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medium.com 7y ago

A Digital Security Parable for the Holidays

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www.forwardx.com 8y ago

Ovis self-driving carry-on luggage

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galactic-stone.com 8y ago

A Brief History of the Saharan Gold Rush of Meteorites

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productforums.google.com 8y ago

Google Maps timeline history missing – not deleted

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community.cloudflare.com 8y ago

Cloudflare DNS Not Working with AT&T Uverse

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www.yalelawjournal.org 8y ago

Certification as Sabotage: Lessons from Guantánamo Bay

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byteback.org 8y ago

This IT training nonprofit creates $1.5m/yr new income for grads on $2.4m budget

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

In India, Everything Can Be Delivered (Except Clean Air)

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philome.la 8y ago

Seedship

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www.newyorker.com 8y ago

What does it mean to die?

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www.scienceofpolitics.org 8y ago

The economic theory of net neutrality – and space lasers

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www.theatlantic.com 8y ago

The making of an American Nazi

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zingaratinyhouse.tumblr.com 8y ago

The Zingara Caravan – Custom Tiny House on Wheels in Oakland

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www.npr.org 9y ago

At 94, Lithium-Ion Pioneer Eyes a New Longer-Lasting Battery

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arstechnica.com 9y ago

FCC makes it harder for poor people to get subsidized broadband

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www.nytimes.com 9y ago

Trump’s F.C.C. Pick Quickly Targets Net Neutrality Rules

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Founders, tech and charity

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www.google.com 9y ago

Google Street view boat ride on lake pontchartrain

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blog.adafruit.com 9y ago

Keeping your account protected

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sweetfeedback.com 10y ago

Sweet Feedback – programmable personal candy reward system

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blog.lenovo.com 10y ago

Weigh in on Retro Thinkpad

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www.theregister.co.uk 11y ago

Google Polishes Chrome Security with Password Alert

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vimeo.com 11y ago

Aaron Draplin Takes on a Logo Design Challenge

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www.reddit.com 11y ago

Obama just announced a plan to keep the Internet free. I work for him. AMA

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www.printmag.com 11y ago

Paul Rand and Steve Jobs (2011)

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www.wired.com 12y ago

Towards phase change material display technology

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sites.nationalacademies.org 12y ago

Livestream: Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data

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Many Airbnbs I've stayed in will just have a key under a house plant or doormat. The key can be a little tricky to find that way but for a lower cost listing it's totally fine (by me).

I suspect that's the sort of practice they're trying to parse out for this Plus offering.

[dead] 11 years ago

..."an artificial neural network for machine vision (whatever that is)"...

It's hard to take seriously an article that so unabashedly flaunts its own ignorance. Especially when the answer to this rhetorical question could be found with a five second Google search.

There are legitimate arguments to be had about Google's current strategy. But this piece is not part of them! He doesn't even really seem to assess any of the allegedly ill advised Google projects he lists...instead he makes fun of the names.

It's important to know one's rights, but I think that's by no means the best we can do. For starters, we can support organizations like the Equal Justice Initiative (http://www.eji.org) or the author of TFA's org, Equal Justice Under Law (http://equaljusticeunderlaw.org) that are working to both defend indigent defendants and fundamentally reform the criminal justice system.

Beyond that, I think that there is a lot of opportunity to advocate around these issues on the state and local level right now. Whatever you think of bodycams for police, you have to admit that in light of recent events they're going to become dramaticaly more common. That's just one example of how a crisis can provide a great opportunity for advocacy, and ultimately change. That's not to say that we will be able to make fundamental change quickly on this very difficult issue. But it is to say that there are paths forward, and I would invite people who care to dive in.

"Prov'd" is just a contraction of "proved". It was common at that time. This might have a familiar ring...

  If this be error, and upon me prov'd,
  I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
(It's from Shakespeare's famous sonnet that begins "Let me not to the marriage of true minds / admit impediments".)

Beyond that, "prove", "proof", "proven", etc are all from the latin provare - to try, or test.

Despite actually watching the video and reading the site, I was still kind of visualizing a push door when I wrote this (whoops!) but I have definitely hooked my elbow or shoulder into the right sort of pull doors if I'm carrying a bunch of equipment, or bags, or something. Or, more likely, I'll brace the equipment against the door and grab with a hand, then keep it open with a foot. Raises the same issues with the dispenser.

In any case, I still think there is risk having this ambiguous button like thing, both from passersby bumping it and from normal use. And, as my comment (and the immortal Far Side comic) illustrates, many pull doors and push doors look confusingly similar, so people will push the pull handles.

Also, may I suggest making your correction in a friendlier way next time? Especially because it is possible that the person you're correcting may not be the total doofus you imagine them to be!

Is it just me, or is this a recipe for slippery sanitizer-covered floors after people bump into these handles and trigger the pump? (Whether deliberately, by opening the door with their backs with hands full, or inadvertently just walking around in a crowded corridor.)