skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that every state has one Senator (per cycle), and every state resident gets one vote for Senator that counts the same as everyone else's. Representation on a national level is disproportionate, but on a vote-to-vote level the election is fair.

This is not the case in the Presidential election; the President is supposed to represent all Americans, and yet when campaign season comes around we get maps that look like this: http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/11/01/163632378...
Well it's definitely Drupal based.

I also found this: http://groups.drupal.org/node/217429 which makes me think they did it in house.
It will absolutely not reflect the average number of people who have the internet per state.
I'm a country boy who grew up in the midwest and came here when a company I worked for in Portland got acquired. I've been stuck here for 8 long years, now, and constantly dream about going somewhere else.

California is fine, the SV is okay, there are certainly jobs and lots of opportunity and at this point I've built quite the network ... but seriously, I miss being able to go outside and see a field of corn from time to time.

One day...
I was raised in California and I just happened to enjoy building websites as a kid so it was a no brainer to move to Silicon Valley when I became an adult.

I just wish it wasn't so damn expensive to live here. States like Colorado and Arizona have been on my mind a lot lately since you can get a beautiful house out there for what it costs to buy a condo here.
Go Oregon!

:)
What happens when ec2 shuts down the machine with jabber on it? When there's a memory spike in the middle of your vacation and no-one can send messages? Etc, etc, etc
You don't create a specific "Promotions" label though. My answer to brown9-2's question is still correct.
Farmers in the high plains have a lot of downtime. The farmers in the area I grew up in often spent winters coaching hockey, or if their kids were out of school, lived in Florida. Might be different in places where there's a year round growing season.
This comment is foolish; it reflects a lack of understanding that reading, let alone engaging in HN, is not evenly distributed across all demographics with internet access.
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I used to object to switching to the popular vote, for various constitutional reasons.

But I came across one justification that blew away all my objections.

Namely, the House of Representatives was originally designed to grow along with the population.

If it had been allowed to keep growing, then that "built-in advantage" of less-populous states would have dissipated. In other words, that built-in advantage wasn't actually built-in. The system was designed to degrade it over time.

In other words, if it had continued as it was, we'd have somewhere around... I forget, 3500 - 4000 representatives today. And that would change the electoral college calculations, to the point that they would almost exactly mirror the popular vote. It's asymptotic, but as the population grows, the (unrestricted) EC approaches the popular vote. It's worth noting that if the house of reps had been allowed to keep growing, Gore would have beaten Bush via electoral-college counting, hanging chads be damned.

So there's nothing sacred about the less populous states. Their advantage only exists because of the much-later agreement to freeze the growth of the house of reps.
I'm in Illinois, but the St. Louis area, not Chicagoland.
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Anybody from Auburn, AL ?
> more extreme examples demonstrate the flaws

You are calling out for slippery slope, if X is acceptable than 1000X must also be. And since 1000X is not, therefore X shouldn't be.

> analogy would be altogether impossible because things could only ever be compared to themselves.

To be honest, I rarely trust analogies as logical statements. They are good for introduction to a concept but they have an inherent bias towards the view of the constructor which may not be visible to the other side in an debate.

The argument you put forward was that 'I do it for free so I can do anything' is fallacious. Yes, it is. Firstly the argument here is 'You agree that I do this for free, the definition of 'this' may change with time and it is entirely my right to do so' is the actual condition.

> It is very annoying to have to explain this over and over

I am sorry I annoyed you, that was not my intent. I did read it but may be I can't read as well as I hoped I did.

> ctrl-F malic -> 0 results. Uh, cool?

While I am at least a little offended by the snark I would assume that it was my mistake that I annoyed you a lot. English is not really my first language so probably my choice of word 'malicious' was out of place, but you are taking things too literally. Disqus has behaved is inconsiderate and sneaky - I am trying to point out that they notified their users and were not trying to hide anything about this.

Honestly, I see no point continuing to annoy you. So I will shut up.
I'm going to need to save this article for the next time I get into an argument about 3D printing. Like the author, I love the technology and have enjoyed the parts that I've made with it. However, the technology is over-hyped and often treated like a Star Trek replicator. I've seen discussions of 3D printing nuclear food, microprocessors, and even living things.

To a degree the technology reminds me of Visual Basic. The technology makes it very easy to make something that looks like what you want, but it doesn't bring you any closer to actually making what you wanted.
No, there are not conflicting assertions. There are objective facts on one side, and assertions on the other.
Furthermore, we have to remember that we are only hearing one side of the story. I believe it...tentatively.
Well, you're wrong about what it will reflect. But, even with that, if the purpose of the poll was to find that fact out, then the poll would not be stupid.

