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Golden hat
- csense 12y agoThis Wikipedia article reads like it's a passage from a Harry Potter fanfic written by an archaeology nerd, describing the Sorting Hat at the wizarding school for rich kids who couldn't get into Hogwarts because they were too pretentious...
- smoyer 12y agoFar better than a tin-foil hat ... it's a better conductor [1] and far less prone to tarnishing [2]. [1] http://www.kp44.org/electric/ElectricalConductivityOfMaterials.php http://www.kp44.org/electric/ElectricalConductivityOfMateria... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnish
- Already__Taken 12y agoI wouldn't call 9% a much better conductor. [tin foil] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil This being HN I get to be a pedant... I'm really bored in work. Sorry.
- onion2k 12y agoIf you're going to be a pedant you need to be an accurate pedant. smoyer didn't say "a much better conductor", just "a better conductor", and as you say yourself, gold is 9% better.
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- mkmk 12y agoGolden Hat would be a good name for a security researcher that sells his or her findings to the highest bidder.
- D_Alex 12y agoWhen I saw the title I thought it was some kind of a talent retention scheme, like "golden handcuffs"...
- onion2k 12y agoLikewise. Maybe a financial incentive to stay in your current role rather than accepting a promotion.
- cbd1984 12y agoEver read the book Going Postal? I thought it would be about using pieces of clothing or other accessories to get people to trust you more.
- leoc 12y agoWell, it probably more or less is about that...
- JonnieCache 12y agoIt could be a good name for a trendy DJ. The trick would be to never wear a hat.
- sergiotapia 12y agoWhen submitting these wikipedia articles, it's a good idea to leave a comment with a little quip about why you found this interesting.
- benbreen 12y agoSorry, meant to earlier - I find the calendrical significance fascinating. It's almost a form of proto-writing in some ways (in the sense that it encodes knowledge in a material yet non-illustrative form) but I love the fact that it does so while also being, well, a hat. I also enjoy the potential connections to other Bronze Age oddities like the Trondheim Sun Chariot and the Nebra Sky Disk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trundholm_sun_chariot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trundholm_sun_chariot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disk But if I had to be totally honest, I found this while researching the history of wizard hats and that's what I like the most about it. Granted, there's almost certainly no link there, but it's fun to imagine a scenario whereby Bronze Age proto-druid ceremonial headgear leads to Gandalf's hat.
- mooreds 12y ago> whereby Bronze Age proto-druid ceremonial headgear leads to Gandalf's hat. Or, more likely, vice versa, given the end of the Third Age was far before 1000 BC.
- danparsonson 12y agoI personally love the idea of a conversation along the lines of "What's the date today?" - "Hold on, let me consult my hat"
- mkhpalm 12y agoIt is fascinating. Something I wonder is why nobody thinks that "sky disk" is a bronze age buckler.
- ArekDymalski 12y agoEven better solution would be to get more people using tldr.io so we could see the summaries while hovering on the front page.
- SwellJoe 12y ago"We are from France." Amusing that one of these was found in France.
- orangepenguin 12y agoWas expecting some niche variation on RHEL.
- fit2rule 12y agoDesigned for Homo Capensis, perhaps? http://www.greenenergyinvestors.com/index.php?showtopic=18891 http://www.greenenergyinvestors.com/index.php?showtopic=1889...
- kijin 12y agoYou mention a golden hat, and people respond with: - Tinfoil hat - Wizard hat - Blackhat/whitehat hackers - Red Hat Enterprise Linux That looks like a nice cross-section of HN readers' typical interests. You could probably make some interesting demographic observations on the basis of this data. P.S. Am I the only one who immediately thought of the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland?
- onion2k 12y agoYou could probably make some interesting demographic observations on the basis of this data. That HN readers are unusually interested in millinery.
- VLM 12y agoSome are too polite, or laughing too hard, to post codpiece commentary.
- logfromblammo 12y agoApple announces iHat; people begin queuing at stores. Reddit tips its e-fedora, which is actually an e-trilby. Maker community angrily notes that the oldest surviving combination stealth television remote and infrared camera-blinder hat is now nearly 20 years old. Popehat.com reminds everyone that it is actually a law blog. Several geeks go off on their own to make their own rabbit fur felt, only better, because they're going to use Haskell instead of C. Actual milliners gape in astonishment as a SV startup selling nothing but virtual digital hats is acquired for $350 million. Then the tech industry catches sight of another shiny object.
- CatsoCatsoCatso 12y agoReminded me instantly of the Papal Tiaras which there have been several of throughout history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_tiara http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_tiara http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_papal_tiaras_in_existence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_papal_tiaras_in_existen... There are some truly magnificent ones, the second link has a lot of images linked.
- tormeh 12y ago"Quick! Death is coming! Put on the golden hat!"
- grandchild 12y agoGolden... err, "hats"... yeah right. Looks definitely phallic to me.
- kenbellows 12y agohttp://www.quickmeme.com/img/26/2649625d2abe63c7d66c958aa9c476dd6cae917da286a25713a7de36fef1ea0c.jpg http://www.quickmeme.com/img/26/2649625d2abe63c7d66c958aa9c4...
- skizm 12y agoThe pope needs to step up his hat game.