skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The link was to a public post on that group that described the situation. That post was removed as was the complete discussion and mailing list
I just downvoted him because of pseudo-philosophical drivel with no substance of thought or contribution of information. Not really worth engaging him, so I just downvote.
She seems to imply she'll be going back, or something. From her profile (http://www.meetup.com/Cologne-Startup-Pitch-Night/members/68...):

Hello! I am excited to get to know everyone at our events
as one of the networking groups in Germany focused on
building startups by focusing on improving pitches and
finding co-founders. Living in USA, loved living in
Germany, looking to travel.
You got a lot further than me I got frustrated around number 6. Isn't useful for me to know my clj file is missing if no one ever tells me about it. I gave up.

Looked cool but I'll just stick to Vim / Sublime / etc.
A BETTER ONE!
My polling place does this. The voter stands by as the machine scans their bubble sheet and reports success or failure on a little display.

The downside of all this is that the machine is still free to slant results if its software has been tampered with.
When I was 19 year old non-felon, I took a trip from my home in Seattle to Vancouver BC just to take advantage of the difference in the legal drinking age.

If booze tourism exists, even to a small degree, we'll have pot tourism, even to a small degree.
It's time to call bullshit on the entrepreneurship hero myth
"A design patent may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture." [Source: http://www.uspto.gov/main/faq/index.html]

I really try to be objective when reading things about this as I'm fairly negative when it comes to Apple and Patent discussion but can someone possibly more impartial explain the validity of this application to me? The quote above itself seems pretty clear that neither a new or original idea has been presented here.
ha! I wish I'd thought of that tagline for the map. I might steal that at some future date, if you don't mind :)
One thing that really bothers me: most of Nate Silver's supporters and detractors don't understand jack shit about his models.

On the Democrat side of the table, many treated 538 like a source of religious prophecy and source of comfort - when truth be told Nate is just a smart statistician who developed a model that's accurately predicted the outcomes of three elections (the first being the Hillary / Obama primary.) On the Republican side of the table, major trends in national and state-level polling data were ignored because pundits believed that the pollsters were oversampling Democrats when the truth is that the Democratic base has expanded since 2008.

Other legitimate statisticians, like the University of Colorado, predicted a Romney win and obviously their models were wrong.

Scientists, statisticians, economists, and engineers shouldn't be worshiped as sources of incontrovertible truth - they're just humans trying to do the best objective, accurate job that they can!
-1 for defeating a strawman argument in the second sentence:

Also, ships don't use flags of convenience for their colors but for laws that are advantageous to them.

The parent posting didn't question that. On the contrary, the fact that ships chose their flag by law instead of color - that was exactly the parent posting's point.
I just want to caution folks that whoever did this using this "Meredith" account is not necessarily (and most likely is not) Meredith, the person. It's much more likely that a hacked account would be used to do something malicious like this.
I always preferred the cartogram as shown at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012/
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"It’s hard to believe that anyone working at such a well-established Republican media arm would be outwardly anti-Santorum."

That's a pretty ridiculous and insulting thing to say, betabeat. There are lots of Republicans who are not major proponents of violating womens' rights and other nasty socially conservative measures.
> Whether you like or dislike Obama, the single biggest difference between him and Romney is leadership the way you described it -- willingness to stand behind something unpopular.

That doesn't sound completely right to me. Romney's stint at Bain was expected to cost him the presidency (and maybe did) because of the unpopular things he did while there: Fired people and outsourced jobs while making a couple hundred million for himself in the process. Of the many things he's flop-flopped and waffled on, that record isn't one of them. If running for president in a down economy with that around your neck isn't standing behind something unpopular, what is?
The Canny Group is an nReduce nSTar and we're presenting now
The Downfall Of Pandora, Consumer Choice And Emerging Music
I don't care one way or the other about the word "Retina"...though it is a bit tinny.

What matters to me is the way in which a piece of hardware facilitates or hinders my workflow. I sit a certain distance from the screen and perform certain tasks various pieces of software. A display is better or worse based upon my individual needs (and by extrapolation better for someone else based upon their individual needs, not mine).

Ultimately, I prefer a larger effective dot pitch - i.e. the lower effective resolution of the 13" Retina MacBook is probably better suited to me than the author of the article.
[see my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3667792]

On the other hand, any Macbook is a non-starter. My workflow is at critical times dependent upon more horsepower than one will find on most laptops and the software I own runs on Windows.

Having once owned a Porsche, I am not unsympathetic to people who enjoy aspirational products despite the tradoffs they entail. I was then and am today willing to admit that gazing upon it admiringly was pleasurable.

On the other hand, I have never considered my choice of automobile objectively better, except in the sense that it was right for me, and despite having been bald and in my forties at the time, I found humor in the stereo type.
I don't see how that point relates to Xylakant's comment. The text you quoted basically points to the difference between these two cases:

1) that if you have a specific hash, how many more hashes would have to be generated to get the same hash.

