skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really see cause for surprise that the US and Germany are politically different. Without commenting on the merits of either, you described Germany as a social federal state, while the US is not that (and is known for staunch proponents of individuality). In that framework I don't find it surprising that people protest on opposite sides of an issue in the two countries. (This is meant to be something of a logical statement, not a political one.)

I don't think that the nature of civil disobedience is disregarding laws. To the contrary, I think it can be found in regarding laws very carefully and choosing when and how to break such laws for maximum impact; then, by freely suffering the consequences for even greater impact. (This is a general point; I do not mean to imply that the Turkish protests are civil disobedience; I don't know enough yet to judge.)
As long as it's an optional accessory, I'm all for it. There for the artists and designers who need it, but not something that would affect how you use the OS itself.

I think the problem at the moment is mostly technological. I think if there was a cheap, high-resolution digitizer they'd probably do it. What people may not realise at the moment is just how crappy the touchscreen is on the iPhone/iPad in many respects -- it's something that only becomes apparent when you try using a stylus. I'm sure it's just a matter of time until it becomes better, though I imagine it'd still be thirty parties selling the styluses themselves.
patio11, read his comments/blog
>> The point is, Google as a company opposes giving the data, it fights it tooth and nail.

It doesn't fight it tooth and nail. The challenge to the use of National Security Letters is relatively recent industry-wide. Google should be commended for taking those cases.

But if Google was really to fight it tooth and nail, it would refuse to comply with unconstitutional National Security Letters and other administrative subpoenas. It would break the gag order, and tell the world.

Assange asked Schmidt to blow the whistle on the NSLs during their conversation.
http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt.html...

Schmidt refused, on the basis that it would be illegal. Well, it would also have been illegal to resist the Nuremberg laws.
Who specifically is responsible for the government's actions? What can we do to assist?
Came to say something similar.

Looks like the problem is that CNN has an "iReport" section, where anyone can post things.

The link now says "CNN reporters there have seen no indication this is the case. Police in Istanbul today have been using a colored substance, according to protestors, which may be the source of the confusion." The iReport has been removed.
Has not worked for me as a job seeker, but that's more because of geography than anything else.
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I do think that at least knowing that SVG is probably the right tool for the job (or in some cases a custom font) is important.

That said, this is pretty damned cool. I really wish SVG had gained much better support much earlier on.
I have absolutely no problems with people protesting, I have a problem with ‘protesters’ forcing their opinion on the rest by use of passive (standing in front of a bulldozer) or active (undermining a railroad track carrying nuclear waste containers) violence.

And yes, if ACTA protests had cut other people’s telecom lines to the US or some such thing, I would have called them anti-democratic, too.

To me, a decent society is based on (among others) the state’s monopoly on the use of force, with the legally acceptable force limited to implement decisions made by the legislative (and judiciary). Random guy simply has no right to ‘protest’ against something by force.

(Also your shift key is a little broken, it appears, making it somewhat difficult to read your post.)
I remember you could also get it into iOS. Perfect if you wanted to script some stuff in Ruby. I'm currently using JS for that, but Ruby should do as well.
Many local shops are looted by the protestors. Cars turned, stones thrown etc...
So much for peaceful a protest.
Mayoral election is less than a year away. Protest with your votes, not your fists.
Turkey was famously founded as a secular state (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%C3%AFcit%C3%A9#Turkey). Things may have changed, but still ... "Muslim" probably just refers to the fact that most people living there are muslim.
Some images: http://onedio.com/haber/gezi-parki-eyleminden-dehset-veren-f...
$900/month is awesome. I am from Pakistan and am very talented and work on amazing things, our people are much more professional. The story you mentioned about version control, it cannot happen here.

Yet they pay me $650/month. I am so sad :(
What's confusing about it? They were calling for protestors to "occupy" the park to prevent it being bulldozed.

Or at least that's how it started.
I'm impressed by stuff all the time. I think there's just a fatigue about creating an emulator for or an implementation of X in javascript.
The headline is a little misleading. What SFLC is saying is that patent licensing agreements are orthogonal to enumerated license terms of the GPL.

The construction of a patent claim has little to do with the license terms of the source.

Since no Android device makers will bother to challenge MS in court, we'll never really know what cards if any MS is holding. Must be nice to make millions of dollars for making a phone call.
Sure but some things are quite easily researchable online. You doubt that there is a mall in every neighbourhood, but a quick look on Google Maps: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=shopping+mall&hl=en&...

