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I don't see how China's demand for commodities could be a bubble.

They are building in huge volumes, but they have a huge volume of people. There is a middle class developing. Check out Hans Rosling's talks about it.

There may be a temporary bubble in the stock market, but China is undergoing an incredible shift towards becoming North American in every way. Beijing is the best example of this - the entire city has been bulldozed and redeveloped in a North American big box way. Shanghai is even further 'ahead'.

Traditionally Chinese have been very conservative with spending, preventing quick economic growth. Credit cards are almost non-existent. You pre-pay your bills, even electricity! But for some reason - perhaps the Internets media influence, perhaps the one child policy, people are now spending money quickly. Starbucks is extremely popular and more expensive than in Toronto, NYC or SF! For the price of a coffee you could easily get a great meal with a few drinks, yet coffee shops are filled.

If all of it is a bubble - it is so firmly entrenched at ground level that the momentum of this bubble will burst through and last for decades. New industries are developing rapidly. The insurance industry was almost non-existent a decade ago, and is growing quickly in different ways there.

One thing is part of what is fuels the growth is international companies spending a lot of money trying to establish new business in China. These companies are risking money and bringing expertise into a really unknown market and often losing money. China in the end benefits as they just sit their with their vast market and allow foreign companies to try to create new industries. If anything starts doing really well, the government could always regulate that industry and take it over themselves.

I don't see anything stopping both China and India both developing a large middle class. That will snowball growth for decades. Premium brands will likely dominate - these folks want iPhones and Mercedes.

I think this Australian iron ore example is just the beginning of the scale at which we will see commodities shifting to China. I expect timber to happen at an enormous scale as their foresting practices seem quite unsustainable.
I am saying you can teach most people the content of an excellent university education.

That is absolutely not true. My undergraduate degree was in Mech Eng. Even people with As in A-level maths and physics struggled with some of the course. Half (possibly more) of the freshers I enrolled with didn't graduate from that course with me, they either dropped out altogether or switched to something easier. Or some people repeated a year. But if you don't get partial differential equations (for example) on the second attempt, you're probably not going to get them ever. Doesn't mean you're a bad person - just means you should do something else with your life.

A vanishingly small percentage of the population is capable of a true university education. The only way to enroll more is to relax the standards and simplify the material. Which is exactly what New Labour did with their arbitrary goal of 50% of the population to be graduates.

BTW according to Wikipedia, of every 200 applicants to the SAS (most of whom have already qualified as Paras, they're already elite) only 30 make it. Or if you want to be a fighter pilot in the Air Force, or a Captain in the Navy. Using your analogy, perhaps basic training is analogous to secondary school - it is certainly not analogous to a degree.
Also tar's behavior gives you better compression in the common (at least on Unix) case of many small text files with related content.

In other words the trade-off is exactly the opposite of what had been guessed above.
It's a productivity method named after Jerry Seinfeld. I first heard about it from this lifehacker post: http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-se...

Basically you decide to do or practice something every day. If you forget or otherwise fail to keep up, you mark it in red on your calendar. Goal is to try to see how long you can go without a red mark. And get things done in the process.
While the author is ridiculing those "silly" Mozilla devs I would like to ridicule the author of the blog. He seems like the person who would try to write "clever" code. Code that not only works correctly but teaches everyone _all_ the intricate operator precedence rules and all the possibly usages of bit operators, perhaps also code where they "cleverly" manipulate the call stack with asm inline instructions to demonstrate their assembly and C knowledge.

One thing I know -- that person is dangerous. How do I know? I was (perhaps still am) that person. It was a bad habit and I am still trying to get rid it. It is a veiled show of immaturity and arrogance.
If you want a fascinating readup on the impact of Japanese investment in Australia, the effects and outcomes, read up on the Multi-Function polis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifunction_Polis

In short, it was a plan to build a high-tech city in order to better integrate Australian-Japan relations. In the end, a complete farce, but at the time regular front-page news. It did expose an ugly side to foreign investment in Australia, but things are very much different now - probably as a direct result of nothing very much at all occuring from all the Japanese investment. Mostly the Japanese did their dough, went bankrupt and left behind some big shopping centres, resorts and golf courses which Australians of all colours continue to use and enjoy to this day.

A good companion would be the re-reading of the Micheal Crichton novel "Rising Sun" - written at the peak of the 'Japan to take over the world' thought bubble, before the Japan bubble popped.
This isn't the best place for that, since most people will never see this thread a month from now, and because it's irrelevant.

