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Probably not like you're thinking. ESPN already has picked up esports and typically the esports tourneys don't overlap with major sports events. This is likely a conscious decision on the part of Riot, Valve, and so on, to ensure they're not competing with audiences.

ESPN has tried to adapt to esports, but it met resistance from its audience and its own commentators not really accepting it. There was this famous career ending rants [1] that is just one of many from the ESPN commentators - viewer comments usually don't stray too far from such thoughts.

esports fans seem pretty distinct from the core fans of ESPN, and ESPN deciding to cover it on their sub-channels (ESPN2, etc) is their attempt to reach out to those numbers and to get eyes on the channel. The internal rejection of esports doesn't help at all for ESPN who I'm sure is dying for the kinds of numbers that the Twitch and Youtube events get, especially since there is so much down-time between matches with virtually no advertisements, which likely makes the business side of ESPN wince quite a bit.

But no, I don't think esports is causing problems for ESPN in the sense that it's cutting in; ESPN would be HAPPY to get on the esports train if they could.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzL21gHwt1I
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Agreed! My wife is a 7-8 grade teacher in a private school and the people that have the most trouble with technology is, surprise, the adults. The kids pretty much get along with anything you give them access to. This means that Google Docs works fine, it even works on their home computer or the one at the library. And my wife does everything she can in Google Docs so that they even turn in their homework online. It's a win-win.
My understanding is that the guiding function mechanism of PWT could describe just about physical mechanism, not just quantum effects. Since the pilot wave itself is what truly encodes the results, you can mess around with this "initial data" and get whatever you want (Granted, I haven't thought too much about this, so this could be easily falsifiable).

If the objective is to describe some fundamental truth, isn't it odd that the description can be applied to everything?

Maybe the universe is odd and meaningless, though the Copenhagen interpretation captures that feeling pretty well ;)
ironically the "java/c#/c++"-ness in this case is precisely a point of difference with objective-c, which has messages, while java has only method invokations. meaning a setter in c++ is (more or less) syntactic sugar for setFoo(objectref, newval), while in objective-c it's more like sendMessage("setFoo",objectref, newval).

the difference might seem minor but the extra layer of inderection means the target object can have centralised logic to handle the outcome of this message if it wamts to, as opposed to repeating and distributing such logic among every method, making it a more independent unit as opposed to something being directly manipulated from the outside.

put another way, the object can decide independently what to do with the message "setFoo" in objective C (or ruby), but in c++ there is no message, no decision, just some code that directly causes something to happen, that can be invoked directly from any other part of the program ar any time, whose results are then relied upon to be visible directly after invokation.

as a thought experiment, imagine if the target object actually exists on a different server, what would the different unsugared implementations need to look like? how would you pause the in progress program to wait for the result of the method invokation? what impact might that delay have on the user?
And am I reading this article correctly when it say the Trace Viewer app is visible to the user, so they can see all this logging? That's the most terrifying bit.
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Hi, what do you mean with P2P FTS, can you please elaborate? Solr, Elastic, some other custom thing you wrote? Language? I'm curious...
My office is in front of the Seine in Paris. When it's sunny and warm, I go on the banks of the river. There are some trees that provide a comfortable shade, I chose a bench and I usually stay there for one or two hours, semi-sleeping.

I dont think it increases my productivity one bit, but I love it and I think it's precisely because I am already good and productive at what I do that I can enjoy these sort of relaxing moments.
> Google had search and used that to prop the rest. Simple.

If it's so simple why aren't there other companies doing the same?

> Morality aside, eventually they'll lose their effectiveness.

People have said this for the last ten years. Sure, if you cry wolf long enough you will probably be correct at some point, but does this offer any insight?
Funny thing capitalism, I have a more robust version of this on my work PC (seriously, makes this look amateurish). Except of course I have the "choice" to not accept it and go work for someone else.
I did my master in Germany and I work in German company now. Yes, I speak little German, but I am improving it. My friends also came to study in German universities. At least half of them stayed here and all of them speak at least some German. I think companies also benefit a lot from this. It is much easier to hire somebody who already lived and studied in Germany than who never been here. Me and my friends are here, because German universities are free. Otherwise, we would not neither here nor U.S. and U.K. Because they are very expensive, there is no way to come from third world country and afford all expenses.
I guess that makes sense. The value-add of a sushi chef to good fish is almost nothing, they just have to cut it and make sure to serve it fresh. The variability the chef introduces to rice is a lot bigger (i.e. rice can be really shit if you cook it wrong), so in order for sushi to rise from its piece-of-fish-on-rice street food beginnings to cult cuisine status of today, they had to pick some part to idolize and ritualize (in typical Japanese style), and rice was it.
How about using Squat Toilet and do the Grok Squat a part of daily routine than a conscious effort...
16 isn't a good size according to the Rosenberg paper (http://www.cs.miami.edu/~burt/learning/Csc609.022/random_num...) but 15 and 17 are sizes you could program an ATtiny45 to generate if you just wanted that quality of noise. I'm going to be real interested in trying out the actual noise-generator logic in the follow-up article to see if I can hear any useful tonal difference. Maybe they were just frustrated by hardware that kept drifting into the forbidden state and brute-forced it until it couldn't; I've had that happen with PRNGs I built with series-4000 CMOS logic and xgates. Stay tuned, I guess.
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Just in my own experience, after having started a very small company several years ago that is moderately successful for me, nothing Hacker News would care about in the million and billion scheme, but it pays my mortgage and gives me a comfortable life, I found that you will naturally fall into wasting time during work to relax if you ignore it at the expense of said work.

