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Interesting. I am the opposite. When you watch a sport, it makes you want to play it. When I play a sport, it makes me want to watch it.

Watching a professional sport bores me unless I am currently playing that sport. When I am playing a given sport, then I start watching game highlights because I can learn so much from them. It improves my game play, gives me new ideas, and is just plain fun.
Yes, this thread has been a bit depressing. I don't see why being a fan of different sports and different teams should preclude people from being also simultaneously interested in science and math and other 'intellectual' pursuits.

Becoming a professional player requires as much (if not much more) hard work and talent as becoming a software engineer. These people dedicate their lives to the task, and are genuinely much much better than 99% of humans at their task, and are getting paid for their ability to entertain.

I don't get why people would look down upon these players and their fans.
Having visited a church in SF which seemed pretty similar to the ones in the article, the thing I found absolutely disgusting was the teaching that everyone should be giving money to the church. There were homeless people coming to church being told that giving up a minimum of 10% of what little they had would be the right thing to do. These are the people that the church should be supporting, not robbing.

The bible talks about cheerful giving for ministry. The notion that all people should be on the giving end of the bargain is nonsense. The city has a huge homelessness problem, and yet as a visitor, my perception of the churches was that they were just making things worse.
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I have no opinion on whether you should become a fan of professional sports; by all means do if you want.

I do, however, have an opinion on which one if so. Supporting American football, which causes irreversible brain damage in 100% of players [1] [2], is very much not okay. Maiming and crippling people for entertainment is a moral atrocity, and shame on the author for condoning it.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/10/19/offensive-play

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/opinion/what-i-saw-as-an-n...
Does this take significantly longer to compile than regular C# code (I can't imagine the answer is no)? If so, it doesn't really address the concerns Go's implementors brought up, which precisely revolved around the compile time : runtime performance tradeoffs that the JIT compiler helps mitigate for C#'s generics.
It's too bad the article did not put more emphasis on this perspective:

All of which underlines the false dichotomy of good and evil that Paulhus has been keen to probe.

For example, surgeons tend to lack empathy. People who are too empathetic would have a hard time cutting into someone. They would be too squeamish.

Soldiers are also a necessary and important role in the world where the work isn't "nice" in nature.
Tidal generators are in production. There's a pilot program installing them in NY harbor. They're fully submerged and I don't think they're ducks.
After the 2.0 release (this February) we're going to start bringing more drivers under the official umbrella. I don't have specific plans to share, but there will definitely be more officially supported drivers.

I'm not sure about Swift. If anyone wants to give building a Swift driver a try, check out the "Contribute a driver" section at http://rethinkdb.com/docs/install-drivers/. One is pretty easy to build, and is a lot of fun!
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occlusion and transparency are really difficult problems for AR. judging from the demo images, they seem have solved them. but I have never heard of any display technology claimed so.
An even worse form of such practices are sites that basically crawl yelp or yellowpages and then proceed to spam and call small businesses with the lure of 'claim your profile and get customers', when all it really is just emails from unqualified people submitting their contact information through the main site and randomly getting matched.

This startup company has ton of bad consumer reports, I'm glad that I ended up not working on their website. I would've had trouble sleeping had I seen what their website was actually doing, ripping off small businesses with fake leads.
Not in anyway financial advice, but maybe a good idea if you do so with position protection.
If that makes no sense - then only invest based on your risk appetite.
I'm not clear on how this relates. Microsoft created and patented a filesystem that solved some problems for flash memory. The SD association decided to adopt it for high capacity SD cards. I haven't read anything alleging that Microsoft did something sinister to trick them into doing that - is there something I'm not aware of there?

I get that this is inconvenient for users on other platforms that don't or can't license it easily, the same way GIF and MP3 and similar file formats have been in the past. I don't know why the SDA picked a proprietary filesystem.

Regardless, that was something the SDA did, and they did it in 2009. How does it relate to talking about how Microsoft currently produces apps and publishes APIs for other platforms?
If you're accessing objects that deeply, something is breaking the Law of Demeter about locality of reference and looseness of coupling.

