skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't necessarily true. It's important not to conflate "small precinct" with "suburban/rural area" and "large precinct" with "urban area", since many rural precincts might have more voters than urban ones.

I wish someone would look at the underlying precinct data and redo this analysis while factoring in precinct population density.
Between driver signing and kernel patch protection, it's harder than you think. But clearly Microsoft is preparing for that sort of compromise.
That is a fantastic idea for a service. The website seems a little rough around the edges, and the Open Projects could definitely use some kind of filtering, but on the whole, really cool idea.

Thanks for the link.
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VMware has some TPM features built in (although basically limited to remote-attest that it's a legitimate VMware ESX server).

Intel also had some demo stuff, but the problem is Intel's security software group was kind of a revolving door spinning at a 3-6 month rotational speed.
Your build up progression is exactly the same as mine, only I interpret it as based on the major key III. I agree we're not talking about modulation in the usual sense, but I think it makes sense to think of it as a key change. It reminds my ears of the common IV-V-vi progression, only with a suprising major VI.
So "visible light" would have been more accurate, but probably assumed by most readers.
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Some of the things I can relate to:

Definitely identify with gaining weight. It's brutal how quickly you can fall out of shape.

After playing basketball 6 times a week since college I barely get out once every three months. I'm 30 now and feel 40.

Aside from the up and down roller coaster ride, the hardest part for me has been balancing a relationship that began at roughly the same time that my co-founder and I went into business together. I have no idea how you could possibly balance anything else (like a real job) outside of a startup and a new relationship for extended period of time.

There are times my relationship has been a distraction to our business. But well worth the juggling act :)
I have to disagree again... I don't think a III chord is anywhere in the entire song. The build up is in the parallel major.
Looks interesting. Is it possible to support real-time collaboration? By real-time collaboration I mean multiple people working on the same file and being able to see other people changing the file in real time, like Google Wave or Google Docs.
I can almost guarantee that it would be easier to fix whatever it is you don't like about vim than to start from scratch.

Too many developers have this conceit that it's easier to start from scratch. Sometimes that's true, but usually not. Usually there's an exaggerated fear of extending other people's code.

Of course the world is big enough for another project, and you might make the next great editor. But be realistic about how much effort went into something like vim, and don't think you're going to single-handedly replace it in a month.
And there are constructive ways to provide that context, like how you did. "Snort" does not qualify.
I agree that having a job and doing a startup is not giving either of those things a fair chance at succeeding. But also if I had to add one thing, I'd say that most entrepreneurs simply give up too fast. This might have represented a true test against how badly you actually want to have your own business (non lifestyle business that is) and maybe your decision is the truest manifestation of your real desires, but I think that if you know that what you really want is to change the world with a "let's blow this out of the water" type of business, then less than 3 years is simply too soon to give up in my opinion.
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What works for me is trying to find the right way of 'tricking' myself. Every few months I feel like I have a week that is not as productive as I believe I could have been, I then basically try a trick (often something that worked for me in the past, but sometime a new trick that I might find on a site like this one).

Some tricks that have worked have been:

1. Pomodoro (actually more specifically: http://tomato.es/).

2. Redefining what I wanted to get done: For example, I used to want to run 30 minutes 5 days a week, but found that I was not able to start doing it because of being busy, tired, or for some excuse. So, I chose a distance that I could easily do in 20 minutes and decided that no matter what I had to do the distance, if only by walking. Not only did I do it with this new definition, but my excuse of being busy driving me to actually run instead of walk.

3. Making a commitment with a friend on a similar topic: This would mean reading at the same time, cooking, sleeping, etc.

4. Getting a new toy related to the task to get me to do something slightly different. This could be buying a new book on the topic, or a pad to take notes.

5. Making a commitment to much smaller sub goals when doing the task.

6. Trying to list and prioritize the easier sub-tasks so that I fool myself into making progress.

7. The carrot and the stick: I let myself get a nice breakfast outside when I wake up earlier (or do something that I have been needing to do), and I sometime say that there has to be some penalty (like not sleeping until I finish atleast one task).

8. First thing in the morning: Trying to do a quick version of the task before I do anything morning. This to me means before making any decisions (involved in serious tasks), as well as before consuming any content (blog posts, e-mails, etc).

To add a little more to the above, I take pride in me persevering, so if I actually do try a new 'trick', I work at it - often taking a few weeks to make it happen. And I often get it into my routine if only for a few more weeks.
Like the password problem (eg people choosing "password123" as their password). That's an easy technical problem to solve (and in fact is solved). I can't understand why passwords are so easy to crack. It's only a matter of getting everyone to behave differently. <mild sarcasm/>

I would argue that all of the really hard problems in software development[1] (and most technologies) are really hard because they are social in nature, and it is the social nature that makes them so hard.

