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This follows from the first test flight in late-September http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzXlUw2WhcE.

> "Testing of Grasshopper continues, with the next big milestone -- a hover at roughly 100 feet -- expected in the next several months."
This is preparation for the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) rocket SpaceX wants to build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWFFiubtC3c

And the reason why they're doing this: http://www.space.com/13140-spacex-private-reusable-rocket-el...

> But a fully reusable rocket could change the equation dramatically. Musk illustrated the point by citing SpaceX's Falcon 9, which costs between $50 million to $60 million per launch in its current configuration.

> "But the cost of the fuel and oxygen and so forth is only about $200,000," Musk said."So obviously, if we can reuse the rocket, say, a thousand times, then that would make the capital cost of the rocket for launch only about $50,000."

(Resubmission of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4751650. I rarely resubmit, but this really is HN material and warrants quality discussion)
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You are absolutely correct. People absolutely do get hurt when they are discriminated against. As a second-class citizen in my country, I truly understand this.

The point I was trying to make was that the people doing the discriminating also get hurt in the process, thanks to lost opportunities such as the loss of this mathematician. There's really no benefit whatsoever to promoting irrational discrimination such as racism.
He really only got 7/7 right. The other 43 states were not really in contention.
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Am I the only one what found the title of this post misleading? It's a plugin to make any dom element stick in the viewport ... the title made me think that it's a plugin that collects user behaviour?
Look at my rock. It is a magic rock. It keeps tigers away. I have never been attacked by a tiger while holding this rock. Who knows how many tiger attacks it has defeated.

EDIT:: Also I don't give a shit if 7-11 sells meth. I'll just shop somewhere that doesn't.
He has utterly discredited the horse race scam of big media political coverage. That is a significant contribution, because such coverage has been so influential in managing public opinion and how people think about politics.

He did it first and more dramatically in the 2008 primaries, but this time feels more like the watershed.

It's not all Nate's doing, of course; this is a long term trend and many people are working on it.
If people don't care either way, they should be swayed by the massive cost savings by significantly reducing the scope of the war on drugs and the associated legal and penitentiary costs. I'm not opposed to taxing it like alcohol or perhaps cigarettes (especially as a non-user) but 25% seems a bit crazy. Of course it may still end up cheaper to buyers.

But if that's the cost of progress, fine. Two steps forward and one step back is still directionally correct.
The touchscreens you see in modern consumer electronic devices are capactive touchscreens. I think the iPhone was the first major device to ship with a capactive touchscreen, prior to that, resistive and infrared touchscreens were a lot more common (and cheaper).

If you've ever interacted with a touchscreen at an ATM, mall kiosk, or airport kiosk, it's likely that they were resistive or infrared based, and more susceptible to calibration errors.
Presumably, one of those Ikea items is made of stainless steel, which is an alloy of steel containing ~10-11% chromium.

There are a lot of coatings, metals, and metal alloys that are not safe to burn, including Galvanized Steel (Zinc), Stainless Steel (Chromium), and Magnesium.
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My mothers father had to bribe the admissions board of Moscow U. to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars to let her in. This was in the late 60's/early 70's. Anti-Semitism, but of course. They left as soon as possible for Israel and then America.

Honestly, I often think that if Germany and the Soviets had not hated Jews so much the world would be a very different place.
I've used http://afraid.org for my tiny sites for almost a decade. Josh runs a solid service and its uptime has been something I've been willing to pay for. That being said, I've never run a moneymaking site or anything with > 2500 hits/day on it.
That, and Vanouver BC didn't want to be a destination for drug tourism. Vancouver, WA will now have that honor.
My browser (chrome) doesn't support position: sticky so I guess the solution proposed is a lot better for compatibility.
I hit the same issues as above. Once I found a project created with the last version of LightTable that loaded I was up and running. One thing I've noticed is evaluating an expression with Cmd-Enter seemed buggy until I realized it automatically evaluates the outermost expression rather than the previous expression which I expected due to my emacs C-x e experience.

Finally, I love the color theme and feel of this in general, great stuff!
The feds would need to justify a denial in funding based on some public health grounds ("to promote the general welfare" [1]). If this was brought to the courts, it could actually be a good opportunity to critically examine effects of legalization in a relatively rational, authoritative venue. The DEA's absurd Schedule I classification would need to be justified if it were to be imposed.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Dole
About a year ago I read a paper that listed a number of those "Jewish Problems" (ambiguous or hard problems given at entrance exams). For those interested - http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556
Alternatively, it just suggests that people who engage in voter fraud tend to suck at it.
Well that depends.