It's a syntactic convenience, but it leads to questionable patterns. Do you really want to silently collapse the hierarchy of whatever was null? I'd rather identify it and fail with a specific message or behavior rather than generically.
Found an email in my spam folder for this shady dude.
Glad I've moved on to another browser.
I cultivated interest in golf to build rapport with the upper class. That didn't sound right, did it? Now is there any real difference between that and what the author is saying? I don't see one.
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I honestly do not understand why people get excited about hydrogen as power source. It escapes out of any container you put it in - a regular hydrogen tank will lose all of its contents within 3-4 weeks. A 70kg lead bottle only holds 1kg of Hydrogen. The power density is an order of magnitude lower than that of petrol,so a car using it as fuel will use hundreds of liters to get anywhere. And most importantly - there is literally zero of it in pure form here on Earth. It needs to be extracted first and then cooled down into liquid which costs a lot of energy. These are all problems that don't really have good solutions.
A biological computer estimates the position of an object that's moving much faster than the refresh rate of its visual system using years of training data. Simultaneously it triggers a cascade of actuators, twisting its body so that its hands reach maximum velocity at the same time the object reaches the bat it's holding. It loses sight of the ball, which is following a curved trajectory, while doing this.

It then takes off running at 20mph.

That's fantastically mysterious and incredible to me.

I'm not trying to minimize robotics or Boston Dynamics. It's an amazing field. I just think people under appreciate the movement of the human body.
"I wanted to show support for his work, and installed the browser and tried it out.

Today I received an email from the developer on my WORK email promoting his IndieGoGo campaign."

How can you be sure that this isn't a coincidence? Of course it's possible that the browser app could have stolen your contact information, but maybe they got your work address from another source a long time ago (which still doesn't make the spam acceptable). But just because one event precedes another doesn't imply that there's any causal relationship.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
But not the good ones.

The good ones may look askance at it and wonder whatever motivated you to get one.
> I've had a couple girlfriends who made fun of me enjoying hockey and college football, but after explaining the depth of the strategy, and how the football game is much less about the guys running into each other, and much more about the chess game the coaches are playing against each other

That part interests you more, maybe. One of the reasons sports have such wide appeal is that they can be appreciated in a number of different ways. Coaching and long term strategy is interesting for sure, but there's a lot to see just between players too.

Watching a professional basketball game, for example, I'm astounded by the pure, freak strength and athleticism of these six-and-a-half-foot-tall giants as they dunk, struggle for position for rebounds and leap across the court to block shots. I'm in awe of the mental discipline and social coordination the players need to successfully execute a defensive scheme or offensive play: split-second reads of their opponents' schemes, precise spatial awareness of their teammates and opposing players, and the ability to communicate effectively with teammates amid the roar of an NBA arena at full capacity.

Football isn't the same as basketball but the players are doing a lot more than just "running into each other." As one example, wide receivers are often engaged in tactical mind-games with defensive backs, fighting for the millisecond-grained advantage off the line of scrimmage that makes the difference between a touchdown and an intercepted pass. They have to execute cuts down the field on their routes with incredibly precise timing matching the quarterback's or risk causing an incompletion or worse. All players spend hundreds of hours a season in the film room studying their opponents, looking for tendencies and tells to exploit in the coming game.
Except that Greece isn't in a currency union with those other countries. If Greece had their own weak currency then it would make their exports cheaper, which might make them better off (except that leaving the Euro would trigger a financial collapse). China has been trying to keep the Yen cheap against the dollar for this reason, if your goods are cheap then ohers will buy more of them or prefer you over another producer.
I had a good reply lined up, but then I noticed there's a decent chance we're related. If only there were some shared cultural event happening this weekend that we could talk about as an introduction...
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Really cool to see Michael Albert mentioned on HN. He runs a great site called ZNet, a portal to really good political analysis from what you might call the "left libertarian" perspective. For example Noam Chomsky is a regular contributor, just to give you an idea.

The design's a little dated and they're always looking for technical help.

https://zcomm.org/
And he conveniently ignores the uniting factor that supporting a club or team provides. It united a community and gives people a feeling of belonging.

It doesn't have to be one (rational and critical thinking) or the other (supporting a team). I don't understand why so many people on this thread can't see that.
Yeah, never mind the 99.99% of Nobel winners that aren't/weren't athletes.
The percentage notion is pretty dangerous in my opinion. Even in old testament times, there was no fixed percentage. How much did a carpenter tithe? How much did a widow tithe?

The teaching I have seen at churches in San Francisco (not all churches mind you - I have only been to 3, and one of them didn't do this) was teaching this absolute lie that all people should be giving God (by which they meant the church) money, and that by giving money to the church, God would repay them with more. It isn't biblical, and it is really not helping with the huge homelessness problem in the city.

Anyone going to a church that is teaching this should be doing their own research, and then challenging the teaching at their church.
Of course it's meaningful. Because, due to its size, the Pearl River Delta contains what are essentially 11 different cities - each with its own city center. Where as the Greater Tokyo Area includes 6 - all substantially smaller than, and largely centered around, Tokyo.

