skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. Twilio. We think texting is by far the most powerful way to actually get people out to vote.

I worked a lot at the beginning of the semester on getting my friends registered to vote; now, I really just want to see them get out there and actually vote :)

love your site, BTW!
Neither can the Judge. The exact wording is right there. So what if you have to scroll to see it. That isn't contempt.
The five thirty eight model is actually based on accounting for accuracies in the polling data.

It take's a poll's historical accuracy into account when weighing its impact on the model. This is where he gets an additional degree of accuracy as opposed to straight poll aggregation. So it actually does "choose" which polls to believe...
Why can't Chrome just fix its text rendering to use the system fonts? Emoji works natively in OS X, but not in Chrome.
Yeah, $110 shipping for a freaking five-gram USB WiFi dongle. And I see that the minimum order is $1000 during their beta :/
Most websites function as content distributors, so for them to be able to serve your content to anyone who asks for it, you need to give them the legal right to do so.

The difference from the storage locker or safe deposit box example above is that for those services, you hold the key. You are not putting your stuff in those places so that any passerby can rummage through it.

Websites/services that provide more limited distribution services, e.g. dropbox, or anything where you need to grant permission to individuals, are a bit closer but still not really the same as the safe deposit box example. You should be sure that the rights you are granting by agreeing to the terms of service are more limited.

For cloud storage where you really want to limit access to the content to yourself only, you need to be sure that not even the provider can access it. I.e. encrypt it before it leaves your machine.
> Er, I should say "tested at 0.6A" MOSFETs

yes, that would be better. in reality parameters of transistors vary. but when it is off by an order of magnitude these parts (and actually the whole batch) go to trash.

> trace to the gate blew up

if it really was trace to the _gate_ then it might be blown after mosfet itself melted. Because even really fat FETs (with high gate capacity, D-S rated to hundreds of amperes) cannot do this to copper trace.
Blocks are callbacks in Objective-C
Totally worth a billion dollars. :-)
For security reasons, I've stopped using PDF readers based on Apple and Adobe code. I'm now using XPDF through an Automator app as my default PDF program, with Google Chrome as an alternate.
Building New Communities
So 10 years and a few employers ago, we had a case of a few "haunted" server chassis. Hard drives would fail on these chassis very frequently, and when a fresh drive was swapped in, it would take many days to rebuild the RAID, if it ever rebuilt at all.

Putting the RAID set in a new machine, it would rebuild fine. But in the original machine, we swapped out the raid controller, CPU's, even the whole motherboard, and the RAID sets still would not rebuild.

Long story short, each of these "haunted" servers had a bad fan that was causing a lot of vibration within the chassis - enough physical vibration happening that the hard drives were essentially rendered inoperable.

The moral of the story is to make sure you have good vibration dampening on your fans, and to use the sensors monitoring to alert you if the fans are going bad. (Even this is not perfect, since sometimes the fan gets off-kilter but is still happily spinning at 10K RPM. The first thing we did if we got an alert for a disk failure was to replace the fans and attempt a RAID rebuild before touching the "bad" disk)
The Background Noise Was Louder than I Realized
Wow! What a pearl!
I appreciate the comment. Yes, I currently live in Minnesota. However, I'm not from here. I used to live in California. And yes, I've been to the Valley many times.
> GitHub introduced emoji pngs throughout their application, and pull requests are much better for it. Campfire supports emoji, and your professional interactions are much better for it.

I think I disagree. I'm trying to think of a situation in which a pull request or a campfire chat with emoji has ever made my life better, and I just can't.
They are also using a 'sosumi' comment, guess they still want to tweak someone's nose.

$ curl -s www.apple.com/uk/ | grep -A 1 /sosumi
</div><!--/sosumi-->
<p class="statement">On 25 October 2012, Apple Inc. published a statement on its UK website...
The Daily Caller analysis misses an important point - there is a much larger volume of polling data for presidential elections than for congressional elections. Drawing conclusion from one about the other is largely meaningless.
Nice, man!

