skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Its not allowing people to chose for you,

Yes, choosing not to vote is allowing other people to choose for you. You have the choice to participate in the decision or not, and you choose not to participate. That means you are choosing to allow other people to choose for you.

> Not giving consent to any action of any kind can not give consent

Consent is not the same thing as choice (it may require choice, but it is not equivalent to it.)
It's a bit different rejection story from the most (but certainly not different from all), that difference being Ahmet open-sourced his app, rather then just whining about rejection and burying the code.

And, IMHO, if it wasn't relevant to the community, they wouldn't up-voted it to the homepage.

Also, I agree HN should show subdomains for this kind[1] of sites.

[1] This kind being websites offering subdomains for user-genarated content that is not related to the company which owns the domain.
this exists. http://www.safetyturtle.com/
They now have a post themselves: http://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-plea...
He isn't saying Israel is less moral at all. The book mentioned above specifically points out there are a good handful of companies that sell hardware/tech to the US government that have originated in Israel.

I think the point being that Israel happens to excel at this type of thing due to the simple fact that they have been surrounded by countries who have wanted to wipe them off the map for a long time. This has happened to breed the talent that is very useful to the NSA / surveillance industry.
Not quite what that article is saying. A better characterisation would be "helmets are better than nothing, but don't do much for the most frequent kind of head injury in bike accidents". Helmets do do good things for some of the types of accidents that bicycles have.

It's an important distinction to make, because some people will use it as an excuse to peddle the idea that helmets are worse than not wearing one. It's a great article, well-written and researched, but it should be noted that the author concludes by saying he still has his daughter wearing an old-style helmet while he waits for a next-gen one to become available.
http://www.gandi.net/ : 1 GB IMAP account included with domains - hosted in France. Another alternative (hosted in the US) is FastMail (see my review here: http://blog.workhere.io/my-experience-with-fastmail-as-a-gma...).

As for IMAP clients, I like http://airmailapp.com/.
The point is that this is extremely useful public data. Since so many things in daily life besides just shipping require an address, this information should really be in the commons.
Where are the startups that disrupt the 1984 surveillance state? I think YC recently ventured into nonprofits, maybe they should consider adding one company that "furthers the cause of freedom" to each batch or something.
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This reminds me of a blog post I wrote a year ago about proxy technology:

http://www.deanmao.com/2012/08/28/modify-a-site-you-dont-own...

I did it the same way -- parse & rewrite js code, and have a server that stores the same cookies that your browser would. The browser js code also contains the same js rewriter so that it can handle stuff like eval(). It also had to do lots of header manipulation since there are lots of headers that have domain-name based security, like CORS for example. The one I wrote works great with js-heavy sites like gmail or facebook.
I really doubt that is the point. To me the obvious thing that no one has mentioned is fashion.

Actually fashion can be such a severe problem with helmets that many people would rather risk their lives than wear one. In fact, in some countries (like Thailand), that is normal.

So when it comes to safety practicalities, the reality that has been demonstrated is that the unattractive appearance of helmets can often mean they aren't used at all. If a device like this were more accepted then that could save many lives.
A clear cons is the fuckload of problems you get with IE trying to do that.. and people entering their emails where it asks emails and vice-versa. I know there are fixes.. but still, always a pain to deal with.
FYI, the scanning/'reading room' areas shown in that video from about 8m25s to 8m50s are in the building that appears totally lost to last night's fire.

The blinky servers at the back of the large 'church hall', shown at the beginning (~0m45s-on) with concrete walls around them, are about as far from the fire area as is possible on the lot.

The other green-walled server room, shown starting at 5m01s, is in a non-concrete office-like room closer to where the fire was.
Of course Yasser Arafat was killed.

It certainly seems more likely today than yesterday. But who killed him? It almost certainly wasn't the Israelis or the US - they liked the fact that they could mostly deal with Arafat, and he'd keep more radical Palestinian elements under control.

Milosevic.. why would anyone bother killing him? He was going to be locked away for life, and there wasn't anyone he could really blame, so I can't see what the motive would be?

Love the anonymous downvote for saying something unpopular politically, but more than likely factually correct.

That's the HN way of saying "eeee it's not fair I'm being downvoted. Someone vote me up". I don't see you complaining about the anonymous up votes.
Why should he pay for something that is a product of the federal government? It's already paid for, by the salaries of those who maintain the data, which would be maintained anyway since its required for USPS operations.
Not to mention that if I were riding in the summer there is no way I would want something wrapped around my neck as it would decrease my ability to cool myself down. Sure, having something on your head is not much better but helmets these days have quite good ventilation.
This is why you throw away a 'used' helmet. It is the process of cracking - or even merely deforming - that is the protective act. That it's useless after cracking doesn't mean it hasn't done it's job. It's like saying the crumple zone of a car is useless because it crumpled in the accident.
I put the markup in after it was pointed out I was probably talking bollocks there. I didn't want to delete the wrong info as that would make the comment after make no sense, so I did that instead.
As someone in the cycling community, this isn't actually a new thing. It's been for sale for years.
About Coding and Efficiency
This approach will inherently have the ringing; FFT is really not meant for local features. STFT may be a more interesting approach.

