skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you realize how much time and study catchers put into the abilities of every pitcher, and every opponent that their pitchers face? It's very data based, combined with prodigious amounts of athletics on the part of both the pitcher and hitter. The pitcher is trying to capitalize on the batter's weaknesses without just giving away his plan (you can hit much better if you know a slow curveball to the indise is coming). The batter is trying to watch the pitcher and detect things like late delivery, changes in release points, putting spin on the ball, and so on. Then they are tracking mid time scale things - is the pitcher getting tired, is he losing control, are his pitches drifting to the outside. Or this batter has struck out 3 times now - was that a random walk, is he having trouble with a specific pitch, is he perhaps injured? Then there is the long range stuff - how does this batter fair against left handed pitchers.

As of late baseball has been a pitching game. It's often not high score, but it is a fascinating thing to watch, if you have this context. Now, whether you want to keep all that in your brain is another question, and I mostly choose not to, so in practice it is less interesting to me. But there are endless depths there to plumb.
Variations on "bloopers vs highlights" have been around for a while, I'm not sure who (if anybody) was the original source.
To address one of your points, the driver can't start the ride until you're in the car. So you're costing them money by making them wait a minute or two.

Was this always the case? Sure. But when ETAs were longer and drivers generally had more downtime, they were paid more per minute of actual driving. So this wasn't as painful.

If you want, you could try texting the driver saying "Hi, I'll be down in a minute, feel free to start the meter!" They might appreciate that, but it might also be against policy.
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Wow, reading up on Project Azorian was damn interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian
Actually, the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is a pretty wild ship too, complete with gas turbine electric propulsion and Linux:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/the-na...
My life goal is to become a journalist and publish an article about Betteridge's Law that is titled "Is Betteridge's Law Correct?".

(One answer is seemingly contradictory, but actually consistent. The other answer is paradoxical.)
What does "SLOC" stand for in this context?
In their 2014 presentation [1] they say that their compiler is implemented in C++ using flex/bison (that's a lexer/parser generator combo) so at least in this case they're aware of the standard tools.

[1] http://equelle.org/presentations/
The reason can be as simple as identifying with others who aren't into sports. People take on the interests and values of the people they identify with, whether they realize it or not.
This reminds me of the scene in The Wind Rises where Jiro says in passing "Hrm, looks like the Americans are looking at herring bones too." Many of the constraints on biological systems over evolutionary time are purely mathematical, and even when the constraint is not, selection can push a phenotype into local minima whose definition are ultimately mathematical. If you can identify cases in nature that match what you need in engineering then you can take some very nice shortcuts.
The article defends that cultivated people's dislike for professional sports is artificial, and then the author goes on to tell us how he artificially made himself like professional sports. Quite ironic.
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Each social subgroup or culture maintains its identity through shared cultivated interest in some areas, and cultivated disinterest in others.

The degree to which this interest or disinterest is realized is determined by how much an individual wants to be part of a group.

Wine appreciation, which is associated with high status, attracts rather clunky attempts at cultivated interested.

Religious group detractors cultivate a far more antagonistic disinterest.

No one likes beer as children but because people want to fit in so much with the "fun" group, they cultivate heavy interests and tastes for it.

Sports for the most part is tied down to location. A small levels it associates you with your school, and at higher levels it associates you with your city, state, or even country.

Groups often compete against other groups for resources in a 0 sum game. Sports passion can actually be used to measure the level of "loyalty" a person has to a group. The most loyal people will put his or her group above other groups to the detriment of others.

(This nepotism is actually necessary for stable groups. We treat are friends and family this way. Also, if a morally superior alien race of 10 trillion decides the destruction of earth is a necessary evil, meritocracy requires we die willingly)

I don't care much about the state of the homeless in San Francisco. It makes me sound cold but it's the truth. To me, I don't understand why I should care more about this than the homeless in some other state, or the starving and dying in some other country.

People don't like these "free-agents" because they seem completely selfish and base everything on cold logic and meritocracy than warm immediate empathy. They can't be trusted to do what's right for the group, in fact, they may just jump ship when some other better group shows up.