Granted, this time doesn't offer much benefit in the course of the working day, personally I'd find if I started work early, that sometimes the meat of my day really wouldn't be productive until later, even though I had been at work for several hours before productivity really took off.

When I had my second son and my wife stayed home for three months, I found myself spending most mornings going to the park with my children and wife and just enjoying the first part of my day with them. Each day I did this I came into work in the afternoon with a lot more energy and focus and finished the same amount of work, or more, plus I was able to enjoy my family and felt more fulfilled overall.

If I had started my day rolling groggily into the shop with coffee in hand and heroically pounding away, it would have taken me those same hours just to wind up into productivity, and my day would feel more tiring and unfulfilling in the end.

Honestly, 7 years in now, I've found I have a natural rhythm to my day, hours I'm focused, hours I'm tired, hours I just don't care and want to do something else, and if I try to work outside of this rhythm, it doesn't make me any more productive, just busy on my own time and needlessly braggadocios towards others when I can say I "worked" 16 hours yesterday when really only 5 hours had anything get done.

This is my own experience though, and to each their own. I tried all the productivity hacking and life hacking and it seemed for me, at the end of the day, that finding time to not work did more to help my work than working for the sake of work.
I'm curious what's the history behind the use of Zen koans in computing? There seems to be a lot of that.

Maybe because in programming there, often, isn't a clear right or wrong (like in this case) so it pays to structure the problem/solution as a story to make people "feel" rather than reason.
The TV show NCIS borrows from this philosophy. Gibbs always smacks the back of his underling's heads when they do something stupid. But if he doesn't, they worry he has given up on them. They also made it a point saying that smacking the front of the head would be offensive.
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Talking about Google products one has to mention the two products which make around 90 percent of their revenue: adwords and adsense. These programs are the real products of Google, and at least one of them was acquired. It must be really difficult to do other products in an organisation that makes more than 50B on those two products alone. No matter what product or service you launch it's bound to make peanuts compared to these products for 5-10 years to come. Worldwide there is barely a handful of products that come close to adwords and adsense in revenue. How do you get the attention and ressources from management when you are up against that?
Of course! The point was to put the number next to a number known by the typical HN reader, not to imply the businesses were at all similar.

> Most universities get by with a dozen clustered on campus serving administrative, educational and research objectives

... A dozen what?
How are failed and neglected projects a result of being engineering led? If anything, I would think that killing and deprioritizing products, as well as making revenue fueled decisions (i.e. google shopping express for google home) are examples of management making potentially harmful decisions.

I will agree that Google seems lackluster at network effect related things and I find that they are generally very poor at marketing.
On my screens, YouTube was better before Google.

No ads that I remember.

Plus, that awkward transition that tied accounts into whatever. (Yea--that kida failed too? I can't remember the name. Primary account? I don't know. I do have about ten of their emails though. The emails work well.

I still have videos on Google YouTube I can't delete. I was getting a lot of negative comments on my personal videos. I had to comment on my own videos, and inform people my aweful videos were just meant for temporary viewing, and I can't get into my account. And when I called their famous Customer Support--they told me to go to the "Boards". I went and failed. I wasen't going to bother them again. In all reality, I'm glad Google doesen't have my face on their servers yet.
Isn't Google amorphous by design? I thought Google was supposed to exist everywhere hidden in plain sight, and its many products are just the interfaces it uses to connect to us. At least that's the impression I got from listening to Schmidt all these years talk about how Google can go anywhere and be anything it wants to be.
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I last did either VHDL or Verilog in 1997, which is 20 years ago (and reminds me I'm getting old), but if things are remotely similar, the apt comparison is not ARM assembly vs. MIPS assembly, but rather Verilog=~C vs VHDL=~Ada
Sorry, this might be the wrong term for a higher level concept based on determinism.

