skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we didn't need to secure their oil by supporting/deposing despots in the region, and didn't want to provide the Israelis with military/political/financial support then we would not be dealing with any of this carnage.

Their attempts to fight back will only escalate the situation, and the carnage will continue.

Edit: I'm not advocating that we not support Israel. I'm simply stating a hard truth regarding "why they hate us".
the fraction of a floating point is always "starts with on invisible 1.xxxx" so that forces unique representations for your exponent for any given number. Is it not clear why this is the case?

let's take a simple case where you have one bit of fraction.

exponent 0, 2^0 = 1, fraction (1)0 = 1.0b = 1

exponent 0, 2^0 = 1, fraction (1)1 = 1.1b = 1.5

exponent 1, 2^1 = 2, fraction (1)0 = 10b = 2

exponent 1, 2^1 = 2, fraction (1)1 = 11b = 3

if we have more fraction bits it looks like this:

exponent 0, 2^0 = 1, fraction (1)00 = 1.00b = 1

exponent 0, 2^0 = 1, fraction (1)01 = 1.01b = 1.25

exponent 0, 2^0 = 1, fraction (1)10 = 1.10b = 1.5

exponent 0, 2^0 = 1, fraction (1)11 = 1.11b = 1.75

exponent 1, 2^1 = 2, fraction (1)00 = 10.0b = 2

exponent 1, 2^1 = 2, fraction (1)01 = 10.1b = 2.5

exponent 1, 2^1 = 2, fraction (1)10 = 11.0b = 3

exponent 1, 2^1 = 2, fraction (1)11 = 11.1b = 3.5

So for any given exponent multiplication with a fraction with an invisible bit creates products that are hemmed between 1.0x2^n and 2.0*2^n so there's no collisions between any pair (e,f) in your representation.
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It's open but that doesn't mean that everyone who shows up at the gate will be allowed in, right?
I doubt they ever particularly cared about the mantle of 'hacker' and whatever ethos is supposed to go with it. That makes it hard for them to betray it.
Maaaaaaaybe wait until the bodies have cooled before you start searching for a way to blame the Jews? :(
Depends if the French are as disposed to shooting each other as Americans are. Over 10,000 Americans are killed by gun violence every year. This is excluding ~19,000 firearm suicides. Since 9/11, the number of U.S. citizens killed in terrorist attacks each year has never surpassed 75.
"Religion of Peace"
It could have also been just a poorly mixed ad.
Doesn't make you less of a useful Dhimmi no matter how much offense you decided to take when identifying as a Dhimmi.
158 deaths in total, so terrible
The problem is that the 'foreign' policy is irrelevant. The 'foreign' policy is made to appear the state is 'doing something' while MOST of the problem has been in the country for many, many years.
Most of the problem is that the youngsters of immigrant stock have not been integrated, and have nothing else to do than turn to crime and/or religion, so are just RIPE for radicalism...

And there's little the state can do about THAT. they can't send war planes to the banlieus -- it's a lot easier to play tough and send warplanes somewhere else, ignoring the local problem of the ghethos.

And I don't have a proposal to make it all better either. It was an unsolvable problem already in france when I grew up there, and there's very little that can be done that hasn't been tried already.
Using the same low-spec machine throughout: I've run Steam on multiple installations of Windows XP and Windows 7, while simultaneously also on Debian since it was available for Linux. There is most certainly a performance gap beteen using OpenGL or DirectX. I feel this is a good thing, because as they tune SteamOS, they'll be further optimizing Steam on Linux in general.
also the TVs are mentioning terrorists speaking French, which if confirmed strongly support this guess.
There are open borders in most of EU and it's a piece of cake to buy automatic weapons in eastern Europe, gangs in Sweden import theirs from Slovakia for example.
Outlawing guns is a lot like outlawing drugs. If you want them, you can get them.
Come on. Don't blame refugees.
Normal people are refugees.
Refugees are normal people.

