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>What there absolutely is not is some sort of program where millions of people are paid to sit around

https://www.ssa.gov/agency/performance/2016/FINAL_2014_2016_...
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Maybe his country has different rules about this sort of thing? Or maybe airlines/credit card companies have different rules for his country?
The crazy thing is job satisfaction. People do things they dislike because you pay them more. I've been a carpenter and a heavy machinery opperator before my current job in tech. Come March, I'm going to look out the window at the first sunny day and wish I was crushing a house. But in April 15, I'm going to smile as I realize how much money I save this year and look at my investments yoy.

I mean, I don't feel as apriciated or have as much fun, but I put money in the bank, I'll have healthcare for my family, retirement for my self and better job security.

Everyone is feeling pressure from inflation and stagnating wages, but let's not pretend an SDE with a six figure income is some how part of the working class now. The working class was relieved of health care and security a decade or more ago.
>I would not trust that any modern smartphone is fully off without yanking the battery.

That is not enough. Use a faraday cage.

Modern phones have two batteries [0].

[0] http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone6.htm
For me, as an EE, all those perks are a fantasy. All I can expect is my company to consistently screw us every year on our benefits.
First off, upon googling this case beyond the two paragraphs, the money didn't just come from waiting tables and working retail. I've done both, and saving that much would have been nearly impossible for me. So while you question that assumption, it turns out I was right. At no point did I suggest the source of the money was nefarious.

Second, I'm much more concerned with the foolishness of putting one's life savings ($11,000) in a bag, and handing that bag off to someone, who will hand it off to someone else, who will hopefully put it in the right plane, and then someone else will hopefully pick it up, and that person will put it on the right conveyor belt, and nobody else will just take the bag anyway off the conveyor belt and walk off with it.
This is the stuff that scares me about Bitcoin. People tout it as being safe from regulation, free, quasi-anonymous... But if you have your savings stolen you want it back.
I have fixed the link. They do appear to be generating a large revenue out of the SF area (my best guess is their real revenue is somewhere between $40 and $50 million), but SF is a very unusual market that is particular suited to a service like Uber. How much it can be used to extrapolate into other markets is an unknown question.

The more fundamental problem is how much profit can they generate. Historically, the taxi industry is not one that has generated large profits without political protection (i.e. medallion limitations). It is very hard to see how Uber will be able to achieve monopoly level profits going forward. As I said in the beginning I think Uber is a great business that will make a lot of money, but it just isn’t worth investing in at its current valuation.
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I don't necessarily disagree, but at some point the buck has to stop, right? How would you implement this any other way? The author didn't implement AES or so on himself, he uses standard library encryption and applies it as appropriate. You should probably report the issues you find to federico.ceratto-at-gmail.com (from Github).
> Armed people don't need the police for immediate physical security

That seems contrary to evidence, surely. Looking at stats for residential shootings:

"For every time a gun in the home was used in a self-defense or legally justifiable shooting, there were four unintentional shootings, seven criminal assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/9715182/
I'm offended you've even asked the question :p
Police seizures is the foundation of a corrupt society.
I was more thinking that those organisations who do process medical records on your behalf -- your doctor, hospital, etc. -- could and should take steps to prevent the often very large number of staff they have from accessing an individual's records without proper authorisation

But that's not DRM! That's regular access control! The whole idea behind DRM is to control what users who are allowed to access the content can do with it.

Otherwise, even UNIX file permissions would be DRM.
"You still top out". Actually that's pretty unique to sw development vs other white collar roles and is not discussed enough when it comes to understanding higher levels of disillusion. SW developers are basically having their mod life crisis at 28 or 32 when they realize they've mostly flatlined unless they go into management.
> Personally, I'd prefer a bullshit job over no job.

You realize of course that this runs completely counter to your whinging about supposed freeloaders.
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The biggest card this article palms is by starting out talking about tech companies, and then switching into a survey that's not primarily about tech companies: "A survey last year of 5,000 such workers at both tech and non-tech firms... found that many of them feel alienated, trapped, underappreciated and otherwise discombobulated."

Because, sure, if you're the person who does Crystal Reports at Bob's House of Widgets, or the VB person at Gary's Lawncare, or even (to some extent) one of the J2EE horde at MegaBankCorp, you're in a place where you're not core to the business, you're viewed as a cost center, you have a limited career path, and the main people at the company probably have you lumped in with HR and Accounting.

