Hacker News: bhoung

Scientific computing JavaScript

bhoung — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 12:33:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.datazar.com/about/platform/notebook/?ref=what

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13236815

Points: 1

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The luxury of tears

bhoung — Thu, 26 May 2016 06:34:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-luxury-of-tears

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11776031

Points: 2

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RIP Over-Engineered Blog

bhoung — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 11:09:14 +0000

Article URL: http://jlongster.com/RIP-Over-Engineered-Blog

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11446313

Points: 5

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New comment by bhoung in "Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius?"

bhoung — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 03:06:31 +0000

the spelling of "silicone" looks intentional to me. the review is titled "Like the US is the only country to produce tech."

'Craig Wright of Australia wrote, a bit petulantly, “Always the assumption that [Satoshi Nakamoto] must be a bloody yank. The analysis of who Satoshi is is always so limited.”'

from this article: http://fusion.net/story/243056/alleged-bitcoin-creator-craig...

Paris and the fall of Rome

bhoung — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 02:35:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/11/16/paris-and-fall-rome/ErlRjkQMGXhvDarTIxXpdK/story.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10585557

Points: 1

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The Paris attacks and the abuse of history

bhoung — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 02:34:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-humphries/the-paris-attacks-and-the-abuse-of-history/919018744800165

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10585552

Points: 1

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New comment by bhoung in "What we look for in students"

bhoung — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 05:58:27 +0000

here here. That's a global maximum.

New comment by bhoung in "A Google Reader Replacement written in Haskell and Ur"

bhoung — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:15:18 +0000

I believe this is it, though github is down for me now so I can't really tell.

https://github.com/bazqux

New comment by bhoung in "Passive Income is Not an Escape"

bhoung — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:59:26 +0000

This needs a few more upvotes and comments. This is a gem. I think you could replace Passive Income with anything really. It's anything a person has decided will help them escape their situation and person.

New comment by bhoung in "Why most people dream and only some do: The Go-Getter theory"

bhoung — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:29:31 +0000

http://www.davykestens.be/self-improvement/why-im-an-asshole

His followup post is interesting also. After receiving hate-mail for putting down 9 to 5'ers, he explains that he is jealous...

New comment by bhoung in "Ask HN: Are the HN forums losing their civility?"

bhoung — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:09:11 +0000

Corpus Delicti, latin for body of crime...

I'm sympathetic to the discussion of promoting a civil and interesting community, however, in this specific example, I believe the lack of sensitivity towards the poster is actually worse than the crime itself.

Guidelines are exactly that, guidelines. When a long time contributor becomes emotional about the brutally honest instruction of killing an industry, which happens to be one he feels aligned to, I would figure the appropriate response is to explain rather than admonish. There is a propensity to over-regulate with respect to the guidelines, which I attribute to a lack of thought, really.

New comment by bhoung in "Courtney Love does the math (2000)"

bhoung — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:13:58 +0000

I found the article on Neal Stephenson to be more interesting. A link to it appears in the second last para.

http://www.salon.com/1999/05/19/stephenson/

New comment by bhoung in "Ask HN: I need your advice!"

bhoung — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:40:23 +0000

The idea isn't so bad but your copy or communication is really bad. Your tag-line doesn't make sense. "We provide reviews for tech reports." - Why would I want a review for a tech report? Even the clicking on an example wasn't really enlightening. E.g. Finance. There is no attached chart...

New comment by bhoung in "What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success"

bhoung — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:16:38 +0000

Here's Singapore as another example.

http://asiasociety.org/education/learning-world/how-singapor...

New comment by bhoung in "Ask HN: How do we promote Australia's marketplace for books?"

bhoung — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:40 +0000

Agree with the community being more important than the marketplace, will look to add more web 2.0 elements...

Why another marketplace? Because if I love books, then I want a place to hang out where there is only book related information.

New comment by bhoung in "Ask HN: How do we promote Australia's marketplace for books?"

bhoung — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:48:07 +0000

Thanks! We've been trying to contact physical bookstores and online sellers til now. The forums, blogs and clubs may be a better way forward. Amazon does not operate in Australia and the most active marketplace is a minimal free service run by universities (textbooksexchange).

Ask HN: How do we promote Australia's marketplace for books?

bhoung — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:14:36 +0000

We've built a marketplace for books in Australia and have recently hit the marketing phase and are struggling to get into it. Any advice on trying to crack the secondary market for books, and promoting a website in general?

www.bookon.com.au

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3250425

Points: 4

# Comments: 6

New comment by bhoung in "A guide to Jack Dorsey's 80-hour workweek"

bhoung — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:37:39 +0000

A small minority of people don't need much sleep. They are bound to be over-represented among workaholics.

New comment by bhoung in "Melbourne opens new tech incubator"

bhoung — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:02:03 +0000

Why is rmc downvoted for having an opinion? Maybe that's just how he saw it.

New comment by bhoung in "Ask HN: Competing with the crowd and not becoming RIM."

bhoung — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:49:56 +0000

Lowering costs to compete with the near free alternative makes your company a poor competitor in comparison to them. This is because you have much higher costs and probably are not sufficiently different to justify it.

Options: 1. lower costs and essentially adopt the crowdsourced model 2. increase costs and quality and sell a premium product

Either way, the main thing is that you have identified that you do not want to tread water.