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CH only printed about 30,000 copies a week. It was just a convenient proxy. I actually live in France and I've never read CH. However, tomorrow morning when the new issue hits the newsstands, I will be first in line. I'm buying the paper not because I care about the content, but because I care about the writers' ability to express their ideas freely and without fear of being shot in the face.
The Libretto runs linux, or at least used to. I have a libretto 30 on a shelf somewhere :)
I think the purpose of downvotes is a mild correction, less than a flag. Not every comment here is gold to be honest. They don't need to be eliminated but they should be grey as a signal to new readers. At least that is how I view the ones I receive.

As has been pointed out by many sometimes it is hard to figure out why you have been downvoted. I'd like to test the idea of mandatory comment before downvote.

Also I have a feeling some people who definitely don't understand HN culture has got downvote privilege over the last 6-18 months. But I don't have data for that. Comment before downvote would expose those.
No learning Arabic is not compulsory, though reading the Quran is. There are lot of translations of Quran, including in English.

People are not aware as such because of similar reasons, as you may not know the whole of constitution that governs you. It takes time and effort.

Regarding Nasruddin, there are thousands of stories by different authors for all type of audience, if you look a bit more, you will find one with satire.
And here's the tweet itself. https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/553734788881076225

I'm pretty sure that if he'd said this about Jews, it would not have had 7k retweets and he'd also have been forced to 'apologise'.
Let's hope one of them is not sites that make you click through 11 short pages of content.
They're only useful for simple problems – e.g. a user-level compromise or an innocent mistake by non-malware. If anything malicious ever gets admin privileges, you still need to reinstall from scratch.

Since you need a real backup solution either way I've always disabled restore points since they're at best redundant.
I always enjoyed his blogs, I wonder why he doesn't write anymore.
I wouldn't call someone drawing pictures an 'extreme extremist'. I would call someone who murders people with an assault rifle an 'extreme extremist'.

It's the equivalent of me saying something insulting about your mother, and you responding by beating me to death. There is no useful comparison to be made.
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>In fact, a majority of the current climate around islam in the western world can be traced back to the US and the completely inappropriate actions the country took after September 11.

Would it not be traced back to people September 11 itself when 3,000 people were killed?
Right, I was a bit disappointed that the BBC had two separate articles on the cover, but neither included a picture of it.
All irrelevant. How is any of this relevant? The extrapolation of your logic is that we should legislate against offending Muslims. That is the only outcome of your thought process.

> Insurers wouldn't accept standard policies.

No insurance policy I know will pay out for events of terrorism unless specifically negotiated (and i have done a few).
> Personally, I find such trigger warnings, and especially "you might be offended" warnings, totally ridiculous.

Iromically, The Guardian is based on the UK, which has laws that prohibit sending "by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character"[1].

Here is an example of a successful prosecution under said law: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-19883828

1: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/section/127
One reason would be that the very idea of religion is offensive to me. That someone else, without evidence, says not only that they know how the universe came to be but that they have direct contact with the divine creator who tells them how all people should live their lives, is an offensive idea to me!

How do we resolve this? The only solution is for at least one of us to ignore the offense caused by the other, or we cannot live together in society.
> What people tasked to cure PTSD will tell you, is that you want constant exposure to the stimuli until your brain starts to ignore it, and not constant evasion.

From http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/30/the-wonderful-thing-abo... :

YOU DO NOT GIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY TO PEOPLE WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT.
People are amazingly able to assume ignorance is the cause of disagreement.
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TRUTH! TRUTH! Finally someone speaks the truth.

"Linux has proven to be Frankenstein OS assembled from a disparate array of barely functioning parts with horrible reliability and little potential for future improvement."

The reason for this is that contributors to Linux are driven by ego and self-aggrandizement more than technical ability, and there is no benevolent dictator to say, "take your shitty code and shove it up your ass".

It is my fantasy to start an open-source company so I can spend all day yelling at developers. It would be a short term joy, since I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage in the first 24 hours, but somebody needs to do it.
How do you know those attacks were done by the 'right'? What you have done is no different than people saying all "Muslims are terrorists".. Yet you get upvotes.

People that harm people have one thing in common. It is not the 'right' or religion. They are loony and mis-guided, and have their priorities severely out of place. Plain and simple.

