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> It helps smaller players (Gitlab, etc.) to break the monopoly of Github

Or do the opposite. If Microsoft decides to make private repos on GitHub free, I can see VERY big issues for other players. I suspect more people use GitHub alternatives for cost reasons, rather than ideological ones.
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At least there's this kind of thing happening: https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/portability-initiative
It's also an indicator of the massive amount of energy put into marketing Elon.
Minor nit to pick, freedom can absolutely be both bought and brute-forced. We call them (less-relevant example in modern times) "buying yourself out of slavery" and (slightly more relevant) "war".
Rapidly becoming impossible. So many government services now are only available via online. They expect you to go to the library and do that.

That said, if I didn't work from home. I think I probably would outright dump my internet connection to regain freedom. Maybe I would go to the library with my laptop to do the bills. It would create a hard block for needlessly worrying about them.
This looks different than smart invert: it’s using dark system controls rather than inverting them.
Absolutely. A unified subscription model would be a boon to readers. It's proven complicated to implement due to no standard among publishers for handling subscriptions. Outside of the more innovative companies, it seems a bit ad hoc as new technologies rise, appreciate into maturity, settle into mediocrity (where they are adopted), and fall (while they're increasingly difficult to maintain until the next third state).

I think you're onto it, though. And the more effort publishers put into the content, I think the better they'd do. Unfortunately many decisions on the digital front have so far been decided by marketing or operations along the old anti-Ford model: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."— they aren't so keen on improving experience, they just want faster horses.
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When you're at the airport, leaving country X, and you have some coins in X's currency that you have no more use for, give them to a low-paid worker there - a janitor or somebody. To you, it's just as if you'd throw it in the trash. But to the janitor...
See: Urbit
Anecdata. I cancelled my reservation last month after it came apparent that it would be a while before they start manufacturing base model [1]. Ended up getting the BMW i3 and love it. After incentives it came out $217/month to lease[2].

1. https://electrek.co/2018/05/21/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-ties-base...

2. leasehackr.com/calculator?make=BMW&msrp=47245&sales_price=42450&months=30&mf=.00166&dp=0&doc_fee=80&acq_fee=925&taxed_inc=9500&untaxed_inc=0&rebate=3866&resP=61&reg_fee=400&sales_tax=9.5&memo=&zero_driveoff=true&monthlyTax_radio=true&miles=10000&msd=0
I want the following features:

* Always, no notification of calls or texts from people not in my contacts.

* Scheduled at night, when I'm asleep, no notification of calls or texts from anyone, unless they call twice in a row (emergency calls).

As far as I know, I can't set up Do Not Disturb to do this.
Me. It’s something I want.

I love apps that allow me to work on an iPad while I'm on the tube, then pick right up where I left off on the desktop. It’s the best of both worlds.

A good example is Bear Writer[0], a Markdown-based writing and notes app. The Mac app, while fully featured, is based on Electron. Without knowing anything about this new system I’d think these changes would allow the developers to create a native Mac app at least as easily as an Electron web app.

[0] http://www.bear-writer.com
What’s wrong with the address bar?
To me, the "... last year the team made a breakthrough by doubling the yield to more than 4.5 tonnes per hectare." part sounds like they changed tack from what they had been trying for the previous 4 decades.

Could be a coincidence though.
How does it differ in focus from early stage YC batches?
I haven't collated the data, but just about every clinical trial paper I've read where I'm eagerly awaiting to see results has a completion date in the past.

Goldacre is a real hero for this. He is also… Quite Interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLz0uxdCrcE
macOS apps as well...
What will the post-journal scientific publishing world look like?
Damn, I guess I'll be picking one of those up then! I had been planning on having to wait to 2019, this is good news!
I agree. Doesn't excuse it at all, but may be of more relevance than that in predicting how they'll handle GitHub.
This is a good thing. While very similar, UIKit blows AppKit away in terms of API usability and design. Also, I think it's perfectly fine to write macOS apps using UIKit, would be similar to making iPad apps. It needs a few Desktop/Mouse related adjustments but Apple is probably going to be smart about that.

