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Yup - when I expressed similar sentiments about the killing of Jihadi John, somebody sarcastically said I was trying to bring about world peace (I wouldn't mind).

We have to fight for enlightenment values, and need to lead by example - we can't make martyrs out of people.
Live coverage of Paris shootings
This is misleading. The first insulin patent was filed in 1912, and has long since entered the public domain. The drug has been vastly improved over the years, but only the newest version is still patent-protected. The reason why there are no generics in the US seems to be that unlike most drugs, where virtually the entire cost lies in R&D, all the known variants of insulins are very costly to produce. This is what this project aims at, gearing to develop a genetically modified E. coli strain, which would bring down the cost of production to that of citric acid.
French too living in France, but sorry I am fed up of hearing that. Don't you think there's something wrong with Islam and its worshippers in the current days ? Not a single week without hearing about an attack made by islam integrists: Beiruth yesterday, Ankara few weeks ago. It is global, not a few crazy people, tens of thousands of them.
Muslims in France have had hard time condeming the Charlie hebdo's attacks and many approved them. There's a strong tendency in the muslim communities these days to reject any Western values. If Islam was once peaceful it is not anymore.
As a muslim lurker of this amazing site I would like to express my sympathy to those who died and hope everyone will be safe.

Also, those with comments that are trying to cause fear and hatred, you are just making other muslims living in the west feel scared and sad. I swear, right now im scared taht one day some people will be treating muslims just like how Americans used to treat black people in Slavery era. Even worse, Im afraid we might see concentration camps like how Nazis did to Jews.
> Terrorist acts damage the social fabric far beyond the death toll. That's the whole point of terrorism.

And that's why we very much should not react by further damaging the social fabric ourselves, but that is extremely hard, especially when everybody will be clamoring for some kind of reaction.
I went on a google quest about this topic. Mapping my way through postscript, file encoding, pdf, xml, json. I eventually found my way onto a format that was right under my nose all along that kind of does all this. epub! Can extract to plain text, web, pdf, view natively, it's comprised of layers that you can use or not use, etc. Submitted it as it's own topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10563472
The French24 TV feed in English is pretty upto date http://www.france24.com/en/livefeed/

These look very much like the Mumbai attacks from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks

Basically they go after soft targets where large number of people gather (cafes, bars etc) - very hard to defend against if you have any kind of open society.

Whoever these Assholes are they deserve no mercy.
> While I wish this were true, do you not think the primary impetus is (likely) religious?

Not really; religious identity politics are often used by leaders (whose motivation seems to be more power-seeking than genuinely religious) to connect with foot-soldiers (whose real impetus seems often to be desperation to improve conditions for their family, or themselves, or to redress wrongs they feel have been done to their family or themselves, or to feel connected to a group and gain meaning.)

And you see the same thing done in other places with racial identity politics, economic class identity politics, national identity politics, etc. (And, in many cases, many of these are at play in the same movement.)
If people lack free will, then the people judging/punishing them also lack free will, and the entire premise of your arguement is an absurdity.
normally i'd say that it's not really paranoid if they're really out to get you...

but the attack vector described here. It requires too many devices actively compromised for any usable data to be gleaned. Manufacturers are somewhat sensitive to users demanding to control their devices peripherals. Microphones, webcams, cameras, speakers. It's not perfect, but there's enough moving parts here to make this kind of tracking seem bonkers.

For it to work, the person they have target will have blindly agreed to so many things that they have all the information they want on them anyway.
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Algeria.
> well above the U.S. and U.K. -- for instance, head coverings are not allowed in public schools

is that even really about separation of church and state? Somehow I doubt it.

Also the US takes the, IMO, "better" position of saying that individuals practicing private religion doesn't break separation of church and state. Organized religion does.

Of course the US also effectively forces their children to recite a pledge (which includes "under god"), which I find rather distateful.
It seems unlikely that an anarchist would use the term "RINO" except as a joke. Anarchists reject the entire ridiculous Coke-vs-Pepsi circus. One who can actually see daylight between Democrats and Republicans is too in love with the status quo to reject its arbitrary authority.
Things the media does to manufacture outrage
> Why not just create a new keyword with a clear and explicit meaning? That said, breaking changes are simply wrong.

Ummm... What is your suggestion for a new keyword that would not be a breaking change?
Really? I love it, because it's science fiction written by an actual scientist, one who knows how scientists talk to each other and who knows what the Fourier integral theorem is. The Soviet-American politics of the time in fiction form are also pretty interesting. My only complaint was that God in the digits of pi was a stoner cop-out, but other than that, I love it. I think his depiction of what would happen to humanity if we made contact was very believable.

