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Let's not forget our anti-war movements, which are just as much a part of our culture as apple pie and militancy. Mark Twain wrote:

"Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood of his hands and works for 'the universal brotherhood of man'—with his mouth."

Mark Twain, for those who don't know, is one of the US's most defining authors; I read his fiction as a schoolchild.

I think the answer to the OP's question is simpler: We're the world's most warlike people, spending probably more than the rest of the world combined on military. So it stands to reason we'll have a pro-war propaganda budget.

That's a more hacker-like explanation, at any rate, as I imagine hackers tend to avoid anything that smells like ideology, and prefer realpolitik arguments.

(BTW, I also think there definitely is an ethnic component; that of the European peoples who are categorized as "white". It's reflected in the language we're speaking now, as well as culturally and racially. Those who come from elsewhere are referred to as "ethnic minorities", pretty much implying an ethnic majority. Plus, we have developed many national mythologies during our centuries, to make up for history only starting with our conquering of the land from the mostly exterminated indigenous population.)
I get it too. I'm in Australia if that's why it hates me
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From India here.. maybe it is some demographic limit. Strange no one else brought it up until now.. Is almost everyone here from US?
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Good points. But as to this,

" we judge the merits of military service on the basis that these individuals volunteered to make tremendous sacrifices in service to a noble ideal: our Constitution, and the concept it embodies (a self-governed people)."

If that were true, policemen and firemen, who face danger and death every day, and teachers, who have low pay for doing a very vital social task should be getting equal or greater respect. This was precisely my point.

The assumption that everyone in the US army joined up to serve the Constitution etc and is universally motivated by "sacrifice" is very suspect. This maybe true for a minority, or for people who join up in a national emergency or just after an attack on the country, say Pearl Harbour or 9/11, impelled by patriotism.

Plenty of people join because they want a steady job, because they can't pay for college, want a fast track to citizenship, want something to belong to, are subject to a draft, (as for the Vietnam War ) etc. Why should someone who joins the military for such reasons ( and I suspect those are the majority) be worthy of a special respect denied to (say) a fireman or a nurse?

The notion of respecting someone for an assumed intent, and not any objective metric of success or competence or totally independent of morality or political view point is highly suspect and naive.

The Japanese soldiers at Nanking, though not all volunteers, were people who respected their political system highly and were willing to sacrifice their lives for the Emperor and Japan. The willingness to sacrifice their lives for a cause their society deemed just doesn't make them automatically worthy of respect, or any less war criminals, as some of the Japanese hardliners would insist.

To quote a fictional character, "A knight is a sword with a horse. The rest, the vows and the sacred oils and the lady’s favors, they’re silk ribbons tied round the sword. Maybe the sword’s prettier with ribbons hanging off it, but it will kill you just as dead".

A soldier is a man with a gun whose job, stripped to the essence, is to kill. What distinguishes him from a mafia hitman is that society deems his work to be necessary, and he is part of an organization subject to socially approved rules and regulations, and he is trained to do his job.

So far so good. One can agree it is a necessary job, a (sometimes) dangerous one, without choosing to automatically respect every soldier just because one assumes he sacrificed a lot to "serve the nation". I suspect that the selfless "sacrificers" motivated by a "higher cause" are a minority in any army.

And a description like, "individuals volunteered to make tremendous sacrifices in service to a noble ideal" would fit a policeman perfectly, if you happen to assume that every policeman chose his job only because he wanted to dedicate his life to justice and protecting his fellow citizens. And yet we don't expect random people to thank every policemen "for his service".

And with that, I exit this overlong thread. Thank you for your extensive reply. It has helped me clarify my thinking.
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Very interesting post nhashem. Btw, what was the second idea that got rejected from YC, any possibility you can share?
Doesn't DARPA have a similar challange?
Of course Python is better than Perl6. The latter does still not exist in a final form.
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> It would, of course, be better if they let you customize the shortcuts and sped up the loading of the initial page.

