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All this talk of electronic voting and one-way hash, etc confuses me. I know of no aspect of the US Constitution or federal law nor the constitution of any state in which I have resided which mandates a secret ballot. It might be a tradition or something but it certainly isn't a civil right.

I'm sure there is probably mountains of state law on the issue but I would have to wager any guarantee of secrecy would be just that, provided for on a state-by-state basis. I would appreciate it if anybody could correct my misunderstanding with citations.

I think its much more important for an election result to be trusted than for it to be secret. Having both is optimal but not necessary for a valid result under the law with which I am familiar.
If you are not a Ubuntu user, odds are that you won't mind the trickery required.
Also as a side note:

For anyone to think that Filepicker.io is not a side project, do not use the stock themed Bootstrap.

Right now, it looks straight out of RailsRumble.
Not bad at all for a beta start. There's a fair amount of good games inside there. I am not in the closed beta yet, so I have no way to say if this work but I certainly hope to try this soon when they open the beta. I wonder if they are still expecting a 2012 launch or whether the actual launch timing is going to be pushed back to 2013. The later is more likely.
I am exactly the same way. Look forward to any feedback. Serg
This new crop of machines is pretty tempting but I think it makes sense to wait until Haswell lands in the next generation. By that time a lot more applications will be updated to deal with the retina displays too.

Like a lot of Apple products that push some new hardware concept this first generation seems to have some rough edges.
Social issues are great when you are prosperous.
[...] That's why today, my family and I voted
for Mitt Romney.

Which of these family members of yours are gay and decided to postpone equality until prosperity arrives?

Would you have hired him to run your startup in 2008

I wouldn't hire someone to run my startup who thinks it's economically wise to increase military spending by $2 trillion.
Pretty fancy for a hobo (original title) stove: http://www.biolitestove.com/campstove/camp-overview/features...
Did you mean incredulity instead?

I'm not jealous of the money he made - I'm a sw developer, I have a good salary, my wife's an accountant, and we do well - what I am 'jealous' of is not having the time to do something like this, regardless of the outcome. Clearly, I'm prepared to take the risk... but if you have 2 children, you may think differently about spending your time doing this instead of on your family.

Money cannot buy happiness. It can pave the way to it, but happiness only comes through surrender to another person or a cause greater than what one can accomplish by him or herself, and in no other way. And when it comes, it's an unintended side-effect, rather than something that one can pursue (which is one of the reasons I hate the 1st amendment and the way it's worded).
Your statement directly states a comparison between R and D percentages and uses the ambiguous term 'best'. The idea that you can state with any credulity that 2% of the population is 'better' than 15-16% of the population, or that that comment has any value to anyone else is the height of vapid punditry.
I wouldn't call it perfect. You have to shift through all the verbiage to find the points you want. I think that email could have been refactored to half the length.

Busy people want short emails.

I'd be interested in knowing what the subject line was for the email.
Why do they count a state as having been won by a candidate after only 5%, 10%, or even 25% of the total precincts are reported? That cannot possibly have given a candidate the 51% they need to carry the state.
IMO this is too long, also not clear enough.

Single sentence per line. Or two small ones.

Clear ask on its own line, correct?

Thanks,
Startup Founder

Startup Name and URL

email / phone
Your argument falls flat on it's face because these patents have been licensed since day one, so how can they possibly be a response to anything? This is simply the big boys club protecting itself.
Hi, author here. I'm not affiliated with Heroku, I'm just a big fan.
Are you really complaining that you found something offensive on the internet?
That certainly trumps my hobo stove I use for camping (Ikea cutlery drainer + biscuit tin). If they could drop the price by about half I could see it becoming more popular.
This is still very hard to pull off. These guys used a combination of several pretty brilliant techniques, and they picked a relatively easy target.
Ideally, I think the complete list of votes (with receipt confirmation numbers, but no names, obviously) would be available for inspection.
So it IS hnmobile. Great job @cheeaun!
Btw, hnmobile has become my major (almost only) way to read HN on iOS :-)
For the present time, 3D Printing is NOT revolutionizing the actual production of end products.
However the decreased pricing and increased availability (3D printing has been available for a very long time at a high cost) of 3D Printing machines IS revolutionizing the very important part of the product life cycle....Design For Manufacture (DFM)[1].

Rapid Prototyping, Kanban, lean, agile, and other concepts that are revolutionizing software development were all concepts that developed in the Manufacturing world many years ago.
3D Printing is a very valuable tool for rapidly validating and testing designs....release early and often, get feedback, validate, etc.

