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The two things that could cause Chinese demand to collapse is war, or a people's revolution. Both will be very very bloody, and you would worry about other things than just property value or annual salaries.

Yes, that's my view too.

I don't think it's possible to hedge against the collapse of China. The effects are just so unpredictable.

For example, the traditional hedge in times of crisis is to move money into some kind of physical reserve, eg gold. Increasingly people try and hedge at a macro level by buying into gold producing companies instead of the physical object itself. Ironically, that would mean increased demand for Australia's Gold companies - so money might be reallocated from Australian iron ore companies like BHP Billion & Rio Tinto to Australian gold mining companies like umm..... BHP Billion & Rio Tinto.

Now I'm not saying this would happen - just making the point that it's difficult to predict exactly what would occur.
It's depressing that your post hasn't received more attention. Your control systems should be on a private control network, not exposed to the wide internet.

OpenVPN is capable of providing a much, much smaller attack surface than OpenSSH (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1665773), and can be run entirely chroot'd and setuid such that even if an attacker does compromise OpenVPN, they can not necessarily gain further access.

There seems to be a prevailing lack of understanding that bad passwords are not the only concern when using SSH. The daemon itself may be vulnerable to exploit (and in the past, it has been).
I'm so glad in australia we can have the iphone on all our networks... Just one more reason that this is the best country in the world ;)
That makes anonymous posting difficult to do without degrading the quality of the site.
I think evidence points to this being true. For instance, in Australia - a technically advanced market where the iPhone is available on every major wireless carrier - the carrier exclusivity doesn't warp market share in Androids favour:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/surging-iphone...

As of May 2010, Android is at 2.1% smartphone market share, the iPhone is at 40.3% smartphone market share.

In the US, the iPhone's AT&T exclusivity gives Android protection from true competition. When the customer can select a phone on its own merits and not due to network availability I'm sure that the market share picture may be different.
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There's more hacker affection for Linux than Windows, but somehow the year of Linux on the desktop was always right around the corner. Palm also had a devoted developer following, but it couldn't make up for mistakes at the mothership. In short history may repeat itself, but not the way you hope.
Myth #2: It’s Better to Express Anger Than to Hold it in

I think this is less binary than the article suggests. In addition to expression and repression of anger, there is also "letting things go." When you can forget about something that made you mad, you get the satisfaction of knowing you didn't let it phase you (arguably better than catharsis) without all the problems associated with revenge and obsession.

I really like this paragraph from http://paulgraham.com/top.html:

Turning the other cheek turns out to have selfish advantages. Someone who does you an injury hurts you twice: first by the injury itself, and second by taking up your time afterward thinking about it. If you learn to ignore injuries you can at least avoid the second half. I've found I can to some extent avoid thinking about nasty things people have done to me by telling myself: this doesn't deserve space in my head. I'm always delighted to find I've forgotten the details of disputes, because that means I hadn't been thinking about them. My wife thinks I'm more forgiving than she is, but my motives are purely selfish.
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Yes, the market share picture is very different outside of the US; see my previous comment:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1665780
I don't find using hosts.allow terribly useful as the people that tend to want to ssh into servers that I control are often mobile, with IP addresses that change regularly.

The point I'm making, though, is that every instance of someone running a dictionary attack against one of my servers was a script kiddie running a tool against a range of IP addresses. Changing the port ssh runs on to something high eliminates this entirely.
The vertical edge shape contrast has also been noted to have an effect on comprehension (as in ragged right vs full justification). A few resources/papers:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8535.1986....
http://kaiweber.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/ragged-right-or-jus...
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_...
(where he's obviously forgetting that there's a universe outside of the US)

Google's not doing much better, in regards to remembering the rest of the world. Paid apps from Android App Store are only available in what? 12 countries?
I can't but agree with MG... even when he is an apple fan boy diehard... for the most part everything he writes has some point of trueness.

For me, as a entrepreneur and with a product targeting both platforms, the experience with android has made me think twice the whole idea of iphone and its appstore stupidity, in a way where it makes me believe they are there for a reason.

Apple provides probably the best user experience for a mobile phone out there, everything is consistent, simple and geared to make the life of their users likewise... and apple enforces this but also they provide tools so that we as developers stay that way with not too much pain.

