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There is an important difference. Google is transparent about what is going on.

When I set up Google Photos I was asked: Do you want to use Google's high quality or do you want to preserve the original photos and have them count against your storage quota?

After that, you should know what you're getting into. I certainly did.
A better example is the Monty Hall problem. Very few people find this intuitive.
All of highschool was just one big exercise in me doing the bare minimum in whatever subject bored me so I could get back to programming. I knew what I wanted to do and I'm sorry Shakespeare, but you and I both know Hamlet is of no relevance. My usual formula for a given class was skim the current chapter, maybe do a practice problem or two, then spend the actual class on my laptop doing something of value to me.
This is mostly true for many developed countries.

For example, in the nr 1 economy in Europe, Germany, the figure dropped since the 80s, and all of this is well before renewables ramped up (which are still tiny). Same with the nr 2, the UK, also dropped, and the nr 3, France. I haven't bothered looking further. All these countries grew in size somewhat btw.

In part it's because of new efficiencies, in part because of shifting industries away from industrial towards services.
That sounds right. There are a few unanswered questions.

"[I]n 2015, an Apple technician was ordered by an L.A. judge to help police extract data from the phone's hard drive, according to the search warrant."

So, did Apply comply? If they did, or if they didn't, I don't think this has been reported anywhere.

Perhaps Apple complied and imaged the disk, and afterwards, LA needed a consultant to actually make something of it.
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I would generally agree that someone like a mayor or governor deserves some default level of respect, but if he just showed up, unannounced, and "hoped to have a meeting" what did he really think would happen?

Most people, even mayors, make appointments when they formally visit another organization in an official capacity. They don't just walk in and expect to be seen.
The idea that Apple isn't the best thing that ever happened to Cupertino, California is hilarious.
You can use google takeout to download a zip archive of literally all your photos.
Every time I am asked to set up someone's Apple device, I find it incredibly difficult to:

* Get it synced properly

* Determine what is stored in iCloud/on-device

* Ensure that device contents are actually backed-up, unless done manually

* Set up simple things like email accounts

Just a month or two ago, I was helping someone whose iTunes music wouldn't sync to their iPhone. It turned out that, when they signed up to Apple Music, iTunes had silently flipped on a setting that prevents this. Working out what on earth was happening took me almost an hour.

Yet everyone tells me that their Apple devices 'just work'. I don't have the same experience - I find their behaviour to be utterly opaque and non-deterministic. Am I alone?
I went through the triplebyte process twice; once in the take-home project track and once in the "normal" track.

Their feedback to me on the take-home project track was "we thought you did a great job; very impressive. But you interview so poorly that we decided not to move forward." I don't see anything to do in response to that other than to keep trying to interview, so I tried to do the "normal" track.

It was entirely time-constrained, supervised whiteboard problems.
Like countries under some fascist regime?
My tablet has been a piece of furniture on my desk for nearly a year (received as a gift). I have absolutely no use case for it. Why would I get an iPad when I can get a 10" laptop and bruteforce any OS/app that I need into it. Tablets feel so restrictive, not to mention typing takes ages
Fyi, the cutesy title doesn't make it obvious but the bulk of the slidedeck is about explaining 2 concepts: Monads and Lazy Evaluation.
No. But if it's related to the urbandictionary definition...

I'm taking back the word!
>> "Like all our experiments at YC, we design them to adapt as things happen, and they certainly did here."

Hi Kevin... :-)

Understand your feelings and agree with the choice in the context of YC/YCF - but to me this is a massive opportunity to grow YC beyond what it is now; to me, it feels that instead of looking for a way make it work, YC bailed out.

To that end, on a trial basis, I'm offering to start YCX, which would allow YC and the community to work together to make this possible.

While I wouldn't pretend to know the all the answers now (or in the future) - I deeply believe in bridging the gaps between communities to form new communities that in the end will be in sum stronger, more diverse, create opportunities, etc.

Very possible that I've misunderstood, but the main issues I'm seeing are: (1) how YCX relationships would work with YC/YCF and (2) insuring that the way capital is provided works for YC, the startups, and community.

To that end, to me, some solutions might be to have the funds provided by the community via non-equity crowdfunding, have YCX only mentors, allow YC/YCF to opt-in to relationships with YCX fellows, etc.

Happy to talk more offline if you're open to trying to make this work; also, completely understand if it's not a path YC wants to consider too.
>Note it says "they'd accidentally left off" -- it doesn't say "he'd accidentally left off", which to me suggests Craig was participating in the verification.

