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A general comment about playing Chess. I've been playing since I was a kid. I like the game. Well, sort of. I've probably logged nearly 10K games on the playchess server. One day, while having a conversation about Chess with another (older) engineer he made a comment that really stuck in my mind, he said: "All you accomplish by playing a lot of Chess is to become a better Chess player".

His comment had a point to it. The conversation took place while we were waiting for the results of FEA for a fluid-based thermal management system. Each run took 18 hours. It had been running overnight and we were about to get results. While we waited I fired-up a quick game of Chess and we started to talk about the subject once I was done.

His point was that, unless your goal is to become a world champion and somehow earn a living out of playing Chess the game can very easily become a huge waste of time. You don't learn anything more than playing Chess. It is false to assume that good Chess players are really smart people. Yes, they might have the ability to achieve deep concentration and focus on the game. One would be surprised to learn just how bad some really good Chess players are about other things in life.

I thought about this on-and-off for months. Nearly every time I thought about playing Chess his words played back in my head. My conclusion was to accept that he was right: There was no point to playing Chess beyond a level of entertainment.

In order to become truly competitive in Chess you have to become a human database. You need to study openings, endings, all sorts of mid-game permutations. You need to study your opponents' games and know how to counter some of their moves or approaches. In other words, you need to turn a fun game into a job. That, to me, turns a fun game into an ugly job. I have no interest in being that person.

This point got driven home as I taught my kids to play. I started one of them off when he was six. This was prior to my "revelation". Very soon he was winning local tournaments right and left.

As I understood what was happening I pulled him back a bit from this rather serious engagement with the game. To some extent he had already learned a lot of what the game has to offer: Considering your options; Patience; Planning; Concentration; Goals; Making choices; etc. His time would be far better invested on such topics as programming, music, even building cool things with Legos.

You can learn the basic real-world-usable lessons of Chess within six to twelve months of playing the game. Anything beyond that is just playing more Chess with no further lessons that apply to other aspects of your life.

I admire GM's at the levels seen in these championships. Good for them. It is their chosen profession and they excel at it. However, I am no-longer in awe of their mental abilities. What they have to become in order to play at these levels is, to me, the absolute opposite of what the game felt like when I was a kid. It was very cool to solve problems as they were presented and "fight the battle". It isn't cool to play against a database --or have to become one.
Maybe I'll be the only one to say it, but this doesn't work with NoScript. Maybe this actually is a JS free Stopwatch, but the site doesn't work without JS enabled. Perhaps the title of this should be changed, or relinked to a JS free version?
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Maybe I'm mixing up their desktop/tablet/phone OS's. Clearly I'm going to have to find out more, but I'm waiting for it to be released.
My initial reaction was the same. But after I reviewed the code and saw how the magic worked, then I thought there was nothing wrong using the CSS this way: mainly the new feature of animation is utilized.
Facebook would have been nothing if it weren't for the popularity of Myspace. Facebook also would have been nothing had Myspace continued to innovate and grow, giving users fewer compelling reasons to switch.
Pragmatically, we draw it with Adblock and NoScript and friends.
I agree that you don't learn how to be a good person or do anything terribly useful by studying chess, but how is playing music or building cool things with Legos substantially different?

Just do what you please.
I tried testing the same way too, and it failed on me. I think the code would not load properly without JavaScript enabled. The proof that it works without JavaScript is the empty box where you put your JavaScript code.
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If you say "I'm gonna fight the evil 1% by educating people how to lead lives without debt" - that sounds like plan. If you say "I'm gonna fight the evil 1% by giving them money so people in bad debt can take more debt and irresponsible lenders could recover their costs, all while creating tax problems for the recipients of my charity" - that doesn't sound like a good plan. It's like AA giving out free beers, if I'm allowed to use analogies too.

BTW, if you look at what Planned Parenthood does, abortions are about 3% of what they do. So if their model would have 70% prevention, 25% counseling and 3% debt forgiveness, as PP does, I'd say it makes much more sense.
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The relationship between Alibaba and Yahoo hasn't been great in a long time, and there's substantial governance risk to owning a large stake in a Chinese company which hates you. Owning 20% of a $35b company could be worth less than $7b if they decide to make things difficult, and there is limited recourse. I don't think this sale is being driven by Yahoo.
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True Facebook "blew the door off of what everyone thought social networking was," but at what cost?

What does it mean when "half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad" coupled with other reports of unhappiness among Facebook users?

Nobody doubts Facebook was a game-changer, but perhaps the alleged troll mentioned in the blog post is onto something. Perhaps many users are in for a rude awakening after they have been given enough time to evaluate their lives and relationships pre/post Facebook. As a long-time Facebook user myself, I often wonder if the connections I've made over the years through Facebook have been a byproduct of hype and excitement vs. intentional steps taken to manage my relationships.

As an entrepreneur I share the same scoped viewpoint a software developer would have regarding Facebook. The ability to reach the masses quickly, especially with the help of friends, is godsend. As a user I have good and bad days. Some days I have great conversations with all my friends all over the world in one place. Other days, I feel like a ghost, watching others passively from a distant.

