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> I heard he's leaving due to the health benefits changes!

What happened?

Honestly everything on the market is so much better and cheaper than what we had even 2 years ago, that I don't have the energy to be disappointed.

Remember when a portable computer was $600 - $100+ and weighed 5+ lbs, or was a 320x720 netbook, and that was AMAZING? It wasn't long ago...

eHarmony uses math!

OKCupid uses reader-generated surveys.

It goes either way, depending on circumstances. For example, if someone has a new lover, the adulterer usually moves out.

It's actually rare for someone to evict the other, since it's entirely illegal and usually undesired by the evictee. If the separation is very much ill-willed, the person who wants the divorce usually leaves (often as a surprise).

Compared to "X-30 years", for all values of X, when the speaker is over 30, or quoting someone who is.

> Disclaimer: Not from the US, but married (~2 years~) and kid (~2 weeks~):

You have more important things to be doing right now than hang out on HN. Take care of your baby, take care of your wife, and sleep when you have a moment off from those.

> Companionship and love have nothing to do with a piece of paper filed with the local government.

Commitment and accountability to the person how bears your children, or who supports you through medical school or your startup years, has everything to do with a piece of paper filed with the local government.

Yeah, Google would never ship software where "Password is stored on disk in plain text" https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10809#c48

Interesting to read your comment and dmoy's.

On the one hand, compared to Amazon.com, Taobao sounds like a horrible shopping experience. On the other hand, compared to a shuk (or whatever the Chinese equivalent is), it is a vast improvement.

Context is everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ndLGhffwE

Supporters of the other team are far away and have discounted relevance to your life.

You are pushing a bit hard there. What is point of having a lasting impact? So that people can can life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Happy kids does not equal good aid? Really?

I watched this last night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj__w87vkow&feature=plcp

"Social Mechanics: Bonding, Gratitude and Karma (Earthlings 101, Episode 7) "

Poor people are karma producers. Rich people are karma consumers. Rich people buy karma from poor people to make themselves feel better.

The whole Zog series is a fun (if a bit hard-line) presentation of evolutionary bio theory, in animated form.

If only there were a way to obscure the Kinect's ability to measure the room.

That's ridiculous. Saying "wouldn't it be cool" isn't prior art. Describing a working system is.

I had this problem. My parents never talked to me about how much things cost. I had a rude awakening when I learned how much basic rent was, even more so when I learned what my rent was when I was a kid.

My kids will know how much their stuff costs, and they will earn their luxuries.

How does that explain social behavior among people working at different companies?

Fortunately, non-empty intervals of real numbers do not exist in computer science.

Why is this a website feature instead of a browser extension, where it would work for every site?

Form content recall is a native Chrome feature now.

Chemistry sets vanished due to anti-terrahrism BS, not safety concerns.

And in the magnet case, larger magnets are plenty fun while still being much safer.

Pills are specifically formulated to cause vomiting if overdosed. Obviously it's not perfect, but medicines have a significant necessary purpose, unlike tiny magnets.

Why? Seems like a smart solution to a problem.

We have designed many of the risks out of cars too, and I for one appreciate that.

Explain?

With "do" and the coincidental naming of "return", and IORefs if you insist, you can write imperative bottom-up code in Haskell.

Holy wow. I had read about "Cat -v considered harmful", and I was familiar with cat-v.org, but I didn't realize the inspiration from cat-v.org's name.

I think you'll find that Tanya Khovanova is in easily the top 0.1% of any general intelligence test you'd choose.

Top 2% on any one test-taking session of *any one of several tests (SAT, LSAT, Mensa test, etc), which is more than 2% of the population.

I suspect it was far more valuable in pre-Internet non-population-dense America, where it was one of the few effective ways to connect with other smart people. It is extremely obsolete now. But "they" (whoever "they" is in practice) publish some nifty puzzle books.

I thought the reverse.

1. Someone named "mistercow" is obviously biased on this question.

2. Another item to factor in, beyond lookup table size, is that questions are written in English, and the medium (spelled words) should not be snuck in as part of the content, except where sometimes it is done intentionally :) Also, in classification problems like these, one should also consider not just how efficiently a solution chooses an answer from the set, but also how cleanly it isolates the cluster of items in question from the unnamed items. That is, since [cow,hen,pig,sheep] are all animals, more so than a random word is, animality should be part of the rule used to choose among them.

3. As blauwbilgorgel notes, Google's very successful solution to model picking is to slurp of everything published publicly online (and with Books, also many things published offline) and sample over the combined output of humanity. This is still biased towards written text, published text, and loquaciousness, but it's pretty good.