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In related news, a script called "spark: ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell" has over 1,200 watchers and 79 forks on github at the moment.

Scipy is a monumental and long-running effort of creating a scientific library for Python. It's an incredibly advanced piece of software that quite possibly saves lives (literally), and has 207 watchers and 78 forks.

It's just what people really want. I'd even go so far to say there's an art to producing the kind of apps that satisfy this segment of HN.
Bright kids put schools in a difficult position, to be sure. The biggest problem with them is they're still just kids. They may be high-IQ, but they've got kid-like focus, maturity, self-motivation, etc. It would be relatively easy to just take high-IQ children and let them tool around on their own, but that's not a good idea because they'll never learn study skills and organizational skills that are so necessary to succeed in the real world.

Gifted and talented programs are, of course, an option, but they cost money and even when they're available they're often too-little, too-late. Magnet high schools, for example, don't do much good when a kid has been figuring out who to avoid schoolwork to spare himself from the sheer boredom since kindergarten.

I think a good solution would be to develop specialized curricula for advanced students at the state or national level (segregated by area to account for students who are advanced in some areas but not others). Obviously it would be logistically impossible for teachers to teach and grade these different assignments, but gifted students tend to be able to self-teach, and grading should be purely based on effort anyway.
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They make money from doodles??
As another former physics student, I'm excited about this too. I think my understanding of physics would benefit greatly if the various mathematical formalisms used to describe its different aspects were unified systematically.

I'm starting to read this article carefully right now.
Why would it be on a gallery pedestal if it wasn't art?!
Those 'pseudo-games' keep my wheelchair bound grandmother occupied (and possibly even entertained) throughout her day. They provide value to some people.
Another mistake you might want to fix:

>(like, matrix multplication isn't commutative, that means: A∗B≠B∗A when B and A are matrices)

You want to say something like "A∗B isn't necessarily equal to B∗A when B and A are matrices." Neither A∗B≠B∗A nor A∗B=B∗A are true in general when A and B are matrices.
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I think he was referring to the mention that doodles are part of the money team, which sounds strange
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I wonder if, psychologically, it's because the game is perceived as something you will permanently own, while the coffee is temporary. People seem to weigh the first kind of decision much more heavily.
Except that if you drive for 6 hours, you can't talk on the phone and you can't use your laptop. Your point doesn't make sense to me: if you're willing to drive for 6 hours, you're also willing to stop working during all that time, while if you flight you'll always find some time to work, at the terminal or in the plane.
I agree with you, and this is what I'd thought for the most part, but I find that if I don't think this way, I do exactly what bane did and just abandon whatever bores me. I don't want to just barely pass high school, I want to do well.
Why the investment in research time for the app and the disdain for the coffee which will pass through your system roughly 45 minutes later?

It makes some amount of sense. If I were to impulse-buy every app I saw under $5 that looked like it might be fun or useful, I'd be spending many thousands of dollars a year.
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I think maybe they didn't try hard enough LOL.

If you broadcast on the radio frequency the pilot is speaking on, you can jam their transmission.

If you broadcast on, say, the instrument landing frequency (ILS) frequency, the ILS needle the pilot is looking at will stay centered, no matter how much he deviates from the approach path.

The pilot would undoubtedly realize something was amiss, switch comm frequencies, use GPS etc. But it could cause some distraction and wreak some havoc.

Back in the 90s, there were cheap CD players and whatnot that would generate all kinds of crazy RF.

The FAA said, this is all unapproved electronics, we can't test it, it has to go off during takeoff and landing, unless the pilot OKs it. Of course, the corporate pilot will OK it for his CEO/passenger.
Electric cars still pose significant technological challenges. They're expensive, have limited range, take a long time to recharge, rely on rare and expensive elements, and may pose novel safety risks (e.g.: the Volt's delayed-response battery fire collision behavior).

