Hacker News Reader

ranit8on Ask HN: What do you think of HN Christmas 2011 theme?

Phew, I was scared, thought it was some kind of warning/ban. Thank you for telling me this. A commemorative theme should be lighter.

ranit8on 20 heads in a row (improved algorithm)

This is a followup to http://drdobbs.com/blogs/architecture-and-design/229300217 (the link in the article is broken)

ranit8on Mozilla's BrowserID (single sign-on for the web) is live

> no exposure to identity provider (this is unlike any existing solutions; if you log into a site, your OpenID provide, Facebook, Google, etc. will know which site it was; not with BrowserID!)

Unfortunately that might be what prevents this or http://webid.info/ from getting traction. The big guys wouldn't like losing that data, and OpenID/OAuth already do the job well enough for them.

A comparison WebID/BrowserID can be found here: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/5406/what-are-th...

ranit8on An Ode to a 'Poor Black Kid' I Never Knew: How Forbes Gets Poverty Wrong

> the more you assist people in solving their problems, the more incline they will be to let their problems rot until you come and solve them again.

I disagree, most people given a chance will try to improve their condition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsa_Fam%C3%ADlia

ranit8on Facebook releases HHVM, 60 percent faster than its current PHP interpreter

Edit: to avoid a totally uninformative comment, as I see no links to previous discussions, this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3335217

The 2 URLs in the parent show the limit at which adding ellipsis sometimes make the inner text of links longer instead of shorter.

ranit8on A Drop-In Solution for Replacing Human Labor? Kawada’s Nextage Robot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system

ranit8on The Rise of Developeronomics

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2909196

ranit8on Software philosophy: Release early, release often vs polished releases

His example outside of software[1] is not the best either. Movies do have "versions", they are called cuts; an example of multiple published cuts for a movie is Blade Runner.

[1]> Every single release of a movie, whether it is The Jurassic Park and its sequels or The Matrix and its sequels or Steve Jobs’s own Toy Story and its sequels never had "versions".

ranit8on Why Most Women Will Never Become CEO

> The guys I know who swear at work tend to be more circumspect around women. But I never noticed any particular backlash against women swearing.

There is this guy nicknamed "Chumbo Grosso" who presented an eponymous police report in the local TV channel. There's a trend toward sensationalist programs in Brazilian TV but this guy was swearing above average. Then they have brought a woman to present part of the program alongside him, to soften his tone.