skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arthur Andersen is a very salient example. It went from $10 billion/year in revenues to nothing overnight because of the damage to the brand (who wanted the Arthur Andersen name on their public financial statements after Enron?)

Yet, their implosion was the result of a conviction for obstruction of justice that was overturned by the Supreme Court: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen_LLP_v._United_S... ("In the court's view, the instructions allowed the jury to convict Andersen without proving that the firm knew it had broken the law or that there had been a link to any official proceeding that prohibited the destruction of documents."). See also the relevant e-mail used for convicting the company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Temple ("The Supreme Court's unanimous reversal of the conviction reinforces the opinion that the jury should not have inferred any liability on Arthur Andersen based solely upon the October 16 memo.")

In reality, it's unlikely that Arthur Andersen (as an entity) knew or directed any destruction of documents. What happened was that the lead partner on the Enron account (a high up guy within the company) did so, without the knowledge or approval of the company's management (as a general rule, professional services firms have very diffuse power structures with important partners having almost complete autonomy). Andersen definitely helped Enron cook the books, but it was the partner on the Enron account, and those under his employment, that engaged in the wrongdoing. That definitely helped his bottom line, but at the expense of creating a risk that ultimately brought the entire firm down.
If God Were A Game Designer
We looked at using Pusher but having looked at their financials[0], we decided to implement similar functionality ourselves. Personally, I don't think the business is sustainable since it's trivial to build web socket functionality into an application, and hosting it on AWS or similar PaaS is cheap too.

[0] https://www.duedil.com/company/07489873/pusher-limited/finan...
I never used yahoo mail because I thought they were not scanning emails. I use it because it works, and has done for me for 15 odd years, pain free.

All I see here is them belatedly catching up with all the other privacy abuses by larger internet companies. Given that is how they make money to run and exist, and it is perfectly legal, sadly, yahoo would be stupid not to. I'm too tight to pay for a service and appreciate that it is free, so right there I give up my right to complain about how they finance their service.

Good to know, sure, but I don't see any thing to get especially concerned about over an above everything else large internet companies get up to. Its not like Im going to get better privacy easily else where.
The status page says that "Code Downloads" is "Normal". How do you get to the downloads page for a given repo? Is there some canonical form for a URL for repos? Maybe while they're fixing it we can still download code...
Yes, it works.

I used it once and tracked responses. The best and worst* candidates came from HN.

Worst, as in scattergun "here's my CV" emails.

Best, as in the "I love what you're doing because X. Here's the kinds of things I could do for you... and here are the things I've done before. I notice you're using X, Y and Z... perhaps we could try using this instead? Because..."

I'd definitely post here in future, but only after posting somewhere else.

I also posted for a remote job which I think helped. I had 0 responses from California.
Not really, there was a video of police showing up at a military guarded position that tried to order them around and force them to let them have access. They told the guards that they will be forced to shoot tear gas at them if they don't comply and the military told them we have things we can shoot at you too and then the police left. The military is not really taking any action and the protests are not upset with the military as the military has been the secular force in Turkey for a long time and has staged coups before to keep it so.
No, I'm completely serious.

Can you explain how my last comment was "condescending"?

It's not "condescending" to express an idea that differs from that of somebody else.

It's not "condescending" to disagree with a claim made by somebody else.

It's not "condescending" to give examples why a claim somebody else made may not be true.

The commenter I replied to suggested that certain technologies were "new". I disagreed, and provided reasons why I don't consider them new, based on other technologies that I, and very likely others here, have used in the past.

If you wish to discuss those technologies and their novelty, I'd welcome such discussion. If you disagree with my claims, that's fine.

I'm just not certain how you accusing me of being "condescending", without even giving any evidence to back up this claim, is productive.
> this article is about technology

Not, it is not. Here are some articles about technology:

http://www.brython.info/

http://dehora.net/journal/2013/06/01/on-go/

http://ninjasandrobots.com/three-mistakes-i-see-web-designer...

http://moron4hire.tumblr.com/post/51904590190/processing-and...

The article this discussion is about is entirely about politics and economics, as is the resultant discussion. You will note that there is no discussion of "oh, if only there were technology to fix that problem". There is, and it was not employed in this case. Why it wasn't, and the consequences, are what the article is about.

> But I have to agree, that sadly there is a correlation between the low level of discussion and how political a topic is.