How many people know about it - is it a secret that only I know or a few select people know about, or is it common knowledge.

Is it inevitable or can something be done to stop it or mitigate it's effect? And if something can be done, can I help?

And finally, does the world ending mean that end of all Earthly life? No Moon or Mars base, or one or more spaceships with humans on them.
Nicely said. I have been pondering the comments and wondering if there is an over riding problem. From my (less than perfect) understanding of the US electoral system, it is possible to have a president elected who has been voted for by considerably less than half of valid votes. This part of the systems seems more broken to a non-US citizen than a (hopefully) single voting machine being caught on camera breaking.
>>The World does not have Americas interests as a priority.

No we do. We do have your interests as a priority. Please don't make a mess of the world economy. Be happy and let us be too.

>>The World would love the US to have a weak, ineffectual leader.

Exact opposite, we desire somebody who is strong. Strong enough not to go to wars, every time your nation got bored.

>>America should seriously consider why The World is so smitten.

Two wars, their national infrastructure smashed to dust. The whole world economy screwed. Sanctions of whatever country refuses to be your yes men. This pattern repeated over decades. How do you expect all those people to react. Honor and welcome you with garlands and request you to destroy more of their future?
>I just haven't found them to be hugely useful for any practical purposes.

His models are dry, boring even. But they're based in some semblance of data. When compared to the vast majority of the pundit class, and political journalism in general, his model is a breath of fresh air if you want to understand the state of the campaigns beyond what some pundit heard from "a source" or some journalist asked of a random campaign worker.
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Blocked the email-to-SMS gateway at your carrier? I did that years ago since I don't pay for unlimited SMS (which I consider a massive scam) and don't want to get dinged because I get charged for inbound (also a massive scam, thanks US carriers).
In the primaries there are more candidates and fewer polls so you get sparser measurements of the state of a given candidate's appeal. So maybe it's natural for the predictions to have more variation at that stage.
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before that: "Mikhail Brin decided to study mathematics instead, and was offered a place although the entry exams for Jews were sat separately, in rooms that were notoriously known as "the gas chambers." In 1970, he graduated with distinction." -- http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/2.209/google-co-founder-...
Self identification is a ridiculous concept if it's not based on fact. They put people in the nut house for proclaiming they're a farm animal or Teddy Roosevelt.
But you see, we have much less evidence that legalization = saving money in the war on drugs. Increasing revenues by taxing something new is pretty damn clear cut.

It will be easier to convincingly make the argument that cutting back on the war on drugs is positive, after a few torchbearers lead the way. You don't have to convince me, I'm just speaking of the population at large.
Disagree. I've worked with resistive/infrared touchscreens for many years and this behavior is entirely consistent with touchscreen calibration errors, especially with cheap/crappy touchscreens. See my other comments here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752605
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I pay for an NYTimes subscription because they provide content above and beyond the background noise of the top social sharing websites like Reddit.

I'd probably pay for 538 alone depending on the price asked.
I live in Texas, and I voted for Johnson. If I lived in Ohio I would have voted for Obama. It's hard to find numbers at the moment, but it looks like Johnsons's pulling 5%.
Let's see how MJ goes, and then we'll talk. You've been given an inch; don't immediately lunge for a mile.
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...and done. Referendum Measure No. 74 has passed! http://vote.wa.gov/results/current/Measures-All.html
So don't use the Metro interface then... Sheesh

Microsoft set things up this way because they want the Surface and Win8 metro to be similar.
Oregon has medical marijuana and partial decriminalization on the books. But more substantially the de facto policy of the police and public attorneys has been one of tolerance and escalating decriminalization amidst very soft enforcement of any sort of limits on "medical" use.
If someone goes to that much trouble to explain a bug, I generally expect the developer to file it. It is really a let down when someone has gone to that much trouble and is asked to do more work.
Perfect evidence that you need to work step-by-step with this sort of social change, rather than simply declaring, "I want it all, and I want it now".
There is no technical reason they would need to use the old fileformat at all. "Keep doing that" referred to give the user an option of what photoshop version he would like the saved file be comparible with. If he pick the latest version, the new file format would be used.
Yahoo! http://news.yahoo.com/control-room/
This will seem like a boring answer, but I don't expect there will be any noticeable changes in the subset of the economy I deal with (i.e. startups).

