skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tha's very idealistic and I'd like to agree, but the thing is you're one voter among millions - tends of millions, if you're electing a Senator in CA. There's a whole string of reforms I'd like to see (beginning with Senate representation) but realistically that requires redrafting the constitution, which isn't happening soon (although it's not as remote a possibility as you may imagine).

But all that said, money does talk and it's the best way to move the needle on a single issue - directly to the candidate if you can do it in quantity, via lobbying organization (eg the EFF) if you can't.
I wish we could get the story from Xerox's side. If they understood they had something revolutionary on their hands, why did they not try to market it themselves? What resource were they missing?
If you bothered to read the article, you would see that he did.
He says he tested that it wasn't a calibration error. How is it sensationalism? Think first.
My understanding is that would be fine so long as the default distributable will run Shen according to the spec. Keep in mind, you can do a LOT of extensions and still run standard Shen. For example, the existing shen-clisp, you can seamlessly call clisp functions by typing them in all caps. I think it would be interesting for someone in this conversation to suggest something that they might want to do to the language that would not allow standard Shen to run also.
Try load hnmobile on a non-iOS device/browser :)
What exactly do you mean by the ability to 'analyse'. Could you expand on that a little?
> "...insulating the heat sink from my lap..."

I'm not sure exactly how the Vaio Z is engineered, but wouldn't that defeat (or at least hinder) the purpose of the heat sink? Maybe there is enough space to let air flow to cool the heat sink.
In Australia we have "mandatory" voting. But actually it is only mandatory that you turn up -- you can deliberately vote "informal" if you don't actually want to cast a vote, and many people do just that (5.5% in the last federal election, although probably more like 2.5-3% of these are deliberate refusals to vote).

This is my preferred system. To me, you don't want to absolute force people to vote. But you do want to remove the bias that exists because turning out to vote is easier for some people than others (and it tends to be easier for the more privileged). Other factors help too: e.g. polling is on the weekend.

Re: apathy, the solution is not to ignore the disenfranchised, but to engage them. True representation is not about suiting those with the most free time and energy.
A $300 iPad does a better job than this $3,500 voting machine.
For someone who actually is the beta to examine / report.

If $HOME/steam exists before installation, some files goes into $HOME/steam other in $HOME/Steam. And the installation fails.
See also part 2 (http://goo.gl/Mrnpu), 3 (http://goo.gl/us70j) and 4: (http://goo.gl/DE661)
Linux>windows
I discourage people from voting on things that they don't understand. You should feel easy about leaving propositions or measures blank. I know that I didn't vote on some city measures. Although there is an electoral college, especially when it comes to propositions and measures, if you don't understand the topic, and if you didn't look at both sides, then you're adding chaos to a process that should be led by people who have an authentic position. Everyone should be able to vote, but voting comes with the responsibility of being informed.
I agree but dont you thing that there is value to be extracted from the two phrases "voted for Obama" and "voted for Romney"?
Nice work Zak! I've been waitin for something like this for years.
I have almost finished the ability to add custom projects (within reason). Perhaps I could then implement a service which auto-detects packages. So, user Bob creates a repo in github. He adds a file in the root called packages.json which contains a list of the packages he is using. He then adds his repo to updateditis.com. Updateditis periodically checks his packages.json file and if it detects a change in one of the packages versions, it emails Bob saying "For project XYZ, the package ABC has been updated to version 1.2.3, you should consider updating it."
Live Election Coverage at The Washington Post
Don't confuse apathy with powerlessness and disenfranchisement, and don't assume that being motivated means being right.
Of course, anyone that knows what the suffix "-itis" is for will be cringing. It always has bugged me when people use "-itis"-- your [insert thing here] is not inflamed ;)
Raspberry Pi in Space
My I dare asking where we can get those awesome tshirts?
I can't find a specific quote but I know Deiter Rams said that design should make a product useful, or give priority to usability. I've always felt the same and am often perplexed by what is shared around the internet passing for "good design". I've been doing/learning graphic design since I was a little kid (photoshop 7 back when I was 12) I've since moved on to marketing and entrepreneurship (more of an evolution than a transition) but it's only further cemented this idea for me that design should be useful and achieve something not merely be pretty.

Minimalism is awesome, but your right often people take it too far and sacrifice value for the sake of making it pretty. The real crime isn't in designers doing this, but in the community celebrating it as good design.

but your absolutely right.
That demo is precisely what I was looking for for functionality. Now I just need to figure out how to pull those values out. Thank you.
It's "laid" vs "layed out". Nobody says, "I laid my circuit today".
If the receipts are anonymous, they can't prove how you voted, only that you were able to obtain a receipt. So what if we increase the supply of receipts enough to destroy the value of an individual receipt? For example, voting machines could drop duplicate receipts in a bucket that voters have access to.
Agreed. I love bootstrap's structure and formatting, but am hesitant to use it anymore since it gives off a "weekend side-project" vibe instead of "serious company".

