skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IE10 functions even when the fallback video driver is being used, which certainly doesn't provide hardware acceleration. Are you really sure DirectX or the graphics driver is the cause of not being able to install IE10?

Also, DirectX isn't a separately updatable component, at least in recent versions of Windows. It gets updated as part of regular Windows updates and service packs. (Some software still uses the DirectX redistributable as part of its installer, but in recent versions of Windows, this only installs an optional part of the DirectX 9 interface library.)

Outdated graphics drivers can't provide features introduced with a newer DirectX version, but they shouldn't prevent you from installing IE10.
I'm looking at your examples[1], and I'm seeing a lot of analysis that seems pretty wrong to me.

To be fair, I haven't counted and done the maths (and I understand that human sentiment analysis often doesn't agree with other humans), but.. well, look at these examples:

Positive: Thank you Urbana voter for pointing out what we knew. Cheat lie steal the election. We will NEVER become an Islam nation as Obama wants.

Positive: Fun fact: @kbzeese got 1.5% of the vote in 2006 US Senate General Election, but thinks he knows what the people want #headdesk

Negative: What is our present condition? We have just carried an election on principles fairly stated to the people.

Does your model give confidence? It looks to me like you are making it bi-modal, but if you had a "neither positive nor negative" category it might fix some of the issues?

Eg, this is rates as positive, but I'd rate it as neither positive nor negative: "Should ballot papers in Northern Ireland include photographs of the candidates standing? Make your views known. http://t.co/NySCHsmecE"

Of course tweets are a pretty difficult thing to run sentiment analysis on: those random hashtags break a lot of machine learning models, whilst a human can read them and realise something like "#headdesk" is probably bad (although in that case the phrase "thinks he knows" is something that a model could probably use if it understood n-grams)

[1] http://www.sentimentview.com/#examples
Here's one source: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/the-se...
A Tale of Two Remote Companies
Realize to have $3,000 in monthly revenue, that’s anywhere from 100 to 600 paying customers

If you're charging $5-30 / month, you're not going to grow well unless you are truly a fully self serve company. Charge 10x more and have happier customers. Even apps moved towards a model where they earn most money from high spenders from in-app purchases.
The kraniums site have a claim of reducing impact related accelerations from 200g to 70g. It's also made from cardboard.
> Why wouldn't law enforcement pose as buyers, as well?

And then you end up with covert LEO buying, and covert LEO selling ... and find yourself knee deep in a Philip K Dick novel.
Only thing I can't figure out is if it's reusable?
Same here, IE8 accounts for ~10% of our audience.
The Product Design Sprint
It isn't clear that Google is one of the companies who pays them. If Microsoft went after Google it seems like Google would have made a stink about it. Microsoft generally goes after companies they expect to be compliant (such as Amazon, who was already paying a patent fee for using Linux on their servers).

It seemed like in the past their method was to say they have patents covering X (in the past X was Linux) and you can license them for some specified amount. I don't think they were specific. If you refused, they would throw out some specifics and take you to court (see TomTom).

I haven't paid much attention to patents in the mobile space so I'm not sure if things have changed.

I'm pretty sure Apple has a cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft, they appear to be more focused on a common enemy these days.
2) Can't you directly read the RCFiles/etc. bypassing Hive? Why implement another storage format?
Maybe it's more. This story has been around for a while. Back in May the estimate was $3.4 billion.

http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-most-profitable-mobile-opera...

Kind of surprising that people didn't see this coming 2 years ago and make more noise.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/microsoft-vs-android/8...
The better question is, are the employees of the Fed under the employ of the US government.

Nationally chartered commercial banks are required to hold stock in the Federal Reserve Bank of their region; this entitles them to elect some of the members of the board of the regional Federal Reserve Bank. Thus the Federal Reserve system has both public and private aspects.[18][19][20][21] The U.S. Government receives all of the system's annual profits, after a statutory dividend of 6% on member banks' capital investment is paid, and an account surplus is maintained.
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I'd still maintain we simply can't detect it.
Yep. Google supports modern web runtime on more of Microsoft's platforms than Microsoft themselves do. People in companies who are stuck on particular OS version, but have the freedom and motivation to adopt new productivity software can probably also download a browser.

