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If you're interested in the startup scene in Australia there are some great groups. e.g. Silicon Beach. The Jelly events are great too. You tend to find the same people at the occasional hack-a-thon and unconference-style events.

I'd also recommend getting over to some co-working spaces. Events are great, but I've found them a better way to connect to a broader audience. In Melbourne I'd recommend Inspire9, but there are others (The Hub, OpenHub). There are similar counterparts in Sydney.
I don't see it that way at all, sorry. Both have the effect of eliminating valid competition from the market. Both are bad. Condemning one and not the other makes you, personally, part of the problem and not the solution, because you're fighting only on one side. Your utopia, apparently, has Apple squeezing everyone else from the market. You'll forgive me if I question the moral basis for your argument.
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(I'll assume you're asking about my business) I don't really know what you mean with warehouse shipping, but i don't really have a Store, only a little showroom, if that's what you're asking for. I'll be shipping everything from my own warehouse once i enter the products to Chile.

Anyways, i don't think Internet can be the core of my business (because of client profiles and the type of products). I still think most of my time will go to direct sales, but it would be nice to get a little edge using Internet.
Everything works fine in Chrome Canary (the nightly builds) but it's broken in the standard Chrome release for me.
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Its true but back in 2008 the contract they had with Google was up for renewal. This was a window of opportunity for Mozilla to make a 'clean break' from Google.

Instead, Mozilla took the money again. And within only a few weeks Google announced Chrome. Convenient timing for Google since the multi-year deal with Firefox was already in place.

So my argument was that back in 2008 Mozilla should have NOT signed any further deals with Google, who was ironically about to become their biggest competitor. Instead, they could have taken the offensive and focused on rolling out a search engine of their own to go toe-to-toe with Google. Of course, its all hindsight now. But at least they're stepping up to the plate now with the HTML5 mobile OS.
They forget to mention that its 192 feet long and 55 feet in diameter perhaps?

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Everybody is saying that these are all FRAND patents but that is simply not true. Yes some of the patents in question are related to UTMS. However, Samsung also has other patent claims including:

-"A method for dialing a phone number in a smart phone having both PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) and mobile phone functions"[1] - The ability to click a number and call it

-"A method and device for reproducing digital audio data in a mobile station is disclosed."[2] - MP3 playback

-" The system code can process an input byte stream that is representative of contents to be displayed on the touch sensitive display and can generate a content document file representative of an internal representation of the content."[3] - Seems like view panning essentially

These are the exact same type of patents that Apple alleges infringement by Samsung.

-"A computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display comprises: detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one or more heuristics to the one or more finger contacts to determine a command for the device, and processing the command." [4] - the touch screen patent

-"Plug detection mechanisms can be provided for detecting when a plug of an accessory component is present within a jack of an electronic device."[5] - Headphone detection

These is by no means all of them, just an example of how both sides are basically doing the same to each other.

None of these patents are extraordinary features, they are the technologies we take for granted in modern smartphones. At best, these patent wars don't help anybody but the lawyers involved. At the worst, either of these companies could crush a startup using what are pretty ubiquitous technologies just because they have a loosely worded patent.

It's not about one side looking worse than the other, this is an all out war and these companies will do whatever is necessary to keep their hard worked on products on the market.

Perhaps Apple fans do a better job of spreading smut about who is suing who for what, so you say "Google is losing the PR war about their integrity"

But really we are all losing when it comes to innovation and competition. FRAND policies are useless. It's time to reform software and hardware patents and expand fair use.

edited for spacing.

[1]: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
[2]: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
[3]: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
[4]: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
[5]: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
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Dev build does not seem to be having this issue

(21.0.1180.15 dev-m)
Legal merits aside, that the judge would invoke the founding fathers as he assists in the corporate-governmental squashing of civil disobedience and dissent is pretty damn hypocritical/ignorant. 90% of the founding fathers would likely be strong supporters of, if not there on the front lines of Occupy Wall Street and similar protests if they were alive today. The US government in its present state stands directly (and proudly) against their most strongly held and stated values.
Not all of the patents are FRAND licensing related! See my answer in the other comment
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Actually, all of this talk of unscrupulous companies poisoning the standards-bodies wells reminds me of the Rambus case with JEDEC.

