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HN search has been one of the most helpful resources (among many) to my personal and professional life. +1 for that alone. It sowed the seeds for a career path (went from a yoeman …

Call to action: Machine learners, you'd better start tuning your sarcasm classifiers.

A large portion of my comment was a response to the tone. I shouldn't have done that. Something about the original comment really bothered me. And I can't quite put my finger on it…

I've thought about it, one part of what "shocked" me about it was the hubris inherent in the statement: "...someone I could save by argument.". As though those that cannot be "save…

> "I would recommend against having dealings with the obviously mentally ill. I'm not sure in what sense you might be legally liable (for a civil suit) if they happened to commit s…

All of them, because it is ridiculous to assume that you know what every person in a particular group of people is like in real life based on the actions of a subset of that group …

How can you possibly know that without knowing one of the celebrities personally, and then extend that as a general rule?

> "...it is widely believed by experts and, more importantly, stakeholders..." What sources would you recommend reading to learn more about that? The 9/11 Commission Report? I'm em…

I think that can be a feature as well. Also, are the contributors anonymous in the sense that you have no way of knowing the identity of the contributor? Or, anonymous in the sense…

Have you already modeled it? If you're comfortable leaving an email address so I could get in touch, I can send you a few prints of your design.

You should probably start with the Adafruit guide, it's a good survey and starting point. It doesn't delve deeply into actual prototyping, but it covers the 'due diligence' aspect.…

This seems like a good place to start: http://learn.adafruit.com/how-to-build-a-hardware-startup I don't know if you want to do a startup, but there is good information in the guid…

I was being somewhat facetious with that last line. However, I don't think that it is outside the realm of possibility that relatively small entities, on the order of a small-cap c…

> "The question I always think of when people raise fears like this about bio-weapons is what what motivations are there for 'bad guys' to release indeterminate killers like a bio-…

> If you're employee #30 and your share is 0.05%, that might be fair if it's a biotech that has already taken a $100M infusion from the venture capitalists (who'll typically take 9…