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The name hints at its use: Schulbuch is German and means school book. Why was that font used in textbooks in elementary schools in Germany?

Because this is what kids learn to write: http://i.imgur.com/LbQ7l.png

But nowadays textbooks use changed variants of that font, actually – with a normal I. I think that has something to do with the decreasing importance of that cursive. Kids still learn it, sure, but it’s no longer as important and central as it was only, say, twenty years ago.
Criticism is not the same as hostility. We should be polite even if the criticism is harsh.
I don't think I'm reading it wrong. Your link gives me:

"The fastest route is 2,4 km, which will take approximately 24,855 to 33,140 steps if you walked it."
So did they get Bin Laden or what?
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Samsung’s 2010 report clearly states they are not copying Apple
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So what's the issue here? If I use my Apple ID to reset my system user's password, how can Apple decrypt my disk?
"Computer Science" is Not Science and "Software Engineering" is Not Engineering
"I will be too honest as usual"

I think you might be conflating honesty and hostility.
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Yeah, there are a lot of positive opinions building around C++11.
But, my personal opinion is that, to be in a long run, c++ has to change very fast again!(I mean, the design patterns, to match up with new hardware and expectations).
This is not the case with rust or go!!!
Without a lot of prior context, this seems like a clear-headed rebuttal to an otherwise pretty low ad hominem attack.

On a specific note, to characterise someone as sexist because they disagree with someone who happens to be a woman is in my opinion itself one of the most egregious examples of both sexism (for reasons I'll detail) and libel (for the damaging political and social impact of being branded with such a label).

First, throwing the term 'sexist' around carelessly undermines genuine claims of sexism. Second, it attempts to not only target an individual as sexist, but often the male gender as a whole as being part of a "misogynistic boys-club", in turn implying that masculine identity itself is inherently wrong. Third, it undermines genuine gender equality - if people are concerned about their criticisms being perceived as sexist they will refrain from open and honest critique which is the hallmark of colleagues and equals. Fourth, it assumes (paternalistically) a gender role for women as "poor persecuted girls" who need protecting from criticism and attack. Consequently, sexual inequality is perpetuated - after all, if this same criticism had been targeted at a male journalist would we expect to see responses such as "you're only picking on him because he's a man"?

There are plenty of genuine cases of sexism (against male, female, and other gender identities) which emerge out of the obsolescence of traditional social roles. Leveraging the political sensitivity of this important issue to attack an opponent is pretty low.
My favourite quote from the article "... studies suggest that the paradigm or language that a given developer is most comfortable with is the one that makes them the most productive. This would mean that to get optimum productivity, hire a bunch of like-minded developers who are fanatics of a given language or tool."
Do you know any alternative to SourceForge?

SourceForge allows to host phpBB, Wordpress, MediaWiki, my custom php code, with gigabytes of disk space.

It's not possible to install all this software on Github or Google Code project.
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On my machine, I have this checkbox disabled. I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion and then to Mountain Lion. Never saw this setting before, so I couldn't disable it manually.
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The largest retailers though can negotiate less than wholesale. But you raise a point. What attracted SB's to the deal? Lower transaction fees or incremental sales due to a simplified paying process? It can be both but it's probably not 50/50. I suspect one was the driver and the other gravy.
Ask HN: Why my story got dead?
I have submitted a story(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4355112) here but it got dead. Please let me know the reasons why it got dead.
What the hell? Why is everyone so nonchalant with this gaping hole in Amazon’s security? I don’t get it.

I wasn’t comparing this hole to Apple’s security. I was merely pointing out that this is a big fucking deal. Because it is.

What’s wrong with you? Do you fear that Apple might not look so bad if you admit that Amazon also screwed up quite a bit? Are you so fanatical in your hate of Apple?

Apple’s security hole is the bigger deal here, certainly, but Amazon’s is also a big fucking deal.
Imagining a Secure Backdoor Cipher.
Same in the UK. You can only be fired for disciplinary or performance reasons; or if your position has been made redundant then they must offer you another job if one is available.
I'm sure it will vary in the USA in different States.
The real question now is how long will it be until Apple integrates it's own credit card payment system into iPhones to kill Square.
I'd say being told "this is a community that cares about non-English speaking people" isn't completely useless to most people.
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What does it do? (The whole thing, and line 20 specifically)
Another response: http://c1qfxugcgy0.tumblr.com/post/28976190142/oops

[Wired's rebuttal is] kinda annoying. Ryan Singel, old white guy, repeats
Quinn Norton’s gender (female) five separate times (she is a girl)
because Sogohian, dirt-poor terrorism suspect, is apparently the
chairman of the Patriarchy.[1] Hey, you know who else has white male
privilege, Ryan? Editors at old-media print magazines.
Does the Surface spat open the door for Linux?
In India the penalties are never high. Sometimes it takes 4 to 5 years to fight a case and just get $1000 to $1800 as compensation (if case is in the favour of plaintiff).
Yeah, and? What else would it equate to?

