skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where for God's sake are you even getting "Mossad" and "poisoning"? There was apparently a radioactive leak at the Weizmann Institute in 1957. Professor Dror Sadeh, in whose laboratory it happened, died of cancer in 1993, i.e. 35 years later. Another researcher died of cancer in 1969 and someone else died of leukemia a month after the leak (which means it was probably unrelated to that specific incident). Sure, exposure to radiation in the laboratory, and not just that particular leak, must have elevated their cancer risk. Cancer deaths are pretty common among early nuclear researchers. But elevated risk of cancer years later is not the same as radiation poisoning. And the Weizmann Institute is not the Mossad.
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I like micro-isv. Still have a few of the t-shirts you used to sell.
I was hoping you'd come up with some reasonable explanation why it would be ok to drop support for IE9 as well ;)
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Doesn't a [more] deforming helmet like that in the OP do just that?
Working at a local hackerspace in Malmö (Sweden) a few weeks back a girl came in with one of these and complained that it was annoying that it kept poking her in the neck all the time. When she pointed to where it was itching it accidentaly exploded around her head. Sounded like a gunshot. No one was hurt, many where shocked. Better safe than sorry I guess.
It is certainly lame to lock the data behind exorbitant fees, but I agree with you. Considering how he intends to use the data, any of the freely available lists online would be good enough.
Here's my theory.

There's domain skills, the actual skills and knowledge about programming or cars or whatever your business does.

Then there's skills at getting ahead itself. Politics. Skills at making the right people happy so you get a promotion.

You need the 'getting ahead' skills to get to top levels in a large organization, right? We know that domain skills alone aren't going to cut it, if you're not good at the office politics, you are never going to be a department head or CIO -- in a large corporation or government or a university or large nonprofit: in any large organization.

Well, there's only so much room for so many skills. To actually get to the top levels of a large organization you need to be so good at the political part, that there's no time or room left in your psyche for any actual domain skills at all. Or, really, any skills at all except for skills at making people higher up than you think you are good.
We (I'm another eng at FB) definitely hire interns who are not juniors in college. You can be younger or older (or you could be a junior - I did my internship here after junior year).

As I understand it you just need to be going back to school at the end of your internship.
It's not state of the art, but I just ran this guy's code with about 100 samples and it was spot on. It should be noted that the "state of the art" in sentiment analysis is actually pretty far advanced. For basic polarity testing, this works fine.
Part of it's practicality. In NYC we now have a bike share - grab a bike from any station, ride around, return to any other station. Frequently I'm out and about and feel the need to grab a bike and do something - but I don't because I don't have my helmet with me.

At the same time, I really don't want to have to lug my helmet around everywhere just in case I want to take a short ride.

Having a compact "helmet" all the time that takes up next to no space (and is inconspicuous to boot) would be very nice.

When cycling is a sport/deliberate activity, rather than a transportation method/incidental activity, the dynamic changes.
Given that the general idea looks fine, and I'm all in for anything that improves safety, I'll nitpick.

In the last test, the dummy' face (if it had one) ends up all over the floor, as the helmet only protects the forehead and, furthermore, slides a little. Given that regular bike helmets are longer on the front and rigid, in theory only the chin would hit the floor. Thus, a regular helmet would be better in that case.

Can anyone confirm or deny if that would be the case?
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A tragedy, actually.
This might simply be an easy way for the company providing the app to get a lot of twitter users access tokens, to be used in their commercial product in order to get around the twitter API rate limits...
LeadSift requires a read-only access so it should not affect you too much.
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2013/main - Select ZIP code tabulation areas from the dropdown.

They're not perfect, but they're almost definitely good enough for the author's purposes.

More info on how the Census Bureau creates them: http://www.census.gov/geo/reference/zctas.html (they take a surprisingly circuitous route)
An API like that is good for an introduction, but I think you'll get better results with a machine learning approach (my pet project http://www.sentimentview.com). When I was running tests with a baseline algorithm (just matching against positive and negative keywords), I saw results from 62% accuracy with the baseline to 80% with an SVM http://blog.sentimentview.com/post/59031004797/learning-curv....
I think he means his work laptop has these driver limitations, so he's stuck.
Wait, USPS is a privately owned entity? If not, aren't products of government entities public by default? Therefore, any proprietary information is owned by the public, isn't it?

Or did I completely misunderstand the whole thing?
You may be looking for an Analog synthesizer ( I can recommend the Arrick) or an FM synthesizer (like the DX11) which was based on Chowning's FM synthesis work at Stanford.

