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I read Chomsky's comment about Bin Laden's "boasting" as a reasonable explanation of Bin Laden's actions. He is simply saying that just because he said he has done it does not necessarily means he actually did it, since Bin Laden stood to gain from such a statement.

Furthermore, Chomsky might be representing opinions as facts, but he does not go invade countries and assassinate people based on his ideas. I think your comparison is unfair in this regard.
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I guess this is as good a place as any to say it: Why isn't it possible to hold trials without the accused present, at least in certain situations? The verdict of such a trial against Bin Laden could have been spoken years ago, making the whole situation a lot less complicated.

I know that this shouldn't be the usual case and there should probably be ample time for the accused to show up (three, four, five years) and then there is the question how someone who doesn't even show up should be defended but I don't see any huge problems with that, especially if it's only used in very rare cases.
This isn't a particularly good example as you're doing all the work adding up the word counts in your reduce function.

A better example would count the occurrences of the words in each line in the map, and then add up the totals in reduce.
No it is not - the Christians inherited the old testament from the Jews and Islam inherited the Christian holy texts.

So yes, it is the same God.
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The delusional people are exempt from military service in Israel.
Gerrit is very easy to set up and offers similar capabilities.
Awesome! I look forward to meeting you one day. I'd love to hear your reasons for having a problem with me considering I've never spoken with you before in my life.
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If someone confesses because they are forcibly coerced, the confession has no merit.

If someone confesses to something they didn't do to profit from it, well then they're an idiot and deserve the punishment.

For the record my money is on his involvement and the boasting was a legit confession.
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the problem with that on both sides of the debate is there is independent facts that support Bin Laden;s truthful boasting but there is not independent facts supporting the alternative.

And we have to examine in this context that the Middle East political orgs such as governments have used terrorist groups to put forth their political aims and ambitions. As of yet there are no independent facts pointing to another terrorist-middle-east-government pairing for the 911 attacks although Iraq was slightly implied by several fundamental US groups.
Because in common law there is a principle of 'natural justice' that is designed to make sure that all parties have equal and uninhibited access to the legal system. A conviction in absentia would be considered by most lawyers to be as bad as a trial that proceeded where the defendant was assumed guilty to be proven innocent.
I suspect that much of the trouble with this is twofold; a) 'very rare cases' has this habit of becoming commonplace in practice, and b) who other than the accused could reasonably determine whether he is being defended to his satisfaction? You could posit "defense" attorneys whose interests lie in subverting the process.

In short, you say you don't see any huge problems, but that sounds a little like Fermat saying he can't fit a proof in the margin. I suspect that if you look further you'll start seeing problems :p
Why are "alternative currencies" illegal under US law? AFAIK the only thing that's illegal is refusing to accept US$ as payment if you accept something else. For example, people can spend foreign money (GBP, Euros, etc) inside the non-international parts of airports. Also, people can transfer their USD to foreign currency and vice versa over the internet and at banks. Is there something different about bitcoin than say zimbabwe dollars? If anything, they're probably safer. As an aside, USD are accepted many places outside of the US in lieu of the local currency. I imagine there would be similar laws in those countries, but yet it's acceptable there.
> Specifically, I'm talking about the confession

The "confession video" would never be accepted in any serious court as a proof, simply because it can be fabricated and you wouldn't be able to prove if it was. See also:

http://www.infowars.net/articles/february2007/190207Osama_ta...

Finally, it's quite certain that had been Bin Laden caught alive, there wouldn't be enough evidence to trial him. That's the major reason why the order was obviously to "kill him."
Chomsky makes an interesting point about how the U.S. military names weaponry after vanquished foes and their artifacts (e.g., Apache helicopter, Tomahawk missile).

