skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incorrect. You can combine a personal secret code with the output of the vote-teller in order to determine who you voted for. The vote-teller would have no way of determining who you actually voted for without your personal code. Even more secure would be to have two personal codes, one a "real" code, which outputs the actual candidate you voted for, and one "duress" code, which outputs a candidate you didn't vote for(in case someone is holding a gun to your head to confirm you voted for their candidate)
For what it's worth, in the US (as opposed to, say, the UK), party politicians aren't tightly bound to their party's policies. This partly explains why some Republicans on the West coast could be considered "too liberal" to win in the Midwest, while some Southern Democrats from the last decade formerly endorsed segregation.

And the parties encompass so many issues, it's nearly impossible for anyone to be a partisan down the line while remaining consistent. Isolationists and libertarians will clash in the Republican's tent, while union supporters and environmentalists might clash in the Democrat's tent.

Parties aren't awesome, they often get distracted by short term tactical goals that hurt the country rather than pursuing long term strategies to refine public policy. But I think that's a vision and leadership problem, not a problem with parties themselves. The wide range of views within each party should at least provide some reassurance that the parties aren't always just giant soul-crushing machines.

Just sometimes.
WHY WALL STREET COULD Not WEATHER A STORM
Without it, they have no way of knowing if their coercion/blackmail worked or not.

Sure they do: use a lie detector and ask them.

Honestly, the situation you describe is the problem, not the presence or absence of verifiable voting. If you've got the mafia threatening your family, voting is the least of your problems.
Sid Roth Christian
Sid Roth radio broadcast that night she had everybody she could cram into her house, everybody became Christians, Sid Roth supernatural videos and so there was a huge spread of the word of God in that area, and the army Sid Roth Christian
Maybe not, but you can lessen the real-world impact of edge cases by moving the edge.
"All the commenter was saying was that whoever shot the video didn't share it before first splicing two different shots together."

That's not all the commenter was saying. OP was claiming the original video was staged and fake. He was accusing the Redditor if deception.
Show HN: How I built a Whamola instrument (w/instructions)
The part about not starting something new out of fear of failure is the best advice ever. Even if your startup 'fails' you would've gained a hell of a lot skills out of building it, call it 'personal capital' and the best thing you could do is reinvest it in a new startup instead of letting it go to waste.
No, because those phrases do not appear to be linked to who voted or how they voted in any statistical meaning way. All you can derive from this is that on election day people are talking about the election in high volume. Hardly a revolutionary insight.
My favorite one so far under the people who "voted for Obama" is:

I couldn't sleep at night had I voted for Obama or Romney. #IVotedGaryJohnson
Sadly, I don't have $3,900 to shell out. It would be wonderful if there was a similar workshop that was more openly accessible.
Scary that it wants access to all websites. Is that needed?
Beyond that, I have to say it works really easy: Install the extension, and nothing changes but Hulu works here.
The accuracy is over 95%

Citation needed...

How can you draw this conclusion at this point in the process? I'm genuinely curious to your filtering scheme to be able to extract information out of such a noisy data stream.
Your Priorities...is work/life balance a myth?
How a CloudFlare network engineer fixed a Google outage last night.
Godaddy Pulls Plug On Anti-Obama Campaign Hack
Guitar Hero co-creator unveils startup with a plan to mobilize the living room
Connectors need to be placed to match the enclosure

Components are available in a variety of packages, and supply problems sometimes require a last-minute change.

Thermal or EMI or noise problems require moving traces away from each other.
That's not what your terms of service says. It says you may, at your discretion, delete data.
I am really annoyed to see many of these pages calling states for a candidate with 0% of votes in.

Can't we at least wait until a statistically valid sample of actual votes is in?
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That's good to hear, because I am constantly running out of doorstops in my home. With current technology I have to go the hardware store 2-3 times a week just to pick up new doorstops. If I had a 3D printer in my home, I could simply print out new doorstops every morning, and never have to worry again about needing a doorstop at 2 AM when the hardware store is closed.