Press releases and public announcements are how a company communicates. If a company changes something without communicating, they changed something quietly.

I’m not really understanding what point you are trying to make. What is there to misunderstand about that “quietly”?
It's the oldest .com domain, not the oldest domain name
Let's hope they raid the homes of bankers in the same way.
Ask HN: Front-end or Python back-end jobs in Berlin
Dear fellows. I'm 27 years old having a good experience in either Python or front-end development (there is a link to my resume in profile). I mostly do contract/freelance work and run two local websites in Veliky Novgorod, Russia: http://cafe.nov.ru/ and http://gradoskop.ru/ but suddenly it started feeling kinda tough here, so I'm considering an attempt to relocate my family to a different place of the World. Berlin seems very nice to me, I was there last year and I'm going there in the end of September.

Can you suggest any job boards or perhaps recently opened vacancies worth being considered?
The parent's reasoning would probably apply more to a vaccine than a cure.

Also, it's not illogical for there to be a demand for (research into) protections against threats which have not materialized yet, but seem to have a chance of doing so. As the prospect of portable bioweapons becomes more likely, there will be increased incentive to come up with protections from those weapons, even if they have not yet reached viability.
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If the author's going to complain about hype in news coverage, perhaps he shouldn't be a leading contributor to one-sided news coverage like the Wall Street Journal's 'What They Know'.

Or is hype in news coverage only a problem when it's hype the author personally disagrees with?
Another pointless act which is simply for show. They want to be able market Internet Explorer by saying "The Browser That Does Not Track You". W3C clearly stated that this is considered an abuse of the DNT flag. As a result, thanks to Microsoft, the flag will start to be ignored completely.
Does this save money for Starbucks over their own branded card? Due to the rewards available, I'd assume many of their highest volume customers are using it, and would be unlikely to switch to Square unless those rewards were transferable.
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Portugal.

To set up such cameras, you'd need permission from our National Data Protection Commission and if you were to store footage with car plates you'd fall under the Personal Data Protection Law which requires you to either get explicit consent or fall under one of the few exceptions in the law (and no, tracking random people isn't one of them).

And even if you qualify, you can only use that data for the specific purpose you said you needed it for and it needs to be well protected (for example, a governmental CCTV installation was suspended because the recording weren't being well encrypted).
I think Android will "finish" growing in market share around the 80% mark, which is close enough to the Windows market share, which people kept saying Android would never reach. Ironically, Windows market share will probably fall below 80% in the next few years.
I only clicked on this link because I saw the geocities.com. I was expecting more BLINK tags and animated gifs :(
But if the "state"(s) co-ordinates a raid that rests on illegal arrest warrants, is this not also organised crime?
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I'm having a hard time seeing how Starbucks has higher processing costs than Square. I think that Starbucks will continue to pay their low costs and be able to use Square as their platform. No reason Square couldn't process Starbucks transactions, too without needing to change their merchant accounts.
VxWorks operating system of Mars Curiosity

http://huntall.com/vxworks-operating-system-of-mars-curiosit...
Wonder if they mention the EFF, which has received at least $1 million from Google this year: http://epic.org/privacy/ftc/googlebuzz/EPIC_Google_Buzz_Sett...

It's been argued that such class action settlement, where the defendant essentially gets to pick which advocacy organizations they "settle" with, more or less amount to disguised funding of such organisations: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4316764
What? Perhaps if you have down syndrome, but otherwise takes around 5 seconds. Swipe card, enter 4 digit pin, press enter. Faster than it would take the cashier to type in the amount you just gave him, much less make change.
Always been meaning to ask you, does a dog have Buddha-nature?
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You didn't even try the link and therefore misleading people into thinking that the post is in any way private, which it isn't.

You do NOT have to login into Google+ to read the post.
Actually, it kind of is available for planes (at least the autopilot systems). See the AF447 accident and how the autopilot disconnected itself when it started getting conflicting data from the pitot.
I agree with you. Not cool at all. Unfortunately, there is an unpleasant trait that hackers seem to suffer from more than most other people. I call it the 'know it all' complex.

Know-it-alls are intolerant of views that are contrary to their own, usually very narrow opinion on how things should be done. Woe betide anyone who does not do it their way.
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I'm probably as guilty of this as anyone else.

