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1. I'm MOSTLY pissed at real estate agents and the industry in general.

Don't get me started. There are simply far too many lazy, ignorant, greedy idiot agents. There are some amazing professionals who are evolving, but they are vastly outnumbered by the others. It completely sucks when you can actually help a consumer, but you have to start by convincing them that you're not the stereotypical idiot agent which is all they've ever encountered. It sucks to make the legitimate arguments I made in point 2, only to have some piss-poor schmuck of an agent fall down on the job and prove you wrong. If you get a bad agent, and you're on your toes, then you probably could have done everything yourself and saved money. Except that the industry is structured in such a way that you'll usually pay out the money you would have spent on an agent anyway. The moral of the story is that you should spend the effort to research the process enough so that you can find a good agent AND protect yourself if things go wrong. But pay a fair price for the agent.

And if you're ever cheated or mistreated by a real estate professional, you should report them to their state board so that they get driven out of the industry. Don't just gripe and paint all other agents with the same brush. Reward the agents who are doing things correctly, and punish those who are not. Reward those companies that are doing things the way you think they should be done, and ignore those that are not. The industry will eventually evolve because of consumer action, not just technology.
Their "scientific" explanation is nonsense. Their compare the "energy" of the hurricane system with that of a detonation. Then they say you could change the Category of a hurricane by just increasing the ambient pressure.

Angular momentum is conserved. If you create a detonation in the middle of a spinning storm, you'll get the usual explosion effect (fast) overlaid on the spinning storm (relatively slow). That's even more nasty than either effect on its own.
Assuming you were buying Windows because you wanted Windows for some unrelated reason, or buying a computer with Windows, then you also got IE, but you were free to run other browsers.

How is it being closed source a meaningful distinction?
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I'm not sure that the "largest" companies are even relevant in a discussion about the valley since the larger companies all tend to be outliers in one way or another.

About 10% of the INC 500 are based in California. Higher than anywhere else? Maybe, I don't know.. but not exatly earth shattering.
You wish that's all they have on you - they also own doubleclick, and Google ads, two of the largest web advert providers in the world tracking you as you go to www.unrelated.example.org, and Google Analytics, one of the most popular web tracking extensions also tracking you as you go to www.anysite.example.org. Also any site that pulls graphs in from Google's public graphing API, or a sidebar from blogger or picasa.

The bought DejaNews, so anything you post(ed) to Usenet is in their grasp, and they spider the entire web so if they can pull a probable forum name from your existing data then they can try linking them together.

If you've ever used Google Maps to find directions, then the most likely place to find directions is from/to your home and from/to your workplace, so they can get highly probable locations for you. (Used it from an iPhone with GPS?).

Shop with Google Checkout? Browse with Google Toolbar? Use any of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products ?
> Fat cells secrete chemicals that cause chronic, low-level inflammation that can hamper the body’s immune response and narrow the airways, says Tim Armstrong, a doctor working in the WHO’s chronic diseases department in Geneva.

If that's true, it's pretty crazy and a much better reason for people to worry about their weight than blood pressure/heart conditions (loose link), joint problems (seems too distant), or vanity (not a great motivator, clearly). I've read lots on the topic and never heard this.
That's the theory anyway. In practise a good accountant will reduce your US tax burden to practically zero.
Safe from what?

I can't answer that yet, but I don't think that's a good enough reason to ignore it. We are talking about the world's leading search company. There's no such thing as security through obscurity for them - they find needles in haystacks for a living.

We're also talking long term - none of this stuff is going to be deleted, it's only ever going to grow in their collective. What if you do become someone famous or important in twenty years?

Safe from misuse by Google? I think that's a risk you take with any third party provider

But it's more of a risk from Google for several reasons - 1) they have so much of it, and 2) they're so good at searching and correlating, and 3) they're so big their data is a major drooling point for .gov legislation or hacker interests.

Chances are most of us are just not special enough to be legitimate targets.

Agreed. But if anyone can automate something they-think-is-benign-but-I-disagree on everyone's data all at once, Google can.
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Ask HN: Where can I find tf–idf for English?
I want to calculate weights for the terms appearing in webpages, and for that I require tf–idf (term frequency–inverse document frequency), which when multiplied by term frequency in the webpage gives how important is the term in characterizing it.

The problem is that for a set of documents you can calculate tf-idf by counting frequencies in all documents, but this is not possible with webpages as the Internet has nearly infinite English webpages. To solve this problem, I am considering two approaches:

1. Scraping the number of results returned by Google for a term and taking that as a proxy
2. Using Wikipedia as a proxy for the whole Internet

The problem with first is that it is not scalable and it is against Google's TOS. 2nd approach is more tractable but the Wikipedia dump (http://static.wikipedia.org/) is about 14G zipped (it included images, which I don't require), which I guess is huge.

