skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shenzhen China factory owner here.

The costs are definitely rising in China for English speaking technical labor such as the engineers we need. We compete with companies like Apple and all the other foreign companies rushing to China these days to keep them employed. But we are still talking much lower salaries overall, for example, $30,000 USD/year for a degreed Sr. Electrical design engineer with 20 years experience.

Regarding rents, the Shenzhen central business section rents are expensive now and cost/sqft comparable to anywhere else. However, good industrial space is still far cheaper, for example, I just leased an additional 12,000 sqft high quality assembly space with low ESD floors in a technical park along with 8 dorm rooms to sleep up to 32 people (4 per room - last owner had 8 per room). Lease on this new space cost me $3500 per month. There is also a kitchen ran by the tech park where they serve 3 hot buffet style meals per day for $2/day/worker. I'm not aware of anyplace in USA where you can lease a space like this for $0.29 per square foot nor get a buffet meal for $0.66 cents nor have door rooms for workers. Now, it is competitive to find this space and you need to lease when you find it not wait 1 day, it took us 4 months searching and we lost several spaces waiting 1-2 days, but it exists.

But ultimately what is far cheaper here in China and the main reason I must remain here to make money is for the lower cost of the materials required to actually build the products.

There is a critical mass of suppliers here where you can find half dozen capable suppliers for nearly anything you'd need to buy. For example we do a lot of custom molded plastic parts and many times I can make multiple cavity hard (300K shot life) injection mold tools for plastics for $3K-$5K USD and it would cost 5x or even 10x as much to buy them in USA. No less, bolts, nuts, screws, electronics all vastly cheaper here.

Lastly, as someone else noted, the cost of shipping is much cheaper when you originate your shipping quotes from a Chinese account, especially for air shipping to USA, rates originating from my China company's Fedex account is routinely 50% cheaper than what Fedex quotes in the USA. This really adds up when you need to ship stuff around the world quickly.
Mysterious 150,000 Year-Old Pipework Discovered Under Chinese Pyramid
Why are prices online so unpredictable these days?
Docutils-solarized – A stylesheet for rst2html5.py
Steam and most Linux games can be run on any distribution with a bit of work on the user's part. The problem with officially supporting something is that suddenly the vendor is responsible for the game not working. That shit costs time and money. You say Debian, but sooner or later someone will demand support for Damn Small Linux. It's better to just stop at Ubuntu and let users of other distros install the right dependencies themselves.
The next manufacturing frontier to cross is sub-Saharan Africa. We are starting to see signs of it happening. For example, I just bought myself some great shoes ( https://www.oliberte.com/men/ ).

Since it is the last large severely underdeveloped place with cheap, young capable labor and lots of natural resources, this might actually be manufacturing's final frontier.
Github pages or amazon S3
This is a first version. I am looking for feedback. Pull requests are very welcome.
Look, normally I think Kurzweil is full of crap, but:

>So far, we have no real ideas on consciousness.

Oh really? How long a literature search did you do? Which authors have you read on the subject?

Or do you just mean, "We don't have clear-enough ideas about consciousness that we teach them to undergraduate students and give TED Talks about them, because we're still actively researching the matter"?
That's definitely on the todo list, thanks for reminding me! :D

https://github.com/lillian-lemmer/hypatia/issues/37
It's like you didn't read his comment, there was no alternative. There would not be a factory, period, if they couldn't pay their workers at lower rates than Americans. It would not be financially feasible. It would lose money and not be able to buy raw materials and then close down and everyone would get paid $0. So when people say they are actually helping them by paying them more than $0 they are telling the truth. And by saying that you could never be part of that process, you are basically saying that you would be one to pay them $0, which is more harmful than the people that build factories.
This might be just a coincidence. But I have a strange filling that secret services were involved in both cases.

How hard is to sabotage Falcon 9 mission?
Moving to another country ain't easy.