Android on the other hand stays too much to its Linux parenthood... yes it's open, yes you can do lots of stuff with it, it even can power the coffee pot if you wanted it to... but everything comes at a price! And the price that google has have to pay for that "flexibility" comes in direct impact of the experience... and microsoft seems to have learnt this too, hence the level of control they are putting back on the WP7.

Google has to pick up the ball while there is still time... provide developers with the right tools so we don't go reinventing the warm water everything we need to do something and provided them so that it remains consistent with the experience the have created with the phone... and enforce OEMs to do the same.

Now will google do this before apple pulls the trigger on new carriers for the iPhone or before WP7 takes power?... I hope so, as competition is always good for innovation.

in the mean time I will keep my Galaxy (with its 12+ carrier stupid apps) at lab for testing purposes and will carry my iPhone for the every day experience.
He didn't miss it, the point is not relevant to the article. The author is focused on analyzing the present and speculating about the future. He's not performing a rigorous "what if" alternate reality exercise.
In general, BSD assembler tends to be pretty stack heavy for cultural/engineering reasons. I don't think it ultimately matters all that much if you're fiddling around on your personal machine.

I'm not sure I follow?
I personally haven't seen this kind of discussion change a single opinion.

As for the title question, we've all seen the customer satisfaction numbers and the willingness to switch numbers: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/smartphones/?p=816, so I think, hinging on the credibility of these data, it's an empirical fact that iPhone stands a lot to gain by going to Verizon. If you're an iPhone developer, like myself, these data ought to be reassuring.

It's clear that the tech blogosphere and its core readership have a hint of counter-consumerist taste which makes it very bad at predicting the success of consumer products (we've seen a ghosts from 2007 this weekend on HN, and I suspect the "iPad will fail" articles are bound to crop up and bite certain bloggers later). The remedy (please) is some good old fashioned market research if we're going to make business/startup decisions based on such discussions. Eh?

PS: The top comment of this TechCrunch article is perpetrating this "Big Brother" analogy with respect to Apple's app store approval. As an English major, this has been bothering me for a while. Have these guys read 1984? "Big Brother" is supposed to represent the panopticon surveillance state, you know, one where your footsteps are tracked and recorded constantly. Sounds more like someone else to me.
Interesting story about corruption
I have been reading hello, android (http://www.pragprog.com/titles/eband3/hello-android) and it says that the multitouch is buggy and returns impossible values which tells me that it could very well be a software problem in android.
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As an owner and former user of an F3, I really like the simplicity and ruggedness. I wish that Motorola had continued to develop it to address its terrible shortcomings: lettering was rendered semi-1337-style through old-school LED typography and it could not display an entire 10 digit number across its screen. I don't know why they bothered to support text messaging at all because it was utterly unusable.

I still keep it around as a hurricane backup as my iPhone SIM plugs in to make calls without issue.
An elitist system divides people into an elite and the others.

So a system where you have demonstrate the ability know and do a certain set of things, and give unlimited attempts. Then provide enough help to enable everyone to get over that line. There is some military training that work like this: train/test then if the person fails, retrain and retest and repeat. Everyone learns the material and is credentialed as such.

I agree this will not create the gold standard. The gold standard will still be knowing the right people, and belonging to the right clubs. It may just be that the clubs are not Yale and Harvard.
Ah that's very useful. Thanks.

I only recently realized I could abbreviate hostnames in .ssh/config.
I found the box described in the fourth installment in the series [0] most interesting.

In the first 3 installments, he speaks of the original box he made for some friends as a wedding gift. It will only open when the GPS detects that it's on a particular island, at which point they get the goodies inside. The box in installment #4 is based on the original, but with the intent of being reused or regifted. It has a USB port that, with the proper password, allows it to be reprogrammed to open at a new location.

It would be tempting to put a USB drive containing the software for reprogramming the box inside the container, and ask that it be passed on with a new gift once the first person has figured it out. It could be a gift that keeps on giving!

[0] http://arduiniana.org/2010/02/puzzle-box-opens/
I also think HN regulars are not the kind of the people that spammers could use... still it'd be pretty annoying during the period they learn that (the hard way)
There must have been some sort of "out" for Apple in their contract with AT&T. I've never seen a contract without some sort of early termination section. (I'm not a lawyer, but I work with them on business contracts often.)

