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The title could really stand to be more descriptive.

Claes Rytoft, head of technology in ABB's Power Systems division, discusses a breakthrough in the ability to interrupt direct current. The innovation solves a 100-year-old electrical engineering puzzle and paves the way for a more efficient and reliable electricity supply system.
> In fact, I'd wager that he knows his model is more complex than it needs to be, but part of his brand is "rogue genius with a complex model that's far too difficult for mere mortals to understand".

Not what he said on The Colbert Report. "It's not hard math. You take averages then you count to 270."
Not to say this is not true at all, however can't that be said for the iPads and Androids as well? I'm curious; I see a Macbook is something different, but other tablets fall in that category as well or not?
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Absolutely. I'm also Canadian, and therefore sensitized to the issues surrounding FPTP. So far, Canada has somehow resisted the tendency toward a partisan duopoly, but that's a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it means you can actually choose to vote for a progressive party, a moderate party or a conservative party (or a regional party). On the other, it means we get lots of bizarre artifacts, e.g. the 2008 election, in which the NDP had 18% of the vote but only 12% of the seats, while the BQ had 10% of the votes but 17% of the seats.
I've had my "retina" 15" since August and have been running it at 1920x1200 pretty much from Day 1. Coming from Macbook Pro's at 1440x900 and 1680x1050, it is definitely an adjustment. But honestly, I would never go back now. I can actually prefer coding on a single screen now! If something is too small, I can usually get away just bumping up the scaling in browser. I haven't experienced/noticed any kind of fuzziness or performance issues with scrolling. By far the best computer I've owned.
Éirígí criticise 'heavy handed' PSNI house searches in Newry
>The best ones dial their style upon recognizing which way the student works best.

So true! Each one of us is different. Personally, I love my freedom and ability to work at my own hours. My advisor always respects that and allows me to do so. He however adopts a different strategy for other students.
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How computer games help reduce cancer
Speaking as a former Chicagoan: the way you swing an election is with the connivance of the people who administer it, e.g., by making sure that the ballot boxes from “unfriendly” precincts end up in the bottom of the Chicago River.

Voter ID does nothing to prevent this sort of thing: the election officials in “friendly” precincts can just wink at forged or missing ID.

And voter ID makes a certain kind of election-skewing even easier, since officials in “unfriendly” precinct can discourage people from voting by rejecting valid ID, or simply by spending so long examining the IDs and arguing with the voters that everyone has to wait for hours in order to vote.
I think Beane probably had a lot more institutional resistance to his methods. The pundit class is much stronger in sports, since commentators are the mediators of entire sports for most fans (i.e. the majority don't attend games).
In your Chicago example, the electoral college could easily magnify it.

Imagine, for a moment, that if the kind of voter fraud that Chicago earned a reputation for in the 1960s were to happen in a city like Miami nowadays. So let's say 5,000 fraudulent votes went to candidate A. In a popular vote system, that's unlikely to swing the verdict because that's such a tiny margin compared to the country's entire electorate. 5,000 is less than 0.004% of the number of people who voted in 2008.

But Florida historically polls close - easily close enough for 5,000 votes to swing which way the state goes. And this winner wouldn't just pick up that tiny sliver, they would get all 29 of Florida's electoral votes. That's a much bigger chunk of the pie - 5.4%. Worse yet, in the electoral college getting the votes is a zero-sum game. (Not so in the earlier case because the votes shouldn't have existed in the first place - so picking up a fraudulent vote for candidate A doesn't mean that candidate B lost a vote.) Candidate A getting 29 votes means candidate B loses 29 votes, so the real swing is more than 10%.

Meaning that in this hypothetical, the electoral college managed to magnify the influence of what was a relatively small instance of electoral fraud by a factor of more than 2,500%, into something that could easily swing an election.
Nate Silver: Obama’s big win doesn’t mean the 538 guru is an electoral genius
How does a politician become "more connected" to the populace if said populace is only encountered as an integral function of a wider statistically significant effect?

"Dear Candidate, you will have to see people in that part of the country, not because you care, but because our data has shown that a similar visit before was statistically significant enough to matter."

On top of that, this data-driven approach actively undermines any connection by reducing it to a functional one. There isn't even the pretence anymore that the candidate cares for the given group due to intrinsic values or some sort of connection other than statistics.
Sativex isn't FDA approved yet, and neither Marinol or Cesamet are made from marijuana. (While this may seem pedantic, it makes a big difference if you're trying to argue for rescheduling in a federal lawsuit.)
Anyone with the 15" rMBP, if you haven't tried it yet, grab an app called SetResX (There are others, but SetResX is free and the only one I've actually tried). It'll let you force the screen to 2880x1800.