Anyone can comment on political articles, whereas it actually takes some interest and experience to discuss the relative merits of Ruby and Python, or Akka and Erlang.
I here you, but sh!t happens. The lesson for me though is to choose your domain registrar as carefully as your infrastructure host, and have it be actively monitored like the rest of your infrastructure. I would still choose Pusher though. It's hard to scale everything in-house on limited resources, plus they make using WebSockets super easy (disclaimer: previous Pusher client).
It really is basic anti-china propaganda, whether you are engaging in it deliberately or not. Horrific YouTube videos notwithstanding, the vast majority of chinese people working in those manufacturing jobs are far, far better off and safer than if they had to work in an agriculture position (In china, or the united states for that matter)

Also - have you ever taken an Industrial First Aid course? Lots of gruesome depictions of what happens in some idiotic US workplaces as well.
I made this since the concept had been kicking around in my head for ages. Obviously I don't condone this sort of thing.
I also jotted down a couple words on the background to these protests if anyone is interested.

http://duruk.net/turkish-protests-of-2013/
I think the OP misses the fact that of a few hundreds people who may view and read an article, only a few will put forth effort to comment on it. So, there's definitely some sampling bias. And, typically people put forth effort only if they have motivating opinions, one way or the other. Adding the fact that comments like 'awesome post!' tend to create a lot of noise and get down-voted quickly, it's not surprising that many comments may seem negative. It's the unfortunate nature of online forums. Oftentimes a few negative pieces of feedback will hide substantial amounts of muted support.
I'm not sure if you're serious, but what you're saying here is obviously grossly out of whack with reality. The police violence is crazy but Turkey is not that crazy. You may as well have claimed that Erdogan is planning to nuke the protesters.
Actually, I was surprised that some movements decided to use that word to describe themselves. I believe that 'occupy' is very unfortunate word, especially in Europe. For example I live in a country that was occupied by the Nazis in 1939 and by Russians in 1968 (that occupation lasted 20 years). The meaning of the word occupier basically equals to 'the one who takes freedom of others by force' here. If you use that word to describe yourself or your movement you can be sure that most people will automatically be against you from the beginning. Not the best PR move.
This is so true. I am 3 months in to a 2 week project.
Why Unicorn Why!
I'd be perfectly happy if everybody defaulted to 12pt.
Github is experiencing major service outages
Apple CEO Tim Cook Advised Students to Rarely Follow the Rules
Oil and Gas is a vastly more important portion of the economy than social media. The startups mentioned in other countries are essentially irrelevant.

I've read so many articles about startups solving non-problems. The oil and gas sector has some very real problems that need solving, good on Norway for putting solid money behind solid businesses rather than chase the latest social media fad.
Now that the jobs are there, the foreign industry has a responsibility to maintain the welfare of their slave labor force.
It isn't about iPhone and iPad as end-user products. And with device costs being fairly low, I don't think BYOD is going to have a lasting influence.

The reason Android has an advantage in enterprise IT projects is that you have the full range of options, from an app-store download to heavily customizing an off-the-shelf Android product to building a fully custom software load. That's more flexibility in configuration and deployment than you have with Windows. You can turn Android into a mobile "dashboard" for every role in the enterprise.

Compelling enterprise software will go deep into the environment, be sensory, be partly wearable, and be heavily customized, down to the hardware. I have clients who are making operating systems based on Android for their products. I expect that kind of embedding, plus lots of micro-controller-based sensors and acutators, will appear in industrial and office equipment, that tablet and handset devices will interact with. That's where Android, for now anyway, has a leg up.
I looked at the video again. If you look it in slow motion, you can see that there is another man crouching in the back. Although the man in the front might not be visible to the tank driver, the one behind should be and has no shield.
Also, just before the impact the tank fires the water cannon in the exact direction of the two. Might be a coincidence or a proof they saw them.

But even in the event they did not see them, you just don't drive a tank against a barrier where you don't know if there are people or not.
CNN STORY (with images): http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/02/world/europe/turkey-protests/i...

It's now a full blown anti-government riot. The park issue was just the last straw that set it off.

The original poster was telling the truth now stop arguing about shopping malls.
No, it is a major highway. Pedestrian traffic is are not allowed. Getting on the bridge as a group of people is very rare and requires significant critical mass to pull off.
Googlebot snarfing URLs from the ether?
So the other day I had placed a private CGI script on my personal server for testing. (No links to the URL; directory redirects to my home page.) It crashed my server, so I rebooted it and decided to come back later.

Two days later, I get an e-mail from Google's Webmaster tools (which I have configured on that server) that my site is down. Indeed, it needs another reboot, as if someone accessed that private URL. But surely no bot could know that URL exists, right? Checking my server logs I find this (1.2.3.4 is my IP address):

1.2.3.4 - - [31/May/2013:01:01:41 +0000] "GET /~chris/avcc.cgi HTTP/1.1" 200 283 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.02"
66.249.73.230 - - [31/May/2013:01:02:11 +0000] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 477 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
66.249.73.230 - - [31/May/2013:01:02:11 +0000] "GET /~chris/avcc.cgi HTTP/1.1" 200 291 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"

That is, mere seconds after I had first accessed a URL the world had never seen before, Googlebot decided to crawl my site (as indicated by the robots.txt hit), and then access the URL that was not linked anywhere.

