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What do markets see when they look at people? Information dragnets increasingly yield huge quantities of individual-level data, which are analyzed to sort and slot people into categories of taste, riskiness or worth. These tools deepen the reach of the market and define new strategies of profit-making. We present a new theoretical framework for understanding their development. We argue that a) modern organizations follow an institutional data imperative to collect as much data as possible; b) as a result of the analysis and use of this data, individuals accrue a form of capital flowing from their positions as measured by various digital scoring and ranking methods; and c) the facticity of these scoring methods makes them organizational devices with potentially stratifying effects. They offer firms new opportunities to structure and price offerings to consumers. For individuals, they create classification situations that identify shared life-chances in product and service markets. We discuss the implications of these processes and argue that they tend toward a new economy of moral judgment, where outcomes are experienced as morally deserved positions based on prior good actions and good tastes, as measured and classified by this new infrastructure of data collection and analysis.

The segment of employment I think more worth watching is … driving.  Truckers in some US states constitute the most common employment category.  

In Canada, I’ve heard it estimated that 130,000 (largely) men could be displaced by automated trucking alone.  (In The Netherlands, for instance, autonomous trucking is already here in Rotterdam ports and will likely extend to intercity controlled-access freeways more easily automated than complex urban environments.)

Then there are transit drivers, taxi and Uber drivers, delivery drivers … 

Imagine the social and political consequences of de-employing tens of thousands of low-skilled labourers in a short time, without the ability to reabsorb them in jobs of similar pay and status.  The temptation to issue them guns and allow them discretionary power to maintain social order (or, let’s say, undocumented immigrants and closing borders) will be high unless the political system can respond in more productive ways.

When you’re working with others, finding the right file is just the beginning. What about all the other work that happens around those files? Sometimes that context and those sharing relationships are just as important as the file itself. That’s why we’re excited to roll out our new redesigned website to all users today. Dropbox.com is designed to bring your files to life with team-first functionality—so it’s not just a place for your files, but for people and conversations, too. Here’s what’s new and what it means for you.

Less time coordinating work, more time getting things done

With simpler navigation, it’s easier to share files and Paper docs with others, leave feedback, and see what’s changed—without the back-and-forth over email. We’ve even customized the toolbar, presenting only the relevant next steps for what you’ve selected.

More information at a glance

The new dropbox.com lets you browse files visually with a thumbnail view, and see who else is collaborating with you on shared files and folders. And we’ve made search even smarter, providing results across your files and Dropbox Paper docs.

Now your tools have work-life balance, too

Whether you’re at the office or working from home, our new website is designed to help you focus on the task at hand. With clearer account separation, it’s easier to switch between your work and personal Dropbox accounts. And when you do, now you’ll only see search and notifications for the account you’re in.

A team-first experience that makes life easier for admins

With a cleaner, more streamlined design, the new admin console will simplify the way Dropbox Business admins manage their team. It’s coming soon in early access, so stay tuned.

To see the new web experience for yourself—and even take a quick tour—sign in to your Dropbox account on the web. For an overview of everything new on dropbox.com, check out this help center article.

There are many ways in which wiki is the perfect vehicle for a fact-checking site.

• First, the nature of the wiki consensus helps guarantee a fair treatment of issues from multiple perspectives.
• Second, the nature of wiki (when a particular scale is met) is that it is quick to respond to new information — much quicker than more institutional processes.
• Finally, wiki is iterative — which means as new information comes to light, fact-checking articles can be kept up-to-date, even years after the fact.

Unfortunately, there are many ways in which it is not a good fit.

• First, Wikipedia civility often falls down around contentious issues. In fact-checking, EVERY issue is contentious.
• Second, Wikipedia is prone to vandalism. It gets corrected quickly, but maybe not enough for a fact-checking site.
• Third, Wikipedia grew organically over time — culture got set before the stakes were high. Can culture develop when it’s high-stakes from day one?

Do the pros outweigh the cons? I’m not sure. But it seems to me a promising idea worth exploring. We’re trying this idea with student authors across multiple schools at digipo.io. And so far it’s kind of sort of working:

How Wiki for Fact-Checking Is Different than Wikipedia

People will ask (as they always do) “Isn’t Wikipedia a fact-checking site already? What would be the difference?”

The difference is that Wikipedia structures knowledge topically. You can have an article on “Buffalo” or “The Pentagon Papers” or “The 2012 Benghazi Attack”. What you can’t have is a page on a claim, which is how fact-checking sites are structured.

So, for instance, in our student project above, one of the students submitted a claim “Women coders considered better than men, but only if they hide their gender.” That’s a great claim for a fact-checking page, but there is no corollary in Wikipedia.

Our fact-checking wiki has two major parts to every article. The first is the origin of the claim. This claim comes from a headline that references a study that may or may not support that conclusion. But the author does the work of tracking the claim to source.

Here’s an example of what that looks like on another claim about the Fukushima thyroid cancer rate.

Origin and Prevalence demonstrates the claim originated from a video put out by an anti-nuclear advocacy group, called Fairewinds Energy Education, and has been widely covered in both right-wing and left-wing media.

Even if we find a study that does support the headline,  a good article on the claim would place that result in the context of previous and subsequent work, noting the strengths and limits of the study. Does the study confirm previous work, or buck against it? Is it more rigorous than previous work? Less rigorous? Structured somewhat differently? In our wiki we use the Issues and Analysis section to do this:

Screenshot showing the Issues and Analysis section of a DigiPo wiki page on the Fukushima thyroid cancer rate.  A study is found that supports a lesser conclusion, but placed into context of subsequent work it appears that study was flawed.

There are similarities here to Wikipedia, but the focus of the article is to eventually get to that short summary of the truth at the top, not to cover a topic. In this particular article that summary turns out to be

Summary: The larger claims come from a misreading of statistics. Most experts, looking at the same data, believe that Fukushima has had little to no effect on thyroid cancer prevalence.

The rest of the page leads to the creation of that short snippet that an average reader can understand. It’s not about coverage, it’s about analysis. This is a piece of what people do on Wikipedia as they adjudicate the validity of various statements, but here it is the structuring principle.

