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"For example, you might on listening be under the impression I have not quit my day job, which is not accurate as of last Monday."

Now that's the article I look forward to reading. Sounds like a big step, so congrats and best wishes.
Why isn't "right click" more used in web applications ?
As with any other job or profession, if society no longer has a need for accountants, they will have to find something else to do. In my view tax accountants shouldn't be necessary for the vast majority of individuals. I view them (as a profession, not as individuals) as just another middleman leeching value from the supply chain, enabled by a complicit government. Let them work for people and businesses who have too much money to manage alone, and let the common person (which in this case I'll define as anyone with less than 5 sources of income including bank interest) have a simple tax system that he or she can manage alone.
If anyone wonders why there was such a high proportion of articles about startups at first, it was because the site was initially called "Startup News." After 6 months or so we changed the name and focus.
Agreed, but Occam's Razor seems too tempting not to consider in this situation. What's more likely, that Google decided overnight to get wise to the 'evil-being' that they might have been underwriting in China for the last 5 years, or that the business circumstances shifted such that an exit from the Chinese search market made more sense for the company, and a story was thus spun?
I do appreciate the explanation.

I have a better one: you sound snotty and smarter than me. Burn him!
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The last thing I want from Google is to open source their Google PinYin IME and Google Talk win32 client product.
> But in 2030, your status would place you at the head of the line for a clinical appointment

This story is being told since the beginning of modern medicine. Unfortunately, that magical moment always is 20 years in the future.
For those who are interested and can read it, here's a Chinese analysis of the situation:

http://www.kenengba.com/post/2248.html
Wow, I like this a lot! Damned shame that it doesn't appear to work in Chrome though, which means I'll continue with OpenFlashChart for the time being.

It has never ceased to amaze me quite how large an effect throwing a few pretty graphs in an application has on management. And one's salary for that matter ;)
Someone else want to give it a shot?

Sure. Assuming we have the same innate moral sense as the authors of the Talmud, you value the damages of my copyright infringement as greater or equal than a perutah in value. I do not.

As a matter of fact, the reason I cross-posted is that I don't think the comment in question deserved the top spot, and would frankly be ashamed if such writing/logic were ever seriously attributed to me.
It's quite interesting that the javascript-version got more spam than the simple AT/DOT one. That's surprising---at least to me it is.
Probably either Ruby (Rails) or Python (Django). Although there are still a lot of people using PHP.
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Mac was almost stolen outright from Xerox PARC
Also incorrect. The Xerox Star was an expensive prototype used for research.

Well, Adele Goldberg, head of the Star, and who held the meeting with Jobs, is still around and would tend to disagree. She fumed at the idea of sharing the GUI and had to be strong-armed into giving away the technology.

You might want to read "Dealers of Lightning" which details a lot of this. It's a great read.
While I welcome all Erlang-spreading efforts, I quite like the Erlang syntax.

It initially looked more ridiculous than managed C++, but after about seven months of daily Erlang programming it's the most natural thing ever.

The problem with C-style syntax is that it encourages the diversity of coding conventions. Python makes everyone's code look about the same because of its ingenious whitespace-handling rules. Erlang's syntax appears to achieve a similar result because of its ... weirdness.
Ah, I now think you are generally right.

It is good to keep a check on becoming too enamored with Google's plans though. I mention this because I actually do care a lot about Google's role in the next decade, etc. Like anyone who is ambitious, they are arguably sometimes a little too precocious for their own good. And sometimes they make mistakes, but sometimes they get away with things because we want to believe they are always doing the right thing. But that can encourage bad, unsustainable behavior. Speaking about things VERY GENERALLY, but I'd just as soon they avoid that.

I'm thinking even as far back as Google's somewhat novel IPO. Or their Google Books situation. There's this idea that gets promulgated during these events that somehow they're doing things completely differently than a normal corporation. That there is nothing particularly 'corporate' in the traditional sense about what they're doing. I don't know. It just has never really sounded completely clear to me. But maybe that's just me.
I think Google entering China, agreeing to censorship, was an umbrella that provided ethical shelter to a lot of other companies who were willing to take the same deal. So the biggest impact of them walking away has to be that they take their umbrella with them, and suddenly everyone else is getting wet. They are in effect threatening the Chinese government with a stampede of all companies that care about being seen to be ethical, and a substantial blackening of their name. This is absolutely hitting the Chinese where it hurts.
I'd like anything with 'zedshaw.com' in it to be auto-flagged and deleted.

