skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're in the US, Fox Soccer 2Go streams the Champions League, the Europa League, the English FA Cup, and (new this year) the full Bundesliga 2015-16 season, among other competitions. The quality isn't great, but it's reliable and pretty cheap ($99/year) compared to a US cable subscription that would carry the equivalent competitions. They also keep full match replays online for a few weeks after the live broadcast, for some competitions, anyway. You can watch on a PC/Mac in a browser with Flash (ugh), or use their Android or iOS app. I haven't used the Android app, but the iOS app, despite its awful UI, works fine and supports AirPlay to an Apple TV.

Also in the US, fubo.tv carries some matches in a few other top European leagues. It's a bit of a strange service, but it's cheap and worked well enough for me the few times I used it last season. The quality is slightly better than Fox Soccer 2Go, but still nowhere near broadcast HD. They appear to have a deal with BeIN Sports such that, if a match is being shown on TV on BeIN Sports USA, you can stream it online with just a subscription to fubo.tv (no TV service required). I can't figure out BeIN Sports USA; it seems like they show some Serie A matches, some Ligue 1 matches, and some La Liga matches, but not all. fubo.tv used to carry Bundesliga matches, as well, but as that's moving to Fox Soccer 2Go this season, I don't think fubo.tv will carry those anymore. In any case, I'm waiting until August to decide whether or not to renew my fubo.tv subscription, based on what they're offering for the upcoming European football season.

The Barclays Premier League is NBCSN-only in the US and requires a cable subscription -- for now, at least.

Links:

http://www.foxsoccer2go.com/competitions
http://www.fubo.tv
I think this is a great idea. Congrats guys!
>Neither of us had ever even heard of the brand as we are from the US.

That's strange, Lush is rather popular in the US. http://www.lushusa.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-Lush-Site/e...
Trinity University in San Antonio. The founder of the CS department was a big fan of J and had been there since the 60's so no one really wanted to tell him to stop. J was only used in the Intro FP course. He retired the same year I graduated (2012) and AFAIK the course is now taught in a combination of Scheme, Haskell and ML.

The intro sequence for majors also includes Scala so students there get a pretty good basis in FP.
Please have a look at eg the UN's population growth forecasts. Fertility rates are falling in nearly all countries (or already at sub-replacement levels).
> However, do we really understand this existential angst at its root?

Children are a great reminder that understanding existence is irrelevant. Children don't contemplate their own existence, they simply experience and relish that existence. You can't be sure that you have any sort of purpose or destiny, but you can be sure of the ground beneath your feet and the sand between your toes. Children get that intuitively, and for a long time they can't approach life any other way.
What is the danger and how is it irresponsible?
5 minutes is too short. It takes about 15 minutes of relaxed meditation for the brain to succumb and sympathize with the frequencies.

Checkout the 90 minute videos on YouTube for the full effect.
Hotter Than Death Valley? A Summer Walk Around the Salton Sea
> Currently we reap the rewards of the "green revolution", but that is not a sustainable way of farming - it depends on extra energy sources. [...]

If we were ever to hurt for cheap energy really badly, we could just opt for nuclear. At the moment politics prevents nuclear, but that's not an immutable fact of physics.
Yeah, it do not have closures
What about that has the JVM had for years?
The Great Software Sausage Factory in the Sky
Can I have your apartment when you leave?
Entropy will still build up in the software, infrastructure (both human and hardware), monetization model ("my highly targeted customer base keeps moving subs, and they have ad-block!") and an accumulation of bad "federal-level" decisions that get made and held reddit-wide. The question is when this will this burden begin to stifle the creation of new "escape subs."
For some use cases it might work as a replacement, but it doesn't have a dependency solver so I don't think you can really say it's a serious general-purpose cabal replacement. It's more like build porcelain for cases where you already have your package's whole dependency tree locked down.
I was reading a summary of Macbeth with my kids this morning and came across several "lost in translations" from English to English - mainly through changes in pronunciation and meaning of words changing over time. For example, the words "fear" and "fair" would have almost sounded identical in early 1600 leading to a play on words of the two themes in Macbeth.

