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> Aren't we all doing the same mistake when we refer to them? All we know is that the attacks came from China, so we safely assume it came from the Government?

I think the reason they see all of our institutions as one head of the same beast is that in China things really do work that way.

Of course, as parent points out, it's not completely false to see the United States that way, although our institutions collaborate in a more anarchic and haphazard fashion than the Chinese leadership may realize.
Matt here. I have no problem with TAFE at all, it's a valuable part of our educational ecosystem and the country is in a skills crisis.

I have a problem with an organisation like ACS being so awfully backward and outdated yet responsible so many important things. It's a protectionist racket to charge $400 for someone with an Bachelor's Degree from an Australian University to get it "accredited" so you can apply for a skilled visa, for example.

Also I see nothing wrong with executive education. Singularity University is not a tertiary education provider, it's a graduate/executive program. It does not compete with TAFE in any way shape or form. I can't see how you can connect the two, quite frankly.
If you want to enter under the skilled migrant program, I expect you're correct.

However as an employer, I've hired a bunch of people from overseas on a 457 visa and never thought to get them to talk to the ACS. I don't really care if your university degree has been rubber stamped or not. (And if you can write code, I don't really care too much about your degree)
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Wild guess is that they're trolling you so that you'll update your apparently obsolete device (by their standards) and give them more money...
Jeeze, bad things happen (or could) to the greatest services ;) I'm late to the discussion, didn't have time to lurk around, nevertheless what I can agree the most is about gem signing. A gem is a package of software, and every single package distributor makes the author sign their work (think linux packages, being a Debian/Ubuntu developer I can tell you that if you don't get your package signed, it won't get uploaded, period, your key in some cases (Debian) needs to be verified in person to build a circle of trust. I think that besides the overhead (initially, I'm sure people will contribute scripts or integrate this so that the developer won't notice) this is really a needed step you guys should take.
There's nothing stopping you from talking to other employees about salaries. It's a myth that is propagated by companies in order to keep you in the dark about what they are paying other people, to deprive you of information, and to keep you at a disadvantage in any negotiation.
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I change one line of C# in a unit test, and ask VS to run the unit test.

It then spends 30 seconds building.

This kills TDD and many other ways of exploratory development.

This is not the case in any Java or Python IDE.
Firstly - come to New Zealand. There is long list of ICT/Electronics and Communications roles, including all professional engineers, on the long Term Skills Shortage list. Additionally ICT and creative indistries are deemed long term growth areas. This means it's much easier to get into NZ - either for working or for immigration through our points system.[1]
On the ground the answer is yes, we really need more devs and creatives. Requirements are generally degrees and a little experience.

Secondly, it's telling that we have yet to see a response from ACS on this page. Speaks volumes.

[1] http://www.immigration.govt.nz/pointsindicator/ follow for Absolute Skills Shortage and Future Growth Areas.
If Microsoft did half the shit Apple is pulling they'd have been out of business for 10 years. Funny how that works.
I know that feeling - the person who took <myname>.com sat on it for 2 years...
> But, why support iOS 6 on the iPhone 3GS and not on the iPod Touch 3G? The iPod Touch came out after the iPhone - its more recent.

But the iPod Touch 3G was discontinued in September 2010, whereas the iPhone 3GS, despite being released slightly earlier, was not discontinued until September 2012.
Firefox 19 has it's own built in PDF viewer. You don't need the Adobe Reader plugin to read PDFs anymore.
Dear alumni and editors:

Please continue changing bad titles, changing links to original content, hiding bad stories, and banning abusive troll users. You make HN a lovely place, despite your somewhat behind-the-curtains wizardly appearance.

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Me.
"But the bill says $29.99, so that’s what I’m putting on the check."

I really hope he is not serious - is this true? I've not seen a checkbook in years and years.
I'm a bit surprised to see that nobody has mentioned that this is a very common configuration in the real world, cars linked this way ("coupled, from now until eternity") are called married pairs, or twin units:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married_pair

They're falling out of favor on New York's MTA system, but Chicago's newest 5000-series cars are still configured in married pairs.

Hypothetically, with married pairs you never need to turn cars around, each unit is independently functional, and the number of many expensive components is reduced by half. Quite elegant, if you ask me.

Romantically(?) divorce among married pairs is rare, and in the case of Chicago, fan-sites document the handful of mis-matched cars.
The comp sci degree at UNSW back in the early 90's didn't go in for the ACS thing. It was something offered at more Tafe-y places like UTS. Not sure about now.

