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there is always a problem with facebook! I can't trust them ever!
That's one way of looking at it.

On the other hand, the way people behave in crisis situations is largely dependent upon the way they see prominent people behaving. If prominent people are out there volunteering and helping out their neighbours then it makes it more likely that other folks will too. Mr Rudd is probably the most prominent Brisbanite at the moment (possible exceptions of the Premier and the Lord Mayor who were busy with their actual duties) so by helping out his neighbours (with cameras present) he can do a lot to set the tone for the behaviour of Brisbanites during and after the disaster (which I must say has been pretty much exemplary).

I'd never vote for Kevin Rudd, but I'm perfectly prepared to give him due credit for doing the right thing. (Unless of course it turns out that he only helped out for five minutes and stopped as soon as the cameras left).
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it is a joke to think that $1/year salary has anything to do with Job's remuneration which takes place largely in Apple's stock. The better Apple does, the better he does. He's got incentive, regardless of whatever ersatz salary he nominally receives.

So, yeah, i think he's doing it cause he's a control freak who gets high off of being in charge of one of the most important tech consumer companies in the world. But to claim that he's not benefitting massively off of Apple's continued financial success is definitely not true.
What is there to like about him?
"I don't know what to tell you" came across more snarky than I intended. I just mean that we'll have to agree to disagree :)
I'm not sure you'd necessarily get the answer you think you'd get, or the quality you're expecting when you think about it. Do you continuously visit all your actual friends walls, or just wait for the feed to stream in, with Facebook unable to tell whether your eyes jump over it or actually read it? Are there "game" friends that you pay more attention to than, say, your uncle?

Plus a lot of the immediate answers you might think of if you don't know the shape of the social graph won't work. You can't just look for "distant" friends (i.e., break the friend link and measure the new friending distance), because even before Facebook it was "well known" that six links can get you anywhere in the world; Facebook must be large enough by now that they are subject to the same principle.

I would not leap to the conclusion that they actually can tell. The data is noisy and ambiguous, the graph's shape is amorphous and relatively homogeneous (everybody's pretty much the same basic distance from everybody else, Distance(RandomPerson1, RandomPerson2) will have surprisingly small variance), it's a hard problem. Possible not solvable even in theory, even if you could precisely nail down what exactly it is you were looking for.
The 2011 linux.conf.au conference is going ahead next week in spite of the flood: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2112337

"The team encourages everyone to still come to Brisbane and support local business and the community - we need your support!"

After having been through the after-effects of an earthquake where I live it's been clear to see the difference it makes for businesses that can open to have custom.
One thing I noticed is that a lot of the app spam came from one of a few apps (e.g. Farmville) or one of a few people (e.g. my aunt who doesn't know any better). Blocking those app-heavy people as well as a few more widespread apps removed the vast majority of the crap from my feed.
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Facebook has a mechanism for defining a romantic relationship.
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I'm working on a start-up related to this. Are there any good ways on Hacker News to announce you are looking for a 3rd person to join the founding team? I'm pretty sure in this little thread is not the best place to ask......
I'm just taking a poke at Rudd, I do agree with you it's important to set the tone of the event by having well known politicians, business leaders, sportsmen and others pitching in and lending a hand.

I'm far more impressed with Rudd getting his hands dirty than others hiding in Canberra trying to score points by press release.
I bought http://properprocess.com for $900 from squatters because it was an exact match. I don't think I'd pay much more than that.

I was going to go with http://properprocesshq.com (which I also own) until I spoke with some clients that use our Basecamp and Campfire. They say its near impossible for them to remember where to go. They know its (someword).campfire(something).com but have difficulty remembering someword and something if they ever need to access from home... Right then and there I bit the bullet and paid up.
IMHO not the best example : If they can sell today and buy it back lower tomorrow, then that's pretty smart. They own the same thing, but have $$ left over.
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How can I authenticate with facebook? It seems that the fbs_<app_id> cookie isn't being set when I'm on Safari, because the iframe is showing my widget which is on another domain.

