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The moment I saw a keyboard with GoogleTV I facepalmed. That's not how people should interact with their TV.
> I live in an environment where I find it appalling that I need to pay $150 to wait an hour to see the doctor who studies me for thirty seconds and gives me a high-price prescription for a double dose of what I can get over the counter. It's not so much "trust" as it is "should it seriously cost this much?"

This is a rather specious argument.

If one of the many freelancers on this board were called in to consult on a seemingly intricate technical issue, and they end up just changing a few characters in the source (change a '=' to '==' or correct a typo, for instance) which fixes the problem, would the client be justified in thinking "He changed only 2-3 bytes in the source! Should it seriously cost this much?" on being charged the full engagement rate?

It is a classic case of "knowing where to tap". [1]

[1] http://p4b.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/knowing-where-to-tap.html
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4204911
Ha, that's great.

I knocked up a more or less working FreeCell solitaire in Excel one bored afternoon, so Blackjack should certainly be possible in plain old Excel VBA.

Most impressive Excel things I've seen by other people: a Game of Life (I'm guessing not SeanDav's, but who knows!), a Dijkstra's algorithm demo which let you resize cells and recalculated the shortest distance between two cells, and this rather impressive Enigma cipher encoder/decoder:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3755656
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I did read it. And I even read the other articles he linked to. You know the one titled "Average Americans don't need assault weapons". He takes the classic approach of sounding very reasonable while on this other side gently guiding people into where the ideological articles are.

Of course jumping at conclusions is dumb. We do that all the time. It's human nature. Those down-voting my post are probably jumping at conclusions without even stopping to think for a moment.

All I am saying is that the media is too quick to place blame without looking at or presenting any supporting data.

Once you look at the real data --not made-up or massaged data-- it is very obvious where the problems lie. Civilian-grade "assault rifles" are far from being the issue. Knives are responsible for far more homicides.

The data also shows the tragedy that the media (both liberal and right wing) choose not to focus on: Hispanic and black young males are killing each other en-masse. Nobody focuses on this. The left doesn't want to offend potential voters and the right doesn't want to risk being labeled as racists.

Everyone wants to take Joe Blow's guns away when they spend most of their lives locked away in a safe. I have yet to see a politician take on the real problem we have in inner cities with thousands-upon-thousands of kids killing each other. Want to focus on a problem, that's the problem.

The theater massacre was a horrific event. Very sad. Twelve people died. According to FBI data ONE THOUSAND TIMES MORE PEOPLE where murdered in 2010. Nearly 13,000 people. Where is the righteous indignation there? Where is the "thinking about the broader issues"?

The broader issues are political and societal. Guns have very little to do with it.
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How about creating a chemistry kit with all the necessary instruments and experimentation guides but without any chemicals?

Just add a guide on how to get the necessary chemicals as an adult.

This allows chemistry set manufacturers to stay out of legal trouble and allows parents to decide for themselves what kind of experiments they allow.

Edit: TBH, it should be possible to make a whole DIY chemistry kit guide. Getting the instruments to do microscale chemistry[1] is incredibly cheap. Some glass rods, a few microscale testtubes + holders, some filters, a small glass funnel, a gas burner and maybe a few other things should be enough to do quite a lot of experiments.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microscale_chemistry
I am excited by Ouya - though the sticker for me will be whether it can play Netflix/LoveFilm/Amazon videos.

The gaming and media part is exciting for me, but I really want a replacement for the Wii I am currently using.

At the price they are aiming for (for future retail) and with the wide enough feature set, I'd be happy to buy two.
You wouldn't know that from looking at the discussion here. I think a more hacker newsy kind of thing would be an actual discussion of risks with some mathematical modeling, not a discussion of current events from cnn.com, with statements that are bound to set certain people off.
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The judge in the Righthaven (copyright troll) case ruled they didn't have standing to sue, specifically because they didn't have an exclusive license. I guess this is a response to that.

I still don't think most craigslist posts are copyrightable though.