I decided to move from Sydney to Berlin when I decided to do a start-up. I did it because I like it here, cost of living is lower, there's a scene, and it will be much easier to hire for reasonable prices than it would be in Sydney.

But...It's been a pretty massive saga, full of uncertainties.

Does the US even offer a visa category that applies to you? Immigration uncertainty is really bad to have hanging over you. At the end of the day, the company resides where the M.D. resides...So if you have to leave the U.S., I believe exit taxes will becomes due. My understanding is that means you'll owe 20-30% of the value of the company, without necessarily any liquidity associated.
The company I used to work for (EER) bought his company to get the IP to his rocket (Conestoga) and tried to go into private space launches, but the single launch in 1995 was a failure. It ended up getting sold to L-3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conestoga_(rocket)
The referenced article is available here: http://www.ams.org/notices/201502/rnoti-p165.pdf
"As far as Kurzweil goes as a prophet: how is his track record? Pretty bad as far as I can tell."

Actually, it's pretty good, if you consider his predictions from 15 years or so ago and take some liberty in interpretation. I forgot where I read the list that enumerated it, though.
It seems both NoScript and AdBlock Plus have become really permissive as of late regarding their whitelists. While ABP is a bit shady with their 'acceptable ads' deals, I believe in NoScript's case it's probably due to not wanting to break things too badly for less technically minded users.

Regardless, I've replaced both extensions with uBlock Origin. While UB in default deny mode is not as fine grained as NS, it does the job and doesn't compromise on default whitelists at the expense of a little breakage (gorhill is very adamant on this point).
I try to create fast websites as well. For that reason I really use no javascript. At all. None. With all the new HTML5 media tags there is really no reason.

Another problem is a typical website these days contains a lot other stuff around the actual content that needs to be loaded, like adverts...
Hi, firstly you're not alone when struggling with the financials part of a business plan... I most certainly did.

What I suggest is getting a second hand copy of Timmons' "New Venture Creation" book and look at (and copy) the Business Plan template.

You can pick up this book for $5 via Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/New-Venture-Creation-Entrepreneurship-...) and IMHO it'll be the best $5 investment you can make to assess your idea and build a 'formal' bplan (aka what an investor or incubator/accelerator will most likely want to see).

The template is quite comprehensive but just skip the bits that don't apply to your opportunity. Follow Timmons' examples as to how to work out the financials (and copy the example layouts given).

Good luck, btw read that book front to back... it's one of the only entrepreneurial books that has stood the test of time for me and I have gone to it through several different start ups.
"He could pay them $0/hr by not giving them the jobs."

I've always found that to be the absolute shittiest of rebuttals, given by those who have absolutely no point whatsoever. This person is not "giving" anyone a job; they are not being seeing a group of people and saying, "Hmmm, they look like they could use some work. I will create some and give it to them." No. This person needed some work done, and they were offering work. That's it. The person is not a "job creator"; those things don't exist.

"If you're American you can be proud you helped lift a country from the third world into the second."

And do we get to be proud of the complete and utter skull fucking the Chinese environment has taken as a result of that?
Inside the $499 aluminum NES that’s crafted like a Leica
> As a side issue, both are crap on the desktop so I'm sitting here on Windows 8.1...

Which just goes to show how we all are different. Windows 8.1 was what pushed me to move my main laptop (also used by wife, etc) to Ubuntu.

It has worked great, and just yesterday I discovered Linux automatically handles (SANE) scanners network-transparently via saned. I had no idea. Connect scanner to server and start scanning applications (including scripts) on the laptop. It just works. With zero configuration. Try that on Windows!

I'm literally finding Linux on the desktop the greatest thing ever these days.
It should be possible to create visually appealing websites without JavaScript and using standard system fonts.
China has an authoritarian government that

* is ruled by a secretive group of old men [1]

* produces pollution that threatens the entire world [2]

* uses the great firewall to attack tech companies in other countries like github [3]

* ignores human rights and free speech [4]

* creates artificial military island near neighboring countries [5]

* supports dictators in Russia and Africa [6]

* and prints up to 282% of GDP [7] in order to buy their way into other countries real estate and companies.

