skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Force and coercion can come from places outside of law or government decision. They can come from private actors, or, as in this particular case, from historically grown social structures.

As an academic, you are de facto forced to publish in certain journals that are considered to be important and of high quality. It is the collective status quo that does the forcing, as Robin_Message has already explained quite well.

(Coincidentally, most of my disagreement with most libertarians seems to come from the fact that they fail to understand or accept this relatively simple concept. If you implicitly assume that force and coercion can only ever come from the state, you're going to have a somewhat warped outlook on life.)
I hate that it is only available for iOS 6. I can't upgrade from 5.1 because my Mac is too old to use the newer versions of Xcode.
i believe SameOrigin is enough for everyone.
If no - you can make your own mechanizme
Preferred Shares are more like bonds (in that they generally pay a higher dividend rate and are more immune to market swings). In the event of bankruptcy, preferred shares have more priority over common shares but less than bonds.

Apple doesn't need the money so I'm not sure why they would want to issue them.
Yea, I used it yesterday. It's not that expensive, the app is awesome, and their responsiveness is also great.
Doesn't work on Chrome Version 24.0.1312.57 m (Win 7)

EDIT: Works now, found out the pngs were being blocked on my network...
Scala is better than injection framework
No. The dividends are less than 1% of the share price. For it to be considered to be profitable on dividends alone I think it would need to pay 10% or more. I don't expect it to increase by 1000%. http://investor.apple.com/faq.cfm

Edit: looks like I was wrong about the price. That seems to be the quarterly dividend. So it's 2% and it could go up. http://www.thestreet.com/dividends/leaders/index.html

Edit 2: Here's a graph of Apple's dividend yield: http://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/dividend_yield
just tested in IE8 and works great.not sure about IE7
Loved the Star Trek story.
Although I'd love to hear more about what software he uses: he only mentioned Evernote, Google and a couple more.
Since you are concerned about revealing what you have in your mind, it would be preferable to talk to someone in you network directly. Because without any proper spec, giving direction might take to entirely other path which might not take to your goal.
Amazon coins v trillion-dollar coins
Apparently its going up untouched - a test of the quality of consumer electronics and presumably a nod to the expense of building useful hardware from scratch.

PS
Had to mangle the first sentence a bit to fit in 80 chars.
No way - just the opposite! In fact I think it worked the last time I ever saw it years later. That was an incredibly memorable piece of my childhood, and apparently that of many others' as well: http://dribbble.com/shots/680831-Fisher-Price-WIP-2 (wherein I also mention that feature).
It's not a redefinition of "assumption" but rather a justification as to why these assumptions should not be qualified as "incorrect".
Y Combinator-Upverter Hardware Hackathon
Greenlight (an investment fund) wants to push Apple to issue preferred stock. Why? Because, among other things, preferred stock, compared to ordinary issued shares, will receive a perpetual dividend (very much like a bond), but with no maturity.

Pros for the investor: if you are corporation/qualified investor, rather than paying 35% capital gains tax in the U.S. they will pay 15%. Preferred also tends to be senior to ordinary equity.

Cons for the investor: they will probably have little or no voting rights as preferred equity holders. Little decision making at the shareholders' meeting. Additionally, given that preferred equity does not participate in the growth of the company, the preferred shares and dividends will most certainly remain/trade like a bond, with little volatility compared to traditional equities (if Apple's revenues/cash continue to grow like crazy, preferred equity investor will not have that much an upside).

Cons for Apple: preferred dividends are not tax-deductible (unlike debt). In theory, Apple's cost of capital will increase. They will also issue an instrument with no redemption date.

Pros for Apple: they might be able to avoid paying any repatriation on cash held internationally. Preferred equity is great for defending a company from hostile takeovers (but this is rare in Apple's case given its size).
How is Hall's "real-time" real-timier than those of Yammer's or a number of other enterprise activity-stream apps?

Its pretty much a given that an activity stream app will use an socketi.io-ish messaging systme for real-time updates, some sort of APN service for mobile notifications and a visual tool for in-web-app notifications.

What does Hall bring to the table that differentiates it from other Activity stream[1] apps

*disclaimer: I work for Socialcast, VMWare's Social Enterprise App that has had these features for a while now.

#hint We have a Freemium model where 99% of features are provided for free to companies with less than 50 users.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity_stream
I think he's suggesting that 113 should be interpreted as 1/13. I'm not sure how simple that logic would be to implement, though.
This is amazingly(!) ham-fisted on the part of NBC. everyblock.com was pretty vibrant from what I could tell. And being forced to shutter overnight is about as unprofessional as it gets (again, I understand this as, without a doubt, some NBC exec throwing a temper tantrum and not realizing the value of their own assets when hitting the nuke button).

