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looking for a whiteboard coding sites… like pair programming extended to onlookers as a spectator sport where anybody can glance around different coding sessions in progress…
locate indexer cronjob should never be enabled on a production box. Problem solved.
What about a 4G/wifi hotspot that completely bypasses the school's network? You could subsidize it by sharing usage data, which could be compiled to generate "most popular" lists and tied to curriculum components.
I think you're spot on. The challenge is to find away to evaluate both on a level playing field. A CS grad from different caliber universities probably (on average) have different levels of competency. Even graduates from the same university won't have the same level of skill. For traditional colleges, employers can cut through these asymmetries by using heuristics like institutional prestige and metrics like GPA.

The key is to find a method of credentialing general enough that it can apply to both traditional, college-educated job applicants and non-traditional ones alike.

Whether MOOCs will be enough for those non-traditional applicants to be successful in this modern credential system is a separate issue, and, as you point out, far from certain.
Wrong author for that.
Any explanation of how is this done? Any specific tools used?
Not dismissing the rest of the article at all, but with specific regard to accepting online payments, why no mention of Pin [0]? Stripe/Braintree aren't the only options for Australian businesses to accept credit cards online easily, in-fact we have our own, home-grown alternative kicking arse in that arena.

Pin has been out of beta for over a year, accepts payments in multiple currencies [1], is Australian owned and operated, and works very similarly to Stripe with regard to integration and client libraries [2].

I get frustrated that an Aussie company solving the very issue lots of people complain about (easily accepting card payments online) doesn't get a mention, and is always playing second fiddle to Stripe.

[0]: https://pin.net.au
[1]: https://pin.net.au/docs/currency-support
[2]: https://pin.net.au/docs/api
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There are 7.8 billion people on the planet, all consuming, reproducing, driving and expelling, burning, cutting, killing, clearing, digging, and searching for the American dream. The very existence of humankind is now completely outside of the natural food cycle. Most everything humans eat is farmed in numbers by weight that you or I simply can not imagine. Our economy is based on the processing and consumption of planetary resources multiplied by a rate of exponential growth. There are over 1 billion cars on the planet, and 2,300 coal power plants. 1.3 billion cows bred almost solely for human consumption, each cow eats about 4 tons of food per year. Humans are killing all the animals, burning all the fossil fuels, and toxifying all the potable water. We give back to the natural cycle; plastic garbage, VOCs, heavy metals, radioactive waste, trillions of tons of carbon bonded to oxygen. The only other organism that functions with such destruction and haste is a virus.

There is no mistake and scientists are not confused. This is the 6 major extinction the planet has ever seen in its 4.5 billion years of existence. This extinction is occurring faster than the dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago. If humans all disappeared today, it would take the planet 12 million years to repair the damage we have done. In human terms, that 12 million years longer than human existence itself.

Oh and CO2 (produced by all human action), and methane (of which cows produce tons) are greenhouse gases proven to increase temperatures of an inclosed area when IR light is applied.

> you've got everything figured out

I'm not going to pretend I don't, so you can feel better about your unfortunate unwillingness to accept the obvious and unfortunate truth.
> needs to let the private market run the country

I agree. The only thing I think is that the lead-ins as well as the fibres running in the streets (but not even really those in the road, for the most part), the passive infrastructure components only should be in public ownership. Think water or electricity. except it'll be private further than about a few hundred metres away from the average premises.

But the coalition privatised Telstra in 1997 without any structural separation whatsoever. That was at a time where Telstra was overbuilding its competitor's HFC network to 85% instead of the 20% previously expected by Keating-era Labor.

And Telstra was pretty much the only telco in the world that was privatised and allowed to keep both its HFC and copper networks. In Germany, the EU stepped in and forced a sell-off of Deutsche Telekom's HFC operations.

But in Australia, the coalition's obsession with privatisation to make the "surplus" look as big as possible has lead to an absolute fiasco. One where seven years later the copper network was described as "five minutes to midnight" and now ten years after that in turn, we're paying money to rent it back.

Absolute insanity - what the hell kind of government would buy or rent a copper network and invest dozens of billions into it that its current owner said was five minutes to midnight ten years ago.

I agree with the private market aspect - except for aspects of the passive infrastructure. But the government here created a shit-heap of a problem that only the government has the ability to fix.

