skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my age I've already read those authors and pretty much all the celebrated classics. I'm not sure why you think I haven't. Also, to be completely honest, many/some of those classics are fairly over-rated.

>Every time is see a post like this I get the urge to pretentiously rant about the ongoing decline of appreciation for aesthetic values.

Everytime I meet someone like you I poke into their true reading habits and its a lot of YA stuff, chick-lit, top 20 pop-culture junk, etc. Just because you read a classic once doesn't mean that the entire medium known as books gets free pass. Sturgeon's law applies to all art if we're being honest with ourselves.

The fact that fiction comes at the cost of reading non-fiction cannot be swept under the rug. Its a completely valid concern. Those in my peer group can tell me all about $popular_scifi and $popular_chicklit but not much else.

Its pretentious to think that fiction is magically superior to all other forms of communication. I think we'll look back at how incredibly overly-entertained we are today and wonder how we lived such shallow lives. That's a narrative no one talks about: how much fiction we're constantly consuming and the incredibly low quality of it all. Most people have the information consumption habits equal to eating junk food for every meal and yet they have the gumption to pretend they're mighty intellectuals on the mountain barking wisdom to us idiots below because they falsely assume consuming carefully crafted fiction designed to sell is some strange esoteric intellectual pursuit. No, its the kid reading some tech manual and building something original who's doing something intellectual and esoteric, not the girl downing Hunger Games, Twilight, and Divergent trilogies on the bus and giving snide looks to the "nerds" around her who don't get "literature." Then she goes from the bus to the boob/youtube and zones out for hours until bedtime then back to work/school. That's a sad life and if you're honest with yourself, you'd agree with me.
clean Code http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsman...
Not sure about dozens, but: you can get push notifications to your phone about teams you follow; scores & updates available right within your fantasy sports app; highlights endlessly replayed on Vine etc; blogs and analysts on Twitter to provide insights without need for a bloviating ESPN pundit; endless ways to identify with your favorite teams, non-score updates & behind-the-scenes stuff via Facebook and Instagram; near real-time sports news on any number of sites.
This.

The nature of solar calls for a decentralized model, with each house having solar panels and a battery - just like most houses in the US have their own heating systems.

Big, entrenched utility companies don't like it because this would take much of their profits away. That said, the grid would not completely go away - it could still serve as a means to sell/buy extra energy if need be.
To be fair, Firefox can and does ship their own browser engine on Android, something that is forbidden on IOS.
Total and utter rejection of any possibility that some cases of ME could be helped (even a little bit) with a psychological therapy.
>English has me symbol for schwa.

I think you use Dvorak and mistyped "no" as "ne" and your phone auto-corrected it to "me". Am I right?
But, this game is easy. If I make ten statements about a particular topic, one of them is spectacularly wrong, the rest are spot on correct; by your logic I don't know much about the topic.

My point is, you are deciding something completely off little information and I'm only suggesting that your guess on this person is not as accurate as you may think it is. I do agree that there's a chance you are 100% correct on the matter, but I don't see how we can determine that.

https://xkcd.com/386/

Of course, I admit that cartoon may apply to myself in this context as well.
Side note: what color did you dye your hair then?
> ... a major logical error ...

followed by

> Anecdotally ...

Perhaps you should rethink the flow of your argument, here?
This was posted on HN a while back:

https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/cultivated-disinterest-in-prof...

I'm a nerd and I'm not big into the NBA (although I am into other sports) and I think if you can't figure out what is impressive about Lebron James then I think you're maybe not really trying to.
To replace the loss of the current $30-$40 per month from casual fans would require hundreds per month from hard core fans. I don't think that's going to fly.
No hatred. Just upset about all this fanboyism.
An API is an interface. Like all interfaces, an API has an 'audience'.

Generally, the successful team will try to make their interface as usable as possible to that 'audience' (considering diminishing returns).
I'll look into it, thanks!
I think not
Not a logical error at all, much less a major one. The obfuscated "taxation" of American households led to higher bids for airing games which led to salaries for players and higher valuations for teams. The cost to ESPN of the entertainment (Mike & Mike, Bill Simmons, etc) is a laughable fraction of the cost of broadcast rights.

So I believe the author is possibly correct in his assertion that cutting off the money from non-fans (since fans will presumably pay in some way) will materially affect the valuation of these leagues.
Because propaganda actually works. We're not trying to push down the actual terrorists; we're trying to win information war waged inside the minds of potential future terrorists.

You would think that people aren't that stupid. I would think that too. But after witnessing the whole country (Russia) going down the rabbit hole of paranoid madness with just a couple of years of propaganda, I don't think that anymore.
Focus is a tracking blocker, not an ad blocker. Mozilla doesn't have a fundamental problem with display advertising on the web, but we do have a problem with the privacy intrusions associated with invisible trackers.
Facebook Winds Down ‘Creative Labs,’ Pulls Three Apps
Mozilla is no longer an ideological organization, if it ever was one. This gets them media attention and may attract more donations, which will perpetuate the organization's existence.
I'm surprised there aren't more reports of honey-pot use, particularly with how easily it is to derive a behavioral patterns of terrorist propagandists.

