skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried to take that analysis seriously when people have linked it before, but to me it just doesn't seem very relevant to the real world. I'm curious what you mean when you say that it's not about political goals and how that is supported?

Terrorists are by definition extremists. They want to upset the status quo to force people to take sides and create a situation where they feel they, who are righteous, have a better chance of being successful or at least relevant. Whether that is a race war, holy war or revolution. The killing itself isn't particularly relevant until your fighting over land and then normally in form of ethnic cleansing.

The analysis you linked misses a the point of e.g. the terrorist plot in Norway. It's wasn't just about killing people, he deliberately tried to effect politics by killing a generation of people he disagreed with. He also believed that it was part of and going to lead to a larger conflict.
Not to say that gecko wasn't a substantial work in itself, but in Phoenix, everything but gecko was new code.

This doesn't even cover how much "Netscape" code was actually in seamonkey in the first place, and how much was the other way around from Netscape 6 on.

If anything, I could have used stronger words.
> Namely, law abiding citizens should be able to conceal-carry weapons. Although it couldn't stop all kinds of terrorist attacks, it could very well put a stop to most mass shootings.

Here we go again...

When I read this, in my head, this analogy comes to mind: "We could stop bombings by allowing all citizens to carry concealed bombs [to use in self-defense]."

Now obviously that is an absurd analogy, but it mirrors a lot of what you're suggesting: fight a dangerous weapon with another dangerous weapon, potentially put bystanders in harm's way, make it even harder to track/identify the good from bad, make it easier to obtain weapons.

The US has more mass killings than any other western nation, yet they also have concealed carry, clearly something isn't working here. Is the solution really "more guns, more guns?"
Compulsive/abrasive styles seem to describe a lot of leaders in the technology industry, including Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Because I tend to be a bit perfectionist when it comes to code quality and user experience, I myself could be described as "compulsive". Where does one draw the line between good perfectionism and bad?
Right under my nose instead: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.silverpush...
No, having guns won't help one bit. Just name one attack in the States that has been foiled by a citizen.

What will happen unfortunately is that the surveillance measures will increase exponentially, normal citizens will throw privacy out the window, terror attacks will still happen.

It's the world we live in.
7.5m visits per day. What does that mean, page loads? Stack Overflow isn't a static website. One page load is a lot of requests to the service. Stack Overflow is a very dynamic site, and a lot of requests are made after you actually load the page. I'm not sure you're accurately characterizing the kind of load that Stack Overflow is subjected to.

To anyone else reading: no, your use case probably isn't so special that the solution Stack Overflow arrived at just doesn't work for you.
> I think that the level of HN is rare online but offline things are much better (at least, in my experience).

Maybe you choose your surroundings better, but one of the reasons I like hanging out here is because I can experience some semblance of sanity that, from my point of view, GenPop is lacking. I know few people who try to understand what's going on, but rest just repeat whatever they read on the news.

> Yes, please. But I fear that won't happen in my lifetime, maybe in yours depending on your age. This took decades to fuck up it will take decades to restore and a completely different approach.

Yes, please. But let it please not end in the collapse of what we've achieved as humanity. That's what I'm afraid the most - that at some point those tensions will explode and bring down civilization with them. The world is a fucked up place, but we're at the point in history in which we must fix it, not reboot it.
A brave young teenager leaving his safe space to go to war. Respect.
You had me for the first line. But then you clarified throughout the rest of your post that the reason you are scared is that you are afraid of the west. Can you bend over any further backwards, in any way at all, would that be possible.
I, and I hope most others, lay blame at the feet of those who committed the act. I(a nobody) think I've been too quiet about defending our Muslim friends from being lumped in with bad people just because you share a religion.

I don't know many Muslims and it's just too easy to let bigoted remarks go, but this attack feels like it could really bring out the worst in reactionary people. So stay safe and know at least one person has your back.
I just want to see intelligent discourse, whatever the topic may be. Preemptively stating some nonsense before the people who believe it can get there hurts discourse just as much as when it's stated for real.
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I was writing something longer, but essentially +1 YNAB. The videos you refer to also go over how to build up that buffer while you're living paycheck to paycheck.

Some might be turned off by having to manually input charges, by having to plan a budget each month, by being offended that they "could do the same thing in a weekend with Excel", but it's the best solution I've found for my wife and I. Not automated enough that we get disconnected from finances, but smart enough that we can easily see where we stand and run a few reports on our spending.

