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I often wish I could see a "Streetview" from 10, 20, 30, 40, etc. years ago. It would be interesting not only in cities, but even to see how areas outside of cities morphed over time. Of course there are examples but, especially when taking a photo cost real money, there wasn't a lot of systematic documentation of mundane street scenes.

There are some examples here from NYC http://petapixel.com/2014/04/04/pictures-ny-storefronts-docu... but this sort of thing is uncommon.
It's a whole 60W A/C adapter package, not just the cable. The adapter isn't pumping out more wattage than it's rated for.
This is the crux of why viewership is declining. Who in their right mind these days has 3+ hours to watch a game that has only an hour of play time. And realistically speaking, the average "actual" play time is sub-15 minutes [1]. Just because this has been the case, doesn't make it the template for the future.

The league knows it has a problem but inertia, greed and a clueless front office are impediments to change. Let's call it like it is: The league has become greedier with every passing year. And please don't believe the hype: They don't care for the players health and safety either, despite the rule changes [2].

Having been in the stands at a number of games, it's obvious that the players want to go and dislike the commercial breaks because it breaks their flow. To summarize, players aren't happy, fans aren't happy; no surprise then that ratings are falling.

The path forward is to rein in game time (2-2.5 hours a game) and make more games available on interactive, online platforms like Twitter. Additionally, it is time that the league revise their monetization strategy for game broadcasts. What works for soccer might not work for the NFL given that a season is 16-weeks, but what's in place today isn't future-friendly. The league needs to evolve with the changing milieu or perish.

Fortunately for a fan of the game like me, the league has shown that it can change its spots.

1. https://www.google.com/search?q=average+actual+play+time+NFL...

2. http://www.theplayerstribune.com/richard-sherman-nfl-player-...
'Pauseless' is marketing term like those unlimited data plans from telecom/cable providers.

Here is how Zing use flags:

-XX:+UseGenPauselessGC - Generational Pauseless GC (GPGC) optimized for minimal pause times.
> Perhaps the best advice is from Michelle Obama: "When they go low, we go high"

Brilliant appropriation.
How would an open source project participate in a closed beta?
The WORST part of all of this is how Disney owns a great video streaming company who built our a killer product for the MLB, and they can't apply it to the ESPN ecosystem, whose video player is TRASH.
Completely fair point and one I should have acknowledged. I was not intending to call the OP negligent. From what I saw, they did a full analysis and are preparing the full numbers. I was just irked by this idea that "typical" is all one needs.
I'll give Apple a hint how to solve this conundrum.

a) bring back that key row, people prefer physical keys over touch-strips and -pads and -screens for a reason - you can use them without taking your eyes off the screen

b) for those applications where you'd benefit from a visual representation of whatever data you're manipulating the keystrip is rather limited in space, but fortunately nearly all laptops already include a touch-sensitive area under the keyboard...

c) ...so just put an OLED-display under the touchpad? Have it run iOS for ease of development, not that developing for iOS is easy but there are loads and loads of developers who already know the platform. Add some haptic feedback to make it usable eyes-off and for those who have bad eyesight and you've got your next 'amazing' gadget.

As an added bonus it should be possible to use any iOS device as a 'remote' for applications which utilize the touchpad-with-pictures. Call it DisplayPad and you're done for the next show.

The same could be done by Google (Android on ChromeOS or whatever comes after), by Microsoft, by... anyone, really.
Nothing. Its just as much of a turd as Rails is. Using flask instead for simple apps.
A while back I created the Django Hackathon Starter [1] which was aimed to be a general boilerplate providing several out-of-the box OAuth hooks and API examples. It hasn't been updated recently, but was a pretty fun project to work on at the time.

[1] https://github.com/DrkSephy/django-hackathon-starter
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It depends on what you're building. I think Java really shines better in the backend long-lived services realm. If you're just writing something that doesn't need any fancy "web" layers plain Java in a plain Eclipse project is all you need to get going. Nothing more. You just need to know how to type and what you're trying to do and most things you want to do are very easy to accomplish.
https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/4zpg1p/whats_your_s...
what's overlooked is this is bad for consumers who are sports fans, if Fox/CBS/ESPN/NBC cut back spending for sports rights and get less games, you will be at the mercy of the sports leagues online services to watch content who will have all the pricing power and will force you into season passes, this is naive to think it will just affect ESPN and not the other networks, content will be getting significantly more expensive in the future across sports/television shows
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Yes. All the suspensions/injuries/retirement (Peyton) aren't helping ratings.

