skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your vote doesn't matter in exactly the same sense that nothing you do matters.

Except that the things you do tend to matter a lot in your own life and the lives of your friends, family, coworkers, etc., and since virtually everything you experience is related to these people and interactions between them, it's very rational to spend time deciding what to do. That said, it's perfectly rational to vote if you derive direct utility from the act of voting.
He even has a calculator so you can now add incorrect statistical decision making

His methodology is suspect. The entire premise (there have been similar reductionist statistical studies that holistically look at it as pure positional numbers) is founded on the notion of the weighted point value of each 1st down position. But as others have mentioned, on-fire offenses against miserable-defenses (e.g. New Orleans taking on Dallas) are going to absolutely dominate such a ranking, because they're of course going to dominate first downs (the survivorship bias -- the ones who suck go three and out), and they're more likely to be scoring points, completely throwing off such a weighting.

If you're dominating a game but have a couple of missed passes, coaches often will go for fourth downs. If you're having little success, on the other hand, why give up good field position, and instead try to just push them back and hold them off until you can regroup. If Minnesota is 3rd and 4 at their own 35, they quite rightly -- and with full statistical backing -- aren't going to go for it if it isn't a desperate last minute drive.

We of course have actual stats on the probability of making a fourth down-

http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/team/_/stat/downs/sort/fou...

And the probability of blocking such an attempt-

http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/team/_/stat/downs/sort/fou...

Teams have a less than 50% chance of making it on average, though of course specific teams and specific opponents will completely throw off that count, and such is what weighs on the minds of coaches making these decisions, having to do so outside of "if we were an entirely average team against an entirely average team..."
Unity now has support for proper 2D in the engine. See here: http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new
I HACKED my way into Google's Pagespeed Service w/o an invite (and you can too)
While reading I also noticed the '=alert("foo")' hack, and thought I'd be able to point it out first, but you beat me to it! Ah well, that could be fixed pretty easily if it were harmful enough.

I think it's time that we accept the browser as a platform development model. Now Apple has 'iWork for iCloud' and Google has had it's doc programs for a while.

Very good hack, very powerful idea.
In many states, if you write in a candidate for President that is not registered as a candidate in that state, your vote will be invalid, as if you hadn't filled it out at all or spilled ink across the entire thing.
You're right, but again, nobody ever got fired by buying IBM.
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Just be honest. In my case I tell them I'm currently the only full time employee but expect to grow over the next 12 months, but that doesn't have to be the case. I admit I sometimes feel like Smeagol when I use the term "we", but ultimately it helps preserve the delineation between the company entity and myself as its employee.
Or:

Voting legitimizes whatever atrocities your government commits
Symbolism is important: withdraw consent
Voting is the same as not voting, but with more time wasted
Dispiriting to other people, who have to tolerate the charade
Not materially adding to any percentages
Legitimizing the system by submitting to it's theatrical demands
Thinking independently etc.

Recommended:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-The-God-That-Failed-Economic...
No, I'm disagreeing with the statement that you don't need calculus as a statistician. You absolutely do. The expected value is an integral, and is the very first concept in stats / data analysis / whatever you want to call it.
Recommended:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-The-God-That-Failed-Economic...
Legitimate thing to wonder I suppose, also a decent ad hominem. I'll elaborate on my point:

You are always forced to make a choice - you can write in whomever you want, but you cannot opt to suspend the process and await alternatives. Your expression must always be in the positive, and never in the negative. The implicit attitude is "either offer an alternative or don't vote at all" - so many people opt not to vote.

For myself my attitude is something like: There seems to be a root problem within the political process. I don't know what it is. It seems to be rarely talked about. The options presented seem to be within a very narrow and oversimplified spectrum that ignores ambiguity and complexity of any kind. Rather than pick between a bunch of things I don't want or agree with I'll just not vote. Some people choose to vote under these circumstances citing the cynical position of "choosing between the lesser of two evils". I don't.
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Also, it's a poor fit due to latency.
I just downloaded the app. The design is strong. Not flashy, but polished.
It's not like that at all. Not smoking "that next cigarette," which we could define as not smoking any cigarette in the next 30 minutes, is a very important decision that has a very direct impact on whether they will quit long-term.
I was at an event with Peter Thiel this weekend, and he seems to think that the government will eventually do them in, if anything
Apparently that's true in California, but I don't see many such invalidation exceptions listed here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-in_candidate
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But still, your individual impact is probably too small to justify the physical act of voting.
Ssshh, pay no mind to the man behind the curtain.
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If not voting is the same as voting, then why not choose the option that doesn't require me to take time off from work and/or drive somewhere out of my way?
Unless you have sentimental value attached to places or teams, rugby union is similar and much more watchable.
If you're ever in need of more motivation, be sure to take a look at more posts on Neighborhood of Infinity. It's truly an inspiring blog!
I think being transported to the International Spaaaaaace Station [1] is one of the highest honors a commercial object of any kind can receive. I remember reading about it in this article [2].

