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A Death at Tough Mudder(outsideonline.com)
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Interestingly enough, stenography was already being decried pre 9/11 as a tool used by terrorists [1]: >"Uncrackable encryption is allowing terrorists — Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaida and others — to communicate about their crimina
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The ProPublica report referenced by the This American Life episode is one of the best longform pieces I've read all year [1]. It contains stories related to your question. One memorable example was from parents that inadvertently let
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>According to the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversaw the implementation of the website, the components used to build the site are compliant with standards set by Federal security authorities. This sounds similar to sa
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Genetic tests are classified as medical devices, a category requiring a strict approval process with the FDA [1]. The other "bullshit" products [2] you mentioned do not fall in this category. The debate should start at whether 23
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Apparently tacocopter is closer to satire than a prank. It's a vision of how drones could be used in the future once regulation gets figured out. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120327/04431918256/why
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One of my pet dogs growing up always chased the UPS truck (rural area). I can't imagine what it would have done to delivery drones... In a hypothetical situation where a delivery drone gets sniped by some kid with a 22, what is Amazon
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Another component of a solution for this is giving parents better control over the time and energy kids are allowed to spend on their smartphone. As ADHD as I am as an adult, I wonder what the the effects an always on entertainment device
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NY Comptroller: Legalise marijuana, tax it now with three.js
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Sure, that was an awkward transition, but you gave up too early. One paragraph later justifies this: "What the search engine is to Google, the Personal Genome Service is to 23andMe. The company is not exactly hiding its ambitions. “Th
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I think first you have to show a question exists that effectively separates identical twins before you spend much time working on broad questions like gender and geography.
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Agreed, with the caveat that I can only handle a couple of posts this deep before feeling intimidated and longing for something more lightweight. I like the mix of articles because if all of them were this deep it would feel like I don&#x2
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I love how key definitions of terms are redacted for purposes of national security. For instance, the definition of the term "associated" is redacted in the training guides for establishing an RAS (reasonable articulable suspicio
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HN, like all news sources, is a mixed bag of content that has varying degrees of relevancy to its readers. Very few people have time to read all of the Wall Street Journal on a daily basis, much less benefit from absorbing that much inform
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I'm referring to the following definition on Panopticon: >The Panopticon is a type of institutional building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century. The concept of the design is t
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>One of the worst pieces of journalism about the Google+ policy, written by a "outspoken and controversial author and journalist". That's a straw man right there. The article is clearly marked as an opinion piece in its s
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The point is that it makes stalking much more efficient and there's no way to protect oneself from it on YouTube without changing the profile pic. The current #1 submission on HN is from a woman slamming google for this problem [1].
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Not a google employee, but this disgusting mistreatment of its users may actually be a good thing if it blows up in their faces. My prediction is that the change to automatically showing the users g+ profile pic next to comments will be wh
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Im thinking about writing a FireFox extension that substitutes the word Google with Panopticon on all of their web properties as a reminder to use their tools less frequently.
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Glad you're interested! I just started on it and need a couple days to hit the poc milestone and then write up a guide for it. Shoot me an email to the address listed in my profile and I'll ping you when it's ready later th
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I've been able to get through my career without LinkedIn or GitHub accounts as proof of my skills. I've pored my time and energy into the jobs I hold and hadn't gotten inspired to start contributing to OSS until just this we
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Very nice! I love minimal distractions. Now I just need to script out redirecting me to this site anytime I hit a YouTube.com URL.
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From the perspective of a content consumer without a youtube account, the quality of the service continues to decrease. The most basic use case of uploading and linking to or embedding content remains invaluable, but functionality facilita
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If you're impressed primarily by absolute dollar amounts of value added, then sure, U.S. manufacturing looks good on a bar chart comparison of G7 countries. However, the rest of the FAS report is stuffed full of metrics showing the rap
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It's not quite so simple as considering all leaks of government information heroic. For instance, would it have been heroic to leak news that U.S. code breakers had cracked enemy codes in WW2?
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>That was the beta/promo batch. I fail to see how that's relevant now. Beneath the snark and hyperbole in my post, this was intended to be my point. I don't feel like someone with this mindset necessarily warrants trust i
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It's hard to imagine the type of person that would be on the fence about Soylent that would be ok with it after reading this article. Hopefully the "it was beta" excuse for producing Soylent in an unhealthy environment won&#
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My guess as to the rise of MongoDB usage is that the rapid application development needs of the startup world led to people deciding that representing application data as JSON across all tiers speeds up the early stages of development. Unfo
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I'm glad the driver is safe. However, I'm not sure what posting this letter is supposed to accomplish other than show that the driver is still a Tesla supporter. The remainder of the letter seems to be (potentially) counterprodu
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The longer I use youtube while signed in, the more useless it becomes to me. I have a wide range of interests. If I'm watching the Dead Skeletons - Dead Mantra music video, it's not helpful to have 5 Starcraft 2 VODs in the reco

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