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I don’t know how it is on other platforms, but Adobe’s move to a subscription model has brought a flurry of far cheaper plain-old-purchase alternatives to OS X. Off the top of my head:

PS Alternatives: Acorn ($25), Pixelmator ($30), Affinity Photo ($50)

Illustrator alternatives: Sketch ($99), Affinity Designer ($50), iDraw ($25), Canvas Draw ($99)

And you know what? All of these options are far lighter than the Adobe behemoths while providing all the most relevant functionality and looking and feeling like real Mac apps instead of half-assed ports, all while taking advantage of the best part of the OS. Here in SV people I know in design are switching away from Adobe in spades.

If companies like Adobe can’t exist without subscriptions, maybe it means that large software companies that produce gargantuan beasts of applications are going out of style. Small indie teams producing lean, maintainable, focused apps are the way forward.
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To analogize this, imagine the perfectly cromulent subscription model of printed magazine delivery. You pay $X, and they mail you a new wad of glossy paper every month. If you don't pay $X, you just don't get new magazines. You can still read all the old ones. Remember National Geographic? Remember how your grandfather kept huge stacks of them that were all only an awkward elbow away of toppling onto the floor? Presuming you could locate it in the stacks, you could re-read the article about Elbonian mud-rakers as often as you pleased.

If you subscribed to JetBrains's magazine, you pay $X, and every month they give you a new magazine, and take back the previous month's issue. If you stop paying, they would come to your house, confiscate your latest issue, and then search the premises to make sure you weren't keeping any older issues, or any photographs or copies of them. If you want to read something, it'll just have to be something else, like RMS's free gnewsletter.

What JetBrains is doing is not switching to a subscription model. They are switching to a DRM-enforced rental model.

Subscriptions are ideal from products that are consumable or otherwise ephemeral. Television shows or newspapers or foods or coupons or pharmaceutical drugs work for that. Things that are used once and discarded are perfect for subscriptions.

Rental is good for things that have a low marginal benefit in comparison to their upfront costs, such that it takes a long time to recover that initial investment. You rent a hotel room for a night or two. You rent a car when you fly to another city. You rent a pneumatic excavator when you only have one hole to dig. You rent things that you do not intend to use enough to justify paying their purchase price.

With respect to a tool of the trade--something you buy to help you make more money--you emphatically want to own that, rather than just rent it. That's a great argument for using open-source IDEs. Even the previous model was just a perpetual license with a limited-time upgrade option. The person who wants you to forever rent the tools of your own trade is not doing so with your own best interests in mind.
So this is about how someone hacked Bugzilla, extracted sensitive information about a vulnerability in Firefox' PDF engine, wrote a weaponized exploit for it, deployed it as malvertising and stole some of the most sensitive files you can get out of a user's computer...

...and then the FAQ document linked is a PDF file with no styling beyond something that could be done with HTML <h1>, <p> and <a>, hosted on a domain "ffp4g1ylyit3jdyti1hqcvtb-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com".

Did I just get trolled?
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Another overlooked right-leaning perk of UBI: depending on the details, it could allow reducing or even eliminating the minimum wage. This means that labor would be free to seek its true market value, resulting in more total jobs, and reduced incentive/necessity to ship jobs overseas.
Beyond the problems with the math, people need to take into account the perverse incentives that are created... Let's say you give people enough UBI to pay for all their groceries, guess what: The price of groceries will suddenly shoot up, because grocery stores start having a hard time finding employees willing to do the menial labor required to keep a grocery store running.
Also, when you have very many people you only need a tiny number of them to leave litter for it to be a problem.

That surprised me though. The few times I've been to the US it was absolutely litter free. I've only been to a very small number of places, and those places probably don't have people dropping litter, but after seeing those places it feels weird to me that Americans would leave trash in the wild.

