skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Hi Shane, you're a programmer right? Can you fix my Microsoft Word? It won't let me write below this image!"

"I have a million pound idea, you can make it for me and I'll give you 10% of what I make with it?"

"You're a programmer so why can't you figure out why my laptop is over heating?"

"Can you make me a website? It'll probably only take a couple of hours."

"Programming is easy, all you do is sit at a desk all day" - An accountant, July 2012
No doubt it's getting there, but with a couple of the big ones (MSVC especially) missing chunks it's hard to shift over completely. I've used it a few times with GCC and I've been pretty much happy with all the new features, looking forward to using it a bit more often.
by themes/designs you mean skins? That's the plan. I will provide as many different skins as possible and I'm also looking to integrate it completely with twitter/github/flickr/youtube/etc. Besides that I may also provide a visiting card psd matching the look & feel of theme as a freebie.

Right now, I was itching to launch it so I did it with very basic version.

Please provide suggestions on how else to improve it?
My favorite header ever "Mathematicians aren't normal people". The numbers, they're everywhere!!!
For those interested in why and how, there's also http://blog.echen.me/2011/10/24/winning-the-netflix-prize-a-...
I'd hope so, but the other side is going to be just as obstructionist and useless as ever.
Yes it would be a great trade-off, but the window still takes seconds to display.
The reel has some very nice cinematic shots. I wonder when we will start to see more of this in Hollywood cinema.
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I'm running Windows 7 and the Skype client is using 132mb of ram, that's with 18 chats open (of which 3 are group chats). Not sure if my usage pattern is typical, but I don't think 132mb ram is much, it's using less than about 6 other programs I have running.
Wahhhh Wahhh Wahhh much?
oh for sure, and great job at it. I was just pointing out that this was more of a polyfill than a long term solution.
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I hope you're right and very afraid you are not. Neither Skype nor Microsoft are keen on utilizing open source.
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To help? A beginner who takes the initiative to start a project and is willing to learn has my full support as a "competent developer".
Dare I also say that with the 'mandatory voting', growing up I felt as though people were more engaged in politics... including children.

Because they had to 'vote' (maybe "because they had to voice an opinion one way or another") people seemed to be more likely to take an interest in politics and actually learn about what was actually going on.

That's the way I see it, at least: people in Australia seemed to be more knowledgeable about politics than people seem to be here in Canada at least.
Evidence that maybe Apple has been spitefully withholding Google’s apps
Well, I guess it's good for us developers.
Great news for you guys, congratulations!
> Drag and drop load and save

This.

Open/Save dialogues simply aren't necessary with a proper desktop metaphor. Shame no-one uses them any more.
Why doesn't the US just buy the system Brazil uses? In Brazil 1) everyone must vote and 2) they have strong reasons for wanting to make sure that no vote can ever be tied directly to the person who cast it.

They have such a system in place for over a decade, it works perfectly. Just buy that and use it instead of reinventing the wheel poorly.
I don't disagree with you. Skype is ugly, bloated and has been crashing frequently since the last couple of updates on my computers.

The problem is: it works.

I tried to do a Google Hangout last night, and the plugin couldn't find my mic. Logged into Skype, it worked perfectly.

It'll be a while yet before someone really takes Skype's business. For now it's my #1 goto communication line as a remote freelancer.
It does indeed. But have you used it? It is missing most of Skype's features and requires you to sign in using a Live Account.

Merging Live and Skype Accounts is a problem for me personally since I want to use Skype on insecure WiFi (and obviously my Live account is also an e-mail account).
Things of today usually have some roots in things of the past.
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“Don’t buy this computer.”
If Silver said there was a 60% chance that each of 10 states would go to Obama, and they all went to Obama, by Silver's own standards he messed up. Only 6 of them should have gone to Obama.

Since he had so many that were much less than 99%, saying "he got them all right" means he didn't get it right by his own definition.
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Just as an FYI, you can setup your own XMPP server in 20 min, and chat with people on facebook, gtalk, etc. www.prosody.im
To paraphrase Chris Hedges, we don't need more advances in technology, we need advances in morality.
I think you need to update your skype.
Shame its such poor reporting....they are actually closing Skype and "rebranding windows messenger"

Basically skype is dropping the p2p architecture and is going to be using the old messenger architecture with MS servers sitting in the middle of all traffic......

I've been waiting for someone to announce a "new and improved" P2P chat application to counteract this very problem.

Quick someone put a call out to Kim Dotcom and get him working on it.

