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"If they pushed harder, both to the Ivies and in guiding the students, it would help a lot."

Can't afford it. My local district annual report shows the counselors only achievement metric is percentage of HS seniors who go to non-votech school after graduation. Helping one kid get into an ivy at the cost of helping 3 kids attend the local CC could quite literally cost their job.
How did you find the company to make the packaging?
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A lot of people who apply mention that they enjoyed the small puzzle. It's not intended to take much time -- if it's not clear after a few minutes, feel free to just email jobs@siftscience.com.
Yeah I have to hit a sleep cycle. 5 Hours is terrible, 3.75 is a good amount of sleep for me. If I oversleep and wake off a sleep cycle, e.g. 8.5 hours, I would have been better off getting up earlier and on a sleep cycle (7.5 hours or 3.75 hours). If I sleep 3.75 hours in a night, I will get tired later on in the day, but I won't find it difficult to get up. But I can top up with a nap during the day. My most efficient days have been sleeping in three, 3.75 hour sessions spread throughout the day and without daylight. I wrote my PhD thesis like that. Its not a good method for working with people though.
Have you considered selling these in Target or Walmart, or perhaps specialty stores?
> "Propertizing things" is, again, a wrong way of looking at it: a patent is not a "thing" or even a resource.

Why do we only have to propertize "things"? That is to say, why should the motivating principles that lead us to allow propertization of land not be generalized to the propertization of drug formula or MP3s?

Looking at whether something is a "thing" or "not" is not a particularly useful basis for deciding what kinds of things should be turned into property. The rational thing to do is look at the economic properties of various kinds of things, and grant property rights based on economic phenomena.

Why do we grant patents in land? We do so to order economic activity--allow people to develop land without others free-riding on their efforts. We create incentives for people to say clear a plot of land and sell it to a farmer, a market transaction which is not possible without a patent on the land. The same principles generalize easily to many other scenarios in which it is possible to gain the benefits of someone's work without engaging in a market transaction with them.
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The rules require knowledge of the dice' relative orientations in meatspace and I believe subsequent rolls in a turn exhibit memory (dice are not equivalent), which makes the conditional probabilities substantially more difficult than a Monte Carlo simulation.
During the week I sleep for 4-6 hours. I go to the gym first thing in the morning and after that I feel great. I sleep in a little bit more on the weekend. Occasionally I will sleep a ton, maybe it's sleep debt.

However, prior to exercising regularly I required much more sleep. Not sure this is anything but anecdotal, but I would be interested in seeing if fitness levels and sleep requirements have any correlation.
Sure -- plenty.

Here's another example. It replaces a custom hardware gadget that costs much more: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tunelab-piano-tuner/id335568...
Well, that's true, but Bushnell is really the focus of the article, and he says something that is spot-on:

"The basics: Make work fun; weed out the naysayers; celebrate failure, and then learn from it; allow employees to take short naps during the day; and don't shy away from hiring talented people just because they look sloppy or lack college credentials."
> We all draw a line where we think something is too dangerous to be legal.

No, not everyone does. There are quite a few of us who conclude, as many of the Founders and their contemporaries did, that the government has no ethical authority to judge what the people are worthy of possessing, and more to the point, has absolutely no ability to do so without devolving into oppression.

There are regrettably far fewer of us than those who subscribe to the alternate view, but we do fortunately share rank with a large contingent of the second group who at least draw the line somewhere past firearms.
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I can forgive that - I often accidentally say 'rails' when I mean ruby as well.
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So, I have a right to fly, and American Airlines has a right to fly, but the two of together lose that right?
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By that logic anyone who didn't buy bitcoin a few weeks ago lost a lot of money. No one should buy anything but bitcoin.

Anyone who buys with bitcoin can replace their bitcoin with dollars, if they want to stay invested in bitcoin.
What is HBOs problem with Netflix or Hulu? I won't paying double or maybe even triple to Netflix or Hulu to get much better content by including more movies and newer content. Sheesh.
I don't buy the comparison of our internet practices to feudalism. There is no Lord with control over all the land and thus control over the people, who need to work the land to survive.

Google, Facebook, and the like provide a service. A completely optional service. Anyone can choose among them freely. Don't like that X won't let you take your data when you want to move? Choose Y. Don't like any of the above? Set up a mail server on EC2. Don't like Amazon? Pay for your own host somewhere. Can't afford a host? Pool your money with like-minded people.

Unlike the land of Lords, the internet is not all bought up and unavailable to us peasants.
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Supposedly they can easily change algorithms if SHA-256 is broken in the future.

Here is a list of client security issues: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposu...

It seems like the biggest risk would be with the wallet websites, which is an issue that is present in other payment methods.

