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I think the answer isn't so much giving people consequences as giving them responsibility.

It's ridiculous that some kids get their post secondary education degree without ever having held a job (of any kind).

I find it amazing that teens walk around with $200-$2000 worth of electronics that their parents paid for them with no thought to their value because they didn't pay for it, and they know they'll be replaced if they whine enough.

"then should he not be kept away from society and denied the ability to hurt others?"

How long do you think he should be kept away from society?

His actions don't justify a life sentence or the death penalty, so he's going to be part of society at some point.

Is taking him out of society going to make him a better person? No.

The best way to rehabilitate someone is for them to have something to lose.

If this 17yo had a wife/child of his own then it is far less likely that he would have done this harassment.

The 17 yo might not be a child, but he is immature. His actions were not the actions of a mature individual.

Knowing the 17 yo, and knowing his family means the article author was able to make a judgement call about how seriously he takes the threats against his family and himself now that the veil of anonymity is revealed.

If he was still worried about the threats being enacted after the 17 yo was reveal then I'm sure he would have involved authorities.

Actions have consequences, and while I agree that what the 17 yo did needs to have consequences, by invoking the authorities the author could change this from an act that has a definite conclusion to something that is ongoing (if only on his conscience) when he hears stories about this kid's life 5, 10 and 20 years from now.

To let go of retribution and have a dark part of your life concluded and move on is sometimes a better outcome than having to drag something out to get justice.

There was a dead baby found at that house.

local news story about it: http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/detroit/SOURCES-17-month...

thread discussing it vs that google map http://www.detroityes.com/mb/showthread.php?13987-Baby-Zyia-...

neat idea, I would be interested in how the score is calculated.

I tried restricting it to TV series, and I noticed an interesting trend that anything older than 2000 is pretty far down the list.

This is probably just a factor of pre-Internet TV shows not being well represented by number of reviews.

I see the same bias on sites like Rotten Tomatoes where if you look at an excellent movie before 1995, it will have few reviews (unless there were a bunch of reviews collected for the DVD / BluRay releases)

Very interesting execution, but I found myself frustrated that it didn't want to let me control the scroll speed.

the source page that the google+ is commenting on was on HN a while back, but didn't get many comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2807908

while I think this is very interesting and would probably be a net plus to the world if it were true, I do not have high hopes for this given that the document was written in the 4th century.

from article:

"She repeatedly cautioned that this fragment should not be taken as proof that Jesus, the historical person, was actually married. The text was probably written centuries after Jesus lived, and all other early, historically reliable Christian literature is silent on the question, she said. "

Interesting article, but there's a big reason why I think that for the majority of job searches you can't compare it to a movie casting director.

For a casting director, you are able to consume and evaluate the work of the job candidate.

While that is true for high tech jobs like design or open source software were a candidate can develop a portfolio, I would counter that for the majority of high tech candidates their entire work portfolio is the intellectual property of the companies they work for and outsiders are never going to have consumed/accessed it.

why link to a 336 character blog post instead of the wired article?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4537346

How is that working out with brokerage fees?

Are there only fees for selling?

I've read a few of the MMM articles that have landed on HN before, and I think the original article was very reminiscent of the tone and style of MMM (but without the details and examples that MMM would have included).

I sometimes question the utility of guest rooms.

I've often seen people layout their house so the guest room is in some prime area of the house and the workroom they use all the time is in a horrible dungeon.

I've always thought that the rooms should be allocated based on their utility.

I've always known when bill day is, but in the last years I have never thought about which weeks pay day falls on except for one bad month when property tax and first+last at daycare happened during the same week.

out of the ~25 people who bike to work at my office the youngest person is 35. The majority of the hardcore cyclists are 45-55.

But there is only one person who uses a chariot to drop their toddler off at daycare on the way.

I'm always surprised that more people don't bike to work, if they can do it in a reasonable amount of time and safety.

Does anyone know of a better landing page for convincing people to leave Internet Explorer? (specifically, aging relatives)

Browse Happy is the only one I know of.

http://browsehappy.com/

There's an inverse curve to being the dinosaur who doesn't want to change. When your technology is phasing out its hard to find work, but when the technology is old and crufty and you're one of the few people who know it then you are in demand again.

Every facebook album has a unique URL you can share with non-Facebook people.

(just checked, yes that feature is still there. It's on the bottom of every photo album that you own)

The big advantage I see to an ebook reader is when you are reading a 500+ page book.

Reading Stephen King's 11/22/63 in hardcover on the bus was kind of brutal.

My old Kitchenaid dishwasher had to have the mainboard replaced 4 times.

One fix I found online was that if you have a hotter than normal water supply, the exhaust vent isn't big enough to let all of the steam out so the board gets wet.

The service guy crimped the vent wider after I told him about that one.

The top five best centers for six degrees of hollywood separation are:

   Dennis Hopper (2.802166)
   Harvey Keitel (2.812642)
   Donald Sutherland (I) (2.819748)
   David Carradine (I) (2.819993)
   Udo Kier (2.826828)

Turns out that Kevin Bacon is only the 444th best candidate for being the center of a six degrees search of Hollywood.

http://oracleofbacon.org/center.php

does anyone know if "Not interested" on Netflix factors into the ratings at all? Because I want to use it to hide the 100s of movies I've already seen that Netflix keeps showing me.

yup, there's Not Interested right on the website. I'll have to see if it also works that was on the iPad when I get home.

Stupid Boxee.

It was a comment to the goodfil.ms guy, because they link to imdb not rotten tomatoes, and it's trivial to also support rotten tomatoes.

I use iPad / Boxee and I haven't seen the button.

I'll install Silverlight and try out the web site to see if it's there.

It might be yet another feature that Netflix Canada is missing (like instant queue).

One thing I would love to have is the ability to "hide" movies.

Often when I'm looking for movies to watch, I'll go through the process of looking it up on RT, if what I see there makes the decision that it's some direct to DVD crap, then I want to hide it forever.

In Netflix I've had to resort to giving movies 1 star ratings, but I'd love it if a site would just allow me to HIDE things, because sometimes I also just want to hide a good movie that I don't want to rewatch.

I saw the IMDB link.

Add the end of any description: Read more on External IMDB External Wikipedia

Thank you! I've been a Canadian Netflix subscriber for a long time now, and I've been thinking of dropping it because the Canadian Netflix is a wasteland.