skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was the first thing I thought also, but I guess you can't argue that tube amps (for headphones, guitars, whatever) is a pretty niche product these days.
Maybe it is a new social network? Congrats on getting 8 followers already ;)
Thank you for providing some perspective.

When I heard people say how hard Millennials have it I think to myself "harder than the 17 and 18 year olds who went off to fight in WW2?" or "harder than my grandfather who jumped on a freight train at the age of 16 to find work during the depression?"
The correct way is to detect counterfeit parts, display a huge warning and let the customer continue on their own risk. A similar process is used by the Linux kernel developers for non-opensource kernel modules: If you load them, the kernel becomes "tainted" and you won't get any support from the kernel developers if something goes wrong.
Those values are measured in real-world conditions, not the lab - they've deployed to 3 homes in a housing estate near Ipswich from one distribution point - though I believe that you are correct in saying that they are aggregate throughput.

You can't dig up peoples' gardens without permission! That suggestion also requires 2 separate truck-rolls, and still relies on someone being home for the appointment to complete the connection. Of course it can be done - is being done - but relying on the customer increases the cost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking
That's what I immediately noticed - his grammar and processing speed is pretty slow and steady but his vocabulary is incredible. I mean, he's been studying for what, 2-3 years? I wouldn't be surprised if he was in like the top 1% of people studying Chinese, on top of the fact that he has a small company to run.
I suspect the answer has something to do with web design. weather.com has got swarms of designers being paid to make people click on things while weather.gov will only appeal to folks who eschew such things.
Undefined means: the implementation can choose to define it, or can choose to leave it undefined. The standard prefers implementation defined when it's cheap, but some times it's not.
The OP linked to a dismissal of this article...
Gov. Snyder's signing letter on HB 5606 and Tesla [pdf]
I've lived in China 5 years now and our skill levels are comparable so I'm pretty impressed. It's really just basic conversation but the Chinese people will love him for getting this far with it. This along with move to join Tsinghua board will create massive goodwill for FB.
Sure, but the chips are illegal no? Where is the moral high ground coming from...

I'm not a supporter of intellectual property laws, but we have them, so I'd also be curious of any legal ground fake chip users have to stand on.
Hey, an FTDI employee!

I'm surprised you found time away from scrubbing your Facebook page clean of all the disparaging comments.

My advice: Skip breakfast tomorrow morning - you're going to be eating quite a bit of crow for lunch.
One letter from google -- um, golf clap? Contrast that with what a company does when they actually want something. eg Twitter and their tax break [1]. They threaten to leave sf, testimony at the council, meetings with councilpeople, lobbying, etc.

But no no -- one letter means google is actively working for more housing.
In a culture with intellectual property laws I'm not sure that's true. Is it legal to destroy counterfeit handbags commonly sold on the street? Honest question, the police seem to do it frequently.
Basically what happened with LCD panels and televisions. Once Freescale ramps up and someone else, like Triquint, enters the market the price will come down.
My point is that they do try. It just doesn't get results. What would you have them do? Pick up, move, and crash the regional economy?

EDIT: If you look, you'll find that it comes up quite often. It's far from just one letter.
I largely agree that the mystique has to go, and that conversational Chinese is not nearly as hard to learn as believed, but I disagree that Mandarin is easy as a whole.

Characters are hard. There are thousands of them, with only loose auditory or semantic meaning. Learning to write and read Chinese is almost always going to involve rote memorization, hopefully using spaced repetition.

I've been studying Mandarin in a non-intensive but formal class for 6 years, speak a bit better than mark to Mark here and almost definitely with a larger vocabulary (though this could be 100% biased by the intimidation of a large fluent crowd in his case), and cannot even hope to read a simple Chinese novel or newspaper. I've heard anecdotally that doing so requires working knowledge of about 10,000 characters.
Am I the only one who's excited about this? I was in the middle of rolling out my own SMS authentication (US-only) but now -great timing, Twitter!- I will definitely take a look at this.

