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>Of course, there are legitimate and severe problems with "the Muslim world" with respect to human rights, and nothing should stand in the way of criticizing this, just as we aren't afraid to criticize the governments of China or the US for their human rights violations.

Doing a drawing sounds like something a human shouldn't be afraid, wouldn't you say ?

>I don't think it's possible to feel anything other than contempt[...]
>Doing things that are offensive to Muslims to make the point that we should have the right to do things they find offensives is... something I'm not sure about.

I think that would be a sign of fear, not contempt.
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This is like holding an "everyone dress up as a Klan member day" because a municipality attempted to outlaw a KKK convention.

If you are in support of free-speech, you don't have to engage in speech you despise in order to back the principle that it should be protected.
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If you lose your wallet and assume that credit card numbers are not compromised you're an idiot.

Are you saying Gizmodo refused to return the phone to Apple claiming it was now their own property? Or that Gizmodo demanded reimbursement from Apple in exchange for returning the phone?
I suppose your reply was made in a joking tone but maybe not it was not completely a joke. You made me curious. Why would homosexuality be fabulous? I mean, few of my friends are openly gay, maybe more are... I see no life quality differences between us based on that. Other criteria, sure, but sexual preference... no. I think it's just as fabulous either way. Why would you say otherwise? (assuming I was not wrong on it being only partly a joke)
Thanks for that. Just joined with the same username.
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He did bring it up in the interview.
The privacy options have gotten really complicated. Under the original iterations of the model, the user always knew what the deal was. Now, it is impossible to know what exactly what is exactly going on. The original submission exemplifies this.

I don't mean to sound critical. It's not easy to innovate while aso supporting the needs of 400m+ users.
Obviously. a team of smart people have put a lot of time and effort into this system, but it won't ever be perfect. Again, it's been an exciting area to watch evolve and I suspect this will continue to be the case for quite some time.
What I really want is a search engine for articles I've seen on HN. All current solutions ("site:", Google CSE, searchyc.com) are just indexing the titles of the stories and the comments, but not the actual text of the article.
Have you seen how many site-specific RSS clients there are in the App Store? Heck, there are companies that one-off apps for a few hundred bucks for anyone that will pay them, and they're all making it into the App Store.

http://www.appmakr.com/

If Seth can have an app, Wolff should too.
Have you already removed the link? The email in your profile still gives it away..
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I accept that a picture of Mohammed such as :-) would offend people. I can accept someone refraining from such to avoiding offending people. However, the idea that people need to avoid drawing a smiley face or risk death is unacceptable to me.

PS: My smiley face was some other Mohammed and not anyone’s prophet.
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If you take into consideration that the British and the US have been involved in the middle east for decades, you'll see that being offensive will compound on quite a bit of resentment.
While that philosophy is valid (especially as the higher expected value also obviously comes with higher variance), if you are an investor who invests in dozens of companies over years it seems like an argument worth considering. Obviously though, these events get more media coverage, blog attention etc... than the ones that fail.
Is this going to be a cheap smart phone? I mean we are in 2010 and technology is evolving quickly, a 360 x 640 screen resolution and 680 MHz CPU are enough? or because people care less about them? Actually, it surprises me a lot that it has a 12M Camera.
6) Pay well above the market norm

Crappy programmers are well-known for choosing money over career development, intellectual challenge and cultural fit.
In your first paragraph you claim that this is about "the right to do things they find offensive". (I agree.) But then you change it to "making fun of Islam for the point of making fun of Islam." But I think this is a very different from your original characterization--and I don't think you are accurate here.
OK, that makes sense. Thank you.

Now, there is still something that bothers me. OO is obviously very important. However, network effects look like they play a huge part. I am a perfectionist. As such, I wouldn't like to settle for a local maximum. For example I feel that IDE aside, functional programming with an advanced type system is better than OO for most purposes (ML and Haskell fit this pet paradigm of mine).

