skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strongly agree.

Sports as a team activity, a friendly space to be physically active and competitive (with varying degrees of physical injury risk depending on the sport), are fantastic. I was a three-sport athlete in high school and consider the lessons learned in that context just as important as some of the coursework. My cross-country team was full of AP math and science kids, while my soccer team had more of the kids who smoked pot and goofed off in class. Even supporting the teams I didn't belong to meant finding common ground with those I might otherwise have never associated with.

When I consider the professional sports phenomenon, I can't suppress my knowledge of its more insidious aspects. The ludicrous salaries in an age when the disparity between rich and poor is becoming more painfully exacerbated, and the effect that this allure has on the American educational system. The reinforcement of racially motivated prejudices. The disregard for players' physical and emotional well-being, as well as other more casual disgraces that Marshawn Lynch could readily identify. The vitriol frequently associated with team fandom (which I am fortunate to have escaped despite growing up in the heart of the SEC).

I don't begrudge anyone their enjoyment of collegiate or professional sports. Once in a blue moon I'll even attend a football or hockey game at a friend's invitation, and I whoop and cheer and critique just like the next guy. But don't ask me to fall in line with the majority and unreservedly celebrate professional sports just so I can "identify with the common man". I don't watch the Super Bowl, despite invitations, not because I feel some elitist need to prove my refinement to others, but because it's difficult for me to support a system that contradicts my values on so many counts.
Nice write up duder, interesting to see you investigate the weird pits you fall into.
Only happens on mobile, it tries to redirect you to a mobile-only version that guess what, just doesn't work at all.
Like the idea, it usually takes a lot of research to track down which add-on to use, it's not easy/a good use of time to try-before-you-buy.

Feature request: Would be easier if there was a star/popularity rating on the front page.
> nor are we driven by some need to display this disinterest as some kind of marker of class rank or intellectual superiority.

Not to disagree with you, but I was under the impression that most research on social signaling has shown that it is not a conscious phenomenon.

You don't do X because you think it will signal Y. You just do X, whether because of unconscious social signals you have received or because the information that X might signal Y is contained in the genome rather than in the brain.

Can anyone clarify?
They seem to still have enough money to keep paying him his six-figure salary. So there's that.
Reading this discussion feels like just as much a waste of time as following sports. I think it's hard and pointless to make any conclusions about the reasons people are stubbornly disinterested in mainstream entertainment. Whether somebody is truly disinterested or trying to be disinterested because they believe they are above the lowly peasants...who really cares?

At least the article itself isn't too difficult to get through. From his list, number 3 is the one that jumped out at me:

"Interest in sports can expand or shrink to fill the time you’re willing to give it"

I'm skeptical about the "shrink" part. The main problem I have with sports is how swallowed up some people and society in general can be. There was a recent discussion on HN about books and how impossible it is to be able to read everything that's important within your lifetime. Now, I don't even read books (yet), and I'm certainly not a good role model for spending my time wisely. But I guess there's no problem with people spending time on whatever makes them happy, and if the time people put into sports makes them that happy, so be it. I think it would be better for everybody, however, if we focused more on improving our lives in the long run. Have some more discipline. On the other hand, I think it's great to be "open minded". Give everything and everybody a chance to be worth your attention. It reduces ignorance.
I tweaked React's JSX transformer to output Mithril-compatible code, so you don't have to deal with this sort of syntax:

https://github.com/insin/msx

Having done DOM building with nested function calls/arrays/objects for years prior to it, I can't go back to the necessary syntax-wrangling after having used JSX.
Google has created a special spoon for people with Parkinsons
> And I'm sure the blog series helped with game sales.

yep.
This is all true of the hardware as it exists right now. By the same token the original iPhone was low res, slow, only 2G, and bulky. The iPhone 4 (first with retina display) came out only 3 years later. That's a huge leap in such a short period of time.

If VR catches on at all you can expect it to see the same type of acceleration.
Interestingly, this interaction between my wife and I has gone both ways. The same way she got me into watching hockey, I ended up getting her into watching professional fighting games. She likes to watch Street Fighter because the footsie game is a bit slower, so it's easier for her to track what's going on. After I spent a few tournaments explaining some of the mind games and telling her about the various players and the common matchups, she's ended up getting pretty invested in watching major streams when they're on, and she has her own favourites characters and players that she likes to root for.
This guy literally "wrote the book" that taught me javascript. One of the best resources that I've ever used to this day. Kudos on the new job.
Before Uber revolutionizes labor it needs to explain these embarrassing emails
Ahhhh, owned by snoped. I feel dumb.

But kyllo has another good taxy point.
A beautiful simple implementation for signing into websites using SSH. I think this idea can be very helpful for developers, perhaps give them good scripts to hot reload a patch on production servers.
sounds like minecraft but I'm sure that's not what you meant....
Alan Watt nailed it long ago:

http://youtu.be/C6hiMLQs50E
I'm pretty sure you're more than a bit deluded.

