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Another article about how the tech world is / isn't biased against group x / y? Sigh.

There is no gender, color, language or height barrier to becoming successful and wealthy. The barrier is the spoon one is born with. Born with a silver spoon in your mouth? That means you've got money, which means you've got spare time to become good at something, meet other wealthy, well-connected people and keep your ears open to job opportunities. Then a job offer comes up it's not because you're really, really great at what you do (although it might help), it's more that people who are in a hiring position at tech companies are, generally, other not-at-all poor people that you most probably grew up with or can identify with.

Born with a dirty, wooden spoon in your mouth? Then your childhood is going to be spent trying to take care of your other six siblings while both your parents are out trying to clothe and feed the household. And the baby that's due in two months. There will be no money to invest in tech stuff, no time in which to learn several languages and no interest from the parents in letting you ignore your chores. There will be no frat parties, playing golf or fucking around on the stock market with extra money for shits and giggles because your CEO friends all do it as well - because you will never become a CEO. You lack the money, the connections and the self-confidence needed to become a person of import.

Some people get rich, and some people die trying to feed themselves.
I guess I skipped a line because the text was all the same color

I see what you did there. My fave HN comments are the HN-referential ones.
Spot on.

When government is spending taxpayers' money it doesn't care about efficiency, only about getting a slice of the pie.
Family members, business partners and overcharging contractors feast on these multibillion dollar projects, and only them.

We've seen this happen with "Building the edu revolution", house insulation and so on.
Porting bloody e-tax to Mac cost them $5.2 million.

The smaller the spending on NBN the smaller the waste.

Govt should focus on reducing friction for business, eliminating monopolies and building a healthy economy.

Competition and market forces can take care of the fiber just fine. If we had those.
That's mean individual wage, not household. Per capita GDP isn't a good indicator here. I'd be careful about suggesting naïveté while advocating for a minimum wage higher than the mean wage.
Yeah, still true, but we are actively working on an alternate implementation to be compatible with anything post 3.2 and RHEL 6.4 as well.
Everyone is missing the real tragedy though. You can only pay for the fibre if you own the premises. Which basically means that anyone who rents will never have access to the NBN.

Who typically rents ? Young people.
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Just a data point - line has been dominating the free category in the Japanese app store for about the past 6 months now they've expanded their base to include games.
2K is not much either if you amortize if over a few of years.
Please no :) just rely on us to downvote these people on HN, then you can spare at least some of the readers the pain.

I don't even understand, it's not like it's conversation or even funny, but X in X immediately results in someone announcing their awareness of canonical jokes. "yo dawg i heard you like plays so I put a play in your play to inception the king."
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The issue there is that it is extremely difficult for a private organisation without existing cable assets to deploy a new fibre network.

Land access, easement issues, pit access/location/sharing and so on are very difficult problems with no single solution.

Private industry wouldn't be able to take the risk.
Hi Colin, thanks for your advice.

Especially:

> In general, I find the best way to study these sorts of things is to have a puzzle to solve, to work through it, and then have a mentor demonstrate a little piece of magic that makes me feel stupid for not having thought of it

(Actually, I could quote your entire comment, thanks, very much appreciated!)
This has been a long standing issue for me. I just tend to use email/im less and less. Actually, I just communicate with people less and less, period.

Using encryption only draws even more attention to yourself.
Your surprise is because you're a relatively recent arrival to Australia. :) The broadband market here has been stagnant for over a decade due to the failure of the competitive market to improve anything.
When I went to pick out an ISP, I was astounded when I finally figured out that every single one of them is forced to rent the copper from the same company (Telstra), who takes its sweet time sending out technicians to the tune of 10-20 working days to get internet service up & running. Can you imagine the rioting if that were a utility like water or electricity? What's worse is that the ISP, who has zero control over it, gets the blame for the delay.

To my understanding, it went something like this:

AU Govt: "Let's privatize all of our telecoms infrastructure.... what's that? Give it all to a single company, creating a de-facto monopoly and ensuring mediocre service, lack of upgrades, and the stifling of competition for years hence? What a capital idea!"

I would love to out the politicians whose pockets got lined by that move.
> Isn't that largely why the Soviet Union wasn't competitive?

The backwater pre-industrial, post-war torn nation that beat the US to space? No, I don't think that was why they couldn't compete.