But I really, really, really doubt you're going to find that same sense of alienation, underappreciation, etc. at a tech company.
These was bound to happen eventually as the technology culture evolves. The master/slave terms was more then likely not the best terminology in the start and does not help those who are not technical understand what it is up front without thinking about slavery at first.

If you know someone who was a slave, had it as apart of your family history or are currently living in illegal slavery the master/slave naming can be very offensive and in some cases trigger PTSD from events that occurred to you in the past.

With the changing to something easier to understand and more neutral it removes the bad baggage that comes with the initial terms and in most cases helps people new to the technology understand or at least relate better to what is going on.

I've had colleagues pull me aside for advice on better terms to use than the defaults so they would not offend their coworkers, current and potential customers or other friends. If you feel embarrassed or wrong about the master/slave reference there is a good chance it will cause some issues spoken and unspoken as there are better alternatives for it that are more in line with our modern cultures.

Changing master/slave to primary/replicas is more appropriate as it helps people understand what it is at first, has no bad baggage associated with it and easier for non technical people to understand.
Tech is pretty insular, isn't it. Like how your site uses "gov", a top level domain for the whole WWW restricted to be used by government-specific entities in the UNITED STATES (of America)[1]. Moreover, "The U.S. is the only country that has a government-specific top-level domain in addition to its country-code top-level domain." (Wikipedia)

[1] The point isn't that other governmental entities should be able to use "gov", though. Since English is not a universal language.
A person is presumed innocent. The money is guilty until proven innocent.
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It was never envisioned as a tool to dismantling organised crime. That use came later. It was originally created to allow the govt to seize assets of non-citizens where the laws of the US could not be used. For example, captured assets of foreign drug suppliers where they were unable to prosecute those people.
It was never envisioned to be used on US citizens because the laws of the US can be applied to citizens as their punishment. To have assets seized AND criminal prosecution is unconstitutional.
This is super nitpicky but it's "Bitcoin" when referring to the currency (e.g. "the Bitcoin blockchain") and "bitcoin" when referring to an amount ("0.2 bitcoin"); it's never "BitCoin".
This is only an issue during peak times. Most of the time during the day, buses are fairly empty.

If driverless car companies use something like uber's surge pricing, so that it is more expensive to travel 1/2hr before/after peak, people will respond, flattening out peak demand.

Intelligent routing software will assist, allowing people to car pool to reduce the required number of cars.

Finally, let's say if automated cars remove half the riders from buses, the costs of providing buses will need to be spread across half the number of riders, making the economics of running a bus system twice as expensive per passenger. At that point, it makes sense even more sense to replace the buses with cars.

The only question will be how long it takes for people to adapt due to existing habits having momentum.
Yes, programming macros was exciting (too) because it gave you a competitive advantage and opened the door to a lot of creativity.
I'm not sold that civil forfeiture is an atomic bomb. It's more like guns in the hands of police. It's a very dangerous tool in the hands of people who are charged with achieving something that occasionally needs dangerous tools to solve.

Guns have obviously led to killing innocents by police, and I'd like that number to go down. Heck, I'd like most police officers to not carry guns most of the time, leaving guns to SWAT teams that can be called in when needed. In other words, I want the dangerous tool used effectively in a manner that respects everyone's rights.

Same with civil forfeiture. It's clearly being used in an abusive fashion. Innocents are losing money and property to help pay for police. It blows my mind that it's being used this way and needs to be reformed. To me it would make sense to hold the property in some form of escrow until the finding of guilt or innocence, essentially freezing assets.
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> Basic income almost seems like a measure focused on finding ways for people to be unproductive.

You know, this is an old fashioned puritan work ethic thing as well; people don't need to be productive, they need to be happy and if they can be happy without "having" to work due to technological advancement that makes work a moot point, why shouldn't they be?

"Productivity" is something we can get more and more from machines and eventually enough of it that the vast bulk of society can move beyond work and enjoy life. Work that isn't required is called a hobby, and our ultimate goal should be to let our tech replace our need to work; it'd be great if everyone just had hobbies they enjoyed and found fulfilling.
Weapons aren't necessary. Ending the War On Drugs would remove the prime reasoning for this larceny. Bonus points: less people dying and going to jail, less corruption, etc.
I remember when Yahoo was a manual index, AltaVista was the best internet search, and Hotmail wasn't a MicroSoft owned company... when most email addresses were truly painful (anyone remember doing internet email via fidonet? compuserve?).

Google has now been king for a while, but if someone came out that did things clearly better, people aren't tethered.. even Facebook has its' upstart competition (that they keep buying off).

