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Nah. I see several people here say the law should be 10 years. That will never ever fly for one simple reason: Disney. Disney are going to own Mickey Mouse forever. Yes, I do mean FOREVER. They'll do whatever it takes to secure that property, consequences be damned.

My proposal therefore is to introduce a gradually increasing tax on intellectual property. Say, you get 5 years for free. Then it starts off at some small amount like 100$/yr and increases exponentially until in 20 years it's equal to "50% of Disney's current legal expenses for lobbying for extensions to copyright".

In general, whatever system you ask for, has to take into account letting Disney own Mickey Mouse forever via some mechanism. I think letting them keep the damn mouse locked up in perpetuity, while freeing up tremendous numbers of near-past works is a good trade-off. There are of course other ideas, too. Maybe physical people can have copyright ownership for no more than 10 years, but it's free, while legal persons (i.e. corporations) can have ownership in perpetuity while paying tax. Maybe you need to show that this property is generating more than X% of your revenue to be allowed to continue keeping it. Note: do not impose tax on property revenue, hollywood are absolutely adept at making negative profit on paper while reaping huge profits. By making ownership tied to proving profit, you also take care of the creative accounting, since now e.g. Lucas Arts have an incentive to show that Star Wars made tons of money.

But whatever you do and however you spin it, your system must allow for Disney to own Mickey Mouse. Because they will.
It literally is true, though. As I said, and the paper reported: the guy was ruled dead, came before a judge and asked for the judgement to be revoked, and the judge told him "I don’t know where that leaves you, but you’re still deceased as far as the law is concerned".

The issue here was that the guy had disappeared for a long time, and been declared dead in full accordance with the law. That specific law didn't have a clause to help reverse wrongful declarations of death, so the judge had to let it stand.

The relevance of the ten year and back payments is mostly that it decreased sympathy for the guy, not that it changed the outcome.
> I'm not saying it's a spy room

Oh it is totally a data collection point.
This comment should really be further towards the top to make it more visible.

Unfortunately, due to the media people now associate Assange with "rape."

I grew up thinking rape meant something completely different than whatever happened here, be it, at the worst, what sounds like unpleasant and regrettable consensual sex.
Who says the result would be different?

If the timing of referendums is a political game (actually I don't agree) played by the elites to manipulate the results then it didn't work out too well for them did it? They lost and the previously labelled fruit cakes and loonies (to quote David Cameron) won. The animus expressed by most of the elite against Leave was intense.
I've only watched a couple of episodes, but it seemed like the deals they offered were pretty terrible. Granted the products weren't great but when the deal is "<paltry sum> for a 51% stake in the company" I was like "Who would take that?" And of course they did.

I guess Shark Tank is where you go when all normal investors have already turned you down.
> Dozens, if not hundreds, in every major US city at the very least.

That's the most paranoid thing I've read in ages.

NSA's job isn't domestic surveillance.
The timing is probably surprisingly insignificant. The more relevant issue is that the public were asked to vote against something actual and flawed, versus an alternative of projecting their wishes about Britain's future status in the world, access to trade, levels of immigration etc.

c.f. the referendum on voting systems, where the public was asked if they wanted to vote in favour of an actual, flawed replacement system and decided to accept the (in many respects at least as flawed) status quo.

Ironically, I think what would have produced the reverse result in the Brexit referendum would have been a genuinely Eurosceptic government painfully awkwardly negotiating an alternative arrangement outside the EU and asking for the public to ratify it. The other irony being that - on account of the EU needing to be seen to be reasonable in their negotiations - the deal on offer would probably have been better than what we get.
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Whenever I start to think this way, I remind myself that "a large number" of adults have been lamenting the same exact deterioration of the youth for hundreds of years, but somehow we keep building, inventing, and progressing.
Makes you wonder though. The story about the million-dollar page is pretty interesting but there's nothing special about the Calm app, yet more than half of the article is about it.
Does this logic not work in reverse? Only a quarter of the population voted to stay.
This explanation of modern art never makes any sense.

"I could have done that"

"Yes, you could, but you didn't"

"Yeah, exactly, why would I? Why would anyone? Why do you like this? Why did you pay for it?"

Somebody who doesn't understand the point of a piece of art is not going to be impressed by the bravery of the artist for publishing it.
> More corporate welfare for the Corporate Welfare Queen.

Southern California Edison is a subsidiary of a publicly traded energy company.. Where exactly is the subsidy here?
Agree: timing the market is hard, but it's not impossible, particularly
A) given that many big (institutional) investors are not at liberty to enter and exit (almost all mutual/index funds have prescribed what proportion must be in equities, say.)
B) given that not all markets are as efficient as the EMH makes them out to be. For example, China fell precipitously from June 2015 ( http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/SHCOMP:IND ), and The Economist (AsiaPac edition) had a cover on 2015-05-30 proclaiming "China's overvalued stock market" ( http://www.economist.com/printedition/2015-05-30 )

To conclude, I think it is prudent to review your asset allocation maybe once or twice a year, and shift things around a bit.
> My biggest problem with basic was keeping myself from laughing out loud at the various antics.

