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We've had systems where not everybody had to work to eat & make a living.

It was called monarchy, and you will notice it didn't go over well.

The problem is one in ten thousand still leaves a very disgruntled & disenfranchised 30,000 people in America slaving away so everyone else can do as they wish. And until we can automate all the dirty work, the hard laborious work, these aren't 30,000 people working white collar desk jobs.

Now, it's much easier to uphold that status quo than the old monarchies, because nearly 300 million people are pretty fond of the arrangement and can successfully keep the other 30,000 down. Maybe you realize that, and maybe you're ok with throwing 30,000 people under the bus "for the good of the country", but be upfront about that.
I don't know. The OP's proposal is rather less modest.
> They live in good, but normal houses, and drive a 10 year car.

jeez, not this trope again. not all rich people are the same, because they are people.

first of all, to buy a "good, but normal" house somewhere like SF or west LA or NYC requires you to be nearly-rich. if you aren't worth double the house's value in assets and have at least triple the mortgage payment as annual income, you're not going to have much money left over for anything else. that's not even rich.

yes, some rich people are like warren buffet and live in a normal house and drive a 10 year old cadillac.

but who do you think owns all those yachts parked in every marina in the world? or the incredible, huge houses and apartments that exist in every major city?

who do you think buys all of the ferraris and lamborghinis and other exotics produced every year? who's buying private jet rides and, on a bad day, first class tickets at $10k a pop?

here's a hint: it's not the middle class.
http://codereddit.com/

Reddit that looks like source code. For opening in Visual Studio's built-in browser. I am not a Windows dev.
> But sometimes I want to navigate between pages, and at that point I do want my bookmarks bar displayed.

Ctrl+Shift+B.

> Sometimes I want to scroll a page, and at that point I do want scrollbars that work the way my system is setup instead of some almost invisible, almost unclickable little rectangle at the edge of the window.

Seems to use normal system scrollbars for me on KDE. Windows looks custom, but only wrt textures, sizes still seem to match.
Go to walmart.com, find 5 printers you like/need. Google about their support in linux (i bet at least one of 5 will be very well supported, if no - repeat first step.) and order it. Done.

While you shopping I would advise you to look also for price for their supplies and ability to refill cartridges. While it is not necessary for you to refill these, the fact they are refillable will put a pressure on the price on retail market for supplies for this printer, which make it more cost effective for your. In general I found older HP business laser printers and Brother printers are quite good in this regard.
I guess some people have not been exposed to dynamic programming?
* So, if not here on HN, then where?*

If you are referring to a vindictive mob singling out a low-ranking individual for mob justice, nowhere. That's about as far from the hacker ethos and the principles of a functional society as one can get.
As a counterpoint, I remember being taught in a Game Theory course that both the shooters and the goalies acted in accordance with the Nash Equilibrium which (IIRC) happens to be equal amounts to each option. You would think that if such a vulnerability actually existed, coaches and analysts would have figured it out and it would be exploited.
This is actually why programming gets harder. The more you automated, the more you distill the automation-resistant parts of the job.
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'Tired teenagers' at a UK school to start lessons later
As a patent attorney myself, I can say that what this particular patent attorney misses is "the forest for the trees"

The point is that patenting the idea of taking photos against a white backdrop with certain ratios is ridiculous, whether you can tweak the ratios to avoid infringement, or whatever.

Yes, someone got paid to turn it into a half page claim "that would have to be proved to a court". Great. That's not hard for a patent agent to do, that's what we are paid to do. It is completely irrelevant to whether this patent should have ever seen the light of day.

His entire comment smacks of "it's okay, because it may have been a lot of work to get this patent!"
You appear to be getting downvoted, but you've struck at the heart of the issue:

If we want to do away with meaningless jobs, people will still need resources to survive. And that "one-in-ten-thousand" (or whatever) will need to be taxed very heavily so the wealth can be spread. We can't have all of our financial resources siloed into an increasingly small number of people's wallets.

A great benefit to this system will be that people can do important work that might not necessarily reward them financially. The downside is that, well, those who do financially well will have to share their earnings. And we'll have to detach the notion of financial success with the notion of power, which will be difficult.

And all of this runs anathema to the usual sort of libertarian financial-might-makes-right of the tech world, unfortunately.

