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"It's not so bad with the iPad 2 vs iPad Mini because they have virtually identical hardware other than the physical screen size (same CPU, memory, CPU, etc)."

But screen size, and resulting element scaling, IS one of the most important things.
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We regularly run an ad campaign on reddit discussing that very notion:

http://www.reddit.com/comments/hg9oa/your_platform_is_on_aws...

... that a single provider is really just a single "copy".

It is also the reason that we build 's3cmd' into our environment and so many customers use it:

ssh user@rsync.net s3cmd put abc.txt s3://account/abc.txt
Also, after your number is coupled with an e-mail address, you will not receive any more SMS messages. E-mails sent to [NUMBER]@thinbox.com will automatically be sent to the e-mail address provided
There is no difference between "No Jews in Moscow U!" and "Jews at Harvard but not too many, please" as experienced by the first kid told "no" purely because he was born to the wrong parents.

>>
the contorted structure of your post suggests that you do not feel comfortable saying what you mean, for some reason.
>>

No. I am perfectly comfortable in saying "I desire a world in which no university discriminates against any student on the basis of race." The linguistic contortion is a result of accurately repeating the arguments of e.g. Harvard University, because Harvard University desires a world in which some students are discriminated against on basis of race but prefers to lie about that.

[Edit: I'm not being unfair to Harvard, by the way. They tiptoe around it quite a bit in their amici briefs, but the Supreme Court will eventually get a little irate if you meticulously avoid saying what you're actually petitioning for, so they have committed on paper to positions like:

"[Harvard and the peer institutions signing this brief] accordingly urge the Court to interpret
the Constitution, consistent with Bakke and Grutter, to
continue to allow educational institutions to structure
admissions programs that take account of race and ethnicity as single factors within a highly individualized,
holistic review process. "

Stripped of all euphemism: "We discriminate by race and want to continue doing so. Please don't illegalize that. It would be very inconvenient for us."

Arguments advanced as to why it would be inconvenient include "Students perceiving that they were discriminated against, resulting in non-admission, would sue us, and we would not prevail in their lawsuits, because to avoid getting sued to bits for racial discrimination we don't keep objective records of which students we denied for racial reasons versus which were denied for non-racial reasons and we purposely keep our admissions criteria vague and non-objective. Accordingly, illegalizing racial discrimination would cause us to lose suits over some cases where we were not discriminating in addition to those cases where we were discriminating. That's monstrously unfair, don't you think?"]
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I guess we all have to pay more than the average to get left 4 dead 2 added to the bundle.
the 25% tax might still end up being lower than the total (state + federal) taxes levied on cigarettes in many places.

I'm sure the government will want their cut soon enough, then it'll be 25% state tax + whatever the federal government decides to charge. As it is, no one is mentioning the fact that states can't truly decide whether to legalize marijuana because at the end of the day, the federal government has legislation that supersedes local/state regulations in this manner. It'll be in the supreme court very soon, I'll bet.
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"fill in the blanks" makes your own service partly redundant doesn't it? And how many of my contacts will be using it?
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The twitter username is "o"? How the hell?
Nice. We did this with a nice little call to action button that "snaps" to the header as you scroll past: http://blog.tweaky.com/how-to-make-a-sticky-button/
I know, but that was one of the arguments from the GOG guy in the link. Saying that maintaining different packages for all distros is time-consuming and so on.
borplk, the idea is that all of your contacts are contactable through the action of e-mailing them via their thinbox address. Even if they aren't registered, they will still be contacted (via SMS asking them to register) by the unified action of e-mailing them.
There are lots of things in the toy, art, and spare part category that can use the 3D printing technology. Just like many other technologies, 3D printing will be adopted by designers, hobbists first. If there is enough demand, it will show up in shared workshop such as Kinko. It may or may not make into every home. Who knows. It really depends on if there is any killer app that drives the demand.
Well, it's HTML/JS. Doesn't mean you can't make it fast, but it's a slightly uphill battle, especially with large files.
There are other immigration reforms issues that have had wide bipartisan support, but congress doesn't seem to like to package legislature that way. There's a strong historically tendency towards bundling.

> Maybe the President getting re-elected pretty solidly ...

Electorally, yes, but it's a squeaker by popular vote. As of this writing, the victory margin is less than half of a percent.
And Netflix was willing to pay $1m to someone who could beat their own algorithm by 10%

Yet at the end they decided not to implement it
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanholiday/2012/04/16/what-the-...
Holy shit. Really?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Russia suggests that it started way before that under Catherine the Great.
Or witch doctor. And he'd be in good company.

