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> hackers/makers relative to MBAs/smooth talkers

I think the article is more referring to Hackers/Makers that are also smooth talkers. Obviously an MBA/Business guy with no technical experience/knowledge is not going to be able to pull off any sort of political entrepreneurship in VC-istan.
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I'm a student, so I get to take advantage of this, but if you aren't, a bare git repo in a Dropbox folder makes an okay poor-man's private repo. You need to be careful to let Dropbox sync before you shut down your computer, and, though collaboration is possible with shared folders, you're likely in for a world pain from syncronization issues.
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There's a great comment on lightning and religion: http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/05/i-was-struck-by-light...
Me and my friend recently talked about housing prices here in SV. His father moved to SV about ~25 years ago and was a tech worker in Cupertino. About a third of his income went to housing, and we calculated it would be around that price now too for current tech workers. It's above the US average, but it's still stayed somewhat consistent. You have adjust for the very recent complete cash sale, foreign investor, unoccupied house boom here driving up the price.

Remember, you have the option to drive 30m to Hayward from Palo Alto and buy a 3bed2bath for $330k. You don't have that option in lets say Vancouver, BC where a 3bed2bath costs $850k, and 30 minutes away in New Westminster, BC a similar house still costs $850k.

Student debt and health insurance is something epidemic to the entire USA, and you can still cost reduce it somewhat by being young and going to state universities.
What you've done in this comment is recapitulate the idea of a web browser executing content-controlled code, which is a problem that neither Erlang nor Golang could safely solve, and which no reasonable designer would ever use Erlang or Golang to solve, but layered on just enough abstraction to make that observation sound symptomatic of a problem with Golang.

I'm not trying to be pissy about it; I make bogus arguments all the time too, often without realizing it. You obviously know what you're talking about. I just think in this one subthread, you're wrong.
Perhaps it could be articulated as an obsession with the physical and technological. 70s futurism revolved around the amazing materials and electronic advances of the time. That continues today, but we have a much better handle on how that technology is shaping our lives. In other words, 'future-tech' is not futurism (any more).

There are other inspirations out there. Hannu Rajaniemi's maths/crypto heavy scifi draws gives us a glimpse of new ways to think about personality, privacy and culture. The Fountain's future parallel provides a very different view of a potential space traveller, and Isaac Asimov's collective work spans so many cultural diversions that have fallen out of fashion just waiting to be re-imagined.
Also, Go (via its usual compiler) is even more self contained than most binary languages: it compiles to a statically linked binary - it doesn't even depend on /usr/lib. If the CPU and OS is good, you can just throw around the binary with scp and run it wherever, no setup.
The 4th link down:

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ok take my money: ££ :)
If you're prepared to socialise some of it, why not go the whole hog. Is there anyone who thinks that ambulances should e user pays? It simplifies things too, as a fair portion of accidents have a blameless victim, so the cost makes them a victim twice.
Scale perhaps?

Moon is 380,000 km away. The nearest galaxy is 1×10^18 km away.
That just gives you more complicated deadlocks. You still have to be aware of the potential for tasks to deadlock and consciously design them not to do that. It's a problem that does come up all the time in Go programs, but tends to come up quickly enough (due to the way concurrency is designed in Golang) that you fix it quickly, like an accidental nil reference in a Ruby program.
> There are lots of places that this holds true.

Yes. See: banana republics.
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In the opening issue of the National Review, William F. Buckley said the magazine "stands athwart history, yelling Stop". When their political antithesis ended in the early 1990s, the book that probably best summed up the establishment intellectual view of the time was one which said we were at "The End of History".

I think comments such as these bookending the Cold War speak for themselves. The tendencies of monopoly capitalism have been written about for over a century. Romney's slam of Tesla is part of all that (please don't say Romney was against Tesla due to government breaks - it's more difficult to name a large company not getting government subsidies than one which does get one, including Romney's own Steel Dynamics). The Democratic party is so near this position as well to be almost indistinguishable from the GOP.
Now, I’ve decided to refrain from naming names, since any specific mentions would almost certainly induce a wave of denials and distract from identifying and, hopefully, ending the underlying trend.

You've identified a "terrifying" trend, but you don't want share any names or substantiation because it would distract from the important discussion you think we need to have. That's really shoddy journalism.
regarding a) So I did understand you correctly ;)

With b) it's as I said, I understand your view and you certainly need your account for that one time when you buy the game. So if your account gets closed at a later time you still have full access to the game. But that would make Amazon.com DRM as well as you can't buy your game without having an Amazon account.
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Star Trek lore assumes multiple major wars on Earth followed by contact between humans and a significantly more advanced alien race by 2063.

