skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank goodness baseball is back ...

I love this story because I love baseball and I'm saving up to buy a (1980s) Westy to travel with.

If you'd like another out-of-the-ordinary spring training baseball story, the Oakland A's have a pitcher who throws with both hands:

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/03/pat-venditte-oakland-athleti...
Gosh I swear I tried to follow the brew steps to install GNURadio a million times and after hours it always end up stuck in some really weird compilation error which I failed to Google out.

I gave up.
Hmm, then what can Google experiment with that doesn't carry the risk of harming a preexisting smaller company? I guess only things like self-driving cars that nobody else is doing?
People always throw these crazy thoughts out there like they'd be expressed in a vacuum where everything else is perfectly PC whenever 100% honesty comes up. The thing about honesty to others is, as you settle into it, you find that the emotions running around in your head even out and the way you express them becomes less nuts.

You might be walking down the street with your girlfriend, and see a smoking hot girl come the other way. You turn to look, your girlfriend all but expects you to, she knows the kinds of girls you like because you've talked about it a dozen times before.

She might tease you about it or mock being angry, but she's not going to fly off the handle just because you expressed a sexual interest in someone that's not her. Any more than you would on her.
Google Launches Compare Auto Insurance Quote Tool
can't wait to own one of these! Solid product + founder combo.
It sounds like you are getting rich snippets based upon your use of microdata as described by the following Google help page:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/173379?hl=en
As someone who never learned to code in C, should I be ashamed that I find it difficult to read code with pointers and references?
castling:req K&R 1st rank,never moved,no pieces between;can't castle out of,through,or into check;single move:Ke>g&Rh>f or Ke>c&Ra>d

134 bytes, not compressed. Did I miss anything?
Chicago here... it's anything than "car city". I haven't had a car in a decade. I'm not sure you've actually lived in any of these areas. It's possible to live without a car in only a few cities, and Chicago and NYC are two of them.
I'm truly trying and failing not to see this as an opportunity to pay $3/mo to give Google the right to track and record all my web visits.

I'm fully aware that with the ad-based model, multiple companies are tracking my page views as well, including largely Google's DoubleClick, but there are two important distinctions. Paradoxically I feel safer being tracked by an entire ecosystem rather than a single company. And my lack of explicit consent while simply visiting sites limits what they can do with my data - something tells me that this consent will be in the ToS of this product.
Awesome article! I hope my fellow dudes read this and really pay attention!
True, however, in defense of the writer perhaps the writer was trying to balance out the story, because throughout most of the story above her backstory was pretty much "it's her fault". To balance it out a bit, in the middle the writer inserted a "hey, maybe she did really have a reason for her reaction" before returning to "nope, not really-ish".

At least, that's how I felt when I read the article.

But you do make a valid point, his background isn't really brought forth, although slightly it is but not much at all. However, I feel that saying something along the lines of "Hank grew up in Sometown, Somestate, Someplace, and had a loving mother and father, etc etc etc..." would feel out of place in such an article... I'm only guessing Hank's backstory and do not claim to actually know it.

tl;dr & in conclusion: Perhaps it's the writer trying to balance things out? :/
I think this comment is ill-conceived. There is no reason this model is exclusive to whites. Northeast Minneapolis in particular is considerably more racially integrated than other satellite urban areas. Here's a great visualization of this fact [1]. If you take a look, you'll notice that there are areas of Minneapolis that are considerably less racially integrated than others. In those cases, again, I do not see a reason why this model is exclusive to whites.

[1] http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html
It doesn't sound like he made a real, good faith effort to open up to the dog and to love him like dogs expect loving humans to act, and to bring the bonding to a new level. I think this makes the experience fundamentally different, where the dog is an emotional barometer instead of an actively positive force. I'm still glad it's a net gain relationship, though.
I've noticed more blogs using Patreon, interesting to see google joining the scene, always wonder how much VISA et al takes out when you are contributing 1/month or similar.
I read "The Pragmatic Programmer" about two years back and back then I felt inspired and excited about all the wonderful ideas shown in the book. Fast forward to today, it seems that stuff was kinda obvious - automate things, read, take responsibility, care for the craft, be patient and the other forty tips.

I kind of believe that, have I not read the book, I would have stumbled upon the ideas later anyhow, by reading blogs, tinkering, and making mistakes. Albeit, it is wrong to expect any magical words that can shift your direction completely, but still I am not sure how much value do printed ideas provide vs learning them by experience. I am not implying that books like it are futile but I don't buy that they are "career-changing".

