I agree Keyle. This is exactly what I said above and got greyed out for (deleted post above). I don't have time to read useless crap on here. I come here for good, useful content about startups and tech.
HN is very easy to shill vote up on own posts though, and I suggest thats what is happening here. A large part of its quality came from its obscurity.
It's becoming famous and its time to make a new one.
> A large part of its quality came from its obscurity.
> It's becoming famous and its time to make a new one.
You joined less than a month ago, and you have a karma average of 1.59. You do realize that you are part of the influx of people who are bringing down the quality of the site? Pot, kettle, yadda, yadda...
Genuinely curious, if you don't have time to read stuff like this on here why bother clicking? Seems like you could solve your problem and others by not clicking.
The quality aspect comes from the people who participate on here, not its obscurity.
BTW, stories about a large company getting hacked is relevant to a site called Hacker News.
Nobody said that you have to read the top articles. If the title looks like 'something from digg/reddit' to you, skip the article, and the thread. Complaining about the article's relevance to HN contributes nothing to the discussion. If you are unhappy with HN, nobody is forcing you to stay
Although many content pieces on the internet are provided completely free, some of the content producers make a living from the advertising revenue their work provides. Without that revenue, they would stop producing their interesting articles.
Glad you asked this -- as many people think my opinion on this subject is something other than what it actually is.
I don't hate advertising. Good advertising I actually love.
Unfortunately, there's lots and lots of the horrible variety and way too little of the good variety -- but I see signs of this (slowly) reversing.
That's beside the point, though. The point being that Readable doesn't circumvent advertising -- it only loads on request, in response to a physical user action (clicking), by definition after the original page has loaded, and it also makes it very easy to get back to the original page. I honestly don't see how I could be more accommodating, towards ads :)
P.S. Also, Readable wasn't originally created because I was annoyed by advertising -- as I have a tendency to read only those sites with good advertising.
It was made for the sole purpose of allowing people with particular (and maybe even peculiar) tastes about how text should look to read comfortably.
Whoever is liable now when an accident happens because of a technical failure. My guess is that insurances will love driverless cars, so it's really not a big deal.
who is liable now, though? I recall learning about technical errors leading to some devastating, or potentially devastating problems, but the builders weren't necessarily held liable to the full degree?
I imagine there would have to be some sort of blackbox device like airplanes in for safety, learning and obviously insurance purposes...
I have no clue about the legal situation in the US. I do know that in my native Germany, the driver is always liable (even if not guilty).
Since anyone who owns a car (and wants to drive with the same on a public road) has to have insurance this really is no big deal. Currently accidents can result in you having to pay more for your insurance and different people have to pay different amounts of money (an 18-year-old with a Golf GTI has to pay more) but there really is no rational reason for insurances to do that when someone is driven by a robot car. Insurances are interested in statistics, not fear mongering.
I really don't see the big problem. Compulsory insurances solved the problem of liability without guilt a long time ago (1940 in Germany – hey, it's a Nazi law).
You might argue that the manufacturer of the robot car should pay for the insurance but I don't think such a change would even be necessary. Even if, it wouldn't be a big deal.
In my Adwords experience I can safely say Google has the worst customer experience I have ever known. It makes Ebay look good.
Buyers should note these are cheap because they're going to be tracking your every move. Every site you visit and everything you type will be logged using the autocomplete function as it already is within Chrome.
