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It seems clear to me that this is a step towards a bigger vision (example: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/05/us-airbnb-dinner-i...)

I just saw the event they had, and while extremely awkward and painful to watch, they continually eluded to a broader concept bigger than "renting rooms."
Of course doesn't account for Daylight Savings, or the inherent inaccuracies of time zones?
I think this was a well thought out rebranding, especially seeing as they are becoming a larger global brand, and their identity needed to reflect that as well.

The site is beautiful, the new logo is simple yet unique and fits their brand well, and I personally cannot wait to use their services next year for my trip through Europe.
There's a (cloud) app for that: Microsoft adds app store to Azure
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You might be surprised to hear that some libraries have an ebook section. My hometown has a "digital library" that it shares with other libraries in the region.

It works the same as a regular book (only one person per copy) but you can pick it up on your Kindle or other appropriate device.
The new logo just looks like a paperclip to me.
How does SMS based 2FA work when you're overseas? Will you still be able to receive it and will it incur international charges?
Very impressive.

I'd love to know how many out of the 716 companies funded so far are still in business per se as independent entities? And among those that are not anymore, what was the exit (successful exit vs. soft landing / acquihire vs. death). I suspect it's really hard to track though, and somewhat subjective.
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Hi Joel,

Most of the content is scraped by us using the scrapy framework. We do use the YouTube API, but don't query it directly for the video results. Instead, we store all the metadata for the videos that come from a list of selected channels, and then apply our own methods to filter and rank results.

We also use the awesome Diffbot API to extract some of the information used in building the rich snippets seen in the demo.
It's like stepping in the same puddle every day on the walk to school. It's not out-and-out fun, but it's a habit, a pattern, and if it might provide 3 seconds of entertainment, that's worth it. "Not being fun" won't make it stop.
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> If five new states are created, do they have to petition the United States to become part of the Union?

For five new states to be created by removing territory from an existing state, the split would have to be approved by Congress; the new states don't have to be admitted to the Union separately from Congressional permission for them to create them in the first place -- allowing them to be created would admit them to the Union.
I've been sharing this site quite a bit with fellow redditors. I'm not for all the shirts (of course), but I find a lot of them hilarious and wearable! Especially with the internet savvy crowd.
Two things came to mind reading this: Ender's Game and Snow Crash. The former because the identification of your peers as adversaries, bullies, the real threat, not the aliens threatening humanity. Snow Crash because there's something to be said about tough delivery girls.
I agree, but I could see (for example) my parents trusting the new design more. It seems more like a legitimate short term rental service rather than a couchsurfing site.
Overcast has a web client, too. If Overcast used the UUID, it wouldn't be able to give you the web client side of things easily.
A minute percentage of abnormal cases will exist in any natural corpus. That doesn't mean it's generalizable to the entire category, or even worthy of any attention at all. For you to claim otherwise is simply intellectually dishonest. In short, no, it doesn't.

With that out of the way, yes, anyone can ignore mean words. Absolutely anyone. If they're very emotionally immature, they might require some coaching first, but that's about it.
> My main problem with these sentiments though is that Ubuntu still has marketing for some reason.

Yes, it tried to make Linux more "mainstream" and mostly succeeded. That is what happens when you have a ton of money you can throw at a problem.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/01/ubuntu-maker-boosted...

It is still losing double digit millions a year. Debian can't match that kind of loss.

I don't think Debian even has $20 million in a year in terms of donations? {not counting labor)
I don't know if it's the same in the USA, but I met quite a few homeless people here that avoid shelters when they can out of fear of being mugged, robbed, or stabbed. That said, their fear might not be justified.
Its a storey brought to life. As such it can explore what your children will inevitably encounter, and lets them experiment with responses without being really hurt. Its wonderful.
Agreed -- I've found these pearls of received wisdom often crumble on non-trivial projects. "Premature optimization" can lead some to defer thinking about performance at all. "Profile and fix the hotspots" without simultaneously thinking about architecture can yield a mass of uniformly slow branchy code with no path forward. It's hard to appreciate until you've been there. However, I do have faith that mozilla folks have most certainly been there and that those lessons inform the rust design.
The moving slits of light and shadow reminded me of zoetropes. It might be a fun maker project to do some kind of animation using a similar set up. Maybe not with the sun as the light source (too slow?) but something handheld that could be moved across a light source.
Wouldn't it have been better to not post it until you had more to offer?
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Shouldn't you buy the tech books, and rent the novels then?
While i agree on your edit about comcast, you chose a really poor company to relate it to, given all the FCC stuff as of late.
What is it about the company and idea which make it difficult for you to believe?
Full, transparency across time makes it easy to buy people's votes, or punish people for voting the wrong way. The moment I can check that my vote was counted, and was counted accurately, then my boss/landlord/wife/friend could pressure me into showing them said record.

