skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ESPN has turned into TMZ for sports. I stop watching after they spent a week focusing on Brett Farve's sexting incident.
I think the bigger challenge is the rhetoric that "there are no absolute rights" and its pervasive use in furthering the erosion of civil liberties.

While I'm inclined to agree with the rhetoric, it's important to understand that "not absolute" !== "not protected", and are constantly using tropes like fire in a theater as an excuse for banning insensitive speech and such.

A lot of it is willful, but if we keep believing the idea that our rights are fungible, then our rights will indeed become fungible. Every generation's erosion of civil liberties compounds to the new normal, which makes the next generation's erosion of civil liberties more possible, and in too many cases, even welcomed.
Thanks, I appreciate the correction. My experience with Roslyn was very ad-hoc: just enough to do the job, see the sights, and get out of the compiler business :)

It's interesting how many people are out there trying to switch from one language to another!
OpenBSD implements W^X in the kernel on various architectures (AMD64 was discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8884370 )
Seriously China is a fucked up country when it comes to software,services and IT.
It's tempting to integrate vertically. Surprisingly, Major League Baseball did such a great job building out their streaming service that other companies, like the WWE, are using MLB's tech for their own streaming service.
Test your rhythm keeping skills
Very nice illustrations, but you are missing important systems that are found on many/all cars from the past 20 years, like front wheel drive, CV joints, closed-loop emissions control, OBD-II and CAN bus, distributorless (electonic) ignition, electric power steering, CVTs and dual-clutch automatic transmissions, and TPMS.

Diagnosing a check engine light by reading OBD-II codes, for example, is something that every owner of a car produced after 1996 will eventually need to deal with.

You should rebuild your content around systems that are found on the majority of cars on the road today.
Really the Wolfram language itself isn't anything spectacular. It makes more sense to mathematicians than most programmers.

What really sets the Wolfram language apart is its gigantic library of functions. Want to look up stock quotes? easy. Weather? easy. Plus tons of other built in functions that would make a machine learning prediction of Coppertone suncreen's stock price based on weather forecast a couple of lines. In another language you'd have to set up the API queries yourself with a library, parse the returns with another library, and do the machine learning with another library. Then you'd have to cross your fingers and hope that an API or library update doesn't break your code. Wolfram promises easy access to clean data and much less heartache maintaining it.
Frida: Putting the open back into closed software
You're likely correct that the NFL will ride out the end of the cable era.

However, MLB has shown it can be done right now, and done very successfully. MLB league revenue is about $9 billion vs $11 billion for the NFL, so the businesses are comparable. Yet MLB has built a juggernaut in the MLBAM subsidiary, with perhaps a billion in revenue for 2015 and ~$300+ million in operating income.

To put that in perspective, Netflix had operating income of $400 million for 2014.

The NFL is making a huge mistake in not building out a comparable platform to MLBAM. They're going to be running from behind as cable goes down.
In high school I tracked my weight and what I ate everyday in a mini composition notebook I kept in my back pocket at all times. I was exercising (not to mention younger) at the time and lost 30lbs over 4-6 months. I now have a withings scale (along with access to a myriad of food tracking apps) and I can't help but feel that my pen and paper approach was easier and yielded better results... I always feel like entering what I eat into an app is more trouble than it's worth especially when it starts listing calories because I feel compelled to get it as close as possible so I'm busy searching for calorie counts of what I'm eating. In HS I just wrote "Ham and cheese sandwich, sandwich bag of chips, fruit cup" and that was it. MUCH simpler IMHO. I know calorie counting "works" but I just always feel like the counts aren't accurate b/c I cook a lot of things myself and have no desire to calculate the calories of the dishes I make. If they aren't going to be accurate then why do it at all?
Relax, I'm not defending their actions, I'm explaining that you shouldn't feel bad about pressing "SPAM" in that case.

