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Probably recruitment. It makes a lot more sense when viewed from the perspective of a researcher who's considering whether to join the NSA. None of us want patents, and the whole s…

Thank you. Apparently I'm blind.

Not really. Readers here tend to judge by merit rather than origin. I was hoping to read this, but the encumbered download process prevented that.

jpg2000 is unfortunately encumbered by patents. I was going to use it for a certain project a long time ago, but had to abandon the idea due to that. It's a shame, because many of …

In my experience, they're usually more talented than their counterparts who have degrees. That seems to become less true with time, though.

It's true. My first role was to work an unpaid intern for a year. Then my first salary was $20k, followed by $35k only after working there for a couple years. It was going to be $3…

You know, when I saw your original comment, it was so helpful that I wanted to respond to you and say thank you, but I suppressed my instincts because I thanked someone else, and i…

It seemed promising to do some experiments with sewing a BP sleeve into a shirt, then setting up an Arduino to trigger it to inflate/deflate. It should be possible to record the re…

You know, I didn't expect this to be on his Wikipedia page. My apologies for not doing the most basic of searches. (The topic was uncomfortable enough to want to avoid it, but I st…

It should be socially acceptable for Internet Archive to ignore robots.txt. They have to respect it because we, collectively, say so. Obeying robots.txt is the minimum acceptable b…

An accusation this serious should be accompanied by evidence, or dismissed.

I was hoping the product would pivot to passive blood pressure monitoring. I want my blood pressure to be recorded every few seconds, logged and cross-referenced against what I did…

Databases are usually sharded by the first letter of the username. Devs like to start their usernames with a number, which causes problems. Also, usernames are injected into their …

I wanted to give you a status update of what new users currently experience. Or at least what I'm experiencing. After creating an account, I was redirected to the front page with n…

This paper introduces the Bayesian program learning (BPL) framework, capable of learning a large class of visual concepts from just a single example and generalizing in ways that a…

The company has said that ads targeted at logged-out users - or people who view tweets without a Twitter account - would bring in $2.50 in average revenue per user (ARPU). Its logg…

I take the opposite view: it's wonderful that it happens. Most professions have very few choices regarding tools. Having hundreds or even thousands of options is simply delightful.…

How'd you make the artwork in less than five hours? It's pretty good! Pixel art is currently beyond my abilities, which I need to fix. Whatever your process is, I was hoping to osm…

I needed this for my projects. Thank you.

I'm not sure, to be honest. That would be an interesting Ask HN question. I think a lot of people would like to know. One reason the financial sector might be easier for H1B visas …

Ah, I see. In that case, the financial sector may be the way to go. They're always looking for people to improve throughput, and there are a variety of fun tasks to do related to l…

Hey, Jacques. I wanted to say that I'm happy you're still around HN. Thanks for sharing a lot of interesting stuff, and experiences regarding business and life in general. I was ju…