It must be a prohibitively large dollar amount for Apple to end the agreement early, which is surprising since I think it's been far more successful than anyone could have imagined -- so I assume what would have at launch seemed like a ridiculous sum would now be quite affordable for Apple to remove the 100lb gorilla in the room.
My Motorola Droid's touchscreen can't match the iPhone, but I've played with a few display models, and the Droid X among others are neck-and-neck.

However, I have to say that improving hardware on my Droid would be a waste of money without large improvements in the network. Even with fantastic 3G coverage, the bottleneck for most tasks I'm looking to accomplish is the network, not the device.
The video is on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

It is an extraordinarily well-crafted speech.
I've done some Android development and didn't think it was that bad. It was definitely something of a struggle at first (not the least because I hadn't used Java - er, a Java-like-language - since my freshman year of college), but it grew on me quickly and it didn't take me long to internalize most of the important design patterns. That being said, I've never done any iPhone development, so I can't really compare.

As to the phones themselves, I don't think its as clear cut as the author suggests. I bought a first generation iPhone, but when it eventually met its demise I picked up a G1 on eBay. The G1 was obviously pretty horribly specced, but I liked enough about it to eventually got a Nexus One and rather like it. Its lacking a lot of the polish of iOS, but seems generally a lot more capable. I don't know anything about the history of using a back button for navigation through multiple applications, but that and a few other things (the notification UI for example) really pay off for Android.

I'll probably get another iPhone at some point (I'm still on AT&T and have never gotten a subsidized phone from them - I got that original iPhone before they subsidized them) to play with development on it, if nothing else. But for my primary phone I'm probably going to stick with Android, at least for the foreseeable future. Its far from perfect but it works a lot better for me.

Of course I'm not at all your typical phone user, so what I think probably doesn't mean that much.
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This is true. Money is a better predictor for success of a platform than hacker buzz, and right now iOS is still very dominant in terms of how many users are willing and able to buy apps and in-app purchases, and how much they're willing to spend. The Android Market is still largely dominated by freeware, which is partially due to restrictions that limit the countries in which users are able to buy apps.
The point I'm making, though, is that every instance of someone running a dictionary attack against one of my servers was a script kiddie running a tool against a range of IP addresses. Changing the port ssh runs on to something high eliminates this entirely.

Those are the attacks you see. The script kiddie with a 0-day would be much less obvious.

There are straight-forward ways to architect your infrastructure such that you solve the dictionary attack problem AND the 0-day problem, none of which require the hand-waving security (and user annoyance) of moving SSH to a non-standard port.

The security provided by a non-standard port is laughable -- it's like putting a child-proof lock on your front door.

If you're worried about dictionary attacks, turn off password authentication. If you're worried about 0-day vulnerabilities in SSH, leverage defense-in-depth (require well-secured VPN connectivity before allowing SSH access). If you're worried about user's machines being compromised and their keys stolen, leverage two-factor auth.
Ironically even though Craigslist just about crippled the newspaper industry, these same newspapers have been running adult ads in the personal sections, in every major cities for years, ad how about the good old yelow pages that the escort services use to pay 15,000 a year to appear in. The problem is this, LE is going to keep using CL as an escape goat, while they have no real interest in catching pimps expoiting teens, they want to STALK MIDDLE AGE CONSENTING ADULTS IN PRIVATE, because of their moral witch hunt. We have street hookers in every city, they don't seem to concerned about them. On top of the sex worker being criminalized LE often calls her employer and landlord when they arrest her, its like being the victim of a hate crime, where you hated just because you exisit. We are not given the same sancation and protection under the law as everyne else, and they even wish us harm. Why are we such a threat, it seems if they went after the predators and pimps with the same ZEST that they go after these consenting adults, we might live in a nicer world. Also lets look at LE behavior, follow this newsfeed
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Here you will see how the chief of police was handing out crack to street hookers and then expoitig them for sex in lue of going to jail and the 2 cops while arresting a women on a online sting, they took pics of her naked with their personal cell phones while she cried and begged to get dressed as they laughed at her.
All sex workers are expoited, by their own persona plight, poverty, and how does society really think we will be safer if we become homeless and live on the street, don't you think we would be raped and become a target for violence because we have no shelter/safety.
None of these MORAL People who want to save us from ourselves are creating any services or safety for these women. I just wonder why society seems to think its ok to treat a hooker anyway and that she gets what she deserves, she could easily be your mother, sister, aunt or child. Don't be so naive that you think this would never affect someone you know. The internet gave me the abilty to find safer, higher paying clients, that I see on my terms, without needing an agency to give half my money too. I can choose to see just 1 or 2 clients a day and am putting my daugter through college as a single mom.
I am also creating
http://theproviderpage.com/cms/
which I am creating to support my peers.
Thanks for listening to my rant.
"So... how's about that local sports team?"