Love the stuff, it's on the table in front of me now.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/n1Y7B.jpg
[2] http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-21/sriracha-hot...
He's been doing marketing for ages. Search back on HN a bit; every six months or so someone links to a new profile piece on him and his business. He's just really good at PR.
What mass market application uses real-time, high computation computing? Video games.

And windows still owns the PC gaming industry, though that it changing
This is aimed at business. I already know for sure that my work computer, email, chat, etc can be read at will by my IT department. They can also hand over absolutely all of it to law enforcement at the slightest whiff of liability. So, really the NSA business is not relevnt.
>the baseband can control everything
Why would that be the case? Baseband in this case refers to a frequency, eg taking data(audio, SMS, etc) and mod/demodulating it. It should take raw data at the bottom of the OSI model and prep it for the RF front end, and vice versa. I may absolutely be wrong, but it doesn't have any connection to the microphone other than receiving preprocessed digital audio from the application processor. Look at the interface for an e.g TI cc2500, that's the sort of device that's being discussed
you can write in whomever you want, but you cannot opt to suspend the process and await alternatives

Ah, it was not clear you meant, an option to reject the candidates and hold another election.

also a decent ad hominem

Aww, shucks :)
I actually really like the interface of pressing a number to instantly open a search result.
I was at an event with VC Peter Thiel (founders fund) over the weekend. Someone asked him to contribute to a charitable event during the Q&A. He made the point clear: If you want me to do something for you, come through a trusted friend. I only invest personally if you've been recommended by a trusted friend.
In many organizations with a "NOTA" option in their elections, if NOTA wins then the election is held over again with none of the previous candidates eligible to run.
I can't find a plain old list, but this Google search is a start: https://www.google.com/search?q=Intent+to+be+a+Write-in+Cand....
Proving a false equivocation wrong doesn't help your case.

There's a big difference between being charged with a felony for insider trading and then lying to regulators about it (Martha Stewart) and Aaron's case which was clearly an overly aggressive prosecution.

Martha Stewart also went to jail worth hundreds of millions and came out a billionaire[0]. Aaron had had his personal wealth bled dry so his prospects of life after jail were very different from Martha Stewart's. He didn't have anywhere near her resources to fight back legally. Also, for her pleading guilty only meant that she agreed that insider trading and lying are wrong, pleading guilty for Aaron Swartz would be saying that everything he fought for was wrong, essentially agreeing that who he was was wrong.

Martha Stewart's half-year in jail and felony conviction was wildly different from Aaron Swartz's and seeing them compared is very disappointing.

[0] - http://www.biography.com/people/martha-stewart-9542234
For those who are in NY, you should check out Whisk at whisk.me: it's like Uber, but we have realtime pricing info during the ride, like a taxi! And our prices are cheaper too.

Disclosure: I'm a developer at Whisk.
I've only had one serious issue w/ Uber requiring customer service. We were in Berkeley -- which is not a city I know very well -- and asked to be taken to the nearest BART station for our ride back into the city.

It seemed to take longer than I expected, and sure enough when I got the Uber receipt, it was plain as day: We literally drove right by the Downtown Berkeley station north a ways to the North Berkeley station. It was galling to see it presented on their trip map. I don't blame the guy for not knowing the area that well I guess, I just didn't want to pay for it. They gave me a $20 credit to my account which was just a few bucks less than the entire ride that night. All in all I was pleased. The response took a bit more than 24 hours.
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An individual raindrop doesn't noticeably change the rainfall totals but we still have flash floods.
Perhaps it simply isn't profitable?

Motorola still hasn't posted a profit since Google's purchase. I don't see how this product is going to turn those tables.

It could be they will simply become Google's hardware R&D arm and effectively a cost-center.
this news story is at least 3 years old, also high school football is wacky
timeless decision theory: if you decide to smoke a cigarette in this situation it is likely that you will decide to smoke a cigarette in all similar situations.
Just to push you further in the right direction - you need to decide what you want the email to accomplish. It should do that and no more.

Often you want them to arrange a consultation with you. So they just need a taster of your solution that will leave them curious for more in person where you can still adapt it to their requirements.

Once they are sold, stop selling and go for the close. Otherwise you might talk them out of it.

