skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "problem"[1] isn't with the word 'laid' which has many uses. The problem is with the phrase 'get laid', which has one main use.

First impressions count. Upverter is really cool. How many people have missed the opportunity to be upverter users because of this bad pun? Perhaps more importantly, how many customers did upverter not get because of the bad humour?

They are free to use whatever language they like to talk about their project. Other people are free to be disappointed at the choice of language; or to be put off by the words used; or to not care about the language.
Vivre Sa Vie Concentrée sur le Bonheur
Installing Windows 8 on a Mac with Boot Camp
But have you considered that maybe (at least some of) the first-world countries are capitalistic precisely because they're democracies? For example Poland (where I'm from) was socialist until it became a democracy in 1989 and immediately afterwards it became a free market economy, because you know, people weren't stupid.
Ehh, maybe. Philadelphia's roads are legendarily bad though.

One summer when I was living in Philadelphia they removed the surface of the road in front of my apartment. Two months later they put it back. And if it's not that, it's crews filling in holes from road-work with about half as much asphalt as the hole needed, or the random patches of cobblestone street still left in the city, seemingly with little rhyme or reason.
A LinkedIn For Gamers? Duxter Tries To Build A Broad Gaming Social Networking..
But it does not make much sense to compare these versions - Windows started being a modern OS with Win 2000 and arguably already Windows 95. These were the releases that won them the desktop dominance. That's probably why you are feeling Windows is "older".
Whenever I see something like this I think "Damn, I hope they do a white-label version"
Very interesting. Of course, the map is biased to those who use the internet (which is why it shows Obama winning every state), but I wonder if this could still be used for predictions by normalizing each state to a known percentage for the "safe" states.
I like that the name can be a pun, "Updated-itis: a disease where the afflicted person cannot help but check hourly whether all of their software is up-to-date"
They don't accept US credit-card transactions. You can mail a check or make a bank wire.
of course no firm would respond to his noob low yield model.

The level of the coders doing HFT is beyond the comprehension of this guy, added to the team of Mathematicians, Physicists and computer scientists at your average HFT firm, they probably laugh when they read this.

Good try though, it was awesome that eventually he tuned it to profitability, but there's no way in hell they'd buy that amateur software/algorithm.

Kudos though for taking on the task of learning how to code and making money with ML.
You could make your point without rabid partisanism. There is violence on all sides of unionization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-union_violence
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normally i'd agree but i don't see it out of line at all. just take a look at all the Herculean efforts that Republicans have made in the past two years to reduce the ability for people to vote
If you code and/or game I'd recommend the 15" retina, it is the best computer I've ever owned and worth every penny. The screen size is useful for putting terminals next to your code editor, etc. And for gaming I was recently playing Natural Selection 2 (through boot camp) and I found I was loading new maps MUCH faster then other people. We are talking 5-30 seconds faster and in several hours of play not a single person loaded the game faster. Pretty amazing.

Lastly if you do go the Apple route get max RAM as these newest computers aren't upgradable. Good luck!
Fortunately, we'll have the data to compare against actual state or county results, since most of these folks leave their location settings enabled, too.

While it won't predict this location, correlational data could be applied for future elections assuming the primary political leanings of the electorate don't change too much in 4 years.
Ha!In the 'I voted for Romney' section:

"Jack kelly @tweeterjak
I'm not afraid to say who I voted for. I voted for Obama cause lets face it, Romney's just a dickhead."
I'm not even sure how to respond to this comment.

Django is a solid framework with tons of real-world example of that very fact. Rails is a fine framework, too, but it's in a language I don't enjoy and is, to me, no where near as elegant as Django (usually) is.

I'm also not sure I see the point is commenting on a post about a feature of a framework with, essentially "swap your entire stack over to my favorite language". Maybe you have some way to backup your statement?
I like that... it was originally a play on yodas strange little syntax.
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There was an independent inquiry - the results can be read here:
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/electora...

On reading it I see that I have misrepresented the figures from memory:
2.88% of regional/list ballots were invalid
4.075% of constituency ballots were invalid
1.83% of local government ballots were invalid

These were against a historical spoilt paper rate of about 0.66%

(I have edited the original post to correct it)

The regional and constituency ballots were on the same physical piece of paper and if you voted a full ticket (eg SNP/SNP or Labour/Labour) there was only one way to do it.

For small parties (Greens, SSP) which only ran on the regional list you had to split the ticket. And there was one valid way to vote Labour/Green and one invalid way - so the small parties were much more liable to get invalid votes. The number of independent/small party MSP's was lower than expected.
That is incorrect. Why do you think so?
Are you thinking of this: ". The voter can look up her ballot by typing in the serial number and she can check that information held by the election authority matches her ballot. "

The voter must retain her vote (A or B) in human memory, which cannot be externally verified, except by brain scan, etc... but that detail is rather unsolvable.

