skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've got two "bad choices" don't vote for the lesser of the evils, it still lends legitimacy to a candidate that you don't approve of. Its the same as a ringing endorsement.

Democrat or republican? I vote no.
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I'm not taking a stand on whether this is some weird edge case bug or whether it's a conspiracy, but I would like to point out that if it is fraud, it's an incredibly inept attempt. Using a checkbox for visual confirmation of a vote means the fraud was easily detectable. It would have been much better to mark the box for Obama but count the vote for Romney, if fraud is your goal.
I agree - I'd be excited by this if I were a hobbyist using the free version of Eagle, but despite what they say on their blog it doesn't look anywhere near as compelling as Altium for my business even if the subscription was another 50% less...

Hopefully tools like these will eventually get better to the point where put a bit of pressure on the big guys to make them lower their prices though!
The original video isn't proof of anything but that a machine didn't work. Surprise! Not. Your video didn't prove anything. It's noise.
$130, 935 grams. Ouch.
There is a Sony that has one. I don't know the model, but I know a previous co-worker chose it when we upgraded laptops specifically for the decent graphics card with an 11" screen for compact carrying (I was still surprised how much fatter it was than a MacBook Air, but I think that is down to the VGA port).

If you are seriously interested, drop me a line or reply and I'll track him down to find out.
Definitely not blind luck; but boosted by the fact that SPY was on a massive bull run at that time.

This is really cool, any way you cut it.
FYI, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_toxicity
Link to paper:
http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v6/n11/abs/nphoton.201...
And because you still see people using XP from time to time, but how many % of the tech population have ever seen OS X 10.0? I got into Macs seven years ago, and I only know the 10.3 installer because I'd intentionally bought an "oldtimer Mac" later on (iMac G4). Everything before that is a web of myths to me.
Airplane or Fighter? Most model of Pipe and Joint system for lean manufacturing
CT's map is a lot cleaner but it doesn't have the county by county maps that Google does.
Good post. This is approximately what I've been doing for the last two weeks as I try to contact specific developers to come work at famo.us. I spend time researching them, including reading their github code, twitter and G+ streams, LinkedIn, personal blog etc.

If I can't find a solid connection between what their experience and the things they love to do then that is a signed that I haven't researched enough or that there really isn't a fit and that I shouldn't bother them and waste their time.

My favorite quote about email comes from Seth Godin:

"I don't want to get email from anybody. I want to get me-mail"
Not always true. There are plenty of ways to minimize risk.

I played HUSNGs for a living for several years, and I could play three tables at a time (about 9 games per hour) with a 60% winrate. That's incredibly low variance--my graph over the long-term was better than a 45 degree incline.
And how is that different from just voting for a third party?
There are only 9 states that are actually in question (the battleground states). All the others are known well in advance.

They pretend they don't know till the polls close, but it's just to avoid discouraging voters.

Load this: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/scenario... and mark the 9 states as they call them, and you'll know who won.
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Well said, dsl. Almost two decades ago I used to run an ISP in another country, and remember that BGP was already reasonably safe at the time (when v4 started to be implemented), with peers normally rejecting route updates from blocks outside your control.

Yes, there's always the risk of a trusted peer mistakenly leaking routes publicly (and a permissive upstream provider not rejecting it outright), but that's a low risk attack vector.

I do remember this happening a few times, but were quickly spotted and corrected (true, the internet at the time was a lot smaller; you could probably fit all sysadmins of a country in a room..)

I see this article as the CloudFlare guy trying to get credit for an act of civility that many other sysadmins likely have done, silently, in parallel. Of course I'm glad he did, but wouldn't expect anything less. That's just how the internet works.

ps: thanks for the link. NANOG is something that I had long ago erased from my brain. Had a chuckle looking at the archives :)
Who has the most electoral votes right now
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Save on fuel weight, but is rather large, and wonder how it fares in harsher weather conditions
Hack them into Democratism. Voting's closed now, so there's no use hacking right now, have to wait 4 years.
In terms of understanding the Internet, the OSI model is less useful than the Internet model outlined in RFC 1122 and RFC 1123, because the OSI model persists in making distinctions without a difference, like the separation of the Application and Presentation layers. (Frankly, most of the time the Link layer is entirely determined by the Physical layer, so that distinction is also of marginal use in the real world.)

On a more historical note, the Internet protocol suite beat the OSI protocol suite. Practically nobody uses the OSI protocols anymore, so why bother trying to fit the Internet protocols into the OSI model?

