skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that is all accurate (umm, light and electricity travel at the same speed ...), but I agree with the central idea: fibre is the next generation of technology, copper is the last. We can fully expect that just as massive speed increases were achieved on copper, so too will they be on fibre. Gen 1 of fibre is already 10x better than the last generation of copper - how much better will generation 2, 3, 4 be? And fibre is potentially even more upgradeable than copper - it's just a channel for light, the throughput is limited by the boxes at either end which can be incrementally upgraded at low cost.

The scary thing is that you only get to do something like this once every 20 - 50 years. So whatever you install needs to well and truly anticipate the future. Spending billions of dollars to install technology that is already at the end of its generation is insane. If people are voting thinking "well the time just isn't right for it", they have to realize - there is not going to be another NBN. It just isn't going to happen, (effectively) ever. Not least because every up and coming politician is watching and learning from this that you don't get rewarded for having any vision about infrastructure. All it does is open up opportunity for your opponents to propose something cheaper and accuse you of waste. It will be very sad if that is the take away lesson from this election.
I would gladly take a pay cut if we also raised the minimum wage to $30 an hour, got rid of most welfare programs and replaced them with a $10k/year minimum income, and simplified to a flat tax rate (I think Dick Armey liked 17%).
Don't you realize there's a catch-22 here? Women are expected to be well-dressed, made up, and smiling and at the same time people like you criticize women for vanity.
RSA has plenty of mathematical gotchas that, if you don't know about them, will lead to a weaker implementation.

If the NSA hasn't demolished public key crypto, it still seems reasonable to assume that they've made sure a significant implementation vulnerability (that looks like normal crypto give and take) has been inserted.
This DRM just turns things into an arms race, and eventually makes your software seem more and more like malware.

A non-game example off the top of my head is Milkshape 3d, a basic modelling software that was popular in the early 00s because it had importers and exporters for the games that were wildly popular then such as Counter-Strike.

The teenagers using it had no money to pay for the full version, so cracking of it was rife. Eventually the "anti-piracy" mechanisms built into it by the author got crazy enough that the program was essentially broken.

I can't really remember specifics, except that it crashed your computer (!) if you tried to use a certain app-sniffing software.
Actually, the test randomizes which passage you receive in which color. So if you got the "harder" one in Beeline, you might have the opposite experience. (I've tried it a couple times to see how it works...)
If Square acquires Braintree I presume nothing would change.
Prediction: Chrome (the browser) is slowly taking over your OS.

P.S. while trying to add this new type of app, I was tricked into signing into my chrome account, which I had managed to avoid all this time.
I could see this working, I tend to read slower with black text maybe because I lose track of where I am during the page. The downside is this hurts my eyes and makes me dizzy because of my computer screen.
I misread your post as saying >iOS quality. I'm not sure what that would mean, however I was about to post saying good luck getting that onto the AppStore.
A “central” victory for computer implemented inventions in Australia
Something I've always wondered about, people here might be able to help.

If brown skinned Indians aren't discriminated against in tech, why are brown skinned Mexicans (apparently) discriminated against? Does such skin color based discrimination really exist in the Valley?

Given their relative population size in the USA, Indians seem to be well(or even over) represented in the software industry as VCs, founders, employees etc. As are Chinese for that matter. Are Chinese discriminated against in tech?

How can someone in software discriminate against Mexicans/South Americans, but not (East) Indians (if said discrimination is supposed to be primarily based on skin color)? Mexicans and Indians are often mistaken for each other. I've had Mexican Americans start conversations in Spanish with me.

Is there any evidence of race based (vs gender based , or even age based) discrimination in the tech industry? I've never encountered it (due disclosure: Indian, have lived in the USA, was never discriminated against or made to feel unwelcome).

Genuine question. Thanks in advance
Except usually the code is shit, and that's ok. Sometimes I'm even talking about my own code and that's ok too.

The first step to fixing a problem is admitting the problem exists. Attempting to cover it up it with words like, "well I'm sure there is a good reason for that" or "Hrm that could be better but I know we had crazy deadlines." Are just excuses and don't really help.

If looks like shit and smells like shit... well it's probably shit.

We are all big kids here, no need to sugar coat things.
The funny thing is, you don't actually need to replace a package that's part of the base distribution. Every package format we have (RPM, DEB, etc.) runs its install- and upgrade-scripts as root, so every package can potentially do anything on install, including patching the installed files of other packages (or cleverer things, like adding SSL trust roots.)