Such honey-pots would no doubt catch false-positives but it is a known effective means of reconnaissance and sabotage, considering how aggressively and thoroughly they are connected to social media.

Recently Isil issued a warning to all social media propagandists to be safe and vigilant in their online activities (eg: do not use personally identifiable information, use VPNs or Tor, etc), so it stands to reason that their online network and social network is under active attack.

The article cites honey-pot use as one of the reasons that Isil continues to have a persistent online presence, but is it really that prevalent?

There are so many things we can do to combat their online war campaign that doesn't involve poking tech firms to open up encryption or open up private access channels for law enforcement, and honestly I think the various governments aren't being forthcoming or cooperative in their online adversarial campaigns. One could even say they're being obstructionist or obtuse, with one-sided demands rather than a progressive partnership.

Where are our NSA pundits? Are they too busy with economic espionage against their patrons' opponents? Does the MSM really have nothing further to add other than "tech firms are lazy"?
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I can't remember where I read the article, but it summarized it as thus. Al Queda was a big threat, but you hardly ever heard of people being radicalized by them. ISIS on the other hand is clearly quite efficient at radicalizing people though. Part of the reason for this is their relatively large social media presence, and their videography is actually quite decent for what they do. If you compare ISIS and Al Queda in this respect, ISIS is definitely "easier to get into" I'd say.
The scare quotes are not in the article title.
It's entirely possible the LEO was masking his IP in some way; he didn't give any details. There are many other ways of flagging fraudulent (or anti-fraudulent...) accounts and transactions.
It's a different kind of entertainment. There's a social aspect to it - it's more fun when you're watching with friends - as well as an attachment kind of thing, when you identify with a team. We all have our own tribalism.

Remember that just because both your passion and someone else's passion are vaguely related to "sports" does not mean they're the same. There are other things people get out of it.

As another example, no one can quite explain the allure behind "Let's Play" videos, for example. Why would someone watch someone else playing videogames?! But they're still growing in popularity.
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Ads are a stupid payment method anyway. It only pays up to a few cents per view at most. What if you want to be paid a little bit more? Overhaul your complete monetizing scheme?
Don’t buy ESPN’s PR talk that its 7 million-household dip in subscribers is just a blip.

When ESPN was adding subscribers, the $6.50 per-month-per-subscriber it charges to every cable operator meant $78 of additional annual profit for each new subscriber.

7,000,000 * $78 = $546,000,000

Yeah, that's definitely not a blip.

The reason this affects sports leagues is because a huge chunk of their revenue comes from TV.

ESPN pays the NFL nearly $2B per year[1] just for Monday Night Football - or roughly 16 games a year. That's more than $100mm per game.

It's becoming pretty clear that ESPN isn't going to be able to afford TV rights deals like that for much longer. Which means the NFL is going to have to find someone else (there is no one else) or reduce its prices. When the sports league revenue drops, collective bargaining agreements will be disrupted and the result will be labor unrest and (potentially) team bankruptcy.

It's going to be entertaining to watch the entire industry implode before our eyes. When it's all over, we'll be able to enjoy sports as they should be - any game, streaming for a reasonable price, no blackout dates or other restrictions.

It's a shame an entire industry has to collapse to get a good user experience.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/sports/football/espn-exten...
>sadly we will not see the growth rates we saw

Maybe although if you look at Kurzweil's graph, and he may be cranky but I think his data is fairly ok, things have been speeding up in terms of computing / per dollar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIw8CQB8prg&feature=youtu.be...

I don't see much reason why that can't continue. Some things like clock frequency hit limits but a Raspberry Pi equivalent was roughly $25 a couple of years back, $5 now and could be $0.0005 in the future.
To answer some of the questions you are getting about the logical error:

The logical error is assuming that sports franchises are overvalued just because the entertainment options that report on sports (ESPN) may be overvalued.

The OP is saying that reddit/r/cfb, reddit/r/nba, bleacher report, twitter, youtube etc. all now actively compete against ESPN's cash cow, highlights / analysis.

People are tuning in to live sports more than ever, and sports are the only consistent option for TV advertisers to capture viewers due to the importance of watching sports live.

