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For the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, Fox paid $425 million for U.S. English-language broadcasting rights, and NBC's Telemundo paid another $600 million for Spanish-language rights [1]. That's already a billion dollars from the U.S.

By comparison, FIFA's worldwide revenue from broadcasting rights for the 2014 World Cup was around $2.4 billion [2].

American soccer fans might only constitute a small fraction of soccer fans worldwide, but they watch more ads and have deeper pockets than most of the rest. A billion poor fans don't make FIFA any money.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2014/06/09/american-w...

[2] http://www.statista.com/statistics/380788/revenue-of-the-201...
Kenneth Reitz has a popular extension for websockets with Flask - https://github.com/kennethreitz/flask-sockets
This year, I resolve to ban laptops from my classroom
I don't get the difference between github.com/gorilla/websocket & github.com/olahol/melody. Does someone have a clue ?
The F-35 continuously overruns budgets and gets more and more money poured into it. I think this is the what is being referred to.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm working on an article on using the font and will try compiling it from source and include the information.

Regarding the poster, the placement of the comma is intentional to suggest both an 'l' and the 'm' jumping over it, although maybe you're right and it is too much.
An Indian eating fish and chips?!

A couple of good friends of mine were depressed, because their kid preferred Western food.

I told them to relax. "If she ends up like a native Swede, consider what food we native Swedes really love -- Indian! You can't lose. :-)"
Not really. I was born and lived during the dying days of the USSR in 80s (left in mid 90s)

Under communism everyone knew the system was a failure and everything was a sham, hell the jokes being made were hilarious.

Now on the other hand in last few years everything in Russia under Tsar Putin went full retard mode with people actually believing the unashamed propaganda that the state controlled media puts out. Many Russians do not speak anything but Russian and can not afford to leave the country to get a look from outside the box in, this means they buy into the nationalistic bullshit being doled out on tv. People there now actually believe the evil Western boogeyman is out to get them. Which in itself is incredibly scary. Talking to some of my relatives I know understand how some Germans must have felt in the 30s in run up to WW2.

In the 80s the KGB was kept out of politics for most part and the Russian military was there to keep in check any ambitions they had. Now the State was taken over by a mix of KGB / criminal mafia elements and the military had its balls cut off.

Nationalism and borderline fascism is the order of the day 70 years after the war. My grandfather must be spinning in his grave.
Same stuff in 21st century is not ok.
"War rooms" are a terrible idea, moreso than open offices. Ideally, they're rooms constructed specifically for that purpose. In reality, they're often re-purposed conference rooms not designed to house a team for days at a time.
I also call them 'mew' and 'new' in English, but their modern names are 'mee' and 'nee'. I'm not sure what the ancient Greek pronunciation is, but I think that's where the 'ew' sound comes from.

The same goes for lambda. I use that in math & programming, but the letter Λ is actually called [lamða] in modern Greek ('ð' is the sound of 'th' in 'the'). That's apparently how 'lamda' is supposed to sound.
If two things correlate, it doesn't mean that there's a causal link between them; it means that there's a third thing that causes both of them.

Those companies who pioneered the open office plans also do a lot of other things that set themselves apart from other companies. It doesn't necessarily mean anything important.

For all you know, the open plan office could be a failed attempt to optimise their workforce.
Thanks, I'll try and behave myself more :)
I think I also mention the fact that you can get it from the timings in the video, no?
The trend will be the elimination of offices. There's nothing lower cost than forcing employees to provide their own offices and work equipment.
How to crash iPhone with a simple message
Maybe they'll just move the lab to their own company. They'll have all the researchers after all, with a real budget and real goals.
Lisp is garbage collected. Yet Lisp machines existed, and they were invented at the same time as UNIX.
Yes, here's a python module written in Rust: https://github.com/dgrunwald/rust-cpython/blob/master/extens...

But anything more complicated than that (defining extension types etc.) isn't yet supported by the high-level bindings, and would need unsafe code using the python C API directly.
Yea someone should totally press that magic button to fix all of the things wrong with Indian society. That's a realistic way to look at things.
On world-cup FIFA saved hundreds of millions in Brazil, just from tax exemption. Total revenue was 4.5 billions.

http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/bodies/02/36/77...
As Joel Spolsky noted, getting natural light to a large number of small rooms is basically a solved problem: how many hotel rooms do you see without a window? Sure, private offices are smaller than hotel rooms, but offices generally have large numbers of meeting rooms, labs and common areas that don't need windows.

Of course, that means that you need to build office buildings more like hotels; you can't so easily retrofit existing office buildings.
I have actually done this, and people thought I was crazy for talking on a disconnected rotary phone. It's a great conversation starter and pretty funny, though. Especially when you call their phone and it rings, people are astonished.
Just like with the Olympics. Does FIFA force the government to pass censorious laws as well?
Pretty much everyone in this comment thread besides you seems to think that I am suggesting replacing a car's main battery with a lithium battery. I do not believe I ever suggested that.

