skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we were kids we played with as few as 3 per team. Self pitching, ghost runners (if you toss to 3rd base before the runner reaches 2nd it's an out), etc

On the space side, we played where ever - you just needed a place to put down some bases or some trees that are relatively evenly spaced in 4 corners.

We made it more fun by playing with crappy tennis rackets and tennis balls we "popped".

You're right about "pure" baseball, but kids create their own ways to play games and baseball can be changed enough to be fun and fast paced.
> it's hard to imagine Jobs supporting software that ran on competing OSes.

Perhaps hard to imagine, but they actually did it. OPENSTEP Enterprise allowed you to use the NeXT development tools to build apps for 32-bit Windows platforms. That came toward the end of the NeXT saga, so you could argue it was a move of last resort. But it clearly wasn't out of the question.
More on this phenomenon in "Coming Apart: The State of White America".

My 2c: A guy or gal making $350K is not commended for reducing income inequality by marrying someone making $60K. Indeed, if things fall apart, the "equity courts" will divide the earnings spouse nicely between them. While I can understand you don't want someone on the street, these things just penalize people for being successful. So it is not a surprise that people are practicing self-preservation and selecting those spouses who have nothing to gain from a separation (besides their freedom.) Additionally, as alluded to in the book above, people who have university degrees have only a 20% chance of divorce and usually, higher income earners have said university degrees.
The science of craving: wanting vs. liking
Sure, but that's only because they were selling it into niche markets willing to pay a lot for its advantages. If they had been targeting deployment to consumer platforms, they would have priced it appropriately.
Oh look! Journalists have opinions on other people's lives.
I'm not a big fan of baseball anymore but we watched one of these "historic" games a few years ago at a casino/resort we stay at often.

It was pretty neat to watch, although it took me a bit to understand it as the rules then were significantly different from present day rules.
YES. The only time I feel unsafe is when I go through security. I get groped and lose sight of my belongings.
But I get on a bus with just anyone, I walk into a mall with just anyone, I drive on the freeway with anyone, and I go to a sporting event with just anyone. Why not fly with just anyone?
Perl 6.0 released
Found this a little ironic, in a funny way - the article was written in association with IBM. Funny enough, the movie 2001 which the article images are from, is hinting to IBM but in an obscured way. For example, the name HAL is IBM shifted one char to the left and you can even see IBM logo on some machines in the movie.

Besides from that I think unless IBM knows the future and all unknowns, we cannot really be sure what will come out of AI. Which is why we should be very careful with it.
For some strange reason this reminded me of DeadAIM by Jdennis. Man AOL really handed the modern web to Facebook.
What the heck? The "web" had one of the fastest adoptions I can imagine. People started using it before data communications speeds were truly ready for it.
When my father was growing up, teenagers in the towns around were self-organizing and played baseball on their own, the guys from this town against the guys from that town. All summer.

When I was growing up, the grown-ups organized everything and decided who played when, and we had...maybe ten? games in a summer, with a few practice sessions before that. It's been a while, but I have the idea that if you were good enough to be in the lineup regularly, you'd get something like 25 chances to hit a baseball per year. Or wait, I think we had games that were more like seven innings. Maybe 25 was an overestimate.

PS Also, something about the death of the baseball card and how the major league strike of 1994 led a generation to move on.

PPS I remember it being fascinating to learn that teenagers were allowed -- or had the idea it was possible -- or something -- to do something so on their own.
I found that in such cases it's actually more productive to close my eyes while typing.
You're right about the reduced oxygen, but perhaps it could get people away from the dirty city air in some places. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_St._Louis_smog
Maybe Stillwater, OK with the first UAS graduate program will vie for that title.

