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... and?

Trouble immigrating or getting work visas when over 30 is rife across Europe, and as for migrating to the US, we're all pretty well aware of just how difficult it is, skills or otherwise. It's really not all that different here to other western nations, though you do have a point about the 'critical mass' of Silicon Valley.
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I think you kind of hit the nail on the head with your last sentence. You will continue to use the service for fairly meaningless tasks. It seems Facebook wants its users to use their service for more than that. So while this debacle may not make many people delete their accounts, Facebook may find its apparent goal more difficult to achieve going forward.
Original page on Quora:
http://www.quora.com/Is-Australia-becoming-a-hot-place-to-do...
Thanks. I don't want them to get away with not trying.
It seems like you are objecting to the post based on the alignment of its content. Not the depth of its content, not the relevance of its content to the discussion, but because it offends your sensibilities and you would rather not see it.

THAT is an attitude that has not historically been welcome on HN. At least, when I started coming here and fell in love with the place. I have no interest in reading an echo chamber.
I have an ASUS RT-N16 router at home, which I connected to a hard-drive by USB. Then with Tomato installed, you can SSH into the router and install optware. Then you can configure optware[1] to install its packages on the external hard-drive. From there, you can retrieve and install a bunch of packages, like http servers, bittorrent clients and whatever else you feel like running from the CLI. Pretty convenient! I installed Transmission with a web-gui and I can SSH into it from anywhere in the world to my house's router, load a magnet or torrent in the queue and when I get home, the content will be waiting for me on my hard-drive.

I don't pretend Tomato firmware are the first to allow to do so, but I just found it was an interesting and usefull thing.

[1] http://tomatousb.org/tut:optware-installation
To address your personal points: I chose my majors because they were what interested me most academically, not because I thought they were easy. I would probably do better in technical classes to be honest. I'm also not planning on applying to business school....

but more importantly the point about demand for CS specialists: I definitely agree that the reason they are in such high demand is that the barrier to gaining the knowledge and ability to actually code things is much higher. You can't just pick up coding that easily (thats not to say that more resources are giving people the opportunity to do it outside of traditional school). At the same time, I think you downplay the importance of non-technical people in making things happen. They aren't just deal makers, and without them a necessary part is definitely missing. You can't just gain those skills overnight, but you are certainly right in saying there are many more ways to get these skills than learning a new programming language. But my real point is that I believe that the technical barriers to putting out a website, app, etc. will be greatly reduced in the next decade or so. I think the way programming is done will completely be disrupted so that it does not take an "education [that] is multiples harder than others" to put a product together.

Forgive the crude example, but maybe this will help explain my somewhat ambiguous point. What i'm trying to say is that, imagine if before telephones there was a huge boom in using morse code as a new way of transferring information at much greater speeds then traditional post. There would then be a surge (not the same as one that we are currently in) in the demand that people that could understand and use the code (I realize that it isn't super hard to pick up but imagine if it were). But then with the introduction of the telephone (a new way of communicating) it wasn't necessary to depend on people that had the knowledge of the code to get things done. Effectively a way was found the bypass the technical barriers preventing anyone from entering. I imagine a similar thing happening with computer programing, if that makes sense. I probably didn't explain that amazingly, but hopefully it clarifies a little.
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If you're using HTTPS Everywhere please disable it for GoogleMaps since it makes the authorization request fail.
Tools Menu -> Add Ons -> Extensions -> HTTPS Everywhere -> Options -> Search for 'GoogleMaps' -> Click on the green check mark to turn it into a red x.

It's too bad I can't use their service with HTTPS everywhere, but awesome that it's a user experience they considered.
c) Associate your real email address with your FB account

Facebook gets an email address I don't use anywhere else. No one has me listed in their contacts under the only email address facebook knows for me (well, I presume. It's not hard to guess the address I use for facebook if you know my real address, but there's no good reason anyone but facebook would use it).

I've done that on general principle for more than a decade any time I have to give my email address to anyone other than an individual. This instance is the first time in a while where it's actually felt worthwhile. Originally I did it more for spam tracking. GMail's excellent spam filter fixed that problem for me years ago. But I never stopped doing it.
Your public opinion data is outdated as of the last couple of years: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/gay-marr...
No-one who shoots first is a victim in a Patent war.

Apple's granted injunctions on the Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Nexus in the largest market in the world will tie up more capital and do more damage than a few percentage point royalties. It is absolutely the worst time to have sales bans on your flagship product now that the iPad is infiltrating the market at this very early stage.

