Hacker News: dhathorn

New comment by dhathorn in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"

dhathorn — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:07:20 +0000

China has been the largest ghg emitter for the last 20 years, and currently emits more than twice as much as the us. Gdp spent on defense is similar as a fraction of gdp (slightly more in the us). So realistically the Chinese military is by far a larger emitter of ghg than the us military.

New comment by dhathorn in "How the words we teach English language learners changed"

dhathorn — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 03:57:47 +0000

Have a butchers at my China who thinks the seppos are less precise.

New comment by dhathorn in "Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles"

dhathorn — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:33:24 +0000

That would be Volvo cars. tfa is about Volvo group, which is Swedish and makes among other things Volvo trucks. (Or HGVs as they might be called in Europe)

New comment by dhathorn in "A duo who documented the birth of NYC’s subway"

dhathorn — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 16:44:23 +0000

It's a chinese flag, the old republic of china flag. Also known as the five races flag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Races_Under_One_Union

New comment by dhathorn in "How Photojournalism Killed Kevin Carter (2015)"

dhathorn — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 23:07:34 +0000

There is a really great documentary about Kevin Carter and the bang bang club called "when under fire, shoot back" [0]

It's much better than the fictionalized version that TFA references. Although it doesn't seem to be widely available so it might be a bit of a chore to hunt down.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3478564/

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

dhathorn — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 09:51:04 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15885074

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Lunch with the FT: Marc Andreessen

dhathorn — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 03:31:10 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.ft.com/lunch-with-the-ft-marc-andreessen-8478fa9476b3#.i2h75nan3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13128208

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Death in Singapore

dhathorn — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:52:17 +0000

Article URL: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/afbddb44-7640-11e2-8eb6-00144feabdc0.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5226117

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by dhathorn in "75-year-old soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach U.S. Supreme Court"

dhathorn — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:45:04 +0000

Why is family farming worth protecting? What extra value do family farms provide to me, the person actually buying food? People lose their jobs because superior companies out-compete them all the time. Why should farmers be protected from this?

New comment by dhathorn in "What does randomness look like?"

dhathorn — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 02:40:18 +0000

This is an example of a problem called the Coupon Collector problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_collector%27s_problem). Short version is that the expected value of number of pulls you'll need to collect all of the coupons (candy in this case) is nln(n), or about 16 pulls in this case. Of course some people are just going to be unlucky (as you demonstrated).

The gun control that works: no guns

dhathorn — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:38:32 +0000

Article URL: http://www.economist.com/blogs/lexington/2012/12/gun-control

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4931288

Points: 28

# Comments: 78

New comment by dhathorn in "[dead]"

dhathorn — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:17:45 +0000

Yes, but the original article is spreading misinformation. Anesthesia is always used during organ harvests.

New comment by dhathorn in "[dead]"

dhathorn — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:13:37 +0000

Anesthesia is always used during organ harvests. Anesthesiologists treat the donor just as they would any other patient undergoing surgery. This account by a Georgia anesthesiologist rebuts many of the points made by the article, and does so much better than I would do.

http://theunderweardrawer.blogspot.com/2012/03/death-or-some...

New comment by dhathorn in "Ask HN: What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?"

dhathorn — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:27:09 +0000

Non-technical.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/news/index.html

Hot times in Silicon Valley

dhathorn — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:01:33 +0000

Article URL: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/01/labour-markets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3511450

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by dhathorn in "Show HN: Write a sort, watch it go"

dhathorn — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:40:57 +0000

Cocktail sort

  twoWayBubbleSort = ->
    VA.locals.swapped = true
    while VA.locals.swapped
      VA.locals.swapped = false
      for x in [0...VA.length - 1]
        VA.locals.x = x
        if VA.gt(x, x + 1)
          VA.swap(x, x + 1)
          VA.locals.swapped = true
      for x in[(VA.length-1)..1]
        VA.locals.x = x
        if VA.gt(x - 1, x)
          VA.swap(x - 1, x)
          VA.locals.swapped = true


  twoWayBubbleSort()

Too open for business: Japanese shops waste energy by keeping their doors open

dhathorn — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:14:51 +0000

Article URL: http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/08/japans-energy-crisis?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fbl%2Ftooopenforbusiness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2925856

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The new tech bubble

dhathorn — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:07:58 +0000

Article URL: http://www.economist.com/node/18681576?story_id=18681576

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2553516

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dhathorn in "Knuth on money and dropping out of graduate school"

dhathorn — Tue, 03 May 2011 06:07:23 +0000

According to the inflation calculator: http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi $100,000 1962 dollars is $712000 2010 dollars. A lot of money, for sure, but not 10 million.

America's transport infrastructure

dhathorn — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:02:41 +0000

Article URL: http://www.economist.com/node/18620944?story_id=18620944

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2499926

Points: 4

# Comments: 0