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Serious question: What would happen if -- at your point of origin -- you asked a friend to set the passcode on your phone, and you would only get the passcode on arrival after clearing border/customs? CBP can ask you to unlock your phone, but without knowing the passcode, what can they (or you) do?

Something (tongue-in-cheek) like this actually already happened [0], where users granted the website their immortal soul.

[0] http://www.out-law.com/page-10929

NetAtmo [0] does the same thing as well -- full weather sensor suite, similar pricepoint to NoiseAware, no annual subscription.

[0] https://www.netatmo.com/product/weather/weatherstation

Such a timely question -- not in the tech world (banking/finance), finding myself fairly dissatisfied & feeling like I've been doing the same thing in a loop for the last 10 years, and I have no idea what to do next.

And if you have a specific employment contract (and you're in an at-will state), take a close look at it since it likely includes an arbitration clause.

So going to a lawyer & the courts might make you feel like you're going to get a resolution, but likely you aren't going to get very far.

Saw this app this morning, struck me as surprising since I would expect the app to send much more than the picture to law enforcement (GPS coordinates, IMEI, other personally identifiable info).

I regret spending years trying to make others (parents, siblings, others) around me happy & conform to their ideals / wishes, instead of trying to make myself happy.

I regret following their advice getting married to someone I already knew at the time I didn't fully want to get married to, then having kids because that's what everyone else felt was right for me. And I "regret" meeting other people who I know would make me happier, but not knowing how to get out of my present position, without making a ton of people (incl. little people) unhappy in the process...

(and hopefully I'm not going to regret not having posted this under a throwaway account)

This is slightly misleading -- and the table is missing its footnotes from the original article -- since the "data only includes smartwatches capable of running third party applications". As a result, it ignores a lot of great wearables that for some reason IDC doesn't consider "smartwatches" which don't need third party apps.

It seems like they're rolling out the equivalent of Application Specific Passwords that Google has for sites that don't work with TFA.

How much info are you displaying on the various merchants that are billing via the individual card numbers? My credit card bill tends to have a transaction identifier, the name of the merchant & a reference number (along with transaction date & post date). Would be great to have merchant's address and additional information on it and flag if it's recurrent.

They already have that. $10 for a carseat for your trip [0].

Apparently, it folds up small and fits into the trunk [1].

[0] https://help.uber.com/h/3abcbae1-132b-42a9-8277-0dab00fa3879

[1] http://www.imminet.com/products/immi-go-seat/

That's not right - the APU doesn't generate thrust.

Where's the team on Boom[0] on this?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11346947

I love what these guys are doing, but I find it odd that they're using an actively registered tail number (N22BT) in their mockup images.

> we French don't have a bicycle culture. For us every day bicycling (not sport) is for people that can't afford a car (and the rare idealists that think they're going to save the planet).

Have you been to Strasbourg recently? There's definitely a bicycle culture there...

Nitpick, but there's no autopilot for takeoffs.

http://www.askthepilot.com/questionanswers/automation-myths/

The producers also admire the hack.

From the show's creator & executive producer: "We wish we’d caught these images before they made it to air. However, as Homeland always strives to be subversive in its own right and a stimulus for conversation, we can’t help but admire this act of artistic sabotage.” [0]

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/oct/15/homeland...

(edited for clarity)

Except US Supreme Court just said that it's legal [0], and did so unanimously...

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/business/supreme-court-rul...

"judging by some of the latest plane crashes, a complete autopilot may not be that bad of an idea."

Until something[0] goes catastrophically wrong. The FMS on that flight threw so many errors that it couldn't compute landing performance metrics. In other words, because it couldn't handle the sheer number of aircraft system failures, it couldn't tell the pilots if the plane would be able to land on the runway and not overshoot it. The pilots hand to manually select which errors to override in order to have the system run its calculations.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_32

This is old trope, and wrong. Small reminder that 100% of takeoffs and a vast majority of landings are flown by hand. That "1% of the total flight time" may be hand-flying the plane (ie, hands on stick and throttle), but all the flying that you're discounting in your 99% is still something that the pilot needs to handle. They need to manage the automation, the FMS, ATC, etc.

Patrick Smith (ask the pilot) has a number of good criticisms [0][1] of this "1%" trope.

[0]http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/opinion/why-pilots-still-m...

[1]http://www.askthepilot.com/pilotless-planes/

Not to pick on you, but hearing "per-determined height and GPS direction" makes me a bit nervous with anything related to human life. People follow GPS blindly and that's OK on roads with a driver, but in other applications it can lead to tragic results due to Dilution of Precision. The Flinders Islet crash is a prime example. [0][1]

[0] http://www.sailingmates.com/your-gps-can-kill-you/

[1] http://www.yachting.org.au/sport-services/safety/major-incid...

I got the same with a "URL Category: Extreme, Pornography".

@dang - wasn't there a "possibly NSFW" tag on this earlier?

Didn't we already try an experiment like this with bees a few years back?

I'm more used to the interface of FullScreenWeather [0] from WUnderground, but this seems to give me access to a broader scope of data. Nicely done!

[0] http://www.fullscreenweather.com

People were clamoring for invites to http://ello.co about four months ago, then the hype died down. Is this. any different?

The comedic value SkyMall had for you led to a parody of it -- SkyMaul.

(edited to add different URLs, and saw that someone else got to this as well)

http://www.kasperhauser.com/skymaul_site/FlipBook.html

http://www.skymaul.com/

Generally no; you'll go through the usual security check prior to boarding a flight at the airport, however.

"And doesn't glide" -- as opposed to, say, autorotation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2a9H8Xw8Mo

"Promotion rate flights are for first time flyers only and limted to a single use. Other terms and conditions may apply."

So what's the standard rate?

Volkswagen actually did a bunch through Fun Theory.

http://www.thefuntheory.com/

"this old-style, formal education that we find in college and graduate programs will become an increasingly niche endeavor reserved for the few for whom it makes sense for one reason or another."

Some academics have gotten this & are trying to change the system; Jose Bowen from Goucher College comes to mind -- http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/education/edlife/a-convers...