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THats awesome, except the smartphone market is basically over, and noone will be able to sell one for more than 300 bucks retail within a year.

Race to the bottom. See ya there!
It has all gotten easier since then. :)

I've also written most of a porting guide in our Hacker's Guide as well: http://opendylan.org/documentation/hacker-guide/porting.html
1) There are increasingly few people in the middle class

2) Very few poor people are lazy bums, in my experience. There "lazy bums" are also sometimes the people creating amazing music, Wikipedia, or other valuable (and un-monetized) cultural products

3) The author didn't specify a time period, simply that given the capital > labor trend, a BI will be necessary if we don't want absolute and complete inequality
Short answer: it's a pain in the butt.
LWN seems to be very good at writing articles about Rust which are already out of date at the time of publication.

Ah well. This too shall pass.
I seem to have edited my post while you were answering a point I later took out because it didn't seem relevant to the main point (which is that I don't think anyone has introduced basic income yet).

However, I don't believe in your analysis of the banking crisis, either. You seem to have missed out a lot of other reasons. From wikipedia:

> In its "Declaration of the Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy," dated 15 November 2008, leaders of the Group of 20 cited the following causes:

During a period of strong global growth, growing capital flows, and prolonged stability earlier this decade, market participants sought higher yields without an adequate appreciation of the risks and failed to exercise proper due diligence. At the same time, weak underwriting standards, unsound risk management practices, increasingly complex and opaque financial products, and consequent excessive leverage combined to create vulnerabilities in the system. Policy-makers, regulators and supervisors, in some advanced countries, did not adequately appreciate and address the risks building up in financial markets, keep pace with financial innovation, or take into account the systemic ramifications of domestic regulatory actions.

i.e. Though it was also a failure of other things, it was by large part a failure of corporate risk assessment and lack of regulation.
But you can't have a dslr in your pocket. This might be the best pocket able camera ever.
Thanks for that — I'm sure the intention of the summary was to keep it simple and to speak to less-technical users. But it'd be nice if there was a slightly more technical description (like yours) available too.
Can you tell me more about basic income in the USSR? The wikipedia page on basic income doesn't mention it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee#Examples...
Hemingway and Rowling also had editors. People at publishing houses who found their work, took a chance on it, and put it out there. People who worked huge distribution pipelines and promotional angles. Granted, the work had to be good, and it had to find a fit with an audience large enough to support the mass publishing business. But publishing did quite a bit of legwork in helping these writers break out.

What I find most interesting about today's writing scene is that it's simultaneously easier and harder than ever before. In theory, it's much easier. You don't have to have the capital to own printing presses and distribution pipelines, nor do you have to pitch to someone who does. But that's still the best way to go if you want to get big. For the time being, at least, the "well, everyone already knows who he is" critique is largely valid. The biggest acts in self-publishing -- be it music, film, television, or books -- first made it big the old fashioned way.

No matter how media evolve, I suspect that two effects will always be necessary: 1) reach, and 2) tastemaking. Traditional papers, publishing houses, and magazines have long held a monopoly on both. Their ownership of the former is slipping away (more slowly than we imagine, but it is). Their ownership of the latter is still holding firm, though the precedent for disruption in that space is growing.

What currently makes publishing "harder" than ever is that we're in a muddy middle ground. The old titans are dying, but they're not yet dead. The new titans are rising, but they haven't yet risen. So we're seeing a strange mix of success stories coming out of both camps, and the progression doesn't appear to be linear or neat or orderly.

"For nearly everyone who you know now who is "famous" you can go back and see that they have been practicing their art for many years, often several decades. It is a painful reality that finding an audience is a fickle thing, and finding your style."

True. Very true. This even true for the self-publishing wunderkinds we keep hearing about. There are no overnight success stories. Behind every "overnight" breakout are many years of preparation for it.
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Using the same keyword in multiple forms is fine but I don't think that qualifies as "one way to loop". What the range-ified form can do is pretty distinct from the others.
Maybe a HTC or other non-US device with CyanegonMod would be a better choice.
> "How would we pay for it? We could start by getting corporations to pay their taxes."

I don't know why people keep harping on corporate taxes. If anything, taxing corporations is regressive -- the taxes ultimately get passed on to consumers through higher product prices, regardless of their income levels.

Taxing corporations doesn't produce magic money -- it's still taxing people in the end, but it's the consumers. Far better is higher tax rates on investments, and higher taxes on the rich. We should be taxing the people who own the corporations, or are paid huge salaries by them -- that is, if you believe in progressive taxation.
Yeah, I built my own charting, the other solutions out there aren't polished enough for what I needed. This chart will be really easy to build functionality into while keeping high quality look and feel. I tried some different approaches but the best ended up being divs with % values and css animations. Other then that I'm using backbone, node, engine.io.
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I guess this is why you have to file multiple TPS reports?
So sorry I didn't address all your points.

