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That would mean moving from a Status Economy to a Productive Economy.

Without intelligent oversight, all economies - capitalist, communist, socialist, democratic, fascist, you name it - tend towards status production and social differentiation as a primary product.

Sometimes useful stuff falls out in the way of invention and innovation, but more often it doesn't. Even when it looks useful it's likely to be driven by fetishised status display as a primary goal, and not by high-velocity deep innovation.

Status economies are fundamentally wasteful and non-productive in any practical sense, because most resources are hoarded by a tiny minority of high-status individuals.

You only get real growth when resources - including innovation and intelligence - are dispersed and farmed strategically.

This has happened occasionally in the past, and I'd like to think it could happen again.

But it's not happening now, and any path from the current system to a productive one is going to be difficult and messy.

In a status economy, basic needs are rationed to maintain and expand status differentials. So public infrastructure takes a beating, because 'the public' - by definition - are not high status, and must always be denied easy access to quality resources.
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Ha, wow, the first time I've ever been genuinely taken aback by 'victim blaming' and of all possible places it comes from a story about a farmer and his tractor.

For starters, even the text of the article shows that he's reliant on the technician to replace the part, and it doesn't break down what of the 2 days is ordering the part vs scheduling the technician's time. It may be that even with the part in hand it's 2 days for an opening in the tech's schedule.

Further, while the article makes it sound as if there is one part repeatedly failing, the reality is that there are dozens of different sensors, and maybe only one fails per year. Your proposed solution might require the farmer to have thousands of dollars in spare parts sitting around at all times so he has replacements ready for all of them. Modern ag is already a capital intensive operation without forcing every family farm to double as a parts warehouse.
Always OK, you need to look out for yourself. But if there's a number that would make it worth staying you should tell them. (And aim high, if you're that vital you might get it.)
Ask HN: Is IT actually not for me?
Been looking for a job for many months and I can't find anything. I've got a bachelor's degree in CS but I feel like I didn't learn much at school, honestly. I see the kind of programming going on here on HN and in hot cities/companies (Google, Mozilla, etc.) and I have no clue. If you give me a project idea and time to discover a framework, I can get something out of it (see [redacted] for my 2-day discovery of Angular). But how am I supposed to sell myself as an Ember, Angular and Node specialist, for instance? This is ridiculous.

I have a pretty small network but the people I've worked with know how reliable I try to be. While an intern I've solved many business problems with languages I didn't previously know, such as Excel VBA. None of those people could help me get something although they could have, with a different timing.

My biggest achievement is creating and managing a WordPress site now visited 50k times per month. I used to think it was an excellent asset when seeing what my classmates were up to (playing video games, mostly), but companies are definitely not impressed. And in a sense it's true that I didn't write a lot of code for it. But the code I wrote is rock solid. So yeah, I don't know.

So what should I do? I live in a small country where German and French are spoken. I speak English and French. I have theoretical notions of German and I could speak it in a matter of months if somebody gave me a chance. Since French-speaking companies don't, I doubt German-speaking ones would, though, and so far they haven't. What have we done for companies to be so afraid of us? I grew up in this country, graduated in an excellent high school and in a decent CS school; somebody'd make a pretty damn good deal if they hired me while I'm cheap. But everybody's rejecting me despite my motivation and my clean profile. This is wicked and there's a point at which I will simply stop and go milk cows instead.
If they had been using the free UAQUAS system license this attack would have never succeeded!

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Are people building Firefox OS Apps?
I joined Khan Academy as an intern in summer 2012 and have been with the company ever since. We're not going to top Facebook, but I can assure you that we compensate interns competitively. Given the massive contributions that interns like Elizabeth have made, nothing else would make sense to me.
I don't know what the quality of this particular implementation is, but it's certainly easier in principle to write constant time algorithms in assembly than higher level languages (where the optimizer will transform your code in semi-unpredictable ways).
The example is a little bit exaggerated, but basically if you have a major medical problem with huge bills, the insurance companies will look for a ways to get out of paying. It may not be right or even legal, but the process of disputing claims is a confusing hassle. I can tell you from personal experience that it takes a lot of determination to dispute with an insurance company and I can imagine a lot of people just give up.

This is just a random link describing one scenario - http://www.yourwisconsininjurylawyers.com/library/claim-deni...
I don't have details yet, but, based on this quick review, I would say that it's much, much closer to iPhoto than to Aperture, unfortunately. I'm sure that it handles Raw, but not all the rest of what makes Aperture useful and unique.
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> I don't know how "real" its technology is

He's got an amazing track record.

