skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well Facebook has "Facebook At Work" (https://work.fb.com/) that sort of accomplishes this, though at the moment they're not charging anything.

Also, it's a bit of support/maintenance/overhead for something that doesn't have as much support as you might think - otherwise tools like Google Contributor would be blowing up. I imagine like ~1% of users would actually opt to pay, maybe 2 or 3%, based upon my experience with freemium business models at a few different companies.

I think there's the hypothesis that these "pro subscribers" have higher incomes and are therefore better ripe for advertising demand. I would argue that Google has enough data and intelligence to internalize this hypothetical lifetime value from ad dollars into a reasonable price for a monthly subscription that would be roughly equivalent. If the counterpoint is that $7-10 / year doesn't quite equal how much Google could get for the same user through advertising (which could be substantially higher I think,) then it's hard to fault Sundar or Jack Dorsey or any other tech CEO in this space for going with what would provide better value to shareholders (which is ultimately their responsibility, for better or worse.)
Simple:you can't scale an engineering effort witout limits. However, you can have as many parallel engineering efforts as you like. They can cross pollinate ideas as much as they want to, but it's very hard to share parts of the process unless they are mundane components that can be outsourced.

Openness in itself is not bad but is not a requirement for unique engineering. See what Lockheed's Skunkworks did with SR-71 for example.

They boosted on decades of aeronautics research and individual talent - these provided the raw materials. They then combined these to reach the specific design intent.

In short: you can share a theory but not a chain of command or process without costs of then having a process to control this sharing.

It's also much better to have parallel vehicle designs at this early age of our space efforts than pour everything into a single megaeffort.
The problem is that Atlanta's built environment is literally the textbook example of tastelessness and inefficiency. "City" is a loose term for a centerless amalgamation of car-centric sprawl.
>Do you trust every single person at Google, and every single person at every third party company Google shares your data with, now and in perpetuity, to never abuse the data collected on you? Personally, my circle of trust is not that large.

(Have worked at google in the past, may in the future, am not currently). You say this as though anyone at Google (or Microsoft or whatever) can go in and search for 'falcolas' and look through your GPS history.

I'm honestly not sure if there is a single individual at the company who had that power. I honestly think that the best thing Google could to is publicize their internal training and documents on personal information, because the regulations and such made me a lot more comfortable with giving Google the sort of amorphous entity my data, because no person is going to be looking at that data.

>, not Google (stories abound of individual GMail accounts being hacked).

One of these is not like the others, unless you're talking about something I'm not aware of. Hacking an individual GMail account requires guessing/taking someone's password, which is not an attack on Google's infrastructure (Unlike the yahoo, sony, apple, etc. examples), its an attack on a bad password.
I'm looking at writing a compiler for my own language, and I can certainly use ideas for anything that's technically feasible.
/s/Oracle/Intel as a software green badge and this sounds spookily identical to my life right around then too, right down to the salary and people not liking me because I was the youngest employee.
That's what you get for relying on a cloud solution...
I liked sublime but I found that when I wanted to do any power editing (refactoring, ...) I'd go back to vim. Now I used VimR + Solarized on the Mac.

emacs is plenty powerful and I tried it for awhile. I think if you start out with emacs, you'll stick with it.

I do like your point about being more productive without the mouse.
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Sure, there are some trust issues, but just regarding your two first points:

A very limited number of Google employees have access to private user data (only when it's vital to their work) and they have strict policies in place (data does not leave the data centers etc.).
Which third parties are you referring to? As far as I know, Google does not give their users' private data to a third party.
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You can learn the basics with this little browser video game:

http://vim-adventures.com/

I used to hate vim with a passion because of how unintuitive everything seemed, but this made me want to learn more once I get used to hjkl and some of the shortcuts.
Cathy O'Neill's main concern is that someone might discover something true, useful, and racist / sexist / homophobic / etc. In order to avoid the cognitive dissonance it's important to remain appropriately ignorant and not investigate anything where you might discover something "problematic".

You can tell she's interested in preventing knowledge from how she handled her job to predict effectiveness of homelessness services - she actively decided to not use particular variables on the grounds they might show a result she was uncomfortable with. That isn't an issue of "being aware of the limitations of machine learning", it's intentional ignorance.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/0...
I wonder if this operates at the mimetic level instead of the genetic level, making this a cultural phenomenon rather than a biological one. As the article points out, in humans this striving for status/money doesn't confer much of a biological advantage, at least beyond a point.

Hypothesis for mimetic reproduction: People with status and money (who tend to have desired it and worked towards it) weild more influence on a larger set of people than otherwise, and can broadcast their approach/perspective. A large number of people will then aspire to follow in their footsteps and similarly seek status and money, continuing this cycle.
Yep. I see us somewhat conflicted about this. We would love the (imagined) benefits, but we have no idea yet how to avoid the dangers.
don't you think thats a pretty severe statement wrt to free will and agency? if i'm just a consumer wired up to a machine thats deciding whats best for me (even with the best of intentions), doesn't that make me less human?

should I just be a actor playing through a set itinerary of vacations and movies and burgers and relationships? maybe you think its that way already, except less perfect than it might be, but thats a pretty frightening notion to me.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your "crappy dumb phone" is already telling someone about your every move with a degree of accuracy ranging from an area around the closest cell tower to within a few feet.

The courts are still deciding when/whether that information requires a warrant.
Because our population is 4 times larger.
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Do you never use digital tools to outsource mental effort? Seems like a similar argument could be made for using a calculator.
That's one of the interesting things about AI. There's no way to clairfy/correct when something is wrong, and most of the time you don't even know something is wrong.

It's not clear whether these AI models have much incentive to correct anything. If 99% of people with attributes x,y and z are bad candidates for a job, will you even get an interview? Is there any attempt to account for the fact that attribute x is something you were born with? Or that you are actually in the 1% and really are a good candidate? Or that you don't actually have attribute y, and it was just inferred from something else or some kind of mixup like an email address typo?
Not to sound glib, but the idea of persistent data acquisition and aggregation has been pretty well known to be in the path for anyone seriously researching AGI or other human level AI systems.

How could it be otherwise?
> The example you mentioned seems easily fixed by using GPG.

GPG doesn't hide that one is emailing, or when, or with whom; it only hides content.
You installed cyanogenmod on your OP1?
To counter your point, consider the fact that 4K video looks better when downsampled to 1080p than video captured directly in 1080p: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIf9h2Gkm_U -- the mechanism is different for other cases (social media sharing of images, for example), but the principle is the same.
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Does anyone else use vanilla vim happily without plugins?
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While "angle of view" is the technically correct way to think of this, very few people actually think that way, myself included. It's pretty much limited to people who work heavily with large format and use multiple formats.

"35mm equivalent" focal lengths and "crop factors" are by far the most common ways to mentally visualize this.

It's not entirely a direct conversion since not every format is a 3:2 ratio like 35mm is - for example 6x7 feels tighter because it's much closer to a square format. My 55mm lens is technically closer to a 22-mm equivalent in diagonal FoV but it feels like a 28mm does on 35mm.

I think it's honestly a shame that primes have died out. Dollar for dollar, most primes are massively better performers than zooms in terms of sharpness and aperture.
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> there really isn't any reader on android as nice as GoodReader

Any particular lacunae in Adobe's Reader?
How many tweets contain media? On my timeline it is a very, very small percentage.
Because it replaces the job of the american worker with a foreign worker.

It's illegal to replace a job of an american worker using H1b Visa's.

Maybe insourcing is a better word :)
> Except the government who gets unfettered access.

Does you have a source for that?
How many launches have they done so far, and what were the results?

Seriously? Well not counting their ICBM program.

S-1C Program (Saturn V Rocket First Stage): 12 successful launches, 0 failures.

IUS Program (Booster for interplanetary probes from Space Shuttle): 24 launches, 3 failures (2 Boeing's fault, 1 the space shuttle exploded).

Delta II: 153 Launches, 2 Failures.

Delta III: 3 Launches, 2 Failures.

Delta IV: 33 Launches, 1 Failure.

I mean, do we have any evidence that Boeing has a serious Mars program?

No. The new ULA Vulkan launch system doesn't have it's first test flight scheduled until 2019.

What about re-usable?

Boeing (or really ULA) is developing the Vulkan Rocket. Which is partially recoverable, not fully. [1] The first launch of this vehicle is 2019. The entry level offering is quoted at ~$100mil per rocket (vs ~$164mil for a Delta IV) [2]. While a Falcon9 is $62mil [3].

I see why ULA lost their contract, Musk cut their knee caps off.

[1] https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/recove...

[2] https://spaceflightnow.com/2015/04/13/ula-unveils-its-future...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9
It is a question of how much new technology can add to your life, rather than how much old technology hinders you. Your old phone will function as before. It has the same benefits as before. The new stuff is not going to change that.

The big change is that the new stuff offers the ability to do things in a more efficient way. While it seems to offer very little benefit for individual tasks, some people will see a dramatic benefit while using it for the multitude of tasks that clutter their life. Other people will benefit simply because it enables them to do things that they would not have done before.

None of this is meant to dismiss your points. Personally, I find all of this data mining creepy even when I am confident that they are collecting the data for my benefit and that they won't use the data to my detriment when they are using it for their own benefit. Yet many people don't share that world view. Those people will benefit from Google's services, while nothing is being introduced to hinder the lives of those who don't use those services.
Yeah, that's what I remembered, but it seems they replaced "Delete Location History" with a "Manage Activities" button which opens Google Maps and shows you location history, allowing you to delete it but only one day at a time.

EDIT: Okay, found it. Follow your instructions then open that "Manage Activities" -> Menu -> Settings -> Scroll down -> Delete All Location History.

You _must_ do this for every account if you have multiple.
I'm not sure how much longer I'll continue with the mobile revolution. Pretty much everything I've seen so far that's being branded as AI and the future of mobile computing is just something that saves you from opening up an app. Instead of opening up google maps and searching for directions home, the directions now sometimes appears automatically. Instead of searching for a near-bye restaurant, one is displayed for you. I don't need to enter my flights in my calendar anymore. This isn't nearly as drastic of a change as the original innovations allowed by smartphones. I'm not sure It's worth the trade off anymore.
Have you ever written a program for a 50 MHz microcontroller with 128 KB of RAM? This is a problem domain in which C is well-suited, where manual memory management is quite important. In fact, there are not many alternatives. It turns out there are a lot of these out there in the world.

The world of software development is a lot bigger than PCs running high-level operating systems.
Another misconception I would add is people thinking it improves productivity over what some people consider "newbie friendly" tools (GUI IDEs and the like). If you _LIKE_ using it, please go ahead. But AFAIK, there is no data showing any of these editors save you time over what you invested learning them. I was an expert vim user and I don't think I am ever going to recover the hours I spent learning it. For C++ these days, I find I'm actually more productive in Visual Studio than I could ever be in vim.
What I think is really interesting about this conversation is the total lack of conversation. Any and all data collection is either completely harmless (from the corporate narrative) or the end of all liberty and privacy (from the EFF narrative and their leech-like tech rag clickbait headlines, sup techcrunch, you're still the problem!).

There is no concept of even discussing that this might be a tradeoff or a shift in what is perceived as private. There is no consideration given to how we might still do these things that people want while protecting their data. There's no consideration for how people's lives are changed in different ways by this tech.

Nope. It's either a total gain or a total loss.

And that is the real problem here. People are applying their political bad habits to what should be a reasonable and sensitive discussion about the varying levels of tradeoffs we should be willing to give and what the net good we can extract from this technology.

A great example is street view. Street view ultimately has enabled extremely detailed and powerful navigation, complete with a ton of ways to do real time traffic detection. Most people using apps that benefit from this data would say that's a net good, and in general as the tech evolves and traffic distributes more efficiently then urban environments see a similar positive effect.

Of course, the tradeoff is that I can scan a snapshot of your street and if you were there playing football with your kid, walking your dog, or publicly exposing yourself then minus your face I'm going to be able to see all that.

What makes these kind of issues even less clear is that street view enables self-driving car technology (we need the detailed and constantly updated nav systems for them). Self-driving car technology has the potential to totally transform some neighborhoods, has massive potential for assisting disabled people, can completely change the way we ship goods and thusly preserve oil and energy resources for generations to come. But it also has the potential to be a new way for the upper and rich classes of the world to completely cut out service industries and further alienate the economic middle and lower classes.

Why is this meaningful? Because if we don't talk about them then we can't help shape them. If we understand the implications as a society and demand commensurate good from these private industries then it can be an incredible boon to our societies. If we don't, then one of these extremist sides will win and all options for a middle ground where we get benefits and have tradeoffs will be excluded.

That's a terrible outcome.
To back up your point, this was a great blog post on the fatal consequences of failure in mission-critical car software: http://embeddedgurus.com/state-space/2014/02/are-we-shooting...

After reading one may think: Why the fuck is there any dynamic memory allocation (stack) going on there? Why isn't the car software implemented as one big pre-allocated hierarchical state machine? You wouldn't expect such execution dynamism in hard circuits or even FPGAs. But in any case I think non-deterministic systems (especially complex CPUs+programs) should be outlawed for such mission critical signal paths.
You can register callbacks to the send calls so that you can keep track of the built up "to be sent" message queue.
I agree it is very nice, although you should know one caveat:

deleting/yanking with / and ? will do whole lines, so it may go past the match.

deleting/yanking with t, T, f, and F will go up to just the char you want, but it won't search onto the next line.

I wish there was a way to get a char-by-char multiline search, so I could e.g. cut/yank a whole sentence (something like d/.). But I haven't found it. I wonder if anyone else knows of a way?
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You're not comparing apples and oranges there.

