)
> Islam has nothing to do with this whatsoever

I recognize your username and I know you are highly intelligent, but how can you ignore all the daily evidence, crime statistics, the shows of intolerance + hatred + violence that Muslims put out towards the natives, all the logic and reason, and all the correlations about the Muslim population in Europe?
"Jihad John" was from Kuwait and lived outside of UK most of his adult life.
Three Emergency protocols activated tonight to deal with the situation:

Plan multi attentats: Sudden surge of multiple situations

Plan blanc (in Île de France): surge of unpredictable activity of a hospital

Plan rouge: when there are significant casualties in a small area
If you agree that the number is not irrelevant, it would be very kind of you to revoke that statement. It's an insult to the dead and to the families of the dead. Thank you.

Edit: no need to further downvote as parent has changed his statement. Thanks parent poster.
The point is that the effect that attack has had on the US for the past 14 years has been massive. Probably thousands of new security protocols are in place, that arguably wouldn't have stopped an attack like that had they been in place previously.

Every time they strike they put us on edge, and we make new laws and protocols to protect ourselves, giving up freedom in the name of security.
This is true, and a good comment. It sort of supports what I am saying though; there actually aren't a lot of gun owners who think it is tyrannical to have regulation around this. And besides, the percentage of crimes committed in the US with an AR-15 (let alone an AR-15 modified in that way) is so low that the actual problem could almost be classified as non-existent, so it is not a surprise that there is not an uproar about it. Your point is taken however, thank you for the info.
The IMF's research arm is actually remarkably objective (even left wing sometimes) which is odd given what their bosses get up to.

They've pretty consistently released research saying that austerity is a self destructive policy, for instance, much to the chagrin of their bosses.
I believe that France didn't open its borders to this wave of refugees/migrants but I could be mistaken since I don't follow the news this closely.
Killed.
> No one hates the chemical plant, and wants to go kill it.

Don't speak too soon. We have several political movements dedicated to this.
Watching iTele now too, numbers 40 or 80 aren't confirmed yet.

EDIT: 40 confirmed.
I've seen a lot of HNers suggesting that we must over react and ramp up the war on terrorism. I'm all for cutting off immigration, but how will ramping up the wars do us any good? I don't see how another ten years "fixing" things is going to work.
This is a poll, with the available choices being: gnome-terminal, guake, konsole, terminator, tilda, xterm, yakuake, or "other".

Lots of drop-downs... no urxvt?
You're right with your first point, but wrong with the second: a lot of new projects are still written in c++. Pretty much every non-indie video game, for example.
I'm not entirely sure how I would define my guiding motivation in life, but I swear "do no harm" would be part of it.

I despair at those who believe otherwise.
I think a major problem is that even they can't know who among them - in the big groups of refugees making the journey - is an isis member or supporter, and even if they're not, there's no telling who is going to radicalise in the future. The attacks earlier this year in paris weren't done by someone that came from that area, iirc.
By making the secret services work for their money on real problems, instead of fretting about tapping media pirates and suchlike. By having a foreign policy that does not rely on military intervention at the drop of a hat. By not starting fires all over the place. The list is long and well-known.
As much as I like to beat on the MSM, they did pick it up; plenty of major publications (the Economist, the New Yorker, USA Today, Forbes, the WSJ, PBS, NPR, and many more) had articles on it before John Oliver's episode.

Sarah Stillman's article for the New Yorker, Taken, is particularly good, as well as depressing: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/12/taken
>And 0 terrorist groups have ever won and achieved their stated goals.

Hmm. Wasn't it Bin Laden's goal to restore the Islamic Caliphate?
Every language evolves, and syntax changes. Fortran is still used not as much for backwards compatibility as it is for adding features, deprecating features, etc, as the needs of the community change. Hell, even COBOL, as clunky as it is will add and remove features when standards are revised. Changing the language will not kill it, leaving it static will.
> Basically, the French security system has been revealed as completely ineffective.

As an aside, strong suveillance laws were voted earlier this year.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
Understanding the nature of each organization involved -- how both motivations and expectations shift as one moves between orgnaizational barriers -- is perhaps the most important, worst reported, least understood part of this story.

If the SEI took money to, essentially, weaponize unpublished research, the issue is not one an IRB would have prevented. DoD contractors aren't bound by scientific codes of conduct. In light of that realization, the suggestion in this blog post is confusing.

(BTW, distancing CMU and the SEI is not meant as a defense of CMU -- close ties between public science and law enforcement/military R&D are as troubling as ever...)
I don't think that bit about 0 groups achieving goals through terrorism is true. For example, didn't the Medellin cartel effectively use terrorism?
It's a fair bet that quite a few or even all of the attackers (but let's stick with probably some) share the Islamic religion. But that does not mean that Islam per se has anything to do with it, what it points to is that religion is a tool that can be used to subvert people into committing acts that they would otherwise likely not engage in, especially when they're young, impressionable, stupid or all of the above.