Google is making perfect sense here, the real question is why did MS screw this up so bad and integrate OS and web runtime to such a degree they can't support more of their user base?
Perhaps it could take effect after focus was lost (and something had been typed in).
Your first point is a strange one. Are you saying that cycling is not dangerous enough to warrant wearing a helmet? If so, then the other points are moot, and you could have simplified your argument to just "there's no need to wear a helmet".

If on the other hand, you believe that cycling is dangerous enough to wear a helmet, then you're effectively saying that people shouldn't wear them in order to 'lure' other potential cyclists into cycling. That's just ludicrous!
Yes. FF25 on Win7.

Running Firefox in Safe Mode cleared it up. Disabled all Extensions and Plugins in normal mode, but it still stutters.
Yes, they are part of the fourth branch [0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_branch_of_government
I'm in the Maritimes and things are so well at my job so no go for travel, but maybe I'll mention it to my doctor.

Thanks.
Similar issues plagued the UK postal code databases. So much so that Wikileaks eventually leaked the database

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/UK_government_database_of_all_1,84...

I'm not sure if things have improved since, but it's probably not going to get better now that Royal Mail is 48% private.
IE10 will not even install on my machine due to DirectX dependencies.

The DirectX update will not install, it complains about video driver issues. It tells me to download a specific version of my video card driver. Downloading and installing that version of the driver does no good, the DirectX installer still complains.

As for the DirectX update, I had to specifically search on error codes from the IE10 install to find the MSDN page with the DirectX update in it. (The MSDN page is actually what informed me of what video card driver I needed).

This is the problem with discreet graphics cards in laptops that user manufacturer specific drivers. Bleck. Not like the driver works, I have to change versions based upon which game I am playing, it is just like the bad old days on the desktop.

Also the GPU occasionally decides to just stay on 100%, though I think might be a Firefox bug. (IIRC WebGL content in a tab open somewhere)

The crap I go through to have a gaming laptop.
safari use case means nothing. it is disabled only if the 1st class site does not set a cookie or something futile like this.

you probably have 3rd party cookie working as usual.
>create cycling infrastructure and put more cyclists on the road //

I think you mean put more cyclists on dedicated cycle lanes segregated from traffic. Surely they're far safer than mixing cyclists with automobiles.

Mildy humorous anecdote: First and only time I've hit my head cycling was my first time out wearing a helmet, hit a low branch as I'd not allowed for the extra clearance.
The author of CodeMirror (Marijn Haverbeke) is also a Mozilla contributor to some degree (and, early on, was employed by Mozilla Research on the Rust project).
The only purpose I can think of for this is to keep your hair all pretty. No serious cyclist would use this. Specifically, I ride downhill bikes and can guarantee I'd be dead already if I were to wear this for protection. With a real (full face) helmet, I have already endured multiple concussions, a broken neck and countless other injuries to the head/neck area so consider me a qualified test dummy.
Blockbuster to close remaining 300 U.S. stores [video]
Teachers are earning millions of dollars selling their lesson plans
Laptop with a dedicated GPU. AMD's unified drivers were, last time I checked, still unstable. I am stuck using HP's custom drivers, which never receive updates. This isn't too uncommon for Laptops.
Right here, by anybody in the U.S.

http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cP...
Appreciate the resources. I'm working with the salesforce people and am aware of the developer accounts and other resources, was just trying to connect with someone who has done it before to have a personal conversation.

The developerforce event route sounds very interesting.
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>IE7 is totally unsupported by anyone, including MS. There are no patch updates, no security bugfixes.

This is a myth.
I recall that article about the Data Science Toolkit. Thanks.
How can you do a fair test across so many different providers? Presumably you did not host the exact same content with every single service.

