skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really a labyrinth, and in this case it sounds like someone's subverted the democratic process, ie. they voted one way, but whoever sent the preferences to the Electoral Commission switched them over.

As far as the Australian preference system goes, you have a choice when voting in the lower house: You can pick one box above the line, in which case your preferences will get distributed by the party that you voted for, or you can vote "below the line", in which case you get to vote however you like.

It seems odd to me too - I put it down to Australian laziness, ie. why number 60-odd boxes when you could back to the BBQ sucking back a few cold ones? :)
how about http://hackaday.com/
Is there not a way an emergency responder, or anyone else for that matter, could fully discharge a battery like the one on a Tesla? As ask coz back in the day before digital cameras became mainstream, we used to repair point and shoot cameras at the photo processing lab where I worked. A point and shoot camera has a capacitor for the flash that can give you a short but not insignificant shock, and to avoid it, we'd take a normal light bulb and use it to discharge the capacitor. I realize a cap batteries stores a lot more power, but couldn't some mechanism be built that does the same thing?
Bear with me, this could take a while...

OK, so there's two elections going on simulateously - one for the House of Representatives and one for the Senate. Just as in the US, each electoral district (there are 150) elects a single member to the HoR, whereas each state elects multiple members to the Senate. In the case of the Senate though, each state is treated as one giant electoral district with proportional representation.

Both the HoR and Senate elections use single-transferable-vote ("instant runoff"), but this obviously plays out very differently in single-member electoral districts versus multi-member proportional districts.

HoR ballots tend to have a reasonably small number of candidates - between 3 and about 15, but usually somewhere nearer to 6. On these ballots, a full preferential ballot is the only option - you must number all candidates in order for your vote to count.

Senate ballots, however, are ballooning somewhat out-of-control. At the upcoming election, the Senate ballot paper in NSW will have 110 candidates. Requiring voters to number all of these squares for their vote to count was causing the informal ballot count to increase substantially, so in the 1980s "above the line" voting was introduced. Under above-the-line voting, you can simply indicate a vote for your preferred party ticket, and your full preferences will be allocated according to the ticket that the party submitted to the electoral commission prior to voting. These preference tickets are publically available, and the current controversy surrounds the party tickets lodged by Wikileaks in some states. "Below the line" voting is still available as an option (and obviously one I personally will be taking up).

There is growing recognition of the perverse results that "above the line" voting can cause, and of course 1-metre-wide ballot papers with over 100 candidates listed are absurd. There is some talk of allowing "optional preferential voting" above the line, so that you can just number the party tickets in your preferred order, rather than having to either number every single candidate individually, or accept your preferred party's direction of preferences in its entireity.
Have you tried any mobile app? There are a lot of great apps for HackerNews. I use HackerNews2 for my Android device and HackerNode for my iPhone.
Or using a system without tpm I am looking at building a new pc and all the motherboards I have looked at do not have a tpm module they have the header to implement one but its not installed by default.
Without even looking at potential issues with the source data, it is also the case that most programmers of any calibre work across multiple languages. Also, languages which are 'older' and reaching obscurity (ie. fallen out of favour) are going to be known by older programmers who, if they are still in their career, probably command higher salaries only as a factor of age and experience. Finally, salary before tax is not very representative of income or social circumstance, and people in our industry often opt for time flexibility or remote work in preference to higher salaries on purpose (for example, after having children). All in all, not useful.
When a startup closes a service, I'm pretty sure most people in HN will be equally cautious about investing their time in any new product the same startup might launch.
The Wikileaks party ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Not only did they screw up majorly by preferencing hard-right parties ahead of the progressive Greens. But they betrayed Scott Ludlam in WA who was one of the only people to stand up for Assange.

http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/08/19/wikileaks-partys-adminis...
It's the upper house which has above-the-line voting. In the lower house you must number every square.
Poll: Which YC Summer 2013 Startups have the most promise?
HN is a great community. Let's see if we can crowd-predict which YC summer 2013 startups have the most promise and look back in few years, how well we did.

See below batches, and click on the startup names to learn about them.
Batch 1: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/y-combinator-summer-2013-demo-day-batch-1-meet/ ....

Batch 2: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/y-combinator-summer-2013-demo-day-batch-2-meet-meta-lob-amulyte-weilos-and-more ....

