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Please do not speak for other people.

I am from the UK and literally cannot understand why anyone would want 4 more years of the same. Wars waged, promises broken, drone strikes, trillions and trillions spent, plunging the country further and further into debt.

Not to mention removal of more freedom and civil liberties.
Or maybe she just has a boyfriend who does not know hell about computers.
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It's one thing to say that the FDA stands in the way of progress in medicine, however what regulatory framework would you suggest be put in its place to protect consumers if it was removed?
I would argue that the break is not on technological progress, (I could scarcely imagine it possible that 10, or even 5 years of current progress could be achieved in 1, as you imply) - but in the practical application of these advances to patients. I believe that for the most part this is warranted, because despite the in Vivo or on paper promise of a technology, in the biological sciences it often takes about 10 iterations to make it safe and efficacious in Vivo, and this translatory delay allows this to happen. Not ideal, but IMHO better than an alternative that puts lives at risk.

I just don't see how we can circumvent RCTs as the burden of proof for efficacy and safety. Probably, yes, we could slash a lot of fat from the FDA, and trim a lot of processes... But do away with it entirely?

I would be interested to hear what your alternatives are
Shaping a Firefox feature, how does it work?
What party got us there? Oh right the Republicans. The Democrats are just cleaning up their god awful mess.
I guess he saw the success of Star Citizen (among others) and decided now would be a good time to try elite on kickstarter
Thanks for this. I agree, will get simple text.
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Let me state first, that I am an Elite fan too, I played Mostly Harmless for years on C64, where the visuals were sub-par (ugly wire graphics, low fps) and I LOVED it.

However, I am really surprised noone mentioned the 800lb gorilla in this space. If I felt like flying, modding, fighting spaceships, or trading or smuggling or pirating or flying with friends or making new friends (or followers, for that matter) or even building a space empire, then I'd reactivate my EVE Online account(s).

It is not entirely the same thing, but EVE is an incredibly elaborate game with insane depth, I do not see how one (even if his name is Braben) could successfully compete with it (for largely the same player base!) by raising $2M.
I am pretty sure if you did the poll in Pakistan, they would like us to pick someone else. The double drone hit with the second designed to kill civilian rescue workers is particularly bad.
In what sense is Romney 'frakking crazy'?
Apparently more terrifying to you than 2 wars in the Middle East and a global financial meltdown.
How is that a difference?
Hay Colin

Understood. You make a valid point. The Designers are all huddled around at the moment coming up with a solution... Just because you raised it, so well done and thank you for taking the time out of your day to help us out.

All the best,

Chuck
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It depends on how one defines virtual glue. But, hey, the whole thing might be moot.

http://xkcd.com/1108/
Best explanation ever. Wow, seriously, this person can use the right words to help even the non-technical people understand such a complex situation. Thanks for posting this.
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Vote early, vote often, vote SUPREME

www.verminsupreme.com
To me voting is a sort of contract.

You get to vote who gets to rip you off with confiscatory taxes for the next four years.

Whoever wins gets to confiscate your hard-earned money and laugh all the way to the bank.

It's a contract I would rather not sign. Rather than voting someone into office, a far more important decision for an individual would be whether or not to sign such a contract.

Unfortunately that's a decision you and I don't get to make. Taxation is dictatorship, you see.
One aspect of the election is local. These people can have a rather harsh effect on your life. From zoning to taxes to inane actions (e.g. soda sizes) that change your quality of life directly. Regardless of how you feel about national politics, it is worth some time to look at how your state representatives, city officials, and school boards voted.

Your vote and speech does make a difference in these local elections and they can have large impacts.
"I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, 'If you don't vote, you have no right to complain,' but where's the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote -- who did not even leave the house on Election Day -- am in no way responsible for that these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created." - George Carlin
I'm pretty sure that if Pakistan wasn't harboring Osama Bin Laden and other terrorists that continue to destabilize the region then America wouldn't have to. Pakistan has to get their act together.
A case in point:

http://www.splatf.com/2012/11/ipad-mini/

7 inch tabets are stupid, 10 inch tablets are perfect, but actually now that Apple's released a 7.9 inch tablet it turns out that that is the perfect size.

(7 inch tablets are still stupid by the way, I don't think the community has settled on a rationalisation for this. They could have gone for 16:9 being the wrong ratio, but it turns out, after the iPhone 5 adopted it, that it was actually very good for video.)
Thanks. Valid feedback. Yes - we're missing that bit when a user joins with email address and without friends / followers. Will introduce that soon.

