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The NBA just entered a massive television deal that kicks in next year. Since player's salaries are tied to the amount of revenue the league makes, a lot of players stand to make upwards of 50% more than they make now. It's a massive deal, so it's hard to swallow any impending doom. I just think viewership will continue adjusting where they get their content from.

I haven't seen anything about changes to streaming in the new deal other than the contract leaves the issue open for negotiating a joint-partnership that could supersede previous limitations, which included teams in your local market, nationally televised games, and the playoffs.

I absolutely love NBA basketball and although I don't watch a ton of it, it probably makes up for 90% of my television watching while it's in season. But I have to pay a cable bill upwards of $100 / month to do so. I really hope professional sports follows the decoupling model and offers higher-value streaming options in the future.

The NFL's online offering is equally restricting, but local NFL games are generally broadcast over-the-air, so you can pick them up with an antenna, making cord-cutting easier.
Why would you want to delete your tweets? :)
Not only that, but have you ever counted the commercial minutes for an NFL game? I had to turn the game off mid-way through because I couldn't take it anymore. Something like 60-70% of the 3.5 hours are spent on commercials.
Of course in some sense the ads are search results, just biased ones.
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Just checking, is this the Empire game you mention?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Empire

Or maybe this online mud? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(online_game)

There are a few in Wikipeda, so there are probably more as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(disambiguation)#Video_...
The alternative is Bing's voice recognition API. You get a decent number of free requests and then have to pay.

Google have on too but there is a quota limit of 50 requests per day with no possibility to pay for more, unless you use it via Android or HTML, in which case it is unlimited (though I bet they'll block you if you use too much).

There aren't any good offline voice recognition systems that I know of.
I know I sound sarcastic but Tony Seba might find a solution by the year 2030: how to store energy to cover the needs of a city like New York(a city that never sleeps). He has been right on the spot regarding his previous predictions, right?
Look, I might not agree with op, but there's a been a slight development in remote sensing equipment since the late 1400s. What robot equipment would you propose the Queen of Spain omission to explore the vast seas?

Not to mention the fact that if there'd been an interest in following modern procedures (that obviously didn't exist at the time), perhaps genocide by disease might have been avoided.
Alternative counterparts, based on know-your-http-well[1] :

* http://bin.hyperrest.com/
* http://httpflies.com/

[1]: https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well
Breakfasts are extraordinarily diverse: breads and jams in France, cold meats in Germany, hot meat & egg etc. or kippers in the UK, [breakfast] cereals and juice or sweet pancakes/waffles in the USA.

Of course, breakfast cereal made it across the atlantic some time ago, and there's a lot of common ground in Europe. But it's still really quite remarkable in its difference - sweet vs. savoury, meats vs. cereals, hot vs. cold - such a range!

I haven't even touched on the other continents, because I'm afraid I'm rather clueless. Except perhaps kedgeree, which I now understand to have Indian origins (I thought it was French for some reason - probably just childhood association having first eaten it there).
Cool insight, thanks for that.

How long (on average) does a delivery take once you pickup the processed order from Starbucks? Have you guys measured any significant differences in temperature?
Unfortunately, not having a strict password policy very likely violates HIPAA.

I dont think anyone wants to be the one to reduce the security of the HIPAA requirements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining

Lots of stuff.

Although asteroids and Earth accreted from the same starting materials, Earth's relatively stronger gravity pulled all heavy siderophilic (iron-loving) elements into its core during its molten youth more than four billion years ago.[9][10][11] This left the crust depleted of such valuable elements until a rain of asteroid impacts re-infused the depleted crust with metals like gold, cobalt, iron, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, osmium, palladium, platinum, rhenium, rhodium, ruthenium and tungsten (some flow from core to surface does occur, e.g. at the Bushveld Igneous Complex, a famously rich source of platinum-group metals). Today, these metals are mined from Earth's crust, and they are essential for economic and technological progress. Hence, the geologic history of Earth may very well set the stage for a future of asteroid mining.

But I think the exciting part is that you have raw materials outside of Earth's gravity well. It's really expensive to haul stuff up, so a source of water in high orbit is really valuable if you want to do space stuff.
I don't think one more week would have made that much of a difference (rather than, say, a couple of months). Seems like they came up with a solid solution anyway.
> Still rock hard though.

I mean, Octopod Transmuter is not... easy... but all the long major roguelikes (ADOM, Nethack, DCSS, ToME) are basically games of patience. They're repeatably doable if you learn all the rules and are careful. Speedruns are harder, of course.