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-kenyan-witch-doctor-predict...
-stans imigrants obviously, but I had also in mind the various native tribes of Syberia.
I just never heard that it helped with that, that's all. I'm not trying to imply that he's wrong I just want to read whatever paper claims so for myself.
Who would have expected this two years ago? And Nividia finally released a decent driver.
It's just a lease, he can leave next year (and take the 538 brand with him).
If this survey by a mobile ad company is to be believed, things seem to have changed dramatically from the beginning of the year:

Oct 2012:
http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/17/android-smartphones-now-ha...

Jan 2012:
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-android-mobile-web-usag...
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Of course I would not. I would rather sit where I am and ridicule that country instead from here.
Looks like NYT and the Chicago Trib left off Gary Johnson and the other 3rd-party candidates, while Google included them. Props to Google for doing that. Gary Johnson did well, too.
lol, that went completely over my head.
that's actually pretty impressive and more than enough to be useful. they do look bulkier in the videos than in the cg, though.
I feel OPs question is about the modern era.
Missing for those in technology hoping to sell the company they build:

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My mom and dad faced identical problems in the late 70s. I would urge no simple comparisons between elite private U.S. university admissions in 2012 and public Soviet Union university admissions throughout the century.

The experience of Jews in the Soviet Union is substantially distinct from the experience of nonwhites in the contemporary United States.

Remember: If Harvard wants to, it doesn't have to admit anyone at all. There are lots of universities in America, in fact lots of best ones. There was only one MGU.
Nate Silver claims to be a statistician, not a clairvoyant.

While there is a sense of inevitability of Romney's nomination, I think it is obvious that the Republican voters agree with you that he is not a compelling candidate and were desperately looking for alternatives, and as each candidate wilted in the spotlight, they kept moving on to the next, and polling numbers reflected that, and Nate Silver was merely reporting that shift.
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> As to whether they prosecute growers and dispensaries, that is currently left up to each local DA.

This isn't correct to my knowledge; as an issue of Federal law, that would be the purview of the US Attorney assigned to the region, not the local DA. They get their orders from the US Attorney General.

A local DA could decline to prosecute under state law, but the US Attorney could still pursue federal charges -- this happens fairly regularly (just in general, not even just with regard to drugs or cannabis specifically).
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I'm not sure your example is an especially good one. Better is town meetings, which we are common in New England. While they have desirable features, they have the weakness that a small group that is very interested in a given outcome can dominate a much larger population of individuals who have weaker feelings. (Not a universally bad feature but it makes it easier for activists on a given issue to dominate an agenda.)
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Wes Colley, who runs one of the college football BCS ranking models, also did an electoral model. His model is much simpler, essentially taking the median poll result in each state.

http://www.colleyrankings.com/election2012/

Their predictions were basically the same as Sliver's, missing only on Florida (they manually broke a tie in the model on Virginia so count that however you'd like).
On a normal keyboard, I hit 120+ WPM. On the Touch keyboard, I spent more time correcting typoos and missed keystrokes than typing for sure. I'd have to have a camera on the keyboard to see where things went wrong, because it _seemed_ like I should be hitting all the keys I expected to hit, but I'm more than happy to acknowledge that what I really wanted was the keyboard cover with tactile feedback. The Touch keyboard was something I didn't get used to at all.

My usage patterns were incredibly light; it mostly sat near desktops or laptops as a mail client. With the app ecosystem and text input as it was, I was at a loss for other things I could do with it. By the end of the week, it was more or less a front end for Trello boards.

One of the compelling points was having a tablet platform in which real work can get done, but in the absence of an SSH client or text editor with syntax highlighting, that didn't really hold true for me (again, short-term problems). I can see where it'd make sense for folks that specifically need Office to get meaningful work done, but that wasn't the case for me.

That said, the ability to sideload Ubuntu and Chromium on the Nexus devices looks incredibly compelling. Really curious to see how that shapes up.
As long as you have access to good data that is.