Batch 3: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/y-combinator-summer-2013-demo-day-batch-3-meet-senic-buttercoin-crowdery-reebee-and-more/

PS: Please mention any missing startups or wrong details with the tag SUGGESTIONS.
GoComm: Yammer for mobile workforce
Simple Legal: Analyze legal bills
RealCrowd: Crowdfund Real Estate
Apptimize: Mobile A/B testing
Watchsend: Clicktale for mobile
Graft Concepts: Swap phone case backs
Glio: Yelp for Latin America
Toutpost: Reviews for everything
SpoonRocket: Food-truck service
Prim: Laundry service
7 Cups Of Tea: Listener marketplace
StatusPage: Status pages
Kivo: Git for documents
Teleborder: Immigration management
Floobits: Simultaneous editing
EasyPost: Stripe for shipping
Standard Treasury: API for commercial banks
Amulyte: Amulet for aged
Le Tote: Netflix for fashion
IXI-Play: Robot toy for kids
Butter Systems: Restaurant menu on a tablet
Asseta: Capital equipment marketplace
Hum: Chat to replace email
True Link: Credit cards for old people
LocalOn: Web marketing platform for small businesses
Weilos: Weight loss coaching
SoundFocus: Hearing aid 2.0
Webflow: Responsive site builder for designers
Lob: Printing API
Estimote: Retail store sensors
DoorDash: Restaurant delivery
One Month Rails: Teaches Rails app building
Regalii: Remittances to Latin America
Meta: Augmented Reality glasses
BloomThat: Uber for flowers
Crowdery: A/B testing for physical products
DataRank: Social media analysis
Reebee: An app for flyers
Hackermeter: Rating hackers
Panorama Education: School surveys
Casetext: Replaces LexisNexis and West Law
Buttercoin: Bitcoin exchange
CoreOS: Google’s infrastructure for all
Lumoid: Try-before-you-buy electronics
Senic: Measurement on phones
By this logic, you can to toss all of Silicon Valley under the bus -- might as well dump my Hacker News account as well!
Dylan doesn't have both single and multiple dispatch. Any method call is going to be using multiple dispatch.

Dispatch is dynamic, except where the compiler has determined (perhaps with hints from the programmer in the form of sealing) that it can be optimized into a static dispatch. One mode of the compiler extends this to help further eliminate runtime dynamic dispatch but that isn't enabled currently (as we aren't sure of the state of that code).

Dylan's OO isn't traditional OO at all in that it isn't like Java, Smalltalk, C++, Python, etc. Instead, it is CLOS-style OO. I wouldn't say that it was new and hot and had to be included as the OO in Dylan is a direct descendent of what was already in Common Lisp and going back from there to Flavors from Symbolics on the Lisp Machine and so on. (In fact, some of the same people were responsible...)

As for #2, I don't really see that at all. Dylan has a very intelligent and hard working compiler that tries to let you have the freedom that you want, but still be able to make things run efficiently. After all, it was targeted originally at hardware from 15-20 years ago.

I'm not a Julia expert, so I won't try to address the other points.
I didn't know that ActionScript was used in the enterprise environment? Why and what for? Did I miss something?
This states that it is average household income by language.

I could assert the following from the data:

* ActionScript developers are horribly underpaid, but more likely to marry lawyers, doctors and bankers.

* Haskell developers are relatively well paid, but more likely to live alone or with a stay-at-home parent.

* Pythonists get roughly the same salary as Haskell developers, but their partners are all low-paid key workers.
I replied because the way your sentence was structured, it implied his NSA relationship went south nearer 2007 than it did 1999.
Actually, changing the CSS is not necessary. All that is needed are a couple of meta tags (viewport) in the head and switching textareas to css-based relative width instead of using cols...
Use the Mobile Github page:
http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/
I would pay a 50%+ premium for competitive open source hardware. Happily.
That's the point, a whole app (maybe useless) because of the lack of 10 css lines.
If you had actually listened to the discussion, you would have heard Assange explain clearly why this is not the case. One person who had no chance of winning a position but who was entering politics for the first time and was an indigenous Australian was given a symbolic position above the Greens in WA preferences for the purpose of showing support for indigenous involvement in policy making. Obviously this has backfired due to people not understanding the reasoning, but it was never a threat to the Greens.
No thanks, I'd rather not tell Google more that can help them sell me targeted ads, which they conveniently insert in my inbox, looking like real e-mail.
Czech communists have been members of parliament consistently since revolution so it's not very surprising they might become part of the government at some point.