So, since they don't specifically need to patch your openssl package to compromise your openssl library, they could just as well suborn the signing key of (presuming Ubuntu) some PPA author, as long as the user they're trying to bug has that PPA in their sources.list.
The most cost effective thing the Australian government can do to better the experience of Australians is to subsidise hosting in Australia. The cost of hosting a server in a data centre is 2-3x the US. If you've ever been in San Francisco you'd have experienced how all the web services feel like they're running on localhost!
This is basically just a small step worse than many professions. Once you hit the pay wall on journal articles you want to read, how many people pay to go through?
I had come across another schema validation lib for Python on Github a while back (but never tried/used it):

https://github.com/halst/schema
That's like saying, hey that rough draft of my essay is just fine to use. Not it's not, it's a rough draft, clean it up (refactor your code).
If there's downward pressure on salaries in Software development, you're going to see two things that will counter-act this long-term:

1) An exodus of developers. Devs will be likely be leaving either as the result of fat getting trimmed or by transitioning into management and analysis roles that offer better career prospects.

2) Less "young blood". A big reason why everyone is pumped these days to learn to code is due to the career opportunities it provides: the great salary, the job perks, and working for companies that are perceived cool. Most aren't looking to become entrepreneurs. If software shops lose their charm and gains a reputation for long hours with mediocre pay, people will seek opportunity elsewhere.

I saw the same thing happen in the early '00s after the dotcom crash and the outsourcing craze. Startups became a punchline instead of an aspiration and everyone thought most of the world's code would be written in Bangalore. CS enrollment tanked. People lost their appetite for learning programming. But by '05 we were back into a "shortage" again after believing the first-world programmer had gone extinct.

But I'm not surprised business and political leaders think STEM workers are overpaid. The general attitude is that exceptional salaries should only be doled out to exceptional individuals - if you're just a mere mortal that's in demand, well, that's clearly just an inefficiency in the market.
OpenVPN is only client-server, so I'm currently using tinc[1]. BitTorrent Sync is the software used to synchronize the actual public keys and container IP addresses.

[1]: http://www.tinc-vpn.org/
Yeah I live on the North Shore in Sydney and there are currently "no plans" for the NBN in my area.
If humans were truly in danger from eating 'contaminated' fish, then we would have all died when we started to introduce coal smoke into our atmosphere (contains Caesium 137 and most plants emit more radiation per year than a nuclear plant does in its lifetime) and when the Crab Nebula decided to show its pretty colours (gamma and x-ray radiation) in the daytime centuries ago.
I feel like this entire survey states the obvious.
So what do we find attractive? Stand up tall, smile, and tell a good story or joke. Shine and be happy to own such a wonderful spirit in a wonderful body. We aren't as visual as the media makes us out to be once we are past 19 years old.
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I've come to the conclusion that women pay far more attention to how other women look and dress, makeup, and look good to impress each other. The guy just thinks you are beautiful and wants to know you because you are, by the shear nature of your body and person, a beautiful and attractive being.

Lovely.

But unfortunately the evidence doesn't really support you. Taking hiring as a proxy for success, numerous studies have shown that more attractive people find it easier to get hired. [1] is fairly old, but a reasonable overview of the research.

I'm male (and over 30) and I've found I've been much more successful at a wider range of things since I started paying attention to what I looked like and what I wore.

[1] http://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/orsp_shahani-denning_spring03.pdf
Keep in mind that Rupert Murdoch owns half of Foxtel which is the main cable tv network in Australia as well as owning most of the newspapers (he has a monopoly in several states). The argument that you can watch tv from companies like Netflix under an NBN is one of the main reasons the opposition is getting an easy run from the media here. Every year Rupert is spared that is millions more in the bank. The ALP were a bit disorganised and people might not like some of their policies but Australia's economic record under them is solid. Good enough for the Economist to give them the nod anyway.
Given the skill level and investment required to get a competitive STEM degree and the amount of profits a STEM person can produce for a company's long term profits I think that they are actually potentially underpaid.
A better question might be.Can we automate away the jobs of sales people, middle management and strategic directors? Yes, I believe we can.
much earlier..

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abb...
Apparently you will be able to pay for fibre all the way yourself.

Turnbull says about 2K, the ALP 5K. Delimeter seems to indicate toward the lower value.

http://delimiter.com.au/2013/08/23/open-deception-albanese-c...
Care to add the ability to vote for VPN?
The downside for him may be that users don't really care whether they got a cracked version or a legitimate version when their computer gets infested with malware; they're going to write angry posts about it online and say his software is broken or broke their computer. So it may be in his brand's best interest to keep users from using malware versions, even if those users may deserve what they get.
I should point out that it doesn't matter how long it takes to downshift as long as you're in the right gear by the time you start turning.
It's funny when people say RT is a propaganda machine, when all major news here is from one source. :)
Can I spotlight exactly why installing backdoor in software is especially worrisome?

Why is this not just the same as the other clever ways the smart NSA listens in things (not that I'd like but there's something more)?

