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Here's what I don't understand: what is the ultimate goal of this newfound desire to police everything? The obvious answer is control over people en mass, but say that happens...then what?

Articles like this (which I'm glad are being written) point out the flaws and injustice in the system, but don't discuss the presumed results "those in control" are looking to achieve by manipulating it.

From what I understand, the desired result is to minimize the autonomy of the general public and funnel the bulk of money, control, and power into the hands of a national elite. What happens next (an honest question, as I have some semi-paranoid theories but am curious to hear from someone who is a bit more educated on the topic)?
when electric cars, or alternative fuels, become more prevalent and we have the ability for self driving cars the effect will become even more pronounced.

With self driving cars and dedicated roads or lanes for them; we already have special toll lanes in many cities; the distance one lives from work may become a non factor. Throw in better tools for telework and cities may simply become the home to two groups, those who can afford their secure enclaves and those trapped by government subsidies.

Cars gave freedom to many people, freedom to move about as they want, freedom to shop where they want, and freedom to live where they want and still do work. Automation will increase all of those options. Cities will need to reinvent themselves to be relevant.
Man, I hope they only included "pricing based on cost" for completeness. Never price based on cost! I mean, know what your costs are for each level of service, but if you are charging based solely on your cost, you're not really doing "pricing."

Setting your prices based on cost is like designing a product with features instead of benefits. Does HP design printers that can fold paper airplanes? No, they design printers that print business documents faster, crisper, and more reliably, because that is of value to businesses with money. In the same way, do they price ink cartridges based on the cost of the pigments? No, they charge by value, and it is worth a lot of value to the average business to get their documents and spreadsheets printed!

And don't try to justify cost-based pricing by saying customers can just implement and host their own solution using open source code. Sure... and they can make their own printer ink and load it into recycled cartridges... but effectively zero percent of people will ever do that. :)
You're focusing too much on small UX/UI changes with even smaller effects. Aka, optimizing for the local maxima.
Surely most of Paypal's real work is around fraud and disputes. Bitcoin might help reduce their transaction costs though, ideally some of that would flow back to its customers.
This is why its important for people to get their respective states to start writing laws which protect people's privacy and usurp the Federal Preemption of states rights in regards to people's private information.

This is a great paper which addresses this in regards to environmental laws. This kind of argument can also be made in protection of people's private information. It's about restraining and balancing the federal laws with state laws and not allowing the feds to overstep state laws.

http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawreview/v102/n2/649/LR102n...
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Taxis are a reasonable "turking" of this concept.
Would love to see the visualizations!
I was in much the same situation. I dropped out of gaming around the time of quake for much of the same reasons, repetitive shooting, focused on how fast you can respond instead of on storyline and puzzles.

But, i've gotten back into things. I've really enjoyed both portal games, and following that asked around for something that is story-driven and got recommended the mass effect trilogy. I've since played through mass effect 1 and 2, and while there's a lot of shooting involved, the shooting makes sense as part of the story, and you are never forced in situations where you have to rely on reflexes. The mass effect storyline itself is fantastic. It's a grand adventure that unfolds over the three parts, and i'm really looking forward to playing part 3.

Edit: another game that i really liked focused heavily on puzzle solving with a decent storyline is mirror's edge.
If most things could be delivered by drones to where you lived, do you think we would space out, or clump together, or stay the same?

I think, for me, I could use my car payment on taxi service if I didnt need to commute or do errands, and it would be about the same. Except I wouldnt have a car, something that breaks down.
I think he means: "there is an intense, relatively widespread, sudden, superficial interest in bitcoin that will eventually be followed by a sudden loss of interest in bitcoin." Bubbles are only identifiable after they have popped.
Hmm, my experience has been that most places in Chicago are far quicker to drive than take public transit. And since many jobs have moved out of the city center to places like Naperville and Schaumburg, it is very difficult to find public transit options for a commute or reverse commute unless you happen to live within walking distance of Metra.

If you can live and work entirely in the city limits, public transit might work.
that's why we should make new cities with the infrastructure to support a population with zero cars allowed. And make that city an awesome place to live.
Had high hopes for BTSync, and we used it for several months on recommendation of a colleague. However, we found it was fairly buggy in terms of handling files with non-alpha numeric characters in it, and files just wouldn't sync. We suspect it might have been a rogue path parser for .SyncIgnore, not following unix file conventions (we were using it on OSX and Linux), but recently moved over to AeroFS and haven't had a problem since.
I can also imagine a lot of the data getting muddled as a result.