If everything is deterministic, then our actions can theoretically be pre-determined. I've seen discussion around pilot wave theory that goes into details about this thought process.

This is fine and good. But if I publish "A solution to the double slit experiment" and the contents are "everything is deterministic, therefore all the protons go where they go" (hidden behind a pilot wave and initial values), that's not really the right genre of paper is it?

It's not that I'm demeaning it, but that I don't feel like it's in the same realm of discussion os the Copenhagen's rather pragmatic "stuff happens behind the curtain, but here's how to work with it" approach.
They still seem to work great, cheaper things available now at the same level though
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No, I come from CGI where DF (DAG) are ubiquitous and many times people said "been there done that meh". I'm just surprised.
Latex the document language? No.

Latex the design template system? Yes, just about.

They are to each other as HTML is to CSS - completely complementary.

The main downfall of Latex is confusing the two spaces. The intent is good though.

HTML + CSS is not as cleanly abstracted for pure document markup and layout (as it's a more general solution), but it's getting closer every year.
A Researcher Has Come Up with a Mathematical Model for a Viable Time Machine
That last paragraph is a dangerous rabbit hole to go down
Weren't the Dutch even earlier with [Delftware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delftware)?

Weird to not even mention the Dutch.
I've been in the trenches with iPad management systems, from both Apple and a 3rd party, and they suck. Big time. The Apple systems (iPad Configurator and Profile Manager) both are hard to use and not suitable for large rollouts. Configurator requires you to physically plug in each iPad in order to manage it, which is untenable for 300 iPads. Profile Manager is a Rails 2.x piece of software that has only seen small updates and works sporadically. When the Apple products didn't work in our situation we choose a 3rd party vendor. The results were much the same; sometimes it would work and push apps out, sometimes it would completely ignore your requests or only push out apps to some of the iPads. We even thought the Apple Classroom would save the day, only to be told that it's still in beta (after a year!) and we could only get access in August of last year. It's still not GA as far as I know.

tl;dr We are switching to Chromebooks next year and will be able to outfit 3 entire grade levels for almost the same price as purchasing iPads for 1 grade level. Apple has lost it's way and I'm not sure it can come back. It used to chase ideals, now it chases money.
Impressive! Thanks for the paper link. The impact of flexible/free boundary condition is very interesting. It points to a key role for shear during compaction. Maybe grains rolling and locking?

For fibers, I wonder if asbestos would be available. Maybe too hazardous.

Edit: From the paper:

> With the flexible boundary condition, the particle motion is localized. Clearly, during compaction it is critical to allow rotation and transverse motion of Mars-1a particles, so as to maximize the effective contact area and to promote bond formation. Excessive particle motion, however, may introduce defects, which explains why the free boundary compensates with higher pressure to achieve similar R as the flexible boundary.

This is very cool. Martian regolith seems ideal for rammed earth construction.
Japan has done an excellent job on health care, but Japanese housing costs are significantly higher on average than those in the US.

Along with a huge and growing underclass of freeters and other workers who cannot land the shrinking number of corporate positions, housing costs are why Japan is famous for "parasite singles". Nonetheless, even those living below the poverty level are less likely to carry personal debt than Americans.

Another problem with attributing American saving habits to health care or schooling costs is that Americans had a high propensity for debt even 30 years ago when those costs were much lower. Cultural differences are a driving factor.
To some kids (more often boys for whatever reason), they can be a major distraction. So easy and tempting to get distracted.
TLDR; Lots of practice, at least one problem every day from CTCI.

The reason this article is interesting is entirely because author is actually CS student and that too from Stanford. Most CS majors anywhere in the world have to take algorithms classes and even more advanced compiler design, distributed computing, parallel programming, graph theory etc (for example, Stanford has CS161). Its hard to imagine CS student who hadn't had Introduction to Algorithms as textbook and did not had to do at least few assignments from that book.

So given all that, I'm wondering how author got through those classes because those classes are usually much more demanding than tech interviews and questions are more harder (try yourself doing CS161 final exam [1]). While CTCI does have lot of material that is not covered in typical CS classes, I would think pretty much all fundamentals such as permutations and basics like checking correctness of recursive algorithms or runtime complexity etc is very well covered. In fact I would argue that anyone heavily relying on CTCI as only source would be much weaker on these fundamentals and a competent interviewer would be easily able to identify them.

