skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's common knowledge that these "fatwas" don't mean anything. In fact, these fatwas are complete bullshit. In fact, in regards to the Salman Rushdie case, Al Azhar (at the time), the highest and most prestigious Islamic institution, stated that Salman Rushdie was not to be touched and that it was against the Islamic principles to harm him.
Yup, having the first baby was when we got a dishwasher.
When do we take the people who do this and put them in jail? When their actions have led to souring of international relations? They have. When their actions lead to material damage? They have. When their actions lead to the deaths of human beings? They have.

Some guy thought it was within his right to manipulate this movie into existence and then do his best to make sure it was noticed and caused real damage. That this guy runs free while someone like Bradley Manning sits in isolation jail without a trial is outrageous.
So are you saying Salman Rushdie is safe and should come out into the public again?

People have been killed before. There have been attacks on the Danish cartoonists, too (I know of one attack, not sure if there were more).

Of course it is complete bullshit.
I'm not sure there's much room in the S3's bezel, unless they're just increasing it vertically and replacing the physical buttons with on-screen ones.
Here's my 2 cents on the start up industry, devs are still undervalued. I'm hearing a good dev can command $125k-$150k/year + the hope of an exit, I think that's cute. Lawyers with less value command salaries $250k to $500k.

What made De Beers and the diamond industry was with cartels and marketing. I think devs inherently lack both those features being independent thinkers and gasp introverted. Let's change that.
> Such a rate is unheard of in software consulting as far as I know.

$1000 is not unheard of at all. Yes, you're right, the likes of EDS, IBM, Accenture, etc. are easily charging the upwards of $1k/day. But any decently sized firm (50+ employees) is going to charge roughly that amount. You'd be shocked to hear some of the price tags on corporate website development...

I think this is the overall point. Go for a small specialist who will treat you like a king/queen. You don't need a corporate law firm. There are too many transaction costs that you simply don't need (assuming you're small) or can risk accept not having.
“do what you love” is not great advice
I opened an account at Citizens Bank, who did not let me choose my pin code. It went something like this.

Received card, no pin, called, sent new, recieved card, no pin, pin came 2 weeks later.. for the first card, no pin for second card, third attempt nothing was sent, went to the bank, they told me I had to call, gave up after 2 months, over the next year they sent me several new cards (security breaches?), but I never had a pin to activate them.

One year later they change their terms and contions, impose new fees, deplete my checking account, deplete my savings overdraft account, and then send me to collections... all for opening a couple of accounts and depositing a few hundred dollars.
After some terrible early experiences with gold diggers, I am now very happy to be with a woman that despises any and all status symbols, and instead of buying them invested some money in gold and silver bullion early on, as part of a diversified portfolio.
She routinely spends the money that status-affected women waste on social symbols on travel, sports, fitness and healthy leisure.
My advise to all startup entrepreneurs is simple - plan your mating like your startup - lean and goal-driven. Identify your goals, budget, deadline and overall strategy.
If you cannot meet the woman that meets your demands where you are, travel and diversify.
A large factor is that dictatorships need external enemies. They have the jews and the US in the Middle East... How large? I have no clue. Do you -- really?

>>what would happen if a film came along and really rubbed in the humiliation?

Please don't make excuse for religious intolerance and murder. It is not racism to condemn that in other cultures -- it is normal when tyrants control a country.

By the way, this extremely NSFW cartoon is the funniest argument I've seen regarding this.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-one-murdered-because-of-...
There is still one on the front page: http://f.cl.ly/items/0z0V110Z0g2b1U0o2A2M/r.png
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Is the name common? (Google doesn't seem to find anyone else using that name in English, but that doesn't need to say much). In any case, the website URL I provided makes the reference unique, down to the address.

