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These days, closer to 1/2.

Interesting. Tarsnap and rsync.net seem to alternate coverage on HN, and for the longest time I kept forgetting they were different, even though I had vague sense of confusion. Thi…

> on some project destined for some African country that nobody will ever hear about, Uh, bringing a billion people onto the Internet for the first time, and turning the 3rd world …

The Hadoop team quit Yahoo to start HortonWorks last year.

Most of those Flickr users are dormant accounts, like mine.

....and you just said the manufacturer's name on a unrelated forum, so their ad campaign was a success.

Apple has a team devoted to making Apple products easy to use in productions, and aggressively courts producers. But they don't "pay". It's exactly the same as how companies send p…

Most of Netflix doesn't have ads.

My understanding is that the Hulu subscription pays for fixed overhead (and profit), and the ads pay for marginal licensing. That might be a lie, though.

TV shows are written in "acts", they are designed to be broken up. Ads may be a horrible distruption (so I suggest muting them and blocking or averting from the images), but for a …

If only.... http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension&...

You just pre-Godwin'ed the thread. No one is required to take a job as a professional harasser. And if you really have sympathy for the employees, then consider that the more victi…

Comments on reddit mentioned that the bridge was condemned in 1992, and repeatedly since then, but no one bothered to fix it. I thought we had a big goverment stimulus package for …

It wasn't free. Meal plan is a line item on the student bill.

Security engineering / penetration testing may be for you.

BTC has effectively infinite supply do its divisibility. A unit of money has no value itself. Destroying it is exactly equivalent to distributing it evenly among all other money-ho…

Do the top 1%-earning of households have larger families than the US average?

AS noted elsewhere, general African bees are not the same as "Africanized" bees, which are derived from a particular colony of unusually fierce bees in Brazil, not Africa http://en…

Wow, that's really sad lead-in: A mom who is "famous", so her daughter introduces her to her friends via Google Search, instead of meeting them. Hooray for egalitarianism, but it's…

I would love to see the QBASIC program you wrote when you were 4 years old.

Switching from cars to transit is great. But for all the suburban kids who are switching from "going out to see people" to "staying home alone on the computer", I worry for their f…

The man who goes alone can also slip on a mossy rock and slowly starve to death in a ravine with a broken leg.

ASD wasn't created in the past 20 years, it has just seen a great increase in diagnosis.

It's funny (sad) that SimCity, which was created with an intentional undercurrent of liberal manipulation public opinion regarding urban planning, missed the boat so badly on that …

Younger Americans are eating less meat because the USA is slowly progressing toward vegetarianism and away from the horrors of factory farming. There is plenty of cheap low-quality…