Same goes for reading about Design Patterns. I believe it is better to learn "Design Patterns" by building and reading code and finding a certain code organization better for your use-case, rather than enforcing a kung-fu-singleton-ninja pattern where it might be simply an over-engineering.
here is a comparable data point:

twitch.tv (video game live streaming website) pays it's broadcasters with advertisements and user subscriptions (50/50 default split on subs)

many broadcasters earn more from their subscriptions (dedicated fans) than advertisements.

with increasing use of ad-blocking software, this seems like the right time for this sort of thing.
13 year old forms one man band
Wired article on the benefits of MyRedBook to escorts doesn't mention there was an entire sister site called MyPinkBook (not listed in the indictment but also shut down) with its own set of forums specifically for escorts to trade safety tips, resources for medical screenings, how to get help in dangerous situations, etc... It's almost too bad it was so profitable because these were sites that very likely saved lives serving a particularly vulnerable population.
Me too, I became frustrated enough to try to fix it. My hacks on the upstream succeeded on a fresh install of OS X right before I left on vacation alas with some inaccurately documented steps.

Interested in being a tester? E-mail me (I would be very happy if I could help more than just myself and get some external verification)
This would benefit me, because I don't want to see ads, but I also want to support the sites I visit. At the moment I block ads but I feel bad about it.

Manually donating to each site isn't realistic given human psychology; people simply won't do it. Something more automatic is better, even if it's not perfect. So I really like the idea.

Downsides for me:

- only works for sites with Google ads on them, not for other ad networks or for sites that want to be ad-free

- tracking presumably still happens; it would be nicer if there was some sort of protocol to automatically pay sites anonymously
And if you open any of them, there is a convenient link to unsubscribe from them:

http://paste.click/fOAtyL
Riot Games named one of 100 best
> Let's not forget that string-based programming is the source of many many bugs

Since the parser generator compiles the EBNF into an executable function at runtime. The solution is the same as writing code in Ruby, JavaScript, or any other dynamic language. Write a unit test.
I really like vim but until neovim is ready (to support ensime on vim) I'm going to stick with IntelliJ.
Gimmie a break...

This isn't software to be used for analysis. Sendy is f-in awesome! I've used it for a list of over 25k and it hasn't failed me once. Like others have said, it's not as brain dead as Mailchimp, but I wasn't expecting it to be. The developer is great and it just works(tm). The price is awesome too.

I looked through the source and thought, sure, it's not computer science that was built on the latest "Framework X", but it worked fine. To me it signaled, they we're just getting shit done. God, I'm so over the days of analysis paralysis "proper framework" development (that's for another rant I guess).

Please, pay no mind to the parent post. If you're looking for an alternative to AWeber (I'm not saying it's got as many features as Aweber) or Mailchimp, then Sendy is awesome.

I've been hosting mine on a Digital Ocean 1GB server for about 7 months and it's worked flawlessly. Their 2.0 upgrade went without a hitch. Couldn't recommend this app more.
Racketeering and money laundering seems to be the Fed's catch-all charges for "Your users may have been committing crimes" - the money laundering might come when you take money from 'criminals', at a guess.

They have charged Kim Dotcom with the same offenses for running megaupload, and I think that they chucked in wire fraud as well.

It's worrying how vague these 'crimes' are, it tips the balance of power too far in the direction of the government agency.
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Steam Machines Are Back
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oh, with my latest chess programming language, the source code for chess is 0 bytes. feed an empty file to the chess compiler and out comes a working binary which plays chess.
I agree, Titanium classic is really great to work with once you get up and running. I tried Alloy but quickly realized it slows things down and makes it harder to develop.

So, lesson for me was use titanium classic and NOT Alloy.

Also, I would advise building your own small framework with views (things like title bars etc). Just makes it so much easier to make it look and work exactly how you want on iOS and Android.
It makes me think that there's something wrong with the Ruby VM when someone has to offer a service like this. The Ruby community should expect great performance out-of-the-box, and the VM should tune itself, automatically.
It's definitely worth a try unless you've got a very hectic schedule, or some abusive tendencies. Pets can offer a steady, simple and pure kind of love and companionship, and it comes with relatively few downsides (not very expensive, and animals are pretty up front about what they want out of the deal). If you get a shelter animal and it doesn't work out, you can take them back.
Stop treating women like children. Did you know that they can make their own decisions just like men?

FYI, there are male prostitutes also. And prostitutes with a variety of other gender identities also.
*is.
It's unprofessional for normal companies. Unless you are talking about being a professional crook (and that's not what I'm talking about).
What about the lego Mindstorms kits[0]? I haven't got my hands on them yet but I hear they are good. You could even pace this out into a few phases, like:

Phase 1: Buy them normal Lego sets to get them well acquainted with the toys.

Phase 2: show up with something cool you assembled from a Lego Mindstorms set. Hopefully a lot of them are going to say "Wow! Cool! How did you make it do that?" And that is when you can start teaching them bit by bit. (Also this is when you let them play around with a Mindstorms set)

[0] http://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms/?domainredir=mindstorms...
Because it's your cert that you just installed on your server, so you know its thumbprint.