Sports fanaticism is a reasonable measure of this.
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Morocco. Ticks all the boxes, plus it's something new and different. Wifi is available in most cafe and hotels.
Let me know if you need more info.
Flip looks amazing, but, I can't understand what the benefits are / why it needs to do that!
I'll agree we usually don't like changed headlines here on HN.

But on the other hand, when you say "title is misleading", well, I'm not sure how--in the end, both the original and the revised headlines mean the same thing to me.
Really? What do you think is happening right now? Have you paid attention to the actions of the GOP who now control Congress?

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/_i_do_n...
Not sure. Perhaps the session-ID is when the user hits an HTTP landing page (and captured then) and the server reuses it when forwarditng/linking them to HTTPS content?

You could set the "secure" flag on the cookies so that the browser only repeats them to HTTPS endpoints, but that won't help if the original header to set the cookie is sent out over HTTP.
> Some (fairly major) golf clubs don't let women play on their courses[1].

Actually those clubs don't let women become members of the club, but they do let them play on the course. (Specifically, Muirfield does.) Or in some cases (I'm not sure if it's a nonzero number now that the R&A golf club has had its vote) they don't own the course.
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Why yes they are. You need more than just solar panels though. You'll need thick tempered glass, power inverters, monitoring and management systems, transformers and high voltage power lines. Once installed, your glass blocks will provide the ride comfort, noise, safety, of brick or cobblestone roads but less durable and more slippery.
Why not just "LOC"---Lines of Code? To exclude Makefiles and the like?
I'm developing a game on my free time too. I've already worked more than a thousand hours on it and I still don't know if I'll go commercial or not.
I'll agree. There's a healthy middle ground and I was exaggerating for emphasis.

Suffice to say, this: I think that it's possible to enjoy sport at a professional / high level (or local for that matter), in itself, whilst still having something of a disdain for overly crass commercialization (which varies between sports).
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You really should follow what your fellows are saying, your claims of this being a complete non-event for DevOps contradict their claims of building out cluster management to help DevOps, or the future target audience being IT departments.

"The fact you're asking about bottlenecks makes me wonder a bit if you understand where this is targeted, too"

If your own team can't seem to understand where this is targeted, how would anyone else?
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This exchange made me smile. It got to the benefits in the end though.

How about 'Run X in Y minutes' (somewhat after the Learn X in Y series).
There's nothing inherently wrong with being a psychopath. The problem is that they tend to be extremely manipulative and selfish. Of course, if someone identifies "self" with some larger social project or humanistic goal, then manipulating people into achieving this goal can be an incredibly valuable skill.
Touche.

Paid well, at least.
Welcome to (at least) 2004?

http://eckbox.sourceforge.net/

EDIT: Should have just linked to the paper instead. It looks like their primary contribution was an ability to measure the susceptibility of a device to these kinds of attacks.
Yes, one time, forever perpetual. I should write that down. Thanks for the reminder.
It's a research ship.

The problem with research ships is that they float on the surface, and the surface moves. Flipping the ship up like that turns it into a much more stable platform.
> In the Acts passage, everyone shared everything they had with everyone else - the money was being distributed to people who needed it.

Actually, in that passage from Acts, everyone who had property was commanded to sell all of it, and to lay all of the proceeds at the foot of the apostles, who would determine how to use it for the good of the community.
I find it hard to learn programming that way (though for other stuff I use post-its). My approach is first to skim the whole book, making a mental note of interesting features or ideas I haven't encountered yet, but not really learning them deeply. Then I take a small project and make sure to use all of those features, even if I have to shoehorn them in a bit just for an excuse to use the feature. I will use a programming book more as a reference. Most of these are throwaway projects and don't really end up as useful code, and I don't do this all in one sitting, maybe over the course of two or three weeks here and there.
> there's the reality that the football coach is the highest (in the millions of dollars range) paid position at almost every university in the US

Not only that, coaches are the highest paid public employees in most states [0].

