skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great point. She is definitely more in the "spark interest" camp. Probably, naturally more suited to the design field, but I want her to be exposed to coding early so she can make an informed decision, instead of being intimidated by the prospect at a later stage (like her dad). Also, she's a great leader and I've got two more coming up behind her, so if she takes to it, I might have a hacker family on my hands :)
For general (ie not Scribophile info)...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/19t3uq/hey_rbitcoin... is the best that I could find (admin from Reddit talking about Reddit Gold revenue).

It's interesting that the accounting costs more than they bring in (though this is something that could obviously change with increased stability in the BTC/USD rate / increased volume / better processes). Somewhat concerning, considering that they host what seems to be one of the most active/vocal bitcoin communities out there.

Also, http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1auzjg/factorio_dev..., though this one may just be a case of not properly targeting for users.
Happy April Fools Day to you too =D
If people are very different, isn't the conclusion there to figure out how much sleep you need to function effectively and ignore all the people who tell you how much you should need to function effectively? This is something you can measure and experiment with directly, and your results will be a lot more personally relevant than a blog post on the Internet.
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I think CRAs are a perfect analogy, yeah.
The answers are there, but I agree that it could be quite a bit clearer.

> Can I keep a planet if I didn't roll a sun with it?

No - suns make planets habitable (see the Sun section); you can only keep habitable planets and black holes.

>What's the difference between orange and yellow space debris?

There is no difference between red and orange space debris (there are no yellow -- the colors in the instructions are slightly off from what the dice actually show). There's also no difference between yellow and green planets/suns -- take a look at the image in the article that shows all the dice laid out. I think it'll clear that question up.

>but don't I also keep stars so that my planets stay habitable?

That makes logical sense, but since the instructions specifically state to keep only planets and black holes, no, suns go back in the tube. I think the logic behind this is two-fold: One, since planets and black holes are the only metric for score, any planet that you keep has a star in its imaginary galaxy, so a planet that is by a player actually represents not just a planet but also "at least one star." Two, a green/orange die going back into the tube helps keep the game points flowing.
At the end of the checkout process it is noted that all Puppies are located in San Francisco. I am on the east coast of the US. For the puppy to arrive at my location in ~1 hour, it would need to travel at ~2500mph. This kills the puppy :(
Good catch! It appears I just introduced the bug here, by eliminating recursion: https://github.com/mbostock/queue/commit/7bd5059bb2c0a94c0ca...

Popping multiple synchronous tasks after an asynchronous one is fairly rare, but I’ll make sure the tests verify this code path.
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If you do not see that your third paragraph contradicts your first then I cannot help you.

Jobs was involved in numerous projects creating highly popular technical products in several different roles. Now did he dig in to create the circuit boards and code the programs himself? No, he did not. But that's like saying a team lead is not a technical person because he doesn't code himself. To help create technical products from the ground up there has to be some level technical knowledge involved. Maybe your standard of what constitutes technical knowledge is higher than mine or maybe we just think of being technical as different things.

As I said before, your third paragraph agrees with my point. What you are complaining about has been around for quite a while and will most likely will exist for a time to come.

Someone with no technical knowledge asking for help on a project and not getting it does not necessarily lead to your conclusion on the community in general. One could say the same if you have a crazy idea for a new type of house, when you've never built a house before, and no one in the construction industry steps forward to build your house on spec for no money down. That's simply how the world works and has always worked. What you want is the exception to be the rule.

But then again, I'm sure the open source world has several examples of what you say doesn't happen.
Just wondering, is it better to use relative or absolute URLs ?
Good-looking web site too!

Unless forced to do otherwise, I always use the memoir document class and compile with xelatex. I've found that to be the best way to get access to fancy features. What about you, who do much more advanced stuff, is that something you use for your templates?
If you want to take the red pill: Please read F.A Hayek's critique of "The Paradox of Savings" (http://mises.org/daily/2804) for a refutation of inflationist monetary policy. This was an essay he wrote during the debate with Keynes and others, explaining the flaws in the Keynesian theories. It was written in the 1930s , but explains better than any other theory the dynamics of a fixed money supply currency like bitcoin vs a constantly inflating money supply.
Could you summarize this a little? What's the level of pain like? What's the healing time like? How is your vision as a result?

I'll likely watch the YouTube series at some point, but I don't have > 1hr to devote to this today so a summary would be very helpful.

I'm curious because I'm a poor candidate for Lasik - my vision is poor, -9 and -7.5 with an astigmatism and the shape is somewhat flat. (I'm told that I simply don't have enough tissue to remove for Lasik.)
I think the idea of an iOS app sounds great. Why waste paper when you can simply click "new game" on your phone?
I'm pretty impressed, and especially by the apachebench test -- to serve a spike of 30K reqs/s while having 600K idle connections is quite good.
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I am officially retiring from this conversation :-)

I did not mean to imply any improprietary, just a passing glance at a site, and a middle aged man who should know the by-ways of the net better (me).

