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An order of magnitude. Jeepers, that sounds really bad.

Economy of scale, my dude. An organization seeking to market a product based on any spare slack or wastage of their bare metal could stitch together a niche product like this from …

Good job, guys! Nice downvotes! Real nice! I answered substantively, addressing each point carefully, and I was pleasantly rewarded for the time I took to respond. Great incentive …

I don't know how you found your way onto the addition operator (+) on your keyboard, because that's not at all what I was driving at. I think you are... JUMPING! TO CONCLUSIONS! (g…

Actually, if you marshall all of your addressible units up front (4096 bit sentences, instead of 64 bit words), which aligns well with raw allocation units on many file systems, as…

BTW, as an addendum, I wrote this as a pure response to the parent comment, without RTFA, and the original HN title of the submission was that of the article itself ( The Right to …

I'm not sure that I enjoy the idea of communicating with millions or billions of people. That's not why I use the language I use. The incidental fact that I share a common language…

An interesting side-effect of this, is that it would enable a standard of synchronization, across geographic regions, such that one could treat a set of virtual machines as one ult…

Honestly, 1994 or not, styling a passage of text with CSS just isn’t as useful anyone would like to imagine it being.

Buses fucking suck. Buses make you wait in the rain. Buses get stuck in traffic very easily. Buses create traffic and make it worse with their size. Buses idle diesel fumes as they…

Actually, HN does do /almost/ private messages, if you hellban your account, and the recipient of your reply comment has “show dead” turned on. (of course, anybody can activate the…

To be honest, I really don't think laser/LED chanels are being used. I've never seen a remote control quad copter sold off the shelve with IR LED TV remote style I/O for it's tranc…

Yes, newts and salamanders in cave systems have lost their eyes, due to scarcity of nutrition and habitats devoid of light. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_blind_salamander

" Lasers ." (although, line of sight, point-to-point communication is admittedly less trivial to interfere with) The point being that, if "criminal gangs" are up to no good, but th…

This is a joke. Consumer electronics radio communication systems may be trivially jammed, with little to no effort. It's simply a matter of political protocol (aka: warrants) for w…

So what? If I never intended for the GET to be GOT, then the browser is just as much at fault for such unintended consequences.

This, kids, is why GET requests should be idempotent. Or, like, you know, how about a browser only sends a request when I'm actually fucking asking for something, and doesn't try t…

Okay, but what about stannous flouride and sodium fluoride? No one ever discusses the toothpaste fluorine ions, in conjuction with the much more terrifying acid, which is the booge…

Or, more to the point, not one single person has any recourse, whether they're an evil serial killer/rapist or not. But, I'm trying to think about a situation where a secret identi…

But not the conjunction thereof.

Honest opinion: Yuck. Constructive feedback: I prefer the Gopher.

Mr. Bones Wild Ride is a funnier version of the same roller coaster concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix-aVhIgBO4 (the ride never ends)

Jesus christ, that fucking name, though. "smugmug" Can they drop that, and retain flickr, please. Please?

Considering the topic of this thread, the debate is fundamentally about automation and machines operating with the authority to make decisions. There are at least four broad, compl…

Sounds like stop-and-frisk TSA pat-down security theater. This is not the kind of concept that I'd ever expect to withstand a determined adversary. Especially for machine learning …