skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will possibly still require workarounds for non-ubuntu users though, the official sources are only citing compatibility with Ubuntu as a goal. That said, every distribution will likely have a package available through non-official sources. Arch for example already has a working user package for the current client. And I can also confirm that it is slow and buggy as was to be expected.
Wow! This forum has been extremely helpful. We had a few people try the service, even one even identified a bug. Please keep the feedback coming :)
Nvidia Doubles Linux Driver Performance
Ah yes, the fun of politics. As soon as someone says something that you disagree with, just flip your emotional switch and let the rant flow.

I actually am quite aware of that history. I am also aware that of dozens of efforts in the last several years to change voting rules, every Republican effort has been to make it harder in the name of reducing fraud, while every Democratic effort has been to make it easier in the name of improving access.

It may not be a simple Democrat/Republican issue, but at this point it is definitely a highly partisan Democrat/Republican issue.
Congratulations, the retina MBPs are designed for you :).
I'm looking at running an intro to CS/programming short course for biologists (graduate students) at my university. I may drop you an email at some point to pick your brains, if that's OK?
But the X1 Carbon only has a 1600x900 resolution. While better than 1280x800, this is still too little for having 2 windows side-by-side in most cases. I know this because I have a Thinkpad T430 myself.

The Thinkpad build quality also isn't what it used to be.
A bit late, hopefully you'll still read: we're located here http://goo.gl/maps/4UkZU.

It's usually not as exceedingly hot as in the south-east, but still sweet.

Get in touch if you'd like more details!
In the app itself, on the iOs version (not yet on Android), you can tap "Add" instead of "Augment" and it will add several objects in the same scene.
You have presented what is nearly the most asinine counter-intellectual analysis I have ever read.

The linked facts do not support you. Only 4% of the population is in that category and of that category 63% voted D, 35% voted R. In no world does this equate to D are represented in the majority by those without High School educations.

Further-more, (from your own source) of the 28% of the population who are college graduates 50% voted D 48% voted R. This explicitly indicates more College Graduates voted D than R.
Which is a shame. As joesb points out above, this severely reduces the benefits of the "instant execution&feedback" features.

Given that this is an alpha release, maybe it's still time to rethink that approach and allow for sandboxed environments.
I worked as a consultant for 11 Months right out of college. During that time I launched a side project that got some traction and a little press but didn't really go anywhere. I put it on my resume and started applying to startups in the Bay Area. The project got my foot in the door for some interviews and I was eventually hired as a lead dev for a YC company.

I didn't create a startup but I was able to work in my spare time on a project that proved I could ship a product, which enabled me to leave my soul sucking corporate consulting gig.
The one I chose is the Sony Vaio Z -- 13.3" at 1920x1080, quad core ivy bridge, Intel graphics (important for Linux users) dual (!) 256MB SSDs. The nice feature is the flat extra battery that simply clips to the bottom, giving a total of 96WH of energy (about 7.5 hours!) while simultaneously insulating the heat sink from my lap and making the bottom surface completely flat.

Definitely recommended, though not particularly cheap.
Could you provide the list here? The link returns 'no results' for me.

[edit] the list magically appeared right after posting this.
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I actually thought about making that analogy, but it seemed unnecessary as the analogs are just so common.

Though, one thing I think is a bit unique to trading is prevalence of folks who preach without practicing. Just about anyone with a brokerage account can rattle off the same short list of critical do's and don'ts, but very few actually follow them.
ballots are stuffed into an image scanner (like a high speed fax) as they arrive, the votes are detected, any ambiguous votes are "electronically adjudicated" meaning workers alter the database to correct for voter intent or write ins.

