Hacker News: afsina

New comment by afsina in "Berlin Google Campus occupied"

afsina — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 14:26:40 +0000

Ok, so called anarcho communists to be exact. Still, bunch of bullies.

New comment by afsina in "Berlin Google Campus occupied"

afsina — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 14:19:54 +0000

These are not anarchists. Just a bunch of bully.

New comment by afsina in "[dead]"

afsina — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 07:13:05 +0000

Perhaps Vox should consider giving a Math 101 lecture to his editors.

New comment by afsina in "China’s first ‘fully homegrown’ web browser found to be Google Chrome clone"

afsina — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 16:31:06 +0000

This is not the same thing. What these guys doing is, for snatching some free money from government, they hid facts.

New comment by afsina in "War Without End"

afsina — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:21:56 +0000

No, community and state are two different things. Surely I do not accept social contract theory. But I do not think we will reach a common ground arguing this issue.

New comment by afsina in "War Without End"

afsina — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:52:07 +0000

Historically most ancient or medieval wars were fought by professional soldiers.

Here is a Wikipedia quote

"The persistent old belief that peasants and small farmers gathered to form a national army or fyrd is a strange delusion dreamt up by antiquarians in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries to justify universal military conscription"

I support Rothbard's view on the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3TY5OhUJhw

New comment by afsina in "War Without End"

afsina — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 10:17:04 +0000

What an unbelievably bad idea. Mandatory drafting is involuntary servitude, slavery. How about taking a non interventionist policy?

New comment by afsina in "How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of Responsibility"

afsina — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:38:04 +0000

Sure, China was a bastion of prosperity before even a perverted model of capitalism (please don't call it free market capitalism) was introduced (sarcasm). Beside what makes "democracy" a good thing anyway? Protection of rights has nothing to do with it.

New comment by afsina in "Macron Wants to Rein in Silicon Valley, from Brussels"

afsina — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 13:10:40 +0000

You have too much fate on politicians and government regulations.

New comment by afsina in "Macron Wants to Rein in Silicon Valley, from Brussels"

afsina — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 13:08:32 +0000

I think this is all about money really. EU lost the tech war so they try to make winners life so hard so that they could either squeeze more money from them or enforce some government supported - controlled inferior products to replace them. These may be the excuse key words: "protecting civil rights, hate speech, terrorism, privacy"

New comment by afsina in "Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional"

afsina — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 08:17:22 +0000

sarcasm?

New comment by afsina in "That sinking feeling"

afsina — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:31:08 +0000

Alarmist is an understatement. Especially last part sounds like delusional to me.

New comment by afsina in "Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?"

afsina — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 14:30:08 +0000

Although production quality, Flutter is not even 1.0.0 so don't expect a lot of public applications yet.

New comment by afsina in "China Mines Silicon Valley for Tech Talent"

afsina — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 11:16:55 +0000

So it is not really a "problem" for workers after all.

New comment by afsina in "Wink-lemmatizer"

afsina — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:59:42 +0000

Good luck with Turkish. A very large lookup table may work for %90 cases but it will still fail. A basic `true` lemmatizer requires either a complex graph with rules, or an FST generated from it. input is searched through the graph and morphological disambiguator must be applied to result to pick the correct lemma.

New comment by afsina in "Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts"

afsina — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:16:50 +0000

Or, they were (softly) forced.

New comment by afsina in "Uber is experimenting with letting riders wait longer for a cheaper fare"

afsina — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:59:41 +0000

There may be lessons to learn, but profitability in state supported railways-metro (publicly owned or privately operated but government subsidized) is almost impossible. Singapore is a tiny place and property prices are astronomical. Singapore Metro earns money from property rentals (some state coercion helps too). This does not work for most cities in the world.

New comment by afsina in "Turkey's 'Mathematics Village': Changing education one equation at a time"

afsina — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 08:30:22 +0000

I don't know. I saw him in national TV channel two years ago (state owned one) giving a lecture to high school kids on quadratic equations. It was a superb lecture, and trust me he could not appear there if Erdoğan had a quarrel with him.

New comment by afsina in "Amazon Is Complicit in Online Sales of Counterfeit Goods: Report"

afsina — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:58:06 +0000

Care to point to credible links? After I dig deeper, seems like he was not really took any sentence on the hit-hiring account. Isn't that absurd?

New comment by afsina in "Uber is experimenting with letting riders wait longer for a cheaper fare"

afsina — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 11:43:44 +0000

That is an outlier. Almost all public transportation systems runs on deficit.