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> After the September 11 attacks on New York, Bush launched the War on Terror, in which the United States military and a small international coalition invaded Afghanistan, the location of Osama Bin Laden, who planned the New York attacks. In 2003, Bush then launched the invasion of Iraq, searching for Weapons of Mass Destruction, which he described as being part of the War on Terrorism.

> The Bush Administration asserted both a right and the intention to wage preemptive war, or preventive war. This became the basis for the Bush Doctrine which weakened the unprecedented levels of international and domestic support for the United States which had followed the September 11 attacks.

> Bush Administration manipulated or exaggerated the threat and evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capabilities would eventually become a major point of criticism for the president.

-- http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush,_George_W

Guess you can't read.
FF 16.0.2 here and the Pong example worked for me. I had the same behavior as you for the music example though.
All of the world's leading nations today are strong democracies (not the fastest growing like china, but the really developed ones). I wouldn't write off the possibility that these nations are great because they have good democracies.

Indeed, the fact that the vote is close actually validates the candidates as capable. Do you mean that we already know the outcome, so why bother? Eh, in that case, maybe it would be wise to allow email voting for everyone. Surely that's would rule out the "why bother" factor cause it's not much of a bother.
Stop excusing yourself for not being something, either read more and then comment or trust your gut feeling. (not meant to sound harsh)
Haha, I was in HK today, and one of those hit, using PCCW services also
You should read my post more carefully. It wasn't aimed at condemning introversion, but instead, mildly condemning your praise of it. But after thinking about it more, I still think it's a good thing you're doing—but you should (in my opinion) provide pathways to growth and working together as well. You can provide a fear-free comfortable environment for introverts without locking them out of social interaction. :)
What's the advantage of this over the geonames database (CC-BY) which seems to be more comprehensive ?
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Voting alone has little to nothing to do with participating in political life. Imagine if you earned karma on HN by voting rather than by being voted up.

Participating as a citizen means trying to understand what makes society work, applying this knowledge to your own life, and using reason to convince others of your views. It also means listening to others' reasoning and being open to being convinced to change your own views.

The keys are Reason and Freedom. You have these abilities and rights by virtue of being Human. Use them, that is true citizenship.
I am not certain whether I agree with that; I might, actually... I certainly would if it were in private, or in context. However, that doesn't make the argument "if you think X is Y then you should check out Z: it is so much more Y you will stop calling X Y by comparison" a useful argument: you can almost always find more and more extreme examples, and eventually you are saying "at least he's not Hitler; you can tell the difference, right?".
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Make it EVE+"spitfires in space" and I think an entire generation will be lost.
So just out of curiosity, why doesn't Adobe embark on those two projects? We're entering a new era of desktop software, surely that should be a catalyst for redesigning both from scratch?
I have to disagree with this one. Just having a mobile stylesheet with a sane font size and clickable link sizes makes a huge difference on most websites. Take this site for example, reading it is quite difficult on a phone, I'm always finding myself panning/pinch/zooming in comment threads, and I constantly misclick links on the home page.
Whilst I agree in part to the point you make, that Pakistan should be dealing with terrorists that use it as a safe haven.

I can not agree with your sentiment that because Pakistan does not, America therefore has a right to fly drones into its land to indiscriminately kill.
The article doesn't actually provide any significant reasons as to why you need to be a polyglot programmer. If anybody is reading this I would love if somebody can provide reasons besides being able to think differently. I'd like to encourage programmers, at a ruby user group, to learn other programming languages. But besides the think differently I can't come up with any compelling reasons. Am I being silly? Is being able to think differently about problems the only reason to learn different programming languages?
Indeed, acting like someone who doesn't care is not exactly sending a loud signal that you disagree with the system.
Your memory's going, I'm afraid. The original version, the BBC Model B one, used a novel split-screen technique. The upper larger portion showing space was Mode 4, 1bpp at 320 × 256 if it was the whole screen, the bottom flight-deck portion was Mode 5, 2bpp at 160 × 256. Here's a screenshot, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/BBC_Micro_Elit...
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If you take compound interest and the legacy for generations to come into consideration...

And also don't use a discount rate...

Besides, things like education, over time, have far more intangible and invaluable implications than a figure could ever show.

