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Societies deal currently with job destruction and unemployment in very pathological ways.

USA criminalized, what unemployed often do, locked significant amount of them up and hired other people to watch them. USA unemployment could be as much as 2% higher in total if they didn't.
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There is no reason the 30th century will repeat the same patterns as the 20th. It's certainly true that raw employment numbers in the US haven't dipped significantly since the dawn of industrialization, and they've gotten better around the globe as a whole. But that doesn't mean we'll continue to be able to come up with jobs for people to do as fast as we can come up with ways to make them obsolete. Technological improvement tends to be geometric if I'm not mistaken, and I doubt the same can be said for the creation of meatware-only, service-industry duties.

It's also important to keep in mind that real wages for the majority of American workers hasn't risen in the past 40-odd years [citation needed]. Of course, they can buy cooler shit now than they could in the 70's, but that doesn't mean there's no cause for pause when we look at the benefits of technological improvement.
I am not trying to predict the future. I am merely saying that evolution isn't done, and the presence of medicine and a high quality of life doesn't change the basic equation of "survival of the fittest".

And intelligence is selected for for reasons that are not addressed by modern medicine.
There's a third class as well: single-byte UDP and/or TCP SYN: designed to overload the routers and/or switches close to your machine (and if it it's a VM, the hypervisor as well). TCP SYN can also end up overloading the OS's TCP stack (although syncookies are an incredibly easy defence against the latter).
I'm curious about when you would ever do this on a public-facing webpage.
Hey, cool search engine. Hopefully Harvix will make a mobile version, specifically for Windows Phone 8.
It's also worth pointing out that sometimes automation helps create an increase in production of things with no commercial potential but potentially high artistic or social potential.

I worked for a nonprofit that was in the business of not paying people to manually complete a bunch of tasks, and barely staying afloat even then. I spent about 8 months helping them automate a bunch of processes, so that they're now able to provide more social services with fewer people.

Someone might have "lost a job", theoretically, but nobody was paying them anyway. Now the organization gets to spend more money paying talented people to come up with and implement interesting programming, instead of, say, manually reconciling a checkbook.
I think the post is more about not driving off women who are qualified.
I we may do better than 40 years. Other countries develop their own solutions. There might be as little as 10 years to pretty widespread adoption.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIX6u6qHTK4

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/automated-cars-succesfully-test...
This was an epic story. Can't wait to hear the conclusion.
My bad, I was thinking Norway.

Though it is worth noting that Denmark is one of Europe's top oil producers, and is a net exporter. So Denmark does have economically significant reserves.
I don't believe that's how the math plays out in most socialist countries, where uni often costs a few grand a year iirc.

The particulars of the current American system are a different story if we look at certain kinds of private colleges.
Based on the blog post linked in the article [1], yes: these are code samples.

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/k4wdev/archive/2013/03/06/easy-acces...
That's possible, although realistically Netflix is less than 5 Mbps so even a slow plan should be enough.

The only study I've seen which takes different plans into account is the FCC one.
Its in the banker's best interest to work for the US Economy as a whole, since their money and investments depend on the valid repayment of subprime mortgages.
Since when does releasing code samples count as open-sourcing a codebase? You cant even look at the samples without downloading Visual Studio.
IMO the "self-taxation" ideas you mention would be much less welfare-enhancing than donating to givewell-approved charities, I like the spirit though!

Details: http://www.givewell.org/giving101/Your-dollar-goes-further-o...
Mine is not a hiring story (though that's another story, since I was hired with just an English major), but a few months into my first job I asked my boss which of two different architectural approaches he thought I should take on a project, and he said, "I trust you." That really meant a lot to me.
I will always remember my first project at my first job out of school. The project manager sat down the team to explain the goals of the project. My company made digital asset management software, and it had sold a license to a major client.

It was pitched to the team like this: "The client has already announced to shareholders that this project is going to lay off 20 people, so we need to get it done by such-and-such date."

I felt really awesome about those poor smucks who got unemployed partially due to my work. As programmers at our best can create whole new industries, but most of what we do is automate repetitive tasks.

That's good for productivity, but might not be an unvarnished good for society if the gains are not distributed in a fair manner.

Paul Krugman has written a lot lately about "capital-biased technological progress" and potential remedies.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/rise-of-the-robo...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/capital-biased-t...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/policy-implicati...
All the same advice applies if you're trying to hire someone over the age of 30.

