skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not how data works.

All this purple map shows is that the division between republican and democratic voters is prevalent in the majority of the states.

It says nothing about the demographics of the voters.
It's also worth noting that those services have to "manually" enable support for sites. Playmo e.g. doesn't seem to support any of the BBC/iPlayer content. Unblock US does (and a few more). The only downside is that the Playmo website looks way more snazzy :)
There's a lot of stuff. In addition to those, these are other examples off the top of my head:

* Coming out in support of gay marriage, which has always lost in state ballots.

* Going after Osama bin Laden, on a 50/50 chance, inside a foreign nation who would have every right to shoot down our invading helicopters.

* The auto bailout, which was not popular at the time. It's amazing how easily people forget stuff like this.
I did a ctrl-f for charged in the article and didn't see it. Where did it say that?

If that is what it is, though, the entire thing is pretty much fake because a charged electrolytic cell is the same thing as a charged capacitor.
This is the difference between a programmer's understanding of "tomorrow" and a user's.
I think that is the beauty to this post it wasn't one person... However, Jeff Atwood seems to be the main contributor. He was also the co-founder of Stack Overflow.

http://stackoverflow.com/posts/477578/revisions

The power of team work.
I see what you're saying and I think I agree with what you're getting at but to do so Netflix would need to build a radically different service and license it differently as well.
Does anybody know how "Google Now" handles this?
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Yes, the group name was changed from "Hacker News Cologne Meetup" by the new unsolicited "organizer".
It's great to get different perspectives on the concept. I agree that enforcing rules and resets does impact user experience.

What if the user was to authenticate once via SMS (we send them a code and they enter it within a reasonable time period), and once they do, they're authenticated for an infinite amount of time. This way they don't need to remember a passcode, and just need to have their phone on them when accessing the website from a new computer - a similar experience to two factor auth.
Pretty much every post on http://weddinglovely.com/blog/ is by one of our vendors, uses our vendor's content, or promotes a vendor. :)

Blog just has been blogging at least 1x daily, getting the vendors who we promote to promote the posts about them, and making sure the SEO is semi-right (there is a big SEO issue I've yet to fix, but it's not disastrous).

Vendors almost always signup under a free account, and through these promotion opportunities, we eventually encourage about 10% to upgrade.

Hope that helps!
It may have been, but it's not any more. You'll never see them replace Lync with Skype.
I wonder what the workflow is in the Apple teams that allows them to catch stuff like this. Is this the work of a single, smart programmer, or a good QA team?
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I've also benefitted from this condition once but it would have been helpful to show a day of the week beside the date for added clarity.

Did you mean Sunday October 21st, or October 22nd?
Excellent. I would love to know who, from Apple, suggests this details.
I'll add that a lot of them also stick around as they have no other work experience and don't know what else to do.
I actually see this more and more, it seems like getting a PhD is the "well, I don't wanna get a real job yet" pathway, which is really sad. It's also frustrating to work around those people as they have no drive.
I hope we can all refrain from personally attacking this person. Let's keep it nice and clean. No need to escalate.
I absolutely do not, but how do you know which campaign had better number crunchers? You could go by who won, but you don't have a control; how do you know who would have won without the supposed advantage of the supposedly superior number crunchers behind the winning campaign?
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> This design patent only protects a "portable display device" (that's the wording in the Patent itself), and only one with those specific design elements that are shown in the Patent Figures.

The article also states, "The only unbroken line in all the figures is the outline of the flat, rounded rectangular front face of the device. All the other identifiable features, such as the speaker grille, round home button, display size, Dock connector, or even its curved back, are not covered by this design patent."

So the problem is what design elements are shown, exactly, in this highly-minimalist design? I see a rectangle with rounded corners and a black border with a camera in the top center. I'm not quite sure about the camera, though, it's so small I can't see if there are dashed lines or not, so it might or might not be claimed, but there are only so many sensible places to put a camera--you'd naturally put it in the middle of one side or another and if you expect it to take pictures of people, the short side is the only reasonable side. We've previously mentioned that the rounded corners are not quite purely ornamental--they help keep the device from breaking when it's dropped on the corner. So that leaves us with what, just a black border? And even that has some arguable utility because you want a neutral color so as not to clash with whatever is on screen.

