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Android IS a linux system already.
So it's C) there's nothing to do.
Yep, my tipping habits cost me maybe a few hundred extra dollars per year? But to the worker just that extra dollar or two might make their entire night.

Considering the free-market slant of HN, these comments are remarkably obtuse. Let those who do not care to tip choose any of the countless options where tipping is not involved. The rest of us who tip will continue paying a bit more and getting a lot more in return.

Tipping makes my life easier and more enjoyable, and continues giving returns, for a very small investment. Compared to the $1000s (millions?) thrown away on kickstarter-startup life-improvement possibilities, tipping should be an easy choice.
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Don't you mean "kinda surprised it hadn't already happened"?
what tools did you use to create your game assets?
They were patented soon after.
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Is it just me, or did the videos disappear?
>Sure, you can do it. Once you do, though, your code is not open source.

It is surely open source. It's just not Open Source. An important difference because of the capitalization.
are there any other JavaScript to native compiler projects in the works? last time I heard there was llvm.js or something like that was doing the same thing as hyperloop.
The counter argument is you are enabling an abusive work environment by coluding with the employer to get away with paying thier emploees less.
Simple syncing is what ownCloud does. Of course technically a server is inbetween, so it’s not directly between devices. LAN sync is requested sometimes, but currently not a priority.

Please do let us know about the things you miss – on our issue tracker at http://github.com/owncloud/core/issues
And if you use IRC you’re welcome in #owncloud-dev (freenode).

And be sure that we have a lot of improvements lined up for ownCloud 7 which will come out in a few weeks.

EDIT: Also, if you have specific feedback on ownCloud’s usability and design let me know, I work on that.
I'd almost go so far as to say it's almost universal in the US. The main exceptions:

Gasoline (petrol) is always priced with all taxes included.

If the establishment is small enough that they're not using a register for cash transactions, they won't add tax. For instance if you buy a hot dog from a food cart for $4, that will be the whole price.

But for just about anything bought inside an actual store, tax will be added on.
Is than an if without a brace?

I guess heartbleed has replaced gotofail from the pedestal.
Autonomous helicopters are multi-rotor for simplicity and reliability. A quadcopter has only 4 moving parts (not even any gears!) and that makes it just about the simplest possible mobile robot, simpler even than wheeled robots (mechanically).

Piloted multirotors aren't as popular because they need computer control to be stable, batteries don't scale well, and combustion engines have slower throttle response (not to mention hundreds of moving parts that eliminate the simplicity advantage).
With regards to (4) not sure if there is an argument for tipping being racist, but I know there is a strong one for it being quite sexist. I have a few female friends who work as servers, and a large portion of their job involves flirting with customers.

With regards to (5) a bottle of wine or scotch isn't really the same thing as restaurant tips. You aren't expected to give them every time, and they aren't a part of how they make their living.

With regards to (5b) "tipout" policies seem to be a source of lots of abuse among the places my friends have worked. They are inconsistent, often mean low tipping tables _cost_ them money, and can be a way for upper management to siphon money away from servers and into their own pockets.
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While that might have helped the domestic manufacturing market, international trade was not a substantial part of the US economy for a long time - in 1950-1960, imports and exports were 4-5% of GDP (with exports usually just barely north of imports.) They're triple that today. The pre-World War II import/export statistics aren't much different from the post-World War II import/export statistics, but the economy was much different. I don't see how any argument about international trade can apply, based on the data.

After all, it's not just competitors that are gone, it's customers too.
It's limiting the ability for consumers to compare and it's opening the way for cheating, it's unhealthy for the market.

The advertised price has to be what the consumer will pay. I'm pretty sure some America guy got a Nobel prize in economics for discovering that.
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But then what about buying stuff online like amazon? Coming from Europe this sounds very confusing.
Perhaps you should tip. You may not like the system, but if it ruins your day it's probably worth paying just to keep yourself happy and optimistic.

Not to mention the person you just declined to tip is likely making minimum wage or even a "server wage" (lower than minimum in some regions) and depending on tips to make the job worth doing.
is there a tutorial on this? The biggest hurdle to making iOS app is that you need a physical hardware from them.
This! No customers no tips, cost of running the restaurant without customers is less. If tips as a way of paying employees were ever outright banned I'm sure there are plenty of smaller restaurants that would have to close.
Supposedly tips are common for jobs which rich people didn't do such as cutting hair, taxi, restaurant service.

I know I often tip my butler.
Good point. I should stop making throwaway remarks on HN.
Thanks for that, you basically described exactly how I feel about tipping in the US. I'm from Europe myself, and where I live, a tip really is a way to explicitly express appreciation of service, instead of some kind of unwritten rule you have to tip '10% for mediocre service', '15% for satisfactory service' and 'above 15% for outstanding service'. No tip here, basically means 'satisfactory', anything more is considered a reward for great service and I don't mind tipping big at all when the service is good.

