skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NPR story has a non-obvious link to the site. Here it is: http://www.parkinsonsvoice.org/

That's pretty amazing if they can detect it within the poor 8khz of a phone. I wonder how awful cell phone reception changes the accuracy.
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Except:

1. It's already different because you can't jump with a free throw.

2. A lot of players seem to have no trouble handling both an ordinary jump shot and also a hook shot.

3. Even players who never take normal jump shots and have atrocious free throw ability never switch to the underhand style.
There is no requirement to offer French outside Quebec unless you are federal govt.

Occasionally the govt gets a committee up to consider Canadian cultural content but it's mostly to keep the media happy - it never gets as far as affecting any business.
This WSJ article says James Holmes, the Aurora murderer, bought a number of weapons and ammunition online: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044446430457754...

I wonder if he used this site?

(Also interesting to note that Gizmodo published the piece on Thursday 7/19, or the day before the shooting. Weird coincidence.)
No one said those guys weren't irresponsible and immature as well.
This is the sort of thing that is ripe for the Streisand effect.
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... which still doesn't excuse them not running with the idea and continuing to improve. Sparrow did; maybe I should have said "shifting further".

(And yes, Gmail popularized conversation view, but it was talked about at IBM Research and Microsoft Research years earlier. Of course, those guys are even worse at delivering innovative interfaces.)
There is no legal requirement for a startup to provide bilingual content outside of the tv/radio sphere. Legally Youtube would not have been effected if it had started in Canada. That being said if you are an english-language startup and you wish to enter the Quebec market there is a general social expectation that you'll offer your content in both official languages.

Target's case is a bit of an one off exception as it is an american company who bought a Canadian retailer.
someone who has a different opinion than you

"annoying, obvious, contributes nothing"
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This post stinks of arrogance and unprofessionalism. You "loved" Sparrow so much, but once they're bought it's "bloated French code". If you are so tired of "making great apps for yourself" then talking shit about the first company that gave you a shot, because things didn't go your way, because you wanted to cash in on a hot topic for some blog traffic, is a great way to get more chances. But hey at least you're popular on HN right now. Get over yourself.
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Matrox essentially created all the technology at SGI and eventually ATI. And the first company to do Yahoo Search (what was that called? OpenSearch?) ... but you are right. We can count the companies without taking off our socks.
I've never had poor cell phone reception change the frequency of the sound, only silence, choppiness, or complete garbage being inserted - all of which should be detectable via typical DSP algos.
Bought by AMD is not quite the same thing as "merged".
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RIM didn't create an ecology of entrepreneurship because it already existed in one. It was part of the start-up community that has come out of the University of Waterloo.
Are you giving your users some positive feedback?
A very nice networking feature has landed in 3.5: CODEL AQM packet scheduler to fight bufferbloat. It is mainly relevant for routers.

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2209336
This is one of my biggest pet peeves - you see something and ask "why the hell is it this way?" You even speculate about some possible solutions, but someone will chide you, condescendingly, that 'that's the way it is.' It's usually delivered in a tone insinuating 'you're a foolish naive little one aren't you' And that theirs is a profound, valuable observation.

It seems like entrepreneurs in particular are willing to ask, and not be content with an endorsement of the status quo.
It's annoying, obvious, and contributes nothing because:

1. Any state actions that promotes the current legal hegemony is inevitable, making a comment noting the fatalism inherent in taking an action (principled or not) that could trigger blowback from this legal hegemony is by definition obvious.

2. It's annoying because it doesn't say anything that isn't already evident from a passing understanding of the power dynamics of western society, especially as it relates to the courts. You don't need to say something emphasizing the power of the judicial system to ruin your life...we know that already.

3. And it contributes nothing because such comments rarely go beyond capitalizing on the opportunity to be snarky, doing nothing to describe the ethics of the situation or how the system could be improved.
I have a pretty strong reason to be pissed off by the abandonment: there is an incredibly annoying bug[1] in Sparrow, that has been there since launch, and now I'm sure will never be fixed. Am I "feeling entitled" to have the software I bought work correctly?

I really don't see the point in this article. He is mad at everyone because they don't share his lax attitude? What is he trying to prove? Gist of the article: they're winners, we are losers.

[1] when you switch inboxes/labels the email list starts at a position seemingly relative to the previous' inbox size. That means almost every time I switch to my main inbox I'm sent back to 2009, and have to scroll all the way back up.
Thank you for this. Frankly, my knowledge of Netscape's inner workings was so minuscule, that this documentary taught me 90% of what I now know.

