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Ask HN: How to find your own people and being around normal people
So,

I am a geek: Programming, computers, tech, discussing things in fine detail, picking wholes in theories and all things around me (not argumentative), reasoning out everything...

Even back in high school, 15yrs ago, I noticed that the above put most people off me. Put off largely by the fact that I thought differently than most people and was fairly creative in the not so normal ways (think gaining access, hacking things etc and not art, music etc)

It's continuing into adult life.. most people just end up thinking i'm odd. I find it difficult to mix with, who I will, call for ease of explanation "non-hackers". It's a pain because to get on socially in life you need to be able to mix with all types, chat about what I would consider nonsensical topics, trash news, sports, weather etc. It get's depressing at times, it's also annoying when I see types being able to have normal conversations >.<

When I do find somebody similarly minded it's great and we can chat about all sorts of stuff for hours. I've never really had the chance to create a group of friends like this.

I have recently moved to a new city with where I have no friends. After about 9 months I have ended up in a cycle of work, home, computer, bed. I haven't made any friends really as I generally find it difficult to fit in with the regular crews of people (probably introvert). I need to find a group of hacker, coder types who'd have no problem breaking out their favourite IDE abd learning a new language over some beers or whatever.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't look like your stereotypical nerd really. I'm trendy, look cool and can chat generally to people in passing but not really engage and make friends.

So my question is. Has anybody ever been in my type of situation before.. how do you find friends who are just like you.. a HN reader?

Does anybody share my dilemma?
It's really a bummer that whoever it is who bought the Symbolics intellectual property at probate* hasn't been more open about their plans for it or how they will be opening it up to the world.

The Symbolics intellectual property doesn't have much direct value today; their patents are all expired and licensing revenue can't be significant. However it has a huge amount of historical value, and it would be amazing to eventually have a runnable system available legally for free (rather than for the thousands of dollars the VLM still costs) and to have on GitHub a complete and accurate history of the code for the Genera operating system, the hardware microcode and FEP/console code, and the various applications.

* It's rumored that the creator of CL-HTTP was the buyer. I was actually starting to look into purchasing it myself (with the intent of freeing it as much as possible, starting a project to get it on GitHub, etc.) when I found it had been bought.
I worked in Colorado after the .com crash, the tech industry was devastated there, Bay Area companies that had opened offices in the area reconsolidated back in the Bay Area, rather than take advantage of lower payroll costs in Denver. It sounds good on paper to move out of the area, in practice it hadn't happened yet.
> The point is that the cost of the college grad is not a basis for economic decision making.

The common assumption that ajmurmann and vasiliys are likely working form is that value has been retained during the ~20 years of investment and the cost is proportional to the value and there cost is a reasonable proxy for value.

It is an assumption that does not always hold, but is common enough to do as a first order approximation.
Of course, but there is no evidence that operating in Tulsa would prevent that.
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Thanks. Lots of post antiquity significant scientific advancements seem to have happened in HRE.

My personal bet is that it has something to do with many lords with conflicting interests(Pope, King of spain(?), emperor and the duke). This left some people unattended and free to experiment all kinds of weird stuff.

Also the Genoa and Venice seem to have played a big role. I think this relates to how they based their economies on naval power, but had strategically very bad positions. So they had to stay ahead in technology. (Byzantine empire on the other hand controlled the most important choke point in European trade at the moment. So they had no such need to innovate.)
counseling where they recommend that you put your spouse above your children

I believe this is incredibly important for a lasting, loving relationship. I've observed a few relationships where one partner's priority shifts so much to the children that the other partner is left with little love or consideration and their bond quickly degrades.

I could understand this behavior in a place where there's a shortage of food and resources, but in developed countries with an abundance of food and relative safety people are sabotaging their happiness and adult bonds by elevating developing humans above the person they originally committed to.

Additionally, some adults infantilize their household culture to the point where adult activities become a sort of taboo. I think we short-change children by not exposing them to regular adult behaviors and conversations. Certainly there are some things children should not be exposed to but the household should be as accommodating for old and young as possible. A healthy balance needs to be struck.
At least on OS X, you could probably implement something like this using supported functionality for interrogating the OS state, and even interrogating the state of running applications using the accessibility APIs.
And do you really think it's wise to irritate dedicated, highly-skilled professionals in black pajamas? Just saying.
I can't give you an exact number, but when Europeans were starting the Industrial Revolution, most Europeans couldn't read or write.
> And who would teach them?

The Arab world?
At the very least, I can assure you he's familiar with Lisp Machines, I miss those things too.

