skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another one www.google.com/ncr - sets default Google search domain from google.cc to google.com, where CC is country tld.
Useful if you prefer to search in .com version and not the localized one.
If people are working at FoxConn voluntarily (i.e, they choose to go to work there because they believe their lives are better that way), who cares?

Now you are moving the goalposts from discussing Foxconn to the question of whether we should regulate free will.

I’m not asking you to agree with my stance on any of the following questions, but I do ask you to recognize that they are equivalent to your question, and to recognize that many other people hold differing views from your own:

* If people want jobs working at a construction site that doesn't follow safe practices like wearing a hard hat, who cares?

* If people want to work for $1 a day, who cares?

* If people want to work for an employer who insists on sexual favours as a condition of their employment, who cares?

I think you can recognize that while there are folks who don’t care about any of these questions anywhere in the world, including North America, in the US and in Canada there are a sufficient number of people who do care that we can readily say that our moral standard is such that we claim to care as a society.

As for being forced to work somewhere, I’d say you’re rarely forced to do anything, you just find yourself in an environment where the alternatives are so drastically unappealing that you effectively have no free will in the matter.

This is why we choose to impose safety standards in the workplace: We have discovered that the free market will act in such a way that safe workplaces are extremely rare, and in turn people seeking jobs will discover that they have few if any options available to themselves.
Say you're into poker and a bank buys your data. You're now tagged as a gambler and considered a liability, so you will have a harder time getting a loan. A future employer could buy it and decide they don't like some certain thing about you. Etc.

Maybe they will never sell your data, but maybe they will. There's unlimited potential for abuse from the corporate sector. What the FBI knows about me doesn't worry me much.
Sometimes when I'm really bored I read the Articles for Deletion. It's always enough to satisfy myself that... yep, the articles being deleted really are crap.

I admire wikipedia editors, the gnomes of our age, working tirelessly on a boring, unglamorous task which gives them satisfaction.
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It's really not. Google probably can't get the rights to Helvetica because of the way Android is licensed. I wouldn't want to call "homages" to Helvetica a "time honored tradition", but that's only because "tradition" seems like the wrong word.

Nobody's been injured here.
The screaming one to me is that O in Helvetica is a circular shape, whereas Roboto has vertical lines. There are definite similarities, but a multitude of fairly significant differences.
I apparently entered my test cases wrong in lots of interesting ways. I think I've actually found essentially the same solution you have, it turns out I had the exceptions and the actual solution backwards:

n avargl qrterr ebgngvba naq n ersyrpgvba nobhg, nf sne nf V pna gryy nal, yvar guebhtu gur bevtva frrzf gb tvir gur evtug erfhyg.

Are we sure this is the correct meaning for "A = -B", where A and B are matrices? Some things I've read seem to be saying that that should be equivalent to AB = identity matrix, rather than Av = -1(Bv), where v is some vector.
(Edit: Comment I responded to initially made reference to an entity holding "the rights" to Helvetica.)

What rights are those, exactly? Typefaces are not copyrightable under US law. You can get design patents, but Helvetica was developed in 1957, any such patent would be long expired.

You can trademark the name, but that's of no consequence here.

You can copyright a particular "font file" in much the same way you can copyright a block of code, but that doesn't prevent someone else from creating their own version that is visually indistinguishable.

So, what rights would be violated here, exactly?
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There's a new and interesting product that's been discussed here on HN a couple of times:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_vasectomy/
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Isn't knowing and understanding what your users are doing with your app the cornerstone of making a better app?
Which one is that?

Anyway, like I said, wikipedia ain't perfect, but it's amazing how far from terrible it is.
Users won, did they? How much were they individually compensated? (No need to look up the answer - users received nothing.)

Facebook settled that particular lawsuit, so no judge had an opportunity to determine whether there was an actual injury or not. Facebook itself admitted no wrongdoing - settling this sort of thing usually means you've done a cost-benefit analysis and it's cheaper and easier to just pay off the lawyers.

As for the independent privacy foundation that Facebook was required to fund - anyone here heard from it lately? (Anyone here heard of it at all?)

And as for Beacon itself being closed - well, it certainly doesn't look like it slowed down Facebook much, did it?

The Beacon lawsuit did nothing for anybody, aside from the plaintiffs' lawyers. Arguing that 'users won' is delusional.
maybe interesting:

In Europe (and of course in Germany) the federal governments offer realtime gps correction data via IP or 3G (radio was shut down a few years ago).

They offer a precision of 1cm-2cm used together with GPS/GLONASS

PDF: http://www.sapos.de/pdf/Flyer/2004Flyer_e.pdf

(Sorry, German language only:)

http://www.sapos.de/
http://sapos.bayern.de/service.php
A good friend of mine works for isohunt (Vancouver based torrent site), they're being sued in the US IIRC.