So... what are we patenting here again?
this Constine kid is as annoying about facebook as MG Siegler is about Apple.

boring.
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Patrick here. Pinyin/romaji (+ other phonetic readings) as well as audio for each phrase are in the works. Let me know if you have any other suggestions!
I definitely understand that blogs can be ignored in favour of shipping. But I think a service like this would make me write to my blog even less, because it wouldn't feel urgent. Someone else has got it, and even if I write something brilliant, it'll get pushed off the front page in a couple days.

What would be more interesting to me is a proofing service where the content is entirely the actual owner's, but the voice and style are tuned by a professional writer. This would smooth out some idiosyncrasies (for better or worse) and make a corporate blog more approachable for customers, without compromising on quality. I imagine most people let their blog posts ferment for a few days, maybe weeks, before releasing them. Outsourcing the polishing and reflecting period would speed things up without cheapening the whole thing.

Having a small, paid audience of writers who also have a technical background to assess posts before they go out would be another way to take it.

Regardless, I suspect you guys will still kill it because there is a need for this in places where they would normally hire an intern to write the blog. Good luck!
People can wake up from coma, I take it. But in cases where damage to the brain is so extensive that we can reasonably say all capacity for future thought has been lost, the primary worry really is just for the wishes of the family.

The medical establishment, at least where I live, tends to take the view that there's no intrinsic value in trying to prolong the life of such a body.
Has as anyone used GreatApps.com to market their apps? Is it effective?
I recently launched an iphone app called Power 20, and now I'm seeing many (dodgy?) marketing services promising to get exposure for my app. Have any services worked for you? Which ones? I'm considering using GreatApps.com... Thanks!
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Our voting demographics have historically been geographic by coincidence of education, industry, or creed.

In 2012, with almost no information barriers, the demographics are really more based on economics and education, with race, sex, and sexual preference also taking a strong role.

The reality is that there are plenty of idiots to go around. Anyone who pays attention to their own local politics knows that.
"Marinol's active ingredient is the main cannabinoid in marijuana."

It's synthetic, not extracted. Again you can't argue that marijuana should be rescheduled because natural cannabis extracts are already FDA approved until Sativex actually gets approval in early 2014. Also, THC is the main psychoactive cannabinoid but not necessarily the main cannabinoid overall.

"You could try arguing (as opponents have) that marijuana has no medical benefit while Marinol does"

You're never going to prevent people from making that argument no matter how dumb it is. We just need to wait for Sativex to get FDA approval so that way they can no longer make it.
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The problem is that "great writing", in this context, is business owners writing something that being a business owner qualifies them to write.

How is an outsourced writer going to draw on someone else's experiences?

A blog written from real experience may be valuable. A blog pretending to be written from real experience is worse that worthless for the readers.
It's most likely from a strong culture of interaction design and usability testing. During the design process, you usually do usability tests with would-be users and they can help illuminate issues with your design. In this case, it may have even been during testing that a person said, "well that's not what I meant by tomorrow."

Pretty much every time I do a usability test or study, random users catch small things like this that help make a product much better. When you design without feedback, you have your own mental model of how everything is supposed to work. But you're the designer and the expert, and users are not. They often find different ways to use your product than you intended.
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Within universities, PhD's are sources of cheap labor. Depending on how big of a research mill yours happens to be, you'll often get little or uneven support on your research agenda.

In the real world, a PhD has very little utility. If you're smart enough to get a PhD, you're smart enough to do something else that doesn't have 5 years of opportunity cost and a negative expected ROI. You might make important social contributions as a research engineer, but your employer owns them all anyway and you'll never see a dime of the value you add to the economy.

My brother graduated top of his undergraduate class at an Ivy with a BS in physics and two publications. He was leaning towards going into a PhD program, but I told him to do business/consulting/finance recruiting for his last summer in college instead of doing more research, just to see how he liked it. He did that, then went back full time, and has abandoned any plans to do a PhD. He is tremendously happy with the decision.
Granted, I really do need to get out and see the world. But I had thought that 'burner' cell phones were quite ubiquitous in the developing world?
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It's all about the little big details that reduce friction in user experience. This attention to detail:

1) reduces errors and user frustration,

2) substantiates the thought in the user's mind that "the software will do what I want", and

3) teaches users that the software will accomodate them, instead of requiring the user to accomodate the software.

It would have been better, actually, if the dates also mentioned the day of week, like "Thursday, October 21 / Friday, October 22". I'm more familiar with what the day of week it is, but not necessarily what the date is.

