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Plenty of people worry about not being able to find a job, that's why there is so much talk about unemployment, and why politicians always come up with programs and policies to stimulate job growth.

It's even more common if you count people who hate their jobs.

Whether we've found a solution to that problem, is up to debate. But the problem of allowing everyone to have basic security is real.
"The weapons shops of Isher" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weapon_Shops_of_Isher) are good in theory. They aren't very practical, though.
Is it really "live" if it's only "updated every 5-10 minutes while the Concorde team is online"?

With a Raspberry Pi and a $20 USB SDR, one can have their own real-time map of air traffic. I've got four of 'em deployed already and have a few more I need to get set up. I'm an aviation nerd as well, so it's very cool to me.
It's more of a hedge in case all these ridiculous situations just go off the deep end altogether.
Should call it 1fs with the number 1. 1fs.io is even avail!
It is an embarrassment that our police cannot act like good citizens.
If the police continue to escalate their militarization, and continue to ramp up their asset thievery - let's say for illustration purposes here - to a dramatically greater degree.

What other choice would the population have than to defend themselves against that kind of extreme assault on their liberty and property by what would be an obviously hostile, violent and radically unconstitutional force? The police would become little more than armed bandits at that point, modern pirates. It seems like an outlandish scenario to me, but it may not be if the police asset theft continues to soar as it has been. How about if it's ten times larger ten years from now? Latin America has had plenty of this going on, scenarios where the police have become bandits that plunder the population in numerous ways.
As a non-American, it's pretty scary for the rest of us to see how your society can tolerate these Eritrean standover tactics, while still retaining this "freedom loving" doublespeak in the national cinema you project into the world.
Making of the Novena Heirloom
Of course, more guns does not bring that about but the willingness to kill and rebel against the government by a major part of the population.
Isn't uber a long play on self driving cars that can be summoned with an app? That's why GM invested in lyft. They need someone to buy their fleet since the number of car owners is going to drop to a few companies in the next 20-50 years.
Bernie Sanders lawyers to Wikipedia: Take down our logo, you’re violating DMCA
And still, Ronald Reagan is one of the most popular presidents of the US in the last 100 years.
He can be corrective without having to identify it himself.

Just because he explains that something isn't the problem, doesn't mean he's obligated to identify all the root causes himself.

He's simply pointing out a flaw in people's logical processes.
We'll keep that to ourselves. If you need a touchy-feely PC-approved reason why civil forfeiture leads to a more-armed populace, try this: Armed people don't need the police for immediate physical security. Unarmed people might need police for that (ignoring for a moment the fact police are actually terrible at that particular task), but because of civil forfeiture (among other reasons) they are reluctant to involve police. Therefore civil forfeiture makes unarmed people less secure, theoretically.

[EDIT:] In case I wasn't clear, I'm saying:

civil forfeiture -> armed populace

I'm not saying:

armed populace -> less civil forfeiture
New York Wants to Force Vendors to Decrypt Users’ Phones
... which leads more militarized policing.
I'll buy that for a dollar
I don't believe the Instagram billion was about acquiring 13 software engineers. It was about controlling an application that was a huge (and growing) competitor for attention on mobile, was it's own social network, and was better (or at least, more flexible and fun) than Facebook at one of Facebook's core functionalities: sharing photos.
A brief history of cybercrime
I'm curious if any of the police officers behind the seizures could be sued as personally liable when no charges are brought.

There has been a possibility of lawsuits against law enforcement officials for denial of civil rights under color of law for a long time. And, indeed, some of the worst practices of the past have been corrected by such lawsuits. The civil forfeiture cases that have become so commonplace in recent years are a new (and, in my opinion, aberrational) practice that does need to be rolled back a lot, and lawsuits will be one part of the toolkit for doing that.

http://ij.org/action-post/seize-first-ask-questions-later-ph...

https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-po...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/tim-walberg-an-end-t...
Which doesn't work until we get to the point of all-out civil rebellion. The US has a heavily armed citizenry now and this is obviously happening. And drawing a weapon on a police officer will end badly no matter what the cop was doing. And that's not for entirely unreasonable reasons.
I'm always a little mystified by those who believe there is some vast pool of people receiving something called "welfare" that pays them munificent sums to sit around all day not working.

There is no "welfare". There's SNAP(food stamps) with a princely average payment of $125, which has time limits on eligibility and mostly goes to working households. There's TANF which only goes to households with children and has both time limits on eligibility and work requirements.

What there absolutely is not is some sort of program where millions of people are paid to sit around think of ways to build a better mousetrap. The idea that there is remains one of those pernicious myths that just won't seem to die.
It does go through a process, which at this point is considered constitutional, or more properly worded, has yet to be ruled unconstitutional in court.

