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Pirate Bay blog explaining the add at http://thepiratebay.org/blog/185. The people who run the Pirate Bay are pretty pissed at Paypal for terminating Wikileaks' account.

I think that's as close to "fuck off Arrington" as pg's gonna get.

While we're talking about currency, why hasn't anybody in the US(to my knowledge) made a payment processor that works by generating transaction numbers, and then sending those numb…

Yes. Yes it is. Just because they have lots of fancy candy packaging doesn't mean that Japanese kids eat tons of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_obesity#Japan Just…

This "rebranding" is obnoxious. If I was kid I'd be pissed. Kids can tell when you're bs'ing them. They're exposed to enough propaganda already. The path to healthy food isn't in t…

No, no it wouldn't. It would be more effective to stop subsidizing unhealthy food. The long-term effects of such legislation are almost guaranteed to be a net-negative because of e…

Towards the end of his entry he mentioned something about readability. I believe postfix notation is superior in both read & write-ability for FP. Take: (reduce (lambda (x y) ...) …

Depending on where you live, the hottest hours of the day are usually between 12 - 5. Maybe it's instinctual for predators to not want to do stuff during those hours?

Growing up with cellphones was bad enough. Kids need their space. Whereoscope has made the lives of lots of kids slightly worse.

FTA: "Let’s begin with the Perry Preschool Experiment, which consisted of 123 low income African-American children from Yspilanti, Michigan." and three sentences later... "The diff…

I lived in Japan for two months. I've been to China for a week. I'm fluent in Japanese and I've taken a Mandarin class. There is no doubt in my mind that English is the superior la…

Steve Jobs, talking about the Iphone 4 reception problem said, "We're not perfect. Phones are not perfect. We all know that. But we want to make our users happy." Guess he came off…

Bill Gates was well-connected from the birth. You can't learn to have a rich lawyer as a father. Microsoft didn't build an OS for IBM. The group that actually built the OS probably…

Bill Gates dad is the co-founder of one of the largest law firms in Seattle, and his mom knew IBM's CEO. Being well connected is not a skill*. If somebody with fewer connections tr…

This is awesome!! I'm gonna try running a dinner party in my area. Proposed menu: Hickory-smoked pork ribs Yam Champloo (yams w/nuts&fruit&otherstuff) Coconut-Squash Soup Stir-fry …

If conveying that information in your voice is useful, it's also very useful to be able to fake it. I lifted weights in high school, went wakeboarding with people and (briefly) wen…

People tend to score comments based on who says it as well as what is said. Simple change I think could improve signal-noise ratio: Make username invisible until after an upvote, o…

Single quoting lets you pass a list without evaluating it. (car (eval '(a b c))) vs. (car (a b c)) Do the same thing. Have you read SICP? Somewhere in the 1st-3rd chapter there's a…

FTA: “With the Internet it has exploded, but a lot of chief and command officers didn’t understand and chose to put their resources in things like burglary or homicides.” This is p…

I'm not a troll. I don't think the law should have anything to do with this. He didn't do anything hard. He was only able to get away with what he did because Harvard was to lazy t…

I always thought that a pair of video-glasses would be great for coding -- Any HNers here who've used a Heads-Up-Display? Do you think they're good enough for coding yet?

I don't think grades/school should be used for employment at all.* Grades may coincide with good skills but they are _COMPLETELY_ orthogonal. 1. Most programmers in the US go throu…

This could easily be worse than ACTA. This is basically the first step to making anonymous communication illegal.

I'd like to know PG's development setup was when he was building Viaweb. I heard it mentioned somewhere that PG used vim, I'd like to see his .vimrc, etc. etc. from the time.