skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there anybody who's surprised by this? Zynga is always suing somebody.
Montana doesn't seem to get much attention now, including most other states. Only swing states get attention.

But the complaint you have doesn't make sense because what you speak of is problems the states would have with how Congress works. The electoral college has nothing to do with law, only how the President is elected. Well, Vice President too, supposedly, but the choice of who to vote for is determined for us. To say that California doesn't have enough influence in federal laws because of the electoral college seems misdirected. California already has more influence over Montana right now because both the electoral college electors and House of Representatives are based on population count while the Senate is not. The only place that a small state has the same level of influence on the federal level is in the Senate. Therefore California's complaint about smaller states is partly caused by themselves and the other more populous states.

Why does the Senate exist? To actually give the small states a chance in deciding things on a federal level. If everything was decided by popular vote then small states might as well not bother. Notice that the Senate has more powers than the House, which is as designed because each state has equal voting power. If treaties, for example, were ratified in the House then small states would most often have to follow the lead of the most populous states. That would open the possibility of our country being led by mob rule, which the Founders were fearful of and you call a dick comment.

The only people who seriously push for everything being decided by popular vote tend to have an agenda to push that can only be done by mob rule, to the detriment of the minority for the advantage of the majority.

Also note that most often the winner of the electoral college also wins the popular vote, it is rare for the reverse to happen. So it seems that whether we use electoral college or popular vote for electing the President it would rarely make a difference, other than the focus of campaigning.

Want to have some real fun? Force the states to stop using winner takes all in determining electors. But even then it still probably wouldn't make much of a difference.
This "I will have it even so" mindset can work but not forever in my experience. If you want an expanded repertoire of techniques, David Burns' "Feeling Good" has a section on procrastination that pretty much forces you to become aware of the real reasons you procrastinate, and forces you to confront the dysfunctional thoughts at the root of it, making it very difficult to continue procrastinating.
Excuse me, but I believe it's actually the android ecosystem that produces many different products and the user really has a lot to choose from.

One example: http://youtu.be/AxE_Im20UZM

Another example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX9KG369evA#t=10m34s

Yet another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wf_PqPi2tw

Now, I'm not saying that those examples are better than products from iOS or WinRT ecosystem, but you can hardly say that there's no innovation.
reminds me of points on a 3d grid..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60CnwbngWWw&t=15m10s
Really cool but it would benefit from a nice demo page.
> Apple doesn't make that much money on the iPad

Hmmm... I might be wrong, but I thought they have HUGE margins. You know, like 40%? Keep in mind that the most popular iPad, 32GB 4G is $729. The $499 model is not the most popular one (at least according to the analysts).
Even though Africa is less homogeneous than Europe, it's roughly divided into two halves, the English speaking and the French speaking countries. I would like to believe it's still homogeneous if you look closely. I think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mxit have managed to scale , with over 40 million users and still counting.
This looks like the complex differentiation of 1/z with a grid like domain.
There are quite a few problems with pypy and test suites. This sounds like it's an extreme case, but sqlite is definitely very slow. How about you post this on a bugtracker, so we have a point of reference to start with?

For the record, I don't believe "this is how things with the JIT are" to start with. 17 minutes is by far enough to spin the JIT. It might be sqlite, it might be some code in sqlalchemy, it might be something unbeliavably silly, please start with a bug report and we can take it from there. SQLAlchemy is an important package and would be cool to have it run fast on PyPy.
Here's a list of technology they've used to build gov.uk: http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/govuk-launch-colophon/
Adding a keyboard and a mouse to an iPad will make this non portable (at least for me). If you really need a keyboard and a small device I think buying a Mac Book Air 11' is a much better choice.
Is there anything of value to "steal" from Zynga anyways? It's not like their games require complex architectures.

Anyone knowing the basics distributed computing could easily recreate their server-side.

Hopefully someday lawsuits will be over the best interests of the public, not companies who constantly manipulate the public for profits.
Ok, I have put a description of the algorithm above the comment section.
Since I have spent a considerable amount of time in my own work trying figure out how to algorithmically determine that two functions are "similar enough," I'm very curious to know more. Specifically, what exactly is their model of position and velocity, and then how exactly do they score two attempts to recognize them as the same. Alas, that's probably valuable information they wouldn't publish.
Do you have a source for that ?

For some reason I find that hard to believe: that the most expensive iPad is the most popular one as opposed to to the 16 GB WIFI only version.
Haryana khap blames consumption of chowmein for rapes. TOI comments..
https://github.com/toastdriven/django-tastypie
New SoLoMo consumer purchasing process
not so cool in only supporting text fields...
Excellent summation. In my experience (mainly Fortune 100's), the latter holds true - many silos, little to no innovation.
Agreed. Wouldn't it be better to show off all the awesome stuff you can do with it? The only think they really show is that you can swipe in the Metro display.
Show HN: ComodIT, IT Automation as a Service, is launching today
Chill out. No need to explain by bad will, what can be perfectly well explained by ignorance.

