skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'It is because "approval", unlike relative preference, doesn't have a consistent meaning across different ballots (which is why it isn't a poor choice in open-ballots where it has a defined meaning, like a commitment to opt-in to the result where otherwise there is an option to opt-out.)'

There is a technical sense in which that's correct, but you're reading more into it than is there. Both approval and ranked choice methods have consistent meaning across ballots when the meaning is taken to be the impact on the election. Neither method expresses how much one candidate is preferred to another.

"Plurality is also a bad choice for most political elections. Or, for that matter, most elections of any kind. But if you are changing from plurality, approval is about the worst change you could make[.]"

I'm not sure I strongly disagree with this, when considering only the act of voting and the theoretical results. I do see the gap between plurality and approval, here, as far larger than the gap between approval and ranked choice (plurality is both a scoring method and a ranked method and so has all the theoretical problems of both). And I do think that other practical concerns are tremendously significant and favor approval (as I mentioned in the previous comment and elaborate on below) over ranked methods.

"I personally have no problem with democracy requiring expecting citizens to deal with concepts more complex than approval voting, since, actually, most of the things they are voting on are things more complex than approval voting."

First and most trivially: otherwise accepting your argument here, your comparison shouldn't be to the complexity of approval voting, but to the complexity of the proposed alternative.

Second (most significantly), I don't mean, mostly, "O NOES VOTERS WILL GET CONFUSED". I mean that counting ranked choice ballots is tremendously ugly compared to counting approval ballots. You have 10 candidates? You're tallying instances of 3.6 million possible ballots! The number that will actually be represented will surely be a fraction of that, but even so this is going to involve more (and uglier) mistakes and more opportunities for fraud (and appearance of fraud) because the system is so much more complicated. Further, running statistical analysis of IRV elections is, in practice, significantly harder than doing the same of other methods (say my connections in opinion research) though this could arguably be a feature.

Third, just because we're hoping they're able to deal with more complex issues doesn't mean adding complexity is a good thing. Complexity typically stacks. If there is a maximum complexity people can deal with, adding more in one place is going to reduce the amount they deal effectively with elsewhere.
Absolutely! Prior to this experiment we spent nearly two months talking to customers/partners of all sizes.

The details of that period would make a great follow-up blog post.
a) These articles and discussions of them routinely talk about homeless people in very negative terms that are akin to racism, sexism, or similar. I find that personally frustrating because my status as a homeless person gets used as an excuse to be dismissive of me personally. I feel that is one of my biggest issues as a person on the street. I can manage to keep myself safe, fed, etc. But the stigma when people realize I am homeless causes me problems. I get looked upon with suspicion, etc. This is true both online and off. (Yes, I realize I could in theory keep my big mouth shut about my housing situation online. I have my reasons why I don't.)

b) There is no similarity between me ripping out carpets and her threats to burn the building down. The similarity in my mind is that the housing itself was problematic for reasons that are largely out of the hands of both tenant and landlord. In her case, she was in an illegal rental, without proper egress, it's own electric bill, etc. According to the article, such places may account for 10% of the rental stock in SF. To me, that indicates a systemic problem, not specifically about this woman or her landlord.

I was training at one time to be an urban planner. I think this is an issue of local laws and policies as well as federal laws and policies.
Assuming that is the argument my counter argument would be that making a Linux version involves more than a checkbox; you now have extra platforms you need to test on and extra complexity in supporting your game in return for very little benefit. If there are issues on the new platform you then need dev time to address them; Unity might support multiple platforms but that doesn't guarantee your code will 100% work everywhere.

If steambox provides a known Linux environment with users wanting games it becomes a much better proposition to make a Linux version, even if official support is only for Steam Linux and not Linux in general.
Red Hat: We've got a corker for Docker Linux
Ah, I see what you're concerned about. The implied structure there is something like:

In the wake of Flappy Bird's demise, rumors spread:
Nguyen had committed suicide; Nintendo was suing
him; he'd received death threats. His refusal to
speak fueled the speculation even more.

But their approach has more literary force, so I think what they did was a reasonable author's choice, not an editing error.
This doesn't smell like a core component in Google's long term strategy. It's a great idea for Google's users but not really for their important customers [advertisers]. While there is certainly money to be made, a startup would be at the mercy of Google's whims and changes to product direction.

I'd gauge Google's ambivalence of commitment by the fact that seven years ago this sort of model could have been implemented. But it wasn't and there isn't some new technology that is driving it now nor is there a red blooded eeffort behind it. Avery has been providing label printing support for word processor software at least since DOS versions of WordPerfect.
Wouldn't that be trivial to detect for their spam filters?
Why would you lower the voting age? What would this achieve?
This is a frustrating article the author presents numerous case studies but hasn't put together any long term and wide ranging data to address the disease. The only thing he seems to be saying concretely is that few patients that he saw in his practice presented the disorder. This doesnt really add anything new to the adhd discussion.
UPDATE:

London Film Productions Ltd. v. Intercontinental Communications, Inc. found jurisdiction for a US district court in a case with a British plaintiff, a US defendant, where the infringement took place in several Latin American jurisdictions.