Definitely not gonna be like what happened with Windows Metro apps
Does that mean that you have to change the ringtone every time you add a contact? Did you have to go manually change it for every contact you have? Or is there a way to change it en masse?
How has the series A stage changed over the last few years?
It's an allusion to both the show "Mad Men" and to the phrase which spawned it from the 60s. Also, the alliteration.
I believe there is internal resistance to the Bolt. There have been reports of dealerships being reluctant to sell them. I remember reading an article mentioning it was hard for potential buyers to actually find a Bolt to test drive at a dealership even though GM had plenty of inventory.

I believe there are also supply problems in hot markets. The Bolt is currently sold out with waiting list in Canada, I believe it takes months to get one there.

http://driving.ca/chevrolet/bolt/auto-news/news/the-chevrole...
Firing Musk is never going to happen. It would collapse the share price, and investors know that. They can complain, but they can't fire him and not lose a fortune all around.
That never went away? Settings -> Advanced -> "Show full website address".

On the other hand, the way they currently display it has actually been praised for at least making it slightly easier to spot phishing attempts, since the only differences there would lie in the domain names (there are articles about it).
Riot probably has enough resources to pay its developers to target Metal on macOS by the time OpenGL is removed (some number of years from now).

It’s the smaller scale developers and projects that might not have have such ability.
1. Will there be any additional investment in the A outside of YC Continuity?

2. How much do you think YC companies will raise post YC vs YC Series A?
That is a very theoretical value. I would even argue that that value no longer meets today's standards. For example, there was an HN thread today about "Gitlab is not really open source": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17229940

Let me quote a comment from there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17230438

> These features aren't technically difficult to implement, but even if we wrote open source versions of them we'd have to carry our own internal fork of Gitlab since there is no chance upstream would accept them

What this commenter was saying was: I have the ability to fix the TV myself, but I would rather someone else fix it for me and keeping it fixed in the future, and I want them to do it for free.

This isn't even the first time I've heard it. Increasingly, this kind of expectation is becoming the standard. Being able to fix the TV yourself, and even receiving help in the form of a good manual, is increasingly becoming too low of a bar for people.
One important difference between macOS and GitLab is that there are people running GitLab's free-software edition (e.g.,. https://salsa.debian.net/ ), and I know of I think nobody who's running Darwin.

Android leans towards the GitLab side because there are meaningful third-party distributions of Android.

Matlab is an interesting case because there are extremely popular libraries using its open-core components - essentially the entire scientific Python ecosystem depends on them, so while e.g. Jupyter Notebook doesn't ship LAPACK or FFTW itself, a huge number of its users pip install scipy, and many install PyFFTW. And from where I sit, the scientific Python ecosystem appears to be eating Matlab's lunch.

I don't know if "open core" is the right term to distinguish these cases, but there is an interesting distinction - third parties meaningfully using the free subset, third parties not meaningfully using it, and third parties using a competitor product based on the free subset.
I see it like this.

If cake is art, then, we shouldn't force an artist to do something he doesn't wanna. That's very clearly free speech, although the reason is f'ing awful. Is cake art? I dont know.

But I don't think there's a general right to refuse service based on arbitrary beliefs. DOUBLY so when you're a medical professional.
Also people tend to forget that putting money in 10 startups each year is investing. Putting money in 1 startup each 10 years is gambling.
I am thinking seriously about open sourcing this. It will log into sites to check for point progress and restore access after some points are earned. My daughter only needs 2 or 3 minutes of khan academy to earn enough points to get youtube back. I am proud of what my friend Kris and I built, but getting tired of managing a side project / playing startup.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/studycity/id1339396223?mt=8

website is studycity dot org
Why not? Would you rather macOS shipped with no system apps?
This rush to Gitlab reminds me of the forecasted mass reddit exodus to voat in during the AMA/Ellen Pao crisis.
Not sure what you're saying is changing on the server -- people are going to go from not using OpenCL to not using Metal.