If China gets anymore powerful, the world is doomed. We need to curb commerce with China.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13904443

[2] http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/02/08/reference/chines...

[3] https://citizenlab.org/2015/04/chinas-great-cannon/

[4] http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/dec/04/-sp-case-against...

[5] http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/06/26/philipp...

[6] http://thediplomat.com/2014/03/china-backs-russia-on-ukraine...

[7] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/11/c...
Not only that, by the time the authorities catch up to the lawbreakers they'll have seized the domain regardless of whether it has accurate whois data. You can't threaten wrongdoers with something they're already subject to. The penalty is only a penalty to innocent people.
You are correct, IP is a bit of a joke in China (oh, the stories I wish I could tell...). You can't rely on the Chinese legal system to protect your IP so you have to take a number of technical precautions to ensure that it is extremely difficult to knock off your product even with inside the factory knowledge. My company has gotten burned about this in the past. Needless to say, this all adds cost to your product.
This has been predicted for a while. This has been said as early as 2010 and possibly even before that by about 2015 costs would equalize. In 2013 there was an article in The Economist on this:

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21569570-growin...

Here is a key quote from the article:

"BCG used to argue that companies unwilling to send their manufacturing to lower-cost countries were putting their very future in jeopardy. Now it says that companies will bring manufacturing back to America from China. As soon as 2015, says Hal Sirkin, a consultant at the firm, it will cost about the same to manufacture goods for the American market in certain parts of America as in China in many industries, including computers and electronics, machinery, appliances, electrical equipment and furniture. That calculation takes into account a wide variety of direct costs, including labour, property and transport, as well as indirect ones such as supply-chain risk."

Also worth noting is that the US is often a bigger market for some goods.

But it's also worth noting that German and Japanese manufacturing has been more expensive that US manufacturing for decades and still in some areas Germany and Japan do very well.

It's interesting to see an article that puts fracking up as the key reason. Energy costs are not irrelevant but are also often not a big part of the cost.
This leads me to another thing that is really annoying: during page load stuff bounces around and changes its size and position. It freqently happens that while I want to click on something it moves away and I click some advert - really stupid.
Received 9 February, published in the June/July issue; I wonder why such a long turnaround time for a short letter?

(The publication is more or less monthly, see at http://www.ams.org/notices/201506/ ).
You know how when you write a fucken compiler from scratch, how you get to invent a language?

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/HolyC.html

Any statement outside a function is compiled JIT and excuted immediately.
When are expensive cables worth it?
Yeah, it was quite sad to read on HN how non-EU users complain about getting the same notification which has no legal (nor technical) effect on their computers.

That's the price of having completely tech ignorant legislators, I guess. I also took some time writing a small javascript code to handle it, in case you're in the EU and need to wait for user confirmation to set the cookies: https://github.com/cfenollosa/eu-cookie-law
> Why run something terrible (systemd)

It is terrible only because you say it is. It's been a massive help for us in adopting it, and accepting the help it offers makes custom software systems a lot easier to write in a robust way.

It's only "terrible" if you have axe to grind about the "right" way and then define that as daemontools.
I've been using both for a while now -- JS for 15 years, Python for five. I expected some big revelation given the consensus that Python is clearly better.

I like working in Python, but I'm still waiting for that revelation. As I can tell, if you can't be as productive in JavaScript as you are in Python, you're either not actually productive in Python, or you never bothered to learn JavaScript.

(I appreciate people who are nevertheless insistent about Python's superiority without bothering to provide any kind of supporting argument, though -- it lets me know how safe I am in disregarding an opinion where I used to think I was probably missing something -- so if you want to recapitulate the quality argument I'm responding too, feel free.)
The iOS AppStore is exactly that. A bunch of native UIs for famous websites. E.g.: Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps...

