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When I was a kid I had a nice cache of coverless books I'd retrieved from the trash bin behind the local Crown Books.

Castle Wolfenstein in 1981, which was the first game to include digitized speech and an early example both of stealth gaming and of the World War II shooter. It was also an early e…

There are lots of Facebook groups I like. No one is talking about my neighborhood on HN! But besides interesting local groups, there are amazing niche technical groups on Facebook …

Calling out the cholesterol is kind of a distraction, because it is no longer what is associated with heart disease. The level of saturated fat in the impossible burger is actually…

It was as seriously discussed and considered 40 years ago as today. Maybe more seriously as Medicare and Medicaid had recently been enacted, so there was momentum. https://en.wikip…

There are inexpensive youth and junior skates ( https://www.purehockey.com/c/ice-hockey-skates-senior

It's exactly this limit that eventually leads engineering teams at your Dropboxes, Facebooks, Twitters, Tumblrs True, but those are such extreme edge cases. 99.9999% of projects wi…

I hadn't realized that QQ and WeChat are part of Tencent, but are part of different divisions. It would be interesting to know how collaborative or rivalrous the relation between t…

I'd call it an interpretation, not a theory. But clearly the conflicting inputs was a UI problem, and while there may be tradeoffs, a better UI could have prevented the AF 447 cras…

"Tax credits are subtracted not from taxable income, but directly from a person’s tax liability; they therefore reduce taxes dollar for dollar. As a result, credits have the same v…

They are just changing the setting, and creating a new default. Not sure why a user of MailChimp would feel the need to switch, or complain they "only" have 7 days to switch the se…

True, but it does have impacts, like you can see less of the overall program on the screen at a time, so to scan through requires more of a look->scroll->look->scroll.

Yes, wine.com was one of the the early ecommerce sites. Started in 1995, but may not have been transacting until a few years later.

In terms of units, Fitbit has probably been the most successful so far (22m units sold in 2016). They don't get attention in the US, but the Mi Band from Xiaomi isn't far behind.

I stand corrected, you are right!

Tea pots are good for heating water, but not the best for steeping tea.

Given enough time an asteroid impact presents the possibility of non self inflicted critical failure.

Perhaps he is referring to ECC memory - high end pro model NVIDIA cards have it, and consumer cards don’t. Here is a paper showing that there are memory errors on the consumer non-…

Maybe not enough for Juicero, but sugar is addictive. Their 'juices' had a lot of sugar (via fruit) in them. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081210090819.h... https:/…

You are right that it is the evolution of the sport, but I think it is driven by the increasing value (Billions of dollars at stake), more than the equipment.

Sat in the back on an Alaska flight to Hawaii and they ran out of food a couple rows before me. Felt like a bad MBA optimization - save $20 on food by under buying at the cost of p…

An accidental shutdown can still fall under overzealous use of power.

You can audit the classes for free, which lets you watch the videos, and take the quizzes but not submit them (which is annoying).

Thankfully, they didn't lose/delete existing data during that outage.