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I would like to check out some manga to see what it's like. I almost posted a request for manga recommendations on a LibraryThing manga forum, but I decided against it. I tried writing up a description of what I was looking for, but it devolved into rejection of a bunch of anime stereotypes:

- No ordinary schmoes who turn out to have amazing supernatural powers.

- Nothing that revolves around a series of contests with enemies of escalating power.

- No robots or exoskeletons.

- It would be nice if the central character was an adult. An adult whose love interest is not an adolescent.

- While I'm on that topic, nothing that will make people think I'm a pervert if they catch me reading it.

So, while I was wroting this up, I started checking out the lists of mangas that had been previously recommended in the forum, and I started to feel like I was shitting all over everything they loved, so I decided not to post my request. People talk quite a lot about manga being a serious art form for adults. Am I missing something?
Well because it can actually be cheaper than a protracted legal fight, of course.

Especially if the issue in the case is just about how much to charge for replacement keys.
Unfortunately, a significant number of font designers and typesetters have tried to be a bit too clever with "proper" typography in recent years, as OpenType fonts and tools like LaTeX or InDesign have made it realistic to add professional quality typographic touches in everyday DTP projects.

One common example is feeling that you "must" include certain ligatures in a font. There is absolutely no reason to mandate this if the glyph shapes do not require it, e.g., if setting the normal shape "f" then "i" with their natural spacing does not cause an awkward overlap. Equally, if glyph combinations other than the classic f-ligatures cause awkward clashes then corresponding ligatures should be provided. So, if you saw a font where the "fi" ligature ran together in a confusing way, it was almost certainly a poorly designed font (or a feature of a well designed font, used poorly).

Another common idiocy in OpenType fonts is creating dedicated petite caps (the same height as lowercase letters) and then calling them small caps. The point of small caps is just to reduce the "heavy" appearance of a string of capitals, to avoid disrupting the flow for the reader. Small caps are not supposed to be so small that they are the same height as lowercase letters, because then small caps like O, S and C become near-enough indistinguishable from their lowercase counterparts, and if you have to do things like pluralise an acronym, things get messy.

See also: "hanging" punctuation that puts the entire mark in the margin (the point is to give a visually, rather than mathematically, even margin, and hanging a few mm of glyph out there hardly does so), hanging bullets/list markers right out in the margin (these are supposed to cause a visual break in the flow, that's why they're there!), using oldstyle figures where they aren't necessary (OSF can be useful for avoiding chunkiness in the same way as small caps, but suffer similar problems to petite caps where an old-style 0 or 1 can easily be misread if the context doesn't make it clear which is intended), and so on.

Unfortunately, there's a whole new breed of typographical snob who once read a book of rules about how typography "should" be done, and now apply those rules unthinkingly, resulting in documents that are neither more beautiful nor more functional that they would have been without the "clever" typography.
I stopped after I realized I could just as well have answered "I don't know" for 70% of them.
Sometimes it's cheaper than paying the lawyers. The settlement terms in the VW case mostly consisted of informing customers who could make keys for them, and giving vouchers to certain customers for reduced-price duplicates.

Depending on whether Ubisoft really sees this DRM strategy as critical to its survival, it might settle such a suit, or try to head one off before it got to court by changing its DRM policy.
For some reason, I'm getting an (obviously wrong) impression from this conversation that the only type of work you can get in Japan comes in the form of big-business cubicle farms. patio11's input would be interesting here because he's getting by without working at one of these.
After reading a dozen or so entrepreneur stories, I've come to the conclusion that luck and connections were the most important factors in their success [citation needed], and bodybuilders don't need any of them.
That last part was actually quite funny. The no formula for success is a pretty tough fact to swallow no doubt. Knowing which direction to swim in is tough. So for most comparisons between the two, entrepreneurship will be the hardest to find success.
Holly crap, he's doing a remake of True Grit! I've been a fan of his site for years. It's always the same format, with new drawings.
Lamport's Bakery algorithm in Javascript
LaTeX vs. Word vs. Writer
If you are going to go any distance into the functions as first-class citizens path then it might not be too much of a diversion to show a function that generates functions and then bounce quickly to simple currying as a more advanced example of this. You would not even need to describe it as currying..
Luck boils down to hard work ultimately as the more you work on something the more chances you have to get a lucky break.

