skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disappointed to see the comments downplaying the situation because as many people get killed in car accidents every week or whatever. Terrorist acts damage the social fabric far beyond the death toll. That's the whole point of terrorism.
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>I'm just suggesting look for patterns and produce models of what you can observe about human subjectivity.

Well yeah, but the whole problem with subjectivity is that it consists in the mind's model of the environment feeding back into the sensory inferences as inductive bias while the feature data extracted from the sensory inferences also trains the model of the environment.

Which is why people's first-hand "observations" aren't really observations in the scientific sense: "sensings" or "appearances" are actually theory-laden inferences.
The term leftist is derogatory slang used by conservatives, who's calling who names? The word you're looking for is liberal. However, you're correct, the country is swinging left, not right as a population, but the right has seized power at the state level with gerrymandering so the states are swinging right even as the populace swings more left.
I think the new Oracle Java for mobile devices is wonderful and will replace Google Android.
Many of the cultures inundating Europe now are from the 16th century and earlier.

Maybe if you stumble onto some of these terrorists in Paris now, you can inform them that their cause is just oh-so démodé? You can let us know how that works out.
Twitter could destroy any accounts that belong to or sympathise with organisations like ISIS. Why do they allow those cretins to have a voice?
Here are some perspectives:
https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/reflections-on-the-recent-pari...
The Telegraph has a feed: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/1199...
This is a bit of a strawman argument, F.lux is not in this category of silly apps. F.lux is a reasonable app it has a good track record respecting its users and is requested by many many users. It is about control.
You are right, but acknowledging these posts does nothing to help I am afraid.

I know this is not the best place to nitpick, but I believe you should capitalize the "m" in "Muslim" when used as a noun.
You are talking as if terrorism was a natural disaster, something you can compare statistically and impossible to confront. Terrorism makes you feel fear, even if it's irrational it impacts you and the society you live.
You demonstrate the colonialist mindset that doesn't understand other cultures seek other ideals than your own. Were the 9/11 hijackers "disenfranchised minority youths"?
> 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.

@deanCommie

Please, stop with the excuses , nobody marginalized anybody. The terrorists are not victims , the islamists are not victims. so don't give them excuses. The wide majority of muslims in France are integrated, they are bakers, plumbers , computer scientists , my baker is a muslim , so stop with that bull. There is no excuse none.

10% of the french people are muslims, that's a fact, out of that fact it increases the chances of people chosing an extreme vision of islam. There was attacks in Spain , UK and obviously USA, is it because muslims were marginalized ? so stop please, you are ignorant trying to apply your post modernist canvas on things when some people are still taken hostage as we speak, you should be ashamed of yourself.

FYI : I'm black and come from a muslim family though i'm not muslim, those who fail are those who don't try hard enough, nobody said it will be easy. Everything is "free" in France, education , college, healthcare , you feel "marginalized" , well there is Europe and you can basically pick and choose the country you want to live in today. So no excuses, enough.
What are you responding to? Did someone on HN write that about Muslims?
I do believe they claim that they use inaudible sounds, i.e. something outside a human's hearing range. Sorry, but chances are your TV is going wonky on you.
AOT compiler....

Compiler to native code? aren't the big performance gains done in the JVM?
The hard driver parts are for things like LTE, GPS, GSM, wifi, camera, etc. which the device manufacturers haven't chosen to open-source. I don't see how it's relevant to Android itself, any other OS would have the same problems with that hardware.
Or could it be that they are just completely desperate brainwashed youth rejected by society? Makes more sense.
Fine. How about when somebody creates a thread proposing increased surveillance you combat it there? Or perhaps lay out a powerful argument against it if someone proposes increased surveillance in this thread? Right now there is an active crime with mass fatalities (and some of use know people in France in the Paris area) and really, it's inappropriate, a bit tasteless, and frankly counterproductive to bring it up gratuitously here. If you delete your comment, I'll delete mine.
How many citizens show we permit to be slaughtered in the name of unwavering tolerance?

EDIT: There is preventing integration as a host nation's people, and refusing to integrate as an immigrant. One can only do so much to make a person feel welcome in a country as their new home. You may bring your beliefs, but you'll follow the laws and human rights expectations of your host country. Otherwise, stay at home, war torn or not.

Disclaimer: American who is unwilling to watch first world country progress move backwards due to political correctness.
There is a lot wrong with this post, but really, now is not the time to victim blame or make political posts like this.
It's sad to see two comments in this thread in that vein already. Being a Muslim or not has nothing to do with it.
I think we should all be asking ourselves this question.
Who said they haven't and who said such acts weren't foiled by intelligence agencies before?
A different take ... from 1899 ...

"Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."

-Winston Churchill, from "The River War"

source : http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/churchillislam.asp
> As the nation moves farther and farther to the right

But it isn't, the right is dying, it's a party largely made up of old white people and rich people. They've gained power by gerrymandering to hide the fact that the population is growing ever more liberal every year.
Presumably because it's easier to track the contacts made between these sorts of organizations and those who sympathize with them.
The people who really know what they are doing make the complicated stuff seem dirt simple. I had Dave as the instructor for my undergrad compilers and operating systems courses back in 2000-2001. His lectures then were every bit as enlightening as his PyCon talks today. Those courses were demanding but extremely fun.
If you can predict next value in the sequence you can achieve better compression (xor predicted value and actual, not previous and next - http://users.ices.utexas.edu/~burtscher/papers/dcc06.pdf), but I don't think that Prometheus developers are using this.

And BTW, I don't believe in 2.5-3.5 bytes per data-point somewhere outside synthetic benchmarks.
Uh huh. Must be why America is constantly terrorized by mass killings committed by Hispanic immigrants or poverty stricken blacks.

I'm sorry but you can't just say "this is the inevitable outcome of marginalization". There are plenty of marginalized groups that choose not to commit mass murder in the name of justice.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10373074.
So many apps request permissions that would make this possible that I believe that it is a real threat.
You don't have to trust us (though you can -- trust me :-)). Take a look at the source, check some references of happy Scala users. Submit a PR to fix what you don't like. Ask a question on our forums/stack overflow.

Whatever you decide, I'd recommend rounding out your view of Scala by consulting more sources than Paul's rants. There's a lot of hyperbole there. This of course doesn't mean he's wrong, and we've certainly listened to him and fixed some of the issues he complained about (I was in the front row of that talk).
Top comments in the primary Reddit thread at the time of this post (using 'top' sorting): https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3sphue/shootings...

1. Updated chronology of news with source links

2. Practically important publicization of #porteouverte effort

3. Updated chronology of news as experienced by Parisian local

4. First-person account of person who was present at theatre shooting

5. ... content-light junk starts. More than halfway down the page.

There's interesting commentary in this HN thread that I'm not seeing upvoted to visibility on Reddit, so it is valuable. But there is a ton of uniquely valuable stuff on the Reddit thread, and that is consistently the case in these live serious news situations.

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And 10 minutes after I posted this, the top comment on this very HN thread and all its replies are all empty sentiment. "vive la france", "hearts go out", "be safe", etc.
One of the first HN comments on this was "I bet attacks like these will increase in the years ahead, since France will become 10.9% Muslim by 2050."
It is imho already absolutely ridiculous that everyone here is already acusing French muslims or refugees.
I think terrorism is a far greater contributor to destabilizing countries than anti-terrorism attacks.
What does "backer" mean?
Edit: Ahh, you changed it to baker. My mind was wandering all over but there.
> make sure that people in general have lots to lose especially those on the fringes of society

What do you mean by this? It sounds a bit ominous, if you'll pardon me.
Not to say that this thread doesn't provide value but the Reddit thread is full of useful comments including information from people who are in paris. No memes or useless comments that I can see.
Yes. For instance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10563123
So they are just Muslim by coincidence?
Surveillance is like XML; if it doesn't solve your problem, you're not using enough of it.
Are you referring to the western powers which have killed millions of Muslims this last decade?
Those groups do not have well funded organizations attempting to recruit their easily influenced youths into their ranks to do deeds against their fellow men.
I'm not cool with flashing ID. Could you imagine being in the US and having to go through checkpoints every time you crossed a state border?
Strength on you. What a mess, those poor people.
Warning: The authorities put a general curfew over multiple parts of Paris. Unless adviced to do so by the authorities, do not leave your house.
As an American, I don't often say this, but: Vive la France.

Stay safe.
yes. the damage goes way beyond the death toll. it will be interesting to see how (if) this impacts current policies towards the middle east/syria/isis, personal freedoms/surveillance laws etc.

maybe it will also have a side-effect of uniting people and countries against a common threat to all humanity.
Or a fairly simple, and unfortunately satisfying, explanation; this attack is an official action intended to provide a political climate conducive to power consolidation.

Too bad it smells like a conspiracy theory.
Gee, I wonder when they will finally tell us that the ones responsible are in fact, islamic terrorists. Mark my words HN, this is just the beginning. I wonder when things like this will happen in other European countries. Germany is a likely candidate, as we are currently mass-importing the potential terrorist candidates.

