skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most people aren't paying for the extra functionality of ebooks though. Most people are still buying physical books

That's not what I'm talking about though. I'm talking about this: if you set the price of ebooks at some small margin above the price to produce plus the price to license the content, you sell at price $X. If you set the price where people are willing to buy it due to increased convenience for them, you sell at price $Y. If $Y > $X, why not sell at $Y?

Of course, this isn't a direct relationship, since different people have different $Y prices, but there's a price curve there, and one ought to sell their ebooks on the curve to maximize the (number of sales) * $Y.

> Also, your reasoning for selling a book at a higher price is not correlated to supply vs. demand.

Maybe supply vs demand was the wrong choice of words, but that shouldn't detract from the point.
Actually, we handle accessibility quite well already: http://fontawesome.io/accessibility/
This is why they have invested so heavily in silicon fab and machining.
Intrinsic: An Open-Source, Cross-Platform Vulkan Game Engine
> People are not willing, they are forced to, if they want the book, because books have an artificial monopoly based on copyright.

In many cases people have a choice of ebook vs physical copy, which is what we're discussing here.
The thing is, you never know when someone is going to see through it and lose respect for you for using a tactic that's more transparent than you think.
The author called out, specifically, how Azure was in his opinion keeping Microsoft relevant

"Nadella got Microsoft organized around mobile and the cloud (Azure), freed the Office and Azure teams from Windows, killed the phone business and got a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma. And is moving the company into augmented reality and conversational AI. While they’ll likely never regain the market dominance they had in the 20th century, (their business model continues to be extremely profitable) Nadella likely saved Microsoft from irrelevance."
Actually, it is. We've had whistleblowers before who tried to censor what they told us and it didn't have half the impact. As long as the leadership of the NSA keeps treasonously lying, all leaks are necessary and thus justified.
Twitter and Periscope Shadowbans Dilbert creator
No, you don't. I've already had to migrate to using SVG glyphs of this font to usability issues with the web font.

Enjoy the cash grab, but don't kid yourself. You're being scum right now.
You don't know that, and cannot know that.

Our industry loves to write CYA statements about the product not being intended to be used in critical situations and bury it in the fineprint of licenses we know customers do not ready anyways. Then, we act surprised when the same customers go and use the product in life or death situatioins.

This is not theoretical, just to highlight the most well known example: Our current generation of social media was created for the purpose of allowing college aged people in first world nations to share trivial details about their personal lives with friends and aquaintances. But now we see activists using the same media to organize civil resistance against governments; specially governments with huge stains in their human rights record.
> it because it usually means you're doing something wrong.

You always want to have at least two processes running. Docker doesn't re-parent processes properly (unless something has changed in this regard) so you would at least want an init (often supervisord or something like) and then your application.

You will often find strange recommendations online, such as the single process one which is just plain wrong. It's a young technology and best practices change regularly (the onion mounts is perhaps the most prominent example), so you have to keep up and engage your brain.

> I'm not sure where the "vendor lock-in" comes in here.

Vendor lock-in may not be here yet, but it's real and it's the simplest thing that can keep Docker Inc.'s value afloat so my guess is that we'll see more of it in the future. Why would anyone buy services from Docker when/if it is one of many components bundled with Red Hat? Unless getting acquired is a reasonable exit strategy they need to avoid commodization, while still keeping file formats etc. in the open. It's not obvious how they'll manage. Most things Docker do would be better suited to have either in systemd or in a more generic orchestration tool anyway.

We've already seen lots of reimplementation in Swarm of things that Kubernetes already do better. The main reason to invest in Docker's toolset is if Docker gets ubiquitous, their tools are likely to be everywhere.

