skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is peanuts when compared to the cumulative value of all of IBM's customers. In terms of plain capital management, the insurers and reinsurers that are have been their customers for the past 5 decades manage amounts of capital that are much greater than Apple's assets, or any other tech company on its own.

Seriously, people have no idea of the staggering involvement IBM has in their lives, to a much greater extent than probably any other IT company in the world.
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that's how much the companies have raised in total, not from us--we invest usually between 15-20k per company.

and of course, investors only own a percentage of the companies, not nearly 100%.
What the company is doing is essentially illegal. You can't rent out a living space without applying for rezoning, and then it still has to be with the approval of the city planning department of the city. You can't just let people turn their places into rentals. I live in a large city, and I would mostly agree that city planning in necessary in order to avoid problems with traffic, parking, and all the other problems that happen in dense urban areas.

I think the idea is great, but it's not going to work, maybe in a more relaxed country where they don't care to do any city planning, but not in the United States and other more densely populated cities.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/nyregion/the-airbnb-econom...
A great read into parenting and I really applaud this man for getting his whole family working together on a project. This should be a worthwhile game for not just teenagers to play but also parents and community leaders. I am thoroughly looking forward to playing the game.

It is also interesting to note the perception of reality for these young girls. They are not fooled by "rose-colored" glasses and yet the first solution is to "join" the system and master it.
What's wrong with a logo that looks like a vagina? Apple's logo looks like an apple, which isn't really related to their business.
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How to recycle last year's neon pieces
Wow, that camera phone clip from the Daily Show is great. And Jon Stewart looks so much younger!
The frontpage (http://www.ycombinator.com) now has a quote from Satya Nadella:

“It’s fantastic to see the work Y Combinator is doing to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in the startup community and Hacker News is one of my favorite sources of pointers to hackers and their hacks!”

What's his user name?
Think of how many meaningful connections you could make if you charged below market rate for lodging in high demand areas. Until now I thought airbnb was about making money for themselves and their hosts, but now I see it's about connecting the world through meaningful experiences and the money is almost not even a factor! Amazing!
I think this is the venue you're looking for:

http://plaintextoffenders.com/
I see more good asm examples are being devoloped. This is a good, cool start for connecting to IRC, but it would be even more cool to see the bot do something beyond looking for a single line. What do you plan to do with it, if I might ask? Your motivation is listed as "lol" ...
Looks neat. But announcing you are the first of a kind when you are hypothetically 2 years away from release -- seems a bit presumptuous.
"At least in this web page, the text doesn't go all the way across a 25-inch screen."

You don't have to run a browser full screen on a 25-inch screen. I'm baffled why you give a browser that much space and it bothers you when the page uses it.
As someone who knows Python/JS/some html, but very little css, this is absolutely fantastic. Thank you!

PS: you mentioned Clojurescript, are you using Om?
Oh, I'm sorry. I saw "FUD" and my brain turned off. I think I made the exact same point you made. Next time I'll read more carefully!
At my company, we don't even consider Ubuntu as a viable server platform. It's RHEL/CentOS for just about everything.

As you mentioned, the LTS Ubuntu versions are really not on the same level as the stable RHEL releases and support that is provided.

Yes, Ubuntu is very popular... in both the Desktop and Server arena (mostly catalyzed by EC2 making Ubuntu the default Linux image, even though EC2 is built out of RHEL/CentOS boxes). However, most "big metal" servers are RHEL/CentOS or something else.

In any event (and distro-fany-boyism aside ;-) ... one has to question the change from Debian Stable to Ubuntu LTS. The only thing I can think of, is they wanted a more "proper" company to call up for support... even though Debian are the guys Ubuntu calls up when they need support.

At the end of the day, my 2 cents would be to get a distro that focuses on being a server distro first and forthright, not a distro that is a jack-of-all-trades.
I thought the new airbnb logo looked like boobs.
The entire function of "free speech zones" whether on or off of a college campus is to contain protests in order to limit the spread of ideas. I don't know how the legal framework came about which permits this drastic curbing of free speech, but it's here.

Thankfully, sometimes you can still speak quasi-freely on some places on the internet even if free speech in meatspace is dead. Doesn't sound too "free" when I put it that way.
Looks like these kinds of policies are creeping out of high schools and making their way into public universities. Where would we be if we didn't allow free speech at universities in the 1960's? I thought this fight had already been won.[1] Free speech seems to be one of those things that institutions and governments need to be repeatedly compelled to respect.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement
If you were designing a logo, would you make one that looks like a penis?
Well this is if he were to be deported, which, let's face it, would be likely if he's found guilty.
Did anyone else notice that Satya has quite a habit of using run-on sentences? I also thought this while reading his letter to employees.
Beats HTML marking-up and JavaScript scripting.
There should be a Design Group per product, that you are on rotation split across everything is typical of IBM, and it shows, although the current approach at least leads to consistent results.