EDIT: The documentation is kind of hard to find: https://dev.twitter.com/twitter-kit/ios/digits
How Edward Snowden Changed Journalism
Aside from the fact that Inbox is still email, this is called "bootstrapping".
Google offers USB security key to make bad passwords moot
I tried reporting this to Microsoft; their handling of calls to report security vulnerabilities was just horrendous.

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Hi,

I've been advised to email this address by 'XXXX' at Microsoft Support.

FTDI is shipping a malware driver for Windows; if it detects what it thinks is a counterfeit device plugged in by USB, it bricks it. Details here:

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/ftdi-driver-kills-fake-...

I've also attempted to report this by phone as suggested by XXXX. I've never experienced such difficulty trying to report a security issue; I'd have expected that you'd have processes in place, but apparently not.

My first attempt was met by a CSR who informed me that he knew of no protocol for reporting security issues, and that he couldn't help me because it wasn't directly effecting my computer. He then hung up on me when I asked to speak to a supervisor.

Second call got me a much more helpful chap, who after conferring with a supervisor, transferred me to professional services. The person I spoke with there said they also didn't have any security reporting protocol, or if they did, he didn't know about it. When I said the issue could effect thousands of devices, he transferred me through to 'corporate'.

I ended up going through an IVR system to an operator, who was no help whatsoever. She was entirely the wrong person to speak to; she was also completely ignorant of any security reporting process, and didn't know who to transfer me to.

Could you please call me on +61 XXX XXX XXX to acknowledge receipt of this report, and to discuss it? Thanks.

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GPL is a killer for any project that's not a toy or for school.

My paycheck - financed by some of the largest companies in my country - disagrees. There are other ways to make money besides locking others from your code.
Does it have ads?
> Is the evidence pretty overwhelming that intelligence comes from the brain?

> Yes.

No.

http://www.amazon.com/Cognition-Bradford-Books-Edwin-Hutchin...

http://www.amazon.com/Embodied-Cognition-New-Problems-Philos...
I read it as an idiom to express surprise[0], not literal disbelief.

[0] http://www.phrasemix.com/phrases/i-cant-believe-someone-woul...
According to (some) tube afficinados, you can simulate pre-amplifier can emulate a tube pre-amplifier: small-signal elements based on tubes can be substituted with silicon. However, you probably can't emulate that big signal stuff that goes on between the tube power amp, its output transformer and a speaker, and the sound that ultimately emerges. That is to say, not in the same amount of wattage, and with the same speaker. Maybe a 5,000 watt rig (amplifier and speakers) could faithfully emulate what comes out of a fully cranked 50W tube amplifier, its output transformer, and a specific 50W loud speaker.

As a related illustration of the idea, it is common to see microphones in front of small tube amplifiers, which then feed into a large PA system. The small amplifier acts as the "signal processor" which produces the tone, and the PA just makes it bigger. It has the headroom to do that.

In that scenario, the tube amplifier with a microphone in front of it can be replaced by digital modeling: something which produces the same transfer function as what occurs between the signal from the instrument, and the signal going into the console's microphone input.
I had no idea pass existed. I will have to check it out. Thanks!
This looks very much like the end of Mailbox. If execution is half-decent (and it's a big "if", I haven't tried it yet), GMail users from now on will have no use for Mailbox or MailPilot.
Also: why there is no "dislike" button
Interestingly, more often than not, the posts were not meant to hurt, but were jokes lost in digital translation. When Facebook asked people why they shared a post that hurt someone else, around 90 percent of respondents said they thought their friends would like the post or would think it was funny.

