Gargoyle

I find them incredibly tiresome, and they've lowered my opinion of HN as a whole.

>A lot of money? As in actual, hard currency?

Yes. Definitely.

Have you been on that freeway? It's not really a bullet train-friendly route.

>extremely heavily moderated forum.

I wish.

The best subreddits are the ones like r/askhistorians, which are draconic in their moderation. As a result, the content is consistently extremely high quality.

> the top posts tend towards generic mush that is vaguely interesting to most, and extremely interesting to very few.

This is how HN tends to work, especially in regard to the comments. It's unfortunate.

Yeah, with DFS (daily fantasy sports) you're even limited to x number of players from a given game, so that you're not effectively betting on the outcome of that game by selecting an entire team.

I never really understood how they got around the limitation with stuff like NASCAR, where you really are essentially betting on the outcome of a single race. Maybe it's like PGA where the tournament is the culmination of a set of matches or something.

QAnon is one of the most fascinating things happening on the internet. Spinning an obviously false narrative that somehow still ropes in more and more people.

It's worth examining because it sheds light on how the less obviously false narratives most of the rest of us invest in are spun. Since it's so crazy, the mechanisms are more clear. Since it still works on many people, the mechanisms aren't that different.

I don't know who Q is (other than clearly not who they claim to be) or what their objective is, but it's definitely worth keeping an eye on.

I accidentally sat on my HP-15C in college and broke the LCD. I wrote to HP to see where I could get the LCD replaced. I was a college student and the thing was like $125 1986 dollars, I wanted to fix it, not buy a new one.

They just sent me a new calculator for free. I was so amazed! Heh.

I repeated almost the same accident with an early kindle and Amazon did the same free replacement. I don't think they do today.

In the very early Twitter days, writer Jay Bushman did a sci-fi adaptation of Benito Cereno, tweet by tweet. It was the first I encountered that storytelling format, and Jay has gone on to other successes in digital media writing since...

I met him at a BarCamp in Los Angeles, that's how I started following the account. I miss BarCamp.

Anyway, The Good Captain.

http://jaybushman.com/The-Good-Captain

>If you can't eat those costs, you don't have a business.

Everyone agrees on this point.

>If your chargeback rate is over 1%, you're doing something seriously wrong

Not everyone agrees on this point.

The point the gp is making is that the chargeback rates are too high due to circumstances beyond his control.

He can't stop people from taking advantage of the system as it currently operates and basically committing fraud against him at a higher rate. There's no policy he can implement to prevent this. Because he's not in control.

It could be as simple as having over 15 years of professional experience on the resume.

"Google is still not having any trouble attracting engineering talent."

Is this really true, though? Are they losing out on more top end candidates?

There are other places with interesting work and big paychecks. Some of them aren't building reputations for annoying interview processes.

I'd personally like for baseball to change even slower than it does. The continuity is a huge part of its appeal to me.

Bing, because it's good enough and it's not the Google monoculture.

Both reddit and hacker news would be much better off with no voting at all.

Strong moderators are the only thing I've ever seen keep online forums at a high quality level. Voting is the weakest kind of moderation.

It's also notable that TSLA has a very large community of short interests. That kind of money can drive all sorts of stories in the press...

Blog devoted to making meals from Game Of Thrones: http://www.innatthecrossroads.com/home/game-thrones-recipes/...

Blog devoted to "revisiting rpg rations": http://cookingtheperiodway.blogspot.com/

Somewhat related, blog from the food stylist for the recent Hannibal and American God series: http://janicepoonart.blogspot.com/

People here told me Google+ was amazing and that everyone worth associating with was on there.

Is that no longer true?

HN users have been pounding loudly on the anti-Facebook wardrums. Where did you imagine that going?

>People describe being around that type as like "walking on egg-shells". That's because they really are in an anger-prone state.

I know several people who have worked with Cruise on films who describe their experience as the opposite of this.

Do Google employees actually believe this?

It would be a fun experiment to put comments like this as quotes on the "Add Comment" page so you had to read them while typing your own comment. Might make people take a second or two extra to reconsider.

>HN doesn't allow such negativity though.

You do read this site, right?

My opinion is that getting rid of voting is step one to making both sites infinitely better.

Extremely draconian human moderation is step two.

Sure.

But meanwhile my 10 year old nephew is having life shaping experiences with the Rift I set up for him.

The de Young in San Francisco is $26 weekdays and $29 weekends, and while it's a fine museum, it's not the Met.

Piketty's book was "pushed very hard" too. People like talking about books with big ideas.

Omikron's ad for the hardware product reviewed in the column (that let TRS-80s run CP/M software) in 1981 is a lot more colorful.

http://www.trs-80.org/omikron-mapper/

And the obituary for George Gardner, the man who founded Omikron. He led a very interesting life.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/times-standard/obituary.asp...

With his next sentence, it seems to me he's very much aware of that.

“But Ryan Coogler said the most real-as-fuck shit to me about it. He said, ‘It sounds like you’re not ready to get off the couch.’ ”

Very tangentially related, but curious if anything thinks it would be worth reading through Abrash's Zen Of Graphics Programming at this point. Is the info in there still useful (even as a foundation) or is it totally outdated?

I keep a file of stories to check back in on every now and then. Mostly tech "breakthrough" stories to see if they ever resulted in anything. Most often I find no followup stories whatsoever. If it's something I'm really interested in, I'll sometimes do my own research down the line, but that's rare.

The main problem is there's barely a business model for superficial journalism. It's non-existent for in-depth followup work.

Hmm, with the TSA baggage check that probably took longer than riding a horse between the two towns.