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Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:35PM (#17520341)
If you haven’t already, check out “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman.
I'm curious — how does this deal with errors in async calls? RxJava has error handling built in with `onError` functions.
It looks like the point of this web app is to encourage you to re-read articles, rather than read them for the first time.
Re:Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @01:23PM (#6676916)
I dropped the $3.99 on the iOS app only to find that the Mac app wasn't compatible with my computer.

Looks cool, but I was pretty disappointed that I paid money and it didn't work with no warning.

Re:How much can an extra hour's sleep change you? on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @02:07PM (#6522790)
I know there's a lot of research in the effects of sleep deprivation on health, but the study referenced in the article had only 7 participants, segmented into two groups. Doesn't that seem like a really small sample size?