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If you live in Palo Alto and oppose this ruling and have a driveway, rent your driveway to someone in need.

Unemployment is a creation of civilization -- when people congregated in cities to take on specialist jobs, instead of subsistence farming and hunting and foraging.

Strange to see the term "Free" associated with a Disney product.

Indeed. In ribbonfarm's series about "The Office" model of office politics, the term 'Loser' referred to people who had a job that enabled them to live a life they enjoy without an…

I expect buses are far safer than car per passenger-mile because a bus crash is much safer for riders than a car crash -- who tend to get knocked about in the relatively-sturdy veh…

"direct access" is far to small a term to describe the complicated reality of a large IT setup. Snowden needs to show documents or explain in more detail what that is supposed to m…

I love this use of Threshold pledge system... Using Kickstarter as a way to "ransom" software for a communal total price, and then making it free when the ransom is paid -- that's …

That's a special case, because RWS already exists (Reader, Writer, and State all commute), and wraps IO easily. Light overview of the issue: http://ro-che.info/articles/2012-01-02-…

I don't know why Slate gets to HN so frequently. Slate doesn't publish news, they publish commentary, and the commentary is generally lower quality than what HN commenters post abo…

This appears to be a rare case where the headline is a meaningful statement (If an NSA contractor violates NSA's infosec, how can we trust the NSA with ours?) while the article is …

It's no secret that companies (and libraries, etc) must provide indirect access: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/U... ; What exactly do you think is happ…

It would be nice if someone cared about BOTH Hebrew and Arabic.

> Java these days feels like assembly language programming. Java is the assembly language of the Java Virtual Machine. It just took a long time for people to develop high-level lan…

What woud you estimate is the number of people traveling with a dumbphone? http://www.freezone.google.com/‎

There is no credible non-trivial slaughter-based solution to factory farming in development, not for current and forecasted consumption levels. The economics are fundamentally impo…

Is coderwall some sort of troll site, like the the Swedish Lemon Angels recipe in How to Play With Your Food? I keep seeing bad advice posted there and popping up on HN.

> I've been very hard on Flat UI in the past (and still dislike extreme Flat UI) but I've decided to embrace it after-- --after Apple declared it to be in style. No, that's not wha…

> I've been very hard on Flat UI in the past (and still dislike extreme Flat UI) but I've decided to embrace it after-- --after Apple declared it to be in style. No, that's not wha…

cue-cat didn't retail for $1500

Wouldn't public safety be better served if the police granted him grand-jury-style immunity from "using his statements as evidence" in exchange for getting information about other …

If they cared so much about public safety, they should be willing to disregard a bit of testimony to get it. It's insane that confessions are admissible at all really, since they a…

Indeed. " The commitment to this rule is so strong that the Supreme Court has recognized only one exception to the Miranda rule" So, not much of a commitment at all. I am so commit…

Yahoo engineers may have verified that none of the users of these products have a vacation scheduled in Yahoo Calendar, which will presumably be the last property to shut down, for…

Interesting that it has a Linguistics section, as in the International Linguistics Olympiad, but not seen on a modern SAT or high school classroom. http://www.ioling.org/problems/s…

It would be interesting if someone other than the author submitter had that opinion. Nice astroturf attempt, though, alexwg/alexvr.