People are less tied to their services than you think.. yeah, plenty of people are still using yahoo mail, and others aol for email even... but few are dialing in and fewer still could remember their icq login if they tried.
I lot of nostalgia for me here. I ran a BBS for years, initially on WWIV and then on to Wildcat! 4.

Throughout high school, my buddies and I spent countless hours on TradeWars 2002. We even wrote our own door game, the little known Mercury Fighter, which had a modest installation base.

The Internet just isn't the same. A lot of memories come back looking at the list of games on this article.
How will it lead to total civil war? All it will lead to is the police stops taking people's property without a court order or they risk getting shot.
> makes me support having a heavily armed citizenry.'

Well that's good for the police because now they have good reason to roll in with their SWAT wagon and get the "tactical" gear out and play GI Joe.
Just plain stupid opsec mistakes. Even a fucking docker container would have helped.
I don't know anyone who has raised VC funding for an open source project.

The most surprising example of this for me is Socket.io (https://github.com/socketio/socket.io) - This is a hugely popular open source project; but it was never able to get funding on its own merit - To the VC world, it was always seen as a 'side project' of another startup - Not as a fundable project in its own right.

The archnemesis of open source infrastructure software are services. By funding services exclusively, VCs have been actively pushing the adoption of services to the detriment of open source... For example, instead of encouraging startups to run their own open source database engine (which is quite feasible), startups may be tempted to use a hosted database-as-a-service instead (because it was advertised to them). Instead of using an open source CMS and host it themselves, they will use a hosted as-a-service solution (even though it's more expensive and often doesn't make sense for this startup economically). Instead of doing their own performance monitoring for their app (using an open source tool), they will use a service instead.

Not so long ago, the 'as-a-service' companies which did well were the ones which had roots in open source and actually did a lot of OSS work themselves (E.g. Wordpress, Red Hat). Now you have a lot of as-a-service startups which came out of nowhere, raised a boatload of VC funding and are stealing all the limelight away from smaller OSS (pioneering) projects who have been working towards a specific vision for many years.
Phabricator can probably do all that through its event system (herald), but a few part of the CI (harbormaster) is partly a prototype application which makes the support/doc limited.
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I'll respond to myself instead of to your response to me. You're getting downvoted enough that I can't reply.

In short, you don't seem to understand or care that your attitude leads to dictatorship and oppression. I have ethical problems with this attitude.

For me, I don't care where he got the money from. If the government can't prove it's the result of criminal behavior, it should have no right to seize the money. It's that simple.
That's a very insightful analogy. But the concept of "externalities" only applies because the game of acquisition is loaded in ways that - literally - doesn't account for social and environmental damage.

There would be much less inequality, and much less pollution, if the effects of both were costed accurately.

Free-marketers always argue that there would be much less innovation too. I think that's nonsense. You maximise growth by lowering the cost of entry to new markets as far as it will go, and making business-building as attractive as you can make it to anyone who has a service or product to offer.

Traditionally this is rationed by very limited access to capital. In an innovation economy, with more equality, much wider access to capital would not only increase economic participation for most of the population, it would also make entrepreneurial activity a lot more possible.

This is the opposite of the current model, where you can only access capital by being born into the oligarchy, or being persuasive enough to talk your way into it past the gatekeepers, or - much too rarely - having the talent and energy to bootstrap a successful business from a cold start.

Inequality is a form of rationing. It's inexcusably stupid and self-destructive in any culture that considers itself economically civilised.
Lyft seems to be doing okay, and don't underestimate targeted markets for upstart competition... If you can get most of the BnBs in say Sedona, Prescott and Payson Arizona to use your upstart service, you can grow from there, one targeted market at a time... local presence can be a significant advantage.
This is one of the reasons I cannot respect the police or the judicial system in this country and I seriously question those who do.
I'm sure that's right about in exchange for equity.

MINI and HAX would probably want to shy away from from having a sidecar fund. This would most likely lead to investors only investing in the companies that MINI/HAX have clear interests in or would just wait for an investment in MINI/HAX.
I often wonder if there is a tech solution to these types of issues. For example, are records of every instance of a civil forfeiture publicly available? Would it be helpful (and ethical) to publish this list to shine a bright spotlight on the practice? Would that make a difference?

It also raises the age-old question of "who polices the police?" The (federal) DOJ can only do so much, it seems. But maybe ordinary citizens can demand reform if injustice stares them in the face?