Now, should this claim be rated “false”? Or is it better termed “Highly Unlikely”? That’s a great dicussion to have. Wouldn’t it be great to work it out through wiki?

Someone Else Should Build This Instead of Me

We are currently running DigiPo on a Dokuwiki install on Reclaim Hosting. It works for what we are doing. And I think it’s an interesting experiment in the use of wiki in education. I plan to support it as long as I can.

But I’m not a great developer or system admin. I’m an instructional designer and a community builder with a theoretical bent.

What I would love to do eventually is partner with someone on the software side, and just push students there to post. In my dreams, someone wants to spin off a specific sort of wiki site, the way that Jimmy Wales took his Wikipedia background and created Wikia around the culture of fandom. I know a fact-checking community is not as hip as the latest pages on Yuri on Ice, but we could give it a try.

If someone has the site, we have the pedagogy, and an army of teachers and students who would just love to engage with a site like this. We can focus on the pedagogy and community-building.

Is anyone out there with the resources to build and promote a major site like this feeling this? Want to talk?

Several examples here at CityLab, and an analysis of the disaster that never seems to happen. As with Vancouver’s Burrard Bridge bike lane in early 2009, the doomsday howling about Carmageddon and chaos arrives like clockwork whenever motordom’s asphalt is threatened.

But life goes on, it seems. The dire prophecies are rarely true, and the pundits rarely pilloried for their false prophecies.

Joe Cortright in CityLab looks at Atlanta, where part of I85 (a major freeway) caught fire. Yes, the usual noise filled the airwaves, but Carmageddon and its attendant chaos did not arrive.

So what’s going on here? Arguably, our mental model of traffic is just wrong. We tend to think of traffic volumes, and trip-making generally as inexorable forces of nature. The diurnal flow of 250,000 vehicles a day on an urban freeway like I-85 is just as regular and predictable as the tides. What this misses is that there’s a deep behavioral basis to travel. Human beings will shift their behavior in response to changing circumstances. If road capacity is impaired, many people can decide not to travel, change when they travel, change where they travel, or even change their mode of travel. The fact that Carmageddon almost never comes is powerful evidence of induced demand: people travel on roadways because the capacity is available for their trips, and when the capacity goes away, so does much of the trip making.

I wonder — is there a real Carmageddon?  As illustrated below, is it the endless expansion of asphalt-covered land to the benefit of motordom, and to the exclusion of every other mode of transportation?

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This is happening today (technically, in a few hours), and it’s the first Open Source development conference organized by Microsoft Portugal – and coincidentally (or not…) it’s powered by my buddies at Bright Pixel.

(Part of me finds it hilarious that this should happen on Microsoft’s 42nd anniversary, too…)

Since I’ve had to focus on other kinds of stuff over the past couple of weeks, I’m (regretfully) not speaking at the event, but I’ll be there throughout the day as time allows.

Mozilla has released version 2.4.1 of Mozilla’s CA Certificate Policy and sent a CA Communication to inform Certification Authorities (CAs) who have root certificates included in Mozilla’s program about new program requirements. Mozilla’s CA Certificate Program governs inclusion of root certificates in Network Security Services (NSS), a set of open source libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. The NSS root certificate store is not only used in Mozilla products such as the Firefox browser, but is also used by other companies and open-source projects in a variety of applications.

The changes of note in Mozilla’s CA Certificate Policy are as follows:

• In addition to audit statements, the CP and CPS documents need to be submitted to Mozilla each year.
• As of June 1, 2017, the audit, CP, and CPS documents must be provided in English, translated if necessary.
• All submitted documentation must be openly licensed (see the policy for the exact options and terms).
• Version 2.4 of Mozilla’s CA Certificate Policy incorporates by reference the Common CCADB Policy and the Mozilla CCADB Policy.
• The new Common CA Database (CCADB) Policy makes official a number of existing expectations regarding the CCADB.
• The applicable versions of some audit criteria have been updated.
• There are additional requirements on OCSP responses.
• 64 bits of entropy is required in certificate serial numbers.

The differences in Mozilla’s CA Certificate Policy between versions 2.4 and 2.3 (published December 2016), and between versions 2.4 and 2.2 (published July 2013) may be viewed on Github. Version 2.4.1 contains exactly the same normative requirements as version 2.4 but has been completely reorganized.

The CA Communication has been emailed to the Primary Point of Contact (POC) for each CA in Mozilla’s program, and they have been asked to respond to 14 action items. The full set of action items can be read here. Responses to the survey will be automatically and immediately published via the Common CA Database.

In addition to responding to the action items, we are informing CAs that we are instituting a program requirement that they follow discussions in the mozilla.dev.security.policy forum, which includes discussions about upcoming changes to Mozilla’s CA Certificate Policy, questions and clarification about policy and expectations, root certificate inclusion/change requests, and certificates that are found to be non-compliant with the CA/Browser Forum’s Baseline Requirements or other program requirements. CAs are not required to contribute to those discussions, only to be aware of them. However, we hope CAs will participate and help shape the future of Mozilla’s CA Certificate Program.

With this CA Communication, we re-iterate that participation in Mozilla’s CA Certificate Program is at our sole discretion, and we will take whatever steps are necessary to keep our users safe. Nevertheless, we believe that the best approach to safeguard that security is to work with CAs as partners, to foster open and frank communication, and to be diligent in looking for ways to improve.

Mozilla Security Team

The post Mozilla Releases Version 2.4 of CA Certificate Policy appeared first on Mozilla Security Blog.

Science. Is. Political.

This concept will probably be easy to absorb for the regular readership at Cyborgology. It’s a topic that has been discussed here a time or two. Still, as truisms go, it is one of a very few that liberals and conservatives alike love to hate. The fantasy of apolitical science is a tempting one: an unbiased, socially distant capital-s Science that seeks nothing more than enlightenment, floating in a current events vacuum and unsullied by personal past experiences. It presupposes an objective reality, a universe of constants that can be catalogued, evaluated, and understood completely. But this view of science is a myth, one that has been thoroughly dissected in the social sciences.

As often as the myth of scientific apoliticism comes into conflict with the messy reality, it is no wonder that scientific and technical expertise is often questioned in the policymaking realm. The term “anti-science” gets thrown around a lot in the United States, especially in reference to the Trump administration and the majority-Republican Congress so eager to curry favor with him.

