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Not quite. The extra seats only provide additional revenue when the flights would have otherwise been full. From the article, the average flight is only 80% full, which means those…

Be careful. Anxiety is a common side effect only at the beginning of SSRI treatment. Once serotonin receptors down-regulate to accommodate the new levels of extra-cellular serotoni…

Interesting behavioral study. However, the Scientific American authors make the conclusions appear a lot more concrete than they actually are. Previously, researches have found tha…

This man is described as an "independent market trader" in the attached article. His twitter profile ( http://twitter.com/#!/alessiorastani ) describes him as a "Keynote speaker" a…

I'm 99% sure this site is some sort of parody or joke. After all, this is what it looks like on my iPhone: http://i.imgur.com/KNqzy.png And searching 'TechCrunch' for 'Mobilova' re…

Google first launched their online catalog service in 2002, but shut it down in 2009. Browse via the Wayback Machine here: http://web.archive.org/web/20080828155311/http://catalog.…

For the same reason you don't negotiate with terrorists: If Apple pays up without a fight, then patent trolls everywhere will begin suing iOS devs with hopes of being acquired by A…

Warning: Don't enter your own twitter handle unless you want it permanently added to their archive. I entered my own twitter handle to see what (if anything) would come up. Instead…

It depends on 1) the IR attenuation of the filter and 2) the sensitivity of the camera element to IR. IR filters can only attenuate incoming IR so much while still allowing nearby …

Tread very, very lightly if you plan on going this route. Be absolutely sure that your e-mails have real content in them (i.e. this is progress we've made, we just closed X deal, e…

Even disabled in-app purchases still leaves you open to litigation. Lodsys is demanding their 0.575% of all transactions going forward as well as those that occurred in the past. O…

Making this a felony is beyond harsh. For reference, here are a few other crimes classified as felonies: Murder, criminal sexual conduct, manslaughter, criminal vehicular homicide,…

It seems very unlikely to me that they'd switch the MacBook line to ARM and rely on an emulation layer to run current applications. ARM processors are getting faster all of time, b…

Four days ago, Bitcoin was under $2 USD. Now it's over $4 USD (depending on when you refresh the page). There are 6 million bitcoins in existence, and trade volume is only about 54…

I think the best schedule would be a mix of enforced office hours (Monday through Wednesday, for example) combined with letting employees work from home (or coffee shops, etc.) for…

So the software identifies the song being played, reports the song back to a master server to determine the rightful owner, then displays an advertisement from which the revenue is…

This is truly disappointing. It's unfortunate when a large company can exercise such tight control over information about their products. As far as I know, Hotz never violated Sony…

The US Government Keeps Harassing a UW Researcher Who Speaks for WikiLeaks: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430090 Basically, a University of Washington researcher associated …

First, Ceglia (who was previously convicted of fraud) waits 7 years to file this lawsuit. Now he releases a new batch of e-mails that bolster his story, which were conveniently omi…

Rapportive is a great plug-in, but I'm still curious about the upcoming premium version alluded to by one of the founders on Quora: http://www.quora.com/What-is-Rapportives-busines…

It is refreshing to see judges questioning the nature of the charges and exposing the fact that current copyright laws weren't really developed with file-sharing in mind. One of th…

This is a good reminder to always do your homework before making such a strong accusation. Samsung's reputation is probably largely undamaged, other than among people who just read…

Interesting. I would have figured their margins were massive, given the fact that they could collect far more from selling 'bids' than the price of the product. Then again, unethic…