skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you underestimate the impact this type of terrorism has. The real massive danger is constantly trying to downplay it. The simple fact is, when facing an irrational enemy the last thing you can do is try to shift the blame to those who react.
No, it's a terrible time to talk about it. Talk about it now and you're going to get emotion-driven reactions, and they aren't going to be what you want.

There isn't any time that would be less effective for your goals than right now.
And that's your argument? Negative correlation based on your own incredulity?

The terrorists themselves claim a religious muslim tradition. The best you have is that they're brainwashed victims, because, well, there's lots of other muslims who don't become terrorists?

You have no basic reasoning capabilities yourself. At least the poster you were responding to had a correlation. You have nothing.
Most of HN can't wait for the complete automation of society so I guess acting and feeling like robots or cold algorithms would do it.
That's exactly the attitude with which we will get the situation Michel Houellebecq describes in his "Submission" novel.
Got this via Cyanogenmod already on 4.4 and I use it all the time.

Not just for permissions by the way, Privacy Guard can also prevent wake locks and auto start permissions. That's a serious battery life saver.
You make it sound quite easy. I am personally not able to ignore something like this even though I understand a robotic reaction would help the situation. The problem is a lasting overreaction, not having feelings of sympathy.
Thank you for this. I hadn't realized there is a difference between downvoting and flagging comments until I read your post. I hope other HN users know of this difference.
But people like you who are over reacting are the people who are allowing the social fabric to be damaged.
"The question is how to design a home video game which would teach a great deal of astronomy in a context as exciting as most violent video games."

I'm curious as to what "most violent video games" he might be referring to? Asteroids?
> maybe it will also have a side-effect of uniting people and countries against a common threat to all humanity.

I don't think that will happen. Remember "Je suis Charlie"? How long did that sentiment last?

It's a matter of time before people will be writing 'Je suis Francais', and then promptly forget it a few days or weeks later.
I don't think they need to be informed.

Crystallizing on the fact that every terrorists are muslims is like saying that most serial killers are on average 1m75 and each pedophile have one left foot and one right foot.
Pretty interesting that SilverPush has a product for "Real time TV Ad Analytics" called PRISM [1].

[1] http://www.silverpush.co/
The point of terrorism is to provoke a reaction. To quote the German RAF terrorist Ulrike Meinhof on the subject: "A war 6 against 60 million can not be won. All we [the terrorist] can do, is to tear down the mask of democracy and expose the fascist face of the state." So what is damaging is not the terror itself, what damages the social fabric is the overreaction. Terrorists should just be tried like other criminals, not given the reaction they want.
This is the exact scenario I was worried about as well. Idea seems flawed security-wise; but then again in these kind of situations there is no real security.

I was wondering though if there are some creative ways to improve this initiative and make it more secure. Anyone has anything better than filtering eventual candidates to give shelter to according to rough "trustworthiness" of their Twitter account?
> 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

Sure, but it doesn't make my point false. Is there some discrimination going on ? absolutely we need to fight it. Is it widespread absolutely not, I've been victim of racism in France because of the color of my skin , and you know what ? we have a lot of charities , organizations , and anti discrimination laws to fight against it. So what does it have to do with people killing 50+ innocents ? nothing.

And the racism I endured didn't make me want to join ISIS or some bullshit Islamist movement, because I knew that for every racist ahole there are 10 000 people that are not and don't care about the color of my skin.

But people like the OP and their "oppressor/oppressed" mindset are just giving excuses to the crazies , but there is no excuse , there is no explanation other than the terrorists a f.ed up and part of a death cult.
I don't feel sorry for individuals that take up arms against me. Every individual is responsible for his or her actions.

This goes far beyond "shared traits". They organize against us with a dogmatic reverence for violence known as radical Islam, and your dogmatic tolerance for it allows it to metastasize.
He might feel differently. He's still right that the overreaction causes more damage than the terrorist attack did.
Syria? Iraq? Are you the Platonic cave dweller?
I went to Maryland and yeah it came up in the Concurrency course
Mcoils article was much longer, but I never made the GIF diagrams for the second half. Do this: make a small half-inch parallel-plate capacitor with a 10ft thick dielectric. Use the insulating dielectric as an "AC conductor." Break it in two to form an off-switch, and force the fractured ends back together to complete the circuit.