I wouldn't at all be surprised if the court finds a different approach for working with torrent sites, that court recently decided that those being questioned by police do not have the right to a lawyer. At least up in Canada we jump through all the hoops to strip people of their rights.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2010/10/08/supreme-court...
For most of my apps it's "fast enough" too. But I definitely wouldn't call it "fast."
Exactly! It is the reverence given to Steve Jobs that makes this particularly interesting. We all assume other companies are screwing someone over to get us cheap goods, but somehow Apple marketing made buying their products practically a religious experience.
Definitely. Comparing fonts letter by letter is something only a font priest could do. Here is a paragraph comparison I found on the other Hacker News post on the matter:

https://minus.com/lYhmsD1xeT9ap
I will give you one example. Somebody uploads my picture to Facebook and tags me in it. Facebook now matches my face to my name - forever. I can't ask them to forget that they know me, I can't ask them to delete that data, and I can't get a new face (although sometimes I would like to).

Facebook now has that information forever and I played no part in them obtaining it. They could launch a feature tomorrow where you can take a picture of a stranger at a bar and be given their 'closeness' to you, or their name. Or that data could be stolen, or misappropriated.

This is about companies over-reaching and then either the data accidentally leaking or intentionally being used without user permission. Most people don't have a problem with it, until something goes wrong.
> The day Facebook, or Google, or anyone actually decides to do something evil, it will look ugly. Will they ? Don't know.

Even if they don't they can get hacked (c.f. psn). This is the worst problem IMO.
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Taking to service as recycle mobiles you can be rest assured that your old models will not be adding up in the landfills and can increase pollution. The campaigns as these also provide you cash on selling your old models. So isn't it great that both the environment and your pocket can be pleased doing this?
all i need is a way to tell which way is "up". preferably a way that will also work in the dark, using one hand.

i'm sure there's statistically significant evidence of telepathic (in-)ability in the number of times i put the damn thing on upside down and then can't unroll it.

and easier opening packages. fix the basics already.
From the Reddit post:

> The contest is not ready till tomorrow.
Everything is still beta today, all accounts so far will be purged tomorrow.
~amstan Contest Organizer

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lhlt9/googles_a...
Interesting, glad to see, at the very least, a bit of patriotism returning to the idea of jobs. In big companies the push to outsource is strong and political correctness prevents much dissent.

Would still like to see a government regulation help as well: e.g. perhaps companies with more employees per profit would have a tax incentive and companies with fewer employees per profit would have a penalty. This way you essentially pass on 'unemployment' payments to companies rather than giving handouts from the government. Presumably companies would thus at least try to use the labor they were being required to hire. I know this sounds a bit like central planning, but doggonit' as we approach an era where we can survive with few in work due to machine help, we may need to regulate in a form of wealth redistribution. Quite frankly I'd rather see it done through companies than through the government directly. Of course the fact that I don't think the government today can manage a new deal type program is probably also a sign that the government won't be able to pass anything like this to begin with.
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> this is _Internet_, you know, the place where everything is public.

what is the username and password to your online banking account?
I started playing with backbone.js and stumbled upon your other intro video where you explained the basics. Combined with the docs and another example, it was pretty helpful for me to get started. Thanks for that and I will try this screencast as i move ahead.
It's not a competition. You can think that both things are bad.
Helvetica has a lot of different "weights". I wonder if they would look more similar if you compared to a heavier weight?

Edit: here's what I mean https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Helvetic... and http://sixrevisions.com/infographics/helvetica-font-weights-...
So the theory here is that the greatest CEO of all time was able to mind-meld his vision, drive, creativity, discipline, and all his other forms of genius into the corporate structure of Apple? Oh brother. Do you guys hear yourselves?
They haven't yet rolled it out to all the localised versions.
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> But again, I can't think of any of the information on a social networking site being all that damning.

Then you don't understand the concerns. What is perfectly routine today may be damning tomorrow. Yes, Nazi Germany was an extreme event, but it happened, and there's no reason something like it couldn't happen again. It might not even be anything you posted, maybe you are friends with a lot of people that have radical political ideas. Maybe something you posted could be taken out of context. If you think that all people would be able to get out of this data is "lol, had eggs for breakfast today", then you are seriously underestimating the value of this data.
I'm not sure how your app's interface works.. but there might be a potential audience with digital artists/painters, who use Wacom tablets and often have to go into very precise details on tablets that are generally much smaller than their display monitors. Slowing down the mouse on-the-fly could give them added creative flexibility.

