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> When I'm picking something as simple as a restaurant, I typically want options, I want to read reviews, I want to consider distance, parking, attire, etc.

For me, a lot of what you're doing here is the work that should be done by a machine. Considering "distance, parking, attire, etc." is basically what we have simplex method for.

But I agree the questions seem very vague in the context. To run such errands successfully, the program would have to know much more about your preferences than current iterations of personal assistant software do. And/or hold a dialog with you, asking for details and proposing options.
Interesting observation from link 1, is one full time employee per 6 students, but

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/11/nj_schools_struggle...

Claims that boots on the ground, the average math class size is 26 students. With 35K students that implies 1350 or so classroom teachers, and 4250 non-classroom instructor employees. Obviously not all four thousand are deadwood, somebody needs to empty the trash cans and somebody needs to be in charge, but "more or less" most of the 4000 deadwood could be fired with no negative impact to the students. That's a heck of an administrative load!

And thats how $100M disappears. (edited to add thats only $25K per deadwood)
I agree that valuation is not real relevant, but what is a 9/80 work schedule?
Interesting thought:
"By the year 3000 there is a great chance we'll all have gotten over our fear, our conflict with government, and ourselves."

By gotten over, did you mean we'll have given in to the fact that there will be an observer (albeit a benevolent one?) or that we'll have stopped caring about the intent of the observer?
The privacy of the 40 million cannot be bought back.
Every single factor in education is overwhelmed by parental involvement. If Mr. Zuckerberg wanted his $100 million to have an impact, he should have payed parents to participate in their children's education.
Apple Pay and/or cash defeats this, though.
That can be a short-sighted view, geopolitically. Look at the dependency many countries have on Russia for gas these days.
Fair point, but I would say that a mathematician might require more intense concentration than a programmer.
I completely agree, there is a similar saying which says something like "A vain king is a deaf king." Which observes that people who look only for good news or flattery will not hear bad news or problems.

That is why these sorts of things are a good test of management maturity. If problems like this get reflected up to the person in charge (and ultimately responsible), and nothing happens, then it is on them. If they go up and the metrics change so they can't happen in the future, then its a company learning from its mistakes. If you witness the full cycle (a problem emerges, the folks who are responsible are notified, they take some action, the problem persists, and there is no new update) then you can confidently choose to leave knowing that the people at the top want it to be that way, if on the other hand you see problems get fixed as they arise, then you can confidently choose to stay, knowing that bad situations are not intentional and will be fixed.
Once privacy disappears we can actually base our morality on data rather than wishful thinking. It's the transition period (i.e. now) where we have pretty arbitrary morals largely based on ancient religious texts, etc. and we're finally getting actual data on what people actually do that is the nasty part.

E.g. we know that rich people have always obtained abortions, used illegal drugs, and had promiscuous sex, but public morality and social mores were constructed entirely on the fiction that this was the exception and not the rule.
Simple fact, he did not call Mexican immigrants to the United States "criminals, drug dealers, rapists".

What he said is: Mexico government sent "criminals, drug dealers, rapists" to the U.S.

Maybe you don\t care the difference. whatever.
I wouldn't go so far as to say it's irrelevant but you are making a very good point.
Bay Area FreeBSD User Group (BAFUG) August 2015 meeting. There's a video recording available at http://www.nextbsd.org/jordan-hubbard-visits-bafug/
It's really not that interesting. I was 15 and played around with some computers that belongs to the US Navy. Then one day at 6 am I heard a loud knock on the front door.
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Watching a spacecraft fall in the desert
Used his power and influence to replace incompetent and corrupt officials and bring in some low skilled job to improve the socioeconomic status of the population.

There is a much better article [0] of what went wrong here.

[0]http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/19/schooled
What makes you think the state would do so much better?
Socioeconomic discrimination is the great divide of our time.
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Eep, this is just a link to our github repo, where we've been hacking on for a while. We were actually preparing for a launch next week, but we're not quite there yet.

(Hope our actual launch isn't marked as a "dupe" of this... :) )
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I appreciate the sentiment but I don't think allowing Mark Zuckerberg to direct exactly how the money is to be spent is really the best solution to the problem.
Yup. That's why believe that any "personal assistant" technology run by a commercial third party will be shit - it'll be used to try and sell you stuff, not recommend actually good options.
That's odd because there are tons of Asians at their schools.
Consultants worth $20M? My god.
Sort of too late now... but could probably have been done by not donating the lump sum, but setting up a "trust fund" that would give out money (or not) for specific projects. This probably would have been met with more resistance and more discussions, because it easily looks like someone external enforcing a specific way, so everybody who is unhappy complains about that. And Zuckerberg probably gives a good enemy figure for many in that regard.