The fact that I can vote very differently from what is socially acceptable in my social group, and there is no way for them to know is a feature, not a bug.
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only... Apple does a good job in not holding inventory.
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Afterfurtherreview.sportsblog.com stop wasting your time looking for other sports. Stop here. Copy paste.
Há you just re-invented the Feuilleton! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuilleton
I'm a big fan of what you guys have accomplished with Harp and really respect the decision to go open source. Great job!
The site has been up for a year and a half. It used to be called "Flippin' Awesome" so we are just keeping pace with the current editorial pattern.

We'll be re-launching soon and you'll see a more marked change then.
That is awesome.

Have there been any aviation/aerospace companies yet?
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Actually, I bet most of these books are published by Amazon and are Kindle exclusives. Then they manually add in a few hundred or thousand well-known books to make it look like a grand selection.
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No, it doesn't seem to. EDIT: actually it does seem to have some kind of "star" feature but hitting the star asks me to sign in to Twitter.
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Cool stuff!

They cost 91€ plus shipping, and cannot currently be shipped to the U.S. http://www.digitalsundial.com/ordering.html

They are apparently tuned for a particular latitude, so they won't work in the tropics either...
Not true.

Oyster knew Amazon was going to end up trying this eventually. It's the obvious move. But Oyster also knows that the publishers do not like working with Amazon, which puts Oyster in a much better position to get good deals and get the publisher support necessary to have good books available.

So we'll see how well this works. If Amazon can't get the big 5 on board, but Oyster can, then I think they'll do just fine.
Assume he were tried and convicted of the alleged crimes. What penalty would he be facing?
It's not a CSV library, right? :) Go for it.

And yeah, I've been surprised! I hadn't anticipated so many comments about the web site, since the feature is a Javascript library. It's like going to a movie for the previews.

Definitely grateful for the feedback, though. It's great that quirks that are being constructively reported so they can be fixed.
Looks good, personally I'd like something like postman for chrome wrapped up in node webkit rather than having to have a browser open. (I say that rather than native, because then I can tweak if needed easily)
FYI: a sawbuck is an X shaped structure used to hold wood while cutting it. It also refers to a ten dollar bill because X = 10 in Roman Numerals. This app is half that price.
I also think that. The problem is that most people focus on the "meaning", "emotion", "philosofical" aspect when making these "art games". That mostly involves the game's story and narrative, and that is only a subset of game design/development.

I consider something artistic when it displays the creator's mastery of the craft. So yeah, Portal is art. Dear Esther? Pretentious drivel, without a doubt!

If you want a great art game, that was made to BE an art game and is not a deep philosofical piece try The Marriage [1]. This game actually disturbed me, as I considered Rod Humble to have achieved IT, to have created the first PURE videogame. Give it a try.

[1] http://www.rodvik.com/rodgames/marriage.html
Well. Microsoft had it first with Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8. But yes it is now everywhere. Latest KDE Plasma release is flat too and other DEs will soon follow suit.
The change is neat, giving more room to expand towards their bigger vision. But,

what I don't understand is why the hell they moved the most important element in their site down to a secondary place ("the search").
Many libraries have e-book borrowing, too.
>Digital copies of books are not discounted once they're "used"

Well this is a whole different issue entirely, and could start another entire discussion.
I wonder why they don't keep statistics on jobs created o rev generated, will be interesting to see quantifiable impact created by the YC community.
Treason? The death penalty.
The history of gamedev (in particular) eschewing C++ for years until the consensus flipped gives me hope that something similar might happen here. The strings thing may take a similar path to so many aspects of C++ -- where it took years of folks like Scott Meyers and Josuttis and Herb Sutter and Alexandrescu talking through the details and rationale before enough people grew to like the decisions C++ made. Think of how many C++ programmers had to get their head around (say) RAII -- it probably first seemed horribly odd and weird, and now it's seen as a fundamental reason why it's a great language.
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From what I read, I got the impression that avoiding them for Nate, is a part of "not playing the game". I'd imagine, not going there reduces his chances of more contact with aggressive law enforcement agents, thieves and drugs.

