skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite a number of South Korean companies have set up shop in Kaesong Industrial Park, right over the DMZ in North Korea. There's 100+ factories employing more than 40,000 workers. There's buses going across to South Korea every day, though obviously they get cut off in times of tension. I don't think LG does anything directly at Kaesong, but there's certainly other electronics manufacturing going on there: 13 firms in total produced $59 million of electronics at Kaesong in 2010. Of some relevance to this discussion, Magic Micro has been making lamp assemblies for LCD monitors there since 2006. In short, it's not just canvas sacks and artificial flowers coming out of labour camps.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34093.pdf

No doubt, in any supply chain, the highest value-added steps are not occuring in Kaesong. As pointed out by others, labour costs can't explain the difference of hundreds of dollars on these monitors and so samstave's guess is likely wrong (though I don't think he deserves to be downvoted into oblivion). But companies don't decide to locate at Kaesong for cost reasons anyway; rather, they're there for nationalistic reasons about promoting reunification. The factories there apparently don't even break even in the absence of South Korean government subsidies, and the future of those subsidies is uncertain:
http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article....

(Another slightly more complex point is that companies manufacturing products at Kaesong likely have to accept lower margins on them --- exporting them runs into sanctions issues in many countries, meaning they have to be sold in the domestic market --- but I doubt that's what's going on here to make these monitors so cheap either).

For those who are interested in this kind of stuff, the blog http://www.nkeconwatch.com/ makes good reading
The American "I am obliged to give you a tip because minimum wage sucks" doesn't seem to be what gittip is about. In fact, it's much closer to the Australian idea "I am giving you more money because of your impressive performance, and I want to say thanks".

In Australia, I tip when service is awesome. In America, I tip when service isn't absolutely terrible.

Full disclosure: I am Australian
I'm not getting a favicon on Firefox on a PC. Don't ask me why I notice these things, but it makes the Swagsy tab look dull.
Apple has enough cash on hand to literally pay upfront for TSMC or GlobalFoundries to expand enough to handle Apple's needs. (Apple tends to pay others to set up this kind of capacity rather than build their own because they don't like being stuck with the long-term upkeep on these uber-expensive facilities).

It wouldn't be cheap and it would hurt like hell while they got set up, but it would equally cripple Samsung as their own component costs exploded from all of the suddenly idle capacity in their own foundries.

It's enough of a nuclear war scenario that I can't imagine either side is eager to pursue it.
What good is a corporate motto if the shareholders can't sue to enforce it? Some good, sure. I always liked it. But it is about as binding as it is well-defined.
Many devs don't have recurring income. It'd be good if i was able to simply say "10% of every invoice I send gets sent to gittip for me to distribute amongst the projects I used to generate the work in this invoice."

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> Why not?

Because they will favor transmission of their own content over competing content. See Net Neutrality. This being said, Comcast is already doing this and I trust Google more than the big 3 internet providers.
Man, was I pissed when Austin lost out to Kansas City for the Google Fiber for Communities pilot project. The lack of FIOS in a city like Austin is painful. Austin is "AT&T territory" and AT&T's UVerse service isn't even worth talking about.

I sure hope this announcement is, "Fiber is coming, and Austin's in the first wave!"
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Especially now that the US has moved to a first-to-file system, there's no guarantee that the patent holder is the inventor. Separately from that, some patent troll companies file obvious, overbroad patents without implementing them (e.g. the classic case being doing <X> on the Internet, of course) to build up their stockpile. Just because they might end up with some patents when their junk sticks doesn't make them an inventor.
I don't disagree with you about college admissions (http://paulgraham.com/colleges.html). But in my experience investors try a lot harder than undergrad admissions officers, partly because they suffer fairly immediate consequences when they make mistakes in either direction. In that respect investment is more like graduate admissions, which is done by professors instead of admissions officers, and the professors get whoever they select as grad students. (And incidentally, I went to grad school at Harvard, not to Harvard College.)
There's no good reason why I shouldn't be able to participate in lifelike HD video conferences from here in Austin with my team back in CA, along with our other remote members.

But, of course, the problem is that while all of us easily have enough bandwidth to pull down streams of high-quality HD video, the video streams we're trying to pull down are choked into low quality by the sender's lack of upstream bandwidth.
Has anyone been able to get Windows 8 to work on VirtualBox for Mac? I got it installed but can't figure out how to make it work. Running W8 in a VM really demonstrates how silly hiding the Start menu in the bottom-left pixel.
David Foster Wallace, for my money, is the best writer of the past 25 years, so I can't hold that against Gruber.
That page only shows me the downloads for Xcode 4.3 and 4.5 Developer Preview, but it looks like I can use the 4.4 versions just fine by adding "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin" to my $PATH
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MAC and IP are in two different layers of OSI model and while both are technically addresses, they are independent of each other and their role is different. Not every network uses IP addressing and not every device has a MAC address.
Google has explicitly endorsed Moto's FRAND policy that many people consider abusive. http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
"It's like saying airplanes don't properly explain flight because they don't replicate how birds do it."

