skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask PG: How do you see the economic landscape for the next few years?
It appears that Obama will be re-elected, the Democrats will slightly improve their standing in the Senate, and the Republicans will keep control of the House - so that's the political environment until the 2014 and 2016 elections, like it or hate it.

Much has been written about business and consumers hedging their investment bets pending the election outcome, since the possible alternatives were quite different. Now that the future is clearer, do you foresee greater economic tensions or a release of pent-up energy?

Please note I'm not really asking about policy, but about what it means to have the political horizon extend from 'the next few days' out to 'the next few years', and all that entails for investors, entrepreneurs and so forth.
Fox News also reporting Obama to be re-elected president.
Thanks for an excellent post. I would like to see any one indicator explained in detail as well. I am sure it would be of interest to a lot of people.
From the source code of barackobama.com: http://i.imgur.com/9IFw5.png
Here is Obama's tweet - https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/266031293945503744
Scrolling works great on safari.
Fox called it too, I can see someone mentioning both.
that's nonsense, it was just a screen screwup and there's a paper trail on those machines, thank god.
Obama himself too: https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/266031293945503744
Ask HN: Your thoughts on the proliferation of dynamic infographics this election
It seems you can't be a major media outlet without several JS-based live-data infographics. I don't mind per se, but I was wondering if any of you had any insights on this. Where is this coming from, since when did this become a necessity?
So does Fox.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/06/obama-romney-wind...
Democrat Claire McCaskill defeats Republican Todd Akin in Missouri Senate race
No, I think Fox was the second to call it for Obama.
Ask yourself: is this really intellectually stimulating?

Quotes from the guidelines:

On-Topic: If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Good job America

-- The World
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US public policy is an incredibly important factor to the global technical industry; this includes arguably most 'hackers.' That cannot be denied.
It's about two days too early for NBC to be calling this, isn't it?
It is very strange. Look at their website http://ome.ga. Seems almost fake.
It does, but you must run Steam from the command line:

$ steam steam://open/store/ &

Also, sometimes the client will say that you're account is not in the Beta and shutdown. Just try again and it will eventually work.
Very curious. Why?
It probably isn't really proper HN content. But is it really worth complaining about? It was inevitable that the results would be posted here.
Apple Ordered to Pay $368 Million in Patent Case Brought by VirnetX
Be careful what you wish for. The problem with trying to undo Citizen's United is that it's often oversimplified as "corporations are people", but the decision was (to quote Wikipedia) "that it was unconstitutional to ban free speech through the limitation of independent communications by corporations, associations, and unions". Under those terms, that would include The New York Times, MSNBC, AARP, and the SEIU with regard to candidate and ballot measure endorsements.

$1B was spend in independent groups and $5B by the candidates and parties. By comparison, Americans spend $7B / year on potato chips.
And "first pass the post" has got to go.

I can only hope the country is as tired of picking the lesser of two evils as I am
Please, don't go off on a tangent. Nobody is talking about rolling back freedoms or rights. Cool it.

This is exactly why I hate the choices we have. With the electoral college an independent candidate has exactly zero chances. You put your finger to the two things that I can't support on the "standard" Republican ticket.

I am far closer to a Libertarian, which means that I think people ought to be left alone. I am also an atheist, which means that I have no issues with gays or lesbians at all. And by no means am I behind foreign aid to buy friends or fighting wars anywhere at all.

Given that, who do you vote for? A vote for a Libertarian candidate (or any other party for that matter) is a wasted vote due to, among other things, the electoral college. I will never happen. You'd have to have the earth's poles shift for a Libertarian to have a chance to appear in the radar with this system. So, I have no choice but to ignore some of the things I don't like with both the Republican and Democratic parties and choose based on what I can get behind. Lesser evil, if you will.

I chose to support Romney because I felt he is better equipped to deal with the financial disaster we are navigating. To me, looking ahead 25 to 50 years, nothing else matters. I say this because I know full-well how fucked-up a society can become if the economic framework that surrounds it is compromised. I have lived in countries that suffered from exactly that problem.

I did not vote for Obama because (a) I still don't think he knows what he is doing on financial/economic matters and (b) I really don't like how the democratic party blatantly resorts to buying votes though handouts and benefits being given to large numbers of unionized workers. Our entire welfare state votes democrat because they need it to keep going. And you end-up with generations of people wasting their lives away. Politicians don't care.

I lived in Argentina for about ten years and was witness to how ugly (and effective) these populist manipulation methods can be. Obama KNEW that he was buying millions of votes when he threw your and my money at the auto companies. Somehow that has become acceptable in our country.

