skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As echoed elsewhere... this is childish, proves nothing and solves nothing.

The extremists will be delighted; they get to propagate fear and use this as propaganda.

Moderate Muslims will probably consider it a bit childish (and may be offended, that's their right I suppose)

Anti-westernism will be bolstered a little more in the Muslim states

And people like myself just feel a bit embarrassed to be on the "same side" as these people.

Now, if someone wants to sit down and discuss how we could perform a grown up show of strength and unity against extremism then I'm all for it.

(I think the first point is the most important one; clearly this is going to backfire because it is the reaction the extremists where looking/hoping for. It's progressing to the point where they don't need to bother trying the actual terrorism any more - certain elements in Western society are scared to death and reacting to just words...)
What do people honestly expect to come from this?

Anybody that would have been against drawing the Prophet (pbuh) before, will be even moreso now. This day will only 'prove' their assertions that Islam and the West are 'against' one another.

And for rational people that just let things slide... well they're not going to be affected by this either.

So what is really happening here?

I can tell you that as a Muslim I do feel attacked and provoked. Pretty much every one of my regular community sites has a discussion/thread on this topic, so it's difficult for me to avoid it without changing my regular Internet routine for the day.

Now, I know that the stupidness of this day isn't directed at me. I'm entirely cognizant that this is a natural reaction by certain groups of people that feel strongly about censorship.

So as a Muslim I'm not offended. But I am annoyed. I'm annoyed with the people promoting and enacting this day. I'm annoyed with the extremists that caused the violence that triggered this reaction. I'm annoyed with the oppressive history that helped create these extremists. I'm annoyed with the corrupt politicians and self-seeking 'religious' folk that manipulate people into doing evil acts.

Essentially this stupid day is just reminding me that there are a lot of stupid and annoying people out there. Most days I can ignore that and focus on the great things that people do (like here on HN).

So what this day did is just made me feel annoyed.

I also know that I'm pretty reasonable and rational. If someone like me feels annoyed I know there are other people out there that are going to find even more reason and justification to fuel their violent acts. And that's just going to escalate the situation with an escalated response. All of which will annoy me.

Ahh screw this. I'm going outside. ---- without my iPhone.
What does it take to test a sorting routine?
I feel like this is something Anonymous would be all over. Any activity/response from "them"?
OK, I think that legally anyone can make fun of anything, but there should be a limit morally or socially.

Why do people feel that because they disagree with someone they must be rude and hurt their feelings. This is a really bad example of protest in my opinion...
Retaining central control over usage does not match with releasing the code under an open source license.
I'm not sure if I'm the only one that websites with black backgrounds bother...
But then he changed his mind, didn't he? And we had a war, and the Emancipation Proclamation, and finally the Thirteenth Amendment.
> where are the articles pointing out the problems with HN

There's guidelines telling you what to do with this feedback. Better to contact them directly with feedback than post an article.

> where are the articles showing the flaws in Lisp

Heresy. Lisp has no flaws. But I'd read a well written article on the subject.

> where are the articles which denounce venture-capital-funded startups as the snake-oil of the modern age

I remember reading plenty of those. There is a lot of information/articles around about bootstrapping and running without VC funding. It does help to browse around rather than just reading the homepage. Some good articles unfortunately don't get the upvotes they deserve. C'est la vie.
Thanks. What does ISV stands for?
VoltDB is designed for short transactions that each touch one row, so you should expect pretty poor performance for long-running transactions.
wow, why the harsh downmodding?
You're really missing the point. The aim is not to insult muslims. The aim is to speak freely. Muslims being offended is a regrettable side issue, and frankly, the muslims themselves are in control of whether they are offended or not: there's no reason they should be.
If I recall, and I'm not a lawyer, a large part of privacy law is asking whether there is a reasonable expectation of privacy. Not many people go around sniffing the wireless, you can reasonably assume that no one is listening at a given moment. Visible light in public are being sampled all the time by many observers.
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It is one thing to have the right to free speech and another thing to exercise it. Most people show restraint all the time (don't criticize excessively, highlight the positives in your kid, tell your wife/GF that she is looking good on a bad hair day, etc.).

Why is it so hard to extend the same courtesy to Muslims?
Try http://friendfeed.com/ and follow the right people.
In Britain, you need a PRS license to play music in any public place. PRS enforce this obsessively, to the point that offices have to pay unless their employees only use headphones. Mechanics have to pay if they let the public into their workshop. An accountant was told that they had to pay because their radio was audible on the street through their open window.
Independent software vendor. Usually one or two man shops that write software and sell it.
Frankly I don't care if anyone is anti-western, so long as "anti-western" means "anti people who are harmlessly drawing pictures".

