skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love Asus, and I really wanted to love the Transformer Prime, but I just can't use that keyboard. I don't think I have freakishly huge hands, but I can't fit my fingers on the home row without overlapping.

I'm going to take a look at the Atom-powered Vivo Tab that runs the full version of Windows 8 when it comes out, but I suspect that the keyboard may still be too small.

Samsung's convertible tablet is 11.6", which has already proven itself to be large enough for a full size keyboard, when its done properly.

I wish Asus, or someone else, would come out with a convertible that's as thin, light, and attractive as the Zenbook Prime, but with a screen that's 11-13" and 1080p, with an i5, 8GB of ram, a wacom digitizer, and a quality keyboard.
As a longtime Arq user, I'm bummed there is no way to convert my existing Arq S3 backups to Glacier without uploading everything again. I know this is a limitation of Amazon's Glacier API, so maybe it will be possible in the future..
Absolutely. That's what everyone speaks here. Well at least 99.9% of the people you're likely to encounter. :)
In the intervening 3.9 years of each election period. If you don't like the choices, you need to work harder.
I believe a appropriate way to handle this would be to say something like:

"In order to use this service, You must have obtained a waiver from Hulu, Netflix or Pandora that allows you to waive paragraph X of their terms of service. If you do not have express permission, You may not continue."

Not sure how well it would hold up but in theory it would put the responsibility on the consumer and not the supplier.
Really, intentionally disregarding a broken machine is felony election tampering. We shouldn't have bored old ladies running precincts, we should cough up for paid, trained professionals.
Animate doesnt work on older browsers and produce slow and dreadfull code. Animate is everything flash is hated for without the power of actionscript.

CreateJs is a better solution, but you still need canvas ( you can still polyfill with flash canvas for older browsers )
Yeah, this seems non-representative, especially if text is rendered natively (as other comments claim). Probably pretty accurate for images though.
You were so close. Instead of voting, why don't people actually decide what happens amongst each other? Some people could use voting if they want. Another group of people could use a different method. But because force is involved, we're never given the chance to find out. It's complete vendor lock in. It's like being forced to use Internet Explorer 6... for hundreds of years. Sorry for the wild analogy, but using IE 6 for hundreds of years sounds pretty painful.
No. For all you or I know this person is a better, happier, more intelligent person than you or I.

They did their civic duty and will accept the democratic will of the people regardless of the outcome.
US does not have federal elections. US has state elections for Senate, Congress, and the Electoral College.
What you're buying isn't a vote, but a receipt. What if we could increase the supply of valid receipts enough to make them effectively worthless?

For example, voting machines could drop duplicate receipts into a bucket that voters are free to rummage around in.
Actually, Introversion's games were on Linux before even the first Humble Bundle existed, which made the later Bundle appearance a bit of an outlier in that department.

The real surprise in the list is The Book of Unwritten Tales, which I think is the only non-Valve/non-Croteam title in the catalog that was not available on Linux before today. And in its genre (traditional graphical adventure) it's a very high-profile title.
Apple Says Samsung’s Galaxy Note, Jelly Bean Infringe Patent
It depends. If you have enough savings, you can take the much needed time-off and clear your mind and then work on another problem to solve. If money is the issue then get a consulting or freelancing gig (plenty of info on HN how to get 1). Write a guest blog post on why your Startup failed. Also there are plenty of people looking for Co-founders. The worst mistake is to not start something new because you think you may fail again.
Nice electoral animated 'doodle' from NY times
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One of the core principles of the US system is that no one knows how a specific individual voted. This system (if I understand you correctly) requires the voter to confirm his vote to another human, which breaks the anonymity.
Millions of dollars is cheap for a properly conducted vote.
Nice post for me (a non-programmer). I like the description on your site of the various levels you can try as you "build something interesting" Any comparisons of writing plugins for WP vs Bootstrap? which would be better for building a site that uses crowdsourcing, bidding, etc.? Thanks
Please help me understand this better?