Personally, I hate spam as much as you do. We have enabled sharing on Facebook / Twitter only with a context. Almost every place with explicit user permission. There are many annoying apps, we don't want to get there.
You do realise there's more than one meaning for "glue" these days, presumably (including "something that binds together")?
Your logic is flawed in practical terms - does it matter who cleans the toilet? By your argument if any one of a given group is suitable then choosing no-one is most suitable.

I think the logic is unsound in either locus.
I don't like to get political in this forum, but you need to get a grip. It isn't an either/or choice. Most ballots have several choices for president, including Green, Libertarian, and Constitutional parties (with apologies to other parties I've omitted). Your naive plea here plays a small part in propogating the two-party lie that is a major source of tyranny in the United States.

Quit it.
1. It is 1 in 10 million if you live in a swing state.

2. You expect $6 trillion, that figure is incorrect as mseebach2 points out.

3. The probability of winning the state lottery might be 1 in 10 million. So I'm far better off buying a lottery ticket, since in the improbable event of winning I would actually make money, in contrast to hoping that the improbable event of my vote tipping the balance and creating a stronger economy would improve my income (the contrary might be true).
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There's also more than meaning for "literally" these days.
There is an IETF WG called SIDR, which is working on solving this problem of invalid BGP announcements. A good summary is available here http://isoc.org/wp/ietfjournal/?p=2438 and technical details are in the related proposals.
I wrote one a few years ago as well. It read layers, summary image, and some layer metadata that I needed (blend mode, layer name, visibility flag, etc.). There's documentation for the format on the adobe site, I think (wherever it came from at the time - autumn 2007 - no fax was required), so it was actually fairly straightforward. An artist made me a bunch of PSD files with the stuff in that they wanted to use, and I sat there comparing the results of my code to what Photoshop did.

The only oddity I can recall is that Photoshop does something odd with the alpha channel - I think it was the alpha channel? - by sometimes storing it with the summary image rather than the layer to which it's related. (Don't ask me for more details than that - I don't remember.) I thought at the time that this looked like somebody's attempt to make newer data work tolerably with older revisions. That part WAS annoying, because the documentation didn't mention that, and it took about a week before somebody managed to create a photoshop file that was arranged this way.

The file format overall bore many of the hallmarks of one that had grown rather than being planned, but it looks like they'd started to clamp down on things at some point because the newer data chunks looked a lot better-designed than the old ones. These things happen. It could be worse. BMP is worse. TGA is worse. They aren't even chunk-based.
There used to be several logging add-ons, one of which I uses regularly. I hope it's an "oops" and not a change.
Everything in your life doesn't have to turn into a business. I love programming and making games and solving problems, it's just as much of a hobby alongside work as going for a run in the forest.
Yes, a government that betrays the very people it promised to protect and serve is even more terrifying.

Obama has proven to be untrustworthy and an enemy to your civil liberties, and yet you want to go another round?

That's what I call a "sucker for punishment".
> Yeah, my retina display gave you away.

Well my non-retina MacBook display gave it away too. I don't know if it's the original font or the rasterization, but the body font antialiasing looks poor, or at least uncanny compared to the native one.
ODT is also XML-based, to Docx's problems compared to ODT can't be blamed on XML.
Put aside the fact that pretty much the entire U.S. political spectrum and most of the European one supported the first war, a majority of the former (including the 2004 Democratic candidate for President) supported the second...

Can you please explain in brief how George W. Bush was instrumental in causing a global financial meltdown? Which bills from the overwhelmingly Democratic Congress in 2007 did he veto that would have stopped it?
> ...or that the Republican party is an aberration.

When the current incarnation of the GOP becomes normal, I assume the country has much larger problems to deal with.
Websites mostly, but also other programs. Mobile apps not that I'm aware of.
There's a trend to use VoIP on cellphones too (see LTE). So in the future this will not help at all.
Why did you have to point that out? I quickly transitioned from "ho-hum" to "must kill".
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FWIW, works beautifully on the ipad
I'll add a couple of my own "best practices".

Use Guard to run tests after each file change - Constantly running and re-running your tests in the background lets you know faster when you break something, but also forces you to keep your tests fast.

Use a visual test runner - Using guard is great, but I also like a nice HTML page I can reload that ends up being red/green based on your tests. Going from red to green can be deeply satisfying for reasons I don't fully understand. RSpec has a nice HTML output for ruby.