If someone is "anti-western" because of exploitative child labour, pillaging natural resources of the third world, etc. then great, let's sit down and talk.

But harmlessly drawing pictures? Come on.
There's no excuse for such idiocy.

But comparing it to reactions to offensive material about Christianity is impossible; they just react differently is all.

The history and teachings of Islam differ drastically from the way modern Christianity has gone.

Defending the faith is still a core part of the Muslim religion - whereas Christian churches have been steadily pushing people away from those ideas. It explains why there is a difference.

As to why the individuals do what they do; well that is a personal liability. I suggest that there are those who would do the same if Christianity preached similar teachings in the modern day (indeed, plenty of them did in the past. And look at the Christian extremists - who foster much the same ideas)
The BoostCon 2010 slides
If you don't already, how about switching users into a wizard-like mode immediately after signing up?

Basically say something like "Let's help you add your first event," and give them short, simple steps.
Well you're arguing against yourself. On the one hand, you say confrontation doesn't work; on the other hand, you say it did work. The cartoons come first, before the guns. The guns only come out if they are needed - hopefully not. True, I wouldn't like to see it escalate that way.

The cartoons are an attempt at education - you say "only with education" will this be solved, so then you should agree that antagonizing with cartoons, in a way that is educational, should work... but somehow I have a feeling that you are going to disagree with yourself again.
It's really easy on the eyes late at night and early in the morning.
Network Automation is the New Virtualization
iirc, they're changing the StackExchange model so that it has to be blessed or approved before you can create one. Additionally, SE isn't really a great platform for fostering discussion as much as it is a platform for Q&A.
Thank you. As an atheist I'm exactly as annoyed by this, and for exactly the same reasons.

It really serves no purpose and only causes minds 'close' to be 'closed' a little harder, and for people that are moderate to be upset for no good reason at all.
You're annoyed, free speech has been defended. I'm sorry if you're upset about that but it sounds like a net win to me, and frankly very little if any harm has been done to you at all.

You may not understand this, but censoring South Park was a huge harm to liberal principles.
Yea I meant Hulu. I was typing it on the iPhone. And also sub "bluesy" with blu-ray.
I like the foundernews.com suggestion.
Don't forget about audio. Even where the appropriate video output is available, many PC's lack any audio output other than a minijack.
Well a lot of prolog implementations also feature finite domain and rational domain solvers, global constrains that I don't think your 15 year old buddies would be able to code in an hour.

Having said that, most problems we solve here are NP-Complete, most of the time the trivial pruning you are mentioning does not really extend the limits for the computation.
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Poor is defined by the US poverty line.

The actual number of poor people who don't work (and aren't looking for work) is 78% as of 2008. http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2008.pdf

Lifestyles of the poor, in terms of consumer goods and services. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2004/01/Understandi...
This guy is his own worst enemy.
"The better way would be to take it one-on-one with people that display such tendencies" makes me think you're not. How could that plan possibly work given the numbers involved?
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I read something back in the 1980s about an idea to come up with something really revolutionary. Hire a bunch of really good researchers, give them great facilities, then leave them alone. They argued that they would eventually come up with something remarkable and totally unpredictable.
Frankly I don't care if anyone is anti-western, so long as "anti-western" means "anti people who are harmlessly drawing pictures".

What I'm trying to say is that the profile of the US (the general symbol of Westernism in Islamic states) is already extremely low. A lot of people consider the US rude and intolerant; that's just the image that has unfortunately developed.

Ordinary people in those states are probably looking at this and thinking "well this just proves it doesn't it".

I'm not sure alienating people further is a clever idea (us vs. them is one reason why extremism is fostered on both sides).

It's not even really about causing offence (as already pointed out, everyone is offended by someone) but about "proving" to people in those states we don't really understand the problem...

This is pitched as sticking a finger up to extremists; a sentiment I utterly agree with. What it actually is is feeding them ammunition, and potentially causing more resentment in Mulsim countries. I can't help feeling there is a better way to stick that finger up :)

Also; this stinks of fear to me.
They will if we don't treat them like delicate children.

That's abject nonsense. Intentionally offending people doesn't make them grow up. It makes them feel aggrieved.
I found the submission interesting, the discussion less so, and wish the inappropriate comments had been flagged/killed to allow the interesting and contentful discussion to flow.

Good reply, and good points. It's probably a better paradox than I thought at a glance.

But while one doesn't want to throw out too many babies with the bathwater, at least with fruit trees, it's often better to prune too much than too little. You might get less fruit this year, but you end up with a stronger tree and better root system.

