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> This is a mess larger than I can comprehend, with scores of innocent dead.

What's most sad about it, is that the current situation is the result of doing nothing, despite having crystal clear data on the situation, and in which (wrong) direction things has been changing.

It's been clear that something needs to be done for years, even decades, but actually doing something about the situation would mean publicly acknowledging these facts. And nobody has been willing to do just that.

In fact actually using these known indisputable facts has been systematically avoided for fear of being seen as "racist" or whatever.

Putting the specific issue of immigration aside, I think that it's a very bad sign for the future of enlightened democracy when actually running a fact-based policy is deemed as "risky" and even unacceptable from a public relations point of view.

If we let this attitude persist, we can do lots of wrongs in other areas as well: Think about environmental changes, etc etc.

We need to heighten the status of cold data, of facts as a matter of indisputability. But that's not a left/right issue and I don't think you will find any party fronting such a position.
Remember profit is a funny thing. If I own a company and I net after taxes 100 million a year and then pay myself 75 million in compensation I can claim that my company only makes 25 million a year.
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How could this feature work without requiring a login?
How else would you, a Facebook user, alert your Facebook friends using a Facebook feature that tells them you're safe on Facebook?

Kinda hard to avoid the log in.
> It's easy to say S&P would have done just as well on that particular year, but what about every other year? What about years with big losses?

Then the $4 billion in a good year is completely irrelevant. It's easy to say that investment managers would have done well in years where a chicken wasn't likely to do just as well.
On GitLab.com? We're not offering paid upgrades there (you can only pay for support, $9.99 p/u/year [0].

Most of our customers run GitLab on their own servers, for which you have to pay if you want to run Enterprise Edition. You'd be prompted for a license key and the means to get one.

It might be a good idea to do this differently in the future, but we're not keen on running anything else than default GitLab EE on GitLab.com.

[0]: https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/
What do you expect with such a fag nickname?
Considering 20% of Trump voters think freeing the slaves was a bad idea[0], I'd say "a lot".

[0] http://time.com/4236640/donald-trump-racist-supporters/
Is it normal to refer to the Justice Department as the U.S.? If I understand correctly it is part of the Government, yes, but this whole issue was promoted as FBI vs Apple, not US vs Apple.
Not a native speak, just sounds strange to me.
> By your logic then, one should probably never be manufactured.

Correct. My nerd side tells me supersonic planes are the coolest thing on earth, my hippie side is telling me we'll live better without it.

And I still disagree about the fact that a tiny fraction can be ignored.

The main reason why climate change is a thing is because we consistently and repeatedly failed to acknowledge our impact on the environment and justified it by comparing it to other people's impact (and I include myself in that statement).
Multiple bombings with mass casualties in a European capital will get coverage, with or without HN's help.
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I napped CTRL+ALT+T to start powershell. Very convenient.
fuck you George Soros.
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Haha, I love this. We're getting closer and closer to the ultimate conclusion of our industry: where we'll just type in a few keywords and generate full applications from StackOverflow code examples!
I would say this highlights a different problem of democracy:

Everyone is aware of the fact that even if their candidate wins, someone else will have the final say in the matter. Therefore, no one takes the election seriously.

I myself feel confident that a large proportion of people voting Boatey McBoatface believe that they will not actually name the ship that.
Regarding border crossing ... if you haven't crossed into China before, it's quite possibly worth taking a full-service car that has driving privileges on both sides of the border. For a first timer who might not have much international travel experience, disembarking on the HK side, going through customs & immigration unaccompanied, then finding the right transport on the other side and being able to communicate destination, can be daunting. After you've done it once, no problem, but the first time is anxiety inducing. Also, the lines. If you pick the wrong time and you hit the border with tens of buses in line, you're going to have a bad time.
If it's a joke "Ahah", if not it's just depressing. SO is a valuable resource to confront and understand concepts. Let's not encourage this copy/paste culture
Your comment invites an extended response (from me, anyway) but we all know that HN is not the place for it. Out of interest, can anyone suggest an HN-style aggregator where cool argument, free speech and pertinent observations on topics of this kind can be put forward for discussion in a civilized manner? Reddit does not appeal but I haven't visited it for some time.
According to BBC the explosion are believed to have been in the checkin area, i.e. outside of the security screening.
Dear Europe, this is just the beginning. ;)
Belgium hasn't had stable governments for many years, with many observers, especially in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, calling it a 'failed state'. I read an article about that a while ago, couldn't find it directly, but I found this one: http://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-failed-state-security...
Mohamed Abrini and Salah Abdeslam really do sound like francophone names! Come on, let's try not to have to discuss this...
It was still a language feature even if it wasn't available 100% bug free in all C++ compilers.