Rambus applied for a bunch of DRAM patents and then simultaneously kept mum when asked by their JEDEC co-members for a list of relevant patents (which they were required to provide as JEDEC members). JEDEC finalized their standard, everyone started making and selling products, and then Rambus' submarine patents surfaced and everyone was stuck having to pay Rambus license fees. Rambus betrayed JEDEC, their JEDEC co-members, and everyone involved in DRAM standardization and cleverly steered them all right into an iceberg.

Somehow what Motorola and Samsung are doing here is morally above this. I guess it's because they're working with Google.
> unlike Apple, it's doubtful that Nokia will seek injunctions against the Google Nexus 7. Instead, Nokia is more likely to request that Google or Asus obtain the proper licenses.

Of course, they need every coin they can get, in hope that things will get better eventually when Windows Phone 8 arrives...
Closing and restarting chrome seem to fix the problem for me.
frustrating as hell, just giving bing a try for the night until they get it fixed.
That's an absolutely ridiculous analogy, given that Apple shot first. You're point only makes sense if you're talking about unrelated cases. It's hardball. I said this elsewhere, but if you insist on taking sides here you are part of the problem.
http://www.intellicast.com/ is my go to weather app.
Same problem here. Switched to DuckDuckGo as the default search engine and now it works fine.
What's the current price of bandwidth there compare to america/eu? How laggy is ssh/emacs to something close, like linode's japan instances?
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That's a different bug. The problem people are seeing today is a redirect to google.com/blank.html which is of course a blank page.

Edit: ah I see reports further down that bug mention blank.html
HN doesn't disappoint! Down-votes, and no-one can do due diligence.

<CTRL+F>Push Singh

He was named one of the "IEEE Intelligent Systems 10 to Watch," an award that honors young researchers in artificial intelligence. He planned to take a faculty position at the Media Lab this fall...There has been some public note of the similarity between the suicide of Push and that of another more renegade AI Researcher a couple months earlier, Chris McKinstry

http://web.mit.edu/~sdavies/www/mit-suicides/

Bhuwan Singh G

The Boston Herald reported that Singh suffocated himself with a yard-waste trash bag.

And so on.

As I said ~ that whole "killing yourself by applying common garden bags in what in most countries would suggest torture / outside interference" is... rather common in some circles. Blinkers. Wear them! Fear the wider world! Down vote everything outside of your cubicle!

(Hilarious ~ no wonder the Angels love this site, so easy)

Bonus round:

The death of Shacknai’s girlfriend, Rebecca Zahau, was determined to be a suicide, Gore told reporters today...

Zahau, 32, was found nude, with a rope around her neck and her hands and feet bound, a sheriff’s department official said at the time

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-02/medicis-ceo-shackna...

You're all so cute! Committed to the Homo Sapiens 2.0 meme, with nary an eye at the real world. Delightful! Oh, and I rate the ~15+ downvotes as your votes for blindness & wilful ignorance over enlightenment and ability to do even an iota of original research. Not a single one who did an even cursory search / knew enough about the field to give a "yes-coincidence-but-not-conspiracy" post.

:Case proven ~ HN is, indeed, for Useful Idiots.
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Now I've provided a citation or two, does this mean all the Aspies in the room will actually do a bit of research? Doubtful, but there we go. [Citation needed if anyone on HN actually is intelligent enough to do basic research]

“"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”

~ How very true, and how easily you're put into hutches here.
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Hint: I mentioned three, and only linked to two! Not to mention that whole accident thing. How dangerous AI research can be, when algos rule the world ~ remind me how many young PHD students go into Finance these days? That would be a good place to start one's ruminations! So many random and pointless deaths in the Big Apple.
Me too.

I've been getting a lot of redirect timeouts on google searches the last couple of months. Their link tracking is flaky. Irritating as hell.
The thing I don't get about node.js is that it used to have a promise abstraction and they dropped it to go callback-only. I guess the abstraction leaked, in a language not built around it?

I like to imagine Node's success comes from bringing some of E's insights to a community just ready to use them, and if the cost is manual CPS, apparently it's not too high.
(Relevant E theory at http://erights.org/elib/concurrency/overview.html )
Haha thank you! We've been busting our ass off to do something we love.

