skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a firm believer that this is a failure of educating the user rather than the feature itself. With my next iPhone I will be forced to touch and hold, causing me delays which I hate. In hindsight, it might’ve worked to have the 3D Touch features available by 3D Touch and long press, causing users to stumble upon it by accident. I just wrote this reply on my phone and had to shake to undo, prompting a hint that I could achieve the same thing by double tapping with three fingers. Something like this would’ve worked for 3D Touch I’m sure. Imagine how loaded desktop UIs would be without right click context menus. This is what 3D Touch could’ve solved for touch UIs. Now where back to UIs that are either dumbed down or crowded. Or we have long press delays, punishing power users.
Well, a lot would have to happen before that came about - the UK government would have to agree to Indyref2 and a majority of my fellow Scots would have to vote in favour of independence.

At this stage I think it is safe to say that it is very unlikely we'll get past the first of these.
I don't consider funneling money to people for whom its marginal value is small as creating wealth. If it doesn't change your life to get it, its not wealth.
>it's because Europe is a continent of 20+ different large languages and cultures. In Sweden everybody speaks Swedish and nobody uses cash. In Germany, nobody speaks Swedish and everyone uses cash.

How much does that matter though? You could just release your app/site/whatever in English and instantly have access to the US market.
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The problems startups in Europe face are not really startup problems, but service sector problems. The single market is well integrated when it comes to goods, but not at all integrated when it comes to services. Any company offering services in multiple EU countries will have to deal with a maze of regulation. This makes it hard to scale. Software companies rely on scale to achieve profitability, so EU software companies have it tough.

There are additional problems with capital markets, but this is partly also a consequence of differing national legislation. Europe has astoundingly many stock markets. Most brokers won't even give you access to half. EU capital markets would be much more robust if the EU only had two (significant ones), like the US.

In a survey that The Economist looked at, EU companies aren't really very worried about language or culture. It's all the different national regulations that are the problem.
Not just threats from Facebook doing something wrong and getting dragged into it with them.

Also ... Facebook has proven it is willing to bully and lie to people doing business WITH Facebook.

If I'm Visa or Mastercard... do I want to get into this space and at the same time be at the mercy of Facebook?

If there is some other network / payment system would Facebook be ok with me getting into that too?

Generally if you read enough stories it is clear there's no consideration about "Hey should we do this?" at Facebook. It seems more than at most companies there are simply no rules.
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Which company pays this in Sofia? VMWare? My company has engineers in bulgaria but they don't make that kind of money (still good money, but not $5.6k good).
Giving Northern Ireland to Ireland against the will of the people living there does trash the Good Friday Agreement. The press and the EU haven't been talking about that side of it because it doesn't fit their narrative, but it's rather important. One of the key reasons why the Troubles happened the way they did and why Britain hasn't given Northern Ireland away already is that a large faction of the population are violently opposed to that, with emphasis on the violence part, and are willing to use all of the same tactics as the other side to get their way. That's why peace in Northern Ireland was so hard to achieve.
[quote] I do not believe NI should be ruled from London[/quote]

Thats a nice sentiment but the problem is that a good amount of NI residents do. :|
I so very wish this convention would die.

Also, leading a new line with the comma.
Part of the problem is too much centralization of the control of $. This arrangement could be fine if people (and companies) where held accountable for their mistakes (No bailouts).

What I mean: Normally, you wouldn't trust all your money to one bank or financial adviser, because if they make bad bets you could lose your money. But because of the bailouts, it puts an hedge on your downside risk, so you feel more comfortable with outsourcing the responsibility to a small number of parties to manage your money, because if they fail, you in part (mostly them), will be bailed out.

This ignores the fact that there were individuals that were more responsible with their money that ended up being the losers in this arrangement and were extorted of their money.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't have bailouts, but what I am saying is that if we are forced to do it, we should do it to such an extent that it addresses the root cause and provides economic incentive to be more accountable for ones actions.
Sounds like an iOS specific limitation? I have a mix of gen1 hardware as well as some newer stuff. Playing from Android phones still works fine even on the old hardware, though I primarily stream from Spotify or from a local Plex server
Do those folks know that peas, tofu, nuts, etc. have protein too?
apple now owns the intellectual property to that forever

The main patent on the 3D touch technology expires on March 3rd 2033. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9772721B2/en
This article starts in 1919 but I would assume that wearing hats to protect one's head mechanically (opposed to thermally) has been a tradition since hats were invented. While the hat mentioned in the article is a definite milestone, I wouldn't say it's the starting point for protective hats.