You can't know whether something is stupid without knowing the purpose behind it. You only know the question. You don't know the use to which the answer will be put.
What's to be "Sorry" about? I don't get it.
I don't believe that was the main concern at the time, what I've read from the arguments at the time was that the electors (the guys in the Electoral College) were supposed to be people you had voted for that you trusted to make the right decision about who should be president. This sounds silly now, but at the time they really thought that they could avoid having a party system (or at least many people thought this), and they also wanted to separate the choice of president from the uniformed rabble of the masses. Not that that conceit survived contact with reality...
Are you trolling me? I guess I'll take the bait...

The Collins Dictionary isn't even consistent on the term Open Source. The Collins American Dictionary defines open source as "designating of software whose code is made public and which is thus available to any programmer to develop and customize" [1] where as the Collins English Dictionary defines at as you quoted "intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is made freely available to the general public by its creators" [2]

Even wikipedia agrees that "Generally, open source refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design." [4] and google does too: https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+open+source

I've never heard the term used to refer to intellectual property but regardless, Collins Dictionary defines intellectual property as "something produced by the mind, of which the ownership or right to use may be legally protected by a copyright, patent, trademark, etc."[3] - Log data from a car doesn't seem to fit into the category of things produced by the mind. So as far as I can tell, to "open source" log data is not true to the definition and is is a misuse of the term.

I think the abuse is using a term that recently society has found favorable...transforming it into a verbal tool to challenge an adversary. How does sharing raw log data fit into what wikipedia succinctly states "A main principle and practice of open-source software development is peer production by bartering and collaboration, with the end-product, source-material, "blueprints", and documentation available at no cost to the public." [4]

[1] http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/american/open-so...

[2] http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/open-sou...

[3] http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/american/intelle...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
Reading the article, I pretty much had the exact same thoughts. It really seemed like the writer had a particular feel-good story in mind ("hippies still live in the Haight!") and went out there trying to find it. The error in the article is casting the entire scene as the same slice of peace-n-love that is espoused in the story, leaving aside -- as you say -- the things that happen after dark. Serious mental illness, the sexual risks inherent in being homeless, run-ins with gangs, disease and the worsening of any future prospects as the "tree of life" is embraced.

I was once similarly enamored with the hippy scene and dated a flower child for quite some time, even visited the commune in Lake county that she grew up in, etc. There is a distinctly darker side of the whole experience whose surface is not even scratched by this article.
In Australia you'll lose your license on the spot for ~19MPH over. (actually 30 km/h)
Awesome - i have been using hipchat for years and haven't needed anything else. Most of my company is mac so this is a no brainer. Great work Hipchat team!
There are way, way, way too many ways for this to go wrong. What if you are indisposed (in the hospital, dead, etc) when it comes time to apply the patch? What if an attacker finds the security hole and exploits it before you apply the patch? And don't tell me this isn't a security hole (eg, a backdoor), because it could easily be or become one. Knowingly delivering compromised software is flat out unethical and borders on vigilantism and/or fraud. I don't condone one party failing to hold up their end of the deal when the other party has, and I don't think that "defacing" a website that someone doesn't legally own (they haven't paid for it) is wrong, but putting time bombs in software should never be done.
I think it's a pretty bad paradigm; I did it by accident and there was no way to undo it just to see what it was.
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You're by no means required to login with facebook, and whether you do or not, broadcasting your activity to them is an opt-in.
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Apache license, mozilla license and GPL has provisions that terminates the licence upon the initiation of particular lawsuits. The most common ones are Patent retaliation clauses. This is nothing strange, and has existed for a rather long time. It would not be a stretch to expand this to trademark lawsuits.
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>The charging does add half an hour to a three-and-a-half hour trip, about 15%

This is true. I was considering round trip. The information is from the Wiki:

400 miles @ 65mph ~ 6.5 hours in an ICE, if you have to gas up along the way.

400 miles @ 54mph ~ 7.5 hours + 2.5 hours of charging.

That's quite a difference; one is a day trip, the other is an long day. And it's worse in the winter. Canada is a big place. I regularly drive, 4,5,6 hours without stopping. I have a hard time understanding how people think stopping for an hour every 3 hours of your trip is reasonable. To me, the answer would be to not use the Model S in such a situation, which is fine. But when I have to say, "That trip is too far for my car", and said car approaches 6 figures, it means it's niche, IMHO.
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5221172
I would love to see final results normalized to population. Also, after factoring in internet access.