Is this different than how the count works in states whose ballots are delivered via volunteers with ballot boxes?
Why you should get an Independent Board Member
Wow that is a gem. Keynes was a giant. Wish the political parties wouldn't run from him.
I have an old Lacie Rugged 160 GB external drive that's 4.5 years old, and rarely used. It had a 1 year warranty. It's still working. I don't rely on it totally these days, though.
At this rate, Nate Silver will be responsible for 50% of NYT traffic by next week!
There's absolutely nothing preventing a sandboxed environment :) Connections are just processes that talk over tcp, if the client wants to sandbox whatever it evals, it can definitely do that.
why would you need to port it or relicense it?

Your fork should be good enough.

Although IANAL
Please put info in your profile.

I strongly agree with everything you said, and am thus interested in learning more. I had no idea the Scottish election was so ridiculously bad. Is there anyone campaigning against this in the UK I can donate money to, or lend my support to?

Paper ballet (and the process you outlined behind it) is important to prove beyond all reasonable doubt to the losers and their voters that the election was fair. The primary purpose of an election is to be seen as fair. Any reasonable doubt at all and legitimacy is quickly eroded and then you may as well not have bothered with democracy at all.
Thanks. This is very representative of the font rendering quality I am talking about. (I.e. this is what it looks like in real life too, with your eyes.)

Instead of the normally very crisp rendering, you get this bloated/fuzzy look.
Not true at all, in my experience - I've had my retina 15" MBP for a while and haven't had any problems. I run at 1680. The only noticeable problems are blurry raster graphics - which happen at any scaling except 1x (2880.)
I went this way. The screen is far and away the best I've ever used.
I said it's funny how Americans always use the big population excuse for having sub-par services.

You're saying that it's got more to do with how much the population is willing to be taxed, which I believe is the real reason.
I guess that works for this guy, but as someone in a big enterprise, I'd be really annoyed with a vendor that is venue shopping. An an outsider, you have no idea what the internal politics of the organization are. Getting blindsided because some salesman took my colleague to lunch is a great way to get a project derailed. (The conversation can shift to "how do we implement product x" instead of "how do we solve problem y")

The sales teams that I've worked with for years (as opposed to the sales teams that aren't around anymore) have something in common -- they focus on building a relationship, figuring out wtf is going on, and bringing solutions to the table.

Other anti-patterns:

- Hyper-aggressive (ie Oracle): Their mission is to be a pain in the ass and sell your CEO a bill of goods. Your relationship is by definition adversarial.

- Mistargeted (ie Dropbox): Friendly people call every now and again. They never answer my question ("Is Dropbox on a state procurement contract?"), and don't understand why the answer they don't know is important to me.

- Wheeler-dealers: I ask for a product demo, we get it, followed by a cold quote for $3M for an off the shelf product. I don't respond, and get an unsolicited quote that is now $2M. I usually reply with an email that says "Not gonna happen."
I started off writing ULPs, but eventually moved on to using a general purpose language to generate a ULP that consisted of the actions to be performed. And to get the data out, the registered version has an option to export to such a script, too (and you can write a ULP to do the same exporting in the unregistered version).

I've done mostly prototype work, but rework isn't much harder with tighter design rules. Also keep in mind a good amount of possible cutting/jumpering/airwiring can be avoided with the right use of infinite and zero ohm resistors at layout time. I unfortunately haven't touched embedded design in a while - moved on to software for more ambitious goals; unfortunately, das blinkenlights aren't so applicable to the problems of the world that are important to me.
I'd like to see something identical to this, but with Marbles. Now THAT would be something!

The simplest mechanism is would be something like:

1. Marble goes in, color is scanned and stored. Any future marbles detected with that color go into the same slot.

Of course there are many problems, mainly because Marbles come in every color and pattern imaginable. How would you deal with patterns and multi-colors? What kind of tolerances would you use for more general sorting?

I'd be fascinated to see how someone would deal with these problems. The problem of multi-color and pattern recognition might have application in many other fields.

What about actually sorting each marble individually by color shade from reddest to violetest? That would probably necessitate a storage mechanism.
oddly, breitbart is perhaps one of the least reputable media sources on the internet these days.

