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However, to clarify the point : the government debt is low by world standards, but growing fast, and that is while the economy is at a cyclical high

Oh, right. I think that's where we mostly disagree.

I think current government spending is what is propping-up the "slow" part of the two-speed economy. The government needs to find ways to support the bad parts of the economy while stopping the high-growth areas (ie, mining) from becoming "too hot".

If anyone thinks it can't happen here, I'd be very interested in why not.

I'm not saying "it can't happen here", but it is much less likely than it was in other markets. See http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/A-capital... for why.
I second that. I've had to call PayPal a few times due to integration issues and the people on the phone (all 4 I spoke to) were beyond kind and helpful.

Unfortunately, everyone is coming out the woodwork now to get their two shots in while PayPal is down.
You're making the (in my opinion, large) assumption that the "brand recognition" for Windows Phone is a positive thing. Personally, I suspect it would be doing better if Microsoft had called it "Metro Phone" or something else non-Windows.
Yes - and the majority of the bank lending is done in the international market which has nothing to do with the RB interest rate. Banks should be allowed to charge whatever interest rate they like. It's bad enough that there is a centrally fixed interest rate, but that's workable as long as there aren't rules that say everyone has to borrow at that rate.
They were being sued by Skyhook because they were using Android compatibility tests "as a club to get OEMs to do what [they] want" (their words). In this case, they were using it to push out Skyhook in favour of Google Location Services.
Good job in handling the crippling hardware flaw in your product. Yay to Jawbone!

And I'm still trying to figure out why that little battery powered bluetooth speaker thingie they are pushing heavily costs $200.
Only 1 out of 10 negatively geared properties is for the construction of a new property. The rest is for the purchase of existing stock.

The problem with negative gearing in the context of a tax deduction on housing investments is that it encourages speculation by reducing the losses on bad investments. This is why we have such a disconnect between housing prices and rental prices.
I only kept reading after that line to see if there were additional conjectures involving "reversing polarity" and/or "reconfiguring the shields through the sensor array."
If you're not going to re-use something, then why are you writing it to be re-usable?
What's danced around in this piece is what specific circumstances arose to create the political class that managed to steer the economy so well. In fact, one of the enduring paradoxes of the Australian miracle is how such a dismal political process has managed to consistently produce competent leaders over a 30 year time span.

The Economist did a special report on Australia in May that goes into much more detail: http://www.economist.com/node/18719530?story_id=18719530
Google is starting to behave exactly how Microsoft did in the late 90s and early 2000s. Let some startup validate a market by creating a good product. And then copy, paste and use their financial prowess to try to takeover the market.
He didn't say "Google is being mean", he said they and Apple were "suing everybody", a statement in no way supported by one of his references.
So true!

But dude, you are in PERTH - the most isolated city in the world. Sydney and Melbourne are far less like that, especially now the dollar is high and we are starting to get better cultural acts visiting.

And I think many Australians have seen as much of Europe as most Europeans - if not more.

I hate that when I was in NYC, every night had a band or play or comedian that I wanted to see, but I wonder if Sydney is worse than, say, Buttfuck Iowa.
The usual gripe - my company is based in New Zealand, and it's well nigh impossible to open a US bank account so we can't use Stripe or Wepay. I'd love to know how many of PayPal's merchants are non-resident, it's the only reason we use them.

In fact, if it wasn't for PayPal non-US websites selling to the US would be almost impossible. The US has a massive advantage in that the rest of the world is happy to pay in US dollars, but US citizens won't pay in other currencies.

So here's a very lucrative challenge, Stripe and Wepay: the one that figures out how to allow non-residents to set up an account first simply has to post the news to HN and will be flooded with new accounts. I'd switch within 24 hours if there was a viable alternative to PayPal.
You'll probably get more responses if you make it clickable:

http://dbasch.polldaddy.com/s/work-conditions-232
For what it is worth, I liked the design. It shows that you think differently from others.
Slamming Google for not adding Facebook integration, when it was Facebook who blocked Google's access to Facebook contact information in the first place is ... odd, at the very least.
You HAVE TO have negative gearing - and it isn't like a family home is tax deductible!
I realise it hasn't been popular, and I'm not the biggest fan either, but my point isn't about what's popular amongst open source developers. Also, if developers need to be convinced of the need for good design I think that's a good example of the problem right there.
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That's because you are living in Perth...

Try moving to Melbourne or Sydney.
Honestly, I have never bought an apple product.

I am very good about my employers buying me requisite devices for work. I have had the iphone since launch and have gone through 12 of them (in all the various models) as I tend to drop them a lot.

The iPad was a gift.

