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kristaps··on Taxi protest in Paris turns to guerrilla warfare as Uber car attacked on freeway
Many taxi drivers are considered semi-criminal tough guys where I'm from (apparently elsewhere around the world too), so this is one incumbent which can become quite unpleasant while on their way out.
kristaps··on Show HN: Live Bitcoin Transactions from around the globe in WebGL
At least the autoplay background music works.
kristaps··on SpaceX Falcon 9 – Possible Explosion
Have you heard of the Kessler Syndrome? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome)
kristaps··on The Baltic Demographic Disaster
> as the riots fueled by ethnic tensions have become much more common

You seem to imply that there are already "riots fueled by ethnic tensions", care to point to an example?

kristaps··on Ouya’s $99 Android-based video game console finally hits store shelves
You don't mention what you find unusual about that price, is there anything obviously wrong with it?
kristaps··on Show HN: WhatsNew – Show your users new features since their last visit
Probably a typo: the large plan on the pricing page shows "10,00,000", was it supposed to be "1,000,000" or "10,000,000"
kristaps··on Google Outage
> Google Documents service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users in the near future. Please note this time frame is an estimate and may change.

So many words for "we're still working on it."

kristaps··on Show HN: I made a site for hosting/selling indie games
I had to deal with this a while ago and I found out (sorry, but I don't have a reference handy) that underscores are prohibited in the second level domain (example.com), but are ok in any further levels (šķaudiens.example.com). Basically subdomain names can be anything that your DNS server allows them to be, just as email addresses can be whatever your SMTP server will handle.
kristaps··on Results of the 2013 /r/Linux Distro Survey
I was indeed surprised by those numbers, thanks for explaining.
kristaps··on Ten predictions (2004)
That point was one of the easier predictions and vague enough to fit a number of currently popular services, but I'd have to agree that Facebook fits it best.
kristaps··on Why Linux is better
Forever, since nobody cares about it.
kristaps··on How to beat comment spam
I believe you're even more of an outlier than people with javascript disabled.
kristaps··on My Brush With a Patent Troll
Because it's likely to be profitable. Countless companies are doing something with streaming video and there are enough light and medium-weights in this space that are likely to choose to pay off the trolls instead of going to court.
kristaps··on AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents
What about existing patents, can they be challenged with prior art too?
kristaps··on A case for physically engraved L/R markings on headphones
If the new headphones still have the remote then I don't see the problem identifying which headphone is which.
kristaps··on Coco Controller (YC S12) Will Turn Your iPhone Into A Gaming Powerhouse
Yes, and this allows you to use an analog stick and the buttons at the same time, unlike here.
kristaps··on Coco Controller (YC S12) Will Turn Your iPhone Into A Gaming Powerhouse
Very awkward placement of the analog stick - you can use either the stick or the buttons, never both at the same time. I don't believe any of the mainstream handhelds or console controllers have had this arrangement, probably with good reason.
kristaps··on Grouped Tabs
First there were separate browser windows for each page, then there were tabs inside a single window, and now we have tabs within tabs. I believe this is one grouping too many and personally I'm fine with just dragging tabs between Chrome windows.
kristaps··on A Man Walks into a Bank
Sorry, sounds completely made up. Have any sources?
kristaps··on Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll
How would that be enforced for a download-only product? Also, there is another famous swedish operation which still hasn't been shut down despite enormous efforts by US firms.

edit: ok, any app store downloads probably could be shut down.

kristaps··on An Empirical Analysis of Hardware Failures on a Million Consumer PCs
Interesting, too bad the power supplies could not be controlled in their setup, as a wonky power supply can unleash all kinds of gremlins that look like failures in components down the line.
kristaps··on What really happened aboard Air France 447
A mode switch as important as this should be very visible. An idea: put a two-color led under every indicator light and switch to the other color when the plane falls into alternate law. This should make it sufficiently clear that something very notable has just happened.
kristaps··on If Everyone Else is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich?
Reddit has vote count fuzzing to throw off bots, maybe HN has something similar and you got fuzzed into the negative for a short while?
kristaps··on [dead]
Useful content, but highly questionable choice for the menu font.
kristaps··on How to Build a Computer Model of God
What does it matter if the answer cannot be known? If the question cannot be answered than "spending a significant amount of time deciding" is just waste.
kristaps··on BankSimple invites first customers; rebrands itself as Simple
Any info on how much the domain cost?
kristaps··on James Fallows on the vulnerabilities of the cloud after wife's Gmail is hacked
Number 8 is overrated, it requires physical access to the password and is less viable than any pure online attack. See http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_you...
kristaps··on Dropbox for Teams
Should teams have secrets among themselves?
kristaps··on Perl tutorials suck (and cause serious damage)
Do you still have that list? I think it could be very useful to someone who has to dive into a legacy Perl codebase.
kristaps··on The + operator has been replaced.
For programming questions I lately find myself getting better results with StackOverflow's built in search than with google.
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