skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see. So each party typically acts as a cluster. They may have their own internal rankings within that cluster of candidates, but on the whole parties will typically only be concerned with cluster rankings. That is to say, most parties won't bother with going through 100+ candidates' platforms entirely individually, and you'd expect to see all (or most) of a given party in a block on the ranking, rather than sprinkled throughout.

Senate Preferences for Party A:

1 - PARTY A - John

2 - PARTY A - Jane

3 - PARTY A - Mike

4 - PARTY A - Jennifer

5 - PARTY B - Napoleon

6 - PARTY B - Elizabeth

7 - PARTY B - Bob

7 - PARTY C - Austin

8 - PARTY C - Emily

9 - PARTY B - Patrick <- (For whatever reason, Party A just really doesn't like Patrick at all)

10 - PARTY D - NeoNazi <- (Crazies at the bottom)

And so on and so forth for 100+ candidates. The abc.net.au preference listings seem to show this sort of line up. (And there seem to be a ton of parties: Stop CSG Party, Australian Sex Party, Help End Marijuana Prohibition, Smokers Rights Party, Stable Population Party)

I can certainly see how administrative error could creep in here --and sabotage as well. I still find myself preferring an election system like this however even with the bloat :)
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At my workplace all of the legacy projects use XSLT as the templating language for our Cocoon (Java Framework) web applications.
Complete and utter clusterfuck, let me tell you...
"good showing"?

I don't follow the actual makeup too much but labor have 31, the coalition 34 and the crossbench 11 with momentum swinging away from labor (and greens?) it seems like it's an uphill battle for labor to hold on to the current numbers.
Funny enough I recommended this site yesterday to another question but it makes this point obvious as well. From what I can tell people submit to both sites at the same time often:

http://www.concatnews.com/
Its not a liability of the miner though. I agree it is not much different from money printing, but there is still a balancing entry, so money is a liability of the central bank, although that is meaningless.
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My first thought "what could possibly go wrong with live 1-to-1 video".
There might be more than one reason for that...
even just some error bars would help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_bar

They're typically used for confidence intervals or standard error, but you can theoretically use them with any measure of variability as long as you're clear.
That's funny, true and sad at the same time.
agree here too, love the distraction free mode
Absolutely ridiculous. There is no reason copyrights should be protected more strongly than traditional property rights. If I trespass on someone's land, it's not a felony. If I build a hotel on someone's land, it's still not a felony. The redress for copyright violations should be civil lawsuits, not criminal prosecutions.
Please don't attempt to operationalize this data by saying "I know PHP. If I learn Ruby, then I can get a $5,000 raise!" I talk to more engineers than is healthy, and many of them think that languages are the primary differentiator in salary (or some other metric of interest in their career). They're very mistaken. Far more salient are negotiating skill, location, what company you work for, where you're assigned in that company (profit center or cost center, favored project/division/etc or not, etc), and ability to use computer code as leverage to accomplish things that capitalism cares about.

Also, the dynamic range among e.g. Ruby programmers of my acquaintance goes from something like $2k a month to $2k a day, not primarily based on skill with Ruby. (If I were comfortable describing the individuals at the high end some people might say "That's cheating! They're getting compensated for non-Ruby things which happen to be expressed in Ruby programs." I call that winning rather than cheating but to each their own.)
Help! My digital self has been enslaved by corporate missionaries and forced to drink coke. Can we calm down on the emotive metaphors a little so I can see the actual point?
Why would they kill helpouts.

Helpouts is build upon hangouts and hangouts is here to stay. Being helped with G+ is a good motivator for keeping the product (if it becomes popular).

If no one uses it, they will kill it for sure.
I'm not saying "we should" punish any company that kills a product, I'm saying that a track of killing products for strategic reasons is one of the factors any rational consumer usually considers before spending time in a new product.
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It doesn't require much attention though. Boil kettle, drop eggs into water on the stove, leave for 5 minutes. Put steaks on a foreman grill, take off when done.

