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The phone was sold. The finder made a profit from the phone he found, instead of turning it in to the police or bringing it to the owner.
Rethinking Police Searches of Computers
Expert: Invalid Warrant Used in Raid on iPhone Reporter’s Home
Media Temple launched choose-your-own Linux OS VPS hosting
I think it would make more sense to use this word the way homophobia is used now. It more closely parallels "racism" as the belief that some races are inherently superior to others.

Would we call a TV show with no minority characters "racist?" Maybe, but it might be seen as stretching the meaning of the word, and the question of whether or not the show was actually racist would be a question to debate, not a part of the definition. I suppose we could have terms for TV shows, movies, corporate boards, startups, etc. that lack minority, gay or other kinds of people. But using an "-ism" for such terms implies discrimination, which I believe should remain open for discussion and debate.
Hacker News is not only about hacking. Hacker News is about delivering content that is entertaining and useful to people that are programmers or people that are planning or currently running a start-up.

This is actually completely relevant because anything involving this story could involve a small business that finds itself in a similar situation. Gizmodo could have been a small startup idea that only had a few viewers, for example. It could happen to any of us that are starting a new business. However, not everything must be relevant. Sometimes stories are simply entertaining and break the monotony.
I can't think of a religion that doesn't deal with disrespect from outsiders.

Catholics? The Pope and his crazy hats. LOLpedophiles. Bad conspiracy theories. Basically everything Dan Brown has ever written. Gay priest jokes.

Mormons? Magic underwear. The Angel MORONi. Multiple wives. The total hilarity and necessary suspension of belief required to buy that God buried a bunch of Additional Commandments in upstate New York.

Jews? Don't even get me started.

I can't think of any religion that doesn't "deal with disrespect." There are some that I'm not familiar enough with (Native American religions), but I'm 100% sure they've probably taken crap over it at times.

You can ask that people respect your religion, and probably most people will, but some people just aren't going to. Because religions are, pretty much by definition, arbitrary and weird to people not involved in the religion.

So then the question becomes, how do you want to respond to that disrespect? You can just ignore it, which is a pretty popular choice, or you can engage with the critics, which is pretty effective but probably tiring and obnoxious, or you can even invert it and be self-effacing and try to disarm them. Or you can flip the fuck out and start making death threats, maybe kill some people.

But if you do that latter path, it's probably not going to do anything about the amount of disrespect -- it's going to make it much, much worse. Either Muslims will, as a group, figure this out, or we'll just continue to see this sort of needling forever.

So, in response to your question, "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 think the answer is of course not. Because that would be boring. But as long as they continue to get death threats and other crazy, disproportionate responses, they're going to keep mocking. (Just like they're going to keep needling the Scientologists.)
"Those above the 95th percentile understand how society works and are as Confucius described, "the ones that lead society (by example) so that all of society is harmonious.""

This isn't actually true. If you look at the SAT scores of Congressmen, Senators, etc., they average below 95th percentile. Many are above 95th, but the average is below 95th.

"The smartest geeks I know have no trouble fitting into society, one of them is leading a startup that has received over a million dollars in VC funding."

Citing anonymous friends is not evidence.

"The fact, is these socially-challenged geeks aren't so smart after all; they don't put much effort socializing with people, and then they whine and complain how they don't fit it."

That's a complete non-sequitur. What does that have to do with intelligence or lack thereof? It's perfectly possible to be smart and not socialize much. It's also possible to be dumb and not socialize much. It's like saying the Unabomber was dumb because he killed two dozen people. Killing two dozen people makes you evil, certainly, but it doesn't make you dumb (the Unabomber was actually a math professor at Berkeley before he went insane).
Their release notes are pretty good too. ;)

https://panic.com/transmit/releasenotes.html
for me this is a side effect often of starting something that hangs on to a standard in, out, or error. when starting server processes, it can be nice to do the full thing: nohup CMD > stdout.log 2> stderr.log < /dev/null &
searchyc.com for: RiderOfGiraffes "I want" - 36 results.
This is pretty cool - the final compiled code looks pretty tidy considering the hoops being jumped through. :)
I've used MT hosting before. For the price and performance, I couldn't recommend it to anyone.

Linode and Slice are better.
I was viewing this as a positive situation for Apple. They had lots of free advertising, and I actually thought the 'lost phone' was on purpose to generate buzz. Nonetheless, entering into the homes of journalists to find out information about a stolen phone is bad publicity for Apple, and they should have considered the incident over after the phone was returned.
The problem with aggregating comments is that it degrades the quality of discussion, and therefore, the community. There's no depth, no flow. Backtype does the aggregation thing, but I find it just looks like noise.

