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No, I don't know what to do. Presumably neither of us are experts in counterterrorism or experienced in military strategy, which technically makes both of us naïve.

I disagree that draconian monitoring of Muslims in general is accurately described as "targeted surveillance." Targeted surveillance means intelligence gathering on specific individuals or groups of individuals, not entire religious-ethnic populations.

I also see no a priori reason why broadening the scope of surveillance to require monitoring of more than 50 million peaceful citizens would be an effective use of intelligence resources.

I could come up with some naïve suggestion of my own, but they would probably be too radical for the leaders of the Western world to consider. Western diplomatic apology for illegal wars and terrorism in the Middle East could be one part.

For a hopefully less naïve perspective, I'll link to this interview with professor Chomsky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW_5WmusqY0
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This is a HN frontpage material only becuase it's on GitHub?
I can't find good sources in French press (though my French isn't great), but it was reported by local TV news last night, and for example some English press still has it like this Telegraph blog [1] which says "Authorities warned that "accomplices" were likely to be still at large in the city, that was placed under a curfew for the first time since the Nazi occupation in 1944."

It could well be that it was misinformation, there was plenty of that last night, but for sure the state of national emergency that has been declared does mean that they can inflict a curfew if they want. Anyway, I just went to the main road for the first time now and it's quieter than a normal Saturday but still fairly busy.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/1199...
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It's a bit more complex than that. We've reached the point where the Islamic State is a nation-state, which is at war with a number of other states (including France). In this context, how do you differentiate "terrorism" and "act of war"/"black ops action"?

I agree that an overreaction is likely, though considering how crazy the latest security law are, I don't see how much worse it can get in this regard.
Yeah and I think that's the issue. But the funny thing is, that the Magic Mouse is the only one causing me problems - even tiny Logitech NX Nano doesn't cause me pain. I think it's caused by the low height coupled with the fact it has no buttons to press.
If I would rent a property through AirBNB (which I won't) I would expect it to be unsafe by default because that to me would seem to be the most prudent way to act. Ditto when I buy a used car, I inspect the thing end-to-end before I trust it, ditto when I buy a new place to live in (the one I just moved into had sub-standard electrical circuitry and I ripped everything out and replaced it with up-to-date and safe materials at considerable expense).

Properties you rent from professional operators you should be able to trust to be up to date, in a country that has a low incidence of corruption.

Anything you rent from private individuals should be considered unsafe by default.
I cannot see the original comment, because it appears as [flagged], but I can imagine that it is quite non-mainstream. I do not see why it would need to be censored. It probably makes sense in one way or the other, without therefore being particularly popular. But then again, comments that are mainstream and popular are utterly useless and usually very unintelligent. It also shows why "voting" does not work. It will always turn into a dictatorship of the mediocre average.
The root cause of most Muslim violence is that most Muslims actually believe the claims that the Quran makes about reality.

Here is a sample of such quotes directly from the Quran:

"Believers, if you yield to the infidels they will drag you back to unbelief and you will return headlong to perdition. . . .We will put terror into the hearts of the unbelievers. . . . The Fire shall be their home" (3:149-51)

"Believers, do not follow the example of the infidels, who say of their brothers when they meet death abroad or in battle: ‘Had they stayed with us they would not have died, nor would they have been killed.' God will cause them to regret their words. . . . If you should die or be slain in the cause of God, God's forgiveness and His mercy would surely be better than all the riches they amass" (3:156).

"God will not forgive those who serve other gods besides Him; but He will forgive whom He will for other sins. He that serves other gods besides God is guilty of a heinous sin. . . . Consider those to whom a portion of the Scriptures was given. They believe in idols and false gods and say of the infidels: ‘These are better guided than the believers'" (4:50–51).

Yes there are also some quotes in the Quran that contradict these quotes (like all religious texts, it's highly contradictory), and some people may be animated by charismatic individuals who distort the text, but Muslims who commit violence in the name of Allah need not believe anything more than the specific claims that the Quran makes to rationalize their violent actions.

The solution to this problem is like asking, "What's the solution to someone who still believes in Santa Claus at the age of 30?"

If you encountered such a person, would you let them continue to believe in Santa Claus or would you empathetically attempt to communicate to that person that they need to deeply examine their beliefs and ensure they're based in reality, based on evidence that can be readily observed.

But when most atheists and agnostics encounter a Muslim (or a Christian, or a Jew, or any religious person), they simply roll their eyes and shrug it off because they don't "want to get into it with them."

I'm not saying you have to go around trying to prove everybody wrong all the time, that's a recipe for ensuring everyone hates you. But religious beliefs are dangerous and they are the direct cause of violence -- not just Muslims of course, the Crusades are an obvious example of Christianity being the direct cause of violence.

