skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it could wait for a day or two, this is happening right now and it is entirely disrespectful to those involved to derail this into some argument contra the surveillance state.
Border controls are one thing. Freedom of movements is another. Being forced to flash id card at the border is not the same as the border officer being able to refuse entry to a legal EU citizen.
Tortila Chips them selves are a modern (highly likely american) invention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortilla_chip
They weren't mass produced till the 40's and even indepth research of Mexican and Mexican-American/Lantio-American cuisine can't find even a remote reference to them earlier than the mid 1930's.
Nacho's are also not exactly "traditional" Mexican food.

If you refer to targeted optimization for mass consumption of a massively produced product then everything undergoes that process it's not like a "traditional" Chinese product will not be optimized locally to appeal to as many people as possible in the local market (insert a literally billion people pun here).
I doubt that all Chinese like their fish sauce exactly the same so I'm pretty sure that which ever fish sauce brand dominates the Chinese market is quite heavily optimized to appeal to as many pallets as possible.
They're an ex-colonial power that still throws it's weight around the geopolitical stage, and still sends it's military against the developing world. Just last week they moved their aircraft carrier to Syria, for example.
[live] Shooting and Explosions in Paris
Appears like the French military got fully mobilized. So I'd agree, military checkpoints at the borders seems plausible. They've certainly been setting up checkpoints all around Paris.
Possibly we knew but couldn't risk warning DGSE and compromising our sources.
Tech useful for surviving it might be more our thing, though...
2015 this does already exist, but only for the mobile Android app, and it's opt-in. So as you type a status update, it will listen for any music or TV audio and determine what you are listening to.
Perhaps I was too blunt. I didn't intend a negative tone. I'm a big fan of Kelsey and very appreciative of his work. My comment was about what practical effect I think him being employed by Google vs CoreOS will have, which I think is very little. His recent change was just to better align him with the work he had already been doing.
I'm far from a 'surveillance advocate' and yet I think that it is pretty tasteless of those on the opposite side of that fence to do exactly the same thing.
Everything you don't hear about.
Meaningful use for EHR is completely different from IT security practices. Additionally, payments for implementing new EHR systems are declining to zero; it was a temporary measure. I think you don't really understand what is implied by "meaningful use" measures.

It's also pretty misleading to use hospital payment data from 2011, pre-ACA, as reimbursement structure has changed massively in just a few years, massively altering hospital financial models.

I think both of my points stand.
I presume you mean internment of minorities, immigrants, and/or refugees?
Didn't the French parliament pass a bill recently granting the intelligence and security apparatus greater powers to persecute and watch over people without warrants?

Apparently this method is not working at all.
To benchmarks do not a significant performance difference make. If anything, this shows how devs who have only worked with DX11 struggle in OpenGL, and how Nvidia's drivers suck compared to their windows varieties.

I'd be curious as to AMD (Free and catalyst) and Intel benchmarks compared, but I bet that "Other than Nvidia, Graphics on SteamOS are on-par" is as good a headline.

A poorly-written article that wouldn't have seen the light of day in the Ars of yore (forgive the appeal to antiquity).
Unraveling of complex systems is very interesting discipline. We are so fragile. And we intentionally put resilience at the bottom of the priorities. Right now Europe needs people that refuse to be intimidated and simultaneously do not turn into bloodthirsty fiends. But we must have began the process of instilling said culture a decades ago.
> Of course, the same argument apply to the axiom that the rights don't exist

Rights aren't material things, they don't exist in any external sense in any case. A "right" (in the moral, rather than legal, sense), inalienable or otherwise, is a just a statement of someone's moral preference. Clearly, these moral preferences exist in people, and, equally clearly, they differ between people.

> However, there is a lot of weight to the argument that there is a common list of universally reprehensible wrongs (murder, rape, etc.).

No, there's not. Well, I mean, sure, its tautologically true (and unsurprisingly widely accepted) that murder, in the sense of wrongful killing, is wrong.

OTOH, when you try to look for some common universal definition of when killing is wrongful, there's a lot less agreement. (The same is true of the other examples you've named, in the parent on great-grandparent posts.)

So, you've got some vague agreement that there are common names from wrongs, but the actual definitions of the wrongs with those names is different. That doesn't really support all that much of a common idea of wrongs implying a common idea of rights.

> I'm not sure why people are so eager to disprove the existence of rights, to be honest.

I'm not so interested in disproving the existence of rights as in getting people to understand that invoking the idea of "inalienable rights" doesn't really, outside of providing a rhetorical flourish, accomplish anything. Because the existence, and even moreso the definition, of those rights is not universally shared, what the invocation invariably amounts to is a circular argument where the supposedly inalienable right in question is defined in precisely the way needed to support the position the person is arguing for.

