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> So I guess my questions are: is it actually considered good?

By no means. Quite formulaic. Weak writing.

> If so, is the first book bad? How did it become popular if the first book is bad?

Um, anybody remember "Twilight" or "50 Shades of Grey"? It's possible to be quite popular and yet suck very badly.

And, Dresden Files is far from bad. It sets up an interesting set of characters and an interesting universe. Just go into it expecting a swashbuckle rather than high literature, and you will be fine.
Do you prefer startups from a certain level on Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
But why do you care if Musk and SpaceX have a reality-distortion field? Worst case (or best case for you) is that he fails and you get to gloat.
Do you have a patent or just a patent application? If you have a patent post the patent number so we can all look at it.
In Indian film industry a famous director called Subhash Ghai usually make eccentric movie with fantastic songs. Songs are usually made by music director and their selection as per the movie and special recommendations comes from movie director only. I think he should be given credit for better ears and selection capacity as I have seen same music directors failing horribly on other movies. So even if Subhash Ghai can not make good music by himself, aspiring music composer will always goes to him for recommendations.
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Honestly I think the bug catching aspect of static typing is its least useful property. (Useful, but not like, amazing -- you can write assertions on a type in a dynamic language). I think the good thing about static typing is it makes a code-base much easier to navigate and much more self documenting. I spend most my time navigating other peoples code. I know you can get most of the reliability of static typing with extensive test suites etc., but that doesn't help my IDE and it doesn't let me look up parameters at a glance. I used to be firmly in the dynamic camp, but having to maintain other people's javascript definitely made me do a 180.
>> What do they gain from removing advertising from any video? Any money you make is money they make.

> They would gain more advertisers paying them money to advertise with them.

I don't really understand what you're saying here. Why would more advertisers pay them money if less videos had advertisements?
I think the clearest assembler code I've ever worked with was PowerPC. Moving from that to x86 when Apple transitioned to Intel was rather a shock.
Sure they are. Every engineer working on a Mars mission is not working on sustainability/stability engineering.
Melbourne travel startup Locomote set to expand to the UK
WebOS is licensed out to LG these days for their Smart TV's. It's still the commercial deal it's been since HP bought it from Palm.

Open WebOS is a different beast (much like how Mozilla wasn't Netscape Navigator), based on the open sourced components of WebOS.
Corporate travel startup Locomote establishes UK office
They do mention it, just not by name. Kees Cook and the Kernel Self Protection Project is basically trying to move some protections that exist in grsec into mainline kernel. (since grsec as a whole will never get accepted)
Awesome! Congratulations!

FYI, if you are trying to use this with Webpack and Webpack's css-loader, you'll probably run into the problem noted at https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/issues/4849.
Shape-programmable magnetic soft matter
Google is NSA

Microsoft is FBI

Oracle is CIA

A pattern here? Hell yes, if you want a big company over say $100M then you better be OWNED by GOV-MAFIA.
Wow, cheers for that.

I was looking for a youtube video downloader a week or two back, but was really struggling to find one that wasn't spamware.
I think the simpler answer is that Apple stopped caring about "pro" apps/users quite a while ago and that it is unlikely to start again in the near future. Video people have moved to Adobe Premier on Windows; photography people have ditched the depreciated Aperture for Lightroom (maybe supplemented with Dark Table); and now music people will have their turn.
I can't give this a big enough amen.

Ten years ago there was simply no question in my mind that apple hardware + OS X was the right choice for audio/music production (not to mention a relatively hassle free Unix workstation for developers + some desktop software usage). Twenty years ago? Still Apple.

Over the last 3-4 years, however, I've come to the conclusion that my next purchase needs to be something else if for no other reason than to clearly understand the alternatives.

This is key:

> The bad news: Apple still can’t seem to keep third parties synced up with its now annual release cadence. In a now yearly ritual, Apple has broken plug-in validation for its own Audio Unit format. Open question: why? Why is this now a regular feature of updating an operating system for a format that has basically remained unchanged for years? Why shouldn’t desktop upgrades be the kind of no-brainer mobile upgrades are.

I have a hard time avoiding at least one of two conclusions:

(a) Apple either now lacks the necessary talent to do the quality of work they sustained with OS X for a while