I think the only real long term solution is for craigslist to build and charge for an API, because I really don't think their copyright claims will hold up in court if someone with enough money to handle the legal battle shows up one day.
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However, using a work e-mail and the password you use at work on someone else's system was stupid. You can have faith in your own security measures, but not anyone else's. If you're going to re-use passwords, at least have a work one and an everything else one.
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> If a friend tells you about getting mugged in a foreign country, that story is more likely to affect how safe you feel traveling to that country than reading a page of abstract crime statistics will.

One can make an argument that this is reasonable. I share many common interests with my friends, and so if I were to visit that foreign country I'd probably be interested in the same things in that country that my friend was interested in, and so would likely be traveling to the same places my friend visited. Accordingly, it seems reasonable to weigh my friend's experiences in that country higher than statistics derived from the combined experiences of everyone who goes to that country.
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There is more detail here:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
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What? You are misinformed. Apple II was introduced in 1977 and Apple III was introduced in 1980, way before C64. It's precursor Vic-20 was introduced in 1980.

Apple definitely was one of the companies inventing personal computers.
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It depends on the exact encoding parameters of the content. Certain container formats and decoder options decode better. Some content does playback fine but I have a large amount of higher bitrate content that doesn't play well.

Part of why I use XBMC is because it will play almost anything you throw at it. Sticking it on extremely resource constrained hardware gets rid of that feature.
> the usual ~150 that I think studies show is max nearly everyone can maintain

This is what you're thinking of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
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In more general incidents, the numbers I can find suggest that about 2% of armed-citizen-response-to-crime shootings shoot an innocent person. Mostly it seems actually pro-gun advocates quote this, as 2% is supposed to be a lower figure than the police's error rate.

For high-profile ones, the only example of a quasi-successful confrontation I can think of only through sheer luck avoided an innocent person being shot: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_natur...
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Even here in Germany, the overreaction to the event in Aurora can be witnessed:

I went to the cinema last sunday (for Batman), and they had signs all over the place saying something like "In reaction to repeated worried requests about security, we will not allow visitors to be costumed and may search bags."

I won't comment on the knee-jerk reactions of the customers. What more interesting to me is the decision made by the people in charge there, in reaction to those "worried customers". Was the cinema management panicking as well? Or were they just not courageous enough to stay calm and risk being deemed as "not doing something about it"?
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Probably not the best advice from a legal or ethical standpoint.
The way they calculate it is a little misleading.

From AWS[1]:
Provisioned IOPS is charged by the amount you provision in IOPS (input/output operations per second) X the amount of days you provision for the month.

If I understand the above correctly, the estimate of $10/month would actually be:

$0.10 * 30 days * 100 IOPS = $300/month (In USEAST)

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
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I was a Commodore/Speccy person myself, but I bought most popular 8 bit computers in the 90s for very cheap (most Speccys/Sinclairs, Commodores, Amstrad CPCs, Oric, BBC, Dragons, MSX, Spectravideo, ... I have 30+ machines counting just 8 bit ones).

My Dragon 32 has a botched key [;]. I hope I can fix it at some point. I had friends in school in the 80s who got a Dragon 32 by collecting biscuit boxes (local offer).

I remember playing Zaxxon for Dragon in my friend's house and thinking it wasn't too bad (similar to Speccy's, remarkably less visual than C64's).

It came with full schematics, it was made to be hacked. Sometimes I wish that kind of thing was possible now.
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Here's one example of what can be done, from Australia:

Gun laws in Australia were tightened in 1996 and again in 2002. There's an informative overview on wikipedia which might be worth a read [1]. It doesn't sound like there is much evidence for a significant drop in firearm related homicides due to the change in laws.

