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Grew up a Red Sox fan, watching free games on broadcast TV every week and attending games for less than $10. At one point in the mid-80s bleacher seats were $2.

Left Boston, came back 8 years later, found that you can only watch games on cable and tickets are unbelievably expensive. The Red Sox's new owners want to make a lot of money and hire top talent to make them a winning team. But not all fans can afford to go along for the ride.

Now I have a family. We don't have cable so my son can't watch 95% of games on TV. The one time four of us went to Fenway it was nearly $400 about 15 rows back from the third base line. How can anyone keep that up? He never got a chance to be a fan like I did.
The poster above didn't say not to use PPT as the final format. If you had read OPs issue closely you would probably identify this as a viable work-around.
That's a really great analysis, almost feels like a detective story .)

OT: I am a huge fan of Python, so whenever I see Python helps to solve a thing I always say myself "yay Python!"
Why use alternatives?

You can download the Google Web Fonts and serve them from your host.

You can also download and serve Font Awesome from local.

And there doesn't seem to be a reason why you can't do it with gravatar either.

I don't get this post honestly. It seems to be about replacing stuff with other stuff instead of replacing CDN with locally served content.
I switched to using Dropbox instead of a repo because I would often forget to commit and push changes, it's been really refreshing. I've not tried their API, but it probably would be trivial to have a webhook that auto pulls changes to a git repo on file changes, for the best of both worlds.
Oh wow, they actually labeled the product placement? I often wish I was aware of all the product placement I'm seeing unwittingly. In what locale are you and what show were you watching?
Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part 2: Understanding Uber’s Uncompetitive Costs
A compass is influenced by anything that disturbs the local magnetic field: magnets, metal objects, electrical currents, etc.
I'm not sure that you need to diversify for that. It makes sense to have one really good lawyer who knows how to distribute it. The money will end up in different countries, trusts and with a number of partners. But if you don't want to deal with the complexity yourself, you likely need to have one expert who does. That's also why you need so much to start, it's not just about setting up one company, it's about creating a whole net of companies .
I'll be sad to see them go too, at their price point they couldn't be beat. Unfortunately they have been treating their Kickstarter and pre-order backers poorly (as they did with their first Kickstarter) and there has been some backlash on r/pebble and their forums (basically, you can get a pebble 2 in retail now for cheaper than you could get it on pre-order, and many if not most backers/pre-orders have yet to get their order).
I just finished a (realtime systems programming) job at an oil services company. I wouldn't expect a lot of progress in shale tech, especially at present natural gas and oil prices.

The oil industry in general has a very skewed vision of what "technology" means. It tends to mean PLC programming, and PLCs are a really weird, small market. It tends to mean systems integration of a rather crude order.
Looks like it's in a few Slackware repos but I'm having trouble finding it in deb/yum/Arch pkg:

https://pkgs.org/search/uemacs

JASSPA version (the package is jasspa, but searching on microemacs just to show results more thoroughly):

https://pkgs.org/search/microemacs
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I remember after joining a nameless company here in the UK and filling out all the paperwork. Someone from HR came over to me to explain I had missed filling out a form.
I asked which form and they replied the Working Time directive opt out. I explained that 48 hours was more than enough time to do my job and that I had deliberate not signed it. They looked at me confused and then went away. It annoys me when they assume you should fill it it like that though.
According to the linked press release[1]:

> ... faulty train signalling hardware on PV46 was emitting erroneous signals in addition to the ones it was supposed to emit. These erroneous signals occasionally prevented trains travelling in the vicinity of PV46, including in the opposite direction, from properly communicating with the trackside signalling system. This loss of communications led to the activation of the trains’ emergency brakes.

[1]: https://www.lta.gov.sg/apps/news/page.aspx?c=2&id=89defe38-4...
Well, we do it, even if you don't see us.
Tell your friends to do it too!
I built a solar powered one, that worked fine in the UK (even during winter) for a few months until a hardware failure occurred (I think condensation in the enclosure). As others said you need to find a good breakout board. I had good luck with a ESP8266-12 (http://blog.hekkers.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ESP-8266-...) which consumes µAs in deep sleep mode.

As others said, if you are really serious about this you would be much better to go with a ATTiny or similar, but then you don't get radio out of the box, so need to work with 433mhz modules or similar.
Always wondering where that's done. I often hear about it, but it doesn't seem to happen in the UK. E.g. football cup this summer, the ads would target people from the participating countries, if England wasn't playing you often wouldn't see a product you could buy.
As you've asked for "Best Practices"

The Old KISS principal applies here too.

Use whatever standard template your company or whomever mandates and then have a Title per slide and Bullet points.