Again i'm not sure how this works and perhaps simply zooming in gives them this same advantage but just maybe something to explore. A good community to start with is http://www.conceptart.org
As far as we know he didn't even organize his own succession, which is one of the most basic responsibilities of a CEO of a multinational. Even when he knew he was terminally ill. So I don't see much hope that he organized the rest of Apple as some great enduring company either.
Parse is hiring engineers to work on hard problems.
Parse is building a new layer of services that abstracts the internet away for mobile developers. We need great engineers to join us in this ambitious goal.
This isn't some Web 2.0 company flipping bits for ad sales. We have difficult and interesting engineering problems to solve. We need people who will not back down if they have to write a compiler, work in a new programming language, or hack a fast approximate solution to an NP-complete problem.

We move fast. We launched our private beta a little over two months after starting the company. Since then we've signed up over 3000 developers and have dozens of production apps in the store running on Parse.

We are four very technical cofounders who have been early employees or founders at successful startups. No matter your background, you will learn a lot working with the team at Parse.

We're based in San Francisco and are looking for people in San Francisco.

We offer significant equity, market salary, fully covered health insurance, your choice of equipment, but most importantly the opportunity to reinvent how applications are built.

Please get in touch - email Kevin at kevin@parse.com and mention your favorite programming language.
re cultural connotation: a Krake is also a type of a monster, that is somebody who intents evil.
Short isn't equal to expressive. Making every operation a single character does not really help understandability, IMO.
Long time lurker, first time poster. This is my first web app, and have put in quite a bit of work ( as we all do :) ). I'm interested in any feedback whatsoever, positive/negative, everything helps. The basic premise being, a carbonmade for restaurants.. thank you!
All this while comparing Metro to a lavatory sign and dissing Apple's design too.

From http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/18/exclusive-matias-duarte-i...

“Across the board Google and Android is taking design a lot more seriously,” Matias says, and points out that Roboto is used throughout the system. “There’s this thing that’s happening right now in user interface design that I find kind of shackling. The faux wood paneling trend, and the airport lavatory signage trend.” He laughs when he says this and pulls up a slide on his computer, a split screen of an Atari 2600 and… airport lavatory signage. It’s an obvious dig at both Apple and Microsoft.
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I don't think we'll see a fork. There will be some gems that support rbx only and some that are MRI only and some that require jruby. However, seeing how things go with jruby I'd expect that most of the code stays runtime agnostic and people will use whatever runtime suits the current problem best. Given that there's a ruby spec now I imagine we'll end up pretty much where javascript is: Multiple runtimes that all support pretty much the same code. Or have a look at java or c, there's more than one jvm and with good reason as well as multiple c compilers that all produce working code :)

And yes, I do see heroku supporting both MRI and rbx as equals, but my point was that that's not replacing.
Looks like a ripoff to me:

http://theunderstatement.com/post/11645166791/roboto-vs-helv...
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I was actually trying to play along, with the about/aboot switch...
A company called Onavo is doing exactly that:

http://www.onavo.com/

They have an iOS app that configures your device to use their proxy servers. I haven't tried it myself since I'm a bit hesitant to route all my traffic through a third party, but it does sound promising.
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It's both interesting and nerve-racking to see location-dependent legal codes (all of them) butt heads with this technology we've built which makes distance and location irrelevant.
Ehm, what are you seeing? The screenshots in the article at least are quite unlike each other, and they're clearly different applications.

Is this guy a Microsoft employee or shareholder?
You're very welcome. Really hope this new one is a help for you too! Let me know if you have any other questions about the code. Thanks!
I can totally tell the difference if you bold helvetica.
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Which is something that I'd regard as a major setback. Here in Europe, a solid encoding support is pretty much a must-have for any up-to-date programming language. There's much more than utf-8 and not being able to handle that is a deal-breaker for me.
These users want to be able to share their information easily with a restricted set of people they know.

I don't see what's funny about them complaining about privacy when their information is shared with people they did not intend it to be shared with.

(I'm a heavy social network user, but I mark everything public and don't trust or expect facebook or google to keep anything private)
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Because cellular technology is actually designed to handle long distance with obstructions?
And other electronics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Clients
I used to do a lot with small regional papers (I worked for Freedom Communications). They are a tough sell. Super slim margins, very reliant on and subject to the whims of the local economy and were completely disrupted by national (or multinational) online players.

The race to the bottom in local advertising markets in terms of low value, high return and high volume plays through broadsheet classifieds, craigslist, daily deals, etc has put the ethos of what a "small town" paper was out to pasture.

It used to be communities were defined by their media, and these newspapers existed to help define them through editorial voice and amplify the community through advertising.