I heard that submitting a form with target="_self" might cause Safari to treat my domain as "visited" and then the cookies would be set. It seems to work. However, the fbs_<app_id> cookie is STILL not being set after the whole facebook authentication popup is done. Does anyone know why? Please help me figure out how to actually auth with facebook when I'm in an iframe!
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I found it tasteless because I remember Dancho from the days when he was just a teenage blogger.
Unless the creator has explictly granted you the right to copy, copying is certainly theft in the legal sense and often in the ethical sense.

Whether or not you agree with the legality of it is irrelevant, the fact is that it's illegal for you to make copies of software that you are not authorized to copy.

Ethically, it's not fair to the people who build these apps to be deprived of the revenue they would earn from your usage of it.

They don't have a right to your money, but then, you don't have a right to their software either.
I think you nailed it on the last sentence.

Google originally started selling a phone directly to consumers with no carrier involved, but gave up on the idea because they weren't able to sell enough units.
The article mentions scraping public Facebook data. Someone else did that a while ago, resulting in a change to their robots.txt (it's now a whitelist) and nearly a lawsuit.

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Looks like a great website. I just have a few comments.

- It took me a while to understand the purpose of the website. At first glance it seemed to be some kind of a wiki tool, but then I understood that you could also create forms and generate reports. So it's like Google Docs + Wiki.

- The slideshow is really nice. It does take a while to read it because the text and arrows seem to have equal graphical 'importance' as the rest of the image, so they are not easy to find. I would suggest making the explanatory text a bit more prominent (either using more standout colors/fonts, or by lightening up the graphic under them)

- Even after I understand the concept of the website, I'm not sure how I would use it in my company. I know I can 'collect information' and 'collaborate with clients', but I'm still trying to think of some good real use cases. Maybe it would help if you had some example use cases up there so that your users get that 'aha' feeling right away.

Thymer looks great too!
You might try sympy (a python project)--the community is very responsive. But, be prepared to get your hands dirty if there are some features that aren't present yet.
A commenter on the Huffington Post article wrote

This is a publicity stunt by Corona. How does this not read like ad copy?
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standard Objective- C programming tools, but found the learning curve a little
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Corona is definitely going to be a huge winner once this is over.
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The weird thing is having friends in affected areas and living in an unaffected area. While some were losing their homes, I was just not allowed into work. A bit surreal to be honest.

Still not allowed back into work though :\
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I would guess that many Americans do not believe in an unbiased group of any sort, at any level.

Yes, that's kindof what I was trying to say. And I think to some extent it's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Of course people are only human and have their biases, but if you create a social expectation that they'll be unbiased (and combine this with choosing the best people for the job -- old judges with nothing in particular to gain or lose and a well-earned reputation for impartiality) then they will be as unbiased as humanly possible.

The "Royal" in the title is no accident, though -- the traditions of the Commonwealth countries dictate that the Crown is above all politics, so anything expected to be above politics is always given a direct symbolic link to the monarchy. In the US there is no such thing and the highest power in the land is just another damn politician.

One might, perhaps going only a little too far, wonder whether the American political need to constantly invoke God comes from not having a Queen instead.
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I don't know about that. I'm certainly no expert, but the Thylacine was a carnivore. As crazy as it sounds, it would seem to be more likely to breed one from a Tasmanian Devil. As marsupials are 'born' the size of a peanut, the actual parent wouldn't matter.

There has been articles floating around from time to time about a recreation of the Thylacine, but I think the stumbling block is the inability to get enough genetic information, despite the last living example living in captivity in 1936. Legend has it that the corpse was thrown out with the trash, althogh I'm not sure I believe that. You'd think they would have at least embalmed or frozen the corpse, but I guess 1930's conservation thinking didn't exist or was vastly different.

You can also find a rich litany of resources on the web of reported thylacine sightings, though none have ever been photographed accurately or verified. It does seem somewhat likely that a small family or two still lives deep in the Tasmanian wilderness.
I don't know - Eric Schmidt has kind of been a PR disaster for Google.
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Google is also not really a good retailer. They have no experience at all with directly selling stuff, and I think they messed it up.

But I can directly buy phones from HTC or Samsung here (well, of course through retailers), and some people do. Electronics stores offer a big selection of unlocked smartphones (I got mine through http://www.amazon.de/).