I also came across this interesting article on Kurosawa's interpretation of Macbeth,
http://www.academia.edu/3306558/Lost_in_Translation_Reconsid...

I suspect there is a lot lost in translation, which can be challenging when reading old texts.
Yes I say "host" as a shorthand for "cache so I don't have to serve much".

Just saying that when I contacted them, they were clear that we shouldn't use them for images or media, and their general ToS agrees.

Their enterprise pricing starts cheap so if they throw in "unlimited bandwidth for everything" then it'd be quite a good deal.
Show HN: Eidyia – A scientific Python environment configured with Vagrant
It's kinda shocking to see it on the map, but that's because of all the smog:

http://portal.rrcap.ait.asia/abc/Pages/default.aspx

> Atmospheric brown clouds (ABCs) are widespread layers of brownish haze of air pollutants, such as aerosol particles (black carbon (BC) and non BC), and precursor gases (e.g. CH4, CO, NMVOCs, NOx), which produce aerosols and ozone. ABCs and their interaction with build-up of greenhouse gases significantly affect the regional climate, hydrological cycle, glacial melting, agriculture production, ecosystem and human health.

http://www.britannica.com/science/atmospheric-brown-cloud

> The presence of both types of aerosols in the air reduces the amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the Earth, producing a phenomenon called “dimming.” This type of radiative forcing is referred to as the “aerosol direct effect.” In addition, aerosols can influence the formation of clouds, known as the “aerosol indirect effect.” Atmospheric brown clouds contain a mixture of both types of aerosols. Because of the effects of atmospheric brown clouds, India and China are dimmer at the surface today by at least 6 percent compared with their state in preindustrial times.
As far as I can tell they go by intent. Hosting a few images and videos for your page is one thing. Hosting an imageboard or video streaming site is another.
Why do so many rich countries have below replacement rate fertility, then? (Eg Germany, Italy, Japan..)
> According to a widely read December 2011 report by Chatham House, a British think tank, if this trend continues, domestic consumption could eat into Saudi oil exports by 2021 and render the kingdom a net oil importer by 2038

The article seems logically broken.

If shipping oil to another county is cheaper for that country than solar why does SA want solar? They are losing even more money.

And why not just import coal like everyone else.

Seems to me it's about energy security and the fact burning oil for electricity has less worth than the other uses which they can on sell it for.
Depending on the state non-immigrants may be eligible if they've paid into the system as generally the state benefits are for state residents, a status that even as a non-immigrant you qualify for.

However most visa categories require you to leave the US within ten days if you no longer meet the visa requirements. So it's difficult to claim said benefits without messing up your future immigration chances.
If it was really that easy to identify undervalued companies, you'd think more people would be doing it. I don't think many managers, or individuals, beat the market by a lot, if at all.
We+Save+Nature+Together+-+Nature4Picture
Columbia becomes the first US university to divest from private prison companies
Thanks for the downvotes, I was referring to things beyond FP. The type system is a set of early restrictions (as opposing to late restrictions or runtime or late bound).
But now you mention it, I'm curious about if you think the type checker allowed you and your team to reach the goals of the project faster or not.
From my experience, those "transfer" applications are routinely approved because they are not subject to the H-1B cap. Sure, it will take a few weeks for USCIS to process it and will cost the employer some money, but getting a denial is pretty rare.
I haven't owned a TV in almost 10 years, and don't miss it or cable.

Some nights I'll watch an old TV show or a documentary on Amazon Prime while I'm eating dinner. The selection isn't the greatest, but it's only something to do for 20 minutes while I eat dinner, so I don't really care. It's essentially "free" because I already had Prime for the free 2 day shipping.

This is somewhat related and hilarious: http://www.theonion.com/article/area-man-constantly-mentioni...
As a Canadian here on a work visa, this was sad to read.

