skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I think Romney lost mostly because he flip-flopped. I watched the Frontline episode called "The Choice 2012" and it was quite insightful. The two candidates come across as quite similar in many policy/thinking respects. Because Romney had to cater to the right wing fringe, the republicans essentially ate themselves.

Effectively, the country moved right because the republicans effectively shut Obama down and caused him to polarize. Basically negating the "yes we can change" hypothesis. In 2008 people were sick of unilateral Bush action, the wars, and wanted people who would work together. By the midterm elections fringe groups got super worked up about Obamacare and death panels. Tea party hyperbole basically, a very effective and vocal minority. In addition the vote for Obamacare was drawn down party lines which I believe contributed to the democratic losses. It was a sign of not working together even though the republicans basically stonewalled the entire time.

Essentially, Obama, the great listener who could bring people together was shut out and shut down by politics.
He was shutdown as an outsider essentially. We had hoped that an outsider could bring change, but the system itself refused to. Romney himself was an outsider too but would have had the initial advantage of a republican congress.
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CapRally Wants To Be A Free Salesforce, Mint.com Hybrid For Fundraising
Thanks! :^)

Gittip is funded on Gittip, and isn't designed to be profitable per se. More info:

http://blog.gittip.com/post/26350459746/the-first-open-compa...
google "frivolous lawsuit".

Corporations troll each other in court quite often, in order to bleed the defendant and/or force them to resolve the case off-court, for a sum of money. Using code licensed under such a troll-bait like the "good, not evil" clause while having nice corporate revenue is a big mistake.
exec 5<>"/dev/tcp/localhost/80"
echo -ne "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost\r\n\r\n" > &5
cat < &5

FTFY
I want this, bad, but I'm afraid of depending on little one-developer tools. How much do I pledge to make you consider open sourcing it?
var NULL = null, TRUE = true, FALSE = false

I'm not sure I understand this. Why assign these to variables?
One of my biggest pet peeves about the original "cmd.exe" or PowerShell is that resizing the window is not pixel-precise. Thank you for making this a part of wish! The snapping to the left and right of my screen works really well.

Although it seems it is not working well on Windows 8 x64, I am having a good experience on Windows 7 x64.

A couple of suggestions:

- Wish takes a while to become responsive after starting the program (3-4 seconds for me). I am not sure if this is just me, I just wanted to make you aware!

- Add a keystroke for clearing the terminal. I am addicted to Ctrl + L in bash.

- Perhaps consider adding select to copy.

Keep up the good work, and I'll keep an eye on this project :).
RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love over three years
Chinese web monitoring group says Google blocked in China
`sudo apt-get autoremove --purge gnome*`
When one party deliberately engineered a financial crisis (1892)
with the amount of stuff you can get from Google Now (or it can get for you), this makes it way more useful
We shall see if this intention is ultimately realizable.
US elections are an adversarial system run almost entirely by volunteers. If you don't like how it works in your area or think it disadvantages your guy, you don't have to wait for anyone else's permission to do something about it, you can just create a polling place or volunteer at one, or go help people vote.

There is no shortage of money, they can support all the volunteers they can get.
Well, it's probably better to say that the 10% included all known error estimations. Given the skew between final polls and actual results seen over history, Silver's model figured it was 1 in 10 that some "unknown" factor would pollute the numbers enough to produce a Romney victory. In this he was actually much more conservative than Sam Wang, who AFAICT looked only at the poll sampling error and arrived at a muc higher (e.g. 99%) chance of victory.

And actually, I think you can make the case that Silver was too conservative. Looking at the results, the poll averages were well within sampling error in all battleground states. And sorting the states by margin, Romney would have had to pick up FL, OH, VA and CO to win. Obama won Colorado by 4.7% (not too far from the predicted ~3.5%, I believe), which is comparatively huge and absolutely not explainable by polling error (a Romney victory there looks like about three sigma to me).