BTW counting victims is really bad style. Most were Polish Jews, and how you count them depends on what you want to prove.
Very cool. I stumbled upon something in the late 90s that is fractal in nature but doesnt use complex numbers - it just plots points directly on a grid with no need for iteration. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwjhRYZ_eSI&feature=plcp
A better title would be "How DRM will completely fail to infest the 3D printing revolution."

Do you really think they're going to be able to legislate away people's ability to digitally print consumer goods? Thusfar, they've been unsuccessful at legislating away people's ability to copy data, and the consumer urge to copy a physical good will be orders of magnitude stronger than a bit of audio or video.

In short, anyone who tries to restrict individuals' ability to print goods is on a fool's errand.
Poland was under Russian and German occupation then. Well, your argument is invalid. If you had read the first three paragraphs of the Wikipedia article, you would have known how wrong you are. Marie Skłodowska-Curie has always acknowledged her Polish origins and supported Poland's struggle for independence.
By "OP", are you referring to the author of the blog post, Charles Nutter? It doesn't seem like an easy feat to not understand Ruby when you've written a major implementation of it, namely jruby in this case.

It's also pretty hard to spend a very significant amount of your time implementing a language you don't like. Finally, addressing his use of Ruby: https://github.com/headius
This is an advantage of working at a big company. If you work at Google, Amazon or Microsoft, they do so much stuff that you can do an internal transfer to another team and it's like moving to a whole different company (if you move far enough).
It supports any field type you want, SurveyField has a property of fieldClass, so you can set it to [UITextView class] and it will do it's best to use it
Study: Romney’s Aggressive Push Online in the Run-up to the election
Hey so I'm one of the team that built this app - we're super stoked to have pulled it off over the weekend. We focussed on trying to build the best UX for annotating and commenting on pictures/images/screenshots/wireframes as well as a super easy flow to signup and get started. Heavy reliance on raphael.js for the canvas work and rails obviously on the backend.

Would love to get comments/feedback from the HN community. Once judging is over we'd love to package it up - tidy up the loose ends and put it in a permanent home.
Late 20-something out of work dancers?
When classic first launched, it was accounts older than 1 year (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607271). It might have changed since then.
Yeah, I want to put together a really nice page for it, with very involved docs and example usage. It's coming, just wanted to get the lib out ;)
Really saves time.

I used a threshhold of 35 at first, then I upped it to 50. These days you probably want 75 or 100 if you really want to sift through the less important items.

Or you can just subscribe to daemonology's RSS: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/index.rss. This summarizes the top ten every day. These are most of the important articles; of course you will miss some important things.

On the other side of the scale, you should try http://news.ycombinator.com/newest every once in a while as well. The fact is, the HN point system ends up filtering a lot of things by whatever's popular or in sync with the groupthink at the moment. Newest can help you avoid this "filter."
The crazy people who are proclaiming this as an iPad killer before it has even gone on sale
My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2012 Edition)
This is not a field experiment, it is more of a crack-pot scheme. There is very little science going on here. I suppose the most unfortunate part of this misguided adventure is that very little will really be learned from it since it was not designed as a proper experiment.
You should have stopped at "deeply admirable." That would have been much stronger and resistant to refutation.
That's cool. What are you using on the back end and how did you accomplish it being a designer?
A Guide to What's Not Online
Didn't know about the group, thanks for the pointer.

Seems like the group is invite only (my signup is pending for approval).
If you have a minute, would be great if you could help me post the link
there, otherwise I'll wait for the approval and do it later.
Innovative Exploit Delivery
Owing to our caches, the "beta" message has largely disappeared across the site now.
Content Management for the heart
Indeed, this has nothing to do with gossip, but everything with the prevalence of depression & burnout in the tech field. It was addressed by Joel from Fog creek several years ago.
Mpesa and Ushahidi can hardly be classified as startups
This screencast on Youtube shows you how to deploy OwnCloud in one click on any kind of hosts. Which applications recipes would you like to see in the marketplace ? How can we make your dev/ops life easier ? Let us know !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytNo1nTizR8
Assange is completely different - it's a totally separate legal process / thing. Not all extraditions are the same.

What this will trigger is a discussion around the UK/US extradition treaty, but that's got nothing to do with Assange right now. If the US had actually issued an extradition request then it would be important.

The European Arrest Warrant process, which is what Assange is wanted under, is rather different and really not subject to the same kind of political wrangling, mainly because it's part of a raft of EU measures to ensure free trade and borders (if it helps you can think of the EAW as part of a trade: EU citizens get to live and work in any EU country without a permit or visa, but to balance that there needs to be a system to allow swift repatriation of criminal suspects).

