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Your interpretation is correct: I wrote it as an advice, not a judgement. Whenever in doubt, prefix the original sentence with "In my opinion, " and internet comments start making a whole lot of sense.
Stalin, Pol Pot, the leaders of North Korea, etc.

Bullshit. Communist personality cults are about the best example of religious thinking run amok that we can point to, in recent history.

Same mental bug, different exploit.
Yes, and power is used as a tool to kill. Your point being?
You are both right, but your analysis is trivial and his is slightly less so.

A fuller way of combining both would be:

The showing of a movie, specifically to rile up people who would otherwise not have cared, is the application of power to send a political message.

Yes - the message is being generated by a system that uses religion as a major ideology. ~~The system is also populated and maintained~~ edit: The system contains both actors actors who care little for religion, but completely for economic/political/personal gain, and actors who are acting irrationally under a set of irrational data.

Either way, this chain of thought is more likely to immediately generate a flame war, in a thread mourning the loss of Vile Rat.
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The copy elsewhere on the page suggests that English is not the native language of the person writing the copy.
I think "the root of all evil" is, in general, not a good choice of phrase. I understand the vehemence with with you speak, but I think it's a bit overly hyperbolic and creates quibbling over the word "all". Saying that religion is the cause of much evil (which far outweighs the good) would be sufficient.
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> Religion is the root of all evil.

There's massive amounts of atrocities committed by not-particularly-religious people in human history. How do you support a comment like this? Why do you feel the need to hurt lots of good people who also happen to be religious?

In debates like this, things often turn out into a flamewar between militant atheists like yourself (I'm assuming here, but I think you've made it pretty clear), and convinced believers on the other side. It goes "religion kills!", "no! religion saves lives and makes us happy!" (but then unfriendlier).

But what if there's no strong correlation between religion and evil at all? What if religious organisations don't make the world a whole lot better, but not really much worse either?

If you'd plot out all commited atrocities in history against the strength of the perpetrator's religious beliefs, would we find correlations?

Let's do a little thought experiment, and map some evil-doers to their being reli-nuts or not: Osama YES, Hitler NO, the crusadors YES, Genghis Khan NO. The list goes on, and evil-doers from both "sides" are in great supply. In fact, this would be a great game for the kids in the back of the car.

Anyhow, you can see that I didn't do real stats, but it feels about 50/50 to me. What if this were the case? Could that get all the militant atheists and the militant reli-nuts to lay down their weapons and do a little group hug? That would be nice.
RIP Sean.
Forgive the disposable account, I am a long-time registered user with high karma but even I think that once in a while there is a topic that requires anonymity (or at least further pseudonymity).

I do not feel I suffer from depression, yet I think of suicide frequently. Frequently as in, once every couple of days to several times a day, for as long as I remember.

Frequently these are just passing thoughts, of how I might do it, or of an opportunity not taken. Other times these are serious considerations and the weighing up of why not to. I don't pause on "why to" as I can answer that instantly every time.

Ultimately I conclude every time that life isn't worth living. It never has been, and never will be. But yet, to experience it is a gift and I should experience as much of it as possible before the end. To experience life is the only reason I can think of to live.

I always remember Camus, I always am mindful of the Myth of Sisyphus.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/camus/

<cite>
The Myth of Sisyphus (1943) – If there is a single non-fiction work that can be
considered an essential or fundamental statement of Camus’ philosophy, it is
this extended essay on the ethics of suicide (eventually translated and repackaged
for American publication in 1955). For it is here that Camus formally introduces
and fully articulates his most famous idea, the concept of the Absurd, and his
equally famous image of life as a Sisyphean struggle. From its provocative
opening sentence (“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and
that is suicide”) to its stirring, paradoxical conclusion (“The struggle itself
toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus
happy”), the book has something interesting and challenging on nearly every
page and is shot through with brilliant aphorisms and insights. In the end, Camus
rejects suicide: the Absurd must not be evaded either by religion (“philosophical
suicide”) or by annihilation (“physical suicide”); the task of living should not
merely be accepted, it must be embraced.
</cite>

The problem I have is that I feel I already know that one day I will be at peace with the ridiculousness of living, and reject the "to experience" argument. One day dying will win the argument, and it only needs to win once.
> the fact that people can rationalize anything nowadays.

That's the whole point of rationalization. Rational process of thinking can be applied to anything, to choices deemed good or bad, much similarly to science which can be (ab)used for purposes deemed good or bad. Nobody can't make a decision based on pure rationalism because anyone half-skilled in rationalizing is able to counter-argue his own argument down.