2) how many hashes would you have to generate before a collision occurs between any of them.

So in the two cases above we're dealing with sets of hashes, and we don't care how they are generated.

Xylakant's comment was about a different type of collision. This collision happens because you are mapping an arbitrary large text into a fixed size hash, which means that different texts can map to the same hash, hence creating a collision.
For the record, Johnson is only pulling 1.1% in Texas and 1% nationwide.
http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results

And the only state he came close to costing Romney was Florida. But even so, he would have lost it by over 3000 votes if all Johnson supporters voted for Romney.
And it works really well with the open source radeon drivers too!
Right, I misunderstood that last part. My main point still stands.
NASA Astronaut: Photography in space
I bet they could not get a patent for rounded square, or squircle, because Zune already had it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune_Pad
I reckon Palin sat it out because the sentiment against her is too strong right now. She's probably trying the Newt Gingrinch "I'll come back in a few years when you hate me less" strategy.
Ask HN:  The YC Application "Check, Double Check, Silence" Pattern
Something that I've noticed is that there's a pretty reliable series of events that take place before you're rejected.

Rejection seems to go something like this:

First, you'll notice that someone is reading your application. It'll trigger one of your alerts and you'll switch to watching your logs in real-time. You see what they're clicking on and groan in horror: "Oh no! They didn't look at the wireframes!!?!"

And then it's over. Silence.

BUT! About 2-4 hours later you get another alert! Someone else is reading the app!

You think: "Neat! We must have impressed someone enough to make it to the next round of review! This will change our lives! I need to get ready to move to San Francisco! I just bought two dozen eggs at Costco today, how am I going to get all of those chickens out to California?"

And then it's over. Silence.

An hour passes, two, three, four.

You spend the rest of the night sifting though your logs with the enthusiasm of an FAA crash investigator. The next day you wake up and immediately check your logs and analytics again.

Silence. It's over. Back to work.

It leaves me wondering, what kind of activity do you see before an application is accepted? Is there a calm before the storm as they make their way through all of the applications or is it a steady stream of activity?

What have others experienced this round?
We are not joking around with Open Source
> I also see no mention of why using urine is better/worse than just using regular water. I am guessing because "Putting electricity in water generates hydrogen" is a less exciting title.

This is not electrolysis of water. In theory, they are decomposing urea to get their hydrogen, which uses far less energy. This is the same principle that would cause a hydrogen economy to be run off of natural gas. Sometimes a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Or, in the words from Spinal Tap, there's often a thin line...
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Better yet, you need to be one of them. It works well when your service is, well, of service to you! thats when the proximity to the user is maximized.
I don't think your reading that correctly. The important point is 'outwardly' and 'well-established Republican media arm'. Overall the Republicans have been vary good about staying on message and even if they don't support a candidate will vary rarely badmouth a fellow republican outside of primary's.
I wonder how many people didn't bother to show up at the election rooms because their vote wouldn't mean anything. Being pro-Romney in a strong "blue" state or pro-Obama in the "red" one.
US 2012 Presidential Election Results vs Location of Top-Ranked US Universities
Hi everyone, we appreciate the feedback. And we will appreciate it even more if you move it from HN to the Steam Linux Beta forums at http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/.

First, I want to correct my typo - we are initially targeting Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (not 10.4 as I fat-fingered above) We are not looking at other distros in this limited beta release but obviously we don't want to do anything to preclude this in the future.

The dropbox and chrome examples are a little different. They ship both 32-bit and 64-bit .debs so they don't hit the multi-arch issues we did. Try to install the 32-bit dropbox .deb on x64 Ubuntu 12.04 and you will see the same problem (python-gtk2:i386 conflicts with python-gtk2)

Hopefully we can get the multiarch issues ironed out with Canonical (a lot of problems have already been fixed in updates). Believe me, I would like nothing better than to remove the gross hacks.
There's an ever so slight little twinge of something, maybe gliss is the wrong term... perhaps like a slight flam-like jazzy diminished 32th note into the actual note?
It should also be noted that rdio is available in Canada too. So I guess the above would work with Canadian info/payment methods.
This map is kind of silly. How much of a victory does a candidate need to get red or blue to appear? Utah was 72% for one candidate. If all the map shows us is that nobody got 100%, or that 72% red and 28% blue is a shade of purple, then, well, duh.
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rdio is already available in Canada.
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Excuse me, political leadership. Romney has, to my knowledge, not once stood on the losing side of an issue out of principle, and if the electorate flips, he does too. Obama has gone out on a limb for things that aren't popular multiple times.

