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I don't care about sports. If you start a conversation with me about sports, it'll be short. I'm not being mean to anyone who likes sports, I just don't care. You don't get to tell me that I'm wrong for not sharing your interest. Liking sports isn't obligatory.
Your criticism is valid, but something does not need to have been deliberate for those in power to take advantage of it. Sports serve much the same purpose in secular society as rituals do in religion.

Also, the sport calendar can be used to time communications, particularly those w/ a populist message. Natural events are used this way fortuitously all the time (storms, natural disasters, 9/11, etc.)
At the right age absolutely. When I say big bad place I mean make them street smart.

If they still believe in fairy tales, santa, etc. and believe that life ahead is a bed of roses, it's so easy to fall off the wagon.
you can still buy CS6 last I looked but you better do it pretty soon, as that might not last. I'd also sign up for a communicyt college course for a great discount again if you can. This whole renting requirement may subside. Adobe is going to be suffering some from people who don't want to rent and will stick to cs6 for so long that they will try something new to convince them. Like way cheaper prices or go back to an licensed / ownership model. CS6 still does everything CC does for 99% of people, but Adobe will start to feel the pinch as every year passes. A lot of people hate renting software. Rent to own is ok, but just to rent, that's a bunch of BS for the amount charged in my view.
"The bottom line is that we realize we have to continually raise the bar, to get you home from the bar. We are aware of this challenge, from both a technological as well as people perspective, and are doing what we can to fulfill our mission of bringing reliable rides to all who want them."

Yes, because it's really critical to get home from the bar in a state of total inebriation =)

Also, I didn't know giving reliable rides was Uber's mission. I thought it was "evolving the way the world moves." This may sound like nitpicking but if you pause for a moment, the difference, as far as a company mission goes, between "giving reliable rides" and "evolving the way the world moves" is pretty big.
I view IBM or especially HP jumping on a bandwagon as a strong negative signal for that technology.
I was wondering if Ben was reiterating an old point of his. Nope, this is his same post from 2012. May be worth changing the title to highlight that.
A lot of people are gonna say I'm a jerk and think I'm militant if I don't like what they like. Fuck that. People decide they don't like you even if you didn't do anything wrong, all the time.
This is a really good point. I try to interpret every statement charitably (until the point where it strains credulity). As such I don't tend to think about those who prefer seeing attacks in every comment and thus don't usually think about the "be careful about avoiding ambiguity" part of your comment.
That's an interesting perspective, in a similar wheelhouse to my own, but I don't blame professional sports for the many ills caused by school sports. You picked on high schools, but the problem is far worse in colleges. I much prefer the european model, which focuses on clubs rather than schools.
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The next logical step here is that this gets wrapped by an Om-like and then we are writing native apps in clojure! That is pretty exciting to me.
Especially considering that I'd wager the majority of the noise the car produces is artificial. Since cars are more efficient these days, it has become commonplace for manufactures to add artificial engine sound. Buyers want cars that sound like classic muscle cars but have modern efficiency. It would be fun hack the sound the car produces to make it sound something like this Domino's pizza scooter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n17B_uFF4cA
Professional sports are for the dumb - a modern version of the Roman circus to keep the unwashed masses occupied and away from the important things in life - politics, finance, economics.
I remember that feeling in my upper-division math classes in college -- PDEs, abstract algebra, etc. It seemed to me like I was struggling (which was a new experience for me in math class) and to make it worse, I sat next to this guy who always seemed to know it cold. I would score in the 80s on almost everything, and I would look over there and this guy would have perfect scores all the time. It definitely bothered me.

About halfway through the semester I ended up spending more time with this guy and I realized that he really lived and breathed mathematics. I mean, he did all the exercises in every chapter. (Who does that?) He would study for hours and hours before tests. Anyway, it kind of taught me a lesson. If you want to belong, you have to work for it. Nobody's just going to move over to make a space for you. You have to carve a space for yourself.
I agree this works fairly well with most literature, but I have a hard time imagining how it will work with code and organizing an entire programming language as a whole.
You are projecting. Someone doesn't share your interests, or finds sports boring. It really, really doesn't mean they think they're clever, or "too good". That implies that secretly, they like sports but just get off on pretending not to like them to be elitist. But it's simply untrue.

Sorry you have a grievance with your exes who were bored by your preoccupation with sports. Nobody is obligated to share your interests any more than you are obligated to share a certain autistic person's interest in trains. If you find talking about models of trains boring, that's your right. Period.
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At what age do creative minds peak?
Nice straw man you got there. Where do you get from that he thinks sports should be banned?
> but given how popular sports of all types are (both watching and playing) among so many different types of people I am amazed that the denizens of ivory towers have been able to maintain the stereotype of sports as "low brow" for so long.