Everything is CUDA. Everything depends on the shitty unstable software designed by a hardware company (Nvidia). This sucks and I hope someone can disrupt it, but Apple has no influence in the field of GPU computing.
MS employee here:

Long before the acquisition, we've been hosting important stuff in private GitHub repositories. Including having strategic discussions in those private repositories.

We've also done a lot of that stuff in public too. Some might say a bit too much, given that we've had things leaked and/or misinterpreted w.r.t product direction in the past.

I still agree with your point, but I believe more of this sort of thing is happening. Lots of stuff that has no real reason to be private is just being open source by default.
> having the call to action after literally every paragraph of text feels desperate to me

Sorry about that. I'll reconsider the placement of the buttons.

> I think it would be to flesh out the header above the fold

As in, alluding to the fact that ScreenTime imitates an external webcam and things like that?

> I feel like it lacks a sense of physicality that I'd want to feel from seeing a screen being shared

Would putting the screenshots inside a monitor help? What about animating the screenshot? Like a gif of the two users doing things on their own screens?

Thanks for taking the time. I appreciate it :)
Reader mode lets you view the page as white-on-black.
And this is ending with new releases, starting with Overwatch. And according to Blizzard it has nothing to do with money or market share, but with Apple specific technology.

They've been the biggest supporter of gaming on macos, and with them gone, the future is looking grim (for mac gamers - obviously a first world problem).
I feel like if it is the latter, Github will quickly lose market share to non-Microsoft competitors. Developers on the whole seem to care a lot more about those kinds of tactics than computer users in general. Surely Microsoft understands this and doesn't try this kind of fuckery.
Gmail's major redesign will be available to all in July
Small crossovers like the Honda HR-V, KIA Soul, and Chevy Trax are what sell to people looking for economical cars at that price point. The Bolt is designed to blend into that segment.

The ATS, by contrast, has been a huge failure in terms of sales for GM.
How does YC think about signaling issues (in general and specific to YC)?
My father is a structural engineer and runs a construction company. He spends a quarter of his day measuring things and looking at CAD drawings.

Current apps are not there yet but being able to scan construction sites and overlay designs on top of the scene would be game changing for him.
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> Nat Friedman, although I was not familiar with him prior to this, seems like an ideal candidate to run GitHub.

Nat Friedman is a legend in the open source community. He founded Ximian in '99 with Miguel de Icaza, who both meant a lot for the Gnome community (e.g. via products such as Ximian Evolution) and Mono (FOSS .NET for *NIX). They got bought by Novell where he also got a top position. Nat has been busy with FOSS for a long time, and he _believes_ in it.

Some verification on the above plus other details can be found here on Wikipedia [1]

As a final note, "I’m not asking for your trust, but I’m committed to earning it." is very humble, professional, and clever.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Friedman
The main Azure integration in Debian is supporting use of Debian in and with Azure, just like they're supporting every other environment in which one might want to run the Universal Operating System (that's Debian's longstanding tagline). Including physical ones, with no plans to change that.

I agree it's important to be able to Debian in the environment of your choice. That includes Azure as well as self-hosted and small-hosting-company options.
That was just last year. Hardware announcements overall are do not happen every time.
It’s more like Wine. Real native runtime libraries interacting an app API to a different underlying OS.
It would be nice if the body of the whole article was:

"Just be yourself."
People tell me that research in Autism has yielded few fruits or treatments to improve quality of life for those severely affected. They feel betrayed perhaps because the complexity of the causes and phenotyping of autism has turned out to be much more complex than realized 15 years ago.

