skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GPS Satellites "live" in our future, meaning our present and our future are real. Whatever you do, you are still free to make your own decision but you should know that you already made that decision.
I assume it is a combination of acquisition price or last VC valuation, or market cap of IPO'd companies (which I don't think there are any). It is a useful number, but calling it "market cap" seems strange to me.
I'm surprised you can charge big bucks for a WordPress blog. I guess it's a big-name brand these days.
The best tricks to lower you tax rate are only available to the largest companies. Startups pay full price.

New startup idea: tax evasion as a service. It would use the same transfer pricing techniques like Google and Apple. Money would be shuffled using the Double Irish, Dutch Sandwich, etc. Shell companies would be formed and "office space" and "employees" would be shared between the various subscribers. The company would handle all the paper work, legal requirements, incorporation and account setup. You'd pay for the service with a small percentage of your savings.

I'm against tax evasion, but if we're going to have it, we may as well make it fair to the little guys.
You can recommend episodes via the share icon. Recommended podcasts from those you follow on twitter show up in the directory.
You're making a good distinction here. The research on using GPS occultation for sensing water vapor that I'm most familiar with uses two satellites, and does not use ground stations.

I am biased here, because I know the people who are developing this technology, so I'd be welcome to further information on this point! E.g., I took a look at the thesis abstract pointed to by @kubiii, but it wasn't specific enough to tell what their exact sensing method was.

There are some generally good-quality summaries of GPS radio occultation here: http://geooptics.com/?page_id=148

The main advantages of GPS occultation for H2O sensing are that it's relatively bias-free (compared to microwave radiometers), that it can see through clouds, and that it has better usable vertical resolution.
Cosmologists Prove Negative Mass Can Exist In Our Universe
The FUD-like assertion about "the prosecution claims to want to question him, but has turned down offers to do so..." keeps floating about so much that the paragraph immediately below in that very same Wikipedia article expresses the actual position of the prosecution, which is that (i) Swedish legal procedures require he is brought into custody and interrogated in custody before the charge is formally made (ii) the arrest warrant is issued in order to allow them the opportunity to charge him with sexual offences and not simply because they "want to question him" (iii) based on information they presently have he will be charged once he ceases evading arrest, unless he provides them with a very good reason not to.

"Subject to any matters said by him, which undermine my present view that he should be indicted, an indictment will be launched with the court thereafter. It can therefore be seen that Assange is sought for the purpose of conducting criminal proceedings and that he is not sought merely to assist with our enquiries"
You know the death penalty is illegal in EU (etc.)? In fact, no EU/Council of Europe country can extradite someone for a crime where death penalty is an option.

If the USA were to declare he is wanted only for a crime that carries the death penalty, it would be great for Assange. He could walk around the EU without any risk of extradition.
You also get the benefit of instant access to a huge catalog, though. Sometimes you just want to look up a quote in a book you read last year, or get a sample of an author that was recommended to you, or look up the context of a passage you saw quoted online, etc. That alone is not worth $10 a month, but it does add a little value beyond just reading full books.
Here's the paper, "Negative mass bubbles in de Sitter space-time" -- http://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.1457v1.pdf
Does it handle quoted CSV fields that spans multiple lines?
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." [0] This case illustrates one of the permanent forces to guard against: Well-meaning people routinely make shortsighted decisions to address a problem, at the expense of things that are far more important.

None of us is immune to the tendency. Each of us must eternally watch ourselves too. Political maturity comes when we can check our decisions by seeing both sides of an issue and carefully weighing the costs.

[0]: http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/01/eternal-vigilance-is-...
FYN-FYTN protocol
Hackathon Accidentally Picks Perfect Metaphor for Its Own Awfulness
"The notion that one has a right to collect data from users of a service is the same notion that says the service provider has ownership of that data."

