skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To procrastinate, to put it a bit uncharitably.

Though to dig slightly deeper -- urges to procrastinate what I "should" be working on appear when I face a hard problem with no hook on it (some hard problems drag me in; others push me away -- if I try sometimes I can convert the latter to the former just by breaking it down and choosing a place to start, but some problems are just boring-hard and that can't be fixed...).

Those urges often come in the form of "what OTHER more inviting problem can I solve?", and they are friggin' everywhere.

I already have a side-project that has lots of actual customers hoping for new features and so on, though, so it's usually pretty obvious to me that leaping into new thing #15 would be a bad idea. I have lots of domains names for them, though. :P

One of these days I will find someone I can pay to mostly take over that main side project, and then I'll allow myself to tinker with new things... I'm looking forward to that, actually.

But finding someone and getting them started is/will be hard, so when I think about that task I see lots of other more interesting problems around...

(Side note: anyone here know lots of Java and music theory, and want a spare-time income stream?)
A 17 years old is not a minor. You can call them "sexually restricted" but biologically and socially they are grown up and capable. Minor is somebody who is still growing. 17 years old is grown up. 17 years old might be already studying in an university thoudsands of kilometers from home. Or they work and earn money. By calling 17 years a minor and trying (rather unsuccessfully) to restrict them sexually you are trying to violate human rights and therefore a bad person.

P. S. I see the downvote rally is going on. Bring in relatives and friends! Suffering for truth is sweet.
> does anyone actually think that IF this machine was altering votes, it would alter it in this fashion with a UI element tied to the alteration

I think you mean if the machine was intentionally designed to alter votes, it wouldn't do it in this fashion. The article doesn't even hint that this might be done on purpose.
I don't know WHY its so bad, I just know that based on MSFT's commercials, that it IS bad.

They don't even show anyone using the damn thing. Its just a bunch of choreography.
That is indeed true, there are currently no mechanisms in place for ensuring users' data in case of insolvency. However, we're working on getting an escrow agreement in place that would ensure that Glacier vaults can be transferred to their "owners" in the case of insolvency. Additionally, there are some provisions in german GmbH laws that give warning before insolvency occurs and allow clean processing in the case.

Concerning the price, it is indeed a multiple of pure Glacier. However, they include, apart from lots of convenience, also all auxiliary costs that you'd have to manage yourself for a "pure" Glacier account. As noted in another comment, you'd have to keep an eye on retrieval cost, early deletion and additional S3 storage for metadata.

If you're not interested in tinkering with IAM keys and retrieval rates, I still think Bit Chest is a good value proposition.

Disclaimer: I am the owner of Bit Chest.
He mentions in the description for the video hitting Jill Stein selects Jill Stein. He was eventually able to vote by hitting a very small area between Obama and Jill Stein.
First of all to pull off this "hack" you need a router, an AS number, a transit contract with your upstream provider, BGP configured with said upstream, and most importantly your upstream needs to be negligent enough to not apply route filters to your session (which basically means I will only accept routes for IPs owned by company X over company X's session).

Secondly, it is pretty easy to track down who is doing it. Assuming a rouge employee used their employers setup (see first point) to announce once of Google's routes and it managed to propagate, smart people at NOCs around the world start emailing and calling each other pretty quickly. Despite CloudFlare trying to take credit here, I'd put money on the fact the network in question received at least a dozen phone calls and emails. There are services like Renesys and BGPmon that "important" companies sign up for that will scream bloody murder and start paging people if someone unauthorized originates your prefixes.

Third, as this is a known problem, a solution is already in the works and on its way to being implemented. Basically when you are assigned a block of IP addresses, you also get to publish a cryptographically signed statement of how and where that block should show up in the global routing table. See http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog49/presentations/Tuesday/...
If true, why not include that in the video?
Well what else is he supposed to compare it to?
> If he'd hit Mitt Romney, it probably wouldn't have selected Romney but the blank region above his name.

Wrong:

> Being a software developer, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney's name and started tapping very closely together to find the 'active areas'. From the top of Romney's button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama's name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein's button was fine. All other buttons worked fine.
You mean, something like Instagram?
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Well here's the problem I've seen: the trackpad is (or should be) mostly useless in tablet mode, and the touchscreen is impossible to use in desktop mode. I much prefer a dual boot setup, so you aren't mentally switching every few minutes.
"Microsoft is not getting rid of the Desktop...now." is the best we can say. It certainly looks like they are well-positioned, should they want to, to force all apps through the app store.

