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I appreciate your response, and I fully understand the realistic angle that you have provided. But I have to clarify that I am not calling pg immoral. I am suggesting the essay cou…

You made great points, but I disagree about the morality part. Wall Street had also produced explosive growth in our economy. It was also a ingenious system with participation of l…

Am I the only one who think pg's view points appear to be getting more and more extreme, in some sense rather biased compared to his previous essays? Zynga is definitely all about …

This happens all the time in machine learning applications. Or many other engineering disciplines I dare say. If theorems and laws never need some tweaks here and there in the real…

"If you're a good hacker in your mid twenties, you can get a job paying about $80,000 per year." Wow, things change fast. Isn't there a thread talking about certain mid twenties in…

I too recently lost a co-founder to a Valley company of similar size. Considering that he is very green, not exactly the best in our startup and that we are based somewhere with ra…

I doubt using typos to discredit other people's work or opinions is rational or polite. I didn't write that extension, but he/she could just be a non-native speaker like me. What's…

Can't help casual users, but for power users, this is a very handy tool to inspect the source on-the-fly: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bbamfloeabgknfklmg...

That doesn't mean the action make sense. My point is that it won't make sense for Motorola to do that, not whether they did or did not do it. Google can easily tell them that if th…

Threatening to go after other Android partners makes little sense for Motorola. It's not something Motorola would do to get most profit from it. If Motorola has threatened Google s…

Doubt it. The dumbest would have been sitting there and do nothing.

Another scenario: you wish to tell your web app's users that there are some issues on certain Firefox versions. You wrote "There are some issues for Firefox 7.xx". Users scratch th…

Could anyone explain to me why the HN community seems to have a particular interest in AI compared to other more "academic" areas? I have seen quite some amount of AI resources her…

The author's view is strange indeed. To be a "rounded, open and engaged intellectual citizen" we can well just get out of the room and put curiosity and action into people's lives …

Concurred. Let's not forget that ASUS has mastered the netbook form-factor for quite some time. For many of us tablet is only an occasional need, say, read a long article, watch a …

This will serve nothing but encourage patent trolls and big corporations to invest more and more in ridiculously broad patents. Apple sues others, patent troll sues Apple and other…

General statistics are more helpful when the target group is homogeneous. Intuitively speaking, when a group has similar resources, goals and problems, what happens to others is mo…

Buddhist philosophy without the religion part is actually allowed in East Asia. You can claim to be interested in purely Buddhist philosophy and not the religion here without any p…

Consumers never benefit from a single dominating middleman in the long run.

Google's announcing something about music on the cloud this month. Related?

I am very surprised this is the first time someone try to get everyone's attention on this practice (if that's the intention of the poster/submitter). It's quite easy to spot recen…

Downloadsquad was a great team. No bullshit, real opinions on big and little things that matter. Another horror story from AOL since AOL v.s. Engadget editors.

I believe our cases strikes a counter-intuitive point about what constitutes 'rest': despite the fact a distractive teaching job or marathon training can be taxing mentally and/or …

A bit of personal experience to relate to the article: in recent years there were certain obligations that demands distraction from my normal startup duties (in my case a part-time…

Ever since "management" and the dedicated "manager" were invented, we have been told, increasingly in recent decades, that they, rather than talents in other roles, are the key to …