skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since when is direct democracy completely void of any form of value? Following your "extreme", then, means that every election means simply projecting all your private hopes onto someone completely void of any coherency, other than that projected onto them.

Statistics reflect groups already present or in the process of development, which formed due to previous work (be it a former presidency or the opposition thereof). Giving statistics free reign does not approach direct democracy, because it merely manifests what was already there, or -- if you want to be more dystopian -- they will create through their own precriptions what they define (→ theory effect).

The whole point of holding elections is to find a
compromise that works for the majority -- if not most -- of the people, and for that you need a program that then creates groups. If you however campaign solely based on the already existant groups, you will cement the already existing groups (and schisms) without the chance to actually initialise any new group formation processes.

I don't understand direct democracy as a system where the candidate serves merely as an empty canvas on which every individual voter (or group of voters) can project their preconceived opinions without even having to engage in any form of idea-led political discourse.
50 Shades of Purple. Thank you for freedom of choice.
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and to understand them you have to observe them, observe the problems they face everyday and create a solution for them so that next time they see you on the street they give you a HUGE hug
The equation you just posted is the seller's value equasion. That's how the seller measures value in order to price the goods.

Things are priced by the buyer according to perceived value also, but using a different equation. a sale occur when the two points close enough that either or both parties are willing to adjust their price point to make the sale.

The seller "prices" the goods at marginal cost + profit. The buyer decides if there is enough values at that price for her to make the purchase.
Now I normally wouldn't upvote something like this on HackerNews, but that's superbly ironic.
You are making the major assumption that getting into a school that you are not really qualified for is better than not getting into it.

This assumption has been studied. Evidence says that getting into a school you are not prepared for results in worse outcomes than getting into a worse school that you are prepared for. Read http://www.amazon.com/Mismatch-Affirmative-Students-Intended... if you want to see some of that evidence.

The question that I have is whether getting underprepared by highly able students into a good school AND giving sufficient assistance would result in better outcomes still. But at present there is no question that universities are not doing this. And therefore affirmative action programs are generally hurting the very people that they are trying to help.
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Stop-losses are not as effective or nearly as simple as they are described in typical financial media.

http://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/stop-loss-myth.html (with additional citations in the blog)
Pot. Kettle. Black.

How ironic, a linkbait post about linkbait.
You're making a category error.
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And an addendum, that 1%-2% accuracy is crucial in close elections like this one, so it's more than worth putting the extra time and effort into getting.
Your "proof" logic is backwards.

PG's point was not that failing means you're doing it right, but rather that never failing means you're not pushing hard enough.
"i wasn't inviting anyone. i was responding to downvotes."

er... "downvote all you like"?

That sort of remark in response to downmods (or the expectation thereof) is precisely what that line in the guidelines is about. But, if you insist you weren't "inviting", let's look at the next guideline up instead:

Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

"i don't see why i should be civil [...]"

Because the guidelines of this community ask that you be civil, and they don't say "oh, but feel free to ignore that bit if someone annoys you". Because fighting incivility with incivility is the path to flamewars. Because, if you don't like the behaviour an online community expects of its participants, you can either: leave, and make everyone involved happier; or: stick around, flout the local etiquette, and piss everyone involved off.

"more generally, the problem with hn these days [...] read any thread here. this kind of cheap, cynical throw-away remark is the bland norm."

Okay, let's take this submission by way of example. I see... exactly one "cheap, cynical throw-away remark", the very one you replied to -- and it's been modded down to near the bottom. That's the usual pattern I see: sure, there's a little vacuous snark, but it's far from the majority of comments, and it tends to get downmodded pretty hard.

Regardless, if you're so convinced that HN has such endemic problems -- well, my comment earlier "if you don't like the behaviour an online community expects of its participants ..." applies equally well to "if you don't like the discussions on an online community...".

"maybe you should find some authority figure [...]"

Oh, my post wasn't about invoking authority. They're guidelines, not rules. But nice job trying to paint me as a cowed bootlicker because I pointed out you were either unaware of or wilfully disregarding them.
Which smartphone do you own? Make an app that you would use on that phone.

You can try going the native route, but if you are familiar with JS/CSS, I would suggest looking at PhoneGap. That way, after you ship to one store, you can more easily prepare your app to be shipped to the other store.

Good luck!
Ah, it seems like the pointer coordinates are offset from what Steam expects. If I move windows close to the center of the screen, or if I can find resize the window from an offset edge, it works again. With gnome-shell, fwiw.
This is a beautiful article on how to optimize a tight loop. While it uses the example of checksums, it's more of an introduction to optimizing tight loops. Great stuff!
I think you assume that all "number crunching" is equal.
here my tl;dr: if you don't want to write a blog, but instead want to be well-known because of your blog, then don't write one.