If you mean there are lots of similar products from other sources, then maybe. But pretty much all of the cheap Android tablet models that make it to Europe at least use the exact same board design (identical PCBs, apart from minor changes depending on features, but even most differences between models is accounted for by what components are mounted on the PCB, not differences in board design), the same handful of cases, and the same Android distribution and the same model numbers - everything points to a single source for the ones sold in the UK at least, but maybe none of the other manufacturers bothers with the export market.

I've seen nobody dig up any alternative manufacturers of these specific models over the last couple of years. There may be a few others, but the AllWinner based tablets soldin Europe seems to be pretty much from a single source. If you see a large number of different brands, that doesn't really say anything - that's the case for the ones shipped to Europe too.
The money quote -

These investors, including myself, know what you don’t, and they are not telling
you. The minute you ask for money, you are playing in their game, they aren’t
playing in yours. You are at a huge disadvantage, and it’s only going to get
worse if you take their money. The minute you take money, the leverage completely
flips to the investor. They control the destiny of your dreams, not you.
Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY Thinks of Obama Voters
Maybe something like this? http://opensignalmaps.com/reports/fragmentation.php
While of course I'd like to avoid fraud, the point right now is to make an mvp that people can start using for real. We can iterate on fraud prevention once we have something to defraud, and ideally build toward a system that degrades gracefully to use alternative providers in case the primary is down or tries to withold money such that we can just drop in new ones as startups enter this space and compete against one another.
What's good for the server isn't always good for the client.
If you're running a site, CDN's sound great. If you're an internet user, CDN's might not always be so welcome.

But if CDN's didn't work pretty good from the client's perspective, if they didn't generally speed things up for most users, sites would not use them. So they do work pretty good, in general. But there are exceptions.

At a certain point, when you are getting enough traffic to "break" the site, then it makes sense to move the data closer to the edge. A data center or even at the ISP. And that's exactly what we see big sites doing. I'm not so sure every site using a CDN is in that category though. Some might just be trying to save a few bucks on bandwidth. Others might lack the know-how to run a high traffic site. Some sites I see on Akamai just use them for their www subdomain that gets used in links from articles in other high volume sites. Meanwhile the same content is on the host (sans www).

If we move all data from all sites to the edge of the network, then sure, things will be faster, in general.

I'm OK with that. Then maybe the internet gets more use as a communication channel than as a distribution channel for commercial content: a global TV network.
What's a long vacation? 6 months in Male, Maldives?
I do use CloudFlare for a large amount of websites (dynamic content) and have not had a similar experience.

If CDN is your only purpose? this mostly only useful for static files like JS, CSS and HTML. Somehow your answer is not clear what you try to accomplish. Too little information to go by. If you experience issues with their service, bother them more to get it resolved. Any gain you have improves the service for others.

In the worst case you can always look at other services. I am not sure but I believe Amazon CloudFront provides a similar solution.
Wait. My website is blocked/censored in the UK? Can you email me with details?
How can I find bloggers to write on my new blogging platform for geeks
I have launched a sharing-knowledge platform for geeks, but 3 days after, i had almost no posts at all. There are a lot of people using our site to look for content, but i can't find people that want to blog.

What should i do

my site: guchex.com
> I do this all the time in Groovy and don't use semicolons

Groovy's semicolon-less mode has lots of syntax restrictions. E.g.this doesn't compile...

println true
? "yes" : "no"
The USA is hardly a very centralized system; a lot of taxation happens at the state and local levels, while spending as a share of GDP isn't crazy compared to other developed countries (who mostly consider us very conservative). From some cruddy numbers I found via a quick Google; if someone has better numbers, please share, Federal government spends 25% of our GDP, state/local another 15%, we spend 60%. Of course, we spend money we haven't earned (lent from other countries), so say the federal government taxes at about 15% of the economy (states/locals don't go into debt as much, so they are probably roughly event at 15%). T

Sources:

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_20th_century_chart.ht...
http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2011/apr/22/ma...
Aluguer de Carros Low Cost no Porto
If you want to develop cross-platform mobile applications using HTML, CSS, and Javascript, try PhoneGap - http://phonegap.com

If you want to develop native mobile applications you need to learn platform specific technologies:

1. Objective-C/ios for iphone/ipad

2. Java/Android for android phones and tablets.

3. Windows Phone 7/8 for new windows based phones of Nokia and other manufacturers.
There are certainly tools that Photoshop could provide but currently doesn’t that would be helpful for this kind of work. Then again, maybe the problem is that many of us default to Photoshop because it’s familiar, when Fireworks might be a better tool for the job; I know I’m guilty of that.