The analogy doesn't hold. We don't want planes to fly like birds, but we may want machines to thinking like humans.
For the layperson (like me), the below is an intriguing and related TED talk from Brian Greene. A big conclusion is that we now believe the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate based upon the edge of the observable universe. But Greene posits that 1000s of years in the future, this accelerating edge will be too far away for us to observe and the universe will look to future mankind to be more static and small. I'm not physicist so I can't criticize this claim but I found it intriguing.

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Win8 is targeting touch, which means it's targeting tablets. It's nearly impossible for a Win8 tablet to compete when it has licensing overhead that Apple and Android devices don't have.
Unfortunately, there two different and unrelated features called "Auto Termination", which only muddies the water.

One feature aims to preserve system resources during low memory conditions in way that's completely invisible to the user.

The other forcefully removes running applications from the Dock and Command-Tab list even though these apps remain running in the background.

My frustration is with the latter feature.
Probably the number of people who'd make good startup founders.

I don't think the limiting factor is the number of good startup ideas. See number 8 here: http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html
Bubble? Will tomorrows Fb earnings shape the next year(s) in startup funding?
Just read all of the reports from Zyngas poor quarter and how the stock is getting rattled in after hours trading. It's hard to ignore tomorrow's earning report from Facebook. I've had a few conversations with friends that winter is coming, but are we looming on a huge bubble here? If tomorrows earnings are disappointing, will that cause a huge chain reaction that will rattle investor confidence within the startup world? Netflix, Grpn, Znga, and now facebook.. Is winter coming?
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Citation please?

Here's a citation for the opposite claim (that plenty of companies pay unreasonably large amounts of money on patents, sometimes exceeding R&D spending):
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229100/Can_the_U.S._...

Some highlights for 2011:

Apple $2.4 billion $R&D, $2.6 billion for their share of Rockstar Bidco (Nortel patents)

Google $5.2 billion R&D, $12.5 billion Motorola Mobility. Note that Google still qualifies even if you just count the Motorola "patent spend" at Google's recent $5.5 billion valuation of Motorola's patents and technology, rather than the cost of the whole acquisition.
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> In what conditions does it actually work?

1- Programmer buy-in (preferably grass-roots) rather than management dictate

2- Collective ownership of code

3- Frequent switching of pairing partners (switch multiple times per day)

4- Comfortable pairing stations with no "owner" so people can swap partners and desks easily

5- One shared workspace per project with good noise isolation from other projects

6- Office (or two) with a door for private conversations, phone calls, or when you just need to get away from it all

7- Personal space for each person for pictures, storage, checking email, etc.

8- Sensible working hours (pairing is tiring!)

9- Mature participants without major social hang-ups or hygiene issues

10- Mutual respect

11- Thought-provoking work (TDD & evolutionary design tend to make even boring work thought-provoking)

12- Four to eight weeks to get used to it
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They are not afraid of losing the competition, they are afraid of not being allowed to compete.

Steam cant be on Metro, and the x86/classic-desktop will likely end up, only in the high end of the market.

Just like Apple, the common win8 consumer device will be in the 200-600 dollar range .. running on ARM, and completely block any competition from selling content. The privileges of backwards compatibility and "side-loading" will be available only on 800+ dollar devices.

So, Steam on windows has no future.
Zynga is making a large push towards actual Internet gambling. That is where the money is.
For startups, to which HN is oriented, actual revenue is in fact not that important and profits are actually to be avoided.
A few more OMGPOPs and they'll get there faster!
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Both the June and July command line tools give me an error saying they don't support 10.8.
Actually, you can; I wrote that feature all the way back in Warcraft 1.

Select a group of units. Press Ctrl+# (where # is 1..4 or maybe 1..9; I can no longer remember) to bind that group of units to that number key. Then press the # key by itself to select that group.
To be fair, it's hard to know how much of that sluggishness is the app itself and how much is just a video-encoding artefact.

