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hng··on Klimaticket: All public transport in Austria with a single ticket for 1095 EUR/y
I am pretty sure that you still can get a monthly/yearly ticket for your local area. These are usually between 50-100 € in Germany. In Vienna you pay 1 € per day, so around 350 € for a year.

The idea here is that you have one ticket that can be used everywhere in the country, so you probably would only get it if you travel more than a local commute on a regular base.

hng··on A habitable environment on Martian volcano?
I am currently reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy [1] where vulcanos and melting ice play some role in survival on mars. And in general it's a great read.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy)

hng··on IKEA or Death-Metal
It's a bit overreacted but the creators know for sure who Burzum is, that's what annoys me.
hng··on IKEA or Death-Metal
"It doesn’t matter if you know who Burzum is..."

Yes, because if you would and you are not an ignorant being you wouldn't make free publicity for band run by a neo-nazi. [1, 2]

[1] Varg Vikernes founded the one-man music project Burzum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varg_Vikernes

[2] "Police in France are questioning Norwegian neo-Nazi Kristian "Varg" Vikernes over a suspected terror plot": http://www.dw.de/norwegian-extremist-arrest-recalls-breivik-...

hng··on Ada Lovelace was not the first computer programmer
"He is a libertarian, atheist, anti-feminist..." I stopped reading when I saw his self-description
hng··on Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.
"...bookmarks are like myspace..." ehm no
hng··on ArsDigita University: Lectures & courseware from intensive MIT CS program
"Theory of Computation" is quite good.
hng··on Ask HN: Recommended "read-later" service?
Instapaper "just works" for me, kindle support is awesome.

Readibility has the nicer "readibility" function ;)

hng··on Help me kill IMAP and Exchange in a single blow
You should write an RFC ;)
hng··on Free icons for any object in the world
This reminds me of the Isotype project (1924-1934). If it isn't an inspiration it is an nice coincidence.

* Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotype_(picture_language)

* Isotype gallery: http://www.gerdarntz.org/isotype

hng··on Hacker CS: The Khan Academy of Computer Science.
You can find some good lectures on the ArsDigital University Archive http://www.aduni.org/courses/ I liked the Theory of Computation lecture.