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No, I think it's an ideal in the style of "wouldn't it be nice if there was affordable healthcare / no crime (pick your pet peeve)". I mean, 99% of people want affordable healthcare / no crime, why can't we get to a state when there's affordable healthcare / no crime? (and the simple answer is the same: the existing power structure and enough pawns benefit from the existing situation as it is). I am saying that as someone living in a country with affordable care, btw - but the last 80 years of politics in the US indicate it will take a miracle or catastrophy for the US to do the right thing. I bet on the latter.

I think that without another very significant shift in the status quo (one I can't really anticipate, and it seems neither do you), it CANNOT work.

Take your idea ad absurdum - the world needs laptops - why don't all the [currently chinese] laptop manufacturers unionize and charge 5 times as much? I mean, we can definitely afford them, they provide most people with enough benefit to support that price. Exactly the same arguments apply, and similar reasons why it won't work. Programmers are not special snowflakes - they (we) are much closer to being a commodity.

Also, I think you are delusional in thinking all programmers deliver >$300k of value (which is needed for a $200k salary, all things considered - don't forget payroll taxes, healthcare, and other expenses, as well as minimal profit). Some only deliver $50k in value, and are well paid at the $80k they earn.
Sometimes I worry a tiny bit that if we manage to pin down the exact lifetime dollar value of college to $X, the market will happily adjust the price of college to ($X-1)
You have the raw end of the deal, not him. If an HR person can't make a judgement on whether a candidate is good or not other than by their qualifications (or they're actively marking the individual down when they have the experience but not the piece of paper), then the chances of the other employees at the company being chosen poorly is high.

If he got no interviews whatsoever, then it'd be a cause for concern. But it seems to me he's got a more optimal list of possible future employers.
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This is the tech they are using:

https://research.nvidia.com/publication/near-eye-light-field...
> Apple is different because for nearly 40 years they have been honest and forthright and treating people different. Google says "don't be evil" and then goes out and does evil. Apple doesn't say it, they just don't do it.

Google and Apple behave similarly, as far as I can tell. TBH, I wouldn't call either company "evil," but they're both equally unfriendly to users, IMO. I'm curious why you think Apple is less "evil"?

> And it ignores the fundamental truth: Apple's product is really nice software sold in a hardware box. Google's product is your private info.

That's not a fundamental truth, and it's a false dichotomy. Apple's products are both software/hardware AND private info.
Apple's statements about privacy, combined poor end-user control and openness (transparency), are an interesting dichotomy. Usually I associate privacy with the latter two. What does it mean without them?

1) To what degree can you trust the systems without openness? Maybe what Cook thinks is valuable data, adequate confidentiality, or acceptable risk, is not what you think. On the other hand, few people actually review the security of FOSS systems.

2) To what degree can you have confidentiality without controlling the system and data? Maybe tomorrow an update will expose your data because you're doing something Apple didn't anticipate or approve. On the other hand, from a system administrator's perspective, it's much easier to secure systems that the sysadmin manages and controls than systems controlled by the users.
"I don't know how it is in most countries, but in the United States, an employee gets unemployment when they get laid off."

Thats assuming they were officially laid off, not let go for performance reasons even though it was actually company downsizing, and are eligible to collect unemployment. Since companies usually have to cover some of the unemployment payments they will fight unemployment claims or even fire a employee for a BS reason. So unemployment is far from guaranteed. IIRC IBM recently used those tactics in their latest mass layoff.
> Cook went on to state, as he has before when talking about products like Apple Pay, that Apple ‘doesn’t want your data.’

I was actually somewhat disappointed by the Apple Pay approach (and that Android Pay is going to follow suit). I'd actually much rather have Apple or Google as an intermediary and give the credit card issuer no information about my transaction. It may seem nice to say that your phone OS sees no data about it, but of course the tradeoff is that the issuer does, and they are notorious sellers to data brokers.

I'd much rather have one time tokens for both the seller and the bank, and only my phone knows what actually happened in between.
Likely explanation for the downvotes: By stating "Apple has had face recognition in Aperture, and probably iPhoto" here, you're heavily implying some things which aren't true at all.

In particular, you're implying that as well as including local face recognition features, Apple is somehow transmitting face recognition data to its servers and/or elsewhere. This is simply not true; these features are entirely local.
It's not a binary decision of college or "no-college"... It's a matter of considering the "space" of portfolios of other experiences you could assemble for potentially greater value (including non-financial value) at lower expense.
Can Apple really deliver the security it promises? Hundreds of millions of systems being used and configured in every way imaginable, and a very attractive target for attackers -- I don't know what promises I would make publicly.
Not quite fair. HR people have a huge number of applicants. They need something to winnow down the field. They could choose white males, or blue-eyed females, or athletes, or anything really. And still have a pretty good cross-section of candidates, some with skills.

