skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My takeaway from the TAL email is that the conditions he describes are true the most part, with the exception of underage workers being common. This doesn't match the media coverage at all -- I suppose we'll all find out when they release the full episode. The impression I get from these parts:

>"In our original broadcast, we fact checked all the things that Daisey said about Apple's operations in China," says Glass, "and those parts of his story were true, except for the underage workers, who are rare."

>Some of the falsehoods found in Daisey's monologue are small ones: the number of factories Daisey visited in China, for instance, and the number of workers he spoke with. Others are large. In his monologue he claims to have met a group of workers who were poisoned on an iPhone assembly line by a chemical called n-hexane. Apple's audits of its suppliers show that an incident like this occurred in a factory in China, but the factory wasn’t located in Shenzhen, where Daisey visited.

>"It happened nearly a thousand miles away, in a city called Suzhou," Marketplace’s Schmitz says in his report. "I’ve interviewed these workers, so I knew the story. And when I heard Daisey’s monologue on the radio, I wondered: How’d they get all the way down to Shenzhen? It seemed crazy, that somehow Daisey could’ve met a few of them during his trip."

But he mushed them all together into a narrative and framed it as if he has personally seen and talked with these people.

Skimming the mainstream coverage I get the impression that both his personal story and the facts about the manufacturing culture were equally wrong. So he did the cause was fighting for vastly more harm than good: people now believe the problem itself doesn't exist. Whoops. Way to go dude.

I'll be interested to hear the correction episode to see how they detangle the falsehoods in the author's personal story vs things that aren't happening (or aren't happening with enough frequency to be concerned about.)

Certainly suggesting that a westerner with a single week in China would encounter all these problems exaggerates their frequency even if the problems are real. It suggests that if he can find all this out so easily, what else must be going on? On the other hand, many of his claims about conditions so seem to be real issues backed by other reporting. It will be a tricky episode.

edit: lol, lowest rated comment out of hundreds. my judgement must be out of whack, i'll take another look at this story tomorrow with a clear head.
The "most American car" has been the Toyota for a few years:
http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2010/06/23/made-in-usa-a-t...
Not working for me. After I click 'Allow', the page remains the same, with the prompt telling me to click 'Allow'. I'm on Chrome 17.0.963.79, OSX, Austin TX.
I think Joel is giving his company a little too much credit.

Today's students, if they are really good, have much better opportunity than to work at Fog Creek. They are thinking of companies like Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google, LinkedIn, etc. that are actually innovating and working on some of the most interesting problems and applications. Not creating VNC "Remote Assistance" clones and help desk software.

Fog Creek does create very good software. But game changing? Or well known? Most people outside of software development wouldn't be able to name an actual Fog Creek product.
Foxconn also makes the Xbox360 and other hardware that Microsoft uses. No conspiracy here except for one guy lying and getting caught.
The article is about an iPad app that got released because of this new display on the new iPad. Seems spot on to put it in comparison to something most people is familiar, even if just to explain on what is special about it.
IRC for Hackrepreneurs.
Question, Is there an IRC channel for entrepreneurs and hackers in Silicon Valley?

PS: I just made this word up (Hackrepreneur) - Entre->Hack.
Mike Daisey’s theatrical piece on Foxconn workers’ plight is mostly theatrics
With the amount of money at stake with even a 0.1% improvement to search quality, I must assume that every possible correlation against data they can gather is investigated.
Would be great to have such a website ;)
And the suicide rate of Foxconn employees is about 10x lower than China's national average:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
That would probably make a funny Tumblr ... "Things people say about data centers" or maybe "Data Center Ryan Gosling"
Well done! This fits the bill perfectly for me. The only problem I see is requiring location access. It miscalculated my location.
We Scrapped The App Store To Find Every Single Retina-Optimized iPad App
Thank you so much for pointing out this feature, I was just looking for software for doing this exact thing the other day!
It's harder to find GOOD python and ruby developers in Dublin than say New York or Boston

Can't you find great C++ or Java or C# developers and turn then into ruby/python developers though? My impression of the tech scene in the UK and Ireland is that a lot of highly skilled software engineers are either in the banking, industrial or games sectors. I'd expect CVs in the talent pool to skew towards those languages rather than web languages.
Did the Python Software Foundation not apply this year?
Audacity is sweet - now if they would just get someone on board to cleanup the UI - maybe some new buttons?
Not in America. There's no such thing as bad publicity. Sure he won't get hired by 'This American Life' or anyone that cares for facts but there's always reality tv.
Also: why does it browser warning say "dl.dropbox.com" when the website is thereelbox.com? Could seem very phishy to a user.
I implement something like this for any sufficiently large (game) project I work on. I can tune the location/size/color/etc of any object on the screen in real time, just by scrolling my mouse left to right. The time saving is invaluable.
Still, if even one screen is ugly it's an ugly UI. and usually people publish the good looking parts. So I assume that the rest of the UI is even worse.
"We didn't think that he was lying to us. That was a mistake."