I have not bought a phone or computer for myself in ~10 years.
I'd say being able to search Gmail by Circle is pretty clearly an enhancement to Gmail, not an enhancement to Google+..
The complaint about the size is most certainly not just "MS bashing". Dumping massive flawed pieces of code on people out of the blue and expecting them to be grateful is bad form, no matter who you are.

Unfortunately this seems to be Microsoft's MO.
Indeed, and thanks for the correction!
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For all those who are coding hard out there!!
An interesting exercise would be to actually maintain both versions: e.g. make utf-8 friendly; add error handling.
I think McIlroy's version would still come out on top but not by as much.
Nice, informative error handling is one of the things most lacking in shell scripts.
Thanks for your feedback - I appreciate it.
My assumption would be the companies that know, rely on developers to be their recruiters and the ones that don't and use headhunters look at developers as resources and are OK with the churn until they find a cog that fits the machine. I don't think second rate organizations would even see the value in a good recruiter.
That would make a lot of sense.. To design a secret spy drone so that it lands on the ground and have anyone inspect it, take it and sell it, when it 'runs out of fuel' haha.
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A bit of advise, you need to compare between capital gains vs stock loss. Most problems come when the stock is losing 40% of its value, and still keep it in order to avoid capital gains, ended up losing even more.
How, exactly, should LAPD have gotten those folks unlinked and removed them? Remember, those folks didn't want to unlink. Your answer should include some evidence showing that it would have worked.

Your right to protest does not include a right to occupy a public park for an indefinite amount of time.

As to their property, they were given notice that it would be removed. They ignored said notice. Again, what would you have the police do?

Acceptable answers result in the property removed without the cooperation of the owners or significant costs to the city.

FWIW, Villarigosa's statements in favor of these actions are perhaps the best argument against them in my mind because he's a disaster.
Perhaps there is a difficulty in getting designers involved with open source software projects. As a freelance web developer you could overhaul a few of the promotional websites for the software you use and find poorly promoted. Perhaps better tools are needed to make it easier for designers to contribute - maybe this could be addressed in someoway by someone like Github.
I'd asked a related question on Quora last year (when there was a chance it might have expired at then end of 2010):

http://www.quora.com/What-pitfalls-should-be-avoided-if-inve...
I like to view it as, gnome at least do some 'renewals' and changes to their site and stuff, oposite as the other sites and software.
I've had mine for a month, and was wearing it pretty much all the time. I actually found it pretty useful for making me aware of how much activity I was logging.

I was even exploring the unofficial api to grab as much of the raw data as possible. http://eric-blue.com/2011/11/28/jawbone-up-api-discovery/

Saw the announcement this morning, and discovered that the device would no longer sync this afternoon.

Things I'll be looking for in a replacement:

1. inductive charging

2. wireless sync - whether bluetooth, nfc, wifi or optical

3. direct access to the raw data - preferably without having to go through the manufacturers website.

4. less annoying buzzer

While a watch display would be nice, and a watch would be a reasonably good form factor for this device I don't feel an absolute need to have a display on wrist.
On the other hand I wouldn't want both a watch and one of these.
Josh, you are failing to recognize other reasons why a business might still consider using Paypal as their merchant account provider. Here are ours:

1) Costs. We pay 2.2% + $0.30 USD per transaction vs. Stripes' 2.9% + $0.30 USD per transaction. At our transaction rate, that makes a difference in received revenue.

2) Moving. Refactoring a well established business to interface with a new payment provider can be a costly and expensive process. Think of switching personal banks.

3) Fraud. Paypal probably has the most advanced fraud protection in the online business today. If you deal in any decent amount of online payments you will find this to be a huge issue.

Additionally, we have our own dedicated Paypal account manager that actively reaches out to us and keeps in contact, and we can instantly call a direct line to this person if we need assistance with an issue.

With that said, our team is actively looking at Stripe because we like the ease of use when it comes to reoccurring payments, which we don't do at this time but plan to implement in the coming year. From what we see, reoccurring payments are a messy with Paypal and I'm not satisfied with Paypal's solution compared to their competitors like Recurly, Chargify, and, well, Stripe. But I am impressed with what Stripe has to offer on all fronts. Especially their API which appears to be very easy to use. ...And, they have a nice looking reoccurring payments process which fits our vision nicely.

Anyway, disclaimer: we run between 50K and 100K a month through Paypal, so that is probably why we get fantastic support from them and better pricing.
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It's a reasonable idea. It might not be a big business, at least not for quite a while. It might overlap a bit with:

http://localwiki.org/
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How could I forget chaos theory and string theory.
Both Amber and Backbone fall into what I call the KVO frameworks category (Angular, Javascript MVC, Knockout, Batman, others). Both use jQuery for DOM manipulation and revolve around the idea of having a canonical model and having that as the center of your app. As you change the model, it fires events that you use to update the DOM. The difference is that Backbone is philosophy.

