It seems like Apple has been doing away with the iTunes dependency, albeit slowly. You have been able to update without iTunes for a couple of years and more recently the awful Apps syncing was removed too.
Also, introduction of iCloud sync for files and backup vs. iTunes local sync.
In Japanese rail, conductors and drivers periodically point with their hand [1][2] to indicate awareness of the task. Reading the article, perhaps these distracted test drivers could use a similar approach.
Huh, I had a bus driver in Seattle (not Japanese) that did something similar. He would point at and call out all the major intersections, speed limit signs, etc. I honestly thought it was some kind of neurosis/obsessive compulsive disorder, but seeing this exact same behavior makes me wonder if he actually picked it up as a trick to increase is awareness on driving.
This is one of the strategies they use on some of the drivers in the TV show "Canada's Worst Driver", to get the ones scared of driving to regain control, convince the distracted ones to watch the road, and teach the ones who don't know where to look how to look at everything.
(They don't do any pointing though, because that would require taking their hands off the wheel)
If you get into Tokyo University in Japan, as long as you don't flunk out and get kicked out before graduating, you're pretty much set for life, because unlike the U.S. or some European countries where there are multiple top grade schools, each famous for certain major, Tokyo University is the ABSOLUTE top in Japan (as in there is ONLY one absolute #1 school), and literally everyone sees you differently if you say you went to Tokyo University.
This is on a completely different level than say if you told your American neighbor you went to MIT. Basically, in the US if you're an engineer, you could go to Caltech, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, UIUC, etc. and all of them are considered top, so the "genius" factor is a bit spread out therefore the scarcity is not as high (relative to how Japanese people see Tokyo University) Tokyo University is absolute #1. Period. There are some exceptions but I think that's the biggest difference.
It depends who you ask, but generally when we're talking about uber-famous colleges like MIT or Harvard, I think the brand would generally work in Japan too.
But not all Japanese are aware of MIT or Harvard, and not all of them are aware of how concretely hard it is to get into those. All they know is through what they heard from others, and based on how the media portrays those colleges.
For most ordinary Japanese people, if you say you went to Caltech or UIUC, etc. they will have no idea what the status is (the only credibility you will enjoy is from other academics), because there has not been a TV show or movie about UIUC and Caltech students.
Compare that to Tokyo University, 100% of Japanese people know exactly how hard it is to get in, because they all have gone through high school and they are completely aware of how many of their peers went to Tokyo University.
I'm sure in the U.S., regardless of where you live--midwest, alaska, or wherever--you probably have seen at least a few friends who went to any of the above colleges, because there are multiple of them. However in Japan, many high schools never see any of their graduates enter Tokyo University at all, which means for some people a "Tokyo University student" will almost feel like a mythical unicorn.
This is not unique to Japan and I am aware of at least a couple of other rich countries where the social structure works this way. U.S. is a special case because it's such a large country and the entire nation is built on the premise of diversity, but in many countries around the world there is a very clear and absolute pyramid structure in university "rankings".
Good question, I feel like there's a lot of prestige attached to that, too. Anecdotally, I've seen groups of "school tourists" from Japan come to my decently large local university, and people were surprised when they learned that I went to that school.
The big difference is that the status of your school matters A LOT more in Japan than it does in North America. Overseas schools that are large enough for people to recognize in Japan will provide status.
Went to japan for undergrad 2011-2015
Japanese school system is quite different from western one in the way that people don't do as much to prepare for career directly. Tech companies here plan to train the students on-site.(My friend who went to top graduate school in robotics now work on automobile. And another worked on speakers.) On the other hand, soft skills such as teamwork are valued much more.
All this make engineering major in japan much less instance than those in the states. Students join baseball clubs and such to practice the soft skills. Hence, his statement about the potential of startup coming out of Japanese universities is on point. Feel free to ask if you have more questions.
From what I hear, it's also because high school is so hard for college-bound students they're a) in pretty good shape academically already, and b) are burned out and need some downtime.
Yes, college is a vacation for them, because all of the work was done before it. Just by making it in, they've qualified, and college is their rest period before going into full-on career life.
> f the "useful" learning happens later on the job?
Companies in Japan have zero expectations that students know anything and will train them from scratch anyway. The rely on the university to make the selection to ensure they don't hire just anybody, but college in Japan is mostly a waste of time (necessary to get the paper) in terms of skills you get compared to any good college in Europe or the US.
So the use of Facebook data was lauded as genius and now isn't. [1] Now you got me curious if the media would be saying all the same things if Cambridge helped the other candidate get elected.
Ben Shapiro is disingenuous by isolating Facebook data only. It's the combination of illicit Facebook data + fake news + Russia's APT that is at the heart of the problem. The fact that Facebook was warned about this and didn't work to solve their share of the problem is why they are criticized.
