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Here is that exact documentary you were thinking of [0]. It's really a fantastic documentary on the incredible feats of von Neumann and worth a watch by everyone here. That person …

Agreed. And it's pretty obvious too. If you ever have some serious misgivings about any of these IoT privacy invasions and voice it in a comment, a deluge of comments scolding you …

Apparently a majority of HN doesn't know what CS is. Computer science isn't software engineering. Computer science isn't coding.

They learned a 'big word' and they use it to feel smart. It's like the time Peter Griffin learned the phrase 'shallow and pedantic'. https://youtu.be/yetwdpsiM8Q

Your analysis is incorrect. 'southpaw' is a boxing term that refers to left-handed boxers. It is in no way derogatory and did not originate with baseball [1]. In fact, it is more o…

If the guy that replaced him was that much better than him, that that person should be treated like a first class citizen. Right now H-1B workers are treated like indentured servan…

Thank you for confirming this. These kind of errors drive me crazy when I try to work through proofs on my own.

I would argue that there are rabbit holes in Haskell that can lead to baroque terrors of syntax on par with the C++ horrors in the article. The difference between Haskell and C++ i…

Top Clinton aide Doug Band signals his concern over Bill Clinton's conflicts of interest https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21978 “I signed a conflict of interest policy …

Your head is in the sand if you think risotto is the only thing revealed by the Podesta leaks.

"The overall parameters (area surveyed, sensitivity, etc.) of the RATAN search are not reported by Bursov et al. ..." I find this incredible. They rushed to get credit for an ET ca…

Your problem is that you don't seem to have sufficient understanding of the concept of limits.

I could write a node server that converts all that fixed length ASCII data into JSON faster than you guys can complain.