Hacker News: shn

New comment by shn in "Twitter is blocked in Turkey"

shn — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:24:01 +0000

I was right :) They ARE Turkish. Again, censorship is rampant in the opposition as well...

New comment by shn in "Twitter is blocked in Turkey"

shn — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:18:10 +0000

1) All of the recordings? 2) Again, for all the recordings? 3) I checked it out. They are saying that they do not know if the recordings are authentic. Since accused can not provide the original recordings actually there's no point even seeking for such forensic examination. It has to be inconclusive, that is why illegally obtained wiretappings are rendered always invalid by the courts. In that case spreading recordings that can not stand such scrutiny is an attempt of defamation, and illegal. 4) I can not check that. 5) What prosecution? Does it have a name/date?

Again I am against the blockage. However we need try to understand what could have pushed the Turkish Courts to take such grave measures.

New comment by shn in "Twitter is blocked in Turkey"

shn — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:02:56 +0000

What I told are possible explanations and scenarios. I took the side of the 1st option which is what you defend as well. We are not in a position to be the judge ourselves. When we say something it needs to explain something. That's what I tried yet you downvoted, which unfair and mean. I stand by what I think of you.

New comment by shn in "Twitter is blocked in Turkey"

shn — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:00:43 +0000

So far this comment got downvoted twice. I bet those who downvote are Turkish. They are not explaining why did they downvote. They are as good as those that blocked Twitter in Turkey.

New comment by shn in "Twitter is blocked in Turkey"

shn — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 23:46:01 +0000

There are two sides of the coin.

1) In this day and age shutting down Twitter wholesale is simply a silly and undemocratic move. Information can not be blocked and will find its way around anyway. Like many people I am against it.

2) There is a blatant violation of personal rights of people by fabricated phone-tapes. You take it to the court and court decides that these are illegal, and ask the service provider (in this case Twitter) to take down those specific twits. They don't comply. What do you do?

Say there's a link for a fabricated phone conversation of Obama betraying the country disseminated using Twitter. The administration take it to the court and win the legal battle. Could Twitter afford not to comply? Can this happen?

This is the gist of the problem people are having over there.

New comment by shn in "Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Than to Charity"

shn — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:00:42 +0000

Well said.

New comment by shn in "How do you track a plane?"

shn — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:28:53 +0000

Somebody down voted a genuine question, and left no comment at all for why did it? There's no corner of the world short of mean people.

New comment by shn in "How do you track a plane?"

shn — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 03:05:03 +0000

Forgive my ignorance, but why the plane could not fly straight rather than north or south that is put forth as the only options? Straight is as suicidal as going south, still a vast ocean ahead.

New comment by shn in "We Have Luxurious Jobs but We Are Not Aware of It"

shn — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:26:35 +0000

Most of those recruiters do not deserve to be employed in the first place. They lack basic empathy towards job seekers. They talk like they own you. I have not met any of them yet that does not meet this description unfortunately. I think having some power on other people's lives corrupt them.

New comment by shn in "Why I hate virtualenv and pip"

shn — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 15:28:15 +0000

one should hate something when that thing is something he dislikes but most importantly it is forced on him or her. I am criticizing only the title, he might be right about these tools, but using agitative words does not make an argument better.

New comment by shn in "US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data"

shn — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:01:46 +0000

There's no democracy only a shadow of it. We are pushed and shoved and most of the time did it ourselves voluntarily after listening patriotic brainwashing. We are ruled by elites, by big money, period. Worse is some really think that they own the country. I remember in a movie (can't remember now) a guy asks Matt Damon, Italians has this, that owns this, what you own? And he answers "we own the country". Those NSA people think exactly that way, they think they own you. Big companies think they can bend any rule. So don't expect anything change much for the benefit of the "taxpayer".

I find it extremely weird that these agencies need to hide what they are doing. Why do it in secret if this is democracy? What is wrong with what they are doing if they are not harming people? Gathering intelligence is their job, we need it. Bogeys know that too. But still they need to do it in secret. Then there must be something wrong with not what they do, but what they do with it.

New comment by shn in "Show HN: A game I've been working on for the last year is out today"

shn — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 05:52:24 +0000

would you report revenue. I always wonder how much people are making from these games. Of course if you don't mind.

New comment by shn in "Time Series Analysis and Its Applications: With R Examples"

shn — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 13:19:41 +0000

I first try to find a book without paying. If I read a good chunk of it, if it is any good I buy the book. Otherwise I would have to pay a fortune for all the books I browse and probably may not end up reading.

New comment by shn in "How to build an Anti Aircraft Missile: Bayes’ Theorem and the Kalman Filter"

shn — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 02:54:30 +0000

Pictures remind me of 2nd rate action movies. Probably because those movies are closer to real life than the 1st rate Hollywood action movies.

New comment by shn in "NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide"

shn — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:50:25 +0000

what if that government who could tap into fiber was not US government? I think any communication outside the confines of corporate buildings should be encrypted.

New comment by shn in "Clojure from the ground up"

shn — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 04:25:11 +0000

IMHO, It would be better to seperate two distinct things into two seperate articles. Your view in women in computing and intro to clojure.

Send Air Force One out to Silicon Valley, load it up with smart people...

shn — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 15:39:08 +0000

Seems like government contractors does not good a job anywhere in the world.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6580206

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New comment by shn in "The World Needs Data Scientists"

shn — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:11:10 +0000

what does it mean?

New comment by shn in "Stanford Ovshinsky: the greatest scientist you've never heard of?"

shn — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 03:29:43 +0000

I wonder why somebody promotes this person out of the blue and becomes an HN material? Yes it is an anniversary but why not do it while he was vertical last year or the previous year. I gather from the comments that his achievements are controversial as well. That is why I asked this question.

New comment by shn in "Appmaker"

shn — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 03:31:37 +0000

I liked the idea of channels with colors and connecting components with it. Although it is primitive as it is, if it evolves it can be used as a great mock-up tool at the least. It is mistake to consider it for people who program for a living. Let's not shoot down ideas/concepts/proof of concepts.