So I make this call first:

- in 20 years when the U.S. military
can deploy networked/armed decentralized
P2P microweapons with explosive, chemical,
and nano agents, such a network will be
named the "Al Qaeda Swarm"

- to introduce new programming/objectives to
this decentralized network will be termed
"upgrading its bin Laden"

P.S.: my wife, a psychologist, hates Chomsky. As she puts it, he savaged Skinner's behaviorist approach to psychology. When Skinner didn't refute Chomsky's objections to the behaviorist approach because he was sure nobody took Chomsky seriously, Chomsky and his cohort took it as an admission of defeat.
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That's pretty irrelevant if you don't tell us what browser you were rendering it with.
On the issue of the first line, assassination, I don't hold overly black and white views; however, I would ask when is this going to end for America? With drone strikes and whatever else going on seemingly unchecked I wonder if America is straying too far from the line.
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It feels strange that bin Laden actually denied it first (or was reported to have), or how the Taliban were willing to release him to the Americans if they provided some proof first. In any event, going to war over one person should ring alarm bells of suspicion.
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If the accused is afraid of unfair treatment, like Julian Assange after the treatment of Bradley Manning, then it would be reasonable for them to want to stay away from that country until they received certain assurances or have the charges dropped (Gary McKinnon is another case to think about). If you set the process going then trying them in their absence would be convenient for the state but not fair to them.
You're not looking at the possibility that someone may do a bunch of
development locally, then use rebase to clean it (the local changes)
up before pushing it out to a central repository (or merging it into
master). If you're really paranoid that someone will use rebase to screw up master, you can use a tool like gitosis or gitolite to manage permissions on a central repository. You can say that no one has permissions to push things to master that are not fast-forwards.

Scenario #1:

I'm working on a feature branch. I have a number of discrete changes
that I'm making. I attempt to keep each of these changes in its own
separate commit. After completing 10 such changes, I realize that I
introduced a bug in change 3. I commit the bugfix with the same
commit message title as change 3, but with a "squash!" prefixed at
the front of it. Now when I'm finished with my changes on the
feature branch I can run "git rebase -i". git-rebase will
automatically position the bugfix to change 3 next to change 3 and
set it up to be squashed into the change 3 commit. Then when I merge
my changes into master there are only commits for changes 1-12,
instead of 50 commits covering all of the minor bugs that I fixed
with my undeployed code.

Scenario #2:

Rewriting commit messages. This is one that I use all of the time at
work. I use a commit message template that has "Reviewed-by: ???" at
the bottom. When I do all of be topic branch development, I don't
get someone to review each individual commit prior to commiting it
(as that would defeat the purpose of a DVCS... might as well go back
to SVN at that point and managing chunks of changes prior to commits
with something like `quilt`). So now all of my commit messages have
"Reviewed-by: ???" on them. Prior to merging the changes back into
master, I can use git-rebase or git-filter-branch to go back and
edit my history to change "Reviewed-by: ???" to "Reviewed-by: Bob"
on my commit messages.
There's a touch of truth in the article but for an ignorant elite they don't do too badly. They are around 4th in line for Nobel Prizes in hard sciences per inhabitant and well ahead in terms of large countries. The top 'winners' are Sweden, Switzerland and Denmark all with populations under 10 million (1999) though I am not suggesting that detracts in anyway from their achievement.
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Uncontroversially, [George W. Bush's] crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s,

If he hadn't already lost me, he would have here.
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justice was done upon osama bin laden prof. No need spinning it
> That account has been silent-banned for awhile ( as most of my accounts have been for flaming / trolling people). I cannot use it anymore. Notice all the submissions are missing?

Out of curiosity, why do you feel the need to flame or troll people on Hacker News?
Chomsky asks a bunch of rhetorical questions the answers of which he himself has answered many times in many books. Why can America do X while if any other country doing X would result in outrage and catastrophe? Blah blah hypocrisy.

The three word answer is "might makes right" and many books and many articles don't really expand much upon that. The USA is a modern empire and we can put contracts out on people and hit them, end of story. Don't like it, then go eff yourself. End of story. He knows this.

It's no different than a small town mayor bitching about a county authority bitching about a governor bitching about a federal bureaucrat bitching about an executive. One power trumps another, and that doesn't end at the lines of nation states. The million-tentacled montster exceeds the explanatory powers of the 1000 word op-ed.
Actually there's a lot of doubt. Bitcoins are not a pyramid scheme, and whilst they could be used as a method to circumvent tax, any skilled accountant can already suggest a dozen other means to achieve the same thing.

Bitcoins are probably most at risk from being classified as a type of security, which would put them under the scope of a large number of financial regulations. It wouldn't make them illegal, but it would make them more difficult to trade.

