skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pitcher tries to mostly aim at or around the strike zone of the batter: from knees to shoulders and over the white plate in the ground from left to right. This pitch was waaaay off the mark yet the batter still swung. It was so far off it actually bounced in the dirt way in front of the plate.

That is just a really really bad pitch and the batter is laughing at himself for actually swinging at the thing. He probably thought the pitch was something else and completely miscalculated.

This pitch was entirely unintentionally and laughably bad.
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That's a fun video and it definitely hints at the strategy involved, but it's worth noting that in-game announcers routinely get these sorts of guesses wrong. Which is just to say it's not quite as predictable as this video implies in isolation.
An extra tidbit: you can now get a perfectly usable 2m/70cm (VHF/UHF) handheld radio for ~$30 (e.g. BF-F8+, though you'll also want a $2 programming cable since they're a bit of a PITA to program via the panel).

So, you don't have to fall down a deep gear rabbit hole just to get on the air. :) OTOH, depending on what you're interested in, a little handheld won't go very far.
Forcing a user to sign up before they've seen the content is a big miss. Strongly suggest you rearchitect this and offer sign up once users want to save progress/sign up for notifications.
Local hams are working on a dual 2.4 and 5mhz mesh network. From inside the house, I can't get to anyone. With an antenna @ 10 above the roofline, I can get to 2 of them.

Likewise, I can hit one repeater very well and two others with some noise. Same 10' above the roof! I can get to about 10 with full copy.

Both are cases of tech level license access. I'm an Extra, seldom use HF, but want the rule to give me better VHF/UHF access.
Anyone else read the title as "What can Hitler actually..." ?
There is a trend sometimes called New Atheism that you may find satisfying. Its main tenets seem to be that all claims can be subjected to scientific inquiry (including religous claims), and that atheism needn't be depressing.

Prolific authors in the trend include Richard Dawkins, Jerry Coyne, Sam Harris, and others.
Did you see the video? That was even worst that wasting a pitch that might end up in the dirt near the plate, but this was a good 3 feet in front and 2 feet wide of the plate. The only reason the catcher got it was the ball had enough spin to bounce back into the catcher and not away.
The law (in the US) pretty much defines hacking as accessing a system you don't have authorization to access. Very vague. Even a second of access to something you don't have permission to do is illegal.
Yeah, kids these days, expecting their signed contracts to not be breached. Why don't they get a real job, like used cars sales?
Computers, like humans, can only represent a vanishingly tiny proportion of “real numbers”, either by giving specific ones a name, or some kind of symbolic formula by which to compute with them. To do practical computations we need to break everything down into basic arithmetic operations, which ultimately means we have a concrete multiplication/addition(/other operation) table encoded somewhere, e.g. in silicon.

One that I like for doing exact arithmetic on numbers represented by black-box functions is a continued fraction representation, see http://perl.plover.com/yak/cftalk/INFO/gosper.txt

(Note: floating point is successful because trying to use irrational numbers in computations is most of the time a huge waste of computational resources compared to approximating with a binary fraction.)
An analysis of pitch sequencing suggests pairs of pitches perform particularly well http://www.hardballtimes.com/pitch-sequencing/
No, nonononono. I got the joke. That's why I'm sad.

Keilor's finally retiring this year :-(.
>No-one on this forum is just average, right?

Every time one of these posts come up, the comments are filled with "me too". Everyone here is a tortured genius.
The proposed law still says "non-intrusive antennas" -- I wonder who defines that. (I didn't read the bill.)

It passed the House by a voice vote. Does that imply smooth sailing through the Senate?
http://www.theonion.com/article/new-stem-initiative-just-tri...
The myth is that it's a particularly gross and garbage choked area. I've seen many articles and comments about it which have used pictures of garbage strewn Manila harbor as illustration, for example. The reality is that if you were in the middle of the Pacific gyre you could look overboard and not perceive anything special, because mostly it's an increased abundance of tiny pieces of plastic, most of them floating under the surface. Unfortunately, like many issues, people have a hard time caring about things unless they're fairly blatant. It's a big reason why "charismatic megafauna" tend to be poster children for endangered species.
Thanks for the article. I agree with its main points
This is entirely my experience. A lot of people at highly selective colleges are hyper focused on one area of study to the exclusion of others, for example a lot of my friends who are brilliant engineers hate the arts. I think intelligence is broader than IQ, because I think there's something to be said for the intelligence that allows you to recognize the value of many different intellectual pursuits at the same time. You can learn so much more if you get along with intellectuals of all kinds.

Some people take their specialization too far, in my opinion.
http://docs.milagro.io/en/milagro-a-case-for-something-new-p...

