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twitter.com 4mo ago

Deveillance Spectre I blocks smart devices and AI recorders

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twimlai.com 7y ago

Jeremy Howard on fastai v1 and contributing to research without a PhD [podcast]

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twimlai.com 8y ago

Evolutionary Algorithms for Machine Learning (podcast)

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twimlai.com 9y ago

Scaling Deep Learning: System Challenges and More (Podcast)

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www.buzzfeed.com 9y ago

Inside ProDoula, the controversial company that wants to disrupt the birth world

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newsroom.uber.com 10y ago

Uber introduces "upfront fares" and eliminates surge pricing indicator

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cloudpul.se 10y ago

This Week in Machine Learning and AI Podcast: Intrinsically Motivated AI and More

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www.clevescene.com 10y ago

City of Cleveland's Bankruptcy Scheme to Avoid $19M in Judgements Against Police

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www.usatoday.com 10y ago

San Quentin prison coding program hosts Demo Day

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github.com 11y ago

Preview: Docker and Containers EBook Series

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www.aerotime.aero 11y ago

No-fly zone over Eastern Ukraine a $200m windfall for neighbouring countries

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thenewstack.io 11y ago

SDN, Docker and the Real Changes Ahead

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blogs.hbr.org 11y ago

Don Draper Is Replaceable; Joan Holloway Isn’t (On internally facing execs)

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www.bbc.com 11y ago

The unstoppable march of the upward inflection?

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venturebeat.com 12y ago

Soylent-style powdered food shows bad long-term consequences in mice

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thenewstack.io 12y ago

Building an iBeacon App

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thenewstack.io 12y ago

Red Hat Seeks to Bolster OpenStack Position with Inktank Acquisition

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www.thenation.com 12y ago

How Lending A Friend Your Car Before Going to Bed Can Land You Life in Prison

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cloudpul.se 12y ago

Big Data May Shed Light on Disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

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www.raptitude.com 12y ago

The difference between being good with money and bad with money

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venturebeat.com 12y ago

A closer look at the new Intel Cloud Technology program

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www.bizjournals.com 12y ago

Uber car attacked by Paris cab drivers on strike

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www.reuters.com 12y ago

Lost Brazil order raises threat to Boeing fighter jets

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ashedryden.com 12y ago

Twitter's Block Policy Change Hurts Only The Victims Of Abuse

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www.invisiblegirlfriend.com 12y ago

Invisible Girlfriend: Finally, a girlfriend your family can believe in.

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www.foreignpolicy.com 12y ago

Meet the Spies Doing the NSA's Dirty Work

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www.darkroastedblend.com 12y ago

Darien Gap: The Most Dangerous (Absence of a) Road

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www.theregister.co.uk 12y ago

If you're not paying, you're the product: If you ARE paying, it's no better

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themetapicture.com 12y ago

How to Interact with the Introverted

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cdn.oreillystatic.com 12y ago

Designing Microinteractions

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I didn't know what it was called, but I've experienced mild Dutch Roll enough on flights, usually on the approach or landing, that I didn't realize that it was all that rare or dangerous. I had come to think of it as a normal result of wind shear. I imagine it's a matter of degree, and I wish there was some mention of the magnitude of the Dutch Roll in this case vs what is considered normal or acceptable.

(Edited to qualify my experience as "mild".)

Just ran into this the other day. A popular ride sharing app has a huge security hole wherein if you get a recycled mobile number you can easily gain access to the account details of the previous owner of the number and run up a bill on their credit card.

Along the same lines, but worse... If you're signed up for the emails they send out about top news in your network or news mentions of people in your network, and you click through the links in the email, they make you log in. From your phone. To read a news article. Drives me insane.

Seriously? Could you really even get $1,300 (or equivalent) in a single draw from an ATM in Lagos in 2002?

Update:

Found this article [1] stating that before 10/2012 the limit was 100,000 NGN, which at the end of 2002 traded at about 125 to the dollar [2]. That would put the withdrawal limit at about 800 dollars, but I'm not sure that's far off enough to call this article a fraud.

[1] http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/10/10/banks-raise-atm-daily-...

[2] http://www.likeforex.com/misc/historical-rates.php?f=USD&t=N...

People often refer to Seth Godin's The Dip as a book that helps address this question. Personally, I didn't find it all that insightful, but I'm mentioning it here anyway to solicit others' opinions.

I don't think you're arguing for the opposite of what I'm proposing and I agree with you. I would just like to see some substance, whether in broad terms of the overall market or a narrower look at specific firms.

How is this anything more than a self-interested puff piece? (As an investor, the founders' success is his success, right?)

The topic is an interesting one, and an article exploring the net impact of under-the-radar companies versus the high fliers on the Silicon Valley, US and global economies, particularly one that presents some data, could be very enlightening.

What would be the equivalent french show for going the other way? I found Braquo on Hulu and started watching/translating/studying it, but realized pretty quickly that most of what they say should not be said in good company.

It may just be that I don't have McAfee's cajones, but much of his advice herein seems like a surefire way to, at best, end up locked up in some South or Central American prison for the rest of your life; at worst, end up face down in some ditch someplace.