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Say you were going to a deserted island with electricity but no internet connection. What 500 gigabytes worth of data/programs/etc would you bring? Assume you’d have a computer ava…

A friend of mine recently graduated with a degree in physics. After finishing school, he realized that he was not interested in academia and did not want to go to graduate school. …

Location: Boston Remote: Yes, strongly preferred Willing to relocate: Unlikely Technologies: Python, Golang, C, C++, Javascript, TensorFlow, Mathematica, HTML/CSS Résumé/CV: Can be…

Reading it now and enjoying it a lot. It's destroying one romance in favor of another!

I didn't believe my eyes when I saw "psytrance" on the front page of HN... Anyways, for anyone in North America looking for psytrance festivals, here is a guide put together by fra…

I honestly prefer the old design. My two cents.

My scope here is wide. I've enjoyed interviews with Jim Morrison, Charles Manson, and other unusual people of various unrelated walks of life. Documentaries on Jackson Polluck, Mar…

Please oh please help the Tor network. You will be eternally loved.

My instinct is to see chins as shields to the Adam's apple. I have no explanation for why primates have less prominent chins, though.

After a quick read, I'm impressed. Looks like general improvement over c++.

I tend to use Go's panic() in many situations where, in C, I would make assertions.

I'm suggesting that these are commonly held beliefs, not that I hold them personally. More so, I was looking for input on the subject, as my personal experience in this area is vir…

Violent crime is, to some degree, a defining characteristic of mental instability. Is it not? Should it be?

"Freedom from whom, and to do what?"

> Sure would be fucking nice if they (democrats and republicans) could not have to take opposing sides on fucking everything There is a selection bias in the issues you speak of. N…

Agreed. Criminalizing antagonism would provide dirt on just about everyone. Hell, half of YouTube [commenters] would be prosecutable. Not all wrongful doings ought be illegal.

Good point. It could be doubly motivated as well, by (1) anticipated twisting of words, and (2) potential censoring of content.