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How about Wahhabi Jihadists that are being brought in from all over the world to fight Assad regime. There is a good piece by German media that talks about how Europe is supporting ultra-extremist insurgency in Syria [1] by turning the blind eye on Turkey, which is providing al-Qaeda affiliated jihadists with arms, shelter and healthcare. They gather in Turkey, then proceed to fighting Assad regime and massacring civilians by hundreds in the spare time. [2][3] Who is going to "show limits" to them?

Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have admitted to Associated Press correspondent Dale Gavlak that they were responsible for last week’s chemical weapons incident which western powers have blamed on Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, revealing that the casualties were the result of an accident caused by rebels mishandling chemical weapons provided to them by Saudi Arabia.

“From numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families… many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the (deadly) gas attack,” writes Dale Gavlak. [4]

Dale Gavlak has been a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press for two decades and has also worked for National Public Radio (NPR) and written articles for BBC News.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pdvbinNLH8

[2] http://www.opendemocracy.net/rozh-ahmad/mass-slaughter-of-ci...

[3] Search the Web for "Lattakia Massacre" (caution, very explicit content!)

[4] http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-sau...

First posted in another HN thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6313967
This is exactly the plan :)
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Bad in what way exactly? Hiragana and Katakana are easier to pick up, because there is more burden placed in learning each individual word. With the baseline investment to learn the Kanji in place, each new word is just a composition of characters and their associated ideas that you already know.

You can do the same thing with dictionaries in Japanese or Chinese, though it works best if you use a dictionary that lets you handwrite in the characters (it helps a lot if you learn your radicals and stroke orders well, so that you can easily write characters you don't know).
Sure! I'll look into it and have something ready soon. Thanks for the suggestion.
More importantly he was a well-regarded thinker.

I can't help but think of this Kurt Vonnegut quote (He put these words into the mouth of a character, Eliot Rosewater, who gate-crashed and addressed a conference of SF writers):

"I love you sons of bitches. You’re all I read any more. You're the only ones who’ll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that’ll last for billions of years. You’re the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to us, what tremendous misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell."

(from 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater' 1965)
That just moves the problem. Now the Germans start wondering how the spotting planes seem to be so damn good at being in the right place at the right time.
Very nicely done! This is a great project to help raise the awareness of Bitcoin. I'll definitely be passing this around.
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There's obviously enormous opportunity to try on a contrarian investor suit and back startups whose founders have strong foreign accents. Someone will fill that void.
Are there good tools out there for helping to ensure that a JavaScript web app without progressive enhancement is accessible to the disabled (e.g. screen readers can parse it, speech recognition software can interact with it).

I ask because I've recently discovered that Google has massively failed in this department with some of their products, at least as far as speech recognition is concerned. Google Docs is a great example of what I'm talking about. If you try to use it with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, buttons and menu items are often not recognized, text entry is only reliable by using the separate (and inconvenient) Dragon "dictation box", editing is a nightmare, and review comments can only be placed by actually copying from a separate program. Your best bet if you need to collaborate is honestly to just use Microsoft Word, and then either upload and convert, or copy and paste, and then accept the fact that a lot of collaboration tools won't be usable by you or any of your collaborators.

I can't imagine how frustrating it must be to try to use modern web apps as someone who can't type effectively or read a screen, and it seems like the problem is only going to get worse as people rely more on canvas without taking accessibility into consideration.
Well I'd sure as hell rather see obituaries for SF authors than the stupid 'Site X is down again' notices on HN.

Pohl is part of the old guard SF, his writing has influenced people and technology for decades. If that doesn't deserve the front page then I don't know what does.
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I thought this would be interesting to post here for two reasons.

First, I imagine most HNers probably analyze prices as the most rational and analytical consumers in the world. It's good to get a reminder that the rest of the world doesn't do that.

Second, I thought it was interesting to see a VC (Harrison Metal) put together this kind of informational video. I would have liked them link to the reference material underneath the videos, but still pretty cool.
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My reaction as well. Piss on that.
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Maybe Timmy should just have a look at the Google specification! And he would see that he could continue to crawl the web with his favorite tool! He has just to replace #! with an _escaped_fragment_ query parameter, that's not so heartless ;)
I wonder if this system has a search capability or it strictly limited to phone # searches. I also wonder if tech to speech works well enough to convert all these calls to text.
Right now I tend to think of Software Engineering as an ad-hoc guild, where one can gain entry simply by proficiency and talent and recognition of those attributes by your peers, fellow software engineers. It's a system that seems to work relatively well.