https://unmanned.okstate.edu
Lots of goodies here. Shows how to write a sort of Pythonic little language with code generation for LLVM--and I love that it's from the LLVM krewe--but doesn't skimp on things like an AST. It does rely on globals, sadly, but for those of us who like compiler writing texts in plain language, it's a keeper.
What makes us think that Tim Berners-Lee isn't meticulous about keeping good archival backups of his early work?
Bundler and the RubyGems community in general is amateur hour compared to projects with more discipline like GNU/Linux distributions.
anecdotal but the lax bros in my childhood come from some of the richer families in town
It wasn't a plugin, it was just a search bar with a feature called keywords. Typing in the keyword would take you directly to the page of that section of AOL. I remember the woman who started the astrology page was making money hand over fist.
I actually compare soccer and baseball a lot; it's useful for explaining the appeal of one sport to people who like the other. In both, it's not always clear what's going on unless you are familiar with the game. If you're familiar, though, and you understand the subtleties, there's truly a lot to do and to watch.

In both, scoring events are usually rare, which leads casual spectators to think that not much is happening most of the time. Because of the rarity of scoring events, though, it almost always feels like either team can still win. That's actually a huge appeal, and something often underestimated.

The similarities basically end there, but those two pieces are big parts of the appeal of each sport. It's not the case that someone who likes one will also like the other, but it helps people understand a little better.
Over a given field, once or twice per year at most. Most farms probably do not use aircraft for spraying at all. They use ground equipment: tractors pulling sprayers. Granted that my experience is a different part of the world, but crop dusters are really rather rare.
Are they not allowed to? The Upshot seems more like a column than regular news journalism, and they do cite studies and information from other people.
What if your thing crashes in IE?
Why would you want to use Perl 6?
Rbenv and all other such tools are narrow, weak solutions for a general problem: Using multiple versions of a piece of software on the same machine without collision. Projects like Nix and GNU Guix solve this generally without needing a new special package manager for each thing you want more than 1 version of.
As the jobs are contracted, so daily in season, chaotically.
Might be the last straw for me, time to shut down the old facebook account.
Jabbering and laughably geriatric Rupert Goodwin groans 'Get off my lawn!'; spilling his senility swill all over the singularitarian sycophants.

A stalwart moore's law mooter masterminds against the myths of demon-summoning Musk the martian overpopulator and makes mockery of Hawking the Ad-hock Spock-talker.

A luddite weasel word windbag from linearland soothsays naysayers with another numbingly nominal caveat-riddled AI narrow now and forever 'nuffsaid.

An obstinate bunghole spelunker debunks from his spooge-buttered AI winter dunce bunker.

From unsupervised pulpit comes a sump-pumping ass-pastor's anti-diluvian Deepmind denuding diatribe defusing the delinquent debut of an indocile data detonation.
Wow, that's seriously jaded stuff... Selecting mates based on lowering the cost of eventual divorce!

I'd bet it has more to do with maintaining current (or expected) lifestyle. If you're used to a top-5% income, with the lifestyle that income enables, marrying "down" has a real impact. The effect would be even more noticeable in an expensive metropolitan area like NorCal, NYC, etc.
Interesting that there is two different apps. You might want to send Jeff a note, he really does not like to waste money.

Unless, could you be part of a massive A/B test?

No, I'll guess it's the subscription department can't think of a way to get rid of the second app and it's infrastructure.

Post back about the three hours you will take to close the subscription. Bet you that you'll end up with your card provider using their dispute process.
Will help you in a very limited way. Unfortunally, you will need to hunt from several places to go after any half-decent implementation of any decent-enough language.

But do anything first. So, take this tutorial and complete it. If after it you wanna move...

I'm working in my own language, and after read like hundreds of links/blogs/books/etc, you will find that a lot of that is heavily biased torwards parsing, LISPys, FORTHs, and ultra-heavy-monads-worship or academic complexting that will make your head spin. After all that read, I'm still confused. Because a lot of things are not simpler or obvious in the way how make a blog or a ecommerce site can be.

So, read a part of the list I have collected:

https://www.reddit.com/r/coding/comments/2ocw2r/how_to_creat...

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Syntax is very important, but after read a lot, I think that do the parsing stuff is not the very best first step.