As far as I recall, pay is a pretty poor motivator -- while low pay is a pretty strong "de-motivator". So if you give people interesting challenges and make sure they can meet their basic needs, people are likely to preform.

But, even if competing for exceptional wages was a great motivator, no-one is saying that you couldn't do that in such a system -- you might have to limit it to fewer "exceptional" people, and there might be a higher risk of being demoted -- but I can't see why it wouldn't be possible. I don't think it would be a good idea, however.

All that aside, a household income of 80.000 USD sounds pretty good for most of the US (never mind 120.000) ?
If the FTTP network will blow out to $200B, why won't the FTTN network blow out to $150B?
Keep learning and soon you will be beyond basic.

If you have passion, you will have plenty to offer.
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Thanks everyone here for taking time out to post suggestions, very much appreciated.
I think it's relevant to point out the former CTO explicitly stated earlier today in the thread that the founder wasn't kicked out:

"I'm the former CTO of Braintree and one of the founding employees. I was there when Bryan Johnson hired Bill Ready as CEO and decided to move to Chairman. The authors of the TechCrunch article were either misinformed or speculating when they said that Bryan "lost his position" and that Bill joining was a "decision made by Accel." Bryan made the decision to hire Bill and move into the Chairman role without pressure from anyone."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6338053
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Interesting! Is the enum automatically a vector/sequence, or is that just an omission in the example?

Looks like I'll be using this library sooner than I thought, thanks!
I just visited http://www.nbnco.com.au/when-do-i-get-it/rollout-map.html and saw that construction will start in one year. :)

I have absolutely no problems paying 2K or 5K for FTTH.
I live in the Czech Republic and by far the most used payment method here is 'cash on delivery' - you send something and the postal service collects the money for you and than just sends you the cheque. It can hardly get simpler and it's safe. I wonder why this solution is apparently so rarely used in western countries.
They should go with "studies have shown that chemical X (found in tuna) can cause male genitalia to shrink by up to 17%". People don't care about dying 10 years sooner, but they do care about having bigger penises.
Greenspan is saying that STEM workers shouldn't make more than other workers. The argument isn't for increasing worker supply from external sources in general, it's for targeting STEM for more visas.

It's known that students find STEM harder in school and STEM jobs are widely considered more difficult than other jobs, thus earning their wage difference. Like it's been said by others, this will result in less STEM degrees domestically, the exact opposite of how this problem should be solved.
> Ends are important. But for the amount of money spent, so are the bloody means.

If the alternative was proposing to do the full project but address all those concerns that would be wonderful. But that is not the choice we have. And it may not be a realistic choice at all. Every single large project like this that has ever been undertaken has had these kind of problems. Look at the east west link in Melbourne - no business plan, no (public) cost benefit analysis, the whole thing commercial in confidence. I agree it's disgusting and in my view ideally would be unconstitutional (when it's our money, we get to see how it's spent - even if that inflates costs, that's the price of democracy, suck it up).

But the bigger problem is that we've manufactured a political environment where it's more expedient to hide all this stuff than to openly talk about problems, uncertainties and vision far into the future. Even your own words reflect that - you're criticizing them for problems in planning a project that is a one of a kind - never been undertaken before anywhere, and never will again. It's just an unrealistic expectation at some level that it can ever go perfectly.
I had an "all-star" profile with many recommendations and all sorts of endorsements, 500+ connections, ... One day, I simply tired of having my professional life "out there", ripe for the canvassing, so I deleted it. Liberating, and highly recommended.
Isn't that how Godzilla and the Incredible Hulk got started?
The Soviet Union put humans in space. And you have to be able to compete at all before you can lose a multi-decade arms race between superpowers.

I am absolutely not advocating for a minimum wage higher than the median wage. There is no universal law that 40 hours a week is productive. Given an average 20 hour work week, there are still trillions of dollars available to those who want to work harder or smarter. There is still plenty of room for winners and losers.
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Because it won't be overseen by the most incompetent and corrupt federal government in Australian history?
Again with the competition/market will solve everything mantra. It's just rubbish.

