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It's an article more or less about his personal experience with Depression and OCD, on his personal blog, where he mentions several times angsty/sad songs were his escape, especially in his teens. It seems silly to pick apart who he quotes to me.

I'm sure this is really cool, but autoplay music with no visible volume control, not cool.

Hopefully their robots are a little more helpful and a little less interested in teeth http://i.cdn.turner.com/asfix/repository//8a25c3920ef1568301...

Have to put a plug in here for the Astonishing Legends, podcast they do great work and are pretty damn entertaining. I would highly recommend anyone interested in this and similar events check out their two part series on it http://www.astonishinglegends.com/portfolio/ep023-dyatlov-pa...

Er, I don't think 9front is dead yet, fairly certain there was a release a few weeks ago :)

http://9front.org/releases/

Glad to see all the positive feedback here. I volunteered as a reader/advisor for this first edition and wanted to take this chance to say the experience was great. Joe is very respectful of volunteers time, even those of us who occasionally fall off the grid for a few days ( I still owe you a pic and bio Joe :) ). I'd encourage anyone on the fence to pick up this edition, there are some absolutely outstanding stories in there. And I'd also encourage anyone thinking about volunteering to jump in, it's a great project/maintainer to work on/with. Here's too many more issues Joe!

Interestingly I've never studied French, nor have I spent any significant amount of time hearing it, and I somehow get 100% on basically every word using my horrible childrens cartoon version of a French accent. Huh.

It's worth noting amidst all the debate about whether it's feasible or worthwhile to offer older versions of the game as server options, blizzard has already done this for a long time with Diablo 2. You could (can still) choose to play classic or expansion on the legit battle net servers, and both had ( possibly still have ) vibrant communities. So it's not like this would be particularly novel as an idea to them, I'm surprised they haven't done it with wow already.

Awesome! Thanks for the link. It looks like they have a limited free forever version as well, gonna have to play with this.

Anyone know what tool he was using in the YouTube video? This stuff is super interesting.

I live in Austin and i walk/Uber everywhere and largely agree with the author, we need better public transit absolutely. I'm wary of this line of thinking however "Our population is largely young and vigorous. ", a significant portion of people who could use better non single passenger car options are certainly not so young and vigorous, and it's worth noting that even those that are now won't be forever ;)

I think bikes are great, more bike options for sure, 10000. However in my opinion they're not a great solution to the transportation problem for most people.

This is amazing, just played Desert Storm: The Air Campaign for a few minutes. The collection of software here is such an important reminder that even seemingly unimportant software has historical context and is worth preserving. The Internet Archive is good people.

I think it's way too early to see anything, and that's what you're probably missing ( no offense intended ). This shift towards supporting research and long term capital intensive companies is very recent as far as I understand, at most a year, parts of it just in months.

There's finding the companies/research projects, getting them staffed and sustainably funded, and then years if not decades of work before some of these real complex and hard problems are solved.

I'm not saying any of it is going to work but we're just looking at the first steps in this direction. It'll be a few years before anyone is able to really judge whether it's paying off or not. Unfortunately this is beyond most of our ( myself included ) attention spans, so we'll probably feel like nothing is happening. Fortunately it seems like these folks are putting mechanisms in place that will outlast our collective attention and keep the engine running for the long time span these problems will need.

I'm pretty excited about it.

I went almost straight into the workforce instead of going to college so I feel like I should be on your side here. However I don't think I would really mind some of my tax dollars going to people thinking about women in society as I rather like women, or managing sports teams, as I also enjoy watching sports. Is this opinion entirely out of vogue now? What the hell else am I getting out of my sizable federal tax bill?

This link 404s for me, at least on mobile, huh.

If this was a real non gimmick thing it would absolutely the thing that got me to buy a VR setup. I can't say I like the drawn out conclusion of nobody ever attending in person though. I wouldn't want to see a world where nobody ever showed up to hockey games in real life, that just seems sad and dystopian to me.

Totally anecdotal but everyone I know at the VP level and above would be largely nonfunctional without their admin assistants. You can make a lot of noise about technology replacing this job but I just don't see it until that technology is some sort of super advanced AI capable of being talked to like a human and working 100% of the time. Otherwise it's pretty much impossible to beat a highly competent person to delegate to that knows your schedule/preferences very well. That person could very well use more advanced software to help them in those tasks, but won't be replaced by it.

I can't decipher from this article why he doesn't just have a phone and not check it all the time. I carry a shiny new iPhone all the time and I rarely pull it out of my pocket. Maybe once or twice a day to check new messages (which he's already doing with the damn laptop) and then occasionally for the stuff he borrows other people's phones for, Uber, quick messages, calls.

Perhaps he should be lamenting his own lack of self control instead of cell phones. If everyone walked around needing one but not carrying one there'd be nobody to borrow from and we'd be back to pay phones. Nonsense.

Very interesting, did not know about that. Thanks for the links!

I really like the idea here. Interesting how many of the projects are in .net, I wonder if that's just the authors language or if there really are a disproportionately higher number of .net projects well organized for accepting new contributors.

I want to know more about this game board patent: http://nsa-patents.silk.co/page/Game-board-id%3A-D637658 I wonder if they developed it into a full game or prototype at some point. Maybe it was supposed to be used for training purposes? Either way imagining a bunch of NSA guys sitting around playing their version of Cones of Dunshire made my morning.

Wow, this really shows off how pretty Arabic looks. I can't read a word of it but I really appreciate the aesthetics of the language and it's unfortunate it always gets mucked up in digital format.

If nothing else that was a great pitch for the class at the end. It was actually informative and I felt pretty confident that I could get something out of the course by the time that I got to the end and saw it. A+

I would imagine they did: "Ms. Amin said she and her colleagues had been hired by the show’s producers to add authenticity to the camp depicted in the episode". From my perspective this definitely adds authenticity, seems like the service was provided, if in a snarky manner. However I doubt they receive future work from the show :P

This is the best hack I've seen on Hacker News in months and it doesn't even involve a computer. Great job to everyone involved in pulling it off, even if the casual viewers didn't notice.

"He’ll be waiting with a spare charger." I always get a tad choked up by stuff like this in articles about people passing. Makes me feel like a sentimental goof, but there are worse things to be I guess.

I know what Sidekiq is, but that doesn't stop me from always thinking these articles are about hacking the old Sidekick phone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Hiptop and getting weirdly nostalgic. Words are strange.

I would encourage anyone who clicks the link to read through the thread. Pretty heartwarming to see the goodbyes, a definite mid-day boost :)

No problem, will follow up in a non-work venue :) Thanks for adding the warning!

FYI, that link is NSFW ^^^

I probably should have taken that as a given, but I didn't, so I figured I'd warn anyone. I unfortunately am at work, and just flashed two naked women in a tub on my giant screen before ninja tab closing. Godspeed.