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What a dangerous claim you're making here. An unbacked assertion that it might be a bad thing. You're really going out there on a limb, aren't you?

This is neither a good thing or a bad thing for Android. Nobody real cares, so it's unlikely to get much publicity positive or negative. It's no skin off Apple's back for two reasons. First, you already paid for the device; they have your money. Second, no one in their right mind would want to use Android OS over iPhone OS anyway, especially not if they've already paid for an iPhone. It'll have no impact on Google because of the aforementioned lack of real people taking any interest.

I am going to make the firm claim that this will have no noticeable impact on anything and will probably not even merit an unprompted official comment from either Apple (I'm rescinding my claim about Google, because those Googlers are notoriously chatty and I wouldn't put it past one of them to mention it on an official blog, but probably not). I invite anyone who disagrees to put money on it. I'll be $10 to charity against the first two comers.
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> equivalent to [...] photos of a "hot" celebrity they obtained via some sleezy paparazzi hiding in the bushes

Not hiding in the bushes: detaining the photographed subject illegally for weeks. It would have been equivalent if pictures had been taken while the Apple engineer was playing with the phone, thinking he was alone.
Aside from the fact that this garbage shouldn't even be posted here, there was certainly no spurning involved.
On the contrary, sperm competition occurs frequently in many animal species (and more often than you'd think in humans - the stats are quite enlightening). Since this trait increases the chances that your sperm will win and pass on your genes, it is a very useful evolutionary trait.

More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_competition
I would guess the Linux boot loader will be able to accommodate booting any future ARM6/7 kernels with no trouble. From there it's just a question of drivers. I'm guessing he lifted them from another Android phone using similar hardware. From what I recall everything in the iPhone is pretty vanilla hardware. Those drivers would have to be ported to work on 2.x since that's been one of the major holdups for the 2nd tier Android handsets so far. He also mentions doing some loopback mounts to simulate an SD card. Seems promising for the future.
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Of course, the flip side is that leaving it running adopts an attitude of "screw all our other customers, they can eat crappy service while we kiss up to the popular guys who are chewing up everybody else's server resources". Which isn't what I'd look for in a hosting provider...
Who cares whether violence is or is not permitted in the Koran? Retaliating with violence is completely unacceptable for any person who values sense.
Notepad + some browser.

Best to start with the simplest and most transparent tools IMO, + its not really difficult to save, switch windows and refresh the browser.

I say this because a lot of HTML design tools take away the necessity to actually learn what goes on with the HTML and CSS, sometimes in subtle ways. If you want easy use MS Word and save as ".html" or FrontPage or whatever, but that won't teach her much about HTML or CSS directly...

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Thank you. I was thinking about deleting the comment because it's so disjointed and a bit of a braindump, but now I'll leave it up.

I don't agree that art is just in the eye of the beholder, but this probably isn't the place to get into that whole argument. In short, some things must be art because they're truly timeless, other things cannot be art because they're strictly worse than something else. If you have X, and X' an uninspired derivative of X, then X' cannot be art. So I'm pretty sure there are a bunch of necessary attributes for art. I don't think you (plural you) do art justice by saying it's all subjective.
Logged in to say this:

If many of your daily goings on would be wrong in the strickest sense, IMHO you're doing it wrong. Ethics matter. Rule of law matters.

No, I'm sure not perfect myself. But we all should try our best and correct/learn from our mistakes and try to achieve the high road.
Buying ARM to stop its cores getting to competitors doesn't seem a good idea. Other chip manufacturers would rush to fill that vacuum. Freescale and the other Power ISA guys would love that kind of boost. I don't see it slowing down Android significantly. GCC will recompile to whatever other platform is chosen; there will be some porting effort but it isn't huge.

If Apple is really doing this I see it a play to take on Intel. The ARM instruction set is clean and well-designed, unlike Intel's. This enables ARM chips to draw significantly less power for the same performance. Now, who cares about performance-per-Watt? Anyone who has a cluster does. Anyone building devices that run on a battery does. These two groups are becoming everyone -- it's laptops/tablets and cloud computing all the way, baby. If ARM gets a 64-bit implementation and a fast floating point unit it can compete against Intel in the server market. Apple can fund that with their giant pile of cash. ARM already has the low end market sewn up. Imagine a laptop with 10 hours battery life and Google buying a million 64-bit ARM cores. That's two nice revenue streams to have, and it gets Apple into a big market where they currently have very little presence.

