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Not sure about the downvotes on this one. My recollection is that Coke Zero was introduced to compete with Pepsi Max, and that the primary reason was that men were reluctant to buy things marked as "Diet" (plus there was a long history of Diet Coke being marketed almost exclusively to women [eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Sre-wpGHE ]).

Not saying any of this is a good thing... but it's a thing.
Unless and until there is a standard for function-as-a-service so you can move your functions between services at a moment's notice, you're very much locked in; and locked in without any guarantees of quality of service.
It might not be, but it's kinda lame to link to it here since many can't afford to pay for every single subscription site. Maybe if there was an option to pay per-article, but until then, it's simply unfeasible.
> Is the culture in the US really so different that people need so many cards?

Varied rewards across cards is a big reason. One card offers 5% cash back on gas and 1% otherwise (so you only use it on gas). Another offers 2% back generally, so you use it for most things.

Also stores convince a lot of Americans to make expensive purchases by starting a store credit card that has no interest for 12+ months.

For debit cards I keep two, but only because my main bank does not offer chipped debit cards yet and I need one that does for travel abroad.
This. Amazon card gets better returns for me on Amazon purchases (plus it got stolen half a dozen times so now it only gets used on Amazon...this happened because someone physically pried my locked apartment mailbox open and used that info to order more replacement CCs to their address), other card gets better returns for travel at restaurants, other card gets better returns for everything else, then I have a debit card since some gas stations only accept those. I also carry cash since some places are cash-only, and some parking meters only accept quarters, so I have a stack of those in my car as well.
I agree with much of this on principle, however one of the first examples really strikes me as poorly conceived.

One such example is the variable 'name'; there are a lot of other languages and contexts in which 'name' can be a reserved keyword. As a member on an object it's probably OK, but in a larger syntax it isn't quite precise enough. A better variable might be nameDisplay.

This presumes that you are referring to the way that a user prefers their name to be displayed in native output; it does not attempt to make any distinction to name components which may or may not be applicable.
There is significantly more planning behind video than most still photography. Scenes are story-boarded, shots are carefully set up, lighting is adjusted, etc.

When you look at video that was not carefully planned the ratio of hours shot to hours used goes way up. The Blair Witch Project had a ratio of about 12:1 and while the video from that film was effective it was hardly outstanding from an artistic point of view. Shot-on-location documentaries like Happy People or Welcome to Leith have similar ratios. Even though they're carefully shot, the ad-hoc nature of collecting footage for a film like that makes it necessary to amass a huge amount.
"We had just come out of a long experiment with self-management"

Why do startups do these huge management experiments? My company did the flat thing too and they spent a few months trying to get people to understand it. Probably burning up 5hr/wk for each person. Until they almost ran out of money. By then people were really confused. I think it almost killed the company due to the politics and red tape it created (strange, it was supposed to eliminate it).

My opinion is that it's hard enough to run a startup, let alone trying to invent a new management methodology. Best to go with what people already know. It may not be perfect, but at least there's some prior experience with it.

Just like how most would advise using the programming language and platform you know to build your initial product, rather than trying to to learn something that you think might be better.
Your fifth paragraph (the personal note) is atrocious reasoning. It's the equivalent of saying "There won't be a housing crash. People have warned about that for years, but each year home prices keep rising."

The effects of the carbon we're releasing vastly exceed human lifespans. So you have to be prepared for the possibility that predictions will take decades to have a visible impact.

The counter to your "we produce more food and feed more people claim" is that we've done so largely by drawing down capital stocks. Stored carbon, topsoil, aquifers, etc.

We can't know that those increased support numbers are proof of anything. They might be, but we'd only know in hindsight. And by then it's too late.
It's not malicious code. It's a correctly-executing smart contract. They have no basis to call this a theft or attack or anything.
Sure, I'm just wary of the term 'natural' when it comes to food. As far as I know it confers no benefit on the food item except making consumers feel good about it; i.e., as a descriptor it has little beyond marketing value.
In strict moderation and control, both of these can be used to treat various problems with our bodies without severe side effects. I wasn't arguing that it's necessarily healthy because it's natural.
OK, but unless that company is paying out a dividend, why would you invest in it?

Theoretically, a stock price reflects future earnings. If future earnings are constant, then the stock price doesn't move.

Why buy $1M in stock if you know 5 years from now it'll be worth $1M?
This is not a hosted service, but rather a reusable library, server, and command-line tool.