I need to get back to work so that others don't have to.
I'm currently using a Nokia N900. I have a brand new N9 in reserve if that one croaks.

After those I'm seriously considering moving back to a super primitive phone.

Nothing really smart, but adequate to make phone calls, send an sms and maybe containing a small, built in calendar.

Maybe keep a relatively cheap, WiFi capable smart phone to take on vacation in order to avoid dodgy internet cafes, when I want to send mail, book a flight, or reserve a hotel room on the go.

It has not even so much to do with the recent scandals (alas I am very privacy concious, I "deleted" my Facebook account and try to avoid Google as far as possible), but with the fact that the recent generation of smartphones, be it Android, or IOs, seem to own me and not vice versa.

I have not the faintest idea what's going on, what is installed and who relentlessly sucks up my most private data.

Sure, that doesn't work for everybody, but if I look at my own usage patterns I honestly believe it's fine for me. And the inconvenience far outweighs that queasy feeling I get with newer smartphones.
Agricultural requires water. But much of the "requirement" is a product of the ready supply and low cost of that water. If fresh water prices rise, the more water-intensive agricultural crops are grown less and become more expensive.

I wonder what the water-used-to-calories-produced ratio is for something like lettuce compared to something like corn or beans. I imagine it's a good number of orders or magnitude higher.

In other words, an increase in the price of fresh water does not necessarily significantly increase the price of feeding yourself, it significantly increases the price of water-intensive crops and likely increases the demand for less water intensive crops.
It is ironic that you mention having a single way of doing things and C++ in the same breath.

The reason there are multiple ways of doing things in nearly all languages is that people have found that not all common use cases fall nicely into one construct. A language can either be plauged by everyone reimplementing some common constructs or it can add some of those constructs as "another way of doing things".

I don't really get this thread at all actually. Most of the article was about how Go actually has three looping constructs, so the entire premise seems ...off.
This seems really potentially dangerous, which the article hints at. Potential for entrapment and the software can't detect irony. How could this possibly go wrong?
Agreed. And across business and personal use. "We will be all things to all people." If I'm a Microsoft employee there is not much here for me to get behind.
I think the analysis may've been skewed by the outlying points. They are almost certainly "high leverage points"[1] and so possibly exert an undue influence on the final trend lines.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_leverage
Can someone please explain if this is true?

"Computers with particular Intel® Core™ vPro™ processors enjoy the benefit of a VNC-compatible Server embedded directly onto the chip, enabling permanent remote access and control."

http://www.realvnc.com/products/viewerplus/

Because if it is true, then your CPU is a potential backdoor given that they have a masterkey or masterpassword.

And I really don't understand how this can work when the computer is turned off, any ideas??
My Windows Phone runs faster than my Android Phone on less hardware, for one example. I also know my car runs on Windows on pretty barebones embedded hardware as well. The two OSes also have slightly dissimilar user interfaces.

Windows is not Windows is not Windows in exactly the same way Linux is not Linux is not Linux.
As I assume tptacek would also say, the specifics of the "direct access" are rather a big deal. If the access is constrained to NSLs approved by judges in regulated quantity, you have a legal process. Perhaps there is no independent oversight or accountability to the public at large, yet you still have legality.

However, if any analyst can at whim look at the info associated with any gmail account / Facebook user / etc. then you have a clearly extra-legal approach with absolutely no accountability.

Also, there is a significant difference between capacity and use. If a analyst or a sys admin for the NSA has capacity to view things but does not actually have permission from the NSA to use that capability absent an NSL, then

To be honest, to date nothing has emerged that makes it seem that the NSA has this sort of capacity, except when it comes to Verizon phone calls, although I don't think we know much if anything about the NSA's downstream capabilities when it comes to major Silicon Valley firms.

In short, I assume that Google, Facebook, etc. are telling an important truth when they say that access is limited to legal processes. Whether or not the NSA also has and uses downstream access to similar data is another question altogether.
It seems quite clear to me that Dark Tangent is attempting to stop something bad from happening at DEF CON. He doesn't want a fight or a brawl breaking out, or implied threats or negative community interaction. His advice isn't so much a 'no feds allowed' sign, but more of an open warning that coming as a Fed might cause undesired tension and circumstances that weren't previously present in such high volumes.