Think of it differently, if I was Microsoft, I would not want to maintain a legacy Win32 and a WinRT in parallel for many years...

I get the counter-reaction to the common meme of the Win8 Conspiracy, but both side fail to acknowledge some basic facts: there are two APIs, at some point one will become less profitable than the other, and one shall be dropped.

Which one do you think it will be?
When the announcement first came out, it did say that it starts today. It then disappeared for a while, and came back without that statement.
He describes in his comments how he touched numerous points down each of the candidates and all points registered for the correct candidate except for Obama.

That makes it not sound like a calibration error to me.
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For the most part, things aren't as bad as they seem. It's a huge country and any oddities gain a great deal of traction. Most votes go simply and smoothly.

That being said, I'm taking a two hour drive later today to vote because my vote-by-mail ballot never arrived, so...
I agree. It looks absolutely fake to me. But according to other sources it was confirmed =\
NBC News confirming they've removed this particular machine because of this:

http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/11/06/machine-turns-vote-for-obama-...
That would be a great feature - good work!
After this started getting upvoted my blog went down...odd timing.
For me it's a mix of the above - but also this. I guess the answer you want to vote here is:

"to exercise my creativity"
I don't think many people realized this but iPad 3 is actually heavier than iPad 2, and many might still remember how "light" the iPad 2 was compared to iPad 1. iPad 3 is somewhere in between the iPad 1 and 2 weights.

But I think the ideal weight for a tablet is around 300 grams, which half of what most 10" tablets have today. This is probably the most important reason why the "main iPad" will eventually become iPad Mini. 600 grams is too heavy for extended and comfortable use.
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Note that Glacier+Arq also allows you something entirely different from CrashPlan and incremental backups: Data archives. I.e. you can store data there cheaply that you don't have to keep available on your hard drive. Very useful for storing data that's too large to have on your drives all the time, like the pictures and videos mentioned in other comments in this thread.
It's possible that I'm getting a bleaker picture than reality, I suppose, since I only read about the broken stuff and not the instances where everything just works.

You only hear about the ballots that crash, not the millions that land safely every election.
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What about the other reports that mention votes for Romney being changed to Obama? It's just that "votes get switched to Romney" will make the Internet go ballistic--it's still a problem either way.
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almost like erlang (http://dlang.org/)

import std.stdio;
import std.concurrency;

void world() {
bool running = true;
while (running) {
receive(
(Tid finished) { writeln("World"); send(finished, true); },
(OwnerTerminated e) { running = false; }
);
}
}
void hello(Tid world, Tid finished) {
for (int i=0; i<1000; i++) {
write("Hello ");
send(world, thisTid);
receiveOnly!(bool)();
}
send(finished, true);
}
int main(string[] args) {
auto world = spawn(&world);
auto hello = spawn(&hello, world, thisTid);
receiveOnly!(bool)();
return 0;
}
I wonder though... maybe the inconvenience would be enough to either change a percentage of votes or make a few people give up.

Looks like a bug, actually swings a close election?
I liked the post "All ideas are old ideas." Looking forward to seeing how you've been inspired and what the result will be in Light Table.

Happy hacking.
This is one of many reasons I am still wary of VMs and 'cloud' computing more generally.

There's something about running your services on the same physical hardware as a bunch of other, potentially malicious, parties that just gives me the heebie-jeebies.
> The article doesn't even hint that this might be done on purpose.

Altering is an action, not something passive. If a machine is altering votes then it must be doing that intentionally. What is happening here is the person interacting with this machine is interacting in such a way that makes the machine believe he is pressing elsewhere on the screen.

The title reads as if the machine is doing something, the reality is the user is doing something in such a way that the machine believes they're doing something else, due to poor calibration.
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If people have been pressing that "Obama" screen region all day, it could well be worn out.

I wonder what the trade-offs are for randomizing each ballot.
Except that's not true. Open source _is_ about marketing and mindshare and brandnames and winners and losers, for a variety of reasons.

The primary one that the LibreOffice folks complain about (and I agree with, as someone completely uninvolved with both projects) is that a lot of mindshare was built up over the last several years for the name "open office", and your average _end user_ is going to remember that and not have heard about the fork, and certainly not going to have any opinion as to who's right. Both groups, I'd assume, want end users to have the best product. So the LibreOffice folks can justifiably complain that if Apache OpenOffice is using the "open office" name but not releasing the best product, they're doing users a disservice.