I'm pretty sure I can do this with less than 60 seconds of attentive time, the rest can be spent catching up on tech stories, pull requests or whatever.

Frying it all would be even easier, too. Heat pan, put steak and eggs in, leave for a couple of minutes. Turn steak, leave for a couple of minutes. Slide everything onto a plate, eat.
If I had to do it today, I'd probably use DTD to validate the XML tag hierarchy and than use a programming language (with xpath) to validated the attribute and tag contents.

XML Schema tries to validate both the tag hierarchy and the contents, which requires data types and complicated definitions. So much overkill...

DTD and XPath are actually very nice and simple. This is the DTD equivalent of my XML Schema example above:

<!ELEMENT myElement (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST myElement myAttribute CDATA>

I could see myself writing a small domain language and translate it to DTD, to make it even nicer.
That's exactly what git add -p does, and it's vastly more convenient than when you don't have a staging area.
Hacker News redesigns and mobile apps are popping up almost weekly here at HN .... I'm trying all them out.

Yet still using the original. Being a designer I was always thinking what makes this ugly design so time resistant.

One single answer comes to my mind: the character of its creator.
2nd or 3rd order related :

How much could a growing supply of airborne wildfire soot be contributing
to the decline of Greenland's ice reflectivity? How important is soot
to amplifying Greenland's melt?

http://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/adventure-ethi...
For breakfast I often mix natural yoghurt and some frozen berries. It's tasty, cheap and I think fairly healthy.
Mark Zuckerberg Aims to Bring Net Access to Everyone With Internet.org
Why would it be online accessible?
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Well we all know how Steve Jobs foray into doing it his way turned out. I am all for new and ingenious ways to maintaining one's health. However I am not for new ways that don't have the strong trusted evaluations.

The number of bad habits I engage in over my days is one thing, I am not about to jump from fad to fad in hopes of out smarting the medical community.
But box plots seem to be needing turning on their side to visualise (assuming normal distribution)

I suppose I am looking for mathematically faithful whilst still Omnigraffle good looks

Cheers
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Politicking? I would see that as a good thing, and part of a healthy negotiation about issues, eg. transparency in government, the environment or civil rights.

Compare that to the first-past-the-post systems of the UK and US, where there are essentially no minor parties with any hope of having a say.
working just fine on Windows Phone 7[1] Internet Explorer. Even better i think. It automatically make the text bigger, thus easier to read within the small screen size.

[1] Nokia Lumia 900
> There is no reason copyrights should be protected more strongly than traditional property rights.

There is one: lobbying.
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They do that so students grow up knowing one operating system: Windows. Such students grow up, graduate, and then feel more comfortable using it in the workplace (and at home); it ends up being a net positive for Microsoft. If schools didn't receive free Windows licenses, such schools might end up using Ubuntu! Imagine how that would affect Microsoft's future profits and product adoption if the next generation of workers (especially those potential .NET programmers, CTOs, etc) were more familiar and comfortable with Linux!
The Australian senate is elected by a different and more complex system:

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

Instant run-off is used for the house of representatives.
It also shows that sysadmins that know Puppet probably doesn't have a partner.
Not sure I would agree with "brainwashed" as that is a little strong and dystopian authoritarianism is a common trope in games and sci-fi.

I think where HL2 sets itself apart is that it thoroughly builds out the world and details in it so that you get a slight (very slight) feeling of what it would be like to exist in that world.

On that level I regard its value as a work of art to be greater than its value as a game (though both are high).
Google clickthrough prediction statistical model behind advertising system
By all means, if you already have hypertension, it is good advice to reduce salt intake - I don't know what the posterior probability for salt sensitive hypertension given hypertension, might be >50%, and it is definitely prudent especially since AFAIK there's no definite test for salt sensitivity.

However, iirc (can't review now), the data supports the following:

A) on average, if hypertension, reducing salt reduces blood pressure. But so does adding potassium.