[Edit, since I can't reply to zo1, yet, below: No, I wasn't trying to tie libertarianism to "financial-might-makes-right." I meant that the tech world seems to slant libertarian, and people in this world seem to aggrandize money as the supreme metric of success.]
"We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed"
You make it seem like there is some entity or group of entities that thinks "Hey, let's go make up jobs". For what reason, you ask? Well, because he has to "justify his right to exist". That puts your argument in the same bucket as "karma", "quantum wellbeing", "deepak-nonsense" and "homeopathy".

Seriously though. What is that rant even about? People don't have a right to exist. They just do. What they do have a right to is to be left alone and unharmed.

If you can come up with some general system where 1 out of a thousand individuals willingly gives up his productivity so that the rest can "go back to school", then by all means go ahead. The keyword there being "willingly", and it pretty much means you won't ever come up with such a system.

Until then, please stop telling other people what they should or shouldn't be doing. It's none of your business.
He didn't. It looked like Tyrese Gibson camera since he was the one talking, and it was posted on Tyrese Gibson facebook.
It seems nobody else noticed your satirical inflection.
I wonder if they would have released this if Weev had not been freed.
That's where I see place for local integration companies for business model around open source software. They essentially provide tuning for stock software and if certain "tune" look like nice generic feature - release it back to community to leverage.
I never shut it down. Sometimes it crashes, or it may happen the battery goes flat, and it has to reboot, but otherwise, it's always on or sleeping.
>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 the business itself is important to you, or because that's the only way to get more than other people have.

It seems like this is essentially the case today and people still build million dollar businesses and still get rich, in America and in Europe and in a lot of places with more or less aggressive wealth redistribution policies - but all of them do the thing that is taking a large share of your earnings and giving it to non-working people.
views != plays anyways. Some viewers probably played Gangnam Style dozens of times. It's possible those 15,000 plays came from only 1000 people listening to it 15 times each, thus being comparable to only 1000 youtube views.

Basically, it's an apples-oranges comparison in more ways than just youtube ad revenue != royalties. The metric is different as well.

Of course, your basic point that 15,000 is big number, which should probably be worth much more than 5 bucks, still stands.
That is why i posted in another thread, Define Audiophile.

If you consider spending anything more then $40 - 50 on earphone as audiophile then we have a different of opinion. Because in my view those are people who spend $100s to $1000s in audio equipment.

Therefore i dont consider myself an Audiophile. I just wanted a better audio equipment for my money then what most technology company do which is throw a piece of crap speaker at me.

I dont agree on iTunes being Key to iPhone Sales. I would actually say requiring iTunes is the problem to iPhone sales.
Whether the curation and Human connection, executive etc are worth 3.2B is up for debate.
I bought some Mate at a local store. I really liked the taste. Grassy, but in an elegant way. And it kicks less than a strong coffee, but it did seem to last longer.

What I heard was that throat cancer was more prevalent in parts of Southern America where people drink Mate. The traditional way of brewing it, in a gourd with boiling water is fine. The problem comes from actually drinking it while still next to boiling temperature. Interesting.
I asked for a part-time position (3 days a week).

It helped that I could truthfully claim that I pursue a college degree on the side (distance learning, so it's possible to schedule work and study), but it went through with surprisingly little effort.

Meanwhile my coworkers are wondering that this is even possible (and sound mildly envious, in a good way).
You make it sound like a situation being ambiguous is bad. I disagree. I think that's exactly the time for discussion, negotiation, collaboration, and reflection. All of which are aided by things like the Golden Rule.

Note that I'm not talking about gut feel. What I'm contrasting is using carefully elaborated, hard and fast rules vs applying simpler guidelines, like the Golden Rule. If the hard-and-fast rules you pick are the US legal system, for example, then the answer is simple: fuck the customers. Bankruptcy protects you. You can dodge all of the complexity.

But if you say, "Hey, how would I want to be treated if I were in their situation?" you have to think about the customers and the shareholders. Unlike rules, guidelines, principles, and heuristics all force you to engage with the complexity. Fairly arguing both sides isn't bad; it's exactly what you should be doing.

Two minor points: using retrospective knowledge is a mistake in judging ethical choices. If at the time you thought you were going out of business, then that's the ethical framework. And as far as getting sued by investors, it varies by state, but generally managers have wide latitude to run the business in the fashion they see fit. You have an obligation to keep investors informed, but if they don't like what you're doing, they can replace you.
The fact that they needed this configuration means they must have found prior art that discloses other configurations.

The notion that this particular configuration would not have been "obvious to try" is ridiculous on its face.

Weak patent or not, it should not have issued.
Overcoming prior art through choosing a different set of standard lens settings, without any showing that a photographer of common skill would have not have tried those settings (IE they at least produce an unexpected result), is crazy
> This would mean that the few that did work would essentially be supporting the rest of society.

