skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point, it's not the exact same. But their new offering is much closer to what their competitors are offering, so I'd say it's still a move to try to better compete with the free offerings from other companies.
Fred Brooks (author of The Mythical Man Month -- highly recommended -- and the director of IBM's System/360 project) said, "Build one you're going to throw away because you're going to throw it away anyway."
Another Lazarus comes back from the dead.
Ironic that a site about GDPR compliance has 6 potential trackers according to Privacy Badger.
Yes...but it still lacks basic automation beyond Volume...is stuck to one BPM through the track and one time signature...even on an iPad Pro there's still only a 3-channel EQ...we don't have notation mode (which would be perfect for the Apple Pencil in Portrait!)...we don't have a sample/waveform editor or flex time/pitch...it's barely usable for me as a sketchpad, although it has improved drastically.
It would appear that sometimes even paying for the service doesn’t mean you won’t end up as the product anyway.

How can one avoid this kind of aggregated location tracking?
In-building daycare is a pretty amazing perk.

There are a handful of companies in downtown where I live that offer this. You pay slightly above market rate for daycare, but it is incredibly convenient to travel with your child to your place of work, pop in to the 8th floor to drop them off, and be on site in case anything comes up.

The office subsidizes the square footage in the building for the day care, but the actual cost of daycare is offset by the rates they charge (and believe me, parents are willing to pay for the convenience)... actually the company makes a very small profit on the daycare, which incentivizes the company to keep it.

The other advantage of having in-office daycare is that employees cannot get this perk anywhere else, and are extremely unlikely to job-hop and lose this perk. Once you have in-office day care, it's like health insurance - you are unlikely to want to lose it.
I don’t buy it - gold has a natural floor, for one thing. I can sell it to make pretty earrings or fancy computer cables. The risk of it losing all its value is basically the risk that we will move to a post-scarcity Star Trek style society with matter replicators. Crypto.. not so much.
Steve Jobs's Biggest Weakness Just Cost Apple Investors $400B
If you'd invested in Amazon in 1999, you'd have lost 80% over the next year. It stayed flat until about 2008.

It's difficult to decompose a stock price, but I think Amazon gets most of its from AWS.
From what i know, top technical people who have cutting edge knowledge and skill set still get paid a lot (sometimes even more than their management counter parts). It really is a supply and demand problem for high skill set. The way i see it, the top 15% of developers (or any technical person) for that matter never have problems making money or getting jobs, but there is a large "middling ground" of developers who all think they belong to the top 15 % that fight over jobs, and think the reason they are getting screwed is because the world is unfair, when in reality, they are not as good as they think.
A parallelizable layout engine should make it a lot easier to get the kind of framerate needed for vr. Mozilla have used this as a test-case for Servo. I’ve previously criticized them for it as an extreme niche market and a diversion from mainstream use cases, but happy to swallow my words if it goes well.
> How do you sell first?

In a podcast [1] a mattress company tells a story about how they got started: they just built a one-page site where you could buy a mattress, but the company didn't actually exist: after a certain point it failed and you couldn't buy it.

They publicized the site and soon enough they found that someone had clicked to buy a mattress: a potential customer.

So they effectively "sold" before building. Since the test was good and they found that people were willing to buy mattresses with the features they offered, they then built the company (and are now successful).

[1] https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/061-jt-marino-of-tuft-&...
I desperately want Europe to replace most services I'm using, because I prefer their regulatory environment. Primary examples would be gmail and google (I'm using qwant and it doesn't compare, but I use it before I switch to google). I do not use facebook anymore, and although I have a twitter account I do not use it.

Based on my daughters phone usage, I don't think that facebook is the thing anyways. It's all private chat rooms with her friends, which seems like a much healthier online interaction than what FB is. I just want to see that kind of thing primarily incubated and hosted in the European regulatory environment, because I don't trust the U.S. one where I live.
Is this a computer generated sentence?
Evolution and Death

"The most important component of evolution is death. Or, said another way, it’s easier to create a new organism than to change an existing one. Most organisms are highly resistant to change, but when they die it becomes possible for new and improved organisms to take their place.