Could you explain this claim?
There have been many intellectual tyrants. I disagree that we'll get better leaders simply by educating the people about science.
Hey, you got hellbanned for posting on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4743954
Why was an Indian man held for sending a tweet?
Did he just complain about "companies he never heard of" and "top tech" like Facebook? I hate to tell this kid but those companies you've never heard of are 90% of what it means to be a start-up. Start-ups aren't well known at all until they're already past the "might not be around next year" phase unless they go through a well known incubator. Facebook on the other hand is established. They aren't going anywhere any time soon.
The only way your one vote has any chance of determining a US presidential election is if you sit on the US Supreme Court.

Anything within a few hundred votes will be decided by the courts. See Gore v. Bush.

"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." (Joseph Stalin)
Can't tell about how much everyone reads, but for example all major newspapers in germany do prominently cover that election weeks ahead with lots of information and comparisons of the candidates. This election is watched a lot in europe. As another example - one of the cinemas in my town is reserved tonight for a election night where they show CNN International live from midnight up to 6am in the morning.
Your hiring analogy is flawed, because you have the right to not hire anyone in the first place.

> If you are governed by fools or charlatans everyone has the right to speak out, to bitch, whine, complain - voter or not.

You have the right to complain about the fool, but you don't have the right to complain about being governed - since that's what you consented to when you tick the box.

Before being asked "Which fool should govern?" should you not be asked "Do you want to be governed by a fool?"
The key quote seems to be "Looking at peering maps, I'd estimate the outage impacted around 3–5% of the Internet's population." so if it didn't affect google directly it would have to go through customer server -> network technicians which would probably take more than the 26 min that Google was down for those customers for. I'm sure they would have been right on it if it hadn't have been fixed so fast.
At first blush, the "animate" api call seems to work a lot more inuitively than d3 or raphael...might have to give this one a look.
If you are to take this at face value, the answer to that (IMO) is to vote third party if you don't have a strong preference between the main two. Then you are doing your small bit[1] towards promoting plurality, and promoting the issues that probably align closer to your values than one of the main two.

1. You may say, 'i will make no difference', well, as one in 300m that is true no matter who you vote for. May as well vote with your conscience.
It's not indiscriminate. An invasion would be though - and that's what would happen if Pakistan destabilized further.

Rights don't exist - they are merely useful fictions and are subject to "the guy with the guns makes the rules" rule.
> - The Conservatives are desperate to take on policies from UKIP and even the BNP, even though those two parties have no chance of gaining real power.

Just out of interest which policies are you talking about?
The US has no third party that is anywhere near as viable as even UKIP or the BNP.
So Gabe Newell did not overreact on Windows 8... because of what Microsoft might do in Windows 9.

That said, Steam right now is more of an open platform that the Microsoft App Store. Even if Microsoft put up big, scary warnings, they really should allow the side-loading of Metro apps or have a Control Panel option to allow for their installation.
Ballmer's position is very special for a blue chip tech company. It aligns his interests with those of the large index funds which are structured so as to require owning Microsoft stock over the long term.

To put Ballmer's holdings in perspective, $1.00 of share price change is about half a billion dollars in wealth. Or roughly equivalent to the headline grabbing stock options Cook at Apple will see mature in 2016.
Am a programmer currently in Singapore; some of my observations are as below.

1. Singapore is business friendly. But only for big businesses; investment banks and such. Small and medium ones will have a tough time considering the cost of living and expenses here.

2. Local IT job market is tuned more towards jobs in banks and insurance companies rather than in true programming/RnD. And as obvious, most of it is for maintenance or support of legacy CRUD apps.

3. Most of the smart local fellows move to UK/US and find the environment there quite enriching, and stay. Singapore gets boring after a couple of years.

4. Govt has raised minimum salary limit for an employment pass, keeping in mind the locals' emotions against increasing number of immigrants. Not many are vocal about their unhappiness about inflow of immigrants, but few are very much.

5. Startups here seem to be hesitant to get smart folks from nearby places like Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines or India. Just couldn't understand why. My guess would be that an employment pass and dependent pass is quite costly for them, or that getting immigrant workers would be too much of paperwork and legal hassle for them.

6. Most of the shops here follow the true Asian work culture where number of years in a place trumps capability and competence. Singapore's culture is of very high Power distance index. The mandatory national service for all boys at their prime tunes and trains them that authority and orders must be followed unquestionably.

7. http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2011/12/15/wozniak-apple-co...

and

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04/gibson_pr.html
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Yes? And there are plenty of immoral laws. Morality and legality often intersects but neither implies the other.

