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The Bad Cop Database(slate.com)
7 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
>> ... however, the choice of algorithm mattered little... and the largest gains always came from introducing new features. This was also the collective opinion of top Kaggle competitors as described in a post[1] on NoFreeHunch. [1]
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Are Your Medications Safe?(slate.com)
4 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
That makes complete sense, especially since you are not going to get in to YC as a hardware startup without a functioning prototype.
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by dthal 12y ago
>and we don’t shy away from expensive hardware--we’ve funded companies building things like nuclear reactors and rockets, which will require hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to succeed How does this make sense for YC to do?
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DEA using license-plate readers to take photos of US drivers, documents reveal(theguardian.com)
4 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
Science has more and less reliable disciplines. In particular, in any field in which meaningful experiments are difficult or impossible to perform, causality will be hard to pin down. It just so happens that many of the topics the public is
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by dthal 12y ago
If you haven't seen it yet, check out the video at the bottom, too. It was shot days before the San Francisco of 1906.
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8 photos that show how cars seized city streets from pedestrians(vox.com)
1 points by dthal 12y ago|2 comments
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Nearly every U.S. arms program found vulnerable to cyber attacks(reuters.com)
2 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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How Was Your Credit Card Stolen?(krebsonsecurity.com)
6 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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Why Almost Nobody Wants to Pay for the 'Netflix of Magazines'(businessweek.com)
7 points by dthal 12y ago|2 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
I think you are exactly right. Any solutions to this have to be technical and largely defensive. Legal or diplomatic solutions will only bind parties that intend to follow the law. Counter-attacking and deterrence will fail if the attacker
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by dthal 12y ago
I think all of the cynics on here (including me) should pause for a moment and reflect on what is happening in this case: the government is going to do something that will cost it revenue, just because its the right thing to do and the peop
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Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with police(washingtonpost.com)
306 points by dthal 12y ago|125 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
I think lids do three things: they cut down on noise, they reclaim some open space, and they piece back together the neighborhoods that get cut in half by big freeway projects. The Mercer Island lids may not do much for noise, but they do t
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Delphi's computer chauffeur drives me around Las Vegas at CES 2015(cnet.com)
1 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
OTOH, how much does it really cost them? They make some software modification, and they get to try out a new market. Maybe it works, in which case they just found a new long-term, possibly world-wide, revenue stream. Maybe it doesn't,
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Hamburg is burying the Autobahn and putting parks on top(vox.com)
86 points by dthal 12y ago|51 comments
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Uber’s Latest Experiment Is Uber Cargo, a Logistics Service in Hong Kong(techcrunch.com)
20 points by dthal 12y ago|8 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
Sorry if its a little OT, but I actually have this question: Is it normal for grad students to get reimbursed by their institution for conference travel?
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by dthal 12y ago
>One incentive was the availability of federal funds >earmarked for sex predator stings. Another factor: >asset forfeiture, which allows police to seize >the property of people who are arrested even if they aren't c
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We Still Don't Know Who Hacked Sony(theatlantic.com)
5 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi Undermines Encryption(slate.com)
2 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
I suppose stuff like this [1] could start to happen. Note that Moxie Marlinspike is not actually in/involved with wikileaks. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike#Traveling
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by dthal 12y ago
>But what if the business requirement changes... Are you kidding? This is FizzBuzz! It is just a quick check to verify that an applicant is even a programmer at all. That's all it is. There is nothing else there.
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by dthal 12y ago
I think the solution to this has to be mainly technological, not (primarily) legal. Fake cell towers are not NSA-level technology and it seems that they are being deployed in lots of places [1][2], probably by lots of different parties. If
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60 Years of Urban Change: Midwest(iqc.ou.edu)
2 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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A controversial YouTube video could create a crazy new form of copyright(theverge.com)
4 points by dthal 12y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 12y ago
Thanks for that link. It seems to me that what that data says is: Americans are for torture, pretty much across the board. That's good to know...

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