skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those in the EU who don't want Turkey joining aren't against it because of a historical genocide. They don't want Turkey joining because it's a 100M-strong muslim nation with a 'non-european' culture. The other muslim nations in Europe are tiny Balkan nations with no political nor economic power, and no opportunity to gain. Turkey has both political and economic power and opportunity to gain in both. And it would be the most populous nation in the EU, therefore gaining a powerful voting bloc.

In the light of that, a government that is set on increasing religiosity (particularly of a 'non-european' religion) and is having internal troubles because of that issue, isn't particularly looked on as a valued EU partner. Consider also in the light of the anti-liberalism that's currently rising in Europe, as far right wing politics picks up on a rising fear of immigrants in general and muslims in particular.

The EU's fears are looking forward, not looking back.
Box is just way too slow at syncing. From a product perspective they are terrible compared to Dropbox as many of us know.
The social justice warrior definition of discrimination is itself bigoted, because it claims it's impossible to be bigoted against men, white people, hetero people, etc.
From the article:

> He has not, and said he will not, so it’s too late in my mind. Any public change of opinion at this time would only be to ensure his new powerful position at the Mozilla foundation.

I disagree with this, hence my post. I think if he puts his money where his mouth is, that good undoes his past failings. I don't think he is going to use Mozilla as a vehicle for promoting homophobia. Therefore, I see two options:

1) he leaves, Mozilla doesn't contribute to societal homophobia, and there is no monetary contribution.

2) he stays, Mozilla doesn't contribute to societal homophobia, and there is a monetary contribution.

(Option #3 where he leaves and also makes a monetary contribution is extremely unlikely to happen, so I will not list it here)

I am admittedly very pragmatic about these issues. I don't care if he is shamed by being forced out of the company. I don't think that really helps.
If you keep bleeding money and needing more cash influx to extend the runway - then the achieved (and appropriate) percentage rapidly goes to zero.
Wow, understatement of the decade. Is that also true of the folks who wouldn't leave Woolworth's lunch counters a few decades back? I don't know how you, personally, feel on this issue, but designating people who love each other as second-class citizens isn't a mere fassion. It's a fucking atrocity, no less.
Goodbye, Firefox Marketplace?

All right, goodbye... some marginal puzzle game.

The part these folks don't get is that their tantrum is not affecting Brendan Eich as much as it's insulting to the fans of their game (whoever they are). They're trying to sic their fans and us against Mozilla with their actions.

Prop 8 was justly overturned. It was a battle worth fighting. But we're all equal now. So do we owe these two fools our support right now? Is this "battle" they're starting worth fighting? What's the cause? To prove we don't take kind to them folk like Brendan Eich round 'ere?

Hell no. Part of equality is that I, Mozilla and our society as a whole shouldn't feel the need to care more about the games (literally and figuratively) of these two guys than we care about anyone else out there, now that we're equal.

I don't care about "your history", I don't care about your wedding photos, I don't care about any of that. To me, you're just two average folks with a crappy puzzle game. Might be gay, straight, white, black, red, brown, tall, short, I don't care. Your cheap outrage doesn't mean anything more than usual to me just because you're gay.

I'm equally indifferent.
And if they did - good for them.

Did Eich imply that he wants special treatment because he donated - probably not.

Do the authors imply that they want special treatment because of this - it looks to me that way.

Again, they are free and welcome to boycott whomever they wish.
Not being offended isn't a civil right, either.
One word: Sales.
Can you elaborate on what you mean with "capability-based". How do developers define capabilities? How does a data-interchange format support them?
Right now the market can bake those risks into the option prices.

Also, if there is demand for different margin requirements we'll add contracts with those requirements.
Of course everyone can react as he/she sees fit. I did.
Certainly you could mention it as an offhand every so often, but the important thing IMHO is to make clear that you're looking to improve your English skills, as opposed to apologizing for whatever flaws you might have in your English.

