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Those are good questions, and honest concerns.

First, yes, 3G does "Kill battery life," but with regard to Jobs and Apple, they made it seem like Flash was something so much worse. While they never compared it to 3G, the sense was that it was a lot worse than it seems to be.

Maybe a better approach is to say Flash doesn't kill battery life anymore than other Apple implementations of other technologies.

As for the rest of your comment, that's more of an implementation thing. Done intelligently, most of what you are talking about is a non-issue. I'll try to explain.

First, Flash doesn't have to run normally. Flash support can be activated. This avoids the torrent of flash ads that can run rampant on websites. However, if I go to a website, and I want to run the application there, I can choose to enable it. Something like this is already done with the YouTube app on the iPhone. You go to a video page, and you click on the Play button, a simple image. In Flash's case, it would explicitly enable the flash player to activate.

People do this already in browser. They block flash for the most part, and enable flash in certain, particular cases.

As for backgrounding v.s. native apps, that's a non-issue. Native apps will always be better, on any platform. The problem is, not every web app can have a native iPhone app.

In your example, the flash web page could be treated like every other web page. In this case, does an HTML5 video continue playing if you open a new tab? Does it keep executing in the background?

The idea isn't to recreate the native functionality, but give Flash support so existing media that exists now can be consumed. Media that HTML5 has no support for, and cannot deal with.
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My favorite part from that article:

So that the assembled genome would be recognizable as synthetic, four of the ordered DNA sequences contained strings of bases that, in code, spell out an e-mail address, the names of many of the people involved in the project, and a few famous quotations.
This is surprisingly like the first step you'd take if you were about to start hacking the firmware on an embedded board: before you change bits, you upload a known good firmware to prove your programming process is working correctly.
I'm not a moderator, but I flagged it because it's not a direction I want to see HN moving. "Ask HN" type posts are tricky --- I'm worried if we start by allowing posts that are intended solely as conversation starters, we may soon end up with a front page full of popular quotes, dumb jokes, and one-liners. Had it been a link to an external page I wouldn't have been moved to act.

It may also be that I just didn't get it. At a glance, it looked like a semantic game rather than a worthy paradox. Why should one presume that a multiple choice question has one and only one correct answer?

I was probably also influenced by the quality of the discussion. When I started reading, the top voted answer was "It is answerable... with a swift kick to the balls of the person asking it", followed by geek jokes about this answer. This didn't seem like a good start. Perhaps I should have flagged only this response, rather than the whole post.
Do you have data to support the statement that 80% of poor people don't work? How do you define poor? How do you define middle class? I have a hard time believing someone poor enough to receive food stamps for example is living a life anything like what my parents were living when they were my age (30 years ago).
Android apps on the TV has the potential to be huge particularly if the build these Google TV systems with a decent video chipset (like that Tegra chipset Nvidia's been demo'ing on a prototype Android tablet). Particularly with Logitech, long time maker of TV remotes and game controllers, on board, this could challenge Wii for home gaming, possibly even challenge the Xbox 360 and PS3.
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Pardon me, but I'd like to disagree.

The murder of Theo van Gogh and subsequent threats against other artists, authors, etc. are terrible acts. No one should be killed for such expression.

But I have to say - I find any "juvenile attempt to troll a religious group," well, juvenile and trollish. It is uncivil and rude. It promotes division and distrust, and actively destroys the work many have put into creating safe atmospheres of expression and mutual respect by ridiculing a religious community.

I am not a Muslim. The closest affiliation I'd claim might be with some liberal emerging christianities. But I believe in respecting others enough not to make fun of deeply-held beliefs, which I myself do not hold and which do not impact my life but are absolutely central to the worldviews and spirituality of a very signification portion of the world's citizens.

I'd suggest that "valuing free speech and reason" needn't involve encouraging socially destructive behavior intent on marginalizing a people group, self-selected or not.
If I'm stated to be picking an answer at random, in what sense am I choosing?
I don't know what you're talking about. That's clearly Muhammad Ali. It looks nothing like the prophet Muhammad.
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"I'd like to redo this test in a month."

The iPhone will still fail the test, considering it can't display flash. =)
Written much, much better than I could have phrased it - I was searching for a way to write what you just did. Thanks.
Want to link to some? It would make sense that they've happened, but I can't really recall any actual examples...
None of what has transpired in the last few months smells of ultimatum. It's all very childish.
It would have made more sense if you started by treating the subject line as a given proposition assumed to be true.
> "But I have to wonder, would I be offended if someone protested extreme Christians that blow up abortion clinics?"

But this isn't what this is. This is, to use your analogy, someone protesting all Christians in response to some extreme ones that blow up abortion clinics.