Certainly the API has some interesting inclusions -- Facebook and analytics built-in.
Google has applied for such a patent. It has not (yet) been granted, but there's no particular reason to expect it won't be, given the track record of the USPTO. Especially since many of the infringements Apple claims began in the period between application and grant, it will be interesting to see the shoe on the other foot.
This is stupid. They are advertised as an adult-toy and not to be given to children.
From a business perspective, this seems like a horrible idea. Google's expertise is in web, specifically in search and search related services. Google is a SOFTWARE company, and specifically a WEB SOFTWARE company. They are not a hardware company, and they certainly are not a telecommunications company.

I don't doubt this will launch with great fanfare, but judging from how many "new & exciting" products Google rolls out on a weekly basis, and then shutters shortly thereafter (~2 yrs), I wonder how long this project will stick around.

Plus, there's really no evidence to convince me they'll actually be any better than current ISPs at providing wired broadband service. Laying fiberoptic cables is a very involved, complicated process due to federal, state and local laws. Verizon has been the leader in fiber optics, and the reason they don't cover a larger area of the U.S. has more to do with local & state bureaucracy than it does with them being "evil".

Naive assumptions aside, this announcement would have made a lot more sense had they acquired or partnered with an existing telecom company. Under that scenario, the telecom co. would assume the costly burden of laying and maintaining the cables, and if the project failed there'd be a myriad of avenues for Google to extricate itself and lay the blame for failure elsewhere.

If "hardware is hard" (it is), then I can't imagine how difficult telecom must be...
Another simple design trick is to have your main call to action at the end of a blog post be a valid link and not: <a href="eyequant.com">EyeQuant!</a> (which 404s!) ;-)
The distinct minority since there are so few repeats and none that I can think of among the big fundraisers (Dropbox, airbnb).
> Google has a proven track record of doing things in my favor.

Thus far.

The point still stands, as a principle – that sort of combination of function/power and interests has, historically, not been one that has resulted in good things for consumers, in the long run.
> This just looks... Wrong :) Doesn't look or feel like iOS at all...

I don't know, looks like game center to me :/
Doesn't it bother you that the color and brightness change from one side of the screen to the other? I've had that problem with every LCD I've tried.
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One of my favorite interview questions is do binary search when the function prototype is this:

int bsearch(int *values, size_t len, int term);

By the time we finish going through this exercise. I have a pretty good idea how they do with basic algorithms and indirection (pointers). In fact, pointers are a great way of testing a candidates ability to deal with indirection.

You can come up with simpler C pointer questions that also do not require tricks but this does the trick for me.

And yes, everybody gets binary search wrong, but that's okay. I learn a lot about a candidate when they are doing the exercise.
Described design hack in action -- http://xkcd.com/993/
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As someone who's known Olympians and Olympic hopefuls (I was never quite at that level), I can appreciate the athletes. A bit.

I do feel for many of the lesser-known/followed events, and competitors from developing nations.

But the whole notion of amateur athletics was binned a long, long time ago.

I last followed the games in the late 1980s. Since then it's been a long downward spiral so far as I'm concerned.
Nice Android app to send push notifications from pretty much anywhere.
I agree that IBM wouldn't see much profit in opening up the archives just to sue Apple. However, I suspect IBM has seen (and will continue to see) plenty of profit in opening up the archives in order to sell patents to companies more motivated to sue Apple.
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I wrote a script a while ago that takes care of setting up a similar structure to the django project described and also takes care of issues such as the one you've described. https://github.com/skinnyp/djan-n-go
Sometimes I'm not sure which side of the "at all usable with a mechanical swap disk" line OS X is on. It certainly tested the boundaries of my personal threshold of "usable", at least. Spinny beach ball, spinny, spinny ball.

Switching to a MacBook Air and thus solid-state storage made OS X an entirely new operating system for me. I'm in no hurry to ever use it on a spinning platter disk again.
I was scared for a moment! I thought the headline referred to the C-60 fullerene supplement I've been taking for a few weeks. Carbon buckeyballs in an olive oil suspension dramatically increase mouse lifespan in a single recent study.

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This isn't "running Java on iOS". This is cross-compiling Java to Objective C, the exact same way that other toolkits like MonoTouch, Titanium and RubyMotion do it.

The difference is important.

You can use this toolkit to target iOS from Java, but that doesn't mean that you get that language's infrastructure with it. I'd argue that's probably a good thing, but either way it's a far cry from "running Java on iOS".
Found it:

http://i.imgur.com/eXGWz.jpg

Edit: This looks ominous:

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Conceded and upvoted.
If you've tried to use Games for Windows Live, it makes seppuku seems like an enjoyable thing to do after dinner.

