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Let me start by saying that the outcome I'd like to see from this discussion is an agreement that there's still room for improvement regarding moderation and the underlying HN algorithm. Specifically, the case of two URLs being submitted with and without a forward slash shouldn't be allowed. The follow up submission should have attributed points to the initial submission and the post shouldn't have been flagged.

1) The story was removed shortly after time of post. Specifically, the story was submitted to HN the day the blog post came out. It's irrelevant that I decided to discuss this issue a month later and not conducive to the discussion; I just thought it was worthy to bring up that the post was removed where others e-book sale posts have continuously risen to the top of HN rankings.

2) The original post mentioned wasn't submitted in all caps as per danso's link to hnsearch. If you visit the blog, it's likely all caps titled due to text-transform:uppercase, not because the author chose to uppercase the title.

3) Several posts never made it to the front page. There was one post with 16 upvotes at time of removal which would've been the only post on the main page. The fact that users submitted posts with and without a trailing slash is very important here; it indicates there may have been a broader issue with HN's spam prevention system.
Why does it matter where the operator is? How about a ban on killing unquantifiable targets?

Modern fighter pilots can be just as overworked and have about the same risk of dying from being shot at.
Not a whole lot of choice - you want the US to just let the targets run around? Send a strike team in each time? Drop a real bomb or cruise missile (even more civilian casualties - those weapons are larger)?
It is profitable.

If terrorists disappeared tomorrow. Let's say we use our surgical strike weapons to target every cell every member, and in one hour they are gone. What would happen? Billions of dollars disappear from the pockets of everyone in the chain. Military contractors, drone maintenance, promotions, bonuses, career advancements, no more completed missions, medals, no job to go to.

So the direct financial and career incentive for everyone in the chain is to always make sure there is a stream of new terrorists, new cells, new intelligence chatter about "the Great Satan". And that is indirectly accomplished by indiscriminately bombing civilians. Everyone who is involved in picking the target and knows it is a funeral, will know civilians will die. I can't help but think they also know it is job insurance as well. They would be stupid not to.

American public via media has been tested enough during releases of so many atrocities, torture tapes, lies, monitoring that by now, I think they've built an accurate model of how much outrage will be generated and how much will actually threaten future operations, funding, reelection and so on (so far not much).

The bottom line, I don't even know and 100% believe them when they say these are all "mistakes". The incentives and the motivation, especially in the long term, is for them not to really care if civilians get bombed.
I'm either misunderstanding you or you haven't read the article at all.
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saves whose lives, and why should a few of "our side" be more valuable than many of the "bad guys" (which happen to include entire families including innocent women and children)?

It should be noted as well that the entire premise of the film wasn't "the ends justify the means" but rather the exact opposite. People can do great evil while believing that every action they take is fundamentally correct and for some kind of nebulous greater good.
When I'm copying/modifying/mirroring folders across platforms, the date in metadata can get messed up. However, a name like "2013-02-22 Trip to Tahoe" is what I find most useful. Each folder has a mnemonic & I can search/browse my pictures chronologically when I'm feeling nostalgic :)
Not only that, but its not intended to be answered by lawyers either. For a bar exam that question wouldn't be a good one, for a test to see if someone grasps the general concepts of how America works, it seems perfectly reasonable.
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> it makes killing people with targeted missiles that much cheaper

Killing people is already really cheap. What's not cheap is deciding _not_ to kill them on the battlefield, given incomplete information. Drones are helping with information and making _not_ killing people cheaper.
In Norway when i private person sells their jewellery and makes a profit they don't have to pay taxes on that profit. Same way that they can't reduce their taxes because they lost money when they sold their jewellery. Same for house (if owned for >1year), and car, and boat, and all other physical things.
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Many of these opportunistic thieves think about what they can move quickly so if they are caught they no longer have the goods on them. That imac and walmart bike they could have moved the same day for probably $100 profit, where as the macbooks they may have had to shop them around for longer, long enough for theft services to lock them down and track them once they are turned on... Not good news for the crook. They are smarter than you probably think.
The US used to send aircraft straight over the USSR!
I whipped up a little ruby app to be able to do this and toggle it on and off (osx only) https://github.com/alexmarchant/stuffed.
This is nothing more than a trial balloon floated by someone in the administration. They want to gauge public opinion.

Frankly it would be stupid to grant him amnesty because it will pretty much open the door to copy cats. They can simply wait him out, Russia only does this when it has value on the international stage, its quite evident Putin has little respect for the President.
I dont understand. How is it different from my Dishwashing Markup Language, or my friend's Lawn-mowing Markup Language?
I can't get past the irony of Alexander's moral indignation.
Suppose I ask you how you feel about murdering babies. Then I ask you how you feel about terminating fetuses. The way that I phrase the question is going to influence how you respond. There is a difference between "job creators", "business owners", and "fat cats", even though each of them refers to the same thing.