This is going to do very little good, but a whole lot of harm to inter-faith relations everywhere.
Vic ended up pretty badly too with Conan O' Brien
I wondered about that too. Not the case on my wired network. Perhaps its because many laptops were taken out of suspend and then hardly used, so session-initialization messages dominate.
btw Thanks for actually addressing the point of the article.
"Why? Technological progress through logical deduction is patently more efficient than evolution through natural selection. Modern technology has already far surpassed the capabilities of natural organisms in a number of areas, all within a geologically minute timespan."

There's a lot of hubris packed up into that statement. I really don't think you're considering the whole effort, the economy, the resources, the externalities that are involved in all those things that "surpass" natural organisms. The real place we've surpassed natural organisms is in many ways in global organization. Those things that we consider faster, stronger, better etc. than natural organisms are not self-standing things, but things that require our care and attention and vast amounts of energy, resources and infrastructure in upkeep.

And it's far from clear to me that logical deduction is more efficient than evolution. Evolution can certainly result in silly designs, that's for sure (the retina's layering, vas deferens' route, etc.); but evolution also has an appetite for complexity and resilience far exceeding anything the human mind can grasp today, aided or not.
So what if they stuck to, say, "respectable" images of Mohammad? Something that says, "I'm sorry if this offends you, but I fear for my freedom of speech". Doing the same thing but making it clear that it's in self-defense, and that any offense taken is a side-effect?
Even in a lecture where you are told someone will be harvesting the usage data, the WoW addict still goes to MMO Champion! I love it! lol
My favs:

7. All the stuff you’re doing that seems hard — it will be of use.

10. Make time to pursue your passion, no matter how busy you are.

11. All that stuff that’s stressing you out - it won’t matter in 5 years, let alone 15.

15. Forget the drama. Focus on being happy.

19. Yes, you can do a marathon. Don’t put this goal off - it’s extremely rewarding. (I'm doing one next year!)
> And since companies do not hire "branded debtors"

SOME companies don't. Others do. And some will hire for some jobs but not others.
Techcrunch is using the term "launch" loosely here.
I can't tell if you're trying to be serious and adding something to the discussion, or if you're just being snarky. I'll assume you're being serious.

Selecting an answer at random, in my dialect of English, can be said to be choosing. In my dialect of English "to choose" does not necessarily imply the exercise of free will and decision.

Thus, "to choose at random" makes sense, and might be regarded as "to select at random" without any implication of a deliberate decision (except the decision to follow the random "choice").

Does that answer your question?
Have you actually tried Flash Player 10.1 on an Android phone? I have, today, on Google I/O. It works very well and it's not how you say at all. There are lots of videos showing it as well.

Please, try before you judge.
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If I had Flash on my phone, I'd definitely want it to have functionality like you describe, where you have to tap to enable it. I'm sure it won't be that way out-of-the-box, though, and only a small minority of users would know to install a ClickToFlash equivalent even if it were available. So the default and by far most used configuration will be one where Flash is running much of the time that 3G is running too.

I certainly agree with you that it's not a dealbreaker for Flash in web pages to not be backgroundable. And I'd prefer it to be the case that it's not backgrounded in the general case.
Literally click and hold with one finger and then with another perform an awkward scrolling type movement - usually seems to work but it's hardly elegant!
and "quietly"
You can always photoshop something. Be creative. Find an existing Mohammed image on the web , open your favourite image editor, find some peanut butter texture images and collage them together. Use brushes with textures or whatever you feel like doing. The possibilities are limitless...

I think some religious groups need to learn about the Streisend Effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
I cannot understand the point of hiding deadened questions while still keeping the comments?

It makes sense to me. If the users flag & kill a link submitted by spammers, the spammers get no value from it because, by default, a spider won't be able to follow the HN page to the URL the spammers wanted to promote.

But keeping the comments helps users at HN get a feel for how the article was initially received.
Well, you can always hold out hope that they'll pull an Adobe, and tell people that the other guy is a big, fat meanie, and then have popcorn ready for the ensuing epic flame war.
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I disagree with you.

When I first watched the south park episode I was very confused.. then I watched the backlash unfold.

I think this movement is needed to get this out into the open. What would you say if Skin Heads, KKK, or any other racist organization threaten violence and we bowed out.. stopped the presses and let them have their way.

This is what we are doing by tip toeing around the issue in our country, censoring our media, and for what? We need exactly this movement because it is "uncivil and rude".
Spending over a billion dollars on a brand new datacenter says to me that they're interested in changing that record.
I'm actually thinking of a locally-run proxy, so basically, this is a way of making your "browser" do it, without tying you down to IE or Firefox or anything else. It just sits there and quietly grabs things of interest and ensures you still have a local copy.