I'm not sure where I'd get the raw plastic, though. Do they sell that at the hardware store?
Can you collapse parent comments?
As a counterpoint, there is of lot of knee jerk rejection of any criticism of Nate Silver. A lot of people protray anything that questions Nate Silver's work as rejection of math.
I'm working on an update! Sorry it's not done yet.
Map sharing tool made out of frustration with gmaps, 4sq, yelp (MVP)
Here's a map sharing tool hacked together that makes it easy to share a customized map. We built it out of frustration with google maps, foursquare, and yelp. We're using it to share our favourite restaurants in our city with our friends, and we're trying to figure out if other people are interested in using it this way too.
This is great advice. There's a strange reality that the C user has some agenda you couldn't envision, and you could fix some problem they have you aren't even aware of.

Some of the worst complaints I've heard is that the startup comes in all cocky thinking they have the best technology in the world, and doesn't actively listen.
I've paid for some prototyping runs on a 3D printer of very high resolution (16 micrometers x,y,z if I recall correctly) but I can't imagine wanting to own one. Unless something comes along that drastically changes their usefulness I think they will remain in the realm of the hacker's tool box.

It's not a matter of price coming down, or size, or speed. There's a lack of use cases. There's just no large scale need for everyone to be printing out their own custom widgets.
Ask HN: What powers CNN's touchscreen graphics? 
I'm really curious to know what CNN uses to power the interactive graphics on their big touch screen displays, particularly the maps where they can zoom in on states to see counties, etc.
It may be apocryphal, but I remember hearing stories about ARM presenting a pizza oven using Intel chips as the heating element as a jab at x86 power usage at some early computer show.
To the best of my knowledge, there are no USA jurisdictions that manually count ballots for the first count. Manual counting is only triggered by mandatory recounts, and then limited to just the races affected.

Most central counts have been using optical mark sense scanners, which are those multiple choice test reader thingies. Douglas Jones has posted online an excellent survey and explanation of various election equipment used. http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/

My jurisdiction is very liberal about trying to count every vote marked, per voter intent. I understand that other jurisdictions will reject whole ballots if there's any problems scanning it.

With mark sense equipment, if I ballot doesn't read correctly, it's corrected. Ballots can be unreadable for all sorts of reasons, water damage, unfortunate paper fold, ballot printed askew, etc.

Full image scanner are newer. Votes are inferred using image processing (recognition), vs diodes firing off.

"Electronic adjudication" breaks the paper trail. To correct for voter intent, they're changing records in a database. Versus modifying / correcting ballots or ballot duplication (copying votes to a ballot which will then scan correctly).
Cool idea, similar to what I had in mind using Git's tagging system when I built http://hubnotify.com. Are you using any repo or is the version just in a local database?
What I do: Use http://netshade.com, pay for the proxy service and get 4-5 high quality proxies in the US (plus some others)

Works like a charm for Netflix and others.
I don't really buy all this. 538 is a great resource and Nate Silver is a smart guy doing interesting things with data, but millions and millions of people were going to hit the NYT for election stuff regardless and 538 is the site's big election brand right now. It's great for him and the times, but not really remarkable.
Here's a map sharing tool hacked together that makes it easy to share a customized map. We built it out of frustration with google maps, foursquare, and yelp. We're using it to share our favourite restaurants in our city with our friends, and we're trying to figure out if other people are interested in using it this way too.
How to move to data science?
Hello HN community,
I have been working as a LAMP developer for around 8 years now and am thankful to be at the place in my career that I am. (150k at a stable company, low stress, high respect) That being said, I am drawn to data anlysis and data science in general. When I evaluate my experience, I notice that the projects that I enjoyed the most were some sort of analysis. (charts and graphs for internal performance stats, correlation of customer characteristics to product purchases, graphing a customer base to visualize relationship clusters, etc...)

