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"My total salary and superannuation is A$145,000 a year, and when I'm in the Pilbara I don't have to put my hand in my pocket. I have a house in the city and an investment property and a 1972 Falcon pickup. I couldn't have had this life without mining."

and devastating the environment (and human and animal health) with all the land-clearing, power consumption, water consumption, massive pollution and toxic waste that comes with this and connected industries.
I worked in the Pilbara for one of the big miners in an 'automated' laboratory for a couple of years after graduating. AMA.

Couple of quick points for anyone tempted to make the move: As an employee you get to interact with some pretty amazing tech, but most of it is created by other firms. Direct employees typically end up operating, maintaining and fixing things when they break. It's a great place to get hands on experience solving problems under time pressure. If you want to work heavily in the code base of automated robots/ trucks / trains, find a firm that does the contracting work to work for.

Secondly, don't do it just for the money, the job becomes your life. The article wasn't really about employee benefits but they did mention a salary without saying exactly what it was for.

Michael, after 35 years earns 145,000 p.a. including superannuation.A typical truck driver on a FIFO (fly in fly out) roster will fly up to the mine and work 7 12.5 hour day shifts, followed by 7 12.5 hour night shifts, and then fly back to the city to recover for a week (6 1/2 days). This is repeated about 17 times a year.

14days * 12.5hour shift * 17 stints = 2975 hours. $145, 000 / 2975 = approx AU$48 dollars per hour, including super.
For that 20 year old on $92,000 it works out about $31 an hour, assuming the same roster. getting that job is not exactly easy either.
The money is not bad, especially since you have nowhere to spend it on while at the mine, but the guys who do this long term have it in their blood and live to work at the mine.

Your social and dating life ( if you have one at all) gets fairly messed up on that roster, and fatigue from night shift can get to you after awhile.

Fun Fact: The mines tend to prefer female truck drivers as they are more gentle on the equipment.
I remember reading a long time ago that teens read all caps more attentively than regular text. not sure if its true though.
Ask HN: writing a network discovery tool
I want to embark on a project for a CS class.

Can anyone provide insight on how to write a tool that will map out a network and state device info, IP info, open ports, etc.

I will be using OS X.
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For MREs, everything is vacuum packed in smaller plastic or foil-plastic with a jumble of accessories in another plastic bag. Generally you can save some weight/space by opening it up and ditching the outer wrap and unwanted items.
The iPhone has many more deficiencies besides being limited to one carrier. Though I suppose that is the only one that most consumers care about.
this is how matasano got owned. an easily guessable account got broken into and root priv escalation was used. if they were using port knocking an attacker would have had to be in the middle, which is possible but adds an extra 'auth' layer so increases overall intrusion hardness.

also, everyone keeps talking up these scripts to stop brute forcing... two iptables rules will do this for you.
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It's ambiguous. That's the point. The relationship will remain ambiguous until it is tested in some way.

Some people -- not that I would stereotype us computer folks this way -- are extremely averse to social ambiguity, but most people are pretty comfortable with it. If they need to know something (does that chick like me?) they'll find out in the natural course of things (when they ask her out.) In the meantime, if they really, really care, they'll have some anxiety over it, but that doesn't apply to most interactions. You don't really need to know right now if that person found it nice to meet you, and rushing to figure it out only increases the chances that you'll end up believing something false.

Since people are generally okay with ambiguity, it's a no-brainer to them to observe identical social niceties in some situations regardless of their actual feelings. There's no point in alienating someone unnecessarily, especially since you might change your mind later. "Man, what a day. I hated the latte I got this morning, I hated the ham sandwich I got for lunch, I hated work, and then I ran into that wallflower douchebag at the grocery store. Come to think of it, it's probably just me; I hated everything today. wallflower is probably a decent guy. Maybe I'll invite him to my party this weekend." Because things can change moment-to-moment, even especially perceptive people who can see through the niceties treat a lot of what they perceive as provisional. They don't go back to their lair and add a row to their enemies database because somebody was a little frosty at the grocery store.

P.S. The average person's tolerance for social ambiguity is one reason why it's so frustrating to try to get tips from people who have a lot of social confidence. We go to great lengths to figure things out to increase our comfort level and avoid doing the wrong thing; they don't sweat it if something isn't obvious to them, and when they need to know something, they use a low-risk probe that at worst results in a mild but informative "mistake." Usually the real challenge is not an analytical challenge of figuring out the situation but a creative challenge of coming up with something to do or say that will turn out okay no matter what the situation actually is, and will hopefully yield more information so you can refine your approach.
yep, saw the title, thought 'bet its MG Siegler', opened to confirm my suspicions then closed it. Getting really old now IMO.
This article presumes the word-shape model if reading, which most reading psychologists believe to be inaccurate. The parallel-letter recognition article has the most experimental support. This paper by a reading psychologist at Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ctfonts/wordrecognition....) has a good summary of the models and experimental evidence.
just take a look at http://bit.ly/cUF0zC and see the disruption of experience there is between the myriad of flavor implementations in android... just for a single task which btw... is not implemented across all phones.

android still has a good way to go to catch up and in order to google get there they have to add more control to the experience and succeed because it is good and not because is good enough
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I did say "gross $60k", and I meant something more like "revenue" than "salary".