Punchscan is a bit impractical for verifying large ballots, but large contested ballots are rare.
I've owned the 15" rMBP since June. I use it exclusively in scaled 1920X1200 mode. Fonts are pristinely rendered to my eye. I'm very skeptical that you're able to detect blur in the font outlines at any reasonable distance in properly optimized applications.

What program were you using when you noticed the blur?
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There seems to be some mistakes in identifying who voted for what...

"I'm not afraid to say who I voted for. I voted for Obama cause lets face it, Romney's just a dickhead"
This is actually not quite true. See http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/papers/civitas-tr.pdf
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Another one-liner
Is that in a "Retina app"? If so, my understanding is that text for them is rendered by the system at the right size (so not rendered then rescaled) at any resolution.
I kept looking for a twist — jwz's “It seems very familiar to me” indicated one — but it's just a repost then.
Looks like they parse for "voted" and the last name mentioned in the tweet. Similar ones show up on both sides.
Election Day 2012
No plans for an api as such yet. Although I might add in the ability to change the notification type. Options would be a push url, sms, jabber notification and anything else that might be useful.
The categorization is somewhat...suspect. This is from the latest tweets "for Romney".

- hate Americans who are like 'I always vote republican so of course I voted for romney'

- I'm not afraid to say who I voted for. I voted for Obama cause lets face it, Romney's just a dickhead.

- Sweet satire. "Why I voted for Mitt Romney" http://www.salon.com/2012/11/06/why_i_voted_for_mitt_romney/....

That said, from polls we know that the overall vote is going to be very close to 50/50, so the lopsided totals are a sign of skew in Twitter users, not the country.
The reasons I have usually heard for poor internet in Australia are usually along the lines of "little/poor fiber to the continent" or "momentum from previously little/poor fiber to the continent". I don't know how much truth there is to either of those.
I would be more outraged if the video actually showed him tapping the other candidates to prove that they worked correctly. He says that tapping the others worked fine but there is no proof of this in the video.
I really like the Circuit of the week. That's a neat idea.

> Same time schematic & PCB editing...

If this means you tweak the schematic and the PCB updates at the same time - that's good. I think. How well does it cope with 4 / 8 / 12 layer boards? Or are those not realistic use cases?

> PCB Editing! Woot!

Why would someone want to edit the PCB? Is it to make things suitable for production? ("This bulky component is too close to the edge and interferes with production machine loading. Let's move it over there a bit"?) Or are there other uses?
FYI: There is a typo on that page, "so with Zenbox you'll see your customers of you Parse app appear right in Gmail when they contact you"

should be 'your parse app' methinks.
I think non email based notification, or customizable notification, would be a killer.
It's also true that vote by mail silently disenfranchises about the same number of people it enfranchises.

That's a numerical statement. Can you provide the numbers behind it? How much is turnout increased, and where did you get the 1% figure for the USPS losing first class mail from? I would assume that mail going to central locations are more likely to be delivered than to individuals. Same with issues related to change of address.
I do agree that doing voting on a regular workday doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
In really close elections, the outcome matters much less than the potential for systematic rigging of non-close elections.
Ask HN: Javascript graphing library that allows value modification
I'm looking for a Javascript chart/graphing library which would display a line or bar graph. I want to be able to click and drag a point vertically and watch the graph move in realtime. This would be used to draw a graph or assign values over time.

Any demos would be really helpful!
Microsoft: TypeScript isn't a JavaScript killer
Miso launches Quips, a new social TV app
There's an iOS app called GoSatWatch which will notify you when the ISS (or any satellite) passes by your location. Your location can be configured manually or by GPS, so you get the benefit of receiving relevant notifications when away from home. Apps like GoSatWatch will also tell you where in the sky the ISS will be, so you know where to look.

SpaceWeather has been doing text notifications for a long time (http://spaceweathertext.com/), albeit at a monthly cost. They've been doing it for a few years, I think. I'm not positive, because I haven't used their text service.
I would say that given Obama is leading in Utah according to this we can safely assume there is some skewing going on.
Fixed! Thank ya' kindly.
Detect iPad mini using 2 lines of JS
He's actually said that he doesn't intend to be doing this again in four years time, but that FiveThirtyEight (the algorithm/brand) may continue without him.
What's the problem being solved?

American democracy isn't efficient, and it seems like it was the design plan. Fundamentally there is a buffer between the electorate and the actual election (it's called the electoral college.) Then fundamentally, most issues are never voted on by the electorate and because of that, it kind of rare that they are voted on at all. Every election "abortion" comes up but when is the last time the US senate has actually voted on it?

There are things to make it more 'efficient' but again, the slowness with which things happen is kind of a feature, they tend to stick better when they do happen. Look back, we didn't re-enslave people. We did have the prohibition but overall the constitution hasn't been retouched that much.