Getting to the point, I'd really like to make the jump from LAMP developer to data analyst/scientist, but I don't really know how. I'm only getting started in performing analysis in a non-brute force way, and have only scratched the surface on things such as random forests, linear regression, and markov chains. While I am an expert in PHP, MySQL, Javascript, etc.., and am very good at working with systems (Fedora, Ubuntu, Apache, VC, CI, etc..), I am a novice in data. Ideally, I'd love to learn on the job, but am open to trading free work for instruction. Will squash bugs for data! :)

Has anyone here made this same type of jump? Would love to hear feedback.

Thanks, Sam
Wouldn't the person with the gun just demand both codes? And typically a ballot has multiple offices to elect. Would you flip all of them for the "duress" code? It seems like it gets complicated really quickly.
TEDxSiliconAlley: This year's theme is "RISE OF THE MACHINES"
Headlining the event will be Ray Kurzweil, in his first public appearance in New York City after the release of his new book, How to Create a Mind. He will be joined by Biotech venture capitalist, futurist and author, Juan Enriquez.
I ran into a really strange issue with Nginx and VirtualBox shared folders.
And now I too am very curious what the response was, particularly whether location-based services are being over- or underestimated at the moment.
Anna Salamon wrote an article on LessWrong, "Humans are not automatically strategic," which changed my life:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p5/humans_are_not_automatically_str...

I wrote a bit about it 2 weeks ago here on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4702484
Ark (YC W12) is hiring for a front end and release engineer
Anyone who is as talented as they need can already earn more than $100k, especially in a major metro area in the US.
CyberSecurity, Obama, Romney and You
Don't let one slight change in the law, with bills such as SOPA, or PIPA, lead to things most of you didn't want. Get with the best, or get informed with the situation at hand. This is the situation we face, today:
Curiosity Rover Maps More Of Mars
Not sure they have ever made a 13 inch MBP with discrete graphics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellbanning

"Hellbanning is a practice used by some online community managers for protecting a community against Internet trolls. The practice involves making a user invisible to all other users. From the hellbanned user's perspective, however, they seem to be participating normally in the community. The purpose of hellbanning is to make it impossible for other users to respond to a particular user by rendering their contributions invisible"

No idea whether the editors can un-hellban someone. I guess the best if the user wishes to keep posting to the community is to make a new account.
Yeah Spiderman uses Bing, we should too.
Introduction to Heroku Buildpacks
I agree. The tech, despite this article, is really solid and actually innovative -- it just needs more polish and iteration. If Microsoft can show us that they're willing to rev quickly and fix and improve things, it could be pretty amazing.

First order of business, the absysmal default Mail app. That is just painfully awful. If they move quickly to update it to non-terribad status, that will be evidence that they can make this work.
Collapse comments which has more than 2 comments or so. I don't care about a particular comment and 50 people who replied that comment, my screen fills up. If there would be a JavaScript collapse option, that would be cool.
Sundance asks for credit card info without SSL, says it has SSL anyways
http://www.sundance.org/festival/tickets/registration/

Just bothers me that companies can get away with this given the recent history with Sony etc getting hacked.

http://www.box.com/shared/vdqv03hfgxri5ocreohz
I went through a similar debate fairly recently, but with slightly different circumstances. I was fortunate enough to get a development role out of college (MIS degree), but had very little formal CS knowledge. As I progressed through my career I always thought the lack of a formal CS education would be viewed unfavorably, which is why I started looking at a similar programs as you.

During the review of the program curriculum I slowly started just consuming as much material online as possible (ex. google "The Algorithm Design Manual Second Edition 2008 (Skiena).pdf"). I focused on data structures, algorithms, and design patterns. Before you know it I felt I had a decent grasp of the concepts, could intelligently have conversations with my CS friends, and hopefully could write better code.