The two hard parts are figuring out what to do with the data after that, and dealing with all the various text/HTML formats for things like submitted comments and such.
I'm a hacker; this is relevant to my interests. I'm sorry that you don't feel the same, but I do support your right to question your beliefs on what this site should be.
Sorry, I deleted my comment because no one had responded and I actually agree with you after I looked into it.

These services are asking for too much for what they do but I think everyone is conditioned to giving away so much to services that touch their money, that they think that they can get a piece of the pie.
Between Netflix and Hulu, I get a lot (not all) of shows (and movies) streamed to me for ~$11 month (my netflix) + ads (hulu). For $30 dollars a month, I would expect access to a much higher percentage of old shows, plus streaming of the new ones.

Now, of course that doesn't mean the networks like it, or will agree to a contract like that. They should though, because they'll never get more than that out of me per month, and I see cable becoming increasingly irrelevant as streaming becomes more popular.
People have made fun of Christianity and religions, but now we can't make fun of Islam. I mean, people draw Jesus all the time, but they can't draw the prophet Mommahad.

It is like parents shreking in horror because Harry Potter promotes witchcraft. No matter what religions you have, intolerance should not be allowed.

After all, free speech isn't about what speech you like or what I like, but what people hate. Someday, you're going to be on the opposite side.
Since when are murderers on the same level as people who speed?
To my mind it's the comments that should be flagged, not the item, if the item follows the guidelines but the comments don't contribute. I would like to see a small change to the site, wherein the "flag" link can be found on comments, no longer requiring clicking on "link" then on "flag".
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I've started going back to reddit, the subreddits seem to do a pretty good job of staying on-topic these days.

Other than that, http://allyourstartuparebelongto.us/ looks like it might be a promising alternative (although I hate the domain name with a passion).

If you like the ISV space, The Business of Software forums are good: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz

I would like something close to HN from 2 or 3 years ago if anyone happens to find it:

http://web.archive.org/web/20071031003304/http://news.ycombi...
I flagged it for similar reasons. It's not the kind of content I want to see on HN, the comments sucked, and it really wasn't anywhere near as interesting or clever as it seemed to think it was.

The very fact that that post had a lot of comments with, collectively, a lot of upvotes is proof that HN is not what it used to be. :/
Glitches happen to anyone in a presentation, Steve Jobs is no exception. The difference, however is Apple rarely demos "betas", "early release" or "pre-alpha" stuff like Google seems to show off exclusively (OS betas naturally being the exception. Everybody shows off OS betas — it would be foolish not to).

Put another way: What was the last product Google unveiled that wasn't a beta in some capacity?
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~1.6B people consider drawing Mohammed to be a blasphemous action. That's not self-defense; that's antagonistic.
+1. Wish I had 10 upvotes to give you.
Problem is if they didn't know how to navigate and find it from TPB chances are they won't know what the hell a torrent is...
"It may also be that I just didn't get it. At a glance, it looked like a semantic game rather than a worthy paradox."

Perhaps more than a glance is appropriate before flagging items?

"I was probably also influenced by the quality of the discussion."

Wouldn't down-voting the particular comment(s) you don't like be more appropriate?
Downloading a lot of music over the cellular data network is a bit scary to me. Is it really wise? That's a lot of bandwidth being devoted to a task that can be accomplished faster and more efficiently by just plugging in a USB cable. Phones are personal devices -- it's not like they're too far out of reach at any given time. It would probably be more responsible for this feature to only work over wifi at least until the US data networks catch-up with current demand. I don't want to suffer with slow speeds because someone has their SmartPhone 6 inches from their computer doing OTA downloads of 80MB albums instead of plugging in a cable. I suspect some carriers will disable this feature on their devices. The OTA/web app downloading on the other hand makes perfect sense. Fairly small apps -- stuff you'd be downloading on your phone anyway.
> Really, it's the height of hubris to think that we can engineer something that works as well as what untold generations has evolved.

Even if true, it's irrelevant because nature's definition of "works" isn't always mine.

It isn't yours either.

For example, you're not using caterpillars or other "nature" for transportation so either you're stupid or you don't believe that caterpillars are superior to your car for certain purposes. (Caterpillars are cheaper, so you didn't choose the car for its price/performance either.)
That sounds more like "I'm sorry this offends you, but I'm going to do this anyways to further my agenda" - which some more liberal Muslims may understand, but IMHO not a good solution.