Last year my family went to have a family portrait taken by a professional (service provider or portraits) photographer. The photos (data) that were produced from the photo shoot belonged to the photographer. That photographer was more than happen to sell me family portrait, but the law is fairly clear that he in fact owns the data (all photos that were taken), i.e. he has copyright over the data.
Google adds Bitcoin exchange rates to instant search answers
The Rickmote Controller: Hacking One Chromecast at a Time
Awesome, using gocql?
Show HN: Drupal 7.28 with custom theme ready to use
Inspiring Arduino and Raspberry Pi Projects
> Where would we be if we didn't allow free speech at universities in the 1960's?

In the actual 1960s ... the Free Speech Movement of 1964-1965 that you point to was a response to the fact that denial of free speech was the status quo.

> I thought this fight had already been won.

Sure, there was ground gained, at least temporarily, by the Free Speech Movement, but victory wasn't durable. Otherwise, we wouldn't have seen the violent suppression of non-violent on-campus free speech in 1970. [1]

> Free speech seems to be one of those things that institutions and governments need to be repeatedly compelled to respect.

Yeah, there's a reason that it is said that "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
There's very good coverage of the hearing over on Falkvinge's site, including a full translation of the arguments presented by the defense and prosecution, as it happened:

http://falkvinge.net/2014/07/16/live-detention-lift-hearings...
That was the argument for music subscription services. $10/month for practically-unlimited music sounds bananas on the surface, but they're making more money than the 2-4 albums a year most people bought back in the glory days of CDs.
On the website, they are pre rendered into images. Example, http://www.google.com/get/noto/images/samples/noto-sans_en_4...
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I wonder which conditions are required to get a whole-body fossil
How free speech zones are constitutional for any organization that deals with federal money (which in usa is everyone if we see tax breaks as government hangouts)?
Apple agrees to pay $450m settlement in ebook price fixing case
The problem is, those figures aren't granular enough to use for marketing purposes. For example, it's known that about 50% of genre SF/F book sales go to about 20% of customers -- and about 45% go to less than 10% of customers! Some folks are reading over 100 books/year. (I know plenty of them.) We know there's a curve; we just don't really know it's shape in enough detail to predict how an all-you-can-eat book buffet will pay for itself.
In the 1990s, Micheal Jackson was being investigated for child sexual abuse. He settled out of court with the family of a boy, and they dropped the charges, meaning the case fell apart. California (/USA?) changed the law so that the child/family cannot choose to drop charges like that, and they went after Jackson again.

If the victim of a crime can often be pressured/forced into dropping cases, there can be good reasons to prevent the victim from doing it, to ensure justice is done.
Show HN: VidFall – /r/startups of the month -Videos play, prices fall
I'm actually in favor of free speech zones on campus. this author and the person talked about in it are twisting things. their grievance is actually confusion over the talk between two people and FSV. what happened to them (at least from the account provided) is wrong, but what they are attacking is something else. obviously everything has limits

being a person that works on campus, when walking down the walk during certain times of the year its a gauntlet. people lined up from one end to another screaming over each other and stepping on front of you to offer you a pamphlet.

thank god its only for certain times of day/days of the year.
minaandrawos's question is really good. I don't know at which situations Xtend would make more sense than Kotlin or vice versa, but I would like to know if it compiles as slow as Scala.
I tend to negotiate at ~$400.00, but that typically involves writing a custom child theme and plugins. Although i've done it for "whatever you can afford" for friends.
Martin Berglund might be Scandinavian.

https://translate.google.com/#en/no/horizontal
Create an application by talking to your computer
> the new logo looks like a vagina.

Who cares?

Remember all the iPad jokes about sanitary products when it was announced?

That obviously didn't hurt the now multi-billion dollar giant the iPad has become.
I created a container with Drupal and a custom Clear corporate theme. It should be useful if you want to test Drupal 7 by yourself without having to install it.
I see this as an acknowledgement by Apple that consumer device penetration has saturated. This matches my personal experience.
They are valued at $10 billion. They don't have $10 billion. If NYC or SF decided to crackdown harder on Airbnb hosts, then that valuation would drop.