In which case, it seems an understandable choice.
You don't need a national scale project. You can start with your own, local library. Help make it into the best library around, and others will follow.
So it's... a new logo? Sure seems like an awful lot of fuss over a very little change.
Given the jaunty tone of the documentation, I really think they missed an opportunity to somehow have a "Beard Papa" version. Randomly inserts cream puff ingredients or something.
Where do you live? In the midwest, where I grew up, the library was full of everyone. Now I live in Berkeley, it is full of families and homeless people.

I have a family and we love the library. But it can be uncomfortable to have address the issues of homelessness to use the library. Such as shopping carts blocking the entrance, people masturbating on the public computers, or sleeping on the soft chairs in the children's area. They don't also don't put comfy chairs in the other areas to discourage people from sleeping there, which is unfortunate for adults who might like a nice spot to read.
The new logo looks like a spaceship ... they are preparing for selling trips into orbit.
> If i knew myself, the only thing i would be able to tell myself is, it's going to suck until you're halfway through college.

If I may just highlight this. Children should be told that being a schoolkid is a weird kind of environment, the like of which they probably won't experience as an adult. Most workplaces don't involve customary physical violence, or even frequent overt verbal abuse. Glibly telling them that their life is horrible because they're not doing it right is a fucking awful thing to do to them.
1. You complained about the downvote.

2. Image is low-resolution.
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I suspect the app design is the way it is because Marco wanted it this way, and not because he lacked access to a designer
Here in California, libraries are offering bigger selections of e-books on-line, which usually come with two restrictions: limited time of readability on your device, and limited number of copies available (and a waiting list to manage access). Amazon has historically appeared to support these library programs, presumably because they make kindles more appealing to the core "book purchasing" demographic as well.

In the near future I hope to have limited access to all these books for free, or unlimited access for $9.99 a month, and the ability to easily switch between the two consumption models. That, for me, would be an easy sell. This is pretty much how i consume Hulu - most of the time, I just want to watch recent episodes of the Daily Show and am satisfied with the free tier. And when I want to get after specific content, I bump up to the paid tier for a bit.

I don't understand why "some content is always free" model isn't more popular in the content world. If Netflix offered something like three free movies a month, I would never "cancel" my account. They would get better brand loyalty, better app lock-in, and lower customer churn. Instead, I get annoyed at the always-on subscription model and cycle between subscribed and unsubscribed.

Digitization of content changed distribution patterns, which changed pricing patterns, and the combination of both changed consumption patterns. It feels like there is a feedback loop where now it makes sense for pricing and user management (acquisition, retention) strategies to adapt once again, this time to changes in user behavior and consumption patterns.
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There is now `[UIDevice identifierForVendor]`.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/...
I love it. I go on trips with my family and I always take tons of photos, but I never know what to do with them. I have zero artistic talent when it comes to laying out books or whatever. This is pretty much great for that.

A couple of other things I really like about this:

* The demo is really well done
* When I finish the demo, it gives me an option to get started: "Create Your Own", which is nice, because it acknowledges that I just finished a demo and is asking me to get started, as opposed to a generic "Create a Book" which implies that you don't have any idea whether I'm a real customer or not. Nice little detail there.
* I like the themes.
* The UI/UX is great and intuitive. There is zero question about what the next step is.

Couple of critiques:

* More themes
* Let me re-arrange individual photos
* More versatility with the cover
* Captions!

All around good job. Very impressed. I may use this soon!
He was an apple employee at the beginning. Offered stock, held out for the cash...probably a little bitter. He said this in his triumph of the Nerds documentary (quite good), and its repeated in wired.

"He worked with Steve Jobs in the early days of Apple, and when Jobs offered him shares in the company as payment, Cringely held out for payment at $6 an hour. "Let's not think about that," he says.

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/6.12/cringely_pr.html
That was really interesting to watch. I liked the description of Aaron realizing at 13 that he could just start acting like an adult, and doing so. pg is right, many of the lines that keep kids in check are not real, and only work because so many people buy into the idea of what kids are supposed to be like.
If you've been following the commentary about the logo on Twitter, that is the exact opposite of what people immediately interpret as the symbol.
Agreed. I'd also make an analogy to C++ where you sometimes must hop between std::string and char*'s with ambiguous lifetimes. Not to mention various custom string types that any big app will have (ex. one that internally exploits jemalloc's allocator optimizations (i.e. exposing block overages), or does rope-style allocation, or intern's into a shared table, or whatever).
It wouldn't be too difficult to pay someone a minimal amount to maintain a very detailed spreadsheet of every company that passes through YCombinator and record every stat they can find (and attempt to track how that changes over time). Some columns could be deleted if they are determined to not provide value obviously.