I don't think that stereotype actually exists in "the denizens of ivory towers" so much as the stereotype of "denizens of ivory towers" holding that stereotype exists in the minds of people who identify themselves in opposition to "denizens of ivory towers".

Actually academics, whether fairly described as "denizens of ivory towers" or not, seem, IME, to be no less interest in sport qua sport than anyone else -- plenty of them fans of the popular professional sports, and plenty of those that aren't not disdaining them so much as being busier with other things, whether academic/professional pursuits, family, or even their own personal involvement in some form of sport, and not taking time for participation in the ritual of major professional sport spectation.

> It's deeply, tragically ironic when you consider that the origins of those same intellecutal bubbles are rooted in Greek and Roman classical studies, both cultures that prized a well developed body and mind, and considered a man incomplete if he lacked either

I don't think tribal attachment to and spectating major professional sports has any connection to a "well-developed body and mind".
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PS Absolutely loving RethinkDB, I've been using it as my main database since April and its a joy to work with!
Nobody other than you said anything about banning sports.
> In many sports this in non-existent. The only people not taking performance enhancing drugs are the ones not getting caught. When billions of dollars are involved it's more than just a gentle suggestion that these professionals take drugs or enhancement.

That is quite the accusation. Stereotyping at best. Because that incentive model exists in your head does not mean it reflects reality.
I expect that people do not judge Germans by one German's opinion.
I think you're underestimating the crashing indifference some of us feel toward all sports. It's not cultivated, and it's not that we haven't tried or been exposed to other's enthusiasms. It's not that we haven't played a bit ourselves, even, at least at beer-league level.

My whole family is pretty nuts about American football, so I grew up surrounded by it and can still appreciate the beauty and complexity of the game, the strategy and execution. But I watch the Superbowl and that's it. I just can't be bothered with anything else.

I used to play soccer with a bunch of Europeans who could happily discuss Champions League play for hours. Never was able to muster up the interest to do more than fake a short conversation.

I followed baseball for long enough to survive a World Series while living in the US, during which time it was impossible to have a conversation with anyone about anything that didn't involve the game. My interest lapsed the moment the last bat was swung. It was just too much work to maintain.

Why do sports leave some of us so utterly flat? I have no idea (although from reading some of the comments here apparently the world is full of people who can tell on the basis of a few short sentences the entirety of a person's motivations, which is a pretty good trick.) But it's the reality. So yeah, you can choose how much effort you want to put into being a sports fan, but for some of us the amount of effort required to engage beyond the most brain-dead superficial level is huge compared to the effort the average fan puts in following their favourite team.

For whatever reason, some of us face a wall of indifference that makes the effort of surmounting it simply not worth it.

[I half expect replies to tell me that "no I really just don't understand how beautiful $GAME is", which is the flip side of that uncanny ability to know everything about a person's motivations.]
I grew up working class and was a boxer. I love Ice Hockey, Football, UFC, NASCAR, Motocross, and heavy metal, but I am also an academic and an intellectual. Many highly educated people have told me so, I just don't have the paper to prove it.

I hear ya. I wrestled in high-school, did a lot of BMX biking in my younger years (and still ride a little, even now in my 40's), used to dabble in amateur power-lifting a bit, mountain-bike these days, and used to participate in some brazilian jiu-jitsu / submission wrestling / MMA stuff. I also grew up watching NASCAR and Indy Car racing, and I'm a diehard NFL fan (#PHINSUP!!!) But I'm also a pretty well educated (3 college degrees) guy who listens to both heavy-metal and classical music, reads Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Foucalt, Wittgenstein, etc. for fun, reads The Economist semi-regularly, etc.

I won't use the term "intellectual" to refer to myself, but many of my friends think of me as something of an "intellectual". I just think the whole thing is silly. I'm "working class" in many ways, but I share characteristics, attributes and interests with the intellectuals. So yeah, I would say that this whole "disdain of the working class and working class interests, by intellectuals" me strikes me as pretty stupid.

When a kids says, "Hockey. Meh. It is a bunch grown men with sticks chasing a black piece of rubber around a sheet of ice" he is saying in effect "What you love is obtuse and low brow and I don't care how that makes you feel." And that is just rude.*

It's also ignorant. There is a lot of wisdom and truth to be learned on the hockey ice, the football field, the wrestling mat, etc. Sport is just a compressed version of life in many ways.
I don't believe so, per se. I think though, that if - as there are examples in this thread - you feel compelled to be sure everyone is aware of the disdain you have, replete with remarks like "overpaid gorillas" "getting paid far too much to chase a piece of rubber around with some sticks", then you do veer into snob territory, a la The Onion's Man Who Doesn't Own A TV.

