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I don't know if this reflects one or more widespread trends, but as someone who plays amateur hockey I've found that a very large number fellow players are engineers, programmers, market researchers, or some other white collar professional occupation. At least at non-professional levels, the sport seems to be full of very intelligent people, but not necessarily "intellectuals" per se.

It could just be a self-selection effect due to playing a relatively expensive sport (since income and education are correlated), 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. Especially given that many ivy league universities have historically had popular and successful teams in sports like boxing and wrestling.

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:

"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable." - Socrates
Looks good! I would think about replacing your main tagline with that sentence, or something like it. Not to be overly harsh, but your main tagline doesn't say anything.

Edit: Actually, I think if you said something like "Sandstorm is an open source app platform for personal servers" that would be a major improvement. The whole "app" part is missing from the main tagline. Then, your sub-tagline goes into more detail about what apps.

Edit 2: Actually, I would remove the open source part altogether. It's redundant if you have a github link somewhere on your page, which you do, and I think the developer community you are targeting would assume that it's open source. Or, just keep "open".
Maybe try joining a Fantasy Football league with some of your friends? Doing this will greatly improve your enjoyment because you will be invested in the performance of the players / teams on your fantasy team.
"This happened to me growing up so now I get to do it to you"?

What a wonderful message for the children.
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They "only" need to convince developers first. With Googles automatic banning from Play Store nowadays, that could even be doable.
I have always been a sports fan, but I really dislike the giant subsidies given to billionaires, to the point where it just feels like a giant con.

Not only is everything over priced, but there's a vast array of tax breaks and hidden subsidies that the working class pays for.
>And that is not primarily a tool problem.

>A lot of vendors want to cast the problem as a technological one. That if only you had the right tools then your analytics could stay ahead of the changing business in time for your data to inform the change rather than lag behind it.

many people like the author just don't get it and it is fine. The same way like people didn't get the search before Google.

>But how do I feel good about my graduate degree if all I'm doing is pulling a median?

the graduate degree is what allows to receive $Nx10e5/year (for a respectable value of N) for that pulling of a median

>If your goal is to positively impact the business, not to build a clustering algorithm that leverages storm and the Twitter API, you'll be OK.

on the other hand if your goal is power(OK, OK) instead of just OK then the clustering algorithm/storm/twitter is the way to go.
I once worked at a major big box retailer where somebody came up with a visualization that purported to show, for a given product category, purchases made in other categories. One surprising purchase correlation was customers bought TV stands after buying DVD players. So, this nugget was trumpeted at countless meetings about the value of big data analytics. Multiple marketing campaigns were designed around this discovery.

Of course, that made no sense, so I checked a little deeper. You know what else people also buy when they buy DVD players? TV's. The DVD/furniture relationship was an artifact of the high degree of correlation between TV's and DVD players, which the visualization tool failed to account for.

I brought this up immediately, but received tepid response. Of course, months later, I was still hearing about DVD players and furniture. It had become part of the institutional lore, and no facts were going to replace that.
I'm merely responding the parent comment who is basically saying don't report anything that hasn't been fully understood yet. It's bizarre.

In this case, if the effect involved is real, it is real without being understood. Just like electricity was not understood. Just because all the answers aren't there doesn't make the effect any less valid or newsworthy. It's a narrow view to take.

And as far as what the inventor won't tell us, sure. But the story is that someone else has recreated similar measurements using what is known about the setup. Potentially a big deal.
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"Geoffrey Aguirre’s best brain hack began late one night, at his home, while trolling Wikipedia."

"One night, he stumbled on the page for de Bruijn sequences, a large category that includes the type 1 sequences Aguirre was already familiar with. “De Bruijn sequences are this whole world of sequences that have a special property of counter-balance,” Aguirre says. “I realized that they would be perfect for the kinds of applications we had.”"
Let me rephrase - it's not that CS was actually more popular with boys (it was fairly split, actually), it's that in addition to the CS courses there was a parallel community of teens trying to be "hackers". Mostly boys- and a lot of it had a social component (hanging out late, trying things out, etc.). Their parents got them computers - my parents, those of other girls didn't (I think it was a fairly new field). And they certainly wouldn't have been keen on their daughters staying up until 3 am with boys :) at the time.
That's not a theory, just an anecdote. Things have obviously changed tremendously.
I'm in the US and not a sports fan and I regularly find myself in groups where the topic of conversation is sports. It's a little uncomfortable for me because it's assumed that all men are sports fans in my city (Boston).

