skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today, almost half of BPO employees are women, many of whom outearn both of their parents. Free-market cheerleaders, conflating rising wages with rising spirits, are quick to applaud India's "maturing" markets. But the truth is more complicated: Studies show that once people move out of poverty, increasing wealth does not necessarily lead to happiness.

Yeah but it sure cuts down on malnutrition. The above paragraphs is a shibboleth for well-off far lefties. And boy does reading it piss me off. What a way to miss the forest for the trees!

This article started out great but then slowly started to go bad. Our plucky western kid, son of doctors, with a liberal arts education freely admits he just can't quite grasp the basic geography of Australia.

If that was a badly done attempt to compliment the Indians, good. Badly written, but good intent. If it was an honest admission of his... jeez is this what liberal education does to a son of two doctors!?

The writer also goes the extra mile by sharing a bed with a stranger, but all he seems to get out of it is a few sentences mentioning that he shared a bed with a stranger, and this one time the power went out. Not exactly many deep insights form all this self imposed hardship. Or as the kids say these days, cool story bro.

Lastly, the author spends a lot of time writing about one depressed guy.

There was some good stuff, globalization, the changes in Indian society, and it could have been a great article. But instead it seems to be just a vague money doesn't bring happiness story, also westernization is kind of sucky. You don't say.
If they took paypal, yes.

If there are data lockin/lockout concerns, you should discount the rate to USD if Euro/USD diverges beyond a certain distance.
You should A/B test this, but you'll probably realized very quickly that people like to spend in their local currency. Conversion rate will always be higher among the group presented with their local currency.
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Note we aren’t sure if the linked Google Docs form is actually an official one from Google.

It is linked to by https://plus.google.com/105923173045049725307/posts/E3mVj6ns... Christian Oestlien, ostensibly a Google+ team member, but I can’t verify if that claim is true or not.
Ive led bulbs fail almost immediately, by erratically going from too-bright to barely-on, finally settling in barely-on. No idea what the deal was.
I thought about it; I could use the same amount but once in €, once in $.

I would like to avoid the extra-complexity if possible though!
Yes, that looks exactly like something my mother might accidentally do.
"Found that changing to $'s only significantly increased conversions" how much did it change it by? 3% (as a percent of a percent) or 15%? I would prefer not being at exchange mercy, but at a certain point you can just buy futures options to partially mitigate the damage.
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Unladen Swallow is dead and won't be merged into CPython.

http://qinsb.blogspot.com/2011/03/unladen-swallow-retrospect...
The key binding configuration makes it pretty straightforward to use command as meta for things like bash readline without changing it system wide or a using separate key remapping program (a la keyremap4macbook). I also find the ability to pass messages to growl via escape sequences to be quite handy.
Facebook's Video Calling Plugin is a Trojan Horse
http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/Credits has a comprehensive list of contributors, but (I think) the fork from iTerm to iTerm2 and vast majority of the development has been done by George.

Regarding the website, I'd guess a couple of people volunteered to make it shiny and accessible, but the docs and whatnot were (and mostly still are) on the googlecode project wiki.
Very good points, thanks for these! I think I will have to keep a somewhat variable income (on my side) for predictability for my customers.
Interesting - thanks for sharing! I wouldn't have guessed about the Amex part in particular...
Like many who post here, I've often thought it would be cool to be able to go to a "Founder Match" type of site to identify possible co-founders.

What's interesting to me is that at once, this article speaks both to why a site like this SHOULD NEVER exist (you should really know your co-founder) but also why it REALLY MUST exist (some kind of reputation score could have helped here).
I wouldn't buy in €. I live in Mexico and my brain is wired to do monetary conversion from Mexican Peso to USD (since it's what most sites where I buy use).

I buy stuff from e-shops and rent web services like Heroku, Github and so on.
"This smells to me like an anti-trust move"

People really need to learn what anti-trust is and what it isn't. My goodness, the label gets applied to everything.
Depends it's useful to know exactly how much it will be, sometimes it's not a big deal but it can make a big difference when there are large swings in exchange rates.

I personally much prefer knowing exactly what I will pay.
Hello. I fixed the typo. Thanks. I really didn't expect that this would be posted on HN. I will try to update / fix the examples.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned dynadot yet. They're amazing. Of the several registrars I've tried, they are by far the best.
But if you ran a stadium, or office building, or government installation, you would definitely be looking at spreadsheets and total-lifecycle-cost. It really only makes sense to do so when you have hundreds/thousands of bulbs to maintain.
Would you fix the price in both currencies, just to a different amount?
The tilesets seem to be from GB/GBC editions of Pokemon, specially couldn't help noticing "MART" written in one of the pieces of the tiles. Does Gamefreak/Nintendo or any other game publisher that created games back then, have not copyright/restrictions over uses of these images?
Personally, I don't see Google+ as an FB clone either. Awarding FB the 'rights' to social networking features is reminiscent of a non-deserved software patent - the functionality of FB is not unprecedented, non-obvious or original. Their success is in bringing it all together in one place successfully. Talking to friends and sharing materials with them is a natural way that people are going to use the internet.