Don't do stuff for the wrong reasons.
The people who get the bill for the solar panels presumably.
Yeah, that was a phrasing mistake in my original post. I meant if there are ANY hashes that hash to itself (any fixed point). Thanks for noticing.
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> "Skilled immigration? They don't vote for Dems. Unskilled immigration is all he cares about."

Uh...

Democrats own the minority vote, which constitute a huge portion of the skilled immigration this country sees - the two largest contributors are China and India after all.

Okay, so excluding minority immigrants, lets look at skilled, white immigrants - the bulk of whom are coming from openly socialist countries - UK, France, Germany, etc.

So skilled immigration is pretty guaranteed to increase the base for left-leaning folks and minorities, both of which are traditional strongholds for Democrats. Why wouldn't they do this?

Not to mention Democrats have, in this election at least, demonstrated that they are able to rally a substantial base of educated, working professionals to their side. So even with non-immigrants, "skilled labor" is hardly synonymous with Republicans.
So what does that have to do with urine?

Use the energy from the solar panel directly, why convert it to hydrogen and back to electricity?
I would strongly recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Rationality-Power-Democracy-Practice-M...

It's a case study of power dynamics inside the city of Aalborg with respect to a specific project and shows the influences of counties, businesses, and political climate on the result.

Not sure why Amazon doesn't seem to have it anymore... :(
If you are willing to lie under oath for unlawful personal gain, then the laws will guide your actions in a different manner.
Yes, it does. If it is 'hardcoded', then the intelligence lies in whatever 'hardcoded' it, not in the entity following the 'hardcoding'. Genetic algorithms have a certain amount of intelligence, although slow and clumsy. The fact that the world's biggest genetic algorithm* can program a spider to build an elegant solution does not mean the spider itself is intelligent.

* If you treat the algorithm for spiders and beetles as the same... I strongly suspect that a significant portion of the algorithm is actually implemented within the genes. For example, control genes massively amplify the effect of small genetic changes, allowing creatures using them to evolve faster than those without.
#include jokes.h

But seriously. The world has no sense of humor anymore?
If the bounty poster requests code, they would verify it by running that code on their own. Most bounty creators are programmers themselves, so that is not a big issue for most users. Non-technical users have posted bounties as well, but they generally request deliverables that are easy to verify, such as complete html pages or website widgets they can drop into an existing page.

An unscrupulous bounty creator could indeed steal a working solution and post it as their own. However, any attempt would be quite obvious, as there is a "Timeline" for each Bounty that shows every revision of every solution in the order it was created. In practice, there have been no disputes or stolen solutions on the site thus far.

Hope that answered your questions!
"Why does Rick Santorum have a pic of 4Chan's Moot on his website?"

For the epic lulz, of course.
I think it will, as it gives more power to individuals
The exact same thing keeps being struck down by the state Supreme Court nearly every year.
it's mostly good. NIST abolished their algo for pasword entropy estimation some time ago. i do not much like any password strength tests, most of which rate any number of terrible passwords as strong. as such i think they give a false sense of security. maybe consider cracklib.

as DenisM said, always use SSL for all traffic if security matters and don't trust SO for security advice.
Why: grad school is a great time to be independent and work on a lot of things that you want. But, after your 6th-7th year in the PhD program, it will quickly flip from being the best time in your life to being one of the worst times of your life, if you can't manage to graduate.

You will question yourself. You will envy your friends who've graduated from the program and are now working as a professor, or for Google or for MSR. You'll look around at all the new grad students and realize you don't know their names.

So the quote is right on. Enjoy your time, but get out as fast as you can. :-)
No BS: what's the price of the 'basic' plan?
That's awesome. Thanks.

Here in The Yukon we have lots and lots of enormous ravens that hang around and generally cause trouble (getting into trash, etc.). While out moose hunting they were following our canoe and making all kinds of noise when we were trying to be quiet.

I was wondering if it would be possible to train one to seek out moose, and land in a tree above them, so we could spot the moose (they are very hard to spot sitting on the side of a river in long grass).

This gives me hope.
how is it "machine learning"? A few if-else doesn't make it "machine learning", or does it? - @curationary
I honestly don't understand all the money and hype around "world changing" startups that creates a product or service that offer some kind of amusement/entertainment or solving a "real world problem" such as the need to know what restaurants are near one person or how much one spends in potatoes.