There is very little scope for political wrangling with regards to European Arrest Warrants - the same can't be said for individual extradition treaties.
And "w" is always pronounced like English "v".
Vintage scopes are better (part 5)
An interesting idea. Did you come up with it on your own or have you seen it discussed somewhere? Any clinical studies, perhaps? Thanks!
I liked it, as a piece of art.

It was ineffective as a sales device — it didn't make me want to actually purchase one of these tablets, or share the ad via Twitter or whatever — but I thought the music and choreography were well done.
I can't find the article now (stupid Google shows just ads and links to Amazon or Apple when I search for something like "iPad most popular model"), but here's one that claims 64GB 3G Model was the most popular iPad 2 model on launch: http://gigaom.com/apple/most-popular-ipad-2-model-is-also-th...

Arguably, early adopters are different than "late"-adopters, but still... The "analysis" that I remember was for iPad 3, and it was a few months after the launch.
So, based on the context you have described, it is impossible for me to experience racism in Scotland under the veil of "banter". It can only be just a joke?
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Bingo. I figured many people either would either have missed that post, or have joined in the last 2 years. Either way, it seems like something people didn't know about and are happy to hear about it.
I don't always use Google Chrome, but when I do I want it to be HN-free.
Working for BigCo here in Brazil, and the latter holds true for me and lots of other people in our company. Seems like a great way to put it.
Show HN: Bring-a-Thing - manage who brings what to a party (RailsRumble)
Actually, it is that hard. While the programming would be fairly trivial, actually making the service useful (attracting employers, for instance) is a whole other story. Gaining traction is not easy and if you go too big at the start, your whole system could implode before you really get started.
A screenshot of the included example http://i.imgur.com/hJHYq.png
I don't think it will, the difference with 3D printing is that the consumer end of the industry is being driven by the small start-ups and "Maker" movement. All of these open source 3D printers will never implement DRM and the low cost ones that do will get hacked by the same people.

In order for the DRM to work it needs to be decoded at the last moment and would therefore need to be implemented directly into the electronics of the printer. In order for that to work the printer itself will need to be able to decode the 3D files and plan the tool route, a job that is better done by the PC. I think it will be cost prohibitive to implement in a secure manor.

With Blu Ray and HDMI there were massive multi billion dollar companies driving the direction of the design. That just isn't the case with 3D printing and is unlikely to be the case until far to long after consumer 3D printing is established.
Here's hoping Intellectual Ventures makes a nice secret shill/shell corp fully devoted to trolling the hell out of anyone who even tries to put DRM into a 3D printer.
The demo uses Fashion blogs as sort of a litmus test for the overall market and to test viability of the product. I don't know a ton about fashion, but there are certainly a lot of fashion bloggers.

The basic score you see next to each post is a breakdown of Pageviews + Tweets + Likes + Pins + Google+'s + internal likes (called Points). Some quick basic math creates a score based solely on that data. All posts can only live on the leaderboard for a finite amount of time (rolling 7 days as of now). I think it's a neat spin on quality, decided organically.
Building a Binpress challenger in 48 hours
Well we need the financial instruments at least. If there were a way to get all that stuff without all the banker aftertaste, I'd be interested.

I'd be totally cool with a system that just went entirely by the numbers and I logged on the Internet to ask for a mortgage based on my credit score. Naturally we might need a more objective (and open) credit score system for that among a host of other things, but hey I can dream.
Angel Investor Joanne Wilson (Fred's Wife) Talks About the NY Scene
I'm reminded of Escher's "Square Limit" works. Not sure if this is actually the same class of grid as those he used to generate them, but it's visually similar at least:

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/m-c-escher/square-limit-colo...
It's interesting to hear you remark on your co-designers as, until now, I'd always assumed that the site was largely designed by it's developers. I know that would normally be unheard of for a portal the size of Facebook, but of all the sites I visit, I find Facebook to have the most confusing layout.

There's a weird mismatch of navigation features from hidden drop down lists, dialogue boxes and content that redirects to whole other pages; I'm never quite sure what onclick event will return what result. Plus the general layout of the site seems cluttered and counter-intuitive too.

Now this might just be me. I don't know what level of user testing Facebook performs before pushing features live, but I might be one of those small few who are just beyond help. However being a developer of similar age to yourself - I've spent my whole working life with badly designed developer tools and usually manage fine. Where as Facebook -a tool for the masses- seems to be one of the few exceptions that genuinely stumps me.