Over here (UK) there is trash everywhere. David Sedaris picks litter as a hobby. Or perhaps crusade. He picked so much (and wrote about the experience) that his local council (when he lived in England) named a bin lorry (garbage truck) after him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0304pdh
Ms. Murphy's bio page describes her as a "guerilla marketing expert", and perhaps that is what this is. If leveling ridiculous accusations at your critics using obviously fake Twitter accounts is "guerilla marketing" than perhaps I should look into it, because it sounds fun, and I've always wanted to have a Director level title.
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Punishments need to be adjusted. As it is, people think that this sort of vandalism isn't a big deal. They may not respect our national parks, but maybe heavy fines and stints in prison for serial offenders will get through to them.
He already did, he couldn't find any way to make the numbers work and is challenging you to find a solution.
> the difference between building a billion dollar company
> and building a 10 million dollar company is marginal. You
> still need to constantly raise money...

Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. The biggest difference I see is the expectations and control of investors. Most of our Backblaze team was involved with a startup called MailFrontier which raised $22.5 million over four years selling almost 90 percent of the company to the VCs. The VCs removed the founder CEO (my partner), installed a puppet CEO that did whatever they asked, and the VCs eventually forced us to sell in a way that basically returned them their original investment.

So Backblaze was a visceral reaction to that experience of losing that control. It's the same team, but we all agreed to go a year without salary to jump start it without selling control. To this day, the only people who sit and vote on the board of directors are Backblaze employees and founders.

The lack of cash meant slower growth, there is no doubt about it. But it is a profoundly different company, and a profoundly different experience. We make decisions that are good for our business and good for our employees, not to massage the egos of a bunch of spoiled VCs. And along the way, the Backblaze founders and employees own the vast majority of the company. Most importantly, nobody can force us to sell. I like my job and I like my coworkers, and I make a fine salary here. Why does everything have to be about the winning top score no matter how unpleasant and then ending the experience? I want to enjoy the ride and keep it going.
We had to slog through this for the Habitat project. The C64 is alive and well!
I'd like to see a an article about the potential downsides of Basic Income, written by advocates of Basic Income. Is it all "there are no downsides", "there are only minor downsides for the ultra-rich", "there are no possible implementation issues", etc.. Or has someone written a thoughtful article on what might go wrong?
I figured infinite scroll was more a term for twitter and Facebook news feeds, where the content is the same but you're seeing more of it. In those examples, the URL stays the same.

I guess it would be "infinite scroll of articles where the URL reflects the content" but that still seems like a mouth full. There should be a better term for that.
Please elaborate. I would think that all the government would need to know is whether each citizen exists, is still alive, and what's their bank account. With no in-depth knowledge of US government, I think it knows on average much more about each citizen.
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Here's an explanation of the phenomenon being demonstrated by the posted link:

http://www.jefftk.com/p/is-unicode-safe
There are competitors, just in terms of the major long trails of the USA, there is the Pacific Crest(PCT) and the Continental Divide (CDT) those three make up the Triple Crown of long distance hiking in the USA ( http://aldhawest.org/triple-crown/ )

And several others; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-distance_trails_in_the_Un...

I'd say the PCT is its closest competitor as the PCT is considerable well marked, but its an easier trail grade to hike(and on the other side of the country)

If you want remoteness and untouched wilderness, I went days without seeing another person (and some hikers can go weeks depending on the year) on the CDT at all though some extraordinarily beautiful locations. Of course its not as defined as the PCT or AT(compass navigation is requires as the trail doesn't always exist)

The thing about the AT is it is the most accessible of any of the major trails, I've heard that about half the US population is within a 1day drive of some point of the trail.
I'm not sure why the downvotes, it was an honest question and I thought maybe someone would know more than I about the subject. I have concerns of spending so much time in front of a screen as it is with my 27" monitor & iPhone... Concerns of its effects on my eyes, my sleep, my brain and I can imagine if there are negative side effects they would potentially be more pronounced with the screen filling a much greater portion of your field of view. Why wouldn't this be of concern to people on this site? A TV is designed to be mounted on a wall many feet from the viewer.
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A "basic income" is not the same as a "basic income guarantee".
The per capita GDP of the U.S. is around $50,000.

The median household income is also around $50,000.

The mean household income is around $70,000.