If none mandated, just plain white background and standard font size in the default template works best.

All transitions etc.... get lost when converting and delay switching time.

Only have a single image per slide. The image should be self contained. i.e: Create the diagram in word or other and use image of it.

It might look BORING, but it'll be easier to read and the slides are a guide. People should be looking at presenter, NOT at the slides. :)
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I have ESPN through SlingTV.
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I must be missing something about bagger.com.

I can see a few "vapour" ideas/concepts, some software, games, instructionals (however immaterial), and among the more material objects, an artisan made knife for US$ 150 apiece and a wax canvas bag for wheelchairs for a mere US$ 250 apiece.

But not any "tool".

I had expected "makers" to be more like the ones on the site this thread is about, making some heavy, sturdy, simple, cheap, effective tools.
Because people who are both incompetent and deceitful are an utter waste of everybody's time, and also a liability?
Though that's not related to being rich. You can participate on that market with less than $1k. If you knew that they'd reach a deal (many people thought they wouldn't), you didn't need $200m to play that game.
The disnguishing factor is prescheduling vs cooperative scheduling. In all those other languages each process has to hand control back to the scheduler - meaning runaway code can negatively impact everything, pause the entire stack to garbage collect and can't transparently distribute itself across machines because of shared memory (you can't transparently pass a pointer).

Those are design decisions you can't bolt on later. Isolation, prescheduling and message passing without shared memory get you access to all of that.
> Then you have to give up other cool things like Google Analytics.

Honest question: What is the benefit of Google Analytics? Can someone share a story where they got actionable insight out of it?

(Context: Being very concerned with privacy, I would never for the live of myself install any analytics on my sites. In fact, I have even disabled the nginx access.log.)
Yep, definitely. I've only read a few of Eco's novels but I think they all deal with similar ideas, or look at the same ideas through different lenses.

Prague Cemetery ruminates on the ideas of slanderous conspiracies [slanderous isn't really a strong enough word, they are really hateful]. At the start of the book Royalists are spreading conspiracies about the Jesuits being behind Italian Republicanism.

By the end of the book the Jesuits have either been replaced by the Jews, or are working hand in hand with them. As in Focault's Pendulum many of the people manufacturing the conspiracy are also believers in it. In the Name of the Rose there are long passages about the nature of heresy and how a power [the Church] declaring something to be a heretical belief can attract those who oppose that power, in effect spreading that heresy, even in cases where the heretical belief might be manufactured or non-existent.

One major difference is that the book also sets out how these conspiracies serve people's interests. In some cases the interests served are political reactionaries, in other it is political regimes or state intelligence agencies.

It feels like a longer novel that Focault's Pendulum, though I'm not sure if that's correct. I think it loses the run of itself a little in places but it is well worth a read.
Is it really creepy? When I interview you in-person I am able to note all of those things if I want to and I can include "Your odor" on the list. They probably just have a legal team somewhere that feels that it is worth disclosing these items that really are common sense in a face-to-face.
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There are several places in the world that don't have functioning governments. Perhaps you could go live in one for awhile and report back.
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Virtual reality is the biggest loser for these holidays?
Yes, and I don't know in US but Cable TV started with a lot of channels without advertisements. Now, you are paying Cable TV and the channels are full of advertisements, so it is not clear why you are paying.
As a non-native speaker, that raises my eyebrows as in "What? From Guyana?"

Though it is right of course, i.e. Southern American is different from South American.
At current oil prices it's likely that the decision pays off. He'll not fly the plane on a daily basis (post-election) and even many airlines are putting back new orders because old machines are overall cheaper at current prices. 20% less fuel for an expensive plane doesn't pay off at $50/bbl. And they probably fly at least 10x the distance of the Trump plane.
I know you're not specifically looking for suggestions on content, but this is worth a look:

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/144505424481/impossible-to-igno...
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

—Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1989). Computer Networks
Can't you just proxy gravatar?
Yes. I had the same situation when starting a job a few years back... the managers just seemed confused that I'd bothered to take the time to understand what I'd meant more than anything. Guess they were just used to hiring people for their ability to follow instructions to the letter.
Even cutting down on beef while still eating other meat would be a significant help, I believe. That's achievable though I imagine the beef industry would lobby against any push.
> Why not?

From a sysadmin/devops PoV boils down to flexibility. Security comes at the expense of flexibility and flexibility is more important for the survival and well-being of many/most IT companies and its especially crucial to startups.
It's improving, but you still run into some of the interfaces that were designed 8 years ago.