When I heard about G+ my thoughts were along the same lines as the recent posts from MySpace's founder. Google has offered these services for years, but they have not been well integrated with each other or presented as a unified product. Overall Picasa, Buzz, Profiles and so on have not been branded or marketed well. Putting these together makes sense. I'm glad Google has done it and I'm pleased to see it's being well received.

What seems new for Google is how this is a 'real identity' network. There's a key difference between communities where one can choose between a real name, anonymity or a pseudonym, exemplified by sites likes on YouTube, Reddit or your average random web forum, vs. the Facebook style where policy requires that you use your given name and have a single identity. Each style engenders a different dynamic, and has benefits or drawbacks. Maintaining the right to and acceptance anonymity on the internet is a quite important cultural issue in my opinion, however.

I definitely agree that Google and MS are very different companies, personality wise. MS's style is to copy competitors products, cargo-cult style, but miss the overall point. They seekt want to eliminate competition without really caring about the original point of the product - IE was just one in a long line of examples of this. They definitely don't care about improving the product after they eliminate the original, I suppose because the product or what it did was never the point. I don't think Google is like that at all... A company's behavior so often reflects the behavior of the people who run it at a high level, and the two founders of Google are not at all like Gates or Ballmer.
Thanks for your feedback - appreciated.
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See the options under Window -> Select Split Pane (which also gives you their keyboard shortcuts) from the menu-bar.

You can customise them locally (per-profile) or globally via the preferences as well.
We went through a similar discussion, we're based in England so the easiest for us would be to charge £ but we went with $ because we figured that:

* £ would likely put off Europeans & Americans

* € would likely put off Americans but UK would be more used to it

* $ doesn't put off UK or Europeans as while they may prefer their own currency, they are used to paying in $ for subscription based web services.

Ideally we'd let the user pick their own currency, but having to handle fluctuations & keep constant pricing wasn't something we fancied figuring out for launch. Also more currencies cost more to support.
Wow, looks like they've fixed most of the problems I had with it in the past. The one thing I still miss from yakuake is to be able to select split-panes by numeric hotkey. Seems like you can only do it for separate tabs and windows, but my preferred workspace is a 2x2 visor window.
I would definitely prefer to know what I will pay too, especially for a recurring payment.
I, personally, consider myself more "tech" person - and I don't have the slightest clue which Chrome version I am using. If you said the newest Chrome is Chrome 7, I would have to agree.

One part is, I guess, the seamless upgrading (when I use Firefox, I usually click on "upgrade next time", because I am always doing something TOTALLY important that can't wait). Other part is that the extensions don't break every new version and the UI looks completely the same (unlike for, let's say, Opera, which changes UI all the time). I don't know what browser version am I using, and I don't care.

Really, I hope this will become standard in OS, too.
I'm thinking that voicemail is pretty public. Not as public as a web site, but more so than your desktop machine - after all, its available 24X7 from any phone in the universe.

The difference is only expectation. Some folks have the expectation that voicemail is as private as, for instance, an answering machine. Which is clearly not the case if you are technically savvy, which I'm thinking a judge is not.
You've built and programmed the machine. You haven't built the monkey. So maybe nobody owns the copyright. I'm wondering if there'd be a difference, copyright-wise, between training a monkey to click the button and having a monkey click a button of its own accord. Heh.
Hmmm, it is possible I am doing the math wrong based upon the timer/interrupt on the micro controller and the rows we had...
I myself have never bought anything with Euros online in my life. It seems from other people's comments that my bank would simple convert via the exchange rate, but I didn't know that before and would have left the site if dollar was not an option.
Actually, I have an alternative theory to explain what happened. There is a lot of research documenting the mental benefits of exercise, especially on aspects like focus, planning, discipline, etc. These are just the sorts of aspects the author found began to wane.

Therefore, I theorize that actually it was the decrease in regular exercise that caused the change, not a vague changing habit of "completing things." After all, finishing what you set out to do can often be beneficial, but it can also be foolish when it later turns out that what was begun was unwise or low-priority.

Something doesn't seem quite right about the "always finish" theory to me, since I know many very successful people make a point of being able to stoically change priorities when necessary rather than getting mired in pointless completion of no-longer-useful goals.

The hard thing is that although we ARE ourselves, we do find ourselves reduced to theorizing as to why changes in ourselves are happening-- looking around to find a cause.