I travel to the US every now and then, and recently had a heated discussion about tipping with my (also European) colleague, who insisted on tipping at least 15% even though there was nothing special about the service we received. The premise was that this was considered 'normal' in the US, that we had to 'conform to this culture of tipping', and that it would be considered rude to tip less, say 10%. I vehemently oppose this kind of reasoning, because in my opinion, a tip should reflect appreciation. I'm not opposed to tipping when I'm somewhere where waiters are underpaid and depend on decent tips, but I reject the idea I have to follow some kind of 'table' that says the minimum tip is 10%, even if I get served a raw steak. I'd much rather tip a lot less (say 5 to 10%) for mediocre service, and a lot more (say 20 to 25%) for outstanding service, but apparently, this is 'rude' and 'inconsiderate' according to my collegue.

The fact that the tip needs to be a percentage of the check doesn't make sense to me anyway. If I order an expensive bottle of wine, the tip would have to increase much more compared to when I order a cheap wine. That doesn't make sense at all, it's completely unrelated to the performance of the waiter.
Seems like you're ranking these by the value to you, rather than the cost of providing them.
Can you provide any detail or evidence to support your third-person personal anecdote? It's a very simple system of good service in, tips out -- there is hardly room for 'gaming' or 'abandoning principles', whatever that is supposed to mean.
This article is very poorly written, and many of the points made in it are unfounded or irrelevant. I completely support abolishing the practice of tipping, but using bullshit arguments like "it's un-American" and "Economists don't get it" don't lend any credence to your stance on the issue. The only point that directly cited actual data was the first point. This article shouldn't be voted up as much as it is.
That's one thing I never understood with the US. When you need a haircut, or you want to take a cab, or go get a drink... you always have to tip. Whereas the tip should be something you want to give to show appreciation.

So every time I went to the restaurant, I knew that the prices displayed were NOTHING like the prices I'd have to pay in the end. They would add taxes and if I didn't tip I would be seen as an asshole.
SpriteBuilder is a really nice tool. I started using it when it was still called CocosBuilder and I've used it for a game project [1] and had my own small fork with awful additions that were only relevant to the game I was working on.

I recently (as I started working on a new game) downloaded the newest release and I was really impressed. It is possible to quickly build rather complex UI scenes and game scenes.

I've actually just used it for a small iOS app side project, that only requires a minimal spartan UI and this way I can leverage Apportable [2] and easily release that app for Android, too. (hopefully, I'm not that far yet)

[1.1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J0mleRrcdQ

[1.2] https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/flick-a-fruit/id771895296?mt...

[2] http://www.apportable.com/
https://code.google.com/codejam/contest/2974486/dashboard The questions in case anyone's interested.
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>In Germany a tip is not percentage based, but usually only 1-2€.

What? 5-10% is the usual recommended amount. See Wikipedia [1]

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinkgeld
I hope this doesn't seem harsh. Instead of stark and minimalist, your site seems a little bland and generic. It suggests just another foreign and probably a scam site rather than the sort of arty and hip, cutting edge look (that I think) you may have been going for.

Also, nothing jumps out to me. You list the names of items and the pictures are smallish. Say why they are cool and/or make the picture larger so I see the detail.

Finally, your description says they are from Amazon, so why wouldn't I just go there myself? Your response is that you are curating the list for me, making it easier. However you haven't proven any trustworthiness or authority, so I have no desire for you to curate for me. I'd rather just go to Amazon directly or find one of the dozens of other already well established Amazon curating sites.

Hope I wasn't too much of a Debbie-downer. Despite my critique, you've got a project out there, so props to that! Good luck!
Had a lot of fun with this one. Seems much tougher than previous years.
This story says more about the insecurity of the Safari guy than it does about Jobs.

Sounds like people at Apple spent too much time worrying about what Steve thought of them, whether he'd remember their names or invite them to meetings.

While everyone is worried about what one man thinks, the man himself was thinking about design and business issues, trying to solve problems.

Funny how bookmarks was never really solved in Safari. On my iPad, I hate the bookmarks functionality, it confuses me pretty much every time. When I try to find a bookmark, or add a bookmark, every time it seems I have to "figure out" and remember how to do that. It's not intuitive or snappy. And now with iOS7 flat design, all your bookmarks and history appears as one big list - black text on white background. The lack of interface delineation mean elements bleed into other elements and make it harder to mentally remember where things are found.