Why are you so disappointed?
It is impossible to prevent while only criminals/terrorists have the weapons.

An armed citizenry is not so easily victimized.
None of those things can really instill a sense of purpose.

I agree with your point of fuck them, but still.
Well I'll start with these two gwern essays:

Terrorism is not Effective: http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20Effective

Terrorism is not About Terror: http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20about%20Terror

Just look at the statistics. The total number of people killed by terrorists is negligible. And 0 terrorist groups have ever won and achieved their stated goals.

I remember the Boston bombing. That same week, there was another explosion at a chemical plant that killed many more people, and blew up a nursing home. Guess which event got more press, by a large amount? Which event are people more likely to remember? Can you even name what city the chemical plant exploded in or remember any details about it?

Why is this? It's because people react to violence much differently than they react to accidents. Because thousands of years ago, violence was the one cause of death you could do something about. If you got an infection, or if a natural disaster struck, or a famine broke out, etc, those are all out of your control. But if someone was a threat to your family or tribe, you could fight them, or flee from them.

We have many emotions and social instincts whose entire purpose is to deal with other humans that threaten us. Like paranoia, anger, and hate. No one hates the chemical plant, and wants to go kill it. People hate the Tsarnaev brothers.
Certainly, I wouldn't want it ignored by law enforcement and first responders. Beyond that though, the public's reaction is the objective of the terrorists. Reacting to these events is literally "letting the terrorists win."
I wasn't endorsing, and I think you and I would probably agree about quite a bit. I was pointing out ways in which French values are at odds with the terrorists'. Still, I admire their resilience, solidarity, and the willingness to stand up for their culture and values. I think the West could use more of that.
This is HN. The homeless guy who hasn't eaten in 3 days doesn't need a sandwich, he needs a startup to help disrupt.
> We'll be in some deep shit in the coming years.

Yup, as we always have been since we were humans. Sad.
Yes, the movie on the surface seemed to end on a note of ambiguity, but it in fact resolved in favor of science.
Is she on Facebook? You can try https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/paris_terror_attacks/ . J'espère que tout vas bien.
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I disagree, strongly. I disagree because specifically this is the reaction that these attacks are supposed to provoke leading to a further split of society and if possible an even more fertile ground for further radicalization. Essentially that's the other stroke of the piston. If you really want the engine to stop then please do not react in the way these assholes want you to.

Islam has nothing to do with this whatsoever, no more than say a Christian shooter in some cinema in has anything to do with Christianity. Islam as a religion has a ton of issues that make this particular kind of thing very hard to get rid of and it is a sad coincidence that many youths that are easily misled are receptive to all sorts of bs but to generalize across a billion or so people because of what a few assholes did is simply wrong.
Formula for Pi discovered in Hydrogen
What do you mean? They are all women and children. Even that guy with the heavy beard and body of a 25 year old man, he's really 15. He's actually Syrian too, the accent being completely wrong is just a quirk.
Thanks for the recommandation. But it's not really a problem anymore.
I think the point that they're trying to make is that it's best to use a non-overloaded word for this kind of thing, but that that ship has sailed since C++ has been around for 30 years or whatever. So making no change is preferable.
Not really. Here's what I see:

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I don't know crap about analog electronics. Just got Electronic Principles by Malvino as a start. Authors explanation seems clearer than anything I've seen so far. Even contradicts some online descriptions.

So, I downloaded your book. Not time for deep explanations for now but which part(s) cover the same thing so I can do a comparison?
Great write-up! Things are more clear now.
Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say
This is fantastic news. The marketers have given us an excellent key by which to block ads and distinguish ads from content! Nice!
This is incredibly well done. Kudos to the author for the attention to detail and the informative read!
When it comes to unfolding tragedies. Nope.
I just can't imagine how you can be intelligent enough to come and read up about all the beauty of technology, and still be a follower of such a primitive religion. Any religion, but Muslim religion especially.
These retarded Islamic idiots have to be stopped.
Don't fear, we'll get through it. But There is real slavery going on in the emirates and qatar right now if you want to get mad.
Remember most African sites are hosted on Western web hosts.
Why? Its an angry comment, but its what very many think. Don't we listen in order to understand that which we don't understand? Is only one view allowed?

15 years of this war on terror, and we have this. Something isn't working, something needs to change. I'd suggest that flagging people we don't like the sound of is one of those things we need to change.
Belgium is supposedly assisting https://twitter.com/MikeDorning/status/665317533143011328
As others have pointed out it's the difference between bits and bytes. But "among bytes" units, I prefer the base-2 SI units (KiB/MiB/GiB) because as written, they're unambiguous.
California's economy is booming, so why is it No. 1 in poverty?
Told I've been asking too many questions and put on review
Doesn't France have social systems to enable the first 2, and the 3rd is up to the person.