> Having used both VM's and Docker for deployment,

But that's very much an apples-to-orangest comparison. Docker is not a VM. You don't even use them to solve the same problems. The only reason to compare them is because VMware is a belivable story how to make a living while the underlying technology gets commoditized. Application distribution is a nut VMware never cracked. How often have you even distributed your applications as vmdk's? Better perhaps to compare Docker to Vagrant.
"Most domain verifiers check the existence of DNS records and parse WHOIS lookup data. Unfortunately, this approach often leads to false positives since many new top-level domain registries don’t return WHOIS records reliably.

In contrast, we talk directly to domain registrars via APIs. This takes a few moments, but the results we get are significantly more accurate."

Nice work.
>She was a Reddit story that became the Reddit CEO then went on to make questionable decisions (mod firing, banning salary negotiation...).

And here you repeat the false accusation against her.

As for salary negotiation, this was already in the works by her predecessor. It wasn't her baby.
What they're not telling you is that it's the GamerGate sub-reddit. I stopped paying attention to _that_ a long time ago, so I'm not sure what the state of that sub is today.
So who's making better mobile chips than their A series of processors? Or even chips as good?
Stripe folks are working on a product called Atlas(I think thats the name) that supposed to make the LLC formation much easier. Bless them.
Treading dumb question territory, what's wrong with 14px to demand the switch to 16?
As someone who was a VLSI design engineer for 4 years, as well has extensive software experience, much of the disruption happened because of poor engineering. There should always be redundancies in critical systems. The groups such as Twitter, Reddit and Spotify did not use redundant DNS providers relying only on Dyn. Moreover, DNS should be designed so that the systems are more resilient to attacks. The initial design of the internet was meant to withstand nuclear attacks after all.

There is absolutely no way that we can protect all devices on the internet from being bots, etc. Just as it is almost pointless blaming hackers when in most cases the hacks were because breeches from failure to update software, to put in proper security software, and to hire top level consultants to implement secure systems.

Put another way, we can't possibly jail everyone who would want to steal money. That is why we use safes.
Was there something in that link we're missing? We've had input from the top names in the accessibility world.

(Happy to listen and discuss any specifics we're missing.)
If I understand well: If the event tickets are free, then the service is free?
Google's New York City pop-up shop is now open
Thanks. I'm one of those people that wouldn't click on your previous link.

Your site seems overall interesting.
Is there some unsolvable engineering dilemma related to port position, or was it cost-motivated?

This is the point. If an engineer had shown this piece of work to Steve, do you think they'd still work at Apple?
> Not sure what I'm doing wrong...

Perhaps you failed to build a paper trail (i.e. an email trail) to document the fact that you predicted the disaster, and who it was that decided to ignore your warnings. If you do that, when the fingers start pointing in your direction, you can send everyone copies of the emails that prove who is responsible for the mess.
YC is awesome and I remain a super big supporter. I owe half my career and most of my friends to what an awesome family YC has become. What I realized was just that I could help companies the most in that 9 to 18 months you have after YC is done. I have a pet theory that in the next ten years, you're going to see the YC alumni turn into the most powerful set of investors in tech, and that'll be a good thing because we have a pretty strong shared culture around being good to founders and helping, and frankly doing no evil, which seems like it should be a basic thing for early stage investors but really isn't.

We have no specific mandate for US-only, and we think startups are absolutely happening everywhere and we want to help them.

An investment thesis at the early stage is really hard to do because we don't know what people are going to start when they're just a few people starting out. E.g. it would have been impossible to write an investment thesis that would include Coinbase early on because nobody was thinking about cryptocurrencies.

Thanks so much for your questions Oo!
Paying rock bottom price for a quality product that takes a ton of effort to develop. What's the issue there?
and oftentimes, they pay with their lives.

guess that isn't enough for you.
Funny... but surely you should be thinking of the orks as well.
I'm at garry@initialized.com!
* C3TV, the Chaos Computer Club media library with hundreds of conference talks: https://media.ccc.de

* Art of the Title, in-depth analyses of movie title sequences: http://www.artofthetitle.com

* Damn Interesting, it's damn interesting: https://www.damninteresting.com

* LEGO subreddit, do I need to say more? https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/
Referrer leaks are such a foot-shoot. There should have been a piece of the URL which never touched the Referrer but also was submitted to the server from the get-go. But obviously an easy edge case to miss in 1991 - 1996 [1] [2].