Two things jump out:

1. Netscape was, then, where Firefox is perceived to be now, and where Chrome will be in the future: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." (atrb. Jamie Zawinski)
Browsers (et al.) start out light and fast, and as they gain more users, expand to incorporate their needs, until they, themselves, become the bloated behemoths which they replaced.

2. Later on, Zawinski remarks that perhaps the internet will turn into television, where it is controlled by a powerful minority, and states that there are already precedents. More than a decade later, with the likes of Google and Facebook, it doesn't appear that one's fear of that development can rest. The players have changed, but the game remains the same.
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The thing is, you're not losing your email client. You paid for Sparrow, the email client, as it was at a given point. If you were happy with your purchase a week ago, you should still be happy with your purchase. You still have the same email client you paid for, you weren't paying for future features.

This acquisition does not mean they're pulling your license to use the application, it does not mean they're disabling or hobbling the application, it simply means they aren't developing more features for it--only bug fixes and maintenance.
Hmm, I don't think that's a fair representation of what Taleb wrote. Dentistry is just a profession he chose to illustrate his point. A stereotype. And the point is not so much the high expected value of a dentist's income, it's the very low variance of that income, i.e. a dentist's lifetime earnings are pretty much predictable within a certain range. He could have said "train conductor" and it would still be true.

Of course, dentist has the added merit of allowing you to get moderately rich. But the real distinction is between dentistry vs. fiction writing or entrepreneurship, fields where the difference between #1 and #10 can be an order of magnitude.

I suppose Taleb's caveat here would be that while a table of past results can be very useful for someone working in insurance or logistics, they are not so useful or are even harmful if we're talking about startups. Until the other day, the largest exit in the "web startups for sharing pics" category was (say) $50 million, then the next day we saw a $1 billion acquisition.
And here is a list of all CSS colors you should use for body text: black.

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https://twitter.com/savymarie_ is her twitter account, but it seems to be protected.
Yup. And it's been released under a Creative Commons license, so it's completely legal: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5003144/
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IBM came up with a ranking system at about the same time that was similar to PageRank, so it seems that even PageRank was obvious.
Naming people on the internet in regards to sexual crimes is dangerous. I understand the frustration of her and her family and I cannot say she was wrong to make the injustice public.

With that said, this is not a clear cut issue. I hope grace prevails and we do not attempt to ruin the boys lives in pursuit of vengeance. This is not something a mad internet does very well and would be a justifiable reason for the court to ban publication.
It is worth nothing that Android is now closer to the mainline than ever. With this release, the kernel incorporates a functionality called autosleep which is similar to Android's wakelock, which was the main controversy between kernel developers and Google. Android team will now probably be able to switch to the new Linux infrastructure, if they wish so.
Some of the buffer bloat problem is due to SO_SENDBUF being statically set to some value, which also results in hiding the actual bytes-in-flight from the application.

I think it would be much better to allow the auto-detected TCP window to be exposed to the application level as the "send-buf" size (with perhaps some 10% buffer bloat to allow filling in the gaps when the window grows or acks return prematurely).

Also, it would be good for high-bandwidth-high-latency situations, where the default Linux 0.5MB send-buf size is not enough. Allow the send-buf to grow if the TCP window needs to grow beyond 0.5MB.
To be fair, I'm sure like all costs the pizza stores ultimately pass them on to their customers.
>Naming people on the internet in regards to sexual crimes is dangerous

Yes, it is! And this is what I want people talking about!

I don't have a particular point to make here, except to say that the discourse could be better.
"I don't much care about the successes of the developers if they come at the cost of the tools I've invested time switching into"

It's a bit silly to say that you don't care about their interests, if they come at the expense of your interests, but you think that them having what is arguably a milder version of that same attitude (i.e. that they value their own financial interests over your time invested in their product) is a "dick move".
That is given the poor tools we have to date to diagnose the disease. I think the really promising thing about this development is the possibility of earlier warning and being able to test new treatments before the disease progress's so far that someone is going in to ask the doctor what is wrong.

My father has Parkinson's, it is an awful disease.
I think you're seeing a reflection of yourself in other addicts. A drug is a drug, it will ensnare anyone regardless of intelligence or inner drive. You sound intelligent and driven but not all addicts are. I think you know this.

Either way, I identified a lot with your post because of my past. My co-workers must wonder how I deal with stress so well...
Indeed. The very idea that $10 buys a guarantee of years of updates should be absurd on its face.
I guess I read his comment differently. "regardless of whether she's right or wrong" about the crimes/identities of the attacker.

