skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what the Prime Minister of France, Manuel Valls, thinks about that demographic (in "Is it Time for the Jews to Leave Europe", a 2015 article in The Atlantic [0] by Jeffrey Goldberg):

Valls is deliberate and—unusual for a French politician of the left—blunt in identifying the main culprits in the proliferation of anti-Jewish violence and harassment: Islamist ideologues whose anti-Semitic and anti-Western calumnies have penetrated the banlieues.

Again, he's the Prime Minister -- and on the left to boot -- so, one would imagine him to be credible on this issue.

But while this demographic is the most visible, there are other ingredients in the stew -- the paragraph cited above continues with Valls' thoughts on this:

But he goes further: France’s “new anti-Semitism” is also the product of what he understands to be a malicious sleight of hand on the part of Israel’s enemies to repackage anti-Semitism as anti-Zionism.

“It is legitimate to criticize the policies of Israel,” Valls said. “This criticism exists in Israel itself. But this is not what we are talking about in France. This is radical criticism of the very existence of Israel, which is anti-Semitic. There is an incontestable link between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Behind anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.”

Frequently, Valls said, anti-Zionists let the mask slip. It is impossible, he said, to ascribe the attacks on synagogues—at least eight were targeted in France last summer—to anger over Israel’s Gaza policy.

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/is-it-ti...
My home is on a street that only feeds cul-de-sacs. Almost every house has kids in it. Plus, there are trails connecting all of the different neighborhoods. Within a short walk of my house (< 1/2 mile) are tennis courts, basketball courts, swimming pools, soccer/football fields, and multiple playgrounds. It's all maintained by the HOA.

Also, there are sidewalks everywhere. My one big complaint is that the street lighting is pretty bad.
At least they are consistent, then.
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The family house was entirely ransacked while my grand-mother was still in there (alone that night). They took everything, precious heirloom, her mother’s Resistance medal; she was woken up by them tearing apart the pipes off the wall. She begged them to not run with the heating pipes, otherwise she’d die of cold. They threw her into the staircase, where she broke her hip and a rib; she begged for help, but they wished her a long and tortuous death.

She stayed there until the morning, when my aunt found her, and we didn’t had any details until weeks later: as I alluded to, most of her friends had died because there were in a Resistance network with her mother and her. Giving water to the stereotypes that Hitler defended was something she could not accept to do. But the thing is: most people in her village met with the same fate that night or the one after, and had less qualms, so we put two-and-two.

I got myself beaten down at the ATM by a group of five; they stole my maximum cash-out, and when one of the group was caught, a 6’2” guy with muscular physique, he claimed that he was 12 and could not go on trial; he had no proof of this because he was a nomad and had a constitutional right not to show ID. He was released immediately, and went on to attack the waitress at the corner bar, at the same ATM. That made national news.

A couple weeks after that, I was at a TEDx event, and a Roma representative was defending their actions, wondering what kind of back-ward neo-nazi could imagine something so hateful as Roma stealing. They just had a “different perception of property, that’s all”. That stroke me as candid, so I wanted to tell him my stories, genuinely to explain: you talk to some Romas, but others… they are not like that.

You know, a version of: racists don’t like dealing with gang-bangers, you talk about Childish Gambino… We need to explain how the same childhood can lead to different path, try to pick the right one.

Nope. Not that guy. He openly said it was my fault that my grand’mother died (she’s alive, and fairly well for a 97 years, although she walks with a cane) and that I was wrong to let her alone (my grand’ mother hates my father, I have no idea why, and always insisted we never lived with her; she likes me, but I suspect that’s because I look like my late grand’father). I asked if he though it was normal to tear people’s house away, when their lives depended on basic comfort. He clearly responded that I had a narrow view of property, and that these guys were far more skilled than I was at recycling things.

That guy was not a fringe in the Roma community, but the highest level representative to the national government. Other people at TEDx described barbaric episodes, and he kept insisting that we wrong, showing open contempt for people who were still shocked by a loved-one being attacked, maimed, for precious heirloom stolen… He was repeatedly using “gadjo” as an insult. It was sickening.
I'm okay with it I think because I grew up playing street hockey every day after school.

There are parks and schools with playgrounds within a very short walk from my house. Like I mentioned in a different comment, my big complaint is the crappy street lighting. I don't mind my kids going out to play, but once the sun goes down it's pretty dark out and that makes me a little uncomfortable.
I'm not one to complain about down votes but seriously? What exactly about my comment was wrong, feel free to check the current thread about the House investigating it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12535872
Interesting that the only reason Paul Graham founded Viaweb was to get rich.
100 million people faffing about vs 6 full time guys who are presumably professionals in the field?