In this case, I think the better solution would be to make a page about the paradox, and link to that. It's hard to know, but I think a more fully fleshed out blog post about the paradox might have produced better discussion.
Well, in some cases a manager can be more important. If your job is to lead the company and strategize the way to the top, you can't have that position changing every time an "expendable" CEO does something offensive, because nothing will get done if you do that. In some cases, you'll have to cut the friction from the technical side.

Though I agree with the bulk of your post and think it's great.
Confrontation with guns worked. Are you seriously suggesting that we solve this problem by waging war?

The cartoons are not an attempt at education, merely at escalation.
You're not the only one. I appreciate the appearance from an aesthetic standpoint but it only takes 30 seconds or so for the "burn-in" effect to happen, and I start seeing horizontal stripes everywhere.

When stuck working on Windows my consoles get switched to black-on-white.

Otherwise I'm a perfectly normal person who enjoys cilantro.
Why is a comparison impossible?

The attackers were swedish citizens.

This sounds exactly like the excuses and double standards I was refering to: "There is no excuse, but [insert excuse]."
Drawing Jesus, even in cartoon form, doesn't violate a fundamental tenet of the faith. Nowhere in the Catholic catechism (for example) are illustrations of Jesus proscribed.

I'm 110% with 'potatolicious on this. The people saying we shouldn't have to go out of our way to avoid offending Muslims are, of course, right. But there's no cause to go out of our way to offend Muslims, either.

If I was a Islamist culture-warrior, things like "Draw Muhammad Day" would be a coup for me; it might even have been the reason why I'd threaten the lives of cartoonists. To provoke a counterproductive response from the west.
That's rather the same point the Draw Muhammad Day people are making, no?

I think you're misinterpreting their intention. Rather than saying people don't have the right to be offended, they're saying people don't have the right to kill over the offense.
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I think "pent-up demand" says it all; it's not interesting to compare the launch of a new product category against an existing one.
http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade+longtext+programming+...

This will aggregate all of those subreddits in to a single view.
The interesting comparison to me would be to study those people who exhibit the same symptoms (listlessness, short attention span, lack of work productivity) and compare their response to this study.

Do people who claim depression/other ills independent of burn-out score the same? It's unclear how the burn-out group was chosen.

Also, I'm concerned about establishing burn-out as a disease (as am I with most psychological diseases) because the victim mentality can set in pretty quick (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_therapy for interesting reading on this). "Sorry, I can't work today. I'm burned out. But you can't fire me. See, I have this disease. It's not my fault."
You mean the number of moderate Muslims isn't large enough?
Tell/Ask HN: I really want a prgmr.com account. Which plan?
Like many others, I'm still waiting to get a slot there. I don't know when or if I can get on time for a slot but meanwhile, I would like to know which plan you guys use and for what. I think this can help others that are waiting and don't know which plan to choose.

BR
The problem here is that the "escalation" is not against the people threatening lives. It's a blind escalation in the dumbest sense - just making the antagonistic act affect more people instead of the few guilty people more acutely.
Along those lines, I've started a new subreddit exclusively for posts that help you learn important things.

http://www.reddit.com/r/learnit/

I've found the most useful time I spend online is reading good introductions to concepts/subjects I wish I knew more about, and I want to do more of it. Hence the subreddit.
I agree 100%. Expression should not be limited. The issue I have with this is that the participants aren't expressing themselves. They're expressing someone else, "huh-huh... that's funny. I'm going to do that too."

And just to put it out there; I have no problem with you (I don't know you) and I am not trying to argue directly with you. Your's was just the reply link I clicked.
Muslims should be offended by both the South Park episode and this continued effort to offend Muslims by drawing offensive pictures of the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him), precisely because its extremely offensive. Are death threats by rogue terrorist groups or chat room nerds (who knows) wrong, yes, quite simple everyone gets it.

However that does not make dragging this out and going to extremes to further offend a group of people ok. I am Muslim myself, though not devout and lived my my entire life in America (luckily traveled a lot as well). My father converted to Islam so we also don't have a long ancestral/cultural tradition around Islam.

I find South Park utterly offensive and choose not to watch it, whether they are making fun of Jews, or Jesus, or whatever. The big difference here is that Jesus has been depicted in pictures for thousands of years, in churches and everywhere, so a stupid tee shirt with Jesus drinking a beer has somehow become not so terribly offensive in 2010.

