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You seemed to be confused and to not recognize that religion is intrinsically violent. It is not simply "a few bad apples" scenario nor just about Islam but a systemic problem that had been occurring for thousands of years. Are you aware the punishment for Apostasy in Islam (no longer believing in God) is also death?

In order to end violence, people must undergo cognitive dissonance, realize that one belief they hold prescribes death and another belief they hold prescribes that they shouldn't. The resolve this dissonance by permanently discarding the belief that prescribes them to kill, by encountering a situation that shows this belief to be absurd. People will NOT introspect on their deeply held beliefs unless beneficial situations like Everybody Draw Mohammed day occur.

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"but that does not give me the right to ridicule things that others hold dear."

No, that would be the US Constitution's first amendment. Conversely, you do not have a right to not have the beliefs you hold dear ridiculed. There is no legal protection against having one's beliefs ridiculed. That's because it's not a big deal. Get over it.
They got some bad press for the pricing move. I don't blame them for trying to generate some good press out of it.
In this case, we need to offend people in order to protect free speech.
This comment was literally one of the most useless things I've ever read on Hacker News.
This reminds me of this Felix Dennis essay:

If you want to be rich, first stop being so frightened
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article1084093.ece?pri...

It's an excerpt from his book "How to Get Rich" which has the distinction of being a "how to get rich" book written by an actual billionaire.
Putting x264 developer's technical analysis of WebM into perspective
I'd be concerned for the students that managed to push mmo-champion.com (a WoW blog) to 9th place!
oh, for the demo they showed a keyboard and an android phone as well. The input device / controller is going to vary based on provider. I can imagine there will be many remotes with built in keyboards something like this:

http://www.productwiki.com/upload/images/d_link_boxee_box_re...
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I think the point is we only respond when a response is necessary. Avoiding offence is important, but standing up for our rights is more important.
Bluetooth keyboard that talks directly to the TV/set top box, which is why they had trouble with interference issues.
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Nature article http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100520/full/news.2010.253.ht...

Nature asks and eight experts comment on significance http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100520/full/news.2010.255.ht...
Exactly. If that happens and casual games make it to the TV through this, fun times ahead.

Even otherwise, whoever can handle web flash games correctly with the controller (expect Logitech to nail this again) will win.
At best you have proof though contradiction: http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~larryc/proofs/proofs.contradict...

For a basic paradox like "This sentence is a lie" there are more options than true or false. Other things are best answered with "your asking the wrong question" etc. But, once you walk though the basic options paradoxes are just another example of the same thing.

PS: Yellow void toe air zen bubble toy 4:72 PM lisa. Not all collections of words have meaning.
Maybe they are not doing it "just" to offend. Maybe there are other goals, like fighting against the ever-increasing curtailments on freedom of speech.
Perhaps more than a glance is appropriate before flagging items?

Perhaps, but I don't think so in this case. The main reason I flagged it was not the 'paradox' but because it's not a direction I want to see HN going. If a rabbi and a priest walk into a bar, I'd flag it regardless of whether the punchline is hilarious. I'd agree that the moderator should take more than a glance.

Wouldn't down-voting the particular comment(s) you don't like be more appropriate?

I can't really assess 'appropriate', but it certainly wouldn't have been as effective. Knocking a 'funny' comment down from 16 to 15 points wouldn't have even been noticed, whereas using the flag to call it to the attention of a moderator for review had the effect I hoped for.
True, but Palm would have been more difficult. You cannot get a patent for "build a better phone" or "interface that doesn't suck" which is what they likely would have gone after Palm for. Also, there isn't a prejudice against Palm, but plenty of people view MSFT with disdain and MSFT has in some ways been victims of their own success making them an easier target.
But that doesn't matter. Everyone of us has the right to say that the Koran is a load of feces (I think it is, along with every other religious text ever written), just as we each have the right to say that it is the greatest thing ever.

