skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you could understand why I would think you could be a clown if you're wearing a red nose right?

While I think you've made a godawful argument from analogy, this part made me chuckle.
Microsoft has confirmed that they're aware of the issue, and are investigating. No news yet on what (if any) action they'll take. But I'd expect they'll do something, as it would appear to the end user that "Windows Update broke my $DEVICE".
Research says our ability to distinguish sounds in other languages ceases after first 8 months and that's why it's harder to understand someone talking in foreign language.

For me this obstacle went away with sufficient immersion and practice. I started learning Chinese at age 19, the following year I went to China as an exchange student and studied Chinese / Mandarin full time. By the time I came back I was fluent in the language, more fluent than all of the second-generation Chinese-Americans I knew, and with a native-sounding accent, although my vocabulary was still not quite native-speaker level.

I don't know exactly what Zuck is doing to study, but what I did was I went to school in China and spoke almost entirely in Mandarin all day, wrote essays in Chinese, read news articles and novels in Chinese, made Chinese friends, dated Chinese women (and eventually married one).

You really have to live in a foreign language for a period of several years in order to truly learn it.
MLB has the minor leagues as their feeder program.

The NFL has college football as their feeder program.

There are a lot of tradeoffs, but in the end I think the MLB's system is better. To me, the charade of "student athletes" in football gets more and more strained each year.

The question is if they did want to transition to a minor league football system, how can you go from here to there in an orderly fashion?
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It's impressive because he's successfully steering his company and picking up an incredibly difficult language for Native English speakers.
While I agree with this perspective on athletics at a university, it does seem like it ought to be an issue with the school's academic accreditation. I don't believe that a university that practices this should have their degrees recognized this way.

I will say that I'm not really sure who values this certification though.
Why is Chrome so much less graphically performant than Safari?
Hey HN,

Front End Developer here, long time reader. I'm trying to identify why Chrome seems to struggle when it comes to animation performance while Safari is able to render everything without a hitch. Is this because Safari has hooks into the OS that Chrome does not? Is this because Google adopted blink in lieu of webkit? And most importantly is there a remedy out there?

Take the following site for example: http://scrollrevealjs.org/

In Chrome my scrolling gets choppy, however everything remains beautifully buttery in Safari. As a developer what can I do to improve the performance of my sites that rely heavily on animation?

Thanks!
Have they contracted PR out to Ocean Marketing?
Just got it working - Yubikey support seems fine.
Is this for common or preferred stock?
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Yes. That's why he's doing this.
In "The Hobbit", Bilbo Baggins is a boring little non-noteworthy hobbit who rises to his circumstances. The same thing applies to Frodo in LOTR.

I read James Patterson's "The Beach House" on a pair of short plane flights this past summer. It's a commercial/pulp thriller. The MC doesn't acquire any superpowers during the story except for becoming a badass willing to take significant risks when his life and that of his friends is on the line.

Edit to add: Jack Ryan, especially in the early Tom Clancy novels.

In any story worth reading the main character won't stay "normal" for the duration. The protagonist's change through the course of the story is part of the point of telling a story.
Well, yes, you can forward Bitcoins without risk this way. But it doesn't solve the real problem, which is selling something for Bitcoins that you can't get back if the Bitcoin transaction is rejected.

One online gambling site that accepted zero-confirmation transactions was burned by double spends. The bettor would quickly respend any funds they lost, invalidating the payment. If they won, they let the Bitcoin transaction go through and accepted the winning payment.

This new "zero confirmation" scheme wouldn't protect against that. It would just prevent placing a bet, winning, accepting the won amount, then canceling the original payment.

Back to the drawing board, zero-conf people.
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An interesting comparison might be to the Zoho Inbox Insights [1] app that is slated to land fairly soon.
If reports are to be believed this app has similar functionality.

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2837812/zoho-nips-at-google-i...
That turns out to be the case.
> That is a form of systems hacking

Yep, pretty much how I viewed it the entire time. I had no friends in a new town, and it bothered me (this doesn't bother everyone and that's fine). I needed a quick hack so I didn't have to worry about it for years to come. It worked great, but I'm sure there were other ways to tackle the problem.
I graduated from UNC's Communication Studies program, one that many athletes sign up for. I took classes with many of the athletes, including half of our championship basketball team. I can honestly say I did not find any organized attempts on part of the professors to provide underhanded help to athletes. So if it happened, it was by administrators, away from the sight of the rest of students/instructors.