Maybe there's a better way, but I've yet to see something better than the type of 5-10 level deep conversations that happen on reddit/HN.
The cases may be different crimes, and in different areas, but it's just illustrative of how out of balance the justice system is. When the victim is high-profile, the enforcement is swift and overbearing. When the victim is unknown or powerless, the enforcement is often nonexistent.

Seizing personal computers, cameras, cell phones, servers, and paperwork, for a case where the property has already been returned, might be legal but is also a completely inappropriate response. There's already a very clear case here, and lives are not in danger. It doesn't matter if he's a journalist or not, this is just not the level of action that should have been taken. We should be able to expect fairly consistent responses to legal situations, based on the severity of the crime and the impact, rather than based on the identity of the victim or the media attention focused on the case.
Sounds like he's ranting on a linguistic or rhetorical peeve rather than combatting actual environmentalism. When someone says we should "save the earth", they quite obviously don't think that, for example, pollution is going to make the planet explode, or something like that. Environmentalism is not about saving the planet itself - Earth will keep on spinning for several trillion years regardless of what we do.

Environmentalism is about saving ourselves. It's about preserving the environmental status quo insofar as we are able, in order to preserve its habitability for ourselves.

I like Carlin, but in this case he's being disingenuous for the sake of an easy joke.
The technique is unnecessary, regardless as to C++ - its just a different way to write code.
I've never used Chrome on Windows, but I must say I'm a bit disappointed using it on the Mac. I do like the technical side of it so I use it often for watching Hulu, but the polish is not there. Often times, keyboard shortcuts stop working completely for me and I'm pretty sure that the silent update roll borked my copy of the app once. Also, having the close buttons on the wrong side of the tab is really annoying and, similarly, they reversed the order of "open in new window" and "open in new tab" on the contextual menus for links.
When you are going without sleep there are usually more important things (short-term) than healthy food choices so you favour easy to prepare and easy to consume "meals". The fact that you have diminished short-term memory means you tend to prioritise decision making which again favours the "easy" option.

Your appetite does go up but anecdotally I wouldn't say 36 hours of waking appetitite was significantly more than two sets of normal 18 hour appetites.
I don't understand it either. Especially since everyone agrees that an analogous case is theft.

"I walk into a coffee shop and see an unattended laptop sitting on one of the tables, so I decide to close it up and take it home with me."

Nobody I've talked to seems to think that this scenario is okay or consider the laptop "lost". So I don't know why people are so quick to consider this iphone lost.
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" If high-IQ people have a social problem, as perhaps they especially do in certain parts of American culture, I invite them to use their high IQ to engage in problem-solving."

It doesn't work that way. The way humans usually solve social problems is through asking, "how would I react if I were in the other person's place"? We have specific biological structures, like mirror neurons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron), that are set up to do that. However, this only works if the person being modeled is similar to the modeler. Because of this, there are actually a ton of factors that can make relating to other people difficult, not just intelligence (like culture, age, socioeconomic class, mental strengths and weaknesses, etc.)
"Such delicate and tender social sensibilities we all suddenly have. As a Christian, people deliberately trying to offend me is merely part of the background noise of my life."

Seconded. South Park's portrayals of Jesus are extremely offensive. Does Comedy Central censor that? Nope. Do I make death threats? Nope. I just don't watch.

So Comedy Central's lesson for extremist "Christian" or "Hindu" or "Muslim" groups is this: to silence those who offend you, make death threats. It works!

This cartoonist's campaign is an attempt to make the opposite statement: threats will not control us. And if IT works, we'll all be better off.
Watir, Selenium & WebDriver
5) When I copy and paste a line from their article, they add "Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/27/admob-android-passes-iphone.... IMHO That's just lame.
Rider! :)
"It may be that there are studies that suggest that homosexual families are no different than heterosexual families in terms of impact on the child."

There is also the question of what are considered good outcomes for children. For example, I read somewhere that children of gay parents have sex earlier or more often. Assuming that's true, is it a good or bad thing?
Twitter is profitable: http://mashable.com/2009/12/21/twitter-is-already-profitable...
> For the things that matter are not syntax, dynamic or static typing but how the developing process is.

They do matter somewhat, and the author says a bit about them. I agree, his comparison is civil and informed.
I think people have learned not to use man pages because the man pages in GNU land almost universally suck. Check out OpenBSD's for some examples of really good documentaion
How do you look at the SAT scores of congressmen and senators?
It may be legal, but it still has to be explicitly agreed to, correct? And employer doesn't have a default claim on all IP generated by their employees outside of work hours, I would hope.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but just to cover my ass, these days any time I agree to anything with just about anyone, I insist on adding an explicit clause that makes it clear that I am free to work on any other project with no restrictions (I specifically retain the right to compete), and that except for the works specifically covered by the contract, the other party has no claim or license to any intellectual property that I own or create.