The problem is that I fail to see how OO could be important by itself. (Like I fail to see how Windows could survive GNU/Linux in a world where every programs and drivers ship on both.) As anecdotal evidence, I can't solve a quite universal problem: the representation of optional data. With inductive types (also called sum types, or algebraic data types), this is easy:

-- Type definition
data Option a = Nothing
| Something a

-- Example of use
case computation-that-may-fail
Nothing -> "I failed"
Something x -> "I succeeded. Result: " ++ show x

I tried, even asked, to do this in an OO way. No luck so far. So, until I find an acceptable solution, I will doubt OO is best for, well, nearly all purposes. (Note that by "not best", I do not mean "bad". I just mean we can do better.)
In, say, Germany a verbal contract is as good as a written contract, as far as I know. (And both situations aren't really applicable to the Netherlands, anyway.)
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Not that I doubt you, but this really needs a citation.
ack is much nicer than find+grep in the simple cases. Also, defaulting to ignore .svn, .git, et al is fantastic. The --type feature is fun, and really makes it a great tool from within vim. On the other end, find + grep is absurdly powerful, making -r look puny in comparison.
>would give the big phone and cable companies the power to pick and choose what you will be able to see and do on the Internet

And I could pick and choose my provider. The problem with regulating "monopolies" is that it does more to ensure their monopoly position and stifle competition than it does to "protect" the consumer.

This is a short-term vs. long-term debate. Net neutrality will be good in the short term, but very bad for long term development of the Internet and access to it.
I always assumed that those kinds of illustrations were sort of blueprints of the logo, showing you how to reconstruct it if you need to.
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It is unfortunate that all muslims (including the non-radical ones) have to deal with disrespect toward their religion just because one radical group made a death threat.

To most muslims (the normal ones that this), we'd just say: "Hey, the most significant figure in our religion is so beautiful and amazing to us that we prefer not to have a physical depiction of him. We'd appreciate it if you respect this and respect our religion."

I wonder if this cartoonist would pull the same publicity stunt if the radicals didn't exist and instead was faced with my simple message and request that I have for my religion.

I wonder if South Park would try to still do a depiction if they were faced with my simple message and request instead of a death threat.
I'd check that with a laywer, if you are going to make any money with your side project (or even if you are only going to publish it non-anonymously).
I think a water powered jet pack would be awesome. You could keep the pump and power source on the ground so it would be a very small apparatus. You'd be tied to the ground by a hose but it would still be fun.

In fact, I wonder if that could be an alternative to extension ladders. Imagine cleaning your gutters riding on a jet of water.
I think you're missing the point. The contempt and criticism is not aimed at the Muslim world (though I will admit, intentionally offending Muslims tastes bad to me too), but at Comedy Central and any other media outlet that caves to these threats. She's mocking Mohammed, but only doing so in order to mock the taboo against mocking Mohammed.
Great points, and I have to admit that I don't have all the answers. I see where we need to go, but not necessarily the path there.

I think political democracy is necessary, but politics shouldn't be the core of society. We want a society that's politically democratic and has a mostly market-driven economy, but in which scholarship, creativity, and culture are revered above all. Right now, the salesmen and bean-counters dominate. I'm not saying that business leaders shouldn't have a place at the table-- the talented ones are very valuable-- but they shouldn't have control of all the seats. Right now, they (and, worse yet, their unproven and entitled progeny) do: they own our politicians and dictate our culture, and they control invitations to the parties and clubs (including, per our interest, venture capital) that are essential if you want to get anywhere in society (save a 1:100000 home-run success).

As for bringing society to a morally acceptable state, it's not easy. You have to change peoples' values on a fundamental level. In the US, people accept it as "natural" that the narcissistic social bullies belong on top and the smart people ("nerds") are to be beaten up, and that the social bullies are destined to be running large companies, and that this is somehow okay. It's not, and just as easily as we wound up in this anti-intellectual arrangement, we can work a way out of it and build a society that is the opposite. With the internet and rising importance of technology, there's no better time to do so.
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Well, some people think that the brain might be doing something deeply weird with quantum level behaviors to create what we call "consciousness", if that is the case (of course a huge if) then it might not be possible to replicate it in any meaningful sense.

If you look at artificial neural networks and natural ones there are a lot of differences. Artificial neural networks are useful tools for some kind of problems, not physiological models of what happens in our brains.

I can recommend this book if you are interested:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Philosophy-Artificial-Intelligence-O...
Man, I'm in the same boat, and I work with some great designers, I just get the impression that they'd rather be doing cool designy stuff than get involved with a boring business oriented app. :-(
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Derek Wyatt's excellent series of videos.

See his blog page with links to his videos: http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/vim-novice...

Or go to his Vimeo page where they all sit: http://vimeo.com/user1690209
Dammit! I'm stupid cause I believe in the following exchange Alice has expressed an opinion (not an argument(see below)) and Bob has, correctly, brought into question her biases. I also don't consider calling a woman a woman as an "attack".

Alice: Women should have more rights.
Bob: Of course you would say that. You’re a woman.
Charlie: You have done nothing to make her argument less credible, you have only attacked her.