The latter is usually needless, and can even imply that not knowing English well enough should be a source of shame, which is why it often draws calls saying not to apologize. It'd be like a 2m tall person apologizing for not being tall enough – you're already taller than most people, there's nothing to apologize for. ;)
My understanding of Box is that they focus on enterprise customers more heavily than their competitors. Given upgrade cycles in many large companies, a LTV > $5 is possible.

The difficulty and expense of selling a new product to large companies might also explain the marketing budget.
Technically.. wouldn't they start their own companies and be in charge of the door anyway?
I think the idea is they fill in these numbers when they get closer to the offering, using values that make sense given the indicated demand.
The CFO is only 28 years old. As a twenty-something finance guy I'm very jealous of the experience he's getting.
Are you sure you want to? What I mean is, are you sure you want to become a salesman rather than a web developer?
> If he came out saying he was wrong and donated 10x the amount he donated to Prop 8 to a LGBT charity, I would consider that a win. There are ways to make this right without shitcanning him.

The authors addressed this point. From the article:

> If, months ago, he had apologized and said that he’s changed his mind, then this would be water under the bridge. He has not, and said he will not, so it’s too late in my mind. Any public change of opinion at this time would only be to ensure his new powerful position at the Mozilla foundation.

That does not seem like an unreasonable position.
Um.. So how does it work?
I wonder how many people who have "downgraded" phones do so, in all honesty, for the shock value for fashion's sake just for the attention.

Often they are the arty type who try to stand out from the crowd even though they have a nicely intellectual justification "I'm get too distracted, I lose out on quality of life". The cynic in me thinks they just want to be different.
They have a much higher-touch enterprise sales process, so my guess is that most of the extra employees vs. DropBox are sales, customer service, relationship management, etc. Even after the sell, big clients tend to want dedicated account managers, dedicated support staff they know by name, etc. (Still, it does seem like a lot.)
"Guess execution is king ;)"

Always has been, always will be.
Sure, build a tor client directly into Firefox.
We talked about this in my microcontrollers class today! Not this exact incident but about the problems associated with using the system clock in a micro for precise timing.

Our micro (Freescale HC9S12) is clocked by a 24 MHz crystal quartz oscillator and if you use the timing module to clock the micro, you cannot get exactly 1ms, 10ms, etc. This makes summing the time over a long period tricky.
HP Elitebook something.
Yes. And this is a recommendation system implementing the book's collaborative filtering algorithm in 9 lines of code

http://tungwaiyip.info/2012/Collaborative%20Filtering.html
You share your age, gender, and location. In return, you can see a filterable heatmap of people around you. Find out where to hang out if you want to meet people.
Pump and dump IPO. Mark my words.
Oh, I completely agree -- I am well aware of this (in fact as you can guess we have a similar challenge problem with fraudulent even organizers). Which is why I precised I was talking about buyer fraud and not merchant fraud, and that one should only undertake risk if he has the capability to do so.

When you run a marketplace you are sensitive to risks both from the merchant and the buyer. The first kind would be what you are describing and you are right that Stripe Connect mitigates this. But the latter is not a threat to ignore either, especially with the increasing number of high profile credit card breaches. What happens is that fraudsters attack legitimate merchants by purchasing goods using stolen credentials and reselling them later for full profit.

I just saw your marketplace was a platform for photographers -- in this case you are right my point doesn't really apply to you, because photographs have little resell value so such platforms will indeed not be a big buyer fraud target.
Hopefully though my advice will be relevant for other people. For some platforms losses due to buyer fraud are able to potentially dwarf those due to than merchant fraud, mostly because the latter tends to be much easier to detect: for a merchant, you have many data points to figure out if they're fraudulent; for a single purchase you only have one!
Ask HN: Could you tell me about your coworking space experiences?
A lot of us on HN, as we've discussed in the past, use coworking spaces to find communities of fellow entrepreneurs and hackers with whom to work, swap ideas, or just to sort of be around whilst working. If it would be so kind, I want to know about the HN community's experiences and preferences to compare with my own and get an idea of what people expect. Specifically, if anybody can provide details about as many of the following as you feel like providing:

1. Experiences at coworking spaces have you really disliked

2. Experiences you really enjoyed

3. What kind of facilities you expect to have available? (kitchen? showers? printers? laser tag??)

4. Do you expect any events to be run?

5. Do you expect dedicated staff for food/drinks/support?

6. Do you like to book space in advance?

If you don't feel like commenting, please email me directly: dan+coworking[at]danhough.com

Any amount of feedback is useful. Thank you very much.
I think that's generally the rule. The more successful the startup, the larger the stake the founder maintains due to being in a better position in regards to VC rounds.
It’s Official: Disney Acquires Maker Studios For $500M
Very cool.

I was trying to wrap my head around how to create something like this with CoreOS, but found myself lacking the know-how to turn it into more than a half-baked toy/concept for myself.

Looking forward to trying this out and learning something from the repo.
Is it necessary to work 8 hours a day if I work from home?
Well, Mayor Rob Ford allegedly indulges in substances, but as long as he does a good job of being a mayor and running his city well - who cares?

If it prevents him from doing his job - get him sacked. If not - who cares?

Should public officials who touch themselves in private be dismissed from their positions because masturbation was considered sinful and immoral?

Where does it end with all the righteous and morally superior people?
The margin is a percentage of the underlying Bitcoin. So no margin calls.

If your counterparty can't pay, then you get the full value of their margin account for that trade (plus the premium payment, which you already received) and no more.
Gmail IMAP access is suddenly v slow
Is it just me? Is the beginning of the end of IMAP support? Time to switch to FastMail?
It irks me when a journalist doesn't do their homework. Take for instance: "Unfortunately, the problems the average 22-year-old male programmer has experienced are all about being an affluent single guy in Northern California. That’s how we’ve ended up with so many games (Angry Birds, Flappy Bird, Crappy Bird) and all those apps for what one start-up founder described to me as cooler ways to hang out with friends on a Saturday night."

To dissect this:
1. Rovio is a Finnish Company (Angry Birds)
2. Flappy Bird is a guy from Vietnam.
3. Crappy Bird... ?

Not one of these examples illustrate the argument that they were solved by 22 year old affluent males from Northern California.
@darrenix, I see that your sample sizes are pretty low, and your actual conversions are incredibly low. Are you controlling for statistical significance, and are you accounting for repeated significance testing errors? [1]

Genuinely curious, not trying to shoot down what looks like an interesting approach.

[1] http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-run-an-ab-test.html
Probably a fake account, but apparently Mark Cuban was an early investor but had his investment returned over a disagreement on strategy.
> Did Eich imply that he wants special treatment because he donated - probably not.

I'd say he likely wants special treatment for his particular brand of religious views.

> Do the authors imply that they want special treatment because of this - it looks to me that way.

What special treatment are they requesting?
Is their product actually competitive? I had tried it once long ago, but currently I don't see any particular niche where it'd be superior to dropbox/google drive/onedrive/whatever.

What am I missing here?
What frameworks/techniques did you use making the site? Very appealing!
Being a cave to meditate is a very different thing. There you are free to leave at any time, but you are trying to aquire mastery and control of your body and mind, in the face of your desire to do otherwise.

I think solitary is rather different.
I guess you support people who spend their money oppressing others? I'm against it. It's nothing I'm particularly proud about. It's just common human decency.
AFAIK electric airplanes have been around for 10 years or so. Antares 20E came out around 2003. And now there are plenty others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_aircraft#Production_ai...
If you're worried about certain governments MITMing you, the answer is that it's hopeless to rely on SSL to provide protection.

