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>The football player may be just as unprepared as the diligent student, but they probably have much less college debt.

You mean the players that didn't go to class, barely got by with a degree that's worth less than the paper its printed on? Interesting theory.
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The paper which started it all :)
http://www.thocp.net/biographies/papers/turing_oncomputablen...
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I think this is a great article for college football players to reflect on, but it ignores the fact that it's nearly impossible to get into the NFL without playing college football. Of course the cut is tough, but you'll never make it big in anything if you don't believe you can beat the odds.
It's not really, it's simply threads asking the main thread to drop every 5 ms, and then relying on the OS to schedule them. If Python had it's own scheduler it would do things like assigning priorities and actually deciding which thread would take over when the GIL was dropped.
The System R retrospective paper is a pretty masterful example of a CS systems paper:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/SystemR.pdf

It helps that they are describing a pioneering software project and they had the benefit of hindsight, but nonetheless, a great read.
I should first state a bias that I really dislike Greg Easterbrook as a writer for ESPN. That being said:

This article is terrible.

His main thesis is that you don't have to lower academic standards in order to be successful at football. Since the poster didn't even use this as the title, I wonder whether this is even worth discussing, but I'll quickly summarize. In the same way that you don't HAVE to have 300+ pound players to be successful at football, you don't have to lower academic standards to be successful, but you're limiting your talent pool, and it will make success harder. This is like saying that you don't HAVE to have a bug tracking system at your startup in order to be successful, but you sure are limiting yourself if you don't.

Then there is his thesis that's the title of the post, which is that it's a myth that playing football at a big-deal college gets you into the nfl. This is trivially true, and I don't think worth noting. This would be like saying "Myth: going to college at an ivy league school makes you a millionare". Sure, that's true, but your likelihood goes WAY up if you attend one of the top tier schools. In the article he fails to connect the dots when he reports on USC and Miami that a player is ~6 times more likely to go to the NFL compared to attending an average division 1 school.

To some posters comments, I disagree that a D1 football player who is on scholarship is just as prepared for life as a diligent student. First, having good grades from a college will open more doors for you later in life, whether it be grad school, getting interviews, etc. Whether this is right or fair can be argued, but it is the state of affairs. Secondly, in many cases football players are forced to light load courses while they play and take at least 5 years to graduate, and often once their eligibility runs out after 4 years, their grades that were good enough for them to stay enrolled while they played football suddenly aren't good enough to keep them enrolled as a non-athlete student. This happens all the time, and why for academic awards the graduation rate of the team (or athletic program as a whole) is often inspected. But I do agree if you compare an athlete against an average to below average student who drank and borrowed their way through school, the athlete may be better off. They may have some semblance of work ethic, and at least they're not in debt.
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Not to knock the author, but this essay is basically a rehash of Edward Tufte’s ideas, with a couple examples from computer software, and his own BART schedule program as an extended case study. It’s interesting enough, but too long, unfocused, and disorganized (which is probably why you bounced off a half dozen times).

If you’re interested in the topic (information design), you’ll get more mileage just going straight to Tufte’s books. Scott McCloud’s book, which the author recommends, is also excellent.
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"Chaos is one of the most unwelcome discoveries of science." (the video, Part 3/6, cca 7:10)

Why are the still saying that? When I first read about deterministic chaos in the James Gleick book [1], I almost wept with joy and awe. It opened my eyes and made complete sense.

[1] Chaos: Making a New Science (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos:_Making_a_New_Science)
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My current favorite paper of the month: "An efficient implementation of graph grammars based on the RETE matching algorithm" by H. Bunke, T. Glauser, T. Tran
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0017389

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the efficient determination of the set of productions of a graph grammar that are applicable in one rewriting step. We propose a new algorithm that is a generalization of a similar algorithm originally developed for forward chaining production systems. The time complexity of the proposed method is not better than that of a naive solution, in the worst case. In the best case, however, a significant speedup can be achieved. Some experiments supporting the results of a theoretical complexity analysis are described.
Radia Perlman's pivotal 1985 paper "An algorithm for distributed computation of a spanningtree in an extended LAN"

http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~ji/F02/ir02/p44-perlman.pdf

More papers should have their algorithms in rhyme!

