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a political group of technologist who lobby(the original meaning) against politicians

Excuse my pedantry, but I think the need is not so much to lobby against politicians (which is to implicitly reject the concept of a polity and go for an everyone-for-themselves model instead), but to lobby against competing interests. In short, technologists need to lobby for their interests more effectively, which will mean doing a better job of articulating what our interests are, and why others should accept some crimping of their interests for the greater good. One recent and good example of this is the observation that compromising privacy limits our ability to export hardware and software and thus comes at an economic cost to taxpayers.
Great idea, but does it have to be so American? We're getting spied on over here in the UK too.
Wow! Love your games. I got started programming by writing games like this on a TRS-80 Model 3 in the early 80's, but we only had one "beep" sound then. I went on to write parsers for text adventures, which got me into parsers for programming languages, compilers and then machine learning.

Your games are fun, especially Jump Squares. I noticed that keeping the game going without pause has an addicting effect. (In comparison to the "push up button to restart" on games 1 and 2.) I had no intention of playing it all the way through, but I couldn't stop until I did.

Nice clean design for such simple games. Fun sounds.
> Those calls are being recorded to cover their ass in case of disagreement or dispute.

Actually, it usually means that an algorithm is listening in the conversation
(see for ex. http://www.callminer.com/products/eurekalive/ ), and learning from your voice tone, use of words, grammar choice, etc ... to know what kind of personality you have and put you through the right agent or give them clues on how to most quickly and efficiently help you (or get rid of you)
You're exaggerating. Why?
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If only there was a Google Chrome extension for this..
But let's be honest with ourselves. In the case of, say, a "Megan's Law", Megan was an innocent little girl who deserved none of what happened to her. Aaron, on the other hand, entered a networking closet, configured his computer in such a way to bypass the network's security/authorization protocols and then violated the terms of service of JSTOR to download all their content. He knew he shouldn't have been doing he was doing, but did it anyways.
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Frankly, U.S. Congressmen don't care what foreigners think about U.S. surveillance policy.

Frankly, U.S. Congressmen don't care what Americans think about U.S. surveillance policy.
> As long as people are willing to pretend that the problem is only the US and not the entire West colluding then the easier it is for these governments to continue.

This may be true to some extent. But let me provide an anti-thesis to the statement.

For nearly a century (or more) everyone has looked at the US to lead in reforms and at times reversing reforms. What happens in the US is often used as a model by world governments as a blueprint.

If the US citizens, corporations and the tech community in general could get the US to positively change the distopian outlook/direction we (the world) seems to be heading in, this change would trickle down to the other countries beginning with the Western countries that you aptly state are colluding together.
OTOH, those 4.5% mortgage rates are for property you live in, not for rental properties. You can play games by moving around constantly, but that starts to not be just a passive investment.

Also, I wasn't really thinking that people used their cash to buy a second property. (Unless you are buying very low cost houses in low-income areas.) More like an inherited house or such.
If done even slightly wrong this would be easily detected.
My mother language is Spanish, and to be honest the first time i read the name i was thinking the word "cloth" or "coat" instead "cloaca".
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Go out to lunch 20 years now. I have to get out of the office for an hour to keep my sanity.
Speaking as still-a-BitCoin-skeptic, this is interesting news because if this currency is going to make the leap into something truly useful, this is what it is going to take. People speak about the "transaction reversibility" that the current financial system has as if it's the only possible way to provide security, but that's not entirely true; an insurance-based system may also work. I say "may" on purpose; we don't know. Indeed, I've heard it occasionally proposed that we use more insurance-like aspects in the current system because the way the system leans on the reversibility ends up resulting in a lower level of security than we might otherwise like. It's not out of the question this will be a superior result considered globally.

This is, in its own way, the most interesting story coming out of the BitCoin world right now; in long-term importance it dwarfs Overstock.com taking BitCoin for orders.

I will concede that if this can work and becomes entrenched that my skepticism level will be forced by the evidence to decrease.
just buy some cigarettes and take breaks often
It's not a strawman because eggregious accidents are the ones that generate excesive 'reactionary' changes to local roads. Particularly tragic accidents are the ones that can get political and media coverage necessary to cause 'knee-jerk' changes that are not necessarily evidence-based. The problem is drunks, immature drivers and seniors can and will continue to contribute to these issues regardless of the traffic laws.

