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by pavanred 13y ago
> ...we can make internet access more affordable by making it more efficient to deliver data... They are planning to work on data compression. Then, internet would be more affordable for people who already have internet connectivity. So,
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by pavanred 13y ago
Machine learning algorithms are very commonly used for purposes mentioned in the article. But, one needs to understand that some widely used classifiers are based on probabilities of occurrence of all the features. I don't think such a
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California to force-feed hunger-striking prisoners(bbc.co.uk)
8 points by pavanred 13y ago|0 comments
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by pavanred 13y ago
Bookmarked, I needed this, very helpful. Thanks.
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by pavanred 13y ago
I am from India and I have lived in one of the major cities of India for most of my life. I agree this is a very real problem that barely gets noticed. In my opinion there are various reasons for such culture - 1. Gender inequality, though
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by pavanred 13y ago
I would definitely follow this then. I was just about to say that I hope this develops into part 1 of a queue of topics covered in a similar way. I just started with PostgreSQL and this is very helpful.
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by pavanred 13y ago
Lesser of the two evils, I don't think its that polarized, there are grey areas. Not closing down Gitmo because of the lack of political will from congress is understandable but there are other decisions such as curbing the hunger stri
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by pavanred 13y ago
I don't know why killing OBL is considered a big win, it's not in my opinion. It took so over 10 years, many human lives, run down the US economy from a surplus, American citizens are giving up on some basic freedoms, people are p
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by pavanred 13y ago
This makes me wonder, we have seen in polls earlier that most people active on HN are in late 20s or thereabouts. Now, such decisions are very important and many concur but is it possible most people who agree with her are more or less in t
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by pavanred 13y ago
Sounds to me like a reason coughed up a few minutes later when he was trying to rationalize what he had done. Even if that was the reason, if you fired the employee in front of the entire team suddenly without reasoning until asked for lat
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by pavanred 13y ago
To me this is just arrogance and probably even irresponsible. If I employed someone in my company and if I could fire the person at a moments notice, then I believe the employee and his skills were not leveraged to the benefit of the compan
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by pavanred 13y ago
I had worked on analysis of data from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the number of traffic accidents based on factors such as weather, time of the day, month, year, weekdays, weekends etc and found very definitive p
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by pavanred 13y ago
It uses Naive Bayes Analyzer from NLTK and PatternAnalyzer from Pattern [1]. But, I wouldn't prefer limiting the use to just one or two algorithms. My recent work involved sentiment analysis of data from US politics and I got significa
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New Vietnam law criticized by Internet companies and rights groups(pcworld.com)
1 points by pavanred 13y ago|0 comments
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by pavanred 13y ago
Now lets all forward to newspeak in schools instead of English in the coming years
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MyOpenID no longer supported; add alternative login method to your account(meta.stackoverflow.com)
4 points by pavanred 13y ago|0 comments
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by pavanred 13y ago
This is probably a long shot but I was wondering if eventually this censoring functionality can be used to draw boundaries over the internet. Once you have the infrastructure in place to censor then there's very little needed to do ext
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by pavanred 13y ago
Speaking of which, has anyone put together a list of potential non US alternatives for commonly used services?
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by pavanred 13y ago
Well, does that mean that every other country in the world is well within its rights to spy on every US citizen? I am sure no other country's constitution stipulates protections for US citizens either.
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by pavanred 13y ago
I have very little knowledge about this, how much post processing would go into a picture like this one, if any? I presume there's effort put into highlighting the Earth because I find it hard to believe that Earth would be even be vi
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Is the United Nations racist?(thehindu.com)
2 points by pavanred 13y ago|1 comments
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by pavanred 13y ago
I guess its safe to presume they wouldn't sell it. Otherwise, the simplest way to deal with the "piracy problem" would be to buy piratebay and shut it down.
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by pavanred 13y ago
I think I noticed a lot more kids from Delhi as opposed to barely any kids from NYC. Perhaps that affects the overall picture.
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by pavanred 13y ago
I am not convinced by the explanation from the Facebook spokesperson. I am an active Facebook user and I am not a basketball fan but there have been atleast 2 or 3 instances where I noticed that I had to "unlike" the basketball pa
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by pavanred 13y ago
I don't think the issue is a government surveillance on its own citizens or on citizens of other countries. And, its ridiculous if you think about it. The intelligence services are using a brute force technique of spying on everyone (
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by pavanred 13y ago
There is a difference between spying on potential enemies and spying on everyone to find potential enemies.
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by pavanred 13y ago
And was awarded a Nobel prize..
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by pavanred 13y ago
This article mentions Funding of Privacy-Conscious Software, one thing that concerns me is, I am quoting from Wikipedia here, "..As of 2012, 80% of the Tor Project's $2M annual budget comes from the United States government..&quot
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by pavanred 13y ago
What I mean by using Tor right, for instance, is avoiding use of certain browser plugins that can potentially give away your location.
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by pavanred 13y ago
If one uses Tor, the article states that the person will not be treated as a United States person unless "proven" otherwise. If that's the case, all the traffic from a Tor exit node will be considered as traffic from non U.S.

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