I don't know a good recommendation. I just wanted to clarify that SSL provides no protection in that particular case.
Many other countries had or still have difficulty coming to terms with their past: France until relatively recently with its colonial past, the UK (or so it seems seen from continental Europe), Japan with its numerous warcrimes during WWII, Algeria, or even the US. I can understand why repetitive, double-standard bashing would become tedious after a short while.
An all flash site.

Well, just to add, the algorithm used in the article was "evolution with assexual reproduction". Genetic algorithms rely on sexual reproduction, to the point that the assexual algorithm has a completely different name (and origin), it's called "simulated anealing".
It's not exactly that they're legally required to list every imaginable risk -- it's that listing a risk gives their future trial counsel a useful sound bite.

Suppose that the company were to miss earnings targets, and the stock price dropped as a result. Just as sure as shootin', there will be plaintiffs' lawyers claiming that the company wrongfully failed to disclose Risk X or Risk Y or Risk Z. Proactively disclosing every risk you can imagine is thought to be one way of combatting that plaintiffs' bar strategy.

Personal anecdote: I used to be the general counsel of a public software company. I had to draft the risk-factors section of our Form 10-K annual report, which likewise is filed with the SEC. The first time I did it, I read a lot of other software companies' S-1s and 10-Ks and harvested as many risk-factor ideas as I could.

It struck me as peculiar to proceed as if investors were utterly ignorant of basic facts of business life. But many jurors, and even some judges, might fall into that category. You can pretty much count on having a plaintiff's lawyer, professing to be outraged, accusing your company of having covered up Risk X. In responding to such an accusation, it's a whole lot easier (A) to be able simply to point to your public disclosure of Risk X, and possibly get the case dismissed early, without an extremely-expensive and risky trial, than it is (B) to have to try to convince the judge or jury that, well, no, you didn't disclose Risk X, but it doesn't matter because everyone supposedly knew about Risk X already. Option B can be a real roll of the dice; far better to go with Option A.
Discussing the matter isn't "mobbing", no matter how big the thread gets or how many people vote on it. It would only turn to mobbing if the crowd started, for example, protesting outside the Mozilla offices, or sending him hate mail.
> -Cease copying Chrome's UI

Is it because you want Firefox to be distinct with its own aesthetic or that Chrome is ugly. I don't understand why people keep on bringing this up as if there is much in Chrome's UI to copy. Chrome UI is just tabs with a menu button to the right. And it is open source, a.k.a you may copy it if you will.
i disagree with EU leaders scared of Turkey.
They just want Turkey to behave more like a civilized country as Turkey is the bridge between Europe and the rest of the Muslim world.

But with the way they are acting, they are not really helping out much. All the scandals left and right, the Kurdish and still holding under military occupation half of an EU country ( Cyprus ) then that is not how a democratic country should rule.
Enterprise salespeople may be expensive - but they are usually making a significant amount of their total compensation from commissions - which ideally means they are being paid some % of new $$$'s they are bringing in.

So, yes the pricing model/ value proposition of a company's products will effect how many & what type of salespeople they employ, but salespeople should never be a significant fixed cost without a corresponding revenue stream (greater than their costs).
> Will I want to work with someone who is pro-Nazism? Probably not, but will I respect his belief? Yes.

Why would you respect his belief? There's a difference between respecting his right to hold whatever belief he wants and respecting the belief itself. The former is true, and no government should punish someone for their beliefs. The latter is not true, and I am free to judge neo-Nazis however I wish. That judgement would include not wanting to do business with them, and I would not feel bad about it.
Growth companies come at a discount (execution risk, growth is not given, growth industries = plenty of competitors), I doubt Box's valuation will support its financials and road ahead. One comment on "virtually all companies that IPO are operating at a loss", unfortunately this is the opposite case, companies that IPO tend to be profitable.
I saw a pretty fly space suit at the top of the page. I saw some very disappointing things that looked like a 12 year old made them with duct tape. I got to choose between those disappointments. I then read that these won't even make it to space. I hereby conclude that this is a pretty bad PR move.
Russia kicked out of G8
The Maximum Viable Churn Rate for a Startup
And I'm holding you accountable for trying to get him fired.
Mainly driving and attitude of people. Greece is different... Freedom of speech is problematic in entire Europe.
On Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla
Regardless of the precise numbers, a large chunk of one of the most progressive states in the U.S. thinks that it's not the same thing, so it's not a fringe position. The other states in the U.S,

