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It reminds me Google's "do no evil"; hoping it won't turn out even worse.

I may be missing something, but the official Intel site shows the price of $27 for a 2 core cpu and not for a 16 core one. [1] http://ark.intel.com/products/97928/Intel-Atom-Proces…

This. The craze of trying to get Linux on desktop is harming the core of it. Average Joe doesn't care for Linux even though he/she may need it and that's because average Joe doesn'…

>>Last year, American chess master Nazi Paikidze did not compete in the chess world championships in Iran because of the country’s requirement that she don a hijab. And most of the…

I am no fan of patents, especially most software patents. I hate them. But in other hard sciences the story seems to be slightly different. In theory the "subsidy to multiple paral…

Great letter by a even greater academician Knuth. Kudos to Knuth who started this great movement, which is being pushed further by another great academician Timothy Gowers [1]. It …

>>It wired to perform, not wired to enjoy. If you think of it from survival point of view, it makes sense. Our survival depended/depends on our brain's ability to perform and not o…

>>Without needing all of the safety protection Curious to know, what safety protections can be removed. Also, how small a car can get, given the limits put by the physics of comfor…

While we don't know what and how much metadata OWS servers keep, we must understand that too much metadata can still be a very bad thing that can enable a 3 letter agency to discov…

I understand your concern about regulations being barrier to entry. But it's a hard (certainly not impossible) to solve problem. I can see that making the regulation less costly (e…

>>(Don't get me wrong, shit like Conservapedia has been around for years now. But most of the stuff I read, for better or worse, has been pro-social justice, pro-multiculturalism, …

This is much better than my advice. Thanks much.

I will send an email, as a humane customer, to their customer service email asking a clarification about their policy in this regard. I urge all people on HN also to bombard them w…

It seems you are missing the point. >>Beyond that, it's not in the news because (a) it's not "new" and (b) there is nothing gained from a collective mob against islam. Bombing does…

I am not a fan of FB but it must be understood that FB is not a news agency. Another thing to consider here is: FB may be wallgardened, but what about the mainstream news organizat…

This. It also annoyingly ignores the problems created by increasing human population which is already very huge now. The huge and increasing human population is a very big problem …

>>For most people, this means coming to work some time between 9 and 11 AM (breakfast ends at 10 AM) and leaving between 5 and 8 PM (dinner starts at 6:30 PM). My schedule was a li…

Your comparison is almost like comparing apples with oranges. India, although has achieved some good results, is mostly a third world country [1] (barring few metro places), and th…

Internet archive is a great project. It has been allowed to be created, in the first place. Then it was and is allowed to exist. This is what I like to about the modern, freer, lib…

>>I get what your saying but humans are humans, journalists are busy and security is a pain for most people (until they need it). ...until they see they need it. Sad, as most peopl…