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Perhaps that's Google's intention. They are using your human intelligence to make educated guesses, rather than using AI. Your choices will be added to their dataset.

I agree with all this. But, a major motivation to remaster old records is due to copyright expiring on the old recordings, particularly in Europe. A remastered release is considere…

The only election to be held will be a Tory leadership election, not a general election. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/who-will-be-our-n... The UK votes for constituen…

Someone was almost murdered. Of course it matters.

Give her the phone! GIVE HER THE PHONE!! edit: OK, I'm being downvoted. That's fine. But, why put your irreplaceable life in mortal danger for the sake of keeping hold of replaceab…

True. But for it to succeed and be widely adopted, it really needs an organization that is able to host it for the masses.

Email didn't evolve with Gmail. Only the UI evolved. It could be suggested that Wave was a revolution rather than an evolution, and that was its greatest weakness. I'm sad that it'…

That's not a logo. It's Camelia, the spokesbug for Perl 6! (Perl reaching out to pre-schoolers, it seems) UPDATE: It appears that the logo was designed by Larry Wall. I now see its…

It appears that that article applies to situations where you need to make a choice. When you accept the UI defaults, someone has chosen your meal or movie for you - no choice needs…

Having a choice doesn't mean you need to make a choice. There's a thing called default settings that apply to those who want to be told what to do.

The choice you are making between different ways of dying has nothing do to with the point being made.

Well, none of this is communicated by your blog post. The "more" to your story is actually key to your story, it seems to me. Why did you not include it?

> Huge sections could have been skipped without affecting the plot or anything else. The same could be said of Dostoyevsky. Those long, drawn out passages are often there to make a…

I applied for a job a few years ago, which had two interviews. The first interview was to determine my technical ability and character. The second interview was for them to gauge m…

It depends what you're after. (I have memberships on both) Bear in mind that chess.com regularly has 10 times the number of players online at any one time, so it's much easier to f…

Not removing the client side images is not the bad bit. It's the marketing blurb that claimed they did exactly that.

Is it even meaningful to talk of guilt without morality?

If you posted a comment to HN with 127 spelling mistakes, which you then corrected, should you be applauded for that?

Seconded. When Dreamhost works, it is excellent. When it fails, it fails really, really badly and the support is often shockingly inept. Just two examples from my painful membershi…