Share the code with me if you feel like it. My GitHub is https://github.com/rodrigoalvesvieira and my email is rodrigovieira1994 [at] gmail [dot] com
Good for him. This doesn't seem to be the attitude of many in the startup scene. It isn't the attitude of all too many app developers. It also doesn't seem to be the highest priority at Apple.
Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me.

I agree that disinterested parties have a lot to gain from a probabilistic analysis, but someone who's working at the phone bank likely cares deeply about the cause and is convinced that their efforts can make a difference. At a macro scale, they do make a difference.

It's precisely those kinds of actions which shift the overall probabilities regarding the outcome.
Regardless of "corporate personhood," this still amounts to forcing individual people to say something they disagree with.

They should still be forced to pay damages. In this case, sufficient damages for Samsung to publicize the ruling.

Forcing people to say something they disagree with is very dangerous. Reminds me of the ancient Catholic Church and their struggles with scientists.
Alex Young talks about flow control in node.js
Does anyone remember where exactly that article that made a great counter point to this, saying prices will keep going down, and in the future manufacturers will have to provide content instead of only hardware? It was giving the example of the $50 Chinese tablets etc. I tried googling it but failed. It made a much better argument than this one.

This engadget article is just looking at the first ply of the game.
Knuth and Lamport used a "literate" implementation Unix' wc as example in the manual for Literate Programming tool cweb.
I love this and one day want to build my own fortified Doomstadt Castle but building it in LA seems like a bad idea.

If a massive natural disaster actually happened I feel like the first place all of the LA gang members (and there are millions) would loot are the rich areas on the coast. Once they see your perfectly standing, lit up house the natural elements would be the least of your worries.
Building Real-Time Web Applications with Server-Sent Events
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4533215

I think you are looking for this one
Developed a new type of form
VDI startup Pano Logic closes shop but keeps it a secret from customers
His model is easy to verify... wait for the elections to be over, and see how much his predictions correlate with reality.

FWIW, he got a bunch of congressional races wrong in 2010.
This is a red herring. If you market a soft drink containing cyanide, you are (rightfully) put in prison and stopped from producing it.

To address a better version of your argument. Should cigarette makers be forced to include health warnings on their products? Well, marketing a product as safe that is not safe is fraud, so if they do not do this voluntarily, then yes. The case at hand (Apple v. Samsung) is not remotely like that, though.
RedTooBe.com - Red Too Be
Cool idea. Is it allowed by Facebook's Terms of Service?
A LAMP stack will be easier to deploy simply because pretty much any cheap hosting you get as a playground will support it out of the box. Rails is a little more tricky to deploy. That said, Ruby and Rails is, in my opinion, more fun than an equivalent in PHP (pure opinion though so don't let that colour your experience).

I would suggest taking one bite at a time - find the easiest deployment possible for your chosen stack (if it's rails, then deploy some test projects to heroku). Learn to program a little before trying to jump in and do the Apache setup etc. Nothing is more frustrating than wanting to see your creation on-line but you just keep hitting your head against a brick wall because you can't deploy. I'll also put in a good word for webfaction for good cheap hosting that supports rails, django, and php very nicely without you having to do a lot of server admin - perfect for a playground.
Great advice. I've written a simple version of the `column` tool as an entry to the International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest: https://github.com/saizai/iorcc/pull/1

Just a bit of fun, the contest doesn't seem to be very 'official'.
Notes:

This scheme is not infallible. Although signing the declaration makes it impossible for a third party to produce arbitrary declarations, it does not prevent them from using force to coerce rsync.net to produce false declarations. The news clip in the signed message serves to demonstrate that that update could not have been created prior to that date. It shows that a series of these updates were not created in advance and posted on this page.
This only seems to occur on apple.com. The resizing behaviour happens on all country specific sites I've tried.
Show HN: Tweet Your Vote
Feedback would be much appreciated.
Somehow fascinating how the recent disasters are moving Preppers more and more into the mainstream. But I never understood this dedication to valuing one's possessions more than the own life. As long as there is at least some form of overture the smartest solution seems to me still to just fly out to another country.
It's a factually correct statement, nothing rude about it.
The article doesn’t discuss the fact that CORS/SSE is broken all browsers except FireFox, so your evented streaming server’s going to have to be on port 80. (And as most proxies close connections aggressively, it can’t be proxied.) Which is probably not the way things stand for most sites.