There has been a subtle pr campaign to convince people you should press "unsubscribe" on any unwanted mail instead of hitting SPAM, lest you ruin it for everybody. I'm saying: don't believe the hype. In this case, just press SPAM.
Regardless of the cause, is anyone else considered with the legal precedents they are setting to catch pedophiles and drug dealers?

Legally, there is no real difference between doing this to catch those sorts of people and doing it to de-anonymize whistleblowers under the guise of "National Security" who use Tor to relay such information to the press. :/
I haven't looked at io.js in a short while. Does it log to console.error by default (like Chrome now does)?

This mistake is going to be most frustrating for those who don't realize that "unhandledRejection" is a case they even need to consider. People learning JS and having nothing happen when they run (erroneous) code are going to be pulling their hair out.
Love the site great job
You may be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Q...

Residents in this part of West Virginia can't have cell phones, Wifi, and you can't even drive a car with spark plugs within a mile of the telescope.
The Proof-of-Work in Cryptocurrencies: A Brief History, Part 1
>but I can't help think about all the creatives that these suited finance guys ripped off.

Ah yes, good guys versus bad guys. Has it ever crossed your mind that they're one and the same? Must be nice to live in a world where "sides" can be chosen so naively.
When to Slack and When to Hold Back: Tips for Better Team Communication
Any links to a good comparison of RenderMan vs. Cycles? Performance would be nice to know.
I didn't say they were underpriced. An auction doesn't solve for accurate price without significant demand, which they didn't have. (The Hoover example elsewhere in this thread is counterfactual example.)

Note also that even though AA estimated that the passes (for certain individuals) "were costing it millions of dollars in revenue", no one bought one for $3M in 2004. The value of an unlimited pass is directly tied to how much you'd use it. A handful of individuals were at the far end of the bell curve.
I would gladly pay 30-40/mo if I could watch the sports I want online streaming through one service.

I watch EPL Football and American College Football (along with the World Cup / Euros every other 2 years).

With over the air ABC moved more and more games to ESPN, which is now coming back to bite them. Canceled cable in 2006 after the World Cup, tried a few online services but they were all terrible. I think 40/mo should more than cover my viewing. Funny thing is, I get it all for free now. Yet I'd prefer to pay.
I've been using Babel to experience the ES6/7 world and it's a great experience to use async/await among else.

Like others have said the error handling is not ok, however I want to focus on another related thing.

The use of try{}catch{} for handling errors.
Awaken by a section on Pragmatic Programmer and a post [1] of ZeroMQ's Martin Sústrik on (C) error handling.
It seems logical to me that try/catch should be used for unexpected behavior and not for expected "falsy" results which is a core case for their current use on ES6/7.

It is convenient to use try/catch compared to past alternatives, but it doesn't feel nor is designed right. Instead of just going with it, until we get terribly tired of it and do something, it's still early enough to have a proper solution in place.

Not sure if any committee is working on this or something else is planned.

[1]: http://250bpm.com/blog:4
>"There's a real possibility Zynga was never as successful as it appeared to be, from a cash perspective."

No need for speculation, they went public in 2011. You can read their financial statements.
RenderMan is now free for all non-commercial purposes, including evaluations, education, research, and personal projects. The non-commercial version of RenderMan is fully functional without watermark or limitation. For further details please refer to Pixar's Non-Commercial RenderMan FAQ.
http://renderman.pixar.com/view/DP25849

So this is non-free.
I've read this twice before and it touches me each time. I can't eat octopus any more.
You should come up with a solution that doesn't require HTTPS. Offline single-page apps are perhaps the only case where people shouldn't care about HTTPS.
It's written in ANSI Common Lisp, not in an SBCL dialect: you can bootstrap SBCL with an ANSI CL implementation other than SBCL. IIRC, that was one of the key reasons for the original SBCL/CMUCL split.
The base cable in my town doesn't have ESPN. So base is ~45/mo. With ESPN it's 80/mo minimum, you know because ESPN is 8 ESPN channels.
How to Be a Journalist with Just an iPhone: Transterra Media iOS App
Ask HN: Are you overweight?
No, normal weight, healthy
The single best thing you can do is buy the Bentley Repair Manual (http://www.bentleypublishers.com/) for your car. They're expensive, but will show you how to take your model apart and put it back together again. If you want to learn how a car works, the best thing you can do is take one apart and then try to get it running again.