It's a false equivalence because being a black person in the civil-right-era South isn't the same as being gay in California. Maybe they're both unpleasant experiences, but they're different both in kind and degree. Furthermore, there's no analog to "race mixing" (the real "crime" in interracial marriage) in the debate about gay marriage.

Lumping current proponents of traditional marriage in with the likes of George Wallace is akin to breaking Godwin's Law and only serves to inhibit understanding, not promote it. This only undermines the inclusive ideals that gay marriage supporters claim to advocate.
Are we sure it is actually a DDOS? I mean, this is a Rails app - it might just be more than three users hitting it at the same time, and it cannot cope with the load?
It doesn't rely on there being no one in your position, so it doesn't follow from your example that there is "not a chance of this working." We want some people in your circumstance - able to comfortably step aside when we don't know what to put your labor towards, ready to rejoin the work force when we figure it out (as determined by whether you want what we're offering to pay you). Though, for the record, I think $20k is high for our present situation.
I tend to put sentences into google in order to verify that the structure / grammar / spelling of my writing has been used before. This makes writing longs posts very tedious and annoying, but I'm way to afraid to make any mistakes. Most of the time I end up deleting the whole post, just to be done with it. I wish there were more people like you who don't look down on people with poor english skills.

Anyhow, can anyone recommend a book or some articles on how to improve writing skills, especially of technical nature ?
You're kidding, right? This thread is full of SJWs. And you're certainly not anti-SJW.
Stripe Checkout: Added an option to remove the "Remember Me" checkbox
Have any of you had experience with user Credit accounts - in the fashion of Fanduel.com. In this system, users use Credit/Debit cards or Paypal to pre-fill up their accounts. They can then use this money to make purchases/bets on the website.

Are there any drawbacks to using this system? It seems like a much simpler model than Stripe if it could be implemented to a marketplace, especially in cases of fraud. Transactions could be held in escrow until they were sufficiently completed.

Similarly, wouldn't this help avoid transaction fees? Maybe Fanduel is saying all account credits are essentially payments and then they allocate the money to its correct place on the site as credit? So the website is still using Paypal/Stripe, for all payments.

Forgive my ignorance about this stuff.
I understand that, but even that feels low.
There's a big difference between a policy that has an indirect effect on a variety of groups and one that very explicitly targets a specifically defined group for formal mal-treatment under law.

And yes, systematically violating someone's 14th Amendment rights is map-treatment writ large.
I will be interested to see if this works. Best of luck to you, but I am skeptical.

For an options market to work you need both buyers and sellers of volatility. Is anyone really going to show up to sell vol here? At what kind of price?

Even if we assume that BTC is infinitely liquid and sellers of options could do theoretically perfect dynamic hedging, my guess is that implied vol is so extremely high that prices will look crazy and expensive to potential options buyers.
People have the right to stand up for their moral conviction, including Eich. However, other people have the right to judge others based on their actions, including the authors.
It's reasonably large, I think. If it were in 2013, it would've been around the 5th largest tech IPO of the year, according to: http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/technology/publications/global-tech...

Nowhere near Twitter's $1.8 billion, of course, but sub-$100m IPOs also happen, e.g. Aerohive filed for an expected $75m offering last month: http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/13/aerohive-networks-files-for...
It will be pretty interesting to see what spread emerges between calls and puts in these circumstances.

Care to speculate? ;-)
From the call writer's perspective it's indistinguishable from a covered call transaction.

This also greatly reduces the service's usefulness as you are unable to implement many standard option strategies.