In hindsight, the known state of the election on Tuesday morning was never winnable for Romney. Wang was right (even though his averages came down on the wrong side in FL), Silver was too timid.
Abuse Of India's IT Act Results In India's First Arrested Twitter User
For native iOS it's required.

*edit - my bad, it looks like that's not the primary use.
Enter the Matrix: Organizing Product Management
Kudos for writing SockJS! Are you seeing the adoption you expected?
'Taxes' and 'easy' are two words that never go together.
Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin on the New Lock-in
> 2. Polls attempt to account for the simple error that people are more likely to say that they'll vote than will actually vote. (see here: http://www.gallup.com/poll/111268/how-gallups-likely-voter-m...) The Romney campaign was predicated on the idea that GOP voters were likely to get out and vote, while Obama voters would say they were going to vote but then drop out on Election Day. That is a polling blind side that Nate Silver couldn't account for.

Actually Silver did account for something similar: That polls could be systematically biased against Romney. Not for political reasons, but incorrect LV models. The accurate pollsters of this cycle used an LV model that was shaped by 2008 exit polls. Others used those based on 2004 or 2010 (Rasmussen). Those that banked in this being an '04 or '10 electorate were way off.

He eludes to this here:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/nov-1-th...
and:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/oct-31-o...
Strongly agree. For Windows users like me, i recommend installing Python and Pip using Chocolatey Nuget and then doing a `pip install httpie` to avoid Windows Python dependency hell and still get httpie.
Agreed.

It's difficult to address the problem of underinformed and uninformed voting, which is indeed an issue, or even address the issue of people who care little about the political system and their voice in it, and therefore don't vote because they feel uninformed. It's also difficult to turn uninformed people into informed voters who are active in their communities.

It's easy to say "fuck you" and tell people to stay home from the polls.

It looks like the author of the piece prefers the easy road.
Intel's Eight-Core Poulson Itanium Heads To Market
In a similar vein, I've found ClojureScript and Crate[0]/Hiccup to be a rather potent mix for solo web dev in Clojure. It's a liberating feeling to be able to effectively write your backend, frontend, and layout in the same language.

[0] https://github.com/ibdknox/crate
Put a cache on a machine in EC2 with your static assets. Your dynamic, uncached work is unlikely to take much bandwidth. Especially if you JSON it in from pages served on EC2.
The article says they're made in Taiwan. The manufacturing process for fancy plastics can be quite complex, and the whole point of these balls is to be consistently high quality, something that would be hard to achieve with African production.

Not to mention that setting up your own factory is a massive amount of work compared to simply coming up with a design and outsourcing production to an existing supplier. Best to start with small steps for the first iteration.
Thanks for the feedback. The UI is a bit of a hack for the prototype and will be a more proper control for release. Emacs and vim keybindings are on my feature list. I think Ctrl+P and Ctrl+N work for command history in the prototype, but don't quote me on that.
> Organized sport may be used as a less belligerent means of expressing community solidarity and a relatively healthy outlet for rivalries between communities.

Tangentially related to this point, I've often wondered if this is simply a zero-sum game, and the unity you gain through supporting a particular team comes at the cost of disunity with supporters of other teams.

Sports team rivalries produce all kinds of stupidity the world over. People are routinely killed or severely injured simply because of the sports team they support.
New Hike Messenger App Converts IM into SMS
"Bharti SoftBank (BSB) [India] has developed a new messenger called ‘Hike’ messenger that will take on the rivals head on. (...) What’s so cool about Hike Messenger? BSB is trying to address one big pain-point with all the available messaging services. If you’re using WhatsApp, then in order to send message through it, your contact too needs the WhatsApp messenger installed. BSB says that Hike Messenger will address this problem. It will convert the instant message into an SMS and deliver it to the contact if they don’t have the Hike Messenger installed on their mobile. Of course, the users will be able to reply to your Hike message via simple text message and the app will be delivered to your mobile right into the Hike app."
Lactate - a featureful static file server for Node.js
One observation: I think your pricing is off. Too expensive. I signed up anyway, but $30 /mnt is a bit rich. I'd say $9 /mnth hits the spot. Much more than that and I when it comes time to pay, many will walk.

