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This is one of those ideas that seems so obviously good after the fact that it just makes one marvel

The Hustler - 1961 & The Color of Money - 1986 Both with Paul Newman. Optically about pool hustling. Really about the processes through which the naive progress as they encounter t…

Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to be able to edit a comment that has a reply

Where's Ambani at?

Does showing a large subest of the pages that point to it, default ordered by something that's roughly equivalent to pagerank, with the ability to then search within those results …

You just have to remember which books you put the money in. Every now and then I open a book that I haven't read in years and there are five 20s pressed between the pages.

Doesn't changing only one metric at a time tend to lead to getting stuck in a local maximum?

I would read even more recent stuff. I agree on Che. How about reading about Kevin Kelly and Louis Rossetto? Bob Hunter created Greenpeace out of nothing. Petraeus revolutionized t…

It took a lot of self-restraint to keep me from downvoting-this-because-I-disagreed-with-it

Right, it is not tech focused, because his point is not so much Portland as the actual cultural distinction between good places for entrepreneurial people and good places for start…

I agree that filtering out the worst junk doesn't necesarily raise the overall quality to an acceptable level. It seems like there are two issues, which are related: [1] comments a…

Yeah, the timestamp right there next to BPC is 07-25

It's tough to feel sorry for the guy

But what if there are web-centric OSes and desktop-centric OSes? In a world where the OS market is fragmented, centralized control and opression becomes even more difficult than it…

He felt he had to resort to it. You can be generally opposed to something, but accept it as the least bad option in a specific situation.

When 10% of HN really likes a submission, it goes to the frontpage. Then if 10% of HN really dislikes it, the submission gets killed. That some stories then get un-deaded is testim…