skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting idea! I only had a quick look around the website but still have a couple questions:

1.How does the poster verify a solution?

2.If verification involves looking at the code, what's stopping the poster from just copying the code?
Why can't we just build new, safer nuclear power like India, China, Japan, and basically everyone else are building right now? Whoops, the left has demonized nuclear power so much in this country that people fear it more than coal!

It always sounds great to be "investing" in infrastructure or energy or whatever. But pols don't invest, they cater to voting blocks. Politics can't solve these problems.
Following Sandy, DHS seeks security ‘Cyber Reserve’
What I liked most about this post: not so much the answers, but the fact that the answers were all so different...further emphasizing that there rarely is one right answer, but many possibilities and that you have to find your own.

Great read. Thank you, OP.
In addition to being in agreement with several of the other reasons mentioned here, I do most of my development on a netbook, and I find it easier to just have a single maximized terminal on a desktop, and use Tmux to manage my 'windows.'

[ Also more of a Linux thing, but is perfectly possible for X11 to crash without the whole machine going down, and my session remains unharmed. ]
Thanks for the interest! We collected tweets by sampling a small percentage of all tweets in a time window, to emulate what one might get from the streaming API (I did this as part of the VI-A http://vi-a.mit.edu/ masters program at MIT, and was an employee of Twitter). We did pick a fixed set of topics to track, but those were randomly sampled (though we did get rid of topics that trended multiple times in a large time window, like the name of a football player who scored in multiple matches, in which case we don't know which event we are trying to detect). One thing the algorithm doesn't do at the moment is come up with its own trending topics. It just tests prediction of trending/non-trending on a hold-out set taken from the original set of topics.
Nothing wrong. It's just not hype-worthy because it doesn't contain the words Apple/Chrome/iOS. So most people will just ignore this.
Pleasant tickle? Isn't it just 1/max(SHA-1)?

I do get a pleasant tickle from expanding that to the question of if there is any fixed point in SHA-1, but the chance for a particular value is the answer you always get for "what is the chance of a specific hash".
Custom checkbox and radio to match Twitter Bootstrap
Need some more info - State/Province/Country of incorporation? Federal or State/Provincial incorporation(again, depends on country) Includes any shareholder agreements as well?

Also, why not wait for the co-founder first, to save $$ on getting papers re-drawn / filing amendments?
replied above
"Several of the most populous states, such as California, have medical marijuana, decriminalization, or outright legalization statutes on the books or have just passed them. All of the west coast is pro legalization."

There has actually been a lot of backward momentum in recent years, especially in the West. Californians rejected the full-decriminalization proposition a few years ago. The state is also cracking down on dispensaries, and/or allowing more and more DEA raids against dispensaries and state-sanctioned growers.

On the other side of the pond, even Amsterdam is starting to crack down on cannabis shops and decriminalization statutes.

By all accounts, the measure in CO was an abberration from recent trends. Maybe it will be a tipping point back in the pro-legalization direction. But it represents a shift in the prevailing tides of the last few years.
Triumph of the Nerds: Nate Silver wins in 50 states
> The main thing holding "classic" Windows in place is familiarity, and as you said, games. I think Microsoft looks at the Xbox as hardcore gaming and the PC as "casual"...

If I were MS, I would somehow extend XBox Live onto tablets. Apple has made a mess of Game Center. MS knows how to do a game ecosystem, and many XBox casual titles would do well on a tablet.
The real question is if there is any TLD you don't have to think twice about, and if yes for how much longer..
I would not be surprised if the Dotcom planned this all in advance. Just either to humiliate UMG if it buys the domain (highly unlikely) or just to be in the news (He seems to be trying too hard, by making faux promises)
I don't much care for the term teabagger, but it is their own coinage. see here: http://theweek.com/article/index/202620/the-evolution-of-the... and think back to the many pictures of people suspending tea bags from hats etc., until they became aware of the slang meaning of the term. While they've tried to drop it and call themselves Tea Partiers, they've shown little inclination to temper their criticisms of others with civility or moderation, so far. Perhaps this electoral defeat will prompt some soul-searching.
I read this title much more literally, I thought they had seen an uptick in physical tiny piano sales (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/Schroeder_Pian...)
man, you're on HN.

please don't call script kiddies 'hackers'
The right has been just as much of an impediment. All the places it makes sense to store nuclear waste are red states who don't want it in their back yard. And their going apoplectic at any country trying to develop nuclear technology doesn't help the public perception.