My dad (ex military) said that ages <= 18 will buy the bootcamp bullshit. 19 and over won't, but will have enough sense to go along with it.
> There is no barrier to entry in ride sharing. Drivers can install multiple hailing apps.

Uber and Lyft have erected barriers by structuring their pay system so that drivers are much better compensated if they do a large number of rides for them. This effectively erects a barrier to entry, because newcomers cannot get drivers as easily.
Even if actually true, the context explains the entire difference between what was said and what was expected.
"If you have ever been to boarding school, summer camp, or worked in a large institution, the difference to prison seems largely symbolic."

The military is another good example of this.
True. Buffet said so - S&P 500 Index Funds.
I doubt I could get a job at one of the "big four". Their interviews seem mired in hard technical questions, the sort of problems I just don't encounter in the things I build. It doesn't interest me.

Doesn't mean I'm not cut out for software development nor that I can't deliver value to anyone else.

Nor does it mean I can't find a rewarding and interesting job that suits me and the lifestyle I want.
Honestly, I'm talking about problems that I'm sure are actually affecting the core business. Anything trivial I'll deflect long before I talk to an engineer

This is all something of a moot point. Looking back through my diary, I've only ever had to call our IT support out of hours, never one of my own engineers. Someone on my team has always independently began to act on whatever alert has been raised.
So what you can't get into the big 4? There are several companies with interesting problems AND a bigger chance for you to actually make a difference.

Rejections happen. I would try to see if there's a common thema (some area of knowledge that is missing) or if it's just being nervous/lack of experience

Not everybody is good at algorithm problems and there are other areas you might be better suited for
Reality TV is not.
Every reality show is a distortion to further the show's brand or to generate drama.
> Take a look at any of the Millenials working in any large-city downtown: they spend every single penny they earn, they have no savings; when they get older, either the State will let them starve to death, or taxes will be raised in order to take care of them.

Don't forget the more politically expedient (and in my view most likely) choice: Print money to pay for it, causing inflation, which is essentially a silent tax on everyone with money.
So weird then, because thats exactly what they do....
There's a lot of good feedback here for both sides. The only thing I want to reiterate is that success isn't defined by employed by the big four. There are companies that embark on more interesting engineering challenges or pay more. Big four is a measure of status, not success. I don't think you've defined what you want well enough to quit because you're not being hired by the big four.
Having trouble with interviews isn't a big deal, it's just a grinding process. What I do personally is think through issues I had myself while going through the problem. Not necessary but you could also see if with the post-interview results, you can get any possible feedback from the interviewers themselves.

Performance anxiety is just something you have to get used to dealing with in some way. You can always just ask questions during the interview.
Okay, I see.

I will talk to my team on Monday and ask their opinion.

For the record, I don't agree that life is as black and white as the first sentence. There are plenty of symptoms which "could" be serious issues, but after a phone call I know can be safely ignored.
> Are there statistics about this?

It's actually fundamental to Portfolio management theory. [0]

> That actually seems like a good thing.

Maybe, I don't know. Uber engages in some aggressively competitive business practices, it's possible that because of their investor subsidies they've been able to undermine a number more possibly sustainable new business models around ride sharing. It's impossible to bootstrap in a market where Uber's a competitor.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_frontier
I'll have to check that out. My primary care physician is located at a teaching hospital that is surrounded by extreme poverty. A few years ago he said that I was one of the few patients that have insurance, and one of the few that comes in for preventative treatment (no surprise, given the lack of insurance). This isn't emergency treatment though, this is normal doctors stuff, the hospital he works for makes a point of treating everyone.

Even so, my last visit was less than $100, including blood work. There wasn't even an in-network discount or anything. So I doubt I'm subsidizing anyone, and I don't think the hospital is suffering too much from treating everyone.
When dealing with computers, the choice between "you have to be fucking careful" or "you can just use a X" has arisen many times.

I encourage my competitors to just use a X.
Don't tell anyone that in San Francisco. We recorded the coldest August in 74 years: http://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/Fogust-Coldest-August-...
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Rebooting Chapp as a (non Facebook) distraction
King County will probably slap a tax on foreign home-buyers much like Vancouver did.

Then the buyers will target Portland.
At the end of the day "if you do what you love for living you'll never work a day in your life". I'm guessing you do love your career and seeing as you would put in 60-80 hours of work into school each week doesn't mean your lacking any motivation behind it. I look at it as baby steps, keep working at it with the same motivation and you will reach the goals you want. Anyone can who has the passion for it.

but perhaps you might want to do a bit more math + physics studies (online, books etc..) it helps you with formulas and thinking a different way which helps IMO with programming.