INSTEAD DO THE AST WALKER. Seriously. Get clear how the the AST can be processed and focus in that. Changes in the AST will cause heavy impacts in your parsing stuff, and a lot of question need to get clarified first. For example, from the link above:

My first questions? How make a REPL, a debugger, how implement pattern matching, type checking, if a interpreter can be fast enough, if possible to avoid to do a whole VM for it, etc...

Exist a LOT of practical questions that are left as "a exercise for the reader" that need clarifications.

So, my advice:

- Get a list of what do you want for your language. Then think harder and try to remove features and get to the core of it.

- From the above, start to understand the details. For example: I wanna to do GO-style concurrency, so... how implement GO-style concurrency? If that is not solved, your syntax is pointless. That is why try to fill the "core" of the language as much as possible before to commit to the GUI (aka:syntax) of it.

- Then do a interpreter. Is FAR easier. Even if you wanna do a compiler, start here is more easier.

- On the side, play with your syntax, and imagine how write in the language could be. Then start to think "to make this syntax do that, how I can do inside the guts of the compiler"? But you can delay the parser for a while.

When the time come for the parsing, probably is better to do as a top-down parser and/or pratt-parser. I don't waste time with parser generators. If your disagree, ok with me ;)

I have find that use F# is great for this stuff. However, OCalm have more code-samples (ie: ML languages are made for this!). Lisp will work great if your are insane to like that ;). Hardcode C-developer? Tons of code to look, but not very much in clarity to see.
She's the person who tweeted “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”

From the author of the article:

I began to suspect that it wasn’t racist
but a reflexive critique of white privilege —
on our tendency to naïvely imagine ourselves
immune from life’s horrors.

Yes. I make Sacco's kind of joke all the time (in private), and it's also meant to be a comment on racism itself. This kind of joke was common in the late 70s and early 80s (see movies like "Blazing Saddles" or Richard Pryor's "Live on Sunset Strip". In those days anyone was allowed to satirize racism that way, black or white. I think it was healthy, because it robbed racism of its power, sort of like saying Voldemort's name. Now... not such much.
So Googling got him: "In that post, altoid asked for some programming help and gave his email address: rossulbricht@gmail.com. Doing a Google search for Ross Ulbricht, Mr. Alford found a young man from Texas "
Jonathon always appears to be a misspelling of Jonathan. Like as if someone were promoting a Jon-a-thon.
Nevada is closer and seems to have most of North Dakota's benefits?

I also wonder if Nevada's climate would make it a better choice too. The Dakotas have some of the most extreme weather in the US - hot summers, frigid winters, severe thunderstorms, and wind - there were a lot of windy days when I lived in North Dakota. Would days with subzero high temps and 30 MPH sustained winds be a useful environment for drones?

One thing that really seemed to help the Silicon Valley get started was how away it was from everything - particularly the establishment on the east coast. I do wonder if the next big thing will be started somewhere that is similarly away from Silicon Valley - somewhere no one would expect, like North Dakota.
Not in ND, they are fairly common. [edit: I'm in the NE to N central]
It's great to see rote grade-grinding (in HS, no less) mistaken for achievement, and rampant credential-grubbing seen as the path to material success & respectability. It's exactly that kind of mindset that for 300 years has made the USA the place it is today.

Disclaimer: actual American
I've found rbenv to be a great, narrow solution for a specific problem. And maybe those other tools you mention are great but I've never heard of them, so they could use some marketing besides this comment. That's why tools like rbenv and rvm and whatever else get more broadly picked up.
I've heard this sentiment more and more and I don't feel like arguing about it being boring (I don't think it's boring at all...)

...But I do wonder if there may be a reversal of the trend on the horizon as the backlash against football grows.
That sounds like American football too. 3.25 hours of clock time, 60 minutes of a game, and 11 minutes of actual action (or closer to 96% of the time standing around.)

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/64441086/nfl-statistica...