They are great if you are looking for biased, unfounded, or fraudulent "facts" to support an extractive wealth policy that exploits "undesirables"
Right. So it has nothing to do with the size of the population, and everything to do with people not wanting to pay tax.

So to summarize, it's hilarious when Americans use the large population excuse for having sub-par services.
Searches for "Who is running for president" skyrocket. Wow.
that's because you downloaded the source instead of the app. the link to the app is at the bottom of the page or here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/148071/HNewsTab/HNewsTab.zip
fun.

"Welcome to Vladivostok!"
Nonsense. Existing laws protecting employees from employer retribution (e.g. for sexual orientation, or religion, or...) are still enforceable (and the judgments for plaintiffs are large, too).

There is no reason to prevent someone from verifying that their vote was counted -- not vote buying (or the presumed ease thereof), not vote tampering or stuffing (really?), not potential outside coercion of any kind. Laws exist for all of these things already, and would not suddenly become unenforceable or ineffective in the presence of vote verification.
Sigh, this is so cool and so disrupting to the eda vendor community I know it won't last. Definitely going to see about designing a few projects with it. Great job
The Augmented Reality view gives you the size information that you don't have in a browser. If you look at the Apple I for instance in AR you can do this kind of comparison : http://augmentedev.com/files/AugmentPic26.jpg
Your comment caught my eye, because I usually hear population density being used to explain why Australia's internet isn't as good as elsewhere.

I'm certainly no expert on the topic, but I haven't heard any news about any major problems with Australia's roads. I'm curious to know how they compare with roads in the US.

USA density: 33.7/km2 87.4/sq mi population: ~ 314 mil

AUS density: 2.8/km2 7.3/sq mi population: ~ 22 mil
How to Lie Without Actually Telling a Lie
Government Data Tools Assist Hurricane Sandy Recovery
I did the napkin math because I was curious...the downgrade in resolution is equivalent to cutting the 13.3 inch screen down by 1.5 inch to 11.8 inches. (a 27% decrease in screen real estate)
You downloaded the project source code, you should download the link below that on the page http://imgur.com/y4NjL
Voters can sell their vote with or without a receipt. Furthermore, they can sell with a reasonable degree of certainty (if the buyer demanded it) already by submitting to a lie detector test.

There is no valid reason, moral or technical, for preventing voters from verifying their votes were accurately counted, and verification does not enable any new crimes – but it does prevent the current crime where someone's vote is either miscounted or not counted at all.
Take a look at http://tumult.com/hype/ ! (YCW11)
> But the X1 Carbon only has a 1600x900 resolution. While better than 1280x800, this is still too little for having 2 windows side-by-side in most cases. I know this because I have a Thinkpad T430 myself.

I have the T410, which has a 1440x900 screen. It's certainly a bit of an issue, but I compensated by running a tiling window manager to save on screen real estate. And this might be more of an issue in Windows, where screen real estate isn't used as carefully.

I checked out the ASUS Zenbook Prime UX31A at a local store, and the trackpad didn't just agree with me. The poor Linux compatibility and the lack of a pointing stick are concerns as well.

> The Thinkpad build quality also isn't what it used to be.

I haven't seen any statistically significant proof of this. There's plenty of anecdotal evidence, but that doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
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I figured we'd put this out on election day. This has been a lunches and weekends project of mine for the last few months.
Ingenious method to display Animated GIFs in 3D
Maybe they would have done better on their own, but I was much happier to see them get swallowed by the NYT rather than a site like the Huffington Post, where the association would lose them much more goodwill.

The things that annoy me with the NYT are the monthly article limit that I have to workaround and how painfully slow 538 is on my iPhone.
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Yes - but such a system would be optional and small/open-source developers wouldn't be afraid to innovate.
Bad Idea: New Jersey Allows Email Vote
Just to be absolutely clear, you are advocating for people to have their votes approved prior to them being allowed to be cast?
Transferring 1 MB/sec for 1 hour = 3.51 GB per hour

Assume you stored 1 TB (1024 GB) and need to retrieve all of it.

