skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's see...

1.) You need a shit-load of people to play baseball anything like for-real. At minimum 15-20 people for two teams. Pretty tough to do as a kid, unless you're free to roam free all over town to gather a crew, which approximately 0% of kids have license/protection from CPS to do.

2.) You need a big enough area for a baseball diamond, where you don't have to worry about knocking out a window with a foul ball or an errant throw. Mostly, you aren't allowed to use the actual baseball fields to just play pickup. Compare with soccer or football, where any old open area is good enough, or basketball, which needs a hoop but probably takes the least space.

3.) Everybody needs at least a baseball glove. You also need a bat and a ball or two. Compare with sports that really don't require any specialized equipment, like soccer, football(two-hand-touch or recess-tackle style), and basketball.

4.) If you live in the northern half of the US, the season for playing baseball is almost exclusively during the summer months, when school isn't in session.

5.) Baseball on TV is maybe a half-step better than watching paint dry, and you have to pay for the privilege. Since they cleaned up the steroids, it's boring as hell.
Yes. If it was an extremely self interested cleanup of only a certain kind of pollution which it would only help with on the condition that other more important kinds of pollution increased or got much less attention, and would lead to much worse long term consequences, and facebook was completelly scummy spamming everyone about "if you don't want this, you want babies to die of pollution."
Mendeley or Zotero's tagging might work well for this. Both are more commonly used for organizing bibliographies in science, but should work here as well.
That actually sounds like a really good idea. Right now the only thing I for this is keeping a folder on my desktop titled "Reading Queue", and I drop symlinks in there to docs that I want to read sooner than later.
How Hackernews would prove the halting problem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=10792240&goto=item%3Fi...
I get the feeling that having so many games dilutes the quality. I can't watch regular season basketball, baseball, or hockey because you get the feeling players sleepwalk through the season until it gets closer to playoff time. The playoffs of these sports are very exciting to me usually because if you don't win you're done.

Add to that the idea of intentionally tanking your season so you can do well in a draft (happens in the NFL too e.g. "Suck for Luck") and I have no idea how people can be interested in the regular seasons of these sports.
The real question is, will facebook lobby against, and attempt to disallow, free community / coop network access ?

It's one thing to trick a bunch of poor people into thinking you're giving them free Internet access ... it's still free.

It's quite another to then shackle them by manipulating their legal system into disallowing any other free options.

I have a lot on my plate right now, but it sure would be interesting to do a very small scale proof of concept free wifi mesh anywhere in India ... just to see who that pisses off ... I see my favorite bulk IP provider (he.net) has zero presence in India, so that doesn't make things quick and simple ... we'll see ...
NeXTSTEP only became "cross platform" (meaning: ran on x86 hardware) as a desperate alternative to their failing proprietary hardware business. Seeng as how at that point the OS itself was NeXT's business, it's hard to imagine Jobs supporting software that ran on competing OSes.

Even today the only real cross-platform product Apple makes is iTunes, and that only exists so they can sell iPods (and now iPhones) to windows users. Facetime, ApplePay, iBooks... all would be better as cross platform apps, but Apple isn't interested because it doesn't help them sell more macs/iphones.
You can take a fresh install of MacOSX and do anything with Ruby. Only issue is you need to install some gems using sudo. Same thing with using system python. You don't need rbenv by any means. In fact our designer has no problem getting our rails site running and making styling edits.

Hard to say the same with installing Python 3 on MacOSX and getting virtualenv running, which in my experience hasn't been so easy.

How would you work on a project that uses 3.2, then another that uses the latest features from 3.5, without pyenv?
In my neighbourhood, I was shocked to learn that the little league has to actually pay the city to use the community ball fields.

This came up in a conversation during AYSO soccer game where we were discussing the rising fees associated with the game.

To add to that, aluminum bats are $100+ and kids get to keep their jerseys. When I was young, the league recycled jerseys and had community equipment bags.
Yes. A lot of things are fked up in India. That's not an argument to mess up one more. Internet is one thing we got right. Freedom of Speech, Online Censorship, Running an Internet Startup are no different than in US, even better. For starters, Our government doesn't spy. We don't get trolled for stupid patents. ETC

There are thousands of excellent Indian professionals, leading some of the top companies in the world. It's your loss if you make your opinion from the bad ones. We just have too many people.

Also, 2015 was the biggest ever in terms of VC deals 10+ Billion USD, Foreign Investments, etc.
It doesn't sound any different than what Facebook does regularly. "X likes Y, do you want to like it?", ask X in person, they never liked Y.

Facebook, despite the fact I use it, is a slimy ad platform that creates stories at the expense of those that use it. I mean they "market their customer usage".

