skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't like that. Chinese factory workers are very mobile, as evidenced by the 20% year-on-year wages growth.

I recall an article on FoxConn that said they couldn't find enough local suppliers to produce enough eggs for their employees (Wikipedia said 800,000) that they started their own farms.

The reason people lived in dorms is not very different to why I lived in dorms when I worked on a mine site in Australia. A minesite needs to be where the ore is. Similarly, the FoxxConn factory needs to be close to where all the other manufacturers are.

The workers are usually from out of town. America already employs alot of people who live away from their families too. You run into them every day. They are the maids, the cleaners, the people who work in restaurants, the fruit pickers. Some of them only see their wifes/husbands/children once a year.
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WebM always contains VP8 video though, otherwise it is a Matroska file.
Point noted. This was my hacker handle since '95 and has nothing to do with what you're inferring. I'm a former New Yorker, and 9/11 hit very close to home for me and ended up taking away a lot from me.

I've thought about changing my handle but feel that it would be one more thing I'd give up to the A-holes who've already caused me a lot of grief. So, I guess I'm just being stubborn.
the slow ones go out of business.
I'm not sure how we're defining "flaw" here. Nor am I sure that free market theory promises "perfect allocation". Isn't the claim that a free market will provide a _better_ (e.g. more productive, more generally satisfying) allocation of goods than any other arrangement? I don't see anything in the OP that suggests this.

Consumers may complain that this behavior results in higher prices than they would otherwise pay. But I suspect those prices are likely only raised at the margin, to some degree that shifts consumer surplus from consumers to sellers. They aren't being priced out of the gasoline market entirely -- were they so, total sales would fall off signalling reduced demand, and we'd expect prices to fall accordingly. Copying here is sellers following those prices that best capture that surplus. I'd be more worried about collective behavior that restrained market entry by other sellers.

Also: this discussion is focused on the short- to mid-term. The overall price level, even if shifted among possible equilibria by collective behaviors, signals demand to producers. A high gasoline price raises oil prices which increase incentives to find and produce more oil. As that oil comes to market, supply increases and price falls.

tl;dr Free markets promise "best", not "perfect", allocation. Not clear that these tacit cooperations do more than move prices within possible local equilibria so as to capture more consumer surplus for producers. In any case, prices still serve, over the long term, to signal returns to investment in production.
What would make OpenCL worse for video decoding than for example, C? If anything it would be better, since it has `native' support for certain vector operations and parallel processing.
Good for your great-grandparents. I've had white co-workers who took me to the textile mills where their grandparents worked in the Boston area, in abysmal conditions by today's standards. They've been long shut down and turned into office buildings.

There are no property rights in China as we understand them. Farmers grow stuff on "their" land, but get to keep their produce. They're actually pretty productive.
bouncing node will start reindexing from the last committed version on the disk. If the index is up to date, no re-indexing will be triggered.
I've built a couple of applications with Qooxdoo, and found it fairly simple, especially for the one like me, who was never programming any serious JS before. I still dislike javascript, but that's a different story :)
> OK, what do you propose as the solution then?

Keep pressure on them to improve. Not just Foxconn, which is getting singled out (and will, most likely, end up being one of the better ones due to scrutiny after this blows over), but on all of the factories until they reform.

Specifically, they appear to pay no attention at all to worker safety. You'd think that after things like that horrible carcinogenic Sanlu milk, they would be more interested in things like chemical safety, but I guess they're not quite there yet.

While America is by no means perfect, they should copy us and have people monitoring workplace injuries, require worker education on safety, require appropriate protective gear for anyone doing dangerous things, and hold companies responsible for the health & safety of their workforce. It's not impossible to improve. I don't expect them to be perfect, but there are plenty of things they could be doing which, according to the reports, they are not.
Seems like there could be a mobile app that tells drivers the gas prices at stations in their vicinity

There is: http://gasbuddy.com/
Ask HN: Elance for software designers/architects?
I am interested in starting doing contractorship work in addition to daily job. I has been working as a leading software engineer in several latest projects, and it included a lot of software design and software architecture.

The problem is, I recently moved to relatively remote location (from even more remote location, but that's a different story), so my professional network did not yield any local business yet.

Hence, the question: is there a Elance-like place with much higher barrier to entry for both sides?
Yeah that was a tangent. The author got a bit overexcitrd and overshot.

Also not the OP's reply (paraphrased):
"Thanks, but I wasn't interested in the understanding logic or math. I am thinking more along the lines of [metaphysical gobbledygook]. What can you say about that? "
Entrepreneurs should pay special attention to this post. There's a huge opportunity here. Technology can make content creation cheaper. As a graphical developer I can see a lot of areas which can be improved. And all that's missing is someone to actually go there and build it.

