skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say sports as an activity are good, but sports as a culture are often bad, it's just the most people don't draw a distinction.

Just look at tailgating -- at any university you can witness loads of adults setting a great example for their children by getting dead drunk en mass in front of them at every Saturday home game.
predictably well put from mr chomsky.

to effect a classic double flashback, fight club style, here's a dose of bread and circus from juvenal from CE 100:

"'It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated.' Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things----Bread and Games!"

http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/juvenal_satires_10.htm
I use the "I'm not a sports guy" variant. It just doesn't interest me. Unfortunately, most movies, music, and tv have lost my interest as well. No snobbery or moral objections, it just doesn't interest me.
Jason Rohrer is a wonderful guy. I highly recommend perusing his website:

http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/

Especially the page detailing his family's attempt at living a sustainable life:

http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/simpleLife.ht...
At first when I saw this link posted on HN I assumed it was something about today's xkcd. Surprised to see it posted so far down to be honest.
I think you misunderstood rinon. He asked why are sports unhealthy, not why are professional sports unhealthy. Sports in general is healthy. You cannot discount the exercise.

Not only that, but sports can teach you a wide range of life skills. It is not simply a display of physical prowess. For example, tennis is not a competition on the basis of physical exertion alone, but of mental fortitude.

> I get it, it's comfortable to be in a vocal majority. I understand that in many conversations I'm not welcome if I don't have a favorite team.

Um, you don't have to have a favorite team. You can still enjoy and talk about the game. For example, I don't have a favorite football team, but I will listen and talk all day about the strategy of the game and if, for example, a QB can execute that particular strategy or choke.
You previously stated sports were unhealthy. Hence he asked why sports as a general activity were unhealthy. You are now only supporting that argument by changing what you said to be qualified as professional sports, without even acknowledging the change in argument. I know it is considered poor taste to call someone a troll here, but this tactic is used almost exclusively by trolls in my experience.
My employer uses it for phone screens and it's nice to have a way to look at the same text and write/discuss some pseudo code. If someone is using it to time people on stupid questions then it's classic PEBKAC.

Is hackerrank measuring time or was that the interviewer?
Your ISP is going to hate the FCC's new definition of broadband
Getting Out of Afghanistan
Do you give rejections to people who apply? I emailed careers@matasano.com asking about an internship in October and never heard back. I took that as a sign that you weren't interested, but I'm now thinking I should double check on that in case you missed the email.
Thanks for your comment, and glad to be able to teach you a great word!

I've honestly never run into a person who is persistently obstinate in in-person conversations, but I've met many (including myself) who sometimes are in asynchronous text.

> That has probably more to do with team culture than the communication channel used. I'd think that a capable and respected decision maker can assert themselves easily via written word.

I think the second sentence of that is true, but that my point stands that it is more difficult for them to do so. I believe that's because facial language plays a large role in interactions, and even more so in potentially tense ones, and it can be very difficult to strike the right tone textually. It is much easier to get across "I've heard your point of view, but I'm taking my prerogative to make a different decision this time" without hurting feelings in person than it is in text.

It's very possible that it's just harder to run a remote-first team effectively and that's the trade-off you accept for the myriad benefits. That has been my perspective on it for awhile, but I'm always curious if there are ways to alleviate that cost.
Memory management is complicated (at least, doing it well is). It's a good thing to discover as well, because it should lead to an appreciation that malloc() isn't cheap, and there can be an awful lot of work behind every single call.

Besides, that code seems pretty well commented.
on the first glance it's similar cpanel or plesk, but opensource, will take a look!
> It really bothers people when you don't like what they like.

I don't believe that is the reason behind snob bashing. What really bothers people is aligning ones likes and dislikes as to boost perceived social status. People perceive it as grabbing social status undeservedly, so the social instinct for punishing transgressions kicks in.

> even if someone is being a snob, so what? Ignore them if their opinions are bad.

You have missed an important point the author made. It was not about one snob but rather a whole social group.
Thanks! Sometimes those regular word... usements... evade me. That is indeed the library I was looking for.
mmmm cryptonomicon
We submitted an app a while back (mid 2012 I think) that ran a dynamically interpreted language developed in-house. The objective-c codebase was fairly small, nearly the entire app was written in this language stored in external files. Right before submission we decided not to risk being rejected for the reasons cited, and instead baked-in the scripting files, but clearly kept open possibility of remote load for future submissions. We got accepted without issue, but that app ended up being decommissioned and we haven't revisited the approach. Sometimes I wonder if Apple would have let our original submission through if we remote loaded the code instead.
There's a big difference between a sniper being issued a 30 pound rifle he can carry, and the mode in which Hathcock used M2s, by borrowing the use of one if it was handy (128 pounds with tripod if not mounted on a vehicle).
It's also possible that Apple is doing what they say they're doing: create great products. Maybe the next iPhone is their 'next iPhone'. Maybe the Apple Watch will eclipse the iPhone. Maybe it will be just another lucrative product.

