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> It seems pretty clear that the workers think that their working conditions are unjust. Further, they apparently would be OK with those conditions if they got more money.

I don't think that's what happened. Both the Atlantic and the "Want China Times" article say that the mass suicide threat happened after FoxConn didn't pay compensation to the employees who quit. So that seems more about human dignity, not just angling for a raise.

But the story says that employees staged the suicide threat, which confuses me. It's not clear to me if this was a move in sympathy to their former co-workers, or if those ex-employees somehow regained access to the building, or if the ones who tried to quit didn't succeed because FoxConn refused to let them out of their contracts or something.
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With commentary (http://current.com/shows/the-young-turks/videos/listen-to-yo...).
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The obvious answer: Employees who need extra sleep during the day should simply sleep longer during the night so they won't need to sleep while they're at work. At least, that's the typical view of the employer.
I used to use Vim, and then I got a job after college working with .NET (this was in 2003). Since then I've used Visual Studio as my primary IDE. Its features (or that of Eclipse) seem to (pardon the pun) eclipse the crap out of Vim. The contextual information you get in VS by hovering your mouse on any variable, the built-in debugging, etc. Studio isn't a just text editor, it actually understands the semantics of your programming language, it helps you write better code faster.
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The dreaded "Unknown or expired link" error if you flip through a few pages. Thanks heaven there is hckrnews.com.

Merging discussions is not allowed.

No checking of duplicate links, if I'm not mistaken.

Non foldable threads.

No way to watch threads of comments.

No notifications when someone answers a comment of yours.

After you have submitted a comment, it just reloads the page instead of taking you right were your fresh comment is, to allow you to continue reading where you left.

Item lists in comments are not handled.

How do you format text in comments? Nobody tells you.

Basically, if you take HN at face value, it does not look like a smart piece of software. Maybe under the hood there is a mind-bending piece of AI, but as long as it doesn't care about users, users will never know about it.
I created this tool because while beanstalkd is great, there isn't a huge tooling community around it. The main alternative is just grabbing a ruby gem and working with it in irb. bsTools is available as one standalone file that you can drop in your bin folder, and has nice console UI thanks to Symfony2
Challenge HN: Write an Anti-SOPA Message for us to display Jan 18
As a company, we want to go dark January 18th to support Anti-SOPA. I'm sure there are hundreds of others out there on HN that would do the same.

I believe the effectiveness would be magnified if there was a single message that was clear, concise and poignant.

I thought HN would be a great place to collaboratively craft a compelling and informative message that we could display in its place. Atleast better than any of us could do alone.

What message would you display?
I skimmed the first couple of articles, but other than his beginnings in porn (not a business I'd want to go into, but to be sure there are more and less ethical people there!), he doesn't strike me as someone who's either a troll or very unethical.

Your definition of trolling isn't how most people think of it. Trolls tell lies, make personal attacks, and make outrageous & false claims solely to upset other people and waste their time.

Your quote from Niel (about investing in a newspaper) shows ego, but is he lying? And even if he's exaggerating, who does that upset?

Personally, I don't like the porn history, but he gets many extra points for "causing trouble" in corporate France. I've wasted many hours of my life dealing with France Telecom/Wanadoo/Orange, SFR, and Bouygues (been through them all), and know monopolistic abuses when I see them (how about the whole concept of customer support phone calls that are more expensive than a normal call?), and I really, really do not feel sorry for them being forced to actually compete a little.

If you have better examples of "trolling", that'd help perhaps...
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A business like TechCrunch, that was acquired by AOL last year?
I'm usually one to complain of the opposite, but 21px is quite an exaggeration for body text, isn't it? Limiting body width to ~800px would help too.
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Has anyone ever tried starting a community effort, something like IP Commons?

