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This is fascinating (and sad), but it makes me wonder, could police use your fitness tracker as a sort of poor-mans polygraph? i.e. interview a subject normally, and then get a warrant (or not get a warrant) to view the online data and correlate them after the fact? Wikipedia mentions "blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity" as parameters for a polygraph [1], and while fitbit only supports 2/4 right now, the goal of fitness tracking is to have all of those. Whether or not polygraphs even work is another question, but being able to do them secretly and without consent is scary none the less.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph

Well cities have a somewhat captive market - if they pump it to your house, you'll either use it or pay extra for bottles, and at the least you won't shower or flush your toilet with bottled water.

"consider re-applying as your skills and contributions to open source projects grow and expand."

It's not us - it's you. I'm surprised they feel the need to blame the candidate, especially since I'd guess experience isn't always the issue.

Yeah, but that's what Kickstarter decided to become at some point, they weren't always that way. I'm hoping that other crowdfunding platforms don't go this direction, and allow me to choose my risk without opening the creators up to lawsuits (which feels like the most un-Kickstarter thing ever).

I never see the articles about how investors need to be more careful, because some of the companies they're investing in are failing. That's sort of the point of the platform - I give you money for something that currently does not exist, and I get the chance to get that impossible thing if you're able to make it exist. Stop telling me to "be more careful", and acting like I'd be better served shopping at stores that don't fail to deliver. Stores don't sell maybe-dragonfly-robots.

Girls are discouraged from studying STEM from an early age, as the infographic mentions. Some tech companies do try to hire women, but many don't care. And sexual harassment is not the only problem facing women in the workplace.

Sure - stack everything against women working in tech - early education, hiring, work environment - and then if "they choose to stay out of tech, I guess that's their choice."

I'd be more interested in my doctor having this information. I tend to self diagnose (poorly) when presented with too much information that I don't understand well. But I feel like a medical professional could use the data to keep an eye out for specific symptoms and tailor questions for my risks, without giving me unneeded anxiety.

It's interesting that they don't mention how/if they're avoiding false positives. I don't doubt that some people have exceptional facial recognition skills, but if they're given a face they haven't seen before, how likely are they to match that face with someone they have seen? How do they know that someone wearing a mask on a security camera is enough information for him to actually make an accurate match?

I'm worried this might be another case of police over estimating how effective something is (like hair DNA forensics) to make arrests, with innocent people paying for it.

That's pretty insane actually (although common) - would immediately disqualify them from consideration for me.

What are some good Amazon Prime (shopping) alternatives? Yearly fee for low cost or free fast shipping, with an inventory of pretty much everything?

Looks like they include instructions on how to build in SOURCE.md (https://github.com/delight-im/FreeGeoDB/blob/master/SOURCE.m...) - would be great to have that linked in the README though.

It seems like OpenStreetMap is not actually the source for the data - https://github.com/delight-im/FreeGeoDB/issues/1#issuecommen...

I keep gatekeeper disabled because I don't want app developers to have to sign up with (and I believe pay money to) Apple to setup a Developer ID.

(but I also don't download Xcode from random places)

Is "Christina Warren, writing at Mashable," with no link, actually considered an acceptable way to quote an author online? It's sort of attribution, but it feels obfuscating.

The article they're referencing is here http://mashable.com/2015/09/10/iphone-6s-rose-gold-is-the-ne...

I think another question to ask yourself is, why do you feel this isn't normal?

If others claim they could do the task faster, consider that programmers chronically underestimate.

If you've seen others do it faster, it's possible that they are taking shortcuts, making quicker decisions that will involve more work later. From your example, you've carefully picked a library and thought through how to integrate it properly into your code - these steps can be skipped for speed, but the cost usually isn't worth it.

There are always going to be better programmers, but they're often not the ones who claim to be great, or fast, or rockstars. So I'd just check to make sure you're not making unfair comparisons of yourself.

I know that Kickstarter's policy supports this thinking, but I've always disagreed.

The thing that made me excited about Kickstarter was people doing projects crazy enough that you couldn't guarantee they'd be successful. I never got the feeling that I was buying something, or that anything could be "crowdfunding theft"'d from me. The whole point was that I was giving to a creator to hopefully make something cool.

This all goes away when you tell creators, "hey, you better know your dream WILL work, because you'll be held legally and financially responsible for it if it doesn't". It reduces Kickstarter to a platform for preorders, instead of a place where crazy things can happen.

I find it strange that large companies envy the things smaller shops are able to do, and they'll spend the money to buy them up, but they won't spend the time to understand the culture that let them build what they built. Put employees first and you'll find they can do some pretty amazing things.

If you're trying to relieve fears, the first paragraph does not help.

"IBM has identified Node.js as an important part of the future of enterprise middleware and StrongLoop’s technology and expertise as pivotal to their strategy to help companies fully unlock the value of their existing IT investments and legacy data with APIs."