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Fair enough, but even then, AMZN is doing worse than Wal-Mart.
What your missing is they don't pre pay for there inventory. So while revenue vs profit might make it seem like they would quickly get into trouble a 10% drop in retail sales with far less issues than a software company operating on 1% margins.
Other than a cool hack, I fail to see the use for it.
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It's not just a myth, it can make people jealous of each other or cause a variety of tensions. I don't talk to my friends who work for charities about how much I earn, nor do I want to talk to the couple of people I know who are in finance about what they bring in.

Of course it also helps the company get an unfair advantage in negotiations, but it does have a social purpose too.
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People factor this in all the time. It's reality when considering a new job or retirement. You often see articles on the tax implications of living somewhere and it's factored in to many of the "most livable city" lists.

And even though it's usually illegal not to report it on a tax return, people cross state lines a lot for purchases (cigarettes, alcohol, electronics). Portland for instance has no sales tax while its very close neighbor Washington has no income tax.

This could all play out with Internet taxes too.
This. Each brain acts independently, and some brains have access to rather more or less data (and yes, processing power too) than others when it comes to making a decision on any given subjects. It's more of a surprise when the majority chooses correctly given superficially-appealing conflicting arguments on esoteric subjects it doesn't really understand.
Except now they have profits and they had losses in the late 90s.

They are still expanding to new countries. Last year, for instance, they opened amazon.es and amazon.com.br which are significant markets.

I don't see what's the point in comparing revenue to profit ratios in wildly different sectors.
There's something to keep in mind. You are your brain and your brain is you. You're not some sort of cloud of abstract disconnected thoughts. The "loop" you speak of causes real physical changes to a real physical thing (so do traumatic brain injuries which can cause depression, btw). It doesn't really matter how the changes start or take place, once they are far enough under way it becomes impossible to quickly undo them.

It can be and is cured with drugs, and rehabilitation therapy and it takes time. The cure is also a physical change. Sounds pretty disease-like to me.
We're not talking about clock work machinery, we're talking about the human brain. Asking why issues of the brain aren't an exact science is like asking why we haven't solved the halting problem yet. Cognition and sentience are still far from solved problems. Moreover, the way that different minds react to different physical problems of the brain is inevitably going to be hugely complex. Some people will brood alone in their room and write poetry like Emily Dickinson, some people will throw themselves off a bridge.
as an aussie CS grad looking for work, what is a good NZ job search site to check out? I'd love to work in NZ for a while.
It varies by country/culture. In some cultures people are just terribly insecure and think that their salary defines their worth.
I went through the same process. Yes it took longer than I would have liked, but in general it went very well.

Australia is very restrictive on immigration because so many people want to go there. I'm not really sure why they would restructure the system when this is the case, they have a relatively small population and extend a variety of state benefits to immigrants, so they don't want to be swamped.
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How can such a thing be legally binding. Did you tell your wife? Can they sue for that? What if you're not married to your partner? Your bank and every person who has seen your bank statement (a lot of people) knows what you're earning. Can they sue for that?
This is a really cool project and it's nicely implemented.

Even better, I can actually see me using this. I just finished a project recently for a relatively technical client. All the config for the system (quite a lot of config) was stored in mongo. This would be the perfect interface for allowing them to manage it.

Thanks to the creator. I will use this.
IIRC you don't need your skills tested if you have at least 5 years experience and can find someone to sponsor you on a 457 visa. After 2 years you can enter the transition stream for PR. You might find that easier than direct entry if you don't have a relevant degree. It's worth talking to an immigration lawyer even if you have to spring a couple of hundred bucks for the privilege.

As for your job prospects, they're excellent in Melbourne or Sydney, and good to fair elsewhere.
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Yes but that's not the case if you're changing a dependency in the middle of the chain, as is more commonly the case.

Additionally, as far as I can tell, the main thing that slows compilation down isn't so much the actual compilation step as loading in and copying all the project references. Visual Studio does this separately, from scratch, for every project that you rebuild, since each project compilation runs in a separate csc.exe process.