The system is pretty flexible, there's no need to categorize every stick of gum you buy, just use your best judgement and try not to cheat yourself.
I don't think that's an effective attitude to take in response to events like this. The job of intelligence agencies is to minimize the risk of attacks like this, not to eliminate it. The more governments think they can actually eliminate the risk, the more we all suffer.
Embedded is about 20 years behind the curve with regards to C++ best practices.
I'm neither French nor American nor a particularly emotional person, but your post made me tear up. We Europeans all need to be more thankful for people like your father who fought a war on foreign soil to protect a foreign culture.
This will only get worse over time, in Europe and in US, more so in Europe as Europe is frankly slowly Muslimized(by 2050 they may become majority). It's the new reality. Western culture is under serious attack and the system is not designed to cope with terrorism like this _at_all_.

Without security, talking about freedom is meaningless.
This wasn't a mere insinuation, this was a claim made along with some study linked in support of the claim. And since the topic at hand is precisely Islam's reputation in the first place, it seems we can't have any conversation about Islam's reputation for violence (deserved or not), and what to do about it, at all.

If your goal is to integrate Muslims living in Western nations into Western society, what is going on here is not helping to achieve it.
Oh god, not at all.

City life is atrocious. Expensive rent for a small dwelling, stuck with whatever public transit the local authority has found fitting to grace you with, and you're stuck socializing with whomever lives nearby.

No thanks. I'll keep my remote job with equivalent market salary and lower non-city living expenses I can spend on expensive luxury electric cars and traveling.
Oh you would, if that was the only way to ensure survival and/or a better future for them. It would be painful, but you would feel you have to do this.
Their interesting feature is that you can imply the probability of a rate hike in December/January/March/... from the yield curve. It's 66% for December:

http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/countdown-to-...
Exactly. Tried to explain that to people many times, and they didn't listen when it was just about refugees. They sure as hell are not gonna listen now.
> It's dishonest to compare openly fighting ISIS with blowing up and shooting civilians as a primary mean.

That's all well and good to say when you know enlisting in the US military in conventional warfare against ISIS has a good chance of succeeding.

But what if the US was the small poor state and ISIS was the world's largest economy whose military targets were too well-defended to attack?

I'm sure you'd find lots of recruits in Texas for "guerilla special units behind enemy lines". Especially if cruise missiles and drone strikes were hitting US soil every other day.
Exactly. If you have a steady income, there's no reason you shouldn't be working on a buffer to separate yourself from bills by at least a month.
Living the dream!
It would be interesting to see the number of wounded. There is usually a disproportionate amount of people wounded vs fatalities.
The problem seems to me to be that a very small minority of gullible people wants to make their mark on society, and since they have no way to do that in a positive way they use a negative one.

Just like there will be people blaming 'all of Islam' for this atrocity there will be people on the other side that blame 'all of the West' either for their own inability and failure or as as a reaction to the inequalities in the society they are a part of an which they will find it hard to overcome. It is these people that are at risk of being radicalized, the smart ones (like yourself) never were at risk in the first place, have found their niche and simply want to live their lives as good as they can, like everybody else.

It's a pity because these few would be harmless fools if they weren't given the tools and instructions with which they then proceed their crimes, and probably they relish at the thought of the headlines they will be making.

Unfortunately there is no shortage of people that would very much like to blame their own personal failure on others or that would exact blind revenge on innocents for perceived or real sleights instead of seeking redress in a less violent manner.
> Why?

Your not limited to a single response. You could turn the URL red for a week and then after that do a popup etc. hell you could stup a browser to ignore expiration dates with minimal impact.

Remember, certificates are not some binary entity. You can have high and low trust certificates ex: trust to sign OS code, trust to sign user land code etc.

Your stuck in binary terms which are useless from a security standpoint.
You should watch the cppcon2015 keynotes

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/CPP/CppCon-2015/Writing-Goo...

static checking of the core guidelines is the entire reason they are writing them. This isn't just a nice literary exercise

The static checker is found here (obviously still under development)
https://github.com/Microsoft/GSL
> "For Islamic true believers"

I don't know any muslims personally, but I doubt that a majority of muslims, at least in the western world, believe ISIS has redeeming qualities. Is that true? Like what are those qualities that peaceful practitioners of Islam can redeem all those rapes and murders? Have you seen the Vice documentaries of kurdish fighting ISIS? ISIS are insane. They murder everyone. Even their own members: non-arabic speaking ISIS converts are used for suicide attacks. Tell me what redeems this behavior, wait I already know, nothing redeems this. Absolutely nothing in the mind of anyone who abhors violence and wishes for peace. You know, sane people.

Even other terrorists say ISIS goes to far. Hamas has spoken out against ISIS!
This is ISIS, at least that's the best guess of most of the experts being quoted in the media (and most rational observers of world news).
I'm not convinced that people linking immigrants and terrorism are particularly worried about the actual immigrants turning out to be terrorists in disguise. It's more a worry that they will just add to the ghettoisation of Islamic communities, which is precisely where this latest crop of French terrorists seem to have sprung from.
Differential Topology – Lecture 1 by John W. Milnor (1965) [video]
Another +1 to YNAB here. You can get the 30 trial and extend it another 30 days if you ask. Additionally, Steam will put it on sale during the holidays so it can be bought for a reduced price through that platform.