(b) they fundamentally simply do not care at an institutional level

(And if it were really only about Audio Units, that'd be one thing. But it's not.)
With so many companies like General Assembly offering part time bootcamps without one leaving the job can't YC follow the same approach where one can work on a startup without having to leave the job. This will bring in more ideas and products by people who don't want to quit their day-to-day job.
I read that article and it sounds like "I don't want estate taxes to be raised" + a bunch of stuff to try make it sound like that's not the only reason--except the rest is so amorphous and vague, it doesn't sound credible.
The larger point: Has it been meaningfully asked, and conclusively decided, that that amount of communication with those groups is a positive benefit to your life, large enough to justify all the hassle and humiliation of dealing with Facebook? Without adding any further snark, I would just like to offer my (probably fairly extreme on the continuum) viewpoint of, maybe fuck those groups.
It's probably pretty easy to obtain pot in SF. Definitely easy in Seattle if you're over 21.
Dare I say games? I honestly can't think of anything else.
I'm interested in this as well. Doesn't this go against Rob Walling's advice in "Start Small Stay Small" as well as Peter Thiel's advice in "Zero to One"?
>Earth Loses 50,000 Tonnes of Mass Every Year. According to some calculations, the Earth is losing 50,000 tonnes of mass every single year, even though an extra 40,000 tonnes of space dust converge onto the Earth's gravity well, it's still losing weight.

scitechdaily.com/earth-loses-50000-tonnes-of-mass-every-year/
UBI plus more open information for the hobbyists to look through.
> well it's a framework like Qt is... :) or like GTK+ and glib and then some. so if these were acceptable for bindings if they were maintained/up to date then EFL would be.

Languages want a something that can act as a library; not something that completely dictates the structure of your program. e.g. you must be able to specify your own main loop.

Glib does allow this, however the gobject introspection for it is completely broken.
I haven't looked into it for Qt for a while
Anything where you need to stay alive in the background and periodically do something.
It's amusing that the letter author uses an apparently fabricated quote from their own pseudonym, then remarks “How true!”

Yes, funny how you agree with yourself, isn't it!
I agree that the article was very light on details.

I like the philosophy of trying to squash whole classes of bugs and generally trying to reduce the attack surface, versus one-by-one bugfixes.

I am curious about the solutions the Linux developer community will come up with to address this. There are many, many very smart developers and I look forward to some creativity :)

I am optimistically hopeful that proposed solutions will not involve anything resembling a central authority that must be trusted -- something based on Certificate Authorities (or any analog to Microsoft's Trusted Computing model), would be really disappointing.
Thanks, these are great references, especially the last one. I would definitely read that blog post.
I use Tubex to listen to YouTube in the background. It's free. Not sure about the other features.
Agree with above, Sama puts himself into same bucket of people as Zuck and Musk in how to build future series. What he has build so far ? Happened to be a VC partner sitting on huge pile of cash, distributing it to bunch of YC applicants ? I could see Paul Graham as YC founder takes some credit for creating all YC unicorns, Sam is just one of many partners in VC firm, nothing outstanding though.
If they do, I assume because it's easier to transfer fuel than passengers.
Speaking of Xamarin.

RN supports iOS, Windows, and Android. Plus RN is somewhat close to React, so some code could be reused between the two. Plus you get out-of-band code updates!

Xamarin supports iOS, Windows, and Android. But there is no web story. Or is there?
Given YC's increasing more social and larger-world problem solving focus, is being Silicon Valley-centric still a core goal of YC? Are you planning on coming back to the East Coast?
Ask HN: Good open-source webRTC app
Hi HN, I would like to know if there is an app (iOS and Android) for video chat that uses webRTC and is open-source so I could use a self-hosted TUN server.
Would you say that someone who applies in the early ideas stage a few times gets dinged in future applications for having been rejected a few times before?
You know .. this is a quirky but interesting idea. PG started YC because of his experiences/challenges as a tech founder. Maybe someone can address this niche. Obviously, the funding terms would be different. There are legal issues having to do with existing employer contracts .. this could be a rathole. I am not sure doing a startup as a side project is at all useful .. but I might be wrong.

One comment I have to make .. risk is the name of the start up game. Maybe business in general. You cannot completely de-risk it and still call it a business.
What direction are you predicting they'll go? I've got the same sentiment.
Which of the partners is passionate about financial services?(#16 on the old list at http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/ )
While this is interesting, Manhattan is the least useful area for this since the subway is already so good. A dense area with a poor subway system seems more helpful (but I'm assuming less profitable)
India : Bollywood & Cricket, yeah!
Super useful, thanks!
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Nothing, but it does have something to do with the comment to which it was in reply, which is really the more relevant issue.
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It is illegal in the entire country. That is the general idea of the Supreme Court; it has national scope.

Specifically, the motivation "correct the effects of structural racism" is illegal when a public school is engaging in affirmative action. Affirmative action is generally legal, as long as you have a legal motive.

It turns out, though, that it's really easy for people to lie about their motives.
what are the advantages of a Mars colony? It's not like we'll be shipping things back to Earth.

I'm for exploration and all that but there's a pretty good point. Figuring out how to make the desert habitable on this planet is a pretty good test run for the Real Deal.
Better get the popcorn out for this thread...
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Amen.