So even if Islam is nominally involved and even if the fact that religious people have a fringe element (like all people!) that does not mean Islam is the cause of this. Just like Catholicism is not a religion centered around pederasty and just like atheists don't generally go around shooting people.
I'm not sure if I could keep a motivation like that if, for example, my family was killed by a drone strike.
I hope that people in the US will refrain from lashing out against Muslim Americans. Back in 2001 a local mosque and several Muslim-owned businesses were vandalized in response to the NYC attack.

It's very sad to see that kind of blind hatred.
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If it makes you feel better I'm not sure Christian religious nuttiness is much better. Apparently:

>in the prelude to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush told Jacques Chirac that Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East: "This confrontation is willed by God," he told the French leader, "who wants us to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins." [Wikipedia]

which kind of kicked of the present run of difficulties.
What should be done?

Bomb the hell out of the Syrians? Surely they have suffered enough.

Iraq III? Maybe this time.... maybe....

Send the ground troops into Saudi? Quatar?

Acknowledging that some of ISIS / Al-Qaeda gripes do have some merit, stop interfering in other countries affairs, stop propping up dictators because they are "our" dictator.

Something else?

Unfortunately for the Syrians, my money is on bomb the hell out of them, trying to limit the number of "collataral damage" of dead women and kids, but hey, not our fault.

And so we go round the merry go round again.
This reminds me of chromecast's ultrasonic guest mode.

https://gigaom.com/2014/12/11/chromecast-gets-guest-mode-tha...
>That is the million dollar question. And it's a hard one. I believe that yes, we can do something but I don't believe there is a magical incantation or a simple and short thing that we can do. It will take many years (decades) to slowly un-wind this mess and in the meantime it could get a lot worse and that lone might be enough to lose the plot on any plan that isn't perceived as a silver bullet but that actually has a chance of working

I admire your patience for sure. The hope that we have decades to unwind this mess.

I fear, though, militant religious sects may not have the same self control.

I fear that the inability or lack of willingness to meet violence with violence may be the downfall of rationality. We rightfully shun violence in place of discussion, but as is evident (again), we are not dealing with rational actors.

I think a discussion about how we can realistically meet this violence with violence is warranted. Sam Harris made a good argument for this in this podcast: http://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/the-riddle-of-the-gun-...

We have in a way changed the paradigm already. A bad actor brandishing a box cutter on a plane is to be sure to be met with resistance that wouldn't have been seen pre 9/11.
I even think that if you had a loved one in the towers on 9/11 you could feel inclined to go to a third unrelated country, like... lets say Irak, and start to killing thousands of innocent civilians, also loved by somebody. This would be a bad idea of course.

Flashing the towers card here sounds a little embarrassing in retrospective. Sadly, the I.Snake is also the bastard son of Bush great plans for Irak and the Guantanamo shame.
Yes, I think. See http://www.aaronkharris.com/things-that-arent-work and http://www.aaronkharris.com/things-that-arent-progress for similar thoughts.
Made unalive.

I'm guessing snipers.
Angular2-simple-countdown
itele just said that 2 of them might have killed themselves using explosives in their belt
That is much closer to the root cause than most analysis I read in the media. But it's a much harder problem to tackle and does not make for infotainment and so will get a lot less airtime.
On the face of it, there isn't any language targeting a particular religion or its symbols.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_law_on_secularity_and_c...

The French do have a fairly rigorous approach to separation of church and state. Where do they cross the line into something blatantly discriminatory?
Crazy people that identify as muslims, emotions are running high but lets not pause our common sense in fear of "offending" someone somewhere. Leaning to left-wing extremism, going to a public gathering tomorrow and posting an inspiring slogan on Facebook doesn't do any justice for the dozens killed either.
France cannot really control the wave of migrants anyway. But it is unlikely that the terrorists are one of these migrants. My guess is that they were French nationals/residents.
What about those who do harm in your name?
Some of us are more outraged by the fact that they kowtowed to authority on the BlackHat presentation, and had a disclosure policy that favored the Feds over both the Tor project and the entire security community.

The CMU researchers are basically Sabu. Subhuman traitors to the hacker ethos.
The government's ability to do nearly anything by force is an obvious given. This is the reason why constitutional limitations and charters of rights exist in every modern country.

For example, it is equally a understood that almost any government could control/manipulate any press agency if they wanted to, or break down any door with a SWAT team.