Civil forfeiture was a highly successful tool to combat organized crime and grew enormously in the 80s with Reagan's odious war on drugs. It basically solves the problem of illicitly used money being able to free people the government wanted wanted to stop.

As a tool for dismantling organized crime, it was effective, useful, and generally seemed basically fair and as such seemed to survive court review.

Then came the war on drugs and a dose of right-wing anti-tax thinking.

"It's now possible for a drug dealer to serve time in a forfeiture-financed prison after being arrested by agents driving a forfeiture-provided automobile while working in a forfeiture-funded sting operation." — Reagan attorney general Richard Thornburgh in 1989.

It was specifically designed to help fund agencies in a way that replaced tax revenue. Starting at roughly this same time period most government agencies at all levels became cash-strapped in various ways. This meant some agencies have turned to civil forfeiture to create revenue.

It's clearly a bad incentive and needs to be reined in and reformulated to ensure rights are being respected.

BTW, a heavily armed citizenry is precisely why local police departments advocate for more and more militarized equipment. They'll call them gang members and drug dealers, but they are heavily armed citizenry nonetheless. Armed citizens won't solve any part of this problem.
Michael O. Church: "Software engineers aren't a privileged set. They're just less fucked than the rest of the U.S. Former Middle Class."

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-software-engineers-make-so-much...
I'm just curious.. Could you cite some legitimate reasons for why an entity would like to block VPN traffic?
You mean more funding for swat teams and heavier militarisation to defend themselves? Which is the only way such a move would be politically spun in this universe.
I wonder if that's actually true. It was far, far easier to hide income back then. This is before currency transaction reporting and "currency smuggling" laws. You could get on a flight to Zurich with a duffel bag full of cash and it wasn't something anyone had to report to the government.
Have a look at the trending erlang repositories[0]. You will always find, near the top, basho/rebar. However, the subject on this reads:

ATTENTION: Please find the canonical repository here:

The same advice is in the README.

What this tells you is that enough people are not only using this repository, which was last updated in August 2014 with a change to the README directing people at the new source, but people are giving it stars this week such that it shows up as "trending" higher than the correct repository.

There has to be something wrong with the deprecation process if this happens.
[0]https://github.com/trending?l=erlang
Same for Lua.
Unfortunately the first link doesn't appear to direct correctly. I'm still willing to think 500M is plausible, with Uber Black and SUV included (is it safe to say these professional drivers make more than 3000/mo on Uber?). Even if it's not quite 500M, or maybe they needed to flub the geography or numbers to get to that number, they're still generating huge sums of revenue in what is only one large metropolitan city out of hundreds around the world.
what's the pricing model they're copying, exactly? you mean the pricing model that airbnb copied from existing hotel chains (variable pricing?). very unique and innovative.
How would heavily armed citizenry help solve the problem? Are you going to put a hole in the head of the officer who takes your cash out of your car? Won't that lead to anarchy or civil war, eventually? Maybe...consider changing the law, eh?
Indeed. I'll reiterate - it's vital that images have a known color space. Even if OP just states that farbfield is sRGB, it'll help. Otherwise, you've only got a 3D matrix, rather than an image.
Interestingly enough I did a cursory google search of Kirk James Miller and nothing really came up that I noticed. I expected him to be an academic or researcher.
You have a heavily armed population (the US has more guns per capita than anywhere else) and you still have terrible police.
The police operate at the will of the people. They are as heavily armed as they are because the political process highly rewards "tough-on-crime" politicians.

Maybe instead of buying guns we should invest more of our time and resources into the political process.
I think it comes down to funding, marketing, development and revenue models. Many companies succeed in funding, then effectively jump the shark in terms of marketing spend and try to massively scale their developer teams in order to increase feature churn, which has the opposite effect a lot of times, and then they've burned through all the cash before they can handle the scaling.

Other companies don't go full board, with more conservative growth in terms of features, but can scale more customers without the draw of huge marketing or in some cases smarter marketing. Viral-peer marketing works as long as your conversion out-paces your free sign-ups. I don't have any insights into Dropbox, but can say they're probably fine. There really isn't great competition in this space.. there's competition, but none of the cross-platform options are as good or at least not clearly better.
50-somethings turn on God Mode and go sight-seeing, with a bit of mayhem.
Two distinct worlds. PD and NPD. I was on the PD side but a couple of my classmates were NPD and there was some crossover. Seemed the NPD side was more serious about artwork and that got to be competitive, as far as login graphics, menus, logoff graphics. As an aspiring artist, I was impressed by the NPD ascii art and loaders.
It's scary for us too! At least, those of us who have noticed the cracks in the facade. This is any nation, with an unrestrained military-enforcement-industrial-complex. For instance, I don't think we're any worse off than Pakistan. Make sure to prevent the armaments manufacturers from purchasing your country's political system!
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Doesn't answer the question. Politics doesn't truck to reason.
Did you mean "unplaning"?
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I'm late 20s and I played doom on DOS.
An argument from ignorance is not good.

