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I'm an American with a TV who doesn't like sports. :) So let me be the blind leading the blind here.

There are three factors pinching ESPN and I don't think anybody knows what the exact breakdown is between them to answer the "why" question. But I think the factors are mostly well-known: 1) cable cutters, 2) generational habit differences, and 3) ESPN's inability to home-brew compelling content.

Cable cutters are softer on ESPN's ego than the other two options because they don't have to take responsibility for it. Basically, this factor is people quitting their cable subscription because they prefer Netflix or Hulu or nothing over paying for cable. ESPN licenses their important content (the actual games) and this is expensive, so if enough people leave it will eventually leave them unable to produce their primary product.

Factor #2 is simply that millennials seem less interested in sports or TV generally. But this may be mixed in with the previous one.

Suppose cable cutting is the significant factor. Why isn't it killing Comedy Central and other channels? Because licensing is expensive and the product becomes stale. CC and the other channels don't have to spend as much to make content, their consumers like their home-brew content, and their homemade content is unencumbered and can be repackaged and sold on other media. I might look forward to a new episode of Comedy Central Presents, but if I miss it, I'd still like to see it later. If it's good, I may rewatch it. This doesn't happen with sporting events. Like any product with an expiration date, there is more cost.

Other channels like CC and Cartoon Network started out licensing other people's content and then started producing their own, and their consumers like what they make. Many of ESPN's consumers, by contrast, do not want a 24x7 news cycle about every athlete ever, or talk shows starring athletes, or whatever home-brew content ESPN might come up with. They want to see The Big Game, right now, as it's happening.

So ESPN is having trouble pivoting. CC and Cartoon Network et. al. had no problem making the transition from content licensing to content creation and distribution, but ESPN is unusually encumbered by licensing restrictions and is unable to manufacture significant amounts of cheaper content with a longer shelf life. ESPN grew quite fat and lazy during its heydays when cable bundling was unavoidable and you could count on almost every American as a cable subscriber. This usage pattern is dropping off a cliff and ESPN seems to have run out of workable pivots.

The anti-sports people like me are having a great time watching this whole thing unfold in slow motion, which probably accounts for the fact that this story is here on HN at all.
That's really interesting in that the Rust developers ended up falling on the side of "no". Immutability is contextual (depending on the type of reference you hold) and purity annotations ended up being completely removed.
No. Google contributed massive amounts to the webkit code and built a full browser around it (including a state of the art javascript engine).

Silk is a different story.
That is a historical artifact. The original Unix developers decided to treat time as seconds since the start of 1970, implicitly assuming that every day has 86400 seconds. Back then UTC was in its infancy, most programmers had not even heard of leap seconds, and most computer clocks were set by the sysadmin looking at his watch. If we were starting from scratch we would have a date-time type with a day number field and a seconds-since-midnight field. However that would be a breaking change for every piece of software out there, so we are stuck with a time_t that cannot handle leap seconds.
So you basically hate/have never seen the sun?
I wonder if most of those include files were the files auto-generated by the C pre-processor to track header file dependencies. In a toy benchmark[1] GNU Make spent 98% of its time processing those include files (for a no-op build). Ninja has a special optimisation for these files, where it reads them the first time they're created, inserts the dependency information into a binary database, then deletes them so it doesn't have to parse them in future invocations. AFAICT this accounts for most of Ninja's speed improvement over Make.

[1]: http://david.rothlis.net/ninja-benchmark/
I agree that would be great. I can't help thinking that you're holding Haskell up to a standard to which you do not hold Rust, Go or Julia. Have you asked their proponents for technical reports on Hacker News threads?
I'm not sure. The weird blunder by Karjakin in fame three was a bit anticlimactic.

I also would have liked to see Magnus find the 30 moves forcing line in game 2.
Why do you want to learn more about farming? To grow things? To become an expert in the topic? To sound interesting in parties? Because you've got time to fill and learning brings you pleasure?

Your answer will depend a lot on what the question was.

If you want to grow things, start by growing things, and only bother learning stuff if it doesn't grow. If it does, mission fucking accomplished, and you can move on to the next challenge.

If you want to become an expert in the topic, that's where specialization comes in. But first, decide that that's what you're going to become an expert in, and commit to it. This is the stuff of which Ph.Ds are made; you could spend a lifetime studying the chemistry of soils in one particular region of the globe. Be sure that's what you want before you go do it (or, well, try for a year or two and graduate with a masters if you change your mind).

If you want to sound smart at parties, you only need to know more than the other party-goers. Adjust your social circles appropriately. Be aware, though, that you sound smarter at parties if you're not trying to sound smart at parties.