Their problems are rooted in abuse of power.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/nov/11/...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/nov/12/...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/nov/13/...
This is a naive viewpoint masquerading as cynicism. There exist sane true-believers. The puppet-masters are true-believers, as well. It might be more uncomfortable to accept this fact -- but it is a fundamental truth that people out there hold competing values, and they're willing to kill and die for them. The "opiate of the masses" explanation is an old idea and fails at explaining revolutionary jihadism (as Marx failed to explain the world in general).
Nobody is born with these ideas.
It fails otherwise it would still be valid. The question is how you Handel failure. An expired certificate is clearly a lower risk than a revoked sertificate, so only haing one failure mode regardless of cause is unnessisary.

PS: With an expired license the number of days past expiration is important in most states. Wait long enough and you need to retake the driving test, so clearly before that point it's still somewhat valid.
This has nothing to do with blaming the Jews. The reason for all this carnage is obvious and we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking otherwise.
But we aren't talking about Iraq or Afghanistan. We are talking about Western countries where terrorist attacks are not that common.
Wow, you literally side with the terrorists over the victims. Illuminating.
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Is there some organisations, say, like Quitters, Inc, but against procrastination?
Terrorism is usually a rational act. It is terrible, but it has political goals. This, for instance, may be aimed at ending the European involvement in Syria and their taking in refugees.
Why do people always mention migrants? There has been well known extremist cells in France, composed of french nationals or resident (1995 terror attack, Toulouse shootings, Charlie Hebdo shootings). Please stop mixing those.
I'm glad you are safe.
Honestly for me it's not even a matter of how much CPU is used. It's a matter of needing JavaScript to display textual information.
I like the proposed ideas, but removing things and making breaking changes might be going too far. Compilers should be smart enough to help. I wish g++ and clang had a "-best-practices" compiler flag: -Wall is not enough. But since you will never get everyone to agree on what subset of C++ is best practice, and what dark corners should be avoided, maybe a set of -Wbest-practice-this and -Wbest-practice-that flags that allow you to pick and choose. Warn yourself when you do things that are not warning-worthy but you nonetheless want to avoid.

EDIT:

For examples, I'd love to have -Wold-style-cast on all of my compilers. The nullptr example in the article is good too, maybe call it -Wold-literal-null? It would be nice if my compilers could give me hints when std::move might be appropriate, if I might be missing a copy or move ctor, or when I could consider using initialization instead of assignment for members. Maybe this is more of a job for the static analyzer and not the compiler--dunno.
There are many techniques that work. The one thing that does not work is relying on willpower. The two main ones that work for me are:

1) Make the path of least resistance the right one. Do a task together with others. Make it just a little bit harder to fall into procrastination. Split up the task into a five minute task and the rest, and do the five minute task. Once you get started it's often easy to continue.

2) Engage in conscious rational thinking. The main problem with procrastination is that you do it unconsciously. Try to form a mental habit where you evaluate what to do rationally. When you detect that you are going to procrastinate stop yourself and think on it for a minute. Is it really necessary to browse reddit, or can you bring yourself to do this five minute task and then browse reddit? Stop yourself and think that through and convince yourself, really convince yourself on an emotional level, that doing the 5 minute task first is what you want to do, not just what you feel you must do.
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This soils the reputation of islam. I know some good people (muslims) who suffer from prejudice on a daily basis because of attacks like these.

Being a muslim in a foreign country is an increasingly difficult and isolating experience.
Ok, so we're agreed that pollution controls are a good idea. We're agreed that the basic functioning of the EPA is a good one.

But instead of us citizens charging one government agency to do this specific job, you think it's going to work out better for us people to have to, as individuals, research and understand the issue enough to file lawsuits?

That a bunch of regular folks, most of whom probably don't have a lot of cash lying around to file lawsuits, people who just own homes and work somewhere and whose community is now being polluted.. rather than use the specific tool of a government enforcer, the burden's on each of them to go file a bunch of separate lawsuits?

