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Personally, not really, because there is no real ambiguity. For example, at a company like apple (or anywhere else that makes devices), they might have 'real' qualified engineers working alongside software engineers.

The liberal use of the term 'engineer' to describe technicians or mechanics does irk many in the engineering fields, however.

In Germany, the term is protected, so it is illegal to use the label without holding full qualifications, like 'doctor' or 'lawyer'.
You are wrong. If you have previously logged into a Google+ account, but are not logged in, you are blocked from seeing the article w/o logging in.

To circumvent, you can put your browser into Private or Incognito browsing, and you can then read the post w/o logging in. (Which also logs you out of HN, so you can't comment or vote.)

So, for any of the HN audience with G+ accounts but who don't surf "logged in", a login is required unless the user takes extra steps (EDIT: such as incognito or child comment's noscript approach).
Large groups of people, even technical people, still see these pocket-sized computers as "the thing in my pocket which forces me to speak with people", and just want to ignore it.
You make a convincing argument, but that still doesn't mean Google/YouTube shouldn't be pouring developer time in if they don't want the people who made YouTube to disappear to a rival content provider. People will get sick of the randomised takedowns, even if it's simple to resolve.
Except nobody writes in grey ink on low-grade grey paper.
i expanded on this at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4355517 / http://www.acooke.org/cute/HowToDress0.html
Not as much as those posers who manage train engines.
Who, by the way, should be angry at these Civil and Chem engineers who never saw an engine in their lives.

Let's acknowledge that language grows and changes as new concepts are invented.
I see. What else caught your eye?
Great tool for surveying a social circle on a question and getting immediate feedback.
I wonder if they keep track of who had what number and when?

Just thinking about whether law enforcement or the courts can get details.
Sadly, there is a growing contingent amongst the computer security/hacker scene who, instead of actually looking to improve things, are looking to be indignant about something.

A major conference has recently had to deal with issues stemming from a complaint about harassment that wasn't actually a complaint. It was never reported to staff, nor venue, nor law enforcement. Instead, twitter and blog posts were used.
To use your metaphor, walking into the Yankee Stadium and using their PA would be akin to this person putting the new design up on Wikipedia, like on a talk page or linking to it from Wikipedia's entry on Wikipedia. No, the person put their new design up on a totally separate website.

He didn't say that Wikipedia has to change, it was merely just his design idea that he wanted to share with the world. Yes, if he actually wanted Wikipedia to change there is a process of contacting Wikipedia and going through the whole bureaucratic process but I think it was more of a show what's possible. Kind of like that design project that was on HN a while back showing a possible rebranding of Microsoft.

I may be in the minority here but I don't believe it warranted such harsh criticism.
I guess it depends on what perspective you're looking for. OpenStack sends usage information to an AMQP queue for consumption. This is generally for use by the provider and not the end-user however.

This is how the currently deployed public clouds collect usage data.
Yes, to the point where the pre-emptive defense against being labeled an antisemite is used itself to shut down or shift the focus of discussion.

It's so wonderfully ironic and hypocritical, and it's extremely common on sites like reddit.
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> For the majority of men in the US that position is that they're more likely to be murdered, arrested, serve relatively longer sentences, receive less money for health care, pay more for insurance, get called to selective service, and die younger.

All of those things you listed are hugely intersectional with race, sexual orientation, and class. In terms of sexism, men will rarely face institutional barriers based solely on their gender and are unlikely to be have their lives affected by being called sexist.
I never understand how such old content suddenly becomes popular around here. This article is from 2005.
You may not even have to go to that length - ask people if they want online ads to be more relevant to their interests and quite a lot would probably say yes, if only to get away from all the obnoxious monkey-punching Flash ads.
I've hired a lot of web design firms over the past decade and I've never seen or requested a 2-month-long prototype phase as the first step.

The first step in a web design project is always discovery, so that the design firm does not waste their time (and my employer's money) on work that does not solve the right problems, or cannot be implemented.

Ad agencies, in contrast, will typically come to a pitch meeting with some concepts or prototypes. But that is ok because ads are self-contained products that are largely free from legacy systems.
I made this over the last two days in Node.js. The analysis is still pretty simple, and I'd like to expand it over time. It updates every 30 minutes, and you can already see that there's some significant shifts in literacy between the daytime and very early morning.