Even then, I am a bit surprised. I remember athlete friends being super concerned about their attendance and passing. In almost every class, we'd get someone drop by while class was in session to check if the athletes in the class were in actually there.
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Bummer. The FTDI driver crashes my mac quite frequently.
My perspective, as someone with some experience with truly high power microwave tubes (multi-MW, not sub-kW): It's great that that a quarter kilowatt can be done in solid state, but it's not a death knell for microwave tubes. 58% efficiency at 2.45GHz and 63% efficiency at 915MHz sound reasonable but aren't a breakthrough, especially for a narrowband application like RF heating. The big savings come from ditching the strong magnets and high voltage power supplies. Size may be a significant improvement, but these devices still need to dissipate more than a third of their power as heat, so it's not as drastic as pictures may imply.

Solid-state devices have been gradually encroaching on vacuum tubes for a long time, but vacuum tube tech has been advancing, too. I'm not sure that cathode lifespan is much of a concern anymore at the power levels that solid-state devices can reach. The upper limit of how much power you can get out of a single tube is still growing, as is the efficiency. There's a lot of low-hanging fruit for the design of microwave tubes now that we can actually do a 3d simulation without a supercomputer.

Solid-state devices haven't surpassed any of the fundamental limitations on vacuum tube devices except for the entry costs of having a high-temperature high-voltage cathode, a vacuum chamber, and a strong magnetic field.
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>It's not like they're coming up with their own encryption algorithms.

I seem to remember something about a tree-based hash algorithm for mining purposes that turned out to be cryptographically insecure.

>The only thing you need oracles for is getting information from the outside world.

Or for having any effect on the outside world (i.e. the things that people usually want programs to do).

> I can think of plenty of applications that don't require that.

Besides financials/contract processing, what?

>Schelling mechanism

Do you have a link about this?
The students would have to be paid something in order for them to be semi-pro. They are amateur athletes. Ironically, the teams themselves have to be considered professional, considering the amount of income they generate.
Destruction after due process and by the proper authorities, yes. After all, it's a reverse engineered product. How does the software know that it's got FTDI stamped on it? Everything else is just implementation details.
Then why are there people in this same thread stating that his vocabulary is impressive? Do you have a source for this claim?
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Exactly, when the tube gets warmed up and you crank up the pre-amp gain you get a warm-sounding natural distortion that afaik is impossible to emulate with a digital amp.

I used to have a Marshall JCM 2000 Dual Super Lead, that thing sounded amazing.
In the case of American football, skipping college isn't an option. The NFL doesn't recruit out of high school, so a player's only option is to do 3-4 years indentured servitude at an NCAA institution.
I know I made the mistake of ordering these and Beryllium sphere at the same time. Oopsie!
Just a PSA for mac users: Keychain Access.app has a command line interface: `security` . I use a special keychain for some of my TrueCrypt passwords, so I can mount them all with the same password via the command line via `security find-generic-password`
This is absolutely correct. Only about 10% of the successful long-term foreign businessmen I know here speak passable Chinese.

Chinese love when you speak the language- but that does not unfortunately translate into the sort of tangible business advantages that many students of Mandarin hope for. It's a wonderful language, and loads of fun to learn- but the ROI is not as high as other areas of study.
Chinese is basically English grammar with different words...Japanese on the other hand is much more weird. Getting tones right is key, but they are easy to practice.

Writing is quite hard; I'm conversational but basically illiterate.
Collegiate athletics is organized under a league called the NCAA. The NCAA sets rules requiring players to have certain ACT/SAT scores, GPAs, prohibit players accepting compensation for participation, etc., and there is a complicated enforcement division that metes out discipline for violations.

Schools can technically do whatever they want, but in practice this would put them in violation of agreements with the NCAA, they'd get kicked out, and then they'd have nobody to play against.
For a company that still makes the vast majority of it's money from search, Google sure generates a lot of products with absolutely horrible SEO.

The chrome browser vs chrome os search overlap is just awful as I found out this week.
Thanks for posting that. It gave me some interesting things to look into.
I guess I mean the NCAA rules on academic eligibility. I'll admit that I don't have a detailed understanding but having completely nonexistent classes seems like it is likely a violation. I supposed we will have to wait for the reopened investigation to commence to find out.

http://www.ncaa.org/remaining-eligible-academics
Yeah! There were a handful more like this that I wanted to add... but they never really reached a decision in court, so there wasn't much to discuss.
Facebook is pretty uniformly blocked in China. I've never encountered a network where I could access it outside of using a VPN.
I grew up in poor, rural Appalachia. You can typically get 20 to 30 mbps cable there for $50 to $75 depending on the provider. While that's not cheap, it's also not bad if you're ditching your $80 or $120 / month TV plan and moving to Netflix / Hulu / soon HBO etc.

I'm not sure where these rural areas in America are, that are poorer and or with less population density than Appalachia (North Dakota? Wyoming?), and that have nothing over a few mbps, but it certainly blows my mind that they still exist.