That is, the distribution of per capita (or per internet accessing population) HN engagement.
SSL 2.0 is old and busted. You ought to disable it.

SSL 3.0 is all-but identical to TLS 1.0.
If conferences are useful, there's also EuroSciPy and PyCon UK, where even the two letters Py unambiguously refer to the Python language.
Doesn't he claim he set the cruise control for 54? If so, I would not expect a cruise control to vary 5 mph in either direction.
I took the liberty to ask why platforms and APIs today stink. Most of them guard their core functions and move back to become destination sites

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18jb6d/i_am_the_pointy...
It's usually very reliable, so it's easy to forget that it can mislabel an important message as a generic promotion.
Except the people don't elect the president, the states do, as it should be IMHO. So as I see it the goal is for each state to cast it's electoral votes for that which represents it's population's desire the most accurately. The current first past the post popular vote devolves into a two party system. I would to see one state try instant-runoff voting to allocate it's electoral votes, as I suspect it would give third parties a far great chance of winning in the electoral college.
I did read the site, and I am exactly right. You just don't understand the point I'm making.

Where did the candidates go in the states they did visit? Did they just stick to the cities, or did they go talk to people in small communities? Did they decide that they could get by with only one type of person, or did they have to try to appeal to the entire population of that state?

I am pretty confident that a presidential campaign that has to contend with rural and small-town voters in Florida, Ohio, Virginia, and Colorado will have to take into consideration some people like me, even though my state's not going to be a 'swing state' any time soon. Those states are plenty different and there's plenty of difference within them, as well.

I can't say the same about a campaign that focuses on the top fifty metropolitan statistical areas, which is exactly what would happen with your scheme.
EVE-Online, a big MMO uses Python for it's servers and clients and they even contribute to Stackless Python source. They are in Iceland. Maybe you could try contacting them.
> So everyone pays taxes voluntarily? Glad to hear we can get rid of the threatening language used in tax forms... clearly superfluous.

I'll retract what I said earlier, governments do employ force to collect various taxes (for those governments that collect taxes at all).

> Back to reality, with a thought experiment: imagine that government subsisted exclusively on voluntary contributions. No threats of fines, interest charges, or arrest and jail time. In other words, like an actual charity.

I'm not really sure that this is even possible. This implies that there is already material wealth or skills available to be contributed, but it sounds as though that kind of organization isn't collectivist and control is routed through some subset of a population. That social structure sounds really unstable, as its unlikely that the most established and wealthy will continue to ignore other members of society (as they do now).
First thing I noticed: no search? This was bad at the old version, where it would fallback to the Web UI, but not having it at all is even worst :(
Thanks, this is excellent insight. My current role is as a business owner in Oakland. Many of the "transients" are fixtures of the neighborhood. Some we allow to charge their cellphones in the store, with others we call 911 as soon as they come in. The guest metaphor is interesting, but difficult to apply in the case of overlayed and possibly incompatible subcommunities.
Yerba Buena. Where are all these states you guys are talking about? I don't see them on the map...
Oh well, since I'm here anyway...

http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/pages/answers.php

MYTH: Only the big states would matter under a national popular vote.

...

If anyone is genuinely concerned about the possibility that a candidate could win the Presidency in a nationwide popular vote by winning 100% of the popular vote in the 11 largest states, they should note that the situation is even worse under the current system. Under the current state-by-state winner-take-all system, a candidate could win the Presidency by winning a mere 51% of the popular vote in the 11 largest states. That is, under the current system, it is possible for a candidate to win the Presidency with a mere 26% of the nation's popular votes.
Why not run the CSV file through a custom made app that "cleans" each line in a proper format that will easily be imported into Excel, taking into account Excel's quirks. The app then spits out another CSV that Excel is able to properly import.

I find this solution a good compromise, although it may not be possible to do it.
Internet content that's meant for affluent, educated professionals will always skew heavily towards California and New York generally (including HN, but I work with a lot of media organizations and their Google Analytics profiles bear this out).

The surprise here is Washington and Massachusetts overtaking Illinois, which would seem to suggest that the large tech community in Seattle and Boston makes up for the much smaller population of those metro areas than the population of Chicago.
I was a small fish as well for many years, 5 as a freelancer and 5 as a small business owner. We all have to take those risks initially when getting started, "I can build you a site that looks like this for this much money!" But we concede those risks when we do so.

In all of my years I have only taken 2 sites down for non-payment. That was the extent of it though, no payment, no site. I personally would never feel comfortable using a clients domain as my own platform to state my side of the story, it's just not appropriate in my opinion.

