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Implied agreement.

The law acknowledges standard practice and expectations. That's what it is built on.

If you put something up on the web, then although you have copyright, you're also implying permission for people to be able to do what they normally do with it (at a minimum, view it in a web browser).

Similarly, if you've put up a robots.txt, then you're also quite clearly giving permission to crawlers (within certain bounds). There's also reasonableness and taking into account what robots.txt is capable of, of course. You clearly aren't implying permission for me to DoS you.

Explicitly agreed terms trumps this. If it could be shown that the person operating the crawler had agreed to an AUP, then that would change things. I imagine that this would make this case quite different from Google crawling your site.
You can already buy a normal windows tablet today... it doesn't make sense why manufacturers would try to "re-release" products they already have. You can probably buy a fast dual core tablet PC today that would blow the socks off the 1.6Ghz Atom.
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Hackers find solutions. It's our purpose. Let's rethink this.

Problem: Temptation to use computer while driving.

Solution: Disallow interface while in motion, or enable speech recognition, or (holy grail wishful thinking) have the computer safely drive the car for you so that you can play with it. There are probably hundreds of solutions, but let's just get the ball rolling.

Speaking of which, we need to do more work on machine vision, people :P (Tangentially related: Project Natal leads me to believe that video games will end up contributing more to science than most people suspect.)
Yelling at your kids while driving isn't necessary, nor is a computer, which I suppose is the point. Unnecessary distractions cause collisions.
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Most of what you're saying could equally well be applied to (e.g.) criticism of suicide bombers

This is an example of what I meant by going off the rails. You're extrapolating way beyond anything I said, implied, or thought. Premature generalization is the root of all... something.
From the first paragraph it seems the author is angered he did not witness 'an unprovoked massacre of unarmed civilians'. I think that could have been rephrased much much better.
Sworn statements are true in the eyes of the person making them, they are not necessarily objective truth.

It's like in most other cases like this, if you cover it up you're seriously suggesting you've got something to hide and that will take on momentum by itself.

The headlines the world over are roughly translated 'Americans murder innocent civilians'. If they had released this on their own initiative they could have controlled it much better, now it is too late for that.

It's interesting how some of the most balanced reporting on this comes from sites like Al Jazeera:

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/04/201045123...
What a wonderful world we live in that this sort of stuff is free.
If you just look at the photos PDF and compare the photos to the actual footage, you see two things. The photos actually provide a very clear shot of the Reuters journalist behind the corner (much better than the video, I thought), though his crouching is interpreted as "demonstrating hostile action". Interesting spin, though the point is moot, as no one could have made that out as clearly as that from the helicopter.

More importantly, the labeling is inconsistent. They mislabel the opening shots of the group walking towards the corner as "armed AIF with RPG", at the last shot the same person is an "armed AIF". It's the guy with the AK in hand. Even the pilots recognized him as having 'just' a weapon (i.e. AK-47), not an RPG.
Not to mention the fact that he 'scraped' the idea of the concept of facebook in the first place.
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The short answer is no. Even an extremely intense, CSS heavy page might have say 16 kilobytes of CSS. After gzipping, that should turn into about 3 kilobytes. 3 kilobytes, inline with the rest of your content, is utterly negligible and caching that would probably classify as a micro-optimization, even though every instinct is telling you to put it in a nice, cacheable stylesheet.

It feels dirty not to cache it, but if you look at a download waterfall and see how much time it takes to send that separate http request (while blocking the display of the page) it is well worth it.
I suppose that could happen in the best circumstance.

But in my experience, there are two things wrong with the "here's a problem I solved last week" question:

- the scenario is way too specific. Say you have some unusually pathological database that was developed in house, and you need to query it using a proprietary wire format that only your company uses. And you discover some kind of trick that sort of works. This is a TERRIBLE question to ask a candidate, but I've seen it done. The candidate is fighting in the dark, trying to grasp the outlines of the problem, for the full ten minutes.

- asking about stuff you did last week leads to the interviewer comparing themselves with the interviewee. A fair-minded person can see there might be other approaches. Most people are proud of their own solutions though, and won't accept alternative answers. It's better, psychologically, to use a problem you aren't personally invested in.
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Make no mistake: this footage is significant. This is America's Jallianwala Bagh. This is the wholesale firing on unarmed civilians as an everyday activity.

