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> I think the Internet played a very strong hand with uniting the "unintellectuals" of our age.

It seems like the Internet has the opposite effect of uniting people. By allowing people to form ever tighter communities around specific topics, it allows people to feel like they've been united closer with others, but the interests of the groups they form are narrower than pre-Internet social groups. As to whether this affects intellectuals and unintellectuals more, it's hard to say. I could definitely be swayed either way. I've observed communities that fill every square of the (intellectual, unintellectual) x (narrow interest, broad interest) matrix.
Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, and Hermann Göring, and the other leaders of the National Socialist party were horribly brutal, but they were not stupid. They were some of the brightest in the most well-educated country in the world. The same goes with French influenced Marxists such as Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Bertrand Russell is right on many points, but he's terribly wrong to think the enemies of civilization are stupid. Read Machiavelli.
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The arrow of mainstream time is backward most of the time.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10627472

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10637320

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10627402

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10627369

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10627329

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10627328

And a discussion about why there are so many submissions of this item:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10631082
Swap the meaningless "real programmer" to a much better defined "efficient programmer", and all the seemingly "elitist" comments will start to make a lot of sense.
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au/x was an interesting UNIX, but it did have its flaws.

If the system beep occurred, the kernel would lose interrupts. Needless to say, this was not a good thing.
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I think he's really talking about aristocracy/gentry whether he realises it or not.

Doubt is inherent in the process of intelligent reasoning. A highly intelligent person cannot come to correct conclusions about a topic without thoroughly examining it from as many sides as they can. They weigh up the pros and cons and then come to a conclusion. But even after all of that they will be aware of its flaws and downsides and thus doubt themself.

So why do I say aristocracy? Because the upper classes, the gentry and the wealthy were born into a position of power and confidence. Just because of who they were in society, they believed they were right. And as they were wealthy, they also made up the vast majority of scientists/philosophers/etc. The downfall of the aristocracy throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries led to the new thinkers no longer having that inbuilt "born-to-rule" mindset, that while arrogant, also lent an arrogant confidence to their position that a common intelligent man may not have.

In short, it's not confidence that led the thinkers of old to undoubting - it's arrogance. And maybe a little bit of that is always necessary to get things done...
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>BAM. 'nuff said. Why bring elitism into this?

I guess because the author feels insecure about the accusations leveled against his company - that they toss out underqualified developers.

He wants it to be made clear that his type of elitism (running a big important software company) trumps your kind of elitism (knowing all about pointers, assembly, big O notation and data structures).

Something like that anyway :/
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An interesting and perhaps much needed idea.

Because the source domain is so broad, I feel it would be improved by adding "product" and "version" fields to the database.
We don't exactly have data on foiled terrorism attempts and so it is difficult to say "no benefit". That being said we need a way to gauge risk/reward as citizens regarding terrorism/privacy. There should be openness regarding the actual terrorism risks and what giving up certain freedoms/privacy actually gains us in protection from said risks. A system where terrorism scorecard is openly available so we can weigh pros/cons is probably never going to happen though.
Whilst I don't doubt your experience - your anecdote doesn't mean that there can never be a functional "flat" structure for a business and that any attempt to implement such a thing will destroy your company. I don't really think the article comes close to showing that either, but that's just an opinion.
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I have also found that the flatness fails quickly when the loudest, most aggressive, least-respectful-of-authority, best-dev-in-the-room type takes the (de-facto) leadership position, bullying others who challenge him. Schoolyard stuff, to be sure, and since most people don't like conflict for extended periods of time, you end up with a local "leader" (scare quotes intended) despite the intention to remain flat. It's the "rock star dev who's also a jerk", and eventually it creates chaos.
There is so many ways one can contact each other without 3rd party being able to know, that it makes whole "make encryption illegal!" thing seem to be a work of terrorists. People holding office and demanding backdoors of any sort, should be investigated or simply removed from the office, because they are not fit for the job.
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The slander was justified, in my opinion. Critias was not merely 'among' the Thirty, he led them. And Socrates was not exactly a democrat anyway.

In any case the point is: no hyperintelligent monarch is going to appear to introduce a reign of reason that will save us all.
Does secret deliberately provoke negative behavior? How about yik yak? Until the incentive structure changes for writers, they'll keep writing that stuff. Just the way it is.
I think they need to do more to cross check data, one person making multiple car rentals and room reservations and of course cross check this with the various watch lists.

