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> The reality for cord cutters and cable companies alike is that, if it weren't for ESPN I'd have no reason to have cable. It's the only reason I have a pay TV package.

During college football season I got a Sling subscription solely to watch college football (ESPN and the SEC Network mostly). I never even really used the Sling app much - it's terrible, crashes a lot, and isn't on AppleTV. I just used my Sling account to connect to WatchESPN. That, plus an antenna for the marquee matchups on the major networks covered everything I wanted to see this last year at 1/6 the cost of a cable subscription.

All of my football-watching friends were doing the same thing this year.

The fact is, if I could, I would pay ESPN directly what I paid Sling for access to WatchESPN. Because, just like cable, Sling was giving me a bunch of stuff I don't really care about just to get ESPN. There's nothing else on TV that I can't wait for other than sports.

> With Netflix or other streaming services 50,000 TVs is 50,000 individual streaming sessions. With a broadcast 50,000 people watching the same thing is 1 broadcast. It's just a question of scalability that gets complicated if millions of people all want to watch the same thing at the exact same time.

I really don't think the problem here is technological so much as it is economic. The scalability problems could be solved if there was the will. But according to one article [0] an unbunbled or streaming subscriber would need to pay $36 a month for ESPN access for them to generate the same revenue they generate through current cable carriage contracts. Considering ESPN is starting to feel the crunch [1] from cord cutting and is beginning to trim costs, I imagine it will eventually become a reality.

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2015/03/25/are-...

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/cable-television-espn-househo...
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Dow closes down triple digits; S&P in correction
BBC is not considered trustworthy in India. We listen to BBC for English language but also recognize that BBC still suffers from colonial-era mindset.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Indophobi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Anti-Hind...

"Writing for the 2008 edition of the peer-reviewed Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Alasdair Pinkerton analyses the coverage of India by the BBC since India's independence from British rule in 1947 until 2008. Pinkerton observes a tumultuous history involving allegations of anti-India bias in the BBC's reportage, particularly during the cold war, and concludes that the BBC's coverage of South Asian geopolitics and economics shows a pervasive and hostile anti-India bias due to the BBC's alleged imperialist and neo-colonialist stance.[118]"
But the thing he's saying is that having io.js happen was possible. It's also possible in this scenario too.
I'm sure this had nothing to do with it:

> Massachusetts and Boston officials said Wednesday they had offered incentives valued at as much as $145 million to lure the company to the city. The package included as much as $25 million in property-tax relief.

Essentially Boston just drove a wheelbarrow full of money up to GE's front door and said "Want this?" and Connecticut couldn't match it.

So by being "anti-business" what you mean to say is: "Didn't give away tons of tax payer's money to a private corporation." I'd prefer Connecticut to use money that would have gone to GE to generate other jobs, for example pay people to upgrade the state's infrastructure.

GE gets enough tax breaks and government subsidies as is.
> What are some such insights to be gained from the pirate example? What did we learn?

It's a logic puzzle. We learned that the intuitive solution of having the first proposal be "I don't want any money, I just want to live" is too conservative, and that there is a way better solution for the first pirate.

We didn't gain any deep insight in how to split money between real people, since those cases seldom involve pure, unemotional logic.
As a software engineer in Boston this only confirms my feelings that we are a world leader in innovation. I'm looking forwards the the smart people that this will bring to my great city.
it seems we need better safeguards for personal data for elected officials. I think the government could do it easily:

1. Issue iPhone with finger scanner for MFA for all important access. This works so easy that it would be hard for someone to screw it up.

2. Setup home networks to always use secure tunnels ( custom routers with openvpn settings, Etc).

3. MFA all accounts.

The key is to make it so easy to do things the right way that it's hard to mess it up.
I would not be surprised if RemixOS had a spyware/keylogger/backdoor installed. Do not trust it unless they open source the whole OS.
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OP here: Thanks for the responses!

Since taking a single PTO doesn't reduce expectations wrt deliverables, I think it would be better to take off in chunks of 2-3 days or a week for interview preparation.
That's fair, and one might usefully structure data thus if coding in a Lisp.
> Of course you would be terminated, and of course I listened to the calls, because I own them.

And of course in several EU countries you'd be staring down a possible severe consequences for breach of privacy. Some countries do not consider employment a right to total ownership of an employee.

