greyboy

I'm sure that a certain subset of people do buy knives as weapons, but I'd be surprised if it was even on the radar of total knife ownership reasons. Most buy knives for display or utility (dive, general utility, bolo/machete, etc.).

Every one of them could be used to kill someone, just like a crowbar.

I can't speak specifically for the group here, but the vast majority of US taxpayers by a large margin _are_ compensated via W-2 or 1099. Isn't that who it should be optimized for, rather than outliers or exceptions?

Yes, I stand corrected. Thanks.

Thanks, I missed the important word 'rate' in vacri's post in my haste.

The UK also has 1/5 the US' population - what does all this mean?

I haven't looked closely at it, but if Timatic are held liable for the accuracy and ultimately responsible (assuming litigation), it might be justified.

Additionally, doesn't it rely on the truthfulness of the SMTP server? That's not a good assumption - it's common to accept anything and null-routes bad addresses.

> it's hard for the human brain to validate that the 20 things in my cart are the same as the 20 items in the list

In this age of smart-everything, there's no help for that?

Seems strange.

Further, to make things even less difficulty, I'd think it'd be rather straight-forward to map out the select stores they go to in the extremely small set of markets they serve. Certainly considering this is their profession, no?

They could make an app for that.

This brings to mind on of my common responses: if it's not important enough to back up - it's not important!

It may be expensive, either in complexity, costs of storage/services, etc, but it's a necessity.

I'm curious about many of the comments in this thread - why are people logging in as table owners? It's not too difficult (for talented data-driven companies) to create roles or accounts that, while powerful, still make it difficult to drop a table and such.

You're 100% correct if that is the meaning. But, that isn't "working" full time (unless it was a pre-agreed arrangement). That shouldn't be allowed, but poor management will not catch/act on it.

However, I was specifically replying to the context of having distractions (kids, in this case) in gcp's and alistairSH's comments.

You are absolutely right. It's more work on management to have productive remote employees (and to do it right). But, there are reliable ways of understanding remote employee productivity - though, they aren't always obvious.

Kids can be a distraction, for sure. Just like coworkers or officemates who frequently disrupt others (even if not directly, such as the cube next to someone trying to concentrate).

When at home, if I feel the a distraction looming, it's easy to shut the door. Problem (mostly) solved.

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

Sorry about that."

Bummer.

It's not exactly the same, but here is an example:

http://www.harristeeter.com/shopping/express_lane/policies.a...

You order online and then pull up to a curbside box and they bring out your order. I'm sure other area's have similar options.

In the bank I worked at they would get almost nothing useful - unless the exploding dye packs failed.

It's not too confusing, is it? I'd say it's rather common. On the same front page is 'Scala 2.10' here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5175870

I'm about as US Eastern as you can get and it's 9-10:30pm here.

Just a heads up, in your 'Gittip is Hiring' post, the 'README' link goes to the old repo and the 'new issue' link 404s.

That's weird and, well, not my experience.

I've never owned a smartphone and usually use basic candybar or flip phones, such as this cheap $20 Nokia sitting next to me. I can't say that reason sounds likely. (And I have a whole drawer full of old, cheap phones that I give to foreigners visiting the US)

Dropped calls are rather rare for me and usually happen when I'm sitting still in my office, not moving about.

I don't know, maybe this isn't someone's hobby website. If I had to make a change like that where we work, it'd have to go through a few layers of QA testing/approval before going live.

It might actually take a little effort and time. We don't know what's involved.

Not necessarily. It's not uncommon (for myself) to disable styles to make the page load faster, or respond faster on my device.

I would assume something along the lines of https://www.picplum.com/ with their API. I know Walgreens has an API for the US. There might be others, too.

Also, confusingly (after browsing HN), clicking the link title on the home page brings you to the 'Comments' page (just as clicking '# comments' will). Then, on that page, click the title takes you to the actual article/page.

Not quite what I'm used to.

Can you call up your (father's?) provider and report the phone stolen? Aren't those IMEI's blacklisted? If so, that might make it difficult for the buyer to unload. I guess you could also threaten to do that to said buyer, first, to see if that provokes anything.

Either way, a bummer of a story. I've had my own issues with eBay and rarely check there except for infrequently needed (cheap) odds and ends. I hope it works out.

wiwillia (of Teespring) appears to be hell-banned, but not sure why.

Gotchya.

But that doesn't invalidate my reply, which was about the numbers being compared and the context of those numbers.

Are there many people living in the desert where the military trains? Or over open water? Many military bases don't have residential areas in the immediate vicinity, unlike most civilian airports. (Sure, there are exceptions to both, but as a whole - what's the norm?)

I realize there are incidents that have involved civilians, such as when I was in San Diego and an F-18 (?) crashed into a neighborhood near Miramar in San Diego. My questions: what is the total number of civilian casualties from military "incidents" and how does that compare to civilian incidents? And what other airspace can they fly in? Is there no way to compromise? Etc.

I'm not arguing for or against contractors or drones. I would think they should be launched from military bases, if at all. My goal is to look at it from the right perspective.

Understood.

But in context, this is a very small amount of the total set of government contractors, most of which are designers, analysts, aircraft/ship building and maintenance, software developers, among a host of other areas. Only a few have a big hand to play in questionable/Black Ops/mercenary roles.

It's a bit unfair, I'd say, to compare a single military fighter jet incident rate to (all?, matured?) civilian aircraft incident rates, as such:

"It's like comparing over-powered motorbikes in the hands of reckless teenagers with school buses."

I'm not excusing the error rate, but civilian aircraft have a faily simple set of operations: fill aircraft with people and/or cargo, fly a pre-determined route at a relatively stable airspeed, and land. Also, what was the error rate of civilian aircraft during development (as the F-16 number reflects)?

Outside of the Concorde, I don't think they have to worry about supersonic speeds. Also, nor are they concerned high angles of attack, or reduced aerodynamics at low altitudes, or low/near surface flying, and a plethora of other uses and scenarios.

Unless I misinterpreted your statement, then disregard this reply.

It's common to give contractors a bad wrap, and certainly some deserve it. But, many DOD contractors are ex-military persons, either retired, discharged, physically unable to remain in service, or simply choose to work "on the other side of the desk" (as they say).

Almost all the contractors I know were in the Air Force, Marines, Navy or Army for some period time. (It's usually very helpful as they still have the necessary clearances and don't need to be sponsored to get one.)

addlepate appears to be hellbanned.

--- "Hate" is a weird concept to bring up. RIM went from practically defining this market to having a substandard product. That's why most of their users are unhappy, not because their brand is simply unfashionable or some other kind of perceptual issue.

If BB10 is good, then great, maybe RIM can right the ship and become a real competitor again. We both hope this will be the case. ---