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I have to commend China for taking drastic action in response to their drastic problem. As I understand it, it's actually very feasible to apply a carbon filter to the smokestack of a factory its…

Maybe companies could leverage this "internet" thing to reach the great students systematically? Maybe put these lectures online? Continue with projects like codejam, though ideally come up …

Tl; dr: Author contrasts two explanations of the obesity and diabetes crises: A) that the root of the issue is caloric intake stemming from low-self-control or B) that the root of the issue is high bl…

Why all the defeatism? Expressing frustration at the status quo is one thing, but I don't see how expressing a negative attitude toward incremental progress can be seen as more helpful than holdi…

No, not at all. Sql is a superset of Kafka, anything Kafka can do a Sql server can do. Kafka is very basic tool in comparison, that drops 90% of functionality for a speed gain in one use case. There&#…

Exactly. (How is this at the bottom? I read every single response to this thread waiting to find somebody pointing this out.)

I think HN is factoring in that transparency can also be a weakness too. When google released its page-rank algorithm it became a target for manipulation and entire forums got wrecked (until nofollow)…

Well, I don't intend to defend the blanket phrasing of GP, let's take for example GDP and it being taken seriously as a measure of a country's progress. I would wager just about any und…

Of course. The article doesn't mean nor need to imply that this technology is practical yet, simply to illustrate progress is being made (and it is). For any technology you can poo-poo the early …

You guys are making this a really irrational, really emotional "Apple vs Qualcomm" issue. The root of the problem is not that. The root of the problem is bad patent law. It really doesn'…

The question was are there any that are successful for the startup [longterm]?

So a lot of chemicals act like estrogens in the body (i.e. many endocrine disruptors) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoestrogen , they are absolutely in your water, it's rea…

For those with any moral ambiguity around sci-hub, as an american citizen simply trying to research questions like "What chemicals that act like estrogens are in my public water, and in what dose…

Perhaps somebody can explain the situation to me a little better. As far as I understand the situation, in any democracy you have the right to assemble and to vote for anything you want (though of cou…

Cool, in a mathy way. But it just feels emblematic of the problem of modern engineering attitudes (in that it fetishizes itself over user experience). What I mean is that taking the convenient statist…

Generally really good points. However one great use of realtime analytics is as a way to immediately catch production errors (particularly when connected to alarms, e.g. Splunk). My thought is that re…

Dude, I can't anymore. I thought this had nothing to do with chores but only "emotionally draining" things. I don't know if I buy the premise there's a difference in which sex…

What statistical evidence? I think a wide-ranging study on this topic would be interesting. However, I also don't know what the point would be of breaking it down by gender (any more than you…

So I still don't get her larger point. I think we can all agree emotional draining exists, as you articulated. I also agree it happens in relationships. But then she drags gender into it and lose…

If you don't see the subheadding as remotely controversial, I have to wonder if your agenda is advancement of women or advancement of equality. If this piece didn't want to be sexist it coul…

No, I actually don't get her larger point. She describes frustrations with her husband (which I feel are not generalizable), and I don't even accept her framework necessarily (it generally s…

Well delivery can be just as important as the message. It sounds like she alienated male-audiences by implying it's a problem with a whole gender instead of implying it's a gender-neutral tr…

Well I know at least 8 Google-Sexism posts got flagged to hell (every single one that didn't have flags disabled IIRC), so I'm curious why this one isn't.

What you're saying is true, you can't rely on your manager to always have time to listen to what you're saying. But at the same time that doesn't mean what you're saying isn&#…

If the goal of this article is to validate frustrated wives, maybe it has succeeded. But if conversely, it was aiming at making a compelling case to men I don't think it has. I for one feel stere…

Just for comparison, I lived in SF for about 4 years. I saved a huge amount of money. I lived with 3 roommates to save money, I sold my car, you won't get stabbed anywhere in SF (so live in the s…