This rule applies to social structures such as corporations as well as biological organisms: very few companies are capable of making significant changes in their culture or business model, so it is good for companies eventually to go out of business, thereby opening space for better companies in the future."

— John Ousterhout, Stanford professor
Olympique Lyonnais vs. Strasbourg match en direct
http://cushy.com/explore/sites/default/files/webform/3-np.html

http://cushy.com/explore/sites/default/files/webform/l-3k.html

http://cushy.com/explore/sites/default/files/webform/l-fp.html

http://cushy.com/explore/sites/default/files/webform/l-np.html

http://cushy.com/explore/sites/default/files/webform/sta-vs-lyo.html

http://cushy.com/explore/sites/default/files/webform/st-vs-ly.html
Do vegan/vegetarians really want something that reminds them of meat products?

Eh? I'm MidWest American, I was raised eating meat. It grew in our backyard. I know what bacon tastes like, I know what a burger tastes like: it tastes good. But for a whole list of reasons, I don't eat meat anymore. I would very much like to be reminded of a fat, juicy patty of ground animal muscle.
> Right now the EU, despite being a single market in many respects is far from being a true digital single market

I think this is less about regulations and more about language. Most people in the EU simply don't speak english so you would have to have your marketing and sales in 20 languages which is simply not doable. A french startup just can't cold call a romanian company because they can not communicate. Yes, it gets better with each new generation but it will be decades before this is "solved".
Preliminary US Emissions Estimates for 2018
Have you formed some viable companies after 900 hours?
Even if we did it that way, Apple still comes out ahead.

Also, that 86% is basically from Google Search ads and YouTube. YouTube's quarterly revenue is estimated to be just under $4 billion. That puts Google Search ads at around 72%, which is still higher than the iPhone's 59%.

The notion that Alphabet's "other" projects succeeded while Apple's languished is completely baseless.
HN user xigency is right, Amazon has always been light years faster than Sears.

Personal anecdote:

My mother, back in the late-nineties came to me one day and told me how she had figured out how to get stuff from the jcpenny and sears "even faster". Because she could just search Amazon, "and they actually deliver it to me by the end of the week!"

"I bet you thought they only sold books right? It's something new they have!" yada yada yada blah blah blah. She was pretty proud of herself to be telling me about the new stuff on the web, but I digress. Point is, she was like a kid in a brand new candy store. Only a candy store that sold toys and video games too, and opened up across the street from the kid's house.
Jellyfish Genome Hints That Complexity Isn’t Genetically Complex
Yes. HTML + DOM + CSS + JS was not created to write interactive applications, and it still shows. Most of the inconvenience can now be worked around with frameworks, but a large performance penalty remains. And Moore's Law is over.
There are so many hyper-processed vegan items available marketed as "Milks", "Cheeses","Burgers" and "Sausages" etc. It's a huge business.

As someone mentioned above, food is a part of your culture. And there are many aspects of people's food cultures that they'd prefer not to get rid of. Someone may hate animals dying, but love the social gathering of a back yard party with burgers on the grill. These people may want to replicate this experience with a bean burger. Someone else has fond memories of their grandma's spaghetti and meatballs, and needs to figure out some way to replicate it.
Out of all other comments in this thread, my file structure matches yours most, except company. My Dropbox is about 30gb, it has Apps for all webapps saving data to Dropbox from IFTTT, android, etc. Documents has all documents with subfolders like 01 Education, 02 Work, 03 Passport, 04 Indian etc. Then Photos, etc.
And you can usually get a second card « for someone else that lives in the same household ».