Noting the off-white font comment!

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The article you linked to in your note 0 is from two months ago, not two years ago. Diaspora is in YC's Summer 2012 class.[1]

The homepage is probably not listed as a duplicate because it is no longer in the server's RAM. [2] A simple search finds multiple discussions on the project. [3]

1: http://blog.diasporafoundation.org/2012/05/15/you-may-have-h...

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2455910

3: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=diaspora
Facebook is intercepting messages by replacing the destination address (which email clients often do not readily display [opting instead for full names, even photos, etc.]), and now claims to have done so inadvertently. Multiple servers relay messages before they reach their intended destination, yes, but that is by design.

To continue stretching your analogy, I could claim that the post office x-ray/bomb scanners are 'intercepting' mail sent to me when in fact it is an understood part of the process to anyone who cares enough to research how things work. Someone moving my mailbox [edit: filling out a 'change of address'] and photocopying everything sent there is pretty clearly a reasonable use of the word 'intercepting'.
In the US we use weather.gov. They provide data streams as well for anyone looking to develop something custom.
Facebook certainly has a reputation in engineering circles as following the "move fast and break things" model or touting "eventual consistency" or similar. That works for certain areas, as others have pointed out, but once you start manipulating customer data that they have set up, it crosses a line.

I'm a strong believer in confining Windows to a fixed set of resources -- i.e., a VM with fixed memory and disk space. This incident, though I don't seem to be directly impacted (checked contacts, account settings, etc), Facebook has crossed that line into Windows equivalency for me. It needs to be confined where possible.

Mobile app deleted on all my iOS devices and FB account disassociated on my WP7 device (most used for testing).
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I suppose it's too much to hope that this patent war keeps on escalating until the destructiveness of patents is evident to everyone, for at some point these big companies will declare a truce and turn their attention to smaller victims, at which point the patent war won't garner as much attention and it'll be back to business as usual: keeping the smaller companies from challenging the bigger ones.
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I don't entirely trust these particular Google Trends figures as they show a minuscule amount of USA-based traffic.

Regardless, though, of the particular instance, or indeed the reality -- the problem for any would-be head-to-head of this type is not generally which startup would "win in a fair fight", but rather which startup any potential investors believe would win. The problem for such Australian startups may be just that the question of "which is going to win?" is being asked at all.
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Relatively high. Also from east coast AU latency is better to west coast US than much of Asia in my experience. We just got AWS cloudfront in Aus which might serve as a decent barometer for the relative cost of bandwidth: http://aws.amazon.com/pricing/cloudfront/
This is the most helpful information here. Perhaps the best take-away for everyone is learning what doing something so public without enough attention can easily lead to.

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For fuck sake, can someone murder all the patent lawyers or give me a button to filter this shit out of my life.
Sweet! I got my clean search URL.
I ran into this a short while ago and restart seems to have fixed it for me as well. Odd
99designs did well from early investment from Atlassian, but their big recent VC dollaridoos came from ... Silicon Valley.

Continuing the Australia/99 theme, we might observe that 99dresses was almost thumped into oblivion (due partially to lack of investment) before it enjoyed the expertise of YC and the attentions of the YC coterie.

Given geographic inevitabilities and the lack of local investment it is hard to be optimistic about the Aussie startup scene, even given Fairfax media's recent (and beguiling) attempts to toot the local talent's horn.
Crazy that this broke, but an interesting reminder of how annoying browsers were when you had to type "www.google.com" before you could search.
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"[No] Australians are much more risk adverse"
I think they mean averse in this phrase

its not that Australians are more risk averse, its that we have a culture of "tall poppy syndrome", which means that people that tend to become outliers, especially highly successful, tend to get "taken down a peg". It's ironic because we have quite a high work ethic.

I lived in Northern California for a few months and saw a massive difference in the way that people believe that anything is possible and look up to innovators (as a society).
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Famous last words.