One organization is attempting to move the needle away from anti-science policy. Founded by a STEM professional and entrepreneur, 314 Action is a political action committee geared specifically toward getting more scientists to run for elected offices at all levels of government. The PAC takes its name from the first three digits of pi, because “[p]i is everywhere. It’s the most widely known mathematical ratio both inside and out of the scientific community. It is used in virtually everything we encounter in our daily lives.” If science can be found everywhere, the logic goes, then science definitely belongs in the halls of power and decision-making as well.

From the PAC’s website:

314 ACTION’S GOALS ARE:

Strengthen communication among the STEM community, the public and our elected officials;

Educate and advocate for and defend the integrity of science and its use;

Provide a voice for the STEM community on social issues;

Promote the responsible use of data driven fact based approaches in public policy;

Increase public engagement with the STEM Community through media.

314 Action champions electing more leaders to the U.S. Senate, House, State, Executive and Legislative offices who come from STEM backgrounds. We need new leaders who understand that climate change is real and are motivated to find a solution.

We need elected officials who understand that STEM education is the new path forward, vital for our future and will ensure that our educators have the necessary funding to teach STEM curricula and our students have the resources to learn. That is why 314 Action will advocate for a quality, adequately funded STEM education for every young person in the United States.

But this begs the question: can placing more STEM professionals in Congress save science policy, or will it only produce more lifetime politicians?

In politics, anti-science and pro-science aren’t opposites. They’re two strategies toward the same end of winning and keeping political power. The struggle between these two political stances is a constant, dynamic, situationally contingent negotiation between the social prestige of scientific evidence and the political necessity to control the vocabulary and optics surrounding a given policy topic.

Anti-science doesn’t mean that politicians don’t believe in science. It means that they have a hard time reconciling scientific findings with more pressing political concerns, like fundraising from special interest donors and mollifying their constituencies. These day-to-day political tasks require total control over a political narrative with a kind of hyperreality and spectacle that leaves little room for the slow pace and uncertainty of scientific research.

And, pro-science doesn’t necessarily mean a belief in the power of science to craft good policy. As my own research has shown, scientific debates often stand in for debates about money and legislative instrumentation, because scientific debate is easier to sound bite and quicker to digest across the voting public. I have found elsewhere that political actors, at least in the climate change political sphere, most often cite sources of expert information from other actors or organizations who a priori align with their political ideologies.

The candidates 314 PAC aims to mobilize are trained scientists and novice office-holders. They are not politicians. In fact, the point is largely to recruit people who have never held office before. There’s a certain amount of purity attached to a scientific expert who has never dabbled in politics. At the same time, someone willing to risk the credibility and safety of that purity seems, in this narrative, to be a brave and competent candidate. It’s like the Madonna-whore complex of science policy.

The 314 Action fundraising page acknowledges this to some extent: “Most of our candidates will not come from the traditional career paths of politicians, and will need different channels for funding and support. 314 PAC intends to leverage the goals and values of the greater science, technology, engineering and mathematics community to give these new recruits the resources they need to become viable, credible, Democratic candidates.”

And there’s the crucial point in all of this: the advocacy of 314 PAC is aimed at liberal scientific political engagement, not greater STEM engagement overall. While it is perfectly acceptable for a PAC to pin itself to a particular ideological position, it is dangerous to conflate an acceptance of scientific principles with a liberal political mindset.

Ben Carson is a brain surgeon, celebrated as a visionary in his field, but has demonstrated time and again his tenuous grasp on history, political science, and reality. Former US Representative Todd Aiken—he of the “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down” infamy—was a leader in the Army Corps of Engineers. Rand Paul is an ophthalmologist who ran for president on a platform of small government— so small that it had little room at all for research and development. The lesson here is clear: being in the STEM fields alone does not make you pro-science, being pro-science alone doesn’t make you smart, and being smart alone will not make you an effective policymaker.

None of this is to say that scientists and engineers should stay away from politics. Far from it; democracy thrives when rooted in a diversity of perspectives and consideration of all available evidence. See the first line of this post. Exposure and intersectionality are critical foils to a democracy that has grown comfortable with status quo politics and ideological purity. And scientists are human beings, voting citizens, paying consumers. They deserve a political opinion, and indeed can’t help but have one.

Furthermore, the efforts of 314 also seem to be having the unintended consequence of inspiring more women and people of color to run for office from within the STEM fields. 314 Action’s founder, Shaughnessy Naughton, is a woman who ran for the House of Representatives in 2016 on a pro-science platform. That women and people of color are more acutely aware of the politics present in science than their white male counterparts is no surprise, but it’s good that these scientists have a path forward for translating this awareness into political change.

Most importantly, I would point out that there is value in scientists running for office, even if they don’t win. Campaign events are major sources of information for voters, and the shiny optics and well-scripted hyperreality of a scientist’s campaign could go a long way in educating a constituency about a topic of scientific importance, even if it doesn’t sway votes that way. As I’ve written elsewhere, the novelty of a pro-science platform from either party could effectively shift voter attitudes in the age of anti-scientific policymaking.

The danger here is not in scientists running for office and losing. It is in scientists running for office, winning, and being unprepared to participate in the political process because they ran on an “I’m a scientist” platform. Congress has already shown itself to not only be open to the label of anti-science, but in many cases, has actively courted it. To assume that the prescription for political change is a critical mass of scientists in elected positions is to ignore the very messy social dynamics mediating the interfaces between science and politics.

Policymaking cares little for methodology, and even less for control conditions. Neither the constitutionally inscribed forward-facing process nor the subtler backstage deal-making that go into crafting policy are interested in scientific uncertainty and its sometimes glacial pace of innovation. Scientists should absolutely run for office. They should also march in demonstrations, write letters to their representatives, and engage in democracy as every other citizen has a right to do. But they—and the organizations supporting their candidacy for office—should be prepared for the contentious and sometimes fact-free atmosphere of US government.

Joe blogs and is on Twitter.

Seventeen years of light tight boxes

A life in cameras, seventeen years, somewhat chronological. Top row: Digital, film, film, film. Bottom: All digital.

