You Can't Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs DRM, Round Two
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the nonprofit body that maintains the Web's core standards, made a terrible mistake in 2013: they decided to add DRM—the digital locks that train your computer to say "I can't let you do that, Dave"; rather than "Yes, boss"—to the Web's standards. At the time, we…
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Posted on 2016-01-16T07:13:11+0000
An Excellent Optimization Story
ν42: Programming and information technology related articles with an emphasis on Perl, data processing, analysis, and Statistics
Hasnain says:
This is not a typical use case but wow. Hardware beats software by 20x
Posted on 2016-01-16T06:50:32+0000
6 Hospitalized, One of Them Brain-Dead, After Drug Trial in France
The drug was being tested on healthy volunteers in a licensed private institution specializing in clinical trials, the health minister said.
When to join a startup
Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to join startups. It seemed to start around the time the Social Network movie came out - perhaps it’s...
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Posted on 2016-01-15T06:45:25+0000
Uber Fined $7.6 Million In California
The California Public Utilities Commission has fined Uber $7.6 million for failing to fully and timely meet the agency's reporting requirements. Uber has 30..
Tadepalli v. Uber Technologies, Inc.
This website contains information regarding a class action settlement that has been approved by the Court, Vamsi Tadepalli v. Uber Technologies Inc., United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Case No. 3:15-cv-04348-MEJ.
Hasnain says:
Looks like Uber finally got called out for charging customers "airport fees" and not paying the airports.
Wondering how many dollars I'll get back... (as credit, which kinda defeats the point)
Posted on 2016-01-15T06:38:20+0000
Yahoo Releases the Largest-ever Machine Learning Dataset for Researchers
By Suju Rajan Data is the lifeblood of research in machine learning. However, access to truly large-scale datasets is a privilege that has been traditionally reserved for machine learning researchers and data scientists working at large companies – and out of reach for most academic researchers. Res…
Hasnain says:
Awesome, but sad that they limit it to .edu's.
Wondering how long it'll take to show up on a torrent and how soon someone will deanonymize it.
Posted on 2016-01-15T06:30:12+0000
Goldman Sachs Will Pay $5 Billion To Settle Financial-Crisis Claims
The firm is under investigation for its marketing and sale of mortgage-backed securities. If finalized, the agreement will reduce company earnings for the last three months of 2013 by $1.5 billion.
Elevator Saga - the elevator programming game
play.elevatorsaga.com
Hasnain says:
This is pretty addictive. I'm closing the tab this morning so I can actually get some work done.
You're all welcome for the loss of productivity.
Posted on 2016-01-14T18:22:33+0000
Explosions heard in Indonesian capital - BBC News
Several explosions are heard in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, with reports of casualties.