And yup, there are a phenomenal number of shopping malls, some only a couple of hundred meters from another.

I did spot check quite a few, looked at a few of the websites, and they are all multi-level, large shopping malls.

In fact this one is a mere 300m from Gezi Park: http://www.demirorenistiklal.com/

The great thing about the internet is that it is possible to get a sense of whether a claim is true or not very swiftly.

On the one fact you doubt and then use as an example to undermine the rest of the argument, a quick search verifies that claim. (Should you revisit the doubt you extended to the rest of the argument in light of some evidence to the claims that you used to undermine it?)

Of course there is emotion in there too (the government selling the nation to corporations), but we're mostly rational and will spot that surely.

The fundamental question is whether or not the reports in general speak of a true event, and overwhelmingly they do appear so. The level of consistency in the very many reports and sources is too much to be attributable and dismissed as any individual being emotional... of course they are emotional; some of their friends, family and fellow citizens are dead, others are in hospital or jail.
It is not clear cut at all. Your bias is showing.
If you look at the stats over the past two decades nearly all wages have been near static regardless of profession. No wonder there is a credit crisis...
Most definitely. I've found two developers through HN posts.
Can you see how many light sources there are close to the beach in many of the shots? Watch the shape and size of the shadows that girl casts on the sand. Moonlight only? Not so much...
Which to replace? Well, for example NUL, "start of heading", "start of text", "end of text", "end of transmission", and all the other now meaningless ones :) And then there's number 127 too of course.

With instead some characters useful for programming languages and basic text (and the problem is Unicode is a bit too big, confusing and redundant for programming languages...)
Seems like the perfect app for Ruby on Rails! :)
100%. I would trust Who's Hiring and Who's Freelancing threads over any recruiter, website, etc. any day.

P.S. - For anyone thinking "oh wow, I could scale this type of thing with a website", think again. Tight communities > scale.
> Is occupy just a meme now for any protest?

Well, it never has been anything else.
What's confusing is: in the USA, the term "occupy" has been taken as a practical trademark for a series of organized political protests. Look up "Occupy Wall Street" as the first and primary instance.
Yeah, I found my previous job through a "Who's Hiring" thread. It was a great place, but I left when they were acquired.
I've only read the linked-to article once, but this doesn't seem nearly as bad as it sounds (minus the patent trolling aspect).

Here's how I think it happened -- and, for sake of clarity, I worked at a large-ish law firm, have a bunch of friends who worked in the huge ones, and even know a partner at the named firm.

1) Lawyer and his wife start (with others) a company. Company invents something (kind of) and lawyer, being a lawyer, files for a patent.

2) Someone else comes along and creates something kind of/sort of like what they did. They have a patent so they look at suing the other company.

3) Lawyer works at a law firm which represents the target company. The law firm has 1,300 lawyers and two dozen offices around the world. He tells his firm's general counsel about the issue, likely to set up "chinese walls" as to not run afoul of any ethical obligations. Note that he's kind of stuck otherwise -- his company is going to be adverse to the law firm's client, and he's stuck in the middle.

4) When the firm's client hears about this, they freak the eff out and demand that the attorney in question be fired. He's fired.
Ummm, no. I was a front line witness to all this, after all (at one point I realized I could be a witness if this had gone to court).

By the time this was playing out, I was intimately familiar with the C base of (UniPress) Gosling EMACS, from having finished a MS-DOS port and was working on an Amiga port. So it was no trouble to look at GNU EMACS to determine it was, in the the legal, copyright sense, a derivative work, not something that was influenced by it, which is not something that RMS/GNU were even claiming at the time.

They said, based on an email they claimed to have received (that as I recall they never produced, but as you note all this hardly matters), that they were authorized to start with an old version of Gosling EMACS, and they claimed they fixed this legally by rewriting every part of it they got from Gosling EMACS ... which doesn't cut it, legally. If UniPress had been run by junkyard dogs they could have done an USL v. BSDi and put the GNU under a legal cloud, except they probably would have won. It was an unconscionable risk for RMS to take.

Fortunately, all they did was verbally disagree, they thought GNU EMACS would create a bigger market for Gosling EMACS, which I'm sure was true for a while (the version GNU started with was ancient and missing a lot of polish), and that no one would win if they took it to the courts. It probably helped that they'd previously worked at Plauger's Whitesmiths and the separation was as ugly as you can imagine, although the legal drama was cut short when the other side's lawyer was caught burglarizing their office, which doesn't tend to impress judges....