There are also sets of fundamentally unsafe issues: abortion, maybe birth control (oddly, I thought that one was sort of settled but there are a vocal minority that seem to be offended by its very concept) and anything that cuts entitlements. Short of a booming growing economy, I think it might be safe to say the US budget won't be "balanced" until the baby-boomers die off as it just might not be a realistic goal, never mind the debt. You can't touch those unsafe issues without taking huge political risk

Don't get me wrong, if those issue affect you personally it sure does suck, but the design is for slow change. The dichotomies it presses, such as if you are against abortion, by proxy you are also don't accept climate change, among other things. That's the incredibly frustrating part.

I believe it was Chuck D that said "neither party is mine, not the jackass or the elephant"
I bet the people in charge of Steam for Linux are high-fiving whoever coordinated with the Humble Bundle team.

At least half of the titles in that list appeared in Humble Bundles, and I'm guessing a lot of those games wouldn't have been listed otherwise (Darwinia, AYIM, etc.).

Slim pickings still, but much better than just TF2/SS3:BFE.
Congratulations. Awesome idea and a great implementation.
Do tweets like this scare the s--t out of anyone else?

I voted for Obama but if Romney win the election, i would still be happy, because God says He will elect the best...
It seems the only free title (at least on the list I got) is the World of Goo demo. It's available via `steam steam://install/22010` and it works without issues (testing under Arch).
The problem with distributed social networks (how to run node.js in the browser)
"Hello, 911? Yeah, I've got an unconscious person here. His face is literally purple."

Did I mean literally literally, or figuratively? And how can the previous question have meaning?
I read 538 articles on my iPhone via RSS (Reeder is my preferred app)
If The Election Were Held On YouTube, Barack Obama Would Be A Slam Dunk
I would assume Hulu et. al. restrict based on IP address. So is MediaHint running a large number of proxy servers? It seems this was put together at a hackathon... if so, how are they planning to get it to pay for itself?
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not...

Regardless, they've landed more than 500k digital subscribers in the past 18 months. I'm sure there are a number of things at play here (bundling home delivery and digital, including app subs in these numbers, etc), but that's still pretty impressive.

Source: http://paidcontent.org/2012/10/12/investors-like-new-york-ti...
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Intrade is just one such place to bet. See others listed here: http://www.oddschecker.com/specials/politics-and-election/us...

SkyBet and Ladbrokers for example both have payouts closer to 538's forecast.

What is peculiar is that Intrade is the outlier. In a liquid market this shouldn't happen because it allows for risk-free payouts. So something seems a bit odd about Intrade.

It's possible the campaigns have caught on to Intrade's impact on the media and will now step in when prices fall to much. </conspiracy>
Here's a video from 2008 of the exact same problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MHwNZkNFlI

Is there any video of these sorts of "garden variety" bugs happening in favor of Democrats?
This might be a dumb question but... what system does your algorithm interface with?

Last time I checked, NASDAQ and NYSE don't exactly publish API's
Ask HN: How to go after DMCA abusers?
Recently some one from Poland (No information other than country and a random gmail address is available) filed a DMCA notice with google (Which I understand anyone with an email address can do) claiming to be owning our Icon (and pointing to Image that is not even own Icon). But as a result Google decided to take down our app (With Million+ downloads).

We filed a counter with Google and waiting to hear.

But if anyone with a email address can file wrong DMCA again an app that has More than Million downloads, how do we act on this people?
Neat 'recipe for success' but what's there to discuss?
Nah, he's right. I remember God mentioning that one day we were having a beer.
This exact scenario also happened on video in 2008:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MHwNZkNFlI
I rarely use postgres arrays as an actual storage type, but have used them frequently in results (there are aggregation functions to turn multiple rows into an array). The common use is something like pulling a user's info and roles in a single query with the roles from the many to many relationship aggregated to an array, so the result is one row per user and only requires one trip to the db.. The other common use is similar to above, but for handing off to a stored procedure of some sort. I haven't found a use for it as a stored column type, however.
In theory, there are lots of options for skins - fully visible/opaque, completely invisible (with some sort of icon to let you know it's active), any range of transparent, animated effects like heat haze, water ripple, etc. Kind of fun to think about, actually.
Tell us how it goes. Specifically, if the class ends with all of them saying, "Holy shit ... we can automate all of that!"
hmmm it seems like the key is to find the balance between evangelizing your product/vision while genuinely soliciting inputs from the C level on what their priorities are. Hopefully there will be a match somewhere in that conversation
Microsoft vs Google trial raises concerns over secrecy
> Another problem is blantant violations of election law by generally Democrat election judges. Examples from today: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/11/06/judge-orders-oba....

The content of those articles plainly contradicts your summary -- The judge ordered the mural to be covered up.