Does anyone know any processed list of such form? Any English corpus with term frequencies? If not, I guess rather than processing all Wikipedia, a better approach would be to crawl a (random?) subset of Wikipedia pages and process them. Any suggestions or tips?
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People who ask that question should be disqualified from breeding.
Being an "immigrant" makes the passport issue a bit more important - but don't forget something like 60% of US citizens don't have one either (IIRC).
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I wonder how much worse the chaos would be if some or all of London's airports (Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, Stansted, City) suffered this at once - either intentionally or through coincidence.
Uh, I mean I searched to see if there were any obvious browser exploits being propagated from the pages. I can't rule out the possibility of something subtle but I didn't notice anything.
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I wonder... in what jurisdictions are these "oh a user is doing something bad, let's take out the company hosting that user with no warning" outages most common in? Most that I remember reading about were in Europe, but at the behest of US corporations.

Now, it does seem like this is a rare occurrence; data center problems are more common, so it doesn't seem like a reason to move just yet, but when it comes time to set up my European location, this is certainly something I will research and I will be less likely to host in countries more likely to give me an unplanned outage.
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The transistors in your iPod are also a gatrillion times smaller than anything visible with the naked eye. If one of them is 100 nanometers square (assuming a 30nm process — anybody know if 3λ is about right for a transistor?), that's 4× less than a wavelength of light. Your visual resolution might go down to 10 000 nanometers or so, which means that in the space of the smallest dot you can see, you can fit on the order of ten thousand transistors. (More than you'll find in an 8080 or 6502.)
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He can also open a UBS account by himself, as anybody fortunate enough to live the American Dream. Experimentally proven.

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how many users is the 5%?
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> Wow, that's outrageous. I wonder if the same sort of inefficient panic would occur at a US airport.

I expect you don't mean it as such, but that's an incredibly tactless, insulting and insensitive remark. Not least, there was no panic, and it was not inefficient. It was an orderly evacuation and shutdown to allow the threat to be dealt with. European airports and establishments, and UK locations in particular, have a depressingly long history of having to deal with very real threats of multiple deaths on a daily basis. Their responses are based on that experience.

In Europe certainly, people are looking at the responses of the US agencies to the 9/11 events. Comparatively speaking, the US has effectively no experience of a domestic terrorist campaign, and most of the reactions to 9/11 are regarded by the rest of the world as going into headless-chicken mode, not knowing how to deal with the sorts of things that Spain, Germany, the UK, and other countries have dealt with for decades. In some cases, for centuries.

It's not surprising that the US authorities have introduced the incredibly draconian measures that they have, but in my line of work I dealt with organisations in 8 different countries, and they are all calling the responses "disproportionate", which is diplomatic speak for a much stronger expression.

I suggest that in the future you consider carefully the different context before making remarks based on your limited experience.
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The problem with Google is that they have all the data in one place. If you use multiple services they all know a lot less about you. This makes it a lot harder for a government or a person in the company to combine the information into a full picture. I agree that the ISP is a huge problem too.
You may be able to understand the logic of the FT in one day -- and someone with a background in math may understand the maths in one day -- but the problem is usually understanding what the output means. With sound the notion of 'frequency' is reasonably intuitive, but with FT's of other datasets, the notion of 'frequency' can take a few days to settle in, before yielding to interpretation.
It's funny how we (americans) keep thinking that we are the center of the world ;)
So you're saying the author gets "a little bit of ++" for posting something that you don't think is worth reading, and on a topic that's seldom if ever appropriate on HN? That seems a bit odd. Maybe I'm just insufficiently enlightened.
My situation is very similar, I'm on green card here as well. The only difference is that I actually have valid Russian passport, so can go back there whenever I want.

After careful consideration of my personal situation I have decided to pass on citizenship. At least for now. There are just too few benefits. I don't think I'll get deported, I don't care about voting (electoral college would make my vote in presidential elections a lot less relevant in my state), I don't want to do jury duty, I don't want to pay exit tax should I decide to leave the country.