While I respect that you seem to have read a more circumscribed version of my comment, I'm not sure what your quibble is. A two-pound battery pack that can be used to jump-start your car seems like a heck of a win for most people.

Yes, you can start your car by disconnecting your battery and connecting a charged lead-acid battery. That seems pretty obvious. I can't think of a reason you'd need to do this, though, unless your car's main battery has gone bad. And if that's the case you will need to call a mechanic anyway.

Leave alone that the lithium batteries mentioned above are advertised to supply 400 amps, enough to start many cars.
Working on software with 10s of developers it is vital.
New iPhone bug reportedly crashes users phones with a text
I'm not sure. Aren't teenagers supposed to be the demographic most likely to change networks?

There is an element of inertia and of being held hostage though. Why go through the hassle of everyone changing networks of Facebook still works? And no-one can leave on their own...
The emperor’s new clothes were built with Node.js (2014)
The quote should have stated "largest single source" rather the "single largest source".

And note that the quote says "SOURCE of advertising revenue", not "viewership".

It's not so hard to believe, given that a lot of the multi-nationals that advertise aggressively in FIFA are American-held... Americans don't have to like football to believe that advertising during the world cup could be profitable...
9 Reasons Why Students Must Develop Habit of Goal Setting
Yes - from today's news at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32897388 "Some 20,000 people in the German city of Cologne have been forced to leave their homes as authorities defuse a one-tonne bomb from World War Two".
Indian Americans dominate the National Spelling Bee and take abuse for it
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I don't know why I've been downvoted. Maybe my question wasn't clear. Since there is no need anymore for a C compiler in the Go toolset, how will the magic import "C" package work ?
It's not squabble if you're an independent developer or a startup trying to create a new product.

There will be a lot more of those poor people you were talking about if APIs are allowed to be copyrighted. It will stifle innovation in the US, and drive talented programmers to either seek a different profession, or move to a country that isn't draconian.
TL;DR Write it in Rust, export via FFI, bind from Python via cffi.

The long version is: go watch this video from PyCon that will answer this question and probably others https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CwJ0MH-4MA
That's true for some handles in Win32, but (since we're talking about classic MacOS) Win16 handles were usually NEAR pointers inside kernel segments.
Is this open office = for work of a highly creative and collaborative nature, the team owns their own workspace, which they customize as they choose, and folks on the team are in physical proximity?

Or is this open office = packing everybody into one huge area like sardines no matter what their job role or what their team is doing with little or no account for ownership?

I find we lump a huge amount of stuff into the category "open office", much of it crappy, then stand outside and throw rocks at the entire concept.

Let's not do that.
So what's the secret of the immigrants from the Philippines? Why do they make more money with lower % postgraduate compared to other immigrants?
Maybe someone should do a startup with a service like that. It could be called Meetup.com or something.
I've found asking people to be notoriously unreliable. Folks want quiet and comfort, sure. But is that the best thing for productivity?

Ok, in this case, probably. But standing desks are apparently a good thing, and the vast majority of us eschew them. And so on. Anything that seems like an inconvenience gets demonized as a rule. So just asking is a minefield.
Yes, the open office nature of Facebook may have been crucial to its early success. But that was when Facebook was less than 10 people! Many people consider small team offices to be more akin to private offices than to open plan offices.
FIFA Officials Are Arrested on Corruption Charges; Sepp Blatter Isn’t Among Them
>I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not here - why would a package such as this be outdated?

Because of the way software is packaged in most Linux distributions. The upstream version is frozen in that particular release.
True! That was a disaster; only 64K (16 bits) handles were possible across all processes. Many APIs had to be deprecated and redesigned when it went 32-bit.

I've argued for using uuids for handles from here on out. They are endless; no effort to coordinate handle spaces is ever needed; they work locally and on the network; on some architectures they are even a register width scalar.
Go uses ports of the Plan 9 system libraries extensively, so Plan 9 support is probably a freebie, or implicit.
Because his friend Peter Thiel told him so?
For those who missed it there is a relevant comment by user abatters against the use of per-directory encryption:

https://lwn.net/Articles/639766/

edit: how can I quote a block of text that preserves newlines?
Show HN: Have product recommendations really been reinvented? We don't think so
Some days ago I came across an interesting article in a german online journal which reported about a „new feature in online marketing“ — product recommendations. The protagonists: two of the world’s largest companies in online business — Amazon and Facebook.

The fact that Facebook recently changed their terms and conditions captured my interest, especially as this forces the majority of Facebook users (including me) to rise the curtain covering their personal data once more.

As our business primarily focuses on personally driven recommendations, the following quotation let me sit up:

„It is noteworthy, that Amazon itself is considered as the inventor of recommendations. “

Really?