The reality is that the market left alone won't solve these problems, and politics can't solve them perfectly. What you're left with is the state of human existance: muddling along.
Notice how a lot of the answers form a single connected thread: how hard it is to get users, that doing so depends on making what they want, and that to make what they want you have to understand them (instead of working on some idea conceived in a vacuum).
That's what the Italian scientists did.
IIRC you stick an anode and kathode into the urine, separated by a semi-permeable membrane. This takes power of course. I'm not entirely convinced yet. Saying something gives you "6 hours of electricity" means nothing. My watch battery gives me years of electricity for example.
> Don’t hire people that are getting a salary bump up by working with you

Anyone else find that piece of advice a bit odd? Wouldn't someone like that be more of an asset since they were (ostensibly) getting paid closer to their worth than before, especially if they actually fit your culture?
It doesn't help because the Congress itself is the roadblock, and they do need to get re-elected.

Obama himself has been pushing for STEM in the first term, and there's every reason to believe Romney would have as well -- they agreed on it. It's Congress on this one issue that's preventing STEM-only from going forward.
Update your browser - happens to me in IE8, but not Chrome 22. Certification verification is done by the browser, and I believe they store acceptable CA signers somehow, which is probably out dated.

Edit: Don't quote me, been a while since studying site certificates.
Fascinating stuff... and something I want to learn more about.

Can you please recommend me books/software applications/online courses for doing the work these guys were doing for Obama campaign?

(Just to clarify: I am a developer and I grok SQL. So that part is covered. Other parts... less so.)
> In the coin flip scenario each throw of the biased coins are independent. How one lands does not effect the other. The same is likely not true for how states end-up voting.

For sure. If I have a point, it's that there's not enough information in any election to claim that he "nailed it." Since the outcome he said was most likely seems to have occurred, it definitely supports his model and his approach. But you'd need to see a longer track record than exists to be sure. (think of each coin flip as being a separate national election).

Independence is a little bit of a red herring, though. There are LLNs and CLTs that allow for weak dependence between the observations, and any strong/systematic dependence between the states belongs in the model (and I think is in Silver's model, but I could be misremembering). And we would expect that 6 of 10 "60% Obama" states would come up for Obama. The interdependence is going to affect the variance but not the mean. So we should expect to see (say) 8 or more of 10 going to Obama happen more frequently than a naive binomial(.6, 10) distribution would predict.
What this article seems to show is that the election was not about political ideology. It was about getting out the vote. The Obama campaign fine-tuned its message to scientifically increase returns in those targeted groups. The Romney campaign played the 'smoke-filled room' game (for all we can tell).

In none of the presidential debates did either man speak in depth about his governing philosophy (or the Fed for that matter). Their talking points rang loud and clear over and over, and finger-pointing abounded, but neither spoke of his core convictions. The campaign speeches were much of the same. For all of the complaints about Romney's lack of details in his economic plan, the President didn't do any better, simply offering a 'stay the course' message (he learned something from Bush).

Therefore, given this article and the lack of ideology involved in the campaigns, I conclude that the voters were not persuaded by philosophy. They were targeted by the campaign so that the powers that be could keep their power.

Looking back to the electoral college results of 1980 and 1984 shows what a strong, clear ideological message can do. Those familiar with Reagan's speeches will know why.

So for those who say that America has embraced any certain ideology, I say that it has not, since ideology hasn't been on the ballot for a long time. People have embraced a man, and the philosophical debate has reached a new low.
Another thing you should never do in VB.Net
Okay, the link is now dead. A women called Meredith did a hostile takeover of the hacker news cologne meetup group and renamed it. She removed Vidar, the main organizer from the Admin list and now has full controll of the meetup group.

