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> Pick whatever examples work best for you

We have a black guy as president. That simply would not have happened even 20 years ago. At protests, even relatively minor nastiness by police is filmed and broadcast immediately. Look up what the police did in some places in the 60ies as a comparison. We have the internet to get information out about various things.

It's easy to see and complain about the bad things, and right to do so, or else they wouldn't improve. It's also worth considering though, that things have improved in many ways.

> Chile for instance, has a culture that is more instinctively capitalist.

I don't know much about Chile, but didn't they vote in a guy who was more or less a communist in the 70ies? Who was then murdered, along with many people, by a brutal dictator, who put in place many capitalist institutions? Which do turn out to work better than the alternative in many cases, so they've been kept? I don't know what the average 'man on the street's view of the whole thing is though. Is it possible the capitalism was kind of foisted on the country and has stuck because it more or less works, but that it's not all that ingrained into the culture? I have no idea, honestly, but do think the Startup Chile thing is pretty cool even if they didn't accept me.
I read "that amount of data from each Android/Blackberry phone would be a lot more thn 10 GB a day." as "each device is generating over 10 GB a day." It makes more sense as a total, and really, 10 GB a day is NOTHING. In scientific computing, terabytes a day isn't too unusual, so it's certainly no big deal to store and process 10 GB a day.
Shove it up your nose!

http://www.doctoryourself.com/nasal.html
I'm not expert in parse or stackmob, so I can't compare it feature-by-feature. But there are two general advantages of LeanEngine:

1. It's open-source so you have all the freedoms that come with OSS. You can tweak it, add features, fork it, etc..

2. It runs on your AppEngine instance. So you have full ownership/access to your data. Also AppEngine is proven to be scalable, has tons of features, has SLA and is (still) cheaper than comparable cloud solutions.

Second,
Apple speaks Italian and wears a little hat, too!
I agree that they aren't plotting against freedom, but not for the same reason as you. I think that they want to make money, and think that controlling content is best the way to do that.
Once a federal judge tells you to do something, you pretty much have to do it, no matter who you are.
> So if all we're doing here is condemning CarrierIQ

I asked someone who is quite good with crypto a question about a possible MITM attack on 141 million phones. I didn't condemn CarrierIQ, I avoided dramatic language, I even added qualifiers to avoid stating something as fact if it wasn't yet confirmed.
Cartograms plus zoomable web maps tend to be fail city. And, on top of that, cartograms tend to be rather unreadable. For the critique, http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/i-hate-your-favorite-electi...

That said, it's always useful to have data be relative to population rather than absolute, if it is a relative number. I don't think that's valid in this case, because these aren't accidents 'of the population' - they're accidents of people traveling on roads, which is entirely different.

If the coloring were relative to traffic density or throughput, that'd be better.
sure video games help you build skills. But question is, could you spend that time on building skills that are MORE relevant to your goals? I am of the opinion, that almost everything you do builds skills. For example, even watching soap operas on TV can increase your social skills in some way. However, what you need is FOCUS on obtaining the most RELEVANT skills that takes you closer to achieving your goals in the SHORTEST amount of time possible.
In Firefox there are two buttons in the file input widget (when it includes the accept="image/*" attribute): one to "browse" and one to "capture."
Maybe everyone's a capitalist there out of residual cultural fear of being targeted by a caravan of death for having an alternative viewpoint.
"As far as academia goes, my experience is that when it comes to undergraduate education Canadian universities are better or equal to their American counterparts."

I completed my undergrad in Canada then moved to the US. There is no Canadian undergrad program that comes close to the top programs in the US. I did some grad work at an Ivy League school and the undergrad programs are incredible. Not so much in terms of having better content or professors (although that is generally true), but mainly in terms of providing personalized guidance to young students from day one. The stories I heard from the undergrads I met were astonishing. Interested in chemistry? We'll set you up with one-on-one meetings with Nobel prize winners and industry titans. If you're good, you'll basically get access to the top opportunities without really asking.
I need more enemies! I want to try this out!
they can keep track of everything that you type, credit card info, wifi passwords, other passwords, sexting... so i guess nothing important, eh?
Apache Hadoop :)
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Great point. The 10s of GB was anecdotal data from a CarrierIQ recruiter.