The first camera I blew my savings on was that goofy Sony Cybershot (DSC-F505), 2.1MP, giant barrel, 10x digital zoom (oh boy!). This was back in 2000 when these things took Sony’s proprietary, long, thin memory stick.

The F505 whet the appetite but I quickly realized if I was going to take “real” photos I’d need something beefier. Taught myself photography reading photo.net five hours a day in the computer lab at Waseda University. Grabbed a Nikon F801s autofocus, used, late 80s model, and a 50mm f1.8 and marveled at the images a fast prime could produce. Bokeh upon bokeh on Velvia slide film. Shot a case of it hitchhiking across Japan.¹

Nine months later, Nikon (re)released their FM3a; by then I knew I didn't need autofocus, and this felt like the right tool for all jobs. A perfect mechanical SLR with a simple built-in meter. Still a marvel to hold today. And then a year later, I snagged a Hassy on Ebay, sat over there on the right of that top row.

In 2004 the D70 arrived and Goodbye Film Forever. Gorgeous sensor, could use my old glass. Felt like the future in a way the Sony projected but didn’t deliver on. By this point I had been developing and printing photos in my apartment for years, and was more than happy to shed film and its attendant frustrations / complexities in favor of more quickly arriving at finished images.

From there, the GF1 and GX1, the x100t, an interlude of iPhones — all of which I've sold as I've upgraded. And, finally, the Q and Monochrom.

To be honest, an iPhone 7+ feels as good, if not better than the GF1/GX1s of the world. And in daylight, it likely exceeds micro 4/3 in quality. Portrait mode on the 7+ is only getting better, and I'd be lying if I didn't say the most exciting impending camera announcement of 2017 is the iPhone 7s/8.

I realize film is having a resurgence but I don't miss it, not one iota. I know that’s an unpopular stance, but photographing alone, digitally, is complicated enough. Film is too seductive a siren for me to touch again. But I’m enjoying seeing everyone out there discover/rediscover and keep it alive.

Seventeen years, ten cameras, a billion shots taken or not, a collection of simple tools that grant permission to see the world.

Noted:

1. A month, knowing little Japanese, two of us, a wall calendar in the backpack upon the reverse of each month we'd write our destination in poorly scribbled Chinese characters. Tokyo to Fukuoka, over a dozen rides, lonely businessmen and students and recently married couples. Old folks buying us onions. Donuts — a depressive in a roadside Mr. Donuts slowly whittling down the ash of his cigarette on the nub of an ashtray, but never really toking it. I distinctly remember one person — a surfer, a hippie — not letting us look through his CD collection and realizing it was because they didn't trust us, me and my hitchhiking accomplice. That hurt. But each day a new adventure, greetings over and over again, a great way to learn a language if there ever was one. And a bucket of photographs. Maybe someday I'll dig a few out. ↩︎

Phew. Close call.

New York Times graphics editor Gregor Aisch noted during a talk that 85 percent of readers didn’t click on the buttons of a popular interactive. So Dominikus Baur pondered the usefulness of interaction. The answer was yes. It’s all about purpose.

To clarify, Aisch recently came back to the 85 percent figure.

Knowing that the majority of readers doesn’t click buttons does not mean you shouldn’t use any buttons. Knowing that many many people will ignore your tooltips doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use any tooltips.

All it means is that you should not hide important content behind interactions. If some information is crucial, don’t make the user click or hover to see it (unless you really want to). But not everything is crucial and 15% of readers isn’t nobody.

Aisch then gives a handful of good reasons for interaction in news graphics. The gist, and what I see over here on this modest site, is that most people who come to interactive graphics on the web won’t care enough to click on things. However, for the 15 percent of people who do, it’s worth the added extra effort.

Tags: Gregor Aisch, interactive

I've long been using iThoughts to create mind maps for my longform stories, but I've been playing around with the latest MindNode for iOS over the past couple of weeks, and I'm intrigued. MindNode 4.5 for iOS adds the ability to export mind maps as TextBundle archives (more precisely, the compressed version called TextPack), which can then be opened as rich documents in Ulysses.

Launched three years ago, TextBundle is an archive format designed to let Markdown text editors exchange text documents that also contain referenced images. Ulysses, my favorite text editor, fully supports the TextBundle spec, along with the popular Bear and Marked. With the latest MindNode 4.5, this means you can now create a mind map that contains sub-nodes, inline images, and notes, export it as TextBundle to Ulysses (or other apps), and you'll end up with a Markdown-formatted sheet that retains inline attachments.

A mind map with an image becomes a sheet in Ulysses thanks to TextBundle.

While writing in plain text with Markdown formatting is fantastic for file portability, there's the downside of .txt files not being able to act as containers of other referenced files (such as screenshots). Ulysses' unique handling of sheets breaks with the tradition of plain text files, but it enables for powerful additions to standard Markdown editing, including notes, keywords, and images. I've been writing in Ulysses for over a year, and its non-standard approach to Markdown hasn't been an issue because every time I publish a story or save a draft for a document I'm working on, I also save a second copy of the same file as a regular .txt in my Dropbox. This way, I enjoy the best of both worlds – Ulysses' richer editing environment, and the portability of plain text files synced with Dropbox.

With MindNode, TextBundle, and Ulysses, I can now create mind maps that contain images and notes, outline a document visually, and then copy it to Ulysses, where I can write, edit, and continue to see images referenced inline. This feels like a much better workflow than having to constantly keep my text editor next to a mind map. I'm going to test this system and evaluate how much it could be automated¹ over the next few weeks, but, overall, it's a fantastic improvement for MindNode and Ulysses users.

MindNode 4.5 is available on the App Store.

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This is a long, detailed and technical post about what information your internet service provider (ISP, called 'BIAS' in this article) can gather about your internet use and sell to the government or other customers. It's written clearly, though, and it should be easy enough for most readers to follow. In a nutshell, here's what you should do to protect your personal information (quoted):

1. Switch providers (see below) is at all possible, to one that will not sell your data.
2. Use a VPN  to protect and encrypt your traffic from your BIAS and to hide your source (your home’ s) IP address from others.
3. Enable DNS security, use DNSCrypt or DNSSEC and change your DNS provider.
4. Use HTTPS as much as possible, install HTTPS Everywhere.
5. Be sure to use a device you control as your Internet gateway, so none of the device’ s unique identities can be revealed. Setup your own wireless network and replace any provided hardware if possible.