But now they're just going to make it all worse - thanks, once again, primarily because of the coalition. But Labor's not blameless either, by a long stretch.
Built this because most business loan calculators online are stuck in Web 1.0
Google's acquisition of Skybox isn't really comparable to its purchase of DropCam and integration of Nest into Google Now. The former gives Google information about you without any action on your part. The latter requires you to explicitly invite them into your home.
Also, it's embeddable and we even come up with a calculator for merchant cash advances! https://www.fundastic.com/merchant-cash-advance-apr-calculat...
I've researched this area and there are a few issues to be aware of. First of all, it's important to note that Android does not have the same built in "off the grid" networking that iOS recently introduced. So, as OpenGarden stated on Techcrunch, Android clients rely on some combination of Bluetooth and wifi.

Second of all, a common issue with implementing peer-to-peer networks is NAT traversal. Because the internet has more devices than it does IPv4 space, it's segmented into siloed networks (NATs), each with it's own IP space. So connecting two peers is nontrivial, because the public address of one might mean something totally different to another. To accomplish peer to peer tunneling, you need some kind of intermediary to coordinate the addressing. Because of that, many p2p applications require changes to router/firewall rules to solve the addressing problem. Obviously this is suboptimal, especially on mobile. But recently, Google has made a lot of strides in this area with it's technology underlying Google Talk and WebRTC. This tech, encapsulated in a library called libjingle, relies on the STUN and TURN protocols for intermediary servers to coordinate addressing between peers. For 92% of devices on the Internet, the STUN servers are able to coordinate addressing between peers without having to relay any of the data. For the other 8%, TURN servers sit in between the peers and relay data. This is the technology that enables Google Talk and WebRTC to be so scalable. When 92% of bandwidth can be offloaded to peers, there's much less of a need for central servers and bandwidth.

Now consider that any p2p IP tunnel can be opened between two devices connected to the Internet, using this STUN/TURN protocol via something like libjingle. (See socialvpn.org for an example.) This tunnel can be a generic transport, or it can act as a UDP proxy (I believe this is how Hola! Chrome extension works).

You now have the ability to create a p2p overlay network, with direct tunnels between peers, on top of any Internet or generic network of devices. The key component is libjingle along with STUN and TURN servers, which enable direct p2p addressing.

My hypothesis is that OpenGarden used some combination of all these technologies. I think the reason they're quiet about how they accomplished it is because, 1) Android probably doesn't work as well as iOS in sparse offline areas (not enough Bluetooth parity), and 2) they are relying to some extent on central servers, for the TURN/STUN protocol.

That's just my hypothesis, and I've never actually implemented anything with this technology, but rather have only read about it. If someone wants to correct me on any number of the points I'm sure I got wrong, please do.
I cannot read this chart---and I really want to!!! Please help me. My email is jayne926@aol.com. Thank you!!!
I'm an Australian working at a US software company. I've always planned to return home at some point. But the state of the industry in Australia makes this seem like a very poor move. I could move to Sydney, take a 50% pay cut for an uninspiring position, and still end up with a higher cost of living (yes, including house prices!) than here in the Bay Area.
Ignore the BMI. It was an insurance company scam that became mainstream. The formula uses weight and height only, so everyone (men and women, broad and narrow, young and old) who has the same height and weight has the same BMI. According to the BMI, many muscular athletes actually fall into the morbidly obese category. Nonsense. If you want a free, accurate estimate of how much you should weigh, go here: www.weightzonefactor.com It's scientific.
But a phishing site such as "HTTPS-SECURE.required-bank-security-check.gmkla4lwgi.com" [hypothetical] could easily check for the most popular bank institutions in a user's history using this exploit and present them with the appropriate, familiar login dialog they'd expect.

You'd easily increase the amount of victims (conversions?) several times over.
You can't have it all.

Either you rely on system librarys OR every binary / library pulls in its own copy of its dependencies (npm model).

The latter lets you have multiple versions of the same library for different dependencies, without confusing your system package manager.

The former might mean 'less build time', but it's pretty much whats wrong with the C/C++ ecosystem; you can't track the system libraries from the package tool, and you get out of sync.

Pillow and freetype specifically pop to mind as an irritatingly broken recent example; when freetype upgrades, perfectly working python projects suddenly stop working because the base system freetype library has been upgraded; and the pinned python libraries that depended on the previous freetype version no longer work, because they rely on the system package manager not to do stupid things.

It would be nice if you could point cargo as a 'local binary cache' to speed things up, and make them work even if the central repository goes down; and that could be package manager friendly, I imagine.
I'm not quite sure the financial incentives really align for anyone who's time is worth anything (e.g. doesn't live in a third world country). For instance, even at rather modest rate, your $3 buys about 8 minutes of my time, which isn't going to get much of an answer.
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You're answering the wrong question.

"How do you feed the number of people we expect to have on the planet in 30 years time?"

Wrong question.

"How many people can we expect to feed given the best possible conversion of sunlight into food?"