[0] http://deadspin.com/infographic-is-your-states-highest-paid-...
out of curiosity, why not use the bookmarking feature?
Indeed, and if that's also happening with the deep-learning papers here, then it's another mechanism in support of my main point: what's published is often, by motivated choice, behind what's being done internally. (And not just, "time it takes to write up" behind.)

Given that intent, there's no way to deduce from the pattern of new claimed results whether what's being revealed is a merely a few months, or many years, behind.
Not much to add, but I feel quite the same. There is a list of neverending things that one is supposed to learn ;P
There's also the Stiletto stealth boat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M80_Stiletto
I was interested in certain sports as a teenager, but grew out of it. I can think of a couple of reasons. Firstly I moved around a bit, to different cities and countries, and parochialism seems very silly. If you don't care which team wins, a lot of interest in sport disappears. Secondly the sports themselves are extremely repetitive. Once you've learned the rules and seen a few games, there's not much more to learn, it's just variations on a theme.

Edit: I'm referring to spectating, not active participation. I'm sure there's a lot more to learn, understand and enjoy if you actually play.
The "rehiring" refers actually to only a relatively small number of employees (~3500) that were unlawfully fired. They went to court and won their case but the previous government still refused to take them back.

And because most of them were actually suspended and not really fired they were still receiving 75% of their wages. This means that financially speaking the extra cost is a drop in the ocean.

I do not know if Syriza's politics/policies will be successful but keep in mind that most of what is circulating in media, both in Greece and abroad, are usually half-truths and sensationalist journalism.

When the crisis started a lot was written about Greece's big government and its spending. After the dust settled down and more dispassionate voices were heard, a good look at the data showed that Greece's government and spending was more or less around the EU average. But by then no one was paying attention.
I seem to remember that cobblestone roads were almost as slippery as ice whenever it rained. I grew up in a town that actually had cobblestone streets (long story, Europe).
Ask HN: Can bad onboarding destroy user activation?
So I'm bootstrapping a SaaS that lets users upload videos and do data mining on it. I had a few customers so I know that it is working and providing value.

But what's happening next is really stressful. It goes something like this in a typical week.

I see a bunch of trial sign ups. I get excited.

User uploads videos but they did not configure the settings correctly so they end up with bad data.

User tries a few more times or gives up or reaches out to me.

The majority of people are just giving up and never returning.

The ones that try it a few more times ends up requiring extra features I need to build that will take a long time and they won't pay up front for it.

The ones that reach out, I teach them how to use it properly. Only a few of these actually become customer.

My question is, is my onboarding broken and is it stopping user's from becoming activated? Is the first experience enough to destroy the product's value proposition?

What about for the people that ask for features so they can get what they want out of it but unwilling to commit up front for it and expect me to work on it for weeks and still trust them to pay for it after?

OR is this a completely different issue? am I simply getting non serious people signing up and draining my resources and causing stress?

I do have some plans to address both:

1) hold webinars or do screen share demo as a mandatory step after signing up

2) get rid of free trial

3) identify new target customers and discover market channels to reach them.

What do you think? Really could use some advice here! Thank you.
Describe your situation as a layoff for economic reasons (even if it wasn't) and say that your performance reviews were excellent (even if they weren't) and don't say anything negative about former colleagues, managers, or employers except in a you-or-them situation (such as a 6-month job, where someone will come off looking bad and your job is to make sure that it's not you... but even then, minimize what you say.)

Why?
this is not about tidal power
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Sure. I've got like 6 different source of calendar info inflows... None of which sync properly. And I'm willing to bet that is fairly modest by Western standards.

It's a complete fkin mess.

And it gets worse once most of the info is confidential...no you can't make a note of that thing on your phone... It would get syncd to an unencrypted cloud. Fk...
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And the good thing for the statically linked executables is that the binary can work on every Linux as the syscall interfaces remain the same. The critical point is not depending on something else platform specific other than the syscalls, but for some kind of utilities its doable.
I have found most people I've me that seemed to want to not like something probably had some deeper issues causing them to do so. My childhood was very encouraging and inviting so I developed many wildly different interests. Every thing, like every person, is interesting once you learn a bit about it/them.
It depends on the size of the gaps in the wire mesh around the cage.
Despite all the positives - not everybody is a fan of these. This is a battle being waged in Connecticut over solar carports:

http://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/news/article/Neighbors...
Can we have the real time push also for PostgreSQl ?