I've yet to see an explanation for the fictitious likes.
"Native" being a really relative word here.
I'd love to fix steam!
That's because baseball is terribly boring, especially compared to football or basketball. Who wants to spend 90% of the time standing around?
of course you would loose some information but it is probably not enough to mis-identify most objects..
Session variables are awful, which is the main selling point for cookies. I prefer basic auth with server-side user settings. This is how I implement stateless web apps and services, which greatly simplifies application architecture and makes it easy to implement automated atomic web testing.
"The derivative I’d sold was an option, but it worked just like an insurance policy."

That sums up the whole derivatives implosion.

Never mind that a rocket scientist had calculated that the foreseeable maximum downside was $30 million, this is why the insurance industry has relatively high capital requirements. Ibankers were writing exotic insurance contracts and, only because they were not called insurance, they were also flauting the capital requirements.

Those who claim "it's complicated" are making excuses. The ibankers running these deals should have been jailed for violating insurance regulations.
its not a "reasonable compromise" from the point of view that Facebook is supposedly acting altruistically, this is a 100% self interested power play.
> India has a long history of reneging on deals. Once a deal is struck with most nations, that's it. Done deal. With India, they don't care - they'll do whatever is convenient for them.

Most nations will do whatever is convenient for them. ex: If you are from US, GOP says they will cancel the Iran nuclear deal

> Hell, even Russia and China won't back out of deals once struck. They'll piss and moan if it turns out they got the short end of the stick, but they'll still honor the deal.

Not tue, ex: Hong Kong democracy

> I tell my clients to steer clear of India for this very reason - it's nearly impossible to know when a deal is "solid".

You just described all the other countries apart from developed countries where there are no severe penalties for walking out of a deal

> My issue is that India will play unfair. They have a history of it.

Every country does it. ex: Union carbide CEO lived happily in US till he died

> That's not good for India. Investors will (and are) balking at the idea of entering the Indian market because who knows when India will pull the rug out from under them when the mood strikes.

Investors know the risks, Equity Risk Premiums are higher for India (& other developing countries). If investors don't invest in India or China due to inherent risks then they might loose out in the long run given that the future returns from developed world will not be great
How often do crop dusters usually fly? I feel like that's a problem that could be solved by a bit of communication.
It's the opposite of a duplicate, actually.
"some access" is demonstrably harmful if it leads to the ultimate curtailment of availability of "full access".
If he had called the regulators timid and weak, and perhaps lazy, it would make more sense.
Agreed, and it is quite fun to learn how to swing a bat to cut against the ball. Something very satisfying when everything is aligned relaxed and tight on hit.
As a temporary thing, I've added a screenshot of Photish running in the terminal :)
I remember those jolly days when you could just clone production DB and restore it into your local machine.

These days I can't even do it to a single of our avg size tables.

Anyway, counting on production data for testing is a mistake.

We do a couple of things

1. Testing
For testing we use fixtures with a build and tear process. Basically building the test with data and in tear down clearing the database.

Language and framework is irrelevant here, every single one that I know of has this features built in.

2. Staging/Princess
For staging, we clone production periodically but we have a "whitening" process.
a. Remove all emails, remove all keys/tokens.
b. Delete tables for stats that only relate to production (orders etc...)
c. Delete all push tokens, no one from staging will ever get tweeted/push notification or anything like that.

I would NEVER point staging/test to production, not even for read only. Staging/Test should be on a security group that doesn't even have access to production DB.
You can specify which java version you're compiling and execute (unit and integration test included) within maven execution. Granted it's not rvm/rbenv that literally install multiple version of Ruby.
Makes me wonder why did this sport ever become so famous. It's like cricket, except there are two large competing sports (football and basketball, even hockey and tennis somehow).
The crop yields from climate controlled agriculture can be inferred a bit from the results that are coming in from Japan. This is not economical in rural regions like much of the US only (IMO) because locals make so little capital. But if we treat it a lot like subsistence farming and communities pool together capital to start indoor farms, this could help.

My skepticism is mostly around not the economics but the sheer accumulation of desperation in these small communities creating high corruption and theft rates ruining the efficacy of the concept.
> as a non-american, non-japanese nor venezuelan, i wonder what is the fun of playing baseball

You see other kids playing it, and that's where the fun is - with just about any game.

Growing up, we liked to play fast-paced games like soccer and tag, and games that emphasized skill like baseball, or even bocce.