But this is sad: http://caniuse.com/#feat=referrer-policy

[1] - http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html
[2] - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945
Unified IBM Cloud Platform Launches Today
I had submitted an issue about the removal of the non-identifying direct CDN link to FontAwesome in favor of a user-identifying JavaScript embed, and it was closed. I tagged in to another issue to make the same point,

https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/9245#issu...

Still no answer. Am I the only one that cares that the current state of FontAwesome encourages tying your email address (via a unique token) to your site's specific FontAwesome usage?
Mostly the base font size on the internet is changing. For instance, old Bootstrap 3 is 14px. New Bootstrap 4 is 16px.
Not sure why you are being downvoted but I agree with you. I wouldn't mind if the pro version was for the assorted "addon" packs and I'd definitely contribute to the project even without using it ever, but making it the pro having a different set of icons from the free one is kinda chilling. Guess I will just stick with Material Design Icons.
We've invested in all of them, almost all of them in the earliest possible seed stage. (Small nit: Carried interest doesn't have anything to do with advisory shares.)
Wouldn't any (third-party) JavaScript on the page still have access to it?
The courage to own up to your mistakes without being forced to by a judge seems like an entirely new business concept to me.
I'm one of those devs and I'm sure every dev shop has been itching for a significant Macbook update for quite some time. Macbook PRO hasn't seen a significant update since 2012. Just minor speed bumps and force touch in 2015.

So we're getting one next week - but why not sooner? That was one of the takeaways from this article. Pace of innovation has slowed under Tim Cook.
I noticed that Apple lost track of usability since Cook came after their release of a new keyboard at first, new arrows buttons on it are completely unusable, on older keyboards they had spacing between the left/right and buttons on top, now they extended left/right buttons and it makes it incredibly hard to "feel" where they are, and the fact that MacBooks pros still have an old layout makes it a night mare to switch between desktop and laptop programming.

Another one is a new lock screen on iOS 10, sometimes the fingerprint does not work or the finger is dirty and i know I want to unlock it with a pin, before I used to be able to just swipe right away and type the pin, now it won't let me and I have to repeatatly press the home button until it figures out that the fingerprint won't work and it has to show me the pin enter screen.

Might be little things but it's what used to separate Apple from the crowd, I don't want them to lose focus on those. And don't get me started on the new OS X, which makes my maxed out 2014 rMBP look like slow PC from 2000.
Nobody is forcing anyone to move or "live like a nomad." But why take steps that will make it much much harder for you to change your mind later? 5 years from now, if you've been unemployed for a long time and a great job opportunity opens up in a city 2 hours away, you may realize that moving 2 hours away in exchange for a paycheck, is a perfectly valid choice to make.
I'm skeptical this persuasion stuff works http://greyenlightenment.com/behavioral-psychology-and-influ...

people are always looking for shortcuts and life hacks to get what they want, and I wish it were that easy
I'd like to see a video of someone playing a modified version of this level, with the original slope restored.
> If Steve Jobs was still alive, would he keep churning out industry-changers

If he were alive and well, I think so. With the exception of iPad (which wasn't subpar by industry standards but certainly signaled a descent into mediocrity for Apple, and which I would attribute to Jobs' slowly disengaging with the company due to his health issues), Jobs was on an unbelievable streak between his return in the late 90s and about 2009/2010. In the span of about 10 years, his company did several outstanding feats in holistic hardware/software design, and it can't be a coincidence that the man was then largely healthy and in command.

