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I've lost over 130 pounds in the last two years and I deliberately avoided high intensity exercise during that time. I find it very hard to moderate my hunger when doing regular hi…

I think maybe the takeaway here is that you can't always tell the difference between a slightly unbalanced and a perfectly balanced game right away. You can probably spot extreme i…

"know that you were able to go further and faster and better than all the people around you, that you've won" What exactly has been won here? There have probably been ultra-driven …

The only expectation for me is that I can fork the project in accordance with their chosen license. Expecting anything else is a bit too entitled for me. There are tons of differen…

I've grown kind of tired of these sorts of posts, where people assume that OSS means handling the community exactly the way you prefer. Does it have an OSS license? Do they adhere …

Wow, that's really interesting. Did not expect it to be something so new. I'm going to have to read more about this ...

"Inbox functions very much more like a ToDo list than it does an email client." That's exciting to hear, since I've recently started turning Mailbox into a combination email client…

Well, that's interesting, although I'm skeptical. Can anyone with legal experience say exactly how much this means? If Ello genuinely just did something that makes it difficult for…

This is great. I hope you guys don't go away. I've been meaning to explore the google cloud a bit more anyway, though, I guess.

This thread has included some interesting discussion of how everyone handles the different tasks of a) committing individual units of work, b) saving works-in-progress, c) syncing …

That's exciting to hear. My gut reaction is that this is far too large. However, the idea of always carrying with me something that is nearly as big as my Nexus 7 is enticing. I lo…

I love these kind of "man behind the curtain" things. I've had a few somewhat similar ideas I've meant to make, though they were more in the spirit of being silly and fun rather th…

Yes, for some reason many people think freedom of speech means they--and those they identify with--should be able to speak free of social consequence. I don't really know what lead…

Mailing lists, in my experience, can feature incredible discussion. I participated on one centered around a somewhat obscure literary topic for some years. You almost develop a sen…

And it has almost nothing to do with reddit. Reddit could censor all instances of discussion featuring the phrase "hackers news" tomorrow, and it's not as if they would be brought …

Personally I find the predominant brand of humor at Reddit to be annoying too. An interesting conversation devolves into five trailing one-liners circling around a pop culture refe…

We can also criticize Reddit for that choice. Freedom of speech, and all. It sounds like you're upset that we choose to criticize Reddit for this. The difference between what a bus…

If the reporting is accurate, then he really got screwed. Your money is taken despite your never being convicted of anything, and then the IRS taxes you for that money that was tak…

I think you've latched onto the wrong thing here. Clearly both things are conferred by the state. I was not arguing that one was more worthy because it somehow wasn't granted by th…

Sorry I'm like a week late here, I don't check HN very frequently. It's not just "people" that distinguish between copyright infringement and stealing; the law does as well. I find…

When have consumers ever cared if a firm makes such a costly product that it can't be profitable? Consumers will never care about that. Appeals to make them care about "manufacturi…

Wow, it really is sad when you think of it that way. I don't torrent stuff, but this kind of sentiment makes me wish I did ...

This is awesome. Reading about his work and the subsequent work on FHE in general was one of my favorite "holy shit this is the future" moments. (And I don't have those moments har…

The author William Vollmann comically wrote about doing this at a San Francisco (I think?) software shop when he was young and writing his first novel. Living off of vendor-machine…

There was a famous writer once who said that one of his greatest assets was his extreme forgetfulness. Appropriately, I am blanking on his name at the moment, but I'll pop back in …