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Heh, you seriously think that's why I had a problem with your post? I am once again staggered by the brilliant insights into human nature I learn here on HN...

Bye y'all!

The shortcoming is that it is insulting simple. Seriously. :P

This is an insultingly simple rendering of some pretty complex topics.

Melatonin intensified my dreams but did not prompt nightmares; but then, I never have nightmares any way!

A friend who was prone to nightmares tried melatonin and it made her nightmares worse.

So perhaps it just induces worse nightmares in those prone to having them in the first place.

Hitting the thing that looks like a play button actually toggles the video visibility.

In general, magnetism requires the material to be ordered, and heating an object up involves adding lots of random motion to the system.

The electrons might even get excited enough to jump to entirely different orbitals

That's what causes hot objects to glow, basically -- the electrons get pushed to higher orbitals, and then fall back down again, emitting light.

Why are you referring to a book that was published well after the quote in the article?

"Feynman's thesis advisor, John Wheeler, proposed the hypothesis in a telephone call to Feynman in the spring of 1940"

I have to object to The Guardian's use of scare quotes in the title...

I've noticed it's quite standard in English publications to use quotes around allegations, even if no one really believes the other side.

Not sure if this is just custom, or something to do with the stricter libel laws...

e: Here is a post on the language log that goes into the matter. (Make sure to read the comments.)

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1017

Comment from a headline writer: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1017#comment-18782

Hardly a HN exclusive. :)

From 2012: http://kotaku.com/5890372/is-this-valves-control-pad-design/

Those look pretty different to me. I mean, very clearly related, but with tons of small changes. Like, the angle of almost every terminal is different, and in general the new typeface is much more vertical.

Keep in mind that this is the first of three announcements that they've, err, announced: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/

The second is in 48hrs, and almost definitely something related to the SteamBox. So it's too soon to speak of their intentions "for the time being".

This seems like one of those things people say to score points, rather than to actually engage in the process of using their brains.

There are a myriad of things that are legal for the government to do that are illegal for a common citizen. There's no irony in that.

It comes from an earlier time, before the idea of "turn cards sideways to show they've been used" took hold.

Netrunner came out 3 years after Magic.

Yeah, whoever changed the headline accidentally made it misleading click-bait.

Minecraft was making obscene amounts of money well before the xbox release. (Something like 100k a day in 2010, according to a quick google.)

And? If you'd directed your dismissal at HN readers, that would be one thing, but you didn't! There was no "underlying claim" evident in the linked article itself.

The problem with these types of posts is that they never come with the context or the gravitas needed to substantiate the underlying claims that are implied by the presentation.

I don't actually see any of that in this post, though I can't speak to the original headline here on HN.

I think your expectations tinted how you interpreted the framing. The test is presented as a historical document, and I didn't see any attempt at commentary on the current educational system.

Hmm, I quite caffeine for a bit more than a year. I didn't feel like I had more energy per se, but I definitely felt better overall. It did take a long time to get through withdrawal.

This overlapped a period of two springs where I had terrible, terrible allergies, which claritin/etc barely helped with. As a test I drank coffee for one week, and the allergies completely vanished. :(

I've firmly stuck with 1 cup a day, though, drinking decaf after that. I think only drinking coffee right after I wake up probably helps.

No where in that headline does it mention OpenID -- and I have no idea what ClickPass is. Nor was it a persistent announcement; it was just a regular story. Perhaps I didn't even check HN that particular day?

There are many ways they could have notified OpenID users that would have worked -- this wasn't really one of them!

Hilariously it was dropped with no real notification, and one day my account just stopped working. I had to make a new one, because there was no way to access my previous account.

I don't have knowledge about this particular case.

But I can tell you that multiple, multiple times people have cried wolf on this. There's always a gap between when Google releases a device and when they release the accompanying source.

Sure, just wanted to point out how complicated truly "simulating reality" is. :)

I mean, my doctorate involved calculating tiny, tiny corrections (8 or 9 decimal places) to hydrogen-like energy levels, but even there I could still treat the proton as point like!

The very best simulations of reality that we can perform handle at most just a few H/He/C atoms.

On a deeper level, we still have trouble simulating even a single proton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_gauge_theory

There will have to be CS2 that introduces new semantics and old apps will have to be migrated.

I'm sure there will be a new version of CS when ES6 becomes widespread, but why would old apps need migrating? CS produces regular JS, and thus will be 100% compatible with ES6.

FFS, that is not what the article says at all.

Government does not have a 'monopoly of violence.' You are perfectly entitled to defend yourself if attacked by a criminal, for example.

That's a misunderstanding of what the phrase "monopoly of/on violence" entails. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence) Though to be fair, I'm not sure the OP really understands that.

The actual application of physical coercion is delegated or permitted by the state ... the law might permit individuals to use physical force in defense of self or property, but in this case ... the ability to use force has been granted by the state, and only by the state.

I was saying several things: people who have both iOS and PCs would have pushed to buy it on iOS, and people who have both PCs and Androids would have been pushed to buy it on PC.

And of course, the total revenue on iOS has had longer to accumulate.

Aside: If an order of magnitude is a factor of 10^1, half an order of magnitude is actually 10^0.5 ~= 0.3.

So rounding 500 to the nearest order of magnitude gives 1000. 310 is the mid point.

Desktop sales were mostly through Steam and the HumbleBundle, which both include all platforms.

The bundle does track total money spent per platform (you can specify which you want your purchase to count towards): http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/281...

The numbers here have some weird factors (significant lag in release date, available on PC before Android, Humble Bundle sales.) But yes, it's generally accepted that iOS games are more profitable.

However, they still made a significant amount of revenue from non-iOS sources. (It was about half and half.) Whether it's worth investing in an Android version probably depends on how just how much effort it would be. Here they got about 1/5 as much revenue from Android as they did iOS, but I'd bet it took less than 20% of their initial budget to do the port. (Especially given that they had already ported it to Windows, OSX, and Linux.)