Finally. We need for the security community to jolt themselves out of their unhealthy focus on PKI based TLS as the be-all and end-all for client-server communication... which has been driven by web browsers as the main use-case for the last couple of decades -- to something better and more secure for the new mobile world. Not sure Milargo presents a complete solution but hopefully it sparks a dialog for better solutions for native apps and IoT world.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3016733/application-develop...
Just get a CISS printer. I got an Epson L300 when I started college (4 years ago) and the printer is still going strong and I still have one full bottle of black ink (it came with 3x black ink bottles in the box). It was about $150 when I bought it and I spent $0 on ink.
They won't work very well when they don't have good southern exposure, they won't circulate a lot of heat if you have rooms and doors.

Meanwhile, the direct operating costs for natural gas heat aren't all that high.
Finally!!! I support this.
I think it's more about the political influence Bezos might get by showing that he supports the established political system.
> you cannot look at the overall review scores and use them to make reliable decisions.

As I said, my review (that the printer has hard-coded planned obsolescence in place) is a fair review allowing you to make a more informed, reliable decision.

It's not worth a long debate, but you're not telling me your whole argument so I don't know how to respond.
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If your heap is under 32G Java uses pointer arithmetic to fit pointers into 32 bits. "UseCompressedOops" is your google term. The reduction in cache misses offsets a lot of the overhead.
My personal theory of what consciousness is that it is a feedback loop.

I have major issues explaining why i think that but somehow it fits my model.

When thinking of consciousness as a feedback loop, stuff sort of makes sense. I have been unable to poke holes in the theory but also unable to add strength to it.
This is what happens when inflation rises 13M%
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You could also try building your own radio. There are all sorts of kits available. That'll make getting a decent radio a lot cheaper, and you can learn a lot that way.

Another option is buying a used radio. There's a lot of great equipment you can get at swapmeets or online for relatively cheap.
Your currency devalues beyond recognition and printing ever-higher currency denominations becomes the only way to prevent people from having to carry duffel-bags of paper-money every time they need to buy a carton of milk. Ultimately bank notes are no-longer 'Legal Tender' but 'Bearer Cheques' that 'promise to pay the bearer on demand' (although we all know that will never really happen).
Hams already had the right to put up antennae despite local ordnances. Federal law preempts local law on this. This new bill just extends that to planned unit developments with private covenants and restrictions.

But really, who puts up HF towers and beams any more?
Does that mean all type C phones will need an adapter too?
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From what I can tell searching relevant dates, I believe the Washington Post published the PRISM piece before Bezos purchased the newspaper.
Well, probably to not feel bad about themselves. If your skills were obtained through hard work, they could have done that themselves. Whereas if it was handed to you by magic then there's nothing to be done, right?
This is my Sunday hack for this weekend.

I wanted to be able to script some web stuff from the comfort of my shell, and I realized the WebDriver API is actually really simple and convenient.

I'm happy about not having any dependencies except bash, perl, and curl.

Some features are still missing, and the error output can be pretty ugly.
Coverity actually has a really good tracking ability where it will find code that was copy/pasted/edited but the edit looks wrong.

I can't remember the name, but it will identify what it thinks is the original, and show where the copy/paste is, along with the edit it thinks was missing. This was usually around some error handling logic in our code base. Think:

if (checkIsValid(foo)) {
printf("Looks like foo is not valid. foo == %s\n", foo);
}

Wasn't uncommon for someone to copy that and forgot to change all places "foo" appeared.

Long story short, advanced static analysis has come a long way.
New Research Establishes That Intelligence Is Inherited from the Mother
Just go to the site of the American Radiator Delay League.[1]

[1] http://www.arrl.org
can the thought of delta times the number of people be applied in the area of food ?
It's owned by the Qatari government; I'm not sure why anyone should trust the independence of a news outlet owned by a foreign democratic government, nevermind Qatar's [0].

But then, a shocking number of people seem to love Russia Today in the UK, so it really is a sad state of affairs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Qatar
Ouch. I did my best... I shall try harder next time.

My point was that while Emacs certainly isn't as capable as IntelliJ is at the moment, It's possible to build those features upon IntelliJ. An attempt to build Emacs's featureset on IntelliJ, OTOH, would crash and burn.

Emacs doesn't try to be good at everything - not in the conventional sense, because Emacs is a platform. There's a lot of software built atop it, but they're all really good at one thing: Paredit isn't Org, which isn't Geiser, which isn't Flycheck, which isn't etags.
Do we have any data that Google is actually using their POWER9 boxes? I always read that as investing in anything not Intel (see also RISC-V), just to be in a better negotiating position with Intel for the vast number of CPUs that they buy.
For a next-level extension of this idea, check out this paper on solar closets:

http://www.ece.villanova.edu/~nick/solar/solar.html
Another system that can model curved space times (and singularities) is a simple chain of coupled pendula, or alternatively a long Josephson junction, which has the same equation of motion.

