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rocannon··on Tell HN: Yahoo Finance has apparently killed its API
I use Alpha Vantage, just for a personal (1 user, me) application. The service is free, you just need an API key. - https://www.alphavantage.co/

https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#api-key "While we are proud to provide free API service with no daily/weekly/monthly call limits, we recommend that API call frequency does not extend far beyond ~100 calls per minute so that we can continue to deliver the optimal server-side performance. If you would like to target a much larger API call volume, please drop us a note..."

rocannon··on Ask HN: Minus price, would you buy custom tailored or mass produced clothes?
I'd buy custom tailored clothing if price were not an issue.

I'm not a standard size, and it's hard to find clothing that fits well. I hate to go shopping, so I usually wear clothing thin until I'm finally forced to go buy something. And then it's a huge hassle going into shops, trying stuff on, nothing fits... So yeah, given that I already have to waste time to buy clothes, I'd rather waste time getting measured once in a blue moon, and then get well-fitting clothes (presumably with a reasonable choice of colors and styles) based on those measurements.

rocannon··on Show HN: An API for scraping recipe web pages
Try IBM's Chef Watson: https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/tupler
rocannon··on Ask HN: What made you decide to marry your spouse?
Having lived through my parents' unhappy marriage, I'm strongly resistant to getting married.

However, my current partner has better retirement benefits than I do (both Social Security and pension benefits). I recently joked with him that we should marry so that I inherit his benefits should he kick off before I do. That would be an unpleasant reason to get married.

Regarding health insurance, currently it looks like we're better off not being married. That's probably also true for tax purposes.

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