Backbone provides a basic but complete set of tools for observing model changes combined with a set of utilities that are useful but not prescriptive to make wiring up DOM events, URL handling, etc straightforward. It works with what's in jQuery/the browser. All together, it provides the organization most js apps are sorely lacking but doesn't dramatically reduce LoC over what you could do with well factored jQuery and underscore. It's nice enough that the YUI team basically adopted it wholesale for the App framework in 3.5.

Amber is all about binding. You can not only observe properties but bind them to other properties bidirectionally so that changing one causes the change to propagate through all bound values including things like values being arrays. This extends to the Handlebars templating (which was written for Amber) where you can bidirectionally bind, for example, a boolean on your model to a checkbox and to a class on a div so that checking the checkbox toggles the class without anything in your app directly manipulating the DOM. The implementation is an attribute plus two object path strings in the template. It's not panacea but since DOM/Event/State manipulation is ~60-70% of most JS apps I've worked with, you can achieve dramatic code size reductions.

The cost is that Amber is 10x the size of Backbone, the templating language is tied to the framework, and there's more overhead in understanding the concepts, how they fit together, and how to apply them to your code. When I talk to people who are writing jQuery spaghetti, I steer them towards Backbone for the simplicity and superior docs but mention that I use Amber for my own projects.
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Superflashcard is an application that helps you create study and review FREE flashcards. It works as a proficient long-term memory management tool using the theory of spaced repetition.
The system stands out due to the idea that you should review the cards you get wrong more frequently than the ones you get right.
Give it a quick look and you will not regret about that.
Here is the link to a video showing the working product:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njzjZBsjY-k

pretty cool.
Yes, we know. Since you're a designer why not offer your time to some open source project you use instead of just offering your criticism.
I wouldn't so much call it "bad form" as just non-idiomatic. It doesn't really have big downsides in practice.

It's mostly a habit people pick up from C++ (where it's mandatory due to stricter typing), and if you want to build C code with a C++ compiler, you need to add the casts.

Given Microsoft's C++ fetish, I'm unsurprised by this.
Oz retail imports are controlled by a bloc who artificially inflate prices to line their own pockets.

Which is why Oz online (overseas) shopping has exploded over the past two years. I sincerely hope it forces the local market to become competitive.
The article begins by taking pot shots at Americans. Classy.

Following that, the article only presents statistics in the particular way that shows Australia as leading, while leaving the other ways unsaid.

First it talks about GDP growth percentage without adjusting for population growth differences.

Then it compares the average income growth per year while ignoring the hard numbers of both where it started and where it ended, removing the ability to compare income with other nations.

This is followed by more of the same, an odd obsession with comparing the economic growth of Australia's poor to the rest of the world's rich, citing a high minimum wage as if it were an accomplishment instead of a fiat law, a claim that anyone who disagrees is in denial, and topped off with a shot at the American government.

It seems Americans aren't the only ones who enjoy chart-fueled autofellatio.
No one is talking about replay attacks. The author said "break the code."
As cube13 mentioned, eh, not so much, there:

http://android.modaco.com/topic/324387-docking-port-is-it-pd...
> Their bad effects get manifested almost straight away.

And then nothing changes anyway. Telecoms immunized, torturers not prosecuted, etc. Yay?
larrys -- I'm in a similar situation and the domain brokers I've talked to have all been really sleazy. I would love to an HNer experienced in this field. I'd reach out to you privately but unfortunately your HN profile and even some light Google stalking didn't yield much as far as your contact info. So if you could contact me that would be great as well.

nate.hashem@gmail.com
That's not that crazy, is it? The thing is basically a glider.
I think this has a lot to do with not having to sell anything to anyone. OSS projects are, in general, less concerned with converting users than commercial software -- you like our project join us and use it else 'meh'. While, it would be nice to have a shinny surface on oss projects, I think it is unnecessary.

As someone who recently (for work) switched from using Linux boxes to a MacBook Pro, I would generally take the less shiny functionality over the pretty pictures any day. (\cough\ keyboard shortcut to lock screen \cough\) :)
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This always seems intuitive to me. You see a single queue feeding multiple processors fairly often such as in banks and security queues at airports. They seem "fairer" to me as you are not disadvantaged by picking the "wrong" queue through a bad prediction. In a classic supermarket queuing scenario, you could pick the shortest queue but find that the person in front is incredibly slow, so the three people who came to checkout after you at other checkouts progress through the process faster. This is first come, first served.
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Frank discussion on the failure of powerful central government in America is appropriate when it's central to the topic that is posted. The fact that the US government did this, for a year, without any backlash, is a symbol of how far gone the US government is.
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I'm willing to accept someone was careless if they mix up rise/run or run/rise. But you can readily summon the correct expression if you understand what slope means algebraically/geometrically.