This face-palming mendactity renders the rest of your comment suspect as well.
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I use http://raphaeljs.com/. Here is a demo that shows a modifiable line graph: http://raphaeljs.com/ichart.html.
> (100 bytes per TB are expected to go bad every year)

That's unsettling. Source?
"They are in it for years to come, so it would be odd if we don't see a much better implementation over the coming 2-3 years."

I agree; I think the product (which I haven't seen in real life yet) has a future. However, I don't see how that would affect the review of today's product. They didn't promise free hardware upgrades for two years, did they?
It seems safe to say that Obama voters are more tech savvy. After all, they are "progressive," which roughly means that they like new stuff.
Why's that scary? That's a pretty positive, constructive attitude to have.
So where is the traffic being routed through?
The 20th Century German model for unifying political dissent is not one to be emulated.
I consider envy the worst vice possible in any form of manifestation.
It's very clearly true that one or more backers of Romney are manipulating Intrade. This makes buying Obama on Intrade a spectacular deal.
JIT'ed code has the added benefit of run time analysis. You can do more aggressive optimizations of code based on previous execution.
http://www.mediahint.com/terms

"in any way that breaches terms of service or any other regulations of use of the websites you access;"

Look, if you want to run a site/service violating copyright agreements, do it properly and post funny replies to the DMCA requests. Or whatever. But don't try to hide behind this pathetic pseudo-legalese bs.
We intentionally chose to focus on making the integration as easy as possible. The key is to get the customer to try a proof of concept as easily as possible. We still need to do a better job of it.
I seem to remember the previous 13" Macbook had graphics capability. This one doesn't. Seems like a sharp downgrade to me.
Telephony might be routed over IP too.
I've been working for a long time, so having savings already was the first step.
Like codegeek said, family situation and health insurance are important, luckily everyone is in support of me doing my startup.

A consideration that was one of the last things to solidify the decision in my mind was people telling me I could get another job easily if things didn't work out. A couple of them were actively trying to recruit/refer me, so I knew I would be in good shape.

A fellow entrepreneur told me, you better be hell bent on what you're doing, because doing a startup is hard. For me I'm obsessed about trying this startup, so I knew it was only a matter of time before I had to leave and give it a shot.

So no precise metrics. Just a gut feeling of: I can't take another day/week/month/year going by without giving this a shot.
An electronic voting machine may present an obvious error in the UI and ALSO may present a hidden error in pubishing the vote. So it's worse.
Yes, and everybody else on that list has values which they allow to override their narrow pecuniary self interest too.
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"We all" never wanted electronic voting. "We" wanted electronically-counted paper voting.
Thanks for the info. I code and also use the machine for laying out documents, web browser, and lightweight design, etc. Mostly coding. I'm normally desk-bound, however, and am weighing the value of the Retina screen if I'm going to spend most of my time looking at an external monitor. I have, however, not heard a bad review of the 15"r.

I'm surprised to learn the machines are not RAM upgradeable. That's a major negative.
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What does it matter what the voter takes a photo of? That has no proven relationship to what bit is stored in the machine's memory.
I wonder how long this will last before the proxy is banned?
A contract that a state budget office signs with approved vendors. The budget office vets a set of vendors for, say, copy machines. Every office in the state then has to purchase from one of those vendors for their copy machine needs.

It's a fraud protection thing. It prevents one of the many many tiny offices from funneling money through a phony vendor.
I've always been curious - is it known whether Gabe himself actually reads emails from non-employees sent to that address, or could it just be an assistant that handles routing most of the emails? I really can't imagine how he could possibly have time to deal with a public email account, but maybe I'm overestimating the volume of email he would get...
Almost inexistant.. Pretty ironic given the geographical closeness to manufacturing centers like China and Taiwan.

I guess a part of it is the image that HW is not "fancy"..
I just downloaded the proxy configuration file - http://mediahint.com/default.pac

It seems to be running through us.mediahint.com
Looks like a miscalibration with the touch screen.
I saw one that said, "I would have voted for Obama if he had accepted my Farmville request", and it ticked up for Obama.
This isn't Reddit nor is it /r/atheism. Please keep your comments constructive.
Solved problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punchscan
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What we used for counting is slightly different from what you see in the Twitter widgets (yeah, those tweets are from Twitter directly).
In our backend, we have a pretty conservative filter that matches a bag of phrases, such as "voted for barrack obama", "voted for pres obama", etc. The accuracy is over 95%. Of course, political tweets are full of sarcasm and humor, and Twitter is full of demographic bias. This is just a fun project for us.
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You mean - a third party? :) Several people have had this idea - one of them actually appears to be getting a respectable portion of the vote this time. Generally speaking, it hasn't caught on.
people default to assuming malice

It's simply because of the stakes. The cost of ignoring a positive is much greater than the cost of freaking out over a false positive.
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Red FTW!