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I used to think my daughter may never drive, because autonomous vehicles were rumored to always be just around the corner. Now I think she may never ride in an autonomous vehicle. …

Estimated Fluoride Intake and IQ A 1-mg increase in fluoride intake was associated with a 3.66 (95% CI, −7.16 to −0.15; P = .04) lower FSIQ score among boys and girls

Double edged sword. Too short an article, the progress bar is meaningless. Too long, and there's no way I'm reading until the end. Useful if all the articles are about this length,…

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Same, the address in the notification email had never been signed in.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

"Optimistic, Pessimistic, Trusting and Envious" in case you missed the obvious like myself.

"Optimistic, Pessimistic, Trusting and Envious" in case you missed the obvious like myself.

Isn't this money squandered, if autonomous vehicles are likely by the time of its completion?

For me, it's to proxy the email IP address. Use Cloudflare for http, but using SMTP from your server exposes your IP.

Moved from Mandrill to Sendgrid for SMTP... had delivery issues, likely my fault. Moved to Sparkpost, NO problems. Much easier interface and onboarding for SMTP.

Doesn't this just correlate with 10 people will tell others when unhappy, while they'll tell 1 if happy?

Guessing the photos are composites. The background is HDR, but HDR looks horrible on people, so they were shot without HDR and layered in Photoshop. In the second shot you can clea…

This should be higher.

Most likely not programmed by humans, at least at the highest levels.

Why do you think Google has invested so much in self-driving cars?

When I was 8 or 9 years old I had dinner with a contemporary of Andre the Giant, Baron von Raschke. He was friends with my best friends dad. He gave me "the claw" (brainclaw). Life…

North Dakotan checking in. I've seen this tower many times, from the road and up close, it's pretty uninspiring. Hard to get a sense of scale when it's so thin and transparent. Als…

North Dakotan checking in. I've seen this tower many times, from the road and up close, it's pretty uninspiring. Hard to get a sense of scale when it's so thin and transparent. Als…

I use Google's Pagespeed Service, which is free and in beta. They say they may charge some day. But the support... I have "proxy errors" reported, which would appear to be an error…

Just conjecture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_the_hash

Space is full of a LOT of empty space. Maybe even more amazing to myself, is the scale works almost the same in inverse. There's also a lot of space at the tiniest scales. Scale of…

I'm not surprised this is the top comment on a hacker site. But having watched my 5-year old son assemble a 300 piece set while following a 40+ page manual, gave me a new appreciat…

The article makes a good point. It appears Google storing old passwords indefinitely makes your account potentially less secure. So why do they do it?