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Unfortunately such a common phenomenon that it has a name: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughter_from_California_syn...

The issue was never one of safety, the odds were never high that you would be on the receiving end of one of these SWAT attacks. The issue is the rights of citizens and their prote…

" I'm of the opinion that there is nothing wrong , or rather that the population is acting entirely naturally and appropriately given their adaptation to specific evolutionary cond…

You knock the gluten avoiders and follow that up by saying you became healthy by staying to the periphery of the grocery store where the fruits/veggies/meats/dairy are (and not the…

Don't under-estimate the value of spotting CS legends (Norvig, Thrun, all of the old Bell Labs guys, etc) wandering around. I was massively impressed when I visited.

so I'm curious-- has anyone ever made or received a job offer via these HN hiring threads?

if you want this on the JVM today and can abide Scala, see: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/dataflow.html

+1. Another ex-professional dev (for +6 years) who left to do Hacker School here. A lot of the students seem to have at least a few years of experience under their belt but it tota…

"Not a way to run a discussion forum if one is interested in dialogue, and conversation." and yet you bragged about flagging the submission...

Why do you see a positive incentive to female applicants as an implicit disincentive to male applicants?

How hard would it be for HN to filter posts like this? There are only so many permutations of "Why is this here? / What does this have to do with HN?" possible...

Let's take your theory and run with it, say that Derek was 100% lucky, that he's a hack, a fraud, just a product of some lucky circumstances, even so-- how on earth can you bemoan …

http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-do-a-weekend-Vipassana-retr... 5th result on google for "vipassana retreat, bay area"...

I wonder what the complexity of a plugin would be that watches you use vim and tells if you're doing an anti-pattern? My only gripe with vim is that the discoverability of features…

wow, capital register appending is super useful. lots of good tips in this one. thanks for posting this!

I have to say that 'Indie Game the movie' is absolutely fantastic. It's the programmer's 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi'. (with added bonus points for their DRM-free delivery). Well worth y…

failing? MS has been holding 70% to 85% of the desktop market for decades, even by conservative estimates.

Societies are complex systems and managing them efficiently is actually (gasp) quite difficult. This is _precisely_ the core tenet of conservative fiscal policy. The idea of coordi…

Link: http://www.automaticfinances.com/monkey-stock-picking/ On October 7, 1998 the Journal presented the results of the 100th dartboard contest. So who won the most contests and b…

It strikes me as smacking of old-school fatalistic "some are born winners" type thinking which is fundamentally contrary to everything we are led to believe about startups (namely;…

a guy 'radiates "winner"'? Really? I sincerely hope you're being flippant and don't mean that as a serious answer.

Per the article, it's more like the difference between a violent criminal and a white collar criminal.

I have to agree with you. While it is possible to accept gift airfare and hotel worth thousands of dollars and remain neutral, it certainly looks dodgy. Especially if you're a brok…

Seems like an arbitrary distinction. Job, school, marriage, et al are all social constructs with certain principles and rules to try keep things operating smoothly and beneficially…