To say, "But they were in a war zone," is disingenuous. America made it a war zone. America came there under a false premise and won't leave.

And how can they ever leave? Iraq is above nothing less than an ocean of untapped oil at a time when the Saudi fields are declining. Iraq is an OPEC breaker. And it's that dedicated supply in a time when the world's biggest industry had the price skyrocket in a few years from $20 to around $90. America is one of the only countries that can't survive if oil hits about $120 for any extended period. This isn't about money; this is about survival.

But when you find yourself killing unarmed civilians because they have under their feet an untapped fortune, because they have under their feet what you need to keep your lifestyle, you have to stop and look at yourself in the mirror at what you've become.

Wikileaks didn't mislead us. The U.S. Government mislead us, and worse, we mislead ourselves.
Just look at the definition of your closure. If you didn't mutate the state since then, well, it hasn't changed. Some debuggers even allow you to "travel back in time", so you can easily "debug" the definition of that closure.
I really don't care about the iPad.

I hope it does well, and I think it's a neat device and a good idea, but it's marketed to a segment that I don't belong to and I can't imagine what I'd do with it if I had one. Nonetheless I'm sure it will be a wonderful device for a lot of people.

But saying "Instead of holding a MOUSE, you’re holding MAGIC" might actually cause me to roll my eyes so hard they rocket out the back of my head. Artificial gravity and force fields and warp drives are "magic." The iPad is merely the next big thing (although comparing it to web browsers in impact might be a bit much).

So is it just me, or does this article overdo it?
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"It's interesting how some of the most balanced reporting on this comes from sites like Al Jazeera"

If you're surprised by that, it means you don't know much about AJ and don't watch it. Currently they have the only decent journalism, along with BBC, which most of their AJ English journalists come from. The rest of popular news channels is TMZ-class compared to them.
Arts & Letters Daily is excellent. I also like 3 Quarks Daily, at:

http://www.3quarksdaily.com/

The mix is sometimes bizarre, but it's always interesting.
I agree completely, especially with regards to the sworn statements. Everyone involved was making decisions based on what they perceived, with the goal being a common consensus of the appropriate action. The investigation had a couple of inconsistencies between reports, but all very minor, and obviously not a "get our story straight" style of massive cover-up people would like to believe. Unfortunately, the time to release the documents to be believed was when Reuter's first filed the FOIA request for the video and documents they were shown. However, on an only mildly related note, I'm disappointed that the video is being so widely distributed with few warnings/protections around the brutality of what is contained.
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I don't know if $data is the 'worst'. I've used 'int nothing', and 'int anything' before.
Flawless record? What about all the ad-supported apps where the new ads suddenly started calling premium phone numbers if you accidentally tapped the ad.
If you're surprised by that, it means you don't know much about AJ and don't watch it.

It's hard to believe because the American media feeds us the idea that Arabs are some inferior race out to kill us all. So obviously their media outlets are just publishing propaganda designed to further that cause by taking down the American infidels from the inside. Or something.

But of course, it's our news sources that are the real propaganda spewers. "Fair and balanced" indeed.
Now imagine that, instead, people couldn't avoid pushing your button—in fact, that the very act of being around other people pushed both your button and theirs. That would be a world where indeed "long term happiness could come from other people."
This is good advice, but not optimal. Using multiple domains in this case will actually slow down the site because of the additional DNS lookups -- only do that if you are serving up a ton of images.

a) The CSS file should be inline.

b) The images should be done away with entirely by including them as a data uri.

c) For IE6-7 (data uris not supported) the fallback image should be sprited.

d) For bonus points (if you want HN to be served nearly instantly, globally) splurge for an application caching CDN provider like Akamai.
This would depend on your goals. If first load speed is paramount, for example the landing page for Firefox or on google.com, then go with the inline. If you anticipate (or, ahem, have measured) multi-page interactions from your users and can deal with a mild hit on the first page, minify+combine+gzip one CSS file.

I'm very much in group #2... everywhere except my landing pages.
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Anyone here who knows what a closure is can fix their language implementation. It is really not that complicated.

I have no idea why you are talking about cars. It is totally irrelevant.

Andy, GNU Guile maintainer.

