skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember my parents being really perplexed that I had to fax (long-distance!) in permission forms to Neopets when COPPA was introduced. Most sites didn't bother getting consent from parents and just locked out minors entirely, which was extremely frustrating to my (then) eight-year-old self.
Any zero sum or negative expected return conctract would meet this definition (quantitatively). if it floats your boat (makes you hallucinate etc), of course that might be considered a good or service. so you're right, if I was a lawyer those words would be loose language.
That's just the one I found in 5 seconds. This one's from mid-August 2008: "New [LA Times/Bloomberg] poll shows McCain - Obama in virtual tie". And from Sept: "[NBC News/Wall Street Journal] Poll shows Obama and McCain in virtual tie". 3 months later, still a virtual tie! I'm sure I could find a closer one. I didn't say the media would always report that in November.

I went back to 1992 and still found "virtual tie" reports. That's 5 elections in a row.
What if the bubble isn't fully filled in? What if it's 50% filled in? What if it there is a stray mark in another bubble?

I'm not trying to play Loki's Wager -- there really have been incredibly close elections where you have puzzle out just what the voter intended and it's just not clear. Nor can you make the boundary be "well if it's not clear throw it away," because you can't tell when it doesn't become clear. This isn't the most worst thing ever, but it's part of a legitimate design to want to limit this[1].

Computer-voting systems do have problems, but they don't have that one. And it at least gives the voter a chance to fix it if they are paying attention.

(Yes, I'm a fan of paper, but it's not strictly better than computer voting.)

[1] http://blog.joeware.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hangingCh...
Interview problems in Ruby
Very cool! And thanks for making it work without Javascript.

Apparently I have the sleep schedule of a person from Kenya.
I've been sitting here patiently waiting for a 5120x3200 px 27" iMac. When/if that ever happens apple can feel free to take all of my money.
I just discovered that Crusader Kings II (for Linux) is in closed beta as well.
Bring Your Own Voting Machine
This includes YouTube/GMail/Google+, and Facebook accounts (!) -- I have heard of minors having their accounts terminated when the company found out, even if their parents consented to the account (or, for that matter, worked for the company in question).
Yes, that is true. The amount that the population is willing to be taxed is also an important factor however.

I'm not saying that states with bad roads don't have themselves to blame, just that density is a factor.
by the year 2000, RAM will cost about $1-$2 per gigabyte.
This is attack was the natural extension of Ristenpart et al's "prime, trigger and probe" attack [1], which looks like this:

(1) Prime: Read B at s-byte offsets in order to ensure it is
cached.

(2) Trigger: Busy-loop until the CPU’s cycle counter jumps
by a large value. (This means our VM was preempted by
the Xen scheduler, hopefully in favor of the sender VM.)

(3) Probe: Measure the time it takes to again read B at
s-byte offsets.

The idea is that if the co-resident VM's level of activity will increase the time it takes to read B (because the other VM cleared the CPU cache).

When they first published this, they noted that stealing cryptographic keys in a context like EC2 seemed impractical, saying "In practice, cryptographic cross-VM attacks turn out to be somewhat more difficult to realize due to factors such as core migration, coarser scheduling algorithms, double indirection of memory addresses, and
(in the case of EC2) unknown load from other instances and a fortuitous choice of CPU configuration (e.g. no hyperthreading)."

It's really cool to see that they finally successfully implemented it.

[1]http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/dist/cloudsec.pdf (PDF)
(1) A vote that cannot be understood should be considered informal and not counted.

(2) Electronic voting machines are stupid.

(3) Chads are stupid.