This is outrages that it is even possible to do this.
ditto wanted to see where it went. a stripe button would be better than gumroad
Hint... it's Linux.
I heard good things about the startup lawyer Ryan Roberts and he charges $1,250 + filing fees ($148) as a standard fee when I checked with him (March). That's for a Delaware c corporation.
Apple awarded design patent for actual rounded rectangle
Personally, I find working within tmux more productive than a vanilla terminal, even if I never touch the remote functionality.

This was probably due to being used to using terminator on xubuntu, which tmux has felt similar to for me, and because I prefer having something I can configure/script and commit to a repo. I think it's a bit like preferring awesomewm or xmonad over, say, Gnome or KDE.

In addition to that, this sort of thing is just nice, I think.
the buttons on the left side and bottom row means maximum stretch for the most common right hand thumb using crowd. Maximum stretch may be translating to maximum pressure. Just a wild guess...
Italian plan to boost coast tourism: avoid to clean up after tragic shipwreck.
Great work Claudio! Will definitely give this a try soon.

-Ali
According to Ars Technica, the infrastructure will be the same. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/micros... This is more of a rebrand than an "axe".
Commentators are mediators of politics for most people in the US.
It doesn't get emphasized in the FreeBSD community at all, maybe it's different for OpenBSD.
Yes, that happened, at least according to one dude: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/11/facetime-standar...
I'd sure like to know more about their methods and algorithms. What exactly "is" big data is glossed over so much that I can't tell if they are doing something unique here or simply applying a large degree of automation.
PSA: you accomplish the same on a Surface (or other Win8/RT tablet) by either

a) swiping from the top edge to the left or right (current app)

b) drag an app out of the switcher to an edge

[These also technically work with a mouse; but far more convenient with touch]
If you stick a pair of charged contacts in a container of water, you'll see bubbles produced at each contact. The cathode produces hydrogen.

Go get a 9 volt battery and try it right now. Just drop it in a cup of water. Presto! Hydrogen!

Use solar power as a source of electricity, and who cares about efficiency?
The New York City "Marathon"
The easiest way to manage your tasks on your Android phone.
Hey everyone! Feel free to leave me any questions here or on the comments section of my blog post. I'm happy to answer your questions regarding indie development.

I'm always glad to help another indie developer by sharing my experiences. The more information that's out there, the better it is for someone trying to make it!

-Ron
I have the latest ff: 16.0.2.

I even tried

$ openssl s_client -connect hacks.mozilla.org:443

from a linode vm:

CONNECTED(00000003)
---
Certificate chain
0 s:/serialNumber=I1oZ-yurbFWiPu/xP8HIzW3f9mApQvMv/C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Mozilla Corporation/OU=IT/CN=tbpl.mozilla.org
i:/C=US/O=GeoTrust, Inc./CN=GeoTrust SSL CA
1 s:/C=US/O=GeoTrust, Inc./CN=GeoTrust SSL CA
i:/C=US/O=GeoTrust Inc./CN=GeoTrust Global CA
2 s:/C=US/O=GeoTrust Inc./CN=GeoTrust Global CA
i:/C=US/O=Equifax/OU=Equifax Secure Certificate Authority
---
Server certificate
[...]
subject=/serialNumber=I1oZ-yurbFWiPu/xP8HIzW3f9mApQvMv/C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Mozilla Corporation/OU=IT/CN=tbpl.mozilla.org
issuer=/C=US/O=GeoTrust, Inc./CN=GeoTrust SSL CA

Any idea?
I agree with you --- this seems like a perfectly good way to tackle the problem of trend prediction directly. What we had in mind was something that would be more generally applicable to any kind of time series data, and we figured it would be interesting to test it on Twitter trends.
£15 to do it online with Companies House, just done it myself last week.
More the Bill James of politics. (Bill James, created Sabermetrics, which are many of the models that Billy Beane utilizes)

Billy Beane is more a someone who utilizes new types of stats in player evaluation, then the person who creates the stats, I'm not sure who the "user" of Nate Silver's metrics are.

