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We're getting close. How many Muslims live in France? How many commit terrorist attacks?
There is a very (very) long history of terrorist attacks in France from a wide variety of groups.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorisme_en_France
(link to the French one, the English version is shorter)

Only looking at post-WWII, you have far-right groups, far-left groups, Corsican regionalists, Basque regionalists, various independentists (Breton, New Caledony, Caribbean, etc.), extension of the Algerian civil war of the 90s, etc. Those account for hundreds of attacks, with a various amount of deads. Only recently have Islamist attacks begun. The most lethal single attack until today in France was in fact from a far-right group in the 60s.
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Too bad people still watch TV and get dog trained/brainwashed to stop thinking after hearing phrases like "conspiracy theory".
Thnx for the reply and I agree I should not worry too much. I think the people that matter don't believe I wrote it so I feel good about that. And the conspiracy theory did cross my mind as who else would know some of that info.
Oh. Thank you for clarifying.
I know that MailChimp has RSS to email:

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Technology is a strong force multiplier for whatever potential "solutions" are, whether a person believes them to be increased surveillance, more open political processes, more cultural mingling etc.

Simply discounting the power of technology is short-sighted.
Only because people let it. There is little danger form actual terrorism, but there is massive danger from people's reactions to terrorism.
You have a point, but what kind of reaction do you want/expect?
This was just 2048 for iOS though I don't know that this was the cause. It might have just been the iphone radio causing interference on the speaker.
> 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.

Yes, that's the point, if you're really rich, you don't spend most of your money, you invest it. And that's all very well and good, but there's a problem. In this world there are are all kinds of investments: excellent investments, merely good ones, poor investments, catastrophic ones. And the problem is, currently there is far more money in the hands of the wealthy than there are excellent investments for them to invest in. That means they're constantly on the prowl for new areas to invest in but even so, a lot of investments turn out to be catastrophic, meaning they don't generate wealth, they destroy it. And so, under these specific conditions, that there is far more liquidity than worthwhile places to invest, then yes, I would consider it better for some of that money to be taxed and spent than on just melting away in bad land deals, risky schemes and fraud.
I am French and have friends and family in Paris, fortunately they are all safe. I am however in shock and can't really process much except for shedding tears.

I feel the strong need to point out that in these difficult times in Europe and the world, we CANNOT allow right-wing political extremism to use them to gather power. THIS IS NOT ABOUT MUSLIMS, IMMIGRANTS OR WHATNOT. THIS IS ABOUT CRAZY PEOPLE.
It's a weird feeling, procrastinating on work by reading an article about how to stop procrastinating.
Why does intention matter?
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Microsoft: Always reinventing the wheel, never making it round.
No, but you can go into the phone settings and re-enable a permission for an app if you change your mind.
What is so surprising here? The DOD is the largest funder of research grants in the US.
Pretty much every university is doing research for a US agency from cyber security to lasers for missile defense.
I find it very hard to believe that this is the firs time a university was conducting computer security research on live targets.
I think you'd feel differently if you had a loved one in the towers on 9/11
Which is impossible. Look at the situation in refugee camps in Germany. Massive violence because a non-muslim refugee insulted the islam (happened quite a few times now). Christian refugees fleeing from the camps and seeking shelter in churches. Refugees constructing mafia-like structures. All these things happen, and that's just what the mass media reports. Police forces around the country have already been ordered to report less on crimes and violence of refugees so the much feared "right" wont use it as a tool.

We'll be in some deep shit in the coming years.
Yes it does:

> For now, Clair uses three databases, one for each supported operating system: Ubuntu CVE Tracker, Debian Security Bug Tracker, Red Hat Security Data

https://github.com/coreos/clair/blob/master/README.md#detect...
Vive le france (from Turkey)
Exactly, every time the government wants to pass a law, they can arrange the killing of a few dozen/hundred/thousand people.
France jealously guards its secular republic. Separation of church and state is a top priority (well above the U.S. and U.K. -- for instance, head coverings are not allowed in public schools). The French are notably resilient in the face of intimidation (see the protests and solidarity after the Charlie Hebdo shootings). There's a lot about the French for terrorists to hate, which is worthy of admiration in my opinion.
Another American chiming in here. Glad you are safe. Aujourd'hui, je suis un Français. Vive la France.
> The 14th Amendment just says that blacks have equal rights to vote as whites.

