cli | 8 years ago | on: Japanese Wine Meets Big Data
The Chinese word shi3 has a different tone than し, which in Mandarin would be shi1 or shi4. Chinese speakers are not going to confuse every use of し with shi3.
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cli | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?
What are the main differences between the three biotech websites? From a quick skim, it seems that Fiercebiotech and endpts are strictly superior to biospace for someone who is not actively looking for jobs in that space.
cli | 8 years ago | on: Fund ideas, not pedigree, to find fresh insight
Is your current research done during that 20% time theoretical work (in biology)?
cli | 8 years ago | on: Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student loans
I am a graduate student at Brown. The deadline for raising one quarter of the funds is December, so I expect we will be updated on this by next week. I have not received any recent emails on this.
cli | 8 years ago | on: Additional JFK Assassination Documents Released
What do you mean by your numbered points? These records are released because the JFK assassination records act of 1992 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_John_F._Kennedy_As...) stated they must be released by, well, today.
cli | 8 years ago | on: Additional JFK Assassination Documents Released
This r/askhistorians comment makes what I think is a very good rebuttal of this claim (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/75sbk8/kenne...)
Specifically these two paragraphs:
>So there were ten people in/on the car. Each and everyone of them has significant experience with firearms, which includes WWII and/or Korea war experience for most.
>You are going to tell me that these ten guys are going to have a rifle fire right next to their ears, see the President is shot and NOT disarm the man? Not even react? Not grab your ears, because that would hurt like crazy.
cli | 8 years ago | on: Facebook Quietly Enters StarCraft War for AI Bots
It was restricted to one very artificial game mode (1 vs 1 mid, Shadow Fiend mirror matchup) that is not representative of real games, but is good for practicing one aspect of Dota. Some items in this game mode are banned in order to make it less safe for both sides, and so that there is a better chance of one side dying before ten minutes. People have beaten the bot by both "breaking" it and by just outplaying it (but the latter very, very rarely).
cli | 8 years ago | on: Facebook Quietly Enters StarCraft War for AI Bots
I disagree with this (I used to play Warcraft 3, and currently play Dota 2), but that's beside the point. The Dota 2 OpenAI is only set up for one mirror matchup (impossible in real games) involving one hero on each side, in one lane, and only for the first 10-ish minutes. This is maybe 1% of a real Dota game.
cli | 8 years ago | on: A Japanese Pen Maker Anticipated the Fountain-Pen Renaissance
I have a Mont Blanc fountain pen, which I want to use as my main pen but cannot due to the ink spreading and bleeding through cheap notebook paper. Thank you for the ink suggestion.
cli | 8 years ago | on: A single-molecule room-temperature transistor made from 14 atoms
Thread from last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15070596
cli | 8 years ago | on: North Korea nuclear test: Hydrogen bomb 'missile-ready'
Who did you quote?
cli | 8 years ago | on: SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies
Is a private company's value akin to a public one's market capitalization? How is this determined?
cli | 8 years ago | on: The Decline of the Baronial C.E.O
>Princeton is the epitome of a capitalistic school.
Please explain this. I know little about Princeton.
cli | 8 years ago | on: Airbus A380 – $6.1B in additional costs due to project delays
The dimension of the seats is dependent on the airline. I do not know about the cabin noise.
cli | 8 years ago | on: President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey
I watched that NBC interview here: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/former-dni-jam.... Right after Clapper answered, the interviewer asked him whether the information exists, and Clapper answered that it does not to his knowledge, but he does not know whether more information has come to light since he left office.
cli | 9 years ago | on: Bias in the ER
What do, for example, tourists pay? When I buy a plane ticket to the US, there is travel insurance, but I have never needed to use it and do not know how it would work.
cli | 9 years ago | on: Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations
Did you add an extra 0? The average programmer salary is around $27,000 per year in Silicon Valley?
cli | 9 years ago | on: Pregnancy alters woman's brain 'for at least two years'
There are cultures where the grandparents or other relatives mostly take care of the children while the mother works (some parts of China), and there are people who pay for nannies to take care of the children at night.
cli | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is 170k a good salary for a software developer in Seattle?
>The latitude also means that in January, the sun rises at 10 AM, and it starts getting dark around 3 PM.
No it does not. I grew up in Vancouver, and the latest sunrise is at around 8 am, and sunset at 4 pm.
cli | 9 years ago | on: YouTube Changes YouTube Heroes Video Stealthily
The difference is that I know that written articles can be changed with no notice. I did not know that youtube videos can be edited like this.