[Edit: downmods? I thought this was hacker news?]
Oh thank god it's not the stuff I use. My code is so bad that every time I declare a variable a fairy dies. At least there's something I'm not doing wrong.
We must be running different versions of sar then, as "sar" by itself here (RHEL 5) shows information about the time split between user/system/waitIO/idle -- that certainly does not come from /proc/loadavg.

If you run "sar -q" you could get the load average information, but that's not particularly useful, as you can't see whether the 20 load avg an hour ago was caused by heavy disk IO or a dozen CPU bound processes.
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> nobody can tell me exactly what we've gained.

Oil contracts in us$?
shame, would have been funnier if it were a joke.
'up to' caveat emptor...
The last bullet point matters most to me and predictably many others. If you figure it out in a big way, you'll have a winner on your hands.
I am an "Open Source Zealot". If Apple waved a magic wand and killed all the open source software on my Macbook (not even counting the stuff they bake in themselves) then it would be useless to me.

The App store process seem to break the open source model for no obvious gain. I can't modify some app to suit myself, my company or my family. I can't find a bunch of willing collaborators. Everyone has dollar signs in their eyes and is forced to invest in a Mac, a yearly fee and dealing with bureaucracy to get releases out. This is probably accidental but I want the same process that creates all the code I appreciate on my other computers to be at least tolerated, and preferably encouraged on my mobile ones.

I thought we'd left the shareware and freeware days behind, yet here we are again.
There are some problems specifically in you analysis.

> Suddenly you're dead, because a helicopter flying high overhead killed you instantly because you were moving an injured man.

Im not sure if it was just your wording but it was several minutes before they fired on them.

> it's very clear that these people had no connection to any activity on the scene. The Van is nowhere in sight until the very end of the engagement.

Have you watched the full 39 minute video? I've only had time to watch it once (so am withholding my full analysis of the engagement) but the same van is visible near the start of the video. It may not have been the same van but it seems a natural and fair assumption that it might be.

Saying things like "it is clear" based on the single perspective of the Apache gunship seems a little clear cut...

(not that I disagree entirely with your point)
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It's worth noting that Al-Jazeera has improved a lot since its early days in 2002/2003. With the launch of their English news service they made a concerted effort to improve their act and become more impartial. They're still prone to inflammatory coverage, especially on their Arabic news service, but as I said it's a huge improvement over what they were before.

Unfortunately many people, both pro and anti-war, are still operating on the perceptions shaped by events seven years ago and they haven't noticed how much things have changed.
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Instead of os.isatty(sys.stdout.fileno()) (ew) you should just use sys.stdout.isatty(). In addition to being shorter, it will work everywhere [that Python does], not just Unix.
> I'm disappointed that the video is being so widely distributed with few warnings/protections around the brutality of what is contained.

I think that's because people are totally de-sensitized as to viewing violence. The only difference between this video and some games and a whole pile of movies is that it is real.
> If you are talking to language users (not makers)[…]

In a sense, each time we write a function or an object, we are language makers. Too bad we don't considers ourselves as such, because makers actually bend the languages to their needs, rather than the other way around. Users limit themselves to a limited, defined, approved set of techniques (like function and object definitions).

I think any programmer worth it's salt should try and consider himself a bit of a maker. Not to play the Sorcerer's Apprentice, but at the very least to have the idea to call an actual Sorcerer for help.
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I hesitated before downvoting you; but I feel I have to because it's very easy (even with the edit) to make these claims online with little or no substance.

I feel if this was readily admitted to yourself it would have been admitted to others too and, by now, made it to the mainstream news. Where it would have been a massive, massive story.

I also feel all we have is your word and really that's not enough for such a huge claim!

Finally statements such as whether people want to accept it or not sound a lot like "typical" internet style rhetoric used to attach credence to a story.
Yeah, their public image is often mistaken by their geographical origins, not only in the US. Second thing is that they report and discuss complicated topics in a way you don't find on CNN and other media. If someone is used to the mainstream style of news 'at a glance' and with ready made answers, it'll probably be too hard to watch a half-hour documentary or a live discussion between conflict representatives.
The fact that I referenced it here means that I most likely watched it (and read it).

I take my news from many different sources in 5 languages, it is strange (but educational) to see the same event through the lens of several different cultures, it also gives you a good sense of what the local bias is.