It's not our technology 250 years from now, it's our galactic neighborhood's technology 250 years from now.
> The latest Star Trek movie was meant as a prequel

It was a sequel to the immediately previous Star Trek movie, which itself was, by its own terms, later in causality (though earlier in time) than the last appearance of Spock (or, for that matter, Romulus as an existing planet) in the earlier canon (and, also, later in both time and causality than the most recent TV series.)

The latest Star Trek movie isn't a prequel to anything, since none of the pre-existing canon follows it in causal sequence, its a sequel (though an alternate-universe-earlier-setting-date sequel, for some of the earlier canon) to the earlier canon.
No, I'd still go with Hanlon's razor, I'd guess whoever wrote it though it was true.
The problem is when it's totally socialized (like medicare), you end up with people abusing the service. If an ambulance ride costs you less than a taxi or even bus, and you're an asshole, you use an ambulance (in some places, provided by paramedics, so the direct costs are high -- in some places they also send a fire truck, so you end up with like 20 highly-trained guys and $500k of equipment) to go to a routine checkup. 3-5 times a week.

You could probably waive charging direct costs if you had some other way of deterring abuse, but they essentially always have to respond to 911 calls, so the only way I could think of doing so would be to arrest someone who misuses the service. A policy of informally losing the bill for legitimate calls might work, or doing the standard drug dealer "first one's free" strategy. But I don't think $100-500 for an ambulance would break most people, particularly with insurance; a charity could also cover the bills for some people.
Why does it make sense?

We have different concerns for how our data is used with respect to different accounts. I certainly don't want my name associated with any public-facing element of my accounts. My name's for close personal friends only - you can do a lot of damage to someone if you know their name and even more if you have a picture of them. The more stuff you stick together into one account, the more control the person loses and the greater your risk across all the elements of the service becomes in all respects - privacy, security and even in terms of google screwing you over for something.

In some ways this manifests as people just not using certain elements of the service - I have to have a google+ account to review apps now. So, I don't review apps anymore. I have to have a google+ account to correct tags on maps. So, I don't correct tags on maps anymore.

In others ways people don't always get the option to opt out though, or don't understand it, the choice having been purposefully obfuscated - and there it's a fairly straightforward attack on their privacy. People are not the same person across all the elements of the service - and for good reason.

It's just a really really aggressive, nasty solution to a problem that no-one seemed to be making much of in the first place. Let's integrate everything, let's force everyone to have an account they don't want on our social network, let's force everyone's names out into the open. Bleh.
Is it possible, that we can only see so far into the future of technology because there is only so far it can go? We assume that we will keep up this rate of innovation forever and continue to evolve intellectually until.... what?

Perhaps the future holds something much more important for our lives than more advanced technology. Perhaps the future will be defined by a greater understanding of our universe through different means, through non technological means.
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Reading the rest of the articles, it is extremely interesting to see the quality of a real blackhat.

The black hat is putting in hard work and making tools while getting an unreasonable amount of funds. (Of course illicit professions have that tendency with risk factor and all.)

We're talking about a profession learned strictly from the community that developed extremely specific and effective skills.

Anyone able to do that and succeed is obviously talented and it is telling that they were never interested in cashing that talent in a legitimate career with a major tech firm.
They had traction well before they met Mike Markkula - the Apple I sold out, even though it was nothing but a kit.

If can show traction today similar to what Apple had, you'll have a bidding war of investors on your hands. This is how YouTube and Instagram got bought for $1B+, it's how Google got two separate VCs to co-lead their series A, and it's how any number of other small startups attract investor attention.

The thing that's new is that you can sometimes get VC funding based only on an idea, without traction and without a prior business relationship. That never used to happen before YC. When I quit my job in 2007 to pursue a startup (2 years work experience), I told our VP of BizDev (a former investment banker) "Realistically, we have about zero chance of getting VC funding without traction, but this is our chance to try to build traction and see if it's fundable ourselves" and he was like "Well, at least you're being realistic about your odds."
Next thing people will be telling me how to look out the window. Maybe there is a book in that?
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Please could you explain this in greater depth? Asking for $1500 back ...?
The downloadable distribution of CodeIgniter and many other PHP frameworks have those file and boilerplate to protect badly configured Apache setups where the user just unzips the downloaded distribution into public_html. If you have .php files handled by PHP, or you have the mod rewrite htaccess rules enabled, the PHP files won't be exposed to the user.

None of these are necessary if you have properly configured your web server.
I actually didn't think the first one was as awful as this one. Perhaps it was because of the novelty.
There's still a lot of ground to cover with the future. For one thing, everyone assumes minimalism. I can imagine a very lush future with ornate decoration. We could have a renaissance triggered by nearly cost-free manufacturing.