Which means that for the moment SSE is useful mainly for freestanding greenfield apps. For those uses it’s pretty awesome.
Ask HN: is content from my URL auto-killed?
I'm a publisher of a European news site for startups & innovation. As such, I submitted about 10 of our 100+ stories to HN in 3 weeks, every time taking care that they were 'interesting to hackers' (ie they were about startups, VC, accelerators and such). If I read the HN rules correctly, I didn't break any rules.

All of my most recent stories were killed, one an interview with Adeo Ressi of Founder Institute (original content, an interview I did myself), another a story about a 60 yo startup founder (original content, interview I did myself). Today, a spotted post about font sizing and design for iPad mini.

Would really love to discuss this with a HN editor.
The Salyut 3 station was equipped with a "self-defence" gun
...to calm things down, I actually believe using one OS for all your needs can work for most people that have all their skills in one "bucket" ...but not when you're put in the position of doing devops + web development + design (and yeah Adobe software is important and hard/impossible to replace for 90% of people doing pro design - if only for being able to edit and send back edited copies to your colleagues) + desktop app development (either Windows or Mac OS...), because you're going to use 2 OSs no matter what (and it's going to be Mac OS or Windows + a Linux or BSD...) + using some finance shit that REQUIRES Microsoft Office, and when you're already at this point, the only sensible solution, perfomance-wise (and the only one that actually works if you throw in some occasional video editing in the mix with premiere or after-effects...) is putting the Linux in the VM, because you need a "monster" machine to do it the other way around (and a "monster" machine under 2 kgs / 4.5 punds and with good battery life is not available right now...), so here's one winded road that got me here...

And yes, I believe either KDE or XFCE are DEs that can work for me (XMonad is cool but I'm not into tiling WMs...) if I were to only do server-side dev and devops...
I doubt the totality of tourism revenues since the pyramids were built would even come close to the cost of their construction.
What I can't understand - all these companies knew at least 48 hours in advance that the storm and flooding was going to hit them, and that power outages were very likely. Even I knew that in advance, and I'm not even near the area affected.

How come they were still surprised?

Of course, disaster recovery plans need to balance wildly different kinds of disasters, and can't predict everything - but if you know that a flood is coming, what excuses could there be for not looking up (or making up) your flood-plans?

Of course, storing diesel for generators in basement might be better for most scenarios - but if you know that for the next week your risk is power outage+flood, then what prevented you from putting a few barrels of diesel upstairs, while the elevators, pumps, shops and delivery vans were still working as usual?
Yes, especially on HN.
I've noticed it doesn't take much to beach-ball Safari, at least for me.
OS 10.8, 2008 model MBP, Safari 6.x

Canary kept on chugging at the expense of the whole OS hanging.
That's actually for the div for Apple's copyright notice, which has a classname of sosumi.
His twitter is more snarky like the old blog. Might change a bit since the NYT said he shouldn't be making bets with Scarborough
>I'll never understand that kind of corporate partisanship.

It's no different from sport and patriotism. It's exactly the same mentality. Everyone* has their team.
Of course they do. Is that really so strange? I can believe that the legal system in general is a good idea but gets it wrong in some case.

