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Does anyone know if Hacker News comments are being used as training data? I wonder this about Gmail, Skype, Voice Conversations on Xbox Live, etc. Mostly too afraid to ask because it sounds like paranoia.

I still miss Yahoo Pipes.

Some of these don't show up for me (like Saturn). This might work better with a web-font? Although then you'd lose the harmonious platform emojis. I wonder if there's a way to check if a unicode character exists in a font and dynamically substitute, without using canvas.

Drag-along rights, with a waiver of appraisal rights?

My guess is because:

- lots of people don't like Javascript

- lots of people don't like V8

- the guy who made Node.js (Ryan Dahl) doesn't like it either

- programmers think anything without thread support is a toy

I like Node.js, Javascript, and Ryan Dahl, and have no strong opinions on V8.

That one day that new api or programming language you're just learning will be considered not only obsolete but dangerous.

This seems very likely extrapolating from current trends.

There's S.M.A.R.T. and a lot of freeware that can read it and tell you how much has been written to the disk. If only it were built into operating systems, with a graph, then you could set up warnings, like you can for overheating CPUs, etc.