skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This made me feel a little better about spending ~4hours a day on the bus commuting... always envy people who leave comments like "even 20 minutes is too long for me"
Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 – streaming 11:45 a.m. CET
It doesn't matter what the number is, so much as to illustrate the basic principle that we can never be 100% certain, and if we can't be 100% certain than we are choosing to kill innocent people.
Who is your favorite?
That's true - as soon as you close one option, people look for the next one. I'm still not in favor though. I just feel like it's an over-the-top response that potentially fails to address the real problem. It won't be too hard for employees to just use their friend's accounts. If the focus isn't on preventing access to the data and instead on a misguided attempt to cut it at the knees, then the problem's still there.. kind of reminiscent of a lot of bad government policy.

They'll care about it becomes an impediment to them making lots of money, which seems like right now.
Life as a Professional Video Gamer
Clash of the Titans: MapReduce vs. Spark for Large Scale Data Analytics [pdf]
> When the Charles Koch Foundation pledges $1.5 million to Florida State University’s economics department, it stipulates that a Koch-appointed advisory committee will select professors and undertake annual evaluations.

Huh, that's surprisingly overt. Donations for things like endowed chairs or new buildings usually assumed to have an influence, as institutions don't like to offend potential sources of money. But it's rarely as direct as the donor actually getting to vet faculty hires. If the linked article [1] is correct, sounds pretty openly like an attempt by a private individual to literally buy control of part of a public institution.

[1] http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/billionaires-role-in-h...
User engagement will drop. But again, open standards to the rescue. RSS and pingbacks were meant to solve this very problem at first place, but since content creators are focused on "impressions", they are unable to take advantage of it.
I don't think people like Warren Buffet or Steve Jobs are safe from being manipulated. As you say:

> That inherent need has to be present for an advertiser to target/exploit it. And the person has to actually buy the premise of the proposition.

The needs of people safe in monetary ways are often more nuanced and complex, but they are there. Some rich people are still insecure about status, and you can attack that. Others want to do good for the world, so they're perfect targets for various "charitable" organizations (thankfully, GiveWell / Effective Altruist movement tries to do something about that).

> Many have the guts to go against the crowd and some even take it as a badge of honor.

Yeah, I know. But you know how nonconformists strangely look alike? Capitalism has managed to go meta - being anti-capitalist has also been packaged and shipped to stores.

> Now let's reasonably assume your SO is well aware of the hiring-pretty-girls-policy, and does not prefer you buying from that store given that there are better economic alternatives, and add in a touch of reasonable jealousy. Do you still frequent that store, given that you are happy with your SO?

You got me here :). Now that my SO no longer works there, I neither feel the need to visit the store that often (though I still pop in from time to time, because I like buying in a place that is friendly to me, but not for extended chats), nor would I like to give her reasons for being jealous :).

I guess we're still dancing around the point, so let me restate my assertion. You say:

> everyone has their weak spot, but not for everything. Its like everyone has their price, but not the fellow considerably richer than you.

I say: everyone may have a different set of weak spots, but everyone has them and market economy does and will exploit all of them. By saying "everyone is gullible if you attack from the right angle" I didn't mean that angle is universal for everyone. Different people respond to different strategies, but there is a way to get to everyone.

> Could I sell you an extravagant snake-oil panacea if I were a hot bird?

If you were and I wasn't in a relationship, I'd encourage you to try :). Hell, I might buy if it would make you talk some more :).
> We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.

This is why everyone should read The Economist instead of The New York Times. The Economist does a phenomenal job avoiding the selection bias and finding a way to cover mundane trends. It makes the mundane interesting, and gives a view of the world that's much closer to reality than any other publication I've ever seen. I'd strongly encourage everyone to give it a shot.
It's worse than that: considering that browsers are never completely secure, especially against user stupidity, it means it empowers random websites to spend my money.
You are correct. My comment is wrong.
The ideal mathematician could be a female.
How about just talk to this person directly? It may be more effective to have the conversation about the actions and not the person.

At my current workplace, this kind of "brilliant ahole" is shown the door asap but most workplace cultures encourage (passively or actively) this behavior.
Well it will be much more like a private driver. A more quiet experience with less overhead (waiting, transfers, etc).
Apple Says YiSpecter iOS Malware Issue Was Addressed Since iOS 8.4
Could it end up being built on WordPress?
You can work, read, and telecommute without distraction during an automatic car drive.
Not quite. It will be painful from a family standpoint (cannot have breakfast/dinner with family) but commute-wise I would imagine a much better experience:
1. You would be guaranteed a seat. Even when I get a seat on the MetroNorth, the first and last miles are painful -- it still requires a 45min standing subway ride to Grand Central and a 10 minute standing ride from the station to the office. Same thing on the way back.
2. You would be able to sleep in the car since it would likely not require transfers or the risk of missing your stop
3. You could keep all your stuff in your car - laptops, books, etc. The space I have in a NYC subway car is pretty minimal
Picture this - you could be sleeping in the car while it drives itself. It doesn't sound so ridiculous then.