It is already like this, only those who do valuable work support the resto of sociaty, so this wouldn't change. The only change would be that the other people, who now do bullshit jobs wouldn't need to do them anymore.
Something like a Mozilla-run opensource p2p Rdio with periodic NPR-style fundraisers? Sounds good to me.

The problem as always would be with the major labels, they won't go for anything that weakens their control, but you could certainly start with an indie label alliance of some sort.
Wow, the load-comments-inline functionality is beautiful.

In fact, the whole thing actually looks better than some of the subreddit styles.
I don't think you read the article closely enough. He doesn't have a record label.
Frankly, I would not even stop at Maps. Since a year or so Google makes so intensely use of all sort of metadata (my browsing interests in the future, the places if have visited, my contacts on G+) that the internet has become a small world for me. I find myself increasingly using duckduckgo just because of this. Heck, as I use the public DNS servers of google, even deleting Cookies or using browser porn mode doesn't help much.

It's an example that overly smartness actually degrades the experience for me rather than being and improvement.
https://www.google.com/maps?output=classic
Not really. I've written a bit of Go and a lot of C#, and can tell you from my experience that they are very different tools. C# is a very feature rich language like C++, while avoiding the majority of the 'gotchas' in C++ (in obvious areas such as memory management). Generic types, Abstract Classes, LINQ etc. all can be very productive if you know how/when to use them.

Golang is much more minimal. It does have some very nice concurrency features that could be a big win for some users. C# is fine at concurrency, but Golang's way of integrating it into the language is definitely more streamlined.

IMO pick the best tool for the job. In many cases, large enterprise pieces of software that want the mature tooling of C# will benefit from .NET Native. /rant
Here in Sweden I would say it's more about alternative DIY/organic & local/vegan subcultures, counter cultures, not hacking specifically.

In fact, among the hackers I know, the ones who drink Club-Mate are also the ones who are involved in aforementioned counter cultural themes.
I'm not someone who downvoted you but would like to discuss your points. Lets start bottom up.

1) You cannot legally collect berries in the woods. That may have been possible a few hundred years ago. For all my life, I've lived in concrete jungles where pretty much every shrub was manicured and every tree was allowed to survive for aesthetic reasons. More so that that, we don't have commons any more. In the stone ages, I could go and cut a tree or hunt deer. Doing that - without paying for permits and usage rights - would get you in a heap of trouble. Now, in the stone ages, you'd have to worry about bears and neanderthals coming and ending your existence. We don't have to worry about that since the state has a police force, courts, laws, animal control, etc. And that's the same state that's requiring permits. So it is a choice the current and previous generations have made.

2) I hated the idea of the welfare queen growing up. My parents never took welfare and I'd take it as a failure if I ever had to do the same (personal choice). If you do a bit of research, you might be surprised to learn that welfare queens don't exist in the vast numbers you think they do. Not anymore and not for a while.

3) Starting any business requires capital. You were lucky because you had access to it. A lot of people have no savings at all. That's the reason they work hard jobs (typically unskilled) for very small compensation.

4) Thought experiment. Lets say, you go to Africa. You see a village that's suffering from famine. You can take 10 bucks and that feeds them for the day. Would you feel disgusted that these people are mooching off of your hard earned cash? I don't think you would. I think you (and I) would feel grateful that we had the opportunity to help our fellow human beings.

This is a complex topic that's not black and white. I wish people didn't downvote you. This is the kind of stuff that should be discussed.
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"And all of this runs anathema to the usual sort of libertarian financial-might-makes-right of the tech world, unfortunately."?

Woah, hold on there. Did you really just imply that "financial-might-makes-right" is a Libertarian thing/concept? That is absolutely not true, and I challenge you to prove otherwise.

I'm honestly curious why you would even think that. If you do, then you've been drinking some seriously nasty statist koolaid, and we're here for you if you need some help getting over that addiction. With reasoned arguments, no less!
The classic fallacy is that everyone can be an entrepreneur.

They cannot.