Right question.

Then you have to ask, "are we prepared to do that to our planet, or do we need to start seriously thinking about population control?"
Have you taken a look any at the FreeBSD ports system? It uses makefiles to manage pretty much any software install you can think of. Additionally, there's a pretty good infrastructure there for managing custom build trees, etc. Additionally, they also have things like BSDpan that let you use arbitrary Perl modules with the package management system.
I appreciate your comments. But I wouldn't compare the distribution of an identical copy of other's copyrighted content with mashups. Mashups are usually transformative, as opposed to merely derivative.

The EFF has interesting thoughts on the subject [1]. I wouldn't equate mashups to piracy quite like you, but I can see where you are coming from.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/rip-mca-tribute-pauls-...
It could suck more... try being a Kiwi startup!

Seriously, interesting article. I can relate to many of the points (online payments, for instance). I'd put premature taxing of stock options at the head of the list - it's something the government could change at the drop of a hat, and it would change the whole landscape.
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Why is this being down voted? How SC conducts their business online is entirely up to SC. My server, my rules. Differences in policies are the sort of thing that determines who wins and loses out there.

If anything, this should signal a market opportunity to the OP. Wouldn't it be great if there was something like SC, but without the lame copyright take down policies? Wow, yeah! We should start up a business or something...
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No pay? You must be joking
You said the cost for the copying/transferring of bits was almost zero, and I believe you said that programming languages should be free, because they are so cheap.

I countered that very cheap hardware would have to be free, following that logic.

Who are you to say what is cheap and what is not? Not to mention that orders of magnitude greater than almost zero is potentially still almost zero.
It's not that they are not on board - it's that they are spending just as much on a version that is objectively worse in almost every way...

They have said that there's no value in homes having faster than 25Mbps, but are still putting in the same amount ($29bn Government equity investment vs $30bn before) of money to deliver that as what the fibre network that would have been able to provide 1Gbps to 93% of the population would have cost (pricing permitting, of course. But that would have dropped fast as demand went up and 1Gb/s would have been as affordable as the 100Mb/s plans available today on the NBN are).

And decent options for small business are nowhere to be found. Have you tried getting decent internet outside a CBD? We would kill for the NBN - other providers wanted between $2000 and $4000 a month for 20/20Mbps fibre, and this is in the inner suburbs of a capital city!
I'm all for free works and the Public Domain. The only problem with assuming that some work is free unless otherwise noted is that an entity with more resources can claim the same rights, and therefore profits, to a given work until presented with a significant challenge. A smaller entity can easily placed on a disadvantage.
> They are almost uniquely a product of the drug war.

I see no evidence of this.

In addition to preserving evidence, they are also issue when it's believe there could be an issue of officer safety. (E.g., someone armed & dangerous.)
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This won't be a popular comment amongst my fellow Australians, but some of these points in the post don't ring true to me.

Being a startup in Australia is hard, but being a startup is hard anywhere. I think there is a certain mentality amongst Australian startups that the US is the land of milk and honey for startups and Australia sucks. There is a certain element of truth in that, but its not as bad as some of the posts to HN make it out to be.

First Tax Breaks:
The R&D tax incentive is amazing (http://www.ausindustry.gov.au/programs/innovation-rd/RD-TaxI...). We have recovered around 40% of our seed funding as a tax refund from the ATO. If you do something slightly innovative and can prove that you do some testing, you qualify. This tax incentive has directly allowed us to put on another developer.

GST:
Yup GST is a pain but at least its uniformly applied to the whole country. The US you have to apply it on a state by state basis (depending on where you are located etc and the nature of the good/service you provide). Other countries have a consumption tax. Seriously meeting your tax obligations is a requirement of doing business anywhere, its not that hard to do: if(countryCode == "AU") {//apply GST... }.

Venture Capital:
Nothing can compare to Silicon Valley in terms of money available for the tech space, but at the same time Australian VCs are often happy with a 10x exit as opposed to pushing you to be either a $1 billion company or go bust. The choice of where you raise will be a personal choice more likely influenced about who you know. Remember the higher the valuation you get, the bigger the exit you need to make.

Australia being expensive:
Sure you pay a little bit more for your mac book pro, but the guy using it will be seriously cheaper than someone in the valley. You think Australia is competitive for developers who could get a cushy contracting rate. Try competing with facebook, google etc for the top talent.

Internet:
Ok the current government hates in the NBN, it sucks, I love fast broadband as much as the next person, but unless your startup is about delivering high bandwidth content to Australians who cares? Your servers are going to be sitting on AWS in US_EAST anyway.

