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

Why? Are you suggesting that the later in the day I fall asleep, the less healthy the sleep becomes?
This is the reason I buy $15 Apple 'gift' cards from my local Target instead of using my primary CC on the iTunes store.
I LOVE the HAIKUBOT. Great work
Private companies don't need to have a duty to maximize profits. It's just incredibly common. See https://watsi.org/about#values
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Did someone flag this? Curious how it dropped from #28 to #58 in a matter of minutes.
That would be the icing of the cake!
My eyes/mind doesn't know where to focus on that page to start reading, it's a very strange sensation.
What fraction of the currently mined coins is in these stacks?
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> BTW: Respect for your book, thanks for replying as I'd love to hear your views on the above.

<3. Trying to get more good stuff out there...

> Then the developer has to hope that the API implementor also knew about that spec and did the right thing.

This is why relations that aren't specified in your media type or in the IANA list are supposed to be URIs. If they're not, they're breaking the Web Linking spec.

> But the missing part of that story is "and to make a call to this particular end point you need to use one of these methods: HEAD, or GET".

There is no reason that text cannot be in every link relation. It's just not. When defining your own, absolutely add that in.

> And that permissions go beyond which resources can be touched, and into what actions you can perform on those resources.

This is certainly a good insight.

> Requiring a second HTTP request for everything to check these permissions seems a bit crazy in practise

I agree 100%.
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That's true, but I'm sure it would have helped while the author was trying to balance the game out to better understand the sources of particular imbalances, rather than having to guess-and-iterate on them.
There are a few awkwardness checks we do that disqualify some haikus. For instance, if the second or third line has a comma right near the front or back, or if there are month or title abbreviations, etc. But I'm always looking to refine it further.
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Good article. I've been working on a board game prototype on and off for a couple of years and have decks of cards with things taped on them that look very similar to your dice. My plan was to perfect the mechanics and then just make an iPad app, but I think this demonstrates a boutique print run is not that unfeasible.
Loved this post, great that he wrote a rails app and nice to get the costs at the end too.

I tried to make a wi-fi kettle with a wifi module in that had a API, the prototype alone was a huge expense (£25k+) and to get it into production was around £200k (CE certified etc). In the end I just wrote up the blog post (here http://www.mobileinc.co.uk/2010/03/introducing-the-twettle-p...)

Props to anyone who makes something physical, it's dedication, passion and investment
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> how often do you really see j or k inside the text of an atom?

Just enclose j and k in parentheses on those rare occasions. Problem solved.
Sorry, I actually wrote the haiku finding logic in November and it's been running since then while we figured out the look of the tumblr and the moderation workflow.
I have never understood the inflation is good argument.

Looking at PCs, DVD players, etc. it seems price deflation has been great for the consumer and overall "market". Perhaps it has been bad for the manufacturers, but the overall society has benefited from the deflation of those goods.
Actually in the UK this is exactly what has happened since nobody pays property taxes over there. My fiancee owns her house but still pays rent to a land lord.

When there are no liabilities for holding an asset, there's not a big incentive to sell it.
My favorite sleep anecdote is that if you take some rats and force them to not sleep (put them on a treadmill and wire them up to some electrodes that will start the treadmill up and keep them awake whenever they start to doze) the rats will die within a week or so. Shorter than it takes to die of dehydration. Something about the brain overheating.

Sleep is a big deal, and not just because of the memory issue. Brains are expensive!
Yes, as long as you're willing to overlap work hours with California as much as possible.
Old news [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5127251
Ask HN: How can I run this news server under supervisor?
I mean how can i use a one-line command to start this system?
From the doc, i should start mzcschema, then type a few line of command, than the server started.
But how can i write some code, then i can start it with one shell command or under supervisord?

Thank you very much.
...and what happens when a competing cryptocurrency is released?
I did miss it, thanks. It would be nice if the instructions were linked on the site itself, of course, but I didn't see them there.
Earlier discussion, primarily about benchmarking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5127251
You might be right. But in my view, this isn't "a functional app where there's little competition". It's not functional for very many people at all; it's useful in a trivial context only. Also, it does have competition; you can get all of this golf event and player data on Yahoo or various other websites which are quite usable on an iPhone or iPad.

Therefore almost nobody would "need" this product, and so you'd really want to try to sell this to guys who watch a lot of golf on TV, are golfers themselves, etc. A fairly large group.
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Kickstarter is NOT an investment platform. That's actually against the law in the USA [1].

Kickstarter is a DONATION platform.

There is a huge difference between the two and people often confuse what Kickstarter really is (and is obligated to do).

[1] http://www.sec.gov/answers/rule506.htm
> The reason it's bad is that deflation makes it more profitable to do nothing than to invest.

