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>Not only was the KD hotel a military headquarters

Partially true... part of the hotel was used by the British for their offices:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel#History

>it was supposed to be empty at the time of the bombing.

Not quite. According to Wikipedia "Warnings were sent by telephone, including one to the hotel's own switchboard, which the hotel staff decided to ignore, but none directly to the British authorities." There's a difference between phoning in a bomb threat in an occupied building and bombing an unoccupied building.

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

>You're either ignorant or lying for some reason.

I suppose it's impossible to discuss anything related to Zionism without one party denouncing the other's character. ;)
Great point. I also think Israelis are a lot more disciplined in this regard. You should check out Mepi, a website that takes the craziest and most fanatical of muslims and translates what they say to the Americans. Its a principal source of "information" to a lot of news outlets in the US. Engaging, constructive Arabic debate never makes it the US.
My own thought was actually:

'yes, the world does. Copyright is an artificial construct whose moral basis exists solely as a calculated decision to try to increase production, a bargain between the public - of which I am one - and the creators - misleadingly called "the world" - about creating and providing works. Now, under the current rules, I and the rest of the public have chosen not to impose explicit mandatory terms of access, but we have in other cases like bandwidth and orphan works, so let's not pretend that we can't do it for you too. You may welsh on the spirit of our agreement while satisfying the letter of our law, and we may choose to overlook it because it's not serious enough a problem to invoke the grim majesty of the legal meatgrinders or for other reasons, but that doesn't eliminate the fact that there is welshing going on here. And you certainly do not get to lecture me about it!"
The cliche that "life is what you make of it" is actually true. In a free and developed country, whatever job, friends, or relationships you have are all dependent on you.

No, you have some power.

Let's ignore random events that can happen to everyone regardless of their starting condition (i.e getting run over by a car).

Even with those out, you cannot chose to be born with caring or rich parents, or to have been raised in an environment where your drunk father didn't hit your crack addicted mom, for example.

Now, despite those things, is it possible to make to it to achieve some X? Well, people have achieved any given X (like: being a rich entrepreneur, a famous actor, a great scientist, a good parent, etc) from very different starting points, including unfavorable ones.

But this "life's what you make it" thing misses one basic point: that the WORK and CIRCUMSTANCIAL LUCK needed to achieve X varies widely based on the starting point. A poor black kid born in the 1920 would have zero chance to become, say, the President. As would an atheist, cross-dressing communist. But if you think those are extremes, consider that people from poop backgrounds are much less likely to become, say, doctors that people from rich families and/or people with doctors as parents.

So, "like if what you make it" can be better rephrased as: "life is what you make it, but for a lot of people it takes 10 times the effort other people to make it the same thing, and/or extremely rare lucky breaks".
The term 'Occupied' is often used loosely, even in Israel itself.

The version of 'Occupied' that I'd like to address means: Israel has no claim to any part of the West Bank, is hence illegally present in all parts of it, and should, by international law, withdraw.

This version of 'Occupied' is not supported, as far as I know, by either the US, the EU or the UN security council. If you think it is, I'd be interested in seeing some supporting data.

Even if it were supported by these bodies though, I don't see how that would be enough to make the territories occupied in the sense quoted above. The position of international bodies is, regrettably, often driven more by interests than principle. Ninety years ago, for example, major international organisations (The League of Nations, European powers, the Ottoman Empire) supported Israel's (to be) claim to all British Mandate territories, which includes the West Bank. Agreements were signed [1], and ratified by the UN at its founding.

What I am saying is, that each side in this conflict has legitimate claims to the territory, and that both sides' claims are supported by past international resolutions and treaties, by a historical presence in the land, and perhaps most importantly, by an agreement between the sides themselves - the Oslo Accords.

No reasonable Israeli, including myself, is interested in prolonging Israeli rule over the Palestinian population. I even believe, as I think do most Israelis, that within a comprehensive solution to this conflict, it is in Israel's strategic interest to treat the West Bank as largely Palestinian territory, regardless of any claims and rights Israel might have to it.

Israel has, several times in the past, agreed to withdraw from most of the West Bank, most notably during the Camp David accords of 2000, and the succeeding peace plan put forward by Clinton ("The Clinton Parameters"), which were rejected by the Palestinians at the time. A comprehensive account of events is given by Dennis Ross in his book "The Missing Peace", which I can warmly recommend to any student of the conflict.

Israel's current military presence in most of the West Bank, is, as I see it, largely a security issue. After Israel's 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, a Palestinian civil war ensued that resulted in Hamas rule over Gaza. Hamas openly calls for Israel's destruction, and backs it up with routine rocket fire into Israeli population centers.