If you're just learning for fun, then keep learning while it's fun and quit once it ceases to be. That's the whole point, after all.

I wouldn't characterize this as an academic hygiene problem, I'd characterize it as a "not knowing what you want, or not being honest with yourself about it" problem. Once you figure out your motivation, it's usually pretty obvious what you need to do to achieve it. You get into trouble when you either don't know what that is or when some part of you doesn't want to accept it.
George Hotz releases free autonomous car software
It is a grave disservice to climate change prevention to attribute all ills to it. From Wikipedia [1]:

"Coral reefs are dying around the world. Human impact on coral reefs is significant. Coral reefs are dying around the world. In particular, coral mining, pollution (organic and non-organic), overfishing, blast fishing and the digging of canals and access into islands and bays are serious threats to these ecosystems."

I believe we as a global society should err on the side of caution, but I doubt scientists like Freeman Dyson are frauds. Probably climate science is way more complex than generally perceived, but that shouldn't lead us to inaction. I heartily recommend [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_with_co...

[2] https://www.edge.org/conversation/freeman_dyson-heretical-th...
"helden" is also Dutch for "heroes" and concatenation like that is also fine in Dutch.
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I have got to admit : I would be tempted by a good looking smartwatch and the pebble time actually looks nice.

The market as a whole as been a bit underwhelming so far.

Next year might be a bit more exciting :

-so we already have the pebble time round

-the withings activité heart will go out soon

-google is reportedly working on 2 new 'pixel' smartwatches.

Things might finally get interesting in the smartwatch market.
I'd say your mostly right with the one caveat that a virtual DOM also helps out with batching changes to the DOM, but I suppose there are other ways to make that happen.
India aims to launch Amazon-like online marketplace for Govt purchases
I don't know anything about FLAC, but is the implicit modular arithmetic the expected behavior here? What if a product or a sum overflows?
Top programming languages that will be most popular in 2017
How are you measuring the effect on reachability? My companies network filter can't seem to understand cloudflare certs with their 50+ other domain names in there, and so clients can't connect. If you have HSTS on you can't even fall back to http. So without a phone call to IT to our provider, people just aren't going to that site.

That kind of thing seems impossible to measure.
I've worked in JavaScript for 15 years. There is always something to be sad about.
In general I think the problems with this change have been slightly overstated. However, GP is correct.

The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution provides in relevant part:
> [N]o Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

A general warrant is one which does not "particularly describ[e] the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized".

The amended rule provides in relevant part
> A magistrate judge [...] has authority to issue a warrant to use remote access to search electronic storage media [of which the location] has been concealed through technological means.

Now, one doesn't have to be a constitutional scholar to see that "the place to be searched" hasn't been interpreted recently (if ever) to mean "latitude and longitude". However, there's a valid concern that the inability to even place the "where" to a particular jurisdiction is a massive weakening of the requirement to "particularly describ[e]". It may indeed be so weak that the result can be fairly called a "general warrant". How could the warrant be written otherwise? What information could it contain? I speculate the "description" will amount, in practice, to "unknown hard drive in unknown location, possibly containing X contents". That is a general warrant, because no hard drive fails to meet those criteria.
I wish the React ecosystem would settle on something like Vue's approach to CSS-within-the-system. It's one of my biggest pain points at the moment.
Didn't get it, put your jQuery in another CDN provider has anything to do with censorship?
The problem is that time_t (seconds since 1970) implicitly assumes 86400 seconds per day. You would have to redefine time_t and rewrite every piece of code that uses it.
The solution to this is obvious: eliminate the IRS. And the income tax. And most of the federal government. Spin off the actually useful bits as private non-profit foundations (or possibly even for-profit companies depending on the scenario) and let them earn their own keep based on the value they provide.

A sufficiently small government can be funded without an income tax, as history shows us.
Or we would use the NTP timestamp directly (or a lower precision version) as time_t, which (AFAIK) doesn't suffer from leap seconds. On can always convert time_t to truct tm, tm_sec is defined to be in the range of [0..60].
I'm not sure there are even drivers for all the onboard hardware on the X1000 yet either, and it's now been discontinued. Modern Amiga hardware sounds like a trainwreck, with a trail of expensive boards with missing drivers, questionable availability and often major hardware bugs. (The hardware bugs are obviously a lot easier to miss when there aren't even working drivers when it ships.)
So someone* should make a clone of archive.org but built on Tor. Maybe call it Torchive. And with no hiding because of robots.txt and possibly prevent users from looking at/editing the data on their server so a person who wants to clear themselves can't flood the net with nodes wanting data on this person and then wipe them all.

