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I guess if your point of comparison is "Google search, Apple App Store, Monsanto, Boeing" the poster market on Amazon is "small fish", but this guy was the former director of Art.com (fired because of the price-fixing investigation, I take it?) - almost certainly a multimillion dollar business.

My whole life, I've been able to reliably cause myself sleep paralysis. I just have to wake up facing a bright point light - like leaving the light on in a room before attempting a nap. (Diffuse bright light like sunlight doesn't generally do it.) No idea why.

Sounds not dissimilar to the "bid/turn towards/turn away" terminology in Gottman relationship theory.

The combat in Dark Souls was amazing. The hitboxes were so finely tuned you could just about dodge by a hair. The Artorias boss fight was the most fluid battle I've seen in a game, though maybe Bloodborne can top it. The PVP was absolutely great also, with skill-intensive counters for everything meaning the most skilled player almost always came out on top.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWLsLb-tK8A (audio possibly NSFW)

Any example of what the "Netlify callout" for the free hosting looks like?

Xi Jinping's authoritarian bent is frequently reported on in the press, from even further restricting the actions of the National People's Congress to ordering the strictest crackdowns on the Internet in Chinese history.

Also, your objection isn't very convincing coming from an account created just to post that comment.

You don't have to live in a 3rd world country to get 2 mbps. Plenty of places in the US get that kind of speed, where the only non-wireless ISP is liable to be the phone company providing DSL straight out of the 90s.

And with 30 days notice - not fun in an overheated rental market. In Denver as few as 7 days notice, if the rental is monthly.

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_27709567/apartment-dwe...

Apple must not be using the top-tier Samsung M.2 SSD; they can write at 1500MB/s+ and read at 2100MB/s. 1024MB/s is nothing. Now that SSDs are moving to using PCI-E lanes instead of SATA, we'll probably see quite a speed race. Really looking forward to the Intel 750, which will straight up be a PCI-E card for the desktop version.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-sm951-m.2-pcie-s...

The slicker MtG speculators are running things like http://www.quietspeculation.com/ . They generally have pretty intense interest in the subject though. Identifying an opportunity seems difficult without some minimal interest to recognize it.

Self-styled "MtG Finance Guru"s have also been paid to give talks to players at events like Grand Prix.

Interesting that it stops at Pokemon Yellow - maybe that's all that was known at the time. It seems like any video game where you can corrupt memory is potentially "Turing complete" - which is many of the old console game as the speedrunning community has discovered.

As far as analysis, I believe this is the course I followed awhile back on MIT OCW and found quite good:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

"Introduction to Algorithms" (2005) but according to OCW more similar to what's now the more advanced "Design and Analysis of Algorithms".

Not sure how much it'll help you in deriving solutions, but good if you have an interest in actually learning the subject.

> The fact that a card like Tarmogoyf goes for $200 shows that Modern is far from unpopular.

Tarmogoyf is a really poor example. It's popular in every format in existence, including Legacy and even Vintage. Modern is not solely driving its price, likely not even mostly.

Any non-rotating format is going to be more expensive than a rotating format. Modern being as "expensive" as it is is a good argument that they should've ditched the Reserved List, not that they ever will at this point.

> $20 gets you into Sealed and Draft. $500 gets you the most expensive deck in Constructed. That's a LOT cheaper and you only have to know about a couple hundred cards.

With Draft, you have to pay $20 every single time you want to play a game and the cards you come away with may well be worthless. With Standard, you have to pay that $500 every 18 months and those cards tend not to hold value well short term.

> They don't make money from those formats.

Wizards absolutely makes money from "eternal" formats. Even setting aside the products they print with eternal-only cards - which sell like gangbusters - Wizards makes money from players treating the game as a long term investment. If Standard was the only format, cards would plunge in value once they turned 18 months old.

This seems like a poor time to claim Wizards has solved speculation. Five years ago you would've been on firmer ground.