My girlfriend recently cultivated an interest in sports so that she could fit in better with her predominately male colleagues. It seems to have worked for her. I can't tell for sure how much she actually enjoys it vs. how much she enjoys watching some play that she knows she'll will be a topic of conversation at work.
Theranos imo is a special case. It was founded by a woman with tons of family money and friends in high places. She did not need to play the funding game to get started. I doubt she would have held onto her position today if she had to use regular funding channels in the beginning.

Most likely, she would have lost control of her company.
Greece got a debt cut around 140B already.
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That is nonsense. Headroom is inversely proportional to how much distortion you are getting, no matter where in the signal chain. A metal tone has very little headroom. You can't add headroom to it without gating tricks: measuring the level of the pre-distorted signal, and using that to control the volume of the distorted signal.

Headroom is bad anyway. The electric guitar has way too much dynamic range to be useful. For clean guitar, your best friend is compression, so that you don't disappear in the mix against other instruments when you articulate some passage of notes softly.
They managed to write an article comparing the populations of the Pearl River Delta and Tokyo without actually giving the population of either. Nice work.
This, so much this, but also some of how proper DB modeling and not being afraid of denormalization can really let you solve lots of problems in efficient-enough ways with SQLite and/or MySQL / Postgres.

I tried out a few different mongo db-like embedded DBs for Python for a project a few months back, and I came away largely unimpressed. I ended up using couchdb for the PoC, later moving to ElasticSearch and letting that handle the "hard" parts for me (aggregations, JS in queries, and rivers are awesome). Even though it's hugely overkill for my data needs (~100mb uncompressed JSON), ElasticSearch is stupid fast and now handles a big part of what my app actually did. Embedded DBs couldn't do the same.
Saying SEO is a service designed to break search engines makes the false assumption that search engines are perfect.

I've seen many instances where Google failed to place the best site at the top and there was no evidence the top site used any SEO.
That is (or was) the definition of the middle or burgher class, though. The middle class is independent enough to be a check on the power of the upper class since they can't be bought, but not so wealthy or powerful that they control others. I think the analogy fits well.
Good content WRITING is about 20% of the job.

Good content MARKETING is about 80% of the job.

It's a misnomer to think that the stories you see in the headlines have arrived there organically. PG has a brilliant article on this topic. (1)

It does happen sometimes - you write great content and you're rewarded - but there are much more methodical / reliable way in honing your PR / growth hackery skills.

Simple tips:

1) There are PR guides written by some of the big blogs to explain how to get coverage without a PR agent (1)

2) Market to social communities like HN / Reddit where you can create relationships with people directly and - without being a "UPVOTE ME" scum-bag - get your content promoted because it's great and the community likes you.

3) There are multiple content-marketing services that you can use like Taboola.com or Outbrain.com (typically used for other industries but could work for you).

4) Hire a PR agent! The OP cleared $600k on his game and if your game is similarly good to his game and all that lacks is proper marketing then get serious about it. In my experience you can get a young / hungry PR person for $2 - 3k/mo to pay attention. More traditional $5 - 10k/mo. The best get $25k+ They get paid that much because there are typically clear returns.

I love HN because it's so cross discipline, just my two cents as a marketer.

(1) http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

(2) http://indiegames.com/2013/07/five_pr_tips_indies_really_nee...
Would it be practical to turn a computer case into a faraday cage, or are there issues with the keyboard and screen as well?
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i didn't say anything about screening kids out at that age -- i'm not sure where that came from?! i was simply pointing out that there is another very important factor in explaining success at cognitively demanding tasks like programming .
It seems really hard to sell that. The Guardian Weekly is a good attempt, and it has articles from Le Monde and Washington Post in it regularly as well. Combined with Le Monde Diplomatique (In English), which you could get as hard copy bundled, it gave a much better European view.

Unfortunately they don't sell an electronic copy, which I would certainly subscribe to.
The neat thing about intellectuals criticizing things is, they can say it so well.
> Germans reacted by developing the assault rifle

The MP44, some of which are supposedly still in use.

It was truly the worlds first assault rifle (the name assault rifle is a translation of what Hitler called it when he found out they'd built it despite him ordering them not to).