Lastly, use a rubber ducky when programming :).
In a general sense is it not better for all people to be in he business of creating value than to quarrel over transferring it from one to another? I believe that if you care about human welfare, then it is obvious that it is.
If not for this guy, my life would probably have been totally different. It's silly, but the Million Dollar Homepage was definitely one of the motivating factors that got me into web development. After seeing his page I had every intention of making some ridiculous, gimmicky advertising ratings site or something and making millions of dollars with ease. Then I decided it would make sense to get some experience first, before I dove right into it, so I decided to make a simple little tool for my own use first. THEN I'd make the "real" site (ie the doomed gimmick site). Turns out my throwaway test idea was actually useful to people though, and it grew into an actual business that I'm still running 10 years later.
Awesome! Glad I could help. Well done on taking action. Most people never do. Congrats man. Really happy for you.
Yes, some people are naturally bad at the big 4 style programming interviews. I know several great engineers who lead leads at startups who have had difficulties in such settings.

I myself had a terrible time with McKinsey style case interviews, which is sort of a cousin to tech interviews.
I don't think he was uncovering any secrets that shouldn't be kept, he sure seemed to target credit card and identity data.

Reading the indictment he comes across to me as a credit card thief wrapping his crimes in activism.

https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/05/10/lauri_love.pdf

"LOVE and his conspirators unlawfully obtained information the victims identified in
thisIndictment morethan 100,000 employee records, including names, social security numbers,
addresses, phone numbers, and salary information, and more than 100,000 financial records,
including credit card numbers and names, and caused loss aggregating in excess of $5 million"

"On or about July4, 2013, LOVE wrote the following in an IRC chatroom using
the online nickname "peace": "it worked ... we have... easily 5-10k contractor and gov credit
cards "

"That same day, LOVE uploaded to a computer server a spreadsheet containing
information obtained from iq.govwin.com, including names, job titles,addresses, phone
numbers, and approximately 23,000 credit cards numbers with expiration dates and items
purchased. Other members of the conspiracy obtained copies of the spreadsheet from the server
on or about January 24,2014, and on or about March 10,2014"

In other chats published in the indictment, Love is alleged to have said: "You have no idea how much we can fuck with the US government if we wanted to," and, after describing the data as "really sensitive", adding: "It's basically every piece of information you'd need to do full identity theft on any employee or contractor for the [government agency]."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/28/us-briton-hack...
Taleb is insufferably arrogant (and the worse for it), but he brings up interesting thoughts and critiques hidden among the gross generalisations and broad-brush assumptions. I wish his rhetoric were more precise. Still, I'm very interested to hear what HN people make of dissecting his arguments.
The specification linked here [1] seems like a good idea. Thinking about uploading a static one to a Jekyll site and seeing if that works well.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-koch-openpgp-webkey-service-...
> We haven't had a war yet,

A Polish man was killed in Essex, and there's been a huge increase in racist attacks.

> we're not in a recession,

Britain hasn't left yet. But the Bank of England base rate is at a record low.

> and the EU is forging ahead with its army,

:-)

> letting Turkey in, etc etc.

After Erdoğan's response to the failed coup, Turkey is further from joining the EU than it's been for a long time.
I'm not from US and don't fully understand everything that goes on over there, but does this part mean that you can't sue any telecommunications company, just because they have cooperated with the government? How is that sane? Sure, I get it that the company was just following order, but shouldn't you be able to sue the one who made the order in that case? Thinking about it, you should be able to sue people who were blindly following orders, if the following the order means breaking the law.
"he held a meeting to tell the whole team to be less productive in general."

WTF?? What was the stated objective for this sort of instruction? Or was it just blatant gaming the system to keep everybody's jobs?
That's what I figure, I just thought I'd bring it up in context of the description of the room in the linked article. It sounds just the same, so it's really difficult to determine what is a bad place and what is a normal place. Again, that's likely by design.
Cached, for those without a linkedin account:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&...
Even if Uber winds up a bust, the money they've paid drivers is really money which was used to buy real things in the economy. Since most countries have been unable to pass actual (or enough) fiscal policy, the only tool left to fight off a sluggish economy is monetary policy. I for one don't mind if the investor class bleeds some money because they can't afford (meaning the returns are too low) to invest in "safe" asset classes.
I'd like you to give more of your credentials.

I've been in contact with several of the of the entrepreneurs featured there, one of whom is a YC-backed entrepreneur (MTailor), and also for what it's worth I have another contact (via email) that I don't want to name.

I haven't been on the show or anything like that. Why would you say that it is a "lie"?

