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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 publi…

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 diff…

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 you…

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 poo…

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 c…

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 …

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 t…

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 …

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 …

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 ca…

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." http://commonmark.org

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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…

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 produc…

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 a…

"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…