Backers can already download a prototype of the command-line tool. We don't advertise it, because it's a less common usage scenario.

libimageflow is a C-compatible library you can use from any language, so there's no limitation on usage scenarios.
Well that's not true. Saying it's natural suggests that we have atleast evolved with it in the environment, likely interacted with it at times and have developed biological means of interacting and dealing with it. If something is not natural (i.e. doesn't normally exist in nature), then we would not have developed a biological response to it yet, which means it frankly more dangerous because the body does not know how to deal with it.
This is sadly why my apartment complex and every apartment I've lived in in the Bay Area requires a bank transfer to pay rent.
That returns a wrong result on Windows paths, and throws an exception on the empty string.

There are a ton of edge cases in path manipulation code.
I updated my original comment to describe what I was talking about when saying "natural"
Do you culture your own parasites? How do you collect the eggs and culture them?
Almost every one as far as I know where based on the info-zip code by Mark Adler and Jean-loup Gailly. That was used as the base at the time for zip/unzip in linux, winzip, and gzip ultimately.
It's not misleading. Many of the donations are from top ranking Googlers like Eric Schmidt who directly interact with these politicians in a business sense. Many of these donors have stock-based compensation with Google.

Unsurprisingly, almost all pro-Google legislation is sponsored by the same Congresspeople who have received the largest donations from Googlers.

So OpenSecrets' format is specifically designed to reveal corruption that would not be obvious with mere donor names alone.
I'm not sure this is how women shop. Women don't buy dresses with the intention of re-selling it. They have more of an emotional connection to the style and how it makes them feel and they want their friends to look good in it too. There are niche markets where this isn't true like bridesmaids dresses, so maybe your model would work there. However vast majority of women probably view their dresses as collectors items.
I do share the values of The DAO, which is why I'm happy that things are being handled exactly how I would have wanted them to. I'm not sure where the confusion is arising from. I'm talking about next steps.

> I'm not sure why you're attacking me personally here.

Are you sure you're replying to the right person?
Zevia has a whole product line of stevia sweetened soft drinks.

In the Bay Area, they're available at Sprouts and probably Whole Foods as well.
I know HN hate anecdotal stories, but here goes anyways. 6 months ago, despite my regular exercise routine, I was about 20 pounds over my college weight and prediabetic. Instead of following my doctor’s recommendations and going on Metformin, I cut all nearly sugars out of my diet and replaced it with sucralose, fat, and fiber. Now, exactly 5 lbs sugar equivalent of sucralose later, and I’m back to my college weight.

While I hate the idea of artificial sweeteners, I hated the idea of a lifetime of medications and being overweight. Everyone's body is different, but for me they played a huge role in getting my health back.
Nice sites!

I've got a small plugin that I've been struggling to get traction with (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-content-calendar-lite/). Would be very interested to know what you've done to get users.
Your student loans could be paid via credit card without a surcharge? Or is it just that the surcharge was lower than the interest rate and you planned to pay it off in 18 months so it was worthwhile? That's an interesting strategy I haven't seen before.
Learning to code was very hard for me.
Here is my favorite explanation of the difficulties surrounding the journey.
https://www.vikingcodeschool.com/posts/why-learning-to-code-...
Because it also contains cane sugar.
But really how could a patent officer think such a thing is worthy of a patent?
Dividends are taxed at a higher rate than capital gains.

Once you look at the incentive structures that creates, the mania becomes disappointingly rational on the part of investors.
Please just be cautious not to fall into the trap of the 'vital principle'[1]. If you had a bottle of L-ascorbic acid ("vitamin C") in your right hand synthesized in a laboratory and a bottle of L-ascorbic acid in your left extracted from rose hips, you'd agree that except for making arguments about impurities (certainly as likely in the 'natural' extract) that the molecules are identical in every sense in both cases..?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism
Plenty of Fish is the canonical example (although I guess it isn't really SaaS per se).

For years he ran it by himself, eventually hired a couple people to help him out, and then sold it for $575M in cash, keeping about $500M for himself.
Potentially interesting article that gives up half-way through at the most interesting part to digress into an anti-anti-synthetic chemical rant. Not that I'm against that, but I was really intrigued to learn why a chemical that has the properties of being reactive isn't reactive. The article just says that your body doesn't break it down. What does digestion have to do with it? If a molecule is reactive, then its reactive and should potentially react within the digestive system. So why doesn't it? That's the interesting bit that I was hoping to have answered and what the article seemed to be leading to until it stopped.