Most products for the time being(once through the DFM process) will still get produced using traditional methods (Injection Mouldings, Castings, etc).

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_manufacturability
The 13" Air and 14" Carbon are fairly similar in screen resolution (right?), however I believe that font rendering on Mac OS seems to be sub-par.
People are not reading enough into Brin's suggestion. You can't just ditch parties and expect to win an election. But parties are pretty bad. The solution is to really democratize American politics. I think we need a completely new system, where, oh, five candidates are chosen by a random lottery, and then after a few months of preparation (which would make great reality TV) a general election.

This is the kind of participatory government that our modern information infrastructure can enable. And tell me that the American people wouldn't love this!

The cool thing is that we can graft this onto the current system by asking people to agree to a pact where they agree to write in the selected candidate. This would have to be conditional, of course, on getting enough people to agree to the pact. 10 million or so would be a significant number.

Of course there's no reason to start off with national politics with this. I think it would be fine to start with local races and demonstrate feasibility. But of course, I want it to choose the next President. :)
Because history and polls essentially show that the other candidate winning that state is impossible. They wait until voting closes in that state before calling it as a courtesy. The majority of states could have been called weeks in advance.
Now I'm genuinely curious - in which direction are you trying to hack undecideds?
Not everyone works for funky hipster startups that judge potential employees by their github profile. If you want to work for a large corporation or government you won't even get shortlisted without the right education/degree, regardless of your real-world experience or 1337 hacking skills.
Well, the workarounds seem to be mostly for people using unsupported distros or (more commonly) installing it despite not being in the closed beta.
Nope the article does not focus so much on price. It says 3d printers are getting cheaper and cheaper. But his points are valid: just like it does not make sense to carve your own furniture for everything, it does not make sense to do 3D printing for everything in your house either, because you need different kind of materials for different kind of purpose and no 3d printer is going to be able to reproduce every kind of plastic used around you. Plastic is not just plastic, there are thousands of different polymers used in different industries. Not all of them could be used in a 3D printer setting (some can only be molded under high pressure and high temperature).

I may be wrong, but I think you are falling into the typical false technological assumption that a new technology will revolutionize everything just because it becomes available. I mean, look at computers. Even though they are becoming ubiquitous there are not computers in every object we use every day. A lot of our home equipment is still based on "stupid" electronics because it's good enough in most cases.

3D printers will become more common, more reliable and cheaper as the market develops, but when you can order something on Amazon for 3 dollars and have it delivered at your door in one day, there is a strong competition as to what is the best/most effortless way to get the thing in question. If your goal is to make unique objects that you cannot find anywhere, then, sure, 3d printers are the future, but most of us are living in environments where many things have been standardized, and products fitting these standards are readily available.
I'm only guessing here, but I think that most of the angel investors that I know will trash such an email after reading the first sentence and seeing how much more they still have to read.
A lot of people are stating that this is like gambling - it is - but not in the sense that you think. Firstly he doesn't use his entire bankroll on each trade, secondly he goes long-short consistently over very short periods of time, thirdly he's too tiny to actually move markets, and fourthly he is in and out within a day - where his max var. is 100% on thousands of tiny trades. Think of it like this - he has $100 - he bets $10 of that each day. He can blow that $10 - no problems.

Worst case he runs out of capital over a period of weeks.

He can't blow up in the way that you think - but he can have large drawdowns over a period of weeks.

Markets are eventually consistent scalable systems - and that is why we prefer them over central planning. In the medium term they prices things correctly, cheaply and efficiently (decade+).

In the short term however (sub-decade) - they can't price jack.

Markets are inefficient period - if they weren't, well then P=NP and you could just put your NP-hard problems into a market and get back cheap, quick, accurate results. Oh - wait - protein folding is actually harder than that.

There are 2 major ways to make money in the markets. Value-Growth and statistical arb (often high frequency). The former (Buffett) is highly concentrated bets on the future of business (I'm value - long TSLA/GOOG/Samsung). The latter is looking for thousands of small diversified statistically significant correlations above 50% (random guesses) and trading costs between securities/price movements over short time intervals (aka statistical ghosts in the data - RenTech/Shaw).

Both work. Both work well. And will continue to do so as long as markets exist.
Your comment reminds me of this quote from Linus Torvalds:

"If you have ever done any security work – and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" – it wasn't security work, it was – masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development."
Pretty much all your points come down to "ignore the past, where republicans always screw over the public, trust us this time". That approach is unscientific. It completely ignores data. And the numbers you're fuming about are a trick. The republican proposal is to cut 5 trillion in taxes. How does that help the debt problem. And the debt isn't a problem at all. The entire professional economist community is against you, just like the entire professional climatologist community is against you on climate change.