Themes like these that change the appearance without changing the structure are awesome. Most bootstrap themes are just color modifications to the standard bootstrap. Inspiritas actually looks and feels completely new, which makes it useful. Kudos to Jonatan.
Ask HN: Is getting my CompSci degree worth the lost work experience?
In college, I majored in Statistics. However, I decided I would much rather work in software development. At first I thought that no employer would give me any chance with no work experience and no degree in Computer Science. So, I decided to try and get a graduate degree in computer science. Mid way through the application process, however, I managed to find a job in web development, which involves a lot of programming, and I have been enjoying it so far. I started my graduate program 2 months ago, and I am having second thoughts about this program because the coursework seems to be both time consuming and impractical. And since it is time consuming, it has been getting in the way of having time to do real work for my job. Recently I found out that place where I live, despite being an off campus apartment, may force me to either move out or become a full time student. Now, I may be able to find another apt without this restriction, the the combined circumstances have me reconsidering the entire process.<p>My main question is, will my graduate degree be worth the effort even if I have to give up lots of work experience to get it? I graduated college just after the financial crisis, so I am very skeptical of the value of education.
Ruby programmers who use Bundler can get this for their gems with `bundle outdated`. It's not push notification, but it's much more comprehensive.
Buffer bucks the startup secrecy trend as it finds growth
Obama-Romney Facial Recognition
I think BGP is more of a mucus than glue
Exactly what I thought, I have been going through the comments and seems to be something that most people don't think about, without video evidence to support what the voter says I call it lying.
I'm disappointed they chose to charge an upgrade fee to former customers. Especially after a year of serious bugs and many users having to replace their backups completely. I'm not sure if I'd still recommend it, but I am happy to see the Glacier support - it looks like a natural fit.
What is the future of the affordable care act?
Of course it is.

My rhymes and my records they don't get played / because my records and rhymes, they don't get made / 'cause when you rap like me you don't get paid / and when you roll like me you don't get laid.
"why don't people actually decide what happens amongst each other?"

That's what government is.
Is there a list somewhere of existing integrations?
Please support Mail.app
I just get a box under results saying 'access not allowed'. Anyone else?
After seeing your link, I just watched a half hour of industrial robots.

They're so cool.

Look at how fast this thing moves!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5eR0eHknZk

This is awesome (commentary is kind of boring) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TOotC_Q3sU

Pick and place machines are pretty cool too, they're like anti-sorting machines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nah4BQ9y8IY
Not a rant. Not a partisan issue unless you make it one. Just the right thing to do.
I think you misunderstand. You have a machine that scans ballots, counts votes, and then stores the ballots for later hand-verification. The ballots are fed into this machine in front of the voter. That's how it's done presently in many places (including the polling place I visited today).

The suggestion is that, when the machine is scanning the ballot, if it finds something ambiguous it immediately rejects the ballot, returns it, and doesn't count anything, the voter gets it back, fixes the issue (or returns the ballot as spoiled and gets a fresh one they can mark correctly), and you repeat.

Nowhere in that does anyone else see the person's votes (except potentially on returning a spoiled ballot, but that's no more true under this system than the existing one if someone notices they mis-marked something, and they can always just mark more to obscure their original intent before handing it back).
I've done those sorts of sales talks when I was a tech consultant at Accenture and continue to do some now as a technical founder. I have also heard the pitch from vendors when I was at Accenture wanting me to bring their wares to my clients.

In the end it comes down to being able to communicate and listen well. Be an active listener and find out the problems that the C-level customer has. This could mean the actual business problem (sales needs to grow 10% and it hasnt for 3 years), logistical problems(my teams don't communicate), a political problem (I can't deploy a solution without getting the Network Solutions team invovled) - all are things 1) You should know about and 2) You may be able to fix.

That sounds simple, but it's really very hard to not get too wrapped up in what you and your company are focused on, rather than what this specific customer in front of you right now cares about. The best salespeople of ANY kind are very good at getting in synch with their customers - seeing the world, and their product from their customers POV and then seeing how their product fits into that worldview.
looks like Romney voters don't use twitter ...
Skip to the relevant part of the video [53 second], and the guy clearly touches the bottom of the McCain section with his finger, then rolls his finger down. My point still stands though: The user sees the wrong selection immediately, and can notify someone or try again. The only scandal here is that this is even a story

http://youtu.be/0MHwNZkNFlI?t=54s
Rationality for Entrepreneurs: Awesome workshop in the Bay Area
Much worse would be altering your vote without showing you that it did so
Yeah but now you can't use this reddit video as proof of voter fraud when Romney wins.
Or just not have receipts and avoid the issue altogether.
Looks like Obama's going to take every state.
What do you think will happen if there is a Mitt Romney Presidency?
*The "monopoly" aspect isn't really relevant here. It's not If you're infringing it's because you're copying the design.