It seems the lower down the qualification chain you go, the more importance is placed on giving you fancy certificates. ACS membership is one of those things.
Thanks for the pointer! Looking at Cloudera's jobs board, most tech-heavy work is in SF or Palo Alto. I live in San Mateo, convenient to both of those, but ... I'm likely leaving for the North Carolina RTP area soon.
You can do exactly that with packaged apps in Chrome.

http://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html
I realize that the cable monopoly is underinvesting in infrastructure and overcharging for service, but it's still unfair to compare the service of a country as small as Finland to a country as large and sprawling as the US. There's simply that much more ground to cover, and coverage is definitely a higher priority than speed or cost.
In my last job I was in a position where I got to see all the salary wrangling that goes on behind the scenes, and it was pretty awful. You get people with power dishing out preferential treatment to their mates, you get situations that are incredibly unfair but for whatever reason can't be easily resolved, and you get a lot of gossiping and speculation that is wildly unproductive for a company. I've never worked anywhere with salary transparency but I'd love to try it - I think with the right people it could work well but I'm sure there's plenty of scope for petty jealousies of other kinds. But I did come away with the fact that the secrecy in many cases is often to hide things that your average worker is going to be offended by, i.e. how much executives are paid.
The New Zealand immigration points indicator
Asciio -- Cool Per/GTK program ...
I loved this program that helps you draw pure ASCII diagrams! I was looking for something minimalistic to draw flowcharts and ran into asciio. What are some such cool tools you use and love?
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I'm in Rochester, NY and I pay almost $80/mo for 30mbps/5mbps.

Time Warner has a monopoly in the area, and Verizon / Google have no interest in competing (for whatever reason).

It sucks.
The physical action of the drug on the brain is obvious and should be researched further. It may be that certain psychedelic/entheogenic states of consciousness offer internal, subjective evidence of a nonmaterial, transcendent aspect of reality. It may be that the majority of psychedelic experiences(especially low dose) do not, and are reducible in principle to physics.
I once did a short stint at a phone survey company that specialised in health and social welfare surveys. I wasn't on this particular survey crew, but I remember a colleague telling me that it was strange - a stranger rings up and with your consent conducts a 20-minute anonymous survery on the subject of abuse, sexual or otherwise, that the respondant suffered as a child.

It was a delicate survey and required a fair bit of rapport building, and lots of 'I need to remind you that the next question is voluntary'... but we were still getting plenty of respondants, and the weird thing was that despite being a (relatively) anonymous stranger with which you have just shared some sensitive, deep secrets about childhood abuse, the question that most balked at was the 'income level' question in the demographic rundown at the end.
Windows are still a thing.
If you're on OS X, http://fluidapp.com/
>I don't understand how end-to-end encryption protects illegal file sharers if the file ownership information is stored unencrypted.

It doesn't. Who said it was supposed to?

In theory it protects Mega from the argument that they know what the data is and aren't stopping it, because now they can't know, but YouTube isn't encrypted and nobody expects for them to be shut down, so I'm not sure to what extent that is really even necessary.
If we're going to be limited to the title of the original piece why not enforce this, in the code? Fetching the page and parsing out a title tag really shouldn't be too many LOC - and would stop the debate.
As much as I'm tempted to accept the self-loathing implicit in your analysis, temphn, I must strenuously object. Talking to people should never be denied or (in this case) punished. I don't care if it's government sponsored propaganda, the NYT, or the KFC marketing department: there is no justification for censorship.

If, as you say, "the Chinese government feels that it is under attack by the United States" then perhaps they should ask themselves why they are so afraid of information. Why are they not able to influence their own population on their home turf more effectively than these American interlopers? If they can't do that, then perhaps the foundations of their government are too weak to support the dreams and aspirations of almost 2Bn human beings.
What's the conflict of interest?
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It's amazing the stupid things people do to compromise their own identity on Tor. You could take all of my computers and you'd never know that I've used Tor (unless you installed a hardware key logger and then replanted the device)
Australia also has a points system and we too have various software professions on a high-value list.

http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/_pdf/sol-schedule1.pdf

Assessed by ... the ACS.
They didn't circumvent anything.

(1) over 10,700 clear text msgs about drug dealing
(2) announced to a forum probably watched by every police outfit in the world he was in Australia and about to start importing a lot of product and selling locally, basically inviting Aus feds to contact him and set up stings
(3) imported drugs directly from a known drug exporting country (netherlands) through probably the toughest customs on earth who scan every package, who no doubt flag everything including envelopes from there for investigation.

I do like his defence of being the village idiot though. Seems to have worked since he's only getting 2-3yrs, which means 1yr and parole.

