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Where to watch the 2012 presidential election live online
Similar to our ballots in New Zealand
http://www.elections.org.nz/files/sample_ballot_paper_copy.g...

There's not much room for error in this design - it seems to work well for us.
There's only quick office which isn't robust enough for most people. Full-blown Office was one of microsoft's main opportunities with the surface (price being the other), neither of which they did well.
Your hyper-sensitivity is far more offensive than the playful euphemism in Upverter's title. Furthermore, as others have pointed out, "getting laid" in no way discriminates against women, as women and men of all dispositions get laid equally.
I don't think your conclusion follows from this claim:

The problem is the idea that a single elected official can somehow represent the entire United States. Can one person understand and represent 300 million people?

This is why we have a Congress.
I'm 100% in favor of that on specific issues, and I wouldn't dispute a claim that Republicans lie more. But calling the Republic Party the "party of liars" and using that argument during a discussion of voter fraud? Not classy. Especially not in this community.
Well done.

I'm probably going to chide myself for downloading this in a few hours. :)
To do different.
America: Our electronic voting is just as good as our airplane seats

:)
Yes, I get a message saying it's only for accounts in the closed beta. It does install and run though.

Can beta participants invite others?
Taking video is not illegal in all states.

http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/documenting-your-vote...
The downgrade from 1440x900 UI/chrome resolution to 1280x800 is what kills it for me. This is the first review that I see addressing this issue; I was beginning to think I was the only one noticing this glaring issue.

(The 15" MBP retina display suffers from the same issue.)
If you read the article, there are several instances of the same problems causing very large errors in elections prior to 2000, for example, several miscalled states for Clinton in previous elections. To claim that these polls "suddenly" stopped working is demonstrably false.
Losetheos is as nifty a programmer as he is crazy--I'm not sure this guy has the same chops.
> open source software gets mostly popular because it is good, not because they have shiny numbers

I want there to be a good, free office suite. This would work better if there were a single large group of developers working together on the same thing and a single community of users, instead of two splintered groups of developers who can't share their own code.

> The license. Apache licensed code can be used in commercial products. GPL licensed (as with LO) cannot be used without becoming Open Source itself. This is important, because OpenOffice is the one you would take when you are working on a product which needs to include for example spreadsheet features.

I work for a company that sells GPLed software to large enterprises and makes quite a bit of money doing so. I don't see a problem with LibreOffice's licensing. (I don't see a problem with Apache OpenOffice's licensing either, to be clear.)

> What you said about GNU: they do not have a no-modification copyright license.

Sorry if I was unclear. GNU licenses _its own marketing materials_, including its website and the text of the software licenses it promotes, under a no-derivatives license. The bottom of the FSF website says the site is licensed under CC-BY-ND, and the first sentence of the GPL is "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed."

> Again: calm down, let people have their fun.

I don't want to have "fun". If I were to work on LibreOffice, it would be because I wanted the world to have a good office suite, not because it is my own enjoyment to develop an office suite for myself. When I work on projects at work, it is primarily because I want my customers to have good products, not because I want to develop enterprise software for my own personal use (and it's certainly not for the money, because I could do a hundred other things instead).

Not all developers have the same motivation, and it's unfair to shut down people who are motivated to release a good product by telling them that they're only allowed to do things for the "fun of coding".
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Maybe too many people voted for Obama causing that part of the screen to fail?
He says a lot of things, but amazingly only shows us the one thing that can be easily debunked as a glitch/error.
Or rather, it makes the purchase of votes much less attractive.
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I'm sympathetic to Sergey's views but I'd think he of all people would understand the utility of political parties as huge marketing machines. The DNC and GOP have a) eyeballs/audience which leads to b) donors/money.

Although imperfect, there is some substance in this analogy
Political Parties:Elections::Search Engines:Online Marketing
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Yeah, I think the MBA13 (8GB) or the rMBA15 are the two most optimal choices for "primary Apple machine for most high-end users".
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Fair enough. Most people considering trying this probably have a few ideas for indicators.

But for anyone coming to HFT from a coding background instead of a trading background, an explanation of one of your indicators would have been fascinating.
Also, there's a loaded history, too. Blacks were disenfranchised post-Civil War through a whole host of measures, of which IDs was just one of them. Requiring IDs or literacy for voters brings back thoughts of Jim Crow laws. These issues are steeped in history that Slovenia just doesn't have.
If you're not in beta, but still want to play around with the client (without games), install Steam and start it like this.

wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb
sudo dpkg -i steam.deb
steam steam://open/store/ &

This bypasses the beta check (but still requires Steam account).