Just my .02
Nice work, I think the product does address a need. Pricing to me at least, feels a bit steep. I could probably convince myself that $9/mo is worth it, but $29 doesn't compare favorably against other services that are more complicated.

Yes I know pricing shouldn't be tied to 'difficulty' but that's my 2c.
That is part of the es6-collections polyfill included as part of smap.js. If I understand correctly, it is for safety (for example you cannot override the value of "true").
All great suggestions, thanks! I'll take a look at all these.
Using Cross Platform Technologies To Quicken Mobile App Development
Football is what the English, who have the best claim to being native speakers of English, call it.
The benefit of being a programmer
How does RethinkDB perform when compared to open-source distributed databases built with hate?
Having to endure extreme slowness? Why not: Ctrl-Alt-F1, log in, then apt-get install lxde? (or lubuntu-desktop depending on what you are using)
Thanks for the summary of his talk Sam, it was a great read
Check your facts, for example here: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp.

See, your 'dead OS' is not walking - it is marching bravely here and there and all over the planet, led by army of Windows admins. Who, being just as smart as their other-OS-admin-brothers, are always looking for better tools to do their job.
This took tenacity. Congrats on shipping.
while i applaud firefox for pushing IE off the stranglehold it had on sites (see mjb's comment), i cannot forget the stagnation it endured for a while with its crummy memory performance for long running users. it took a couple of years for someone to acknowledge that yeah, that's a real issue and worth fixing (IIRC it was heap fragmentation, beautifully visualized in a blog post where the author basically said "holy smokes! people were right!"). i turned to safari briefly and now to chrome and haven't looked back.

firefox's position allowed it to get sluggish in features and performance. a lack of true competition in alternative browsers for that brief period of time (you either used IE and were afraid to move, were prevented from it in a corporate setting, or you used firefox and wouldn't go back) showed that such stagnation can happen to anyone. bloat, performance drops, etc ...

thanks for opening up the web, but that stretch of time has forever burned me on mozilla products.
A lot of Windows users (like myself) are somewhat committed to tools like Powershell in addition to Cygwin. I currently keep both Git Bash and Powershell open so I can switch back and forth as needed. Wish allows me to switch between these seemlessly with a common set of features across both.
I will put my own headers on for $4, thank you.
Thanks. Appreciate the feedback. We'll definitely look into some other pricing options.
With a system like this you choose where to decouple rather than having the boundary arbitrarily forced on you.

I've found the HTML/CSS boundary very stifling at times. I use a framework[1] that let's me define my HTML in a very DRY (don't repeat yourself) fashion. Components can be nicely defined in a single small tag, and it would be very appropriate to define some (but not all) of the styling & event handlers in the same place. Sometimes I do via style= and onclick= attributes, but those are very much second class citizens in the modern world.

In other words, I've got a much more powerful mechanism for decoupling & abstraction, so the HTML/CSS/Javascript boundaries are more harmful than helpful.

[1] http://hobocentral.net
" If we all spent more time on projects like this instead of the next
Twitter, or designing new weapons the world would arguably end
up a better place."

This is an all too common attitude and one I used to share before spending time in the developing world. The plain fact though is that it is wrong.

Doing something is not always better than doing nothing. As a matter of fact a great many things, perhaps even most, interventions do more harm than good.

