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This would happen:

http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2008/10/how-close-to-z...

(It never occured to me that I was opposed to OpenID until somebody put up a website that required me to use it!)
OpenDNS ftw?
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For the 30 seconds that it will take to break this. This measure is not so much orwellian as it is idiotic and a waste of time. Its sole purpose is to put up a PR stunt and that politicians can get away with using $128 million of taxpayer cash for this is unacceptable.
well there goes the neighborhood. Anyone wanna house swap with me?
and I bet we have the same Cisco routers that China has, and so it would be trivial to switch on, in terms of technology.
How d'ya measure internet time? Dog years, or what?
I don't think you would change their mind even if you convinced them that plants have no feelings. A certain segment of society is dissatisfied with modern civilization; they are disappointed with how well a capitalist, competitive, technology-heavy society has turned out. In their worldview, the noble savage is the ideal - communal tribes living "in harmony" with nature. The modern world is evil, dirty, selfish. So, they will support whatever sentiments they can to oppose it.
yeah but with the potential to be a pain in the ass and increasing latency..
I remember an article where a guy got a hold of the Finnish police's list of child pornography sites that were blocked at the ISP level by law. The guy decided to go through all the sites to see whether they were indeed child pornography, and he found that 95% of them were just normal porn sites operating legally. It turned out that the list bore resemblance to the US terror watch list insofar that it was primarily false positives, it seriously hurt legal companies, you got no notification of the fact that you were placed on it, and that it was almost impossible to get off it.

This begs the question: Who will guard the guards?
This is something new. It's shame-ware.

I like it.
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Charge by the twit.
I really wish I had more time to learn Objective-C, Cocoa and the like.

I wrote an FxPlug plugin for Final Cut and found the language to be quite a bit different to C++.

I would write more but my ride is here already damn it!
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Inability to distinguish between 'this is wrong' & 'this should be illegal.'

And now we have a censored internet.
Hmm. My globe has "Oceania" printed just to the right of Australia. Perhaps it was a misprint and meant to go on Australia. (Hint: Oceania was the country in "Nineteen Eighty-Four".)
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Now you know the big push to "internationalize" the internet -- every nation out there is going to have its own list of approved and non-approved (illegal) sites.

I wonder how long it will take for us to start seeing stories about some of the completely benign sites that the Australian government doesn't want folks to see? Or companies get squashed because they fall on the wrong side of the filter police?

Better still, is it possible for start-ups to purposely bypass the filters? Perhaps this is good news, eh? New line of business opening up -- accessing "bad" sites that aren't really bad. (And I don't mean simple proxy services, more like finding popular commercial sites on the other side of the firewall and being the man-in-the-middle between the two parties. Heck-- you could charge on either, or both, sides of that arrangement)
This was dodgy enough when it was opt-out rather than opt-in... Now there might not even be any real opt-out? Fuck off.

Senator Conroy's contact details are here:

http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/contact

I would recommend sending snail mail or email to Conroy's office and/or you local member.
I should point out that after some searching I haven't been able to find any other sources for this.

Terrible news if it is true though. Many people who voted for Rudd would switch sides if this was true.
I just don't understand the thinking of anyone who thinks this is a good idea - if, of course, they are thinking at all.

Take all of the bad stuff throughout history that was caused by the balance of power resting in the hands of individuals and compare that the damage caused throughout history by the balance of power being held by the government, and the latter is so much more damaging the two don't even come close.

This filter restricts freedom and moves the balance of power towards the government just that tiny bit more. Of course it's for a good reason - who wants primary school kids looking at porn? Who could be against blocking terrorist training manuals from being accessible (remembering that some people are naive enough to think that such a thing is possible).

But when has any government ever taken away freedoms WITHOUT a good reason? It just doesn't happen. And the prospect of giving government just that little bit more control is frightening.

Even if we completely trust Mr Rudd and the current Australian Government, this is just another governmental power that's open to future governments who may or may not be corrupt to take advantage of.

Of course, I'm sure everyone on here understands this issue at least as well as I do, so I'll shut up now and just say that $5 was taken out of my pocket to fund this, and I am furious.
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There're certain situations where you need to be an "accredited investor" (liquid net worth > $1M) to take money from the public. I know hedge funds are one of these

You need to be an accredited investor to put money into a hedge fund.

Anyway, what the world really needs is not a new stock market but rather a new banking system.
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So if you want to make a lasting impression, get into real estate or liquors.

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I've always assumed that every email in the US is already monitored. And not just since 9/11. I assumed it from the time I started using email in the 1980s. Maybe I was overly imaginative, but I suspect the only thing that's changing is that they're doing it openly.
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Ask HN: Googling your name shows a lot of relevant online presence: do you look less professional?
Every reasonable employer will google for your name before or after the interview -- this is absolutely clear nowadays. However, if the top results he or she finds are bunch of comments left by the interviewee in communities (I am talking here about the relevant ones, like Hacker News, Stackoverflow, you name it), will this destroy or stronger your reputation?