So barring a sloppy mistake, which we all have, it's just as indicative of lacking proper geometric understanding. For example, a basic linear equation y = m*x would readily yield that m being the slope is m = y/x, so it's rise over run. That's one of the things I always treasured about math, that you could work out the formulas if you didn't care to memorize them.
Ctrl+Shift+Eject.

to turn off the screen. To lock it, set your laptop to it to lock after 5 secs and then use the above.
That's a case for not merging, not for a parallel win32-based project - which this implementation could serve either of.
How *not* to handle customer service (American Airlines)
Ask HN: Since when did Hacker News get a responsive web design?
Saving Our Democracy
You mean like I did for http://mentoring.is (as discussed here: http://blog.cobychapple.com/blog/2011/09/18/a-distributed-me...)?
It is bizarre, but as far as I know the tax deduction is limited to your personal residence, while negative gearing is more open to speculative investing.
This article reminds me of one of the Pendragon books:
http://djmachalebooks.com/books/pendragon/the-reality-bug/

In the book, the protagonist discovers a world in which people have abandoned reality in favor of a more enjoyable virtual world. As a result, society declines to the point where the real world is crumbling down.

Not saying that's what will happen, but it's an interesting read.
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Well obviously the author is just speculating on how it could have been done.

My point is that it's not totally out of the question that Iran took hold of this drone via the LoS landing controls, if those landing controls are vulnerable to replay attack.

This whole post is just speculation. It happens to be interesting, which is cool, but I don't think anybody is making the claim that this author knows exactly what happened.
You don't need to convince them of the need for good design, you need to convince them that what they're doing now isn't good design, and that they should do something different.

I'm saying, citing the project they think is an example of bad design isn't going to help, your opinion will carry less weight.
They also wrap AbiWord (GPLv2 licensed) in the cnet downloader..... that ask you if you want to install a toolbar. This does not look good either.

Time to lawyer up a bit.
A very fair point and I think this is mostly because we, as an industry/society, have only recently begun to pay attention to UX.

I'm not going to buy arguments that say good software has (needs) enterprise backing. Open software, more often than not, follows well established industry trends. UX is only just becoming a trend.

The same arguments that ten years ago applied to open software can today be applied to good UX. Thats that. Thats all there is to it.

Give it time, it'll happen. Better yet, MAKE it happen...be the first one to revamp Cyberduck's interface.
Replay attack is a class of encryption break. That counts.

(But I agree the original claim was pretty far out).
I strongly disagree with the notion that the composition of small programs to build larger ones is a "failed vision". Shell scripting is an invaluable tool in the daily-use toolbox for a huge number of people, myself included. And what is a shell, besides a programming language for gluing together other programs?

Now, if you mean that no one is writing full-scale professional desktop or web applications by piping together sed and awk, then of course you are correct. But many projects come closer to this than you might think. Git, for instance, was originally just a large collection of shell scripts, which has over time been gradually rewritten in C. Many pieces of it are, even today, still written in the POSIX Bourne shell.

To me, the principal reason for the astounding longevity of Unix is its emphasis on composability. The tiny, ubiquitous Unix utilities are ancient compared to virtually every other piece of software in common usage, yet are no less useful today than when ken and dmr first conceived of them. By making the system modular and composable at a very fundamental level, they ensured (perhaps as much by accident as by intentional design) that users far into the future would be able to continue using their tools for purposes not yet dreamed of. And indeed, this is very much the case, and is likely to continue that way for some time to come. Whatever the eventual successor to Unix turns out to be, it's likely to have the same emphasis on small building blocks with enormous synergy when composed.

Likewise, when you say that the vision of "building serious applications by gluing together objects" has "not succeeded in a very apparent way", I frankly have no idea what you're talking about. OOP is the dominant paradigm in modern programming, bar none. You might argue that some other paradigm (FP, perhaps?) would have served us better in retrospect, but the last thing anyone can truthfully claim about the object-oriented approach is that it has not been successful. It's hard to think of even one popular programming language that doesn't borrow at least a few ideas from that school of thought.

I do agree with you about the "enterprisey" component approach being largely a failure. Thankfully, CORBA, SOAP, et al. seem to be mostly behind us, or at least rapidly receding.
I couldn't help but think about AngularJS while reading this article. (http://angularjs.org/)
I am not sure why it isn't as popular as other JavaScript frameworks like Backbone.
Peace? America hasn't been in peace for over a decade.

If you mean peace, specifically with Iran, I think that's a stretch. America is actively trying to take down Iran's government, flying spy planes in its air space and sending in viruses that damage its equipment. Meanwhile, Iran is funding terrorist organizations who target the West and trying to build a nuclear bomb. This is not peace.