I'd recommend starting off reading "White Man's Burden" if you are interested in the topic. For a more fun example, google "one million t-shirts for africa"
Thanks for the suggestion. I'd love to branch out and support non-native English speakers (as well as other languages) in the future.
Chicago: Do it for the drivers. Do it for the startups.
What? Each state board of elections is usually partisan. The number of voting places and their resources is designated by someone who is most certainly partisan. Virtually all places that had huge lines, take a wild guess if it was the left or right that was responsible.
On another HN thread I learned about potential legal ramifications for "tipping off" criminals that seem to be behind PayPal's characteristic behavior:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744371
Actually, the mouse needs to connect to the Internet in order to tweet to your followers that you clicked on a button.
I'm also very interested, hope HN helps us
Good to hear. Yours is the first kickstarter project I've ever backed. Thanks again for making this available.
Yes! Long experience has taught me that I can either look dumb in front of a small, friendly audience of early testers or a big audience of people with inflated launch-day expectations.

Not looking dumb is not an option. It is a big fucking world, and it will never fit inside the 3 pounds of meat that people somehow expect me to think with. Especially when some of that meat is dedicated to things like the ego and false pride that tell me that my big launch will be magically perfect because I am so smart.
I'll ask the obvious question not in the FAQ: How is this different from MongoDB?
Elemenohpee was trying to argue that someone who drives without insurance and hits someone wasn't responsible for their actions. If that's an argument you want to back, have at it.
Also keep an eye on https://salv.us/, I think it is/will be more or less Sage run on a large cluster.
This is our MVP, so there are a lot of shared features with some other existing projects. One of our "deep tech" features I don't think anyone else has is the ability to quickly and dynamically switch between different Python environments, meaning that you can easily try out new versions of libraries or test your code with new versions of Python.

We are also iterating on the overall UI and user workflow, to really facilitate the data exploration & analysis process with Python.
aka shitty sexprs
Are there any performance tips or information? This looks really cool
Here here! Dentist? Where are you seeing commercials of dentists? I've never come across those, and I practically live at theaters.
I'd like to see a tad less credulity in tales like this. Certainly, innovations in engineering are quite workable by an amateur enthusiast, particularly in niche areas with significant commercial interest like medical isotope manufacturing.

But hard fusion is an area that's been looked at for decades by literally thousands of top physicists around the world, and there's little low-hanging fruit left for a tabletop inventor to come across. Multi-billion dollar efforts like the National Ignition Facility involving hundreds or thousands of scientists are where the action's at today, and they've brought together solid plans for pursuing economically sustainable fusion.

An outsider may indeed bring new ideas that have value in niche areas, simply because that's not where the majority of scientific attention is being focused -- but it's unlikely to be a replacement for the core effort of an entire movement, as the article suggests.
Apple donates $2.5M to Hurricane Sandy relief
I agree about blaming the tools, but I think that last bit is false inference. An awful lot of people were convinced that a dramatically different direction was needed. It's just that we have roughly similar numbers of those people.
Plan 9 Mounts and Dependency Injection
Same here, after a git pull it froze for ~20s and then started behaving like a text editor. (Win7 x86)
Indeed. Regarding the article itself, my view would be that the blame lies squarely at the feet of the Mono team for using Crockford's code, license and all, knowing that their target audience (finicky Linux distros) might later object. But then, properly assigning blame is a talent few, if any, possess.
(Meta-comment warning)

I appreciate that you and Sam's other friends want to show support but you're doing your friend a disservice by just saying "good job" on HN. These kinds of comments without substance typically get down-voted quite severely. People are likely to think that HN is getting manipulated and spammed when all of the comments are like that.

(I haven't down-voted any of you.)
Probably not much. Solar flares inject plasma into the magnetosphere, and because of the magnetic fields involved the motion of the plasma particles is not directly away from the Sun; they curve into the space that would otherwise be "shadowed" by the Earth.
What a vulgar sentiment! President Obama is hardly a black Bush, whatever your thoughts about his policies. If you really believe they are the same--yet utterly fail to articulate your rationale--there probably isn't much reason to engage in a discussion with you.
IPhone 5 unresponsive under rapid diagonal swipes
How Real-time Communication Gives Your Customers Convenience
Wrens Teach Eggs to Sing
From the guidelines: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

My guess is that caludio believes that good hackers would not find this article interesting. I somewhat agree, as I feel that article adds little to what can already be found in the cURL man page. Having said that, I do think there is worth in having good examples, which this article certainly did.