The immediate solution to (2) and (3) is to use a pen and paper.
> “An overwhelming majority of beta applicants have reported they’re running the Ubuntu distro of Linux”

I'm sure the survey results were really valuable and contained only true answers after they announced that "ubuntu" is the "right" answer for the first beta... I hope they don't take them too seriously.
I am wrong I was thinking of one of the investigators assigned to his claims. Raymond Lemme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Curtis
Running on Raspberry Pi:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tHeHPtlBCvk/UJe3gKJtn3I/AAAAAAAAAK...
I expect that the typical desktop PC around the turn of the century will be over 100 gigabytes - whether RAM or a mixture of RAM and some other sort of mass storage., and a typical LAN server here at Microsoft will have a few terabytes.
There are people who are so out of touch with technology that they might not understand the (to us, incredibly obvious and clear) feedback the UI is providing, and might overlook it or be scared of pressing the screen again. Grandmothers and curmudgeons.

It seems ridiculous to be unable to comprehend something that would be as familiar as using a hand calculator to people like me and you, but there are people out there who are afraid to touch the power button on their computers because they think they'll burn their house down or get a virus or something.

Imagine people like that trying to learn a brand new user interface in the span of 5 minutes while people are waiting in line for them to finish. It's a small population of people but it could conceivably make a difference given the right conditions.

edit: I forgot to add that this would be a good way to commit voter fraud and still have plausible deniability. Also, it would probably be more cost efficient to bribe someone for this small bug that gives a 0.5% advantage than it would be to pay for the campaigning that makes a 0.5% difference.
You should try to go with the place you'll be happier working at. If you try to pick a job based just on career path, advancement, money, you'll probably regret it. Obviously if you can get both, the better.

You want to be at a place where you get along with the people, learn from them, can be productive as a team.

When the organization has good people, everything else should and most likely will fall into place: learning opportunities, career advancement, good projects, good technology, salary and benefits, fun place to work.
Talk to your Messenger Contacts on Skype [Skype to replace Messenger by 2013]
Boxee open sources TV 10-foot UI framework based on Spine.JS
For anyone looking my fork appears to be the lastest:

https://github.com/RobertLowe/nvd3
video on demand systems used to replace Blockbuster and other video rental stores will dramatically increase the market for storage and should dramatically drive the price learning curve.
I agree that elected officials and candidates are always looking to influence voters minds and the process itself to win. However, pursing better access to voting isn't unethical, even if people pursing those policies and systems themselves are attempting to use that access to bolster their own support. In fact, I would say that pursuing actions with positive externalities and outcomes that bolster your position is what we want politicians to do: being so successful at fixing and addressing our problems as a society that we want them in office again and again.

Granted, I don't think that the US gov't is an example of a system in which we are achieving wild successes and are therefore wanting to keep certain people in office :-)
I must be an idiot but unzipping the zip just shows project / package contents. http://i.imgur.com/5uUzI.png ?
Ryan from Upverter here:

If you stop paying, the designs will remain intact, stay private and you will be able to export them freely. If you want to keep editing the designs, they will have to be made public at that point. (Or you can start paying again. ;))
Get Paul Graham to take you to lunch & talk about your startup idea
If you're dying to sit down w/ Paul Graham, here's one quick and easy way to get what you want and help out a worthy cause at the same time. With a smashing success from last year's, Bing Nursery School is again auctioning a lunch with Paul Graham. Due to overwhelming requests, this year, Bing will also take bids via email (please note the Nov. 15th 4pm PST deadline). See details below.

Bing Nursery School, affiliated with Stanford University and 1 of the top ten nursery schools in the US, is holding its annual Autumn fundraising auction on Sat. Nov. 17th, 6pm, to raise money for scholarship fund, helping poor families to send their kids to Bing. The auction is open to public and the starting bid is around $10. You can see item description here (#160): http://www.stanford.edu/dept/bingschool/giving_harvestmoon_2012.html

Bids will be accepted before the auction on November 17, 2012, and can be emailed to harvestmoon@stanford.edu by 4:00pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012. Please include your contact information. Bids will also be taken during the live auction on Saturday, November 17, 2012. The highest bidder will be notified after the auction. In case of a tie, the first bid received will be the winner.