"Mr Jassar told Judge Murphy that Ms Ormsby was in court and that her piece – Silk Road: The eBay of Illegal Drugs – was the first views on the website by a journalist." lol Adrien Chen, your thunder stolen.
Also, it is very much a western thing. I have a lot of Indian friends and they happily trade salary information amongst each other. This reduces any informational asymmetry that exists in such situations.
I think you might be thinking of Lamar Smith.
People want stability from a currency, not it to fluctuate for maximal profits for traders. Not saying your comment indicates this is your case, but 'bullish' rubs the wrong way. Customers want stability not stock jockeying.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5055801

The new title is "Branch"

The original title was

"Obvious Corp's Branch now open to public"
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not op but I would say almost nil. The "Arab Spring" occurred in already unstable regimes, which China is not. There is also a massive difference in scale with regard to the amount of power that must change hands for something even close to occur - a much higher activation energy.

I think the best hope for China is a gradual transition to democratic reform as the old guard passes on. It's likely though that nepotism will bridge the generation gap.
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I disagree with the premise of the post. In a year or two, most apps will only support iOS 6. How bad would it be to search for an app you expect, like Facebook or Yelp, only to not find it, not having any indication of error? At least this way, people realize that they have to buy a new iProduct to use an app. Having an empty app store and not knowing why is way worse than being teased by apps you can't get.
More so he's pro-theoretical grounding in a subject, because with the right background it's easy to get up to speed in the practicalities.

It's a bit unpleasant reading these articles (Barrie's and the original by Harper) now, as I currently work for Bigcommerce, and turned down an offer from Freelancer. Ironically, Freelancer offerred me about 40% less salary because at the time I had a theoretical background and almost zero practical experience.
something that can't be understated is the strength of the founding and core team, which attracted a world-class engineering team etc. smart, driven people want to work with people they respect and there were (and still are) a lot of ballers on that team.
Liability doesn't make sense for a lot of software. It's not like electricity where it's always potentially dangerous, civil where mistakes can cause death and dismemberment en masse and so on.

Basically software liability is just rolled up into the relevant market. Writing facebook games? It doesn't really matter to society if you get it a bit wrong. Writing pacemaker software? Then you're governed by medical device regulations.

Software's application to problems are so varied, so wide, that it's insensible to apply a single liability scheme to it.
Get your friends to join HN and tell us?
I think this article treats skill as something immutable.

I'll say this once... if people are hiring you only for what you currently know how to do perfectly, both of you (employee and employeer) are going to be unhappy at some point.

You should have a skill floor. Skill is a scaffold that you definitely need to hang things on. But skill needs to be balanced against traits like grit/drive, learning ability, assertiveness/ability self start, and culture fit, and (they talk about this a little, but it's unclear if it's merely a way to talk about assertiveness) leadership qualities.

This kind of article makes me itch to do research on the subject. It's good to know that it works for the author, but it's not clear whether they have merely found a local maximum, whether all the elements they suggest are helpful or some are handicaps.

I'd also note that an interview as described here is a different animal than actually working. I think there is something to be said for at the very least remembering and considering those differences, since interview skills have overlap with, but do not necessarily map to, the ability to do the job well.
I was trying to figure out how you think you know all of this when I clicked on your profile. Then the thought suddenly hit me that publicly disclosing details about how we think they work, and what we actually look for in cleaning up, might not be the best thing to do on a forum that is world accessible.

Also if you're right, I'm depressed that they don't in practice use ideas that have been publicly known for decades.

One final thought. The gmail approach would leave fingerprints in Google's system. The actor in question could easily have some paranoia about doing that, even though Google would be unlikely to notice.
There are? What do you have in mind? If you use mineral oil or Olean, you get diarrhea as a side effect in doses of more than a few grams per day.
In point of fact I think this kind of hacking attempt is a kind of ham-handed attempt to control what cannot be controlled. The Chinese are pissed, and so someone put some money and time toward attacking the NYT. And not doing a very good job, either.

The US, by contrast, has more direct ways to express its displeasure.
"replacement may have been overdue and economically more viable"

Adding to that the fact that the replacement may have been covered by computer crime insurance that they possibly had.
May I add that, ISP dug the fiber, connected it and gave all equipment for free. As well as they replanted plants and replaced tarmac and everything else that was damaged in the process outdoors.

That should tell us, that they're still making hefty profits from the connection.
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I think it's also generally a misconception that people pirate things because they are cheap and don't want to spend the money. I think most people would be happy to pay if it matched the ease of convenience of piracy. I'm sure some people do pirate to avoid paying but they are never going to be your target market anyway.

Are you doing market research for a startup? This is an area I am particularly interested in and have a bunch of ideas for the industry. The major problem I see it is navigating the legal minefield of copyright law in different regions etc.
I was implying it could be an American newspaper... As it stands if I 'hacked' HN and routed through china, I reckon the news would be: "HN hacked by Chinese Government!"
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You must not live in the US.
In the same vein, but on the web: http://www.asciiflow.com/
That was my point.