Several EU countries recognise that employee has a right to privacy even when working (which includes phone calls and other communication with their families while working and sometimes - like France - even on computer equipment).
Knowing very little about what AJA actually broadcast but knowing quite a lot about the Qatari regime I can't help thinking that AJA were not the least biased TV news outlet in the States, but rather the one whose bias was least perceptible to the well-educated, relatively young, slightly liberal-leaning, frequenters of HN.
it's repeatedly surprising to me how many people equate "remote work" to "work at home". leave your house. go to the cafe. go to the library. go to the bar. the only requirement I see for a productive workspace is a flat surface on which to place your laptop, and maybe some holes in the wall if your battery isn't up to snuff.

sitting at home by yourself all day is a great recipe for depression, I think.
The Pajero is called Montero in several countries, which include the Spanish-speaking ones.
Thanks! I can use this now.
Get everything in writing is not the correct advice when something is sketchy.

Getting it in writing means you'll have to invest significant cost/effort/stress in getting it sorted out.
I don't think the internet is any better. Sure, it can sustain some pockets of awesome journalism, but sites specializing in clickbait are the most prevalent.
Al Jazeera and their AJ+ are funded by the Qatar monarchy. I closely monitor their "news" on Facebook, the hidden agenda is so obvious! I think they might be closing down because oil price keeps dropping.
Using faster-than-light speed to reach parallel universes in Super Mario 64
This, article more than anything shows the attitude the world had about computers in general. Which is that computers are for serious business people. Which was only true because prices were so high.
Ask HN: How can we get porn sites to support HTTPS?
Most of the top porn sites do not support HTTPS, meaning the exact videos we watch (and our fetishes) are visible to our ISPs. Why haven't porn sites deployed HTTPS to protect this data? How can we convince porn sites that HTTPS is important and get them to deploy it?
>The reality is, these actions using drones are only creating more terrorists.

The odd thing about any organization that seeks to destroy some ill is that it will eventually become aware that in doing so it will destroy itself. I haven't enough faith to believe such organizations are above falling to such a perverse incentive.
TBH, the whole "game of skill" thing (notice how obsessively often this particular phrase pops up) is just a way to sneak fantasy sports through a loophole in anti-gambling laws. For your average Joe, it's indistinguishable from gambling - including all the addiction and collateral damage that causes gambling to be heavily regulated in the first place.

But it is a good game for bored STEM undergrads, just like online poker is a good game for bored computer science undergrads. I had a few guys on my year who lived completely off online poker games while in university. They deployed custom-made scripts to automate playing on multiple tables at the same time, and probably did some other things that they didn't tell me. It's the same thing with fantasy sports, except you spend most of the time maintaining complex spreadsheets.
They finally added a package manager?
> It indicates this european court believes there is no right to privacy at work.

That's not true and I guess you haven't really read what the ruling is about. It's about this one exact case where the court ruled that the employer reasonably expected that the account they were looking at wasn't personal.

If the employer would knowingly look into employees personal correspondence the ruling would be different.
I also don't trust a position that considers nonfunctional WiFi a quirk.
Looked at the site and read the comments which made me think about the HN post yesterday about hiding vulnerabilities in plain site (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10889721). Like your idea though.
Sorry for the clickbait title but couldn't resist. This is one of the best videos on game breaking I've ever seen. Hilarious and interesting for anyone remotely interested in how videogame engines are coded.
There's a rather important difference between a random employer and the court system warrants.

The employer isn't the police.
The IMF thinks Saudi has cash reserves to cover five years - which is more than competing countries have.

So they can play white knuckle poker and out-wait everyone else, then jack up prices again around 2019/20 - just in time to kill any recovery that might be happening by then.
There's a social component as well. If a hypothetical user buys a device with a proprietary OS (eg MS, Apple, or stock Android), the blame for any quirks falls squarely on the manufacturer. The user then copes by blaming themselves for buying that manufacturer, not spending enough money, etc. The solution is to simply deal with the quirks until purchasing a replacement thing can be justified. This phenomenon should be readily apparent to anybody who's ever inherited perfectly good hardware from someone who was sick of their computer and just wanted to get a new one.

But installing something that the manufacturer didn't supply is a deliberate choice. Any quirks get blamed directly on the changed software, even if there are actually fewer of them. The change becomes the issue.
There is a saying.. We in the USA have one party, the Business Party, with two right wings.

The Democrat-Republican spectrum spans the spectrum of opinion that is fundable by the business community. There is plenty of vigorous debate within that spectrum. But money wins elections and funds advertising-dependent media, so that's how non business friendly perspectives get filtered out.

It's not a conspiracy, it's more "unnatural selection" by money in the media and political systems.

The working class press of a century ago had a much broader spectrum of opinion, for example. But it didn't rely on advertising.
RingoJS is pretty nice for JS server apps on the JVM though: http://ringojs.org/
I've worked at a late-stage startup that serves billions of requests per day at peak load, and there was no on-call for developers. I believe the ops team did have an on-call, but that was more at the infrastructure level, as everything was self-hosted at colos.