I want to support fellow designer and developers but in this case I just can't blindly do so without hearing both sides on this or a bit more detail from the developer. The developer has posted little more than invoices were unpaid and he's shutting down the studio like P-Diddy. For all we know through his own initiative he exceeded the agreed scope of work and wants to be paid for it.

Maybe more information can be surfaced and we can rally behind this guy. Until then I've got to stay neutral and look at things objectively.
Attempting to simulate Conway's Game of Life with a neural network
You should include the territories for the sake of completeness. I know of a few Puerto Ricans, including myself, who frequent this website.
Thank you for starting to apologize. You said a lot more that I'd appreciate apologies, but it is a good start.

Now it is my turn.

You're right that I said that you probably didn't know about the hot/cold water freezing weirdness when I had no evidence of that. I shouldn't have assumed ignorance as strongly as I did, and I apologize for having done so. A large part of the reason that I did is irritation with you for saying that anyone who could think that slow stop and go could possibly be more efficient than highway driving is an idiot who doesn't know basic physics. Since I consider that possible, and I think I know basic physics, this hit a nerve.

The reason why I brought up the water example is the following parallel. We have a situation where an obvious fact leads anyone with a basic physics education to assume that the answer goes one way. In fact it lead a lot of scientists to assume that they knew the answer, despite widespread folk knowledge and historical observations to the contrary. In fact reality is more complicated, and the obvious answer in this case isn't always right.

Now are you willing to admit that he and I weren't necessarily ignorant of basic physics when we say that slow stop and go can possibly be more efficient than highway traffic? And that furthermore the fact that I would say so is not particularly damning about my knowledge base or intelligence?

Imagine you're the manager of a group of delivery truck drivers, and a driver comes to you after having stranded himself on a trip, and gives you that same sentence. Most people are going to look at him like he's an idiot, or have to try not to.

You may not be giving truck drivers enough credit. Truck drivers make their living trying to beat operational costs while driving something with the aerodynamics of a brick. I have a couple of relatives who have been long-distance truck drivers, and they are keenly aware of the value of driving slowly, drafting off of other trucks, making no unnecessary maneuvers, etc.
Why did you hate FL?
No.

Palestine has a parliamentary government. Their elections use a close relative to proportional representation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_legislative_electio...

Approval voting is for executive positions. President, Governor, Mayor. Not assemblies like councils and parliaments.

Approval voting prevents the "spoiler effect". It does not enable it. Nor is it applicable to parliamentary elections, such as the example you gave.

Lastly, your comment is just weird. Equating Hamas to a spoiler. Despite the electioneering by the PLA. The subsequent extra-legal attempt to invalidate the election results that brought Hamas to power.

I'm far from an expert on Palestinian politics, but if there's a lesson to be drawn from Hamas and The Gaza Strip, it's that Palestinian politics are messy.
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Bigfoot is real and there is DNA to prove it, claim researchers
Where "poor implementations" = "just about about all of them, ever, except those patched in the last 24 months".
15 states as opposed to what, under a popular vote? certainly not 50, and probably not 1.
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That's not how I read it. The summary was pretty specific... "The next day" isn't a summary of the trip, it's a summary of that day. That day, the car projected 32 miles. It delivered 51. It didn't "fall short" that day.
A quote from the article: "President Obama regularly talks up the need for more math classes 'to equip our children for the future.' The latter is odd and a bit dated, particularly when we consider that computers and calculators have largely made the need for math knowledge something of the past."

This is absolutely false. What computers and calculators do is arithmetic, not mathematics. To do math above the trivial, you still need a properly trained person.

This doesn't argue against the point of the article, which I agree with. But the fact that calculators and computers can do arithmetic shouldn't be used to argue against math education. That would be like arguing that, because computers can spell-check, we no longer need readers, writers or literacy training.
the results are going to be very predictable
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He simply believed that stop & go city driving would help instead of hurt his mileage. Whether that's correct or not depends on the maintained speed. Driving at. steady 75mph on a highway is quite possibly less efficient than stop and go downtown. At 55 mph, maybe not, but how is Broder supposed to know this off the top of his head if a Tesla phone rep is giving him bad info?
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> I did read the site,

I want to believe you, but it's hard to when it refutes the exact claim you're making:

MYTH: Only the big cities, such as Los Angeles, would matter under a national popular vote.

...

The populations of the 50 largest cities together constitute only 19% of the nation's population. Arlington, Texas is the nation's 50th largest city (with an estimated population of 363,000 in 2005).