With a deep understanding of markets and trading I fail to see why you see 'luck' as an explanatory variable is inversely correlated with the frequency of your trades (notwithstanding the effect of trading expenses)?

From what I have gleaned the following seems to be true:
1. Your algorithms worked (made money)
2. Then your algorithms did not work, but you could not figure out why

If you do not know why something stopped working it seems unlikely that you had a full understanding of why it was working in the first place. Without understanding the nature of the predictive value of the algorithm while it was working, its success seems to be good fortune.

Your algorithm could have shown a systematic correlation to any number of factors that could have created strong performance over several months. Performance would then be attributed to accidentally 'timing' a favorable market.

I know you feel differently, what am I missing?

And either way - kudos on the $500k.
I have been a candidate (in Scotland/UK). Here all rejected ballot papers are shown to all the candidates and their agents and if a paper is technically invalid (in the UK that means any mark other than a cross) but where the intent is clear (ie yes in the box against Mrs McGinty) are counted as if they were valid votes.

Very rarely is there disagreement about what is a valid vote - but they can be very ambiguous. The paper is only approved if there is a high level of unambiguity about it - any doubt it goes out.
21% in number of pixels. You have to take the sqrt of that before scaling the diagonal
Show HN: Live updating election images by location instead of hashtags
I've been using http://www.unblock-us.com/ for the last year. It's been a great service to access Netflix/Hulu.
There's a sentence in this article that is critical and yet very easy to overlook: the author had 2 years experience daytrading manually. That already gave him a lot of knowledge of how the markets work and where an edge might be found.

I think that if someone is a good programmer and has some mathematical chops and has that kind of experience daytrading, taking a shot at automated trading is probably a reasonable thing for them to do. Without all of that background, you're right, they're almost certain to lose money.
I think the point being made is that given an organisation/entity that runs a whole bunch of stuff on a bunch of VM servers then, theoretically, the most important VM on a VM server (with regards to security/encryption) is now only as secure as the least secure VM that runs on that same VM server.

Rather than try and hack the nailed down, up to date with patches, regulary checked/scanned/etc payment processing VM with lots of credit card info directly it's easier to pick off the forgotten about unpatched VM on the same host that someone spun up to do a bit of testing and then promptly forgot about.

IOW, if you're in control of it, don't run really important stuff on VMs shared with a whole bunch of 'other' VMs, or make sure that everything you run on a specific VM host is equally secure.
I just saw one talking about the website itself. Both sides ticked up one.

So yeah, it's not exactly accurate, but hey - it's fun to watch.
Yes this is the point I was going to write myself. I played online poker for four years and won over $100,000. I wasn't very good compared to the top 5% of players at my stakes, but I was much better at bankroll management, tilt control, and all of the other soft skills. The way I structured my bankroll made it actually impossible to go broke as well.
No, I believe they are advocating that the ballot be counted/approved or rejected in the presence of the voter. This way people will have an opportunity to fix any mistakes with the ballot itself. This wouldn't have anything to do with the votes, rather it would ensure that the intention of the voter was correctly captured.

This is the way it worked when I lived in Indiana. We had paper/optical ballots that were scanned immediately after we turned them in. We watched them get scanned, and could verify that the counter on the scanner incremented (not vote tallies, just a +1 for total ballots cast).
The one labeled "Web App Template" is a working HTML/CSS/JS website and we'll be releasing HTML/CSS versions of all the PSDs soon. Send an email over to hello@knok.me and we'll let you know once they're out!
Google's politics and elections center
Yes you can. If there is a tie in the UK the result is chosen on a cut of the cards.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/england...