And really, it's not 100 million people. That's just the number of people on the site. In actual fact, it's probably a handful of people at most.
I'm not sure I follow your example, but this isn't really comparable to factoring and Stripe doesn't get to pay out the same funds multiple times. We're shortening the time it takes a user to receive funds from a few days to a few minutes.
Who's Aliyun?
Just when you thought this election couldn't get any weirder... there's a major scoop about Clinton on r/conspiracy
I started coding because I like to make useful things. I took vocational electronics in high school, and I REALLY liked digital circuit design, so my teacher recommended I take a programming class. Programming was taught in turbo pascal on machines that had no hard drives, only large floppy disks ('94).

I picked it up very quickly, and made my mom (a teacher herself) a grading program she could use to manage student's grades, wrote a couple of screensavers, all in turbo pascal.

I then delved into C++, and started learning unix, and learned to write system utilities and scripts as well as basic sysadmin stuff.

I took some time off of school to work as a touring musician, but when I went back to college (as a CS major), I needed a job, so I got a job at Glaxo Wellcome because I was a capable sysadmin who could manage the DEC boxes they used for development, and I could also code. I did a bunch of things for them in C, then perl, then finally java after it was out.

I'm coming up on 20 years of working as a professional programmer, and I still love to code as much as I did back in high school. I've had various executive roles over the past 8 years, but I've never moved away from coding. It's one of the great joys of my life.
Under a freaking user name that can be easily traced back to them. I mean, seriously?
There are a couple of ways (disclosure, I am not a billionaire :-))

First, nobody really needs a billion dollars in "cash" it just doesn't make sense as "cash" deposits pay a below inflation rate return in most places (meaning it loses its "value" over time) and even a negative interest rate in some places.

Second, it isn't like there is a "fixed amount of money" in the world and if someone has all of it, everyone else has none.

So if you are a billionaire, and most of your billions are in stock of a particular company, and you are a US citizen. You file a form with the Securities and Exchange commission (SEC) to sell some shares every month or quarter or year. Or you file a form that says you will sell X shares 3+ months from now. The SEC posts this information publicly so that other investors will know about it ahead of time and decide what to do. The point being that you are a "big investor" or an "insider" and selling might be seen as a signal, and this makes the signal loud and with a time delay so that the other investors can respond. Then the appointed time comes and your shares get dumped on the market and you collect however much money they happen to bring in (less taxes).

You will see lists like this one (http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/goog/insider-trades) for Google. Which itemize those sales. So lets say you need 15 million a month to operate your private jet, you set up a system that will sell enough stock to net at least 15 million a month to cover that. You don't want to sell it all since you might want to vote your shares but you have to get around so you let some go.

A lot of tech billionaires set up trusts for their children which they fund such that their children will never have to work and can live a comfortable lifestyle. A number of tech billionaires have been setting up foundations (like the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation) which can convert stock to cash in a tax advantaged way and do good things with it. Sometimes the foundations are created to give the billionaire a vehicle for influencing others while nominally keeping their hands clean. (not working so well for Trump and Clinton but I read about a number of foundations being used in this way.)

So generally if you look at the insider trading you will see billionaires selling stock in 10 to 100 million dollar chunks and using it for different things.
Are we sure "pensive_returns" isn't Michael O. Church? Serious question: commenters on HN that write in an idiosyncratic fashion about Church have turned out to be him before.

Every time I read a comment about Church, I find myself asking, "is this how a normal person would write about someone best known for commenting on message boards?"
Stripe in Singapore
Long-shot speculation: I wonder if the Democrats have decided that Hillary is going to lose against Trump. Maybe they, and not the GOP, are throwing her under a very fast bus.

Does anyone know what happens in the unlikely event that Clinton is placed under indictment before the election? Does Kaine move up the ticket? Does the DNC pick someone else entirely? What options do the electors have?
> as her campaign camp looks like it's being run by a bunch of ~~clowns~~

as her campaign camp looks like it's being run by a bunch of criminals who delete incriminating evidence.

FTFY
Don't forget CoT vis-à-vis IoT.
Reddit and the chans: the journalists we need, but not the ones we deserve.
I've been finding myself quoting Game Of Thrones more than usual lately but:

“Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.”

These billionaire are powerful only because we have collectively decided to put such high value on the product of their companies and investments. It all stems from perception.
And she still will be elected, because this year we had to have joke candidates on both sides. I guess it's probably the best time to vote 3rd party.
> Most people do believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.

Which is why continuously pushing smoke, even when you know there's no fire, is such an effective strategy. How many Benghazi hearings were there, that all came to the same conclusion? But people hear "oh, there's another Benghazi hearing, it must mean something that there's so many!" even though everyone involved knows that it means nothing.
This is exactly right, you can shift it into another tax year but you can't legally avoid it. But everyone's tax situation is different.
This is actually quite fun to work through.
I owned internets.computer for a year, then the novelty wore off. It was a tongue-in-cheek parody of branding and new TLDs, and great for catching certain tech-savvy people's attention, but ultimately not worth the several-times multiplier of a regular domain name.
> I assume it would be embarrassing and/or problematic to share the email addresses of various ambassadors and other government officials in public records. You could also read something nefarious into it if you want.