If it is classic libel then talk to your lawyer or shut up.

This is just Zed Shaw trying to leverage off someone with a ton more standing than himself that happened to make a statement about him.

Prediction: it won't work, the one will still be a top flight security person, the other a drama queen. You guess which is which.
> a 1.32bn audience base

With 0.4bn actual base (total amount of Chinese Internet users), others were 'represented' by the Party.
From your article:

Its pretty well established that “email AT domain DOT com” offers only marginal protection from spammers

And yet the 1.5 year experiment pointed out by eli indicates that this form of obfuscation is among the most effective ways to avoid spam:

http://techblog.tilllate.com/2008/07/20/ten-methods-to-obfus...
I think you are reading way too much into that scene.

There are lots of characters who have changes of heart, just not the abrupt kind you are used to. Rearden starts out serving and appreciating his family, but finally realizes that they hate and resent him... Painfully, he decides to pursue his dreams even though his mother and wife are profoundly hurt by his decision. What began as a guilty pleasure turned (appropriately) into a great labor of love.

The book is full of exaggerations and is intended to portray an unrealistic world ... and it works to illustrate Rand's philosphical concepts.

If you look at the world as you seem to, then you might as well defend murderers and genocidal dictators, for they are just innocent holders of beliefs, etc.
A bookkeeper.

I basically collect all the receipts through the year, do my own quarterly VAT and then have the bookkeeper do the annual reports, integration of all the companies and the actual filing.

I don't send out a lot of invoices and I don't have a lot of stuff I buy on the company so that is relatively easy to do.
> the tremendous strains within China

Who created these strains and who should be responsible for this?
All in good time, 3 or 4 more days before it is really done, this is the first bit of usable info that I could extract.

The tagging has been a lot of work, to put it mildly and it is far from finished. Eventually I hope to crowdsource that part to get it perfect.
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VPN is just temporary solution, I suspect there will soon be a whitelist crack down. I hope there's some sort of darknet that actively inject data into China's Internet using source address rewrite. However most of ISP in US or Europe ban srcaddr rewrite which makes this difficult.
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If this is something you're experiencing, it speaks to the fact that your mobile isp needs to stop filtering content. The ISP should not be doing anything that modifies the data that you're downloading. Your complaint hints that T-mobile's UK customers should petition them to stop doing what you describe.
[This seriously got killed?] Zed Shaw accusing tptacek of libel.
Rumors on twitter says it's Google Shanghai Office employees trying to crack Gmail from Google's internal network

All Chinese Googler were suspended from Google's internal source code and network access for now.
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And due to a link popularized to Chinese twitter-sphere, looks like there's a lot of new users from China

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1049036
Right... do you know what 'adding insult to injury' means ?
Thanks. I probably won't make a big deal out of it until I am physically separated from the day job. (I wrote this post at something like 2 AM and that line make it past my internal editor.)

My employers and I are negotiating the details of my departure. They'd prefer if I stayed until August, I'd rather leave in about April. (Strictly speaking my contract allows me to give them two weeks of notice rather than several months but I am quitting a job you just don't quit, and I don't want to burn any bridges or poison the well for their future foreign employees.)
> "Posturing for war can be very good, actually going to war is NEVER good."

Does not compute. You cannot posture for war without occasionally going to war.
Business is not civil rights movement. Even if a human rights activist builds a business, compromise has to be taken time to time for its primary purpose as a business entity and it's more complex matter than something anyone can simply call hypocritical. Therefore, I highly appreciate Google for having made the difficult decision this time, encouraging it to make more in the future.
Someone mod poor Femur up, he was right all along.
While this business is interesting, I'd like to point out that currently 7 out of the 11 comments on this post are from accounts created within the past 12 hours.
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Ruby and Python get all the headlines but I suspect there's a huge, largely silent, population sticking with php. php isn't cool and it's not the best environment in the world but it's the default language for a lot of people.