I had originally started the project to grab Flesch-Kincaid grade levels, but it was taking me 45 minutes to analyze about 20 pages of comments, so I switched it out for Automated Readability Index.

I really wanted to include HN, as I feel it's in a period of social shift, but it wouldn't have the same sort of statistical significance due to its size (it would most likely just be meaningless jarring jagged lines across the graphs). If someone can think of a good way to include HN, I'm all ears. I'd also be interested in other methods of writing analysis that I could include.
I pay about as much per month to insure my car as I do for smartphone service and personally feel that I get more value out of my smartphone than I do out of my car. In fact I frequently find myself weighing the pros and cons of eliminating my car in order to save on recurring costs - this never enters my mind for the smartphone.
I have a hard time thinking this matters. 68% of smartphones worldwide are Android devices. Close to 70% of profits from smartphones worldwide go to Apple (http://www.bgr.com/2012/08/06/apple-mobile-industry-profit-s...) which doesn't make Android devices.

On pretty much every metric except eyeballs, Android is losing (including the value of eyeballs - advertising doesn't matter if the people seeing your ads cant pay for your product), so why does 68% of market share matter?
Quite a few markets were created overnight. This is just one of them.

Another that comes to mind is bottled water. When soft drink company profits were declining, someone had the brilliant idea of just selling water. How would they get people to be gullible enough to buy rebottled tap water, though?

By telling people tap water was bad. It worked, very well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se12y9hSOM0
I can't trust anything this guys says since he's running on geocities.
We proudly work with Twilio -- though there's a lot of work that's gone into managing the user-facing aspects of the service and the UX.
So successful advertising = playing on people's weaknesses?
This sort of nonsense isn't surprising from tech media at all. However, I am genuinely surprised and dismayed to see it coming out of Threat Level.
Google: Lobby for a framework/interpretation in which you can X strike these people. So many invalid takedown requests (under the auspices of the DMCA, even if content ID pre-empts a formal DMCA request), and you stop honoring their content ID and/or takedown requests. Or at least then make them go through formal channels consuming the maximum amount of time before response and doing the most to coerce them to prove the validity of the request.

These damned "strikes"... provisions are exactly what the "big media" providers have been asking for. Well, make them live by it, for a change.

Spend some hours and money sending that message.

Just an idea, from yet another pissed off Google customer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H product point.
Don't be fooled by your anecdote vs. actual stats.
Of course, the spec was only changed after Microsoft announced it would be turned on by default.
Definitely an issue we've been mindful of and designed for.
I would but I live in a country where cheques are considered archaic.
"X is rubbish and whoever came up with this is stupid"

To be clear, I agree that this is awful feedback. It contains no useful information and personally insults the creator, both of which are bad. There is a world of difference between saying "this design is bad" and "you are a bad designer". Even good designers come up with truly terrible ideas constantly--it's part of the process. (I certainly have more than my share!)

Obviously people get emotionally attached to their work. I certainly do. But you have to be able to let go of that while you're receiving feedback, or there's no point in you getting any.

Again, to be clear, I would not say "this is rubbish" or "this is awful" while critiquing a design. I would say "this is not working at all because you're ignoring considerations A and B". There are many, many design ideas that just do not work. As a designer, you are much better served by someone telling you "this is not working at all, you need an entirely different approach" than you are by someone trying to hint you towards evolving a design that's based on a faulty premise.
Most likely the reason that it can't make it through a day without a charge is because of 4G/LTE. If battery life is that important, you can force your phone to only use 3G and you will see much greater life.
People don't realize that little kids talk, all the time, and especially to anyone who spends every day with them, it's clear when they are developing new concepts in their mind - they go through a cycle of linguistic scientific experimentation, testing the waters, so to speak, on their newfound grammatical mechanics or vocabulary.
The first place I ever used Square was a Pittsburgh coffee shop.
My point is that I don't think their design had the existing technology / current Wiki infrastructure in mind (and never meant to).

It was just design for the sake of design - it didn't need to be based on a MediaWiki theme or anything like that. It's just a visual representation of what 'could be'.
I think one of the issue is they don't hire good people and just want to get shits done quickly. Eventually it fires back and they fires them. The amount of work is also crazy.

