skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus Australians don't have massive student debt -- we have income-contingent loans that don't count income earned overseas. So if you move to the USA ... you don't have to pay back the loan.

Every time I see people on HN bitching about "low" wages and "high" costs in the valley, I laugh bitterly. American programmers really have no idea how good they have it.
Postgres has a nice XML type. The advantage to doing this is at least you can rely on the database to guarantee well-formedness and use XPath functions to do things like query the XML from SQL and build indexes on stuff buried within.

Postgres 9.2 will have JSON support as well, but lacking accompanying functions it will be of limited utility.
"Microsoft wanted to be firmly in control of the API and 100% own it. "
I know these are the default complaints about startups in Australia, but to address each point:

The current tax law is a nightmare for those AU startups wishing to dole out equity.

100% true

Lack of talent, the majority of students have steered clear of tech disciplines in university after the dot-com bust, the effect of this is being felt now as engineering talent is needed.

There is talent around if you know where to look.

The government is not focused on the needs of startups preferring to invest heavily in pie in the sky ideas or just digging the dirt out of the ground. There is no decisive strategy from the opposition nor the current gov in power.

Mostly untrue. I've done work for two local startups in the last 18 months, and both received significant government help, to the point where my services were at least partially funded by gov programs. Yes, getting government help can be a slow process, but I doubt anyone would except anything else.

The Shoes of Prey guys spoke specially about this recently at the Google startup event in Sydney. They praised the tax concessions and other gov funding available to startups.

Lack of funding. There are just not enough investors in Australia looking to fund in Australian tech startups.

Mostly untrue. There are plenty of YC-Style accelerator programs giving seed funding, and a decent number of individual investors interested. The VC funds don't seem to be playing the same game as Silicon Valley VCs though (but then - Boston VCs aren't playing that same game either).

A local Australian startup I've done some work for raised a $2 million angle round recently[1] and didn't seem to have a lot of trouble with it.

[1] http://delimiter.com.au/2012/02/23/australian-web-2-0-start-...
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Regarding your update, I'm pretty sure that he was making more money at the entry-level data-entry position than his manager because he was ALSO getting 99% of the bonus pool.

So Bonus Pool + Base Salary > Manager's Salary

Which is more believable.
I imagine Glass will handily compete, collaborate or compliment the GoPro market.

GoPro are in a lot of major retail outlets on and offline. Glass would be perfect right next to a GoPro.

Not only that, but I'm sure they will get more lightweight and portable - maybe even to the point of seamlessly clipping to your normal glasses or integrated right into frames as an add-on. I wear glasses too and I would love having this technology as accessible as simply putting my glasses on every day.

The connectivity to the web, ability to email with your eyes & voice, make calls, and more...could replace cell phones for some people.
Did anyone else notice that BP was a major contributor of funding to this report? I'm working my way through this, but it's hard to see it as anything more than the oil industry using academia as a mouthpiece.
Project Glass Is The Future Of Google
Good Application Website. And for those asking for a Desktop Version - AlphaImage - http://pngmini.com/.

AlphaImage will even give you the 'optional' Transparent PNG compatible with IE6.
Google Glass Usecases?
Clickable: http://www.gethackertools.com

OP Highlighting: http://d.pr/i/sIzR
He had somebody (Phil Schiller, I think) jump through a literal hoop to demonstrate their first wifi-capable notebook computer, does that count?
I can guess what it does, but I am really not sure. It will help if you explain in more detail and put a screenshot up.
Maybe a better one would be "Good tools let you produce great work"?
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I need to find a legal BOT for automatic bidding to increase my odds at auction wins! I also want to find a pgm to analyze past auctions closed to predict best time/day to bid (and who to avoid).
Well, the rationale behind it doesn't seem exactly new or extensive. Sounds doable.
> So here's my idea: if you strobe a really bright red & blue light, enough to temporarily blind the S & L receptors in your eyes, you should be able to see a green that is more pure and intense than you have ever experienced

Note: you probably shouldn't try this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennō_Senshi_Porygon
Can we use browser for Web Automation? (Google is my Real-Best Friend )
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Don't people feel embarrassed calling themselves a CEO of a small company?
Meaning, you can replace code wholesale so long as it doesn't change the original intention of the app and it's just html/css/js you're changing. So if you're using a javascript framework to build an application, for instance, you could send an update to that app over the web rather than go through the app store update approval process.
Yes, I meant she. It really was a typo.

(I realized it not because of the name - I have seen very weird names before. I realized it because of her picture on the about page.)