However, in general I'm optimistic about Bitcoin's chances. I certainly don't believe it is inevitable that they will be regulated out of existence.
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Yes, I enjoyed 'uncontroversially'. Now, what he should have said was: "It turns out that George Bush's crimes vastly exceed bin Laden's". Everything works better with "It turns out"!
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And why should i trust some random company to tell me the site is verified? I don't even trust my mother!
I'm not worried about random developers I'm going to miss. I'm worried about developers we'm going to be stuck with.
Where's the line? Do I have to kill you in person to be on the right side of it? What if I use a gun instead of a knife? Is that still okay? How about if I have all kinds of armor and a bunch of buddies behind me, and I blow you up with a grenade, how about then?
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It's worth remembering that Noah Chomsky:

...denied the Hue massacres in Vietnam:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_at_Hu%E1%BA%BF

...denied the Khmer Rogue Holocaust in Cambodia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge#Genocide

...advocated actions that were eventually followed, which lead to the death and enslavement of millions of people...

....and he's never apologized for that, or taken culpability for those actions. The fact that he's a hero of some intellectual movements show the bankruptcy of those movements. There's real champions in the world, but he's not one of them. Noah Chomsky is an apologist for tyranny, and someone who has advocated extraordinarily bad policy. Even if you slant left - and I've been gradually moving more leftwards - this man should be treated as a pariah and an embarrassment for the horror his actions have helped perpetuate.

Edit: Whoever is downvoting this, and especially the facts and citations following it... I don't know what to tell you. Chomsky got the policies he was advocating for, and Communist Southeast Asia was horror, bloodbath, and concentration camps afterwards. It was very bad. You might not have heard this side of the story, but it's what actually happened. The Khmer Rouge atrocities don't happen if the South Vietnam/USA coalition wins against the North Vietnam/USSR coalition, or at least winds up demilitarized like North Korea/South Korea.
I for one thing think this whole JS for the server-side thing is just wrong (typeof(NaN) returns "number", what?), on the other hand NodeJS and V8 sound more like just a dumb single threaded daemon just had sex with a single threaded language engine and had a conjoined twin. I have to deploy half a dozen just to have a useful smallish app. Don't even mention all these callback non-sense. I like loops and processing return values just the way I've been programming for 8 years thank you very much.

Seriously, not every time there's some interests shelling out money pushing for whatever agenda they have, we have to fall for it. If it's bad, it's bad. Just say it and look away.

On the other hand, I can see $400 being something tempting for bootstrapping entrepreneurs like me...
> If someone confesses to something they didn't do to profit from it, well then they're an idiot and deserve the punishment

I call this total crap... You'd prefer if someone confessed and be punished, instead of have the __right__ perpetrator be punished?

I do think that justice requires us to punish the guilty only, not the innocent, regardless if they themselves want to be punished or not.
Interesting article. Not appropriate for HN. Reddit exists.
Do you have sources for these statements?
Are you implying that George Bush's crimes exceed bin Laden's? You can't be serious, can you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Noam_Chomsky

http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/thirdworldfascism.html
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Does it really matter who's done "it"? The whole "hunt for Osama" was not about punishment or rehabilitation of the guilty. It was a symbolic act. In the eyes of the world the ones who did it are the ones who took responsibility for doing it — al-Quaeda. Shooting the face of al-Qaueda in the face sends the unambiguous message — "If you try to terrorize us and kill innocent people, we'll not rest until we find you and kill you."
"invade countries"

I'm sorry, but we're in Iraq by invitation of the Iraqi government. They can expel us at anytime. They want us there. Implying that we're "invading" a country is factually incorrect, absurd, and just shows complete ignorance about our foreign policy.
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It's been discussed before on HN, here's last time -

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1775881

"Space limitations preclude a comprehensive review, but such journals as the Far Eastern Economic Review, the London Economist, the Melbourne Journal of Politics, and others elsewhere, have provided analyses by highly qualified specialists who have studied the full range of evidence available, and who concluded that executions have numbered at most in the thousands; that these were localized in areas of limited Khmer Rouge influence and unusual peasant discontent, where brutal revenge killings were aggravated by the threat of starvation resulting from the American destruction and killing." - Noah Chomsky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Noam_Chomsky#Posit...

And:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1775946

> I think you're exaggerating the point to some degree by saying "there's no concentration camps in Cambodia", but I think you're generally right.