Anyway, I think telecommuting is going to be the norm pretty soon. Commutes would themselves be rare. They might be a lot longer though.
I didn't downvote you, but I'll play devil's advocate and make an argument over why access to Facebook is a right.

In the normal course of events, a non-government company is free to decide who it does business with. But there is a case to be made that this changes if society reorganizes itself so that use of a particular service is no longer optional.

For example, insurance companies would a priori be free to decide who they do business with. Except that it's illegal to drive without liability insurance, and in some places, either because of the physical fact of distance or bad town planning, it's effectively mandatory to drive if you want to be a functioning member of society. Therefore in some jurisdictions, you do actually have the legal right to buy insurance.

There are social circles these days in which you effectively cannot participate without having a Facebook account. There is therefore a case to be made that Facebook is obliged to either make sure people aren't excluded from having accounts, or set up some kind of federated system whereby you can participate in Facebook circles from some other social medium.

I myself don't use Facebook, so I don't have a dog in that fight either way, but I think it's a valid argument.
1. As all the controversy shows, he wasn't "clearly in the wrong". Neither was Eric Gardner, that guy who got choked out, nor all the other cases, the names of whom I started to forget because the reporting became so common place, i.e. it was happening all the time.

2. So let's say a white person and a black person in a car have the same rate of performing a crime (let's say smoking marijuana, a harmless pastime enjoyed by all races). Let's say that if a cop pulls you over while you are smoking marijuana, then you will be arrested. Well if a cop is twice as likely to pull you over if you are black, then there will be twice as many black arrests. This is a simplistic model and doesn't even factor situations where a black person gets pulled over, and definitely gets forced out of his car, handcuffed, and searched, whereas a white person might be able to cordially get away with a smile and a "Yessir".
> Yes, it means some people in rich nations will see their income relative tot hat of poor countries stagnate and they won't be able to afford a McMansion or Tesla car and will have to rent an apartment and take transit or own a Honda, but this is ten times better than what people in developing counties have.

The stagnating income in the West is a result of policy, not a direct consequence of globalization. Real wages in the US are stagnating for over 40 years now (1), but GDP grew enormously in that timeframe (2). The profits are still created in the West, they just aren't distributed down to the employees.

The world economy is not a zero sum game. Its perfectly possible for western wages to rise simultaneously with Chinese and Indian ones.

(1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_wage#/media/File:US_Real_...

(2): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/US_GDP_p...
"The Audi R10 TDI, usually abbreviated to R10, is a racing car from the German car manufacturer Audi. The car is a classic at Le Mans, winning every year since its introduction until it was replaced by the R15. [..] It was the first diesel-powered car to win either of those events. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_R10_TDI
They aren't buying their way out of all criticism -- about 6 months ago I saw, on Michigan television, what I can only describe as an attack ad against them. They aren't politicians, they donate their money to charity and other causes they like. I disagree with some of the policies they advocate, but that left a pretty bad taste in my mouth.
I'm not sure this still holds true with the advent of betting exchanges. The market is now pretty efficient. Sure, there's still value to be exploited if you're good enough. However, in general the wisdom of the crowd is quite close to the true odds, at least at the short end of the market.

Efficiency in Exchange Betting Markets

http://faculty.london.edu/mottaviani/exchange-betting.pdf

"In terms of the Sobel and Raines model, a lower conventional bias in the exchanges relative to traditional betting markets is consistent with a higher proportion of ‘serious’ bettors on the exchanges than with bookmakers"

Efficient Market Hypothesis

http://www.betfairprotrader.co.uk/2010/12/efficient-market-h...

"If you were to take all horses starting a race at 2.76 then you would find their win rate was pretty close to 36%"

Market Efficiency: An Analysis of the Internet Betting Exchange Market

http://studenttheses.cbs.dk/bitstream/handle/10417/2888/fred...
I put in cameras professionally and service onsite IT infrastructure at many chains.

In most retail chains, they blanket the store so few non coverage areas. Generally its not watched like a hawk except in big department stores. Panda express is a rare exception...borderline stasi.

Major chains got smart about theft...some make it profitable or turn employee thieves into permanent snitches.

Truth be told, nobody is watching you usually shop although people traffic cams are all the rage....
Adobe – Project Comet
Although I don't work remotely, I'm happy that the tech/software industry seems to be one of the best industries for allowing people to work remotely. I would guess that this is influenced by the nature of our work, and the improvements in collaboration/communication/workflow applications.