Read the full article on medium! https://medium.com/world-of-recommendo/back-to-the-roots-d754de66381f
Yes. The investment distribution machine are driven by people playing musical chairs with each other. It's insane.
Go for the Kickstarter! :D
While the VC investments and rise of so many startups is exciting, I am still worried if it is sustainable or everyone is just riding on the VC fuel. Most of the startups, are consumer based companies, many of which, have followed the American counterparts, and to gain market share, they are not worried about spending money like it is endless. Take an example of "Lenskart", which will send an optician to your doorstep who will do eye-check for you @ Rs. 50 ( < $1 ). Not to mention, the sheer number of promotional and branding campaigns they have been running.

I believe not every company is like that, but the startup scene in India is more or less, a gaining-user-share game. In pessimistic future, where these startups would be relying on the last pennies of their funding, I am not sure if they would be able to sustain if they start pricing the things they sell at a price to make a profit, since the Indian consumer finds these offers, the major reason to use the app.

It would be good if the startups also tilt towards actually making products, like VWO, Browserstack and ours[1]. Although, I am aware, that question like, "How the heck that will make money?" has been proved to be pointless at many times in history, if you think of Facebook / Google but I believe eCommerce companies find it hard to grow profits quickly unless they are inventing a new business model (AirBnB, eBay, Alibaba).

[1]: http://adpushup.com
The able part should not be downplayed either. The mere cost of a ticket to get to the U.S. automatically selects for a relatively high income family as a single ticket costs more than the annual median household income.

As an analogy, it's as if a ticket to Europe cost $60,000 dollars and Europeans marveled at how educated and successful and driven all Americans were. When in reality, just to afford the ticket they would have to be either already successful or extremely driven and focused on that singular goal.
Those two points are 100% factual.

The benefits cap reduction paid for people who are working to have their personal tax-free allowance raised and decreased the reward for not working ergo they are helping working people by providing tax relief as a reward. This just isn't the same "helping working people" soundbite that the vocal minority of media and population are annoyed about however which is where the disparity arises.

They are ramping up surveillance with the intention of combating online terror. But there probably isn't anything much going on, but they're still doing it so they can be seen to be doing it.

Now I don't necessarily agree with the situation, would personally smash the state in a second, nationalise all industry and live as a strong fisted respectable worker under a common flag, singing Auferstanden aus Ruinen in a second but newspeak and doublethink it is not.
Didn't Obama introduce a startup visa a few months ago? What happened to it?
Hi Fractal - one of the Overleaf founders here. SL is great, and had a very nice editor, but there are a few differences between it and Overleaf:

- Rich text mode on Overleaf makes it a lot easier to collaborate with colleagues who would otherwise be put off by a wall of LaTeX code.

- Automatic compiling on Overleaf - you don't need to manually hit compile, we do it automatically. This makes it easier for authors new to LaTeX as errors can't build up

- Unlimited collaborators - share the project with as many people as you like.

- Direct links to publishers to help streamline the submission process for academic papers.

Feedback always very welcome! Lots of different ways to approach this, and we're continuing to build and improve on the service.
The project seems interesting (although not updated since 2013) but it is not easily installable (here I just did a `pip install clf`).
It's not really the same thing, w3m is a text-based web browser, clf is a command to parse Commandlinefu snippets.
So you think Facebook doesn't know who you really are? Just because you use a fake name and email and no phone number? That's cute...
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I find it funny that I never needed to do such test to gauge people's ability. Also, when I saw people using, I never saw it fail.

Example questions:

(Python) When should you use a list instead of a tuple? What's the difference between range and xrange? What does ' %s' in a string means? Then elaborate from there.

I don't think that anyone who can't pass FizzBuzz knows the answers to those questions.
Definitely a funny project.

Me and some friends too considered doing something like this over a decade ago, using a spare Nokia "Brick" (3310?) for the cell-phone parts and just fit them inside a rotary-phone we had around, using an Atmel micro-controller for glue.

We had a general plan, enough EE competence to pull it off, and were ready to go.

So what stopped us? The Nokia brick. It was known as "the brick" because it was big, heavy as a brick and was virtually indestructible.

It was seriously robustly made. We were simply not able to pull it apart to source parts.

It probably didn't help that we were all students and after a while we got fed up and just wanted to drink beer instead.

Congrats on, unlike us, actually pulling it off :)
I get what you're saying, but I think there's an easy solution: just ask people who've experienced both. That way you're not experiencing the classic but very real problem of people not knowing what they want until they've got it.

At my workplace, for instance, not once in the history of the company has anyone with an office ever given it up, under any circumstances, to move into a cubicle again. Likewise, someone with a cubicle next to a window has never, in my tenure at the company, moved to a cubicle not next to a window.