Connections, similarly, are related to how hard you're working; the fact that you're working really hard is unusual enough that people are likely to see some value in connecting you, and the more you're doing stuff and putting yourself out there the more people you encounter, some of whom will be worthwhile connections.
Some people actually do know about proper graphic design and typesetting, and are capable of making an informed judgement in specific cases with better results than a generic mathematical algorithm. Unfortunately, neither LaTeX nor your flippant defence of its approach is helping those people.
To be honest I think the "no formula for success" thing is the reason why entrepreneurship can still command such outsize rewards for the amount of work put in. People don't like the uncertainty and will hence shy away from being an entrepreneur.
The French Laundry could probably put up an "under construction" graphic without affecting their business in the least.
This issue has been going on for 25 years, that was written in like 1986. Are the people with sudden acceleration issues today the same people that had them 25 years ago? Or is it a new generation? I wonder what would be revealed if complaints were mapped geographically and demographically, 25 years later.
There is no explicit check, but a natural consequence of the mathematical optimisation problem that this algorithm solves is that rivers are unlikely.
Rain is a feature, not a bug. Enjoy it.
I think it's an interesting start. It shows off the UI of Apple's software quite well. It'll be very interesting to see the different interfaces from third-party developers that Apple will surely be showing off in their ads after the iPad ships.
Facebook's advertising is the friend invites. Once Mark Zuckerberg invited all his friends at Harvard, the users themselves handled the advertising. It was ingeniously targeted, too--the only people who got ads for Facebook were people whose friends were already using Facebook, which is the exact group of people Facebook wants as customers.
Is the interface swift and responsive, or does the music trick the brain?

Gosh I wish my desktop at work were that slick.
I've found actionbutton to be a step below the old reviews, perhaps for similar reasons that Tim now finds his honeymoon in Japan souring. The reviews there tend to be a lot more about being entertaining than enlightening, and their stated goal of having the average score being 1/4 stars has been thrown to the wayside. I also don't really play games anymore.

There are a few potentially "important" things that I hope escapes IC and its graduates and becomes more mainstream. Reviews that explain the context of their creation, and reviews that examine the philosophy of the game design. Unfortunately these are hard, require work, and don't look any better on the glossy page. Some examples:

Rogers wrote a fantastic review[1] of Romancing Saga: Minstrel Song that starts off by chronicling the entire career of its designer (Kawazu) and reviewing some of his earlier games with depth and insight. There are clear patterns evident in his early games, which are then used to give context to and explain the current game under review.

The second is probably my favorite video game review, which is of Windwaker by Eric-Jon Rossel Waugh[2]. EJRW is a better and more insightful (but less colorful) writer than Rogers, but perhaps not as colorful. He made an old forum post I distinctly remember lamenting the laziness of linear game design, which is something of a cliche. When challenged for an alternative, he backed it up with a very interesting review of the use of "danger" rather than contrivances like keys or inventory items as a limit on exploration in Dragon Quest/The Legend of Zelda.

As for this particular posting of Tim's, I don't really have much more to comment. Like I said in my original comment, it's classic Tim Rogers, and it's hard to explain what "classic Tim Rogers" is without just pointing people to another 15-20 articles similar in construction and content. It feels odd to write about it in a familiar tone since I was largely a lurker at IC (as I am here).

[1] http://www.largeprimenumbers.com/article.php?sid=saga

[2] http://www.insertcredit.com/reviews/windwaker/windwaker1.htm...
My biggest complaint, among many, is that their ubiquitous Flash intros have a "skip intro" button -- inside the Flash animation. Why do I have Flashblock, again?
But a restaurant of its caliber should have a good website, regardless.
That's some twisted logic. The DRM is indeed what's harming the consumers. It doesn't matter who or what took down the servers: what matters is that Ubisoft's DRM won't let users play the game. If that DRM didn't exist, all the anti-Ubisoft hate in the world couldn't stop consumers from playing the game!

Ubisoft's DRM is what's hurting the customers. The DDoS (if that is actually what's happening) is just a side-effect, and probably an inevitable side-effect of DRM.
I think "millions upon millions" is an overstatement.... maybe a couple million would be a better way to put it.

The SBA says there are 29.6M total small businesses, many of which makes 0 dollars, negative dollars, or way less than even 100,000/year.

http://web.sba.gov/faqs/faqindex.cfm?areaID=24
Exactly. Anyone willing to spend enough hours in the gym will end up having a much better-looking body than his peers, or at least ten times better than he would if he wasn't a bodybuilder. An entrepreneur who puts in hours of hard work can easily end up financially worse off than his non-entrepreneur friends.
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The ergonomics look a little forced - they show several positions of holding it, none look that comfortable.
4 of the 10 posts on the main page are about being ripped off. People see TV and movies and think it works like that in real life, I don't think its a problem you can fix. Having a little site to see other people facing the same issues is nice.
I do not know about entrepreneurs, but just cursory look at this confirmed my long held belief that body builders are narcissistic ass-holes. I mean who would brag about their ability to steal someone else's girlfriend.
as a consumer destination site and a social networking hub, twitter is much more "popular" than RSS. If we define popularity as being visible in popular media, and generally acknowledged by a large portion of the population around the world as something that people know of and know about, then yes - Twitter is many orders of magnitude more popular than RSS.
That's not a good summary. The frog story is dubious.
I think apple should port quicktime for linux if they want me to care.
"The point is that the government should not actually need propaganda if it is acting in the peoples' best interests. Through history most cases of government propaganda have been when the government is subverting its people's interests and lying to them about it."