We try to do this at Blue Ridge Labs. Our incubator just closed it's applications for 2017. We'll be opening applications for the fellowship, meant for individual engineers, designers, product managers and experts to do the research, interviews, focus groups, prototyping and testing to develop new tech products that fight poverty.

https://labs.robinhood.org/
If the article were just about the headphone jack, maybe you'd have a point. Maybe not, though. For one thing "pro audio workflow" isn't the limits of concern here. 1/4" mono ain't exactly a dream interface from an audio engineering POV (ground? what ground?), but it's sure a popular one and a lot of musicians don't know/care. If iOS devices are now instruments, just because producers/sound guys might spend hundreds on their headphones (and I have) doesn't mean there aren't going to be would-be performers using what came with the device. Or that there shouldn't be.

But the article is not just about the headphone jack, there's an additional half-dozen considerations that you haven't said anything to address other than "works for me." I can assure you that this is not everyone's experience.
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TechCrunch does this. I wonder if they're using purple.
What is your view on income inequality?

Do you think the start-up structure of running a business could increase or decrease income inequality (and what do you consider beneficial?)
I would say the only thing this slightly misses is the pseudo-3d models that Wolfenstein/Doom used. It got the terrain part, but not the somewhat clever thing where the characters were a series of 8 or so sprites that changed which one it displayed based on orientation.
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My first thought on that entry was a way of distributing earnings more frequently than weekly or fortnightly. Are people more inclined to blow their paycheque on entertainment if it's a bigger lump sum? And maybe a way of automating a certain type of withholding to build an emergency fund, or pay for bills.

We grant concessions for retirement savings. Maybe the same for certain types of saving for essential bills? Water, gas, etc.

I don't really trust many services not to fleece their customers though.
> infringing on the rights of property owners

When this refers to the beneficiaries of land grabs (either directly or indirectly), I don't think an appeal to the natural rights of property owners holds much power.
You can do this on AWS EC2 with MIT StarCluster; it's got an MPICH2 plugin. StarCluster is pretty great although development has stalled a bit. I haven't used it for MPI-type workflows, but I have done a lot of embarassingly parallel modeling on tens of EC2 instances, and it works pretty well.
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STL containers aren't the most optimized things for game programming ever... otherwise the EASTL[0] wouldn't be a thing.

[0] https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL
> Ideally QA begins while the OS update is still in beta.

Would help a lot if (a) Apple had longer lead times to actually get things right internally before they went to beta and (b) beta cycles were a bit longer and (c) companies didn't have to do this every damn year.

On the other side... what are the benefits of having yearly regimented releases again?
I see a lot of companies being advised to focus exclusively on user growth, but many have no business model and must eventually make serious compromises, often at their users' expense, to succeed. How often would you say companies are able to tack on a profitable business model after the fact without making such compromises?

Twitter seems to be the example du jou, but there are many.
That's part of how SpceX started.

Tom Muelller, SpaceX employee number 1 and current VP of propulsion was part of a liquid fueled rocket club and was building what became the Merlin engine in a garage. Elon came by and asked if he wanted to start a rocket company.
Thanks Sam -- OpenAI is the only one I'm familiar with, and Ginko Bioworks looks awesome.
Are there any other companies that come to mind who are doing things now that will be critical to Mars colonial ventures?
You're probably from the UK (given your usage of 'Uni'). The high school system in the US is pretty meh. You choose your major after getting to college, not when you apply. So people come to college, realise all the money is in CS, and decide to switch over.
I would say that if you cannot explain it simply then you cannot sell it simply. You also sound like you 'deserve' to be heard while in fact nobody owes you a meeting.
Combating multidrug-resistant bacteria with nanoengineered peptide polymers
Interesting. Did you use this in the past? How does it perform vs re-natal without exponent?
Isn't an existing newspaper or media company doing that already to some extent, aggregating different types of media for a common fee? You can read the sections of a newspaper you want, and the company apportions salaries to content producers based on what seems to get the most interest.
Full title: Combating multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria with structurally nanoengineered antimicrobial peptide polymers

Media stories
http://www.sciencealert.com/the-science-world-s-freaking-out...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/health/does-this-25-year-ol...
The technical aspects can be de-risked fairly quickly here -- check out the ISBI dataset http://biomedicalimaging.org/2016/?page_id=422 and all the papers around it.

The societal challenges will be a devil to defeat. FYI I actually quit my Wall St job several years ago, did something similar with diagnostic imaging, built a working classifier that is doctor-level sensitive (low false negative especially). For us it was near impossible to succeed in the US because the US healthcare system is designed from all directions to be inefficient.

Our tepid success came from moving overseas temporarily and proving out the system in a smaller country with a forward-looking healthcare system with less conflicts of interest. We focused on a local problem (Tuberculosis.) Even then, I'm almost two years in and ended up acquiescing to a premature acquisition because the healthcare system is so difficult to navigate. My lockup is almost complete, the next startup, I'm going to focus on something easier like world peace.