I'd love to see something replace the fossil-fuel internal combustion passenger vehicle. It's going to be a tough solution, and I suspect it'll ultimately be a mix of public transit (vastly higher efficiencies, social and other costs), human-powered vehicles (bikes are great in human-scale cities and small towns), and some form of biofuel-powered vehicle. Simple truth is that liquid hydrocarbon fuels are energy dense, well understood, clean (relatively) and efficient. The problem has been the source we use.

My suspicion is that personal IC vehicles of 20 years from now will use a mix of power sources, and hybrid drives may be common (they offer certain efficiencies), but that a liquid hydrocarbon fuel source will be a large part of that mix. The difference is that we'll be growing rather than drilling or mining that fuel, at least to a large extent.
Your basing your argument on the idea that everyone is in some linear race and we will all do an assessment of ourselves and everyone else at the age of 40 to see who is ahead. Unfortunately many of the typically unhappiest people do this and they base their assessment on money and job titles. Success is not just about money and job titles. We all (well atleast some of us) have our own versions. One person who goes home after 8 hours may end up dedicating their extra time to building a great family life or hobby while pittying his past high performing coworker who now has made CEO. Who do you think is happier when they look back - the person who followed what they wanted to do or the person who 'won' against their peers?
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Thank you for prefixing your post with the pundit's name.
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Irony of ironies, did you know the author of the ea spouse blog also worked for zygna.
Thanks. You're right. I realized that I'd made that mistake when I was no longer at my computer. I do still readily conflate the terms but not the meanings.
My interpretation is, that in Apple's case, Steve getting cancer in the mid 2000's appears to have galvanized him, and by extension the entire company.

I just read through all John Siracusa's OS X reviews, and things really moved fairly slowly for the first few years, then from Tiger on, man, stuff just starts to fire on all cylinders. Think about what else was happening at Apple, the iPad (shelved), the iPhone, the move to Intel, Aperture, the unibodies, the MacBook Air.

It's hard to imagine that this peculiar set of circumstances, that put a guy like Steve Jobs along with a huge cast of incredible hardware and software engineers, in one place, then inspired Steve by showing him his own mortality, could ever happen again.
> this year's going to decide my future

Hah, if you only knew how untrue this is. What happens in high school is essentially meaningless (take it from someone who graduated with pretty much prefect marks). Go to college not in your home town, enrol in a degree that seems at least mildly interesting, and be open to changing your mind.

Don't worry: your future is not held captive by your 18-year-old self.

EDIT: feel free to email me if you want to chat.
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pushing voluntary arrangements underground rarely improves conditions, so I completely agree.
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Any citations for it only being a few percent of the population who can experience frisson? It seems more common than that, in my experience.
Good point, I have no first hand knowledge of working at Apple. I have worked at some smaller companies (and that's where I am now) that do have a good work/life balance but nobody would recognize those names so I just picked one. Definitely appreciate the insight though. I do occasionally contemplate working at a bigger company, and it's good to think about all the trade-offs. It's also interesting to think about the culture of a company, how that grows and evolves, and how that matches your own goals and ideals. It's not just about the money. I do think it's possible to do good work and be happy at a small/medium sized company that has a pretty cool product but isn't going to be the "next xyz".
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The artist deemed it art, therefore it is.
If you're wondering "Why is it art?" realize that you, wondering this, are the very justification of the art. It makes you wonder, it makes you react, therefore it is art.
I think it is just because the rant is in response to a strawman who is asking the question. They haven't really looked into free software as an alternative to proprietary software and it really is a shift in thinking about software. It is exactly the kind of response I'd expect from someone who makes their living off of proprietary software and gets ``attacked'' by the RMSes of the world.

It certainly seems like a lie if you use Microsoft Windows and iOS day-in and day-out and account for the free software which does exist by pointing out companies with alternative business models (Red Hat's support business, Google's search/advertising, etc). Then the only unexplained pieces left are those which are run by community (Debian, Apache, etc) and that can be handwaved away by people who donate to those projects or the developers have full-time ``real'' jobs which involves proprietary software. If one explains the existence of free software to themselves in this manner, than all free software requires the proprietary software side to pay developers and thus it is a myth in the sense that one can't have software without some level of proprietary software in the world. These are [likely] inaccurate explanations, but somewhat similar to the author's POV as far as I can tell.

