skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're an HFT, you would much rather just pay for the order flow and not deal with all the shit that is retail (government, customers, all that shit). If you're some big retail firm, you're probably run by suits, way to beauracratic to run a difficult high-tech trading team, and any talent you got would get siphoned off to a good trading firm.
It doesn't seem to be on the retired list:

https://www.haagendazs.us/products/retired-flavors/
Agreed. I left HN after I realized how stupid the people here were and migrated to a troll account. It's amazing how abrasive the vocal group is. I ditched my real life identity (which I use everywhere else) just so I could feel a little freer in expressing my true opinion on this forum. +1 for downvotes. Oh wait, you can't. At least, not the average user... I think admins can, though, right?
Unfortunately, MobileSafari is making it harder and harder to actually save the image. If you gently press and hold, it'll give you the option to Save to Camera Roll. But with the advent of force touch, pressing too hard means that you'll end up navigating to a page with the image on it, losing your original page's state in the process.

It is possible to catch the force touch event, but as far as I can tell it overrides the regular touch event so all you can do is prevent the event and print "you pressed too hard, please release and try again, gently".
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Broken record, one day someone will be right and then they'll be hailed as a prophecy like peter schiff predicting the house market crash... he still banging on about gold despite 9 years of it being flat. And proclaims Bitcoin bad! even though bitcoin has gone from nothing to $20,000 in that time.
> isn't your primary phone

I'm sure this seems like the only conclusion, if your concept of human being is "those weird animals that spend 100% of their time glued to one or another smartphone". My primary phone is a Nokia 106, and life without Uber, maps, and Spotify on my phone is actually just fine (though I would probably have a smartphone if that was the extent of the deal). It stands by for the better part of a month, and gives me about a day and a half of periodic battery warnings until I think it's time to plug it in.

I don't see any reason why, with today's radio/application chipsets, battery technology, display technology, and sensors, we can't have a reasonably-sized (think iPhone 4S but 5C thick) good quality smartphone which holds a charge for more than just a couple days and can run WhatsApp.
These are still around. You just have to shop for them a bit.

https://www.amazon.com/Mary-Janes-Old-Fashioned-Candy/dp/B01...
Rotten meat and bottled formaldehyde: fighting for food safety
Not parent, but in every successful project I have been part of, the technical challenges were always a small slice (perhaps less than a quarter) of the main effort. Getting organizational approval (which usually boils down to acquiring buy-in from management) and picking the path to progress (with occasional course-correction) are the main contributors to success.

This isn't to discount the hard work involved in completing the technical tasks, but commiting _to_ begin something along a certain development vector is, indeed, the hard part.
Article on this: https://www.businessinsider.com/who-paid-99-cents-website-th...

You have to pay another 99 cents if you want an update after you've seen it once haha
Atomic bombs through wars hot and cold
Zebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE

Lots of great tangents that add to the subjects.
I love talks like this.
Grooveshark had a better interface for managing "currently playing" than anything I've used before or since. Most apps don't even track what's currently playing in an intelligent fashion.

Similarly, rockbox was really great mp3 player firmware, when I used to use one of those. It had a funny feature I've never seen elsewhere: multi-lingual article-ignoring sort. I had German band "Die Prinzen" on that mp3 player, and that sorted under P, just like all it sorted the Beatles under B.
Sad news. https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/159/5/454/92133

A vegan diet "could" have saved him. This is 2004 article on American Journal of Epidemiology though study is on women, effect of a Whole Food plant based diet on cancer si well know, (Dr. Michael Greger)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18220722 and marked it off-topic.
maybe having a common understanding for a more rigid lifestyle makes one thankful and content with what they have and wake up to every day - maybe, just maybe that has something to do with it.

there is a correlation there I believe, but only as a thin line - having less can break a human though for the worse.
Ahhh, the memories of spending after-school hours buying and selling silos for extra money (there was some thinko in the game logic - full silo was sold for more money than it cost to build, or something like that) in their first C&C game to build a massive army and crush the AI opponent. :)
The downside of setting a limit order is that you only get executed when the market moves against you, OR just don't get filled.

For retail order sizes and holding periods, that's probably fine as long as you place orders close to the current price.
I am really really curious to pay 99 cents, if there was a way to pay without giving my credit card information.

Who paid 99 cents 2.0 supports paypal or something.
> China is creepy

Nationalistic slights will get you banned here. Please don't do this again.

