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This is interesting, but I'm struck by the sheer amount of serious analysis on this topic. It always struck me as very simple requiring no deep understanding. There's an old saying…

2) That's called "cramming" and you should report it to the FCC so that (hopefully, someday) they can put those guys out of business. Already done it, apparently the (scam) company…

The cost of filling out my cc or paypal info exceeds my personal cost of spending $20 dollars. I would literately pay $20 just to avoid the hassle. On a related subject matter, rec…

The fact that they can absorb 100% of microwave radiation is interesting, it would be very interesting if the could turn it into electrical current instead of heat.

How does a fundamentally shy person succeed in business? Most people don't percieve me as shy, but I started out being introverted. I get along pretty well with people at work, and…

I'm guessing you're going to get bit of traffic from people who meant to go to QwanTz.com

Take this thought experiment to its extreme and the unlucky should have gone extinct. The fact that both lucky and unlucky personality types persist, suggest both have advantages.

It's a (perhaps undo) attempt to purge non-HN type stories from HN. It's a kind of not very useful or productive hobby.

DVD John's DeDRMS written in C#. It was beautiful, but I can't seem to find the source code right now. If anyone can please share. --EDIT--- Found it: http://web.archive.org/web/20…

I won't be able to sleep until I know what the fox was up to.

I did read the article, but already knew the meme is stupid and wrong and thought the same of the HN readership, thus I'm surprised to see it in any form, pro or against. And I com…

This reminds me of a recent study in bird personalities. It turns out there are very big differences from bird to bird in terms of curiosity and risk taking and other things. And t…

I suppose you can sort 50 blogs in some way. But I doubt there are a total of 50 biotech blogs worth reading. 50 is a large number if you're looking for intelligent writing.

I expect the MSM to try and keep their audience entertained with this inane charging your electronic crap is killing the earth meme. But I would think HN is the one place this meme…

Or maybe popular music is simplistic and this is impressive compared to it?

When I was a kid, during one particular summer, I read two books a day. And one book a day does not sound like a quest to me, but like a wonderful hobby for anyone who has the time…

I just realized why I like Steve Blank's writing so much. It's because he writes about sales and marketing as if it were engineering. And I have a feeling it's not just how he writ…

According to Penn and Teller, there's not nearly as much power as advertised. I don't want to link to copyrighted material, so here's a link to a google search: http://video.google…

"At the expense of" is an interesting way of putting it, aren't we all here specifically because HN is more exclusive with a more select group of users? Aren't exclusivity and sele…

It's not so bad if you subscribe to a small number of narrow focus sub-reddits, like hard science, C++, Math, etc.

Osama is still making videos, but thank God we got Gary McKinnon, now our government networks are safe from aspies looking for UFO evidence!

Ignoring for a moment how impractical this currently is, just because you have a ton of data doesn't mean you can search it effectively. In fact, the more data, the harder it will …

There's plenty of C/C++ work. A lot of legacy but a good chunk of new stuff too.

This isn't surprising, the simplicity of the problem does not exceed the overhead of parallelism. A task like that is actually quite rare in practice, but easy to stumble upon when…

DRM, sure you could copy a book who's copyright has expired, but there have been DRM issues with those too. Also many people, me included, prefer the feel of paper.