Several major college football conferences will be renegotiating their TV rights over the next 36 months, including the Big 10. Most people expect it to be the highest price ever paid for TV rights because there are so few 'live' options left for advertisers and the Big 10's viewership is increasing rapidly. At the same time, less and less people think ESPN is important.
And try changing the default browser on your iPad - not possible. I don't know why Apple gets away with anti-competitive behavior that MS was hauled over the coals for two decades ago.
Suppose the IDE has the code in memory, it wants it compiled (or syntax checked, or ...). Currently, it needs to write out a file, then call the compiler, and pick up the result from the file system, and parse the result. Ideal, would be a programmer's API to do this. But a compilation service, with RPC calls would already be a major improvement.

Also, if you store code, intermediate results, dependencies, ..., in a database (could even be in memory), you can reuse these intermediate results. The dependency graph can guide you to decide what needs to be changed etc.
The website disables Ctrl-W to close tab. Very annoying.
How popular is Swift? It’s already the number one language on GitHub
The use of solar PV to detach from the grid seems potentially quite disruptive if the cost is even close to centrally produced and distributed power. I'm more interested in, and optimistic about, this feature than I am in the macro cost or ecological benefits of PV.
Now you've done it, any second now you'll get a whole army of pro-russia trolls coming in accusing you of bias and having your eyes closed and what not.

I didn't think that was a massive thing, until a girl I went to primary school with in NZ (who, it turns out, is ethnic Russian) jumped on me for daring to suggest that Russia's paid internet trolls are a bit of a joke. There was no reasoning, she just kept quoting zerohedge and RT links at me, ignoring anything I said. I just blocked her, but it was so weird to actually be confronted with the effects of this propoganda.
WHO - World Health Organisation

NICE - National Institute for Health Care Excellence http://www.nice.org.uk/

PACE - http://www.wolfson.qmul.ac.uk/current-projects/pace-trial

All the rest are expanded in the text.
There's a lot about those statements that seems imprecise.

Private partnerships do not generally have equity, per se. Perhaps they meant private-corporation.

A corporation can have several issuances of shares. These may be equity (ownership) or non-equity (preferred).

Perhaps the VC held non-equity shares. Perhaps the grumbling was pre-investment.

In any case, it could've been better written.
Professional curiosity: is that because it would be considered prior art or is there some other provision that covers that kind of thing?
Farmers have often been at the mercy of corporations and it's not uncommon for them rise up and form their own unions in an attempt to sell directly to customers.

Modern capitalism rewards those who can capture value over the those who create value. It's not about the product or service; the scales are tipped in favor of those who have access to the money (essentially; those who have access to the customers).

That's why marketing is such a powerful force in our society. People tend to trust marketing more than they trust their own senses... A lot of popular brands offer horrible quality products - Particularly in the food industry, but that doesn't stop people from consuming them to great excess.
Are you just assuming an equity crowdfunding investor (retail investor) has the resources or sophistication to do proper due diligence on hundreds of investments?

Maybe the interest rates are lower on these for borrowers because the cost of due diligence isn't included. Not maybe, actually.
This came up when firing up Thunderbird to check email. It's the splash screen. It disappeared later (perhaps when you checked). The Cert definitely expired, I have a screen grab of it showing the expiration date as 12/7/15, 7:00am. (At the point I checked it was 12/7/15, 9:51 AM.
That's quite a leap just to get to an ad hominem attack.

The way we have WordPress configured should have handled this automagically. I'll look into why it didn't.
We call them GPUs because they are built from GPU chips. The Tesla M40 for example is based on a GM200 chip which is the same as in a GeForce GTX Titan X GPU.

Also Nvidia and other assemblers have done exactly that: separate boxes that you attach to servers by a PCIe cable. See for example the Tesla S2050 server: http://www.nvidia.com/docs/io/43395/nv-ds-tesla-s2050-june10...

A good list of Tesla systems is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proces... (which, coincidentally, I have been heavily updating these last few days).
Exactly. And see my comment above, it definitely expired.
Their content management system should ideally do it for them, minor point but yeah.
That was my first thought as well. My first real exposure to the common youtube style of presentation/monologue (extra emotive, exaggerated pronunciations and facial expressions, quick cuts to remove longer pauses) was in watching "The Show" every week.
Mozilla is no longer an ideological organization

[Citation needed]
> This was not our choice — Apple has chosen to make content blocking unavailable to third party browsers on iOS

Like, the Firefox authors can't block content in their browser because Apple?
The purposes of getting tech firms to open up encryption or private access channels is not for fighting the online shenanigans of alleged terrorists.
A photograph of a photograph is a derivative work, and has to be ruled as fair use to be legal, you don't automatically own the copyright.

https://www.lumendatabase.org/topics/16
Agreed, this seems to conflate sports in general with the specific issues faced by sports-entertainment complex that is ESPN.

