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You can download your data [1] and delete your account [2]. These are two things I always check for before trusting anyone with my data.

[1] https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1133

[2] https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1285

I don't know anyone at Airbnb, but simply contacted them via https://www.airbnb.com/help/contact-us/channel, and had someone respond right away. YMMV.

Just talked to someone at Airbnb. Two takeaways:

1. If the property does not match the description, take pictures (they won't just take your word for it).

2. If you are told that the original property is not available, contact Airbnb right away, and they will give you a full refund and help you find a place to stay (Airbnb or otherwise).

Fortunately, I've never had to put any of this to the test...

I don't even know how I'd go about measuring stress levels, but I did notice that there were two instances where my blood sugar staid elevated for much longer than it should have after lunch, and both times there was a somewhat stressful/non-routine situation (an interview, and riding a scooter across town).

> perhaps 'less-invasive' would be a more accurate description

I prefer "minimally invasive"... You can't just remove the device and stick it back on, but it's good enough that a truly non-invasive device would be a marginal improvement for me.

It is a "psychological trick", especially when combined with other incentives like badges, leaderboards or rewards.

Keep in mind that many people struggle to get even a few thousand steps. Beyond that, it's a great status symbol, or at least it was, until the Apple Watch came out :-)

Also, the data can be interesting, both for researchers, and for yourself--if you're the kind of person who wonders e.g. if getting a lot of steps late in the evening rather than in the morning affects your sleep...

So they want to raise $100M, but the more interesting question is at what valuation?

a.k.a "regulatory recovery fees". On the other hand, if an ISP felt they could charge more, why aren't they doing so already? It's not like this is a competitive market with low profit margins...

You'd start buying rabbit feet because only the study that was "successful" is published.

Don't know what you mean by "strong", but the US has the highest per-capita military spending: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...

I was under the impression that farms increasingly rely on the "Tractor as a Service" business model, i.e. they pay someone who has a fleet of the latest tractors (incl operators) to harvest their fields etc.

I don't know Wheeler, but don't understand why having been a lobbyist (or aspiring to be one again) would make him more "friendly" to that industry: The tougher he is on them, the more they should eventually be willing to pay him to switch sides again, right?

Congress is "pro-fundraising". Leaving this matter to the FCC, or issuing clear legislation for or against Net Neutrality isn't as conducive to future fundraising as muddled legislation is...

Yes, there is com.google.distance.delta, the "distance covered since the last reading" (in meters). The platform also has a built-in stream of consolidated and cleaned up distance data points (without jumps due to a poor GPS signal etc).

My main concern isn't formatting or searching, but truncation, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2011986/does-syslog-reall....

Does the syslog appender handle large, multi-line log messages (i.e. messages containing stack traces)?

I recall having some trouble with that when using syslog with Loggly, before switching over to the json appender.

What are some alternatives to Loggly? I really like being able to aggregate my logs with minimal setup (and cost). I'm logging with Logback (Java), and there is a convenient extension that forwards log statements to Loggly.

US National Forests also include 400+ out of the 700+ designated wilderness areas in the US. These areas have no ranchers or loggers or miners, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._Wilderness_Areas.

How to not buy a tank: http://www.geekwire.com/2014/paul-allen-paid-2-5m-historic-g...

Even if you don't have a problem with the guy, you should have a problem with AT&T giving a random employee access to such data.

My main gripe is with "static" dashboards, i.e. dashboards that don't let you drill down (e.g. to investigate an interesting spike), and has disconnected widgets (i.e. applying a filter to one widget doesn't affect the other widgets).

They did, but shared the document via Snapchat.

I'd be more intrigued if a service like 23andMe made such a claim...

> we hire part timers who are at other companies while they're working there

That seems problematic, even in states like California that don't enforce non-compete clauses...

Need to distinguish between legislators and administrators. Selling a solution to latter is a losing proposition, because they are usually struggling to accommodate all the spending mandated by former.

I'm using Highcharts for all the charts on https://zenobase.com/. There are a lot of open source alternatives, but none I've seen so far handle axes labels as well as Highcharts does out of the box (i.e. ensure that there isn't a mess of overlapping labels).

> The other strategy is physical and mental exhaustion

Sleep deprivation may make it easy to fall asleep fast, but then you won't wake up without alarm after 15-20 minutes.

Sure, an epoch timestamp can be translated to any time zone, but what was the original time zone?

Consider these questions: Do I use Uber more often before or after noon? Is this a photo of a sunrise or a of a sunset? How late do I typically go to bed?

In the case of Uber we could try to guess the time zone from the coordinates, but it's not trivial.

Back when they had the backscatter x-ray machines at Sea-Tac, there always seemed to be one lane where the metal-detector was being used instead.

Don't know if this was a coincidence (I don't fly that often), or if they hoped that trouble-makers would chose that lane, and save them from having to do too many pat-downs...

> Some countries are far below the threshold of implementing any of the pervasive monitoring and analysis programs the NSA has got.

They don't need to implement their own, they can just subscribe to the Monitoring as a Service program the NSA offers...