Anyhow, I ran something like the following in Matlab for testing upsampling 4 pixels to 8 pixels:

fft_mx = fft( eye(4) ); #forward FFT transform matrix
fft_mx = padarray( fft_mx, [2 0], 0, 'both' ); #pads result vector with zeroes
fft_iv = ifft( eye(8) ); #inverse FFT matrix
abs( fft_iv * fft_mx ) * 2

The result is:

1.0000 0 0 0
0.6533 0.6533 0.2706 0.2706
0 1.0000 0 0
0.2706 0.6533 0.6533 0.2706
0 0 1.0000 0
0.2706 0.2706 0.6533 0.6533
0 0 0 1.0000
0.6533 0.2706 0.2706 0.6533

Basically, your idea (which boils down to an FIR scaler) samples the entire image when resampling. That isn't a very good behavior, IMHO.

EDIT: fixed math
outlook.com only supports IE8+.

IE7 is totally unsupported by anyone, including MS. There are no patch updates, no security bugfixes. There's also zero reasons to use it, as enterprises can upgrade to IE8 and configure a GPO to force IE7 compatibility mode for Intranet site or whatever broken resources they need to access through IE7.
Feross should get a retroactive prize for this:

http://feross.org/fill-disk/

I guess if we're gonna be retroactive, though, there are tons of people who should be named.
Hopefully - and I really hope this - most of these patents are stupid stuff from the early days of graphical operating systems and are ready to expire in the next few years (given a 20 year lifespan for most patents).
The USPS isn't a government department.
This is neat but some potential problems with it.

- Will not protect from things falling on the head

- May not protect in a direct impact (head-on) collision where the head may hit something before the person falls because it may not deploy in time.
Sorry but this sounds like bullshit to me. By that logic Microsoft could get money from anyone who's ever made a software product because "some patents in the vast portfolio can be found that may be in some sense considered violated."

I buy the other argument more, the one that says Android does horribly infringe on Apple's and Microsoft's patents because it's a copied product and that's what happens when you make a copied product.
FastMail, while an Australian company, is hosted in the US.
Someone should just create an open source project, host that on Github and call it a day. This is disgusting.
What are the best recommendations?
There is a social problem with helmets in that people who don't want to mess up their hair or makeup don't like wearing them. I don't particularly like the idea of relying on a battery-powered barrier device, but for someone who won't wear a helmet, this product is better than not wearing anything.
Apple published a report on government data requests
With you mentioning better alternatives, could you list or link to a list of these better alternatives?
Innteresting concept, but I'm even more interested in what sort of valve technology can contain a gas under pressure, and release it electrically.
does anyone know which patents they're asserting? FAT?
yeah i'm sure thai's don't wear helmets because of fashion.
The USPS is not a government agency nor are its employees paid by the government.
One might argue that by making a blog post on any subject, no matter what its importance to the author, is "going out of his way to create controversy". In addition, his post never states that he is unable to "figure out the zip codes", it only describes the policy and practice of the USPS.
I disagree.

It's needlessly inflammatory and misspelt throughout. (Some people just have trouble spelling, and that's fair enough. But writing "a out" instead of "about" and not fixing it is just lazy and disrespectful to readers.

AsymetricCom would probably have got a different response had s/he written something like this instead:

"If you're really into software and want to be more than a semantic duck-taper, you need to know about Fourier transforms. Just like the Pythagorean theorem and basic trig, sooner or later you'll find you need it."

(Note 1. Although I have seen a whole lot of Fourier transforms in my time, I don't agree that you can't be truly "into software" without them. Note 2. It should probably be "duct tape" rather than "duck tape" but (a) the history is really complicated -- see [1] for some details -- and (b) I like the parallel with "duck typing"[2].)

[1] http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-duc4.htm

[2] If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck. I think the term "duck typing" originated in the Python community, though Python's by no means the only language to have done a lot of things this way.
Here's an analogy some may find crazy: I've been collecting data that classifies sugar (cane / corn / etc.) as a drug, rather than a food. Considering that type 2 diabetes is a self induced illness caused by sugar abuse, should we imprison sugar addicts? I know, I know, that may be a bit of a stretch for some persons. Still, think about it.
Who pays these monies to Microsoft? Google?
Doesn't work in Shumway yet.
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Speaking more than one language may help delay dementia
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Interactive English grammar lessons. https://github.com/empirical-org/quill/issues?state=open

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32 pounds of marijuana in that case. If you were going to do a test run in this way, you could send a single schedule IV Xanax or something. I'm not saying it's a good idea but the likelihood of putting your neighbors in danger is probably smaller than many common actions. It's probably less dangerous statistically than giving them baked goods with nuts.