This is similar to the food production/distribution problem. We create enough food to feed the world, but, due to many geopolitical forces, we can't get the food to all the people that need it. No matter how good we get at growing and shipping food (the technical solution), there is some warlord somewhere who will steal it from his subjects (the social problem).

1. Not computer science. P==NP has nothing to do with Aunt Marge.
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'As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions".'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
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The entire point of this project is to modernize it, and give it a user friendly UI. If you want Terminal usage, just use Vim.
It's a feat of engineering to get Office running, agreed. That it takes a feat of engineering to get a word processor running on a platform with a 1GHz+ processor, half a gig (or more) of RAM, and gigabytes of mass storage, however, is somewhat depressing.

What was even more depressing was to see the resulting product. Apart from the speed issues, which seem to be resolved, should we really be cheered to see this bloated abomination run on yet another platform, to crank out more documents only readable by installing the same bloated abomination on your own machine?

The image that came to my mind on seeing word running in all its desktoppy glory was "a boot stomping on a human face, forever".
Hi guys. I wanted to take a break from all these TV shows everybody's been watching lately and get the time to catch up with some good movies for a change, but I didn't really know where to start. Naturally, I begun browsing IMDB to see what my favorite actors were up to and what new movies did they play in. The problem was I wanted to find the ones with at least a good rating (I know, I know... but that rating still helps), so I kept going back and forth from an actor I follow to each of his movies, one by one. Then I thought, wouldn't it be cool to just have all the ratings listed? Yes it would. So I started building this basic functionality as a Chrome extension a few hours ago and now it's already working as intended and makes it a lot easier for me to find a movie to watch. Take a look and let me know if you have other ideas to improve this experience.
Awesome! Thanks so much for this list.

I really like the one about waking up earlier, I think I'll try that out sometime.
I may not be on the same wavelength as rolux here, but compression would be one example. Create B (a series of compressed files) and C (a decompressor), both unique creations in their own right, that when combined create the original work of another person, A.

Now I'm no expert on compression, but there are surely a vast, if not infinite, number of possible pairs B and C that could combine to form the original copyrighted work.

Thus, with copyright law in its current state, we are not simply granting copyright holders the exclusive rights to a particular sequencing of 1s and 0s, but also rights over any method of creating that sequence.

If there are an infinite number of methods of creating that sequence — that is to say, any B, if combined with a suitable C could form A — then aren't we in effect granting rights over everything to the copyright holder? Where do we draw the line?

The 1s and 0s that make up this post could, with suitable decompression, form an exact copy of a hit blockbuster, but neither this post nor the decompressor would resemble the blockbuster on their own.

Edit: Interesting idea time. If I uploaded a series of files alleging they are encrypted copies of blockbuster films, but resolved not to release the encryption keys to any of the files for 12 months, would the copyright holders have the right to have the encrypted files taken down in the meantime?

They can't actually prove that the files are infringing without the encryption key. Is the mere suggestion that a file may potentially, with some manipulation (i.e. decryption with the appropriate key), resemble a copyrighted work, sufficient to have it taken down?
No, please, why don't you educate us all as to the deficiencies in ARM over x86 that make porting an x86 application to ARM some incredible achievement?
I am positively desperate for some kind of researched and statistically backed-up explanation that figures out the factors on both sides!

Why don't you learn to write copy and test it yourself? You will arrive to the same conclusion that every industry veteran arrives to: long copy out sells short copy. Why? Everyone has different hypothesis. Mine is that long copy allows for the writer to disqualify prospects and attack all buying objections right from the start. When you have those two things working for you, the decision to buy mostly boils down to how attractive the product is to the prospect. Try it out. Learn it. I'll even teach you the basic if you want. If you can program, this stuff is cake. email in profile.
Wow — they paid $1.70 per design. Were sites like 99designs as taboo then as they seem to be now?
I thought to throw in SugarSnc since it hasn't been mentioned. I also have Dropbox, Drive, Skydrive but Sugar is the one that seems to tick the most boxes for me. It is very easy to choose what folders you sync and to which devices as different devices font need all files. You can add passwords to public folders which is a nice touch. And pricing (at least when I compared 18 months back) was quite competitive.
Because cereal tastes terrible with water?