Sports unite communities in way few other human activities can. Plus, at least outside the US, interest in professional sports often inspires children to go outside and play, especially in the case of cricket and soccer.
Just installed SublimeLinter. Thanks!

It puts some icons in the margins, but I can't figure out how to get an explanation of those icons. I see a bunch of !s next to my import statements.
If the syntax definitions for the languages you use are geared for it then ST3's symbol indexing (giving Goto Definition & Goto Symbol project-wide) is worth it alone.
Ick. I remember when I was younger trying to enjoy following sports teams, and caring about who won a game. I really tried. Once I accepted that I just didn't give a crap about any of it, it doesn't affect me which team wins, and I don't have to pretend to care, it was like a giant weight lifted off me.
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Relevant discussion at Physics SE: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/154288/the-status...
Introduction to JavaScript: Objects as Models
I feel like you are maybe saying something interesting with the "BLANK to City: Drop Dead" stuff but I'll admit I am not totally sure what exactly. Care to rephrase?
> Sports in general is ritualized hunting / warfare.

Ritualized, sure. Hunting / warfare? Depends on the sport.

Dancesport is a thing, and its assuredly not ritualized hunting / warfare.

> Sports is highly preferable to the small-scale skirmishes that frequently occurred in centuries past.

Sports is -- and has been for quite some time -- a frequent focus of the small-scale skirmishes much the same as those you paint it as an alternative to. I'm not sure its much of an outlet.

> It would be a lot more effective for society if we were pitting city governments against each other, seeing who can deliver the best services at the lowest taxpayer cost. But I'm not holding my breath for someone to set that league.

Actually, before those "small-scale skirmishes" were so frequently outbursts about sport, they were often outbursts between the backers of different political factions, ideologies, or groups striving to shape society (we still sometimes have those, too; sport may have kept the violence while removing the social purpose to a certain extent, but not entirely.)
This looks really amazing. Probably the most simple implementation of FRP I've ever seen, nonetheless in Swift.
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No, there is a direct relation. At least outside the US, many many children are inspired to go out and try and imitate their favourite sporting heroes, and even if they aren't athletic they usually are included in the larger community and get to play and socialize. This is definitely the case with soccer and cricket.

I haven't seen a single case where being a fan has precluded children from going out and playing.

Perhaps as adults the situation might be different, but their are a whole host of other factors at play there, including health and time issues.
I think even among those who don't necessarily care for sports, calling them 'sports-hating snobs' is often at odds with reality.

I grew up in an academic family. My parents were at the top of their respective fields, and their work, to them was as much a labor of love as it was anything else. I found that really very few things competed in their eyes with the fun/enjoyment of doing their job. Sports didn't really make that cut, but pretty much nothing but family made that cut. Their friends (and colleagues) seemed to be similar.

It was not so much about "Eew sports" as it was "Do I want to watch sports? Or would I rather read a book?" and "Read a book" won 99.99% of the time.

That being said, I did see a lot of disdain for sports among some of the more intellectual students at my university.

I'd be willing to bet that who acts like a sports-hating-snob can be predicted by simple signalling theory: professors/academics are unlikely to have their 'intellectual credentials/worthiness' questioned. They usually wouldn't need to signal "Disdain for sports" as a way to differentiate themselves from the non-intellectual working class. Being interested in sports also probably doesn't have any potential impact on other's perception of them, but probably doesn't benefit them particularly either--so you'd see academics with an interest in sports and academics who just don't really care, but you probably wouldn't see lots of academics decrying sports. (Outside of the critiques you'd expect of the NFL/NBA/FIFA/etc.--probably focused on the organizational ethics rather than the idea of sports as inherently bad.) On the other hand, in the case of students or middle class, non-professorial individuals, the differentiation between them and the working class is less immediately obvious to them and their peers, particularly on the things that someone aspiring to appear 'intellectual' would care about. (I think this also includes people in tech.) For them, decrying sports signals that they are decidedly not working class/non-intellectual, and alleviates the risk of being identified as such.
We are a tribal species. Teams (and schools) are modern tribes.
Watching sports is a perfectly fine method of entertainment on its own, but I have two problems with it as a whole:

1. Dominance of sports culture is distracting to students in high school and college, and acts as a money sink. Playing sports is great, but I'm not sure why we subsidize it so much (talking about competitive teams here, not intramurals/PE).

