Hacker News: DannoHung

New comment by DannoHung in "Daily Mail owner considering Yahoo bid"

DannoHung — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 18:00:57 +0000

Whatever. This place is pretty much just a venture capital circle jerk now anyway.

New comment by DannoHung in "Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangsters and Crooks"

DannoHung — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:12:36 +0000

> As a huge music fan, how do I sort through all the noise to find a truly good band, and not some guy programming the guitars, drums tracks and bass and then does the vocals himself?

Eh? Do you mean you don't like it unless you know the band is full of good instrumentalists or that you find too much stuff that's not done well?

New comment by DannoHung in "Anal probes are fine, if you've got nothing to hide [pdf]"

DannoHung — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:55:08 +0000

They should be shot at before they're allowed to shoot anyone, for sure.

New comment by DannoHung in "Millennial Employees Confound Big Banks"

DannoHung — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 03:27:31 +0000

Hahahaahahaha, what a bunch of horseshit. Here's what's really happening (or rather, what's not happening): Wall Street's pay grade model has turned into "Jump ship or get fucked".

So people jump ship. End of story. Banks don't want to give people raises, so they leave after a period of time for a new position that does give them a raise.

Pretty much every firm does it.

New comment by DannoHung in "Zika Is Coming"

DannoHung — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 21:01:42 +0000

Because health agencies pour tons of work and money into preventing their spread before the next major disease can hit us.

Or would you rather a modern Spanish flu pandemic kill half a billion people?

New comment by DannoHung in "Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders"

DannoHung — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 12:25:58 +0000

nah dog, Apple has said they are free to make an Apple TV app. But they won't for some reason. They don't even have to sell items through the app and incur Apple's cut.

They're just shitstains

New comment by DannoHung in "Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak"

DannoHung — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 17:19:02 +0000

That you can actually stand up for yourself and make a difference.

New comment by DannoHung in "Massachusetts Right to Repair Initiative"

DannoHung — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 16:59:24 +0000

Yeah, but how does he check that on a walkaround?

New comment by DannoHung in "Massachusetts Right to Repair Initiative"

DannoHung — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 13:03:59 +0000

Can you explain what you mean by checking your brake pads?

New comment by DannoHung in "Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry and public health [pdf]"

DannoHung — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 12:20:24 +0000

Yeah. It's because we've been given sugary shit en masse for decades. It's like asking someone addicted to heroin if they would like to stop doing heroin.

Anyway, the rise of Greek yogurt at least shows that this isn't 100% true. It does need a little sugar for me to find it palatable as breakfast, but like, we're talking 2 or 3 sliced strawberries or a handful of blueberries.

New comment by DannoHung in "In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA"

DannoHung — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 04:56:30 +0000

Well, you gotta grow the next generation of terrorists, don't you?

New comment by DannoHung in "Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils"

DannoHung — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 22:35:15 +0000

In the case of Rust I don't believe this is 100% true given C ABI compatibility. You could start rewriting in such a way that it is integrated with the existing code and slowly, but surely tease the C out of the system.

New comment by DannoHung in "Scientists use adult skin cells to regenerate functional human heart tissue"

DannoHung — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 22:01:53 +0000

Yeah, but if organ replacement becomes something we can routinely do to extend lifespans, then eventually you run out of cadavers.

That's probably a bit far-flung in terms of thinking though.

New comment by DannoHung in "Scientists use adult skin cells to regenerate functional human heart tissue"

DannoHung — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 05:34:23 +0000

Wonder if they could use human stem cells on a matrix from a pig heart or something.

New comment by DannoHung in "AIs Have Mastered Chess. Will Go Be Next? (2014)"

DannoHung — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:06:24 +0000

Why on earth would the phone be running the chess engine 24/7 ? It only has to run the engine when it needs to select its next move.

New comment by DannoHung in "Go Ahead and Change Bodies; Just Remember to Take Your Soma"

DannoHung — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:47:47 +0000

What a disjointed story. I am not sure what the things it wanted to tell me were. It presented like4 or 5 unrelated high concept points but they didn't tie together meaningfully.

New comment by DannoHung in "Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4"

DannoHung — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 16:42:45 +0000

If he had made a dumb move and AlphaGo capitalized on it we would be talking about how the AI goaded him into a sense of safety.

New comment by DannoHung in "AlphaGo shows its true strength in 3rd victory against Lee Sedol"

DannoHung — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 21:12:20 +0000

It'll have to work like the last story in I, Robot.

New comment by DannoHung in "Shit My Reviewers Say"

DannoHung — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:09:14 +0000

Could be a psychology paper.

New comment by DannoHung in "Veil of secrecy lifted on Pentagon office planning micro-drone swarms"

DannoHung — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:45:13 +0000

> The Nazis are also the bad guys. Even though you are the Nazis' enemy, you are not the bad guy. The bad guys are the ones murdering millions.

The Nazi perspective was that Jews were destroying their race and stealing their birthright.

From our perspective, that is, of course, idiotic. But idiots don't see it that way.