(I am asking if there are any technical limitation...)
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> waiting in the cold for possible 5-10 whole minute

Isn't this largely solved by the GPS mapping of your ride from within the Uber app? You can easily see exactly where the driver is, and step outside right as the driver is pulling up, regardless of how long the total wait is.
Sorry Tel, I didn't mean to imply that nobody uses them, more that I would guess that they are used less than 1% of the time where their inclusion could be beneficial.
The important part is to identify psychopaths so that you can interact with them as if they were an ideal game-theoretic agent.
Definitions aren't all that solid, but it's nice to exclude whitespace and comment lines sometimes.
Which book ? :)
That's pretty much what Notch's space game was about I think. I was quite excited for it, I hope someone picks up the idea.
I tinkered with HackerRank just for the coding exercises, and was initially impressed by the sheer volume of languages the site supports, but quickly grew frustrated with it. The use of stdio instead of a test suite like Codewars uses made writing in any languages for which they lacked I/O boilerplate tedious, and the layout was atrociously oversized, not even fitting completely in a 1000px-wide browser window.
well no, because most renewable energy sources aim to produce electricity. Very little electricity is generated using oil, so the oil price should have little impact on most renewable energy production. The culprits are cheap gas and coal - especially coal, which really should be heavily taxed because of the huge health and environmental impacts from mining and burning coal.
Our local high school (bay area) has solar panels over the parking lot. Seems to be working out.
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I wonder if he even wrote the headline, or if an editor did. The contents of the article don't make reference to sociopathy or claim that the app is serious or indicative of a current trend. He just uses that particular app, which could be a joke, to explore something that very well could become prevalent in the near future. He's an ethicist, so that's his job. I thought it was a good article if you ignore the headline.
Anybody else thinks it may have something to do with containers support? E.g. Microsoft a) decided that first-class container support is a must, and b) discovered it is hard / disruptive / intrusive to implement, and/or c) is trying to figure out the right thing to do about Kubernetes?
This seems to be a much better option than setting up large solar farms in the middle of the CA desert. Parking lots are eyesores anyway so cover them up with solar panels. Why ruin pristine nature with solar panels.
I would say that your comments are exactly what the article is talking about. You've decided to exclude yourself because you feel the existence and importance placed on it by others is misplaced and essentially stupid. So you are in essence calling people who like professional sports at best misinformed and at worst stupid.

That's pretty much the definition of elitism as far as I know it. You think you know more than the common man.
I think it is even worse than that; becoming a surgeon destroys empathy.
Arrangements like this exist in Japan: http://www.social-apartment.com/pages/en_home. I think it's a great concept. Dorms for young adults.
Shanghai and Nanjing are rather far away from each other. It's more common to talk about how Shanghai, Suzhou, and Wuxi are growing together to form a massive conurbation. The YRD is more of a broad economic zone and not really comparable to Tokyo or really the Pearl River Delta.
In my experience (using Uber in Shanghai and Beijing), the latency can be 0 to 2 minutes, so it's hard to time it exactly. It takes me 2 minutes to get from my apartment to the place where a driver would normally pick me up.
How do you know that the sshd you connect to is authentic and not a MITM?

You'd need the server fingerprint on the site (served over https, of course).

More importantly, how does the sshd know that the incoming connection is you and not a MITM?

But that's the point, there is no "you" to authenticate, since you're signing up for a new account. The sshd generates a token URL and then stores your fingerprint with that token. Then you can use that token to login to the actual site and fill in your information.

If you're MITMing someone, the server shouldn't care, it's the client's job to make sure it's talking to the right server. See above.
It is not your lender's fault that you were careless and didn't audit your startup. While your CEO was making bad decisions you were having fun.

Now you think that your mistakes are your lender's responsability. Ok, just don't expect them, or anybody else, to lend you more..