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I have noticed a pattern of negative coverage of China by the New York Times from "hacking from China" (often indirectly implicating the government), to currency manipulation, to g…

I think you're promoting a healthy degree of self-awareness. A noteworthy risk however is that you'll make false connections -- ie. garlic is good for fight off HIV.

> Always great to see studies looking at the mental implications of non-psychoactive drugs. ... also great to read about the mental implications of priming. I'll be more punitive/f…

> That you jest about journalism is just an example of the systemic problem in society writ large... The last thing I wanted was to jest about journalism. I'm an avid reader of lon…

Hmm... perhaps that's a productive definition of "journalism." ... But I guess I don't understand your point. If you're saying that meaningful information can't be conveyed in 142 …

Of course. ... but I hope my point wasn't lost.

A perfect analogy.

You're right and Slate is right as well. However, yesterday a couple million people really needed to know what was going on immediately. For those of us who live in and around Bost…

Whenever the world is shaken by some awful tragedy, the event is followed by an outpouring of kindness. I remember a trip to NYC right after 9/11; the good will was palpable from o…

When you say "too expensive," I'm curious what you mean... Are you including time/labor in your cost-benefit analysis? For me, Heroku allows me to buy more engineering time (and le…

According to Alex: When you show people respect, something magical happens, people respect you back and it pays off. Suddenly, they want to help you win. This reminds me of one of …

This is very helpful from a technical angle. I'm interested in the full cost-benefit analysis. Any thoughts there?

Awesome. Does DO not yet have a comprehensive command line tool? I'm curious if any Hacker News readers have successfully migrated from Engineyard/Heroku to Digital Ocean. If so, I…

Awesome. I'm a sucker for a good visualization. What about adding a fixed nav to toggle the image size... sort of a zoom in/out effect?

Link shorteners have the potential to dramatically reduce the robustness of the internet. A single failure point can break a lot of stuff. To my knowledge Twitter justifies their l…

Fixed... the issue seemed to last < 10 minutes

Try clicking any of the links from @nytimes or any other Twitter page...

The last paragraph seems particularly noteworthy: On whether he's taken a MOOC class: "I've never made it through a complete MOOC," Thrun confessed. Much as books have been shrunk …

I've used the word "founder" countless times to mean founder of a company, but have never remarked that the primary definition is "to fail." This isn't a coincidence it turns out. …

If you are not updating gems, does it hurt to continue deploying with a custom buildpack? Heroku shouldn't repull gems if the gemspec hasn't been altered. Is that logic correct? Do…

Is Heroku down? Our single dyno apps have been knocked out but we can't find a status verifying this is a systemic issue.

I posted this article because I thought it showed a remarkable lack of understanding of startups. It was frustrating and I'm surprised VentureBeat published it. First of all, the a…