From what I've read in the press (especially NyTimes), the USA justice system seems to fundamentally disadvantage poor people [1]. The saddest part about the civil forfeiture business is that it probably affects the poorest people, who then have the least resources to challenge it.

On a separate note, I know the press is more likely to publish instances of injustice vs run-of-the-mill "just" justice. I honestly have no concept of if we live in a society with a tiny bit of corruption, or a lot more than I ever realized.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/magazine/the-bail-trap.htm...
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So they can know what you are doing? For example, if it's a business and they don't want their workers to spend all day on Facebook.
If I stole your TV, would I be burglarizing you? Or kidnapping your TV? Last I recall, kidnapping an appliance is not a crime. Where do you live?
What is your yardstick? Third world banana republics?

People in the United States are less free than most advanced European countries. In those countries, governments tend to respect people AND limit the power of corporations so people can be free from coercive economic activity.
Speaking with some knowledge of the company, it boggles the mind a little that they failed to snap up Shopify (or more likely one of that company's scrappier competitors) when Etsy got like $27M in 2008. Every single time Etsy didn't help a seller set up their own e-commerce site, someone else did, and this happened hundreds of thousands of times. And is still happening.

But Etsy struggled with leadership and technical problems in those days that were really serious, and not easily solved.
> Simulating a human brain is perhaps necessary for consciousness uploading, but not for super human ai.

I'm not suggesting otherwise, and what you said might be true, I don't know. But honest question: how can we know it's true before we can do either? How can we suggest neural nets are a good building block of super human AI, if we can't verify we can do regular human thinking, or sub-human thinking?

Because the neural net is modeled after (simplified) brain neurons in the first place, it seems reasonable to suggest that if we can't simulate a simple brain, then we can't validate that the model is correct, right? It might be very productive, and it might 'work' in some sense, but we don't know whether it can truly act as the lego brick of brain building material until we can build a functional brain.

Your observation is true, and worth considering. Machines can travel faster than humans, but that's different in part because we didn't start trying to simulate the human foot, right? The computational equivalent would be that machines can multiply a lot of numbers much faster than a human. That is super-human calculation, and it is mechanical thinking, of a sort, but most people wouldn't say it counts as "AI", perhaps the same way that most people wouldn't say a car counts as human running, even if it is faster.

Neural nets are being used to classify images, find objects, identify people's faces in a crowd or in difficult to see situations. But, they currently can't tell you to stop classifying images because you're asking the wrong question, or interrupt you to say you're looking great today.
Its amazing you've doing this. Definitely keep it up. My advice would be to find a business guy who could do a solid pitch of this for companies. I'm sure there are some out there who would be interested.
There pet is already suffering - it has cancer after all. The alternative in most cases is to put the dog down.

More importantly this question has already been asked by researchers and most people are happy for their pets to participate in such trials especially when they know they are really helping cure cancer.
Saying "unless they go into management" is an artificial distinction.

In most white-collar roles, "advancement" is synonymous with "going into management", and software development is no different.
I've heard a few bad things about "Learn C the Hard Way", but I have heard good things about K&R so I'm gonna see if that book is at my library (it absolutely should be).

Another idea I had was maybe to just program in Rust. I'm not sure :)
The wrinkle is that the seizure of contraband has never been understood to be a seizure of property without due process, dating back to the First Congress. I think civil forfeiture is definitely bad. But it's debatable whether it's unconstitutional.
The police are breaking the law.
Why would a customer need real-time data and analysis from a bulk cargo shipment? That doesn't make any sense.

You wouldn't, but freight forwarders typically don't move bulk cargo, they move containerized cargo. Bulk means the entire vessel hull is loaded with one raw materials commodity, like grains or minerals.

Companies importing finished goods absolutely do want instant, automated status updates on where their goods are at, because that information helps them load-balance their supply chain to keep their warehouses and stores stocked at the right levels and evaluate the performance of their contracted manufacturers and logistics service providers. Supply chain managers absolutely want scorecards and dashboards and push status updates.
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It's evidence that people in these fields are much more attuned with their worth and work conditions.

Meanwhile, as this thread will surely very soon demonstrate, software developers have taken the old US notion of hating on unions, peppered in a lack of overtime pay, clauses that claim ownership to things developed in their free time, a culture of big company pretend startups (you know, 60h week little pay all the micro management none of the freedom and ownership) and an attitude towards their own field that equals that of pirates.
Just saying, Box's main target is enterprise market and they definitely charge a hefty amount from their customers.

They have beat analyst expectations for both revenue growth and profit (well, less loss) for every quarter since IPO, it's just a tough market.