How would one test the "finishing things" theory against the "exercise increases focus" theory? No problem-- try going back to a better exercise schedule but letting things slide as needed in non-health related areas. I predict it'll be fine, suggesting it's exercise/health specifically that is affecting habits, not some sort of "getting into a bad habit of not finishing things" effect. If it's not, that suggests I'm mistaken and provides evidence in favor of the author's theory.

I'd be interested in the results.
Throwaway002, I think I have a job you might be excited about.
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Relevant posts the OP seems to have missed...

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dg63dpc6_4d7vkk6ch

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/07/release-early-release-often...

http://www.thechromesource.com/understanding-chromes-six-wee...
Documents as geometric objects: how to rank documents for full-text search
I get screwed on currency conversion, and then get screwed on being screwed on currency conversion.

If you can convert the price, I'll be more likely to purchase; don't charge me €10, charge me $15. You'll get more money (so you can afford slightly higher conversion rates), and I'll be less likely to make the purchase.

One point of note: I'm Canadian, not American, and so even if I'm paying in USD (and our dollar has been roughly at par with the US dollar for quite a while), I'll look at the Euro symbol and pause to consider the purchase, because I'll have to do the math in my head. If it's in USD, I still get screwed on conversion, but because it's the same currency symbol I see every day, there's no mental adjustment and so I impulse buy much more often.

I suspect this might also be true for people in other (non-Euro, non-dollar) countries, who are used to the conversion rates when paying for US goods and services; being used to the conversion rate to the point where you can do it automatically means less of a barrier between seeing the price and making the decision, leading (I would assume) to higher conversion rates.
At home? In a bar? They are completely different. In a bar, it becomes the property of the bar owner. Who is very likely to give it back, but in no way obliged to do so by law.
I might actually be willing to pay an extra 50 cents to NOT have an ad printed on my latte, not to mention the extra time to print the ad while my coffee gets cold.
I don't see this catching on. The thing that makes latte art interesting is precisely that it's hard. No one looks at the cover of an O'Reilly book and says, "That's amazing!" But if someone handed you a sheet of paper on which they had drawn an animal that looked just as realistic as an O'Reilly cover, you might very well say that.
There's also accounts for people's cats, cars, bands, and loads of other silliness. So we can discount that claimed 750m some, but probably in the ballpark of not much more than 10%. And OTOH, perhaps Facebook knows this and already considers account-to-person dilution in figuring its revenue expectations.
How does this guy's blog articles always get promoted to the front page of Hacker News?
Thanks - I think it pretty sums it up, together with the result of the poll.

Sidenote but: how did you handle the VAT? I found this documentation: http://docs.recurly.com/advanced/value-added-tax/
I never got into iTerm1, was this an issue?
Kazaa founder Bermeister returns, with key cloud patents
I'd buy a service that only billed in jelly beans, if it billed enough jelly beans.
Yep, if you are a company focusing on business buyers, always make sure Amex is an acceptable form of payment. It sucks for fees, but you get a lot of business that way.
>Call-center employees gain their financial independence at the risk of an identity crisis.

I don't quite understand this concern. Do people worry any other paid actor is at risk of forgetting who he is?
Closest off the top of my head: Odeo > Obvious > Twitter. As in this case, investors who didn't want to continue were offered the opportunity to get their money back.
IPhone 4 SLR Mount lets you shoot 5-megapixel photos with your $3,000 lens
Hopelessly perfect: Why it’s smart to work at a no-shot startup
Hence the beauty of the concept: you can fail without "failing".
Huge telescope will struggle to find extraterrestrial life
Because you don't see the ones that don't get promoted to the front page; of which there are plenty ;)
The amount of music sold in file format is totally dwarved by the amount sold on CDs. For a while I used to rip to ogg, I'm probably not the only one.
Yeah, because Linus deciding to name 2.6.43 3.0 is clearly inspired by Google Chrome.
Anybody able to get the videos to play on Android? I see they have HTML5 video, and my phone tries to play it, but it fails.
Who needs WebCL in their browser?
Apple exploring iPads with translucent displays for augmented reality
Remember, the whole IT/BPO industry of India makes up just 5% of Indian GDP and it has directly employed just 2-3 million people. Most of the hype surrounding it has been created by the clueless western media - "OMG, India is eating our jobs".

India has achieved great strides in other industries in recent years (steel, coal, automobile, textile, agriculture, crafts, jewellery etc.) which should be highlighted and encouraged. Enough of this call-center nonsense.
I think that's false economy. How much do you spend on nice furniture and interior decoration? Take 10% and spend it on good lighting instead, and your quality of life will improve.

Even if you're a starving student in a dorm with nothing but a secondhand ikea couch and faded Bieber poster, good broad-spectrum lighting will improve your aesthetic experience.
That sounds awesome. Seriously - I absolutely love what you are doing. Having a father and brother in construction (and having worked construction myself - although not at the scale you describe) I'm particularly sensitive to these kinds of issues.
Do you cold call them about an online product/webapp?