When you're working on a car, dead tree repair guides + a beater laptop are your best friends.
Yeah the stagger comments kind of bother me personally and make it hard for me to follow. I like flat comments. But I think that is because that is what I am used to on the forums I frequent.
Rather underweight
I did what you did at one point in my life. In fact, I got perversely granular.

It's not sustainable unless you have a very real mental condition. I think Withings is compatible with a number of apps such that you should't have to enter anything into it to have it tracked.

Food is notoriously difficult to track, and even harder to accurately quantify. A burger and fries meal at one place could be +/- 500 kilocalories despite looking the same. After a while I determined food tracking to only be worthwhile at high level - ie, "ate burger" - rather than to do the legwork necessary to get accurate kilocalorie counts.
No, I am ripped
Thanks for the interesting reply. How did you optimize for file load order? Using http://www.fifi.org/doc/mkisofs/README.sort ?
My recollection is that the NFL just renewed their deal with DirecTV for something like 8 years last year. So depending on the actual terms of the deal, as far as streaming exclusivity on the Internet, that might not happen for a while.
5 Rules for Mac Developers: The Makings of Proxy.app
My first car was a 1974 VW Beetle (this was late 90's) - it got 65-70 MPG.

I loved that thing. If you turned on the original heating system, you'd die of carbon monoxide poisoning, but I loved it.
Massive study: Birth order has no meaningful effect on personality or IQ
Direct DOI to article for those with access to the Journal of Research in Personality: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2015.05.005
Where did I say government? If I am not mistaken, the organizations that oversee the casinos are private sector. If they are needed here then I see no reason why it cant be setup the same.

As for your other comment... jeez. Why so passive-aggressive? You are certainly right -- we all have habits that someone would consider unhealthy. But is my taste for sweets as destructive as this? I dont know, seems like they are both serious. It might even be that the addictiveness and lack of end-game of these games make them more dangerous.

Anyways, my main concern is that these games are being played by kids. I think everyone agrees that kids are still developing. What is the impact of these kinds of games on them? Do you know for sure that its harmless?

Not meaning to insult you or anyone, but dismissing these questions without a good reason is just plain ignorance and probably irresponsible. I am not equipped to answer these questions. Which is why this post and my original one are filled with questions.
Suggest a reverse idea. Content that is on the web and then you make a deal with the site owner to create a printed copy of the material which can be postal mailed to someone. Why? Because many times I don't want to click around on links I want a "manual" that I can refer to or read like a traditional book and make notes etc. (Without forking all over the place).
no more autoplay videos on random news sites.

Firefox has built-in "click to play" for plugins. There are extensions for all other browsers.
Rendering, is a job in itself. There are people who do nothing but develop looks and write shaders all day everyday, and others who create and manage distributed rendering pipelines.

Cycles is great, but just like Mental Ray, in other applications, it's part of another package. Sure you can run them headless, but why? When there is something that is made for it that is so well documented and has great support solely for that purpose.

Rendering features aside, it's a great business and architecture choice.
Perhaps, but I've fallen both in and out of this mindset, so I think it might have more to do with your state of mind.

In my mind at the time, something needed to get done. And I was the only one that could do it. And I'm too proud to admit failure, so damn the torpedoes, and full steam ahead, about a weeks worth of no sleep, caffeine induced, coding frenzy.

Both before and after that experience however, I'm the opposite. Unless it's a task that I own, and I feel like I NEED to do, and won't rest until it's done, then it's whatever man. Let me sleep.