Rational thinking is a valuable tool to gain insight into things but only a fool thinks he can solve dilemmas of good vs. bad with it. Ethics itself is a product of a mind and what mind does is always rational.
But he loses credibility to anyone paying attention. This isn't some press hit to get users. His goal should be to make people think he is a good partner, and even if his point was valid, his approach doesn't help.

Do I really want an investor who enjoys controversy?

Note that pure controversy isn't the same thing as saying something you think is true that makes others uncomfortable. That is what PG's essay did, along with many others of his. That is what makes PG good: incisive ideas.
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Sure. I think Garageband, with it's skeuomorphic knobs and the like is a good example of what you are talking about.

On the other hand, Lion's iCal is absolutely hideous. No beauty there.
Isn't Kim Il-sung technically still the leader of the country, making NK a shining example of a modern day necrocracy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5FAZHwOnX8
Although Stalin's USSR didn't technically believe in a deity, it still has many religious elements:

* Violently throwing out competing religions, like Christianity

* Belief in a single god-king (Stalin)

* Total faith in the power of communism as the most perfect solution to the world's problems

* Harsh punishments handed out to those who question the orthodoxy (gulags)

* Obsessed with submission of the individual before an institution

Blind, violent faith in bad ideas could reasonably be blamed for a vast amount of the world's problems.
I do not agree with your reasoning.

First of all, if going native, you'll have to put in twice the effort for targeting both Android and iOS, while an HTML5 app can be easily ported to WinPhone or even Symbian.

Will it be shittier than a native app if doing a straight port with no effort to make it seem native? Most definitely YES, but at least you've got an app to give to your customers that want to use your product. Because no matter how cool the new Facebook app is on iOS, I'm still and will continue to be an Android user.

Also, I do not agree that it's easier to develop that native app in the first place. I can easily do things in HTML5 in terms of UI that I wouldn't know were to begin with native widgets. All is fine and dandy when you're using the standard widgets, but if you want to have non-standard behavior, or to put your personal touch on the design, then all hell breaks loose, because those native widgets ARE NOT as fluid, as easy to change or as composable as a bunch of divs with CSS attached. People underestimating this point have never worked on designing interfaces in both HTML5 and native widgets.

And for the record, I hate the native app because it's slower than when using the website in my browser. But the work they did also improved the mobile website, which I find to be awesome.

The current Facebook app, if developed by
competent guys, is a 3 months project by 2 people

Yeah and I'm sure that in their spare time those same 2 people could also build Twitter.
There's a mass rename of a great number of "outposts" in the game to honor Vile Rat: http://evemaps.dotlan.net/outposts/changes
I don't think this will ever be able to replace bicycles or cars. This thing cannot be safe. Let's say Mr.A is riding one of tbethese on a busy road and has to make a quick brake on high speed. The board will come to a stop but the momentum his body has gained will make him fall seriously injuring or killing him. So its a toy, not a serious transportation device IMO.
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You give the non-technical person's point of view and there is no way it can be correct. All successful tech firms are successful because of their advanced technology created by employees or acquired. In no situation did Apple engineers hang out in a crowded room until someone told them where they can pick iPhones off of a tree. Someone had to actually design and make those, and that is what made the business the largest. It's the airplane effect. Airplanes are so amazing that its difficult to image that a group of people designed and crated it.
Yeah. The public is going to mount a revolution over a music format. I don't think being contrary for its own sake is helpful here.

The whole point of "tested by the courts" is that it's already gone through the appeals process. As in, you have the final decision you're going to get out of the courts.
All of the people you listed were leaders of cults of personality, that is, they were the heads of their own religions.
Can't let Robert Sapolsky go unmentioned:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
It appears that the effort and skills required to follow through with a product vision and take it to market are greater than or equal to those required for its conception.
Some people are good and some are bad. Certainly.

But to get a good man to do evil things, religion is needed.
I have a 2000 Mustang and those bulbs in the back are a little more tricky than one might think. :)
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HTTPS is an entirely different story, I don't know that people would necessarily like installs like "curl https://my.script.ly | sh", but there's at least a mechanism to verify the identity of the source.
What is a more appropriate term?

Also, I understand how this product benefit deaf people, but I don't understand how it would be any more useful to mute people than non-mute people.
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On Arch, you can just write your own PKGBUILD.
And replace all the neat stuff we're doing in JVM/.NET systems?

