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by britta 14y ago
Not every Amtrak line even has a quiet car - long-distance lines don't have them, and even some regional lines don't have them (such as the Pacific Surfliner).
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by britta 14y ago
The notability guideline ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability ) is closely related to the verifiability policy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability ) — from Wikipedia's perspective, if a subject has not been
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by britta 14y ago
I found this response interesting from a person who works for Wikimedia ( http://branch.com/b/surmounting-the-insurmountable-wikipedia... ): ...at the Foundation, we tend to call this "the Gold Rush theory" - the idea that Wikipedia's gold
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by britta 14y ago
I believe the problem with unlocking is that both copying and modifying require circumventing technological protection measures, and that modifying a program has legal ramifications similar to copying it - they're both fair use if you own t
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by britta 14y ago
Here's another discussion from a couple days ago about these DMCA exemption rulings: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4700010
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by britta 14y ago
Looking at the official statement about the unlocking exemption (pages 16-20 of https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.g... ), it sounds like the software on the phone controlling its access to the carrier is a copyrigh
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by britta 14y ago
I think you are conflating the jailbreaking/rooting exemption and the carrier unlocking exemption. The exemption for jailbreaking phones will apply for the next three years (until it comes up for renewal again), while the exemption for unof
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by britta 14y ago
It sounds like this news would be more accurately titled "Jailbreaking continues to be exempt for smartphones and non-exempt for tablets".
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by britta 14y ago
My college town has a private bus service aimed at drinkers that has been running for twenty years now, shuttling people between the student neighborhood and the bars on Thursday-Saturday evenings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%27s_Bus
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by britta 14y ago
This is a response by a person who works for the Wikimedia Foundation (a personal response, not an official response): http://quominus.org/archives/979 "There’s only one problem with this: Roth’s open letter is at best the (justifiably) a
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by britta 14y ago
If you happen to have a jailbroken iPad 3rd generation, iPad 2, or iPhone 4S, you can install UnrestrictPremium to work around this limitation: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/08/09/unrestrictpremium/
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by britta 14y ago
Possibly of interest to readers of this link, Wikipedia is hosting an engineering meetup in San Francisco on August 15: http://www.meetup.com/Wikipedia-Engineering-Meetup/events/69... Looks like a chance to talk about these projects and i
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by britta 14y ago
> as long as you don't get naked and jump into a pool, you're probably pretty safe from sexual assault (as a woman at least). Women at DEFCON can generally take care of themselves, and some random groper is likely to get a beat-down fr
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by britta 14y ago
There's something interesting about these cards - they're helping DEFCON people adopt a usable vocabulary for talking about harassment, an addition to our jargon. Here's an example. A few days ago I was part of a Rio elevator full of DEFCON
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by britta 14y ago
Previously: Mariachi bands, motorcades, roses - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3915826
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by britta 14y ago
Here's a source from 2011: http://articles.marketwatch.com/2011-02-23/industries/307024... > Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s chief financial officer, added that the company runs its App Store and iTunes store “just a little over break-even
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by britta 14y ago
Tumblr already has a lot of the userbase that LiveJournal used to have, even without comments, but it lacks LiveJournal's useful privacy controls.
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by britta 14y ago
Most of the forums I've seen have a "report spam" feature that could be made more prominent, but human moderators are also valuable. Along the same lines, I know there are independent product developers (iOS apps, Android apps, web apps, et
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by britta 14y ago
If you have a jailbroken iPad, you can get a five-row keyboard in any app with "iKeyWi HD for iPad", and it includes cursor keys: http://www.ipadforums.net/jailbreak-applications-tweaks/6968... SwipeShiftCaret is also a nice little tweak
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by britta 15y ago
A number of people lead normal lives with hearts on the right sides of their bodies - there is dextrocardia (just the heart reversed) and situs inversus with dextrocardia (most internal organs reversed). Pretty neat.
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by britta 15y ago
Right, that's the correct terminology in iPhone land.
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Stamen's simple project status visualizing tool ("angry, productive birds")(mike.teczno.com)
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by britta 15y ago
Maciej has posted a spreadsheet of the technical costs for running Pinboard: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/09/the_costs_of_bookmarking/ Also keep in mind Pinboard's optional $25/year fee for archiving copies of your bookmarked pages.
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by britta 15y ago
Cute! A couple years ago my friend and I made a little web toy for misusing Unicode characters as "non-denominational holiday tree" ornaments: http://unicodexmas.com/ - we're thinking that next year we'll hook it up to moo.com's API to le
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by britta 15y ago
The Wikipedia article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive ) says: "It has a staff of 200, most of whom are book scanners in its book scanning centers. Its main office in San Francisco houses about 30 employees." The site has a l
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by britta 15y ago
I don't know if this article says a whole lot other than the reference to Pinterest being popular among lots of people deeply interested in art, fashion, cooking, and homemaking instead of just people interested in tech news (using the phra
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by britta 15y ago
Wikipedia's conflict of interest rules are slightly more nuanced than "no contributions", thankfully: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest - the important part is "Editors with COIs who wish to edit responsibly are
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by britta 15y ago
I believe Maciej is saying that it's not just an issue with RDF or a technical problem really. He says: "Personally, I think finding an adequate data model for the totality of interpersonal connections is an AI-hard problem. But even if you
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by britta 15y ago
It's important to personally know how you'll take care of your kids, but it's inappropriate for an interviewer to ask questions about a person's personal life outside of work, especially about legally protected topics like family status. It
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by britta 15y ago
Reminds me of a tiny thing on my jailbroken device that pleases me: http://i.imgur.com/1QXUm.png - every slider is an animated kitty. (It's called NyanSliders in Cydia, in case anybody else would like it, and I think there's an unrelated

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