How To Download & Back Up Your Gmail & Other Google Data
We’re storing more and more data in the cloud these days. Email, contacts, documents, photos, calendar entries – you name it, it’s on Google’s servers. But what happens when the services we rely on go down? When the US government seized Megaupload, many users lost data they were storing on Megaupload’s servers. Recent events have highlighted the importance of local backups.
Meet Bower: A Package Manager For The Web
As the web platform has matured, the tools for managing our projects, too, have matured. In this tutorial, I’ll introduce you to one of these tools that makes managing the dependencies of your project considerably easier: Bower. When I first looked into Bower, I wasn’t exactly sure how it fit in: it wasn’t just a JavaScript package manager, like Jam, and it wasn’t a module loader, like RequireJS. It calls itself a browser package manager, but what exactly does this mean? How’s that different from a JavaScript package manager? The main difference is that Bower doesn’t just handle JavaScript libraries: it will manage any packages, even if that means HTML, CSS, or images.
Carpet to Floor Transitions
I'm Steve Gordon, Call Me Now For Carpet Repair! Scroll down for several carpet to tile videos and before and after pictures A carpet to floor transition is the place where the carpet and the floor meet. We show up at your home or office with everything we need to do any type of transition including carpet to tile transition, a carpet to linoleum transition, a carpet to wood floor transition or any other type of carpet to floor transition.
Federal IT Dashboard
The data feed design tool allows you to select a series of fields to draw from the IT Dashboard database of Exhibits 53 and 300. This dataset is a combination of every agency's Exhibit 53. It includes one row for each investment in the Federal IT Portfolio.
Google Reveals Major Update to Search Algorithm
One day before celebrating the company's 15th birthday, Google went back to the place where it all started — literally. Inside the garage that housed Larry Page and Sergey Brin when the world's largest search company was created, Google on Thursday announced a handful of new updates to the company's search offering, including a major update to Google's search algorithm that the company calls "Hummingbird." The new algorithm affects 90% of all searches, and has been in place for about a month, said Amit Singhal, senior VP at Google. The new algorithm is meant to keep up with longer, more advanced search queries that come through Google. Instead of simple keyword queries, Google is working to accommodate questions on par with what users might ask their friends off the Internet.
Cassandra, Hive, and Hadoop: How We Picked Our Analytics Stack
When we first made MarkedUp Analytics available on an invite-only basis to back in September we had no idea how quickly the service would be adopted. By the time we completely opened MarkedUp to the public in December, our business was going gangbusters. But we ran into a massive problem by the end of November: it was clear that RavenDB, our chosen database while we were prototyping our service, wasn’t going to be able to keep growing with us.
Freedom Card
Keep this card with you in case of involvement with law enforcement personnel. Instructions to make your own card: Download the PDF document. You can also print 4 cards on one page.
Canada Denies Patent For Drug, So US Pharma Company Demands $100 Million As Compensation For 'Expropriation'
An increasingly problematic aspect of free trade agreements (FTAs) is the inclusion of investor-state provisions that essentially allow companies -- typically huge multinationals -- to challenge the policies of signatory governments directly. The initial impulse behind these was to offer some protection against the arbitrary expropriation of foreign investments by less-than-democratic governments. But now corporations have realised that they can use the investor-state dispute mechanism to challenge all kinds of legitimate but inconvenient decisions in any signatory nation. Here's a good example of how this provision is being invoked to contest a refusal by Canadian courts to grant a patent on a drug, as explained on the Public Citizen site:
Netflix Movies On Streaming That Are Actually Good: 7 Tools To Help You Find Them
On these long, cold days of winter -- and with the menacing Nemo headed for the East Coast -- many of you are probably planning on curling up with a loved one and a laptop to watch a movie or two on Netflix's streaming section. But once you cycle through the classics -- "Office Space," "Oldboy," the first two seasons of "Arrested Development" -- you might find yourself desperately searching for another Instant movie or television show to make your frigid, bed-ridden hours pass by just a little bit more quickly. If Netflix's recommendations are getting stale, I've collected seven websites you can visit to find some fresh inspiration and flicks you otherwise might not have have found on the service.
Data visualisation : top tools
What data visualisation tools are out there on the web that are easy to use - and free? Here on the Datablog and Datastore we try to do as much as possible using the internet's powerful free options. That may sound a little disingenuous, in that we obviously have access to the Guardian's amazing Graphics and interactive teams for those pieces where we have a little more time - such as this map of public spending (created using Adobe Illustrator) or this Twitter riots interactive.
Methodological naturalism
Methodological naturalism is the label for the required assumption of philosophical naturalism when working with the scientific method. Methodological naturalists limit their scientific research to the study of natural causes, because any attempts to define causal relationships with the supernatural are never fruitful, and result in the creation of scientific "dead ends" and God of the gaps-type hypotheses. To avoid these traps scientists assume that all causes are empirical and naturalistic; which means they can be measured, quantified and studied methodically.
Study: 4,000 surgical never events occur a year
More than 4,000 surgical "never events" happen every year in the United States, according to a new malpractice study in the journal Surgery, the first quantifiable look at the "totally preventable" mistakes. Among the findings, a U.S. surgeon leaves a foreign object inside a surgical patient's body 39 times a week and performs wrong-procedure 20 times a week and wrong-site surgery 20 times a week. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine also found that between 1990 and 2010, 80,000 never events occurred, with 9,744 paid malpractice judgments and claims totaling $1.3 billion. The more serious the outcome, the more money paid to the patient or family, according to the Johns Hopkins research announcement.