Well that audacious. I'm will be less daring and say that with 500 patents, you are most certainly wrong about some of them.

Last time I said this, you brought up a 60 year old RF parent, but I'll give you another shot and say that I hav never seen a software patent worth protecting.
By reading male gender bias into a situation when there isn't any mention of gender, it shows hyper sensitivity to gender bias. That indicates there's widespread problems around gender bias, which I'm sure we agree exist. This indication can also be off putting. (Of course the article is written by a man.)

It raises the question, which is worse, false flagging of gender bias where there isn't any, or widespread gender bias? Obviously the latter. But the former does seem weirdly counter productive, if you want to avoid putting people off, then don't put people off by false flagging things that aren't there.

In trying to see the other side of the debate: I'm sure a woman has written such a headline before, but I would imagine it's been targeted at female audiences(this could be gender bias on my part though). I might imagine the likelihood of a male writing an inappropriate bla bla "gets you laid" headline at a supposedly neutral audience is higher than a woman doing so(my gender bias again?).

I suppose also as a man writing a "gets you laid" headline, you're making assumptions about the high male/female ratio of your target audience. Most men I know, know such talk can make them unpopular with female readers. (although this could just be presumption and not actual fact, maybe female readers wouldn't give a hoot)

So those assumptions made by writing such a headline, will be obvious to the reader and off putting. Even if it wasn't obvious whether the writer was male or female, between industry stereotypes and gender bias, most people would assume such a headline about a cloud based circuit cad tool would be written by a man,(again possibly my bias).

What's my point? I don't have one, but best to play it on the safe side.
It's a Ruby (language) on Rails (framework) 3.2 app at it's core. I've been developing in Rails for a while, and I've really enjoyed it. The front-end uses a UI library called "Bootstrap", written by Twitter and freely distributed. You'll see a lot of projects use it because it makes getting a clean and functional UI much easier.

It's hosted on Heroku, which makes things like SSL, server scaling and database management all someone else's problem. I can't recommend them highly enough.

The book I learned Rails from was Pragprog's "Agile Programming with Rails". It was admittedly a few editions back, but their approach and structure suited me well. They also offer to sell you a PDF/eBook which really gets that instant-gratification going. It does assume you already know some HTML/CSS though, so it's not a total beginner text. There's also a ton of great resources at http://rubyonrails.org

Best of luck!
NPR's election coverage
For election night this year we're using a Tetris-like visualization to display the electoral votes:

http://election2012.npr.org/

We've also made public the "big board" visualizations the reporters and editors are using to track the races:

http://election2012.npr.org/bigboard/president.html
http://election2012.npr.org/bigboard/senate.html
http://election2012.npr.org/bigboard/house.html

Enjoy!
There's an air channel cut in the interior side of the battery that draws air from the back of the case. I tried running some simple tests to see if it affected cooling under load, but saw no temperature difference.
[EDIT] Adding some useful quotes from the radio interview and cleaned up the facts

[EDIT] The homepage for the company is at [3]

A similar, though much larger, machine for sorting oysters was invented in Australia a few years back (around 2006 by the look of it).

I can't find any specific web presence for the machine itself, but I managed to dig up an interview with the inventor [1] and the episode of 'Inventions from the Shed' I originally saw it in [2].

The basic premise, from memory, is to feed oysters into a chute via a conveyor belt. The oysters are funnelled so that they drop in front of a series of cameras set at different angles, which use shape recognition to match the oyster with one of a few grades of oyster.

[We built] a scanning detector that would take four images of the oyster as it fell--just falling under gravity and passing through four separate scanners at 45 degrees to each other, produces four separate images.

We take the four images and they're processed through a dedicated microprocessor and the algorithms that we use are fairly sophisticated, because they have to react very fast. And, yes, we produce in a sense a volumetric calculation

The machine then chooses which bin to route the oyster to by rotating a directing piece at the bottom of the drop.

Directly below the scanning system we use a server motor which is effectively the same as you would use in industrial robot and it has a slide that is re-positioned for each oyster, and is stationary as the oyster is diverted from the direct fall down into an exit tube. That server motor rotates and is in its new position within about .03 of a second.

The machine ends up being quite fast, with around a week's worth of work done in less than a day. The accuracy, at 98%, is also impressive.