There is no perfect company (and this one is not even close) but I am thinking that there is a better way to manage all that.

You know the difference just by the way they handle it that the person left in good terms. When someone is quitting and they announce it, the morale doesn't seem to be affected.
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>Just because people with axes to grind can use gender as a smear (an inept one, in this case) to paint someone as a sexist, doesn't make it right to imply we as males are somehow being attacked or victimized, or could be in the future. And no, being made uncomfortable of your position in society isn't an attack, it's a reminder.

What position do "we" possess? As a user of ycombinator you are likely in a position of privilege. Extrapolating your experience onto the general male populace is an ad-hom attack on all marginalized men when done systematically.

Because you are the figurehead of "men", gay and transgendered men have no where to go when they are kicked out of their fundamentalist household. After all, why would you build shelters for the privileged?

Because you are the figurehead of "men", minority boys are falling through the cracks. Have you seen the difference in employment rates of african-american men and women? Have you seen the difference in incarceration rates?

Yes, some men like you experience disproportionate mobility towards the top. But even more experience mobility towards the very bottom.
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But a post on hacker news is not a comment to the designers in person.

Compare with book or movie reviews published in newspapers. They frequently give very harsh and sarcastic criticism, and this is considered fair game. The standards of politeness for face-to-face conversations and public commentary are different.
As a gamedev and 'Let's play' fan i'd say No.
I have no idea how you think this is a relevant point. Clearly people seeing Android ads can afford to buy Androids, as they have 68% market share.

Profit only matters if you own Apple. I'm more concerned with the variety of options I have as a consumer, and the competition between manufacturers driving them to produce better hardware.
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This absolutely breaks rule #1 in dealing with people: "Don't criticize, condemn, or complain."

> (That said, there is a world of difference between "that is rubbish, you did not think" and "that is rubbish because you did not think about things X, Y and Z". The first is useless, the second is helpful.)

This is not true. They are both needlessly critical. You can compliment the design aspects you like, ask for issues to be addressed, and nurture ideas all without telling someone their work is rubbish. No matter what else you say, if you criticize my idea as "rubbish" I'm not going to hear anything else you say.

This "tough love" idea of telling people what they did is awful is just terrible advice and please stop spreading it. You don't win people to your way of thinking by telling them they did a bad job. It's plain false.
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You mean the Wired who has been getting tons of press for their reporting on the Apple iCloud debacle last weekend? That irrelevant Wired?
It is a near impossible task for sure. I got to know them pretty recent, and by briefly checking out their UI and features, I really felt inclined to try it out.. too bad I never got in the beta.

I feel maybe they should have endured a little longer? At least launch or public beta, and take it from there?

It looks that they shut down primarily based on monetary reasons and not being able to raise a seed. Because they needed "proof of quite large user numbers and growth – something we couldn’t supply with our own money."
Whilst I don't necessarily disagree with the point you are working towards, I don't follow your pedantic breakdowns of various endeavors.

"Drawing" the blueprints would be done by a draftsman not necessarily an engineer, working a crane is a skilled job done by crane operators (again not necessarily engineers), and brick laying/pavement sealing/bridge sweeping is again not necessarily done by an engineer.
In building a bridge, the "engineering" is done by the civil engineer who designs the bridge, chooses and calculates its construction: "applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems."

Similarly, a datacenter may be considered a feat of engineering, but the construction (read: design) of the datacentre is done by civil/structural engineers and is separate from this argument (although this may not have been what you were getting at, my interpretation was that you were initially including the building in your point).

I would argue that if a janitor was to optimise his/her route by counting steps, this is not a technical problem and so doesn't make him an engineer.
>I'm not so pessimistic, but I've been a long term user of Slashdot, MetaFilter, Reddit, and HN, and you do tend to see these cycles occurring and it's interesting to see the differing ways they deal with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return

All of this has happened before, and will happen again.
I'm sure Twilio can link calls to IP addresses and the phone companies can do the rest.
Craigslist is able to block all google-voice numbers, I am sure they will be able to block these based on some routing identifier.
How usable is this with 200-300 tabs opened?
What actual stats? I'd love to see stats, which ones are you talking about?
You are trolling HN with your constant complaining about off topic stories. Down vote and move on. Look at amout of "discussion" that is in response to the OT story. The second level OT-OT I can only construe as to poison the well.
So I'm wondering how you don't eventually run out of numbers if they're burnt and then go to an out of service message.