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

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1122

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1123
I don't understand trading enough to even understand many of the terms in the article, however I'm curious to one thing: is it possible that a program could be written specifically to exploit yours? And/or is that a potential reason it became unprofitable?
Very large assembled. Looks like the outer orange unit can be stored in the bare stainless steel unit reducing packed space. Still on the large side, but not so much compared to a stove and fuel canisters.
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But that's not what front end devs do. Maybe you could say that's what designers do. Front end dev != designer.
You can never trust commercials, but at least you know whether the vendor is filling a gap that you care about.
I assume that won't happen until Haswell (for FMA) and only in discrete gpu. I'd hate it if they did something like 21.5, 21.5 Retina, 27 as the 3 models.
Looked at the Wikipedia article and didn't see the connection other than possibly via primer paints.
Ask HN: Got a cease and desist for alleged patent infringement.  What do I do?
Hey everyone!
I desperately need your help.

Today, my startup, "Rundown Creator" (link: https://www.rundowncreator.com/), got a cease and desist letter from a patent attorney. The attorney was acting on behalf of a company that I had never heard of until today. But apparently they have a product that they think is similar to mine, and have patents around it. The one they think I'm infringing is 8,195,515.

I responded to the cease and desist letter explaining that my company is small (it's just me), I have no money, and that my product was built and released before their patent application was even filed.

They responded telling me their clients have put a lot of money into intellectual property, and that I should lawyer up.

I haven't written them back yet.

What should I do?

Jeff
Nice post, thanks for sharing. I often find myself gushing about Heroku as well.
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Well that was fast. I figured that whatever country had this very little known .ga domain will not make Dotcom's site any safe. In fact, it would be less safe because such a small, insignificant country would easily be persuaded with a phone call from Obama to censor Dotcom's domain.

Dotcom should just use the .is domain.
WSJ.com had great looking coverage, but their flash (I think - didn't check) seems to be broken and their map is unusable under load. PBS has the best commentary IMHO, but their website crashed early under load.
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I generally don't mind getting recruiter mail, if it's from a senior enough recruiter. I have my own startup, so there are only a few ways I'd consider leaving (Apple's iOS/OSX security tech czar, or a SpaceX astronaut :) ), but even otherwise, it's nice to know what companies are hiring, what the general market is like, and to know recruiters and open positions to refer friends to. Also, it's a good way to find recruiters to hire.
Do this, it will work. The price is fungible if it needs to be.
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Nice site!
Currently tracking the version in a local database and checking for changes hourly via cron. I've half implemented checking github repo's but its not 100% accurate yet. Not sure how you are doing it but I am going to focus on an update being any change to a branch. So its basically tracking branches only.
>Configuring wine

Well, it has become much better over the past few years and if the game you want to play is well supported it's almost painless. Not sure if you tried recently?
...and so, with the way it's going... can we make a decent estimate of the victor?
Math beats politics Every. Single. Time.
I develop for iOS and chugging that koolaid, but Surface really doesn't deserve such a scathing article. There's a definite lack of polish and kludgey details, but I'd rather have surface over an android tablet right now.
They might be re-configuring things on the fly ... I'm getting 500 Internal Server Error at the moment.

This year is probably bringing election tracking sites way more traffic than any time in the past.
Before I hit "send" on an important email, I always try and stop for a second and put myself in the recipients shoes. If I was receiving this email, how would it make me feel? Would it make me want to respond?
I attended their May workshop. It was exceptional and it seems like they have improved on the format since. If you are the sort of person who is interested in such things it is probably worth your time and money. (Or you can just value it as a highly interesting and fun vacation.)

If you're in the Bay Area you might want to beta test the quality of the instruction for free at their Berkeley headquarters; they often have workshops in the evenings there. The next is on Thursday. If you sign up for the newsletter on their site you'll get notified.
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There's a magical formula to not make that happen.

You write a sentence that makes the person want to read the next one.

Even busy people like to read interesting emails.
How is it a calibration error?

He clearly says he tested for calibration error, and it wasn't the case.

This is of course, we assume he's not lying.
File the necessary paper work to get their patent invalidated due to prior art?

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

Hopefully it would be easier/cheaper than a protracted head to head lawyer battle.
People could falsify the ballot to the buyer.
NYT servers are getting a nice stress test.
I keep getting 503 (Service Unavailable) as well
This table of calls by network is a nice display of information as well: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/network-...