If it takes 20 years to see a 'benefit' is it that bad now, that they should go through that kind of mess?
Who give a fuck.
Keep Your Enemies Close... Keep Your Customers Closer
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How Did Chinese Hackers Attack Google?
It might be an improvement on the state of the art in some other way. For example, a new antibiotic might be less effective than existing antibiotics, but have no cross-resistance with them and therefore be useful in treating antibiotic-resistant strains in the future (the magainin case), or a new antipsychotic might be less effective than existing antipsychotics for average patients, but more effective or less damaging for a few. Finally, you might be able to get synergistic effects by combining the drug with the best existing alternative treatment.
I do both. For fun is to learn and grow. For money cuz, well, I need money. Sometimes the two overlap.
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It's sad that after all this time the official Java plugin isn't even secure. I mean, we all knew years ago that it wasn't very useful, but it's insecurity just adds insult to injury. The Sun has truly set. :(
Occam's Razor says some office working for the Chinese government is looking for who snitched on Wen Jiabao's problematic enormous wealth.

> Perhaps then you believe it is only Americans that never conspire.

seriously?

Just look at the flailing US response day by day in the Egyptian revolution as they tried to get ahead of how it would turn out for an example of how the Obama administration was just as blindsided by the Arab Spring as everyone else.

For US intervention in the Libyan revolution, after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Rice said "I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again, I would come down on the side of dramatic action, going down in flames if that was required."

More generally, a bunch of unconnected dots about supporting democracy or human rights in China, like any other interesting subject, is normal.

> Yet the NYT itself admits: "Diplomatic cables report how American officials frequently assured skeptical [Arab] governments that the training was aimed at reform, not promoting revolutions."

From the same article (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html?pagewante...): "No one doubts that the Arab uprisings are home grown, rather than resulting from “foreign influence,” as alleged by some Middle Eastern leaders."
The ability to collaboratively edit Word documents in realtime a la Etherpad would be huge. Our organization uses Google Docs and Workflowy because they're real-time-collaboratively-editable.

Though I use Scrivener for most things these days because it has much better modularity and change control.
Can you switch to chemical engineering? ChemE had the highest starting salaries of all the engineering majors where I went to school. Anecdotal evidence tells me most ChemE majors START somewhere in the $60k+ range.
Gasoline vapors are several times heavier than air, so they tend to stay in buckets, crawl across basement floors, and so on. Maybe if you let the bucket sit there long enough, they'll displace enough oxygen that you won't get a fire at the surface.

Another crucial variable is the temperature. If you do the experiment with the bucket sitting in a snowdrift, you probably can get it to snuff out a match, regardless of how long it's been sitting there.
Most of the time, when a stern announcement is made about how We Will Catch You, they try to hint that they have magical cryptography-busting powers.

All BS, of course. Most such people are charged because Customs open a percentage of all packages entering the country and have a look inside. And it's not necessarily at random; the method for reliably fooling a good sniffer dog has yet to be devised.

Until someone solves the problem that you can't easily do dual key encryption on molecules, people are going to keep getting busted by old fashioned customs and police work.

If he made a mistake, it wasn't some Tor-related misconfiguration. It's that he didn't bribe the right Customs officials.
> It's unfortunate that we don't get more foreign perspective on HN and Reddit.

Agree. But you should be aware that culturally different point of views and requests to avoid US-centrism on HN are often downvoted. I have experienced it myself. I do not care that much except that I fear other potential contributors may feel it as an injunction to "shut up".

For exmple, I detected that many of my colleagues (in an It company) read HN very regularly, but I am under the impression that they would not try to comment or would be repelled by downvotes.
Well... I know I might sound a bit rude, but why use coinbase instead of just putting your Bitcoin address online?
The fact that it's OSS, addons, customization capability, JS engine, and mostly, privacy/security.
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Err, Finland is not that densely populated country at all.

In Finland there are 17,6 people/km^2 and in US there are 33.7 people/km^2. Densely populated small?

Netherlands (491p/km^2) or Belgium (353p/km^2) would be very different story.

50Mbit/s 4G connection seems to cost 19,96€/mo (including 24% tax, without data caps or prioritization limits)
100Mbit/s 4G connection seems to cost 40,13€/mo (inc tax).
But with those connections you won't get full speed all the time, as you do get with fiber.

Naturally our rural areas got whole different pricing policy and fiber connections aren't often available. In worst case you could get 1 Mbps ADSL or similar 3G connection.
Just one point: Vertica came out of the research project C-Store which was a PhD thesis by Dan Abadi. However, the outcome is the same :)