If you really want to create an arbitrary waveform (and I caution you that much of the timbre is in the attack and decay and harmonic filtering effects) the simplest way for non-engineers to do that is to use something like an Arduino with a Adafruit Waveshield and a scripted tool to generate .WAV files. The production path then is 'gen file, copy to SD card, stick in WaveShield and hit reset'.
This helmet - http://www.kraniums.com/ - mixes it up a bit from traditional materials - I would guess it would reduce the sort of injuries that cause concussion as well but I can't find any information on that
This move is to prevent you from being tracked against website A and B will.

For example, google provides jquery CDN. website A and B uses that to save some cents on bandwidth. Google now knows you visited which pages on website A and B. and if A was a backpack store and B was a pressure cooker review, expect the NSA :D
The Irish & Southern Europeans were looked upon as lesser races at the time. It was only later that "white vs black" became the socially accepted racial classification.
The only way the web can move forward is if we stop supporting archaic browsers that can't support half the features CSS3 and HTML5 have to offer. Google are the only company game enough to make such a move, they should be praised for this. They've consistently helped push the web forward, IE10 is exciting and a decent version of Internet Explorer, I can't wait until I can build for IE10+

Websockets, HTML5 File API, FileReader API, XMLHttpRequest 2, Web Workers, IndexedDB, requestAnimationFrame, JS Typed Arrays, PageVisibility and a whole list of other awesome things that IE10+ supports. I'm drooling thinking of all of these new API's I soon will be able to use in my web applications without needing shims.
I don't think Microsoft has ever made a profit on Xbox, although I'm sure they've split up and distributed its losses to all sorts of divisions to hide that. They're about to do the same with Bing, too, now.
How much money is Ubuntu and Firefox budgeting for patent licenses on their mobile OS?
The folks at RedBox seem to understand that and have made it very quick to get what you want and leave. Plus, it takes very little time to go over the available movies.
Am I missing something here that prevents the use of the Google Maps API for postal code look ups[1]?

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/
Ah, nope, that's maximised, not fullscreen. Try both to see the difference.
Do you know of any other services which offer greater insight into topics that are of interest to you?
have you tried openstreetmaps or just using the google maps API?
Oh good catch, I had forgotten about that. Good product, but their website really, really needs an overhaul.

I should also have mentioned that Mathematica makes this sort of thing quite accessible as well, and if you can't afford it or are just a hobbyist they are pretty liberal with their student licensing. http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/SoundAndSonif...
helmet braking. I like your style, SamReidHughes.
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Agreed. Some bike crashes have no impact to set off an airbag - other than the impact of the head.
Revenue: From a personal perspective, I want the Twitter handle bad enough that I would be willing to pay for it.

You might be in the minority here. If a new social network comes along, and byoung is taken, I'll just register byoung2.

Also consider the side effect: if there is a marketplace for social media accounts, you will encourage squatting. Every new social media platform will be flooded with new accounts for all celebrities and companies to be resold at a premium.
Its not allowing people to chose for you, its simply not participating. Not giving consent to any action of any kind can not give consent to an action of others choosing, its akin to saying 0 equals 1.
Still have to have stuff working for IE 7 and below (<0.7%) though pretty degraded. But for us IE8 is still at 8%, only losing to IE10 with 11%. At least FF has more than IE (39% to 24%)
And that's why we have regulations. So people can only purchase an innovation that not only looks great, but is actually more effective, in like 2 to 5 years which it will take to approve it.
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Yeah I thought about hitting a tree branch across your forehead, the collar would not be aware of the impending impact.
Canada Post is currently trying to assert a similar ownership over our postal codes. See http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1 or http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/canada-post-sues-over-post... for more details.

Really messed up. Geocoder.ca crowd-sourced a database of Postal Code -> lat/long information, and have been giving it away for years. Even some government organizations use their data, and yet our postal service is trying to shut them down to drive customers towards their $5,000/year + many strings attached product.
I wonder what I tweeted or what it is about my network that would cause you to infer that I'm a parent when I'm not?

Of course, as you say, it's probabilistic, meaning it's not "wrong" that it incorrectly identifies me in particular as a parent; it's only "wrong" if a large number of those parent/non-parent inferences are incorrect over all analyzed accounts.
my.t-mobile.com is broken in some significant ways without third-party cookies.
Articles about this helmet have made it to the front page a few times. Here are a couple submissions with comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1828134

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4388056

And apropos, "Bicycle helmets haven't changed since their introduction" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5901164
Also: Having someone in your outsourced datacenter splice cables, SPAN ports, install trojaned hardware, etc etc etc...
C can already infer that. Google probably does that on their free CDN stuff.

you have unique combination of IP+UserAgent+extra Headers. That is enough. A and B does not even have to send anything. And this will continue to work even without cookies.
"Testing by the Swedish insurance company Folksam that compared Hövding to 12 conventional helmets found it performed at least three times better than the other helmets in a drop/hit test for shock absorbance" http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2013/04/04/meet-t...
Windows 7 automatic updates include Internet Explorer updates by default:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/gg615599.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/jj898508.aspx

IE9 was optional (users were presented with a dialog and they could decline installing it), while IE10 was automatic, no questions asked.