It's scary how easy it is to socially engineer people and get what you want.

While some of this comes from experience I feel that some people are just wired in a way that makes them easier to dupe independent of their education and intelligence.
That time is now, considering you just attracted an audience.
And how would you compare the work in the factories to being a Chinese farm worker, for example? Why are millions choosing factories over farms?

I think it is more important that there is a trend towards improved work environments and opportunities than bemoaning the fact that any particular work environment isn't as good as some cushy 1st-world white-collar job.
To all my Mac users out there: What are you using to record Skype calls? Anyone know if Audacity 2 will allow Mac users to record system audio?
You're assuming total search volume will stay constant regardless of quality. But if people don't expect to find things of value as easily, they won't search for as many things. Not worth sorting through a bunch of crappy results.

I'm sure Google knows that its value is based on the Web's value.
Not sure that is right. There is not remote code executing to support it. jgit has a feature where you can push and fetch from an s3 bucket as if it were just an http repo. The assumption is that the s3 storage space and bandwidth would be low enough to be negligible.
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For the first hours, not all organizations will be listed there, as listing depends on having an up-to-date profile sent by admins. Don't fret if you don't see your org there yet: there are 180 selected organizations, compare to the number shown at the bottom of the page (88 as I write this).
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Theatre - Mike Daisey & 'This American Life'
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OK. I guess my description of voluntary contracts wasn't clear enough.

I think freedom to contract is more important than some national standard regarding minimum wage, sick pay, hours worked per day/week/month, vacation time, etc.

Regardless, I was commenting specifically on the exempt/non-exempt distinctions in the law which are terribly vague and open to interpretation as well as easily influenced via politics (i.e. certain industries and occupations will get favored treatment in the legislation due to lobbying efforts and not due to some justifiable public policy goal).
The US military has been offering ROTC scholarships that completely cover all college costs (at least at cheaper schools) for a long time. Of course they also include a multi-year commitment to a job that could include being shot at.
Ah, wonderful! Thank you for the extra information. :)
What makes you think the conditions he describes are true?
I think you're on the right track here. This is bringing a laser pistol to a gun fight. You can keep a lot of pests away with a plastic owl attached to your roof acting as a scarecrow or with always on "dumb" ultrasonic devices. Both much cheaper and with far less moving parts.
>Privacy has a way broader social and legal meaning than the dictionary definition of the word.

Something made public and put on display for the world to see isn't and never was private by any possible logical definition.

>Once that zip-file spreads, making the Twitter account private becomes pointless.

And? Unlike the EU, there isn't such a thing as right to be forgotten in the USA, and for that matter, nor do I think it should be. Be careful what you put online and it will never be a problem.

I'd hate to be operating any kind of social service in the EU, when a single unauthenticated letter could completely destroy a good chunk of any social network.
I saw a tweet from him the other day saying he's got a 2650x1600 display (HP ZR20W, I believe). So that just barely fits.

The simulator now scrolls, however, so you could in theory test retina iPad apps full size in portrait mode on an 11" MacBook Air.

My 27" iMac (2650x1440) isn't quite tall enough even in landscape mode, but it's not unusable thanks to the scrolling.
Show HN: A Facebook profile picture guessing game I made
Over the past few days, I've been working on this fun idea I had when I first saw the blur.js post, here on HN. My first though was to make a game using it. So, I wrote Friendblur.

Check it out: http://friendblur.com/

This was my first Backbone.js app, as well. It seems to work pretty good on IE, FF, Chrome and Safari. I used Bootstrap to quickly get it out there. There's no server side database or anything, yet. I don't keep track of scores or anything. The only thing the server does is pipe facebook image data back to the user, because that was the first idea I had as to how to get around a cross-domain issue with blur.js.

So, if anyone knows how to get image data somehow from the browser cache or something, that'd save me some bandwidth. :)
Yup. Was augmenting, not contradicting your comment.
Out of curiosity, how old were the candidates who were deemed too old to be junior devs? I'm in a similar situation myself (turning 29), and am concerned about my age being bad juju.
Clickable URL: http://friendblur.com/
GIANT pet peeve: please do not auto-play the trailer when I click on the movie. Please. It is not expected behavior.
Matrix style chicken farming
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Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack Pro works for that.
Sewage waste tends to have high amounts of pharmaceuticals excreted in urine, which are hard to filter but biodegrade. I wouldn't drink the Google water it, but it probably has no immediate toxicity.

