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For a layman's introduction to how (pardon the hyperbole) soul-crushingly difficult this problem is, have a look at this amateur attempt to process language inputted by players int…

> proliferation will all lead to an increased likelihood of nuclear war Again, the unstated implication is that the US has a moral right to shepherd the rest of the world to the co…

> Once a country has a nuclear bomb or two, there is not much other governments can do to stop it from making more, says Ilan Goldenberg, a former head of the Iran team at the Pent…

On other discussion boards, I'd assume you were trolling. There is enough good faith on HN that I'll reply honestly. > miserable schmuck > barely gets by in his job People who are …

Manipulative people succeed in life, and in business. Unfortunately, this is a skillset orthogonal to focuses of STEM majors: hence the drama generated by this post. As the Marines…

Moreover, would the meditation participants behave compassionately in other situations? A waiting room forms an implicit assumption that the present humans will have further intera…

>how utterly incompetent the local military is no matter how much time we put into attempting to train them. Somehow in the US we're able to take (often poor) 17/18 year olds, and …

That's a lot of words from both authors to say: nobody actually cares about "you". They only care about what they can get from you. That can be horrifically depressing or pragmatic…

RapGenius is also a big factor in the meritocratic rise of quality hip-hop. A track like Kendrick Lamar's Keisha's Song[1] would have been inaccessible and quickly discarded by a h…

I'm actually really impressed. Thanks for the recommendation.

Can HNers recommend a good personal finance management software solution? I'd like something that connects to my bank account and allows me to keep track of incoming vs outgoing mo…

>My favorite writers get to the point quickly and effectively. It's not so simple. If the reader is interested in comprehending a large amount of technical or objective information…

Piloting machines (cars, busses, trains, jets) is a task that is fundamentally fit better for a machine than a human.

Waiting an idea out does two important things. 1. It ensures you're objective and clearheaded. There's no reason to value the thinking process of an euphorically happy man over a s…

The most useful context to use FreeMind, in my experience, is when planning a project. After weeks of discussions and meetings and specifications, it's difficult to remember all th…

Hello, I'd like to know what instant chat tools HN folks favour for instant asynchronous communication. I'm leaning against setting up an IRC server simply because graphical notifi…

Balsamiq is a tool you don't think about needing, but when you find it, it fits like a glove and you wonder how things ever got done before it. Moreover, Peldi's blog is frequently…

> When able-bodied competitors engage in hard physical activities like running or swimming, blood pressure and heart rate increase automatically. Athletes with spinal injuries do n…

It's good that you bring that point up. I disagree with you, and if I could be so bold, I'll paraphrase tptacek's post above: communities are built on principles that goad people t…

> the article makes great sweeping points, pretending to talk about some sort of general truth while in fact catering to a very specific readership For reference, here are the arti…

Programming started for me as "hey, check out what I can do with BASIC" and turned into "now defend your algorithm using the O(n) notation." There was never any time to play with t…

That's taking it a bit far, eh? Tasteful user interfaces answer relevant questions - not just any question at all.

What pain point exactly is this trying to solve? That twitter is ad-spammed? I'll admit I rarely use twitter, but I can't recall ever seeing ads on it. (I can, as a side note, reca…

What a poor article. That there exists an unequal amount of men and women in a certain profession means nothing on its own. That there exists a systematic bias against a group of p…