Next right click the Steam icon in the Unity launcher and pick Store. Pin the icon to directly pick Store next time.
This is the last thing I want to see on the front page.
More likely his mother got tired of his self-centred freeloading.
hint: trying to survive isn't "playtime"; let's hope you never experience it
Benchmark Capital gets minimalist
Who is this person and why do I care? Is there some context here that I'm missing?
You have to explain more in-depth what your service does on the frontpage. You are trying to get people to register, but I want to see a tour first. Give me atleast some screenshots!
You draw that conclusion because of the video performance? I'm not following. The CPU performance wasn't even mentioned in the article. Is it a step backward from the 13" MBP?
"It's a foregone conclusion".. ?? Because of Nate Silver's statistical analysis of polls? The polls which themselves are flawed. The "statistics" are based on nothing but polls, all with margins of errors and varied methodology. A sample of 1000 people can hardly predict an entire state, because there are many factors that influence turnout that aren't captured in polls. Being the subject of a poll is generally a passive activity -- they come to you, while going to vote is an active activity. "Likely voters" is a very subjective term and thus a difficult thing to quantify.
I can attest to similar actions as well in Nashville, IN. We've had a very nasty election cycle, given the (R) Governer has stepped down, and with the shenanigans with Mourlock (misspelled correctly; I am not an eloi).

At the polling place, there were quiet conversations and line chatter, yet was very professional and well, British.

Even when I was a poll worker during the 2000 election, it still was decent and honorable proceedings, even if the campaigning was not.
In the end, if one candidate got 100,000 votes and the other got 100,001 then to the extent that we randomly select between the two I'm not sure that it really makes a difference which one wins. In this case the will of the people is that the two candidates are equally good.

"The greatest value of free elections is in all of the out-of-equilibrium outcomes that, because of the regularity of free elections, never come close to happening."
I voted in Maryland this morning, and there was a sign about 25 feet from the door marking the spot where electioneering becomes illegal.
Microsoft’s new Kinect patent goes Big Brother, will spy on you for the MPAA
A suggested fork of Wordpress (but not GPLed like Wordpress,) that requires giving external entities control of the comments on your blog, and with nothing but a few mockups in Photoshop to show for?

I'm guessing all the 477 points came from those looking at the pretty pictures but ignoring the text (two extra points could have been awarded by the author and his SO.)
Isn't profit meaningless without knowing initial investment? I read the first few paragraphs and got bored. Why not say upfront what the bankroll was to start?

edit: I found what I was looking for in the comments.
http://www.marionstar.com/article/20121031/NEWS03/310310009/...
"i just bugged the hell out of my friend until i found out what commands did what."

That works great when you have a friend to bug. And nowadays, you can Google for solutions, so this kind of "I'll learn it when I need it" strategy works reasonably well.

But what doesn't work is when you have no friend to bug, and you don't have enough knowledge even to know what Google keywords you should be using. That's the point at which you really want to spend time acquiring fundamental concepts without regard for how useful they'll be in the near term.

Let's say someone was trying to learn physics, and they didn't yet know algebra. Which strategy do you think would work better: making a dedicated effort to learn algebra first, or diving in to physics and only learning algebra as they needed it?
Considering he was making 1000-4000 trades per day, I assume he put more than $1M. Trade fees alone would eat a huge chunk of money. The cheapest trade I can find is $3.95 (optionshouse.com).

So the fees will be $3950 - $15,800 per day.

$15,800 - $79,000 per week.
I think what you really mean is that Office is not meant to be used on a tablet with a touch interface. Especially on Windows RT running on a slow ARM processor. Surface RT is supposed to be a device that's 99% Metro mode, for simple consumer demands with a touch interface.

Office on the other hand is a production app. Not a consumption app. It's workflow fits best on the Desktop PC with a keyboard.
I'd say disconnected from reality. I found this on the "A New Beginning" post.

"I propose to put myself on top of that new hierarchy. I am a very good guide and councellor. I lift up instead of suppressing. I also know my limits (if there are any). I attack people, but only when necessary. After the change is done, there will be no more need for that."

Talented coder or not, this is someone in a lot of pain suffering some type of mental illness. My diagnose-over-the-internet license is only valid for the continental United States so I'll spare you the medical mumbo-jumbo but the persecution of seeing evil everywhere, the grandiose feelings of entitlement, the inability to function ... I'm afraid that living in a van down by the river isn't even close to rock bottom for this guy.

I feel sorry for him too, the world is a scary and nonsensical place when you can't trust your brain.
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I think that a Liberal vs Conservative two party system is inevitable in any large group. This assumes that most humans fall into broad liberal (counts on government, believes in helping the poor, open to new ideas) or conservative (dislikes taxes, believes in personal responsibility, likes free markets and the past) modes of thinking.