No, it doesn't say that at all. You are probably thinking of the 15th Amendment, section 1 of which is "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

> The idea that poll taxes or literacy tests or official intimidation while in transit to the polling places are somehow unconstitutional is and always has been... absolutely correct

Except, not; hence the prohibition of poll taxes by the 24th Amendment, and the prohibition of literacy tests for voting in some districts by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, later amended to apply to the whole country in 1970.

(Those things have, no doubt, always been wrong; they were not, however, unconstitutional, or even prohibited federally in any form, until much later than the 15th Amendment.)
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The problem is that as soon as the surveillance issue is put on the table the rest of what is important gets snowed under with a re-hash of the same old very much worn out arguments. I'm fine with giving the surveillance issue a rest. It's patently obvious to me that it is not working at all and it is also patently obvious to me that in spite of it not working attacks like this will be used to justify whatever the 'morons in charge' can come up with next. So we can take that as read and then wonder how we - each of us personally - can do something to halt the advance of that and I'm sure that collectively we could achieve something. My way of helping out has traditionally been to employ as many people on the fringe as possible to help them where I could and to right wrongs where-ever I saw them. I draw my friends from all walks of life and try to be inclusive as much as I can. On a personal scale that's just about all I can do and even though it is nothing to be proud of I definitely think it made a measurable difference. The whole thing boils down to 'circle of concern/circle of influence' for me and a rehash of the surveillance discussion falls entirely outside of that 'circle of influence' even though it concerns me very much and I wished that politicians would wise up. It'll happen hopefully, one day.
The #1 thing you can do is to name the party responsible (once it is known for certain), and to name the ideology that motivates these repeated, ever more brazen attacks.

If this is what everyone thinks it is (but is cautiously tip-toeing around), "extremism" is not specific enough.
The problem is that this messes up version control history. For example, I work on a code base which is 20 years old. It's nice to use 'svn blame' and to get the log message associated with a given line of code and give me insight into what I was thinking.

That said, it's not an insurmountable problem. Usually I'm looking at a particular line, and if history says it was touched in a compiler cleanup then I just have to click a few more times to get 'svn blame' of the version preceding the cleanup.
Terrorist attacks of this scale? Care to elaborate? I may have missed something here.
> Terrorist acts damage the social fabric far beyond the death toll.

Intention is all that matters, and why its attempting to damage social fabric.
why is that any more likely than it being a home grown terrorist attack? But my point stands, the US may well have had prior knowledge but want the french onside for future anti-terror wars, if that isnt the case then the millions or billions spent on intelligence gathering since 2001 has been a complete waste.
I'm struck by the great historical fortune of the people in these images. Barring an interstellar collision, they will outlast any earthly monument we could create to honor a person. Long after the Earth has been consumed by the sun, Jane Goodall's face will still be out there, cruising between the stars, hanging out with her apes.

I'm also amused at the idea that NASA was concerned about photographs depicting nude humans. Even on a document intended to be launched into the depths of space, the bureaucrats were concerned about perceived indecency.
Reddit Paris Shootings Live Thread: "We will no longer be reporting what's happening at the Bataclan. This is due to a gag request by French Police"

Source: https://www.reddit.com/live/vwwnkuplwr9y
This statement is so naive that it blows me away. As toomuchtodo said, there's a huge difference between n car accidents per year, and the equivalent damage done by a terrorist attack, and the answer isn't just "stop making such a big deal about it". When I get into a car, I'm putting myself in a situation that could be dangerous, and am accepting those risks for the reward of not having to walk to work. When these people sat down to have a drink, watch a soccer game, or enjoy a concert, they were doing so with the implicit safety that those venues and events provide. It's the difference between "expected" and "unexpected", and your answer can't just be "stop making such a big deal", because if we didn't make a big deal, the attacks would get bigger, broader, and more damaging until they got the reaction that they wanted. It's a complex problem with a lot of moving pieces, and this answer just takes away from that and presumes that there's a simple answer to a very hard problem.
People who utilize a structured society, not a roving band of city-dwelling mercenaries? There are many, many examples of bands of 'citizens' subverting the legal system by taking justice into their own hands. Often, they ended with lynchings. We have police and a government because the protection of the people is the job of professionals who (usually) respect the rule of law, not random able-bodied men hunting down (possibly innocent) people through city streets.
Vive le france!
>>every able bodied man in Paris would be taking up whatever arms or improvised arms they have and hunting down these murderers to defend their city

And accomplishing what? Increasing the death toll? There are professionals who have many hours of training to prepare for this. They know how best to handle this situation.
This will probably never happen, though. Opening doors to people in any way like those who just committed acts of terrorism is far too much like giving in to the terrorists to be politically viable. And so, we'll keep on making sure that there are plenty of people with nothing to lose, and that the recruiters keep on finding plenty of willing recruits.
It's called a state. It has a monopoly on violence. It doesn't take kindly to competition.