Perhaps we should all watch Derek Siver's "A Real Person, A Lot Like You" on a regular basis.

https://vimeo.com/26110865
"But we don't have this in software designs for the most part. We have the requirements, such as what the input and output looks like and the run-time constraints which dictate the maximum time a given operation is allowed to take. But there is much in-between these that is elusive to objective metrics. "

I pretty much stopped reading here. Elusive to objective metrics? I agree that you can't measure a program like you would a bridge, using physical laws such as physics and chemistry, but you very well can measure many aspects of it such as: efficiency, size, required resources, relative ease of use, etc. Just because it is not a physical thing doesn't mean we can't use a "scientific method" approach, we just need to be open to using metrics that exist in the digital realm.
The court judgement is ambiguous as hell. It doesn't mention either the website or the software that the plaintiff had tried to download.

This is how they explained the situation -

"The complainant has taken network service connection for his mobile since 5 years and subscribed for GPRS service. He tried to download an application from website using his phone GPRS service through torrent."

Bittorrent through GPRS? Mind boggling.
Reminds me of the statement by I think H. Abelson though it might have been Sussman (from their SICP video lecture 1)that goes something like :

Computer Science is not a science and it's not about computers.
Computer science is only about computers in the same way that physics is about particle accelerators.

That was the gist of it anyway
I think the most obnoxious thing about this post (and I saw a Wikimedia employee point this out in the comments as well) is that it completely ignores the fact that Wikipedia is built on the MediaWiki platform and doesn't even attempt to address how their proposal could be realistically implemented from a development standpoint in coordination with the Wikimedia Engineering team and the community's ongoing product roadmap.

Maybe this is being a tad catty, and standing in the way of innovation in some respects but design led initiatives that don't take a close look at the world from other discipline's perspectives are usually doomed.
Although I appreciate the idea of a Do Not Track header, isn't it a bit like a Do Not Steal sign? You don't use a sign; you use a lock.

It seems like it would be more productive to focus on helping users not disclose their identity than helping them ask sites to pretend they don't see it.
Perhaps that's why SourceForge is so bloated; it's trying to wear too many hats. GitHub and Google Code both give you a issue board, wiki, and site host; but it's all integrated and their ops teams don't have to worry about random 3rd-party software going haywire since they own it all.
Was the C-130 Gunship on standby circling overhead or something? Why were so many 'assets' thrown into a raid? Who sanctioned this? I would be looking for resignations and full hearing/inquiries into total miss allocation of resources.
I was hoping I wasn't the only one who got excited to see a geocities link.
Interesting move considering Starbucks already had a pretty effective mobile payment app. I use it regularly, and it works very very well.
I'm sick of these bloated designs which tries to solve an issue which doesn't exist in a first place!

Please go away.
Based on Wikipedia, Android got copy and past marginally before iOS (April 2009 vs June 2009)

From my personal experience Android copy and paste is more reliable than iOS - I get quite a few web pages on iOS where I can't mark text to copy, turning JS often gets around this
Like this?
http://www.starbucks.com/coffeehouse/mobile-apps/
This site looks good. But I wondering if someone has a similar list of apps that are one steps larger than just algorithms - must have UI and be useful.
There is nothing I can find in Soghoian's two posts that are any sort of criticism of Patterson, the security expert. It seems to be a huge and false claim of Wired's that there is any criticism of Patterson.

Soghoian does criticize the reporter, who is a woman.

Apparently for Wired, when you criticize one of their reporters, and their editor it's all out war to the death and here they played the gender card.

It was either that or admit their mistake.
and Julian Assange too.
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Hahaha good point. Plus you don't make it to Techcrunch if you make actual money! Congrats! Are you staying at PI or moving to VMware?
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As someone with an engineering degree, it does irk me to constantly hear programmers referred to around these quarters as 'engineers', it's extremely introspective, and IMO a little disrespectful. Similarly to the 'are you technical?' thing, why is there such an aversion to the term programmer or software developer?

I have no problem with the term 'software engineers', as i do seem some parallels, and it is clear what you are talking about, but please leave the straight up 'engineering' term to those dealing with the physical world.

E: most replies and downvoters seem to have missed that I have no problem with the term where it is unambiguous. You wouldn't call a software architect simply 'an architect' (would you?).
I assumed all geocities.com sites have been deleted. How is this possible?
It was a poor design, that altered the UX in a significantly negative fashion due to a lack of understanding of what Wikipedia is.

I'd be like someone doing a very swooshy automobile design, and then moving the clutch to the passenger's side, just for kicks.

Also, in general I believe that hacker culture should tend towards cutting through the bullshit. You have no expectation of courtesy except for the courtesy of honesty on the Internet.