C code also used to break left and right long after C90 was approved.

I had to use K&R C style code in 1999 because the HP-UX compiler at a customer location didn't knew any better, but that didn't mean other C features weren't available elsewhere.
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No because having an easily pirated version out there might otherwise cut into sales. I mean it's why a shoe store wouldn't simply give away unsold merchandise because then they're dramatically reduced the demand for shoes.
Looks like Turkey, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Tunisia (my home country) and others are not Western enough for Facebook.
In fact even the Paris attacks wasn't really ISIS. It was the work of French and Belgium nationals, attacking their own country. They may have received some support in Syria but the gvt is trying to make it look like foreign attacks because it avoids to put the focus on difficult questions (the radicalisation of their muslim minorities, and the growing anti-western sentiment in their 1st and 2nd generation immigration).
https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/ankaraexplosion-feb17-2...
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371 bytes in Python. Not minified. Bravo!

Didn't get what does the exit code 55 mean though.
> that the current situation is the result of doing nothing

I think the current situation is the result of doing way too much the the past decade (or two). If the US and EU stayed out of the Middle East (Iraq, Libya, Syria), the EU+ME part of the world would be a much more peaceful place.
I haven't read the entire Atlantic piece, but given the fact that we know there is an ISIS affiliated group operating Belgium, I don't see how you can possibly be so certain it wasn't ISIS.

I think it's far more likely that these attacks were triggered by the recent arrest of Salah Abdeslam and the killing of Mohamed Belkaid (in two different raids). There were multiple other suspects who were not captured/killed, and it seem plausible that they carried out these attacks now as they felt the police were closing in.

I'm not claiming that all terror attacks are always ISIS, and I'm not saying I'm sure this was ISIS, but given recent events in Belgium, the likelihood of ISIS involvement is a _lot_ higher than 0.001%.
I think it's just an easier-to-read headline; there's always some oversimplification in those.
> I had to use K&R C style code in 1999 because the HP-UX compiler at a customer location didn't knew any better, but that didn't mean other C features weren't available elsewhere.

Curious, what did you need to do specifically? Parameter declarations weren't inlined?

But anyway, C, being smaller, breaks in fewer ways
The fact that establishment figures from both sides see him as "a very real threat" seems like a very good sign. For all the talk of democracy, it's pretty funny (funny ironic) listening to all the talk of subverting the election process. Can't entrust such a thing with the plebes after all...
Even if other languages can be used to program a web browser, JavaScript is in fact the most suitable language for programming a browser because it is pervasively asynchronous, and that's the best model for browser development. And because JavaScript has grown up with the DOM and is the best language for driving it.

Other languages might support async programming but it there's going to be hell to pay when all those blocking code writing back end programmers start to pound on a web browser with their favourite back end language.

The real benefit to web assembly is the ability to compile the latest versions of JavaScript i.e. ES2015, to web assembly instead of to ES5.

And there's not really so much need to use other languages to program a browser now that ES2015 has arrived which polishes many of the rough edges of JavaScript and brings to JavaScript many of the benefits and features of other modern languages.
Well, what is he suppose to do, take orders from merica ?
I'd be interested to hear about Mapbox starting to gather user data. Did they change their terms?
We're most likely to care about what is/feels closer to us, what we can relate to, what we know. You'd feel more if your neighbour whom you greet every day on the foyer died in a car crash that if it were a random person you didn't know at all, right? It's the same principle.

I also think that there is not just empathy at play, but fear. Because the closer an event is to us or the people we know/relate to, the more we realise it could also happen to us.
By "some support" you mean extensive training and material support, then sure... I guess...

I think it would be fair to call them French/Belgian ISIS members. There is no requirement that you must be Syrian to be a member of ISIS.
They were running with this as the top story on radio 1 this morning. (I assume they don't want to freak kids out with bombs in Brussels.)

So the amusing name has brought the ship and it's mission to the minds of kids throughout the UK. They also mentioned that the guy who submitted the name was very sorry he had done so.
Maybe Facebook thinks that the Safety Check wont work for countries waging civil wars.
I think hand size is important to consider here. In order to reach the majority of my 6S screen I have my hand close to the centre of the phone. If I try to double tap the home button with my thumb it cannot reach unless I move my hand further down which involves readjusting my entire grip and I often come close to dropping the device.
It looks like this. http://cl.ly/243T3c1u1g3M
To fly supersonic you need an engine that is very powerful at supersonic speed.

VTOL requires an engine that is powerful at low speed.