Luckily us Canadians have NAFTA so its easy to get a work permit. It's sad that this great country is turning really intelligent people away.
Typically a blackout affects all the local channels unless the game is sold out some time prior to game start. They really want you to buy a ticket (and concessions, and memorabilia, and parking, and...)
To be clear, I was not saying that you can give an ELB in a VPC an IPv6 address. I was saying you can give a non-VPC ELB an IPv6 address. Basically I was pointing out that, however imperfect, Amazon has chosen to prioritize public access to IPv6 over private use of it.
Obama to okay negotiating with terrorists over hostages
There are too many commercials on satellite/cable TV. When I'm paying 80 to 100 dollars each month for the service, why do I also have to view commercials every eight minutes? That's why I cancelled.
I.E the 'Google Photos' treatment. Now that Google's got the playbook for that rebrand down, hopefully they'll apply it to some more of their overlooked products.
You could do bittorrent-like streaming of live content. The bittorrent protocol itself isn't aimed at getting the content of a file in any particular order. (In fact, it works best in random order.)
"base salary is the amount you pay a salesperson to not close the wrong deals"

This doesn't mesh with my experience, but I love the phrasing. And it makes me wonder whether and how to reward walking away from a deal that could be closed, but would be problematic. I'm not smart enough to know how to do that.
> hardly anyone has open positions for Haskell jobs

They do exist (many but not all are mainly Haskell positions):

http://jobsearch.monster.com/search/programmer_5?q=haskell

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?searchTerm=haskell
Transferring an H1-B is a couple of orders of magnitude easier than getting a new H1-B. If a person is here on an H1-B already there's more friction in finding a new apartment to rent than there is in transferring the visa.
I know of at least 3 dynamically typed systems that can rename a method automatically in the whole system in one click. And move instVars to super and other tricky things like that before Eclipse was in the womb.
I'm talking do those refactorings in year 1999.
If a nation faces some future peril due to some degree of overpopulation, while the world as a whole faces greater future peril due to a markedly larger degree of overpopulation, then the people of that nation are likely better off not opening their borders. I have yet to decide whether the present situation of the USA fits this description, but it is at least not far fetched.
In infrared the spots are darker or equal than surroundings, thus cooler or equal.

We can't really say this, though, without knowing the material's emissivity. And since we don't know what it is...
Wouldn't it be better to use some sort of proprietary e-ink display for the meeting rooms? Would cut down on the constant tablet charging problem
As a foreigner (including myself) the OP should have realized what's required to stay in the US beyond the H1B. In his case, it was applying for the green card lottery and employment based green card. Since he is a citizen of NZ, if he had applied for an employment based green card, he would've obtained it in less than 2 years.
This might sound harsh, but there is no point complaining about the immigration system which we have no control over. It was his responsibility to make sure he accept a job offer with written commitment by the company to apply for his green card (this is commonplace in STEM, I'm not sure about law firms, but hey anything is negotiable). If they said no or stalled at his request, move on to the next employer. I know I'm making it sound as if it's easy to get another job, but wishful thinking or being lackadaisical is not a solution either.
I haven't used it, but https://floobits.com might scratch some of that itch?
US immigration process is cumbersome, and painful for people born in some countries (like India and China,) but certainly not prohibitive.

Quote:

Additionally, an H1-B visa (the most common form
of work visa and the only form available to most)
is only valid for three years and renewable only
once. This means that the skilled legal immigrant
must obtain permanent residency or a green card if
he or she wishes to stay for more than a few years.
Again, an employer can sponsor an employee's green
card, but the employer must again bear the costs,
which can run to the tens of thousands of dollars,
and again the employee cannot offer to pay the cost.

I personally was able to find online (!) lawyer who did all the greencard paperwork required for about $1,500 (most of it indeed had to be paid by company, but not all of it.) About the same had to be paid to federal government by company, and few hunder later to actually adjust status and receive greencard (paid by me.)