Of course, if you prefer NOT to hire anyone over 30, and you don't want your hiring process to appear illegally discriminatory, then advertising your alcohol culture (etc.) can be a great way to induce those applicants to weed themselves out. I do believe some company founders thought of this before I did.
It's a net exporter, but a fairly small one. From what I can find, oil-related royalties contribute about 3% of the state budget. I can believe that still results in a fairly high ranking, but it's not exactly funding the country with that. The Texas state government gets more like 5% from oil, and hasn't succeeded in setting up a social-democratic system...
Are you sure? I can see the samples under "Source Code".

http://kinectforwindows.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset...
Interesting. My initial thoughts were around a business built on that (better solving the problem I'm trying to address), but just an API could be huge.

Looking around the internet, I've found a couple related things:

Google Wallet creates a "Virtual OneTime Card" underwritten by The Bancorp Bank for each transaction. https://developers.google.com/commerce/wallet/online/faq

Citibank lets you log into your account and create a "virtual account number." http://blog.credit.com/2011/06/worried-about-online-security...

This (brief) thread in a MasterCard forum, referencing closed APIs. https://developer.mastercard.com/portal/display/forums/One-t...
What I want to know is, why the hell is Netflix faster than Xfinity's video service through my Comcast connection? I get minutes of buffering every time I use Xfinity. It's ridiculous.
Their Python container, which became available last August, has yet to be updated to support version 2.7 (released 2010) or 3.x. This may not be indicative of how often they'll update the node.js container, but their effort to keep up with the latest and greatest doesn't seem too aggressive.
> Rule 1: Make sure your linkedin password is not the same as your gmail password.

Rule 0: Your email password should be unique and not used anywhere else.
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Sorry I can't help you with marketing... But on the usability side, please put the like/dislike buttons in a fixed position. It is very easy to misclick as they move around with every photo!
Have they announced a timeline for actually implementing the grasshopper tech for real launch purposes?!
When that happens, spacex will have won the race to space. No other company would be able to match their launch price, given how high the cost of "disposable" rockets these days..
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I made a project that helps in documenting Academic projects and sharing them with teachers. It also provides facility to ask questions. Students needs to simply create projects, after that just create task and documents under it. Also inviting others into team and so on....

In Indian colleges this process is all manual right now. And I am trying to get this process online.

I am not getting any traction so far. Any clue what's wrong with that?
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Emacs is dead, and that's a fact.

Next to me there are four Emacs fans, but all of them are now on the Sublime Text.
When I say "let's not do X", I don't mean it literally, it's just a way of saying "X is a bad idea". Let's just set aside that entire digression.

> I'm not exactly sure why you think the FDIC should not micromanage the mortgage market. My guess is because the FDIC is government bureaucracy, and our government is so dysfunctional these days, that you think any attempt to manage mortgage markets would just make things more screwed up. And you are probably correct.

Two points:

1. If you want to regulate the mortgage market, that's one way to go. But that should be a totally separate concern from FDIC and should be implemented in a separate way. Removing depositors' insurance because their bank didn't follow mortgaging regulations is a very poor way to regulate the banking industry.

2. The federal government subsidizes mortgages in many ways. Instead of legally regulating mortgages it might be sufficient for the government to just stop doing this. For instance, there are tax incentives for having a mortgage. The government also intervenes directly in the mortgage industry in the form of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. When I said "there are so many better dials for the government[1] to turn than resorting to that", those are some of the things I was talking about.

[1] Note my use of the third person--are you happy with that or did "let's" derail you from reading the second sentence of my comment?
And yes, they allow you to interact with the hardware, through the API.
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And as mentioned in the blog post, it's significant that you don't have to download Visual Studio to look at the samples.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/k4wdev/archive/2013/03/06/easy-acces...
The problem is that the nature of the new problems we create that necessitate new jobs are fundamentally more challenging for humans to solve than the problems that have been automated away. There will always be jobs to be performed. The problem is if there will be enough humans capable enough to perform the jobs that still need doing.

We like to think that the industrial and agricultural revolutions created as many jobs as it destroyed. However, while it did do that for humans, the horses were not quite as lucky. Many hundreds of thousands of horses were put out of work permanently between the end of the 19th century and into the first half of the 20th century.

What makes people think that humans are too special to avoid the fate of horses?
Together, the two of you can probably guess the regex responsible :)
I think that you're being reactive here. The terms "joe consumer" and "unwashed masses" don't have specific economic connotations, they are basically a synonym for "average".
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i hate articles like this because they seem to assume a vacuum. These things always have to start somewhere. The first generation is rarely the best there is.