Also, I'd be interested in seeing the results for Fastly.
They were a one-off Xmas charity special. I only sold about 100, so they are very exclusive! ;0)
It's not like he has a choice.
EveryCode is Breakable.
I just started using this, I have never used the hype machine before. The app interface is beautiful and intuitive. This is awesome and I love it.
A clear demonstration that patent racket is a lucrative "business".
Yeah, how about redefining what a criminal is in the first place. Then you don't need to protect the public.
The nth circle from the right is n times the speed of the first circle.
Why do they keep doing something that costs them so much?
For hunting and pest control purposes, essentially (details on request, but being humane is obviously part of it).

For dealing with two legged snakes, not per se. Ignoring high energy (not .22 rimfire) rifles (can address that later if you wish), for normal handguns in self-defense, what police and civilians can legally do is stopping a lethal threat. Killing is not and cannot be the objective.

And there's basically three mechanisms for that, only one of which is reasonably guaranteed to work with normal human marksmanship.

First, when shot once, a large fraction of people will stop their aggression, e.g. Trayvon Martin is the most recent famous example. For that matter being shot at is often sufficient (browse YouTube some). But you obviously can't count on it.

Hitting the central nervous system, brain, or spine high enough, will do it. But those are small, hard to hit targets, we have strong instincts about threats to our heads, the brain is well protected with bone, etc. etc. ... and of course a hit to the brain is often fatal and almost certainly catastrophic.

Failing that, causing someone to lose enough blood they can't keep fighting is what you're left with---but that's dicey, there are many many incidents where e.g. heart function is outright stopped and the aggressor continues to be lethal for 10s of seconds to in some rare cases minutes. And this mechanism is obviously also hard to keep from going all the way to fatal.

One very special case for police snipers is the hostage situation where they have to hit the perpetrator's brain stem to prevent him from reflexively killing his hostage. That's invariably lethal (killed JFK), but still based on the, in this case, narrow legal distinction that the intent was to stop the perpetrator from killing a innocent 3rd party, not kill him per se.

Ah, I should add the deterrent affect. Being maimed or killed by a civilian is about the greatest fear of criminals according to surveys; the fact that the civilians will be using lethal guns is of course behind that. From that it logically follows that the vast majority of the 2.5 million gun self-defense incidents in the US every year do not involve anyone getting shot, and almost always even a shot being fired (warning shots are pretty much never legitimate).
Good news for everyone.
Lots of people know and say that cars are the real problem, but unless you can snap your fingers and make them all vanish, I'd suggest you try putting a helmet on instead.
>Debt with a drug dealer ... Dealers don't need money to finance crimes, they do it mostly through terror.

So if the people are working for them to pay off a debt, then the dealer paid for the service still. Additionally, someone has to buy weapons to hijack shipments.

>If the legal drug is sold for $15, drug dealers would sell the same amount for $10

Going along with fictional numbers, currently they're getting, say $100 for the same amount. Legalization might bring it to $15, and black market guys might sell at $10. That's still 1/10th of the revenue flowing in. They'd have to have very thin profit margins to benefit from a major reduction in prices.

>Like the do with stolen medical drugs sold mostly in slums. ... . Not only the dealers would exterminate the workers of those places

Sounds like this is a problem with slums and Brazil's law enforcement capabilities in general than anything else.

If your point is that Brazil will still have massive problems after legalization, yes, sure. Legalizing all medications won't solve hunger, either. Legal sales reduce criminal pressure on end-users (maybe not an issue in Brazil) and reduce revenues to criminals.

Why would a policy of open drug sales make things worse in Brazil?
I use a variety of browsers, but some websites work best in some browsers. I've seen sites not work in FF or IE that work great in Opera, sites that fail in IE and work fine in FF, and it is not to uncommon to find sites posted here that only work in Chrome.

FF leaks memory, or at least the plugins that make FF great leak memory. (If I kill Reddit Enhancement Suite and AdBlock+ FF tends to stay alive for more than a few hours).