But Microsoft is far worse in that department.
While that's true, the trade offs imposed are not only controversial and paradoxical, but effectively disrupts many security and privacy models.

I feel the urge to mention https://chatsecure.org/ as a notable middle of the way alternative.
but then again, how is that different from android of today?
From Git Push to Play Store
Language barriers are hardly a problem with things like Interpol or the EU itself. Maybe you want to keep going East... or not.
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Pennsylvania has tax free fracking because it provides high paying jobs. We are the only state that provides tax free fracking and it blows my mind. Texas and other strong Republican states take taxes from oil production but in PA nothing.

The "Pro-Fracking" groups says that PA had 250,000 jobs but it ended up including This number captured everyone in those industries including every road construction worker, trucker, engineer, and steel worker in Pennsylvania.

The number is actually around 20,000 and the state makes no tax money from the production and only from income tax.
Was a bit confused by that. The way both of them are described I'd guess that they're not the nicest employers. If your employer is far away, probably doesn't pay you very well, why show such loyalty to prevent that from happening? The husband probably hadn't found out about it otherwise.
heh.

The UK government has a lot of infra based on Azure. The MOD and NHS for starters.

Smooth. Very smooth. Another indicator that the rabid, vulgar libertarians in the Brexiteer ranks are more than happy to use Brexit to strain public services more in order to justify private services.

Man oh man am I glad to be paid in dollars working remotely for a US company right now.
Barring deliberately putting "throwaway" in the username, how would you propose HN's code determine between a throwaway and a normal brand new account?
That would have to be S3 with Cloudfront which is the only way to easily have custom domain SSL since S3 is not CDN'ed or cached.
They might have problems reproducing such an intermittent problem without running the train. Often times such a problem clears up when someone physically messes with the hardware. Under such circumstances the problem would probably be solved by taking the circuit board that does the communications out and then carefully placing it in the garbage, possibly physically destroying it first.

Not all problems can be troubleshot and there are some things that remain mysteries forever.
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Linux is a bad choice for a half-open environment. Either it's totally open (like most Linux distros) or everything is done by the manufacturer (like routers). But not this garbage with closed source drivers that will prevent you from recompiling eventually somewhere in the future.
Explosions and threats of explosions bring many kids (middle/high school/freshmen) into it.

If you have money, this is nice for the younger ones: https://melscience.com/

Or one of the numerous chemistry sets available- preferably something with a lot of chemicals that are unsafe. I personally almost killed myself mixing things when I was an adolescent.

And in the 80s there was this: https://archive.org/details/Chem_Lab_1985-Simon_and_Schuster...

If kids aren't interested in chemistry, it's that the teacher/cirriculum/resources available to the students is just piss poor... and unfortunately that is the norm. It's so easy to keep kids engaged if you continue doing experiments that astound.
I have to agree with the previous commenter, but in a more serious fashion. It's not just about the fun. A lot of modern technology is possible not because someone did some directed research but because someone thought about if something could be done and how to achieve it. Sometimes it may even take generations before a small piece of knowledge suddenly finds an application, and then it can still lead to breakthroughs.

Certainly not all, but some people need to be able to do things without apparent meaning, including artists and (theoretical) scientists.
Means you lose ~2% per year (inflation) and have a problem if new notes are issued. Also, if anyone finds out your money is gone very quickly (or if the garage burns down). I'd rather buy some precoious metals. Easier to hide, although the weight means you have to be careful where you hide it.
I'll give this a whirl but at a slower pace than one/day. Already feeling mild irritation towards the easter bunny.
This has been said elsewhere but both GamePass and NHL.tv are good unless you want to watch local teams. Which of course is the primary desire of anyone who's a cord cutter (like me). I'm sure they are prohibited from providing local streams by the contracts they have already agreed to. Here is how bad those contracts can apparently be: here in Boston you can listen to NFL games on the radio, but if you try and stream that same radio station over the internet while a game is going on, it's blacked out.

The contract structure is totally unsuited to the internet-using public. Sooner or later the situation will change due to cord cutters. When it does happen, my bet is that the leagues will have to accept an overall decrease in available revenue. Player salaries will descend. The revenue of these enterprises probably peaked a couple of years ago. And like with newspapers, the product will need to change.
Here is Bob Iger's response (Disney's CEO) to where streaming ESPN is headed (1)

Q: Some people have been thinking this new streaming service will offer a flat rate, roughly the $6 or $7 a month that customers pay on their cable bill to get ESPN. Is that right?

A: It’s not going to be that way at all. There will be really variable pricing and multiple packages to consumers. People may just want to subscribe during the football season. Or maybe they want to pay just for a summer, just for a weekend, just for a game. We will have customization and personalization. I think everything ultimately will be on an à la carte basis; a lot of people may subscribe to the whole thing and get a discount for that.