I wish projects like this had more support, from offering sponsorship or scholarship to the people involved in the project to do more research or prototypes, to big companies offering to help on the research of that project, something like that, and hopefully leave aside the cookie-cutter world changing android app we see every week and start focusing on things that matter. I have the feel we have become a stagnant society as far as innovation and discoveries go, we focus all our energy, money and interest in entertainment rather than in discovery and humanity development.
The feds don't have the authority to criminalize a substance? News to me, perhaps you should brush up on Supreme court decisions since the 1940's: Start with Wickard v. Filburn then move on to Gonzales v. Raich

The expansive rulings on the Commerce Clause has opened up the ability of congress to legislate just about anything, provided they can tie it loosely to the act affecting commerce in some minuscule way.
Is this an issue with Meetup.com or did someone willingly give her admin? /concerned meetup organizer
So, you write a vague and make large claims without substantiation. You get called out for not substantiating the points you're making.

And your reply to that is a post that's entirely devoid of any content whatsoever, and is literally 100% scare-mongering without even a single argument or claim (false or otherwise)?
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You would expect about 1 per unflawed hash function tested. But the law of averages is less powerful when you focus on a specific hash. The chance of having no fixed points in a particular unflawed hash is 1/e, so there is probably a fixed point, and possibly more than one.
Work less, when you are working less.
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Unfortunately this looks to be mostly puff-press since we are dealing with a trifecta of minority-in-startupland (black, female, third-world country)

This weird contraption obviously uses more power to make hydrogen than it takes to run it. (Unless we are breaking some laws of physics?)

I also see no mention of why using urine is better/worse than just using regular water. I am guessing because "Putting electricity in water generates hydrogen" is a less exciting title.
Related: Can't seem to find Skype metro in windows store on release preview. Any way of running it here?
Check out http://vimeo.com/43659034, I gave a 1hr talk on this topic that is (imho) the best introduction to the topic
Yeah... I'm pretty the world does otherwise nobody would care about this. It's pretty funny.
Younity announces how to get a beta invite and is giving away an iPad Mini.
Please not IRV. If we're going to change voting systems, Approval Voting is better in every conceivable way. (It's simpler, closer to what we do now, produces the condorcet winner more reliably, and doesn't have the crazy non-monotonicities that IRV does.)
Goodbye Facebook, Part 2
This seems like a disingenuous service. For any company, the goal of having a corporate blog is to demonstrate your employees' knowledge and present interesting problems you've encountered. There are two outcomes I see from outsourcing blog posts:

1) interesting content which isn't directly relevant to your business. They write a good blog, but it's always going to be an arm's length from your real business. Either you mislead users about where the content comes from, or you're up front and people realize that he blog, while good, doesn't really reflect your business.

2) the company doesn't really have bloggers for niche enough specialties to be interesting. You end up with a broad, lookalike blog that could have been written by anybody. This stops customers from engaging with your company.

The correct answer is what New Relic does with The Daily WTF; sponsor an established or up and coming blogger. Make the relationship clear. Users will appreciate your funding interesting content, while understanding that you didn't create it. If you align the audience of the blog with your customer base, I think you could get the same effect without the middleman.

Edit: this definitely seems to fall into category two. Their example posts are overly broad and not very engaging. Lots of link-baity, list-format titles which will drive eyeballs, but ultimately have poor conversion. I'd be interested in any case studies that prove me wrong, thugh
Maybe they knew 4chan, Reddit and the rest of the internet would start linking to his site once they found it.

Who's laughing now?
Vidar hat problems with the payment of the group and was in discussion with meetup to fix this. While a group is in an "unpaid" state everyone can step in and pay the fee to get full admin rights to the group. After getting full admin rights, that Women removed Vidar, renamed the group and removed the discussion form and mailing list.

This is really bad that this can happen.
Is it easy for academic researchers to get firehose access?
Basically this is a guy who does what many other have done, look no further than elitetrader.com, but smart enough to add "machine learning" to his story headline, which is the hottest buzz term on the street this year, everyone and his mom talks about machine learning last I checked.
Was he really forecasting the result weeks/months ago or just showing what the result would be if he vote happened on that day, according to polling data?
Because, class war. (Obviously for "goatse" read "moot's face")

"In this scenario, the dialogic image must be reduced to a short-hand: Goatse, the in-joke, provides that. Within Goatse, the dialogic image is covert; unable to exercise any significant level of authorial control within the design process, the designer forces the critical dissonance by tapping into the in-joke. Rather than a critical dialogue between worker and employer being an open one, it has become a secretive conflict; rather than a critical design image being a conscious attempt to demystify design as a mediated process, it becomes an attempt to undermine and destroy the design process. Adopting the supposedly most efficient working process for capital has pushed design to eat itself. The dialogic image has become the weaponisation of ridicule; the designer has become a postfordist saboteur of the industrial process, and the ever-present spectre of sabotage as the unspoken clot of class-war clogs another artery of capital."

