skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a counterpoint: at the moment of financing, existing shareholders also think the latest round is a positive deal for themselves. That implies they value their remaining, post-dilution (and less-preferenced) shares even higher than the reported top-line 'valuation'.

And indeed, a main reason for the liquidation preference is to provide the later investors a guarantee/signal that the insiders' intent isn't just to soon settle for less that the 'valuation' – winning themselves a gain at the expense of the latest investor.

So, sure, when later money adds "$100MM at a $3B valuation", those 3.3%-ownership investors might not truly value the entire company at exactly 30X their stake. But, the other 96.7% owners do value the company at even more than $3B, or they wouldn't have granted the downside-protection and done the deal.

So reporting the top-line valuation, as a market-negotiated fair value, weighted by revealed preferences, still makes a lot of sense. Professionals and insiders found it a reasonable meeting-point... and the downside-protection (which implies the investors' number is really lower) is exactly offset by the upside-expectation (which implies the insiders' number is really higher).
> I'm sure 1-10 Mbps seemed super-fast 10 years ago

It's plenty fast now, too. Good-quality 1080p H.264 video is 3Mbps. 6Mbps is 50GB/day. If this is not enough, you most likely have a software problem.

Not that we shouldn't strive for progress, but most of the complains in these comments are completely different from the rural horror stories of the article - they're taking for granted development that isn't actually there. Signing up for the cable company because it has the highest advertised speeds and then complaining about the implications of a shared medium provided by an unregulated monopoly is myopic entitled whining.

Look into competing DSL options, really. Your new provider may even have warm-blooded people answering the phone.
It's possible that Google is telling the truth. The FTC is paying close attention, especially after the settlements in the Buzz and Safari cookie incidents. Deceptive data collection and use practices--like lying about having location data--would certainly trigger FTC enforcement.
My point has nothing to do with whether this particular board was established under discrimination, and everything to do with the author's notion that a company cannot be successful without women on the board. I have nothing against women on the board, but I think it is intuitively obvious that neither gender is a prerequisite for success.
> My college adviser (part-time grad school) even INSISTED that I learn Java because I wouldn't get anywhere without it.

To be fair that statement isn't without merit.

I just went through a slew of interviews for new college grad positions this fall. I refused to apply for Java or .NET positions preferring Python / C / C++. This easily eliminated >90% of companies at the career fair.

Fortunately, I was still able to interview at the big 3 (Google, Amazon, MS) and a slew of Bay Area companies.

Amazon's onsite interview was a bit frustrating. All four interviewers ignored my resume and assumed Java expertise, asking the occasional question with Java terminology. When I answered the question reframed in Python / C++ terminology the conversation usually died off.
Mystery ailment is wiping out coast's starfish
I think the article was pretty clear that the parents are to blame for many reasons. But it was about Dasani, who is not at fault, not her parents.
By the title I expected a piece of satire.

Titling an article about sexism with 'Be a Man' probably is not the best way to go about advocating equality.
Have sex-change operation and paint your skin! Be a man!
Those children didn't ask to be born. But now they are. So what do we do about it? Or how would you go about stopping them from being born?

Open that door and you get a whole world of ugly answers and precious few good and/or socially acceptable answers.
Telling people you're not victim blaming doesn't mean you're not victim blaming when you then blame the victim.
Thanks a lot for pointing out the problem of having those fonts within the Apache license. We will find a solution soon. Next time you see something like this, we'd appreciate it greatly if you emailed us instead.
>Then it's pretty clear you've done a bad job of advertising your job openings. Did you, perhaps, just ask for referrals among your own personal network?