The candidates agree, and the winner and loser both accept the outcome, works for me.
This is awesome. Technologies we have take for granted in the developed world now saving lives in the developing world.
Mandatory voting cuts both ways. It would require fixing the many things that prevent people from voting in the USA: making the day a holiday, fixing voter registration, getting enough manpower that the wait is reasonable everywhere, for starters.
Seeing tons of these at the moment:

RT @MichelleObama: RT if youve already voted for President Obama today! #VoteObama
I think the point was that neither of those will make it into your account in time to take advantage at this point.
I thought it would be easier for people to not have to move files every time they want to edit something, sinc the point is simplicity.
Geek's Guide to Election Day 2012 [pdf]
Apple hopes to add Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to latest Samsung lawsuit
I'm always partial to any post in which a start up actually admits that a bigger competitor did something better, even if it's lowly sales.
I think it's great. Total newb, but I would like to work on skills to make this type of project. I'm curious how did you build it? What platform, if any, or languages did you use.
OP's link goes to the homepage, full post:

http://jeffmatthewsmith.tumblr.com/post/34995742398/why-nobo...
I personally find it scary when people think that "Gods will" has anything to do with electing the leader of the most powerful country in the world for the next four years.

It starts to sound a lot like fundamentalism, and makes me wonder how different this is than parts of the world in constant violence due to "gods will".
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They are routing this through Azure, their bandwidth bill is going to be through the roof.
Something is clearly wrong here. Have you updated everything to the latest version (OS X 10.8.2, latest firmware, etc)? If so and you're having the problems you described it sounds like a defective unit.

I have a 15" rMBP. It had a lot of graphical issues before upgrading to Mountain Lion. After the upgrade I only had 1 issue with bootcamp and resetting SMC solved that. I run at 1920x1200 and all natively rendered stuff (eg fonts) is crisp. Integrated video (same Intel 4000) works fine for all web browsing. I do notice low frame rates with some OS transitions but nothing on the web. I get 6+ hours of battery life easily.
And if that is too close as well?
Probably wants to get back to poker.
Perspective on 3D printers from a mechanical designer
C-states and P-states: confounding factors for benchmarking
How many of the votes are from the 25,000+ people that retweeted Michelle Obama saying 'voted for President Obama'?

https://twitter.com/MichelleObama/status/265906946530496513

You'd probably clean up a whole lot by ignoring tweets containing "RT". That seems to be much of the stream.
When I say limiting trades, I mean naively saying 'I will have at most x positions outstanding'. Each trade has an associated risk (variance), that interacts in complicated ways in a portfolio, which I'm sure you know.

silly example, 100 small positions could be less risky than 1 large position or, 1 long, and 1 short trade will cancel each other out and create a riskless portfolio (with 0 return).

You need to have a risk budget, account for each trade, and work out the risk for the composite portfolio. Obviously this is not fool proof, but it's a way better approximation of the real world.
“Equal unpleasantness” is more accurate, and works in a multidimensional space where there isn't a median.
Win2K was marketed to businesses as the last version of NT before consumer-pro unification. WinXP picked up consumers from Win98 who skipped WinME.
> If you put your geekdom "crawl entire web/robot car/computers on every desk" hat on you'll realize you can run circles around the current medical industry.

Then why hasn't anyone done precisely this?
There is a video, but it doesn't demonstrate anything. Did you even watch it??
A great example is Canada. 35 million people, but 80% of them live within 200 miles of the US border. The population density stat would be very misleading in that case.
Doesn't any of you Elite players of old remember "Witch Space". When when you hyperspaced to anywhere, instead of getting to your destination you found yourself in a featureless void being attacked by the Mighty Thargons and their babies the Tharglets,if you killed the babies you could then sell them as "Alien Items" for a large profit if you got out of Witch Space alive!Brilliant game addictive as Hell,I for one cant wait, bring it on Braben about time!.
Vardek.
This x1000. I'd go one step further and not use force at all (or at least have the option not to), but I would still take your idea any day over the current structure.
Exactly - it's like the Twitter developer relationship, where you just have to assume that they're going to coopt your business at any time if all you're doing is repurposing their API.
If voters are given a receipt, buyers of votes can demand to see said receipt to verify they voted the correct way. boss/abusive family member/mafia can demand to see the vote receipt on threat of your job/safety/family returning safely tonight. The potential for a vote receipt means that these 3rd parties can reward/punish you based on the way you voted. Without it, they have no way of knowing if their coercion/blackmail worked or not.