You can also tag along with someone else that has a membership if they’re willing to offer you their time.
I thought Sears went out of business like 5+ years ago
Is KDE the Future of Linux and Mobile Phones?
That json glue is quite ofputting tbh. I did try it, but failed building it on macos.
ByteDance is more Innovative than Facebook
Hot dogs, horseshoes, and hand grenades (essentially a shooting range simulator with almost 300 accurately modeled firearms and plenty of game modes with more content added pretty much weekly)

Beat Saber is a VR rhythm game, and I adore rhythm games

Multiple driving/racing sims, including assetto corsa, project cars, and Euro Truck simulator (though I struggle to play that one in VR)

VTOL VR is an incredible near future Flight and military simulation seemingly focusing on weapons handling

I have over 30 VR applications, and at least 10 I would consider full fledged "games", but those are what I spend most of my time in
The US lacks labor laws which means hiring people is a low risk activity since you can easily fire them. You can also work them for 60 hours a week and 52 weeks a year. The labor laws that do exist, for example in California, are about workers being able to switch companies versus them not losing their jobs.

That means you can quit your job, start a startup, hire people, shut down the startup and then find another job with ease. When you need to give two months notice to just leave a job that whole process slows down significantly.
Object Pascal is a nice language and it's terse (it's surface is quite small).

In a lot of ways it feels like a forerunner of C# (unsurprising as the lead on Turbo Pascal/Object Pascal was Anders Hejlsberg).

I loved Delphi 6, still miss it in some ways.
Really? Blaming a man that died 8 years ago?

More like, market research is much more important if you are not a visionary...
JSON and Javascript data objects are essentially directly interchangeable.

In Java, you have to abstract the document and write a lot of code to access, add, remove things etc. - or - because there is no such thing as an untyped POJO in java, you have to set up a ton of things if you want to use real objects.
The bank account is in his name and the payment gateway is attached to it. It is clearly visible how much money is coming and to whom.
IMO the texture of the 2.0 Impossible burger is spot on. And the flavors are improved too. I would say its a huge improvement. Plus this one is grill-able. It honestly hits all of the targets for what I want in a burger. Super impressed.
Yes, but I think it takes a while to switch a company's atmosphere, and they also have or had a ton of defined benefit pension liabilities on the books that other retailers didn't.

Sears catered to the giant American middle class, and while I'm sure that mismanagement was a huge part of its demise, I also think the declining spending power of the American middle class also contributed.
I wonder what's going to happen to the Guam Kmart? It's insane how busy it is.
Where's the startup that is solving the pile of Amazon boxes in my backyard that I am too lazy to breakdown?
> There really isn't a reason I can think of that I shouldn't be able to throw together a GUI in a WYSIWYG editor and maybe define some basic behavior, then give it one or more programs it should run in the background and pass messages back and forth. Or even let me just tie events to a command pipeline and dump the result into another widget, basically just letting a GUI be part of the composable toolset following the UNIX philosophy.

Sure, you can do that, but you need a protocol/interface/API between the GUI and the program(s) it interacts with, and then you need to either manually consume that in the language those programs are in or have a library that handles the interaction, and the problem ends up being essentially equivalent to language bindings directly to the API.
I’ve set up a DID that leads directly to a voicemail box that emails me the recording.

It’s worth the $1/month expense to have a number to hand out to people I don’t want to be available to.

And, in a way, it keeps me available when I’m overseas and don’t have my usual SIM card installed.

I use VoIP.ms
typo: "Thompson re-wrote a filesystem emulation he had been experementing with" should be experimenting
https://outline.com/7WuvGD
The FRRouting protocol suite: a descendent of Zebra and Quagga
Especially if it was an odd size. The downside to built-in microwaves is that it took many years for the industry to decide on what sizes they would support, so older installs are always a crapshoot. If you have a weird one it can be hell finding an appropriate microwave. My parents had a very old microwave (1980s era) built into their house that was much bigger than almost everything on the market today, finding a replacement for it was impossible, they ended up having to buy a smaller one and making a custom shim to fit it in the old cavity.
Not to be snarky, but there needs to be a name for selective amnesia when an idea that seems obvious in retrospect is ignored later on.

In this case, the thing that made Amazon so great, before Prime existed, was that it had the "Things you might also like" section.