Also, the structural issues would remain and even more impossible to tackle, so I think a fund mostly could have slowed the process and probably would have redirected the money to more small-scale issues (because these are easier to get through). Which probably would have been the better alternative with what we know now...
I'd say the part where vezzy-fnord talks about the couple's "prerogative" and "things that are none of your concern" set the context in terms of moral rights, not whether it can possible affect the other person.

I can see where one might read it differently, though, but I confess I fail to see the point in discussing from that POV.
It also has to do with how people value their time. On the PC, I'm willing to do some research before I plop down 60 bucks on a game. On mobile it would be the same amount of work for me to research, but I'm only looking at spending 2-4 dollars. In that scenario just going with the free option and deleting it if I don't like it makes more sense.
> The union boss, Joe Del Grosso, demanded a ransom of $31 million to compensate for what he felt members should have received in previous years — before agreeing to discuss any labor reforms.

Zuckerberg's relatively hands-off approach to the donation seemed curious to me. He's a savvy guy. Would he invest $100 million in a failing company without replacing the existing leadership?

The problem in places like Newark isn't money. Newark City and Camden spend $24-25k per student per year, just a couple of thousand less than expensive suburbs like Monmouth County, and double the national average. When a system that has plenty of money is that dysfunctional, there's a underlying reason, and pumping money into it won't fix the problem.
So if I win a client from a competing business, I'm extorting money?

Reactionary changes are just that. Raise taxes or min. wage and businesses move to do what's best for them. That's not ransom.
Ah, the cute dog Netto, always a nice surprise when you come to the north from the south. And not half as weird as seeing wrong-colored Aldis ;)
Yes, I think this is the essence of the problem: the PTO and the courts have a very hard time distinguishing a nonobvious invention from an easy problem that merely happens to have been solved for the first time (as far as the PTO can tell).

I have occasionally seen a software patent with an idea that was not obvious at least to me, but I haven't seen many of them. Most have been as you describe: once the requirements are understood, there is no difficulty designing a system to satisfy them. It's just that (again, as far as the PTO can tell) nobody has come across that particular set of requirements before.

I think that in order to litigate a patent, the patentee should be required to provide evidence that their invention was nonobvious. The PTO is poorly equipped and structured to do a good job filtering out obvious "inventions" (for example, examiners have no incentives to do so); and yet, as things stand, the courts defer to the PTO on this question. I think the rules should be changed so the court has to be persuaded of the nonobviousness of the patent before the suit can proceed. That would be a potentially adversarial proceeding itself, in that the defendant would be allowed to argue that the invention is obvious, but the primary burden of proof would be on the patentee.

One could argue that this would put on the court a job that should belong to the PTO, and that argument has some merit, but here's a counterargument. It's often hard to tell, when a patent application is filed, how much the potential patent will be worth. Delaying part of the effort involved in evaluating the patent until such a time that the patentee has actually decided to litigate makes some economic sense. More to the point, it is often easier to show nonobviousness once some time has passed. One of the Graham factors [0] that can be used as evidence of nonobviousness is commercial success of a product based on the invention. Such success can't have occurred yet at the time the patent application is filed.

The change I am proposing would constitute a massive shift in the balance of power between patentees and alleged infringers, and a lot of oxen would be gored; I'm well aware of that. A lot of companies would see the putative value of their patent portfolios drop precipitously. Against that, they would have to worry a lot less about being sued.

I'd be interested in your take on this, as you've been inside the system a lot more than I have.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_v._John_Deere_Co.#The_P...
Really? I feel the consensus around the time was that it coincided with the release of The Social Network movie and that Zuckerberg was basically trying to buy some good press to offset how he was portrayed in the movie.
>Meanwhile, if a teacher or a nurse says the same thing, you get:

>> The union boss, Joe Del Grosso,

non-sequitur. Del Grosso isn't a teacher or a nurse. Unions in New Jersey is a pretty specific kind of entrepreneural activity and well covered in many famous literature and TV works.

>The superintendent, Cami Anderson, demanded accountability from schools but set her own performance goals only after the academic year was largely over and relied on expensive consultants — whose total bill ultimately exceeded $20 million

having grown in USSR/Russia, my first instinctive calculation produces $15M kickback such situation must involve ... of course here things are completely different and expensive consultants is just an expensive and necessary cost of teaching math and reading to schoolchildren :)
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Not really. If your are a current employee, you usually can sell %10 of your vested stock during secondaries, which amounts to about $20k until you reach full vesting at the $1b valuation. The secondaries come up every one or two years. If your not working there anymore, you cannot enter the secondary. Most of your stock is still illiquid, and GooFaceSoft is still the better idea.