Cheers,
Dean

http://blog.collins.net.pr/2012/11/rip-ms-messenger.html
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Maybe the politicians have set it up to fail so they can come back and claim legalization doesn't work? If you raise the taxes high enough, you'll keep the black market alive because the price difference offsets the danger for a large enough customer base. Black market cigarettes are a "thing" in Europe, for example.
Google needs to work hard and fast pushing google talk. This will determine Google's place in the future of VoIP / video calling in the Internet.
Not given our current way of life, indeed. Then again, our current way of life is based on the premise that things take time, effort, money, transport, and so on to get into our homes. But why would I need clothes, extra chairs, tableware, tools, and the like if I could just print them when I need them? What if it would become more economical to print common objects instead of having durable items? I would argue that there currently isn't a need because we organised around the idea of durability.

An interesting example in this discussion: Why do a lot of fast-food restaurants use disposable tableware and coffee shops disposable cups? Disposable cups don't make sense if it is impossible to make disposable cups that cost nigh to nothing. If you want to take coffee on the road, just stop at a restaurant, or take a thermos can from home. There is just no need for anyone to have disposable cups, that's just wasteful.

Once these cups became a possibility, however, the use-case of a coffee to go became reality. And with some interesting changes bubbling through society to boot, I think. Compare train stations of a century ago with train stations of today, for example. Or canteens in many a factory with those of 50 years ago. Or your office: where has the coffee lady gone?
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This was the point I was going to make too. Skype is terrible, but yet it is still the best compared the competition.

Let's consider the competition:

- Live Messenger: It was the next best, now discontinued, but before that it was poorly supported, rarely updated, and had a ton of bugs. No external connectors (e.g. telephone networks).

- Google Hangouts: Browser only. No external connectors.

- Facetime: Apple ecosystem only. No external connectors.

- AIM: No video/voice chat. No external connectors.

- Cisco WebEx: Expensive.

I'm sure there are others. But in general this is a very unhealthy market with not a lot of competition. It has always been that way. We desperately need an explosion of innovation here.
The best way to spend any extra money saved on retiring MSN: open up the Skype API for devs to use. Adium is still the undisputed king of IM clients and with a proper Skype plugin for it I'd be happy again. Because let's face it, the Skype client is really, really bad.
It's just grandstanding. But they fall flat on their face with "not 1% but 10%" donated to charity. It should have been 100% if they wanted to lay some credible claim to a moral high ground.
As a liberal American, my thesis is that the Republican party is extremely fractured between fiscal conservatives (who are largely centrist or even liberal on social issues) and the straight-up social conservatives. Which means that finding a single individual who can coherently represent all of them is basically impossible.

So enter Romney, who seemed willing to be mercurial - literally adopting different positions in front of different audiences and scoffing whenever anybody pointed it out. But that cynical strategy was necessary to have any viability whatsoever in such a diverse party.
No its more like people being interested in the application, finding value in it and actually wanting to buy it. When I got my Nexus 7 it came with £15 free content on the play store and I couldn't even spend it all because there was so little quality applications available.
Yeah, I didn't mean one was better than the other, just that any of them on your CV would look equally good.

There are probably European and Asian equivalents, (Sorbonne?) but I have no idea what they would be.
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That was my initial thoughts. Might this be a potential way to monetize twitter finally?
Indeed, I don't disagree. I'm just saying I think it may well be impossible to be completely accurate, or even remotely accurate, in crazy elections.
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Wow, who would've thought it all came back to plankton!
I don't think that's a fair comparison. There are plenty of people for whom alcohol has destroyed their lives (or is in the process of doing so). You happen to know a set of people who aren't afflicted in this manner and a different set of meth users. I'm sure there are people out there who can use meth just as responsibly as others use alcohol.
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The problem is the developer might want to get feedback from the user (eg: some bugs can't be reproduced). If the developer just copy & paste into the bugtracker then he/she will have a hard time communicating with the user.
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Or maybe people spend more time watching captive parrots.
>but one of the main arguments against a change in the law is that the United States would not approve.

How embarrassing for your country. The US doesn't approve of prostitution either, though?
I came here expecting a sarcastic joke at a sarcastic apple ad. Leaving pleasantly surprised :)
I was all set to upgrade my 2011 MBA to the rMBP 13" but on reflection I'll stick with the MBA for now... I do most serious coding on an external monitor anyway. I gather the 2012 MBA is significantly faster than my 2011 version.
> attention from women

Ha, well, that's got to be annoying for him: he's gay.
Skimmed that paper. Thanks for link.

Nice to see Civitas would use a tamper evident log file (rolling temporal hash). Alas, generally, encoding the order of the ballots cast destroys voter privacy.