This licensing business seems to be an attempt to cut software engineers out of this peerage for the sake of HR, in addition to being a cash-grab as mentioned by other posters.
>For instance a friend's wife moved from Georgia to San Diego as a teenager, and quickly found that as long as she kept her accent, everyone assumed she was stupid.

In fairness, speaking as someone from Georgia, you run into a lot of this within the south. I've lived here my entire life, and generally speak with a fairly neutral, midwestern accent, and I'd say that it's extremely common within the roughly 35 and under demographic around here.

Not commenting on whether it's fair or not, but because there is such a stigma around southern accent = stupid, many southerners, especially younger ones, make a concerted effort not to pick up the accent. Generally, the younger and better educated a southerner is, the less likely they are to sound like a southerner. That's not because the accent makes someone stupid, but because there is an awareness that it has that perception, so people avoid it.

And, I mean, I'll still fall into it in less formal settings or when I'm cranking up the charm, but in a business environment it gets switched off.
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Why should I consider unfalsifiable metaphysics to be in the domain of science at all, rather than the domain of religious speculation?

Today's 'unfalsifiable metaphysics' is tomorrow's Physics.

Neil deGrass Tyson makes a compelling point[0] that:

"But a careful reading of older texts, particularly those concerned with the universe itself, shows that the authors invoke divinity only when they reach the boundaries of their understanding. They appeal to a higher power only when staring into the ocean of their own ignorance".

He then goes on to show examples where Greats such as Newton proclaim some aspect of their work as only knowable by God, but then those same issues are tackled later by people who are unsatisfied by God as an explanation.

[0] http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/universe/211420/the-perimet...
The most powerful part of state licensing of professionals is the ability to punitively delicense people for actions the state disapproves of which have nothing to do with their competence in their field of work, depriving them of their career because of any arbitrary act of noncompliance in their lives.
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Thank you for that link, I had never heard it referred to as Crab Mentality. Note I wasn't describing my own life philosophy, but rather my observations.
$90 billion is not a large sum of money, considering the pointless wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan costed 3-4 TRILLION dollars. We could've had every major city connected to a maglev network by now if we didn't let politicians spend our tax money on bullshit.

Many space missions NASA designs are quite affordable, and the SpaceX innovations will make them even cheaper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War#...
Search-engine optimization is a large part.

The fact that the JS frequently results in lower usability is biggest on my list. I've encountered Blogger themes which are so fucking piss-poor I literally cannot read them, even with JS enabled.

If the primary goal of your site is content, stick with vanilla HTML. You're vastly better off for it.
Ada (Pascal-inspired) was designed to be a language that's safe against (mediocre) programmers. And it's case-insensitive. Note that Ada is especially made for reliable systems and they really look for error sources. Case sensitivity didn't show up as a problem, so they didn't have to change it in any later version (Ada 2012 now).
Our current society really tends to mix up dangerously the notions of "trust" and "surveillance"... at all the possible levels.
I enjoyed his work, I think my favorite was "Midas World" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas_World . Midas World explores a future reality where there is cheap energy, and cheap robotics, and the poor have to consume the output of the automatic factories while the wealthy get to enjoy the simple life. It is an interesting exploration of a possible future where everything can be made for virtually no cost (except for the environmental damage).

It is a collection of short but related stories.
It's not bigotry, but lack of investment in conversational English is frequently accompanied with lack of investment in vocabulary and idiomatic English expressions.

If you work at a large Silicon Valley company, there's always that one meeting where someone at the table, while obviously smart, speaks such an incomprehensible version of English, that whenever suggestions from their end are vocalized, everyone looks at one another with silent "did you get that?", nods politely and then moves on.
>>If facebook has a context like HN, or a meaningful way of identifying it like Reddit, then it has been lost on me.

Facebook's context can be perfectly described using the idiom, "Keeping up with the Jonases."

Just like people in real life try to impress their friends and coworkers with nice cars, big houses, fast motorcycles, shiny gadgets, etc. people on Facebook try to impress their Facebook friends with pretty pictures, funny videos, interesting articles, and clever status updates.
"Also make going without a car hurt so that paying for rental car coverage next time is easier."