The audience wants their stars.
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Am I the only one who thought the title meant actually rebuilding some of these tools from the ground up? Building a stack and using / leveraging a stack is significantly different.
Now we just need a 20 minutes version of Marx's Capital.
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The Rams moving to St. Louis didn't sit too well with this native of Los Angeles. Roman Gabriel! Fearsome Foursome! Come on!!!
I'd add a dose of social myopia. Even without slaves, you'd have to make everybody imagine a world taming forces. I believe up until Newton, the value of technology and its pace was very different. So people wouldn't align and go that deep into physics and engineering. It's a bit of a stretch for steam power, but another instance is electricity, a phenomenon which was known at the time but would require way too much desire and stack to master.

ps: This is something that distort my perception of the world. Somehow similar to the comma.ai birth, the owner believed the others were caught into a limited view of the world. It's possible that a lot of stuff that we dismiss because we believed in others are "limiting" our existence. But the brownian motion seems unavoidable for now.
Curious about bundles being an example of the free market at work. How are consumers able to vote with their dollars what channels bundles do and do not include?
> incessant

It's an incessant, continuing problem. There is widespread, serious harm done by racism, in almost every aspect of American life (ignoring other countries for the moment). Therefore, it will be discussed frequently.

It's very unbalanced to say the problem isn't all these people suffering, but that you are tired of talking about it. I'm tired of talking about Aleppo, but my tiredness isn't really an issue on the scale of things.

> it won't be because half the country are racists

There is a lot of racism in the U.S. In your model, who is responsible for it? How is it happening?
Fun fact: ARC derives originally from the SuperFX inside some SNES cartridges like Star Fox.
It's exactly this response to it that is making people cringe: the solipsistic, indignant, glib moral certitude of politically useful peoples, whom would rather believe that their fellow man is riddled with bigotry than attempt to see their own faults, a product of propaganda programs enacted by political organizations on the penumbra government, skirting laws meant to protect the citizenry from such practices.

The so called alt-right is a label thrown at many who used to consider themselves far-left, but didn't make the ideological shift to villainization of their fellow man. I call our new group the revolutionary-center.
Your comment is a great example for the kind of insulting attitude that he was talking about.
> >If two vectors overlap, the dot product is 1.

This is only true for a subset of all vectors (normalized or \sum a_i b_i = 1)...

> The truth is people conflate vectors with arrays, but if you want to think deeper than anyone who does computer graphics needs to, you don't need coordinates or any group of numbers to express vectors.

I'm a math simpleton myself, but computer graphics people can and do go deeper: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/DGPDEC/paper.pdf
I am amazed that a professor would be so surprised by a student using the word "hence". Most professors I've had would probably have taken off points for using it over a simpler alternative like "therefore" or just a different sentence structure that incorporated the two sentences without needing an adverb to tie them
together.
The removable cable is a huge win, though. The magsafe cables are horrendously prone to fraying and cable jacket tears. My own Magsafe 2 cable's jacket inexplicably tore after a month of using it.
You're right, but the point stands that this sort of coverage isn't going to make much money. Normal people are just bored by Jenner at this point. There are several dozen people still fascinated by her, but they're not ESPN's core demographic. And then there are a large number of people who find this sort of coverage so objectionable that they'll cancel service rather than change the channel.

ISTM people who don't watch much sports think that NBC's Olympic coverage is typical sports coverage. Jenner would fit right into that execrable human-interest pablum, but actual sports fans who watch lots of sports can't stand it.
That was well done. Time lapse, yes, but time lapse focal length changes and from multiple perspectives. Some shots over the course of days.
I just use const instead of var/let all the time and it prevented me from overriding the variable later, which forced me to write my code a bit more functional then before I used it.

I know that I can still change indirect references or override valueOf() etc.
Can someone help with a notation question? In section 4 of the paper, the norm of the perturbation is constrained to a maximum of 2'000 which presumably is "small" but I don't know how to parse an apostrophe like that
Because middle managers in meetings were accusing innovators of reinventing the cube.
There is nothing free market about Cable TV. Free markets needs Substitute goods aka BMW vs Audi not ESPN vs Syfy or other matchups where a and b have different consumers.

Remember copyright creates monopolies and monopolies are not free markets.
I get the desire for vigilante justice when official justice doesn't do the job. But the way you phrase it (a tip) turns it into a sort of victim blaming.