This was done by having a simple and resilient serving architecture. Every server was stateless. In addition, all the complicated logic was pre-computed into immutable lookup tables, offline. So if that task fails, it doesn't cause downtime, and can wait until the next workday.

We had a robust QA process, but it was far from stultifying.
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Ship's sailed I think, this is on frontpage, maybe dang will merge them at some point.
Well the author was correct about the average person not bringing it fishing. I guess it's still a niche thing.
You consider a couple votes by the supreme court changing everything to fairy tales?

It really, seriously, could have been in favor of Gore. Not far fetched at all.

In fact they could have declined to hear the case entirely, which they probably should have done.
> "Oh, you don't want to make an Android app for $10, well we gave you the opportunity. We're sad to see you passed on it"

That is what I meant by something.
So glad to see mParticle doing well.
> Microsoft has disclose what is being collected[0].

let's quote them:

> Security. Information that’s required to help keep Windows secure, including info about telemetry client settings, the Malicious Software Removal Tool, and Windows Defender.

> Basic device info, including: quality-related info, app compat, and info from the Security level

Notably vague, no "conspiracy theories" needed.

And you're still missing the point that even the specifics that have been explicitly disclosed are still enough to be objectionable to some.

edit: I missed the much more extensive list of what is being collected via "basic" telemetry:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208(v=vs.85...

It's great they disclose more information than I thought they did, though this list is actually far worse than I had guessed.

> Most other major operating systems conduct similar activities but there is no public outcry about that... Why the double standard?

what other major operating system doesn't let you opt out of telemetry-like reporting?

Incredibly, incredibly easy fix: just let people opt out of telemetry reporting.
Typical Daily Mail dreck. Embarrassing.
No it is not. The only difference is which syllable is stressed.
For people who care more about their units:

2800 miles/distance_between_LA_and_New York * 5280 feet/mile * 12 inches/feet * 1.4 dimes/inch = 248,371,200 dimes/distance_between_LA_and_NYC
You could charge something like a quarter percent for only a few months as a placement fee, and keep the standard $200 rate for all classes, with placement services as an option. While that's not as attractive as a full refund, it does avoid the issues pointed out in some of the other comments (like counting a freelance job as employment).
GoPro announces 7% workforce reduction
The person is your employee; you entered into a contract with that employee and the computer and your network is not just your property anymore, but tools provided to the employee to be used by said employee according to the contract. At this point, contract law, labor law, etc. can constrain what you can do pertaining to your employee's use of the computer and the network, especially when the constraints exist to safeguard fundamental rights.
I didn't read the whole thing, but it didn't sound cranky to me. Biased, sure, but not tendentious, and with lots more information than the NYT piece.

If people feel strongly about this we'll happily change it back though.
But they chose to put their datacentre in that province, possibly because of the accessible clean power. Why shouldn't they be allowed to advertise it?

Hydro power is a legitimate draw to get businesses into Quebec.
I bet the Al Jazeera logo is hard to sell in the US for a reason.
I guess you could use the unusually democratic nature of some historical pirate crews to defend a grossly undemocratic split of 98-0-1-0-1 in the game, but I'm not sure I see the link, personally.
He had to sell the server farm after "Big Data" put him out of business...
Six-stage Pipelined Solution for TIS-100 Signal Averager [video]
Savioke receives $15M in Series A funding to scale their business
Many web developers just know how to glue together framework components. I recently installed a Nest, attaching the requisite wires from the existing AC system; I have no right to call myself an HVAC technician. However, you see a lot of the same happening with web developers that can't go much further than copy and paste code from a blog post or Stack Overflow. The difference is of course that they are being paid good money and are supposed to know how to move beyond the basics.

I believe we'll see a purging in a few years, similar to what we saw when the bubble burst in 2000/2001.
> Worse, in an exercise reminiscent of companies offering unlimited PTO, "not on-call," when read between the lines, could really mean "always on-call." I currently work with teams that operate this way, and the amount of burnout is staggering.

I've found the best way to screen for those sorts of problems is to ask everyone in the interview about their personal habits, instead of about process. Don't ask about vacation policy; ask when's the last time your interviewer went on vacation. Don't ask about the on-call rotation, ask about what issues came up outside work hours in the last month.
I have attended a few MicroConf's where patio11 is a regular speaker, and from his "selling BCC" talk it sounded like feinternational will help you figure out if it is a good deal to work with them.

What's to loose other than a few hours of work filling out their questionaire about your business?
You know... I was thinking about doing this somehow, except I'd either need to pay someone to use their ticket machine, or become my own official lottery licensed thingy.