Note the other comments in this discussion about how RMS isn't a good steward of many of the efforts under his control, and I'd add specifically "look at how GCC died and was replaced by a community version", the Lucid Emacs/XEmacs mess (in the link that points out RMS can't sing), and Hurd's beyond Duke Nukem Forever path.
Free market at its finest.
Turkey isn't officially a Muslim state, it's Muslim by vast majority. It's starting to become effectively religious.
They could put those one-way ("severe tire damage") spikes in the freeway entrance.. that would at least reduce the ods of it happening.
The person who checked in code isn't necessarily the person who wrote it in the first place.

When dealing with legacy code, especially code going back into the 1980s for example, it's not at all unusual for the code to have been stored in several different version control systems over that time. I know of projects that started with SCCS, moved to RCS, then to CVS, then to Perforce, then to Subversion, and most recently to Git.

If those transitions are done quickly, then somebody will often just take all of the code from a checkout of the old VCS, and check it into the new system.

The same can happen when initially using a VCS, after having not used one before, especially when taking a project over from a developer or even a team that was less-talented. Even if the new developer(s) are going to review the code, and fix bugs and other flaws, a version with the initial state of the code is often a useful thing to have.
I've gotten a few interviews out of them, but more importantly, they were for places that I was very interested in. IMO the personal touch and EFFORT that it takes to post in a "Who's Hiring" thread makes me believe that the company is serious about hiring someone from the tech community.

I'm just reading my comment above and thinking about how it's a bit elitist, but again I like it more for the personal touch / effort / show of good faith vs. "exclusive club" reasoning.
Still, AFAIR it started as an Internet thing, not entirely unrelated to 4chan. It was a meme at its birth, it has spreaded this way through the US, and now - like all internet memes - it is evolving.
hey holman, you might want to look at the way your fonts are being rendered on linux http://i.imgur.com/wT1ue16.png
It didn't start that way. It started peacefully. The government escalated the situation when they tear-gassed peaceful protestors.

Once the government starts attacking its people, all bets are off... emotion will trump reason and bad shit happens, often to innocent bystanders or property in the vicinity.
I think there's an unrelated and positive aspect to it as well:

I moved to London 3 months ago and often checked the freelance and job threads on HN. Seeing the amount of jobs available for London gave me a boost of confidence.

(I'm yet to approach anyone via those threads - because I've already got too much freelance work.)
No they are not, and my assessment is not wrong. I also have zero financial bias in making this statement. Does it add to the discussion?
"Imagine a touch device that accepts...an ultra-precise fine-tipped stylus."

I'm really hoping that this will happen soon. I know many designers who would love a pressure-sensitive drawing tablet (where you draw on the surface). Apart from digital drawing and animation, even photo editing and manipulation (like masking) is immeasurably more natural and easier to perform when using a pen directly on the surface of the screen.

Right now there is only one serious contender in this market: Wacom. Their Cintiq brand lets you draw directly on the screen with a stylus. But the high cost of the product and the lack of competition means that hardly any movement has been made in this area for years. I keep hoping to see rival products, but it hasn't happened[1]. That's a great surprise (and disappointment). I find it hard to believe that this is just a niche market with limited appeal either.

[1] Actually, there is one new rival that is getting some good reviews
http://frenden.com/post/38693256477/yiynovamsp19u
Spoken like a true majority.

my bet of the little i worked on politics is that someone have campaign money, got the park land in return. I highly doubt there was much calls for discussion on the mater.

This happened in Germany some time ago. The plebiscity for demolishing the park was voted against twice, then they came up with a third voting in the middle of a holiday, with 8h of warning or something similar. When the bulldozers came to the park people were still believing they were there illegally because the permit was not voted for.
If I was relying on a third party for push notifications (something I can easily do on my own, btw), the one single reason for downtime that would totally not be acceptable for me is them forgetting to renew their domain.

This is a huge indicator, IMHO, that they don't really believe in their service and don't even do the absolute minimum that's required for keeping it up.

Worse, depending on the type of message I'm passing through them, this might have privacy or security implications as messages will now be sent to a non-related third party.

Stuff like this is why I personally am very, very careful before outsourcing any part of my core infrastructure.
Since copyright. What on earth would make you think that subtitles are exempt from copyright? Song lyrics are copyrighted, screenplays are copyright, so are subtitles.
The £15k is worth £8700, I believe, or £725 per month.