Most left-wing and right-wing Czech politicians including all Czech presidents have been members of communist party at some point in their life. So in reality, Czech republic had communists in power ever since the revolution.

Czech communist party is standard left-wing party. They just didn't drop the name "communist" like everybody else did. That's all.
I just want to remove the need to zoom, and make it a little more readable
Who says the original windows binaries don't have backdoors in them? So far as I can see the only difference TPM makes is that it potentially opens vulnerabilities in non-MS operating systems you run. If you're running any version Windows, or in fact any software you don't compile yourself from source(1), you just have to trust on faith it's not back-doored up to the eyeballs from the get-go. This has always been true.

(1) And in fact also have total confidence in the compiler itself:
http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/15/strange-loops-de...
...no, that's not how it works.

I realise you're probably being silly on purpose, but.. no.
I think CSS covers here a general "front-end web development" among with HTML and there is simply a big demand for such stuff, especially will all the new features of CSS3 and HTML5 - everyone wants a modern 3.0 website now :)
That is about as far from how it works as you could possibly get.
I suppose we could, but why would we want to?
Please make the bars predict accurately. For a hack its ok to cut corners, but the bars have been bad predictors since windows 95. You guys could have figured it out by now, surely? It has probably caused irritation 10^9 times by now.

It should be the first feature of windows 9. I would upgrade!
And cue the comments where it says HN is just fine and nothing about it never ever needs to be changed and every change you could possibly make to it would just make it worse and you just don't know how to use your phone and so on...

FWIW, I'm partial to HackerWeb (http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/) on the iPhone and http://hckrnews.com/ on the desktop myself.
I've done some ActionScript freelancing back in the days. The demand for ActionScript programmers is actually rising, because everyone moved away from the Flash platform, but someone must maintain the legacy code and do the jobs Flash is best suited for.
Probably for rich reporting tools in flex.
and probably the Senate depending on preferences it seem

Actually it's going to be an uphill battle for them in the senate. It is pretty hard to take outright control of the senate, especially with the good showing by Labor/Greens last election (since only half of the senate is up for reelection).
It's off the chart.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of humour. It works particularly badly on the internet where tone of voice and context are lost or attenuated.

And I'm really hoping this is sarcasm.
Related YouTube video of the astronauts discussing the issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxFdfk35_K0

There's also a video of the EVA itself, but it was cut a bit short and when watching EVA, the impression that I got was nowhere near as serious as the situation really was.
Shiny things sell better than usefull things?
You've read "Who Owns The Future" too then?
Yeah Microsoft gives windows to schools. Generous bastards.
Oh okay, I thought the general spirit here was that people share their experiences (and failures) and thereby provide information on how to improve at the next attempt.

What you are basically saying is that if someone fails, we should avoid them in the future.

That's not very encouraging for anyone trying to build a business (or anything else).
Nevertheless, I'm pleased that they're trying. In today's Internet age, there's no reason that the things they clearly know absolutely nothing about can't be made wider known, and they're helping to make that happen.
I don't believe that just because David Wirrpanda is Aboriginal and a pretty fantastic guy by all accounts means that I should ignore the fact he is running as a National Party candidate.
I really doubt that they're deliberately doing that just to push you to upgrade, though. Basically, you're paying less in exchange for allowing their workers to focus on the higher priority packages that are paying more. Supersaver is probably like remnant advertising inventory - they probably get to those when things are slow to fill in the gaps. Put another way, the Prime and normal shipping speed people are subsidizing your savings.

Newegg offers a different, more proactive approach that might sit better - you can pay $2.99 for rush processing to get them to get stuff out to you quickly, otherwise it might take a day to ship.
>If Microsoft wanted a backdoor it could easily be added to the OS without a TPM.

Without a TPM, it is possible to detect and remove (or more likely mitigate) a backdoor. With the TPM, even if you know about a backdoor and have a patch you can not apply it without Microsofts blessing. At least, thats my understanding.
I had to struggle with XSLT to transform XML into HTML a while back. Since it not intended to be a real programming language, I had trouble making it do the equivalent of something basic like iterating through a collection (recursion, ugh!). I can easily see how it would be a highly-paid skill because the lack of debugging tools (again, it is not a real programming language) made me want to curse MSFT and everyone else who were supporting XSLT at the time (way back) as the Second Coming of content publishing. If you ever want a headache, try reading the XSLT spec.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
Agreed - perhaps he could have used more explicit language but, as you rightly said, I think he had answered that question already. I know he's public enemy #1 amongst some SEOs but people should stop being so rude to the guy!
Second Reality code review by Fabien Sanglard
For me is cooler this way, because it offers visibility on app list and when I have a few free moments, I look at my phone apps and I say "Great, let's see what's new on HN" :D .
It looks fine on the iPhone 5
http://imgur.com/i3fEdol