Alas, numbers of browser share say that this process is not working as smooth as MS would hope.
Yes, but you can't send your friend the surfly link. You have to ask your friend to also install the addon before you can collaborate on the same website. Extensions are cool, but not practical in the real world scenario.
So why do they make the xbox? Why are they making another one?
I did feel the same.

It's quite large and poorly fragmented in my honest opinion. But the code sure does the job !
Just don't forget to keep the batteries fresh, I guess.
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Very much reminds me of the Spirograph I had when I was a young.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirograph
Got my gender wrong - which seems strange as my interests were all typically male (science/tech/sports)... Not being sexist here, it would be interesting if it would list tweets for each category with a weight but maybe that would give away their algorithm
I suspect that the 'private sector' is one of the contracting companies that did the site to begin with. The guy is lobbiest gold since he knows who is and who isn't able to be influenced in the department.
How can a company so shamelessly extract money (through forceful deals, no doubt) from an open source OS, and get away with it?

Linux companies dodged this bullet for the most part, from both Microsoft and SCU, but it seems Microsoft "succeeded" this time against Android with their mostly garbage patents in the same way patent trolls and mass-bittorrent lawsuits have succeeded so far - by scaring people/companies into paying up, without having to get into any lawsuit, which is exactly what patent trolls have been doing for a while.

As soon as B&N was about to invalidate some of their main patents, they quickly "invested" $300 million into B&N (i.e. they settled), and B&N dropped the lawsuit. I wish more OEM's would've had the balls to call their bluff.

So EFF - any proposals for stopping corporate patent trolls like Microsoft, Rockstar Consortium and Intellectual Ventures, yet?
Bike helmets are actually designed to crack under an impact; they protect you by absorbing a big part of the energy of the impact.
It's actually the title in the <title>, even though it's not the title of the article. I agree that "earns" is a poor choice of words...
It's slightly more complex than that. If the helmet cracked then the force of the collision was transferred to your skull. Admittedly cracking the helmet would have taken some force out of the collision, but the moment it cracked it became useless.
Ya. Wouldn't it just have to be something like they are doing with Namecoin (decentralised DNS)
The Shazam algorithm -- I don't want to be all cynical and dumpy because it's not like I remember exactly how it works either (it's proprietary, after all... and even the explanation I was given was not definitive) but one of my Music Information Retrieval professors once described his anecdotal knowledge of it. It was based on some features derived from FFT for sure but didn't seemed very concerned with note identification, if at all. There are a ton of features that can be post-processed from FFTs that can't be equated to "pitch". Beware misleading analogies... the frequency domain (& quefrency, etc. etc.) is a difficult space to conceptualize.

And when you get into machine learning, some of the operations performed by neural networks and the like don't really represent super linear, human-understandable transformations. It's important to understand feature extraction, but more important in the grand scheme of these things is to understand how to dig data that is useful and how it can be used.
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Argh, this kind of anecdotal evidence makes me crazy. Helmets aren't skulls. You have no idea whether the forces that caused the helmet to crack would have caused similar injury to your head had you not been wearing the helmet, nor do you have any idea whether the forces the helmet managed to absorb before failing are a significant fraction of the forces your head experienced during the accident. Nothing about your experience is sufficient grounds for the conclusion you draw at the end of your comment (that "they have to work to some extent"), nor can any single accident experience provide such grounds.
Man, I remember thinking how good it would be when I could stop supporting IE6 ... I think it was last week.
These guys are one of the reasons I love mathematics.

Check this out too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVuU2YCwHjw

Edit: Didn't realize that this was also linked to in another thread on the front page as well.
There is Google's terms of service for one.
> We support the latest version of Google Chrome (which automatically updates whenever it detects that a new version of the browser is available) as well as the current and prior major release of Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis

This policy seems kind of broken since browser versioning went crazy. There is no longer any particular link between a "major" version of a browser and the actual technical changes under the hood that came with it. Chrome has a new "major" version what, monthly? FireFox nearly the same? MS sat on IE6 for 5 years and then iterated nearly a major version every year since, but now seems to be correlating them to new (major or minor) versions of Windows. Tying a support policy to something that is so different between browsers, and mostly a marketing device, seems pretty weird to me.
There was a post on HN a while ago explaining why people should be building / using alternatives to google for geo stuff. The largest reason being that MANY uses are against the TOS of the google geocoding API. Particularly, I think, anything that's not user-facing and free/freely available. I can't seem to dig up a link, but a the case is made here (though not as well): http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_don.27t_you_just_...