People in our civilized society are not expected to carry weapons for their own safety. Some choose to, but we don't blame those who were victimized while not carrying one and suggest that they should.

If another society isn't quite 100% civilized yet, we should encourage better policing, not for potential victims to carry weapons. A police force who valued human rights properly would make such crimes a top priority. The particular crime described, with video evidence and a perpetrator recognized around the village, probably requires only a few days of police work to track down. Compared to the enormous damage caused, it's shameful that the police haven't acted.
At least as of 1-2 years ago, NFL.com rebroadcasted games with everything but the plays themselves edited out. They took around 30 min. each, and were pretty watchable.
The idea is basically to make the code easy to read despite being hard to write, which might not be what you want.

I find it a really beautiful system that's super fun to work with. And showing ordinary people the code is great!

These days I'm working on a kind of interactive documentary about the collective house where I live and the environment around it. Mini games for the renovations and firewood gathering and stuff, mazes for the nearby central market and the home improvement department store, and various random stories that happened here. It's really fun!
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I am black, but I don't appreciate the confrontational tone of the article. It also skips from point to point in a holier than thou rant. This feels like a presentational style better suited for a bar than a nationally syndicated media.
Hey HN! I started w/ this project a couple weeks ago, completing a rough version, to my satisfaction, in an hour or so. Then I realized something was missing: lots and lots of tests, CI, automated deployment, separation of logic from the UI, etc. I am admittedly very pleased with where I ended up, it was a blast to recreate this game.
In every humanities class I've taken, the professor wouldn't grade us based on word choice nitpicking.
Doesn't really matter what they think of it, new management has to honor existing commitments.
From my perspective, new projections are very interesting but largely irrelevant until a specific use case is defined. Just minimizing a specific type of projection error isn't typically enough, since a large amount of map comprehension is guided by the users pre-existing conception of what a map of a specific area should look like. And there are a lot of projections/coordinate systems/datums to consider, here is a source to browse through:

http://spatialreference.org/

I'm usually working in an EPSG code, and of the 4,000+ EPSG codes I probably use 10 regularly and perhaps have used 100 in my lifetime (if anything, that's an overestimate). They are designed this way, most of them simply represent a small area of the earths surface well. Since I primarily work in the Northeast United States, I don't need to use a whole lot of them.

I'm playing loose with terms here, the EPSG codes are really 'spatial references' made up of various 'projections' and 'coordinate systems' and 'datums' and etc. I usually find it easier to just talk about spatial references because they are so commonly used as a shortcut approach as opposed to individually selecting the attributes that make up the spatial references.

Cartography includes an incredible wide body of work, defined largely by the data sets being used, the audience/purpose of the display, and the medium.

For example, if we narrow our focus to just models of the actual world this includes surveys, navigation programs, hiking maps, remote sensing rasters, etc. - all of which have very little overlap concerning data, audience, and medium.

I build geography products, but I'm not a researcher - hopefully someone with more research experience can chime in, but perhaps your questions is too broad given how deep various geography niches can run. I know I certainly haven't even started to answer your question.
>> The NFL needs to learn from MLB. The MBL.tv app on the Apple TV is fantastic.

MLB even via the web browser is fantastic. I love how it lets you pick the video feed and audio feed (including radio) to customize what you're watching.
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I would guess you could do the same with a circuit, even if that means you lose on flexibility (but given the concerns of many users, I'd say it's worthy).
You could make the same argument ("it's expensive and thus not mass-market") to IPads and iPhones, consistently (well, until this year perhaps) drastically more expensive than their Android competition, respectively.

Don't forget the power of marketing. Is it just me or are there Apple logos every time a character in a TV show pulls open a computer?

"It's the thinnest, lightest ever, and the bar at the top has UNLIMITED CAPABILITIES." There's your mass market. Think most people care about the ESC key? I do, but most don't.
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I agree, all you really need is webpack and vuejs
I wish it had an Ethernet port and a couple of legacy USB ports on the back to avoid the mess and cost of dongles.