Anyhow, Obama won. We'll see what we are in for. I am hoping that he does the right thing and genuinely works towards addressing the real problems we have on the table. After all, this being his second term he doesn't need to pander any more.
Whether you agree with them or not, it's no secret the rest of the world wants Obama. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20008687

So either the rest of the world is badly mis-informed about America, or it tells you something significant about the state of American politics right now... I know what I think. Either way, it's interesting.
Yes, but you don't really see the ~200 other countries' election/decision results on here. Why does the US get special treatment? (It's a serious question, so please don't downvote me.)
Thank you. Can we borrow a few trillion bucks?
Those things are explicitly added post-install because a package can't have cross-architecture dependencies and not all the 10.4 packages support multiarch. For example, if your 32-bit package depends on xboxdrv, it can't install on an Ubuntu 10.4 x64 system. (ditto for libappindicator1, jockey-common, etc) I don't see how defining our own repository helps this problem at all. (and isn't what dropbox, chrome, etc. do anyway)

Thanks for the feedback though.
3D Robotics Receives $5 Million Funding
Yes Joey, though I'm not sure if you still remember me - We co-founded CSLUG back in 1995. :-) I was a lowly freshman happy to get to geek out on Linux with CS folks. (Not many Physics people were really into it then.)
I'm looking at his projected map. I'm looking at the results map. They're the same. Silver 1, pundits 0.
Is Nate going to be 100% this time around?
Sure, but they are more then likely to get that news from some other media source since it is so common and important.

I would have found it more productive if a well written article explaining now that the election has been called how Obama reelection will effect the technical industry was linked.
Wouldn't overturning the Supreme Court require a constitutional amendment? I don't think Congress can just write a law to overturn a Supreme Court decision.

Either way, Congress needs to bring about the change (unless you plan on getting 2/3 the states to hold a convening convention) and Citizens United only lets rich congressmen keep anyone that isn't also rich or well supported from playing the game.
Robot Dragonfly
Here's the thing about that... The World does not have Americas interests as a priority. The World would love the US to have a weak, ineffectual leader. America should seriously consider why The World is so smitten.
I don't think they are misinformed. Their interests do not necessarily have to be aligned with what is best for the US.
That argument could be made for almost anything.

All hackers eat, so clearly HN needs more articles about the food industry...

Anybody who cares about the election already saw this on a million other sites, no point posting it here.
Women's vote did it. Now maybe ycombinator can stop shadow banning women? what do you think? Convinced yet that it is time to be fair ?
Assuming it got an onslaught. I'm quite political and didn't see anyone posting the link, but the NPR and NYT boards were all over the place.
Because a large portion of both the tech industry and HN audience resides in the US.
Because HN uses a story upvote system, even if you took down off topic "mainstream" news like this over and over, people would keep massively upvoting new instances to the top, because the general thought process is "I wanna go see what HN thinks about trending topic X!" and they upvote the first instance of it they see, and make it otherwise.
> Wouldn't overturning the Supreme Court require a constitutional amendment? I don't think Congress can just write a law to overturn a Supreme Court decision.

You can write a new law that tries a different approach, or tweak and address the Court's stated concerns in the original law.
Yep, we need to see proportional representation. That's the only way for new parties to get a foothold in politics and increase competition, forcing all the parties to do what the people want. Things are very different from when the US's political system was created. New technology has made it possible to communicate over long distances, meaning a party might get 10 percent support nationwide, but not get any seats in Congress.
Obama Wins the Presidency
One could say there's a lot of content on this site that isn't intellectually stimulating.

> Off-Topic: If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I recall seeing a top voted article about a somewhat recently deceased CEO on the front page. I'd hardly consider that On-Topic according to that sentence.

Just like a real democracy, just because you don't agree with popular opinion doesn't invalidate it.
Obama's personal tweets are signed -bo. Ones without that signature are by his campaign team.
That email is way, way too long.
I agree the post did not follow the guide lines and it would have been possible to achieve the same result and link to a better article explaining the impact Obama will have on the tech industry.

The US get special treatment for the same reason that many people consider the US President to be the most powerful person in the world. The US President's decisions effect the whole world on a scale which is considerable larger then the leaders of many of the other ~200 countries for better or worse.
Because trading continues as more info comes on, it will trend towards perfectly accurate. (It'd be nice to be able to view the map at previous snapshot moments.)
It depends on what the decision was based on.

If it's based on the 1st Amendment, then an constitutional amendment would be necessary. But if it's based on law passed by Congress, then Congress can repeal or amend the language of the law the decision was based on.
True, but you can sway it if you present a compelling argument.
It took me a couple of hours to write the email

This seems weird when someone else says it...but I relate!