The solution is to be empathetic, but not apologetic about the fact that their religious beliefs are not rooted in reality, and all beliefs should be.

TL;DR -- When you encounter a religious person, be empathetic, but not apologetic when communicating that their beliefs are based on a made up story rather than rooted in reality (as all beliefs should be).
You forgot to include New York in the list. Totally agree with you.
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In practice, #3 is already done by almost all countries, though usually HUMINT is far more granular than just "lol infiltrate the minorities," because that's too general to be any of usefulness.

#2 wouldn't get rid of terrorism. Instead, it would make the state the terrorist.

#1 is a premature conclusion.
This makes zero sense to me. No offense.

Reality is far more complicated. No single solution could possibly work. Your suggestions (that people 'accept' your perspective as their reality) are equally naive.
> artists, user interface designers and others whose contributions would be valued by the community :)

Have you seen any discussions around things like: new Firefox UI, concepts for new LibreOffice UI, new versions of Gnome and KDE? Many communities certainly aren't very good at letting designers feel valued. Graphics is a perfect bike-shedding issue: everyone can have an opinion, can point to X examples that are "better" and many projects have difficulties to deal with that.

Graphics also profits very much from a consistent style, which a) requires someone to create such a style, b) for contributors to adhere to it. This makes small-scale contributions harder and less interesting, so it is harder for new designers to get started. Which again makes it harder to find people willing to do most of the work (which would lead to more consistent styles).

Most projects have coding leads that police code contributions in style. For graphics, you'd need a graphics lead that can have a similar role for design and is backed enough that they can ignore some criticism. Which leads back to the issue of getting people started and into such a trusted position. It requires trust by the designer that their invested time will be worth it, and trust by the project that handing a lot of control to the designer will have a good result and that they'll stay on board.

It seems to me that as a code contributor it is easier to "rise through the ranks" from small commits (and potentially staying there without issues). Splitting graphics work in small but interesting chunks seems way harder.

One game where it seems to have worked reasonably well is the transportation simulation Simutrans. There is a multitude of tilesets, but some of them work really well, despite being made by multiple people. Most of them are whimsical pixel-art style, which probably makes it easier to mix and match styles.

(Sorry if this comment is a bit all-over-the-place, but as I was writing new angles appeared)
This is exactly the point. People on AirBNB rent out their houses that they built and maintain for their own use to you the guest. That means that you get the level of construction and associated accountabilty related to private individuals, not to professional operators. It is also one of the reasons you are probably better of in a hotel if safety is a prime consideration when you're traveling. The upsides of AirBNB stays are related to interaction, living like the locals do and a less thirteen-in-a-dozen experience, the upside is definitely not that the place you will be staying in is safer or better grade when it comes to reliability than your average old home, especially not when it is a quaint old cottage in some backwater.
Ask HN: What are the hardest verbal interview questions you've faced?
I've been job hunting lately, and I've faced a few doozies during on-site interviews. It got me thinking:

What are some of the hardest technical questions you've been asked during a verbal/on-site interview? And how did you go about answering them? Please note the type of job you were interviewing for.

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I'll start:

(This was for a full stack engineering role:)

Q: "What is the radius of the earth? Give me an answer and walk me through how you got there."

A: I had no idea. I figured that SF to NYC was roughly 3,000 miles and that was 4 timezones. The whole earth is 24 timezones so I multiplied by 6 to get the circumference of 18,000. Since the circumference is Diameter * Pi I divided by 3 to get a diameter of roughly 6,000 and divided by 2 again to get the radius of 3,000 miles.

I googled the answer after the interview, I was off by about a thousand miles. Not bad.
Every person has the potential to be radicalised. You are suggesting surveillance to target thoughtcrime.
Indeed. I've done many a road trip around Europe and the only time I've ever had my passport checked inside the EU was entering and leaving the UK.
Floppy drives had a mechanical eject push-button and there was no unix-style "mount" afaik.
I encourage you to read the actual text of the Quran, there are ample quotes that advocate violence against infidels and martyrdom, even if there are some quotes that contradict them.
Maybe 5 minutes a day? I actually automatically download most purchases from my credit card's website, so no effort is put into those.