Quote from Jeremy Miller: "I took 56 projects one time and consolidated them down to 10-12 and cut the compile time from 4 minutes to 20 seconds with the same LOC" (http://codebetter.com/jeremymiller/2008/09/30/separate-assem...)
Your suggestion that affiliate marketing is a "trap of get rich quick" that "scams" people and uses "immoral techniques" smatters of generalizations and inaccuracies. Like any industry, there are bad players. Affiliate marketing is no exception, however there are people who build individual brands helping local companies spread their marketing endeavors with affiliate style marketing and are quite successful doing so with honest methods. I recommend against throwing the baby out with the bath water and maybe sitting down with your father and figuring out-with a bit more clarity-what he's actually doing.
I could pick those up one by one, but time does not permit. You are largely correct that there seems to be more experimentation in the the java open source ecosystem, and that some of the key parts of the same in .Net are ports from java (e.g. nUnit, log4net, nhibernate). Though in all those cases there are alternatives, it's just that the particular tool mentioned is most popular. Possibly due to familiarity.

With maven, I'm not sure that it's a good thing https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=maven+hate and there are lots of ways besides msbuild to do builds and installs. The rake, jake, psake family of tools are all viable.

With things like Cassandra, I don't care what language the server is written in as long as I can connect to it. This is IMHO the way forward, and not just for .Net. Though if you're looking for a noSql db written in .Net, there is RavenDb.
If you're still interested, and can find someone willing to employ you look at the 457 visa and the transition stream to PR. Circumvents that whole mess IIRC.
In 12 years in the UK managing development teams and reviewing hundreds of CV's, I've never once seen the BCS mentioned on CV's or had any candidates mention it.

I did consider membership at one point, and attended a few events, and judging from the people there it seems like they might have a little bit of relevance in pockets of the consultancy industry etc., but otherwise there doesn't seem to be much value in joining. There are some good special interest groups, and affiliated organisations (e.g. ACCU is great if you do much C/C++ stuff), but most of those are open to people who are not BCS members anyway.

I wouldn't ever ask for BCS membership from candidates because I know my own experience, and know the hassle I'd still have to go through to get membership just in order to certify a very basic level of knowledge, so I know I'd exclude a huge proportion of good candidates without getting an assurance that they were fit for the job, and would still have to go through most of the same interview process anyway.
They might not pre-pay for the inventory, but they still have fixed costs, and they are rising, they have over 50k employees now. They _need_ to sell at huge volumes with the profit margins they are taking, otherwise they will bleed money. Some day, the fairy tale of 3000+ P/E and years of making next to no profits or even losses will be over and the stock will tank. Amazon will have a huge problem attracting funding to cover their fixed costs, they will have to fire lots and lots of employees at the expense of service and marketshare, and basically show us what the .com bubble 2.0 looks like.
It's allowed to say that to your spouse. I think the regulation is just to prevent from publishing on web page or sending email with your real documents. If there is leak from the bank, the bank is responsible. In practice you talk about your salaries but in unofficial way, with a beer in a pub, but you never show the official contract.

The other interesting thing is clause about installing not approved application on your laptop. Everybody does it - your favourite editor, messenger, file manager etc. But when they want to fire you, they say that you've broken the rule and you're going to be sued unless you agree to leave company immediately without any punishment.
All this focus on the sophistication of the Chinese hackers irritates me slightly.

Reading between the lines, it seems the NYT would likely have weathered this "sophisticated" attack a lot better if they had observed a few simple security best practices:

- Salt your password hashes (rendering rainbow tables inert)

- Train your staff NOT to open attachments from unknown sources (especially if you've just written an inflammatory article on a foreign government official)

- Configure your mail server to automatically strip and quarantine any attachment (inbound or outbound) that isn't of a type defined in a very strict white list

- In addition to network firewalls, make use of the software firewall on the PC's themselves by tightly controlling what processes on the machines are given egress permission

This stuff isn't rocket science and if the NYT can't get it right (knowing that they're a natural high profile target), what hope do other firms have?

The focus of the discussion should be on getting to the bottom of why we keep seeing these basic security oversights being made over and over again, not panicking about Chinese über hackers and suggesting everyone move to smart cards, retina scans or paper.
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It is about powerful political masters of China trying to hold on to their riches.
And where do you get your Bitcoin address from? Options are: from the official client (many reasons for and against running it), one of the other hosted or local Bitcoin wallets, or Coinbase. Coinbase is an attractive option as it's extremely easy to setup and to cash out the Bitcoin directly into your bank account.
There's despair and there's sadness. Can you highlight the difference?
I hope you're getting some treatment.
http://www.seek.co.nz - All the corporates

http://jobs.geekzone.co.nz/Jobs - You may find some more fun jobs here

Looking at user groups in NZ might yield you something too
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No, it's just chemical action on the brain. We can even isolate the chemicals and reproduce the effects.