That's a tough game now. Consolidation killed the independence (Freedom for instance bought up all the local Orange County papers), nationalization and the ability to localize the global killed classifieds.

It is however a field ripe for some disruption, as the need for local media and localized sales-forces is there, but the ability to address the need with a sustainable business is tough.
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If you watch the video, it seems like that's covered. At one point you can see the "reservoir tip" is deflated after installation.
No need to wait for Perl 6:

my $tot = 0; map { $tot += $_ } map { $_ ** 2 } 1 .. 10; say $tot;

EDIT: Or, regarding List::Util (http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/Scalar-List-Utils-1.23/lib/Lis...) as part of Perl 5,

say sum map { $_ ** 2 } 1 .. 10;

EDIT 2: (Golfing is fun!) Or an Applescript-y

sub the { @_ } sub of { @_ }
sub squares { map { $_ ** 2 } @_ }

say the sum of the squares of 1 .. 10;
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You know, as a recent convert, I still haven't seen the clearly better app quality that everyone's been talking about. Maybe it's just the apps I use, but I generally find the quality to be about the same, overall.

Android's system preferences and overall look seems _more_ polished to me.
I don't know what your definition of team player is, but at (almost) any real job, there is shitwork. You know exactly what I mean -- maybe someone has to evaluate a new classifier, and that means spending a pair of 10 hour days looking at several thousand documents and hand labeling. Or maybe you're switching version control and someone has to go through 5k branches/release branches/tags and figure out what is needed and what isn't. Or maybe the raid array in the box that hosts artifactory shit itself and someone has to get artifactory back up, recover as many artifacts as possible, and for those that can't be recovered, find their tag in your git repo, check out, and rebuild where possible. Or maybe your company decided to swap DFSs and your project touches HDFSUtils in 873 places (just to pick a random number =P), and some sucker is going to have to go through each and every place you use that module and audit it for possible breakage during the dfs swap. Or maybe you need to upgrade from the original hadoop job api to a cascading equivalent, and you have to do this to some 80-odd production jobs; it's tedious work that has to be very carefully performed so the original semantics are preserved. Etc etc. These are all things that I or coworkers have done.

The point is, in any job, there is work that nobody wants to do but that someone has to do. ie shitwork. However, you seem like you don't want to do this. For example, sometimes your boss drops a last minute job in a language or api that you don't know or have never used or maybe actively don't want to use in your lap. Sometimes the work is already late when you get it, or it wasn't scoped or specced appropriately. It happens. Refusing to do it would reasonably get you fired, and make your coworkers hate you, because your coworkers are all doing their ration of shit shoveling.

Of course, it's perfectly fair to complain if you always end up shoveling. Or if that's all the job offers, get a new one. But refusing to do it or refusing to pull your fair share is not going to get you far.

You need to decide what happens the next time you are asked to do something like this. Because the one thing I can promise about a programming career is it will happen.
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You could use something like Piwik for your Google Analytics problem - it's open source - although I don't believe it or any of the other open-source solutions scale well beyond a single box, so if your website takes off you'll have trouble.

Many analytics tools exist that don't have an advertising arm - in fact, most don't. They charge developers directly. Mobile device analytics are a bit of an aberration, mainly for historical reasons, although paid solutions there also exist.

For the user to 'pay' by giving away behavioral information, they'd have to suffer some sort of economic loss. They don't. (As an aside, a lot of the arguments made in favor of music or application piracy are surprisingly relevant to the collection of behavioral targeting data.)

I believe that ideas should stand on their own, so I generally don't disclaimer up my posts. For example, I'm always irritated when someone dismisses a politician's stance because of his donors, as if to suggest he was bought. In the politician's case, he has the donors he does because of his ideas, not the other way around. In my case, I have the economic interests I do because of my ideas - again, not the other way around.
i think the parent was talking about the security implications of having your unlock pattern show up on the screen. it's entirely possible to not touch the screen enough after unlocking to wipe out your pattern.

http://whispersys.com/screenlock.html
> they can get hacked

To elaborate on this a bit, it might not even be necessary for them to get hacked from the outside. It's certainly not impossible for a malicious Google or Facebook employee to acquire (and sell) data.
It's not like cofounding a company that was purchased by Flurry doesn't make you biased or anything.

http://www.flurry.com/about-us/merger/welcome.html

(Thanks Timothee for pointing it out further down the thread)
Well, if rbx became the default implementation, lots of the effort that was invested in MacRuby would go stale. There's an incentive for the MacRuby people to keep investing into MRI since they can more easily adopt improvements from there. The benefit they get from taking code from MRI will diminish over time, but at least ATM I'd still expect it to be significant.

(note: I'm not following MacRuby Development very closely at the moment.)