I wonder how many reports Jony Ive has to him compared to his equivalent number in IBM.
Well, unique and amazing experiences will probably cause them fewer legal issues for Airbnb over the long-term. As opposed to being a universal marketplace where people aren't necessarily abiding by their own leases.
I would be really curious to know what the median outcome is for YC companies and their founders.
Support for modules written in C.
While the shape of an Apple can make for a pretty benign and neutral corporate image it doesn't mean this is true for every shape.
I'm not sure what right you are concerned about. There is no "right to not be bothered by political nonsense", but there is a right to free speech for other students. Just as you can't argue that billboards and talkative salespeople should be outlawed, I'm not sure you can realistically argue that students who want to talk politics should not be allowed near you.
Can you change the column type from lg to others like xs?
> “The creation of the free-speech zones, and the enforcement of sound-level ordinances, was not to prevent free speech, but give religious or political speech a time, place, and manner that would allow speakers to address their messages to audiences on campuses without disrupting the other fundamental functions of the institutions,” wrote a retired physics professor commenting on a Chronicle of Higher Education report.

That was the purpose of the Constitution, to make the entire country a free-speech zone.

The Orwellian term "Free-speech zone"'s meaning is not in defining where people can speak. It defines where people can't speak.

The school is giving them a civics lesson, fortunately not the one the administrators who evidently opposed free speech intended. Instead it's showing what happens when a school breaks the law.

> “Isn’t an institution of higher education’s primary function ... the education/learning and safety of its students?"

Whoever thinks free speech impinges on safety is confused. The danger of free speech is nothing compared to the danger of its suppression.
We can indeed draw strength and well-being from a having a good cry. Sometimes you have to break down in order to come back stronger. But this comes at a price: breaking down is usually still a setback in other ways, and so its value has to be weighed against the situation. There are times when we truly cannot afford to do it.

I think that this game's death-concept is actually a decent model for this. You suffer a setback, but you ultimately come back in a better state than you were in just before it happened, and although you have to face once again some of the problems you'd solved before, you've got the tools to do that. You can still only suffer so many of these before the problem starts to get much more serious, and there are times when suffering even one can be catastrophic. But if you persevere and handle your emotions with care, you can make it through.
It's not quite a simple as that. Firstly Apple never ask if you want to use iMessage. If you get an iphone and try sending a SMS it routes it to iMessage automatically without asking. I guess you can turn that off - I don't know how.
Secondly if you switch your iphone for an Android and other iphone users try to send you iMessages, Apple could easily get back to them saying something like "We've been unable to deliver that message to the iphone that used to be there - would you like to try SMS?" but they don't. The fact this doesn't work in spite of people complaining for years suggests they may have deliberately not bothered as it discourages people switching.
Awesome awesome-algorithms library to learn awesome algorithms
Just as a FYI, RSSRadio has had both silence removal and voice boosting for some time (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/rssradio-podcast-downloader/...)
And the FAQ for developers on that site:

http://plaintextoffenders.com/faq/devs

I have zero expectation of improvement, and they are already listed on that site, but I can only try.

Thanks.
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the exact opposite?
There is no right to not be confronted with difficult ideas.
Selenium based for desktop browsers. Appium + Selendroid for viewing on mobile. We don't use headless browsers. VMs installed on a couple of machines take care of the different operating systems.

Jenkins manages the continuous integration and deployment bit.
This is great! I can't figure out how to nest containers though, is this supported?
How much bandwidth does one need to be able pipe down a 22.9 Meg WebM video file with every home page impression? Oi. Looks beautiful though.
I'm not sure why so many people seem so intent on sexualizing a logo. I think that it's pretty clever to incorporate the location marker into the A.
I don’t think it does get in the way and I wouldn’t see how …

But point taken. It uses less standard controls, certainly. I have nothing against standard controls, my issue with Overcast is more with alignment and layout (especially the alignment and layout of the podcast images, up there in a corner).

In the end my willingness to trade usability for graphic design might be slightly higher than that of many other people (at least those who care).
Cool features although not "new". RSSRadio for iOS has had both silence removal and voice boost features for a long time.
I appear to be the only one who thinks it looks like an "A". The loop reminds me of something an airplane would do in the air. I can see the sexual resemblance, but only if I concentrate hard enough on it, then it just goes back to being an "A".
In Health IT, think like a doctor and start with the ABCs
Just bought the app. Love everything apart from the arrow icon on the menubar. It seems like the rest of the app has had a lot of care and attention given to it whereas this is just a simple filled in arrow. Takes away from the entire thing.
I clicked on the link and saw the "Welcome Home" message with a lady sleeping in the background.

