skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody trusted the election results so we built a crowdsourced validation
Hello, I wanted to share this project we suddenly built last week after the Honduran elections, it's aimed to provide transparency to the tally sheet count for the Honduran elections. The project is http://conteo.votosocial.org/ (it’s in spanish), a crowdsourced solution where we crawled the tally sheet scans from the official government platform and moved it to our own storage (in order to prevent tampering) then asked people to login with Facebook and start typing the values for each sheet, also asked 3 different people to validate each sheet. If you find an error you can correct the sheet and the validation count starts again. All changes are logged.

Honduras had elections the past November 24. We elect the president, 298 majors and 128 congressmen during the same election day every 4 years. A few hours after the voting closed the official elections institution, named TSE, presented the first results for the presidential elections having as the probable winner Juan Orlando, the candidate for the governing party Nacional with a lead of 37% then Xiomara(wife of a coup deposed presidente Mel Zelaya) with 28%.

People complained on social media that the system wasn’t counting correctly, sheets were tampered and some were ignored.

We wanted to validate ourselves, we didn’t want to have the doubt. We built it in about 24 hours of coding plus some more for testing 2 days after the election day. By Thursday in about 10 hours all sheets that we had in our power were entered by about 1.2K users, we repeated the process yesterday so we now have 96.91% of the tally sheets counted.

Up to now our results show a slightly different result but still the governing party wins the election with 35% vs 27%. Not what people expected to find a fraud in the system but at least we brought transparency to the process. We also made the code open source.

Hope you like it and feedback is welcomed!
I suspect most parents hate pink, though - they just give in to the wishes of their daughters.
If she is friends with even just one girl that likes pink, she has someone to copy from (share with, whatever).

I would also guess that there are individuals that she prefers as friends in the play group (so a survey might not be very revealing).
AMA Request: Chris Wood
It sounds like you have some eye issues or perhaps it's just aging. Try readability, it's great for older folks.

You should avoid magazines though, they often have similar designs yet lack a real world "readability" :)

http://www.readability.com/
Similar here. I think a major contributor are other social influences other than myself and wife - most notably friends at kindergarden/school, and teachers there, too.

There's much subtle influence that isn't obvious at first, at least wasn't to me. For example, notice how many people (say, neighbours or more importantly, grandparents or other relatives) will often congratulate little girls to being really pretty as the first thing that comes out of their mouthes. Not that they're deliberately trying to influence the girls, but it's sort of "default" boilerplate smalltalk with girls, say how pretty they are and how nice their dress is. Certainly that will affect their perception of themselves, what is pretty, what they want to buy...

Edit: just found the (oldish) opinion piece on huffpost [1] that originally got me thinking about just that last point

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/how-to-talk-to-litt...
What I meant was what if an F1 team of designers didn't have to be constrained by any rules and could build their dream F1 car.
For example, there was one car a couple of decades ago (I think early 80's maybe?) that used a sort of vaccum effect to keep the car sucked to the ground. It improved cornering speeds greatly, but the device was banned.

I googled some and found this:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=598933&hw...

Couldn't find a link to the original article though. Pretty interesting.
If you are investing for the long-term (i.e. holding for years) then who is your competition? Mutual funds and hedge funds are totally focused on their quarterly returns. Traders are measured in much shorter time frames. How many professional investors are investing for years? Warren Buffett, university endowments and pension funds [1], rich family funds, and other niches you don't hear about on CNBC. Perhaps the reason index investing works is because it forces people to invest for the long-term and avoid all the cognitive errors you mentioned.

[1]: Most of these are run by morons. They are suckers for Wall St. sharks in expensive suits.
When not having those animals around improves the lives of millions of people?
> As someone who has done integration with Iridium and Inmarsat for the NSF

USAP vessels?
Are you a designer (serious question)?
Yep, gamer girls = supremely attractive! I always get jealous of gamer couples i encounter on real life and online. My own gf is a hardcode mobile gamer (there hasnt been a single app game that i can beat her at. and i have been gaming all my life!) But i wish she'd try the more complex games... like FPS or top-down strategy or atleast LoL!!
Things which aren't useless also die out.
After watching the movie, I realized I wouldn't want to work there if the corporate culture was truly the way it is depicted in the movie.
ShowHN: Should you be on a statin?
Flywheel Co-founder Rick Knudtson on Humanizing Hosting
Diamonds.

> Americans exchange diamond rings as part of the engagement process, because in 1938 De Beers decided that they would like us to. Prior to a stunningly successful marketing campaign 1938, Americans occasionally exchanged engagement rings, but wasn’t a pervasive occurrence.

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/45768546804/diamonds-are-b...

I think it's naive to think that marketing doesn't in some way shape and reinforce what one thinks is "normal".
You're an idiot, you need to be banned
The crucial bit is that the public had almost no way of knowing if a game was even playable before buying. Complete opposite today, except for people who preorder every big name game and are likely satisfied regardless.