I certainly can't speak for any other Facebook user, but should I conclusively ever find out the service causes me more pain than happiness, I will never use Facebook again. The mere fact that I would even consider the notion that Facebook may have ruined my real world relationships is a cause for concern.
It uses prefix-free, which is a script, in order to be cleaner-looking code. As the author says:

> The JS used is prefixfree - just to make the length and size of the tutorial short and easy. No images or JS are used in the stopwatch logic/display.

It would be trivial to make a new -really- JS free version, but it wouldn't be so easy to understand. It could be non-js in production, it just isn't for teaching purposes, so I am happy to accept it as a 'non-js' stopwatch.
Am I missing something? I thought Facebook was the company that brought us wide-ranging privacy violations, mass narcissism and FarmVille spam, I wasn't aware that they were making people's lives better. Judging from the number of hours people waste staring at their wall and worrying about how many people liked their photos I will have to disagree with you.
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This is something I always loved about Python (as compared to other languages): There are several awesome interpreters available for it!

This one has a curses-based interactive GUI for docs and autocompletion.

IPython has this awesome qtconsole that can show matplotlib plots inline with the code. Then there is its HTML notebook which is probably awesome for presenting stuff.

Even IDLE is pretty cool, actually.

Is stuff like this available for other programming languages? I know Matlab has something vaguely similar to IPython and I think the IPython notebook is inspired by mathematica?

In comparison IRB seems really boring to me. Does Ruby have a cool interpreter? Perl? R?
One of the very first things typed is:

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Granted all it does is add the vendor based prefixes to certain CSS3 attributes, but this particular demo does in fact use Javascript.
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Wow, alibaba is actually a legit company? Every time it comes up in a google search, I take a few glances at it, and it just screams "spam, landing page" at me.

Odd.

Has anybody here actually bought anything from them?
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> If an application is not memory intensive, why would you care if there is 'waste'?

Performance. What other reason do you need? (Using cache more efficiently makes programs run faster).
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I'm super focused, and I inadvertently don't have a huge social life, and I'm ok with that.

Let me suggest to you that you do the equivalent of a "gap year" sometime soon. Save up a bit of money, put your stuff in storage, and head off on a grand adventure. Travel cheaply through developing countries where even meager savings will allow you access to interesting experiences. Alternatively, consider something like teaching English abroad. I learned more about the world, myself, and my own culture in a year of travel than I did in years of college and work. It's really easy to get so focused on your career track that you lose sight of the diversity and vast experiences that life has to offer. Incidentally, you'll meet a ton of very interesting people in a few months of hostel-hopping. :-)
I was enjoying the Facebook dissenter's comment until I reached the last word. It sort of defeated whatever persuasive import he had gained up to that point.

What's interesting is the blogger feels the need to engage such a comment. And he's certainly not the only one. If it's not a fad, if the quoted comment is way off the mark, if Facebook is all the great things we are told it is, then why is he arguing against a comment like this? No need to argue with fools, right?

But is anyone really sure what the heck Facebook is? It's a web developer's wet dream is what it is. Beyond that, who knows?

The arguments will continue, as they should. The jury is still out, though some investors have already reaped hundreds of millions from curious advertisers while we're deciding. They'll have cashed out long before we come to a final decision.

My personal opinion is that human communication through the internet, including photos and video, and achieving global internet connectedness of everyone, not just nerds, is definitely not a fad. Nor is is it something new. We've all been working toward this for many years. But doing it all, even the most personal parts, through Mark Zuckerberg's website? As in the "I think I will fuck them in the ear" Mark Zuckerberg. I'm just not sure I can call this a practice that is going to continue indefinitely, as other alternatives arise. There are better ways to do this sort of internet-enabled sharing and commmunication. To think they will never be made as user-friendly as Facebook seems to be ignoring inevitable forward progress.

Historically, Facebook may stand as the first proof we had that we could all coordinate with our friends to exchange contact information and photos in one central repository. Now that we have everyone's email address, it will be easy to coordinate and move the party elsewhere when the right alternative appears.
Alibaba is actually a huge player in China. Like eBay in its glory days but for a population many times larger.
> Who'd have thought [...]

Well, Donald Knuth for one. Here's a blog entry I wrote about Donald Knuth and how he asked for this a while back. I think it makes a lot of sense and I'm really glad to see this maturing!

http://blog.reverberate.org/2011/09/making-knuth-wish-come-t...
And the lighter elements of landfills end up being washed out into the ocean. That's how we got the great plastic gyres in the pacific.
I managed to juggle the Security Officer hat and running a startup for five years, and I still think the former was incredibly useful for the latter, but there's a limit to how long I can juggle.
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Because every state and territory I've lived in, it's been tyre. I've never seen tire used except by non-native speakers.
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KingsCrusher + Chessexplained are also doing indepth analysis of every game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZvOgTclCSM&feature=plcp

Sadly audio isn't great on this video but the analysis is still very good.
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HN may be interested to know that Anand is a brand ambassador for NIIT, a computer education company from India (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIIT). AFAIK this is the only brand he endorses.
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The problem with this post is that instead of taking the articulate arguments of why facebook might become less successful in the future and arguing against them, it more or less says 'Heres a troll who agrees with you, so you must be wrong'.