Obviously there are expenses that come out of the basic fees, but when I was doing this, the people I talked to at the lower end of the cost spectrum seemed to operate without some of the expenses that came up (ie, home studio, little/no advertising).

The point I was trying to make was, wedding photography is competitive but potentially lucrative if you can establish yourself, particularly in markets like SF.
I didn't know that. Still kudos to them for keeping the product going, and keeping it good.
I don't see any economic forces that would trigger a burst. In fact, I see most entry-level jobs demanding more education now than ever before.

A college degree, if required, has always been a -soft- requirement for most professional jobs. It is sometimes used as a first-pass filter, but it's unlikely that the reviewer will make it down to your "Education" section if the "Skills" and "Experience" sections are sufficiently impressive.

People aren't getting jobs because they didn't get enough education, not because they got too much.

No, people aren't getting professional jobs because they don't have any experience or novel qualifications that set them apart from their competition.
What exactly is RSS feeds from Google Scholar missing? (eg http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/create-your-own-go...)
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I'm working on something a lot like this right now...
Hear, hear. I dread having conversations in large groups. Make it a loud bar, and I just find a reason not to go. A conversation with 3 people might work. @ 4+ it just turns into a mess. I either don't say enough, or jump in at the wrong time and cut someone off because I am afraid someone else will jump in.
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Oh goodness, the jalapeno cheese spread was ever only in like 1 of the meals per box. People used to trade illicit bottles of liquor for one of those.

I got one of the worst cases of...erm..."intestinal movement"...from the ribs (fashioned into a sandwich with the bread of course). I could never bring myself to eat that particular meal again. I think they've replaced the bread in the newer (2009/2010) meals with a tortilla.

I still can't figure out how they made the pasta MREs so good. Old pasta noodles get soggy fast.
> ...tabasco being used in your eyes to keep you awake while on guard duty

Commander: Son, why didn't you see that group of enemy soldiers neak up on and slit the throats of half our men?!

Soldier: Well, I don't know, but I sure didn't fall asleep, sir!
The same newspapers that Craigslist just about crippled have been running ads for yeas,and they where much more expensive, my escort service I use to own in St.Pete times I paid 12.000 a year to keep a 3 line ad up and I also use to pay the yellow pages 15 to 30,000 a year.
The internet has giving me the abilty to be indpendent, no more agency drama,and I am able to get better clients, they pay more, I chose the respectful day time guys and only have to see 1 or 2 clients a day and I am also putting my daughter through college.
LE is using craigslist as an escpae goat, because they really have no interest in stopping the pimps from exploiting the teenagers, but for some reason they are obsessed with what consenting adults do in private, they go beyond what is legal to arrest these women, and most of their cases would not make it to trail if these women had lawyers, they arrest escorts for just showing up for an appontment, even if they are not able to solicit the women for an illegal act, so they get her for not having a massage license or supsion of prostitution, heck they can't arrest you for suspsion of murder unless they can prove it but its ok to lock up a hooker. They also BULLY the john into snitching and it works because they are no criminals and do not know what to do if detained by police, I bet a drug dealer or gang member wouldn't let LE into bullying confssions out of them.
I have bee reading in the news, we have a chief of police handing out crack to street level hooker and exploiting them for sex in lue of going to jail and we have 2 cops while arresting a women during an online sting, took pics of her with their personal sell phones while she was naked and crying and begging to get dress while they laughed at her. these articles are in the newspapers, and happen all the time.
It seems if we stalked the predators and pimps with the same ZEST as we d the hooker then we might actually catch some real criminals.
But the million dollar question is this, why does the general public believe its ok to treat a hooker any way they want and that she deserves it, what gives anyone the right to HATE us, just because we.
exisit. I know LE even calls our employers and landlords after they arrest us, with no cause other than to get us out of their town, do you think we would be safer on the street, where we could become far game to be raped and beaten
and we don't want to be regulated so we will have to work in brothels and give the brothel wners most of our money, Back n 2005 I owned a escort service in FL and I was incorpated and paid taxes. Many agencies such as myself are now being harassed and stalked by LE, but seems like if your a cop or governor Spitzer you don't get prosecuted and you can still be on CNN. I just woner who many of MY TAX dollars is LE going to use to STALK ME.
Thanks For letting me Rant.
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We also know that the gap in income between those with a higher education and those without is increasing significantly.