Free allowance per day = (1024 * 0.05)/30 = 1.70 GB/day

Free hourly transfer allowance = 1.70/24 = 0.07 GB/hour

Billable hourly transfer rate = 3.51 - 0.07 = 3.44 GB/hour

Retrieval fee = 3.44 * 720 * 0.01 = $24.76

Based on info here: https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/#How_much_data_can_I_ret...
A painful End of Life: How and when to kill your software product
I think the key aspect you're missing, though, is that contracts cannot enforced against people who are not party to the contract. If some company sits down and reverse engineers your design, you have no recourse. If your design gets leaked, you have no recourse. You have no way to protect something which is complex and expensive to derive but simple to copy.

I mean neither of us have the data to show just how heavy handed or not the patent system actually is. I don't think it's particularly heavy handed, but then again my experience is in industries (defense, telecom) where "heavy" means something quite different.

At least outside the software realm, my intuition is that companies illegitimately ripping off another company's designs is a bigger problem than companies accidentally arriving at similar designs and patents being used to "shake them down."

I also think it's disingenuous to paint a picture where you have "100% innovation" on one side of the spectrum, with any patent rights as "locking out innovation." Again, because of my background I tend to see the innovation process as not a couple of guys in a garage doing some Kickstarter-funded web page, but companies working with universities and the government to build big technologies that require huge amounts of capital investment. The patent regime really facilitates those interactions, and I think increases innovation in doing so. When you're dealing with big organizations, a predictable set of property rights is much preferable to a fragile web of NDA's.
Apple's mea culpa: U.K. site posts apology, new statement
Looks neat :-)

The comment view looks like the one in hnmobile(http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/landing/). Did you get inspired by it?
MSN and Y! chat are big overseas, not so much in the US from my observation over the years.
hmmm, I get the message "the steam servers are too busy to handle your request"
You can tell when it does become unclear. If the machine reading the ballot cannot provide a single valid answer per each question based on what's in the ballot, then it should be thrown away.

How close elections are is orthogonal to this issue.
What is a state procurement contract?
This seriously pisses me the fuck off. Just how the hell do we not have the technology yet for accurate touch-screen technology in voting machines?
LA Agency The Groop is now The Skool. Avoid at all costs. 
After going defunct and bankrupt, the LA digital agency known as the Groop is now "The Skool", and they purport to teach entrepreneurs "the standard way" to do UX and tech development.

Intentional "trying-to-be-cool" spelling mistakes in the company name notwithstanding, I think its ironic that a company that can't manage its own projects believes it has the experience to teach others how to manage theirs, but I suppose this is just the next phase of selling the dream.

I feel bad for everyone that the groop owes money too. Its not right that they can get away with that. I'm posting this for the sake of any entrepreneurs out there that may cross paths with the groop, jose caballer, or his minions.

http://www.thegroop.net/
http://theskoolrocks.com/
Is he really that naive?

It is not in the interest of any politician that wants their agenda to be successful to abandon political parties. Political parties were created to serve a purpose: People who believe their view of the world is right band together to increase their chance of changing things to fit their world view.

Even if they were to all abandon political parties tomorrow, they would still have their allegiances and their respective world views and would seek to forge alliances to push their agendas. The end result would be the same.

He should look instead to a voting system that so dramatically favour a strongly polarized two party system.
> Very cool! And thanks for making it work without Javascript.

Awesome, glad you liked it. Once I'd puzzled out the design, there wasn't really anywhere to use Javascript even if I'd wanted.

For something simple I much prefer page changes to AJAXifying every form, since you just rely on the browser loading indicators rather than implementing your own.
> It is probably less of an issue up north since people are probably leaving their windows open rather than having them shut and the AC on, but it is worth repeating.

