skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, to be Machiavellian for a minute, Trump is the only candidate that Clinton has a prayer against. The other Republicans consistently outperform Trump in the polls. On the other hand, this has been a bad year for pollsters.

If she really believed in her causes and not her career, she could have decided not to run and backed a promising successor a long time ago.
No, it's not. It's a big jump for one day but it is election day so hardly a regular day. It was lower than this at the start of the year. How was life back then?
Coincidentally, in my research paper, it's found that one of the deciding factors that VCs and Accelerators choose/invest in companies is actually how much they 'like' people or founders
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Better than tomorrow?

This is the sneakiest way yet to bring politics to HN.
A new wrinkle on the Bradley effect, maybe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect
Does the stock market traditionally drop around election time? Uncertainty is usually bad for the market, yeah?
One thing I find really great about twitter as a platform is the data they have available from devs/users who check in their oauth keys on public repos which one can use to get very accurate detailed information from accounts and tweets/retweets like getting the gps coords/conducting sentiment/graph analysis without being rate limited or having to sign onto any of their terms coupled with the "public" nature of twitter which just isn't there anymore with facebook.
My findings have been that old folks (and even some middle aged folks) are still able to be completely bamboozled by popups on Chromebooks.

Those popups that hijack the back button and pop up an alert when you try to close them are enough to get them calling the phone number they see in the window and pulling out their credit card to "have their computer fixed".
Because you won't convince 3/4 of states to change it. And it's not worth a new constitutional convention over that issue.
Experts keep watch over 'hack states'
I'd imagine scaling out a single static file and sending a CDN purge every half a minute is significantly easier than maintaining millions of live websocket connections
Ask HN: Can California Legally Secede from the United States
I'm not partisan. I hate them both :-)

But this absurd fetishism over drops has to stop. Look at the last year. People who baulk at these kind clearly haven't been watching the markets over the past few years. This stuff happens.

Nobody posts about the jumps. And they add up. Well, here's a drop and it's left everyone in the black over 12 months.

Long term if it tanks it tanks and then we can post about it. Markets are computerised now and big swings are common.

Edit: last comment as I've hit the hacker news "you're submitting too fast on a banking thread" thing. Directed to the child comment (not pejorative):

Last one according to the guy above was 2011. We have elections every 4 years and the banks crash the system now and again.

5 years back it was nearly half this. I fail to understand how a 5% dip is shocking, except for people feeling the sky is falling because Trump got in and want to scrawl supporting evidence.

What was life like for all the HN downvoters when it was 1200?
Look I know where you a coming from but the way the country is lead doesn't really help average joes.

When manufacturing and other jobs are outsourced who are going to buy the goods when your citizens can't afford them? You have people out of jobs instead of them producing stuff and creating more business.
The last time the S&P 500 lost >= 4% in a single day was over five years ago, in August 2011.

A 4% swing on the S&P 500 is clearly a lot.
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I imagine at the very least he won't treat them with open contempt and hostility. That probably goes a long way for some of these voters.

I'm not a Trump supporter, but I do live in coastal California, and the absolute derision with which I see relatively privileged, affluent, college educated people treat or talk about the working/rural poor in "flyover" country makes me question whether, despite my current views, I too wouldn't vote Trump if I found myself on the receiving end of such hostility.
No they didn't:

>Our final map has Clinton winning with 352 electoral votes. Compare your picks with ours.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trai...
I use Tmux resurrect[1] with Tmux continuum[2] so that after rebooting my laptop, my tmux session is restored.

[1]: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect
[2]: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum
On the other hand, the USA has contentious elections on a regular basis with basically no violence. That's the real strength of representative democracy.
As a Texan who has heard ten sides of this discussion, I can assure you the answer is no.
The percent the S&P 500 futures can fall before they stop trading is 5%[1]. So this is a big drop.

[1]: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/faq-sp-500-pric...
my word! 2011. Goodness, was anyone even alive back then? I didn't realise they even had markets that far back.
This kind of swing implies the outcome is unexpected and not well thought of.
Definitively season finale.
But it's already renewed for another season.
Well, those running nodes seem to support it, and we'll see later in the month how many miners choose to signal support.

There is a significant minority of the bitcoin community who want a straight blocksize increase instead, but the extra space already provided by Segregated Witness is hard to argue against, and it's also technically orthogonal.
No, it doesn't traditionally drop -- it only drops when the "wrong" candidate wins (as determined by who the markets would prefer). It dropped because Trump's stated economic, trade, and diplomatic policies are anti-globalization and would be bad for business. The markets were riding lower for weeks on fears of Trump winning, then recovered yesterday when Hillary had that final uptick. Now they've lost all that and then some.
Must be system dynamics for me. When I first learned of the math and the idea of modelling the world like that, it explained _a lot_.
Good post, but will sadly go unseen due to elections. Will try to share it once things calm down!
Interesting recommendation. I asked around here and turns out one of our designers actually owns the font! I'm going to give it a try for the next hour or so and see if it actually feels different enough for me to consider dropping the $200 on it. As first impression, the font feels "rounder" and I find it a bit harder to read.