I cannot remember a game that any of us thought was too boring to play.
But Nextstep was a very expensive OS. I looked into it and they wanted somewhere in the neighborhood of $900.00 for a copy. I eventually bought a used NextStation from Sam Goldberger's Spherical Solutions.
I'm not sure I'm reading you right, but I think you mean flouting instead of flaunting.
It's seasonal, but they fly at altitudes a lot of drones fly at.
This is really old fuzzy memory, but at one point there was some kind of administrative or staff plugin for AOL that would let you put in a sub-site-ID and jump straight to some of these things. A bunch of people started using a several-years-old superbowl message board to trade warez. It was like operating out of an abandoned stadium... but over 28.8.
>>Wind tunnel tests could be a thing of the past thanks to quantum computing

What a bunch of bullocks! How the heck do you verify that your simulator is doing something useful or physical?

For example, the non-linear-Schrodinger equation can be used to approximate transmission through a fiber optic but in the derivation there is a paraxial approximation. Is this valid? Equally, Maxwell's equations are usually written for perfectly coherent fields, is this valid for the problem at hand?
It's also available as a PDF/mobi: https://www.gitbook.com/book/landersbenjamin/llvm-implementi...
Seems like you could get new insights and ideas by getting lost in the graphs (if only I had better recollection of this film!) The interactive graph-timeline is a rather uncommon visualization technique, but I can see it being very useful. It only needs smooth graph transitions while using the timeline scrubber, and it could make a very useful tool with different applications.

And as films go, I think a similar analysis performed on Cloud Atlas would be extremely interesting.
I store PDFs in Google Drive by quarter (e.g. ~/content/2015Q4/), and generally try to add a few relevant terms in the title. The only thing that bothers me is that I have to go through and specifically mark the files as available offline.
Actually, it all comes down to whether you can see and appreciate the skills involved or not. I didn't realize that in the beginning, but now I do. You have to know that there's a lot of skill and practice involved in making the way the players pass the ball (in soccer/basketball/hockey), the decisions they make to distribute the ball (e.g., attack from the middle, from the side, one-two passes and sometimes, individual dribbling skills). These are all very difficult to do for any amateur (or even some professional) players, and it becomes to see it AND appreciate that only after you've played soccer (basketball, hockey, or any sports you name it) yourself. I could watch a soccer game without any goals being scored and yet still get enjoyment out of it.

Another somewhat related analogy would be that I was never trained in playing any musical instruments; I never am interested in learning how to play one myself. But when I see an orchestra playing a random classical music (i.e. the kind of music I personally find boring), I still appreciate that they are showing off skill that they practiced to acquire for many years.
Command line screenshots isn't really helping for a visual tool. With no screenshots or an online demo this requires a lot of work to just decide if it's useful or not.

Also, I haven't looked at the code but the first thing I do when looking at Ruby projects is look for test/spec directory. Kudos for having it and testing your library
That's a beautifully typeset book.

Any suggestions on what authoring tool(s) to use to write a book like this that has lots of matrices, diagrams, and notation?
Except they don't know who they've processed. I guess they have the list of ticketed passengers, and most people will only go through the machines once. But they don't record anything when they check your ID.
Zipcar, Car2Go, and Uber have done a lot to alleviate that. Car ownership is definitely not needed in Seattle, Portland, NYC, SF, and probably many other cities. In the rest of the US, most exceptions are because the US doesn't do cities well, largely due to the perception in the mid-to-late 20th century that white people had abandoned the cities and left them to black people, and America doesn't care about black people.
My beloved's grandpa Fred played on Iowa Sunday afternoons. A grown man with four kids, a wife, and full time work - first on the farm and later in the factory - standing around except for those moments when in a burst he beat the opponent or the opponent beat him was part of the appeal. Baseball is not called "The American sport." Baseball is the American pass time.
> Who wants to spend 90% of the time standing around?

If you've never managed to throw a nice curveball, or hit a homer, or make a great diving catch, you'll never understand.

You do something like that once, and you can easily get hooked on standing in line for another chance to replicate it.

It's kind of like golf, but it sounds like you probably don't like that game either.
I think it's strange to see this sort of conflict crop up as a cultural, racial division. Providing time to goof off, unwind, relax, and release tension isn't really a "dumbing down" of curriculum.

Hyper-competitive atmospheres, based on an immersion in a perpetuity of dictated, goal-oriented projects, where objectives and achievements are assigned, and not chosen, without any opportunities for... (dare I say?) "fun" won't provide for memorable experiences that last beyond childhood. This sort of thing voids the personality, in my opinion.

A childhood of constant, unrelenting cerebral challenges, and compulsory learning, is going to produce some real fuckin' jerks down the road, wouldn't you say?
> Certainly not rural children

Funnily enough, having worked for a while on projects in rural Maharashtra, the children are the path to information for those villages - they're the ones who can read and write and know the prices and share information upwards to the adults.

(the conclusion being, back then, that one should market to children...)
Very weak article.

It prepends several statements with “myth:” and does very little to debunk them.

Example: AI won't spin out of control because Moore’s laws is nearing its end.