Like staunch commented, if someone is on a no fly list, flag car rentals, room reservations, etc too.
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>If the "Do Not Fly" list is a good idea, ...

It isn't.
Did you thought about the fact that other acts of terrorism where prevented and most of them keep secret because of the nature of investigations?
Epistemic status: attempting to point at a thing that I can't fully articulate

Whenever one side is totally in the right and the other side is totally in the wrong, you'll get people calling for moderation. "There are two sides to every story," they say. "How can you be sure that you're so different from your opponents?"

Whenever two sides are exactly the same, you'll get people calling for action. "Look at the atrocities they commit! You can't justify that."

And in the first case, you'll also get people calling for action. "Look at the atrocities they commit! You can't justify that." And the people calling for moderation will further say: "whenever two sides are exactly the same, you get people calling for action..."

And in the second case, you'll also get people calling for moderation. "There are two sides to every story." And the people calling for action will further say: "whenever one side is totally in the right and the other side is totally in the wrong..."

So it goes.
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There isn't much point in going beyond "sufficient", so, I would not expect much progress beyond what a common user would need to be made. Beyond that point, if we want to make better computers, we need to make compelling software that needs them to run. This is how GUIs, multitasking, multicore, memory protection, GPUs and 64-bits became mainstream. I am not oblivious to the fact my Windows machine of 1991 was science-fiction when I got my first Apple II as would the prospect of having 6 ARM-based UNIX machines (one of them off because the battery is drained) on my desk or the fact I am running 3 Linux VMs and one LXC container while I work, would be unthinkable in 1991.

What annoys me is that the machines you mention were remarkably simple and elegant machines (Amiga was elegant, but very simple) while a modern PC is a matryoshka of nested computers all the way down to an 8088-powered IBM PC 5150. There must even be a cassette port (connected to nothing, of course) somewhere in a modern PC chipset.
I wonder, looking at the sibling comments, under what rock were you hiding to even expect "5 years of CS studies" to teach people to code? ;)
You make a good top level point that I think most would agree with - successful terror plots degrade our freedom because we fearfululy grant our government more power.

But to broadly call spying apparatus ineffective and incompetent weakens your argument.

There have been dozens of publicly disclosed terror plots interrupted against the USA alone, surely many more we will never know about.(1)

There is a clear underlying reason for survellience - it works.

The complexity in the discussion is that it clearly doesn't work 100% of the time and comes at a significant cost

But this isn't a black and white issue, we are in the grey.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsuccessful_terrori...
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It did require a ridiculously expensive computer for its time, well into the workstation range, but with a relatively puny hardware compared to what Sun could offer at the time.
I'm sorry but in this particular case I would disagree.

If you google for "Palestinian territories", you end up with the wikipedia article which uses the wording "occupied territories." (As it says there) the occupation was declared "null and void" by UN security council; and Israel sovereignty "has not been recognized by any country."

Noting the latter (recognition by no country), it is not just a political view but (also) a reiteration of the current state of affairs, much in the same fashion as saying that "London is the capital of the United Kingdom" (also a kind of political fact.)
How might I actually view the article?
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Well if a lie is a misdirection of truth then you've just agreed with the GP.
There is a Linux program called Motion that I use to monitor my IP cameras.

It records to a location of your choosing and has pre and post motion detection hooks allowing you to email the pictures or videos to yourself when motion is detected.

IME it works quite well. I setup one camera and motion uses about 60% CPU, but there was no noticeable increase when I added camera 2 3 and 4.
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[I'm a co-founder at http://www.buddybuild.com - we're a cloud platform for building and iterating on mobile apps]

Awesome write up. I've always been a huge believer in having a great workflow.

Before starting buddybuild, last year, we were going through similar pain trying to set up CI for an app with things like jenkins and travis - so we could work in the simple way our team wanted : eg. One of us hits 'git push' - the team's devices get updated with the newest build, and we all had a quick way to give feedback on the commit.

We realised that, like us, most app developers want a great workflow, but didn't want to have to spend a lot of time setting it up and maintaining it.