If we go by the official letter you've posted and assume conservatively CarrierIQ has only 1 Petabyte of data, and that they've been collecting since 2006 (when they received their Series A), they've been collecting 456 GBs of data per day. Its probably more than that today since the data collection rate has surely accelerated over time.

That's an order of magnitude beyond 10s of GB per day.
You can stand in the corner with your arms crossed, smugly dissing the "ignorant masses" for "sacrificing freedom," but the truth is that your perspective is warped. Normal people see computers as convenient gadgets, not expressions of freedom. They buy gadgets because they're easy to use and don't require the maintenance of a PC, not "just because it's fashionable to do so."

Frankly, the idea that one is somehow enslaved and losing their freedom because they buy a $0.99 app from iTunes is crazy. Nobody is forcing them to do anything, and nobody is taking anything away against their will.

Apple doesn't turn their devices into nerd playgrounds because that tends to negatively impact the experience of using the product, and, to paraphrase Jon Siracusa, Apple would rather fail in a market than suck.
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Apple's store is a standard retail cut, it's nothing like taxes. Do you complain about the middleman cut with every other thing you puchase?

The monopoly issue is a different beast to the retail cut issue.
Music does not need to be free (as in beer). Artists need to make a living too. Mind you, a living shouldn't mean an episode on MTV Cribs, but still.

The solution could be to sell music directly to the listener, without middlemen and labels. But then, who handles promotion? Public Relations? Placement? Concert booking? Marketing? When all of these will become individually offered services, like most other web-related services have become, we may see the music revolution begin.
I'm sorry, I've read your comment twice, and I have no idea what you're talking about. Perhaps you could write out your conspiracy theory in more easily digestible points?
I'm the originator of that issue. There's been previous proposals, and subsequent ones). I originally proposed different syntaxes, but the current proposal was superior.

I've been amazed at how much interest there has been in this. Every time I think it's over, more people pile in. The only catch is: there are a couple of people who still need to be convinced, and they're actually the important ones. I'm pretty sure that a pull request for this would not be accepted.
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Note that InfoQ covered the whole story (which is how I found out about this HN discussion): http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/11/yammer-scala
IANAL either, but I'm guessing that winning this class-action suit would set a more useful precedent. If I'm reading the situation correctly, Lee would like to stop dentists from (ab)using this kind of gag agreement.
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It'd be nice if these were ranked with HN user growth in mind. It looks like most of these stories are recent, probably because Hacker News has more users now. There are probably good stories being hidden because they're old and had a smaller pool of HN users to vote them up.
First, don't trust a recruiter's technical information.

Second, maybe they are selling the information to other parties by letting the other parties grab the information themselves.
> Why no angry nerds?
Mostly because very few people really believe the PC is actually dead.

Mobile is the big wave, yet I don't know anyone who says "I have a phone, I sure don't need a desktop/laptop."

The closest possible thing is a tablet. Yet, the most common refrain about any tablet to do that I've heard is "well, it doesn't do this" or "it doesn't do that". On the flip side, I've yet to hear anyone state that they wished they didn't own a PC, since their tablet does everything they need.
Ask HN: Give me feedback regarding Android app for hackerz?
I'm trying to gather some feedback on what kind of stuff people would like to see in an app that provides you quick access to all commands, organized by category, for Git, SVN, Bash, ADB stuff, etc. The app would serve as a useful utility for quickly looking up useful commands (the kinda stuff you forget all the time) and ideally it'd contain a very comprehensive list of tools.

Thoughts on what command line tools to include (besides the ones listed above) and what might make it compelling/useful?
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They actually have seemed to pick fairly sensible, middle of the road type of people after having ditched Pinochet, rather than lurching to the other extreme.

It seems like a country that's doing pretty well, but I honestly have no idea what things are like 'on the ground'.
mfkp: This thread on their discussion group covers just that question: https://groups.google.com/group/qlio/browse_thread/thread/40...
> I was gonna type out an IRC bot, the favorite exercise of novice coders, but I felt that would be petty, since there's no IRC library included in Node.

[There's a library for that](https://github.com/martynsmith/node-irc). You should use this; It would not be considered petty.
Whenever I think about Facebook and the vast number of people using it, that quote is all I can remember.