There's an unaccounted for correlation between the accessibility of higher education and general life opportunities.
> I highly recommend adding some to soup stock, especially vegetarian soups

But can vegetarians eat bacteria? They are animals too.
Nothing much. Some of the meals have a high fiber cracker you can use with the Peanut Butter or Cheese Spreads and I think the chocolate drink mix has some fiber. But I don't think it provides nearly enough fiber to overcome the logjam inside you. Eventually it just passes. But the meals aren't meant for long-term survival (no more than a month or so) anyway.

I spoke one time with a researcher who worked for the part of the army that put together the requirements for the MREs and the problem is that getting fiber-full food to stay stable for 3 years is an open problem.

If you really look into the science behind the MREs it's really some amazing technology. There's also some really cool hacks they use to keep the food shelf stable without preservative chemicals. I wish I could find the article about some of what they do.
Pilot G2 gel pens have really nice dark, flowing ink, and are cheap and readily available.

The pens themselves are decent, though I got a Karim Rashid pen* as a gift and was delighted to find the g2 pen refills fit it perfectly. I've heard they fit many other custom pens, too.

* It looks like the blocky one in the middle here (http://www.aspshop.net/customs-wholesale/Pens/Karim-Rashid-I...). That one may or may not work for you - I have big hands.
I noticed that a lot of this food is tinged with red or orange- which seems to be because it's high in protein. That got me to thinking- it must be difficult to be a vegetarian or a vegan in the army.

Which also got me to thinking- should you have the right to insist on vegetarian/vegan food? Not only is it more expensive and more of a problem to provide, but you are a tool of the army, and you probably do your job for them better when you get enough protein.
The military washes people out all the time. What proportion of applicants makes it as a Navy SEAL, is it even 1 in 10?

It is a sad indictment of our society when "elitism" is something to discourage. Let's be very clear: the opposite of elitism is mediocrity. But there will always be bastions of those who strive for excellence.
His complaint is without any substance. That's what I'm getting at: "The iPhone is too complicated! Here's a bunch of things not related to the iPhone that are simple. The iPhone is complicated."
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OK, since you're now accusing me of misquoting you and i'm sure that i'm not, I want to be clear: We're not in agreement at all. I think you're now trying to rewrite what you said to make us in agreement.

I was responding to the letter of what you wrote "they're criminals" and the spirit of what you wrote "they're boobs", and I don't think I misconstrued either.

I'd further add that it's the "people who get it" vs the "people who don't" attitude of the OP that spurned my response, not the defense of accidental spammers.
The people comparing Apple's approval process to 1984 are clearly drawing parallels with the torture scenes where the protagonist is ultimately convinced that he shouldn't have done what he did and Big Brother is ultimately right - which sounds exactly like Apple. If you don't like it, it was a good choice and you're just looking at it from the wrong angle.

You're speaking in black and white where shades of gray are clearly the order of the day. Google exhibits certain traits of the 1984 state, Apple others.
That depends on how neurotic they are. (Laziest trolling ever, PS. Back to slashdot with you.)

I'm suggesting it specifically because vegetarian soups tend to have less umami (the savory, "meaty"/MSG flavor). Non-veg cooks can just simmer bones, etc., but vegetarians need to get umami from mushrooms, grilled root vegetables, boiled parmesan reggiano rinds (which are totally awesome, BTW), miso, etc., and vegemite is another option.

It's quite cheap (if you buy it in "I'm going backpacking forever and may not make it back to Australia"-sized jars) and keeps forever (what's it going to do...become more salty?), so it's pretty convenient.
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I'm really enjoying the app the whole 5 minutes I've been using it. I'll use it for a week and see what kind of results I get.

For the record, I do realize that results will vary according to the type of person that uses the application. I'm a serial procrastinator, so maybe it'll be worth something for your Customer Development process.
I can't reply to the person that replied to my above comment so I'm doing it here.

My point was about the widening of the income gap, the correlation you speak of doesn't explain the widening of the gap.
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How are vegetarian protein sources more expensive? Many are quite cheap (if sometimes bland). Most beans keep well and are easy to ship and prepare in bulk, which certainly suits the mess hall. I don't see how it'd be a huge logistics issue (compared to shipping/handling chicken, for example). I've never been in the military, but I've worked in a deli, and handling chicken sucks.

Also, the whole vegetarian "protein deficiency" thing has been pretty thoroughly debunked, unless you only eat potato chips. It's surprisingly difficult to eat a diet that won't give you at least a minimum of protein without dying from e.g. pellegra or beri-beri first. (Maybe not enough protein for hardcore bodybuilders, but certainly enough to live well.)
They're not. We're closer to plants than we are to bacteria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-domain_system
In a smaller font, I have to scroll to get to it, then scan to find out exactly where it is.