In the end, after thinking about the time commitment and financial costs, I eventually decided against the idea for two reasons. 1.) I had taken the time to simply read to understand and practice the concepts, 2.) it wouldn't have helped me in my career (no Google or Facebook aspirations for me) so it would have just been for personal knowledge. And since I took the time to read and understand on my own, I felt I had achieved quite a bit of personal knowledge for free.

Hope my 2 cents help.
Computers had no competition for their use case. There was nothing that came close to storing, processing, and transmitting information like that. The only thing stopping them from being used everywhere was size and price. If you were dealing with information, you would benefit from a computer as soon as you could afford one.

3D printing is not like that. There is already an entire set of industries built to produce widgets. 3D printing doesn't offer any benefit except for customized items. So how often do you need something customized? No matter how cheap 3D printers are, it's always going to be cheaper to get somebody else to print a one-off for you using their machine. You don't use it all day multiple times a day. You pay them for that one-off, and then you don't need a 3D printer again for a long time.
For the people affected, google was for all purposes "offline". If the estimate of 3–5% of the internet population is correct, that's a lot of people.
what businesses dose the government not own?
I'm not sure what you mean by file formats becoming obsolete all the time. This may be true for some proprietary formats that are no longer readable by a modern application, but for any reasonably widespread format there should not be much difficultly. I don't see any reason why we wouldn't be able to read most of our text, image, and video data decades down the road.
In addition to the $25 retrieval fee there will also be a $120 bandwidth fee, so we're looking $145. And it will take 12 days to complete, at this speed.

Bumping up the speed by a factor of 10 will bump up the retrieval fee by the same factor, so $250 + $120 = $370 total restore cost in a little over a day's time.

Hm. I wonder if you can bill the insurance company for this in case of fire etc.

Alternatively, it would be nice if Amazon allowed several accounts to pool together their retrieval allowance - it's not likely that all of my friends will have their house burn down at the same time.
Brooklyn: Hobo stoves charging cell phones
In that spirit:

Dear Valve,
please follow the xdg-user-dirs spec instead of sticking ~/.steam ~/.steampath ~/.steampid and ~/Steam in my home directory.

This is the kind of thing that should be caught very early if you don't want to be stuck with migration scripts and corner cases.
There are products that can use the customization and one-off nature of 3D printing. You just have to think back to before mass production made everything the same.

I still like the example of clothing. Clothing may be good enough now, but people like it customized to them. Put a 3D photopolymer printer, 3D scanner, and some brandname designer in a shop in SF and watch a new trend appear.
You people are some smart can anyone tell me what businesses the Government dose not own?
Hmm, it's interesting to think about. My initial reaction to it is that I don't have a day-to-day need to manufacture stuff, because when I moved into my first solo apartment, I gradually bought the stuff I wanted to have (thinking things like furniture, various electronics, dishes, storage, etc.). I occasionally add or replace something, but that's something that happens at the scale of once or twice per month at most. I certainly don't need a machine sitting around that I have to buy and maintain and supply to fulfill this need.

With computers, there are a lot of day-to-day tasks that become much easier. For example, before computer, everyone had to balance their checkbooks in order to know how much money they had. Now you can just log into your bank website or mint.com. People used to correspond by phone and physical letter to keep in touch with relatives (also on a daily or at least weekly basis), and now that's much easier.

It's hard to say though. With computers, our "need" to perform large-scale automation and computation grew to fill the new capacity. Manufacturing is not as clear cut, but it seems reasonable to theorize that if our abilities to manufacture things grows, our "need" to do so will as well.

And let's not forget that with computers, there was a period where people were saying much the same things that we're saying now.
I went to one of their minicamps and learned some amazing mental tools like fungibility, environment design, and Bayes law.
To me the most interesting thing is that it slightly resembles my gold standard for polls: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_...

That site, btw, seems to be out of the damned future with their predictions.
You aren't comparing apples to apples. You aren't even comparing apples to gorillas.

First, you would need more than one hard drive. You would need to buy at least two hard drives(even two may expose you to more risk than you desire). Even if you do opt for just two, and do manual mirroring, it now takes two years to catch up with glacier.

