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> If our productivity

The word "our" is misplaced in this sentence.

The companies that purchase the labor own the productivity of the labor. If their productivity is high enough, they will simply buy less labor.

Do you have anything to sell other than labor?

> we should provide basic income

No matter how you slice it, there's not enough money. You end up being able to give each adult in the US a couple thousand a year. If you try for more, you strangle the economy so effectively that it can't afford the robots that are supposed to pay for everything.
Operating System: An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one.

Not true. An OS is the things that are common to all languages or applications.
Ember is on the list of things where I think the main tutorials are far too shallow to really get a sense of how to use it. I wish there was a more full-blown REST-API backed tutorial with complex nested views and such.

Really it's not Ember, I guess, so much as it is the notion that a todo list app exposes you to the key things you actually want to know about a particular front end framework. If you think about it, it's a silly notion.
I just updated my LeapMotion library for Processing [0] with support for the new LeapMotion SDK. Mine provides a thin wrapper over the SDK; there are several other libraries for Processing with higher level APIs (e.g. additional gestures).

[0] https://github.com/heuermh/leap-motion-processing
Oh the power of PR and/or money to pay media entities like WSJ. Other apps like Cerberus have had this functionality for years.
It's not really an announcement for a developer conference. Plus aren't these things typically announced after the markets close (which wouldn't be possible at WWDC)?
It will make him close, but not there. I'm sure Diddy is no motivated to start some tech startup idea.
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That project hasn't been updated in years, and the home page has lapsed for lack of payment.
Extracting TrueCrypt passwords from memory dumps has been trivial for quite a while now.
I think a useful conversation to have is, "how quickly we can replace politicians with robots?" A political discourse addressing the topic would necessarily acknowledge the radical changes most technology enthousiasts expect to take place in our lifetimes.

The most common response to hearing that a machine can do your job is disbelief (http://kk.org/thetechnium/2011/09/the-7-stages-of/). Fertile ground for dismissing the imminently possible as science fiction.
Even though Cook said it's not about building it, "it's the people. It's the service", is $3 billion worth what is essentially an acquihire?

EDIT: Right, it's still a profitable business regardless and I should have touched on that. But I don't want to see big tech companies acquire just for profit. They become behemoths that die slow deaths. I want to see Apple continue to reinvent based on their vision. I don't want them buying safe businesses. It's the reality of the world, I guess. I just firmly believe that Apple could have created their own spin on this market for less than $3 billion and beat out Beats.
Well you can set up coinbase.com/yourname if you want, I just tried, it's fine.

Perhaps they should reserve whatever URL they're going to use as an example and in their marketing material and redirect that to the settings (or a sales) page.

Perhaps too, they shouldn't write an <a> tag where the text is a URL and the href is a different URL.

I should add, I really like the look of this as a product. I love the idea that I can simply send someone to a web address and they can pay me. The above is merely a comment on the marketing and a small detail, not a criticism of what looks like a great addition.
It's worth noting that Cerberus, with a one-time price of 3€ (about $4) is considerably cheaper than some of the options mentioned in the article (~$30/year).
In the 60s, operating systems were designed in a world where the person running the program was the same as the person who wrote the program. Today many of the security or privacy schemes start by making a distinction between the programmer and the user.

Besides sharing or "abstracting" the pieces of hardware that the app wants to control -- as VMWare or a hypervisor might do -- the operating system has one additional important role, which is to function as an agent for the user.

The apps, written by various persons, are running on a computer that belongs to the user. The operating system keeps control of the computer -- the user's computer -- in the user's hands, and keeps it from being "taken over" by the apps.

This role or function of the operating system can certainly be subsumed by a programming language / environment like Smalltalk or Java, but the idea of an operating system has a purpose that directly reflects the different interests, goals, or priorities of distinct entities interacting inside the machine.

Usually the master control program is seen as being against the users, but I'm casting it as a good guy. I think that the promise of the operating system is that it can be a good guy (for the user), even if real examples tend to fail at that job.
Who maintains the machines? Who produces the replacement parts and sources the materials for the machines? What happens when the power goes out? So many flaws in the plan of a completely or even almost robot/algorithm based job future I don't know if it'll really happen. We've had automation in the automotive industry for how long now and look at the amount of people required to ensure the process works along the way?

Having said that, I am all for automating things. As a developer, I've seen a dramatic shift in the last 5 years alone with tools for handling tasks and automating things are a dime a doze. Automation definitely has a place, but I think it's too far to suggest that robots will take everyone's jobs, just a few. You're not going to be served coffee from a Starbucks robot barista any time soon.