Which is perfectly convincing if you already agreed with the conclusion, but entirely unconvincing, if you did not.

"Why should we do (or refrain from doing) X? Because Y is an inalienable right and includes within its scope a mandate to do (or refrain from doing) X." Is just not a meaningful argument.

Unless the discussion is among people who have already agreed to the definition of Y being used.
BlackBerry had it too. There was a tree of permissions (broad categories at the top, specifics in the leaves) and you could set permissions to deny, allow or ask each time.
In my years and travels, I've settled on the fact that the only solution to those "assholes" that destroy community fabric is overwhelming force. You cannot reason with someone who has nothing to lose.
> To say there are no absolute rights is to say there are no absolute wrongs

There aren't any absolute rights or wrongs, there aren't any absolute morals at all; right and wrong is always a point of view and no one can lay claim to having the absolute and only correct ones.
Tech that enables education, work training, and cultural assimilation for disenfranchised minority youths is frowned upon in civil liberties circles?
Yeah, coarse-grained permissions are complicated

Sometimes they need it for only one feature. But in this case it could ask for permission for only a specific task, but since this functionality is not present (I think IOS allows on-demand permissions) it must be asked "for ever"
Borders = streets, airport, train. You can't control the physical "green borders" in Schengen
Please read the HN guidelines and you will understand that this site is not just about tech. Indeed that's the most important thing to understand about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They are unjust by modern morality, morality changes over time, it is not absolute.
The War on Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital
Patent explained: http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/11/12/apple-invention-us...
this is what I thought too.. France is a Western country and is probably much easier to target than e.g. the U.S. or even the UK
'Shootings' Reported in Central Paris – Reddit Thread
http://www.howtogeek.com/230683/how-to-manage-app-permission...
I was going to mention this same presentation, but you beat me to it. He does a wonderful job with the code, as well and keeping the material interesting, and he has a good sense of humor. I'm looking forward to the videos he's working on for Egghead.io.
Yes, HN has become one of the best places to talk about things like this.

Reddit discussions become overrun with useless comments. Stupid memes, puns, and just other irrelevant drivel.

Many of the mainstream news outlets have lagging facts, horrible commenting (if any) and biased/washed/slanted reporting.

HN thoroughly discourages both worthless commenting and links to worthless news sources.

For me personally, I much prefer following stories like this on HN vs anywhere else.
This is not a technology problem.
There are still checkpoints at every major road crossing any border. Usually they are empty, but now the French Customs will be checking every car.

They will likely be similar military/Customs presence at checkin for any international train or flight.
Islamic State threatened Europe and Russia, promising caliphate, bloodshed
Of course, but there are things that can't be avoided like seeing your doctor about that pain you've been feeling/paying bills/finding a job/finishing that task your boss asked you to do/doing house work etc. Procrastinating can appear in various different areas of life, not just in those related to following your dreams and passions.
The people of France elected a government which began bombing Syrians last year, I guess some Syrians thought turn about is fair play and decided to bomb some Frenchmen. The French should just throw in the towel on the imperialism game.

I think I'll go watch my copy of "The Battle of Algiers".
Are you referring to Muslim attitudes towards anyone not Muslim?
??? elasticsearch good for everything.. looks like the computers got cheap and fast enough to do almost anything.
Why not put the data in sql database? I suppose this will be much better

But nothing seems strange when in order to monitor 1 server you have to run 10 machine cluster with elasticsearch log collector
Which suggests an alternative (partial) solution: make sure that people in general have lots to lose especially those on the fringes of society.
I'd like to see a ban on live threads, when these things happen.

Beyond reporting emergency contact info they serve no purpose other than encouraging the next attack.
While not exactly what you want, and more than a little imperfect, you should be aware of Velocity Raptor[1]

[1] http://www.testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html
No, it didn't. iOS originally gave apps access to just about everything except background execution without any warning. At the time Android had the superior permissions model, with each app telling you what it needed at install and you being in control of whether or not you wanted to install it with that information. Older iOS apps had access to your photos, your contacts, and other stuff and could use it with no warning to you.

As a result of early privacy breaches, later releases of iOS added per-function permissions on demand, leap-frogging Android in terms of permissions functionality. Android has had some level of per-function permissions on demand in the works since Android 4.4 -- and you could use it in unofficial Android builds like CyanogenMod by turning off individual permissions for apps -- but the feature only finally made it into official builds in Android 6.0. It also got it properly in the API and manifest of apps as well so they can ask permissions as they need them... like the Facebook app needing access to your photos when you select to attach a photo to a post.
I'm shocked to see that from you. You don't have enough information to make such a claim, and it's a horrible thing to say about someone otherwise—especially when (as I tried to make clear in the thread you linked to) their health may be involved.

You know enough about HN not to do this.
Please, wars of religions are from the 16th century [1].