Those were the main things I had in mind (along with adequately customizable desktop notifications). As for shortcut customizations, the Labs feature isn't as good as a configuration file in my opinion (slower to edit, harder to share, harder to diff, etc.). As for the loading of the initial page, I still wonder why it takes so long... You could probably get a nice setup by keeping a Gmail window open and assigning a shortcut in your WM to display this window, but it's not a common feature in WMs.
What I find a bit strange is that if this where any other business, where one of the major players bought up one of the others, then this deal would need to be approved by the US, EU an perhaps others. Aren't the politicians concerned with competition in the entertainment industry?
Maybe this is interesting to you:

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The W3C also works on standards for P2P distribution. See:

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Since when is it polite to lie? I think that's very impolite.
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This is a silly game, you mispelt "intelligible". The missing comma is well spotted and down to my lack of proofreading, the comma splice is more stylistic than anything in my view.

However, by concentrating on how I wrote, rather than what I wrote, you are reinforcing my view that "loose-yet-intelligible" is not OK. You provided further reinforcement by writing a clumsy sentence which you then felt the need to justify.
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I don't see morphology filters supported. Huge fail.
I wonder how this influences the RIAA's influence on governments.
Must be a slow news day when this hits the front page.
I would also throw in he gave a nice TED talk. Available at http://www.ted.com/talks/burt_rutan_sees_the_future_of_space...
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I wish Scaled would work on a supersonic plane that could replace the Concord. With the engineering knowledge we have today, and EC2 assembled supercomputers to handle the computational heavy lifting a project like that would need, the only part missing is the right company to go after it.
When I want to watch some sport event -- I don't care if it starts right away or in minute or two. Because often all the online-video channels are just over-loaded. So maybe something like this would solve the problem?
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Haha, your argument is of a rare breed: it's self-negating. If the people belonging to your "certain class" automatically grow to enjoy what's familiar to them, then their first reaction to a new UI is the most unbiased information you're gonna get!
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If this is a issue for you, a console-based client is a reasonable substitute. Terminals and SSH are pretty universal too (less so than web browsers, though). [Yes, you need to download putty on windows machines, but it's not that much of an effort.]
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Hey bro, don't worry about all of the snarkaristas around who want to get all in the guts of your project and pick it apart while still developing. I totally get the point of your post and appreciate your brazen honesty and transparency (where appropriate, naturally.)

I'm in your corner (as a fellow noob) and can't wait to see what you're up to. Check out my info and let me know if you think I can help out at all.

(As a side note, I almost spent last summer helping with the marketing of a Mycorrhizal innoculant called Mykos at http://xtreme-gardening.com That stuff blows my mind! )
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I am trying to teach my 7 year old son simple programming. I am wondering what others may see as useful tips at this age range.

We've started with basic games like him giving me instructions for things and having to debug where I go wrong in repeating them back, and I am thinking of moving on to very simple Perl, followed by some (simple) C. What does everyone think?
I thought the website looked neat. It's not going to win any competitions but it's well done and a good start. The idea is interesting too. If this person wasn't passionate about what they were doing, I'm sure they wouldn't be writing a post to improve their visibility and exposure. I wish them good luck and so should you :P
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One of the key features of airports is the lack of planes overhead. Also, I think it only works in the US.
Regardless, it's still good information.
Both Safari and Chrome seem to open the file fine for me. Tags in the source code indicate that it was at least partly made with Inkscape.
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That's a totally problem/domain specific assertion. A single machine with 8 or so cores simply isn't going to make it through a hundred terabytes of data, and many (most?) hadoop jobs are IO-bound anyway.

If you find that micro-optimization greatly increases your performance, you probably shouldn't be using hadoop anyway...
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American here. I get it too. In fact I get a login page on every single NY Times article that gets posted on HN. Seeing that five times a day when I expect to be seeing an interesting article is making me loathe the New York Times.
Potentially it still might have done; since C is more efficient with memory, it may not have been practical to take that approach with PHP.
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Computer vision is made very easy with OpenCV and, say, C...but it's quickly outgrown if you're doing anything meaty.
Alas, development costs typically scale as the cube of the take-off weight. Concorde was a 100-passenger SST with trans-Atlantic range at Mach 2.2 -- it burned over 100 tonnes of fuel making the crossing and take-off weight was comparable to a wide-body, so if you want composites as well you're talking dev costs probably in the same range as the Boeing 787. As it is, Concorde cost multiple billions of pounds sterling to develop in 1960s money. Even if you shave an order of magnitude off the cost, you're still talking something that Rutan could only manage if Bill Gates or Warren Buffet were to open their wallet and bankroll him.