*someone who has the skills to make it, because I don't, at least right now
I don't know what is so wrong with this. It's only for the test duration when they want to ensure that you don't cheat. You can remove the extension once the test is over.
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Anybody have an example of storing NGINX access logs and using Athena to search them?
Finding the genre of a song with Deep Learning
I didn't quite understand this bit, where she discovers all these papers and laptops full of important documents and then just leaves to take a walk!
How is that connected to vuvuzela? It is not even subtle at this point.
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I think the problem was that Pebble had a very high headcount, and not enough money coming in to satisfy that. And, of course, VCs breathing down their neck.
Could it be, that many desicions for Rust have been made to make it more appealing to C devs?

Like, opting out of purity annotations or forced immutability?

I'm not saying these desicions are good or bad, I don't know much about system programming. But I often ask myself what the main motivators for a language are.
I work on GCE — when I read that post I also thought the 50% was a bit generous, but your other comment made me curious. I ran some numbers and posted a reply over there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13078157

tl; dr: Even matching instance types more closely, for on-demand pricing the 50% number held up remarkably well, although I'm worried that I got something wrong with my math on provisioned IOPS pricing, as a 10x difference seems unbelievably high.
I read this other account recently, for those that are interested:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/apr/05/donald-crowhurst-...
What was the advice Eric gave you?
There is an idea! Have them mail out laptops to do the tests on and you mail them back in.
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I've tried multiple times to meditate daily but always kind of stopped after some time, I've tried apps that show that should help me with my daily progress but I forgot about them.

The last time I used a oldschool calendar and just crossed off the dates and I've now meditated daily for a few months. I helps to have your goal always visible, so I created printchaincalendar[0], it creates a calendar with your individual year with your goal and you can start crossing of the days.

Also it's the end of the year and people start to think what they achieved and what they're going to do better next year.

[0]: http://printchaincalendar.com/
Yes you do.
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The smart move would be to continue Pebble as a brand - Fitbit Pebble. From a pure business perspective, they wouldn't even have to continue the platform, just slap Pebble on some Fitbits with a display. But I hope they do continue the Pebble hardware, and maybe improve it with their manufacturing capabilities and economies of scale.

One other good asset they are buying is the OS, I believe Fitbit has nothing similar and it could be adopted for higher-level Fitbits (more smartwatch-like). And maybe the Stone can be reworked into a Fitbit product.

But realistically, this is just them stomping out the competition.
The reason for under performance of nuclear is lack of fuel (due to sanctions imposed long back). Its only recently that India is signing up with many nuclear producers so this should improve drastically.
Or workers that got shares as compensation, at least until you grow enough for them to cash in.
Time to disband the FBI. And the ATF. Whatever good they do isn't justified by the threat they represent.
The Core is really a unique device. A small computer with 3G that fits anywhere. a logical extension of the RasPi.

Still looking forwards to mine
"Habits" for habit tracking. "20 seconds timer" for a kind of habit reversal, "SciPomodoro" for pomodoro timer. "Job Timer" just to see where time went during the day.
They may then have a choice between obscurity and lower profits.
The huge flaw with this video is that it finds the government involvement in tech strange. Which is a response that is clearly ignorant of the history of technology and it's deep connections with state sponsorship.
"Something of someplace" is never really a something.
Karpathy's example tries to predict the next character, there is a fork of it that tries to predict the next word.

https://github.com/larspars/word-rnn

RNN is great approach if you want to play around with text generation with deep learning. But for a chatbot, deep learning alone is not there yet. We create our own intents based on the domain and predict the intent of each question. We have also made it looks smarter by creating an intent hierarchy where we try to do multiple predictions for a question with a goal to drill the question down in the intent tree. In that way we know that the question is about a bank card and can figure out if you want a new one, block it, increase credit, set limits and so on.
Though there's a decent argument that Fitbit is suffering a lot right now too.

I can only hope that Pebble itself will be leveraged. Their products are way better than that smartwatch Fitbit released. Maybe getting Pebbles into more brick-and-mortars
Well, C++, D, .NET, Java, Swift, Objective-C, Rust... are all exploring the runtime approach for concurrency support.

The main difference across those languages and Erlang/Go is how they expose the runtime to the developers.

It isn't a black box, rather they exposes a default set of behaviors and as set of APIs that allow to fine tune its behaviors.
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Of course. Taxes are the basis of state, which uses taxes to develop and maintain its capability to threaten you with violence if you dont't pay taxes.

It's a recursion which has plagued the world for centuries.

The whole system can in theory be replaced with non-profit investments funds, which crowdfund social projects.

You dont even have to elect 'leaders', because citizens will be involved full time in running things (by guarding their investments) similarily to how they now waste time on Facebook.

