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Let's take a concrete example, capital punishment for apostasy.

"... in all the major schools of law in Islam (Hanafi, Hanbali, Shafii, Maliki and the Shiite Jafari school) there is unanimity that the penalty for apostasy is death. The difference is only whether an apostate is given the opportunity to repent or not, or whether he is given a certain number of days to repent. But it is a fact that Islamic Law demands everywhere that the apostate is put to death." [1]

Here is Dr. Mohammad Mukadam, (then) Chairman of the Association of Muslim Schools, stating in debate with Richard Dawkins that the penalty for apostasy is death:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qvWdWZq8To

Now, let's look at the treatment in law [2]:

* Afghanistan – illegal (death penalty, although the U.S. and other coalition members have put pressure that has prevented recent executions)

* Egypt – illegal (3 years' imprisonment)

* Iran – illegal (death penalty)

* Jordan – possibly illegal (fine, jail, child custody loss, marriage annulment) although officials claim otherwise, convictions are recorded for apostasy

* Malaysia – illegal in five of 13 states (fine, imprisonment, and flogging)

* Mauritania – illegal (death penalty if still apostate after 3 days)

* Oman – legal in criminal code, but according to the family code, a father can lose custody of his child

* Pakistan – illegal (death penalty since 2007)

* Qatar – illegal (death penalty)

* Saudi Arabia – illegal (death penalty, although there have been no recently reported executions)

* Somalia – illegal (death penalty)

* Sudan – illegal (death penalty, although there have only been recent reports of torture, and not of execution)

* United Arab Emirates – illegal (3 years' imprisonment, flogging)

* Yemen – illegal (death penalty)

So. There is complete agreement amongst all major sources of Islamic law that apostasy should be punishable by death; in many Islamic countries it is, and in others it is otherwise punishable.

Would you care to provide an "accurate source of Islamic law" that doesn't manifest this particular evil?

[1] http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Arlandson/bassiouni_a...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy#Countries
What happened in 2011? And the wage suppression agreement has made a mockery of the idea that management at Google take "Don't be evil" seriously.
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They used to have a disable option for the search stuff in the privacy settings, did they take it out?
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I imagine there could be an opportunity for AirBNB/Über style service here. Maybe not for individuals, but for companies that are anyways offering office space for rent and who already have reception facilities (for giving access) etc. Or maybe even hotels? Re-decorate few rooms to serve specifically this purpose (remove beds etc).

The main challenge I can think of is related to getting access to the space. With this kind of service I would not be interested in making appointments with somebody to get access to the place. Too much trouble if I only plan to spend couple of hours there.

Would be also easy to tie additional services to the experience. If there's some catering services available at the location, those could be made available via the app. Book a room and request a light lunch delivered there.

And of course these could also expand to airports. With some good design one could probably fit in a decent room in pretty small place. Knowing that I have my personal space booked at the airport, I could actually go there a little bit earlier instead of trying to kill the time at the city.
Sure your long term target group is everyone, but you need to start with one niche group. Your partner can get the ball rolling in user recruitment. You should have a basic site up with your key product proposition and collect emails.
- He can speak to different groups of people (a class of students, an interest group etc) to get them onboard in one go.
- He can start doing business development - find marketing partners, sponsors, distribution partners, etc.
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Your second point is an interesting theory, but seems unstable. What if one capital owner decides to consume a smaller amount of his wealth, and thereby increase his share of the economy?

Eventually he would rule the world.
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This has been studied. Gains from the Flynn effect don't show a relationship to race effects in IQ.
South Africa only phased it out completely in 2006: http://www.southafrica.info/services/consumer/clean_fuel0812...
If the theory is true it could also account for the fact that violent crime is more abundant per capita in urban areas compared to rural areas since lead from gasoline will obviously be more abundant in cities with lots of cars per square mile compared to rural areas with very few cars.

Here's a link (2 minutes of googling..) showing the difference. http://www.victimsofcrime.org/library/crime-information-and-...
It all depend. Slaves sometimes competed with each other in order to get favors from the slave owner. In reference to the slave owner, they could never earn enough to be free but if they might work hard enough to get food for the day, so was it meaningless to work hard?