This might just be me, but I love to code like this, splitting different windows to different corners of the screen. I used to use a 30" 2560x1600, and the rMBP @ 2880x1800 lets me keep the same workflow I love on a laptop. Admittedly it takes a little getting used to and such a high res on a small screen isn't for everyone, but if you've got one, give it a try at least once.
Great idea.

As someone who wants a small project to try out a new framework, this seems like a great site to find projects.

It might be helpful to have users flag tasks that they are working on, so that others can get a sense of how many people are currently working on an answer.
Why is discrimination even illegal in private universities? What part of the law makes it illegal, for instance, for a group of Koreans to create a private entity in Columbus OH, where the get together and teach each other things?
Skype is also the only reliable option for VOIP calling on Android, which is unfortunate since the Android Skype client is buggy and missing some obviously needed features. The alternatives (groove ip, sipdroid, csipsimple) are even flakier and/or require you to have an account with a reliable sip provider.
How can you declare a winner without all votes being reported?
Don't get me wrong, it isn't a bad design but I think your price point may be a bit high for what other competitors sell their high quality WordPress themes for. $30 can buy you a much more robust (custom -- not Bootstrap) theme on sites like http://themeforest.net, http://www.mojo-themes.com, http://www.woothemes.com, etc. You may want to look at bringing your price down slightly to compete with those bigger markets.
Your argument is silly and pretentious.

The quality of the Retina screen is simply better—no fanboyism, no dogma, it's just a higher quality picture, period. It's nice to read sharper fonts, it's nice that the interface scales natively, and it just looks great. It's not about "admiring" anything, it's not about being out-of-touch with the "real world audience"—it's just a higher quality piece of technology.

Furthermore, this statement from the original article is simply false:

"the 13” Retina, like the 15” Retina, can scale to a simulated 1680 × 1050, but it doesn’t look nearly as good"

As the author notes, the only problem with the higher-resolution scaling is performance, and even then the Intel 4000 integrated graphics actually still handles it with relative ease.

Apple is slightly ahead of their time here. The technology really is stunning, and in practical use it still works well. Performance is a slight issue when scaling to higher desktop areas, but the tradeoff for more real estate is more than worth it.

The truth is that the screen gives you more options for how to size and use your display, not fewer as this article seems to imply. The limitations are slight, and in this and future models, software and hardware will surely continue to improve.

In short: the death of the high-dpi display has been greatly exaggerated. Don't pay attention to this FUD, just try one yourself for an extended period of time.
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Ever heard of Anthropocentrism? Why would tool use be confined to humans? When a baby (or a cub) learns to control his/her eye muscles, or her/his hands; when a bird builds a nest, it's tool use. Tool use is simply an extension of learning how to use our bodily organs, nothing special about it, all living creatures do that.
I don't think that his writing gets enough credit -- explaining what is happening to generate the predictions is really useful. Pretty much everyone that builds models from the state level polls seems to have made more or less the same predictions, but I've found his discussion to be the most interesting and informative (I may have missed some other good sources though).
It would seem largely pointless for them to build their own distro from scratch.

On the other hand it should be relatively trivial to make a spin of say an Ubuntu LTS that boots directly into Steam "big picture mode" directly on top of standard X11 without a Window Manager.

In theory I suppose they could ship this with a standard set of hardware that was subsidised and end up with something that looked more like an Xbox.
I simultaneously envy your eyesight and pity what you are doing to it.
I think ignorance the main reason designers keep misusing it. I, for one, simply didn't know any better and would always throw one of these in my CSS:

-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; /* Fix for webkit rendering */
That's fair, but I'd point out two things:

1. Even though any middle schooler with a calculator could have predicted the election 2 days ago, it seems that not many of them did - at least, if you judge based on the odds for a Democrat win you could get on InTrade and BetFair 2 days ago (65% and 75% respectively).

2. One neat thing about my model is that, in principle you can run it in "historical" mode and see what its predictions would have been at any given point in the past. So I can see what probability of a DEM win I would have assigned 2 months ago, and see if that's significantly different from the forecast from a more complex model.
OK, it's a logical fallacy, but you're splitting hairs. What's the point of "intellectual property" except to get some government to enforce it? "IP" laws don't empower individuals, in the way that say, free speech rights do. "IP" laws empower enforcers. So, yes, strictly speaking, I made a logical fallacy. In real life, that's the way "IP" is going to play out: strictly enforced.
> law enforcement puts much of the blame on the
> rapid growth of medical marijuana use in the last
> decade

I would say that law enforcement isn't necessarily unbiased here. It comes across to me like asking the RIAA about how piracy affects them and then being concerned when they claim that they are loosing $1-billion every minute due to piracy.