(Stupid question warrants a stupid answer. Other than the fact that you're relying on a fallacy of evoking a nostalgic period that probably never was, there's the whole matter of the French government ordering a curfew on its citizens for them to stay inside. As such, your scenario of French men taking up arms is explicitly forbidden by the government, and will likely get you killed if you attempted it.)
Maybe, maybe not. In Nothern Ireland Christians have been killing each other for a while. Maybe religion is just a superficial reason.
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Hunting down who? Do you know who is responsible? Do you know where they are? Do you think the police are incapable of fighting them? How would an angry mob help anyone at all?
Then the relevant detail to compare to would be the number of other violent crimes that occur on a far too regular basis.
To anybody with basic reasoning capabilities. There are millions of Muslims in France. You could try to make it look like Islam is the cause of all this, but that would be hard to prove.
Unfortunately tech has made it easier for terrorism to recruit more terrorists, spread hateful messages and send secure encrypted messages across the world to plan attacks like this.

I am so saddened by this situation with a powerful IS which wants to remove our freedom and change the world into an extreme muslim one.

We must remember not to spread hate towards all the peaceful muslims.
I don't doubt that. But that still does not mean that being a Muslim has anything to do with it. In fact, even if it turns out that all of the attackers were Muslims then that still holds true. How that works I'll leave as an exercise for you to work out but let's just say that the basis of a solution to this whole problem is somewhere in there and that I strongly believe that it starts with a complete lack of generalizations and a focus on people as individuals rather than as groups with shared traits. As long as that step isn't taken we will - very unfortunately - probably see more of this.
It is necessary.

An attack of this size and coordination was without a doubt electronically communicated. We can't possibly infiltrate every group of radicals with informants. And they are not going to stop.
Ignoring it would also destroy the social fabric.

A scene from Brazil that explores this idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4KFNhxibec
As Win Hill says, his "transistor man" is later discarded, and replaced by voltage-based design which eliminates hfe, relying on Vbe and Ebers-Moll equation.

This makes his book even more excellent. And the lab book for AOA goes much farther, directly exposing the many mistakes caused by "current amplifier" design philosophy based on hfe.

Look inside a BJT op-amp, where diff-input is voltage-based. And the many Current-Source sections employ the transconductance model, Vbe-based explanations, not hfe.

Heh, the actual "transistor man" is made out of voltage; he's the base voltage Vbe, and he adjusts the thickness of the depletion layer inside the emitter junction. The depletion layer observes Ib, changes its thickness in response, and this thickness then determines the value of collector current Ic. Actually Ib cannot affect Ic or vice versa, otherwise we'd just have resistor action, not transistor action.

"As a young engineer struggling with my circuit designs in the mid 60's (remember the h parameters?), a wise experienced teacher sat me down with a single sheet of paper for 30 minutes and preached the value of Ebers-Moll and Re. What's the gain of a common-emitter amplifier stage? Easy, RL / Re. And Re is 25 ohms at 1mA.

"Oops, Re = VT/IC = 25mV/IC, and changes with current, causing distortion? OK add a degenerating resistance, RE - now the gain is RL / RE+Re, and I can quickly calculate my gain and predict the distortion level for my choices of RE. Try that kind of easy analysis with the βeta approach.

"So I changed my design approach and suddenly things start working as predicted. That is to say, I could reliably engineer instead of empirically-develop my designs. I could also safely do more complex designs." - 2011 Winfield Hill http://cr4.globalspec.com/comment/720374/Re-Voltage-vs-Curre...
which is sickening, and i would also question the use of these sources, will they only be placed at risk if the target is the US, or perhaps only when it is US VIPs on US soil. What if they are never to be at risk? Where is their value?
As we've told you before, you can't conduct religious flamewars on Hacker News.

We've banned this account for violating the HN guidelines after many requests to stop.
This is an incredibly thoughtless and heartless thing to say. It doesn't even make sense.

Usually, I'd argue your point but.. today, I don't want to, my country was attacked and I feel horrible already. This is neither the time nor the place. It doesn't matter where they're from, I hope each and every one of those fuckers get caught, and I truly hope this is the last comment like this I'll see today. Unfortunately I know it won't be.

Keep this xenophobia to yourself.
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But the opposite argument could be made: look, our British security apparatus is so good, that 1) other countries are being hit, despite "us" being much more involved in topical overt conflicts, and 2) "we" pretty much know right away who caused what (see response to the bombed Russian plane). Clearly they are working fine as they are and they don't need any more powers.