Ever heard the song sixteen ton? How meaningful is the work in such situation?
Dell has some support for the corporate E models but not that solid (eg touchpad support took ages to arrive).
I totally agree with you too... "startup" term is becoming an umbrella to cover up bad decisions or situations nowadays for founders. "Startup" should be a phase and a culture for companies. It should not be the excuse of bad days...
What we already did is: set up a pre-registration (~1k mails atm).
We're also present on social media platforms.

I'm with you to start with a niche.
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As a q/a by profession, I allways wonder, how to have some better assurances that the software I have does what it is supposed to.

I believe I have even incidentaly reimplemented quick-check on several occasions.

When we were working in Clojure for a little while, I wondered if it might be possible to combine contracts and logic programming, to verify that contracts don't contradict each other on compile ... and then I realized, that for more complex constraints I might need to solve halting problem.

On the other hand, I remember how much productivity I gained, after I wrapped our json library in simple macro, that verified that the data I feed it conforms to schema (that was before prismatics schema existed, or even core.typed).
Statistics is the means of testing whether or not something is evidence.

I understand what you meant, it's an intuitive conclusion, one that doesn't seem like magic. But, something making sense usually does not correlate with or serve as evidence of it being true.
All other things being equal, maybe. But:

1) A prison is far more easily sold to the population that hospitalization or cures ("what, you mean we're paying for those criminals welfare?!").

2) Imprisonment is "business as usual" -- so less friction and investment needed to move things there (they already are like that).

3) Lots of prisons also exploit inmates' labor.

4) Prison keeps the annoying (to those people) black minorities at bay.
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For some older Radeon cards (such as my 6630HD Mobile) I would recommend the open-source driver instead of Catalyst, as the performance is noticeably greater.
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They were never going to "exclude X" at this stage, it was just about switching the default on supported hardware. Fortunately.
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I genuinely don't know whether violent video games implies more violent behaviour, but I am 100% sure that this chart doesn't prove or disprove anything.
Prisons were initially invented as correction facilities, rather than instruments of punishment. Before this, crime was mostly dealt with by physical punishment.
> The very core of Marx political agitation was aimed at getting the members of the working classes to understand that their self interests were separate from those of the bourgeoisie.

That's like teaching sheeps to unite. It's important to enlighten people, but it won't prevent self interests to collide. Politicians in power can't listen to everyone, it's always easier to listen and talk to powerful minorities who have the strongest self interest.

> Marx was a politician first, philosopher second.

I'd say an activist. I don't see Marx as an active member of a political party, making speeches and announcements. He was more of an intellectual.

When I say politics I say the original etymology of the word politics, meaning having power.
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> Air pollution from cars kills 50,000 a year in the UK [0]. Apparently closer to 200,000 a year in the US.

So just to be clear... you're complaining that the US has five times the population of the UK but four times the deaths from air pollution?
More the just frameworks change. More importantly, if you did not coded for 10 years, it is only that what you remember is outdated. It is also that what you remember is an idealized high level version of what it really was.

That kind of manager that bases his decisions on quick google searches without understanding whole system is the worst kind of manager. If there are trade offs involved and possible bad consequences in the context of your database, your search will ignore that.

Ultimately, "In rails 7, you can't splice the header from the body of the message stream sent over airsockets" is not level of detail non-coding manager should deal with. That is for the rest of the team to either propose other solutions or make it work with the rejected one.

The managers role is not to make technical decisions, his job is to ensure that other team members will help that "excusing" engineer to find solution. Managers role is to detect engineers seem to need help too often, but he is looking for pattern there - not one quick search over what might be controversial issue.
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Translation:he wants everyone to work hard, to pay them little and fire them when he needs to cut costs some more.
Thank you for this really interesting comment.

I wonder if the lead could leave the body, and if the effects it had are somewhat reversed over time, for those that lived in environments with much traffic.

Do you have any idea about this?
In the UK (exclusively, I think), the sockets have gates - in [1] you'll see that there's a lever in the top hole - that pushes down the plastic covers in the bottom hole allowing the pins to be inserted. The earth plug is longer than the live and neutral plugs, meaning that you cannot electrocute yourself with a plug unless you really try. At the same time, plugs [2] typically have plastic guards around most of the pins, such that no electricity can be flowing through the pins while it's exposed.

Of course, it was all for nothing when as a kid I put a braddle or something in the top hole and then mucked around with the bottom hole. Also, I imagine that the foot injuries you get in the UK are also greater because the plugs typically face up (although I've only seen someone actually impale their foot on a holiday in America). But yes, we have the safest sockets in the world according to my old schoolteacher.