On the flip side, I like to make sure I can get by without a car. Of course, my understanding is that's a whole ton easier up here (Bay Area) than down there.

Congrats on the impending nuptials!
If only firmware development legally required developers with a national basic skills exam, all our problems would be solved!

(Actually, the real problem is the race to the bottom because most buyers buy on price alone.)
1 has been possible since the beginning of time. Every modern browser as cache built-in.
Agree. Setup should be as easy as entering your domain credentials or choosing DynDNS name. Set password and all your basic services (email, PIM, cloud storage, blog, photogalleries) should be activated automatically. None of those need even power of Raspberry Pi. Should run on old Android phone with 256MB RAM and 8-16GB memory card (or as much as you can afford for storage). Hmm... it should be as easy as "What to do with your old Android phone? Download this app, enter credentials, put it on eternal charging, and enjoy".
Nobody is trying to justify thievery and of course you shouldn't trust thieves. My point is that if you pay your workers the lowest possible wages, you shouldn't be surprised if quality suffers.
Oh, so, my point was that using Japanese was a bad example, precisely because two of the three alphabets are used nonlogographically. It is also my understanding that new words and loanwords are spelled out phonetically in those alphabets, instead of grafting some new character into the kanji.

"if you use a dictionary that lets you handwrite in the character"

I'm unfamiliar with any paper dictionary with that capability.
Sure. If you want to find out whether one of those people is relevant to other hackers, then try posting the obit here. If it gets upvoted to the front page, then you'll know the answer is yes.
Fixed. While fixing, I found another bug where double clicking within 400 ms breaks off the animation and prevents the complete callback from firing, but I'll worry about that another day.
I'll bite.

The idiomatic way to create webpages, in this day and age, is to try to separate content of a page from how the browser presents it.

HTML is for the content and structure of a page. CSS is for controlling how it's displayed. The <center> tag is an HTML tag that only exists to control how a page is displayed.

In case you're wondering what to use instead, adding 'margin: auto;' as a css rule will do the trick.
A great javascript app is wonderful thing but if you fail, you tend to fail hard.

A HTML/CSS page + progressive enhancement tends to involve much less shooting-oneself-in-the-foot.

If you've got the talent, time and budget to do it well (note that is 'AND' not 'OR'. Gawker being a case of 2 out of 3 not being enough) then please go ahead.

However - if you have any doubts about your ability to see the whole thing through to perfection then a half-assed website is much less awful for your audience than a half-assed app.
True, but under our current understanding of QM, it is literally impossible for you to interact with parallel worlds. Someone 'outside' the universe may observe[0] that we are in a superposition, but it is theoraticly impossible for our state to be influenced by any of the other states.

[0] Under a loose definition of observe.
That's possible, because I don't remember the details. But I distinctly remember the feeling that Curtis' portrayal of Laing was badly distorted, and I recall that a commenter who had known Laing personally said the same thing. If I have time later, I'll try to take another look.
I think this is great for Android as a whole, users will be better served.

It does cut into the openness of Android though. Unless Amazon bends to Google's way of doing things a little bit their platform will stay even further behind, for instance.
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I have, and it works ok when there is a ton of concurrent users. But on the other hand, I don't think the UX of telescope is any better than reddit's and in some ways worse (example: clicking on a post with a large amount of comments cause the page to pause without any visual feedback. This could be fixed, but is any better than just a regular link?)
I wonder if those with [Tourette Syndrome](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ITLdmfdLI) fit into 'accents'. While one can understand someone with Tourette Syndrome, it's very distracting to the discourse at hand.
They could, as long as the work was overseen by a senior developer with the appropriate paperwork.
However, since when was the IEEE an outlet for computer science? Where does the ACM stand on this?
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It's on Wikipedia; you can add it yourself.
Or, as another poster summed up [1]:

Syria sits right in between the oilfields in the Middle East and the oil consumers in Europe, so when a pipeline is built connecting the two, Syria has a vote for or against its completion. Since oil pipelines are both necessary and quite profitable, this can lead to very large disputes. Al Jazeera covered this last year here [2] where it was suggested that the West would be inclined to usurp Assad for someone more favorable to the West's long term energy interests. It seems their prediction was correct as the US (along with Britain and Turkey) is escalating relations with Syria, using chemical attacks and civil rights violations as justification.

The Guardian also has a great summary of the issue here. [3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6313628

[2] http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/08/20128513344....