It is interesting to note that much of Nate's work stems from his work in Baseball.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_James
There's no mention of gaming in those slides. Will they be supporting WebGL?
Some analytics for last 4 hours(time since posting it to HN) :

4898 total unique visitors.

1567 clicked demo button.

87 clicked buy button (but not completed transaction)

72 checked documentation

28 clicked on screenshot

4 completed sale.
The GOP fielded a horrible panel of candidates; all were very flawed and Romney was the most likely out of any of them to win against the President. They also hamstrung each other during the primary campaign in ways too numerous to list. This gave the Democratic Party a huge advantage since the President didn't have to undergo much scrutiny during this period. Incumbency is really hard to overcome.

1. There are numerous candidates who might prove compelling in 2016. I don't think Christie belongs in that group since he's being viewed as a pariah after the tropical storm. Rubio would satisfy the more conservative elements plus potentially bring in the Latino vote.

2. I don't think the GOP has huge structural issues, but I'll grant that the Democratic Party is much more unified.

The GOP also has the nickname as the stupid party. Things like Todd Akin's comments (and Mourdock's) tainted the entire party. Had they repudiated both immediately and stuck with it even in the face of losing those two Senate seats (which they lost anyways) they would have done better in attracting women voters. Instead, the comments reinforced the Democratic meme that the GOP hated women.
Cool, thx. Marco Arment says there are scrolling issues: "I’ve also found that when the 15” is running one of these scaled modes, it has noticeably worse scrolling performance."

http://www.marco.org/2012/11/06/the-retina-macbook-pro-13
Agreed. I've been mulling this over for a while.
You have to compare apples to apples. DARPA gives out grants. Solyndra was a loan guarantee. The subsidy represented by a loan guarantee is the value of the loan multiplied by the probability of default.
Internet trends in 2012
I have had no experience doing this myself and I can only echo the other sentiments that you speak to an attorney; it's something that would likely be too risky without one.
Yeah, it really looks like this was built with essentially no view to binary compatibility (i.e. they did it on Precise simply because that's what they had on their desktops) and then tried to bolt-on multilib and cross-version (cross-distro was clearly chucked as far out the window as they could throw it) features right before beta. Then they added a bunch of "checking" stuff to the scripts "just to be sure".

Broadly, the best way to do this looks like this:

0. Build on 10.04 Lucid. Of the existing "well-supported" distro choices, it is binary compatible with more of the rest of the universe (including modern Fedora/OpenSUSE too!).

1. Identify dependencies on distro-provided software very early, and document them precisely. Things like the "xboxdrv" hacks mentioned above shouldn't exist; if you can't get it everywhere you need your own copy. It sucks but it's true. Building this stuff from scratch really isn't rocket surgery. A Lucid-built library will (absent missing dependencies) work on more modern distros, I promise.

1a. Conversely, if you can get something from the distro reliably, please do!

2. Separate the "update" mechanism from the binaries! Running steam should simply run steam. Put a "there is a new version" check in there if you must, but don't invoke the package manager on behalf of the user! If there are dependencies missing, you shouldn't be running at all.

3. Maintain your own apt (and ideally yum/zypper) repos. This allows you to cryptographically sign your distributed software in a way that the users and their tools already understand. And frankly it's something you need, and aren't likely do (or do correctly) for yourself anyway.

Doing things like this ensures that those of us who aren't on your preferred distro can still run your software without hating you. This is Linux -- you don't need to bend over backwards to support us. We're happy to do some porting work, just don't crap on us like you're doing now.
"There's not a lot of quality data on the health effects of regular pot use, but what I've read says it's something of a mix of the effects of alcoholism and cigarette addiction."

That's just wrong.

Alcohol kills tens of thousands of people through liver failure and various other adverse affects. Pot does not.
Alcohol is pretty far up the addiction scale. Pot is not (though it does have some addiction potential).
Alcohol withdrawal can actually kill you, which is worse than pretty much anything else I know. Pot withdrawal may disturb your sleep for a week, if you're a heavy user.