Google must treat the water with chlorine, because of risks like Legionnaires' disease.
And there are lots of people who want to work for $3.75/hour. In particular people who have no experience need to offset that fact by charging less for their labor. For them, getting the experience is much more important than getting $8.75/hour + benefits.

Teenagers are the classic example of this type of worker. See http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/03/update-on-wsj-editorial-... for some data.
I guess everyone has a different experience!

I'm a Canadian who has been living in the US for the past 10 years or so. When I cross back into Canada, I get grilled (Why are you visiting? Family? What family? etc, etc). I crossed the border by land last summer and was accused of trying to smuggle my US car into the country.

Now when I return to the US? The most I've ever gotten was "Welcome home!"

It's my theory that customs and immigration can freely crap all over their own citizens while crapping on a foreigner might cause problems (if the foreigner has some pull).
It's not an anti-apple movement its a fair and humane electronics manufacturing labor movement. Apple is a huge and well known brand so they are natural fit for a story, but its also well known and reported that foxconn and friends are widely used by other electronics companies.

These are serious issues about how human beings are treated and they deserve more from than a reframe into a silly tribal squabble over who prefers what brand.
They've added MLB.tv to the WD Live this year so there has to be some sort of SDK for it.
>Privacy should always be the number one concern with apps and websites.

Yeah! Forget making a good product that fills a societal need that people will love, privacy is more important than all of that!
Didn't work in Firefox even after allowing (the suggestion to "Allow" lined up in Chrome, though). Loaded the site in Chrome, and no movies were found in my area despite being within 10 miles of two movie theaters.
If Fox ran corrections, I'm not sure they'd have time for anything else.

Bill O'Reilly's spent days on rants based on deliberately misrepresenting what Sandra Fluke testified about. (1. She wants government to pay for birth control. No, students pay for insurance and wants contraceptives covered by the insurance they pay for. 2. She can't afford birth control but she can fly all over doing interviews. No, she was testifying about other students who had problems affording birth control without insurance, so what Fluke can afford is irrelevant. Etc.)

Fox News's whole raison d'être requires this kind of misinformation.
No doubt he crosses the line - it's hard not to. I'm not sure I agree about that particular quote, though. If we all went by probability, nobody would do anything great. The soul does not live by statistics.

I am no authority, but FWIW my experience of creativity comes from a place I find hard to believe every human being doesn't have access to. As Bob Dylan sang: "In this you are not so unique". The difficulty is that we are governed almost completely by the desire to believe and do what other people say.
There is a presentation here http://norwegen.ahk.de/fileadmin/ahk_norwegen/Dokumente/Pres...
And an article here about building the necessary cabling http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/27/us-norway-seacable...
I uncovered a bug when naively recompiling a universal (iPad/iPhone) app with the 5.1 SDK. The app had high-res assets for the iPhone but not the iPad.

Apparently the @2x modifier takes precedence over the -Landscape and -Portrait modifiers, resulting in retina iPads preferentially using the high-res iPhone launch screen over the low-res iPad launch screen (which are optimized for each launch orientation).

So you end up with a mildly- (portrait) or greatly-distorted (landscape) launch image on high-res iPads if you simply recompile. I imagine this is what Apple was trying to avoid, with reneging on what their API docs say about modifier precedence.
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this is great news, but will it be backported?

i had to jump through hoops to support 2+3 in a single code base because of this (in case people don't understand u"abc" is a syntax error in python 3.0-2, which makes writing portable code that uses unicode tricky, since that's what it a unicode literal looks like in python 2).

if it's not backported to 3.0-2 then we'll have the strange state of libraries that run on 2 and 3.3, but not inbetween.
Correct me if I'm wrong but it can only record your input, not the other side of the conversation - if you change the setting to record from stereo then the person you're talking to on Skype just hears themselves echoing back.

My personal use for audacity other than randomly playing around with audio stuff was to clean up a CD of a radio recording from a decade ago, that over time had picked up scratches and noise, and managed to do a pretty awesome job overall.
There's more to it than just sizeof, for example an array of arrays is structured completely differently than an array of pointers to other arrays, even if you can still access items via a[i][j].
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On the surface a data centre is, as you say, dull. They're just big noisy sheds full of racks and wires. Some things that make them interesting:

1) Some people don't know just how noisy a data centre can be.

2) Some people just like seeing a rack with a caption saying "48 TB across X drives in Raid Y"; or lots of cat 5 / 5e / 6.

3) Innovative solutions for heat, aural noise, electrical noise, power, security, bandwidth, etc.