Do more people click the signup button because you made it bigger and changed the copy, or is it because you reduced the clutter in the footer reducing distraction for the user?
The odd thing to me about cars is that people pick the most unusual use cases and then buy their cars off of that. So my dad likes to haul plywood once in a while, so he bought a pick-up. But 99.99% of the time he could use a subcompact. Likewise everyone knows people who have two kids and buy a van/SUV because they want an extra seat or two. You can always rent a car if you get into these sorts of situations, and it would be much cheaper than buying a huge car that runs with one person in it 90%+ of the time.
I've been a Rainforest customer for the last 6 months and they are by far the easiest way to test your application. The best part, you don't need to do any development.
If it works with your budget, you should plan on donating at the end of the year. Most non-profits have their most important fundraising drives during December, where schemes like this are often seen.
High correlation with another post in the board:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2013/12/10/why_cul_de_sac...

Can be a bit of a catch 22 in today's world, where new cities and developments are created assuming high volume / usage of cars.

You can see how dense cities can work very well with very few cars in places like Amsterdam, but there city setup and infrastructure eases walking / biking and is very unfriendly to cars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Amsterdam#Car
That's definitely something I'm interested in doing.

The way I see it is, you'd provide all the actors (people, places, objects), actions, and it would generate a maybe 4 or 5 to get you started by mixing in different styles of headline, from spoiler-style right through to linkbait. You can then carry on, depending on the style of your website.

There's better people than me out there to attempt that kind of stuff, but I'd enjoy taking a stab at it myself.
I've been struggling to find a good Dropbox alternative for on premise. Aerofs is missing the option to share a folder/file through a link to non-aerofs-users which is vital to our workflow.

This filecloud is interesting, thanks. Any other product that you are aware of? I thought I had found them all, but you never know :)
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Badass app idea for Glass, but no Glass? Hack on ours Saturday in SF.
Can't wait to give this a spin!
Yep, that's what I was imagining. And perhaps projects would publish any guidelines they end up going by for what commits could be worth.
He also took the example of young white males from Mableton and midtown.

There aren't a lot of young white men living in Mableton. It's mostly younger black and hispanic people, and older white people.

My parents are from Mableton,and I live about 10 minutes away.
Fractional dimensions are a thing (for certain values of "dimension").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Long_Is_the_Coast_of_Britai...
Self driving cars my pick for best solution. You can have fewer cars services more people with higher efficiency. It's all wins across the board.

I hope the bloggers solution ideas aren't "better public transportation". Public transportation sucks, even in Europe. A pre-requisite to good public transportation is poor infrastructure for private transportation. I view asking for better public transportation as asking for a faster horse. We can do way better than that.
I'm not sure if can see established businesses buying a "swag" subscription service. The best way to find out is to ask them for money directly. Say you're starting up a service that [Insert Elevator Pitch Here] and subscriptions are $20/month. Ask them if they would like to preorder.
Car oriented design is not efficient at all for most city trips and we need to dramatically increase funding for alternatives.

Alongside directing our infrastructure dollars toward supporting a more balanced mix of travelling options, the most sensible thing we can do is to expose more of the real cost of car oriented infrastructure to the end consumer via road fees, bridge tolls and ending free parking.
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You don't need cap tables to know that the employee equity is small compared to investor equity. It obviously is. Most everyone I talk to knows that. VCs aren't "hiding" it.

If you don't want to work at a company where a pencil-pushing meeting-dwelling financier is going to earn an outsized reward compared to your efforts as a software developer, don't work for VC-funded startups. On the other hand, VC-funded startups tend to work on fun speculative problems, because they're powered by other people's money.

What a "non-tech VP" makes has nothing to do with an engineer's outcome. Obsessing about what other people in the company make is unhealthy.
Of course this isn't helpful to the layman who thinks of holograms as things they get on a card in a cereal box.
But (assuming a startup or young company), the shares would have little value and so the tax would be small. Plus, if the shares became worthless you could offset that loss against future income (I guess?)

View it like the company giving you a cash bonus - not many people would turn down the bonus, even if it meant there would be tax due on it.

If you think the shares have future value, then paying the tax on their current price would seem a good deal. If you don't think the shares are value, then share options would be even worse.