B) despite that, there is a population with hypertension for which salt reduction does not reduce blood pressure.

C) In healthy individuals, increase of salt intake increases blood pressure slightly, but does not get to the hypertension realm.

But the often repeated meme "salt causes hypertension" is not supported by data. Furthermore, sodium deficiency is a serious condition, which was practically unheard of before the low sodium craze.
I recently self posted to Reddit (startups) and to HN. (And was gripped by self doubt - what if it is a netiquette faux pas)

The reason - the first sites I thought of. I should narrow down to forums that my target niche read but ...

Ps HN got 50 visits and one up vote, Reddit 200 and one up vote. So I need to go to writing school.
I don't think you read the parent comment properly.

Of course it was "an experiment" but that doesn't mean you can automatically draw useful or even valid conclusions from it. If I ate nothing but peas for a day, my "experiment" wouldn't say much (if anything) about the effects of a pea-only diet on the human body, but if I did it for a year, I might get some useful data. Except that would still only be the effects of peas on my body, and may not generalise to other humans anyway.
Yes.

It's fascinating how Google is slowly turning into the Microsoft of the mid-90's/early 00's. Most people depend on it, many are starting to hate it after a few very bad experiences (with their nonexistant customer service for example).
The default HN experience isn't so great on Android's browser...

http://i.imgur.com/TEUoGrT.jpg
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Cool app + demo. One thought is that I want to see a map, calculation, and/or proof as to why that's the shortest route. Perhaps you can show me the distance for this route, and tell me how much better it is (by %) than the median and worst routes.

Also, please tell me whether it's the shortest route by miles (by car routes? walking routes? bike routes? as the bird flies?) or time.
Personal experience? My SO is Lithuanian, so I would be interested to know what working in that area is like.
What's the difference between New Zealand and USA / UK / Australia? New Zealand at least has the balls or insanity to pass laws to cover the domestic spying, instead of doing it and denying it.
I don't think that analysis holds up. Optional preferential voting is closer to first-past-the-post than compulsory preferential (in Queensland and NSW where they have OPV at a State level, a large majority tend to "just vote 1").

First-past-the-post is bad for minor parties, and would cement the two-party system. At the last election, the Greens only won the seat of Melbourne by using Liberal voter preferences to overtake the ALP candidate, and similarly Andrew Wilkie relied on the preferences of Liberal, Green and Socialist party voters to eventually win from third position. Under OPV, it is highly likely that both of those seats would have gone to the ALP.

OPV might be defensible on the grounds of reducing informality, but it would push our system closer towards FPTP and be bad for minor parties.
I use XSLT for https://emailprivacytester.com/ - The HTML part of the email that it sends is constructed from a small amount of dynamically generated XML, and a static XSLT file:

https://github.com/mikecardwell/email-privacy-tester/blob/ma...

The cool thing is, I initially wrote the application in Perl. I then re-wrote it in NodeJS, but was able to re-use the same stylesheet as it's language independent.
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Never did I just run in and bowl anything and hope
The way I work around XML schema pain is to use visual tools for it, like the ones in Visual Studio, for example.

Hand editing XML schema files is too much of a pain.
Great Idea!

Being mobile first, we dropped this plan in favour of reducing clutter.

We'll consider putting this info in a separate view.
I agree with you, but I also think that we should consider more datapoints before evaluating how a company treated its product and customers.

In the case of Google Reader, we saw a product lifespan from 2005 to 2013. That's eight years.

What lifespan can a user reasonably expect from any software product, and at what point is a company killing products so fast, that it's unlikely most customer will extract any value out of it. (considering the time needed to learn using the product and so on)
Because you can only install software approved by Microsoft, you cannot install software on it for detecting a backdoor installed by Microsoft. These computers are only more secure if you trust Microsoft. If Microsoft can't be trusted (and they can't be, as they are under NSA's jurisdiction), then the Windows 8 computers are less secure.