I always get a bit pissed when people from the USA ignore that the rest of the world is not just inhabited by dragons.
> Actually the idea of a Royal Commission is just part of a smaller idea missing from US governance: the idea that an organ of the government can be completely non-partisan.

Yes, but they are rarely used, for two reasons.

1. They resemble the Star Chamber in their powers and setup. The Common Law has an unflattering cultural memory of this time in its history.

2. Their independence makes them dangerous to the commissioning government. For political reasons various watered-down sorts of inquiry are preferred instead.

> Royal Commissions are instigated by politicians, but they're expected to exist far above the fray of ordinary politics; certainly I've never heard of any accusations that a Royal Commission is biased one way or the other.

The Costigan Commission has been accused of bias, or at least going outside its terms of reference.

> Other examples of entities which manage in Australia to escape the partisanship which dominates them in the US are the High (Supreme) Court and the process for redrawing the boundaries of electoral districts.

I'm not sure why the HCA has avoided such a divisive culture as in the US. Probably because our jurisprudence has evolved in a quite different direction from the USA's in terms of constitutional interpretation. Simplifying grossly, the US model is "realist", taking the view that all judges are biased and that policy consideration affects judicial decisions; the Australian model is more "legalist", in that every attempt is made to ignore the policy implications and attend only to the law.

Of course in both countries the debate is far more complex and nuanced than that; but in Australia our judges have developed a theory of interpretation that blends legalism[1] and a general rejection of originalism/purposefulness[2]. This latter strand has caused the original design of the federation to be steadily turned inside out.

As for electoral boundaries, yes, having independent electoral commissions is a huge boon to our country and something that should be more widely replicated. In terms of electoral systems Australia is a world leader in many areas.

[1] Justice Sir Owen Dixon championed this view and shaped the post-50s court. He said upon becoming Chief Justice: "Close adherence to legal reasoning is the only way to maintain the confidence of all parties in federal conflicts. It may be that the Court is thought to be excessively legalistic. I should be sorry to think that it is anything else. There is no other safe guide to judicial decisions in great conflicts than a strict and complete legalism". His thinking in this case was shaped by the previous appointment of politicians to the High Court.

[2] Justice Isaacs introduced this mode of reasoning in the famous Engineers case.
You could very well be right.

I certainly hope that the answer to "Why was Brisbane flooded" turns out to be primarily "Mother Nature is a bitch" rather than "Random public servant Joe Bloggs screwed up big time".
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I'm bulgarian, and didn't know Danchev before this article.

As for the "Pro Western" country ... this is only on the surface. Western movies, music, dances, clothes, etc. a cool, but deep inside it's still a very eastern country with lots of prejudice, racism, stupid old traditions.

For example, our premier was just caught protecting some of his own people (a beer factory owner) out of customs examination... Because he promised the guy, and he never brokes his promises.

Such people are treated with more respect ("not breaking his promises to someone"), rather than "Not breaking his promise" to the country he's supposed to minister.

People in bulgaria, like autoritharian figures - it does not matter whether he's always following the law, it's about keeping his word.

Most of the bulgarian mafia, is feed by russian mafia money (laundering). A lot of the resorts are built with such, and many other.

Corruption is huge, and "paying under the table" is the norm.

It reminds me of what America was during the 1920-30.

Hopefully things would get better.
Um, this is a link to a portfolio page with no article. Dead it.
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The library has limited lending ability; you can't lend one book to two people at the same time.

It will be very interesting to see how they handle ebooks. I'd be surprised if the publishers didn't enforce scarcity.
Heh, I have a morkie (maltese + yorkie). He goes nuts for toys, so one day I got one of those zip-toys, where you pull a cord and it vibrates. He was beside himself -- but then I made him just watch me pull the cord a few times, and when he took it, he knew exactly what to do. He would put it between his paws and pull the cord with his teeth. That blew me away.

By the way, I didn't know this before, but dogs can be rewarded with toys instead of treats - I taught him a few other tricks this way.
Absolutely. I'm in the mindstate to do this today, as we celebrate one of history's great leaders (MLK). It may sound like a ridiculous comparison, but I put the two together as my biggest heroes: people who put their vision for the future of humanity ahead of their own well-being.
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Ask HN: Should I fill out "Voluntary Self ID" forms?
Since I am a white male does it hurt me to fill out this information? Should I just leave it blank, or would a company hold that against me?