Regardless, my question above is still open.
You are aware that making money is kind of the point of venture capital, right?
I'm with GP on this one. Most HN articles these days are fluff. These aren't bad bloggythings for the most part, but I'd just as soon see these things show up on a more general aggregator. (This is, in part, my failure to recognize the HN audience itself changing over the last year and a half).

Fluff isn't necessarily bad, in that it's a discussion point, but it is very bad for this format of site.
It toggles absolute number and relative number when switching between insert mode and normal mode.

Here is why that is awesome.

Well when you moving around code you want to be in normal mode. so lets say you cursor is at the top of the function which would be 0 (with relative numbering) you could simply look down and see how many lines you need to delete.

so for example lets say 5, then you could simply do 5dd or 5yy, without having to count all to see how many lines which can get annoying.
while in insert mode you would simply want to see what line you are one and allows for things like jumping easily for example if you want go to certain line :15 and boom you are there.

There is also a NumberToggle function if you ever need to switch on the go.
> * The current tax law is a nightmare for those AU startups wishing to dole out equity.

Could you elaborate?
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Ask HN: Anyone with experience with local incentives to relocate?
I'm in a rental startup & am currently located where there is no market for my offerings. I intend to move somewhere that can support even the off-season- such as NY, LA, Miami, Vegas, Ibiza.

I've seen that some cities offer tax breaks & other incentives to lure companies to their tax jurisdiction. I'd like to know if any startups who read HN have taken advantage of similar incentives to relocate to a certain place, & if so, what kind of deal did you get?
In Facebook's case, it wasn't about money, lord knows they had plenty of that. It was about being more agile. With HTML5 they could play with a lot of different views without having to push a monolithic update to their users every time. HTML5 works better for some apps than native languages do; for instance, I'll bet dimes to dollars you're consuming Hacker News via the web, not a native app.
Having a friend constantly walking around me with that thing that may or may not be filming and recording me would make me want to avoid him.
A cogent case for polyglotism in programming
Oh, no question.

But I wonder if that makes you a former alumnus. Being an alumnus doesn't require a degree, does it?
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Lesson: Magic remains magic, only as long you don't show how the trick is done.

Never reveal your secrets.
We'll hire you, pay you big bucks, you don't need a degree
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Glad to see the situation (semi) sorted out. Tragic that all this had to happen so publicly, instead of just a conversation between the two of you.

I've always been a fan of the WakeMate. Best of luck moving forward.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I thought that the Xoom was included in the updated devices list that will be pushed OTA in july. The xoom is a ten incher, right?
Your false dichotomy is separating people as users or developers. We are all both, and we should all have the potential to grow as our minds see fit.
iOS can do all of what you listed.

And it still has decent storage options for media/books/etc that you want to use whilst offline.
"massive brain drain of engineers & tech entrepreneurs"

Bollocks. There is a massive amount of self-promotional noise coming from a medium-sized group of people going over to the US, not all of whom are that much or a loss to Australia.

Certainly Australia has its problems. And moving to the Bay Area to start a startup is obviously a good idea from many parts of the world. That being said, having a bit of a whinge in the SMH about how lousy Australia is is a great way to get some free media coverage for your startup.
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Great post, fun read. It's great to have a team where everyone contributes even if it includes cleaning up the office space and throwing out the trash.
Everything that you mentioned, and also: the relentless miniaturization. That took a lot of engineering.

It's emphasized in the video linked to in the OP, but it disappears in the images linked in the response above, which are not proportional. Here's a side-by-side comparison:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/IPod_5G-4...

About iPod miniaturization, see also the iPod-in-water story:

http://todayilearned.co.uk/2011/10/09/jobs-dropped-the-first...

All these years later, and with the new MBP, they're still pushing system miniaturization, flash memory, and high-res color displays. It's a straight line in some respects.
This thing's unplayable on my iPhone4. Welcome to the fragmented world of HTML5. Runs perfectly fine though on my i7 2.8ghz desktop rig.
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I cloned the manifest project and checked the tags; there aren't any 4.1+ tags present yet. I'd imagine there would be a JBQ post (like this, https://groups.google.com/group/android-building/msg/c0e01b4...) announcing Android 4.1 availability if the source were already available.
I forwarded this to can spam ( spam@uce.gov ), because I never authorized MiLifePlus to send me email.
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Condolences for your loss Diego. I think your post best sums up what I call "life's work". We are lucky when we find it.