"I don't understand how he saved that money, so it's probably via some nefarious means".

No, a thousand times no. The government has billions of dollars to spend on prosecuting me. I have much less to spend defending myself.

The standards should be set such that it is very hard for the government to convict me, by requiring things like "evidence", and "probably cause". The standards should be that it is very easy to defend myself "prove your conjecture beyond a reasonable doubt, or I walk".

The alternative is totalitarian dictatorships. The guy in charge thinks you're bad? Yup. You're bad. No trial, no defence, no conviction. Just secret police knocking down your door at 2am, and your neighbors waking up the next day with you gone.

Everyone is too afraid to defend themselves, so the dictatorship continues.

History shows that's the result of opinions like yours. It's why you're getting downvoted.
True! But I think those are more on the metroidvania side of things, a genre that follows this pattern on a macro level. The shooters I'm thinking of had level-based, compact environments that nonetheless tangled up in interesting ways. There were also tons of secret areas and easter eggs to find.

In other words, this: http://i.imgur.com/BITmX.jpg
But Google and Microsoft don't need the W3C approval to win; they just get together with Apple and implement it. In fact, we've already seen the browser vendors move ahead of the W3C in the HTML5 spec, forming the WHATWG, so why wouldn't they - except Mozilla - just do that again?
Even when it was successful for some things ... when it hurts innocent people, the state has to find other tools to hunt down criminals.

You can't simply drop an atomic bomb on NYC -- and justify it, by saying you killed at least 100,000 criminals ...
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While it may have been foolish, theft is not excused.
One of the major precedents to Doom's level design was probably Dungeons & Dragons. IIRC, the id Software guys were pretty heavy players and people like Sandy Peterson and Jennell Jaquays were working for id.
Perhaps to people that guzzle talk radio whatever News Corp puts out. But to anyone else? Average at best.
Define "Many quarters". 10% grown in 2015 is hardly "flat" (288m to 316m). It's definitely less than prior years and less than other social apps, but "flat" is a strong word.
Not everyone lives the life you live.
Is that per-year, or the expected lifetime of a given company? The value of a company isn't the most it can be expected to make in a single year.
Also, past aristocrats. Many (the only?) scientists were aristocrats. But most of them did nothing but, at most, develop byzantine courtly fashion.
Basic income will probably yield a similar proportion of doers.

In a wider perspective, life has become easier for humans over the last 15,000 years. Does this mean we are less motivated; or have more energy available for non-immediate needs?
That can be maintained because it's still extraordinarily isolated and small in occasion. America remains among the freest nations on earth in nearly every measure - even if it's not the best at every measure. Your premise though is very flawed in my opinion, I don't know very many people that are unaware of the erosion of liberty that has occurred - both sides of the voting aisle are extremely aware of it, it's constantly discussed at a national level (eg the Washington Post has run countless articles on it), and every side of the US politically have their opinions on its nature and what should be done about it.

You're acting like this is affecting every American and is very common. It's not. Eritrea? That's laughable, you're intentionally dramatizing to try to insult the US. It is in fact a very, very small problem, that is very serious and needs to be put down before it gets any larger. Steps have already begun to put an end to it. Why pretend it's not an understood problem that almost everyone agrees needs to be dealt with? The only reason to pretend that, is to levy a cheap shot at the US.
It's tough across the board, certainly.

That said, can you think of another field that experiences a similar same drum beat about a "shortage"? Maybe nursing, though out here in SF, nurses actually do out-earn software developers at the median (US News "best jobs" has a roundup of BLS data), and because (again, this is in SF) they have powerful unions, they don't experience the Disney-stye situation where middle aged nurses are fired and forced to train their replacements as a condition of receiving severance or holding onto their jobs for a while longer. I always have to make sure I say this when I make this comparison: I am absolutely ok with nurses outearning software developers, it's a tough job, they deserve to be well paid. But according to the US News site, even dental hygienists make roughly as much at the median as software developers. Again, I have no problem with this, but it is at odds with the notion that software developers are a wildly well paid group that experiences wonderful perks, and that the big problem is that there's a "shortage" of them. The economic article makes it clear that the aversion to this field may be very rational.

Although burnout affects everyone, I do think that software developers face greater age related employment issues than most fields as well.

I can't really quantify this, but I don't think that the PR around a "shortage" of nurses reaches the same fever pitch for software developers.