It's the same way i feel about consumer web startups. Sure
they may not initially solve an "important" problem, but as these folks move on to new endeavours they will bring the model with them.
The devil's advocate in me will tell you the truth as only I see it, not as the up/down votes in this board of mostly libertarian social darwinist and would-be technocrats will indicate:

The reason Denmark's system (or Australia's, or Canada's or S. Korea's, etc.) works is simply this: They have mostly one type of people there, and sometimes have a little bitty number of other types of people there, and mostly that little bitty number of people keep to themselves and open up exotic restaurants and try really, really hard to assimilate to the dominant culture and pay their taxes; and if they can't completely be as successful as the dominant culture, they will leave well enough alone.

In contrast, Americans will look at the person sitting next to them, see them as lazy, and refuse to pay taxes to support who they think is taking all of it. That person next to them may be poor, black, old, sick, hispanic, have down syndrome, is a teacher or a cop or a union steel worker or liberal or English major or hippie... ad nauseum. Whatever the reason, that person looking over at that "other" person flat-out refuses to allow "my hard earned money" to go to whoever the hell that is sitting next to them. It just won't happen.

Another thing, our poor and elderly are heavily, and I mean absolutely, unmistakeably, and incorrigibly self-effacing, self-hating, and in flat out denial over their station in life. They are told through attack ads during elections, through cable news, and through the water cooler, that blood-thirsty communists are alive and well and have a donkey replacing their hammer/sickle emblem. They're gonna take your guns, your religion, your money, your children and your property, give it to white trash and Mexicans and Godless welfare queens who drive better cars than you on the way to the food stamp office, and you'll be left with nothing but their hospital bills that you now have to pay because they bought a flat screen and new spinning rims for their car.

No one will ever admit that the heterogeneous society that is America collectively feels this way, because we didn't have a raw sore like the Economic downturn in 2008 for us to really see how much hate we have for one another. No one cares about each other when the bill comes.
This post was enthralling, but could have used some context. Here's a quick background I've picked up from a brief read-through of Ars Technica's extensive coverage [1]:

- Prenda Law is a law firm that filed many lawsuits against individuals related to porn copyright, asking for lots of $$$ to drop the suit. Prenda's lawyers include John Steele, Paul Hansmeier, and Paul Duffy

- On the other side of the suit is Morgan Pietz (a lawyer representing a John Doe), as well as Alan Cooper. Cooper filed a suit against Prenda for using his identity (signatures, address, etc), claiming that in reality he had nothing to do with the company. Cooper's lawyer is Paul Godfread (who is mentioned a couple times in the article)

- Brett Gibbs, whom this case has mostly been about, worked with Prenda Law, though it sounds like he may have been in over his head or had actions attributed to him which were actually the result of Steele/Hansmeier/Duffy's work.

Do let me know if I've misinterpreted anything/missed any base details.

http://arstechnica.com/series/whos-behind-prenda-law/
I dunno. The horror of this confuses me: I don't derive a huge amount of meaning from my job, and I'd find as much enjoyment from life just from a life made mostly from thought and casual socialization. I imagine we'd carve ourselves niches where we'd intentionally do things ourselves for the enjoyment of using our hands and our minds for funsies. We'd probably transition to a purely attention-based economy or something. /shrug
Find a way to escape the big old directory listing trap. Categories and such and you have a killer page. The focus of the UX should be "what do I want to achieve" find me an app that does X. currently it's too similar to lots of other directories, last I checked most of them were zombies after a while.
I think that OOP is undead. It will be in its current incarnation a zombie that will live on and on because we have a lot of legacy code. But if you start project from scratch ... there are better approaches.

I think that Kay was thinking of objects in the context of messaging and terminating network nodes, not stuff that shares same memory space.
I am not having children, I had a vasectomy. I don't live in CA, so no 50/50 divorce settlements or state income tax either. Guess what though, I would gladly pay 40% of my income as income tax if I could be assured that healthcare and education would be treated as a right rather than a campaign item. Scandinavia/Cananda/Japan are not ranked as highly as they are in the human development index for nothing.
Flagged as incorrect. VentureBeat apparently can't tell the difference between Kinect's code and API examples. This needs to be deleted or the title changed to "Microsoft Releases Open Source Kinect Interfacing Sample Code"
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> here are --webkit only implementations for grabbing things from a clipboard but

Seriously‽ That's crazy insecure, though I can't find any more information about it.
I for one love this! More sites should make documents like this available in pure-text formats.

Granted, the jarring transition should be avoided, but I believe all documents should be available in an array of formats; html, json, txt.
I don't know. We actually seem to have a pretty strong affinity for other forms of life. I can't imagine any other animal on earth preserving dumber animals they could potentially eat. We like other animals - especially those with faces and discernible intelligence.