Just because you can name a pharmaceutical with dodgy side-effects doesn't mean that drinking ayahuasca brew is a great idea either. 'Western' medicine has enhanced and lengthened countless lives.

I've done a lot of things in my life and I very quickly came to realise that all this talk of mothers and teachers and mind expansion was basically crap.

Hallucinogens can make you think differently about yourself and your place in the world. Awesome. Lets not dress it up as a psycho-religious experience where we tap deeper levels of the universe to reunite with the mother-goddess and retune my soul-wavelength to that of my inner dolphin spirit from the world beyond... You got f*cked up, saw some shiny stuff and now you feel better about yourself. Hooray.
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Ask HN: Am I the only chrome user who has to refresh a github network page...
...to see the graph?

Everytime I open a network page on github, I see the loading animation but nothing happens. If I refresh the page after opening it, the network graph appears instantly. It works better in FF and Safari.
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You still need the public key to validate the signature. If the attacker can change the public key, he can change the signature without you knowing - unless you explicitly want to trust each and every key for every gem you install.
Keep in mind that eCommerce is only ~15% of all commerce in the USA. If we will be buying all the things we want/need online in the future, someone will be the Wal-Mart.

The market and many believe that Amazon will be that company because they are using all of their revenue now to aggressively ensure this.

http://kpcb.com/insights/2012-internet-trends
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It's humourless, homogenous, prissy, inhuman (in the sense that it removes emotional context) and fucking boring. Correlating professionalism with the above is very USAian. You should focus on breadth of successful interaction on the human side and ongoing effective fulfilment of job description. Not sure where religion comes into it outside of the Puritans who buggered off to America.
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Hopefully that won't train people to just click "activate" everywhere.

OTOH hopefully this will convince netflex etc to migrate away from reliance on silverlight and we can have something that works on Linux without a load of wine hacks.
I am - definitely getting help, medication can be tricky to get right also.
MS seems to be much more sensible in the Developer Tools division, i.e. .NET, VS, etc. There are several quite vocal open source supporters there and they seem to have enough influence that this part of the company does some quite good things. The Windows division ... not so much.
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I had a GoogleAd come up for a service which tracks and notifies you when a Facebook friend "unfriends" you - I believe this is against the Facebook platform/privacy policy (as "respect privacy" at https://developers.facebook.com/policy/#principles and under Branding and Functionality at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/policy/policy_checklist/english/)<p>Question is - is there a private method of notifying Facebook of the application in question, and should I notify Facebook at all or let it come to their attention naturally?
Plus Avalon just started shipping the first mining chip ( http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=70 ). And they announced they will only accept bitcoins as payment for the 2nd batch of 500 units @ $1500 ea, which starts selling tomorrow... That potentially means people buying $750k worth of bitcoins for a batch that will sell out really quickly. This will surely push the exchange rate even higher than $20.

Edit: there is no resistance upward right now on MtGox. $300k of buys would push to $24. $500k to $30. http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD_depth.html
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And even if you move past the paralysis, trying to cure oneself of depression is like trying to debug the operating system of your mind using a debugger running the exact same flawed logic that you're trying to debug!

Worse, those bugs are live and their nature is to slowly but surely corrupt the rest of the system software pertaining to beliefs, memory, perception and thought processing. Eventually you reach a point where it's almost impossible to tell what's a lie and what's real, or how to non-dysfunctionally process what you do discover!

This is why therapy is so critical - you have an objective third party to help debug things, identify your blindspots and point out where the bugs in your beliefs and thought processes are. A reference manual for identifying and repairing dysfunctional thinking is also incredibly valuable and to that end I recommend David Burns' "Feeling Good" to anybody in this situation.
It would be interesting to compare BtC not only to the USD, but also to a bag of currencies, to see if it relates to a USD devaluation 'compared to the rest' (usually JPY, EUR, GBP)
Are there any decent free tools for doing batch conversions on mp3 or wav files to the formats needed for HTML5 audio across browsers?
I would not be comfortable talking about my salary with most friends/family.

My wife doesn't even have any idea of what I make ;-)
So it might not be the quick answer you want, but I get asked this a lot by friends so I have a package of recommendations put together in an email with links and setup instructions etc., I usually copy and paste - if you're asking for yourself I'd be happy to forward it to you if you put an email in your profile or something temporarily so I can find you.

In short though I used Hartl's Railstutorial, an old Sitepoint introduction to Ruby and Rails, everything Railscasts... then I started coming up with projects and building (or often half-building) them. Stackoverflow helped me with answers. Google was my friend because so often people had blogged answers I was looking for.