Also, traffic deaths dropping is irrelevant because there is no causal relationship. It could be safer cars, more seatbelt use.... heck, changes in weather patterns or population densities could all contribute and it's going to be futile to argue laws may prevent traffic accidents. The point is that when an accident happens, laws need to be on the books so that people can be prosecuted for their mistakes.
Well, currently both my mom and dad are working with/for my company. My mom manages the full book-keeping of the company). My father, because of the general economical situation in Italy, was left jobless. So, as soon a position opened at my company i simply proposed him to join. He is the warehouse manager now.

The thing in working with parents, in case they eventually are accountant, is that they can access all the figures of the company (for the good and for the bad). Another aspect to consider is dealing with weird situations. They will do bullshits and you need to tell them, as you would do with any other employee. Dealing with this is not easy and requires a lot of communicative skills and entrepreneurial experience.
My wife does the bookkeeping for my business; she has the perfect personality for it, being financially minded and very much a details person. She was second-in-command to a CFO back when we were both working for other companies, and the CFO told me once that she basically ran the entire company's finances for him. I definitely wouldn't call this outsourcing so much as a huge lucky break. Every time I see her updating our accounts software (she prefers the simplicity of AceMoney to Quicken), I feel relieved.

Lately I've thought a lot about this: If I didn't have a tax person, a bookkeeper, a good freelance web developer friend, and a business consultant, I estimate that I would have gone out of business (a third time) about five years ago. The first and second times I failed in my businesses I had none of those things. Now I'm finding even more people to share the load whenever I find myself "in the grip of my inferior function" (Meyers-Briggs talk). The alternative seems to be depression, anxiety, and everything that comes with that.
My team normally all leaves the office to go eat as a group in the dining room at noon every day. I wouldn't have it any other way.
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If your activism is planned to conclude on a date certain, whether before or after the SOTU, its not going to do anything.

What you really want is to create an ongoing movement both with a visible effect early enough to influence others reaction to what is announced in the SOTU, and which continues so as to itself respond to whatever is proposed in the SOTU.
This is a worthy cause, but I find it ironic that the page has so many links to social networks that engage in spying on a scale comparable to that of the NSA. And while the NSA was probably just collecting the information we know that Google and Facebook actually use it.

Saying that those services give you a choice not to use them is throwing sand in our face. We know that Facebook and maybe Google, too, collect information about people not using their services. They also track their users' behavior when they're not expecting it. Worst of all is the fact that most people don't fully grasp the deal those companies offer: they give you free services in exchange for your private information.

This reminds me of that recent South Park episode where Cartman goes to investigate the NSA while tweeting his every thought[1]. This kind of fight requires serious thinking about privacy in this day and age. Sure, it's bad that a government spies on people, but it isn't any better that some of the world's most powerful corporations trick people into being spied on and into becoming unknowing informants on their friends. This is a very serious and very broad issue. Let's not make it just about the NSA.

[1]: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s17e01-let-go-...
“Reajure” might be better. Halfway between “reassure” and “erasure”.
I could see the notifications of locations helpful if it was "trained" (Netflix learning algo style) after a time, but the time to "train" the learning/notifications wouldn't be worth the annoyance of the high-frequency of popups.

I wonder if they have tried frequency intervals/usage/checkins.

Even Netflix (anecdote) took perhaps a year or more until recommendations "fit" my profile.
At least one of the three OPs is a foreigner. The problem is much larger than the US.
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So let's say Facebook bans her. No biggie, she has a blog. She can put all she wants right there.
Every place I have ever worked this has become a problem at some point for some person (or group of people).

Someone decides to reheat some fish they caught and had for dinner last night, or has a really heavy garlic/curry dish they heat up and bring to their desk, or covers their food in a pungent sauce, or they bring in McDonalds/greasy fast food, etc.

Inevitably someone complains and HR sends out the "please be considerate of other people when deciding to eat at your desk" email. It seems to happen more quickly in multicultural environments, where many people have different tastes/sensibilities, but this has just been my experience.

Edit: Re-wording! For clarity!
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> Will you join us?

"Not wittingly."
No shit. This whole ordeal has been nothing short of a complete and utter fucking disaster. And how much did the government pay to have this work done [1]? This is procurement at its finest. The government could have easily paid 10% of what they did to a tech start-up who would have done a much better job utilising scalable technologies.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2013/10/...
In other words, you're "only" dealing with a bug that would allow anything you downloaded from BitTorrent to own up your personal account on your computer. :)

(I know you know that, I'm just spelling it out for people).
> Frankly, U.S. Congressmen don't care what Americans think about U.S. surveillance policy.