Disinformation of the public and spreading antagonizing rumor as fact was not invented yesterday. Assume all allegations and rumors are true, ride with it and see who looks more genuine.
Trump was destined for winning. His allure is not based on respect but grandiose dreams embedded in a nostalgic slogan. Without a politically-loaded surname he took the media by the balls and rode with it.
My best guess as an outsider is that he found people apt at selling stuff and sold to the public he was. Personal defamation ("grab them by the", buffoon, meme-made-president) is a minuscule issue in the eye of the public compared to a classified information leak scandal, "Don't forget Benghazi" and poor health rumors.
Hillary IMHO was counting on an idealistic, emancipated America when the people were rather leaning towards isolationism and making America greater than the competition.
You're mostly right, I think, but I never actually heard Clinton articulate a theory of why someone would vote for her. Everyone had their own personal reason to vote for (or against) her, which one supposes is emblematic of our long-tail data-driven time, but did she ever come out and say e.g. "this is my vision of an idealist, emancipated America"?
I agree with you that such a vision is kind of a hard sell when compared with "Build the Wall!", "Lock her Up", and "Jobs!". Only the last of those base slogans ever appealed to me (not enough to make me vote for the cretin!), so I'm not disappointed that it's the only one that has happened so far.
But you're right. Gifts aside, we can at least reduce the packaging. Recently I had a chance to spend some time in Japan and the overuse of plastic bags and packaging was startling. (I expected a modern island nation to be more environmentally efficient.)
Sources suggest this is "customer first" culture-driven:
Am I understanding correctly is that the primary blame on Facebook is in enabling apps (via API) to collect data?
This stuff has unfortunately existed for years, no different from an Android "beautiful waterfall wallpapers" app that also happens to ask for permission to access your contacts/messages. People consent to their data being public (sometimes in second-degree through their friends), data gets collected. And what about all those helpful Chrome extensions that want access to all of your browsing tabs?
I never authorize third-party apps on my accounts (or even install non-local Chrome extensions), but I'm likely in the minority.
If the task is "taking datasets and making them more searchable," it seems like that company gets the heat simply for making the task easier. Excel, SQL databases (or, heck, huge CSV files) don't get as much attention even though they could be used for the same purpose, even if very awkwardly.
You are right. But sometimes the data access technology does make a qualitative difference. That’s because a lot of our protection has always been a sort of “security by obscurity”. It wasn’t just the 4th amendment protecting you from unreasonable searches. The government was also restricted by their manpower, and by the fact that searching a house is easily visible and people would notice if you’re targeting everyone.
These restrictions don’t apply to digital eavesdropping, which is why it has become a major point of debate once the technology made it possible to do on a large scale.
Another example are license plate scanners: that data has always been there, and anyone could legally write down all the license plates they saw. But add image recognition and a database, and you’ve created a monster.
The tech community usually turns to technology to fight such technology: encryption for communication, Bitcoin to undermine (pun intended) what they see as the failings of the FED. BitTorrent for their qualms with copyright enforcement.
But laws and the court of public opinion are arguably our first line of defense. Underground printers didn’t stop the nazis or the Sowjets, and it’s not clear that technology has significantly moved power to the people in China, Turkey, or North Korea.
So we need better privacy laws. We need politicians to be scared before they use the services of Cambridge Analytica. And we need to convince our peers that they will have joined the dark side if they accept a job at Palantr. These sort of actions have the added benefit of respecting the processes of a civil society ruled by law, and not a techno-jungle where might is right.
So long as we remain wedded to directory paths as a means of referencing files and folders, much of our storage will contain duplicated content.
As a counterpoint, there are many situations where duplicating content may be preferred. If I'm pasting something into a document, I want it to remain immutable there without the risk of an external change (by me) altering the document that I assume to remain static.
I would add that in general there is no one right abstraction. If you want to be able to change the source file, you are best of using symlinks. If you want to be able to change both files and keep them in sync, you should use a hardlink. If you want to create a true copy and modify them independently, just make a copy.
Also worth mentioning that most COW file systems support block level deduplication, so if enabled, two files with the same content will be stored only once.
Rather than semantically splitting the original content (by either using unidirectional links or getting rid of the connection entirely), it seems to me that keeping the content in a versioned database with bidirectional links is much preferable from the user's point of view.
The versioned database takes care of grouping related edits and lets you point at a specific, immutable version. While bidirectional links let you efficiently find all usage sites so that you can make an informed decision as to whether they need updating.
We don't know Binance was hacked. Relatively few people use API keys to trade and every reported account had API keys on it. It's likely some malware that looks for API keys in config / python files laying around.
That's not a very sophisticated hack, but it's technically a type of hacking. In the same way that if you leave your keys unlocked in your running car overnight and someone gets in an drives away with it, that's still theft.