Second, $240 upfront is more costly in this environment than putting $10 up per month for 24 months. Glacier costs will very likely fall over two years, and that fact will be reflected in your statement at the end of the month. HDD costs will fall over the two year period, you can't utilize any of these lower rates, since you've already sunk your capital into two outdated hard drives.

Third, glacier is designed to have data constantly written to it, and only infrequently read from it. This is difficult to pull off with external hard drives that you have locked in a safe at the bank.
Odd indeed. I suppose the actual count and timing doesn't matter so much when they call most of the states with only 1% reporting.
Every society sets different ages for when sexual activity is acceptable. You may not agree that a 17 year old is a minor, but it isn't your decision.

I would recommend you do not go to Bolivia, have sex with a 17 year old, and try to argue that a 17 year old isn't really a minor.
> I found I was loading new maps MUCH faster then other people

This is most likely due to your SSD -- if you had a regular disk drive, you'd see the same performance hit as the others.
Printing hasn't replaced book-publishing, so there's little reason to think 3D-printing will replace traditional manufacturing.

However, I think he underestimates 3D printing's potential when he says its only for people with design skill. Some people may want the ability to print 3D models they find online, just like people print some PDFs nowadays. In fact, this could be much more useful.
So it's legal to plan a riot, as long as the riot never materializes?

You aren't allowed to plan a murder, even if you never actually murder someone. It's the same thing.
I spent 15 minutes playing with a Surface at the MS store. I found that the typing cover was certainly much better than the touch cover. The typing cover is a very decent keyboard with even noticable mouse button clicks on the trackpad. It is certainly not just "slightly better". I didn't like the touch cover much but I noticed I was already getting used to it.

I tried to reproduce the typing speed problem in Word and it is definitely fixed. Even when I mashed the keyboard at max speed Word kept up. I did manage to get Powerpoint to slow down by downloading a presentation with a bitmap image in the background. Typing over the bitmap image was not realtime but still usable.

Certainly considering recommending this to someone who just want a super-mobile MS Office machine.
You should see the chip shooter robots:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nah4BQ9y8IY

Humans are so screwed.
I use http://lookup.liekens.net/ to use its GCalendar subscription for local flyovers. I've only had it up a couple weeks but its not exactly been clear skies in Seattle.
Your best bet is to make a really stinky fart. If that fart reaches across the world, and certain people smell it, it might stop them from doing what they do.

That's your best chance of effecting any change in India from the US as a private individual.
Each family is a mafia. It exactly describes India.
I like to trade Forex using mql4, any suggestion? Thanks.
Before and after Sandy
51 for Romney? Google shows 67 now:

http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results

Which one is more accurate/up to date?
Only if you assume all players only ever use futures. But make an interest synthetic contract (short future long underlying) and you're out of the zero sum regime again. And it's enough that one actor is not inside the zero sum regime to make that apply to the whole game.

Again, it's a great approximation most of time and over most time periods and asset classes, but it is NOT axiomatic in the way most people believe it is.

Remember: as long as there is a way to inject or withdraw more capital into the system (through whatever asset class, as they are all interconnected), the sum is not identically zero.

Just assume one of the stocks is a gold mining company that works efficiently. The share value rises, and the shares are redeemable for the gold, without anyone having to lose anything (except mother earth)
Here's what I did, did I fcuk up?

Per Pythagoras, the diagonal of 1440x900 is 1698; the diagonal of 1280x800 is 1509.

1509 / 1698 = .89

.89 * 13.3 inches = 11.8 inches

Alternatively, sqrt(1-21%) = .89 And yeah typo. 21% reduction in pixels
Well, you can verify that the receipt says your vote was counted correctly. That assumes you both trust the receipt system and believe that whatever tampering was done to cause your Obama vote to become a Romney vote couldn't have possibly also resulted in the receipt providing incorrect information as well.