They clearly do, because they spend quite a bit of effort trying to shape what Americans think about it, which is inconsistent with not caring what Americans think.
this was very touching to read and it's encouraged me to do the same. I don't have a wife or a fiance but I would never entrust them with this kind of sensitive material because there's a real risk of relationships souring. With family it's easier to deal with and it's easier to communicate instead of trying to bury things in order to not ruin a marriage.

"Hey Ma, need you to stop hiding grocery purchases under company's funds, if you wanna keep your job"

"But I'm your mother"

"Okay, alright, just don't do it again"

vs.

"Hey babe, need you to stop buying expensive items under company's funds"

"fine, since you don't love me you can marry someone else"

"nooooooooo!"
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"The Day We Fight Back" and there's facebook like-button on the page. The hypocrisy is overwhelming.
Thanks for sharing your insights and a little bit of what's going on behind the scenes.
I think the problem is that by encouraging likes they changed the meaning of likes, and both the user and the advertiser ended up getting stiffed. The number of likes a page has is meaningless. They are just crappy and FB needs to move to something else.

But I agree with you. They encouraged advertisers to get likes by advertising and let them believe that is valuable. Then they devalued the likes (this happened almost naturally, people like too many things). So, they did screw their customers around.
While recently digging into CoreLocation's CLLocationManager recently I also discovered that any app which is given location privileges can be saving your location every 10 min in the background. It was a surprise to me too.
I don't want to hear you crunching into carrots or biting and slurping an apple. I don't want to smell your leftovers from yesterday. I don't want to hear the rustle of your take-out bags. Please find another place to eat. Why is that so difficult?
Haha, today I learned the opposite of what you learned.

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True. But cubicles don't completely eliminate noise either. If you're working in a space with people, some noise is inevitable. Unless you have your own complete closed office, which is just really unrealistic in most cases.
I am a physical object. I consist of a complex series of 3 dimensional structures, energy flows and chemistry. My source code is a very long one dimensional array of four repeated symbols.

I think it was Ed Wilson who pointed out the 1d DNA leading to 3d structures (perhaps Schroedinger in his book What is Life or Gould in one of the many essays). I can track the reference down if needed.

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Good answer, you obviously do measure well, fair enough!

I now just challenge anything without numbers, it's frustrating to read wooly posts about SEO or online advertising that aren't explicit. You always wonder if they actually know what they're talking about or just one of those useless 'theory' guys.
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Clearly part of addressing mass surveillance would be to get changes at the NSA, but they are not the ones we need to make listen. Politicians are. US politicians who support and fund the NSA or doesn't voice their opposition. Politicians all over the world who allow their own surveillance organizations to be complicit, or who are not putting enough pressure on the US government to make it a foreign policy problem instead of merely a small nuisance.

And the large parts of the public who are not yet aware, or not aware enough to care.

The NSA is at the very end of a very long list of targets, each one of which may help put pressure on and/or have some power over the next target on the list.
Any Good Samaritan law that comes with an obligation is absolutely horrible and dangerous to free societies.
I disagree: You caught a lucky break here, but you are the exception, not the standard.

Family/friends and money don't mix well. They will always ruin the relationship. I've seen it countless times.
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I eat lunch in my dining room with my family (remote work is the best!)

In my previous job, I would eat lunch out whenever I was in the main office. Otherwise, the owner would decide it was just the PERFECT time for a meeting...

In my satellite office I would eat at my desk, though. In my lone office in the back of a warehouse.
"Dad, let's have a chat in my office"

"What's up son?"

"Nothing dad just need you to come in here real quick"

"..."

"It's about your career, I'm letting you go dad"

"You were an accident."

"Nooooooooooo!"
That is good. But this reminds me of the first time I installed 'ffmpeg' on Ubuntu only to have it not work with my well-tested parameters and also declare ffmpeg 'deprecated'. Only after some head scratching did I figure out it had installed libav and an ffmpeg wrapper that tried but failed to be compatible with the real ffmpeg interface.

I wasn't even aware of the split at the time, but this shenanigan definitely gave me a strong negative initial impression of libav.
I agree with the revenue generation/political issue... I think those unfairly influence traffic safety laws.

I think there are certainly some areas where speed limits should be much higher, but my point is that you need to balance your desire to drive faster with the risks of people who are not as responible as you causing major accidents.
Hmm, no web? Not ideal, though it makes some sense to start on IOS. But limiting it to mainstream items and relying on eBay for price metrics doesn't seem like a sustainable business model to me.
> only as difficult as turning on the printing press.