If we leave it up to the market then only the profitable sectors will get high speed internet. The rest (i.e. rural and country areas, outer city, poor neighborhoods) will be left with the decrepitated copper system. How exactly does that help anyone or the economy ?
How would refactoring help? You still need to fetch before you can push to git.
I'm a bit disappointed in the story. It seems to me that businesses of this type represent an opportunity to disrupt the real estate industry, and it's sad to see them end up joining the industry.
They're sorted into packs or sets, each set with 24-40 stickers. You swipe between packs, and then between pages of 8 stickers. It's quite fast in practice, and you get used to what emotions can be expressed in each set. They also structure the sticker pages so that happy is towards the beginning, sad midway through, etc.
You can already find plenty case studies on the NBN here: http://www.nbn.gov.au/case-studies/ and here: http://www.nbnco.com.au/nbn-for-business/case-studies.html

The problem I see is that most are already possible with current internet speeds.

The ones like media production studios (http://www.nbnco.com.au/nbn-for-business/case-studies/increa...) do offer new opportunities which aren't possible with ADSL2.

The only issue here is that they can easily afford to pay the 2K for FTTH under the Coalition policy.
The headline was very misleading fud indeed... ironically after reading this I have the strange craving for fresh tuna, or even a guided tuna trip off the pacific coast. I'm convinced its delicious and safer than a banana. Was this some kind of tuna industry media reverse psychology?
Not sure about that either. When I was in middle school Mountain Dew was said to do exactly that. I think parents and teachers just wanted kids to stay away from sugary drinks. My friends kept drinking it anyways.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/potables/mountaindew.asp
That's just not accurate. An optimal strategy beats everything but itself, against which it ties. Are you talking about rake? Because antes are included into the poker strategy.

For example, you would raise more often when the antes are higher, regardless of the other player's strategy.
Shouldn't this result in a drastic devaluation of crypto currencies like bitcoin?
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We already are paying - with our taxes. Not to mention that this is an investment which will pay back to the government. NBNCo will be getting paid for use.

Pay-to-connect isn't available to the users who'd want it most - young people. And I don't just mean unaffordable. If you're renting, good luck convincing your land lord to splash out $4k every time you move.
See? Beneficial...
I went on a trip to Japan in May, and line came back with me. It's got excellent group chat support for a mobile chat app, good quality voice calling, and is a really 'solid' feeling app. If you're going on a vacation with a bunch of friends I can't think of a better app to keep everyone in touch while you're on your adventure.
maybe it's just me but I feel like I have a stutter thought when I read using that. It's just doesnt feel right; I think books/articles reading will be less enjoyable if I'd have to use it.
I'm surprised Labor didn't go on the attack against Murdoch a lot more.
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Thanks for that.

For anyone else trying to add grunt, you need to copy over the gruntfile.js and add the grunt dependencies to the dev section of package.json in the root directory of the project. Then you might also have to remove and reinstall the grunt nodemon package (grunt threw up instructions on how to do this when I first ran it)
Why? I can imagine how many things that others give up and I haven't might be liberating to do so, but not really LinkedIn. I'm not disagreeing that you found it so, just don't see why from my experience.
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As silly as linkedin can be, I've successfully had good lead generation from it. It has its appeal as a sales platform if only for the groups. The ROI might not be as good as twitter for pitching to people or what have you, but the platform is far from useless. Job recruiting wise...not sure, so I won't comment on that necessarily. I'm aware that's what the article mainly targets, but it's worthy to note possible different use cases regardless.
The backwater pre-industrial, post-war torn nation that beat the US to space? No, I don't think that was why they couldn't compete

Pretty amazing what you can do when you're willing to spend your country into insolvency and collapse.

So if you give people interesting challenges and make sure they can meet their basic needs, people are likely to preform.

It's not like 50% of workers in the USSR admitted to drinking on the job, or 40% held second jobs to make more money, right? I guess if you're not motivated by a strong aense of community and bullshit pay, the gulags and purges might help.
I imagine that someone using the word 'shit' to describe the brown stuff in the toilet is probably negatively inclined towards it. Someone discussing it in a more neutral context (like a doctor or scientist) would probably be more likely to say 'feces'
or if it would ever be in Apple's interest to encourage the growth of cross-platform ecosystems with no iOS lock-in.

(it's probably not)
>But with BTC every time you make a purchase you can be linked to all your previous and future purchases.

This is simply not true. If i make my first purchuase using address A and my second purchuase using address B, how can they be linked together?
> Each circuit requires the relays to do expensive public key operations, and many of our relays are now maxed out on CPU load.

Yep. That's one way to attack the network.
Which technology is being install that its "at the end of its generation". Surely FTTN will reduce the cost of FTTP. What is wrong with charging for FTTP - this is what UK is doing.
"Using encryption only draws even more attention to yourself."