I can see some resemblance in the freemium market - consumer awareness and protections have not caught up with how bad everyone is getting gypped.
The Science Behind Kinects or Kinect 1.0 versus 2.0
What are you spending on S3? I can very nearly guarantee you could get a bare metal setup from just about anywhere for about 1/10th the cost.
Salvatore (antirez) had a nice pithy response to that:

oh, static systems are for people that don't have fast databases ;-)

https://twitter.com/antirez/status/407184116275503104
That's NASCAR, not F1.

In F1 you see real cars, doing real curves, not the thing NASCAR does like having a car that only could turn one way.

In F1 you see cars going through the streets of Monaco or Valencia, or German circuits that you could race yourself with your own car. BTW I do it.
College says time’s up for cheaters, bans all watch-wearing during exams
R.I.P. GlassFish - Thanks for all the fish.
British humor is quite different from American humor. This seems more in line with the company trying to be funny rather than the overtly sexist gesture it appears to be at first glance. Not saying it isn't sexist, but it seems like an attempt at humor which may be lost on those who aren't quite familiar with British humor.
The photo is sexist, not misogynistic.
I'm not sure, I think only the theory that some people are left or right-brained has been debunked. And that there is a strict separation of concerns. IIRC stuff like language processing is still >50% done in the left brain half.

But I can't find any relevant studies I'd understand on Google Scholar right now so I might be wrong. And as I'm a layman take this with a grain (or more) of salt ;)
Okay, so girls get princesses and My Little Pony. Now listen to what they do with them. My 3 year old is in the next room playing playing with her My Little Pony dolls right now. Story lines more complex than the typical evening sitcom. Action and violence. Shouting and passion. They are learning story telling and narrative. And the narrative is not all tea parties. If the toys do not inherently give them plots and conflicts, they will build it up for themselves.
Advertising can perform a signalling function without anybody involved being irrational.
Anything goes does not exist in a vacuum though, there's over-the-top regulations aiming at a specific goal (here, driving research on efficiency) and there's what you want to achieve within a set of basic rules (e.g drag race, best lap, best 10 laps, max laps under 24h...).

Take for example LMP, which used to go well above 400kph, but not so much car regulations as much as track regulations made that impossible/useless (e.g old Mulsanne Straight), designing top speed out of the cars because it simply was too dangerous. Mulsanne now has a brake zone from ~320kph down to ~100kph, much more humanly manageable.

More downforce also means more drag, and for LMP's long running races this means too high a fuel consumption. Also, ground effects and closed body vs open wheels. Reliability (or lack thereof) is on the F1 side since LMP has to run hundreds of long laps, while a F1, even with "X races per engine" rules has to run continuously for a couple hours at most. Lift such a regulation and you could make a bloody efficient engine that self-destructs over a single race.

LMP have a minimum regulated weight of ~900kg, and as every fellow driver knows, "weight is the enemy of performance". Barring that, and tuned to the problem, LMP would kick the pants off a F1 because F1 is (comparatively) insanely regulated.

The beauty of F1 is that it achieves incredible performance in spite of suffering extremely limiting regulations. My bet is that lifting all regulations would quickly put the human as the sole limiting factor to performance, because the poor pilot of a guy would be on the verge of passing out at braking and inside every corner, unless they're on a balancing seat and have anti-g suits.
So, are we going to reverse-judge the 70's now? I'd rather have this than a bunch of obese neckbeards wearing Unix T-shirts promoting working in IT.
Just think of two opposing theories. One account scribes that humans are not rational thinkers, our actions constitutes of the stimuli around us. We can be pursued against our best interest.

The other accounts for humans having 'free will'. Our free will explains our rational thinking, we will always maximize our utility. Advertizement has no effect if it doesn't meet our utility.

Now if you thing about those two theories and compare them. Look at evidences for either ones and evaluate their validity, surely you must come to the conclusion that either we humans are special in nature of being able not to respond to stimuli due to some 'free will apparatus' or, more likely, marketing agents have the ability to control us. Or at least, by Okham's razor, the media explanation is the more plausible one.
25 free, scrolling plugins for awesome experiences 
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" very surprised " - seriously, considering the number of JS fans here? Post something like "[any old/boring stuff] - but in JS/WebGL/HTML/CSS now!" and you will get at least a hundred votes.
Any idea on the number of attendees? i.e. is this expected to be just a very small local meetup? Interested but would need to make extensive travel arrangements asap.
i have to admit i do mildly write it off as yet another hipster language we don't want or need... but i do have a curiosity to see what all the fuss is about.

i can imagine a fair amount of negativity coming from app and system developers thinking "oh god, not yet another story about yet another hipster web dev language we don't need... yet again! when will web developers ever learn! when will i get a language /i/ want..."