So they choose college degree, for (somewhat) defensible reasons. And they interview those that pass the filter, and choose 'good fits'. Which is what they'd have done if they had used any filter at all.
It looks like AMD is skipping 20/22:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(microarchitecture)

http://www.pcgamer.com/amds-next-gen-zen-cpu-due-in-2016/

Seems like the next chip after Carrizo is targeted at 14nm fin-something.

Which, if it pans out, would put Intel & AMD on the same node for the first time in a while. Supposedly Intel's first 10nm part isn't due until 2017:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_%28microarchitecture%29
They have a ton of very high-profile investors, it can't be purely hype. It's hard to believe Google would put half a billion dollars into a company without seeing something concrete and impressive.
If you're stuck in a crappy job making $30k a year and you're single, that works out to about $100 a month--many people pay that much for their cell phone bill. I don't think that's particularly burdensome.

If on the other hand you make you get a better paying job making $60k your payment will be about $350 a month, and you'll pay off the average student loan debt (close to $30k) in about 10 years.
Agree. There was this great demotivational poster that summed up my belief. Where is it...ah:
http://despair.com/collections/demotivators/products/motivat...
MOTIVATION: If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.

My motivation comes from a wellspring of desire to know. Desire to master. If someone needs another human to be that source of motivation, then they are already doomed. Degree or not.
> One good step would be to prohibit laws to be named with nice words and acronyms ("Freedom", "Patriot", etc).

Agreed. It's propaganda, and we should question the motives of the legislators. Who are they spinning this for? Shouldn't the bills speak for themselves, and their consituents make up their own minds?

At least some laws used to be named for their sponsors, e.g., the "Nunn–Lugar Act".
Yeah so I think that's where I see things differently over here in Australia. While 'degree leads to higher income' is still a common belief here, I don't think that there's that requirement to have a degree, let alone from a top uni (like you mentioned in SV).

Although I'm still relatively early in my career (23 years old) - Lacking a degree has never been a problem for me and I've still ended up in a pretty well paid job.
I find it hard to believe that a top tier degree is required for anyone with 5+ years experience. Is that actually true?
I guess. It's a tradeoff, really. I find it very convenient to store all my photos with Google, for instance, and I make that decision with eyes wide open. Same with search history or even location history. I'm sympathetic to the argument that there are a lot of consumers making that decision without full knowledge (the help documents are actually pretty good[1], but you have to know they exist to read them). However, I'm not remotely sympathetic to the idea there's no possible reason one would make that tradeoff.

[1] https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068
Not only that but they include more documentation inside the binary. Someone also pointed out to me one time that some features in some GNU utils are only possible to have if they are implemented in the binary, rather as a separate program.
I have a health condition that is just as serious as MS (and is similar to MS in some ways). None of my doctors (over a 20 year period) ever suggested that I change my diet, but for me, changing my diet is the closest thing to a treatment that I will ever see. I WISH that somebody had suggested that I change my diet, because if I had done it years ago, I might not have progressed as far as I have. So I'm sorry if the guy I responded to has had tons of people suggest to him that he should change his diet, but for me, it was the opposite. No one suggested it. I tried it on my own, out of desperation and despite my doctors poo-pooing the idea. And it worked. I guess I got lucky, but there are lots of stories just like mine.

The fact is that doctors are often NOT that helpful for people with complicated neurological conditions (no one knows this better than I do!), so some of us are left to fend for ourselves. Given that that's the case, I don't see what's so terrible about asking someone whether they have tried a treatment that some people have found to be effective. My perspective is that an elimination diet is worth a try for anyone with an autoimmune or difficult-to-diagnose neurological condition. That opinion is based on a lot more knowledge and personal experience than you have assumed it is, but it's true that I didn't make that clear in my comment.

The only reason I even responded to MyBunny was that he said that he was having "a hard time finding hope." I thought that if there was even a sliver of a chance that my suggestion could help him find hope, then it was worth getting downvoted to oblivion. But if my voice is merely one of a chorus that have suggested the same worthless idea to him, then for that I am sorry.

Ultimately, I do see your point, and thank you for your perspective, but I don't think that I can entirely agree with you.
That's quite a burden, right up there with a mortgage. Back in the day I paid off my student loan debt in 3 years, then my wife's in one more year. And we went to Stanford. Things have gotten way out of whack.
I find taking pot shots at competing companies really cheap.
Its 2015 and by now I think most people are aware that Facebook and Google collect all the information they can so that they can offer their services for 'free'.