I stand by my earlier comment (cross thread): These crypto based voting systems rely on hash collisions to hide individual ballots within a herd of ballots. Because Civitas encodes votes as ranked preference (to support winner takes all, Condorcet, approval voting), there's even more information contained within each ballot, decreasing the likelihood of a hash collision, increasing the likelihood of inferring each voter's unique ballot.

Something did occur to me, however. Right now, all races are encoded onto a single ballot. Making it more likely that every ballot within a precinct is utterly unique.

But if each race was split onto its own ballot, then a crypto based voting system might be workable.

Hmmm.

As loathe as I am to validate a crypto-based scheme in any way, these schemes aren't going away, no small part because the geeks keep pushing technological fixes for perceived societal problems. So I'm somewhat resigned that I should make the most of it, help make sure the worst parts are mitigated.
As I understand it the intention is to solve:

1. Allowing people with disabilities to vote. For example, headphone voice prompts for blind people, large print/high contrast for the elderly etc.

2. Making sure voters understand the voting procedure - particularly if there are multiple offices and issues on the ballot, multiple ballot papers and so on.

3. Ensuring voters' intent is recorded unambiguously. For example, you can't put marks in multiple boxes (intentionally or accidentally) and you can't leave a dimpled or hanging chad.

4. Perfect counting (assuming the data is entered correctly and the software works right) as opposed to manual counts where papers sometimes end up in the wrong pile.

5. You can offer voting in multiple languages.

6. You can randomise the order of candidates on the ballot, to evenly distribute any impact being at the top might have.

7. Ability to take backups for transit or deliver results electronically, avoiding boxes of ballots going missing.

8. Reduced counting costs and faster results, allowing more polling stations to be operated and allowing the polls to stay open later for the same result delivery deadline.

Whether it succeeds at offering these benefits, and whether they're worth the obvious cost in trust is debatable.
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So what can he open up now that he couldn't open up during his first term?
The point isn't that Silver is some superhuman guessing machine. The point is that Silver explicitly did nothing particularly special over applying sound statistics over publicly available data, came out with very different predictions than the traditional media did, took a lot of flak from them for it, and turned out to be exactly correct in every meaningful way.

538 is a statement against the traditional election coverage, in effect saying that math is better than pseudo-objective talking head bullshit. From his blog:

Nevertheless, these arguments are potentially more intellectually coherent than the ones that propose that the leader in the race is “too close to call.” It isn’t. If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can’t acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/nov-2-fo...

This is why the more math-literate portions of the internet have erupted with cheers for Silver.
You're still missing it. Every single additional limit order in the market creates real value. If I want to buy 500 shares of company A, and one market participant is offering 250 at $10. Another is offering 250 at $11. It is going to cost me 250 x 10 + 250 x 11 = $5250. Now, the "short term speculator" you are complaining about shows up and puts his tiny little order in, he is offering 1 share at $10. Now the equation if you want to execute is 251 x 10 + 249 x 11 = $5249. He/she just saved you $1. One real dollar. As someone who wants to get a transaction done on a market, more people posting bids and offers cannot possibly hurt you. Only help you. You have the complete freedom to decide to meet their offered price, to cross the spread, to pick up that carton of milk at the 7-11 and walk to the till and make the transaction.

Now maybe that little speculator who sold you the share at $10, he goes and works the bid, he advertises that he wants to buy a share at $9. Someone fills him. It take 2 minutes of trading to work to the front of the queue (easily possible with an equity). During that time, he is exposed to the risk that the stock might spike up in price, a risk you are no longer exposed to since you got your desired trade done $1 cheaper and 2 minutes ago. Then if he succeeds he makes his $1 profit. It doesn't always work - maybe 60% of the time the price ticks up and he just breaks even. He pays exchange fees and clearing on both the in and out trades too.

In theory, you could get involved in all of this with your 500 share purchase. Try to work the bid, get a better price, etc... or if you cross you are effectively paying for a service. Every order posted in the market is a service.

How wide are bid/offer spreads these days? How can that possibly be a bad thing?
The problem with taxing something you don't like is the government quickly becomes dependent on the revenue and ends up having a perverse incentive to promote it.

My guess is the medical prescription nature of marijuana in California probably inflates its price 10x.
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C++ already needs runtime type information [0] for certain features (dynamic_cast, typeid). So the basic compiler infrastructure is already there. No need to "rewrite from scratch". Just add more information into the RTTI data structures and provide the mechanisms to inspect (optionally modify) classes.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-time_type_information
Have you tried this in mobile browsers? Looks a bit broken on my iPhone.
Is "So if there are 23 people in a room there's a 50% chance that one of them will share a birthday with me?" correct? If you pick a fixed person (you) that would break the pigeonhole principle, I think.

