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[not american] my impression is that it is the latter - that it is hard to appeal consistently to both the party (to become the chosen candidate) and to the nation. hence the accusations of flip-flopping and the arguments from "reasonable republicans" that romney would actually have been quite good even though he had to say various odd things.

i wonder if they will attempt to change how candidates are selected.

[above i have tried to be impartial; a more personal take is that the republican party has become accustomed to lying to its supporters and is now trapped with the results. to have to rely on people trusting that their candidate is "bluffing" does not seem healthy.]

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more on topic: the results reporting really disappointed me. the take-away from silver's work is not that this is very complex. it's that the electoral college system plus most people voting the same way over time means that only a few results are uncertain. so focussing on those places allows you to predict the election. similarly, reporting all the other (known) data is irrelevant. it's not news, and it's not exciting.

yet on election night we saw every result being treated equally. there was no acknowledgement of the reality. it looked exactly like an entertainment show.

was there any presentation of the results, anywhere, that ignored most of the data and focussed only on the swing states? that spent the rest of the time analyzing what had happened in the light of the clearly expected, accurately predicted result?
"Don't go to Moscow State University, go to Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas. They have an Applied Math program too!"

You are implying racism just as the article.
...and offers a product to solve this; incidentally, the product is from the same vendor as the study. In other words, "Never ask a barber whether you need a haircut."
Which department? Just curious.
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Can't really believe Kim Dotcom didn't think this would happen. 3rd world governments can be easily pressured (think about the Pirate Bay founder in Cambodia). I think he knew and used the url as a showcase. They took the bait. The service wasn't even up and it was banned.
The IEEE's datacenter in New Jersey has been without power for days and eventually ran out of generator fuel. There were some intermittent DNS issues after Spectrum moved to backup servers in Arizona. I've been told they're resolved now.
> All of the west coast is pro legalization.

Then how did Prop 19 fail? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/inthepeninsula/detail?en...
A slightly less cynical take on the last point is that it also lets him rebut many objections with, "nope, the model already takes that into account". By having a piece of the model devoted to most possible talking points: convention bounces, whether undecideds break for/against the incumbent, effect of the economy, etc., he can claim he's addressed those critics' points, even if the net effect of addressing them is close to nil.
Can't wait to see the impact analysis from http://www.marijuanamajority.com/

Perry Rosenstein++
Have you tried versioneye.com?
Also, "the vast majority of everyday users" want a toy.
Is it writern in clojure or clojurescript?
Because how would you stop Mc'D from putting it in your burger for you?

Some people would stop eating there, but most just wouldn't care. Convenience beats ethics for most of the time; otherwise none of us would be buying bottled water, or Adidas shoes, or Apple computers, or any product from any company that was found to abuse people in some way or another.
That's a potential recipe for major disruption.

I can get a personally engraved iPod in a startlingly short period of time.

Lean manufacturing has been pushing towards the idea of pushing different things off the end of a production line for years. They'll carry on doing that. As the technology improves they'll integrate 3D printing type technologies into the supply chain.

Personalisation is certainly interesting - game changing in some instances almost certainly.

That doesn't mean that it's going to happen via 3D printers in your home. I find it hard to think about any kind of personalised object that I'm going to need urgently enough to print now gosh darn it, rather than wait for next day delivery. Especially at the ongoing cost of another box taking up space in my house.

I might have one coz I'm a sad techie who loves fiddling with stuff... but that's not a mass market. That's in the order of magnitude of the home-CNC machine/lathe market.

I can imagine technologies that might hit a mass market. For example if printing and disposing of kitchen mugs / saucepans / cutlery / etc. becomes cheaper/easier/smaller than buying / storing / washing them up then I'd buy a 3D printer like a shot. That kills a major pain point for me. But nothing like that is even vaguely close.

I've yet to see any problem that will persuade 'normal' people to get a 3D printer in the home that's anything close to an implementable reality. I'd love to get educated if I'm wrong ;-)
Ask HN: Self hosted web analytics packages
I work in the pharmaceutical industry.
Some of our customer facing systems contain patient data and so we cant take the risk of using something like google analytics which might leak info to an external service.

I have looked at mint (http://getamint.com) but that doesn't seem to collect much more than the basics, would be nice to be able to track usage paths through the site etc.

A huge bonus would be the ability to attach a custom piece of data (the username or customer account name for example) ... which would allow tracking of usage/browser info/workflow for an individual user of our system.

