anywhichway's comments

I see them going to a similar place to smart watches. Both are fashion accessories that provide updates at a glance.

That doesn't really work because if it isn't PII, then they don't know who it belongs to (not having even your name is a field, or else it would be PII) and can't verify it belongs to you before giving it to you.

Like visiting websites while not logged into anything in generating tons of data, but it can't be easily linked back to you.

It would be possible to link some of it back to session IDs or other things you could be linked back to your device, but that doesn't show it was you using the device, so they may be releasing data belonging to someone else using your device to you. And that is before we get into possibilities like cookie hijacking or other methods of falsely tying your device to that generated data.

The author breezed over a potentially important part:

> I had never been to any other kind of court except traffic court (at which, both times, the police officers had flat-out lied).

Reading into that it sounds like they had name, birthday, and the issuing officer saying, "yes, that was her".

If the officers can't reliably witness they shouldn't be a part of the process. There should be enough records taken at the time of the ticket that the officers unreliable testimony shouldn't be needed or used.

My company has developed several tools to answer these kinds of questions. One of which is publicly available and done for a non-profit: http://guroo.com, which lacks provider specific detail, but has averages for many different types of services by geographic area. It is a neat tool, that is a step in the right direction, but is unfortunately not very actionable. The data is based on 40 million insured individuals.

Another tool has provider specific detail, but is only available to the members of select insurance companies. It uses data specific to that company's historic provider data and negotiated rates.

More employers are moving to high deductible health plans with health savings accounts and are looking for insurance companies to provide more tools to help guide members choices. Giving members increased incentives to make good healthcare decisions doesn't do any good unless the members have the tools needed to make informed decisions.

There is a huge list of games that "fired" other games like this on boardgame geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/50286/games-fired-other-g...?

Or just anywhere people take taxis, like when going to the airport, after a night of drinking, or on vacation without your car. If they can beat the normal cost of car ownership they could even take over commuting. Household will likely still need a car for kid transport and road trips, bit maybe not a second car. Anyone taking public transportation can easily augment it with uber for times when buses are less frequent.

Your link refers to the same swat raid, which would explain why it reminds you of it.

Keep in mind that with surveys like this, especially online ones, it is important to have trap questions that will indicate if the responder is answering randomly and/or jokingly. So you may be correct that some answers are just wrong for everyone.

Stephen King seems to disagree: "Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."

What did you do to work on your social anxiety, if you don't mind my asking.

No. Since asymmetric encryption is slow the standard strategy is to generate a random symmetric key to encrypt your file. Then you just encrypt the symmetric key with your asymmetric key. This has the added benefit of each new encryption attempt leading to a unique result.

What controls? I see some empty reassurances, but nobody that I see is proposing controls. I doubt controls for existing monetary systems would work for bitcoins anyway as it requires a central organization that has power, like printing money, and enough vested interest to through good money after bad money to save the currency. Bitcoins have neither of these.

Great example to bring into the conversation. One complexity to consider is that the long form versus the smiling person may have retained completely different user demographic. To me, the smiling person may represents an easy, idiot proof service with customer support, but may be lacking more advanced technical features, which is fine if you are set up to cater to that demo. Technical services like Github may suffer from increased sign ups from the wrong demo if it means their forums are swamped with beginner level questions that they aren't equipped to hand hold.

I'm currently using an android app to browse HN which uses the hn api. No matter how you change the api there would be no real way of preventing app makers from allowing upvoting from their main story browsing page.

The venture is putting amazon in the news so it also has PR implications for the rest of their business. It isn't clear yet if it will be a positive or negative impact on their reputation, but perhaps they are using this as an icebreaker into other luxury markets.

Put it in an egg drop style container that will protect it from a large impact, the drop it off a building our launch it from a trebuchet.

A reddit/HN clone that customizes the content you see based off your voting history. This has been tried a few times before, but I've just never seen one take off. In fact, reddit had this feature when it started but couldn't scale it well enough so dumped it.

I feel like it would increase the quality of upvotes generally because people would know that their votes will impact the future content they see so it may slow the rate at which people up vote just to show they simply agreement and reserve it for actual high quality they we to see more of. That is just my theory, perhaps in practice it would reveal that people just care more about only seeing content they agree with anyway.

Many people use Amazon's mechanical Turk for this. It allows you to make automated requests like this that are processed by real people. Perhaps it is not the easiest service to dive into, so I wonder if their terms of service would allow someone to make an easy to use front end that focuses on just this task.

You could come at it in a similar way to how the real second was developed. Initially the second was defined as 1/86,400th of a day, later narrowed to a mean solar day, but that still wasn't specific enough so they switched it to the current caesium atom definition.

If we wanted to subdivide the day into 100,000 new units instead of 86,400 seconds, we could simply take the current caesium atom definition * 864,000 / 100,000 and you would get a precise, scientifically acceptable unit that would be about 1/100,000 of a day, but still have the need for the occasional leap units.

Committing an illegal and regularly enforced crime of driving with an obstructed license plate seems like a poor plan to try and defend your right to an abstract sense of privacy.