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Or even on the first page. (I notice because I always get to HN this way. Today is the first time I have ever seen it below #1 or #2.)

Just like I do when I want a sandwich.

This particular situation is more nuanced than the usual profit-from-the-poor story. Every bank and credit union receives these fees, and in the case of not-for-profit credit union…

In the vein of "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", no teacher ever got fired for storing all of their students' data locally, whether on a personal PC or a physical gradebook. …

I'll bet that you're thinking that this will have to wait a decade or two, until every car on the road has a new generation of computers installed. Look up a Mercedes product calle…

What's to stop someone from spoofing your bank site while you're on the free wifi at Starbucks? I can imagine an aftermarket module designed to do just that, so free wifi is clearl…

Yes, and "if Captain Sully had been flying an Airbus he would have crashed because they don't allow manual control". The objective is to reduce the total number of crashes, even if…

I am extremely surprised that cloud servers did not play a bigger part here. This Is What They're Perfect For: renting the equivalent of enormous datacenters for a brief period wit…

To beat the old drum: Email isn't intended to be secure anyway. Relying on email addresses to maintain privacy and authenticity is like relying on Caller ID to verify callers' iden…

If I were the Square founders, and I was expecting conventional credit card processors to go on the offensive, I might offer them a red herring: a simple technical limitation, some…

> "He's not a scientist" Ironically, the OP didn't say anything nearly so insulting.

That's true, in the original fable the grapes were inaccessible to the sole character (the fox) and the moral was just that "IT IS EASY TO DESPISE WHAT YOU CANNOT GET." Colloquiall…

"[I]f you have people imagine the water going into an underground aquifer, for example, and then sitting there for 10 years, the water becomes much more palatable to the public. It…

Replicate each component of the original SNES hardware? That has been somewhat done: you can buy hardware clones of the SNES in many stores.

Logarithmic in both directions (from average), or do we throw away information for either the brightest or the slowest students? Do we not have enough storage bits available for a …

In the U.S., we call the template spending ballots "primaries".

My impression is that they utilize a second conversion stage that is essentially a conventional solar cell. So the sequence is: heat => light => electricity. The novelty is the des…

Certainly, you can get nearly 100% of people to do the right thing most of the time. That is what judicial deterrents accomplish. Those don't work if people are anonymous, however.…

> People are still essentially good. Experiment indicates that the majority (65%) are not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment I am sorry to be a downer, and I agree th…

Good idea. The Daily Mail isn't responding to my email. Anybody know how to get ahold of Dmitry Bibikow?

Looks like a garage-style 2D hoist. If I lived anywhere near Russia, I would bring him a couple relays and an RF remote so that he could run it himself.

Great idea! I can suggest a few places to start your research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year http://www.wolframalpha.com