However, if they can move into the slightly more predictable (and defensible) position of providing unique getaways, then they would be in a better position for when that inevitable crackdown does occur.
Please don't be so rude, it doesn't add anything to the conversation.

There are many markets where you list a product for a price, and are legally bound to sell them at that price.

Those markets function, proving that withdrawing quotes is not necessary to make markets work.
The stuff that http://www.increpare.com/ has been putting out is well off the beaten path - sometimes hits on these more emotional notes, sometimes more puzzling.
It's weird also, given that spotify were pushing systemd[0] hard, shuttleworth[1] conceded - but the version of LTS Ubuntu 14.04 [2] that spotify switched to is on Upstart.

[0] http://www.muktware.com/2014/01/spotify-uses-debian-endorses...

[1] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316

[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2014/06/msg00014.h...
I generelt buy for about 15-30 worth of books a month (mostly e). So the publishers would loose money on me if I can pay a flat 10.
> I really liked the modified Platinum UI from MacOS X DR2 code named Rhapsody, though it could have used some polish

Interesting. I feel like the current OS X UI is just that: Rhapsody with a lot of polish. The core concept seems to be the same.
"Total market cap of all YC companies: >$30 billion"

According to who?
Can you include a stat about (order of magnitude?) jobs created?
This isn't only some funny "sex without a condom" case. He's charged with holding a woman down and having sex with her

http://jackofkent.com/2012/09/the-detail-of-the-accusations-...
Average is about a 40M valuation. (Yeah, I know that's not exactly what you asked about.)
Agree, it feels more library. I am not questioning the benefits. The problem is vast majority of readers don't need these benefits.
I actually don't. I give it 10 inches, but I figured I would test anyway.
The coincidence is startling. Old typeface Bello by Underwear. New logo is being called a vagina and is named Bélo.
Or, as I prefer to think of it, the state of a distant object is undetermined with respect to your state (in a superposition of all reachable states since your last interaction) until you actually interact with it, at which point both get reconciled into a compatible state.
Of course, it's slightly more complicated than that, because this applies to every particle you're made of individually. And then the particles are actually merely excitations of a field.

I'll leave the rest to actual physicists. :)
Can we have an Alcubierre drive yet?

One of the things that worries me about negative mass is how it responds to force. If you poke a negative mass object, won't it move in the direction of your finger? Wouldn't that make an even stronger force (since the object is moving toward the force)? Is there a limit to this or would a positive-mass object and a negative-mass object be permanently attracted to each other until something breaks at a fundamental level?
We'll see who's worth what when they hit the public market :)
I remember reading something by the designer of the Putt-Putt adventure games where he ran up against this issue.

The Putt-Putt games were adventure games designed for kids, say 6-10 years old or so. And obviously since they're adventure games, you have to pick up everything that isn't nailed down because it might be useful in a puzzle later.

But the publishers of the game didn't want to encourage kids to just pick everything up in real life! So the developers had to, every time Putt-Putt picked something up, make him say "This looks like somebody lost it; maybe I can find the owner!".
I really don't understand your point. I don't like everybody, and not everybody has to like me. That doesn't mean i'm out to actively ruin someone else's day.

If we look at the issue rationally, it's an issue of coordination and sorting. People that have mutual kinship can improve their position with people with similar interests. If you have some sort of "objective coolness" in your theory of friendship, then you may run into issues with constantly shooting yourself in the foot by only pursuing friends that happen to in the upper tiers of your coolness bell curve, and their will always be the paradox of choice, but i'm not really sure why i'm not supposed to have preferences when it comes to the people i associate with.
They aren't, though. Zombies are vastly inferior in all ways (including destructive potential) to their videogame-playing foes. You shoot them down in their thousands.
"essentially he's talking about Netflix for Books, yes? [...] But I just don't see it happening."

