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Definitely a thing growing up in central Victoria in the 80s/90s.

It's mentioned in the abstract: 'We deal with the potential endogeneity of the decision of how many hours to work by using the instrumental variable estimation technique.'

Essentially they use 'instruments' which are just other variables to control for this issue. Page 7 has the variables that they're using.

How'd you go with wrapping the websocket client in R? I've been putting together an R client and am stuck on how to do the websocket given the lack of R websocket libraries.

Not sure that you'd want to plant a bunch of European trees to replace native Australian forests.

Found at least some of the raw documents on the ICIJ researcher Mago Torres' document cloud account. https://www.documentcloud.org/public/search/Account:%2013504...

I also found the r programming class to be super useful.

F# and R both have good ways of doing this. See http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/magrittr/vignettes/ma...

This is essentially how the 457 visa works in Australia. It's uncapped but you have to pay a 'market salary rate', which is either the salary of an equivalent worker in the firm, or of an equivalent worker In the industry.

This is the same economic problem that affects basic research. Open source software is a 'public good' - its usefulness is not diminished when it is used by others, and you can't prevent others from using it.

The longstanding solution to this problem is government support. This might not be a sexy solution on HN, but it is the obvious one.

Yep great article. As a beginner programmer I find functional more intuitive than OOP, there just seems to be less abstract concepts and boilerplate.

If you don't want to do it anymore just charge more. Would you be willing to do it at double the price?

The problem with cabs is the information asymmetry. You dot know before you're getting in how good their knowledge is, this means that knowledgeable drivers can't charge more and you get a 'market of lemons'. This is a classic form of market failure, and is a strong case for regulation.

Or just use snoozing (I use mailbox) and this problem is solved. I could not go back to using a mail client that doesn't have this feature.

From the preface:

Since this book is meant to provide practical advice, I think it makes sense to write with the assumption of Python 2. Specifically, I’ll be writing the book with Python 2.7 in mind. Future updates may very well change this to evolve with the Flask community, but for now 2.7 is where we stand.

I'm frustrated too, that's why we're working hard to win the next election.

Parennoob - thanks, the idea of a startup visa was flagged by Chris Bowen in his press club budget reply yesterday, check it out if you're interested.

Thanks mate, noted.

Cheers Andrew - both Bill Shorten and Chris Bowen have flagged re-examining our position on employee share schemes. I'll add your voice to many that I've received on this issue.

Hey thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed comment, it's not my job to publicly defend the ALP so I'll just note your views/criticisms but I think the libraries idea is a good one.

Well this is an area where I can safely say we're going to have a more attractive policy than our opponents. Our office in Braddon ACT is one block away from the NBN, it's frustrating.

Hi all - I work for Andrew Leigh MP, the Shadow Assistant Treasurer who is responsible for Labor's tax policy leading up to the next election.

I'd be interested in hearing your views on what a future Labor govt could do to support startups in Australia. If you'd prefer to email them, thomas.mcmahon@aph.gov.au.

What? Umber is just a preposition, it doesn't has nazi overtones. The fact that it's grammatically incorrect is probably a plus, because it's then less likely to be confused.

I wouldn't sweat it too much, the cheap knock-offs will come and go. If you guys can deliver quality, then it will be worth it. That being said, 1300 I can justify as a toy, 2k is pushing it a little.

Australia has an uncapped temporary migration program for skilled workers (http://www.immi.gov.au/Visas/Pages/457.aspx), the situation described in this article can not happen in Australia.

On a permanent level, Australia has a permanent program of around 180,000 places a year in a country with only 22 million people.

Completely agree - that's the first time I've read a guide to oauth and actually understood it. So big thanks from me.

So that the company can invest in future products and sell them to customers. If successful the investors make money, the company pays developers and customers enjoy whatever games the company makes.

The money is not 'public' in the sense of belonging to the government, but public in the sense that anyone can invest through the share market.

Yeah that's what we'd do. Initially COD seems the easiest way to do things with an iPhone POS.

We're at an early stage of doing this exact thing in Sydney dlvry.com.au

We're not sure how it will work with labour costs and with a sinking Aussie dollar (which will reduce online shopping), but I think we'll learn a lot regardless as a first start-up.

It's when people subscribe to your email lists and you send them marketing messages. For example, you might sign up to an email newsletter from a shop you go to, and they will send you emails with marketing messages (sales/new products etc.)

The pre-war southern economy was an agricultural economy made possible by slave labor.

From Wikipedia, but any research will back this up:

While about a third of Southern families were slave owners, most were independent yeoman farmers. Nevertheless, the slave system represented the basis of the Southern social and economic system, and thus even non-slaveowners opposed any suggestions for terminating that system, whether through outright abolition or case-by case emancipation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Southern_United_...