skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no semi pro football teams. Simplifying it all down to that is naive and ignorant, the athletes are using the system that's been put in place for them to succeed.

Ignoring the NCAA route in favor of anything else at this point isn't just career suicide, it's career abortion.
J. Paul Getty learned arabic to help his oil deals...
I dont deem that "pretty awful". The meaning is accurately expressed. I am not sure if there is a rehearsal, but the effect is pretty impressive.
By the modern understanding of the word "academic" it is more like a skilled trade.
On thing to keep in mind, if your commute is, say 25 minutes by freeway, it might be 40 minutes in heavy traffic (or collision blocking a lane) with no fast alternate routes. On the other hand, 25 minutes by surface streets will likely have a few routes of similar commute time (shorter distance and slower average speed)
Richard Branson's 4 Rules for Making Difficult Decisions
I'm actually curious to see how they're reaching all those countries. SMS deliverability in India (where I'm from) is highly restricted for such uses. We have a DND (Do Not Disturb) directory that most people are registered on. This means that most people can't get marketing SMSs OR transactional messages of any kind. On top of that, you cannot receive messages after 9 PM. I had trouble implementing a Nexmo API once because of it. Now, I know you can override these rules in India with government approval. I'd totally use the Digits API if Twitter has this sorted out.
We're just getting started, but are all about to graduate and do it full time. Definitely not the best (yet!).

http://residency-scheduling.org
The patched source is there for others to rebuild (e.g. CentOS and other RHEL derivatives), just not separated out into nice patches.
“Only buy electronical goods from East Asia that passed VDE, TÜV Nord, GS and CE specifications and tests”.

(Interestingly, a lot of the US–produced products do not pass these tests either. The German standards for product quality are some of the highest existing and they have actually the ability to test all the imported stuff. Just don’t ever trust the TÜV Süd)
In general when people apply adjectives to their own stuff it's more of an aspirational buzzword than reality.
I don't understand the underlying argument from Tim Parks side ("we should read more quality"). It seems to take for granted that "quality" literature is in some way better for us. How does reading, say, Faulkner or Brontë make me a better person? Is that effect stronger than the betterment I might get from (at least what I would consider) well-written commercially successful genre fiction like George RR Martin writes? Is "low quality" pulp like we get from Rick Riordan, Janet Evanovich, or Dan Brown somehow harmful to people that read it?

(Those are serious questions, I'm trying to understand the basis of where that side is coming from.)
What is the best way to learn Mandarin?
Five for the Future
Overall, I think English is harder to learn to speak & hear, but Chinese is harder to read & write.

The Chinese students I know who are learning English have to work incredibly hard at it. I don't think it's any easier for them to learn to speak English than for me to learn to speak Chinese. Reading is definitely harder in Chinese.

* The set of sounds in Chinese is actually quite limited both in variety and in word structure. Yes, there are some sounds that don't appear in English and of course tones, but there are more sounds in English that don't appear in Chinese and far more pronunciation patterns. Words that don't end in vowels or n/ng, for example. Chinese doesn't have them.

* English grammar is far more complex than Chinese. Articles and verb tense stand out to me, but a proper English teacher would be better able to list the challenges.

On the other hand, both languages have mitigating factors that make it easier:

* International English / Business English is a pretty well-established subset of the language.

* Chinese has a common subset of about 1000-2000 characters that you can use to read newspapers and signs.

* Both languages are lingua francas, so in everyday use people are relatively forgiving of second language learners. (Mandarin Chinese is the lingua franca of the Chinese empire, which includes tens of minority languages.)
JavaScript API for authenticating your users without requiring a password
Using Google Inbox: this feels like the future of email
Not if they label the "compatible chip" as the genuine ones.
Better yet - avoid the kernel altogether!

Onload + Solarflare is a wonderful thing.
They should clone this guy, just so they can have more sources of his blood type
> reading books and writing papers.

So you'd argue that football is an intellectual pursuit in the same sense that math, physics, philosophy, or history is?

That study of the nuts and bolts of the game is worthy of the attention of our finest minds (as a discipline unto itself)?

The "reading books and writing papers" you mention is a severe and tragic distortion of why universities exist. It has little to do with the academic activity that's occurring outside the undergraduate classrooms.

It might be the case that there is a lot of waste happening in universities due to the commodification of education, but that doesn't trivialize the serious work that's still happening, however underfunded it remains.
>they are not being paid anything remotely close to the value that these schools get from them in terms of team gear sales, ad revenue, tv time, increased enrollment, etc etc etc.

This is true for only a very small percentage of college athletes.