The biggest problem IMO is that there is no way to refund or right the wrongs done by an attack. If someone in russia or china steals half of the bitcoins, there is nothing anyone can do to get them back. I suppose they would all be logged and everyone could band together to block those BitCoins as payments, but that's probably not going to happen. That would be interest to watch play out.
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It's eye-opening to see a breakdown of the process behind conceiving, designing, and manufacturing a product. I think that for many, this process is hidden behind smoke and mirrors, but Jon made it appear doable and worthwhile.

It's also empowering to know that he did this with ~$5000 USD. I have no doubt that small-scale production like this would have been prohibitively difficult (read: annoying/costly) even five years ago.
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Hobbyist stores will probably require keystoning: if the retail price is $20 then the maximum wholesale price they can pay is $10. Note the margins on the product, now wince.

Also, arranging distribution with them is very problematic. (Source: I had delusions of running one, once.)
Eh, I think the only somewhat-hard requirement is seventeen syllables, and even that is often waved in favor of aesthetics. Plus they really tend to work better in Japanese anyway.

Somewhat on-topic: Jack Kerouac made attempts to "Americanize" the haiku form a bit, which I always thought were pretty neat. I think they're collected in a book called (something like) Book of Haiku.

I still like your idea though :)
What are good projects to showcase my technical ability in a portfolio?
I'm currently employed doing some VERY light JavaScript and a lot of SQL work. My current job is moving away from the technical side of things and becoming more Project Manager/requirements gatherer. While this is the correct move for the company, and I'm really excited in the abstract for the change, I'm not interested in this - I like the technical parts of my job.

I plan on asking management in eight or ten months to move me over to the more technical side of things, after we've transitioned smoothly. However, I think they would turn me down in my current situation - I don't think they think my technical chops are up to snuff. I want to build a portfolio of projects that demonstrate extreme proficiency, something that would make me look like a real quality gem for a web company.

What should I build? What personal projects do you want to see out of someone to demonstrate technical proficiency, even if not necessarily stylish or creative?

The kind of thing I've done in the past are funny websites for my friends and I with admin functionality, a couple dozen Project Eulers in Python and Go, and a browser-based multiplayer tetris game, server written in Go. That's my current level. It's all hobby work.
If you are seriously on top of Rails security, you're ready to deploy workarounds if you have to, instead of waiting for the "tested" fix to percolate into Ruby gems. So, start by making an innocuous but testable patch. Add a class to ActiveSupport or something.

Also, when you drill this stuff (I think you should do it quarterly as soon as you have customers), spend as much time drilling how you'll profile your environment as you do in ensuring that your patch deployment is flawless. I worry more about hidden stale deployments than I do about production app servers.
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Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I agree. Google has had their bookmarks service since 2005, and I don't even use that. Standard import/ export and attach the file is all I've ever needed.

Perhaps there is a use case outside mine? I also don't give an iota of a shit about socially sharing my bookmarks.
You are saying that there won't be any growth because people will hoard all money because they want to participate in the (non-existing) growth? Isn't that self-contradictory?

I think you are wrong. Imagine living in such an economy and facing the choice between hoarding (4% deflationary gain) and a good investment (10% gain). What would you do? All I see happening is that less money is being spent on bad investments due to artificially low interest rates as it happens to today.
> . It doesn't matter what value BTC has, as long as it is constant.

That'll never happen, bitcoin is doomed by math and economics to be forever a deflationary currency, worth ever more and more over time as the economy grows while the supply of bitcoins doesn't.
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It's not just about fees, Paypal has banned half the world from using their services (India, China) and dictates what you're allowed to sell, arbitrarily seizes money for months on end, and can be easily frauded with no protection for merchants.

You also don't have to trust any exchange, you can walk to your local coffee shop and trade for cash off the books with anybody from localbitcoins.com
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There are also reported cases (not direct statements by the firms, but independent analyses) of pharmaceutical brands purchasing or paying generic producers to prevent a generic from coming or remaining online and competing. (Apparently, in some cases the number of and potential for generic producers is limited enough to make this cost effective for the pharmaceutical brand.)

These firms have been granted limited monopolies in return for their contribution to the public good. Apparently, this is not enough for them. As a member of the public, I'm disinclined to offer them anything further, and rather in favor of re-evaluation this cost/benefit relationship with the suspicion that thorough independent analysis may well indicate the public should "claw back" more of this monopoly benefit we've been granting.

Patents are a social convention. Not an inherent law. Society is, with sufficient will, free to re-evaluation them. Just as "public domain" may and does override private ownership for cases demonstrating sufficient benefit to the public good. (Not that imposition of "public domain" property seizure isn't its own nest of contention and problems. But as an example of another domain where this is already accepted law.)
This is a good example of marketing folks "getting it wrong" for power users. Having had conversations with people who were responsible for the requirements spec on tablet/ereader type devices and listening to them explain to me that while a 250+ppi screen looked great, it wasn't the "lighthouse" feature that would justify the sales price.