EDIT: found it http://petewarden.com/2013/09/09/why-you-should-stop-piratin...
I just saw a post on here about TextBlob - a python natural language processing library. It occurs to me that we need an open source alternative to Google's language processing (as seen on Android and in Google Now). We already have good speech recognition... If I had the chance I'd do that, maybe it'd interest you.
I think that's missing the point. If a "Microsoft-based company" is mandating IE9 and disallowing browser installs, they're not the sort of shop likely to be trying new office suite software (!) any time soon. Conservative markets are conservative, in general you simply can't market replacement products to them directly.

The only people switching older systems to Docs are the people willing to try new stuff, more or less by definition. A Chrome or Firefox install for these folks isn't nearly as invasive as junking Word and Excel is.
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So the government can C&D anyone who uses their proprietary business information (like UPS or Fedex) without paying royalties? Sounds great! Another victory for the proletariat!

:C
What, assuming it isn't flat-out corruption or nepotism, motivates someone to hire people like this into important positions they flat-out know nothing about

The people doing the hiring aren't experts at much of anything besides being bureaucrats or above them, elected officials. They aren't the best of the best in the healthcare or IT fields because of some kind of competition or consistent vetting process.

The really funny thing is that the only reason anyone notices the staggering magnitude of the incompetence is because it's a web site that obviously doesn't work. Meanwhile behind the scenes are all kinds of protocols that don't really work to implement a healthcare system that is extremely poorly designed and will likely be poorly implemented.

Unfortunately when the rest of it doesn't work, voters will operate in ignorance while politicians blame each other for the failures and inevitably more and more money will be thrown at the problem so that someone can try to look good and get re-elected.
>1. Are these generic, broad "idea" patents and hence there is nothing Google/OEMs can really do here to avoid licensing them? If not, why don't they use an alternative implementation to avoid the conflict?

no alternative implementation would help as it is not about some specific patents, it is more about [litigation] threat that some patents in the vast portfolio can be found that may be in some sense considered violated. Basically it is racket called Android Licensing Program - you pay "protection money" to MS in exchange for it not bothering you.

What interesting here is that Google seems to leave its OEMs to fend for themselves, thus instead of fighting one Google over 2B/yearly pot (the show that first row tickets for would sell like for Superball), MS extorts fifty million here and hundred million there which is much easier and safer.
The tradeoffs are both complex and evolving and are different for each project/product. In general Hadoop is more scalable and more flexible but much slower.

For example as of today RedShift can hold a maximum of 256 terrabytes of compressed data while Facebook's Hadoop cluster was over 200 Petabytes in late 2012. RedShift only supports limited query and data types and a single index while Hadoop can theoretically handle arbitrary data processing. But if these constraints are acceptable then RedShift will likely be orders of magnitude faster in most cases.

Other projects/products will have different tradeoffs but they are almost always faster as this was almost always the primary goal.
So why don't you get the drivers directly from AMD, Intel or NVIDIA, as appropriate? Don't rely on computer manufacturers to supply up to date drivers.
Here's the video of the anime:
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tl;dr: URLs with all periods prepended by a zero-width space evade Twitter DM malware detection, but are still recognized (and clickable) by Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Twitter's own client.

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Kaspersky AV flags the link as "phishing URL".
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How about you back that up with something...

It's actually quite spot on. The only reason the Silk Road is used is because there's a need for it. A need that's created by our current litigious and unproductive drug laws.
What determines the time/speed of each circle?
To me the SAAS space is no different than starting a band, being an actor, etc. It is easy to get into at some basic level but almost impossibly hard to become the next Rolling Stones, Tom Hanks or some other crazy successful example of the field.

That is by no means a reason not to do it, just that expectations need to be set about what reality actually looks like.
Tell that to the NSA. They just Cease&Desist'd on intellectual property grounds someone who made a satirical t-shirt using their logo.
yeah, he likely went into some private consultancy firm that'll be contracted to fix the issues with the abomination (Obamanation?) he knows best, because he built it! But all at private sector rates, still paid for by the taxpayers.

nothing pays like ongoing maintenance contracts :)
Author thinks he needs the ZIP code database that is "updated daily," but he provides no reason for this and he's not willing to pay for it. Looks like he's the one being unreasonable here; ZIP codes are a solved problem.
I like when some staimate from some analyst without any real figure is stated as a fact