This is fairly comprehensive and not the easiest things for an average home user to set up (corporate users already do most of this, or should). At a certain point these need to be bundled into a 'secure' internet service. ISPs will be loathe to offer such a package. But a market exists.

Ben Sisario, New York Times, Apr 08, 2017

I suppose the new form of fame and immortality will be to have someone create a bot based on your personality. The 'Downes' bot will visit websites randomly and give them negative reviews. More seriously, this article on bots focuses - as it should - on the growing acceptance of bots in society. It turns out that we don't mind communicating with bots if they give us the sort of experience we're looking for (and that experience is not 'press 1 if you want to renew your account'). "“ As A.I. develops, everything is going to go into a mixed-reality world where you could dial up a hologram of your favorite pop star and have ‘ real conversations’ with the artificially intelligent version of that person." Or as Steven Tyler would say, "Rock on!"

I received this from Amazon recently.

Do you notice how clever this is? Everyone that has bought the product now has expertise.

By sending out messages (to presumably random customers) to see if they can help answer the question, they’re soliciting a remarkable amount of engagement.

Better, they force you to choose between answering the question or admitting you don’t know.

Too often we focus on high-level expertise and forget that most questions are at the beginner level. Anyone who has recently gone through a similar experience can answer them, you don’t need experts for this.

You just need to give people a small nudge to make them feel their contributions could be useful.

You bought a Nintendo Switch only to find out that the console has an extremely small — at least by today’s game size and memory standards — 32GB of internal memory.

If you’re planning on purchasing physical titles (whatever you do, don’t put them in your mouth) 32GB is likely more than enough space. If you’re more a fan of digital downloads, however, and want to play a game that isn’t just The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you’re likely thinking about hunting down a microSD card to expand the system’s memory.

Thanks to a post-launch update the Switch is compatible with Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) cards that top out at 32GB, as well as Secure Digital eXtended Capacity (SDXC), which are between 64GB and 256GB. The SDXC update prompts to download as soon as you put a high-capacity card in the Switch.

Depending on how many games you intend to buy for the Switch, 32GB of additional storage via microSDHC could be enough for your purpose, but those who plan to use the eShop and Virtual Console, will definitely want to opt for a larger SDXC microSD card.

To start, this search is confined to relatively reliable brands, so you won’t find strange eBay knock off cards. While many of these cards are available at big box retailers like Best Buy and Wal-Mart, in almost all cases (unless you find a crazy deal) they’re cheaper on Amazon. I’ve also stuck with cards that meet ‘Class 10’ speed standards, which means the card transfers at 10mb/s.

Starting things off big, there are a number of options in the 200GB range, though you’ll need to be willing to shell out a few extra dollars. If you think about it though, picking up one larger card, rather than multiple smaller microSD cards, is a better option. Of course 256GB microSD cards are also available but they’re extremely expensive and not worth the cost difference for an additional 56GB.

If you’re interested, I opted for the $106 SanDisk Ultra 200GB card.

200GB microSD Cards

• Lexar High-Performance microSDXC 633x 200GB — $139 on Amazon
• SanDisk Ultra 200GB microSD — $106 on Amazon (with Prime) 
• PNY Elite 200GB microSDXC Card — $79 on Amazon (this is the best deal, but the shipping length is over a month). 

128GB microSD Cards

• Lexar High-Performance microSDXC 633x 128GB — $54 on Amazon (with Prime)
• SanDisk Ultra 128GB microSDXC — $58 on Amazon (with Prime)
• Samsung 128GB EVO Micro SDXC — $59 on Amazon (with Prime)

64GB microSD Cards

• Lexar High-Performance microSDXC 633x 64GB — $24 on Amazon (with Prime)
• PNY Elite Performance 64GB High Speed SDXC — $29 on Amazon (with Prime)
• SanDisk Ultra 64GB microSDXC — $34.49 on Amazon (with Prime)
• Two 64GB Lexar Professional 633x 64GB SDXC – $65 on Amazon (with Prime)

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OmniOutliner Essentials

Timed perfectly with the fifth day of the month, The Omni Group today released OmniOutliner 5, in what the company called “the biggest update to our outlining app ever.”

OmniOutliner 5 now comes in two distinct versions: Essentials and Pro. With OmniOutliner Essentials, the Omni Group has stripped down the Pro version to offer a more focused experience, featuring 10 unique themes, document statistics, and the basic outlining functionality found in previous versions of OmniOutliner. The sell, though, is through its price – $10.

OmniOutliner Pro users will see significant updates and improvements, too, with features like outline filtering, private documents with password protection, keyboard shortcut definition, and built-in themes. Pro users also receive document statistics and an improved full screen mode. For more information about the update for OmniOutliner Pro, visit the preview page here.

Although these updates bring great features to both versions, the $10 price for OmniOutliner Essentials is the standout of today's news. For the Omni Group, hitting this price point is a significant accomplishment, one that I believe will draw people into the developer’s group of apps. A Mac app of this quality, especially considering the support behind it, will tempt a lot of people to make the purchase.

For more information on OmniOutliner and to pick up a copy, visit the Omni Group’s website here.

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Typical training workshops are informative and can be a lot of fun.

Teams get away from their normal work for a week or so, try out new technologies and techniques on prefab examples, give the instructor a quick rating, and then go home to their normal jobs.

Is this the time for traditional classroom training?

Sometimes there are issues that reduce the value or appeal of traditional classroom training:

• The team needs to schedule several days away from their real work.
• The primary output is knowledge transfer, which fades in time.
• Skills learned in the course may not be applied to real code for weeks (or ever).
• Examples are engineered to teach a lesson or make a point; they may not be realistic enough.
• Sometimes the students are not ready to receive the information.
• The preplanned agenda may not fit the perceived needs of the team.

While traditional training still has tremendous value, sometimes these issues are significant enough that training is deferred indefinitely.

How Could We Do This Differently?