Most college sports don't generate a lot of money for their schools. Even the most popular sports, men's football and men's basketball, generate big money for a minority of elite programs.
Dubious initial FreeBSD port: https://github.com/Freaky/lastpass-cli

Don't use the edit command on anything sensitive without a suitably secured /tmp - ideally tmpfs and encrypted swap - since it writes the data to a tempfile for your editor to open.
Agreed! With one minor correction. If the main thing you're studying is football, you should get a degree in football. I'm a big fan of imagining reforms that don't change anything but just rename things to their proper names. It's an interesting way to see the world.
In the case of gridiron football the system is a subsidy to the NFL which avoids player development costs...often at taxpayer expense. Likewise, the colleges pass off youth development costs to the public high school systems...again at taxpayer expense.

For the players. this form of amateurism means they have no power to negotiate contracts to offset the risks associated with the sport.
> Also, how hard is it to set up/care/feed a basic directory service?

Setting one up is pretty easy. The problem comes in when you find yourself depending on it, and then it gets out of whack, or Just Grows and you've got OUs and CNs all over the place.

At my last employer - a mid-sized manufacturer - we had several Tier II apps. These must be in working order or production is shut down. The shop floor application. Core ERP. Email. Above II is I which are applications that must exist or the company cannot operate.

There was only one Tier I application: Active Directory.
You could still donate for free, of course. Additionally, others would be more likely to provide blood for compensation. The overall supply would be greater.
I was just answering your question

> Do graduates seriously continue to resent people who were in fraternities that much?

And it's not the existence of frats that's the problem, if people want to join a club at school, there's tons of them on every campus for every kind of interest: chess, forestry, asian lesbian fashion, whatever.

Frats appear to serve the interest of "party and screw around". Like I said, whatever, you only live once and you may as well have fun when you're young. It's not like there aren't other kinds of clubs on campus that aren't exactly promoting a studious approach to life.

But it's the after college that matters. And the kind of behavior I provided links to is the kind of behavior that matters to people and rubs them the wrong way.

> Who is this collective they you refer to? How could you possibly know all of their thoughts?

Why do a bunch of former frat guys create an interesting startup but continue to behave like a group of douchebags? I don't know what their internal motivations are, but I know they're presenting the public image of an asshole in a behavior pattern that's associated with the frat-life. Why they chose to do that is not my problem. I frankly don't care what thoughts they're having that leads them to behave like a barely tamed group of hormone charged teenage gorillas.

But the end result is asinine stuff like this story.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8489273

And this behavior really affects people. Lots of people. It's not a "victimless crime".

It's the people who don't stop realizing they're in a frat long after they're out, the aftermath of the frat-life that real people have to deal with. I know it's a minority of frat members, but the size of the bad behavior overwhelms almost all other conversation you can have about frats, even the relative merits.

> This is categorically false. Everyone grows up, eventually.

I basically agree with you. But we've all met the 45 year old bro who hasn't grown up yet. And a disturbing number of them have been floating up the corporate ladder by riding the coattails of their greek brothers. Some of them even get put into position where they're running companies and are responsible for tens of millions of dollars. There's a specific kind of life this kind of guy has been trying to replicate for a couple of decades, and it's annoying and stupid to everyone around him.

Yeah it's a stereotype, and yeah it's a bad one. I'm not saying it isn't. But it's an immediately recognizable one that most people have come into some kind of unfortunate contact with.

You asked what the problem was that people have with fraternities, I've answered it.
Chicago, Big Data and the Array of Things
With regard to college athletes ...

I think they should be on a college team.

I think they should be going to college.

I do not think they should be paid.

Like most people, they are preparing for their future in the field of their interest.

The issue, in my opinion, is that we attempt to shoehorn them into "traditional" curriculum. They're forced to choose a major, often funneled into the easiest thing just to get through.

Fundamentally, the majority are in college to learn and prepare for life as a professional athlete (assuming we're talking about the "Big 3" sports). Let's allow them to do that. Let's provide programs that focus on that, that teach sport fundamentals, dealing with the media, managing money, dealing with agents, fundamentals of business, etc. Let's also provide routes for post-professional-sport life, like lower-level media classes, etc.

We seem to have an aversion to treating a lucrative and very real profession like something that warrants education.

Edit: The problem with $ and athletes largely applies solely to football, wherein the NCAA and NFL have colluded to force high school talent to play somewhere for three years after graduation. This is arbitrary and stupid, and forces kids into programs they don't care about, for institutions that they don't care about. This is the primary issue with not paying players. It's not that colleges don't pay, it's that there's no other opportunity to get paid.
The NCAA is basically a joke when it comes to enforcing their rules on academic standards. This was made clear a couple years ago, when they hit Caltech with big penalties for lax academic standards, while basically ignoring things like the UNC scandal.

