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* But how many of us are going to go out of our way to stick a thumb in Dropbox's eye? * ... and how is that not supposed be flamebait?

Again, like most discussions on HN these days, the arguments seem to be turning towards mistaking general, rule-of-thumb kinda anecdotal advice as gospel truth and then trying to b…

So it's the old short-skirt-leads-to-rape argument again? On one hand, rape is entirely the fault of the rapist. On the other hand, it's still not a good idea to walk alone down a …

I think the attitude "it'll all work out in the end" ruins more lives than it saves. I think that is cynicism speaking, more than anything else. Most importantly, how "end" is defi…

It is a bad idea. High probability of pulling down the kernel even if one d-bus enabled application starts spewing crap. May be a bit safer if it was implemented as a module... but…

Aah! The Beeb. My first love. Loved it ever since and will love it forever. My fav anecdote is writing an equation plotting program in high school using BBC Basic, which got corrup…

1. They're allowed to make $200,000 off of the community but other developers aren't? Where is your great, timely, mind-share grabbing, relevant-to-the-times project? I would like …

... and so it begins : : down-vote, if you must, but remember what you read here.

So what is stopping the people whose privacy was violated from suing google or the fired engineer? Just wondering. Perhaps someone can shed light on possible recourse one has in su…

Good to know. Now I can sleep easy knowing that the Teletubbies are not gonna to take over the world by morning.

But how does it compare, performance-wise to R? I may be thinking wrong about all this so please correct me if it is so... Incanter runs in Clojure which runs on top of Java (JVM) …

Incisive analysis. What do you have to say to this "Max" ?

lovely story snippets... a must read!

Awesome! Who says geeks don't have a sense of humor! Oh! And while we are at it, jquery also makes my breakfast every morning.

A sad day indeed, at least for me. I inevitably end up running some flavor of linux on almost all my computers sooner or later. ATI's support for linux, compared to nVidia, has bee…

It is not going to take long for one or more fake-auth servers to spring up... much like those Windows7 validation-servers-run-locally.

As a corollary to this, I am also curious about vitamin D levels in people using UV tanning beds. Assuming equal carcinogenic potential from sun exposure and from such beds (which …

More truth than hype in this case. The modern indoor lifestyle and diet are not very conducive to maintaining the requisite levels. Vitamin D comes in many forms -- and not all are…

Now Apple just needs to incorporate this into the "iPad Keyboard Dock" and I'll be more than happy to buy!

Sure. OSS is great and I am a big fan. But which major OS is f.lux not available for, again? Your argument in the present context is exactly what I was referring to when I mentione…

f.lux works as advertised. Love it. Use it. Highly recommend it. More so, now that is has nice GUI and all. The fact that it is closed source should not be a problem unless you are…

Upvoted. Seems like a positive way make dent on the incumbent censor-happy morons. Good luck Australia!

The only relevant reply, unfortunately, was not even in reply to my OP !!! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1543020

What a troll you are! Oh! Yes! You are!