That's a very modern view. There was absolutely no shortage of propaganda in the US supporting World War II, especially to encourage the myriad things Americans could do to support the war effort (buy war bonds, enlist, pay taxes on time, in the case of women work outside the home so more men could enlist, avoid overconsumption and wasteful behavior). And no one reasonably considered helping America's military effectiveness in WWII to be against the people's interests.

Official Government Propaganda is missing from democratic societies not because democratic societies are that much more respectful of the people's interests, but because democratic societies aren't as often unified behind the same agenda. When there is something all parties substantively agree upon in a democratic society, like winning a war or curbing drug use, the government relentlessly propagandizes it. When it's something that parties disagree on, each party has its own propaganda.

I actually suspect there's more political propaganda in a democracy, just because the propagandists have to argue with each other.
This is the dumbest article I have ever seen on hacker news.
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I have two clients using OpenX, and they are both quite pleased. One started out with the free, hosted version, and recently migrated to our own install of OpenX due to poor performance on the hosted version. Our local install performs quite well, though.

OpenX is pretty easy to install and keep running, it does the job, and its straightforward to configure. Don't let the poor performance of the hosted version scare you away.
Japan's quirkiness is what makes me love it so much. It's just so totally different. You can find normal anywhere.
Great now I can just generate the equations for "suck my cock" and put them on a t-shirt. And then I will be insulting everyone I meet without them even knowing.
Big-business cubicle farms and salarymanhood are only about a third of the Japanese economy/labor force. Wave me down someday when I have more free time and I'll gladly talk about this, or you can just look out your door in the US at someone working and ask "Do they have that sort of job in Japan?" and I'll tell you, right now, the answer is yes. We have people selling food out of carts, bored DMV clerks who punch out at 5:00, part-time English teachers, retirees who run cafes, quirky musicians who made stuff for the App Store (my town has multiple App Store millionaires), and folks working at the 7-11.

That said, I think you may have gotten the wrong impression about what I do for a day job. For about three of the last five years, and continuing through the end of this month, I've had a job that virtually defines Japanese salarymanhood, making Big Freaking Enterprise Web Apps for a multi-national with thousands of employees that is listed on the stock exchange.
This is a really nice addition to HN. Hopefully this will enable more peer-to-peer engagement around issues that are of interest to the HN community. I know I will be checking this page out on a regular basis to see what I might be able to add to the discussion, and what I might learn from the rest of the HN community.
I would like to mention that the Memoir class (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/) pulls together many useful LaTeX packages and comes with a terrific manual.

When I discovered it, I had no knowledge of LaTeX beyond the Not So Short guide (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.p...) and a couple of semesters using article for homeworks. I found it very helpful for documents of more than a couple of pages, and even when I want to be fairly particular about a single page document such as my resume.
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for my app was iPhone-only;
Then they came for the boobs, and I did not speak out-
for I was not a porn peddler;
Then they came for the shovelware, and I did not speak out-
for I was not an app spammer...
Ask HN: Variable Declaration Location
I'm currently working on a project with a contract tech lead.

The tech lead is the same tech lead who developed the companies previous application and is well regarded.

The following code snippet is a bogus function the illustrates his variable declarations (all at the top of the function).

public virtual Token LogOn(Credentials credentials) {
Token token;
User user;
token = null;
if (ModelState.IsValid) {
if (validateCredentials(out user)) {
token = user.CreateToken();
}
}
return token;
}

I've always declared my variables within the smallest scope possible. If later it needs to be accessed higher up, then it gets moved during the code change/refactor.

public virtual Token LogOn(Credentials credentials) {
Token token = null;
if (ModelState.IsValid) {
User user;
if (validateCredentials(out user)) {
token = user.CreateToken();
}
}
return token;
}

The tech leads var dec bugs me no end :P

Hell why bother declaring it in the function at all, GLOBAL VARS FOR EVERYONE!

Am I just being anal retentive? Am I wrong? Is it something I should address, conform with (at least in this project) or do I need to build a bridge and get over it?
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Speaking from experience - if you are indeed a news personality at a TV station, you're going to have a tough time monetizing yourself without running into a conflict with your own stations web goals, etc.