Sooner or later, the smaller groups on one side are going to realize that they can push elements of their agenda further if they all vote together. They might not get all of the things that they wanted, but they'll gain more leverage over the people who have a drastically different world view. Once this has happened, all of the people of the other mode of thinking will realize that they now have to band together in order to compete. And wallah, parties are formed.

The problem this presents to american voters is that a vote for a third party is effectively a vote for the other side of the ideological divide. Every vote cast for Garry Johnson is directly aiding the cause of Barack Obama. I bet Al Gore hates Ralph Nader to this day. The idea of "what will happen if the other side wins?" is a very real motivating factor in the voting booth.

I'm not defending the two party system. I'm saying that like free markets, it's an emergent property of human behavior. Working together with common cause is the best way to get something done, even if it means associating yourself with a group of people that you don't entirely agree with.
> Interesting that nobody puts forth

So true! There is a APL and its descendants mentioned, so array-based languages are covered, but what with concatenative ones, like Forth, Factor or Joy?

I found learning (the very basics of) Forth illuminating almost to the same extent as learning Scheme if not more. `swap`ing the order of argument with higher order function is never going to be the same again :)
Ask HN: What have you done after a failed startup?
Let's say if every time you saw someone talking about a particular product or service, they were wearing something that only 12 year olds wear. Let's further say you are 15 years old, and you're trying to distinguish yourself from the 12 year olds, since "they're just kids" and you are not. You're trying to not be associated with the "kids" schtick.

Given that, would you use that product and service if only people who dress like 12 year olds use it? I suspect you might avoid it, assuming you were the sort of person who cared about that sort of perception.

Or here, let me try it in terms of variables:

A: The people who are always talking about B

B: The product, service, or career they're talking about

C: The group they appear to be part of

D: You.

E: People who might look at you (D) and think you are a (C) because of your association with (B), because of the presentations put forth by (A).

If you don't make any of these connections, you may not be affected by this. However, it could still affect those who do make those connections.
Point taken, thank you, we were so occupied to deploy the application itself that we forgot all about conveying a clear message of what it is all about.

The main problem we're solving with this application is that developers sometimes want to outsource parts of their projects (or even bugs), to other developers, but don't want to go through a time consuming process of finding a person that is actually capable of providing solutions of high quality. Carmivore aims to connect developers in real time, and get the stuff done asap. :)
So instead of exploring 3D models in the browser, I have to print off a QR code and awkwardly pan around it with my underpowered smartphone?
If enough people find it crass, it's crass. I find it crass, enough to not click through.

Sure, layout is common terminology in EDA. Getting laid is not.
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I'm disappointed that the LA Times story doesn't include my favorite anecdote from the Franken/Coleman recount: the person who voted for "lizard people" http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/11/23/so_w...
Er... it doesn't work reliably, and by definition, cannot work reliably. If market inefficiencies exist to be exploited, then someone is ultimately getting the short end of every stick.
What were your average transaction costs per trade? 1000 to 4000 trades per day, lets say 2500 on average, translates to about 625K transactions per year. I assume you did not have to pay something like ETrades 3$ commission per future contract, which would result in almost 2M of fees per year.
The guys you want to work for (2sigma, RenTec, Jane Street, Susquehanna, ...) are unlikely to call you up as a result of this blog post / hacker news exposure/discussion.

If you want to go back to trading, you'll probably have to actively try to get a job -- at the very least, let someone who's still in the business know that you are looking. In my experience in this field, word of mouth and friends-of-friends are infinitely more successful hiring strategies, for both sides.

(Re:releasing the source - I would like to have a look at the strategy, but I would recommend against releasing anything that is even close to being useful, unless you want to spend the next year screening "where can I get a good XTAPI broker" and "I've got XTrader_PRO set up, but I'm getting error 10013, what gives?" emails).

the Nuclear Phynance message board is probably a better place to look for business offers.
Sure, I was just picking a few generic examples, but there's lots of "pro" stuff that doesn't need a super beefy GPU - developing software, editing audio and images, etc.
If you've got two bad choices, look for more criteria.

How do you feel about civil rights? Whose economic approach is more likely to fix things? Is the legality of abortion and contraception important to you?

Choose the lesser evil today. Then work for a greater good tomorrow.
I got to play with a co-workers Surface RT for a bit, and I experienced this in the browser. With URLs I am familiar with I can type them quite quickly, and it clearly lagged behind.