AFAIK it was one of the first online stores that used machine learning to recommend new and related items you didn't realize you wanted and to have user ratings for each item.

It was especially powerful for books/movies/music just due to the sheer volume of different titles that makes it hard to find new content you might like.

There are a lot of retailers that had the logistics and infrastructure for online sales, but the kind of marketing that Amazon did for up-selling was wholly new and something that could only be done online. So even if Sears could do it, it wasn't obvious back then to anyone that they should do it or how to do it.

Even now, the Walmart and Target web stores recommendations are just ok compared to Amazon. Even eBay seems less comprehensive in its recommendations.
No, not particularly.
Sure, but people can and do buy these things online as well, and some of these are well-suited for a hybrid approach. With clothes, for example, once I find my preferred SKU of trousers or shoes or whatever, I will just buy replacements online rather than return to the store where I bought my first pair, because they're a mass-produced product.
Ask HN: Anybody ever heard of Puck magazine?
Most of the time what I do is go to outline.com. Paste the link into the box and read the article just fine.
For EU folks: anyone tried a GDPR request to their phone provider to figure out what do they collect and what do they store? I'm thinking any of the following are within the realm of possibilities:

- Call history, including metadata and potentially also contents;
- Text messages, same as with calls: metadata and potentially the contents;
- Location history;
- Data connection activity, again: metadata and potentially the contents;
- IMEIs of the devices I used.

Basically I want http://myactivity.google.com/, but for my mobile subscription.

I submitted a GDPR request to my GSM provider a few days ago, but I'm not fluent in legalese, so may not reach as far as someone fluent in it. Still awaiting initial response.
The title doesn’t assert that this necessarily exists worldwide.

edit: I mention this downstream, but it's worth correcting myself. The article prominently features a company named Zumigo, which provides mobile device location data in India as well as North America. So adding "in the U.S." to the (already altered) post title is not needed, especially since it could obfuscate the fact that these location companies do operate internationally.

[0] https://zumigo.com/zumigo-introduces-breakthrough-mobile-loc...
Costco makes ~75% of their profit from memberships, gas is like their iconic $5 rotisserie chicken - sell it at cost or a small loss as a incentive to buy and maintain membership. Gas prices are posted outside so it's a particularity public ad for costco membership and as such they have a strong incentive to push the price as low as feasible.
I a nutshell, his playbook was:

1/ buy tonnes of stock at a discount via his "arms length" hedge fund

2/ as CEO take the billions of cash that Sears was flush with at the time and authorize share repurchases (almost 6 billion over 5 years, at premiums up to $170/share)

3/ defer any reinvestment in existing assets (stores, people, innovation)

4/ liquidate assets of value (i.e. brands)

5/ blame outside forces like markets, competition and (hilarious if it wasn't so sad) the media

here's a quote from 2007:

"we will not spend money on capital expenditures to build new stores or upgrade our existing base simply because our competitors do. If share repurchases or acquisitions appear to be more productive, then we will allocate capital to those options appropriately."

He put his own unsecured financing (equity) at the front of the line ahead of traditional obligations (i.e. running the business) and liabilities (like say, pension obligations) by making share purchases a priority. At the time & market conditions this was an obvious self-serving move.

His performance has been described as "the most protracted liquidation in history" - we're just now observing the conclusion.
On Aug 5, 1891 Puck magazine published a cover related to privacy.

Does anyone at HN know where I can get a copy of this magazine? I'm willing to pay. The title is linked to the picture of the cover.
My guess is that he's taking issue with this argument that I'm not quite sure was made:

"The market is flooded with people who cannot code, therefore it's easy to find a job as a junior engineer"

The market could in fact be flooded with people who cannot code (I don't know for sure). Assuming that's true, that doesn't necessarily mean it's easy to get a job as a junior dev (speaking from someone on the interviewing side).
"I started Adblock Radio in the end of 2015, a few months after completing my PhD studies in fusion plasma physics."