Even my dog knows the limits of that particular excuse. It's nice that Facebook is throwing some resources at this problem, but giving people stickers, really? Why not call in a linguistics expert like Deborah Tannen, or do some epidemiology-type modeling of meme transmission to see whether differently-freighted transmissions take different vectors around the network?
I think it is also worth nothing that Zuckerberg is (perhaps was?) quite talented at Latin and nearly went on to study Classics at Harvard.
Let's Re-Define Growth Hacking
I'd prefer not to disclose publicly, but your email is not actually in your profile. You can email my throwaway, mike.anon at hotmail dot com.
Oprah Winfrey on taking risks and failure
As a former employee #1 I can attest that even 2-3% of a company at a paltry wage is unsustainable. I know when I start my own business someday it will closer model what was done at WotC - this really resonated with me.
Lots of "perfectly capable of adults" maintain a savings account and cultivate a network they think can fall back on in hard times. Far fewer than you think are able to save enough or have that network come through. In fact, assuming one's savings account is large enough, or one's network is strong enough, is an assumption born of privilege few, even in America, ever know.
It's very impressive
> So yes, changing anything (hard-fork) is very difficult because it requires 100% consensus to be done well.

I'm fairly certain this isn't the case. It needs 51% to be done (nevermind done "well"), and then in theory more and more miners will cut their losses and start operating under the winning chain's rules.

Unless by "done well", you mean that transacting users and merchants aren't inconvenienced. Because a hard fork battle would be inconvenient for commerce if it wasn't a large majority. But miners don't necessarily need to care about that :)
um, they don't actually try, and nothing you've found disproves that. But one letter was sent!
Nice! I just recently got a I+ too. How's your experience been so far?
I remember reading that he was spending an hour a night on this years ago. (I wish I could remember more) but the key being "years" sticks in my mind, yeah.
"To access the full featured mowish site please provide your email and password respectively:"

I don't see that you can access anything without registering. Always a bad idea.

Unfortunately, I don't even see what the point of the website is -- other than making a list for some reason -- so I have no incentive to register.

"Unlock feature to get movies for your taste! Only $12.97 for 6 months."

No idea what "feature" is and certainly not going to pay for it.
#1 - Make a Turtle. #2 Program the Turtle to Draw a Man. Origins of logo!
> https://www.redfin.com/ "WHY USE A REDFIN AGENT?" "When your agent and your website work together you..." "We’re full-service, local agents."

Yes, but Zillow and Trulia use the word "our agent" all over as well.

> Would you say that BestBuy is just like Google Shopping Search -- it puts you in touch with electonics sellers. But BestBuy tries to connect you with its own internal sellers?

Sure. You can buy a TV from bestbuy.com or amazon, or whatever comparison you want to make and from GSS. Two ways to the same means.

> Anyway, Zillow has no incentive to provide high quality data / shopping experience

I don't completely disagree, but it's incorrect that they have NO incentive. There are plenty of reasons to provide accurate data. There's a reason we spent 10s of millions at Zillow each year trying to get better data. It certainly matters.
I'm beginning to think the honest answer is "DON'T", but people are still scared of being so brazenly xenophobic.
Another good reference is "Johny Got his Gun" by Dalton Trumbo. I read it when I was about 16. It gave me a new perspective on war.
RedHat does not release what patches they include in their kernels

Stupid question here: aren't kernel patches considered derivative works? If so, then isn't RedHat legally obligated to released them under GPL?
Zero-confirmation Bitcoin transactions
You say you think it will "really take off" - what's that mean, it's going to be a billion dollar company? Ok then, your 0.5% is going to make you 5 million dollars. That's a net win.

But maybe you mean it's a 50 million dollar company - then, best case (no dilution, you stick it out until they IPO, let's say 5 years working there total) you could walk away with $250,000, or the equivalent of having been paid an extra $40k-$50k per year each year you worked there. That sounds like about break-even financially, with some great experience but shitty lifestyle for several years. Up to you if that was a good deal.

Or maybe you mean it's a 10 million dollar company. Would you be at this job if you had no equity and an extra $10k or would you feel screwed?
If this is your first dev position then you're probably replaceable and won't have much negotiating power in the end.
They keep failing because they keep creating integrated "modeling amp" products which put the original amount of wattage in the back end, and that destroys the model at volume: you start hearing the break up of the back-end amplifier.

They are doing that to save costs: real tube amplifiers continue to be posed as higher end at higher prices.

