skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When ever we read new articles about Sweden vs Assange, we have to keep in mind that the wishes of the two women in the dcase is not represented by any side.

This does make this case a bit strange. The woman in this case went to the police in order to ask them if it was possible to force a person to take a HIV test. While there she explain how she was half-asleep when Assange initiated un-safe sex, and when she heard about his other sexual partners a few days later she became concerned. When she contacted Assange about a HIV test, he brushed the concept off, which is why she were there at the police station asking them for help.

The result was by all reports (ie news papers), not what she wanted. They charged Assange for rape, which resulted in that she broke of any communication with the police and prosecutor, and refused to sign the written report from the police station.

Now, criminal case do not need that the woman agree with the charges, but it makes for a strange case. It also makes one ask for whose benefit this case is all for. All the men and women who is half-asleep when initiated by sex from a partner they previously that day/night had sex with?
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Belong Anywhere – Airbnb's new mark and identity
New logo, new fonts, new colors, new message. All apps and web properties skinned and released in unison.
When I was a kid I got books from the library too. Then, like most people who enjoy reading, I began buying books of my own. Libraries are fine when you just want to find some books you haven't read before but owning your own books has significant advantages, which I hope need not be restated here.

How this goes for authors depends on how Amazon are purchasing the rights to the ebooks. Having seen what streaming has done to music revenue I can't say I'm too optimistic about this. Some authors will do fantastically well, of course, but the much larger number of people who make a modest income from writing may well see it shrink drastically. The problem is that this doesn't necessarily improve things for consumers. Super-successful authors are often producers of lowest-common-denominator material. If high quality writers who appeal to a much smaller audience are no longer able to support themselves by writing, then they either move downmarket or take up another line of work, which results is a loss of quality for consumers.

The problem with streaming is that proponents treat creative output like a commodity and then point to the laws of supply and demand to justify economic upheaval. But pure supply and demand only applies in cases of perfect competition, where commodity goods are actually perfect substitutes; I have no particular reason to buy oil/ gravel/ corn from supplier X if supplier Y can deliver identical goods at a lower price. This is not the case for creative works.

PS I don't mean this as a dig against Amazon in particular, but there is a potential monopsony problem. I worry about this a bit less with Netflix because the economics of film production and distribution are enormously different than for other media, and Netflix is more like a peer among distributors.
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I've also found it the worst at handling temporary connection issues. Dropbox, Box, etc. will start up as soon as they see internet without a problem but Google Drive will just sit there until I quit and restart it.
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What you see as a problem is exactly what I like about the game. To me, parenting often feels like walking a tightrope: you have to preserve a delicate balance between presenting the world as it should be and presenting it as it is. The former is meant to instill values, the latter is meant to prepare and protect. Too much of the former sets the kid up for a huge disappointment. Too much of the latter would be crushing.

That's why I would love to see a game like this, a game that addresses the problem, but ultimately remains a game you can have fun with. The best works I've ever read/seen/played are subtle: they don't shove their ideas down your throat, but make you think about their nuances later.
I knew about that Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (http://www.moonviews.com/), but I don't understand the headline. What 'mystery' did they solve? They recovered data from obsolete formats and equipment. That's not solving a mystery.
Apple Agrees To Pay As Much As $450M To Settle E-Book Case, Will Continue Appeal
As a backend engineer, this is fantastic. Thank you!
Like http://yclist.com/ ?

Looks fairly up to date, but I'm not sure how accurate it is.

I recall seeing a spreadsheet that included other similar programs but I can't find it right now.
Swift does offer this, though in a slightly weird way; structs (and I think arrays) are stack-allocated, classes are heap-allocated. Swift structs are more featureful than, say, C++; they mostly behave like classes, but live on the stack and are passed by value.
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There's a lot of talk about MSFT but in some ways this is about greenfields and removing the last stronghold of RIM. This extends my take away from the last WWDC. Apple seems really focused on creating a hw/sw platform that other business build huge businesses on top of. They used to have to do it all but now they seem quite happy to stop at the shore and watch others sail on their ocean (big announcements around health care partners, now this enterprise partner etc)
Airbnb Redesign
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No I use Python. That was my point. Tried, tested, solid software is what I want to use, not some half arsed JavaSricpt reimplementation, that kind of works, but is the latest new thing so we "have to use it".
Once I discovered this I immediately went to my library to sign up. It's fantastic and I can now rent books digitally. The people using Amazon's service could be easily using the libraries in their community.
the experience is typically atrocious however (looking at you overdrive.com) and the selection limited. netflix is easy and reasonably comprehensive. hopefully amazon's product will be as well.
so I got downvoted for taking a picture of my exact dock, exact size? So I should have made my dock way larger and posted a better quality picture?