And now, I'll just wait for the downvotes I guess.
Many Muslim neighborhoods are aggressive and even violent to outsiders. They are often the ones making the conscious effort not to integrate.
Like you need 10% of the population to be marginalized to carry out a couple of gun attacks. Smugling a dozen people and then arming them isn't exactly rocket science. Any exotic terror group could have done this even if 99% of the French were full-on patriotic right-wingers.
This is such a terrible event. Our hearts in Canada go out to you. Be safe.
State of emergency and closing borders are already personal freedom restrictions.
When you say "here come the..," which posts are you talking about?

It seems like your point is that the French are to blame because they didn't properly integrate Muslim immigrants?

This is shockingly bad taste. People are still dying, as we speak, and you decide to rail against a strawman and blame the victims because you are nervous about your political opponents making hay?
If you don't understand how then you must have not tried to do an internship while you were in college. It's not very hard, especially somewhere like Austin. It is not a miracle. I see close to 100 openings for interns at HireUTexas (hosted by UT) and over 200 postings on Indeed.

For students going to UT, I highly recommend an internship somewhere like RetailMeNot downtown. You could easily pay for your education and living expenses during school and have a job after. When I was there we were recruiting interns like crazy and paying up to $10k for relocation alone. They were very hands-on and had to learn a ton of practical skills. There are similar programs all over town -- you just need to have something (anything!) to demonstrate some basic skills and be willing to learn.
Having to call or chat support is the worst thing about Netflix support, most of the time I don't want to talk with someone on the phone about my problem and resolve it in realtime, I just want to send them an email, explain the issue, and then they can email me back in 24 hours.

I haven't tried their Chat support, but I assume it's like all of the other chat services where agents handle many customers at a time so it takes forever for each response back.
sorry i meant baker, corrected.
I obviously meant all live threads.
Stay safe!
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Same for Clojure, I had to go down to the java rabbit hole. I guess it applies to any JVM language if you want to run production software.
The challenge is to separate the legitimate refugees from those with nefarious intent isn't it. :(
Periscope was actually really interesting, in a terrible sense.
Western powers? Not so much.

"Al-Qaida Kills Eight Times More Muslims Than Non-Muslims"

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/surprising-study-o...

"ISIS’s Gruesome Muslim Death Toll:
The group’s killing of Westerners gets attention. But ISIS has killed far more Muslims, and publicizing that fact would harm it more."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/07/isis-s-grue...

"Well, if spilling Muslim blood is the deciding factor for us Muslims to decide who we should take vengeance against, then al-Ansi and others in al Qaeda should immediately go into hiding. Simply put, al Qaeda has been slaughtering Muslims for years. Islamic clerics, doctors, nurses, women, children, etc. -- you name any type of Muslim, and al Qaeda has butchered them.

In fact, a report released in 2009 by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point documented the people killed by al Qaeda between 2004 and 2008. It found that only 12% of the victims of al Qaeda were Westerners. That suggests that al Qaeda has killed seven times as many Muslims as non-Muslims. And these attacks were just the ones for which al Qaeda had publicly claimed responsibility."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/15/opinion/obeidallah-al-qaeda-hy...
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I think you're in error here. Benevol is talking about we need to talk about what kind of life we want to live, and this is a good time to talk about it. You yourself have been providing a lot of context in this thread (exhausting my upvote muscles...) talking about the same thing - why this is happening, sources of unrest, how to deal with the root problem, how technology is actually contributing to the problem... a tonne of context (thank you). But talking about surveillance laws dovetails into the gestalt of the problem, methinks.
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> USSR had 40000 nuclear warheards. Sure there should had been a couple lost

Unable to find a fence. Even I could fence gold and silver or copper. Rare earths would have me scratching my head a bit, but I could probably figure it out.

Uranium or plutonium? How would I even start? I'd have to try to sell to North Korea, Iran, or Pakistan or who else? How would I even come into contact with the appropriate people?
If it's inaudible, that means I can't hear it, how am I supposed to 'beware' of the thing I can't perceive?
There is nothing ominous about it. A person that is happy, has a life and a means of self-support as well as a family is likely not going to be easily turned against society. On the other hand if every door you try to open is closed and you're being pushed into the corner of having 'nothing to lose' then you might be influenced in a negative way. So better to make sure people have plenty to lose.
However, TV sound is band-limited (Analog TV at ~ 15kHz IIRC, the higher band is used for CC), not sure about digital tv, maybe 20kHz (not considering limitations on the sound circuits + speakers)
These are not excuses, these are explanations. Because we need to understand how to defuse radicalization.
O Wise Ones here! Can/Will this happen?