We need to bring content creation to the masses. Think of why can't casual users create their own movies, music and games. Then figure how we can fix those problems with technologies. The problem of distribution is reasonably well solved already in my opinion. Solving content creation is the last piece of the puzzle to kill Hollywood.

I'm talking about things like xtranormal or GameSalad. These guys are in the right direction. But are still too shy in their proposals IMHO. There's a lot of room for disruption and a huge market opportunity in content creation.

If we can turn creative content into a commodity then we'll kill Hollywood and replace it with the people. That's what my startup is trying to do, and there are room for many others in this ecosystem. Think about it :)
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That's an awesome idea, but I'm not sure I'd like to be so conspicuous. I do enjoy trying to blend in . At least here in the US, I really try to indulge in the local experience and try out a day in the life of....

However, despite the free flight, as I mentioned earlier, hotel/rental car/food etc adds up pretty quickly.
Quite nice indeed. Someone to give us a hint on whether this is completely hand made or build with some tool/app ?
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I'm in Ireland and pay through Amazon for JungleDisk.
As long as there is manual labor that can be found for that low cost, no one will invest the capital to automate.
Update - street protests in 13 cities are planned for next week. The biggest one seems to be in Warsaw (over 13,000 people joined the event).
1. The ads were usually poker affiliate ads. High paying.
2. They had the premium membership scheme.
3. I'd estimate average file size of a download was <100mb. It wasn't just movies, and a music file would weigh in at just <5mb yet still get an ad view.
Fair enough. I feel the same way about my mySpace page and AOL account. So hard to let go sometimes :)
Sure, reddit has (or had at one point) a json api to get all new comments as they stream in. Unedditreddit simply saved those comments. Later when the user indicates they are interested in a certain comment id, I can simply serve it up out of my database.

Whether the same approach would work today depends on how well the reddit new comment api is holding up. Even a year ago, when unedditreddit was working, new comments was a decent sized firehose and the approach seemed to work well.
Traditional media is still probably shocked about realizing that their blackouts are no longer that effective. Just Google and Wikipedia combined have a huge reach. The ironic part is that several from the traditional media were calling the activism of Google and Wikipedia an abuse of power.
> There are free online-only journals, e.g. http://www.integers-ejcnt.org/, unfortunately they are not very prestigious. I don't know what can be done to remedy this.

Maybe some of the top tier folks who hate this can band together to publish their own research under some prestigious journal, then expand to include other worthy research and create an open and free rival?
My monitor is set for accurate colour representation. Gamma 2.2 is the norm these days and is what websites, photography software, video software all want these days.

Mac OS X used to be the lone hold-out at 1.8 gamma but those days are long gone. (Snow Leopard changed the default to 2.2 to be in-line with the rest of the industry). Windows has always been at 2.2 gamma.
don't get me wrong, i agree that there's tons of flaws with capitalism, but i was curious as to why the natural emergence of cartels is considered a flaw.
This is a great explanation. There are a few things that more emphasis should have been placed on. In going over what an axiom is he should have noted that Godel's work only applies to theories which have a formal axiomatic basis and that the axioms are strong enough to encode the natural numbers enough to do certain arithmetic ops e.g. statements in the theory can be proven using induction. And maybe a bit more emphasis should have been placed on the fact that it is possible for a theory to be proven complete and consistent outside itself.

So for example, in line with the first theorem you can algorithmically verify/decide all statements in a subset of Euclidean Geometry (the subset which does not deal well with circles). And in the second part you can have theories which can verify themselves. Or that it is possible to prove a theory complete and consistent as long as you can find a suitably powerful model outside of it.
That headline may be the only thing that could actually persuade me to become a paying customer of Zynga's.
I think the CH was used just to provide an example of an undecidable statement, not actually demonstrate something weird about the incompleteness theorem. Since the CH cannot be proven to be true or false within ZF (or ZFC), then you are correct, appending it would just provide an addition axiom.
I think you are confusing Castle Crashers with some other game. Castle Crashers is and old-school beat them up with very nice art.