But what surprises me, and which is why I mentioned it, is that Al Jazeera is more balanced than either the BBC or the Dutch or German news services, and that's a first (for me).
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I have a feeling that a car in broad daylight is a place where a glossy display can become rather annoying.
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Spot on. Wikileaks should simply present the information, NOT editorialize, or even analyze beyond verification of veracity.

They are destroying their credibility faster than they're increasing their profile. Effectively they're making this about them, and they are forgetting that they should simply be a neutral conduit.

I have a strong feeling we're watching a pivot in progress, setting up a new domain name and releasing the video there is a big step in that direction.
I think I once used stuff as a variable name before.
What it is about code written in languages that prefix variables with $ that results in unmaintainable code?

I'd personally vote for i and j

Mea Culpa: I've written my fair share of horrid code in PHP and Perl.
Battle? America wasn't invited into Iraq. It came there because it said there were WMD's there. There weren't. Now it won't leave.

America is committing a crime every second it stays there. The word battle doesn't even make sense here.
For anyone who watched the video, attempts to support the actions of the helicopter gunner seem to be on very shaky grounds indeed. The victims are mostly, or entirely, unarmed and attacking people trying to rescue the injured is an act of questionable legality. This looks like a war crime similar to those committed in Vietnam.
I expect the soldiers in the video are just doing what a lot of people would do in the same situation.

They are reacting as they have been trained to react; war is hell, the army build in defense mechanisms like this to ensure soldiers can fight (emotional detachment, jock attitude), they also ingrain absolute discipline to try and avoid scenario's exactly like this.

EDIT: supporting evidence - read some military training manuals. They basically detail the attitude training attempts to instill in a soldier. shrug this is common to pretty much every standing army in the history of ever :) (emotional detachment especially)
> Until very recently in human history the Europeans brutally conquered half the world and effectively turned the "savage people" that were unlucky enough to survive the raping and the pillaging into slaves

Yep, but it seems at least the Europeans have evolved from that point.
The Mozilla people seem to be quite good with the stats. I think they've looked at the whole user "funnel" (i.e. from website to download to install to continued use) and focused on the parts they can get the biggest wins. Note the blog title: Blog of Metrics

Though perhaps they've got a blindspot in that they're more comfortable making changes in desktop code and so started there.
You're right, and I hesitated before even posting it.

There's a difference in what some people are willing to say to a friend and what people are willing to say to a reporter. Honestly, it's surprising to me that more things like this incident and other like it haven't made it to the mainstream media. Ask any soldier that was on the ground (especially around 2007), and they'll tell you that, maybe, 10% of what is going on in Iraq is actually being reported. There's a bunch of stuff that goes on that you will never hear about.

From what I can tell, most people that were over there would rather leave most of it behind them. I haven't met anyone that's come back better for it, and very few of them are willing to go into any detail about the incidents unless it's with someone they're extremely comfortable with. When they do open up, it seems to come with an understanding that it won't be shared, and if it is, no names or specifics will be brought up.

Even after leaving Iraq, these guys can still face penalties if it's found that they were covering things up. I'm not sure what, if anything, they'd be charged with, but most of them are still within the Statutes of Limitations of the UCMJ for Court Marshal, and there are worse punishments beyond that that have no Statutes of Limitations.

I trust the stories that were told to me because they came from multiple people that weren't connected save for being in the military and having been stationed in Iraq at some point in time. If my word isn't enough for you (and I don't blame you if it isn't) then feel free to pass it off as another random person on the internet repeating a possible fabrication.
The US has a very bad history in 'judging its own' when it comes to war crimes, only under intense media pressure has there ever been any legal action against the perpetrators, and usually it was limited to the lower ranks.

And then there is the 'invade the Hague act':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pro...
If so, sorry that I implied that.

Sad is, that we have to switch between various news services, often depending on their 'point of view'. Good journalism is good coverage and following discussion, not giving answers; but that's utopia.
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$data is a perfectly fine variable name, if it's used in the correct context. Such as pulling a result set out of a database. In that case, it's exactly like using i in a for loop.

Anything postfixed with 2 is more shady, I agree, but the absolute worst variable names are the ones that say they are something they're not - such as a column named "tablename_key" - which is actually a foreign key, but not in "tablename".