I am also putting together a more creative resume and I was thinking of including a picture, but I remember reading that some companies cannot accept resumes with pictures and will disqualify you. Any thoughts?
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Behind a pay wall so we can't read much...

The topic says it all though. It's true, Wall Street is on a hiring frenzy right now and they've started to realize how important good talent is.

It means they are going to have to start offering more to get the talent that typically dives off into silicon valley. NYC suits are also a hard sell to the t-shirt style of the west coast and that in itself may be a difficult obstacle.
Could someone provide a summary for those of us without a WSJ account?
I think he was asking people's opinions on a new potential market for web developers. @adelevie: You might consider using the text box and state your position if you want to ignite some conversation. (Unless this is just to get your dev shop some exposure. If so, expect a lot of resistance with this approach.)
There are parts of America where people, when disaster strikes, will band together and help each other out.

There are other parts of America where people, when disaster strikes, will start looting and setting fire to police cars.

Australia just happens to resemble the best parts of America rather than the worst parts, in this regard.
That problem's easily solved. Render the original unconscious before performing the transfer. Keep it in a coma for a few days while verifying the duplicate works as expected, then pull the plug.

If the transfer is successful, from your point of view you went to sleep in one body and woke up in another. If it failed, you'll fall asleep and then wake up a few days later.
Bush of course, duh. It's a well-known fact that he did Brisbane because he hates Aussies.
I think your poke at Rudd was somewhat justified, since we all know Rudd as a media whore. :-) But yeah, nice to see the politicos getting dirty, and I think it's pretty clear even from press conferences that there is sincerity involved on all sides.

As an ex-pat aussie looking at this from abroad, at appears as if various levels of Australian government are pulling together and focusing on clean-up. In many other places, things descend into blame and confusion pretty quickly, which is what happened in the US. I'm sure Bush did care what was happening on the ground, but the confused response between the different levels of government was astounding (and surely wasn't the feds fault alone).

For all the internal complaining about who is running the show in oz at various times, the country has a healthy and functional democracy in many ways. And Queenslanders will pull through.. the state is full of tough buggers. Best wishes to all affected back home.
Agreed. The lack of a decent issue system is the one thing keeping from us being 100% on GitHub.
Wow. That is definitely a wake up call to execute. Motivates me to finish some hanging ideas. I'd love to see Mark's comment on this.

Nice work on phone 7 btw. I really enjoy it. I just wish scrolling performance wasn't so damn hard to get right. Since I wouldn't normally get your attention how do you go about getting an app featured in the marketplace? [whoring] My latest app isn't the most awesome thing ever but it's fun for kids and it tombstones correctly. http://wp7.apphab.com/sticker-draw-by-ideaindustries-net/ [/whoring]
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I'm bulgarian, living in US since 1999. I've been couple of times back, trying to keep on the news... and the recent scandal involving our premier just saddens me.

The transition from "kind-of communist/socialist (actually totalitarian)" regime to full blown democracy, reminds me a bit of situation where you would put electrical engineer with no software practice to be software engineer.

In results, we have a buggy country, with lots of hacks, "fixes", and it leaks everywhere, but you can't debug it well.

Real example - the money for Sofia -> Burgas freeway (~400km long) disappeared, only 1/3 (1/4?) got finished.... Not the only case where money had went south in my dear old country.

So I'm here, waiting for Bulgaria 2.0 to happen, and would go back once the people are ready for change.
That's a damn good picture. If they had put up an even slightly less cool picture, the number of signups would not be so crazy.

With technology, as with everything else in life, appearance matters, and this proves it.
Or it could also point to a "Hey, this is different. I don't like change!" reaction that you always get when you change something's UI.
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So I've developed a product and someone wants to be my business cofounder.
I've already developed some web app MVP, and someone wants to come along and be the business co-founder.

What should I know about equity, terms, etc?
How should I structure the business? What should we get straight right at the beginning of this all? So many questions!

Any articles/advice you care to give would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks :)
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