I saw a lot of connecting going on there, in a way that is much more valuable than other social websites in that people could use it as a way to promote and share local/in the flesh resources and information and it brought a lot of value to the people who used it. That there was no warning, no way for people to reach out to others they'd like to stay in touch with after the shutdown is reckless decision making. Just a full-on, ridiculous implosion. Social capital is a real thing, and it's too bad that NBC does not consider that in their ledger.
Some things Apple could buy, for cash:

* SpaceX (market cap $10Bn, AIUI)

* Dell (a mere $23Bn!)

* Boeing

* Ford

* The entire global publishing industry (figures for the top 50 publishers' turnover are here: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/fi... -- the largest only turns over $8.4Bn)

* A year of Puerto Rico's GDP (roughly $100Bn)

It is really hard to get your head around just how big Apple's cash pile is.
Innovate. Test. Kill. Repeat.
Sorry to be pedantic, but the problems were enumerated in the article. There are multiple major security problems with cookies, and their costs are in the billions of dollars per year.

Instead of "I don't really see the problem with X" I think you really meant "I think on the whole the benefits of X outweigh its downsides". Neither the article nor the OP has suggested getting rid of cookies. They're merely trying to broach the subject of re-examining the HTTP state mechanism to see if there are better ways to solve the problem.

To suggest that something is sub-optimal is not to necessarily suggest that its net effect is negative.
Gimme a break. The assumptions are correct, for now. If they become incorrect, Stripe will update the software accordingly. This is exactly how good software is written and managed. Patrick has nothing to be embarrassed about.
Thats fine, when you get several hundred emails a day you don't want push notifications. If its important it shouldn't be going to me via email, I mean thats why I have a phone.
It runs on Android! :)
I take this as good news, i found in the most unfortunate way how deceptively diversified I actually was compared to how much I thought I was. For the most part I was invested in an array of mutual funds, which I really haven't been watching closely for a while as I have been seeing fairly good return. However when Apple started dipping, I saw myself dipping too. Upon further investigation I found my exposure to Apple was quite significant :\
Any size or performance benchmarks vs Zepto?
At it's current rate of fulfilling the queue, I can expect to be invited in about 30-50 days. Looks like a decent app, but no thanks. If this is a marketing ploy, it might backfire on them.
Definitions vary (depending on context), but generally it refers to short term (usually 90 day or less), highly liquid investments such as Treasury bills, money market holdings and commercial paper.
See xkcd "Bag Check": http://xkcd.com/651/
Short term investments that can be liquidated quickly. Most of it is not in the US.
Hmm, works for me (Chrome 24.0.1312.57 m Win 7).
We did it - Reached our Indiegogo goal today.
Apple Space is something I'd be entirely behind.
How to parse XL: http://xlr.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=xlr/xlr;a=bl... and http://xlr.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=xlr/xlr;a=bl.... 676 + 747 lines of non-hacky C++ code.
Handset Profit Share: 72% for Apple, 29 for Samsung, 0 for the Rest
If the future means turning cows into Pavlovian meat robots without remorse, then count me out.
My take on it is this:

In the 70s and 80s, Lego was low resolution. Block, 4 bit color.

Now its just higher resolution (smaller pieces with more non-right angles), and higher bit-depth.

Lego has just paralleled video game evolution.
Swedish Pulbic Service channel shows a show called "Men that net-hate women".
This show is strictly an ad for the feminist party in Sweden at the same time it's used to try to push the limit of anonymity online. Aswell as they put the responsibility at companies to moderate their Facebook "forums", in this case it was Hennes & Mauritz what about next time? Should the companies be responsible for cleaning up their Facebook chats/comments even to their not an IT-related company?

Sources:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.idg.se%2F2.1085%2F1.491137%2Fosynlighet-spar-pa-nathat&act=url

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=en&a=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article16200105.ab
In some ways this is a negative. Issuing dividends means a company thinks that an investor can get a higher return on the cash elsewhere. I.e. there is a lack of profitable opportunities for the company to invest their cash pile.
Ok i wasn't talking about security problems. Just the problem in general of cookies. And so I don't think it is true that "Cookies provide a function for their origin web site, every other use is generally not good for the consumer."

Besides, some people have the illusion that changing the cookies will give them privacy. Well, there are many other ways of following them around although a little less accurate.
This show is strictly an ad for the feminist party in Sweden at the same time it's used to try to push the limit of anonymity online. Aswell as they put the responsibility at companies to moderate their Facebook "forums", in this case it was Hennes & Mauritz what about next time? Should the companies be responsible for cleaning up their Facebook chats/comments even to their not an IT-related company?

Sources:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js...

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=en&#...
I can't imagine having to have Skype open.. my computer is bogged down enough without Skype
The "don't do it if it's going to make you miserable" stance is a nice switch from the usual "startups are suffering so go read some Marcus Aurelius" attitude we get around here.
Against a signature they fetched how? Over HTTPS?