Some teething issues no doubt, and the store staff are being clueless salespersons, but it feels like it has promise.
Sacrifice karma to hack undecideds
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It seems i386 only. Is there a way to test this on 64-bit Ubuntu without breaking my packages beyond repair?
It seems to me a way to mitigate this risk of part of the screen not working is to randomize the order with which the candidates are displayed. The error would presumably average itself out. Either way this is unacceptable.
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This. Competence in one field does not imply understanding in another.

Given Sergey's proclivities and interests, I'd say it behooves him to fund a "non-partisan" thinktank to look at the data and produce data-driven policy suggestions that are intended to influence all parties to government.

Not that I would suggest that he become too personally invested in what happens after the suggestions make into the legislature; that way lies pain.
Finding a donor IS likely, but not like that. Very poor performance. I just would not even consider supporting someone after reading that kind of a post. It sounds like puberty. It sounds unreliable. It sounds stupidly stubborn and the facts are loose. And I wouldn't even say 'sorry', because I absolutely am not.
So annoying that I keep clicking on steam articles and I still can't use it on Linux.
> media-rich websites like The Verge

Well, that's one way to put it...
Learning something and applying what you've learned are fundamentally different tasks. When you're a kid learning to read, reading is tough. But once you've got enough practice, it becomes easy. Coding is the same way--it's difficult for everyone in the skill-acquisition stage. Frustration is normal. But once the skill is acquired things become a lot easier.
Way back 14 years ago, I did side projects as a source of primary income.
Now I have no time for side projects, but I'd love to have one to scratch my own itch or two.
Liquid Democracy is basically direct democracy with a flexible proxy capability. My proposal is proxy only.

Liquid Democracy also does away with fixed election dates and embraces a continuous process. I deliberately didn't talk about that in my proposal. I think too many people get hung up on the continuous process part, which I think is much less important than proxy voting combined with the removal of districting.

IOW, my proposal is a toned down version of Liquid Democracy.
Well I plan to replace my Macbook with a 1920x1080 Asus Zenbook Prime... and this only confirms my choice.
Been looking for some simple Mac App examples, this looks great. Kudos!
You can run the client without beta access, but can you install any games?
I'm not sure. His brain seems to be a bit off. He might make less than stellar coworker or freelancer.
It sounds like I should still be able to see it even in an urban area (e.g. San Francisco), is that correct?

I didn't know it passed by that quickly though. I guess I'll see how well NASA's texting service works out then.
How do I run this locally?
I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. My new MBPr13 is fast, gorgeous, and light. Sure it's expensive, but you get what you pay for.
It would have been helpful if this mentioned that it was Wordpress-focused for now. I signed up because this sounded useful to me, but I don't have any Wordpress tasks.
According to Apple both variants of the 13" MBP use the same CPUs - either a 2.5GHz i5 or a 2.9GHz i7 - so I imagine the CPU performance is identical between the two. Of course, there might be a bit of a CPU hit for apps having to deal with the retina display, but I suspect that the GPU plays more of a role there.
I would add 3) commander of the armed forces.

Also because of the laws passed under 1) in perhaps the most important duty, the President, according to the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, must submit a budget to Congress each year. IMHO, this is where the line gets fuzzy as taxation and representation are inexorably linked.
In this case the will of the people is that the two candidates are equally good

That's a very positive way to look at it. The problem of reduced legitimacy persists, though. The disgruntled Coleman supporters will probably always have a sneaking suspicion that the election was stolen from them, which tends to poison actual discourse.
However, since the post to which you're replying specified more people voting, not more votes, your vacuous statement is not on point. Stop fear mongering and being a pointless pedant.
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It's a really interesting idea. It would be great to see how you decided to implement it!
>you can't prove how you voted (i.e. so you can't sell your vote). //

I assumed that if anything it was to prevent people being pressured in to voting a particular way (eg an abusive spouse) - what' wrong with selling your vote, surely that's still democratic: you've chosen to accept a particular candidate based on the outcome for you.
I'd rather not have politicians making the decisions at all. Why do I need to pick someone who poorly represents my views and will probably vote against my interests, when I could easily vote on actual issues.

We'd still need executives, but legislature should be reduced to putting bills before the people.
Previous post of project: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4277901
So are we complaining about the electoral college or the two party system? Way to smudge together two very important, but separate issues.

I would argue that the problem in the US is that the two party system is too weak, not too strong, especially at the Federal level. More party discipline would mean majorities would drive through meaningful legislation that would create real change and make voters understand that the one thing they won't get (like today) is inertia due to partisan politics. Today there's very little party discipline in Congress so all legislation becomes multi animal sausage and no one ends up liking the watered down and confused taste.
Here's a list of games available via Steam for Linux currently: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?os=linux

The link provided just redirects to the front store page for me: http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/