That's what I'm trying to understand here. Was it the case that they were just going to hand over the whole DB regardless, and are trying to keep personal info private (but still, e.g., leave the name so it's clear who's in the conversation)? That's, I suppose, kind of reasonable.

On the other hand, I'm vaguely aware that at least in some cases there's a legal discovery process, where you don't just hand over everything, but do certain searches for "relevant" info and hand over that [0]. Is that true or at all relevant here? That would be quite a bit more nefarious if they were trying to avoid the discovery mining process by changing the email addresses (without flat out deleting the emails). But it seems like instead of doing that why not just delete them?

[0] http://enterpriseit.co/microsoft-exchange/search-all-users-m...
And plazas, don't forget plazas. It's a beautiful thing to go to a local plaza, look around for a cafe and hang out with a light meal and some coffee for 3 or 4 hours and read a book and not get bothered. And then maybe meet up with a friend on the steps of the local church or whatever. Built well, plazas are fantastic public spaces.
Lol wut? This can't be serious. Can you please name this company so everyone can avoid them?
There are two reasons I can think of off the top of my head why that should not have been a problem:

1. Congressional committees that handle classified information can use closed-door sessions to hear these kinds of answers. There was no need for Clapper to lie.

2. Clapper also took an oath to uphold the constitution, before any other more specific oaths. It is difficult to see how lying to Congress fulfills this oath.

At best your argument rests on whether Wyden knew the answer and the common law argument that no answer could then be perjury. But there was no reason for Clapper to lie to a committee of the Congress.
How the largest tropical theme park ended up inside a former Nazi hangar
Israel also has/had the similar concept of "protektsiya" (loanword from Russian).

There's a joke (mostly making fun of modern Israeli pretensions to clean modern society) - the kids these days don't mess with protektsiya, they have "connections" (the English word) instead.
DARPA’s plan for total surveillance of low-flying drones over cities
> We can all agree this is a problem.

Funny how nobody seemed to think so until now.
I honestly can't understand how anybody is considering voting for Clinton or Trump. If this world was anything close to reasonable, Gary Johnson would win in a landslide. shrug
That's just tech companies being stupid, insular and cargo-culty with who they hire.

Someone with business experience, who can prioritize effectively with an eye to the big picture, is way more valuable than someone who figured out the n log n solution to the stupid whiteboard question in 20 minutes. We're not working 20 minute days, here.
The parent is talking about debit.

Are you taking about credit?
A .name email was what I went with after I graduated University, but I made the mistake of going for a first@last.name email address, instead of just buying the last.name domain directly.

Even at the time, it was hard to find a provider, and I can't imagine how many there are now, but it must be a real small number.

So, I've still got my first@last.name, but now I also own last.us, so first@last.us is my primary.
>For example, some female characters in game from China show too much skin to be appealing, which would be offensive to both female and male players in the West.

Oh the many ironies. Things have truly come full circle.
On Chrome, I am getting the same message on any product that I select. :(
Guanxi (關係) and Guangxi (廣西) are not the same thing (nor are they related).
This sounds like you're talking about abstracting and decoupling components. Building systems to accommodate heterogeneous environments early is akin to starting a project with microservices instead of a monolith - it's overscoping probably. Furthermore, it's fallacious to say that all software should fit some new standards of environments when there's no scenario for it all (the COBOL code that's for accounting doesn't have anything to do with the products your company sells probably).

This then raises issues of compatibility with your customer's environments. The configuration matrix that you'd need to test is tedious (read: costly) in traditional software releases compared to SaaS where you're free to make a lot of decisions independent of your customer and not everything can be automated (anyone that's deployed automated tests against TN3270 terminals with a lukewarm IQ QA department is right to challenge this). Then there's longevity. What happens when your biggest paying customer wants you to stay on IE 8 until 2025 (not an exaggeration)? Want to create yet another customer-specific branch? Eventually you wind up needing a test environment that matches exactly what that customer has and paying contractors to maintain that dead-end tech stack and doing that for every customer. That is quite common and also quite costly but not needing much talent, so the washed up maintenance engineers go here at less than mediocre compensation to cut costs. That's zombie software for you - the soul and spirit of engineers are gone and its corpse is animated by money by a cruel master that cares little for its past life.
They were subpoenaed by Congress, but not until March 4, 2015. The initial request for emails was made by the State Department.

Edit: small mistake. The initial request did come from Congress and went through the State Department. It was not a subpoena though, that came later.