An argument would have to include why women should have more rights and hopefully proof that they lack rights now and for the pro's a plan or at least list of rights they need rather than vague "more". In other words arguments must contain facts with which people can verify or refute your claims. No wonder Bob, plays the weak bias card, Alice has offered nothing more substantial to support her point.
Without implying any particular support for Mr. Winer's views, I don't think it's fair to say he made "3 factual errors". The point of his post was to compare the iPad (as delivered) and a netbook (as delivered). To that end, he points out that:

1) the iPad does not include SD card slot or USB - the fact that you can add peripherals for this purpose does not invalidate his point

2) the iPad doesn't remember his Facebook password - again, you appear to be suggesting that an add-on product addresses this concern, but that doesn't negate the fact that the iPad as delivered is not equivalent to a basic netbook

3) the netbook has a "real" keyboard, versus the "soft" keyboard of the iPad - again, the fact that you can add an external peripheral doesn't mean his post was factually incorrect.
'performance' is relative mrton. elblanco could be talking about web performance which really is way behind the times on Blackberry.
But they are releasing a new webkit browser in the fall.

The reason they should by Palm is that the Palm webOS is a very modern and well built OS. It could really do great things for RIM in the consumer (non-business user) space.
I always attributed Blackberry's OS issues (performance, capabilities, etc) to the fact that the entire OS is written in Java, but a friend tells me that that isn't really the issue.

I don't know. If you were to write an OS for a mobile device, would Java be your development language of choice?
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You'll notice in the update to the article the cartoonist is already backing off; claiming she had no intention of this going viral is to make clear that she is not "the focus of any group", presumably out of fear.
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The Dragon Book is supposed to be read by people taking a CS course on compilers, to fill in the gaps. I too don't believe it's a standalone work.
Anything is fair game for South Park. Mormons are some of the nicest people around and their religion was roasted in an episode.
I think I see what you are saying. It is my belief that if you feel that something is just, and in your rights to do, that you should do it. I also believe that you still deserve those rights if you choose not to. Perhaps I am more lenient than BF.

If you choose to give up the right to do something for yourself and others (which is my interpretation of essential liberty) because it will make you safer in the face of a perceived threat or otherwise, then you don't value your liberty and freedoms, and don't deserve them.

Do you have to exercise, or assert, a right to deserve it? I don't think that you do, but I think that you do have to protect others' right to exercise it, whether you agree with how they exercise that right or not.

I would like to add I enjoy this discussion. You are making me think this through more thoroughly than I would have otherwise.
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And Turing helped a lot with the War effort, building hardware (i.e. stuff you can kick) as well as developing theories.
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Asking "Why were two completely different crime department cases in two completely different jurisdictions handled in two completely different ways?" is just glomming onto current news in an attempt to raise the profile of some other complaint.

The complaint (her TRO should have been enforced) is valid, but has nothing to do with the handling of trade secrets investigation elsewhere in the country.
I would disagree strongly. Perhaps we have different meanings of the term miniscule. Do you still include it if its on the order of 1E-6?

Lets say you have interest 100 companies over 30 years, which is pretty hard to do anyways. What percentile event is it that you get a piece of a 1E-6 event in one of your companies? Pretty low.

My thought is that you don't increase your wealth meaningfully and especially don't feed your family with lottery tickets. And that is the exact example I brought up.
It's just a off-the-cuff bit of piffle. Note the use of a generalization fallacy in the converse error example.
This is incredibly insubstantial. Why not just hit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_fallacies ?
They were the only ones in heaven though.
I was under the impression Woz didn't realise until after the Apple I was developed that HP might have the rights to it.

From iWoz:

<quote>

Before the partnership agreement was even inked, I realized something and told Steve. Because I worked at HP, I told him, everything I'd designed during the term of my employment contract belonged to HP.

Whether that upset Steve or not, I couldn't tell. But it didn't matter to me if he was upset about it. I believed it was my duty to tell HP about what I had designed while working for them.

[Later, after getting an order for one hundred Apple Is]

I decided I should run the whole thing by HP one more time. I spoke to Pete again. He told me to run it by legal. The legal department ran it by every single division of HP. That process took about two weeks. But HP still wasn't interested, and I received a note from HP's legal department saying they claimed no right to my design.

</quote>

Oh Merciful Book Industry, please do not smite me for reproducing a few paragraphs from a book.
I never developed any apps with Qt, But I did tinker with it long long back and was very impressed with it. It would have been excellent if Android sdk could be used with Qt. It's an excellent environment and certainly not as bloated as Eclipse. But that would be a reality if there's an "all-platform-NDK" for Android that would skip compiling the app for every different hardware platform.
No. This is more like "everyone dress up a Klan member day because some fanatic threatened to kill a KKK member who made a black joke".