However, the court only took the case because it was found there would be an enormous hardship to force the plaintiff to pursue relief in several foreign jurisdictions. And note, the US federal court still applied the laws of those countries, because the legal jurisdiction remains the place where the alleged infringement takes place.

Also note, "The Second Circuit has seemingly disavowed London Films Productions’ approach, rejecting plaintiff’s reliance on that opinion in Murray v. BBC, 82 F.3d 287, 293 (2d Cir. 1986). with the dismissive remark: “We are, quite frankly, at a loss to see how this lawsuit has any but the most attenuated American connection,” a comment that applies even more strongly to London Films."

Further critical analysis of London Films here:
http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2006/05/copyright-is-not-tr...
Raspberry Pi port anyone?
How hard would it be to make this support LTSV[1]? I configure all of my apache servers to log in a LTSV style format as it makes for trivial parsing using splunk or elasticsearch + kibana

[1] http://ltsv.org
Well, it's not like the unlit parts must be completely black.

Having some dynamic lighting does not mean that you must make it part of your game's mechanics. It's perfectly fine to do that kind of thing just for polish.
> Just reading the rest of the article, it seems like ya'll don't know a whole lot about patent law.

Nonsense. This is HackerNews, where writing some half-baked website code makes you an expert in both business and law
I upvoted this because I want that to happen, but I'm still very disappointed with Tim Berners-Lee for supporting DRM on the web, and worse still (in the long run), bringing MPAA on the W3C board. I don't know how someone who's usually fighted for Internet freedom and such can do those things.
That reminds me of the payola concept where record labels would buy CDs to bolster first week record sales.
Alert the media! Someone writes an article stating the obvious, revealing Big Pharma's effect on psychiatry and clinical psychology and asserting the uncontroversial idea that ADHD is an invention meant to promote drug sales.

With one difference -- the author isn't a science journalist, he's a doctor with direct experience trying to treat ADHD over a period of decades.

A quote: " ... after 50 years of practising medicine and seeing thousands of patients demonstrating symptoms of ADHD, I have reached the conclusion there is no such thing as ADHD."

Couldn't have said it better myself.
Slight quibble: seniors get Medicare, not Medicaid.

Medicaid is for lower-income folks and the disabled, except some disabled who get Medicare.

However, you can be eligible for both (so called-dual eligibles).

...I'll see myself out....
Might be worth mentioning to reload the browser tab once installing the plugin. The new window didn't work as designed when I clicked Save and Run the first time. Worked fine when I opened a new tab to https://twitter.com/?followr=true

Interesting concept and I appreciate the idea of finding a more intelligent, less spammy way to use bots.
I willing to bet the landlord would have paid for uber and the ticket.
Great article and reinforces just how much work we need to do to help our communities
Not at all, you're reading way too much into what I wrote.

Romney is an empty suit: that doesn't mean that Ron Paul is. Ron Paul was the only serious anti-war candidate. Given a chance, I would have voted for him.
A third major reason is fashion. People want to incorporate, and they look and see a bunch of major corporations are incorporated in Delaware even though they don't have any serious business connection with Delaware other than being incorporated there, and so they think it is a good idea for them to incorporate their small local business in far off Delaware just like the giant public companies do. (Or rather, usually do...Microsoft reincorporated back to Washington after a few years in Delaware).
> Rarely do I use my "bots" for nefarious purposes. Sometimes for personal gain, but not for anything "evil".

I can't tell if you actually believe that, or if you're just trolling.
Not the rest of her life if the owners decided to remove the unit from the rental market.
Yes, all true, but because ADHD has never been characterized, meaning no causative agent has been located, and because there's no conception of a cure as is true for real diseases, the scientific burden of evidence rests with those who would like to say ADHD is real. And they aren't rising to the challenge.
Comparing the US government to the USSR demonstrates a complete lack of historical knowledge.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_the_Soviet_...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB

[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Sovi...

[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechos...
Downloaded and installed. Can you please remove the almost mandatory google games sign in, or make it optional. I tries to connect every time I move between the game and the menu, and I don't want it to connect...
Some people like to give every nuance a new name.
This seems especially prevalent in software development. I mean how else you going to get people to buy new books and read your blog posts?!
Yes, just doing that right now.
How come they never write articles like this profiling the 22-year-old who's just starting out in the world and is desperatly trying to make ends meet while paying market rate for a tiny apartment?