And this outcome is better for them, and will lead to the same pollution restrictions they could get from the one agency doing its job?

I mean, that's what it sounds like you're saying, but it just still doesn't make sense.
France is part of the Schengen area so there were no borders to open. The signs read 'Bienvenue en France'...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/redlotusmama/4583584976
I understand it was used as a marketing punchline. Further, the gripe that systems wouldn't scale turned out to be a challenge rather than a death sentence.
Yet if it's determined that this was orchestrated by a dozen Saudi nationals on travel visas, my guess is that the Syrian refugees are still going to take it hardest on the chin.
there are no gates
> Guns and grenades are not that hard to get, even in Europe.

Not hard to get, but when you're talking about dozens of assault rifles, someone somewhere will know what is going where. If your intelligence people are worth their salt, of course.

> whether some of those people were let in under the guise of "refugees".

Yeah, because it's extremely effective to drop your people for months in a Turkish refugee camp, hoping that 1) they will survive in shocking conditions, 2) they will be processed and sent to France, or 3) they will jump on a dinghy and make it to the other side (when chances are that they will just sink), or 4) they will walk through half a dozen borders on high alert and across unsympathetic countries. Pure tactical genius.

More likely, these people had good passports and went through friendly airports smelling of roses. Once on-site, they were armed by existing networks that the French security apparatus still doesn't know how to infiltrate effectively. That's so much easier than leaving people to their own devices across two continents and hope they'll somehow manage to make it to la Gare du Nord at 10 o'clock on Friday morning.
Unfortunately in the eyes of many that reputation could not get much lower. What is a bigger problem is that it will further divide nations regardless of reputation of a religion it will affect any and all who are perceived as either Islamic, Arabic, African, dark skinned or any combination of the above in a negative and measurable way.
I hope the people in Paris for the dotGo conference are okay. http://www.dotgo.eu/
That is always what they say "we detected a of chatter so we know it was group <X>" after something like this. Perhaps the terrorists have learned not to chat/call/write as much before the act?
Israel = nation state. Jews = ethno-religious group.

Completely different.
Well, this one reeks of "revenge killing". The airstrikes must be taking their toll.
Under normal circumstances there is no gate to speak of.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area
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You're right... but its not the reason, its the excuse.

And a weak one.

Killing civilians doesn't work, and it never has... terrorism never wins... unless your a huge nation like the USA, then it wins...
What gates? You can walk or drive from France into Spain or Belgium or Germany and not even notice.
> aimed at ending the European involvement in Syria

I would be quite surprised if the EU decided against further intervention by this. If anything, I would expect them to intervene more.
And the second step?
Have you crossed a French land border lately? There are no controls. There are no gates between France and other Schengen countries.
Surely the US has a few spies with deep enough cover to pass as arms dealers? Or have I been watching too much TV?
It is only "rational" within an irrational construct, such as extreme religious devotion.
The Luftwaffe test pilot Lothar Sieber (April 7, 1922 - March 1, 1945) may have inadvertently became the first man to break the sound barrier on 1 March 1945. This occurred while he was piloting a Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" for the first manned vertical takeoff of a rocket in history. In 55 seconds, he traveled a total of 14 km (8.7 miles). Unfortunately, there was a crash and he perished violently in this endeavor. Very little of his remains were found in the 15 ft deep crater, but he did receive a funeral with full military honors.[20]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_barrier
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Getting guns, grenades, creating bombs: These things take time, effort and "chatter".
>But that could actually be an advantage. The more people see them for the nutcases they are the shorter the path to a possible solution.

Sorry for not being clear. I'm not speaking about others perception; we can easily discern they are out of shape. They, though, don't care what the rest of us rational people think.

>So the solution is to treat non-rational actors as exactly what they are: crazy, and deal with them accordingly.

Agreed. What I'm arguing is that that may involve reciprocating violence -- which we (rightfully) inherently tend to avoid. You can't rationalize with irrational people.