I do think that would have probably continued until the mid to latter part of this decade had he continued in better health.
"So, spoiler alert, software. :-)"

This got me thinking... I really do think that better tools for sourcing deal flow are a foundational component of the next age of entrepreneurship. Crowdfunding isn't working as precisely as some have hypothesized. I'd be really curious to see how companies like AngelList & Mattermark are parsing their data to determine correlative attributes of "fundable" companies. Any thoughts/ideas on traction toward successfully automating dealflow?
Congrats to Garry and the Team. Garry was one of our partners during YC W15 - he was incredibly insightful on product and design, generous with his time, and just plain nice throughout.
I like FA because

1) it's FA and looks alright as it is

2) can't beat free, so I don't need to worry about licenses for every single web project

A completely redesigned, larger, commercial library might be interesting, but it is a new project and has practically nothing to do with FA 4.
There are plenty of places to serve Font Awesome from a CDN for free. All the old options are there (and still listed in the documentation).

https://www.bootstrapcdn.com/fontawesome/ isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

(Also, 4.7 was released today with 41 new icons. If you had one of our unqiue CDN links, you'd be able to upgrade without pushing any code.)
> I'm saying the processes are more robust.

I disagree. I think updating a web app is vastly more robust. You update the source, and the only possible issue you have is caching and platform compatibility (the former is a real issue, the latter is mostly alleviated by decent testing).

Updating native apps (due to the next point) is much more problematic because the number of platforms is much higher.

> Most platforms have more than one browser available

Yeah but you can't multiply the number of browsers times the number of operating systems, because Firefox on Linux and Firefox on Windows and Firefox on Android and Firefox on MacOS are (for 99% of the apps) the same target.

> Claiming that web apps are more secure is the most ridiculous thing I've read in a long time.

Are you interested in a real discussion? Or just posturing?
That makes sense, thank you!
Confirms long-term personal observation of people gifted with this "skill".
Escaping Muddied Experience
I was also going to suggest this. It made watching Stranger Things even more enjoyable.
That regulation is the cause of the bulk of the costs and/or that regulation is the cause of nuclear's negative learning curve. There's an assertion here that nuclear would be cheap if only it wasn't regulated so tightly, and I've never seen an actual cost-breakdown to support that.
Image resize in browsers is broken
Thank you so much Dan! Really appreciate it.
Android Pay Partners with Visa Checkout and Mastercard Masterpass
> Is it just me, or is Javascript (and more generally, all front end technology) more susceptible to these trivial holy wars?

- Tabs vs spaces.

- Vi vs Emacs

- Weak vs strong typing

- where to place {} in block statements

- where to put commas

No, programming in general is susceptible to these trivial holy wars.
I disagree. Apple's stance on privacy has everything to do with the personality and life experiences of Tim Cook.

Stop for a moment to imagine what being a homosexual teenager in 1970's Alabama was like. Also it's well known that his career at IBM was torpedoed over a gay "glass ceiling."

Tim Cook is a man who understands that privacy is a human right.
Font Awesome Free isn't going anywhere. Re-design is largely due to changing the base size to 16px which requires a re-design to keep pixel-perfection.
"So a 432 Hz retune might be just the thing to mellow out to."

I occasionally like to pitch-shift my music by up to a minor third. It's not enough to introduce much distortion and it can make it, if not fresh, at least something you listen to again.

(Unfortunately, the intersection of music players that make that easy and music players I want to use seems to be empty.)
We haven't invaded any and we've drawn out troops down in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I like playing bass tuned slightly flat because I have tiny hands and it's easier to play with less tension.
Dial tones are a chord of 440 and 350 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precise_Tone_Plan This follows on from DTMF's use of pairs of tones for signalling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-tone_multi-frequency_sign...
My taxes are somewhat higher in Quebec

High tax bracket in Quebec... $103K+ = 25.95%
Lowest tax bracket in Canada (BC)... $106K+ = 14.7%

That's added on top of the highest federal bracket of 33% for income over $200K.

I'd say Quebec taxes are a LOT higher.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_taxes_in_Canada#Quebec
How come this project doesn't get a takedown request?
Congrats Gary! Will you be sharing your deal flow or syndicating any of your deals?
RIP my productivity, tvtropes is like heroin to me.
Things I won't work with: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2011/11/11/thi...