Unlike OP I had no money to pay for college, so I found Austin company, worked for them as a freelancer and then convinced to sponsor H-1B visa. Unlike OP I had no way to just come over to talk with potential employers while on tourist visa - US embassy twice refused to give one to me because of a high risk me staying illegally in their opinion. So, sorry, but this story is just a story about "how privileged i feel, i got two degrees", not about "impossible to get citizenship". It is weird that after obtaining two degrees OP still could not follow bureaucratic process...
I really do hate to start a reply with a flat-out "no", but in this case it's warranted, sorry to say. There are two ways of looking at this, and none of them permit this conclusion:

Physics as a science does not depend on metaphysics in any way. When a physicist does his/her work, it does not require the invocation of supernatural principles. While speculation and hypotheses are essential to the scientific process because they drive further exploration, metaphysical arguments on the other hand are just postulates about the nature of reality - and they are in most cases either in direct conflict with observational data, or designed to be un-disprovable.

Now for physics, as in the actual universe. This doesn't depend on metaphysics either. In fact, it's the other way around. As the universe develops, intelligent life emerges, humans in our case. These humans can then invent religion and the supernatural. The physical world came first.
As much as I love capitalism, there's a few differences as you go up in tiers beyond just room limits. Today the most notable is the ability to manage more than one office location. In time it will will expand since certain things (i.e. SAML, high resolution analytics, audit logs) aren't needed by the typical 5 conference room company. The more stuff you're managing, the more complex the relationships become -- not just an N + 1 operation.
I agree, but people who entrust their money to others to manage beat the market by even less. Remember that on average, you should expect to earn an average return minus fees; the one part of that equation that is given are the fees.
First quad- and octa-core QorIQ SoCs unveiled
Homework can't replace an interview, unless you're willing to hire people who can code without any idea if they will fit in with the team or be able to work with others.
I get your point so type systems are a protection for bad hires, a perceived as defense mechanism on code.
But things should never reach not even close to that point.
Usually those situations are just "grinding", you need to work expediently, and there is time pressure, but it is not immediate and you don't need to think nearly as much as in an interview. (code -> compile -> ohshit -> repeat quickly) not (oh shit, how do I solve this algorithmic question I have never seen). Most people don't freeze up in the 1-hour until demo situation.

On the other hand, the time constraints in an interview are immediate: you have a few minutes to come up with a solution to a problem (interviewer will put up with at most 10 minutes of silence or babbling), it's often a zero-to-one problem (usually there isn't a way to have a partial solution) and those factors combine into exponentially increasing sense of pressure: as time goes on you become less likely to solve the problem.

Finally, if this situation does happen at all and, contrary to my claim above, certain people do freeze up, it does so so infrequently as to be immaterial in a hiring decision in the vast majority of cases. Its practical importance is certainly disproportionate to the weight placed on it in interviews.
The neat part of being built on Atom, is that that is totally possible. There are already packages for handling the base language support for Java and Scala, linters for both of them, and through atom-ctags you can gain proper autocomplete.
It's 2 more than any published study I can find investigating the effects of binaural beats.

And I'm pretty certain this is why: http://www.psychfiledrawer.org/TheFiledrawerProblem.php
> After 5 years in the country I can apply for permanent residence status (which is similarly rubber-stampy).

You can apply after five years, but it only gets 'rubber-stampy' where you are basically sure to get it, after ten. YMMV though - this is only what I've heard and is not from personal experience as I've yet to actually apply for PR despite being here for well over a decade now.

By the way you are definitely missing some steps in moving to Canada with your wife. It is not nearly as hard for her to move there with you as you're making it out to be. Do some more research.
I agree that just equating Commission / OTE = FYE / TAM seems pretty arbitrary, I was unclear how this was "optimal".

In my understanding, commissions are used when effort is not observable but outcomes (i.e. closing a sale) are. An additional point in my head is that the commission / base trade-off is a decision that depends on how sensitive your salespeople are to risk.