This might allow some interesting patterns to help filter future companies and let them know where the money is best allocated. Optimizing return on investment seems like it would be the most important part of YCombinator, then again I'm not a venture capitalist (but would love to be one some day).

I'm sure this is done somewhat at every incubator / startup investment group but it might be determined to be too valuable to release publicly, but at least a list of companies would be appreciated (all companies, not just the wildly successful ones).

Some possible stats off of the top of my head (per company):

- industry, location, target market

- founder's specialties (marketing, financial, developers). in-house developer or outside contractors. age of founders, university attended

- expected revenue after 1 year, 2 years, 5 years. actual revenue after those times

- number of users, number of paying customers, average revenue per customer. time from conception to first sale

Some of this might be information that they don't want to share, but if willing it would be wonderful to see. Just every data point possible that might offer some kind of correlation between extreme success / moderate success / failure.
It's not a jump back to the 80s exactly. For example, here is an old NT screenshot: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Windows_NT_3.1...

A lot of it is flat, but they use simple bevels for buttons and other clickable elements, and its reuse on, for example, the buttons in the file manager window, looks tacky because it appears cluttered and overused. Also, excessive lines (e.g. for the window borders), high contrast colors, and small color pallet makes the overall appearance not nice to look at. Also the icon set suuuuucked.
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You can adjust it forward or back however far you want by turning it.
My most annoying possessions are books and vinyl.

They are worth next to nothing to sell and I find it almost impossible to actually part with them. I've had some of them for 30 years+.

They are an albatross of culture around my neck.
Most dark pools that exclude HFTs fail to get off the ground because they are unable to offer the liquidity that investors require.
I'm not sure Bioshock Infinite was really about one thing. Only about 5% of the game is a story about stories. Most of it is a story about a woman learning to be her own agent rather than a means to other people's ends, and after that it's about the question of self-determination versus fate (this is pretty much the Lutece Twins' entire role). It begins and ends on the note you're talking about here, but those themes don't really seem to be as pervasive as the themes of The Grapes of Wrath.
Seems pretty obvious that it must be in the OPML file. Bet you $100 it's in there.
Scribd/Smashwords is 60% to the author (capped at $12.50) after the customer reads 30% of the book.

http://blog.smashwords.com/2013/12/smashwords-signs-distribu...
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Its not really a plan to split California into six states, its a plan to propose to the federal government splitting California into six states, and to amend the State Constitution to permit each county a broad power to nullify state law within the county until and unless that partition occurs [1]. This is particularly critical to note because if the federal government were to reject the partition plan (which seems quite possible if it were to pass California voters), the changes to the State Constitution would remain.

[1] See Section 4 of the initiative [2], amending Article XI of the State Constitution.

[2] at: https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/13-0063%20(...).pdf
Honestly, the only way to prevent election rigging is to associate each vote with a key, make the key-vote-district database public and give each voter a copy of their vote keys.

If each vote is verifiable to the voter and the whole database is public, then we can have independent analysis done on the votes and no vote rigging is possible, except for creating additional fake keys.

And we can fix that problem simply by making the keys associated with a voter registration, which requires an ID. Same way we do now. Granted, that's still limited by the issues with paper ballots.
Physical wounds heal in a very short amount of time. Psychological/emotional damage can take years to correct, sometimes it never goes away. "Trivially ignoring some mean words" isn't always possible. People have insecurities and some people a good at finding and exploiting them; this isn't a gender exclusive trait.
Yeah, I thought they were going to do something meaningful, like waiting at least a minute to forget the dates I've already entered at least a dozen times.
Your take reminded me of this reminiscence from a (now) 30 year old woman who went to a large LA public high school (http://natashavc.tumblr.com/post/80647186942/hey-guys-i-just...):

"I just saw Dazed and Confused ... Even as an adult, the movie is great. It perfectly captures the intensities and subtleties of the social hierarchy at a large public school; it’s akin to prison.

"And for anyone who has gone to a large public school then you know that it is likely the closest thing to prison you will ever experience (and because of that, you are my brother). I was at the mercy of the hierarchy but then of course ritually enforced it. Nothing ever mean or nasty but there were circles and power, mystique around certain cliques and I respected it. We chased that power, reacted against it, then exerted it.

"That power between social groups in school, it never breaks down neatly as it does in the other teen comedies. It’s not the nerds versus jocks. The jocks usually didn’t have enough charisma to be truly popular. It was always the dual edged, cross pollenating ones that carried the most glamour. The jock-stoner; the hot-nerd; the dangerous-attractive dude-who graduated but you would still blow; the shady mean girls who were the ultimate enforcers of social power — they come in many forms, sometimes even in overalls."