If you're worried about DUIs, then do you want alcohol production/possession criminialized?
What's the problem? As long as your terminal is secure, the channel should be safe even over insecure Wifi, since the Skype client has a copy of the certificate of the server and can therefore authenticate it.
I've had the old 15" macboo pro, a 13" air and now the 15" retina. Never noticed less space on the screen. Only thing I did notice was everything is more crisp. Doesn't bother me at all.
>nearly 1,000 deaths and injuries each year

That number is meaningless unless we know what counts as "injuries".

Furthermore "drugged driving" is anytime someone is in an accident and blood tests show evidence of Marijuana use, even in cases where the driver was no longer impaired.

>Fatalities in crashes where drugs were the primary cause and alcohol was not involved jumped 55% over the 10 years ending in 2009.

How often were they testing for Marijuana after car accidents in 1999 compared to 2009, and what level of impairment is the cutoff for a "primary cause."

That statistic is useless without knowing if an increased number of "drugged driving" offenses was offset by a corresponding decreased number of alcohol impaired offenses.
Try replacing your asterisks with x's, or escape them. It's triggering Markdown.
And the technology is fairly young, and things will continue to improve.

You speak the truth. The original article is hogwash and should be ignored with prejudice.
So this is an algorithm to determine what another algorithm will determine will be popular? Meta.
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Smart answer: dual boot.
Are the users of this service technically performing illegal activity? After all, the reason we're not watching Hulu is because it's licensed only for certain areas. I don't know the law pertaining to this case itself.

EDIT: Obviously using a VPN isn't illegal (in most first world countries, anyway), but the actual access of Hulu from an unlicensed area is what I mean.
I was told most of these points by my advisor when I entered my PhD program. I just forwarded this article as well. :-)
I second this. This has to be seen to be believed (if your eyes can manage it).

More real estate than the old 30" cinema display, in a 15" diagonal screen. It's a miracle.
Everyone's comfort level of accepting new technology is graded on a spectrum. 3D printing is probably at the beginning of the early adopters/innovator stage. The people in this stage have to invision what jobs 3D printing can be applied to and test those ideas in the market place. I think we see that taking shape with companies going public, and other rapid prototyping companies adopting 3D printing and combing it with injection molds, etc. The economics of these ideas and the ideas themselves are being tested with the manufacturing community. These ideas have to cross the chasm between innovators and majority adopters/pragmatists before real adoption will start, and it has to do it on several verticals like: consumer, manufacturers, etc. Each crossing of the chasm will be different in each vertical. I think right now 3D printing has much more promise in crossing the chasm with manufacturing over say consumer, but that could changed depending on the innovators finding applications of it.
It's one thing to hold the bottle, quite another to aim the funnel from 10ft away.
A couple replies have mentioned willful infringement, but I don't think they quite got it right. It's true that if you are found to be a willful infringer, damages can be increased.

However, willfulness requires more than merely knowing about the patent and its claims. It requires reckless disregard for the patent. If you read a patent, and honestly decide that the claims don't cover what you are doing, then if you end up infringing it likely will not be willful.
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Based on media and social media I have seen (a very distorting view I know) there has been little sign of enthusiasm such as yours except at his campaign rallies. From the Republican supporters there seemed to be much more negativity about Obama than positivity for Romney.

Do you think your view is widely shared? Can you say what you like about him?
How much you think is a good price for this?
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Skype doesn't make it easy to use two accounts. There is no "multiple accounts" feature where you can be logged in as one or both; instead, you have to log out and log back in again as the other. Sometimes, you might be on-call, so chatting with friends is OK, but you still need to be available to coworkers.

The problem with Skype is that it's totally closed. I use a multi-protocol IM client, with multiple accounts, so I can chat with people over AIM, FB, Google Chat, my work chat, and so on. Sadly, despite the fact that my work has Google Apps, which includes chat, they have standardized on Skype instead, so I need to have an entirely separate client, and log out and log back in when switching between work and personal accounts.
Absolutely—it's effectively a PCIe x2 external interface. There's plenty of bandwidth.
I installed cloudflare and de-activated the twitter widget that was being attacked. It fixed the issue. Thanks so much for your help!
Similarly, the purpose of World War 2 was to destroy other industrialized nations so that the United States could dominate the very lucrative world economy once peace was reattained.

Just look at who the world powers were pre-World War, and after.
> 1) Do the Republicans have people who would make compelling candidates in the Presidential election? (Who?)

Lots. Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie was often mentioned. The candidates who stepped in the ring for the Republican party were second stringers who saw their chance. The A Players were either not available or too smart to step in the ring. (The economy was wrecked under the Republican watch and Obama was in the process of fixing it.)
Was one of them capacity planning?
But you can't run the same election 10 times. Without hearing the interview, I'm going to guess he's talking about multiple states, all with 60% chance of winning, which puts us in a different place entirely.