Most people on HN aren't going to be in group 2. But there's so many smart people on HN, and I'm surprised that this stuff feels so (and I know this is the wrong word) "backwards". (Maybe "stagnant" is better?)

Energy has cost, and reducing that cost is a space for making money.
You simply don't take the Red Line to Park Street, change to the Green Line, and ride out to Allston. That's utterly moronic. As I recall, you would take the Red Line to Harvard Square and change to Bus 77 to Allston.
To follow that logic would be a worse case of he-said/she-said journalism than which has been lambasted for for years (and which arguably inspired NPR's recent statement of recommittment to actual journalism).
I'm somewhat interested in a curious technical aspect that Daisey put into the story.

He claimed that something to the effect of "nothing there was made by machine, everything tiny little chip is put there by hand" - which I found hard to believe then and even harder now.

To what extent if any is this true?
Care to elaborate?

I had a good friend who grew up in Romania and his stories scare the crap out of me.

1. Your next door neighbor is just gone one day, replaced with another family. Nobody asks why or what happened. You just don't ask.

2. Election ballets are write-ins. One guy wrote "Mickey Mouse" on the ballet and they came looking for him. He was forced to report to the local police station to watch propaganda videos for 8 hours a day for 8 days.

People can complain about how things are going here in the US, but to say it becoming more and more like a dictatorship seems a little disingenuous.
The Qualcomm LTE chip was also previously confirmed to still be 45 nm.

It's very possible Apple wanted to push a 32 nm chip this year but their supply chain couldn't deliver the volume. Hence the need for un-Applelike increased weight and thickness to accomodate the extra batteries. I believe Samsung is making their chips and reports were they were sticking with them. I doubt the Apple vs Samsung lawsuits have anything to do with this though.

This suggests that next years iPad may feature both a process shrink 'tick' (to 28/32 nm) and an architecture improvement 'tock' (to the Cortex A15). That would be big performance gains and allow the device to shed some batts and get thinner again. Expect a keynote slide declaring the 2013 iPad to be "the thinnest iPad ever".

What's more interesting is the possibility that when the "new iPhone" is introduced it may not run the A5X but the 32 nm chips may be ready. Maybe we'll see a few years of iphones running dual gpu "A#" chips and iPads running quad gpu "A#X" chips.
Weren't Ruby groups trying really hard to get into GSoC? None were accepted.
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Chipworks actually confirms it's 45 nm now.

http://www.chipworks.com/en/technical-competitive-analysis/r...
Is there a good list of upcoming hackathons online somewhere? Or places one should look?
Alternative answer to the question posed in the title: blackmail people by threatening to disclose their porn viewing habits (the search engine) to their friends and relatives (the social network.)
So, both your examples in 1 suggest that you think a cheer leader having a bazooka is not a good idea. Other people agree, not because the cheer leader is wanting to kill you with it, but because the cheerleader has a good chance of accidentally killing you (or others) with it.

(I haven't down-voted you. I do disagree with you, but that's not a reason why I would down vote.)
Took forever loading on Android---I'm surprised how much that matters to me; I just got a smartphone for Christmas and I'm already spoiled.
Thank, I'll go through both of the threads.
Pay in Canada at a $20 Billion global communications company starts at $85K.
How the internet allows us to scale trust
It wasn't an off the shelf framework. "Scraping engine" may be a better phrase to describe what it actually did. External components would make a call, saying something like "I need the data for this particular patient from this particular hospital". The engine would then spawn off a thread containing the scraping code for that particular hospital, and it would run off, scrape the website and then return a well formatted version of that data or one of a series of error messages. If the thread got hung up, the engine killed it and returned an error.

We built the engine when we realized that these scrapers were a competitive advantage for the company and we'd be writing a lot of them (when I left, we had around 250 of them with a backlog of near 1000 to be written). It became worth the investment to write the framework because there were features we wanted that would have been hell to integrate any other way - for instance, killing long-running scrapers that may have been hung up. The engine bought us lots of other niceties too - for instance, centralized error reporting. If one particular scraper returned lots of errors, odds are that the site changed and we knew to give the code some attention.

When you describe it as a "big enough fence", that's only partially true. It's more about a series of independent tasks that don't depend on each other. When you have that and those tasks have only minimal impact to the system as a whole that you have a scenario which suggests drone programming.
I also made a ClojureScript version of Bret Victor's interactive editor applied to game development:

http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/02/26/connecting-to-your-c...

Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XUWpze_A_s&context=C4f8c...
Around here, some places have halved in value, which is more than a year or two's worth of payments.
Good point. The behavior is actually to use critics score unless the critics score isn't available (0 for A Thousand Words triggered that), in which case it falls back to use the audience score, if it's available. I'll think about this a bit more, thanks for pointing it out!