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My guess is that the recent 'nearby friends' feature from FB was no coincedence. Once I'm already being alerted that my friends are at the bar I just drove by, why not an alert that the ice cream shop I just passed is having a 25% off sale? Facebook and Google are probably the only companies with enough small business advertisers to pull this off, and I don't think Google has enough active mobile activity to pu this off (especially without WhatsApp). And of course it would be far too risky to build that into Android and push everyone to iOS. I think it's pretty clear Adwords is useless for your local ice cream shop, but an always active mobile alert for nearby customers could provide huge results. I've been expecting this for years but without a massive userbase and a significant number of advertisers it just wouldn't work. I think we're reaching the point where it is viable now though.
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Not really. FLOSS is about being in control of your software (being able to legally modify and distribute things), not making any guarantees about software behavior (including security).

Indeed, source code availability (much weaker than FLOSS) is very useful in software analysis. Nonetheless, while in most cases this is just tedious and boring work, one can still validate proprietary binary blobs. Obviously, that only applies to countries where reverse engineering is legal.
Good Idea. But I'd say it should be the other way around. Focussing on developers (the lower salary cream), higher the developers in the meeting, greater the loss. (Higher people are busy in meetings throughout anyway..)
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I'm sorry, you can't argue that enlightenment values are by nature Christian. Various Churches fought for centuries in opposition to them.

They burned people to death for owning Bibles in English, that is, Bibles they could actually read. Homosexuals were executed during the 19th Century and persecuted during the 20th. Slavery was A-OK for quite a while, too. Female priests? Not until recently, and far from universally even now. Contraception? Right now in Africa a humanitarian tragedy is unfolding due in no small part to the Catholic Church's opposition to contraception.
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Biofuels simply aren't scalable to any appreciable fraction of present-day petroleum utilization in advanced industrial nations. For crop-based fuels such as ethanol, productivity is well below 100 gallon/acre. Scale that to the billions of barrels of oil consumed annually, and you'd need several times the present-day arable land of the US to produce the fuel used now.

Looking at primary productivity worldwide, humans already consume 14% of all plant growth. Our fossil fuel utilization would be another 21% of this, according to Jeffrey Dukes in "Burning Buried Sunshine", a 2003 paper (http://globalecology.stanford.edu/DGE/Dukes/Dukes_ClimChange...)

I see some promise in the US Navy Research Lab's electricity-to-fuels project, using seawater as a feedstock for both hydrogen and carbon. That could scale to national levels of production with only a few square km of plant, and about 40,000 km^2 of solar arrays (about 200 km on a side). Given alternative proposals for fossil fuel replacements, it's vastly further into the plausible space.

For some ballpark numbers:

• Conventional crop biodiesel or alcohol typically cite about 100 gallons/acre-year

• Typical algae biodiesel yields are 10x that, or around 1,000 gal/acre-yr

• I've seen claims of 10x that, for 10,000 gal/acre-yr

Assuming that last is possible, you'd need 124,000 km^2 (350 km on a side), or 30 million acres (about 7% of present US cropland) to supply all present petroleum use. That's a very highly engineered 350km square, mind, with a bunch of goop that needs to be fertilized, wastes removed, protected from pests, harvested, dewatered, and processed.

Some incidental biofuels utilization? Sure. Most of our fuel from it at present volumes? Not gonna happen.
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Hello,
I am a student major in Computer Engineering and I am in 3rd year now. I have been following Hackernews for a long time because I am interested in technology and start up. I really love learning practical technologies which I can see their result immediately. Gradually, what I am self-learning are divergent from what I am taught in my university (I am self-learning iOS game development, Node.js... and I think you have already known what our university is teaching us). This makes me headache because my time is limited, I feel I cannot do both well. Therefore, I consider drop out and focus on self-learning. Does anyone have the same experience? Can you share what you did then? Thank you.
This might be trivial. One of my friends is a serious blogger (she has around 7-8 blog sites on various topics she writes). Why not a simple blog aggregator to post in blogs into the site you wish?

E.g., You want to blog for tumblr, create a post here and then it gets auto-posted to tumblr directly.

