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Well, you only need money to buy the things you need to survive.

Many jobs are already "few doing work to support the rest of society", the only difference is that today we happen to be paying the few to do it.

If you had people willing to do the work anyways, since it's what they like doing (e.g. farming) then why shouldn't the rest of society benefit? It's the same principle that drives open source programming. Not everything you do has to be based on maximizing your net worth.

However I do think this is where Fuller's principles start going astray. There are so many jobs out there which people don't want to do, but are absolutely necessary. It's easy to say that people should see what needs to be done, and go do it, but people simply don't work that way. All other things being equal, we do what we want to do, not what needs to be done.

Fuller would be right on track if people wanted to do what needs to be done, and with those two sets in proper proportion with each other. But I've seen no evidence to show that is what society does for us (and a whole lot of evidence to the contrary). Failing that, the quest for money helps to provide a forcing function to align society's needs with worker's wants, but this system has a lot of flaws as well.
Last night.

The boot time is usually 12 seconds maximum, and it doesn't take any longer than ~20 seconds for my work to load up (depending on what I'm doing, most of my work loads up pretty much instantly). I don't really miss the few extra seconds it takes.
That's not the job of a code of ethics. Ethics are about your choices and their impact on others.

Ways to protect against sociopaths and narcissists include education (there are good books on both), experience, and adopting standard business practices (e.g., no work without a contract, do due diligence on your business partners, basing trust on successful experience, managing risk exposure).
Historically, Apple doesn't spent billions on companies. They spends tens or maybe hundreds of millions on small technology startups that they can the integrate into their existing products. Beats makes music accessories and has a streaming service, and doesn't really offer any unique technology - just a brand, so it's a very atypical purchase for Apple, especially given the price.
Small dogs live longer than big dogs. It's the same in all mammals. Within a species the smaller individuals tend to have a higher metabolic rate, weight adjusted, and live longer.
>the majority of my earnings

If the government is taxing a significant majority of your income you'll still be rich. Allow me to reframe the question, why bother starting a business where you'll only earn three million dollars a year? One good reason is because you want to take home three million dollars, even if it was theoretically 25 before taxes. Even if every slacker in the world gets a $20k stipend, there's plenty of incentive to solve problems and make money.
I don't see how: it always goes via MSIL and Mono runs MSIL. Admittedly, apps or libraries published solely as "native" binaries won't run on Mono, but I strongly suspect that those are typically native end-user apps which are very often Windows-specific already. Windows Store stuff, and similar.

(I also strongly suspect that this entire "native" move was fueled purely by that top-of-the-bill Windows 8 computers take 5 seconds to start up the damn Weather app)

On the library side, there's a strong move towards the opposite, actually: you can now make a (MSIL) DLL that runs on Windows, Windows Phone, iPhone, Android, Mono, etc etc without having do distribute different versions (basically, what Java always had) of the binary. It's overdue, but it's really nice.

I'm not worried (and I run a dev team that runs a C# backend on mono/linux).
"And then I thought, well, maybe that explains some other things, like why is it there’s this deep, popular resentment against people who have real jobs? They can get people so angry at auto-workers, just because they make 30 bucks an hour, which is like nowhere near what corporate lawyers make, but nobody seems to resent them. They get angry at the auto-workers; they get angry at teachers."

I thought people were angry at these people because of their unions - all the other jobs he listed are nonunion and thus the higher wage is actually a market wage.
What my neighbors are up to is incredibly relevant to my life. We share the same space and we affect each other's lives in important ways. On a bigger and more abstract scale we share the same Earth with every other living human.

Stop pretending like you don't live in an organized society and that we all don't have the ability to change the dynamics of our culture through government. We've been doing so for millennia.

No man is an island!
> Why would I ever want to start a million dollar business if I knew the majority of my earnings would be taken from me by the government to support people that didn't need to do anything?

Because you'd still have millions of dollars, obviously!

This is such a weird, sour-grapes style of thinking. Why do you bother running your business today when the government is just going to take X% of the money? Are you really going to take your ball and go home, just to prevent the "unfairness" of somebody else benefiting from your labor?

Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face...
Or: you have to jump if you want to reach a ball kicked on a goal corner

So if you guess that the ball is going to one of the sides, jump

If you don't jump you're defending 1/3 of shoots

(Of course, soccer is more complicated than that - for instance not all shots are perfect, and some are made to trick the goalie especially in penalty shoots - but you get the idea)
I concur. Google maps needs some serious work.

It's as if it's running on auto-pilot right now or something.