Admittedly you've still got to pay the tax up-front...
Having a so called police force like this is societal breakdown.

To me, current US policing looks much like how the Brits patrolled Northern Ireland back in the day, with the army. Only thing the US is missing is check points and road blocks. Don't kid yourselves, the US does not have a police force, it has a domestic army.

Only hope Americans have is in the individuals who wear the uniform. Would American uniformed son and daughters, mothers and fathers turn on non uniformed Americans?

On the other hand.... If the main government got all evil and what not, couldn't this local police force defend the people with all this hardware? Aren't they all sort of independent, under local state or what ever control? I mean, it we are talking revolution and all that, its not a given who side the police would be on, is it?
It's not a critique - it's an answer to the question "why don't more people quote Foucault's _Discipline and Punish._" They don't quote it because it's not quotable.

If someone were to write and (crucially) popularize a version that reads the way people explain Foucault, things would be different.
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This strikes me as an interesting read. I live in an Atlanta suburb.

The closest shopping center is more than half a mile away and the one I go to most, and where I go to check my company's mail, is 2.5 miles away. The distances themselves are not so bad, but the main road is a 4 lane highway with a posted speed limit of 55 - but people drive faster. Frankly, the thought of walking or biking along that road is scary from a safety point of view, so yes, in general I drive everywhere. Ironically, if I want to go run laps at the closest city park, I have to drive to that too.

The area that the author is describing is 25 miles away and takes at least 45 minutes to an hour each way by car, so I go there as infrequently as possible.

Frankly the situation is not too bad, because telecommuting is the best work situation ever. The internet beats commuting - be it by bus, train, or automobile - any day!
If you're not familiar with the subject matter, it sounds just as odd as "Oh I love _why so I use hpricot instead of Nokogiri to parse my XML."

Every discipline has technical terminology. It always sounds weird to those who aren't involved.

Disclaimer: I'm moderately obsessed with Deleuze.
If your blog is going to live on a subdomain of userapp.io, you may want to more fully integrate the browsing experience with that of userapp.io. I looked for the footer mentioned in Day 19 and couldn't find it. Why not? (as in "why not try anything?")
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If I remember correctly Elsevier's rules, in case the article is from a subscription-based journal (non-open access) they retain copyright to the final published peer-reviewed & formatted article. The author is allowed to share their final published paper only in a 'scholarly' context, which seems to mean anything but mass dissemination; you're allowed to share it with your peers privately, but not post it on your site for example. I've just re-checked and it seems this rule is still enforced: http://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/author-rights-and-re...
I don't know if this is what you're hinting at, but trebled is a valid word.
See also this list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fractals_by_Hausdorff_d...
I guess it comes down to, when you have to jump through enough steps, some of them unauthorised and requiring the user to install additional software, in court you can make a reasonable argument that you are not selling the device with that functionality enabled, therefore you aren't liable for patent infringement.
Okay, awesome. I appreciate your openness and your responses. :)
> Public transportation sucks, even in Europe.

Although I've only visited, I thought the public transportation in France was very good. Those buses move super fast. In America it's common to have to ride a bus for over an hour to get to your destination that's not that far by car standards. Can you elaborate on what you mean when you say this?
No, we say they aren't prisoners of war and are thus exempt from the protections given to prisoners of war, but they are. That's part of the mistreatment of POWs. But the fact hat we're trying to get around the treaties protecting POWs doesn't make these people "political prisoners." They're not being held because they're political dissenters. They're held because they were captured in theaters of war.
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+1

This book is awesome! The entire text is interspersed with collapsable examples and exercises.
FWIW removing the Makefile and simply running "go build" in the directory results in a working build on go version go1.2 darwin/amd64.

With the Makefile I had to alter the static Go version to "darwin" to get it to pull the correct source.
This sort cherry-picking of "obtuse" quotes to attack high-level theory is pretty absurd. It's equivalent to somebody from the humanities putting down this formula: Y = λf.(λx.f (x x)) (λx.f (x x)) and saying "I have difficulty understanding this, ergo computer science is absurd nonsense."
How did BitMit overcome the problem of trust between buyer and seller? E.g. somebody sends bitcoin to a wallet and never gets the product they wanted. Did they offer some kind of escrow service or was everything based on reputation and buyer/seller reviews?
If it's Verizon, I intend to be their first smartphone customer :)

edit: mind you - I'm guessing this is a manufacturing partner, not a network / distribution partner...
Almost same exact story although I never got into Doom modding but did make my own games in high school because of doom. Actually reading "Masters of Doom" truly planted the seed for my entrepreneurial spirit, the first time I realized "I can get good at something and create something just for me. I can value just from sheer will"
Self driving cars doesn't change much.

