skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at the same "level", but. Many things should not have "local" opt outs. Such as opting out of providing abortions, health care, desgregation. Access to drugs is one of these things. One job of government is to protect the rights of the minority against the majority. (and no I don't believe in "negative" rights such as we have the right not to have mary jane sold in our town.)

OTOH, I can accept this as a necessary and temporary compromise to get the decriminalization ball rolling.
linphone works just fine.
If Apple takes some expensive licks in this system it is less likely that they will advocate to keep it. I'm all for entities that use software patents as a sword to be hit hard financially as often as possible.
Not that I agree with patrickzgill's evidence-less assertions, but in his scenario, the fabricated votes wouldn't be the percentage over 100%, but the percentage over the real turnout rate (which might be 70% or so).
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http://www.activestate.com/stackato

Isn't quite plug and play, but they do support it
http://docs.stackato.com/deploy/buildpack.html
For highly motivated individuals who are able to find evidence, see this article:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/29/121029fa_fact_...

Republicans who support tighter voter security say that they are not seeking political advantage. But last summer Pennsylvania’s Republican House Leader, Mike Turzai, was caught on tape boasting to colleagues that the state’s new I.D. law was “going to allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.” Earlier this month, a state judge suspended the controversial law’s implementation until after the 2012 election; a federal court has done the same with South Carolina’s new I.D. law."
He says this allows a DC grid. He thinks DC is the "right solution" for a powergrid of the future. Interested to know more about why that is. I dont know much about the 'war of the currents'.
How Microsoft’s Surface Could Become an In-House Windows 8 Killer
Taxes are dodge-able, additionally, they have a long lead time (accountants have to establish that YUP THIS IS PERMANENT and make recommendations to the business departments) then and only then do prices definitely stay in the place that makes green tech cheaper.

Additionally, if no green tech change occurs, then you're stuck with the job losses by lower consumption of the good you're taking, but don't get the job gains of the good you're hopping will spring up to replace it.

So from a economics perspective, seems like it might be the pure way to go. From a policy perspective, it's iffy.
I'm going to take a counter argument here and say competition is already really high so if you compete on price you are heading toward zero quickly which is a price point that will generate zero revenue. Your alternative could be charging $50 (or more) and trying to optimize your marketing funnel with the goal being to attract those too lazy to search for another word press theme.

Going beyond that, non developers find wordpress to be somewhat difficult to implement, making it easy would generate additional interest.

Its easy to say "lower your price", but that has a probability of not working and simply lowering your revenue/profit.
How soon until we hit the patent abuse endgame, where all technology companies lay off everybody but the lawyers and just sue each other into oblivion?
That is not how they were chosen at all
Gasoline prices are already subsidized. We spend megabucks on aid to the middle east, wars, etc there that isn't paid for by the users of the oil pumped from there.
He predicted that Obama would get 50.8% of the popular vote.

Currently Obama stands at 50.3% of the popular vote. However the majority of the currently uncounted ballots are in Oregon and Washington. Therefore Obama's share is likely to go up a smidge.

Still getting the popular vote to within 0.5% is pretty good. Especially considering that many national polls going in were consistently calling for a Romney win there.
why would you write this? faculty themselves are working class. they are more akin to accomplices than masterminds of the system. even if you agree with the analogy of the parent comment. this is emotional and poor analysis. serious money now runs the system, and that is handled by the gov't, the trustees, and the president. very few academics are ever 'fully funded' -- they all must suck at the tit, themselves for future nourishment.
Thanks for that info, I wasn't aware of how PhDs worked in CS.

It sounds very similar to Bio with the exception that the department typically has money for their students coming in(the best schools have training grants from NIH which cover incoming students). Tuition is always covered and is only up to the PI to pay when the student's departmental money runs out, but in practice, the dept. picks it up if the student TAs.

At good schools, students are encouraged (and in some cases, mandated) to submit a grant to NIH which covers their tuition/stipend and provides some travel money for conferences. That grant is really difficult to get, so most 3-6th year students are covered under their PIs grant, or they teach to cover tuition.
I sign onto my various IM accounts from a variety of locations simultaneously (e.g. desktop at home, laptop in office, phone) and I find it infuriating that every protocol has a different way of handling that.

MSN: Sends incoming message _only_ to the last active computer (where last active seems to be defined by which computer last sent an IM or updated your status)

AIM: Sends incoming messages to all computers

XMPP (Gtalk): Inconsistent behaviour. I think the priorities set by various clients screw things up.

Skype: Does weird chat/history syncing between all your computers (this raises Privacy issues, as many times if I delete a chat on my desktop, it somehow reappears on my phone when I sign in on it. Also although it syncs the chat text, why not also sync whether the messages have been read or not, because at the moment if I sign in on my phone, it constantly buzzes for about 5 minutes as it 'catches' up on a ton of unread messages (which I've read ages ago on my computer).)