A second or two later she moved and I realized I'm watching a short video of some lady sleeping. Which felt very creepy.

I just thought that was noteworthy since that's not a feeling that comes up all that often clicking on a link for a business's home page.

On the new logo:

I think it's surprisingly nice. The video introduction was good too. Except for a couple things:

1. The flashing font-color/background-color sequence bothered my eyes quite a bit. It's almost offensively intrusive? It seems like one of those "persistent vision" pictures/illusions. Except you don't expect it.

2. The "four things"... took a nice (if a bit cheesy) message, and really made it feel forced. It clued me into the intent that they want little Bélo stickers plastered in the corners of windows... but I feel like that sort of thing happens organically, or not. If you distribute free stickers to owners, with that suggestion on the back of the peel-away, I bet it's as effective. If you don't distribute them, then the video isn't going to make it happen anyways.

Just my 2c.
Jibo, the world's first “family robot”
It is easier to extradite Assange from the UK than from Sweden. But extraditing him to the US does not somehow make him culpable for treason; he has no formal connection to the US.
I'm reminded of some dialog from an old TV show. I think it was "I Love Lucy", but I'm not sure. It went something like this:

(Lucy is buying a pound of steak from the butcher shop. Note this was set in the 1950's, so food is considerably cheaper than it is now)

Butcher: that will be $0.85, please

Lucy: $0.85!? Bob's Butcher down the street sells steak for $0.55 per pound!

Butcher: then go buy your steak from Bob's.

Lucy: I would, but Bob's is out of steak.

Butcher: Lady, when I'm out of steak, I'll sell it for $0.50 per pound!

For all but less than a handful of places, Google Fiber is Bob's Butcher.
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There's really no need to talk about "enough", "acceptable", etc.

It's very simple - if there's less money available for a first book, less people will do it. This means that there will almost certainly be less authors, therefore almost certainly less great authors (though it's probably not linear).

Not to say you're wrong, just that talking about "I think it's sufficient" masks the fact that it doesn't matter what you think, there will in effect be less great books written.
An effective logo should have zero ambiguity whatsoever.
Cat did a nice job of summarizing what we're up to with our new iOS app.

The app is designed to make keeping track of your representatives in government easy. Short summaries of bills, an easy way to up/down vote them and tell your Reps how to vote, and then a simple way to hold your reps accountable.

I'm eager to hear HN's feedback - let us know what you think.
Women and minority corporate executives are penalized for fostering diversity
I certainly can't imagine Don Draper pitching something like this, it is pretty awful.
A $10 billion dollar company ought to be able to work that stuff out.
> First of all, what is that shiny gold motherboard [0] on the front page?

It's the ASUS Z87 Deluxe (http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Z87DELUXE/)
Yeah, U2F is exciting. It has a lot of weight behind it, and I can't wait to try out the new Yubikey implementation.

We move closer to the day when I can buy embedded authentication hardware in the form of a ring, and I can make endless jokes about One Ring to Rule Them All.
"it generally takes companies a few years to get above [$100 million valuation]"

Sama, dropping knowledge...
I like Min but the 10-column grid seems like a poor choice vs 12-col, IMO. What was the rationale behind that?
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Airbnb + DesignStudio on Rebranding
Could sworn it was a fiver because a sawhorse looks like an upside-down V. Guess I got my etymologies confused. Thanks.
They have more. A guess would be about the double.
So they do! That's interesting. Did you have to be home to take delivery for it?

Also it doesn't look like they've added it for Costco which is a shame.
Yes - VC investment is a private market, but a market nonetheless.
Yes! Yes! Yes!

If this happens, it will be my dream come true. Unlimited ebooks/audiobooks is probably my #1 most requested "feature" from the world. Especially since Amazon allows syncing between audiobooks and ebooks, but I really hate paying for both.

Seriously, I'm such an Amazon fanboy :)

Interesting to see what the difference between publishing books online vs. publishing real book will be in 10 years.
I've switched to foundation for my last projects. I just like the grid and defaults better. Also, there's an option to have collapsed (with no padding) columns which I've find useful.
Amazing!

I always wondered if it was possible to make a sundial with a minutes pointer... this is even more complex.
Amazon to launch Netflix for eBooks seems more accurate. They're is no guarantee they have everything ready to launch it even this week.
You can't tell people things like that because they might ask "what are you going to do about this awful situation?" or "why do I have to go to school if it's so bad?". To which we have no answer.
In the Bay Area at least, libraries are where people without computers go to access the Internet. The Internet is the easiest way to perform a lot of basic life tasks, like interacting with the government. People without computers these days are generally lower income, so it's true that there are more poor people in the library.

