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www.reddit.com 7y ago

Reddit AMA with author of NYT article on location data collection

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basho.com 9y ago

What in the HeLL is HyperLogLog?

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www.theverge.com 10y ago

Nokia is buying digital health firm Withings for $191M

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github.com 11y ago

Disavow-above-repository: a repo to help you disavow contributions on GitHub

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paul.henrich.me 11y ago

How to join Facebook without giving up all of your and your friends’ privacy

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www.shopify.com 11y ago

Building an Internal Cloud (scaling shopify to 8k reqs/s)

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neo.com 11y ago

Getting explicit about gender bias (from CEO of tech consulting co.)

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paul.henrich.me 11y ago

What I learned doing the Doublets kata in Clojure

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paul.henrich.me 11y ago

Clojure: koan to kata

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blog.travis-ci.com 11y ago

TravisCI Enterprise launch and pricing

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jim.neo.com 12y ago

The Jim Weirich Scholarship Fund: honoring Jim's legacy through education

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emacs.sexy 12y ago

Emacs is Sexy

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www.neo.com 12y ago

Elixir and the Internet of Things – What's in a Process?

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

Pinterest marketing startup Ahalogy raises $3.1m Series A

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www.thoughtworks.com 12y ago

ThoughtWorks: US Congress Must Rein in the Surveillance State

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lavabit.com 12y ago

Lavabit SSL Cert Revoked

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differential.io 13y ago

Cladwell Week 9 — No code to revenue in nine weeks

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www.neo.com 13y ago

Friendly Drones with Carin Meier and Jim Weirich [audio]

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www.kalzumeus.com 14y ago

Don't Call Yourself a Programmer

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www.publishersweekly.com 14y ago

Hyperink (YC): Publishing Startup Offers Short Focused Nonfiction e-Books

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www.techcrunch.tv 14y ago

Peter Thiel and Max Levchin at TC Disrupt (video)

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blog.pinboard.in 14y ago

The Costs of Bookmarking

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engineering.twitter.com 15y ago

Twitter announces TwUI, an open source, hardware accelerated UI toolkit for Mac

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blog.twitter.com 15y ago

Twitter announces Tweetdeck acquisition

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rkdm.heroku.com 15y ago

Tell HN: Friend builds cool app, Runkeeper says Not So Fast

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The big one, as far as I can tell (I've been reading through the prospectus and the latest dell 10q), is that the tracking stock is actually an unsecured interest in Dell (Dell Class V shares). So, you're exposed to Dell going bankrupt: secured creditors would get the vmware stake if Dell can't pay the ~ $1.6 Billion in interest they owe per year.

It's probably not for you, given the speedmaster & the biking, but I like my Withings Activite. Looks like a normal analog watch with a activity level dial, and integrates with Apple Health via Withings' app, which is nicely designed. Regular watch battery.

Edit: I would also be interested if anyone knows of an automatic (mechanical) watch with a pedometer complication. Seems like it wouldn't be too far off from the power-reserve dials that some fancy automatics have.

I think you can now configure it to run in "holy mode". In both modes you can still type meta-x (also via `<space>:`).

I think if you had a very customized emacs setup, you'd have to put some effort organizing it into custom "layers", which is how spacemacs organizes its config and making sure you don't have big conflicts in mapped keys.

Berkshire, which Buffett manages and effectively controls, owns insurance companies and a mortgage lender outright. Berkshire also has stakes in publicly traded banks including US Bank, Wells Fargo, and American Express (they converted into a deposit-taking bank company in the wake of the financial crisis). Then there's Bank of America, in which Berkshire has warrants to buy a stake < 10%, but they likely won't be exercised until they're about to expire.

Beyond this, managers and policy makers listen when Buffett talks/writes; an outcome of his 50-year track record in investing and managing at Berkshire. I personally don't think there's anything sinister going on.

You can get a really good overview of Berkshire as a company, including its operating companies, investment philosophy, and current investment holdings from the annual letters that Buffett writes: http://berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html

If you want to see exactly what securities Berkshire owns, you can look up the 13F filings on http://edgar.sec.gov

Buffett owns about a quarter of Berkshire Hathaway, which owns warrants to purchase about a 10% stake in Bank of America at a deep discount to the current price. Berkshire does not currently have voting rights because the warrants haven't been exercised. That's not to say Buffett can't or doesn't influence Bank of America, but it is much more of distant relationship than, for example, the dozens of operating companies whose CEOs report to Buffett. It seems a stretch to imagine him involved at this level at all.

Heard something similar on the stream just a few minutes ago. Something like: we are trying to correlate the timelines of data from Falcon to the timing of the Range Safety Officer ...(turning on?)... the flight termination system.

Edit: Falcon Launch Control on "We are trying to correlate timelines and compare data with what they were able to see with down range cameras and put together what happened. We stopped receiving data at 2 min 19 sec from the vehicle. It is still not clear exactly what happened and why... At this point we don't have additional information we can provide on NASA Television until the contingency Press Conference, no earlier than 12:30? ET."

I know that whether I use facebook or not, other people do. So, it's the newsfeed and a contact list at least.

This is aimed at the average computer user, who doesn't know what third-party cookies are, who doesn't know what retargeting means, who doesn't realize what giving facebook their email password does. It's a way to give that person tools to pick the degree to which they expose themselves, when the default is 100% exposure.

Basically, a family member asked me this question, and I thought it would be useful to write up for them. I figure folks on HN have the tools to figure out how they want to deal with FB and other services, but they may also want a resource to help friends and family who aren't so tech savvy.

If you are interested in the rationale for my objecting to 100% buy-in on facebook and have 40 minutes, I can highly recommend Maciej Ceglowski's talk at Beyond Tellerand 2014, the internet with a human face: http://vimeo.com/102717446

A family member who was wary of facebook asked me how to join facebook while maintaining a semblance of privacy, so I wrote this. Tried to make it accessible to someone with average computer skills.

As an aside, I joined facebook to write this, and I was blown away by how good facebook's recommendations for friends were, presumably just based on other people's uploaded contacts (Facebook made me confirm a phone number).

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Islam isn't a race. Racist merely because many Muslims share an ethnicity in France? But then, they weren't skewering only Islam. I'm genuinely trying to understand this criticism.

Deactivating is designed to leave your account intact in case you change your mind. In fact, some people use this as a super-logout, deactivating their account when not using it. If you want to truly delete your account, the best way to express that intention is the harder to find button to delete your account.

I found the pragmatism and sense of deferring until the least responsible moment—especially the speaker's view of what that moment is—very interesting.

In the Q&A "What do you use for configuration management?" "<slight laugh> `make`", going on to say they don't have enough node types or a large enough cluster to do automation yet.

They really know the hardware/manufacturing side. You'll get a good lock from them. It's standards based, and those standards (e.g. z-wave) take into account power requirements, meshes, and security. I worked on their web app, Nexia, some time ago, and because it's standards based you can also DIY with their locks and something like Mi Casa Verde.