Mind you having said that I do agree with some points. Employee Share Schemes are a pain in the arse and getting a good payment provider is tough. Seriously spend the cash to get a Delaware C-Corp and open a US bank account... this will make your life so much easier. Even Braintree Australia is a shadow of using Braintree from the US.
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Impressive! Restores my believe in CSS animations.
it proves it!
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notes could map to letters and chords involving those letters could map to common patterns with the letters as mnemonics

This is the basic working principle of the stenotype, which enables extremely fast typing (200wpm+) but needs a lot of practice to learn. A MIDI keyboard does seem like an ideal input device for this, if anyone wants to take this idea further they could try to make it work with Plover (http://stenoknight.com/wiki/Main_Page )
i'm not sure how we disagree. my point was to GP - that making uber hire all of the drivers wouldn't benefit the drivers, the customers, or uber. it would benefit the cab unions though.
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You have a good point.

It's good practice to download, verify checksum/cert, then run.
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I'm a French citizen living in Singapore after Sydney (in one of the companies you quote). I think you get a lot of things right there, and they apply to other countries as well.

Where I disagree:

- Australia is a much bigger market than it looks because Australians are connected to the internet and have high disposable income. For example, only 10% of South East Asia's 618 million inhabitants are connected (and many, only on smartphones), and their basket value is as much as 5x lower for similar products, so you could almost argue that Australia is a bigger market than the whole of South East Asia! 70-90% of e-commerce depending on the products was coming from abroad in 2011 according to CBA crunching 1 million of their customers' accounts - that's heaps of local opportunities.

- the government does not need to "support" young businesses, it just needs to get out of the way of entrepreneurs and investors. To be fair, compared to most of Europe, it does. Australia is a capitalist Anglo-Saxon country and if you are a citizen, it's pretty easy to start up. Singapore recently made it much harder to get government money, for example SPRING funding is only available to companies with investments from an approved list of VCs, and they have to be Singapore-based, but it still wins because it's the easiest country with the rule of law anywhere in the world to start a company in, especially when it comes to things like visas being granted in a few hours or days.

- you forgot to talk about immigration law. It's better than the US' yearly H1-B lottery, but still pretty hard to import technical talent, which is scarce locally. Some of us get in for a year under the WHV scheme, which is a nice way to test foreign talent before you apply for sponsorship. From memory, of the 120 developers who applied to our last job posting, around 20% were from the US, 5% from Australia, 50% from Europe and the rest from countries where visas will be painful. If this is representative, Australian and US immigration policies hurt businesses. Australia's entrepreneur visa requires 1 million AUD capitalization, which is ridiculous - in Singapore you can theoretically capitalize your company with 50k SGD, and then apply for an Employment Pass for yourself; all you will need is someone else on an Employment Pass or better to act as director for the company in the meantime. Guess where all the Asian startups incorporate!

But you are correct that there is a hell of a lot of places (such as tax law, with equity as you state or even with income, capital gains and corporate tax) where the government could make Australia considerably more competitive, and the funding environment is really bad (although I've found Australian investors much smarter in aggregate than elsewhere in the region).
Would they be content with people using their characters in ads to sell things without receiving anything? I think it's more about the content creator losing control over what the thing they made is being used for, than them explicitly losing money.
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Tl;dr: creating a new startup and having them join when they finish school.

Allow me to clarify:

The relationship has been amicable, as these were peers of mine from grad school (one going all the way back to middle school). Although we began hashing this out together, it became clear that neither could commit full-time until after graduation (for one, that's next spring), for a second, that's 2016.

The agreement that we have worked out has been that they would provide as much technical advice as they could (one being a CS guy, the other being a CS/Stats guy), and would be happy to review code, but beyond that, I would be on my own for the time being. No equity has been dispersed, and they're okay with that. It's simply a matter of slicing the pie.

So, now I'm wearing multiple hats, with a fairly strong business model / product concept, and a decent amount of clinician interest, but the implementation is lacking. And that is where I need help.
I did a Cmd-f for 'secure' and 'encrypt' on the front page got no hits.
Can I ask what your connection to the industry is?
Here's an alternative view: As collective safety nets (unemployment benefits, public housing, Medicare, ..) are removed in the name of lower taxes, it becomes much riskier to strike out on a new venture. With collective safety nets, you can take a risk and know that in the worst case you will have food, shelter and health. Without the safety nets, you stand to loose everything. I'd argue that a reasonable level of tax is a subsidy to founders and a promoter of start-ups.
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When would Stripe support withdraw to China then? It's the only reason that I'm still using PayPal.
Why would the work to which the film studio does not own the copyright suddenly become their property because Tom Hanks says it?