Speaking about your other attributes... I think the most telling thing about the Pearl River Delta is that 2 of those 11 cities were governed by the UK until 1997 - and you still have to pass through customs and immigration to cross into and out of them...
Sometimes it's good for one large company to either fold or be reduced so that all the innovative or productive employees can move on to set up new companies.

A similar analogy is happening in Rochester NY with the Kodak's bankruptcy proceedings. Now there are many smaller companies specializing in various types of imaging business.

But the transition can be really painful if the area is not already diversified or have a strong social safety net.
This discussion is more than one month old, while the news leaked just yesterday.
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> You're completely glossing over the positives
...
> Calling sports destructive to society seems so completely asinine

You're completely glossing over the negative elements of professional sports (which includes college sports).
No, it's not. What you describe is the political theater - another form of circus. All decisions are made behind closed doors by very smart people.
> American football is an odious sport. Players regularly suffer concussions, traumatic brain injuries, and joint trauma. Permanent and debilitating injuries are common.

In Europe, spectators suffer those while watching football.
You've clearly never been to Yankee Stadium.
That is well and good, but pointless. People use such a circuit to get a heavier distortion with the same input signal, not to get light distortion with a smaller signal.

Let's put it this way: if you have high gain metal distortion circuit gained up to a 5mV clipping threshold, and then you roll down your guitar volume knob to play the blues, you're kinda using it wrong.
The line drawings are the magic leap drawings, submitted in a patent application.

The other images are nothing to do with magic leap and are screen grabs from art projects or design concepts.
Went to the page, clicked one that looked interesting called "Wrangler" (I am not familiar with this). No reviews, ok, but not even a link to the owners page? No links to documentation or anything to help me find the original project? Searching for "wrangler" on google helps me find a lot of information about Jeeps. More context would be very helpful.
I think your argument would get more consideration if you didn't come off as condescending and holier-than-thou. You should read the article, it's talking about you.
I'm the same way. I love playing sports personally. I'm more into individual sports like racket, cycling, etc, though I have played soccer and such way back. But I just can't really get into spectating and never had. For me I'd much rather be doing my own thing than watching somebody else do theirs; I lose interest pretty quickly. That includes both e-sports and physical sports. I'll enjoy the odd game day BBQ and beers with the guys though.
This is really an interesting thing to see.

I live in Phoenix, AZ. Which is where the superbowl is taking place. There are literally ads for it EVERYWHERE.

And yet I still meet people who aren't just ignorant of what is going on[1], but seemingly proud of their ignorance.

[1]Of course some people might just not know what is going on, or assume it's just another big sporting event and not really recognize that this one is especially significant.
There are several reasons why I dislike sports.

Professional sports are expensive and inefficient forms of entertainment. What is your cost (and opportunity cost) per hour for sports? Compared to films, books, video games, or board games you are burning money/time on a completely passive experience. When was the last time you learned something about yourself or others while watching a sporting event? Do they cause you to think at all?

Sports create an "us VS them" mentality that creates division. I much prefer following space exploration in which the opponent is objective based and nature itself.

Live events are used as delivery mechanisms for the marketing of inferior products like fast food restaurants, poor quality beers, fashion brands, processed foods, etc. The mentality that "I must watch it live" is constantly reenforced, requiring consumption of marketing. The phenomenon of the sports bar further encourages consumption of unhealthy food and poor quality beer (leading to drinking and driving).

For those reasons I no longer watch any sporting events. Now I watch eSports on Twitch to get my dose of live entertainment.
are SNR issues like that and the headroom an issue for a guitar amp? I mean why couldn't the solid state part be designed conservatively with extra headroom? Or do the desirable distortion products make that difficult even with a conservative design in later stages?
They don't have lax visa requirements.
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A friend of mine worked with Prof. Salter. He's an incredibly brilliant, smart and kind scientist. Unfortunately, much of his research was 'blocked' due to someone miscalculating the cost by twice the amount, starving the research field of funding until recently.
There are quite a few related spin-outs (e.g. Pelamis Wave, website currently down). Edinburgh also just got a huge wave tank for more experiments (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27702506).
I would recommend Inverting the Pyramid, it is a fascinating journey through the history of footie tactics.

Also, often it's difficult to gauge what's happening in a football match from watching on TV. Going to a game allows you a clearer view of how the match is progressing.

However, after watching enough matches, you can pretty soon see patterns and tactics and styles of each team, and it gets pretty fascinating.