I guess I'm not disagreeing with the main point of your post. Just your use of the phrase "something would happen 60% of the time", as being oddly frequentist, when a Bayesian perspective is more appropriate here.
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And this is different from US politics, how?
The presidential market on InTrade was quite liquid. $300k of volume with a bid-ask spread of like 0.2%.

Do you know why there was such a persistent gap for arbitrage between InTrade and BetFair? I don't know about BetFair's vig and rules, but InTrade has only a couple of small fixed transaction costs. ($5/mo to have an account and $10 to pull your money out, I think.) Seems like it should have been eaten up.
Honestly, since a lot of it is built on top of Bootstrap, which probably sped up your development time and would also speed up someone trying to replicate it themselves. I would say closer to the $15-$20 range would make it much more enticing to people who know about those other sites.
Well, it seems like a big change. In the past, your observation (about haggling) was applicable to local elections; perhaps now it simply escalated to a larger, country-wide, scale?
At my day job, SHA-1 is the basis for our deduplication. As such, we love talking about frames of reference for the probability of a SHA-1 collision. One of our presentations includes such facts as "the probability of dying in a vending machine accident", etc.

If you enjoy this stuff, you'll get a pleasant tickle out of this one:

What is the probability that there exists a SHA-1 hash which hashes to itself? In other words, are there any fixed points?

(This post was edited to fix the phrasing mistake nicely pointed out by a commenter. Originally, I asked "probability that a SHA-1" when I meant "probability that any SHA-1")
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Thanks for the feedback! That's an interesting idea. Right now, registered users can click "I'm working on it" on a given bounty to privately signal to the bounty creator that they have started work. I was hesitant to make the list of current workers public because it might dissuade other would-be solution providers from answering, since they might assume that the other user is almost done with the problem (when they might not have done anything at all). I might add in some kind of "I'm working on it" track record for each user, so people can see how often they actually solved problems they said they'd be working on. Thanks for bringing that up.
This link seems to be working:

http://davidhauser.com/post/35203066523/advice-from-21-entre...
Maybe ever so slightly (I would disagree with "quite crappy") - but in any case, worth it for supremely adjustable screen real estate.
> Marijuana use will probably at least double as a result of this bill. Unfortunately, this has a real cost to society. There's not a lot of quality data on the health effects of regular pot use, but what I've read says it's something of a mix of the effects of alcoholism and cigarette addiction. This is going to have a real dollar cost to the state unless we can fix our healthcare system before people who start taking up pot now that it's legal start getting cancer in 10-15 years.

There is a lot wrong with this bit here. First, I'm not sure where you are finding a figure that cannabis use will double post-legalization. The actual count of users of cannbis isn't fully accurate due to the illegal nature of using it and places that have purused legalization or decriminalization efforts have actually seen a falling trend in cannabis consumption.

Second, the effects of regular pot use ARE NOT like alcoholism or smoking. Cannabis does not have a physical addiction characteristic like alcohol or cigarettes, the method of operation on the body is completely different from alcohol and cigarettes, and research on the health effects of cannabis have been extremely limited due to the schedule I status of cannabis in the US. Granted there may be health issues associated with cannabis usage, but the problem is not well understood and will not be well understood so long as cannabis is schedule I and research on it restricted at the federal level.

Third, legalizing cannabis does have a real dollar cost as it relates to health care, but this isn't a sign to continue to keep cannabis illegal, but rather to fix the fundamental structural problems of health care in the US. Also, it is not clear that there is a causal relationship between some types of cancer and regular cannabis use, and amounts of cannabis consumed by regular users is highly variable. Further, combustion is not the only way to consume cannabis, so the association here with cannabis being a smoking type drug is quite wrong, and in fact many folks with smoke sensitivity do not consume cannabis this way at all.

I agree that like any legal change, there are costs associated with legalizing cannabis, but those costs are so much cheaper than what we have going on today in the US and in the countries where the war on drugs has resulted in tremendous violence and political instability.
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In a store full of big-screen TVs, laptops, tablets and every species of shining rectangle, one device emits a reality-distortion field like no other: the iMac. The display is just.. perfect. After seeing the iMac 2 years ago, I switched to e-IPS (Dell 2209WA, then the Dell U2312HM), but somehow they're not in the same league. Way better than TN LCDs, of course, but not iMac/Cinema display. Is e-IPS that much worse than IPS? Perhaps it's Apple's calibration which does the trick? I don't know.

I would love to find a cheap monitor which used the same panel as the iMac and had similar image quality. Any pointers?