I don't know if you're purposefully being a caricature of republican voters or if you genuinely believe what you're saying, but when you mess with Norvig, you mess with the best. You cannot win against Norvig, he is a tech super-ninja. Those super-ninja skills can equally be applied to deciding who to vote for, and his opinion on this case is signed and sealed. There is no question that today's Republican Party is anti-public, anti-world, anti-science.
Inspiration acquired. +1 to the Buffer guys for being so transparent.
No kidding:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/W520-s...

Already sent mine back once - mb and fan replaced, no change. Warranty service says they will replace the cpu next.

Avoid the W520.
I have two theories why it stopped working. I think the market sped up. Latencies are always getting lower and your strategy that worked at 10 ms didn't work with players that are at 1 ms. Also, you might have been gamed because your strategy was easily predictable or you were putting too many trades through the same broker/exchange/etc.
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I like The New York Times coverage more: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/big-boar... - I think it's more visually appealing and also more functional.
I assume you mean a demo video and are looking for something affordable: http://demogirl.com/
They are both equally current. It comes down to who is more daring or conservative in making calls. All in all, however, that doesn’t matter. Those numbers are meaningless. Look at Florida and Ohio as well as all the other swing states. That’s all you need.

If Obama wins Florida Romney has to win every other swing state. Obama winning Florida basically means game over for Romney. If Obama wins Ohio there are only few paths for Romney to win.
In your opinion. Your opinion is obviously in conflict with 3 million other people last weekend. Perhaps you're wrong.
Is there a (reasonably) live map where the swing states are specially marked? I don't know them by heart and I don't want to have to look them up.

Oh I just noticed the big board is what I want. I guess I don't really care about the geographics.
Disclaimer: I have only hobbyists knowledge of CAD and 3d printing

The author may be a mechanical engineer, but he certainly isn't an entrepreneur. The interesting question is not "Does it make sense for everyone to have a 3D printer now?" but "What kinds of things become possible once everyone has a 3D printer in their home?"
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Given a max loss of 2k, we already know the Sharpe Ratio was pretty good.

2009-10 was more than just a huge rally, it was also a period where vol and skew were massively mispriced. I know this is high frequency, but like I alluded to, you need to make sure that what you're doing isn't replicating the pnl profile of low frequency strategies.

So, how did you perform relative to vol sellers? From the market bottom to the end of 2010, the max daily loss for a vol seller was about 3x average daily pnl, and >80% winners. So your returns do sound better, but not incredibly.

But, even if you failed to perform as well as vol selling did over the same period, that doesn't negate the strategy's validity. If returns were not correlated, then it's safe to say that you weren't just inadvertently shorting vol.

So, start there, work out a regression comparing your daily returns to someone selling vol. Do the same with moving average strategies. Mocking up a simple market making back test versus an ES beta is hard, but that too would be a something to test against. I don't expect you to do any of this, and I'm not going to bother to either. I'm just saying that a complete discussion of this subject would include that information.
This is very great for checking out paths to victory: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/scenario...
Basically: "He made it all about 'me' and that's the thing, as an investor, I love the most."

In all seriousness if you truly want to know how to do something great, go to someone who has done something similar successfully before and soak up their knowledge. At the end of the day though, if you want someone you don't know who has never heard of you to invest in you, you have to stroke their ego a bit.
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Is being open about your startup really "bucking the trend"? Maybe I hang out on HN too much, but it'd seem to me that the trend is actually being transparent.
If the intended recipient thought it was perfect, then he achieved his goal.

We all have different preferences for emails we received, clearly he nailed it for his target.
yes, but IMO it should be provided as a feature, not as a requirement. I'm probably in the minority here, but I prefer general solutions to 'github extensions', as when you host projects elswhere all those useful tools become simply worthless. especially that using a package manager and using github isn't necessarily tied together.
how and why this is secure blows my mind. Should I stop using keepass?
The RF patent was an example of the kind of patent I worked with, not a software patent specifically.