That is pure conjecture, there are differences in the way men and women think, with men more naturally drawn to STEM fields, and to attempt to legislate equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity would be reverse sexism. Notice there is no mention of paid paternity leave, or other ways that women are blatantly given an advantage over men.
Good electric motors typically have 90%-95% efficiency. However tesla is using AC motors driven by DC batteries, so they have to convert.
Proof-of-work doesn't create the value; it enforces the rules of the protocol via incentives and consensus (essentially, one CPU = one vote). Any value is created entirely in people's heads. Whether that's a good or bad thing is up for debate.
Valuation of 2 billion is not just for investors with downside protection, but for all the investors that own any part of the stock. Valuation is valuation - let's not confuse it with what will happen in the future - just because a company is worth 2 billion today, doesn't mean it will be worth that or more in X years. But today, if investors are willing to pay a price of 2 billion and founders/current investors are willing to sell equity at 2 billion - then current valuation is 2 billion, plain and simple
The protection that preferences provide is so important and so often ignored by the media and general public.

Imagine if you could buy Twitter stock today at $50, with the guarantee that if the stock went below that, you'd get your $50 back. Would you buy? I would, for sure. I'd even be willing to buy at $100: it's all upside and no downside. Does that mean that Twitter is worth twice its current valuation? Of course not.

How do you think DST got into all those hot deals?
The 14 Biggest Kickstarter Wins of 2013
True. I wrote a blog post about this 18 months ago that outlines just this: http://2pasc.com/2012/05/18/the-power-law-of-startup-employe...
The absence of support for a movement does not equate to opposition of that movement. Please derive more straw men.
Crowdsourced Phone Research: Three Hops May Net NSA Much of the U.S. Population
New Interfaces Inspire Inventive Computer Games
That Dasani is demonstrating so much vivacity is impressive to us and so worthy of note that we have an article about her. But we expect the opposite, because all of her environmental cues are encouraging the opposite.

how does it make any sense to blame her parents who are the products of the exact same structure she is now struggling against?
"She then wipes down the family’s small refrigerator, stuffed with lukewarm milk, Tropicana grape juice and containers of leftover Chinese."

Eating out is a great way to stay poor.
There are plenty of reasons why you should care about gender diversity - many of them linked in the article/letter, if you had bothered to read it. The most obvious being: because you said you care about diversity. CompanyX claimed to support diversity and integration, but didn't make it a priority. If one can't trust the management to hold itself accountable on something so visible, why trust them about anything else?
makes me think you didn't live in the Soviet Union. Trust me, it was a very bad place
Why would intellectual property rights prevent anyone from buying parts from different suppliers and putting them together?
"The impact smashed the patrol car’s windshield, leaving the deputy with cuts on his arm and glass in his eyes."

Clearly the peace officer was the victim of the cyclist's irresponsible road behaviour here!
The victims are the children - the parents should get most of the blame.
They have been made invisible under Bloomberg.
A story about the benefits of fiber optic cable over investment is often used to dismiss the harm caused by the late nineties internet bubble.

What do we have to show for our recent hosting bubble?
Are you referring to "Modern Meaning"? Maybe I'm not understanding what you're saying. It seems like you're implying that "goodwill" is a material part of the calculation of a purchase price prior to the deal being signed.
Good, now we can put off thinking about conservation yet again! Our great-grandchildren will have plenty of time to think of something.
This article is really sad and quick to blame NYC's outgoing mayor for all of the problems, but suggests absolutely no solutions. The only actionable piece of data in it is that 50% of the city is below the poverty line, which suggests that anyone that doesn't need to be in NYC should never go there. Numbers like that foretell an uprising against those that are not poor, either by the citizens themselves through violence, or by the city government through punitive laws and taxes.

I now feel very sorry for Dasani, and am more sure than ever that I won't be spending time in New York. If that was the point of the article, then well done.
They are not. It's possible to divide, but there are limits.