Also, the problem you describe exists in all entertainment industries. I don't think we've innovated much in literature since Shakespeare or in cinema since Hitchcock. But there's always some work that stand above the rest in their originality. And then a lot of other works that improve on them or at least try. I don't think that's bad.
It's worth being noted that the latest attacks on government's websites are top headlines on majority of Polish news sites at the moment. Both the attacks and ACTA are being covered on news TV channels and radio. Apparently, taking down government's website is a remarkably good method of raising interest of media.
I think first thing first - buyers need to realize that in most instances they ARE the market.
How about the free users that are simply playing the games but aren't making them any money. I personally play Words with Friends, it's kind of fun and addicting, but I use the free version of their app, I don't ever click their ads nor do I care to (and when I am on my home network those ad servers are blocked =)). I use resources in that they have to spend server time to keep track of my moves to send them to my opponents. Where is the win in that?
It depends on whether the meaning of "exists" is, I think. By analogy to the finite universe (always dangerous in logic), it is like saying "we live in a sphere of diameter 4. We have proven (due some hypothetical variation of relativity) that all matter in the universe will never be able to move more than distance 1 from the original center of our existence. An object of length 3 can be mathematically described, but is theoretically impossible to construct." Or something.
> A Recommendation Service

For bonus points, this should also work for films, books, etc.
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A video game's shelf life doesn't usually last for more than 12 months

This compares rather favorably to the video game industry, where exponential sales decay sets in after 1 to 3 weeks for almost all titles, including ones which cost more to produce than every Zynga game produced to date combined.

I don't love Zynga, but their model has a lot to recommend it over "Lets make another big-budget war movie/game with $10 million of programming, $80 million of art assets, and $120 million of launch marketing and then try to get it in front of every 18 ~ 30 year old male in America."
Anyone know where Zynga spends its marketing dollars? Is it mostly Facebook? $13mm a month stikes me as huge considering I don't think I've ever seen one of their ads.
So it is a weird example, since it NOT an example of a statement that is undecidable in every model.
> I am also confused by the uproar about this, why is what Dodd said wrong

It's not that people are upset that he is freely admitting to bribery or lobbying (depending on your viewpoint), but that is should be wrong for him to be admitting it. You are totally right. If I stand behind a congressman or woman because I agree with their actions and values, then one day I notice that they are supporting things that I am against, no one should be upset if I move my donations and support elsewhere. The problem comes from how he openly admits to the influence everyone already knows the media industry has over our legislative body.

If the media industry is as massive as they claim it to be, then every single one of those people employed in that industry has a right to support and back congressmen and women that support the values that help them strengthen their industry. The fact that the industry itself can, in parallel to those that work in the industry, also donate and support congressmen and women is the problem, as it creates exponential power with linear growth (if everyone was hypothetically contributing equally to the industry).

The same idea applies to any industry, really. No one ideally wants to reduce the size of any industry, but to limit the power any single industry has over the direction the country drafts it's laws to help and protect to be fair to everyone.
That's a darn good question. SOPA and PIPA did have rather broad wording, and provisions that broke security, had no built-in method of redress, and at least major parts of the penalties were totally administrative, no Judicial Branch oversight necessary.

A suspicious person might think "Why, the US Feds are trying to put in place the mechanism for widespread internet censorship!" But that's ridiculous. Three men may keep a secret as long as two of them are dead, as Ben Franklin once noted. Cock-up before conspiracy, as Penn and Teller once noted. Time Will Tell, But Epistemology Won't.
here's something you can do to improve the speed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

:)
I agree, they should have used a total price of $875. (34% Increase)

$240/$178 * $649

$649 = iPhone 4S 16GB Unlocked
| $178 = CoM in China
| $240 = Aproximate CoM in USA
Well, I tried something similiar with two friends a year ago. But unlike songspin we asked every single musician whether he/she's ok with having his/her music on fill.fm and we also provide links to the stores where you can buy more of the artists' music and links to the artists' homepages.
Print media is dead.
The amount of money that you cost them for server time is negligible - when using WWF, you're sending a small handful of web requests for every move you make, at a very slow rate, and over the course of a day an average user of Hacker News probably puts more stress on these servers than a person does on Zynga's by using WWF.

I'd guess that the expected monetary value of the increased engagement of your friends due to your presence more than makes up for the cost to provide the game to you, probably by a factor of 100 or more.
Indeed. And the borderless nature of the web is allowing laws, especially copyright laws, to cross jurisdictions with greater ease than before.
Just to be obvious, I feel like this is a reference to Australia's origins as a penal colony.
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WebM isn't a container format. It's a standard which specifies MKV (container) + VP8 (video codec) + Vorbis (audio codec).
> "C++11 feels like a new language" says C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup

Great. Finally a reason enough to go back to C :-)
Like the classic response to criticism of contemporary art:

I could've made that.
Yeah, but you didn't.
Even if it's $100 more, personally, I wouldn't mind paying the premium for a product produced under basic-humane conditions.
Isn't this a little weird, given that MSFT wants people to use "managed code", the CLI, and all the attendant software?

