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I agree. What acutally the lingua franca was, changes from time-period to time-period and location. And you're right, what the part "franca" in lingua franca refers to is the Franks, but so does french ;-)

I don't mean that at all times and at any place people spoke French to foreigners. It has been Latin before French, it is English ever since. And the term lingua franca just happened to come into existence while french/frankish was the no 1 language or the "Franks" the no 1 nation in western europe.

Sabir was a pidgin language, but calling it the lingua franca would not satisfy me. Since surely no one sailing from helsinki to stockholm back then, spoke even a dime turkish. Lingua Franca, at least for me, refers to what original language non-native speakers are driven to to speak in. Thus creating pidgin languages.

E.G.: Back then Danes or Swedes did have no intention to use arabic even when meeting an arab trader in some port, since it was easier to try it with some frenche verbes.
You couldn't get away with this politically in the Western world without a huge stink, although from a capitalistic point of view, it's the right thing to happen.

China in capitalist trail blazing shocker? ;-)
I am currently working on my pre-launch startup and I would consider spending five minutes putting up a landing page like that. Not really to collect email addresses, but so I have something on my homepage, so I can go on worrying about the more important stuff.
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I definitely agree with your broad point, especially about headline grammar. I disagree on this being mostly a native vs non-native speaker issue, though. I'm sure you will agree that a language where most words can be used as multiple parts of speech is more ambiguous than one where they cannot.
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Why would that be?
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Not until you see the whole picture.

In the past few years, Pearl River Delta area (around Shenzhen, where Foxconn and the other sweat factories are located) has been experiencing continuous shortage of experienced cheap labor. Other areas like the Yangtze River Delta (around Shanghai) are offering higher wages.

The supply of cheap labor in China is not unlimited. The vast majority of young generation in rural parts of China has already been lured into cities to work. The remaining population in many villages are children and old people, which no body wants them to come.

Simply put, China (and the rest of the world) could not sustain the cheap labor cost anymore. Foxconn is forced to use robots to reduce its reliance on human. Simple robots aren't expensive anyway. Going all robots is expensive, but not robots + human. Robots can perform routine tasks while leaving more challenging work to human. Win-win.

By the way, China no longer relies on compulsory military service. Most of my friends (me included) have never served in the army. Volunteers and paid soldiers are the majority now.
I think eventually this might force China (and probably other countries) to re-evaluate what "work" means and if income should be tied as directly to it, as it is now.

In any case taking a step backwards and not using robots or even replacing them with humans will be almost impossible once the price has adapted to the new conditions.
Close but not exactly. In farming contexts, piglets and chicks are often distinguished from pigs and chickens precisely because they’re too young to eat. So “young pig” really does mean something different from “piglet” in this case, in the way that in many contexts “young man” clearly means something older than “boy” does.

Regardless of your opinion on eating meat, I don’t think this is a failure of euphemism so much as an accidental dysphemism.
I imagine that the average tenure at a Chinese factory is less than three years, so I doubt this will effect most of the workers currently there.
Then again, that may just be a result of us knowing a lot about Science and Technology. I wonder if those who are experts in economics and those other fields The Economist supposedly covers with skill think the same things about it covers their area of expertise.
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Is it just me or should the bullets and numbers of the lists be indented?
I don't know if he lied or not, but an entire paper that basically boils down to "he lied" is not actually a very interesting point when you are expecting to hear about how the brain is able to calculate primes.

> He does not deduce that there is no way someone came up with that on their own

Sure he does - he keeps calling that idea "science fiction".

I'm sure it's a very important paper for its field, but very lacking in conclusions, and therefor of interest only to those in its field.
1. You mention RoR, so I assume you are not aiming to understand the abstract computer science notion, but the practical thing as to what regular expression libraries (ruby's in particular) understand.

2. You do not mention which online tutorials you found insufficient. That makes it hard to recommend things. For example do you know about http://www.regular-expressions.info?