I think you would really want to set marginal benefit to marginal cost. In this case, the marginal benefit of increased commissions would be incremental increases in effort and marginal costs would be incremental decreases in customer satisfaction or decreases in employee retention due to risk aversion. Of course, these might seem harder to quantify that FYE/TAM, but I think that the fraction of FYE is a little made up to begin with :)
I remember using that extension a while ago, and I forget why I found it lacking. It seems to work pretty well now. Thanks for the reminder.
Just thinking about it more more, there are so many places you could bolt a tablet onto a wall to improve an interface to something.

- think doctor / dentist
- think directory to an office building
- a doorbell with video conferencing
- why not just put a menu on every table in every restaurant.
It does actually, thank you very much for taking the time to reply in such detail. Bash testing (or rather, zsh in my case) is definitely something I'll have to consider moving forward.
Why does your cost-benefit calculation not include the benefits to those foreign workers who are allowed to compete for jobs in the U.S.?

The academic literature* shows much, much larger productivity and income gains to those who migrate to richer countries than any negative effect to native workers. Even if an influx of immigrants depressed some existing Americans' wages by a small amount, that delta would only pale in comparison to how much better of the immigrants would be.

Do you oppose efforts to educate more American's as computer scientists? This too would "depress" the wages of existing computer scientists but you would (hopefully) find it abhorrent if someone used your "wage depression" logic to stop teaching CS in inner-city schools.

Unless you think that the lives of non-American's are not worth considering, these hugely positive impacts of immigration should be part of your calculation.

*
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~jkennan/research/OpenBorders.pdf?ne...
http://www.cgdev.org/files/1425376_file_Clemens_Economics_an...
> I believe that you're still free to sell your apps on Android or jailbroken iOS devices, direct over the internet.

Trying to compare jailbroken iOS devices to the pre-iOS days is nonsensical. You're limiting your userbase to those with both the technical know-how and the motivation to continually re-jailbreak their devices as Apple fights tooth and nail to prevent said jailbreaking.

Your argument re: jailbroken devices would be more relevant if iOS followed the Android model of "here's an app store, but you can check this box here if you're fine with the risks of installing things from outside of our app store". Until that happens, it's pure nonsense, as I'm sure you're already fully aware of.
That's a good observation
Probably doesn't matter much here, but 240.0.0.0/4 is hard coded to be unusable on Windows systems. It's in the Windows IP stack somewhere. Packets to/from that network will simply be dropped.
Many clouds
JP Morgan [1], Standard Chartered [2], Skedge.me [3], Soostone [4], and Facebook [5] have all advertised open Haskell positions recently. And those are just the ones that come to mind immediately.

[1] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2015-June/12...

[2] https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/haskell-dev-role-in...

[3] http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/32ydm7/haskell_jobs...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9473292

[5] http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2useoq/haskell_oppo...
Perhaps I phrased it poorly.

Is current work really that dull?

I prefer to change the term being "slave to wage" to "I worked for a living". But everyone has different circumstances financially. If you are truly stuck in a miserable position then moving to another job is fine by my philosophy.

The future of "no need to work" for everyone sounds pretty awesome. I hope it happens. I am actually living that way now. After a couple of decades of working and some big redundancy payouts, I have savings to fall back on.
Maybe we should start thinking of security in terms of 'how can we build things that are actually secure by design' instead of 'how can we use stupid IP-level hacks to block things because our stuff is swiss cheese'?
The Medallion Fund is not only closed to new investors, it's closed to anybody who doesn't work at the firm itself.

The interesting question becomes what are they doing with all the money they make.
(Obviously no one has ever agreed my term so far.)

My company does 4 hour work-product tests, and we pay each of the candidates for their time. We're in Portland, not SV, so maybe there is a difference in environment.
Canada is pretty good. The points system sets a reasonably high bar but at least it's fairly objective. Once you're in the path from temporary foreign worker to permanent resident to citizen is well defined and works fairly well despite the slow processing times.