Does this person looks more like a one who likes chatting about Java, or Python, or Ruby, or VCs, or holywars, or whatever else with other hackers more than delivering the actual result? What do you think?
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And encrypted email still isn't catching on. Assuming RSA/IDEA protects against GCHQ, NSA, etc. of course.
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What's the problem? Microorganisms are not bad in general. And they will be killed by the cooking anyway.

People used to store beef for several weeks to let the microorganism improve the product.
Definitely some of my favorite jazz composers have some dark moments. I mean what was Chick Corea thinking in the 80s?! :-)

That said, I think the point stands, and that's why there's not a strong correlation between greatness in the arts and salary. The great artistic minds, even when producing stuff that I feel like was below par for their work, were doing so out of a genuine desire to do something important, even if they didn't have a perfect batting average. Similarly, those who were driven by that desire didn't cave just because they weren't commercial successes.
Normal light bulbs might be even better - they turn more power into heat that halogen lights. But they are also bigger.
Unless your real name is "I.M Neuron," you have nothing to worry about.
So Stackoverflow is a relevant community now? Huh....

Anyway, I suppose it depends on the type of job you're after. Want a position in the FBI as a spy? Probably not gonna happen if you're a twitter junkie, I'd guess. Want a job as a web developer? Probably more likely to happen if the employer thinks you have your "finger on the pulse".

I think that, as long as you don't have stupid things on the web that make you look unprofessional, you're okay.
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Thanks for the softtabstop tip, that was a life saver as I'm forced to used spaces. For the regexps I'm used to search for tabs to distinguish lvalues but two spaces are the same for that patterns.
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That's why I use a one way name. It's easy to go from this name to my real name, but it's not as easy to go from my real name to this name. I stand by the things I say here, but I do not want to have to explain them, or have them permanently associated with me when anyone does a casual google search.
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Actually that brings an interesting request.

When I registered to HN it was in a second - all it wanted was a username and password. super cool. I gave my short name and voila I have an account.

Now there is a lot of data collected and google is picking it up. I want to change my username to my full name which I use every where else. How about an option to migrate or change visible username if they are not already taken.
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Ah, now that I didn't think of. When stock prices go down, companies can no longer make purchases based off stock exchanging. So startup purchasing will go down as markets reduce to more sane levels, meaning that gambling investors will find something new to put their money in, and all your built to flip startups will leave a lot of people flipping burgers.

I guess it's time to start building features for solar panels, but that's where the gamblers are going to be heading towards.
I submitted this almost 3 months ago. ;)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=254256
My question is, will the "quangos" have access to the information as well?
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I hope this pushes more innovation in large scale mesh networks.
Perhaps it's about the "consider themselves [...]" part? And who says the chart is transitive?
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In some modes (e.g. C mode, plain text mode, several others), yes, though it's usually turned off by default. (I find it really distracting.) Usually, it automatically indents when you type a newline, add an opening or closing brace, an if statement, etc. The re-indent-as-you-go behavior seems to be used most in C mode, because you can specifically configure your indent style (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style).

Most modes also have a command such as c-fill-paragraph that re-indents the chunk of code (e.g. function body) that the cursor is in. (Emacs refers to this behavior as "filling", so that's what to search for.) I think people use this pretty often - it's alt-Q by default.

The automatic indentation is quite good for some modes (C, Lisps in general, Python, OCaml, Lua, probably many others), but not always perfect (haskell-mode comes to mind). I think the important thing is that Emacs provides a lot of hooks for building mode-specific indentation-control functions and is not terribly difficult to extend.
This hit here several days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=331077
If your comments are generally "+1, Insightful" sort of stuff, then this would generally help you.

Of course, this is based on the premise that you also have decent references and can speak to accomplishments in your prior job. If all you have are online comments, then you don't have much going for you. If you have a strong resume and experience plus quality posts in relevant forums, that should work in your favor.
I think that, as long as you don't have stupid things on the web that make you look unprofessional, you're okay.

I thought this also, but imagine your interviewer found your profile on a Lisp hackers site. You (probably) know Lisp, fine. And though your reasoning in the relevant forums about... hmmm (I'm not a Lisp hacker)... difference between macros and function may be perfectly plausible, interviewer could probably think that it is he who will have to pay you for the time spent chatting.
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I obviously missed it, sorry about that!
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Am I the only one that thinks this plan is full of it?

So, an evil government schemes 1984-style to create a database of all your emails, phone usage, and websites visited. So, they're going to spend many times the budget of Google for practically no purpose? Do they not understand how much data that is? I mean, Google doesn't even store that amount of data given that they store a very small fraction of the internet's email. And the UK government during a financial crisis is going to build something that stores exabytes of data?

Not only the storage of that information, but how are they going to operate on it? Looking for patterns in that much data? I just don't see it happening. I mean, Yahoo and Google don't operate on nearly that much data and I'd say they're probably the largest scale computing operations out there.

