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Walkback makes Tweetdeck better by 1.) adding hotkeys 2.) letting you hide the sidebar, freeing up more space for tweets.
Hotkeys let you page-up/page-down all the columns at once, making it much easier to hunt for tweets.
Fast forward to after college, I found myself at a career-y job I disliked. Each lunch break I loaded up my (shiny new 2011) Macbook Air with a few tabs-worth of chapters of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist [0] and headed to a Wendy's that didn't have an internet connection. So, for 45 minutes I could eat my spicy chicken nuggets and apply what I was learning from the book in console at a Python command line. It was so simple and fun, I was hooked. Within a month I was taking on programming-related responsibilities at work, soon thereafter auditing a class at Uni (I specifically chose cause it interested me), and within 4-5 months was being paid by my professor (from audited class) for web dev grant work, and a few more months and I was being paid as a developer by the University directly. The rest is history.
I think one key part of why it stuck the fourth time was because my routine allowed for 45+ minutes of time away from the internet each day with learning materials. The satisfaction of learning is incredible but more of a "slow drip" compared to the kind of instant satisfaction one can get by opening Netflix, Facebook, or whatever. Going without the latter during a key period I think changed my life.
> it maintains the status quo
No, it reverses the status quo.
The "status quo" was that the FCC would regulate ISP's sale of consumers' data. There is now a climate for where we were before these rules were passed, ala: a business can be built upon schemes like supercookies without opt-in and other dark patterns
tech: the kinds of tech challenges we'll be facing in the next 8 years are extraordinary - cyberwarfare, advanced AI, self-driving cars, brittle state of internet/device security, designer babies via genetic engineering. i'm worried about the general lack of competency of the exec branch in navigating through them.
thanks to the past 16 years, surveillance state powers are far beyond any in history.
the supreme court had some good decisions re privacy in the last few years, wouldn't count on that moving forward b/c scalia was pretty reasonable.
goodwill from silicon valley will drop off precipitously. revolving door from google, Facebook to government will stop (pros and cons there, but mostly cons)
election stuff: during this election there's been a flare up in racial tensions, a safe space for the alt-right, etc
but HRC lost states Obama won -- the disparity was huge between elections.
so, yes racism played a role (and set up the worst Republican candidate winning the thing), but in the general election it was only one of many many factors, and maybe more of a side effect rather than a cause of the result.
DNC will probably be scared about pitching husband/wife combos or dynasties moving forward, minor knocks against Chelsea, Michelle Elizabeth Warren has a strong path moving forward.
silver lining to all of this is the Democratic party has a chance to reform itself. demographic trends are favoring Democrats in future elections
The FBI has openly admitted to running the server http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/01/21/fbi-ran-websit...
Anything iCloud-initiated does not benefit from the protection of the secure enclave on the device--so with your idea, you'd be opening a denial-of-privacy attack vector
Then you are not using the feature the way Tesla says you should, the only way Tesla says it's safe to be used.
> I am sick and tired of absolutist statements about risk.
Recklessly rolling out tech is screwing the industry-at-large, given the regulatory hurdles that must be overcome.
>> One death is too many.
You took this out of context. When Tesla makes no genuine, up-front attempt to educate users on how to use Auto-Pilot--yes, one death is too many.
Correctly-deployed autonomous driving stands to save thousands of lives annually; what's at risk is some overeager company @#!$ing the regulatory efforts by being irresponsible at scale.
What's beyond the pale IMO is that when auto-pilot was first demonstrated (at the unveil event) - "hands on the wheel" was not part of the story. Journalists and (what appeared to be) Tesla employees were using the feature without hands on the wheel. It looked like Tesla cashing-in on the positive PR without correctly framing the limitations of the tech.
Furthermore, Tesla includes sensors to map the entire surroundings of their cars, but why can't they include sensors to ensure customers have hands on the wheel? (update: comment says they do, but the check frequency is low. why can't it be high?!) It's not just the driver's life at stake, it's everyone else on the road--Tesla should disable this feature on cars [unless it ensures] drivers' hands are on the wheel. Engineers/execs at other companies taking a more responsible approach must be furious at the recklessness on display. One death is too many.
Tesla Auto-pilot fail videos: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tesla+autopilot...
It's incredibly unfair to other drivers on the road to let someone else use beta software that could cause a head-on-collision.
So I've decided to repost with an outline of the high-level findings: 1) Parallel construction, over classification, gag orders, proactive suing of municipalities, and more hide surveillance from public scrutiny. 2) Surveillance tech is being deployed unevenly in America, largely against low income neighborhoods (from Stingrays to license plate readers). The aforementioned secrecy makes it hard for the EFF, ProPublica, ACLU, etc to study the deployment of such tech. 3) The federal government is, through "anti-terror grants", funding surveillance for local police, but the EFF/ACLU have found the surveillance tech is used to crack down on non-terror crimes. 4) The FBI and local police are pushing for more surveillance that doesn't involve the judicial system (warrantless surveillance), with the FBI's latest push to broaden NSLs to include personal browsing history and session information. 5) We've passed an inflection point, where law enforcement does not fear pushback from American people on civil liberties, as many Americans have become inured to the new normal.
[0] - https://www.facebook.com/business/help/community/question/?i...
So why was the exception made to this policy?
> In-Q-Tel, a venture-capital arm of the U.S. intelligence community, has been investing in data-mining companies to beef up the government’s ability to sort through massive amounts of information. In-Q-Tel, for example, has invested in data-mining firms Palantir Technologies Inc. and Recorded Future Inc.
> U.S. intelligence agencies gained access to Dataminr’s service after an In-Q-Tel investment in the firm, according to a person familiar with the matter.
> When a pilot program arranged by In-Q-Tel ended recently, Twitter told Dataminr it didn’t want to continue the relationship with intelligence agencies, this person said.
VC funds led by US agencies that operate on a quasi-legal and opaque basis is the worst form of crony capitalism
Open version of the article http://www.wsj.com/article_email/twitter-bars-intelligence-a...
Another aside: At least for extensions featured in a store, it makes sense to me to have a vetting process. Also, I believe that anyone should be able to read, unminified, the code they run on their computers if they so wish. (Especially if the software gets to view/change the content of the pages they visit.) So, I appreciate the general rule in Moz's review process against minified code and large unknown libraries.
I published three Chrome extensions last year, and decided to port my more ambitious one to Firefox. (all at http://www.metafruit.com) Now I feel somewhat bad for complaining since I'm not an extension reviewer myself, and I feel they've taken on a tall order for the betterment of their community. But my Firefox port took four months to get to the front of the review process. Needless to say, my next extension is targeted only for Chrome.
Chrome's approach is easy for developers but almost reckless for end users.