skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, so when China opens a textiles sweatshop using prison labor, a semiconductor factory, or Apple contracts with Foxconn to manufacture iPhones, it's because the China is copying American R&D.

> Pick your poison

Ah yes, I was wondering when you were going to get around to the false dichotomy.

> suicide nets

Wow you really are a desperate troll. Unfortunately for you, the suicide rate in the US and Japan is far higher than at Foxconn. Last I ran the numbers, Foxconn employees had the suicide rate of a Carribean island.

I guess that is something China is copying from the US and Japan: http://www.google.com/search?q=suicide+barrier
It is odd. A quick (naïve) google search returns no relevant pictures for the name either. I remember a long time ago his twitter description was something to the effect of: "I'm 23 and advise startups." What great wisdom would an (unverifiable) unemployed 23 year old have for startups? He's no Irish marathoner. Everybody is an "idea person" but it's not worth squat until you do something (more than wireframes or simulations) with your life.

Have we considered it's a joke? A simple joke a first, but over time grown sentient. Maybe there are multiple people in the cabal of Dustin Curtis: designer, over-generalizing pontificator, and website engineer. Elite trolling for people who already think they are better than everybody else. A Fox News commentator of startups, except most people are in so deep they can't see the deranged minds behind the narrative.

Does Dustin Curtis interact on any platforms beside twitter and his own website? nickb taken to a whole other level?
I don't block Facebook, and it's still not showing up. Just get a blank page.
I'm so happy for JP!

I remember chatting with him back when we were both in junior high and he was talking about applying to incubators and doing startups - it's great to see what he's doing now!
It's a tad pessimistic, given that, say, slavery was abolished by most nations after being widespread and acceptable, in all cultures and on all continents, for thousands of years. Things end, especially if people actively try to end them.
I used OpenSearch on my site so that my users can avoid NSFW links at work.
hmmm... I can see why this would be useful. Not entirely sure how is best to implement such a thing. Perhaps it's better to open a github issue so this can be discussed properly rather than here?
The Ubuntu font includes Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs. The website says Arabic and Hebrew are TBA. Then you have other glyphs such as Thai, not to mention CJK. You're assuming 10ppl/$100k, but the company also needs to make a profit. The font work is usually done in phases, obviously delivering base Latin first and other glyphs/weights are added later. I can't speak to how detailed the hinting is in the Ubuntu font, but that requires lots of tedious work if you need to be able to display/render the font at very small font sizes.

edit: Wikipedia also contains this regarding Dalton Maag, the foundry which created the Ubuntu font:

"In July 2012 the Rio 2016 Olympic Games released their brand font created by Dalton Maag. It was based on the letters and numbers within the logo already created by Brazilian design agency, Tátil.[11] The typeface took eight months to create and comprises 5448 characters. The design work was mainly done by Dalton Maag’s Brazilian office, which worked with the London team during the font engineering stage, and also with Brazilian consultant Gustavo Soares, who worked as the technical interface between Dalton Maag and the Rio 2016 team."

There's an example of a typeface built over 8 months using two teams in two countries.
> What is this, slashdot?

Ouch! Now that's hitting below the belt.
What Iceland did was say to the bankers if you stuff up then it's your problem. Where're not here to bail you out.

In the US the bankers stuffed up, the tax payers bailed them out and the bankers got a nice big pay rise.

What this has taught the US bankers is they can safely put a gun to the head of the American people and their government will gladly hand over the money. No questions asked.
Why does Shopify charge a % off each transaction... when they are not the payment proccessor or gateway or issuing bank or aggregator??
any comments on this? Lol i died laughing lol the way they pulled it off was too beast
"We actually do allow you to upload in wav, aiff, flac but you can only download in those formats if the tracks were uploaded in the same."

That's perfect, great to know. Again, really cool service. Thanks!
[Firebase founder] Thanks for the feedback! We're definitely aware that it's a concern. Hopefully we can go a little way towards winning your trust by showing you the great apps built on us by larger companies (happening soon) and by giving you the best customer service we possibly can. And, hey, toys are a good starting place too.

Regarding pricing, you can find it here: https://www.firebase.com/pricing.html

Pricing is difficult and we're trying to get it right. Your feedback would be great.
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No way. Dredmor is a fantastic game and largely forgiving in that sense. Not in the "kill you dead" sense, though. There's a lot of that.
It is more like 20–50k in average, 100–200k for high end fonts from the biggest foundries. I single handedly made an Arabic typeface, 4 styles, ~5000 glyph each (that is perceived by many as a high quality font) over the course of 4 years as a side project most of time. Type design is hard, but making good fonts is no harder that writing good software, it is just a niché market with relatively few professionals.
Probably one big difference is the types of economies involved.