The harrier jump jet, a most famous VTOL aircraft, didn't have supersonic capability when all its contemporaries did and can only take off vertically with reduced payload or it would burn all its fuel just taking off.

While I don't have the numbers I think VTOL supersonic aircraft would be VERY hard indeed and it would be something that has to be seen to be believed.
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Look up the concept of "never let a crisis go to waste", and its a two parter, the stated first part is "ISIS musta dunnit" and the second unstated or quietly stated part is "and thats why we have to expel all muslims" or "thats why we need to give a campaign donor of mine a trillion dollars to increase security" or "there's a lot of countries we haven't made safe for democracy yet and I was thinking ..."

You should see the wind go out of politicans sails when they learn an event like this is a random nutcase. They look like their dog died.
There was an article recently where Finland was considering something along those lines. [1] is all I was able to find quickly:

> The Finnish government, elected earlier this year, is planning to introduce a tax-free monthly payment of 800 euros ($865) to all adult Finns, regardless of income, wealth or employment status. The payment would replace most other state benefits.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/07/news/economy/finland-basic-i...
> This is a strong indicator that socialization has a strong influence in what makes people become terrorists.

You appear to be ignoring the socialisation that happens before radicalisation.

> We see one of the memes that have a positive correlation with terrorism very clearly; it's islam.

You appear to be ignoring other forms of radicalisation.

If I point to department stores that have been fire-bombed by animal rights extremists and then say "Vegetarianism is a radical extremist ideology" I hope people would point out my error.

If I point to the bombings of abortion clinics and death threats made to doctors; and the promotion of violence against the child by some Christian extremists and I say "Christianity is a radical extremist ideology, driven by a brutal paternalism" I hope people would point out my error.

It's weird that HN fails so hard the "All boobaks are red; are all red things boobaks?" thing that we expect 11 year olds to understand.
This isn't talked about enough. More people in both secular and religious contexts need to notice how bad this can get sometimes.
They mentioned this on Radio 1 this morning. First thing the DJ said was 'where can I get a hat with Boaty McBoatface on it'.
And on top of that, "refueling" wouldn't cost the 250k figure that usually gets thrown in comments.
I imagine it being more in the space of a 1-2k$ ; in which case the reduced passenger capacity might still be worth the premium in batteries.
All religions are mental cancer, some just have more serious consequences than others.
The whole point of terrorism is attention.
Obvious troll is obvious.
That's not exactly true; e.g. in the UK, there was a lot of terrorism in the past by IRA - although Ireland and the UK have different religions, I don't think that was the main issue. The main issue was divisions between two groups of people and the resulting inter-group hate.

On the other hand, religion is probably the most important, yet arbitrary and completely illogical, divisive influence in the world. So, religion most definitely is to blame.
> I saw the French PM said something like "we're at war" - I'm not sure who they're at war with but onward with the endless war.

They have been saying that since the terrorists attacks of 2015 in France. Nothing new. And France is actually at war against ISIS, that's not a secret for anyone.
What exactly are these "facts" you keep alluding to?
Don't know, I read a lot about the Turkish bombings. Also a lot of complaints that people don't take it as seriously like you do. But I would say people take it seriously and the people complaining just makes everything worse.

But for me that lives in EU, a bomb in EU feels much closer than a bomb in Turkey. It is not strange at all?
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European communist terrorists in the 70s were getting trained in Palestinian terrorists camps. They would even get weapons there. They are still European movements.

Pretending that it was a foreign aggression is a lie.
While the article is interesting, I find it quite confusing to read with its paragraphs once ironic once advisory...
> - we need more surveillance rights and money for the secret services

Looks like it's not working too well. Surveillance services have gained mass resources since 2015 in France and that did not stop the December attacks at all.
I believe "see it coming" is mean in the way that the security services would be able to predict the attack precisely (when, where, who), given the amount of survelience, data gathering and spying they do.

Alas, the spying is apparently targeting mainly the innocent civilians and is mostly ineffective against criminals.
Porto's main airport is named after a former prime minister who died in a plane crash while flying to that airport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_S%C3%A1_Carneiro_...
Not likely, because in places like Belgium, deranged persons don't have access to the kind of weapons and explosives used in attacks like these.
Fair enough and absolutely a valid counterargument.

Allow me to amend my comment slightly, and emphasise that I'm speaking of domestic policies.

Across Europe we've seen increased ghettofication, social segregation and religious extremism.

But because this has mostly been within demographic segments considered "weak" or "minorities", the explicit policy has consistently been sweeping things under the rug and proceeding as if nothing has been wrong.

And that has landed Europe where it is today.