I'm expecting litigation to go thermonuclear until a patent covenant is reached or all legal avenues to be exhausted.
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More reasons to use offshore VPN and email. And when you only need the email for registration: disposable email.

Also, not related to this case but to privacy in general, people should learn how to use PGP for emails. It's been there for enough time already, but I don't know anyone that uses it.
The moral difference is FRAND. If these weren't I'd say that morally they could block shipment or ask such fees (there is another moral argument to be made against the patent system, but the one about FRAND is even more fundamental).

Companies know that they may have to pay the piper on patents, but there's a belief that on FRAND patents they will be very reasonable rates. Google is basically saying that you can't trust us or our partners.
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Let's hope that changes to "hurry up and fix things".
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"Facebook is indeed intercepting messages -- the e-mail is clearly passing through Facebook's servers, but this seems to be where it stays, as neither sender nor receiver are getting a copy."

Is this really appropriate use of the word "intercepting"? Typically intercepting carries a negative meaning -- like "the FBI is intercepting my postal mail and opening it before it reaches me". However, with their use of the word, every email I send is "intercepted" by multiple servers before it reaches its destination....
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It will be are for people to completely leave Facebook. What Facebook needs to worry about though is that people will stop using the service as much. People may be less likely to integrate Facebook apps on their phones.

All of this could lead people to use FB less, which is is exactly the opposite of what they were intending.
Since when did Salesforce buy a high-value, two-letter '.com' domain and turn it into a bloated to-do list application? Talk about a big, dumb company move... Aren't to-do list applications the type of thing solo hackers or small teams build as side projects?
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For something dead simple, there's http://goingtorain.com/
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I sent a url to a friend with whom I usually play scrabble, and we started to play immediately. Great!

I would like to be able to play Spanish words without the game disallowing them (I think letter frequencies and scores in Spanish Scrabble are not very different from the English version). I'd love a "don't check words against a dictionary" option :)

Actually I've been thinking that multiplayer online games (e.g. card games) could allow players to enforce rules themselves. For Scrabble there could be a "object word" button, for instance. It would even allow players to cheat, when not getting caught. It would also be easier to implement .
You write as if the FSF never criticizes Apple. To the contrary, they criticize them all the time: https://www.google.com/search?q=fsf+apple

Would you be satisfied only if every article complaining about the actions of one company also listed every single other company that has done something similar? That would be tedious, as the FSF has criticized lots of companies for crap like this.
If he chose his example without consideration of idiomatic Perl, then his attempt appears even worse. Further he chose to remove all spaces from the example, presumably to demonstrate that Perl code is "not clear".

I have not written a single line of clojure, and don't know how idiomatic clojure looks like. I tried to translate his example to clojure using my very limited knowledge and looking at the examples on ClojureDocs site:

(sort #(compare (second (re-matches #".*([aeiou]).*" %1)) (second (re-matches #".*([aeiou]).*" %2))) %)

I am sure this is not idiomatic clojure, and probably a very bad way to write. If I cited this as an example of typical clojure code, then I'd be making a totally unfair judgment.

The funny thing is, when I just add spaces to the Perl code segment, it looks quite readable to me. But then, I probably know more Perl than him.

sort { ($a =~ /([aeoui])/)[0] cmp ($b =~ /([aeiou])/)[0] } @_
1. Great. Lightning in a bottle, the spot everyone wishes they could make, but few can. (His years with UCB def helped).

2. Mediocre. The spot that gets made by people who see #1 and think "I can do that." No, you can't. It's harder than it looks.

3. Nice animation style, but the script quickly bores.

4. I like the 8-bit style and even with the weak V/O I believe it will hit it's target market.

5. Ripping off Wes Anderson, especially with an all child cast is difficult. Do actually does very well.

6. Nicely done, but about a minute too long.

7. I really like this one. Well done all around, probably second best, just ahead of Do.

8. This one grew on me as it played. Nice SNL feel, but they needed to sell the lines better. Also too long.

20 years in film & video, the last 6 in advertising, I wouldn't mine numbers 1, 5, 6 & 7 on my reel (#8 as an alternate).
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A good explanation from Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/vxmf7/time_arit...
It looks like Australia uses a point system to determine visa eligibility.

http://www.visabureau.com/australia/immigration-points-test....