My example for a software patent would be the h.264 patent. That's not something a practitioner of ordinary skill would find obvious.
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They do. They just round down from 0.4% in the summary. When 3600 of 4000 people vote one way, across several precints, it is statistically significant. You won't see that in a statr like Florida that has less consistency across precincts, but in NH and DC, it is a valid call.
BBC is my favorite: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20009195
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But the iPad and the iPad mini has the same number of pixels. If I browse a site on my mini I expect the same UI as when I use my iPad.
I'm not American, but visually I like this one http://edition.cnn.com/election/2012/results/main?hpt=elec_f...
Twitter users vote blue 2 to 1. Not surprising, incorrect classification aside.
The NYT (and other news sites...check out the Chicago Tribune's clean map http://elections.chicagotribune.com/results/us-president/)...win hands down in looks and functionality, in such a way that you wonder why Google even tried. They don't appear to have more up-to-date info either.

They might have a different source of data but that isn't at all communicated in this format. There must be other, niftier ways to present the data (results and any other kind of data) and chronological structure of our election day than just a map.

That said, I hope Google continues to be a real competitor in terms of providing the voting results data.
BBC Election Results
Electoral Map as predicted on Intrade
On political parties and why they should not exist
I just hope more people see the question.
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Does it work without being accepted into the beta?

I would try but I'm at work currently.
The accuracy of Nate and other quantitative modelers' forecasts depends on the quality and accuracy of the polls they use. Drew Linzer of votamatic.org has written some really good pieces the past few days examining poll accuracy and the potential for "systemic polling failure":

http://votamatic.org/can-we-trust-the-polls/

http://votamatic.org/another-look-at-survey-bias/

http://votamatic.org/pollsters-may-be-herding/
In the normal mainstream media, I have not seen one critique of his methods.
No but they used to make 13" MBP with nvidia chipsets rather than intel's crappy ones. Even the 11" MBA used to have nvidia chipsets. It is a new trend with Apple to downgrade the integrated gpu (compared to the competition, and their own past products). The first incident began with the switch to MacIntels and people who liked the Mac Mini suddenly had to bear with the Intel GMA rather than ATI Radeon. Same thing happened during the switch to intel from iBook (radeon) vs Macbook (gma). TBH it feels like Apple always go for the highest margin components (low cost for Apple while still selling the laptop for a premium price) whenever they feel like they can get away with doing so.
The paper on arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0336

The reduction in size is possible because they found a way to not use a beam splitter and lenses. Comparing the diagram on Wikipedia makes it easy to see how that could save a lot of space: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_holographic_microscopy

It would have been nice to see either a model or conventional images of their test targets for qualitative comparison to their resulting holograms. Still cool stuff though.
Weird that Bing has an huge ad on the NYT site, for a site with essentially the same content.

I wonder what clickthrough they get. Maybe a lot, as everyone opens 10 different tabs to cycle through sites and get higher throughput on updates.
"Since I'm no longer running my [half million dollar] program I’m happy to tell all"

This does not ring true.
>I can print stupid things like cups, cases, boxes, clips, holders, etc. Light things, cheap things. I can customize them, that is the huge thing 3D printing allows - customization.

Yes, you can print all the cheap low-value add things we currently outsource to China and other low-wage countries, but you can also personalize them.

That's a potential recipe for major disruption.
The Huffington Post is good too: http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/results
Thanks for the link! It's fairly interesting, too. That citation specifically reads: 'Erroneously used in reference to metaphors, hyperbole, etc., even by writers like Dryden and Pope, to indicate "what follows must be taken in the strongest admissible sense" (1680s), which is opposite to the word's real meaning.'

So for one, it states clearly 'erroneously used' (and indeed has this specific wording, 'strongest admissible sense').

Further, gives the 1680 number, but doesn't actually source that any further (general writing periods of Dryden and Pope? Perhaps, though not clear).

Anyway, that's fun. I miss the OED, but it's the sort of massive tome that's impractical to always have on hand.
I was so free to shorten the title. Hobo stove is the normal term of this kind of camping oven, normally build from an empty can, but as robotmay tells also sold by brands like Ikea. Wondering: Do they sell an empty can, knife and instructions, like other DIY Ikea products?
I dig the InTrade page: http://www.intrade.com/v4/misc/electoral-map/
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Hmm. I wanted to go reqd that page tonight to see you what is left that matters, but it has been replaced by the link be results map. Lame.
>The Retina MacBook Pro 13” has an Intel HD Graphics 4000 chipset, which is rather underpowered.

Does anyone know of a 13" or smaller notebook with a good discrete GPU? The only one I know of is the Sager NP6110 [1] with a high end Nvdia GT650M.

If Sager can do it, why aren't there a lot more of these?

[1]: http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np6110-clevo-w110er-p-4343.html
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