skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who went from GBC to original purple GBA and then to DSLite (and I still haven't gone to DSi or 3DS), I don't see what all the fuss is about. I never really had problems with lighting - sure I couldn't play at night, but I had a lighted magnifier for GBC and a light for my GBA. The shift from real batteries to rechargeable on the DS was actually a stopping point for me. I guess it's just how I think, but I want control over my power source. I don't want something where I rely on Nintendo or any one company. On my GBC and GBA, I could use any brand of battery I wanted, change 'em around, etc. Sure, I had one of the recharge packs; but that got used very rarely, only for very long trips. Most of the time, I was on battery power only.
I've thought about this but that does not move the discourse forward at all and it hurts the readers of the story. We're not here to make anyone upset, least of all readers of the story. We'd just like Al-Jazeera to not leech off our bandwidth bill. And if they want to come on board, that's awesome. Still welcome.
Ok, we'll add that to the title above.
I'm an engineer at startup http://www.equityzen.com, which is a private secondary market that provides the alternative option of selling startup shares before an IPO or exit, rather than waiting or letting the shares go unexercised.

I believe that the secondary market is becoming a much more popular option to startup employees as companies start to take notice of the current issues with liquidity.
I hope so, but it would not take me long to go to a meetup that has a similar demographic profile to HN and find no shortage of people who sincerely agree with it.
The things that are truly optional are not the things a procrastinator worries about.
I wish they'd package it the other way around. I buy bacon the for the fat, period.
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If we could track copy-pasted chunks, then manual abstraction step would be needless, as it is already clear from editing history. We could then transform between abstract-nonabstract source or completely remove that distinction by making it view property. And modify one place and quickly update (or not) all others. We'll also have to deprecate 'modern' text sources and store code in structured way.

That should be all obvious to anyone with 10+ programming experience, imo, but I always see such "oh, dry or not, kiss or not" jitter. We now have great tools to do everything, except programming. Someone must make programming app better than just notepad-with-word-completion junk.
So how does this "benchtop" version work?
This is so true. I was on one of the mother ships. The bests of our class won a coupe of gold and silver medals on the Internationale Mathematik Olympiad.

After leaving school I "realized" that the universe is filled with happy morons and I have always wished to be one of them. But some day I realized that this wish makes me a moron because it's like to wish the sky were green. So actually a became one of them.
The problem here is that our so-called editors cannot inline calls for us.
> This site can’t be reached

> monitup.tk refused to connect.

> ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Seems to be down?
Looks like Python to me: https://github.com/apache/incubator-milagro-mfa-server

The core MFA library seems to be C, with a bunch of implementations (wrappers?) in Java, C#, JS, Python, Go and Swift:

https://github.com/apache/incubator-milagro-crypto
The statistical and scientific nature of baseball is incredibly deep, far deeper than any other sport I can think of. You not only have the one-on-one of pitching that many other sports can rival (think cricket for example which is mostly about this match up), but once you start including men on base and positional state, it becomes absolutely beautiful to analyze.

This isn't to say other sports don't have action (basketball, soccer, etc) or chess like transitional strategy (football), but the scientific wealth of information in baseball is fairly unrivaled because of discrete nature and very calculable states. These qualities make it assaultable mathematically and scientifically in ways other sports that have more flowing nature cannot have done to them.

It's good to see the article give a nod to a cricket bowling study though. Cross-pollination is good. But for mathematics geeks, baseball is the Beautiful Game.
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Testing/recall and spaced repetition well validated. Focus seems like a gimme. What are your specific problems?
I experienced a similar sentiment when I saw this post. Something related to how bored of the internet I am these days.
In this specific case, it was probably further from the strike zone than the pitcher wanted. That said, pitchers throw balls often to see if hitters will swing at them, and some hitters are more apt to swing at bad pitches (and therefore pitchers exploit this).

Pitches at the bottom of the strikezone, or pitches that are low and drop below the strikezone (that would be called balls) are generally hard to hit, so a lot of pitchers throw sinking pitches there hoping to either get a very borderline strike or a swing and miss.
It is no longer required for any class (Tech, General, Extra).

BTW, it's cooler if you capitalize Morse, as a hat tip to Samuel Morse. Just like Mr. Hertz/Hz.
At a very young age, I remember stairing at myself in the mirror and realizing I am I, and asking but what am I?!
I don't think most people that enter the hobby get a license that would grant them access to bands on which the lack of an outdoor antenna is a hinderance.

They usually get a technician license, which gives them access to the 2-meter band, and that can be accessed from a hand-held radio with a built-in, tiny antenna.