I'm opposed to Chrome, I prefer a browser that isn't designed to track everything I do. (Although Google already tracks everything that I do, so I'm really not winning much of that battle.)

On my Windows 7 machine, IE is my browser that has no plugins installed. It is really fast, light, and insanely stable. FF is my plugin laden browser, as such it tends to go down in flames with some frequency.

I am annoyed with the IE team for taking a dependency upon DirectX, annoyed with DirectX for taking a dependency upon video card drivers, and annoyed with HP for not updating their drivers. (To be fair, there is a very short list of Laptops that the particular DirectX update doesn't work with, mine just so happens to be on that list!)
There is a pretty good effort to reverse engineer it all:

http://www.freethepostcode.org/

Edit: actual dataset here: http://www.freepostcodes.org.uk/ - link above wrong.
You can change the phase by holding ctrl-shift and dragging the circle. If you want a negative value just use the absolute magnitude with the component in antiphase.
Open-source social networking/personal data storage with Tent: https://tent.io/

You can build any type of app you want on top of Tent.

See the hosting provider Cupcake.io to get a working Tent account: https://cupcake.io (say ^bnb.cupcake.is sent you!)
Argh, this kind of arguing makes me crazy. It makes it seem like your only reason for commenting is to make yourself feel superior.

Can you seriously say that it would be better to fall on your head and scrape along the pavement without a helmet?

I would prefer to slide along my helmet, not my skull.

So, "they have to work to some extent" is an entirely reasonable thing for him to say. Either I lose some hair and skin or I scrape a helmet. It's obviously doing something. Common sense.
You're being pedantic. Since the 1970s, the USPS is supposed to be revenue-neutral, by law. This is a direct rebuttal to the simplistic "I already done paid for it with meh tax dollers!" argument that appears to be carrying the day in this discussion. The past history and current management structure of the postal service is completely irrelevant to the debate.

The only tax subsidy the USPS receives is to fund things like free mail for the blind, election mail, and other "public good" services. They charge for the zip code database because it's a product that can make them revenue (which they desperately need), and it is, in fact, a proprietary invention of the USPS.
You can also use services that provide lawyering a-la-carte : https://www.upcounsel.com/ or things like https://www.clerky.com .
MS attempts to do everything possible to hide what patents they use for protection racket. Most probably because those patents are garbage and can be otherwise invalidated. Barnes and Noble almost got to that point, but MS quickly bribed them to prevent that from happening. Unfortunately, besides B&N no one had the guts to fight these racketeers.
But, but, his credentials on LinkedIn for running a huge IT project are impeccable! He once was a program manager of satellite stuff in the 1980s!! He even got a degree in Business and Finance from Loyola. Clearly the man could have started Google.

1984 to 1988:
"Held several increasingly responsible project/program management positions for implementing large satellite telecommunications projects for Fortune 500 companies. Responsibilities included program and project administration,logistics management, financial management, and quality assurance for GTE Spacenet projects."

1988-1999:

"Held a variety of increasing responsible IT policy positions. Established the Office of Electronic Commerce which had governmentwide responsibilities for developing policies, coordinating initiatives, and monitoring Federal electronic commerce. Also co-chaired with DoD the Federal Electronic Commerce Program Office. "

1999-2005:

"As the Deputy AC, oversaw the development and implementation of all public (beneficiary) Internet applications (from a business and operations perspective) including the website business planning and development, identity management solutions, and analysis of website and on-line application use trends"

Wow. A real Nikola fucking Tesla this guy is. This is the kind of shit that turns people into Republicans. There is literally nothing in this guy's resume that would suggest he should be a CIO handling a $2 billion budget.
Let me second this sentiment: NO!

Just like you, when I first read about it, I was worried, but then I hoped something serious had happened.

Why? Well, I like the Internet Archive like any other of us here does, but I am worried about his model: centralization.
This time nothing happend, fine, but something actually can happen, someday. I just think that the "Better shut it down, NOW!" theory[0] also applies to the Internet Archive, and I hope I that one day I'll see a new one, federative and distributed.