Algorhyme

I think that I shall never see
A graph more lovely than a tree

A tree whose crucial property
Is loop-free connectivity.

A tree which must be sure to span
So packets can reach every LAN.

First the Root must be selected
By ID it is elected.

Least cost paths from Root are traced.
In the tree these paths are placed

A mesh is made by folks like me
Then bridges find a spanning tree.
I think HN community is composed of mostly independent thinkers, so what it will more likely do is to expose interesting stories to them, it is their choice in the end to actually upvote or not. (That is precisely the problem we are trying to solve: interesting stories not getting noticed).

Yes, the algorithm won't be perfect but it could factor in historical data such as previously how many upvotes submitor's other stories got or how many votes did the stories from that website got. On both those counts, your post will score high.
Without speaker notes, this isn't really too helpful. All I really got out of the 97 slides was that the ruby project needs more developers. I don't really know what the difference between a "cathedral" project and a "bazaar" is [1].

I really like ruby, but without actually hearing this speech in person, I don't think it really sends a coherent message.

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[1] The Cathedral/Bazaar distinction actually looks quite interesting. It's based on a book by Eric S Raymond (http://catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-bazaar/). The wikipedia article is pretty helpful as well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar).
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Exactly. And as a consequence of this both Lisp and Smalltalk allow you to restart from exceptions. Lisp has an extremely sophisticated method (most powerful of any language imo) called "restarts". These make it a lot easier to build much more robust software than it is without them. http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-co...
"your mail will usually get through"

Not in my experience. I have been on both sides: sending mail, and implementing IP based filtering. It's a clusterfuck.
My math skills were always bad. I mean, even though I had one of the best scores in school, I could never explain why it works, e.g. why 9^1/2 is the same as sqr(9).

Since I want to self-study the Quant Finance, I decided to refresh and develop my math skills up to the Calculus. This website is amazing! Not only it's a good refresher, it's the best source of knowledge created by one man.
this is useful: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/all-are-unaware.html
I never bothered to look up the "IQ tests are broken" statement. Scheduled this paper for reading.
Here's where you'd start:
http://connect.microsoft.com/
Well there you go, didn't know that either. if this is the mechanism that the story is based on, it's even less to be kicking up a fuss about IMO.
OP here. I've used Exchange, and I'd agree that it does solve the same problem. Gmail just makes a better example, not least because I prefer it.

Exchange also has the flaw that you can only do most of the clever stuff using Outlook. The web version of the front-end is passable, but it's clearly a fall-back rather than the primary interface - I much prefer GMail's attitude - everyone has a web browser. If you can build a better client than a web page then go for it, but the web interface sets a high standard.
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The government here has focused on raising taxes, putting off fixes on the budget until tomorrow which never comes.

The infrastructure is allowed to erode and this last year $175 per pupil was cut from education. They won't even plow the snow on weekends due to budget problems.

Jobs are to be created not by private industry, but by the State. Sound familiar?

In Michigan we know that goverment creation of jobs doesn't work. The nation as a whole has yet to learn that valuable lesson.
The typical newspaper pays 15-20% of revenues towards content creation and the rest to printing and distribution.

The NYT spends a great deal more. Perhaps higher than 40% IIRC.
Ask HN: Where are the enterprise gurus?
Hey guys,

I feel like I know of many great people, blogs, books and articles etc about building consumer products and websites but not so much on how to design and sell B2B enterprise products.

I'm new to the enterprise world and I wish I had more quality information to guide me.

Steve Blank's blog and book on Customer Driven Development has been very useful and interesting for example.

Any suggestions guys?

Thankyou
Yeah. And I think it would be amusing to see your cell-phone connected to that network instead of "AT&T" or "T-Mobile" or whatever :)
I upvoted parent and grandparent.

Alex3917's 'myth' is a strawman: of course it's possible to do well without an education. You shouldn't roll over and give up just because you didn't get to go to 4-year college. But an education is a resource, and you want to use all the resources you can get at.

