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by casca 12y ago
Release from the institution that did the research: http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/2014/10/26/flavanols-... TL;DR: - "37 healthy volunteers" - "cocoa flavanol-containing test drink
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In Defense of Smart Phone Security by Default(theprivacyplace.org)
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Hundreds of Bluetooth Beacons Secretly Track New York City Passersby(popsci.com)
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2014 Digital Leaders Remuneration Report(theupgroup.com)
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POISON PI sniffs WiFi from your mail room, goes on rampage(theregister.co.uk)
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The 1% has bought its own internet. What's next? Words with Rich People?(theguardian.com)
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Sophisticated iPhone and Android malware is spying on Hong Kong protesters(theverge.com)
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by casca 12y ago
Douglas Coupland gave a great talk about the book at the RSA on Tuesday - http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2014/Insi...
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Why big data evangelists should be sent to re-education camps(zdnet.com)
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by casca 12y ago
For more detail, the woman who wrote The Guardian piece has a book that goes into more detail - Not on the Label: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-On-Label-Really-Plate/dp/0141015...
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Seven lessons I learned from the failure of my first startup(therenaissancegeek.blogspot.com)
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by casca 12y ago
Download link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/105401917/BlackTie/dashg...
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by casca 12y ago
For anyone else who wants to know what this is without signing in: http://www.google.com/keep/ It looks like Google's taking on Evernote with Keep.
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by casca 12y ago
This kind of benchmarking should really be run on physical hardware where you know that the underlying resources are not being switched out. The repeated running somewhat mitigates this, but when you don't control the hardware, decisio
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by casca 12y ago
Anecdotally, most people I know do better with a mix of social and alone time. Given that it's now possible to almost never be conscious and effectively alone, it will be interesting to see the long term mental health impact. Also, bei
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by casca 12y ago
Chip and PIN is an improvement, but don't think that it's a silver bullet - https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2014/05/19/the-pre-play-...
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by casca 12y ago
The unprotected videos are here: https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleVentures/videos
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by casca 12y ago
Agreed, but there are workarounds: https://github.com/progrium/logspout
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by casca 12y ago
Youtube link for anyone else who likes to download for sped-up viewing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIE5nV5fDwA
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by casca 12y ago
My point was that your premise is based on something that we don't know. Perhaps the average geek is smarter than the average person (for some definition of smarter), but perhaps they're also healthier. We just don't know. Wh
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by casca 12y ago
TL;DR: guy gets a comment downvoted on HN and responds by accusing the downvoters of having an unhealthy lifestyle. Is there any evidence that the average geek is less healthy than the average person? Here's a link to the comment in qu
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by casca 12y ago
The BBC title is misleading. The article is clear that it was British Audi _dealers_ that lied about the cars having done the Euro NCAP safety tests.
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If This Were Finance Uber Would Be Behind Bars(nemoincognito.wordpress.com)
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by casca 12y ago
Update (x2): The link in the title is to the uncompressed version which is password protected. The correct link is http://glenngreenwald.net/pdf/NoPlaceToHide-Documents-Compre... . Or the link to the uncompressed versi
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by casca 12y ago
The Black Cabs in London have a long-standing monopoly on picking people up on the street and providing a metered journey. This is mandated by law. To become a black cab (not always black in colour) driver, it is necessary to take an advanc
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by casca 12y ago
Having access to source is no guarantee of security or correctness (see Heartbleed) but relying on any of these secure messaging apps seems optimistic. Writing correct crypto code is hard and John McAfee's involvement offers no assuran
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by casca 13y ago
For anyone else interested in the protocols that tarsnap uses - https://www.tarsnap.com/crypto.html
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CryptoCLASS(cryptoclass.org.uk)
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by casca 13y ago
There was some discussion around Truecar and how they pivoted in this Planet Money podcast - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/03/14/290241292/episode-...
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by casca 13y ago
This is very much our view. Google products are fine for home and non-critical use, but it's far too risky to rely on them when building something that one expects to have a long lifespan. Unless there's clear money in it for Goog

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