Israel is a liberal democracy, largely driven by western values of equality and prosperity. Our neighbors are, sadly, not. Along with most Israelis, I hope that a peaceful resolution to this conflict can be found, and take no issue to with eventual Palestinian control over nearly the entire West Bank and East Jerusalem.

PS. If anyone would like to continue this discussion by email, I'd be happy to do that - david [at] skillsapp [dot] com

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Remo_conference
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He disputes the success stories because of absence of failure stories (survivorship bias) - and then uses this lack of evidence to assert the opposite is true.
Do you understand that alternate options exist, and people can easily move to other services?
I still prefer it on my Eee Pad Slider. I can plug-in my Canon 60D on it and easily edit the photos I just took. Anyway, I'll give the iPad version a chance...
It irks me that people think that being able to pay attention to detail in a stressful job interview while standing in front of a whiteboard has any strong correlation with their ability and desire to pay attention to detail while doing real-world programming. If this were true, wouldn't MIT and Stanford and CMU grade you while you code at a whiteboard, instead of grading you on significant programming projects?

Where I work, we give people a do-at-home programming assignment before having them come in for an interview. We then all code review the solution submitted. This seems to me a much more realistic gauge of a programmer's real-world abilities. Also, it clearly demonstrates that most people looking for jobs apparently can't program their way out of a paper bag.
Ignorant.

Argentine people did not go to war with Britain, a fascist dictator that tortured and killed 30.000 Argentineans during 1976 and 1983 did. The people responsible for this are now in jail or dead and the army was completely dismantled to avoid this happening again. Although today there is democracy in Argentina, politicians are extremely corrupt and use the Falklands to divert attention.

Again, read a book or something, don't be ignorant.
What I was questioning was "nobody notices. Because they don't want to notice", as opposed to it having been obfuscated by "magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship" to coin a phrase, but from the examples you've given above, it sounds like we agree in principle.
I implemented a UUCP network in 2001. It was still around because of some legacy (SCO UNIX) systems which just couldn't be gotten rid of.

Fortunately, these things are much less common now that software costs are essentially zero.
I'd ask them to please not service me and would continue my irregular trips to the kitchen to get a cup of tea. The reasons for this are:

- I do my tea trips during natural pauses in my work (between tasks, stuck on a problem, waiting for the computer, feeling tired) while the coffee refills would interrupt whatever I'm doing and cause me to lose focus

- Breaks are good for your creativity - when stuck on a problem I regularly get great solutions when I stop "actively" focusing on it and get a cup of tea (or do other small AFK tasks).

- In the office kitchen I bump into users (I develop in-house software) and get immediate feedback, which is often the most valuable kind.

- Getting up from your chair is good for your posture, blood circulation, etc.

All of these make me more productive, not less.
That depends on what you expect, doesn't it? At any rate, you can easily do something like

echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/foo

This has the added bonus that you can replace "echo 1" with a complex script that may not be safe to run as root.
This is called Timex tagging. See http://www.timeml.org/ etc.

I believe DARPA runs some sort of competition every year or so where different algorithms are submitted to extract temporal data from text.
"Google has plenty of employees already"

With an attitude like that, it's no wonder employees are leaving Google for Facebook.
The issue is that not everyone is cut out to be a successful entrepreneur, no matter how much effort they put into it. And I don't see this aspect discussed on HN much.

A much more important issue is that the system cannot work, and actually WONT work, with everybody being an entrepreneur, so not only are not everyone cut for it, even if they were, they would still could not be. An economy NEEDS the office drones, the service workers, somebody to take out your garbage, etc etc.

But this "everybody can be anything" is a fairy-tale ingredient of the American Dream, so it's not talked down that much.

Like how only one guy out of 300,000,000 can be the President, but there's this wishful thinking that "anybody can be". Well, no, each term is 4 years, so only around 15-20 people in a generation's lifetime (~80 years) get to be the President (and I'm not even counting double terms, or that you have to be > 21 to become the President).
I ended up writing a Markdown plugin to a client-side WYSIWYG editor. I needed the ability to store formatted text in MS SQL without either uploaded a binary blob (.doc/.pdf) or using a WYSIWYG with HTML output.

Markdown is exactly what we needed but there weren't any good JS WYSIWYG editors available, so I hacked one together.
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Bring rubber gloves to the bathroom. I remember the graffiti written on the seat cover dispenser in a bathroom stall at the NYNEX Science and Technology offices. The hand-written inscription provided a helpful arrow with the legend "ass gasket."
I don't quite understand the benefit of a transfer speed vs. progress percentage plot. Transfer speed should be viewed as a function of time.
Better ads are ads with higher click-through rates, which provides more dollars for the site whose content you are freely consuming.