But good luck changing anything without a nuclear apocalypse :) There are a lot of people who like the system the way it is and they won't give it up because us idealists want a better world for their children..
To me, the egregious bit is how reddit is trying to simply brush aside this monumental problem by downplaying it as a mere "controversy" caused by nothing more than "editing some comments".

What? That moron hasn't targeted a particular political group for censorship, and to do so hasn't he showed the world that reddit is willing to go to any extent to manipulate users to follow their whims?

That is not a mere "controversy". This non-apology apology doesn't even scratch the surface of how appallingly awful reddit showed itself to be. In fact, this pathetic excuse for atonement is just yet another weak attempt at brushing aside the PR problem reddit created for themselves.

But it won't simply vanish, particularly when these stalinist characters still linger around.
> and there is no mechanism in NTP for a server to say "I'm using time-smearing".

That should most definitely be in the standard, along with communicating to the client full details about how smearing is configured.
Yeah, seriously... I was looking forward to watching the tiebreaker in suspense. I suppose it isn't too surprising to find the story on HN though.
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Regarding your question about a paradox, what would qualify to you as "an actual paradox"? What is the definition against which you try a contender? Free free to look it up in a dictionary, but that probably won't help you generate a definition that makes "This statement is false" non-paradoxical. Note also that the etymology of paradox is "beyond strange", so historically the bar for qualifying is simply to be a idea or combination of ideas that is remarkably strange or surprising.

> most sentences are neither true nor false. Nothing interesting has a probability of 0.000 or 1.000.

I'll start by observing that surely you're talking about propositions, not sentences, nor utterances. Or at least you ought to be.

But more significantly, I'll note that most propositions are either true or false (under a given interpretive framework), but that as epistemologically-unprivileged observers, we must assign empirical propositions probabilities that are higher than 0 and lower than 1. Propositions like "I am a fish" or "You hate meat" or "If Rosa hates meat then Alexis is a fish" are either true or false, under any given set of meanings for the constituent words (objects, predicates, etc). I'm curious what probability you think applies to propositions like "2 + 2 = 4" and "All triangles have 3 sides" and "All triangles have less than 11 sides". I think there are very many interesting propositions that differ from these only in degree of complexity (e.g. propositions about whether or not certain code, run on certain hardware, under certain enumerable assumptions about the runtime, will do certain things).

Based on your very strange claim that all interesting sentences have non-zero non-unity probability, perhaps you're saying that you find theorems uninteresting, and moreover are only interested in statements of empirical belief, such as "I put the odds of the sun failing to rise tomorrow lower than one in a billion." In that case, I cannot imagine what statement interest would qualify as a paradox, except perhaps insofar as some empirical statements of belief are "beyond strange".

"This sentence is false" is a paradox under pretty much everyone's notion of a paradox.
> In particular it's incredible what the Pebble firmware team was able to accomplish. They built a bespoke OS that's extremely reliable

That doesn't match my experience at all. A few months ago I was completely ready to jump on the smartwatch bandwagon so got a pebble. First of all, and somewhat unrelated, but the watch band itched and was uncomfortable and seemed to be low quality. More importantly, the Pebble randomly disconnected from my Android phone multiple times a day causing notifications not to show up. The watch would also crash occasionally, resetting to its homescreen and forgetting what I was doing.

I am now a happy Moto 360 user (gen 2).
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And I'm waiting for Elixir entering the lists in 2018/2019 ;)
Oh nooo I hope they are not closing down the products of pebble to fast. I like the Pebble Time a lot more then my Moto 360 that I had before.
Unless people already know the problem and its original name.
Yeah, because we need more "refugees". As if the ones we already got haven't caused enough damage.
It looks like an EV certificate to me.
+1 for the mi band! I think for me the version with the small display is the perfect smart watch:

http://www.mi.com/en/miband2/

It has basically all I need (30+ days battery life, display time, step and distance counter) plus very few stuff I don't need that can be turned off easily (notifications, wake up alarm, heart rate monitor, ios and android app).

It is also fairly cheap at $25-35, but look out for the fake ones on ebay!
Ringelmann effect in software development teams [pdf]
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oh yeah. probably.... not

problem with computer types is we think that high tech will rule and fix all. and that mind boggling high tech is around the corner always.

Then we are surprised when a Neanderthal wins the Presidency who says he WILL burn more coal. doesn't even matter if it's not economic.

Maybe instead we should become more aggressive. Turn off Trump's twitter. Turn off gmail & facebook in red states.
> Hubbert's methods predict a peak in world oil production less than five years away.

According to the wayback machine [1], that page was first written in 2001.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20011121173642/http://www.prince...