Such polarization will never lead to any kind of peace.
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>> First of all.. certainly as a Muslim, I condemn the attack on Charlie Hebdo. This is not Islam.

Pretending Islam is one single thing seems to be part of the problem.

Are the IS fighters following Islam? Were the Hebdo shooters? Or are you?

All would answer yes but clearly are very different, conflicting philosophies.
> I don't know... can you?

Yes. You're listing reasons why people might choose to join/stick-with a religion. The fact that there are (social/psychological) arguments for or against doesn't mean it's not a choice. The fact that it may require courage to choose the unorthodox option doesn't mean it's not a choice.

There's also a distinction between what someone believes and what they appear to believe. Many people go through the motions for the social acceptance, but don't believe any of it.

> saying people are just picking and choosing isn't fair or accurate and shows perhaps a lack of understanding about the subject matter

I agree with this, but I don't think anyone's saying that religion is a "pick and choose" affair. Most religious people were indoctrinated into their particular religion, but as independent adults they can still choose whether to continue with their religion, abandon it or switch to another one.

It would be nice if religion truly were a case of "pick and choose", eg. as a child. At least that way, children would see that there are alternatives, and that their parent's religion isn't irrefutable.
They might as well exist, but based on my prior estimates of probabilities of different events, and Bayesian reasoning, I conclude that it's much more likely that you're insane than that you've actually seen a unicorn (I don't discard the existence of unicorns entirely, I just consider it very improbable).
Christianity was pacifist from the beginning. Jesus was all about non-violence:

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. - Matthew 5:38-39 ESV
The problem with using cleaning tools like the ones you mention is that I'm always left wondering, "What did I miss?" when they've finished. Since it's a long process that's always potentially incomplete, I abandoned that approach years ago. The first thing I ask a client is "What data do you want to keep?" Then I scan the drive offline (mostly for my own curiosity, but also to get an idea of what I'm dealing with), save the data, reinstall the OS from scratch, then restore the data (sometimes with additional scans). This is the only way I feel comfortable handing the computer back to the client.
Hard to pick the best nugget to use as I email this to friends, but I like this: "The Strokes recorded Is This It on an old Apple Mac in Gordon Raphael’s basement studio. But it was mastered by Greg Calbi, who also did Born To Run and Graceland."

Great essay. Really sums up modern commercially recorded music.
Moreso than Jews & Judaism?
Lets count some ways:

- Religion is different than race, because race is something that a person is born with and cannot possibly change.

- He tries to make deliberately offensive panels that are supposed to provoke the same reaction in people as Charlie Hebdo's comics supposedly provoke in muslims, but he falls short by a long shot. The reaction to his deliberately offensive panels is "meh", not outrage, which completely undermines his point.

- He depicts Charlie Hebdo as a magazine that makes fun of certain groups by maximally offending them without any satirical value. This is incorrect. When you place them in their cultural context you see that their comics are actually very left wing and sure they are against religion (any form), but also against racism, islamophobia, classism, xenophobia, etc. When you are outside the culture you may misinterpret the comics if you take them at face value. This isn't a 'lets make fun of muslims' magazine.

- Even if it were true that Charlie Hebdo was just trying to offend people, his implication that it's then not worthy and we should rather appease the offended groups is still wrong. Free speech as long as you like what is said is not free speech.

- His comic is patronising ordinary muslims, as if the average muslim can't handle satire and needs to be protected from it, while people from other religions can handle it.

I could go on...
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The West is the schoolyard bully who steals another kid's lunch every day for a year, and then runs to the teacher the moment the other kid turns around and socks him one.

In addition - WHO said that the Charlie Hebdo murder-spree was an attack on free speech? The criminals who perpetrated the attack didn't - WE did. The criminals who committed this crime said that it was an attack of vengeance - not that they were committed to ending free speech in the west.

The irony in this is of course that our illustrious and ennobled governments are now discussing how to "keep us safe" from the boogeyman by further restricting free speech through surveillance.

We are, as the author of this piece says, not the enlightened "above and beyond it all" society we wish to believe we are. We achieve our ends through violence, and have done for generations upon generations. Someone else is now using the same tactics in a far, far milder format, and we cry foul.

For the twelve who died in the attack and their families - I am truly sorry, and I feel for your loss.

For the rest of you - get on with your lives. By obsessing over this you play nicely into the hands of those who would use you as an instrument of their will, whoever they may be today.