Words are important, and language frames every issue. "Drones" as opposed to "unmanned aircraft" or "unmanned assault aircraft" is a huge difference in perception.
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Writing complex classes which require inheritance is never a necessity of a begginer. He can only know that objects encapsulate values and methods and that's all.

When he needs inheritance he will know about it.
So true. It's hard to justify the United States calling themselves the "police of the world" when their actions are so hypocritical sometimes.
Right. Dead is dead. And hitting a wedding was a consequence of an ongoing policy carried over from the previous administration.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/dec/16/afghanistan-tal...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/06/afghanistan-wed...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/world/asia/24pstan.html?_r...
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I've worked at places with this, usually called something like rotating team lead, or duty engineer, or ops duty, or pager week, or something like that. To the best of my knowledge everyone involved dreaded when their week came up. I've only experienced this implemented WRT (metaphorical) fire fighting not traditional dev work. If an earthshattering bug appears this week, you'll be fixing it and/or triaging it and/or figuring out who can help you fix it.

Its awesome at getting rid of "pass the buck" and awesome for everyone else in the org to have a single point of contact (even if its a different human each week). Not so awesome around changeover time or if your docs aren't up to spec or when you discover the hard way someones code isn't good. Also not so hot at fixing major architectural issues (like, its going to take more than a week to fix this correctly, and I'm only on duty for a week, so whip out the band aids...)
This is sarcasm, the question is whether or not the sarcasm is intentional or not.
I don't know that I agree 100%.

We deploy drones in places where there are perceived terrorist threats. As you can see in collateral murder, all you have to do to be perceived as a threat is to be alive. This tells me that the U.S. government is overly paranoid.

Next, we are or will soon be deploying drones right here in the U.S. That tells me that the government perceives its own citizens as a threat or as a possible threat. This is backed up by the fact that they 'accidentally' collect U.S. citizen electronic communications.

The U.S. government makes far too many "accidents" for them to all be truly accidental.
"a tremendous honor" -- wait, what?

Why should becoming a citizen of a country be "an honour"?

(Especially when the country in question is the US; it fits the "US americans are superior humans" theme just right, even when realistically it doesn't seem to be something to be proud of... but that's besides the point.)
It's a joke. Normally NSFW tags are for porn-ish links, but this is unique in that it's not porn but could potentially make your manager equally upset.
What would your answer be if the "targets", instead of mysterious and scary terrorists in foreign lands, were regular boring murderers living in the US?
So you're suggesting that a Basic Income would drive increasing automation in virtuous cycle as labor costs rapidly rise to more than the cost of designing and building the automation?
stiff, you've got multiple people who are experts in either fields (including people like me, who are experts in both fields) telling you your posts are full of crap.

It's not clear to me what your link about the DNA code construction really means.

Consider instead:

1) people can encode terabytes of digital information in DNA and retrieve it using molecular techniques. To do so accurately enough requires coding.

2) Crick, who helped figure out many of the basic information coding mechanisms, widely acknowledged being influenced by the theory of information as proposed by Shannon.

3) both computer scientists and biologists frequently use the theory of control mechanisms (feedback, etc, also known as 'cybernetics' when I studied under David Huffman) to understand how their systems work, and engineer new ones.

4) you can make a computer out of DNA< and you can put computers into biological systems; they interact according to the laws of information theory, entropy, thermodynamics, etc.

The relationship between computing theory- as practiced today- and what biology has managed to spontaneously developed- are intimately related at the most basic levels of physics. Understanding that is KEY to being a productive biologist or computer scientist, and escpeially so for bioinformaticians.
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>Seriously, how did PayPal end up like this?

It ended up like these partly because of being the only really international online payment service -- thus having to abide and keep tabs on hundreds of different legislations and rules.

How do you tell a guy making $10,000 in 7 days from a small scale money laundering attempt?

How do you know he is not selling BS and that in a week or so you wont have a backslash of people demanding their money back from you (the payment service)?
Now go and explain the difference between this incident and a terror attack without using the fact the the former has been carried out by a state while the later has been carried out by civilians.
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> How does one get to these positions?

- Deep understanding of low-level programming issues: assembly, architectures, caches, DMAs

- Experience doing advanced stuff in available platforms like OpenGL, DirectX, Cuda/OpenCL, etc.

- Fluency in Maths is not necessary for all low-level development, but will certainly be for physics and graphics work.