In many ways, that site's design is an "anti-rsms"; it seems to be the polar opposite of the design principles you adopt in your own projects (eg a clean methodical layout with clear separation between content and navigation tools). And while I'm discussing your own talents, I just was to commend you for what you've achieved despite choosing a non-traditional path into IT (ie straight to work rather than studying at Uni). Having trod a similar route as yourself, I know from experience that it can be significantly harder. So I can only imagine how much hard work and dedication you would have needed to be where you are now. Kudos.
If I remember correctly the legislation allowing televising of the HoC, HoL and Committee chambers state that they are not allowed to show napping members.

In general they are more on their toes but you do occasionally catch a long distance shot (from above the main lobby entrance) of someone waking up particularly at the stupid late night debates they have.

It's the same law that doesn't allow the footage to be used for parody.
Worth mentioning that since we only had 48 hours, this is still very rough. Our main goal is to gather some interested folks and improve this in the days and weeks after the Rumble judging is over (it ends on the 19th)
the same guy who is absolutely convinced of the innocence of this guy: http://www.arrestdemmink.com/
The corruption in the dutch society is unmatched by any other country in the world I think.
Hey, hackernews.

Our team created an app to help manage who brings what to a party. Simply 'Host a Party' and add items you want people to bring. Share the link and people can volunteer to bring items on the list.

Thanks for taking the time! Seems lots of people are sharing their railsrumble entries, so thought we'd share our entry. We're pretty proud of what we were able to accomplish in the 48-hour period and would appreciate any feedback.

Our team page: http://railsrumble.com/entries/364-wny-ruby-represent .
Global market share of Google Public DNS and OpenDNS
staunch has the right idea. I'd add: use your well paid job to bankroll money to help you towards your goal of a new career.
On SSDs – Lifespans, Health Measurement and RAID
The splash page is leaving a lot of questions in my mind, and the invitation to give my email address (just to find out more) is a bit of a speedbump. Reading the comments in HN I can see other people asking how your service works.

My suggestion is to take your answers to those questions and use them on the front page to provide a bit more information to hook potential customers like myself.
Perhaps, I generally ignore most rubbish like that which is written online, there's too much of it to pay much attention to.
> except of course when they're asking for English handouts

Ah, the myth of the English handout, somewhere between massively unclear and nonsense.

Yes some of Scotland's current spending is subsidised by oil revenue which won't last for ever but when that money was flowing south during the 80s I don't recall the English complaining about it as unsustainable. The UK treasury would of course question that those revenues are entirely Scottish though I'm not clear on what grounds other than political expediency.

Stephanie Flanders of the BBC on the subject: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16477990 (also makes the point that taking oil out of the equation Scotland's subsidy isn't massively out of line with many parts of England).

The FT: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/252e0d4a-f294-11db-a454-000b5df106...

And the New Statesman: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/11/scotl...

In ten years time will Scotland need a subsidy? Possibly. Does it get one now? No.
> I do wonder if the surface will be more reliable than a xbox 360. I'm on my second one and it just broke again. Microsoft isn't know for reliable devices and as a business, i can't have tablets die on my employees. With apple, i haven't had any issues with three year old ipad that is used daily.

Well if we're trading anecdotes, I went through 3 Macbook Pros in 3 years. Two screens broke and one trackpad stopped working. One of the headphone jacks also broke. Apparently the issues I hit were fairly common, at least on the generations I had. This doesn't mean Apple makes bad hardware. It means that their hardware isn't perfect (no one's is), and that I got unlucky.

My wife has a Dell laptop that's years old and has no problems except that the battery needs replacing. Anecdotes don't count for much.

Disclosure: Microsoft employee
Comes with office and has internet, which covers the use cases for a very large number of people.
The big change hinted at in the documentation around the 3.5 era is that SQLite switched from a stack based VM to a register based one. Note that the implementation details are not exposed to a developer using SQLite and there is a massive test suite so the change had no visible impact.

What isn't mentioned is why SQLite is using a virtual machine in the first place. The reason is that SQLite only calculates the next row of results when you ask - it does not calculate all result rows at once in advance. Each time you ask for the next row of results it has to resume from where it last left off and calculate that next row. The virtual machine is a way of saving state between those calls for the next row (amongst other things).

This is also why there isn't a method in SQLite DB adapters to get the number of result rows. SQLite has no idea other than actually calculating them all which is the same amount of effort as getting all of them.
Oh my, this is so good. Domain registered in 2010, how long has hckr news been out?
I type something like "amazon.com q" then quickly erase the q and let instant search change the results.

I just now realized that I should be typing "!g amazon.com", because I have duckduckgoog installed. (google search with DDG shortcodes)
Irrelevant.

(a) Just because a thing happens doesn't mean that it's right that a thing happens. "Hey murder happens" is not a acceptable response when someone points out that murder is wrong.

(b) Women are often judged much more on their sexual/beauty looks, compared to men. Can you find an instance of a beauty/sexual attractiveness of a male scientist being mentioned?