Much better, IMO, to either:

a) Ask this question as an "Ask HN" thread. Would still disappear, but at least be more relevant and might attract more people who know this stuff.

b) Even better, ask it on some StackExchange Q&A forum. Perhaps on the superuser.com site, since they deal with general computing, but maybe you can find an even better one.
In the case of the Canadian meal, the image isn't really representative of the variety of meals that exist. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Meal_Pack for the list of entrees in 2005.) Certainly meat features in the majority, but every soldier can expect a vegetarian meal with some frequency. Choosing her example meals, I think it's possible that the article's author was somewhat biased toward names like "Swiss steak with Spanish sauce" and away from pasta, baked beans and other commonly canned foods.

It's already been suggested that providing vegetarian meals is a logistical nonissue. (Canadian soldiers are also entitled to Kosher and Halal meals, and I can't imagine that that's uncommon.) But it's easy to imagine military professionals arguing the opposite. Logistics, tactics, and esprit de corps are used to justify several kinds of bigotry and obstinacy in Western militaries. It seems to me that, as a rule of thumb, legitimate military concerns do not easily justify lower standards of tolerance, human rights, or, (as Julien Assange will agree) openness. Canada has rejected at least two of these arguments experimentally by allowing openly gay service members (unlike the US) and by permitting women to serve in every trade (unlike the US and the UK).
It seems the Aves Engine is more powerful at this point. At least the Video of the dextrose guys shows a lot more stuff going on and it runs much smoother on ipad from the video. Anyways, both seem to be commercial only products.
Apologists for Craig's list haven't been able to answer questions regarding sex trafficking on Craig's list and seem to think that their best defense is in attacking everyone who raises questions.

The part about everyone hating Newmark and his work because "He doesn’t do it to get rich" and because he is a disruptor who kills classified ad revenues is amusing.

All the recent hoopla is over a CNN interview and afaik little or none of CNN's ad revenues are threatened by Craig's List. My understanding is that Newmark has made tens of millions of dollars and it is absurd to suggest that journalists would go easier on him if he made even more money to qualify as "rich" in the writer's dictionary.

[edit] Interesting to see my comment downvoted to zero and a response saying that "The same people that own the TV news own the newspapers".

Can anyone tell us which newspaper is owned by CNN or the people who own CNN ?

[edit 2] The downvoting trend is amusing. A short while ago, my comment was at 4, now it is at -1. I see one more response and this one says that Time Warner owns magazines.

Right, so Time Warner owns some magazines, but NO NEWSPAPERS, Craig's List has hurt newspaper ad revenues , Newmark has only earned 10s of millions of dollars and isn't "rich" by the writer's standards ....and because of all this, a whole lot of downvoters seem to believe that CNN shouldn't ask any questions about Craig's List sex trafficking This is funny
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No, you are right. The copying is a bad bug. Using sizeof(char) is mostly a coding style question.

The casting of the malloc() return value is something reasonable people can disagree about (by which I mean nerds can endlessly flame each other about). But here are some points:

* In C++, which Mozilla is written in, it is a compile time error to not cast, so most likely this blog post is just wrong. Conceivably, the file could have been a C file in an otherwise C++ project, but even in that case, it's at least understandable why the cast is there.

* If you have a macro that takes the type as a parameter:

#define alloc(type) ((type *)malloc(sizeof(type)))

then the casting is a good thing because it makes the compiler warn if you try to assign the result to the wrong pointer type.

* It is true that if you forget to include the stdlib.h header, the cast will silence a useful warning about converting int to pointer.
I've been interested in the caps issue for a while. I'm a native Hebrew speaker, and Hebrew doesn't have the idea of Capital letters - there is only one set.

I wonder why caps were even important. I mean, it's just another set of the same letters, what's it for?

After a while, I did find some uses for it. Namely, when reading books, if you come across a name you don't recognize (say, the name of a person), in Hebrew you can't tell that it's a name; for all you know, it's a word that you don't recognize and not a name.
Is it just me, or has 'the news' gotten worse over time? I entirely stopped following news and news media about a year ago. I'm always a little frightened by it when I see any of it poke through in places I still visit, like HN.
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Worth a look.
I never thought "I am writing a programming book" would be off-topic on HN. This hatred is both out of place and unwarranted.

Nevertheless, I am off to find real help where I am most likely to find it; among friends and acquaintances. Thanks for fostering a curious community!
make big changes gradually, make small changes frequently. respect that self-control is a limited resource. measure your progress.
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I'm in the same boat as you - the high AUD is killing my profitability - 30% revenue fall in 2 years. However, I don't condone this type of government action just to make my life easier. Continued foreign investment in high risk mining activities is good for the country, and this was going to stop it.

