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This problem will be faced by many developers soon. The Internet is huge. Very large. The big companies are going to be dealing with huge data. You'll need to understand algorithms…

Congrats. Continue in the fine tradition of traditional science dismissing everything that falls outside of known worldview without thinking about or discussing it.

Moving to parts of South East Asia or Africa.

Tip: Instead of writing the articles via your keyboard, get a good voice-to-speech machine (like the iPad) and simply free-talk about the topic. In 30 minutes, you can write on qui…

But then did not proceed to do so, but instead explained how lack of context in articles generally make them difficult for people to understand. People react too fast before unders…

And why do you assume that I am saying it does not exist? If you are widely traveled then you will understand the difference between articles and reality.

I think you misunderstand what I am saying. If you read my comment, you'll see I'm not talking about the content of the article or saying slavery does not exist. It's difficult to …

And that's the correct attitude. I don't say anything refuting the points in the article. I'm not against the article either. I'm pointing out that a single story does not describe…

Your search seems to only shows western articles.

No, don't believe this. The world is a very complex place, and what makes for a good story is often very different from what reality is. When American journalists write about the w…

Such fluff stories were also very common in 1998 and 1999. You never read such stories about car designers, do you?

One core difference that I notice between Africa and the West, irrespective of the current development stage, is that people in Africa are mostly optimistic that things are better …

Paul Graham said. "We're trying to figure out why this YC batch did so well. One theory: they all used Convore ( http://convore.com) What actually made the startups switch away fro…

Very faulty logic. 1 in 5 logged in with github, and 1 in 7 logged in with twitter, and this implies you don't need facebook? Measuring two other things does not have any meaning t…

What about if they made merit not just where you are, but rather how much you have achieved?

Why don't you first make a success out of gumroad before telling us about how you made a great success out of gumroad?

An easy fix would be to add a 'Rude' link beside the 'Flag' link, and just make it do the exact same thing.

I think both are just manifestations of intellectual curiosity - some people, when they talk to you, are asking themselves: "what is this guy trying to say?" So they listen. Those …

I don't think this is a good idea. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that many people depend on all over the world. Encyclopedias should not just switch off for political reasons. Books…

This argument is pointless, because it's about only the U.S, which is a small proportion of phones used in the world. The rest of the world does not have the insane carrier monopol…

You are clearly someone who is obsessed with racial issues and in particular, issues that have some kind of data backing up what seems to be your theory that blacks are inferior to…

I'm not going to waste my time and energy trying to refute someone who believes black people are not as clever as white people, and wraps it up in nice words. Go through his commen…

Windows Phone is failing because people are not putting it on handsets, and people are not putting it on handsets because Microsoft charges a licensing fee that needs to be pre-pai…

He has been citing the same figures, always favoring the same group and against the same group for years now. I just went through 5 pages of his posts to find gems. Yes, he avoids …

Sure: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3353557 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3340794 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3340315 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=332154…