http://deterritorialsupportgroup.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/go...

for the record I like this article more because it amuses me than because I agree with it. although it is a good point.
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I was in the CS program, and ended up TA-ing for 7 quarters to cover my tuition. :-) The best way to get your tuition covered is to work on a project that is attached to an NSF grant.
From the blog post and main screen, I have no idea what this service is selling. Is it promising to aggregate blogs/tweets/FB posts of a certain topic and deliver them to you on a weekly basis? Is it promising to prompt you weekly along the lines of "you promised you'd write about ___ today!"? Is it promising to find ghost writers for the topics you specify, and have them churn out content on a weekly schedule?

Once I've specified weekly blog posts from topics I have in mind, the next form makes it pretty clear that the service will find people to write your blog for you, which sounds pretty skeevy. I don't know how you would detect a Scripted blog post, but I'd rather not see them on HN. If someone's writing is good enough to make it to HN, it should do so under the author's own brand. Just my opinion.
I ran into Ron at Startup School. We, like many others, exchanged business cards. He added me on LinkedIn the next day, and was the only person I met who added me. I think Ron makes his own luck.

Congrats Ron!
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The OP said, "Nate Silver correctly predicted every single state" which is mistaken. His model is not designed to make predictions like "50/50" and "49/50" and he never claims to make those predictions, so I honestly don't know what you mean by, 'we can say that somebody "nails" a prediction through both specificity and repetition. Nate had a modest amount of both.'
while I applaud the initiative, someone might want to explain to them what 'Rube Goldberg Machine' means... As others have commented there's no gain here, it would be just as well to store the solar or wind power that charged the 'electrolytic cell' and keep the energy there rather than then using that captured energy to separate out the hydrogen.

edit: as some have pointed out, yes one could just run the wind generator 'directly' into this device and use the intermittently produced hydrogen as the storage mechanism..
Should software patents be abolished?
Sounds like this system puts out less energy than it consumes.
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Have you seen this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPGknpq3e0&feature=relat...

Where a bird uses cars and a crosswalk to crack nuts.
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Seriously. That was great.
Clinker Potassium released
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New virtual game console for TV based on mobile phones
Green Throttle Games is making a game controller that will work with Android smartphones and tablets when it debuts next year. The controller connects wirelessly with your smartphone or tablet, which can be connected via cable to display images on the television. The point is to make it easier to play the same games both in the living room and on the run.
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I really like this new perspective. I'll put it in practice! And it was a great post, so congrats!
Doesn't seem epic enough to get fired over.
My understanding is that his domain registration was invalidated or revoked because he made a public statement that he would use this domain to circumvent anti-piracy laws. I'm sure it's in the Registrar's TOS that using domains for criminal enterprises is not allowed.
Are evaluating baseball players and poll results even similar? One has a binary result, the other a spectrum. One is physically and mentally extremely difficult, the other a simple vote.
Great post. Simple, accurate and true.
Same reason this happened: http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/on-politics/2...

His website was designed by agency. The agency tasked a designer to create layout, including 'patriot' photos. The designer, perhaps someone who disagrees with Santorum's politics, decided to add a photo of Moot as their own personal jab.
I agree with all the comments that recommend for you to wait on filing, especially since you are a single founder company.

However, if you were in a two founder situation, there might be some benefit to incorporating particularly because it would force you and your other cofounder to ask yourselves tough questions about the future.

I have a 2 cofounder situation myself, and I would like to get the legalities out of the way, but I find the fees prohibitively expensive. The best startup package (most comprehensive and from a reputable firm) I've seen was priced at $5,000 USD. $3,000 sounds like a deal, but caveat emptor.

Good luck,

Jenny
That's the kernel, not the OS.
I'm hiring a personal iOS prototyper by Jason Fried of 37signals
In the US you don't have to declare income under (i believe) $500 from a single source in a given year. So if you earned 5,000 $1 payments, each from a different source you would have to declare NONE of them. If you earned 1,000 $100 payments from different sources you wouldn't have to declare those either.

Personally I'd rather do something for free that benefits the general public than for someone who just seems to be a cheap bastard. Now, if it were coding for an open source project and getting payed trivial wages because the project has no money and devs just need help getting something done... maybe.
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What's "coup" ?
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You're not comparing the iPad in a fair manner. If you combine the iPad with a keyboard, it does just as well in typing speed as the Surface with a keyboard, and at a cheaper price.