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Also: http://capped.tv/ for higher resolution.

That approach didn't really work out in the dotcom era. Of course, in some cases it would make greater turnout, but it is an expensive experiment.

I saw it earlier on reddit, and when I noticed it on hn, I was about to flag it for being yet another trash story copied from reddit, but then I saw that it already got 15 votes. I…

I don't see it as cryptic. He just said "it's a toy". Also: oranges are way better than apples

The idea is really nice, but I'm not sure it would work on the OP's Joe, who probably wouldn't even care about the hypothetical language and would regard the whole concept hypothet…

Roger Penrose is not merely saying that quantum mechanics is wrong. Instead it would be more fair to say that he views quantum mechanics as an incomplete theory, and one that shoul…

Wow, apparently I expressed my point poorly, as you guys seem to pick up that I'm advertising how awesome I am and how I kick GS' ass on the markets. What I wanted to say is that i…

I haven't lost any money on investments in 3 years, and I'm nowhere near being an educated economist. With a diversified portfolio, I could always find an equity to sell above the …

It's not as bad as it sounds, basically great many of the http://git.kernel.org/ repos are actual forks of the kernel, regularly pulling changes from vanilla, resolving the occasio…

Gnome and KDE has their own window managers, namely Metacity and KWin. These can be replaced by other window managers, like Xmonad, and you can still use the Gnome/KDE infrastructu…

I have always had the habit of quickly editing the query if the top 5 results aren't what I was looking for, up to the point where I don't even really think about it, just adding s…

Also: If you publish something on the Internet, it might appear on the Internet.

Great demonstration of why not to use Adsense or other context-based ads on a site with a search bar and no context whatsoever.

Right, although there are options to combine the two. Shader language can be used to write raytracers running entirely on the GPU, rendering the output to merely two textured trian…

That's why he wrote "mostly being odd" and that's why he called it obvious.

Or you use barrier=0 mount option for your ext4.

Did he just list his "Eagle Scout" badge under "News"?

I had this fun idea of registering an email address with an username being a common noun. Although I found it strange that the address was still available, but I didn't care too mu…

Who is this guy anyways? I saw lots of submits to his blogs on HN and other sites, but they seemed short, shallow and uninteresting, so I figured they were posted because Seth Godi…

I had a course that employed the same system. The course wasn't about debuging or real world applications, it was about algorithms. The task was to implement an algorithm correctly…