In Islam it is Haram(not advised) to create depictions of the Prophet Mohammed (pboh). There are no pictures of any Prophets in Mosques, and just because people of other religions or no religion don't find it offensive does not make it so. Muslims have a very bad image right now so there is an feeling of antagonism in these types of situations. Its all a bit weird, but intelligent people should just respect other peoples differences rather then dictating how and what is viewed as offensive.
Well, yes; similarly, if you trace back far enough it started with the evolution of man. But this particular, recent series of events started with the South Park episode, which wasn't responding to any particular event. Rather, it was their 200th episode and they chose to celebrate it by, as they always have, testing the limits of what they can get on TV.
Golden delicious apples were a sport. Any really new feature in evolution is. The advantage of doing it in the lab is, its lots safer. You know what you're getting - just what you wanted. Not all the other random accidental changes you couldn't measure. Grandma's better tomato could actually make you sick - she had no idea what she was doing and no control over the process.
I thought I just gave a response. Christianity has a clear example of how to respond to persecution in that God sacrificed himself for others. This doesn't give me a better understanding of the Islamic perspective.
Yeah, but it's like they don't want to lose followers/members. And the only thing they can do about it is just death penalty, like how did the Catholic Church centuries ago.

It's important to note that christian descendant and "allies" control the majority of media. Eg. in Albania there is an estimation of 80/20% of Muslims (majority non practitioners)/Christians, while the government administration 80/20% Christians/Muslims.

EDIT: I was talking about worldwide majority, not national or regional.
>Where are the articles showing the flaws in lisp?

Easy. Worse is better:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
Maybe part of the problem is a quick trigger finger on upvoting? There are three different threads on the front page about Google TV. Is that really necessary?

If people were more selective with their upvotes the front page wouldn't be filled with <topic of the day> articles.

I have a hard time upvoting articles; Although I may have found an article interesting, I'm not sure if it deserves to be on the front page. I find it easier to say this shouldn't be on the front page (Lately I've found myself saying that about many of the articles that are).

Maybe flagging/downvoting articles should be promoted to keep things off of the front page instead. (don't think you can downvote articles)
> That certain Someone later said: "Behold, man has become like one of us..."

Walt Disney may have had a number of character flaws, but I always found the "if you can dream it, you can do it" quote very inspiring.
You're really missing the point. This isn't about intentionally offending people.

(I acknowledge that many idiots on the Facebook page were intentionally offending people)

But what this is really about is intentionally defending our freedom of speech whilst at the same time accepting the necessary, but unintentional, side effect of offending people.

But frankly, who cares? These people can choose whether or not to be offended by this. If they think we're stupid so be it, they don't have to engage with us.
"Sorry, I can't work today. I'm burned out. But you can't fire me. See, I have this disease. It's not my fault."

Unless I'm mistaken, this is more commonly referred to as "vacation".
Well, that was possible before as well. But now you we are underway to being able to diagnose it, and that includes being able to prove that you don't have it.
so they're going via the internet to sync your music library with a computer? why not just using the local network?
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>use the same fucked up interpretations of Quranic texts

100% straw-man, I never quoted the Quran? I was referring to modern day. At least 2006 I recall the U.S. had to get Karzai to intervene in and order the release of a defendent facing execution in Afghanistan.

The claim you need to try and contest is "religion is intrinsically violent"
many people have used ipods, iphones, and I presume ipads without syncing with a computer.
There's an excellent response to this day by Nihad Awad:

CAIR: A Muslim Response to 'Draw Muhammad Day'
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cair-a-muslim-respon...
Reminded me of this RubyFlow thread (more Ruby than Rails):

What are real-world prime examples of good Ruby code?
http://www.rubyflow.com/items/1817
Double standard? I don't understand what you mean.

What I am talking about is that the way Christianity and Islam preach you should react to attacks like this are entirely different. Hence the different reactions. So you can't say "why do attacks on Christianity not get the same reaction" - because the answer is obvious.

There is no excuse; but there is a reason. :)

Here's an example which might help show my point: there is a difference between the way a "religious" Glasgow Rangers football supporter and a Bath Town supporter will react if you call their teams sissies (i.e. the stereotype Glasgow guy would punch you in the face while the Bath guy would ignore you).

(EDIT: I realised that is a very UK centric example. Insert any sports team with religious and fervent followers for Glasgow and one with passionate but reserved followers for Bath)

EDIT2: if you wish to downvote feel free; but it would be interesting to hear why you disagree (this is based on observation of the two religions so I could be wrong)
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After listening to Harry Lin talk about Evite (owned by IAC), this doesn't sounds like an acquisition I'd be excited to be part of.

http://mixergy.com/evite-harry-lin/
A working memory test battery for MATLAB.
I never participated in IOI, but at least in ACM contests I have never seen a problem where suboptimal heuristic search was allowed.
To be fair, there is also no legal protection for "protecting free speech" in a general sense. The first amendment only prevents the GOVERNMENT from limiting your free speech. Companies limit free speech all the time (think NDA), and they are often within their rights. Maybe this is a technicality, but many on this thread would do well to know it.