All I was doing was telling the author that I liked what she did and showing that I did indeed take time to implement it.
Normalization! FINALLY

The amount of times I have to touch volume buttons on non normalized podcasts is nuts.

As long as this works decently or close to downcast in overall use I'll throw the $5 at this easy.
I don't think that being a so-called metrosexual has anything to do with gender identity. There are probably a lot of metrosexual men that don't self-identify with femininity any more than the average man.

As far as divorcing biological sex and gender - well a lot of guys insult each other by calling each other women for whatever reason. There is no allusions to being gay, and apparently a man can be a "woman" even though his sex is a man. But somehow this doesn't seem very constructive or inclusive.
I can see why some people would say Castro's design is better, but to me Castro is "over-designed". The visual slickness gets in the way of actually using it. I'd say Overcast is actually better designed, because it is more usable.
Thanks for saying that. These days I have kind of a thin skin for the implication, which seems to be increasingly prevalent, that the interests and struggles of boys/men are not only perfectly understood, but are too simplistic and trivial to be concerned with; just give the fuckers enough Red Bulls and handguns and watch them party their way to social media startups! Just don't forget to throw a rasher of half-cooked bacon onto the cage floor from time to time. And so on.

Apparently most of the males I've met in my life are incredibly, incredibly dysfunctional.
TIL Spotify has 5000 servers ... somehow I expected they'd have more.
The three companies worth over a billion dollars being: Dropbox, Airbnb and.. I can't seem to remember the third one. Reddit?
You could go again. The thought still crosses my mind every so often, and I am nearly 40.
I had this exact idea (but didn't think I had the skill to pull it off), how cool for people afraid of code. Well done!
I've not tried it yet, but.. Hori_s_ontal? Why?

https://code.google.com/p/lanterna/source/browse/src/main/ja...
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I also was surprised (not shocked) to see that data missing.
Not shocked because those in the "VC business" usually don't care so much, as long as the get a return on their investment, which could be accomplished without any meaningful revenue.
Well, this should go down in the annals of logos which should have gotten some wider impressions before launching.

Since nobody else on HN has mentioned it, all of twitter thinks the new logo looks like a vagina. It's hard to unsee.
It also uses a lot of private apis from ios6. (I found out running the ios8 beta and looking at stack traces)

So I've had to revert to Downcast. I have bought every podcast app on ios anyway to get away from the godawful native podcast app. Whats one more app amongst friends.
How Dan Gilbert Helped Tame the Incorrigible Rap Genius
Airbnb Launches Massive Redesign
Ferret-induced developer fatigue
Stripe, I believe.

Edit: Here's an article when they hit a $1.75B valuation: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/22/with-an-eye-to-internationa...
One thing I don't understand is why companies don't pay Canonical for support? Is it such a bad thing to pay for Linux support?

I wonder if companies that have chosen Ubuntu LTS think they are supporting Canonical and its developers just because they are running Ubuntu. This article doesn't mention Canonical at all.

Support Debian developers is a great thing but Canonical probably spends tons of money and I rarely see companies saying "I chose Canonical and Ubuntu because...".

DISCLAIMER: I work for a company that provides Linux support services

EDIT: Typos
The physical performance of a book is in the user's imagination, a private, personalized and high definition experience.
Unfortunately no Noto CJK available yet
I find the title tag less and less relevant since browsers like Chrome end up showing only "Building Better" (in the case of this hacker news submission) which is a mere 15 characters.

If anything, the fav-icon is the most significant for telling where I am.

> Make Your Site Readable

Amen. At least in this web page, the text doesn't go all the way across a 25-inch screen.

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Plenty of talk about broken links and then a broken image from a foreign "expired" domain for what looks like an html lint service. Though the talk about netscape in the same paragraph dates it quite a bit.
As a counter-point, the videos were my favorite part but I agree some of them look a little too staged. Possibly blurring them a bit or adding a slightly translucent overlay as another poster suggested could make them less distracting and increase the prominence of the white text overlay.

Just don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
http://ycpages.info/

http://ycuniverse.com/
> netflix is easy and reasonably comprehensive.

I agree with the first part of that sentence.
Scribd, after dabbling for a long time in the pdf sharing arena, has changed for a model just like this some time ago. One of the founders has even come here at HN recently to talk about it (I can't find the post right now).

