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My money is on "not for a long time". I say this because HN is made by PG. HN was made as a demo which has gone horribly viral. The original intent of HN was to show the world what…

I don't understand what you are trying to say, the moderators only improve the grammar or remove spelling mistakes. They never (in essence) change the question, they help the perso…

And I hope you do not die at all and get a chance to upload your brain to a super computer and experience the ultimate singularity.

Easy to say when you have the balls to express that in public which others can only express through anonymous downvotes.

Phone calls?? Anyone?? There are plethora of people I would like to call.

Whats the obsessions with the word audacity?? Anyways, this is my perspective of the issue. And I do feels its ridiculous.

So over 10k people agree with me.

I am here because I am not going to die in 51 hours and have a lot of time to spare.

Okey this is ridiculous!!!! First the guy who patches a software with Morse code and then this guy who would rather have a AMA with strange people before he dies. News flash people…

No I am suggesting that they need internet access to see this way to access the internet.

Doesn't anyone else here see a chicken and egg problem??

Doesn't anyone else find this post obnoxious? Well I do. Okey, you are young and maybe smarter than me, but still I would have much more respect for you if you didn't go flaunting …

I would certainly like a confirmation of this. If I remove a whole paragraph (like of acknowledgements or related research (which is already covered in the reference section)) does…

I think what you are suggesting here is already being done. I don't have much experience but from what I hear you are required to submit a "Camera Ready" copy of your submission af…

People need to understand OCW and Khan Academy serve two very different purposes. OCW was made to make the awesome materials generated by MIT profs to the general public, while Kha…

I read the thing and didn't understand the word of what the author is trying to say. Maybe I am fumbled up in vocabulary or something. Anyways, if any random person were to ask thi…

If I redo all the layout, the whats the point?

I used a latex class to format one of my papers. At the final date of submission I found out they except only .doc format. I am still looking desperately for a latex2doc converter.…

I know it when I see it. --Justice Potter Stewart, concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964), regarding possible obscenity in The Lovers.

Imagine taking a look at a month of someone's search data, it would be revealing Please explain to me how would any random person get that? Actually how would anyone get that data …

Although I can understand that this is a very interesting thing to watch, but I still think this is piracy and should not be advertised on HN.

I really do not get why I need a special day to say I love you. If I wanna say it, I would just go out and say it. If I want to take her out on dinner, I would just take her out of…

The server itself is written in arc and as is news.arc, the server was written to "just work".

You action was a necessary cause of their deletion and therefore you are one of the directly culpable persons destroying the long tail of knowledge. I am no expert here, but does o…

This is just opposite of what I am thinking. I am doing too much of EE. I think about some application or the other in my spare time, draw mechanisms for robotics while I am doodli…