These people aren't victims. They made a choice.
Airports are not closed, Air France is still flying in/out of Paris.
I'm not endorsing it, but the French attitude (generally) is that religion is a private concern that doesn't belong in the public forum. They view public displays of religion by private individuals with suspicion and distaste, which is different culturally from the U.S. Like I clarified below, I don't admire that specifically -- I do admire that they treasure and protect their civic values in the face of intimidation.
"So, my question, what is this feeling? How does the brain recognize that it should have this feeling?"

If we take the idea seriously that the universe is unified and all knowledge is unified, then it would be safe to treat the universe as a single entity. AKA everything is related to everything else in a whole host of mundane and non mundane ways that human beings are not aware of given the limits on the human brain/body and the time and energy required to process that information. AKA all the truth is there (the universes structure and its relationships). Rather our mind is busy highlighting things that are interesting, it's just the brain buildings models and finding interesting links unconsciously and when its done we get an update. AKA most thinking is done all the time unconsciously without our awareness of it. See the science:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
>How does this work, generally? Sure, there are people with "so much wealth they don't really know how to allocate it sanely," as you say. But ultimately what happens with it? The "super wealthy" don't have it sitting under their mattresses--it's in all kinds of investments: stocks, property, etc. I don't really get the point in your words, other than "some people have more money than others".

Well, those "investments" need to have a rate of return/profit, and the more money is chasing the same amount of investments, the lower that rate drops. Eventually, you get the holders of concentrated wealth investing cheaply in bad ideas because, well, all the good ideas at good prices have been bought.
Great example.

Another is South Vietnam.

Although there was a war going on the NLF did a great job of terrorizing the local population and installing their own shadow government. The terror attacks fractured the populations allegiance to the South Vietnamese gov't (what good is a gov't that can't protect you?).

Terrorism can be an effective tool in guerrilla warfare.
That does look very nice. I've never actually used Scala seriously, but coincidentally have been learning how to use it all this week. I'm even more interested, now.
This is unnecessarily snarky. But many public buildings are offering shelter as well.
another article here:
http://news.sciencemag.org/math/2015/11/famed-number-found-h...
The typical way to do this is to create a new keyword that starts with __, or _ and a capital letter. This is not a breaking change because this space is reserved for the language and implementations. You can then add a header that #defines something less ugly to these new keywords.
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Even if this is a real threat vector, I imagine that in the time it would take to make this illegal and try and prosecute even one person, it will have been dealt with naturally by device manufacturers. Already this would be easy to defend against with any devices with properly granular permissioning. Meanwhile, anyone this far out on the bleeding edge of trying to track you will have a dozen other fingerprinting mechanisms rolled out by then and will have no problem dropping this ludicrous attack.

Legislation is rarely the right tool.
Lovely. Yeah Le Pen has met her match with you. Keep that up. People like my family (refugees) has more to lose with Le Pen than you ever will. That's the beautiful irony here. You useful dhimmis have no clue what Pandora's box you have opened.
Silencing enemy propaganda and recruiting is a bit different than silencing an opposing entity.
I would love to integrate any walks of life into melting pots.

The _reality_ is that certain religion somehow is different, for that religion a well-educated youth could easily become a cold-blood terrorist after watching some youtube videos and read a few propaganda booklets, throw everything away he previously learnt in the west, the place where he was raised, and use what he learnt to attack from within. That change is usually drastic, maybe that's why we call them extremist. It's very different from other massive killers that are having mental issues.

Everything in the universe is ruled by probability, there are hundreds of religions on earth but the integration of this group is just statistically unpredictable with much higher risk. It's not worth integrating in my opinion.

I foresee Europe will suffer from it for years to come.

https://www.change.org/p/justin-trudeau-extend-resettlement-...
Absolutely, it's a horrible horrible thing. Makes you think of all those unnecessary shootings in the US.
We're lacking the tools to deal with this problem. All we can do is try and contain it.
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What would happen if you bred insects in a 50% oxygen environment?
Well, you'll restore the permission if you want to use that app, but if you disable microphone permissions and the app breaks for no reason, do you really want to keep using that app?
I usually skip the Rite of Spring, but love every other piece. Probably because I was trying to watch the visuals too hard instead of listening.

But the important thing to remember about Fantasia is that it's not a coherent story, it's a set of shorts.

You can watch subsets, skip some, or really do what you want. Just watch Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria, or the Dance of the Hours, or whatever you want. And give Fantasia 2000 a shot. Not as good, but still fun. Firebird was great.
That would require honest research and inquiry, which is impossible now. Multiculturalism, as envisioned by the New Left is a sacred cow and any inquiry into the original claims and models behind it is dealt with harshly. Just witness the flagellation of Robert Putnam among the sociological left.
I used to believe this, but what I discovered is that edit-time/compile-time/run-time phases are not as important as failing quickly in absolute time.