A decently modeling amplifier would probably need several hundred watts, if not into the thousands, just to replicate a 50W tube combo at volume. The speaker cabinet and drivers would have to be different: high fidelity units, not guitar speakers.

I think people do get good results when they plug their modern amp modeling digital signal processors directly into a loud PA system, where the models find a decent amount of headroom and fidelity to reproduce what they are doing at loud volume.
Mr. Koonin would appear to be an excellent candidate for an analyst position with the intelligence community:

“It’s like when Galileo first turned the telescope on the heavens,” said Mr. Koonin. “It’s just a whole new way of looking at moons.”
Yes, people would fault them for removing functionality.

The problem in that case is not the actual new drivers, but the process of uninstalling the old working drivers.
They are not at all hard to find.
Ask HN: Is the word beautiful becoming overused?
Every time now, when I see a product announcement and how their interface is beautiful, I find myself groaning.
Well I didn't join Google in 2014. ;)
Steve Wozniak Joins University of Technology, Sydney as Adjunct Professor
Comedy is all about the delivery.
It's interesting sometimes it's harder to go from language A -> B than B -> A.

If you're born Japanese then you lost the language lottery. Japanese has a limited set of sounds and there are very few close languages grammatically; Korean being the major one. So even the global language, English, is a massive challenge. It's easier for a Chinese person to learn Japanese than the other way round. (Japanese speakers at least have a big leg up on reading Chinese)

I wonder if it's easier to go from Chinese to English, they certainly have more sounds/tones an English speaker will have never spoken. In reality, major different is probably a power difference, it's a lot more useful to know English than it is to know Mandarin in the general case. (If a Chinese student goes to France they'll be using English)
That's a clever way to pay richer people progressively more for their blood.
There's actually quite a lot of material out there about Google wanting to build more housing.

http://www.mv-voice.com/print/story/2012/07/13/google-housin...

http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2010/02/16/google-pressures-cit...

http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2008/06/18/google-hotel-falls-t...

And that's just one website. There's lots out there. It hasn't happened, but not because Google hasn't tried. What do you expect them to do?
That this exists, is awesome.
I didn't see any explanation to why the dev account was terminated in the first place. Though it is true that Google "support" suck.
Emails have several issues:

Large % of emails are newsletters, notifications, offers and promotions. This is not spam (I think we have got that under control). These are the things you intentionally subscribed to and "nice to know" but not important or urgent. Email clients are utterly oblivious to identifieng and ranking them (Gmail's Priority Inbox is rather dumb baby steps).

Replying to threads and quoting previous replies is a pain. Threads become too long with several different colored highlights all over.

There is no easy way to control your membership in email conversation. It's hard to get out and hard to get in. Creating groups is high friction. Sharing previous conversations with someone or a group is non-practical.

Most email clients rank emails using date time. You can say that 70% of the human generated content uses perhaps most naive ranking algorithm. It is mind boggling that we still don't use signals like age of conversation, length, participants, topic, embedded action items etc. Even in 2014, most email clients will happily push email sent at 9AM for your house on fire after the benign Groupon promotion sent on 10 AM.

Emails are free form and there are poorly defined standards standards to add structured data such as reminders and action items for recipients, auto-expiration, callback number etc.

You can't share your "like" or upvote/downvotes for emails sent to a group. This severally limits how much social expression can be attached to emails flowing within a group.
Hey thanks for the feedback!

I've removed the images from the "thank you" page before the report is generated.

The transaction amounts are mostly because the average client is an earning site, guess it doesn't make sense for everyone, I will consider removing those.

Just double check in Firefox and the graphs seem to display correctly. Maybe it was an issue that corrected itself.

Also just checked the stats and I am showing 49% industry average in both text and graphic. The top graphic is your stat and the white graphic is the industry standard. I could probably make that better known.