A future where everyone doesn't have to work sounds nice in theory, in practice it cannot and will not work.
where do you all believe the bay area is now on the startup/tech bubble roadmap?

i'd think the bubble blown will be smaller due to VCs and Angels having learnt their lessons over the past decades - while not terribly smaller on account of New Angels and Corporate Venture Funds clamoring aboard.

of course, there are more tech hubs globally too siphoning off some of the previous "bay area tech bubble" effect...

i believe it's a smaller bubble, but nevertheless a rekindled one. many folks have gold miner fever out here...

ken, incubation hub
...or that BitLocker isn't.
Hey, one of the Bloomberg developers here. Thanks for the comments.

The prominent most likely score is a bit confusing, if you click through to the match detail then the histogram shows a range of goal differences. So for the first match we predict a goal difference of >2 to Brazil, although the highest probability for an actual score result is 2-0 (16%). Our model makes projections for up to 8-0 in both directions, but we aggregate them for display in this interactive.
> Where will the money come from?

Taxes.

> The math doesn't work.

If automation is really more efficient than employing workers, than letting firms automate instead of employing workers, taxing the firms, and providing goods to the non-workers with the taxes will actually be more efficient than any form of make-work labor-based economy.

> Those workers? They need to work.

They don't need jobs, they need goods and services. To the extent that their labor is an efficient method of production, its socially useful for them to work to get it. To the extent that it is not, however, it is socially costly to require them to do make-work to get it.
When the rumour was $3.2bn he wasn't going to become a billionaire despite his video stating his was - so now the price has dropped he certainly isn't one.

Also - what does Beats have to do with his career in hip hop? Hip hop didn't make him almost $1bn, an electronics company he co-founded did. It just irks me every time I see 'hip hops first billionaire'. It has absolutely nothing to do with hip hop.
>> To me, this sounds like a good case for a basic income guarantee

>Where will the money come from? The math doesn't work.

I'm assuming the OP is funding basic income from the businesses since they are replacing the human labor with automation. This could be a direct tax on businesses or a tax on dividends or something. I'm not arguing for or against this here.

The math does in fact work out if the cost of basic income is less than the productivity increase created by the increased automation.
I was thinking more of the case where the 3rd party library does no network communication. If it still takes a long time to execute, that may be a concern. But if the output is complex, then mocking it may be more trouble than it's worth.

For network requests to an API, your option #2 is exactly what I was suggesting.
This still has a flaw that it makes low wage jobs pretty unappealing. Why work fulltime for 50k a year when you can make 40k without working? Or even worse, who would ever work fulltime for 40k a year? Perhaps this means that there won't be low wage jobs, but this seems somewhat odd, as the taxation structure would be strange (need to tax enough for basic income, but companies would need to be paying probably 60k or greater on any job just to get someone to fill it).

Better to give a guaranteed income to everyone, and then let wages get as low as they want. The upside is that it changes the incentives so that work that is necessary (but undesirable) becomes more highly compensated, whereas work that is desirable becomes less compensated (and/or working for free becomes something that isn't just the domain of the wealthy).
If you have automated cars at either end of a rail system, you get rail efficiency in the middle. This alleviates one big reason not to use trains to commute - the stations are farther than walking distance at one end. If you get an automated ride to cover the gap between the station and your work - it complements both systems.
While this is an interesting list, I looked at a few of the books and the prices are out of this world high. They need this same list for people who do not have a crap ton of money. :)
> I think we push 18 year olds into spending thousands of dollars on a degree they may or may not need and probably don't care much about.

Perhaps we (folks who went to college/uni) also push it down 18 year old throats because of an unconscious need and desire to feel that our college education was and is in fact important and valuable. Think about all those ever increasing number of doctorates and advanced degrees that NEED students to justify their expense obtaining...

> not for people who have no idea what they want to do.

Most people just want to make "more" money so they can afford more

EDIT: BTW, I believe everyone really needs to evaluate whether college makes sense or not. It doesn't make sense for a lot/majority of people IMHO.
That can't be the right definition. Not all applications need to use files, for example.
So, Apple acquires music streaming service lala.com in late 2009 for $80 million and shuts it down unceremoniously.

Less than 5 years later pays $3 billion for Beats electronics, largely for their music streaming service.
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>"Why force employment when it offers no real return "

That's a reductionist [1] way to look at it. But I believe the bottom line is that a high unemployment rate is harmful to everyone and hence there is an incentive to try to avoid that situation. A high unemployment rate decreases the sales, it would impact negatively the prices (hurting the middle class) and even the rich 1% of the population would prefer to have more people with money that buy goods.

His recommendations are not a solution either since the big government model is not sustainable (and I would argue that communist regimes are an example of that).

