skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a serious academic researcher with a research group has access to amount of data/computing power that we can make NYTIMES headline effortlessly if we were to throw our ethics out of the window, Let me tell you this isn't a fucking joke. Patio11 who seems to be darling of this forum, has no clue what he is talking about. He seems to have never participated in any kind of academic research.

Unlike some stupid bingo card creator or bubble driven recruiting startup. Academic research is a serious business, there is a reason why it is looked in positive light and a lot of things which otherwise are not allowed, are acceptable when done as research. And for it to stay that way scrutiny of research conduct is essential.
I'm quite curious to see whether that'll happen before the elections...
Next month. Bet on it.
Even if I was a homicidal maniac, I doubt I'd mass-murder French civilians.

That's what confuses me the most about these attacks. Many people have legitimate grievances against NATO forces, but how does that lead to shooting random Parisians? It's so wasteful and counterproductive.
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10291778
What are the best ways to bet on it, in terms of where to put money now?
This seems like something we'd be interested in.

Of course, we have a lot on our plate, so I can't guarantee anything. Happy to accept pull requests. :)
Depends, when most people don't understand the language the story can feel very abstract.
It's not used, exactly. It's more of a historical accident.

Way back when, Apple shipped OpenSSL libraries as part of the OS and included them in the SDK. Naturally, some apps were built that used them.

Then Apple discovered that they couldn't really upgrade the OpenSSL they shipped with the OS, because OpenSSL doesn't maintain binary compatibility. They could ship a new version, but they were stuck shipping the old version as well, and the new version would suffer the same fate.

So instead, they reimplemented what they saw as the important functionality, shipped that as CommonCrypto and Security.framework, and deprecated OpenSSL to try to get people to stop using it. But they still ship it with the OS, because they don't want to break whatever apps do still use it. And they can't upgrade it, because that would defeat the whole purpose of shipping it.
Could you clarify how this would be "terrorism"? Terrorisms is not something targeted like this. Whethor or not it was a war crime or treason or murder or whatever (they plead guilty to manslaughter)...it's not a repeatable or scalable type of situation and was never a threat to the general public.
Little at the moment. A largely open border to the rest of the Eurasian continent allows for an inflow of weapons even if you successfully collected all that are already here. Weak explosive devices can be made with common(ish) materials. Even with tight controls you will still get knife attacks. Just look at Palestine recently.

Tight controls will require a more authoritarian government. I for one don't want that but I expect we will get it and the masses will demand it. Yay for neighbours.
Editor's note: This article has been updated to include another strange thing.

Well, I laughed. That's the kind of thing "Cracked.com" won't inform you about on their "Seven strangest occurrences in the financial markets" list. Hats off to the Bloomberg Editors.

But interest rates have been steadily coming down since the early Reagan years, and any reverse is going to be an epochal change. And that's where we are.
Yeah, there's also 50% of the US' refining capacity along the Gulf Coast, as well as a massive new surge of crude and therefore products in the area. They simply can't get enough dockspace or pipeline takeaway capacity to make a meaningful dent.
Anonymous random new account, I don't know how intimidated you think I'm going to by whatever your academic credentials will turn out to be when you reveal them, but nobody I know in security research is talking about this Tor work the way you are, or would take umbrage at what Patrick said. Patrick knows what he's talking about.
I suggest you drop Windows. Or keep a hard drive with it installed to do Windows development, but switch to another OS as your primary.
You're not contradicting anything I said, I wouldn't claim utopias are the only reason for people to become violent. I do believe that true believers such as with religions or utopias are particularly dangerous. Did you reply this way because you approve of communism?
You have thoughts and good wishes coming from NYC and from Texas. I'm in New York; my dad is in Texas.

My dad is a WW2 veteran. He fought on the front lines of Normandy Beach, The Battle of France, and Liege, among other places like the Battle of the Bulge.

He was housed in France by people there who welcomed and supported him. He was assisted by the underground resistance. He has an enormous amount of love for the French people that he helped liberate and who helped liberate themselves.

There was a family that took him in somewhere in the French countryside and fed him the first meal he'd had in weeks that wasn't out of a can. They cooked food, washed his clothes, and gave him some wine and a decent bed to sleep on.

My dad is 96 now, and about 10 years ago the granddaughter of that family tracked him down and sent him a letter telling him how she had always heard about this man who came there to help them. He has treasured this person ever since and stayed in touch with her.

When I talked to him on the phone tonight, he was in tears about what has happened in that country he fought so hard to protect so many years ago and the people who are experiencing what you are going through.