Respect their time and keep communications short. That way they'll read every word.
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should be easy with flexbox (crossbrowser possible)

simple demo: http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/vertic...
The argument could be made that 2nd acts in tech rarely go well. See youtube founder getting sued by Kanye and others. There are of course exceptions.

Does anyone know the name of the instagram founders? Not really. They got money but only a little fame. If Evan sells out then maybe he is less known. Gamble but a chance at legendary status.
Essentially all electronics are more expensive in Brazil, due to hefty import duties.
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Also reminds me of when Genie offered gopher access (also old).
Outside of the Google-like lack of customer service, I am perplexed as to the software bug that led to such a bizarre calculation.
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Have a lower rate "partners" who can maintain the code once it's clean?
It would be very 'premium' if it supported Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) right out of the box. The specs only mention Bluetooth 4.0, but sadly that's not enough for real BLE support on Android pre 4.4 KitKat. An unexpensive Android smartphone that works with my Fitbit Flex and other BLE devices would be awesome.
Tragedy of the Commons?
how far away is this very realistic $1 trillion market cap? 2 decades, longer?
Could you elaborate on why is it more watchable?
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Ah, I did not immediately realize this was made by the same person(s).
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The only case that this makes sense for is the case of people borrowing money to access medical services (as per the original article). Though people shouldn't have to get into debt that they have no hope of repaying to access medical services. That's a problem with the health system, not something that fall under the debt market. Ultimately it seems that if you don't pay for health services through taxes, then you pay for it through other means (e.g. paying higher interest rates to the banks when you take out a loan to buy your house)
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Ah, thanks for the correction. I'd hoped we had finally got beyond "only works in IEx".

Presumably it's upgradeable...
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I did read your comments, and I still think that you're making sass out to be entirely more complicated than it has to be. It's somewhat clear from your comments that you never gave css preprocessors a fair shake. There is no 'associated tooling' with sass. It's just a preprocessor. It doesn't need to integrate with your IDE (doing so would be somewhat pointless, IMO). You just invoke it from the CL and let it do it's thing. It really couldn't be any easier.

All of your problems are actually easily solvable, but it'd be rather pointless to use sass on a project that only has 5000 lines of css anyways. About as pointless as commenting on a thread about a technology you don't really understand to say that you "refuse to use" it, then trying to prove everyone wrong for pointing out that your issues with it are actually either not actually issues with the technology or have trivial solutions (i.e. you're not the first person to run into these issues).
I'm wondering if a lot of moving their products to the cloud is to limit or try to stop pirating of their software. Adobe has been successful thus far with their new Creative Cloud platform.
RAR archives also contain a virtual machine used to implement custom compression filters: http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2012/09/fun-with-constrained-progr...
We prefer hiring consultants who bill us as a business rather than as an individual. It's risky and more costly hiring and paying an individual consultant:

* If an individual consultant gets injured, we'd have to pay the individual's worker's comp/unemployment benefits.

* When it's B2B, we don't have to worry about 'tax nexus'. If we're based in NY and hire an individual in California, we now have to register and pay some tax in state of California. Hiring a business erases that responsibility.

* The consultants who have a business are usually more serious and mature. Invoices are cleaner and the experience is more professional all around. Sounds cliche but it's true.

Edit: formatting
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That's not quite equivalent. An eligible voter not voting might be one who didn't have time to get their drivers licence address updated, or who didn't have time between work and looking after kids to go to the polls, or who was unexpectedly sick, or who didn't care enough to know what was being voted on, or who didn't like any of the options. A voter who voted and said 'None of you' has provably made an affirmative choice to say they don't like any of the options.
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> Not that interesting as a language anymore, but more useful in practice.

I think Rust is still pretty interesting. The borrow checker is extremely intricate and is completely unlike anything seen in any industry language so far.
The kernel. On linux for instance, this

$ ps aux | grep acpi

turns up the following kernel process on my machine:

root 663 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Oct29 0:00 [ktpacpid]
What an incredible waste of paper! Everybody knows picard is better than kirk!
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A more rational explanation could be: this vote will significantly and directly impact your local elections (school board president, Sheriff, alderman, whatever) which does actually impact you whether you believe it or not.

When you go to the polls, then just happen to vote for national candidate or your state candidates because they're there. If that fails, I always fall back to: it is your duty as a citizen to make your voice heard, and if you don't vote you are abdicating your right to complain later or engage in any sort of civic discussion.
That line has been running for over 2 millennia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecunia_non_olet
I think an argument can be made that smoking another cigarette today will increase the odds of you smoking another cigarette tomorrow (And the day after, and so on) - which could a large effect on your health.