Personally, I would like to have a receipt because I think the danger of my vote not having been recorded is greater than the danger of someone demanding my vote receipt off me.
One 25-employee company I was aware of during the first .com wave had at least three different people handling mail sent to the CEO's public address.
Pls do not follow the advice of the OP. I started a hedgefund in 2004 doing HF platform arbitrage and ran it for 5yrs and i can honestly tell you that this is just survivorship bias. This is a very complex field and being off slightly, having a slight bias, a fraction of a point off your execution pricing and a slightly flawed money management system is recipe for disaster.

The biggest issue is the confusion that you can apply machine learning to HF trading. HF trading sub 15min mark is more about playing the deal flow, and only the institutions have an edge on this. This is why goldman had to separate the buy and sell sides in the early 2000's. Above 15mins you are able to find an edge using time series analyses since the market is scaling invariant according to Benoit Mandelbrot and this does not apply to dealflow. Also having access to dealflow allows you to predict volatilty seconds ahead which allows you decrease your risk and increase you reward as well as handle your costs since the volatility will impact your transaction costs even if transaction costs themselves stay the same. There is just so much stuff to cover that a comment will not do justice in explaining what is wrong with this guys logic.
Google Election Results
Those seem valid though, no? The intent of the RT is to say "I voted for Obama"
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It isn't entirely liquid. It's a pain to get money into Intrade (esp. for an American).

IEM (http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/quotes/Pres12_quotes.html) and Intrade were up until yesterday off by 10%. Eventually things moved closer, but regulatory hurdles in actually getting money in (+ limits on funding) really hurt arbitrage opportunities.
I don't get you haters. sure the title is a bit misleading because he never really discusses what his alphas were. But its a pretty good high level description of the architecture of a hft system. I was a quant at GS and these are not the retail investors you pick off. You have your own set of alphas and most of them are meant to pick on mom and pops clicking away at home. This guy didn't reveal his strategy but nevertheless the graph shows his strategy had a significant edge. The lifetime of a strategy also looks like that. It is another thing that his title for the post is kind of off.
I thought of making a similar service, but with the option to upload a package manager config file. scenario: I have project A and B, with some dependencies. I upload the files, and I get a weekly digest "project A: updates for django, userena, taggit, jquery, zurb foundation. project B: django, zurb foundation" or similar. Have you thought of implementing it?
Right- thanks for the correction.
Severely lacking from the "Issues" category:

- Civil liberties

- Foreign policy
I'm much more worried by the fact that voting is so widely considered "our civic duty" than by the fact that some people believe there is a God whose will affects the world.
I have the 15" and absolutely love it. When the machine isn't taxed, I've gotten more than 7 hours from the battery and I do quite a bit of coding and reading on it. YMMV.
I'd assumed it was a reference to jwz's "how will this software get my users laid":

http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html

Maybe I'm giving them too much credit...
Cell phone video of the whole process would probably be enough to placate the husband and buy a vote though.
A negative vote? How would that work?