Tobacco kills an enormous amount of folks. Pot smoke is not nearly as toxic (AFAICT) and you don't have to smoke it anyway.

There is a lot of data on this, a quick search on your favourite engine will find it for you, it's not like pot was just discovered last week.
Just a head's up, that link is broken. I think you may have meant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Westendorp%27s_Price_Sensit...

Also, I just want to mention that if you have the ability to change your price rapidly then using a dynamic pricing API[0] might be better suited for determining the best price.

[0] Disclosure: this is what we do, but don't feel compelled to use us.
Quora responses to 'What should everyone know about economics?'
Yes, I try to download most related apps. It's important to be aware of the competition. But don't be dissuaded by them.

I use as much analytics as I can. If anyone is interested in app development, they should definitely check out: App Annie & Flurry Analytics.
Using Facebook promoted posts to enhance PR
For those who want to explore the DNS based services there are a few options. These services seem to very similar and most of them are $5 a month.

I have been using http://playmo.tv for just over a year and I get my daily dose of Netflix, Hulu through my Apple TV.

Prior to discovering "geounblocking" I must admit how oblivous I was about the advances in streaming media :s I am happy to pay for the conveniences of streaming Netflix, etc.
Do you know of any data on the size of the spreads over time?
Great Software Is In The Details
I have a system: I assume that anyone who uses the word 'hustle' non-ironically lacks any form of 'hustle'.

It's an awful, awful word.

To make a point relevant to the article - what if the non-technical chap has deeply relevant domain knowledge and valuable contacts within the industry?

I can't say it bothers me enormously, but I do find the idea that all non-technical cofounders have to be wizards who magically hustle themselves into meetings with people who don't really want to meet them to be both funny and misguided
It's worth noting that the poster you responded to said "from the faculty's perspective", not "from their adviser's perspective".

Individual faculty members care a lot for their individual grad students, and generally go out of their way to help them. They academic system as a whole (which is partially run by the faculty) treats them pretty poorly (long hours, way below market pay--often near the poverty line and largely without benefits that well educated professionals [which is what grad students are] would expect in any other job).

No one is saying that your partner is a bad person. They're saying that the system is a bad system.
Yes. There are a couple of WebGL demos that come pre-installed on the current build.
Co-Founder Material? Join Quad As We Take on Education
All universities have a class portal system to host resources, post announcements, and more. If you’ve ever used one, you might agree with us that these systems are archaic and painful to use. We aim to change that. Quad is a platform built to make the lives of students and teachers easier and more efficient while also saving schools money.

Check out a preview here: http://bit.ly/QuadPreview2

At its core, Quad gives students an academic to do list (tests, homework, projects, etc) for all their classes in one place. From there, it intelligently ties data together, allows for private collaboration, classmate discovery, and more. We have hundreds of students currently using Quad in a private beta and the response has been fantastic-- students and instructors want more of their classes on it.

We have a lot on our plate so we’re looking to bring on an additional technical co-founder (significant equity and perks of being a YC founder) to our team. Experience with node.js and mobile is desirable but not required.

The market is big-- Berkeley and Stanford pay $1-2 million dollars a year to support their learning management systems (LMS) while companies like Blackboard (the largest LMS company) enjoy revenues of over $500 million annually.

If you are up for the challenge of being a co-founder, send us links with what you’ve built or anything relevant to cofounder@thequad.com. We’ll be in touch. Thanks!
Admittedly I only got 2/3 of the way through the article, but I didn't find any cases of voter fraud supported by evidence in that part. The author teases a bit, but they turn out to be clerical errors or similar.

Lots of voter registration errors though. e.g. registrations not culled when the voter moves away.

As far as dead men voting. I'm aware of two in this election. They voted absentee with the reasonable expectation they would no longer be living on election day. Legality apparently varies by state.
Yes, I forgot to mention that I would be attending SMR on Saturday and maybe Sunday too.

Regarding the flatshare, I'm moving to London with my GF but thanks for the though!

Cheers,