I would think that saying "So if there are 23 people in the room there is a 50% chance any 2 of those people share the same birthday" is better.

Edit: I misunderstood, you're saying that other people are misunderstanding. My mistake!
Skype & IM mean different things to different people. A lot of people may be using both, but not necessarily interchangeably, even though Skype has the ability to do both text IMs as well as voice. So, unless MSFT have a seamless migratory path, they will end up losing a lot of people who will suddenly be exploring all possibly options as their next IM client.
Amazing and horrifying, this post should be required reading for anyone concerned about the rule of law. Could you post this on a blog somewhere and resubmit it so that it gets the amount of discussion it deserves?
Windows Live Messenger is XMPP - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/live/hh826554.aspx
Google Hangouts works with apps too, not just a computer browser. I've been using it with my work team for about a year since we're often spread across the country and it's been amazing. We tried Skype, but it often didn't load the video feed.
(probably because the thumbnail looked like what they were looking for)

Probably because GarageBand is five bucks and TinyPiano is free.
This reddit link seems to have a nice list of games:

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/12qs6z/steam_f...

You'll notice that Crusader Kings II gives a "no files" error when you try to launch it from the library (you have to own the game already). When I posted this as a bug I was told that CK2 was in an invite-only closed beta. I guess that means I have to get an invitation from Paradox.

I'm assuming the rest of the games with a "no files" error are still being tested or prepped for release.
Does anyone have any info about the tech stack?
Or wizard, if we're in the Harry Potter universe.
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The purpose of prohibition was to destroy local, independant breweries and distillers, so that large conglomerates would be able to dominate the very lucrative alcohol industry once it was re-legalized.
Surely they know something we don't. I expected them to go the other way by bringing Skype into Messenger.
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Unless it shouldn't be a crime in the first place. Enforcing anti-MJ laws is immoral, even more so considering the particulars of this case.
Good post. The economic term for these sort of arguments is Pareto Efficiency [1]. I think there's a lot to be said for the idea that you ought to make all the changes that make literally everyone better off before worrying about changes that make some people better off and some people less so.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
I'm pretty sure I'd use this sometimes as well, especially when struggling to find bugs and needing another eye on the code.

I think the few-bucks posts will probably fall away over time as more serious requests get posted.
Pretty much the only good source of data is the AP, because they have tons of reporters on the ground who can report precincts as they are called in. This is really important for states that aren't good about updating their official counts on the web.
duplicate submission? already a higher voted submission
The only concern I have is the way the experiment is conducted. The correct way to collect data would be to consume the Streaming API to collect the random sample of tweets provided by Twitter [0]. They should then run their algorithm to compare how they are doing against Twitter's algorithm. Currently, they are filtering out certain topics of interest and just comparing these topics. Therefore, they are filtering a great degree of noise which is actually observed by Twitter.

[0] https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/sample
This fixes the "Messenger" branding issue.
I just looked it up on wikipedia and they are not banned completely. Still, effectively they are, since the court said that

> "verification of the result must be possible by the citizen reliably and without any specialist knowledge of the subject."
Well, there were certainly parts of post Civil War America that could be properly described as a post-apocalypic wasteland. But this was the clearly the fault of state and federal politicians, not the traveling medicine shows and pharmacies.
They are already monetizing their data. DataSift is one of their key official partners [0].

[0] http://datasift.com/
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Skype also doesn't work on windows on 16 core PCs with hyperthreading enabled.
Apart from all the skepticism, urine is caustic and by extracting the hydrogen it will get even more caustic. Even if true to be a nice solution to produce energy in poor underdeveloped regions - WHY NOT TELL THEM ABOUT THE WASTE?
Hilarious!

What gave PA to Obama was the blocking by the courts of the Voter ID act that the legislature passed.

Note that in all the praise about individual contibutors in the article, there is no mention of "bundling" and the routine use of cutouts, both rather unsavory practices that both sides use.

EDIT: this site may prove a useful antidote to the above article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/campai...

Romney raised more than Obama in total $$$. Even without the SuperPAC contributions that gave Romney more money, the two campaigns were within about 10% of each other in terms of what they raised.
Wow! That is a really elegant solution.

I wonder what (if any) pitfalls it has, other than the increased complexity and less obvious correctness (i.e. it would be hard to convince a non-mathematically inclined person that it works properly).