There is an open question about if anybody can be trained to execute properly any task (i.e to write programs) but in any case the low income jobs are going to require more skills for sure. I suspect that software development is going to the low wage job of tomorrow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductionism
Yes because it's a profitable business and will be accretive right away. The financials provide a baseline for why this deal is good, Iovine/Dre and Beats Music is just a free call option.
That's fair, although it goes beyond what Knowd provides.
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True but if they're the best people that might be the only way to get them. The company makes a lot of money so you have to take that into account - it's going to continue make a lot of money under Apple. I think enough that they could make that $3bn back in 5 years on headphone sales alone even if the streaming service didn't work out.

Edit:

>> "Right, it's still a profitable business regardless and I should have touched on that. But I don't want to see big tech companies acquire just for profit."

I agree. I don't think Apple was buying for profit. But when you're valuing a company the fact they are really profitable has to factor into the price. I read they made almost $1bn last year selling headphones so $3bn isn't a crazy valuation.
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From what I've heard, automation is actually, really on-the-way. I've forgotten the exact conversation and this is certainly hearsay, but a friend of mine was describing a conversation with a upper level person (VP, CxO or board member) and was hearing about how 2014 was the year Starbucks would start to get rid of the "barristas". [Yeah, they used to be icons of Starbucks...]

>then have some other machine to fix all those things automatically
>on the fly. Building self-diagnosing and self-repairing machines is very complex.

So only do the first part of the automation: automate the garbage collection truck and have the truck pull over when it's sick... That captures 95% of the value; we can leave self-repairing for later.

>So, where is my flying car?

1) waiting on a suitable power source; 2) waiting on automated driving. It'll probably still be waiting on (1) and not (2) in 10 years.
> It has absolutely nothing to do with hip hop.

His notoriety has everything to do with hip-hop, and his stake in the company has everything to do with his notoriety as a hip-hop artist.
Lala became iTunes Radio AFAIK.
Interestingly, I find the exact opposite-- Beats is inferior to Spotify (or other competition such as Rdio) in my opinion.

This isn't necessarily because of the curated playlists, but it's the service as a whole. Beats is quite rudimentary in terms of music management, and requires way too many taps to add multiple songs to playlists or even just shuffle play a playlist. When I'm trying to listen to music I know I like, Beats falls behind. The curated playlists are kind of a distraction with my usage, and I personally wish they'd focus less on the celebrity playlists and more on letting me listen to music I like.

Of course, as you demonstrated, Beats is a hit or miss because of its focus on discovery/curation over music playback. It all depends on the user and how her or she prefers to listen to music.

Disclaimer: I do still subscribe to Beats, but only because of the AT&T deal that makes it cheap for 5 users.
It's less obscure than Rust and among web developers less than Go as well. How is it obscure, really?

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+rust%2C+Clojure%2...
"Apple, the company that turned digital music into a mainstream phenomenon"

Is this guy serious?
Project on SF is still available if you have a direct link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/truecrypt/files/TrueCrypt/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/truecrypt/?source=navbar

http://sourceforge.net/p/truecrypt/activity/?page=0&limit=10...

Odd, 6 hours ago someone updated the TruCrypt-key.asc files, then 3 hours later posted all the new binaries.

Also odd is whoever posted the new binaries completely yanked all the previous ones, leaving only the new and questionable binary available for download.

hmm...
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Curtis "50cent" Jackson seems to have followed in Dre's footsteps and now has his own headphone line http://smsby50.com/ . Wouldn't it be interesting if they were acquire by a Google/Microsoft/Amazon?
We are substantially reducing the number of hours we work as a society. Most of the reduction has come as an increase in retirement length (because we're living longer), but some of it has come because people are entering the workforce later (due to post-secondary schooling). Since 2007 there has also been a massive increase in the number of working age people who have dropped out of the work force.
The thing about positive reviews of PayPal(and by extension all products) is that they are going to be much less vocal and much less frequent because it's expected for the product to just work. Most of the time paypal does what it should and people are happy with them.

fwiw. the ones that I have seen that are negative w.r.t. paypal are the ones that are doing something forbidden by the tos or at least very close to the grey line.
I don't really know what to think.

We have just been contacted by them, the way they work seems pretty scammy. Like they have accepted us without meeting us and they ask us to pay upfront costs.
The reason for the purchase might be the people, but it doesn't mean the people are the only thing determining its value. They had > $1b in revenue last year, and that can't just be ignored when determining a fair value for the company.
Interesting. This wasn't available back in February.