Are people too dumb to care about their own privacy or do they just not care?
I don't think it will. He is already a very rich man.
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Isn't a pivot supposed to take place before any actual product development is done, much less months or years of it?
Maybe adding the ability to search by topic/command?
My comment was tongue in cheek. However, I did think the GP's comment about Chile being "instinctively capitalist" was a bit ridiculous considering the country's history.
I just tried this on my brothers account. It lets me guess at his security question and then kicks me to a page that basically says that they currently don't support password recovery without knowing the answer to the security question.
Likely enough to be random variation as to have some real underlying cause.
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A smart drug dealer never brings the drug home. He uses drop off locations. In this case, your phone maybe the drop off location.
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Finally some sanity. Thanks John for this reasoned analysis.
"Privacy is a matter of social responsibility."

Privacy is a matter of not using Facebook.
I use Facebook constantly, posting photos, checkins, status updates, etc. However, I've completely disabled all privacy controls. Why? Because I don't put things on the Internet that I don't want to be public, even behind 'privacy controls'. There's no breech of privacy for me, because the data is inherently public. So no, I don't care.
I'll make a case against DRY principles.

A programming language isn't just about the code. It's about the programmer. What the programmer reads and what the programmer writes are an essential part of programming, and we should look at it not just from a coder point of view (DRY principles) but from a user-experience point of view, where redundancy is frequently helpful!

Consider: Displaying whitespace (indentation whitespace, that is) to the user is surely essential for basic code readability; our human brains like this stuff. But the quality of our perception of is limited. It's easy to tell when something is a few spaces further in, but can you tell at an instant's glance whether something's indented by 8 or 12 spaces when it's preceded by a paragraph indented by 32 spaces? Because that tells you which flow control construct you just closed. (For bonus points, the start of that construct is off the top of your screen.)

Does counting invisible spaces and lining things up with a ruler sound like a great way to figure out the flow of a block of code? I say Meh. Whitespace is a poor medium for communicating something precise like the flow control of a program. The end to code blocks is something important enough that the marker should be something visible, not invisible.

And if that means repeating myself, so be it. But this is a repetition that can be trivially automated. Instead of making whitespace into syntax, go the other way around and turn your syntax into whitespace with your IDE or a code prettifier.

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Now, from all I hear, the ever-popular Python programming language already does plenty with whitespace, so clearly it's certainly not impossible to work with. But I don't like it :)
Sounds like an awesome idea. 8am is usually a bit of stretch for me (I'm more of a night own than a morning person!) but I'll definitely try to make it one of these!
A little melodramatic. My father logs into Facebook about once a month. How can you guarantee that he'll friend you within 24 hours?
+1 for polyfractal's suggestion. The stuff I learned from their podcast and academy helped me launch my first niche web site.
Because there is no evidence of any data leaving your phone. It's not stealing. It's just a debugger/logger.
The first thing I did when I saw this story was check Google to see if any other news sources had picked it up. I chose the researcher's name as a highly distinctive Google search term. I didn't find any source but Ars Technica just now that reports this finding. I noticed that there are websites that appear to belong to the Brazilian researcher, but I guess the moral of this story is that those websites may all be fake [sigh].
Within the project I help out in, I spend a lot of time replying to people, trying to change their attitude. This usually helps. In the extreme cases it doesn't, I have a big hammer to wield (sysadmin).

If you're consistently (honestly) well-intended and nice, you'll see that it changes peoples attitude. Further, more people will stick around because they like the friendly atmosphere.

However, it has to be managed constantly. I want everyone to be nice, no matter if they're a developer who has worked on the project for 5+ years, or just a random person who saw a crash. Though, long time developer gets a bit more leeway than a new person.

If someone writes a really good rant or troll, I only want to see nice replies. Fortunately, this is usually what happens. Doesn't also make sense to get harsh or angry; just becomes a long thread because emotions get heated and people who are angry always seems to have a lot of time to vent.

Trying to make everyone be nice takes a lot of effort. Usually people do mean well, it is just that they either word it wrongly, culture (Germans :P), or that they're used to harsh communities elsewhere. It takes quite some effort to always respond in the best way, and not behave the same way back.

I'm sort of like a BOFH. Having sysadmin abilities means that I could be a behaving way too radically and there is nobody to easily say otherwise (could moderate them, remove their privs, etc).

I do above for the good of the project. Cannot code in the way the developers do and try to help out in this way.