This is effectively what you are doing every time you connect to a server over SSH and say 'yes' to that message with the funny string asking, "Are you sure you want to connect?" It's analogous to pinning a self-signed certificate.
Guidelines and reactions on how to dress are always eye opening. I remember reading some advice for academic job interviews. For men, it was essentially remember to wear clothing, don't dress like an investment banker, and you'll be fine.

For women, it was paragraphs long. Too feminine and they'll mistake you for a departmental secretary. Too youthful and they'll dismiss you as a student. Too severe and you're "not collegial". Too approachable and you're not serious. The whole thing was just a minefield.
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AptDeco (YC W14) is hiring a senior software engineer
http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr#KnownApps
The way I see it is it's all about experience. Now that you've experienced that week of trial and error you can complete a similar problem in 5 minutes, whereas someone inexperienced who doesn't have the knowledge you do will certainly take much longer. The people who are fast coders have just done more trial and error in the past and know how to deal with problems effectively.
> except for all the murder involved in growing and shipping it

Those are artifacts of it being illegal, if it was legal those wouldn't be problems.
Honest question: Do online ads have any redeeming value?

No one seems to have anything nice to say about them. Ever. I can only recall two or maybe three times when I've clicked on an ad, and even then I can't remember what they were for. The only ads that have any real utility for me are television commercials that are particularly funny/quotable or remind me that a tv show is coming back on the air.

Can anyone report a single positive experience with online advertising?
While the preamble said something along the line of "these books are valuable for 'enterprise' dev situation', I find that a lot of ideas from those books are fully applicable to startups/hot-tech-companies.

Release It! => applicable

Continuous Delivery => applicable

Effective Java => absolutely IF you use Java (see other 'effective' series such as Effective C#, Effective C++ [_the_ grandfather], Effective JavaScript)

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture => Guess where Rails come from? (hint: DHH name is also mentioned somewhere in the book)
This feels like something Google will abandon in 3 years tops, probably more like 1-2 years. I wonder how projects like this work within Google -- is it a reward given to someone who has an idea and has done something great in the past, or is this a curse if you're an engineer and get assigned to what seems like an obviously stillborn thing?
Yeah I'll for sure concede that point about how long they're gonna work together. In some respects, I wonder if the GOP is supporting some of the more populist agendas just to win elections and not necessarily because they actually believe in the principle. I'm just trying to be more of an indeterminate optimist for some issues. But you're right, the point remains.
Separating "lexing" and "parsing" can still be good for performance, since "lexing" needs no auxiliary storage (not even a stack) and cannot backtrack. The author points this out in the performance documentation: https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse/blob/master/docs/Per...
That bad? Wow. I would love to read that.
It depends how 'new' you are to it. Personally, if I know nothing about a technology, I find that trying to figure things out myself is extremely inefficient and a waste of time. The best things for me in this situation are watching videos of people coding, or taking an online course if there is one available. Once you've got a bit of a handle on it, it's much easier to progress on your own just by using documentation and StackOverflow.
Not every financial transaction is of the kind "sell this or starve" (including a lot of the sex sold, I'm sure).
There's a reason mozilla switched to yahoo - Google refused to honor do not track and live up to mozilla's privacy standards. This fits into their tracking strategy and they'll also likely get a big cut being the middle-man.

I've lost a lot of respect for google in general, going from innovator to me-too copy-cat in everything from social media (G+) to cloud computing (GCE).
I think what impressed me most was the power density that data center is supporting. That looks like nearly 10kW of power in a single rack! Many providers top out at 4kW and HE2 in Fremont was just 1.8kW per rack when I was there.
Senate was just a filler for `important political position that gets to decide stuff'. Sorry, I'm not too familiar with the intricacies of the American machine.
If a starving person works for Walmart for $10 an hour, is that slavery?
The RoR guys and girls will answer Ruby on Rails. The people working with all or parts of the MEAN stack will tell you that Rails is outdated and MEAN is the future. Honestly, as a front-end developer I would lean more towards MEAN as a more valuable skill.

Don't get me wrong, Rails is far from dead, but Javascript is arguably a hotter and more in demand language and has been for the last 5 years.
Ask HN: Why don't most NoSQL DBMSs have “pointers”?
Why don't most NoSQL storage solutions have some kind of "pointers" for ultra-efficient joins, like the pre-relational DBMSs had? I mean, I partially understand the theoretical reasons for why classical RDBMSs have ditched pointers (need to update them and double sync them for storage and disk solutions, no "disks" with fast enough to be treatable like random-access for some use cases, like modern SSDs can, etc.).