Sorry, but a basic principle of security is to assume that you are already 'owned'.
I like FB so I won't be doing one of those "hey everyone, look at me I'm quitting FB" acts. But I highly recommend that you don't put FB on your phone...it's amazing how even a five second glance to check for new notifications will ruin your train of thought. And also, not having it mess up your phone account is nice
They didnt mention that a lot of Australians go overseas to work for companies, which could be a boon for us if an ecosystem blooms here, as I know a lot of entrepreneurs would love to move back to australia for the lifestyle.
Complete nonsense. Samsung and Motorola are betraying the TIA/ITU process that they participated in in good faith by citing these patents in the dispute. They're setting fire to the whole system that they themselves helped to build.

Why would Qualcomm et. al. want anything to do with these clowns in the next round of 4G standardization negotiations? Bearing in mind that Qualcomm has invented more of the actually useful patents in 3GPP technologies than Samsung and Motorola put together, and that Samsung and Motorola are now claiming that Qualcomm's customers effectively don't have a license to those same 3GPP technologies?

Somehow everyone agreed just how gross and mendacious this was back when Rambus stabbed everyone in JEDEC in the back. Now that Samsung and Motorola are doing it, it's ... better?

Apple shot first? Give me a break.
Why do dozens of people feel the need to say "+1" and "me too"? What could they possibly think they are adding to the discussion?
Let's get a few things very, very clear here.

1) Apple has NOT used FRAND patents against Android OEMs.

2) The FTC/EU are not investigating Apple for anti-competitive behaviour.

So it is irrelevant what 'normal' patents you bring up. The FACT is that the only ones acting disgracefully here are HTC, Samsung and Google.
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Because the bug-tracking system doesn't have a noise-free way to say "this affects me too", the way that bugzilla and launchpad do. And "this affects me too" can potentially provide useful information, to gauge how many people an issue affects and thus what priority to give it.
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holy crap.
Why don't FB openly admit their mistake on their engineering blogs? At least they can salvage already messy situation
The left-learning government is not supportive of startup business. And the economic indicators are not good.

Notable issues include

High income earners cannot offset business losses, thus deterring entrepreneurs.
IR protections intrude on flexible working.
Border protections make labour import difficult, despite the lack of a critical mass for skills.
Government spending is high (although less than in the US), at 34% of GDP, leaving less on the table for investors to slosh around. This is set to grow as the population age pyramid inverts.
Productivity is low. The only thing keeping growth competitive is the resources sector. This is probably an economic time bomb.
Banks are massively risk averse and unwilling to lend, although the problem is not as severe as in the UK.
Business failure is perceived by many as personal failure rather than a learning experience.

The current government is essentially the political branch of the unions. They'd much rather prop up the dying manufacturing sector. Unfortunately there is no credible alternative party.

If Australia is really unlucky then the ticking productivity bomb will explode along with the demographic inversion, causing a welfare crisis, a debt catastrophe, and probably a major recession.

None of this prevents anyone from having a crack.
Apple didn't shoot first. Nokia did.

And pretty sure Apple learnt there lesson after handing over the first few billion.
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Behind the scenes, sure. That's not dominating a country against its will, it's manipulation. That's why we propped up dictators in the first place--in most cases, a non-communist dictator was the only feasible alternative to a communist dictator. When we did dominate a country outright, we taught them baseball and democracy, e.g. Japan (which doesn't count because first, they started a war against us and lost, and second, we let them go as soon as we feasibly could).
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a few years from now: sells to Facebook for $1B ;)
Apple asked for, and the Judge agreed that Apple may indeed be irreparably harmed if an injunction on the import of the Galaxy Nexus wasn't made.

This is part of how the legal system plays out. There is nothing wrong with it, morally or otherwise.

What is wrong is to have your patents be a part of an now industry standard and no longer license the patents under FRAND when you have made a promise to do so. In the future how is a standards body supposed to accept your IP to be used as part of a standard when clearly you will renege on an agreement you made by contributing your IP to that standard.

I sure as hell wouldn't want to use any of Samsung's IP in the next gen wireless standard for fear of Samsung reneging on its agreement to license said IP under FRAND terms.
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Everyone has a google account so they can easily jump in (as opposed to bugzilla/launchpad), and soon the snowball effect kicks in.

This isn't the bug-tracking system, where it's supposed to be done by 'starring' an issue. Even there the concept is not emphasized enough so the same problem occurs.

Edit: someone else found the actual bug, the star is flush left in the blue issue header: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84679
Government spending as a proportion of GDP is lower than in the USA.