From what I have read of Iceland, it's export driven, so a low dollar (i.e. krona) is a blessing and leads to prosperity.

Greece on the other hand is a net importer so a low dollar means poverty and misery.

Edit: Added krona reference.
It's also on Netflix.
I'm using Chrome on a Mac and it doesn't show up for me either.
I rounded some of the figures, so for the sake of accuracy:

[1] They had 32 staff, and were planning to add 5-6 more and have the ability to add 10-12 more if they wanted

[2] It was a fairly nice office - not gold plated, just really spacious (multiple meeting spaces, kitchen, showers, library etc)

[3] The rent was closer to $850Kpa than $1M - again, rounding

[4] They signed their lease in the middle of a commercial property drought

Factor those in with your average sq ft per worker and I think it gets closer to $100/sq ft. I couldn't tell you the actual square footage - you may be right that they were paying above the odds; she (CEO was a woman) would argue that it was worth it for the location, the cultural elements of spacious working conditions, and the capacity for future growth.

[Edit: I also changed the charge out rates and salaries, to de-identify the client and because they were beside the point of the story.]
Introversion (Uplink, Darwinia, Defcon, Multiwinia) have released all source code of their previous games (they no longer working on) and afaik plan to do the same in the future (Prison Architect).
The code was included in the Introversion Bundle, including read access to their developer svn repository.
Still available here: http://www.introversion.co.uk/store/
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They made 240 million last year in revenue. Not sure about what their burn rate is but they seem to be on the up and getting integrated into a lot of applications which improves their tie ins.

Google gives away their storage but it is nowhere near the level of ease as Dropbox for non-technical people IMHO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(service)
You also have people who do 40 hours of work in 20 hours and spend the other 20 learning. They satisfy the requirements of both (a) and (b). And they may very well have the advantages of both.
I would be interested too (and BTW you have a great blog with interesting theories)

I just would NOT call good knowledge workers "bad" like the OP, "investing in dead ends".

Good knowledge workers care about the baseline and the consequences of their actions. The (b) type only care about improving their own profile - baseline be damned if it helps them.
I don't think you have to invoke any legal trickery or belief in the power of "Intellectual Property": in 1945 the US was, more or less, the only large industrialized capitalist nation that hadn't been bombed to bits.

UK, Germany, and Japan were still stacking their buildings' bricks back on top of each other while the US was figuring out what to do with its absurd postwar excess manufacturing capacity.
in my experience, there is not much you can do about it. You should try ratemyprofessor.com before taking a class. I decided not to take a particular class because the professor who taught did not have the approach I was looking for and he had bad reviews on the site. In retrospect, I think it was a good decision. I went against the advice this term and took a course where the adjunct had terrible reviews and I regret it greatly.
Michael, it seems like maybe those of type (a) become independent consultants, and those of type (b) stay in one place and put a lot of energy into politics.

But that may be an overly cynical simplification :)
I really want to disrupt the real estate market. Real estate agents in particular. I think it is a broken system, especially on the rental side.

Never dug into the law (here in Australia) but I want to make available the tool for people the manage their own properties, some standard rental contracts etc.

People already look for property online, then you have to deal with the agents, you should just be able to deal with the one - hopefully trusted - site. You search, find, go to a open inspection, apply online, get notified that you have it. Get sent contracts etc. Organise a meet for keys and signing. You'll then manage communication through that with the owner or a proxy.

You'd need to hire a bunch of resources that are vented to do open inspections and manage some calls etc. but on scale they'd be cheaper than a bunch on real estate agents.
A single instance doesn't demonstrate an industry trend. At the time the US made those labor laws what was the trend in the industry?