Then I spend probably an hour at the end of the month doing a retrospective on how accurate my estimates were.
How can you say that during the yearly /dev/null tournament? :-)
> I cannot see the original comment, because it appears as [flagged], but I can imagine

You should probably read the comment before you talk about it. To read [dead] comments you go to your profile, and set the [showdead] toggle.
It's your opinion. As much as I disagree with it it was a well written and we'll thought out post, and as such it is very much against the HN guidelines for you to be downvoted this way.
I think you're right, violence against Muslims does not cause Muslims to question their religious beliefs, it hardens them.
"Leg cancer"? What drugs are you on?
French press has been (understandably I guess) ahead of international press on most of this stuff. Personally I'm following http://www.metronews.fr/ http://www.lemonde.fr/ and http://www.leparisien.fr/

Despite living here, my French isn't great so mainly using Google translate.
Then perhaps it's inappropriate to claim that "Otto can deploy to many different infrastructure providers" until "Otto can deploy to many different infrastructure providers".
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"An Ansible alternative written in Go would be perfect."

Why?

I understand the allure of Go - I was an embedded systems engineer working predominately in assembly language and C for many years. Memory management was a pain and concurrency was practically non-existent on many uCs.

But Ansible is pretty mature at this point, with a vibrant community, lots of internal and third-party modules and it's based on a ubiquitous scripting language (Python).

Please help me understand the rationale of a rewrite - what are the goals, what deficit would if fix and would the time required be justified versus enhancing Ansible as it is. At best I'm a Go newb, but I'm pretty proficient with Python - if it's just that Ansible's "not in your language", I'd argue a rewrite represents a false economy.
Hey, that was kinda evil. I expected screenshots, instead I was thrown into a live game and ended up spending quite a lot more time than intended. ;P
It's probably not a false flag and greater still probably won't lead to the outbreak of WWIII, I do concede that.

(However, it's not too outlandish that the perpetrators may turn out to be jihadists unaffiliated with ISIL, which would still technically make it a "false flag".)
What I see is that no amount of monitoring of the more radicalized elements of society will alter the deep and profound civilizational changes that are taking place in Europe.

This seems to be about the end of an era and the beginning of a whole new one. And nothing seems able to alter that course of History.
I stand with you Parisians in solidarity. I have lived and worked in Paris. It is my favorite city in the world. To see the city suffering is so very sad and painful.
I am always amazed about the Hasicorp tools. What I really like that they solve problems I did not think about (yet).
What I think is their biggest advantage is their ability to integrate in a heterogenous infrastructure - you do not need to throw away your current infrastructure setup. You can gradually integrate tools like Consul/Consul-template. You do not have to install for example Docker.

And I guess otto is a nice tool which solves the problem to deploy AND develop a microservice architecture. So maybe you already got your part right, where developers push a new microservice to production, and the production setup runs fine. There might still be problems how a developer can create a local development environment with multiple microservice depedencies, which you might want to have locally. The best solution in my opinion is fig.sh(docker-compose) right now. But docker-compose does not help you for deployment (and you have to depend on Docker)
Didn't know about that. Now, that's not reassuring, considering that they make the child-killing Talibans look like moderates...
You choice of wording suggests a different meaning from what, I hope, you intended. You say "all Muslims living in Europe who have the potential to be radicalised" - this sounds very much like "all Muslims ... have the potential to be radicalised". Hopefully, what you actually mean is "monitor any Muslim with the potential to be radicalised" - i.e. monitor a tiny number of Muslims, not all of them!
"You don't see the world as it is, you see it as you are." -- Krishna Saagar

With all the information now available regarding mass surveillance, the only ways to believe it is an effective deterrent to terrorism are ignorance and obstinacy.
IMO, a large part of it is the arrogant overestimation of the speed at which and extent of which foreign policy can change the world, in some cases augmented with negligence of a segment of the population that is poor and has fewer chances in life.

Ending it will take decades, as trust comes on foot but leaves on horseback.
Truly just wars may be few and far between but the Pacific war was one of them. I get annoyed by flag waving and chest thumping as much as the next guy but very few people alive today would try to justify Japans actions in WW2. I think it's ok to use the word "respect" in this case. Comparing a Marine or Sailor who broke the rules to fight in the Pacific to a kid fighting with ISIS is a real stretch.
Maybe we don't expect that we can fuck with other people without getting fucked with ourselves?
I think this is about the third time this story has got to the front page and I find it interesting that most comments seem to focus on the personal responsibility angle rather than the duty of care. The question is whether AirBnB and the homeowner can be seen to be providing a service much like a hotel. You have a reasonable expectation that hotels have procedures and systems in place to ensure the accommodation they provide is safe.

