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Very nice! As others said, as if I need an easier way to be distracted by HN. ;) I love that you made reading comments so easy -- that's usually what interests me more than the actual articles.

One suggestion: When you're reading the comments, it would be nice to have a way of opening the full article. I usually read the HN comments on an article before clicking over to the article itself and unfortunately your app has no way of opening the article from the comments view.
I'd also like to see commonly JSed scenarios supported in CSS like toggles, slides, solid positioning
I am already lost by your explanation. Is it that you are providing real time developers to help, or is it that you are providing developers who can offer quality work? And if it's the latter, how exactly are you ensuring the quality of the work without subjecting the users to the arduous process of finding one via the conventional way?
They don't "always" favor the republican. That's just hyperbole. There have been widespread reports of Romney votes being altered -- days ago.

I think our biggest problem is voter registration flaws and the lack of being able to identify that the person listed on the form is the actual one voting. We should also be dipping people's thumbs in ink like they do in Africa and Mexico to ensure that people don't vote twice.

Voter fraud is far more common than alleged insidious voting machine malfunctions. Those machines are checked by reps of both parties and under heavy, continual scrutiny. Voter rolls, on the other hand, or absentee ballots are rife with fraud. For example, thousands of military members won't get to vote this election because the department of defense failed to mail the ballots on time.

In 2010, I lived in China and didn't get my absentee ballot until 1 month after the election, even though I requested it 6 months prior from the US Consulate in Shanghai. I was disenfranchised like millions of other legal voters, both civilian and military.

Some people are more concerned about some old minority lady allegedly with the inability to get a free photo id, yet ignore the military and overseas vote. Yet for the old minority lady, she need only go to the local courthouse to get things straightened out, while a solider in Kabul doesn't have that luxury.

Another problem is blantant violations of election law by generally Democrat election judges. Examples from today: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/11/06/judge-orders-oba...

http://mrctv.org/blog/obama-poster-hanging-florida-polling-s...

http://washingtonexaminer.com/philly-gop-poll-inspectors-bei...

And voter intimidation here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/6/problems-blac...

If the KKK were to show up at a Philidelphia polling site, there'd be cries of outrage and National Guard deployments, but since it's the New Black Panthers, it's ignored.
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Download the zip, unzip, drag and drop to Applications, double click :)
> They could just keep doing that

Then it wouldn't be a new, "clean" format. Then it'd be the old format with additions. Which it already is. Your post makes no sense to me.
Alpha is how much excess return you had over the market (or risk free return(

E.g. if you made 10% when overall market was up 15% for the year, you have negative alpha. [As someone could have bought index and held it through year to generate better return]

If you made 20% when market was up 10%, you have positive alpha.

That is why everyone in the investment community is 'seeking alpha'.
It appears to work fine on 64 bit with the compatibility libraries. Do an `apt-get -f install` if your `dpkg -i` complains about missing dependencies.

And if you're using XMonad, switch to something else first.
I found it amusing that a recent blog post of the creator of those buttons has the quote:

I believe 'a science of design' to be an impossible and indeed misleading goal.
— Fred Brooks
Here's how I see it playing out, Microsoft will be successful with the Surface if they take it seriously and update it often and fast. They have a lot of catching up to do and it's a seriously great start to something different and unique. I suspect it will move in the direction of how people use it and want it to work.

When Apple brought OS X out to the world for the first time, it was extremely slow, basically unusable, hideous to look at, and Microsoft fans laughed at the effort. In fact, the industry jumped on Windows XP and IE 6. However, Apple rev'd, and rev'd and rev'd and polished and brought things to OS X that were innovative and eventually surpassed Windows as an OS people actually wanted to live in all day long. All the while Microsoft seemingly sat around and watched it happen.

So for the Surface, at this point, it comes down to execution. Can the Windows team rev and rev and rev? Can marketing push it in a way that gets people buying it? Can evangelism bring enough top-tier designers and developers on board to write grade-A apps for it? If they can do that, then this sloppy launch will be simply labeled a turning point for Microsoft. Otherwise, it will be another failed product that just deserved a tiny pat on the back.
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Ever dealt with a union election? That's exactly the problem with non secret ballots. You vote against unionization and thugs show up at your house. Union activists are among the most violent people around.
Same time schematic & PCB editing... for the first time ever... like in the world... first. time. ever.... this is a pretty big deal.

In Eagle, you cannot add new parts directly to the PCB (no layout duplication for panelization). Panelization is about the only place I have ever wanted that feature, as the abstract schematic is much nicer for connecting nodes. Although, I guess since I haven't tried it, I could be wrong. I'm not entirely sure why there is that limitation, but it would be a pretty nice feature.