This makes no sense to me. If keeping 100 units makes one richer because they are worth more in a year, then any investment which has a positive return (that is, you end up with more than 100 units in a year) must be that much better... What am I missing?
You're focusing on the first consequence in that sentance ("that hinder our ability to use technical systems") and indeed the paper suggests what you describe. However, the second part ("and clouds the critique of technological developments") seems well supported by the paper. In their 'discussion' section, they even state

This need for intelligibility of the inner workings of the
technology, rather than simply keeping it invisible,
echoes Chalmers et al.’s work on “seamful design” [4]

which is exactly what the blog post is advocating.
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Because of statements like:

> people who sleep between 6.5 hr. and 7.5 hr. a night, live the longest, are happier and most productive

O RLY? Time for another basic primer on causation vs. correlation.
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>You might feel that way, but I doubt if the Founders would, considering that the majority of firearms, munitions, warships and cannons used to win our independence were provided by civilians.

If by civilians you mean the French, you would be accurate. The idea of a civilian warship or artillery piece is as ludicrous then as now. It's not like people have this stuff just lying around the farmhouse. France spent billions of livres fighting the British in that period, more than 1 billion directly on the American conflict. It is entirely accurate to describe the Revolutionary War as a proxy war.

From the NRA's magazine[0]:
>The New Hampshire shipments equipped much of the Patriot army at Saratoga in October 1777, and, by 1778, the majority of Washington’s regiments had replaced their earlier disparate mix of arms with French ones.

There is a staggering amount of historical revisionism to minimize the role of France in this war, and to omit any context or ulterior motive for them doing so. France was the world's major military power, as well as the largest and most populous country in Europe, and had been for centuries. War between England and France was more often than not the case for nearly 500 years between 1337 and 1815. The American war was by no means the largest or most important of these conflicts.

There's a reason that the treaty ending the war was signed in Paris, and it's not because of their fabulous wine and cheese spread. Speeches from the British Parliament will attest that they knew their enemies were Bourbon, and not American. Which should surprise no one except, lamentably, most Americans.

[0] http://www.jaegerkorps.org/NRA/The%20Revolutionary%20Charlev...
I understand now.

My best advice; create something open source. If front end is your strength, create a few sample layouts and provide the html/css. If Javascript is your thing, create a nice jquery widget that others could utilize. If Ruby is your thing, create a gem.

Once you've done something like that, be sure to promote it. Post it to RubyFlow, the appropriate Subreddit (reddit.com/r/ruby, /r/javascript).

Get a few "stars" for the library to show that others are interested in what you do. Lastly, be sure to include it on your resume. Top of your resume. Front and center.
Yeah, I think it can, if USD collapses.
I think Thomas is coming at this from a different place from many folks here, so let me explain what is animating this comment: many of you may have "monorails" apps, where everything you company does is one single Rails application. Most Rails shops eventually outgrow this architecture choice. (It's cool, I used it for ~4 years, I'm on your side.)

After you break the one app barrier, you tend to break it by a lot. Many of them will not be customer facing. For example, churn.example.com might be a simple dashboard coded up by an intern which sits behind HTTP Basic auth and just shows a dashboard with customer LTV broken down by plan. The churn app is really easy to forget: no customer ever sees it, the intern is back in college, and your team might not care about it. But e.g. the January Rails bugs were Pre-auth so you could give up code execution on churn.example.com with them. And churn.example.com sits in your datacenter and talks directly to the main database... uh oh.

If I ask you how many instances of Rails apps you have running in your company, and you can't immediately get that number from somewhere (say, an up-to-date list on an internal wiki), you should be terrified.
I bought 30,000 bitcoins when they were worth less than a penny and sold them all when the value went up to $0.80. Lol, oops.

If you don't want to miss out again, buy Litecoins and Namecoins. Litecoin will never be worth as much as BTC (because there will be 80million of them as opposed to 20something million BTC) but it will slowly gain in value as it has some impressive features especially suited for online gaming payments with fast confirmation, secure online voting apps, or of course online gambling.

Litecoin is presently $1.30/each I see that going up to $4 at least by end of year now that more people are using it.
My subtext isn't very clear: there are other projects that haven't totally mastered handling vulnerabilities, but few people will fault you for using them. Rails is different because it has a personality cult, which makes it easy to personalize an issue that is a dry inconvenience for other popular packages.

I'm not sure I'd put Postgres alongside Linux and Rails in terms of handling security issues.
Nice discussion, thank you.
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I don't see why any investment would necessarily need to be much better. For one thing, investment is risky, while hoarding money is not.
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And the directions are still pretty confusing. For example, I had no idea the debris' orientation mattered until I saw the examples. And what happens if there's a dispute about whether the debris is aiming at a planet or not? And also, can I keep a planet if I didn't roll a sun with it? I assume not, but it's not explicitly clear. And what's the difference between orange and yellow space debris? Also, the How to Play section indicates I should only keep planets and black holes, but don't I also keep stars so that my planets stay habitable?
Purchased. I love hearing stories from people who just got up off the couch and did something.

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As you said above, "Rails Winter of Security Madness, it is be ready to patch at all times" -- sounds a lot less fun than the five minute blog or scaffolded apps that drew a lot of the Rails developers into the fold in the first place, not realizing that a short while down the road they would be spending all their time patching, monkey patching and crossing-fingers each time someone lifts the hood on the framework and discovers yet another parser-in-a-parser ready to exploit.
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Currencies have existed in a huge variety of forms over time. Basically anything can work as a medium of exchange as long as everyone has a high degree of confidence that if they are paid in the currency, that they too can pay someone else in that currency. But that's not to say all currency regimes are created equally -- we've learned a number of lessons, painfully, about how to manage currencies.