Wouldn't they be wanting to heat their houses, instead?
I always bill my projects as if investing in a fast growing company. I often look for new restaurants, new housing developments, cultural institutions - but I don't exclude any project unless the client is overly aggressive.

It's always important to ask them for a website that they like and this gives you a target. When you meet and beat that "ideal" website - they're often incredibly grateful. I never attempt to retire off my prospects :)

I've done bakery and pastry shops and in addition to my project bid, I negotiate permanent discounts and even a few let me eat for free whenever I'm there.

I've done furniture stores and in addition, I get permanent employee discount.
I've pitched housing developments and in addition, I'll get employee rate for rent.
Lawyers are the same - you can rely on them to help look over your contracts. They're just as important, so I often do exchange in hours.

Just be a nice developer and realistic. We're blessed to know what many people don't and a few bad apples like to take advantage of their clients because of this. Be a breath of fresh air and watch the doors open.
Though it does require an ID to buy alcohol.

So I guess we're talking about people under 21 who (a) don't drive, (b) have never needed an ID for any other purpose, and (c) can vote but for whatever reason, are too poor/disadvantaged/etc. to get an ID.

And those people get a provisional ballot anyway.

I guess I don't see the problem with requiring ID; we require for far less important things already.
"but is there some company rewarding their employees for working on the night? Specifically I mean programmers, designers and other creative people."

Very unlikely if at all in 2012.
I had that laptop (yes, bought very recently--not the older version, the new one) and hated it. Replaced it with a Thinkpad X1 Carbon after a few weeks. The X1 Carbon is far better. Slight downgrade on the screen resolution, but a far larger screen, which is great. And no laggy-mouse issues like I had with the Asus. The Thinkpads are just a higher build quality (they're also a bit more expensive, but worth the extra $.)

tl;dr: Get the X1 Carbon instead; you won't regret it.
I am open to listen to your ideas in more detail. I was an advisor for a Medical Startup for 2 years here in the USA. And I have the technical know-how. I am interested in the Health industry and I would be open to be a co-founder with you depending on the specifics and the potential of a good relationship. If you are very zeoulous about your "idea" I recommend you to hire someone. Think about it and email me with more details if you are open in exploring this option. Good luck.
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Futures, which I assume was the original poster's instrument of choice, are a zero sum game by definition as every contract is an agreement between two parties: buyer and seller.
Canadian here but I'm curious wouldn't it make sense for voting machines to have independent dual screens instead of a single screen where the possibility of a calibration error could exist?
The key observation is that, since counting votes is an inherently distributed problem (with a comparatively simple centralized step at the end), you can always deal with it by adjusting the number of polling stations.

I can speak for what happens in Portugal. We use the d'Hondt system with paper ballots, and it is not uncommon to have around 15 candidates on a ballot in certain elections, though we have no write-ins - only one checkbox per candidate.

In the last elections there were about 4,000 polling stations. Since about 6,000,000 people are allowed to vote, this is around 1,500 people per polling station on average (obviously, the distribution is not uniform). Turnout seldom exceeds 50%, so in practice the number of votes is much smaller.

Votes are counted by hand - no automation at all - at each polling station. Usually, within about 5-6 hours 99% of the votes have been tallied, with the remainder done with by the morning after.

I would say it is demonstrably workable to count votes by hand, even with a large number of candidates. I concede that write-ins may present a difficulty, but honestly: since (afaik) in the USA you can only vote on designated candidates, how difficult can it be to have all of their names appear on the ballot?
>>>>> "The first iPad was released in 2010. It may not have been perfect, but it was unquestionably the best tablet of its era."

It's been two years, not exactly an "era". I also remember the Motorola Xoom coming out in 2010 and giving Apple a run for its money. Also, if the ipad was SO awesome for an entire "era", then why did Apple come out with the ipad 2 a year after the first one was released?

People just don't like it when someone comes out challenges Apple's status quo.
I like that it's optional, but it would be cool if the US made election day a holiday as a way to increase turnout a bit. Everybody is distracted anyhow.