I can't quite put my finger on it, but something needs to be changed.
I don't know about everybody else here, but I would love to get a $35 quarterly check for software I wrote 10+ years ago just because 14k people used it.

Musicians somehow expect to write a song and get rich from it, sorry but only the best of the best have the talent to accomplish that. The rest, however, can make a decent living out of it.
I don't recall apple ever buying a $3 billion company, that's what makes this interesting. Interest is increased by the fact that the synergy between apple and beats is unclear.

Regardless of liking either company it's a significant financial transaction, hence the attention it's receiving.
I made a good point..and I wasn't even snarky or mean about it. I was down voted because I differed with someone's opinion.

Silencing trolls is one thing..but silencing the opposition reminds me why need freedom of speech.
Question, the article states that the device should be able to determine whether the malaria parasite has infected the subject while they are asymptomatic. From my limited knowledge of malaria, I was under the impression that during the asymptomatic stage, malaria is multiplying in the liver and does not infect any red blood cells. How will this detect malaria if they are not excreting the iron crystals into the blood stream?
Thanks; we've changed the url to that from [1]. HN prefers original sources.

1. http://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-abandons-plan-for-ads-on-fi...
> Perhaps future laptops are going to have 3G access embedded right into them which consumers can subscribe to for some low monthly fee.

The future is now.

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/19/campaigns/4g-3g-mobile-br...
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-XE303C12-H01US-Chromebook-3G-1...
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/mobile-phones/mobile-broadband-c...
This was the strategy right from the start, as far as I read:

Step 1: simplify as much as possible, while only retaining OpenBSD compatibility to keep things easy.

Step 2: reintroduce portability to a more conservative set of OSes than OpenSSL.
Yes, he did. Here's the youtube copy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guMFKBXp544

Watch it all the way through, it was Dre himself who spoke and did that "first hip-hop billionaire on the mother$$#8ker west coast" quote.
Libertarians would actually be against many policies designed to keep people in jobs - pushed by many of both major parties today. In fact full employment is a goal mostly supported by policies and politicians decidedly anti-free-market.

Voluntary giving and charity and voluntary communal groups could easily grow. The notion that taxes are the only way to spread wealth is flawed. The nuclear family is already one example almost everyone can relate to where one or two people support a whole - in some cases old and young alike.

It will take social change to make a less work based society work - forcing people into that route is silly and a long step on the road to totalitarianism.

Libertarianism is the opposite of might-makes-right. Libertarianism is the view that coercive power should be incredibly limited in scope and that an individual's decisions and contracts are what makes right.
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My employer pays for my internet connection but requires you to file an expense report, I never do because it feels like part of the job responsibilities to get a fraction of the salary is to file the damn thing. I'm basically giving my employer a discount in order to avoid paperwork.
Case in point: last week Barclays bank announced they were laying off 20,000 staff. Share price immediately went up 8%.
> The takeaway is that your children may grow up in a world where it's impossible to guarantee the government can't get into your computer if it really wanted to.

This is impossible to guarantee today. Certainly if you run the zero-day magnets known as browsers, and even if not, there is always some possibility of physical intrusion.

> More and more network adapters seem to have DMA access to your computer.

With an IOMMU (VT-d or equivalent on other platforms), it should be possible to protect against malicious DMA from any source.

Also, not all phones have basebands with DMA access to main memory. I think iPhones do not, though I am not sure, and some older iPhones have been attacked by turning on "auto answer", demonstrating direct access to the microphone.
That sounds way too obvious for them not to have tried on a large corpus of (search string, correct result) pairs. If it actually gave better results, do you really think they wouldn't do it? I understand wanting to vent about the magic not being magical enough, but just how stupid do you think they are?
Vagrant Manager is now Open Source
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They can be really useful to new users with no or little experience.

From what I've seen, when people use the web for the first times, they "don't know where to go". They don't have surfing habits yet and they're completely overwhelmed by so much to choose from.

If you offer people a handful of useful/informative/fun sites, it'll be much easier for them to pick something and get going.

If this is implemented carefully (and I think Mozilla is putting a lot of though into it) this could really be a win-win-win situation for Mozilla, the users and the advertisers.

Also note that chances are that you never see those ads because Firefox will continue showing you the sites you visit often.
My guess is that the ratio of custom to glue stuff should be more constant over time. As old custom stuff becomes standard, it simply enables people to start tackling harder problems and create more custom stuff.
Terrain mode is still there, you just have to type Terrain in the search bar, and it'll switch the view. Then X out of the search to return to the normal map view. Otherwise, if you click the input box, you should get a terrain button in one of the many expanding boxes.