Rather than regardless of whether she's in the right/wrong for posting their names.
While 8 kHz is low if you look at the carrier of the speech signal, which is something like the pitch of the speech, it is pretty high compared to the envelope frequency of the speech signal. You do not move your jaw, tounge and lips at anywhere near 8000 times per second. The algorithm looks at things like how the jaw, tounge and lips move during speech, and I guess 8 kHz is quite enough for those.
Because it'll show that they aren't supportive of Web standards and they'll look like complete fools - bad PR for them. That's why they were sabotaging any attempts to make other open codecs (like VP8) an official standard for HTML5 video. It's much harder for them to explain why they oppose official Web standards, than just to say they aren't supporting one of the optional codecs.
Doesn't that make it a kind of chicken and egg problem?

Customers don't care if you're going to be around for n years when they are first paying to buy your software. So they most probably will not be ready to pay the premium for your long-lived company, and without those premiums you really can't live long. No?
Because it's not a contract, it's a court order.
I wonder if the Mac Sparrow userbase is a very "early adopter"ish user base that has never really thought about abandonware on the desktop before. (There is no abandonware in web services, they just disappear.) TextMate 1, NewsFire and Photoshop CS3 are still very much alive on my computer. I have friends on 10.6 and Skype 2.8 (as far as I know), and family using software that came with their decade old Windows XP machine. No big deal.

The iOS userbase I can understand, as the devs apparently teased them with iPad screenshots.
It's a juvenile case. The courts have never allowed the public to the opportunity to see that justice is served.
Three years ago I queried Microsoft about working for them in Canada, and they said that all software dev happened in Richmond, and the people in Canada were just part of marketing. Maybe that's changed, or I talked to someone mis-informed, but if they are trying to hire Canadians, then they aren't publicizing it well.
I just solved that 9 dot problem in a minute with paper and pen. Maybe it was the chocolate I ate?

Just knowing that it's a hard problem can make you "think outside the box" (literally in this case). No electrocution needed. Could the results be a reflex of the participants' state of mind, not a direct effect of brain stimulation?
The point is that there's less of a need for a separate tablet version of many Android apps than there is for iPhone/iPad since Android's scaling is much more sophisticated.
$175, and Microsoft could still do as much damage.
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I wonder what the false-negative rate of this algorithm is. 99% (which I assume is the true-positive rate) is certainly impressive for such a simple test, though.

It would be all kinds of awesome if this turns into something that can be done reliably and routinely!

Edit: seems like 99% is only for later stages of Parkinson's, and the accuracy number is just off a 50-person sample. Less impressive, but still cool. http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/07/03/new-softw...
Why not. They might propose using VP8 combined with Opus (not sure how it'll be called) for video. The problem however is in the same lack of support, since VP8 is still boycotted by Apple and MS so far.
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That would be a separate solution. If you did that, you could feel free to upgrade your OS, since you wouldn't need Sparrow, in which case, what are we talking about?
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Right. Think counter-terrorism.
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How is that silly? It goes both ways. As a developer you might not care about the happiness of users if they are using your software without a license. In this case they valued their own interests in spite of the users' commitment. A dick move in my book.
How would a franchise operation do that? If corporate sets the prices and the franchise eats the bill for these pranks, then it sounds like the franchise owner is losing out.
Wow, they'll give a blog to anyone these days.

"Every single time I was told this I couldn't help but wonder why they kept hiring dumbasses in the first place."

"Then I was rejected from the UW computer science major."

You don't say...
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. It's pretty much spot on.
Why wouldn't you start with libetpan? It has been available for years, and it's well known Sparrow used it. This story smells fishier by the moment.
hits the stop button on a stopwatch

And now people realize why I'm a luddite and just keep all my dependencies rolled into my dotfiles repo directly and have done so for years.
While a "skills shortage" complaint is an obvious status seeking behavior, it does not take away that there is an actual and severe skills shortage for many position.

There are normal software developer jobs where it is nearly impossible to find anyone qualified even when one has no significant price sensitivity. We know such people exist because we have some on staff but expanding the pool has proven to be difficult.

For some segments of the market, the skills shortage is legit.
In this case, though, the customers were still not full customers. The Sparrow developers were being paid less than their real market value. How do I know? Because the market just said they'll be more valuable at Google.