I did a blog post about some of these issues here:
http://www.untyped.com/untyping/2010/02/02/is-the-ipad-the-b...
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Roberto Carlos' strategy was to hammer his shots as hard as possible and cross his fingers as regards accuracy or a lucky deflection.

Another example, with one of the most hilarious pieces of commentary I've ever heard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW2d-QrnFgA

An (unscientific) study was conducted by one of the UK Sunday newspapers a few years back regarding footballers (soccer players) intellect. The conclusion was that the reason some players are so gifted on the pitch is that they are quite, ah, dense off it. Reading some quotes from some famous players seemed to back that theory up.
I found this rather interesting, to be honest. Assuming a) this is true, b) why? and c) why does Thompson 'see no need'?

I'm assuming the answer to b) is consistent standards (applied to all Google engineers). However, the answer to c) is what I want to know, because it relates to how Thompson currently works. Does anybody have more information on this?
"physical depictions of holy figures in Islam is prohibited" is there any explanation in the Qur'an why they are prohibited?
> "In his own lifetime, Mohammed offered shelter and guidance to those who had defamed him public, removed him from his home, chased and persecuted him and his people... I wonder what he would think of all this today?"

According to some hadith he also ordered the assassination of poets and artists who mocked him, after he rose to power, so its not a black and white issue of precedence, though it seems many fundamentalists interpret the assassination as the last say.
Muslims care - that was why I took that line of argument. Its much easier to convince people on their own terms.
freedom-of-expression (which should be held dearly) is not freedom to attack other's values.

Freedom of expression is absolutely freedom to attack others' values. It's the freedom to criticise them openly without fear of physical violence. It's the freedom to lampoon them in public, and make them the subject of satire and riducule.

I can understand you might not like that when it affects you, but I suggest to all muslims -- or indeed to anyone who feels their values are being attacked, religious or otherwise -- that the correct response is to publicly debate why you feel this way, and why you think your feelings should be protected. Threats of murder are unacceptable.
The fact that they're facing death threats for it is made doubly hilarious in light of the episode's content.
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Seems they took down all their content including their 404 page, http://www.revolutionmuslim.com

You can still see the post in google's cache.
For this situation, I would hold a grudge too.
I see. I hope you're right, but I fear you're wrong.

The culture of physical intimidation and oppression is just that, a culture. Religion is used to justify it, but never stands up to scrutiny.

I don't think there's such a thing as a resonable muslim, or indeed reasonable christian, there are just reasonable people, independent of their religion. Either someone can see that threats of murder are unacceptable or they cannot. Rereading of their holy book is not going to change what's formed in them due to the culture which they have been exposed to their whole lives.
Good thing you're not the DA. This is not just the letter of the law that was broken. It's the spirit too, and ethics besides. This law is a good law, and its enforcement is good too. The laws we break unknowingly day to day are typically misdemeanor-level offenses that are good only under certain conditions (usually, but not always, the ones under which they are applied).
I think South Park may have been alluding to this sad story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7112929.stm
My problem with this post is that Gruber acts like he isn't involved in this whole circus - he's just as much to blame as Gizmodo.

I'd suggest one of the main reasons that Gizmodo published the guys name is that Gruber implied immediately that they stole the prototype (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/19/gizmodo-rumors) without giving any evidence - not really the act of a 'ethical' journalist. It's fine to decide that you think it's theft if you go by the letter of the law (AFAIK Gruber isn't a lawyer, so it's just an uneducated opinion) but to stoke the flames and then be 'offended' is pure hypocrisy.
So did Thompson have a big role in designing the GO language? (I've not read anything on GO for a few months so can't recall.) I thought it was someones 20% project.

Is it easy to call existing C libraries with GO ?

Is Go worth learning, I was thinking of digging into Clojure or some form of Lisp.
Clearly not all religious people - the same episode had Buddha snorting cocaine and I don't see anyone getting too upset over that.
yes, (b) seems reasonable to me. Inventing the language doesn't mean you know the coding standards currently in place at Google. And consider how many big names work at google: if you start making exceptions for people, it's hard to know where to stop. Easiest just to keep a firm line.
I don't mean to diminish what this guy did in any way - it surely took a lot of time, skills and perseverance.