Let me ask a few questions, e.g. I've been getting into electrics more directly as of late, and:

Which logic families did the CADR and 3600 use? (The LMI LAMBDA was designed to use 74F for Fast and Fairchild. Which wasn't initially good when the ALU was first tried out, its outputs oscillated at ~100MHz, then a CADR logic family chip was put in it to proceed for the moment.)

Ah, here's obscure stuff very few would know: who made the CONS machine's disk and controller, what was the size of the disk, and what was special about the particular controller unit? Several boards, separated by...?

Strangely enough, in this technological vastness of the future, Google is no help with the later paragraph's questions, except maybe the size.
It used to be said that it was impossible for a website to have a monopoly because the cost of switching is zero. I rather think that facebook's dominance has disproven that rule, though; in the world of the social network, switching is actually much more difficult than we ever expected.
Wait, are you saying you can negotiate with terrorist or with 2 year olds? I have no experience with terrorists, but I have five kids. There are absolutely times when a two year cannot be negotiated with. And there are times children have to be taught that under no uncertain times their current behavior is acceptable. And that time is a temper tantrum.
Neat punning on C pointers with minimal increase in memory-footprint.

Some people have suggested putting array sizes in structs. But that will increase the level of indirection and hurt performance. Also it will require rewriting most applications.

With Cello's approach you just have to avoid pointer arithmetic. Everything should work.
How does the second part of what you said relate to the article?
Don't get me started...

It is called a struct. It holds arbitrary collection of any type of data safely while enabling the lazy programmer to pass only one parameter around. It is also safe (as must as it can be in C) unlike pointers that hide data behind their back and are just asking for trouble.

I will ignore all the problems and point out the worst offender, stack allocation example. That is not how you allocate arbitrary data on the stack, automatic char array is not malloc. In fact, in C you can't do it without using special platform specific functions. Anything else will cause undefined behavior.
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Really? Using 18th century arguments about art? Would Hume have approved dadaism or postmodernism?
Mapping the paddle buttons to meta keys was such a good idea that Apple used it on the Apple //e with the open-Apple and closed-Apple (eventually option) keys. Was that a common thing for extended keyboards in the Apple ][ era?
I encourage you to read the aforementioned books. I believe the person you're responding to was just trying to point out that this issue is bigger than just rich people fixing the game.
Really? "The literacy rate in England in the 1640s was around 30 percent for males, rising to 60 percent in the mid-18th century." - Wikipedia
I like the idea. Like others have said here, the Pebble is nice for the notifications. I've been curious to try something that acts solely as a notification device such as this. It could be very discrete, placed in a band on the upper arm or around the ankle (if you want to keep track of steps). I wish the battery life were longer (that way I could use it as a sleep device as well, but I think with it's life of ~36 hours, I could probably work with it), but I like the concept, and look forward to it being compatible with Android.
This might have been true in Western civilization up until 18th century. Since industrial revolution started the pace at which the world is changing is so fast that by the time you reach your 70s most of your knowledge and life experience is already obsolete. That's why we leave elderly alone in nursing homes instead of keeping them close to use their wisdom.
I stream musicvideo on youtube via tor all day and if things are too slow I simply use the 'new circuit' button. It works very well.
The practical rule of thumb for a p-value is that it's nothing more than the rate of expected false-positives. p=.05 means you can expect 5% of false positives.

If more than 5% of your studies are failing to replicate, then something else is involved, but it's not necessarily fraudulent. Post-hoc hypotheses are usually the biggest culprit, but it's insidious to the point that researchers often don't realize they're doing it.
Naive Bayes assumes variable independence, for one thing. If the features aren't independent from each other, then you'd be better off using probabilistic graphical networks.
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I don't wear watches. I don't wear smartwatches either. But I... I kinda want this. I want to stick it to the back of a pendant or something, and have a piece of smart jewelry.

Sadly I doubt it'd work well for the fitness tracking uses if I used it that way. It'd have to be on a wrist to track pulse and whatnot.
Exactly. It certainly takes strength in the skill of politics. While some are naturals, it's an art and science that's anything but simple. The people on top were often groomed for it by experts (parents or whatever) over literally decades. They also get lots of practice during that time.

That's why I tell people who want to be rich or powerful to master people skills, maintain right image, go to right schools, get the right connections, and deal/negotiate their way to top manager by manger, boardroom by boardroom.
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I'll take the bait. Even if that were what he was suggesting, it wouldn't necessarily be wrong.