My only explanation is that somewhere between my home computer and my (off-site) server, a Google-affiliated network appliance sniffed my initial GET and sent the URL to Googlebot to be indexed within 30 seconds.

Has anyone else experienced this?

(Yes I know security through obscurity, should use robots.txt, yadda yadda.)
I'm inclined to agree with pavs. I've done some traveling and living abroad, and it seems that these many other countries are in an industrial revolution stage of development.

For the USA that meant better working environments, hours, safety, and pay. Before these things were in place we had insufficient labor laws here too. The portion that I'm missing is that, here in the states our industrial revolution paid well enough for parents to provide a better standard of living for their children. Those children were able to do the same, and we increased the middle class. If that is what is going on in China then we should NOT stop purchasing good from them. Here are a few links from a quick online search.
http://www.futuredirections.org.au/publications/food-and-wat...
http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/25/news/economy/china-middle-cl...

However, I think the OP being concerned about this is great, but you can't force change onto another culture nor should you. We can attempt to empower them to make the change, and be aware so that we aren't supporting the a workforce that is being sucked into a cycle of poverty.
try:

git://github.com/{user}/{repo}.git

or

https://github.com/{user}/{repo}.git

anyway, not working right now for me (Italy)

EDIT: working, give it 30 seconds to start.
AI isn't exactly an impartial source either. That's not a news article, it's an editorial.
downvoting shows the ability to reject someone w/o knowing the reason but it does not make any difference.

The so called Egypt Revolution was also backed by US initially to kick Mobarak out. Later things got out of control when Ikhwan got dominated.

The so called protest is nothing but an attempt to sabotage Erdogan govt after his recent Islamic moves. Nobody is seeing the fact Erdogan helped Turkey to getrid of IMF and put turkey on right direction.

Thousands of people are protesting in Bangladesh against cruel government who has killed thousands of Muslims so far. Since the govt is secular hence their evil doings are not being promoted anywhere including so called unbaised social media.
A company doing business in Bangladesh has a fixed amount of money they can spend on compensation + safety + etc. In a competitive industry like garment manufacturing, the margins are already very thin, so increasing safety will result in reduced worker pay (or shutting down and workers becoming unemployed).

There is no free lunch. The most we can do is force workers to trade pay for safety, which they might not want to do.

...re-balancing some of the giant manufacturing cost differential that these companies achieve by such a side-step.

The primary goal of many activists is exactly this: re-balancing the cost differential so that low skill American workers can continue to be paid well. I.e., a redistribution of wealth from Bangladesh to the US.
Building a Nexus 4 UART Debug Cable
So many questions...

How does a NIMBY protest turn into Tiananmen Square? Does someone in government actually say, "They don't want malls? THEN GIVE THEM TANKS!!!"

Why would a government that has "sold out to corporations" restrict the sale of lipstick and alcohol?
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Turns out people will take you up on it if you offer 1TB free. Want to come help us out with that? Also working on neat things you can do if you have all 20k+ of someone's photos online. Back-end devops, app/API development, Android, iOS.

The only two requirements that are pretty much set in stone are working in San Francisco and you need a CS degree (or something close like EECS, computer engineering, software engineering etc.)

Email flickr.jobs@yahoo.com (read first by engineers, not recruiters).
Yes, I'd say it would be a no-brainer for Apple to add an active digitizer and a pen at this point, considering how many artists are craving for it at this point. They don't even have to bundle the pen to increase the price for everyone, just the digitizer. I'm still hoping Google would do the same at some point with one of their Nexus 10"+ tablets (along with a 3:2 ratio resolution).
Checked from India, everything seems to be down...
> Why did they make most the first 32 symbols useless codes instead of also symbols?

Why the first 32. Symmetry. Look at the table here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ASCII_Code_Chart-Qui...

Four groups of 32, each group differing in only one bit position.

Why were the first 32 devoted to "control" codes? Because ASCII appeared in the days of mechanical paper teletype interfaces to computers and so there was a need for codes to control the teletype. Additionally the intent was to use other of the control codes for "control" (i.e., use of XON (control-q) and XOFF (control-s) for flow control).

> Why did they have to start the whole "newline vs carriage return" thing,

Because when you have a mechanical paper teletype printer as your interface to the computer, the teletype printer needs to be told to do two things:

1) return the print carriage to the left margin

2) roll the paper up one line

Having the ability to do both independently (for a paper printer) allows for simulating some otherwise impossible effects (i.e., bold face).