Thanks in part to Wizards aggressively growing the number of players and former addicted teens now being in their 30s with commensurate disposable income, MtG speculation today is at an all time high - speculators prefer the cute term "MtG finance". There's orders of magnitude more speculators today than there's been in 20 years, and it's driving up card prices incredibly - not great if you want to play the game. Active players going up year after year after year provides fuel for speculators, but if the game ever has a down year the speculators are due for a painful contraction if not a bubble bursting.

Wizards actually came this close to doing away with the reserved list a few years ago. Abolitionists within the company actually got promos printed that violated it, so the issue eventually came to a head. There was a dramatic meeting and things abruptly reversed course: no more promos, no pushing the line at all. Players are likely stuck with the reserved list for the rest of the game's existence.

The reserved list really does hurt great formats like Legacy that include cards covered by the reserved list. The market has gone absolutely crazy for those cards. Many Legacy-playable cards will set you back hundreds of dollars each, and a deck can hit $10,000+. This really limits the number of people that can play the format.

Deciding to keep the reserved list also directly led to the creation of the Modern format, which tries to be Legacy but only with cards Wizards can reprint. Modern has not quite flopped, but is not all that popular considering the amount of resources Wizards has poured into it - and this is attributable to a lack of diversity of decks caused by the more restricted pool of cards.

The reserved list kept the game going at the time, but in the end is probably one of the worst mistakes the company ever made.

Euler is more like math problems that can be solved with programming than programming challenges. Very neat, but decreasingly useful for programming practice past the first 20ish.

25% of your salary for 2 years is not a crapload of debt?

Gretzky retired in 98-99. It did take 15 years, but NHL hockey implemented rules to make the game less brutal and it seems to be working. Players crashing into each other head first is not an inherent part of the game like it is with American football. Sure concussions occur, but it's got to be a fraction of what happens in football.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/professional-hockey-has-become-a...

"Much of the decline can be attributed to fewer players going to the box for the game’s more violent infractions. Charging, boarding, roughing and cross-checking are being called at the lowest rates since 2001-02, according to Stats. It seems that the NHL’s plan to crack down on violent penalties this season is working."

Pets are pretty dang expensive. Potentially thousands of dollars a year in vet bills, and hundreds in food, just to start. I had friends when I was a kid who had pets die because their parents couldn't afford vet bills (not very responsible to have pets when you can't afford to take care of them, but you can't tell someone not to have a pet any more than you can tell them not to have a kid). Among the people I've known, pets are quite probably the biggest nonhuman financial stressor - bigger than cars.

Shelter pets are not for everyone either, although avoiding pet store puppymill pets is obviously desirable.

Yes, stole. As repeatedly evidenced - most recently with the Gemalto documents - the NSA far prefers to obtain keys surreptitiously than to go through the trouble of legally compelling corporations to provide them.

What year would "yesteryear" be? My much-abused 2008 Gateway is still running like a champ.

Yes, Windows 10 requires having 7 or 8. Still free.

Microsoft itself has provided Windows installation media for download since Windows 8, including Windows 7 media. All you have to do is read your key off BIOS or the sticker.

And of course Windows 10 will be a free download.

For me, Chrome uses half the memory of Firefox for the same number of tabs. If you're having memory issues with a browser, your problem is almost certainly extensions - the #1 culprit being AdBlock [Plus]. Give µBlock a try. (The reason why my Firefox uses more memory per tab is in fact almost certainly extensions.)

Subsidized? You can get inkjet printers for as low as free. Keurig machines cost $100 and up, for something equivalent to a $20 coffee brewer.

All you have to do is watch the HN comments on any thread that (even tangentially) mentions women. There's no shortage of of existing programmers / old gamers that are virulently hostile.

The other commenter covered the blackhat SEO / Google smackdown. As far as the people:

http://valleywag.gawker.com/rap-genius-cofounder-resigns-ove...

PG defended scribd (much as InstallMonetizer), including automated scribed links on HN, even as it was hijacking people's content and widely loathed.

I dunno, there's a few contenders. Scribd was pretty bad. RapGenius was pretty bad in terms of the people.

Edit: Oh, and Quora, even if that wasn't much more than YC lending its name.

LifeFactory is just normal soda-lime glass, AFAIK. They can shatter from drops of a couple feet.