Of course, the API issues and permissions are another headache to worry about.
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I've had as many startups fail as HN usernames hellbanned. Lost count.
I really want to use Ubuntu for personal use, but still really miss it not having MS Office natively available.

I know this comment may seem lame here on HN but I just don't have the time to master OpenOffice or figure out the best way to manage compatibility when sending documents around the place.
Ah, there is the thing most people don't realise.

The "core values" are for the drones, specifically to keep them in line and not cause any issues. The board members can keep doing what the $%%$ they want as the only values they have are economic, the generation of profit for the company.

Just remember that corporationa are not "ethical" so having "core values" is an oxymoron. The only thing a corporation exists for is profit, so "core values" is the clown face painted on a psychopath. A corporation will lie, rape and destroy to make a profit.

Human beings have values. Human beings can be ethical. But most corporate leaders leave their humanity at the door when running a corporation. It is just business.

"Core values" are a delusion for the masses, a stupid form of mind control to keep the losers in thrall [1].

[1] See the definition of loser here: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
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You can also use Scala:
https://github.com/pkukielka/stronghold-defense

The main problem which you will get with languages like Scala , Clojure and other functional languages on JVM is a lot of garbage generated during the execution. And garbage collector on Android isn't even remotely as effective as standard one. This often forces you to write code which is not really idiomatic and which rather resembles java. That is possible in Scala (I'm not sure about Clojure), but to some extend it defeats whole purpose of using something other than java.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of linked game.
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Five buttons, all for spaces? That would already be a sign to me that whoever designed that UI wasn't really thinking straight...

And I'm almost willing to bet that not letting you enter spaces might be the result of a "security fix" because they pass the contents of that field, unescaped, directly through to a wifi configuration shell script, and someone doing some testing discovered that spaces would "cause things to break", so the solution was to disallow spaces instead of performing escaping on the password string.

Also related: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Securing-Secure-Security.asp...

Edit: while Googling around for some other devices that might have this interesting issue, I found... https://github.com/xbianonpi/xbian-package-config-xbmc/issue...

Why is escaping input such a difficult concept to comprehend?
So the thesis is that technological progress relies on us incentivizing people with the hope of extreme wealth?

Seems unlikely - for one counter-example, a large part of progress in society rests on investment in basic research, and most of the scientists engaged in that work have no real expectation that they will get rich.
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A every increasing wealth inequality destroys incentives to work hard. The song sixteen tons encapsulate the feeling workers get when they just get "another day older and deeper in debt".

With wealth being hereditary entitlement to one group that increasingly get more wealthy, we end up with everyone else being in more debt to them each passing day. The debt bondage model simply moves from being about a mine, and becomes the model of the country.
I figure this is just the name for the legal entity and does not necessarily mean a change in branding?
It's a lot easier to be sure that you are correctly checking that 2 + 2 = 4, than to verify that you're proving the right thing. If you have your proof in hand, and unit tests, you should be more confident than if you have just your proof. Vice versa as well, of course (and probably more so) but that doesn't mean you shouldn't test properties of your code.
If I remember correctly (haven't read this article), there's some sort of offset between decrease in lead and crime reduction, which seems to suggest that it is infants and young children who are affected, or lead actually affects the development of some areas of the brain (the offset was explained by the fact that infants and children don't usually commit crimes, but they do once they get slightly older).

So it is not lead itself, (or the presence of it in your organism) that makes you more likely to commit crimes, but having your brain development impaired by it while an infant that does.

I don't have time to search for the article, but it came up with the last discussion on this topic here.
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Thanks for the reply! I implemented some of the suggested changes. As for the input and button, I thought it was obvious that the green bar is the input field, I added some java script that focuses field with blinking cursor if you click register without entering email.
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OpenBSD has several side-channel attacks possible against it's poorly-written AES-GCM implementation.

Doesn't even require a VM.

They're in the middle of fscking up OpenSSL as we write.
Been using linux distros and ubuntu 12.04 for about 2 years now. Linux is the shit but ubuntu sucks IMO. Very poor customization possibilites. Heavily reliant on python 2.7. Very bad support for other window managers than unity, dont ever try to mess with multiple window managers on ubuntu, it will ruin your week. With WAY FASTER alternative systems such as arch, funtoo, gentoo, knoppix and even debian. I have a hard time understanding how ubuntu could have gained the traction it has among developers.