When they decide to rip me off with taxes (and I already paid millions), I'll just say "thanks, but no thanks" and move to HK or Singapore. :)
The real puzzle is why we don't do what the Frenchdo. France gets 85% of its electricity from nukes and, IIRC, stores all of its waste under a single building. Not sure exactly what they are doing to reduce the spent material, but they are clearly doing something that's feasible and they've been doing it for a long time.
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Additional thoughts: you can be successful selling a vitamin, but can't convert success to $$ (think Facebook & Twitter again). At the same time, not all famous pain-killers are easily translated to monetary success! Think youtube (they killed the pain of online video), but where is the moolah?
Interactive response is not measured with a number crunching benchmark. It's measured by UI latency. Eclipse itself (assuming SWT is considered better than Swing) is still remarkably slow when compared to MonoDevelop.
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Agreed re: inaccuracies, but Gnome-Do isn't a note taking app. Also Banshee is another fairly complex Mono app.
Did you try http://www.archive.org/web/web.php to retrieve your poems? It worked for me on several occasions, particullary if I still remember the year and the domain name under which a text I searched for where published.
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Quite an interesting read. Another resource I used when I tried to delve into transforms and DSP was "The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing" (the whole book is available for free at http://www.dspguide.com/). This was quite helpful, even for me with a linguistics background.
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Is it really a no brainer? You have to pay US taxes even if you leave the country. But if you are sure you are going to live there for the rest of your life I guess that won't make any difference.
You first need to be naturalized and then you can apply for a U.S. passport, but I am sure you knew that.

At the very least, you owe it to yourself to have a passport. In the meantime, you should to be asking one from the Russians as you ought to be or are still a citizen of that country.
another way around the rate limits is to ask to be whitelisted (http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting).

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Confidential? All I saw was Privacy privacy privacy power to the users.

This looks like a PR "leak".
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Reading the article raises an old question: When will we be able to retrieve the power from a hurricane? Let the thunderstorm occur and using the [YET-TO-INVENT]-technique, to power our civilization for... let's say a year.
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That's actually an quite interesting notion. I'd like to see digg show the ad clicks for each browser.
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The IE6 users is mostly people who use it on their work computers, as mention in the article.
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oh man, that takes me back - i had a similar experience for about 4 months after a bad bicycle accident when i was a kid. the whole family sits down for a roast dinner, the whizz of a blender and my portion poured out into a modified tube dispenser - ah good time, good times. i still remember the elation when i could open my mouth enough to eat baked beans. one at a time.
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We might as well ask them to use firefox. If every website forced their users to do so, then our life would be made so much easier.
In one of the posts, she complains that she might not be getting enough calories, etc. It seems like the easy solution would be to drink the meals designed to be fed through enteral feeding tubes. You might need to add something for flavor, but it would probably be one of the easiest things to use in order to know that you're getting the necessary nutrition. At $1.70 for 500 calories, it's not too expensive and probably covered by insurance. e.g. http://www.jrsmedical.com/ENTERAL-NUTRITION_FEED/NUTRITIONAL...

I guess you'd also have to be drinking a fair amount of Metamucil to get your fiber, too.
I am a naturalized U.S. citizen and I wouldn't even dream of "ditching" my identity for tax purposes and moving overseas. I am currently in Australia, I lived both in Singapore and Hong Kong, and I don't think I could ever call either of them "home" (Oz rocks, but only as friends ;-)

There is more to it than utility, and I know that "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel", but FUCK man, America is HOME.

You might not realize it now, but I dare you to travel overseas and try to unbecome a yank. It's hard. Everday, I miss my proud state of Virginia when I pay the Australian equivalent of $10USD for a pack of cigarettes; back home it was $4 for Marlies. Small things will get to you. My bank closed at 7PM and was open 7 days a week; I dare you to find such business ethic anywhere else on earth. And Oh, I could grab a case from any 7/11 or grocery store.

I just enjoy the fact that I can speak ill of any politician, critique the laws of the country and generally be resentful of "society" without anybody feeling offended. Everywhere else it's "Love it or leave it"; back home it's "tough luck". I like that sense of pesimistic resignation to fate and being "stuck" with that mess of a big fat country I call home.

Death to America! or at least the parts of it I haven't been to :-P

[Edit: Ok, maybe just "death to Jersey" .. specially Clifton and other areas just south of the "Bridge and the Tunnel" where my car was once levitated on four bricks. Pricks!]
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I think the two libraries should combine and call themselves GlowQuery.noConflict(!yippee);

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lol, absolutely. I would think if it was confidential it would contain some data, such as how many users do they expect to click on the Feedbak Google Ads, how is this supposed to serve the user and the advertising server, how will this really effect ones privacy, i.e. some user experiments, some focus groups insights and what do they expect to achieve, what are their goals, aims, plans, directions.
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