And I need to call my Dad.
I've heard this explanation from others and it seems reasonable enough. I still wonder if they couldn't get "B" or "C" grade devs though. A lot of SV companies just won't settle for anything but "A" players, and if they can't get them (because of the incredibly competitive war for talent) many will just leave the job unfilled. That means that there are American and Canadian devs who might be willing to move to Australia to get some experience under their belt.
It doesn't matter if you sell diapers or dentures; if you've built a successful ecommerce business around a niche, I promise you'll become passionate about it.

I totally disagree.

Yes, you need to head-check the ideas you are passionate about and see if they can really grow into viable businesses. But you also need to check seemingly lucrative ideas and see if you are passionate enough about the industry and the concept to stick it out for the long term. You are entering a marriage. Can this idea be both a great, supportive partner and your best friend?

After the initial buzz of building a business and the early success, what's left over is a lot of time focused on your product and industry. If you don't like golf, you probably shouldn't start a golf-focused e-commerce site.
Yes. More from Mr. Lewis:

". . . . a man is not usually called upon to have an opinion of his own talents at all, since he can very well go on improving them to the best of his ability without deciding his own precise niche in the temple of Fame."
Where does the "beautiful" part of this come into play? For whatever reason I clicked through assuming I would be looking at a way of actually creating, well, aesthetically beautiful web applications.
Preordering a Google Glass Explorer Edition unit
Wow, yeah. On my screen, on the homepage, "PixelInvaders DIY Led Panels Kit" is larger than my screen.
Good to know :) Just to clarify, I just meant flash, or strobe once.
Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded After All
Side by side comparison of major tech blogs
Not really. I'm the most junior person in my department and I can get a new chair if I want one. Big company too.
He didn't get any significant support.
How many years until it's quite common for athletes to be wearing these during live events?
The Nexus One doesn't even have ICS yet
Does anyone have experience with drop shipping? Specifically, how to connect with a supplier?

I get the concept, but I have no idea where to find a good supplier. We'd love to do an e-commerce play but don't have anything (physical) to sell.

All the info I've found online has been spammy (e.g., lists of drop shippers for sale on Digital Point).
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Ifttt the beginning...
Doesn't even have ICS yet
What Does Your API Do?
Is this Hacker News, or Hacker Random Communiqués?

Where's the news?
There's a Good Reason He's Not Looking Forward to the Next Console Generation
8 bit pngs... Can't you just do this in Photoshop? What's the point of this site?
> Learning a color theory that is more accurate is counter productive because you can't find pigments that behave that way

Learning theories can be tremendously helpful for crystalizing existing knowledge. Ultimately the only way to learn is to make visual art and look at it, a whole heck of a lot. But having theoretical models can help guide that thinking and looking, and can forestall a lot of confusion.

There are two kinds of models an artist needs to learn to deal with color:

(1) How the human eye sees color. This is so that texture and shape can be made to convey the desired effect of the picture. It’s helpful to learn about simultaneous contrast, adaptation effects, and even more obscure things like Ralph Evans’ (Kodak) theories about what he called “brilliance”. Learning this doesn’t tell you how to mix the paint, but it helps you figure out what results you should aim for.

(2) Color reproduction technology: the physical properties of paint / displays / printers / whatever.

Many people in the general public, including many artists, don’t properly understand the distinction between (1) and (2), and also take the radically oversimple concept of primary and secondary colors, etc. (whether it’s elementary school teachers with their red, yellow, blue, or programmers with their sRGB) as some kind of ultimate truth.

All of our models of color are approximations. Color is complex and contingent, depending on observer, lighting, viewing conditions, temporal effects, and so on.
Looks a lot like a customized version of grunt.js -- backbone-boilerplate is another example of a suite of tools built on grunt.

https://github.com/cowboy/grunt

https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate
My first Ruby on Rails App
I am just beginning with Rails. This is the first app I managed to make. It is a basic to-do list app.
Back to the Future is today.
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Windows will write out a minidump to disk when it kernel panics and report it to MS later when it's back online.
Linus Torvalds, Google+ events and Chrome
humans can look 5-8 moves ahead with practice. GM's can probably look 15 or so moves ahead as well as study tactics of regular positions such as openings.
LinkedIn seems to be doing a good job with it. Also:

> " If Facebook cant make this work, I seriously doubt you can."

Nice confidence.
Agree. Connectivity is the hard part about streaming, not the recording.

I was also confused why I could not replicate with a helmet mounted cell phone.

I was pretty let down by the whole thing. It must have been a "had to be there" kind of demo because it doesn't translate to a video i guess.

I was in the living room with a couple non-tech people and I saw the post on HN and pulled it up on the TV. First comment was "why is a bunch of helmet cams amazing?". I did not bother explaining.
Here is one summary I found:

http://uscfsales.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/an-“easy”-engine-f...
The Nvidia GPU fiasco shows that you can still have problems even if the component doesn't have anywhere to go.
For a moment I couldnt tell if that was Sergey Brin at Google I/O or Tony Stark at the Stark Expo.
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Right.