3. Have you played with regular expressions interactively? That could be through the command line, or via http://rubular.com/ (there are tons of such tools online, some better, but this one is for ruby)

As to your last question: whether it is worth for you? That depends on way too many unknowns for me to answer.
A nice reminder that many things have already been done. Often the best question isn't: "why hasn't this been done yet?", but rather "Why did it fail the previous times?".
That's four steps too many, and you've missed the step where the user chooses that Movie Maker is the specific app they want. It should be:

1 - Bill searches for "video editing" or similar

2 - Bill runs an app he selects from the result list

Everything else is pandering to technical details. Advanced options can be presented as a right-click menu on the result list.
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Unlikely.

However China properly doesn't have particular strong unions and Foxconn properly has pretty good connections with the officials who assured them that it was not a problem (and thanks for the BMW).
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No, China is running into a labor shortage. 18-year-olds are getting relatively thin on the ground, for both demographic reasons (one child was ~25 years ago), and because immigration from rural to urban areas has undergone an inflection. Factory workers in a good area can thus get very high (by Chinese standards) wages. Food prices are also going up. They won't admit that inflation is out of control, but it is. Factories are moving inland, or to Vietnam or India. China is looking at Africa, in the long term.

In some cases, work is going back to the US - US workers have higher productivity, the company can sort out quality issues much faster (waiting for a ship to take your whole order to the States, then realizing there's a problem would be expensive), communication is easier, IP doesn't get stolen, and so on.

Also, the cost of living (especially accommodation) is crazy-expensive (by Chinese standards) in the big coastal cities.

China needs to get high-tech before it gets old, and there's already a few grey hairs showing.
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Many typographers prefer to set lists with the text aligned on the left, and the bullets and numerals pushing into the margin, because it integrates the list better with the text and is less visually distracting. See e.g. http://www.iamdavedawson.com/articles/hanging-discussing/
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> this same duality can also be seen in other languages like French

This is incorrect. We eat and ride du cheval (horse), cajole and eat agneaux (lambs), chase and eat poulets (chicken), smile at, and eat, lapins (rabbits), to say nothing of escargots (snails) or grenouilles (frogs), and all kinds of fish, and sea food.

In "farmers' markets" everywhere in France (we just call them "markets") whole animals can be found, with just the skin removed but with the head still attached. It would be weird to call a dead animal that is still very much recognizable, a different name than the live one.
They are not going to replace all of the workers with robots -- only those who do the simplest possible labor.

Think of it as changing a carpenters manual tools with power tools rather than getting a robot carpenter.
> Many typographers prefer to set lists with the text aligned on the left, and the bullets and numerals pushing into the margin.

I don't think this would work very well if you have multiple levels of bullets.
I like how the green usernames for new users expose astroturfing.
Nice! is there videos of this app in action on youtube?

I would really like to get rid of that special treatment.
If you have multiple levels of bullets, there’s usually something going wrong. Hierarchical bullet lists which use nested indents are in my experience an absolutely terrible device for conveying complicated ideas.
The risk point is interesting. All sides have asymmetric information, and the marketplace makes no attempt to deal with this. Most successful markets do something to even up these risks, or to mitigate them, or you get the classic market for lemons situation.
If USA wants to become a strong "manufacturing" country again, it needs to become a leader in the robot workforce revolution, too. This is disruption. It will happen either way, and it's a net benefit for human kind.

It doesn't mean it will replace humans, but it does mean it will kill a lot of current jobs, just like the Internet is killing many jobs now, but creating 3x more in return. Having a robot powered economy means consumerism will explode and there will be a lot of new jobs being created.

Obviously this will upset a lot of things and people in the short term as they need to change jobs, but I think most people are already starting to get used to switching jobs often. The country leaders will need to think long-term here, but seeing how US thinks about "saving jobs" right now, I wouldn't be surprised if they introduce some laws against robot manufacturing in the next few years, but hopefully they won't.

If they push this, it could create a new golden era of growth for USA. If they don't act fast, the Asians will do it first, and they'll continue to remain the leaders in manufacturing (which will probably end up happening).
> why should it be cheaper to run a robot factory in China vs. the US?