I agree that universities are often prohibitively expensive, and not always the best decision anymore. Many programs at many universities flunk a cost-benefit analysis.
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it's the best overall.
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Of course I've heard of and read Tufte! But he doesn't emphasize nearly as much the idea that you can use visual design to eliminate interactions. The closest I can think of is his critique of iPhone UI:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/iphone-video.adp

"which is probably why you bounced off a half dozen times"

I bounced off after the abstract, long before I could judge length, focus or organization.
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Agree completely that slides without the presentation aren't worth much.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar was originally an essay by Eric Raymond, not a book. Whatever other faults he may have, he got a lot of things right in that article, and in an eloquent, very comprehensible way. It was a great read when it came out, and it has also more or less stood the test of time.
Wow, people have been telling me this was impossible for years. Thanks :D
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I should have probably waited for the video to be up on http://rubyconf2009.confreaks.com/
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That's funny, my memories must be all fantasy then? Pretty arrogant to tell me what I can and cannot have found at IIT. I have found all of the things mentioned above, and they were more the norm than the exception.
Actually, they already do. I've read an interview with their CFO a while back, and he said that a large majority of the company does traditional, non-cool corporation stuff. It is only trhe production department that does things in a hip way, and they're doing everything they can to publicize that, as you say.
Am I the only person who finds these arguments childish? Why can't people just respect whatever style the original author chose?

Also one of the best things you can can do to help avoid a lot of this frustration, is put those comments at the end of every source code file that configure indents for both emacs and vim. It makes switching between 4 and 8 space indents a bit less irritating.
Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer animation. By John Lasseter of Pixar fame, breaking down the infamous Luxo Jr animation.

http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/cps124/fall01/resources/p35-l...

Dietary pesticides (99.99% all natural). By Bruce Ames, inventor of the Ames test on how virtually all of our toxic chemical ingestion comes from natural, plant sources. And completely destroying the myth of organic food being less harmful.

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/87/19/7777.pdf

A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples. The only paper in history to be condemned by the US House of Representatives.

http://www.psycnet.org/journals/bul/124/1/22.pdf
A little off the beaten track for HN, but a classic paper in ecology that introduced the idea of trophic cascades:

Hairston, Smith and Slobodkin. 1960. Community structure, population control, and competition. American Naturalist 94: 421-425.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_cascade for more information
Some sort of constitutional amendment barring discrimination...

Since when is amending the constitution the coolest thing since Hanna Montana? Yes, "Congress Shall make no law discriminating on the basis of being a member of an organization or having attended a university", that sounds like a grand idea :)
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> This is good advice and a good indicator of why starting your own startup is the only sure fire way of making off like a founder.

'Sure fire' and 'startups' do not go together.

As a counter example, there are plenty of early Microsoft and Google people who were probably much better off with their options at those companies than doing their own thing. Sure, they're outliers, but lots of things about startups in general are kind of outliers...
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I do the same with a free 415 (San Francisco) phone from sipgate.com (redirected from google voice to have free sms & calls) and an asterisk box. I use a sip client from my iphone only when I am on wifi (which is fairly easy in this city). I use voipcheap to call internationally (10 Euros last me for close to six months, which is the only cost of the system.
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I would like to make 3 small points:

Most importantly: Athletes that have intentions of going pro in a major sport make up a tiny percentage of student athletes. The majority of student athletes care a great deal about school and graduate with a free education to boot. Universities like well rounded classes- not well rounded students. Student athletes are a component of this.

College football programs are open about the fact that they don't turn players into NFL prospects. This is why they honestly call them recruits. Unlike, say, an Ivy League school that claims (falsely) to turn you into a successful individual when in fact they only recruit the top talent. You go to a USC because they recognize you might already be NFL material and you give the school a good chance to win.