If it mentioned the weekday, I would be able to answer "Thursday" immediately, since I know that I intended it for Thursday, but I wouldn't necessarily know that it was the 21st without looking at my watch.
> Why do maximum security sites always disable auto-complete for username and password?

Because they think they are the centre of the universe. Theirs is the only site that matters, and is the only one they work on, so why would anything else matter?

Thankfully a Chrome plugin turns autocomplete back on for me. But there are still some sites that go out of their way to ensure that they still won't work. For example my doctor's site is some sort of third party abomination that would have looked "cool" ten years ago and requires me opening my password safe every time. Even Google pulls some stunts on some of their authentication pages preventing autofill.
That doesn't help. If you electrolyze water with 3% urea the vast majority of your energy is used to split water, and only a small portion of it will split the urea.

But electrolyzing water, and then burning hydrogen is a net loss in energy, and the 3% urea does not give enough advantage to offset this.

Maybe if you had some way to preferably electrolyze just the urea and leave the water alone, but then you have to deal with batch process (instead of just continually adding liquid), and the lower voltage makes the reaction too slow.
This has to be internal user testing feedback.

One of those delicate edge cases that you find once you start using a product.
But it's even more impressive because you could do usability testing all day long (during work hours) and never catch this issue. It's when someone's _really_ using it where something like this comes up.
I have a feeling he was kidding based on looking at his profile. :)
I don't know a lot about UMich when it comes to entrance requirements, but what information I could find shows that a GPA of 3.1 would meet the entrance requirements, so in such an example both the higher GPA student and the black student with lower GPA both are qualified (at least by GPA standards) to attend the school. Even if there was no affirmative action policy at UMich, these two hypothetical students would continue to be evaluated with additional metrics beyond GPA. It should be noted that most universities do not have a mission to educate only the best performing students that exist, so a comparison of just GPA alone isn't enough (not too mention the issues with how GPAs are measured in the US, which is heavily intersectional with race and class).

When it comes to admissions for universities, class (as indicated by the x.isPoor) is a big deal, not only from a standpoint of acquiring funding to attend a university, but also how classism affects primary and secondary school students in the US. Those folks do deserve help in getting education and attending university of they so desire, just as much as racial groups that have historically and currently excluded from the same things. These things are not mutually exclusive, there are strong links with class status and race that can affect people of color differently than non-minority poor folks. Ultimately both issues should be addressed and attempts made to make up for the societal shortfall in getting these people access to the kinds of education they desire. The existence of a racial affirmative action policy is not a blocking thing for tackling other inequalities in society (in fact, due to the links between classism and racism, affirmative actions policies do take on class and poverty issues).

I'm not sure what you are referring to with the x : x.ssn % 104 == 7 bit, as social security numbers are strictly meant for the social security program and I find their use outside of such contexts to be inappropriate, but I'd be interested to hear what you mean by it.
Sure, but even if we slice it by constituencies, medicare recipients overwhelmingly voted for romney-ryan while the 18-44 set voted for Obama. I still think ideals come in way ahead of "what's best for me personally".
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Osama bin Laden is a great example, because it could have gone horribly wrong and made Obama look terrible. The other two are really lousy examples, for two reasons:

1. Gay marriage and the auto bailout are or have been unpopular, but not among Obama's core voting groups. Yes, standing behind those positions will piss off lots of people, but not people who were going to vote for him anyway. The ACA falls under this category as well, in that it wasn't terribly popular, but many on the left didn't like it because it didn't go far enough. No way were they going to vote for Romney because Obama hadn't gone far enough with the ACA.

2. Obama didn't come out in favor of gay marriage until Biden forced his hand, and there's no way he would have. But Biden forced his hand and it turned out well for him in the end.

Obama is just as calculating and concerned about keeping his base happy as any other national politician.
In most cases, we'll take an outline from a business owner along with a style guide they produced or had produced by their agency, and choose a writer as close as possible to their industry. You can't fake insider knowledge, but you can transfer the details and have a great writer build in the details.

Maybe a better analogy is like a head chef and his souz-chefs. Our clients create the recipe, but our writers prepare the dish.
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For anyone who wants to do this, the data's available:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/nov/07/us-2012-...
Winning 49 states is VERY much not equivalent to winning 98% of the popular vote.
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> I think a few here would feel free to move their startups to -- Germany, with less than 1/3rd of the US' military expenses per capita

Feel free to do so, as specified by another commenter - you'll end up paying about double to the German Government, then.