Couple other points:

Full real-time design rule checking

Eagle does not do real time DRC. Although, as I've yet to really have problems with a DRC (most PCB milling machines are awesome, and you don't really have anything to worry about).

A system of automated footprint generators based on the IPC standards

That would be way better if I could supply a PDF from the data sheet, your software looks at the dimensions and gives me the footprint back.
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Doesn't look like it. A popup is in the way. And I can't install any games.
Sure, and in scenarios like that, perhaps the best thing to do is to flip a coin.

Instead of going to all the expense of flipping a coin, though, you could just take the person who seemed to get the most votes (after you've counted them all really hard to make sure you're within the margin of error). Just an arbitrary rule, no biggie.
Since when have Republicans passed laws to prevent anyone from voting?
Well I'm planning a series of blog posts in the near future, but there's so much going on that we need to focus and take it step by step.

One thing I want to mention, if you want to experience the "core" functionality. Change your role to 'contractor' then make a task on behalf of someone, and send them the link :)
The reality is, I wouldn't be good at it either. I do well with our C levels, but they know I do good work for them, and am an employee. I think that changes the dynamic.

If I were in a startup (I have been) I would have someone else do the talking to C Levels, not me.

And even then, my job isn't to make the startups look good in front of our C levels, it's to pick out software for us to potentially use or buy. It's the VC's job to adequately prepare the startups, not mine.
You should be more specific about which phone (at least, which version of Android its running) as well as which browser you're using. Works fine in chrome with the two tablets I have about (galaxy tab 2 7" and the nexus 7)
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Yes, I would find this very interesting. Doesn't matter if the indicator is now defunct.
Polls are generally open 12 hours, plus there's early voting and absentee voting. "Working class" people have no less opportunity to vote than anyone else.

Stop with the class-warfare nonsense.
It's a great question, but I don't have the insight on it. My job is on the technical level, and I can just convey to you what happens in a real company.

I don't think I would be the best choice to give the talks. I'd be fine for drinks after.. I'm casually good with C Levels, but I'm a tech at heart, and having me explain things... I tend to do the bad thing of going too technical, and not realizing it before their eyes glaze over.
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There are several local apps that have done this for a long time. I wrote and use SHA1_Pass. It has local clients for Mac, Linux and Windows and a JavaScript version that can run locally on mobile devices. http://16s.us/sha1_pass/
Computer systems can only produce a paper facsimile of the vote cast – and thus it must be checked, immediately, by the voter to verify that their intentions were recorded and reflected. Further, that paper record must itself be capable of being re-read/re-counted by different hardware easily so that the (invisible) tally of votes can be verified. In the end, you need to essentially produce a paper ballot but you burden the voter with having to check it after already having voted in a different medium. Anything short of that means that electronic votes are ripe for tampering.

Paper ballots as the canonical record can always be: a) recounted on demand while being able to verify original voter intent (to a greater extent than digital or mechanical systems) and b) digitized for redundant storage and securely encrypted.

Therefore, IMHO, if you want to ensure democracy, ballots must: show tampering, be easy to complete, easy to count (and re-count) and quickly deployable/scalable. Scannable paper is the only option that really does all of that well.

From an operations perspective (MBA/Designer here), the bottleneck in the process is the filling out of the ballot, not the scanning/recording (with any electronic/scanning system), so why not make that part scale/parallelize really easily without requiring thousands of dollars of heavy, breakable hardware? Paper is better, all around.
Define an "independent" organization. There's no such thing. All organizations are partisan.
Cha-ching!
I was under the impression that the 15" Retina MBP had a native resolution of 1440 by 900.
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If you need more screen real estate, you can change to a different scaled resolution in the System Preferences. If you need it, you can go with an effective 1440x900 or even 1680x1050 resolution. It's not an integer mapping between virtual pixels to real pixels like it is with 1280x800, but it looks almost as good - and better than a native 1440x900 or 1680x1050 display.
Even though a bug is not entirely unlikely, a bug which actively favors one candidate over the other is very unlikely.
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FWIW, I couldn't see your pnl chart.

I develop algorithmic strategies for a living, and my first reaction to reading your post was skepticism. I'm skeptical for two reasons. (1) because your methods are so unconventional in an industry where convention rules, and (2) because of the time frame of your success, which happened to be one of the more impressive market recoveries in history.

I can't tell you how many people I've worked with who fail to isolate the source of their pnl (myself included at times). This is key. It's important to benchmark your strategy against other stupid ones that you know don't have edge. When someone shows me strategies that worked in 2009 and 2010, I immediately make them prove their strategy was not the equivalent of being long equities.