I think you’ve inadvertently hit on another advantage of using a graphics package to create buttons, though: you can optically align the button text so it appears centred and evenly spaced with a quick nudge, where a purely mechanical placement might be mathematically correct but look slightly off to the human eye.
Actually the more relevant news for the HN crowd is the new Nexus phone user agent.

http://pocketnow.com/2012/09/16/galaxy-nexus-plus-rumor/
There's no excuse for the murders related to the film and protests, but one cannot deny that US foreign policy has created fertile ground for these extremists.
The ad-hominem is unnecessary and unfounded. Ben Horowitz has a legit entrepreneurial track record, and he generally says pretty smart and useful stuff.
> Without lawyers, without fear that somebody/anybody can/will sue you of anything. Wthout fear of shady contracts, shady business practicies etc.

That is just not true. Nowhere can you be happy-go-lucky about the contracts you sign. Even where there is a degree of protection for consumers like in Sweden, and I wouldn't just assume that everything will work out fine even then, b2b is very caveat emptor.

> In Europe you can go to court without lawyer and win.

What does "in Europe" even mean? There is nothing unified about the legal systems here, even in basic principles. Navigating the UK legal system is wholly unlike doing it in Italy.

> I did, so can you.

He did, maybe you won't be so lucky, get a local lawyer.
And then poor old Corrales dies in a motorbike crash in Vegas :-(
Why do people use it then? Specifically, why is it used in the original image?

They must think it does something? Or are people just following procedures?
Editing text is the opposite of handling exceptions
UK Government G-Cloud project - Sales Information
6 Considerations When Buying A Printer
IIRC 'bic' is used primarily in France.

These companies trying to stop the use of their name seem crazy to me (unless they are 'complaining' just to get some more press). So much promotion.
You know, even if we agree that religion is a divine gift it is up to us to decide what we do with it. If I give you $20 and you go out and buy beer with it, and end up cheating on your wife, you don't come back to me and complain my $20 was evil and tell me I should have given you money in Euros instead. People are going to do what they will. The religion and the fattwas don't really matter.

I have been in Indonesia when there were clerics issuing fattwas saying that killing Americans was ok. I just think it's tragic they get listened to.
Me, too. I don´t see any battery cooling system. This will be a problem, if he´s getting it to work. With these big motors, the batteries will get very hot ... and maybe, burn down ... or at least don´t work very long.
-F changes the fixed width font. You want -f.
Guinness has successfully started "Arthur's Day" in Ireland, the 29th of September when you're supposed to have a drink of Guinness to celebrate Arthur Guinness' birthday. (It's not like they need it, Diageo (the company that make guinness) have 50% of the Irish alcholic beverage market, but shrug)
Well, when a security related issue comes up on HN, we usually get a link to someone like Bruce Schneier quite often.

Sorry, I guess I didn't count him in the same category of people who usually earn that moniker on these boards.

I am surprised that people saw enough merit in downvoting the asking of the question, though.

I don't see this submission as adding anything which is of interest to intellectually curiosity, or helping anyone learn or improve on something further, or any of the guidelines PG put down when posting something.

Nor have the comments from the posting generated anything significant, although several comments are about him being a fraud.

I'd have to stand by what I said, I don't see how this is Signal.
This is almost true. I've been burned by unmaintained Open Source software as well (which resulted in costly in house maintenance) as well as commercial software disappearing.

