EvanKelly

"those at the top of the game got there because of grit determination and little to do with talent. "

I think I agree with your sentiment here but want to clarify and see if you agree. There's still an EXTREMELY high talent bar to be a professional athlete, but talent, in itself, isn't enough (unless you're one of the truly rare lazy star athletes). Those who are blessed to have the talent and an above average work-ethic/determination are the ones with a good chance of making it.

I used to mess around on exchangel.co, but mainly I'm interested in placing long bets which just require some patience rather than trading in the artificial market. I think there's another one out there too that does start up trading.

Elgin James was always the most interesting character in that scene to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_James

I met Elgin a few times outside of Righteous Jams shows and he was always super friendly to a kid that just liked his band.

EDIT: This part was always the craziest to me:

While part of FSU, using a tactic learned from the United States government,[3] James and other FSU members set up an "arms for hostages" scenario in which they traded handguns with inner city gang members for pit bulls used in dog fighting rings. The dogs would then be nursed back to health and fostered until safe homes were found for them.

I never thought the day would come where I would see Bridge Nine referenced on Hacker News.

Math is certainly not for everyone, but I actually found that once I started diving into pure math (NOT what was taught in my school's math curriculum) it was a whole new world.

Did your school actually teach pure math?

I bet a lot of programmer types had similar frustrations to the computationally intensive version of math taught in many high schools when they knew that these processes could simply be automated.

What do you mean by normal clothing? Do you go running in jeans?

I'm curious about how you came to your answer and what led you there?

Were you testing a pre-supposed hypothesis that confirmed itself?

Thank you. I hear suicide referred to as "selfish" so often that I can hardly understand what it means.

Ascribing value judgements on people suffering from very personal diseases doesn't help and may actually prevent folks with suicidal ideations from getting help.

If you think that telling a clinically depressed person that what they're thinking about doing is "selfish" is going to "snap them out of it" then I'd recommend you do some soul searching.

I haven't thought about how this affects car insurance.

Who has the liability for collisions? Manufacturer? Owner? Last mechanic who serviced it?

Is "autocar" a thing?

The ambiguity between automatic/automobile/autonomous really makes me hope a better word surfaces.

Self-driving car is a bit too long.

Not really understanding how the wikipedia community operates, why were you irritated by the signature and how was writing the comments such an irreconcilable wrong? Were they inappropriate comments?

Awesome! One of my many unfinished projects was a networked version of The Russian Campaign so that my dad and I could play together.

Looks like there's a Vassal module and we can finally get those games going.

The military has a history of using video games as training tools for soldiers. Modded SNES units were used for rifle training and various other games have been used for tactics.

The author's description of his reactions suggests that the Oculus Rift could potentially be utilized to train soldiers for stressful situations.

I was very wary of the "unlimited vacation policy" at my new company and asked about it during interviews. Most interviewers agreed that it could cause people to not feel free to take vacation, but that the company really meant it and there wouldn't be negative consequences if you took vacation.

Fast forward to 6 months into the job and I've taken days off for long wedding weekends and have some more extended travel planned in the future.

I agree that "unlimited vacation days" can be a red flag, but it really just means to be more curious and thoughtful about the culture during the interview process and find out what it really means.

I can't speak to the other games, but similar to Chess and Go, I love Diplomacy because there is zero chance involved in the game. Nothing ever comes down to a dice roll or coin flip.

I would hate that, gives too much strength to the southern powers.

Italy was my favorite country to play as. You absolutely need a strong ally, but if you don't get one, you can be a thorn in everyone's side.

I only really enjoy playing face to face. I just started a one move per week game at the office. Should get interesting.

...but you need 7 people.

I just checked through my email to see if I could find the thread on this from the HiCapacity email list and I couldn't find it. I vaguely remember talk about a crypto party, but there's nothing in my email from that time frame.

Who gets to decide what is harmful? Do you simply defer to the courts?

Do you think Google holds a larger, equal, or smaller responsibility than the content provider who is actually hosting this "harmful" information?

In this case, I don't see anyone at fault and don't think a crime has been committed. The data presented was true and of public record.

I would see a case if Google was somehow treating this man as a special case and only indexing negative things about him, or if google treated his publicly available data differently than any other person's

Do you think search engines should be proactively or reactively responsible for not displaying personal information?

I mean, this stuff is literally in news articles about the guy, there's really no way to proactively not index articles which "affect someone's honor or dignity".

I can't reply to the other comment, but the court case in general is not about "creating profiles" of people. It only deals with things found and presented from web-spidering. I dare say that duckduckgo would have the same results.

Are you opposed to spidering the web and presenting the data based on keyword search? Why should Google be held responsible for indexing publicly available webpages?

Are you opposed to the idea of search engines in general?

I think placing the onus on google for this is the wrong precedent and I think it speaks to the public and the court's misunderstanding of what a search engine does.

If this man had problems with his debts being online, he should have contacted/sued the sites which displayed this data. This is like suing TV Guide because there's a show on tv that is offensive to you.

Gregory Rabassa does a phenomenal job with the translation.

My spanish is decent enough to have read a few of Marquez's books in the original language, but not good enough to appreciate them as much as I did in English.

I'd recommend starting with "El Colonel que no Tiene que Escribe". It was used in my AP Spanish class in high school and is short enough so you don't get frustrated with the slow going of reading in a new language.

As someone who edges way more to the adventure sports side of things than the X-Games side, Red Bull's marketing has been extremely successful on me.

I don't drink energy drinks much and I think I even prefer the Monster drinks, but I have a much more positive view of Red Bull.

That's an interesting thought. How different would the interactive games landscape be if it was around during the renaissance. If game designers had sponsors that supported their lifestyle.

As I write this, I think this is the utopian vision of crowd sourcing. Creating a new class of patrons of the arts.

If you're going to make that point, it should probably be "scared little child".

You've obviously thought a lot about hiring practices. Do you think hiring for "culture fit" is always bad or do you think most companies have a poor interpretation of what a "culture fit" is?

Thanks, I think I edited it as you were commenting as I noticed it on my re-read.

I really like this idea, and Weebly seems to be doing everything to make it as easy on the applicant as possible.

Outside of financial compensation, though, I hope that companies that do this are very flexible on the scheduling of the week of work.

I know that it would be difficult to take a week off of work at the wrong time without burning too many bridges. I try to give my company plenty of notice on vacation (months sometimes) so that they can plan ahead for my absence. It's a two way street, since they try and give me plenty notice for when I'm absolutely necessary. Most interview processes I've been through would not have that flexibility.