One big problem is cultural differences. Some people expect really friendly and long language and see anything else as harsh; eventhough it is not intended that way (Northern Europe:P). E.g. a "No" as an answer to a long paragraph.
Excellent work!

It says a lot that the music industry didn't invent this.
Unfortunately this bad article does not fix the problem.

One of the major aspects of the problem is the decoupling of the investors from the firm receiving the investment..Let me explain...

You see once upon a time years ago, when you invested money if it was large enough you would demand a board seat. In my town if you were a big farmer you invested in the local bank and get a board seat to help over-see that investment.

With the passage of certain laws allowing pooling of funds we get to the point where those rights are no-longer awarded thus learning how to over-see an investment for long term gains never gets passed on to someone..

In other words we a investment knowledge transmission problem not a investment problem.

Big difference!
I recently started looking for a new apartment and found it exhausting to keep track of all the posts. So I put this together to better visualize and compare apartments. It doesn't have to be about apartments though, you can edit the input text and play around with it.
I found it constructive too, but its not like the Scala implementors only heard about those problems now and can easily fix it.
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Don't I have to set up these three trusted friends? All I can find in Facebooks documentation is that I would need to specify these three to five trusted friends but I can't find anywhere to set this up.
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It's possible that within the Mac App developer community he might earn goodwill by giving it away, but I don't think it's going to make a difference for the average users.

I can't recall the names of any dev shops for the OSX products I have purchased, much less the ones I use for free.

I have no problem with people selling simple tools that make built-in features more accessible.
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I didn't consider out of memory condition, thank you. I wasn't worried about older OS as practically speaking there are not that many folks on IOS 3 or older, at least based on stats I've seen for iPhone. I don't specifically target iPods, so maybe there are more of those at 3 vs iPhone. Thanks again - great list!
Reminds me of the moronic edicts I used to have to deal with.
But also "why the hell haven't I always been using this" interfaces.
ReactOS is pretty cool. For a while I started and ran a community newsletter for ReactOS, mostly by browsing through the mailing list and picking out interesting developments. Unfortunately I was in HS at the time and didn't have time to keep it running.

Out of curiosity, do you think the ReactOS team will keep developing as Windows XP gets left behind in the coming years?
anything open source? id love to see link to it - ive recently wrote my own cometd server with gevent and im looking for more examples ;-)
Do you have any idea why coders are paid so much less? Is it because all professionals are paid less (ie., are lawyers, physicians, etc all paid less in Canada)? Or is this more of a regional pattern combined with a cost of living (ie., coders are paid less in Wisconsin than in California, but might live better on what they do earn)? Or is it maybe related to productivity, that coders in these concentrated areas are able to be so much more productive than they are elsewhere that they're simply creating more wealth...

Anyway, would be interested in hearing the thoughts of a Canadian expat on this one.
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SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.You give one to your neighbor.

COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM
You have 2 cows.The State takes both and sells you some milk.

NAZISM
You have 2 cows.The State takes both and shoots you.

BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.The State takes both, shoots one, milks
the other, and then throws the milk away.

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.You sell one and buy a
bull.Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.You sell them and
retire on the income.

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You have two cows.You sell
three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit
opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity
swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows
back, with a tax exemption for five cows.The milk rights of the six
cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company
secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all
seven cows back to your listed company.The annual report says the
company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.You sell one cow
to buy a new president of the United States , leaving you with nine
cows.No balance sheet provided with the release.The public then buys
your bull.

SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.The government requires you to take
harmonica lessons.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.You sell one, and force the
other to produce the milk of four cows.Later, you hire a consultant to
analyze why the cow has dropped dead.

A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.You go on strike, organize a
riot, and block the roads, because youwant three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.You redesign them so they are
one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the
milk.You then create a clever cow cartoon image called a Cowkimona and
market it worldwide.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they
are.You decide to have lunch.

A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.You
charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.You have 300 people milking
them.You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine
productivity.You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.You worship them.

A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.Both are mad.

AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.You tell
them that you have none.No-one believes you, so they bomb the out
of you and invade your country.You still have no cows, but at least
you are now a Democracy.

AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.Business seems pretty
good.You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.

A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows.The one on the left looks
very attractive.
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for those interested in US governmental secrecy stuff, http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ is a very interesting blog/newsletter
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However, the best games have always been running on PCs first, often with exclusivity.

It's ridiculous to pretend this is anything more than your opinion.