This ignores the linked post's author, who was willing to pay as much as they charged, and probably more. Unfortunately, he was apparently in the minority.
Thats just the attitude that put me out of running shape for two months, I ran to much, to fast, to soon, and get a stress fracture, and kept running on it until I got a worse stress fracture.
The most difficult part of running is knowing how much to do in order to get better, without doing so much that you get worse. The same logic works in programmning, investing time so you know what you want to write not only lets you write it faster, but results in cleaner code that is easier to use, maintain, and likely has fewer bugs.
this is a decision where the price was clear

I think people are talking about whether the price was appropriate and warranted.
I nearly punched out my monitor when I saw the "solution".

By that metric I count my first solution of "Cut the image up into a straight line and connect the dots." as valid.

EDIT: I agree about state of mind, the reason I would say nobody could "solve" that problem was their mental model of the parameters of the problem wildly diverged from the authors.
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> You still have the same email client you paid for, you weren't paying for future features.

Although I agree, if you look through the other Sparrow threads there's a strong theme of "I paid with the expectation of future improvements". And that doesn't seem entirely unreasonable, given how quickly they'd shipped improvements before.

It feels like there's some larger argument here around what exactly you're buying when you pay for software. After all, many small vendors say things like "pay us so we can continue our work", which certainly suggests you'll be getting more in future.
Let me give you a hint, look for big fish in a small pond. Seriously, there is so much unappreciated talent out there simply because a person has graduated from a university that is less than top-ten, or even, way lower. There are people out there who are smart who haven't traveled the tradition route to get there who are ignored and even ostracized just because they aren't from a top ten school.

There seems to be a binary relation to hiring. Either you graduated from a top-ten school or you dropped out. There are plenty of disadvantaged people who couldn't get into those top-ten schools for various reasons but are the big fish in their small pond who you may want to look towards.
I knew the comment would get downvoted. I just hope I don't get arrested. After all, I just comment-raped everyone who had to read what I wrote. Of course, I'd just get bailed out by my connects high up in the Patriarchy. There's nothing you haters can do to bring us down--long live Rape Culture! Muahahahaha.
The "it is working right now, you didn't lose anything" line keeps popping up.

What if I'm not completely happy, it doesn't work as expected, there are bugs to be fixed, performance to improve? And what happens when there is a major change in the OS that requires significant updates to continue working?

Is bringing the SaaS model to the desktop a solution? It's only going to make things worse for users, now you don't even own a copy of what you bought; if it's gone, it's really gone and you're never going to see that software again. Companies have thrived on "one-off" sales for decades. Want more money? Develop something new, the work is already paid off.
> Finally, as Young put it, “If everyone could play music brilliantly or be brilliant artists, it would minimize diversity.”

I don't get that. Just what specific contribution do non-musical/non-artistic people bring society? If someone's gifts are in area X, I have a hard time seeing how such gifts aren't enhanced or left unaffected by musical or artistic ability.
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And in the US, fair use is an affirmative defense, with the burden of proof on the defendent. It can't keep you from getting sued in the same way a completely free image would.
Interesting that I got cut off during the "Ahh" test and asked to redo it. I'm sure I don't have exceptional lung capacity.
Courts issue gag orders all the time and have done so for centuries. They can be constitutional.
The thing that's bothering people is that it's a court order that limits the rights of the victim. If I lose my wallet and someone finds and returns it to me, I am free to publicly name and thank them. It seems wrong that if I am sexually assaulted instead, there is a court order preventing from doing the same thing, gagging me about my own (unwilling) experience.

I'm sure there's plenty of legal precedence for this kind of thing. I don't know much about law. But I'm not talking about the legal basis for the argument. I'm talking about how wrong the conclusion seems based on the human factors.
I like Syte a lot but it's worth noting that the underlying blog is actually powered by Tumblr. I think there are pros and cons to that.
"a copyrighted image is going to be used less than one that is in the public domain"

That wasn't the conclusion.

The conclusion was that images are worth more, in terms of updates and visits, to Wikipedia articles than text.

This is still a conclusion that will doubtless have its share of people calling it obvious, but it's one I haven't seen quantified like this before. And in the case of baseball players in particular, in theory an image doesn't add nearly as much as their stats and team/championship information.
Reading this, something occurred to me. If we are to champion "neurodiversity", should we not aim to accomplish neurodiversity in each individual, instead of neurodiversity in the population? By that, I mean diversity in neural activity, such that it doesn't reach extremes characterized by autism, depression, bipolar disorder, etc. In that sense, isn't embracing autism, depression, bipolar disorder, etc. actually the antithesis of "neurodiversity"?
Where you say "vibrant ecosystem" I read "full of race-to-the-bottom crappy products diluting the Android brand value and driving developers iElsewhere."

They are raising the minimum quality/price ratio, and that's a good thing.
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