Doing this will truly help isolate whether or not luck is involved. When you say that the number and size of your trades justifies the strategy's validity, that's just wrong. You could do 1000 trades in a day: buy 10 RUT futures at the beginning of the day, sell 10 at the end, and just scratch 1 lots for the other 998 trades. In a bull market like 09-10, that would have made 400k, and would have nothing to do with Machine Learning or its applications to HFT.

I make all traders benchmark their work against a series of other strategies that I know have no edge, even though they, at times, can appear to have edge.

Now, I'm not saying you didn't have legitimate edge, but you do your readers a disservice by omitting relevant stats and discussions like that.
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That since Romney and Obama are going to each get lots of votes that the touch screen has been completly worn away and is now not very accurate.
And MSNBC is credible?

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-11-02/entertainment/ba...
I had similar problems with my rMBP15 but I Haven't noticed them in a while. Fixed in software updates?
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If you're going to return it, you have 14 calendar days, not a month, as I too initially presumed.
Hey, author here. Construct Classic is actually open source - the renderer code is here: http://construct.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/construct/Common...

I don't think we did anything really dumb - but it was quite a long time ago now! We did still spend a fair amount of time optimising it. I still think its amazing the two could be so close, when personally I think both are reasonably well written. At the time Classic beat a bunch of our old competitors on performance, too.
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> [2] Page 41: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/dsmith/dsmith.html

Did you read your references? This one has nothing to do with electronics.

The other three all use "laying out a circuit". None of them used "laid". Luckily there are very many search hits for "laid out a circuit" (some about cycling, etc) or "laid out a PCB", so it's common usage. But "Gets your circuits laid" is clear sexual innuendo.
However, Democrats have worked to make it more difficult for the military to vote when deployed.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/09/26/obama-accus...
It has a "UI resolution" of 1440x900, yes. But the way the chrome in OS X is designed, 1440x900 is suitable for a 13" screen, not a 15" screen.

The previous high res option of MBP 15" had a resolution of 1680x1050. This (doubled) would have been a good resolution for the new 15" MBP retina display.
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Absolutely this. I see very little point in paying a hefty premium for such a great screen to then be limited to such a tiny area of real-estate; or to have to sacrifice (much of) the beauty of the screen if you set it up for a reasonable real estate. Even before considering the struggles of the iGPU on such a high end machine.

The 15" is much more usable (with 1440x900 X2), but i really can't see that the simple 'pixel doubling' of the rMBPs is really a proper solution for a laptop-- IMO a retina PPI with display elements equivalent to a normal screen somewhere in the 16xx-19xx (px wide) range would be ideal-- and i cant see apple (or anyone else) putting a 4K screen in a laptop in the foreseeable future.

Is anyone aware of any movement towards resolution independence in linux (or anywhere?)
Bit of a shame that it doesn't use the slider style that made waves yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4742535
This is very cool, and the idea of these nanolasers running off an "electromagnetic hotspot" makes it sound like they could be powered inductively by nearby circuits.
Font rendering looks quite crappy in anything but exact 2x resolution doubling mode. I haven't looked into it, but suspect that subpixel rendering is disabled.
How much did you start with?
A bit off-topic, but how do recounts work with electronic voting machines?
Minor: "a person under the legal age of full responsibility."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/minor?s=t
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I would have voted for this comment, but because of the implicit plea for votes in the first line, I downvoted it instead.
iPads used capacitive touchscreens which aren't prone to the same sorts of calibration issues that resistive touchscreens are.

I don't know much about electronic voting machines but I wouldn't be surprised if they mostly used resistive touchscreens (which are historically much cheaper to produce).
What an aggravating, ignorant, and ahistorical comment.

Besides the responses nearby taking you to task for the sophistry of your last sentence, I feel like it's worth highlighting the very real history of vote suppression in the South under Jim Crow. That's decades of violence, physical intimidation, bogus literacy tests, and a host of other tactics, directed at suppressing the vote of blacks and the poor. At every step of the way, these shameful tactics were justified as some kind of proxy for "intelligence" (and some other "wise" comments here repeat that justification).

Working to increase access to the vote is, in a very real sense, a continuing rejection of these disgusting tactics.

This is why I used the term "ignorant" above. It is as if you do not understand and appreciate the significance of this history. This is not a simple Democrat/Republican issue. Increasing access to the vote is an attempt to remedy, in an imperfect way, the biggest failing of American democracy.
Thanks, fixing deps did it for me!
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It may very well be that changing the UI map is the easiest way to accomplish this. Any particular person may not have access to the backend code, but may have access to the code that maps screen positions to selection.

Having no knowledge of this machine in particular, I can't say much more, but it's certainly feasible that this is the easiest or only method to modify the outcome of a vote.