But wait, it gets worse. At least in the case of MacBooks you only have to trust Apple, but in the case of Microsoft you also have to trust the computer manufacturer. And that's a really tough pill to swallow.

I actually hope that Windows 8 will be banned by governments in the public sector, as Trusted Computing is a scourge upon this industry.
That's like sneering at Amazon because bookstores. Or sneering at Excel because ledger paper.
Yep.

Though you have obviously worked out ways to game the system. It's happening more and more.

For example, in Victoria, a group of five libertarian aligned micro-group parties (headed up by the Liberal Democrats) didn't lodge their GVT, meaning you now can't vote for them above the line.

As most (95%) of people vote above, that's wiped them out in Victoria.

But here's the realpolitik: they had organized a straight preference swap deal nationally with the Australian Sex Party, which had a chance of making quota (aka winning a spot) with the help of the preferences in Victoria. It's less likely now in that state.

But the Sex Party has lodged its preferences in Victoria and other states with flows to the Lib-Dems. It means the Lib-Dems can avoid helping the Sex Party win a Victorian spot (and possibly balance of power in the Senate) but maybe win its own spot in other states (and also, balance of power).

It is complicated and strategy matters big time.
Hmm, thanks. If they don't sate my hunger, there's no reason to them. I'll either keep cooking chicken breasts (you just pop them in the oven for an hour with minimal preparation and are delicious) or have milk with cereal, one cup of which keeps me full for 5-6 hours. Losing weight with that sort of diet has never been a problem, as I feel full all day and still manage to have a nicely-sized dinner.

About the targeting, either use incognito mode or opt out of targeted advertising (it's in your Google account preferences).
±10% is almost nothing... OTOH, maybe I could do XSLT, if I just took some nausea pills...

PS: I actually think XSLT is a brilliant application of some cool ideas - putting them to work in (e.g.) grammar compatibility, it's just, like XSD, using XML itself as the syntax (e.g. i &lt; 10 pls shoot me) and lack of helpful conventions (e.g. the empty stylesheet should be the identity transform, which you can then tweak).
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No different than the program Apple had for American schools, if I am not mistaken.
This is amazing. Google will really do well with this, they need to branch into ecommerce as their ad business isn't growing much.

With mobile gaining traction, this could be a central hub for a decentralized solopreneur economy, even inside corporations. You can consult your lawyer, accountant, doctor, pharmacist right from your tablet and be charged through this interface. Even better, your lawyer/doctor etc. is based in india and charge a 10th of the cost. Also, great to watch and charge babysitters, mechanics, cleaners etc. Also, supervising factory workers in china. The factory has telecommute robot for rent floating around and you log in and do some checking on your product being produced.

If google record and analyze the videos, they could even run some machine learning on this and turn into automated robots that carry out the task.

Great idea, an app store for people peddling that could turn into an artificial intelligence robot.
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Let me take a guess, the lobbyist for Microsoft suggest an "improvement" that makes running pipelight (http://fds-team.de/cms/articles/2013-08/pipelight-using-silv...) also a felony.
>>Lacking the means to produce cheap energy, he invented a form of fusion as a more efficient approach to powering his home and hopes to use it to reduce the global disparity of electrification.

I wonder what that is, and if he has written about it some where?
Yes, and because your body is much less efficient at converting that energy into motion than a car is.
The real kicker of this idea is that one you accept it is possible that we are in a simulation, then it is much more likely that we actually are than that we are not.
Why does it matter if we are in a simulation or not?
Just wanted to let you know that I didn't down vote you because I don't agree with your opinion, I down voted you because your comment is of absolutely no use the OP, and brings nothing of value to the discussion.
Didn't they already have a similar service (similar to Yahoo Answers, but I forget the name), where people got paid to answer other people's questions? Only for the service to be shutdown some years later. Anyone remember the name?
> Not: "we're a large company with deeply-interested professionals who've made this their life's work, our own multi-million dollar labs and decades of accumulated experience in the development, testing, validation and manufacture of temporary food substitutes". Because that's boooorrrrinnnng.

