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But, there is a clear incentive to answer the question incorrectly. The wrong answer is funny and will give the human some level of pleasure thinking about it. I would certainly re…

Going back to your slippery slope argument, where does it end? Is HN not a public forum as well? Are my constitutional rights being violated when a moderator deletes something a po…

It's always fascinating how quick people are to jump on the slippery slope bandwagon when it suits their ends. Your suggestion that privately held malls are subject to free speech …

The actions are policed and no one here is suggesting thoughts be policed. These individuals are free to shout their ideas in the public square. Facebook is a corporation not a gov…

This is old, but I just discovered it. Makes a slow ssh connection feel like a fast one.

I was expecting this article to provide some insight in regards to the title. It does not. The article should be titled, “Here Are Some Examples of Expensive ‘Affordable’ Housing P…

A general strike has been proposed to Feb 17th. I'm thinking about shutting down our site for the day. What's the best HTTP response code for this situation? 307, 417, 418, 503?

Hot keys for Bookmarks in Favorites Bars (Command+Option+N).

I run a small 4 node mesos cluster. So far it's been great, took a day or two to setup and has been running for about a year now with little to no maintenance. (I should probably u…

> "it's only a `git grep` away" Off topic, but how did I not know this was thing? You never know what you're gonna learn reading hn comments.

Last week I discovered slither.io, and it nearly ruined me. If you don't know what it is, turn around and continue about your day. However, if you've had the unfortunate luck of st…

Thanks, never thought of that.

Last week I discovered slither.io, and it nearly ruined me. If you don't know what it is, turn around and continue about your day. However, if you've had the unfortunate luck of st…

Creator of geoScore here. We're looking for contributors to help get this code out and help with documentation. I'll do my best to answer any questions. As far as the javascript cl…

just for fun... import itertools colors = ["brown", "red", "green", "yellow", "yellow", "brown", "brown", "black"] dict([(color, len(list(grp))) for color, grp in itertools.groupby…

Thank you

Is frequent HN consumption associated with poor functioning among programmers?

That's not entirely true. Travel can be done on the cheap, many people don't even explore their own city. People who don't travel find a million excuses, but it usually boils down …

Can anyone provide a legitimate criticism of Kafka? "It sucks, doesn't use it" isn't very helpful or productive. The closest thing I can find is http://engineering.onlive.com/2013/…

So the basic gist of this blog post was: Identify bottleneck, optimize bottleneck, throw out optimization because pypy.

The general idea of the essay is, i think, spot on. However, like you say it's a bit idealistic. In practice the mountain of student debt facing your average college grad changes t…

Looking the other way is exactly what perpetuates this kind of behavior. Everyone wants to assume there is something else going on when it comes to discrimination. If that's the ca…

I would build a new city. Not some attempt at utopia, but a fresh start in a remote but desirable destination. The town would be seeded with a university and focused on outdoor rec…