In other words, imagine an article about cyanide that spent half of its time explaining all the parts of cyanide that could potentially react with organic chemistry, and then abruptly ended with "and your body absorbs it through the digestive system, so that's why it's bad." Unsatisfying, right?

Also, why does the molecule look like insecticide or flame retardant? That isn't explained either. Does the fact that it has hotspots make it look like that? Or is there something more about its structure.
To clarify this excellent comment: Corporations can donate to political campaigns and the organizations running them. What they can't do is donate directly to candidates running for office.
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In the same way you enforce anything else: common sense.

The other direction is the same. If your team doesn't share a "common sense", then someone will end up writing value[axis_x][axis_y][axis_z], because single-letter names are prohibited.
Yes, it tastes icky. Maybe just to me, though.
The accepted answer is often wrong (or obsolete) and grants a small number of points. The obsession with it on SO is a bit odd.
> This is hacker news

Which is why people don't understand basic human institutions and are surprised when they run into issues trying to re-invent from scratch
Very true, indeed. I gave up on latex and simplified markups and I even abandoned my own converter for this very reason. Today, I use Word because that's what people higher up expect to get.
It's kinda bad-ass when he said: you can use this text on Wikipedia, I'm the primary reference.
Huh? You use the JVM's JIT to compile LLVM IR? How does that work? Isn't it a bytecode compiler?
Another note on that, if you normally spend more than about 10% of your credit limit across your cards each month, get another card or get one of them to raise your limit. Debt utilization ratio higher than that can also drop your score. Sign up for CreditKarma and keep an eye on it to get the best rates and rewards.

Edit: another alternative is to manually pay your bill every other week to keep the utilization ratio down.
This was the same conventional thinking about people's comfort level sharing their apartments that let many investors pass on AirBNB.
Nice summary!

I think Ethereum is finished now.

The trust in it will disappear, or the money invested in it will disappear. Either way, the value goes to zero.

I was just getting interested in it.

I'm feeling both sad and relieved. Sad that it didn't succeed, relieved that I didn't sink any time or money into it.
> I don't think chemists have been thinking sucralose is toxic for a while now.

Sucralose is, without any doubt, the most extensively studied artificial food additive of all time. I'm reticent about consuming food with artificial additives and preservatives, but I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about ingesting sucralose. I have a huge bottle of liquid sucralose in my otherwise largely organic kitchen.
I love Apple Pay because it's just

1) double tap home before I even get the phone out of my pocket

2) instant beep when it touches the terminal

3) grab receipt

I've had people comment that it takes longer because it feels like it does, since grabbing your phone is quicker than grabbing your wallet and removing your card, then putting the card back in the wallet and putting your wallet back in your pocket. It takes about the same amount of time, but there's more time spent doing nothing since the time in motion is less.
No, as far as HN is concerned, this question is settled:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

... and endlessly relitigating it is off-topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

The answer is that paywalls with workarounds are ok because banning them would deprive HN of many significant, high-quality stories. The decision is that way not because we or anyone else likes it, but because it's the lesser evil.

Re endless relitigation being off-topic: Of the 45 comments currently in this thread, only 13 are actually about the story. That's insane.
Shouldn't it scare away customers that a company will only do business with them if they cannot be held in court for misdeeds regarding that business? I sadly understand that consumers don't read the fine print. But really, this clause should be treated as a dealbreaker.
I get your point, but as the above poster said, often the body's way of dealing with things is to suffer and/or die. So...how is having an existing way to "deal with it" terribly helpful?

(Not trolling, seeking honest clarification)
It concerns me when I see a company that solves an alleged problem that women have and NONE of the active founders are women.
Oh absolutely not

They taste extremely different

Which doesn't help because most places only serve Diet Coke (which I hate) instead of Coke Zero (which at least is available in most supermarkets)
> but you definitely don't want this public web facing.

That's what dynamic imaging is. Your server generates images as needed, at the right size, in the right format. Even Kickstarter does this, although they use an extremely expensive and proprietary SaaS to do it. Nearly all e-commerce and CMS providers offer this, as do many CDNs.

We're making it free.

> imagemagick is used because it is binary library used on the backend

We don't use imagemagick; we own the entire rendering stack, thus the performance.

> now if this was a dropin library

libimageflow is a drop-in library. It's the focus. Any FFI-capable language can use it. Basic bindings take 5-8 hours to develop.

