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This article fails my smell test. The adolescent vocabulary doesn't correlate with the otherwise polished writing style and the technical merits fall far short of the proposed reme…

It looks to me like the OP is making more of a beef about Verizon's advertised speeds being significantly different from their actual speeds. That Verizon is continuing to advertis…

This is a story about what can happen when a governmental agency has: A) too little oversight, B) way too much (taxpayer) money, and C) way, way too little transparency. What can y…

A writeable open VCS would also make heartbleed-like vulnerabilities more likely. As such the OP's comments should be evaluated as potential astroturf. Were the NSA looking to intr…

It's more than "coders who don't know how to code", it's also managers who don't know how to read code or review diffs. Sadly, there are lots of experienced coders whose planning h…

> Maybe a typo Could be a bug in your web browser. The first sentence is a quote as indicated by the ">" character at the beginning of the line.

>This sort of vague comment Not sure about "vague comment"s but anyone who has run an email server, used an rbl/rhsbl, and followed the logs " rel="nofollow">http://www.postconf.co…

>There's more to it. That is alluded to in the 5th from last paragraph: "Facebook's terms of service forbid third-party verification of its clicks". What reason, other than fraud, …

This is one of the reasons I only purchase AMD-based systems. Well that and the fact that AMD's CPU/GMU combo has better graphics performance. It's either that or support a company…

It is unfortunate that FreeBSD chose those names to attract people to the pre-release versions. What's needed is a section of the website clarifying: CURRENT = alpha, dev STABLE = …

There are downside to AWS other than reliability (a la Netflix). One of those is privacy. If you host with AWS Amazon has access to all of your user data, and with Amazon likely th…

IMO data loss is less a symptom of untested backups than it is of developer-managed systems. I wonder if ycombinator has a sysadmin (who isn't also a developer)?

Please correct if I'm wrong but it looks like the decision to scale using HG instead of git was made on 2 points: 1) git maintainers basically said you should split repositories an…

IMO the most important aspect of this whole debate is money. Lots of money is made from manufacturing and selling bicycle helmets. That's why the bicycle-naive general population o…

I don't use Google docs/sheets/gmail/... due to their terms of service. Why give Google a perpetual right to do anything they want with any content put in a Google app? https://www…

Who clearly has not take even one semester of college level nutrition.

These sorts of "studies" are still being published, many of them funded by the dairy industry. Has nothing to do with science or nutrition as is taught in college, it is simply sal…

It actually started with the British whose spooks taught it to the US' Herbert Hoover before WWII. Read "Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner" " rel="nofollow">http://www.th…

Why would an email client need an RDBMS backend in the first place other than the fact that, like WordPress, the devs did not value KIS? Squirrelmail does fine without a db, as do …

>You can see how ridiculous the argument is ... It doesn't seem so ridiculous if you follow the money. The author is "executive director of SPUR, a Bay Area nonprofit membership or…

Not exactly. The free market is also what enables neighborhood preservationists to keep redevelopment out. Well that and the horrid examples of redevelopment 40 and 50 years ago th…

This is typical real-estate developer rhetoric "we can continue growing forever". Don't look behind the curtain, though, at the real reason redeveloped neighborhoods are sometimes …

we were trusting that such programs would not exist here It's still not clear what programs you are talking about. Because google provides no access logs "someone could go into our…

This is perhaps true where budget is severely constrained, or where Windows servers are spec'd, or where developers do systems administration, or where the corporate culture won't …

It doesn't take much reading of the literature to understand industrial espionage or any of the other substantive risks of outsourcing. Prism or not, when you put your intellectual…