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If you are < 30 then it's not racism. It's profiling. The fact of the matter is that most young foreigners in Tokyo are complete hooligans. They're there because their families are on business or in the military. They freely roam one of the world's largest cities with almost no fear of the police. And, yes, they steal bikes with impunity, amongst other things.

Even if you do get stopped for genuine wrong-doing, the worst that happens is you get a talking to or a citation at the nearest kōban. Better yet, if you learn even the tiniest bit of Japanese that will generally set the policeman at ease.

> Does this tell us people will do anything to save a bit of cash? No. It’s telling us that people will do almost anything to get same-day releases – and that they’re willing to both pay wads of cash and break the law at the same time to get them.

I'm not sure that that's the correct lesson to learn here. If anything same-day delivery only applies to the most popular shows. And even then it's not a guarantee. And even if it does show up you still have to wait for it to finish downloading, which may take more than a day if you have a slower internet connection.

So, what's the real takeaway?

I think it's that users will do almost anything to have physical control over content. Having your favorite movies and TV shows and music on a hard-drive that you own is well worth the cost and the time-investment for a huge number of people.

It can be used as an adverb though.

The US middle to upper class generally seems to look down at McDonalds as being a place where the poor, fat, or simply lazy go to eat. That's just not the case in other countries.

I can only speak for Paris and Tokyo, and the very upper class may not eat there, but nobody else has a problem with it. It's not just American tourists keeping them in business.

Just a wild shot in the dark here, but could it possibly be because of an increasing number of people have access to the internet?

"Programmers on the internet" has reached saturation, but the total number of people searching for things on google is increasing exponentially?

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An officially sanctioned "controlled burn" of marijuana is generally a part of any officer's training, for exactly that reason. (Not kidding.)

They need to be able to explain how they can identify the smell if asked in court, even if they've smoked it before.

Care to share? I'm a mac developer and I just recently dropped support for < 10.6 in all of my apps.

Unless I'm missing some detail of what you're saying, HipChat already does that. I regularly drag screenshots into a conversation. Hipchat uploads them to S3.

There is a size restriction, though, which I've run up against more times than I can count, since I never seem to be able to remember that it's there.

I noticed that as well. Just glancing through the code it looks like they're going to have to add rudimentary configuration management before that can happen. Right now every piece of pertinent information about how and where to connect is stored in environment variables.

You can't really have CI monitoring or automation without somewhere to store the login info, at the very least.

Maybe... they want a job and need the money?

Not everybody here at HN seems to realize that negotiation is not always appropriate when your first priority is to get a job.

Thankfully I've never been in that sort of situation, but I've certainly been desperate enough in the past where I would have happily signed if it didn't look like they would be willing to "bend the rules" for me.

That's awesome! Bizzare correlation, but awesome.

How did you graph the data? Did you enter the time series data manually?

1. Take historical end-of-day market data for a stock market index fund and graph it on Google Correlate.

2. Find out what terms closely track said index.

3. Set up an auto-trader that responds to changes in the search frequency for said terms.

4. Sit back and watch the money roll in.

It's interesting to think about what the perfect balance is, when sites like reddit, quora, and stack overflow all use "social influence" as a means of motivation. But that same driving force slowly drives the quality of the content into the ground. How do you strike a balance?

I think HN's approach of hiding vote counts is definitely a step in the right direction to cultivate quality.

Edit: Link to PDF for those too lazy to figure out where to click. (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/05/10/1008636108.full...)

... and he never came out. </obligatory-joke>

... unless you have to sue them for the funds to sue them.

  one could make an argument that it broadens the educational experience or whatever

While I tend to agree with your point, the truth is that undergraduate study is not about specialization. There is a trend in that direction, but in my mind it's a bad thing, not a good thing.

In a perfect world you would take comprehensive classes specific to your chosen field, but those classes would take a more holistic approach, and would draw course material from a multitude of sources.

I also find it interesting that a few defunct microsoft webpages (such as http://popfly.com) redirect you directly to bing. Naturally, you'll follow the wikipedia or equivalent link to figure out what's going on.

I doubt this would generate a large amount of click-through data, but it makes you wonder what other tricks they have up their sleeves.

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https://github.com/quartzjer/js0n