Alas, the same cannot be said for voting.
I'm assuming you're talking about a PDF-style resume, right? If you're talking about building a web-based resume, then the list should point to concrete things that you've built, and where possible, links to Github -- even to actual files. I'm not saying this as an expert in recruiting, just saying that show, don't tell applies to resumes as it does to any other form of salesmenship...and web devs have a very special advantage in this area and should exploit it to the full.

But PDF resumes are often necessary for corporate jobs that have a defined process...either a literal one-pager PDF, or something that is basically arranged like one (i.e. you fill out an online form with text fields)...Looking at my Word.doc resume, which I haven't touched in a year...here's what I wrote under the subhead of "Programming"

> Programming: Proficient in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Javascript, ActionScript (Flash), and relational databases (MySQL)

Uh, OK, that's obviously not great, but I was applying for a general-purpose type of job in which the resume-reader was not a tech person.

However, the "show-don't-tell" parts of the resume were written like this...I don't talk about years of experience, or even how much time I spent on a project...I like to focus on what was actually deployed (and what reaction I got, if any)...in the example below, it should be obvious that my back-end work was more involved than the front-end part, because I don't have much to say other than "I used jQuery"...

--

SOPA Opera (http://projects.propublica.org/sopa): This was a Ruby on Rails 3.x site I built to serve as an clearinghouse of information on the proposed "Stop Online Piracy Act" legislation, with landing pages for every state and every Congressmember.

I wrote Ruby scripts to gather and process legislative data from numerous sources, including Congress.gov, campaign finance data from OpenSecrets, and the New York Times' Congress API and designed the site architecture so that I could singlehandedly administer it using Google Spreadsheets, while using MySQL as the database.

I also did virtually all of the front-end coding and design, including the use of jQuery plugins to allow users to interactively sort and filter the data.

I initially launched the site as a side project, deploying it as a flat-file site on Amazon S3, where through word-of-mouth alone, it received about 150,000 page views (and emails from Congressional staff) in its first week. When we re-launched it from ProPublica, it received as many as a million pageviews in a single day. The Google Spreadsheets-backed CMS allowed me to easily update legislators' positions on SOPA from the hundreds of constituents who emailed and called me.

---

(This was on the supplementary section of the resume...so for a situation in which you have to compress onto one page, obviously, bullet-point the most important and most concrete sentences)
Thanks for sharing this book...and the Latin!

Links for both below if anyone else is interested:

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casus_belli
I really likes the forum and provides very useful information from the experienced people. Please keep it.
In my case, the driver took the correct route, but his GPS was way off, not locking in properly. Sent an email and was refunded the next day for the difference in actual vs reported route.
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You want to introduce a higher, linear cost structure just so users who don't have the hardware can play the game? I can see the excitement of solving that as a technical problem.

What I can't see, however, is a huge hole in the marketplace that is underserved which would justify the additional risk. This is not a "service," because it fundamentally changes your business model.
(Also not a lawyer... just someone who has run a single-person "cute freelancing" or "professional services" company for almost a decade now)

Not sure what you mean by "it's a big deal". It's critically important to keep the LLC's finances completely separate from... but the effort to do so is not that high.

My limited understanding is that this varies from state to state, but at least in California, all that's really required is for you to have a separate business checking or savings account, and that receipts should be deposited there, and expenses should be paid from there.

Having a separate Federal Tax ID isn't even required in California, although it is definitely highly recommended. And at least in terms of trying to get a business banking account, many banks will require it.

And @jtbigwoo, you can have a single-person LLC that is "disregarded" as a separate tax entity from the IRS's point of view, which means any revenue to the LLC would show up in your personal income tax (on a Schedule C), known as "flow thru" accounting. That means that no, you don't necessarily have to pay separate dividends and stuff just because you are an LLC.
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Buy a lottery ticket on your way back from the polls.

That way you have a higher chance of changing your life.
How do you get the 1.1 update for the ZTE Open? Does it need to be downloaded over the air, i.e., won't work if you're using the Open with wifi only?
where is the link?? I can't see anything
In Chicago, I left my phone in a Black Car at 9 Am. After realizing this half an hour later, I put in a ticket to customer service with the name of the driver. Ten minutes later, Nicole from Chicago's community management team emailed back with the drivers number. I was able to call the driver and he returned it immediately.

I was incredibly impressed by the response time and helpfulness of both the driver whose name escapes and the Chicago community team/Nicole.
I'd say the question most germane to this post is do you have a phone number for people who need support? or do you at least have an SLA on your email support?