Then again, that's par for the course when it comes to work-for-hire, it's been a long time since I've signed an employment contract as an employee, and I doubt those additions would fly as easily in that circumstance...still always worth a shot, though, companies will often agree to change details of contracts for you as long as they don't feel they're getting screwed by the changes.
:-) My smiley face is a depiction of the Muslim prophet Mohammed. Whom I, as a non-Muslim, do not consider a true prophet. Whose writings I consider to be partly plagarized from Jewish scripture.

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What's the difference between "illegal speech" and "thought crime"?
Ignore it, I guess. People should know that some people don't like their life stories being posted for everyone to see.
Their choice of success metrics is interesting. I think I would have chosen profitability or liquidity instead of survival, venture capital raised and web site traffic.
Also see the repeal of the Corn Laws, and (unrelated) the earlier improvement of farming methods that lead to the industrial revolution and who did the improving.
Ask HN: Is there a PC equivalent to Skitch?
Skitch.com is a great service, but only for Mac. I'm looking for something (for a "normal" friend) which is like Skitch, but for PC.
Especially if you are trying to address specific points from the article on your comments on their site (or anywhere else).
"And if anything, that argument might suggest the upper 10% should almost have the lower 90 enthralled."

People in the top 20% of intelligence (the interval centered around the optimal 90th percentile for leadership) do dominate society. Virtually every CEO, every Congressman, every Senator, every President, every general, etc. etc. etc. is in that top 20%. See the Mainstream Science on Intelligence statement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intellige...).
Totally agree. It's interesting how many different services MT is beginning to offer, but I wish they would work on the reliability of the existing ones.

I don't understand why they got so popular since this seems to be the prevailing opinion of them.

Edit: By the way, the reason I noticed this in the first place was to check on their system status since someone was complaining email was down, which it is, which is common with them.
Agree...the unrelated photo (stock?) doesn't help the credibility here. That plus the vague story made me think this was content from an article farm. Doesn't seem to be though.
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tran: 300GB
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ram: 512MB
stor: 20GB
tran: 350GB
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LeafLabs' ARM based arduino project back on track
What's IAMA/AMA? I am a founder? Or am I missing something?
مشاهدة مباراة بايرن ميونيخ وليون
I've taken the author's code, changed it slightly, and placed it in a publicly viewable notebook on sagenb.org. Please feel free to view and edit the notebook.

http://www.sagenb.org/home/pub/2014/
I would just take the grand-parent post as a satire of the grand-grand-parent post about the need for a farm policy.

There are good arguments for having some services provided by the state (though we may argue whether they are good enough arguments). I did not take the grand parent as making the argument that everything the state does is evil.
This is all irrelevant to your claim that food tasting good is different from thinking it tastes good. Taste is entirely a mental phenomenon. Maybe food should melt in your mouth and be an explosion of flavor and what-not — I can't tell you what food should be. But if something tastes good to you, it tastes good to you, whether or not it should.
No and neither would the vast majority of Muslims.

(bearing in mind that this was a discussion about why Muslims take offence at the cartoons and their response. I may have misread but the above poster seems to suggest that Muslims generally give death threats over this offence - which is untrue. The extremist is giving the threats not the Muslim :-))
(stale) Soft copy: http://cs.utsa.edu/~wagner/knuth
How fast can you type with one hand on a physical keyboard? I recently did an online typing test for the heck of it, and with my left hand I managed around 35 words in a minute with one or two errors (compared to about 100 wpm with both hands). I have yet to get my hand(s) on an iPad, but I'm skeptical that I could be any faster typing with one hand than I am on a physical keyboard.
This is where the world is headed, though. We may not be used to it yet and we may not like it, but all the privacy we've been afforded in the past is due to the inability to amass this kind of data about people. Over time I think we'll get more used to the idea of someone knowing what songs we like, or where we like to eat (for the purposes of selling us those things). I seriously doubt our lives will become more private as we continue hand out our personal information left and right.
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Maybe so. But that doesn't answer the question as to why this stolen phone -- apart from the millions of other items stolen in California and reported to the police -- deserved special treatment by law enforcement, and warranted the use of unusual and aggressive measures to obtain information about it.

It's still just a single phone, a phone that's been returned to its owner. Maybe Apple was damaged by the loss in a way the law recognizes. If so, then they can file a civil lawsuit just like everyone else with a grievance against someone else.

The part that's troubling here is how, if anyone else reading this post reported to the police that an employee had lost a ready-for-market prototype and that a blog had published pictures of it and then returned it, the police would politely file the report at the bottom of the pile and then get back to pursuing real crimes. Apple, however, gets an unannounced seizure of a journalist's home and work computers.