Keeping all your eggs in one basket is the real problem.
Comment to picture ratio in the active community (defined as those who add photos to groups) seems far higher on Flickr than Instagram.
Friends You Can Count On
Really good stuff for the developers.
Agreed. It's also worth noting that the dataset does not represent the general population, but only the people who use 4-digit passwords on some websites.
> Most people have some perception of levels of security

We're just trading intuitions here, of course, but I'm virtually certain that people's sensitive passwords are as abysmal as their non-sensitive ones. Sure, you'd pick a good password; however, the mere fact that you're debating this point and that you know what password goodness entails tells me that you're not a helpful sample of the population in question (namely everyone).

I'm going to look into finding some data pertaining to this issue. What I'll definitely grant you is that the extrapolation isn't perfect.
Sounds like a good way to show off. "Oh look you have a diamond ring too? Did it come from one of those sweatshop mines where children have to work? No? Oh that's a shame. Mine came from an ethical mine".
I really hope that Virgin are not stupid enough to go after you in some lawyery way over this. I think you are already running a risk by disclosing this at all. The usual next step when a company doesn't show willingness to fix a security problem is that they try and shoot the messenger :-(
And this is a non-post. First, hardware is typically more expensive here in China (components make up much of the cost, which are imported into export-only zones, VAT is high), so if they are selling them for $45 in China retail, I'd expect them to eventually be the same price or cheaper in the states. Second, its not a knock off tablet if it doesn't claim to be something it isn't (like an iPad). The branding is very white label.
The reason is because we allow freedom of speech. Even speech that upsets a few unreasonable people somewhere in the world enough that those unreasonable people decide to commit murder.

The fact that we are engaged in torturing an accused (and probably guilty) but not convicted traitor* is unrelated. Having one flaw does not mean we must have others.

* - Terming it "traitor" describes our reaction, but the actual crime must be something else because the US constitution specifically requires witnesses for a prosecution as a traitor.
A long and frustrating article to say that people should discuss all the claims and not just the rounded corners when discussing recent Apple v Samsung patent case.

As an aside, BT did claim to have a patent on hyperlinking.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/1...)

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnol...)
He's using a COTS charging module: you'll see it if you look through the linked thread.
The Go I Forgot: Concurrency and Go-Routines
Our birth rate and relatively friendly immigration policies (compared to Japan at least) are an advantage here. We also have enough room to grow to 400 or 500 million in the next few decades, which would definitely solve any demographic problem if that growth came from births and young immigration.
How To Run Your Meetings Like Apple and Google: Tips: 99U
I found the tone of this piece incredibly off-putting. The author substitutes smugness for reason. (Also, his frequent grammatical errors and "swinging dick" comments do not exactly connote a sense of maturity and experience.)

According to the article, CoffeeScript does not actually have lexical scope for non-parameter local variable assignment, which is what most people are talking about when they say "lexical scope". CoffeeScript has as much lexical scope as Emacs 23 did (after all, you could use lexical-let, right?). This article is a "holding it wrong" defense of CoffeeScript.

If the tone of this article is typical of the CoffeeScript community, I think I'll steer clear from the whole language and stick to JavaScript when I need web scripting.
There isn't (yet) a great version of CM10 or any AOSP based rom out for the S3:

http://get.cm/?device=i9300&type=stable

... while the Galaxy Nexus has already gotten its OTA update. Closest I've found is the SuperNexus ROM, but even that's still glitchy.
> Free markets always tend towards monopoly/oligopoly/cartel structures in the long term - because the firms that do so retain their pricing advantage (profits) and the firms that don't - die.

This might be true, but short term profits are still attractive to people who want to disrupt the industry. If I discovered a significant diamond mine in my backyard, I'd undercut the inflated prices of the current cartel before attracting attention from the big boys. [1] The only way to disrupt the diamond market is to invent a replacement product that is accepted by all females/males that want diamonds.