If Steve were still around, he'd be kicking someone's ass over the half-baked iOS7 flat design.
Anyone knows how long it took for radio to surpass print? (If it ever did) And for TV yo surpass radio/print?

I think that less than 20 years (since the Internet went mainstream) It's an amazing feat. And this is even more surprising if we take into account that the Internet penetration rate in the US is around 80% [1] while TV's is almost a 100% [2].

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_o...
[2] www.tvb.org/media/file/TV_Basics.pdf
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Yes, without recompiling. That's the point, a.out is a binary format and if you recompile with current toolchain, you will get ELF.

You will need the original shared libraries and linker, though. They will run.
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Well, yes, once you accept that they are your inferiors you might even feel good about giving them a little charity. As a European, having to get into that frame of mind is probably the worst part about America's tipping culture.
My grandfather once told me "only idiots and insurance agents make predictions." That said, this is exactly why I believe the Comcast-Time Warner merger is going to go through. The money in online spending is too great for it not to eventually do what happens to all rent-seeking enterprises, and have be consolidated into ever fewer hands.
"study for their econ 101 exam" this was their mistake in the first place. What job can you get w/ an econ degree? what companies need econ majors?
I found his blog posts to be well-argued and sourced. I think they stand on their own even if his restaurants weren't ultimately successful.
4) I think many commenters forget that service is sales. Flirting is common to make a sale and you will see it across all industries.

5) Strawman. This is about tips in all industries as suggested by the writer. People in sales rely on perks in any form, it is definitely factored into whether they take one sales job over another.

5b) I think is a misconception, as stated management does not participate in tipout for this reason.
Old Linux games use OSS, which you may get to run. They may also require obsolete Xfree extensions for direct framebuffer access, which the modern hardware will not allow though.

If you are extra unlucky, they may require direct console framebuffer access and unless you have also the old hardware with old drivers, you are going to get it on modern system.
Does anyone know about total ,erm, volume? I guess numbers of impressions is what I'm thinking of?

If ads are online (please correct me if I'm wrong) are cheaper than broadcast ads for an impression, then while the revenues go up the profit might go down?
Soma.

Great CL interface. Especially like Groove Salad and Air Lounge.

I think you can get these stations using a browser as well on Radionomy.
They collect sales tax. If you buy from a small retailer out-of-state, you;'re supposed to declare the purchase on your state tax return and pay 'use tax' (ie the sales tax you would have paid if you'd bought it locally).
I think you are just making that up in your head. I've never tipped for counter or takeout, never heard of anyone else doing it either. I don't think anyone expects it. The person still has to look down there, but there's nothing more to it than that.
No, they're really not. HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, SAC and others have been found guilty of much more than Goldman Sachs.
AFAIK, Android has never broken it's public API.

If you hacked it and used internal APIs, you were warned - it is all over the documentation and mailing lists, that these are going to change.
In some states it's required for sales tax to be listed as a separate line item. Gas is exempt from this.
The high failure rate in the restaurant industry means these businesses could have failed for entirely stochastic reasons unrelated to Jay Porter. If 80 of all restaurants fail, then he's got to start 8+ before we start to find out if he's the common denominator.
If you don't want to deliberately confuse people, you would say "the source code is available" or something like that, because most people take open source to mean this:

http://opensource.org/osd

So that even if they're speaking out loud, where one can't see capitalization, everyone knows what they mean.
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FYI, I built this for a use case I often have: I want to build a small HTML5 demo in JSFiddle, but one of the scripts I would like to use is not available on any CDN. Sure I could just link to GitHub, but since they don't set content-type correctly, it won't work in IE. picoCDN is perfect for that: paste the script, check uglify and raw, copy url, done.

Its language detection is a bit wonky right now and there are mainly plugins for web development related stuff; if you don't have anything lying around, here is where you get after pasting jQuery: http://picocdn.com/0fe3e567e0/

It's currently running on a $5 Digital Ocean box (with unlimited traffic :), depending on how popular it gets I might need to upgrade it soon. Especially the plugins use a lot of CPU, but after the first hit Varnish is able to serve an insane amount of requests per second.
Theos [0] has been used with Linux before but I have never personally done so. I don't think anybody has yet ported ld64/codesign to run natively on Linux but it has been possible for some time to run the Mac CLI dev tools under Linux using runtime shims like maloader [1] or its descendant Darling [2].

[0]: https://github.com/DHowett/theos

[1]: https://github.com/shinh/maloader

[2]: http://www.darlinghq.org/
Well, I love leaving tips. Leaving a five dollar tip for a five dollar sub is the highlight of my day. I love that my tip goes directly to people at the bottom of the totem pole, and that more often than not, not even Uncle Sam gets a cut.