Edit 2: Since it was clear to some, the reddit post was dated July 24th, 2014. That's 7 months, prior to the first subpoena.
Reference counting is a form of garbage collection [1] [2], as I've explained numerous times before. It has been considered a form of GC since the original papers in the 1960s and I see no reason to revisit that definition now.

To track the lifetimes of objects, Swift programs perform operations (reference count manipulation) at runtime. That's because the Swift compiler does not know the static lifetimes of objects, unlike Rust. It can optimize away some reference count traffic, but this doesn't change the basic system: semantically, all objects are reference counted.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting

[2]: http://www.memorymanagement.org/glossary/a.html#term-automat...
Guangxi and Guanxi are two completely unrelated things.
I'm not sure how motivated the FBI really was to find anything. You start looking too hard and I'm certain you'd turn up a lot of dirt in some very inconvenient places, at all points on the political spectrum.
In the early 80s at around 10yrs old I taught myself BASIC from books/manuals on a TRS-80 model III at my fathers office and my own ZX Spectrum at home that I'd saved up for.

Totally failed at teaching myself Z80 machine code on the Spectrum though. Part of that failure was probably something to do with manually assembling the code and POKEing it into memory (ie crap tools).

Did more AmigaBASIC on an Amiga 500 in the late 80s. Totally failed at teaching myself C on the Amiga too (crap tools also played a part here - using a really buggy C compiler I found on a Fred Fish disk).
I could have worded it better.

http://ngmodules.org
Are you getting the most value from your engineering time?
And this is why the NSA collecting all data on everyone should have people worried. Sure, it's just pictures of your cat and 'my life is boring, they can spy on me all they want because they won't find anything interesting"

And then 2 years later your post on an internet forums about your missing dog helps tie you the destruction of evidence.
I found this paragraph in the Wikipedia page pretty amazing:

> Roughly equivalent words in other languages include sociolismo in Cuba; blat in Russia; guanxi in Chinese and Vetternwirtschaft in German, protektzia in Israeli slang, un pituto in Chilean Spanish, In Brazilian-Portuguese it is referred to as "pistolão", "QI" (Quem Indica, or Who Indicates), or in the slang "peixada", "Pidi Padu" in Malayalam, "arka" or "destek" in Turkish.
I’ve started searching for it, but there are too many references to ATM and Romas for me to find that particular instance.

The Police investigation are not made public here. They tried to make an arrest anyway, but apparently the fire never happened after all. Somehow, the press didn’t cover that part.
Ruby vs. Python – The Definitive FAQ
I would reduce to a stream of words -- boot-licking, toady, lackey, stooge, sycophantic, brown-nose.

I can definitely understand ladder-climbing in the workplace but there are countless instances of people acting without dignity or restraint. It's downright unsightly.
> being run by a bunch of criminals who delete incriminating evidence.

I have no problems accepting the fact that politicians might hire crooks to do some things that are extra legal. The fact that they're incompetent criminals who get caught and who don't understand the internet, that worries me.
Here's an example of how it works in practice to create a very different environment for tech:

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
This. There is a large section of private banking that have creative ways to provide loans/financing to major shareholders. As long as your stock remains stable, you can finance anything up to your net worth.
Why is this getting down voted? There's no place for these accusations on HN. Using them to silence discussions is very arrogant because you're implying that people disagreeing with you are not capable of independent thought.
I highly recommend that many others use FOIA to gather communication records of their elected officials.

About a month ago I received this pdf [1] (1700+ pages of email records) of Chicago's office of the mayor after about three months of resistance. Prior to that, it took a year and a half and a law suit to receive one week's worth of Chicago's mayor's logs [2] through Chicago's IT department. To my knowledge, prior to this work, records in volume have been impossible to get due to asinine rejections. The amount or resistance (and holy shit was there a lot) led me to run several chains of FOIA requests to gather bulk communication records.

Of note in the call records are many private investigator calls. I haven't had much chance to go through the email records and could use some help if anybody's interested.

[1] https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/oFwvr/fi-29853345-5f15-4...
[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hgG79eIr8MbkjYrCvcTR... (four, mostly unstructured sheets)
Oy, yep, I need to read better...
> When you get rich, your life becomes much more interesting.

Research has shown that past the subsistence level, increases in income don't correlate with increased happiness.
As others have pointed out, you can still obtain the benefits of the suburbs while not having to live in a suburban desert. If you wanted to fix the suburbs, you'd have to change zoning laws and make those areas much more walkable. That would mean allowing businesses to be sprinkled in with the homes.

The most successful communities (which are now being or have been gentrified) are walkable, mixed-use development neighborhoods. They have parks sprinkled throughout in addition to businesses, shops, restaurants, schools, and streets that are not through streets, have two lanes, cars parked on either side, and a bike lane between the parking spaces and the sidewalk.
Forbes missed Kimbal Musk. Looks like they need to add a wikisearch to their methods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimbal_Musk
Black woman and Latina Founders