> but SolidEnergy promises a 50 percent increase in energy density using an "ultra-thin metal anode". The company promises commercialization for phones in 2016 and for EVs in 2017.

The problem with battery tech is that it is a bit like solar: every year there are 10's of announcements like that, usually not from parties that have had such breakthroughs in the past. As is noted in the article since better battery tech is such an absolutely incredible breakthrough there is no shortage of those that would use this to their benefit absent any actual science.

So for battery and solar breakthroughs my personal hurdle is 'show me', until then I will happily wait by the sidelines (not as if it would matter in anyway if I didn't). But I'll give this particular scientist a break and I'll say that I will be much less surprised if he's going to the the one to nail the next substantial increase in battery efficiency. I hope the result will be as safe to use as Li-Ion or LiPo. We're getting to the point where chemistry of explosives and chemistry of batteries is quite comparable and that's one reason why this is such a hard problem. Making a better stable battery is the hard challenge. And LiPo is pushing it there, those are not batteries I'd want on my person or in a spot where they can cause a lot of damage when they go.
Its designed to protect the income revenue stream of farm implements dealer at expense of the farmer whether they are single or a corporation.
Ask HN: Is there a good place to trade domain names?
I have a number of domains that I'm not interested in using at the moment, and it would be cool if I could arrange trades with others in the same boat. Is there a good site for doing this?
Hmmm... another thing from Apple that goes without the 'i', I sense a shift in branding. Probably gonna be a while before they drop it on the phones, though.
What is your business plan if you are allowed unlimited private repositories? (on GitLab.com) Are you only allowed to use them for non-commercial uses?
True, but on a new car with relatively low mileage, I would think maintenance is essentially oil changes and tire inflation, and maybe brakes if the car is really abused.
As a web developer by trade, if I wanted to get involved in a project like this, having zero farming experience, where would I start?
Used to be the attitude about many things before the consumer oriented marketing set in to keep the factory churn going.
wheres gnuTractor when you need it.

"But the crops are so ugly, and it took me 3 months to setup"

"but it was free!"
The problem is that in practice most people in almost any free software project do not have the funds personally to afford donating all the time.

I mean, I feel the burn when I give money to Debian, Arch, KDE, etc - but I do it because I know I have to, because the software is so important to me. The $500 or so I donate each year is a lot of money to me, and I'm in the US - I cannot imagine how much donating to these projects would hurt the international users who make significantly less than the 15-25k or so I make annually.

I don't know how KDE managed it, but Blue Systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Systems) is a Germany company founded by one Clemens Tönnies, Jr. Don't know anything about the guy, but he is somehow paying 10+ KDE devs without a business model. I've donated a lot to Kubuntu, but I cannot imagine in a million years they get enough donor money to fund all the devs they employ.

But those kinds of philanthropies, the way Mark Shuttleworth keeps Canonical afloat, seems to me to be the only practical way to keep free software afloat. You cannot ask a million destitute people to donate money they need to eat or sleep comfortably, but we as a community don't have the charisma or ears to get fat cat donors to foot the bills. Probably because software freedom does not matter as much when you are wealthy - you can just pay to get the software you want made anyway, and you might even be able to bribe companies to give you the source if you care enough.

And I recognize a huge portion of the donor pool for most free software projects isn't either end of this spectrum, but people like me making something above the poverty line and below extravagance that donate what they can where they can, but that is consistently shown to not be enough. And I imagine it is more because it takes millions of average joes paying dollars to match what one millionaire can do in an instant.
I have a lot of use for this. Love the distinction between Amazon Prime and Purchase as well as the Hulu Plus and Hulu regular.

Any chance you could include premium streaming services such as HBO Go, Max Go, and Showtime Anytime?
It still progresses, now (21:47 UTC) only 12% left to the target.
Poor man's version of Gruber-style sponsoring
Are you trying to suggest that people ever read the Terms of Use?
I found Pushpin interesting when I heard about it a couple years ago. Haven't had the chance to use it yet, but I'm curious if you could give a summary of what's changed.
Try the online tool, jsonlint.com.
Well, dealing with horrible exception handling is still better than just silently running off the edge on errors.

Much like any language, you need to read and understand it to be able to truly write, I think. bash is deceptive in this regard IMO, due to how low its barrier to entry is.