Because the dairy industry in the US alone gets $4 billion per year in subsidies from taxpayers?
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I have to do something with my hands when I'm thinking and not typing. I don't smoke, but I do have this unconscious need that arises during this time. My negative reaction is to get really hungry (even though I don't need food), I've been trying to change that to a video game "break" while I'm pursuing some mental gymnastics (which is working fairly well).

So I could see how smoking easily would fit into that unconscious need. In fact, most of the people I have daily interactions with smoke. I'm in the process of removing myself from the situation (of having to deal with smoke clouds 5 feet from my computer).

* I have nothing personally against smokers, the smoke clouds (3+ people) just disrupt my mental processes.
Right, the key III is the parallel major. I'm shifting the base of the notation for this passage. When I say III ends the build up, I mean III in the parallel major key, i.e. V(7) in the original key.
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Interesting... there is a an accessible meta-analysis here - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3151730/

There is some evidence that achieving cognitive benefit is related to genetic variants that promote nicotine dependence - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20886544

Ever thought about just chewing gum or using an inhaler?
I'm assuming a significant portion[1][2][3] were not "real" logos, it seems half the first page are the sort of standard someone might pay for and the rest of generally cutesy "logos" that people submitted for fun.

I guess it doesn't change your core point (designers get stiffed in competitions) but it's not as if this case is average -- at least I hope it isn't.

[1] http://99designs.co.uk/logo-design/contests/logo-stackoverfl...
[2] http://99designs.co.uk/logo-design/contests/logo-stackoverfl...
[3] http://99designs.co.uk/logo-design/contests/logo-stackoverfl...
> If I were going to change any single thing about Vim, it would be to make MzScheme scripting support a first class citizen, and slowly re-engineer the backend to be more Emacs styled. Core C (or whatever, but C out of momentum) functions with the rest of the system build up in Scheme.

Thank god there are people who share this vision! I have solemnly promised to myself that I will write a new vim in exactly this fashion if no one has done so in the next 10 years.

One thing that I don't understand about contemporary developers is the aversion to running their editors in a terminal. The benefits of doing this are significant (e.g. session management with tmux, remote pair programming via the same), but programmers leave them behind for what is ultimately just eye candy.

The major reasons for this are the difficulty in binding complex key chords in a terminal, and the poor implementation of OS X's Terminal.app (both of which can be worked around today with a little work, and a proper X terminal). If this terminal-based workflow is going to thrive in the future, what will need to be modernized is the terminal.¹

So you heard it here first: if a new vim built atop a Lisp interpreter running on a new data-centric, mixed character-grid/HTML5-webview terminal emulator does not appear in the next 10 years, I'm on the job.²

¹ Some excellent musings on the subject: http://lubutu.com/idea/ivo

² This would all be easier if I could love to learn Emacs, but Vim modal editing is a pernicious addiction.
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I think when I installed Dropbox I was able to choose the folder, or it created a shortcut on my desktop. In truth the issue was not so much the location, but the internal structure that seemed obscure at the time (this was when GDrive first came out, might be different now).

Dropbox just appeared as a simple, normal folder. That's it. I put stuff in, it got synced. I clicked on stuff inside, and it opened like a normal file in any other folder. It just worked.
It looks like Warren Buffett's first major investment in a technology company is shaping up nicely.
The suspense is already unbearable enough as it is.
I'm not saying that creating businesses is always good; I'm saying it's not always bad. It's a significant distinction. :) I'm also firmly against anti-circumvention laws; I see the debate as being whether Amazon, Apple, etc. should be allowed to try to lock down their products.

I don't see why there should be a double standard with bits vs. atoms: that software is allowed to be closed as part of your business model, but hardware is not. And if we're going to insist on user freedoms for hardware, we should also insist on them for software; however, that carries a risk of reduced wealth creation if there are too few property protections for creators.

(It is admittedly awkward to take a firm stand that says "This is a complex issue with no perfect answers".)
No, what's ridiculous is that I would need to check for software updates for a brand new piece of hardware that's only been released for two days.

That's just piss-poor quality.
If I was an ex-Zynga employee, the easiest way to get revenge without getting blamed and possibly sued is to blame anonymous. Because anyone can be anonymous.
The only experience I've had with 99designs was through a friend but he had really good responses. Do you mind sharing what's so taboo about using it?
I have to admit I felt pretty ignorant for not knowing what you were talking about. So, for anyone else in a similar situation:
http://www.psc.edu/index.php/hpn-ssh
It helps that the dance is both unique and easy to copy.
Considering milk drinking predates both of those considerably, I don't think it is quite that simple.