Budget is not too much of an issue, within reason. So it doesn't have to be free/open source.
Can anyone recommend some solutions that allow this, or am I going to have to roll my own?
Well obviously.

If you don't vote for the Lizard People, the wrong Lizard Person might get in.
Get drunk, go to McDonalds. Bit of peer pressure. "Dude, try the Big Meth!"

Congratulations, you are now addicted to meth.
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As many have done before. The end result is you either end up just like them or you're out in two years for having accomplished literally nothing (if you don't act like the other representatives they won't work with you and you'll end up having accomplished nothing so your constituent will vote you out at the next opportunity).
He wanted to study "pure" maths, not applied:

"Moscow had many schools, but there was only one place to study pure math: Moscow State University, known by its Russian abbreviation MGU, Moskovskiy Gosudarstvenny Universitet. Its famous Mekh-Mat, the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics, was the flagship mathematics program of the USSR. Since I wanted to study pure math, I had no choice but to apply there."
Tell HN: HN badly needs an 'Aaardvark like' search.
For those that remember, Aardvark was a person to person search for finding things that could do not be put into search terms [1].

At this moment, I am looking for an article that I saw here. It was about piracy and it explained the several factors that determined if a person would pirate music. As I remember, they were was guilt, convenience, price. it was a pretty intelligent analysis.

Anyway, for almost an hour I have been searching but I do not know what term to use to bring out that article. However, using the description above, I am sure that there are some people on HN that would know what i am talking of, especially those that follow the topics of music, piracy etc (hello earbits!).

I wish there was a way I could ask the question and it would go directly to such people. I am sure i'm not the only one with this problem.

What do you guys think?

PS: If you know the article i'm referring to, please let me know.

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/google-acquires-aardvark.html
No lie detector exists that is effective to the standards we demand in a court of law, but that doesn't mean there isn't one effective enough for the purposes of an organized crime syndicate looking to buy votes.
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There's only one Harvard. It's the most prestigious undergraduate university on Earth.
Can someone explain something to me. These guys have 5 patents for their Dragonfly and, according to them, the research that led to these patents was funded by taxpayers to the tune of $1,000,000. So, the government funds the research, and the researchers get to patent the results for themselves? Is that the usual arrangement?
Didn't Pinpuff get acquired ?
Now, for anyone interested,
It is possible to run the client (if you can live with constant segfaults), without beta access key.

basicly after its installed run:

steam steam://open/friends

this will open friend list and from there you can show someones profile and move to lib window - to actually install/run a game - avoiding "you are not authorized for beta window" :-)
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How would you tell the difference between a valid and invalid receipt when the voter came to verify it?
Nicotine & Alcohol both cause mental and physiological illnesses — a lot of them actually. Marijuana can be linked to certain types of psychosis, depending on which study you read.

It's a risk. Personally, I favour the Norwegian model: tax it highly, put the tax gains into the public health sector. Everybody wins.
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I like your idea, but given that the technology is in reach: why not just get rid of representation entirely? We need a method for generating new law proposals and then just people vote directly on those from their own homes rather than voting for some person who may or may not vote for you in the way they claim they will.
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It looks cool but I get a 404 following the link to the repo[1] on GitHub

[1] https://github.com/rstudio/shiny
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Just to make it clear: This was sarcasm. I never have dealt with armed libertarians beating somebody up because he supported unionization.

The point is: Neither has he encountered union thugs beating somebody up because he was against unionization. It's a ridiculous myth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index
The increased risk of psychotic symptoms only applies to strains which have a high ratio of THC to Cannabidiol (i.e. Sativa strains). Cannabidiol dominant strains (i.e. Indica strains), on the other hand, are anti-psychotic. Unfortunately, this fact has not yet reached common culture and people continue to treat the different strains as one homogenous drug, which is extremely inaccurate. I agree that the dangers of Sativa strains are not properly recognised by the drug using community. There is a lot of denial on both sides of the fence and relatively little objective truth. The problem is that everyone is arguing out of emotion instead of taking a sober look at the situation.

The line between clinical and recreational is arbitrary and subjective. Even in a recreational setting, people are, in fact, often using drugs to self-medicate. If someone feels perfectly balanced then they will not crave anything. That's not to say that there's anything wrong with self-medicating - personally, I believe that people should be responsible for their own health instead of deferring it to a third party in the first place if they are so capable.