Not being able to change his past at Bain, not that he didn't try, isn't a sign of backbone, it's just how 'the past' works.
Do any (eg gasoline) generators put out more energy than they consume?
Uh, are you implying that urine is mostly urea? If that were the case, then our urine wouldn't be liquid, but more like bird poop. (The white part contains uric acid.) Urea is solid at room temp and is dissolved in water in our urine. Also, it's CO(NH2)2, so there is hydrogen there you don't have to get from water.
Evernote CEO Phil Libin in No Rush for an IPO
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My advice -- don't emulate native, it just ends up looking weird (like the uncanny valley). Just concentrate on good design. By the way -- I just used Backbone.js and performance is fine (jQuery mobile and especially Sencha are overkill).
The .nz namespace is pretty good, as it is independently administered from the government (http://dnc.org.nz). It's just very hard to see .nz being adopted by startups to create pithy URLs.
Delegation on a method by method basis with Forwardable
Covers for exercise balls, what do you think? 
www.myball.co/indiegogo
I agree. It is truly a great read.

I also read the book "Connect the Dots" 2 years back. That tells the founding stories of 20-25 founders. But all those stories are from India and are about general businesses.

It is so inspiring to read success stories of other people and you also learn the way they think about the problems and the way they tackle it.
If you see the government as a solution to social issues I do not think you would vote Libertarian.
Another falls: Zynga Japan says goodbye to three more games
I am awestruck that there may be a day we all have urinals in our bathrooms because it helps lower our electricity bill.
In the last election, the Republicans ran John McCain†, who is actually pretty much dead center in the context of US politics. It seems to me they ran Romney this time because 1) Romney has pretty strong economic credentials and Obama hasn't been outstanding in that department, and 2) going centrist didn't help last time. Also, like others said, the best candidates are probably waiting until next time, because Obama hasn't messed up badly enough for his supporters to turn on him en masse, so this year's candidate was likely to be a sacrificial lamb.

† McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, was nutjob who seemed to be there purely to appeal to the demographics he didn't, but the man himself has historically been pretty even-handed.
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The harm is that more qualified people are passed over.
Pretty Excited to introduct

Clef - MultiPlay.io - whathavei - The Canny Group

Great founders!
> As they've likely personally profited to the tune of over £250,000 after their charitable donations that doesn't seem entirely unreasonable.

I assume they will have had their assets seized as proceeds of crime, so it's not as though they are trading off jail time for profit.

> The point here is that while they're nice, some of the people who they seem engaged with in the wider venture might not be. They're not in this on their own, they're also enabling others.

I wouldn't view it as enabling. If this couple aren't supplying the dealers, someone else will be, and that other person is almost guaranteed to be a nastier individual.

As I say, in a sense this couple were diverting funds away from real, nasty criminal enterprises towards their apparently harmless selves, and the charitable projects they supported.
Always works if you're one of them
Maybe it is someone's followup on the campain for "santorum" neologism, which was a revenge for his gay bashing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_%22santorum%22_neo...
You're all over this thread with the same comment, and you're wrong.

When an outcome has 60% likelihood of occurring, then it should occur 6 out of 10 times. But the election only happens once. The prediction isn't "wrong" when the outcome occurs 1 out of 1 time.

In this case, you describe 10 separate events, each with 60% chance that a certain outcome occurs. So we have 10 separate outcomes that occurred 1 out of 1 times.
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Just like any new technology when it's introduced, the value of this micro-targeting strategy will be overstated at first. But over time people will realise human nature has stayed the same, and this technology will find its place as just another tool in a politician's utility belt.

Perhaps we've already seen it misused on Romney's part: depending on where in the country he was speaking (say, southwest vs. rustbelt) he would take a different tone on the topic of immigration. In the age of instant news, flipflopping like that in the name of "targeting" your audience can have major consequences.
What I'm taking away from this is that you think Dan Martell, Neil Patel, and Nick Francis are really good looking. Is that what you're getting at?
Article mentions a charged electrolytic cell. Charged from outside power?
Show HN: Pressure Sensitive Drawing Program
The system works! The underdog's vital and unique IP, heretofore unimaginable and unprotected, has been safeguarded! We've ensured the creative process will continue unabated!
Is this solely for people that know the topics your writers are writing on thoroughly enough that they don't approve something that is potentially harmful to their brand? What happens in the event that the audience is largely put off by the post or if the author is wrong about the topic they're writing on but the client was none-the-wiser to it at approval?
Exactly. I was also thinking that Finacial Engineering also tries to garner the advantage of statistical analysis of stock market based on previous trends. But I am sure there is no 100% accurate model. Moreover statistical model need to be changed as behavior start changing.

I wonder if that will reflect here as well.