Precisely because users (at least iOS and Mac users) do care.
Penn Manor: The power of open in education [video]
I've been in both (lived in Switzerland for 5+ years) and I couldn't imagine two more unlike countries than Greece and Switzerland, structurally or any other way.

To put it mildly you're completely wrong. Switzerland is an exporting powerhouse (watches, cheese and chocolate? - the bulk is phara, precision electronics, chemicals, technology, banking services, etc.). Greece is em.. not.
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I'm not very familiar with ntpd, but this article doesn't cover what would happen if the half hour polling just happens to poll right during the leap second. If the code receives "59 minutes and 60 seconds" but doesn't expect that to be possible, I could imagine that being a problem.
Costs are slightly lower than sales, I would expect. It's also a political issue when it comes to Humble Bundles and crowdfunding.

Costs have dropped with C++11, Unity and Steam for Linux. Sales have risen since Linux' market share is rising (very very slowly). Also of note is that Linux users seem to have beefier setups than their Windows peers, according to Steam Survey (12GB RAM vs 8, 2GB VRAM vs 1, bigger screens and more cores). More money spent on hardware correlates with more money being spent on games.
I can second neocities.org. I only have one site hosted there but it's fast, free, easy, and supports having your own domain name.
I must admit you have a strange way to ignore Pike's contributions to UNIX initial GUI architecture, his book together with Kernighan about the UNIX programming environment and other contributions.
> if I'm looking for someone to launch my satellite
If you're looking for someone to launch a satellite, then you have good ideas about how much you have to spend, your willingness to accept risk, and the services you desire. Depending on how you feel about these and other factors, your decision might not be as straightforward as you are portraying here.
I'm not sure you would be as quick to sarcasm if you spent some time in Chinese factories. It's a though life, even in the good ones. As the purchaser you have a lot of power over the process, not just at one factory, but in which factory you choose. To me that also means you have a responsibility. The least anyone working with Chinese companies should do, is to go and look at the factories.
That it is not a problem of "how fast the browser renders stuff" can be easily demonstrated by this small experiment: just create a website that contains an infinite JS loop (maybe through the use of window.setTimeout() instead of plain recursive...) and watch the browser break...

Sometimes I feel that a website that I choose to load and that should serve me, just takes control over my browser and ultimately over my system (RAM, CPU). The browser is not the good "sandbox" it used to be.
2015 era command line Rosetta Stone, including OpenBSD and current Debian:

https://certsimple.com/rosetta-stone

Also: SmartOS and FreeBSD.
I tend to always use daemonize to start a Java program because typically I need to pass several startup options (like Xms, Xmx, etc.) and systemd unit files cannot perform even the simplest variable interpolation needed [1].

Someday systemd will go beyond simple key-value substitution, and on that day I'll stop using daemonize.

[1]: http://www.opsfordevelopers.com/2015/05/startup-scripts-for-...
To my understanding the white list had to be enabled though? I haven't used NoScript in ages but I thought that was what the white list was for?

As for the claim of any subdomain on any website it depends on your settings. Again I haven't used it in a while, but I do know that it was definitely highly configurable.
http://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html

http://cr.yp.to/proto/taiclock.txt

I am just a dumb user.
I use clockspeed (sntpclock, clockadd and clockview) with a short list of compatible servers I consider "reliable". As far as I can tell, it works.