Calling the situation ironic because DT is a fed is unrelated - he may work for the government, but he isn't in a position that has a conflict of interest with a hacker conference (read: he doesn't work for the NSA). If you say "Dark Tangent" to a person in the security community, people recognize him as the creator of a hacker conference; not a government employee.
Ask HN: Efficiently store per-item unread count?
Over at Newsblur there's mild uproar about items automatically being marked read after 14 days (https://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/do_unread_items_sunset_after_14_days). Google Reader used to mark items read after 30 days, so I'm guessing it's a hard/unsolved problem to store this data for a long time.

Has it been solved, and what's the most space-efficient way to store the per-item unread state for all users? In my mind it forms a sparse matrix, but then you'd want to group people's storage of unread status together (so you get some data compression) - until one person marks an item as read, and then you have to extract them from the compressed data set...

I have no practical experience but this intrigues me, and real world stories would be great!
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> You can do that in most Nordic countries, and it has many more benefits than disadvantages. For example, you can walk safely everywhere because everyone has sufficient social security. Street robberies and whatnot are practically non-existent.

To me that sounds like an argument against BI. You're basically saying that we can have the social safety benefits of BI for only 10% of the cost by using means-tested programs . Since that's what the Nordic countries are doing, and according to you it works really well.
I don't think so. If you're only on the basic income, then to put it roughly, you don't "deserve" to live in San Francisco or Manhattan.

People move to cheaper parts of the country all the time, to fit their budget. I don't know why this would be any different.
This point bears repeating every so often: cryptography is difficult, and those of us who haven't spent years in its mathematical bowels are not qualified to create usable algorithms. Meaning: the encryption code you wrote yourself is probably hackable. Easily hackable.

I first encountered this in a classic essay by PGP's Phil Zimmerman: http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/SnakeOil.html

edit: fix incorrect link
If you knew the answer, it would have taken you less time to type it than it would have to make yet another meaningless platitude.
Medium allows you to freely link to your own site(s) in your profile, which is featured next to all your content, so you definitely make a good point about this.

There's a happy middle ground that a savvy digital writer can find which will provide them with the advantages of a centralized platform like Medium without subjecting them to the risks of only using Medium.

If they provided an API that let you syndicate your content from your personal publishing site (Wordpress, etc) into Medium, then they would increase the incentive to publish there even more.
Alternative scenario:

A certain % stop working for existing businesses. However, since there is greater money velocity in the system (vs. investments), there's still high demand (likely _higher_ demand). Businesses which had been slow to automate their production do so, spending more money on high-skill positions.

Prices temporarily increase to pay for this capital investment, but within a few years drop to below prices pre-BI.

Note that the author DOESN'T advocate necessarily doing this today, but that this is somewhat inevitable. I think I agree — eventually, the vast majority of jobs in our society will be automated / done by machines. Either we give these people a BI, or a very large segment of our population falls into poverty, which has other damaging political ramifications (revolution?).
Menu->Configure opens the configuration file in TextEdit, which is a disaster since it has smart quotes on by default. I spent a significant amount of time trying to figure out was wrong with your json parser before I realized what was going on.
Is it illegal in Spain to engage in lewd discussions with a computer program?

It's a cool sign of the times that such questions can even be asked somewhat seriously and not just as a sci-fi future contemplation exercise.
It doesn't matter if you retain ownership if you also give them a "broad license" to re-use the content. Ownership gets you little more than a little bit of control over your name in parts of Europe.
As a DoD CAC user and developer, this is correct (although the card readers at my company are built into the laptop or inserted via a USB adapter). I don't think there is a background agent that maintains the key though, I just think the card reader is queried when the certificate is needed. After the cert has been verified, you're free to pull the card out.
Yeah. It mentions the bot getting more insistent if "the suspect does not appear to be enticed into having a conversation", how is this a good thing?
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Wouldnt hitting "4" and "start" be almost as fast? Unless you eat an absurd amount of butter I don't see how much time it could possibly save someone.
MIT uses it, https://ca.mit.edu/, but its a constant source of helpdesk headaches. Managing renewals and revocation is hard.
I'm not really convinced that this is an interesting feature.

People tend to choose store brands for a myriad of reasons, and stores tend to differentiate themselves based on those market divisions.

Paying a premium to get a single delivery with items from both (which is something that has a lot of logistical issues) doesn't seem like something with substantive draw.
Just a few comics later, he has this gem about "dotted-line" management. Frightening how relevant Dilbert is to this memo.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-11-01/
Terminal already does most of this, right? Preferences -> Settings -> "+" -> Shell -> Run command "ssh user@hostname". And you can set the background color &c for each host.
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But what about Deviant Art, Wikipedia, and most of YouTube? Also, a lot of musicians can barely afford to eat, even with touring. I imagine it would be liberating if that wasn't even necessary.
| For example, if the suspect does not appear to be
| enticed into having a conversation, the software
| can appear offended or get more insistent.