In 2015, it's probably more linked with the foreign affairs and military operations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Wars_of_Religion
This #PorteOuverte hashtag thing would be cool, if there weren’t a million people talking about how awesome the hashtag is, drowning out the ones actually offering shelter. I browsed through 20 pages of tweets with the hashtag, and only one out of hundreds was actually a Parisian looking for shelter, and none were people offering shelter. Most were talking about how great the hashtag is—inadvertently destroying its usefulness.
Anthony Daniels contemplates C-3P0's death and the voice of a protocol droid
Traveling from China to Europe on a cargo ship
I've tried dating non-technical people and this experience sums it up:

My friend and I are white boarding algorithm challenges for fun, having nerd talk. My boyfriend says, "I'm going to play video games while you guys do nerd stuff. I don't understand it anyways"

It's funny but it would be nice to have a partner that can join in. ><
It's not primarily a technology problem, but I think there are technological solutions which will help mitigate the harm to innocents.

(There's also a whole suite of technology problems here solved via JDAMs and Hellfires, which seem to be actively being pursued.)
The verbiage of 'poisoning the well' is a well understood figure of speech.
True, but that means long lines waiting at the borders between countries again (hours for citizens, days for trucks). The damage would be enormous.
There's a reason whether someone has life insurance is used as a signal when determining if they're a terrorist.
It would have to sit between your source(s) and TV and decrypt/recrypt the audio in realtime -- which means it would need to support the various codecs in use today.

Would be easier to buy external speakers and wire it up with those.
Uber for hostage rescue?
How to Save American Colleges
Somewhere I remember dang saying so to my account.
It's a lot easier for the terrorists to get into France, compared to, say, the US.
They can. But you can then enter Options and turn those specific permissions off. Apps like that get fake data, like an empty contact list or that the device doesn't have GPS present/turned on.
How is Europe an alternative to Capitalism or Evolution?
It looks like it uses xmpp more like the way Google wave did than regular im but I can't tell for sure, I signed up but wasn't able to login with a browser and they only have Linux-ish native apps.
There are initiatives like location-aware alerts on your smartphone, dedicated channels for emergency broadcasts...

Reminds me of this thing they have in Amsterdam: http://www.iamexpat.nl/read-and-discuss/expat-page/news/neth...
Sandstorm does have an email app (roundcube), though admittedly it's a little weird to use right now. We plan to make Sandstorm work better as an email server in the future, probably early 2016-ish.
And then they waited until 3GS to have multimedia messaging. Let's not argue the benefits of one OS over another and derail the discussion into a fan service announcement.
Paris attacks: 60 reported killed; hostage situation ongoing
If there were no Muslims, there would be almost no terror attacks. Conversely, if there were more Muslims, there would be more terror attacks.
> Hospitals (and the health care industry at large) has been drowning in billions-with-a-B federal and state dollars since ARRA.

For the US Healthcare industry, billions-with-a-b (for the period since ARRA in 2009) in public funds isn't enough money to drown in. Its not even enough money to get noticeably damp -- its a $3.8 Trillion (annually) industry (something like, IIRC, 40% of which is public funds, so its not even all that big of a delta in public funds.)
Just roadblocks. Noting fancy for temporary and emergency.
Obligatory SMBC reference

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2999
David Attenborough: Humans Are Plague on Earth
So why didn't the NSA report this suspicious activity to the French authorities?
Destabilizing countries with mass murder turns citizens into terrorist sympathizers.
My lab in computational structural biology has had to develop software to face similar challenges using HPC resources. One PhD student in our lab probably spent a year writing a client-server application to execute hundreds of compute jobs using the systems job scheduler (instead of working on actual problems in biology). Due to restrictions in the HPC environment, the code had to be fault-tolerant to clients and server being killed due to wall clock exceeding 24 hours. As you might expect, the student had no experience with distributed computing, so the "software" is actually thousand of lines of incomprehensible BASH and C code.

I do like the sound of an open-source framework for HPC though, I run computations across dozens of national supercomputers and they're all very different.
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And remember. Java/J2ME phones had this since their inception.
At my work we have a Devops Hour class that covers high level topics, typically has take-aways and homework if you want to do it (with a fabulous prize so yay incentive). I would say setting up a server and deploying your apps to it would be a useful exercise.
The strongest answer is that bluetooth beacons don't work well in huge infrastructure. Sometimes you don't have a place for them to go or they get stolen. Also it's free to use the speaker infrastructure, but outfitting and managing hundreds of beacons is not cheap. Some of our clients have switched to audio beacons for similar reasons.

The Brooklyn Museum did a nice writeup of why bluetooth beacons at scale didn't work for them.

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/2015/02...
And here come the "Obviously this is going to happen, France is 10% muslim" posts.