Finding sellers outside of employer sponsored secondaries can be pretty hard and involves a lot of labor. Time better spent making money directly with new consulting clients. Usually the corporation wont be very helpful in selling your stock. ESO fund & others can be pretty picky and you have a good chance they might change their mind a few months later as you try after you have gotten all of your required documentation.

As an employee / contractor, you won't have investor level access to financials, reporting or the resources to fully understand them.

That dilution level does happen. It's happened to friends as they climbed from a $5m company to a $1b company.

Also if you get options or equity of some sort, make sure that the options do not expire until at least 20 years later. You do not want the 90 days after termination problem a lot of people have. 20 years seems long, but there are stories of people's 7 year stock options expiring because the company hasn't gone public in those 7 years!

And make sure you have easy access to these required documents, since they are often required to sell your equity when the company is private:
http://www.slideshare.net/KeyvanFirouziCFACPA/equity-101-for...
That's such nonsense though. The gigfactory didn't exist and they were looking for a place to build it. That is not quite the same as threatening to move an existing business that presumably employs a lot of people in the area.
It's also extremely slow.

It's much faster for me to hit a few filters on things like prices and locations. Distance is just a simple ".2 miles away" text on the box, which shows an image and snippets of reviews. People are more and more visual.

I don't think a conversational interface _replaces_ a visual one.

It's that the initial query can be complicated, and it allows you to get into that 5-6 tier deep part of your search that you would have gotten to by using 5 filters and scrolling through 50 results.
So it is a fantasy then I guess... Seems like there might be an opportunity for a large firm to handle the other side of it in a similar manner by using efficiencies of scale. Becoming the defacto law firm for these cases and managing a large volume for a smaller margin.

But then I guess it's just more lawyers keeping other lawyers employed.
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In PL wonga.com advertises strictly to elderly (using famous older actors for added nostalgia and trust factor), they intensify ad campaign during holiday season, 'your family deserves good holiday with great gifts!'.
Well, is that surprising? Politically speaking, in word the US is committed to integrated schools but in deed it is not really a priority and most of efforts do essentially look like "separate but equal." I think it's shameful but it's reality.
Cool, I hadn't found any browsers that worked well with it mobily and Messenger has become the lowest common denominator for group messaging, among my friends at least, particularly for Android, I've just resigned to using it. I'll check out Tinfoil for Facebook though, thanks.
Right on! Thanks for the feedback and hope you enjoy Mixmax.
I'm in a very similar situation in terms of discussing a short term consulting + possible CTO role. I don't know if we will proceed with it, but based on my plan my advice is:

First do the consulting gig, charge a proper market rate (cash, no equity) for the work and do a great job of it. Define an visible and achievable target for this, rather than starting to implement an open-ended project that you won't finish in the time.

At the end of this, if everything goes well and you like the company, negotiate terms for the full-time role. This will be the right time to do it: You will be in a strong position having demonstrated your skills up close and produced something of value to the company. You've charged a good rate for your work so if you don't agree terms you also aren't "down" financially.

During your consulting period, apply for other jobs (if that's what you want instead of your current consulting work). If you have some other good offers on the table, you will be able to walk away if their terms aren't good enough and you will have a good floor for your market value.
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This is quintessential americana.
I completely agree.

To make this useful, perhaps you could set up some kind of saved preferences. For example, let's say I'm setting up a business trip. I like hotels that are within 1 mile of the conference center, and they have to be at least 3.5 stars and up. Provided they meet those criteria, the cheapest option is acceptable. I also need a plane flight that has no more than 1 layover, and that layover cannot last longer than 90 minutes or less than 45. I am willing to pay up to 25% more for a nonstop flight. The flight must arrive the day before the conference, but it can depart on the day the conference ends.

Setting up those criteria for each individual search would be irritating and a waste of effort, as they don't change from trip to trip. However, if I could say something like "Let me tell you about my criteria for choosing a location for a business trip.", and then go into detail once, that might work. Hell, I'd be perfectly happy setting up the details on a website. Then, the next time I said "I need to set up a business trip", all it would need to ask is the conference center and the dates of the conference.

Until it supports these kinds of detailed requests, it doesn't make sense to use these kinds of services in the way they market them - you'll end up using it in the same limited way you could use Siri. For example, if you've already decided what restaurant you want, you might say "Make me a reservation at Dorsia for 7:30 this evening" instead of the examples you provided.