Check out places like http://directtovideo.wordpress.com/, http://www.iquilezles.org/www/index.htm and http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/. If you can show you even understand what they are talking about, you have a foot in the door. The rest is hand-on experience. :)
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You know what? Yes. I do. Arrest them, try them, when they reach US soil and pose a risk to the security of the US. Until then, they aren't your problem.
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Much of that spy aircraft predating the widespread use of satellites, and certainly predating modern drone-style aircraft. The options available were different, so of course the option selected was different.
No matter how much we want everyone to live, we can't try and ensure it through coercion. Besides, coercion only works for evil. You can't achieve good through coercion. Whenever you try, it has the opposite effect.

Take minimum wage for example. You want poor people to get higher salaries, but in reality, all you accomplish by raising the min. wage is preventing some lowest-skilled people from getting a job (which contributes to economic stagnation too, ofc).
I expected this to be something more abstract so the concrete examples of factual inaccuracies were interesting.

My dad claims to have answered that the US was a financial oligarchy when asked what type of government the US had on his citizenship test but I suspect that was a joke.
Of course what you say is true.

Let me put it another way: when my CC issuer detects an anomaly, they block the charge and contact me rightaway to resolve it. I don't fear anything because I know they'll do the right thing and keep me in the loop. Why can't PayPal have such a symbiotic relationship with their customers, rather than instilling fear?
hahahah you're so naive.

can you provide some evidence there is any non-functional DNA in the genome? Try hard, now, you're talking to somebody who's studied this for 20+ years.
This isn't about the pilot, it's about the decision making process within the higher command structure.

Remember the downed F-117 pilot in Serbia? The repercussions of Somalia? Drones carry no such risks. The risk of political and public fall out is minuscule compared to traditional operations. Public outrage over "collateral damage" is negligible, because frankly, there is no public outrage about civilian deaths. Especially if "suspected Al-Qaeda operatives" were among the killed.
No, bitcoin doesn't have to keep climbing in value. The mining difficulty can be adjusted downwards as well as upwards, so even as payout decreases and/or BTC value drops, mining will remain modestly profitable.
> Assume it is collected but probably not read, but not for the reasons you gave above. There's just simply not enough manpower to read everybody's email, and it's a useless thing to try to accomplish.

What frightens me is how long until it is technically feasible to parse it all? With the NSA level of investment, surely having that corpus will be incredibly juicy over time as more mechanized means of analysis come available.
There's a famous story, possibly apocryphal, about Kurt Gödel going to his citizenship exam accompanied by Einstein and another friend.

The story goes that he had studied the Constitution and come to the conclusion that it was flawed, and contained a loophole that would allow the President to become a dictator (given the role the Weimar Constitution played in Hitler rise to power, this would not have been an altogether silly concern). He wanted to explain that the to the judge who was examining him, but he was finally convinced by his friends that it wouldn't be a good idea.
It is articles like this that asks the reader to pierce media bias, and take a honest look at a conflict.

If an Qaeda militant had gone to US city and bombed a wedding where they suspected harbored US officer, how would that play out? 22 injured, 17 killed by Qaeda militants in boston. Terrorists mistakenly targeted a wedding, trying to go after 5 US officer.

If there were no propaganda in media, surely this would play out identical as this drone strike. No world leaders expressing their condemnation of the attacks, condolences, and solidarity. Military strikes kills huge groups of innocent civilians all the times in wars, so nothing to write about.
Eh, saves lives inside, disregards lives outside.
I know it's a complicated matter, but that reasoning can't be used to justify atrocities such as this one.
Which is exactly my point of course, "drone strikes" has a certain, extremely negative connotation. Making a big fuss how they "arnt really drones you see, its just force projection" smells a lot like "enhanced interrogation" and other attempts to euphanise atrocities behind some neat, sterile sounding language.
Becoming a citizen of any country, be it Canada, Australia or Iceland, is an honour. The only reason you go through this painful process is because you want it.
Calling them it's not a big deal, but they could make it clear. If you email their support you'll get these long and vague emails. I've learned my lesson: if I need anything from PayPal I'll call them presto. Once I was accessing PayPal while using a VPN (I was on a public wifi) and they blocked my account. I called them and the matter was solved very efficiently in seconds. But, how on earth would I know that my account would be blocked if I used a VPN?
> No matter how much we want everyone to live, we can't try and ensure it through coercion. Besides, coercion only works for evil. You can't achieve good through coercion. Whenever you try, it has the opposite effect.