If you marginalize people, mistrust them, do not make an effort to integrate them, and make them feel like the only place where they are welcome is segregated communities, don't be surprised when they radicalize. This has happened all throughout history, and will continue without changes.

Conservatives scream that Liberals are too soft on immigration, and are too focused on "political correctness". They want them to wake up and recognize that scary "others" are around every corner and can't wait to harm us. Well, the irony is that it is those social policies and that ostracization that creates the conditions in which resentment grows.

And here we are. Screaming more about "those muslims". Which only pushes moderate muslims further to feel like there is no tolerance for nuiance in the West.

This will do gangbusters for ISIS recruitment.

edit: Just so people understand, I'm not victim blaming anyone. I am traumatized as one of my favourite cities and areas that I've been to only weeks ago are in the grips of panic and terror at the hands of horrific monsters.

I'm not saying "Well yeah, of course, that's what's going to happen. France had it coming". I'm responding to the people who are saying "Well, yeah, of course, that's what's going to happen. When you allow so many immigrants and muslims have free reign".
I'm looking ahead at the next few weeks as people take this opportunity to just blame everything on Islam. And make the situation worse longer term.
What is the best way to follow this live when you don't have cable?
A mature response is to start discussion ASAP and bring in more information as it becomes known. Entering a state of faux paralysis out of some sort of sense of 'too soon' gets us nowhere. It's also not like terrorist attacks are new to Europe - this one is a bit bigger than normal, but it's not a 9/11-scale outlier.
If you think an HN thread is is encouraging an attack... might as well shut down twitter, facebook, all versions of press and publishing first
This is me. What's the reason behind this? Is this because it gives me the "I'm doing something productive" feeling while simultaneously doing nothing productive?
> I don't understand why France is being targeted in this way. They are hardly terrorist enemy number one.

Maybe because they let into their borders too many losers whose worldview renders them incapable of finding their way around the western the world? Maybe no more reasons are needed? No politics, no aims, nothing to gain, just a bunch of frustrated losers?
Kind of annoying. Without proper context, it just gives the impression that someone left a stray artifact in a recent commit that got deployed accidentally.
It's possible even with Schengen. A clause in the Schengen convention (in article 2.2) authorizes states to reinstate border checks in exceptional circumstances.

> Where there is a serious threat to public policy or internal security, these countries may exceptionally reintroduce border controls at its internal borders for a period of no more than 30 days (possible to prolong under conditions established by the code) or for the foreseeable duration of the serious threat. This action should be seen as a last resort.

source: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:l...

France was actually going to reinstate some border checks from November 13 to December 13 for the COP21.
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First thing I did was inspect element on it... class="mourning"... oh :(
Wait until one of them (or their children) is hooked to a machine his company made, then administer a nearly lethal dose?

Is it justified if the wake-up call saves thousands of lives down the line...
probably Twitter
(Not the original commenter) I suppose because of the short range relative to concert venue sizes, and because generally BLE sucks.
The primary cause of these incidents seems to be radicalization of segments of society with 'nothing to lose'. The societal problems involved in the creation of such segments and what can be done about them is a large and complex issue in which some technology will for sure be useful but which is first and foremost a people problem. The seeds for these issues were sown many years ago (and in quite a few cases with those JDAMs and Hellfires which now magically are suddenly part of the solution) and will take decades to repair in a way that these incidents will no longer happen. France is (like several other EU countries) shaping up to become a laboratory about how, if and when these problems are going to be solved. I see no major role for technology here, not in mitigating the harm to innocents and not in the eventual solution. In fact, technology - by virtue of eliminating a large number of blue collar jobs, which gave people something to be proud of and something to lose - is also part of the problem.
The dangerous ideological heterogeneity I was referring to: see Ferguson, EU vs. Greece, US vs. immigrants... Regardless:

> Someone hard-working with a 130 IQ versus someone depressed or maladjusted with a 90 IQ

Capitalism doesn't do a "decent job handling those extremes," it does a fantastic job creating those extremes. The latter person you mentioned is either highly exploited and/or rejected from society and given a tragic, humiliating life. Our capitalism is divisive, unjust, and destructive.
Except with a QR code, I have to physically turn on my camera and point it to the QR code, i.e. I have to intend to process the QR code. Inaudible audio seems to be something that would not require user intention.
Rahel Bailie on content strategy–and the tech “ism” no one discusses
There's also a comparatively low-tech piece of engineering we law abiding Europeans don't have access to that may help individual citizens in cases like these.
The reddit live link posted in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10562735
French and living in Paris here. I'm at home fortunately but I live nearby the places in the eastern side of Paris that were attacked.

Don't know what to say , just that I hope everybody and their families are safe.

This is hard, a very hard hit on my country. Vive la France.
Here's a live stream: http://www.france24.com/en/livefeed/