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I can tell you this: anyone who thinks that artificially shrinking the pool of experts which you can pick to speak at a conference won't affect the quality of the presentations is …

This is the sort of approach that the 'Understanding Unix/Linux Programming' [1] book takes - building common unix utilities in order to introduce systems programming concepts. IMO…

It is apparent from the comments here that many don`t realize that the author is being sarcastic. From Wikipedia's page on Asperger Syndrome, under Speech and Language: traits incl…

Interesting, I remember reading that the hacker (jsz) who helped Kevin Mitnick back in the day with the IP spoofing attack against Shimomura's computer was from Israel as well.

And where the money to pay for that will come from? Apparently corporations will be subsidizing this: "How would we pay for it? We could start by getting corporations to pay their …

Secret prisons. Guantanamo Bay. As someone born in the 70s it's ironic to think that we now talk about "sending people to Gitmo" the way we used to joke as kids about people being …

Well if it makes you feel any better, here's a quote from Mayer herself that seems to echo some of the sentiments you've expressed: I don’t think that I would consider myself a fem…

I thought this was ironic too. This assumption that only a man would be interested in football, is like a woman going to buy a car and only being shown the vanity mirror, because c…

cis male cis male? Am I the only one who has no idea what this is?

I've seen this come up before and I wonder, why do lifestyle businesses have such a negative connotation? It seems like building these sort of sustainable businesses would be a lot…

Anyone know if there's a list of the project ideas (some of which it sounds like became startups) from previous classes? I've looked around on Google but didn't find any such list.…

"I'm in the desert, with a bunch of hyper-masculine trigger-happy ignorant rednecks as neighbors... " Funny how averse most HNers are when it comes to perpetuating stereotypes and …

"In a press conference just now, President Obama addressed the NSA surveillance programs, saying " we're gonna have to make some choices as a society " to examine how we deal with …

And my guess is the following video is an example of why the NYT is now saying that Obama no longer has any credibility on this issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6fnfVJzZT4

From the article: "The defense of this practice offered by Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, who as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee is supposed to be preventing…