Are there any other "non-usual" recommendations for writing code? I remember trying Nitti [0] for a while for, that's the font iA Writer uses.

/edit: After very short usage I already found one thing the author said to be true:

> While using Operator Mono, I found that I scan entire words as I read code more easily; while in other typefaces, my parsing style is often more letter-by-letter.

Not sure why this happens either. Maybe because the font feels more condensed? Single characters almost "merge" into blocks (words). Though it also feels a little bit harder on the eyes to read single characters.

[0]: https://www.boldmonday.com/typeface/nitti/
Sustained swings like this are not common.

I'll agree short term number fetishism is a problem but this implies the markets were priced incorrectly and not in a good way.
I would for sure! Tekken, Metal Gear Solid, Wipeout, Resident Evil, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, TOCA, Colin McRae, Soul Blade, Tomb Raider, Legacy of Kain, Crash Bandicoot, Chrono Cross, Quake 2, Red Alert, Street Fighter Alpha, Tony Hawks, Spyro, Driver, Gran Turismo.
I'm looking now too.
how was life for you during the last 5 year walk from 1,200 to 2100? Appreciably better from 2,000 onwards?

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EGSPC#symbol=%5EGSP...
No. This is thoroughly uncharted territory. I guess a lot of ignorant, complacent people will see how important being a global reserve currency is to a national economy.
It would certainly be ironic if Trump wins and Hillary's team is the one that says the election was rigged, after constantly mocking Trump about saying the election could be rigged because of insecure voting machines these past few weeks.

That said, I'd love nothing more than for this election to finally start a real discussion not just about insecure electronic voting, but also about the whole flawed electoral system in the U.S., including:

* the FPTP system

* the arbitrary thresholds for third-parties

* not having a national election day

* the delegate and superdelegate systems

* caucuses

* electoral college

* gerrymandering

* public funding of elections by individuals with limited amounts of money, as opposed to allow PACs raise as much as they want from rich individuals

* the issue-filled counting of votes, and all the missing registrations and purges of voters

And there are probably more related issues I forgot about. If even Trump winning won't get all the smart people that probably didn't want Trump to win to fight about these issues constantly until the next election, then I don't know what will.
How so? I'm not excited about a Trump presidency.

My hopes are that 1) the media will keep a better eye on Trump (going off the last 8 years, they'll ignore any atrocity as long as it's committed by the blue team), 2) that Trump is not as smart as Clinton, and therefore less able to deceptively achieve his goals and 3) that 4 years of Trump will mobilize Americans to fix their electoral system and seek out real alternatives to the Democrat / Republican duopoly.
Getting off topic but ... by advertising do you mean obvious commercials or submarine ones? I ask because my podcast player has an advance 30s, 2m, rewind 15s buttons. When a commercial like ad starts it takes me like 2-3 seconds to skip it. In other words I don't need deep learning to skip ads for me.

Which actually makes me question if podcasts can make money as it's so dang easy to skip all the ads.
Similar, there was a fire around my office a week ago and within minutes there were an image on twitter. Within 30 minutes multiple ones from various angles.

Granted, it was the first time I ever went to Twitter for something like this, but I knew that it was /the/ place for the most up to date information.

And I try to avoid Twitter as much as possible, too annoying to read in there.
Ask HN: Testing infrastructure for Android apps?
Investigating on building the testing infrastructure for our mobile apps. Heard stories from fiends that Android's testing support changes on every release and hence hard to follow. What framework and infrastructure people/companies use to set up the unit-test, integration tests including UI tests, continuous build tests, and maybe fancier test before commit support when developing Android apps?
How does it relate to 300k contest i am talking about?
Forget or deny to know? For people living in the USA, forgetting that must be quite a challenge; every four years, there's half a year of real reality tv, extensively covered all over the news, to remind them of it.
I wonder if this will have any effect on employer urine testing for the drug in California.

I also wonder what a Trump vs Clinton Presidency would mean for the enforcement of federal drug laws in states that have legalized marijuana. Would they be as hands-off as the Obama administration has been? Was drug policy or enforcement even mentioned in any debates or party platforms this election cycle?
Quasi (aka Ecatel) is basically a den of ddos for hire, ddos, malware, botnet C&C, abuse reports ignored. Servers are in NL.

