skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit more optimistic, I think it can be fixed but it will take many years (decades).
I'm sure that if you did a survey of disenfranchised white youth in the US, you'd find a lot of people volunteering to enlist, and you could probably get some sympathy for the need to "go kill ISIS" or some other media-oriented headline. France has many issues, I doubt any of them are truly deeply connected to Islam. But it is of course easier to point at religion as the source of civil unrest, rather than at a failing economy, systematic discrimination and a growing divide between rich and poor.
Yes, people like to blame the outsider, no matter how ridiculous it is. Ever hear a news story about an angry partner killing a spouse? About a person stabbed to death in the street? Pushed in front of a train? Hit by a car? Most of these you'll never hear of because they're such routine daily occurrences. They're done by US! Normal local people who grew up here (wherever that might be).

Nevermind refugees. People everywhere are much more dangerous than any terrorists. Somehow we don't like the idea of banning everyone from everywhere so we feel justified in judging one group as more dangerous than another to give us a sense of safety.
Welcome to the Bay Area.
That's a queue to get to Britain. It's a weird effect of inter-EU collaboration that Britain's borders effectively start at the coast of France.
> I was tired of trying to assess how we were doing financially while our account balance was jumping around so dramatically month to month. I wished instead that money could come in and go out more consistently - like water draining from a faucet.

Congratulations, you've independently invented double entry accounting. Beware that applying it to PF is highly addictive ^_^
They've inspired a lot of lone-wolf and copycat attacks, though, and I think they endorse the idea that if you can't get to Syria, you can at least kill people at home. I doubt that ISIS' actual government had anything to do with this, but the attackers were clearly thinking of ISIS -- "For Syria!" and all that.
With 'good passports' there is a good chance the passports were French, and not so much an infiltration as a return to home. Young people coming from poor segregated communities who are vulnerable to radicalization seem ideal tools for this kind of home-turf attack. In the Netherlands the (Italian) organised crime employs this same group, so there could be your access to smuggled arms.
I'm curious, under what logic would this stop or get any better if we allow the cancer to grow?
How much of that is because when terrorists achieve their political goals, we call them revolutionaries, resistance, freedom fighters, and sometimes insurgents. Only unsuccessful terrorists keep that label.
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Right; the ethical experiment here would be to set up one's own private Tor network and then attack that. (Think that requires a lot of effort? Well, yeah; that's why you do it as part of a university with grant funding!) This would also have the bonus effect of being able to instrument all the nodes, so you could see the effects of your attack flowing through the system in a white-box manner.
I agree, I hope my comment was not misinterpreted. Most muslims believe in "do no harm", and every single one I've talked to thinks those terrorists are the exact opposite of true muslims.

Those attacks done "in the name of islam" create islamophobic reactions from people. Media spreads this islamophobia further, to people who just trust whatever they see on TV. The climate grows to marginalize muslims further. The ones closest to the edge, who were surrounded by violence in the past (war climates) and are now surrounded by hatred from the country they live in, end up knowing only violence and seeking to be understood by their own violence.

The cycle of terrorism. We enable it. What can you do once you understand it? Tell other people? You'll be silenced. You'd get shit on on facebook. Attacked on twitter. Downvoted on reddit. HN is still a sane place but what % of the population does that really represent? Can it even make a change? And it's not like you wouldn't ever get downvoted here. There's a lot of people who believe in the direct "more immigrants = more terrorists" idiocy.

Today is such a fucking depressing day. Having to worry about my sister, my brother, my guild mates and on top of that seeing the attackers get exactly what they want: more fear. More knee-jerk reactions.

Let it fucking end...
It should already be all...
Not to sound condescending, but if you're remotely interested about mid-east politics it is pretty easy to see what tonight was about. It is about Syria.

Pretty much all the world powers have vested interests in Syria. Russia has started to intervene in Syria very recently. NATO is there from the beginning. There is Iran, Turkey, Saudis, Israel, you name it.

There was supposed to be a G20 event tomorrow (will probably get postponed) and the hot topic was supposed to be Syria. What happened a few hours ago is just diplomacy played with blood.
Stalin, to use a popular term, topped the charts for quite a while. Compared to him these ISIS clowns are rank amateurs.
I did stay factual, I even provided a link.

If you're going to restrict speech, restrict all mentions of religion, not just the ones that contradict your preconceived notion.
> neither Naziism nor Communism believed that success was a sign that Divine Providence was smiling on them.

You didn't study your history, comrade! Communist orthodoxy believed in a historical inevitability that overlapped very closely with a sort of man-made Divine Providence. The Nazis had their own set of religious and spiritual motivations, their racial destiny and so on.