I'm mostly a php developer but I'm getting to know Ruby now.
Somewhat must have said this already, but what the heck, this is emotional stuff. The value of Google as a company rests on the trust we invest in it. I, among many I imagine, am much more confident today that they are worthy of it. Well done.

"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Cisco has nothing to do with current implementation of GFW system, Golden Shield and GFW are two completely different systems. The wikipedia entry of GFW seems to be maintained by gov agents to create a delusion of a false target.

see:

http://freemorenews.com/2009/08/30/burn-after-reading-gfw/

It's in Chinese, but it's pretty accurate. This article created shock within the gov, China's intelligence department almost turned the GFW department upside down for TFA
Of course it can. Contracts and other agreements limit your rights in some way. That's the whole point of signing an an agreement: mutually agreeing to something that isn't guaranteed by any other existing law.
Well, in this case no one has a handle on the numbers yet. If you don't advertise at all and you have zero customers, then you advertise with google and get 100 customers, then the value is easily quantifiable. But it's never that cut and dry. How much value is e.g. HP getting from google?

If you can't know what the actual value of the service is, how can you make decisions about who is cheaper? Is bing cheaper? Maybe, but what about after you consider the vastly decreased exposure? How much does that matter?

I still think the only way to beat google today is to make a better search engine. Tomorrow that wont work either.
By the definition of neoliberal...

People don't run around saying "Oh I'm a neoliberal" - it's a word certain groups use to hit others over the head with. Sure enough.. that's what you move in to. It isn't constructive, expect downvotes.
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Billings.app - switched from quickbooks since it didn't have time tracking and Billings does that and invoicing pretty well.

Also, prefer it over freckle since freckle is WAY more expensive ($40 for Billings vs $12/mo for Freckle)
It's bad form to slam an individual in a public talk. Whether libel or not, there's no good reason to call people out in a public talk unless you're really going after that person.
now baidu.com stopped its censorship ....
Yes they have spun things that way - spinning it as good news for them. But it won't hold forever. People are not ignorant - well at least not all of them, not all the time ;)
Chinese nationalistic is a coin with two sides. It's could be turned against Party and govn't easily. Just think of what happened in 1989.
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Since dfranke hacked HN I don't think there has been a score like this for a submisison.

If this goes on it will be the all-time high for HN for a long time to come!
Two things:

- Most of the submissions in the home page are pretty good. We cannot discuss every single interesting thing in the world. We are discussing just a small subset of them and as long as we are getting a very high quality home page, the lost submissions are not a problem.

- You can always resubmit links (if you think they are extremely good) by manipulating the url. Add another query parameter to the url and resubmit it.
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If you compare Amtrak to Greyhound, the price difference might not be so bad, but if you compare it to the more competitive bus lines routes (NYC-BOS, NYC-DC) like leelin does, you can see it's pretty awful value.

Agreed that Amtrak is a much more pleasant experience, though - much less stop and go, generally higher reliability of arrival time, more legroom, smoother ride.

I wonder what it would take for Amtrak to be able to compete on price with the competitive bus lines in the northeast corridor. Subsidies on rails comparable to those on the interstates, perhaps (or getting rid of the interstates' subsidies and making them self-funded)...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048800
How did it compare to Bolt, besides the massive difference in price?
> You can always resubmit links (if you think they are extremely good) by manipulating the url. Just add another query parameter to the url and resubmit it.

I think you may have opened a can of worms there.
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Such as overly complex tax laws?
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I'm sorry, but this just isn't well thought out. I do agree that people should be much more active in politics than they are (and much more educated on the subjects!), but the US has a hopelessly broken government. It will take a great deal more than activism to effect that.

If you were talking about an actual, direct democracy (e.g. Switzerland) then what you say would have some truth to it, but in the US? No.
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It very much reads between the lines. That's about how much they can go with public accusation without actually having to avoid libel charges and turn up evidence in court. It is quite certain their lawyers worked a lot with the text.
number of people * average annual income = $'s available for buying things

Pretty much any number multiplied by 1 billion people = a lot.

As the average Chinese citizen becomes better off the result of that calculation will go up really fast. If the average annual income of Chinese citizens goes up by 1%, for example, that translates into an enormous amount of money available within the Chinese economy.