Or is it telling us that people who get to choose (free software) aren't going to be using C++11?

I can't tell.
As far as I have seen until now the community feels different.

>> And maybe I missed it, but I didn't see anywhere he threatened to "use the site for damaging

>> the reputation of the Scala community as a whole".

> My way of working through my sadness about opportunities lost, my way of

> mourning these losses will be expressed on scala-tools.org. I will use

> something I had a mighty hand in building to express sadness about what

> could have been.

and

> I am not retiring the name. It will be a place that mourns the loss of dignity that the Scala community is suffering.

But this wasn't the first blog post with non-constructive criticism, (rambling, ... whatever you want to call it) and a deactivated comment system.

When I complain, I leave at least the feedback channel open. Otherwise it isn't quite surprising that some people are unable to fit enough diplomacy into 140 chars. (Which cannot be an excuse if there were actual insults (which I have not been able to verify yet), but the Twitter stream tells a lot about the other way around at least in one occasion).

In the end, I think it comes down to the usual political/financial stuff:

- Excitment about Lift cooled down and some people changed their opinion from "uber-cool" to "interesting, but a lot of misuse of the programming language"

- Typesafe partnering with Play! instead of Lift

Which more or less fits with his comments about selling the domain. Who - except Typesafe - would have the money to buy it?
Businesses cannot predict the future, so they must use probabilistic models, especially for budgeting. If you could build a magic crystal ball telling you if the following gamer who signs up is going to end up: a) spending $1000 in virtual currency over the next 3 years OR b) tell to his network of 20+ friends about the game OR c) use tons of resources, no payments and no promotion..., THEN lots of companies would be in your debt.

The behavior that you described has been put into a basket by Zynga and mixed with the statistical behavior of average gamers in order to create their business model, where they assume that X millions of advertising and Y millions in R&D and SysOps bring Z millions in revenue, preferably with Z > X + Y.

90% of gamers are non-paying and probably do little in terms of word of mouth promotion, so they just pull these averages downwards. But, as long as, on average, Z > X + Y, everything is ok for Zynga. Because it's the only way in which they can operate without a crystal ball.
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Have you watched The Guild? Some of the best content I have seen in a long time. I think this is just getting started.

This reminds me of how people used to criticize digital cameras when they first came out. A decade later and film cameras are dead.
Perhaps the stumbling block is the personalities of the kind of people who want to work on it. They tend to be open, generous, liberal, accepting. Perhaps journals become prestigious only when run by high-handed, arrogant, rejecting editors.
I also wish there were something like this. The projects on elance and odesk are very often asking for tons of work at sweatshop wages/prices. Someone needs to create a better freelance network.
Kick starter can't be used to start a corporation. That doesn't mean it couldn't be used to fund R&D. 20000
people can pay me $100 to make a movie, in exchange for a percentage of its sales. That's called a contract.

I can hire a production crew to
make a movie.

No such activities constitute investment. They are just works for hire.

There may be liability issues. Potential breach of contract problems. You could get around that with the right contract structures (who hires whom, and what the terms are).

The funders wouldn't have the same rights as investors, but that seems ok.

Am I missing something?
Turn your camera phone into a Geiger counter
Some simple instructions + JS web applications allowed thousands of people from Poland to DDoS those websites on their own

Willful participation in a DDoS doesn't sound like a good idea (being a criminal offense in Poland) just as much as the whole concept of getting the government to change their mind by taking down their websites (especially those belonging to parties not involved in the ACTA ratification process). One thing that folks behind this seem to have failed to learn from the SOPA battle is to make it impossible for the government to present the protesters as the bad guys in this situation in the mass media.
But robots are not good enough (way worse than human) to adopt to new jobs. It takes lots of time to reconfigured or reprogram robots to do new jobs. Human are very good at adopting and reconfiguring to new environment and new challenge.

It will take a long time for robots to get to that level.
Apologies in advance for a comment that adds no value, but I feel the need to say it:

Thank you for summarizing. As someone who is not nearly as technical as many people on HN, I really appreciate seeing a summary of an article that can cut to the chase and hep me understand what's going on.
"America has no better [copyright colony] than Australia."
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This comparison is just deeply flawed.

Point is, he can do whatever he wants, but his actions are solely designed to make the live of everyone else a bit harder, just for the sake of it.
Maybe someone should try to explain to you the concept of a "trademark".
It sounds like the SF team acquired it from Contrast, the parent company, which has been shut down. The founders of Contract are going to work on Intercom.
They have long-term rentals of at least 2 large billboards along the 101... though I doubt those cost $13M a month, even in SF.
What's wrong with the new standard? GNU g++ will be supporting it, right?