All I was responding to is your statement, "One of the most irresponsible things I've ever read." If I ranked all statements I've ever read in order of irresponsibility, this is pretty middling.
I personally know people who object to helmets, and refuse to wear them even though we have a helmet law in my city.

I'm not entirely in agreement, but there is logic to this line of reasoning:

1. Helmets, and helmet laws give the impression that cycling is a dangerous activity, and discourage people to cycle.

2. the biggest thing you can do to increase the safety of cycling, is create cycling infrastructure and put more cyclists on the road (I believe this is backed up by hard data, but I have no citations).

3. It follows from 1 & 2 that helmet laws make cycling less safe for all of us by decreasing the number of cyclists on the road.

There is more to their argument than that, but that's the one I personally find most convincing. I still wear a helmet though, so clearly I'm not entirely convinced.
> Linux companies dodged this bullet for the most part, from both Microsoft and SCU

It's worth noting that many of the patents asserted in the B&N case had nothing to do with mobile and were equally applicable to any form of Linux. The only reason MS did not assert them to quell Linux adoption is a) they did not need to and b) it would have been seen as anti-competitive. As such we've been kind of lulled into a false sense of security about the huge stockpile of stupid patents these early operating systems companies have built up. It's more or less like nuclear waste - lying around waiting for someone to build dirty bombs with it. And of course, since there is a clock ticking on the expiry of the patents, MS and others will start becoming increasingly keen to deploy them if only to extract value before the expiry.
I've heard Apple using Azure but never heard of their use of AWS. How come this isn't advertised on AWS's or Azure's related page(s)[1]?

[1] Case study pages can be an example for "related page(s)"
for AWS: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/
for Azure: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/overview/case-studies/arch...

But "for some reason" I can't think Apple sharing their experience with a platform online. It's not in their DNA, I think.
Currently, it's kind of semi-privatized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Reorganization_Act

But Congress still has oversight over it, and it's legally obligated to service all Americans.

There are some people who think we should go further, and fully privatize it: http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/usps
They're still fighting for the supposed set-top-box future that has been predicted for the last 15 years. Maybe this generation....
Lessons The Wall Street Journal learned from its experiment in reality TV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service

"The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office and U.S. Mail, is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution."

If the US constitution is how you're created, you're given a monopoly on delivering mail in the US, and you're governed by Congress, you're part of the US government.
Also, if the data is ASCII, and includes only legal 7-bit ASCII characters -- it is simultaneously ALSO valid and legal UTF-8. UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII.

I'm not sure this guy understands what he's talking about.
Presumably those salaries were paid with the expectation that some of that money would be recuperated through private sales. I guess it sort of makes sense that only businesses who use the information have to pay, instead of making every taxpayer bear the burden.
How can a company so shamelessly extract money (through forceful deals, no doubt) from an open source OS, and get away with it?

It's as simple as 'software patents'. This is the result of the current system.
We are working on a Scuba connector.
Dropbox now sponsors CreateHS
Microsoft and Facebook sponsor Internet Bug Bounty program
Groupon launches Retailmenot "killer"
This really doesn't make sense apart from for the sake of pushing Chrome, which is using the same bait and switch tactics that Microsoft used in the late 90's and early 00's. Don't be evil eh?

If you look at the FULL chart they reference[1], there are considerably more IE8 users than any Apple device for example and there are more IE8 and IE9 users combined than IE10.

IE8 users are likely on Windows XP as that's the last supported browser version on that. Bye bye XP users unless you install Chrome.

IE9 users are likely on Windows Vista as that's the last supported browser version on that. Bye bye Vista users unless you install Chrome.

This appears to be Google just being a dick, seeing an opportunity and forcing Chrome on people.

To be honest, and I really hate saying this, Microsoft are the only damn company left that has a reasonable support lifecycle these days. Literally everyone else makes a whooshing sound.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201310... (stats are all bullshit on this anyway TBH).

Footnote: I'm posting this from Firefox on OpenBSD before I get accused of being a shill...
It's a bank that only makes change!

How does it make a profit?

Volume!
Would you define the Federal Reserve as part of the government?
Facebook open sources its SQL-on-Hadoop engine
Are you sure? I remember reading that they make a ton of money on Xbox Live subscriptions.
Taxpayers don't bear the burden. Postage purchasers do. If you paid for postage, the zipcode database was necessary for delivery of your item. Selling the data to other companies is just another way they're trying to monetize the data.
This is the most interesting part for me:

"Android has a much bigger fragmentation problem than Internet Explorer. Supporting only the latest 2 Android releases (4.3 and 4.4) would mean targeting less than 3% of the Android devices."