What's worse is status fragmentation. I've set my desktop and laptop to auto-away after 5 minutes, so people know if I'm there or if they can leave a message I'll read later. Run through this situation: 1) Signed in on desktop, go away. Pidgin sets Away on my accounts. 2) Some time later, turn on laptop. Adium sets all my accounts as Online. 3) Turn off laptop to go somewhere. Adium signs out and my accounts get left as Online. Desktop doesn't re-auto-away and so people think I'm there when I'm not.

None of these are ideal, and the only 'solution' I've found is to use a service like http://imo.im where their service only signs on _once_ to the accounts, but you access imo.im on any number of devices so it can make sure that every device has the same chat there. Problem with this is I don't like using web apps and would prefer to use native Pidgin/Adium if possible.

Any suggestions?
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I don't really follow Apple products. What is this "effective" screen size bit?
I missed the sarcasm at first - my bad!

But I don't know about 'union thug' being a myth: lots of actual violence back in the dark days of the last century. Carnegie brought in an army to bust up the union and it wasn't because they were meek lambs.
America has HUGE minority rule issues. I predict 2016 will have a major non R vs D theme of "Swing state vs everyone else".

Reforming states to something that doesn't cause third parties to be spoilers (by using a voting system such as IRV), probably in the NE to start, is likely the new wave that gets us out of this mess.
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Sorry for the OT, but I always get a certificate error when visiting that domain. Am I the only one?

http://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=hacks.mo...

Says the cert is ok, but my firefox complains:

hacks.mozilla.org uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is only valid for tbpl.mozilla.org
(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)

Maybe there is something wrong with my network.
Ask HN: What was the tech stack used by the Obama campaign?
There's no epidemic of any single problem being caused by any imprecision in grammar. But there are lots of little, similar problems -- perhaps in non-emergency situations -- that cause predictable, avoidable confusion because people insist on breaking the use of important words.

If your point is that "we can make it impossible to communicate the concept 'literally' until there's an epidemic of deaths over it", then your threshold is in a very, very wrong place.
In Haskell: http://hpaste.org/77404
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actually
"false, I checked that already. the iframe src is http://webtix1.sundance.org/webtixsnet/?key=RegPublic-PITW
the form's action is "OrderFormPage.aspx?dtticks=634878773966587077" which means that the form submits to http://webtix1.sundance.org/webtixsnet/OrderFormPage.aspx?dt...

so the iframe isn't ssl, and the form doesn't submit to an SSL page either.

furthermore! even if the iframe were over ssl (which it isn't), that still wouldn't be secure. since the outer page isn't over ssl, an attacker could replace the iframe with one that has the same content but points to a non-ssl page. this is why SSL is useless unless the user checks the browser SSL indicator (the green lock in the URL bar)."
Your "...and honestly decide..." line assumes that courts get it right.

Looking at the outcome of recent cases, this does not seem like a good assumption to make.
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There is also Consular (https://github.com/achiu/consular) for those who need similar functionality in plain Terminal/iTerm/Gnome Terminal.

It lets you create multiple terminal environments and each of them can define multiple tabs with startup commands. It uses a simple Ruby DSL for the scripting. The tabs can also be assigned meaningful names through the DSL.
My point was not whether your critique was valid—certainly you're allowed to come to those conclusions based on your own needs.

My point was that your argument was silly and pretentious, and I stand by that, because you say things like "gazing at their screen in admiration" in an insulting fashion, as if those who appreciate a good detailed and bright display somehow have trivial and laughable requirements.

I don't claim that there is a single product that meets these needs, but I do claim that the arguments brought on this product specifically by you and the original author are baseless.

In other words, you're welcome to criticize the product all you want based on your requirements, but don't pass it off as though your snarky analysis is valuable in any objective way.
It is, and in order to get the gov grant, you need to have data. That data is typically generated by PhD students and Post-docs.
What's wrong with a variety of OSs?
Does any ex-president have a political career? Where would they go from the top? He's never going to have as much power and ability to make difference as 2nd term US President. It's now or never.
Stop orders don't guarantee execution or any specific limit to the loss; During a flash crash, you'll realize that a "10% stop loss" order CAN become a 50% loss.
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> But you can't run the same election 10 times.

That makes assessment difficult, but is irrelevant for interpretation. If something happens 60% of the time, it happens with the same probability as drawing a red ball from an urn with 6 red balls and 4 green balls, whether it happens once or several times.