Use a visual code coverage tool - Having 80% or 90% code coverage is a useless statistic, but having a tool that shows you what part of the code is being tested and what isn't is extremely useful. If nothing else it tells you where you need to add tests or what part of your code is hard/impossible to test. I like SimpleCov for ruby.
It doesn't make sense to vote for third party candidates. You want a different system for that to make any sense at all and voting won't change it.
It really is either or currently and thinking otherwise is just being delusional.

There's a reason you can't name those other parties - it's because they don't matter. I'm just trying to be realistic.
Ask HN:  Startup featured on the TV, now what?
So we managed to get our startup featured on a tech show (BBC Click) on the BBC here in the UK, which is great. Plenty of traffic to the site, a load of signups and a few telephone enquiries.

It kind of happened without us knowing, so we were a bit unprepared, but what can we do now to maintain this momentum?

I guess it should be possible to get other coverage from the back of this?

In what ways can I use the footage to promote ourselves to prospects or existing customers?

Thanks

Ps. Footage is here for anyone that is interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTJ5Wm0eCpY&t=20m40s
Works way better than I expected on chrome 18 on android (nexus 7) solid 16 fps on the blobs demo. I wonder if you could take advantage of hardware better.
This article is wrong in numerous cases.

Testing private methods? Wrong. Don't do this. They'll be covered by your public API, if they aren't, delete them. If you need to test code that is private, you've got a missing abstraction. Pull that code out into a separate class, make the method public.

Testing you get a null reference when you send in null to a method? So what? You're testing Java/C#/etc... if you do this. Test for behaviour.

Need to use tear down methods? You're not unit testing anymore.

At least the article never recommended testing accessors... Again, please don't.
That's extremely cool. The world is your oyster! If you've got the skills, there should be more than enough independent Rails work these days to keep you busy, happy and keep a roof over your head. Congrats.
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If you want to chart values over time or compare values obviously a bar chart or line graph is going to work better.

However these gauges at the top are not replacing a bar chart, as they each only show one value in isolation - that'd be a pretty simple bar chart. When you're showing one value, and at most might have targets to show in relation to it, a radial chart is just as good IMHO, and lets you put other info in the centre (like the figure in numerals for example). The closest tabular representation would be the weekly stats at the bottom.

I think they make a nice compliment to the other graphs on the page, and do not sacrifice usability for aesthetic appeal given that there are other styles of chart used where appropriate (for example the time series of visits etc.).
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Not-voting may be a form of protest from a philosophical standpoint, but it's an objectively awful one from a practical standpoint, since the political mechanism in place to affect change is precisely through the act of voting.

It's like trying to affect evolutionary change by abstaining from sex. You'll be successful... in removing yourself from the equation.
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I love George Carlin, I think he's one of the greatest comedians to have ever lived. You can't seriously believe take this as truth though, can you? If you vote you caused the problem? That you cannot argue/complain that who you vote for turns out to be just another politician looking out for number one? By that 'logic' I have no right to complain if I hire someone who turns out to be completely incompetent?

If you are governed by fools or charlatans everyone has the right to speak out, to bitch, whine, complain - voter or not. That's the right we have, and we're fortunate to have it. (Yes, we need better - but apathy changes nothing).
I can only talk for the German system here. But I looked at the numbers and calculated, that there is no reason for me to vote.

My individual vote does not change anything, but gives the mainstream-parties money for their campaigns. As I firmly do not believe in their agenda, I try not to compensate them.

I was once a party member, and having seen their inner workings disgusted me and robbed me of everything, I believed to be true in an democracy. So giving money to them by voting is something, I cannot square with my conscience.

But we have a different political system here. And there are some interesting ideas on the theoretical ROI of voting in different US-States. So the situation might be very different for you.

From a German, totally subjective, perspective, I really hope, that Obama wins. But either way, I do not believe, that the outcome of the ballot really changes a lot (on a global scale).

Lobbyists will push legislation, firms will try to make money and the world will turn to another day tomorrow. War will be the way to secure some national agendas and poor or middle class people will try to make a living.
But the value of your vote isn't actually 1 in # of votes. It's actually P(your state undecided) x P(nation undecided without your state) x (Value of your candidate winning - Value of other candidate winning).