Must be accurate coming from Google.
Chris from the Identity team at Mozilla posted this in a separate discussion, but it's a point that shouldn't be missed:

"Mozilla Persona is Free and Open Source all the way down, which is great, but not quite good enough. You need to be able to choose your own provider and switch from one (say Mozilla) to another (say Google or your own server) whenever you want. So Mozilla Persona should just be one of many options for your online account."

The author has a common misunderstanding of what Persona is and what it does. Persona is not an account system and it is not "provided" by Mozilla. It is a federated identity protocol that allows you to use your existing identity (e.g., at Google or Yahoo or Facebook) to authenticate to relying parties. The "account" is held by the Identity Provider (assuming the IdP speaks Persona), and the IdP may also speak other federated identity protocols, e.g., OpenID Connect.

Related confusion is in the below statement:

"Why not have your Persona account also handle your subscription list and logs?"

There is no Persona account, unless the author means the user's account at her Identity Provider.
Motivation doesn't work: building habits for success
>2. If the answer to #1 is yes, how does Apple avoid this problem? Are they also licensing from Microsoft? Or is Apple in some sort of a mutual cross-licensing agreement here to fight the common enemy Google?

They are all in a sort of standoff, as they cannot sue each other without putting themselves at risk of counter-claims. In addition, there are a number of cross-licensing deals between various large patent-owning entities, as you correctly surmised. Microsoft found a way around these issues, by suing Android implementers (such as Samsung, HTC, etc.), who do not have such large patent portfolios with which to make a "second strike".
This website is interesting but I find many flaws in their logic AND I think it will be almost impossible for them to pull it off. Of the many flaws, the one that stands out the most is that google's 4 line search result is useless(my summary of their viewpoint). Quote - "Like most of you, from the results above I can hardly tell if those websites are relevant to what I am looking for." If google's results were not the best people wouldn't use them. I will concede that google tailors the design of their results page so that it optimizes ad revenue but I won't concede that others have done a better job with different design. Bing has the exact same layout.

While I do commend their effort I think it will be nearly impossible for them to compete from an algorithmic and CPU horsepower power point of view. Google has 15+ years of effort improving on their search algorithm and they have many billions of dollars worth of infrastructure that enable them to be the best at what they do.

Could an open source(i.e. Linux) upstart come to compete against an entrenched market leader(i.e. Microsoft)? No. Linux didn't have the infrastructure overhead of making a world wide search engine.
I have taken classes in electrical engineering and embedded systems, so I am fairly familiar with them.

I will take a look at the book, thanks!
Yes.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm

As the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve derives its authority from the Congress of the United States. It is considered an independent central bank because its monetary policy decisions do not have to be approved by the President or anyone else in the executive or legislative branches of government, it does not receive funding appropriated by the Congress, and the terms of the members of the Board of Governors span multiple presidential and congressional terms.

However, the Federal Reserve is subject to oversight by the Congress, which often reviews the Federal Reserve's activities and can alter its responsibilities by statute. Therefore, the Federal Reserve can be more accurately described as "independent within the government" rather than "independent of government."
I wasn't really aware that zip codes change much..

As far as I am aware, if I put in slightly the wrong zip code (neighboring one) but the right address, I'll still will get the package.
I think Weebly is a great product, but I believe that there is an enormous opportunity for a truly open-source component-based system, that otherwise works very similarly, to take its place.

To me, the whole idea of drag-and-drop components is a no-brainer, and its amazing that open source web developers haven't caught on to that yet.
My point is that you don't have to control the marketplace itself in order to create honeypot sellers. There was nothing stopping law enforcement from registering honeypot sellers on the original Silk Road. Controlling the marketplace itself would let them avoid the (trivial) registration fee to create a honeypot seller, but doesn't otherwise give them any extra power.
I don't know that yet, I'll tell you when I get to my Linux box =).
I guess I would trust common sense in this case. I mean I've been hit in the shins with a hockey puck while wearing shin pads a few times, they seemed to work. This is anecdotal, but I don't think a double-blind study is needed to show that shin pads protect your shins from hockey pucks.
A spreadsheet program without "Multi-column and range sort"?

They are definitely catering to a specific group of people here (i.e. nobody who has ever used a spreadsheet in a remotely technical fashion EVER -- my monthly budget tracker??)
to be honest. When I first read it, I assumed that it was just a rouge organization looking to defraud the ex customers of the old Silk Road.

As a black hat, that would of being my first play. The presence of ex Silk Road moderators does a little bit to assuage those fears, but they could be fooled just as any other person. Truly, I would never trust this Silk Road. Then again, I wouldn't of trusted the old Silk Road either.