I don't know who came up with the above concept for switching modes, but it's absolutely awful.
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I read it a bit differently. I don't think they store their credentials directly in their source code repository. I think they are saying they have a separate repository specifically for credentials.

It seems like a bit of a strange way to manage sensitive information, but not really any worse then a lot of other things I've seen.
What is full time in the US? I've worked 35 and 37.5 hour jobs and considered both full time. Neither are unusual in the UK.

Of course being in IT the actual hours worked are usually more than that.
This here.....Glenn knows his stuff and the testing used by mcdb is great.
If all three of those are strong motivators then the government would not need to get involved with charity and welfare either - because individuals could get satisfaction from charity and providing opportunity for others by making the world a better place, improving the lives of others and gaining the personal satisfaction from helping solve a problem.
> Voluntary giving and charity and voluntary communal groups could easily grow. The notion that taxes are the only way to spread wealth is flawed.

Except now you've created a situation where only the wealthy get to choose society's direction. We need taxes so that even those without financial resources can have a say in what our collective money funds. This is made even more extreme if only a small part of the population is doing work with immediate financial reward.
> "[Your ideas are] vastly inferior hack jobs, 0/10 stars..." [ very roughly :) ]

All I'm claiming is that bitly could have offered stats without a login system. IFTTT was just a proof of that concept, a gratuitous example, not some idealized form of stat tracking that everyone should run out and implement.

You're probably right that the solution I thought of in around ten seconds sucks. I've spent more time on worse ideas. My real point is that login systems, despite their ubiquity, have their own share of downsides. Some of these downsides should be painfully evident today given the article.
That and they're positively obsessed with JavaScript, Node.js, and a coding style that favors ample and unnecessary usage of anonymous JavaScript functions as nested parameters.
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It is advancements like this that give me hope for the humanity. This isn't the same level as Geordi La Forge's visor in Star Trek: TNG, but it is in the same vein -- using technology to give senses to those born without them, and thus improve their quality of life. More and more it feels like we are beginning to live in the future speculated about in decades past.
> You cannot legally collect berries in the woods.

A minor point, but this is generally legal in the UK if you're doing it for personal consumption [1]. I expect other countries have similarly permissive exceptions.

[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/4
>> I'd love to eat them though.

This sentence you wrote exonerates the article in it's entirety. You would dearly love to eat a swan, but have not and will not, and you present no compelling reason on why you have not eaten one.

You embody the entire cognitive dissonance around swans.

Being from the UK all I know is that swans belong to my old boss and we teach children that a swan is powerful enough to break your arm if it feels threatened so stay away from them.

I would have no problem cooking and eating a swan but I imagine the majority of UK society would struggle to see the swan as anything other than a majestic, un-eatable animal rather than just an alternative to goose, duck, chicken, turkey or even pigeon.
Lawyers are not unionized but the bar exam definitely does limit supply.

You are correct though - one major reason why teachers and auto-workers might get criticism is because they pay an organization to make sure companies and other individuals cannot contract freely.
Covert Redirect Vulnerability with OAuth 2
'Always show bookmark bar' is the top item on my View menu.

Sure, you can change the default easily enough. I'm just giving an example where I do find it useful to have more Chrome displayed at the expense of a small amount of content area.

I can't comment on this I've not used a scroll bar since I got trackpad scrolling.

I'm usually working on a desktop PC, so I don't have a trackpad. I use a mouse scroll wheel all the time, but for long documents that's tedious (as is using a trackpad) and with most mice it's a one-dimensional scroll anyway.

I'm not clear what your complaint is here. Dev tools is too crowded?

Yes, and many things in it are far too small for comfortable use. The developer tools in both Chrome and Firefox are riddled with basic usability and design blunders, such as using tiny fonts and icons; using a flat design that blurs everything together and often gives no clues to what interactions are available; offering many different sets of tabs, icons and other controls; numerous inconsistencies in presentation, not just in the different behaviours from tab to tab but even from one set of tabs or icons to another that is visible at the same time; and forever moving things around, particularly making unnecessary minor changes every few weeks.

I've nothing against providing for developers who are using smaller screens, but I have a powerful computer on a real desk with nice big screens to make me as productive as possible, and the idea that everything must be crammed in to maximise the content area at all costs just isn't helpful in that context. Rather like the perversion of the original "mobile first" design idea to become "over-simplified least common denominator behaviour is good enough", it's throwing the baby out with the bathwater and actually making the software worse for some users. Of course the developers of these browsers are perfectly entitled to do that, but it's equally fair to point out the problems they are creating.
Fine for me, Chrome 34.0.1847.132 on Ubuntu 14.04 with KDE.
I agree that doing that type of inference would be convenient - I deal with a lot of nested generics like that on daily basis.