I do have a short piece of PZT piezo ceramic rod from eBay. But I still haven't tried using it to complete an AC circuit, or even stuck it on top of a Tesla coil. At high freqs, high-K piezo-ceramic insulators are a good conductor: a long, long filament of capacitor-dielectric which, in theory, can be wound into an AC electromagnet coil ...made of insulator. (Or, when put on top of a Tesla coil, I expect sparks to shoot out of the insulating ceramic tip!) But not nearly as fun concept as electro-electret solenoids that should attract rice crispies and small bits of paper.

I did build the chain-of-rings transformer, the waveguide for 60Hz. In a surplus shop I found a handful of big transformer cores; those tape-wound split-core type. I could pass copper rings through these (made some #10-gauge wire loops), using cable-ties to clamp the C-cores into closed rings. I drove one end of the chain with 1000 amps from a soldering gun tip. The other end was 30 turns of wire-wrap wire, and would light up a little 3v pilot light. I think there were six iron cores and five copper rings in the chain.

Of course if you want the ultimate chain, you'd need alternating rings of piezo ceramic and ferrite. Figure out how much horsepower could be sent along the floppy chain before it started heating up too much!

Handy note: if you need ~1000 amps AC for anything, just screw a short loop of #12-gauge solid wire into the end of your 300-watt soldering gun. Make a little loop coil, use it to demagnetize your screwdrivers. It's not 1000 turns of one ampere, it's one turn of 1000 amperes. Pass the conductor through a pair of tapewound C-cores and they slam together with 100s lbs force. (Measure it with a clamp-on ammeter, if your ammeter goes that high.)

For my next trick, I will shoot a smoke-ring made out of Luminiferous Aether across the room. But first I'll need a big deep hat, from which I'll have to pull two new Maxwell's equations! :)
The response by Patio11 regarding how this was acceptable penetration testing was beyond stupid.

Just because you are univesity researcher does not means you can take money and then attack some random company and say LOL JK just doing "Research". Universities have enormous computing power / resources available via various means to do research. Just because I have access to a thousand node cluster does not means I can randomly launch DDOS attack against some company and then claim "Research". This is equivalent to those youtube videos where at the end they justify assault and other egregious behaviour claiming "Social experiment" or "Prank".
No, I get that it's legal. But there's no... border. In the map link I posted, you wouldn't be able to tell half of the satellite view was Belgium without Google telling you that's the case.

How do you close that down, especially in the middle of the night? The US can't even do it in places with a wall.
I'm disappointed that people always use tragedies to try to censor other opinions.
>The real massive danger is constantly trying to downplay it.

No, it's not. The danger is over reacting, as history has proven time and time again. Fear is not the answer.
https://tusfiles.net/3d5ea3kw8nky

A very cursory look seems to indicate the microphone permission is used by Gracenote (https://developer.gracenote.com/) music recognition SDK.
I am happy this was brought up. I have been approached by companies to add in "SDKs" of this sort. They usually offer to pay you per user. When you have scale, these companies while the app is open can scan for other media they need to link. I have witnessed iOS apps processing web ads, tv stations and radio ads. The freakiest was watching the software understand a tv show was playing, detect which show, then off a competing ad in the app.

It is quite amazing what a phone can absorb while sitting in a living room with a loud tv blaring (which is most of america).

See more: https://www.audiblemagic.com/ (Edit, you will see "Facebook" as one of their customers.....)
> It's the difference between "expected" and "unexpected"

No it's not - people die from unexpected accidents completely unaware of the risks all the time - intuitive risk perception doesn't work really well - caveman instincts and all that - risk perception is not the problem - if this was indeed an isolated incident that would not repeat it would be sad but not very relevant - an example of this is Breivik murders.

But obviously this is not comparable - people behind this will try to repeat it if not dealt with - this is why it's a big deal.
Back in January, when a guy took hostages in a grocery store in Paris, it was proven that he was watching real-time news channel "BFM-TV", and got information about the positions of the police forces.

I can understand why the police units dealing with this situation do not want to let that kind of thing happen again.
> 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).