Do they get reused eventually with the hope that the time since burning is long enough for the old usage of the number to have died off?

[edit] Sorry, didn't see PanMan had asked virtually the same question already.
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"You can use a Burner for dating, Craigslist, short-term projects, side businesses, bands, and other times when you need to be in touch but want to maintain a little privacy." -- Such as when I want to be a royal pain in the ass towards ex-girlfriends, and people that I generally dislike. How have you planned to reduce angst caused by the misuse of your app?
Reddit's users have always struck me as fantastically antisemitic. I think a lot of them do it for shock laughs, but the genuine article is present as well.

Saying Israel shouldn't have been born in that location isn't the same thing as saying Israel shouldn't exist, but Israel is the only country whose mere existence seems to require justification. Framing Israel's political problems as if they can be easily solved by not having an Israel certainly looks analogous to solving a Jewish problem by not having Jews. I'm absolutely not saying this is what you're saying, but this is how conversations about what should have happened instead are perceived by us Jews.
10+ years of working in the DC area supporting the Columbia customer, McLean customer and the Quantico customer for a variety of companies and still no one paying close to the rates you're claiming. It obvious you can't distinguish between the billing rate and a salary rate.
Well they have put developer time in, not to mention massive amounts of computing power. It processes every video uploaded to youtube, and compares it to every video in the contentID system. It's pretty amazing. There's a short TED talk on it http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_stewart_how_youtube_thinks...
But if you have enabled a 4-digit pin, why worry?
Does any one have any good tutorials on developing using unity 3d for android platform. The ones I googled so far suck :(
Because it is easy and you're just being dense.
Belgium, probably nobody uses his credit card to buy coffee. We only use our credit card when we have absolutely no other option :)
http://labs.chitika.com/webplatforms/

http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2012/4/i...
A theme for Ubuntu that makes it look a little bit like OS X.

Why is this on the HN front page? Why?
James Webb Young is a copywriting legend. You should read his ads to realize how problem focused ads work better than benefit focused ads.

You first have to raise the problem before you list your solution and benefits.

His full page ad: "Curve of a Woman’s Arm"

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=YC6YKYyHVKwC&pg=PA30&...

(If the above long link doesn't work, go to books.google.com and search for the book "The 100 Greatest Advertisements: Who Wrote Them and what They Did" - the ad is on page 30.)
I think most of the people replying to your comment miss the biggest issue. In alot of countries the title engineer is a protected title.

It's alot like doctor or lawyer, you technically can't call your self one unless you have a professional certification from the applicable engineering society.

I know when I graduated with an engineering degree in Canada you couldn't call your self an engineer until you were a PE.
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Very clever idea. Any plans on an Android version?
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5% raise - who's giving that much?

Corporate norms are 1.5% to 2.5% for the talented.
> As a marketing exercise alone it could be worth a fortune if it ends up putting Square's branding in every Starbucks.

Very much so. People who see a Square dongle at the farmers' market will now go "oh, I saw that at Starbucks", not "that guy might steal my credit card with that".
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I really find it difficult to read articles where every other word is a link, even if they try to differentiate between "actual links" and "spam links" with the dotted underline.
does burner support short codes for sms? and is there an android version planned?
I agree, they should leave the streamlined gimmicky "we know what you want better than you do" approach to Unity and stick to making a developer's desktop. Canonical can invest money in Unity to pay devs - it's beneficial for them to get non-programmers as users. This is not the case for Gnome which relies on users to be programmers and develop it. If they can't use it because it's no longer for them then they will not contribute to it.
It's interesting to see Linux' customization power. It's not only look like a real OS X, it's also really easy to do. Can someone comment about the user experience? There should be many little things that's different between OS X and Ubuntu's experience right? I have not use OS X or Ubuntu much to comment, but if that's easy to change too, it will be a really interesting thing to see.
I only send them when I actually enjoyed the interview,
which as it turns out has had a correlation of 1 to job offers received.
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I am not able to call myself an engineer unless I am a professional engineer, until then I am an 'engineer in training' EIT.
I think engineers should come up with a better term for this 4 year period before they can become professionals.
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