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Ask HN: Alternatives to gumroad for payment and digital download
I make a digital product and want to sell it and so have been looking around for services that allow me to do it.

I haven't messed around with payments before but I've heard a bunch of good things about stripe so I checked it out and the payment side looks great but I'm still a bit fuzzy and the best way to fulfill the digital product.

Gumroad seems to be an option, and I like that I can just embed it on my existing site (rather than use squarespace, for example) but I feel like I'm missing something since I can't find any others,

Any tips on where I can look?
If they are spending a billion, these flaws show that obviously isn't enough.
I'm really digging these days to solidify my foundation of software development so I thought this link might contain some useful information. Perhaps it does, but it seems a little abstract.

Being said, I'd rather get deep into the weeds with some technical summer reading. I'd love to get some recommendations from everyone here if possible.
OC page three:

> PDFs used to be unreadable on small screens, but now you can reflow them.

Off hand, which PDF viewers do reflow?
I did not interpret their comment that way.
I see part of the problem being that the spaces we hang out in now are not conducive to productive conversation with a variety of people and instead nurture division due to perverse incentives and poor design.
Is it just me or a part of Apple is just rotting away?
Thank you! That's something I hadn't considered at all, I will try to see if I could get more information the next time I speak with HR!
On the topic of parents, I’m second generation immigrant. All of my family grew up in other countries, in poverty. None of them have ever developed cavities and such. I’ve never seen my parents ever express any craving for sweets.

I once quit sugar for 6 months. It was harder than quitting alcohol, nicotine or caffeine. My first super-sweet treat after those 6 months was a donut and it almost made me vomit on the first bite. The dopamine rush quickly overwhelmed my physical aversion.
Black 3.0 – The blackest black acrylic paint
>It's fair to say the Catholic Church absolutely loved Gutenberg.

I wasn't talking about the man, I was talking about the machine. The Catholic Church certainly didn't love it anymore once The Reformation happened. See the Catholic Church could no longer control information when lay people could read the Bible, and Martin Luther's texts. Gutenberg's press completely transformed the church's control in Europe and it lasts to this day.

https://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/online-exhibits/exhibit...

This has parallels today. The government can no longer control information via traditional media channels because the internet, in its current form, exists. They want that control back. I believe this is an attempt to regain control. The government would never shut down big tech companies, they are a great source of information for data collection.
I had the exact opposite reaction. I’m reading this on an iPhone SE2020, and I MUCH appreciate reading this in pdf form. I didn’t have to pan back and forth or even put the phone in landscape orientation. This is one of the smallest smartphones you can still buy, and the experience of PDF is WAY better than the user-hostile auto-flow text forced down mobile users’ throats.

I was skeptical at first, but I think the author made the point fantastically well.
You seem to be off by a factor of 10. YAML spec pdf is only 80 pages.

https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.pdf
Then modify his statement accordingly. Your issue with Keynes's quote is that he used the word fact in a way that indicates that it can be changed. But according to you, it can. But also according to you, they can also be "time-constrained".

But the general thrust of his point remains. When the time constraints of a fact elapse and allow a new fact to replace the old fact, he changes his position. New information allows for new opinions.

Arguing about the definitions of words to score points is meaningless pedantry. You don't want to argue the actual point, that you should be able to change your mind when situations change or you learn new information. Because doing so would make you look like you're just stubborn and easily led. But for some reason, you can't agree with the quote because then you'd be granting something to the person you're currently debating with. Or to the side of the debate you agree with, seeing as we're dealing with multiple responders.

But all of this is to discuss the credibility of the Dogecoin founder. And that's a fair discussion to have, because his credibility and motives are very much relevant to why he should have certain opinions.

But now it seems the entire discussion is being done a very meta level. Where we're no longer talking about his qualifications, his stake in the success or failure of crypto, his reasons for making statements, etc. No, now we're discussing the dictionary definition of "fact".
Can't really comment on whether that was the correct way to handle the situation, given that passing the interview was the goal. However, I would have a hard time giving an incorrect answer on purpose. I also consider an interview as an opportunity to learn about the company I'm going to work for, and especially my future colleagues.

I would probably try to give a full answer, such as "there's a widely-held concept X, but my understanding is that this is not completely correct, and in fact a better model is Y." A technical lead that can't work with an answer like that is one I probably don't want to work with.
Behavioral interview questions give you more insight to this e.g. "Tell me about a time when...". In a technical interview you'd be wasting precious time determining how they present arguments. You'd also get false signal from interviewees who are uncomfortable debating their interviewer/know that they need to progress through the question.
Sounds to me like ePub would fit better. It’s designed for reflow and it’s built out of a subset of HTML. Worse case the contents of the file can be expanded.
>Maybe there's a brief moment of "I'm impressed with how much work you put into this" but for that to happen, you kind of have to see the work being done.