Among other reasons, there's: 1) cheap utility inputs, mainly hydro/coal electricity and water; 2) laxer environmental standards; and 3) remaining labor needs are still cheaper.
>>but even if they havent, someone other company would've done so.

This is a hypothetical statement and there are n different ways our world could have diverged. Better not to speculate on how things could have moved forward.

In any case, it didn't look it was a natural progression of technology before Windows became popular as the preferred OS for a personal computer.
I'm a former Navy submarine officer.

While this idea is nice, it's a marginal risk factor. It's difficult to detect a wake, and you can only detect them when a submarine is near the surface.

What really matters is being quiet. Noise transients can be heard for miles, and whether a submarine is shallow or deep. And that's why 50+ years of research has focused on making and keeping submarines quiet.

So while this technology is interesting, it's not very useful for Navy submarines.
I'm happy that the internet is creating 3x more jobs than it is replacing....

But just in case the unemployment rate continues to rise will you do me a favour and calculate what the tax system should do if you have a couple of hundred rich people who own all the robotic factories, farms and trucks and 80% of the rest of the country on 'government handouts'. I'm just saying that we should think about this problem just in case we accidentally manage to replace all the jobs with computers and robots.
Not for me: http://i.imgur.com/Cw8Rx.jpg
Got any references for your claim of 3 years?
Am I missing something, or is this really just a simple css file that's not really got anything to do with markdown itself?

Because the title makes it sound like it is a CSS file that is somehow able to render markdown directly.
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Highly automated robot factories are already pretty normal in the Western world, especially for new factories. It has led to some political controversy, though I mostly see it come up when a local government feels it wasted its money with subsidies when they didn't bring jobs: in Germany and France, a number of localities have been disappointed to find that they lured a new factory to town, but then that factory doesn't hire many locals. That leads to the question: if a factory doesn't bring jobs to town, is there a reason locals should still be positive towards it? (One possibility is if it brings tax revenues.)

My Google skills seem unable to dig up the story, but there was a piece in one of the major newspapers a few years ago about new factories in France, and how eerie/futuristic/empty they felt; you go onto the factory floor and it's just robots humming away, with a handful of technicians.
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> I see no reason to doubt what EJ has said so far. AirBnB/pg have made several conflicting statements, called reporters liars for repeating official statements, and in general, proven to be less consistent/trustworthy than "EJ", which considering her anonymous status, really says something.

Her anonymous status really says something, like what? Well it says she's anonymous, that's it. Nothing more. This is pure hyperbole. The simple fact is, we don't have all the facts. It's her word against Airbnb's word. Neither side is more credible without more facts. Clearly both have demonstrated they will reframe their situation as circumstances change[1][2][3].

[1] http://ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html "I would be remiss if I didn’t pause here to emphasize that the customer service team at airbnb.com has been wonderful, giving this crime their full attention. They have called often, expressing empathy, support, and genuine concern for my welfare. They have offered to help me recover emotionally and financially, and are working with SFPD to track down these criminals." An initial perspective, pre-Internet mob: "EJ" made a first post about how helpful Airbnb has been, stating they have offered to provide "emotional and financial support".

[2] http://ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2011/07/airbnb-nightmare... "Airbnb has not assisted me in securing my safety, if that is the implication being made in Chesky's article" and "But the staff at Airbnb has not made a positive contribution to me personally or my situation in any way, particularly since June 30." Then in her second blog post she backtracks and claims that Airbnb has done effectively nothing to help her.

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822721 "Airbnb has been offering to fix it, from the very beginning. From the beginning they offered to pay to get her a new place and new stuff, and do whatever else she wanted." Here pg is commenting in regards to information he received from Airbnb, apparently contradicting the latest "EJ" post but corroborating the original.
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Ask HN: Why is youtube search so poor?
> when there's no positive spin to be had
How do you know that?
And you do realize his argument is base on how bing works in 2011, right?
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The look is clean and very readable, but I'm trying to figure out the use-cases. Why use Markdown + this idiosyncratic CSS link to produce a partial page, rather than render the Markdown into a full (valid) HTML page and then style it normally with CSS (this or some other CSS)?