already happened: http://www.scribd.com
multiple publishers - not all, but neither does any music service provide "all".
How do you keep track of how much the companies raise after leaving YC?
In my experience object persistence rarely needs SQL or other "relational additional stuff" underneath. Typically I need to store objects and their mutual relations persisted as if they were just kept in memory. Have often thought about how weird it was that you could not just persist objects "as they are" without additional mappings etc.
I saw a demo of Realm and had a talk with one the developers a couple of weeks ago. As the demo and our talk progressed I found myself nodding more and more excited. As I understand Realm it seems to be based on a very natural and straightforward principle. It can't NOT be efficient...
I can't wait to try this out in a real project!
This is solely a link to http://valleywag.gawker.com/hackathon-accidentally-picks-per... , which is from a banned domain on HN. (the article itself has good points)
That's just not how people work. You can maybe ignore that you're feeling bad, but I doubt that. You definitely cannot just decide that words will stop making you feel bad now.
"We can't trust the politicians" is more FUD. This seems to be a theme in your comments.
> "While there she explain how she was half-asleep when Assange initiated"

The charge is that she was asleep, not "half-asleep", and woke up when he was penetrating her.

"She fell asleep, but was woken up by his penetration of her. She immediately asked if he was wearing anything. He answered to the effect that he was not. She felt it was too late and, as he was already inside her, she let him continue"

http://jackofkent.com/2012/09/the-detail-of-the-accusations-...
What markets are those? I can think of no markets in which you're not allowed to change the price of whatever goods you're selling.
Financial Regulation Turf Wars
Yeah, OK, why do we? I agree. It's silly. Does the rest of America agree? No.

Given that this is part of AirBnb transforming to a consumer brand you'd think they'd pay more attention to what their target consumers think. They're a business, after all.
> expresses the actual position of the prosecution, which is that (i) Swedish legal procedures require he is brought into custody and interrogated in custody before the charge is formally made

My statement that the prosecution has refused offers to question him by other easy means is entirely factual and not FUD-like. Perhaps I should not have used that acronym, it triggers too many strong reactions. ;-)

You yourself quote from the Wikipedia article that the "brought into custody" requirement is, in fact, not a requirement of the Swedish legal procedures, but is the position of the prosecution. The legality of said requirement/interpretation is, among other things, up for debate in this proceeding.

> (ii) the arrest warrant is issued in order to allow them the opportunity to charge him with sexual offences and not simply because they "want to question him"

In Swedish law, "charges can be laid only after extradition and a second round of questioning". Questioning him is a prerequisite to placing charges. Of course they want to charge him, but that is another matter. They need to jump through the proper hoops.

>(iii) based on information they presently have he will be charged once he ceases evading arrest, unless he provides them with a very good reason not to.

Wrong (AFAIK).

1. A whole round of questioning and presentation of reasons has to be done before you can charge someone. I am not an lawyer, but this is what Swedish law requires, apparently. The burden of reasonable suspicion is on the Prosecution, not the Defense.

2. It is yet to be decided, legally speaking, if Assange has been evading arrest. One argument presented by the Defense is that the entire holed-up-in-the-embassy-for-years situation is equivalent to house arrest.

Disclaimer: IANAL.
Abingdon man claims African land to make good on promise to daughter
> Were the 24k shares being offered by one seller/broker, as in "I have 24k shares to sell at 17" or was the 24k just an aggregation of the availability all the smaller offers?

The shares were being quoted on different exchanges, at the same ask price. 24k was the cumulative volume that the buyer wanted, but that couldn't be fulfilled by a single exchange (the quote was for a smaller volume at that price). Therefore, to buy 24k shares, the buyer needs to trade twice, once at each exchange.

> I wonder why these trades are not being performed in parallel across the various exchanges, partially preventing this kind of arbitrage?

