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St pete, too. But I work in Clearwater, FL.

I think the control would be more intuitive if you can drag the screen like a pdf instead of controlling the camera.

For some reason, I find "4 quarters" to be "cheaper" than than "$0.99". Maybe it's because I associate quarters as disposable and any dollar amount in $x.yz format to be more significant. I wonder what the effect would be if in the App Store a developer has the option of pricing the game as "4 quarters".

It could be the same illusion that $99 seems so much cheaper than $100.

i think there are other factors involved also. e.g. in the first example, if he were to say "you should pay because..." instead of "I should pay because..."

or in the second example, if he were to say the exact same thing but to a table full of his teenage son's friends at a birthday party vs saying it to a table full of professional acquaintances at a high profile event.

i think the responses would probably be diferent.

I've always wonder why we needed to get rid of nuclear waste. If it's radioactive enough to harm you, then obviously there's some kind of energy there. We just need to find out how to extract and use it (which is what the article is about).

I tried searching for "pink horse" and "horse" with pink color option and got slightly different result sets. It seems like the first search returns anything related to "pink horse", including titles and captions. Whereas the second option seems like it's searching for "horse", then filter that out and returning only pink images.

ps I don't see the "All Colors" drop down in my blue bar. But you can do the same search by appending "&imgcolor=yellow" to the url.

[edit] It didn't show up on Firefox, but showed up fine when I used Chrome.

Would you find such a feature to be useful?

The streaming video example is pretty to understand. But I don't quite follow the encryption one. Don't you need to be precise with the calculation to encrypt/decrypt? Or would the advantage here would be mainly for generating random numbers?

Except the Kindle's entry price is still quite high (at least for me).

That picture should really be on your "about us" page =)

There are trade offs between reading time and reading comprehension. For example you can skim through a short story in one minute and come away with 75%. Or you can read through the same story in 5 minutes and come away with 90% (made up numbers).

If I were taking a test with limited time and a lot of reading, I might choose the speed reading because it's most "cost effective". If I were studying, virtually unlimited time, and trying to retain the information, I would go with the latter. If I were just reading for entertainment, it would probably be something in between (which might end up being slower and retaining less).

I agree that subconsciously we probably pick up a lot more than we realize.

I think a lot of it has to do with your interests. For example, you're a HN reader and you come away with "Yellowstone == supervolcano." A new mom would probably read the quoted text and think "Yellowstone is dangerous, don't take the family there." A kid who is into fireworks and explosions might remember "TNT the size of Rhode Island, cool!"

When I read, I usually just remember the big picture plus the small details that I personally find fascinating.

Shout out to Loc and Ben too. How are you three doing?

Imagine a similar but slightly different scenario: We now have two contestants: Mr A and Mr B. Mr A is the contestant in the original story. He gets to pick a door. The host then opens a door with a goat (and removes it from the stage). Then Mr A gets to choose whether to keep his door or open the third.

Now the second contestant, Mr B, joins the show. He has not seen anything prior and has no knowledge of Mr A or the other door previously removed from stage. All he sees is two doors. He has the option of opening one of the two.

Mr A has 2/3 chance of switching door and coming out with a car. Whereas Mr B has 1/2 chance (from his perspective) of picking either door and coming out with a car.

I think the main problem why so many people have a hard time grasping the solution is that they're looking at the probability as Mr B and ignoring the extra information they do have as Mr A.

I'm Thai and have been back there a few times the past few years.

One time, I stayed at a resort on Koh Chang (Elephant Island, a few hours east of Bangkok). It was pretty nice, and relatively cheap. And it had wifi. Make sure the room you stay in (or wherever your hammock is going to be) gets good signal. I couldn't get good stable signal in my room. I had to sit out in the porch if I wanted to go online. (Bring bug spray!)

You can stay/vacation in Thailand for relatively cheap. I would recommend you stay on a beach if you can. They have one of the best beaches in the world (not mainland beaches, but island beaches). And definitely take a few days to go sight seeing. Worth it =)

I'm interested in how this turns out for you. Good luck.

ps If you don't get paid locally for your "work", I don't think you need a work visa. And I use TripAdvisor.com for hotel reviews.

Props to those guys. This reminds me of Wufoo who are also known for excellent customer service. Kevin came to talk to us yesterday about their company's focus on the customers.

I hope that our industry as a whole starts moving in this direction until we reach the point where this kind of service is the norm.

I like Hacker News comment system (though presentation could be better). I like the fact that you see the most relevant comments first. Whereas most other comment systems (even those with points) are chronological.

ps Digg just updated their comment system.

It's a form of censorship, albeit a subtle one with possibly good reasons.

That's reason I voted for "Remain visible to Yahoo, MSN search." Had option two been "Be invisible to all search engines.", then I would've voted for that one. But then YC would need to offer its own search.

I voted to remain visible.

I assume that resource is not a problem for YC. This fact, coupled with YC not having a search feature, leads me to believe that it's better for YC community that this site is indexed by more than just one search engine.

One big reason, as pointed out by Tichy, is that not all of us use Google as our primary search engine. By cutting off Yahoo, MSN, etc, but not Google, you would essentially be forcing us to use it to search the content of this site. Do that and you could be going down a slippery slope.

And I agree with the "ban all or ban none" mentality.

I agree that good ideas shouldn't die just because people can't find co-founders.

...But then again, some people don't want or are better off without partners.