Now I feel sad.
The Open University is https://www.open.ac.uk The .edu TLD is generally for US institutions.
google monetizes your data (targeting), but doesn't sell it to others.
It's perfectly good sentence (or 3, rather) once you insert the missing punctuation; a full stop before each of the capitalized words (except the first.)
Tesla's Life After Hell: 7 Charts Show Musk on Firmer Footing
Ok: play something people want to hear.
Why does this floor influence your choice to purchase it over some other commodity to store value (crypto or otherwise?) What do you think that floor even is? (My working assumption right now is gold could lose 99.9% of its value if it was priced based upon it's utility as a metal and not as a culturally agreed upon store of capital.)
If you're hiring #1s to build SPAs, when all you need is some static pages, you'd also be lighting money on fire.
Bus factor - fair enough. Lack of tests - have you counted them? [1]

2/3 of issues you showed are purely formatting concerns, so I'm not sure what needs to be tested there. "test.written" refers to test being written in a testing framework, "status.tested" means that the described bug was tested in multiple development environments and confirmed. So your remark is slightly off the base.

Small number of dedicated contributors: historically, Rebol (the ancestor of Red) was developed by Rebol Tech company in a closed manner. So, IMO there developed a particular community mindset, where everyone just lets the Boss do the job and watches the action from the tribunes.

Another reason, like I said elsewhere, is the fact that Rebol never became mainstream, hence there isn't much contributors ready to provide the code of acceptable quality.

Lack of comments and such: in the early days, Red planned to be minimal and bootstrapped early, so the whole codebase was written in a throw-away fashion, with no comments or afterthoughts. As the project growed and roadmap changed its curves, community started raising demands (macOS View backend, new datatypes, supporting other platforms, the list goes on), so the "quick bootsrap" plan was ditched, but the code remained. This is a stumble block for other contributors, which, alas, will be moved away only after 1.0 is reached.

"Simplicity and fun" is completely off the point though, but I get what you say, even with a snarky tone. "Simplicity" here refers to the use of embedded DSLs, in which it is generally easy to express ideas suitable for a particular domain, and to "self-contained small toolchain" goal of the project. So, expressing ideas and developing them is rather simple, once you got the hang of the language.

Reading Red code requires a prior knowledge of function's arity and evaluation rules; ambitious projects require knowledge of multiple dialects and thorough understanding of core concepts; dynamic pieces (i.e. metaprogramming) can be challenging, unless you're coming from Lisp or Forth camp.

Runtime is written in Red/System dialect, which requires C-level skills to write. Red and Red/System share the same syntax, but require a huge mental leap to switch the context (Lisp vs. C dichotomy) - another 2 cents to your "lack of contributors".

I'm not a fan of "Red is simple and for everyone" sales pitch either - it's misleading at best, sets the wrong expectations and usually comes from people who barely clocked 1 hour in REPL tinkering with available View examples.

Hope that answers your concerns, more or less. If you want to alleviate them more quickly - drop by our community chat and start contributing piece by piece ;) Cheers.

[1]: https://github.com/red/red/tree/master/tests
A lot of hawker centers in Singapore have vegetarian stall which makes meat dishes with "mock meat" products, usually some sort of soy based thing.
> You can build a medical product that has a higher sensitivity and/or specificity than the other products on the market without regulatory oversight. But the Edison had neither of those and they were pretending it did. That was the problem.

Insert "faster" or "cheaper" as well, but that is my point. There are very clear ways to measure if your medical device is effective.
You guys need (something like) GDPR in the US. I believe it's a necessity.
> I recently paid to support Thrilling Adventure Hour on patreon and find it pretty crappy they still have adverts on the paid feed.

Is there any way to discover ad-free podcasts, paid or not?

I've essentially abandoned podcasts because of my annoyance with ads, and have instead been paying for audiobooks.
Keep in mind, too, that $1 in January 1999 would buy what $1.53 does today [1]. Saying you’d be 20% Amazon in 1999 is the same as saying you’d have bought the stock then. Yes, of course—with that prescience you’d overperform.

[1] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=199901...