If you think that you have the right to monetize yourself while using the station as a promotional platform (even to put yourself in the public eye) and that your employer is not going to want a cut of the revenue you generate based on the "TV version" of you, you're fooling yourself.
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Seems to be a very competent IDE for Haskell.
Perspective is important; this is the App Store, not the Holocaust.
(slightly off topic - sorry)
curious.

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How is it that the same article is posted twice?
Hrmm....so now we will see if your tool explodes when a URL to the site reaches the front page.

Kinda like when you google google.
It does mean there's room for an existing manufacturer who has production capacity to start selling existing products into the market segment they just pioneered.
Someone could play Microsoft to their Macintosh and produce a cheaper and cheesier version with greater availability.
It looks just as swift and responsive if you turn the sound off. And for those of us who have used iPhones, that's pretty damn swift and responsive.
I saw someone point out the parallel between Apple's online stores and "real world" retail stores and how the latter strive to sell items in line with an image they want to convey. Particularly astute, if you ask me; we techies see the digital world as having no inherent limitations. There's no reason the App Store couldn't have and sell every piece of executable code anybody wants to put up there -- they're not gonna run out of internets like a "real" store would run out of floor space. But the problem isn't just one of floor space: Target doesn't want to give you an impression of cheap crap when you come in the door and neither should Apple. Focusing on just the limitation that's been broken by moving to digital misses that the human perception factor is still the same.
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If you're Ubisoft, you've got expected sales numbers, which makes projecting load levels trivial and easy to plan for. So, the options are:

a) Ubisoft MASSIVELY underestimated the number of sales they'd get (not likely, given AC1's success and Ubisoft's experience)

b) Someone MASSIVELY screwed up the load calculations and wasn't cross-checked (not likely, given what's riding on those servers)

c) They're being DDOSed (very likely, given how easy it is to get ahold of a botnet these days)
I think megaduck was making a funny.
I see the problem. Your username is a way for people to identify you on the site. Usernames are unique. For example my profile would be on http://singleforest.com/users/epochwolf and all comments I make would have my username (epochwolf) on them.

I can definitely make this more clear on the registration pages.
Agreed, on initial release the DRM server would be getting hit major amounts due to the massive amounts of pre-orders. You don't pre-order unless you're planning to play it in that first week it's on sale.
I don't think you would blacklist him. He didn't lie or cheat you at all. He's cold calling and hustling. If this is the way you react to unsolicited emails, you obviously have no role in business administration, and would lose many opportunities simply because you weren't expecting them.
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I agree with you when the temperature is above 60 degrees.
I started out saying that auto-burbs are economically efficient once enough people own cars, then gave Skarholmen as an example of how it could be.

The lack of small businesses is typical of suburbs, which are primarily places to live without a specific local economic purpose. Exceptions are typically hair salons, small restaurants, dry cleaners, etc.
Don't know about the music, but the quick cuts do. Especially in the first 30 seconds.
So I know I said no worries, but it's been >24 hours now, and it's still not done importing my contacts (I don't have THAT many ;)...
Any ideas on what's going on?

(I might not get a response here since this is on the 3rd page now... but going to try anyway ;)
I completely stopped upgrading my PC for gaming years ago and switched to console, I just got sick to shit of DRM adding yet another negative expense on my game playing experience. Not only does it aggravate the player, but it can put a significant drain on your CPU that should be being used almost exclusively for the game.

I've also notice games screw with the process priorities by confusing windows. The autoplay (which contains the DRM programs) gets priority over the actual game, you then have to CAD to set the priority for the actual game.
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It shows off some of the high-interest use cases, but it doesn't quite have that appeal that Apple's advertising usually does. Seems rather generic and unmemorable to me.
> hand-formed room-set silicone

My cheap knockoff version: Two part epoxy cut with sawdust. Not so good at high temperatures, but much stronger.
Hrm. I'm a skinny insecure geek who sucked at dating, so my business must be doomed.

Really, I understand where he's coming from but there's more types of entrepreneurs than the macho asshole. Sure, persistence and wits are a common trait, but there's really only one requirement for being a successful entrepreneur: You have to be able to get people to give you money.

There's a thousand ways to do it, and it's not some kind of special exclusive club that requires a particular personality type. Frankly, I'm a little tired of the "This is what makes an entrepreneur" posts. It's self-indulgent and distracts from the real goal, which is generating cashflow.
Ya that is true, ff they know what they're getting themselves into, I don't feel bad for them. If I had to guess, though, I'd say that the majority probably don't.