If anything was to be done then the state-based mining royalties should have had some component to adjust with the price of the underlying ore.
1. It seems he was wearing his seatbelt:

Coles swerved to avoid a driver heading toward him in his lane, and the Explorer rolled over. Coles ejected from car, tho he wore seatbelt.

2. 80 (mph?) is not that fast, less than 130km/h

[Edit: There's three issues at play with the Ford-Firestone debacle; The Explorer was poorly designed and prone to rolling (moreso than other SUVs), The Firestone tyres fitted had a habit of delaminating, which caused a number of rollovers (but that wasn't the cause here) and finally, the roof pillars weren't even strong enough to support the weight of the car, so when it did roll, the roof crushed in on the occupants]
Wow, ESR. Haven't heard from him in a while.

Someone should write an updated counter-point to the cathedral and the bazaar. A lot of it's theories seem dated nowadays.
The same people that own the TV news own the newspapers.
This is the best advice. You don't have to leave a person, you can recruit them. It also works with people with whom you don't get along at first.
The author updated the article with a special message for us: He basically appologizes that somebody submitted his blog post with a misleading title to Hacker News and emphasized again, that consistency isn't the reason that Google Maps is still #1 on the market.
Everyone is commenting on his point about sizeof(char). Does anyone have any comments on his recommendation to use expressions with sizeof rather than types?
If a char is to be defined as number from 0 to 255 that and its storage space is exactly 1 byte - that is correct.

But it is rather a legacy nowadays. No one should use it.
A really cogent explanation, I feel.
Twitter is mostly filling this role for me.
@mrbird

This is very case dependent on what your site or app does.

Should it stop you from building it? Probably not.

If you don't incorporate or incorporate improperly, you'll likely be personally liable.

There are tax and legal consequences for launching without incorporating. You can always form later - but what is "ok" is again case dependent.

It would make sense to run your concerns by a lawyer or a community like HN, but to help we'd need to know more.

(Disclaimer: None of the above is legal advice or forms an attorney client relationship. The statements above are only for informational purposes and should be used at your own risk.)

@Staunch

It could be expensive either way, but being properly incorporated potentially will protect you from personal liability.
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The first problem that China has right now is that government policy has made it easier to bring money in than to take it out. This has caused a significant asset bubble. If that asset bubble pops, it will be painful. That's exactly what happened to the Japanese juggernaut that everyone was scared about 20 years ago.

The longer term problems are demographic. The one-child policy means that the upcoming generation is smaller than the previous. Their work-force will soon be shrinking. Furthermore many parents chose to abort girls to make their one child a son. But a generation with a significant surplus of men is bound to have interesting social problems.

If I had to bet, I'd bet that 30 years out we'll be hearing more about India than China.
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If there was some broad-based, phased-in, mineral based price tax/royalty that went into an untouchable, national sovereign wealth fund, then I would agree in-principle to a resources rent tax.

As for the regional areas investment, I broadly think that the royalties-for-regions that has been implemented in WA is the way to increase regional investment.

What I do not agree with, is taxing the profits of one industry to fill up general revenue lost through bad government spending. You might support it now, but once the pattern is established, any industry might be next, just for doing too well. And that's a bad principle, and against all concepts of fairness and equity.

If the government wants more tax money from mining, then they should go to the miners and say 'where can we invest to lower your cost of capital, increase your productivity and increase your competitiveness on the world market'. You'd get double the amount of taxes from a doubling in size of the mining companies, and a lot more employment, to boot.
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It's also the main reason to use constants, even when magic numbers would do (e.g., use HOURS_IN_DAY instead of 24. It's not likely you'll ever have to change the number, but HOURS_IN_DAY is clearer for humans to parse).

This also applies to the bit in the article about coercing return values, which I disagree with. Funnily enough, he mentions that K&R also recommend coercion, even though they have a small note that it's not necessary any more. Still makes for clearer programs.
Okay, now I feel bad. I skimmed the article and posted a reaction. I am wrong for doing that. (Honestly, it was probably a reaction to how much I hated pre 2005 online mapping software and not the article. I guess it is such a strong hate that to this day it gets a reaction out of me...)
What a great sentence. I'm using this the next time I teach someone to program and have to explain the value of constants! :)
This brings back memories of an old educational program for the BBC Micro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9QmQ98RuB0
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/28824145/GMO-White-Paper-China

Here's a white paper with some possible red flags that point to a bubble in China.
Actually the news have just recently fallen from their very high quality during the 60 and early 81.