If the issue is specifically with DSL, then I find it hard to justify that it should continue to exist in rural areas if it lags so far behind cable.
Airbnb is officially legal in San Francisco
Can you say a bit more about what's wrong with Ripple's consensus algorithm? Or link to a critique?
Just going to follow up on this to excerpt part of that Supreme Court decision;

Exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act
is the question. The design of the statute is to protect investors
by promoting full disclosure of information thought necessary to
informed investment decisions.[10] The natural way to interpret the
private offering exemption is in light of the statutory
purpose. Since exempt transactions are those as to which "there is
no practical need for [the bill's] application," the applicability
of § 4 (1) should turn on whether the particular class of persons
affected needs the protection of the Act. An offering to those who
are shown to be able to fend for themselves is a transaction "not
involving any public offering."

I truly dislike the logic, why can't we stick with the plain meaning of the text, but they are trying to protect people from swindlers so I can understand their goal.

The end result is selling shares to the night janitor is almost certainly not allowed by 4(a)(2) but glad it turned out alright this time.
Flag-killed by users earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8493620.

Edit: Somebody emailed us who was worried that this comment indicated some policy change about content like the OP. It didn't. It was just routine.
But this has nothing to do with how NCAA athletics have worked in the US, especially in football, for decades. You can't blame the players, when they are pursuing the sports path open to them, blame the colleges.
> it will have been an amazing experience that I lucked in to.

I'm not really sure why you feel that way. Are you underskilled? You make it sound as though you're underpaid but then call it an amazing experience.
You said that they release more and more "to obsolete the old." My point is that was not their goal.

Their goal was always to have spells and creatures roughly balanced. Their original thinking was that creatures were a repeatable source of damage and thus should be costed as such.

Turns out they overestimated how much rarity mattered and underestimated the power level of creatures. As a result, we get pretty mediocre creatures and ridiculously powerful rare spells.

If every set were trying to outpower the last, then we wouldn't still get functional reprints of Llanowar Elves or Grizzly Bears, both of which were in Alpha.

Really, the power creep from year 1 to year 10 or so was a desire to see creatures played in competitive magic and a desire to see more actual games of magic (if your opponent wins the coin flip and goes Mountain, Black Lotus, Channel, Fireball then no actual magic was played).

Since then they've actually been doing a sort of power oscillation. Different parts get more powerful over time, then go back to weaker again. They mostly focus on Standard and Limited where the power level of older cards matter less.

In summary (I've already written too much) there's simple proof that the power level isn't endlessly increasing: look at Legacy and Modern. Every set that comes out adds between 0-3 cards that see Modern play and 0-1 cards that see Legacy play. If power level were just flat going up, that number would be much much higher.
I think this implies that men cannot be sexy. While I'm not attracted to men I have it from a reliable source that this is false.
posted link: http://talentia-algo.quickmvp.com

at least: http://quickmvp.com looks interesting
For most people this is probably true, but I started learning Mandarin in college and now have a native-sounding accent, and I know others who have pulled it off too.

I think the key was that in the first few months of studying Mandarin, I listened to recordings of short phrases and repeated them back over and over again until I sounded exactly like the recording. I spent hours in my university's language lab with headphones on, doing this.

But you have to be able to imitate sounds that you hear, and I guess not everyone is naturally good at this. I'd imagine that people who are good at doing impressions, as well as perhaps people with musical talent, have an advantage at learning accents.
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I'd say the tech community is obliged to return that care which is shown for them. At a time when "Die techie scum" is a rallying cry, be thankful apathy is all you get.
> Because colleges have the stated goal of educating people.

And do you suppose that people are just born being really good at sports? Of course not, it takes thousands of hours of learning/education. If we're going to treat things like math and economics as academic subjects, then I don't see how football is any different.
Make some Chinese friends and speak only Chinese with them. Really listen to them and try to say the words and phrases the way they say them.

You have to socialize in the language, that's really the only way to learn it.
The replies are saying the schools provide prestige, visibility to scouts, and training/coaching/advice.

Change the terms in your post and theirs a bit, and I can't tell if we are talking about exploiting footballers or participants in the YCombinator program.
It'd be interesting to build a phased array of them (which you can't do with magnetrons) and try to aim at individual birds flying. Except, swarms of mosquitos instead of birds.
Whoa it may be the last mass market vacuum tube is going away but that doesn't mean all of them. Hams use linear amplifiers that have tubes in them. Pretty sure the military still uses them as well.