Now if you want to see some truly horrible code, implement a shell script that runs in bash and zsh and does exception printing in both.
> mainly because on Android the SQLite wrapper is so clunky

Go straight for a ContentProvider, even if you are not sharing access to the data in SQLite. That makes it easier to build an observer pattern in Android. You can then build a SyncAdapter on the "back side" of this ContentProvider. Et voila, a synch'ed app.
If people are upvoted for presenting a news article on a single study, then we're going to end up with very ping-pong ball style discussions on science.
Unfortunately, the Aperture and Lightroom data models and workflow are different enough that Lightroom really can't import everything that you've done in Aperture. Quote from Lightroom page: "migrate their images and key metadata"... It also doesn't support the non-destructive workflow edits that you've applied to your (potentially) tens of thousands of images. If you import them, all the edits become baked in.
Ubuntu is not making money, and Mark Shuttleworth keeps infusing the company with his own pocketbook whenever it goes in the red. They might be doing something on the server / corporate support contracts end nowadays, that has really taken off in the last few years, but you might as well just ask Mark to hire Werner Koch.
And if you refer to the terms of service

is never a valid argument in the twenty-first century. When was the last time the average consumer read the terms of service before you bought a product?
The people who would buy computers with Linux probably wouldn't pay for tech support. Enterprises might, but not individuals. Plus I suspect that Microsoft is pretty keen to defend Windows on the consumer front - I've heard stories of deep OEM discounts on the condition that they don't offer alternative OSes.
Never forget that you made that happen.
This is just the sort of issue that inspires open-source hardware movements like the one that produced this: http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Lifetrac

The most recent iteration is no match for the big commercial farm equipment, but it does have the notable advantage that being able to build it yourself necessarily means that you can diagnose its problems and repair it on the same terms.
Sure. For example, we made a tool called WebhookInbox that collects HTTP requests. It has a realtime API that lets you know when requests have arrived:

http://webhookinbox.com/docs/api.html#live-updates

The above API has the quality you'd expect from a long-polling or streaming API produced by companies like Dropbox or Twitter, except that the backend is just a basic Django app. There's no crazy stateful event-driven code in WebhookInbox.

So basically it makes realtime API development like this much easier.
What does the EMH have to do with the financial crisis?
How do you explain something that has potentially unlimited inputs, and whose many inputs/actors do not act sensibly or in their best interest at all?

If you could fully explain an economic system down to the finest detail, you could more less accurately forecast all the human behavior within that system.
I would assume the same consumer protection laws that mandate the sale of automotive parts also covers farm equipment.

The issue is that the OBD standards have a mode for restricting access (0x27) until the test equipment has passed a challenge-response phase. The exact method varies but it is often a fairly simple scheme such as multiplying a secret key by a random value and returning part of the product for the ECU to confirm. The keys can be discovered by reverse engineering firmware or capturing enough initialization packets to work out the system. One of my ECUs from a defunct manufacturer has the ever original 0x6789 as its key.
It will import some, but some are not supported at all because the Aperture data model is more complex and complete than Photos'...
When someone offers to sell you unmeasurable benefits, guard your wallet.

I don't deny that there are things of value that are hard to quantify with precision. That doesn't mean they can't be measured at all. For something to be of value, it must have detectable consequences, at least statistically or eventually. The detection of its consequence is a measurement, and that consequence, even if roughly measured, can be compared to the cost to achieve it. If it has no detectable consequences at all, though, it is not worth paying for.

If the schools tell you that they are teaching "critical thinking", for example, ask them for a demonstration of something a child can now do that he couldn't before his critical thinking instruction. If they can come up with something, they've figured out a way to measure it; if not, it's either just a meaningless buzzword or they don't know enough about critical thinking to be paid to teach it.

When they tell you that your past increases to their pay have produced no measurable improvements but lots of unmeasurable improvements, tell them that until they can find a way to measure those improvements, their future compensation increases will be in the form of unmeasurable benefits.
>> I make robots in Chicago and sell them on Tindie.

So, let's say now you need 10,000 of them. For 1/4 the price. Delivered next month.

That's where Shenzhen starts looking really nice.

Especially if you've already got reliable contacts there, like Bolt does with Dragon Innovation.
Do people not realize that a car is consumable good. There are many costs which people are not considering when renting out their cars including tires, brakes, oil changes,and of course the incalculable wear and tear that will bite you in the ass later. The rates for these "rental" cars are just screwing the car owners and raking in cash for the platform.

/rant
This island's shape reminds me of Corsica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsica).
That line of thinking goes both way. A game designer might need a supporting graphic library, but graphic itself is no the main function of the game. The developer just want to wrap the functionality of the library, yet the license of the game is now dictated by the graphic library. Releasing the whole work under a open license would be piracy.