Thirdly, unlike what the author suggests, it is possible to care about both football and academics. They are not mutually exclusive.
Maybe people are tired about arguing over which font is best every other day?
Well yes and no. While you won't be locked into Flash, HTML5 still doesn't give you all the same benefits and features so you're stuck with a weird middle ground that benefits nobody. As a result, I think most developers will stick with Flash.
This is also a good font:

http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod...
Sounds like you can easily test it - $20/mail address, $100/month virtual secretary to pick up the phone and "take notes to pass to the engineering team".
Fluffy article with absolutely nothing to add to anything other than a recollection of a small part of history in computer science.
It's probably more efficient to list out HTML fragments that don't crash IE.
Having a "coding standard" is always a good practice especially when you have a team of developers.
If any other country did what China does, there would have been massive sanctions if not war

Wow, calling for war with China, really? Did you support the war in Iraq for the same reasons? Do you also support war with Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Pakistan?
How about his master's thesis. In "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits" Shannon proved that you could use boolean algebra to simplify the arrangement of electromechanical relays in telephone routing networks and then in the same thesis inverted the reasoning to show that by using these relays in the proper arrangement you could solve boolean algebra problems. All digital computers have some DNA that leads back to this paper he wrote when he was 21...

As comic-book guy would say: Best. Master's Thesis. Ever.
"respect the environment"

This is a local rule that needs to be learned?
Agreed. All of the characters are perfectly balanced and fine-tuned. For example, #, /, and <> all look wonderful in code. Monaco messes that up, especially with /.

Takes a little bit to get used to using a serif monospace font though.
"Extensive" is right, that's quite impressive.
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If I may ask, what server technologies do you people use at Zoho?

The fact each and every page loads only the relevant section is imo, a great feature and a feature that using django templates, I can achieve fairly easily.
We all know that the UN is retarded. By increasing the penalties for crimes motivated by discrimination against selected groups, you imply that crimes motivated by discrimination against groups that haven't been so selected are less severe. If someone went around and started killing geeks because they hated us collectively, they'd be less heavily punished than if they were targeting a protected group, such as Christians. Is that fair?
It's not as odd as you think. I've seen quite a few tideX.microsoft.com visiting non-tech related content on my website.
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While the "China in Africa" analogy is not particularly well matched, the specifics of the message from the Chinese spokesman are irrelevant. These sort of things are always diplomatic theater. Ultimately the message is "It's our country, you can play be our rules or fuck off".

The only thing that's going to get China to open up is if it becomes to expensive, either internally or externally not to do so.
A couple of days ago I was really looking for everyone's insights on this patent application by Google:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1042128
... but the original title I put on it didn't make clear what it was (I think it said "Google News related"). If it could get a second chance, I'm still quite curious what people think.
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> How do you motivate basic maths, though?
> Not everything can be directly connected
> to drug couriers and what not.

So far I've always succeeded, and I don't even think I'm especially gifted. On current experience, if you name a topic or technique, even in basic math, I can probably relate it to and motivate it by (comparatively) real world requirements at an appropriate level.

> Ultimately I suspect the only way to succeed
> in maths early on is to consider it to be a
> kind of game. That is, puzzle solving for fun.

I agree entirely that people who are going to go and do science or math probably have an element of problem-solving enjoyment, and for them, such motivation not only will work, but is the most appropriate. Getting such people to puzzle over why something happens, and getting them curious about how it works is probably the best thing you can do for them.

When I'm talking to people I show them a couple of things and gauge their reactions. Here are two:

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=604347

Any given person will react in one of two ways. One is to half-shrug as if to say "who cares?" and then move on, the other is to look closer and say "Do that again." People in the former group are most likely to need motivating with things that matter to them which might (but might not!) include games. The others can just have their curiosity poked and you're off and running.

YMMV, personal opinions only, etc, etc.
I'd love to try sup, but the incompatibility with other email clients makes it a non-starter for me. At minimum I need to use my phone's mail client without sup having to rebuild its index every time.
This one didn't make it because of tweet down-weighting.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1049016 Still no confirmation...
Sales is the engine that pulls a business along not production.

This sentence really sticks in my craw. You can produce and not sell, the results may not be as good as doing both in concert, but without production, you can't sell. What's with this constant reverence for sales?

Don't get me wrong, I'd actually like to learn more about sales, and I think approaching it scientifically / rationally is a good idea, I just don't grok this whole concept of sales uber alles.
This is the number one article on HN? I have got to stop visiting this site on the weekends...
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Also agree - but the wake up call for me was that my lack of understanding of a topic biased me towards thinking that the topic was trivial - ie: I was unable to appreciate how ignorant I was. This was a world shaker for me. My own cognitive filters were denying me understanding.
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