Learning to read other people's code was the biggest step forward. But after the basic tutorials, it was mostly building things. Finding problems. Reading answers. Experimenting.
Interesting note that the network stack is implemented "as a mostly single-threaded (there are separate cache and proxy threads), cross-platform library."

I wonder if someone could extract that lib into its own project. It would be great to have a version of AFNetworking or Python's requests library built on top of this -- in order to take advantage of the advanced socket reuse and late binding stuff that he describes in the article.

But that's all without really looking at the code. Maybe there's just too much Chrome-specific stuff there.
I don't really understand economics at all, but with a $200M market cap (http://blockchain.info/charts/market-cap), wouldn't $750k of bitcoins be just a blip? Or is it about rate of exchange?
If you released one then the other, could you release sooner?

If yes, then I would release sooner.
Aside from the other things that have been pointed out, IMO Amazon is still trying to grow aggressively. Most "comparable" companies have settled in to a market and an operating model. Even Google simply seems to "explore" new territory, instead of pursuing it.
Of course the reverse will be true as Avalon attempts to convert $750000 worth of BTC into USD. If they're smart they'll do it in small increments, but it will still have an effect
If you read my comments above, you can see that I did indeed read the top comment.

All that is provided is the assertion that all (american?) organizations questioning the Chinese government are apparently seen as arms of the United States's campaign against China, which explains why the Chinese government would make this move. What I was asking for any specific evidence that would preclude the much more obvious explanation that the New York Times wrote a story exposing corruption surrounding the Chinese Premier, and the people infiltrating the system were looking for the sources of that information (which is what the New York Times themselves are claiming). Without specific information, all we're left with is that "the Chinese government does not like dissent", and the Arab spring narrative is merely sophistry.
IIRC, there are issues with leaking URLs just as with OCSP lookups. So it's more privacy related than security. I was in a hurry when I typed that earlier. But if you think about it, there's still a chance of sending company internal URLs to a third party which given enough data would start to build up a view of the intranet. We have no idea if google then feeds this into their crawler to get more of the hidden web and if there is a misconfiguration elsewhere would then cause results to be publicly visible. See posts about visible printers etc. in the last couple of days.
I haven't withdrawn from life (except when I get very tired and need sleep), and I don't feel sad. I feel flat and empty. Others feel sadness, but it's not always that way.
If these ASICs are so efficient at mining Bitcoins I don't understand why Avalon doesn't just run them themselves rather than sell them?
Can we settle on "brusque"?
I don't think US intends to anyway. The lobbying in Washington is too strong to allow dramatic cuts in the programs that use the biggest part of the budget.

I'm honestly surprised many countries are naive enough to lend to US anymore. At this point US debt is a ponzi scheme. Some of them might get their money back, or only a part of it, or only after its value dropped significantly, but that's about it.
Would you also like to have voltage readings as scientific explanation of an off-by-one error in software?
Answer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5142307
Downward spiral in property prices?

I take it you haven't been to Perth lately?
From outside the US:

The fuss caused by the wardrobe malfunction during a sports event was baffling.

Some TV programs (not aimed at children, an example is "The Good Wife") have to avoid all swears. That's okay, but sometimes characters need to swear. In one episode they jokingly used traffic noise from a window to mask the swears.

I don't understand the torture porn of shows like 24 and the refusal to allow swearing.

Facebook made a decision to not allow any nipples. That's okay, their servers their rules. But they extended that to disallow any images of women breast-feeding children. That is baffling. Especially when FB also has some hate pages.

> I'd be curious about the underlying reasons.

I'd guess diverse population, with a vocal group who cares about it and a clear issue to campaign against. It's harder to say "More swearing on TV!".
For anyone affected by depression or other mental health issues, like stress and anxiety, I recommend the work of John Kabat Zinn and his teachings on mindfulness. This was offered when I was still an in patient at a psychiatric unit and has had numerous beneficial effects on people I know who have struggled with serious depression and mental illness (including myself). There are mindfulness courses all over the world these days :)
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I really wish governments would stop policing the substances we put into our bodies. It really is none of their business.
Seriously? Spam on Hacker news?
And somehow a chemical imbalance in the brain cannot be achieved by human behavior? The brain constantly adapts and changes to outside stimuli. Why would it be impossible to create depression from outside stimuli? I'm not trying to marginalize the illnesses of other people, but let's try to have a more varied approach than "no it's in the brain and they are born with it"