First, is it really? Just because we can't move electrons reliably much faster through much smaller sizes? What's stopping new materials, spintronics, photonics and what have you to take us to the next decades? I've been hearing the end to Moore’s laws is “coming real soon” since I was a kid. Lots of clever explanations guaranteeing there was no way we could move past 200nm or so due to physical size of the wavelength used in lithography.
And yet here we are using crazy stuff like phase shifting masks and interference patterns routinely.

Second, the brain seems to be a very slow and massively parallel machine, so maybe transistors are plenty small and fast already, we just need to ditch the Von Neumann architecture.

Third, we only need a single strong AI to emerge for it to be a problem. I don't see the clouds from these megacorps getting smaller any day.

I don't really know what I'm talking about, of course, but it takes stronger arguments than because quantum tunnelling and the speed of light to make this case.
Yeah, they'd definitely be at the same altitudes. I moreso meant do crop dusters fly daily, weekly, etc. Probably pretty crop dependent.
Why is reducing teen pregnancy good?
Baseball, in its original form (circa 1860s and 70s) was played with a softer makeshift ball and a modified axe handle and no gloves. It was an activity a small town could play together as well as a community event where two nearby communities would come together to play. I believe the American Civil War played a part in spreading it thoughout the country in a time where news didn't travel as fast. Basketball also came after baseball and not sure if it was quite as casual in its early form.

My brothers play for a historic reenactment team of that era and the game resembles present day softball than baseball with its casual play. There's players on their team age 18 to 70 and most of the teams they play are composed of people in smaller towns doing what they did 140 years ago, today. One of the more interesting games they hold every year is played on the statehouse lawn against our state representatives after work.
Interesting.

The problem with the NextStep stuff at the time was that it required high-end hardware. Even years later when they started to make cross-platform development tools, they were limited to niche markets where you new your users would pay up for plenty of RAM. That was fine for, e.g., financial trading.

So I think they would have had to start basically from scratch, sullying their hands by writing for the sad world of 16-bit Windows 3.1. If they had done it, though, it could have been incredible.

On the other hand, they could well have been killed by the same issue that killed Netscape: the web, being definitionally open, doesn't provide a lot of defensible advantage to early movers.
Actually, you have no idea what my background in the sport is. I enjoyed playing it for years. I hate watching it because it's boring as hell. Baseball is boring too, but there's a hell of a lot more strategy going on in that sport.
I thought that the Higgs Boson was its own antiparticle, like the photon? I am not sure.
Interestingly though, lacrosse is gaining popularity and hits most of those points as well:

1. It's difficult to play without least a couple midfielders, a goalie, and some defenders

3. Everyone needs at least a lacrosse stick, and a ball (although lacrosse balls are small and easy to lose, so it's better to have a few on hand)

4. Same

It's also one of the most expensive sports to play, and few schools (high schools at least) subsidize it like they do with American Football.
Completely agree, it is a place holder until I've put together my own site which I'll ideally demo there. I've spent all my time tweaking and improving Photish that I haven't had time to start the site that I wanted to create before I made the tool!

A demo is available running "photish init --example && photish host", the design is kinda embarrassing though so I wouldn't want people misjudging the possibilities of what you can create with my poor example site design :)

Thanks for poking around, testing is important to me too. There are also feature tests with cucumber/aruba in the /features directory.
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The biggest reason not to use them is they are slow. It is a waste of our time, not to mention the cost to run them. And then, at least on the US they don't have the right to search me.
The magic that makes Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlists so damn good
"Volatility is the wrong number to be plugged into the wrong formula (BS) in hope to get the right answer."
I grew up playing wiffleball 2 vs 2, with ghost runners in a friend's backyard where the patio was 1st and the garden was 3rd. If you want to play a sport, when you're young you can make it happen. Kids playing soccer in Brazil don't need an 11 X 11 game with a regulation ball and goal
It's annoying for sure, and I like that we don't need it in Python land. But, in situations when we do want to target multiple Python versions, an identical approach using pyenv works well. I've come to appreciate it more.
Ah yes, the new propaganda of the 21st century: the corporations try to convince you that all your friends are supporting their proposals, and so, you should too. It works. The single most important thing for most humans is being accepted by their confederates.

Pay close attention: the corporations have no scruples about manipulating you to get their way, and Facebook is no exception.

A conciliatory response to this deception from Zuck himself is warranted; this kind of lie-distribution (to over a billion people) shouldn't be accepted quietly. Furthermore, if Zuck wants his philanthropy efforts to succeed, lying to a billion people to support his company is going to torpedo it.
Nice!

Have you benchmarked against Julia? Would be interesting how Clasp compares in their micro perf tests: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/test/perf/mic...

http://scilua.org/ was added in the tests recently and does pretty well.