Well, I'd happily pay to get rid of the ads, given the chance.

Higher click through rates come from a better match between the user's interests and what the ad is offering. It is good for the advertiser (since they get more customers), and the site (since they get more ad revenue), and the user (since they see relevant ads instead of garbage).

It sure as hell isn't good for me. I don't want to see "relevant ads".

For one, they are just there to make me spend more.

And second, as I said above, I ABHOR relevant ads shown when I browse, especially with other people around, that can guess that all those "adult diaper" ads I'm being shown have something to do with what I was searching for in private.
I don't know the title posted originally, but I would say that "Lessons James Altucher learnt from Shark Tank" is arguably a better title, and one that's more faithful to the original article.

If we read the pronoun "I" in a James Altucher penned column, it means something. If we read it on Hacker News, it means nothing. Dereferencing it should be ok.
The concern is not whether "my web server" will understand PATCH, but whether the random proxy between my web server and the client will; I'm totally willing to believe it does (1995 is a long time ago, I've certainly used and heard about PATCH, and even more elaborate WebDAV methods like PROPPATCH are used by Subversion without serious issue), but to ask about the web server and ignore the proxies is disappointing.
Here's a better article that actually explains it all: http://www.pcworld.com/article/250582/ftc_reaches_359_millio...
Putting analogies aside, as everyone seems to focus on the analogy rather than the actual topic:

Person A made something and is granting access to their creation subject to certain conditions. Person B finds a way to access the creation while circumventing the creators conditions. This is clearly wrong.
Authority is a funny thing. In many situations, simply doing the right thing -- putting a trashcan in the right place, here -- is much, much easier than getting the notional authority to do it.

Or as so many people have put it, forgiveness is often easier than permission.
Since this will never make its way onto Windows, maybe some Linux distro or UI manager could pick it up? Is this more than the typical skinning/theming capabilities can support?

I also always wished the BeOS UI was more available now than just the Haiku project.
If Harvey believes so strongly in the film, that everyone should see it, especially teenagers, he should just release it for free on youtube. Teenagers aren't going to spend their own money to see this and if their parents take them, the R rating isn't an issue anyway.
Sorry, but I can't see any actual response to my questions here, just further hate mongering.

Israel does not claim Gaza. It withdrew completely from Gaza in 2005, and gave full control over to the Palestinian Authority. Israeli NGOs even invested tens of millions of dollars in boosting the Palestinian economy after the withdrawal.

Either way, it's probably going to be very hard to have a reasoned discussion, so I'll just stop here.
_method param is used to override the true http method with the one rails should use for routing, so everything can go over vanilla POST
Ah, I see. Thanks very much!
Some conditions are abusive. Try selling a non-perishable product in the EU with the condition that you provide less than two years of warranty and you can have a court telling you that.

Of course, this particular conditions are legal, but that doesn't mean they're not abusive too.
Yes. The FTC has been cracking down on flog/farticle affiliates for a while :)
That's not a condition imposed by the previous owner. It's not buying the house that comes with that stipulation, it's having one, regardless of how it came to your possession.
If not having the right credentials were the issue, they would not have wasted their time or yours to begin with. It has to be another reason.

Companies usually don't provide feedback for several reasons. One is they don't want word to get out on what the correct answers are to questions - people will game the system. The other is legal protection. They don't want to open themselves up to a lawsuit from someone who thought might have done well in some areas, but not well in others.
Kids asking for food, why on HN?
My children are a little spoiled and often ungrateful. My little boys, four and five, are especially unaware of how hard many people have it and how good they have it. For that reason, I wanted to show them that doing something for someone else is a good thing and can make you feel good inside. Note: I have not done nearly enough of what follows in my life, and I want to change it!

I wanted to do something for the poor and homeless. I made a few calls over the course of the past week and thought going on a food drive was a good idea. We would gather food, take it to the food pantry, and later, watch as people received food from the donations. This felt like a safe and easy thing for the little ones to be able to make an impact.

Today was the day of "food gathering" - and it was an excellent experience. Every family that was home was able to provide something. I realized, through this experience, that this was beneficial for my children for reasons beyond the original intention:

1. Taught them to do something for others (the original intent).
2. Taught them that going up to random people and speaking with them, or asking them for help, is okay and not that difficult (not expected).
3. Taught them to communicate a mission statement with clarity, so people would understand why you are ringing their doorbell (not expected).
4. Taught them that people are rather generous and appreciative when approached with good intentions (not expected).
5. Taught them a little about planning. We created a flyer that we could show people what was needed by the food pantry, we planned the process, from a few calls, to the entire "life-cycle" - and we went into action.
6. At first, the children were nervous, and honestly, so was I! It is hard to go "door to door" and ask for something. It was completely worth it for all involved and we all felt good as we finished the first phase - arguably, the most difficult.

