top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-11-07

Nate Silver correctly called 50 out of 50 states

https://plus.google.com/114613808538621741268/posts/LfoYJdWSK71

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Colorado measure legalizing marijuana passes

http://www.coloradodaily.com/ci_21941918/nation-watches-colorados-marijuana-legalization-vote?source=most_viewed

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Washington voters approve legalized marijuana

http://mynorthwest.com/11/2121970/Washington-voters-approved-legalized-marijuana

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The Best

http://dcurt.is/the-best

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The definitive guide to forms based website authentication

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/549/the-definitive-guide-to-forms-based-website-authentication

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Great design from Apple on an interaction with Siri

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3308-great-design-from-apple-on-this-interaction

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Inside the Secret World of the Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win

http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/07/inside-the-secret-world-of-quants-and-data-crunchers-who-helped-obama-win/print/

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Why is Rick Santorum Using a Picture of 4Chan Founder Moot on His Website?

http://betabeat.com/2012/11/why-is-former-presidential-candidate-rick-santorum-using-a-picture-of-4chan-founder-moot-on-his-website/

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Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

http://www.easel.io/bootstrap

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Obama Wins The Election. Here’s His Technology Agenda.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/06/obama-wins-the-election-heres-his-technology-agenda/

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Entrepreneurs Tell What They Wish They’d Known before Founding First Startup

http://davidhauser.com/post/35203066523/advice-from-21-entrepreneurs

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Firefox OS – video presentations and slides on the OS, WebAPIs

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/11/firefox-os-video-presentations-and-slides-on-the-os-webapis-hacking-and-writing-apps/

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The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio

http://www.berrebi.org/2012/11/07/the-email-i-received-from-google-in-2007-when-they-wanted-to-buy-zlio/

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The Fifth problem: math and anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-Fifth-problem--math---anti-Semitism-in-the-Soviet-Union-7446

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Four African girls create a urine-powered generator

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/11/07/forget-apps-and-other-useless-startups-these-four-african-girls-have-created-a-pee-powered-generator/?utm_source=Twitter&awesm=tnw.to_chiG&utm_medium=Twitter%20Publisher&utm_content=Forget%20apps%20and%20other%20useless%20startups:%20These%20four%20African%20girls%20have%20created%20a%20pee-powered%20generator

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A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend hours in advance

http://web.mit.edu/snikolov/Public/trend.pdf

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Windows 8 is just another way for Microsoft to show you ads

http://owened.co.nz/windows-8-is-just-a-way-for-microsoft-to-show-you-ads

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When You're Visited By A Copy Of Yourself, Stay Calm

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/11/07/164607292/when-you-re-visited-by-a-copy-of-yourself-stay-calm?ft=1&f=1007&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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The birthday paradox in action: calculating the probability of a hash collision

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TheBirthdayParadox.html?HN2

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PhDs from the Faculty's Perspective

http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/157012-phds-from-the-facultys-perspective/fulltext

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NBC calls it for Barack Obama

http://www.nbcnews.com/

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Kim Dotcom loses new domain in preemptive strike by Gabon government

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/kim-dotcom-loses-new-domain-in-preemptive-strike-by-government/

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Why Startup Founders are Always Unhappy

http://www.jessyoko.com/blog/2012/11/07/why-startup-founders-are-always-unhappy/

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Parrot in captivity manufactures tools, something not seen in the wild

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/11/parrot-in-captivity-manufactures-tools-something-not-seen-in-the-wild/

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Apple awarded design patent for actual rounded rectangle

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/11/apple-awarded-design-patent-for-actual-rounded-rectangle/

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Reactive Extensions (Rx) is now Open Source

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ReactiveExtensionsRxIsNowOpenSource.aspx

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Rationality for Entrepreneurs: Awesome workshop in the Bay Area

http://appliedrationality.org/schedule/

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Tiny Piano sales quadruple due to Apple commercial

http://blog.squarepoet.com/post/35196629175/tiny-piano-sales-quadruple-due-to-apple-commercial

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Apartment Radiator Temperature

http://terg.is/?p=228

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Microsoft and Skype to axe world's most popular IM client early 2013

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/07/microsoft_messenger_kill_date/

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Robot Dragonfly

http://www.indiegogo.com/robotdragonfly

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Why our online startup releases a print product, and how we do it.

http://weddinglovely.com/blog/why-our-online-startup-releases-a-print-product-and-how-we-do-it/

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NYT: Real time Election map

http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president

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African teenagers invent a urine-powered generator

http://makerfaireafrica.com/2012/11/06/a-urine-powered-generator/

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RISC OS for Raspberry Pi

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2338

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Airbnb connect those in need with people who are able to provide free housing

https://www.airbnb.com/sandy

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The usability experts were right: changes we made to increase conversion by 50%

http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering/the-usability-experts-were-right-5-changes-we-made-to-increase-conversion-by-50/

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“Don’t buy this computer.”

http://www.marco.org/2012/11/06/the-retina-macbook-pro-13

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