FWIW, I consider compulsory voting an immoral law, even though I generally consider voting a moral obligation. A democratic government derives its legitimacy from the people, as opposed to god (theocracy) or heritage (heritable monarchy). Voting is the means by which the people reaffirm the legitimacy of the political system that is in charge. When the very same political system compels the people to vote, ie. give it legitimacy, the value of the act of voting is watered down.
All of the world's leading nations are also capitalistic.

The counterfactual is not communist and crony-driven unstable dictatorships (e.g., China, Venezuela, Iraq), but non-democracies with policies similar to Democracies, or democracies with stolen elections.

(This group would include nations such as South Korea, which were weakly democratic until relatively recently, Singapore, and various others.)

Do you mean that we already know the outcome, so why bother?

No, I mean that if the election is split 50/50 (+1 on either side), then the "wisdom of crowds" suggests the difference between Obama and Romney is irrelevant. So why waste time pushing the election one way or the other?
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Pinterest is being utilised increasingly more to reach out to consumers. Basic using this kind of social media site is helpful, yet special resources can easily enhance your presence as well as the customer's experience.
I would say the resilience is what impresses me here. The fact that it's decentralized means that anyone can fix the internet. The fact that this one specific problem was fixed within 26 min by individuals realizing the problem and acting to fix it gives me a warm feeling.
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Someone recently posted a cool jQuery form validation lib where validation rules are defined manually in the javascript itself - many comments suggested a library that simply parses the relevant HTML and validates based on attributes such as HTML 5 input types, maxlength, pattern, etc.

This does just that, along with a few other niceties. My first jQuery plugin so criticism welcome.
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And you would be correct. Pakistan prefers Romney.
I don't get some of your complaints.

I just had a quick look through my unit tests for place where I test a private method.

I have a method which looks through an array for a pair of adjacent variables, with a particular property (they have p < V1 > V2 < n for variables V1 and V2, relating to the previous variable and next variable, and where < is a more complicated operator).

Anyway, this gets used lots of times by my algorithm. However, I added some unit tests because I wanted to make sure that the obvious corner cases (beginning and end of array, not occurring) get checked correctly. Hopefully these cases are hit by my input data, but it is hard to construct input data that has particular properties.

I could pull this out into another class, but the method is actually fairly small and not used anywhere else, so that seems like a bit of a waste really.

On checking you get a null reference when you pass null into a method. I make this part of the API of some of my functions (in my case C++, so null pointer actually). I want to check that actually happens, as opposed to some nasty crash. Isn't that checking for behaviour? What else should I do instead?
It doesn't make sense to vote for third-party candidates in swing states
Then vote for someone who wants to remove all forms of taxation?

But I can't tell if you seriously think society would be better without taxes. Would you like to have private police, a private army, private courts of law, a private environmental protection agency, etc?
This is basically correct. BGP is weird. The addresses for one of Google's many datacenters were routed incorrectly for packets coming from some subset of IP space. Unless Google is running active ping tests to that subset of IP space, the way they would normally detect it is for someone to call and complain.

In this case, the author decided to take a shortcut and call the owner of the "problem peer" directly.
Carlin isn't complaining about who gets in - he is complaining that anyone gets in. A vote for anyone is your consent to be enslaved by whoever wins.
Confluence, whoever you think you are, don't speak for me and don't tell me what to do.
If you want to protest, why not show up at the polling station on election day and vote blank. This way you differentiate yourself from those who didn't vote because they where too lazy.
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There is one minor aspect of the game that deserves mentioning - the mildly brutal learning curve just to fly the ship. Do you remember the first time you tried to dock with a spinning station? And how the autopilot mocked you, priced at 10 times your net worth?

Docking was my favorite part of the game. Particularly when under fire and heavily damaged. How fast should I come in? How steep? Can't be too cautious or this pirate on my tail will waste me. Glance the edges and I'll be dead anyway.

<armchair role=gamedev>

There are other places in Elite where similar high pressure situations could be added. The obvious one is to make the sun scoop more dangerous. Make it work better the deeper you go in the sun. But in addition to the hard surface to avoid crashing into, the sun does damage over time proportionate to depth. (Maybe collection rate is linear to depth while damage is squared, with a small safe zone for the patient at the top.)

A less exciting one would be cargo transfer. What if cargo was moved by porters? The union guys take their time, but do a good job. You could do it yourself, but you'll get irate customers if you clip a corner and damage the stock. Better hurry though, the police inspections are only a few docking bays down the row from your ship.