Please help this worthy cause. Bing is an awesome school and I wish every parent can send their kids to Bing. Every year Bing staffs and parents put in so much works to raise around $300,000 so Bing can offer more scholarship to deserving families. Please help and get some help for yourself.

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More disclaimer: Paul Graham has nothing to do with this submission.
You can't get rid of edge cases by moving the edge.
I applaud your statistical sensibility, but I have a question – you're specifically looking for the margin of victory to be bellow the margin of error – but the margin of error of what, exactly?

Are you expecting the vote to be a proxy for the entire population of the country/state/whatever? Perhaps the entire population of eligible voters? Or, do you view it as simply the preference of those who took the time to vote?

Personally, I see little harm in disregarding the intentions of those who could vote but choose to not vote.

Issues of systemic inequalities in access to voting aside, I have little problem with viewing an election the task of accurately counting the votes of those who actually made it to the poling place. If you accept that concept, then the margin of error is extremely low – especially with electronic voting systems.
no, I just extracted the .deb file and put its contents where they should be for the client to run.

ar x steam.deb
tar xf data.tar.gz
cp -r usr/ /
If I can do it only when it makes sense, I would default to "don't do it". So what's the point of binding it to oh-so-convenient shortcut key, when I have to think about when I can do it? What's the different from using terminal or Makefile to run it then?
Scrolling issues seem more like a software issue, sure there are a lot of pixels to move around but the retina stuff is pretty new. I doubt that the software is at the limit of what the hardware can do.
This isn't Windows 8.
You have a much higher number of elected officials than we do in Scotland - we actually have the lower proportion of the population as elected officials in Europe - so I sympathise. Some of our elections use the de Hondt system which is a nightmare to count as well...

> I wish more geeks would actually work an election, or at least observe, before spewing about how to fix voting systems

Its the same every election - a hundred irrelevant cryptographically schemes...
Yep, I run Arch but answered Ubuntu because I knew I'd have no chance of getting into the beta otherwise. No doubt someone will manage to create an AUR package for Arch that uses the Ubuntu version of Steam. Unfortunately, I wasn't selected, so I have no way of knowing when I'll actually get to try it out.
I have played around with a 15" rMBP in a store and colleague's 13" rMBP at work. Both exhibited the same symptoms in scaling modes other than 2x: font outlines were a lot more blurry than in the 2x mode.
That's a good way to effectively disconnect yourself from the Internet. A lot of ISPs are not properly filtering.
So how does this work in practice? Can I backup directly to Glacier? Or do I have to backup via S3 first?

I use TimeMachine, but would like to have a "my house burned down" option that lives online somewhere...
>What if the bubble isn't fully filled in? What if it's 50% filled in? What if it there is a stray mark in another bubble?

Count it before the voter leaves, reject any ambiguous ballots with feedback about what's wrong and have the voter fix it before they leave. Repeat until it's accepted.
Human Powered Helicopters: straight up difficult (video)
It varies.

Some systems have a "recount" button that returns the same result as before. Others have an actual paper trail that can be recounted by hand.
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>It Gets Easier

Yes, except for Haskell. I did a fair amount of CL back in the day and I'm relatively comfortable with Clojure now...but Haskell is pain incarnate.

BSDM, pain, discipline, whips, and chains programming language of the century. That crown was stolen from Ada and covered in thorns and lambdas.

GHC: BWAHAHAHA! Infinite Types? YOU FOOL! THAT IS VERBOTEN!

On a more serious note, Haskell is fantastic until the moment you exceed its sweet spot. Once you leave that realm you have entered the world of pain, functional reactive programming, monad transformers, and true horror. The slope for "affordances" compares poorly with Lisp's knack for letting you spin a DSL or solution to a problem that reduces pain and improves expression. The laziness and space leaks are an unnecessary horror too. I'd rather something like a more powerful OCaml, given the choice.
Use Hulu, Netflix, Pandora and Rdio from any country
For users of Arch Linux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/steam/ - it was also a very quick hack:

First Submitted:	2012-11-06 19:06
Huh, I totally disagree with this! I learned to code automatically. As soon as I discovered programming, it started a chain reaction, I couldn't stop, the ability to code came to me instead of me having to do any effort to learn it. I was so interested in it, did so much stuff, loved it so much. It was like I had found exactly what I was made for.