Well, the thing about backdoors is they get installed on the outside of everyone's software/chips/machines and then ... someone else, someone with less to loose than the NSA, starts to use them for more crudely nefarious reasons, either criminal activity or spying by other nations.

All of this bears resemblance to the former USSR. Once bureaucracy claimed unlimited political power, the next step was for the "mafiya" to take advantage of the universal silence and surveillance.
Researchers claim 'almost instantaneous' quantum computing breakthrough
We're talking about business here. The woman who didn't get the funding doesn't want you to find her attractive, she wants you to think she looks like a competent business person. This is how the doubt starts to arise around how we present ourselves.

You only have to receive so much unwanted sexual attention in business settings, and so much skepticism towards your abilities as a professional, before you start to realize how difficult it is to find a balance between well groomed and dressed, but not too attractive, but not too unattractive either because you look less credible if you're slobbish, but also you should look a bit cool and casual and start-upy, not too stuffy and businessy, and so on.

To compact the issue, as we're talking about women in tech here, we likely aren't spending hours on end in front of the mirror as everyone here is hyperbolizing. Finding the perfect outfit to land funding is a lot less fun for us than you seem to think.
I would take a pay cut to work only 35 hours a week.
Bristol University Offers Cloud Access To Quantum Chip
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Australia has a chance to do something really amazing here. Shame it looks like they'll miss the chance.

It's really only partly about fibre vs DSL. It's also about the new incentive structure that FTTH would create in the Australian broadband market. An FTTH NBN would be an economic game changer in AU.
You're missing the bigger picture: the cheating has already been done and the game is over.

It's perfectly legal to make games that, bound by physics and probability, pay more to the casino than the players. There is no need to cheat, get it?

The only thing casinos need to work at is attracting a bigger slice of the pie to their games.
I agree, but god damn, I am jealous. I have two small children and I've finished one book this year. (Coders at Work by Peter Siebel, I highly recommend it.)

My wife reads 10x faster than I do but completely eschews the kind of reading I like (viz, literature). But of course, now that, y'know, she has kids too, her overall reading speed is strangely reduced as well.

Anyway, at a first glance I found the line coloring helpful.
I think there's some cognitive dissonance at work here in the hacker community. It's easier to look up to the NSA et. al. if they're just better at math than you. It's so clean, so pure, if you ignore the black-bag jobs and kinetic side of their work.
I value your opinion. I am actually not saying the barriers aren't real. I am saying focusing on them does not usually lead to the solution for those faced with them as I have been. I am the woman who wrote the article. The point is when you focus on them you don't see the exits to the problem. You see barriers. When you start looking on other things you can change you accel. I understand that focusing on those external sources outside of ourselves doesn't usually lead to a change in outcome. Observing them and moving around them, does. So no I won't lean in, because I stand up. I could care less if you have heard of me or my company. I am not going to wait until I have 500 million dollars to speak my mind.
Wages are so skewed towards the top earners - A typical corporate CEO gets paid $7000/hour. Suppressing tech wages isn't going to make a dent in income equality. Tech is already more egalitarian with the offering of shares to employees at most (if not all) levels.

http://moneymorning.com/2013/04/19/ceo-pay-now-7000-an-hour-...
Hmm, do you recall where the ES promises spec lives? I can't find it in the ES6 draft ( http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html ), but it's in the DOM spec ( http://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#promises ). ES6 does end up having iterators, which does look useful for promises, though... see task.js.
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APT in a flash drive is just a cute trick. Just because you wrote zeros over it doesn't mean that the APT thumb drive firmware won't give you a trojan next time you read a the right kind of file off of it.

Or maybe it waits a week before it starts injecting binary, just to wait out your test and validation procedures...
One thing that gets overlooked in this debate is the survivor bias. STEM people have a pretty good way to drive down incomes in certain STEM occupations by automating them out of existence.

WordPress alone probably killed a good portion of formerly gigantic market of HTML programmer, CMS companies and consulting companies installing and configuring the CMSes. Potential income from building simple HTML Web sites nowadays is roughly zero, so people with those skills don't stay in the industry (and get counted in surveys) - they either upgrade their skills or move into other careers.
It entirely depends on perspective. When I moved from the west coast to the east coast after completing a STEM PhD, my perspective changed completely.

My girlfriend worked for a hedge fund, where her co-workers and bosses received bonuses that were multiples of my annual salary. I had a few friends who landed law jobs with lockstep compensation, where, within just a few years, they'd be make more than I could ever hope to make at my research lab. Another friend, an english major from a second-rate college, was hired to manage a team of programmers. She had no STEM skills but great people skills, and was eventually chosen to head up a new west coast division. She's compensated extremely, extremely well. We'd occasionally travel down to DC, where there are many, many people feeding off of government excess who make far more than STEM careers pay.