Or three of them packed in a walkup one-bedroom and paying double the rent of their downstairs neighbor who's of much greater means but had the good fortune of being born a few years earlier?

Or the young artist who had to leave SF altogether because they couldn't afford to pay market rate and didn't have enough San Francisco seniority to qualify for a hefty rent-control subsidy?
Same here, All South East Asia, East Asia: Not Found!
I think this is bang on. The startup I work at is increasingly slipping into this mode; people are in the office from 9-5. Email conversations go from 6-10pm, people submit code until 1am.

Normally this would be great. But the number of bugs, and the quality and uptime of our services is really starting to slip.

Throw in a long commute, and life becomes pretty difficult.
Actually the idea that they should be forced to go after the largest infringer is a really good one, one which I haven't seen advocated for very much and seeing it there turned my initial first reaction of the piece upside down (nothing personal to original blog author, I just have a strong negative bias towards SEO).

Though you can handwave the idea away by the technicality of it being difficult to determine who the "largest" infringer is, you could achieve the gist of idea by structuring enforcement of the IP protection such that if you know about infringement or can reasonably be assumed to know about infringement (because it is happening very publicly), you must take action or risk losing the protection. This is already how trademarks work, why not patents?

There is some initial bad fallout that would come from a system like this in that there are surely companies who know about infringers of their patents who let it slide for whatever reason and this might force them to act, but I think the eventual positive effects this sort of system would have (IMO) would be worth that initial pain.
yes, especially as he doesn't want to sell it and let someone else deal with the crap. Shame that people want to cut down others who are successful
Tesla ordered to shutdown N.J. stores
Thoughts on reproducibility of open scientific software
Look, I agree that this is probably commercial spamming, not government, but let's cut out the "tinfoil hat" bullshit accusations, OK? It's ad hominem and it's often meant to suppress speculation about possible government misdeeds.

Many of those who were accused of wearing tinfoil hats because of their views on government surveillance turned out to be pretty reasonable after all, no?
I don't think unfunco is suggesting that the market is unassailable. The point seemed to be that this problem wasn't one that needed to be solved (because there were already solutions), not that there isn't room for another solution-provider.
The Steam "Australian" store sells to us in US Dollars. They don't do anything to ensure compliance with Australian law. It's a pure money grab
Update on this: I can now firmly say that this is a retweet scam.

See:

https://twitter.com/MarissaTanyat

Who also tweeted the following:

#GetInShape with my online #training
https://twitter.com/Obi_Obadike/status/443220721888546816

Snowden Haarp.... (which connects it to the same botnet)
https://twitter.com/MarissaTanyat/status/443534242820001792

So officially, they're only spammers, not spooks.

PS: Did I mention that I still despise spammers?
Great idea! Daylight time is perfectly stupid and an archaism as well. It's an example of Big Government holding the hand of the public in an especially pointless activity.

But something tells me that 100,000 signatures will be difficult to reach for an issue that doesn't have either "abortion" or "social security" in its description.
Note ― should be "Takeshita-dori"... ><

[I guess limited-time editing is better than no editing, but man is it still annoying...]
Delaware man's self-penned obit takes Internet by storm
Of course economics needs a rethink. The fact that so much advertising exists, but economic theories ignore it, means that something is very very wrong.
Time magazine, who is owned by TimeWarner, runs a story on how to watch pirate movies? TimeWarner, owner of Warner Bros and HBO? THAT TimeWarner?

I smell children http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUnhfvGdmmw
How a Court Secretly Evolved, Extending U.S. Spies’ Reach
You can make beer from wild yeast too, like gueuze. Unpasteurized cheese is from the bacteria already in the milk.
DoubleAG – onfire
I have a counter to the emphasis of getting to the top. I used to work for a much larger company (definitely "enterprise") and as a product manager I was often the decider of a vendor to use. There were times where the vendors' sales teams wanted to make an end-run and get to someone on the upper management/executive level to influence the decision.

If anything, that became more of a negative because it meant that I had to spend more time managing those conversations rather than analyzing the fit for their product.

I would change "getting to the top quickly" to "identifying the decision maker and getting to them quickly".
Do pipes have a good mechanism for communicating over a network in Linux? Genuinely curious. Seems like the benefit of http is that services can live on the same machine or some other machine or a cluster of machines and it won't require anything but changing an address in a config file.
But isn't that the fundamental problem? If the web is used to countermand existing laws, then it invites further intrusion of government to uphold those existing laws. It's cause and effect. Which is a shame because it gives Government the reason to further intrude.
:) good to know
Which actually makes sense if you think about it--if it was an instant eviction it would be very valuable to the landlord. They can rent and take your money for years and whenever they want to get rid of you and flip the property they report the unit and boom you are gone without any rights.

