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by follower 10y ago
> I suspect it was part of the click-through license for the app. [snip] > ...the click-through almost certainly had the correct legal language... The claim of the original suit stated that it wasn't and didn't. And, after t
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by follower 10y ago
> I'm not even sure I understand what they were did that was wrong The original complaint states: * "Defendant never informed Plaintiff that it would monitor, collect, and transmit her Usage Information." * "Plaintiff
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by follower 10y ago
> the bluetooth connection was super unreliable. Human bodies make great faraday cages. > analytics lib that tracks feature usage seems like such a standard part of developing a mobile app Right, and we talked about this in a follow-u
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by follower 10y ago
[From an earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13862694 ] Related DEF CON 24 presentation: "Breaking the Internet of Vibrating Things": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1d0Xa2njVg
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by follower 10y ago
Related DEF CON 24 presentation: "Breaking the Internet of Vibrating Things": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1d0Xa2njVg (Includes more technical details) Related TEDx presentation: https://www.youtube
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Sex Toy Maker Pays $3.75M to Settle ‘Smart’ Vibrator Lawsuit(fortune.com)
4 points by follower 10y ago|1 comments
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by follower 10y ago
I've been interested in the topic of coding notes / project logs for a number of years primarily due to the positive benefit I've gained from the habit. Quite some time ago I created Labradoc http://labradoc.com&#x
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by follower 10y ago
I've used the Web Bluetooth API for three projects so far: 1) A friend had developed a custom LED-lighting device and written an iOS app to control it (to change colour, brightness etc) but I had an Android device. I wrote a single fil
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by follower 11y ago
Yeah, I'm surprised more people don't create a "Presenter" account, I've taken that approach for a number of years. It also eliminates other potential computer distractions (other applications running, wallpapers et
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by follower 12y ago
> extract from the text all location identifiers That's what one of MetaCarta's products does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCarta
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by follower 12y ago
FWIW I got an automated reply from Greenhouse acknowledging receipt along with the remark "If your background is a good fit, our team will reach out to you shortly."
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by follower 12y ago
This version of the release notes is properly formatted and includes the images referred to in the text: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.91
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by follower 12y ago
I remember being mocked when talking on my Treo 180 due to its size when fully open...I find the increased dimensions of new phones amusing in this light. I'm still looking for a replacement for my Nexus One that matches three criteria
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by follower 12y ago
> priced far beyond what they actually cost. Very rarely will someone tell you that you're not charging as much for something as you should (perhaps with the exception of patio11 because he wants us all to make more money :) ) but g
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by follower 12y ago
Even more so in this area with http://SparkFun.com/ who had to deal with issues arising from having a name with "spark" in it: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/300
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by follower 13y ago
Here's another take on a custom keyboard: http://blog.keyboard.io/
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by follower 13y ago
There was some discussion about OS X window management options on another thread the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6998309
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by follower 13y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write this up, Patrick, it was worth the read. Hope your goal for looking after yourself better this year is achieved successfully! :)
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by follower 13y ago
The README summary is a little clearer than the link title: "Get the elegance, simplicity, and speed of Homebrew for the installation and management of GUI Mac applications such as Google Chrome and Adium."
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by follower 13y ago
Other (FLOSS) options: * ShiftIt: https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt * Spectacle: https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle
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by follower 13y ago
Still on the hardware side of things this was also interesting to me: * "Programming FPGAs with PSHDL: Let's create the Arduino for FPGAs" http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events&#x2F
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by follower 13y ago
If you're into hardware hacking then these are fun (in addition to Bunnie's and the Wii U): * "Even More Tamagotchis Were Harmed in the Making of this Presentation" http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013&
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by follower 13y ago
> I didn't check the rest of the conference materials, but i've no doubt that nobody picked up on that; There were a couple of talks that appear related to that topic: * "Beyond the Tech: Building Internet Freedom Tool
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by follower 13y ago
This is a documentary on the human cost of those pre-regulation years "Grand Prix: The Killer Years": http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z8v18 Unfortunately the content doesn't really go into much detail
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by follower 13y ago
You might like to get in touch with Jason Scott: http://textfiles.com/jason/ He seems to "know people" when it comes to archiving computer history: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012&#x2F
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"Hour of Code" promotional video(youtube.com)
4 points by follower 13y ago|0 comments
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by follower 13y ago
> Beatport DJ is a poor man's Soundcloud More like Mixcloud, as Soundcloud specifically says not to use them for DJ mixes unless you have rights to all the music.
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by follower 13y ago
> I do wonder what kind of backstory there was if they were afraid of people trashing the office. It doesn't say nice things about the company if they thought laying off a whole office via a conference call was a good idea to start
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by follower 13y ago
The actual URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/29/revealed_the_secret_...
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by follower 13y ago
> My best guess is that it was something of a gimmick for Google I/O. They never seemed well-supported by Google. I would agree. I created the Handbag for Android project ( http://handbagdevices.com/ ) which was initi

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