But of the many NoSQL solutions out there, why do just so few of them realize that this model would be awesome (exception I know of would be OrientDB and Neo4j) for many practical cases, not only ones that need graph traversals. I mean, when you need things like multi-joins, you need to ping pong Mongo and do N queries instead of one.

Isn't the use case NoSQL document-db enough overallaping with the one of graph DBs that such a feature would make sense and would just provide all the practical features of SQL-joins to the NoSQL solutions with not much extra cost, and for most queries would make indexes useless, and take up much less space for huge datasets?

(...and as a bonus any NoSQL solution would be ready to use as a graph db, and doing a ~100 nodes path length traversal of a graph stored in Mongo would just automagically work fast enough)
Years ago I remember reading an article claiming that, according to some Pew research poll or another, the most common (maybe not a plurality) political disposition among Americans was socially liberal, fiscally conservative. Unfortunately, neither party caters to this segment. The Democrats are socially liberal and (historically, at least) fiscally liberal; the Republicans tend to be socially conservative and (based on the last couple of decades at least) fiscally batshit crazy liberal, despite having a platform calling for the exact opposite of that.

The libertarians might be the Republicans' salvation, in that many of them actually do resemble the mythical socially liberal/fiscally conservative politicians, at least if you squint hard enough. While I don't agree with them 100%, I would definitely rather have the libertarianish Republicans being the dominant force in the party than theocons, who just seem utterly repugnant to me.

On the other hand, the Democrats could benefit hugely if any disaffected libertarians switch parties. I don't see any more cognitive dissonance between libertarians and Democrats than I do libertarians and Republicans, honestly. For whatever reason people think of the Republican party as being the natural home for people with libertarian tendencies, but that doesn't seem any more set in stone than the South voting solid Democrat.

Most people don't remember this, but the South voted Democrat consistently prior to 1964. When the Democratic party supported the Civil Rights Act, the evangelical voters switched en masse from Democrat to Republican. The evangelicals weren't any more married to the Democrats than the libertarians are to the Republicans, IMO. In both cases, neither party really represents the values that the voting bloc really care about, so their loyalty is more based on expediency than alignment of political principles.
I read it as the opposite of jwz. You say your users are sending mail via "mydomain" SMTP. jwz says his users are sending mail "from their phone up to Google's SMTP server".

The goog then sends mail to the receiver at 'dnalounge' MX, where it's then shuffled back to the receiver's gmail mailbox. I don't read his setup as having the sender involved with the dnalounge SMTP server at all.
> Take a look at his Turkey brining experiment

I just did. He didn't try everything. For chicken breasts (or, better, duck breasts) you can brine with soy sauce, then slow cook, then sear, and the results are amazing.

And if you use a tenderizer before brining, it's even better. (Tenderizer: best $20 I ever spent).
ExcelJS – Excel Workbook Manager,Reverse engineered from .xls files as a project
The tradeoff is having to use a language other than JavaScript, which entails having to use a transpiler in the first place, versus just writing plain old JS.
It's the only language I've used so far where I feel comfortable going straight to the github source and figuring out how a library works instead of searching stackoverflow. In fact, since I've been writing a lot of code in Go, I've noticed my SO usage has dropped considerably.
> I believe this is true - even if annoying, or unsustainable, we owe something to the fact that people at least believe they can make money this way.

I think it's a mixed bag on that front: we owe some good sites, but also a big part of web spam, to the fact that people believe they can make money through "internet content creation". Beyond the outright spam (content farms, linkspam, etc.) there's also a lot of really low-quality content put online primarily motivated by a hope of pulling in ad revenue.
i have used it previously and it stuck a lot
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I found the answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNMrU8uU5M&t=19m50s

Vulkan does support multiple command queues. And there can be several queues of the same type for one GPU.
> Not concerned with performance at all

I would strongly disagree. Watch this link to when Igor talks about Angular performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHulaj5ZxbI&t=35m30s
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9155409
This website is incomprehensible
I use VIM with SPF 13 configurations ....
>I looked into hitching a ride on a C-130... not nearly as free or fun as you might think.

Can you elaborate on that at all? The link you posted doesn't mention military hitchhiking, which sounds interesting to say the least.
Wouldn't you be providing ad revenue anyway?

A way for this to work would be simply whitelisting sites you want to support on your adblocker of choice.
Start with htop. You can get that package from apt in a debian-based distro: `sudo apt-get install htop strace`.

When you launch htop, you will see a list of all your running procs. If you select a proc with the arrow keys, you can hit "s" to start a strace and then hit f4 to follow the strace as it dishes output.

This won't work for all procs, you will need root to strace certain procs.

This is a good place to start as it's visual and easy to follow. Later you can start traces from the shell with proc IDs and even get system call info from GDB.
Another way: get a job interview with a company at your desired location. Works best for big cities, like New York City.

If you have moral qualms, only apply at banks. They deserve it.