Everyone should be free to choose this for themselves, and to tell anyone they can about what they think, without being threatened.
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I have an SDTV. I assume you could do the same with a DVI cable and an HDTV. Just replace the name of the cable, the steps remain the same.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnVUvW42CUA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsKKQNZG3rE&feature=relat...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maIgu_7oLm0&feature=relat...
Are you serious? They're actually saying they will run unmodified Android apps on GoogleTV? That sounds like a terrible idea given the vast difference in input and distance from screen to viewer. I'm sure the shipping version would only run apps designed for the form factor...
Good thing. We (in most of Europe and parts of the US) tamed much of the Christian violence, now comes the next one. If their "protest" means killing artists, bombing embassies and planes and discotheques, we have to fight back the way fanatics hate most: Laughing into their hateful faces. (If laughing won't help, we still have bombs, too.) And those who think that Muslim extremists aren't a threat to our freedoms (which includes the freedoms of the moderate/secular Muslims as well) should visit Western or Northern Europe and see for themselves.

edit: That's what happens in Europe now. (A mild example.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIsC2_KbZfo
Interesting quote:

"People make money by not trading as well as trading. But it is virtually impossible to prove that someone chose not to buy or sell stock because of a legally improper tip. So hundreds, maybe thousands, of people get away with insider "not trading" every year."
I expected guidelines for how to take things away without angering users -- would be a good (but much harder to write) post. These three bullet points barely state the problem.

I don't think the title over-promised, I think I over-expected :(
Modern technology has already far surpassed the capabilities of natural organisms in a number of areas, all within a geologically minute timespan.

They key words here are: "in a number of areas"

In a number of areas indeed. Can a plane fly without oil drillers, oil refiners, fuel trucks, and jet fuel?

Or in a more generalized form: For some X, thing Y is better at X.

Having said that, I in no way belong to those people who think that nature is magical and humans can never do better.

We can quite easily make incremental improvements some of the time.

Note that I consider it an improvement if it still does everything else equally well and some new things better.

If on the other hand, it can't do some things, then it is only useful in a number of areas.

So a plane is not an improvement on a bird, but a bird immune to some pesticide would be an improvement IF that immunity didn't have a huge cost.

Or we can say it's better only when lots of that pesticide is in its environment and worse otherwise.
I am in favor of no special treatment for Muslims or anyone else just because they are offended, or some members of their group murder someone.

I mean, all we have to do is draw a very important prophet, for god sake! We don't even have Mommahad do bad things them for them to get offended.

Someone will get offended. Somebody will say politically incorrect things.

I don't like other people to act like children when Christians endure religious satire and people saying all Christians are hypocrite or something horrible, daily.

You don't see Christians going around murdering political cartoonists for offending them do you?
> "what was your response when various Christians objected to "Piss Christ"?"

Not sure I was around for that one - but I highly doubt I would've participated in a worldwide public shaming of all Christians, which is really what this thing boils down to.

> "We're currently saying "we have to avoid anything that might offend Muslims because some of them might go violent"."

No, that's not what we're saying at all. What we're saying is "there's no need to troll and antagonize everyone of a particular belief just because a small minority of them are violent assholes". There's nothing in here that capitulates our freedoms to religious belief - drawing Mohammed is still legal, but for the sake of everyone getting along on this big lonely rock, maybe we shouldn't.

Leveraging your freedoms to its maximum extent, even to the grave offense of others, is not protecting it, despite what some people seem to think. Your freedoms do not absolve from good taste and judgment.

Let me put this in another way. Your neighbor is deeply offended, by, say lawnmowers. You still have the right to mow your lawn - and it would be unreasonable for him to ask you to ask you to stop mowing your lawn. But instead, you ridicule him for it and invite all the neighbors over to have a big lawn-mowing party. That's the line between exercising your freedom, and simply being a jackass.

EDMD, IMHO, falls on the wrong side of this line.
Maybe we need to have an "Everybody Play SESAC Music Day"
"On Android’s upcoming over-the-air music download capabilities versus Apple’s tethered syncing: “We discovered something really cool, it’s called the Internet.”

huh? did this guy even say that with a straight face? itunes (i.e. music, movies, tv, podcasts, audiobooks and iTunes U) is available on the device.
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I have an idea and product which I would like to sell off and move on to a new project. I am not trying to raise money.

My product could be perfect compliment for at least 4 companies. I don't have any personal leads in them. I have tried to use LinkedIn InMail but don't see success so far.

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Careful buddy, you're edging into misogyny there. Next thing you know you'll be demanding proof regarding feminist statements about wages or health issues - and at that point you're practically part of the Talliban.
And yet, when Joel made the decision to shaft the Stack Exchange 1.0 testers, they didn't get anything close to an apology. What they got instead was a pitch about why they should be happy to give up their business model.
Actually, he's right. The problem is that the example you chose isn't very good for the point you're trying to make.

First of all, forgotten password management is extremely important. You don't want to lose those users.