[edit: I just duck'd and fished this out patentcommons.org but the site is down.]
If he believes in his ideas, then constant repetition is exactly the way to go. It's all a number game - have to get into as many heads as possible. This was the first time I've seen his message, and it's definitely one I agree with.
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Nope, Nothing sarcastic about that at all.
This reminds me of Argentina's recent history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War
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I was not aware of his/her message until today. In my case the repetition was helping.
Nothing, it's just a glyph. And the CSS stylesheet for HN doesn't wrap continuous letter sequences.
This is FUD. It's really not difficult to use the mb_* family of functions to deal with unicode in PHP. If you're writing a new app, this is trivial. If you're working with an existing app, it's obviously more difficult, but far, far from impossible.
That is a terrible definition of exploitation. You're saying that even a single dollar of profit qualifies.

How are you even defining value? What if I like bananas more than shirts and you the opposite? Do we somehow exploit each other when we trade?
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This is less a technical discussion than speculation on human factors. Will a special TLD inspire people to offer their services differently?

It’s just a namespace, one of many possible choices. But I wouldn’t discount its importance as a protocol, or an expectation. “.com” has a very important non-technical meaning.
I think both of those things are both true. I'm guessing there are currently, only 1.1M code points defined, and these fit in 4 bytes. However, there are currently-unallocated code points that go higher which could occupy he remaining 2 bytes that can be used with UTF-8.
Alternate formulation with hypothetical shift/reset (delimited continuation support) and blocks that return the same way functions do:

mtime: function () {
return reset {
var mtime = shift (succeed) {
this.withFile ({ |f|
var mtime = this.mtimeFor (f);
if (mtime < new Date () - 1000) {
return "too old";
}
return succeed (mtime);
});
};
sys.print (mtime);
return "young enough";
};
},

The succeed function is a first class, indefinite-extent function equivalent to:

function (mtime) {
sys.print (mtime);
return "young enough";
}

It's the computation within the reset block that comes after the shift form is evaluated.

Calling it after returning from the method would not raise an exception.

Edit: Keep blocks with 'this' inheritance (I had originally used a standard closure).
is the OP a professional employee/interviewee or something? the energy spent preparing for (seemingly countless) interviews could have been spent working on things s/he is passionate about.
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Easier to read: http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmichaeltrier.c...
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I love the Ubuntu font.
I have dinged people because they wouldn't write on the whiteboard. To be fair, every time this actually happened, I gave the candidate the chance to write his solution on paper, and I ended up dinged him anyways because his work was sub-par.

At every company I have worked at, from two-person startups all the way to Google, we have used whiteboards extensively. Most meetings and architecture reviews are conducted in front of a whiteboard. The first thing I do when I found a startup is to buy a whiteboard and nail it to the wall. Whiteboards are a necessity for collaborative brainstorming and working together.

I'm not sure I agree with anything the OP says in this article. I think he's trying to sound smart and rationalize the reasons he didn't get hired. I say this not as a troll, but to provide constructive feedback. If you want to get hired by a big company, you have to play by their rules. End of story. There are a few exceptions (like engineers at Google without college degrees), but they are exceptions - most people who work for Google or Facebook or Palantir went to good schools, and did well, and wrote on the whiteboard during their interviews.
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what about "yours truly" in white on a black background..
Can someone please note down what are the benefits of such a visualization?
A software patent.
I've lived in Argentina for twenty years, and I have to say there's a huge qualitative difference between this and la guerra sucia.During those years, there was actual fear that if you fought against the dictatorship, your your family or our friends could disappear without a trace any day. Nothing like that is going on today. There's certainly repression and police brutality, and signs of a police state, but on a completely different level.
A few days back I saw a list of people who allegedly where every single person that has died because of state mandated police action since the end of the dictatorship. The list is 66 people long. While this makes sick to my stomach, I have only to go to my college and look at the wall to see a list of people from that college that died during the dictatorship. That list has close to one hundred and fifty people on it. Just from one college. There's just no point of comparison. Most of this people simply banished, there corpses were never found, the women were probably raped, some of their kids taken and raised by the people who tortured them to death.