The way I see it, if the West, or primarily non-Muslims, are the ones battling these extremists, we're already screwed. Now, instead of a fight between violent extremists and peaceful moderates, you have introduced elements of race and politics (it is easy, for example, for EDMD to be perceived as Western insensitivity and arrogance). Fundamentalists will find ways to exploit this marvelously.

I wouldn't draw Mohammed at all - the best thing you can do IMHO is something that targets the extremists exclusively - something moderate and liberal Muslims won't find offensive. This way you can get them behind it also - it is far easier to remove a group's credibility and relevance when a large group of "their people" are also united against it. Involving Muslims in the solution to this problem is the key - otherwise it just ends up looking like a modern day Crusade.
This is naive. Creation is just the new form of consumerism!

Think about how much money changes hands today based on work of millions of creators all trying to be the latest YouTube star. To cope with the meaningless and alienation of modern life, they're buying attention instead of commodities, using what they create as currency. In that sense, it is a barter economy, except the middle man takes his cut by selling ads on top of the content. And, oh yeah, don't forget about all the actual consumption you have to do in order to be a creator: a nice computer, a video camera, some video editing software, fast internet connection, etc. I guess that doesn't count as consumption if you're a "creator".

It's weird how profitable all this "anti-consumption" is! Is this really liberation? It's certainly marketed that way by the people who profit most from it. What if it's really just exploitation marketed as liberation?
If you want the HN of 3 years ago, http://allyourstartuparebelongto.us/ is for you. I'm looking for a better domain name. Suggestions are welcome. I've been trying to get startup.co and techstartu.ps, but so far no luck.

The submission/banning criteria is actionable startup advice for tech startup founders. Relevant tech is OK as long as it directly relates to or is obviously useful to startups. No news. And no politics, economics, science, etc. unless it meets the startup criteria.

The site is running open source reddit, so there is ample opportunity to hack it as well. I've done a few minor things, and I plan to add email notifications as well. Feel free to fork reddit on github and play around.
And the world yawns...
All the people drawing Mohammed have had their lives threatened. I'm not in favor of escalation, but I don't think backing down in response to a threat of this kind sets a good precedent.

Edit: I mean, if they had been asked nicely I would totally agree with you. But it must be made clear that threats are not an appropriate way to deal with religious issues.
You have no business apologizing for anyone else.

Muslims that are offended need to get over it. They will if we don't treat them like delicate children.
If I'm stated to be picking an answer at random, in what sense am I choosing?

This seems like an observation about either pointers or Meta-questions. If I pick an answer to {an unspecified thing}, what is the probability of being right?. Choose A/B/C/D.

First, I have to assume the {unspecified thing} is your question itself. Then model a clone of your question, then based on the answers to the clone model, answer your real question. Then I have to make some assumptions about the biases in my random selector (i.e. it has none and picks each option on average 25% of the time). Then I have to make some assumptions about whether one of the answers is right and three are wrong, or if more than one can be right.

If I assume one is right and three are wrong, then A and D are ruled out, so the right answer must be B or C. C can't be right, so it must be B, so my chance of picking "B" and getting the right answer is 25%. So I answer your real question either A or D.

If I assume that A or D could be right, then I assume B and C are wrong and get a 50% chance of picking correctly, so I answer your real question B.

I guess I could carry on and say "if no answer is right and I always pick one of the four, then I have no chance of answering correctly and answer your meta-question with C" and then see if I can sum up all the potential assumption answers and see if it resolves to a most likely sum-over-histories style answer.

But that sounds like work.
Seriously, the PS3 is there already, but it's Sony, so obviously they didn't execute the software capabilities. But just the bluray capabilities of the PS3 show me that they are very close despite themselves. The Netflix streaming bluray disc that works on many network-connected bluray players is a perfect example, and a beauty to use. It's a huge hassle to have to actually find and insert a physical disc to use the thing, and it would be several orders of magnitude better if the Netflix streaming bluray java app could be installed to the hard drive, along with a bunch of others, but the capability is nearly perfect. I could see a Youtube bluray disc being pretty popular as well. If bluray players could store those network-streaming based apps locally, it would be game over for FlashTV (aka Open Screen) and GoogleTV. Hell, Google could probably implement the real meat of GoogleTV as a bluray disc.
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Proof of concept can also mean a demonstration that the technology is effective, not just "I got a bunch of users and I think I might be able to monetize them." If he's patenting a method of distribution, I'd assume the former is more useful than the latter.
And what would be your reason for doing this? I really don't understand. I do not follow any religion, but that does not give me the right to ridicule things that others hold dear.

It is _my_ opinion that anyone who participates in this is a sheep with a "me too" mentality.
too late now