The only difference here is that `cyber` did not exist nor is cleanly appliciable to laws wich limits this type of power - laws largely written in the 1800s. Additionally it largely happens in secret, attribution is difficult, and there is a serious knowledge gap from the general public and the type of operations being done.
While I'm happy to hear about a great success story of a great piece of open source software, Elasticsearch has done a great disservice by making application developers lazy about learning the ins and outs of various analytical/transactional/storage backend systems.

Echoing other commenters, Elasticsearch is hardly the best tool for many kinds of analytics. In fact, it is strictly not a good tool for several use cases. For starters:

1. It's not good at joining two or more data sources

2. It's not good at complex analytical processing like window functions (for example to calculating session length based on the deltas of consecutive timestamps partitioned by user_id and ordered by time).

Of course, it's also good at many things like simple filtering and aggregation against "real-time" data. Being in-memory really helps with performance, and with right tools, it's horizontally scalable. Elastic's commercial support is also not to be discounted.

However, as an old OLAP fart who spent years optimizing KDB+ queries, I am deeply concerned about the willful ignorance of data processing systems that I see among Elasticsearch fans. Just take my word for it and study Postgres (with c_store extension) and other real databases, in-memory or otherwise, open-source or proprietary, so that you won't be shooting yourself (or future co-workers) in the foot, trying to shoehorn Elasticsearch and its ilk into suboptimal workloads (To be fair, I see a similar tendency among Splunk zealots).
The Syrian refugees, sure. A big problem is actually determining who people are and why thy are entering Europe.
I don't have your Dilbert-fu, but there is another, I think more recent, comic in which Dilbert is triumphant about how his boss's poor leadership, which resulted in a project's requirements changing, and in the project's final cancellation, didn't affect him because he simply didn't work on the project.
I've just sent you an email with a link and license for non-App Store version of Mémoires that works with Snow Leopard.
these toy post-moderns don't notice that they are infantilizing muslims with all their bullshit. you are 100% correct: being marginalized is no excuse to become a monster.
They can't; even the not free societies - think prisons - are not safe. People that want to do Bad Things will do them. Even if they didn't have guns or weapons, they could've - for example - get enough people into a dinner party or restaurant, have everyone grab a fork, and start stabbing people in the eye.

Terrorism doesn't need weaponry. The only deterrent would be to read people's minds, and you've probably watched Minority Report and other such dystopian scenarios. It's something that needs to be solved at the root, and TBF I don't believe it can be fixed.
Do you know if there is a good cost-effective/cost-benefit analysis for Conditional Cash Transfers? In the one that I have seen, CCTs do poorly. I would like to know why GiveWell is pushing in that direction.
Headline unfortunately is out of date. It's well over 100 deaths, according to major news sources, and unknown wounded. Just tragic and senseless.
Refugees carry little more than their shirts in their travels. Those guns and grenades didn't come with refugees. End of story.
Because 'Muslims' are many, and terrorists are few.

The Muslims that I know are very much upset about all this and fear for their future, if anybody is upset at the acts of terrorism by their nominal brethren it is them because they are confronted on a daily basis with the fall-out from all this. The scary bit is that the backlash against them drives them to become defensive and that's the one thing that should not happen.
Thank you. It didn't help unfortunately.
> Basically, the French security system has been revealed as completely ineffective. That is what matters.

The attacks are horrible and a security system which effectively prevents them would be just as horrible.

This problem won't be fixed without a major shift in paradigm on either side. Perhaps not in our lifetime but oh how nice it would be...
Obviously it won't. No one who thinks about it for a second can possible think it will.

We terrorise you, you terrorise us. Only difference is we kill you in far greater numbers than you can ever dream of.

The war on terrorism will end when a new enemy can take it's place. The smart money is on China, but don't never count the Red Menace out, good outside bet they come good at the last minute.
It won't; a lot of people are radicalising just because of the 'war on terror'. As I said in another comment, what would you do if your family was bombed in a drone strike?
Point taken, though many of those who are inspired to take up arms against innocent people have no such legitimate grievance.
How many refugee camps does France have? Let me answer you: 0

Refugees are victims of the war. If they wanted to involve violence, they would not be refugees looking for home. Why to see them as potential terrorists ?
because Sharia law is a non sequitur?
Arm your citizens.

Edit: Seems HN would rather die on their knees. Shame.
Star Citizen's intent seems to be to ship personal servers (quake style). Maybe this will be possible, I'm sure some people would be interested.
I was born in the 80s, and pretty much that's all Disney has ever represented to me, outside of the black and white Walt Disney surrealist work.
What do you mean by that? The border between France and neighboring nations is always open.
While I do agree that live coding can be quite boring, it is helpful when trying to demonstrate coding conventions. Learning code from a live tutorial is far easier than from a wall of code (that can be copy pasted better from a website and such). A lot of people attend these talks to learn, and it is up to the presenter to judge what best fits of the type of presentation.
I actually happen to know what that means and I take offense at your stupid slur.
Yes, I agree. Immense tragedy and I fear the numbers will go up before this is over.
Nope. Tempting as it was, I just ended up using Disqus. :)
>Pretty much every non-indie video game, for example.