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

Most vacuum tube production these days is in Eastern Europe and Russia.
The power creep that you're talking about didn't really start until Magic was about 10 years old. Since then, there have been back and forths but in general you're correct. If you took a Type II deck from 2000 to a tournament today you'd get stomped on.
Can-be-construed-as x-ist is a weasel pattern used to project a straw-person's sensibilities onto common discourse.
You are closer to understand culture knowing their languages...
The GPA requirement is incidental. It happens to be the barrier to playing ball.

There is a straightforward economic incentive (money) for both the school and the athletes to practice more and win more, and it plainly has nothing to do with academics, whatever the grand rhetoric about student athletes. As with all such situations, when there is a barrier to economic success, the system will gradually evolve to short circuit those barriers (cheating) as much as is possible within the confines of the rules. This is well documented by now. I have to imagine that UNC was just unlucky enough to get caught.
I wrote a review of the Inbox on facebook (that was my deal with the person that invited me). Cross-posting here if it interests you.

My review of Google's new Inbox, based on two hours of use (thanks [redacted] for the invite).

First the good parts:
1. I really like bundles. The idea that I can "Sweep" all the promotional emails I get in one click fills me with glee (and marketers with anxiety, I imagine). It's also nice to have all the travel related emails in one place. Never again am I going to be confused whether I should be going to SFO or SJC.

2. I like the new compose. My emails are too long (both those I write and those you do), and I'm praying that showing just one line to write a response will make emails briefer.

3. Snooze/procrastinate: How I like the idea of "someday". Combined with my own future discounting, I'm not going to feel guilty about not responding anymore.

The not-so-good parts:

1. Boy is this opinionated software! There is an inexorable push to empty your inbox. I guess I'll like it if I get with the program.

2. It's too pretty. No, seriously. The title-bar is too bright, there are too many people's faces, too many colors and font styles. I like my email drab so I can focus on what people are saying and not get distracted by the colors.

That's all I see with two hours of use. Oh, also, I don't know how to invite people yet. If someone tells me, I'm happy to invite y'all.

edit: formatting.
Yes, in China people really tend to appreciate any effort you make at learning their language. You don't have to be fluent to be appreciated for trying. This will go a long way in endearing him to the Chinese people.
They provide the complete source, as required by the GPL. However, they do not provide patch sets neatly broken out like they used to; that's what the parent is referring to.
Not really, human genome is a bit of an exaggeration "The short DNA fragments that persist in these ancient samples limit the areas of the human genome that you can match the fragments to".

And even if you could recover a genetically perfect sample, a resurrected mammoth wouldn't be raised in the same environment as an animal from the time, so all kinds of things like socialization, migration patterns, bacteria, food sources etc. won't match the era.
Well, they are getting compensation in terms of free tuition, room and board, etc... these things do have significant value. If they complete school, they get to walk away with a degree without any debt. That's not trivial.

However, the athletes are only able to actualize this compensation if they can freely choose their majors, are able to take the classes they want, and actually earn their education. By creating a secondary tier of classes, the school was deliberately exploiting them.

I think that the value of a degree (for an athlete) will vary greatly depending on the school. Some schools are more academically rigorous for athletes than others... UNC apparently was on the low end of the scale.
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I assume most news articles are really just reworded press releases with some background information, and this one seems to be from Freescale. There is even a link in the article. However, this article lacks a quote by a person from the company, an expert, or a related company in the field.
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Whats App was a huge mistake though. That data is not worth Billions.
Why the 'U' in UPC doesn't mean 'Universal'- why the barcode needs a revamp
You would think that if a person's perceptions and belief could grant a much longer life span, at least one crazy person would have provided this by living to something like 200.
#django maybe?
It's the official position of the Chinese Government that Facebook is not allowed in mainland China. That is plainly the case, and has been for many years.
The page's <title> is "Weather Channel's Web, Mobile Growth Leads to Advertising Insights - Businessweek". Ditto for the slug in the URL.

Looks like Businessweek is the pot calling the kettle black.
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> Try typing this into a JS Console: var xx = []; xx[30000000]=42; var yy = xx.slice(0);

What specific problems does this create that prevents you from shipping with a degraded experience?

Or feature detect this problem and serve some type of notice.

If bleeding-edge Chrome is the only browser good enough for this site then it's a problem with the site's architecture.

> Any insinuation that this is an attempt to sell Chrome over Firefox is just flat out wrong.

Maybe not you in the engineering team, but the designers / PMs who decided to stick a "install Chrome instead" banner definitely had it in mind.

> Firefox has such a large user base, it can't be ignored, just like iOS can't.

That's either a lie or incredibly naive. You wouldn't have shipped without iOS. Full-stop.
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The professional leagues are also complicit (baseball less so). Both the NFL and NBA have age limits on their draft picks. At least the NBA has a development league, but the NFL has no farm system to speak of (outside of the NCAA).