Yes! I had made that exact point in an updated footnote:

http://jere.in/dr-wrong-and-the-art-of-digital-misdirection#...
This thread could be summed up as "my priors tell me that if people were Actually Doing This (tm) it would look like X and it doesn't look like X, thus they aren't!" and then other people saying "uh, if you estimate the priors wrong that doesn't mean you aren't doing bayesian, it just means you estimated the priors wrong and got the wrong answer"
How do you have lost wages in countries with unlimited sick leave. Medical procedures are covered for the most part by public insurance
I looked at ActorDB, with the thought of using it as a sort of "Sql Enabled" version of etcd. Meaning, storing config data, mostly reads, with no big performance requirements.

But, the use case is to ensure that the config data is available on all nodes....high availability. So, for example, sharding isn't wanted or needed.

It was difficult, however, to get my arms around the whole "actor model", and understand how to use ActorDB in this relatively simple deployment.

Long story short, is there some reference, or dead simple example of a "single actor" deployment with a small number of tables?
Also, from one time when I was a temp at a primary school for 2 weeks. I saw a kid who had come to Norway at the age of 10 or so, and now one year later he could still not add double digit numbers. Worse yet, he didn't see how a problem could be solved by adding two numbers. So problems along the lines of "I have two apples, you give me three, how many do I have now?" where beyond his ability to solve without assistance.

He did however manage to learn quite good Norwegian in that year.
No, the idea that the city should have to provide roads, utilities, etc to a huge, rich corporation and get nothing back for their trouble is terrible.
I am surprised at people trying to rationale Apples wrongdoing by pointing at Google and bringing some crazy examples.

There is no rationale in this - this is outright breaking your privacy and ownership rights. No terms and conditions can be above law. It doesn't matter what others do - Apple is doing those crazy things here and there trying to test the ground which indicates they are not pro privacy and pro user, but rather are willing to go huge lengths to please music industry.

Only because you eating in the restaurant it doesn't mean waiter can run to your house and smash all of your food in the fridge reasoning "from now on you are covered".
If I work somewhere and it's 5pm, I'm off unless there is some important deadline the next day that can't be moved. And if I work extra hours, I'll get something extra (usually money but it might also be holidays or something).

In school, teachers have the power to invade our private lives, even our set holidays(!) with pointless tasks. Apparently 40 hours a week is not enough to spend on school, we also need to give up part of every evening, part of most holidays and part of many weekends.

I really hate that system. It's completely unfair, especially if you're in school just to get that shitty piece of paper in the end. I can code already, I taught myself perfectly well, but the prerequisites for HR usually include a diploma, and your salary and career opportunities is often dependent on which diploma you have. I'm just sitting it out and hate almost every assignment we get. It's outdated and moreover, boring stuff that nobody would ever want to use in practice.
Every time I hear about a husband -> wife murder case that doesn't involve a prior violent crime history or some large amount of physical and circumstantial evidence the two words that go through my mind are "tunnel vision," Without leads the cops just latch on to the only thing they have which is "well... ugh... divorce law gives him a monetary incentive to bust a cap in her ass now don't it?"

I'd like to hear what the defense has to say. I think it's really fishy for a journalist to write an article that basically parrots the prosecution. Maybe the defense couldn't be reached for comment...well then say that if it's the case.
Totally! Pay for support works when it's not urgent. But when your biz is hurting, it's hard to translate that urgency to another company that has _entirely_ different priorities than you do.

Reminds me of the heroku shaming posts that (then) rap genius had to do regarding dyanamo scaling and performance - http://genius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-annotated They had no other way forward, even though they were paying the "experts"

This is why companies should pay open source contributors more frequently :-)
On the contrary, it means he was more in it to go through the process or have access to YC than the money. This is precisely why he should have been picked.

They're all presumably adults, I'm sure they could get through some differing opinions, no?
And since we don't know how humans decide their own goals (because knowing that would be a very revolutionary discovery that would immediately be used in a variety of other fields, including politics and advertising), we can never really establish a road map to building "strong AI"/"AGI"/"Robot Gods" (or even recognizing if we have built one by sheer accident). Clever. I like that.

There are probably ways to "cheat" your criteria though by having AI simulate the idea of discovering goals and acting on them, such as building a bot that searches Tweets on Twitter and then writing Tweets based on those Tweets it discovers. But these are "cheats" and won't be universally accepted. We could argue for instance that this bot really has a higher-level goal of finding new goals and carrying them out, and is only coming up with "lower-level" goals based on its initial "higher-level" goal. So, again, you're probably right. We don't know how to have AI create goals on its own...we can only give it to them.