In fact, French and Russian security services are known for their heavy touch. Fat lot of good it's doing for 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.

Well, if you assume that all Westerners are non-Muslims and all non-Westerners are Muslims, it suggests that.
That's what you get with a permission model of "hey, if you don't like that this app asks for every permission known to man, just don't use it!"
The ROMs may be copyrighted of course, but there is an argument to be said for there being a fair use case here, namely archiving of historical content that is no longer accessible otherwise. That's what the Internet Archive nonprofit is doing, and it's very important,

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
What a great article!
Making sure everyone has something to lose means making sure everyone has fulfilling lifes they'd rather not jepordize with hostility.

The us and them mentality being used to "combat" terrorism is so harmful because it puts people in a position where they have nothing to lose - they're already being discrimminated against etc.

I agree that a few assholes can ruin things for everyone but the reason they can is because they can ruin the trust people have in each other thereby leading to a situation like I described above. The solution is therefore counterintuitive (since they exploit intuition).
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To call families fleeing war "potential terrorist candidates"...

Can you see how this is an extremely broad, lazy generalization? What really supports this comparison, other than their religion and colour of their skin?
I agree, time series should be more like 1000 measurements taken 100 times a second. Industrial acquisition data is not the same thing as timestamped web log data.
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Breed.
Applying a screwdriver to a nail is the wrong tool for the problem, even tough that tool has excellent properties in many other contexts. Technology is not some kind of magic wand that you can point at every problem and make it smaller or disappear, in fact, for some problems technology is so wrong that it makes the problems worse rather than better. I'm not sold on technology having a positive role to play here but I'm open to specific suggestions (just like Ryan originally asked for) and if there are any that might work I will definitely support those, in spite of my skepticism about such solutions in general in the current context based on what technology has been able to achieve on this front to date.
> Since bubble sort is always taught as a bad sort...

I was taught about bubble sort in three different situations. In each one, bubble sort was not taught as a "bad" sort. The instructor always focused on the difference between worst-case performance and best-case performance. It always forced me to learn how much context matters.

Bubble sort should not be used as teaching tool for "bad algorithms" but a teaching tool for understanding your data and how much you really know about it.
The article raises the issue for computer security but computer science is used in many other fields where it could have ethical implications. Self-driving cars is on top of my mind, but for sure other applications has issue too. So I agree with his point and should be extended.
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This is absolutely fantastic. I'd pay for something that hooks into my bank account and spits out a daily number for me, no problem (especially since it doesn't suffer from the mess of housekeeping and categorizing that something like Mint does, which is my biggest complaint about that kind of software).

If you don't build it, I'll probably wind up hacking it together for myself. :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Madrid_train_bombings

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings
In times of tragedy it is especially important to think rationally. This does not demean ones loss, but prevents further loss from occurring.
I have a (minor) concern that we here at HN are biased towards charities that are tech-oriented, hip app-developing to solve the world, versus a more mundane charity. Can you (or your wife) comment on that? Why does this charity need flashy tech? New tech comes with costs, like unreliability or unexpectedly high costs or extra training - any concern for that? Givewell's support is a significant confidence booster in this regards, but I think it's an interesting subject to discuss.

Best of luck to New Incentives.

(P.S. if you want to recruit in this thread, I'd specify if it's paid or volunteer and whether it's on-site or remote. Or anything else they have in Who's Hiring? threads.)
>Don't jump to conclusions; my comment says nothing about sudo

Yeah sure this has nothing to do with sudo. Right, gotcha.

> If you can elucidate the reasons (plural)

"Reasons" means plural where I come from(denoted by the "s"). There is no reason to repeat yourself. I decline your request for an elaboration. The "don't use a root shell crowd" has clearly won the popularity contest in the same way TSA now has a significant presence at larger US airports.

> If you're doing because "it's easier" and no other reasons, then you probably need a bit more experience.

Don't jump to conclusions. There are few people here who can truthfully claim more experience than I could. Regardless of our experience levels, it bears no weight in the validity of my statement.

> In any case,

Not really.

> always using a root shell is the Wrong Thing To Do.

You are free to hold whatever opinion you wish.
France started bombing Syria a month or two ago:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34372892

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-09/french-def...
I assume thoughtless people will just dismiss this as conspiracy theory, somehow oblivious to how far that goal post have moved recently.

Governments kill way more people than terrorists ever will, but fear those the government tells you to fear...