In some areas, it is definitely significant that libraries have bathrooms and shelter. But the Internet is always a big draw. With more and more of life moving online, libraries are providing an extremely valuable service by making Internet access freely available.
It's not about conformity; it's about visibility. If you're conforming, you're a lot more invisible (and, it must be said, protected). There are other ways to become invisible, but I'm not sure the cost is worth the independence.
Oyster already offers this (http://oysterbooks.com) - my wife loves it.
At least from the good reads I gather hardly people read more that 2 books per month. In a way $10 dollars is just the same thing, assuming $5 dollar is your average price of the book. If anything Amazon will profit from the all the users who read less but simply subscribe to it.

It feels like gym membership for books.
Hu? The European Parliament is elected directly by the people (a bit too directly for my taste, in fact, I would have much preferred if the 5% minimum had been kept…). The commission is approved by parliament and suggested by the governments of the individual member states. The “corrupt bureaucracy” is put in place by the various offices (commission, council, parliament, CoJ etc.), just as in any other country.

What sort of democratic process would you prefer?
Nobody who reads two books a year is going to sign up for this service. Only people who read more than $10 of books per month are going to sign up.

Unlike prime, heavier users don't bring any additional revenue with this program. Prime members spend hundreds of dollars more per year than non-prime customers.
People are allowed to play games that aren't fun.
It's sung by Rob Pike.
>It also makes one ask for whose benefit this case is all for

Other people Assange, or others in society, may want to violate without a condom for his own pleasure at the expense of his partner's well being.

>All the men and women who is half-asleep when initiated by sex from a partner they previously that day/night had sex with?

As per the accusation, Assange purposely penetrated her without using a condom against her wishes while she slept. Previous sex isn't permission for future sex. And certainly not unprotected sex because he doesn't like condoms but managed to catch her with her guard down.
I haven't used AirBnB extensively and don't really remember the old UI, but my immediate thought is this new UI will probably appeal to their target audiences.

It looks like it's designed to convey an emotion - that giddy feeling when you're traveling and seeing something new, coupled with having a homey experience from a local. It's got great big photos, that big hero video, and is emphasizing both people and landscapes pretty well.

Overall, I get the sense that the brand is growing up and expanding from a sub-culture to a larger market of travelers now. And they've managed to look better than an Expedia or Travelocity.

With that said - darn it, now I can't get the "private parts" comparison out of my head now.

(Conspiracy theorist note: Unless, that's what they wanted to put into your head... Ooo...)
I didn't mean to imply that the term metrosexual is strictly related to gender. I know that terms like this, as well as behavior about calling someone by the opposite sex or gender as an insult are things that differ a lot by culture and circumstance. I personally don't like it; in high school I was once (or more? I can't remember) labeled a "bitch" as an insult (incidentally I am male sex but prefer to identify as neutrois or genderqueer as my gender identity).

My point is that precisely because society tends to use these terms as insults, and because there is no approach common to society, we have a lot of work to go in revising our approach to views of gender identity, sexuality, masculinity, and femininity in society.
Fun fact: the physical aggression comes after the emotional manipulation. The difference isn't that boys are more physical; it's that they don't hide the results.
Maybe zombies are a proxy for sociopathic, unfeeling bully automatons.
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That's a fair enough point — except that there's no workaround, even when it ought to be easy to provide one. It's tricky as hell to convince the iPhone to start an SMS conversation with a number that's been flagged as iMessage-enabled. Even if you receive an SMS from that number, and force-send SMSes, it still won't allow you to default to SMS for that conversation.
Exactly. I assume this is why people feel the need to construct narratives where it's within the bullied child's power to fix the problem.
1, 3 - you can crop and zoom the photos by clicking on them right on the page. You can also swap the photos by dragging them, and change layouts by clicking to the "Change Layout" button.
Any company which has sold equity, whether on the private or public markets, has a "market" valuation based on the per-share price. Private companies may also get a market valuation with a 409A valuation, but those are typically kept as low as legally justifiable for stock option attractiveness.
The white text in the main headers sometimes blends in with the video background.
Simple: you don't have that right. Consider a nation with a different set of laws, a greater degree of tolerance and open-mindedness, and/or home schooling.
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Yeah, it's pretty bad. Reads like a high schooler's Livejournal.
Tesla's $35,000 car will be called the Model 3
If you collect data, and it was made accessible to everyone to access and leverage to the fullest if they choose, … ?:

Then the government can still use the data.

The point is not that any database has on you it's what you get when you combine the public and private history of everyone. So, suddenly a joke taken out of context or an angry x and your on the next 'no fly list'. The more information someone has the easier it is to find something they dislike even if it's simply being to normal.

It's the lost of anonymity that's important not your drunken photo's.
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The UK courts have already agreed that he has been equivalent of arrested-in-the-UK sense. That's how Swedish law works.
Don't do that, you'll prejudice a potential future lawsuit.
Sure. What's wrong with vaginas? Why do we demonize parts of the body?