Second, all sorts of things can go wrong with e-mail. I don't often find myself agreeing with Jeff Atwood, but he nailed it in his post: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/04/so-youd-like-to-sen...
This didn't start because anyone threatened anyone. This started because an episode of South Park - which showed Buddha snorting cocaine, Moses as Zordon from Power Rangers, etc. - wasn't allowed to show Mohammed. This is a protest against self-censorship, in this case by Comedy Central.
We'll see if it is awesome, if the compiler is buggy it might turn out to create a 'killall' app instead.

This is great news, but with this new power comes also a very large responsibility.
Me too, until just now.
> It's unwise for a VC (or anyone) to assume the person they are talking to is this objective.

I never said I was objective: It's really a question of which circumstance I dislike the least. :-)
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He meant that you can sync your music library to an Android device without physically connecting the phone to a computer.
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That is simply a lack of hardware acceleration. Something that HTML5/JS apps do not have either. At least for flash, you can expect it to have hardware acceleration eventually.

The bottom line is that you have the option to use flash, or not. On the iphone, you have no option. There is no losing here.
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This is nice, but maybe I'm too old, or whatever, but I absolutely can't wrap my head around google docs file management. It's incredibly cumbersome and painful.
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/card-carrying atheist, but always liked that joke
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I remember when that was the height of internet awesomeness!
I think quoting oil drillers is not really opportune at the moment if you want to give an example of how the damage from technology is going to be 'limited'.
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I think the people that think before hearing or reading about the solution are the one best prepared for Academic Performance. A funny experiment should be to take an English native teenager to a sociology class in Chinese language and then ask him about what he has learned.
I agree, it's not very charitable. But remember we are also very isolated from the conflict in Europe-- the whole culture is getting rocked over how Islam functions in a modern society. My uncle in France has friends who describe themselves as "christian atheists" -- they are still 100% athiest, but apparently they miss the influence of Christianity.

As a Christian I certainly don't like Jesus constantly being mocked -- but I also think he is perfectly capable of defending himself. Christianity has a clear response. Jesus is our hero. When he was mocked, tortured and murdered he laid down his life. Most of his closest followers died in the same way. The whole question is central to Christianity.

Does anyone have any examples of a concise response that a "peace-loving Muslim" might give to an "extremist Muslim?" ... why do more Muslims not speak out more often against extremists?
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> "Are you aware the punishment for Apostasy in Islam (no longer believing in God) is also death?"

Because if it's written in some holy text, it must mean modern practitioners still follow it to the T, right?

"Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together." - Deuteronomy 22:11

It seems disturbing that those who are anti-Islam use the same fucked up interpretations of Quranic texts that the extremists themselves use. Kind of a sick irony I suppose.
Thx. I'm still working on fully responding to the ddg thread from yesterday :)
I don't think anyone (sensible) is suggesting that it's OK to go out of one's way to offend muslims.

The point is that some things are more important than avoiding offending people (particularly, I might add, over something so ridiculous as drawing a picture).
"Between Netflix and Hulu, I get a lot (not all) of shows (and movies) streamed to me for ~$11 month (my netflix) + ads (hulu)."

You left off "...for now." Hulu is on record that they'll be moving to a PPV model for certain shows. The days of completely ad-supported Hulu are numbered.
Downmods here do not necessarily indicate offense. Here they're used as a signal to the poster "that's not the level of discourse we expect."
I'll just call her from my flying car.

Seriously, this is a clear example where Apple thinks things out a little better. We're now heading into an indefinite period of "OMG GOOGLE TV PWNS APPLE TV"...but Apple at least took the time to think out their answer before presenting it.
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.

It isn't really like protesting Christians per se.

It's a bit more like using a symbol dear to Christians' hearts (say, Jesus himself) and then creating a political cartoon that shows Jesus operating as a terrorist and shooting doctors who perform abortions, or blowing up clinics.

While depicting Jesus as a terrorist would be offensive to most or all Christians, this is a perfectly permissible political cartoon. [1]

This "Draw Muhammad" exercise is a perfectly sensible way for those of us who don't wish to bow down to the threats of Islamic-inspired fascism to contribute our little part to a protest. To say "I live in a republic where the rule of law includes freedom of speech, and not a freedom not to be offended. If you don't like it, draw something that offends me right back."

[1] Coincidentally, it would do a great job of contrasting the message of peace that Jesus preached, with the wanton violence perpetrated by some of his contemporary followers.
> Really, it's the height of hubris to think that we can engineer something that works as well as what untold generations has evolved.

At best photosynthesis have an efficiency of about 8%
At best solar panels have an efficiency of 40%
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> "This didn't start because anyone threatened anyone."