A. Entrepreneurs need employees to scale
B. If everyone was an Entrepreneur there would be very few consumers for goods and services.
Are you talking web or mobile? The web one found Eugene, OR just fine for me...
Interesting thing here: Reading the article i was wondering what's the fuss, because Google Maps looked and acted like it ever did. Turned out that, because i was using Opera 12, it was still giving me the old Google Maps. So if you really want the old one on the desktop, that's one workaround. :)
If this is such a horrible deal for him, is he for some reason prevented from pulling his music from these services and selling it on his own (or via other services) at a price that he deems more acceptable?
If your quote means that one warrant can force a victim of hacking to install FBI spyware on their systems, this is very troubling, and seems like it would dissuade many organizations from reporting a hack at all, because the cure will be worse than the disease
A couple weeks ago, when I asked someone how to verify on demand that a BIOS isn't compromised, someone else quipped "Could be the processors too, better forge those by hand." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609780

In fact, it turns out the future is probably headed in that direction. All mobile phones are already compromised; every phone has a proprietary baseband chip with full remote DMA access that no amount of open software running on your phone can stop. And as laptops become more and more mobile, it's going to seem strange that we've spent so long trying to tether our mobile phones to our laptops. Perhaps future laptops are going to have 3G access embedded right into them which consumers can subscribe to for some low monthly fee. Consumers would probably love it, because it's very enticing: you get internet access in most of the world without having to find a public hotspot or tether your phone. No more dealing with hotel wifi; no more dealing with logging in to someone else's.

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. Desktop computers aren't ever going to go away, but hardware design seems to be trending towards having built-in theft prevention. One feature of theft prevention is having the ability to locate the computer, or send it remote kill signals. If trends like that do catch on with consumers, it's "gg no re," because once our hardware is compromised to the point of third parties being able to remotely access it on demand, we've all lost something precious, and there won't be any opportunity to fix it. The more I think about it, the more it seems like it's just a matter of time until this happens, precisely because once it's here, it's never going away.

More and more network adapters seem to have DMA access to your computer. It would be interesting if the protections afforded by open source software were defeated at the hardware level without most people noticing. There doesn't seem to be any way to defend against it, because open source hardware simply can't survive: no money is necessary to develop open source software, whereas large investment would be necessary for development of open source hardware down to the chip level.
> But sometimes I want to navigate between pages, and at that point I do want my bookmarks bar displayed.

'Always show bookmark bar' is the top item on my View menu. Is it there for you?

> at that point I do want scrollbars that work the way my system is setup

I can't comment on this I've not used a scroll bar since I got trackpad scrolling. Just compared Chrome with Safari and the scrollbars seem identical to me.

> Sometimes I want to use developer tool

I'm not clear what your complaint is here. Dev tools is too crowded? I often need it to share space with content whilst I'm debugging. If you have dual monitors then I can understand you might prefer a less compact display. I work entirely on my laptop so I'm grateful for it's compactness.
Conversely, there are offices where someone "not being present" can shut down the productivity of the entire firm. People are paid to "be available" as well as to do tasks. The importance of "availability" on "task performance" is not imaginary--witness how computatuional hardware shows performance variation based on cache architecture.
Should your leadership be aware of the answer to the potential question without having to ask you about it 15 minutes before the meeting? This seems like something that ought not be a problem, if your leadership is attending standups and there's clear communication.
> 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??

Are you suggesting that the only motivation to start a business is to "make millions and keep millions"? What about:

- Making the world a better place

- Improving the lives of others

- The personal satisfaction of building things and solving difficult problems

These are all motivators to do something which creates "economic value".
The quality of their directions has gone downhill as well. I keep getting routes that take me needlessly onto a frontage road and back to the main road; that say there's a hard right when there's a slight jog in the road; that have me take take a right and three lefts instead of just going straight and turning left, when there is an abundantly clear left-turn lane; the list goes on and on. When it first started it wasn't so great at directions, and they improved it dramatically over the next few years. Now it's back to sucking pretty badly.
Most managers would not accept this. Since most developers are paid salary (as opposed to hourly), many feel like if you were leaving early, you aren't working hard enough.

I've seen it at every place I've ever worked. At one place, my manager directly told me I needed to stay until 6 or 7 every night or the boss will think that I'm slacking.
I haven't seen an expertsexchange result come up in google in a long time.
Didn't these folks take an oath to defend the US constitution? This pretty clearly violates 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.

Yes, I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know what "doctrine", "touchstone" or "Three Pronged Test" makes the clearly unconstitutional into something lawfully constitutional, but that's a lawyer problem.

Beyond practical considerations, like this makes the FBI into an ethically dubious organization, doesn't doing this kind of thing grate on lawyers and officers who take very solemn oaths against doing bad things? Clearly, this will have undesired side effects, and make the police into something even less trustworthy than they already are.
Hmm, wondering if you got down voted for pointing out African children need functional sewage systems over usb sticks?
I shut it down every night.