Checking wikipedia I see bowler hats were first created in 1849, and from the article[0]:

[the manufacturers had] been commissioned by a customer to design a close-fitting, low-crowned hat to protect gamekeepers from low-hanging branches while on horseback at Holkham Hall

A traditional bowler is a very sturdy piece of equipment and I could believe the afforded good protection for their day and is very much in the spirit of a modern hard hat.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowler_hat
Putting out fires for example? They used rigid leather hats in the 1800s that sound like they have exactly the same construction.
Question for YC: How does the list rank companies like Zapier that are growing very fast, but haven't raised in years to set a current valuation? I'd imagine that revenue is factored into play but perhaps not shown.
I believe it was ”pick a number, any number” which was disclosed by Marvin quite early on, apparently as an easter egg. I read something explaining this somewhere ... don’t have the link to hand ...
I imagine Britain will wind up like Los Angeles with something like 1/3 of the population forced to live on tents while working 2 jobs with no access to healthcare even when a car runs you over.
The gravity mechanic is really amusing! I was actually laughing at a particularly poor shot I made that somehow went into the hole after a minute or so of fast-forwarding. I also really like your use of typography in the tutorials. Well done.
You can and you get the advantage of having a proper package manager too. Or incase you're (still) on Windows 7 or can't enable WSL you can install mysys2 which comes with SSH(and bash) aswell.
>The biggest assumption the article makes is that even in case Facebook were to try to buy out creators for Lasso,

The name alone means nobody will use it. It's not catchey at all. It sounds more of a clothing store or something.
Which includes everyone born in Northern Ireland too - i.e. anyone born on the island of Ireland. A surprising proportion of Brits are eligible.
As a dual British and Australian citizen living in Scotland, how they will decide who can continue living here concerns me greatly. I wasn't born here, or even in the UK, and haven't been here for long. But, I have all the rights to live and work here now, but have no idea if I still will, or if I'll be restricted. Surely it can't be as simple as whether you were born in Scotland or not, but what will be the measure?
> Beyond misjudging the gravity of the problem at hand, I think this comment is also a little short-sighted in appreciating the nature of the problem and our collective responsibility for it.

I don't agree. I think you are seriously misjudging the actual possibility to convince billions of people to give up quality life in order to, maybe, have some positive return on climate.

I've just found a last minute offer for a nice weekend, but I have to fly to get there. Sure, I could skip my flight and those islanders will be happier. But no, they won't be any happier, unless enough people skip their flight for the flight to be cancelled. And even if this flight is cancelled, those islanders will not notice, unless a good fraction of the flights are cancelled, and for most of the year, and for several years. And still, they will not notice, unless most cars get converted to bycicles and heavy industry gets severely reduced or regulated worldwide, which means every object will become more expensive. And finally, in a couple of decades, those islanders may notice a difference... You know what, I'll hop on my plane! I'm really sorry for those islanders and for everybody who suffers for global warming (which includes me) but I don't have the power to make a dent into the problem.

"Tragedy of the commons" works against us, I'm sorry!

What you are proposing is simply unattainable given human nature. I am proposing a more pragmatic vision: global warming is true and it is here to stay. Let's learn how to cope with it, and in the meanwhile let's keep looking for solutions which do not impact quality of life, if any exist.
Scotland for a chance of regaining their EU citizenship

An independent Scotland would need to rejoin the EU, it’s by no means clear it would be able to do so for years if not decades. It would need to join the Euro and it would need massive structural changes to meet the budgetary criteria to do so that would make “austerity” look like Sunday School.

Having said that if they vote for it in a referendum, I wish them good luck. The SNP gets an awful lot of mileage out of calling for it but they never talk about what they would do without the Barnett Formula money.
> It's reasonable to believe that <insert billionaire here> isn't a million times more productive than their median employee

If a normal employee at say walmart brings in $100 worth of value a day to the company, and the CEO executes a few big multi-million dollar deals that month, then the CEO in fact would be significantly more productive (in terms of capital to the company) than the average employee.

> and that factors other than pure merit allowed them to amass that much wealth.

Yes like taking the risk of starting such a business to employ others and putting down the capital which might be lost.