I would say that "dumb slave[s]" or "capricious, self-serving monster[s]" are still threats to worry about though. Just because robots do what we tell them to doesn't mean that they will do what we want them to. Bugs and edge cases can exist in any exist system, and the more complex the system, the more likely it is for those bugs and edge cases to slip by unnoticed. These bugs/edge cases could lead to pretty catastrophic results. Managing complexity when programming AI would be a good place for "AI Advocates" to focus on.
This article is total BS. Maybe this one guy ran into an issue, but everyone I know uses Apple Music and has not had a single file deleted.
Name two apps that don't share at least 50% of their business logic.
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>How do you know that?

I'm smart like that. Or rather I have read in detail about how Apple Music works. Besides, the burden of proof is on those making that claim.

>That you are the sole owner of the rights of a piece of music does not grant Apple an automatic license to distribute it "just to you".

I call BS. That's exactly the same as Dropbox/Google Drive whatever making a copy of your files and distributing them just to you, and tons of other Cloud services handling your files besides.

At the moment you use Apple Music (which is a services for moving your music collection to the Cloud among other things) you are implicitly allowing Apple to upload and serve you your music files. Plus, you explicitly approved the whole process and granted that right when you clicked on the iTunes/Apple Music license agreement. Nothing different than what happens with thousands of other services.
> To avoid dealing with bullshit from parents, the school hires an outside company to teach sex ed. Sometimes they failed in funny ways. In my daughter's class, they handed out a few Skittles and told kids to pass them around as the class went on. After a while they stopped to talk about the candy that had been handled by everybody and asked who would want to eat the now sticky, gross candy. They underestimated how picky kids are when it comes to Skittles - all were eaten.

Reminds me of this time at my Baptist (yes, the upper case C christian kind) university where someone did the same thing by biting a cookie. I ate the half-bitten cookie just out of spite. People are not cookies!
Totally correct. That's why reasonable people don't agree on politics at all. Group A has one set of priors, group B has another and despite them both being basically rational, the priors lead them down totally different roads as to how to "fix things"
This doesn't pass the sniff test for me. It makes it sound like a conspiracy when reality is usually so very mundane.

Companies don't do that unless people turn up randomly, start making crazy claims ("take me to Steve Jobs! I'm here regarding traffic congestion!") and start acting like an ass when they don't get what they want.

Just pure speculation on my part.
The author explicitly said that:

"I recovered my original music files only by using a backup I made weeks earlier."
The funny thing is: Disk space is only worth more than bandwidth in a few select 1st-world countries. I've been traveling in rural areas of South America for about 18 months now and regularly I had to turn off my MacBook because its automatic update "features" were consuming all of the available bandwidth, making it impossible for anybody to actually work.
God forbid there is a bug in software! This article is crap, maybe he ran into an issue but I've helped over a dozen people get setup on Apple Music and not once has there been file deletion. I am very skeptical that theoretical phone rep said any of these things either. Obviously there is a bug that needs fixing, but this is definitely not a platform wide attempt to delete anyone's data.
"Hey CEO, There's an easy way I can increase team morale for less than the cost of a happy hour" said the VP of Engineering.
> I wonder if someone can come up with a reasonably accurate way to determine how well or easily can a candidate acquire particular skills.

This is known as an "IQ test".
>"as (...) I prepared to publish the proof of access to the earliest keys, I broke. I do not have the courage. I cannot".

And I call BS, with BS on top.

How convenient...
There still can be pressure from parent-figures to complete this "optional" homework.
Good observation. I seriously doubt though, that that is much of a factor here. I know, and have always known a number of famous people.

This was different.

This was just a guy who seemed to have zero privacy and who lowered his voice conspiratorially and tried to have as private a conversation as was possible given the circumstances. And who zeroed in on what I most needed to have addressed.

It may have been fake. But if someone can fake sincerity that well, it's no wonder that they rise to a position of such power.

But certainly, both the halo effect and the cheerleader effect must always be factored in.
One major flaw: Dropbox on iOS rotates the image data and resets the EXIF orientation header when it finds a rotated file. If you've ever used a different sync path you'll end up with a bunch of duplicate images with different hashes.
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I'd sue em regardless of the EULA. But I don't use apple anything, and I run my own "cloud" and run my own backups. So nothing for me to worry about.
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It would be nice if the article defined what "partial access" means.
"Terrorism has nothing to do with Islam". Would that be considered bullshit?
this seems like an advertisement
I use Linux: https://www.google.co.uk/drive/download/

There is no client.
No -- you aren't alone. Whenever I connect my daughter's iPhone to iTunes (say to add more music) we take our lives in our hands. You get scary popups that ask you a question and provides two options -- neither of which is what you want.