Sounds like a fun fire-hose to get to work with - enjoy.

(Actually I would be interested in getting a flavour of the sizes of data sets, time constraints you work under, tools of choice (trading off performance and reliability) - real time massive data is where most of us are heading, would be interesting to hear letters back from Mason and Dixon)
I did not call you any name (unless you count "reader"), nor was I attacking you. I was merely sarcastically expressing my frustration at a trend I've observed on HN in which the top comment on an article which I highly enjoyed is almost invariably someone disagreeing outright, often without having read the entire post.

If you read half of that behemoth of an article, good for you - you can't be accused of not giving it a fair chance (although I found that second half to be more interesting and insightful myself).

I just find it aggravating and perhaps indicative of a negative attitude amongst HN readers that contrarian comments almost always end up at the top of the thread. That is all. Sorry if I hurt your feelings.
You mention that you've been reading about game design, any recommendations?
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Anything I read on April 1st, I am having to think twice if this is for real.
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So ignoring the fact that today's April 1st, this is actually not a terrible idea. It's not perfect, but lynx is a pretty good first approximation of how usable your site will be with a screen reader.
This is absolutely nothing new.

15 years ago I worked for a major manufacturer of high-end office equipment. One of the "upgrade" hardware features the machine had actually shipped with each machine. When a customer ordered it, the service technician only had to enter a code in a Diagnostic screen to enable the hardware.

I had the task of implementing that feature and at first it seemed like a bit of a scam. After some thought it made perfect sense, though. Because of manufacturing costs, it was far cheaper to build each machine with the extra hardware than have the field tech install it. Besides, probably 90% of customers purchased it anyway.
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As a long distance shooter, and lover of technology, I would most assuredly get a lot of joy out of this.

Also, you'd be incorrect about this doing the hard work. They add the concept of "windage" almost as an afterthought, and I can tell you that at long distances, it is anything but.

In long distance shooting, pulling the trigger is the easy part.
and DOS Extenders, namely DOS/4G(W).
Check out yazoomills.com. They make amazing tubes, and have fantastic customer service. I'm guessing you can get your tube price down to $0.40/tube or less with an order of 2,000 or so tubes.
Bitcoin-central.net say they detected a security-breach
"The life of technology is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
You know, comparing a commodity against a currency isn't very sensible. I don't know many (sensible) people who say "I'm just going to keep a load of dollar bills under my bed" when it comes to investing (which is what your first link compares to gold).
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Probably. It's marketing.
I just have a hard time believing deflation leads to perfect demand inelasticity at $0.
Some drugs do have different impacts on different races.

Science is rarely politically correct (probably a good thing).
Using the results array to store the scheduled tasks is an interesting idea. Thanks for the suggestion!
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You are not unique. I much prefer studying at my own pace, too.

I found class timescales so demotivating I dropped all the Coursera courses in favour of the Udacity ones as soon as it became obvious other things in my life would keep getting in the way.
The price of housing in SF has changed since 2011.
Of course gold's value is inflated because of its dual role as a value store and as a commodity with practical applications.

Even if gold loses favor as a value store, there will be some minimum boundary on its price based on its usefulness in practical applications. That is not true of bitcoin.

The GP was implying that bitcoin has a commodity value, which it does not. It merely has value as a means of exchange. What that means is that bitcoin does not benefit from same lower price boundary that gold does. Therefore, it is much riskier.

What good would bitcoins do for you after a Hurricane Katrina-like event when there is no communications network or electrical service to speak of? What about gold?
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> everything but intangibles

So, everything but 90% of the economy in forty years' time?
Doctors may just use the drug off-label. If the patient responds then they use the drug, otherwise they try something else. A formal trial really helps very little in these cases.

If a bunch of clinicians find that the drug is effective against the condition, they can (as has happened so many times) make their own study to popularize the usage.

Remember: The safety of the drug is not in question, just the efficiacy.
Punchfork shutdown inspires Open Recipes
I own a Nexus 4 and agree with the parent poster. 14 or more hours mostly idle is normal. I get even more if I dim the screen for normal use.

Fortunately, Android JellyBean provides all the data you need to fix your problem. If you are getting worse battery life, you need to check Settings -> Battery and determine which apps are unreasonably eating up your battery life.
I'd point out that the call to action is also much larger and visible in that Dell case study. The control for that one is pretty poor.
http://www.crunchzilla.com/code-monster

Also, +1 recommendation for Scratch.
Beat me to it. Have never really thought of the Canadian government caring about entrepreneurs, other than token support to get votes.
It doesn't like Beethoven apparently and says "oops something went wrong", same goes for Moonlight Sonata.
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I slugged two shots of
plum brandy, convinced we had
wandered back in time.