Caltech was fact was technically in violation, because it allows students to spend the first three weeks of each term taking classes without registering for them. The idea is that students can sample several classes they are interested in, then decide which they will stick with, and then register. For this three weeks, they are doing the work from all of the classes they are sampling.

However, since they are not registered for a full academic load during that three weeks, they count as part-time students, not full-time students, and so are ineligible for NCAA sports. Caltech's new director of athletics noticed this, stopped the violations, and reported his department to the NCAA.

The reaction of the press, both general and sports (Google "NCAA caltech" for details), was generally to make fun of the NCAA, and point out all the serious athletic schools routinely committing much worse, much more intentional violations.

Of course, some of the major sanctions won't have any effect. For instance, Caltech was banned from postseason play for one year. Considering that most Caltech teams are in the midst of years or even decades long losing streaks in conference play, they aren't going near the postseason anyway. They also banned off-campus recruiting...which Caltech doesn't do.

The only sanction that might have actually been noticeable was wiping out all wins of the ineligible teams. There was some initial concern that this would wipe out the basketball win over Occidental earlier that year that had snapped a 26 year, 310 conference game losing streak [1]. It turned out all the players on that team had been eligible, so the win stands.

[1] A movie was made about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Hoops
I don't know about that. I'd think the account protection team would be larger than 80. What do I know?
Move to China.

Also, read this for some good language learning advice: http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2010/01/koreans-english-acqui...
Why would any sane person bring SDP into WebRTC? They had a fresh slate to get things right, and instead they end up making it worse than the SIP headache. SDP, the spec that suggests people might use SDP to setup chess games is a terrible format. In fact, unless they changed the offer answer model, there's actually no way to determine what single codec is in use. It's one of those things where every vendor sorta does something, and relies on tons of interop and guessing to actually come up with an implementation. Plus it's yet another custom parser with a strange format. And deliberately clipped in verbosity (for a text format) because the SIP authors were terrified of IP fragmentation and actually spec'd a hardcoded MTU size.

Edit: Frustration aside, this is a really nice explanation, thanks.
All this is true, and very understandable. But the question remains, why is it NOW more common to stay put rather than relocate? What is it about the modern environment that makes people so much more reluctant to pick up and move? With all the benefits of modern communication and technology that makes maintaining social connections over distances and receiving financial support from anywhere so easy, you'd think it'd be easier to move than before when leaving really meant "leaving."
hah... Assuming the prototype is actually identical to the delivered product. People who want to skim money off the top aren't stupid, the prototype will probably contain the specified part and so will the first few lots. To insure validity of every part you need to test every part.
I moved a couple of years ago. At my old place, I had the choice between cable and DSL. Verizon was the DSL provider, and the best they could give me was 1.5Mbps. I went with cable.

At my new place, I have the choice between cable and fiber. Verizon is the fiber provider, and they'll happily sell me up to 500Mbps if I want to pay for it, and they deliver. That's symmetrical, too, as of a couple of months ago.

I'm not a fan of big ISPs, but I don't think it's quite as bad as you say either.
The research paper has been recently discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8489971

I believe this post from one of the paper authors (Michael Mitzenmacher, one of the most prominent researchers on hash data structures) is a much clearer description of the idea.
A piece of Apple history sells for $900,000
I've seen that one before but what caught my attention this time was the "(M)FTDI FEB 2005" line - the design is approaching 10 years old, and the significance of that is the fact that IC layouts ("mask work") are only protected for 10 years by copyright law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_Chip_Protection_A...

It's also completely legal to reverse-engineer an existing IC to duplicate its functionality in a different manner, which the cloners have definitely done in this case - they are completely different.

So it appears that the only thing the fake FTDI chip is violating is the trademark "FTDI", which might not even have been put there by the fab that produced the die, since they're branded 'Supereal'.
Scientists sequence the genome of a 45,000-year-old man
What would FTDI be able to go after them for? The end-user isn't copying anything so they can't run afoul of much with regards to copyright law, they know they're getting a counterfeit so they're not being fooled by trademark infringement and probably only care about the functionality of their ICs anyways, and the internals are completely different so the patent risk is minimal.
I think a brunt of the issue is that their exploitation is what is being used to generate that "significant value".

Here's an article about the latest NCAA reform vote on [edit: student-]athlete compensation: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/06/us-ncaa-rules-idUS...
"Lax academic standards" at Caltech... now I've seen everything.
Maybe professional sports should change the way they recruit, and leave academic institutions out of the picture. The NFL has enough money to set up a more extensive farm league system, or maybe they could have a junior league based on smaller cities?

