Isis approves of this pro islamic link. Hacker news no longer a place for programmers, its a place for politics.
Religion of peace is the best, we should allow sharia law controlled jurisdictions effective immediately. Now is the time to usher in the Islamic golden age.
In some sleepy town centers like near Portland maine they put aggressive cobblestones on a main road and the gigantic flower pots, park benches and sidewalks invade the street to a point that makes it inhospitable to cars so much so that the cars are limited to the gawker sight seers who don't know where they are.
And those cars that do attempt passage get their teeth and windshield tested for hairline cracks. Ai self driving cars are the only viable solution to the humans killing humans with metal boxes on wheels problem.
Its a mistake airing your side of the story in legal proceedings before trial. At this point the professor is guilty until proven innocent by people who don't know the difference between a browser and an internet.
The prosecution is going to have the benefit of knowing the defense before the trial, and the defense will not have the benefit of knowing the cards of the prosecutor before the trial.
"Hacking" is a villianized word like witchcraft was back in the Salem witch trials. The law has no idea what it is, doesn't know what should be legal or illegal, and fear is drummed up to maximum. Its a recipe for some innocents to get cooked. The ones accused of being a witch better play their cards right, or else the judicial system is going to punish the good actors, and reward the bad actors.
A program that reads between the lines has to have a notion that the entity writing the words can have a bias to misrepresent behavior in support of an ulterior motive. Humans devote a large portion of our brain simulating the inputs and outputs of other minds. And until machines do the same, you will only find correlations with deception rather than seeing the purpose and reason behind deception, which helps us figure out where to examine to find further proof of the deception.
A dog app that reads between the lines can realize the nature of a deception when the bird app is running away in suboptimal direction. The birds actual behavior, compared to what the bird should be doing to flee, indicates that the bird has an agenda to prevent the dog from being in a certain area. What things might a bird be motivated to prevent a dog from finding? A nest.
That program read between the lines by comparing the possibilities/outcomes of enemy behavior over what they chose to do. You simulate the other entity to a certain level of confidence, run the inputs through that simulation, and compare it to reality. Any discrepancy reveals an error in the model, or a possible deception.
Because tablets don't have an effective medium for user input. Had there been some sort of space age motor cortex uplink for effortless, easy to learn, consistent and efficient command entry, then tablets would eliminate desktops for good.
Windows 8 came across as a kind of entertainment toy device that focused on content consumption and advertisement delivery embedded right in the start menus.
Removing the silly game could be part of Microsoft's agenda to undo the damage that Windows 8 did to its image, and rebrand itself as a "Windows OS is for getting work done" tool, rather than a novelty 'yon dungeon' video game where you try to swipe, swirl, shake, and charm your way through the 7 steps everyone must do to get to the control panel.
So let me get this straight, your mom died from alcohol and I still here you defending it? I guess I tripped your cognitive dissonance algorithms, your genetic line can't simultaneously be 'good' and the thing that caused great damage in it also good. So the defective party must be the one pointing out the truth in the situation.
The fact that its addictive and damages people. That should be the illegal thing: using a factory to make things that people get addicted to and it harms them.
People 1000 years from now are going to look at us in the way we look at witch trials. Likt wtf bro? Why don't you go making bombs that get set off on a hair trigger and just lay them around? They only hurt once in a while if you get them close to your face.
Wtf really? Well you see, it was addictive! And... We really liked it! mmm hmmm. I can think of better defenses for the witch trials.
Cross between ad hominum and straw man. He compared my argument to cars growing on trees the said ha! Look how silly you are. Cars don't grow on trees!
Hmmm you don't say. Can we get back to the argument now?
Because your sorry butt marches into our emergency room after you screw yourself up. Taking away extra nice things that could have been. And since we can't drop you off on a deserted island to get rid of you for damaging the rest of us, the next best thing is to try to influence your behavior so you don't damage yourself now.
Its the same thing you do when you find a skunk roaming the house, you either get a broom and shoo it away, or restrict its freedom so at least it doesn't spray anything. What the fuck gives you the right to put the skunk in a box? The right of the others to remain un-sprayed by twitchy tailed skunk.
If I was there when they decided to poison the factory alcohol. I would have advised against it. You'll never hear the end of it. All the victims will blame you for the damage taken, because it was more than they expected.
I'd say ratchet up the poison in 1 percent increments once every two months. Then the people seeking damage would receive the expected amount of damage, and everyone gets exactly what they want.
1.Damage for the damage seeker, no big surprises.
2. Prohibition for the prohibition seeker, just takes a bit longer
An interesting analogy. However the victim in this case simply failed to take a precaution vs willfully went out the way to seek damage.