What if, instead, we turned this whole idea on its head?

What if it could be more like an intense coaching session or an un-conference than a classroom?

What if the needs of the developers took priority over the instructor's agenda?

What if the instructor were to teach "just enough" and then move on?

This is the idea of the Real Work Workshop.

The new workshop is one to two weeks of intensive coaching/training in an environment optimized for rapid learning.

During the workshop, the attendees and the leader will work in the company's own, actual code base.

The team doesn't need time off from work. Instead, we do their work in the workshop.

We usually refactor some ugly code, introduce microtesting, and use microtesting and refactoring to produce new code.

On top of all of that, we use rapid delivery and rapid feedback from the content provider (PO, Customer, Manager, whatever) to steer our deliveries — an interaction that’s crucial and often missing in agile transformations.

Along the way we may learn any number of other things — unpredictably, according to the distinct strengths and weaknesses of the team.

How do you optimize for learning?

We have some standard behaviors which we find make the workshop effective:

• Working in REAL CODE and delivering REAL FEATURES grounds us in reality.
• We work with a new, unstarted feature so nobody's half-finished code is exposed for critique/ridicule.
• As we work, we take teaching moments - short lectures to address or explore issues we uncover.
• We track our work with punch lists, and even use them to improve our decision-making.
• We use mob programming as a mechanism to increase the rate of learning and sharing.
• We celebrate our wins.
• We have daily retrospectives.
• We have daily deliveries of code.
• We plaster the walls with hand-drawn posters: illustrations, references, even slogans. By the end of the week, we are sitting inside of a week's worth of learning.
• We like to have a three-month post-workshop survey to learn what lasting effect the workshops really had on the project.

Posters? What kind of posters?

We record things we've done, lessons we've learned, and things we want to remember.

What happens after the workshop?

Most teams take the learnings of the Real Work Workshop directly into their daily work.

When used with Scrum Teams, the POs usually leave with a new understanding of development work and a closeness with the team that makes early demos and continuous steering possible.

Team members have real-world examples of tests, including pin-down tests and microtests, and will apply the same techniques to driving new coding problems via tests.

Teams have more developed problem-solving skills. Some participants have become key influencers within weeks to months of a workshop.

Teams reported being more aware of, and effective in, the use of different kinds of tests, from microtests through end-to-end system tests.

Teams begin using pair programming and/or mob programming to share expertise and to more quickly conquer problems that have considerable risk and uncertainty.

Teams have a renewed focus on finishing work early and often.

Teams begin making small improvements which accelerate delivery -- often visible first in custodianship of the delivery pipeline and local tooling.

Teams have reported having more knowledge-sharing after the workshop, whether in the form of morning meetings or lunch-and-learn sessions.

Are these workshops hard to run?

It depends partly on the facilitator being a skilled improviser, able to operate without the comfort of a fixed agenda.

Adjusting to different techniques, stacks, code bases, and teams can require a lot of flexibility.

The workshop facilitator has to have the skill and experience to perform intense live, on-the-spot coaching, deal with technology differences and programming languages, adapt to new domains, and help teams to pull together quickly to share their ideas and experience.

The facilitator must be ready and able to model a willingness to learn, which comes with a willingness to be vulnerable and express ignorance. This creates an environment where others can also feel safe to ask questions and to learn new ideas.

It helps if the facilitator has a large body of reference work to draw from.

In short, the style appeals to experienced technical coaches with a strong sense of adventure.

Now what?

If this sounds intriguing, then why not schedule a Real Work Workshop for your team. I think you'll be amazed.

Have you experienced a Real Work Workshop? Would you be willing to share your experiences in the comments below?

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Im „Augusta National Golf Club“ im US-Bundesstaat Georgia startet morgen eines der bedeutendsten Golfturniere der Welt, das „US Masters“. Unter anderem am Start: Der Deutsche Martin Kaymer, mit dem „Bild“ im Vorfeld gesprochen hat. Das Interview kann man heute im Blatt lesen, und die Überschrift hat es durchaus in sich:

Die Bild.de-Mitarbeiter haben daraus einen „Bild plus“-Artikel gemacht, mit der gleichen Titelzeile wie ihre Print-Kollegen:

Nanu — Martin Kaymer ein großer Fan der Politik Donald Trumps? Der US-Präsident „ein Geschenk“ für die Menschheit? Die Aussage von Martin Kaymer, die die „Bild“-Medien für ihre Schlagzeilen gewählt haben, stammt zwar von dem Golfer. Sie hat allerdings nichts mit Politik zu tun:

Sie spielen einen Großteil des Jahres in den USA. Wie hat sich Amerika unter Präsident Donald Trump verändert?

Kaymer: „Ich bin überrascht, dass die Leute, besonders die, die Trump gewählt haben, jetzt über seine Äußerungen und Handlungen verwundert sind. Er macht das, was er angekündigt hat. Für uns Golfer gibt es allerdings auch noch einen zweiten Donald Trump.“

Was meinen Sie?

Kaymer: „Über den Politiker Trump muss sich jeder seine eigene Meinung bilden. Der Golf-Fan Trump ist jedoch ein Geschenk für unseren Sport. Er hat extrem gute Plätze auf der ganzen Welt gebaut. Was er im Golf anpackt, ist eigentlich immer ein Riesenerfolg.“

Das Problem dabei: Die kompletten Antworten können bei Bild.de nur die Leute lesen, die ein „Bild plus“-Abo haben. Alle anderen sehen lediglich die Überschrift und die ersten paar Zeilen des Textes, aus denen nicht hervorgeht, dass sich Kaymers Aussage bloß auf Golfplätze bezieht.

Weil sich erste empörte Fans meldeten und schrieben, sie werden ihn ab sofort nicht mehr unterstützen, hat sich Martin Kaymer bei Facebook zu der „Bild“-Schlagzeile geäußert:

Mit Dank an Kiezgolf für den Hinweis!

With the final version of the Windows 10 Creators Update nearly upon us, a leaked screenshot of a visual revamp of the operating system that’s set to launch later this year, has appeared. This design is among numerous leaked concept screenshots that have popped up online over the last few weeks.