Just because this style makes you think about it harder, doesn't mean it's less secure. It's the simplest and best case.
Close... it means it's time to sell their stock now.
There really is a quality difference. Several of Jules Verne's works were serialized in news papers at the time and then a slap-dash translation was made very quickly so they could publish them in other countries. The translations were often so bad that Verne himself commented on them. In some cases the translations omitted and abridged parts of the works as well.

It very much does a disservice to Verne's reputation to read such poor quality translations. Indeed, perhaps the reason why you do not consider Verne's work to be "great poetry" is because you've never been exposed to any good translations.

Here is a volume that might be worth acquiring, for example: http://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Journeys-Journey-Circling-Leag...
Hasn't prior research established that men on average overstate sexual experience and women on average understate

How would you be able to tell?
I wrote something similar here: http://pineapple.io/discussion/just-learned-about-ripper-in-...
90k people in one building?

And yeah, obviously companies have swipe cards/ids. I think that differs from name tags
iOS runs fast native Apps, while Android runs in a VM. This makes iOS faster and/or more battery efficient. This speed/performance attracts users.

On the other hand iOS is a closed system while Android is open. An open system attracts developers.

Ubuntu has potentially both technical advantages. It will have fast native Apps, it already has a Ubuntu store, it has Ubuntu One (similar to Dropbox / Skydrive) and it will be more open than either of iOS or Android.

And Ubuntu has proven that they can deliver, with Unity in the desktop. I'm using it right now (inside a VM running on Windows 7) and honestly is the best Linux I have ever used both in the desktop and as a server in AWS.

The only reason I can think for a Ubuntu phone failure is total lack of carriers interested in the product (I think more than one chinese company will jump with full force to Ubuntu, remember the so called Alibaba OS), or a half assed launch/support (again it would be the carriers fault, and it would be only relevant in USA).

If I had spare money I would propose a longbet against you ^_^
Anyone think that the reservation numbers might be inflated?
Personally, I find the "everything" nature of Evernote to be in conflict with the statement...

"That's what we aspire to build at Evernote. Something fundamentally tool."

Via browser or phone, Evernote is multiple panes, functions and I don't how many buttons where every action seems to come with an extra dialog, step or three.

That doesn't say tool to me, more like a borrowed toolbox. Sure, I can accomplish a lot with the assortment found inside, but I'd get things done a lot faster and easier with purpose-built tools.

Also, I find the inclusion of both a mini-bat and sledge on the on the desk shot a bit odd.
I would imagine some sort of fault tree analysis. Safety engineering in complex systems does that a lot: you start with an event you don't want to happen, imagine all the ways it could happen, estimate the probabilities of each contributing factor, and do the math.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_tree_analysis

It sounds like one of their incoming assumptions--a probability, a manufacturing spec, something like that--didn't match up with reality. That happens. They're probably going over the fault tree, madly trying to figure out which one and by how much.
I just thought it might do more that what it appears to do
Good resume :)
I'm not sure I want to fly on a rocket that isn't user-servicable
The general idea is that startups which shut down like this impose a cost on _every other startup_ out there, because it makes people more hesitant to actually use and rely on services provided by startups due to their memory of being burned. Yes, this includes the next startup that the people working on that particular startup are going to work on too.
I can't speak for myself because I don't use Evernote, but I read good things about Everpad: https://github.com/nvbn/everpad
Why Microsoft is killing the second-hand game market
You claim to have no background in programming. Then how can you know what is "relevant to one of my questions: which programming language would be best/easiest to write my concept in"?

Programmers (I'm generalizing here) don't like to be presented with XY problems[1]. What you've done here is decided that the best solution to your problem, X (which you haven't described to us) is Y (learn a programming language), so you're asking us about what programming language to learn.

The reason we don't like these sorts of questions is because there could be a solution to X, that is more effective, or much easier to explain than Y. You're not going to get helpful answers to your question "what programming language should I learn" because we absolutely don't have enough information to decide if learning to program is your best bet. Let alone how you should go about learning to program.

It's like you're asking us "I have a great idea for how to win at racecars, it involves taking apart the engine. What socket set should I buy?" Sure, there are better and worse socket sets, but that's not really the relevant question at this point.

All of that being said: Learn Python.

[1] http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=542341
Cool, it sounds like you're taking the right approach. You can use what you learn for next valentines day. You could even do it for Xmas (leave a present under the tree for someone you love)
This letter looks like it exposes Apple to an enormous potential tax penalty.

From http://www.irs.gov/publications/p542/ar02.html#en_US_2011_pu...