http://cr.yp.to/time.html
Honestly a push CDN zone like Cloudfront or https://www.keycdn.com/pricing is what I'd suggest. Its not free but its pretty close. $1/month unless its super busy.
Not all business value FOSS.
Because what he (and that ass Suster) are essentially saying is you should be mission driven/underpaid so that I can be a mercenary and be very well paid.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
focus on the business and customers more than the investors or your lack of being in a hub
Abacus (YC W14) is hiring experienced Node.js developers
As others have mentioned AWS S3 is a good way to put a static page - not just a one-page website but everything that does not require a server side language - online. Additionally and IIRC without significantly increasing your bill you can put AWS CloudFront in front of your S3 bucket and you get a CDN nearly for free.
Certainly one thing the article failed to mention is the critical mass of suppliers in China that makes manufacturing much more efficient in China than in the USA. Not sure how the USA is going to address that, but I honk the first step is to bring at least some of the manufacturing back to the USA and lower energy cost certainly helps start that.
I wonder if "overpressure event" is a significant information, or is it just an euphemism for "explosion"?
Why was this downvoted? I'm always interested in current perspectives on best practices in browser security. I don't know whether onosendai's description https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9795193 is correct, but, even if it isn't, a rebuttal would be more helpful (to me and to onosendai both) than a silent downvote.
You're right, it's right under Settings -> General, the very first tab. If that's not obvious then I don't know what is; obviously a tool like NoScript has to be configured and this is the first place anyone would normally go after the FAQ.
Yeah, this. They just use SFTP, which pretty much any program can do. Or just SSH.

But nothing web based - there's a little learning curve, but the forum support is fantastic.
John Lakos, Large Scale C++ Software Design. Read it even if you dont do C++ as the most valuable parts apply to any language.

Anything by Watts Humphrey.

Elliot Aronson, The Social Animal

Eric Berne MD, Games People Play
To roughly answer the above questions - the ECB and IMF need to stop. This is above their pay grade.

This is a problem caused by a fixed exchange rate (single currency) at the wrong rate for Greece and co. Without a mechanism to adjust prices for differences in cost and productivity Euros looked really cheap to borrow from germane but olive oil looked really expensive to buy in. (Germany presses and bottles and exports more olive oil from Greek olives than Greece does)

The only way to solve the problem long term is to move the money from richer (urban) parts of Europe to poorer rural parts. Stupid ideas like the CAP don't really help. Redistributive taxation across Europe (ie Federal taxes and Federal government) are the next step. But that is waaaaay out of the ECBs remit.

Syriza is basically saying - fine break my legs, but only if you can promise a European wide discussion on how we got into this mess and what a federal Europe will look like
If they have a 0 day for my browser, then they likely have an enormous budget with tons of ways of getting it to me besides phishing. I click so many links per day via reddit, HN, and other sites that the security gained by not clicking a phishing like is likely less than the education value of clicking it.

I think the actual danger for me of clicking a phishing link is opening a phishing tab, then moving on to another tab, then a while later coming back to the phishing tab but forgetting it was phishing and entering my password. 95% of the time I remember to check the url before entering my stuff, but everyone makes mistakes.
Dont they have software with time deltas? Are all time deltas signed? Are negative deltas handled?
I use systemd to start runit which is like daemontools. I consider daemontools/runit it right because they gives me all the benefits I'd want out of systemd (not doing anything special to daemonize my process, supervision, log handling) while being much simpler and more well tested.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes midair
It has essentially won on linux, where Qt is limitted to the KDE subculture and cross platform apps for which linux is not a priority. GNOME, Unity, Pantheon, XFCE, LXDE, Mate, Cinnamon, etc. all work best with GTK. With some of the heavier weight desktops, Qt apps look quite out of place, kind of like how cross platform UI apps look on Mac and Windows.

Since most Qt apps on linux come from the KDE ecosystem, they often pull in a lot of KDE dependancies, which means a lot of extra packages lying around your system, creating clutter, which might bother some people. The relatively heavyweight nature of most Qt apps makes them less appropriate on systems that use just a window manager rather than a full desktop environment.

Sure, a lot of GTK apps pull in a bunch of GNOME dependancies, but there's also a large contingent of GTK apps from the lighter-weight XFCE world that don't.

Outside of linux, Qt has won pretty decisively, mostly because the GTK developers aren't interested in making GTK apps look good on Mac/Windows, so long as they run.
But that's the whole point of screen and tmux—It's always got a terminal to suck up stdout.
In what way is it tasteless?