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While we're at it, bike lock advice from one of cycling's old grey beards, Sheldon Brown: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/lock-strategy.html

Really low end steel is usually heavy. On the high end though (Pegoretti, etc), they're plenty light and ride like a dream. The "common $700 fixie" - the Bianchi Pista - is steel. They all rust when abused though.

Parent might be referring to long-held stock as a use of capital that doesn't earn anything while it sits on a shelf (yielding a hit to cash flow).

This is great. I've found a couple of sites similar in the mountaineering/climbing sector, but not for hiking/backpacking.

As a data point for you, one of the tools I've come to love is the split map available on Hillmap.com (Not sure if Ryan is on HN, but maybe worth getting in contact.)

Sparrow, primarily. Mail on iOS, sometimes. Otherwise, Chrome.

Narrower, but longer.

Agree with your analysis, but OP used the original title from Aviation Week.

The question in my mind is whether they can sell the resulting "experience" in a compelling fashion...

Absolutely agree. Prime has made Amazon my first choice for any one-off item because its that much easier than fighting traffic, other shoppers, and checkout lines.

Subscribe and Save is slowly eliminating my need to go to Target for the same reason. Every month, I bought the same things from Target. Now, it "magically" shows up via UPS and I can easily adjust if I notice I'm running short on napkins or have plenty of tissues in the closet.

These two models have created a tremendous amount of lock-in. Its a win for Amazon (I buy more) and a win for me (less time/less hassle/almost always less money).

Technically, an "earnings" tax and applies to net profits too: http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/cco/code/data/t0522.htm

Definitely interested. Mind putting your contact info in your profile?

The baseball equivalent, clutch hitting, has been kicked around in sabermetric circles for almost as long as Bill James has been writing of baseball's flawed stats and biases of pro scouts.

The "common wisdom" of sabermetrics (if you can call it such a thing) holds that clutch hitting doesn't exist, but many including James, aren't quite ready to completely write it off.

Newark - Singapore (Singapore Airlines Flight 20) is regularly scheduled for 18hrs and 50mins.

Wikipedia has a good list of long, regularly scheduled, non-stop flights: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-stop_flight#Currently_sched...

EDIT: Flight is SQ21, not SQ20

I haven't looked at the route that Flightaware provides yet, but there are a LOT of defined navigational fixes and standard routes between these fixes. Its possible the crew simply assembled a series of fixes (and standard routes) to get the desired shape.

Enroute charts tend to look a lot more like a US highway map than an Interstate system map.

I can't find the HN discussion, but the Backblaze Pods have been discussed here a few times: http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v...

EDIT: Sorry - just realized the bioteam.net discussion centered on Backblaze pods.

While living in Philadelphia, we got very used to seeing the ubiquitous Philly Car Share maroon cars. They partner with public and private enterprises for preferred parking spaces at a variety of venues. A good section of the front row of parking at IKEA was reserved for car-share. Its a great system and one noticeably absent from my current midwestern city.

How does Sprint's "Network Vision" impact the MHz/million figures? Can we expect to see improvements there? (Excluding challenges due to backhaul off the towers....)

If by critic, you mean from the greek "kritikós" and not some creation of cable news or au courant op-ed pages.

Likely so for critical thinking (Common sense not being so common and all that...). Additionally though, an inability to understand and thoroughly evaluate a problem or articulate its solution, is certainly a challenge as well.

As is the lack of critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills from the other side.

EDIT: In response to some of the questions below, please let me clarify. When I said "other side" I was meaning a lack of well-roundedness. I was NOT trying to pit STEM grads against liberal arts grads.

I do not intend to state that STEM graduates don't know problem solving or critical thinking. Far from it. However in my experience, those skills are discarded too quickly - similar to how Liberal Arts grads tend to discard even the limited quantitative toolsets they've acquired. (I'll concede its probably not as prevalent among the HN crowd.)

Ultimately, its a lack of well-roundedness that limits all camps (I'm sure it would be more accurate to consider more tightly-defined groups than just liberal arts vs engineers.) Ideas are cheap, that's why we laugh at the Wharton posts looking for "code monkeys" every few months. Just as problematic though, is the greatest product but no ability to bring it to market and sustain a viable business.

Where did you find your refurb? Does Humanscale have an official refurb program?

Unfortunately not when using my MacBook Pro unless I've got Win7 up in a VM.

If this means I can combine the seamless syncing and "available anywhere with an internet connection" of Dropbox, with the convenience of being able to make easy edits in Google Docs if I don't have access to MS Word, I'm all for it.

For those of you wondering what Casu marzu is: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Casu_marzu

>> Google also released an estimate that an average search uses 0.3 watt-hours of electricity, a figure that may be difficult for many people to understand intuitively. But when multiplied by Google’s estimate of more than a billion searches a day, the figure yields a somewhat surprising result: approximately 12.5 million watts of Google’s 260 million watt total can be accounted for by searches, the company’s bread-and-butter service

A couple of ideas: 1. They may feel they can generate it more efficiently (aka cheaply) or with fewer disruptions in service 2. Maybe they're looking at alternative energy sources to further control their environmental footprint

>>"We saw people who were clearly ready to take action, with backpacks and tools. It was a recipe for disaster."

I'm not sure what he means by tools, but backpacks seems like a pretty common site on any mass transit line I've seen.

I'll take on your first question. In large part for me, the implications of software patents are becoming an increasingly clear obstacle to individual developers. We're not talking patents for incredibly complex processes and lawsuits aimed at specific, large companies. Instead, we're facing lawsuits over (arguably) trivial/common features of an app. These can have a very direct negative impact to the individuals that frequent HN.

This makes sense as it is a lot like how one is taught to answer essay questions on standardized tests.

It would really depend on what you want to use it for. (My experience is with the CR-48, so I can't speak to the commercial iterations of the ChromeOS notebooks.) I throw the CR-48 in my bag when I'm headed to the lake or on a trip and just need simple email/web access. Its also become great in the kitchen for recipes, in the living room for adding to my Netflix instant queue, and on the boat dock for looking up random stuff (always something that needs to be fixed, examined or researched on a boat dock).

In summary, its a very useful tool, but absolutely not a replacement for my MBP or T400.