The 40% higher rate tax takes £6000, but the extra National Insurance contribution is just £300 (it is only 2% on earnings above £797 per week).
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Low safety standards may contribute to the low price of goods produced in China, but the main reason is that the Chinese government deliberately keeps the value of the yuan low against the dollar.
There's worse. Some time ago they showed someone runned over by a truck in a loading bay. They didn't stop the traffic to help the guy or even drag the body.

It just become a speed bump for the other trucks.

About a solution... Why not force legislation to not ignore imports? Or maybe a occupy Walmart movement.
Wow, the video is quite terrifying. It shows multiple people accidentally electrocuting themselves by stepping on a live wire while carrying a metal manifold. Holy shit is the only real reaction.

China's quality problems in production are nothing new. Pretty certain the coal mining industry there is reckless compared to the worlds standards. It's like what Bill Maher said about the baby they found in the sewage pipe this week, "He's reportedly O.K. and will be back making iPhones soon."
That's a super hack. Thanks for the tips, I'll be using them to apply and teach.
Do the news outlets that that quote Steve Jobs bio incessantly have to pay Walter Isaacson to do so?

I have read so many print articles on news sites from the book that Im sure I have read it by now.

I kind of wish media would stop reprinting this stuff over and over. Its not news.
Live cam from Taksim, Istanbul
http://rt.com/on-air/turkey-protest-istanbul-park/
far from it, safety was never much of a concern before they found they could make a truck load of money from selling to the West. Considering their air and related pollution they remind me of some of the former Warsaw pact before they got out from under communist rule. The environment was never a concern, nor the people.
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What else do you value?
> "In many ways we are complicit, we vote ‘cheap’ every time
> we can (I’m no exception) and if we can externalize the
> problems in such a way that we can pretend they don’t
> exist then we all sleep just fine at night."

Correct, but an extra problem is: i doubt that my extra money will go to those workers when i 'vote expensive'. Most of the time the money just goes into profits for the owners or maybe into an expansion of production. Paying more does not make anything better as long as there's no way to change priorities.
You do realize email travels in plain text right?
All great ideas are just that until the technology is ripe. A successful tablet required, amongst other things:

(1) a high quality screen;

(2) a chipset that could run a full browser and playback high quality fullscreen videos seamlessly, including over wifi;

(3) some combination of advantages vs laptops (generally mobility, battery life, price) as a tradeoff for the lack of being a full powered machine.

For #3 you can see something like the phone/touch having laptop like battery life but pocketability. The ipad, while more mobile than a laptop, was not dramatically so, and basically had to last through an entire work/school day. Had to.

This is why, more or less, all earlier tablets failed. Because when the iPad came out, it was already all batteries, and if you had tried to do that at 60 nm that many batteries would give out at 5-6 hours. Adding 30% more batteries starts to lose your form factor advantages and costs more. In fact, Apple - with it's vertical design scale from chip to OS - was probably able to squeeze a viable tablet out a generation earlier than anyone else could have simply from a battery life standpoint.

Here's video playback over a year after the iPad was released:

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4445/38761.png

The real technology requirements of a new mass consumer device seems like something we should keep in mind when we think about things like wearables and when we should expect things like Glass to really be viable.
There is a lot of misguided information floating around. I think this is the most objective article I've read so far.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/06/istanbul-p...
There must be some long term economic repercussion for trying to manipulate the price of your currency?
Well, since you left for London eventually anyway, it could probably at least be said that it sparked some interest.
Is there something wrong with me if even after reading this I'd still rather pay less for things and live in ignorant bliss?
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There's that extremely influential one, whose currency states "in god we trust".
Microsoft has serially dropped the ball on this. They could have done a good tablet virtually any time, but the internal politics always got in the way of the design and engineering. It would have needed to run Windows, for instance, which would have killed it.

One of the most successful consumer products, the Xbox 360, runs Windows, but it's got most of the bullshit stripped out (e.g., no registry, no WMI, no services to go sideways).

Putting full-blown Windows in everything is a huge mistake, and unless a project can get the political capital to overcome that, it will doom it.
Yes. I recently hired a great, ambitious developer from one of these threads.
> Control over the decisions I make concerning my on my body

It's nice to see that the fight against heroin prohibition is being fought in Turkey too!
> This happened in Germany some time ago.

I don’t know to which event exactly you’re referring, but I can assure you that

> 8h of warning or something similar.

this is most certainly false. Could you elaborate a bit?
The name's very important as a link to the fight against neo-liberal capitalism, these protests are not just about state power.