Whereas even if you're completely spoiled and have achieved a perfect score in the past, Brogue is still difficult because every decision matters and you can't take your time. If you don't plan the most efficient way to explore each level then you starve, and if you miss or waste a key resource then you die because you aren't powerful enough. I still love Crawl but I strongly second the recommendation to give Brogue a whirl.
Can I ask what are the optimizations that you speak about ?
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Discovery expects Eurosport app to reach one million subs in two years

Discovery Communications Chief Executive David Zaslav said he expects its Eurosport Group's player app to reach one million subscribers in two years and that it will bring an additional $100 million in revenue.

"It's a big initiative," he said about the Eurosport app.

Discovery took a controlling ownership position in the European sports broadcaster last year. The app currently counts about 200,000 subscribers.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-discovery-eurosport-idUSKB...

Disclosure: I have been a subscriber since 2012, it costs about $5 a month. It is the only "tv" I watch. You get 2 regular sports channels. At the moment it is mostly Winter Sports: Alpine Skiing, Biathlon, Ski-jumping etc. With Snooker & Tennis. Summer is two wheeled action: Tour de France, World Superbikes plus World Touring Cars, Tennis, and a whole host of sports you can't get anywhere else.

We even had minority sports like American Monday Night Football ;)

http://www.eurosportplayer.co.uk/tvschedule-month.shtml
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Crawling JS content, yes. But does it rank for that content in the same way it would if the whole document was generated on the server?
Really helpful. If you want to refind use refind. Love it!
To be honest, I'm a little bit overwhelmed by all the bookmarking services, but Refind is surprisingly different! Because all Refind users bookmark for themselves in the first place, the stream of links is very relevant to me and contains a lot of gems.
This is probably true but I think ESPN is leading the pack because of how bloated they are.

They run multiple channels 24/7 and a ton of their content is studio analysis-type shows, most of which I find absolutely terrible. I'm sure they have reasons for how they select and utilize the talent they have, but aside from a few writers and commentators, I have a hard time watching or reading anything they produce.

I was hoping they'd eventually figure out a way to do more Grantland-produced television, where someone with some journalistic and creative taste, as well as more creative freedom could develop, but that obviously did not happen. Maybe Bill Simmons will be able to do that with HBO and finally create a legit competitor to ESPN's non-live sports programming.
This is a game that I had worked on,

I want to make something interesting, that would make players go "what did I just played?"

It have platforming elements, but i verge into other genre as well

The visual and audio designs are barebone, this is a response to the overblown production of today (also to cut cost)
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Oh, it's introduced - but the transition is not complete. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
We always frame our arguments to support our claim; here you represent $17 billion as small compared to a $3.7 trillion bucket. If you were arguing the other way, you might have said we spend 3 times as much on NASA as we do homelessness [1].

[1] http://usich.gov/resources/uploads/asset_library/FY2015_Budg...
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I like this project, mostly because it resembles similarities to my static site generator (not open source), with very similar concepts (except I'm using mustache), and slightly different internals, but about the same length, in Python.

Coincidentally, I've just started to re-do it as a python web app, that runs some limited dynamic processing (e.g. forms, logging, kudo-tracking, everything to keep it 100% self-hosted). I'm really interested if there are projects in this space that I'm not aware of, that I could just use...
Ha! Interesting. It is my personal website since 2001 or so, and has never been compromised. It is a flat file website in S3 with Cloudflare on top - not much to hack. I think mcAfee is a tiny bit too strict ;-)
I really think it's cool people are trying to innovate email all the time, and that it keeps working.
Too bad that is required to be U.S. citizen for the application. It is totally understandable but I wish I have a chance.
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Refind has become my no. 1 source of valuable content. It filters the noise and delivers only what's valuable and useful.
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It didn't affect cell reception for me, you should be able to find something that only works on 2.4> and leave lower bands alone.

LTE uses 2.5 but it's not that common 1900-1800 and 800-900 are still the most commonly used cellular bands.

I also plugged only a single window if you check which walls/windows leak the most and plug them it should allow cell reception through.
App needs a user base for next features.
How does the filtering work? I have to admit that I have not 'gotten' Refind so far but that might change with some help!
The only thing I don't understand is why people pay millions for his work. What a country!
SPAs should not be slow. If they are, they haven't been designed properly, I think.
I would view this as files with underscore being special and that is the convention. Being ignored is just the default special behaviour. Maybe in a future version there would be another file that does something more than being ignored.
>Honestly, given the number of women I know who have been sexually assaulted or physically abused, I'm amazed there isn't more anti-male prejudice.

