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Hell yeah

Craig Mod is great for Japan https://craigmod.com/ !

This makes me suspect that OP would have similar problems with other inference providers.

The funny thing about this is that this also appears in bad human writing. We would be better off if vague statements like this were eliminated altogether, or replaced with less fa…

Land-line telephones are awful because the majority of people who will pick up the phone during the day on Monday-Friday are old or disabled, i.e. easier to manipulate. I don't thi…

The thing is, these topics have already been discussed by philosophers! Questions of authenticity, human subjectivity, reproducibility etc are not new. But for the average joe and …

Hi HN, Getting started in open source software development can be intimidating to newcomers - but a lot of great projects highlight "good first issues". I wanted to make something …

I did a MSc in computer science, got burned out. Learned where my limits were. I learned a bunch of academic things, sure, but also was filled with doubts about what I should do ne…

Spaced repetition is great, but be warned - it's no substitute for really learning the content. It won't let you draw connections between concepts, because the information is prese…

Couldn't you split compound words so the components appear in sequence? e.g. Kinder- -betreuungs- -möglichkeiten

How about a to-do list that deletes all but the most recent n entries?

Are developers on the play store allowed to delete reviews? That sounds like something that would be really easily abused (i.e. delete all bad reviews of your bad product).

Maybe people think that if everyone believes Facebook is dead then it will die. Facebook has information on everyone and it's really hard to leave because everyone else uses it. If…

Go incognito if the Economist says you're over your article limit (or delete the relevant cookies).

Thank you for making this talk.

They should get Gene Ray, creator of Time Cube on TEDx next!

Why would your employer want you to start a company or work on side projects? Think of this from the boss's perspective - they want you to dedicate all of your energy to their work…

Procrastination happens when you reject a large long-term reward (the joy of finishing a project or solving a problem, or becoming successful in business) in favour of a smaller sh…

In a way Hacker News more insidious than Reddit, because a lot of the articles are about people being productive and successful it tricks you into thinking it's more "wholesome" th…

What product are you developing the engine for?

Yeah. Also, how do you computationally distinguish between a commercial and non-commercial site? Loads of grey areas.

I agree - such a search engine would not be as general as Google or Yahoo. But in sacrificing generality it might become better at handling certain types of requests. I am sure tha…