"Instead, the Central Bank of England and international financial institutions are proposing a side-chain like alternative blockchain networks, which either co-exist with the Bitcoin network or operate independently with its own security protocols and mining network, to grant certain level of control to network administrators to restrict transactions and the settlement of assets."
Makes more sense.

To whom - you? Based on what? Logic? You've made no argument. Based on an untested model of psychology bouncing around in your head?
Those of us who have been here for a while understand it.
While this is a horrible attack, they are completely right. Terrorism is not something that is happening everywhere and when we let our selves succumb to fear we risk over-reacting. The reason so many terrorists exist is in large part due to Western intervention.

I think a lot of people are afraid that these incidents will lead to more wars in the Middle East, create more terrorists, and cause more attacks. This will further erode our fourth amendment freedoms and probably the second too, which is exactly what the terrorists want.
The idea that anybody here would moderate HN for "political correctness" is Martian to me. Only someone who doesn't know us could imagine that.

There is no "HN crowd"; that's just a rhetorical construct people use to implicitly place themselves above others. Since you're commenting here, you're a part of HN as much as anyone else is.
>The wide majority of muslims in France are integrated

Sooooo many studies have been done where the same resume gets shown to recruiters, except one has a French name and the other has an Arabic name. The results were an overwhelming amount of french resumes were chosen over the Arabic one. Not to mention constant issues like police harassment

The issue of integration of purely the fault of a country that pretends that race doesn't matter while simultaneously punishing minorities every step of the way
To my mind, iOS security is where it needs to be for that device. I respect your opinion, but we're not going to agree on that. I've considered your argument and I don't see anything that changes the fundamental "so don't buy an iOS device, they do not have a monopoly and there are other fish in the sea". For my part, I'll keep buying them because I follow a similar philosophy that security changes are preeminent and should be allowed to break and constrain other software.

Thing is, if I believed the Mac was going to be ratcheted down to iOS levels of paternalistic control, I would be upset too. My conclusion is it'll never happen. I don't think they'll ever break their general purpose computer. If they did, you'd see a massive exodus of former Mac users looking for a new UNIX desktop. Maybe a big enough exodus to finally make The Year of the UNIX desktop happen. :)
There is an overwhelming likelihood that this is an attack by radical Islamists. From a purely rational probabilistic perspective, it's not ridiculous at all.
Well if they have reported it, why did it still happen? You are asking me to prove that the NSA hasn't foiled any attacks instead of asking the agency conducting mass surveillance to provide evidence? Just to give you an idea most terrorist attacks on US soil, foiled or not, have been directed by the FBI. Source is The Intercept.
Only because people like you seem to think it's such a big deal. If people were to look at it as it is and comprehend the scope of the matter, it wouldn't damage the social fabric.
I don't have access to an environment like this, but wasn't GNU Parallel designed for job scheduling across clusters? I'm not sure how tolerant it is of having the processes on the remote nodes killed, since I've never had to deal with that. I'm curious how much of the problem it solves, though.
It's working fine, thank you very much. Of course it has little to do with terrorism, but in the political theater one has to make excuses for the unwashed masses.
If it were universally ignored, it wouldn't damage the social fabric.
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A French news channel, BFMTV, reported that an attacker shouted Allahu akbar.
There's the evidence of her having recorded many hours of static after the pod fell for a few seconds.
It already has happened in other european countries..
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You can say the same about every new immigration group that arrived to the usa. Usually they are treated lot like crap at the beggining. As they integrate that marginalization disappears. I don't remember them becoming terrorist.

So no, I don't buy it you blaming the host country, in this case France.
Vive la France, my friend!
The problem is integration, sure, but it's also a mountain of bad foreign policy choices that enable radicalisations.

"We" (US, UK, France, Italy, Germany etc etc) have completely destabilised an entire subcontinent in the last 25 years. "We" keep pretending that these places are far away, far removed from our shining civilisations, but they are not -- they are on our doorstep, they have been our neighbours for millennia. Rome was fighting wars in that region when ships were still powered by human rowers. Until "we" think that a few drones is all we need to solve what is now a humongous clusterfuck (mostly of our own making), "we" will suffer wave after wave of lunatics with a death wish. Unfortunately, none of the current crop of European and American leaders has the faintest clue about what to do about it, except applying short-term measures that look good on tabloids.
I don't agree. There's a stark difference between a car accident and a fellow human being pumping rounds into people in your local restaurant. The other driver is not trying to kill you typically.
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