Good quote:

It's curious that few complain about NFL game lengths, considering they take 13 minutes longer, more time than the 11 total minutes of actual game play during an NFL game. In other words, you could fit all the action of an average NFL game into the spare time after an average baseball game ends.
I lived in the Dakotas for 20 years and crop dusters were present, but not terribly common. Ground spraying equipment was way more common.

As an aside, the City of Fargo uses crop dusters to spray for mosquitoes in the summer - which is either super cool or super annoying, depending on your opinion of airplanes :)
I know it almost happened because Tim Berners Lee said it did: https://www.w3.org/blog/2011/10/steve-jobs/

"We almost met once.

There was a get-together of NeXT developers in France, and we set up demos at tables around the room.

Robert Cailliau and I set up the WorldWideWeb.app on one table.

Steve arrived, and started making his way around the tables chatting with each project

He didn’t get to us before he had to leave."

Isn't that incredible?! Even if you aren't a fan of Steve Jobs you have to admit he would have instantly understood the power of what Berners Lee was showing him.

I think about that story a lot. Gives me goosebumps.
Any example on how do nano-pass with F# or oCalm?
All true. I think this is good evidence we live in the best of all possible worlds: A Jobs/NeXT WWW browser a couple of years ahead of Netscape probably would have fared even worse against Microsoft's inevitable counterattack. For all we know, we could have ended up in a "Blackbird" (aka MSN) dominated universe, and without a revitalized Apple to give us Unix on the desktop.

Still, I do find it totally plausible that Jobs could have been inspired to redirect NeXT's struggling business to the nascent web. Some of those old WebObjects interviews that get posted to HN periodically demonstrate the he "got" the web and its potential as an application delivery platform much earlier than most.
Sorry! Major Boolean fail. Un-de-duped.
Most of these sound good, but aren't true. If you go to poor countries where baseball is popular, you'll see people practicing in the street, with whatever makeshift ball and bat the can find. I saw Cubans practicing with sticks and balls of paper.

However, it's difficult to get adults to organize that kind of thing. I wonder if the fact that kids need adults to drive them is a factor.

That last bit is speculation. What's true is that numbers 1-3 aren't really a bar to practice, if the kids actually care.
...but why? I guess hit counters were cool in 1993 but Github has much more meaningful data there on display already: forks, stars, PRs, etc. Not sure how hit counters help?
It is not only baseball. The graph on the article shows decline for soccer and baseball, too.

And the same decline is happening on Brazil and some European countries (for soccer).

I'd suggest another reason: computer/phone games and internet.
That's great jay but what we're really looking for is people who can design hats
I created a "baseball" game that only involves a ball and 2 gloves. The point is to make the other miss the catch. Fun times creating backyard games.
I just read that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came out seven years ago. I would have sworn it was two years ago, tops!
Does anyone play cricketin the USA?

It solves some of your problems - you can see poor kids in India playing it in alleyways pretty much the same way rich kids in England do - and, I think, it's a bit easier to hit the ball.

Plus breaking for tea is part of the game...
You're probably right. Like w1ntermute, I find baseball incredibly boring (even though I did play baseball for a few years when I was younger and quite enjoyed it). Golf? Even worse.

Probably related, I am an incredibly impatient person. I absolutely cannot stand to be sitting around "idle" or doing something I perceive to be a waste of time. It even bothers me to be having a conversation with people who take forever to tell a story ("just get to the damn point already, I don't need to hear every little detail!"). Baseball and golf fall into that same category for me. Why would I want to spend three hours watching a game when I could be doing something productive?

On the other hand, I ride my Harley every chance I get (to the tune of almost 10,000 miles this past summer). Many days I don't even have a destination when I leave home. I jump on and just ride. I have many friends I ride with and occasionally we'll ride a few hours together just to have lunch somewhere and turn around and come back. Really, I should consider this just as much of a waste of time but, for whatever reason, I don't see it that way. People who haven't ever rode a bike can't/don't understand the allure of it or why I enjoy it so much.