For a small-scale, but very instructive example that shows there are cases where simply increasing the money supply can sometimes create more value in the economy (or how deflation can destroy value), see the story of the Capitol Hill Babysitter Co-Op [0].

At a more serious scale, many prominent economists believe that an artificial restriction of the monetary supply led to, or exacerbated the Great Depression [1].

So, like Krugman [2], I think that BTC proponents really have to explain how the artificial restriction of the size of the BTC money supply is not a serious design flaw in the currency. Are BTC just crypotographic gold? If so, then is a successful BTC economy just a different gold standard (and all its associated problems)?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Babysitting_Co-op

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard#Prolongation_of_t...

[2] http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/golden-cyberfett...
I believe there was some illiquidity early this morning, but I might be hallucinating.
Good things to keep in mind. Especially for a generation of programmers who didn't go through the 16 bit -> 32 bit transition. (Trust me, you do not want to write C code on an 80286)
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That was exactly my line of thought. I wanted to keep it low enough to be in the range of an impulse buy, but high enough to capture the value added for serious fantasy players, gamblers, or people interested in a heavier duty stats research tool.
It looks like a classic bubble now - while slow gains programmed in could be justifiable, this seems to be driven purely by expectations of future price rises - which is a classic bubble sign. So far, all bubbles popped sooner or later. Maybe this would be the only one in history that doesn't - I wouldn't bet on that, but maybe someone would and become a millionaire. Or lose all his money.
> inflation is an absolutely necessary force in an economy

I don't think there is good evidence of this "fact". Economics is not a hard science.

A few points, one, you can't argue that bitcoin deflates and therefore is worthless. The is an obvious inconsistency there. Second, imagine if bitcoin had built-in inflation. What would happen if someone would release bitcoin+ with inflation equal to zero (i.e. current bitcoin)? Obviously the "good money" would drive out the bad and everyone would save bitcoin+.

It's not related to your comment, but I'd also like to comment on the Ponzi scheme arguments. My question is, how would you design a cypto-currency to avoid to problem of early adopters getting wealthy (the new ripple has a different scheme, a terrible one, IMHO)? You have to introduce the currency somehow. If you are an early adopter of bitcoin, should you sell now at $100? Maybe you should have sold out when it got to $1.
I had issue #2 (varags) bite me once on a C function where a NULL pointer was used as a sentinel.

In C++ we normally use '0' as the name of the null pointer, as C's NULL macro ((void*)0) gives compilation errors normally (though it would have worked here). And of course, who knows what the NULL macro is defined to in C++ mode, it could be plain '0' or a compiler-specific type.

With varargs '0' simply translates to int 0. That is, 32-bit int 0, whereas the function was expecting a 64-bit null pointer. So on 32-bit mode it happened to work fine, but crashed when compiled for 64-bit platforms.
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I have to disagree here.Even though my perspective has changed, times have changed too.How?Look around.If you do not see it than I will stop here.

Steve Jobs was a non-technical guy.That's why there were so many debates about tech and non tech guys during these years.He acquired knowledge over time through various sources.He had everything on a plate.And you can be a complete outsider in a company.When you spend so much time in your industry, in your environment, you learn.But you couldn't say he was a programmer or engineer.

Saying that people are risking things on non-tech people's ideas every day is like saying people are driving a car every day.Of course they are.In this world there is a little bit of everything.Rich people, poor people, low jobs, high jobs etc. We are talking about the majority or current situation. And for the moment the situation is just how I described it.

If you think it is not true, post a project on HN as a non-technical guy and ask for someone to help you build your project.I am curious how many would help you.

That is just my personal opinion based on my observations and experiences.
When iam in meetings, i always doodle. Works pretty well. My mind flows and its something useful to capture it.
> I think for myself. You get your marching orders from some parchment. It's people like me who made this country. It's people like you who bowed to King George.

I won't speak for bmelton but it's disingenuous to label second amendment supporters as folks who "get [their] marching orders from some parchment". Most I know recognize the right to self-defense as merely being guaranteed by the constitution rather than granted by it. The confusion I suspect is from the "parchment" often being used as a convenient argument - many in this country take for granted uniform agreement that the document does in fact bind the government; ergo to them the argument is trivially won by quoting it.

They do not always realize that those they argue against view the constitution as a "living" document subject to interpretation, and may summarily discard arguments that appeal to it's guarantees. It is also damaging to their argument that so many are willing to to support the government's disregard of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th and 10th amendments while fervently supporting the 2nd.
It looks like you're hiring for full-time work. This might be a more appropriate thread for that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472746
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> Right now a landgrab is going on. People want to hold some btc.

How's that different from tulips?

> the price will be more stable and grows only as much as new wealth is created by the global economy and new people are born.

Err...how so? Fiat money can do that, but how does bitcoin correlate to much of anything?
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