FWIW, I have heard of the NBA showing interest in kids in high school. I am not sure if they actually recruited any of them, though.
(IANAL) The 12 hours of free-work might constitute consideration, but I don't see why you would even take a contracts angle on this particular interaction when you just have generic labor law.
I think the message is that this is the last common product where a tube was required.
How is this much different from what is done with other counterfeit goods[1-4]? Is it because they aren't going through legal channels to do it? But these all are counterfeit, so the end result is the same, right? When counterfeit goods are found, they are seized and destroyed. I can see people getting upset about this, but I'm surprised at the unanimous response to it.

[1]Car bodies: http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/mercedes-and-daimler-cr...

[2]Guitars: http://thehub.musiciansfriend.com/bits/feds-seize-over-185-c...

[3]Carrying bags: http://www.hamm.eu/en/aktuelles-und-presse/news/2009/2009-04...

[4]Clothing: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/nyregion/trademark-trumps-...
One feature that's unclear to me, if you don't mind: when you sweep a bundle, does it sweep only the items displayed on the screen, or everything in that category? For example, if I have 500 emails in my Forums bundle and sweep what I can see, will it sweep just those 25 or all 500? I don't want to make a mistake by testing this myself. :)
Where's "here"? I lived in Shanghai 3 years I would have put that number pretty close to 0%.
Are changes that you make in Inbox reflected in Gmail? For instance, if you archive (sweep?) something in Inbox is it also archived in Gmail? Are clusters related to tags?
Sorry for bad formatting and not compile checking the code, but this is an improvement imo:

checkCurTile b = do
case b of
Chip -> liftIO $ playSound (soundDir ++ "collect_chip.wav") False
Gate -> liftIO $ playSound (soundDir ++ "door.wav") False
(KeyYellow _) -> yellowKeyCount += 1
(KeyBlue _) -> blueKeyCount += 1
tileAt Current .= (Empty def)
Honestly, doesn't this make anyone wonder what the point is of college in the first place? Even without the equivalent of special ed courses, it's not like most (any?) athletes study STEM courses that might require university certification. Literally the only point of their enrollment is to make money for the school, then shuffle off with a communications degree and work in a shoe store the rest of their lives.

Yes, they can get drunk and get laid for a couple years, and if they're really good they might not have to borrow too much money for the privilege. But what a complete waste of time for everyone involved. They take pointless courses for worthless degrees so the student body can burn cars when balls are thrown correctly.

Europeans have the right approach to education, even if they're still too credential-obsessed. Nobody cares about college sports, nobody goes into debt pursuing their degrees, and everyone can enter the work force much younger and start earning a few extra years of salary.
Why do academic institutions need to have sports teams?
> Why is every semi-pro athlete expected to get a decent GPA in order to play on a university's football team?

Because they are not semi-pro athletes. They are university students first and amateur athletes second. Or at least that's what's being claimed. And as students, they have to pass the same general education curriculum as every other student in the university, and to the same standards.

> If, as adults, they choose not to pursue academic studies, and instead choose to focus all of their energy on sports, then they should be allowed to do that without putting their sports career at risk.

Sure. But this should be done outside of a university environment. The problem is not that athletes expected to be good students. The problem is that in the US they are expected to be students at all.
Let's look at it another way. 40 out of 50 states' highest paid public employee is a head football or basketball coach.
Fly on the cheap – if you are lean enough to fit in the middle seat
UNC grad here. These "paper" classes were very well known when I was an undergrad.

Your university almost certainly had similar classes that were very easy and required very little attendance...and were always full of athletes and lazy seniors looking to pump up their GPA.

You can't fault the students (athletes or otherwise) for finding a shortcut in the system and then exploiting it. It is the university's responsibility to quality control its curriculum.
On Ansible and Fabric
What SICP teaches is how to use various types of abstractions to build software.

(It is lacking syntactic abstraction, as provided by Common Lisp macros, but one can argue that metalinguistic abstraction, which is covered, supercedes syntactic abstraction).

Also, for normal programmer, it works (along with the videos) like a mind-openner: you won't understand programming the same way after having studied it. It has a mind-freeing effect.
It's at least on par with, literature, music, philosophy, history, sociology, psychology, art, or any other "soft" subjects lacking of direct impact on people's lives. It's held to a higher standard than economics, but has less impact.

As to math I would argue it's more meaningful than say topology, but less than other branches.
Are we at Peak Google?
European football (soccer) teams run academies of their own to groom players. If a youngster is serious about becoming a professional footballer, he/she joins these academies. They are given a "well-rounded" education, but the emphasis is obviously on the sport. Graduates end being signed by the parent club, or getting contracts with lower-level teams if they can make the cut.

I'm curious to understand why this system isn't practiced in the US.
This is less interesting than I thought it would be. I wrote something similar a few years ago, but it would text you a code (as opposed to email).