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How many open source libraries and programs there exist that can actually work correctly with full Unicode with all kinks involved? I know none. Emacs seems to do best job, but I h…

Precisely my point. This is localized catastrophe. For us, it has less effect than car accident happening to our neighbor. Because the people who died were poor, this accident adds…

To put things into context. 1.3 million people die and 50 million people are injured in car accidents every year. Nature disasters are just side show in human life at this point.

Apple has more subtle canary. Yours is totally obvious. The court will consider intention. If it can be shown that the wording was intentionally selected to work as warrant canary …

The court will take into account intention. If it can be shown that the wording was intentionally selected to work as warrant canary, it can be seen as violation of gag order.

1. You don't get it integrated with your applications like browser, email software, text editor or spreadsheet by default. This leads to network effect in reverse. if you are only …

Mikko is on fire :)

Sweden has acquired much more wealth since 60's than before. Something like 600 times more.

If you look at multiple indexes that rank countries by competitiveness, low corruption and infrastructure, Sweden and other Nordic countries are usually in top 10. If you think cou…

This is solving the problem in the wrong place. The proper way for OS is to treat filenames as binary sequences like Linux does and have no problems. The problems that arise elsewh…

Still not profitable. It's good idea for Nokia to get out. MS has the money to burn.

Many. Here is multiple lists with sources: http://investorhome.com/predicted.htm

There was long main article in the Economist about housing bubble few years before the bubble bursted. I remember reading it and being somewhat worried because arguments were convi…

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” ― George Orwell

No shit sherlock. US has been in liquidity trap half a decade. There is need for inflation or it turns into decade.

or rsync into zfs filesystem with snapshots.

Urban planning is an issue, but not the size of the country.

They are technologically related but you can't address them in same ethical framework. For one thing, I think classical spying between governments is just good thing. Knowing what …

There are several different things going on and people seem to mix them together. 1. Governments spying other governments and foreign companies. 2. Government mass surveillance of …

His assistants, adjutant most certainly have.

Low self esteem is build in youth. He came from very weird family. Jack was ignored and his father favored Joe who was groomed to become the president.

You have graph from last 3 months in the site and you claim that "We've been correct about 60% of the time." Getting it 10% better than coin toss in upwards trending market is not …

In this case they have only one Twitter account but they delete old posts and start over. Predicted market correct last 5 days in row https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6535057

One way to put things in perspective is to compare against predictor that always chooses the most frequent label (higher in this case). dynofuz made 14 predictions, 13 correct (at …

I must wonder why don't Merkel use phones like CryptoPhone. http://www.cryptophone.de/en/background/cryptophone-technolo...