I don't mean to discourage you, but you would likely be a lot more successful if you have some "in" with a hospital system willing to work with you. IMHO, in healthcare, the technology is the easiest part.

Incidentally...yes...we've built it on TensorFlow! And if you do wish to talk tech about this idea, feel free to reach out to me.
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I'm pretty sure it's access to abundant cheap food. With a few exceptions (ahem, Mexico) most obesity crises are in well developed countries.

Even so, cheap abundant food is definitely much more of a thing in Central/Latin/South America than it used to be.

Also, a lot of corporation have spent a lot of time and energy dressing up cheap ingredients to directly stimulate our pleasure sensors.

In the past sweet, salt, and fatty food were hard to come by and rather expensive, so you'd gorge when you could. These days, the cheapest procesed foods are saltier, sweeter, and fattier than anything in the 1800s.

It's doubtful that it's tied to methods of farming or an endocrine disruptor. Unless you're talking about food subsidies for cheap grains. We just like salty, greasy, sweet food cause it used to be rare, and now it's not.
LWN also did a write-up on Kees Cook's talk on Kernel Self Protection Project [1]. Interesting read.

- [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/698827/
I'm sure it wouldn't be four times a year - but rather, when beginning the school year (Or possibly entering the school system even the first time) it's an option to choose. And then on the bottom of the paper report cards, have a statement saying "Like to go paperless?" for if/when they do have the option to switch.
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> What will the moon landing conspiracy theorists do then? :)

they say NASA has changed Mars colors in the photos, it is more Earth-like, because something
People make a big deal of Apple's failure to update their computer line up, but I belive they're missing the point that we're hitting the wall with technology that matters in a laptop form factor.

Apple was the first for all the big impact technologies of the recent years: ultra high def displays, new hard drive technolgies, and the latest wifi standards.

But what do you want now? A new processor? They're only delivering slight marginal improvements in the i5/i7 mobile range. More RAM? Yeah, apple could offer 32GB models, but that's not relevant to the music industry. Everything else is about as good as it gets.

There just aren't laptop scale improvements in technology as of late.
Maybe, but who has a particular desire for the data of people without discretionary income?

The advertisers that buy Google/Facebook data (or more accurately consume that data when buying ad space) are trying to target potential buyers, typically those with disposable income.

I fear that the businesses that would want the data on lower income earners would be payday lenders and the like which is not an appealing prospect.
The average person just doesn't care. Like it or not, Apple makes products for average people who want a somewhat affordable status symbol.
In my younger days, I used to play around with software like maya.

The best thing about voxels is what you can do with fluid simulations.

In Maya you could create a cube made up of voxels, each voxel had a fuel, temperature etc variables.

You could start a fire from a single voxel, and watch is spread ! Changing the values could make the fire behave differently.

I wish front-end javascript was that cool :( fire simulation on a computer is so much more fun.
1. That helps a lot!

2. The alignment still leaves a lot to be desired. There's stuff that is clearly intended to align that doesn't, and it's more distracting than if it didn't attempt to align at all.

3. I apologize for the insulting way my previous comment was written. I try not to do that; I must have been grumpy, but it's no excuse.
I write this from a Surface Pro, leaving a retina macboook and an ipad pro in my bag: really glad to hear someone in a core Apple industry putting together a solid case for "Apple: please vector some engineering talent to macOS, now".

The masses follow the makers. The makers are dissatisfied. Pay attention.
So like a messaging app?
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How would you say it is compared to leaflet? much more complex?
I think the high tech industry has always been ran and controlled by sick people. That' why its not considered a proession like med, law, or finance.

When I was younger I worked at DEC for a while, about the time the VAX came out, it was hot. We had a HR manager who required all new hires to strip in a private room, and then if the HR liked what he saw the newbie would get passed on to engineering.

I thought this odd, and the HR manager was openly gay, and a sleaze to boot.

The simple fact that people of power in our industry can be sadists, and not anybody is willing to step forward hasn't changed one iota since 1970's.
Here's the problem I have -- how do you avoid hiring professional bullshitters?

I don't know, specifically. But not asking bullshit questions would seem to be a good place to start.
You're underestimating humanity. You're talking about a species that walked from Ethiopia to Tierra Del Fuego, and then a blink of time later landed on the Moon. We're the top predator in the planet, and we got there in less than 20,000 years.

We'll be fine.
In past there was "Why Explore Space?" letter from 1970 linked on HN:

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html

Considering progress humanity made this letter is more actual than ever. So I wish more people understand that it's super important to work on what you like and can do the best since there always chance that space exploration help to solve other problems too.
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If only I didn't have a thousand other things that sort higher on my to-do list...
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