Because someone would spend two months crafting an elaborate hoax so they can trade their reddit karma for valuable cash and prizes.

It all makes perfect sense.

I am so tired of this Internet Detective Agency bullshit.
I got the impression the grandparent was comparing European diesel to US diesel. But you compared diesel to Gasoline.
I agree. Github is like a portfolio. But you don't need a portfolio if you're a great developer with a strong network.
He's seriously deluded. He believes that volumes of historical writings, C-14 dating, etc notwithstanding, that about a thousand years of recorded history never happened. Largely on the basis of the fact that the exponential population growth Europe has had since the British Agricultural revolution, if projected backwards in time, would say that there wouldn't have been as many people in Rome as there were.

Even a cursory understanding of, say, the trials our ancestors went through in the 1300s makes it obvious that he's wrong to project back his little exponential curve that far.

See http://www.revisedhistory.org/view-garry-kasparov.htm for details of Kasparov's beliefs. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolution and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_demography for basic historical facts that show some basic flaws in Kasparov's arguments. (About his points on Roman numerals, they are indeed entirely unsuited to calculation. The Romans did all calculations using abacuses, numerals were just their way of writing down the answers for which purpose they are just fine.)
>I can picture giving premium users the right to "tag along for the ride", as it were, and watch as it's getting filmed.

The beginnings of Stephenson's simstim, right here.
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If not now, eventually they must be or must have been "doing startups" because all businesses begin as startups. It's in the name, a startup is a company that is just getting started. Some eventually grow up into the titans of industry that we all know.

The parent is wondering why don't we see more entrepreneurs founding companies that look like they could become the next titans of industry. It seems to me that their companies either don't exist, or are currently invisible because they haven't begun gobbling up market share.
I love this post. We romanticize startups too much and I've seen too many people drunk on cheap venture capital and a C-level title on their business card.

Some of it is inevitable because if we saw what being a CEO really is then less people would try it. Being a CEO is always hands on. You can't just manage from behind with a small team. Dave McClure recently said something like, "if you're the CEO and can't code, market, sell, or design then fire yourself now or we will."
> I am also deeply offended by your use of the term "slave". Nobody has used this term.

When I read slave I immediately jumped to 'Wage Slavery' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery and it happens all the time. People cannot leave their job or risk looking for a new one because they are living pay check to pay check.

That is what I took away from that statement.
It's an interesting insight into the ups and downs of running a startup.
Also, I'd guess that when all his employees were re-assigned, there wasn't much point in keeping him on.
>"There's more lines of code in a Ford [car] than Facebook and Twitter combined," Cannon-Brookes said.

If this is true, it's evidence that Ford can't hire software engineers.
all this talk about pride is hilarious. if you're the CEO of a startup or small company, you're not working for a paycheck - you're working for a payout of millions of dollars.

I'll do the dishes if it leads indirectly to a $1.2bn exit. I'd do them twice.
> So I want a tablet that is future proof.

There's no such thing, the iPad won't save you. Apple just deprecated the iPad1 at just over 2 years of lifespan. Even if they didn't the battery would die. We're in a 'disposable device' era now.
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Is the case metal or plastic?
I tried to use Sublime for Java (w/ Spring/Hibernate) for a day and found several things I can't live without:

1. Ctrl-1: Automatically tries to fix a compile error. I use this a lot to get my imports automatically, and for other random things.

2. Open Declaration: This was touched on by others and is incredibly useful. The IDE can find the right Class even if two have the same name, while search can make this difficult in some cases.

3. Show References: Similar to above, this is just incredibly useful when you are refactoring or need to see how something is used.

4. Generate getters and setters: I know this one is dumb, but it's so convenient. I just hover over the unused warning then click, and i've got the code.

This editor is snazzy and fast but I don't think I can make the switch.
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This is a great post, and I hate to put a damper on things, but the title makes me think of something else I've been feeling in my gut for a while.

Retirement is not going to be an option for many future generations. The cost of living is getting too high, while salaries for many industries are falling too low.

This gut feeling first appeared in me when I saw GM renegotiate pension plans with its retirees. If even defined benefit pensions can be renegotiated, what is the actual rate of return on those suckers? Is it enough for anything? And it's not like I trust mutual funds, housing, or anything else to be much better anymore.

So I come to the conclusion that lifelong work will become a necessity for most. Retirement will be a luxury.
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