What I'm concerned about is that some people, who under normal circumstances would have bought an Android device, might buy an iPhone thinking: "Well, this is the best of both worlds, it can run Android and the iPhone OS".

This kind of thinking could do a lot of harm to the Android community: less money for Android manufacturers who support Android's development, lesser user experience on the iPhone-Android (considering it's basically a hack) might leave a bad impression to first time users, etc.
Eh, he's not allowed to check in code to the main repository without someone who has C++ readability approving it first. Since code would need to be reviewed to be checked in anyway, it's not really a significant hurdle to get approval since almost everyone has C++ readability and the code review tool reminds you when approval is needed.

That being said, having looked at some of his code he would probably have to significantly modify his style to get readability.
It's not really a language exam like a certification or anything but merely a style compliance review. Also, such a compliance review doesn't exist for C, but rather C++, and all of Thompson's work is on Golang which run a little differently than and separately from the centralized google codebase where this little bit flag matters therefore he doesn't need to worry about it since he doesn't really commit to the core. Besides, if someone else who has "passed" reviews his code, which just about every reviewer has, he can commit anyway.
and if the local kids have been doing it, you're likely still in possession of child pornography.
I can answer the second question. Yes, it's very easy to call existing C libraries from Go. http://golang.org/cmd/cgo/
The back of the $20 looks like a child took a highlighter and drew 20 on the bill dozens of times. There's no discernible pattern; it looks like noise.

But it's not noise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

The front of the $10 has three things going on in the exact same place. Look at the seal on the right of the bill. It also has TEN written over it, and We The People in the same spot. Is it harder to counterfeit if you can't read it? It simply looks lazy to me.

Yes, that's exactly why, it's an anti-counterfeiting device. Are you really having trouble reading "We the People" or using that TEN to determine the denomination?
I did not see the episode but it could be satire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7119399.stm
And the first thing they said was : "you must be grateful for all we did to you". Screw them
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A better solution is to disable all kinds of automatic updating on computers you manage and canary changes on just a couple of machines first.
Of course, Apple used to own a sizeable chunk of ARM.

But it doesn't make sense - Apple can't stop the existing licensees from stopping producing their chips, and the companies with architecture licenses will still be able to make new, compatible designs to sell to third parties. What it might do is stop innovation in the ARM ISA being made available to other companies, but that's a very long term thing; a new ISA takes many years to get to product silicon.

The whole ARM business model is based around sharing the costs of development (which are substantial) with a large group of companies. Could Apple really justify sustaining that cost to prevent competitors from using future ARM designs, when there are (albeit perhaps inferior) alternatives?
It would be useful if you could add apps which aren't in your database. For example, I have a self hosted instance of Sugar CRM - why can't I add that to the page?

Overall I really like the service. Nice, simple and something that a lot of companies really need. A number of businesses I know (including some very big ones) simply do not have a single master list of all the web apps they use.
Weird that this is news now, given the amount of time it's been in print. If I recall this was the same case with guido having to do the python test.
And what I'm saying is that it's extraordinarily unlikely that more than a handful of people will have the reaction you worry about. Among other things this would void the warranty, and most people like warranties on their phone. It's also unlikely to ever get into a state where it's dual-bootable, so only the most extreme of tinkerers will consider this a selling point.
I have no idea but probably an order of magnitude harder since it's not open source.
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Depressingly enough, I don't see this happening.
As unlikely as it may seem, the dual boot part seems already done according to the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yO2KQHkt4A
One crazy bastards death threat does not represent what the entire Islamic community believes in, remember that there are crazy people from all religious backgrounds.
I am at a loss to understand how a supposition can be termed "breaking news".

I know that Hacker News seems to be subtitled "Apple News" these days but could we stick to things that are actually news?
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Koran prohibits idolatry only. Physical depictions are prohibited in hadiths not in the Koran. From Sahih Muslim:

"Verily the most grievously tormented people amongst the denizens of Hell on the Day of Resurrection would be the painters of pictures."
Huh, shows what I know. Even with that, the effect you're worried about will be too small that you should be worried about it.
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My understanding is in the US, in modern times, the freedom of expression is only restricted in cases where some other law would otherwise come into play. For example I could express myself by suggesting I would pay someone to commit a murder for me but I would still be charged with criminal conspiracy to commit murder. Since the US is not an Islamic theocracy we have no laws on the books regarding the physical depiction issue. Basically I think you could say the freedom of expression is paramount in all but a few very specific areas and we have a special flare for protecting freedom of expression in relationship to religion since this country was founded also on religious freedom. I'm probably not representing the actual argument properly but I think it's pretty close.
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SOAP annoys with XML request/responses.