For example, you get points for age. Applicants who are 25-32 years old get 30 points. As you get older, you get fewer points. Applicants who are older than 45 get 0 points.

Since you need at least 65 points for a visa, it seems difficult once you are over the age of 45.
Happening to me, too. When searching directly from the address bar, it appears to be loading my Google search results and nothing ever comes up. Going to Google directly and search is still fine.

It appears to be Chrome's ability to translate your text into a search query string. For instance, if I just type "y combinator" in to the address bar, it craps out. But if I type "google.com/search?q=y+combinator" it behaves as one would expect.
There's been a long history of Australian inventors leaving Australia to get backing in Europe or the US.

Hopefully things are changing for the better:
E.g.
Atlassian -
http://www.theage.com.au/small-business/entrepreneur/100m-so...

99designs -
http://www.theage.com.au/small-business/managing/blogs/enter...
Let's say 1% of all their users is fed up because of this and 0.1% actually closes their account. This leaves Zuckerberg with 98.9% control over e-mail traffic from 900+ million users. Well played, Zuck, well played.
The moral difference is that they're not keeping their promise to the standard bodies which would've tried to work around the patents otherwise.

Lets say a company abuses a FRAND patent related to Wifi or GPS (that it previously deemed FRAND due to which their technology was included) and demands 20% of the price, that is much worse than Slide2Unlock, since Slide2Unlock can be worked around much easier than making a new Wifi or GPS standard and shipping hundreds of millions of devices, routers, GPS chips and launching satellites again.

Don't get me wrong, I hate the stupid Slide to Unlock patent as much as you, but there is certainly a moral difference between abusing a regular patent and a FRAND patent.

With Nokia getting into losses, this is a worrying trend since they own so many FRAND patents. If all these cases set a bad precedent on FRAND patents, we'll be doubly screwed.
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Happened to me. A browser restart "fixed" it.
"Since Facebook changed the email addresses on contacts, I've actually lost every single one of my email addresses including those for work." -Complaint from iOS 6 user

My suggestion, don't use the very first beta release of a operating system on anything important. Digital darwinism at work there.
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Disabling all extensions and restarting didn't help me - however, incognito mode did. (And so did Firefox :)
Yep. Happening here too. Apparently I don't use that feature as much as I thought.
FYI Xubuntu, Chrome Version 20.0.1132.47
Is Australia becoming a hot place to do startups?
I'm having this issue too. Numerous people are finding that turning off "Instant Search" in Chrome is fixing it, but it was a non-starter for me.
and if the SIM has international roaming, it can be used in countries like Australia (where prepaid SIMs must be registered).
I wish it wasn't the case, but based on recent HN discussion[1] .au has a number of issues to overcome (esp. re: dispersal of equity to founders)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4169847
Man, I should have waited before clearing out my history.

BTW just deleting and adding your own search engine worked for me: 'http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
Because as I said, I differ in point "b" - I would say it's a "yes".
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Odd. I actually already had mine turned off so I tried turning it back on and it looked like it was working. I then turned it back off and it continued to work.
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That the patents in question relate to a 'standard' (WIFI) makes this doubly saddening, although I suppose if one happened to have done something particularly clever when implementing a standard that might be patentable.
And you would think they would have launched a fancy editor environment editor that was easy to reach and use.
Oh, didn't know this was a widespread problem. Happened to me as well. The search results display for a fraction of a second then I get the blank screen.
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A patent owner can accept FRAND conditions and the patent becomes part of the standard. They then earn a steady stream of licensing money off the ensuing trillion dollar industry.

A patent owner can reject FRAND and their technology does not get included in the standard.

There is no third option.

You can't decide after the trillion dollar industry establishes, to renege on FRAND, because your patent was only made part of the standard -- and therefore only has value -- because of that commitment to FRAND.
> But that's certainly not a "moral" difference, which seems to be the terrain you're standing on in your argument.

No, it's a moral difference. The whole point of the FRAND designation is to protect organizations from lawsuits.

It's not all fair game and equal. Suing someone over a regular patent is like shooting someone on your property after putting up an explicit "No Trespassing" sign. You might not agree with it or think it was fair but (in some places) the owner is protected.

Suing someone over a FRAND patent is like shooting someone that comes onto your property after you put up a giant "Visitors Welcome" sign. The terms were clear & public knowledge and you went back on them. Both can still be considered awful even though more people would agree the second one is unquestionably morally wrong.
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Google trends says demand for "IOS APPS" is through the roof. Lets capitalize on this trend now!
Here's the YC thread on that. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4158865
I haven't shown HN yet, but I think our Krit explainer video could be on that list and cost only $550 to make: http://youtu.be/EcSbBb56niI?hd=1
Driving me crazy; just started happening tonight.