But this is just syntactic sugar, and the var keyword already takes care of the left-hand operand in this equation. Generic functions also do a reasonably good job of type inference under this set of circumstances, although I've found that generic delegates and lambdas not so much.
> The takeaway is that your children may grow up in a world where it's impossible to guarantee the government can't get into your computer if it really wanted to.

If your adversary is a well funded government you need to have:

Secure software

Secure firmware

Secure hardware

Secure staff who follow procedure

Secure location

Armed guards

Etc

Most people can not do all of this and this have been vulnerable to governments for a long time.

Suggesting that your mobile communications data was ever secure when it was available to your telecoms provider seems odd to me.
I'm sorry, but you really did not make good points.

> Why would I ever want to start a million dollar business if I knew the majority of my earnings would be taken from me by the government to support people that didn't need to do anything??

To help people. Maybe you don't feel like helping others, but most people do. To question even the existence of that motive is... pretty scary

> You don't have to get a crappy job and work for someone you hate for the rest of your life. I started a business 2 years ago and I don't plan on getting a job anytime soon.

Starting a business requires capital, talent, and a lot of luck. Obviously, not everyone has access to these things, nor should we expect them to.

> You have the freedom to do this..or work for someone..or you could even live in the woods on berries.

No, living in the woods on berries is really not realistic.
Out of curiosity- all I see in the news & on the boards is backlash against the government when these sorts of programs come up. Can anyone provide thoughtful suggestions on how the fundamental adaptation the feds are seeking- improved ability to conduct digital espionage- could be implemented in a positive way?

I do think the notion that traditional rules for search & seizure need to be updated for the modern age might hold some water. For example, destruction of evidence has become easier, and catching someone "in the act" is probably harder.

I don't believe in the idea that the feds should have zero access & zero surveillance ability. Unfortunately I am unsure how to give the ability to match (in spirit, not in letter) the functions they have in the real world without incurring a big privacy hazard.
Ctrl+Shift+B.

Sure, or it's an option on the menu. I'm just trying to show that sometimes removing all possible chrome to maximise the content area isn't necessarily the most helpful thing to do.

Seems to use normal system scrollbars for me on KDE.

On Windows, they are just thin grey rectangles that don't even look like scrollbars (or anything else you might interact with) and don't even look the same between the main content window and supporting windows like the developer tools.
If we're going to have a discussion about patents, we need to actually have a discussion about them, not base our opinions on blatant misrepresentations. For example, people often claim that Apple "patented" the rounded rect, which is so dishonest that basically you have to call it a deliberate lie.

The title of the article is politically biased. Amazon did not patent shooting a subject in front of a white background. They also never patented buying something with just one click.

The problem is, that the political agenda against patents (and the people who oppose them, it seems) don't care whether the patents are on something innovative or not.

For instance, I participated in some work that resulted in a patent of a solution for some very difficult problems in MMOs. The outraged headline was "Company patents playing games online!"

When all of the opposition against patents comes form people misrepresenting patents, it's hard to see it as anything other than sour grapes that certain companies are more innovative than others. (the recent anti-patent movement is coincident with a specific innovation.)
I used to drink a lot of club mate. I loved it, but I had to stop drinking it because there is much more sugar in it than you would think and I developed dental health issues.
I don't know that their listens are worth more or less, but I think that it's arguably more representative of an individual consumer's choices (I hate that I just used that phrase...).

I might hate an artist you listen to, and don't think that any of the money I put down should go towards that artist. Similarly, you might hate an artist I listen to, and don't want any of your money going towards them.

In regards to worth, I think a better measurement would be percentage of a user's listens, as opposed to number of listens. While the percentage is based on the number of times they listened to an artist, looking at the percentage only somewhat weakens the argument based on someone listening less being worth more. That argument doesn't really hold with me because you can get the same payment numbers by just multiplying all artists by the same number, and while each individual play is worth less, the artists are still getting the same payout.

Basically I think an individual distribution is superior because .. wait for it .. it's more representative of each individual's listening habits over the collective's habits. Because of this, there's a large potential for smaller, less recognized bands to make more money, because they're paid for the percentage of times the people who listened to them listened to them, as opposed to the percentage of times EVERYONE listened to them.
My degree was also heavy on FP and LP alongside many other themes.

I think the biggest issue is with those developers that never got a degree or were unfortunate to land in a degree that taught programming languages instead of programming concepts.