Would this work for anti-female prejudice if the stats were reversed. For example, once you look past how the CDC picks a specific definition of rape that excludes male victims of female rapists, you find that within a given year, men are raped at almost the same rate as women (if memory serves it was a .2% difference).

So given this, why are anti-male prejudice given an explanation based on male behavior while anti-female prejudices are not given an explanation based on female behavior?
Who are the people that can fix complex systems? If a group of people like this exists then why do we still have broken complex systems?

I think that the more influence and wealth you wield, the better your chances are of 'fixing' a system and I think what they are trying to do is more commendable than what the majority of us do with our spare time and cash.
It's generally in the engineering school at universities. A CS degree might make the qualifications it's just that there's no reason to send a programmer to space right now. Maybe there would be a need on a Mars mission where you can't just ssh in from the ground but they'll probably want someone with another applicable degree.
Two thinks I especially like:

- Fire away. No bad feelings as with e.g. Pocket that I am delegating too much stuff to my future self. But I still have a place where I could find again important stuff.

- Finally a nice way to be inspired in my areas of interest besides the stuff I follow activeley/is easily accessible, eg on HN or reddit.

Edit: formatting
David Patterson (famous for RISK, RAID and computer clusters) tried to make IRAM (RAM chips with processors) happen 15 years ago. I think the idea is sound. It's just question of when.

http://iram.cs.berkeley.edu/
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> 5 hours is more than enough of a chance to give a series.

Five hours is more than enough. Five hours is enough time for the writers to take a genre, deconstruct it, salt the earth, collect all the pieces in one place and build a bonfire, dance around the flames thrice widdershins while invoking ancient and mysterious rites, take off and nuke the site from orbit (just to be sure)... and finally, on the site of the wreck, rebuild it all again more beautiful than it had ever been, in the process winning every award in the book and forever altering the future of the genre.

But then, maybe I've just been utterly spoiled by Puella Magi Madoka Magica (12 episodes, 300m). :b
Ask HN: What's a simple online bug tracker for customers without sign in?
We are creating a new developer tool and are currently in a private beta. So far we managed all bug reports and feature requests via e-mail. But our users are asking for a bug tracker. They want to be able to open new bugs and see which issues have already been reported, ideally without having to sign in.

We are looking for an online solution, that we don't need to host ourselves.

We spent a couple hours researching, but it seems we can't find something fitting our usecase. So far Github looks like the best solution (needs sign in though). Do you have any ideas?
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I'm wondering, what incentive do researchers have to share their new compression algorithms with JPEG? Especially if JPEG patents everything as you suggest.
How is that low? With such a salary you can live a pretty good life.
"the existing status codes are much too general for a modern website/API... why worry about spending any time on a redundant, not-as-useful HTTP status code?

When pressed for a reason why it is important to use specific status codes, a common reason cited is that HTTP is a layered system and that any proxy, cache, or HTTP library sitting between the client and server will work better when the response code is meaningful. I don’t find this argument compelling, if for no other reason than this: in a world where everyone is moving to HTTPS, we’ve forbidden any proxy or caching nodes that are not under direct control of the server."

I do find this reasoning to be perfectly valid and have implemented many APIs accordingly for quite some time. It has a lot to do with the first place to look when something goes wrong. Does the 404 mean I mistyped the URL or that the Application can't find the Resource? Did the endpoint crash or did I mess up the rewrite in the nginx config?

That said, Michael's counter-argument is well worth consideration. I've generally left HTTP status codes and Application status codes completely separate for any sizable project, but I find this article and argument worthwhile and will continue to reconsider, as I generally do upon every new project, whether using HTTP status codes to represent general application state is worthwhile.

The original point regarding complexity is most important to me, but Michael's diagrams do an excellent job of showing how Application state can be considered an extension of the Protocol in specific cases.
Looks nice, but I don't think it will replace my current setup. I simply use makefiles (or rather mkfiles [0], because of the neater syntax) to administrate the generation of the site from markdown. That also makes it easy to add a deploy-target which deploys the site.

[0] http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/mk
Another great reason to run an ad blocker. My webpage looked pretty clean, no "social" links.
I think you're thinking too much about this, with all the things to worry about, your github profile should be far down on the priority list.
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That's interesting. Would have liked seeing something like that in the Java and .NET equivalents.
...that would be pretty much spot on.
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Yeah, hence the "might"; some programs are doctorate degrees
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Doesn't HTTPS explicitly support an intercepting, deep-inspecting, proxy? So if I want to reduce bandwidth at my site - or scan for malware, I can install a SSL-certificate my clients trust, and proxy the HTTPS connections, with eg. squid? Just because there are many nefarious uses of an SSL proxy/mitm, doesn't mean that there aren't good uses for it too?