It remains to be seen.
What do you mean by came from the society ? Do you mean it' reactional to the context ? These are the types of depressions where cognitive therapy can be efficient. You can learn to direct your own thoughts, or avoid self bashing thoughts, that will prevent you from falling back into depressions and take control of your own mental wellbeing and your life.
Calling an anti-religious organization "religious thinking" points to misuse of the word "religious" more than anything.
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I am pretty sure someone said the same thing when boats first came out thousands of years ago. Then cars and trains hundreds of years ago. And motorcyles. Let us not get started on airplanes. Actually I am even sure someone said the same thing to the first guy/gal who came out swinging riding a horse "Oh my God, these animals are unpredictable, they will kill you, you will fall and break your neck."
I love the web page, it's really well done, little correction, why is "sign in" standing alone and with no design in the right corner?
It's older than that - http://techcrunch.com/2007/07/10/ring-the-alarm-clock-you-we...
or money... or leverage or the right amount of manipulation at the right moment.

Edit: or ignorance or any number of things. Good men do evil things all the time.
Plenty of examples of "good" men doing bad things in the name of survival or just maintaining status.
This may be, in the end, the worst mistake that Apple is doing with their platform. What shape would for instance web shops, or the SaaS market, be in, if the only way to run one was to give 30% of your revenue to Netscape.

Netscape could still be alive this way, but web would be way smaller.
Religion is just one among many flags of convenience for assholes and monsters.
There is also #go-nuts in irc.freenode.org and http://reddit.com/r/golang
Stay productive
Bash is well qualified for /bin.
Emphatically disagree. Religion may give a "good" man a convenient excuse to do "evil" things, but it doesn't take religion; all it takes is authority, of which religion is just a particular flavor.

The Milgram experiment should have proved that beyond question.
Probably not as well or successfully as the mentally healthy...
> "are these very common problems among the HN/tech/startup community?"

These are very common problems among humanity.

It's good that this community is willing to talk about them so openly.
That's very pithy, but it's patently false. It doesn't take religion to make "good" people do "bad" things. It just takes an authority figure.
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"If you play this stupid game, you may not realize it, but you play in a galaxy created in large part by Vile Rat’s talent as a diplomat. No one focused as relentlessly on using diplomacy as a strategic tool as VR. Mercenary Coalition flipped sides in the Great War in large part because of Vile Rat’s influence, and if that hadn’t happened GSF probably would have never taken out BoB."

Sounds like a man who was good at his job. I feel a lot better about the State Department knowing they hire people like this. The comments say he had a family, I hope they're taken care of. RIP.
Didn't know him personally at all, but I thought he had done excellent work in what must be one of the hardest jobs on the internet; voluntarily moderating a political forum. Soar in the wild blue yonder, Vilerat.
Or political power, or money, or culture, or society, or what-have-you. Look at the Roman empire, more "good" men did evil deeds as part of that organization than we will ever be able to account for, but did they do it for religion? Hardly. They did it because it's easier to rape and maim and pillage the weak than it is to stand up to the power structure you are within.
No, Ruby's default is to install to /usr/local. It was just an illustrative example used to demonstrate potential complications from not using /usr/local. The submission wasn't a guide to building Ruby.
I think the problem here is that you were at an "event", very little time to meet with people that he already probably had meetings planned with.

I would suggest that you find a way outside of that OR look for 2 people in your network to introduce you.
They are talking, they are just not that loud... or may be you're "listening" in a wrong place.
Interesting 'stacking' approach to a responsive menu
It's worth noticing the article has a 2005 date on it. I suspect there's a lot of stuff the author (Dan Benjamin of the 5by5 podcast network) would change now.
Its not future if it has sockets. Even today this is almost doable with Qi wireless charging and NFC.
They do? Then they do a crappy job at it, since when I moved out of Gmail and GReader and when I get something on Google Docs, I could export my data in standard formats.

You should really tell them they're screwing their tying down plans with their Data Liberation initiative, the Google Takeout and all those APIs.
I was on the other side of the war when Lokta Volterra was swept away and saw the carefully placed agents disrupt and cripple the defense and organization. Those events pretty much killed EVE for me as I lost everything in the game and had no desire to rebuild.

Looking back 6 years later, it's fascinating how we touch each others lives through these communities. While I never knew VR, I can't help but to feel connected to this State Dept official in Libya. RIP.
No, religion is the root of much evil.
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What kind of ads or "special offers" does the Kindle display? Are they personalized for your Amazon account? How often are they displayed?
Overall a great talk by @freerobby. One little nit... The Riak search feature is not built on lucene but modeled after it in terms of api. The search itself is not as robust as lucene but useful for most applications.
> There is no such thing as "unencumbered by patents".

When do the lawsuits over PNG begin?
Their engineer claims it was an issue with BGP (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.operators.isotf.outages...).