Found the only way to get it to stop was to quit the browser completely and restart or to open an icognito window.

I'm using Version 20.0.1132.47 beta.
the difference is hypocrisy.
Same problem here. Seems to happen when you're in a logged out state. Wonder how QA missed this. Maybe we can help out, go star this issue in the Chromium bug tracker in case it affects the FOSS edition as well. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84679&...
"tl;dr Give engineers all the information they need to build a bare-bones, unstyled product, then spend the rest of the development time polishing the UI."
aww thats so cute. Nokia's still around guys! Guys! We're still around!
I see they actually created a way to remove the FB app from an Android device. Back when they hoovered up phone contacts into their database, I tried to break the connection, but all I could do at the time was delete my entire facebook account. Been pretty happy not wasting my time there, as I see it devolving into pseudonymous games, meme one-upmanship, and picture albums kids will mostly later regret.
That's right, and unless someone uses a ridiculously strict determination for some of the criteria (e.g. how fluent am I in English?), I should have plenty of points. I'm more worried about some additional gotcha.
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Not sure if it's related, but as I write this, Google Drive is down for me; gives a "This app is currently unreachable" error.

Perhaps some piece of Google identity/auth infrastructure is down right now.
Just started happening to me, thought it was some weird glitch with the Win8 preview. Good to know.
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Here is a video showing the process (I found it hard to visualize what was going on without it.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VHFlwJQIkE
From the giant thread, user BolshoiBrit:

Found a work around:

Add a new a search engine in wrench >> settings >> search "Manage Search Engines". Under "other search engines" add a new search engine using this address for the URL http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

Name it "Google 2" or whatever you want. Works like a charm.

-B
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If it were simple why aren't these lawsuits being thrown out the front door? Why isn't FRAND turning out to be the watertight defence it ought to be? (serious question I would love to know the answer to, as these FRAND related lawsuits seem to keep coming up over and over again).
Hidden in that long chain are some folks suggesting that turning off instant search fixed the problem. Don't know if that's actually the problem, but it may help those of you experiencing the issue.
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What other tricks have you found useful in learning how to code?
I think this is a really interesting idea, it would be cool to have a sample app to look at implementing your ideas.
Yes.. it was interesting to hear that coming from someone who has 5 kids: http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mkm45fjlie/elon-musk-10/#gall...
"WebSockets enable the server and client to maintain a persistent connection, and by doing so, significantly decrease the latency for data that is sent over the network."

They are bidirectional, event-driven and asynchronous. The client initiates the connection over HTTP and a handshake switches the protocol to web sockets. When using JSON as the payload, one can elegantly write a single websocket server and operate JavaScript, iOS and Android clients using the same API.
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Nope, it translates into 900 million bad karma..eventually.
It took me around 3 failures to just switch to duckduckgo.
Here's a permanent fix:

- Click on the wrench icon in the upper right. Click "Settings".

- Scroll down to "Set which search engine is used when searching from the omnibox."

- Click Manage search engines

- Scroll all the way down. You'll see three textboxes. Fill the three textboxes in like so:

Googol Googol http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

- Press enter, so that it adds Googol to your list of search engines. Scroll up and find it in the list, then click "Make default".

You now have a permanent way to search Google from within Chrome. Bonus: the URL is clean... there isn't any embedded tracking code or any other junk.
Betteridge's law of headlines:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4092880
I think a better metaphor is that we'd already been to space, but this time we let everyone do it, not just astronauts (i.e. the technically inclined)
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My line of thought is that they knew it would change phonebooks and that they weren't putting whatever resources necessary into creating a process for rollback. Given the nature of Facebook and it's technology, I'm not even sure there is anything they could have done, but it's de rigeur to know if this is the case. It's not even about high regard, but by minimum standards. If you know you can't rollback you go full steam ahead.

If you've never worked someplace where they have dedicated staff for source control, that fact alone might give you an idea at the level of expertise involved here. It's nobody's first time at the rodeo, and setting the sync API on the change (as described below) wasn't just slipped in by an intern.

You finding out after-the-fact and still having an opinion about bugs shipping in code you contributed to only reinforces my point: someone made the decision to go ahead anyway.