Also, he says you need to write songs with your code. I disagree, you need to write graphics with your code! Those give the best possible immediate reward.
This is great for a closed beta, I thought its gonna be a farm of bugs with almost nothing working ... I really appreciate steam team for their hard work, I hope we see hardcore gamers soon using Linux.
that paper is pretty damn impressive - this was a huge amount of work, both in understanding how to exploit an effective side channel, and in the statistical processing used to extract the results from noisy data.
That's a somewhat valid point, but protecting that sort of innovation with patents is still extremely heavy handed.

Just as software can be licensed with terms, surely these "blueprints" can be licensed with very specific regulations on how and where they can be used. Violating that agreement, which is very specific in nature, would be a lot more reasonable to enforce than what we have now.

Those patents that've been sold off are most likely going to be used to shake-down other companies and lock out innovation. The most exploitable will be cherry picked, shunted into shell companies, and in time some jury in East Texas will have to make a decision on how many billions in damages need to be awarded.
> If you don't know approximately what your functions are doing, you should never call them under any circumstances.

Then why would I use an editor that its main selling point is how easy it is to do that?
Some US venues impose fees for having low fill rate. As far as I know, most US HFT firms' strategies are not based on creating latency by rapidly submitting and canceling orders, but the bad behavior of some players is much more visible than the orderly behavior of others.
OR resident here; while your USPS comment might be true, we also have local elections offices where you can walk in, fill out a ballot, and turn it in, just like states without vote-by-mail. You can also call or check online to ensure your vote was counted, so the USPS issue is mitigated somewhat for the people who care enough to check.

[edit] In addition, we have locked dropboxes in many locations so you can avoid the USPS and the elections office entirely.
Why I'm coming home to OpenBSD
Ask HN: Mobile-Friendly US Election Result Sites?
Howdy hackers! The most statistics-obsessed day of the year is here in the good old USA. Like many, I'm lusting after data. I'm also on the go with only my phone most of the evening.

Can anyone recommend a great website that shows up-to-date results by state, but that looks good on a smaller screen? Many of the more common sites are huge, slow, or make use of Flash. (boo!)
This is awesome! Thanks Guilherme
There's this:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/steam/
When you scale down a subpixel-rendered text that way, you pretty much destroy the subpixel rendering effect.

What I think happens: in modes other than 2x, text is rendered without subpixel rendering. It is scaled down, and possibly a slight sharpening effect is applied in the process. Anyway, the result is not as good as the awesome font rendering we are used to in OS X.
Facebook recruiters, please stop the spam
First of all, I am not a developer. This is obvious from my LinkedIn profile.

Second of all, we have raised $6M in venture funding and we have a sizable team and customer base. What kind of person would I be if I were to quit my job as CEO and work at facebook?

Facebook, I know everyone is struggling to recruit engineers, but spamming the valley probably isn't the best strategy.

On 11/5/12 10:39 PM, XXXXXX wrote:
--------------------

Dear Justin,

I know that you are currently not looking, but I would love to talk to you more in-depth about where you are in your career, what type of growth opportunities you have, and the type of development you are most passionate about. Your entrepreneurial background in developing amazing user facing products end to end makes me feel that you would be a good fit for our engineering team.

We are looking for innovative developers that will come up with the next great idea for Facebook to help us connect the world. By design we run very small teams, and on average there is about 1 engineer for every 1.25 million Facebook users. We encourage our engineers to try to break things and be innovative. The company is growing rapidly and this position will offer explosive growth opportunities.