That's not separation of church and state, that's suppression of unpopular religion by the secular state, which is no different than suppression of unpopular religion in favor of a popular religion by the state. (And its not just in schools, though that was one of the focal points in the debates, the ban applies in all public spaces in France.)
Must have been a pretty long vacation. ;)
UK here, this shit sucks. We're all thinking about you all.
If course it is, it was meant to be. While my comment represented my thoughts about the whole situation, I also wanted to provoke a little bit.

And yes, "families fleeing war" are potential terrorist candidates. There is quite a possibility of future generations to radicalize. This happens (Europe exports quite some fighters for ISIL) and it will happen in the future, because the foundations are present. The refugees coming here will be mosty the future bottom of the lower class. And being poor, having no perspective and being insecure about ones identity aren't really things thatr you want to experience combined into a single adolescent boy.

And "families fleeing war" are not the only ones coming as refugees. It is also the fleeing fighters of ISIL.
Matrix of pain
Je suis un Parisian.
This probably won't be a popular opinion on Hacker News, but it is it possible to compromise with a limited amount of mass surveillance?

I believe it was LA that had a plane fly above the city and record 24/7. It was just enough resolution to make out cars and people, but not identify anyone. Less invasive than security cameras in that sense. And I don't think it was live. It was just something the police could go back to and look at after a crime as committed, and see where the criminals went or came from.

Given some conditions, like the recordings be deleted after a few days, and that it requires a warrant to look at, I think that would be ok.
I don't want to sidetrack this with an HN vs. Reddit debate.
The top story about this on Reddit has 14500+ comments. I couldn't really skim through them all in between the server timeouts, but it appears that the majority of them are non value-add.

As a story like this ages, my personal experience has been that the quality of comments on HN go UP while the quality of comments on Reddit go DOWN.

In regards to the parent post of this thread, I think that HN provides a valuable outlet for posting stories like this, and I personally feel it is within the overall HN "charter" for stories. It could turn out that this specific case balances out differently, but my personal opinion is that overall HN discussions for a given HN-worthy topic are more valuable than the comparative Reddit thread.
I don't think Churchill is the best benchmark for such matters:

"starvation of anyhow underfed Bengalis is less serious than that of sturdy Greeks"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943#Suppli...

And definitely not a benchmark for the 21st century.
Right... Well while you live in that Utopia of yours, large groups of Sunni fanatics are currently commuting genocide against non Sunni. How much % of Muslims should think killing apostates is okay until you deem it incompatible with France liberal policies. It's because of dhimmis like you that Le Pen is winning. Wake up and smell your ashes.

Edit: someone really needs to look up what Dhimmi means before they actually prove me right. How quickly someone can fall in ones eye. Never saw that coming lol. Full on Dhimmi.
Well, I was thinking a little bit more recently.
Crazy people that happen to be muslim extremists.
Millions have died throughout the Middle East, millions have become refugees, millions have sufferred from the economic consequences all of which is the directly because of Americans needed to avenge the death of 3000 new yorkers.

The Western world lost all moral superiority when they decided torture and genocide were acceptable acta to commit.
Wait, so you're disappointed that people are downplaying the situation because they're defeating the purpose of terrorism?
You legitimately can't imagine any other purpose to them?
What a shitty outlook.

Even worse is that I agree.

Can we do anything to change it?
I'm not excusing the terrorists. I'm trying to keep in check the people who are commenting on this and just saying "well yeah, this is what happens when you have 10% muslims in your country".

I'm not defending the terrorists. I'm defending people like your family who will be lumped in with them in the next couple of weeks as people blame all of this on immigration and islam, like they do every time.

The fact is, we are living in an age of muslim extremism and sympathies are at an all time high. We could look at it at that fact and blame 1.57 billion people for all sharing this radical ideology, or we could look at what other forces are nudging a small section of those people to radicalize. And avoid denial.
I expect Le Pen to win soon. You leftists who ignored Islam being incompatible with the western world can pat yourself.
This was actually successfully done. I'm having trouble finding the article, but basically a terrorist group (perhaps in Palestine) had trained some men specifically to be some of their most dedicated and zealous terrorists. However, the situation changed and they found that they no longer needed these zealots and had no idea what to do with them. So they held a mixer where the terrorists got to meet potential brides, and basically said that if they promised to live a normal life, they'd receive some financial compensation to get started on that normal life. All of the trainees ended up getting married and having families, and lost all desire to commit terrorist acts.
Growing pains, people were angry before tech. Now that the world is connected we have to deal with these problems.