Now you might say that this is irrelevant. Just because we like other animals doesn't mean the aliens will. This is a good point, except that it completely invalidates the premise put forth of "experience from planet earth."

I have to believe that any organism sophisticated enough to find us would be amazed. They may be far more advanced, but seeing the lifelessness of space and the complexity of our civilization, anything with a shred of intelligence would be at least intrigued. Speculating on their nature and disposition is meaningless and arbitrary at this point.
I suspect that's intentional; older items are less likely to be cached.
Fixed lump of labor fallacy detected. Counterfactual statements about politics (many republicans signed "no tax raise" pledge - which of course includes everybody's - including author's - taxes) detected. Calling unbased hypothesis "common sense" because the author couldn't find any proof - detected. Unbased assumption about how drastically raising taxes would generate tons of new income - instead of widespread evasion - detected. New and useful ideas - not detected.
Here's how I think of it: Cutting hair is a service. Teaching others how to cut hair is a service. But designing a system that teaches people to cut hair is a business - closer to a product.

Another point. We weren't given the numbers, but his training program was ultimately about selling products, anyway. I'd bet the products made much more money while he was sleeping than the time he spent teaching.
I'm all for diversity on the team. Strong efforts should be put forth to hire the best person for the job, regardless of their sex, etc., though. I have all daughters, so I want them to be able to be considered, hired, etc. on an even playfield with men. I don't expect special treatment for them, just respect and equal opportunity.

And, I like almost everything in this post, except that I think the OP might be playing to stereotypes a little too much; some of these are not problems specific to women. Like not playing oneself up as much or focusing on the actual monetary results of work.

Something I experienced that wasn't mentioned related to hiring women was "same sex competition" (which I'm sure is not specific to women, but I've never worked on a team with all women where I was the only male). When only one woman was on a team with a bunch of other men for a long time, that woman was much more critical of female interviewees. After the hire of another woman on the team, this competition continued for the first several months, before they became friends.
So now YC is literally funding coupon books? Why do people aim so low?
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I think the parent to my comment was asking whether this code allowed low-level hardware access, not API-mediated access. IIRC, the Linux Kinect driver (libfreenect [1]) provides that kind of access.

[1] https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect
Not to be missed is the fuel path of this (and other) liquid fuel rocket engine designs:

The cryogenic fuel is piped about the "outer surface" of the rocket's nozzle and combustion chamber such that these essential structures doesn't melt away under the pressure and heat.
NoScript has a similar feature ironically.
I was getting some actual work done for once

Glad that's over with
That is the time the people can be easily cheated.
First line of the OP: previous coverage of Prenda Law is at http://www.popehat.com/tag/prenda-law/
correct, that was my goal.
Idea on the roommate thing that I've always found works well: add everyone's income in the house together, determine Each's percentage of the household income, and divvy up bills accordingly.
But you miss the important point. It's easy to do what you think is right (at least when it comes to spending money that you have), but what's the use of it if others keep behaving in the ways you consider wrong? The whole point of it is to control other people so that they would behave right too! And if you don't have to persuade them but actually can force them to comply using the threat of violence - even better! What enlightened and liberal person wouldn't want everybody to act as he likes under the threat of violence?
I do think there is some notion of relatedness that ties in and leads to the system generally being supported. I'm not myself ethnically Danish, so I'm not sure it's purely ethnicity, but it's... something (and ethnicity probably does play a role in encouraging cohesion, if not the sole one).

Even in extreme cases, there's this general feeling of: yeah, so that person is an irresponsible alcoholic, but he's your irresponsible alcoholic, so you can't exactly let him die in the street. You've got to give him some basic shelter/food. I've run into that in other countries also, but only from closely related people: southern Europeans are very family-oriented, so if someone in their family is in danger of being a homeless alcoholic, they'll find a room for the person to sleep in, etc., since it's considered the family's responsibility to do something about them. Denmark doesn't emphasize family ties as much, though. Instead things tend to be done on a wider scale: it's sort of everyone's responsibility to take care of the proverbial crazy old uncle, rather than laying the responsibility on the handful of people who happen to be his nephews/nieces through accident of birth.
It's not about culture. It's about assumptions.

If my employer tried to support my masculinity by giving me beer, I would be offended.
I don't think so. I suppose it would be possible, but it might be hard to interact with the platform.
"vuala" is actually pretty phonetic-esque without all those weird characters.

Also, I had to re-read it about 4 times before I stopped seeing "vulva" :)