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Part of the social contract in most societies is that the police are the only members of society who can use enough force to kill or injure anyone critically. The governments of th…

You obviously are not above average in terms of height. I'm 6'5" and planes are a nightmare of cramps and bruised knees. A single inch can mean the difference between being able to…

If you're interested in using Titan from Clojure, then you'll probably want to take a look at Titanium[0] and Ogre[1]. We've been working hard to make these libraries as useful as …

The author is is almost exactly the exact opposite of the ideal customer for any startup. He is a venture capitalist and an ad man. He is in the business of buying the startup inst…

1. They might actually know what they are doing or 2. they aren't doing payments of the sort that needs this sort of license.

Probably because there are like a billion other things he has to do.

How does one go about signing up?

What are the chances that in the next month pg publishes an essay calling for why more startups should be doing hardware, bitcoin, and/or 3D printing?

And now this is a test of how secure HN is as well.

That was easily one of the best bits of video I've seen in a long time. That explains a lot of science really well. Thank you!

Would you pay money for it?

Or it could be that YC knows Mathematica and/or matlab are thinking about launching a cloud computing service. Mathematica definitely is and it will most likely ROFLstomp whatever …

Cost of ticket would offset cheap housing probably. Any small midwest town would work and be much easier to reach.

Use bayesian logic first! They're yellow therefore they are likely electric type. Cast a rockslide spell first and see if you get type damage.

Did the speedup of script execution have other costs? One would imagine that using Clojurescript would incur some other costs somewhere. This feels like a free lunch somehow.

I'm here for the next month or so. @ZackMaril

It doesn't seem to be over yet. https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/323885037877608448

From an earlier comment on here: >Do I honestly think that there is a whole team of engineers sitting around charting out menstrual cycles for 50% of their users? Nope. Is there a …

I'll bet on each tweet I sent out once. I've already got somebody to take me up on Facebook predicting sickness. Send me an email with the bet you want and we can work out the term…

For you and I, it's enough to say "I don't trust them". For the normal users of Facebook, people like my classmates, friends, and family members, they have no way of knowing what I…

Is it the same tweet every time? The first five words should be the same in each tweet but the rest of each one should be unique.

Thanks for the title correction. Mostly this came about from a thought experiment in guessing what information they can figure out about you based on your profile. Do I honestly th…