If I am feeling poor, I pack a lunch, I have dinner at home. If I eat out, I do my part to improve income distribution in America, while routing around rent-seeking intermediaries. You can too.
This is an old article - Jay Porter's tipless restaurant, The Linkery, has since failed. This is my comment from the last time the Linkery came up on hackenews (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6127536):

>Back when I lived in San Diego I took my parents to the Linkery. The service was so bad it actually reversed my opinions against tipping. The servers clearly didn't care much about making us happy, messing up almost every aspect of the order. They put meat in my food - I'm vegetarian. My father got his food 20 minutes after my mother and I did. The waiter forgot one of my drinks. We called over the manager who offered us a free dessert to make up for it. Guess what? The dessert was on the bill. I'm always happy to tip 20+% for good service, but being forced (yes, we asked) to pay the service charge added insult to injury. This is just one data point, but the Linkery was infamous around San Diego for having much worse service than other places in a similar price range. I'm convinced their experiment with tipping was correlated with this.
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I think averaging out all the numbers and reporting service doesn't matter may be missing those rare occasions when the restaurant really does screw up and you want to punish them with no tip. I want the waiter to go work hard and get me the right thing, etc., after a screw up or to know not to ignore my table for an hour. I don't have that option with an enforced service charge.
He is using LibGDX and pretty much everything in most games developed with LibGDX run on all platforms (iOS, Android, Desktop Java). Most LibGDX games will work in a web browser too (converts to GWT + WebGL). A couple native extensions like some of the freetype stuff won't work in the web environment.

You can write the game on Windows if you want but to compile and test the iOS build you need a Mac with Xcode.

Almost all your game development is done is a project that is shared by all the platforms. During development you typically test the Java desktop version so you don't have to deal with deploying to devices or slow emulators.

Honestly the biggest pain is when you start doing ads or game center type stuff that is platform specific but there are ways to work around that.
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And even beyond that, some governments levy different taxes on different items (e.g., lower tax on groceries), while other nearby governments may levy the same tax on everything.

Further, some governments charge tax on the pre-coupon/pre-discounted price, while others tax only the actual final price.

Further still, some entities like public schools are exempt from paying sales taxes in many states/municipalities. In this case, the price sign would have to show both a pre-tax and tax-included price on it, which may be the best solution anyway.

Regardless, these differences are probably easiest to account for at the point of sale.
He didn't say that the waiting staff is 1% of the cost. He said that being waited on is only ~1% of the value the customer is receiving, since the waiting experience is much less important to the consumer than the food quality, convenience, or venue.
Sounds great. Any evidence of this actually working?
Mildly tangential, but I'm always surprised when people express so much anger about being expected to tip in restaurants (in America, at least). Not people who come from other places where the conventions are different, but people who have lived here their whole lives.

I'm not surprised (and empathize with) people who are reacting to the inefficiency of The System ("why don't restaurants just charge more and pay their employees reasonable wages?"). This is correct, but as others have pointed out, in the US at least we seem to be stuck at a suboptimal local maximum in this area. It would be impractical (and maybe catastrophic) for any one restaurant to suddenly adopt this policy, so that's not going to happen anytime soon.

Rather, I'm always amazed at the portion of people who have a visceral reaction to tipping due to what appears to be just plain lack of empathy. These aren't the people who are saying, "why doesn't the restaurant just pay better?". That totally makes sense. These aren't the people who tip less (or not at all) when they've had a really bad experience with the server. That makes sense too.

Specifically, I'm talking about the people who deep down inside just always have a reflexively negative reaction to directly giving their money to the person who just served them. These are the people who feel happy about themselves when they say things like, "my tips start at 0% and go up from there", or who seem to put way, way, way too much mental energy into grading the level of service that they've received and coming up with a number that reflects that level of service each and every time they go to a restaurant. If anyone posting is that kind of person, please just shut up and start being a better person already. I encounter these people all the time in SV. These aren't poor people for whom the tip is ever a meaningful amount of cash. These are people making many times the annual income of their servers, getting continually worked up over a few dollars, supposedly because of "the principle of the thing". These are always people who have never worked in a restaurant, and are almost always people who never even had a job until after they got out of college. If anyone posting here is posting for this reason, please just get over it and find more constructive things to get worked up over. Ideally something that doesn't directly impact the income of people making way the hell less money than they do.
Awesome--anyone have any more must see talk recommendations? PyCon always has really high quality talks.
I was struck by his quote: 'The other reason we didn’t accept tips was that removing any option for tipping was the only way to remove those two parasitic businesses — the side business between the server and guest, and the side business between the server and cooks — from our own company.'

So he sees tips as a drain on his income stream.