How many would really pay for email, cloud storage, search, social network, browser..? what guarantees do I have that the government will NOT have access to my data if I pay for it?
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Not sure how recently it was changed, but on my phone running iOS 8.3 that setting is under Privacy -> Advertising.
The degree is a filter to get the interview. Once you're in the door your skills are what matters. But you have to get in the door.
You, me, and Apple. But no payment company would ever agree, so it's pretty much a non-starter for another 5 or 10 years.
> If someone doesn't have the motivation to get through college classes, it's unlikely that they'll have the motivation to learn on their own with online videos and exercises.

If you don't have the motivation to learn something, then I posit that you haven't framed the topic in the right way. I like this quote from Feynman:

> "I don't know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."

The only way I'm going to put in the effort to learn something (really learn it, not just pass the class) is if I find it interesting in some way. I'm sure that awesome professors are great at framing topics in the right way, but I can also see myself doing that.

For example, 3D graphics. There can be a lot of tedious math and programming involved, but if you can master it, you have the ultimate ability to visualize anything you can think of.
That's almost exactly what I was thinking.

Anybody with decent grades can get into the local branch of their state school, live with their parents/friends, and graduate with minimal debt. It's not as sexy as going to a big name school and living in the dorms, but it's a lot smarter in the long run. It's especially true in a field like Computer Science, where it's so easy to impress people with results. To most people a degree from MIT means a lot less than a profile of impressive projects, and the projects don't cost an arm and a leg.
No, it's discrimination against men. Where is all of the outrage?
I follow this issue and read a lot about it, and I'm still not sure what powers the NSA has, other federal and state agencies have, under what laws, and which have been restricted.

It would be a valuable public service -- more than all the newspaper articles and press releases -- if someone who knows all that could make a simple table: Agency | Power | Limits | Legal authority
I've got vim set up to use the system clipboard automatically. Want to visit a URL in a readme file? yiW, tab over to chrome (with vimium), hit P to open it in a new tab. Want to add a URL to documentation? yy it from chrome, tab to terminal, p it in.
I think he was pointing out that they've had privacy-focused face detection in their products for some time now.
I think Apple may be communicating something different: I think Tim Cook is merely criticizing that those companies make money off of your information somehow, while giving you a service "for free".

I don't think that precludes Apple from using machine learning techniques on mass-collected data.
This is pretty cool, the scale is one reason almost any time Facebook publishes something in "big data" subject it is worth to read.
I do pay for email, cloud storage and browser. There's a strong argument my personal information should not be harvested by the folks I paid.

But paying for things is entirely unrelated to the government having access to your data. The govt can require a company to collect personal information that passes through their hands, even if they weren't collecting it for business purposes.
They are setting the stage for announcing the launch of their google now compete which they will sell as more secure and private (no selling your info for ads!) [0]

This is all part of their marketing campaign.

[0] http://9to5mac.com/2015/05/27/apples-proactive-to-take-on-go...
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Please don't do it, however great technical feat it is, the truth is, it sucks. I hate those the most in facebook.
Why is VirtualBox a prereq? This appears to be a locally-run web app, unless I'm missing something.
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yeah, well, google has made it difficult for 3rd-party analytics tools to collect query data so analytics is really the only thing you can use.
It does at least boot to Hello OPAL and the menu. Having some trouble interacting with it, but that could equally be IPMI. Will do a blog post and send you the link :)
You seem to think that "pro-privacy" is equivalent to "don't collect any private information".

It's not. Not at all.
> BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

That is shutting out a very real group of extremely talented people. You can't teach initiative and passion.
> credit card issuer no information about my transaction

Since the credit card issuer is actually the one paying (and you, in turn, pay them) this doesn't at all seem reasonable. Apple Pay is the middle man.
I get value from Google's personalized search and Facebook's customization of my News Feed. I'm not saying those services don't exist to drive company profit, but I do think that machine learning and personalization can add value for the end user.
One reason why researchers inappropriately link their findings to a disease is because grant agencies don't really fund basic research anymore. So if you want to do basic research, you just think of the most relevant disease and spin the impact of your results when reporting back to the grant agency and to the press. The actual paper won't actual make any grand claims, except something at the end of the discussion that's like "oh and this will let us figure out MS."

