YouTube Red, A $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription With Play Music, Launches Oct 28
Today Google is rolling its Play Music on-demand service into a new $9.99 subscription for ad-free viewing across all of YouTube that will launch October..
Amazon Spars With The Times Over Investigative Article
An article published in The New York Times two months ago, detailing Amazon’s work culture, drew a lengthy response on Monday from the company’s senior vice president for global corporate affairs.
Hasnain says:
"It is even more unusual for the company to share information from its personnel files to challenge an article, as it did for Mr. Olson and others. “Amazon wants to rewrite story by releasing personal details about employees,” Glenn Fleishman, a freelance journalist who worked at Amazon briefly in the late ’90s, wrote on Twitter."
Posted on 2015-10-20T15:46:23+0000
Google's growing problem: 50% of people do zero searches per day on mobile
Amit Singhal in 2011 showing a comparison of search volumes from mobile and "early desktop years". Photo by Niall Kennedy on Flickr. Amit Singhal, Google's head of search, let slip a couple of inte...
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Posted on 2015-10-20T15:44:37+0000
Prison Without Punishment
Germany allows inmates to wear their own clothes, cook their own meals, and have romantic visits. Could that work in the United States?
OS X El Capitan License: in Plain English
I decided to upgrade my Mac to El Capitan, but my computer said, on one condition: I must "carefully" read and agree with something. It even provided a tiny cozy display window for viewing it: And ...
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Posted on 2015-10-18T17:23:21+0000
Rent is so high in San Francisco that I’m a software engineer and I live in a van
I took one look at my local real estate listings and bought an old VW bus instead.
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Posted on 2015-10-18T00:06:58+0000
Former Stanford dean explains why helicopter parenting is ruining a generation of children
Julie Lythcott-Haims left Stanford to write a parenting manifesto.
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Posted on 2015-10-17T17:27:44+0000
Don’t Feed the Beast – the Great Tech Recruiter Infestation | mockyblog
Don’t Feed the Beast – the Great Tech Recruiter Infestation “Don’t move to that London” warned my northern grandfather once. “It’s full of spivs”. The Oxford Dictionary (somewhat chauvinistically) defines a spiv as: A man, typically a flashy dresser, who makes a living by disreputable dealings “But…
Hasnain says:
"Picture a wideboy from some Essex sink estate – all swagger and hairgel. Reptilian, devoid of all talent, a sociopathic disregard for others. Hungers for success, for fast cars and fit birds and gassy lager and awful nightclubs. He’s watched The Apprentice and finks he knows wot business is abaat. He’s got a shiny suit and practises his take-me-seriously-face in the mirror every day. His name could be Spencer or Kai, Nathan or Chardonnay, but I’m going to call him Shithead."
Posted on 2015-10-16T15:32:57+0000
This study is forcing economists to rethink high-deductible health insurance
Perhaps higher deductibles don't lead to smarter shoppers but rather, in the long run, sicker patients.
Hasnain says:
"This study tried giving workers both the tools to compare costs and a financial incentive to go with the less expensive option. And, at least in this instance, those nudges weren't enough to encourage patients to choose cheaper doctors. Instead of looking for a lower-cost option, workers simply decided not to go to the doctor at all."
Posted on 2015-10-15T05:39:27+0000
How is NSA breaking so much crypto?
There have been rumors for years that the NSA can decrypt a significant fraction of encrypted Internet traffic. In 2012, James Bamford published an article quoting anonymous former NSA officials stating that the agency had achieved a “computing breakthrough” that gave them “the ability to crack curr…
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Posted on 2015-10-15T05:29:50+0000