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I like to be able to tweet someone after I have consumed some of their content - If I read a good guide/technical article or an interesting post it's nice to be able to instantly s…

yep. whenever i read anything sensational about QC I immediately head over to his blog to read about what it actually means.

This guy reminds me how normal i am in the grand scheme of things: "I felt discouraged and depressed. I tried to buy myself some fancy clothes and toys to feel better about myself.…

I vehemently disagree with the authors taste in music, but she makes some good points. Soundcloud is just a platform though, and if you live by the sword of constantly available un…

On this note, design and web skills. Whatever you do, its useful to be able to make it look good. If you are working with people who aren't savvy with web tech then it is very usef…

It depends - the amounts of data involved are mammoth by today's standards, but the idea is that we will develop new methods and tools to make the project feasible. The announcemen…

The optical private network from CERN to the tier 1 site where I work was upgraded from 10 Gb to 40 Gb between the first and second runs of the LHC. depending on what goes on durin…

The technical challenges posed by the SKA really are astoundingly huge. The data generated by these dishes will require much higher data throuput than even the fastest optical link…

cool didnt know about the algolia tool! thanks for the tip :)

I posted this because I thought that while most HN readers probably don't think like this, it's a useful exercise to get a different perspective in case you come across people who …

If you enjoyed this I highly recommend both his book, "Quantum Computing Since Democritus", and blog ( http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ ). Tagline of the blog is "If you take jus…

Is there any way that cookie clicker could have been farming CPU cycles? I remember playing it and thinking that it was consuming an awful lot of resources after a while...

Hi mannimow, I experience the same anxiety - I have a divergent way of thinking about things and tend to get interested in lots of different things at once rather than one thing in…

I find myself noticing that a lot of the solutions that The Economist proposes are very similar - opening markets, decreasing regulation - make everything more "liberal". They alwa…