I suspect a bunch of people don't care. But I certainly do. It remains to be seen if we're a market worth pursuing though.
> cryptobarons it will have created from its inner circle, through shameless hoarding.

This isn't 1941 England and bitcoins aren't sugar. Early adopters in the right thing often make money. Usually on HN they are called investors and congratulated. Sour grapes on missing out? (I did too)
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Have you even read the parent post? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5473508

Scribophile cannot sell services based on BTC at the moment, because the BTC market keeps swinging by 50% or more each month. It is impossible to peg the price of anything to BTC right now.
Cheaper than the books it replaces, which I heard cost thousands of dollars.
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Would love to see a follow-up on what you actually try to do in terms of marketing and distribution - as I'm finishing up my first 7-song album, I'm painfully aware that even after all the songwriting, recording, mixing, mastering, and product design, "release day" means that you are still only half done.
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My first thought was: “Oh, another annoying pop-up, fuck off.”

My second thought was: “Oh, another annoying attempt at an April Fool's joke, fuck off.”
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You can have a lot of fun with this story by search and replace with "drink glasses of water" and/or "sex per week". Its the exact same story, complete with anecdotes about extremes, unusual people with unusual requirements, conformist people terrified they're out of conformity in the deep decimal places, rebels proud of their rebellion in the deep decimal places, plenty of misguided residual puritanism, stories about how everyone knows the Americans (never other nations?) have numbers too low.

The best answer is probably something along the lines of when you're tired, sleep. When you're sleeping, sleep. If you have some weird imbalance leading to poor sleep, talk to a dr. This philosophy of life also works pretty well for drinking glasses of water, getting laid, and probably about 80 bazillion other human activities.
It's common to value a currency against a basket of other currencies; you would still see BTC's volatility be huge.
Depends upon during which period you sleep. E.g. if you sleep between 10/11pm to 6/7am, which is the best period to sleep IMHO, then 7-8 hours is very good.

But even if you sleep 10 hours from 2am to 12 in the afternoon, it's far from enough or healthy.

A siesta is a nitro pack. Don't miss that in the game; especially if you live in a hot climate. I feel like blessed with a lot of bliss after I rise form my nap in my office sick bay(dorm/resting room/whatever) (I'm already smiling :-) ). My manager doesn't appreciate my 30-45 min nap everyday after lunch, I don't give a damn!

>>will be sleeping 24 years in our lifetime.

Indeed. So will we be peeing. So, what about recycle the water and keep it in our system itself. Will save the time of drinking water and then peeing. Double bonanza!
This is absurd. You can't live life by remaining awake for longer period. For one, your life shortens and number and period of sunsets, sunrises and rains will not shift towards more if you start remaining awake more.

>>“Sleeping 8.5 hr. might really be a little worse than sleeping 5 hr.”

Now, either my biological clock needs a fix and everybody I know around me or his. Really.

My personal sleeping habit: I sleep at 11/12pm and almost everyday wake up at 6/7am. I never set an alarm unless either I've a VVI appointment - like with a doctor, a meeting or a flight to catch.
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Unless the script simulated dice orientation, I don't think it would help any there. Having read the rules of the game I think there's still a pretty good closed-form solution, minus the dice orientation stuff, that wouldn't take a lot of work to find.

Or better yet you could write a script to compute exact probabilities!
This is a deep misunderstand of what gold is.

Nobody wants "All the money in the world". (I saw very cute afterschool-special many years ago, about a kid who found a leprechaun and got 3 wishes, and wished for all the money in the world. The wrld economy froze until he wished he never wished that.)

Money (including gold) functions as a symbol of debt, and it works when it is distributed throughout the economy as a lubricant. Which would you prefer to have: all the motor oil in the world, all the machines in the world, but no oil? Both are worthless without a measure of the other.
If you take a look at the interview, Kripke is actually talking about the mortality effects of sleeping, NOT the functional effects. [1] I've seen many studies showing the detrimental effect of oversleeping (typically defined as >=9 hours) on mortality, obesity and cardiovascular risk. There's not a complete consensus on the whether this effect is true, though, nor on its neurobiological model. For review and meta-analysis, see [2].

On another note, even when we're talking about mortality, I don't think that sleeping 8.5 hours might be worse than 5. That seems to be an off-hand remark during the interview, to me.

[1] I don't recall any study looking specifically at task performance after oversleeping. The link to the study in the OP's post (http://www.sfn.org/index.aspx?pagename=news_052008&print...) is broken.
[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2869.2008....