Supposing that there would exist car sharing systems such that a single car may be used throughout the day by several people, then we could cut back on parking spots, but I'm sure there will be many that own their own self driving car and share it with no one.

During morning rush hour the only difference from now would be that commuters could do the crossword puzzle instead of focusing on traffic.
Ask for a clarification. If you don't get one, gracefully exit the negotiation, because they're either stupid or not negotiating in good faith. You have better (no pun intended) options.
I think the author is primarily making an argument that everything scales, including focus on security. Overall I agree with your issues (obviously as I run a password & account management company) though perhaps a lot of this is due to the fact that some of the tools are not that user-friendly. A lot of our customers at Meldium are enthused when they find that non-technical employees enjoy the benefits of a password manager that offers simple automatic sign-in.
FYI, the author of that post address self-driving cars in his next post: http://progressivetransit.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/self-driv...
You can do a lot of tracking without cell phone data.

Local police have access to license plate scanners (both at fixed locations and mounted on police vehicles). The data is not as fine-grained as GPS data from a person's phone, but it can also yield information about the patterns of a person's movements over time (e.g., they pass these ten intersections every weekend night between 2:30 and 3:00am). Of course, this can only track people with cars (but in some cities, that's pretty much everyone).

Facial recognition software can track people who walk, but I don't know how widely deployed it is at this time. As soon as it gets attached to all of the millions of surveillance cameras that are out there (some of which are operated by police departments, like in NYC), tracking pedestrians will become easier.

And, of course, the local police can get a warrant to attach a GPS device to somebody's car or to pull cell tower data if they have probable cause.
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Good call. Looks like it's a british english convention. I'd not seen that before, thanks!
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I like Atlanta. I lived there for 7-8 years.
People in Atlanta drive because the urban planning is a disaster.

San Juan Puerto Rico -- it is the same. I live 8 miles from my job, 15 minutes by car, 1.5 hours by bus due to poor public transportation.

Biking would be faster than cars which get stuck in sever traffic and that buses which don't run very often.

https://www.google.com/maps?saddr=Quintas+de+Country+Club,+C...

It is not possible to commute by bicycle since it is illegal to bike along the expressway - the only way to get between Carolina (where I live) and Isla Verde (the next town over).

It has its origins in the 1950's when the expressway was brand new and led to job creation. Nobody dreamed bicycles could be taken seriously as a means to get to work.

I once biked it... about 10 miles in about a 1 hour.

https://www.google.com/maps?saddr=Quintas+de+Country+Club,+C...
Yup, Foucault (with maybe some Deleuze) is the answer to the question "Why did we all hate Microsoft, yet we love Google?" Control and power is one of the reasons why open source just isn't enough to protect us from bad things happening with our technology.
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Bus service does not work. People hate buses, no matter how well designed and efficient their routes are. Buses have an extreme social stigma attached to them.
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If self-driving cars become a reality, it is interesting to think of what happens to all this space & infrastructure. If the model is that we don't own cars, but rather share them like taxis, then there is no need for parking: the car will just drop you and go to its next trip. If the model is that we own our self-driving cars, it may be that they can be parked at much greater distances (10+ miles) from where we spend time (in much denser structures than today). We can likely eliminate parking from inner cities, both garages and roadside parking.

If we can design roads and grids for computers and not humans, perhaps we can make them much efficient by trading off simplicity. Could we have a complex system of mostly one-way streets?

What interests me is that not just parking garages go away, but what today is a four-lane-width road (with two lanes dedicated to parking) may become a single-lane one-way street. The sidewalk - which used to be 20% of the space - is now 80% of the space. Looking around busy cities, and trying to imagine what it will look like post-self-driving car, is IMHO mind-blowing.
You're thinking 1900's style. It's the 2000's now and anyone can be deemed 'illegal'. If you look poor that is.
You're referring to errata BV54?
I think what we need are exponential tolls based on distance to city center or density of pedestrian traffic around. I couldn't care less about cars on streets dedicated for them, but everywhere else they need to piss off and quickly. They are death machines.