Edit: looks like we had to warn you about this once before.
His whole point is that the survey doesn't provide any context on the advances. Thus it's impossible to tell what fraction of those advances were actually abhorent.
View source tells me this uses Stripe. Stripe charges 2.9% + 30c, which leaves the owner with 66c, basically just 2/3rds. Pretty heavy.
I love the idea of Superhuman but haven't been able to get an invite. Do you happen to have one (email in profile)?
Yes, this restriction applies only to public CAs. The purpose is to prevent someone from getting, for example, a 192.168.1.1 cert and then using it on another network in a mitm attack.
The author(s) of the site could be sneaky and remove those who pay 99 cents multiple times, because they now have paid a sum that is different from 99 cents.
They did so with an incredible lack of respect for their customers.
> In Seattle, it was hard to not run into the influence of Paul Allen. From the Seattle Seahawks to the Museum of Popular Culture (MoPoP), Paul Allen had an impact everywhere in Seattle.

The whole South Lake Union urban office park that Amazon now dominates was Paul Allen's work also. (see https://www.seattletimes.com/business/timeline-of-paul-allen...)
Yes, but he said this is a "response" to that, which doesn't really make any sense because CMU's ML dept has been around for a while.
Harvard wants to pick the best students. If they do not select the best student they will lose their prestige/position over time. They seem to have a strong incentive. -my 2 cents
Old school Radio Shack.
No, that game was under development long before the AMA.
I aspire to be great like you some day
I think it’s more a reaction to the con artists that infested the whole industry than the technology itself.
Note that this contract is not a law: i would be surprised if it stood in court. According to it, if I feel sick and terminate my flight at the stopover, of if I learn of a business emergency and I have to go back, I am still in breach of this ridiculous contract?

And what makes it most ridiculous is this: "Any practice that United believes, in its sole discretion, is exploitative, abusive or that manipulates/bypasses/overrides United’s fare and ticket rules."

Can they ban me from United- yes. Can they try to collect money and threaten me with a credit dent? They can, until they ran into a lawyer or into a motivated person with time and resources on their hands.
>Winamp on the other hand, I can't name a single application that does what it does better today.

I'm talking UI, not functionality. Functionality wise - I am just as in love with the old WinAmp. And regarding UI, it was awesome that people could re-skin it!

>Also, barely any media player today looks native either.

Of course, but some do a better job than others I think. I think VLC appears more native anyway (it uses native menus and dialogue for menus).
If you pay me 50¢, I'll tell you who paid 99¢!
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Per transaction fees in finance really suck. I struggle a little to understand why more merchants don't get rid of them.. as it still encourages cash for smaller transactions at shops.

Really confuses me. I guess they are smarter than me.
Is the Model 3 just a cheaper Model S by the same argument?

(It's a genuine question. Yes, the Mustang was based in part on the prior Falcon platform. Wouldn't Tesla sensibly base the 3 in part on the S in the same way Ford continued to sell the Falcon alongside the Mustang? If Tesla is sharing literally nothing across models, that seems like a non-sensical way to run a car company to me.)
I don't want to be anti-blockchain, but I have yet to come across any problems that are solved better with a blockchain than with any other traditional technology - except for the original one, a distributed electronic currency.
66% of free money is still pretty awesome
Creature House's "Expression". It was a natural-media vector art program, with amazingly snappy performance on early-2000 era machines. They got eaten by Microsoft right around the time I stopped being a broke college student and could actually buy a copy, so I ended up learning Illustrator inside out instead.

I still miss its "freeze layer" feature. Got a complex vector layer? Freeze it: the program would cache a bitmap copy of the whole layer with whatever complex transparency you had, lock the layer for editing, and use that cached image for the preview render as you worked.
Very Sad. Paul Allen, you will be missed.
Unless something has changed to make this discussion interesting, we're really just recapitulating a decade's worth of ORM debates people can just look up in the search bar below.
The lisp circle jerk is a little too much sometimes.
I moved to Duplicacy with paid Google Drive backing store. Very very happy. Unlimited storage with Linux client, and doesn't have the horrible resource consumption of Crashplan.

(I paid for Crashplan SB for a while but dropped it when it was unable to restore my data. Test your restores!)
You can try https://privacy.com/
Rockbox's latest release was in May 2017 with a ton of changes and features added and the last change in their git repo was from today (Oct 15) with additional commits over the past few weeks, so not totally dead. However since music players as a whole are practically out, I don't know how much good that'll do you.

If you don't mind me asking, I'd be curious about your setup, I'm considering installing it on an old Sandisk e200 I have around.
>Does anyone here know the legality of selling an Instagram handle that is also the name of a company?

My guess would be it would depend on what the original use was. If you had a brand in a different sector and offered it I’m sure they could complain but they likely wouldn’t win. (see nissan.com)
Irix and SGI computers 90s era design in general.
It boggles my mind we've been suffering with virtual keyboards for over a decade now. Surely someone will remove this pain? Anyone? Hello?
Russian Orthodox Church cuts all links with Constantinople
Just to be clear this is spam from gmail to a non-gmail account? What kind of numbers are we talking? A few a day, tens, hundreds?