You don't wring your hands in angst every time there's a bus crash and demand that all buses be banned and that all bus drivers are evil, and believe you me, buses kill a lot more people than violent criminality.
You can ignore error values returned just like you can ignore the numeric value returned from atoi. That's the point. They're just values. You are the programmer, it's your job to decide what to do with any particular value returned by a function.
> The longer it is being baked the better it will be in the end.

Gnu HURD Forever!
Maybe most Kerbals are safety-conscious, but until they recognize and strut up their growing pile of solid rocket boosters at the launchpad they must be held responsible...

... oh wait, I forgot it's not Reddit.
So just to be clear, this is not related to VoxelQuest[1], right?

For the sake of a non-gamer, what is a voxel/are voxels? And, respectfully, what's so interesting about all these voxel games/engines?

Also, is Minecraft a "voxel" game? These type of games/engines remind me a lot of Minecraft.

[1] - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gavan/voxel-quest
Within western culture there certainly exists everything that is represented by these pencils. There is also power and imperialism and all that and it is part of the western reality, too. But these two things rarely mix: It's different traditions within the west and often different people. We should make this distinction, just as we make it for Islam when separating it from Islamism.
If you can't believe either me or them, then you surely can try to find out what Islam is yourself right? Best help is self help! To start looking, pick up a genuine English Translation of Quran.
Because with our current economic model, all the benefits will go to the people supplying the capital to develop and deploy the AI.

In the long term, we may discover more sophisticated AI has different goals and priorities than us, and we won't be able to control it or turn it off.
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Ninite Co-Founder here.

Our pro-version SAAS business model works great.

Plus we started Ninite because junkware enraged us so much. It's just punching down at non-technical users. I'd kill the company before doing that.

Anyway, we'll be around and junkware free until the world moves to platforms where everything's signed and sandboxed.
Isn't this partially a result of selling iPhones in countries where majority of population doesn't have access to any means of payment that would work with App Store?
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Users do push comments down by pushing others up. If we are trying to surface interesting content, then what more do we need?

And, why should your simple personal disagreement result in a comment being pushed down unless what we want is groupthink instead of earnest discussion?

The proper thing to do, if one cares enough to express disagreement, is to explain why he/she disagrees.

Then, there's the fact that downvotes negate one's "karma score", as if to say, "I disagree. I will take one of your gold-star stickers".

It's really stupid and juvenile. But, I hope you will continue downvoting me here. The irony is just too delicious.
I'd never heard of CH a week ago, and Bolling's interpretation of CH's cartooning may be more accurate than Secco's, and it was an interesting perspective.

But I think that Bolling's conclusions are wrong, except perhaps when he rebuts Secco's use of the word "vapid".

Bolling says that the only reasonable reaction to the murders is to defend free speech. No. Defending free speech is necessary, but it's not at all clear that it's sufficient. Freedom of the press isn't the only issue here.

There are also issues of what to do about violence/security, what to do about racism, what to do about freedom of religion, etc. Those issues aren't any more important post-murder, but they were important before and they still are, and this is an opportunity to put some eyes on them.

I don't interpret Sacco's piece as saying "CH is unworthy of our defense". I interpret it as saying "Let's defend CH, but also notice that they were missing the point, here's the point". Bolling argues that CH wasn't missing the point. But Sacco's proposal for where our greatest attention should lie is still a good proposal.
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I do share this view. People often forgot that terrorism is not about body count - deaths are only collateral damage, means to an end which is to influence a population through fear.
I agree that the onus to improve people's lives should not be solely on external forces. We can be independent enough to figure out ways to - as in this case - get a nap somewhere during the day.

It is still valid to point out, though, that the structures of society heavily influence our behaviours. I remember years ago afternoons struggling through the hour after lunch, physically fighting to keep my eyes open in the office. It never occurred to me then that there was a solution other than the coffee station. Some direction from work, and a culture where a nap was encouraged would have helped the younger me a lot.

That isn't blame, or complaint. But thinking only of how I can get around my society's lack of awareness of napping is a little individualistic. Why not look to improve the structures as well?
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Why? To make you feel smart or better than someone else? If there is an idea you think is bad and you want the other person to realise it is bad mocking it is a stupid way to go about that. Charlie Hebdo took ideas it thought were bad and didn't simply mock them but used satire and cartoons to explain why they were bad or ridiculous in a humorous way.
I see, I didn't think about that. So you mean AI that are not necessarily intelligent or conscious but are just more integrated in our lives, for example in the military or law enforcement?