To a job well done!
You should also be careful about what you post online relative to this case as what you write could potentially be used against you in a case. I.e. search your company name>your company name is your HN username>this post could be admissible. Just something to be aware of.
And then they say, "literally purple?"
Even worse in my opinion is that the poster is incentivized to post quickly encouraging the poster to post the first story covering topics like this rather then taking the time to find a well written and insightful article.
Thanks, looks like it's the Sony Vaio S, several configurations offer the discrete gpu.

http://store.sony.com/c/SB-Series-Notebooks/en/c/S_SB_SERIES...
Four more years of predator drones
-- Pakistani villagers.
“Do you know that Jews are not accepted to Moscow University?”

“What do you mean?”

“What I mean is that you shouldn’t even bother to apply. Don’t waste your time. They won’t let you in.”

How awful.
I was surprised to see this exactly match the New York Times real-time coverage. Then I noticed that the intrade map is updated every minute. So I guess the match is expected if people are still buying shares. I've never used intrade so I'm not entirely clear on its mechanics.
The name on the profile is "Onymous". I bet somebody hacked both @O and me.ga. Notice the oldest tweet is only two hours.

Edit: Article from Jan 2011 shows different owner of @O. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/twitte...
Yeah, I was surprised Virgina was in red for the longest time in Google's result, while all indicators had it gone blue.
The internet: Where the government is Orwellian and despotic for going after people for illegally downloading movies, but a champion of democracy when it tries to ban the showing of a political movie.
Ask HN: What are the real chances of Startup Act 2.0 to pass?
Startup Act 2.0 is something Obama promised in his campaign, and as we know, a lot of the campaign promises are often broken.
What are the real chances of Startup Act 2.0 to actually pass and come to effect?
Not really defending the parent, but believe it or not Instagram provides something that makes a lot of people happy. Winning a bunch of money on the stock market does nothing for anyone but the winner. Not really a fair comparison.
And now we know why: Nate Silver correctly predicted every state in the presidential election (Electoral College). So much for the pundits who criticized him, Rasmussen's party ID results that supposedly showed Republicans with a commanding lead in Republican party identification, and "UnSkewed" polls.
I really appreciate any feedback. This is an early stage version, but I wanted to get it out there and see what people had to say before taking it too far in one direction.

Also note: Thinbox only works with U.S. phone number at this time.
There are plenty of arguments for its contribution. I don't need to repeat them.
Hardware ftw. See also the Mimix quadrocopter on Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/qfolabs/mimixtm-tilt-to-...

Wish these kinds of toys were available when I was a kid!
I have not observed that opinion as of yet.

Most would appreciate transparency on who funds "political movie" and like, which to my understanding we do not have right now.
Sorry, it's 10 bytes, not 100.

1 TB = 2^40 bytes

Amazon claims 99.999999999% durability. https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/

2^40 * (1 - 99.999999999/100) = 10.99 bytes
If you voted for Romney, vote this one up: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752189
Why are posts related to Obama being removed from front page ?
2008 vs Today
If you voted for Obama, vote this one up: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752187
Note this thread was just deleted off the front page. Very strange.
Sure, but this email starts off poorly.

"We’re starting CriticalArc and we’re focussed on providing solutions to problems that depend on streaming status and location in real time."

Ever since the 90s, the word "solutions" just makes my eyes glaze over. To be fair, it gets interesting after that, but this is not a good way to introduce your company.
why are posts being pulled off the front page ?
Hmm the .ga tld was owned and managed by a subsidiary of Vivendi so this isn't really too surprising.
neat. but conveniently no mention of battery life or range; always a huge issue with tiny fliers.
"Every known voting system that's deterministic and non-dictatorial is subject to strategic voting."

Maybe, but there's the matter of to what degree.

"Moreover, all voting systems have advantages and disadvantages, because many desirable traits of voting systems are mutually exclusive."

True, but that shouldn't stop us from optimizing as best we can.
> It took me a couple of hours to write the email.

It always takes longer to write short emails, which is why so few people do it.
Ask HN: Why are posts related to Obama being deleted from front page?
Just saw a bunch of posts related to election results appear and then suddenly disappear from the front page. Any idea why ?
Obama wins re-election
All you get from that is either the same outcome you would have gotten or a random third-party candidate chosen.
That's some cute pedantry, requires some very creative reading to come to that self-righteous interpretation. I find semantic pedantry more vapid than data, though.

So check the 2012 results: http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/race/president?hpt=...

Yet again, the Republican candidate scores his highest vote share among college graduates, and the Democratic candidate scores his highest vote share among people without high school degrees.
Definitely. What defines "failed" depends on the person.
I've been working on mine for some time as well. Considered it "failed" after cofounder issues led to nothing getting done (no product/MVP). Ex-cofounders just enjoyed talking about building something, and had unrealistic expectations of startups (e.g. $160k+ salary, $8 mil seed rounds, etc).