I did not ask for this email, and it is trying to sell me something. It is, by my definition, spam. Not only do I not owe the senders the courtesy of finding an unsubscribe button, I feel good hitting the "Mark as spam" button.
Why is it if I place a personal ad on match.com and meet a uy for coffee and he turns out to be a salker that I can call LE for help.
But if I place a adult ad and charge for my time and companiosnhip I can not get any assistance from LE if I need it.
Ironically do you know what they do to the hookers once they sent them to jail. f they go to prison they usualy get raped by correctional offcers and even used for THEIR OWN PROSTITUION RING, as they are state property.
We already have prrof that indoor prositution works, RI had a loophole from 1979 til 2009, they never charged anyone with human trafficking and only arrested street hookers in public and when the CL killer killed the girl in Boston he then wentto RI and robbed a women and she called LE reported it and that is why they catch him.
LE does ot want cooperateion from hookersor Craiglsit they just want the keep the witch hunt going for their own personal campaign stradegy.
A lot of university systems in other places of the world do not have tenure. At least where I study, positions last two years and are renewed in contests where candidates are evaluated on academic, educational, and professional qualifications, and an "order of merit" is created, whereby the first in the order gets the position. There's a mandatory retirement age at 65, after which a few exceptional professors might still teach under special temporary assignments.

It's not perfect in any way, but at least there's a set of fairly objective criteria, and the candidates are judges by people outside of the institution (usually esteemed professors from foreign universities), and it does put some pressure into academics for keeping up with their research and teaching. The downside is that some very senior professor's merits are already so great that it's almost impossible that they lose in a contest, which is in a way similar to tenure or great seniority in other public sectors.
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Nothing in life is risk-free, but B2C Internet companies are close. You don't let liability risk stop you from cooking for guests or playing sports, both of which kill people.
Love the moist towelette in the American pack.
Interesting. I recall a good discuss here a little while ago that involved, primarily, a morning walk as being invaluable for shifting from night to day. Similarly, it espoused the importance of sunlight on your body's natural sleep rhythm.
"But the iPhone does exist. And I simply can’t bring myself to use an Android phone when I know a superior device is out there."

WTF?

That line reminds me of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg
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The first two issues -- a lack of index and the fact that you can't seek within a deflated tarball -- are true but are easily handled by smarter compression. Tarsnap, for example, splits off archive headers and stores them separately in order to speed up archive scanning.

The third issue -- lack of support for modern filesystem features -- is just plain wrong. Sure, the tar in 7th edition UNIX didn't support these, but modern tars support modern filesystem features.

The fourth issue -- general cruft -- is correct but irrelevant on modern tars since the problems caused by the cruft are eliminated via pax extension headers.
I originally didn't think it would make much of a difference. I just figured that sunlight and nature would have very little (if any) effect. However, after actually doing it, and seeing such a huge shift in schedule, I realized the importance of sunlight a LOT more.

I didn't see the article you're referring to (can't seem to find it), but I'll try taking a morning walk as well. Sounds like a peaceful way to start the day.
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It's more a problem of people just not eating stuff that's been slogged halfway across the planet and deposited into an active combat zone. So they try to supply menu items that'll get eaten.

That being said, there's usually a vegetarian meal in every box of MREs.
How do you mean how this applies to languages like chinese and Japanese? Do you mean that Japanese and Chinese have capital letter, or are you referring to english letters written in all caps read by a native Japanese/Chinese speaker?

In Japan(I don't know about china) it is very common for english words to be written in all caps when surrounded by Japanese characters. they will also (in many cases) be written in full-spaced letters, which only have capital versions: ＡＢＣＤＥ vs ABCDE. I've never seen it cause a problem, but I think this is more because Japanese speakers are not native english speakers, so their hesitation with an unfamiliar script would outweigh any recognition delay from it being written in all caps.

However, I do know that sentences that are written purely in katakana are much slower for native speakers to read, as it's a script that is used much less than kanji or hiragana. I would hesitate to say that reading an all-katakana sentence is more troublesome for a native jp speaker than a native english speaker reading something written in all caps.
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Not new but something very useful.

Creating school and college projects is now whole lot more easier :P
I've camped in my back yard at times for this exact reason. Yes people find that odd, but there's no better alarm clock than the sun baking you in your tent.

When camping in good weather I always feel refreshed upon waking up.
I like Vegemite better myself. It's less intense of a flavor.
I think you either define "most" differently than I do or you may benefit from speaking to nontechnical people about their computer usage. Keywords that may be appropriate: the Google Hotmail.