(1) http://variety.com/2016/film/features/bob-iger-disney-ceo-sh...
> would have been shocked and in disbelief

Not directly related to your point, but I feel people are just constantly shocked and in disbelief about a whole bunch of things, and all that shock and disbelief amounts to practically nothing in the end.

People will stand there slack-jawed as the steam-roller barrels toward them. "Oh this is shocking", "I can't believe this is happening".

Incredulity is not a useful thought-pattern.
I don't see any possibility for problems, as long as you just do what has sense to do.

https://developers.google.com/time/

"We recommend that you don’t configure Google Public NTP together with non-leap-smearing NTP servers."

If you point your NTP clients to time1.google.com to time4.google.com then don't point them to anything else.

That's all.

If you use Google's time servers you are using them either to be fully in sync with Google or because you like the time-smearing feature. In both cases, just use them, don't mix. Think it as a non-standard-service which is for convenience API compatible with the "standard" NTP.

As magicalist pointed, there are already other smearing algorithms online:

https://developers.google.com/time/smear#othersmears

and Google plans to switch to the new algorithm soon. If all those who need smear standardize around one algorithm, it's going to be even better: there will be one more standard, with the new name, but then it will be even more obvious to everybody what's going on. Obviously both approaches are needed, depending on the usage scenario.
I'm not sure about that. CoT has been a problem for a long time. Silt is a problem close to shore, but the extent of bleaching in recent years is unprecedented in terms of sheer area of decimation: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-29/reef-great-barrier-ree...
I assume they mean most OVER-funded as a percentage. 3432% would be pretty hard to achieve for most already high game budgets.
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In the UK all product placement needs to be declared at the beginning. Lots of Youtube stars get in trouble for this in the UK.
Yeah, agreeing on that. But do you see how it makes sense to do it publicly in the NYT? In her position I would try to keep the shady business in the dark.
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They had an experimental week long mood tracking feature before. You would input your mood level and how you feel. And you could give a voice note to add on to what you were feeling. I really enjoyed doing those voice notes. Once the experiment was over though I couldn't find another app to record notes in that way. Too bad.
If they're reporting it, sure. Companies defer profits all the time to do this within the bounds of what is legally acceptable. What's not fine is if the numbers only add up if you're not reporting.
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This also explains the shift in functional programming from languages with good reasoning about correctness (Haskell, but also SQL) to languages which additionally allow of good reasoning of performance (OCaml, Rust, etc.).

Moreover, this explains the NASA coding rule that all loops shall have an explicit upper bound.

The deeper issue seems to be: If you write code in a fashion that you can reason easily about its performance, then you might not get the optimal performance in all cases, but you establish an minimum level of performance.

So performance stability is more important than reaching optimal performance, because the latter may be easily destroyed accidentally in future versions of the software.

The only exception are well-defined tasks with stable input/output definitions (e.g. numeric primitives like matrix multiplication, fourier transformation, etc.) where the whole point of newer versions is performance improvements and nothing else.
As a youth baseball coach, I have noticed that none of the players talk about a favorite baseball player or team. We're cord-cutters and my own kids never even mention watching a game. Not a good sign for MLB.
You can basically do this with SlingTV. The $20 Orange package is basically ESPN, Disney, and a few throw-ins. That's probably the cheapest way available to legitimately get ESPN.

To actually watch most NFL games, though, you would need some kind of a subscription that gets local CBS, NBC and Fox channels, though. ESPN only carries Monday Night Football.
Buying a lot of crap and doing your own QA has some horrible negative externalities... This sort of throwaway economy is the last thing we need.
I assume that Chinese censorship is not escaped just by using https, thus without DPI I assume it has to be IP related.
Strangely I really like this. It starts the relationship off with trust instead.
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> My son will soon be a teenager. He has little interest in watching TV. His default is to go to YouTube and check what's new.

Of course. I'm 30 and if it wasn't for live sport I'd never watch TV and even that is going away: Sky Germany lost the right to the british premier league and before that the spanish La Liga. Both, as well as the italian and french football leagues, are legally available at DAZN for 10 bucks a month. It's a great deal.

However besides sports the program just isn't there. It can't be since its priority is to find the lowest common denominator and please everyone. Which results in nobody getting what they actually want. YouTube doesn't have those limitations - you'll find in-depth content for any kind of niche interest and I welcome it.

I can only assume that traditional TV is even less interesting to today's teenagers than it is to me, someone who grew up with it.
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