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The upgrading process seems easy Just have to send your IP address, root user name, password, and license key through a form...and you can do it through the fast http scheme rather…

Hmm, this doesn't seem very accurate... Tron has 360 mentions: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tron&s... Some of them are split between "Tron" and "Tron: Legacy" so p…

Facial recognition is still treated like some magical technology, like the "zoom in, enhance" feature much mocked about on TV crime shows. I bet Facebook's technology is ahead of l…

"This whole time, I worked on the platform source code. I feature-creeped for at least 5 years. I didn't have much of a portfolio to show for it either. " Congrats on persevering f…

I thought it was a play of "This next round's on me"...as in, Louis CK is himself responsible for his jokes -- or, in this case, the distribution of the jokes. I thought it was cle…

Landing page fail: the only info you have is a video to show the product, and that video has a 30-second beer ad you ahve to watch before you can see the product video. Do you real…

Halo was a standout because of it brought multiplayer to console, wasn't it the first console game to have 16 players? The coop campaign was also really fun. Maybe the article-writ…

From the article: Since the game’s release, in 2009, Minecraft has sold in excess of twenty million copies, earned armfuls of prestigious awards, and secured merchandising deals wi…

"Replacing Email in the next two years is going to be the “it” category with everyone scrambling to capitalize on the zero inbox zealots." How big of a market are the "zero inbox z…

This senior is getting an early lesson of how far BS on a resume can go in the real world. I think this quote is funny: "I also probably should have started a fake charity. Providi…

"Superfund" is synonymous with "toxic place" but I agree, the problem is that "Superfund" sounds a little too much like "super fun" and not enough like "uncontrolled hazardous wast…

Why does Facebook have to share this data to data aggregators? At some point, the creepy corporate use of FB data will scare people from using FB to the point that the bottom line …

A list on Github (or anywhere else) is an inefficient format for this...why not a google spreadsheet that anyone can edit, so that you can sort by city, category, cost, etc?

Google glass is probably about as distracting as the various LED and console displays that already exist, including GPS ones

If this many Reader users converted in so short of time, then it is amazing that Google could't find a way to monetize the service or at least keep it revenue-neutral, or even have…

huh? The costs of running a server with even 20x the expected traffic for a few weeks is more than all the time and moey it took to develop the game? This does not pass the smell t…

FTA: "We also had one unfortunate incident where a student started saying disparaging things about transgendered people at the same table where one happened to be sitting. " Good f…