(Scaled Composites is no longer owned by Rutan; last I heard it was a subsidiary of Hughes.)
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I keep hearing that Apple acquired NeXT over Be because of every reason aside from quality of the technology.

Was BeOS worse than NeXTSTEP?
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I agree to a certain extent that the definition of "noble" is subject to a degree of interpretation. However, I reject the idea that it is completely subjective. You might make an argument either way that fighting to impose representative government is noble or not (or effective or not, etc.), but fighting to impose an oppressive regime is always evil.

In regards to fighting "honorably," you set up a huge strawman there. Note that I never said anything about ambushes or roadside bombs. I agree that particular tactics and weapons are, for the most part, orthogonal to the concept of "fighting honorably." When I talked about "dishonorable combat," I talked about the deliberate targeting of civilians. Other examples might include perfidy (e.g. wearing the enemy's uniforms), fighting without any sort of uniform or identifying insignia, using human shields, or fighting from a protected location (e.g. a sniper in a hospital or church/mosque). War should be fought between combatants, and acts that either deliberately target non-combatants, or which deliberately make it harder for your enemy to tell you apart from non-combatants are dishonorable.

As an aside, I doubt very highly if your notional American militiaman had sworn any oath to the King of England.

The closest you get to actually addressing my statements about honor are your examples of collateral damage. One example (the wedding party) is easy to refute: it was not deliberate. The others all involve the destruction of civilian targets in concert with legitimate military targets. This has always happened, and will always happen, in war. Whether or not a particular instance is justified must be judged by the criterion of proportionality[1]. Interestingly, your examples show how, under this concept, acceptable levels of collateral damage of lowered with the improvement of technology in recent history: in WWII, it was sometimes necessary to destroy entire cities in order to achieve legitimate military goals. Today, precision weapons can take out individual structures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportionality_(law)#Internati...
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That's one thing I'm slightly confused about. I always untick the 'store my credit card details to make future purchases easier' box - so were my card details in their database, or not?
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The problem is that Unity isn't just new -- it's just too buggy to use.
Machine generated HTML5.. hmm something in the back of my head tells me if you file isn't massive, its worth doing it yourself because it might produce bloated code. i.e it will be kind of difficult to work on that code later yourself.
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And CasperFlights (I'm the Flash developer for this one): http://casperflights.com

To be honest, I think Planefinder is the most impressive at the moment, their data is very, very good and their client is pretty decent as well.
Have you seen codeacademy or rubymonk?
I think that Canonical don't have the competence/resources to innovate a new GUI that is better than the existing ones.

The result is something that people hate, not because it is different, but because it is truly sub-par.
Ever since I switched to xfce, I've got some really annoying bugs too:

* Key bindings for switching keyboard layouts don't persist, I have to reconfigure them every time I reboot or X restarts

* Auto-suspend when lid is closed no longer works reliably. I sometimes find a really hot laptop in my bag after a while.

That said, XFce is much nicer than Unity.
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Is he smart? Try "Learn Python the Hard Way". Let him struggle with it a bit, and let him learn to ask the right questions, and let him learn to use search engines to get the answers, and maybe help guide him a bit when he gets really stuck.

In my opinion this provides a very gentle introduction to coding and development environments and also a rapid start to getting something done.

Once he's run a few things in Python you can start to introduce more complex programming (rather than coding) concepts.
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I'd be really interested to hear what people think about things like Logo (or other languages for children) and flowcharts or diagrams or "Jackson Structured Programming" style paper preparation.
I, too, think that getting Steve back was the right move, with NeXTSTEP as an added bonus. I'm just sad that BeOS died an undignified death - a few years ago I bought a BeOS CD off eBay and was very impressed with the OS. It was more responsive on a 100MHz machine than Windows XP was on a 2GHz machine. Yes, I know there's Haiku, but they're really just catching up to where BeOS was 15 years ago. Imagine what BeOS would be like today if it continued to be developed and improved.
I would happily welcome any collective respect for voluntary soldiers stretched to a totally overboard, ridiculous and even hypocritical extent instead of having a mandatory all-encompassing military or civil service as does, for example, Finland—and this is in the 2000's.
It's like a command line interface to the internet.