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This reminds me of a quote attributed to Van Gogh. No idea how accurate it is, but the sentiment is great. > "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all mea…

I agree with your premise that the spirit of a law shouldn't be violated to send a message but I don't see that it applies here. For me this doesn't pass the sense test: should a p…

Possibly there could be a meta tag describing which share buttons should be shown on the page--even what the particular share link should be when they're clicked.

Just curious--how or where did you hear about Braintree coming to Australia? And do you know if it's available publicly? It's something I'd love to look at (even with the Westpac a…

Unless my math is off, or I'm misreading the article... that's about 1% of his total shareholding he's sold. How is this a scramble to offload shares? It seems more like a pretty m…

Thankyou for the feedback, I'm really sorry about this--I'll go back and check everything. It may be that you were playing songs that are a bit uncommon and it was taking some time…

Sometimes, unfortunately it gets the music wrong--I think what may have happened with Hump De Bump is that it takes the MP3 from the official video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

Thanks! The images are from Last.fm, the music from YouTube :) Really wanted to focus on the interface so it seemed the logical approach.

Cool concept... I think there's definitely a sweet spot for guys who have no idea what to buy their girlfriend or whatever... Couple of thoughts, though they're not specifically ab…

"Microsoft has positions in all the right places." This. Microsoft today is still one of the world's biggest companies, with a lot of talented people and considerable inlets into p…

One of the artists in the video was explaining how the bundle works / what it is and said basically that it was available to mac and pc users, then: "and linux...whatever that is..…

To be fair, it looked (to me, anyway) to be out of genuine concern that the change to the title would reduce the interest of people on HN who could see the post and maybe help out …

The video is 27 minutes long, with about 5 minutes of Q&A at the end and IMHO worth watching all the way through, but the '10 Golden Rules' he discusses are... 1. Speed - more than…

Great startup ideas spring from problems. Plenty of people on HN have problems to solve. Plenty of people on HN want to solve problems. So, an experiment: share a pain point or pro…

A bit more detail further in the report: "The UNODC estimates, conservatively, that between 155 and 270 million people worldwide, or 3.5% to 5.7% of 15-64-year¬olds, used illicit s…

The biggest barrier IMO to a legal drug economy, with regulation and legitimate corporate players, is reversing years and years of learned stigma that "drugs are evil". And the inc…

I take your point, in part, and I don't necessarily disagree with you, because by and large the system does work. But (to use your analogy) when it comes to the law-making branch o…

The 3-way division of the world into "super-continents" and the constant war keeping the populace in a perpetual state of starvation and poverty, with the entire world in disrepair…

It's candy and it's japanese... that just conjures all sorts of images of a super high tech factory run by cats and magic. I'd love to see a candy envelope being stylised packing a…

I don't know about the half kidding...it seems like you might legitimately be on to something there in the area of private deal "experiences" for you and close friends. But I'm thi…

This is brilliant. It's always seemed crazy to me that terms, laws, and especially contracts are written in legalese that only a trained lawyer could really understand, and yet all…