"A corporation can accumulate its earnings for a possible expansion or other bona fide business reasons. However, if a corporation allows earnings to accumulate beyond the reasonable needs of the business, it may be subject to an accumulated earnings tax of 15%. If the accumulated earnings tax applies, interest applies to the tax from the date the corporate return was originally due, without extensions.

"To determine if the corporation is subject to this tax, first treat an accumulation of $250,000 or less generally as within the reasonable needs of most businesses.....

"In determining if the corporation has accumulated earnings and profits beyond its reasonable needs, value the listed and readily marketable securities owned by the corporation and purchased with its earnings and profits at net liquidation value, not at cost.

"Reasonable needs of the business include the following.

"Specific, definite, and feasible plans for use of the earnings accumulation in the business.....

"The absence of a bona fide business reason for a corporation's accumulated earnings may be indicated by many different circumstances, such as a lack of regular distributions to its shareholders....

Good thing for Apple that the tax laws of the USA don't seem to apply to megacorps.
I love that you are running server side JavaScript, but loading jQuery is the part that feels unclean to you.
Big: an upside-down start-up incubator
Since when we started to consider calling people "human resources"? Probably Nazi been the first.
Although, questions with non-personally identifiable data or more likely to get honest answers.
If you express your grammar in a Pratt parser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_parser), which associates parsing actions with tokens, the amount of "token overloading" in the syntax becomes obvious.

As for why tokens are overloaded--you just run out of good tokens if you don't reuse them. Consider the tokens '(' and '['. It's quite common to use '(' in the prefix context for grouping, and '(' in the infix context to mean a function call. How do you eliminate the overloading? You can make function calls use whitespace as an infix operator, but that creates a host of other problems. Also, overloading is useful for creating parallelism in the syntax. You might use '[' in the prefix context to signify literal arrays and '[' as an infix operator to signify array dereferencing. In that situation, overloading is synergestic.
"LISP is by definition the best programming language"

Well, that's exactly right, it is the best! Not sure for the GP but I would follow this logic to this conclusion happily :)

Um, er... Sorry, I just recently wrote my first program in Lisp (in Racket exactly) that was something more than a few tens of lines of code and am very happy because of this and I couldn't resist posting this here :)
Check the RequestPolicy preferences page; you can do sub-domains. Fair warning: it's a lot more fiddly to configure your whitelist that way.
Hi cal5k....CTO of Hall here. We apologize for the inconvenience. We're constantly trying to optimize the way we send network invitations. We're still working out the kinks and finding the right balance for notifications. You can contact me at ron @ hall-inc.com or if you're on hall, https://hall.com/ron if you'd like us to take a look at your specific case.
Or they could pay their tax bill. On revenues of $6B in Australia, they paid only $40M in tax, claiming only $99M in profit.

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/labor-mp-tak...
I believe it's just about anything they own that's actually cash or that they could turn into cash on short notice. Cash, T-Bills, marketable securities.
Highly-liquid short term instruments with very high credit rating, such as actively traded stocks, US Treasury bills, banker acceptances, commercial paper.
> it is shocking how badly Boeing got its estimates wrong. Does anyone know exactly how they came up with these numbers?

Eh, I don't think that means much. You can't put odds on an unknown failure mode.
H.Beam Piper, amazing writer.
Yes, Western Design Center is selling the 65C02 in the classic 40-pin DIP package for about $5 a pop.

The last time I checked, which admittedly was almost 10 years ago, microcontrollers with embedded 6502 cores were quite popular with chinese toy manufacturers.
More like: if you require rare things, you are less likely to live long enough to reproduce.
Both will use the same kernel.

The difference is that Ubuntu phone will not have a JVM as its main runtime.
In classical stock markets, if Apple is worth $450 a share and they issue a $10 dividend after trading closes, the next morning the stock will trade at $440. If you grew up reading the stock listings in things called "newspapers" sometimes you would see a letter (I think "x" for "ex-dividend" but it's literally been decades) in the listings next to stocks that were doing this, so you knew that a price drop was about to/had just happened.

So even if no one were engaging in arbitrage opportunities, it would make no difference when you purchase the stock.
C and R used to be hard to search for, but these days Google search does brilliantly given a bit of context.
If Go is hard to search for now, be sure it will get better.

I do wish they had chosen a different name, but I realise it matters less and less.
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In a volatile industry like technology, where a competitors industry changing technology can destroy your profitability in a very short time (eg. Nokia, RIM, Yahoo!, etc) does it make sense for Apple to double down on research with this 'excess cash'?

It seems Apple spends considerably less effort on the long-term research like Google and Microsoft. In Microsoft's case, it may be some of these longer range technologies which will keep it relevant, for Google, it seems their research may keep them growing.
I took the goal of the library as general purpose, not stripe purpose. Sorry for my personal incorrect assumption.
True, but with such a giant pile, it is only saying that they can't invest the part they return (which is a small percentage of their total).