Trying to determine the quality of a model using some observed data is inherently a frequentist exercise -- a dyed-in-the-wool Bayesian would take the election results, use them to update his or her posterior distributions, and carry on happily. (I know that no one would actually do this; no one who analyzes data is really a "pure" Bayesian or a "pure" frequentist).
For people who social issues trump economic, Obama is far closer than Romney.
Ideological handwaving never results in a good argument.

Here is the basic problem with the market for energy. Say I give you the choice of two candy bars: one costs you $1.00, the other costs you $0.75 and also costs some random third party $0.75. Which do you pick? The latter, of course. Everyone always picks the latter, and the end result is economically inefficient.

This is the same choice when it comes to energy. A Harvard study found that the externalized costs of coal range from $350-500 billion: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/16/us-usa-coal-study-.... Fully half the true cost of coal power is externalized to people outside the transaction of power producers/power users. The market doesn't yield efficient results when costs can be externalized like this. That's Econ 101 level knowledge. There are only two ways to fix this market failure: either tax coal power to reflect the externalized costs, or subsidize green tech to compensate. In our political system new taxes are pretty much impossible, hence we adopt the latter solution.
Puerto Rico votes to become 51st US state
You mean like a CDN but for websites instead of just asset.

Welcome to Google's High Replication Datastore.
I don't want to come across as insulting, but I'd recommend a different pricing strategy. Instead of focusing on the price, focus on the advantages/differences of Strapfolio versus other themes. What does it do differently? Why did you make it? Sell its simplicity: more features != more value when you're talking about website themes.

But don't reduce the price (yet). I'd be surprised if $30 (or even $40 or $50) would be a barrier to your sales. You don't know yet either, so why lower your price? If it's not worth $50 yet, what can you add to it to make it worth $50?

Incidentally, WooThemes (linked above) will charge $70 to use their portfolio theme, and they sell a whole lot of themes at that price.
Ask HN: What tools and processes do you use to manage your small team?
People running or on small teams and companies of say less than 30 people. What's your process for things like expenses and vacation time? Do you use some kind of software to track it or is it all informal? How do you manage all the various group cloud resources like GitHub, Mixpanel, Campfire, AWS, etc.? Who owns/admins the account, or is that responsibility shared? Are employees allowed to buy things with company money, how is that managed? What about servers and infrastructure? Who can spin up servers, modify VMs, deploy etc.? Is there even a process for this or is it mostly ad-hoc?
1. He would have won on the popular vote anyway. People who were excited early in the evening by Romney's apparent lead forgot to figure the west coast #s into their calculations.

2. You should throw your support behind one of the initiatives to link electoral college representation to the popular vote at the state level, because you're not going to get rid of the college itself for the foreseeable future.

3. Mitt Romney had exactly the same opportunities Obama did and knows exactly how the electoral college works. He just didn't use them. For example, the Obama campaign gambled and bought a lot of TV time early on when it was cheaper, so they got more bang for their buck. It's no good whining about one candidate manipulating the electoral college system, as if it had somehow been kept a secret from the other candidate. Romney was able to figure out the GOP primary system, which is at least as complex. Every student of American politics understands how the electoral college functions.
Citizens are not subject to the rules of the sports they follow.
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Ask HN: $3000 to incorporate. Is it a good deal?
I listen to mixergy interviews and they recommend scott edward walker and so i talked with the guy and he has a startup package. It's 1500+500+900 for filing. The total comes down to around $3000. Is this a good route to go for a startup?

Background: I'm a single founder, looking for co-founder down the line.
OT: What year at GT? I'm C/O 2007.
Something no one seems to be talking about today. Congress still has to give final approval.

Statehood won with over 60% of the vote.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752986

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3Auri...
I'm not sure I follow what you are saying. Are you saying that you feel policies like affirmative action harm some people? If so, what kind of harm are you talking about?

Ultimately no group of people is entitled to harm others, but it helps to be a bit more specific when talking about the flaws of existing or proposed policy.
How so? You can still fail a drug test for weed, same as you can for alcohol, and employers like MS can still fire you.
If they don't check 'other' then it shouldn't matter what they put in the write-in spot. I would have accepted it as a perfectly valid ballot.

Even if there is no checkbox next to the write-in spot you could reasonably argue that it still shouldn't matter what's written there unless none of the candidates have checks.
Hi there,

take a look at coursera course : An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python. (https://class.coursera.org/interactivepython-2012-001/)

Very beginner friendly, not very theoretical, more hands-on, and most importantly, very entertaining. Check out video or two to get better idea how class looks a like.

Take care,
davs
> 1. Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen.

How does this part work
The vast majority of the population are influenced by some sort of benefits the government "offers" whether they be tax breaks, healthcare, welfare, gun rights, subsidies, higher pay for teachers, etc...