Anyway. This is HN and I don't want to get more political than I need to. What bothers me the most is honestly the low status facts have in the politics of nations today, something I think should be a fairly incontroversial position.
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Is this available on the iBookStore?
> Putting the specific issue of immigration aside, I think that it's a very bad sign for the future of enlightened democracy when actually running a fact-based policy is deemed as "risky" and even unacceptable from a public relations point of view.

A "fact-based policy" is utopia. What for you is a fact, for me it's not. You can not have policy without politics.
Looks like Hadleyverse is spreading! Honestly, I think his contributions have led the way for R to being the leading language in data science.
Isn't "show your face to unlock your phone" part of the standard Android core, and not Samsung's creation?
Boaty McBoatface must be the least crude name someone could come up with ;)
See my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11336048
Cool idea, but kind of ironic that the example you used produces unnecessarily complicated stack overflow solutions. A JavaScript "contains" function is as simple as:

var contains = function (needle, haystack) { return haystack.indexOf(needle) !== -1 }
> I don't buy it.

How about reading the exact sources in order to avoid even being in position of having to "buy" anything? For example the core texts? Just get one and read it. Don't let anybody tell you anything, especially don't trust any claimed "interpretations," read it yourself, in your language, undiluted, not just one sentence, but at least the whole chapter where it appears, take notes, then discuss.

And then if you question the translation you read, there are enough online sources which display the different translations which can be then compared. You can even search where any word is used through all the texts. Just don't believe anybody who says that you can't do that.

Just like I don't have to know ancient Greek to understand what's written in the Odyssey.

Then investigate if there are any known interpretations by the influential scholars that are equivalent to western approach to other religions "that it shouldn't be taken literally." Investigate the practices and how the ideas are actually applied in real life. Study history to know how they were historically applied and which effect they had. Know the context.

(I'm not going to discuss this further here, this is my only post, but I stand to my claim that everybody can read and understand the sources and research how they are viewed by the influential scholars, and that these facts can be calmly discussed, and that the discussion should not depend on the groupthink or faith but the actual knowledge of the topic discussed. Don't write "I don't buy" this or that, discuss the facts you actually know, then somebody can contribute to your knowledge by stating the facts he knows etc).

Moreover I haven't seen anybody else who wrote what I see only you write: "You and many others seem to post that there is a mental cancer infecting 1.5 billion people on this planet, and at any time it could transform its host into a bloodthirsty murderer seemingly at random."

Careful readers are advised to read what others really wrote (e.g the post to which you respond wrote just "I would argue that religion is the variable that plays the dominant role in this war of ideas"), not what you claim (or somebody else claims) it is supposed to mean.

Analyzing your post in this light, it appears to be strikingly manipulative and dishonest, distorting what others actually wrote and promoting non-thinking and blindly believing (your attempt to discredit somebody with something he hasn't even written).
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This is a clear weakness of airports: where people regroup even before reaching the terminal, with no surveillance or security checks whatsoever. And that's not just in Brussels.
Explosives detection is a perfectly worthy thing to do.

Unfortunately, by the time there's a bomb at the airport, it is too late unless "James Bond" is on the scene.

The core issues here need to be addressed.
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I would say that religion is only a means here. The underlying reason for the problems is political failure.
You don't think religion was the main issue in the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarian_violence#Northern_Ir...
> It's been clear that something needs to be done for years

And what? That "something" needs to be done was clear since the 80s, but so far constructive solutions have been rather sparse. Integration is too expensive to the austerity and privatization loving right wing, and expulsion doesn't work because our economies depend on cheap immigrant labour. So far I've not seen anyone seen pushing for a different solution.
How is this NOT ranking. You are using the logical fallacy of Reification (the turning of something abstract into a concrete thing or object) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_%28fallacy%29. What real world example at all works with numbers like you are saying "[1, 1, 1, 1, ..., 1, 10000]". When you are talking about specific people with specific skills you can't go abstract. Average when talking a population group in skills is ranking just like in Standardized Testing. Yes half the children in the America are bellow average and the larger the number the more this is true. Likewise the lower the number the less this is true. We are talking tens of thousands of people.

EDIT: Oh I think you looking at this like average house hold income with Bill Gates throwing off the average possibly? Well we are talking about only one thing and that is the skills of a programmer compared to the skills fo other programmers. Just the same as the average math skills of children. This is why we have percentiles and my argument still holds on. Skills are not like money where one person has $60,000,000,000 and another has $100.
The behaviour of people whos "orthodox" are able to discuss gods-rules en detail and find workarounds - has everything to do with how you percive the world and approach everything. Its a mindset word approaching.
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