Later we get 'Heres a list of [fairly random] things about facebook'. So what? These may or may not be relevant to the future of facebook but aren't explained at all in these terms by the author.

If you want to write a blog post about something like this, please explore the issues more and don't just fill it with opinion and conjecture.
Agree. From my perspective, Mayun, the CEO of Alibaba, precisely provided this trade.
> The usage of "his woman" would be routed from translation of Bible from Hebrew.

Mmm, except we're not talking about a transliteration of a Bible verse. This is colloquial usage of the term "his woman" in the English language with respect to American culture, which implies ownership. This has absolutely-- and I mean absolutely-- nothing to do with Hebrew.

> So as long as the bible is part of English speaking culture the usage of woman as wife will be common.

And has nothing to do with what we're talking about. The term implies ownership, and the Bible takes a very "man owns woman" stance. I assume your intent was not to prove my point?
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I think this rings true at the highest levels of skill for most activities. The better you get, the more specialized your skillset has to become to continue winning, and the less applicable it becomes to other things.

Regardless, I think there's something to be said for competing at a high level. It provides more than just entertainment, as some skills do translate if you let them: The confidence you gain by knowing you have what it takes to be among the best at something. An attitude that refuses to settle for less. And a deep appreciation for what hard work and deliberate practice can accomplish.
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I would advise any CS student against tablets for the classroom.

A laptop is much more productive:

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- Ability to install whatever applications required for the classes

- No need of internet connection for software development

- Proper office like tooling for school reports
A few years ago, I ran into a guy from the local chess club at Barnes & Noble. I asked him how it was going, and he replied, "oh, you know... Good at chess. Bad at life." That has stuck with me too, and I can't justify spending too much time playing. It would be nice to share some games with my son when he gets older though.
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Airplanes seem to be the original vaporware at times. All sorts of interesting projects that seems to be getting somewhere and then stop and have no updates for years. Like the ElectraFlyer-X. Kudos to whoever makes the first affordable to fly airplane.
Adioso are a joke, stop posting your outlandish events on HN and start hacking and build a company.
I didn't say it was 100% positive. Just that it has done more good than bad if you ask me. Think of all the millions of people who keep in touch with most of their multi-faceted social networks via Facebook. Organ donor program too.

What else do you think a social network could do to help people? They create the tool, people use them how they CHOOSE to. Narcissism, apathy, and ignorance are cultural problems that need more than 'startup solutions'.
moularity is a good reason.
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Congrats! Very sleek design and intuitive interface. However, I do think that $2 is a bit on the expensive side for a simple app like this. I would suggest that you find some way to figure out where the ideal price point would be for your customers.

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The discussion we should be having is whether college is the best way to to learn the subjects that you mentioned.
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I guess producers are used to a world where it takes agreements with local outlets in many parts of the world to figure out how a show will be broadcast in each region.

When a pirated show is instantly available in a region that would otherwise wait a week, that shows an industry asleep at the wheel. Producers should ask themselves some hard questions if they're unable to deliver a better format when they're the ones being paid for it.

As I see it the future looks something like this:

1. ISPs and other infrastructure companies start charging much, much more for bandwidth but in exchange they invest hugely in it. The default assumption would be that everyone and his grandmother needs obscene amounts of data because this is now how they're watching TV, etc. There would be exceptions for people who somehow use very little, just like now where some people don't own a TV and don't buy cable.

2. Content companies make deals with these ISPs that basically say this: "hey, I'll produce lots of stuff people want, which will cause them to download obscene amounts of data; in exchange, give me a guaranteed cut of whatever you're charging them".

3. There would be a way to buy temporary bandwidth, e.g. instead of a pay-per-view movie you rent an hour of "high bandwidth" and download whatever you feel like watching in that time.

In other words, companies have to stop pretending the Internet isn't the best way to distribute things, and customers have to stop pretending that things don't cost money.
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It's one of the biggest players in their market!
Although Lonely Planet are now run primarily from the UK - they let most of their Australian team go.
The point is that the extremes are bad. If someone spent ten hours a day doing nothing but building legos the observation would be exactly the same: It's not good for you.

Chess can become a sick obsession. I know. I've been there. I have played chess for 12 hours straight on more than one occasion. It leaves you rattled and with nothing good to show for it. Contrast that to spending twelve hours with a mixed bag of skills: learning to play the guitar, watching a tutorial or two, taking in a couple TED talks, etc.

My greater point might be that if you have x amount of hours per day to devote to something it is probably a bad idea to devote too much of it to Chess. You are going to get nowhere by playing chess the way you learned it. The only way to start climbing up the ranks is to become a human database. That takes you in a very different direction.
It's because you're not in Asia. And what you're seeing is probably a page geared toward B2B not B2C.

Alibaba has been around a long time. They are most definitely a legit company. And a successful one.
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I don't believe there is a definitive answer to that. Everyone is different. Some learn better in the classroom, others learn best on their own, and I'm sure there are a million variations in between.
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