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I'm an Afghan combat veteran in Los Angeles who has recent first hand knowledge of how to navigate the homeless-to-housing pipeline through the West LA VA, along with a great resou…

Jeff Bridges makes extensive use of in his webpage. I am unsure if this is apocryphal, but I'm told he makes the whole site himself. jeffbridges.com

There will always be power and profit in being able to monitor and control what people are going to do. This is a scary fact of life in the human arena. And though this is not the …

Interesting! I didn't follow the Tiny Doo story too closely but read more after you posted. Except I am not sure what you mean. Are you saying that people SHOULD be mad that we're …

Often I see good critiques and discussion of Mozilla software endeavors here on HN. I rarely see much discussion about the Mozilla community at large. There was a discussion during…

Can someone with a bit of knowledge help me get a grip on Mozilla's Net Neutrality plan? I'm reading through this: https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/files/2014/05/Mozilla-Pet... a…

I'll echo what is said further down; it is good to see a reasonable look into homelessness here on HN. I literally just came bsck from a vigil for a man who died in a self-lit fire…

I also spent a few months deployed in Helmand and Farah provinces in 2008. My platoon didn't go to Kajaki Dam in particular.. we saw a few little signs of what this article talks a…

How much of a "market" was there in XCMDs? As in, were they commonly exchanged or reused in any sort of open-source way, or were they written in-house? I know we're talking about M…

As a non-programmer, I'm surprised that folks aren't talking about Myst's Hypercard/Hypertalk roots: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-t... Also, Brendan E…

I'm proud of all of you who have had some hand in pushing back. Basic transparency measures are the right place to begin, and with them, a rudimentary accounting by the public can …

God bless this next generation. My girlfriend is black (I'm white) and my parents are fairly fundamentalist, conservative evangelical Christians. My stepfather, as much as I love h…