Best wishes to you and yours. From Texas and New York, Vive la France.
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Don't worry. Driverless cars are coming and the lives they save will quickly outweigh all deaths from terrorism and mass shootings. The US will be such a massively safer place without those 30,000 road deaths each year. It'll be able to sustain another 9/11 incident every year and still be safer than before. So I don't think we need to solve this problem. We're already well on the way to solving the real problems. Terrorism and mass shootings are negligible and don't need to be a priority.
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Ah, I see your point.
The whole point is to avoid all the nonsense like what you're saying is on Twitter.
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Prayers for those who died and their family members.

A reminder than the free societies must remain and and continue to defend themselves despite such terror attacks. It is important that politicians don't cave into the political goals that these terrorists might have.
uh, well, that's probably because you're not a criminal or terrorist.
Yes they are balancing the cost/benefit equation of the untold levels of damage to consumers and to Apple itself potentially done by bad apps on one side, versus the relatively less impactful in their judgement benefits of potentially useful apps on the other side. The assessment that this increases the device's suck relies on an certain assumptions about just how bad the damages could possibly be, assumptions that you make, but that they are reluctant to make on behalf of their users.
It's a matter of geometry and not loading up the phone lines with un-necessary calls.

If 1,000,000 people try to figure out whether the 1 person they know in a city of 2,000,000 are ok within a very short time-frame then the phone network will stop functioning.

A place to post a simple 'I'm ok' will cut down tremendously on the number of calls that will then still need to be made. Unfortunately (1) not everybody has facebook and (2) a 'no show' will now certainly lead to a phonecall when before it would be assumed the person was ok so I'm not sure whether it helps or not but the basic idea is probably a good one. It would be even better if this functionality was available outside of having a facebook account.
Let’s start with the Holodomor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
error of 700%, technically
This is why I leave a full month's expenses in my checking account. (Actually, I leave a full month's expenses in 3 different checking accounts, to be on the safe side.)
This is not related to YC. I get the same error for every domain they don't manage. For example:

http://domain-registrar.storage.googleapis.com/expired.html?...
Thanks - just for next time, tusfiles seems to use very shady advertisers and I happened to open it in Chrome for Android. I was redirected to another APK download!
I suppose not if terrorism has to give fear to the whole country, not just one group. But it was surely meant to intimidate by random-seeming violence. It wasn't part of a war, which distinguishes it from general war killing. Nor was it a personal grudge that distinguishes it from typical murder.
See also the 8-year old WWI veteran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mom%C4%8Dilo_Gavri%C4%87
The part I quoted was not factual and was a slur.
I have have a few twitter accounts with news on very narrow topics, for example, machine learning news, and other niche technical topics. I just went through them all and anyone who mentions the Paris attacks gets unfollowed. If I ever want news about shocking violence going on on the other side of the planet with my Machine learning news I'll resubscribe. I get inundated every day with too much information. Getting the same shock news through 30 different channels is just ridiculous. Everyone thinks they're the modern day Paul Revere when really, I already know, and they're just being annoying.
Believe what you will but the numbers suggest that it's not a technical problem to port a Python code base. It does take effort and work but it's "straight forward" in the sense that what is required is well known.
Physics has 3 laws that explain 97% of event while finance has 97 equations that explainless than 3% of events.
Are you really jumping to that conclusion from a single number? Not only that, are you saying that reduced work effort leads to reduced productive output?

If I follow your logic, and what the study showed, if I start working at 16, but you go to university, and get a masters degree so do not the start work until you're 25, I have put in more work effort, and you are now making us all poorer.
How can I do that without the billions of dollars you clearly have?

I'd like the self discipline to manage to earn 10 an hour.
Dude the fact that nobody you know is worried should be the first clue that something is really wrong or you are hanging out with wrong people. Security, Privacy & Data Mining research are ripe for bureaucratic takedown. Incidences like these will only lead to harsher requirements and stifle future research. Its essential for the security community to police itself. As far as Patrick knowing what he's talking about I do not take anyone who has never published a research article, let alone an abstract seriously.

We have access to hundred of millions of medical records, if were to throw away integrity, ethics and morality out of the window. The results would be spectacular enough to warrant a front page news in all major newspapers. And it would completely destroy any future medical research in this field, since we would have betrayed public trust.

Oh and guess what we are exempt from IRB. The true reality is that research to a large extent cannot be completely controlled / monitored. It is thus extremely essential for a research community to hold itself to some ethical standards.
Facebook has a feature that allows to detect what you're watching or listening to when you post a status update. No secret or conspiracy there.
When you saw the iOS apps doing this, did they display the red "Recording" indicator bar at the top?
You answered your question without even realizing it. It is always ok to care about your loved one, and it is always ok to reach back out to let them know you're ok, no matter the medium, no matter the circumstance. It is not irrational, it is human.

