Stories by amichail

Virtual medicine that works? It might be possible given this study.

Explaining the Decline of Creativity in American Children

Ask HN: Is voting on social news sites rude? It would be in real life.

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Ask HN: Should CS university grads be unemployable due to lack of initiative?

Idea: PG voting days - a few days when only PG votes on HN.

Ask HN: Computer science has a hidden agenda to kill religion?

Building Watson - A Brief Overview of the DeepQA Project

Ask HN: How do you relent to social pressure?

IBM Computer to Match Wits With Jeopardy Champs in $1 Million Showdown

HN flaw: no discussions with naive computer users.

Ask HN: Why don't ads put you inside them (e.g., as the driver in a car ad)?

Ask HN: Is school essentially slavery?

Ask HN: How do companies weed out perfectionist programmers in job interviews?

Understanding what Julian Assange is really trying to do with WikiLeaks.

Does Super-High IQ= Super-Low Common Sense?

Why is Hacker News only about "news" and implemented as such?

Is startup success more difficult than tenure in a top research university?

A clever idea for stopping Wikileaks.

Women want Apple's iPhone, men prefer Google Android, Nielsen finds