> Why is it 7-bit and not 8-bit?

To allow bit 8 to be used for a parity bit for data transmission purposes.

> Why is there no pilcrow, paragraph symbol, dagger and double dagger in it?

> Why no symbols for not equals, subset, intersection, union, (no) element of, AND, OR in it?

Likely because, after choosing to make a 7-bit code (to allow bit 8 to be parity), there is only so much room left in only 128 slots.
Yes, on the one hand the working conditions are shocking and horrifying and deplorable and I would move mountains to keep my children from ever working anywhere even remotely like that.

On the other, every kid working in one of those factories is one that didn't get their legs broken or worse so they'd be a better beggar, who isn't searching through garbage for food or things I can't even imagine.

Within my lifetime, the conversation about China and India has gone from "How do we keep them from starving?" to "How do we fix their horrible working conditions?". That's an incredible, historic achievement. Is there still a long way to go? Absolutely. Plenty of horrible things had to happen in the US before we got OSHA. But things are heading in the right direction and we need to keep it that way. Push to make them better, of course, but realize that the only sustainable change is to broadly raise the standard of living so that workers want more and are in a position to demand it. Anything less is a house of cards that will collapse once the spotlight is off.
Not knee jerk reaction, my mistake I did not expain at first place as I wrongly assumed readers would like to make attempts to learn facts.
Really? Downvotes for this comment? Curious as to why.
> I trust Google more to fight for privacy of my data against the government, than any of those organizations.

Why?

> The point is, Google as a company opposes giving the data, it fights it tooth and nail. It does not have a policy of cuddling up to governments to curry favor by handing over data, and most of the NSA conspiracy theories are completely unfounded.

How do you know?
I find it somewhat odd that, given git's emphasis on distributed version control, we see so many git users have centralized themselves quite heavily on GitHub.

Whenever GitHub runs into problems like this, it reminds me of when a team's CVS or Subversion servers used to go down. It could be a pretty disruptive occurrence, if it wasn't resolved quickly. While git can theoretically handle this better, in practice the use of GitHub, for instance, renders git just as susceptible.
Ask HN: How did you move from a salaried job to contracting?
Reading the poll about salaries in London (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804134) it seems a lot of people working permanent jobs are getting shafted. Contract rates seem to be quite good though, so I'm wondering if anyone who has made the move from permanent to contract work could give some hints and tips on their experiences.
my memory is a bit hazy but wasn't the most dangerous part of agent orange the fact that it was contaminated with very toxic dioxins rather than the toxic properties of 'clean' agent orange?

Why would Turkey resort to chemical warfare when they don't have to, why risk the wrath of the international community when you can 'just' use tear gas and such?
> So is the problem that the people with the power don't exercise it, or that people don't upvote the reasonable comments in a sufficient ratio to push the bad comments down?

So, I can't speak for everyone but it's fairly rare that I down-vote a post that appears to have been written in good faith (even so-called "middlebrow dismissals").

I would imagine (or, indeed hope) that most users with the ability to down-vote are fairly conservative with it. It's important to keep flame bait and trolling comments off of HN, but I'm less sure where to draw the line WRT comments whose content I find uninteresting.
I don't have any trouble believing there are many malls in Istanbul. I do have some trouble believing you can reasonably answer whether they are too many by just checking on the internet. In fact, as you point out, it's possible to visit NYC and not notice how many there are.

I also have some difficulty with the idea that people are heading out to the streets, risking life and limb, in multiple cities across Turkey just because of a mall in Istanbul.

The notion that we can figure this out just by hitting google maps seems obviously wrong.
There are a lot of comments about the awful working conditions in China and how we should push for better conditions, but none I've seen are by the workers themselves. I can't help but wonder: what is the sentiment on this issue in China itself? As we've seen countless times before (look at Istanbul now), widespread civilian unhappiness has a way of bubbling out. Can someone provide some pointers to Chinese sentiment on this issue?

I ask because I know different areas of the world have different values, and things that seem wholly unacceptable in one place may seem more tolerable in another. Look at gun rights in the US, for example. I don't mean to imply that these workers don't care about their working conditions; I just think it's important to stay grounded in the reality that what's best for them is what _they_ want for themselves.
The funniest thing is that US is worried about protest. Ahem, someone should remind Administration about Occupy Wall Street and violent moves by Obama Administration.
It's not a case of saying no to cheap. For most, it's one of buying stuff from China or doing without.

Most middle-class consumers in the USA really have few options. Whether from local stores or online, the majority of all toys, tools, electronics, and household items are made in China. If another option exists, it's frequently available online only from Europe or Japan that's twice the cost.
"Twitter is the biggest headache of societies" ~Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Database outage causing everything to go down?
Watch this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqIiWHMnM94