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"Either evolution and the big bang happened or they did not; both matters can, in principle, be solved with more data and better theory. But the right form of taxation or government cannot be answered with more data and better theory. They are ideological positions that are established by subjective debate."

If you don't adjust your views of taxation and government based on data, nobody should ever listen to what you have to say on politics (or anything else). I'm trying to find a more charitable way to read this, but there really is none. Presumably, if he supported some tax policy, being shown a dozen nations that subsequently implement the policy and face unmitigated economic disaster would do nothing to shake his faith in it.
I thought that story was awesome, though I completely respect those who hated it. Here is whyb (somewhat stream of conciousness... sorry...):

Long term relationships take work and commitment, including possibly long stretches of unhappiness. This article celebrates working toward something besides "fun".

A rewarding life is NOT the same as being happy all the time. If you ask me, focusing on happiness above all else is tantamount to addiction, and really bad. ("Self overcoming" is what makes a rewarding life, and self overcoming almost requires suffering; I study math -- suffering is fun once you get the taste...)

She wouldn't take the blame for his crappiness, and decided to be OK with herself; she practiced this OK-ness even when it didn't come naturally.

I hate to be all curmudgeonly, but between the 1960s and Freud we have adopted a VERY self indulgent ideology which makes me want to puke. (And which has probably fueled a big part of the conservative movement, unfortunately...)

I may have other less easily expressed reactions that are coloring my overall gestalt, but I think those sum it up.
Straight from the horse's mouth: http://www.piratpartiet.se/nyheter/piratpartiet_levererar_pi...
If a third-party (you) searched for your current girlfriend and then for your ex (or vice versa) that could make them related queries. Click on the link at the end of the spoke and follow the six degrees of separation.
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What I'd really like to see is some research into how much of the difference between Apple and its competitors is the placebo effect. People expect Apple products to be easy to use, and when they find something that's difficult, "It wasn't designed for that."

You look at Android or Windows or Linux by contrast, and when it's difficult to do something, it's because their design teams are much weaker than Apple's. Sure, the iPad doesn't have to do everything. But if you approach a netbook or a non-Apple tablet with the same "It's an Apple, so it must be good" mentality, is the iPad really worth the price premium?
CNN doesn't get any of your Facebook data. It's an iframe hosted on Facebook. That HN user wants people to know that he likes that article.

(Your reaction is partially justified due to the existence of Instant Personalization on Yelp, Pandora, and Docs, which does share information without your consent.)
Cool - they addresses it. But how does Android know when one app needs to be killed? Does any attempt to open an in-use resource kill the owning task?
Are you logged in to your google account while searching?

I have found that the results change when you are and it will promote things that you have search for and emailed about before.
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paywalled.

Does the NY Times understand that not everything that happens at Harvard is of consuming interest to the public in general?
Could it be as simple as Google knowing that someone (namely, you) has previously searched for both these names, thereby establishing a connection between them?

I'm not sure whether that should be considered a privacy violation,
One thing I would love (though Facebook's privacy will NEVER get this lax) would be a script to download and archive everything I've ever been involved with -- every comments thread, every wall correspondence, every private message. This would actually help me towards closing my account (or at least stripping it of all my substantive information and content).

I barely use Facebook anymore: its primary utility for me is mostly to receive and disseminate Event information [1]. But there's still a whole lot of content I'd like to save. Some of the most personally significant correspondences I've ever had are in my Messages Inbox. I'm sure a wider record of my activity from back when Facebook was a major part of my life and my friends' lives will be something to treasure when I'm older (though much of it could have been lost in others' content purges). In fact, I guarantee that in 5-10 years, if you can offer somebody back their old information, especially if you can serve it up in a contemporary interface, you will make a fortune, privacy be damned.

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[1] Its secondary utility is to mindlessly dump links every once in a while, and its tertiary utility is to troll the shit out of people I shouldn't even have on there in the first place (from back in the early, exuberant days, when people added everybody they said two words to at a party).
Some more info:

1) When I do the search described, I do it without being logged into any Google account.

2) To the absolute best of my knowledge, no email correspondences to my ex or about my ex have ever come out of my GMail account or my girlfriends.

I would consider email tracking more sinister for sure, so in some ways I'm glad it's not that.

That said, it's definitely not the volume of searches people are doing on anyone's names that have created the association (we all have a fair amount of individual web presence). So again, my only hunch is that Google has taken note that my girlfriend while logged in has searched for my ex (I have this confirmed) and that my ex likewise may have done the same.

If that is the case, I definitely 'feel' privacy violation going on since they're not using queries on aggregate to craft results, but instead are considering low-volume queries between users as a sign of association.
"papers written by academics all over the world" != "well written and thoughtful content"

I think the power of the internet is not access to long boring and often useless or esoteric academic papers, but rather that the internet is the most powerful reference tool ever invented. It's information on demand. Rather than get a sound understanding of Chemistry, I can just look up the occasional chemical compound I am concerned with at the moment. Similarly, I can review individual historic topics at will, and math equations, and search large text volumes for Philosophical gems. Information a-la-cart is power, freedom, and leisure all rolled into one.
Summary: some people pretend to be thoughtfully considering, but really they're just mean old baddies. The list of mean-old-baddies is below. don't let them trick you! You'll go to hell!

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[See article for list of Satan's minions.]
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How long ago was that? In 1999/2000 they were running everything off of a MSDOS app on a Win95 desktop PC...
One's policy views might be based on morality, in which case one might not change them based on facts. An example:

I oppose torture. You can show me 100 nations which ban torture and then suffer from preventable terrorist attacks, and it won't change my view. I would choose to ban torture even if it stops law enforcement from preventing some terrorist attacks.

Some people hold similar views on taxation, redistribution, the welfare state, etc (i.e., "tax is an immoral act of theft, regardless of economic benefits", or "the welfare state is a moral imperative, regardless of economic harms").
But now Android thinks it "knows" when it can kill your task - even if you intended it to continue in the background. This is a perfect illustration of why its a bad idea to take "exit" away from the app and put it in the OS.
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Er, you pay fees as a student?

My bank (RBC) is run by old men in suits, plus I pay no mandatory fees. Optional fees are another thing. If I want the convenience of using an ATM not run by the bank, I pay a surcharge. But, it's a big bank, with ATMs everywhere I go. The surcharge is never paid. :)
Unfortunately not - I am not logged in when I make the query.
Why can't the TPB folks actually write in proper English ? It might make other folks take them seriously.
> the only explanation I can come up with is that Google has taken note that my girlfriend and ex may have done Google searches on each other

That seems.... unlikely. Mostly for logistical/practical reasons than anything else.

Were you logged in at the time? That seems more likely.

Did the name pull up actual results on your ex? Is there a more reasonable explanation (i.e. could it be someone else your GF is interested in).
What happens when that system is Windows and gets dorked up by McAfee too? :)
I didn't want to link to that one, as it is in swedish.
I guess he had a bit of downtime, when he had to work for other people.
Too bad they probably don't hear as often about stuff that does work.
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You can run McAfee on linux now as well (mostly for scanning email and CIFS shared files, I assume?). PCI DSS and DoD IA controls require it.

Enterprise grade McAfee still sucks, it's just a more manageable suck. Despite that, it still blew up with the bad DAT file - those are the same between product lines.
What should be the goal of a tax policy or a government? Maximal total economic output? Equal opportunity for everyone? A low Gini coeffecient?

I think his main point in talking about taxation and government is that there are philosophical assumptions at their roots that affect how you would interpret and use some of the data. As such whether a certain policy is a failure or not is open to debate based on our goals.
Without knowing why they chose a Window POS system, claiming Linux would have been better, or was even an option, is pure speculation. Give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they had reasons that made sense.

It's awesome that Linux saved the day and that the author was resourceful enough to pull it off, but the whole event still could easily have been avoided (and without having to change much at all).

As nice as it is to blame McAfee, only the end user can control the extent to which third parties can affect them.

At Loopt, we stagger both Windows and Ubuntu updates for this very reason. We do the same with our own code updates. It costs very little and has saved us on numerous occasions.
What does POS mean besides point-of-sale?
I was just reading the answer to your question yesterday, from someone who actually has done it: http://www.puppetmastertrading.com/blog/2010/03/02/basic-eco...
also, facebook insists on your true identity, whereas twitter handles provide some anonymity
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> Were you logged in at the time? That seems more likely.

I am not.

> Did the name pull up actual results on your ex?

It does not.

> Is there a more reasonable explanation (i.e. could it be someone else your GF is interested in).

Of course some other connection between my girlfriend and ex may be possible, but none exist or are record online to the best of my knowledge. The problem with this answer is that all of us have considerably more readily associated information, and even if there is a rare case of indirect connection, it seems unreasonable that Google would weight it so greatly so as to make it one of the 8 Wonder Wheel connections.
That seems a little unlikely - simply because, as you say, there is no link between the two girls. So why has Google made that link (when I am sure a large number of people with the same name exist).

What it could be is your girlfriend Googled her name while logged in (i.e. rather than matching the two it just recognizes it as something she searched for). Even that seems unlikely - how does Google know you mean that person when Googling her - does she even have her name registered with Google. and so forth.

There are so many variables I really think that, using Occams razor, it is a highly unlikely solution :)

Also; Wonder Wheel has always given very slap dash to me. I've not observed this level of sophistication in it before...

Would you consider giving the name(s) to someone you trust (but not nearby) for them to perform the same search. That might give us some better data to figure it out.

EDIT: email is on my profile if you want me to check.
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Being married to a teacher, I can concur from experience.
I think there is still a huge install base of Windows machines in POS environments, especially in small to medium businesses.

In most of those settings (read: no need for remote access) it is per se not worse than deploying Linux unless you have them connected to an open LAN/WLAN and/or the Internet.

It sure made sense for a lot of people during the last 15 years for various reasons, occasionally one can even spot a DOS system still being used (now you know why they still sell floppy disks in 2010).

Big companies like McDonalds clearly had the resources long ago to go for a different approach but only during the last 5 years or so this has become a more viable option for many small-medium shops.

Even though Ubuntu, Google, Wikipedia & Co have "happened" during those Windows POS years we aren't there yet.

I suspect mainstream small-medium business will skip this step anyhow:

For example I myself am working on a distributed POS solution using a certain set of 2010 state of the art technology (the no-brainer variation: "cloud" back end and administration, newest generation of touch devices as "terminals").

It allows for low on site IT infrastructure and maintenance plus a strong emphasize on UI/UX which thanks to Apple is finally becoming ubiquitously expected.
because they're pirates ... why is it so necessary to be taken seriously all the time?
Tiny Core Linux is another candidate at only 10MB (or its X-less variant, Micro Core, at 6MB). It includes a capable terminal server for PXE booting with support for loading extensions via NFS/TFTP/HTTP:

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.com/tiki-index.php?page=Netbooting

It's well documented and easily customized:

http://www.tinycorelinux.com/
At one of my first jobs (before college), I worked at a huge multiplex theater.

About six months after I started, they replaced all of the POS terminals that had been there since I began with new shiny ones.

New shiny ones that were dumb terminals to virtual Windows XP instances running out of the back office. Unfortunately, there were approximately 20 POS terminals in the place.

And every single one of them was on the same collision domain. All the Cat5 was ratnested under the counters; some of them were held in to the plethora of cheap 5-port hubs by duct tape. In the networking cupboard behind concessions, the wires were coated in old "butter flavored topping." Occasionally, all the POS terminals in the box office would cut out - usually because someone in the back office accidentally knocked over the five-port hub back there, and one of the connections fell out.

Needless to say, management was super excited to have these shiny new POS terminals. Everyone who had to use them? Well.. we all did our jobs a little bit slower: it's hard to ring up a ticket sale when it takes 3-4 seconds for a touchscreen press to register. The actual hardware of the POS terminals was pretty (needlessly) impressive. A lot of times the people running a place really have no idea what any of "that computer stuff" does - they rely their POS salesman and their crack team of installation specialists to get everything running. And from what I gather, a lot of those companies are pretty much used car salesmen...

(wonder if that's a potential business op? It's a hard market, to be sure, but most store owners I know that use a POS hate the system like they hate fleas, mosquitos, and AIDs)
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I agree it will be risky to change privacy now, but inconsistency is really bad. That should chose a way and stick to it.

I doubt that the revenue per user is up to $10/year. That will be $4bn every year. So even if they get only 10 million paying, it will be a better return per user.
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I would love to do that too. Here's a head start ("Machine-readable economic indicators from the lockups to your trading algorithm"): http://www.needtoknownews.com/
Depends on the final aftermath I'd say, i.e. on whether the politicians will need a scapegoat or not.

In terms of environmental magnitude it's not yet decided whether this will make it into the Top 3 or even Top 10. According to the article around 5000 barrels of oil spill per day, with "multiple news sources" claiming it's much worse.

So let's assume it's actually 50000 barrels spilling daily.

Even at that rate it would still take 40 days to make it into the Top 3 of worst oil spills (according to wikipedia).

However, the eventual environmental impact will most certainly not decide over whether BP heads roll or not. The financial impact on the american economy will. BP might go under even if the spill remains comparably small in the big picture - because fishies don't vote. BP might prevail even if the spill becomes the largest in history - if they pull their political strings right.
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Obama didn't even use the word "technology". How do you go from "gadgets" to "technology"? Actually, if you're The Economist, the same way you write most articles about things whose ideology and political affiliations don't agree with yours.

This is why I particularly dislike The Economist. They are shrewd. Fox News (or, say, The Guardian) poisons the minds of idiots; The Economist poisons my own unless I am extra careful.
Lots of medical software like DICOM image viewers and MRI viewers have IE6-only versions. The later versions support Firefox and other browsers, but cost thousands to upgrade. It's hard to explain to a CFO why such an expenditure is required.
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His real problem is that the media is no longer centrally controlled.

And meanwhile, you're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank that high on the truth meter.

"Some" of which don't. And "some" of which do, which is the real problem. The fact that he is objecting to "all kinds of arguments" whatever their content might be, is a giveaway.

information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment

Well, if you're old enough to remember when there were 3 channels and 1 local paper, you know that "information", such as it was, was a sedative at best. Sit in front of the TV, believe every sugary bit of crap on the 11 o clock news, go to bed. Nobody, and I mean nobody, was ever "empowered" by the media configuration as it existed through the 20th century. But for a centralized government, it was ideal--very empowering.
The problem with the sell off is no one can tell us what happened
Ah, interesting possibility, but I don't think it could have been I who catalyzed it.

My concern first arose when I searched for my girlfriend and surprisingly spotted my ex as a spoke. The only other search I had done was for myself.
Sure, but that's a workaround for something that arguably belongs in the template language to start with.
Three questions:

1) Why do you find it harder to code these days? Does that bother you? It seems like you're still keeping up with a lot of python stuff from your delicious tagging.

2) Why hasn't anyone advanced the ball past delicious with bookmarking? I'm still a delicious nut, but I really want good search tied into it. Is there no business model or no real use to the data?

3) Do you believe in the Ron Conway style of angel investing? IE. invest in many interesting companies for better returns? Do you ever participate in follow-on rounds?
I'm guessing POS means Point of Service but every time I read it, I think "Piece of Shit" terminal, which I suppose is applicable as well.
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It is indeed hard to imagine business users doing complex computations on google spreadsheets. I fall back to excel in those scenarios but use google for simpler usecases.
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(Lowering the barriers to wasting your time.)
I actually like Docs.com, I think its formatting is better than Googles, and part of me likes that you have to click 'save', but I also don't like how long it takes to save, and also how I can close the browser and lose my work, so I guess they need to do something there (perhaps save drafts on the fly, and then when I hit save, commit changes).

But other than that, The formatting features make me think that Google wasn't even trying...
this really reminds me of myspace for some reason. Maybe it's just the type of people I see on there.
One of the spokes off a wonder wheel for my name is "jonathan rockway fired". Does Google know something I don't!?
Yes. I like lectures, by the way, but that's because most professors are smart enough to interact with the audience.
The goals should/would be separated from the tax policy. But you need the science to understand what the likely outcomes of the individual policies are.
There's a difference between being able to conjure up a few examples of things you think are immoral in any situation, and the conviction that evidence cannot, in principle, have any impact on what policies one should enact.
Could you try the same query after deleting all the google cookies?
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So... next time a feature-proposal window rolls around, go sign yourself up to work on composite-key support. That's pretty much how things get done :)
i speculate this particular case is done entirely in software.
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When will the suits get it? Even China can't censor the 'net. If people want it, they will get it. Simple.
We live in a world where programmers think of Java's Object model when they think of OOP.

Which is a crippled version of C++'s Object Model.

About which Alan Kay said:
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