The new Start menu design concept, published by Tom Hounsell on Twitter, has a few subtle differences when compared with Windows 10’s current build. For example, many of the live tiles seem to have a transparency effect applied to them. This is something that according to The Verge, Microsoft has been working on adding to Windows’ Start menu for some time. The screenshot also shows other subtle differences between the concept and the current version, such as minor icon design shifts.

backlink me @bdsams #ProjectNEON #Windows10 pic.twitter.com/FLpW2hgqGd

— Tom Hounsell (@tomhounsell) April 5, 2017

Furthermore, the mail icon at the bottom is all lines now and is no longer coloured in. The File Explore icon is also now on the left side of the Start menu and can be found where other most used applications are located. The user icon has been pushed to the top in the concept design, compared to where it is now directly above the settings and File Explorer icon. It’s also worth noting that Cortana’s icon has been revamped and is much smaller.

It’s important to keep in mind, however, that this screen shot is just a design concept and its possible that it won’t be included in the final version of the Creator update.

Source: Twitter

Via: The Verge

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Freedom Mobile has overhauled its plan offerings, now providing LTE service with all of its data, talk and text plans. Previously, it only offered one plan that took advantage of its new LTE network. 

The carrier, which operates in areas of Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta, has simplified its data plan offerings from six to four. The four plans come in at $30 CAD for 250MB of full-speed, $40 for 2GB of full speed data (temporarily 4GB of data with a limited-time promotion), $49 for 4GB of full-speed data (temporarily 6GB with limited-time promotion) and $59 for 6GB of full-speed data (temporarily 8GB with limited-time promotion).

The $49 and $59 both offer ‘Away Network’ features for Canada and the U.S. roaming. The $49 plan has 2,400 minutes of Canadian and U.S. talk and unlimited global text, the $59 plan has 1GB of full-speed data, 2,400 minutes in Canada and the U.S. along with global text.

The 2GB limited-time bonus, mentioned above, is subject to change or cancellation at any time, but once a new or existing customer has signed up on a Pay Before or Pay After line or migrated to one of these new plans, that customer will receive a bonus 2GB for as long as they remain active and are in good standing on the promotional plan.

Previously, the data plans were as listed below:

• $30 Promo 30 Plan — 1 GB (full-speed data), Unlimited calls to Canada, Unlimited text/MMS to Canada & the U.S.
• $35 Smartphone Plan — 2 GB (full-speed data), Unlimited calls to Canada, Unlimited text/MMS to Canada & the U.S., Voicemail+
• $40 Promo 40 Plan — 6GB full-speed data (3GB + 3GB bonus), Unlimited calls to Canada & the U.S., Unlimited global text/MMS
• $45 Smartphone LTE Plan — 6GB full-speed data (3GB + 3GB bonus), Unlimited calls to Canada & the U.S., Unlimited global text/MMS
• $45 Everywhere Plan — Home Network: 5 GB full-speed data, Unlimited calls to Canada & the U.S., Unlimited global text/MMS Away Network: 2400 minutes of calling to Canada and the U.S., Unlimited global text
• $55 Everywhere Plan — Home Network: 8 GB (full-speed data), Unlimited calls to Canada & the U.S., Unlimited global text/MMS Away Network: 1 GB (full-speed data), 2400 minutes of calling to Canada and the U.S., Unlimited global text

Source: Freedom Mobile

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Recently published CIA documents revealed the intelligence agency discovered a way to deliver malicious code to older Samsung smart TVs using a USB stick. Unfortunately, that relatively difficult to execute hack may turn out to be the least of Samsung’s security-related worries. According to Amihai Neiderman, a security researcher with Israel’s Equus Software, there are more than 40 zero-day exploits that allow malicious users to remotely hack the company’s Tizen operating system.

“It may be the worst code I’ve ever seen,” said Neiderman an interview with Motherboard‘s Kim Zetter. “Everything you can do wrong there, they do it. You can see that nobody with any understanding of security looked at this code or wrote it. It’s like taking an undergraduate and letting him program your software.”

One especially significant security flaw allows hackers to insert malicious code into apps delivered through the TizenStore, Samsung’s version of Google Play, due to a critical flaw in its app delivery method. Elsewhere, many of Tizen’s most critical data transmissions aren’t secured with SSL encryption.

According to Neiderman, Samsung’s programmers borrowed much of Tizen’s codebase from Bada, the company’s previous smartphone operating system. However, he says a lot of the worst code was written in the past two years, with much of it showing mistakes that programmers were making 20 years ago.

The severity of the issue quickly becomes apparent when one considers all the Samsung devices that ship with Tizen. Not only is the operating system on the company’s Gear smartwatches, it’s also on more than 30 million smart TVs and home appliances. Moreover, in the company’s efforts to further distance itself from Google and Android, Samsung plans to ship 10 million Tizen smartphones in 2017, a move that could spell disaster for the company should it ever release a Galaxy Tizen device.

When Neiderman first contacted Samsung about the vulnerabilities, the company sent back automated responses. Prompted by Motherboard‘s article, the company has since said it’s “fully committed to cooperating with Mr. Neiderman to mitigate any potential vulnerabilities.”

Source: Motherboard

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Yelp has acquired Toronto-based Turnstyle Analytics for $20 million USD.

Founded in 2012, Turnstyle’s location-based marketing and analytics platform allows businesses to obtain insights about on-premise customer behaviour, and send real-time messages, coupons, and rewards directly to customers’ phones through guest Wi-Fi logins.

“Since our founding, Turnstyle has focused on building the best Wi-Fi marketing service to help businesses,” said Devon Wright, Turnstyle’s co-founder and CEO. “This is an exciting opportunity to expand and leverage Yelp’s resources and capabilities; together we’ll be able to help even more local businesses improve their customer retention, driving more repeat business.”

All 30 of Turnstyle’s Toronto-based employees will join the Yelp team. The service currently supports nearly 3,500 business locations worldwide, but Yelp told TechCrunch that its focus with the product will be on the North American market.

Turnstyle said that, in the short term, customers and partners will receive the same service and support. In a statement, it added that “the acquisition is going to allow Turnstyle to continue innovating our product and bring on the best talent to keep helping our customers and partners succeed.”