They differed from Abrahamic religions in the sense that they expected "victory" in this world and in their time, as opposed to vague posthumous compensations and end-of-times prophecies; but they did believe in a "greater power" manifesting itself in their successful deeds.

> backing down in Syria will only embolden them.

That's a false dichotomy. The problems in Syria won't go away with bombs, and it was manifestly stupid for Hollande to join the party willy-nilly, especially after having experienced first-hand the inefficiency of his security apparatus. What is needed is a real agreement between the real power brokers (Turkey, Saudi, Russia, Iran) to cut off the crazies for good. We need hard diplomacy, not hard policies.
If they're trying to provoke Christian involvement in Syria, they've succeeded; Pope Francis has called on the community of nations to restore order in Syria and suppress ISIS, and has stopped just this side of explicitly calling a crusade...
What he means is french muslims , which are nationals/residents. Charlie Hebdo attackers were french nationals, though having a north african/african background.
Amen. People don't quite understand how resilient and nasty the Islam language virus is. They're projecting their own religious points of view to these primitive savages.
There are more [geographical] disasters besides terrorist attacks. Tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. where it's much more likely for broad swathes of people to be affected.
My heart and thoughts go out to the French people, Parisians and those who were killed and injured and their families.

Je suis français
You forgot to include the recent intervention in Mali by French troops. This incident definitely upset the Al Qaeda in the Maghreb people and this terrorist attack was probably a retaliatory attack for the intervention.
The UK and Ireland are outside of Schengen. Hence the improvised refugee/homeless camp on the Calais side of the tunnel.
I said that concessions will work no better with ISIS than they will with Nazis and Communists. Both the Nazis and the Communists were revolutionary movements convinced that the world was going their way. When they got concessions, they became emboldened; the only way to be left alone by them was to challenge and defeat them.
I know this is a piddlingly minor thing, but I'm seeing it propagated everywhere, and in the spirit of having an informative HN thread:

'Eagles of Death Metal' is not a death metal band.

What they do play is eclectic and hard to label as anything more specific than "rock", but doesn't fit even a very inclusive definition of metal. See: https://www.youtube.com/user/EaglesDeathMetalVEVO/videos
That's what I think is so cool about it -- half the issue with QR codes is that you have to open an app, point a camera at it, focus, and take a picture. With this technology, you don't have to do any of those things. Nor do you have to get on the same wifi, figure out how to bluetooth pair, or anything else like that.
Someone blowing himself up is not irrational?
I agree. Süddeutsche Zeitung had a very good article (in German) on how young people who feel like their life is lacking are recruited into literal Islam, whether violent or nonviolent.[0]

0: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/salafismus-als-jugendkult...
The article you mentioned has no explanation of where he got those figures, as far as I know there is no official data on this and estimates range from 3Mln to 60Mln [1], which as you can see is quite bizarre estimate. According to official documents there were 799,455 people executed in a period from 1921 to 1953 [2] and keep in mind that's a total number of execution, not only those that were executed for political reasons, and that's over a span of 30+ years, so thats around 72 person a day across a whole soviet union territory (around 160+Mln people)

> on top of the estimated 20 million Soviet troops and civilians who perished in the Second World War

What does it have to do with Stalin? It was a war and people perish during a War.

> estimated that the death toll directly attributable to Stalin’s rule amounted to some 20 million lives

Just think about it, Stalin was in power for 30 years, so he had to "directly attribute" to a death of 2000 people every single day? Sounds quite bizarre to me. No official data of the 20Mln of "dead by Stalin's attributing", if you want to down vote me - at least show me official data.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Calculating_the_...

[2] - http://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/sep/12/highereduca...
ISIS is a jihadist terrorist organization, and that's recognized by most governments, many Islamic ones even. It's dishonest to compare openly fighting ISIS with blowing up and shooting civilians as a primary mean.

What happened today was not "civil unrest".
Not that it makes up for it, but France also committed state-sponsored terrorism (by any definition of the word) in New Zealand in the 80's. Though they only killed one person with their bomb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
The 'meet other team members' may be something they like to do, to get you to like them. Get an attachment to the potential employer. A convincer against other offers.

Multiple interviews are a red flag to me. They don't know what they want. Interview once and get very very deep. This requires a lot of introspective thinking knowing who you actually are, who your organisation is, and what's needed to be successful there. When that's done, a single interview is fine. Multiple interviews are a sign the organisation doesn't know what it is and lacks the substance for action.

As for duration: it could take as long as it takes. But all in one take, no reason for spacing out over multiple days.
> Because 'Muslims' are many, and terrorists are few.

There is much more to the story than fitting Muslims into the categories of: "non-terrorist" and "active-terrorist".