It also looks a lot like an AK47 (though internally very different) though in many ways is much more sophisticated internally.

http://youtu.be/4mcx8eR79dQ?t=19s good short history
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For some reason the term "do science" cracks me up.
Anime and manga and Japanese video games are now completely mainstreamed into American culture, to the point where often releases are done almost simultaneously in both countries. And the popularity of Frozen is not a surprise, Disney movies were popular in the 80's and 90's too. Korea is having success worldwide, but haven't really dented Japan's media presence in the USA specifically. Gangnam Style is funny because Korea has dumped tons of money and effort into penetrating the USA and mostly failed, and then a funny video by a guy with no presumed capacity for international success literally became a household name.
Nice! As part of some work that I was doing ages ago, I had to build myself a custom libc to statically link executables that would run on Android and WebOS since they are both essentially ARM Linux under the hood.

You can learn a lot by writing yourself a libc. Even building a simple/stupid malloc from scratch is a learning exercise.
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That's nice. It looks so simple in Python.

I notice that for convex hulls, they just use a wrapper around QHull. Doing convex hulls well is quite hard. If you intend to use them for collision detection, they must really be convex. The slightest concavity will cause the algorithm to stall at a local minimum. There's also the question of whether faces should be triangular or polygonal. If they're triangular, the convex hull of a cube has coplanar faces, which is bad. If they're polygonal, the polygon will not have perfectly flat faces due to finite precision and may have false convexity. A good compromise, supported in QHull, is to specify a minimum angle for edges. If you require, say, 1 degree of bend at each edge, most of the annoying corner cases go away.

The next step after that intro is constructive solid geometry, where you have union and intersection operations. 3D CAD systems use those heavily. This used to be considered very hard to do. Now you can do it in the browser: http://evanw.github.io/csg.js/
Brilliant Jedi mind trick.

"These aren't the droids you're looking for."
Man, if I ever make a WebGL MMO, I'd use this for the script editor.
How about, you've done it all your life, so your whining when it happens to you comes off as hypocritical? What a wonderful message...
I've tried multiple times to become interested in spectator sports. To date the only ones I find even mildly interesting are:

- NBA Finals basketball

- World Series of Poker

- UFC

Football is slow-paced and disheartening b/c of all the drives that end with a punt. Baseball is slow-paced. Hockey is OK but after a watching for 10 minutes I start to get board. Tennis and Golf are both extremely frustrating as well.

I love to participate in Amateur Radio Radiosport and have done quite well at it, and also love SCUBA and snowboarding but not in a competitive way (watching or participating).

So I guess it's a mystery to me how people can find mainstream sports so worth sinking time/energy into. If I were in sales I'd certainly glance at the sports page now and then.
For someone who sets out to change their social interactions, the author is surprisingly not very aware of dynamics at work here. The 'disdainful academics' are maintaining social boundaries just as much as the fans of a local team. Of course they go to great lengths to explain that to each other, they are actively maintaining that boundary. Whether or not you personally like or dislike sports, (or 'the other team') is very different from social displays which assert your allegiances.
I do think there's something to be said for refusing to conform, however - whether that's telling your fellow academics they're missing out, or telling folks at the bar that professional sports are a lot less fun that throwing a ball around in the park.
>But if I can pack an Oculus Rift headset into my pack, I dunno, a year from now.

I suspect it'll take longer than that for the resolution to get high enough to be usable for fine-detail tasks like professional coding.
The picture at the top of the article insinuates that this can see sessions inside https requests, but I can't find anything in the article on the specifics of that. How can you find the session cookie if the request uses TLS?
I can't personally recommend any yet, as I'm still warming up to it, myself.

https://github.com/purescript/purescript/wiki/Recommended-Li...
Holy crap, great idea! Imagine if adding a "monitor" (virtually speaking, of course) to your setup was no more difficult than splitting a Vim window... that would be pretty rad.

An Oculus Rift is much less expensive than your typical multi-monitor setup too, FWIW.
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Your last paragraph is something I wish more people understood. It is very eye opening to take a look at the salary information on US New "Best Jobs" for high cost regions. For instance, while software developers typically out earn RNs nationally, registered nurses earn a bit more at the median in SF than software developers. Dental Hygenists also earn almost as much as software developers. Lawyers and Physicians, of course, earn vastly more.