I also don't know who you think would enforce some kind of "fairness" limit on how much money someone makes. The government doing so would likely be ruled unconstitutional and wouldn't likely ever be passed in the first place through congress.
This is one of those features to not use ever, unless you have another problem that is an application touching directly a table instead of a view.
Force touch is even less discoverable than gestures. If it is used to distinguish between "simple" and "complex" actions in the way right/left click do with a mouse- as Apple attempted in several places in iOS- it's far easier to activate accidentally than intentionally. Overall the feature was a horrendous usability misstep, and it's not surprising it was quickly nixed.
> Dynamic by default languages are a mistake

Have you met TypeScript? http://www.typescriptlang.org/
Interest rate cuts by the BoE, the pound weakens, Asian foreign investment - Japan and China would love to build high speed rail for an international market. Companies like Huawei will offer turn key solutions to government infrastructure projects. You can hedge by buying Swiss francs, Aussie dollars or Japanese Yen. Or purchasing an investment property or a plot of land for future development, immigration from Asia will see a rising demand in housing, cheap accommodation. Long term the UK becomes a type of Hong Kong for wealthy Europeans - tax haven and pivot point of entry into the European market. More jobs will be created in tech, manufacturing and construction.
Also check out Project Farm's channel. It's a little more automotive based, but the product comparison tests are extensive. If you ever wondered which type of drywall screw could resist the most sheer force or if you can use Zippo lighter fuel in an engine, this is a great channel.

My only criticism is sample size is usually small (3-5 samples), and no checking on variation between product lots. But, it's one guy doing all this for free, so I can't complain.
I am just waiting for the day I can get my name painted on my hardhat at the shipyard. It certainly is a status symbol here. It's a telltale sign that someone isn't experienced when they're walking around with an undamaged hard hat. It's a telltale sign they might be too risky when they walk around looking like they went through a tornado!

Edit: Also every one always complains about the NYT paywall, but it's $5 a month for a digital only subscription. I can't help but think I read more than enough content to get value.
Can anyone share a link?
Thank you. Yeah, a fluke trickshot after 10 loopy orbits feels pretty epic!
> The server side version is interesting, it ships DOM updates to the client from the server over a websocket

WebForms 2020! Amazing.
YOu forgot about another random fact - gypsies
Why your application doesn't use a view? Or even better a table function?
My apologies, definitely not my intention. Was more-so a personal rant on the importance of meritocracy. Noted.
This made me laugh. So relatable! Sometimes I spend my first 2 hours in bed plus having a very long breakfast with my wife (I work remotely) just so I can mentally prepare for the work ahead.
Eric Schmidt says he’s eyeing biology for the next computing frontier
While they are all long lived, they have had incumbents come in and eat (*some) of their lunch.

MSFT missed the boat on mobile and have given up from a HW standpoint. Apple missed the boat on the cloud (tbd if they can catch up). Google missed the boat on social.
I think a limit is helpful to keep the subject line short, but I frequently (like, daily) struggle to fit useful messages into only 50 chars. Personally, I find 72 chars to be the sweet spot.

I wish GitHub or Azure DevOps made this configurable (because I use them) - anyone know if any other hosted git systems have this as a configurable option?
Country=territory
People=nation
This incompatible socket thing is driving me crazy. I "just" bought a new motherboard and now I can't use any current products.
Ingenious inventions from 2019, which will soon be sold out
Any UK citizen can move there while it's still part of the UK. Do you think there would be minimum residency requirements for citizenship?

It's a bizarre thought that we may be seeing English illegal migrants being deported from Scotland in the not-too-distant future.

Also, how quickly could Scotland join the EU? I remember that being one of the sticking points of the first independence referendum.
To be clear, I'm a gamer. The games I play would not run with Intel onboard gpus. And I'm very happy with the performance the AMD driver delivers.
Care to share the tech stack behind the game? Seems that you used a cross-platform technology to make it runable on several OSes.
I forgot about the map notification, that was somewhat useful the few times I had to drive somewhere new (unless on the interstate/highway as it would vibrate with 1-2 seconds of notice, at least back then on gen1).
This is a lot of fun and so simple! Congrats on the release.