However, a few studies argue that there has been a drop in firearm related suicides, although some also argue that the drop in firearm suicides began before the gun control legislation was put in place. The drop in firearm related suicides apparently wasn't just a transfer into other methods of suicide either, which is positive, regardless of what led to it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Australia
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That seems more like pandering to customers to me, which is a common thing for businesses to do. Customers keep asking about $foo, so you have to at least pretend to care about $foo.
Have to appreciete the direct honest approach:

"It's true that you must be a U.S. citizen, and you'll need a security clearance that requires a background investigation and polygraph. But ...
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I don't mind the whole facebook sign up process. They have a justification for it. But then when they ask can they start posting to my feed it makes me feel like they were fibbing to me the whole time!

They just want free advertising via my social feed. Pft.
The reason I write software, is that I had access to a computer and I was able to try it myself, and have a seemingly infinite amount of time (my teen years) to learn and experiment.

Computers, are relatively safe, so no one has cracked down on them, yet. Although we see threats all the time with internet censorship attempts, and the like.

It's too bad the curiosity of our youth is being stifled over paranoid safety concerns. It's not making people safer. It's causing them to grow up with no sense of personal responsibility because they have never been exposed to real danger.
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Oh dearie, it basically elevated top quoting into a design principle, showing a "conversation view" with the newest message on top (twitter-like). It seems the era of replying to individual bits and pieces of an email is over -- or even in general, long form email writing is a thing of the past.
...And therefore not like either Pinterest or 9gag.
The plug is actually not the same as the Apple plug. That plug is Apple proprietary so Samsung would have to pay Apple some serious cash if they used it. They just developed their own lookalike cable.
If you do a hard refresh it should be fixed. And there's always the option of filtering it `live.com##div.c_htr` :)
That's where the confusion comes in. You think you could have done more. The reality is, you couldn't have. The neurons in your brain would have fired the same way no matter what. Each of them took a predictable path based on prior causes and effects, regardless of how complex and humanly incalculable it was, I am convinced it was a deterministic one.
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O'Reilly/Make author Robert Bruce Thompson has been selling a line of science kits. The chemistry kit is a little closer to an old-school chemistry set than the dumbed-down "chemistry sets" of today (though still not quite the same; it's designed for formal academic instruction rather than just fooling around). Unfortunately he can't send them anywhere other than the U.S. and Canada.

http://www.thehomescientist.com/kits/CK01/ck01-main.html
No, but the people who rail against what they've said is a temporary measure with all the reasonableness of a bull smashing a china shop aren't the sort of community I'd be pleased to participate in.
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I don't think their justification is plausible. They set themselves a deadline and rebuild digg in 6 weeks. Ok, nothing wrong with this so far. But now the users start complaining e.g the facebook only login, which is a no-go for some ex-digg-users(including me). They shouldn't have said then that they are able to rebuild the product in 6 weeks, because a failed restart could be more deadly than staying with the old digg for a few more weeks. They should have released the new version, when they are really finished. Now it feels like another alpha software. Just my 2 cents.

edit: a chinese guy wrote a comment in their blog comments and said that digg isn't blocked in China, but facebook and twitter are. So that would just be another reason to make the facebook login optional.
Quick google search shows me that in my state (Georgia), about 6% of the population are licensed to carry concealed weapons.

So far I've yet to read a single news story about a group of scared permit holders shooting at each other.

If you look at the crime statistics for permit holders, and the number of permits revoked you'll find that concealed carry holders are extremely unlikely to engage in the kind of behavior you assume.
I think you may be mistaken -- under "Projecting Costs" that page says that it's 10 cents per provisioned IOPS month.
Turns out it's very much like Flipboard. The idiot box is succumbing to the idiot trough.
Their approval process has been so random and stubborn lately. I've been struggling with a submission for 2 months now where they keep rejecting the app cause they want me to change the text on a button.
My guess is he meant Na.
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Yes, but by doing this, you potentially scare all other customers off as well, and make them feel uncomfortable. I don't think that is a wise business decision.

An alternative would be to just give those worried ones a warm fuzzy feeling, without even informing the others.
Or, if that doesn't suffice, just live with the fact that a few people won't go to the cinema for a month.