What I like most about YNAB is the flexibility. It can be hard at times to follow the rules they set, but that is one of the rules! 'Roll with the punches'.
Would love to hear from the people down-voting. Is this data flawed / limited / not consistent with personal experience? I've heard people like Bill Maher cite this survey before. I'm sure there are different and interesting perspectives in the HN community-- please don't just reflexively downvote or avoid addressing this because it's uncomfortable.
> The response by Patio11 regarding how this was acceptable penetration testing was beyond stupid.

Actually, from a security perspective, its quite understandable. If you provide a tool that claims to be safe from state actors, they can use that kind of power to attack it.

That said, if it didn't pass the usual protocols at the university for ethical standards they can and should be fired regardless of the client or reason.
Belated thanks for pointing this out! Grafana is now getting some serious play here, and it would get more if I could figure out how to make the term searches work :)
Introducing the Ultimate Diamond
Basically a regime of very low interest rates alongside tighter regulatory requirements creates things that haven't been seen before. Negative swap spreads for example mean that investors consider credit risk of swaps lower than US treasuries, which are supposed to be the golden unattainable standard of safety. The reason for that is that swaps are collateralized, that is counterparties in a swap are obliged to give each other money they are owing pretty much each day so you are on the hook just for 1 day market movement. Not so with treasuries and faith in US treasury seem to down.

Negative corporate bond inventories happened because new rules make it very burdensome for banks to hold corporate bonds because of reserve capital requirements. So bank sell their inventories and because there are many non-banking financial institutions that seem to have an appetite for corporate bonds, banks sell even more bonds than they have (being "short").

For the same reason synthetic credit is popular. Instead if holding an asset (corporate bond in this case) you recreate synthetic position with derivatives. For example, if you buy a right to buy a bond at a certain price and at the same time sell a right to sell a bond at the same price, it is essentially the same as if you bought a bond (bond forward strictly speaking, but we will omit the difference here).
French should be concerned about losing more liberties due to knee-jerk reaction from politicians wanting to "do something". Mass surveillance under the pretext of anti-terrorism.

Be alert.
here is the tool
https://github.com/Microsoft/GSL

Introduced in this year's cppcon
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/CPP/CppCon-2015/Writing-Goo...
In my experience, when people say there aren't new projects written in C++ it really means, "I'm a web or 'enterprise' developer, and we don't use C++."

There's a huge world outside of those two categories, and there's tons of new C++ projects being written.
Law of conservation of complexity
> I'm not convinced that people linking immigrants and terrorism are particularly worried about the actual immigrants turning out to be terrorists in disguise.

You'd be really surprised. Your point is a valid one, but one I seldom see brought up - most people are just worried that for every 100 immigrants there's a couple of actual terrorists in the lot... Mostly because nobody's told them how stupid that notion is.
the revelation that there is or was a flaw of that scale is a service to the Internet

Right on all points regarding Tor's failures, except this above is the crux of the problem. Specifically, that the researchers did NOT disclose this to either the Tor project or the broader security community. They disclosed it to the Feds, pulled their presentation, and sat on it presumably forever until third parties smelled something fishy.

Patrick and you are correct in your criticism of the criticism, but the fact that academic security researchers have become obsequious functionaries to state power is a MUCH larger issue here, so much so that you are arguing at completely orthogonal purposes to many of us.

My guess is that this orthogonality is lost on AMEDICALRe, and theirs on you.
There were active shooters in this instance.

Not much you can do about bombs, see Timothy McVeigh.
> I am afraid. Seriously.

This is exactly what the attackers want you to be. Don't let them win.
We visited France/Paris for our marriage anniversary back in June; and the city left a lasting impression on for over the course of 4 days.

All I can say is; don't change your fundamentals. Then they have won. It's just a larger version of your bitcoin demanding DDOS bandits. Once you give in, humanity will fail.

I am more worried about the innocent people who are going to suffer because of this.
Python 3 broke backwards compatibility and everyone stayed on 2 as a result. Why is breaking backwards compatibility "for the hell of it" in C++ not going to have the same problem? Codebases stay in stasis, stuck on older compilers, for far less drastic reasons. And I've found that modernizing a codebase is a lot easier if you can compile it to test your incremental changes.