Anyway, nobody should be downvoted for their opinion. This kind of behaviour is endemic in social media sites where there is a voting mechanism. Give people an inch of power and they will take a mile, responsibility be damned.
In 2004 there was evidence of voting fraud in Ohio -- the exit polls weren't matching the results (http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/2004votefraud_ohio...).

Bush won Ohio, which helped him win the election by the narrowest of margins. Ohio used Diebold electronic voting machines, and Diebold's CEO Walden W. O'Dell was a long-time Bush loyalist. Later it was confirmed that Diebold voting machines could be hacked remotely (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3045086).

So yes, being able to create an independent, accurate model will add another layer of verification and will hopefully help keep voting fraud in check.
103 for the libdems! that's one of the funniests things i've seen for ages.

how did he get it so wrong?
PPP seems to have predicted 332 EV and correctly picked the winner in every state they polled. They didn't poll some of the obvious states...
The county maps have coloring errors. When I checked Oregon, most of the rural counties voted red but are colored blue.
My own point of view, given its supposed background as an educational tool, is that this should have been on the device from Day One, and work should never had been started on it supported Linux. The immediacy of an insta-booting machine with BASIC is one of the things that cemented my interest in computers and programming as a ten year old.

I may, of course, just be being nostalgic here...
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But then you get the paradox of being able to consume but not produce.
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If you learn about Kim/ble Dotcom/Schmitz's history, then this is zero surprise. He is a "shower", a "taker" and since he likes to sue people who badmouth him I cannot say something about lying and cheating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom

German Wikipedia has more http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Schmitz
And the limits go quite deep. Right?
Being addicted to alcohol is much harder than being addicted to meth, no?

From Wikipedia:

...Methamphetamine has a high potential for abuse and addiction, activating the psychological reward system by triggering a cascading release of dopamine in the brain characterized by Amphetamine /Stimulant psychosis.

Chronic abuse may also lead to post-withdrawal syndrome, a result of methamphetamine-induced neurotoxicity to dopaminergic neurons. Post-withdrawal syndrome can persist beyond the withdrawal period for months, and sometimes up to a year...

Got some junkie friends? I know a couple of them, burned and miserable lives mostly. On the other hand, all my drinking friends are quite normal, no addictions, no suffering from alcohol.
Whatever happened to that drug that just killed all cells infected by a virus? That sounded like a promising cure for everything from HIV to the common cold..

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/antiviral-0810.html - this one!
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Yes, because that's working so well.
I am not up to speed on latest developments, but Sealand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand) seems like a good solution to this type of problem.
Apart from Oxford and Cambridge.
Request beta access here: http://shiny.rstudio.org/

It appears to be automatic.
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They may not have implemented it, but they now know a) what's possible, b) one possible way to achieve the goal and c) how much effort is involved. I think the article misses the point as research often yields an answer that isn't a winning business proposition (at least at the moment). I'd love to know whether there were any actions taken based on the contest.
Already moot as me.ga is going to be blocked by Gabon's government.
I tried to explain this just yesterday to a colleague who complains about my long emails. He said this obviously demonstrated I had no logic in my brain. It was an annoying day.
Modern American racism may be more subtle and seemingly intractable, but that is inevitably the case as it lessens over time, political correctness notwithstanding.
This engineer raises some interesting points regarding our voting system (portuguese): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op9N2EyoZHo

In our country (Brazil), the electronic voting machine is strongly marketed by the government and big media as a model for the entire world to copy.
I really hope they attach results of 'lsb_release -a' to the reports. If they don't, that's not the users' fault if the stats are incorrect.

Also apart from some python2/3 issues in their scripts, Arch install seems to be pretty stable - bought 2 games and they work just great.
I know what you mean - for a programming learning device then a near instant boot into a programming language style run time (and wow Basic was great for that - I cut my teeth on a DEC PDP 11-70 running RSTSE and the terminal started with the Basic "Ready" prompt) is just about perfect. Coherent, succinct and ready to go.