One thing is for sure, marginalizing and discriminating even more is not a solution.
To the parent's point, support for this generalization comes from the very odd fact that fully 75% of the composition of the refugee families are men, with women and children comprising 12% and 13%, respectively.
> Terrorists should just be tried like other criminals, not given the reaction they want.

Exactly, and very important, not given the platform they want, the media are very much a part of this as well.
The thing I hate most about C/C++ is how they overload the same keywords to mean different things.

So the idea of:

int x = void;

is inherently wrong to me. Why not just create a new keyword with a clear and explicit meaning?

That said, breaking changes are simply wrong. C/C++ is what it is, stop trying to make it into Java, Go or whatever. Trying to change it into a language that it's not is simply going to cause confusion and chaos, and kill the language. The things Meyer points out are all correct, but just because it's right doesn't mean it's right for the C++ community.

Every language has it's own pluses and minuses and thinking you can squash all problems in all languages and make it "perfect" is a losing battle.
They aren't similar.

Scala traits can change behavior dependent on the order you specify them. Because they can specify fields and state.

Rust traits are as far as I know not like that.
Our startup works with a remote Cray XC40 which we can only access via a combination of a REST API and SSH wrappers so...yes, EXACTLY what batbomb said. We've toyed with the idea of building the kind of abstraction layer that would, for example, allow you to choose FEniCS or OpenFEM based on the FEA capabilities you need through a common API but it's a huge undertaking we're simply not funded to accomplish so we can do little more than ideate. We'll be roaming the halls of SuperComputing 2015 in Austin, TX next week which will be informative and a lot of fun though. It's a really interesting space to work in despite all the pain batbomb mentioned.
Agreed. Luda also has > 100 karma and a public key in his profile link.
That's how cyanogen works, but Google will never do that. The howtogeek.com link that someone else here posted confirms this - apps will just fail and you'll be stuck restoring the permission.
Can someone please explain why you're choosing to downvote me? I'm taking a very reasonable position here. My only real guess is mikeash fanboys (yes they exist) don't like to see anyone disagree with him, but I really hope that's not the case. If there's some actual problem with my comment besides the personage that I'm disagreeing with, I'd really like to know.
I wasn't trying to suggest he was inflammatory! I think you'll find the paper as a whole is of that tone. :)
Thank ARPANET for them internets:

Part 1: Introduction to Semiconductor Devices:
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...

Part 2: Conduction in Solids
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...

Part 3: The PN Junction
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...

Part 4: The Junction Transistor
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...

Part 5: The Fabrication of Diodes and Transistors
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...

Part 6: Transistor Circuits
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...

Contacted the Air Training Command to see if there's a way to make sure it's the whole document; will update this if any pieces are missing.
When revoking permissions from older applications, you’ll see a warning message saying, “This app was designed for an older version of Android. Denying permission may cause it to no longer function as intended."

Older applications weren’t designed for this feature, and they generally just assume they have access to any permissions they request. Most of the time, applications should just continue working normally if you revoke their permissions. In some rare cases, the application may crash — if it does, you’ll need to give it permission again.

So yeah, if Facebook decides to stick to api level 22 for a while, you won't be able to un-privilege it.
surveillance is not a solution to the problem it merely suppresses it.

Treating symptoms is never as useful as treating the underlying cause.
I have no idea what your point is. If I lost a loved one to a vending machine accident, I might develop a really irrational fear of vending machines. It doesn't mean vending machines are a threat to our society.

I know someone who is deadly afraid of putting shoes on tables. Because her friend did that before dying in a traffic accident.
That is probably a hoax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadBIOS

No one other than one person has ever talked about it.
Whether or not it's surprising is perhaps the least interesting point for discussion. Universities have a responsibility to conduct human research ethically and I hope we hear a lot more about how this research in particular was conducted. This could have endangered lives depending on how it was done, and I'm quite sure the ends don't justify the means unless it was specifically done in a way which protected the anonymity of untargeted users.
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