REST is much better with simplicity, much acceptable by developers and much more popular in tech-startups.

But there is an XML-RPC too, great solution but not spread as is has to be, like REST.
If you look at Apple's recent earnings report or listen to the conference call, you'll find that the ASP for the iPhone was exactly $600. This does not include any additional carrier payments.
Sure, there are crazy christians and crazy hindus and crazy athiests.

I don't think anyone here is jumping to the conclusion that all muslims are horrible. I -- and others I think -- are reacting to the horrific example of intolerance regardless of where it came from. This level of intolerance is one thing that a liberal permissive society should indeed not tolerate itself.
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1282229

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1274655
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Jeez, does an honest question like this really deserve -4 votes?
Is it me or have posts related to the suitor problem been relatively popular on HN in the last ~3 months or so? The result isn't especially new, nor does it bear any obvious relation to programming or entrepeneurship, so it's just a bit of clever math.
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It's there for the world to read in the 'coders at work' book (highly recommended), and it is a misleading title.

He simply never got around to it because he saw no need.
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I bet this will happen. Apple are known for alienating companies that go against the wall of silence. There are more than enough people who 'live blog' every Apple announcement. Cutting them out will make a point and not harm Apple.
You're being disingenuous. Gruber didn't imply that they stole the prototype. He reported from his contacts at Apple that Apple considered the phone stolen rather than lost.

Also, just because Gruber isn't a lawyer doesn't make his opinion uneducated.
That was a good find froo, too bad it wont be seen by anyone :-(
Yes, probably this is true, but, it is
like saying that "by nature, all humans have facilities for speech, and they are free to speak up whatever they want; however there are many laws they can be used for punishment afterwards". I remember in the movie "Food Inc" in Colorado there is a law that prevents you from public criticizing businesses if you can hurt there profits. So "freedom of speach" is quite narrow term in fact.
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The connection to non-Apple word is quite obvious - ARM is _very_ popular architecture, used by many, many semiconductor producers (Atmel, Samsung etc.)
For information about the temperament used in Watchorn's recording of the Well-Tempered Clavier, based on an examination of (I kid you not) the spirally ornaments on the title page of Bach's manuscript, see http://www.larips.com/ . (Why "larips"? Well, you see, the analysis begins by looking at that title-page upside down, and "larips" is "spiral" backwards. Again, I kid you not.)

It sounds pretty good, actually, but so do plenty of other temperaments.
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If this goes through you can expect some pretty heavy shockwaves through the gadget market. Almost everybody using the ARM in a gadget right now is in some way or other in competition with apple.

Imagine your 400# gorilla competitor suddenly gaining control over a critical resource for your product.

I'd be worried.
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I wonder if publishing the guy's name is actually a good thing for him. It may put a little pressure on Apple to not fire him, knowing that it will inevitably be made public. Not that they ever care about our opinion of them...
Different cultures is not about food that is a bit more spicy or that smells different. There are real differences that, even though they may not be important for you, are important for many people in the world.

We are no longer living in places with closed borders - this stuff is now global. South Park is global entertainment, it's not American entertainment. Respect other cultures, particularly with things that cause no hurt to anyone else.

If you are against FGM as a cultural practise, I can understand that. It causes harm to other people. But not showing a religous figure on television has no effect apart from a negative one among the group. I see no harm in respecting this.
Neither your reply nor jacquesm's address OP's actual comment - as important as the supposition may be, that doesn't make it "breaking news".
It's easy to trivialise things after the fact, but it is not irrational to fear nuclear war or authoritarian states.

Australians are taxed far too much, but have never been taxed at 50% in a time far I know of. Perhaps during wartime.

What do you mean when you say 'designed exclusively'. Surely not that nationalist authoritarian states with nuclear weapons and decades of stand-off are the result of an Australian government conspiracy to give night terrors to children?
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I went to a concert based around that instrument last year in Paris - it's a very weird sound.
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whether Thompson has finally allowed himself to be subject to a humiliating examination on the language he invented by an acne-scarred, know-it-all Oompa-Loompa who is absent-mindedly flicking paper pellets into a Starbucks cup while Twittering.

Well, that was typical for The Register.