The dramatic increase in the valuation of sports is largely due to it being one of the few remaining forms of entertainment that can still reach people with advertisements. Most people watching games want to do it live, which means they cant block or skip through commercials like they would with an everyday TV show.
We literally just clicked the "release" button in the last five minutes. The blog post went out a bit early.
Works fine for me (Chrome, Windows 7).
It seems like (at least in the US) that there's no overlap between the spectator sports, where people just watch the game and almost never play them casually, and the participation sports, which have almost no spectator component. What are the exceptions—basketball, golf, tennis? Maybe soccer outside the US?
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I couldn't agree more. And when you look at ESPN's actual sports programming it's mostly SportsCenter and talking heads, ie, non essential viewing to sports fans. MLB and NBA are all on local affiliates or TNT/TBS, and NFL has one game per week on ESPN and the rest on Fox, CBS, and NBC (and NHL is somewhere not on ESPN). Basically ESPN has a nice hodgepodge of college and pro sports, but isn't really necessary to any one fan base.
It's changing. I'm starting to see Japanese (well...sushi), Thai, Indian and sometimes Mediterranean restaurants pop up in smaller Midwest cities. Vietnamese still seems to be pretty uncommon, though. In the Chicago suburbs there's tons of ethnic restaurants (not as many as Chicago itself, but still a lot).
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This metaphor might also work for delaying actual revenue because until the box is opened - that is we start charging real money for this software/service the state is unknown. That unknown is then subject to interpretation and forecasting and one may indeed find VCs with very optimistic interpretations. However, as soon as the revenue box is opened revenue becomes a tracked metric and the answer starts collapsing toward some reality.

If that reality doesn't measure up you cannot raise more capital and you have killed off the cat of optimism that was still possible before opening the box.
The 3rd book in The Stormlight Archive series will not be the last. It is planned to be a 10-book series
Nope, they don't patent or even hold the patents, they are just a standards group.
paywalled article `^`
If the app uses a 'Safari View Controller' then it works just fine... That is something app developers can opt-in to, and it also provides the fastest browsing experience for users.
I described how to handle this and trustworthy compilers in general here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182282

My replies to "jeffreyrogers" have details and links to examples. You do it bottom-up. I disagree with using Forth as it's a weird language & that reduces number of people that will verify it. One would be better off with P-code given it was successfully used to get Pascal on 70 or so architectures. Wirth and Jurg later used the same approach in Lilith workstation with M-code and Modula-2. They were able to put together a CPU, high-level assembler (M-code), high-level language, compiler, OS, editor, and so on in around 2 years by keeping it simple and consistent. Something like that which maps to what people already know and do.

So, again, here's your model:

1. Portable stack or register VM that's ultra-simple plus similar to language targeting it.

2. Implementations of that diversified by authors, OS's, and HW.

3. Subset of language (or simple HLL like Modula-2) coded in whatever you need to get initial compiler working.

4. That same compiler re-coded in language of trusted VM and run on all targets to ensure same results (equivalence checks).

5. Use that binary to produce an executable from compiler's HLL source and equivalence check again.

Note: Did I word 5 less confusing than most people do at this point? I put effort into avoiding "compile the compiler with compiler etc." ;)

6. Use the binary from No 5 to compile future versions of the compiler written in a subset of its own language. Should continue using a subset for easier understanding and correctness. Check language features with testing suite and sample applications instead of with overly complicated compiler.

So, there you go. Easy stuff already proven by Wirth et al. Not worth another 100 write-ups. Just use what we know. The real problem worth lots of discussion and investigation is certified, secure/robust compilation. That is a difficult problem open to investigation with new, interesting results each year. Bootstrapping compilers for masses? That's so 1971. ;)
Same here. And the best thing about it is how little time I spend watching crappy TV. What I do watch, I watch on purpose at the time I choose. And even buying TV shows to watch current seasons, I still only spend about 50% of what I used to spend on cable, including Netflix and Amazon subscriptions (and Amazon shouldn't really count since I don't buy it for the video access).
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This is interesting in light of another trend: Just recently the citizens of Hamburg rejected having the Olympics in the city in a referendum. And they weren't the first, a number of cities have rejected major sports events when the people were asked.

What's going on there is imho quite similar: By default it's expected that the costs of major sports events are largely payed by the public. But a large part of the population has no interest in that and asks why they should pay to make people rich that they don't care about.

It seems the sports complex is in large partsdepend ing on income payed by people that don't care about it. It's only good if that's going to end. Sports events should be payed for by the people who like it, not by everyone else.
"We tested Firefox for iOS very briefly, and it worked just fine. Pages loaded quickly—or rather, they seemed to load just as quickly as Chrome and Safari. Given that Firefox for iOS shares much of the same underlying code as Safari or Chrome for iOS, that isn't surprising."

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/firefo...

I'm not sure if this is the reason why, but it may be.
At high levels you're less likely to die in the simple course of wandering around the dungeon, but there are a number of challenges only encountered at high levels that have little margin for error, and can be swiftly deadly to even a well-prepared character if the player doesn't know exactly how to respond.