So for my situation, maybe it's all about getting yourself into that mindset and hyping yourself up for something. (Though all things considered, I was mega burnt out after what I did and would not ever try it again.)
Is this just Karma whoring?
I had a severe distaste for adverts on TV before the WWW really took off so it's even older I would say.
Aerosolve: Machine learning for humans
Propane or MAPP gas torch. Heat what the bolt goes through until it's cherry, then wail on it with an impact wrench. The torch is often referred to as "the big red wrench". Also, don't underestimate the power of soaking the stuck bolt in penetrating oil.
Having known people exactly like this, I'm going to guess that Troy is blind to the people he affects around him while he is working so "hard" and jumping around so much.

Unless he has some super-human abilities, doing things like stopping to "churn out a para or two" is NOT helping his productivity. I'd guess he's succeeding despite of that workflow (many hours spent) instead of because of it.

> "That might mean being on a conference call and also responding to emails (I’m happy listening and writing at the same time)".

The people who I know did this missed very important details of meetings, and even has to be clued in that someone was speaking to them. They constantly relied on others around them to pay attention to the important details of any meeting. Definitely led to confusion and issues (and blaming).

I stopped reading after the first section because all of this brought back memories (and a really strong negative reaction) of such crazy ridiculous ego's I've worked with in the passed. I won't believe Troy is doing life better than us. He's working (very hard!) and will be successful, but at the cost of others around him and ultimately to the detriment of his quality of life.
The future of the Scientific Python ecosystem
I find the demo screenshot intriguing as I try to visualize someone with either a 14" or 20" waistline.
/me sighs

Come on. Isn't this getting old for anyone else? Do you check if your dentist goes to dentist meetups, or extracts teeth in his spare time? All you're doing with this question is asking "are you one of us".
There can't ever be absolute rights in this context, because at some level, even the most widely accepted and well-regarded rights that we want to protect will inevitably come into conflict. For example, you can't have absolute free speech and protect people's privacy against malicious disclosures, even though as general principles we might agree with both ideals. A balance must be found, and navigating that middle ground is always hard when any decision you make will necessarily be flawed.

I think the problem with the current politics of fear is that it does seek to promote one absolute right -- the right to be safe from attack by bad people -- as more important than all the others. Of course, it is impossible to truly achieve that goal no matter what you sacrifice. But in the quest to do so, more balanced "greater good" philosophies developed over centuries of human civilisation, like preferring to die on your feet than live on your knees, or preferring to risk letting a guilty man go free rather than risk imprisoning an innocent one, or refusing to negotiate in the face of threats, can be cast aside all too easily. That's what is happening today.
Hey I'm all for old school. Building a 1:10 scale radio-controlled replica of a Ford Bronco, and the pages on fixing window winders gave me a great example of how I can make it work for my model.
That demo measurement is for the upper arm. A waist that size would be disturbing, or an infant.
> I could go to prison for that?

No.

Analogy time!

1. Imagine a row of doors. The owner of the rooms behind the doors has given you permission to walk into any of the rooms. You enter one of the rooms. You then wish to go to the next room. You notice that there is an interior door connecting the two rooms, and so you go through that instead of going out the front door of the first room and in the front door of the second room.

You are not trespassing because you have permission to be in any of the rooms.

2. Imagine another row of doors. The doors have keypad locks on them. You find out the codes for a few of the doors and notice they are sequential, and so you can guess the codes for all the doors. You do not have permission to enter any of the rooms, but since you have figured out the codes you go ahead and enter.

You are trespassing, because you do not have permission to enter the rooms. It doesn't matter that the protections the owner put in place to keep you out were easy to bypass. In fact, if the owner had not locked the doors at all, you'd still be trespassing.

3. Imagine a third row of doors. They are locked. The police obtain a warrant to search one or more of the rooms. To enter the rooms they break the locks.

They are not trespassing, because the warrant gives them legal permission to enter the rooms.

What you are doing on your grocery store website is like #1.

The case the parent comment to yours was talking about is like #2.