BGPlay (http://bgplay.routeviews.org/) does not show anything indicative in the BGP default-free table (what the Internet sees), as abnormal or misconfigured. While there could be iBGP issues, like others have stated there was (intermittent) connectivity by IP during the outage.

It's both bullshit PR and more importantly spreading disinformation to save face. Why?

A security breach would instill customer fear and generate negative press. Customers would leave by the droves.

A DoS/DDoS displays that GoDaddy has inadequate infrastructure while competitors such as CloudFare actually do. Furthermore, why would a company that pisses off the Internet be appealing to anyone? Again it will generate negative/bad press, and customers will leave by the drove.

Spreading disinformation by claiming it was either a human error or equipment fault? From a company perspective this is actually the best option. Just provide generous service credit to your customers, you may generate positive press, you will gain customer goodwill and regain their confidence. This is GoDaddy's best option.

Until they provide actual details with proof that it was a misconfiguration or hardware fault, I will continue to call bullshit. Too many factors don't add up, especially the publicly available data which monitors the BGP DFT on the Internet.

The two conjectures that seem plausible so far is the SQL injection in their web interface for DNS and/or a DoS/DDoS attack.
Looks like more bedside table clutter... What problem does this solve? Your significant other doesn't care for you enough to wake up for fifteen seconds when your alarm goes off? You need a divorce, not more crap.
To be fair, you can do that on any distribution, that is their point.
Until about 2 years ago I had a long period of heavy depression. At that time, thoughts about suicide did cross my mind often. This depression was partly caused due to a post traumatic stress syndrome.

In his article Wil states that he wasn't very interested in using medicine and I shared the same thought. I did went to a shrink though and eventually we agreed that instead of medication I would go outside more, eat more healthy, occasionally practice a bit of sports and visit friends more often. These things might all seem very basic, but when in a depression it's really very hard to get oneself as far as to actually make these changes. While all of this helps, my major issue was finding a new purpose in life. But I do feel making these changes in my habits did help me find this new purpose.

Now I live in a country with a very good social system, so I can imagine it's easier to make those changes in life compared to countries where it's very hard to survive when not having a job. I've had 2 jobless periods of about a year during my depression which lasted in total for around 7 years.
One week since our launch...and...
It’s been a week since we soft launched our startup, Moshbag (http://moshbag.in), a distribution platform for artists, and…
“We’ve had hundreds of artists signup & thousands of subscribers!” is what we’d have ideally liked to say, but…the truth the far from real & it’s honesty time!
We’ve had almost no new signups, little response to our email campaigning, & a tad over 5 new likes on our facebook page.
The whole episode has humbled us & we're not so sure where we've gone wrong! Any advice or help from fellow hackers will be much appreciated!
P.S. We’re looking to increase the number of artists who signup with us & truly appreciate any help from your end on this. So if you have a good network of artists following you or if you can just help us reach them, we’d be grateful.
Go to North Korea and call their citizens "atheists" or "irreligious." They will send you home in a box.

They don't worship god(s) as we tend to think of them in Western culture, but the personality cult of the Kim family is as much a part of their spiritual lives as Christ or Muhammad is to Christians and Muslims. They are atheists only in the narrowest of technical senses.
Yes I think it can be done. I haven't done it but if you ctrl-f CBT one user suggests they've had success replacing their negative self talk.
Not really - I have done motorsports for long (F1 designer), and I feel Michael Schumacher is more of a role model than AS. Infact, MS has been my role model since I was 14.
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I don't remember why anymore but I always had a good impression of Vile Rat through his forum posts (been a long time since I was in GF). His skills, attitude, and achievements, in both the realms of politics and hilarity, made an impression on me. It's a sad, sad day.

RIP VR. Our memories will preserve your legacy. GF, keep shooting blues forever.
Gruber says "(Eric Schmidt even admitted last week, at Motorola’s Droid event in New York, that only one half of one percent of Android “activations” are for tablets"

The source (http://9to5google.com/2012/09/05/eric-schmidt-1-3-million-an...) says "Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced on stage that 1.3 million Android devices are being activated daily, of which 70,000 are tablets."

So tablets account for more than 5% of Android activations (not one half of one percent)
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Don't attribute to God what the devil does.
Great site for discovering new sites and startups!

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I don't know... in my mind, cheating at sports is fundamentally different from (and less serious than) defrauding people in the stock market;

The sock market is how we allocate most capital. Even making it slightly less efficient has huge negative consequences that touch almost everyone, not just people that choose to play in the stock market.
Thanks. I was gonna ask parent how he does it because if it's easy for him he might know some magic I'm not aware of.
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