Here's the big problem with that idea: someone still has to win. Therefore you should vote for the candidate who you think deserves to win. If you don't think any of the candidates deserve to win, then that's a problem... but it's not a problem that "negative voting" solves.
Reminds me of Bundlescout: http://bundlescout.com
True. Though intrade has been valuing Obama's chances 10+% lower than 538 at least since the first debate.
The license is for the software--the Shen implementation. If you don't use the Shen implementation provided, then you're not subject to the license. If you create a port/version/mod of Shen then you are using the software. The way ports of Shen are created is by implementing Klambda. The provided Shen implementation compiles Shen to Klambda, which your port then compiles to a host language. So, unless you really want to clean-room reimplement the entire Shen language (which is NOT how porting is intended to be done) then you're using the software that is subject to the license.
Congrats to upverter with their new release, together we can kick some kicad and eagle butt :) Make sure to also try out circuits.io
Well, if you really want to be on the safe side of that particular power vs. safety tradeoff, the repl code could run from (say) clojail. (https://github.com/flatland/clojail)
Man he's hated by a lot of the media. Whole diatribes are being written about how it's impossible to boil an election down to numbers on a spreadsheet. It's crazy that these are the same people that ask us to respect their opinions. Not even a basic understanding of mathematical thinking.
Same here. I have no problem paying the $5/month if it means the service stays up and runs flawlessly.
It's really not difficult at all to get money into Intrade as an American. I had wires show up day-of if I did it early enough or next-day in every other case.

Also of note is that other betting markets were consistently higher than Intrade was for all of the last 6 months basically- there are a lot of theories as to why this may be, but it's regularly been 5%+ lower on Obama.
AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs. Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 Take Two
Best part of that video is how it dumps out all its work at the end.
Running Drools 5.4.0 Final as a JBoss AS 7 module
Many people check out a news site a few times a day, so it's hard to tell. Either way, it's impressive.
Whitelisting is a wholly different concept than being locked into a single vendor's app store.

Being forced to abide by a single whitelist provider would be similar, but I personally won't be buying into those platforms and if I don't have a choice, I'll be jailbreaking...barring that, well we simply wouldn't be living in a free society at that point so I think I'd have bigger issues to deal with than computing freedom.
Converting your website to Responsive Design
It originally meant a lot of things.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28term%29#Overlaps_and_...

[1]: "The main basic difference between programmer subculture and computer security hackers is their mostly separate historical origin and development. However, the Jargon File reports that considerable overlap existed for the early phreaking at the beginning of the 1970s. An article from MIT's student paper The Tech used the term hacker in this context already in 1963 in its pejorative meaning for someone messing with the phone system.[10] The overlap quickly started to break when people joined in the activity who did it in a less responsible way.[28] This was the case after the publication of an article exposing the activities of Draper and Engressias." - Wikipedia; Tue Nov 6 16:27:58 PST 2012
I'm surprised to see Oracle on the anti-pattern list. Though their tactics sound aggravating, they've made an incredible amount of money from it. It seems hard to argue with those sort of results.
All good points, azakai.

Ashley: Given that you are running on Windows, unless you have manually enabled the desktop OpenGL option in Chrome, your WebGL calls are running through the ANGLE layer. That means they are getting translated to native D3D under the hood. http://blog.chromium.org/2010/03/introducing-angle-project.h...

A couple more possible explanations:

1) Your performance may be dominated by the overhead of lots of API calls. For example, drawing 4-vertex sprites individually would do that. ANGLE forwards those calls to a separate process for security reasons, but as a side effect you can end up with a whole core devoted to nothing but API overhead. This could actually run a lot faster than API + everything else on a single core.

2) The Transgaming guys working on ANGLE have a lot of experience auto-translating other people's crappy 3D code between OGL<->D3D. (http://transgaming.com/news/transgaming-developing-angle-pro...) It's possible that their translation of your OpenGL is a better use of D3D than your own D3D.
I have done HFT, played heads up semi professionally, and for my bachelors thesis wrote a paper on a PLO playing bot. I studied Alberta's research and it is phenomenal. The parallels that emerge between HFT and a pokerbot is essentially that the architectures of both systems are kind of same and the details are kind of orthogonal. The edge in Hold'em is kind of gone. The 1/2 games right now are as tough as the 25/50 games 5 years ago. PLO is still pretty exploitable though. The same is true with HFT. Most strategies in HFT no longer work but there are definitely ones that still give you a lot of edge-you just have to think harder : )(just like three betting preflop and cbetting the flop doesnt work anymroe).