Based on the description and assuming it's accurate, we could conclude that there is some sort of mapping of the display to vote selection that is configurable locally. This makes sense, as every locality has different ballots - school districts, etc.

We do know that these things tend to be pretty poorly written, so you also can't assume even reasonable or typical component design.

I don't think your logic is valid.
I never understood why we would go for electronic voting. I couldn't care less about the discussion here about touch screens or GUIs. Computer should have no buisnes for important, secret elections!

In my opinion the risks and downsides of moving away from pen and paper clearly outweigh any of the laughable advantages - unless of course you profit from a system that is in-transparent and manipulatable.
On the off chance you ever check this again, byorgey discusses this here:

http://byorgey.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/foldr-is-made-of-mon...
Yes, printing is part is a problem, but I just don't see the advantage of being able to explore a model using the augmented reality technology instead of just using your mouse or finger to rotate the model on the device itself. Interesting? yes. Useful? no.
Your representation of that clause makes it seem the clause has it a bit backwards - how does reducing the representation of a state help to counter the reduced representation of the citizens of that state; doesn't the amendment then enforce the goals of those who're trying to remove representation of individuals at the _national_ level?

If Florida is a state of party 2 voters then party 1 gains by preventing voting, not only do party 2 voters get removed from consideration in the state but the state gets weakened and so support of party 2's ends in congress is reduced?

Or am I misunderstanding? It's the first time I've heard of this part of the 14th amendment.
I get this in a popup: "We hope you have enjoyed your complimentary access" and some info on becoming a subscriber.

And that's the first time I've visited the site.
From reading the wiki article it seems that Punchscan allows the voter to prove which way they voted.
Yep, almost any of them have an API these days. Your software would make the list of trades which is uploaded and executed...

Oh, I forgot about another backtesting framework for python. It has a built in IDE as well.

http://www.quantopian.com
>It turns out this machine can’t smoothly scroll media-rich websites like The Verge without noticeable choppiness.

I'm not so sure. If it can't even scroll websites, how can it handle 2 30" monitors just fine?
Being pedantic, 4000 trades a day isn't HFT. This is stil algo trading, of which HFT is a subset.

I consider HFT to be any strategy where speed itself is the what gives the edge. Colocation is usually a prerequisite, though not sufficient. It's a shame HFT gets all the attention, when it's really a tiny portion of trading activity. Algo-trading in general is 70%+ of market activity in the US.

Also limiting trades isn't really adequate risk management. The tech exists to very accurately model your exposures. This is something I see underdeveloped a lot, and what separates the top trading firms from the rest.

Still I commend you creating a model, working out how to test and execute it automatically and actually trading your own money.

I really think more hackers should be actively managing their money, (in general, not like in the article). We have these amazing liquid markets, all time low spreads/commissions, products like ETFs/derivatives to accurately and cheaply execute a given strategy, and a huge increase in tech to model risk, but personal personal investing is the same as the 60s.
The colours are all coloured separately, so ensuring a good chance of an even mixture just involves combining equal amounts of each colour and mixing them up. Whatever amount you take, you're likely to have an even mixture of each colour.
Sounds like increasing access to voting, while yes, done with the intent to increase your share, has the added advantage of increasing access to voting, and hence should be encouraged.

Complaining that it's dishonest and wrong is like the joke about "reality having a well known liberal bias"
A GOG employee addressed the issue of supporting Linux before. You can find what he said here:

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/linux_support_on_gog/pos...
"You have to figure out a way to have your basic needs taken care of first, then play time comes"

I thought I was pretty clear about that. Coming up with a plan for basic survival (food, shelter, health, power, etc) comes before you decide to dedicate yourself to project/passion X.

Not once did I suggest that his survival was "playtime", but he seems to have substituted coming up with a basic life plan first, and instead has devoted all his time to "play" (stuff above and beyond basic survival needs).
Is Paper Low Status? [On popularity of electronic voting machines]
To that end the developer could anticipate that their code has a lot of side effects and just run light table in a test vm with snapshots to hop back to in case they really mess up. Setting one up isn't hard, and you only pay the overhead cost of a vm or separate test machine if your use case demands it that way.
That sounds like a nice sound bite, but in reality, choosing the lesser evil today further cements the need to be choosing the lesser evil tomorrow.

I'm not from the US (and don't have a favored candidate), but I hear this rhetoric quite a lot. In each election, regardless of allegiance, we hear that this particular election is too important to throw away a vote by voting independent. After all, we don't want another Gore/Nader!

I've always wondered; in exactly which of the previous 56 elections would it have been OK?

I suspect the real answer for the majority of lesser evil types (and I'm not saying you are in this boat) is along the lines of: back when the Whigs were in power.
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