[1] http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs161/final-autumn16.pdf
Traversable Achronal Retrograde Domains in Spacetime
Article here: "A Researcher Has Come Up with a Mathematical Model for a Viable Time Machine" ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14236087
https://www.google.com/search?q=abu+ghraib+prison

https://www.google.com/search?q=tank+man

One of these searches is incredibly damaging to Chinese interests, one to US interests.

Try doing them in each country.

At the same time I agree very strongly that China is nothing like the former USSR, let alone the current North Korea.
Paper here: "Traversable Achronal Retrograde Domains in Spacetime" ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14236095
> If the objective is to describe some fundamental truth, isn't it odd that the description can be applied to everything?

Whether something is odd or not is irrelevant to whether it is true.

Quantum mechanics is a good example of this.
When it comes to Python 'frontends'/'preprocessors'/'high-level-synthesis tools' I prefer Migen over MyHDL, mostly because of the vastly different abstraction level.

MyHDL parses a normal Python AST and translates it to Verilog statements. In the end, you seem to end up with the exactly same abstraction layer as Verilog/VHDL, just with a Python syntax. There is a very limited subset of advanced Python composability constructs you can use without hitting a limitation of the AST walker and translator. And when you do hit it, it's fairly annoying to debug. In the end, I don't see it's use over writing straight Verilog/VHDL, apart from it being easier to test.

Migen, on the other hand, is a system where you write native Python code that doesn't pretend to be then running on the FPGA. Instead, your code stitches together an RTL AST, which can then be either simulated or converted to Verilog. Your Python code is effectively a RTL logic generator (AFAIK this is exactly how Chisel/SpinalHDL work, too). You can then compose these low-level constructs into higher layer abstractions- for instance, the stock Migen framework comes with an FSM abstractions, which takes care of all the boilerplate if declaring state machines (state register and values, separate synchronous/combinatorial logic statements, etc.). It also comes with abstractions for Arrays, (B)RAM, FIFOs, priority encoders...

Finally, Migen is the base of the MiSoC project, which abstracts away enough digital logic to let you connect, in Python, high-level constructs like buses, CPUs, DRAM controllers, etc. in order to dynamically construct a system-on-chip.
I don't know ADA, I have always thought that Verilog is like old C and VHDL like C++. Not that VHDL is object oriented, but is a strong-typed language.
What underlines this, I think at least, is the fundamental failure of representative democracy: if the representatives can gain larger personal wealth especially on the long run by electing rules that concentrate wealth they will do so. This will work, alas, even without any corruption -- when they leave their post they will be able to get compensated for participating in the "system" and they know this. Because a Business School can only corrupt society if regulation lets that happen.

Breaking this up is not easy. I believe liquid (or delegative) democracy is the road forward. It is very interesting that the early Soviets before the Bolsheviks took over were pretty much this. http://www.ditext.com/voline/89.html But the time was not right for that -- now everyone has the means to communicate in their pocket so perhaps it's time now.
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I don't think this comment deserves downvotes.
As an aside, not all Android ROMs operate in that way. I'm currently using OmniROM with microG, and none of my information is linked to a Google account (specifically on this phone). All of my contacts and calendar are synced with my NextCloud server using DAVDroid, and I use AOSP or other FDroid-approved apps to access my email, contacts and calendar.

Now, all of that being said that's not to say that the current state of affairs is good (and there's still plenty of other problems) but it's disingenuous to ignore that you have a choice with Android and you don't in North Korea.
How many instructions does the average engineer that does low-level work know by heart and need to know to work effectively with it?
Indeed, you seem uninformed. You probably should look at ConTeXt, rather than LaTeX.
I thought so too. Ego plays a huge part in this when it comes to business. Working less can help you with working more meaningfully in a small business in my own personal experience. For others it may not.

The thing that helped me with my small business, is the age old wisdom, the less I spent, the less I had to earn for the business and the more I could keep for myself. Instead of burning money on things that didn't help the business, or provided very small benefit financially but added more hours to grind out, I killed those things off and buried them.

Changed my life with owning a small business for myself. It went from spending money like it was going out of style to gain a few more on top, working insane hours everyday, literally almost killing myself with neglect to my health and sleep, to enjoyment again and restoring my health.

Frankly, some businesses and ideas won't scale, no matter how hard you try, and they won't exit for millions or billions at an IPO, but it doesn't make them failures if they give you the ability to provide for your home and find time to do other things that might down the road.

Just my two cents. I've been in your shoes as have most here. Starting a business is one of the most insane experiences I think anyone can go through.
> I wouldn't be surprised if there is a commercial company that sells this type of software.

BlueCoat. They're called BlueCoat. As an aside, a subdivision of Intel actually runs the internet filters for some middle eastern country (due to some chain of acquisitions). Isn't that great.