The fact still remains that Muslim [and other immigrating] populations in Europe negatively impact every single metric of social-ills (rapes, murders, acid-burning attacks, honor-killings / enormous housing and welfare costs / emergence of no-go zones / overall intolerance towards you / and so on and on).

This is the further split of society that you are talking about. It happens when you bring in incompatible groups into your home, and groups that do not reciprocate your good will, tolerance, and open mindedness.

It makes no difference that terrorists are few when double-digits (20%-90%) of Muslims (depending on region and % of population they make up) think that death should be the penalty for apostasy, that suicide bombings are justified, and so on.
They often do that for employees that have friends or family whom may be deeply opposed. Also, some adult companies have rather conventional aspects to their business that they may not want to associate with their adult identity. Also, consider PornHub's parent company. They own much more than one brand.
Almost certainly. But it does make a difference. Most French muslims come from Algeria and Marrocco and can't really claim to have been affected by the war in Syria. There are deeper roots to home grown terrorism than the Syrian conflict.
The ones blowing themselves up are the pawns. They are driven to do this generally by the environment.

The pack leaders are the rational ones. The ones that stand to gain the most from organizing these horrors.
People expressing something (sympathy, judgement, whatever) are crowding out the messages of people trying to co-ordinate requests for support and offers of support.

It's cool that the twitter user in Australia has a message of sympathy. But if you urgently need a safe place to stay in Paris, and you can't find the people making that offer, in a place meant for that offer, because the non-parisians are making too much noise, then that's a problem.
I wanted to get back to your comment given that this thread has erupted into a political discussion. I just wish you the best, and I hope that I am correct in saying that a lot of us have our thoughts with you and the rest of you in Paris.
I was behind the curve on smartphones for a long time. Luckily my dumbphone had 3G and Java, so I had Google Maps and Facebook on my dumbphone... with multitasking! Slow as hell, but the dumbphone=>smartphone transition was more gradual than most people realize - It was mostly about better UI and hardware; the basic software was already there.
We need a published list of companies using this tech.
Fast Math with Python 3 and the C API
I definitely put all three in the same category. Stalin was probably less bad than Hitler (he killed more people than Hitler did historically, but imagine the body count if Hitler had won); but it's not easy to choose among totalitarian regimes -- or aspiring totalitarian regimes, in ISIS' case.
“They use some weird padding”
The microphone permission is one of the most pernicious. What might not be immediately clear to people is that a number of ambient sounds and almost all ambient music emit steganographic location data. Furthermore, additional metadata is encoded in other data that your phone's sensor package can read if it turns out to be on.
Rockwell Retro Encabulator
Latest breakdown of fatalities available, from CNN and other sources:

114 and still rising at the Bataclan theater
19 at Le Belle Equipe bar
14 at the Cambodian restaurant
4 in the area of the Avenue de la Republique
4 outside the Stade de France (remarkably low death toll here given that there were two suicide bombers there)
> Why blow yourself up when you can make a bomb and then another and another?

To avoid having to endure the consequences of your own actions. For people with nothing to lose, suicide attacks are actually the most risk-averse choice: regardless of the possible existence of an afterworld, you're certain to escape punishment in this world. Look at Columbine-style attacks - no religion there, just semi-rational choices.

People don't blow themselves up because a book or a preacher tells them so; they do it because they are fed up with living shitty lives (either in material or spiritual terms). That is what education should bring them: the consciousness that there is always something worth living for. At that point, whether god exists or not, it doesn't matter.
The IMF isn't the most effective org, but it's a bit hyperbolic to compare it to a predatory loan shark. Sure, it follows the agenda of the largest contributors (US, Germany, France) but I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that its ultimate goal is to transfer meager resources from Burkina Faso and Yemen to more developed nations. In fact, it's a good thing that they are as strict as they are with loan terms. The IMF's biggest existential threat is to be seen as a weak creditor by setting bad precedents and losing a lot on loans. See the Fed for an example of setting a terrible bailout precedent.

I agree that America has not put the debt crisis behind it. QE liquidity continues to prop up the stock and housing markets. Good news is that there won't be a crash because there's enough money out there to justify high paper valuations, and the Fed will provide more if necessary.
Google car pulled over for going too slow
Would chirp.io be placed on this list?
> You didn't study your history, comrade! Communist orthodoxy believed in a historical inevitability that overlapped very closely with a sort of man-made Divine Providence. The Nazis had their own set of religious and spiritual motivations, their racial destiny and so on.

> They differed from Abrahamic religions in the sense that they expected "victory" in this world and in their time, as opposed to vague posthumous compensations and end-of-times prophecies; but they did believe in a "greater power" manifesting itself in their successful deeds.