Overall, I'd recommend you just go through the "US News Best Jobs" list and check out salaries in high cost regions, relative to software development. Think about job security, stress levels, age discrimination, and so forth. Nothing's perfect, but I think you can make a good case that all of the fields in the top 10 may be preferable to software development.
> Facebook, however, has been demonstrably successful since going public

Yes but you're ignoring that it took more than a year for FB to get back up to its IPO price after going public
We are seing lots of .unwrap() because Rust has no monadic notation.
That replaces recoverable errors with crash.
Fabulously paid? Yeah right. Salaries are decent compared to the average working stiff. You still top out early in your career with little chance for significant increase.

In regards to the perks, having access to all of them mentioned is the exception rather than the rule.

It is a sad indictment of work culture that the freedom to make your own hours or rest when tired is seen as an extravagant benefit.
> people are remarkably effective at finding ways to be productive.

That's not because human nature loves busy work. It's because today's economy requires you to be "productive", or starve.
Good point. Real-time is definitely not accurate, but I'd be willing to say 5-10 minutes delayed is as close to a "live" view as is legally allowed.

Did you built your Raspberry Pi stations with FlightAware's guide?

https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/build
...and less safety than in countries with better gun control.
>without yanking the battery //

Are you sure they don't have a backup battery or similar that can continue broadcasting your location after you pull the battery. That would be an ideal countermeasure as pulling the battery would be a great indication you may be about to do something "naughty" and you'd likely do such things shortly after too ...
I think that Uber could make a killing as a general delivery service... If you included smaller "hand-offs" for drivers around town, they wouldn't match UPS/Fedex for remote distribution, even overnight, but could definitely be a boon for local businesses.
What are some lifestyle changes that save money?
How is this not a major sensation/scandal? "Free country" my foot!
That's a great comment he wrote.
Yes we do have terrible police. Gun ownership doesn't change that, but it does mean you don't have to call the police until there are corpses to be collected. That's only the immediate benefit, because the likelihood of armed resistance to crime is a strong deterrent in the first place.
"Medicine? Salaries being suppressed"

How so?
Timing is the key. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
GP didn't say it was a good, effective or predictable business model.. ;-)
Its been open sourced (copious amounts of pascal), https://github.com/rickparrish/Usurper
Tons always have. Look up the valuation of Macy's real estate; it is about 2x the market cap. Even adjusting for the full EV value its at a discount. They would realize more value by shutting down the retail business and selling off the real estate. But investors feel the chances of that happening are slim to none which leads to the low valuation. Yahoo is a tech company but revenue, growth rates, net income and free cash flow are common to all companies.
Begging the question. Our experience so far of DRM is broken.

No, DRM as a concept is broken. The whole idea rests on giving someone the encrypted content and the key to decrypted, while obfuscating the way the two are combined in a machine the user controls.

That's why most DRM has been broken, often mere days after release, despite the many millions buried in its development.
You just pointed out another barrier to entry for Uber and AirBnB. New entrants will probably have less selection and higher cost. This is fatal in a fundamentally commodity business. There will be no competitor to AirBnB or Uber for the foreseeable future.
A key paragraph in the article kindly submitted here is this paragraph about promised shares of stock in a company: "Moreover, tech startups typically attract talent by offering shares. Employees work like dogs in return for supposedly making a fortune when the firm goes public. However, such firms often use multiple classes of shares that preserve the biggest gains for insiders, leaving the employees with common stock that can easily lose value. In particular, startups have taken to offering later-stage investors guarantees that they will get their money back, if either a subsequent funding round or an eventual initial public offering (IPO) values their shares at a lower price than they are paying. When firms have to pay out on such guarantees, they generally do so by issuing extra shares, which dilute other common shareholders such as their staff." That's what makes the venture-capital-funded tech industry different: it looks like it offers opportunities to make serious money through appreciation of shares in the company, but all too often that doesn't work out.

It was interesting to see, in another part of the article, the suggestion that knowing what a company's goals are in relation to one's work can make one's work more satisfying. That makes sense.
This is similar to how Apple's iOS File Data Protection works with "Protected Unless Open": https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

> Some files may need to be written while the device is locked. A good example of this is a mail attachment downloading in the background. This behavior is achieved by using asymmetric elliptic curve cryptography (ECDH over Curve25519). The usual per-file key is protected by a key derived using One-Pass Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement as described in NIST SP 800-56A.

> The ephemeral public key for the agreement is stored alongside the wrapped per-file key. The KDF is Concatenation Key Derivation Function (Approved Alternative 1) as described in 5.8.1 of NIST SP 800-56A. AlgorithmID is omitted. PartyUInfo and PartyVInfo are the ephemeral and static public keys, respectively. SHA-256 is used as the hashing function. As soon as the file is closed, the per-file key is wiped from memory. To open the file again, the shared secret is re-created using the Protected Unless Open class’s private key and the file’s ephemeral public key; its hash is used to unwrap the per-file key, which is then used to decrypt the file.