I'm under the impression that this started when a cartoonist drew a picture of Mohammed, inspiring violent threats from all over. South Park was simply dogpiling on this (as they do with all other contentious issues) - the notable part of South Park's involvement is that Comedy Central actually moved to self-censor.
A one paragraph press release, with no implementation detail? How is this hacker news?
It shows you how valuable user data is. Seems similar to a free trip to Disney World if you sit and listen a time share presentation.
I agree that HN has jumped the shark. As an example case, I dare you to try to express an opinion on HN which does not toe the party line.

And for those of you about to down-vote this comment: where are the articles pointing out the problems with HN, where are the articles showing the flaws in Lisp, where are the articles which denounce venture-capital-funded startups as the snake-oil of the modern age?

"But those positions are wrong!", the puppeteers cry. Really? Last time I checked, questioning conventional wisdom is what made the modern western world possible.
Well, most users would trust the service/company less after such an incidence. Also, not everybody does a evaluation on every service every day.

I guess most do a analysis when signing up and would either forget about it until they hear of something cheaper from somebody or do a reevaluation after a fixed period of time like say every 3-6 months.

This sudden price change made everybody stop what they were doing and look for an alternative now. And people spent time doing research, brainstorming alternate ideas and some made the switch already and now they say Oops!. This is why they are griping.
answers.onstartups.com is a pretty good resource, though I sometimes get the feeling that it's overrun with "idea guys."
That still doesn't completely answer the question how it avoids race conditions and the likes without locking. Assume I'm executing multiple long-running transactions, each hitting and modifying a lot (millions) of different objects. How are race conditions avoided in this case ? One engine that distributes and coordinates work plans for the other engines sounds nice, but does this essentially mean that only one of these transactions is able to run at the same time, even when they could be running concurrently when using locking?
I worked for a hardware company that paid $12 per cpu sold to Microsoft, just in case it should ever run something Microsoft wrote! So stranger things have happened.
Did marca release this stuff under Creative Commons or something?
If you don't plan to monetize and brand that forum, I think subreddit is the way to go.
I admire the sentiment, but are you aware of the relative number of muslims and athiests on the planet?
I actually thought Conan gave him too hard a time. Vic came out looking like an affable, though slightly stiff, nerd.
With the weighing so much to the disadvantage of URL-less posts any comment in this thread about preserving the 'quality of the homepage' is moot. The only page where this would gain significant traction is on the 'ask' page, on the homepage it would be gone pretty quickly.

As a rule I limit my flagging to spam, for the most part the voting system works ok, most of the time.

And with RiderOfGiraffes penchant to pose interesting logical problems I think he should get the benefit of the doubt before hitting the 'kill' button.
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That treatment of Apostasy is a relatively mainstream interpretation. In Saudi Arabia today, the penalty for conversion to other religions is death:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Saudi_Ar...

The problem is that many practitioners do follow texts to a T, and I believe that's the point of most religious systems.
Some airlines do not allow cell phones in flight/airplane mode.
Are they that desperate for porn?

Maybe they should give the people in Australian customs an internet connection, that way they can spend their time in more useful ways when dealing with travelers.
Those ones would fall outside the "sensible" category. I'm not interested in defending random nutters on Facebook, but if you can point me to an example of "suggesting that going out of one's way to offend all Muslim's is a good idea, and that they all deserve it because some Muslims are violent assholes" then I'll be happy to debate it with you.
"Something that HTML5/JS apps do not have either."

Actually, HTML5 video playback on mobile devices is hardware-accelerated. That's the reason it works well, as opposed to this, which does not.
Yell at Google too. They're the ones who opted to give that control to the carriers/handset makers.
I don't have TV, I have a 30" monitor. My sweetie and I roll the chair away from my desk and sit on the couch a few feet behind. HD content looks great, and I have a variety of sources to choose from, you tube, hulu, USENET, etc.
"Professional investors make money because of asymmetries of information. Someone working on Wall Street is almost always going to be better versed on financial issues than a casual investor. People make careers picking up hints and suggestions to use in trading."

Yes, professionals should be better at it than amateurs. However, those professionals are still using public information. Just because they are better at it doesn't mean that it these asymmetries are unfair. Regardless of what the article says -- there is a victim in the form of the other shareholders. The impact of the crime may be dispersed over many people, but that doesn't mean it isn't still just plain wrong to do. All of the owners should have the opportunity to begin selling (or buying) at the same time if they choose to stay on top of the information and to argue otherwise feels foolish. Just because they cannot get insider "not trading" doesn't mean they shouldn't nab insider trading.
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