Edit: It looks to be down at the moment.
Nate's model accounts for presumed inaccuracy in the polls but it is partly reliant in those polls' historical leanings. I think it would be more correct to say that his model depends on the quantity and consistency of polls.
Just look at the site: davidgcohen.com. The email (and subsequent link) is a pure ruse. No one with any technical competence would email such a person.
Really guys? Downvotes? You can't deny how scattered good webgl info is. You may have just downvoted the next Mr. Doob. Ill remember that.
Judging from what he wrote about poker in his book, doesn't seem likely - talked about how much the game has changed and how he couldn't win with his old strategies/style any more.

From the book I get the feeling he'd like to use his forecasting skills in something that is a bit more demanding, he chalks up baseball and political forecasts as falling in the 80/20 pareto rule.
I like HuffPo the best: http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/results/senate

NYT is starting to stutter.
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Who manufactures these machines? I'm curious whether or not they may be vulnerable to Van Eck Phreaking[1]. Brazil discovered taht the machines they were going to use were vulnerable to it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
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Electronic voting performs poorly in New Jersey
What about this: the general population has neither the time nor the interest to really examine and make a fully informed choice about each presidential candidate and the implications of each one's ascendancy. As such, the population should directly elect "electors" (that is, members of the Electoral College), whose job it will be to study each candidate and make the best choice on behalf of the people they represent. Candidates for president will not campaign directly to the people, but their elected electors. Electors would campaign to be directly elected.

The people may be able to contribute an "advisory" popular vote, but it won't matter, similar to the situation regarding the election of U.S. Senators prior to the ratification of the 17th Amendment.

While the Electoral College still exists, it has been completely neutered in practice, and currently only represents a rough approximation of the popular vote; most states have laws obligating electors to vote along with the popular votes these days, and I know of no states where electors are directly elected by the people (they are usually elected on party slates).
One of the greatest, long-term advantages of 3D printing I see is the ability to localize manufacturing. Figure out how to print materials we can make domestically, and suddenly stop importing thousands of products.

Imagine small local factories, filled with 3D printers and robots, run by skilled workers. Such factories would be capable of manufacturing thousands of different products for the people nearby on an ad-hoc basis. This could eliminate shipping costs, reduce waste, would make recycling easier, create jobs, increase GDP, etc.
I am curious now, can you give some details about this? (like the paper work, how does this work when you get a C&D order)

Patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US8195515
Prior arts for this patent: http://goo.gl/YRP2U
Agreed the NYT is a clear winner, but lets wait a couple of hours for the West coast results to start kicking in, lets see how they handle the load, its just nice go have google as a backup.
Unsubstantiated rumors of vote tampering via technological means on election night is the ultimate link-bait? Seems pretty clear why it is worth so many points :)

If only the specifications of the hardware and source for the software for the machine in question were available for us to analyze....
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Hm ... "Computers are only good for those problems that can be reduced to a bunch of truth table look-ups."
You sir, are a scholar. Thank you. Buffing CSS now and will try that book next. I'll keep an eye on your project and share.
At least it seems like they are looking into how to support Linux. I don't see how they want to overcome the problem of "supporting all distributions at once" instead of going for the major one like Ubuntu. Even if you do not like Unity nothing prevents from you using a different interface and still run Ubuntu compatible software.
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Original email writer here.
I generally agree with the comments about how it could have been improved. In hindsight, it was probably too wordy. My impression is that David processes emails more "deeply" than the average person, so I think he could handle the wordiness. Others would probably trash it more quickly.
I did get a very thoughtful response from David which actually helped us immensely. As a result of taking the path he suggested we've now got a great business going, and the main problem is hanging on to the rocketship it has become. Obviously, a high-class problem to have.

It took me a couple of hours to write the email. Definitely time well spent.
There seems two be 2 main fields that you must domain at a fundamental level: Statistics and Business.

Stats, because it is the science of fiding information in data. Get a knack for the basic models, and work your way to the harder and more sophisticated ones.

Business, because you must learn how this information can create value. This facet seems to be often forgotten, but the main point of Data Science is optimizing businesses. Learn about how Big Co. is working, how they tried to solve the problem of Big Data, read about Data Mining, Datawarehousing, ERPs, and other approaches.

There are some other established fileds from where to find great insight, like Operations Research, but these two are the ones you must incorporate in your thinking habits to get the right holistic view. Other fields can even be considered as just extensions of the mindset.
Hi! It's all native, I looked briefly at some of those tools and decided I'd rather just learn objective-c.
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re #2: looking at the source code I don't see this behavior. Perhaps in a version from the past? Anyway, please advise or point me to a jira...