[0]: https://torrentfreak.com/shut-down-the-pirate-bay-founder-sa...
The mobile phone business is essentially a cartel where only very big players are able to enter the market. Why is this allowed to exist? I couldn't start my own company and compete in this space.
Why not just use Shopify? Shopify is way ahead in this area.
What I'm saying is that +5% wearing the new device would be better than +0% who didn't wear anything because they didn't like helmets and the device didn't exist. I think it could be a lot percent actually.

The Thai people I spoke to told me helmets weren't fashionable. They also don't wear seat belts, since those aren't cool either, and those are already installed, so there is no added expense in that decision.
Presto supports full scan right now, but pushes down key value equality pairs to the connectors for additional connector side pruning (e.g. partitions in Hive). The engine itself will also do some additional partition pruning at planning time with the partitions returned by the connector.

We currently have a pull request open right now that will allow range predicates to be be pushed into the connectors. This will allow connectors the ability to implement range/skip scans.

The core presto engine does not take advantage of indexes right now.
Imagem do Dia: O Inovador Processo Construtivo do Ralador de Queijo
If they want to actually sell any they should put a video demonstrating the product on the front page and not limited by being Apple Quicktime only nor hidden behind a "super nanny" logo.
That was fast... but I'm really glad as a developer, the less old versions to support the better.
I've seen several "analysts" making this claim but they invariably include the original xbox losses in an effort to to make the profitable 360 business look bad. Examples:

http://www.neowin.net/images/uploaded/asfd3221125511352.jpg

http://g.foolcdn.com/img/editorial/xbox%20biz.png
In the places of the world that ordinary people use bikes for everyday transportation they do not wear helmets and cycling is safer.

Cycling is safer while wearing a helmet but so is wearing a helmet while walking and driving and shitting and eating a fucking sandwich.
SCU? You mean SCO?
Here is data straight from Google about android fragmentation.

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
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To be fair, the Nexus 5 is the only device that is currently running 4.4, and it's only been available for the last week (I'm still waiting for mine to arrive).
Here is an interview with the guy, uninspiring stuff...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wghDZagJ_nM
Sony or Samsung are not vassal states of Google.
> I wonder if Google will ever end up in legal trouble for such a policy.

Why would they? On what basis? Also, even Microsoft doesn't want anyone to support old versions of IE. Microsoft wants to sell Windows licenses, remember?
real helmets aren't reusable after a real accident, so probably not; that said, I have no idea
It doesn't look like it's been updated in a while, and many of the links are busted :(
A good question, which probably is the reason why Google didn't drop Motorola case against MS (even though it wasn't a good one). But really Google can do more than that.
I always thought HTC and Samsung were exempt from these royalties by releasing their own Windows Phones. That's why Samsung doesn't care at all about their WP offerings.

Samsung, HTC, Apple and Nokia should account for over 50% of the global market. If my assumptions are correct, are the rest of the smaller players able to pay that much money on royalties alone?

I'll like to see some numbers. The article is seriously lacking data.
As a side note, research has shown it may be safer in the sense that drivers give more birth to helmet-less cylclists. They see those with helmets as more professional and better equipped, and apparently pass them at higher speeds and closer clearances.

http://www.drianwalker.com/overtaking/overtakingprobrief.pdf

As for a more broad discussion on the topic, outlining both sides of the debate:

http://www.cycle-helmets.com/helmets-uk-dec-2012.pdf
Anyone knows if it is legal in Europe? I've searched extensively to no result.
This is day 2,426 for me, but who's bragging.
The rapid purge is probably inspired by the requirements for a large, popular wiki. The Fastly team comes from Wikia.

When the entire page is static, but changes must be communicated everywhere instantly, rapid purging is the answer.
All this means is that Occam's razor produces fallacies in cases where the evidence has been carefully removed.
Oh thanks, I'll look it tonight.