There's enough on one side of the distribution to fill in the other, if we decided as a society that that was the plan.
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Well that only took them way too long. Idiots should have purchased them in 2007
Inflation? what is the incentive for someone to work? How basic is basic and who determines what basic is? If any one observed Venezuela or for that matter Saudi Arabia with their social welfare paid off by Oil wealth, you would be skeptical of these social programs.
Use a long thin cable on a motorized spool. Rig up a waterproof reinforced box with sensors that detect speed and direction (mercury switch type deals?... I don't know but I bet there is something). Hook them up to a board with some storage. Drop the box in and start reeling the cable off. If the cable goes slack the thing has probably stopped. Maybe it's hung up. Pull it back a bit and try again. If it keeps stopping in the same place it's probably all the information possible by this method. Retrieve the box, get the speed/direction information, do some distance calculations and graph it. Ideally the box will go all the way to the exit point and you will have a profile showing where the water ends up. But even if it doesn't, you will have a good idea of direction and depth the water is traveling for a certain distance at least. This will at least make better guesses in the future.
Also, "most people are still working" is increasingly less true:

* http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddganos/2012/11/03/what-is-rea...
This is part of a larger problem where management doesn't listen to the coders/designers about UX issues.

Aesthetics often win out over UX or keeping the code base maintainable because management doesn't have to deal with the code and rarely use the website themselves to see how terrible the UX is.
The challenge with doing the math is the mount of unpredictable aspects of a UBI. We are not good at predicting human behaviors. What happens for those who are struggling to survive when they have enough money for a decent living? Will they spend it in a way that revitalizes the economy? Will they use the time they spent struggling to survive in doing other things that make the pie bigger for everyone?

What happens for those who were already earning a (barely) decent living? How will their spending habits change? Maybe some of them will choose to contribute to society in non-traditional ways. Would that be good? Will any of them stop contributing to society?

We don't know if its a zero-sum change. Its unclear if the pie will get bigger, smaller, or stay the same; if the rich will get richer, poorer, or around the same; if the money we would get from taxation will sustain a UBI in the steady state.

The studies on minimum wage increase is the closest we have, but that is unrelated enough that it misses many of the complexities (and advantages) that a UBI could have.
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OK:

~225M Americans 20+ years of age * $12,000 = ~2.7T.

As a point of reference that's around 15-16% of GDP.
It's also about 90% of current US gov't income or 80% of US gov't expenditures.

In other words it's really fucking expensive! I'm not saying the math is impossible but the conspicuous absence of details from most people saying it's a good idea is pretty telling.
In my experience, backpackers are the least inclined to bring their trash back out with them. Too many selfishly prioritize their comfort (particularly, how much weight they are carrying) over respect for the environment.
I'm building a K-12 comp sci curriculum for a network of schools and we're pulling a LOT from this. Why? I previously taught an intro CS course to 8th graders with the "jump straight to the code" method, and found that many, if not most students struggled with conceptualizing and articulating algorithms, even in Scratch which is very visual.

Moving forward, our curriculum is going to build those skills up front and off-screen, then move to code. How we build those is a continuing work in progress, but CS Unplugged is a big part of that.
Contrasted with China's shifting to population growth from economic growth, this is definitely going to resonate with Western leaders.

Honestly though, if we are go with UBI, can we ask ourselves what is really necessary in life?

Currently large sections of the population engage in secondary and post-secondary education for the purpose of gainful employment -- to have a job brings social and financial stability.

That will no longer be necessary, so what does that means? Will tuition rates go down? Will universities no longer be in such demand globally?

How will this affect population growth and movement? Large sections of the population across the world utilize visas whose conditions are tied to education or employment, and now they will not have such opportunities.
counting his sheep in his sleep, no doubt. Can't wait until humanity graduates from the clutches of these usurers.
The idealist in me loves it. The political realist in me just doesn't see it.

Government programs have huge constituencies and embedded supporters within and without government who will fight tooth and nail to keep them. There is no way you will actually cut down on them as suggested.
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Why jump to a generational explanation?

It could just as easily be a function of population growth, easier access (e.g. more info available about how to get outdoors), better marketing by the NPS to attract more visitors, etc. More people visited the parks last year than ever before.
>because grocery stores start having a hard time finding employees willing to do the menial labor required to keep a grocery store running.