Fox News is as politically biased as the worst of left-wing media. Part of its bias is that "global warming remediation is bad for business". Emphasizing the continued use of cheap fossil fuels over continued funding for renewable energy R&D is a short-term strategy; it absolutely requires caring more about the now than about the future.

There are probably lots of people with similar beliefs who don't watch Fox News, and there are probably lots of Fox News viewers who don't share all the same beliefs, but as a generalization, it's no more wrong than any of the statements you see these days that includes the word "liberals".
Thanks for introducing me to this extension. I've been using my hand to cover news feeds on fb, twitter, etc when I need to go in and respond to a message or something. Although it's easy for me to do that as social news feeds don't hog my attention as much as they induce anxiety.
In general, things that lead to minimum wage employees getting paid more are a good thing.
Not so fast. Car manufacturing is a different beast.
Japan made consumer goods are very decent quality still.

Then of course when 95% of crap around is from China - its not that difficult to stand out.

And i'd rather pay a premium for Japanese made product than to pay for China made junk same price as if it was made in USA.
I didn't care too much for the comment because it was smug superiority.
Simply not needed as much anymore. Minimum wage loses it's ethical argument with UBI. Job security is lot less needed because your safety net actually works.

Unions would surely still exist. But they should not be able to hold as much power as currently. Which is exactly what I want. I'm not against unions, I'm against unions having a choke hold of my country.
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Google was the champion for that idea, regarding their Google Search product.

That is still valid - there are no (strong) network effects involved with a web search engine.
Sorry for the delay. I wasn't really thinking of making a primitive table just for names - what would its primary key be anyway?

The limitation you're missing is that SQL doesn't let you readily associate a user-entered `name` with each `person`. The best you can do is put a `name` field in the `male` table, then another `name` field in the `female` table, and use both `name`s when defining a `person` view. In my opinion, this is inelegant.

What I'm thinking about can be illustated with the following gist: https://gist.github.com/eduardoleon/1e8ad9174ec5ae0386dd
It's like it's 1987 all over again
Long before we reach strong AI will it be affecting what we are talking about here. Just like no job require all human abilities no robot ai will need to be general purpose or self aware or strong by any metrics.

There are plenty of alternatives to unanbomber not sure why you think think thats the only one.
It's an issue that has more than one position.

For a long time I was a volunteer at a mediation center where maybe 70% of the cases we did were parenting plans for divorced or separated parents.

The scientific evidence is that mediation is much more effective, for parenting plans, than court both in terms of (i) people being happy with the results, and (ii) people following their plan and not winding up back in court.

The family court in the county has a close relationship with the mediation center and tries to send as many cases to it as it can because it is cheaper and faster, never mind getting the better outcomes that are mentioned above.

Now in the case of that center people can always go to court if they don't come to an agreement, but I would say that the NYTimes assessment of alternative dispute resolution is pessimistic and reflects the viewpoint of the lawyers who are 99% of democratic congressmen and nearly 50% of the republicans.
Most people on two incomes didn't decide to do so voluntarily. They did so because they couldn't afford not to.

So, instead of having a household where you have one parent working to support the family and another parent who can occasionally add income but doesn't have to, now you have lots of people where they are fully tapped out and both parents are working full time.
How is it implemented on your phone? Does it cover all your phone's network usage?
"Think of the children" is a cliché
Potentially a two income household allows it's expenses to grow to take advantage of both incomes to some extent.

As a couple with two high incomes you actually have to try really hard not to let expenses get to the point where you can't live without both incomes. So in effect you now have 1 big income that you rely on.

In terms of the fragility, there is more chance of losing 1 out of 2 jobs (i.e. 50% of the income) than there is of losing 1 out of 1 jobs (i.e. 100% of the income). (I hope I explained this right - but it's how my thinking goes).
Stergen[0] did this few years back(had a working system in 2010 IIRC).
Their results are very good for soccer, and good for basketball and american football(all for live broadcast footage, in realtime).
Unfortunately (for them) nobody watch 3D television anymore.

[0] http://www.stergen.tv/
I guess this makes sense. Does the article tackle the idea that high-sugar and caffeinated foods are in a way addictive?

Sure portion control is the key here, but if your body is just simply craving a Big Mac and huge coke... what good is telling people that?
The Pebble is useless to me because you have to dismiss every notification twice: once on the phone, once on the watch. I like getting notifications on the watch when my phone is in my pocket, but when carrying on an extended iMessage conversation I have to deal with notifications on all 3 of watch, iPhone, and computer.

Does anyone know if there is a way to solve this problem?
>And by the way, staff scientist positions are most definitely not as competitive as professor positions.