I've thought about this a bit. I think part of the reason tech workers are blamed may be scale. Because dental hygienists and registered nurses draw their salaries and economic value from the population they serve, they simply can't exist in sufficient numbers to displace the other residents. Tech workers, on the other hand, often draw their economic value from outside there region. While this means that tech workers are good in many ways (they bring wealth into a region rather than drawing wealth from it), they can exist in vastly greater numbers. In other words, there can only be so many $112k a year dental hygienists in SF (average salary in SF[1]), just not enough to cause displacement, whereas there really isn't a limit on how many $114k/yr [2] software developers there are in San Francisco. The salaries are roughly the same, but because software developers don't serve the local population, they can exist in vastly greater numbers.

Other factors- there's no multi-billionaire backed PAC group out there trying to convince congress that there is a desperate shortage of dental hygienists in SF, but there is for software, so there is a cottage industry devoted to convincing the American people that software developers are extravagantly paid workers, when in fact they are paid on average nicely but no more or less than many other jobs that require moderate amounts of training and education.

[1]http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/dental-hygienist/s...
[2] http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-developer...
I wonder if you could do some kind of crazy circuit bending by turning the VFD into a distortion device, with the characters displayed on the unit as part of the input.
An easy way to tell, I think: a megacity very likely has a single encompassing public transit authority, because the transit needs of the individual underlying municipalities involve a lot of "I live in this city, work in that city, and need to commute every day" and that can't be easily handled if it's a bunch of separate systems.

The Vancouver Metropolitan Area in British Columbia, for example, is six cities, with one transit system. There's also the Greater Vancouver Regional District, which is a megalopolis that consumes a few more adjacent cities, but those aren't linked by transit.
I really need to add changefeed support to the Scala lib. Should be a fun weekend.
i8 looks great.

That's about it.
To expand on this a little more, game development has an extremely long tail - perhaps <1% of games are Angry Birds or Minecraft, 2-3% may do decently, ~96% never make cost.
I have been looking for a text editor implementation in webgl or canvas, and this is cool. but still, this editor can't accept asian languages which require an input method program.
Few would consider money "disposable" if you had to make sacrifices for it.

@zaroth probably has NYC/SF in mind, where most $120k+ salaries probably are. Pay $40k tax (fed+state+local), at least $30k for rent+utilities, and you're left with $50k for food, clothing, gym, social expenses, travel, and everything else. Out of that, you'll be paying for gas, tolls, insurance, maintenance, and parking. Parking alone will run you $5-10k (unless you're okay with street parking and having that sweet ride scraped up end to end by a truck next week). You could do it, but not because $120k is Porsche-driving income.
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React Native does not use a webview.

The overhead comes from a slow DOM and other browser cruft like over-complicated CSS. We've found that Javascript itself is actually quite fast.

We are no longer constrained by browser APIs. For example, we can access native device features, and we can also integrate other native components into React Native apps.
This is a much better link: http://blog.sucuri.net/2015/01/adsense-abused-with-malvertis...

But it is pretty amazing to read that thread. One should note that it has lots of participation over the last couple of weeks but clearly Google has a big issue here.
I think what the author was getting as was that apps like this turn normal human interactions, complete with nuance and imperfection, into systematic conversation streams which can be optimized. One is like more efficient, but it raises the question of whether this theoretical human interaction optimum is a good thing.
> he is saying in effect "What you love is obtuse and low brow"

More than that, he is in effect saying "there is no depth to this thing" (which he hasn't studied in depth enough to know). Which is both rude and arrogant.

It's one thing to say you don't understand a thing and aren't interested in it, and then politely discuss things you are (mutually) interested in. It's quite another to distill something you don't understand into an absurd caricature like "grown men with sticks chasing etc." when it actually has a tremendous amount of depth and strategy -- which every sport has at the highest levels (including things like Snooker and Starcraft.)

There's a reason the weakside linebacker positions himself in a different spot against the pistol formation when the backup tight end is in versus when the starter is in. There's a reason the shooting guard makes a hard baseline cut right after swinging the ball out to the wing if he's matched up with a smaller defender. If you show contempt for people who think that stuff is cool (or even for people who merely think the end result is fun to watch though they don't understand the details) that's a serious social dysfunction.
well, at least it's a car, not an ipad with wheels ;)