What was your experience with using Unity? I have been dabbling with Game Maker for the last few months and find it fairly easy to work with, but I haven't attempted anything for mobile.
"Lasted" is a pretty weak standard. The Roman empire changed quite dramatically over time, probably more than Bulgaria or Albania.
The new black Surface Laptop 3 in 15" looks so good. Also AMD Ryzen in a laptop. Yes, please.
Yes, good point. While I hope that this is the case, my feeling after today is that the PM etc. doesn't care
Well yes, but actually no. Not all proteins are equal, they have different quantities of different kinds of amino acids. Humans need 9 distinct amino acids for a healthy diet, and animal proteins are by far the easiest source of "complete proteins" from a single source. It's absolutely possible to get plant-based complete proteins (e.g. soy or quinoa), but often that involves deliberately mixing different protein sources to get a complete balance.
The splash screen says Unity on it.
I would claim, however, that Romania is in a distinctly better state than Bulgaria. I can only speak for Transylvania, but after the big exodus towards Western Europe which involved most of my own friends, there has now been a wave of people moving back. Salaries in Cluj or Timisoara are now growing high enough that people can settle for them if they see other benefits to coming back to Romania.

The possibility of living comfortably in a peaceful rural environment is also a big attraction of Romania, and I moved out to the country myself a few years ago. In addition to cheap property in villages, there is often gigabit internet as well, which makes these places even more appealing for knowledge workers and people who consume a lot of content. The shopping in rural areas, and the availability of "hipster foodstuffs" there, also seems much better than in a lot of Bulgaria.
This may seem naive, but considering the different homo classifications, are all homo species today the same i.e. Homo Sapiens. I am not well versed in genetic classifications, but couldn't our ancestors and other homos breed? What is the distinction between this, just like how a chihuahua and a husky can technically produce offspring? Thanks for any clarification.
There's also the 2038 problem [1] although it apparently is mostly an issue with embedded systems. It's not clear that it's a particularly widespread problem but that's mostly just based on the fact that there doesn't seem to be much discussion about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
Bulgarian here, studied and lived abroad, now back to Sofia.

The answer to the question "why this is the case" is...it makes sense a lot of sense. Bulgaria joined EU in 2007 and right after that the crisis hit Europe and the world. Wages at that time were probably 25% of the average in EU, suddenly no restrictions to move (that's the point of Europe right?), people wanted to try how it is because they've only heard and read how much better it is, some people took loans before the crisis, etc. But it's the same reason why people from East Germany move to West Germany, or from poorer states in US to California..

That said, I believe it's a good place to work and live and I claim it's reversing the trend slowly. I can bet there are more people coming for the IT/engineering jobs than leaving nowadays, many foreigners living in the big cities, you can afford to buy an appartment in 5 years, go to ski in Bansko and to Greece/Croatia/Black Sea for the summer. Income tax is at 10%, food is good, there is interesting companies, VC and acquisitions. Unemployment rate is 4-5% and if you're halfway capable you can get a job in no time.
I first read these books in high school and loved the zany humor. The deeper satire took a bit longer for me to appreciate - especially the "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" where all the rich and famous would gather to watch the Universe implode as a form of entertainment. DA was a secular prophet.
BootRogue, a roguelike game that fits in a boot sector (510 bytes)
Hey guys! Spaced repetition is great for memorizing many different things. But I'm not satisfied with existing apps. There are no courses using spaced repetition. And making flashcards myself is quite hard. We've thought how an ideal solution should look like. We believe that placing test questions for repetition inside a course or study notes is the only way for ordinary people to use spaced repetition. That's why we've created https://learnitfast.io, the app described in the linked article. We would greatly appreciate if you try it and tell us what you think about the idea.
I have lots of romanian colleagues and hear similar stories from then. Exodus of young people.
> absurd

Yes. His humour has a great deal of funny absurdist stuff in it. It becomes funny when it touches some truth.
Depends on if they're ISOs or NSOs. Not having to pay income tax on the difference at exercise time makes all the difference.
I am getting served ads that are redirecting my browser 10 times and showing something like those scammy Amazon gift card ads. On mobile safari.
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there is nothing to solve, Bulgaria is demographically dead, nothing to see, move along, mind the gap...
Without context, I started reading the OPs quote out loud, and my girlfriend started laughing at "For instance, on the planet Earth..."

It might be that you have to discover this at a certain age. My son devoured the series and read quote upon quote out loud. I read it in my teens... I've re-read it a few times and still love it.

It's an absurd response to a crazy world. Babel fish? He needed a device, so he made one, and it's funny.

Travel on...
if the mechanism is DoH then in this age of non neutrality they do care. it makes it one nanobit harder to throttle (er, optimize) traffic because they capture DNS along with bulk web traffic.

let’s not munge it up either. they don’t care about encryption per se. they care about 3rd party resolvers.