Of course, I don't know how many people were "worried" in this case. I hope there weren't to many of them, that would be a sign that my country is getting really paranoid.
Looking at it, the concept of a multi-story building must seem so alien and far-fetched as to naturally conclude the future is underwater.
> 2% is supposed to be a lower figure than the police's error rate.

That's not very surprising. Many police officers only practice with their weapons once a year when it's time to qualify.

The average concealed carry permit holder shoots for fun, thus practices often.
Guilty as charged. It's too tempting to slide into "pro-gun vs gun control" discussion even if the topic is "overreaction to extremely low probability events".
i am reading lot of comments about not to trust Microsoft. Am ready to waste time to read the problems/issues, common people faced while using Microsoft products.
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Things I wanted to do but couldn't/couldn't immediately figure out:

1. Comment. What is the point of an aggregator without comments?
2. Go to a specific category. Are those things above the titles categories? Why aren't they clickable? WTF?
Ok, well, feel free to not understand statistics.
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How many people can you shoot with an assault rifle? How many people can you shoot with a pistol?
Well, I wasn't the one who brought up biology and in fact in my brief mention suggested there were some questions.

The larger issue is trans-historicly men tend to be, well, pioneers, and women tend to follow and build civilization. To the extent that there is a biological inherent risk aspect, it is because of differences in timeframes to establish a family. Men and women are different in this regard biologically. Men can have kids when relatively old while women cannot.

For this reason if you expect someone to take risks while young, this favors men over women, particularly if the risk is that one might not be as established by the time one is, say, 30 years old. It is different, for example, to require an extensive post-doc program followed by a lengthy tenure track in order to get a coveted academic position if you are a man and can delay getting married and having kids than if you are a woman.
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Sure, they received many negative comments. I used the old digg as well and lets say: they trashed the old accounts, the UX/UI is worse then before and facebook login is the only option. The reactions are not that surprising.
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The new Digg doesn't look terrible, by any stretch. But - the developers' insistence on an arbitrary six week push deadline when there clearly remain unsolved problems is fairly amateurish and reeks of self-indulgence.

Users /with existing expectations/ (which Digg invariably presents) do not care about "release early, release often." They want something that kicks ass and gets it right on the first try.
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Their argument is that commentary on the original Digg was essentially the first of its kind, whereas commentary happens "everywhere" and they need to spend time aggregating commentary too. Not sure how they can do this effectively, but will appear over the next few releases.
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Personally, and I'm probably in a minority, I hate these huge, slabby, infinitely scrolling displays of photos/images with precious few items on the screen. It's a lot of work to try to find any sensible number of items of interest.

I seriously prefer an interface like HN - spare, clean, and information rich.

Added in edit: I my POV differs significantly from that of jgrahamc: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4321826
If the Innuit doesn't know anything about the business, then there is a different issue.

If the business is drilling for oil in the Arctic, I think the average Innuit would have something important to say, though.

But how many average anything do you see on boards of directors, I wonder.
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Since AirBnB has tight Craigslist integration, allowing the user to post their listing after they have posted on AirBnB, this sounds like a total paradoxical situation (for lack of a better word). AirBnB kind of set up a listing acting a "proxy", but the owner of the listing hits the final "confirm" to post.

Take a look here for example of the integration. http://andrewchen.co/2012/04/27/how-to-be-a-growth-hacker-an...
It is named ScreenSaver, when it clearly does not function as "screen saver" on iOS device. Apple is right.
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This sounds like an argument that using the name Apple will confuse people because it is a famous fruit. What a stupid reason.
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I'm personally not a fan of this layout. Looks like Pinterest. It's good if you have some time to spare and looking for pretty images, etc... like most Pinterest users, but for power users it's too much distraction.
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High on irrelevant imagery, low on content. It's the same reason that I'm not fond of The Verge's layout (despite their great content).

Lists of titles (old Digg, reddit, HN) is a great way to browse links.
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