So, really, I don't think this law will result in any significant growth in the hobby. The people who will benefit from it will be the more advanced hams (of which there are a lot fewer), and the people they serve.
Sometimes they do - it ultimately depends on the current pitch count (balls and strikes), the batter, and the pitcher. There are certain situations when "off-speed" (non-fastball pitches, like the one in the video) are usually better.

In this case, the pitch was probably further off than the pitcher wanted, but the pitch thrown is generally less accurate and moves a lot, making it difficult to hit.

For example, when a better has 2 strikes they need to "protect the plate" - swing at any pitch that could -possibly- be a strike (while if they had 0 or 1 strikes, they may let a pitch go hoping it's a ball).

If you're interested in the amount of strategy that goes into a pitchers strategy, I recommend watching this[1] 30 second video of an MLB announcer predicting a pitchers pitches. (Notice the pitch count in the bottom right - "1-2" reads as "1 ball, 2 strikes"

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Do1l8itr6E
Your respect and admiration absolve him of his responsibilities.

This is something I'm seeing more and more - "Snowden is a hero, but should stand trial and face his responsibilities." It's an oxymoron as far as I can figure, and I'm deeply disturbed by it. Either we should know what was revealed, and our government needs checking, or not. But if so, outing that information is heroic and extralegal. If you truly want no one to ever take the same risk Snowden took for the citizens of the US, let the citizens be the ones to throw him to the dogs.
Disagree. You don't have to own a product to write an honest review of it. You don't need to have a Galaxy that caught fire to warn others of what's happening. I'm going to leave a 1-star review because my review is an accurate description of the product even though I haven't owned it.

The real problem is people who review products on unrelated issues, like the political positions of the CEO.
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I'm originally from Italy, and I now live and work in SF.

I am curious about what you are mentioning: any way for you to retrieve more info so I can look it up?
For me, a 7mg nicotine patch had very much the same effect as half of a 20mg (I think it was 20mg pills I had been prescribed, but it's been a few years so I'm not positive) adderall pill.

The effects became very different in larger dosages, but in the smallest doses, I'm not sure I could explain or notice any difference.
Invitation sent. Have the appropriate amount of fun! :-)
Rather than reply to each commenter saying violent extremism is unrelated to religion, I will simply leave this list of islamic terror attacks in the past 30 days.

https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=L...
Lolita is a vehicle for Nabokov's prose. It's dense and poetic, filled with allusion and ambiguity. It's "about" a lot of things.
High level of abstractions accumulate especially in big monolithic applications and I agree it takes time to get the feature in. Especially, you have to get an idea of what code has already been written and how it plays with the components before you start doing anything. First, to not repeat yourself and also to lessen the chances of doing something wrong. I think everything has its trade-offs and use cases. This approach in large applications could make you write less tests, as there is less amount of repeated code. On the other hand you can split your project into independent smaller parts and at the cost of sacrificing DRY you can get something more easy to understand, but then you have to put more effort on testing and integration testing to see if all bits play together correctly and as expected. I agree that the sense of what should be abstracted and what shouldn't comes with experience. It is also very important to get as much information about the problem - this helps choosing the right approach in the context of above.
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Will this wind facility actually be connected to an Amazon facility, or is Amazon doing this to collect the wind production tax credit?
Would hitters benefit from more practice against "game situation"-level pitching?

It occurs me that they get a lot of practice against decent batting-practice pitching and pitching machines, but how often do they get reps against high-caliber pitching outside of actual games?
The end result of this isn't reviews that serve as helpful warnings to consumers, but rather reviews that nobody takes seriously at all because they aren't a reliable record of user experience.

It's easy to quibble with this in cases like the Samsung batteries. But exploding batteries aren't the common case: much dumber things are.
Because this is better than building code, and builders really don't have a huge incentive to go beyond code.
Re: "basic science", what about "advances in molecular biology and gene editing"? I don't know exactly what the authors have in mind, but CRISPR-Cas, recombinant DNA, RNA interference, identity of the hox genes, DNA sequencing...all of these were huge advances in basic science in the last 50 years (some of them are also now being used practically).

I guess it's tough to really put myself in the shoes of someone living 75 years ago, but from where I'm sitting (I'm a biologist) the basic science is moving so unbelievably fast it's exhilarating.
I think your comment was meant to go to this thread instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12524217
AJ is a professional company. If you read the other comments, which were posted after my comment, it's clear the developer made an agreement a freelance journalist, not AJ; which isn't even mentioned by the developer in the blog even though they're 100% aware of it. Given near the journalists or the developer have committed publicly to the terms of the agreement between them, I don't see the point in speculating what their agreement was; I do know on GitHub that the developer use the MIT license for some other code, which would have allowed the journalist to reuse the code where ever they wanted.