Or be knowledgeable enough to estimate the effort and skill required. Ironically, things I took for granted when I was young have impressed me more and more over the years. Probably because I've either tried to do them myself or learned about their backgrounds.

So I'm not surprised artists and at enthusiasts would value realism more than most people. Just like how speed metal is probably more popular among guitarists. The technique becomes a source of value rather than just an implementation detail.
> max partition size is hundred of TB rather than 2GB

FAT16 is limited to 2GB, FAT32 can extend to 2TB (but the max file size for a single file is 4GB, as the parent stated)
A difference between the fused instruction and the two separate ones is expected. The fused instruction is designed to avoid a rounding step between the multiplication and add.

The article makes no mention if the fused instruction is producing incorrect results or just different results. That is the critical question.
Gemini is as "terminal-only" as Markdown. Just because it's a text format first and foremost, does not mean that you can't display it nicely formatted. It's more like EPUB in that regard.
Just the other day I was listening to a radio show ( further right than shown in mainstream ), where a user was clamoring for a proper locked down version of Windows where nothing can go wrong.

The current situation ( and the resulting clamoring ) is absolutely a direct result of people who create this software. Trying to shift the blame onto nonexistent framework is at best laughable and at worst very deceptive. It absolves MS and its engineers from guilt associated with it.

To put it another way, if those engineers were bridge engineers, we would now be witnessing multiple collapses with swathes of engineers arguing that it is not their fault as 'there is an international responsibility to act and establish a framework' that prevents bridges from falling apart.

I am sorry. I do not buy this defense. As an architect, you should know better.
Saying HTML can be offlineable is like saying C can be provably terminating. There's a subset of programs where that's true, but it's not inherent to the form. A PDF is inherently self-contained, standard web technologies are not. When you open the page and it's a PDF, it gives you certain guarantees, when you open it and it's HTML, you have to have to do further investigation.
Also hard to edit. Why do we use YAML again?
The guy outlines his whole case based on those exact points which are, as you have observed, technical quibbles and not a basis for abandoning HTML.

Under the hood it seems apparent to me that the real premise is an emotional one, not a technical one.

The internet is plastic not because of HTML, but because of money and people. When you have teens driving content it's going to feel plastic. When Walmart uses the internet to sell you crap it's gonna be plastic. Gossip / social platforms are trash, no matter the medium.

It could be argued that TV is an incredible learning platform ruined by HD. Back in the standard definition days we had proper news, documentaries that were substantial, and no reality TV. We need to go back to black and white standard definition.

Sorry, but the PDF web is not a solution to societal rot.
> It never throttles.

Just in case, are you actually monitoring temperatures?

Regardless, buy some proper thermal paste and pads and replace them on everything, it will quiet down significantly while also running cooler.

The difference between factory Thermal Interface Material and custom is often ridiculous.
Jekyll plugin that produces a pdf version of each page?
This is an incredibly insightful point of view for understanding people around me on this topic. And maybe a useful analogy for talking about it. Thank you.
Exactly this. It is by the way one of the main reasons I initially stuck with HN. The lean UI, text based simplicity, efficiently conveying information had me instantly. I would sacrifize styling for speed anytime, everywhere.
> However, it would still leave open the problem of editing work

Quick thought: What happens if you only minimally edit the posts, but instead brand them as "sponsored?" Maybe even tweak the colors on the sponsored posts?

Perhaps start each post with some kind of boilerplate disclaimer. Something like, "Hacker News is sponsored by YCombinator. Every YCombinator startup gets an opportunity to have a 'Launch HN' post. Today, Hacker News is brought to you by..."

(And then timebox your editing to XX minutes / company.)
That’s not how it works. Usually you try to force a card with a high percentage success but if it fails you will fall back to another way of revealing the card
Robotaxis: Have Google and Amazon backed the wrong technology?
I've definitely used saved webpages a lot. When we had dialup email only, my dad would drive to the library with a flash drive and download Web pages to bring home and read. It was great. Of course, it's even greater now that I can load it fresh even faster.
He seems to be from the same generation as Luc Schuiten from the article (both born in 44)

The main difference would be that Dean forcused more on the art, while Schuiten focused more on the architecture part, but both seem pretty close indeed, and I would not be surprised if they knew each other
All true. Incidentally, I do not see pagination as necessary or in most cases even desirable; rather, I see it as a vestige of the printing technology, while the need for printing has shrunk dramatically over the past 20 years.
If anybody misses Rails and is familiar with OSM organization and culture, then please have a go with https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website . There are many small and big improvements that are waiting to be implemented.
This is fantastic. There is no bigger drag on productivity in my Elixir projects than the time I spend having to deal with Node related things. I've written entire subsections of build scripts just to address it.