Justify your religious faith using objective data and control groups, or go back to church, please.
I am pretty sure China is going to get the claim to that "last person on the moon" this decade, at least with our insane ratio of war spending vs education and research spending.
I thought unstable was more geared toward personal use cases. Testing doesn't even get supported by the security team, that seems like a huge mistake to run as your personal workstation.
This piqued my interest. The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, which outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons, was signed by the United States on the same day it was opened, January 13th 1993 [1]. It came into force in 1997.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Chemical...
I don't really understand the outrage over drones specifically. This constant bombing of foreign countries is terrible, but I don't understand why the "drones" part of it is also considered bad. Why is a tired, overworked, morally disconnected 20-something sitting in a trailer somewhere in the US worse than a tired, overworked, morally disconnected 20-something sitting in a cockpit of an F-16?
I think you have no idea about situation Czech Republic and Russia. Work Law is influenced by socialism and way more friendlier to worker.

Any discrimination based on sexual preferences, sex, race, age and so on is strictly forbidden. One could sue for an ad which says they want 'younger' workers. Gay discrimination would be national scandal. There is also handful of agencies which are very keen to enforce Work Law.

There is violence against LGBT, but most cases are severely punished by state. What is 'war on drugs' in US, is 'war on neonazis' in Czech Republic.

I would suggest other subjects for discussion. For example the gay rape in US prison is widely accepted, comedians even joke about it on TV.
Yes, because the government would NEVER plant agents in various online forums to further their own agenda..... /s

While I would guess this is probably not the case here I would caution against making it seem so ludacris....
@Waxjar - I'm saying that these drone strikes are not accidental. That they did not kill innocent people by accident. And that the point of the U.S. drone fleet has got nothing to do with stopping terrorists and that, in fact, the very existence of the U.S. drone fleet is itself an act of terror because it exists for no real purpose other than to frighten people who make the U.S. government angry.
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I looked for 4 minutes.

* Uses unpadded RSA in its authentication protocol

* Uses a novelty mode (IGE) for its bulk transport

* Does not appear to authenticate messages (other than by using IGE)

* Or, at least, what authentication it is doing must be happening after it decrypts data, not before

I could be wrong about any of these things, because again, 4 minutes. But this design does not look sturdy.
The thinking is it is easier to dissociate consequences when they are nothing but pixels. It become more of a video game than a reality when sitting in a safe gaming pod flying the drone. It isn't fully transformed to a game, but it is to an extent.

Compare internet forums vs f2f discussion - it is much easier to end up in a flamewar saying hurtful things on the internet when your opponents are faceless words on a screen than when it's a person sitting across from you.
An idea (maybe too obvious) that comes to mind would be to host people's tests and send alerts when tests fail, then work up a deal with Heroku to offer your web testing service as a plugin. Many of the plugin services have the same type of tiered business model. You could do something like a 30 day trial (or, alternatively, 1 test per day free), then offer services for 50 requests, 500, 1000, etc. I'm not incredibly familiar with how frequently web tests run and how many pages/forms/fields the average project has, so obviously you'd have to tweak those numbers based on what you think will generate the most revenue.
Very interesting point, one might argue that the soldier on the ground has more of a "justification" if civilians are killed than a drone, since in the former case the soldier's life was in potentially more danger.

When a robotic combat bot/UAV is used, it is significantly harder to justify civilian casualties as it then becomes a much more cold/calculated decision. Guess it then boils down to the "precision" that is available. I don't suppose a drone can take out a single occupant in a vehicle so it's minimum quantum attack size is an entire vehicle and hence the additional casualties.

This bot driven warfare is some scary ass technology with a huge potential for abuse. Even if a future UAVs could target a single individual, that type of technology would have any aspiring dictator salivating at the thought...
I do not know how good it will be for the PHP/Symfony eco-system but that's great news for them, as long as they keep their strong open-source engagement.

They are now a real open-source editor company, way more "pro" than "an agency building a framework" and that's good for everyone.
I don't agree with the "superior humans" side of thing at all, but there are an awful lot of people at these ceremonies who didn't just up an decide to come to the US, but fled here due to serious problems in their home country, often of a political nature. They've spent a huge chunk of their lives just trying to get the right to stay here permanently. It sure feels like an honor, even if it only took you so long because of a broken immigration system, and even if the US has a lot of political problems of its own.

edit: For instance, the country my family is from denied us the ability to return or visit home for political reasons. It means a lot to you when you get a permanent, legal home again.
Link to relevant paper. It's quite interesting: http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM13/paper/view/6...
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True true! I've mostly just heard it phrased with your personal stuff as "possessions" versus rentiering as "property".
Really? My recollection of most of the Bush administration was that the Democrats were complete and total doormats for him. They basically laid out the red carpet for him to invade Iraq, which was far worse and far less justified than drone strikes.