Harsh criticism is the quickest way to let someone know they're doing the wrong thing, and the fastest way to get your point across.
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And this is not something new. Back in the days of ICQ and hotmail, it was trivial to "hack" someone's email account by filling in the required information to "recover your password" by using information users stored in ICQ (which usually included their email).

I remember searching for people with an @hotmail.com account in ICQ just to see if I could enter to see their emails. This was like, 15 years ago IIRC.
But to anyone who understands the dichotomy between those people and the people who get real work done, "revolting" is the right word.
Switzerland... Usually cash. Sometimes Debit Card / Maestro (for larger purchases or if you don't have money on hand). People usually withdraw money from the ATM to pay for their purchases.

The idea probably is: It's easier and simpler to withdraw 200 bucks once and pay in cash at the different stores instead of having to enter the card and PIN every time you purchase something.
Ah, just a new incarnation of the evil bit[1].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
Content ID, unless I'm mistaken, is not a DMCA takedown request. It's is Google's own internal tool. It's their way of self-regulating.

You are correct though, this is not the first time this has happened. This is fairly common (or at least I hear about it often enough), and I assume that anyone who uploads a fair number of videos will eventually be hit with some Content ID complaint regardless of whether they infringed.

I think Google should explain itself, and introduce some measure of protection and repercussions against over-zealous media providers that provide Content ID with samples of media that they do not own. After all, if Google can be asked to moderate it's own site, I think it's fair that a media company can accurately mark the content that it does own.
>> international trade has to reach an equilibrium where everyone exports as much as they import (just as everyone in town must ultimately sell the same amount of value as they buy)

I'm not sure that must or will happen. Maybe the US will decline as a German customer, but India will step up, for example. Germany might be able to go on relying on exports for ever.

And a wise shopkeeper brings in more than they earn for decades, saving up for when their is no income (hard times or retirement).

Dependance on exports makes Germany vulnerable to worldwide financial changes, but dependance on domestic sales makes them vulnerable to domestic crises, like a falling birth rate. Pick your poison. I'm not sure the choice is very clear. Although maybe the answer is "spread your risks by having a balance," which I suppose was your original point.
All of your points could be applied to, say, a manager in a business, but nobody would call them a employee engineer or business scientist.
What effect this will have on HTTPS (and therefore all HTTP 2.0) handshake latency?
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Hmmm... I have been to France probably over ten times, I've never noticed this.
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> First, throwing the term 'sexist' around carelessly
> undermines genuine claims of sexism.

The same goes for rasism. We are at the stage, that merely acknowledging someone's sex or race will earn you these labels. Too bad.
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What problems are you having? It sounds like boredom is one of them. Write an app that solves a problem for you and maybe it will solve one for others.
(For benefit of other readers, I think http://www.techieapps.com/googles-new-feature-data-locking-o... is what the OP's submission linked to.)

I didn't see your story before it was killed, so I can't speak for anyone who actually flagged it. But these are my thoughts:

The article is poorly written. It contains numerous grammatical errors and may have been machine-translated from another language, possibly for SEO purposes.

The article is not very substantive, nor is it very interesting.

I would not have flagged it myself, but I would have downvoted it had I been able to.
This is a disgrace for New Zealand and as a European this whole ordeal has warned me plenty to not do any business there ever.

The US who were obviously the ones in charge of NZ police and general "law" enforcement are another story. The world police has done their will again. Without thinking, without logic, without sense, but Hollywood money behind them.
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Another disturbing trend I've noticed is upvoting and downvoting based simply upon whether or not you agree.

A well-reasoned, polite and civil viewpoint that doesn't match your own should not be downvoted. The result of this is that people will not post viewpoints that differ from what they think the community will agree with. That doesn't help anybody. It causes groupthink and a hivemind mentality.

Downvotes should be handed out to posts that do not contribute positively to the discussion, that are spam or trolling etc. Not to good faith comments you don't agree with.
Hacker News, in general, is a fucking bore. The nice thing about being random access is that you can be highly selective in both the stories that you read and the discussions you participate in.
"If I don't hit you, how will you know I'm mad?"

Work on your communication skills.
The closest thing to a universal expression of law is probably English. In older times, it would have been... Latin?
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Reminds me of "this is not a p3p policy".
Guess that reading the google maps api to find the walking distance function would have taken me more than 15 minutes.

The 15 minutes concept would probably make good katas to keep stuff you have already used up to date in your memory. Would love to see a collection of small challenges like this grouped under different kinds of tags. This one might be javascript, google-maps for instance.

I would use that.
Some of us have no access to plus.google.com at work though.
The last time an Australasian country stood up for itself and refused to acquiesce to US demands, they overthrew the government.

I think the FBI can do what it wants down these parts.