If English didn't have this silly artifact, then the response would be about ridiculing how essentially zero people who use their apps would have any use for the source code so it is ok to keep it from them. Regardless, the point of free software is lost and the developer just doesn't want to be pestered by the RMSes of the world. Similar to how the developer doesn't want to be pestered by people who like to share software and think it does no harm. And not to be pestered by people who assume that s/he is rolling around in money.
Oh, right.

Well I dropped boring things, and things turned out alright. Just make sure you aren't using that as an excuse for avoiding things that aren't as easy. I never found Math as easy as I'm sure some of the Math genius on HN find it, but I didn't drop it either, for example.

I do agree that developing a good work ethic is important.
If and/or until the Amazon DRM loses its mind and locks you out of your content for whatever specious reason Amazon can create...

Hope it doesn't happen to you.
It is actually nice to read an article that seems balanced

See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3284741
Anyone care to explain their downvote?
It's not an effective way to bring down a plane. The pilot would just switch to another instrument or frequency. You could land the plane without any radios or navigation. But it would raise some pulses.
Any culture is fundamentally ruled by powerful people who aren't necessarily the best experts. Do you want those people to be billionaires (who get powerful by getting a lot of money somehow) or politicians (who get powerful by getting a lot of popularity somehow)? Doesn't sound like a good solution either way when you put it that way. There's nothing guaranteeing that a billionaire won't listen to genuine experts, just as there's nothing guaranteeing that a politician won't make decisions based on ideology or uninformed popular opinion.
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lol you didn't even describe what a 'closure' is ... just drew the equation.

i stopped reading after that.
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The list of symptoms you read, did it include hating yourself and thinking yourself a loser because you failed to complete (or even start) important tasks, lost jobs, failed in school, even when you knew how important it was to pay attention, stay on task, and get shit done?
Your local school board, for instance, is also more accessible and accountable to jingoes, creationists, abstinence activists, and teachers' unions.
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I was desperately bored in high school, and my solution was starting college early:

http://www.simons-rock.edu/

At Simon's Rock, the whole entering class consists of students who just finished 10th grade. In my experience there, self-selected 16-yr olds given the opportunity and expectation to live like adults mostly rise to the occasion.

That advice comes a bit late, given you have just 6 months of high school left. For you I would say two things:

1) It Gets Better

2) You can do anything for just 6 months.

Hang in there!
I think you should read more about exactly what the parent post is referring to. Zynga's history of one of blatent theft -- there is a hair's breadth between their games and the people whose originals they ripped off.
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If so, I've got ten or so more pieces of art than I previously was aware of.
Just tweeted that this was the best presentation on design that I'd ever seen. None of the tips will turn me into a designer but they will help.

I've looked at lots of design for developers presentations, the topic must be guaranteed link bait. None of them really were all that helpful to me until this one.

I've only met two developers in my career that were were world class at both programming and design. People are looking for a magic shortcut to grokking design that just isn't there. The best solution for me right now is to use Bootstrap but there really isn't a great alternative to hiring the best designer that you can find.
You're depending on each language's data structure implementation there. Redis aims to be more efficient than those.
Hah! I've been saying this for a while. Good to see it on Hacker News!
The how for me usually comes through a change in attitude. One such change is knowing that learning boring things now can pay off down the line, that what you're doing pays off. Once you accept that, you'll approach the mundane shit with new vigor. For me in high school, I hated history class - you learn some remote facts, you memorize them, you spit them out in an essay on a test. Who the hell cares? We had shitty weekly assignments where you literally just made an outline of the chapter you were reading. I remember very little of the actual content. But ... years later I'm really glad that I have the skill to quickly scan and digest mundane information. This ability didn't just happen - no one is born with a text filter that magically highlights important facts in paragraphs.