With buddybuild, we've been working with hundreds of open source apps and iOS / Android developers to make sure we can automatically understand and build their apps. The setup experience is usually just selecting the repo, and we'll figure out the rest.

Our goal has always been as close to zero configuration as possible. I'm a firm believer these things should just work, and the experience should be, essentially, magical.
Parisian sysadmin here.

I'm so appalled by this article. Our government voted absurd laws allowing law enforcement to sniff all Internet traffic in France (and beyond). They did this while taking advantage of post-January ruckus. Yet they cannot stop terrorists using their real id.
On top of that, I read that policemen were aware of an imminent terrorist attack on 11/13 (but I've not yet confirmed this with reliable sources).

What can we do when nobody gives a damn about their freedom? Most acquaintances I hit up with this topic just don't care "as long as I'm safe". We're rolling down a dangerous hill which will lead to the defeat of our freedom and the victory of terrorists.

Pardon my French.
>If you'd then purpose to 'weigh' the needs and wants against each other I'll point out that there is no way to do such a thing.

Sure, we have many tools for achieving this. Compromise, conversation, empathy. We've been using these tools to solve our differences for as long as there have been humans.
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Why not try out a hosted mac mini solution like https://macstadium.com or http://macminivault.com? Travis-CI does all of their OS X testing at MacStadium - http://www.macstadium.com/blog/how-travis-ci-halved-boot-tim...

[I work at MacStadium, fyi.]

We can help you setup firewalls and have your hosted/rented Mac mini appear as part of your network for your team to access from anywhere.
>There have been dozens of publicly disclosed terror plots interrupted against the USA alone

Many of these terror plots are orchestrated by the FBI.
Source: https://theintercept.com/2015/03/16/howthefbicreatedaterrori...
You could always just buy a used car. Makes things a little more expensive, but not much more.

Terrorists will find a way to terrorize if they want to. The world is so chaotic and leaky that you can't stop people from doing stuff like this.
It's even worse. Apparently a critical phone call was intercepted by the DGSE (the french intelligence) before the attacks (Thursday), and transferred to the DGSI (the french counter-intelligence). The two are supposed to cooperate but the threat level could not be assessed by the first one. So, the second one scheduled a meeting on Monday (3 days after). The attacks took place between the two events.

Further infos, in french, here: http://www.canalplus.fr/c-emissions/c-le-petit-journal/pid65... [VIDEO]
A generation or two of very calculated, expensive propaganda put toward instilling immense amounts of fear among the general population - any moment now, you could die of a terrorist attack. It's wildly irrational, and being pushed 24/7 by the most powerful and richest entities on earth (huge central governments), how do you counter that?

There's only one way to counter it: you have to change the culture of a nation, which ultimately determines its politics.

300,000 people will die in car accidents over ten years in the US. In a typical ten year span, maybe 0.5% as many will die from terrorism in the US (and really, only 9/11 skews that, otherwise it'd be so small as to be completely irrelevant). It shouldn't take anything more than that simple comparison to get people to understand the context. But then you throw in: propaganda of random sudden death by a foreign attacker, a foreign culture, or the idea of massive scale death from wmd - then you get wild, irrational panic among the vast majority of any people anywhere on earth.

I'd argue we should all be willing to accept an extremely small risk of terrorism death, in exchange for a proper vast amount of liberty. It's a trivial compromise, if a person is not a coward and prefers to live free. There was a time the general population agreed, but that was long ago now. Today, what I just said is more often considered very offensive, politically incorrect, and will be shouted down nearly anywhere it is proposed.

It's clear you often can't stop a terrorist from killing a room full of people. Governments around the world accumulate more power by pandering and pretending you can. If a terrorist is willing to die for it, there is nothing that can stop most small scale attacks. The best a nation can do, is try to limit that, act on intelligence if there is any, and try to prevent large terrorism attacks. That reality however, doesn't win votes, and very few politicians would ever dare tell that truth.

The population wouldn't be nearly so afraid of terrorism, if they weren't being constantly told to be, and or intentionally terrified by the propaganda. The risks were just as high in the 1970s and 1980s, and people were not nearly as terrified.
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> There is a clear underlying reason for survellience - it works.