Absolutely - at the very least, send an email, but phone calls are always way more intimate, as long as the person you're speaking to is receptive to the idea of speaking to you in the first place.

Adwords is too expensive when you are not sure if there is demand for the product.

I'm about to experiment with this. Honestly, if I could spend $30-$50 to validate an idea with real, live, targeted visitors, I'd consider it money well spent. The only lingering thought I have is: is that too little to spent?
Bob Johnstone's We Were Burning has a fascinating look at the development of the first blue laser diodes.

http://www.amazon.com/We-Were-Burning-Entrepreneurs-Electron...
I live in the UK and pay for tons of services in USD or EUR. I don't really care
Exploring the Durability of IP Connections from Android Devices
Great stuff! Can I ask what your typical budget is for testing these things? I understand if it's confidential, but I'd like to start working out how much a typical test costs :)
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For a start, it's not aimed at techies who know what they're doing. More at people who have half a reason to be concerned, but don't have the technical wherewithal to do anything about it. 2 step will work... unless you've enabled the remember option, in which case you have no idea if someone you share a living space with is checking your email on your laptop when you're away from home.
I don't think many performances go on for 10 or more hours per day.
We haven't sorted out the VAT situation yet, we've not launched the payment process & that's one of the things on my list to sort out before we do!

Thanks for the recurly link, we're using Spreedly but I don't think they handle that yet so will probably have to sort that ourselves by having VAT and non-VAT plans & set the customer up with the right one.

I've seen some places just absorbing the difference to keep it simpler, so that's an option too.
If you're using Terminal.app and SIMBL, there's also Mouseterm: https://github.com/brodie/mouseterm

and TerminalColors (http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2009/08/28/fixing-colors-in-term...)
That looks painful. I'd rather like to move it to an SOA and split it into logical feature partitions and use service composition and windows workflow to integrate it all. Typically, I don't think anyone wants to pay for that though.
What comes to mind for me are the commercials emphasizing the number of 'apps' as a differentiation over the competition rather than simply saying, "Only we have a phone with apps."
News of the World Staffers Face Off With Public on Twitter
As others have mentioned, take a look at Pingdom, find out where they're getting links from (e.g. using http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/) and try and copy their marketing strategy. Seems the least hassle way to me - but I'm still so new to this marketing lark :)
I have a Spreedly starter kit too :) I'm still hesitating a bit on this.
The author is missing the point. Chrome does not market its version number, and transparently updates itself in the background. I'd imagine the vast majority of Chrome users have no idea what major version their browser is on - I sure didn't until I took a look.

Unlike previous number races, Chrome's rapidly increasing version numbers do not indicate a will to impress consumers with high values. Instead, Chrome takes a page from web applications, and makes the version number irrelevant to the vast majority of its users.

Firefox seems to be trying to do the same, but IMO it's putting the cart before the horse. It should improve its update mechanism until version numbers do not matter, and then update the major version as often as it wants to.
I actually wrote a custom stylesheet to hide the comments section. I wonder if this update means I have to change it :)
The default one is, currently, from Pokémon Gold or Silver. You're right - to use it under fair use we should include a copyright disclaimer. (However, does the fact that the image is meant to be changed mean anything in terms of legal issues?)

We're currently in the process of getting our own tilesheet made - this was simply the first one we found several months ago. I'll add a disclaimer to the post, and hopefully by the next iteration we'll have our own original tilesheet.
Large companies tend to do that, and it pisses off people who end up paying more in Europe than the States. But assuming fair pricing it has the benefit of a more predictable outcome for everyone involved, particularly when dealing with recurring billing.
It's certainly on the cards. There's a whole bunch of optimisation we have yet to do, but we wanted to get a version out the door.
That was funny.
You might like the combination of MacVim and DTerm (http://decimus.net/DTerm).
I could see someone like pg starting it as a sort of HN-like venture, with no expectation of making money aside from making YC more prominent, but I can't see it as a startup. How much would you have to charge in order to be profitable? How big is your actual market? I just think it's a potentially useful service that would be very difficult to build a company on.
It's fun to read about, but I can't help wondering what is really the idea behind that.

I mean, someone invested money to design and manufacture this addon. In an objective to sell it.

But who would buy that? What exactly is the target market for that product, which is far from cheap (canceling all impulse or 'fun' sales)

People with such lens most likely have at least a bit of knowledge about photography and wouldn't take a quality photo with an iPhone. And uninformed people... they don't have such lens, they have small digital cameras or are satisfied with the iPhone as it is.

It's not really a matter of weight or carrying either: if you carry the lens, you might as well put the body in the bag.

So I remain puzzled.
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