This almost makes it sound like it was designed for entrapment. If someone doesn't want to talk to the chatbot, it will try and force a conversation? Really?
and that's why I abandoned it immediately.
Russians tried the exact opposite: everyone was required to work in the USSR. You'll get a minor prison sentence for avoiding work (IIRC it was called "went to jail for idleness"). The law was hard to enforce though.

What the blog post describes is, basically, communism. The official communist party line in USSR (correctly) identified the lack of automation (advanced technology) to make it a reality. Basically the official state goal of the Soviet Union was to advance the science and technology towards achieving that goal, hence the repressions against religion, endless attempts to identify and focus "more important" sciences and skip "less important" ones, introduction of pyatiletkas (5 year plans), etc.
I think the main problem is the effort of having to maintain a client certificate. I.e, backing it up and copying it on to other devices. It's so much easier to just remember a password, or write it down if you can't do that.
I'm not sure this makes sense.

Consider a tower of blocks with two legs, of equal height, and a problem that the tower is too short. If you lengthen one of the legs and not the other, the tower tips over. But that's not a necessary result of the tower being taller; it's a result of the tower being off balance. If you lengthen both legs by the same amount, the tower stands.

You can of course argue that tower height and tower balance are the systemic variables, with length of tower legs being incidental - and this is a perfectly reasonable point of view, but how would you propose we determine how to draw those lines in public policy? If we're free to draw them wherever we please, discussion by discussion, this seems like a fully general counterargument (http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Fully_general_counterargument) against any potential change: we can't raise the height of the tower, because that involves lengthening both legs, and I prefer to change one thing at a time; we can't lengthen one of the legs, because that changes height and balance and I prefer to change one thing at a time.
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Those are weaknesses in the signing authorities. Signing authorities are a layer of SSL, and a rather high one. It is possible to use SSL without them. I have an app I've written that uses SSL, and since it's essentially one thing we own talking to another thing we own (from a security perspective), there's no signing authority, no Verisign, no NSA, just, is this the exact SSL cert we issued to this SSL user or not?

Not that there aren't other problems at times with SSL, especially depending on how you use it, but your criticism may be more limited than you realize.
Hmmm, well, this seems to be some marvelous buzzword bingo / word salad. It's looking more and more like MS is well and truly clueless. They don't understand the market. They don't understand their strengths. They definitely don't understand their weaknesses. And Ballmer isn't going to leave until he has a heart attack or maybe two.

Edit: fine, I'll add some useful details. What are Microsoft's actual biggest advantages/disadvantages, how should they embrace the market? Advantages: the PC platform is still enormously powerful, and open, and they've still got huge ins with corporate computing. They could own the market on business oriented tablet form-factor computing but they don't have the vision. Disadvantages: stack ranking is poisonous to morale and retaining talent, the company is too monolithic (they used to be monolithic in multiple silos, now they're becoming monolithic in one giant silo, that's not better), and they still struggle with agility. The market? Android is the MS of the mobile generation, is it really so crazy to imagine that MS becoming the MS in mobile as well could be a route to success for them? And that's just what I could type in about 2 minutes.
This x100. Thought it was just me. Over 6 month period of time my phone went from snappy to laggy, with really no new apps installed - just updates.
A port is a port is a port. You can send anything you like to that port and it's not like the computer will say "Oop, I have no programs listening on this port, so I'll just execute what you're sending me"

What is the danger in having a port exposed that can receive updates for time? Are there huge vulnerabilities in the ntpd? Seems like a pretty small attack surface to me.

actually... Is that port even open?!

This is polling a time server through NAT right? So the ports get negotiated. We're not listening, were asking. So I guess the danger would be that your time server of choice could be compromised, and then start sending out malicious packets that... confuse ntpd? Seems like were back where we started.

There was some stupid stuff in that article, twitter updates being perhaps the most colossal (and voice control coming in a neat second, web control @ 3). However, once you take flame decals off and remove the card in the spokes, this ceases to be the danger it once was.
Nice, I created an account with my email, then it asks me to install a browser plugin, which I don't want to do at this time. It says it "works best when you add the extension to your browser" but gives me no option to skip. I don't feel comfortable installing a plugin without getting to know the service a bit better, so I guess I will pass for now.
You can change the TextEdit preferences to always open files up as plain text instead of rich text if this annoys you, by the way.
yes, exactly. Their current business-model is support and consulting afaik.
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