[3] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/au....
If this works as reported, this is truly great. But you know what would save even more lives? If we got the f&ck out of Afghanistan. What are we even doing there? When is this last time a reporter asked the President about the Afghan war and when it will end? The tolerance of the current situation just baffles me.
Wait, so this has already been passed, and it's a real thing?

I wonder how quickly it's catching on and who requires them.
Implement Readability in such a way that it can find and read any JSON api.

HTML is not perfect, but at least you can usually pick out which bit is the title and which bit is the article content through some heuristics.
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* How often do people travel between LA and SF anyways?*

According to the WSJ, 6 million people per year travel between LA & SF via air every year. I can't find highway numbers, but I gotta believe it's about the same order of magnitude, if not higher.

Improve BART, VTA light rail and CalTrain (in the Bay Area), and I suspect it will have a much larger positive impact on the lives of more people.

All of the above need to be done, both will have a positive impact of even more people.
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Amen to Readability.

Increasingly, site design does little but piss me off. I use a set of tools, Readability and Stylebot included (484 styles and counting, several of those applying to multiple sites) to address the more severe annoyances (H/N is one of my restyled sites). What's particularly annoying are content-heavy sites (blogs, online periodicals) which break Readability and/or aren't restylable with Stylebot (I recenty encountered a Blogger template which navigated to a different page when I tried editing CSS in the Stylebot editor).

In the original article, Tom notes:

At some point recently, the browser transformed from being an awesome interactive document viewer into being the world’s most advanced, widely-distributed application runtime.

That's pretty much the conclusion I'd reached, though my preference is that tools which are useful for presenting and managing content would be developed:
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/LR7jubsX...

Readability is useful, but addresses only a subset of the features I'd like. I've been collecting a large set of literature through it and using Calibre. In particular I want bibliographic capabilities and indexing, as well as much larger tag lists (I ran into Readability's 500 tags per user limit within 3-4 days).

The other problem with JS is that I'm increasingly running into single Web apps which consume, literally, a gigabyte or more of memory (Google+ is perhaps the worst of these).

Which means: I could run a lightweight desktop application which provides a basic set of functionality ... or I can run a browser with perhaps a handful of tabs open, and absolutely pig out my system.

The browser is a decent rapid-development and rapid-deployment environment, but it's still seriously wanting for real productivity.
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None of those societies are modern by current standard and none had truly stable functioning democracies(russia and china? you can't be serious).

I don't have a direct link to a study, but I'll quote this article

http://thediplomat.com/2013/02/13/5-ways-china-could-become-...

"Statistical analysis shows that authoritarian regimes become progressively more unstable (and democratic transitions more likely) once income rises above $1,000 (PPP) per capita. When per capita income goes above $4,000 (PPP), the likelihood of democratic transitions increases more dramatically. Few authoritarian regimes, unless they rule in oil-producing countries, can survive once per capita income hits more than $6,000 (PPP)."

There are plenty of advanced countries where privacy isn't considered a god given right, and they aren't turning authoritarian. I once tried to explain to a group of japanese businessmen the america idea that guns are meant to counteract the potential tyranny of the government. They looked at me like I was insane.

In my limited experience in France (so I may be wrong here), people didn't seem to really have a concept of police not being allowed on private property.

A quick google search says that in the UK they don't need warrants, not to mention guns are almost completely illegal.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2010033008545...

We in America live in a complete lala-land when it comes to the government going evil - and more broadly the fascination with apocalypse (but that's a larger issue)
Does pam_abl work when you're not using PAM for authentication--only for authorization ("account") and session management? e.g., when UsePAM is enabled, but ChallengeResponseAuthentication and PasswordAuthentication are disabled.

I believe this is the problem with using pam_tally2. Then again, if you're only allowing PubkeyAuthentication then maybe you don't care about brute force login attempts so much.
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Play Store Compatibility Lib has been around for a long time brah.

edit: since I'm rate limited, I'll reply to engrenage's other troll comment (where he's already whining about downvotes) after deleting this reply where he was also trolling.

"So you deleted one troll comment to write another? Wowow.

Google is still building out all of the OS components of Android as open source. The Play Service lib is about Android API backward compatibility and doing things, for example, that Apple already does, like aggregate location data for the whole system and then provide it to apps, saves on battery, etc. It really doesn't matter that much for anyone who wants to take Android and build on top of it's important pieces"