A college classmate on 9/11 died in the Windows of the World restaurant. Her death may be a statistic to you, but it is not to me.

I remember trying to call friends in NYC that day, all the exchanges were overloaded. I'm grateful that we now have ways to connect without worrying about possibly preventing emergency calls from going through.
I actually have a pretty similar approach. (To be honest, Civilization's economic system is not exactly novel.)

Except I combine the daily rate with a running treasury (each day starts with the previous day's ending balance). All expenses must be paid out of the treasury, so if I want to purchase something I have to save up for a while.

Importantly, the 'treasury' is separate from my actual savings, which are deducted at a constant rate from my daily income.

The really fun part comes with estimation: I have several years of data now, so I've been able to develop a pretty complex spreadsheet which predicts my network over time. Every month I compare where I thought I was going to be and where I'm at, adjusting estimates to get more accurate over time. It's gotten to the point where I can pretty reliably predict my net worth to within $100. (One time, I even got it right down to the cent, from 6 months out.)
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Even today Mac OS X still ships with a copy of OpenSSL 0.9.7 for that reason. I wonder when exactly it was last updated.
Technically finding illegal drugs would make you a criminal.
What do I do when one of Otto's magic commands breaks my website in production?

Will I ever have to give Otto my root password?

I am deeply afraid of this tool.

The marketing heavily pushes the angle of "Don't worry, it's magic! It knows everything! You won't have to break a sweat!" But statements like this, while appealing to newcomers, sicken the people who understand the stack well enough to also understand why this tool could help them.

If Otto wants to gain mindshare of the devops people who will be forced to support it, I strongly suggest they reconsider their branding.

I really, really hope I never have to use this tool.
I think the simplest thing would be sell Euros and buy Dollars.
The refugees who have travelled to Europe to seek asylum are disproportionately young and male. Because if you have a family group in a refugee camp in Turkey, you don't send your grandmother to take a dangerous boatride across the Med and then traipse around the countryside of the Balkans trying to find a way to get to talk to a German government official about the possibility of making an asylum application for your family.
Not sure why the downvotes, I voted you up.
Your comment is irrelevant to the point being discussed, which was specifically about communism. It's akin to saying, "We excuse X for doing something bad because Y (something to which we are ideologically opposed) did the same bad thing". In other words, it's the "side", not the "principle" you are arguing. If you take that position you can be an apologist for practically anything that happens.
Shorting long-term bonds with high modified duration would yield gains when interest rates rise and bond prices fall. Black swans and fractals: we can't predict the future but sometimes Blackswans flock together, e.g., autoregression, feedback patters, volatility of volatility, etc.
So, let's first establish that these are individuals and that while for some of the individuals targeted your claims hold true there are many others that did successfully integrate. For the rest I'll ignore those but they exist and their numbers are vast, much larger than the numbers of those that failed to integrate but since they're not 'part of the problem' I'll pretend we're not talking about them (though they should be talked about because they apparently hold the key to at least a part of the solution).

You're forgetting a few not-so-juicy details. Most of these people that failed to integrate carry local passports and to the law they are just as French (or Dutch, or German or whatever) as the rest of the people living there.

As a rule all these countries practice freedom of religion so whatever the effect the immigrating (grand)parents had on the statistics of decades past the problem is the effects today. And you can't attack anybody on grounds of religion without opening up the traditional make-up of the country as well so that's right out because it would make a great many people in various power structures extremely nervous.

The failure then is to fail to fully integrate these people, part of the failure is theirs, part of the failure is ours.

The fact that the younger generation (and definitely not all of them!) are unable to get work, unable to find meaning in life and unable to get ahead no matter how hard they try creates a level of frustration that I can only imagine, but which broke through partially in the riots in France a couple of years ago.

As far as the 'double digits' are concerned, right now an ultra-rightwing party holds > 25% of the vote in NL, that doesn't make all the Dutch racists any more than 30% of the Muslims agreeing with some or all of the terrorist activities makes all of the Muslims supporters of terrorism.

It's each and every person as an individual that matters.

And if a person specifically supports these acts then you can go after them with whatever tools are available but until then there is no reason to act in a generalizing manner. That only makes the problem (potentially much) worse.
Oh my god, that is so interesting and different. You must be a really unique and free thinking person to not own a TV or a phone. I bet you have really interesting opinions!
Could someone who downvoted this elaborate? I'd love to hear why you don't consider Pan-americanism and capitalism(!) to be utopian
I'm not sure what the last part of your first paragraph was supposed to mean, but if I wanted to compare my own computer security cite record with yours, would I search scholar.google.com for "AMEDICALRe"?