As for standing desks, I didn't realize that people actively eschewed them. My impression is just that they're impractical for a lot of people to actually obtain. If your workplace doesn't provide them and won't on request, your options get sort of limited. I have a coworker who made a makeshift standing desk but it's not very ideal. I imagine a ton of people are in this situation.

Ok, but let's suppose that, by some ingenious study, you're able to determine that nobody prefers the open office, everybody prefers private offices (quite strongly), and yet productivity for the company is better with an open office. That's pretty counter-intuitive, but the world is filled with counter-intuitive things. Does that mean that companies should all switch to open offices?

Should a company do something just because it can be shown to increase productivity? I don't think that's necessarily the case. For instance, it might be that the productivity gain is somewhat minimal and that over the years a number of great employees are lost (or not able to be hired) due to the office layout. So in that case the illusion of temporary increased productivity will lead to a long-term net decrease in productivity.
Yeah, I don't understand why this is a relatively minor story. This should be filling the front page of HN, on par with Jobs's death. If this ruling goes the wrong way, it will end software development as we know it, especially given the ridiculous length of copyright.

Any reimplementation of an API? Illegal. IBM compatible PCs? Illegal. Any emulator? Illegal. Binary-compatible reimplementations? Illegal.
Yea, but isn't Go supposed to be a systems language? You might expect it to pop up more with systems candidates.
Third parties can generally file something called an "amicus brief" which is more or less "an opinion from a friend of the court."

The court takes this opinion into account, it's not that Oracle and Google aren't listened to, it's that the Federal government basically gets a chance to say what it thinks.
I have my eyes on Rust, mainly for no GC and its ownership system, and Nim for its clean, Python-like syntax but with C performance.

I also have Julia in my mind for my next scientific computing (image processing, DSP) project.
Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease and You Can’t (2012)
“So we went with a Hamburger menu…”
Birth of Virgin Atlantic – Ravi-TheSun (2006)
We don't have a lot of 6+. We may deploy more later as iPad Minis age out. FWIW, I dropped mine from a belt clip to the pavement and it shattered -- my first dead iPhone ever, and I've dropped my phones dozens of times from the 3gs up.

5/5s was better than 4/4s, but not dramatically so.
The idea is 100% original, we just had the 100% original idea independently :P Yeah, I don't think this would be possible without the Arduino or a similar embedded processor, and it would certainly be waaaay more involved and slow if I had to do it with custom parts. Nowadays, slap a GSM shield on a $10 Arduino, done.

We truly live in amazing times.
Does anyone remember Google Video Player? I remember installing this to try and play videos and being disappointed that it was basically VLC with a rename and much functionality removed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Videos#Google_Video_Play...

The same disappointment hit me with the early releases of Chrome browser - just Firefox with stuff removed.
Hackers compromise 100,000 IRS tax accounts with pre-stolen data
Wow. Where are you located ? Also 160k+ does not seem to be that big.
Because ESPN, being the broadcast partner at the time wouldn't fudge the numbers. Riiiiight.
Cool - thanks for the links, I'll check 'em out! Love to hear about these obscure systems. I was an Oric-1 user back in the day and am thoroughly enjoying its revival .. new stuff being made for it every few months!
The use case in these discussions is never about framework or shared code.

Taking the example of the lookup tables for error messages, imagine if you shipped your framework and lots of teams started using it, then you iterate to change your APIs in a breaking way and suddenly the cost of that change is multiplied by all the teams refactoring.

It is also worth considering the cost of changing existing production code, this is typically where most bugs are introduced, especially when someone else is implementing the fix without the domain knowledge of the original author. Unit tests won't help if they also have to be re-written to match the new API, as they are by definition new/different tests.

I think writing malleable code is the key takeaway from this article, and if thinking about future possibilities helps with this, then it should be encouraged.

Being unable to predict the future doesn't mean you shouldn't anticipate and prepare for change.
The GSM shield messes up if you poll too often, IIRC.
As soon as you put limits like that you have to compensate by risking that you run out of memory -- if you can't meet the deadline, you can't fully scan the heap[1], free, and so on. Or is that wrong?

That seems like another variable to consider if you're in an environment where you have to somewhat control how much memory you use. But I don't know really know anything about the details of garbage collection, I just figured that that would be one of the trade-offs. So correct me if I'm wrong.

[1] Or whatever technique is used
Currently working at a growing startup in Waterloo, it's an open office with a lot of people and it can quickly become very loud (picture 150 people in a big room).

I completely agree with you, without music, noise cancelling headphones are pretty much useless to help you focus by canceling 'asymmetric' noise.

My personal setup is to have a pair of earplugs in resina as a first layer, my headphones as a second layer, the noise cancelling option on and finally low volume music. With that setup I can't hear anything to the point where I get scared shitless if someone disturbs me. That's how deep in the zone I become!