I did say real staff scientist positions, not temporary postdoc-like positions or admin jobs. There are relatively few true research jobs that are not fixed term outside of academia (I am excluding industry of course as that is a totally different path).
You make a valid point. Trying to find what they did would be valuable to find what kinds of tactics the FBI and such use.
>The origins of the parenthood religion are obscure

"The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. It was ratified on 1920."

Womens suffrage has to reverb through political sphere. As a whole it's not good or bad, just different. Another thing coming from there: time passed since women gained vote seems to correlate with welfare spending.

I don't think religious fervor can be avoided in a society. It's just a matter of where it is directed.
Thanks for the link to your personal favorite. Reminds me of something Woody Allen said in "Annie Hall": There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.
I think this attitude makes sense.
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On a related note: as a non-American who is therefore missing out on the patriotism, the label "made in the USA" doesn't inspire any confidence in me -- at least for clothing and apparel.

My most recent example of this would be a not-cheap messenger bag that had problems both in terms of quality of the materials used (e.g. cheap zippers) as well as the manufacturing quality (e.g. the zippers weren't sewn on properly and would frequently jam) -- even the design had problems (e.g. a magnet covered by fabric in a place where it would be exposed to so much friction during everyday use the fabric wore out within one month or so).
Hmm, wouldn't have expected "But think of the chiiiiildren" to be a shitty argument even when applied to marriage.
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> arbitrary object deserialization [...] is inherently unsafe

Is it always? In a language with side-effects (like Java), maybe, but in something like Haskell, surely it would be completely safe?
This is somehow paradoxical. Items such as fine clothing are thought to be of much better quality if they come from Japan:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240529702045424045771572...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-japan-copied-americ...
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Valuable maybe not but they do represent the peak of societal sunk cost which we won't be recouping.

20 years into your career we've recovered a lot of that invested value, whereas right out of college is near or at the point that the handover of civilization between generations actually happens.
Put size information before the pointer in memory.
I disagree. Instagram, yes, as it's pretty much a facebook addon these days, but:

- Twitter is generally a way for people to follow famous/semi-famous people nowadays. Most people don't go there for their friends. If they follow someone, it's because they WANT to see what they have to see. There is little pressure to 'follow' someone back, like there is with Facebook friends.

- Reddit is semi-anonymous. The running joke is that you never want anyone in real life to know your reddit username. It's all about sharing, but it does not have the same kind of "dredge up the past" issue.

- HN falls in with Reddit. I know few people who use HN, and those that do I don't communicate with on it. Hell, most people don't even pay attention to usernames unless it's someone well known like tptacek.
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But, of course, no one questions the possibility of, like, you know, not letting kids use cell phones in school. Or maybe not letting kids use any form of digital camera, at all, ever? Is that actually impossible? Or just unreasonable?

Or, like, what if the reality is that taking a picture of your own nude body is not actually a crime? What if images of human nudity simply weren't criminalized?

A bridge too far?
Because putty is smaller, faster, can work with serial ports too, which lets you use it to configure routers, debug arduinos, etc. It looks nicer, is easier to choose fonts, offers logging, offers easier clipboard control, and a lot of other features. In short, it's just a much more useful program.
To me, saying "programmer" implies that one has no understanding of the crucial mathematics underlying the nature if computation. A programmer only knows how to slap together JS with the latest framework, throw it on top of RoR with code copied from a dozen SO posts, and say "job's done." An engineer uses mathematical reasoning and scientific knowledge to solve the problem. This is certainly a subtle difference. But it speaks volumes.
By the 1500s, Italy was only nominally a part of the Holy Roman Empire. Although Emperor Charles V did intervene a lot in Italy, that was more because of the Hapsburg Spanish role in Naples. It's not clear to me whether or not Pisans would have thought themselves members of the HRE.
On a bad day I feel that this is a racist track about how Italians are inferior to Jews and the kind of people who work at Harvard and it belongs in the same category as "Moral Basis of a Backward Society".

I grew up in New England in a time when it was much more important what kind of black or white you were than if you were black and white and I would say that you'd have the same problem getting into Harvard if you were French-Canadian, Italian, Irish or Polish as if you were Jewish except (i) you wouldn't try and (ii) you wouldn't fight over it.
I saw this a few days ago and really enjoyed it. I always knew this about Peanuts but never actually realized it. Horton is a great writer.
Thank you very much. :-)
Startup events remind me a lot of what it was like going to investment banking and sales & trading events, or financial conferences. Every overachieving Ivy Leaguer with no real sense of who they are or what they want to do just chasing prestige that was at finance events truly seems to have shifted to tech.