This is very difficult in itself. Even once you have it; it is not easy. More data does not lead to better prediction. It's a fallacy which has been proven wrong time and again.
What is this mythical lie detector you speak of? No trustworthy lie detector exists. If you disagree: does yours work for all mental variations (psychopaths, autism, retardedness, ...) and physical variations (Down syndrome, a score of other genetic abnormalities, ...)? Have you actually verified the research or trust someone who did?
You have yet to inform us as to how or why this pedantry is useful, relevant, or rewarding. If my interpretation of your connotation or intent is somehow incorrect, your arguments have not materialized.

Re-iterating your mouth noises does not show for the depth of the thought that originated them.

While I critiqued your lack-of-thought construct, you immediately countered with both an ad hominem and appeal to authority.

Good luck out there, you're going to need it.
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There were a couple notable projections that he was considerably off on, particularly some Santorum primary numbers late in the game. But, even someone with a projected 98% chance of winning should lose 2% of the time. In the aggregate, Silver's projections are excellent. I would like to see something like a Brier score for his projections, and compare it to various polling organizations, and other analytical pundits (do any notable ones exist?) to see who has done the best. On a related note, it would be nice to have a place where people could publicly lock in projections, and develop a record. Maybe that would help put the Joe Scarboroughs of the world out of work.
Maybe he got better.
Well, multi-billion dollar corporations like Google, for one.
I believe they actually come in different sizes.
Are Ivy League universities the only ones a student can apply to for a specific program?

Do Ivy League universities have to admit anyone if they don't want to?

Do students even have only one choice of public discounted universities?

The experience seems pretty distinct.
So is that at all at odds with what I said?

I'm saying that I haven't found his predictions to be useful because they have not correctly predicted anything that I myself didn't predict with the same information without any statistical analysis. Sure, he predicted it with 3% greater accuracy. So what?

Sadly what makes most elections predictable is how shitty the candidates are on one side.

To be fair I don't think that a statistical analysis will ever be useful in an election unless the election is absolutely a dead heat. Most elections for the past several years (with the obvious exception of 2000) have been fairly predictable from the outset.
What errors were identified in the article?
So the thing about depression is that there are a lot of different things that could cause it. In some cases, marijuana consumption, usually low-level regular consumption, seems to alleviate depression and even social anxiety (despite marijuana's ostensibly anxiogenic effects); in others it may be of no benefit. My understanding is that doctors like to prescribe marijuana to treat depression in those patients where a benefit is seen mostly because it seems to be safer, cheaper, and to have fewer side effects than other available antidepressants.
I'm not sure that they lie about diversity driven admissions. They state pretty clearly that they actively discriminate students on the basis of race, generally favorably.[0]

But that's beside the point. Is Harvard the only place a student can go to school? For Frenkel MGU essentially was. It looks like there are a lot of differences between Harvard and MGU.

[0] http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/hrp/index.ht...
No, I don't think he meant that. It's rather trivial. He mean bigger discrepancies across distros. Think one of them using X.org while other already jumping to Wayland and etc. Packaging is a trivial thing to solve in comparison.
Yes that's true, machine counting would be just as good if the ballots are kept and can be verified later.
It wasn't really a helpful contribution to the discussion, and was likely downvoted on form as much as as on content. Asking for more information about this sort of thing is good and important, but all caps and excessive exclamation marks are, I think, seen as intentionally sloppy.

Take a look at the HN Guidelines, specifically the comment sections: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

EDIT: Also, complaining about downvotes is generally seen as bad form.
That doesn't actually mean anything. Resistive and infrared touchscreens (especially cheaper ones) can have all sorts of hilarious calibration errors where part of the screen area works perfectly fine, but other parts of the screen are off completely.

I used to work on kiosk software for restaurants. At the start of every day we had to go through all of the touchscreens in the restaurant and calibrate them. Sometimes they would lose their calibration halfway through the day and need to be recalibrated multiple times.
From historically very low to merely historically low. I don't think this will be enough to dissuade people from building and selling things.
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I would try and prevent it.

If it's inevitable, I would relax and enjoy life as much as I can. The problem is, everyone would, and we would run out of food/water/fun pretty quickly.
I feel your pain, but I guess that's what bleeding heart liberals do. Isn't it?
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The city-level restrictions seem fair. Without some sort of "escape valve" to let places that are predominately opposed opt out, I suspect you'd get a lot of backlash and you might see a reversal. Better to let some cities lead and others sit the first round out ... although they'll probably be losing some valuable first-mover tourist dollar advantages in doing so.
Inevitable world ending? I'd join the 300 Club -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club
Even with an incredibly exact model, to actually get ALL 50 right really does require a lot of luck in addition to skill. Even if he's 98% accurate for each state (which seems amazingly high to me), that's still only a 1 in 3 chance to get all 50 right.
I think there's a good case to be made that the problem with institutionalized racism is terrible not just because society loses out on a great mathematician, but rather, because it hurts individuals by discriminating against them.