If anything, this demonstrates the stubbornness of many businesses. Despite seeing ample evidence of success by a peer they tend to ignore it and continue the old ways.
I wonder though if this is something that can only work on a small scale. Iceland has only 320,000 people, which means that even as huge as their debt was, the economic ramifications of their default were quite small on a global scale. It seems to me that the effects of this kind of thing would scale up in a highly non-linear way and you can't just assume that an economy 10x the size will behave the same way a smaller one would, let alone the US or other major economies. For example, the primary reason Iceland is doing OK now is that the rest of the world economy (despite being in extremely poor shape) managed to survive, so Iceland's export industries have somewhere to export to. If the whole world economy had collapsed Iceland might be in the worst shape of all.
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Where do you store server info used by Capistrano?
To Capistrano users, wish to hear your thoughts on this:
Where do you prefer to store server info (e.g. hostname, ssh login user, ssh key path) used by Capistrano? Do you store them in ~/.ssh/config, deploy.rb or else where?
I'm firing you now because you might leave later is a fantastic indication of shitty management. It's a last ditch attempt at lording power over you.

Everybody moves on at some time. Management doesn't have to act like children about it.
> "But we are so much bigger" seems to be the standard excuse for the US not looking at what other countries are doing successfully and learning from them.

Except we have evidence of what happens when a much larger fraction of the economy does what Iceland did. It was called the Great Depression. Small economies can borrow from abroad without destabilizing everything. Unless you are willing to directly take on the analogy of the Great Depression the 'Iceland for everyone!' argument is dead in the water.
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I'm still looking for good literature, but intuitively I feel that small companies could still take advantage of patents for software in the original spirit of the patent system.

Also, I wonder if they intend on the working code examples to be included with the public patent after approval? If so then this would in a sense make all patented software open source, albeit with a very restrictive license. Still, that could vastly accelerate innovation and streamline arbitration.

In the end I think item 7, the proposal to research whether there is any economic benefit from software patents, is the most important and they should narrow down their scope to just that.
how to search/filter by location? are there any jobs outside of usa?
Ask HN: Has Mixergy jumped the shark?
Mixergy used to be a "must listen" podcast in which you got to hear the inside story behind the startups and their founders who you had heard of through the tech news sites. These days Mixergy seems to be doing lots of shows on self-help and ra-ra salespeople and conference evangelists and interviewing founders who I have never heard of from companies that I have never heard of, companies that operate in non-technology industries that I have no interest in.

Does anyone else feel that Mixergy has lost its way? That it has lost its focus on interviewing founders with public profile from technology companies that are known for some reason?
my initial thought was same. "So what does he plan to do there?"
Thank you for the recommendation. You've inspired me to go read this right now.
Thats great, but I'm a bit doubtful that the chargeback is going to be that great for any user. Granted the sample size on my side project is small, but I've never had a chargeback go my way even with logs of ip addresses, email exchanges, phone numbers, etc.

Absolutely love Stripe though, makes figuring out payment stuff a no brainer.
Great point! I think this is what happens. I've seen this person, and sometimes, I've been this person.

The employer/client often knows that some of the work this type of person does doesn't directly pay immediate tangible benefits. Sometimes they're even frustrated by it. But, on the other hand, the programmer is just so damn good that they have to put up with it.

Overall, the boss who doesn't understand this principle of "deep work" feels frustrated, but still has to acknowledge that these deep workers are his most effective producers. So the boss ends up feeling he has to "take the good with the bad," almost like you'd feel about a great painter who is a prima donna or something. (But in this case, the "prima donna-ness" is not due to a character defect, but rather, the underlying nature of software development).
What have you tried in the past that didn't work?
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Since we are so niche we won't ever have a huge set of jobs - expectation is you will be able to scan down the list quite easily.
Anything can be scaled up or down. I don't see how other countries including the US couldn't take the Icelandic approach and do the same thing.
This is not "pay what you want" anymore.

In contrast to their initial "pay what you want" culture, now they are basically giving away few free games to encourage you to buy their paid games.

In the long run I think this will create a huge quality difference between the locked ones and the others.
As others have pointed out, a 7% chargeback rate is pretty problematic -- the card brands (Visa and co) will intervene long before then.
That's actually a fairly well-known thing. Look for "Second System Effect" (See "Mythical Man Month").

Basically, v1 sort of gets the features working, but has lots of work-arounds. v2 is trying to solve all the issues you got wrong in v1, and wants to be the most beautifully architected solution.

As a result, it's almost always completely over-engineered and in danger of collapsing under its own feature weight.

v3 is the one that gets it right.
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Seems you got this the wrong way around.
Unless by dollar you meant "whatever their local currency is called ... which for me happens to be dollar ... so I will just call everybody's currency a dollar"
For some reason I get him and Dalton Caldwell mixed up. Its not the same person is it? http://daltoncaldwell.com/ They are both from SF far as I can tell.
> What can I do about bad professors?