Exactly.
It may feel liberating to eliminate things you do not actively use often. Reduce your cognitive load, less stuff to maintain (as little effort as it may be, it's non-zero).
I think it's quite obvious that the author is very well aware of how to implement DRM in such a way that it can't be circumvented, but it easily enters the territory of whether or not he would actually gain users from it.

Cobalt Strike isn't exactly a $100 copy of Office - potential users who are going to use it to its full extent are going to be willing to pay the steep cost of entry as it is.

In other words, while it would be possible to guard against piracy, the end result wouldn't be more sales of Cobalt Strike.
When we have gotten ourselves in an economy that encourage smart people to dedicate weeks to think about how to get people to buy as many silly virtual stickers and virtual packages of gold as possible to progress in games designed to get uncritical people to get hooked, it feels like it's time to get out, move to some remote place and start hacking on something that is actually important.
Seriously, I do not get the point of the article. Is a article reporting on the horrible headlines of other articles nowadays news?
Over the past few years I have seen starting salaries at top tech companies (Google, Dropbox, Twitter) increase by huge amounts. This may not be true at all companies, but it is definitely true at top companies. I also know that these companies will hire anyone who can pass their interviews.

I feel like many times the argument is that preventing high-skilled workers from staying in the US will help US citizens. This assumes that there's a fixed pie of jobs and that basically bringing talent from outside will burden the US economy. I definitely don't think that's true.

It also assumes that top tech companies have no option but to hire people in the US. I have many friends who had trouble with getting a visa and instead went to work in Canada for Google. This basically means the US lost one job, plus the taxes and economic stimulus that a high paid worker would bring in.
Oh, I'm sure the landlord would be happy to have the property improvement -- provided it was on the tenant's dime.
I got my last two jobs from being headhunted LinkedIn - It's like having an organically evolving digital CV.
Oh, I was asking that for my knowledge. Since you can easily patch all licensing methods on a binary (I guess including checksums), the only way to verify integrity is to compare it with a trusted copy at the authors home.
The Soviet Union put humans in space. And you have to be able to compete at all before you can lose a multi-decade arms race between superpowers.

At what cost? How many Ukrainians did they starve to death in the process, how many "political opponents" were purged, how many people died in the gulags because they didn't tow the line?

Unfortunately, what you want has been tried, and it didn't work very well. What you'll end up with is many people not working at all because its not worth paying them, and a bunch of others forced to work at gunpoint to make up for the people that can't produce. It's pretty shitty to be in either group.
I've always been told that "sunlight causes skin cancer" but after 20 minutes of looking around the Internet, I can't seem to find an actual scientific study that confirms the statement to be true.
A start would be to block government IP addresses from civilian websites. It would send a message.
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Australia is not the first to do FTTP. You don't have to wait, its already available in many countries.

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

You can also look at how much people valued the additional speed, what new things they did, etc.

Wish someone would write an article summarising the overseas experience of FTTP.

Also, what is opportunity cost of NBN? Could we spend money to create a high-tech sector in Australia perhaps?

The ALP tend to use the NBN as a catch-all for tech policy - "don't worry we have innovation covered - its all the NBN".
PayPal should know that, answering mostly to Ars Technica works once.

Next time something like this happens and PayPal is trying to get ok with the media, it's not gonna work.

So i sure damn hope they are truelly changing some things for the better for countries outside the USA...
There are certainly thing people can do in tech all by themselves. We have 14 year olds making apps and selling them through app stores. All the knowledge required is available online. No old guy approval required.

If that's the case, we should see more people doing this sort of thing than working in industries controlled by biased gatekeepers? Do we?

Or is it the case that our educational system is crippling the aspirations of our children before they are even old enough to make an app?
I agree. LinkedIn costs me no time (20 minutes a year worth of updating, maybe), contains no information that is not already available if people look hard enough, but does make my profile visible and easy to find for potential recruiters.

I get a few mails every month/week about some potential job that I might qualify for, and most of the time the job content is pretty in tune with what I want to do. So LinkedIn costs me nothing, but does offer me value. I don't see why closing my account would be liberating.
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At least it's tuned to the bias of the RNG on the device.
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Maybe they want to imply that eating your cell phone might be deadlier than eating fish.
Statistics? Study? Any proof to back that up?
Very neat functionality!
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