In that situation, we need multiple people to be willing to sacrifice themselves to save others. In today's world, the modus operandi is to cower and hope things pass over or to sympathize with the attackers views. This will not work going forward as the attackers could give a fuck what you think or how you feel so long as your death plays into their idea of making the world right.
Offtopic, but while multiculturalism makes certain things difficult (like congress in the US now, agreeing on policy) diversity also helps in other ways (like being able to understand and deal with those who aren't like you and don't agree with you). One example of an extremely sucessful, multicultural society is Singapore. And, be honest, for all of America's faults, it's still a world power and one of the largest economies in the world.
But these weren't isolated individuals. This was an organised network with grenades and assault rifles and the training to handle them.

This is not a Breivik, or a "Shoe Bomber" Reid; this is '70s-style, organised, cross-border terrorism -- the sort of which "we" were supposed to be good at handling by now.
I know 3D printing is fashionable these days, but is there a reason it would be any better than boring old CNC milling that's been around for decades?
The weakness of security states is that to "win" the police need a 100% capture rate. The terrorists only have to be successful once.
Correction: 1995 attacks killed 8 and injured 100
(Puts the current attack in perspective, I don't think anything similar ever happened)
London. Paris. Madrid. New York. Why are these the cities terrorists have targeted? Perhaps because, say, a Londoner who dies in a graphic way will cause more notoriety-- i.e. stir more terror-- than a Bangladeshi. It maximizes their bang for... uhh... their bang. Given the size of the world's suicide problem, starvation problem, poverty problem, rape problem, etcetera etcetera, of course terrorism actually isn't of much relative consequence. It intends to make people like you freak out, viscerally (just as CNN et al does when they cover these so much).

I'm not changing a damn thing in how I live my life, and not even out of courage (i.e. the "we can't let the terrorists win" bromide that took over in America in late 2001). It just shouldn't matter that much to you, and it only prevails insomuch as you let these irrational fears get to you.
Since the end of the war in former Yugoslavia and the fall of the former USSR Europe is awash with arms of all shapes and sizes. Automatic weapons caches are uncovered with scary regularity and it is not hard to imagine at all that groups with sufficient money can gain access to assault weapons in relatively large numbers.
Did you stand in the designated smoking area?
Do millennials have a future in any superstar cities?
The war on terror has been going on for 15 years now - are there more terrorists in 2000 or 2015?

Sooner or later, we will have to come to the realization that terrorism cannot be eliminated by force. Stop destabilizing Arab countries, stop imperial interference in Northern Africa, and perhaps we'll see an end to this nonsense.
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I wish we could find a way to fix this "old SSL library/configuration" category of bugs across the board.

Neither OS distributors, nor app makers, nor sysadmins seem to be uniformly good at (or interested in) staying on top of this, and it means users get unreliable security.
There are no gates. There is a sign. http://travel.jeffersoncampervan.com/Pictures/PixoriginalSit...

Cross border travel within the EU is like moving between states in the US, easy to miss.
Actually, this is not the first time that France has declared a state of emergency.

It was declared in 1984 and 2005. And it was declared in Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s.
I'm was not born with idea of harming people, but if my family ended up as "collateral" damage during a wedding I'd be in a pretty dark place. Lots of dark ideas would come to me.
Calais Jungle (where refugees stay) is on fire: https://mobile.twitter.com/Harryslaststand/status/6653291703...
> There exist sane true-believers.

I don't doubt it but those don't typically go around committing mass murder.

As far as the 'people are willing to kill and die for them' bit goes, that's a pretty good definition of insanity to me. After all if an idea was placed in your head and you then go out and use that idea as justification for murdering innocents that you have no personal grievance against (the one universal that most people seem to agree on is a bad thing) then there is something not entirely right in your head.
Oddly enough, I have actually not seen any of these. Apparently my Google Fuu was not on top at the time when I started mine.