The system can have a soliton solution (a 360 degree twist in the chain) that travels along the chain. The spacetime curvature along the soliton (i.e. the frequency dispersion relation for small harmonic waves on top of the solution) exhibits an event horizon. But like with the other system, the analogy does not teach us anything novel about curved spacetimes, though it can allow for some interesting phenomena.
It might be wise to just hire an attorney and file a copyright infringement claim. You have a pretty solid case.
Disclaimer: I've had an anxiety disorder most of my life and I already have had some professional CBT training to help with difficult times. I think if anyone reading this is really down / troubled, then seeing a professional would be wise. There are really good caring people out there that can help.

I've recently experienced something very similar, I would like to share with you my story on getting (mostly) through it in hope that it may help others.

First step for me, just getting out in the wilderness helped me immensely, even just a nice park and some sun/rain helps. It sounds really alternate but getting out and touching trees, just sitting under them has been a kind of medicine, watching animals in as wild of a setting as possible is nice too.

Walking, or "wandering" for a long period of time has also been a great way to settle the mind, you could call it the most primitive form of meditation, but if you get the chance to walk for 1-2 hours along a quiet beach, consider yourself blessed. Just not having a set place to walk but just exploring is what I mean.

More formal meditation practice is very, very good for me; however, it has to be taught / practiced properly. Getting the wrong idea about something like Buddhism can be quite destructive, especially for those in a vulnerable place.

I found socializing to be critical, if you can talk to someone about the problems specifically it's even better. We are social beings.

My episode I now consider a little bit of a gift, it has made me realize the value of our natural surroundings and how important their conservation, protection and our return to them is for us humans. Maybe more than some of us ever realize.

I read the ancient Greeks would treat people with mental distress by giving them a nice quiet place to stay near the sea, maybe they were onto something?
This is a stereographic projection representation of an angle. The number should be seen as a point on the real projective line, which includes a point at infinity.

If you’re using floating point, you can use the number ∞ for this. You’ll need some special cases in the code for it.

Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereographic_projection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent_half-angle_substitutio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_projective_line
> Could Baron have done the right thing given the ambit of the Post's newsroom, and the Editorial Page also the right thing in putting forward the argument against blanket clemency?

No. There is no dissonance here whatsoever.

Editorial just cost WaPo an unfathomable number of sources. If you're playing the right move game and consider solely the masthead's interest, carpetbombing loyalty to sources is an extremely stupid move for a masthead to make. I think this is something Greenwald missed given his characterization of WaPo acting in its own self interest; the editorial is inexplicable in that frame of reference.

There is more to it, without question.

I bet Barton Gellman is having a good day.
Thanks for the great explanation about acquisition costs. I think we can use it :)
> If you find yourself passing parameters and adding conditional paths through shared code, the abstraction is incorrect. It may have been right to begin with, but that day has passed. Once an abstraction is proved wrong the best strategy is to re-introduce duplication and let it show you what's right.

I like this take on when go full DRY or not a lot. It's very easy to abstract out two things that look identical in their earliest implementation, but are actually different in intent and function--then when you get a new feature request on one of them they become obviously wildly different, and then to maintain the abstraction you have to throw in a bunch of conditional blocks into it and it turns into a nightmare to maintain.

I heard a rough rule of thumb to stay away from abstracting anything until you see it repeated identically at least three times, not two. It's just a rough rule of thumb to try and make sure you're not prematurely abstracting something and building the wrong thing, but anecdotally it's been useful for me.
Now known as a state of flow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
If you find this interesting, you may find _The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary_ [1] interesting as well. The Oxford English Dictionary was made in the mid-late 1800s and laboriously tracked down the etymology of most english words by asking for submissions and tracking them on paper. The largest contributor, Dr. W. C. Minor [2], was a rich doctor who murdered a man and, because of his class and genuine insanity, was confined to an insane asylum and left alone with his books.

I never thought the origin of a dictionary could be fascinating but I spent an entire Sunday reading this book.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Professor-Madman-Insanity-English-Dic...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Chester_Minor
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In brief, raping someone who is unconscious fits neatly into the 'Power-Reassurance' category of rapist. On the other hand the guy himself appears (although we'll see as he gets older) to be more of a 'Power-Assertive' type. In either case the major factor is the perception of the victim as vulnerable, which can come in the form of "drunk and unconscious", but just as often comes in the form of, "Elderly or disabled".