It's a little disheartening to see this at the top of HN though.
I'm very excited to give this a try. Congrats on the mvp release.
Luke! Read the source!

Avoid GNUstepWeb unless you want to feel some pain. Instead you should take a look at WebAppKit[1] as it looks more promising.

[1] https://github.com/tomasf/WebAppKit
This certainly seems interesting enough to look into!

One note, there's a typo in the code in the tutorial on top

r.table('users).insert({'name': 'Slava', 'age': 29 }).run()

users needs a closing quote.
You just won the troll of the year award. Congratulations.
Yeah, I'm curious too as to how it stacks up against MongoDB performance-wise and why I'd want to use one over the other.
Because no good business/technical strategist has ever overseen a complex software project that had a bug in it?
Fully agree with your point about polling, but it's worth reading the original blog post (by a GOP campaign volunteer, but otherwise apolitical) to see in detail just how badly their system failed: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334783.php

It's a classic example of 'fail late, fail terminally.' I still think Obama would have won, but it should have been a bit closer than it was. 'Get out the vote' operations are important.
Coming in to large amounts of unearned money can destroy you
YouTube/Hulu ad campaign: Black screen, large font "Give Balls", small font "oneworldfutbol.com", 5 seconds. How much would something like that cost to run for a week?
A few suggestions:

* Make shortcuts for tab splits in both vertical and horizontal

* Tab titles are not so necessary, right? Just draw a line between vertically or horizontally split Windows, like iTerm2 does (it is really neat).

* Word-wraps?

* I was in c:\demo, I wrote a nonexisting command (let's say lls), now I'm in c:\program files\wish.

* On a prompt, I can use Backspace to delete PS1-like string, and after deleting something and pressing return, it crashes

* Add it to PATH so that people can run it via Run window (Windows+R).

* "set" command runs without params in cmd.exe, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490890.aspx this doc might help.

I have recently joined Microsoft and I was using Linux-OSX before that for work and I miss zsh+iterm2 quite a lot.
Gnome 2 had an unusually long run and it was only really used for less than a decade. So even optimistically, the long run doesn't matter past 9 years or so.

Then there are other packages which will never be less tested than a default because they have already been tested for a few years.
Because you stated something absolutely, I feel the need to round off the edge. Sampling can increase your confidence resolution if it allows you to integrate signals from more data sources together using a larger model that is infeasible without sampling.
I don't believe the app is the reason for the loss. It does, however, point to a glaring weakness of the campaign: organization.
We'll definitely take a closer look at our pricing and consider some options. We'd like to see a good ROI even at $29+ per month by increasing our customers' conversions or gaining referrals.

At another startup I've worked on (virtualstagingsolutions.com) we've received a good amount of new sales from customers sharing their experience which would have paid for several months worth of QuotePress. Average sale price is $200-$300 for what we are selling and not taking into account lifetime value. However, I do realize our average sale price is priced higher than some other products or services so it wouldn't hurt for us to look into some other pricing plans.
Not so much "reimagined" as "an improvement for windows' command prompt" it seems.
Or counting the number of events for each user as they come in.
> women as a whole are less interested in video games.

We're nearing 50% of the market, just so you know.
The Occams Razor answer is that the "Obama supporters are stoned slackers, they won't even turn out to vote" hypothesis was wrong, not that it was counterbalanced by a failure within the Romney campaign.
Interesting idea, but I just don't like the implementation. Just a few points that jump out for me.

- The all CAPS make me feel it will be a pain to type.
- The CSS looks more verbose than SASS or LESS. The STYLE keyword each time seems like needless repetition.
- I feel like the HTML templating is less readable than plain HTML or Slim or such tempting engines.

Just my thoughts, I would love to know what others think.
If authors are lurking here, link from github to a quick start page is broken: http://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/guides/basic_quickstart.html

GH issue https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/2

edit: fixed already!
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