2. The degree to which many people (obviously not most sports watchers, but a substantial minority) are obsessed with sports and tie up their identity in a given team is just insane. People will legit get angry about their team losing or having bad calls or whatnot, to the extent that sports riots or getting in fights because you liked the wrong team in the wrong place is a real thing. That's crazy!
This seems like a smart way to go. You could start by looking for business development people at these publishers on LinkedIn.
The Magic Leap images almost look as if they just applied an edge filter to the original videos/images, and then they were cleaned up a bit with an image editor.
'find_by_email' is what counts as a raw database query these days? I feel so old.
Editor of major newspaper says he planted stories for CIA
Android Wear Just Got Very Very Smart
I have yet to see a 100% bulletproof CSG system, unfortunately. The open source packages (Carve, Cork, and others) and the implementations in all commercial packages I have tried will work 99% of the time, but fail horribly on the remaining 1%. This makes their use in automated pipelines tricky. With that said, the solutions out there today are way better than those available even five years ago.
This article either got flagged or tripped some HN mechanism because an hour after it was posted it had 25 points but was at 140.

That's a shame because some of the comments here talking about the question are interesting.
Yes, covert side channels should always be assumed to be possible.

However, there are two reasons I think you don't need to worry about them too much:

1) They'll typically be fairly expensive and low-bandwidth.

2) They're unambiguously malicious. This is not a technical barrier to using them, but it's a huge political barrier. Today, major developers will happily stick covert statistics gathering into their code, and then when called out on it, will make some contrived argument about how it benefits users (if that's true, why don't you ask them first?) and how it's mentioned in the privacy policy so therefore it's legit. OTOH, you can't exploit a covert channel in Sandstorm and then plausibly claim you haven't done anything wrong.

Some hardcore security nerds will of course scoff at this argument, and to them I can only say: "OK, yes, there are possibly covert channels, sorry. Please don't put sensitive data into an app you don't trust."

A theoretical long-term solution is deterministic computing, but that probably requires apps to be written in a different language or be run in a heavy-handed VM. Not practical at the moment.

It's also worth noting that Sandstorm is designed to make it impossible for an app to leak capabilities via covert channels. They can only leak bits, and a capability is not just bits.
OP here. I work as a web developer for a private school in the Bay Area that is celebrating its centennial year. Although some may say this is just a glorified photo viewer, there's actually a lot of CSS3 and JavaScript work that went into getting all of the transitions and animations to work well across browsers and mobile devices. Happy to answer any questions and I'm open to suggestions on how to improve performance further. Email in profile.
Your characterization of a product successfully marketed to people as "corporate brainwashing" whenever you don't like someone pointing out that a thing is perpetuated by corporate profit motives is also disingenuous.

I think the commenter was being a bit of an ass too, but I think he still has a defensible point, and it's not the absurd point that you're making it out to be.
With these parameters? It's not a commuter. It's rather a killer for electric vehicles, with the capability to go over 100 mpg. Think how far it could go with 50 liter tank - you'd have to fully charge your Tesla 5-6 times to cover same distance and spend a week just staring at the battery level indicator slowly going up. And it doesn't have any of electric vehicle pains - idle battery drain, 'vampire load' problems, performance decrease in cold or hot weather, and completely running out of fuel doesn't cost you 40k battery replacement. Electric vehicles are good only for commute and they take your freedom instead of giving it.
I think they have always fought on too many fronts. Perhaps because of their dominance, they didnt know how to ignore opportunity, which of course was everywhere for them

Still - as they say in Italy - a fish rots from its head. Thats where the buck lies.
I think there's some truth to what you say about Chomskyan linguistics being dogmatic. But linguists aren't really playing the same game as the people in (e.g.) statistical machine translation, so it's hard to say the latter are "winning". Chomskyan linguistics is also just one of the various competing traditions in linguistics.
This article really resonates with me. Most of my coworkers seem perfectly happy to simply show up, do their work and go home and have no desire to seek to improve their craft.

Sometimes I wish I could be like them. I have this thirst for knowledge and to improve my skills, which is why I'm here reading HN. But it is really overwhelming at times trying to keep up with everything here and at times I can't help but feel inferior to others at times.

I spent several years using GWT and now I'm getting compensated very nicely to work on an multiple ExtJS products. To keep from getting left behind I've toyed with Angular, React, Mithril, mercury, Redis, etc. and my queue of things to learn keeps getting larger and larger (Docker, Vagrant, Sandstorm, most of AWS stack, ...). At this point I probably have at least 200 bookmarks tagged with a generic "Programming" label.

When I'm responsible for the architecture for real systems, I sometimes feel like a fraud. Domain driven design, TDD, CQRS, anemic vs rich domain models, functional vs OO, agile... do I really know what I'm doing? Does anyone know what they're doing?

I recently looked back at some code from some senior level architects I worked with when I was still relatively junior - guys I really respected. Some of those projects had truly awful architecture and I must admit I felt a bit better about myself after seeing that code.
tl;dr I decided to take interest in something that lots of other people do so I could talk to them.