Probably not China.
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I think this is an emotional reaction, I have 60k of liquid cash ready to invest tomorrow, where would be the best place to put it? My first thought is a leveraged ETF... which I think for a short term trade is okay, but the leveraged nature might magnify my losses more than I can tolerate if I'm wrong. What are you guys looking at?
Talking with Gooseman, the birth of Counter-Strike
I was the same way when I first started using tmux. I just "fixed" the keybindings in tmux to what I was used to and went about my business.

It is slightly inconvenient the first time I fire up tmux (with the defaults) on a new host. I just take a 30 second break, create my customized ~/.tmux.conf, and continue on like nothing happened.
You realize that Republicans now control the presidency, the house, the senate, and the supreme court, right? This isn't our Brexit moment, it's our Islamic Republic moment.
Random trivia: "ahem" is a cultural / language based thing. Other languages use different "words" for "ahem". The same for grunting sounds. For example the sound people make when they need to push something very hard. It's cultural not natural. The sounds are different by culture.
Hahha I'm not sure how strong this analogy is tho. Do you ever taste rain with different flavors :)?
That's how they load the module that does the jittering. So by assigning its .get() method to be a noop instead (return 0), it does nothing (besides pointlessly return zero) when attempting to load.
Thanks, I just finished the Socket.IO benchmark and wanted to show my findings (both in relation to my own project but also in relation to the existing alternatives) Socket.IO is simply a tremendous fuck-up no matter what perspective you have.
> I hate them both :-)

Edgy.
Socket.IO is the trump of websocket implementations. Utterly slow in the head, but widely popular somehow.
The very basics of Machine learning
> I imagine at the very least he won't treat them with open contempt and hostility

As long as you're white, male, hetero, anti-intelectual, Christian, and not born in another country.

EDIT: it seems that people are really sensitive about being called out for all the hate Trump spews in their name.
Imagining gravitational waves inevitably leads me to believe that gravity is a force that varies (in a cycle) over spacetime. But.. what exactly does it mean to propagate over a cycle in spacetime? (particularly the time aspect confuses me since something propagating in space remains constant in time (either accelerating or decelerating)
> No different than trusting Apple/Google.

It is different. I expect Apple and Google to insert backdoors deliberately into their operating systems for three letter agencies (it's easy to do it when you've got either a proprietary OS like iOS or a "technically open but practically closed" OS like Android). They've probably done it before and are part of the PRISM program either way.

However, I don't expect the FSF or Linus Torvalds to do it. They haven't done it yet and they probably won't do it.
For some industries it will be kind of like how airplane pilots aren't allowed much trace of alcohol. Others will relax it, I'm guessing.
Nginx.conf 2016: Keynote with Gus Robertson and Igor Sysoev
This is what happens when a GitHub repo accumulates critical mass: people just follow after with no critical thinking. It's like the emperors new clothes.
Taken from WSJ :

Ms. Holmes maintains a heavy security detail. Men with earpieces escort her wherever she goes outside the Palo Alto headquarters. Their code name for her is “Eagle 1,” current and former employees say. Mr. Balwani, until he retired, was “Eagle 2,” they say.

Despite the meetings with attorneys, Ms. Holmes still finds time to work on her external messaging. Several weeks ago, she traveled to New York and met with the television host Charlie Rose, the person who recently interacted with her said. Mr. Rose didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.

She has also been talking with Jason Blum, who was executive producer of HBO’s “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” about a potential documentary that would chronicle her life and career, people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Blum’s production company didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.
This is true, but it's also true that there aren't as many apps competing with Wechat in different niches in China. Wechat won, the way Facebook won in America, but moreso. Imagine if Snapchat, Facebook, and something like Apple Pay or PayPal were all a single company.
Don't do anything unless you're thinking intraday. Better wait for the dust to settle.
Hey did anyone mention it's because TRUMP HAS WON?
Libertarians had a real chance to stand out as a actual alternate response to the static and predictable policy stances of the Dems and Repubs. However, Gary Johnson struck out badly on several occasions, especially when it came to his knowledge of international politics. And that weird interview when his tongue just stopped working for 30 seconds but he kept on talking.
Stop. The. Name. Calling. Stop it right now. Even if your demographic breakdown were correct[0], those are your fellow citizens your're referring to. That tone is why the left is in the state it is right now.

Trump is, perhaps, not going to help "those people" but neither, in their minds, was Clinton. They are simply going with the "perhaps" rather than (again, in their mind) certain no.

[0] For example, suburbanites support Trump in about equal numbers and about 1/3 of college graduates and postgraduates support Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi...
I have $8k waiting to dump into my kids ESA; been waiting for market to drop.
It seems that the biggest beneficiary at this point is Turkey. Make Turkey great again???
If you're looking for something leveraged, your risk tolerance is higher than mine. Nothing wrong with that.

I dumped a bunch of cash into the market right after the Brexit vote. Wasn't planned, the timing just worked out. Not bad getting a 3-4% return in the matter of a couple weeks.