Another vision of the future might be excessively biological. Sci-fi authors have depicted bio-engineered worlds, but cinema doesn't seem to do much with the idea. An old favorite of mine in this area is 'Existenz' by David Cronenberg, but then bio has always been his thing.

Cinema can also do a lot depictions of the future that seem flat out impossible today. For example, imagine identity being fragmented such that people can simultaneously be and experience life in many places at once. I'm not sure how that would ever be possible, but maybe it doesn't have to be explained. It could just be a piece of technology that appears to as as magic, much like a teleporter.
Ghost in the Shell is the greatest thing ever. The same director that did the series did Eden of the East which is fun and near term sci-fi. But, also, Dennu Coil might be a series worth checking out. Nowhere near as epic as GitS, but it explores near term AR tech in a thematically interesting way (as well as being a neat case study in movie/show making (due to the whole AR thing)).

Disclaimer: I have not yet finished the series, it is animated, it does not seem to have the type of accuracy that GitS has (but still interesting!), it stars kids, and is somewhat family friendly.
I've decided that if I had a dollar for every occasion that you refer to VC-istan, I could retire. The idea that people a) don't bootstrap here or b) can't afford to live here is some sort of VC agenda is just ridiculous. This is the pinnacle of the software developer's era of leverage, and yet you seem to insist that it isn't. Where's the proof?
Star Trek isn't interested in predicting the future, because most of the stuff just beyond the horizon is either deeply scary or plays havoc with plots that depend on putting the characters in danger.

If you have a hundred backup copies of your mind all over the solar system, what do you care if one of you gets killed? How can you possibly write a plausible plot that includes a weakly godlike AI that doesn't involve it instantly solving any problem that faces the protagonists? How can current audiences relate to a world where the population of the Earth is 100 trillion, all of them running as uploaded minds on computers?

(Disclaimer, I'm not a fan of Star Trek: http://bbot.org/badtranscript-startrek2.html )
A hacker/maker who is also a smooth talker is always going to do better than one who isn't a smooth talker, though. That's like saying "A person who builds useful stuff but also has an Ivy-League degree will be hired over someone who builds useful stuff but doesn't." Duh, but it doesn't mean that building useful stuff is less useful than having the Ivy-League degree (or being a smooth talker).
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> If we spent the last thirty years inspired by what we saw in Star Trek, what’s going to inspire us for the next thirty?

Futurism isn't lost in the Star Trek reboot. The tech seen in the new Star Trek movies, rather than diminishing futurism, serves to show us that the future that Star Trek introduced to us these past few decades is just around the corner. They are using devices we are now starting to see every day, and some tech that we can imagine our children using in the very near future.

Maybe that's not as exciting to some, but to have that mix of technology and design from the present day feels like a confirmation that a lot more Star Trek tech might become reality within our lifetimes :).
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Can't quite tell if you're serious or joking. In case it's the former: the ClojureScript compiler is implemented in Clojure, which runs on the JVM. The compiled code is Javascript, which doesn't require the JVM. There have been some discussions about making the compiler hostable from Javascript as well, but it's not possible just yet.
So wait the complaint is that 19.5% is "highly distorted" to look bigger than 21.2% even though they are clearly labelled with the actual numbers?

If I wanted to minimize other I'd leave it off the chart. I've seen plenty of graphs do this without being called "highly distorted".

Apparently Jobs is a "snake oil salesman" because he puts the "other" category last instead of second even though "other" is probably a number of different companies that are presumably not broken out themselves because they are smaller.
Austin's changing and we have plenty of people more interested in the douchey vc tech scene than building cool products.

The cost of living is (for now) cheaper than SV or NYC but housing is hard to come by and the live music scene is getting pushed out of its old stomping grounds by luxury condos every freaking block.
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I stopped trying to parse this comment just before it gave me an aneurysm as I tried to resolve what "VC-istan" might refer to and how non-tech MBAs had no influence there. VC's fund tons of companies headed by operators with no technical experience (look at some 2012 portfolios to see this). It is eas-ier to get external funding if you're a tech with no company operating experience, but it still not eas-y to do that. So it's probably not "obvious" that MBA/business types have no influence wherever "VC-istan" is. Which is I think a good reason not to start calling it "VC-istan".
Excel supports querying databases out of the box - Data > Get External Data, no coding besides writing the query required.
Obscene speed and learning a language built with concurrency in mind.
Go was never designed for "realtime". Also, 32 bits wasn't the main compiler focus, 64 bits was. This problem being mainly fixed with the 1.1 release, this is a non issue now. The memory model seems pretty well defined without being too restrictive, with the recent addition of the race detector.. Go looks well equiped for this kind of problems and some pretty interesting projects are there to prove it.
Whatever next? So every injury type is specified? This is surreal. How is this cost effective? I thought socialised healthcare was bad as it was inefficient, yet someone writing up the injuries you're covered for doesn't seem very cost friendly.
It really depends on how you write PHP.