And then of course there's the ability of the players to dazzle individually, either via great passing or with tricks or great tackles or an outstanding save.
"each with its own city center" vs "largely centered around Tokyo" is the answer then - Tokyo is cohesive, PRD is not.

The customs thing is interesting. Citation?
They'd have to prove it before they could go after you for it - you could be reviewing them, perhaps film or acting is your study.
Can you recommend some other books that are good introduction to analytics/data science? I often get asked for recommendations, but can't seem to find something suitable for beginners.

Dickrolls to be avoided if possible, but secretly kinda wishing...
Or my favorite "say that in English".
I saw it come into the lexicon of DARPA RFPs and proposals in the early 90's. It provided a generic term to encompass anyone engaged in the prosecution of the war. So these days it includes pilots sitting in trailers in Nellis AFB driving drones over Afghanistan.
I'm not sure what you mean when you say "like a wave." Are you referring to the fact that almost everything in biology falls into a normal distribution, whereas we currently produce each version of our machines in discrete increments (clonally)?

Any machines that stand a chance of being a threat to humanity will rely on the same sorts of chemical processes that biological machines currently do.

Where do you place viruses and obligate parasites on the machine-life spectrum?
"tribalism part that unnerves me... it rubs me the wrong way the same way most political rallies do"

Jr, ear muffs! "U! C! L! A! Fight! Fight! Fight!"

Yeah...I'm not quite getting how this invokes visions of Nuremberg, may I politely suggest a bit of therapy perhaps?
You are allowed to dislike sports, even hate sports.

What you shouldn't do is brag about your ignorance or dislike/hate of it as a way of projecting your status.

I don't follow baseball or most sports, but folks might ask me about so-and-so team, and my response is often "Oh, I don't really follow X, but <insert another topic you find interesting and may have common discussion point on>".

As the article points out, for most folks just exhibiting how much you dont care to follow sports ends the conversation, and makes you seem somewhat snobbish and like you don't want to engage on any topic. However, expressing it in a more open way, where you then volley back an alternative topic keeps the conversation alive.

Heck, even if you dont follow or don't care about the topic, the other person apparently does -- so try not to be too dismissive or indifferent..
> there are no mentions of tithing for Christians in the bible

Unless you count the 100% contribution in Acts 4:32-5:11.
The owners and general managers who run sports franchises aren't just as adept?

What is the difference?
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You are not factoring in the added savings on asphalt. Asphalt roads are expensive. For example, the new I-4 expansion in Orlando will cost $2.3 billion for 21 miles of 4 added lanes. The reason solar roadways make economical sense is because it replaces the road itself and thus adsorbs the cost of the asphalt that would otherwise have to be used. Solar canopies only make sense for parking lots and only in hot regions.
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The weekend is upon us! That means that there is some more time to be spent on fun side projects.

What is your side project this weekend?

Please include github repo's if possible.
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You hit the nail on the head. I've lived with football fans most of my life and have been exposed to it plenty of times. Even when I try to pay attention to it, I find it so boring that I zone out and begin thinking about other things without even realizing it. I have no problem with people who enjoy football and professional sports in general, but it's just not something I have an interest in.
>For example, surgeons tend to lack empathy. People who are too empathetic would have a hard time cutting into someone. They would be too squeamish.

lacking and having control over are 2 different things. Former makes a psychopath, latter - a good surgeon.
That's not his point though. His point is that for every bit of handwringing of how ghastly some people's comments on sports are, there's the reality that the football coach is the highest (in the millions of dollars range) paid position at almost every university in the US, how the sporting department despite those figures manages to be a net budgetry drain on almost every school which has one, and the reality that college-level sports is hugely abusive and exploitative to the players which actually play it.
Bioshock Infinite doesn't purport to give the player more than the standard illusion of choice, but I think it's more interesting how choice is handled in the narrative.

The characters think that they're making big, important decisions that reshape their world. It turns out that they weren't really.
Apparently you missed where you used the word "upper" or thought that it was equivalent to "lower," when in fact they are opposites. My apologies for this gentle correction if you are not a native english speaker.
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>It's the coming together / tribalism part that unnerves me.

Why? Is community bad? I need that argument to be unpacked a bit more, because for me my experience living in several different cities as their teams make a playoff run has been a fun, electrifying experience. Neighbors are hanging out. Kids are having sleep overs watching games. There's a (usually very) healthy bump to the local economy. For all the room-for-improvement there truly is with managing the sport, the sense of community is what's actually valuable to me.
That's awesome news.

I'm suspicious there's too much overlap between Camlistore and Tent for them to both be useful, since they each do data storage and sharing, but that's not your problem:)