Which can be quite difficult depending on what else is going on, as the example of Japan over the last 20-some years shows.
> "The LAST thing you really need to do is "invest" that money to generate income."

> "You live off the bank interest"

Where does the bank interest come from, if not investments?
More or less, daily situations.
How are offices unrealistic? I've worked at a number of companies where I either had my own office or I shared an office with one other person. It requires spending more on office space, but it's not a huge expense compared to dev salaries.
I also don't want to risk long-term hearing damage by cranking up music just to drown out ambient noise. No job is worth that.

http://medicine.stonybrookmedicine.edu/surgery/blog/headphon...

That said, I think all it would take is one successful lawsuit alleging such damage and the open office plan would die a quick and merciful death.
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Working to a rhythm
Different people work at different paces. I don't like traveling and 'hanging out with friends' isn't as much of an appeal for me, or at least enough to interfere with a family. I'm actually scared of having kids in my 30's (mainly to avoid complications) and wanting to be young enough to enjoy kids and grandkids.
Soldsie also did something similar with Instagram. http://new.soldsie.com/instagram-selling/. Looks like social commerce is heating heating up as companies are looking for a way to really get social to contribute to overall ecommerce.
You sound like an awesome progeny, I'm sure they are very proud of you.
Maybe we need to take the shawshank redemption approach "Still, I'd like to try, with your permission. I'll send a letter a week. They can't ignore me forever."

Let's build automated tools allowing people to send out letters, signed petitions, emails, faxes, pre-recorded voicemail etc.

That would would potentially eliminate procrastination.

Just a thought.
I do not think it is ridiculous at all.

I have an office mate who always eats at his desk about 4 feet directly behind me. He chews with his mouth open and takes his time eating his lunch. So I get an hour of lipsmacking and chewing noises every day. That hour is occuring right now and I am reading hacker news because getting anything done with that slurpy wet smacking going on is rather difficult.

I am enough of an asshole to have pointed out I would like if he didn't chew with his mouth open, but not enough of an asshole to argue with him when he denied that he does.

I also realize noise cancelling headphones would solve this problem, but I value being aware of my surroundings (I really want to avoid the situation where someone has to tap me or wave a hand in between me and my screen to get my attention).

I have previously had other office mates who ate at their desks who did not bother me at all, but depending on a persons eating habits it certainly could be inconsiderate to your coworkers.

Edit: For clarification we have a full cafeteria (where he gets his food) as well as other areas he could eat.
I wish there was an OS option that does the equivalent of "Only permit location based service calls when app is open and active"

I want the option of enabling Yelp only when I use Yelp etc.
The best marketplace for local deals is surprisingly... Facebook. Safer than Craigslist, you deal with people you know (if only through friends or their profile) and you don't need to risk your money as a buyer or your items as a seller.

Fobo's initial price is also iffy if you're selling a customized item...
"focused, quiet work when they need that"

Aren't you supposed to be doing focused work all day? The "social aspect of it?" Again, you're at work. Work is for working. I don't want to socialize at work, I want to get my job done and go home. That's what I'm being paid to do.
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Or Bitcoin, to remove them completely! I'm kidding, mostly, but "no chargebacks, ever!" is often touted as an advantage.
Thanks! I added that to the article.
At a previous job in an open office plan, I had set myself up in a corner, trying to create a sense of space and maybe get marginally more privacy than the spots in the middle of the room.

One day I came in and a new person (non developer) had set up shop directly behind me in the same corner (about 4 feet away). It was so jarring and distracting--I couldn't get anything done all day. I eventually had to move to a different corner.

I also hate being seated in a restaurant with my back to the room. It makes me so uncomfortable. So maybe I'm just more sensitive to this sort of thing in general.
You might be wrong about that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia
Interesting. Wouldn't having a lasting archive of previous knowledge and advancements prevent another dark age?

In the past, most knowledge was transferred among people verbally or located in geographically separate areas.
@ericd If you're working for a small company, and that company can actually find an office space setup like that, good for you. It will not work for larger companies because the real estate footprint would be unwieldy. I have yet to work at a company for which closed offices for everyone was even remotely possible, given the fiscal and office space availability constraints.
Is this what companies like Uber and Venmo use in their apps? I want to make some $$
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I realize there are brand images and advertising is part of that, and I'm definitely not saying they should reduce the advertisement budget to zero. I'm just saying most people like either Coke or Pepsi, and other than when you're a grocery store, the choice has already been made for you. Hell, it's rare to see a Coke vending machine next to a Pepsi one in most places.
My first thought was that it is a prank by 4chan to collect email addresses.