I remember reading an article about the British show Bullseye that pointed out that the blue-collar workers shown in the 80s episodes actually knew more about current events at the time than some educated people might today. It was expected as common knowledge and things you would talk about. These days, sport is still the key cross-section.

And I'm pretty sure that football transcends class in the UK these days (I know to be at least a little interested in Sunderland and NUFC games due to moving here, just as every Kiwi worth their salt knows at least a little about rugby).
I've been following Chris' work for years, and I think he articulates this 'trying too hard' nonsense you see everywhere on Github. Like we can make a 3D cube in HTML and make it spin, but people can't buy a ticket to fly to another country without what feels like a case study in dark patterns, usability issues, and horrific a11y issues.

All code is energy, and if it's squandered in the wrong places, you get an imbalance. The net effect of engineers getting carried away in a lab is ― you get kids learning how to make their first website thinking that code is some dark art, and some black magic. It's not.

<b>Look ma, no GruntJS</b>

It's rather simple stuff. That said, any time I read the words "Impostor Syndrome", I think of agony aunt sections in newspapers, and open teen diaries, not learning how to style a bullet point with CSS, or improving my craft.
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Because waves don't transfer that much energy. There's a reason why ships had sails, even though winds were highly variable and waves somewhat less so. Also, maintenance on anything you put in the ocean tends to be high.
Hosain Rahman at Startup School is worth a watch for more background on Jawbone's story and its many challenges along the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpINPjfSlZc
I wasn't talking specifically about children, and there is a big difference between saying an activity competes with another activity and saying that it precludes the other activity.
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After reading through a lot of these comments...I just have to ask, does anyone ever just play sports for fun? There seems to be a lot of real visceral and negative feelings toward organized sports - even beyond the professional leagues.

Does anyone enjoy just watching baseball? I absolutely love Fantasy baseball. It's a great intellectually stimulating way to just relax. Am I allowed to relax, or am I supporting some grand corporate conspiracy.

This thread is quite sad to me.
I generally agree with the principal you present but you have to acknowledge that the government (and therefore, theoretically, tax payers) gain value through the stadiums presence in the community. More directly through sales tax and tourism but possibly other less direct means like property values and property taxes.

Furthermore, if that's what people want to be done with their tax money, that's their business. If enough people felt the way you do, the story would be different. See the San Diego Chargers situation for example. They may end up relocating because of lack of political backing on building a new stadium.
The headline would be more accurate - though not as punchy - if it spoke of ashes of Nokia's device business, not Nokia as a whole. Microsoft took over the devices but the rest of the company is still there and very much alive. Net sales last year 12 732 M€, profit of continuing operations 1 171 M€. It's not as huge as in 2007, but not doing badly at all.

But indeed there is a lot of startup activity by people who've left Nokia; I joined one that failed, but I'm glad we tried. It would have gnawed my soul if I hadn't joined an attempt when there was the opportunity.
sounds like this https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gavan/voxel-quest
Exactly my problem with it. I can't understand truly serious fandom for a pro team, or even for college teams since they're recruited specifically for the sport much the same way pro teams are.

I could understand it if it were tongue-in-cheek, as you write, just for fun's sake, but it's usually not, as best I can tell. Many of these fans are quite serious. They'll get no-joking pissed off at people over this stuff. They'll really initially dislike anyone they meet from $rivalCity. It's crazy.

Being a fan of a truly local team makes sense to me. A pro team? Not in a "ha-ha we're all in on the joke isn't this fun" sort of way? Mind boggling.
Yes, that is the core issue: can the Euro sustain both Germany and Greece given how diverse their economies are? I have my doubts, but perhaps what we're seeing is an emerging solution wherein Germany subsidises the weaker members of the Euro indefinitely. That still doesn't absolve Greece of financial responsibility but it would support their position of having a sizeable portion of their debts written off. It's a sort of sovereign welfare state...
I think you'd need some reason to believe people are unconsciously signaling it. The author seems to be quite conscious of his own signaling. Personally I was never into watching sports, even as a little kid when I don't think I was doing much intellectual posturing. Probably it's because my parents didn't make a big deal about it whereas it was a big part of family bonding for other kids.
After reading 'Why King George III Can Encrypt'[1] I really started hoping that something came of it. The metaphors they used seemed much more straightforward.

[1] https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/why-king-geo...
Tesla is simply not available in most EU countries, while that i8 is. That alone makes it more interesting in some respects.
It's the coming together / tribalism part that unnerves me. There's no rational reason for people to get so excited about it, so it rubs me the wrong way the same way most political rallies do. Small scale sports don't have quite the same effect on me, but large heavily marketed ones do as there is a pressure to conform (i.e. care, participate, hold certain opinions that positively reflect on the enterprise).