The problem is that basic research really is crucial to understanding many diseases, but you can't get it funded because it's not sexy enough (or really, because funding has been cut so much in most countries). So on one hand, the claims that you see are definitely blown out of proportion, but it doesn't mean that something useful wasn't learned. You'd have to read the paper to really know.
The new macbook is for people who are 100% focussed on mobility, and nothing else. That is a small niche of people. Think of it like an non-touch iPad with a keyboard, and you kind of have a sense of its purpose. The vision for the Macbook is "Wireless".

Just looking at your use cases though:

o Charging - the idea is that you have battery life in the 8+ hour range, so that when you are connected to a projector, you don't need to be charging.

o Reading a presentation off a USB key while connected to a projector - I've been doing that exact thing for the last 3 years, on an almost weekly basis - and 100% of the time I borrow the USB key for a second, and then hand it back to the owner (or put it in my USB wallet). The important thing there is sufficient local storage.

But yes - The MacBook is probably not for you, and it's definitely not for me.

I'm just psyched that my next MacBook Air (or whatever they call it - maybe I'll have to move upstream to the Macbook Pro if they dump the "Air" line) will have three USB capable ports instead of the current 2 + 1 Thunderbolt.
> AMD aren't going to compete with Intel on battery life

Why not?
It would be simpler for sure, but there's no way to be sure of the future (i.e., at the financing) relationship between share price and overall valuation. This is because, of course, the noteholders can't know how many shares will be outstanding at that point.

If you wanted to translate a $5MM cap, for example, into the equivalent price per share, you need to know how many shares are involved. The noteholders don't know what that number will be when they enter into the notes.
A desire not to die in abject poverty. (I kid...)

I realized a) that I was unlikely to get a tenure-track position, and b) that even if I were to get one, I didn't really enjoy the work of a tenure-track professor, which tends to be more about fundraising and having meetings, and less about doing research.

(More flippantly, I realized that the life of a modern, tenured academic looks a lot like the life of a small business owner. So why not just go into startups, where there's a chance of making real money for the lifetime of effort?)
Because the author was nice enough to provide a Vagrantfile that can easily spin up a box that gets provisioned with all the required software installed. Sure you could probably run it on your host OS, but why would you even want to bother with that?
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I'm beyond thrilled at this, because the chilling effects point hasn't been made nearly often enough. My version is at http://www.dbms2.com/2013/07/29/very-chilling-effects/

That it happens to be commercially advantageous for him to say that his business model is more virtuous than Google's or Facebook's doesn't bother me. In fact, I think there are fixes that could preserve their business models yet reduce the threat. Great. In the mean time, we need people to understand that unfettered surveillance and data use, taken together, are a drastic threat to human freedom.
> Not a month goes by without my iPad requesting my iCloud password so it can back up my entire tablet

It sounds like you have Settings -> iCloud -> Backup -> iCloud Backup turned on.

> They are collecting and analysing PII data all the time.

What sort of evidence do you have to support this?
Intel's ever-widening process advantage makes that unlikely, processor design entirely notwithstanding. Unfortunate, but it's the result of being stuck on 28nm for 4 years and counting now.
That's not necessary. Also, lack of emissions would attract attention, and so be counterproductive. But using shielded equipment in a shielded room, that would be prudent for private work.
> For years we’ve offered encryption services like iMessage and FaceTime because we believe the contents of your text messages and your video chats is none of our business.

Sounds great, but take note that it's none of their business today and we know they can be compelled to spy on their users by NSLs.

They control the key infrastructure with their closed-source software that runs on their closed-source hardware.

If they wanted to go into the business of sucking up all of your private messages and parsing them to sell advertising or if the government wants to read some messages, they wouldn't need to do anything besides issue you a different key.

iMessage won't even let you look at the fingerprints of your friends, and it won't warn you if they've changed. [1]

[1] http://blog.quarkslab.com/imessage-privacy.html
I downvoted this comment. Your claims that your startup could have been where Google is if it weren't for "VC interference", and that a search engine necessarily requires "decades worth of historical info from past crawls" are both of the sort that require at least some explanation beyond mere assertion.
this really makes me mad. Now I can't do any work!
So the same group that wants less harassment online also wants a policy that will make harassment infinitely harder to prevent.

If this is what this group is protesting about, they must not have too many serious issues.
This is all connections, even if every connection attempt from a given IP succeeds?

It's not a bad policy overall, but of course it interferes with a legitimate use: a script which rapidly executes numerous SSH commands.
I got an offer from a famous SV company and I went to a mediocre public university.

I don't have ten years of experience, and I don't think I'm particularly exceptional. I think you're just being more pessimistic than is warranted. SV is definitely not a perfect meritocracy but it's not exactly France circa 1788 either.
Location: Waterloo, Ontario

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