Punishing people with deadly force for not taking precautions is unauthorized by my calculations. The manufacturer of the air bag would be liable for all damage taken.
Health benefit? I'll be sure to tell the kids who's mothers drank during pregnancy that their obvious and life crippling birth defects that nugget of truthiness.
Tell me again how much alcohol stimulates GDP and promotes health in our emergency rooms? To the tune of negative 120 billion annually and overloaded emergency rooms treating throngs of out of work alcoholics needing treatment for alcohol related problems?
Health benefits. Yeah right. Sure you get a dollar, but you lose 1000. Look at the big picture.
It should be legalized and then if you take it, it goes on your record, so next time you try to get a job the hiring company can decide based upon the reputation of potheads, whether or not to hire you.
I don't disapprove of drinking poison. Its the people drinking poison who are disapproving of the decision to make poison poisonous. The phenomenon to explain is why the blame is quickly shifted from people drinking poison and getting hurt, to intelligent people who allowed it to continue.
Its part of the "shift blame onto the non idiots" agenda in america. Someone get hurt by being stupid? Then find the nearest responsible person and make him pay up to remedy everything.
I've got a better idea. How about we laugh at the idiots being idiots and try to encourage the poisoners to at least ratchet up their poisoning poison more slowly. As to make the dying idiots once again the responsible party by choosing to get hurt by drinking poison.
Lets suppose some company hired scientists at great expense to make 10w30 motor oil incredibly addictive. Maybe they put some new chemical nobody heard of into it. Anyway, people are drinking it and getting sick and dying from it left and right.
The motor oil is normally for cars, but the increased sales as a recreational drink is boosting sales. You try to prohibit people from drinking motor oil, but they do it anyway. So you go to the motor oil factory and make the motor oil significantly more poisonous.
People have been dying from this normally, but now faster than ever because the motor oil makes you gag and puke, but they force it down anyway because YOLO.
I find it hard to believe the guilty party here is the people who made the poison more poisonous. Addiction increases cognitive dissonance, making people adhere to incomplete and inaccurate models in order to justify making a villian where none exists and making a victim where none exists.
What Snowden did, or more specifically what the faceless, unaccountable and un-nameable NSA directors did was what George Orwell was trying to capture in his famous novel.
The notion of thoughtcrime and crimethink being the punishable event in the minds of the people. Where people are afraid to research something because of the perception that the secret unaccountable police will come take you away if you give the idea too much thought. And there is nothing you or anyone can do about it because the entity doing the enforcing is completely hidden. Even asking for the names of the directors and writing about what they've done is crimethink. Thinking about or asking for the document describing which thoughts are crimethink is also crimethink.
But perhaps I'm looking at this the wrong way, maybe a utopian civilization would consider thoughts of evil, thoughts of crime and intentions to harm others as a justifiably punishable event. If your neighbor is thinking about how to make a bomb, or how to kill someone, or how to commit suicide, or how to defraud and deceive others, wouldn't it be better if the secret police put a stop to it there?
We could live in a post-crime society. Where everyone is un-corruptable and all humans treat each other as lovingly as we treat our own bodies. The problem with this is that the secret police only enforce the rules of the rulers, which has a thicker script for the lower classes than the upper classes.
Also watch out for a bait and switch on Airbnb. I'm actually sitting in a nice apt now from airbnb. So I am happy with it. But there is another host who is trying to get me for an $1800 cleaning fee. What happens is you book a room in advance for a month. Then the host waits until 12 hours before the point of no cancelation to say "its not available but there is another one for a lot less cost that is a lot worse.". You say no before the cutoff window but then he lowers the cost to bargain basement levels. You accept. And he accepts by booking a different apartment under the haggling text message agreement. Naturally you move to requisition the disagreement as he said he would. But he stalls until the last minute and unsweetens the deal until you cancel. Boom. He has your money and can point to the fine print and his strict cancellation policy that the trouble he went through to clean the room and get it " fixed up" justifies the $1800 charge for a room I didn't set foot in.
Moral if the story. If you don't get prompt reply and if any changes occur after booking. Stay away from that host. They are fishing for free money playing the rules of Airbnb.
Airbnb is supposedly going to get back to me about this disagreement, and there is a ticket to deal with it. But its been 5 days after the event and I pinged them twice with email. My other option may be to contest the charge on my credit card. Scammers are everywhere that rules and large sums of money can be found. And many of those scammers will be right there along side you jockeying for victimhood status.
Religion of peace is the best, we should allow sharia law controlled jurisdictions effective immediately. Now is the time to usher in the Islamic golden age.