The current tendency towards a police state sucks, but I find it very hard to compare it with what happened between '76 an '83.
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I agree. My agency has developed and hosts about 40 WordPress sites for corporate, NPO and start up type businesses. They range from hundreds of pages of complex e-commerce to actual blogs and micro-sites. We have serious PHP devs in house and we write and maintain our own plugins that do everything from talk to Facebook and Twitter to create Google maps and manage complex event registration and payment forms. We also contribute to the core.

WordPress is the best choice for our clients, because it's easy for them to use, FULL STOP.

Enhancing that great UX with our own sauce is hard work, but it pays of for them in the day-to-day and for us in the long run. (Referrals and repeat business.)

The OP may have left the building, but WordPress is sticking around for a long time.
No? I was under the impression that if I wanted to buy a bunch of cotton or silicone or diodes that I'd have to pay taxes on that. Then once I manufacture my awesome device using only those materials, plus a Swiss army knife and a rubber band, I could sell it to you and you'd get to pay another round of sales tax. On the backend of this transaction of course is the machinery used to harvest/manufacture the raw materials, for which the farmer/manufacturer also paid a sales tax on. Unless there is some kind of subsidy at play here.
I love Vim and have been a happy MacVim user for a while now. But I just started using Vico and I am really liking it. It's definitely missing a lot of the features that Vim has accrued over time, but the native UI and polish of Vico has me using it full time now.

http://www.vicoapp.com/
My experience with hardware support was not so hot either. On a ThinkPad X220 with latest Ubuntu, I would get random crashes when unplugging the DisplayPort adapter, or right in the middle of working. Also, lack of proper built in fan speed control. And panels doing stupid things when switching between signel & dual display setups.

Switched to a MacBook Pro, and it's been rock solid.
When you're referencing siegler to make your case you took many, many wrong turns with your life.
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Thanks for the recommendation.

I love testing out text editors. I've been migrating back and forth between TextMate 2 and Sublime Text 2.

Looks like Vico will now be part of the rotation.
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The reaction to this piece is interesting... I was sort of "ho-hum" about it, but I've written many a "web-app" in c/c++ - cgic on linux, isapi on windows... not to mention socket servers with thread pools implementing custom protocols...

I don't say that because I think it makes me special -- it's what we ALL used to do because that's the only thing we had.

After you've done that for a few years, you become VERY efficient at banging out code.
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Ask HN: Non Americans: Do you care about SOPA?
I understand that the people of the USA are having to fight this crazy battle with their tech-stupid, bribe taking government but what impact would this have on the rest of us?

So if SOPA passes in its current form and they start banning sites in the USA - what is to stop the rest of the world from just setting up their own new versions of websites? - free of this North Korea style censorship.

Is it the case that people in the rest of the world could really profit from this terrible (law) idea ?

Dare I say it - should we even support it? For non US entrepreneurs this law is potentially great news

Is it the case that other countries will just follow ? I really cant see a lot of European countries doing anything like this anytime soon but perhaps I'm wrong ?

Thoughts?
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how do you justify profit not qualifying?

bananas and shirts have an intrinsic value, it isn't subjective, they cost X to produce/ship, that's their value. The rest is exploitation.

Of course, a pro-capitalist isn't going to like this line of thinking, as it is explicitly anti-capitalism.
I am lucky: I work in the village I grew up in. When I am too tired I tell my boss: "I am not productive, I am going home to sleep, I will work the remaining hours of the day at home after I wake up." My bed is then a 3 minute bicycle ride away.

On a more helpful note: I learned how to nap by having siesta when I helped someone build a house in the South of France. A mid-day nap there was common, even for those in the public sector. They reasoned that in summer it was just too hot too work.

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making it illegal for government or corporations to shut down domains without due process

I think that going down the path of having the legislative branch pass laws to protect rights that are already clearly protected by the constitution is a really bad idea. For example, having congress protect the right of peaceful assembly seems preposterous. Doing so would imply that encroaching on the right of peaceful assembly is even an option, which, in a civilized democratic society, it isn't. The internet should be no different.