If I spot my error during compile-time in scala and only during run-time in javascript that is still a win for javascript if I found the error 1 second after writing it in javascript because that's how long the page takes to load as opposed to 5 seconds in scala, because that's how long sbt takes to compile.

Absolute time to discover the failure from writing it is important, not the phases that the error is discovered in, and despite this article, I still find that on complex project structures sbt/scala is horribly slow.
I know you are giving Facebook as just an example but they have updated their app. If any well known app company continues to do this you can assume they are avoiding/delaying the API update to get more of your data and you should stop using them if you can.
You don't say if any/all of these issues were brought up previously in a less formal context, like a basic face-to-face meeting. If they weren't, that smacks of unfairness.
Try convincing fear is not rational to the people close to the attacks today. I understand what your point is, but the fact is that fear is exactly what people will feel.
It makes me happy and it gives me hope to live in this sad world. Why does it bother you ? Do you see me go around yelling why did you get Ford not Nissan ?

That being said, I feel its the contrary, e.g: When Churches used to kill scientists in the west, Muslims were in their golden era*. But after WW I everything went downhill because of wars.

edit: typo
Thank you for speaking out, sorry to see you downvoted.
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Ethics are tricky, especially considering these days one can earn an MSc in Guided Weapon Systems from the top Aerospace Engineering school in the UK.
Hmm I wonder if there is a way to test if netflix is using the technology. Maybe play the audio sound and check the processor usage or connect to the process and track the syscalls.
I have a personal Rails site that does something like this. There's an Expense model and a Expenditure model. Also a PayEvent model that's kinda the opposite of Expense, could probably roll them into one model. The Expenses are averaged out by month. An expense can be 'tracked', that means when I'm adding an individual expenditure, I can list it as that expense. My dashboard tells me at a glance how much I've spent on those expenses. If it's not tracked, it is factored in automatically.

It is multi-user, though I'm the only user at the moment. If anyone wants to give it a whirl, shoot me an email which you can find in my profile.

My philosophy is to avoid the banking APIs by putting in expenditures manually. I would love to integrate with OFX, but I don't have the time to maintain it.
> The terrorists themselves claim a religious muslim tradition.

And other terrorists claim other traditions. We could look at all those traditions as unrelated, unconnected causes of terrorism because, hey, that's what each of the terrorists said was important to them -- or we could look for common features that link them to try to understand why people become terrorists.
I mostly agree. This would be more useful for everyday crime than terrorism. And I think that makes it worth it.
An electric circuit is a circular channel full of water, a loop-river.

An off-switch is a wall of dirt placed across the channel.

A battery is a dam with a pump, where the pump runs just enough to maintain a 1-ft level-difference across the dam. A resistor is a narrow section in the river, where the rushing water moves fast enough to heat up. (Or maybe a resistor is a swamp full of cattails and mangroves, causing the entire length of river-loop to move slow.) Amperes is gallons-per-second. Voltage is water surface altitude measured with respect to the center of the Earth, or WRT some average water level, or WRT any chosen reference-altitude.
That doesn't have anything to do with religion.

Everyone has an existential crisis in their life, and desires to become a part of something greater than themselves.

The traditional institutions in Western society that promoted this sense of belonging have been eroded in the recent decade, which could explain the trend toward joining organizations like ISIS and their ilk.
Facebook Safety Check for Paris Attacks
I still remember the researchers working with Facebook on some social science project or the discussion on that guy tweeting about airplane security, so the response from HN on this case baffles me somewhat.
> Keynesian responses which are never quite robust enough to do the job they're intended to do

How much of "normal" GDP should you spend in a crisis in order to avert it? 5%? 10%? 20%? 50%? 100%? 500%? I've never heard a solid answer, mostly just "however much we spent wasn't enough" which seems a little tautological.

The only reason I'm picking on you is you said "never quite robust enough" as though you just plug a number into a formula and get an answer.
Is there a limit on it or something?
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I don't think anyone is saying that there should be no response, people just think we shouldn't over react. Closing off the borders and refusing to take more Middle Eastern refugees is a sane response, starting more wars is an insane response.
According to iTele there are now 118 dead.

Edit: Now it's up to 140. What a sad day :(
Both our comments are in the heat of the moment. Now I regret replying.
The NSA worried about whether spying would backfire
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Some of it is attributable to people with nothing to lose; however a good many have lots to lose, personally as well as socially at large. It's more about ideology than actually personal grievances.