Will that happen this time? Not sure! But the market probably did over react.
Look at the VIX - up 42% at the moment... A sign of major volatility expected ahead.
By that analogy the leading contender will steal my wallet and escape prosecution because of who their friends are.
Segregated witness is kind of a clever hack to eke out a little extra room in bitcoin blocks. Here's an article on it: http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/04/05/how-software-gets-b...
At this time we still cannot be sure who will win but all this to me looks like a big fuck you. It looks like a middle finger and it shows how disconnected media moguls, establishment, bureaucracy and "righteous" leftists-democracts are with the people on the ground.

It went so far that people who would vote for Trump lied in polls just so that they don't receive strange looks or something worse. That is the fear above mentioned "establishment" instilled into people. And it's not just US...

The meltdown of the "media" and shock is just pure funny.

Let's forget about all the controversy around Clinton family. I will just leave this[0] here.

[0]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1582795/Hillary-Cl...
Go back in time and buy call options? Now... you're trying to time the market. Good luck.
I've posted this elsewhere but about a year ago I was invited to a private wealth management (PWM) round table luncheon with a bunch of the principals from UBS PWM.

I asked them what they thought would happen if Trump was elected and they said that because of his unpredictability, the markets would likely take a huge hit. They went further, and said that when they spoke with leaders in politics and business in other countries around the world, those leaders indicated their biggest fears were if Trump won and they would have to reevaluate their strategies with the US.

Interesting times.
You know I don't think it will. I haven't seen any information about that being the case in Washington or Colorado.

One popular example is the NFL where they contend that because they engage in interstate commerce and it's still illegal at the federal level, they will continue to enforce their ban on its use.

A lot of banks were afraid to even do business with sellers in states where it's legal for fear of fines or sanctions from government agencies.

Edit - Obama directed the justice department to not prosecute entities in states where it's legal. But it's totally possible a republican president may take the opposite approach.
>I never really had a good answer for the second question in the case of Twitter, and I don't actually have a good answer for either question in the case of GNU Social.

A good number of them have a very minimal simple sign up form: Display Name, Email, Password.

As for finding friends/family, that isn't really the point of Twitter I feel? That's what Facebook is for. Twitter is more of a news aggregate or social/niche center. For example, I can follow all my favorite Cosplayers and major ___-con hosts to get updates on Cons and Cosplay. If you had family into racing or cars, they could follow their favorite racers or car enthusiasts, etc.

If you want to keep "up to date" for your interests, Twitter is fantastic for that by following leaders or major players in the industry/niche.

Which yes, is something GNU Social lacks and I admit that. But Twitter isn't required to fill that role. It just requires people to move to the better option.
Worth remembering that the FTSE (UK stock index) crashed briefly after Brexit, and is now up.

The markets priced in a Clinton win, and now that isn't happening. What we're seeing is uncertainty and volatility getting priced into the market, not any referendum on Trump. We'll see what happens in a week.
I imagine it wasn't built to handle high volumes in the first place.
.vn is an interesting choice for a domain. The Vietnamese government has not been an ally of free speech or of sharing ideas around the globe.
No it wasn't. Real statistical analysis may not always give the exact correct prediction, but, at least, if you are honest, the chances of fooling yourself are reduced significantly.
It's giving me a 500 error
I'm thinking the timeframe will be 2 or 3 days.
Care to share why Socket.IO is so poorly implemented? It seems to be a small wrapper around the socket protocol—what could be written so poorly?
Don't use a leveraged ETF. You really get screwed on the leverage. You lose much more when it goes against you win when it goes in your favor.

If you think the markets will recover just buy an index following ETF. If you want high leverage, find an index following ETF that trades in very high volumes (e.g. -- voo) and buy options deriving from it.
Epic and the other big medical software providers have this market on lockdown. I do not see a path to this seriously challenging the major players any time soon in the US, even though it could be done.

Additionally, the software dependencies (CentOS v6.7 & Java 7) that say breakage occurs with newer versions is very sketchy IMO, ignoring the HIPPA & PCI compliance work that needs to be done (the latter costs $40k a year to maintain).
The vix shot up when Obama was projected to win
I'll be very interested to see whether this interpretation comes to bear. The more likely explanation, I think, is that something unexpected is happening, and markets don't like uncertainty. A little reductionist? Maybe. But maybe not.
Can I have opinions from someone who have already used this?
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It's interesting looking at the way some of the prediction markets behaved through this cycle. Up until results started coming in, sites like predictit.org were all "predicting" overwhelming Clinton victory. That so far has clearly not panned out.

I think it says that these prediction markets aren't so good at actually predicting anything: all they really do is sort of act as a barometer of how media narratives influence popular thought on certain subjects. I do expect that they will correlate with outcomes better than 50/50... but not so much so that the "wisdom of crowds" line is really justified.
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