I think it's not because it sounds boring but because it sounds like a marketing bullshit. Guy in a suit tells you "trust us, we have a whole basement of experts and years of experience" but when you check them out, the company was funded few months ago and only one employee doesn't have some sort of "manager" or "director" in his job title.

I guess openness of soylent and creator's low experience in bullshitting is what makes it attractive. Those of us who eat to live don't expect much from industry after McDonalds and sugar everywhere but we still desperately hope for something better. That hopes fuels enthusiasm for soylent.
The take home I got was to question Facebook and Google's motives.

Loon and Android (or a free alternative) could make for a pretty sweet peer to peer alternative Internet.

Perhaps an alternative would be to bounce signals off of other satellites.

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4404759/Pro...
I found this interesting: "this advice is printed on real paper and motivates us to eliminate our weak spot every single day." Does this ever work against you in terms of demoralizing your team?
That may be so but they're very capable of misleading / attempting to confuse the public on the issue too. The prime minister, John Key, actually publicly likened the bill to Norton Anti Virus on multiple occasions [1] [2]

[1] http://www.3news.co.nz/VIDEO-Key-walks-out-of-press-conferen...

[2] http://www.3news.co.nz/Key-NZers-care-more-about-snapper-tha...
For those not familiar with cricket, Glen McGrath was one of the greatest bowlers of all time and also known as one of the toughest.

One of the other good quotes "To be a good player you have to have the skills. To be a great player it is attitude and mental strength that will get you there.'
I guess the 20% projects are not quite dead yet. It very much looks like something created by one or more enthusiastic employees, and not a strategic move mandated from above.

Yes, there is a better than even chance that this will go nowhere like knoll, but could we please give it a chance to prove itself before shutting it down?
Is the world a 3d hologram created by clustering of sub-microscopic, atomic units of matter perceived by translating photon transmission to electrical pulses?

YES.
I worked with XSLT for a few years a while ago, it's functional not procedural and that's the brainfuck you need to get your head around. It was also missing what seemed like basic functionality, like mutable variables.

We used to automatically convert SQL queries into XML using the AS column naming (like SELECT p.Id, p.Name, k.Id [kids\kid\@Id], k.Name [kids\kid\Name] FROM Person p JOIN Kids k ON k.FatherId = p.Id).

Then we could transform server-side to send down the HTML as well as do client-side updates in javascript by sending XML and the running the XSLT clientside to do partial updates (you can specify which part of the XSLT you want to run).

Worked pretty well as at the time, most browsers ran XSLT much faster than they ran Javascript.

I even got a pretty funky pivot table working in it that could handle 10,000s of rows when in javascript it would die after a 1,000 (we're talking IE6/7 era here).

There's actually a Daily WTF article where someone posted Sketchers.com's use of XSLT as a WTF and a lot of people chimed in in the comments that they did this and it was actually really good and not a WTF at all:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Sketchy-Skecherscom.aspx

Note the featured comment was a response from the lead dev!

As for what situations in industry, our use was pretty uncommon as you can see from the WTF, but it's often used to transform XML in one format to another so they can get different systems actually talking to each other.
I would say it's more a matter of habit, if you've used the original for such a long time you feel so familiar with it that any other way of using HN just seems "unnatural". I too have tried many alternatives, yet still coming back to the original ;)
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Lots of numbers and you ignored the only two important ones because it doesn't fit with your preconceived notion.

1: The efficiency of converting that energy into motion. A car is MUCH MUCH more efficient than a person.

2: The amount of energy from diesel needed to grow those food calories in the first place. Again, a car comes out way way ahead.

> Farms don't make lots of pollution, and their pollution is natural, My grandpas had a farm .... not the same kind of pollution .... in diesel exhaust.

A farm with no tractor. Interesting. Maybe in your grandpas day, but certainly not today. Farms use a TON of diesel to grow that food.