I wonder how will they react to this announcement. If they try to compete directly, not only will it be an uphill battle, but Amazon has a hell of firepower with the Kindle and Fire ecosystems.
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The only HTML what is there is the "class" attribute. The rest is CSS.
I just realized that the stupid "Let It Go" song is probably sponsored by Google. Everything makes sense now.
A Flying V formation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mighty_Ducks_(film_series) )

More seriously, what equipment do you have? How many vehicles, what type, and how long of a stretch of highway? Can you damage the cars in any way (say tailgating and then sudden obstacle avoidance...would anyone be mad if the cars didn't avoid as intended)?
> I’m not sure why, but sometimes a team will applaud a small victory, then more people will start clapping, then suddenly the entire product and engineering area is a din of applause and cheers. Most people don’t know why they’re clapping, they just want to show support and have fun.

In other words: mindless group think, tight social control and an interruptive work environment.
I agree with your last sentence. Unfortunately, I don't think it's that much better to tell them "It's okay, it will be better when you grow up." While it's true that they won't experience customary physical violence or frequent overt verbal abuse in an adult workplace, they most likely will run into bullies. Those bullies will have the same motivations as school bullies and the solution should be much the same: find a way to either fight them or avoid them.
Is that because the charges are weak, or because under the Swedish system, prosecutors are required to confront him in person before filing charges? I'm not a lawyer, let alone a Swedish one, but my understanding is that it's the latter.
it looks like a butt...
Number of companies funded by YC so far: 716

Can you share how many are outright dead and how many are working, more or less, on the same idea that they started with?
I was lucky enough to be in the beta program and actually ordered the 8x8 version. $1 per photo is the wrong way to look at it. My 8x8 book is one hefty beast. If you are not familiar with layflat binding, it's the best possible bound you could get, usually reserved for premium wedding albums. The pages are stiff, almost like cardboard, and it's seamless across the spread. I can upload some shots of my book when I get home.
Are they into space technology? No joke, that was the very first thing that came to my mind when I saw the new logo.
I believe this is the post you mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8035319
Why shouldn't the US create a tax structure that encourages businesses to "invert" to the US?
I'd be interested in this. I bet it is much smaller than any of us anticipate. I'd estimate <5000 jobs total as a high water mark.
For what it's worth, I appreciate it :)
It actually works very well.
It should work, but some networks are really bad at delivering messages, dropping them or delaying them by hours.

As for charges, that may be a problem. But I have never seen international charges of over a dollar for a simple text. But I haven't been to really exotic locations.

I still use SMS for the second factor, it's way less secure, but I have it mostly to protect against opportunistic attacks, and having the second factor bound to a device that I will lose or kill with 100% certainty isn't a great solution for me.
Is Australia interested in prosecuting him? I doubt that.

Treason is a crime against one's own country; the US cannot try him for treason, nor can Sweden.

Let's not exaggerate here.
I think that's because Cloudant's solution is the same replication protocol (CouchDB) talking to it's hosted databases. Thank's for pointing this out, I didn't know about.
> This is a standard market dynamic and one that makes the markets work.

I don't believe this is necessary to make markets work.
Some people seem to be missing the point about "why Amazon would do this and 'cannibalize' itself". Here's why - yes, some people are going to pay the $10 a month, and read 5 books a month, and those will be like 1 percent of their e-book customers. The vast majority, if switched to this model, would pay $10 a month, and only read 2 books a year. The rest, will keep buying ebooks just like now, so nothing will change from that perspective.

I'm guessing Amazon has enough data to know that this will end up profitable for them. In a way, it's just like Prime. Some probably order a ton of stuff every month, becoming unprofitable Prime members for Amazon, while others only a couple of year, yet still pay $99 a year for free shipping.

It's only like any other "unlimited" deal out there. Some customers will be very unprofitable as they will take full advantage of the "unlimited" offer, but the vast majority of the customers will more than make up for it.
Yep, that's certainly a start. It doesn't really show the difference in success between companies like Reddit, Stripe, Loopt, and TextPayMe.
Last I heard (early 2013), Reddit was valued at 400-500 million. I can't imagine it's gotten much more than that.
"About" screen is a very nice touch. I don't think I saw another up doing it this way.
"The nasty politics of social groups has rarely ever crept into my life sense."

Except for the rest of the world that doesn't live up to your, let's be honest, pretty high, political standers required to enter your social group.

"i was able to be friends with people that saw the world in interesting ways, and cared about things that made sense."

If someone wants to be friends with you, knew this is what you valued, and yet didn't 'qualify'; their ability to enter your social group becomes seriously vague and very hard to navigate.

"It gets better when you're able to choose your friends, your you're able to make friends on your own terms, not just pick from those around you."