Edit: not sure why this is downvoted. You can't divide one Satoshi, unless the protocol is updated.
Sprout: a pencil with a seed
That's why I asked my wife for an Arduino starter kit and foghorn for Christmas.
Really? Where is the sexism? Here's a link to the discussion as of the time of your comment:

http://archive.is/yjT2g

It looks like you're using "sexism" to mean "views that are not in lockstep with rude, hyper-privileged feminist activists who make thinly-veiled threats toward groups of people for having too many penises".
I think this is a necessary next step for Bitcoin. So yes.
Richard Stallman uses Rmail
As a biker in NYC, police cars are the most dangerous thing on the road for you. They roll through red lights, never use blinkers, cut you off without looking, park in bike lanes, and occasionally just drive down one way streets. All this without running their emergency lights, just as matter of everyday driving.
Bloomberg's legacy will be, more than bike lanes or 311, the sweeping of poverty beneath the rug during his 12 years of power.
"manual malloc/free are increasingly futile unless you're targeting embedded devices"

Or have any algorithm that uses a lot of memory, or if you want control over how much memory the algorithm uses at a time.

In the article (which is great, by the way), you can see that mark-and-sweep means scanning all of the active objects. This does not have great scalability properties. CPU gets faster, but memory gets larger, so matters won't improve over time.

GCs are great for processes that are tiny. As soon as you have a memory-hungry algorithm, it starts looking worse.

Also, as others have pointed out, manual memory management is not synonymous with malloc/free. There are many other choices available, and region-oriented allocators are often nice for algorithms that use a lot of memory. PostgreSQL internally uses "memory contexts" where you allocate objects with the same lifetime (e.g. transaction-local state) in the same context, and wipe it all at once.
Xbox 720 IllumiRoom Official Demo Gameplay. Incredibly immersive.
$6k easily.
Hmm, I dunno. How did China implement their One Child policy?

edit: s/Chile/Child
> At this point Bitcoin isn't even as popular as Cuban Pesos.

Bitcoin replacing the US dollar is unrealistic.

But if it's this valuable at the Cuban-peso level, how valuable will it be when it's as popular as, say, Canadian dollars or South African rand?
It's not illegal to transfer money as a consumer with Bitcoin in California or the other places you mentioned. It's just illegal to do so without proper licencing if you run a financial business. Apple is just offering an app marketplace, they are not hosting BTC transfers or running a money-transfer business by letting Gliph be in the app store.
Clojure's Java interop seems good to me. Why is Scala's a distinguishing factor?
Metal 3D printing and six key shifts in the 'second industrial revolution'
If cloud computing is a commodity, so is real estate
Governments admit to faking terrorism: a list
Robin Hanson on Neptune's Brood and Financing Starships
Marissa Mayer's Next Big Acquisition Could Be Imgur
I love the RSpec style test results! Thank you for this! I was just about to start building that because Xcode and xctool's test output is too noisy.
If you have organized group you can probably use methods like codebook with Huffman coding to reduce message length a lot. Plain text is very sparse form of communication, compared to good codebook which suits the needs.
Btw. This is over 20 years old stuff. MUDs in very early 90s were used for all kind of communication. - Nuff said.
Also utilizing chaffing and winnowing allows you to use almost any kind of service to transfer your data. You'll just hide it in the junk. Only receiver will know what's meaningful and what's not.
The issue is the LEGALITY of the currency.
Summary:
FourSquare is moving from a checkin service to doing positioning data at higher accuracy and lower power based on big data. http://www.skyhookwireless.com/ does the same thing. Maybe not as well, but generally the same.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6875092
There are two things that make eating out the most viable option for a whole meal when you're poor:

The first is that when you have a refrigerator that's sub-par and don't have a freezer, you have to buy the smallest quantities of anything perishable; that means it's expensive as hell. There are things like rice that you can buy in bulk, but if you're in a place with bugs and rodents (like they are), you're screwed on that too, generally.

The second is that if you're in a homeless shelter, you can't cook. At most, you can make a sandwich, but that goes back to point #1.