Different strokes for different folks.
And let's not forget smartphones that are much funnier than hitting a ball and running!
When you fly over the US, there are thousands of baseball fields. Sadly, however, there are more options (video games, computers, etc) for how kids spend their time. Most new baseball players are in-sourced from the Dominican, Columbia, etc, too. There are still 13-15 million people playing little league in the US.

Want to see decline - take a look at US Slow Pitch Softball - http://www.athleticbusiness.com/Recreation/slow-pitch-softba...
Yep, not to mention these people who are struggling to take care of their parents are dealing with medical bills and debt slavery of their own. They can forget about owning a home or car. They can forget about having children, as the money is needed to care for the old. They can forget about retiring, as they have no savings. Wages have been stagnant since their parents' careers were at their start.

The banks will be extracting wealth from the fading boomers until their last breaths, leaving their children with no inheritances and a large debt of their own.
What I keep wondering is why do we keep boxing ourselves into these little walled gardens, when the world is so wide and the web so flexible?
This article is missing important info:

(1) This is much less interesting if the effect doesn't propogate, i.e. if income levels only lasts one generation. This is a crucial part of eugenics -- which the articles compares the effect to -- and yet nothing in the article suggests that income transfers generations. (I'm not saying it does or doesn't; just that the article doesn't address this at all.)

(2) The same is probably true for good looks, culture, athletic ability, hobbies, education, geography, race, IQ, and wealth. I suspect there are a number of confounding variables. Omitting any mention of them doesn't invalidate the reported results, but does make misinterpreting the results of the article much easier.
Oh yeah, they're quite different. I don't believe they really count strikes unless you swing and no ground rule double means that if a ball gets caught in a hole or brush, the runners almost always end up with an in the park home run.
I've been perfectly content using RVM https://rvm.io/ - with all the functionality I need, and reliability, too. What am I missing out on?
It's cyclical. Having one protocol with multiple open clients prevents rapid (if any) innovation, and creates an opportunity for walled gardens to steal the market. And then once the walled garden converges on the local maximum, it creates an opportunity to build a stable open protocol. Which then lasts until someone comes up with the next big innovation that the open standard is too ossified to support.

For all the shit that AOL gets, they basically got the entire country on the Internet. Even the biggest unicorns today have nothing on AOL at its peak.
"The only reason why IBM chose DOS instead of CP/M is that DOS cost less per license than CP/M."

IBM didn't choose DOS; the market did. The original PC could be bought with either PC-DOS, CP/M-86, or UCSD p-System.

IIRC, the DOS version was cheaper, and, possibly, available a few months earlier, but in those times, the latter did not imply that the race was run before it started in those times.
Setting aside personal preference and the vast differences in play between the two sports, you also need to consider the number of games played in a season. An NFL team plays 16 games in the regular season. An MLB team plays 162. While a baseball game and a football game may be similar in duration and proportion of action to dead time, a football game carries much more weight and I think this contributes to the relative popularity of the sport over baseball.
Completely agree re: tanking a season, but ticket sales and viewership tend to drop accordingly with that strategy. 76ers tickets this year are currently less than beer in the stadium [1]. The baseball season feels absurdly long to me.

I personally only watch regular season basketball, and it's more because I love the sport than any particular game. Probably wouldn't watch if I didn't play fairly seriously once upon a time, however.

1: http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/12/8/9870812/sixers-tick...
Emacs, org-mode and tables
Not to mention a sense of superiority and arrogance when it comes to the metrics which measure success in those challenge. I'd say it already has, particularly easy to see in our very own engineering crowd
The more interesting and powerful kind of anti-intellectualism is STEM-centrism. The same people who complain about lack of academic rigor demand that we gut the study of literature, art, music, theater, social sciences, etc. so that students can use the time to factor more equations and compute more integrals instead.

This is also down to value systems: I was raised in one that says education is meant to produce well-rounded intellectuals and good citizens, and "they" say it begins and ends with increasing the price of your labor in the marketplace.
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