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Some of this debate is also going on in the motorcycle industry. "Softer" helmets provide better outcomes in slower crashes. "Harder" helmets provide better outcomes in faster, har…

Is it possible to climb Golden Gate bridge legally? Or any other bridges in the USA? I know this is allowed in some places. In Sydney, climbing Harbor Bridge is a tourist experienc…

HN loads slower than molasses for me, and the "more" button breaks. I'm not too convinced that there is some genius voting ring algorithm being the scenes when even the simple issu…

Maybe they can have a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for their lawsuit.

For Poland, the biggest trending How-To question is; "how to remove Facebook" The top result is a Polish page that tells you how to delete your FB account for good, not just deacti…

I wonder who else is on TED and TEDx 'blacklist'. "Speaker speaking at more than two TEDx events in any given year, such as Nitin Gupta, please do not book him at your event, he is…

How true. Usually, it's buried somewhere in the fine print that their uncle is a tshirt print maker, dad is a wholesaler and they have done different tshirts in the past and have a…

Let's see the real meat of the article: your trading program and algorithms.

Whatever they sold, it wasn't cars, because there is no cars. It's a plan to have a car that they may successfully produce or they may not. In the meantime, they promise to send yo…

Did it load painfully slow 5 years ago as well? I fell like I'm on dial-up.

I wanted to play around with raphael.js/CSS/PHP and put this together. It lets a user make their state by state predictions, and creates a custom page that they can share with othe…

I don't see the big deal about this. Visible emails on web pages are no different than a phone book. People get too worked up about this. Post would be better if you left the code …

Agreed. I still have no idea what propeller can do in terms of apps. A while ago, I spent an evening signing up for all these sites claiming to make mobile apps. I wanted to use my…

You presume that somehow HR/bizdev/whatever people like less what they do. In fact, many of them enjoy the different challenges their job pose as well. The difference is that they …

Programming jobs are not much to brag about. Many IT people don't just check out after 5pm. They are on-call after work, stay up late at night trying to finish X or fix Y. They are…

Theory: This is the only way his regurgitated attempt at a speech would get any attention.

You can post your cat and dinner pics on G+. It's not the end of the world if they ban you. Aside from people using it to sell things/their business, most people will not lose much…

So what did he buy that he couldn't get free using Google search? Nothing? There are phone books out there that list more information that that. Do you feel secure?

I judge people based on their past actions. Not on their hypothetical potential. Kim has a history of fraud and questionable activities going back _decades_. If that makes my way o…

I remember the first time I learned of Kim - 10+ years ago. From the early days, his questionable 'projects', his legal troubles back home, his money making schemes, him defrauding…

Is there any effect on taxes? Yes, the shell company makes $0 thanks to phantom expenses, but the main company gets all that money and that is profit. So the shell has 0 tax liabil…

The bigger the government influence/regulation/power/money the higher the stakes and more well funded stakeholders trying to influence it.

Anyone worth their salt could've Googled their leaderships history of creating big IPOs that end up crushing and burning. Most were complicit in it, or just rationalized it to them…

I thought it was standard to use a cash back credit card for this sort of thing.