I receive about 1-3 spam at most in my old, well published, gmail account. And it's never in any of the sorted columns besides maybe "Promotion", which I rarely check.
Should use lightning network for payments. No scammy credit card network fees.
> you're willing to live with a certain degree of inconsistency in your data, that's what NoSQL is for

What is this even supposed to mean? Are you suggesting that ActiveRecord, a way to model the data in your database and layer behavior ontop, gives you as inconsistent data as "NoSQL"?

That may be the weirdest thing I've heard on HN.

> the difficult things impossible unless you just give up

Like what?

After reading the rest of your post I just think it's that you haven't used Rails since 2006.
Napster, Gnutella, etc... There are a lot of modern improvements such as much faster internet, much more storage, etc... Bittorrent doesn't quite achieve the easy discoverability of new content. I think it is time for a new piracy paradigm.
This American Life did a great podcast entitled “Words You Can’t Say” earlier this year; might be good primer for you (it’s also available on iTunes):

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/637/words-you-cant-say
So $100M Profit per year? $2B is only 20PE, sounds fair to me, in todays stock market where many are trading at 30 - 40+.
It's also really easy to screw over the merchant. Report the transaction as fraudulent, and they're out $20-30 over a dispute that's impossible to win.
Switching back to Gmail feels like going back to stone age. Inbox ui is so much cleaner.
I bought a Pebble Time Round just before Pebble went under. I honestly think it's the best smartwatch made yet. Nothing matches it in terms of aesthetics and functionality for me.
You don't need to do a giant grep. You could put all links in a database, which contains pointers to where the links are used. Then if you want to delete a link, you can delete all those places.

This seems equal or less effort than making a url shortener.
Exactly. The highest paid tech workers are certainly in sales, from an outlier perspective, when you include commissions on those million-dollar deals. The fact that the text "sale" does not even appear in the article makes the whole analysis suspect.
I’ve been told the answer is interchange fees: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee
Yay, another thing that people actually own being commoditized into a rental model...
Except we're talking about the tree's effect on the climate. A billion stoma is a billion stoma, regardless of how many shrews live in the forest.

I totally agree with you that it's not the best way of reforesting... but baby steps. At least we have more trees now.
I don't have any opposition to it, other than that I think African Americans are uniquely situated because of the history.
Zepto Wins 2018 Great User Experience and Rising Star Awards from FinancesOnline
I am aware you feel these comments are abusive. But you are acting so cartoonishly evil in this instance – banning a 12-year member of HN for 3 months solely for asking why he was rate limited – that someone needs to stand up to you.

It’s true that I demanded an answer from you. But that was because your original decision to issue a rate limit was an overreaction. My comments in that thread were not significantly different from the various other discussions that people have on a daily basis about social issues.

You feel that it’s abusive to highlight this decision and continue to call attention to it. I feel it’s the only recourse left. I have tried for a very, very long time to come to some kind of understanding with you.

But the reason I’m doing this isn’t personal. It’s because I care about this community and am afraid of what you’re forcing it to become. From the recent “What do you hate about HN?” thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18184914):

I’ve been here for awhile (just about eight years), and the single biggest change I’ve noticed is the increasing presence of what I’ll call a “bourgeois tech monoculture.” This place used to be weirder, with more obscure links and discussions filled with academics and hackers. If you search the older archives, there are some really incredible conversations. Now it mostly seems to be nytimes articles commented on by upper-middle class engineers.

Here’s another: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18185456

I miss Michael O. Church. Not that I always agreed with him, but he was really interesting, and his comments consistently made me think about my own biases and opinions in ways few others ever have.

I noticed when you referred pejoratively to yummyfajitas as “Socrates”. I didn’t know him, but I respected his writing. And he didn’t leave until you personally made him feel unwelcome. In fact, he left immediately after: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=yummyfajitas

You’ve become what pg calls a suit: image over substance; authority over reason.

But your actions go far deeper than most people know, or understand. People still do not understand that you personally flag (and therefore instantly kill) many comments per day. They believe users do this, not you acting alone. And anyone who dares disagree with you is silenced, one way or another.

I don’t know if you’ve been hunting trolls for so long that all you see are trolls, everywhere you look. All I know is that people are starting to notice.

Most attempts to stand up to authority fail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_peasant_revolts#Chrono...

I regret that mine might too. But my personal desire to participate in the site is overruled by the greater desire to see this community protected from your purge of unpopular opinion.

If you truly believe this is abusive, we’ll have to agree to disagree. History’s judgement will last longer than yours.
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Non-Paywall: http://archive.is/YPSte
And Chrome: https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/modernizing-transpor...

And Edge: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2018/10/15/modernizing-t...