Anyhow, there is really lots of good stuff that turned up in this entire thread.
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> The former eastern Bloc had no terrorist incidents.

Yeah, the whole Eastern Block was one big terrorist incident All the terrorists in the world combined have nothing on Stalin's death count.
I think the point is that drone strikes that kill innocent victims can be a source of radicalization. Ignoring that aspect of our foreign policy would be idiocy.
Move on, it's a bad idea. I and everyone else understands exactly what the site is. You on the other hand can't seem to see the forest for the trees.

I say this in the nicest possible way, you're wasting your time and resources on this endeavor that could be better spent on something else!
That depends on how you measure success. Some would say that just avoiding one is a success.
It might be not about political goals:

http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20Effective
Moderate is a relative term.

Compared to ISIS, Asad is a secular moderate. Hell, Al Quaida is moderate compared to ISIS. Every other sensible actor in Syria left the country long time ago.
Here's a question: How do you code an arbitrary-precision-result (i.e. not an interpolated pade approximant) BCD log10 function?

The algorithm in binary is simple, because of special properties of two. It is harder for base-p, and base-composite, is very tough.
The OP meant that this is the first time since WWII that France has closed its borders, which is true.

For those curious about 2005 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_French_riots#State_of_eme...

Edit: I was wrong, the President said the borders were closed, but then clarified that they weren't.
Of course craziness can explode in many ways, but denying that foreign policy is a huge trigger is just disingenuous. How many suicide bombers have you seen in Canada or Sweden? And they have a huge migrant population, larger than France in percentage terms, with various degrees of (non-)integration. But they don't set other countries on fire nor they usually bomb anyone, so they don't get hit by paramilitary networks.
And compared to the average for that block it's even worse.

The point being of the people murdered in France this year less than 1/5th of them where killed by terrorists. Yet, the other 4/5th don't make international news.

Yes, this is a tragedy, so are all those other deaths.

PS: Even at over twice the normal rate, the average US city is far worse every year.
Right now we don't know who these people are, where they came from and what their aims were (besides terror). Of course terror is exactly this, you don't know, you imagine the worst, and everyone reacts, often pointlessly. I wonder why France?
It took Israel security services around 3 years, to stop most bombing and rifle attacks. They are better funded and staffed (forced conscription larger in scope than in France) and that didn't help either . Eventually a massive wall was built (ideologically neither party supported, which gave rise to opportunistic and most corrupt politicians) and as enough of the voters didnt approve with the results the army got approval for countless ground and air raids. The end result was a young generation filled with hatered torwards Israel, now finding other ways to attack.

My point is that to expect security forces to stop such attacks is reasonable up to a point. Escelation on one side builds escelation on the other and eventually its becomes an established norm. The problem Europe has is real, and difficult, tragic.

My heart is with those in Paris, France and Europe .
I cannot sleep.
Clearly more NSA surveillance is needed.
I stand corrected. Thank you. A terrorist attack killing more than 100 happened in 1961, during the Algerian war for independence.
Usually in such a society the state is the terrorist.
This has been a fun read given that we came up with similar methods but from different directions. Mine wasn't Civilization inspired although I played a lot of Meier's Alpha Centauri back in the day. :) I thought more along easily tracking daily transactions on the goal like cashiers or accounts do with a ledger. No online integration, forecasting, etc. Fairly simple addition, subtraction, arbitrary values if needed, and daily/monthly reports.

I also divided my expenses by the day but also the week: paid weekly. Had to make sure I never went passed the minimum I needed for bills. Also, made sure I had enough in the account for my largest, non-rent bill as splitting it by day didn't guarantee the amount would be there. Far as ledger, I went with MoneyWise app for Android. Just loaded it, typed in description/amount, hit save, and done. Can set to an arbitrary balance which gave me starting point (or occasional reset). Then, remove amount for day at the beginning or at least once I woke up haha. Then, just continue tracking expenses.

Might try your method at some point as it's interesting.

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