I wanted to share this on HN because many of us have a hard time meeting new people or getting something started. The outcome of my experience was greater than I could have imagined and we all feel great about the experience.
I don't use Rails anymore, but I did professionally for 3.5 years, so I think that gives me the right to a strong opinion on this, so here we go:

Why are they even bothering? Really, who cares about PATCH vs. PUT? If PATCH even has a remote chance of breaking 0.01% of sites, then WHY do it? PUT works fine. I don't care. I don't care either way, actually, since I don't use Rails anymore, just put PATCH in.

But my main concern is: Why is this major blog post worthy for Rails? I want to see something like "Rails 4: Damn Simple Websockets" or something to show that Rails is modernizing. I spent some time playing (read: nothing serious) with Lift and Scala, and while I wouldn't use that full time, it is clear to see that Lift has a handful of features that are just amazing for a modern website that Rails completely lacks (ridiculously simple AJAX/websocket stuff, triggering UI elements based on data model changes in the backend, etc.).

Anyways, its so early that Rails 4 is still a big unknown, but this is not the PR start I would've liked to see.
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Yes the part of the hotel that was bombed was the part of the hotel that was used by the British military thereby invalidating your value judgement that the attack was meant to kill civilians.
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I took the class and completed it - (but was not of the elite who achieved perfect scores). It was a well structured class with great presentation and had the best interactive exercises I have seen for a tech course.

Dr. Widom and her team did a tremendous job.
Nice. OS X has this built-in though. Other things I've noticed:

- The "no results found" bar overlaps the search box.

- Can't search by HTML entity

- Seems to be missing a few of the more exotic ones, e.g.:

💩
PILE OF POO
Unicode: U+1F4A9 (U+D83D U+DCA9), UTF-8: F0 9F 92 A9
I think it's what they call "preaching to the choir".
A lot of these look like the Basecamp Next UI (ex. the colors, the rectangles and squares etc.). I especially liked the Skype UI. Anyway, well done!
A tough situation but based on the info in the article, I have to side with the MPAA on this one. They say the R rating is due to the language used and the counter-argument is that high-schoolers are the ones using this language so it should be PG-13. Doesn't make sense since this assumes that all teenagers speak like the 'bullies' depicted in the film.

I would hope that the producers can come up with a solution to have the film rated PG-13 since it will definitely be more widely seen by the target audience in that case. If editing the most offensive cases out is not an option perhaps bleeping them out a-la "The Osbournes" would appease the MPAA. (unrelated but I personally found the censored version of The Osbournes to be much funnier than the uncensored version)
The utility of money is not linear across large ranges.

Do you not buy insurance?

I have insurance against catastrophic events, because incurring $100,000 in medical expenses is more than 100 times as bad as spending $1000 in premiums. I don't buy extended warranties.

Do you buy lots of Powerball tickets when the jackpot gets large enough to make the average return exceed their cost?

No, because winning $100 million isn't 100 times as good as winning $1 million.
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I've looked around to find more about the N2 fixing bacteria, and found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizobia#Nodule_formation_and_f... - but no definitive treatment.

If you have a chance, can you please point an interested reader to more info?
If you wanted to actually buy a piece of music the price that you paid would have to at least equal the cost to produce it, so you'd be paying say $10,000+ for a CD.

Nope. I don't have to pay for the costs of the whole R&D required to create my car either - millions, no doubt - just for the costs to produce that particular copy, plus a small profit that will obviously pay for a very small slice of the real cost of producing the car.

Same with that piece of music.
Interesting to say the least seeing this on the front page lined up with "right" vs "pragmatic".
This isn't so much a refutation of my comment as it is a quibble about what it means to be "broken". A little over a decade ago, any moron could visit one of several web sites, pay around $100, and have shipped to them everything they needed to watch DirecTV for free.

Today, you apocryphally know of several people who are pirating satellite TV.

I'm going to go ahead and call this one for DirecTV.
Thanks for the glowing recommendation. I'm quite happily employed in Information Security where I often have to give reports to people who likely aren't going to understand the exact magnitude of the risk. Communication is huge, and I'm sad to say I do have a patience problem which became evident the longer this thread continued.
This reminds me of one of the E17 themes. Cause yeah, on free software, you can actually make your mockup a reality :-)
Is linking just polite, or is it a core value of journalism?