I don't know whether this is deliberate on the part of Apple to discourage the use of iTunes, or whether they really think that it works well and is intuitive. For anybody from Apple reading this -- iTunes is not intuitive. It is horrible.
What would cause iTunes to actually delete the music? AFAIK, it doesn't have an "Optimize Storage" option like Photos does, and it's never deleted any files for me even when my disk is down to 0 bytes free.
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"They were not deceived" -- yeah, that's the ticket! [1]

Nice use of passive voice to obscure the subject of the sentence. He just couldn't bring himself to say "I did not deceive them." It's technically true that there's somebody in the universe who didn't deceive both of those people.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkYNBwCEeH4
What a load of shit! He can't cryptographically prove something without courage?! WTF
> Peak residential power usage is in the evening when solar isn't available. Power companies therefore end up spinning down coal and natural gas during peak solar, then just spinning them back up again as the sun begins to set.

Would it be possible (in an utopian world) to actually have a global power network and route electricity produced during the day in one area across multiple timezones to an area where the demand is greater and no available solar? e.g. Electricity produced in West Africa at noon to be delivered to .. Tokyo, where it would be 9PM.

I understand that politically this is almost impossible, but I am curious whether there are any technological impediments for this to be feasible.
I love the single strain of bananas inclusion. It is a giant problem. They are one of the worst strains according to friends who work in produce sourcing. We need to find a way to popularize consumption of saline/sea vegetables. And I agree with what you say, also.
We voted our conscience. I for one, have no regrets.
The siren song of the 'tolerant' left.
Same here... although I used an iPhone for half a decade after, I always opted out of every single update or sync or feature that had to do with iTunes. That just scarred me and made me lose all trust. From there on out it was back to manual mode.
I agree that Dominos is awful now. I always thought Pizza Hut was pretty bad.

I think when Dominos changed from real baking ovens to what they now use (effectively a conveyorized giant hair dryer) there was a marked change. They had to change the dough so it would not bubble, because the point of the automatic oven is that you would not need a skilled person to monitor the baking.

The conveyor ovens do save labor. When you have 600-degree baking ovens stacked in decks, and you have to watch for and pop bubbles and turn the pies halfway through, and the difference between a pizza being "done" and "burnt" is about 30 seconds, it requires an attentive and coordinated person (sometimes two or three if they are busy) to manage it all. But the pizzas taste better.
I have had a similar experience - finding out what is really going on with my iDevices always ends up being a giant time-suck. Things do seem to "just work" as long as you don't go looking too far - which, I imagine, is what most people do. I don't think this is unique to Apple necessarily, just more pronounced due to the "just works" mentality.
It could be helpful if they asked you first so you could back your stuff up to an external hard drive first.
There is an option when you turn on Google photo to backup "High Quality" (Unlimited) or "Original" (with limited capacity, I think it uses Google Drive capacity but am not sure)
Agreed on all points, but email accounts have always been a breeze for me on iOS, although it's a bit limited it always did the basic stuff very well.
From what I see your link does not provide a ticket item but a plog post which is an entirely different thing.
Agreed, but nowadays it is in fashion to complain about companies not paying taxes, and making emotional arguments that give simply wrong meaning to things. For instance, compare corporate income tax (paid as percentage of profit) to revenue (which is not same as profit).
> I want to see what that pizza looks like, not imagine it.

I think you're confusing the matter by lumping voice input and voice output into one bucket.

Think star trek 'Computer show me a map of the omnicrom system and highlight possible habitable planets within 10 light years of our current position'
Thanks to the economic state of the US, most families can't afford the time to dedicate to their children to properly educate them in the breadth of subjects that schools (attempt to) cover. And this assumes that the parents are either educated or capable/willing to source proper materials to provide information (or the tools to access information) for their children.
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Relevant clip from Michael Moore's "Where to Invade Next" (2005): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRJ1hgN7uAU
It's about the Finnish education system based on having no homework.
It doesn't need to be class time. The issue is that "home work" invades our private lives (evenings, weekends and holidays) due to its very definition.

If I work from home for a company, it's not called homework because it is under the same conditions as normal work: there are set hours, I receive compensation, the only difference is that it's not on-site.

So should Spanish class time be spent memorizing vocabulary? No, at least not in large parts, but neither should it take more than the time allocated for the subject[1]. It's nice that we can choose to do it either in school or at home, but the way it presently works, homework takes up more time than it should.

[1] Again, I don't mean allocated class hours, I mean the total number of hours students are expected to work on something. In Dutch terms, SBUs, or "hours the course takes from your life, class and homework and everything together". All courses should have SBUs that add up to 40 hours per week, give or take 5.
No. iTunes is probably the worst piece of widely used software out there.

It's just a UX nightmare, hard to grasp how to do things, almost impossible to grasp what the consequences of doing things are.
Time to check/update the earthquake supplies again...
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