Eating out isn't a convenience for them; it's survival.
I've been kicked from 7 South African ISPs as a top 2% or 'abuse' user, after paying for uncapped access. Things seriously need to change this side.
DIWire: The First Desktop Wire Bender
I'm not GP but thanks for the tip!

As a non-native speaker, I'd love if I were corrected all the time! These little mistakes are prone to getting stuck in your head and hard to get rid of if uncorrected (especially since the Internet is filled with non-native speakers making the same mistakes over and over again).

Curiously enough, I hesitate doing so myself when I notice a mistake, in case I bother or embarrass the guy. I think I'll start changing that :P
They didn't ask for a unemployed crack addict mother and an unemployed convict father, and yet the state seems to have given them back to both the unemployed crack addict mother and unemployed convict father. They were living in different, perhaps better, circumstance before they were returned to their biological parents. Why not leave them in those circumstances and instead allow visitation of the parents until they can quash their demons and secure a job instead of holding up the "family must be together" mantra and having them live in this hellhole?
No, because it doesn't protect me from the volatility of bitcoin itself.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what everybody seems to be saying, but not outright, is that early valuations are basically bullshit designed to make everybody think that the company is worth more than it is, immediately after the early valuators got their money in.

Like the guy that buys a car for $2,000, turns around to sell it and tells potential buyers that they can't accept an offer for $4,000 because they'd be taking a loss.
Isn't this, like, the basic problem with our political system? Structural oppression? Disenfranchisement?

Hos does this not also apply to voting? I feel the same, now I am afraid to be in public for having the views that I have.

...
Having no facilities for storing or cooking food is a great way to get very sick, very quickly.
If all the poverty statistics in this article are accurate, in about 10 years we can expect to see a reversal of the decline in US violent crime that's been happening since the 90s.

What can be done- what is the right mix of social policy and tough love? Clearly homeless drug users shouldn't have 8 kids- but how can this be prevented? Should we take away children from all homeless or drug addict parents as soon as they're born? How do other civilized countries handle this situation?

It makes me sick that I pay around 40% in state and federal taxes and social security (not that much lower than Western European countries) yet there is still so much poverty and poverty related issues in our country.
Largely I'm happy with my ISP. Except that somewhere in their core network they have a broken link, which means that 0.01% of the internet is inaccessible to me, as of a couple of weeks ago when they "upgraded" my connection. Unfortunately that 0.01% includes my friend's computer which runs my backup email servers. Tried explaining this on the phone to the ISP. The script the phone-jockey had basically took me through rebooting the router, trying a couple of different browsers, and then saying that they were pleased to have solved the problem.
Find a local organization that helps the homeless, and offer yourself as free IT help for a full day (or three).

You may not be an IT guy, but you are computer savvy. You'll be invaluable for jobs like:

- cleaning crapware off computers
- removing spyware/viruses and installing antivirus
- fixing email issues
- networking printers
- answering questions about Excel, Word, and so forth

By helping this way, you'll improve the productivity of the organization drastically, which will have a real impact you can feel good about. Best off, your contribution will act as a multiplier, lasting well beyond the initial time you'll put in.

--

If you're more able to giving money than time, please visit and consider donating to http://greensborohousingcoalition.com - this is a non-profit in Greensboro, NC, which does amazing work both in preventing homelessness and making sure that safe housing is available for low-income families.

My stepmother is the director of this organization, and I can speak to her and the GHC staff's incredible hard work and dedication. They manage to run at only a 15% overhead, which is truly incredible. Your money will have an impact here.
Get ready for the 2013 Geminid meteor shower.
Illegal and "disputed legality" are two entirely different beasts. If the legality is disputed that is for a court to decide, not Apple.

In regard to China specifically they explicitly said last week that it is still legal for private Chinese citizens to use Bitcoin.
We're contemplating going after harder-to-get fossil water because the easy stuff is depleted and can no longer keep up. Sounds like the situation we're in with oil.