My impression from Apple's behavior is that they're focused on creating products that bring 'computers' into the lives of consumers in ways that are desirable by consumers, regardless of form or specific functionality. They had a smash hit with the iPhone, but they're probably just as happy with the iPad and, to a lesser degree, with Apple TV.

What interests me most is how they will react to a potential (and likely) breakthrough in VR, or AR. Apple doesn't seem to put much focus on that.
I would say a cultivated disinterest is not really a disinterest.

At one point in my life I had access to a TV transmitter and an input to the head end of a cable system so I did some "Captain Midnight" things and I learned very quickly that you don't mess with people's sports any more than you mess with an animal's food.

Every so often I put new batteries in my TV-B-Gone and my experience with that is that people rarely care (and might even cheer) if you turn off CNN, the Weather Channel, CNBC, the Cartoon Network or even ESPN Sports Center but it is part of my personal code that I will never turn off a game.

Rational or not, sports mean a lot to people and you've got to respect that. Personally I don't seek out a lot of pro sports but I watch the Superbowl every year and I am definitely excited to see the Pats in it. When I am visiting friends or out and about I definitely enjoy watching a game.
Talk about comparing apples to oranges. The things I enjoy that benefit no one are not things I obsess over and spend most of my waking time doing. I'm not taking large amounts of resources and gathering fanatical followers just to do some arbitrary activity in some arbitrarily better way than someone else.

Do my computer games do anything for society? Nope. That's why I work a real job and contribute real value to the future. I have absolutely no problem with kids getting healthy playing sports or adults killing some free time with a fun activity. You completely misunderstand the nature of my argument if you think you've made some sort of reasonable rebuttal to my argument.
Sure, I meant to say "even wrong".

I don't know why it's OK to start derisively calling him a "marketer" though. Does anyone think Lars is being malicious or inaccurate on purpose? I thought "cockup before conspiracy" was most people's motto.

Regarding Jim MacQuarrie's takedown that you linked to, I'll say that while he abstained from name-calling I think some of his points are a little weak and/or nit-picky. For instance, if we have to dig out a black and white photo of an Indian putting an arrow on the outside of a bow, I'd say that the technique is probably largely not used by modern archers. So, we could say that it's generally been forgotten by most modern archers.

Jim acts like the fact that it was a point-less arrow shot towards a knife is a big deal. Am I still a gullible fool if that doesn't even matter to me and I'm still impressed?

My point is these authors seem mad. Maybe they should be because the general public is comparing regular, boring archers to this guy now. And what is the point of modern archery if not to entertain?
Tesla Model X test drive caught on video
go find all the 3 (last time i counted) ways to enable "disable referrer header" that was present in the community version for months and removed by google in their 'big code blob release'
Please stop writing formal emails
> Sports are widely loved and not intrinsically bad.

"Sports" are not the issue. The currently-popular set of professional sports brands is the issue -- this discussion isn't about sport in the abstract, but the particular professional sports brands with which tribal identity is a major factor in contemporary American culture, and how people who aren't with the masses on this should shut up and join the masses, or else they are snobs. Or something.
(American here) I'm not sure why we lionize "the common man" so much in the US. The entire subtext of the article is that (1) we should have a shared culture, (2) such a "shared national culture" should reflect the taste and values of the "middle class" and that (3) people of taste/affluence/etc. should make an effort to reach out to others in the name of "connection" or "bonding" or something else.

I freely admit not being a "middle-class" American. From my cushy software job on the 11th floor in SF, I really don't have any idea what it's like to earn minimum wage, be a single parent, go to a country music concert, or eat at McDonald's. But I don't think any of this makes me "better" than anyone else, and I still treat people with respect, dignity, and compassion -- I just don't feel the sense of guilt or need to conform, that this article seems to espouse.

I fight with my dad about this all the time, who works in a factory in Illinois, and loves reminding me how out-of-touch I am, even as he asks me what I think of Chicago sports, even though (1) I don't live in Illinois and (2) I don't like sports. ;)
I have to agree with your sentiment -- certain types of simplicity, though attractive, can be a misleading double edged sword.

I once let a team split in two for a week to separately build the same product using two competing UI frameworks, before our final decision. The simpler, more opinionated framework won, hands down at the end of one week, being far more productive with the least effort. But, over subsequent years, we found the framework far too restrictive, requiring convoluted solutions when problems strayed from the straight and narrow, leaving our code base littered with painful hacks.
The difference being the parent made a valid point that you're not even willing to entertain - the notion that people can enjoy a sport, at the highest level, without enjoying the crass commercialization that might accompany it. But you couldn't respond without an indictment of how brainwashed he is, in your opinion.