The old Apple Lightning Display was a nice everything-dock.
Humans are wired for scarcity, but scarcity thinking is bad economics. We need to realize and own our power and start thinking in positive sum race to the top terms instead of fear based austerity terms.
Handing back a scored paper would probably be one of the ways I'd test for a written plagiarism. If the student gets mad at me and fights then they didn't plagiarizer. It's the presumed nature of humans to want to fight back when wrongly accused of something--even more so when you're found guilty of something. I'd accept a rebuttal saying that's not a correct model for every student and as such I'd find it evenly as "not-suspicious" if the person went to my boss or the dean and asked for them to get the points back.

If the student does nothing then I'd assume they did copy.

I'm sure people will be mad about these assumptions but from my experience--and from what I've seen my colleges fall into after wrongly accusing someone of cheating--I'd definitely say this is an appropriate average model. I'd also say it's lived to fruition in this case. The author got mad and wrote a fantastic expose on this situation. If I was the professor I'd correct what was obviously my mistake at this point.
> progressive

It's not progressive, it's mainstream, the social norm. The racist right is a small segment of the population.
So WordPress finally created something that can be reused outside of the walled garden in other competing projects. Yay! https://medium.com/@velmu/dear-drupal-and-wordpress-please-c...

I just hope Wix then pushes their changes to the editor. And then we can in the future use the UI components of the WP Apocalypse project: https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/tree/master/client/...
Unfortunately? Entertainment and art give many people a significant reason to live.
If sports channels don't cover sports news like the police brutality protests, then who should?
Sounds possible, the question is will this be like a pirate radio for video? Or are you trying to legally license content and broadcast it locally. Hopefully I'm not replying to a parody post
PowerOverEthernet might be a surprise for a rs232 device.
My better half primarily watches E! (Keeping up with the Kardashians), HGTV, Food Network, etc. All have full episodes online, but require the cable subscription login dance. Even if I could get the live sports I wanted, I don't foresee these "middle America" networks and shows embracing cord cutting anytime soon.
It doesn't look like it. All of the pictures show just a cable, and the description has

> In the box: BreakSafe USB-C cable with quick disconnect magnetic connector
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It is true, but that both are losing viewers doesn't mean they both are for the same reasons.
Prediction: Disney will buy Netflix and in 2021 buy the rights to the next 10 years of the NFL for 20 Billion, and raise the price of netflix to $25/month.
Update: later in the paper, the authors mention that 2x10^4 is an order of magnitude larger than 2'000 so perhaps this is just a way of introducing a thousands separator without introducing cultural ambiguity over whether it's a thousands separator or a decimal separator?
I've always been, and to this day continue to be, a poor speller. Hence my prepared writing is always a bit more erudite than my casual spoken communication or even my in class exam answers. I simply don't trust that I'm spelling a word like "erudite" properly without the help of spell-check. Is it really so odd that someone would use a phrase in academic writing unusual in their other forms of discourse?

Its a terrible thing to be falsely accused. Especially so when it is by a person in authority and in front of others and when the accuser has the power to issue a grade. I hope that this article helps professors deal more sensitively with their concerns over plagiarism in the internet age.
This is why I'm never driving a car that is classifying stuff with neural networks. Some dust, some shitty weather conditions and that pigeon becomes a green light.
Actually, Terry Pratchett's _The Long Mars_ discusses this, to an extent.

(In that setting, you can build a very simple machine --- powered by a potato, which actually makes sense in context --- which can take you to a parallel Earth. You can take what you can carry with you; but not iron, which stays behind. Turns out that setting up a society from scratch using only hand tools and brain power is kinda hard.)
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Our competitors aren't free, but often significantly undercut our prices. (it's a performance based product) Our response are our values adds and our narrative.
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I'm not trying to claim C++ is the only language anyone will ever need. I've tried hard to find alternatives but until the D community really goes full force on getting the garbage collection out and starts to care about the tools for the language instead of just the language, it seems like rust will be the only contender (and future C++ and maybe even jai). I wish a language called clay had taken off, it was pretty well put together as a better C.
This is a really fun way to build your own (raterization based) renderer step-by-step: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki
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I would like it to do something other than cut the power to my VMs when the host system shuts down or reboots.
Do you? I assume you only mean professional football because college games average longer than your "universal" time you mentioned. If you only mean the NFL, that's not quite "universal" then, is it? And if you did mean only NFL, it was really unfair for you to question that the GP doesn't watch football when you didn't even qualify your constraints.
This is Hacker News. If you don't live in a major metro area, you don't exist.
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Well, that depends on the protocol being negotiated and the connectors and devices on either end, of course. Having just one or two methods of protocol negotiation would be too simple.