As for what to do, volumes of books are published on the topic. If the content was hosted in the US, the next step would be contact the ISP that's hosting the content.
What about the brake pads in my multi-ton death machine? Should I be prohibited from replacing them with third-party parts for the fear of risking everyone else's lives?
You haven't included enough details for anyone to provide meaningful help. But I'll try.

I think many of the folks who don't feel lost (or feel less so) operate on some measure of momentum, following a well-trodden path of finish secondary/high school, get degree, get job, [get family] (last step is optional). Those tend to consume enough cycles that there's none left over to feel lost.

People who take a step back and ask "what am I even doing here? Why would I want this job over that one?" would probably find more frustration than those who don't.

Friendships are a real challenge. It requires significant investment to find friends to begin with. If somehow they turn out to not be good friends, you must keep searching for new ones. Keep in mind that friendships require you to work for your part in the friendship as well. If you're lucky enough to have friends at your workplace, that's a huge win.
There is no "general advice" for "finding yourself", although that might not be what you asked. It's most likely also true for finding out what you want to do in life[0]. Figuring these things out is very personal and dependent on your personal history, and there are few general princples. If you feel you really need help, it might be beneficial to talk to a counselor who can provide more personalized help. There are few formulae that apply to all person's situations.

As an illustrating example, I don't know what you mean by "friendships are false." What do you mean by that? Do you have many acquaintances and no close friends or were you recently betrayed by someone whom you consider a close friend? This is something you need to sit down with someone else and talk about.

[0] With respect to this, many people say they don't know what they want to do until they do it, but then again, some people know from when they are 6 they want to be a doctor/scientist/professor and, lo and behold, that guides their life and they do it. It really depends on your personality and goals and that can only be weened out of a 1-on-1 conversation, IMO, again, very few general principles here.
I signed up for a ton of courses and dropped the majority. For me, the quality simply wasn't there. I have no way of objectively verifying this claim, but imho if the quality was there completion rates would be much higher. As is the majority of these courses just aren't worth the time.
My complaint with DRY - sometimes it's just significantly easier to learn a codebase or learn the problems that led to its structure/abstraction by just writing many of the underlying components yourself. Whether that code goes into the codebase is somewhat irrelevant from a learning perspective.

On top of that, when 95% of the code you work with is based on a "Minimal Viable Product" (the bane of my existence), assumptions will probably be made incorrectly, or in a way that adds significant technical/organizational debt. By doing it yourself, the original assumptions can be put into a different light and can help reduce all sorts of debt in the future.
It's hard to challenge with the 'downvote' button available ;)
Assuming situational pitch prediction being one of the biggest batter advantages, one wonders how well a pitcher would perform if they threw a truly random progression of pitches.
Ever heard of a function? If it's as simple as copy paste, that's all you need. The trickier abstractions come when you need something to be almost the same in two places. Copy and paste tracking wouldn't work there.

Replacing functions with some kind of copy paste tracking editor does not sound like an improvement.
I admit I didn't even look at any code. I've been conditioned to have expectations in-line with my rant.
These are the sorts of timeframes coming from the guys working in the trenches:

"In 30 years, every single new car will be autonomous. That’s completely obvious"

-Anthony Levandowski[1]

"How quickly can we get this into people's hands? If you read the papers, you see maybe it's three years, maybe it's thirty years. And I am here to tell you that honestly, it's a bit of both."

-Chris Urmson[2]

"Serious snow testing is still to come, while it could be 20 to 25 years before most trips in cities will be provided by autonomous vehicles, he added."

-John Krafcik[3]

"25, 30 years, I hope at that point we've gotten to the point where we're starting to pull the human drivers off the road."

-Kyle Vogt[4]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/19/self-driv...

[2] http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self...

[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-12/google-car...

[4](17:40 mark in video) https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/14/cruise-founder-kyle-vogt-o...
Probably not.

MLB teams play 162 games a season, you can probably consider pre-season games to be practice for game-sitation pitching.

The players get plenty of out-of-game practice from spring training and experience (minors, college, etc).
Pitchers do both. The pitch shown in the video almost certainly just got away from him, since it was the first pitch of the at-bat and so far off the plate. But a pitcher who is "ahead in the count" -- i.e. one who is in a favorable position regarding balls and strikes -- will often miss the plate intentionally in an attempt to draw a swing without putting themselves at risk. This is called "wasting a pitch."
Static code analysis and a good IDE make this point considerably less important. For example, duplicating code is not nearly as expensive in my Spring (Java) application as it is in that shiny Nodejs webapp. It's still important, but solid tooling combats it somewhat.
> none of those obligations include full-throated support for the sources interests moving forward.