As much as technies like to complain about our representatives, the reality is that they do a reasonably good job representing the overwhelming majority of the population. Most people who have families to take care of don't know or care for SOPA, and would probably support curbing piracy, hate sites, and child pornography via DNS blackouts (if they knew what DNS meant). Like it or not, they are the majority of the electorate.

The proper way to ensure that the internet remains free and open is to educate the populace. Failing that, we need to put pressure on congress on bill-by-bill basis. Failing that, it's the Supreme Court's job to declare any encroachment on our rights as unconstitutional.

We don't need to pass laws to protect rights that are already protected because it legitimizes encroachment on our rights in general and blurs the lines between different branches of government in ways they weren't meant to blurred. It's a slippery slope and a really bad road to go on.
If you accept the police state now, you can expect that list to grow much larger than 66.
Hm, I used GVim/MacVim for a few years and was very comfortable with it, but the more I was doing heavy editing on remote machines, or even Linux VMs on my local machines, the more GVim felt like a crutch.

I now will only use terminal vim and I can't imagine going back. It's very nice being able to have the same editing experience as long as I can SSH in. And sshfs etc are not solutions due to the need for shell integration and the problem of latency on write.

An added benefit is that all of my heavy applications live in the console, making it much easier to keep things organized, especially when I am using screen.
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What disturbed me about this article is the lack of testing. For a major piece of software like Wordpress, ANY release (alpha, beta, whatever) should include a test phase that stalls the release if it doesn't pass.

If Wordpress was mission critical for my business, after reading this article I'd be investigating their build process very carefully. If it turns out that they don't have an effective test phase, I'd be migrating my customers to an alternative as fast as I could.
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You are forgetting to factor in maintenance costs, so yes, absolutely the developers perspective.
Yeah, that confused my balls.
Humans are awesome at recognizing visual patterns. It's difficult to get a sense of what a file contains from a hex editor, but if you apply the right transformations on the data, distinct features stand out in the visualization.

This allows people to recognize similarities between different files as the resulting patterns are revealed. Take this previous blog post by the same author:

http://corte.si/posts/code/sortvis-fruitsalad/index.html

This shows various sort methods operating on a set of unsorted data. If all you had visibility into was how the data was manipulated, by generating an image based on the data transformations, your pattern matching brain will quickly be able to see which sorting algorithm was used.
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I don't accept anything, I just think the comparison between what is happening now and what happened in the '70s is flawed. The difference is humongous.

Not only because the number of people who died is smaller, but because there there's a huge difference between a person that is killed by a gunshot during a protest(violent or not, there were cases of both) and a person who just vanishes in the middle of the night and isn't heard of again.
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I don't find this surprising. Enrollment is expected to be a lagging indicator. Effects of any "trends" may take a couple of years+ to propagate themselves between industries. If tech firms are incredibly hot today, CS50 enrollment isn't going to suddenly increase today.

This works for declines too. People continue to enroll to study finance or law in promise of riches[1] after each respective bubble has already popped.

More importantly, though, not every college freshman/high school student meticulously follows HackerNews or the latest fads. Not everyone even follows NASDAQ or can analyze the tech sector. People like "sure" things. Hate it or love it, the mainstream media and Hollywood have quite a lot to do with what people know and think.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09law.html?pagewa...
In this interpreter, user objects are represented as identical host objects, not implemented by hand.
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A cool project that uses this is DoctorJS[1][2]. It's a ctags tool optimized for JavaScript and a JavaScript static analyzer.

[1]: http://doctorjs.org/
[2]: https://github.com/mozilla/doctorjs

Unfortunately, it does not seem to create Emacs-style tags at the moment. I had meant to add that to it--I even have some half-baked code lying around somewhere--but never got around to finishing it :(

Still, it's a cool project anybody working with JavaScript should check out.
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