> and command line compatible

imageflow-tool will expose libimageflow's full power via the JSON interface. (There is also a simpler thumbnailing/converting tool following unix design practices, a prototype of which you can access immediately).

> adoption would be 100%

That's the goal ;)
Coke Zero has a much better taste profile than diet coke IMO. That said it's a bit biased since I drink way too much coke zero.
False equivalence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

I see it all the time on the Internet:

- Atheists are "just as bad as" [insert religious group with millennia-old history of atrocities.] -- Just because they both try to convince you of something.

- Politician A is "just as corrupt as" Politician B. -- Nevermind that A just gave his cousin a job, while B gave away $500B in contracts to his sponsors.
You still didn't give any reason why something that is natural should be preferred over something that is synthetic or lab grown.

Honestly, other than fear of 'teh chemicals,' I can't think of a reason.
Can someone do one of these on monads too? Heh...
Man, I didn't know this would get so many responses, and I wished I could remember better from 30 years ago. So I apologize for the lack of detail (and I'm not a tax accountant anyway, so do not be taking this as advice or anything but an anecdote). But as I fuzzily recall, just put it in the "other income" box, deduct cost of goods, sorted.

One should also note that (as far as I can tell) the IRS does little more than a cursory glance at most returns to make sure the numbers add up, especially back then. Point being is that it's entirely possible one could have put "income from trafficking under-aged children into white slavery", deducted the cost of acquiring said children, and never gotten flagged because the numbers add up and it doesn't hit the "trying to weasel out of paying what's owed" flag in the computer. Dunno, I'm just relaying an anecdote with a lot of details left out, you sure as hell don't want to take this as tax advice.
The miners will vote whether to perform the bailout or not.
Do you also have any memories of paying to borrow ? :)
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Note, the publisher of this article, the ACSH, is considered "industry-friendly" and their medical director had his license revoked for fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Council_on_Science_an...
vim: /\<i\>/

Actually, if your cursor is on the variable "i", just pressing * or # will do the trick. I'm pretty sure other editors have similar functions.

If you really want double-letter names, :%s/\(\<[a-z]\>\)/\1\1/g would probably do the trick (well, except that every occurrence of "a" in a comment will become "aa": how to avoid it is left as exercise).
I only ever use a credit card, so I'm not sure that's true. Or can you debit a credit card?
If nothing else, I learned that you can write Python scripts for Blender. Neat.
But did he won the putnam ?
Discovering La Croix has changed my life. The Cherry Lemon one (which seems to only be available at Target?) is incredible.
> but I agree that it tastes icky.

You should consider getting some liquid sucralose. I agree that splenda is yucky, but that's largely because of the fillers that make the volume measurement manageable. Pure liquid sucralose, which is nothing but sucralose and water, tastes exactly like sugar to me. Seriously, put both in some lemonade and I'd never be able to tell the difference.
Coke Zero uses a combination of aspartame and ace-K. The two have a synergistic effect which results in lower amounts being used and less of the artificial sweetener taste.

Diet Coke (last time I checked) just uses aspartame.
There is a difference between "DF Alliance firms" and "firms nationwide". I'm not sure there is data on new partners for more than that sub-sect of diversity-focused firms and 121 firms is nothing. I'm in charge of running more firm websites than that...a supermajority of them male or male dominated.

>...there were 47,563 law firms serving the U.S. in the year 2000 according to the American Bar Foundation.

(Google result for "how many law firms are in the US")

Associates is the major exception.
Thanks for this! This was a huge shocker and I immediately had to go confirm it. Because of the way the branding is, I had assumed that Zero would have more caffeine.
I wasn't thinking of a video of an actual person, more of a visual representation of one. I remember a few of those older videos had people who always talked with masks on or something similar. Video is more compelling and easier to digest than mediums that only work via one sense at a time.
Call each of the CC companies and ask them if they can raise your limit.
Hi David, just curious - why did you not also bring a woman founder on board to replace Sara? This seems like a critical piece of DNA to have on your team for the problem you are solving, no?
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I would hope since they're outside, the lens cover would be durable. Otherwise a stone kicked up from a car would destroy it. But the paint being able to be washed away isn't really a problem if you're just trying to temporarily disrupt the camera's operations. If you destroyed it or permanently disabled it, they would probably very quickly replace it. But if you're about to do something you don't want the FBI to see, popping it with a paintball then later washing the lens cover would lend you a pretty reasonable amount of privacy.
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