As bandwidth to even home users go up, the need for local caching proxies might go down -- but at the same time, Netflix is an example of how the current architecture of the Internet isn't enough if you want to do individual media streaming (they maintain their own caches, but that just means that if one wanted to distribute a few TB of hd video, say an independent documentary series, or even a video diary, one might expect to either have to pay a high bandwidth bill, or do some "proximity caching"). Alternatives exist of course, such as using a torrent for distribution -- but throwing out all ideas of content proxying "beacause TLS" seems misguided.
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I've been using Refind a couple of weeks now and more or less stop using Pocket. Other then storing interesting links and Articles it's also a really valuable tool to discover easily the best content of topics I am passionate about.
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Try NFL Redzone, that's a great experience. No commercials, just cutting from game to game and showing the action. I had it the past few years but didn't get it this year (due to frustrating bundling issues), and I agree that watching a single game is pretty terrible.
Why? Works for them.
I agree with parent5446 - there are various codes that although they are usually only used by web servers, they are also used in some REST APIs, including mine.

e.g. I return 304 when people query an image 1) Because it is not a static resource but is pulled in from another server and 2) It will never expire because if it changed, a parameter in the URL would also change.
The N. vs S. Korean example you mention is explicitly discussed in one of Hsu's articles. (Secular change in height due to improved environmental conditions.)

http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3421

Section 2.3:

"Let me reiterate that within a range of favorable environments (i.e., providing good nutrition, hygiene, and access to education), evidence strongly supports the claim that individual differences in cognitive ability are largely associated with genetic differences.

Figure 8. Increase in stature in European countries over time, almost +2 SD. Nutrition, hygiene, and average number of years of schooling all improved dramatically over the last 100 years, leading to improvements in both physical and mental development."

You should probably read his paper carefully before making ad hominem attacks. Save your SJW signaling.
The situation is not unique in that a search and replace with obesity or addiction plays back nearly as accurately.

If there's a commonality of failure to understand and control very large systems with very complicated feedback loops, maybe improvement in that area might simultaneously lead to better solutions in all those problem areas. Given enough progress, even Economics might rise past the level of mere astrology and PR.

What could a startup do? Well, crazy as it sounds, systems analysis as a service, maybe? There are already MOOC companies maybe they could offer graduate level classes in control theory. Maybe startups working in giant feedback filled systems like cloud-whatever would make general progress in the field as part of getting their specific system to stabilize. I'm guessing any possible progress would be a side effect of those companies. For direct applications maybe real time augmented reality feedback, somehow.

Certainly mental health, like physical health, is not binary and being sick and unhappy is certainly worse than being equally sick and slightly more happy, or at least more content. In that way the possibilities for startups related to the problem expand. A startup focused on teaching meditation. Or a startup to do biofeedback to increase pain tolerance. A startup to increase feeling of community, assuming the community would be positive and assuming the victims are not feeling introverted.
The filtering is basically done by the people you follow. They add what they find interesting and that is a pre-selection.
I'm not sure I follow how something that's wrapped in a TLS session can leak information if it's returned as an encrypted header, but not if it's returned as an encrypted body?
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I've been down in the weeds a bit when it comes to authorization. Every resource in my system has its group information in an attribute {:rights {:c [..list of groups], :r [..] :u [..] :d [..]} ....rest of resource...}. In parallel with the resource as above, there is an index table for all of the resources in the system. When a resource, our group of resources is queried, I filter the index table with the groups for the current user and join to the resource table. I can only bring back resources for which the user has rights for the operation.

This means that I can't ever have a 403. All I can return is a 401 or 404 or a 200 with an empty list. I kept fretting about this. Now I feel better. #how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-atomic-codes.
This is yet another problem caused by the fact compilers have a 'file in, file out' interface.
(the other problem is performance of
the compilation/linking/packaging process). There's simply no reason why input to a compiler should be a file, and no reason why the result should be one.
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Can they patent it if you disclose it in a paper?
I used to feel the same way, although I didn't get anywhere decent - quit playing after a few months. I thought I won't become anywhere near good so what's the point.

But that was young me, when I would try to be really really good or just quit it, whatever it was :)

Nowadays, I wouldn't care that much. Am I having fun? If yes, I should continue. If no, I should stop doing it if possible. So I'd say as long as you enjoy the time spent playing, that's cool if you worry about some number of the online service (as long as it doesn't get too far). If 5 years later looking back you could say 'oh yeah, that was fun', that's great. Just have fun.