There was a recent inquest in the UK (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/corfu-carbon-...) where the liability of a package holiday company in the deaths of children caused by a faulty boiler was examined, and where the hotel may have taken shortcuts in repairing the boiler. If this was an AirBnB property would we put the blame for the faulty boiler on the customer or the service provider?
Do you also check for fire and CO2 monitors? That's one of my biggest fears when using AirBNB because I don't know the surroundings / neighbors.
Not so much that he (he's made several games like that) is oblivious to it, but more that it's the most easy thing to simulate in games, and also what people expect. You can do better, as games like Untertale or KSP demonstrate. But it takes a special kind of person.
2. and 3. play into the terrorists' hands perfectly: they transform our society from a free, liberal one to a fascist surveillance state. When the choice is a lack of freedom ruled over by ISIS or a lack of freedom ruled over by our current leaders, it's a meaningless choice. 1. is the only option that doesn't ultimately destroy our way of life.
This is a personal pet peeve but too many sans-serif fonts make it too hard to distinguish between "I" and "l." And even though it is easy to figure out from the context (and the font used here does distinguish so good for HN!) that is reason enough for me to prefer serif fonts in most cases.
It's already pretty common knowledge for tree care in general, there's nothing specific about this for swings. Already ever major town or city around the country has an arborist or team of arborists to make sure trees don't randomly fall on people and kill them, and the way they do that is by using either this test or else just manually coring the tree by cutting out a tiny section to check for rot.

If you as an individual want to own trees, and especially if you want to let others use your property, I don't see any reason why you should be held to a lesser standard of care than any municipality across the country. If you can't afford to keep your trees safe then you can't afford the trees and/or the property.

But yeah, this definitely isn't anything beyond what you'd learn in a plant pathology 101 class in college or a basic arborist certification.
It is interesting information of a technical nature relevant to an important current event. That it is distributed in a manner HN finds quite palatable is icing.
Do you not recognise an analogy when you see one? I fear you're missing every other, more important point at hand.
My pet peeve: when I try to click a button and just before I touch the screen it changes, so I hit completely another button (on Androod - but it is the same everywhere). So instead of cancelling a call I place another one, to a different person. No I didn't intend to call my mother in law!

The solution is so simple it hurts: if a clickable area has been shown less than X ms before the touch / click, ignore the event. Nobody can type this quick except for Superman, and he can change this via some setting, if you think he will be annoyed.

I am not sure why I haven't seen this solution anywhere yet. Do others not encounter this problem?
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As a Greek, it's very odd to me why many other cultures don't seem to have the food delivery element. Here, you can get virtually every type of food, from fast food, to street food, to restaurant food, delivered, free of charge, in around ten minutes, from 9 am to 2 am.

No other country I've traveled to really had this, you could, at most, get pizza delivered until 10pm or so. Can anyone shed some light?
I strongly vote for #1. The attack, while tragic, was small-scale, and should not be treated as anything else as organized crime. Have the police find all responsible and bring them to justice. Anything else is basically doing what the terrorists want you to do - overreact.

We should learn from the mistakes of the United States: two long, bloody and expensive wars, bombing third country and terrorizing fourth, mass surveillance and transportation security theatre - all tallying up to orders of magnitude more innocent deaths than caused by 9/11 attacks, which themselves amounted to something around 3-4 month's worth of traffic-related deaths in the US.
This is a reasonably detailed simulator of a thermal power plant.
> Ditto when I buy a used car

How about when you rent a car?
Silence, food etc are easy. But ten hours of meditation everyday for 10 days sounds scary. Could you talk more about your experience?
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Less Than 2 Percent of Terrorist Attacks in the E.U. Are Religiously Motivated
I make sure that wherever I sleep there are at least two exits, I make sure those are un-obstructed, I hate stoves that have their burners installed in such a way that they might vent CO2 into the surroundings. I don't check for fire/CO2 monitors because I would assume that even if they are present they're not working. (Which, unfortunately seems to be the case more often than not.)
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Most of my Muslim friends are not particularly religious. But they can't really discuss that in the company from "the old country", both because of social problems and because it might be physically dangerous. I heard a Muslim girl say that her boyfriend had to change religion because her relatives back home would get problems otherwise...

In Europe we are getting areas where immigrants live, so this will be conserved to a large part between generations.

My point is -- many of the children of my secular friends will grow up with social input which might end up making (even) them radicalized.

This is a big problem, which the Muslim community better solve before a bad backlash starts. :-(
I once saw a study that concluded heterosexual couples were more likely to have children than homosexual couples.

I mean, there's the things we know, and then there's the things that have been scientifically studied and validated.

And then there's the things that really don't need to be validated.

I once had someone claim that if you drove a vehicle through mud, it would get muddy. But since it hasn't been scientifically proven and validated, do I really "know" that to be true?

Is this really going to be an existential crisis where we don't really know anything until science tells us it's true?
I started using Tufte LaTeX for my school papers and I've been met with a lot of praise, but I've only used the CSS for a personal blog-ish site that, while public, is really meant to be just for me. Has anyone used it for anything interesting?
Yes, I've tested a few in the apartments I've rented. I've been tempted to carry around some 6 volt batteries when traveling just in case.