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I was going say the same thing. Today someone must have slacked `@claude can you bring the API down for a couple of hours?`

- app to help buy/find books for my wife - app to help manage my climbing wall - app to help finding good films/series - app to track weight - app to manage my board games and find the right ones to play - app for planning wood builds (e.g. climbing volumes) - telegram bots for: - picking restaurants for weekly lunch with friends - managing our 5-a-side football games, make teams, elo ladder - fantasy football leagues

Among many others

I just died.

Do you happen to have a source for that? I’d love to check it.

It could probably run it and learn to play it too.

For the lazier folk:

> Higher intakes of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, unsaturated fats, nuts, legumes and low-fat dairy products were linked to greater odds of healthy aging, whereas higher intakes of trans fats, sodium, sugary beverages and red or processed meats (or both) were inversely associated.

I've never done what you describe, but I have worked with people like you (can spot them a mile away), and I HATED working with them. I like being productive and want my teams to be productive. I've changed jobs a couple of times _because_ of people like you.

You clearly don't work in a hospital.

We live in the future now... and it's horrible.

Spend all your money on bitcoin and WAIT. Trust me. Do it.

Now THIS is news!

Is it just me that finds the entire concept of the Dash ridiculous?

I mean, what's the idea, having a button for every single product we buy? And we need to set it up first. How is that any better than recurring ordering or just opening the website and ordering it? Are we expected to have an entire wall of dashes at our place?

I guess we'll need to sort them alphabetically or by color, so we don't waste time searching for the button we need.

Exactly like me! :) I couldn't put it down to save my life.

I've basically done the same thing, going through Feedly to The Old Reader (TOR). The only downside to TOR at the moment is it seems to take a while to update the feeds, forcing me to manually hit the refresh button on the feeds I read more frequently.

I was about to suggest the exact same thing, so I totally agree with the CAPTCHA solution.

And maybe having a (daily?) article submission limit per user at the same time would keep people from submitting articles just for the sake of it.

It crossed my mind allowing users with more karma to have higher submission limits, but that might aswel be gamed at some point by some users.

So perhaps the best thing is having a CAPTCHA to avoid bot submissions and some kind of limit to avoid manual spamming.

Truth is, HN article quality has been slowly declining in the last few months and we keep seeing the same sources over and over again on the front page.

I have no idea if any of the following applies in your friend's case, but there could be a number of factors influencing such decision:

  * family / friends / girlfriend
  * leaving his home country
  * having a nicer job
  * not being tempted by the challenge
  * not being tempted by the money
  * being scared of the big jump

etc...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013

quoting from PG's comment on that post:

(= gravity* 1.8 timebase* 120 front-threshold* 1 nourl-factor* .4 lightweight-factor* .17 gag-factor* .1)

    (def frontpage-rank (s (o scorefn realscore) (o gravity gravity*))
      (* (/ (let base (- (scorefn s) 1)
              (if (> base 0) (expt base .8) base))
            (expt (/ (+ (item-age s) timebase*) 60) gravity))
         (if (no (in s!type 'story 'poll))  .8
             (blank s!url)                  nourl-factor*
             (mem 'bury s!keys)             .001
                                            (* (contro-factor s)
                                               (if (mem 'gag s!keys)
                                                    gag-factor*
                                                   (lightweight s)
                                                    lightweight-factor*
                                                   1)))))

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or simplifying a bit:

Score = (P-1) / (T+2)^G

where, P = points of an item (and -1 is to negate submitters vote) T = time since submission (in hours) G = Gravity, defaults to 1.8 in news.arc