While there are many valid arguments to be made about sport and the importance thereof, it's also condescending for someone (not you specifically) to act like this - there's quite a degree of talent and skill and hard work that I think a lot of people don't quite realize. "Oh, he's a good player, but I could have played college ball, and made it".

No, most likely you couldn't. There's a huge gap in skill.

I played cricket as a teen and we had two international players come to our club for a BBQ and hit around session. The kids bowling to them, they just blocked.

The adults, several of whom played at the state level themselves and to us were "very skilled"?

No. Not in comparison. Everything they threw at these guys was hit out of the park. I'm not exaggerating. Fast, slow, skilled players. Every. Single. Ball. Out of the park without a bounce. It gives you a realization of the level of talent and skill to play at that level.
Most manufacturers do it. Consumer perceptions of power, performance and prestige are strongly influenced by engine noise. Modern turbocharged engines are much more efficient, but substantially quieter than naturally aspirated engines. A turbocharged I4 can produce just as much power as a naturally aspirated V8, but it doesn't sound as powerful.

Engine noise masks other mechanical noise from the suspension, brakes and gearbox; Those noises are often unsettling, giving a perception of poor build quality or mechanical defects. Artificial noise can mask those sounds, without the greater cost and weight of acoustic insulation.

I don't like the idea, but the marketing logic is perfectly sound.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/americas-best...
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It seems that a certain number of sports fans like yourself get automatically butthurt if someone doesn't play along with them. You're not entitled to that. And the majority of the US has been strongly shaming anyone who doesn't share your interest for their entire life, calling them gay. So I even understand why someone might make a point in public of how they are NOT ashamed to be someone who was never into sports. It's their fucking right.

If someone on the internet says "roid rage violence" I am going to ignore it, not get outraged. You can cry me a river about how badly bullied you are because of hearing that phrase, poor you.
I don't know that he necessarily means that sports were designed with these purposes in mind. Sports/games in general have always been diversions and that's why they're popular.
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It was on HN awhile ago, it was basically "part 2" of an unveiling of a 3d engine that was several years in the making.

This 3d demo was totally awesome... it rendered trees + water + rocks + buildings in real time, and as he would move the mouse, he would terraform the world, and the water, trees and stone would react to it.

He could also "grow" rocks and buildings and stairs.

It was insanely realistic, very cool, and now ive spent a good 1 hour looking for it and cant find it.
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The level of analysis of sport in many venues is quite interesting. Take Zach Lowe @grantland on the NBA for instance: http://grantland.com/contributors/zach-lowe/
I, as a German, feel good about the Marshall Plan. Do you suggest to implement something similar for Greece? I don't think a lot of Greeks will be in favor for it.
I'm really excited about RethinkDB, and am using it in my (yet-to-be-launched) startup. The new changes() support seems very interesting for my app, but for my use case I'd need several queries open per user (probably on the order of 10-100).

I missed the Q&A this afternoon, but I see lots of RethinkDB engineers on here... so, would there be severe performance implications of holding open that many cursors?
That's why you put your servers in cages.
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I think you're missing the point. He's not writing about undeserved fame or status.
Zeno's paradox assumes less than "constant velocity". It assumes that there is a minimum finite velocity, or that an infinite number of moments in time must be experienced, not skipped over.

Zeno's paradox is about our casual/informal passing between the continuous and the discrete.

If in reality there is some planck-length-like discrete grid structure to the universe, there is no paradox.
>What other corporate products must I consume

There is more to "sports" than watching them on TV. How about participating in them? It's good for your health, sort of like not eating McDonald's.

>If I don't eat at McDonalds because I care about my health, am I unfit for socialization?

There's a difference between "not eating" (or "not liking"), and "showing overt contempt" towards.

So, yes. If you don't understand that, your social skills are probably lacking.
High school athletics is a problem in some ways, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Robert Putnam is a political scientist of some renown. One of his major contributions was a study he did in Italy over 40 years. His question was why was government in in the north generally more efficient and just all around better than politics in the southern portion of the country.

His conclusion was that northern Italians were much more heavily involved in civic clubs like religious groups, labor unions, and ... soccer clubs, which created social capital, and horizontal networks, unlike the hierarchical networks in the south which created clientelism and gangs.

Sports fanhood and clubs may actually make democracy better. They certainly foster community. There are bigger problems in this country.
The ability to talk to people about things that interest them but not yourself is a very important skill to cultivate. The intersection of yourself with "people worth knowing and talking to" is bigger than the intersection of yourself with "people who share your interests".
This would be cool to code a game from within a game. A game mechanic where you have to "hack" a computer system to gain rewards or advance levels.