There is no municipality involved, there is no violation of free speech. It's not the government who is causing the censorship. It's a group that, one or another, is menacing your values. The only way to deal with these people is to not negotiate and show that scare tactics do not work.
More like

"... because a municipality threatened death to anyone who attened the KKK convention."

Be careful with the analogies. Saint Godwin is watching... ;)
But I doubt the people who would participate in this cartoon day "despise" the speech involved. To most (all?) of them, I'd guess that drawing Muhammad, as an act itself, is about a big a deal as drawing a table or a pretty tree. In other words, nothing like dressing up as KKK.
TC++PL is written to be read cover to cover, with the exception of Part III (The Standard Library,) and even in that part, each chapter is written to be read beginning to end. C++ is a complicated and dangerous language. The complexity and length of TC++PL is dictated by the complexity of understanding required to be a decent C++ programmer. Avoiding C++ entirely is a great idea if you can manage it, but programming in C++ without investing the time to read TC++PL (or another similarly detailed book) is a really bad idea.
This is truly revolting, offensive code. Unless you like C++ template metaprogramming, I recommend you don't look.

:)
There is also the absurd death threat/possible murder-as-retribution aspect. I will gladly mock people who think killing is a viable response to an image, even if it is offensive.
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Part of this discussion, which doesn't get enough daylight, is that depictions of Mohammed are no more "contrary to Islam" than depictions of Jesus are contrary to Christianity: both Islam and Christianity have long, fragmented traditions on the matter, including some people/sects which believe quite passionately that they are an offense against God and some people/sects which believe quite passionately that they are a core part of worship. There exists a tradition of Muslim iconography -- religiously motivated art -- which proudly depicts Mohammed.

It is just a certain subset of Islam is recently arguing that a bunch of things which had historically been non-controversial are now crimes against Islam. Giving them the authority to define what Islam is simply because they'll kill you if you disagree too loudly is far more of an insult to the religion than a few drawings, from my Catholic perspective on the matter. (Individual Muslims are free to disagree, but not to kill me.)
>Any single investment is (according to the numbers) going to make a significant expected contribution to the economy and to the investor. So why not go for it?

Who's numbers? Yours or his? His simulation is saying that (as an individual angel) you have a 50% chance of losing all of your investment on your first deal. He's running 10,000 angels simultaneously doing deals and looking at the average performance across those angels.

Think of it like a piano with 10,000 keys. When you're in the money the key is up and when you're not its down. (I know the keys can go above 0 but I can't think of a better analogy.) After everyone does their first deal, a full 50% are completely down at 0. A few are way up. It takes four "turns" for 50% of the keys to be up above the starting point

"Average over time" is perhaps the wrong phrase for it. I should have said number of deals.

>According to this logic it would be bad for 20 people (with a net worth of $1m+) to invest $100k each, but it would be good for one wealthy person to make 20 investments of $100k each.

I don't see how that follows from the article.
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Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but: let's solve these oil and CO2 problems before trying to popularize flying cars and jet packs.
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You know what: I am a Muslim and I find this...AWESOME! I don't know if you agree with me but I find this akin to printing the decss code on t-shirts (and as poems and songs). If individuals are targeted by powers that be unfairly over an action the best way to counterattack is to perform the action en masse.

Now, I think this sort of approach can have two consequences: Either the increased exposure can nudge the Muslim thinkers gradually into seeing this as a non-issue. Or, more people will become marginalized. The Muslim world has reacted in the second way in the past couple of hundred years, let's see if these innovative approaches can change the tendency.
People are ignoring the media aspect to all of this. You do not want such a public case to go unpunished or ignored by the state.

If some random phone gets lost obviously you aren't going to spend too much resources on this because there aren't enough available. I'm pretty sure not all such individual cases are ignored, so it's not like only the corporations "receive justice".

But, having such a public case about a presumably lost prototype, etc. be ignored is a sign that the state considers this to be ok or of low importance. You do not want that idea to spread into the mainstream. Justice isn't just about busting dors, it's also a marketing (or propaganda) issue.
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The OP's counterexample, the Gonzales case, is just an example of "won't someone think of the children?", and I have little patience for such arguments, designed to evoke emotion rather than reason.

While you might not like it, Apple's marketing plans probably do have a larger impact on our society than does OP's hypothetical lost phone. It's unfortunate, but the realities of life force us to draw lines somewhere.
That sounds like a lot of work, to be honest.
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