More than that is that the LibreOffice folks contributed to that mindshare. I'd bet a good fraction of Windows and Mac users know of OpenOfffice.org because their Linux-using friends recommended it, but all major Linux distros had for years been collaborating on patches via http://go-oo.org/. That community turned into the LibreOffice community and started marketing. They had _tried_ collaborating and sharing the name, but decided that didn't work out. (In fact, if you look at http://go-oo.org/ , one noticeable feature of the site is how little marketing they were doing. The creation of LibreOffice/The Document Foundation was a considered decision based on years of experience of attempting to focus on software alone.)

Even if you put aside the end users and pretend that writing open-source software is worth it just to produce the software, mindshare and marketing still comes into play when attracting contributors and doing releases. I've never contributed to either, but if I were to, it's my impression that LibreOffice is doing better and that the community there is more vibrant, and so that's what I'll prefer to participate in. If that impression changes and I gather that LibreOffice is dying, I'll work on Apache OpenOffice. So I trust both organizations to tell me how well they're doing and not misrepresent the other as doing worse than it is.

Finally, all the major free software projects -- Firefox, Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc. -- aggressively protect their name and their trademark, because brand identity is important both for users and for contributors. Even GNU releases its licenses and philosophies under a no-modifications copyright license. There's no reason the office suites should be different, and not protect their identities and image.

I would be as happy as anyone to see the fork resolved, but I don't think it can be done by telling people to focus on writing code and not focus on things essential to the process of collaborating on code, releasing a product, and getting users -- all the reasons to write code in the first place.
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The Surface is "Bad" because you're comparing it with the iPad 4, the Kindle Fire HD, the Asus Transformer (3rd or 4th gen), etc.

Microsoft missed the first 3 or so iterations of touch-only tablet computing. There are bug fixes and refinements to come I'm sure.

Compare the Surface to original iPad when it first came out and maybe it's not so bad?

Granted, the surface isn't competing with the original iPad, it's competing against the 4th gen iPad and that's a different beast altogether.
They're not Metro apps, they're "Windows 8 Store applications".
(1) We have > 300 M people. That's a huge population.

(2) We are OK publicizing it.

(3) Probability would indicate that we'll have a certain error, and it'll be shouted about.

---

But it's very strange that it was "miscalibrated" to not select one particular candidate, no? :)
Incredibly precise robotic hands
I had a similar reaction. The regulations on what is required to vote differ between states?! Cities run polling stations?!

David Frum weighing in: http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/05/opinion/frum-election-chaos/in...
That's convenient. I was just looking up Light Table last night when seeking a decent IDE for my Chromebook.

I see that it's moved to a native app now, which makes it Chromebook-incompatible. Is there still a way to access the browser prototype that it started as?
I can't speak for Windows RT and Windows 8 because I haven't had a chance to use either extensively but I have used Windows Phone 7(.5).

In the past six months I've gone from a Samsung Focus to a HTC One X to a iPhone 5 and back to a HTC One X.

Despite running on seemingly antiquated hardware, the Focus and Windows Phone 7.5 was just as fast and reponsive, if not more so than the other two devices.
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They are as you quote them, and they are what they resolve to eventually, but one of them at least is not the URL actually in the item.

This item: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4749070

Look closely at the URL as it's actually in the submission, not in the URL bar after you click it. There is no trailing slash on the URL, so you are not quoting the URL as it was submitting. That matters.

And when I say that it matters, it's possible that two URLs that differ only in a trailing slash actually deliver different pages to you. For that reason, URLs that differ in a trailing slash have to be considered different. Indeed, URLs that are completely different sometimes end up delivering identical content.

The DupDetector I wrote actually downloaded headers and titles, resolved URLs, followed links, and generally tried to work out what would actually been delivered. It was never production standard, and it's hard.
But maybe the programmer didn't do this. Maybe it's something under the election worker's control like calibration settings on only part of the screen, or the spacing of the ballot, or something else user-configurable. Just a thought?
What I've read[1][2] in regard to this incident is that it is most likely a calibration issue: i.e. the touch screen is improperly calibrated and as a result is not selecting the proper region of the screen. Now this is concerning because it likely means other machines could be or are miscalibrated. However the important takeaway here is that this is not some malicious attempt to rig the vote. If that were the case the likely method would be completely invisible from the UI; why would an attacker bother to actually show a user they were being manipulated? Of course, they wouldn't.