"...that these were localized in areas of limited Khmer Rouge influence and unusual peasant discontent, where brutal revenge killings were aggravated by the threat of starvation resulting from the American destruction and killing"

He says they were:

1. In areas not under the control of the Khmer Rouge (false)

2. Manages to somehow blame the United States for the few killings he does admit happened.

A lot of people don't realize that if the United States and South Vietnamese had won the war, the massacres in Cambodia don't happen. Cambodia would've been next.

American Withdrawl: 15 May 1975

Fall of Saigon: 30 April 1975

Khmer Rouge Genocide: 1975 to 1979

Wikipedia: "The Killing Fields were a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Vietnam War." -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Fields (emphasis mine)

That wouldn't have happened with a stable joint American/South Vietnamese presence next door. Couldn't have happened, the USA wouldn't have allowed massacre on that scale the way the communist powers did. At the risk of getting into political territory, I think people like Noah Chomsky and Jane Fonda have a lot more blood on their hands than any of the military commanders they like to criticize.
Why does Chomsky ignore the 2001 Jalalabad video, the 2004 taped statement, multiple video interviews with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the September 2006 which shows Osama bin Laden with Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Hamza al-Ghamdi and Wail al-Shehri...

I agree that in a fair and impartial trial, what we've been given may not have been enough to secure a prosecution. And there may or may not be enough evidence to actually implicate Osama in 9/11. But why does Chomsky act like there was nothing but the October 2001 video where he praises the attack? If he wants to argue that there isn't enough evidence to link Osama to 9/11 he should at least present all the evidence. As it is he comes off as disingenuous by not mentioning all the other videos and evidence (which I'm sure he is aware of).

There is a lot more I disagree with in his reaction but that stands out the most.
Thanks, but I see no mention of Hue in either of those pages?
How do those apply to bitcoin?

E-Gold was a private organization that allowed people to open anonymous accounts backed by gold. I can see how this could be construed as a bank.

Bitcoins are not backed by anything, and are not managed or owned by any organization. I don't think you could classify the Bitcoin network as a "bank", any more than you could classify any random crowd of people as a bank.
You definitely need references for your claims there. As far as I know, and I'm not a Noam Chomsky expert, he has compared the media attention given to massacres in some parts of the world with massacres in others. From what I've read of him he didn't say that they didn't happen or that they weren't awful.

But like I said, I'm not expert. And from the bits of Chomsky's writings and interviews that I have read I certainly don't agree with all of his opinions although I do find him an interesting man. But you certainly need to provide evidence when you make claims like that against anyone, it's just not acceptable to make the statements on their own.
Say what you like about Chomsky, but this fact remains:

Whether there is a Republican or Democrat in office, America ignores international law when it suits its own interests to do so.
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apologists for atrocities should be spit on in the street, not have their opinion widely discussed.

Chomsky reminds me of the college student with a Che shirt. Inexcusably ignorant.
The problem is in defining the "certain situations". Those suspected of terrorism? Hmm.

The Confrontation Clause, as embodied in the sixth amendment to the US constitution, is generally regarded as a good thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_S...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confrontation_Clause
"On the massacre at Hue, Chomsky and Herman quote from a captured document in which the Viet Cong boast of having 'eliminated' thousands of people, but they dismiss the evidence because 'nowhere in the document is it claimed or even suggested that any civilians had been executed'."

http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/thirdworldfascism.html
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I have a very different memory than you.
I recall him showing that some other massacre (east timor) of the same scale as Cambodia was covered much less than this one in western media.
His conclusion was that western power chose what Holocaust to oppose according to their political agenda but not according to moral standart.
I agree with this statement and it does not mean that Khmer massacre was not an holocaust.
Bounties are not new in any way.. i have seen those for ubuntu und i think gnome some years ago.. but can't find an ubuntu bounty list anymore, weird..

Anyway, there is http://www.cofundos.org/ and http://micropledge.com/ at least..
It sounds like a reverse Kickstarter: someone posts a need and starts the pot. Other people can add to the pot and/or fork the product to modify the requirements. When the product is delivered and you can verify that it matches the requirements, the pot is paid out to the developer.
References are already given below.
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Initially I thought they have done this using HTML5 but not. A closer look on source code and then each ball is just image like this one http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/static/img/ball-13acfa...., so lot of them and Javascript to animate them. Quite heavy though.