Accident reconstruction/investigation videos. NTSB, CSB, and OSHA have some really in-depth ones:
https://youtu.be/tMsjJWJFBbA
https://youtu.be/gDTqrRpa_ac?list=PLUXYDid45duP-lg8Kh_hSw841...

Also, +1 for TV Tropes

Edit: Also, http://www.scp-wiki.net/ has some classics.
Wanting the country you live in to be safer and stronger against outside threats is not patriotism. It's just basic self-interest. Even the least patriotic people generally prefer not to be murdered by terrorists.
That's what's happening in Europe and USA. But many 3rd world ISPs don't filter.
I met Garry in 2014 during YC. After our first office hours with him, I knew Garry would be a valuable go-to. He's a legit advisor because he can dig in at any level with you - founder stuff, company, go to market, users, working with big companies, design/code, hiring, raising money, prioritization, etc, etc. Part of that comes from being a YC partner and seeing that large sample size of startup problems. But he has also built inspiring products, led teams at large companies, is a brilliant developer and designer, and flat out an all around great guy.

So for me, this announcement is bittersweet. Initialized will be great for so many early stage founders, but now I don't have a simple way to book office hours with Garry. Well actually, I bet if I shoot him a message, he'd still be glad to help anytime.
My opinion: The people that bailed on Peter Thiel would have been potential flighty partners for other reasons later on.

If someone can't abide by a business partner having a different political view then that could indicate a rather rigid mindset - and given the fluid nature of business, that could become a liability at some point in future.
अपि "हंसध्वज" वा "जटायु"।

परन्तु असम्भवम् आङ्लराज्ये परिवर्तनम् । :(
Aww. Somebody changed the title on the link. :-(

Yeah, it was rude. But it does some up the end of some weeks.
For 40k, it's hard to go wrong with 1d4chan, the offical wiki of 4chan's /tg/, and home to such legendary tales as Ruby Quest, Love Can Bloom, The Golem's Garden, The Hamlet of Tyranny, Drew The Litch, The Millenial King, the Dread Gazebo, and the now legendary tale of Old Man Henderson, as well as a wealth of bizarre invented games, even weirder settings, and 40k and tabletop related content.
On 1: http://gravityfalls.wikia.com/wiki/Gravity_Falls_Wiki

I watched this show with my kid and man, can you go down a rabbit hole. I've seen some community wiki's but I think this one takes the cake for me.
In fact they are quite open about it.

> WELCOME!

> KotakuInAction is the main hub for GamerGate discussion on Reddit.

And I have read the few top thread and it's not too bad (YMMV).
Surface Book is a fantastic device. What was botched?
agree. people hate being 'sold'
Doc42 – Simple documentation tool
Thank you so much Paul! Yes, you know where to find me. :-)
Pro is basically a giant assorted addon pack. It's Free +1,000 icons.
One down, one million to go.

Thee is no way these horses can be put back into the barn, there are too many of them. As long as consumers make their decision based on price there is every incentive for the manufacturers to continue cutting corners - the ones that put extra work into security will be at disadvantage compared to those playing fast and lose.

Can we talk about BGP flowspec instead? Filtering offensive traffic early and often can end DDoS once and for all.
I have been building my own mini version of Mattermark as a curiosity project. I'm not even interested in deal flow as much as being able to predict rising startups. In terms of being a software engineer, I look at this is a career tool.

I'm sure the bigger VCs and accelerators are building interesting things in this space but I haven't found much that's open source.

As data points, AngelList and Crunchbase are good starting places, but the AngelList API is private and the Crunchbase API is paid.
AT&T/Time Warner deal could be approved without any FCC merger review
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang

I could read this for days.
First Pictures of Larry Page's Flying Car
const vs let is an "immutable by default" vs "mutable by default" type of difference. it's not just a style difference, it can help you write stateless code if you assume immutability.

but yeah.