The case the article about is like #3, although some are arguing that there are problems with the warrant that might invalidate it, which would make the case closer to #2, and would lead to exclusion of any evidence gathered under that warrant.
To all of the Flash haters out there. You should dread the day YOUR code is looked at by thousands off smart hackers who want nothing more then to break it. As someone who was once a Flash hater myself I can understand your ignorance. Don't hate the tool, hate the people who abuse it.

"Outlaw chain saw so that no more massacres can happen!"
Youtube <model name> plus "brake pads" and there'll be some guy explaining exactly how to do it on your make and model.
No guarantees. Why do you need guarantees? What's the cost of downloading the competitor's app? Even make your own non-discriminatory rideshare service, but if it's not sustainable, don't force the cost on others.
>Well, for one people do not expect drivers to stop at a green light, like was the case here. You might wish everybody was well aware of their environment, but the fact is, a green light is a strong signal that makes people assume the other drivers are moving or are going to.

Watch the video. The self-driving car braked because the two cars in front of it did.
The interesting bit is that Davis is a dyed-in-the-wool Tory, mostly fiercely loyal, but is going against his party here.
I think the large picture of the woman in the bikini might be a little too revealing. You might go with something tamer. I imagine it would make the target audience more comfortable.
When to Use Swift Structs and Classes
Bloodhound SSC – the 1000mph world land speed project
Please add SI units. I would like to use this app but I'm accustomed to m/cm and inches are meaningless to me.
"Broadcasters have been aggressively litigating" - This sentence should never be written about American democracy.
Perhaps. Out of curiosity, were you doing something that had a high-cost-per-defect? [e.g. All bugs lead directly to a loss of money for the company and/or accounting uncertainty on exactly where the money/inventory went]?

The reason I ask is generally the only people I ever see saying stuff like that tend to be engaging in projects with low-risk-defects that don't translate to 4-5 figures of financial losses per defect but rather a "meh, I'll spend an hour later figuring it out and it costs me basically $0" kind of defects.
Windows 10 *HOME* Will Have Mandatory Updates. Um, WTF?
Will Virtual Reality Lure the Birchbox Man?
Yet it's still the most reliable vehicle... It's a hell of an industry...
At a basic level, this is also why I still drag my TI83 around. 99% of the functions I need in one little box that is always ready for action.
WildFly 9 Final is released (Java application server)
No. I wanted to make a poll but I don't have enough karma :)
A way to add new categories to Health app would replace many of these kinds of applications.
Fiction serves a purpose, at least IMO. Maybe not as much in adulthood (but that hasn't stopped me), but certainly in childhood. Check out Neil Gaiman's erudite reasoning:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-fut...

It's a good read no matter, though.
They ended their NASCAR contract with the 2014 season, so I would imagine some of those fans dropped ESPN for NBC Sports and Fox Sports. Also, ESPN's reporting from Sports Center (not their actual track coverage) is more sensationalist than TMZ, and the E has been overshadowing the S in their name for a while.

ESPN will lose the major sports to their own channels in the coming years. If ESPN is going to survive they need to become the "every other sport" network and learn to respect and promote the sports that won't defect to their own streaming services.
Quad 204 oilfield upgrade in the North Sea
Personal Task Manager GID – Get It Done by JSSolutions with Toggl Integration
Task switching tends to kill software development productivity, period. My own personal experience mirrors that outlined in the "Human Task Switches Considered Harmful"[0] blog post; interruptions can takes minutes or hours to recover from, leaving me functionally unproductive for this time that I'm re-building my mental context.

The OP even admits to this ("That’s not just for the sake of clean audio, but it’s for my own concentration"), they just seem content to accept the lack of attention for most of their tasks.

Personally, I've found that I am much more productive when I focus on one task to completion (or to a natural stopping point) and then switch tasks. In series, I can complete a set of tasks in a fraction of the time it would take to complete them in parallel. Also, my colleagues on phone calls tend to appreciate my attention to what they are saying.

[0] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000022.html