In src/mongo/db/db.cpp I see:

void _initAndListen(int listenPort ) {
...
dur::startup(); // <- this i believe preallocs journal files
...
listen(listenPort); // after journal prealloc i think

p.s. this blog post is a very interesting article overall i think, without commenting on all the specifics...
It's easy to fall into that mindset. And in fact, that mindset is right back where I am now. The only reason I had the gall to attempt this in the first place was the the simple fact that I was making money at the time (in 2008) 'manually' day trading the Russell 2000. I thought this 'should not be possible' so I figured there's no reason not to try an automated program.
The first time I connected it didn't work, but I put in the command to download tf2 (which didn't download) and after that it seemed to work fine, I could talk to my friends and download/play my HIB games.
No pictures yet, we're more focused on nailing the single user experience vs. trying to make it compete against the more social list type apps.

We hope to have the notes be a lot smarter in the future, but right now you'll have to actually select the item to get pictures and such.

Definitely need to make some things a bit clearer and to have a better intro.

Thanks for looking at it!
Enough of them do. When OS X 10.0 was released I went to a powerbook users group install party and installed that sucker on my graphite iBook DV. I still have my Public Beta disc.
Don't forget reduced inventory cost. No need for an auto parts store to a litany of rarely-purchased plastic parts if they can be printed at will.

Customization is the early killer app, but a world opens up as the material quality and speed improve.
Why are you ignoring HFT's positive contribution?
You remove the emphasizer and just say: "His face is purple."
Technically speaking, Barack Obama is the president until next year. But, it would be interesting to know more about sites like this one -- how they poll realtime data, which sources they trust, etc.

Just calling the election based on "right now" is just for political adrenaline junkies. YMMV.
i wonder if anyone can do a historical trace on when "the debt" started becoming a political issue
While I agree in general that shorter emails are preferable - longer emails draw you in more and can really show that the sender has thought things through, thus making you more open to reciprocating.
Given that the process is still unfolding, a single page site around a single, albeit moving, data point is slightly amusing. However, I fail to any other point to it.
I'd consider working at famo.us.

http://www.davidvaldman.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.c...
SSL support is in the free distribution but you must built it yourself. One reason would be export controls; another is that creates a dependency on the SSL library for those who don't use SSL, which we found awkward (especially if doing all platforms; the subscriber build just does the popular ones).

So it's available; albeit there is an intent to have a subscriber build with some extra features that are heavily enterprise biased in their usefulness.
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Correct of course, you would need to compromise the infrastructure of an ISP. Not that a few hundred dollars or a USB stick drive at the right place couldn't do it. Especially for a less well travelled part of the Internet.
Thanks! I'll take a gander.
Annoyingly, that site now redirects to results reporting.

Or only on mobile?
The site design has come a really long way. Nice job!
I've been thinking long and hard about getting a 3D printer recently. After doing some research on the kind of things that can be constructed with the low-end devices, I've decided against doing it. The things which these devices can make aren't very useful, because the material properties are just not that good with regards to overall strength, temperature range, etc..

I'm now looking at my options for 2D printing, such as cutting parts out of plywood, acrylic, and such. However, the lower cost CNC machines have a very small work area.

I'd really like to get one of those position-correcting routers as in the recent MIT video, or something else which would allow me to easily work with a 4x8 foot plywood sheet.
My page requests are going through 50.116.59.63 which resolves to mh.apps.lv, which redirects to their main URL. Where did you sniff the Azure connection?
That's not the point. Yes, there might be people who will ignore the UI feedback and cast the wrong vote. The point is that, if you're going to tamper it, you'd rather tamper the back end. As it is, if this is happening to a lot of people, many of them are bound to report it and that risk completely outweighs any gain from the "grandmother" group.

In any case, I'm skeptical of the tampering hypothesis because only one person reported and filmed it.
I haven't seen that. Can you point me to an example online?
Here we go:

http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2011/30-under30-12/30-u...
We don't remove RT tweets, but instead, we only count each user once. If a user retweeted Michelle, s/he probably will vote for Obama. But if a user have a few tweets in favor of Obama, it's counted once only.
i think geography (namely, distance) is actually the fundamental issue here

on top of geography, there is the issue that different states (in the U.S.) can have very different logistical/structural systems, different laws, different economic conditions, different budgets, etc
But it's not a hobo stove. There's certainly a lineage, but this is quite a well done effort (ironic disclaimer: I'd love to buy one of these but it's a bit too spendy for me).

There's a bit of elitism in dismissing this as some some hipster camping stove -- they are addressing a significant real world problem in a very elegant way. I just wish they could make it cheaper.