Because of this I think that this sort of micro-haggling can happen. Instead of offering a broad plan that is ideologically consistent, and then trying to convince the population to go along with that - politicians can turn the knobs of the different constituencies by holding out the carrot that matters to that group of people.
Exactly. And I would further argue that the possibility is very high that it will actually decrease alcohol consumption, which as we all know is immeasurably harmful.
That's not $9M down the drain - it's $9M used to pay the US Government as your startup requires all the infrastructure, legal framework and military protection provided to get where it is (feel free to move your startup to Somalia, where I hear the taxes are close to zero).

That the investor/owner portion of the tax burden will go up slightly from historically low levels doesn't belie the fact that the average American and small business owner pays even more in %.

Remember - during the roaring 90s we had a much higher rate - did that stop the Googles, Yahoos, Akamais, etc?
"The risk-weighted investment into Solyndra was probably on the order of the low tens of millions."

What do you mean by "risk-weighted investment"?

The loan to Solyndra was for $535 million dollars of which practically none was returned [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra#Shutdown_and_investiga...
Why don't you submit link to the app but Reddit? This is not neat.
Me too. And at least when i got mine it was lighter than the air but with way more performance. Only two negatives, the fans can be quite loud and the windows driver situation is horrible, but i use linux so it's not an issue for me.
We're geeks I tell you --- geeks!!
It's fine for me.
We've passed peak Apple: it's all downhill from here
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part of his brand is "rogue genius with a complex model that's far too difficult for mere mortals to understand".

On the contrary, I think his brand is 'anyone who takes some time to study statistics & probability can work this out for themselves.' His key skill is demystifying the modeling and explaining that it's not the result of some secret sauce.
I presume that the original title just said "by government."
Let's take it to the logical extreme. Say the candidate did exactly what the statistics said to do on every issue and that they had no vision or leadership whatsoever. That candidate would be the closest a representative could get to the will of the people. It would also be the closest a representative democracy could get to being a direct democracy.

While I can appreciate there is value to having figureheads around, it's hard for me to look at a system approaching direct democracy and feel that it is worse.
Extend that solution: bitlbee
The above would also be free and FOSS. A desktop OS that can run Microsoft Office just fine could be a compelling competitor.
I think within recent context, this is no longer the case. I'm not a member of the tea party movement, but I'm pretty sure it's seen as a derogatory term these days.
It's really frustrating that most of these maps don't even mention third-party candidates. Even though Google include some information, it still only shows the top 3 candidates per district. So, I can't, for instance, see how much of the vote Jill Stein got in her "hottest" district in Illinois because Gary Johnson got more votes than her. But, like you said, at least they acknowledge they exist.
> "So combinatorially, it's very likely my ballot will be utterly unique within my precinct."

I don't think this is true, since there's a massive correlation between ballot positions and they're not randomly distributed. Since the parties tend to take positions on amendments, bonds, and issues, that correlation extends to those as well.

There are certainly going to be unique ballots per precinct, and really tiny precincts like Hart's Location and Dixie Notch or whatever are subject to it too, but it's not "very likely" for the average US voter.
In a way this reminds me of how Etch-a-Sketch sales skyrocketed after the Mitt Romney Etch-a-Sketch comment earlier in the year.

(Say what you will about the former presidential nominee, but Etch-a-Sketch is a pretty cool toy for kids!)
That should make anyone think twice about using .ga domains.
MS doesn't do drug tests. Atleast I don't remember taking one when I was there.
You do realize there are already other alternative parties, right?
Why on earth is this decision left up to the page designer in the first place?
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Twitter map predicted outcome of US election
A tablet that can read your stance will probably be the next big thing.
The author's message is roughly "ship and improve", but I think he is understating "pay attention, work hard, and learn" which also show, though subliminally, and might be so ingrained in him that he didn't notice.

In the screen snap of the piano apps, notice that half of his competitors say "Download" instead of "Free"? That means he has already bought them, but they are not installed on his device. Research. Learn.

Also notice that he has a variety historical metrics easily at hand to guide him.
If you're here this weekend you should check out:

http://www.silicondrinkabout.com/
http://siliconmilkroundabout.com/

(Incidentally if you're looking for a flatshare @simoncast who co-runs the ProductTank meetup is looking for a new flatmate - see his twitter for details)
Does a patent still apply if a developer can prove they discovered how to do it separate from the person who originally patented it?

Yes. Patents grant ownership of ideas, not implementations.
I believe Somalia has the libertarian taxation policy that you are looking for. Be sure to pack some extra guns though.
Its between £5 and £50 here in the UK - depending on a few factors. You can do it online with a credit card in a few minutes...