Yelp, which has a consumer base of 24 million monthly app users and 65 million mobile web users, expects to leverage the offline data gleaned from Turnstyle with its own online and mobile search data, delivering a more comprehensive intent-based marketing resource to local businesses.

“We’re excited to expand our product offering for local businesses through this acquisition. Turnstyle helps connect businesses to consumers through free public Wi-Fi, and is an effective retention and loyalty program that helps businesses be more successful,” said Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp co-founder and chief executive officer.

This story was originally published by BetaKit.

Source: Turnstyle

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Rogers has over 10 million wireless subscribers in Canada and its network reaches about 95 percent of the country’s population. A quick update for those located in Kelowna, City of West Kelowna, and Westbank First Nations as the carrier has improved and expanded its cell service in the area by installing two new cell towers.

In a statement to MobileSyrup, Rogers noted that both Rogers and Fido customers now have access to LTE speeds, including VoLTE (Voice over LTE). In addition, Rogers turned on its 700 MHz spectrum in the region, which will allow for better reception “in hard to reach places like basements, elevators and buildings with thick concrete walls.”

“With this wireless service expansion, Rogers is investing in the Kelowna region’s future as the community continues to grow,” said Amrik Virk the Minister of Technology Innovation and Citizens’ Services. “Whether you’re a local resident or visiting on holiday, you will always be connected to your loved ones, government services, learning opportunities and the world.”

Rogers recently announced its Q4 2016 results and ended the year with wireless revenues of $7.9 billion CAD, up from
$7.6 billion the previous year. Leading into July will see Joe Natale, Rogers new CEO, officially join the company.

Source: Rogers

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Android users are now receiving Apple Music 2.0, an update that came to Apple users in September 2016 with the launch of iOS 10. The update brings with it a revamped design, with large, bold headers and a simplified user experience.

For instance, the ‘Playlists’ section once present on the sidebar is now tucked into ‘Library,’ and the ‘New’ section is now located under ‘Browse.’ Alongside ‘Browse’ and ‘Library,’ the only other sidebar options are ‘For You,’ ‘Radio’ and ‘Settings.’

One of the coolest new features touching down on Android is the addition of lyrics. To see lyrics for a song (if they are included), swipe up on the ‘Now Playing’ card then click ‘Show’ next to ‘Lyrics.’

Another handy shortcut accessible through the Now Playing card is the ability to create a station from a particular song. To do this, users can also click the more button on the Now Playing card and choose ‘Create Station.’

Apple Music 2.0 is available to download now through Google Play. Check out the change log below, along with screenshots comparing the old version with the new.

• An all-new design brings greater clarity and simplicity to Apple Music:
• Now Playing. Read lyrics for songs as you listen.
• Library. Navigate your music easily and see the Downloaded Music you can play offline.
• For You. Get recommendations for playlists, albums, and more—based on music you love.
• Browse. Listen to new music first, plus playlists for any mood or activity.
• Radio. Tune in to Beats 1 shows or listen to stations for any genre.

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Sometimes useful accessories actually do come in big packages.

Aukey’s 30,000mAh battery pack measures in at a massive 150mm x 82mm x 28mm and weighs 552g, making it hefty and rather difficult to carry around unless you have ample space in your bag.

Specs

• Capacity: 30000mAh
• Micro-USB Input: 5V 2.4A
• Lightning Input: 5V 2.4A
• Output 1 (Quick Charge 3.0): 3.6V-6.5V/3A, 6.5V-9V/2A, 9V-12V/1.5A
• Output 2 (AiPower): 5V 2.4A
• Dimensions: 5.9” × 3.3” × 1.1”
• Weight: 20.46 oz

While we’ve had one these high-capacity battery packs around the MobileSyrup office for the last few weeks, I’ve seen little reason to opt for it over the more portable Anker 5,200mAh battery pack I’ve been using, at least until recently. This is mainly because the the battery pack lacks USB Power Delivery 2.0, which means it’s unable pass through the high wattages needed to charge most laptops while they’re in use, in my case, the 13-inch USB-C MacBook Pro (it does work when the laptop is off though).

When headed on my last few work related trips as well as a recent vacation to Cuba, however, I opted to lug the massive battery pack around in an attempt to keep my Nintendo Switch up and running and continue exploring Hyrule’s fast landscape at all time. While the Switch’s battery life can sometimes exceed three hours when playing games that aren’t graphically intensive, with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the console comes in at just three hours of portable power. I’ve found Aukey’s 30,000mAh charger to be the perfect way to keep my Switch running on long flights where I often don’t have access to a traditional plug.

The battery features four ports: USB-A for input and output, microUSB for recharging, Lightning input also for recharging and a Quick Charge 3 USB-A port. Apart from charging the Nintendo Switch, I’ve found the Quick Charge 3 port to be the battery pack’s most useful port, allowing me to charge supported devices — like the HTC 10 and LG G5 — at a rapid rate. I can also charge basically any USB powered device via the battery, including almost any phone I own. The battery pack itself is charged via microUSB or Lightning.

While the power pack doesn’t feature a USB-C port, which is admittedly disappointing, it does include a USB-A-to-C cable, allowing for easy charging of USB-C devices like the Nintendo Switch or any recently released smartphone that features the newer charging technology.

The charger does, however, have downsides beyond its hefty weight. For example. Aukey’s multi-coloured power lights are difficult to follow, with the battery opting to display zero to 30 percent battery with a red light, 30 to 70 percent with green and 70 to 100 percent with white. This makes it hard to tell exactly how much battery life is left in the pack.

It’s also worth mentioning that while I rarely used the battery pack to charge my MacBook, in one instance while trying to hit a tight deadline and traveling on a plane, putting my computer to sleep first and then charging it, allowed me to jump back into working on the story roughly 20 minutes later with about 30 percent battery life.

All in you can expect the battery to last at least 12 hours of charging with some devices, though it depends on what port you’re using and how often you charge your device as well as what its voltage is.

The Aukey 30,000mAh Quick Charge 3.0 battery pack is priced at $69.99 CAD on Amazon.

Note: Aukey also sells a 30,000mAh battery pack with USB-C In/Out on Amazon (which might work better for the Nintendo Switch), though it’s sold out currently. 

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