Same problem exist with complete overhaul mods to game. Counter strike simply wrapped around half-life. Half-life was not the main function of CS, yet if they had been giving out CS with half-life under a open license it would again be piracy.

Thus it is hard to see a world where copyright would allow someone to ignore the license as long the "library" is not the main functionality. It would be a nice world, a world with remixing and a explosion of creativity, but a very different world from one that we got now.
Emoticons in texts can rack up huge bills
SolidEnergy also looks like it has a solid team behind it as well.

http://www.solidenergysystems.com/people.html
Maybe you just need to write your resume better, and work on soft skills when talking to recruiters and hiring managers? Maybe secure an internship to collect even more job experience while looking for a better job?

Experience matters more than pay. Do anything to get a software or IT job, and then eventually hop to something better. Howard Stern (the super rich radio guy) used to make barely anything for a very long time.
KDE actually marks easy jobs as junior jobs for new contributors:

https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_...

And their bug tracker is fairly pretty too.
What I find surprising is that a Soviet style state run economy has not proven to be more successful. By exercising central control they should have been able to drastically reduce the number of variables and with sufficiently sophisticated planning maybe eventually gained a competitive advantage. I guess unfortunately it collapsed before the advent of powerful enough computer systems.
I was under the impression that farms increasingly rely on the "Tractor as a Service" business model, i.e. they pay someone who has a fleet of the latest tractors (incl operators) to harvest their fields etc.
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Are you living in a simulation? – Nick Bostrom (2003)
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That's why the proverbial "tapes" should not be actual tapes but full Hadoop nodes. Just unrack them and go (or ship an entire rack). http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6457...
> I suppose you could say created in the head of each person exposed to them.

I created Harry Potter, not J.K. Rowlings? My labor in reading the novels is equal to her labor in writing them?

I think that argument falls flat particularly with copyright because there is no copyright liability in the face of independent creation. Copyright doesn't prevent anyone from owning their original ideas, even if other people independently think of the same idea.
UK Spent More Money 'Guarding' Assange Than in Iraq War Probe
Thalmic has hundred of millions in sales!? or were you referring to another one from the list?
That's not quite how it gets expensed (nor how it works).

Canonical's cloud business might be profitable (even though Canonical as a whole is very-mush-so-not), however their cloud business is not coupled to Ubuntu, ie. they could use any Linux Distro, or any OS for the matter.

Ubuntu is a total loss center for Canonical. It's surprising to a lot of people given it's popularity... but popularity doesn't equal profitability... especially when most users don't pay anything for the software (not even support fees).
I suspect that the majority of us know what we should do, but never get around to it. I have photos spread across a dozen storage options, only one of them with any backup in place. My wife deals with hers separately and has no off-site or cloud back up. Between us, we have a lot of photos.

I think a lot of people will simply go with the convenient option offered by the big player and risk it (nothing sordid stored in my collections anyway, so security is less of a drama).
Yes, the API credentials for the service are different from the Bluemix login. To get the API credentials, you have to create a service through Bluemix, bind it to a Bluemix application and get the credentials from the VCAP_SERVICES of that Bluemix app. There's a getting started page describing these steps at http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl... (We hope to make this process simpler in the future!)
That was fast. Great job guys!
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Please file a radar! I hope it's on their roadmap, but if not, better to ask for it now than wait until after the app is released.

http://bugreport.apple.com
Why confidence that it is a human is higher than confidence that it is a placental mammal, and confidence that it is a placental mammal is higher than confidence that it is an animal? More specific descriptions must have less confidence.

Or Watson is not confident that humans are placental mammals and placental mammals are animals?
Having to use FB for both login and then File picker is one too many.
he already receives a $60k/year grant from them https://twitter.com/dmw_83/status/563448845733203970
I'm curious to know if there's any proof for this?
The domain doesn't prove they knew anything then. It's too generic, it's not like it was something like anthemdatabreachfacts.com.

The company just changed its name from Wellpoint to Anthem in December and could have bought up a bunch of "anthem*.com" domain names around then to keep in reserve.
Ahh, politics: (insert nebulous threat) is going to eat your children!
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Is this just becoming the easy thing to do? Blame China or Russia while the story is still hot off the press? It seems that every time a company is hacked, the first thing they do is exclaim how some big, scary government is behind it or how "incredibly complex" the hack was. "Oh yeah, we lost your entire life's information, but it was the most complicated hacking attack we've every seen!" "Our team has never seen something of this magnitude." "We immediately disabled the threat the second our complex internal systems detected the activity." Every hack has the same corporate response.
Awesome use of Apocryphal (had to look it up).

Apocryphal: (of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true.
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