You've misread Patrick's messages to spectacular effect, leaving me with the impression that you were simply champing at the bit to jump at him and his silly bingo card site.

Tor chose world governments as their adversary, and if $1MM was all it took to buy unmasking of users, they failed. That's important information, and regardless of CMU's ethics (and I think this was an ethical lapse), the revelation that there is or was a flaw of that scale is a service to the Internet.
I think attacks like this are absolutely threatening to society, besides the obvious direct impact on everyone personally scared by their experience tonight, they likely increase islamaphobia and racism, cement negative prejudices in minds of average citizens, and yes likely lead to many "wrong" reactions by the State.

But it's completely wrong to conclude that the right thing to do is therefore nothing. As we learn more about who, what, why, and how this happened the first goal is to hunt down, arrest, put on trial, and if found guilty imprison for the rest of their lives (or execute) anyone who contributed to this attack. Every angle must be criticized to understand what effective countermeasures could have been in place to detect, disrupt, or kill the attackers sooner. There should be a tremendous outpouring of support for all the people and families impacted.

The most sickening is the celebratory response from various camps, and I wonder if that's happening anywhere inside France.

Particularly if this turns out to be a home brew attack, the Islamic communities bear a tremendous responsibility, not for the attack, but going forward, in significantly strengthening and mobilizing all their resources towards preaching nonviolent protest and leading the efforts to root out radicalized groups in the community. Where are the Islamic MLKs to rally the community against radicalization? The fear-and hate-fueled backlash against French Muslims may only be stemmed by a disproportionate response against the violence from within the communities.

And just a pedantic point, we actually do spend a reasonable sum on detecting flu trends by "surveillance" of hospital visits and even monitoring Google searches to identify and better respond to possible outbreaks.
Ah. I misread OP's comment.

Yeah, that's bad situation.
Let's also put a nerf gun on board!

Just for kicks, of course.

http://futureoflife.org/open-letter-autonomous-weapons/
I know very well what you mention, but you're not reading what I wrote: "either in material or spiritual terms". Well-educated people are the first to know that society is full of lies and deceit, and without some spiritual rooting (be it familial love or something else), they are at high risk of being depressed but functional individuals. Alienation is a very powerful force. We used to say that only the rich can worry about being sad.

My second statement is coherent with this view: what education should give people is such a rooting. This is not necessarily what it does currently give them. In fact, a lot of academic tracks do their best to kill off any ounce of sentimentalism in one's heart. If it's really "all about data", killing a few hundreds "for the greater good of billions" doesn't look like such a terrible choice. This is something we really should keep in mind.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10563972 and marked it off-topic.
> I don't have an issue finding next job

...currently. Things change, and you may one day find you do have an issue finding your next job. As someone who has been in that situation in the past, relying on a "working social system", I would much rather have guaranteed basic income to fall back on (in addition to universal health care, which is even more urgently needed where I live).
>You are trying to rationalize with people who are irrational.

In my opinion, this is the most dangerous statement in this thread. Saying the actions of these people is irrational loses any ability to understand why they're doing what they're doing and how we can stop them. It turns them into a faceless enemy who are doing things because of hate, which is easy and makes my ego feel better, but doesn't really explain their actions or the actions of anyone. Nobody thinks they're the bad guy of their own story.

There is nothing more rational than terrorizing civilians to achieve a goal. It is the logical conclusion of rationality.
http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-04-08 is similar, but not an exact match.
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You would have 0.01% chance of being wrong. How high would it need to be to warrant, in your eyes, checking if your family members are alive, instead of assuming they are? 0.1%? 1%? 10%? And why?
I don't think you have to assume terrorists are stupid, good OPSEC is hard.

Particularly re. phones / internet, it only takes one mistake to link a phone number used for nefarious activities with your identity.

(I would expect them to use phones, at least - they have to coordinate somehow.)
The only true way to prevent these acts is to eliminate ideological conflicts altogether. Usually, this is done by letting the state pick a winning ideology and suppress those who don't adhere to it. This tends to ensure a level of homogeneity that makes violence obsolete.

A more moderate solution is to allow conflicting ideologies to exist as long as they don't reach extremes. This is usually done through mass surveillance, which supposedly should be able to catch extremists before they act. Sadly, we're still very far from Minority Report's level of accuracy.

Alternatively, we could adopt a more reactive approach which would focus on reducing the gravity of such events rather than trying to prevent them. Namely, law abiding citizens should be able to conceal-carry weapons. Although it couldn't stop all kinds of terrorist attacks, it could very well put a stop to most mass shootings. This assumes an important "good" to "bad" people ratio (where "good" is defined by the majority and/or by the state).

Basically, live in a society that's xenophobic and armed.