The user experience of what should have been mission critical Microsoft products - from Windows Live for Games to Adcenter is horrible. Horrible to a degree that whoever is responsible for them either never cared or should have been left managing McDonalds. That's too bad.

Yes, nothing Microsoft has right now comes close to comparing with the Steam user experience. (EA's Steam copycat also sucks, Gamestop's purchase of Impulse leaves a lot of judgement questions as well.)
Companies have short-term and long-term interests. There's plenty of sense in trying to convince a company that their pursuit of their short-term best interest is at odds with their long-run interests.

Separately, I'll note that "blame the game, not the player" rings particularly hollow when the players have plenty of influence on the people who write the rules.
Also note that the demo video is from the Simulator, not an actual device.
I'm curious what you consider (or believe other people consider) abusive about that?
There is an excellent widget on Android that shows the weather for the next 24 hours which does exactly this. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.veierland....
Meh, people said the same thing about Chrome but I know of almost no one who thinks that has been bad either for the market or any individual segment of the market.
Instead of installing the command line tools package you can access any of the command line tools that's in Xcode.app by prefixing the command with xcrun. May be easier then installing/managing a whole separate installation of command line tools depending on your needs.
Don't forget dyslexic guy: it makes your indicator wrong. According a fast google research, it's 5% of people.
Yeah, i've been using this to send notifications from our Nagios to my Android and also on a couple other applications to notify me on certain events. Really cool.
You are completely right, but its just a piece of the puzzle.

The whole market is becoming vertical. There is a war going on who gets to extort content providers, by controlling the access to consumers.

The hardware vendors can control access and demand a slice (apple, amazon). The operating system vendors can control access and demand a slice (microsoft, google). The connection providers can control access and demand a slice (phone/cable companies).

Here in Holland, we now have net neutrality. But maybe thats not enough. Maybe we need app/media store neutrality as well, by requiring OS vendors to allow side-loading. Maybe we need OS neutrality as well, by demanding HW vendors to offer their machienes "rooted".

For now, Google is pro net neutrality, and has not abused their position. Maybe this is just a defensive step. Neverthless, google, like any other ISP should be forced to treat packets neutrally. But that really should be a law, not a contract.
You would hope it was just a successful troll.
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Not sure about it now. My conclusion from that research was that the risk of getting into trouble is too high and I don't want to waste my time worrying about a giant box of plastic.
It's a crowded space with a lot of big players, with possibly more money than Zynga. They just don't have plush offices in San Francisco and don't like to make it into the papers much.

Pushing into actual gambling is going to be a tough fight.
I think it is a "surprise" in that Zynga didn't inform analysts it was coming.
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One wonders how many children swallow, say, thumb tacks and whether this makes a prima facie case for the government to sue the manufacturers of all small pointy things.

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The past few years have been incredibly good to me. I don't have the time or energy to name and shame. I just keep busy trying to hustle and do what's right. I will also try to never make that mistake again because I feel like I learned something valuable with that experience.
This is a nonsense suit. The first time we bought a box of these, one of the first things we noticed was the warning about the dangers of strong magnets and the risks of swallowing them in particular.
Thanks for the response and I think I probably should have been clearer. Zynga is fundamentally tied (today) to factors outside of its control (like airlines) but that are (a) controlled largely by one entity (facebook) and (b) opaque to the outside world. By comparison, airlines are tied to factors (GDP, fuel cost, etc.) that are not controlled by any single entity and that are more transparent (e.g., real-time markets for fuel, widely available forecasts for GDP). Regardless, I wasn't defending the stock - on the contrary I was saying this is going to be a very tough public company in general.
Excel is like Kudzu / Bamboo - once it takes root it is VERY difficult to eradicate. In fact, the organization will actively cultivate its usage of Excel because to dislodge it, once it is in use, has a higher cost than retaining it. Excel's ratio of simplicity to usefulness is very high. The same cannot be said for those that vie to replace it.
Same here; the late July update is only installable on 10.7. Looks like we're still stuck waiting for Apple to sort out the 403 error for XCode 4.4 on Mountain Lion.
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Steam isnt allowed on Metro, nor can it sell metro based/integrated games.

And the low and midrange win8 devices are all going to be ARM/Metro only.

So, Steam on Windows has no future. Nor does origin. Welcome to the consolification of all consumer computing devices.
"Google will have to offer cable TV for this to work."

It isn't necessary to have separate bandwidth for TV. And any kind of bundling with Google Play would make the product a lot less attractive.
I just installed Pushover (https://pushover.net/) which seems to do the same thing for both iOS and Android, seems better designed and gets bonus points for IFTTT support.