In my experience people know what it is like to be stuck as "that guy" in such a situation, and they've all had to endure the Awkward Silence(tm), and they're cool with it. Let them toss you a lifeline - I find that directly exposing the awkwardness of the situation gets a few ironic laughs and also gives you the excuse to completely diverge from the previous conversation path.

Awkward Silences(tm) happen, people know they happen. The trick is that if you let it bother you, people around you will let it bother them (and their perception of you). The only solution is to barge right on through it as if you don't care.
I really loved the BBQ pork ribs. They also gave you soft bread in that pack, and I think it also came with mint pound cake.

The article neglected to mention the tabasco being used in your eyes to keep you awake while on guard duty.

I agree, the cheese spread (especially jalapeno) was the best. I would usually not eat the meat-like product in MREs.
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I heard constipation was a problem for soldiers. One other country supplied fiber pills. Did soldiers take Metamucil or something to help move things along?
See us at
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While we oppose society's Moral Witch Hunt against us and laws that criminalize us, we are aware that escort providers must live in the real world. At it's best, that world disrespects and ostracizes us; at it's worst, it seeks to exploit and even harm us.

TheProviderPage.com is a site planned and paid for by a provider to offer a safe harbor from that world for my peers.

Whether your method of running your business includes being a "lot lizard", a "streetwalker", an escort working for a respectable agency, an escort working independently, an exclusive mistress who takes on only one client, or a dominatrix who specifically does not offer "escort" services, you are welcome here and will be treated with the respect often missing in the real world.

We believe adult providers can make the best choices for themselves without interference from law enforcement on the one hand nor do-gooders who want to "help" us against our will on the other hand.

If you need resources and support to run your business, you will find that here. If you choose to leave this business, we seek to provide you information on the best resources that can assist you transition to another lifestyle. We respect each provider's right to choose for herself.

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While much of this site is addressed to women, male providers are welcome also; our only criteria for membership is that you are a provider. All are welcome to read and use our site, but membership is for providers only.

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Bella's hope is that others can learn from her experience. I hope that other escorts can empower themselves, understand the risks involved and have the tools to make their experiences safer, and for them to be able to find support and fellowship from other escorts. And I hope the escort wanting out of this lifestyle will find some resources here that will help her in her transition back to the main stream of society.

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Has the author not used a Droid X? Swype and eerily accurate speech-to-text are radically better than any input methods I've seen on the iPhone. Before Swype, I couldn't have imagined giving up my Treo 755P keyboard. Now I couldn't go back.
Its such a wonderful speech. One of the best speech i have ever heard. I have seen this video so many times and never get bored seeing it again and again. It just brings the energy in me back.
Sometimes it is OK to use all caps. This is pointed out in the article, but worth noting again. You might want your text to read more as a shape. For instance, when using section headers that you want to be more uniform in appearance.
I wonder though if this applies to languages like chinese or japanese. I know nothing about them but I'm pretty sure CAPS don't get any bigger. Does that make the language harder to comprehend?

I would have liked a more in-depth analysis personally.
I thought you meant you were using compressed sensing powered filters, maybe working on the summaries of papers from an RSS file.

That would be VERY interesting (and - dare I say it - probably impossible)
All Caps is also hard to read because you spend your whole life reading sentence case. Its what we've trained our brains to look at and interpret.

One plus for All Caps: it makes filtering piles of resumes easier. If it's written in All Caps I toss it without reading.
I feel like applying for a job at the New York Times just so I can fix their terrible Flash-based gallery software which is used in this article and many others recently. Totally kills the otherwise-interesting browsing experience for me. HTML5 would be more than sufficient for this.