Walter Cronkite actually said on tv "and that is the way it is" once he had delivered the news, but not if he ended the news with an opinion piece.

Now compare this with William Hearst with his "Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I will furnish the war" during the period of yellow journalism.

There aren't really any Hearsts around anymore (though their actual heirs still run the news), and we are properly closer to Conkrite but we are more aware of what is actually going on now than ever - that is why it looks like the news are getting worse.
apparently you can use your anal sphincter muscles to outwit a polygraph test.

I'm interested to learn more about this technique - any links/keywords?
Not only is Craigslist affecting ad revenue, it a safe target since it is not a business likely to buy ads. Some news departments get a bit sheepish when it comes to attacking companies that buy advertising. They're more apt to run stories that amount to press releases.

News outlets seem to like stories like sex scandals in general... remember how much attention they gave Michael Jackson. Even jury selection swamped out some other stories that actually mattered. Here's one of the stories I saw no mention of locally during jury selection:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3206841.stm
It's a free market for jobs. Anyone can choose to do it. There's plenty of people in IT making good salaries, but you don't hear about anyone trying to stop that. The age of the recipient is unrelated.

It might hurt for some, but worse would be some kind of intervention to prevent what you see as a problem. That would end up hurting all.

You see inflation, I see strength in the job market, a strong economy, a prosperous nation.

There is far more risk of inflation from continued government borrowings than from some people making good money in the mines.

The worst outcome would be to try and rein in the mining industry somehow. That would create all types of unintended consequences, all bad.
I stopped reading when he says "go camping" and "it's fun" because I frikin hate camping. Does that make me a weirdo?
Every time I see this video I get conflicting emotions - on the one hand I get depressed as it keeps reminding me that there's only one Steve Jobs and a mortal one at that, makes me wish we made more of him. But then on the other hand I realize a Steve Jobs born in this day and age would have cleaned out every last smidgen of privacy we enjoy, the business model of today, in typical Jobsian fashion - careful, calculated, precise and unstoppable. Then I'm just glad we aren't making more of him.
Which newspapers do Turner Broadcasting own?
They're doing more harm to our civilization than the average thief or killer.

I'd be interested to hear the argument for this.
It is just a bit harder to recognize words written in caps.

When we're reading, we aren't recognizing each character and then combining them unconsciously into a word and then you comprehend it. We just recognize the words at once, and stops on an unfamiliar or out of context ones, which usually signals a misreading.

So, people are using caps when they need to EMPHASIZE something. ^_^

This article is trying to emphasize that the author cold understand things, that the rest of the world cannot. ^_^
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Oh, so you too spent some time stupidly rubbing your clean monitor :)
It's nothing more than a sensational story: product you are comfortable and familiar with is secretly a tool of sex and human trafficking. That's almost the perfect evening news. Of course they'll run it. People eat it up. It has nothing to do with disruption or ad revenue or conspiracies against human progress; aside, of course, from the tangential fact that it's a familiar product because of those features. It's just good pop journalism. That's it.
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I'm left-handed, too. What's your reason to write right handed - because you smudge ink/graphite less?
It is better to say - Australia gets all those Treasures (American debt) and China gets Australia - resources. It is really a good deal!
> Gautama emphasized a practical "middle path" rather than some extremist monastic malarkey

If I remember, enlightenment was not found in the extremes under Kaundinya.

That message really seems to be lost I think. Both in the purposeful following of an extreme ideal, or in not being mindful of extreme habits.

Even if one is not a Buddhist, the concept of the middle path can be wonderfully freeing from expectations of extreme ideologies that sometimes ferment under civilizations.
It's pretty funny, but I think the Tostitos ad on Vimeo takes the cake for UI integration: http://vimeo.com/9194146
That reminds me that apparently so many people actually seem to like going to places like bars and hang there for hours keeping on completely pointless conversations and drinking beer. Really, I don't get it. Twice a year is Okay, but twice a week? I'd be bored to death. Can anyone explain this social mystery?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Inc.

Another subsidiary of Time Warner. Though, you're right. Those are mostly periodicals and not newspapers specifically. My mistake.
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Yeah that scene was pretty good. Linus comes across as a really good guy. Stallman (as usual) comes across (to me anyway) as slightly unhinged and bitter.
By the way Japanese don't encounter all katakana sentences

Well, printer status boxes, bank ATM receipts, older pagers, etc. ヨウシガキラシテオリマス is really obnoxious to read, particularly when it is rotating over the printer status dialog. (After a minute or two, I figured it out: "Out of paper.")