Nice to be able to remove it unless it's actually needed in the project for some reason.
The full dot-com boom period was basically 1995 (Yahoo, Amazon, Netscape in full swing) through 2001 (the dot-com crash in April followed by 9/11).

So roughly a 6-7 year period. 1997-1999 was definitely the "hey day"
Nym gets $6M for its anonymous overlay mixnet to sell privacy as a service
On the contrary, I much prefer a small text on a mobile device to the reflowed text on a mobile device that we’re always forced to use. The PDF is also the same view as on a desktop, so if I look at it on another device, my spatial memory of where stuff is remains intact.
It looks like cyber warfare, as well as espionage, is considered pretty much fair game in geopolitics nowadays. I wonder where the line is drawn that would make it an act of war.
In any case, a direct attack from the Chinese government towards it's main trade partners (US, Germany and Japan among them) sounds crazy to me.
The hard part is writing your patter so that it doesn't sound like you're listing cards. Without giving away too many magical secrets, I invite you to consider the fact that there are many ways to reference cards more subtly. Color, suit, number, high and low. There are also a few different possible reactions.
HTML isn't hard to save and file on a computer, and on phones it seems everything is hard to save and file.
> The author addresses this pretty well. Because you can embed whatever you want, static site generators aren't really static. In particular, Jekyll blogs and what not still pretty commonly include comment sections.

But just like you can choose to use PDF/A, you can also choose to have a completely static and self-contained (e.g. using data URLs for images) HTML page.
"This this x does not exist does not exist"
Bolivian tree lizard cleanup plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yruQM1ggc
I mean...many of the Harry Potter reviews in your link are positive.

Take any group of people, and some will like the books and some won't.
There's difference between "no sweeties" and regular cola drinking :P
Mathematics have other ways to talk about equivalence than just equality that allow to handle such cases though.
What a nice website, what framework is it built with ?
Maybe Vue.js or Angular.js or maybe Nuxt fuking js ?
@luffapi
Taking into account what I meant by "ideological", the northbound side of the authoritarian axis is fully covered by those groups. You're right, I took it for granted that anti-authoritarian sentiment was a prerequisite for the third set of society I'm describing. But I don't view that as a political opinion.

I'm not trying to describe the prevailing group-think technocratic culture in silicon valley. But ideologically, anyone who has no ideology except answering logical problems fits into a category that is always going to be reviled by people who have a political agenda, because their answers won't necessarily comport with what you want them to look like.
How do I scrape data from LinkedIn?
None the less is there any evidence that "it just keeps getting worse"?
I Created My Own Crypto, Here's Everything I Learned
Oh that's rich. Deny a general truth while relying on one yourself.

You know I find it hilarious that this is the same sort of strategy most individuals take when confronted with something that's wildly removed from their reality. They attack the most pedantic little things they can.

Where was the burden of proof on Apple in this case? Why is some clearly innocent person having to go through this horrible process of trying to free their name in the first place?
Or maybe a somewhat crazy solution like static HTML files ...
Robots don't need air, food, or sanitary facilities.

Launching to space is severely constrained by the mass you can bring up. You can send up multiple robots compared to the mass needed for all the food, life support ect, for a single person.
True story: During Zoom classes, a friend's kid used to move his lips without emitting any sound faking a mic problem in order to not receive questions from his teacher
Yep, me too, I still remember most of the distinct sound patterns of everyday use.
The amount of hot air on this topic is incredible.

The US has denounced, accused, etc Russia on cyber attacks

It is now calling out and accusing China of cyber attacks.

My guess - ZERO concrete action.

Meanwhile, China says relatively little and focuses on actual power - trade ties, threats etc.
No. It is not.

China is a big country and the Chinese government does not control everything that is going on.

Most hacking is done by kids with computers and uses trivial exploits: easy to guess passwords or security holes that are left unpatched for years after they are documented.

Fairly regularly I get a phone call from a guy with a strong accent claiming to be from Microsoft support. No one blames the Indian or Bangladeshi government for that.

Yet it is different for Russia and China.
The method also works with other accidic drinks, such as lemonade.
What does this mean?

It's a list of the Vatican's favorite films. It's like asking me to make a lost of thinkingemote's favorite films.
>PDFs don't have any dynamic interaction...

Just a caveat to that statement, you can literally do interactive and dynamic 3D graphics rendering in PDFs:
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/enable-3d-content-pdf....

You can also embed JS in PDFs:
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/applying-actions-scrip...
I find this to be a super interesting response. When I settled into my current website design, I ended up basically writing an article for the homepage. I'm not a designer by any stretch, and it was the most attractive homepage I could make, and I still really like it. I used a very similar workflow (and continue to for articles) to the papers I wrote in college, and would really only take one more step to get that to final pdf state.