I bring this up because people felt the same way about cancer. For decades and decades, there were glimmers of false hope, claims that a cure for cancer was just a few years away, surely solved in the next decade, and time after time they were proven wrong. People felt betrayed perhaps because the complexity of cancer made the problem so very difficult to solve. And YET: Here we are. Real, tangible progress.

The hard problems take huge efforts over many years, but we are solving them. If we put the effort and funding and time into understanding autism, other neurodevelopmental disorders, depression, longetivity, and so on, we will prevail.
Furthermore, Gitlab has a brilliant documentation which makes very clear which features are available in which version of the program. This distinction goes even into the documentation of the (JSON) API.

What is advertised as open source is really open source, you can browse it yourself. Find it at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce -- btw, this is a ~3GB repository, afaik you won't be able to host such a large repository at github.com for free. With self-hosted gitlab, you can do this without any hazzle.
Telepresence Brings the Kubernetes Cluster to Developers
Perhaps they could use some middleware like MoltenGL [0]. That way they might still be able to write against an OpenGL API (which allows for code re-use), while supporting Metal under the hood. It does seem this particular tech might be more suited for mobile platforms, unless OpenGL ES is also used these days on the PC / Mac platforms.

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[0]: https://moltengl.com/moltengl/
Yeah, which is hosted on Azure, a data center that Microsoft owns and employs guards for, and secured behind our standard corporate authentication. :) (Source: I work at Microsoft, near the VSTS team.)
That was Craig Federighi, by the way.
You can do this -- and indeed, promoting constants to fields is a common technique in the analysis of field theories. But it's cheating if you say the constant is dynamical and then don't say what the dynamics is. In field theory, you have to make additional choices here, and there are a lot of additional parameters that enter.

In string theory, you don't have to/get to make a choice at all. The dynamics is uniquely determined. It's not exactly a free lunch, but it's a very unusual feature for a physical theory.
I'm not saying it was a coup, but it's definitely not just a coincidence either that the new CEO who takes over at the same time as the Microsoft acquisition is a Microsoft employee.

If Microsoft weren't acquiring GitHub, would they still pick Nat to be their new CEO?
I find the GPL 'free software' license to be a lot less 'free' than other kinds of open source licenses in terms of what you are allowed to do as a user of the software.

For example, with GPL, you do not have ownership over any derived work that you produce; you are legally forced to share your work with everyone. This is a weapon to allow big corporations to sue small indie developers and startups who are trying to compete with them. The balance of power is asymmetric. Only corporations have the money to legally enforce GPL licenses - Also, the creator of the software is allowed to keep their own derivative work private (because they have copyright) but no one else can (everyone else is bound by copyleft).
"I’ve been a developer since I was six". I would love to learn what sort of projects were kids working on this early back in the 80s.
Well, we just came a step closer :) #wwdc2018
> There are plenty still in operation.

Feel free to join one.

> what is legal

What are you claiming is making communes illegal?
I've thought about it a lot. It just seems to loop, to find a way that allows me to believe I have done enough work such that I am allowed to have the thoughts I wanted to have from the beginning. There are all sorts of ways I seem to invent to do this. Doing differently, every single time, every new way of working through 'thought', what's the original point?

What do you think? Let's compare notes.
Is the Open Invention Network still a thing? MS still hasn't joined, and is still using patents as a weapon, apparently.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3042699/open-source-tools/...
> Props to Apple, this is some impressive work that will have a net benefit for users. It is almost as if they care. Of course, they can do this since it does not go against their incentives like other companies

This post reads like parody, considering that these features are copied from Samsung [1] and Google [2].

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/...

[2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/go...
> It's an unreasonable standard and if nothing else, it presents the self-fulfilling prophecy where you're only satisfied once you've found proof that Microsoft today hasn't changed at all.