You are over-estimating the value of the income. People won't be "livin' large" on the basic income. The intention is to keep people out of abject poverty. I'd even argue it would be easier to find people willing to work part-time at places like grocery stores to supplement their income.
Economic proof of concept:

Right now in the United States, 95%+ of people get their basic necessities covered, one way or another. The additional goods produced and services utilized will only require a "relatively" small reallocation of capital resources to their production.

The way I conceptualize UBI is partially an accounting trick, since a large portion of the revenues and outlays would be just changing money that people currently spend directly on goods and services to money that first gets taxed and then goes straight back to people who then spend it on the same goods and services. It's partially changing the incidence of social costs--hospitals that once had to eat the costs of the required treatment of poor people would then not be punished, and instead (depending on how the funding taxes are structured) the holders of income/wealth in society would eat those costs. Some of it is renaming existing programs and more efficiently administrating them (instead of food stamps with complicated bureaucracies, people just get a check). And for the few people actually starving or freezing to death because of lack of funds in the USA, yes, that's genuinely a new cost we'd have to bear, but that's a rarity and I don't feel too bad about new taxes if it's genuinely saving lives.

There are second order incentive effects in both directions that are certainly worthy of consideration, but a naive consideration of the facts on the ground suggests it's not at all impossible or even requiring any real magic, given the political will.
I attempted a thru hike in 2005. The thing about hiking is, doing it is a lot more difficult than talking about it. Something like 60% of thru hikers give up in the first 20 miles of their 2100 mile hike.

That being said, of course there are people like in this article, but they're only at the shelters that are close to town. Walk a bit away from the town, and you're golden.

Walking 15 miles into the woods to "party" is a huge ask. Shitty people are lazy.

The real story behind all of this is how young / homeless / disenfranchised people are turning to the trail as an outlet / support group. That is more interesting to me, and worthy of a story, rather than judgement as doom of the trail.
If anyone's particularly bored, the password, from which the master key used in my original backdoor is derived, should be fairly easy to crack. It is eight nonrandom characters.
I think that we can settle this with a friendly game of goofball.
A significantly greater percentage of the working age population is working at a job today than 85 years ago.
Quote: "Kids might not realize they're coding, but that's going to be almost a basic proficiency just because of the way they grew up."

We REALLY need to get him (and other presidential candidates) aware of Scratch. I've pinged UK Scratch advocates about this. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10144228
Well this will not work until 90% of the jobs are automated and we actually don't need this many people to work anymore to produce all the wealth and food needed or in demand.

And this will take a long while.
Removing jobs is viewed as an upside of a policy like that, not a downside (by economists only, pretty much, but they're right about it).
Its been tried in Oil rich countries like Saudi Arabia, but given the massive growth in population and mostly relying on immigrant workers for long time, they are now trying to balance things and once you take away some welfare from people they do get angry and so, the royalty of Saudi Arabia are facing many challenges.
Yup, exactly why I included the minimum wage in the list of things that could be scrapped in favor of UBI.
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I highly doubt scrapping all social assistance is politically possible. Sure, basic income would be better than a patch work welfare state present in most of the developed world, but I am skeptical that it will be any different from other transfer programs already in place.
That is one of the best summaries of why this appeals to both the left and the right. Well said!
Because in both cases I linked to, the perpetrators were under the age of 25.

Sure it's anecdotal ... but you did ask.
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> Dungeons are (in theory) built by intelligent people for a reason.

Well, in the make believe universes you frequent anyway. Others have different tastes.

I mean, in the realm of software there's a whole genre of these things going back to the original Rogue which never pretended to have any purpose at all. And digging even farther back you'll find a dice-driven (and, relative to modern standards, really terrible) random dungeon generator in an appendix at the back of the 1e AD&D DMG. Likewise even earlier TSR products like "Dungeon Geomorphs" were clearly aimed at random-or-at-least-mostly-sensesless generation.

That's not to say you can't do better, just that "not random" is probably not exactly the right aesthetic to chase.
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Sure, predictions are hard. Especially about the future.

But as a first order approximation why not just assume that we remain in a steady state? See how far that gets you.