But there are other things to be learned as well - hence my interest at the OS level.
They didn't implement it in the end? Doofuses (or doofii).
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but some other people are looking forward to use pi for more 'serious' applications. luckily a quick google revealed that risc os supports lua and python, although jvm would be nice.
Have you checked out Piwik?
Maybe this underlies the Samsung Note's success - moving the pointer to the screen (via the stylus). The keyboard is a real problem: how to precisely compose text? Not sure what the answer is to this one, but I don't think anyone's truly cracked it. Any ideas?
Do you happen to recall what the subject line was? Seems like an important detail that has a big impact on first impression.
Also he looks at the future through the lens of today. When you do this you can easily get into a situation where you find a way that it is just not possible for something to work the way it does today using a new technology, and that causes you to discount the value of the technology but it should also prompt you to consider the possibility of change. For example, smartphones are bad for making voice calls on, but people tend to use their smartphones for other things than making voice calls these days.

One thing that I think might happen is that various consumer items may become even more disposable (or perhaps more recyclable). More than that, I suspect that manufacturing itself may become increasingly viewed as a temporary, disposable utility. Right now making most goods requires extensive capital investment in factories and assembly lines, which tend to be large permanent fixtures. But what if manufacturing could be transitory? What if you only needed to make a small run of something? What if you could bootstrap a production line from a small core of machine tools and then dispose of the materials afterward? What if you could efficiently and rapidly break down the production line into its component recyclable parts?

Coupled with completely automated configurable manufacturing I think these innovations will revolutionize our relationship with manufactured goods and with manufacturing. Manufacturing will not be something one consumes it will be something that most people do (either through proxies or through "disposable" production lines or both). The era of cloned consumer goods may give way to an era of boutique goods and to transitory goods. Do you need a radio? Print one off at the corner factory then have it automatically disassembled and 100% recycled when you are done with it. Do you want to give your kids a set of toy soldiers to play with? Set up a quick production line at home and produce a set, then dispose of the machinery. Then recycle the toys when your kids grow bored of them. Don't worry, it'll be just as easy to print more if they want to play with them again.

This is a world that will confound our imaginations because it will disrupt the assumptions that are so deep seated we don't even know we have them and it will create new opportunities and change the balance of feasibility in ways that we lack the creativity to think of, yet.
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How would you get a clojure app deployed on EC2 or Linode without doing a lot more sysadmin work than Heroku?

Exactly, thanks.

I thought Heroku was supposed to get rid of that "problem." Did I read it wrong?
It doesn't really matter why anyone is in the market. The fact is that they are posting prices to the limit order book, and in doing so providing liquidity and accepting risk and providing a service. The only way the OP could get executed passively is by offering a price equal to or better than the market price, yes? So someone got a better price (or more liquidity at the prevailing price) by him being there.

There are really only two actions in a market, providing liquidity (i.e. market-making) or taking liquidity (including arbitrageurs). Stretching the shopkeeper analogy, any time you put a price tag on an item you are taking a risk and exposing yourself. You slap a price on some bananas and then there is a tropical cyclone (it happened in Australia) and the price of bananas doubles. Someone smart swoops in (call them an arbitrageur), grabs your bananas and goes to the till and you legally have to sell them to him even though they're worth double now. You also have inventory risk, if you're holding a lot of bananas out back then there is the chance that they go rotten.

Every limit order (an offer to sell, or bid to buy) has an inherent risk that you should expect to be compensated for (or you wouldn't do it), and enhances the market. The more competition amongst people posting prices the better, it just means more liquidity (you can buy or sell as many bananas as you want) and tighter prices.

The liquidity taker on the other hand is all about exploiting a misprice. Say, Intel release earnings and are down 10%, but the price of the highly correlated ARM hasn't moved yet, if you are the fastest you can take advantage of some poor person who still wants to buy ARM at the same price as before this information was known. Keep in mind here, a price can move without any trades happening (or goods changing hands). The shopkeepers can whip around and change the price tag on their bananas if they are fast enough before anyone buys them.

It is harder to justify the liquidity taker - what marginal advantage is there to having the price of ARM react to that news in 2 milliseconds rather than 20? They force the transmission of information yes, but why is it better to have it happen a bit marginally quicker? On the other hand, how can you have a realtime market without them? It keeps the providers on their toes, and there will always be someone fastest to react.

Incidentally, providing liquidity must have been the chief function of the OP's algo - 4000 trades a day doesn't work for a liquidity taker that has to cross the spread. He isn't getting 2000 mis-price signals a day to swing at, good enough to justify crossing the spread. DAX traded 120k contracts yesterday, he would have been averaging 2-3% of daily flow.
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