Taking a 10-hour flight on a weekly basis would be too much for me, but then again he is the founder of an airline, so maybe he enjoys the flight!
Hopefully in Android Marshmallow this feature is not again shot down just before release.

Granular permission control is one single thing I am waiting for in Android 6.0 because that is the only feature I wanted to root my phone for.
You haven't spent much time on UK commuter trains!
"people who are constantly gaining weight, growing facial hair, etc is impossible with today's technology;"

I think we can assume many agencies have access to ALL Facebook data, Photostream data, etc. With that it is very much possible, dare one say, easy?
Finding new language for space missions that fly without humans
I hope someone with more authority can chime in- but to continue with your analogy- stocks too are no "sure fire" bet, are yet subject to insider trading regulations.

so it would seem the certainty of return is irrelevant.
And google books is authoritative? Napoleon was oldest the attribution I could find. I actually believe the quote is far older the 1970, maybe homer or some other writer from antiquity describing Alexander the Great. Maybe Plutarch. Grammatically, it's probably not identical to the modern English version, especially if it were translated from the original Greek or possibly Latin.
And they kept saying "I didn't want to uproot my family blah blah." Is there no value in exposing your children to unique and different experiences? I'll have failed if my kids grew up in the same town/city all their lives.
>Wait till cars become automatic. 4 hour per day commutes could become quite normal.

and now you will be able to work all these additional hours. Your employer will even generously provide you with the good mobile connection, or even with the whole connected autonomous car :)
Another very illuminating read: https://rotogrinders.com/threads/draftkings-ownership-leak-8...
There are plenty of legal protections for corporate IP: patents, copyrights, trade secrets... If an aspect of a business can't be protected, competitors are free to copy it.

Consider a small coffee shop. Are they allowed to write the customer's name on the cup? That's clearly not an original idea, they copied it from a bigger competitor. Should it be forbidden?
Url changed from http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/10/04/ad-focused-malware-ta..., which points to this.
I can verify they do not care about false positives. My high-flying career at Accenture ended abruptly in 2004 when I ended up on the no-fly list. Didn't get fixed until 2009, and fixed is sort of gray.
I don't think it is baked into the OS.
For exemple, Now on Tap in AOSP is just an 'Assist API' .
Any app can implement this system callback in order to enrich an Assist call and any developer can create an alternative to Now on Tap that will get the exact same data from the device.

AFAIK, All the Google branded apps & Services are part of Play Services. Nothing prevents you doing what Amazon is doing and create a device from AOSP, don't include AOSP and replace it with your own services.

IANAL, but it seems that the focus is on the fact that Play Services comes with a full suite of apps.
At my current workplace, this also wouldn't fly. Its just not worth it in the long run, especially when your company is small (from a managerial perspective)

That being said, obviously your manager doesn't share this ethos. In the future, this is something you might want to filter for.

If I were you, I would make preparations for the worst and escalate. You don't want to leave, but you need to be willing to and prepared to do so. If you do escalate though, go to your manager. He's clearly aware of it, and ultimately its politically a mistake to go to either HR or your manager's manager, since it'll hurt your relations with your direct manager.

Doing nothing isn't an option in the long term if nothing changes. There's no real point in considering it.
I'm not sure it makes a difference either way when it comes to the influence of money on institutions (influence from non-politicians is not necessarily any less corrupting), but: I think it would be hard to consider the Kochs to not be politicians, anyway. They're heavily involved in party politics and electioneering, both in internal party politics and in general elections. And David Koch has even run as a candidate for national office himself (he was the vice-presidential nominee on the 1980 Libertarian Party ticket, before leaving them for the GOP).
option 4 or 5 .

If it is a big corp ask to be transferred to another position for instance. There is nothing you can do about assholes, other than avoid them, especially if they are fully supported by the hierarchy.
Sorry to use this occasion to brag about my commutes for the last 10+ years: 6 miles, 4 miles, 2 miles, and 4 miles. For the last 7+ years it's been 100% by bike.

A 20-25 minute bike ride is actually better than a shorter commute because you get just enough exercise every day.
I do. It's more regularly updated and much simpler to use. I found myself constantly having to play with the settings of Privacy Badger on a site by site basis to get the experience I wanted. But YMMV.
There has to be some sort of middle ground, where people who need to mask their identity for various reasons can be allowed to without tipping the scales towards platform abuse. This doesn't have to be a black or white issue.

FB simply needs to figure out a fair way to validate identity but allow a user to use a sanctioned alternate identity. I think this is what the EFF action is really about
They aren't politicians, they donate their
money to charity and other causes they like.