Rapists tend to be highly preferential in their modus, but across typologies the victim profiles are insanely varied... except that the rapist feels they can dominate/control them.
Another thing that is difficult to get right is choosing a suitable font...
Can't speak for the author of this site, but all of the information I've seen on it is freely available on congress.gov or gpo.gov.
> Those who make the Very Large Mistake (of thinking they know enough about the nature of the physical to know that consciousness can’t be physical) tend to split into two groups. Members of the first group remain unshaken in their belief that consciousness exists, and conclude that there must be some sort of nonphysical stuff: They tend to become “dualists.” Members of the second group, passionately committed to the idea that everything is physical, make the most extraordinary move that has ever been made in the history of human thought. They deny the existence of consciousness: They become “eliminativists.”

What's problematic about the "say no to consciousness" case? It seems to be based on their preference for other descriptions of human brain activity, especially when the alternative description (consciousness) has been so ambiguous, vague and unhelpful.

> You cannot describe first-hand facts using only third-hand facts. This is the core philosophical dilemma in the hard problem of consciousness.

from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12381348

(or more accurately, I think third-hand factual systems could probably posit first-hand facts-- but be unable to assert validity or something. I am not a philosopher.)
The problem is some batters are much better at certain locations and some pitchers are much better at certain pitches and locations. The batter could probably lay off until he gets what he's looking for.

But you might be able to get a club like the A's to try it in spring ball or something for a few games a year and gather some stats on it.
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Why does it need to be deceit? People can be a bit short sighted when it comes to proponents of their own particular ideology.

I neither suggested that conistonwater was lying, nor that there's anything wrong with Greenwald being an activist, just that we should openly acknowledge the latter.
You might be interested in reading Douglas Hofstadter's book I Am A Strange Loop.
If this can be proven, and a class action lawsuit is filed, this would spell the end of HP. I don't think they would have any choice but to declare bankruptcy.
Does this article add anything to Sandi Metz's original?
I tend to take DRY more from a standpoint of data and code to transform that data into other data.

I'm less concerned about duplication in code that uses data than I am the code that determines whether the data itself is correct.
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There is a quote from Pólya that I love in margin notes of Concrete Mathematics.

There are two kinds of generalizations. One is cheap
and the other is valuable. It is easy to generalize
by diluting a little idea with a big terminology. It
is much more difficult to prepare a refined and
condensed extract from several good ingredients.

I think it applies here, fairly well. Just finding a way to not repeat yourself is relatively easy to do. Finding a way to not repeat yourself, but keep the same level of information conveyance is actually quite difficult.
I think more interesting is the question: What has consciousness? Or from what point on humans carry one?
I'm even less interested in the argument about whether it was in the Post's best interests to publish this.
i'm struggling to identify the point of the article.

mystery and matter have never been mutually exclusive. depending on it's configuration, matter can lead to some mysterious things. "it's matter" is a bad answer to pretty much every question.
Thanks for the correction!

> only guaranteed to have the range [-1, SSIZE_MAX]

Oh, that's a weird type. I wonder if any compiler implementation encodes it with -1 bias, so that all bits 0 means "-1".

It could cause a disaster if/when ssize_t is encoded as anything else but standard twos complement signed number...
So ask for a referral to a sports medicine specialist and see how it goes. I'd point out though, that sports medicine is also the field that "protects" athletes so well... so very well.

That said, whether it's a football player shooting cortisone and lidocaine between kickoffs, popping opiates, or just having their concussions ignored for decades... or someone who wants to work themselves to death, the outcome is the same.

Regret and pain later in life, when you mature a bit and realize that your supposed gains were not really worth it.
Even so, it sort of breaks the flow. The difference between reading a novel from beginning to end or a choose-your-own-adventure book.
I used Ham Study when i got my license. It's free, and pretty useful in terms of the questions and making flash cards and practice tests.

https://hamstudy.org/
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> the whole of the US would only require the whole Texas Panhandle to be covered in panels 25% efficient

Are we building Dyson spheres next?

I believe largish orders of mass-market solar panels (currently ~15% efficient, as you mentioned) are about $10/sq ft, but let's make that $5 for sake of argument. So $218k for one acre.

The Texas Panhandle is 16.6 million acres. So assuming solar becomes nearly twice as efficient for half the cost, the solar panels alone for this venture would be $3.6 trillion. I hesitate to guess what construction, installation, batteries, or infrastructure for 16 million acres would add.

---

So I concede that given best-case economics, impractical funding, and technology that doesn't exist, it could perhaps be done.

More of a XKCD "What If?" scenario than a serious solution.
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I feel that would just hide other problems. As soon as you pull some code out into a function, it is inviting other uses of it. As soon as someone fixes the function for their use in a way that breaks it for yours...