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(This is just for kicks.) Assuming the space required to run watson halves every two years and v:: of the human brain is v1 = 1500cm³, and Σv of Watson's servers = v2 = 90 x (17.5c…

view-source:http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html The menu is a single image mapped to urls. He generates bullets by stretching out a gif and uses a plethora of tds for absurd pu…

"Comic dogs don't talk in Times New Roman." - Creator of Comic Sans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qefD5YHPeEM Touche, but then lawyers, doctors, police officers, senatorial aides…

A good way to catch up on what's new while we wait on the Mozilla / P2PU course to start up. Landing Page: http://p2pu.org/webcraft/html5 Course syllabus: https://wiki.mozilla.org/…

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104350651/tiktok-lunati... Here's Scott Wilson's update form China in which he walks through the process of getting the watches manufactured. I…

I'd love to see this technology applied to augmented reading / writing (i.e. look up any word/person/place on a printed page).

You have misunderstood me. It doesn't matter if Tim is wrong, if we don't know what is right. If you substantiate your criticisms by finding counter-evidence or disputing his evide…

Every Tim Ferris thread I see on HN, has nigh 10 - 20 posts that all essentially say: "Tim Ferris is a charlatan. He's relies on spin and marketing to sell his products. His method…

One of the things I appreciate about HN is that when people shoot something down, they provide an intelligent and well-researched rationale to support their arguments. With that in…

Someone needs to write a "Frodo Baggins and The Methods of Rationality".

1. The world is full of idiots who ruin the lives of others, both at the micro level of domestic abuse and the macro level of dictatorships, because of this principle. Self-defense…

Someone needs to write a chrome extension to make whitewalling and super-logoff more convenient. If users are able to forgo the annoying questionnaire that is coupled with deactiva…