As far as I can tell, that page (1) doesn't validate at all and (2) throws your browser into quirks mode. Why is that a good outcome?

(Edited for clarity after StavrosK's question.)
spam. Directly go to http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/?p=1023 instead

I think it was discussed earlier anyways.
I have seen that before here on hacker news; something should be done to supress old stories, or at least to show them only to newbies ...
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Reference needed for "creating 3x more in return". I don't say it isn't true, I just think it's really hard to measure (what is a job "killed by the Internet"/how far do we strech it). I just know that "98% of all statistics are made up".
The tossing your physical wallet out the window analogies are tired and false. When does your wallet ever have thousands of dollars in it? Some naive BC users had huge % of their net worth in BC then got punished for it in various ways.
I'm not sure why my comment got down voted so much, my point is if a obscure web address is the only line of security it is terrible, especially as they recommend you to bookmark the address in your tool bar. The point is it might look great and secure at first, all it takes is a small mistake from one of many angles and it's done for. Examples of mistakes, people posting their urls, people being tricked into posting their urls, shared computers with bookmarks, the webmaster accidently installing a sitemap script which indexes them all etc.
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That was the point I was making. Bill Gates' initial problem was finding the download on Microsoft's site. Eight years later, the same problem persists.

I'm not knocking Microsoft for the sake of knocking Microsoft. I really do wish they would make their site more usable. I used to call their link system NASCAR navigation - looking for information, you keep clicking promising links only to end up back at the page you started on. Now when I search MSDN, I just use the Google custom search [1].

[1] http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=001706605492879182808%3Ayr...
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Look, we agree on the 'usefulness' of juice. And I didn't down-vote your original comment, merely tried to explain what might seem weird about your post.

Now you're asking 'Who cares if it's 100% juice or not': Well - that's what this article was about. It wasn't about how healthy fruit juice is (as I said before, we agree that it's not a good idea), it was about labeling something 100% (which is interpreted as 'natural' and 'pure' by customers) fruit juice while doing weird and counter intuitive things to the substance in question.

So - this article is exactly for all the people that care about whether it's 100% juice they are consuming.
My question is: Didn't anyone at some point say "Hey, this UX sucks. I'd be embarrased to ship this."?

I know from experience how certain people can be completely unconcerned with quality, only qorking for a salary without any pride of their craft. But a whole company like that? It blows my mind.
Looking good. I was curious about encryption of stored data (e.g. Wuala does, Dropbox doesn't). There's a straight answer in the FAQ, https://one.ubuntu.com/help/faq/are-my-files-stored-on-the-s... :

Are my files stored on the server encrypted?

No. If you are interested in having your files encrypted both on your local machine and in the cloud, you could use something like Ubuntu's Encrypted Home Directory feature, and only synchronize your $HOME/.Private folder.
The first question is, "How are you searching for video?"

If you're using a general engine, or even the built-into-site search box of youtube, then your results will be typically poor. The trouble is most of the available types of searches are trying to determine what you mean, rather than keeping things simple and returning results based on a pattern match. Video searching is one of the places where the "what you mean" interpretation yields very poor results.

Additionally, you can use specific "video search" features of general search engines and receive better results than if you used a "built-into-site" search box.

Here's the "quick-link" I use for google video searching in firefox. It's saved as a bookmark, and in the "properties" dialog for the link, I set the "keyword" value to "gv". This means I just type "gv whatever" in the URL/Address bar, and get the desired video search results.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?num=100&safe=off&...

For example: "gv knuth"

https://encrypted.google.com/search?num=100&safe=off&...

Yes, I have different "keywords" set for all the major types of searches I do, and this enables me to get rid of the "Search Box" in the browser.
I suspect this is of marginal utility nowadays, because submarines are visible from the satellites, right?
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