For more: https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rustlog/why-is-a-rust-executab...
But as mentioned above, if you don't want Google to potentially track your behaviour and preferences, "don't use their services" encompasses "don't send email to anyone with a gmail address".
There's also a difference between having data here and there among many different third parties or sending everything to a single entity that can then collect in one place more data about you than what you yourself have access to.
> I suspect that chances of would-be burglars or identity thieves breaking into Google data are pretty slim, in comparison to a home-installed system.

The odds of someone physically taking my computer and decrypting my data are zero (128-bit encryption for the win!).

The odds of someone electronically breaking into my computer are higher.

The odds of my data being misused or misaccessed at Google are one: it will happen.
Given the "War On $species" thing, "War On Romulan Ale" might work as well?

Remember kids: Don't intoxicate yourself with substances we do not condone. :)
tl;dr: Google wants your data on its servers.

As opposed to all the other companies out there I guess?
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I'm not gonna lie, that sounds absolutely ridiculous and uninformed.

Everything in life depends on cause and effect and "modes". Your actions have consequences and should obviously affect future interactions.

I can totally understand that in certain instances, having "modes" or states in a software package might not be intuitive or preferred. But I also feel that having stateful software can be even more useful.
All of this is true, which is why effective policy interventions would punish bad outcomes, not prescribe methodology.

Make bad software expensive and software quality will eventually increase.
Thus article is rightful in raising concerns for privacy. But it's just repeating and rehashing same things. Google had been devouring data for long time.
https://www.wired.com/2016/06/apples-differential-privacy-co...
Are you comparing something designed to kill a rat with something designed to help me go to a burger place I like, or leave on time for work?
Yes. Also running the AI on local computer made sense because there is no incentive to run it on cloud. Since nothing is gained. Star Trek is set on post scarcity economic society. We will get there once basic income becomes the norm in all countries.
If you replace "ai" with "your spouse" would that change be as intellectually useless?
Ok, so no personal assistants and high-tech homes for anyone. Done. There, you happy now? Because if Google isn't being fed all that data, it can't provide those things. You either have it or you don't.

Edit: I've made this point before, but your data is a currency. Spend it wisely (or even not at all). It's up to you.
We think Ember is great. If you want a framework (or any FOSS solution) for the long haul (years, not months) then back a horse that isn't ran by a company who is going to change their strategy every 6 months.
I'm a zombo.com evangelist, few things do it for me like zombo.com.

Zombo.com amazingly still gets something like 600k visits a month according to similar Web.
Ha, I do the same - you always learn something new in vim.

For me the biggest boost in Vim was configuring the shell (i.e. readline via .inputrc) to use my vim key bindings, so I can use it without arrow keys. Not because of efficiency, but more for wrists comfort.

Furthermore I am in the camp of mapping ESC to 'jj'. My index finger has more power and using the pinky (e.g. via CAPS or ESC) is too exhausting for me.
Capitan Kirk was a government employee. It's implied the government/StarFleet could access the ships logs.

In the Star Trek world they had no advertising because they were a communist society. Everyone dressed the same or slightly differently based on rank. It's interesting how the new movies play over that.

In Star Trek you couldn't choose your AI. In our world you can. At the start of their development most of them are targeted at selling you stuff - but the industry is young and who knows where it will go.
> they have strict policies in place

What guarantee do you have that these policies will never change in the future? Or are you simply assuming that risks never change?
This guy is in desperate need of an editor. He may have a point, but that review is virtually unreadable.
For anyone who uses emacs, do the keybindings make sense in english? ie: Y - Yank, D - Delete, cit - change in tag, etc etc.
You can have a cheap, nonactivated phone for calling 911. In emergency mode you do not need a service activated.
Many articles say that. Do you have a source .
> Do you trust every single person at Google, and every single person at every third party company Google shares your data with, now and in perpetuity, to never abuse the data collected on you?

You forgot: every single state which Google is subject to.
There's probably a useful conversation to be had about whether companies are using H1b talent to drive down the cost of technical labor rather than to fill gaps in the talent pool (they probably are). But, wrapping up that conversation in misleading language seems counter-productive.
> We are excited about building a personal Google for everyone, everywhere

Not a problem if it run on an appliance at my home, disconnected from all the other appliances in other people homes. That would be a truly personal Google.
Yes? Using non-mod cyanogen OS gave me bootloader issues because I didn't update the official way.

I've run CM for a few years on it actually, decided to try Paranoid Android again recently when it looked like they started back up (I missed HOLO) but that now seems abandoned again and I really missed some features that turned out to be from CM, so I'm probably going back soon.