</armchair>
The two games don't sound all that similar. It's not an MMO, for one thing. I also doubt there will be as much focus on the economy or large-scale corporations. I think EVE is great, I like reading about it occasionally, but I have zero interest in playing "Ayn Rand's Battle Spreadsheets"[0].

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4625338
You are making a general argument why serialization formats should not exist. Fine, but in reality, and for any number of reasons, they do: they are easier at first, they are actually often somewhat easier over time, the pain cost that occurs is often easily amortized over time, they are fast to load (no transformations), they are fast to edit (you can often treat them as some insane memory page container and do internal allocation for updates, leaving old content begin until it is recycled), and their concept makes them capable of handling random seemingly-unrelated garbage that these mega-programs end up being popular for.

They aren't even always considered the non-ideal: I have seen many an argument from people who use Smalltalk that the ideal transfer format is to literally serialize part of the running program state and call it a "document", including whatever code might be required to operate the more epic parts of the document. (If you think about it, this is actually fairly similar to the various file formats that involve OLE, as you end up having the identifier of some code the user hopefully has installed attached with a block of data that that code hopefully can reinstate ate itself using.)

So, given that it is a tradeoff, and given that it was often a neccessary one for file formats where you want or need to be able to edit files that both contain numerous nearly-unrelated features (OLE would be the most beautiful example of this in the Word container format) where the entire contents may be larger than the RAM available to the entire computer, it simply seems silly to complain about this: man up, import the data, make your own format for saving your files, and stop complaining that someone in 1990 made something that over 22 years has become slightly difficult to understand without that historical context.
Is there some way to say "ignore DNS results from this provider", such that were you to spot an issue you could block that provider's information (and anyone replicating their version of the truth) and thus find a valid path. If that were possible you wouldn't be reliant on a third party to resolve the issue to get your system working, and once your system worked, you could contact them to resolve the issues for all.
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I'm happy someone got it. :D
Enough time for a purge or to gain an advantage in an invasion. This might even be on checklists for such actions.
The Iraq war, at $4 trillion? These things add up.

Also, over 4 years, the U.S. GDP is $60 trillion, $6 trillion is 10% of that.

How much better do you think that your preferred candidate will do? 5% better? 1% better?
Two hours latereader read what I wrote, and thought "man, this comment's upvotes to correct grammar ratio is remarkably high" (this is after one hour later, when I noticed another serious typo in the first few words that I still had time to edit). If it makes any difference to you: I write most of these comments I make on my iPhone, so I often can't even see the whole horizontal line at once. ;P
I think that being a programmer is not about coding in a particular language. It's all about thinking differently thus his point about being a polyglot programmer does not seem to hold. For me programming is how would I solve a particular problem with the tools I have. Maybe an easier solution exists if I do a certain thing a certain way but it would be more satisfying for me if I come up with a solution my way.
How does this compare to D3.js?
It sounds weird that Google did not triggered a recovery procedure on its own.

It's possible they didn't have the personal contact details for the engineer capable of fixing the problem.

We all know how hard it can be to contact a competent person at a big corporation when you have a problem [1]. Would Google find it easier than every other human being?

[1] http://xkcd.com/806/
Same on Chrome 23.0.1271.52 beta-m, in fact the music example crashed the tab the first time. The Rainbow example doesn't animate either.
Unless it's referring to people (actors, models, and so forth, as used in the entertainment, photography and fashion industries). Again, the rules are tricky, even in "straightforward" American (USA, that is) English.
That only makes it more likely that what was said has a semantically correct meaning though (or is that what you meant?).
Would it be possible to claim to own Google's IP, then on receiving the packets intended for Google forward them on to the real IP (without accidentally forwarding them back to yourself)? That way someone could hijack & interrogate these packets without being spotted (at least without causing service outage / only adding slight delay). Alternatively could they route these requests to a clone as an advanced phishing scam?
Hmm, I'm not sure norwegians or swedes or germans (or canadians) would agree their states are capitalist. Free-market sure, but not dependent on heavy capitalism. Interestingly, the Spiegel blames "total capitalism" for the "destruction" of america: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/commentary-total-c...

Anyway, i don't undestand why your voting has to be "the one vote that mattered". I see it like a gamble, you trust your vote on someone, even if you will be disappointed later. If you don't you lose your chance to be disappointed (and possibly learn a lesson)
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>"If there are only bad candidates the situation is more complex, but this is an edge case which only happens in thought experiments"

I think you and I have differing opinions about the candidates. What do you consider "good"? Has there even been a "good" candidate in the past 20, 30 years?