A few notes, using FF35 on OSX 10.10:

1) Can't use without first going full-screen.

2) Red dot follows the mouse, but with a large offset.

3) Cursor doesn't focus where mouse click occurs. Doesn't focus where red dot is either.

4) No visual indicator when a window has focus. So keyboard navigation often results in accidentally typing a/w/s/d in a code window.

5) Would be nice to use click/drag to pan up/down/left/right.
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>> I suddenly asked myself at one point, why do I care if my high school team wins the football game? [laughter] I mean, I don't know anybody on the team, you know? [audience roars] I mean, they have nothing to do with me, I mean, why I am cheering for my team? It doesn't mean any -- it doesn't make sense.

The thing is though that applies to Odysseus, Hamlet, Charles Foster Kane... Narrative in general. Our investment in any form of entertainment is equally nonsensical.
Have you considered the possibility that this overt faux-ignorance might be in response to a situation where:

a) everyone expects you to know the difference between a safety touch and a free safety

and

b) no one knows the difference between muonium and muonic hydrogen (a difference I myself just learned today)

and

c) if you do know the difference between muonium and muonic hydrogen you instantly get treated with contempt?

I'm not sure that this is the case, but having lived my whole life in a world that treats almost everything I care about with overt and sometimes violent contempt, I can certainly see people who care more about art, science, literature or poetry acting out a bit to give the rest of the world the feeling they have when they try to talk to anyone about anything that matters to them.
The miners are there because Counterparty assets are built inside of the bitcoin blockchain. So without the miners hashing the blockchain, the transactions for CP assets (FLDC) will not go through.

As for why not just donate to standford? You absolutely could and i am sure they would love that :) But we are trying to harness the 330 PetaFLOPS of CPU and GPU computational power used in the other altcoins. So by giving an incentive to fold to the miners, the hopes are they will move over to folding, rather than hashing at blockchains that in many cases die off or get abandoned.
You can make 100 landing pages with interesting content on them, but if they are using words that people don't use when searching, they are less likely to be surfaced at the top of the results.

Those pages can be scattered across the site architect and have improper linking. They can have improper titles, meta descriptions, and image alt tags. Often times writers can't grasp these things, or they are so overworked with pumping out content that they simply don't have the time for them.

SEOs can be more technical, and can also make changes across a large site or networks of sites. EG: Missing the city and state from the h1 of every vehicle landing page for hundreds or thousands of vehicles on a thousand dealership sites can have a dramatic impact.

In this sense many SEOs also have the skills to be what we now call Content Strategists. People that do research, plan, and keep the content teams moving in the right direction.
That's actually an interesting point.

The thing that didn't bother me about the Clinton/Lewinski thing is that, in my opinion, having an extramarital affair doesn't necessarily affect your job. But then again, if being viewed as an adulterer means that you can't get your job done properly as President, then that is a problem.

In the case of Eich, I was a bit more torn: being the CEO of an organization that prides itself on its openness and general "social good" means that your social views should match that of the organization. Or at least there shouldn't be any glaring mismatches.
DR Chrono has an add on the front page where people do their "challenge" in order to compete for an interview.

Worst example yet.

Apparently the company side generates scores based on whatever arbitrary factors HR chooses, including time, and some companies were simply comparing scores to decide who to hire.

Using it as a way of collaborating during a phone interview seems pretty reasonable.
"reliable rides" fits with their stance on surge pricing -- they want to be a service that can always get you a ride, as long as you're willing to pay the price (not saying this is good or bad).
> while ignoring that C# is not AOT compiled

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dotnetnative.aspx
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people

What's the value in ideas unless the affect events or impact people? It's a nice pithy quote, but don't assign it any undue deference or respect.
thecolorblue has already paid unemployment insurance, via his employer, for exactly the situation he's in now. He is his own burden.
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What is "this"? You mean blog articles?
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malloc is a generic allocator, it needs to worry about a lot of things that are not common. A simple allocator will work most of the time, but the devil is in the details.
That is a big win.
Actually non of the money goes towards protein folding, its the power of the folders that does. All of the FLDC (money) goes directly to those that fold.

As for the IPO, we dont need one. Since a counterparty asset is very easy to create, our overhead is low. Thats why we are running a fundraiser, we plan on implementing additional features, but really no features are required to distribute FLDC. The features will help better the currency and the economy surrounding the currency, but unless people wish to give us money to do these things, then we will simply keep coding ourselves and distribute FLDC everyday.

Other blockchains require a lot of maintenance and patches, we do not. Almost no overhead
This article looks like one big paradox that shouldn't actually exist.