I've come to believe it's a "failed" venture once I reach a point where I've exhausted all of my ability and options. I haven't reached that point because I can just learn to code to build it. I was relying too much on finding technical cofounders because I didn't consider myself technical at the time.

Quite frankly, we were wantrepreneurs. Coming to terms with myself over that really helped in moving forward.

I've been building ever since and have someone willing to pay once it's done. Best thing is - I've realized that I enjoy building :).
Seriously? Flagged.

Come on, you've been on HN for a long time. Political posts are tolerated when interesting to the readers, but this is a content-free, value-free post.
Nate Silver correctly called 50 out of 50 states
'The (self-proclaimed) future of Mobile Computing'
So, just Team Fortress 2 then.
HN has a built-in polling feature. I don't know what the requirements for using it are (I have ~600 karma and can't seem to create it), but I suspect that using that would be a better idea than two solutions.
How on earth do you get people's email addresses?
My initial instinct is that your are just farming phone numbers...
Probably because it's considered "off-topic", and we don't need a bunch of reposts: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Colorado measure legalizing marijuana passes
Obama Wins The Election. Here’s His Technology Agenda.
If they aren't registered, we send them a text message asking for them to reply with their phone number. Any e-mails thereafter to [YOUR_NUMBER]@thinbox.com are automatically forwarded.

Thanks for the feedback though. Admittedly, we could have put more time into the landing page.
Harvard penalized Jews in admissions here in the early 20th century by various means, and continues the sick practice today with Asians.
Quality sample data and historical data to backtest is hard.

Symbols change, stocks split, dividends are announced etc.
They have the battery life/flight time as follows (assuming this is for the alpha variation)

Hovering Time: 8-10 minutes

Hybrid Flight Time: 25-30 minutes

Image source: http://d2oadd98wnjs7n.cloudfront.net/medias/521391/pictures/...
I think the proliferation is partly due to comfort with js and an increase in API availability. I also think that this may be a high water mark - in the future people will have apps on mobile or the desktop and select their own data sources, rather than the news outlets necessarily having the best options.
Obama wins
Open Ed Pioneer Flat World Knowledge To Revoke Free Access To Texts
Windows NT was much older, from the early 90's, which was the basis for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Win7. The subsequent releases were mere upgrade and fixes of the original OS.
How is it different than me just texting them directly asking for their email? I suspect they'd be more likely to send their email to me than to some random company trying to act as a middleman.
As far as know from my Russian friends raise of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union started in late 1970s / early 1980s.

Is that correct? Does anybody know why?
Was it because of renewal of Russian nationalism?
The iPad is locked-down enough that it's basically a toy for reading the internet and doing mail. If the Surface enables a different model of tablet computing, there's no reason why it shouldn't be a success. It's surely going to be rough around the edges to start with, but that doesn't mean people will miss the appeal entirely.
I'm not sure that was the best example. If you're talking about NIMBYism, there's generally some sort of veto power or capacity to obstruct involved.

The Congressional equivalent would be earmarks and pork. Not that we don't have quite enough of that already but the argument is that absent larger, more ideological themes and the parties' whips, it would be just about all we would have.
Romney writes victory, not concession speech
Sandy, A Grim Reminder to Back Up Your Data
Once California has its results in, I'm guessing his prediction on the popular vote will make it 51/51.
Apple ordered to pay $368M for patent infringement in FaceTime
This remains to be seen. As of this writing, Florida and Virginia have yet to be called.
Someone please create an HN poll of which POTUS candidates people voted for
I've been a huge fan of Nate Silver since forever, and I must say, I really regret his "acquirement" by NY Times. When it was his own website, it was a much more user-friendly experience.

For instance, though I have an NYT account, every other page view I get redirected to a login prompt if I don't press Esc fast enough (this page has expired? WTF?). It also made him more of an independent, though he is (falsely) discounted on many counts by other parts of media, his affiliation with NYT is yet another facet for them to criticize.
Hopefully not buried too deep, but any books recommended for getting into day-trading, either manual, or algorithmic? Kindle preferred, but definitely not the deciding factor.
2012 Was the Moneyball Election
Oh, I didn't think it was obvious at all... Like in my example, say List A has 1000 people and a 50% open. List B has 2000 ppl and a 25% open rate. In both cases, the same number of absolute ppl are opening the email. Why should List A necessarily get more clicks than List B? And yet consistently, it does. That's not obvious to me...
Why do I have to enter my google profile information to open this?
The idea is that it can happen automatically and seamlessly. We are planning to release a mobile sync app that will automatically "fill in the blanks" in your contact list. Basically, for any contact that has a mobile number and no email address, we'll populate the field with [Number]@thinbox.com
This is a pretty big deal. It will be interesting to see how the federal government handles this.