You seem like a nice human being, truly wishing death upon someone because they find your precious sob story hokey is the hallmark of someone who is empathic and mature.

EDIT: Oh wait, I see now! It was not your intention to actually emulate the hilariously 2D caricatures in the story and be sympathetic and nice to all comers, no that something you reserve for the safe idealized realm of fiction where there is no chance for disappointment by the messy and contradictory things we call humans. I've got your ticket man and you seem to be in good company with the majority of HN, I mean who would have guessed that the money hungry posers on this site would be into empty sentimentality?

You see the little gray triangles to the left of my post? Click the one pointing down and be about your business.

Edit: you talk too much.

He doesn't have enough karma to do that.

As long as we are dictating what other people should be thinking about here is a quote from the late great James Baldwin I think you should mull over.

'Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel...the mask of cruelty'

Funny, I consider the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious pseudo-sophistication as a mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel...the mask of cruelty.

Your use of Baldwin here begs the question[1]. We can all agree that "the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion" is bad. It's bad by definition, as indicated by "excessive" and "spurious" (and "ostentatious," to a lesser degree).

What we can't all agree on are absolute standards for excessiveness, spuriousness, or ostentatiousness. So what Baldwin wrote is irrelevant unless you first show how the article is an example of excessive and spurious emotion.

Otherwise, you're simply saying "It's bad because it's bad. Q.E.D."

1. The quote itself is not intrinsically question-begging.

What an interesting writer. I've never heard of him before. Thanks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin

Sorry, I could have told you about him.

I'm unmoved by this sentimental drivel, and I think your urging to "please pause for a moment and ask yourself why" is the most pompous thing I have read on HN.

It's pretty obvious by that this is some egotistical generic write up. Do good things, don't brag with them, at least thats how I learned it.

There is an index that tries to measure innovation called the Global Innovation Index (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Innovation_Index_%28INSE...), interestingly Israel comes in at 14th, you'd think they would be number one if this article is to be believed.

By that same logic, you would say that Israel innovates more than the US since it appears below Israel on that list.

What logic? What are you talking about? The US is above Israel on every sub-index. Besides it is obvious that it is relative to population because in absolute terms the US would far outstrip any competitors.

> half the technology you and I use everyday would not EXIST if there was no Israel.

Could you back this up?

I am sure not "half" and not "would not exist". This article gives a good tldr of Israel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_Israe...

Why is this upvoted? It's clearly wrong, those are syscalls to the windows kernel.

> no matter how much more educated you are then this simple peasant, she knows she can humiliate you

Education doesn't make you superior to anyone, and calling an honest worker a "peasant" shows that you are not especially enlightened.

> just pause and remember what happend [sic] there in the 1930's

You as a Turk should pause and remember what happened 1915-1917 in Turkey, and maybe this time you will have the balls to admit you committed genocide, before that you might as well give up on criticising anyone else's history.

Reminds me a lot of http://www.kaninkul.com/games/773/copter.html , both great games.

Isn't it a bad idea to retrieve any url since then an attacker could use this service to sql inject without leaving his IP on the victims log?

Meh. There are plenty of open redirects out there anyway, and using one you made yourself has the disadvantage that you'll be visible in the Referrer logs.

I'd imagine most of these services just do GETs, which negates most of that possibility.