Browser version number is definitely an issue. Looking into that now. thanks!
Unfortunately, the Apple driver exhibits the same issue. It also doesn't support the control lines on the FT232 (e.g, DSR/DTR, RTS/CTS).
Even within the article under "Related" there's a link to a story titled "Long Live Vacuum Tube Amps" from earlier this year. Perhaps a more accurate title would be "...Last Mass-Market Vacuum Tube Product". Because even just last year I bought a nice little desktop tube guitar amp, and it looks like the Fender Greta is still being sold. (Which I'd recommend if you're looking for a tiny amp to noodle around with and still get crunchy tube goodness.)
It appears that from @FDTIChip's twitter stream that in fact they do think that this ambiguous license clause makes it OK to deliberately destroy hardware. https://twitter.com/FTDIChip/status/524918979840585729
First, from the article, he looked for a job for 18 months with solid experience but without success. Second, having been there, if you think going from a couple K a month while supporting a child instantly down to a couple hundred a week is simples, you haven't been there.
Or any other drivers, because it breaks it at the USB level, doesn't it?
They work on a big gamut of things, including but not limited to protecting your account from getting hacked, helping you recover your account if you do, impersonations, spam, etc. It' s not just "help people act nicer" :)
Right, I forgot, anyone who isn't part of the lynch mob is a shill.

I rarely eat breakfast in the first place, sadly.
Would this make desalination more efficient, and therefore cheaper?
I take it you're not a guitarist. Tube amps can generate tones and sounds that are impossible to emulate accurately via solid state. I've owned some really nice solid state amps that can do amazing things, but even a shitty tube amp can do overdriven fuzz better than any solid state amp.
Same.

I had an inbox zero policy before that was a thing. It's the only sane way to deal with email.

Count today: ~100 work emails. Most take less than a second of time. Some, require <1 minute to reply. The outliers are the ones that require me to do actual work beyond email but those are luckily usually communicated otherwise.
I think you underestimate how much time and effort it takes to run a large company. No matter who you are, learning a language takes years of effort and dedication. I probably have 100 times as much free time as he does and would love to learn to speak Chinese, yet I haven't pushed myself to fulfill this achievement. The fact that he has such little free time but still chooses to use it productively is inspiring to me.
Same goes for "starring for to-do" vs "unread as to-do". The latter does mix in requires-action with yet-to-read, but maybe a lot of us class a yet-to-read email as requiring an action anyway?
Still, people wanting to use it will likely switch to chrome. That's a tactic google already used for hangouts - only to end up with a very unconvincing "oops, that was a mistake" answer (see https://twitter.com/johnath/status/486575645338918912).

Instead, you could just notify the user that performance may not be as good on other browsers for now.
But still 600Mbps at 200m. It seems like it could still offer substantial improvements for most subscribers.

It would be interesting to see a graph of distance/speed comparing it with regular DSL.
45,000-year-old modern human bone yields a genome
An update to this: the security folks have told me it’s not a security issue, but they’re forwarding it to the appropriate team.

Perhaps I’m biased, but I’d have thought that a Windows Update that ships malware that bricks thousands of consumer devices without warning would constitute a security issue.

But hey … at least they’re actioning it, and they responded so quickly. So, FYI: if you have a security issue to report to Microsoft, do it by email. Phone staff are utterly, completely useless for this.
5 star reviews in the Google Play Store from people who haven't even got an invite? The system is broken.
I imagine the hurdle is simply the will to undertake the work. As the article notes, there are and have been various sources for caselaw. Parsing is of course painful, though XML is now available.
Am I wrong, or is this a press piece for Freescale's new transistor?
I don't think so. There was at least one guy in the thread who reprogrammed the PID back, and the chip worked with the old FTDI drivers again, which means the USB interface was working just fine (or else how could he access it to change it back).
There are plenty guitar amplifiers still made with tubes. Look up Fender Twin for example.
People report good results with the AxeFx rigs.

If you just want "interesting noises" the VST plugin FuncShaper from Met-RS works great for adding distortion. It's a lifesaver on direct bass tracks. Pipe that thru a convolution of a good impulse response from a nice amp and you can't tell the difference easily.