No massive text size , more than 5 words per line ,etc
were those in the language before or after node came out?
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I believe twisted was an inspiration for node.
Another vote to HackerWeb, which makes the smartphone experience better than desktop.
Yeah, I think same day will strike a complete death blow for retail if they can pull it off well.
At least with VIM the standard commands are good enough to make one productive on any VIM installation.

With emacs, you have to do so much customization before it becomes useful that you find yourself completely lost when using another installation. Try helping a friend only to find out all your commands do not work...
Thank you. Why is it that you must number 100+ boxes? I can certainly see why many would be put off having to do so. It would make more sense to me if you simply numbered the candidates you actually had a preference for, and anyone else on the meter-long ballot didn't get a vote at all. I imagine that would cut down substantially on fringe candidates cluttering up the ballot. It seems that the official parties actually do get this privilege --I've only heard of the major parties mentioning their relative preferences to each other, with no mention of 100+ rankings (edit: or is there indeed a full ranking the party submits, but only the top relative positions are typically reported in the news?). However, if you wish to vote purely according to your own preferences, you're saddled with a ballot that folks will undoubtedly scour for their handful of preferences to truly mark, and then blindly count up to 100+ from top to bottom so that their ballot "counts."

EDIT: Many thanks to coffeecheque, Volpe, BlackAura, and any others that help to explain all of the news I've been reading recently :)
When Soylent is talked about here i'm surprised by the amount of people who seems to like the idea. I couldn't understand why would anyone, at anytime pick a Soylent meal over something else. Then i read this article and see the picture of the author's normal everyday food, and reading the comments here others say this is in fact an average American diet.

I don't want to sound harsh, but you are missing something big about life if you dismiss the pleasure of tasty food, the social moment of eating, and health benefits of a varied, natural diet.

I'm from Spain, eating is important here. It's something beyond nutrition, is about people. You sit at the table while chatting and enjoying the taste of the seasonal ingredients. There are gastronomic events during the whole year, and having conversations about this or that thing you ate, or a new restaurant found, is common. Some of my life "best moments" were around a table.

To my eyes Soylent proposal is akin to replace the sexual act from reproduction just because it's a waste of time.
I have been using emacs for years (never really cared for the keys themselves), but I realized this association just now...
An effective implementation that works as it says: thanks for demonstrating this.
Remember as patio11 says the most important and valuable skill is not making money for your employer but being able to enable them (and eventually other companies, as your own entrepreneurial soldier of fortune) to make more money.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...
Well I'm certainly critical of startups that have no plan to create a viable business and are just hoping to get bought out, but startups are not all like that. Plenty are trying to create viable businesses.

The difference between Google and the serious startups is that they have a record of launching products with no plan or intention to make money from them: they are loss leaders to bring more people into the Google walled garden. A lot of people didn't realise that in the past. People used these product knowing they weren't a money earner for Google, but people assumed Google was tying to be a good citizen and provide useful services for people. Using up the piles of money sloshing around at Google. People treat(ed) things like reader or gmail as basic infrastructure. Google enjoyed being treated like the benevolent dictator of the internet. We paid our 'taxes' in the form of ads and in return got lots of services and infrastructure for free. I heard countless people making the argument that Google's interests were intrinsically aligned with those of internet users: there was no way that giving more money and power to Google could ever go wrong.

It was totally wrong for people to think that way: corporations do not operate in the public interest. I think it's easy to understand the emotional backlash: people don't like to be made fools of. What they thought was benevolence turned out to be a PR exercise, or worse, a landgrab.
and the Most Predictable Criticism of Google award goes to...
I'm pretty sure at this point that HN's markup is the way it is out of sheer bloody-mindedness :)
As a C and Java developer, the numbers made me feel good.
I am pretty sure my internet service provider is already doing that. I don't see the difference. Did i miss something? They didn't say it's free.
I'd really like to see a differing standard deviation between them.
Solid state generators would be pretty cool.
Red Pill, Blue Pill: Is the Universe Just a Giant Computer Simulation?