Anyway, this is irrelevant. Who cares? It doesn’t affect anything.
You can't stop progress! ;)
As far as the Windows and Mac comment goes, there is no reason why you couldn't do this on either. In fact Mac OS X supports the same commands as linux. In Windows case, I see no reason why you couldn't do one of two things:

1. The first would be implementing your own linux commands so they work on Windows. You would probably want something like cygwin, a linux vm, or an actual linux box to test this stuff on though.

2. Pick Windows commands instead and implement them instead. It’s the same idea roughly. I haven't used a Windows machine in almost a decade, so I'm not sure what all would be involved, but seems possible that you could get them to work roughly similar.

As far as specific languages go, there’s no reason that almost any language couldn’t be used as long as it can take arguments from the command line.
Yeah, I completely expect 99% of the changes to just resolve to "this is something we can't possibly simulate"
> It is not used on the US site which does not feature the statement.

But the resize is used on apple.de, apple.co.jp, apple.ca, and a lot of othe country-specific sites, none of which display the statement.
> The Nexus tablets offer an incredible amount of features at a price point Apple doesn't even try to compete at and all without the Assholiness of Apple

I like how you posted you BS reason and then followed it up with the real reason, pricing is more of a concern to you and you hate Apple.

Yeah, something tells me even if this whole incident had never happened, you would end up with a Nexus tablet and not an iPad. Call it a hunch.
I would so love to see this written up, even if the experiment "fails".
That wasn't a reference to the entire body of her work

If you use "Ayn Rand style rhetoric" to argue against taking someone's argument seriously, you are discounting Rand and her entire body of work, and you're doing it in a backhanded way.

It was a reference to her views re: self-interest, altruism, and society as an oppressive instrument.

Well, she held that society is a marvelous thing and that we're all much better for it. Just want to make sure you realized this. In fact, she makes the strongest philosophical argument for this that I've ever seen.

calling it "slavery" cheapens the discourse

No, the person who called it "slavery" was right on par. If the individual has "obligations" to society, he is coerced to serve society.

Yes, there is a question of degree. But we're not talking about 1% of an individual's effort being forcibly taken to serve others. We're talking, what, 30, 40, 50%? In France, it's 75% for some people now.

Plus, free speech and just conducting business are becoming highly regulated, which means highly non-free.

Society is great, but not a society like that. Which is why some of Ayn Rand's heros "shrugged" and decided to stop contributing.
Oh my god, companies being petty in the legal department!? Say it ain't so!
Stay classy silent downvoters. Downvotes make you right.
Clever. Does it still get cached?
True, and they also add in a couple electors based on the statewide popular vote.
I wonder when Apple's going to start subsidizing their hardware with content sales? Seems like they have the choice between doing that and losing marketshare, ulimately ending up a cult/niche offering.
> Some variation on the Streisand Effect.

In this case, the variation is "a bunch of nerds try desperately to make a mountain out of a molehill and nobody cares except themselves".

Maybe we should come up with a new name.
Have these patches been accepted? From the mailing list thread, it looks like there are still some minor issues to work through, and I wasn't able to get a sense of whether the mainline committers wanted to do this or not. The fact that it's been in Clang+compiler-rt mainline for a while, and has been supported, should be a point in their favor.

ASan works great! To save you a bit of effort in figuring out how it works, this is the best source I found (besides the source): https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc12/atc12-f...
No, it isn't spot on at all. SpaceX wasn't "a big blind bet" at all. The guy is smart, and he listened to people who've been analyzing that industry for decades. The fact that he persevered after a few failures just means he knew what industry he was trying to break into.

Engineers have been scratching their heads since the '70s and wondering why the hell it costs so much to get something into LEO. There's nothing fancy about the hardware SpaceX developed, either. It's just a rocket company that's run like a business. There's no delusion required - what Musk brought to the table was boatloads of money and the experience of growing and running a business.
Not sure if there's a karma limit, but there is an option in your profile / settings: "showdead".
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Also see this HN post from a few months ago about a Linux/Unix distribution written in Perl - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4395076
Thats the main point of the green drives- less power, less noise, less heat.
Yes.