For example, say your state has 10 million voters and the election is a statistical dead heat (i.e., each voter has a probability of p=0.5 for voting for candidate A vs B). Then P(your state undecided without your vote) = (5 million choose 10 million) x pow(2^-10 million) ~= 1/(sqrt(2 pi) 2.5 million) = 1.6e-7.

And that's assuming the best case where your state's voters could go either way. The probabilities become exponentially smaller (literally: exp(-n^2)) if your state actually has political leanings.

I'm also not sure how we could even approach a $6 trillion gap under plausible assumptions. Does anyone really believe that the gap between each candidate is $6 trillion (note: total economy is $15B) or $20k/person?
So: When a republican president goes to war in Afghanistan that at the time was "harboring Osama Bin Laden and other terrorists" that were successfully targeting the US, it's "disastrous". When a democratic president bombs civilians on a day-to-day basis for the same reason (although the threat to the US is much less direct), it's really the fault of the other country on the receiving end.

Gotcha.
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The wide availability across numerous platforms of robust libraries and tools for manipulating XML along with its standardization and the ubiquity of its implementation might have played a role in Microsoft's decisions.
There's also git add -e, which I find to be more powerful as it gives you the ability to choose the context of the changeset you're going to be staging by glob.

I wrote a blog post about it here: http://pivotallabs.com/users/khicks/blog/articles/2116-git-a...

There's also git reset -p, which is also in the same realm as git add -e as far as how powerful/advanced it is, though perhaps more difficult to comprehend. I wrote a blog post on that one, too: http://pivotallabs.com/users/khicks/blog/articles/2114-git-r...
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The big thing missing in EVE for me is being able to control your spaceship with a joystick and engage in dogfights.

Let's hope this Kickstarter will inspire a reboot of the X-Wing series... (Are you listening, Disney?)
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Wow, you've really really drunk the kool-aid.
Ask HN: Let's talk about voting machines [seed topics included]
Like many of you, I consider myself a computer professional and am thus amazed at the lack of regulation, testing, and process imposed on our electronic voting system here in America. It also seems to me that, as computer professionals who intimately understand the vulnerabilities of such systems, perhaps we are responsible to push American society to voting reforms.

Let's talk about voting machines. Here are a few topics that might seed some discussion:

* Why do we have such a decentralized process, in which local authorities have black-box control over the voting measures? I suspect the policy thinking may be, "better to have 10,000 people stealing an election -- independently -- from the bottom that one from the top."

* Is trading anonymity for better verification an option that makes sense to add to the process? (As it appears New Jersey is doing with email and fax ballots.) Does this open a slippery slope to some employers requiring that their employees submit a voting receipt?

* Are multiple-factor voting systems a realistic way forward. I.e., electronic systems that print out multiple receipts: one to take home and one to submit as a paper ballot for [proactive?] re-counting and checking the electronic system?
> but where's the logic in that?

You didn't vote. So, the better candidate (for whom you could have voted) wasn't voted into the office. So, the worse candidate was voted into the office. You are responsible for the election of a bad candidate.

q.e.d.

Note 1: I know, analyzing quotes is useless, but I couldn't resist.
Note 2: If there are only bad candidates the situation is more complex, but this is an edge case which only happens in thought experiments.
History shows it's the best way to figure out who should run an office.

How so?

Incidentally, even if we treat voting as some weird "wisdom of crowds, all of our uninformed opinions put together is better than any of the individual ones" thing, we can also conclude that your vote doesn't matter much. Suppose the election is close, in which case your vote might actually matter.

We can then conclude the "wisdom of crowds" declared Romney and Obama to be nearly equally good, in which case the gain from choosing the better candidate is very small.
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Voting is a rite, not right.
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but... but... it's not a .gif? All I see is a .png!
Lots of moral obligations are also subjects of legislation, because it can empirically confirmed that some people won't act morally without sanction.
Well, if a substantial percentage of voters thinks this way, maybe democracy has run its course. After all, sovereign democracies haven't changed much since the french revolution. Personally, i find rising trends like libertarianism rather frightening though.

BTW, i'm not american, i'm greek so i know what a broken democracy looks like. I 'm split on the US election; was disappointed by obama so far to be honest.
I don't think abstention is a very good way to protest in a country with already low voter turnout.
good points i think ;)
If you take compound interest and the legacy for generations to come into consideration, the difference from decisions made today between the candidates would easily surpass $6 trillion, and possibly while you're still alive. Besides, things like education, over time, have far more intangible and invaluable implications than a figure could ever show.