That said, I find most cereal is much better dry, particularly flavorful cereals like grape nuts. I am not a fan of milk at all.
This is obviously the best one:
http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-stackoverflow...
Did you read beyond the title? Subsidies wouldn't matter if everyone was lactose-intolerant. The article is an interesting discussion of how we don't really understand why adult humans are able to drink milk at all.
Take a look at the iSAX stuff.
This reminded me of this TED talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
this is probably unrelated but can anyone explain why the size of the 1080p video is so much larger than the 720p one? (1920x1080) / (1280x720) = 2.25 while 1.6 x 1024 / 237.3 = 6.9
This particular breakthrough product probably wouldn't start appearing in chips for at least 8 or 10 years, though. It's fine to get excited! Just don't think we're getting nanotubes in our phones next year. Changing materials is a huuuge step.
I love this idea. I have a few side projects that I'm working on, and while I can't work on them full-time, I still try to dedicate a small portion of time daily to help them progress.
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I used to try making money as a designer on 99Designs. Basically, it's taboo because designers get paid like $2 an hour there. It's a business model skewed completely towards the clients.

Can't blame 99 for it, they're not forcing any designers to keep working at trying to win these contests, but the way they advertise all the money being made in large sums makes it feel like there's more of a chance of making solid money than there actually is.

Of course I never was the best anyway, many others had more success than me. But it's still a very bad average pay-off for the designers.
III is the relative major. I is the parallel major. As I said, I believe there is no III anywhere in the song.
I don't feel they are taboo at all. It's an affordable way for someone to get a lot of opinions and attempts at a logo. I don't think it's a good use of my time to spend the effort finding a talented designer, waiting for them to produce things, go through the revision process and end up paying 10x versus what I do on 99designs. I absolutely understand the level of quality is arguably lower but when I just "need a logo" to have something to work with, I'm more than happy to utilize crowd-sourced efforts like this.
I don't really agree with most of what I've been saying; my point was that there is a legitimate argument to be made on the opposing side, and that there is nothing fundamentally different between locking down hardware and locking down software.
I don't know what it is, but I frickin love milk. It's one of my 4 main liquids (water, milk, coffee, beer) I put down a gallon about every 4 days. In college, I'd drink a half gallon a day. Usually when I eat anything that makes me thristy/is a little salty, like red meat, I"ll crush the milk too. Pasta? it's so carby, I've got to have milk to get some protein to level out the glucose release. Hungover? not only does milk rehydrate me, it gives me much needed calories/energy. Why I'm so dependent, I have no idea. Friends and family know to stock up on extra milk when I visit. It's like water to me. I can't explain why, or how I got to this point.

edit: Growing up, we always had 2% in the house. From college on I drink skim, occasionally (once every few months) I get 1 or 2%, just to up the fat content (I'm a runner, not terribly concerned with weight gain, more or less trying to maintain body mass...)
I've found almond milk to be an excellent replacement for cereal. Better than soy anyways.
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By the way, here's the poll for the name: http://www.addpoll.com/results?14407

Private Void isn't so bad!
Can anyone explain how something like this works for the graphic designer? The service says 'more for less' -- which for me is 'more [design] for less [money]'.
Looks to me as if you're on the road to building a company the hard way, but if you persist I think you just might get there. Taking a few wrong turns doesn't need to be the end and you seem to have learned a number of valuable lessons.
I don't see how a warning in this instance is helpful. Knowing that the data was likely scraped somehow from Facebook, what is the rational and data-driven approach to take? Unless there is a specific set of actions known to mitigate the risk of additional information leakage, saying "be careful with Facebook" sounds nice but doesn't help anyone. So why not let Facebook's security team do their due diligence first and then fully disclose the information later?
You should have checked out the project before ranting.

1. The major difficulty in writing an editor is in writing the editor core. He didn't write it from scratch but used existing ACE editor.

2. VIM is a huge mass of C code. Working on a huge mass of C code is ridiculously slow.

He's writing in JavaScript and using html for the UI - this is orders of magnitude faster.
I think the "taboo" in this case is the same way some people feel about sites like rentacoder or guru where the programmer (in this case designer) has to work their tail off trying to land a paying job where as the client pays next to nothing comparative to how much spec work they are getting done for free.

Although in my opinion, no one is forcing either to work with those sites and in fact a lot of top designers stay away for just that reason. It devalues what they think their time is worth...

So, some people who work in a similar contracting style field feel it's taboo to hire someone in another field using a process you think is exploitative in your own field.
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Also, the title here has nothing to do with the story on Slate.
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I don't think anyone at HN is ready for the zombie apocalypse. Let's vote the right way.