I can see how a bug in those kinds of systems could cause things like that without necessarily being conscious or intelligent.
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The reaction of committing murder is all about extremists. I think there are plenty of Moslems who would find the iconography uncomfortable viewing. It just goes against the grain.
Several US news outlets did, the biggest being the WSJ:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/charlie-hebdo-puts-muhammad-on-c...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/01/12/hayat-bo...

http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-charlie-hebdo-cove...

http://chicago.suntimes.com/nationworld/7/71/286127/charlie-...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/01/12...
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Powering this with something slightly more powerful than a Raspberry and it should completely be usable.
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(from 2013, does anyone have an up to date comparison list?)
"... has rained violence and destruction on the Arab and Muslim world with a ferocity that has few parallels in the history of modern warfare."

Few parallels in the history of modern warfare? If we go by total body counts, civilian casualties, sheer cruelty ... I'm not sure this most recent episode would rank.
A nice and steep tax on capital gains would do fine. As technology progresses and machines contribute more and more value the income they generate returns to those that financed them.
Yep. This ruined my Apple for me for about half a decade. I refused to use any of their products because my only interaction with them was with their shitty Windows software, so I assumed all their software was shit. It wasn't until I worked with a Mac fan who let me use his 2005 MBP that I realized that they can actually make decent software.

Microsoft seemed to do the exact opposite in this time period. Their Office software was very Mac-like and worked very well on OS X.
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You have to admire* their tennacity.

* Warning: No actual admiration included.
The main weapons in raising perceived loudness are brickwall limiters such as Waves L3 which raise RMS (root mean square) amplitude while keeping peak levels constant. I think soundcheck is based on RMS, please correct me if I'm wrong - if it were based on peak levels then as you say it would indeed be useless.

I don't know how much or whether the other technologies you mention really help to boost perceived loudness much beyond what is measured by RMS. Multiband compression raises RMS. Boosting high and low frequencies (aka "bare fat bass and mad amounts of high end" [1] - beyond what is wanted for a good sound) could be defeated by measuring RMS based on equal loudness/frequency curves. I've never really used the other things you mention but whatever they are they can be defeated by technology that measures their effect in the listener device. That's if they can cheat RMS anyway - I'm not sure they can but if you do have data on that I'd be interested to see it.

As you say, sound quality is still lost, but if normalization (over the album length where necessary, of course) becomes the defacto standard in playback technology then the incentive for making bad quality/loudness tradeoffs in album mastering is gone. The standard if adopted would restore the dynamic range by taking away the engineers' incentive to compromise it. The engineers would doubtless breathe a sigh of relief as most of them are more bothered about this than we are.

Analog radio would still be mastered stupidly loud. I would assume final stage compression in radio broadcast is keyed on peak not RMS level, again please correct me if I'm wrong. But it's a dying medium anyway.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nlzwDfxVSg
To those of you interested in prison architecture and its effect on society, the architecture magazine Clog has made a great publication on it. http://www.clog-online.com/shop/clog-prisons/
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Wow. Went strait to 11 there didn't you. Though I must say, I can't disagree with any particular point.
I somehow missed that article. After skimming the first few paragraphs I still sort of disagree with Scott, but I'm going to read it carefully. Scott has really good arguments and reasoning in his writings, so I expect it to influence my opinion on the subject.

Big thanks for the link.
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My go code is way more reliable than my exception-language code, because I know exactly where it can fail and what happens when it does. It is much harder to see where exceptions can happen and what the code paths will be when errors happen.

Why is not having stdout automatically an error condition? Lots of programs should work fine with no stdout. If a program requires stdout and doesn't fall when it's missing, that's a bug (and pretty easy to fix).
I know quite a few people who are too cheap to pay the < 1$ for most apps...
Damn. But I can still hope.
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At least for Christians what counts most are the teachings of Jesus and apart from a few predictions of purgatory of the wicked the gospels preach peacefulness and non-violence. Of course when Jahwe was just a tribal god, they had to invent lots of stories on how he was much more powerful than other gods, who didn't even exist because there was only one god and it was theirs.
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