In any case, It has some interesting applications as they mentioned in ticketing.
If anyone's got a Wacom Tablet, I'd love to know what you think of it. I personally don't have a wacom tablet to test it out, so who knows. It might not even work ;)
I notice that the Editor's pick comment notes how Microsoft have one for the Xbox and Lucas Arts has one for Yoda. Both are in fact original designs, the iPad on the other hand doesn't fall into that category. This is another case of the USPTO failing for me.
There's a ton of prior art, how the hell did they get it?

http://cdn.overclock.net/8/89/350x700px-LL-890c9df4_lg-prada...

http://forums.macnn.com/content/type/61/id/4951/width/350/he...

http://forums.macnn.com/content/type/61/id/4952/width/350/he...

http://forums.macnn.com/content/type/61/id/4950/width/500/he...
Nice, but I wonder how objective `halfway between red and blue' is when people evaluate color. Halfway might appear to be 2/3 to some people.
Apple loses $368mil in patent suit over Facetime
Elections aren't about learning the wills (plural! very plural!) of the people, it's about making sure power changes hands often enough (peacefully) that systematic suppression of minorities is made very difficult. As for elections, it's the vetting of the candidates that's the important bit.
seems interesting and as though you could get a freelance writer to get to know your brand better instead of hiring a staff writer.
I love the attention to usability in the first answer.
Xylakant:

> It is very important to note that this is the probability
> that any two hashes collide in a set of hashes. It is not
> the probability to find a second plaintext that hashes to
> the same hash as a given one.

ColinWright:

> Indeed, pretty much exactly that point is made ...

> > In case you are one of the many, many people who get this wrong
> > and are astonished, you may be thinking of a different question.
> > My birthday is a specific date. If we assume birthdays are
> > uniformly distributed, how many people must you ask before you
> > find someone who has the same birthday as me?

> > ...

> > But that's not the question I asked. They don't just need to share
> > my birthday, it can be that any birthday is shared among them, and
> > that changes the odds dramatically.

dsego:

> I don't see how that point relates to Xylakant's comment.

OK, I'll try to explain my thinking:

> The text you quoted basically points to the difference
> between these two cases:

> 1) that if you have a specific hash, how many more hashes
> would have to be generated to get the same hash.

> 2) how many hashes would you have to generate before a
> collision occurs between any of them.

Yes.

> So in the two cases above we're dealing with sets of hashes,
> and we don't care how they are generated.

That's true.

> Xylakant's comment was about a different type of collision.
> This collision happens because you are mapping an arbitrary
> large text into a fixed size hash, which means that different
> texts can map to the same hash, hence creating a collision.

If you're using cryptographic hashes then I believe these amount to the same thing.

The distinguishing characteristics of a cryptographic hash are that it has no internal structure, and it is completely unpredictable based on knowledge of similar source texts. In particular, techniques such as differential analysis don't work.

In that sense, finding a text to map to a hash to give a collision is exactly the same as picking a random number that happens to match. The act of starting with a text and using that to create a hash is identical to the act of choosing a random element of the hash space. If these two things were not identical, then the hash would have some sort of predictability or structure that related it to the source text.

The situation is different if you are using non-cryptographic hashes such as CRCs. Perhaps I should edit the original article to help make that distinction, but I'm not really sure it's worth it.
Very cool idea! So simple... I probably should be sitting on a ball instead of my chair.
It's a nice sentiment, but this project isn't real. They are basically using those girls for publicity.
FCUK YEAH!
Sorta different situations. This contraption is extracting hydrogen from urine.

Gasoline engine just consumes/runs on gas.

Whats being said is that there is skepticism that the hydrogen extraction takes more energy than the hydrogen yield you receive.
Universal References in C++11
http://isocpp.org/blog/2012/11/universal-references-in-c11-scott-meyers
Could that be because of some "transparent" proxy server your ISP uses?

Works for me, btw.
I'm curious if anyone on here is familiar with an xxx@cyvi.be email address. cyvi.be redirects to bitly. Is this a sign of something more malicious or part of known abuse tactics? Like ghurlman I'm getting a feeling that this is not innocent at all ...
http://isocpp.org/blog/2012/11/universal-references-in-c11-s...
You, sir, have my respect and admiration!
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This map makes the point that the United States is not the divided nation that pundits claim. Most states were fairly close to a 50/50 split vote wise (aka purple). Even in Utah the vote was only 3:1 Romney:Obama; they are not as different from blue states as people think.
Obama's data-driven tactic for campaigning
This seems to be showing completely different information so I'm not sure it's much of a comparison
Presumably because he uses the same PR firm as Osama bin Laden:

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/bert.asp
Both. There was a Nov 6 forecast and a "now-cast."
This sounds snarky, but I mean it as a genuine question about your revised post: what do you mean by asking about the probability of something that either definitely happens or definitely doesn't? That is to say, either there is a fixed point or there isn't; in either case, I can't see even an informal way to assign any probability other than 0 or 1 to the question.