Seems like this was coordinated.
Why did we ever change? New hip management terms?
Video game arcades. They were amazing during their heyday, but I was also young. I want both of those things back!
On the other hand, stripe is the only party providing any actual service here, so only taking 1/3 of the money is pretty good.
In this hypothetical, McDonald’s does not care what you do with the fries they sold you. Even if you told them that you were just going to throw them in the garbage, they’d still sell you the combo at the cheaper price.

United, however, does care how you use the ticket they issue. How can you tell? Because they would not have sold you the ticket at the discounted price had you told them your true intent (to fly to a city other than your ticketed destination). They offered you a particular fare because they relied on what you claimed. That’s the difference.

The key to analyzing these questions is, what would the other person have done had they known your true intent? If they’d have done something different, then reliance can be shown and that element can be satisfied.
If someone spends millions to lobby for tighter aviation safety rules, but owns a Cessna, does that make them a hypocrite in your eyes?
I was trying to implement my own note-taking program. While I understand how a Word doc is roughly XML formatted like
<boldtext>some bold text</boldtext>

What I don't understand is how are multiple layers implemented in OneNote? How can one add SVG based drawings/annotations on typed text and move those annotations around. How is this encoded in the format, which seems pretty complex just thinking about it initially at least. My thinking was that if I could see a onenote parser, I could play around with a one-note document to see how it works? If that's not possible, I was wondering if there is any other open source format in which we annotate typed texts with hand drawing like in OneNote and how is that handled?
Macromedia Director. Probably an unpopular opinion but I loved it.
> You can report at any time, even years after the incident took place. The report will remain confidential.

Kudos to YC for really making this a better environment for everyone.
As expected as there's no federal law against owning a fully-operable tank or fighter jet. Well the tank howitzer may need to be registered as a destructive device with $200 tax stamp in accordance with the National Firearms Act due to the bore width.

It's also legal to equip them with machine guns, as long as the gun's transferable under the Hughes Amendment. An M2 Browning would set one back $20K or so.[1] But a guy like Paul Allen could splurge and get a GE M134 chain gun for $500K.[2]

One could also equip them with explosive ordnance as long as each piece of ordnance is registered as a destructive device (along with $200 tax stamp).

These are minor obstacles to the wealthy. Gun control is for the poor.

[1]: https://www.morphyauctions.com/jamesdjulia/item/lot-1009-m2-...

[2]: https://imgur.com/gallery/2u9YI
I wonder if part of the effect can be explained by the improved aerodynamics of cars. I used to drive a 1966 FJ40 Landcruiser about 10 years ago and remember having to clean bugs off the car. I don't have as much to compare it to as you since I've only been driving since 1996, but I didn't notice any major difference in that time period.
No, don't think like that. Concurrency is becoming more important, that's just the new reality on the other side of Moore's Law. Concurrency doesn't just happen. Someone has to design the AWS Lambda concurrency model and build the system to scale even if it's not you. And unless the system's design is improving over time and approaching optimal, eventually no one's going to use it because it will cost more than it should so people will move on toward the optimal one. And just like we have multi-layer caching models, distributed means we now have multi-layer concurrency models. Message passing Actors might be optimal between nodes, but within nodes matrix-multiply tensor models running on GPU/TPU accelerators is where optimal's at. And unless you understand it, you won't even be on the map.
+1 for postmark. Had deliverability issues with mailgun which were resolved once switching.
Psion[0] - in particular the Series 3c[1]

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/26/psion_special/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3
Interviewee? That's a quote from Google Director of Engineering Ray Kurzweil - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
> I struggle a little to understand why more merchants don't get rid of them...

Why is this a struggle? The reason is obvious. Most individual merchants have little, if any, bargaining power. Once you get big enough, you can negotiate lower rates, but you will almost always pay a percentage per transaction. Encouraging cash isn't necessarily a good thing.

Some customers (like me) like the convenience of paying with a card. If a merchant doesn't accept credit cards, I probably won't make a purchase since I rarely carry cash.
Mr. throwaway sounds a lot like a certain well known computer scientist who's into quantum computing theory.

But that's coming from someone who is totally oblivious to whether the post is technically correct.
I'm very young (21) so no need for a studio. My current rent is $900 including everything. I'm extremely conscious of what I eat to a paranoia level so I never eat out (except when I go out on a date with a girl or a close friends) so I cook home (I have a Trader Joe's literally next to my house) and my monthly food expense is $200. With various other stuff (gym, phone, entertainment, Uber etc...) I spend less than $1500 a month. I bike, so no transportation expense. My take home is ~$6000 a month. That lets me save around $4000/$4500 a month and $3000 on "bad" months (need to buy stuff, furniture etc...). I live comfortable enough that I don't know what I would do if I spent more than $1500 a month. I spend 90% of my free time in gym anyway :-)