So code that relies on a lot of existing software then (ie the game engine and other in-house libraries that any company would have). You have proved his point instead of countering it.
That's not true, France does have refugee camps.
I came from an imperative background so it didn't bother me so much. I agree it makes people suck at FP. Least there's good free work like "How to Design Programs" with the Racket tools. Should give them a nice boost.

However, there's lots of ways to scale. FP is better at it but not necessary. It's easier for a decent imperative programmer to learn to scalable concurrency than to learn FP. So, path of least resistance & backward compatible means that non-FP approaches should get most traction. That's what we see in practice.

Good news is that your point got many interested in making an attempt and led to more FP developers + languages. I even saw a case study of a company in finance using Haskell for production due to concise, correct, and concurrent properties. Plenty potential here.
> On the face of it,

On the face of it, sure; OTOH, the specific targeting of traditional attire of certain Muslims was overt among the promoters of both the ban you link to and the broader ban on face covering in public spaces.
It's definitely the sort of thing that will vary a lot based on the group. I'm also at a place where I can afford to spend $50 or whatever to gauge the collective trustworthiness of a group of people.
Not European but travelling in Asia at the moment. Have had a couple of discussions with run-of-the-mill Europeans concerned that the refugees areproportionally made up much more of young men than women/children with the implication that these guys are up to no good. I'd say the subtleties of the humanitarian crisis is going to be lost on the average European Joe in the wake of this
And VFX software! :)

Not even fully on C++11 yet!

Vil: How's it going?
> It absolutely should be downplayed.

Wait till you live in Iraq or Afghanistan where these incidents occur on a daily basis and see if you will still stand by your statement or revisit it very soon.
Exactly. Fat lot of good it did to them. Clearly the whole approach is simply wrong.
How will cutting off immigration do anything? I think it's important to realize that this is something that happens and that you don't necessarily have to do anything. If you get a cold, you don't quarantine your block and divert your life savings to rhinovirus research, you just deal with it and try and take sensible precautions about hygiene.
Well we can either change foreign policy and start a long road to trying to repair the damage done, bomb more, start another ineffective war, or somehow get the blessing of Russia and bring the full weight of the (actually fully committed and mobilized) western world down on Isis and everyone else who fucks with us.

Now obviously option 1 is probably the best approach, option 2 is the most likely, and option 4 is the one that is appealing in the wake of hundreds of innocent people dying.
That definition made me smile.

But executed has a quite definite meaning, I think. If anything, the terrorists have been executing people tonight.
Correlation vs. causation fallacy.
Can you expand on this to me a layman? What does it mean, written down? And why does it say whatever it does about management?
It won't.

The discussion needs to turn to how can people defend themselves. How 10/20/30 people trapped in a theater CAN overwhelm 3 attackers. How these people will not be willing to spare you no matter how cooperative you are or how sympathetic you are.

If you can't flight, fight.
The terrorists were most likely not immigrants, but french citizen/permanent resident.
"It seems like apt package dependencies would be more elegant than bundling everything together." totally agree, that why is why we're sponsoring Pirate Praveen who is working on a native Debian package.
>My guess is that they were French nationals/residents.

Based on what? I'm pretty uninformed here, and it seems like a lot of people are bringing up refugees. Curious why you think the opposite.
Your reasoned reaction here, is exactly how I would hope to act in the same situation. Thank you and I hope you will hear from your sister soon.
Windows 10 (desktop, tablet, mobile, all flavors) needs fine-grained permissions that can be granted and revoked in a similar manner. Even traditional desktop apps need to have similar sandboxing features.
If we accept all that people claim to be true, Kissinger, Bush and Blair et. al. cannot be any exception.
Then what suggestions one gets from the correlation between "upholding democracy and human rights" and the butchery in brutally murdering tens of millions in the last several decades (from Algeria to Cambodia to the genocides in Iraq through sanctions and slaughtering)?
What if your ideology believes that you should treat those killed by drones as your own family because you share the same ideology?
We have to concentrate on stabilizing Syria, Iraq, Yemen, etc., assist the Kurds and other moderate groups against the extremists, and be vigilant within our own borders, yet without sacrificing our liberties.

Beyond that, there's not much more we can do.
A good opportunity to mention the Popek-Goldberg criteria. If Amdahl's machines had been able to efficiently trap on the use of the new instruction (and execute a workaround using their existing instruction set) they might have been OK. Depends what the instruction was used for. Popek-Goldberg discusses the case where you want to virtualise your hardware: instruction set design becomes really important.