i'm sure it is great for some domain, but i've yet to really play with it or find myself wanting it somewhere.

to be fair, most of my language excursions away from c and c++ are from either pure curiosity or a platform holder ramming it down my throat.
I think this image illustrates a problem with our industry that would have made me think twice about becoming a programmer: I don't know about everyone else here, but I have a heck of a time getting any work done with the beautiful women perching themselves on my desk. I've tried everything, but they just keep roosting there.
An interesting little bit of trivia: in Taiwan the years are still counted since the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party took power in China in 1911, making this year year 102, for example. Oh, and of course they mix it with the "western" years too. So e.g. my birth year of 1980 is occasionally written on documents as 1980, as 80, as 69. Hilarity ensues.

The parallel with Mussolini (ie. being far right as well) is not lost on me, though. Food for thought.
closure kicks uglify for size when compiling with advanced optimisations.
Unfortunately, the presence of a bridge is necessary, but not sufficient. Think knots.
Without the excitement generated by the tyres these last few seasons the sport would have been as boring as during the Schumacher days (and I say that as a Ferrari supporter). Vettel was able to run away at the front but we still got exciting racing further down the grid. I think the tyres unfairly penalise some drivers (because their driving style doesn't suit them) but you can't deny they've made races that could have been incredibly boring more exciting. Not to mention the fact that because we've taken away refuelling, if the tyres were made as good as they could be, pit-stops and strategy would pretty much be taken out of the sport.
How a top investigative team makes its stories stick
Actually, I think they wanted to highlight the salary offered. ;-)
SkyJack - autonomous drone hacking
You're right, we need more posts about Bitcoin and Something.js.
Do Base Layers keep you warm?
The point OP made is the opposite.

Everyone already thinks marketing shapes our idea of what is "normal". The question is "Does it really do this?"
Donate them to http://freesound.org/
Without fsync, its effectively that; but you get atomicity (with unlink etc) and can use multi process etc.
Apple Patents Face Recognition Tech For Enhanced iPhones
If that photo is NSFW it means you should really not open any photos at work. And probably not be on HN even.
> a sort of vaccum effect to keep the car sucked to the ground

Ground effect[0], thoroughly used in LMP to gain downforce without suffering as much drag as with a wing.

Here's what happens when the effect breaks down[1].

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(cars)

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIJ4q3PD57A
Yes, but the Moto G isn't being marketed for that - consumers don't even know that usage is possible. Unadvertised features don't exist.
"something more elegant will become the next 'enterprise standard'" - C# is both.
I got the impression that we both read completely different articles, because nowhere in it I see EWD saying that mathematicians or scientists should think by means of formal methods... That doesn't even make sense, since formal methods are a way not to think.

What he states is that computers are a "formal method applying machine" (a conclusion you seem to share), and that for competently using it, one must know formal methods. And, honestly, I can't imagine how one can disagree with that. (And that was the fate of EWD, he saw all the patently obvious problems of computing science that somehow everybody was ignoring, and communicated them, just to be called a crazy radical at first, and "duh, of course it's right, tell me something not obvious next time" later.)
Building a Twelve Factor App in Golang
"two weeks after coming from[sic] Javascript"

Is this not an ad hominem attack? The original post writer joked about Scala syntax giving him a headache. I too felt the same way the three times I've briefly looked at Scala. I think some of the points made in that post were valid.
Whoa. Programmed into our DNA, that's a pretty extraordinary claim. Consider feral children:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_children#Reality

http://planetark.org/wen/53118

> "When carers leave the room, the girl jumps at the door and barks," the police said.

An extreme example I admit, but if it's preprogrammed into out DNA shouldn't she be "caring for things" instead?
Maybe they're going for something extremely minimalistic.
The interesting bit here is the development of the turbochargers. This is an area that has been slow to change over the years, due to the small amount of turbocharged vehicles available new[1]. Most turbos are used in heavy machinery (garbage trucks, big rigs, etc.), a slowly changing industry. They do not face the same regulations as regular autos.

Seems they are doing away with the wastegate and replacing it with an electric motor. Using the energy of the engine exhaust to generate electricity. This energy is normally lost or wasted on a typical turbocharged or naturally aspirated engine. The interesting part is that wastegates are simple flow valves that control how much exhaust gasses go through the turbo's turbine. Doing away with the wastegate means that they will be limiting the amount of airflow that goes into the engine in some other way. I doubt that they are using all of the boost that the turbo creates, because it would be a risky proposition to do so. Changes in ambient temperature would greatly impact the fuel delivery system. Not to mention it would increase the possibility of the fuel pre-igniting inside the combustion chamber.