That's a good general point; if you find you dislike someone's POV or behavior, and you're not simply being tribalistic, you should be thinking along the lines of, "what do I want this person / group to do differently?"
Apple’s changes amount to what the gambling industry has done to acknowledge and address gambling addiction: displaying pamphlets around casinos and suggesting that problem gamblers opt-in to a self-exclusion list. Helpful for some but doesn't change anything about the environment, which has little protections from products that are expertly engineered to get and keep you addicted.

There should be developer API’s for this. The lack of API’s and the fact Apple thinks three product changes alone can solve a complex social problem speaks to how simplistically they are treating the issue. It’s a positive step forward, and necessary, but we should be able to bring an ecosystem approach to solving what many of us consider the biggest socio-technical problem today.

This petition is a start: https://www.change.org/p/apple-allow-digital-wellness-develo...
Why waste this energy? Couldn’t they devise a way to mine bitcoin with it? :)
What's the evidence that Github was loosing money? Their first (and only, AFAIK) round was with Andreesen Horowitz for $100 million, many years after they had already become the go-to host for open source projects. Before that round the company was bootstrapped with personal funds.
Yes, it's illegal.

So are questions about marital status; about whether you have kids or are pregnant; about race or nationality; about gender; about religion; and about disabilities.
​What Microsoft buying GitHub means to open-source software development
They explicitly answered this exact question with a resounding “No.”
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Hey,

I'm an intermediate-level full-stack developer who loves jumping around frameworks and trying new languages/etc. My most familiar stack is: LEMP using Laravel + VueJS for the frontend.

Technologies: Angular, Vue, Laravel, React, jQuery, Meteor, Mysql, Postgres, Mongodb, JSON, Javascript, ES6, Typescript, Node.js, Express, Strapi, REST, graphql, golang, python, ruby, rails, wordpress, php, nginx, apache, vagrant, docker, linux (arch and debian).

Past projects:
https://insomniacookies.com (10 dev team).
http://recycleabook.com (2 devs)
https://startupwrench.com/ (just me - built on laravel in 2014).
What's a good alternative of the play store?
From YC? No.

Not sure what you mean by the second question. Are you asking about the size of seed rounds vs. A rounds?
Suppose my ranked preferences (by assertion, watch time, and also ad interaction, and) of context mix may be 30% yoga, then 15% yoga, then 100% yoga.

Suppose IG only offers 100% yoga or 10%, based on my click activity.

Ego and id may be fully compatible but it IG is still failing for my use case.
Howard Schultz to Step Down as Starbucks Executive Chairman
Great interview, really excited for the book.
It's always good to think about how to mitigate vendor lock-in, no matter who the vendor is.
The strongest man in the WORLD – Proof #1
At what level of elasticity does it stop being normal balance sheet expansion and start being "soft default?"

A flexible money supply and low, controlled inflation are good. Using inflation as a way of avoiding debts and obligations is not good (and yet so tempting that rulers have attempted to do so throughout history, with disastrous results). Doesn’t really matter what you choose to call it, but money is not infinitely elastic, and high inflation has nasty consequences.
If they weren't already doing that just for the performance improvement itself.
This guy probably doesn't know hardware.

C succeeded in part because, in many problem spaces, it was easier to write "portable assembly" than it was to bridge the semantic gap between higher languages, like LISP, and typical ISAs.

All of this Bret Victor cultistry is a grandchild of B5000 design. Want better software, need better hardware.

Maybe with the end of Moore's Law, we'll start making better hardware...
The Bolt fits the EV bill if you just need a commuter car. If you want to be able to take a road trip, Tesla is the only serious option.

No manufacturer offers anything remotely competitive with Autopilot.

Hopefully both of these things change very soon.
So in the last 9 years, 5 have had major hardware announcements? Hardly seems like a trend.
Oh, I was asked if I am married or not and if I have kids!

I'm sure the interviewer had no idea. She was German, maybe it's not illegal to ask these questions in Germany
The strongest man in the WORLD – Proof #2
Howard Schultz is leaving Starbucks
Demanding 'meaning innovation' on a regular schedule is how you end up with TouchBar.