A lot of deals fall through. What specifically would you consider a "lie"?

Examples of a lie would be if there were never any money that ever changed hands, etc.

Other than that, it seems to be genuine

>but no investor can adequately research a business in the 15 minutes it takes to shoot each pitch.

You claim to have worked on shark tank but somewhere I heard that the pitches are much longer (up to an hour+) and get edited down, whereas you claim that it is 15 minutes, about the running time. So who's right?

For this reason I would like you to name what crosses the lie threshold for you, and give just a bit more of your credentials.

For the rest of us reading this I will state that the biggest "lie" isn't a lie at all: getting exposure on shark tank is a huuuuuuge amount of value for any company. But this is not something that any entrepreneur mentions (or it gets cut). I've never heard anyone say "Do you realize that when this airs, based on my talks with other founders we will get about five hundred thousand hits to our web site? So far we have a 7% closing rate on every single visitor who has ever come to our site." or anything like that... it's the elephant in the room that nobody really mentions, except a few times the sharks refer to it obliquely as 'gold-diggers' etc. but it's not mentioned in a positive light, for example when negotiating about valuations. I haven't seen anything else that seems to be a lie to me! (And this includes personal contact as mentioned at the top.)
The terms "foreign" and "domestic" are meaningless in the context of the world wide web.
When would a nongamed referendum vote have taken place? How did the June timing manipulate the results?
Of course not, at least not for the launching nukes. Inserting records in a database? I unit test that all the time. You just need a database on your development machine, rather than accessing the production database.
The description sounds pretty clear to me.

"A caching DNS proxy for the Google DNS-over-HTTPS. It effectively encrypts all your DNS traffic."

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/dns-over...
Yeah, sure, but sometimes you have to go a little bit extra to have it the best...
How did you get into technology? Did you choose a tech career or did it choose you? Why do you want to work for one of the big four? And what are you passionate about? Happenstance is not a reasonable way to manage a career. And it's probably unrealistic to keep up with those who grew up tinkering with code.

On the bright side, you might very well lead a more balanced life outside work. It's also not realistic for me to make an assessment of your choices but you should honestly answer these questions for yourself.
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You can say that about any vote. Hindsight is 20/20. I didn't think the referendum was a good idea either, but it happened, and for better or worse it must be seen through to hold at least some standard of democracy.
Yeah, I was aware of this, but didn't mention it.

During Desert Storm, one of my computer programmer co-workers got yanked to a nearby base where he received a two week crash-course on being an airforce cop, so that the actual airforce cops could deploy to Saudi Arabia.

An 'airforce cop' is basically the same thing as a civilian cop. They drive around on base in police-looking cars, hand out speeding tickets and handle the occasional drunk and disorderly.

He had some pretty funny stories about how many strange situations he found himself in, given his abject lack of directly relevant training.

Fortunately, the goings on in nearly all USAF bases are exceedingly lawful, so his situations were always funny and WTF instead of dangerous.
FWIW fish is great. My only complaint is that you can't use the `ENV_VAR=value` syntax available in bash, but you really just need to prefix with `env`.
I work across the street from this building. One thing I noticed is that in early 2015 they boarded up the balcony on the 6th floor. Presumably it was to stop someone from gaining access to this room by climbing up the side of the building and breaking in through the balcony door.

http://imgur.com/SA4DRjo
> NSA's job isn't domestic surveillance

We've known since 2013 that is certainly is.
Windows 10 with MS Account leaks credentials to network for offline cracking
There was a big T-splitter in NYC back in the 90s that would route copies of eastern seaboard and transatlantic telecom (voice) traffic. I don't know which TLA was attached. And then there was the DNS/Internet stuff in Crystal city about the same time. There was all the KDC back-door administrivia out of Maryland too, but that was less interception of traffic and more making sure they had the keys to decrypt it all...
> If in the end they successfully become one of the first firms to have a self-driving fleet, then they'll likely be able to make a tremendous return on their investment.

Why? Everyone's building self-driving cars these days, if they have an advantage its not going to hold up for long. Then the car producers can simply do the same via their existing ride-sharing networks (car2go, DriveNow).
I think you're overestimating the relative size of the Royal Navy...
I kind of doubt they would use some process like this for the iPhone, they probably program it in to avoid ID collisions. Yea I'm also curious if there is some name for this scheme where it generates some random pattern, I haven't heard of it myself and I previously worked in the semiconductor device world. Not saying it doesn't exist, just haven't heard of it. There are plenty of random sources that are used to generate a random bit such as thermal noise or clock jitter etc, but that is a single bit that you would then need a circuit to read that bit over and over to generate a random string like a UUID, and you would need some sort of statistics that would prove that that UUID that you generate over a finite time (probably a few milliseconds) is not highly self-correlated.