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Thanks. I flagged yours too. I want the mods to pay attention and find a way to reduce the hostility of Hacker News. Several people I know in real life have told me that they perce…

Then you're saying maybe all three of us aren't so smart? No argument here :) I'm not claiming to be smart, but I'm not going to hesitate for a second to call out people who start …

Joining in name calling and hostility under your real name? Not a smart move, guy.

I'll just put this here, since I can't edit my previous comment: Thanks for all the downvotes for sharing a differing life experience, you who downvoted. You shouldn't downvote jus…

EU doesn't exactly make law. They make more of suggestions. Some of the countries do the drastic opposite of the EU "laws", even if on paper they're saying they don't. For example,…

He's probably thinking of some similar situations in the US where certain types of clauses are automatically void. No court appearance needed, no waiting, no nothing. It's as if th…

In many parts of Europe (among the countries I've worked) the written word of contracts is worshiped as the ultimate authority. What's "the right thing to do" means nothing by comp…

Doing interesting things here.

Am I reading this correctly? Looking at the benchmark code, Why not do a comparison versus the default Tornado setup, which is to fork one process per core? So STM Tornado is allow…

I really wish that there were canvas (non-svg) alternatives to flot, with many graphing features. Flot's performance for frequently updating graphs is awesome.

Some nice stuff here. My feature request: this badly needs a vertical crosshair for the multi-line charts, to see what are all the values at that point on the x-axis at once.

Reddit is a magnet for people who have an unhealthy appetite for over dramatic "justice porn." That's all I'm going to say about your feelings.

Wow, didn't expect this. The original founding team of Reddit were awesome. 1) Personally responded to feedback emails. 2) Actually cared about sensible moderation, instead of the …

In the long term, all stocks become worthless and the heat death of the universe occurs. If you can't state a particular time period over which a finance model's prediction should …

Very interesting. I bet that will be a big selling point for people considering this hosting service. Seems that it will be harder to put pressure on hundreds of individual residen…

So now what happens when law enforcement shows up to the hosting company and tells them they're raiding some servers? Will this be seen as a way to impede and slow down large scale…

In the US it's considered low status because it's considered to have questionable long-term value, due to potential future outsourcing. He's absolutely right. In the US, software d…

Working for free is completely different, because you're never in a trap where you owe the employer any repayment. I don't really see how you could claim these scenarios are the sa…