I'm torn between leaning into the static nature of the site and implementing the wiki I've been thinking about making
As someone who works with PDFs a lot, please don't. PDFs are awful in every case except those which require a very precise visual layout. From reading the article, I do not see a single case in which PDF is superior to vanilla HTML.
I used to get a lot of bugs on my windshield driving through Germany. That stopped in 2014. No more bugs.

Bug populations are down 80%, anything we do to help them is needed.
I mean, Firefox just follows the website's command to not format it as a mobile webpage, right? But a button to forcibly reflow is handy though.
Maybe it is a years old info. I was today years old when I heard of Pegasus.
"HTML’s semantic capabilities were oversold."

THANK YOU! HTML semantics are a trap, just enough to make you think something is there but anemic enough to be a giant excersize in bikesheading. Ask yourself this: If HTML semantics were adequate, why do we have ARIA and 90 different microformats?

Other than that, I read the article expecting to be annoyed by the PDF presentation but was pleasantly surprised by how it read just like I would want a content page to read. My only complaint is that browsers (at least Brave) do not preserve scroll position in PDFs. If the browsers fix that the author may be onto something here.
You are still justifying your state falsifying evidence. What am I missing?

Wikileaks never did that btw.
> What if the robot fails?

Touche. At least you can send another robot!

But in reality, the ideal system is probably a combination of built-in redundancy / spares for parts that can work that way; and then robots for the kinds of things that are too complicated to have a built-in failover.
The 15% ESOP is likely negotiable – have they included a side letter so they're undiluted by this pool? If so, it's in their interest to make it as big as possible now, so that they don't get diluted by you growing it later.

(Also, everything is negotiable if you get another offer – I would recommend focusing on that.)
Here you go: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-...

Sleep tight.
Ask HN: Is there a functioning alternative to Symbolhound.com?
The Apache Arrow project is led by the creator of Pandas, which is one of the most important packages in the Python ecosystem. I agree Apache has some half-baked projects, but I think Arrow has the track record and backing to achieve its goals
I think you’re describing a debit (ie bank) card, not credit card.
"Is this normal for a junior position?"

I guess it could be in specific niches, but it is not common nor normal for most places.

Four interviews not including the phone interviews and they want a redo on one... this seems very excessive to me.
It certainly has authority to block it from doing business in the EU if they don't comply, and to back that block with legal action against employees or assets inside the region if the company keeps breaking the law.
This statement could be for both the comment you're replying to and the original article.
Good for you! Extended time off has been the best thing for my long-term mental health. It let me recover from issues and reset patterns. Good luck with rest of your break!
Back when I was a solder monkey at the Media Lab we had some literal fans overhead in our workspace that would turn on to reflect network load.

https://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/pinwheels
I don't buy that the problem with the web is that HTML is not inherently offlineable. HTML may not be inherently offlineable but it can be. PDF isn't inherently a web friendly format, but it can be. There really isn't any good argument for PDFing the web.
Exactly my reaction to opening the site.

I had no idea what the content of the site was (besides the title from HN) and around the 50% download point, I had already lost interest. I'm clearly not the only one who loses interest this quick [0][1][2].

Also, as others have mentioned in root level comments, the design & layout of the content within is also severely lacking, which makes waiting for the load to occur even less worth it.

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[0]: https://www.pingdom.com/blog/page-load-time-really-affect-bo... (2018)

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/metrics/2010/03/31/firefox-page-loa... (2010)

[2]: https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-strategies/app-and... (I know it's Google, but to be fair they have more data on this than most other companies, despite their obvious desire to sell more of their product/services related to it.)
> The new headline is still a damning indictment of US media.

It might be if it actually mentioned the US... or is that bit implied?
Symbolhound was a search engine that doesn't ignore special characters. This means you can easily search for symbols like &, %, and code snippets. Unfortunately it's no longer working.

Is there any alterantive that's still functioning?
> The downside to this is that it deprives their classmates

Assume probability of false positive is 1%. If you are tested weekly, there is a 41% chance you'll falsely test positive at least once in a year. If you are tested every workday, 93% chance. This is assuming there is no malfeasance.

If you assume a false positive probability of 5%, the probabilities go up to 93% and 100%.

The negative effects of false positives are the same whether kids are using soda or something else is causing them. At some point, the costs have to be weighed against the benefits.

Here is a false positive/false negative simulator I put together last year (thrice silently banned -- so I stopped trying to do more after restoring it one last time) helps you explore what happens with various scenarios of infection rates and false positive/negative probabilities.

Linking to the discussion to provide context for the app:

https://www.covid2020.icu/false-positive-false-negative-simu...