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uberstuberon Gaming Robinhood’s Free Stock Promotion – Or, How to Blow $350

I didn't find anything in the TOS strictly forbidding it, though I wouldn't be surprised if I overlooked it. I figure it's still a win for Robinhood if they get more sign-ups.

uberstuberon Interview with Mr. Money Mustache

Financially independent is the phrase I'd use. Enough money so you don't 'have' to work to survive

uberstuberon Developer Manifesto – You Are an Artisan, Not an Engineer

I like the term craftsman

uberstuberon The Rise of the Thought Leader

"Typically, the IYI [Intellectual Yet Idiot] get the first order logic right, but not second-order (or higher) effects making him totally incompetent in complex domains."

https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...

uberstuberon How we invented new ways to teach Japanese

Heisig's book for recognizing characters worked well for me.

Picking the right pronunciation on the other hand...ends up being totally reliant on if I know the vocab word or not.

uberstuberon Two-part Rubik's algorithms

Ryan Heise has a nice guide to solving the cube without memorizing algorithms (using conjugates and commutators).

http://www.ryanheise.com/cube/

uberstuberon New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess

The only addictive thing there is the caffeine from coffee.

uberstuberon Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016

Not exactly what you were asking for, but along those same lines. There are a set of skills which improve basically any career path--I've seen them called meta-skills, or super skills.

Off the top of my head: Leadership, Public Speaking, Persuasion, Writing, Storytelling, Design, Mental models, Systems thinking, Mental focus, Nutrition/Exercise, etc.

Getting decently good at one (or more) of these won't take too long and will have immediate benefits to your current work and even your personal life.

Maybe try to find some aspect of marketing that you are interested in; it's a large field full of topics I'd imagine programmers would find interesting.

uberstuberon Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

Love the builder! Wish I had seen this a week ago.

uberstuberon Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning plugin

A plugin like this would make FB usable again. Too bad it would get blocked asap.

uberstuberon The Busy Person’s Lies

“To me, ‘busy’ implies that the person is out of control of their life.” – Derek Sivers

uberstuberon Lessons Learned from Shenzhen I/O

Japanese was first written in kanji (borrowed Chinese characters), with the syllabaries created hundreds of years later. Though you could say modern Japanese is encoded as a syllabary.

uberstuberon The Oppressive Gospel of ‘Minimalism’

There's aesthetic minimalism and lifestyle minimalism. These two can overlap but often they clash, and are largely different movements.

I'm trying to figure out why minimalism gets such a negative reaction from people. Is it because aesthetic minimalism is too popular on instagram/tumblr, and now it's cool to hate on the popular thing? No one's forcing you to get rid of your stuff, no one's forcing you to read minimalism blogs.

uberstuberon Ask HN: To those who became fluent in a second language, what did you do?

Check out http://www.antimoon.com

uberstuberon How to Build Deep Focus Into Your Organizational Culture

I'd second the recommendation, it made me reschedule my day to ensure I consistently have 'deep work' time.

I took some rough notes if you don't have time to read the whole book right now:

http://jamesstuber.com/deepwork

uberstuberon Applying machine learning to the freight industry

Why should we need an app to read a website?

uberstuberon Singapore Is the Perfect Place to Test Self-Driving Cars

>Perhaps they’ll also help with the Singaporean phenomenon of the seeming complete disappearance of taxis when it rains

Are self-driving cars able to handle rainy conditions? I'm not in the industry but thought this was still an issue.

uberstuberon Are we getting enough sulfur in our diet? (2007)

One-off unscientific anecdote: A weightlifting coach advised me to take MSM for improved recovery. I tried it for a few months and never noticed a difference, but I was eating plenty of eggs during that time.

uberstuberon There Is No Handbook for Being a Writer

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield is a good start

uberstuberon The Beauty of Laplace's Equation

I want to read this, but it continues to cover the article with an anti-adblocker notice, even if I totally disable Adblock Plus. I know there are workarounds but why would I waste my time

uberstuberon Ask HN: What non-technical skill would help you most in your career in 2016?

Any kind of skill with huge benefits in almost any career.

Leadership, Public speaking, persuasiveness/sales, writing, copy-writing, storytelling, design, diet, exercise, mental focus, personal appearance

Maybe target ones that programmers typically lack.

uberstuberon How billionaires can destroy journalism

since when is Gawker considered journalism?

uberstuberon Venmo is turning our friends into petty jerks

"Hey, I don't think it's healthy for us to charge each-other for every little transaction. What do you think about not venmoing for anything less than $7?"

Venmo is not ruining your friendships, your inability to face issues head-on is

uberstuberon Maru turns Android smartphones into portable PCs

Can you charge while plugged in to a monitor?

uberstuberon Data-Crunching Indian Recipes

Something like The Flavor Bible [0] but in a database would be really nice.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316118400/?tag=mh0b-20&hvadid=3521...

uberstuberon What Will the World Speak in 2115?

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English

Basic English is 850 words

uberstuberon A Star in a Bottle – The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor

The tokamak is the fusion community's choice of device for getting energy out of a fusion reactor, but smaller configurations may also be promising.

There's talk of exploring compact fusion configurations as a faster path to commercial viability; many private companies in North America are working on compact fusion and Lockheed's Skunkworks has expressed interest. Smaller size of these devices means research and operating costs are lower. The end product might be something more easily integrated into power grids (~100MW versus ~1GW of DEMO) and would hopefully have a competitive cost of electricity.

Path to Market for Compact Fusion Cores: http://fire.pppl.gov/FESAC_WP_Path2Mark_SWood.pdf

http://www.icosa.co/2013/02/lockheed-skunkworks-develops-com...

uberstuberon A Star in a Bottle – The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor

Neat in-vessel assembly video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt70mO2nQac

uberstuberon Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving on Bitcoins

They don't

uberstuberon What happens when you sit at a desk for 13 years and also exercise

If you sit all day the couch stretch [1] helps a lot to undo the shortening in your hip flexors. 2 min a day each side. Really painful if you sit a lot.

Kelly Starrett has a lot of great information about mobility.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-ZX...