It works, but not (just) for terrorism prevention. It also works great for other things, such as preventing political ideologies you don't like from spreading. Or just in general as a power play over citizens.
I don't necessarily disagree, but any reasoning?
After the attacks one of the attackers while on the run was stopped a total of 3 times and never apprehended.
Yes, I think about it all the time but when pressed for numbers the CIA/NSA/FBI never reveal any.

What isn't discussed here is the numerous times that these institutions have actually created terrorists. Or lead people to a course of action of their choosing.
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I complained about this to a friend and he suggested writing my own full-text search using Redis... I'll take Elasticsearch.
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Ah yes, the Brooklyn Bridge terrorist that was trying to use a jackhammer to bring it down. Thank you NSA for preventing this tragedy that could only prevented with pervasive surveillance.
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"Because of the nature" is not a reason for keeping victories secret. A democratic government is responsible to its people.

Moreover, you do not do a very good job of preventing terrorism by keeping secret all the times terrorism fails and publicly over-reacting every time it does.
If you read this as Connected (User Experience) and (Telemetry) service, it's actually a far better name than the Diagnostics title it had before. And makes perfect sense, when you assume it is for doing the minimal reporting they say it is.

/shrugs
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I think your understanding of the term "government" doesn't apply there. For instance there were elections in Gaza and their chosen government throws homosexuals from roofs and sanctions honor killings (among other things).
I think there were several manufacturers who used that trick. Apollo was another. That wasn't really an option for consumer-grade machines like the Atari ST, though, since 68000 chips were pretty expensive at the time (I think they were around $500 apiece when they were introduced). By the time the price came down the later 680x0 chips with real MMUs were available.
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The Talk section of the Wiki article lists the many problems with that list.. You really should stop citing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_unsuccessful_terr...
> It is to ask people and empower them to get what they need directly. I.e. democracy

You've simply replaced one unproven ideal with another here.
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HTTP clients and servers should absolutely not emit broken headers, but that's a violation of the robustness principle of itself.

The way I think about it is imagining how many websites I use daily just wouldn't work if HTML parsing were completely strict. I regularly open up Dev Tools to see which of the websites I visit work without CSS or HTML parsing errors.

My primary concern is that there needs to be a way to implement strict parsing that doesn't greatly raise the barrier to entry or make the product unusable. I do think a lot about this but it's nonetheless confounding from both perspectives and I think the usability of strict parsers needs to be addressed, whether that means better error messages or really good linting or whatever.
Hahaha - average salary of 100k? Um, evidence please?
More aptly, FPU and MMU hardware were incredibly expensive in the late 1980's and early 1990's, and the amount of RAM to sustain running A/UX would've crept you closer into workstation territory anyway.

Keep in mind that this was a time when one was not guaranteed to have memory segmentation hardware, let alone floating point hardware. We take this for granted in 2015, but in the period between 1985 and 1995, it was a serious luxury for lots of computer buyers.

That said, with 4MB of 60ns RAM and a 68030 costing you $10k to start on a Mac IIfx and an upgrade to take you up to 8MB potentially costing you another couple grand, why not just go SGI and be done with it?
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> [...]suggests the challenges in identifying would-be terrorists and preventing further attacks in the fluid, digital and transnational world of today, especially when they are European citizens.

> Likewise, Mr. Abaaoud exploited Europe’s porous border system,[...]

> [...]where he and another man took a ferry to Patras, Greece, Italian officials said. “We are talking about citizens with regular European passports and with the right to travel freely,”[...]

I guess they're trying to explain us that Europeans have too much freedom ... better take it from them, for the children you know.

> Rental companies in Belgium don’t vet clients as long as their driver’s license, government identification and credit cards are valid.

Of course every rental company should ask their customers if they plan to commit a terrorist act before renting a car ... lying will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law !

> [...]Appart’City hotel, where clients have access to a secondary stairwell that leads directly to a parking lot without ever passing the front desk. The two-star hotel doesn’t require guests to register their cars to use the parking lot. Nor does it have security cameras.

A pity, with cameras and registration they surely could have thwarted the attacks (do I really need to put a sarcasm tag here ?).

This is not journalism, it's pushing a political agenda and a shitty one at that. You don't need to watch all EU citizen to prevent terrorism.

By the way, I'm French but I refuse to be guided by fear.
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