Founders don't need great economic conditions. A good economy vs a bad one might make a 2 or 3x difference in the outcome of a startup, but in the startup world, 2 or 3x is not a lot. All founders need is not to have any crashes so dramatic that they upset everything. With any luck we won't get another one soon.
His test is far from conclusive. Some subsection of the screen working incorrectly while other sections work correctly is entirely consistent with a miscalibrated or faulty touchscreen.
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If you could get meth at Mc'Ds, would you take it? No? Then why do you presume that everyone else would?
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It's clearly great work by Nate and the rest of the 538 team. However, as has been pointed out, it's not that hard to build a model that gets close to predicting everything correctly.

I built a model in a couple of hours on Sunday afternoon, which simply takes all the most recent polling data, takes an average, does a quick fudge to adjust for the number of polls, and then runs 10,000 simulations to get a probability for each state. The source is on Github:

https://github.com/chris-taylor/USElection

and the predictions are in this gist:

https://gist.github.com/4012793

The result? My model gets 50/51 correct if Florida eventually goes DEM (which looks likely) or 51/51 correct if Florida goes REP.

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Edit: full disclosure - with all data up to 6 Nov 20120 it predicts Colorado to be a toss-up, and I manually broke the tie in favour of Democrats, based on earlier models favouring them in that state.
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Screencap: http://i.imgur.com/ExMCo.png

Doesn't instil confidence.
Nationally as a popular vote thing, plenty of people who voted Johnson might have voted for either Romney or Obama in their "safe" state otherwise. I live in Obamaland, support Johnson, but would not have voted for Obama if I hadn't voted for Johnson. So you can't just add 100% of Johnson to Obama.
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As of 3:03 am Johnson has 1% of the popular vote with just over 1M votes.

http://google.com/elections
Not sure why you're being downvoted. We always fall for Eyman initiatives, sadly. Eyman, for those who aren't from here, is the guy who keeps getting initiatives on the ballot that make our government as ineffective as California's.
>> What does it mean when the guy marks a vote for every question but also writes "LIZARD PEOPLE" in every write-in ballot spot?

Spoiled ballot. Vote not counted. What else would it mean?
Not just founders. Designers, good ones, are hot commodities everywhere these days.
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I have an area of interest which largely coincides with these, I believe, except I am looking to work in ML. I will look at this thread closely myself.
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It's always the same bullshit excuse: "providing liquidity". It's just that you pretty much need to be another HFT bot to partake in that liquidity.
It's not that it will discourage founders, it will discourage investors since they'll need a higher return to achieve the same after tax profits. What's more likely is investors will require a larger percentage reducing the founding teams ownership stake.
It looks like the touch screen might need to be calibrated. This used to happen on a POS system I worked with.

I think the title is link bait. The voting machine isn't altering the vote. It's just off kilter. Besides, it's not like the user didn't know what box was being checked!
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Yes! That's exactly what I thought it was. Do you know of any script that does that?
Make sure you check the counties map!

It's amazing to see how much of the area of the USA is red, even in states that went to Obama.

But in the southeast states there seems to be a river of blue, just inland from the red coastal counties. Does anyone have any idea why that is?

The exit polls show some very strong demographic divides too: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/exit-pol...
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> What we really need is a word that only refers to gambling in situations with an expected value less than or equal to zero.

I believe we call that gambling.
Felons can't go into Canada (and, there's customs search too), so BC as drug tourist/reup spot doesn't make as much sense as Vancouver WA drug tourist/reup spot.

(although I can't imagine anyone buying retail ounces and then selling them, legal supply chains tend to cover up illicit ones running in parallel, or allow diversion, so I could see the underground taking advantage of this.)
Not forgetting all the other STDs either.
To be clear, I was responding to your suggestion that a deliberately spoiled ballot with nonsense candidates written in would be somehow ambiguous - it's not, it will clearly be counted as spoiled (by a human counter at least). For accidentally spoiled ballots, the vote won't be counted if it is not clear - that should be decided by humans, it's more reliable than having machines do it, and frankly it probably only accounts for a very small percentage of votes; it's not a huge problem, and if it becomes statistically significant, the paper ballots can be recounted and verified later.

Your picture of a someone inspecting a punch-card is not relevant to most paper voting systems - punch cards are like touch screen machines, they are unreliable technology, and should not have been introduced when the previous system worked perfectly well but just required manpower for counting (which can be mostly volunteers). Even the counting could be automated on paper ballots, but you need humans involved for the ambiguous cases, and I'm not sure automated counting is necessary if you have enough volunteers.

