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I dislike TSA as much as the next casual traveller, but why are they such a bugbear for HN?

Seeing both would be nice - something along the lines of:

"Original Title [A brief description if the original title is insufficiently detailed]"

webOS was my first introduction to mobile computing so it'll always hold a special place in my heart.

Didn't some of the members of the webOS team join the Android team after HP shut down development? I could be wrong, but I remember something like that happening.

There was a similar story in Texas:

https://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/former-u-of-texas-stud...

Yeah, you're right. I was responding to the general problem of finding stuff in your inbox as restated by others - not the suggestion of self-destructing email. Sorry I was unclear.

If you help doctors, researchers, and others working on life-threatening problems get relevant information they need faster, then you are indirectly helping with these efforts. Not everyone can be the person on the frontline of these critical efforts, but if you can improve their working conditions then surely you've helped out a bit?

It's worth keeping in mind that the people you grew up studying are invariably selected/memorable for their contributions and that it's very hard to identify the same people in your milieu.

Kind of like saying "50s music is better" or "19th century novels are better" - you're benefiting from history's sorting process.

Agree with this 100% - we need to get past the consumer-oriented "dream school" thinking.

You're right, I should be more clear. What I meant by that is that there's no clear explicit reason why he's interested in investment banking rather than marketing, consulting, publishing, advertising, whathaveyou.

I wouldn't say it's a great cover letter - it's pretty generic and could easily be tweaked slightly for any job/industry.

Also it's sort of sad that he has to debase his university and himself for the lords of finance to consider him.

Choices aren't made in a vacuum.

That reminds me of the old joke about medical school: half the things you learn are wrong, and half you forget - you just have to hope it's the same half.

Thanks for answering, I appreciate it. I'm curious how this data is then used by the stores.

The only example I can think of is optimizing store layout based on neighborhood demographics and what those demographics purchase.

However, big box stores all seem so similar - it doesn't appear on the surface that they do a lot of demographic-based differentiation. Unless their demographics are so similar, which defeats the purpose of profiling?

Hmm...maybe cheating on exams?

I would recommend amending the title - it's a little vague, and led me to expect research papers about social media, not research papers shared via social media.

How so?

As far as I can tell, some Android devices also save your photos (with filters) in a separate album, so you may not need to download them from Instagram directly.

Source? I'm pretty sure the US abolished "people as property" a while back.

I don't disagree with you starting from the third sentence, but those first two are remarkably self-congratulatory. It's not clear how being a CS type who follows startups leads you to understand human societies better than anyone else.

Yes, but (sorry to be immature) maybe register a different TLD so the product name doesn't sound so much like diarrhea?

The police don't even have to go that far - the "expert witness" was on their staff.

There's a site called scripted.com, but I'm not sure if the profiles are public and shared - it seems like a direct hiring clearinghouse.

One of the firms behind the site calls it "a design provocation intended to spark a reaction and fuel a conversation" on their Tumblr.

So I guess you're supposed to react and start talking.

I think it cuts both ways - sometimes pop science writers cherrypick data that reaffirms existing biases. In other cases, they'll cherrypick tenuous data to contradict these biases. Both are effective headline strategies.

This is incorrect. Marketing isn't just "selling without accountability" - marketing is an omnipresent (to varying degrees) feature of business, from product development to launch and popularization.

The 'attack' is a useful counterweight to the recent tendency to "Just Add Neuro- to Everything" (as someone suggested during the "Five Word TED Talks" Twitter trend)

Airlines have also historically been the beneficiary of government subsidies and patronage, which could be withdrawn.

While I agree that they'll be reluctant to raise prices, the damage of being represented as the airline that refused to "contribute to public safety" would be worse.

Scale is going to be critical here - it has to make sense for a shelter or a food bank to pick up whatever a restaurant is offering, and there's probably a threshold number of meals below which the cost of gas and travel time doesn't justify picking up the meals. Meanwhile, if the shelter collects and saves up its tickets, the restaurant has to be ready for bulk orders, so to speak.

"Time of Death" is a little deceptive here - I was expecting the article to pinpoint a year, not a time of day!

The author of the article alludes to, but doesn't pursue, another possible concern: the rise of Kickstarter-funded arts projects will lead to reduced interest in NEA and other government-endowed sponsorship, which will in turn lead to further budget cuts for these organizations. I'm in favor of the individual patronage model, but there should remain some funding for arts in the public interest.