In the case of water, which replenishes, the 'production cycle' is actually the global fresh-water cycle. If we dirty all of the fresh water faster than the earth can clean it, we're going to have to start drilling for the fossil stuff in hard-to-reach places. It's strange to think there would be drilling rigs in the ocean with people risking their lives and taking danger pay... for water. It raises a question in my mind: affordability. Who is going to be able to afford to buy all their water like this?

It's the next step now that there are several major rivers no longer reaching the ocean.
No mention of the price?
foursquare is still around?

Hyperbole aside, I thought foursquare was an excellent idea - and if more businesses around me used it, I"d probably still be using it myself. (Reading the article, it seems that if you live in NYC or SF it's a lot more useful than it's been to me.)

As it is, I think the last time I even looked at it was nearly six months ago.
I generally find this blogger too alarmist, but much of the list here appears accurate, and shocking to me. Faked terrorism seems much more common than I would guess. Of course, the more liberal/democratic the country, and the more recent, the more weak/stetched the case is.

but still, the lesson to me is that this sort of "conspiracy" is not at all implausible, even in a country like Canada....
I believe I saw somewhere it was $80
Make a difference, your tech skills can save lives!
Looking to do something different, meaningful and help build a product from the ground up which will save lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world every day? Perhaps your looking for an interesting side-project or just a break from the commercial treadmill?

An early stage human rights start-up (the founder has just spent five years at another human rights startup which he helped setup and is now a market leader) in East London (still in the fun garage shed stage!), is looking for mobile app developers who can donate some of their time. (Also people with associated skills such as LAMP, UI/UX, graphic design, cryptography etc would be great)

The start-up focuses on addressing a significant gap in the security of human rights organisations, journalists, aid workers and NGOs - through the use of an Android application. It builds on years of cutting-edge security operations in this field.

Ideally you will be in London but remote working is also a possibility.

Interested? Drop a mail to secfirstmd@gmail.com
> conclusions are evident from the chart. First, 83% of these acquisitions were cash only. Only 1.5% of transactions were consummated with less than 10% of the value in cash. Second, the larger the transaction the more likely stock will play a significant role.

No, this is a nice chart, but none of this is evident from it. The only relevant data is in the table.
> I'm sorry am I supposed to go out of my way to directly extend a hand to women as well?

In a word? Yes.

Women are seriously under-represented in the tech community, so if your recruiting effort only extends to your friends and their friends. (And this kind of 'hey, do you know a good ____ dev?' search is pretty common for small firms) then it's statistically unlikely you're going to get many good female candidates.

I don't think you're morally obligated to hire a woman just for the sake of diversity--you should hire whoever's best for the role. But I do think you're obliged to at least consider qualified women. And I find it laughable to suggest that there simply don't exist good female candidates. They are numerically fewer; you have to make an effort to find them.
The children are the victims. I'm certainly not blaming them for the circumstances they were born into. I am certainly blaming the state for forcing the family back together to satisfy the "families must live together" crowd when mom and dad don't have their shit together, and I am certainly blaming the mom and dad for having eight kids when they can't even support one.
Money. In comparison to volunteering you get very little out of it, but that makes it all the more charitable.

I assume you are some kind of fairly well paid professional -- work an extra three hours a week and donate the extra money to e.g. a food pantry. You will do them a lot more good than spending those same three hours doing unskilled labor for them.
The Thin Line Between Creation
This might be off-topic but water is in-fact compressible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water#Compressibi...
Page is blank when adblock is enabled. Anyone else having this problem?

I just won't read this article now. Not my problem.
I must admit, I think the last step was a little. uhm... well I just think its funny how you used Hacker News to decrypt a script then posted about that on Hacker News.
Cooking healthy means requires capital expenditure that the truly poor cannot afford.
Clearly the automobile was moving quite fast when it struck the cyclist. I've seen similar damage when a car struck a cow at 55mph. I'm not familiar with the street in question, but it seems likely the speed of the automobile was not anticipated by the cyclist.