Compare the potential for growth with western countries. China has a long way to go before achieving parity with most western countries. Poorer countries have the potential for rates of economic growth that vastly outstrip countries that are already wealthy. Whether it will happen is another matter but the potential is there.
Acela was originally supposed to travel at TGV-class speeds on the Northeast corridor, but I believe it was neutered by noise complaints/regulations which resulted in it being not much faster than regional service from NYC to Boston (or a bus, for that matter).

It doesn't seem to be a serious priority for the national govt.
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While some of the details in this interview were welcome, this kind of technical competency makes me want to cry. No professional in any field should be incapable of understanding this kind of security discussion in the year 2010.
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Historically, China would do that. Probably it'll depend on how many influential people actually use google docs and such. I suspect not enough.
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Good for Google: it's finally sick of kowtowing to China's censorship regime
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Thse are just problems to solve and not reasons not to proceed.

In fact Google already have a whitepaper published for their SPDY protocol and that uses SSL everywhere:
http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper
I found this part interesting:

I also don’t have their permission to disclose the amount of the sale, but suffice to say that it was proportional to the amount of time and effort I’ve put into it (that is, not much).

He clearly didn't build it to make money, but why would it be proportional to the amount of time and effort put in? This doesn't seem to me like the most important thing to consider when selling your work, unless it's a contract job ;)
There are two ways to look at this - the most up-voted comment, "Having ulterior motives doesn't necessarily make something wrong" and the most down-voted, "Seems more strategic than humanitarian."
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I wish Windows supported WebDAV in a sane way. They seemed keen to do so around Windows XP, but they apparently changed plans. They have two stacks, the more standards-compliant one (Web Folders) is deprecated and won't run in many new versions of Windows and the old one is way too buggy and suffering from bit-rot.
It's a great recruiting shortcut -- in the Malcolm Gladwell "Blink" kind of way. And, it's a great way to snap up talent, bring it in house, see if it (the people) sticks, if not let 'em go. It's basically a real option acquired for pocket change. And that's a good thing (for Google).
Here's a good example:

http://waxy.org/2009/04/all_things_digital_and_transparency_...

The short of it being that identity is paramount online. Stealing content can be a copyright issue, but stepping into someone else's voice and holding someone else's creative content as your own is simply evil. With proper, comprehensive attribution there's some flex to go around, but even then it's generally something done with consent and grace.

Cross-posting someone else's comment might just be borrowing their pencil for an argument, but since it's kind of an amazing pencil and now you're showing it off to your friends like it's your own, you should expect cold stares when you give it back.
Interesting, I never knew that.

The noise complaints would have to come from people that have experienced the noise though, if they never made it that far that's really strange to see it listed as a reason.

The TGV is an amazing bit of engineering, I've made the trip along the elevated sections by car a couple of times and to be overtaken by a train with such a speed difference is really impressive (I live too far away from a connection point so I prefer to take the car).

They average about 280 km/h, and even though there definitely is noise I'd rather hear a TGV swooshing by than an aircraft overhead for minutes or a regular passenger train.
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Additionally, they recruit heavily from China's top universities.
The author does not provide any attempt at measurable difference between now and then, and just goes by the "feeling" that it is becoming slower. While human feelings are valid for a personal dislike of some product, I don't see how this "article" can be even linked here.

Our "feelings" are different, and since the author does not provide a single number and small ec2s still perform the way they always did I can only conclude that their software or web app is becoming bloated, or they dont know how to measure.
Volumes drive many businesses. The buying capacity of China & India are raising.

If 15% of the population use your service that exceeds the total US population. Any business driven by volumes eg. telecom providers, all FMCG products would never want to miss out on India & China. For Google too it is the userbase of search, the starting point of big volume business.

edit: by 15% I meant 15% of India & China combined.
4. Some people care. Some people don't care. The people who care can spend time and money looking for loopholes. The people who don't care can pay their taxes. So everyone is happy, right?
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I've been using Quicken Mac for over a decade, but I need something more, given a business change, so I'm going to try out Quicken Online. (One of the main features I need is check printing, and most of the online accounting packages don't support that.)