Simple paper ballots with a mark inside a square or circle are a tested solution which works well, and leaves an indisputable paper trail in case of recounts. Anything else we've tried just doesn't work as well, though no doubt it has made some companies fabulously rich in suppling the necessary machinery and constantly updating it when it proves to be unreliable.

So I'd contend that paper ballots, as used in the UK for example, are better than the computer voting machines available at present. I'm sure one day we'll come up with better machines, but they'd have to be open source, secure, verifiable and incredibly reliable - the antithesis of the machine in the video.
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No. Males are witches as well, Warlock translates to oath breaker, and is not considered with the pagan community (at least the parts with which I have interacted) as a male term for witch.
It's a humanitarian issue for sure, and not just for the controversy surrounding the War on Drugs. Prohibition of marijuana is an attack on science and medicine. To outlaw a plant which undeniably benefits cancer and Alzheimer patients [1], and people in excruciating pain is to deny people the will to live. And why? Because a central authority stipulates you shouldn't be allowed to live, if it means you'd ingest a certain plant.

Over 4,000 Americans every day are diagnosed with some form of cancer. Meanwhile the government in these situations recommends you heed the advice of your friendly neighborhood big pharma corporation, and heal yourself in a way that makes powerful interest groups millions upon millions of dollars. Otherwise, you might as well just die.

This is about giving people in need a second chance at life, at a price they can afford. In 2012, the only reason you would be against legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes is if you're ignorant, or profiting from it somehow.

[1] http://www.google.com/patents/US6630507
It's not that special. Nice to have though.

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Isn't it more bytes in practice? That's 88 bits, but they could be spread over different bytes, right?

In other words: shouldn't you calculate the loss over the total number of bits?
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Nope, “witch” can apply to men just as well as women and always has. In fact, you’ll find several dictionaries citing Malory’s “Le Morte d’Arthur” (1485) as an early usage, where Merlin is referred to by some as a “wytche”.

It’s also the standard academic term across gender. If memory serves, it’s used this way in the groundbreaking study “Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande” by E. E. Pritchard, which set the standard for the anthropology of witchcraft.

It’s also used for a man in the television show “Futurama”, for a more contemporary colloquial reference.
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Marijuana tax revenue is going to fund schools? That's awesome. (In an ironic sense)

I mean, of course it has to be used for something, and most models I hear of have the revenue being used for treatment or medical programs.
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I wonder how the support of various distros will look like in the future.

Because you can install Desura on any linux distro and it tends to work. Tried several.
Prohibition is clearly stupid and has caused very great harm. Other people have mentioned the death and destruction in Mexico as one example. I am strongly pro legalisation.

But the links between cannabis and mental ill health remain unclear. We don't know how many people have mental illness caused by cannabis; we don't know how many people with an underlying illness have that illness triggered by cannabis; we don't know how many people with an existing illness are self-medicating with cannabis. (Legalisation will help. Researchers now have the ability to do better science.)

Mental health treatment in America is sub-optimal. I am concerned that legalisation and the lack of good health care is a bad combination. But this is just a gentle concern - I am still strongly pro legalisation.
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I agree with that, but that's part of why I'm not convinced of his overall model's necessity: I think he gets the vast majority of his predictive power simply by being a good poll aggregator, who lays a reasonable statistical model over the polls.

His model has a bunch of other stuff too, though: estimates of how current jobs numbers effect the election, "state fundamentals" based on demographic variables fit to historical election data, etc. I'm not sure these things are adding much predictive power, especially given that they're generally fit to sparse, heterogeneous, and noisy data sources (e.g. the 11 Presidential elections 1968-2008).

On the other hand, one difficulty in evaluating it is that a good portion of the work his model is doing is not aimed at giving the point estimate, but the distribution and probabilities, to give an accurate probabilistic picture of the current state of the election at any given point, integrating various available data and historical trends. The goal, which is sensible, is to take a more rigorous approach to numbers you hear thrown around like, "when an incumbent is up by x% y weeks before the election, they win z% of the time". But even now in retrospect we can't easily evaluate how good those distributions were: we can see how well his point estimate fared, but with only one instance of how the election turned out, can't evaluate his overall picture's accuracy.
That creates some weird situations though, surely?

How do they handle Bob, who grows 5 plants for personal use, and shares it with Ann?

In the UK Bob is in considerable trouble, even though he's avoided all the criminal gangs and humanitarian harm caused by prohibition.
Prohibition is the reason we don't know many of those things.
Under which law are they going to sue? USA laws don't apply to Indians ISPs.
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