As has been pointed out, this is what a good broker will do - they will compensate for latency to make sure that bids arrive at differing venues at the same time to prevent the market shifting underneath them. A naïve broker will simply send out the bids at the same, and latency means that they arrive at different exchanges at different times. This lets the sellers at the more distant exchange move the market in response to the information of the trade being executed at the closer exchange.
That and in addition also leaves OP open to a countersuit for libel. Then the emphasis is on the OP to prove that the recruiter did what OP claims they did and for the reasons OP claims (i.e. that it wasn't just utter incompetence).

I'm not saying the Op shouldn't sue. I'm saying the OP shouldn't post their name here.
Your comment is sexist and pseudoscientific.
That would be only 7 employees per company on average. I'm sure there are a lot that never got past the 1-2 range but there are also Dropbox and AirBnb on the other end. Those two combined have around 2,000 employees according to Crunchbase.
If a government invites immigrants and then puts them in exclusive neighborhoods with no prospects of integration then don't be surprised when the integrated kick those politicians to the curb. The left is to blame for the rise of the right. Life isn't some fucking fairytale.
This was really useful, thank you!
I've always had a hard time visualising the grids.
Is there anyway I can add text, images and buttons?
Mostly for testing layouts.
I can hardly see it when I'm trying too see it.
People are reaching.
I don't think it is correct to speak in such absolutes. Sometimes a fight is just a fight.

I got into my fair share of trouble when I was a kid; both starting fights without any real provocation and being the recipient of aggression without any real provocation. Much of the time it was caused by an unnecessary escalation of previously fun 'play' violence (towel fights in the locker room was a biggie).

I can only think of two fights that were prompted by some form of emotional argument or dispute: In middle school I fought a bully at my bus-stop, and a year or two later a kid I had been bullying in boy scouts nearly broke my nose.
Wait a month, swap "papa" with "mama", and you should be good to go.
You do realize that people still find the "iPad" name awkward, right?

Just because the device sells doesn't mean the name isn't bad.
It's extremely unlikely that your costs would remain constant if you are growing at an exponential rate. So I'm not sure what the point of this calculator is.

But I love the graphical interactivity, very nice.
"Streaming coming soon"

https://twitter.com/OvercastFM/status/489448132556509184
Maybe it's just me but

> I realize that Gemma’s not trying to defeat her enemies. She doesn’t even view them as enemies. They’re other kids like her and she never stops trying to win their approval.

That seems like that could be part of the issue? My friends and I in high school were not trying to win the approval of anyone. We hung out together, gamed together, coded together, played D&D together. We could have cared less what others thought and weren't trying to "win their approval".
Wrong guy to ask, I'm just the experience and design and bootstrap guy, my partner is the engineering powerhouse behind how it actually works
I think Apple will get to sell a lot more devices without too much effort as the "more than 100 industry-specific applications that will run on the iPhone and iPad" will drive sales. Perhaps not as sexy as an iWatch but it could be pretty profitable.
You'd never nest containers using bootstrap. Do you mean rows/cols?
Airbnb Redesign and latest legal woes
I think zombies are a proxy for other teenagers. They travel in packs.
Don’t Let Big Success Lead to Bigger Failure
It sounds like you're deeply confused about the differences between public and private venues.
Architectural Idealist, Modernist Joseph Allen Stein (2007)
I like to read schlocky fantasy novels and mysteries when I'm winding down in the evening, and I can plow through a book in a week easily; two or three days if I don't have a lot to do, and less than that if I have a long flight. If this offers me the ability to snag every book in a series (say, all of Richard Stark's Parker novels, or all of Robert Parker's Spenser novels), then that actually sounds like an incredible deal.

Maybe a lot of people won't get a benefit out of it, but I could easily spend more than ten bucks a month on ebooks that I don't actually care about owning for long periods of time.
> But we don’t keep statistics on total revenue

Ahhh, yet another reminder as to what matters and what doesn't in the game of VC.
If you think this is cool, go ahead and check out bfb, an IRC bot written in a derivative of Brainfuck.

https://github.com/billiob/bfb
But that doesn't work on an e-ink reader.