[1] Joseph Hall comments here, also provides a link to further commentary by him: http://gawker.com/5958114/an-expert-weighs-in-on-that-viral-...

[2] http://www.theawl.com/2012/11/the-truth-about-voting-machine...
No, he said he backtested them against data he collected from the feeds. He paid for the feeds just like everyone else does with his own money.
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I have an old 2009 white plastic MacBook, running Mountain Lion. This is definitely an underpowered setup given its age, but I generally feel that it is fast enough for the programs I use, including Sublime Text 2.

I've had the typing lag feeling with Coda 2 before, but that is to be expected because Coda is such a bloated piece of software with so many features, trying to run on my old MacBook. But I guess I expected Light Table to be a lighter piece of software like Sublime Text 2, so I was surprised to find that when typing in it I felt the same lag as I do when typing in Coda.
Charitably, because they were sneaking it. Recording devices are not allowed in many (most?) states, precisely because it lets people sell votes.

And although I think this is overblown, in general I think this seems a legit reason to sneak a recording.
Did you read the article?

"I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney’s name and started tapping very closely together to find the ‘active areas’. From the top of Romney’s button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama’s name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein’s button was fine. All other buttons worked fine."
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Actually it's quite the opposite: People get so worked up about these things because they don't tolerate it.

If you never hear about these things in your own country that means that apparently no one there cares.
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I run a 12 person HFT group in Denver. This is an excellent description of how an individual can bootstrap themselves into success. Great story, and nicely presented.

The one interesting point that he glossed over is what his indicators were. He wrote, "The indicators that were most useful were all relatively simple and were based on recent events in the market I was trading as well as the markets of correlated securities."

Which doesn't really tell you much.
Very cool to see SPDY in Opera.
You should have pointed the disclaimer on your original, blatantly advertising, comment.

I prefer to use the space I have on Amazon S3, under my own account with them, which I pay directly to them, than using some other obscure, third party, close beta service.

What is "ct" on your pricing? Just curious.
Unfortunately no, if you read what he wrote in the comments of that submission:

Being a software developer, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney's name and started tapping very closely together to find the 'active areas'. From the top of Romney's button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama's name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein's button was fine. All other buttons worked fine.
Your missing the point that owning part of a company for 10 seconds brings zero social value to the economy. Which I also tend to agree with. Slightly off-topic from the point of the article, which was that he achieved it without backing of a fairly large institution.
He who casts a vote decides nothing. He who counts the votes decides everything
Electronic voting should be allowed but not unless it prints out a ballot with all your selections on it so you can verify and have a real paper trail; not some bit in a database that can be changed and most likely has been changed in the past based on grand jury testimony from one of the diebold programmers. As a programmer knowing how insecure programs are I want paper for something like this.
Except the guy is a programmer, understands calibration and tested other elements on the screen.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12q6wu/2012_voting...

> I initially selected Obama but Romney was highlighted. I assumed it was being picky so I deselected Romney and tried Obama again, this time more carefully, and still got Romney. Being a software developer, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney's name and started tapping very closely together to find the 'active areas'. From the top of Romney's button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama's name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein's button was fine. All other buttons worked fine.
Although increasingly you have to sign your apps (and thus be a registered Apple developer), or else teach end users to disable Gatekeeper.
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No doubt about it, the surface should be compared with the iPad, but that's not what i'm complaining about. The reviewer states:

"The iPad may not allow you to do everything, but Apple has made sure that it’s great at what it can do. The Surface, by contrast, will let you do everything you want. The problem is that you’ll have no fun doing it."

My problem, is that the reviewer (at least in the article) seemed to make no attempt to go outside of the limits of the iPad with the Surface.
Why are those not filmed?
None of that adds up to altering votes. It's misreading your input, which is bad enough. No reason to overstate the case though.
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A very sensible implementation, but the syntax tastes clunky and exposes the SQL data type.

Instead of letting the SQL leak into my code, as in
texts = ArrayField(dbtype="text", dimension=2)
I want to write
text = models.TextField()
''.Array(dimension=2)
so can't
djorm_pgarray.fields
(or any other array-supporting ORM magic)
add Array() to the Field base class?