Good point; I forgot about the historical-determinist side of Communism. I'm more familiar with the Nazis, who believed in an empty, Providence-less cosmos that was more or less Lovecraftian (and who accordingly made themselves a pretty convincing Cthulhu) -- see _Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning_ for the details.

> That's a false dichotomy. The problems in Syria won't go away with bombs, and it was manifestly stupid for Hollande to join the party willy-nilly, especially after having experienced first-hand the inefficiency of his security apparatus. What is needed is a real agreement between the real power brokers (Turkey, Saudi, Russia, Iran) to cut off the crazies for good. We need hard diplomacy, not hard policies.

Surely both at once wouldn't hurt. We need concerted ground action to defeat ISIS -- and in particular, we need Turkey to decide once and for all which side they're on -- but I don't think it's a bad idea to present a united front; I _do_ think that it's a bad idea to imagine that making concessions will inspire fewer lone wolves and opportunists, rather than more.
By the same logic that a wound heals when you stop poking the scab.

If there's any lesson from the past 15 years, it is this: state engineering does not work. Period. You cannot control it. You don't "allow" anything. You cannot stop anything. The forces are beyond your control.

Americans and Europeans have to step out of the colonial mindset of trying to control the world. Then we'll have peace.
> HN is still a sane place but what % of the population does that really represent?

I think that the level of HN is rare online but offline things are much better (at least, in my experience).

> And it's not like you wouldn't ever get downvoted here. There's a lot of people who believe in the direct "more immigrants = more terrorists" idiocy.

So talk to them and stand your ground. Sure there will always be jerks but don't let that stop you from trying and who cares about the occasional downvote.

> Let it fucking end...

Yes, please. But I fear that won't happen in my lifetime, maybe in yours depending on your age. This took decades to fuck up it will take decades to restore and a completely different approach.
This is what many people think, but it is demonstrably false. Most terrorists are highly educated and some are rich. The terrorists involved in 9/11 all had university degrees, for example, and some of them from western universities. These are not people who would be committing suicide anyway out of depression caused by miserable circumstances.

Frankly, I suspect that at least part of this comes from the aversion of highly educated and rich people to the idea that somebody much like them in those respects could do such a thing, and that it must be a poor lowly educated person doing it.
They already failed to prevent 600 common murders each year. You could call that completely ineffective or you could call it diminishing returns on investment in security. You can't prevent all of them without an unacceptable number of false positives or harsh restrictions on freedom.

Anyone who's upset by this and doesn't have a personal connection to the victims is not being rational. They should be upset by all other killings - the vast majority which don't get into the international news, let along HN. Those are far more prevalent, and perhaps easier to prevent because they're done by amatures.
That's not just the Bay Area. That's living paycheck-to-paycheck, and it happens everywhere. Sometimes even to "wealthy" people, if they find themselves cash poor (money tied up in retirement, home equity or other property, or investments).
This makes me really happy to see. For whatever reason analyzing finances is enjoyable in a Civ-ish way though I never would have made the connection.

A couple of things I've noticed as I've done something similar:

1) Categorizing the little things as you go along was way too tedious for me too - even in really stripped down form. I really like the idea of categorizing All The Things though. How I dealt with this was to download 90 representative days worth of credit card history into LibreOffice and remove all of the "still gets paid even if I'm cryogenically frozen" payments. I then manually categorize everything that is left (quick because the categorization is batched up and auto-complete works wonders), divide by 90 and generate a pivot table that shows the daily sum of each of the categories. Where I think we diverge though is that rather than trying to keep this snapshot up to date, I just make a mental note of it as "Okay, I average $XX/day on everything else".

As long as you know your starting CC balance then it's pretty easy to figure out how you are doing for the pay period. Just a matter of $start + $daily_cc * $days.

2) Kinda similar to the web app (in spirit if not functionality), I set up a little Python CLI tool that simulates my recurring expenses (along with my recurring $XX "all other crap" fund from above). Once you've set up the recurrence relations you can step through two weeks at a time, pausing to change state, transfer money, etc. It's basically like using a debugger which is an enjoyable way to test out various ideas you have that's a little bit more freeform than a spreadsheet where its hard to see how various ad hoc tweaks layer on top of one another over time.
thanks for the insight - is there good further reading on this topic? I'm really only familiar with it from Adam Curtis' docs
Interesting, they use a version of OpenSSL that will go EOS at the end of the year? [1] It wouldn't support TLS 1.1 or 1.2, either, unless they've hacked that into their version.

[1] https://www.openssl.org/policies/releasestrat.html
> There will be reprisals against innocent people.

That's already starting, some idiots set fire to the camp near Calais.