We have had one machine operating in excess of ten a second. We've limited it for this particular production machine to a theoretical maximum throughput of one eight of a second. It works out when an oyster grower is putting them through at an average of probably three to four a second [which is] about a thousand dozen an hour, between 800 and 1,000 dozen an hour

Some diagrams showing what the machine looks like are at [4].

The main differences between this mechanism and the skittle machine is the extremely quick sorting necessitated by the application (sorting large amounts of oysters that was previously done by hand) and the reliance on shape matching rather than colour. I wonder how hard it would be to make a machine that sorts skittles in a similar way, that is by dropping them down a chute, analysing and directing them before they reach the bottom rather than the somewhat slower method evident in the demonstrated machine.

[1] radio interview - http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/onairhi...

[2] video - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmdk44_inventions-from-the-...

[3] homepage - http://www.oystek.com.au/

[4] drawings

grader - http://www.oystek.com.au/images/grader_line.jpg

top down view - http://www.oystek.com.au/images/grader_line2.JPG

complete setup - http://www.oystek.com.au/images/grader_line3.JPG
This fits with things other people who have worked with 3D printers have told me. I would have liked to see longer timescales described though. How many of these points are going to change soon or not-so-soon? I've heard that prices aren't going down quickly enough to make it economical for everyone to have a 3D printer in their homes in the near future, but it would be nice to see what other people think and to know about other issues blocking widespread adoption.
I hurried to buy my 17inch Macbook Pro for exactly that reason a week before it vanished from the apple university store. My resolution is NATIVE 1920x1200, which is better than the 1920x1200 you get on a Retina 15inch.
No. I was thinking about building such a plugin, but - like usually - it was already made by someone. I do find it extremely useful, so I shared it here.
>>My advice? Given bad choices...

...get fired up, quit your job, and go into politics.
I saw one saying "I voted Romney because he is white."

My faith in humanity just lost a few more points here.

Watching these is kinda depressing, how is a vote supposed to mean something when so many meaningless people are using it?
Here's one from Bluefin Labs:
http://thecrowdwire.org/post/35128521367/our-live-social-med...
What's the deal with the TokBox acquisition price?
I use unotelly personally, but I completely agree. The fact that it works on my iphone, ipad, appletv, etc is completely worth the measly $5 a month.

This app seems nice, but it a) only works in chrome and b) is free, so I wonder how long it will stay around, or if they're going to start selling my eyeballs for compensation.
Trying to learn how to code before learning how to program is what makes it so hard. Coding is the act of writing down the program in the computer. Programming is a collection of multiple steps, of which the aim is to reach an automated solution. Coding is writing down the recipe. Programming is figuring out what to put in it. Anybody can program. But not everybody will. It is true for programming, true for cooking. True for music and dancing. The focus on making everyone these days a coder is just wrong. What we must focus in is to make automating computing tasks simple. Its the year 2012, and we are still programming as if it was the 1950's. Though we are not using punch cards anymore, the truth is that there is too much "coding", and too little automation. This does bring a nice point to ponder. Will the programmer out program itself from existence? No. But just like my 67 year old mother fixed a clogged drain this evening by herself, programming will be made easier and easier until people like her can just pick up a computing device and automate a computing task.
I would never use this for professional work. Hardware lifecycles are often measured in decades. It is common to archive the complete collection of design software so you can come back in a few years to make an improvement or add a feature. Your career cannot afford to tie everything to a cloud vendor that may decide to leave you high and dry.

I only see a future for this product if they license the software for installation on private servers.
> as someone who has kept track of their skittles color distribution over the course of a year

I mean did you not expect someone ask why? Also, why?
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=literally&allow...

Etymonline does not reproduce the OED, but it does source from it and sometimes you get lucky.
why would I need to add a repo in a scm provider of your choice? let me just upload a requirements file.
Scarier to see voting for president being "did their civic duty".
IIUC a negative vote would subtract a vote from a candidate instead of adding. In theory, if enough people vote negatively for the two big parties, a third one could arise and perhapas surpass them after gaining enough traction.
Every known voting system that's deterministic and non-dictatorial is subject to strategic voting. This is fairly obvious, since a group's preferences can be non-transitive. For example, in a (very) hypothetical election with three voters who are also the three candidates, if A votes for B, B votes for C, and C votes for A (all based on their top preference), then clearly any one candidate can swing the vote to his or her second preference by voting for that instead.

Moreover, all voting systems have advantages and disadvantages, because many desirable traits of voting systems are mutually exclusive. Approval voting, for example, isn't even guaranteed to pick a candidate that is preferred by the majority of voters. Approval voting can also elect a candidate who would lose a head-to-head race against every other candidate. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_instant_runoff_vo....