[1]every single startup on HN that is "disruptive" and pining to be acquired
Does Piracy Harm Sales?
It took a 65-year study to prove something that should be obvious to anyone with a little bit of common sense?
That could be true. But how many people do you think actually change their PIN? I think it's will be low single figure %; I think many aren't aware you can make PIN changes.
A fatwa by Iran's religious leader doesn't mean anything? Several people involved in the publishing the Satanic Verses were attacked, and one was killed.

If I were involved in the production of that movie (even unintentionally, like that actress), I'd be very careful now.
This is great story about current political issues.

I thought we didn't do great stories about current political issues on HN? I thought that by dragging in things like this, we only endlessly bicker about things NOT hacker-related.

Things that interest hackers? Sure. Things positioned to make hackers squabble? Not so much.
This post also appears at the top of the classic view, so I don't think "late comers" are to blame.

http://news.ycombinator.com/classic
It's also better PR to use Instagram than Flickr.
I can assure you it is even more tragic for the people who get killed.

I am not sure what you are saying. Are you saying that if no Muslim fanatics were out to kill Salman Rushdie, then surely somebody else would be out to kill him (maybe somebody who had a beer beforehand), so the involvement of Islamic faith in the case is completely irrelevant?
lignuist's suggestion is something that could be done. It won't have a huge effect, but it may have enough of an effect.
Startups and Patent Trolls
Interesting. When you say 1004 'sounds like angel', do you mean saying 'one thousand and four' in Korean sounds like cheonsa? or 'one zero zero four'? Or the numbers look like letters than spell out angel?
/ tangent
Tlk.io http://tlk.io
I only have anecdotes rather than data (suspect the same is for you), but personally I would have guessed that nearly everyone does. Obviously I don't know the situation of all my family/friends, but for example in my close family both parents and both siblings have always changed to PIN numbers they chose themselves, I've known colleagues go change their PINs after getting a new card, etc...

I suspect there's no way to know which of our guesses is closer to the truth without a bank providing stats, which seems unlikely to happen. Or a poll somewhere..
well... it does take awhile for foreign countries to adopt white man's guilt or more broadly music in general. I hear most Europeans/South Americans have not heard of Gangnam Style, I bet there will be a second wave in a month from our Euro/Latin friends.
In jail for what crime exactly? The way he made the movie seems questionable, though. If he defrauded the actors (and possibly other participants), perhaps the law has something so say about that?
An interesting article, because it points to, and discusses actual economic research.
I wondered why the "search" bar had suddenly got really slow today and caused Firefox to freeze a little bit when using it.

Need to juice the performance a bit I think
There are several points here where, I think, you share what recruiters think about my resume. I'll comment with my vision of the situation.

> Does his 10 years experience in java directly translate to being a senior/expert person in any other language?

Yes, it does. Given a Python project, I spent half of the first day (literally, half a day) using Google in parallel with coding to find some syntax-specific things out. I.e. how to declare an empty map, how to declare and use a lambda, how to throw/catch an exception, how None is handled, etc. After this half a day, the difference between me and your Python hacker is 5 times less compared to what it was before. Add a week of Python coding and I'll be familiar 90% of most used libraries or a framework you use. My capacity to write a Dijkstra algorithm from scratch, on the other hand, stays with me forever.

Having said that, I understand that if assigned to a Haskell project, for example, I'll have some harder time, of course. Python is just really simple.

With this regards I like Google interviews the most. They take essentially the same approach: choose the language you like to solve our problems, we'll be testsing you for some more serious things anyway.

> Developing Java for 10 years at the same company and the exact same project

Not sure how I made this impression: I worked in 4 companies throughout those 10 years, in very different Java projects.

> I will honestly say that really doesn't make him qualified to be a senior level person on an iphone/android/something/anything development team.

It's too bad you don't have a chance to interview me and compare to your senior iOS guy, really.