At this time I am only asking you to have an open mind and to talk one of our senior leaders to see if Facebook would be a better opportunity for you. After the conversation you can move forward with the formal interview process, wait until timing is right, or decide that Facebook would not be a good step forward for you in your career. Either way you will not burn any bridges for future consideration. You have nothing to lose and potentially a better career to gain.

Let me know when would be a good time we can talk, and thank you in advance for your time.

A
As opposed to some random Reddit user?
From my phone experiences, it isn't always a matter of a touch being shifted up/down by X everyone. Sometimes individual areas are screwed up. (as a simple experiment, I can put some water droplets on my nexus S and things go haywire unpredictably).

I'm doubtful this is malicious not so much because I'm some idealist that believes voter fraud doesn't happen, but because of all ways to commit fraud, this is a but ridiculous - it's obvious to everyone the machine is recording wrong and it will be noticed.
LOL probably just needs to touch a little bit lower on the screen. If you're not smart enough to figure that out, you should NOT be allowed to vote.
It's because the rMBP uses 2 pixels to display 1px which is why fonts and graphics appear sharper.
That's how Washington works. The primary system is mail in, but walk in voting is also available.
it's from krdo. and there is also a video.

http://www.krdo.com/news/Pueblo-GOP-Machines-switched-Romney...
He was trading futures. You need $10K in margin per future. He states somewhere that he started with $30K or so, and I estimate his "margin at risk" at any point was $100K or less.

And he surely wasn't paying retail prices - you can go down to around $0.50/future if you know what you are doing.

(In general, futures have 1:5 to 1:20 leverage)
The Displays section of System Preferences says that "using a scaled resolution may affect performance", but if it does it doesn't seem to be noticeable, at least for the kind of stuff that I do.
Javascript memory leaks
Install from the AUR, the package is just called steam.
There is no nastiness in preventing voter fraud either. Unless you call it voter suppression.

As for making voting easier, Republicans see it as cynically making fraud easier in the name of getting uninformed people who don't pay attention to vote for you. If you see it as Republicans see it, what the Democrats are doing is not exactly nice behavior.
A random person's video carries more weight than a random person's unsubstantiated claim because video is, to some degree, evidence (it would be possible to fake, but would at least require some work).
Steam For Linux Download (.deb)
The Allure of Small Government 
“Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better,” said Mitt Romney.

Americans, however, should not be fooled by small government promises of greater cost efficiency and reduced taxes. …

Read article here: The Allure of Small Government
Check out http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start . Odds are that your router is probably supported.
Report: Google Prepping $99 Tablet, 32GB Nexus 7
I just wish they'd bring back the old RISCPC hardware. It was awesome. You could extend the chassis. Someone even put a pizza oven in one:

http://www.houseofmabel.com/puters/RPC/Medium/035.jpeg
@Author ? Can you create an online course and teach us all? Thanks
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I don't understand why Apple went this way. They seem to prioritize chrome quality over content, in the non-2x modes.

This is really strange since text with subpixel rendering in the content area is a clear benefit, while I have yet to see an app that provides subpixel rendering of its chrome elements.
voting machine switches FROM Romney to Obama (VIDEO)

http://www.krdo.com/news/Pueblo-GOP-Machines-switched-Romney...

covered by the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/11...
Text on rMBP at "1920x1200": http://i.imgur.com/FAemY.png

I figure that what it does it use the actual rendered pixel grid for subpixel calculations.
You could argue this, but in that case your arguments have to hold water and not just be a cursory dismissal. Ref. yajoe's much more thorough reasoning.
'scrubbing' is just a fancy way of saying that the files are read from media, checksums recomputed, and compared against stored checksums. If checksums are different and data was stored redundantly, then recovery is carried out, and correct data is written back to media.

I'm too lazy and don't really do it with my multiple DVD, CDs and HDD backup directories. But ideally, I should be doing it. My startup will make this sort of thing easy and automatic.