Just because he turned out to be a great mathematician doesn't make his story any more painful or wrong.
It's probably just because the file consists of an unsigned executable inside a zip file, which has to be one of the most common ways that viruses are distributed.
This is an activity that adds no value to our world.
Security, security! But do you test it? Potential vulnerability in TOR.
Just to clarify, is your rebuttal essentially: "No system is perfect, so we shouldn't investigate better systems?"

I personally like approval the best primarily because it is extremely simple. All systems that meat the Condorcet criteria are too complicated IMO.

It also has the advantage over IRV that the votes can be tabulated at each polling place, rather than needing to be done centrally, which means both fewer changes to the current polling system as well as lower impact of fraud.
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2010 British Election (Number of seats)

Silver predicted: Conservative 312, Labour 204, Libdem 103
Actual result : Conservative 307, Labour 258, Libdem 57
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Having slept on this, I think he's lying.

For such a major accusation, one would think to video all other choices working as expected, and only Obama being an exception. The simplest explanation for what he showed is a calibration error, but the matter is dramatically сomplicated if you take what he has to say for granted.
I think they have just prioritized marijuana busts below other work. It made local news when the regional head of the DEA said that marijuana had no medical value and that it was still illegal federally. That said they certainly have a lot of targets. You just need to pick up any local alternative newspaper to find ads for medical marijuana.

So I guess that means that legal battles over weed will just be over local issues such as regulations and zoning. Before medical marijuana was legal in Colorado I used to see a fair number of advertisements for head shops selling equipment for tobacco. Afterwards, I saw a lot of ads for medical marijuana and some for clinics specializing in treating with medical marijuana. I don't personally smoke weed, but I have had the impression that it was easy to get legally. Now I expect that the legal situation will be complicated to navigate for business owners for awhile. But I think that weed will be even easier to get for the general public, and I don't believe the DEA would go after any customer.
He doesn't have to be lying, just unaware of how touchscreen calibration works. With resistive and infrared touchscreens, some portion of the screen can be miscalibrated or faulty even if other portions of the screen work correctly.

His "calibration test" doesn't actually demonstrate anything. Having some portion of the screen work incorrectly, while other sections of the screen work correctly, is entirely consistent with a calibration error for these types of touchscreens.

The only way to eliminate calibration error as the cause here is to: 1) re-calibrate the screen and see if the touch mappings are still incorrect. 2) if they are, the touchscreen itself could be faulty, so the next step is to replace the touchscreen with a known working version, and see if the issue persists.

Obviously there's no way he could have performed either of those steps, so there's no way he could eliminate calibration error as the cause.

Source: I've developed touchscreen kiosks in restaurants for years, and this behavior is entirely consistent with the miscalibrated touchscreens I've seen in the past. Often (generally with crappy touchscreens), a screen will hold its calibration for some period of time, and then stop working correctly until it's recalibrated once again.

Now, whether it's a good idea to use these types of crappy touchscreens in electronic voting machines is an entirely different question...
double that and u get what a german founder would have to pay when selling the company he built. You guys dont realize that you still pay very little taxes compared to most!
> All of the west coast is pro legalization.

Then how did Measure 80 fail in Oregon? :)

I do agree that the general trend toward more states approving medical marijuana suggests that fewer and fewer people are still viewing the drug as evil. If the federal government doesn't interfere with Colorado and Washington, I'm hopeful that marijuana grown in those states will start to replace Mexican marijuana on the black market and weaken the cartels. It's really unconscionable that American politicians are willing to perpetuate the constant state of fear that so many Mexicans are living in now by maintaining marijuana prohibition. What could possibly be worth 12,358 lives in 2011 alone? [1] The knowledge that we're making it harder for our children to obtain a safer alternative to alcohol?

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Drug-War_...
Really? How do you know, 'it hasn't stopped them.' How do you count the number of people who never got addicted to meth because it wasn't on sale at 7-11, or was never made the secret ingredient in McDonald's new meth burger. Do you know that without rules, there really are no rules, and the examples I just gave are the tip of a scary iceberg. Do you know what worse is? You have no idea.
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