False dichotomy. They could have simply refrained from editorializing collectively on the matter at all.

As much as the editorial board members may not like it, they write under the same masthead as the newspeople who published the PRISM material. They get paid out of the same page views. If they really feel their news desk did something that was grossly irresponsible, they should quit.
Many editors let you peek at the source of a call in a pop-up window.
I actually wrote a Mac screensaver with this theme: https://www.mikeash.com/software/chemicalburn/

It shows the transportation networks that arise if you assume that the link between two points gets better as more traffic uses it. It has different curves for the improvement which produce different patterns. Many of them produce the familiar hub-and-spoke model, all without any such notion in the underlying code.
yes, very sarcastic.
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> by now

The only problem is that there's lots of software written before those types even existed, and even today people might learn a bad style from old code. The problem is that compilers hardly compel one to use a good coding style.
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Cheap Samsung B&W around $60-70. I've used two over 5 years, very good.
My review _is_ a reliable record of user experience. If the reader buys the printer he is likely to face the same issue that I'm describing. To not warn them of the issue with the product seems way more unethical to me in my moral framework than the moral stance of keeping the reviews sacred.

Heck, if I and others didn't do this and the printer was still at 4stars because the uninformed majority don't understand the technical aspect of this planned obsolescence, other uninformed readers may not feel the need to read the reviews at all (the average is 4! It probably has no issues! HP is a household name, I'll be using this for years!)
They could have, I agree. What I don't understand is their obligation not to offer a genuinely held opinion about a public policy issue on their editorial page.

I agree that the editorial was hypocritical and should have made mention of the Post's own role.
For those interested, here's[1] a video/paper about using machine learning to predict a pitchers next pitch

[1] http://www.sloansportsconference.com/content/predicting-the-...
In my experience, intelligence is correlated with bad dress sense, lack of hygiene, awkward personalities and poor motor skills. I know a lot of professional mathematicians, and they all would have been bullied for these things things (like I was) if they went to my high school, though many of them went to private high schools.

Before anyone downvotes me because presuming the existence of a group of people that is more intelligent than others is elitist or arrogant, I would point out that it is no more so that presuming the existence of a group of people with less social skills or motor skills.
Haha, broscript... Sorry, thought I was on Reddit.
1. As they are also host the content, I doubt their contracts are signed without knowing who will be hitting their servers. (How do you think they knew some random party was pulling from their servers?)

2. Seeing as they're a small start-up, the bro-grammers can do jsut fine without business and marketing. Which cannot be said about business and marketing doing well without bro-grammers.

3a. Who cares about what Peter Noone thinks?

3b. I agree, the DMCA is notice is plain silly, they should
have sued them outright as per breach of the issuing contract.
It was mine.

To be fair, I think there is a tier of elite institutions which primarily attract the prestige/wealth crowd (Ivy League, etc), and a tier just below them in rankings which attract the nerds who want to do hard intellectual work.
Yes, pitchers sometimes intentionally throw those kind of balls, in order to do what happened in the video. The one in the video is an extreme example, with most balls of this type crossing the plate very low, but not hitting the ground. It's also sometimes done with no intention of it being playable, but rather to throw off a batter for the next pitch or two.

There are also situations where a pitcher will intentionally walk a batter, such as if the batter is very good, so that they can pitch to the next player, who may not be as good of a hitter. There are a whole other set of rules though on how to intentionally walk someone. An at-bat can get complicated with the various ways a batter and pitcher can go about trying to get into the headspace of the other in order to achieve their successive goals.
Would be funny if they tried that - give the catcher some form of RNG, don't let the pitcher disagree with catcher's first signal. Probably hard to test properly though, since pitchers would be used to not doing it that way for so long.
This mentality seems to me to have produced reviews --- on Yelp, on Grubhub, and christ have mercy on the Apple App Store --- that are basically worthless. You can painstakingly read all the reviews and try to glean useful tidbits, but you cannot look at the overall review scores and use them to make reliable decisions.
The core of the problem is that people often confuse “parameterization” with “abstraction”:

Parameterization is simply adding adjustable knobs. For example, a function can take as argument a gigantic list of flags, where each particular combination of flags makes the function do something slightly different.

Abstraction is actually separating concerns. It's dividing a program in logically independent parts, whose correctness can be established individually, without worrying about the others. Abstraction means that software components only interact with each other through explicitly designated interfaces, often enforced by the programming language itself.

Parameterizing is easy. Abstracting is difficult. Unfortunately, parameterization without abstraction is a source of headaches in the long run.