What would make even more sense is very severe fines to the landlord for renting illegal units. Something like a multiple of all the rent they have ever collected on it.
Except that it's illegal for me to do the reverse. It should be legal for me to buy x from the us if it's cheaper there then here

How is that fair?
With this purely hypothetical mesh network, ideally files would be spread out across the network, bittorrent style. If the mesh has a single node bridging two otherwise large and connected graphs, then the mesh network would be in a poor state to begin with. This is assuming a healthy network.

More realistically, ISPs could place far higher bandwidth limits on local (to NZ) traffic. That is, if it is just the undersea cables that are lacking, not the rest of the infrastructure as well...

I'm not saying either of these are realistic or easy. I'm just saying that the sarcastic quip "I'm sure ad-hoc mesh wifi is an excellent solution to limited across-the-ocean bandwidth." is not a real criticism of the proposal.
Very cool article. Providing actual working demos for each step makes the technique a lot easier to explain to others.

I had fun implementing this effect a long time, in a pre-graphics-shader era [1].

[1] https://github.com/shurcooL/eX0#screenshots
Ah, yes, that whole gov.uk thing.

I must have dreamed it then.

And so must have the 180+ people hired to work on various parts of it who are not part of EDS, IBM and BT.
Indeed, they just fixed it :)
Fair, but in science there is no such thing as innocent until proven guilty or vice versus. The burden of proof lies with anyone trying to make a hypothesis and the author of the article is hypothesizing and claiming results without method or control. This makes his argument effectively unscientific in the worst way.
Think if you were the agency or the leader of an intelligence group. Would you do this? Would others? The answer is yes obviously, even if bots retweet or broadcast even the better.

Tilting public opinion goes back to the beginning of the last century and the beginning of 'public relations' i.e. Edward Bernays http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book).

Companies, brands and others do this as well influencing thought, it is a huge problem on Facebook as well with likes, ads, accounts.

It is a faction of marketing (public relations) and has elements of tabloid.
>"Design a little, code a little, test a little".

That's not waterfall as used in the conventional sense. A key element of waterfall was/is: "Thus the waterfall model maintains that one should move to a phase only when its preceding phase is reviewed and verified."[1]

>The details vary, to be sure, but the fundamentals remain the same.

I disagree. Agile is distincly different at a fundamental level from waterfall. If you walk into a modern shop doing mostly agile with continuous delivery, you'll find that there is almost no process at all that maps directly to waterfall. Literally, not a single one: not design, not coding, not testing, not building, not deploying. They're all fundamentally very different. Coding is probably the one that comes closest and if the site uses TDD or pair programming, it will be clear how drastically different even that is.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model
Not sure those two cases are really interchangeable. It doesn't seem like a very good example. By introducing an object that way you're coupling your functions that work on pure data to an instance. Now to multiply two numbers you need an instance of Calc. I'd suggest something like this instead:

var multiply = curry(function(x, y){
return x * y;
});

var add = curry(function(x, y){
return x + y;
});

var Calc = (function(){
function Calc(x){
this.x = x;
}
Calc.prototype.map = function(f){
this.x = f(this.x);
return this;
};
return Calc;
}());

new Calc(2).map(compose(add(2), multiply(4)));

// or

new Calc(2).map(multiply(4)).map(add(2));
I'm sure plenty of people, including myself, have sympathy for everyone involved, including the tenant, landlord and social workers. I don't have any sympathy for the lawyers who got to profit from other peoples suffering.

HN is a place devoted to people interested in technology, slanted towards startups. Startups absolutely require the concept of private property and the ability to determine the use of that property. The makeup of the majority of visitors determines the point of view taken on stories like this.

The thing at fault here is rent-control laws. They are insanity and lead to perverse outcomes, including housing shortages, high prices, sub-standard housing and cases like this one where someone is allowed to make other peoples lives a misery because they somehow became part of a protected class - a privelege denied to just about everyone commenting here.
If you believe ChromeOS is part of their long term strategy, you have to believe this is. Add-ons for sheets can potentially make sheets truly feature complete compared to excel, which is THE biggest argument against ChromeOS/Windows parity by the average user.
dig the logo, nothing like a winking owl ;)
"No, since there is a big difference between reducing a person enough in a general to lose versus keeping them from being one of the top two."

In 2012, keeping Emken from being in the top two in the primary would have required removing 278,800 votes. Giving Emken the victory in the primary would have required removing 3,098,000 votes.

To the degree that this is typical, I would say that there is a big difference but it favors spoilers.

"Which they would be."

What do you mean "would be"? This isn't hypothetical - is that the case in CA or isn't it? If it is, then it's a strong objection. If it isn't then it's an objection to a system that doesn't exist.

"Plus, party collusion that happens (see federal election commission) pretty much locks a third party out of the general."

Agreed, I just don't think this is a strong example of that.