There have been developments in the turbocharger industry, most have been in the way of better materials and turbine/compressor blade designs. I know that Garret (a manufacturer of turbos) has developed a turbocharger with a built-in electric motor. The motor is used to eliminate lag by spinning the turbocharger to a pre-defined RPM. Turbo lag is simply the period of time that it takes a turbocharger to spin up to the speed and start producing boost (back pressure inside the engine). By having an electric motor spin the turbo to a given setting, turbo lag is eliminated, and fuel economy is improved. How may fuel economy be improved? In many vehicles, turbo lag is fought against through the fuel maps (the amount of fuel deliver at a given RPM point). In cases, more fuel is fed to the engine to increase the expansion of the exhaust gases. An exhaust gas that has more unburned fuel in itself will burn most of that excess in the high temperature area between the engine block and the turbocharger. This expansion greatly increases the turbo speed. Though this comes at a cost of higher exhaust emissions, and lower fuel economy.

There have been developments into a new type of turbocharging system. Where the turbo unit is driven by by a hydraulic pump, rather than the engine exhaust. In this system, the turbo speed would rise by increasing the pump speed. For some reason this never reached production. But it could have revolutionized the industry. In a way, having an electric motor in place of the wastegate might turn out to provide the same benefits this system would have provided to passenger autos. Being able to re-capture energy lost in the exhaust system would be a win in terms of efficency.

[1] In the USA market. There are plenty of turbocharged diesel autos in the rest of the world. They are not common in the USA, though.
Absolutely. Tire management is important, but it should not be essential. Reckless breaking with wheels locked should have its consequences. I'd rather see wheel to wheel action than listen to the comments about how this guy in a second place will have to save his tires and give up positions to score a few points.
I don't know when I think about how the F1 car can drive upside down it almost makes me want to see these awesome 3D tracks where cars do all sorts of death defying racing and tracks that we have seen in science fiction become possible because advance AIs are so much faster.

Maybe people would want to watch it on video or even VR so it seems like they are actually there. Who knows if done right it could be a better experience then looking at 1 piece of a race track for hours.
> Jesus, could he be any more smug?

Funny that I think that statement is extremely humble.
Ask HN: 70% of Salary all the time, 30% if a company meets its projections... 
Friend of mine applied to this place which has a strange salary payout scheme.

You get 70% of your salary paid like normal, once every two weeks.

You get paid 30% of your salary only IF the company meets its projections/goals every quarter.

That's crazy right? Would you take a job like that?
Dependencies with Python: a bit of history
Gay people. There are considerably more open gay people today than 50 or 100 years ago.

Either there are more gay people naturally today, or the societal pressures 50 to 100 years ago to marginalise gay people were successful and were able to convince lots of people to stay in the closet.

If society can do that to gay people, can the same happen to gender roles?
Or printing out and handing it over.
Agreed, Covariance / Contravariance was a fantastic feature to borrow from C#! It just should have been implemented to be friendlier to people new to language.
> On which OS is crossing the process boundary expensive?

All of them, always. It's either expensive in terms of resource cost (requiring serialization and complex local IPC overhead), or expensive in terms of complexity (requiring shared memory and inter-process coordination).
Please don't do a serious website without a container div limiting the width of the reading area. Most people with laptops keep their browser windows maximized, and resizing the window just to read one article is a huge pain in the ass. I usually just decide not to bother. Otherwise that website's great.
SQL is based on Set theory.
http://seanmehan.globat.com/blog/2011/12/20/set-theory-and-s...
That's not strictly true. Refuelling was allowed (or, more accurately, it wasn't banned) from 1950 (the first F1 world championship) thru 1983. Fangio did a deliberate pitstop during his famous win at the Nürburgring in 1957 [1].

However, it appears that it wasn't until 1983 that a team (Brabham) deliberately built a car with a tank too small to hold enough fuel to finish a race [2]. Brabham went on to win the 1983 championship and refuelling was banned from 1984.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_German_Grand_Prix
[2]: http://www.formula1-dictionary.net/refueling.html
Making churn an actionable metric
I thought the more important point was how much these differences were in the eye of the beholder rather than actual objective facts.

For example, the various farm sim, candy crush, peggle, word game, social things that many "non-gamer" women in my life seem obsessed by get quietly excluded from discussions about games and gamers because they don't fit the stereotype.

Similarly, Barbie is a "doll", she lives in a "doll house", and boys don't play with dolls or doll houses. No, the small minature people my son plays with are action figures and have "bases", or are "knights" and have "castles", or are lego people, who do have houses (though usually of fairly avant-garde design). Could you explain to a martian why these are supposedly such different activities that were encoded for back in the hunter-gatherer days?
Makes me think of this, obviously causation != correlation but it's a funny graph1[1] nontheless.

[1]http://blog.sid3windr.be/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/crimegam...
India seeks US help to intercept chats from online platforms