If you write Object Oriented PHP and use a framework with strong OOP principals you probably will have no problem learning Rails.

If you've used MVC before, and you understand the role of a Model, View, Controller, data bindings, ORM, etc. then you should have no problem learning Rails.

If all you know is PHP and it's control structures, and you expect your file to be interpreted every time you visit a URL, then you will probably have more difficultly learning Rails.

It would be helpful to know what you love about PHP.
Can anyone suggest a good, current futurist author?
In some respects, Apache + mod_php is actually harder to get set up and working that some of the other frameworks, assuming it's not already configured for your box (many linux distros include packages so "it just works").
Wait, are you serious? Have you looked at the average VC today? Overwhelmingly, they are made up of former entrepreneurs. The analysts may come from Morgan Stanley and McKinsey, but the partner's don't. This is one of those conjectures that people state without backing up.
Google: 300 Mbps = 94.0469681 terabytes / month

Soulver: 300 megabits/second at 30 days in terabytes is 97.2 terabytes

My calculator:
300,000,000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 30 / 8 = 97,200,000,000,000 bytes.

Soulver wins.

Note - in everything (Storage, Bandwidth, etc..) except memory, megabits means 10^6, not 2^20. One day, perhaps mebibits will catch on...

(Google: 300 (mebibits / second) = 94.0469681 terabytes / month
More likely, the code is poorly written and heavily reliant on MySQL.
Ruby has bindings for most of those libraries (or classes of libraries, like XML parsers.)

I think CURL is handled in a more abstract way in Rails, but I haven't really gotten to work with Http clients in Rails yet.
Let's talk about this thin wedge (hopefully without spoilers). I understand that this is a relaunch of the series but I think they did it wrong. It probably would've been blasphemy to throw it all out the door, and 'historically' the same things can happen but they really should be ignoring everything from TOS.

Will we see VGER? The monolith from 'Voyage Home' (ST4) must make an appearance, right? I mean we have to assume that whales are still extinct in the alternate timeline. Will Praxis explode resulting in 'Undiscovered Country' (ST6)?
It is interesting how SQLite is so well known but de SCM built on top of it, Fossil, and by the same author did not catch so much.
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Just think about where we were 250 years ago (that's around 1760), and how far we've come technologically since then.
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> the sad way in which the American health system works is that you pay for everything

Health care is free in America too. Total lifetime income: $2M. Cost of emergency room visit for once-in-lifetime lightning strike: $2k.

Ratio: 0.1%. Only in Washington, D.C. is a 0.1% expense a crisis worth ripping up the constitution over.
That's, again, something totally different from what you described in your original post.

Letting a service rot generally means abandonment. I'm certainly not saying that the opposite of letting something rot means improvement, I'm saying that making a major change like this is not at all an example of letting that service rot.
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They have navigation systems built into the Lyft (and Uber) apps, actually, but it was more of me saying my destination and the guy saying "Should I go left or right to get started?" whereas a cabbie just knows exactly where you're headed.
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Heart arrythmias are easily remedied, and heart damage can be handled with a pacemaker.
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Even TNG reimagined the technology of the future through the lens of the 80's and 90's, though. Holodecks, the Borg, Geordi's visor, Data. I think this movie could have been more forward-thinking.
Hmm, not sure Airbnb was the best example to start off with to support that YC has contrarian thinking. PG thought Airbnb was a stupid idea, and only agreed to invest on them on a whim. It was a Black Swan event how Airbnb ended up at YC through Michael Seibel. Tutorspree makes sense, I don't see it as crazy in the same way that Airbnb was. Same goes for Flightcar, but great startup idea. YC is generally investing in growth/traction at this stage and not crazy ideas or founders. PG alluded to this in Farming for Black Swans. I believe they were looking for certain types of founders in 2008-2009, but that has changed. Not fully convinced that YC is driven by contrarian thinking today.
What's the easy no-collapse interpretation explanation?
You have to be careful though, as SQLite doesn't support concurrent read/writes, so it blocks, which makes it rather difficult to scale up for websites, or at least it has in my experience with it.
to me, 'large' in th context of evaluating whether your project would benefit from a more heavyweight framework like ember or angular means 'lots of objects on the page'.
I've got a web app in backbone that doesn't do any tricky js, isnt too many LOC (yet!) but now I'm wishing I'd used ember because of the number of full feature objects I'm representing on each page.
This is a bad idea b/c of sync issues. Just use bitbucket, which is a poor man's github.
Could the dystopian future : happy future ratio be a valid metric for how our society feels that society and the future itself is going? If so, then perhaps we, the general public, no longer (or infrequently now) see a happy future, but a dystopian one, at least in the next 200 years