Such preferential treatment demands an explanation.
PEP 3146 -- Merging Unladen Swallow into CPython
Rogers Charges $60 A Year For Turn by Turn iPhone App
With the way the Xen kernel has lagged, this in very encouraging. For KVM, all that I have to do is enable it in my latest kernel sources.
I appreciate how he spends the first minute establishing that he's a much better programmer than me.
I found it odd and jarring that for the first 2 graphs, KVM is blue and Xen is green, while for the CPU graph, Xen is blue and KVM is green. For all subsequent 3-way comparisons, KVM is back to blue and Xen is back to green.
Indeed. So the better mantra might be: "Eat food. Mostly vegetables." (Where food is defined as anything your great-great grandma would have recognized as food.)

I am fond of going with the seasons, but I am also fond of oranges, which do not grow here--any season.
Thanks for pointing that out, I totally missed the attribution to time.com. I thought the article was just formatted weird.

I agree the full Time article is better, but it still doesn't address the billion people it mentions going hungry. Ultimately the agricultural system that is sustainable determines the population that is sustainable, and I am concerned that the people who aren't going to be sustained won't have much say in the matter.
Most people think the reaction from Apple and subsequently the Police involvement is blown out of proportion because it's all over a Phone.
but I disagree. It's not just a phone. by principle, when you're not the rightful owner of something, you cannot sell it and profit from it. be it a phone or car or WMD.

Gizmodo put them self in this situation by a) announcing they'd pay for the phone b) disclosing their possession of a stolen phone.

This is going to be interesting to watch. I just hope we don't see a surge in pay for leaks model if a few months from now we hear how profitable the whole fiasco has been for Gizmodo and company.
Gawd, I have a spoon and a shovel and really need to eat my soup but don't know which one to use.

Help!
I really don't understand what you're trying to get at, are you concerned with out of date packages? The whole point of package repositories is to avoid that problem, although QA testing and policies can make that non-obvious to users who aren't running some sort of 'unstable' option.

Some projects (Chrome I think?) release packages that actually add their own repository to the user's system so that the user can receive updates through their standard package manager. Other projects (Firefox) have a built in "check for updates", but then you end up back in the decentralized Windows/OSX update hell. That option is generally disabled by distro packagers for obvious reasons.

I've seen a lot of people citing the lack of package repositories and package managers as a weakness of Windows/OS X but this is definitely the first time I've seen it the other way around.
"If you don't have any co-founders, when you hit that dip, that speed bump along the road, you will be unable to continue."

I disagree. It depends how much grit you have. In fact, looking back, I would have been much better off without a co-founder.
Honestly, I think a majority of the time, people mock it because they don't understand it. I don't.

I believe what you say about being offended entirely, but I find it almost impossible to wrap my head around the idea. Getting mortally offended by just a picture of a historical figure -- is just wierd.

Now, I could understand some mean mockery being offensive. A better example than the N word people have been using would be drawing MLK eating watermelom in blackface. That's really offensive, and unnecessary. You have to go out of your way to do something like that.

But just a depiction of Mhd. in a lightly humorous or non-mocking context or a context that is ambiguous just doesn't seem like it would be a that much of gut punch -- taking that kind of offense just seems really thin-skinned to me and borne of silly religious dogma... (sorry).

I'm fully willing to admit that I "don't get it", however. :-)
> anything involving this story

Sorry, I don't believe that anything involving the story is relevant to HN, nor do I believe that anything entertaining is HN. The acid test is "Anything that would gratify our intellectual curiosity." Some issues connected to this story do, some do not.

Remember that almost everyone here reads multiple sources of information: We read reddit, we read stackoverflow, we are on twitter. Therefore, there is no need for HN to contain every story that might be entertaining or even interesting.

For example, anecdotes about using dating sites are of great prurient interest to hackers, but not Hacker News. Stories about what makes some profiles on dating sites attract more responses than others: Hacker News.

So besides entertainment value, what specifically about this post should gratify my intellectual curiosity? What can I learn from this post to write software? What does it teach me about running a start-up?
Great post. Thank you.

There are a lot of people in the business of selling information to would-be entrepreneurs. Their rallying cry is "never give up!" Sometimes I wonder if they are only saying "never give up!" because giving up means losing customers. Not everyone is capable of being an entrepreneur, and some should give up.

There are some great resources out there on startups, but most of the information out there reminds me of late night infomercials about how to make money from home.
I-am-a .... Ask Me Anything, this is a subreddit for community interviews with the person who is whatever they are claiming (the star means verified)