I considered Discourse since I am very familiar with rails but adding the features I required would have taken more time than I had back then.
"The broad fetishization of work and the obsession that everyone has to work is really standing in the way of progress."

nailed it!
Unfortunately, we don't really have more and more technology. Business owners do, and they're just going to use it to earn more money for themselves and their shareholders. That's just how capitalism tends to operate.

I'm going to come right out and say that at some point, maybe we should re-evaluate communism. Of course it's going to need a massive rebranding, and we'll need to figure out how to prevent all the recurring themes of corruption and "making people disappear".

My colleague highly recommends Capital in the Twenty-First Century [1], which I'm looking forward to reading.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Pi...
>This could be a direct tax on businesses or a tax on dividends or something.

Seems reasonable. Also, seems like the exact opposite of what Gates was recommending?
This makes me think of TempleOS.

TempleOS [1] 'shell' operates as a programming environment - what you write is compiled and inserted into the same process that the OS is running as. It's a single address space.

[1] http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/TempleOS.html
This is great news, it will boost the adoption of Ruby and RubyMotion in the huge Android market.

Finally I have a reason to give RubyMotion a try. I'm curious how much productivity gain can one achieve with a language like Ruby once it is compiled (which will ensure the speed of the resulting application).
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Beats has a well known brand, and their headphones business is doing pretty well for itself. It's in a whole different league from the usual "buy a startup with a tiny market share and shut down their operations to repurpose the engineers six months later" acquihire.
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Hip hop is his origin, therefore he is the first hip hop millionaire. Kind of like saying I'm the first billionaire from insert city.
So once I have this photo of the thief, what next?

From reports I've read online, even when you go to police with a location of your device, they won't do much.
Notice the added functions like IsNonSysPartitionOnSysDrive and ResolveAmbiguousSelection, and all the unrelated minor changes like the comment line in Common/Volumes.h. Looks a lot like they based it on current pre-release development code.
The thing about automation as it regards to economics is that it doesn't have to be anywhere near a complete solution to have a huge impact. You don't need factories full of fully self-sustained robots to cause massive underemployment.

If you can partially automate a task to the point where 1 person can do the work that 2 people used to do, you've potentially eliminated 50% of that job's market. People are somewhat adaptable, so some amount of this sort of change can be absorbed (and has historically been absorbed) as people retrain for other types of jobs, but we're quickly approaching a point where the changes brought upon by automation are going to outpace people's ability to adapt to the changes, IMO.
You get family owned companies in tiny rural German towns who stay there for hundreds of years and make hundreds of millions in revenue. They provide stable employment, excellent jobs, excellent education, ...

A newer example is Herrenknecht. In the town of Schwanau - population 6807. Herrenknecht made a little over one billion Euro in revenue in 2012.

Their business: huge tunnel boring machines.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/09/15/080915fa_fact_...

A list of their projects:

http://www.soic.de/tunnelbohrmaschinen_herrenknecht.php

Herrenknecht at work in New York:

http://www.tunneltalk.com/East-Side-Access-Mar11-Queens-TBM-...

I find this pretty exciting.
Apple purchases Beats Electronics for $3 billion
> I saw a post in the past that suggested a minimum income where the amount of assistance reduce as you got paid more. So if the minimum was $40k a year and you made $20k working some job you'd get $20k in subsidies. This help give some incentive to people to get jobs.

No, a dollar for dollar reduction in benefits for outside income does not "give some incentive to people to get jobs", its gives a disincentive to people to get jobs. Working has a disutility -- otherwise everyone would do it for free -- so if you have a choice of $X from a minimum guarantee with no work or $Y from work and $min((X-Y),0) in subsidies with work -- you have a net disincentive to work for any Y not greater than X by an amount sufficient to account for the disutility of work.

Benefits that reduce with income are how a lot of current programs work (and have worked for some time), which is why various complicated measures to try to combat the disincentives that structure can create have also been built into them (which further increase the administrative costs), and one of the key motivations for unconditional basic income is eliminating the problems that that causes.
In a way, both are items. But posts are level 0 and comments are level > 0.

Look at when you link to an item / post :)
I can't recommend People of the Abyss highly enough. Read it for free on Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1688

"The Day of Judgment! More than he want it. From all the land rises the hunger wail, from Ghetto and countryside, from prison and casual ward, from asylum and workhouse—the cry of the people who have not enough to eat. Millions of people, men, women, children, little babes, the blind, the deaf, the halt, the sick, vagabonds and toilers, prisoners and paupers, the people of Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, who have not enough to eat. And this, in face of the fact that five men can produce bread for a thousand; that one workman can produce cotton cloth for 250 people, woollens for 300, and boots and shoes for 1000."