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by rpedroso 13y ago
There are other problems that need to be solved before public transit can fully replace automobiles. Consider groceries. I can't get two weeks of groceries for two people without a car. Wine bottles get heavy, and stacking bags on my a
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I've always had the theory that rules about electronic devices were not just about electromagnetic interference, but also about reducing distractions from crew-member instructions during takeoff/landing. Someone might point out th
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I agree, this is an awesome project. I'm particularly curious about how CSL speakers have to constrain nuance in their signing for the translator to remain accurate. I know nothing about CSL, but ASL phonology is rather complicated. Th
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by rpedroso 13y ago
Remember that Levinson was not just a private contractor looking for work; taking time to build a whole new wiretapping system into his product wouldn't just cost him development time, but it's an opportunity cost as well, since h
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by rpedroso 13y ago
The article points out that SanDisk's Sansa MP3 player accounted for < 2% of the company's bottom line in 2010. If Apple, for whom music players account for much more revenue, could lose a lawsuit against Personal Audio LLC, th
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by rpedroso 13y ago
I think there is a tendency to overestimate the conclusions of the cited study. We definitely should be wary of price tags -- I've had $10 and $15 bottles of wine that kicked the pants off many $50-100 bottles. I'm also definitely
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by rpedroso 13y ago
On my screen (1366x768), part of the rotated iPad is still below the fold. There are also bugs when scrolling through the "presentation" on this resolution that cause the iPad content to overflow: http://i.imgur.com&#x2
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by rpedroso 13y ago
I think your point is valid with respect to experienced, technologically-proficient attackers. But as Berners-Lee points out: The attack is by colleauges, members of family, etc, not by hardened black hats. As readily available as tools l
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There are a few other situations in which the privacy of citizens is at risk with this tech. As the article notes: Privacy advocates worry that video of police officers searching a suspect’s home could end up on the evening news. But I ag
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by rpedroso 13y ago
While you raise some important points, but I think the key complaint was that the author felt scammed by the 20% commission they were paying the affiliate program vendor for sales they would already have made. While these programs may have
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You can't really compare node-postgres and Mongoose. The former is a simple Postgres client, while the latter is a fully-featured ODM.
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I'm skeptical of that claim by the article. The relevant paragraph: There's a significant exception to both sets of laws: large quantities of metadata can be intercepted in real time through a so-called pen register and trap and
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As the article notes: Hurt's study enrolled only full-term babies so the possible effects of prematurity did not skew the results. Nonetheless the head of the study does note that crack cocaine can induce premature labor, among other
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by rpedroso 13y ago
For Tmux/Screen users, I have used Tmuxinator[1] for a few years now to manage my different terminal workstations. Tmuxinator allows you to specify complex terminal workstations that you can launch with one command. A typical Rails set
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by rpedroso 13y ago
To elaborate further, the point of this memo isn't to alert the shareholders of Microsoft's organizational changes, it's about easing this transition with a motivational message about innovation and what not. Even if the corp
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The specific paragraph, for reference: After assessing the surveillance footage, Schulman said he believed the motivations were likely political, but did not suspect department involvement. "It wasn't professional enough," h
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by rpedroso 13y ago
Don't forget that the content you find on HN has to come from somewhere. How do articles get here? 1) Either the content author posts it, or someone who follows the blog/website/whatever posts it. 2) Those who spend time read
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by rpedroso 13y ago
I don't buy the point about forcing programmers to refactor either. Vim gives me access to commands that make text manipulation faster, which often means I can refactor faster. In fact, I'd say that a slower refactor process would
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by rpedroso 13y ago
They're not just any undergrad students, they were Oenology students -- they might not be experts, but they certainly know more about classifying wines by scent, flavor profile, etc than a layperson.
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The complaint wasn't about marketing tactics, or about LinkedIn's quality of service. The complaint was specifically about LinkedIn asking for the passwords to their users' email accounts. As the author points out, LinkedIn d
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It's not just a use-case for anonymous or clandestine activists. Consider the Arab Spring, where Facebook and especially Twitter were used to rally people together in public areas. Many countries might block large, uncensored social we
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"Using free software, Tor has enabled roughly 36 million people around the world to experience freedom of access and expression on the Internet while keeping them in control of their privacy and anonymity." http://www.f
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by rpedroso 13y ago
Tenants have a stake in their apartment, their relations with their neighbors, etc. While the vast majority Airbnb renters don't trash apartment buildings, I'd bet that they're more disruptive on average than tenants.
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I fly about once a month for personal visits. While I'd love to reach my destination faster, I struggle enough to afford tickets at their current prices. If I'm not prepared to spend $30 for a better seat, I'm definitely not about to spend
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It's probably worth noting, as someone who lives in Miami, that the New Times is considered closer to a tabloid than a reputable journal. I can't speak for this particular article, but I would not be surprised if there were editorializing s
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by rpedroso 14y ago
Because CISPA's definition of a "cybersecurity" threat is too broad. One of the vague terms it employs is "unauthorized access" -- a term we have seen abused recently in the cases of Aaron Swartz and Weev. My fear is that, like the PATRIOT
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This view is overly-simplistic. There is a difference between being up-to-date on your industry and being distracted. If you're an SEO, for example, you need to keep up with Google algorithm updates. If you're a doctor, you need to keep up
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by rpedroso 14y ago
Who should be responsible then? If you shift the burden onto small business owners, that seems pretty unreasonable to me. Imagine a small business owner asking their web developers if they used alt or title attributes properly? Absurd, righ
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I think some are overstating the potential difficulties of making the ADA apply to American websites. A large part of compliance is just utilizing the accessibility tools built into HTML: semantic markup, proper use of alt and title tags, e
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The only viable alternative you named was Flipboard. Reddit, HN, Facebook, Twitter and G+ are all user-sponsored aggregators. If I see content there, it must have come from somewhere . Where did I find the articles i share on Facebook? On

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