I love basketball. I grew up playing and refereeing it. I lost interest for about a decade, because the culture got to be too much about the personality and antics, and not the game. I've only just gotten back into it in the last year because it seems to have shifted back. And there is a lot of fun to be had attending a game.
> It's a no-compromise

What do you mean no compromise? It's a big sedan which can only serve as commuting car.

> which absolutely replaces an ICE car for every day use

It replaces an ICE car half the size and a fraction of the price.

> It's priced similarly to other large, luxury, performance vehicles.

Which have multiple times the autonomy and can actually eat road, the original purpose of large sedans.
Evidence mounts for quantum criticality theory
One thought I had was to try offering a white label version to news outlets. For example, sell a white label version to New York Times so it would be the same quizzing but just using the Times' branding, categories, and content. How the heck to get an in at a media org to do this deal is the question???
> Disliking other peoples hobbies that cause no harm to others is intrinsically bad.

Granting, for the sake of argument, that that generality is true, I'm not sure how it applies to the actual issue here; particularly, I'm not sure how hobbies that are subsidized at public expense -- and therefore at the expense of competing public priorities -- can be said to "cause no harm to others".
There is a difference between an "SEO Company" and an "Extortion Company." This is an example of the latter. Those suckers are being blatantly deceptive and deserve to be approached with appropriate legal action. Sickening.
thanks, I'll check that out.
Not doing data analytics but selling software that has forecasting with a model that we build and calibrate. We have fairly good performance, recalibrating the same model tales a few seconds but building the model or changing it is never quick.

The effect of these marketing campaigns on would be clients is terrible. They start going after crazy crackpot solutions to gain revenue while they haven't addressed the simplest easy to reach low risk revenue gains. In a a lot of cases integrating complex side effect data costs a lot and provides only marginal revenue gains.
Open Source Ansible Tower Alternative
> because a bunch of grown people make ridiculous sums of money doing absolutely nothing for our future, well, count me out.

I think they can potentially do plenty for the future. For example, why does Nadal always put two bottles in the exact same position while playing a tennis match? Hey, maybe this will be useful for some research in psychology. Or maybe a survey of head injuries in football can lead to better health care. These sportsmen are usually at the edge of physical ability. Any attempt to push the envelope gives us the opportunity to learn more about ourselves.
On your suggestion I tried it on my phone (4.1.2). The rendering improved, but speed is still an issue. Scrolling with big images is jerky.

However, I have not yet optimized images or CSS. I'll probably spend next week looking into optimizations for ionic.
"Taken more charitably, it merely implies that one does not understand the valid reasons for liking X."

And therein lies the rub. Interpreting others statements charitably and trying to make your own clear and unambiguous can reduce an awful lot of social friction.
"But you couldn't respond without an indictment of how brainwashed he is, in your opinion."

I encourage you to quote that part of my comment. For bonus points, quote the part where I said I can't understand why people enjoy sports.
if you can stomach it, Blender can do some great things after effects can do. Photoshop there's no way to know the best replacement without knowing what you use photoshop for primarily. Becuae there are a lot of things can can do better than photoshop type features, but none work exactly the same. If you need the majority of what photoshop does, buy it.
At least as of 2012, Vai used Carvin amps live and Axe-Fx just for effects. See: http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Rig_Rundown_Steve_Vai

Can't find any more recent info. Pretty sure Petrucci does the same thing, with Axe-Fx as effects processor rather than amp modeler. Don't know about Metallica.

There are quite a few artists who do use the Axe-Fx or Kemper live in lieu of amps though: Animals as Leaders, Periphery, Paul Masvidal from Cynic, Devin Townsend (sometimes, he seems to switch back and forth a lot), Jeff Loomis in Arch Enemy uses a Kemper live (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J92RP-fFO_g). Plus quite a few lesser known musicians. If you have an Axe-Fx, you can do a fly-in gig with it and have a consistent sound without being at the mercy of whatever crappy backline the venue has. Handy tool for a guitarist for hire.

Especially in metal though, there's a certain showmanship aspect to having a bunch of big loud amps on stage. A lot of the bigger bands for years have even lined stages with dummy stacks of 4x12 cabinets just for show. So even if they start using a modeler, they probably won't make a big deal of it. Smaller bands, playing in smaller venues run into the problem of stage monitoring. You can run your Axe-Fx into front-of-house and probably get a good sound to the crowd, but a lot of the smaller venues have lousy monitoring setups on stage and guitarists are used to essentially using their amp to compensate for that. So you might still want a power amp and cabinet on stage in that case.