Anyone think this sounds like Reagan's Star Wars missile defense?
I would support this... If it also came with the proviso that any politician implicated in sleaze was banned from politics for life.
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Ok, let's say someone proposes you to maintain either A or B, giving you 10.000$ per year. You have the right to choose one of the two. He tells you that the only info he can give you is the lines of code of each program.(think of it as a thought experiment.) If you say, I don't care to know - it's meaningless. you lose the chance to make 10.000$ per year by maintaining a toy application of 20 lines. Even worse if you say, I just need the 10.000$ and choose B randomly.

I mean, at least one info you get is that A is a toy application and B is a big program. Might be big because it's full of useless sh*t, but still it's big and this IS some information.
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Good article, but I disagree with the Microsoft/Apple example in the beginning. MS and Apple happened to come along when the microcomputer was really starting to take off, and they were able to ride that wave (while 1000's of other microcomputer startups crashed).

One thing that worries me personally about starting the "stereotypical" HN startup right now, is that I think the free/fremium model is going to lose steam FAST. My prediction is that you will see more companies trying to start monetizing their web-app soon. FWIW, TipJoy is well positioned to take advantage of this if my prediction is true.

Of course, I've always been a hardware/product startup hacker, but I've had a couple of rounds in software and Web 2.0 companies. So, I'm not as immersed in web-app funding cycles as some others here are.

I would look to solar and certain other viable alternative energy options right now as the next major tech growth sector. I think the tech startup world needs to see more "inventions" (again, admitting my own bias).

While many here may disagree with me, one of the problems with web-apps is that while they are cheap to get going (relatively speaking), I think that the saturation of non-revenue producing web-app companies, coupled with the low cost of starting them, will make many traditional VCs look elsewhere for their next investments. The web-app community needs more investors like YC, that keep the investments and process realistic.
Not a good idea to take stock as payment when it's about to plummet anyway.
If you follow the link to the BBC article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7671046.stm

It looks like they aren't recording the content of the messages, just times and dates etc. The worrying is that they are already doing it, and the proposal is to extend the duration the data can be kept for, and to make it centrally searchable (paragraphs 5 and 7).
It happens all the time. Usually a consortium of banks who trade a lot with each other decide it's going to be easier to set up a separate organization to handle all their interactions. I worked on one a few years ago, Centradia, which was a private exchange that 5 banks used to pool liquidity for foreign exchange dealing. Thera are quite a few, and no-one outside the industry will ever have heard of them. A mate of mine's at Equiduct now.
> Who will guard the guards?

The Free Marke.. Hahahahaha, jk. The People, like always. Unfortunately The People are typically dosing while on guard duty.
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Is it still about? Don't think it ever came to the UK or EU either?
One of the underlying things here is that there is very little use saying 'bad economy' & leaving it at that. Bad what? What are the actual effects.

A startup might be affected by:

Customers/market - These are not necessarily the problem. True. Particularly if you are evolving in this economy, Like a Neanderthal in an ice age. This point is probably neutral on average.

Investors - This may be a problem. This is a market that can shy. But only a problem if you need them. This point is negative.

Buyers- (Of some description) Definitely a negative. But you don't need them right away & you can probably be more flexible waiting for the right time. If Cockaroach doesn't do it.. endospore.

You can't have everything.
Comeptitors - A plus. Fewer investors (including founders as the essay implies) by definition means fewer startups.
I've been trying to delete accounts with my name tied to them (emailed Sir Graham asking to delete this one a month ago), but I'm on the fence. I think that generally what I write reflects positively.
How is this semantic matching? Seems to me another pop-quiz.
Is it really that hard to create maintainable PHP code? I've been guilty of making spaghetti code myself, but after a little studying and re-learning the stuff I learned in college, I improved measurably in a matter of weeks.

It isn't so hard to write maintainable PHP code; although maybe the nature of this application was different. If they had written the rationale, I wouldn't have any of these questions :(
Not sure that works. Remember, a neuron is a relatively simple mechanism. It is just that a bunch of them together make one "smart" or whatever. So alcohol's wanton destruction of neurons is only destructive I would think, because there are not "stronger" vs. "weaker" neurons. They are all pretty much the same, simple mechanisms. The more the better, and so killing some of them off just can't be good, I don't think. I am not a doctor but I do know neurons are fairly simple. They fire if a "threshold" of electric potential is exceeded, else they don't. They are simple, stupid, binary mechanisms. But put lots of them together and you eventually get Einstein. So killing neurons can only be bad I think.
Indeed, there are a ton of web-apps that probably will never take off. Still, there is the big advantage that you can build a prototype almost for free.

Other fields (solar, biotech, whatever) might require way more money to start. For real stuff, like machines, not for swag and parties.

Having nothing than an idea, how do you convince a VC that you need a ton of money, given the current economic situation?