Now the interesting part: I'd accept credit cards without a second guess. Why?

First thought is "fraudulent transactions to redeem... duh." Yeah, that's totally true, but here's what you do:

When someone purchases the ticket online, you give them their numbers (obviously); you don't give them their barcode to redeem. Let's say they win: To receive the ticket's barcode, they must present the card they used to purchase. If they don't, well, you've got yourself a winner.
To be fair, I afterwards thought that for some people, especially when taught with OOP, would see some functional abstractions as obfuscation.
Each type of abstraction (objects, higher-order functions or continuations) work best with specifically designed syntax.
I didn't like Scala too much for this reason, as it seemed a too bizarre combination (from a syntactic POV), as a contrast with Ocaml.

Anyway, tastes and education play a role there, but to me the arrow notation is way easier to read, as it is what I would write on paper.
Citation needed. Pretty sure onnoffice equipment you are bound by the rules of the company. it's valid for a company to prevent the personal use of office equipment.
Possibly? Who knows? Parsers are complex and I doubt ffmpeg relies on file extensions to figure out the format.
Very cool! And easily modifiable, thanks to readable code as bliti said. Seems well thought/laid out.
Does "dead" status on HackerNews means suppression of the freedom of speech?
Think about it, if news are not good and no one votes they will drop anyway, and after one hour or so no one will vote for them.

Censorship by definition is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information.

But, if first user who has admin rights decided to mark something as "dead" basically he acts same as people in Stasi Germany, filtering the continent for "greater good".

[Update] Additionally, why is sharing other people things considered ok but sharing your own things consider bad and banned?

[Update 2] I would gladly answer but I am getting message I am submitting too fast

Example:

For instance for the following account [grisanik] everything from that story [10790985], has marked as "dead", it is distopian/utopian story about two futures.

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/grisanik.json?print=pretty

Why is that story considered as spam? On that site there is no adverts?

Tell me what is considered as on topic I just read the story about gang rape. How is that on topic with Hack news?

>>>> Comment
"You are saying HN is not ok to say I made this what do you think about it? and then I made something else what do you think about that?"
But it is ok with
U1 "Elon Musk ..."
U2 "Elon Musk ..."
U3 "Elon Musk ..."

I know that Elon Musk is awesome I do not to read about him here I can go to his official site.

What is that you people make? That is what interest me... But again maybe I am wrong ...
Living the CES security farce
The difference between lottery and playing fantasy football is like the difference between betting against a random number generator, and playing Eve Online part-time, respectively. In the former, you lose consistently. In the latter, you lose to people who spend most of the time in Microsoft Excel and are better at it than many a corporate accountant.
The favorite joke of my cohort of old people is how young folks are just dying to get into our club.
To my knowledge Miyamoto has always been a designer/producer, not a developer.
SİTE : http://www.hack1000.com/info.php
ZONE : http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/25440272

Hack1000.Com Hacked!
Securtiy?
Hacked by Th3Sehzade - turkish Hacker
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People go to casino's every day and for every winner there is a looser, and in the middle the house takes a cut. The Lottery is no different except that the pot is a little larger as in the case of Powerball. It is entertainment pure and simple, so if someone spends $200 per year entertaining themselves, I can't see a problem with it. The -odds- are that someone is going to win, and if you don't play at all, it is impossible to win.
> It would be much simpler to take home a few floppy disks tucked into an attache case.
Hi DoubleMalt,

Thanks for the link. I've filed an issue and should have this fixed tonight

https://github.com/PatchworkSecurity/cleansweep/issues/7
Right, people spend all sorts of money on silly entertainment, the lottery isn't much different. Now, if you drop your life savings on it, that's a different story.
So DFS is literally Uber for lottery? That would explain quite a lot about why there's a split on HN between the people who hate it and the people who love it.
GoPro cutting 7 percent of its workforce
Even that has been upended, right? Smartphones, GPS, fish locating tools.
>First, TOAST stands for The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique, probably the best acronym in the history of Computer Science.

Actually, that price IMHO goes to GIN (Generalized Inverted Index) which I actually believed to be a coincidence until the people behind Postgres' GIN index announced their new VODKA index format
For non-personal accounts they already use multi-factor auth. And adding more authentication and tunnels doesn't defeat all the other attack vectors.

Honestly, do you think these people really care if their Facebook gets hacked or the chain letters passed around by their family members get leaked?
Politically, it's pretty scary when petrostates get their economies disrupted...
I graduated from their front-end developer nano degree program last year when it first launched. It doesn't feel great that none of these new "guarantees" applies to me.
People are downvoting you and explaining why, but I'd like to ask you:

Why do you think rationality and survival are specifically at odds with being a pirate?