Anyway, I have an Axe-Fx II and it's replaced all my tube gear. I wouldn't say it sounds 100% the same, but it's really close. Beyond the sound, what it does that other modelers have not done so well is get the "feel" of playing through a tube amp. The really subtle dynamics and compression that you don't necessarily hear but that affect how you play when your ears and hands are reacting to what the amp does. Leaps and bounds better than Line6 or Podfarm. And at apartment-safe volume levels, I'd even argue that it sounds better than most tube amps, so that's a huge plus for me.
Nice. I went down this rabbit hole a while ago. Didn't get very far though. Have fun!

(my crappy code - https://bitbucket.org/gcmurphy/libc/)
I think your mistaking apathy for disdain. Just because marinekingprime isn't revered like Lionel Messi doesn't mean there is a conspiracy against egaming. People just don't care, and there is nothign wrong with that.

I just finished my undergrad, and I've realized that the 'jocks hate nerds' has become severely outdated in my generation. Like the parent commentor, I grew up in both worlds; My athletic, frat-boy, 'jock' friends are often loud and obnoxious, but they don't hate quieter, 'nerd' folks. Rather, they just don't really care. On the other hand, I've found that a lot of my CS friends care a ridiculous amount, often feeling persecuted by mainstream social people for no reason. Ive had to hear a ridiculous amount of shit talk about fratboys and sorority girls (who in turn are mostly pretty cool).

Nowadays I've found that the real assholes in the "jocks hate nerds" equation have become the 'nerds'.
Sort of. It's the understanding that a skier may travel 120MPH, but we understand that he's not going to do it for an hour - both because there isn't a suitable slope 120 miles long, and because his skis/legs/boots/whatever will self-destruct well before the hour is done. An M16 can fire at a speed of 800 rounds per minute, which it would do IF it didn't literally start melting the barrel in the process (I'm trying to find a recent video where someone actually tried to fire 800 rounds thru an M16 as fast as possible, and the barrel actually burst around 500 rounds).
Is modern archery a sport for entertainment or a tool of war? I think the former. Kind of like kung-fu. And if nobody knew that Arnold was an actor, I think most people could be forgiven to mistake him for Special Forces with the right outfit...This guy seems more like Jackie Chan though - part athlete, part entertainer.
There's no misunderstanding on my part about what the relationship is between fans and their teams. Rather, I don't understand what motivates that relationship. (by contrast, it's obviously much clearer why you'd have that relationship to your kids).

My best understanding of it is nothing more than the same blind tribalism that is responsible for so much of what is terrible with the world. As I said though, I prefer to think there's an alternative, more valid explanation that I'm just unaware of.
There's no way they could "level" Seoul with conventional weapons, it's way too big and per what I've read but ought to check more closely, beyond all but the heaviest of artillery (i.e. beyond 152 mm range, even with rocket assist (which reduces the payload)).

Cause serious damage and kill a lot of people, yes, especially during the several days it would require to disable the howitzers in their Hardened Artillery Sites (HARTS).
Because they are using some proprietary technology that is only available in Google Chrome. It will probably take time for Mozilla to adapt this... When Google announced Inbox, they said it would be later adapted to work with other browsers. I guess it is not on the top of their agenda.
Bethany Bryson, a sociologist at JMU has shown that increased education is associated with increased inclusiveness in musical taste (i.e., highly educated people like more types of music) but that these people are most likely to reject music that is highly favored by the least educated people. Her paper’s title sums up the attitude: "Anything But Heavy Metal".

This is hilarious given that there have been studies showing that metal fans are smarter than non-metal fans! At any rate, the idea that interest in heavy-metal marks one as "working class" or "non-intellectual" is totally absurd. But, then again, so is the idea that "intellectual" and "working class" are disjoint sets. (Yes, you can define either or both terms to create that distinction, but it's clearly not true when using the vernacular / intuitive definition for both).

As far as sports... I have never understood the attitude some self-styled "intellectuals" have in regards to sports. There is a tremendous amount of benefit to be gained from participating in sports of various types, and if one participates in a sport at an amateur level, it follows that one's passion for that sport would extend to wanting to watch the highest level competitors compete with each other.

I suppose the analogy would make sense to the "intellectual" set if you just defined chess as a sport. :-)
I don't have to cultivate a disinterest in anything. I just don't care. There's no cultivation.
My day-to-day is very heavily skewed to app development rather than web development, but in my off-time I've been messing with React/flux. I have no issues with writing the objective-c, but the unidirectional style of React has been a real joy to work with and I've been thinking "How can I best imitate that while working natively?"

This could be the answer to that, and I wouldn't need to hack my own idioms together.
> However, even expressing contempt for intrinsically bad activities can be interpreted as offensive and hostile.

Any action can be interpreted as offensive and hostile. That that is true of an action has no substantial meaning.
Historically, as empires near collapse there becomes an obsession with sport, food and celebrity.