Unbiased != more accurate. If, for example, there is a poll you KNOW is doing something wrong, you should down-weight it. A pure polling average there would be wrong. However, once you start weighting polls, people start criticizing the way you do it.
Do you not have an option for "show dead"?
> So I am right.

Absolutely --- if by "Gore won" you mean that Gore might have pulled ahead, by around 115 votes, and been declared the winner, if all of the following had occurred:

(i) Gore had asked the courts for a full statewide recount, instead of the more-limited recount that he did ask for; * and

(ii) the courts had found sufficient cause to order such an expansive (and expensive) recount, instead of limiting the recount to specific areas where good reason had been affirmatively demonstrated; AND

(iii) in such a statewide recount, the various voting officials in Florida's 67 counties had (x) tagged the same specific 175,010 ballots as problematic as did the news organizations' independent observers, and then (y) reached the same conclusions about those ballots as did the independent observers. *

* As explained in the Times article

We can never know whether (ii) and, especially, (iii) would have occurred.
I don't see point displaying the bitcoin price, instead they should post what their conversion rate is. Still like to compare the prices with other USD rates.
nikcub raises an important issue - one must consider the contract between the end customer and the service provider. The analysis doesn't end here though.

There is a lot of additional complexity -- not only are there other contracts in play (e.g. contract between Megaupload and Carpathia and any other contract between Goodwin and any other 3rd party impacting the data), but also the issue of whether and how the court will enforce those agreement.

The government's ability to access the data changes depending on how these agreements are interpreted/enforced.

If you want to get really pedantic, there is also the question of whether the court is appropriately exercising jurisdiction and therefore has the authority to make and enforce such a ruling.
Show HN: Predicting the 2012 Presidential Election with Hashtags
You seem to let your bias leak through here. Given the sum total of both his rhetoric and his governance to date, Obama does not stand anywhere near far-left, not even in the US. You may want to recalibrate your scales.

Supporting gay marriage and abortion rights are increasingly moderate positions, held by people who swing further left and right on a host of other issues. For example, Obama has been overwhelmingly willing to compromise with business to move other policy agendas (e.g., health care) forward—the far-left is quite unlikely to do this. There are plenty of other counterexamples to an unfounded claim that he is far-left. Drone strikes come to mind, to name but one other.

If he holds views and suggestions for policies that are actually far-left, please enlighten us.
I'm being downvoted because other people are wrong :)

My point is that sentence is wrong and thrown in to get page views. The fact that you can write well doesn't mean you know anything. It's no qualification at all when it comes to making an argument.

And also, one of those people (Anderson) is an entrepreneur himself. So who, exactly are you?

Me? Oh, I'm a professional poker player. I'm not very good at it, you see, so I'm currently writing articles about poker.
i like to keep in mind that intrade had 80% odds on the supreme court ruling obamacare unconstitutional, right before it was declared constitutional:

http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=74535...

the idea that bookies and betting sites have something to teach us about real outcomes is a little rich. the optimal outcome for a sports book is to have heavy betting in the wrong direction.
I don't know how things work in the UK, but I wonder whether the equivalent of contempt charges will be forthcoming.

Toss a few of them in prison for a bit, and see whether that improves cooperation.
This is, from my recollection, an incorrect assessment of Silver’s methodology.

He runs (continuous?) Monte Carlo simulations over his inputs, and when he says that there's an 80-20 chance in favour of candidate O, he's saying that 80% of the simulations resulted in a win for candidate O, not candidate R.
You still want a guarantee you can access it, eg if it is your backups
haha, well it IS a good point. So often designs are created that aren't scalable. That's one of my pet peeves actually.
With lights back on, cell service returns for many Sandy victims
Any competent gambler knows that a fair bet is not worth taking.

See the Kelly criterion if you don't know what I am talking about.
The demo is the explanation. I think it's clever.
Interesting use of resources that would have been better spent on one's health.