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Did anyone else understand the first sample without knowing you had to hear the clear version first?

This wasn't a security disclosure at all - Facebook knew that this information was available but didn't see it as a problem. The "problem" was that somebody tried to make the public aware of how it worked.

"Noticing a lack of significant public response to the visible nature of geo-location data on Facebook Messenger, despite media coverage dating back to 2012" - http://jots.pub/a/2015081101/

As I understand it, this just means they're allowed to require you to sign a contract saying that they own your "off the clock" work, not that they own it by default. Or is it different in NY?

Exactly - I don't understand why even computer literate people have trouble understanding that computers aren't "an" activity, they're a gateway to millions of them, limited by your imagination.

My parents also limited the time I could spend on a computer... and I ended up writing programs on paper while I waited for the next day :P

Another easy way to play with this is the DeepDreamer mac app (http://realmacsoftware.com/deepdreamer/), although it has some size limitations unless you purchase it ($15).

Good point - this could create an incentive for people to stop taking the medication that they need just so they're allowed to compete.

Agreed. This feels like adding an additional hurdle that non-minority hires would not face (most generic recruiting sites I've seen don't require degrees).

This is like a company saying "I know employees need food, but instead of giving you money, you'll be compensated in hamburgers".

I'm tired of this stereotypical judgement that poor people are so bad with money that we'd be better off generously making purchasing decisions for them.

I'm a huge fan of streaming coding, mostly because of Markus Persson and the Ludum Dare streams (one of the first http://www.twitch.tv/notch/b/293076467 where he builds a dungeon crawler, skip ahead a bit).

The big downside for me though is the login requirement just to watch - I don't think I'd watch Twitch if I had to login just to see streams. I think getting rid of that would really help you guys grow - code streams are pretty addictive once you start watching.

I wonder if a possible solution to this problem would be getting universities to require publication to open access journals as opposed to closed ones. Then journals with paywalls would have an incentive to offer open access options in order to keep the largest amount of papers.

Homeless proof - I'm really hoping the problems that Sidewalk Labs is working on don't include making sure homeless people don't have access to public bathrooms. I'm honestly not thinking of a lot of reasons for public bathrooms to exist aside from making sure people without houses have someplace they can use (whether that be as a bathroom, washing laundry, shaving, etc.)

Yes, because clearly people in Kenya living in houses with mud floors and thatched roofs just need to work and save more.

The idea that under privileged people can simply work and save their way out of poverty is naive and dangerous.

Well, they sort of have to be accessed by unencrypted HTTP, their HTTPS certificate gives a huge warning. Any site doing journalism needs to have their SSL setup correctly if they care about the privacy of their readers.

The first article mentions a Supreme Court case in 2011 to "determine if authorities can track U.S. citizens with GPS vehicle trackers without a warrant" - anyone know what that case was or how it was decided?

Well there's a difference between code reuse, and cross-platform code reuse. If you're porting a Laravel project to Rails or vice versa, you should be reusing logic, not code.

"Are the Yankees the best team in baseball?

We used to think so."

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WINBOT http://www.amazon.com/WINBOT-W730-Cleaning-Frameless-Windows...

In my opinion, Kickstarter projects should not be legally obligated to deliver hardware rewards. We already have something just like that called "stores" and "preorders". I want to fund projects where the creators don't need to be 100% sure their idea will work before having the means to try it out. And I certainly don't want people to be able to sue those creators if it doesn't work out.

Well, I imagine she's actually making money with her original content - and then they're saying she can't, because it happens to refer to their "unique braand".

It's alarming to me that we allow corporations to control how and how we are not allowed to use words. Trademarks should be limited to preventing people from selling similar products using your company name. They shouldn't be a way for companies to control related culture.

I'm more and more concerned that the legal and cultural environment for web scraping would make it hard for a company like Google or Yahoo to be founded today.

The internet isn't about "don't take my stuff", it's about spreading that stuff around. I'm confused by people who want to make their data public, but want to control exactly how people access it.

  "Such systems make it impossible to intercept 
  and read messages sent over a network, because 
  the very act of measuring a quantum object 
  changes it, leaving behind telltale signs of 
  the spying.

  'It’s unlikely everyone would need this type of 
  technology...'"

I wonder if they're saying it would be impractical at a large scale, or that it's not necessary because it's not like everybody is being spied on or anything :)

I wish there were more companies that were more worried about doing the right thing than serving their paying customers. Especially when those customers are businesses who want to snoop on their employees, or ad agencies that want to sort through your mail.

I'm tired of constantly being screwed over by any company that I'm not paying directly.

Thanks! I'll just try to be patient though :) Good luck with the product :D

This is exciting - I think the fact that it has cooling built in easily puts it apart from crock pots for convenience - allowing you to go from the fridge to the stove is really cool.

Now I just have to resist getting a peltier module and making one of these before 2015...

"Our dev team is no longer producing quality work at a pace fast enough for the business. They're complacent."

B does not follow from A. Just because your team is not producing "fast enough for the business" does not mean they are complacent. It may simply mean the business has unreasonable expectations. Outsiders (especially non-developer outsiders) cannot really give you any insight on this, as all codebases are different, and the time it takes to fix a bug or add a feature will vary depending on the amount of technical debt and complexity that have accumulated.

Your team however, is in tune with your codebase, and appear to be able to tell how long things will take (you don't mention that their estimates are inaccurate, just that you dislike the estimates). If you would like the amount of time it takes to be different, perhaps instead of assuming they are complacent, it would help to ask what needs to be done to make changes to the codebase faster. The answers you get (such as a higher level of test coverage to increase change confidence) might surprise you.

I wonder if twitter alternatives have also become more popular in Turkey lately - it seems like if people are willing to setup Tor, they might also try App.net (you're of course loosing your network of followers, but your followers in Turkey can't see twitter anyway).

Of course then you can just block that other service as well.

Smartwatches are somehow male?

What "law"? Just because the authorities in New Jersey try to attack (Massachusetts) university students for a proof of concept project doesn't mean the law is on their side.

But even if the law is on the side of the students (which I believe is obvious), that doesn't necessarily mean much if they don't have the same level of legal support that the state has at its disposal. This is why MIT fully supporting their students is so vital.

Thanks a lot github. This is why we can't have nice things.