Talking about a magic wand that makes source-to-source changes on a 100MLOC codebase trivial is pure fantasy - requiring you to ignore that even in the best version control systems, the resulting ~10MLOC merge is going to cause a lot of merge conflicts (some of which will be incorrectly resolved) and history clutter. To say nothing of all the poor bastards who are satisfied with the occasional tarball per release. Who are still doing better than the people who can't be bothered to backup the code they wrote directly on the server it will run on. And nevermind the fact that at least some of your downstream customers are still using some old compiler that they're stuck with - the only option for some legacy embedded platform they can't eliminate yet, made by that company that went out of business.

And maybe that kind of cost would be worth it - for the right reasons, given the right motivations. But I feel like I'm looking at a laundry list of mostly minor, tiny issues, that are a "solved problem" in the form of existing warnings. I can crank them up to errors as I modernize a codebase. You can enable them by default in your build systems and IDEs. You can mandate them across your organization, and in your contracts. You can incrementally apply them per library as you get around to doing more maintenance on them.
I read his wife's name and had to go check that Marissa Meier, wife of Sid Meier, is not the same person as Merissa Meyer, CEO of Yahoo.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Me and my family are in no immediate danger now. We don't live near France. But between the war in Ukraine (actually quite closer to my home) and immigration crisis, the perceived tension is pretty high. I am afraid because things like this tend to spiral out of control, and society is a fragile thing.
Thanks! I didn't realize that was the tool, I thought it was merely supporting libraries.
Where do you think Tor came from in the first place? The US Naval Research Lab. Why do you think the USG went to CMU for this research? Because CMU has been a bastion of state-funded computer security research since the 1990s.

No, the big story here is that Tor was broken for a pittance. But that story is a lot less fun than demanding scalps from CMU, because it suggests that you might not in fact be able to thwart national SIGINT agencies with volunteer open source projects, and we nerds demand a monopoly on technological skill.
Both my parents were programmers. It was useful because they could help each other with learning and career advancement.

Personally, I'd prefer a non-programmer girlfriend. I like variety and I think it's really important to be exposed to different kinds of people.
Thanks.

My stay in Asia was extended 'till the end of this month. One of the things that bounce in my head now is - what Europe will I come back to?
Why do you copyright your comments?
I think this is the beginning of the end of DevOps for small organizations. Release and infrastructure engineers are expensive.
This seems to be mainly a problem in Europe (and France in particular) as opposed to Islam in general. Even the study you've linked indicates that.

Here is an article that explores a bit more the attitudes among American Muslims in particular. I don't have time to find the actual study, sorry:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/a-fascin...
We have been doing vulnerability and malware scanning of images at FlawCheck.com for quite some time. If you are interested in scanning everything inside the image, would be happy to demo it.
I completely agree with you that we shouldn't be using applications that demand more permissions than are obviously needed, but...

...the top 10 flashlight apps in the Play store require network access, camera access, address book access, etc. I can't believe that there would be any great complaint among the majority of android users if Netflix asked for microphone access. And that's exactly why we need the ios-style permissions that google is finally bringing to android.
What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It? (2004)
Why do I get the sense that the advertising industry has a death wish. It's like there is periodically some secret meeting somewhere where they hatch plans for how they can get even the littlest old lady to hate them so much that they run ad blockers on everything and everywhere.

BTW, I have always wondered why there are seemingly no solutions for blocking ads on a regular old TV, even if it's just a matter of muting the ads and then unmuting for the show/movie.

I remember I used to have a TV that you could easily set a timer on a channel when a commercial block started and then flip through the other channels and once the timer was up it would automatically switch back to the channel with the show or movie you were wanting to watch.

I get that that's not technologically very advanced, but the point is that that was many years ago and it's really not gotten better and even such simple solutions have disappeared and now we are left with highly sophisticated systems that will not allow for easy adding of ad blockers.
What was the cost of that "safety" ? There is no such thing as a free lunch it seems
Please give an example of a US terrorist attack on a theater/school/whatever when the citizens stopped the attack.
Please just give up religion altogether. Read "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins and step into the 21st century.
Have you ever met a five year old?
Fair enough. But I would argue that qualifying Tor as a group targeting world governments is a bit dramatic. That may be propagandist commentary on their part - they're entitled to make it, and people still use Tor in spite of it - but isn't the primary intention of Tor to preserve free speech and anonymity, and to offer protection from persecution (or prosecution) by nation-states that seek to quell dissent? And if all the worlds' governments are truly the stated target of Tor, why on earth should an American academic institution insinuate itself into that battlefield? For that matter, given the stated powers of our governments network and data analysis engines, why were they even needed?
Since this neural net is trained to respond as a professional would to a given board state - could it be that a 'naive' or less sophisticated level of play would elucidate a matching level of response ?

Concretely, if the player plays worse does the net respond at that level ?