That's what they don't tell you when picking a college career. You'll get paid relatively nicely out of college, sure, but you'd better not expect to make much more than that if you want to be a "STEM worker" no matter how hard you work or how good you are. The glass ceiling is very low compared to many other careers.

Not only that, a $100,000 salary was, not very long ago, the key to a comfortable upper middle class life. The cost of living, housing, everything has gone up so fast in proportion to income that it just doesn't feel that way anymore. I cannot provide my family with the material comforts my parents enjoyed and provided me (and neither worked in STEM... or had college degrees!).

Yes, there are exceptions at the moment if you're considered a "rockstar programmer". Still, that (and programming in general) represents a tiny slice of the overall STEM pie.
Last I checked, Australia only has a few international pipes operated by a cost duopoly. All traffic is charged at high rates because it can go over those very expensive lines to the US, Guam or Singapore.

All it means is that the NBN will be expensive unless and until a third player enters the market ... and doesn't get immediately bought out.
Being able to identify which tabs are hogging CPU/memory is a deal breaker to me.
This entirely misses the point. Merchants do not and should not care about PayPal's plight. They care that customers paid them while a third party is preventing them from accessing those funds. They care that they can't pay their employees and/or suppliers, or in this case, that they can't use any of the money raised as intended. Merchants can and should gravitate toward providers that do not have a reputation for this kind of thing.
Large quantum cryptography networks possible
umm, light and electricity travel at the same speed ...

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Light travels at ~299m/s. This will slow down in a medium like fibre, but it's still faster than anything else.

At best, in a particle accelerator you can accelerate electrons to maybe 0.8, 0.9 c?
How much do you currently work?
They should've written an article titled "Are Financial Analysts Overpaid?"
(I had to create an account to respond to this)

"Light" and "electricity" only travel at the same speed in a vacuum. Neither fibre nor copper wire could reasonably be considered a vacuum; they have different propagation speeds.

Also, we are far removed from "gen 1 of fibre", which was developed in 1970, i.e. 43 years ago. If anything, we're currently developing "fifth gen" fibre optics communications.

Everything else you said is spot on, though.
From a reboot perspective, I think the name Surface is actually quite amazing. It's a name that is both descriptive of the object but also a verb that describes how information bubbles up and is delivered. The glass on your phone is the surface underneath which is a world of information waiting to be surfaced at your command.
Quantum chip connected to Internet is yours to command
I was a couple of years away here but I was really looking forward to the NBN. Telstra has the only ADSL ports in town and pricing for what by world standards is a reasonably shit service is crazy.

If I have to munge a lot of data I just do it on a VPS and shuffle data back and forth to different cloud storage. I try and avoid downloading anything I might have to send back. I created a pipeline to process some video for work from the home/office it was way too painful on ADSL.

I can't imagine what it is like if you are a content producer. Just syncing my mobile camera images when I get home takes forever. And if my wife and I try to do Coursera and both kids wanted to watch ABC iView on their iPads everything just stops. With everything moving to HD and pretty much all services (including education) moving online my kids future is looking bleak unless something radical happens.

We have substandard services for lots of things in rural areas including health and education but being withheld a quality Internet service by Telstra/Murdoch/Abbott might be the last straw for us.
A slightly less wrong (but still wrong) title would be "Sunlight is deadlier than pacific sushi".

First, this article doesn't even mention cell phone radiation. Second, your cell phone isn't deadlier than pacific sushi. Damage to DNA caused by EM radiation is more a function of frequency than intensity. A small amount of X-Ray radiation is far more damaging than sitting in front of an infrared lamp getting toasty warm all day. Sunlight is far likelier to give you cancer than cell-phone emissions. Eating a banana, or Pacific sushi, is extraordinarily unlikely to give you cancer, but it does increase the odds more than using your cell-phone will.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_Trojan
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IIRC the former? CEO of AMD was an illegal immigrant from Mexico before he became a brilliant engineer.
Given that the mean wage was only $43,460 in 2009, in order to raise minimum wage to $60,000 per year, your pay cut would be to minimum wage. The government would have to confiscate all income, supplement it with printed money, then redistribute it evenly across the population. In that kind of scenario, why would anybody do anything but the absolute minimum? Isn't that largely why the Soviet Union wasn't competitive? If there was no economic incentive for hard work, I'd wager many of the presently most productive people would optimize for work minimization.
I can generate a unique pair of ssh keys for each client that has to remote into a system; I have to have a consistent password for the same user across all systems (assuming integrated login).

Supposing that a keyfile is copied, the multiplicity of ssh files limits the damage.