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iTunes makes money on music, which you can download online, so why can't it on TV?

It wasn't initially obvious to me, but this is a documentary about text based adventure games: http://www.getlamp.com/introduction.html …

Perhaps the most relevant point: A closer look at its selection of items underscores the brilliance of Coulombe's limited-selection, high-turnover model. Take peanut butter. Trader Joe's sells 10 var…

Privacy and sharing are opposites of each other. When you share something on the internet, you are relinquishing control of it. Someone can always manually redistribute content you create (for instan…

Given that it is Sweden, there won't be a "jury of 12 ordinary people": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_system_of_Sweden …

Here's an example of a Japanese TV show that has a four year old take a trip "by himself": http://www.japanprobe.com/2010/07/29/japanese-kid-takes-solo... …

The article would be better title "the not black city", as it goes on to use the African American population as the demographic for the cities 'whiteness'. The article goes on to use Portland as "Amer…

Don't do it as a service. Instead have it as a onetime thing. If I get the same call everyday the effect will ware off.

You will need to rewrite your forum for AppEngine (or find some forum software written specifically for AppEngine). AWS's main selling point is that you can programmaticly add and remove instances. I…

This has been brought up before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214398

"Well, you're not going to rip me off are you, because you've got a lot more money than me." That's pretty faulty reasoning.

In your example: * there are about 100 families within a mile or so of you * they need to spend an hour or so to drive into the city * they can already barely afford a car and "to keep the lig…

In the example with monsters, perhaps the issue is that all the different monster types are classes instead of data. For instance, I would instead implement something like class Monster attr_…

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I think that was the point - to simulate donations to charity, where likewise you don't get anything for giving them away.

Thanks for organizing this jason_tko. I'm looking forward to meeting up with everyone again.

They need to update their dictionary. For password1 : It would take About 117 days for a desktop PC to crack your password

Embedly is an api that allows you to embed over 100 services in your site. Twitpic is just one such services, so it is probably not worth their while to make a workaround.

He lives in Japan and recently left his cushy full-time job I don't think cushy is the word he'd use to describe it.

I have to say I’m shocked by this news, especially considering that Bing will be behind Yahoo’s primary search engine here in the states and in Europe. Bing seems to lack mobile search. While there…

It seems the site mentioned in the article, http://www.korekt.me/ , suffered from the same problem. It looks like they have given up. To build a successful service is a lot of work, and takes quite…

They are vinyl stickers, so there are already many places that will make custom ones.

I watched Tokyo! last night, which included a short movie about the hikikomori phenomenon.

It sends Base64 encoded passwords. So if you use http it is basically cleartext. You still don't need to store the passwords in cleartext, as you can use the same hashing mechanisms you would with…

In that case, it sounds like charging for commenting could be a better model.