Not all the mundane bullshit you have to do will be important later in your life. But you won't know beforehand what parts were good and what parts weren't. So you can sink into not caring, or you can believe that maybe 1/5 boring things will save your ass someday. Sure, you might be smarter than your teachers now, but knowing how to impress 'dumber' people is a really important skill that about 50% of smart people don't grasp.

I've been through similar things, and I should emphasize that things do get better as bane says.

Here's a comic that helped to remind me that at some point it wasn't just about learning bullshit, but that at the end of the day you can do really cool things with crap that seems boring and trivial now: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2125#c...
It can. What helped me was learning that depression is a physical phenomenon resulting from trained signaling pathways in one's brain that can be observed and retrained. That's what CBT attempts to do, but learning some of the science behind it allowed me to really figure out what I needed to do to help myself.

These are the two books that helped the most:

"The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force"
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and

"Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345479890/ref=oh_o03_s00_i...
Fixed. Thanks for telling me these things, it really helps.
I think what helps make it art is that this artist took this idea, made it into an object (the hard drive with all the data), and then labeled it/made it accessible in such a way that we start to question it differently than if we had just looked at some old hard drive in our room.. So yeah, it's art, but in a sense away from typical mediums like music or painting, etc.
People have been starting businesses with limited personal wealth since time immemorial. He may or may not have had the flexibility to do exactly what he did, but mortgages and business loans for things that aren't utterly ridiculous are not difficult to come by in good economic conditions (which is what he had at the time).
Um. I did. If you read on, I did explain what a closure was. If you don't get it, the concept is pretty simple, if you have two elements in a set S, and you apply the group operation on them, then the result must be in set S for the set in question to be a group.
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And I'll recommend this one then: http://www.mixergy.com (I am quite active over email with the host and have arranged several of the interviews - Morten Lund and John Robb come to mind)
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Simply calling something "art" doesn't make a difference in the actual content of the piece, so we might as well consider every entity as already having that label. Therefore everything/anything is already "art", and the question becomes whether a particular piece is "good" art.
Unnecessarily long article, but I appreciate it.

I take 20+ something supplements every day, half of which are intended to improve cognition. (You can see most of them at http://supplementwiki.org/Supplement_Wiki:Todo_List ) I attest to their utility, however their cumulative effect is actually really mild. If anyone's taken adderall or other stimulants before, you know it kicks in and wears off really quick. With nootropics you'd actually want to take long term, it's almost as if they don't work. After a few months, however, you notice you learn and observe more quickly and your speech and interactions become a lot easier and articulate.

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I have the same problem but I decided that first summary line is ok to be a little long. I regularly have my summaries be about 100 to 120 chars long. My rationale is that you aren't reading a paragraph, just a single line in isolation. For me, the hard part about reading long lines is jumping from the end of one to the beginning of the next. When the entire paragraph is on one line that problem just does not exist. Plus I always give a 1 line blank before the body of the commit so there's less visual confusion.
At the "$150,000 per work infringed" valuation, I think one could claim a _much_ larger number. 34 individual songs would break $5 million claimed.
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It is best to understand the quote in the context of what Picasso meant. This article explains it well: http://www.businessofdesignonline.com/picasso-good-artists-c...
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I heard of pilots experimenting with el cheapo CD players - player goes on, needles peg. Player goes off, everything is OK.

The cell phone ban is an FCC ban, not FAA like devices during takeoff and landing - http://www.fcc.gov/guides/wireless-devices-airplanes

In the old days of analog cell phones, a single cell phone would talk to all the towers in range and hog bandwidth on every one. On the ground not many towers were in range, once you got to 20,000 feet, there were a lot. If cell phones were on on all the planes over LA, it would be like a DDOS attack.

Possibly still an issue with digital phones, but they can do a lot of smart things, modulate power, drop calls to not overload the network LOL.
so can bing, yahoo and every other search engine.
This only proves a bubble if they bring in $20 million of funding from Andreessen-Horowitz.