Good infrastructure and a fertile business market apparently requires taxes, apparently.
That's one of the things I liked about the Android alarm app that I miss on my iPhone; when you set an alarm and tap "Done", it would say "Alarm set for 9 hours and 22 minutes from now" (or whatever), a quick sanity check to make sure you didn't confuse A.M. and P.M. or accidentally put in the wrong day.
The logs of the clojure IRC make fascinating reading http://clojure-log.n01se.net/
The designer has plausible deniability though: "I didn't know who that guy was, I was just looking for photos of clean-cut Republican-looking white people."
namecoins fit the bill rather nicely, its essentially bitcoin, but applied to DNS.

http://www.dot-bit.org/
The way I understand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydronics#Single-pipe_steam, he has a system where the heater pumps water vapor into his radiator, the vapor condenses, producing heat, and the water flows back through the same pipe that pumps in the vapor.

If the valve is closed, no steam enters the radiator, so no heat is produced, and no water is produced in the radiator.

If the valve is half-open, I guess the steam flows in fine (in reduced quantities), but the water does not flow back (looks like a design error in the radiator, or maybe it wasn't installed correctly; I guess that such radiators are fairly sensitive to being installed level)

With ever more water in the radiator, the water eventually exits through an overflow valve.
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Too many Congresscritters scared of something like that being used to hack the system. It's going to be American schools-only, if we can pass anything at all.

And yes, current solutions are pretty awful. I detail some hacks here though: https://www.quora.com/Blueseed/Are-there-any-interim-solutio...

More and more founders are looking to O-1, especially if they can raise a round, putting them in the top few % of all 'startups,' including mom and pop shops, but damned if I'm explaining Steve Blank's segementation of the new business market to USCIS.
>MS knows how to do a game ecosystem

They did great with Xbox, but then they totally botched "Games for Windows Live". I don't know if it's just a different team that couldn't put it together or what, but with MS and gaming I never know what to expect. They seem to want casual games on Metro though, based on the current store selection.
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Curious how you landed on the color scheme for the keys. Is that how you hear them?

I just ask because I've always heard D as "red" and you had yours at red/orageish. Was wondering if it was just coincidence.

EDIT: Scratch that. Just realized it was ROYGBIV with C as the root. :)
And that's the beauty of it - take it or leave it.
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How about "Freakonomics News?" A reality show using the methods used by the campaigns to figure out the behavior of "cohorts" could be devastating. Marketers have known scary stuff about us based on personal data, even before the Internet. A show based on actuarial data and gene sequencing would be both informative and appeal to base instincts.
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I'll agree that he dragged his feet for the right moment on gay marriage but the auto bailout could have SO easily gone the wrong way and Obama would be married to it. As in, he's catching the blame for decades of business decisions, in exchange for trying to help. But he did.
> You still have to input energy to get hydrogen from urea, so why not just use that energy directly?

If you can do it efficiently enough, in theory electrolyzing urea then burning it to water (and nitrogen) is a net gain in energy.
Very cool, thank you for sharing!
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It's possible this wasn't actually an Apple designer - Siri was fairly well featured when they acquired it.
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Got this: http://ompldr.org/vZzZtNA
I thought this was strange too. I wish he'd gone into a bit of detail.
We already know the demographics of people in the various states though. If people above a certain "richness" level liked one candidate over the other, then the majority in Maryland would have voted one way and Alabama the other. (Or both the same way, if the necessary level were very high or very low.) The fact that about 50% of Alabama voted each way and about 50% of Maryland voted each way means income level does not strongly change the way people voted.

This isn't about Democrats vs Republicans, because about 40% of Americans don't identify with either party. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_U.S... Party affiliation isn't nearly enough to explain how close this election was.
The key isn't that helpful. Suggestion: a color slider showing continuity between two (asymptotic) extremes.

Better yet would be quantizing it into 10 or 20% buckets so people could better guage a given state more easily.
Back in the old days when the web was young and goatse was still shocking, I famously predicted one evening after one too many beers that one day, goatse would be discussed in the same multiloquent, academic tones commonly reserved to describe the baroque period or neoclassicism.

I do believe I've just witnessed it.
My friend works for a small startup in SF called Fenix International. Their device for providing power in places like Africa is much more promising www.fenixintl.com/
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Well, there's a legitimate marketing need to know how many people read your communication and how many were interested in what it says (as expressed by clicking on the link). After all, what's the point of communicating if nobody's listening or nobody cares?