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Prisenon Can We Translate English To English?

Isn't this idea very similar to the grammar suggestions you can get from Word? The quality of those suggests it is a very hard problem.

Prisenon Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin'

Hard liquors decreased and beer increased (hard liquors are easier to smuggle). There could be a similar correlation between heroin and lighter drugs.

Prisenon Is It Time to Retire the Football Helmet?

The real killer is sparring, you don't go as hard but you do it a lot more than you fight. MMA fighters usually spar with boxing gloves, but since striking is only one part of MMA they can't afford to spend as much time training it as boxers.

Prisenon Too Dumb to Fail?

It's not zero sum game.

Prisenon 1,000 (bad) ideas

In-ear headphones that automatically pause music when removed.

Sony Ericsson has already implemented this! http://www.sonyericsson.com/putyourearsincontrol/

Prisenon Time lost by driving fast

My anecdotal experience is that almost everyone is oblivious to the second factor. "Yeah I drive over the speed limit/tailgate/drive a motorcycle, but I'm a much better driver than the average idiot so it's not dangerous for me."

Prisenon The Immigrant Paradox

Please come up with a better name that doesn't lose all the meaning required to describe the study.

Prisenon 'How piracy works' according to Minecraft creator

I'm someone who used to download music (even for albums I own, it's more convenient than ripping myself). I've now transitioned completely to Spotify. There is an argument to be made about how much money the artists actually get, but as a consumer the benefits over piracy are well worth the price.

Prisenon Texas Hold'em Experiment

If anyone wants to know more about actual poker theory they should read "The Mathematics of Poker" (a warning - it's not a light read).

Prisenon Texas Hold'em Experiment

Doing this every 200 hands would add a minimum of 0.75 big blinds per 100 hands to your winrate - more realistically it would be well over 1 big blind. That is very significant in a tough game.

Prisenon We Had No Idea (the first digital camera)

Downloadable music will also die. Spotify, or equivalent streaming services, have the clear killer feature downloadable music is missing - access to all music on any machine with an internet connection. Carrying around your data will seem antiquated really soon.

Edit: For the US readers I'd like to clarify that I don't count any other existing services as equal to Spotify, but there will surely be copycats soon. It is the iphone of streaming music applications if you like analogies.

Prisenon Google Suggests changing your name, I suggest google is out of touch with tech.

That would only work for rather unique names though.

Prisenon Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web

There seems to be a consensus on HN that it's very important for startup founders to live in the same location. Face-to-face time is considered so important that VCs say they will not even consider investing in distributed startups. The same theme is strong when describing the hassles with outsourcing.

Yet a lot of people completely ignore this for education. Suddenly there is no value in spending time with classmates/teachers. It's all very strange to me.

Prisenon IPhone 4 3G Data Performance

Improved latency is one of the major improvements that 4G (lte) has over 3G. Networks are already being rolled out, it won't take long until there is coverage in major cities.

Prisenon Tell HN: TechTestNow, an app to help you hire the best coders

Special symbols, like []() etc. are located on different buttons on an american keyboard compared to e.g. a swedish one. So when I push shift+8 I usually get "(", but here I get "*".

Prisenon Tell HN: TechTestNow, an app to help you hire the best coders

The coding window assumed I have an american keyboard, which made it sort of hard to program.