Ever ponder the possibility that there were, or are, some people out there that just can't figure out your social politics and are maybe confused and lonely wondering what it is about them that you don't like?
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Actually, while you're right in spirit, I think you're technically wrong: you do not need to be a citizen of the US to be charged with treason. You just need to have betrayed an allegiance to the US. So for instance, resident aliens in the US can technically be charged with treason.
Trivia: the new logo is called the "Bélo"; the old one was constructed from the typeface "Bello" by Underware.

http://www.underware.nl/fonts/bello/preface
I love the new site. I was never a fan of the old one because I felt overwhelmed with all the information on the screen. This feels cleaner, more minimalist.

One gripe I have with the new site is the fixed booking form on the right side of the screen as you scroll through a listing. I find it really distracting (perhaps that's the point?). Because of the fixed form on the right, there's also a lot of wasted space in the column. I dunno, maybe I'll get used to this over time.
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> Total market cap of all YC companies

The word "market" seems pretty strange here. Are there any YC companies with a "market" valuation?
reddit sold for no more than $20M according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4530030
Is the new symbol an attempt at some contrived post-millenial hobo code?

"Look, honey! The Bélo! We've found a safe-house!"
I just started working on something similar for Angular.

http://www.angularcourse.com
Ohhh, very nice, it looks like that data does exist publicly.

I'm imagining a more consolidated view with filtering / sorting, I might work on building that in the next week or two if I have some free time and see if it's useful to anyone.
I've always used Safari Books Online. I get every technical book I could imagine, and the company where I work pays for it.

Amazon unlimited seems good for the people that enjoy fiction, but I don't think they will be able to compete on the technical stuff.
So conservatively, by market cap it looks like YC is doing 10X on their investment, which is very impressive.

And this is conservatively, since the 3 billion in funding has already been handed out, but some of the companies that have received that funding haven't had a chance to grow and become valuable.
Frankly I did not see this coming [0], I always figured Airbnb would aim to be a universal marketplace, rather than carving out a niche in "authentic", "unique", "truly amazing experiences".

Anyhow, I read "belonging" as a coded word for "community", and wonder how Airbnb thinks they are going to culture their own community...

Maybe they will make a strategic acquisition? Lonely Planet, for example.

Or maybe they will bleed some of their profits into a virtual currency / karma that folks can earn, trade, and apply toward accommodations? Airbnb could tweak the karma economy to maximize profits while still infusing enough karma to bootstrap their community.

[0] http://blog.airbnb.com/belong-anywhere
Guys are less subtle -- we're wired to be more attracted to the binary good/bad aspect of things. The male power dynamic is powerful/weak. Girls sweat the details.

I think any teacher or person who deals with kids around middle school age would tell you that girls have more sophisticated social constructs and very different ways of undermining each other than boys.
I think because the background is such a long, varied animation, it works as-is. None of the letters are unreadable for more than a moment, and only occasionally do small portions become unreadable. The exception, I think, is the Signup|Login|Help navigation section in the top-right. Sometimes whole links become unreadable for like 5 seconds!
Forgot your mumbo jumbo evidence & logical reasoning! I believe what I believe and you can't stop me!

stomps foot
1 and 2 also applies to many adults and their peers. I think the main difference is as you stated that teenagers haven't internalized those lessons yet.
And yet it retains the informality you want from an AirBnB. It's almost perfect.

IMO the design process seems way over the top, but it seems to have produced results.
Great, now I know why prepaid credit card directory website's Google search traffic has dropped off recently .. hmm.
Giant hole appears at 'the end of the world' in Siberia
For so long, people thought Airbnb was about renting houses. But really, we’re about home. You see, a house is just a space, but a home is where you belong.

I hope they didn't pay very much for this, it's nauseating.
It seems like something in your browser may block these calls. Usually these errors can be seen with adBlock. Do you have it?
Glad I wasn't the only one, although for me it wasn't so specific -- it just suggested sexual.
I think there is a real way forward on this issue. Not too long ago, Penn State abandoned its "free speech zone" policy in response to pressure. It was heartening to see the change greeted warmly by folks on both sides of the ideological rift: http://thorsteinveblen.blogspot.com/2006/08/free-speech-come..., http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/news/2206/CentreDa....

A number of other universities have also abandoned similar policies. The biggest step is probably the state of Virginia passing legislation designating all outdoor areas of public colleges as public forums: http://www.thefire.org/virginia-bans-unconstitutional-campus....

An organization called FIRE has a great tool that lists speech-restrictive policies at various universities: http://www.thefire.org/spotlight/
Seems like there's a good case to be made for a 3rd level of visibility between private and public. Similar to Java's package level. I'd like to see (from least to most public):

private: only visible inside the current namespace/module

crate (possible name): importable anywhere in the current crate/compilation unit

public: visible outside the crate/compilation unit
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I use this app and it works. It is a very interesting idea
French blogger fined over review's Google search placing