Just my 2 cents.
Yeah they ought to call them boring unity and exciting unity.
Business people who move jurisdictions due to tax hikes are not 'ransoming' anyone - its their own private property and they can move where ever they want.

Politicians who are too stupid to realize that raising taxes causes capital flight deserve to lose businesses from their city/state.

Your idea is against the whole notion of private property. "Work like sheep for the government all you business owners and if you move or close it down we're going to arrest you"
That depends on whether the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in a well-regulated militia includes HERF guns, I reckon.

After the whole Snowden revelation, I'm a little scared of googling for "HERF gun", however.
I'm aware of those people. I'll formally apologize in a twitter post if a significant portion of the AM clients were in open marriages.

> They think honesty is more important.

Yeah, that's a false dichotomy. And are monogamous marriages dishonest? That's oddly judgmental for an appeal for open-mindedness. Or you meant something else by "honesty", like realistic?. I guess that's slightly less judgy.

A lot of these philosophical arguments get bogged down in boring bickering about word definitions. Marriage, traditionally, has implied "monogamous". At least "adultery" and "cheating" do.
I, for example, one of those who is very active on FB both through Desktop and their Mobile App, but do not use their Messenger app since they separated it from the main app. I also don't intend to install it unless they add something amazing value added to its simple messaging. What is infuriating that they download all the messages on my phone even when I don't have messenger installed, but force me to install another app instead just to see them.
> Being a minority in a referendum leaves you with being exactly that -- the minority in a referendum.

The point is, if there is reasonable number of referenda, you're (unless your views are extreme) unlikely to be always in the minority, and vice versa, you're unlikely to be always in the majority. So you get quickly exposed to "being on the other side of the fence". This IMHO doesn't happen in the U.S. because it is deeply divided according to party lines.

> we should similarly not forget that Proposition 8 was the result of referendum

Similar thing to Prop. 8 happened to Switzerland, you just need to give people time, because they are generally conservative (meaning "cautious", not in political/religious sense). I think this was case of some benefits for disabled people, first it was shot down in the referendum by similarly thin majority, but few years later the referendum was repeated and the proposal passed.
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I don't see any way that this could be counted as inappropriate. They're asking you to come on board and they should feel comfortable with you understanding their business.
Fananciers and businessmen don't base their calls to raise their salaries at the public expense on the premise that it'll be good for children.
Agree. Those are too broad.

I'm thinking "get me a dinner reservation next sunday with patio seating for 5 in the east village at an upscale tapas place".

As I mentioned elsewhere on this page, my thesis around conversational interfaces isn't that they start off broad and use more Q/A to refine your query. That's slow, and people are visual.

Rather, their power lies in the user being able to express a complex query in one go - which is equivalent to tapping 10-15 filters and scrolling through results - ideally combining data from sources that aren't limited to one service.

You can now execute related actions to your result set through the same interface, without needing to shift to a single purpose app that would allow you to take the action, but for most purposes, won't keep your context.
A swede goes nuts and builds a cat door with built in face recognition, heating, lights, rfid etc based on raspberry pi:

Pictures and story: http://joakimsoderberg.github.io/catcierge/

Code:
https://github.com/JoakimSoderberg/catcierge
> That's the root problem, not the stop.

No, the root problem is that a police officer decided to unconstitutionally stop a car with 3 African Americans, because they had committed the crime of being African American.
Desegregating Newark schools also means packing kids onto a bus each morning for a long bus ride. Then a long bus ride home. And if a parent needs to be there, it's no longer a walk to the neighborhood school, but more likely a trip on public transit.

I'd prefer just giving each poor school an extra $5000 per pupil per year, directly to the principal or the parent/teacher group.
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Except that this isn't a command line. These are keyboard shortcuts.

I was expecting something I can run in my terminal.
You will be safer/happier if you simply value the equity offer at $0. This is especially true of pre series A companies.

If you do that, and it ends up being worth nothing (common case) you will not feel a "loss", but if you have been imagining it was worth something, and was now worth nothing, you will grieve that loss, irrational as that is. I have seen it again and again, where the stock price of a company hits some value, the employee does the math of "option price x quote" == $some number, and then when the stock price goes down feels bad about how much they have 'lost'.

You protect yourself from that by setting the value to $0 and making your decision based on that. If it happens to be worth something later, bonus! if not, well you didn't count on it anyway.
Especially since if the belt is shared then in fact I remembered correctly the presentation.
The search engine would have to be the NLP and information retrieval that's turning the requests into actions or answers.

Which is why I'll now plug the company I work for, MindMeld, since (i) we do that better than Wit and (ii) we are not feeding our data to an advertising team.
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just found it, thank you.