Anecdote from my experience; having a cup of decaf tea with a spoonful of unfiltered honey leads to some of my most restful nights of sleep. My tea of choice is chamomile. My other, debatably healthy crutch is a fan which manages a cool temp while providing a constant noise.
I met my now fiancè in an adult social sports league which I highly recommend for social activity in general, not just romantic purposes. The league was/is adult kickball, but there are several out there that encourage solo signups and will place you on a team.
I'm inherently more inclined to not be social and prefer it that way, however, I do enjoy sports a lot which was the catalyst for joining some leagues. It doesn't have to be just for the sport and you don't have to be good at it, but it definitely encourages social interaction, plus some exercise. I won't name any leagues, but google around and you can easily find local leagues for kickball/dodgeball/volleyball/football (I recommend kickball as it really doesn't matter what your skill level is).
Sure -- "next-generation sequencing" (NGS) is a term for a variety of hardware platforms that allow reading the nucleotide sequences of DNA molecules.[1] This genomic data can then be used in a variety of end applications, such as looking for genetic disease markers in humans, identifying and characterizing a bacterial infection (the focus of the CDC's prize), etc. The cost of NGS has fallen dramatically in recent years (and throughout/speed increased), making it pragmatic for more and more applied use cases.
[1] The underlying hardware innovations here are varied and fairly remarkable. We focus on the software and data side, so this is not my area, but Wikipedia has a decent synopsis of current approaches: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing#Next-generatio...
Fair point, but I do appreciate stories that have to do with health of the human body as it lends to the idea of body hacking and performance tuning. If you peruse around, there's a lot of HN contributed stories and comments having to do with concepts of mixing in exercise and healthy eating habits to minimize lethargy and burnt out symptoms and maximize energy and life balance. (Hopefully no citations needed)
Would also be cool to be able to include more detailed data. There's some useful data points exposed at http://madness.io including Tempo-free stats and (not advertised) json endpoints, http://madness.io/teams/uaa.json
Full disclosure: I released this site a few weeks ago, mostly as a side project. I submitted to Show HN but it didn't get much traction. Might be of use though.
Is there any endpoint for teams.json or would I need to request each individually? Even if it was just the season stats without the game stats it would be useful.
Send me an email through the site with your email, and I can give you a json file of the stats. It just wouldn't be practical to keep it up as a reachable endpoint - too costly
OP here; Showing a little side project of mine that will hopefully appeal to sports and stats fans alike. I am an engineer with a great passion for sports, particularly college basketball. My goal is/was to set up a site to easily discern important data about a given team and players. The site runs on a myriad of technologies including MySQL, Couchbase, Redis, and Rails + Foundation frameworks. Feedback would be appreciated. Good luck in your brackets.
Hey, I'm interested in my you have Redis, MySQL and Couchbase? That's three database technologies for this project? I can see Redis being used like Memcache… but how are you using MySQL and Couchbase together. I'm interested in that interaction.
Thanks for the interest! For MySQL I wanted an easy ORM layer for team, conference and player data. Essentially those 3 objects are stored in MySQL. For redis, I use ordered lists for sorting and easily discerning indexes of team and player data, eg: how I come up with "n overall" and "n in conference" http://madness.io/teams/fak
For Couchbase, all game data is stored in a document, including player stats. I actually use Couchbase as a cache layer as well instead of Redis. Voting and some cache keys are documents and I write couchbase views or use traditional get's to grab that data. Couchbase does the map reduce to give me the numbers I need to come up with all the stats you see on the site. It also comes in handy for things like standard deviation and the tempo-free stats on the matchup pages
Nice responsive site. The two biggest pain points for me without evening purchasing a drink; 1) finding a nearby bar is quite painful especially on a mobile device. Possibly integrate html5 geolocation to pinpoint and zoom in on your current location. 2) You have to click a map icon to determine the bar name, then intuitively I press ESC to exit, which doesn't work. Took me a few tries to realize you just click to get out. It was annoying figuring that out after a few page refreshes and the painful zooming in
This might be a stupid question, but as a Tesla stock owner, and (becoming more apparent ever day) naive investor, how do you find out this information and/or digest it so well? I'm mainly a google finance guy and had no idea so much of the stock was being shorted.
I own ~95% index funds, which makes most of my research pretty easy. For the individual stocks I do own, I like to follow the analysis on Reuters. Even just spending an hour/week reading the latest news does wonders.
Investing around a short squeeze is out of your control, and I would argue, not worth worrying about. The price will bounce around like crazy and some people will make 30% in a day while others lose much more than that, but in the end, Tesla's price will reflect their ability to turn a profit in the future.
If you feel like the future market cap of Tesla is larger than it is today (with all the usual time-value-of-money caveats), keep your money invested and don't waste your time fretting over the mayhem on Wall St.
Forgive the unsolicited advice, but I think that's the wrong question. First ask yourself what you'd do with that information. Then think long and hard about indexing your money.
Read up on portfolio theory and you will see that it's incredibly difficult (some say impossible) to beat the risk adjusted return of the market (at least not on purpose). It turns out if you are not in many stocks - 40+ (the exact number depends on who you ask), then you are taking more risk than you are being compensated for.
FWIW I do have a strong majority of portfolio dedicated to index funds, and have automatic investing set up for those funds biweekly. But there do come times where I see a company, and after some due diligence I do see as a company I believe in and see prospering in the long. Tesla is one of those companies so I bought a fair amount 2 months ago.
Regardless of solicited or not, I do agree with your advice and if nothing else, hopefully readers who fear to ask such questions gain from friendly advice such as yours
I do the same thing in my IRA. Right now TSLA is the only individual stock I own, and it is a bit less than 10% of my account value. I bought it at $29 per share 9 months ago or so, knowing I might take a bath, but I believed in the company's long term business model then and I still do. I feel that this kind of investing minimizes the risk factor.
Usually data from there is just parsed from the variety of forms that a public company has to file with the SEC, all/most of which are available to the public via a tool they have called EDGAR. Here's Tesla's filings: http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany...
EDIT: also, congratulations :) ask a real professional, but if you're tempted to sell be aware your holding period and of the tax difference between long and short term capital gains. Also, if you want to sell tomorrow and re-buy, be aware of wash sale rules.
I completely agree in most cases, however the Reuters article I linked was written earlier this week. Some market conditions necessitate a big swing in prices -- though guessing which direction prices will swing can be tricky.
If you wanted de-risk your position, you could set up an option straddle or just sell your shares before the announcement and then buy them again next week.
Also don't forget - by the time you read the news about a company, the news has already affected the stock price (in the short term).
So in other words if you read big news the minute it comes out about a company, automated systems and institutional traders have already made their moves based on the news before retail investors have a chance.
Just a suggestion, but it seems like n requests in t for free would be a good model too. eg: Free 60 requests free per hour. 600 free test transactions is great, but for ongoing development the sandbox idea or rate limiting for a free plan seems preferable to us 'hackers'
Cool, thanks for the suggestion. The sandbox should be rolled out by the end of the week. Any reason why you put 'hackers' in quotations? Does it bother you that we use the word?
Unless the title changed, I don't see quotes anywhere. There is an apostrophe after the word in the HN title, but that's there to show possession (it's their hands).