Nice; even a seasonal word.
aesthetics gets in the way of usability? that sounds too wrong for anyone to believe. i mean, i'm the first to call out the current ridiculous 'design for the sake of design' trend. abuse of "pretty" interfaces abound, but clearly there can't be anything wrong with taking the same interaction design with good typography, good use of whitespace, good use of color. done right, aesthetics increases usability.
Except this is a Rails app, not just Ruby.
While I'd be useless for everything when I sleep 5h, my sweet spot is between 6 - 7.5h. I used to try and get 8h+ of sleep and was often tired.

Now I set my alarm for 6h after I go to sleep (leaving 15m to fall asleep), have snooze set to 30m and max 3 times. Additionally I need to solve a simple math equation so I don't mindlessly press snooze.
That way my amount of sleep varies on what my body feels it needs.
Feeling way better since the change :)

Just an anecdote so take it however you want :)
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that is where it all originates from: our property/land laws are all built on medieval law, as we haven't had a revolution to shake things up!

houses are nearly always freeholds, whereas flats (apartments) are normally leaseholds, as it would be unfair if one flat owning tenant has land rights over the others.

recently the government has given leaseholders the right to purchase the freehold from their landlord (if they all agree), but this involves setting up a company that all leaseholders are shareholders/directors of, with all the rights and responsibilities that that entails.
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I think this wasn't a case of middlebrow dismissal which you rightly rail against. The original comment seems to be directly complaining about the style of the author rather than just dismissing it off hand. When it comes to Morozov this is a salient aspect, because while he certainly does his homework he tends to revel in polemic bordering on vitriol.
Yes, there are bad doctors, and there are cursory or improper diagnoses, but that does not make the valid diagnoses any less valid, or the invalid diagnoses any more valid.

All doctors, from radiologists to orthopedic surgeons, are told not to self-diagnose, and psychiatric conditions are the easiest to improperly self-diagnose, even for trained professionals (which most people on HN are not).

On top of that, ADHD is one of the most difficult conditions to properly diagnose. Unlike more overt disorders, like schizophrenia, the symptoms are less clear-cut, and unlike more visible disorders, like (true) OCD[0], the symptoms usually lie two or three layers deep, making it easy to confuse the cause of the symptoms if you're not careful.

There exist differential diagnoses for this purpose (disambiguating the cause of the symptoms); most people just don't have them done, because they're incredibly expensive (several thousands of dollars), as they're very time-intensive on the part of the doctor.

That said, the entire claim which precipitated this discussion - that ADHD is somehow related to sleep deprivation - is completely preposterous. ADHD is perhaps inappropriately named, yes, but that suggestion is like saying that the cure to depression is to "stop being sad".

[0] I say "true" to distinguish clinical obsessive-compulsive disorder from the casual use of the term (eg, "oh man, my OCD kicked in when I saw Comic Sans mixed with Papyrus").
Pro sports teams employ sleep doctors. They recommend 8-9hrs of sleep per night uninterrupted.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/sleep-doctor-ha...
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No, it's not a lie. Why in heaven's name would the investor class want higher inflation? They don't. The really don't. Our understanding of the benefits of a small amount of inflation comes in spite of the interests of those who already possess of a lot of wealth.

The investor class doesn't want bail-outs, though I'm sure they appreciate bail-outs when they happen. The wealthiest lost the most (in money, though not in utility/standard of living) in the 2008 crash. They'd have much rather avoided the 2008 crash's happening in the first place.

The lie, in actuality, is the idea deliberately promulgated by certain members of the investor class that inflation is evil. They do this for obvious reasons. It is precisely this lie to which you evidently subscribe.
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The way posters here complained about Google shuttering their free offering I'd think people would shun switching to another free product, but nope!

Bunch of whining free riders. Now I understand why Google dumped you.
I'm guessing no H1B?

Argh, so many data analyst positions too! :(
When I saw this I thought for sure it was an april fools joke, but then I saw that it was posted on March 21st.
Okay, that was really a COMPLETELY ridiculous downvote. It's almost like people are assuming someone who owns an $80,000 car doesn't choose to fly anywhere.

No number of fools moaning will change the fact that someone who has earned $80,000 can spend it however they choose, including purchasing an energy-efficient automobile that won't go over 200 miles in cold weather without stopping to charge. Is that really any worse than buying a $21,000 Linux rifle to shoot deer at twenty yards?
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