This is the most generous description of the Kochs I have ever read. They are planning on spending upwards of a billion dollars in the next twelve months to elect public officials who support their policy objectives[1].

[1] http://www.salon.com/2015/01/27/this_is_the_legacy_of_citize...
You can't use cell triangulation for location without submitting location requests to Google. Either that or GPS only.
List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area
I would argue that it would be better for the kids to live abroad.
They'd become bilingual for free, and most importantly it'd give them perspective and a better understanding of the world.

Unless his kids are planning to become professional American football or lacrosse players, his justification seems very weak to me.
First, we had SquirrelMail and its ilk.

Then, Roundcube became the standard.

Their dominance is being eroded by Mailpile, RainLoop, and Nylas.

Around the edges, we have Peps[1], Mailr[2] & Kite[3] which may all someday take off.

Zimbra and the well known groupware vendors (OnlyOffice, Horde, Citadel, Kolab) are competing in more-or-less the same space.

Probably dozens of other projects that are on the same level that I have never even heard of.
I would love some sort of comparison, even a biased one written by the respective teams.
Anyone have useful links?

[1] https://github.com/MLstate/PEPS
[2] http://pusto.org/en/mailr/
[3] http://khamidou.github.io/kite/
>> Diesels back then had no clever electronics or fancy injection so it was a dirty fuel

You will find plenty of people who will say they were the best diesels, because they would burn literally anything, you could put used oil from your frying pan in it and it would happily burn it without any problem. They were uncomplicated chunks of metal, so it's quite common for them to do a million miles without any significant problems. Of course they were dirty as hell, so it's a good thing we don't use cars like that anymore. The only legitimate use I can think of is people who go in off roaders to Africa or deep parts of siberia, where the fuel quality is absolutely horrible, so you can't have a modern diesel with a high pressure direct injection system - one spec of dirt in your fuel and your injectors get clogged.
I'm doing ~4h per day. Every day, from Monday till Friday. I use the train. 1:40h is one way + some foot walk.

But it's really annoying and it feels mostly like wasted or very unproductive time.

I would argue that the train is still a better place to work than the car because it has much less abrupt accelerations. I would get motion sick working in a car when driving through a city.

Anyway, the mobile Internet connection still sucks, and in addition the data plans usually are only about 100MB per month. In the morning, I usually try to sleep somehow, but I cannot really, and it fells far less restful than in bed. In the evening, I often try to work but the productivity very much depends on the task. Some task require a constant good SSH connection (Mosh makes it a bit better) and you have to edit files and switch forth and back remotely through apps. If you sometimes have to wait a minute or even if it's only seconds to complete some keystrokes, you get insane. Sometimes I read some research papers, but you don't have a big desk in front of you where you can put other papers, a notebook + computer to look up other things while reading, or make notes, etc - the place is just not there. Also, it's often very loud and other people talking constantly directly next to you. You can try with earplugs or music - but it's just not as productive as you would be in a silent environment.

That is in Germany, the RE4 train from Wuppertal to Aachen and back.

I would move to Aachen and I will move when my girlfriend is finally finished with her education in Düsseldorf + Krefeld (again other cities...).
I agree. Been freelancing for a while and I'm never able to meet my own expectations. The standards I've set for myself are way too high. It sounds like I have control over my expectations, but its not that simple.

Now I'm trying to do my own startup and its worse than ever. I'll probably go see a therapist in a week or so (when I get time!!!)
You're overlooking the "view it" part. I don't want to see your web font in the first place.
World's Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Forced to Begin Liquidating Assets
This is a stupid way of living our lifes.

Structuring your life quality, and structuring out cities for life quality, should become the norm. We should be eager to sacrifice work efficiency.

Unfortunately our civilization took this wrong race-to-the-bottom turn where instead of ten 30 hrs/week jobs we have four 70 hrs/week jobs. This is wrong and unsustainable, and we're going to lose a lot of people to a combination of burning out, family failures, suicides and other bad stuff.

In the century XXI, we should fight the network effect, not embrace it.
> He said he didn’t want to antagonize certain wealthy congregants on whose generosity the congregation depended.

> “I’d appreciate it if you didn’t criticize Wall Street,” he said, explaining that several of the trustees were investment bankers.

This sort of shit is exactly why income and wealth inequality are such a big deal. It's so much more than any principle of "fairness" - it's about representation and balance of power. Even if the entire population is, in a material sense, perfectly looked after, if some fraction of a percent own or control the bulk of the wealth, then they will have most of the power even if society keeps the veneer of democracy in place.

I don't have any issue with the Koch brothers in particular, but no one should be able to purchase laws or see their considerable wealth translate into outsized political power. No democracy can survive that forever, even if with an engaged and conscientious electorate.