You haven't provided a critical piece of information -- what you think constitutes "bad". Without this information, any advice must be based on guesswork.

Does "bad" mean ignorant of the topic they're teaching, or unskilled in teaching, or unwilling to communicate clearly, or what?
I get the sense that a lot of organizations go out of their way to make sure individuals are recognized for shallow work, because we know by experience it's less self-fulfilling for most of us (if not outright boring).

I still proudly keep the multimeter I won for "Tech of the Month" (I was the tech who accounted for the highest percentage of time in the time tracking system that month.)
Indeed, there are many things that can be done simply at first, then you have to reach for the higher hanging fruits.

However I would not call that "the wrong way" - for me, it's moral and logical. Maybe I'm too zen about that, but for me it's about increasing efficiency.

Generally speaking, if somethings feels wrong to you, you shouldn't do it. Works for every topic - because we each have our own morals, and it's soul damaging to go against it.
Considering there is no official way to leave the Eurozone nor to be expelled by other members, your whole premise is false.

The truth is actually the opposite: "rich" Euro countries are de facto forced to carry their weaker partners, one way or the other, to stop their own currency from sinking. The whole austerity-vs-default debate is just a game of chicken that Irish/Greek/Italian/etc elites were not good at playing (or did not want to play, in order to safeguard some specific economic interests).
Well, at least I can stop closing the incessant Java update prompts.
Well considering Snapchat isn't necessarily aimed at photography types and assuming you are older than the demographic that it is blowing up in (12-20 year olds), it makes sense that you haven't heard of it.
While I suppose Congressmen may make their voting decisions based on what games their kids like to play, I'd hope they'd consider other factors.
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From the linked article, here is the first suggestion from the first scenario:

"Trying [sic] writing in outline form, like they made us do in grammar school with numbers, nesting, and Roman numerals."

And I should take your advice on writing?

The ur-question is, why do people with no writing skill or aptitude seem compelled to post advice columns on writing?

Here's my writing advice:

1. Learn how to write.

2. Write.

Not the other way around.
No, because that was a typo and typos happen.
>I know for a fact that the internal culture of the banks has not changed one iota from pre-GFC to now.

Do you work at one? I work at a Canadian bank and the culture has shifted enormously here, but I'm entirely unfamiliar with how things are in the United States.
There is institution and institution. The problem with Northern Rock and friends was exactly that they were playing recklessly with "senior citizens' money"; in a better world, that sort of reserve would be handled by a different entity with stricter, more conservative policies than you'll find in a "grow at all costs", ambitious little company.
But isn't tourism a huge part of their economy... i.e. foreign tourists bringing in foreign currency which would be great when the local currency is low?
* Garbage collection

* APIs blocking on network operations (e.g., gethostbyname())

How does BeOS avoid/avoid lagging with these things?
AFAICT, Canary is like Nightly and Dev is a ~weekly stable snapshot of Canary. So Dev is running parallel to Canary.

On my machine, Canary is version 25.0.1365.1 and Dev is 25.0.1364.2, slightly behind. Beta is 24.0.1312.25.
"Last I ran the numbers, Foxconn employees had the suicide rate of a Carribean island.". Sorry, you're making a common comparison fallacy that I used to make as well. The Foxconn employee suicide rate is for employees committing suicide specifically at the factory itself. To make an equivalent comparison, you can't compare against a whole Caribbean island, you'd have to compare with a specific sugar plantation. The fact that these employees specifically chose to end their lives at their employer's offices/factories is something to consider.
http://launchpad.net has a bug tracker and a blueprints function.
It probably helped that the amount was totally infeasible for a country of 320,000 people to pay back.
Will it still require a custom preprocessing step?
Ask HN: What will change when every person on Earth has a smartphone?
"According to the latest research from our Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service, the number of smartphones in use worldwide surpassed the 1 billion-unit mark for the first time ever in the third quarter of 2012. The first billion smartphones in use worldwide took 16 years to reach, but we forecast the next billion to be achieved in less than three years, by 2015."
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Greece was not allowed to devalue anything -- they didn't have a currency by that point!

I agree that they were screwed by the European establishment, but certainly the solution was not as easy as "just devalue".
That makes sense. It seems like you would need some non-binary meta information about the wave forms, etc, that I'm sure would not be supported across audio-editors.
Love Open Fonts!

Wrote my doctoral thesis[0] in LaTeX, typeset in Gentium Plus and other Open SIL fonts[1].

[0] http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_diss/562/

[1] http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Gentium